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INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Meetings— Golden Rule Lodge No. 12, L O. O.
F. ; The Equitable Loan ami Huilding Associa
tion; Georgia Chapter No. 3, R. A. M.
Special Notices— Notice of Return, Dr.
Montague L. B yd; Notice of Dissolution.
Hirsch Bros.; Removal, (loss Ingliss; Notice ns
to Redemp io i of Certain Bonds of the First
Volunteer Regiment of Georgia; Notice of
Removal, Dr. Hummel; Notice, A. J. Miler &
Cos .; As to Crew of British Steamships Scaw Fell
and Venice; First Installment to Savannah
Cotton M.lls Stock: C. P. Miller, Auct oneer
and Real Estate Dealer; Real Estate Bought
and Sold, C. P. M Her: Savannah Steam Laun
dry, 131 Congress street: Dissolution, Johnson,
Moore A Cos.; Notice, Minis Bros.
Auction Sale— Sundries, by J. McLaughlin A
Son.
Premium Tickets Given •to Purchasers—At
T. A. Muilryne A Co.'s.
Steamship Schedule— General Transatlantic
Company.
Cheap Column Advertisements H p
Wanted; E npl >v neat Winte l; Fur Rant; For
Sale; Lost; Personal: Miscellaneous.
Mr. Robert Saussy, formerly of this city,
was the juror who refined to agree to a
verdict of guilty in the Ives case in New
York and caused a mistrial.
Notwithstanding statements to the con
trary, it is said that Miss Huntington and
Prince Hatzfeldt are to be married, and
that the marriage will take place this week
in London.
The chances for the passage in the Senate
of the girls’ industrial school bill are ex
cellent. Of the forty-four senators, thirty
are said to be in favor of it. The bill was
passed by the House one day lait week.
Massachusetts has a law forbidding the
sale of cigarettes to boys u nler 16 year* of
age, but it is not strictly en orced. The
young b ys are up to all sorts of tricks to
get cigarettes. Still, it is no doubt true
that the sa e of cigarettes to boys has been
decreased since the law went into operation.
A $5,000 office, the coinmissionership of
pensions, seems to b? gom . bogging for a
oompetont and patriotic occupant. Plenty
of republicans would accept it with thanks,
but the right sort of men seem disposed to
refuse it. Perhaps they realizi that the
next commissio ier won’t occupy a beti of
roses.
Secretary ad Mrs. Blaine and James (J.
Blaine, Jr., were in Now York the other
day, returning from the wedding of Em
mons Blaine aid the wealthy Miss McCor
mick. They did not call to see Mrs. James
G. Blaine, Jr., who is still suffering grea.ly
from inflammato. y rheumatism. They did
not even inquire couce. ning her condition.
A week or two ago Ma tha Olsen, of
Brooklyn, died of typhoid fever, having re
fused to take medicine. A day or two ago
Karen Olsen died of the same disease, she
also having refused t > take mediciue. The
faith cure doctors aud tao Christian scien
tists will soon have very few patients un
less they are more successful in their treat
ment.
Dr. George M. Sternberg, of the United
States army, is the last man to a-sen that
he has discovered a cure for yellow fever.
Dr. Sternberg his recently been studying
that disease in Cuba. It wili be noticed,
however, that yellow fever Is still a disease
which is very tnuca feared. Sorneho v or
other, the people who discover cures for it
keep the prescription a secret.
Special dispatches from Washington state
that it is likely that the naval commission,
■which was appointed to recommend a site
for a southern navy-yard, may submit two
reports, the majority favo iug New Or
leans and the minority favoring Pori Royal.
Isn’t it possible for the commission t j sot.le
its difference* by uniting upon Savannah,
the be.?t place for the n ivy-vard?
The New York World has interviewed
▼arious commissi ners to the Paris Exposi
tion as to their preference regar liug the
location of the world’s fair of 1892. Most
of them favor New York, but the Mexican
commissioners favor New Orleans, because
that city is nearer Mexico than any other
Of the sane size. Tl.e commissioners from
Bolivia, Venezuela, Paraguay, Peru. Ecua
dor and Salvador also prefer New Orleans.
The Japanese commissioner says t .at,so far
as Japan is concerned, San Francisco would
be the best ploce. China favors New York.
It is understood that Mr. McKinley is the
President’s and Secretary Blaine’s candi
date for speaker, and it woul i seem that
under the circumstances the Ne w Y irk
republican congressmen will vote for him.
it is announced, however, that, with the
exception of Messrs.'Hiker and Dolano,
they will vote for M?. Reed. Mr. B iker
will vote for Mr. Burrows, and Mr. Delano
will vote for Mr. McKinley. Hus Host
Platt forgott n how to work the New York
repubdcans, or is he willing fort e P,es -
dent’s and the Secretary of State’s caudi-
to be defeated!
An Important Church Convention.
The general convention of the Protestant
Episcopal church, which meets in New Y rk
to-day, is a very important one, n *t oniy
because it will com nemorate the coronary
of he constitution of tue church, but also
because it will be asked to deci lo some
questions which have been agitating the
cnurch for several years, and which the
be t interest of the c.iurch require shall be
settled a* soon as possible.
Within the last qua ter of a century the
church has had a very rapid growth—a
growth that has surprised even those who
are the most earnestly devoted to the pro
motion of its welfare. In proport.on to its
growth, earn>*stnesß and progress iveness
have been develop -d. It has ceased to be
the conservative c..urch it oce was. It is
now an active agent iu all brauebes of
Christian work.
It is claimed that it is hampered in its
work by its prose it method< of governme it,
which were adopted a hundred years ago—
methods which a eweied admirably for the
period for which they weie intended, but
which are not adapted to the noeds of the
present time.
One of the chaugos demanded relate? to
rem esentation in the general conve ition.
Each diocese has the same number of repre
sentatives. A small diocese, therefore, has
as potential a voice as a largo one. In this
re pect the convention is like tue United
8 ales Be ate, in which body the little states
of Delnware and R ode Island have as
many representative! as the great states of
New York ad Pennsylvania.
Nine \ ears ago the agitation of the ques
tion of changing the basis ot representation
was begun, aud it has steadil >■ increased
since that time. Ot course there a e differ
ent via sas to what should be the basis of
repi esentation. Borne think the le.ireseuta
tion should be based upou the number
of clergy, others upon the number
of parishes, and still others upon
the number of communicants. The charac
ter of ihe change, however, has not, as yet,
received a i much atten io i as it will when
it becomes evidont that a change will be
made. The great effort thus far has beeu
to bring about a chauge.
It is a’to insisted that the delegates to the
convention shall not vote by dioe ,-es, but
individually. Iu this way, aid this alone,
it is thought, ian such legislation be ob
tained as may be necessary for the benefit,
of a particular diocese. At present it is
about impossible, it is declared, to get such
legislation.
i be church may not be ready for the pro
posed changes m the methods of govern
ment. Whether it is or not will doubtless
soon be determined when the mat'br is
brought bef re the convention. If it
should be found that the church is not
ready it is quite certain that a strong
mitiority will insist that the work of
making it ready shall be pushed
forward vigorously aid earnestly. There
are st oug men iu the chureh who are con
fident t at the time has come for the adop
tion of the propose! ref irins, and they feel
that they would not be faithful ti the trust
rep ised in then if they should no, advo
ca e the n with all the influence and power
they possess.
Savannah’s Working Girls.
Commissioner Carroll D. Wright, in his
report ou working wonei in large cities,
pays a high c >mpli nont to Savannah’s
w irking girls. According to our dispatc ios
this morning, he says that “their health is
good and their education above the average
in neighboring ci ies.” This coil diment 1?
undou it-dly deserved. That t ley are b *tter
educated than the working girls of neigh
boring cities i? doubtless due large y t > .ho
fact that Savannah has excellent public
schools, and also to the fact that the girls of
Savannah are natu. all >* very bright.
It is a tact, as the commissi ner sa s, that
industrial puisuits iu Savannah are aim >st
closed to girls, but is he not mistake l in
saying that this is due partly to “a linger
ing pr judice against the entrance if woman
into the struggle for livelihood!’ I? it not
wholly due to the fact that there are com
paratively few industries in Savannah in
which women can be utilized to advantage?
Women now And e uplnymont wherever
there is anything obe done that they can do.
The New Orleans States thinks that if the
pension measures advocated by the G. A.
R. should become law?, the pension burden
of the country would amount to $246,000,-
000 per annum. Perhaps the States is
right. The fact is that no one can say with
any deg ee of certainty how much money
w< uld have to be disbursed annually under
the service aud the dependent pension bills,
but $246,000,000 might not bo too high a
figure at which to place the total disburse
ments for pensions. The States says: “As
the otal revenues of the country do not
amount from every source, in a year, to
more than about $330,000,000, it is plain tuat
there would not be much of a margin left
ou which to run the government when
5240.000.000 of the $330,000,000 had been
appropriated to the pay me it of soldier
claims.” Isn’t it time for the people to
speak their minds with regard to this pen
sion bu 11106*?
According to the statement of Assistant
Secretary Bussey, made sjver.il days ago,
the surplus which a year ago was $107,000,-
000, has been r duced to $40,000,000 under
th • Harris m administration. It is asserted
that claims already and likely to be allowed
by the court of cla ms will wipe out the
$40,000,000. Mr. Ta iner, late commissioner
of pen-ions, is to some extent respo isible
for this state of affairs. He boa?t**d that
he was a “surplus ripper,” and, according
to the republican Phila lelphia Inquiter, he
would have bankrupted the government a .and
wrec .ed the Republican party if he had
not been dismissed from office.
The other day George Foster, of New
York, was bsfore a police court justice in
Harlem, charged with being a “common
drunk,” and at the examination it was dis
covered that t.ie pris ner was Gen. George
Fos er, who was distriol attorney of Wash
ington, D. C., when Mr. Lincoln was assas
sinated, and who cond .cted the prosecution
of Mrs. Surratt and others. He told the
justice that he had never had a day’s luck
since Mrs. Surratt was uatiged. He drifted
from bad to worse, until he came to the
ditches. He wa? relsa el with a reprimand.
A cablegram states that t ie belief pre
vails iu London that Ueu Boulanger will
follow the advioe of friends in France a id
E igland, aud return to Paris, arriving in
that city before tne sup >ie ne :tary elec
tions. His fiie ids say that uis a? eara ice
in Paris, in defiance of t e sentence of the
high court, would help his cause, and would
create a wave of popul ir sentiment in his
favor t nit even the government would not
dare oppose, doula iger’s friends are prob
a .ly disp sed to take a too hopeful Tiew of
the situation.
TEE MORNING NEWS: WE NESDAY, OCTOBER 2, IBb.
Why a Doubt?
In our Atlanta dispatches ye?t inlay, after
the annou’iceino it tnat nine persons n ad
been iudictei for whippi g black turn at
Ea?t Poi .t, Ga., it wa? stated that the trial
of those indic.ed would be very i iterastt g,
but that it wa? douotful waether they
would be convicted.
Way should there be any doubt about
their conviction? Is the doubt sel upon
the Lel.ef that the evidence against them is
very weak, or upon the belief tnat a jury
cannot be ob tai led that will convict them,
however strong the evidence against tern
may be? It is not expootid, of coarse, that
:hey will be co ivi'ted unle?? the evi
dence justifies their conviction, but if it
is sutllciont to convict t ism, and they are
not convicted, it will at o co be appare t
that it would have been better not t > have
arrested them. An acquittal in the face of
overwhelming evidence of their guilt would
he ai a inouiicouient to alt the wori i that
public sentimo it secretl.’ app oved and ap
plauded their outrage us condu t.
The correspo ideuc must be mistaken if
ho mom? to cmvey tho impression that it
is very generally doubted t a, the aecus -d
will be o > ivicted. T e friends of the ac _
oused nay ex press a doubt of that kind, but
it can hardly bi jiossiole that t leiutelh gent
masses of Atlanta think it pr ob ible t iat no
jury t mt can be obtai .ed in Fulton county
will return a vordico of guilty, even if the
evidence justifies such ave diet.
When the black? viola e the law they
must be punished in accordance with the
law. Asilefrom the que?tinn of cruelty
and inhurnanit y to a weaker race, Georgia
ca not afford to have her black citizens
corr.-c ted accord i g t > the notions of a few
irresponsible men, who tiiink li tie and
care less for the co sequences
which may follow their lawless acts. If
she were to be indifferent to wrongs in
fl cted up m her black citizens, she would
soon have reason to regret h r course.
There would be a conditio.i of affairs that
would Interrupt her progress and cueck her
prosperity.
L t justice be done at all hazards. If
those iudictei for the East Point outrage
are guilty, lot th m be punished. Lot the
ho lor an l g * and name of the s'ate be
vindicated. Lot it bo understood that no
citizen of Georgia, however humble, can be
treated cruelly and inhumanly with im
punity. Let the people of Fult n county
see to it that public seitiment
will not permit the trial of those indicted
for the East Point outrage to be turned
into a farce. Lot them see to it that there
is a fair trial, and that justice is me.ed out
with an even hand.
Hostile Commission Merchants.
The Florida Orange Grower? and Deal
ers’ Protective Association is meeting witu
considerable opposition ii Ne v York aid
Philadelphia. Those who are showing th
great *st opposition to it are the conunis ion
morchants aid small deal rs. The grou and
of their opposi ion is apparent. If the asso
ciation should be a success the com nission
merchants wo ild be deprived of the c >m
missions they now obtain for haudli ig
oranges. Oranges would not be
consigned to them, but would go into the
warehouses of tho ass >eia ion, and would
be sold at auction. The small dealer would
not bo able to go to the commission
merchants, as at present, and purenase sue i
a quantity as would meet his immediate
demands. He would havo to obtain his
supply from those who purchased large lots
at the auctions.
It is probable that the consumer would
have to pay a little more for oranges, if t ie
ass cia ion sh mid be successful, than he
does now, but not a great deal. Iu fact,
when the orange crop was an average one
the consumer w’ould get oraugas at reason
able prices.
What the growers are trying to do is to
get for their oranges oruew :ere ear w lat
the consumer pays for them. F.- ights and
co nmi slon fees are uow so large that tueir
gross receipts from their crops are pretty
small. It is quite certain also that they
frequently fall into the hands of dishonest
commission merchants. In such cases they
are fortunate if r. ley realize any hing on
their shipments after paying expo us os.
Tue auction scheme promises to be a
remedy for several evils. It is apian, how
ever, thatgrowerso igbt to study itcarefully
befnre adopting it, and they ought to be
sure that their partners in it —th use wh o
handle the fruit after it has left the grave?
—do not get tho lion’s share of the receipts
of the auction sales.
The suggestion which some of the com
mission mere nuts make, viz., that the
supply of Florida oranges is no.v greater
than tho demand, is not wo th a second
t ought. The market grows faster th m
the groves, and Fiori ia will never be able
to produce more ora ges than the country
will take at good prices.
Boom for More.
The Morning News predicted that the
building of the De Soto would lead to tne
building of other hotels in this city. There
ec 111 * to be a pretty good prospect that the
prediction wili come true. The Pulaski
h use, one of the oldest and best known of
the city’s hotels, is to be rep ired and
greatly improved. In fact, the house, if
t ie plans of the architect are carried out,
will be almost wholly rebuilt.
There is room in Savaunah for all the
hotels she has. aud more. Tha building of
the Da Soto and the improving of the
Pulaski will greatly increase the patronage
of t e hotels. They will all do so well that
iu a little while there will be a demand for
more hotels, and the money to build them
will be raised ea ily.
State Senator Walker, of Mississippi, is
reported to have and vised a ne.v plan for
preventing race troubles in the south. Mr.
Walker contends that these troubles are
caused by poli ics, the col rel people de
manding to be elected 10 office, aud toe
white people opp sing t loir a uoition. Mr.
Walker proposes, therefore, to introduce iu
the legi.-lature a bill t > prohibit a y negro,
or any man with negro blood iu his vei s,
from hold i g office iu Mi sissippi. He does
not think that such a law would conflict
nith tho fourteeuti and fifteenth a ne id
ments of the Uuited States co stitution.
His plan is said not to meet witu much
favor among the other members of the
legislatu re.
To-morrow Mr. Blaine will start the dele
gates to the Three Ameri-as’congre-s 01
their trip through the north and .vest. H *
annou oed a day or two ago that nochaugo
in the route could lie made, as ths pro
gramme had beeu mapped out for every
day fr >m Oct. 3 to Nov. 13. Mr. Blai ie
didn’t inte and that the delega es should visit
the south, and he ha?n’t cha :g >d his mind.
Will he rise up and expi tin why I e
intentionally omitte 1 tue south from tho
programme 1 S oaie explanation is in order.
CUaaSNT COMid3NT.
Harrison and Civil erv.ee Reform.
Prom the Louisville Courier-Journal (Dem.i.
Dr. Hrri*on’i removal of 10.600 postmasters
in five mo tue entitles mm io toe privilege of
writing t:i - civil service reform plank of the
platform to b adopted oy the n *xt republican
national convention.
A Possible Presidential Ticket.
From the Harrisb irg Patriot I Dent.).
If the “harm *ny‘ in the crawl old party con
tinues until '92, there may oa an ind-*pen lent
republican ticket in tne field something like
this:
President—Corporal Tanner.
Vice Preside it—Private Dalzell.
Platform—Our mouth is our own.
Good for Tennessee.
From the \ashville Anijtican (Dem.h.
No bettor evidence of the wonderful pros
perity of the south can be found than the fact
that tlie increase of taxable property in Tonnes
set- iu the last three * ears amou its to $100,000,-
000. Tennessee is set: ng a lively pace, and the
other states ar- also coming up well. Such au
increase is unprecedented.
A Plan Suggested.
From the Philadelphia Press (Rep.).
Military men are discussing how best to detect
deseners fiom the army. The problem, it
sc ms ;o us. should he how to stop desertions
by maxing army life more to.erible Aud this
can b,* done by the offic-rs showin g a little more
consideration forth** privates. They are oilman
beings witu the same feelings as the officers,
though the latter to i often act as if that were
nottnecas*. If there were a less number of
martinets in s touider straps there would be
fewer desertions.
BRIGHT . To.
A WitPit.— Old Bui ion (entering lamp store)
—Hav you got a gas globe!*
T e New Clerk—No; we don’t keep balloons.
Old Bullion—Dear boy, if I w ere your em
ployer, you wouldn’t keep your job, either!—
Puck.
The Chicago Liar is the title of an illustrated
comic paiier recently starie i in the Windy i ity.
On the first page of the copy wnich lies before
us is a cartoon labeled “Chicago Gets the
World’s Fai ',’’ which i? a pretty good lie to be
gin with, anyhow 7 eras Siftings.
Wibble— When I was in New York last year I
saw a little fellow no bigger than lam give
John 1,. Sullivan a clip on the side of the head,
and Sullivan never offered to resent it.
Wabble -Tuat's qu er. Who was the fellow?
Wibble—A barber. —ierre Haute Ex tress.
Aerial Flights.—Russell (relating his ex
perience)—ln the Eiffel tower. Benny, I went
n arly 1,000 feet right up in the air. How’s
that)
Beuny—That’s nothing. s’ou ought to have
seen gran Ipa go into I lie air when he heard you
had been d.uing with the queen.— Puck.
“Please give a poor man 5 cents?”
“I'll warrant you spent it for liquor.”
“Yes, sir, I will. 1 waut to buy a Chicago
cocktail.”
“Good gracious! That drink costs $2!”
“1 know it. I’ve got $1.95.” Boston Herald.
A Desirable Forfeit—“Wili youeataphil
op ua with me. Miss Emily?”
■'What if I lose?”
“T len I win a kiss.”
“And if I win?”
“Then I nave to kiss you.”— Fliegenrlc Biat
tr.
Bride Wife— lf I had known that you mar
ried me for my money, I would never have
listened to you.
Young Husband— And if I had known you
would be so mighty close with your money*, I
would never have asked you to marry me.
There! —Boston Courier.
Mb Boozy— Boy, what’s the score?
Boy—G in t you see the bulletin board?
Mr. Bo izy fa moment inter In front of a cheap
restaurant)—
Sirloin, 25c.
Pork chops, 15c.
’Rah for sirloin.— Judge.
“Oh! do tel’ me what you men have at your
Clubs,” asked Miss Smarter, gushin ly.
“Weil,” said ,1 on s, carelessly, “we have
bowling anil pool and billiards.”
“I don’t know much about bowling or pool,”
broke in Miss Smarker, “but billiards is that
dear, deligh ful game where they have kissiiig,
isn’t it f'—Judge.
Caught at Last.— Head Waiter (as guest
rises —Excuse me, sir, but my customary fee is
a dollar.
Stranger—How much do you get a week?
Head Waiter—Twenty dollars.
St nnger —All right. Come out to the desk
and I’ll pay you off. Pm the new proprietor of
this caravansary.— Judge.
“Steward,” lie said feebly, in the small hours
of the stormy night, trying to turn over in his
hurt i, “Steward, what <* that?”
“The sailor on deck, sir.”
"Yes, but whit did be say just now?”
“ ‘All well,’ sir.”
“My, what a liar!” And then he turned over
and moaned a mat de mer moan. —Ocean.
Husband (after a quarrel with his wife)—Well,
let us drop it I don’t care to have any words
ah >ut it. and beside . I like to talk to a sensible
person when I am taLing.
AVife (with a sarcast.c laugh)—You don’t al
ways do it then.
Husband—l don’t?
Wife—No. I sometimes hear you talking to
yourself. -Horton Courier.
Johnnie Knew it All.— Wife—John, here is
something in this base hall report that I do not
understand. 1 wish you would explain it to me.
Husband—Read it, my dear.
Wife (read ng)—With one to tie and one out,
he reached first in the eighth inning, and ran to
third, on l’fvffer’s kit to right. He should
have scored on Tiernau's wild throw in. but h -
came rattled and held his base. What does that
mean?
Husband (who knows nothing of the game)—
Blessed if I know.
Wife (wi'.b a sigh)-I’ll have to wait until
Johnnie flO years old) comes iu .—Boston Cou
rier.
PERSONAL.
The late Wilkie Collins seemed to care
nothing or the opinions of critics and ne*er
kepi a scrap book.
Miss Toki Mardira. the daughter of one of
the highest families of Japan, has decided to
take the veil in Munich.
Miss Ella Byron, a niece of the late John
Roach, is a clerk in tne census office. She can
address 8,5U0 envelopes ia a day of seven
hours.
Congressman Randall's health is slowly but
surely improving. He expects to return to his
Washington home in about two weeks unless
the weather shall be specially good.
AViluam Bell, assistant surveyor of the post
office department of England, is in tula country
examining our postal syste n. He expresses
surprise that the railway companies here carry
the inspectoio and mail clerks free. In Engian t
all p seal employes havo to pay their fare and
are reimbursed by the department.
The death 1? announc *d in St. Paul, Minn., of
Gen. Samuel D. Sturgis of the U ilted States
arinc, who was a classmate of McClellan, Stone
wall Jackson. Pickett and S o leman at West
Point. G*n Sturgis served both iu the Mex can
war and in the late rebellion, and retired fiom
active command at Fort Meade, Dakota, in 188 ti.
He iiad a son killed in the Custer massacre.
Theodore Kamensky, a Russian sculptor who
has lived in this country for the past sixteen
years, has ha i a varied career. He has been a
farmer in Ka isas and au orange grower in
Florida. During his residence in the latter
state he spent a goo deal of ti ue i excavating
the oyster s ie.l mounds which abound along
the sea coas:, anu are supposed to have been
built by the Indians.
llekr Hotel, a wonderful tenor, is fascinating
the audie ice? at the Krali Gardens, Berlin. He
was a coacnman not lo ig ago, and his rise to
fa ne has oeen romantic in its details. He must
fiud opera-singing more remunerative an i
agreeable than driving horses. At a recent
Sunday ni.ht rendition of a popular opera he
was recalled six time? after one song, an
mosses of flowers were showered upon him. lie
is ambitious to com * to America, anti will do lbt
less havo a chance to gratify his am bit lon before
long.
Aristidys AVklch. who won wealth and fame
as a turfman, still takes a keen inter st in all
that pert airs to thoroughbred bores. Air.
Welch wa? the found r, and for a lo ig time
the owner of the Erdeiiheim stud, the home of
Leamin ton, the great sire of Parole, who won
s veral important English turf events, and ot
Iroquois, who won the English Derby. Erden
heim was also t e ho ne of Flora Temple, the
first trotter fto break the 2:2b record. A few
years aeo Mr. Welch sold his stud to Commo
dore Kittson and retired.
A Wise Woman
Will try and preserve her charms. She
ray! tele c.a-sio outline of form, but she
should use SOZODONT and retail t e
oeauty and u-efulness of her tee h. A fine
sei of teeth is one of the highest chaims.
SOZODON T will do this work.
Ibe Way of the World.
From the Sew York World.
“Well! well!” he exclai ned, as he baited
while crossing Union square the other morning
and shoo a hand? with a man sitting oa the
bene . “out I was thinking of you that very
second. ’’
’’Yes?”
“It was just such a morning as this three
years ago wueu we sat on this very same bench.
To you remember it?”
“I do ”
“I was dead broke, discouraeed, and wonder
ing if 1 had i t l>ett'r com nit suicide. You
spoke to me in a kindiy way, an T we began to
talk. Do you remember?'’
“Oh, yes.”
“I told y u I was a s niggling young actor,
and that circumstances had dowue I me. I wa?
penniless aud without hope. You reacned over
an 1 took in v hand. Remember?”
“Oh. yes.”
“And you spoke kind words You bade me
call up all my courage aid resolution. You
predicted that I would yet climb tj the top of
th** 11 .der. Uememuer?”
“Yes.”
“And you did not stop there. You put your
hand i to your purse, handed me a s.’o bill, and
told me I couid have it until able to repay the
loan Am I correct?"
“You are."
“That noble action of yours encourage ! me. I
went aw*av and raa ie a last e.fort, anl it was a
surceai. Three year? a:o I sat here a beggar,
fo-day I am worth J2o,ooOand these diamonds.
lowe it all to you. Bit f>r you I sboul i now
be inold-*r:n -inami cl le’s grave. A - ?, lam
worth $20,1X0, and have git a wad f SBOO rig.it
here in my pocket, flunk of th *cai re in inv
si nation. Tuis is our first ineefi.ig since that
mem rauie day, a though 1 have thought of
you daily. Put it there, old man!”
“Yea’*
“I haven't forgotten you.”
“No?”
“And I never shall God bless you! Good
morning—got a i rngag m ) t at sha p eleven."
He passed on, and tho otner sat for some
minutes in deep thought. All of a sudden h
rose up and loosed after the vanished man aud
exclaimed:
“*. hut he didn’t even offer to return my
©2O, without interest!”
Progressive Theology.
From the Washington Post.
A certain evangelist in AVestern Virginia or
ganized a Sunday ecuool. and by dint of dip'o
nucy untamed a go and f* Lowing of youngsters
into whoie uncombed Ueais and ptaut hearts
he instilled the rudiments of religion. Neitii r
d:d lie spare the corrective rod iu case his
enlarges tailed to come to taw with the cate
chism.
One Sunday anew arrival was discovered
over in the boys’ corner. He was called down
lietore the te.icner and cross-examined with a
view of learning his religious require neuts.
"How many gods are there.*” asked the
teacher.
Tne boy thought a moment and ventured the
assertion that there were two.
“Wrong!" said the teacher.
“Three!”
“Oh! you must know batter than that! Try
again. How nany cods are there?”
“Four!” whimpered the boy.
"AVrong again!” shouted tile instructor, “I
will give you one more chance. I*' you don’t
answer right this time I*ll tan you. Now, for
the last time, how- many gods are tuere?”
"Five!” wailed the unhappy tow head.
Smack! The teacher gave hi n a thorough
dressing down and sent him from the room in
dis *ac *. A belated scho ar found him sitting
by tne roadside howling at the top of his voice.
“What’s the matter, Jack?”
“Teacher licked me.”
“W.iat for?”
“ ’Cause I didn’t know how many gods there
were.”
“Huh! that’s easy enough.”
“D’you know?”
“Course.”
“How many are there'*”
“One, you stupid.”
“One, eh! AV 11, you just go in there with
your little one god an J vou'll catch it. I ’lowed
there was five, and he nigh killed me.”
Got the Wrong Impression.
Fiom the Chicaoo Mail.
“People hear queer scrap? of conversation on
the streets," mused a young ma i at the club
last night. “And some imes the fragments
sound funnv. I was comiug down 'he street a
fe v days ago wi h my chum and te i g him of
some trouble I had hid with my gir.. ae judged
from the surface evidence that, like the majority
of lovers. I was Llmd, aud that a certain part of
tne information I had imparted pertaining to
the girl's status in the case was wr ng. I was
endeavoring to convince him that this was not
true, aud in my earnest ess I became emphatic.
‘“lt I know anybody on eartu I know that
girl,’ I said. Just then we passed a very good
-1 oking young worua. at whom 1 casually
glanced, and when we had got safely by my
chum said:
“ ‘Now, you had better go back and apolo
gize.’
“’What for?' I asked.
“‘That girl we just passed thought you were
sDoakiu about her, and she has looked hack at
you twice. It’s an outrage to let her go away
consumed with curiosity. She will rack her
brains for weeks tryi g lo think where she met
you, ntid the mental strain will make her gray.'
"I turned and looked, and the young wo nan
had stopped at tho street corner and was look
ing after us inquiringly. Her action wasn’t
that of a flirt, but just that ot one who was
trying to solve a knotty problem. I dare say my
looking around on.y strengthened her belief
that I had reference to her in my remark, and
that she devoted a good deal of time to trying
to locate me in her list of acquaintances. She
was a mighty good looker, and I’ve been sorry
ever since that she had to give it up, which, of
course, she did at last. I would much rather
have had it the other way.”
In Pecuniary Parlance.
In all life’s ways and walks, for chicks as well
as hawks—
’Tis money talks!
Schemes may be strong or weak, and schemers
bold or me**K
Simoleons speak!
Some men have truths to teach, some sour
grapes to reach—
Piastres preach!
Some arguments are tame and some designs are
lame—
Dollars declaim 1
Some empty heads may rattle, Borne urge men
ou to battle—
But pennies prattle!
Some even have a "barrel,” some glorious ap
parel—
But “cases” carol!
Hang banners on our walls; yes, hire domes and
halls—
But coin calls!
Some men uphold a state, some conquer angry
fate—
’Tis "plunks" that prate!
Some men there are make bets there, some
boast that they are “vets” there—
Gold gets there!
Thank heaven for site * and mercies, and now
out with the purses—
’Tis cash converses!
Quite a LifFerencs.
From the Sew York Star.
AVhenl saw James G. Blaine crossing over
from Fifth avenue to his hoiel Saturday, ac
companied by one of his sons, he looked a
thousandfold m ire pie iseJ thau he did when
last 1 saw him at Toledo, 0.. and l ing t ie cam
paign in 18*4. He had just finished addressing
a arge outdoor meeting from a pla form in the
pu die square, when one of the reception com
nut tee invited him to remain and review the
parade. For fully ha fau hour lie stood, cheer
fully bowing his acknowledgments to the
pieudits of the paraders. But that night there
were two torcaiight processions, ihe democrats
turning out as well thujas republicans. In th *
wase of the republic >n procession were
the Tilden avengers. As the democrats neared
tne platiorm wuere Blaine stood, they hurried
along, so as to give thems Ives the appearance
of being the tail end of the republican pr ices
sion. The nun f o n Maine had just finished
saluting a "Protection for Aroer c m Worki ig
men” trnnsparenc , when, seeing the light from
another, ho prepared to lecei e the n. Upon
looking up, to his great astonishment, h * road
upon the uearest side of the and moeratic trans
parency the legend; “Give my regards to Airs
Fisher." Y'es, Mr. Blaine loosed much more
pleased yesterday than he did in 1884.
Ident.fyin* Mr. Johnson.
From the Yew York Sun.
"Is there a Air. Johnson in tuis car?" oal’ed
the conductor, as he entered a coach on a
Lehigh A’alley train and held up a telegram to
view.
"There is!” replied three men in chorus, as
they rose up.
“But i is dispatch is for John Johnson."
“Tint’s ran! replied two of then, w.ile ths
third 1 ok and relieved and sat down.
“Wnie i of you is married?” continued the
conductor.
"Ian!” both answered.
“aell, I tub k tail ..ispatch relates to tli
birth of twins at home, anu is congratulatory.”
“Tnat lets me out. thank heav**n!” exc aimed
one Job son, as he sat down to wipe his brow
whue t ie other flus .ad red and white for a
moment, and then received the dispatch.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
f*
One of Chicago’s arguments in favor of
having the AVorid’s Fair is that 3.732,244 hogs
were slau htered .n that city in 1888.
In order to replace tne field laborers who have
emigrated to Mexico and South America, a com
pany has been formed in Havana to mane con
tract? with a number of work nen in Spain and
bring them to Cuba with tueir families.
AYhen Mrs. Hastings of Carlisle. N. Y., passed
over the dark river her husband had an epitaph
all ready for her in. mu nent. A portion of it
reads: "She never ho. rowed one single thing
from her neighoor during her thirty-four years
of w,dded life.”
The young ladies of Burnett, Wis., have
formed "The Heavenly F wjt” society, the ob
ject of wh.ch is to do away witli the practice at
weaii.ig a numb-r 2 shoe on a number 5 foot.
The object is about as praiseworthy as the ma
jority of suen societies now existing.
A very curious collection of ladies’ garters
is kept at the Hohenzoliern museum at Berlin.
Whenever there is a wedding in the Hoben
zoilern family, a numoer of those short silk
ga t rs, wit i the indiiUs of the newly-married
princess, are distributed among friends.
The proudest boast among Cuban women is
the dainty smallness of their feet. They re
quir - notuing larger in the way of foot-gear
taau No. 1 size for American women. Tuis pe
culiar endowment is perfectly natural; no
pincuiag or t rossure of any kind is used.
On Rice street, St. Paul, lives an old lady
na ed French. She is nearly 80 years old and
totally blind, and has bee so for ihe pas:forty
years. Yets cn a remarKable memory has she
and so wed versed on t.ie Bible that she is able
to quote whole chapters from any part of the
scriptures.
A kind stranger helped George Ohlinger, of
Aurelius, Mica., to board a train at Lansing the
other evening and was thanked for it, but no
stranger vvni ever attempt to he so kind again
ami escape without scars, for this one picked
Air. O dinner’s pocket of $5 in cash, some rail
road tickets and a check for sllß,
A Brooklyn saloonkeeper named Koerner a
few days ago gave two beers to a seedy-lookiag
aud impecunious individual for the mercantile
equival nt of a lottery ticket. Mr. Koeruer
place! but little value pon the pasteb ard
until Saturday, when he learned that tha ticket
was "a wi .ner,” and a big one at that, being
worth exactly 55.1100.
One of the numerous and miscellaneous “only
genuine and original” tattooe t girls in a New
\°rk dime museum is faithfully declared to be
25 years o and, aud it is further asseverated that
tue cuticu.ar adornment of her person was ex
ecuted when sue was au infant. Yet the most
conspicuous feature of the panorama is a lise
ue.sS of Liberty Enlightening tue World, as seen
on Bedloe's island.
The Temple of Heaven at Peking, containing
the ragon throne, has be *n destroyed by fire.
It was five stories high, surmou ted by a dome
like ro f. The interior was pa ticularly note
worthy for a nu ntier of pillars supporting the
root, wh ca were facci witu aud otherwise
splendidly adorned. The temple was sur
rounded oy a number of spacious buddi.jgs,
m -st of th nn de oted to the service of tne
priests attached to the saei ed edifice.
Gen. Obroutcheff, the chief of the general
staff of the Russian army, submitted to the
czar last simmer a report urging that a second
line of rails be laid to the western frontier in
spite ot tlie opposition of the minister of
finance, the p oposal is being carried out.
Ligat m llion poods of rails and SIX) locomotives
have been ordered lor delivery in May. This
measure completes tlie strategic network of
Russian railways, increasing their capacity to
ma?s troops on the G rman frontier.
A gossip writes that a new London freak is
“Tne Peace Society.” The members assemble
for tea iu fashionable studios, languidly look
through collection? of sketches and a lin uidly
listen to music, and tuen, with continued lan
guor, disciss que >ti > s tor oanisuiug idea? of
war from tue youthful mind. Due idea i? to
treat war as merely an incident in text-books of
history. This is the soc.ety which, some time
a o, began its self-appoi aed miss on by recom
mending the banishment of drums aud tin
soldi-rs from the nursery.
A German long resident in London, who left
home at 20 yearß of age, thereby evading serv
ice in the army, has sent to the English papers!
a communication received from the authorities
in “the Fatherland” in answer to an appucati n
to be permitted 10 visit his father ere he died
“Come by all means" was in effect the aii.-tere
rejoin ier, "out you w ill have to pay a flue of '
£6 10s., undergo six week.’ drilling and spend
six mouths in a fortr sc" Tuis wqs a 1 tti* too
much for the c >rre p n ieit’s filial instinct. • It
would nave been a great joy to me to nave seen
my father," he -ays, "nut under these circum
stances we shall meet no more.”
The British museum has come into possession
of a vase only three inches higu which is con
sidered the finest example of the so-caded
Corinthian ware in the world. It is pear
shap and, and h is for a mouth a lion’s head with
dist'tided jaws. Tlie decoration is chiefly in
black on a warm cream paste, with red olive
and purple touches on the black. Figures in
lively action encircle it in five ha ids of unequal
depth, divided from each ot ier by strong lines
Notwithstanding their minute size, the wan iors
depicted in combat on one hand, the horses
backed by boys in a race on another, and the
hunting sc-n-son a third a, e said to lie uratvn
wi h genuine dramatic instinct aud a masterly
capacity for and isign. • J
“How many thieves, regular out-and-out rob
bers,” said Government Detective James H.
Pryor, “do you suppose have boxes in the safe
and posit companies’ vaults of New York? Plenty
of ’em, and when they maze a good haul of
swag there’s nothing in the world to prevent
their going straight down to their vaults as anv
millionaire migh and quietly caching the goods
unt 1 they get good a id ready to dispose of
them. Never thought of that, did you? ‘AVealth
and respectability’ are not always implied by a
bank account any more tuan they are bi* a
legalized bid ng-pl *.ee with a safe deposit com
pally. The thieves know it is hard, if not prac
Really impossible, for the ia.v to follow their
booty there. Suppose yon were a bank ens lier
or even a Naoole in of fl lance an 1 put away a
million before the crash, or flight, or arrest
vrhy shouldn't you p it it in your regular safe
(lop is it vault or in some other name with some
other saf - deposit company? There yon havea
safe fund 10 haw on for lawyer’s fees and for a
fr* lie or two when you doff the stripes aud
come out into the gay world again!"
It is an interesting and significant fact that
all the larger firms in New York which deal in
book? have a constant and considerable call for
“Burke’s Peerage,” De Brett’s volume on the
English aristocracy, ana works of a kindred
nature. The books are all imp rted. and even
in England are very expensive, but this seems
to have no doterrmg i lluence o.*i the demand
tor them. "Burke’s Peerage” soils for some
thing over sl3, and yet it is understood that
near I v every iasbionahle family i, town is po -
sessed of a copy, ami t at immediately prior to
a contemplated sojourn abroad they study it
with remarkable and edifying industry, the
story goes that in some families “Burke’s Peer
a :e” used to be one of the ornaments of the
drawing room, hut after frequent c n u tations
tlie book began to take on such evidence? of use
tnat its ebara :ter as an ornament was destroyed
and it was re.cgat *d to the recesses of one of tlie
library shelve*. There is also a shilling peer
age that is to say, a little pump let got up in
England, giving a dige-t of tho larg -r books of
refer,* ee-and it sells her * for 50 cents, hut the
demand for it is comparatively light.
A French officer, in speaking of melinite to
a representative of the New York Times, said:
"Our shells for field artillery, as well as those
for o ir forts and sieve guns, are charg 'd w ith
melinite. Whit melin te is we do not know
and if we knew w should be verv careful not to’
tell Both the Italians and the Germans have
s *nt p.e.? to diseov *r the s -cret, and to offer
money for even the smallest fragment, hut
they have all been captured. All tbar cm be
said is that, according to a treati e pub! sTed in
1 s*> melinite is composed of melted pier c a**id
But in the interval our ai till ri?ts have pr
fct dtuedis overyof M. Turnin. They have
made melinite a tractable product. The effects
of this explosive were fully dem vnstrat*d
in some experi neats in the fort
of Malmaison in ISB6. Melinite i?
so safe tn.-t 111 tl r:e years only one acce'ent
has occurred, hat at the arsenal of Belfor.
on the otner hand, a huuJr *d accidents have
occnrre I from elatine alone in thirty years
T ere has never been an accident in drawing
thecnar .es, nor ons from bur tin in the un
As much cannot be sat 1 ior roburite, bellofite
or the other -instances employed by for igu
states. AV hat, it is asked, will become of forti
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Some think ami siy they are doomed; others'
like Gen. Briaiinont. ree iranieiid tle use of
armored cireuia r forts. It is said that the saell
wili glance off these vv.thout doing damage
But exiieriment? at Uhalong have shown that
turrets enjoy no immunity against a close and
continuous fire."
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