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INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Meeting*—Stockholders of the Central Ice
Company, at Mobile.
Special Notices— Southern Home Building
and Loan Association, G. B. Whatley. Agent;
Notice of Appointment of George W. Haupt as
Special Agent of Penn Mutual Life Insurance
Company; A. P. Solomon as Agent for D. Gar
telmann; Stale and County Taxes, 1889; As to
Crew of Spanish Bark V’erdad; Remember Sat
urday's Special Prices at Heidt’s.
Amusements —Mu ic. Recitations and the Chi
nese Brill, at Youge's Hall To-Night.
Oranges -W. D. Sink ins.
Steamship Schedule—! K-oan Steamship Com
pany.
Cheap Column Advertisements Help
Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Rent; For
Sale; Lost; Personal; Miscellaneous.
It is the general opinion that the coming
session of congress will be a very long one,
and Congressman Bayne, of Pennsylvania,
says that he would not be surprised if it
iastej until the succeeding one began.
The Baltimore American says that prize
fighting is losing all caste and most of its
popularity in this country. Probably San
Francisco is so far off that the American
forgets that it is a part of this country.
Commissioner of Pensions Raum is not
talking as much as his predecessor did, but
he has Imitated Mr. Tanner in at least one
respect—he has found a snug place iu the
pension office for a member of his imme
diate family. In the matter of nepotism
Mr. Kaum has before him the example of
the President.
Mr. Edwin Booth’s melancholy spells are
said to be growing on him. He spends
hours at a time without speaking a word,
although people are in his prose:ice. It is
sometimes difficult for him ts arouse him
self to perform his part in a play, but' the
other night, when he appeared as “Mac
beth,” in New York, he is said to have ex
celled himself.
Mr. Obed Wheeler was a delegate from
New York to the republican national con
vention last year, and he cast his vote for
Gen. Harrison. He thought Harrison was
the very man to nominate. Asked the
other day what he thought of the admin
istration, he said: “If y>u aro going to
quote me, say that I am thoroughly dis
gusted with it.” President Harrison may
have pleased himself, but he has not pleased
Mr. Wceeler aud a great many others.
George Francis Train has a daughter who
is afflicted with the name of Carissima Sue,
but for some time she has forgotten her af
fliction in the delights of a European trip.
With the family of a well-known Chica
goan, she has visited almost every city of
importance in Europe. She is going to re
turn to New York next month, and when
George Francis lmorints a paternal kiss
upon her fair brow and says, “Welcome
home, Carissima Sue,” her troubles will
begin again.
The superintendent of tho public schools
of Reading, Pa., reported to the school
board of that city the other day that the
habit of cigarette smoking among the male
pupils was becoming prevalent to an alarm
ing degree, and that many of the boys had
become seriously affected, mentally aud
physically, by it. If there is anybody who
ought to understand the effect of a bad
habit upon a child, it is the child’s teacher.
He probably knows more about it than
even the child’s parents.
Mr. Henry George has at last received
permission to use 510,000 or f 15,000 of the
estate of the late George Hutchins, of Neo-
Jersey, as directed in Mr. Hutchins’ will.
The money is to be used for the dissemina
tion of Mr. George’s literary works, es
pecially “Progress and Poverty.” Mr.
Hutchins’ wiil was declared illegal some
time ago, but on an appeal that decision
was reversed. It is hardly probable that
Mr. George will proceed to distribute h;s
books by giving them away.
A distressing occurrence is reported from
St. Joseph, Mo. Last Friday afternoon,
Miss Moore, a teacher in the public schools
of that city, placed a child in a closet in a
disserted room as punishment for some
offenso. When school was dismissed, Bhe
forgot to release the boy. She went homo,
and the boy remained in the closet until
Monday morning, when tho janitor, hear
ing him feebly crying, forced open the closet
and released him. He was in a pitiful con
dition, aud it is feared that ho will die.
Notwithstanding Mrs. Parnell’s physi
cian’s denial that Mrs. Parnell was suffering
for want of food and attention, there ap
pears to be a good deal of truth in the state
ment that she was. Her sou, Charles S.
Parnell, was amazed when he read the re
ports, ai;d ho at once cabled to his agent in
New York to supply her with funds. He
had no reason to believe that she was
pressed for money, as previously she had
applied to him for It when she needed it
*ud uad always obtained it.
Universal Suffrage In Brazil.
The provisional government of Brazil has
I taken a bold step, an 1 one of doubtful wis
dom, in decreeing universal suffrage
throughout the republic. Under the em
pire only about 3)0,900 eujoyed the elective
franchise, and the percentage of those pos
sessing it who wore capable of exercising it
intelligently was comparatively small. The
population, taken as a whole, is a very
ignorant one. There are 3,0(10,050 of freed
men, and it is quite safe to say that of the
other 8,000,000 or 10,000,000 of the popula
tion, not one in ten knows how to read and
write.
These ignorant masses can be easily in
fluenced, aud will doubtless be used by
scheming and ambitious men to promote
their own selfish purposes. It would have
been much easier to have confined the
of suffrage to those who are sufficiently
well informed to exercise it intelligently,
with the understanding that it would be
gradually extended as the people became
prepared for it.
It will be very remarkable if peace con
tinues to prevail while the republic is being
put into working shape. The overthrow of
the empire and the establishment of the
republic was so sudden that the people have
not yet recovered from their surprise.
When they realize fully what has happened
troubles of a very serious character may
arise. There are plenty of ambitious
men, no doubt, in the republic who
care a great deal more to advance
their own political fortunes than they do to
promote the welfare of the republic, and
the probabilities are that they will take ad
vantage of the unsettled condition of affairs
to push thomselves into the position of lead
ers. There will bo jealousies, dissensions,
and, in aU probability, quarrels which
will require force to settle. Unless a brave,
able, and patriotic man comes to tho front,
and by general con-out is permitted to take
the direction of affairs until the republic is
placed upon a firm foundation, mob rule
may become the order of the day.
No great amount of dependence can be
placed upon the army. It contains only
14,000 men, and a large part of it is scattered
over a wide extent of territory. Its com
position is such that it cannot bo relied
upon to support those who are at present
oxercising authority. It willingly became
the instrument of the man now acting as
president of the republic to overthrow Don
Pedro’s government, and it is just as likely
to become the instrument of an am
bitious and unscrupulous man to overthrow
tho republic.
It is safe to predict that Brazil is on tho
eve of exciting events. If she possessed nn
intelligent and patriotic population, anxious
for a republic, she might avoid the dangers
which appear to threaten her, but having
an ignorant population, who hardly know
the meaning of a republic, it will be little
less than marvelous if her people do not be
come engaged in civil war before the new
government becomes so firmly established
as to command general respect aud confi
dence. Thedecreeiug of universal suffrage
looks very much like an acknowledgment
of weakness and an attempt to bribe the
people into giving their support to the now
government.
The President’s Appointments.
The republican press doe3 not seem to
tire of defending President Harrison’s ap
pointments, probably for the reason that
they need to be defended. The country is
told every few days that almost without
exception first-class men have been ap
pointed to office, and one or two of the re
publican newspapers have gone so far as to
assert that the President has not made a
single mistake in his appointments.
The other day the Boston Journal printed
the alleged rules by which the President is
governed in this matter. It said that they
were given by a gentleman who holds close
relations with the administration. This
gentleman said that the President required
that his appointees should be clean and
honest men; that their associations should
be such as would reflect credit upon tho
administration; that they should be men of
dignity and business qualifications rather
than political hustlers, and that they should
not be connected with any enterprise,
political or otherwise, that was not credit-
able to them. It would be a very good
thing for the country if the President were
guided by these rules, and he may
have posted them in large letters over his
desk, but it is to be feared that the politi
cians have caused him to forget them iu a
number of instances. It will not be denied
that ho has made some good appointments,
but the republican press goes tou far when
it says that aU of them havo been good.
The fact is that some of them have boon
about as bad as they could be. The Presi
dent violated one of his alleged rules before
he had been in olfioe twenty-four hours.
One or two of his cabinet officers have
been identified with some very ques
tionable political transactions, and it would
not be a difficult matter to name numbors of
his subsequent appointees who are altogether
out of place in responsible government
positions. The democratic press has not
criticised his appointments very severely,
but it was not bacauso some of them were
not open to severe criticism. The republicaa
press, however, should be a little more cau
tious in sotting up claims for the President.
The people understand that, ou the whole,
there is a good deal that is discreditable in
the appointments.
The colored lawyer of Washington named
Moss takes issue with tho leaders who ad
vises the colored people to stay in the south.
He says that they had better go west. If
doesn’t look like they were going west, or
anywhere else, however. The fact of the
business is that since the southern whites
concluded that it would be a good thing for
the south if many of the blacks should
move away, the colored leaders, of whom a
considerable number previously advocated
emigration, have suddenly become about
unanimous in the opinion that emigration
wouldn’t do—that is, tho colored lead >rs
who are recognized and controlled by the
Republican party. That party, it will be
understood, opposes any proposition made
by the southern whites with regard to tho
southern black). It always harbors tho
suspicion that the southern whitos have
some political objoct iu view.
As Gen. Mahone left the dining-room
of the Fifth Avenue hotel. Now York, the
other day ho was joined by ox-Senator
Platt, who managed to get up nn im
promptu reception for him. Mahone
smiled blandly os he shook hauds with his
admirers,and to one of them he said that tho
democrats of Virginia cheated hitn out of
30,000 votes in the recent election. This
will be taken for what it is worth, and as
it comes from Mahone, it isn’t worth
much. Mahone intimated that he wouldn’t
be a candidate for governor again. He
prefers for some other republican to be
snowed under next time.
THE MORNING NEWS: FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1889.
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Beginning to See the Point.
Mr. T. V. Powderly, the leader of the
K fights of Labor, made a statement in one
of bis speeches in the convention of that or
ganization in Atlanta a day or two ago,
that will command a good deal of attention
from workingmen in all parts of the
country. He said substantially that the
high protective tariff is a good thing for the
manufacturer, but is burdensome to the
wage earner. The effect of a high pro
tective tariff is, he said, to make the rich
richer and the poor poorer.
It has not been very long since Mr. Pow
derly was a protectionist, and believed that
protection insured good wages to working
men. Careful observation of the workings
of the tariff laws and a thorough consider
ation of the tariff question have convinced
him that he was wrong. He secs that the
manufacturers are making vast fortunes,
but he does not see any improvement in the
wages of workingmen. He declares that
the struggle of the workingmen for exist
ence is becoming yearly harder.
It is a source of satisfaction that Sir.
Powderly has told the Knights of Labor
the change that has taken place in his views
ou the tariff, because they will be infl lenced
by what be has said to give the tariff more
thought than they have heretofore. The
workingmen have been always so much
u nder the influence of the manufacturers
that they have never given the tariff issue
much thought. They have accepted to a
great extent the view their employers
took of it, and, in doing so, supposed that
they were serving their own interests. Mr.
Powderly’s change of front will, doubtless,
open their eyes to the extraordinary bur
dons which the j rotectlve tariff imposes
upon them, and at the next national election
they may show by their votes that a won
derful change has taken place in their views
with respect to the tariff issue.
The last national campaign was an edu
cational one, so far as the tariff was con
cerned. Mr. Cleveland’s tariff message to
congress started tho people to thinking
about tho tariff. If the campaign had
been a little longer the chances are that
Cleveland and tariff reform would havo
triumphed. The educational campaign
which Mr. Cleveland inaugurated, how
ever, is producing good results. Two great
republican states virtually approved tariff
reform in the elections this month, and the
tariff reform leaven is beginning to have a
marked effect among workingmen.
A Bad Business Policy.
The people have just cause for complaint
against President Harrison for not requir
ing government employes in the depart
mints to put in a full day’s work each
working day. In most, if not all, of the
departments the working day is from 9
o’clock a. m. to 4 o’clock p. m. When Mr.
Cleveland became President he found that
many of the employes began work later
than 9 o’clock and stopped at 3 o’clock. He
soon put a stop to that sort of thing, and
his own example did muca in causing a
reform. The consequence was that whereas
under former administrations the depart
mental work was generally behind, under
Mr. Cleveland it was well in hand. Not
only that, but iu some of the departments,
under the new order of things, the clerical
force was reduced, without detriment to
the public service. President Harrison
had been in office only a short while when
the old order was resumed. Tho rules of
attendance and work were relaxed, aud it
is stated that employes who had been dis
missed as unnecessary were reinstated, or
new ones taken on.
It may be contended by some that this is
a vory small matter, as the government is
able to pay all of its employes. It canuot
be denied, however, that as an illustration
of the business methods now in force it is
not creditable to the present administra
tion. Tho employes are given the oppor
tunity, of which they are not slow to avail
themselves, to do as little work as possible.
Why shouldn’t a government employe earn
his salary as fully as the employe of a
private concern ? Nobxly would employ in
nis private business a force of men out of all
proportion to the work to be done, or allow
his business interests to suffer for tho want
of proper attention on the part of employes,
but that seems t > be the way President
Harrison is conducting the public business,
aud it is not surprising that the people
should complain. The people pay their
public servants out of their earnings, and
they have a right to demand that the
government shall be administered on sound
business principles.
The New York World prints a list of
seventy millionaires in that city who have
not subscribed a cent for the world’s fair
fund. In this connection, Mr. Chauncey
M. Depew, in a speech a few nights ago,
said that it was high time for the million
aires of that city to help the fund. He was
afraid that New York’s apparent indiffer
ence would staud in the way of getting the
fair. He visited Chicago a short while
ago, and found matters very different
there. Said he: “When I meot a Chicago
merchant, a minister, a lawyer, a doctor,
whether his mission be for the welfare of
my soul or my body, his first question is:
‘What is your opinion of the world’s fair
location V My hotel bill there had upon it
‘The World’s Fair in Chicago;’ when I
placed my hat upon the rack somebody
pasted in it, ‘The World’s Fair in Cuicago.’
Upon a prescription which I got for my
cough, ‘The World’s Fair in Chicago,’ and
so on. AYhen I went to church the lady
who occupied the pew into which I was
ushored handed me a prayerbook, upon
which was pasted, ‘The World’s Fair in
Chicago.’ ” This is probably exaggerated
a little, but the energy with which Chicago
is pushing her claims has cortainly com
pelled admiration. A majority of the peo
ple of the country are probably in favor of
New York, but if Now York fails because
she does not exert horseif sufficiently, she
will not get much sympathy.
Perhaps all of the Georgians who were
appointed to offire outside the state by Mr.
Cleveland have not returned home yet, but
most of them will oat their Thanksgiving
dinner under their own viue and fig tree, so
to speak. One of the last to return was Col.
Joseph W. Preston, of Monticello, Ga. Col.
Preston was a commissioner of Indian af
fairs for California, and that ho filled the
position satisfactorily goe3 without saying,
lor bo is one of the most intelligent men in
Middle Georgia. Bsfore he went to Cali
fornia, he was prominently mentioned for
congress from the Sixcti district, and, now
that ho lias returned, perhaps Congressman
Blount had better keep his eagle eye upon
him.
Rube Burrows, the Alabama outlaw, is
not übiquitous, but he would have to be if
ho were guilty of every offeuse that has
recently been charged against him. Every
time a houss is burglarized, or a man
robbed, no matter iu what part of Alabama
the crime is, it is charged upon Rube.
CURHENT COMMENT.
It Will Be Weil Done.
From the Cincinnati Enquirer (Dem
The republican orjfarrs which are shrieking:
about a proposed gerrymander in Ohio will
pleas* stand informed th.t under the federal
constitution a relistricting of the state is made
ooligatory for 1891. A democratic legislature
will very properly attend to the matter.
A Republican Convention.
From the Philadelphia Record IDem.).
The character of the recent alleged national
farmers convention in Montgomery. Ala., is
thoroughly betrayed in the fact that its resolu
tions contained not a syllable in denunciation of
the trusts and monopolies that are oppressing
the agricultural interests of this country.
Why Not Gratify His Desire?
From the Philadelphia Press (Rep.).
Inasmuch as Allen O. Myers of Ohio, has de
clared that he would rat ter go to jail than to
the United States Senate as that body is at
present constituted, tber*- snould be a general
sequence ia his choice. Probably the people
0t j J. • 1 ' they were consulted, would rather
send him to jail than to the Senate.
It Has a Good Case.
From the Washington Star (Rep.).
If the civil service commission has a good
case of unlawful solicitatioa ot political con
trioutioDS against members of the Old Domin
ion Club, there should undoubtedly be prosecu
tion of them. The law is v ,ry plain, and as the
spirit of civil service ret orm has taken a firm
hold on the present administration, it is not
likely to disregard the letter of it.
BRIGHT BITS.
It is orn proud boast that the United States
has no standing army; but look at our bars.
There is an army of men standing at them
every day taking their drinks. —Texas Siftings.
Wickwiius—Mudge is making a great success
in agriculture, 1 hear.
Yabsley—O. bosh!'
Wickwire—No bosh about it. He made $7,500
last week by planting a rich uncle. -Terre
haute Kxprcss.
‘That man is spoiling for a fight,” remarked
Cumso, speaking of an individual who was
quarreling with another
“No, he is not,” replied Fangle. “I know
him. He's a professional pugilist.— Drake's
Magazine.
WmKiNS—Do you Know that our friend
Bright is going to marry .Miss Blackstone? He’s
got the cream of that ;amily of girls.
Bilkins—You don't say! If she's anything
like her mother he’il find hercream of tartar.—
Boston Times.
There Wasn’t Room.—Wife—Harry, do you
see how attentive that couple on the sofa are to
each other? I'm quite positive there’s some
thing between them.
Husband (after a look)—I think you’re mis
taken, my dear.— Time.
Boarder (to landlady who has just discharged
a profane cook)—Was that the beefsteak I heard
sweariug in the kitchen?
Landlady—Sir?
Boarder—O I’m cot at all surprised. It's
tough enough. - Bing tamton Republican.
Detected in Crime. Little Fauntleroy Bill
ings tas papa comas ini— Why didn't you leave
it, so we could see how it Iooks?
His Sister—Leave .vhat. Faunty?
Little Fauntleroy—Why, Mr. Luken's mus
tache. I peeped in through the curtain an’ saw
him tryin' it on yer. -Judge.
NotOut.—“Do you remember that awfully
smart boy you used to have in your office—
Johnny Smith.”
“O, yes."
“How did he come out?”
“He hasn’t come out. He got twenty years
in Sing Sing.”— New York Commercial Adver
tiser.
In a small town in Baden a minister closed his
sermon the other day with these words: "We
wouid be pleased, moreover, to have the young
man who is now standing outside the door
come in and make certain whether she is here
or not. That would he a great deal better than
opening the door half an inch and exposing the
people in the last row of seats to a draught."—
Frankfurter Zeitung.
A Kentucky Diversion.—Kentucky Girl—ls
every thing ready, George?
Lover—Yes; all the preparations have been
made.
Kentucky Girl—Have father aud the boys got
their horses all saddled ready to chase us the
moment we elope?
Lover—l have arranged everything.
Kentucky Girl-Well, then, I suppose we’ve
got to run for it.— Judge.
Their Favorite Songs.—Corporal Tanner-
Out in the Cold World.
Elliott F. Shepard—And Every Day Will be
Sunday Over There.
Susan B. Anthony—Believe Me if All Those
Endearing Young Charms.
Chicago—Blow, Ye Winds of the Morning:
Blow, Blow, Blow!
Tne Sugar Trust—ln the Sweet Buy and Buy.
Cornelius Vanderbilt—l’ve Fifteen Dollars In
My Inside Pocket.— Life.
Crushed Hopes.—“And what answer do you
make to my appeal?” he asked, as he knelt at
her feet.
“James, I will bo frank with you,” she mur
mured.
"O, speak!’’he implored, “and relieve me
from this agony of suspense.”
“Then let me say it cannot be.”
“Why not? O, why not?”
“Because, James, Ido not feel able to sup
port a husband.”— Boston Courier.
PERSONAL.
A fund for the benefit of the family of the
late Richard A. Proctor, the astronomer, has
recently been started in London hv Grant
Alien and others.
G. J. Wolseley, the Australian squatter,
and brother of Lord Wolseley, has floated on
the London market a sheep-shearing machine
capitalized at 81,000,000.
Margaret Olipiiant, the tireless producer of
novels, oiographies, histories and editions of
foreign c assies, is 61 years old and an enthusi
astic lover of her native land.
Senator William M. Evarts will soon be
home, and, althougn his eyesight is still a littie
weak, he will probably be able to see the politi
cians regarding tho succession to his senatorial
seat.
Dr. Pffii.i.iPE Ricord, who died lately in
Paris, is sai l to have been the most extensively
“decorated ” man in Europe, as crosses, ribbons,
medals, etc., had been conferred upon him to
the number of 200 or more.
Among the papers of the late Matthew Arnold
a large number of poems have been found,
many of which are of such excellence and finish
that, iu the opinion of his library executors,
they ought to be given to the world.
Rev. Dr. Bartol, who has just retired from
the pulpit he has made famous in Boston, is one
of the richest divines in the country. He ma e
his fortune by lucky investments in land along
the Massachusetts coast at points now popular
as summer resorts.
Henry W. Franciscos, one of the Queen’s
messengers, Is taking a vacation in this coun
try. He has carried dispatches for the English
foreign office for more than thirty years, lie
lias circumnavigated the globe six or seven
times. He began nis service when Lord Palmer
ston was British minister of foreign affairs He
has visited India, China, Japan. Australia,
Honolulu aud many other remote localities.
His daughter sometimes travels with him aud
has accompanied him to this country.
George Eliot maintained a self-respecting
privacy during her life, which has not been re
spected since her death. She never allowed
herself to be interviewed; she refused to be
photographed. It was said of Mme. de Stael
that she was “consolingly ugly." This remark
applied more truthfully to George Eliot, who
was morbidly sensitive about her personal ap
pearance. Sue rarely spoke of her works, and
never of herself. She was a most fascinating
talker when iu the company of those she loved,
but in general society she did not shine.
John Brjsden Walker, the editor of the
Cosmopolitan Magazine, has had a varied aud
interesting career, although he is only 42 years
old. Educated at West Point, he entered the
Chinese army through the recommendation of
Anson G. Burlingame, minister to and from
China. Tne bravery of the young officer raised
him in a few years to the rank of general. Re
turning horn; he engaged in mining in West
Virginia, and married the daughter of (Jen.
David Strother, who is better known as Porte
Crayon. He was afterward a ranchmau, then
an editpr.
One of the youngest members of the new con
gress is Henry Stockbridge, Jr., of Maryland,
who succeeds Representative Raynor. When
Stixikbridgo was nominated for congress he was
in Maine. He carries a pocket-piece, one side of
which he considers lucky and the other unlucky.
When he received the dispatch asking him to
accept the nomination he took the coin from his
pocket, tossed it in the air aud saw the lucky
side turn up. He at once telegraphed an ac
ceptance and entered the fight in the eon viction
that tie would win. He had a hard battle aud
beat Raynor by only a few votes.
The liver and kidneys must be kept in
good condition. Hood’s Sarsaparilla is a
great remedy to* regulating these organs.
A Kiss in a Canoe.
From the Journal of Education.
The maiden sat in a light canoe.
Afloat on a mountain lake;
And a mad idea shot wildly through
The brain of the lover! who sat there, too,)
That he. In that self-same ;i ;ht canoe,
A stolen kiss would take.
how the maiden sat there, unaware
Of the plot that he had hatched;
And the mountain breeze played with her hair.
And fanned her cheek and her brow so fair,
As she sat there stili quite unaware
Of the kiss so soon to be snatched.
Then the lover awaited a real good chance
To capture the longed for kiss.
When, watching the wimpling wavelets dance,
her head with a quick, shy glance,
And leaning hack she gave him a chance
That was really too good to miss.
bent to meet her, and tried to steal
The kiss that he burned to get,
but he bent so quick in his ardent zeal
That the craft upset like a whirling w heel,
ADd he missed the kiss that he tried to steal.
And they both got very wet.
Why Ho Didn’t Propose.
From the Few York Sun.
A certain well-known New Yorker, who has
to hustle for his bread and molasses, this sum
mer fell in love with a girl, and ever since
August has been on the eve of proposing to her.
His income is $2,500 a year, but he wanted to
be certain that he could pay all the expenses
before rushing into the fray. He estimated that
the rent and running expenses of a suburban
residence would cost SI.SOO a year. He al
lowed $350 a year for his personal expenses,
and thought that the girl could get along on a
like sum. To be sure he didn't expect to save
any money while living at this late: but like
other young men he had abounding faith in a
special providence which would cause a long
forgotten uncle or other relative to die some
time and lea e him a fortune.
So he asked an intimate friend of his lady
love how much the latter spent for her ward
robe during the year. The friend said; “Why,
she told me only day before yesterday that her
clothes cost SI,OOO a year, but she did think she
could get along on $1,500.” The engagement
has not l et been announced.
An Exception to the Rule.
From the W ashington. Post.
A gentleman who was in a pondersome state
o mind sat in a herdic yesterday studying an
advertisement of somebody's soap. The ad
vertisement informed him that this soap always
“leaves a good impression benlnd.” After
rolling the matter over and over in his mind he
ventured to say to a morose looking man sit
ting near:
"That's funny.”
“What’s funny?'*
“That advertisement. The soap, it says,
leaves a good impression behind. Now, where
else than behind can a good impression be left?
Surely nobody would think it possible to leave
a good impression before
The morose man, who possibly was a disap
pointed office-seeker, reflected a moment.
I don t know about that," said he. “I guess
you'll find out that the present administration,
for instance, has left most of its good impression
before.”
As the gentleman with the pondersome mind
was more or less closely connected with the
present administration, he consumed the rest
of the journey in silent pondering.
Got What He Wanted.
From the Washington Post.
A gentleman who was thirsty stood in front
of tlie Post building yesterday afternoon when
a friend came along.
“Hid you read, this morning, about that fellow
passing himself off as a Scotch nobleman at
Willard’s hotel and borrowing S2O on the
strength of it?”
“Yes,” said the new comer.
“And di t you hoar about that man who passed
himself off for the Hon. Joe Cannon at the same
hotel and got board there several weeks this
summer?”
“No,” said the other; “that seems incredible.
Don't they know- Joe Cannon at Willard’s?”
“They ought to.”
“There was a pause. Then the new comer
asked:
“Who was the fellow? Ho they know?”
That was what the thirsty man was waitin'*
for.
“Why, it was Joe Cannon,’’ he said.
You wouldn’t suppose that a man could get
a drink in Washington on Sunday, but that man
did.
Humpy Came Up.
From the Detroit Free Press,
“Boy, what’s the meaning of that crowd down
there?” he asked, as he pointed down Congress
street.
“Awful time down there,” was the reriK. I
“But what is it?” *
“You know Jerkey, the bootblack?”
“No.”
“Know Humpy, the newsboy?”
‘‘No.’’
“Well, you know, Jerkey was sittih’ on the
hydrant eatin’ an apple, when Humpy came up
and ”
“O, it was only a qua’rel between boys?
Funny why such a thing should draw a crowd.”
“Only a quarrel! What ar’ ye givin’ me?
Quarrel! Didn't Humpy get in two square
knock-downs before the copper got there, and
didn’t Jerkey reach out with bis right and get
in a blow' over the heart which is goin’ to keep
the other fellow in bed for two weeks? Wonder
to me that the crowd don’t numb ;r 10,000. It's
the scientifickedest mill we have had in a year.”
A Sixteen Per Cent. Dividend,
From Drake's Traveler's Magazine.
The directors of the Darnviilo Savings Bank
held a meeting the other day, and when they
had looked over the books and counted the cash,
they sent for the cashier in considerable agita
tion.
“Mr. Steele,” said the chairman, “we engaged
you last summer to take charge of this insti
tution because the bank with w hich you were
formerly connected, you assured us, paid 16 per
cent, dividend as the result of your manage
ment.”
“And so it did, sir, all the depositors got 16
percent. I mean when we wound up. 1 be
lieve it's about the best savings bank liquida
tion on record,” and the young official smiled
blandly as he looked around for successful con
tradiction.
The directors gazed at each other for a mo
ment. and then adjourned with the thoughtful
and abstracted appearance of a delegation that
had got on the wrong train, and were thinking
of the best station to get off at.
A Now Way to Pay Old Debts.
From the Punxsutawney Spirit.
A jovial wag from Reynoldsville went into a
barroom in this place with a friend the other
day and called for two beers. They were
quickly dtsposed of, and thinking their whistles
were not yet sufficiently moist, a bottle of ex
port was called for. It was produced, and the
wag reached Into his pocket, fished out 15 cents,
and throwing it down on the counter, said to
the bartender:
“ How much for the export?”
Twenty-five cents,” he said.
“Well,” continued the Reynoldsville man
“there is 15 cents, and the 1(11 owed you for the
first two glasses of beer makes 25. Ain't that
right?”
The bartender scratched his head a little
and then, throwing the money into the drawer,
said:
“Yes, that's right.”
It Pays to be Cautious.
From the Detroit Free Press.
“You knew George Washington, didn't you?”
he queried in a confidential way as he hitched
up to a man in a Woodward avenue car.
“No, sir. I never did!” was the somewhat em
phst c reply.
“Weil, you have heard of him, of course?”
“I may have.”
“You don’t mean to say you never did hear of
him?”
“I refuse to commit myself, sir, until I know
your object”
“Oh, t at s it. Well, if a feller was hard up,
and went to Washington to borrow a dollar till
Saturday night, he ”
“That’s enough, sir! I now declare that I
never heard of George Washington, and his
characteristics have no earthly interest to me.
Good day, sir.”
Not Quito a Paradise.
From the New York Weekly.
Eastern Man (in far western town)—Do you
ever have cyclones here?
Resident,—No, str-ee; nothin’ but gentle
breezes all winter long.
“You have earthquakes, perhaps?”
“Nary earthquake.”
“How about ii ods and cloud bursts?”
“Never have either.”
“You have epidemics occasionally, I sup
pose.”
“ Never saw one yet,”
“Don’t you liavo any plagues at all?”
“Plagues? O! Weil, yes; twict a year we
have the Salvation Army.”
The Japanese
Carry their toothpicks in their back hair
and always use them after eating anything.
They take care of their teeth, and the teeth
take care of their stomachs. Use tooth
picks freely, clean with SOZODONT, and
bad teeth and breaths will be scarce.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
The 0-year-old sos of Rev. Mr. Sweeny, pas
tor of the Episcopal church at Geneva, Neb ,
arrived from Indon. England, a few days ago,
hav.ng mad- the long journey alone and with
out a mishap.
Jt-ST WHAT A FtTX-GROWX BLACK BEAK Can do
in the way of hugging was demonstrated in
Maine a week or to ago, when bruin seized a
barrel of He -f, gave i. a squeeze and crushed it
in pieces. It was estimated to be a squeeze of
twMior:>e power.
Siegfried Wagner, son of the famous com
poser, has determined to devote himself to
music. Hu has entered his name upon the roll
or the music school at Frankfort-un-the-Main,
liu ambition is to conduct the performances of
Ins father's works at Bayreuth.
The other day an old Scotchman of 70, with
a stout strck and blue goggles, stopped in Mil
waukee on his way home to the old country,
fie had waiked from California and was willing,
with assistance, to do the rest of the journey on
foot. The Milwaukeeans, however, gave him a
more substantial lift.
English papers report the death of Mr.
Robertson Gladstone, brother of the ex
premier, of whom he was very fond and proud.
He was a powerful and slashing orator, arid on
one occasion, some twenty years ago, com
pared las brother William to Christ on account
of the p- rsecutions he hid to endure over the
Irish church question. This comparison raised
a terrible storm, which took some time to sub
side.
Bakon Dounezal, a French officer, proposes
that France and Germany should light on a
new principle, each country to have 100,000 men
on its side only. At the same time, he is
liberal in his offers to Germany, and says that
that country may have 10,00- Italians to help
it of course the baron is certain thar France
would remain master of the field. Germany
would then have nolhiug to do but give up
Alsace Lorraine and her standing armies.
A Presbyterian church in Melbourne, Aus
tralia, has introduced some innovations into its
services, which, although happily blending pa
triotism and piety, would startle the sober
minded Scotchman at home. The choir, com
posed of gentlemen wearing the Highland kdt
and girls attired in the costume of the Lady of
the Lake, sing their hymns of praise to the mu
sic of the bagpipes. The ingenious parson who
contrived these effects has liis reward in greatly
enlarged congregations.
Although not a particularly strong believer
in miraculous intervention. Prof. Gleason, the
horse trainer, believes that his life was saved
once early in his career by something little lets
than a mira?le. ‘*l learned the business under
t :e famous Rockwell." he said, in telling the
story. *’We were in California in 1875 and were
to leave there l'or Oregon by steamer. Just
before the time of sailing I was stricken with
typhoid fever, and when the d:iy caine I was
too low to leave my bei. So Rockwell sailed on
the steamer Pacific and 1 was to follow him as
soon as I gre .v well. The ill-fated Pacific left
her dock at San Francisco at 6 o’clock on the
evening of Nov. 4,1875; at 10 o'clock the same
night sho sank beneath the ocean with all on
board. Rockwell and his family and his horses,
including the famous Mazeppa, and about
$70,000 in cash, all went under. If it hadn't
been lor that stroke of typhoid fever I wouldn't
be here to-day."
A “Convention of Heavenly Recruits" is
being held in Philadelphia. The following re
port of a meeting is contained in a paper of
that city: "Tho object of the convention is the
healing of the sick and curing of diseases, con
version of sinners and to contend for the faith
once delivered to the saints. Evangelist C. M.
Ruth of Indianapolis was on the platform, sur
rounded by a number of preachers and elders
shouting at th j tops of their voices. Near the
platform were a number of men and women
crying and yelling. A strange signt was a
woman of mi Idle age prostrate on her back in
one of the aisles, while around tho chapel were
a number of men and women clapping their
hands and kissing the new recruits. AH manner
of diseases are guaranteed to be cured, pro
vided the person joins the arm v of the saints.
Each visitor as ho eaters the ha 1 is accosted by
an elder who asks him if he is seeking salvation.
One elder said last night that he believed there
was no salvation for reporters.'’
Samuel Chavez, a very bright boy of 15 years,
eldest son of Carpio Chavez, a wealthy Mexican
residing at Paraje, N. M., was out with his
father's sheep in the San Mateo mountains, and
on Saturday the pack burros strayed away, and
the man in charge of the herd went to look for
them. He returned without them, and Sun lay
the boy started after the burros while the mau
changed the camp. He continued the search
Monday morning, and when It conunmoed
snowing the boy started for the new camp, but
became exhausted and bewildered, and was
compelled to lie down. When the searching
party found him Wednesday morning he was
more dead than alive from cold and hunger,
having eaten nothing for four days. Tho boy
is now at his fatner's house. He was accom
panied by a large Mexican dog, who led him
over the path as long as the boy could
travel, then lay close to him until the storm
abated some, and then struck out in s-*a r ch of
someone to rescue the boy. When the dog
sighted the men he was almost wild with de
light, and led them direct to the boy.
The veteran financier, Jay Cooke, tho
failure of whose banking house precipitated the
panic of the seventies, is a frequent visitor in
New York lately, says the Press. He has the
look of a patriarch by reason of his erect figure,
his broad-brimmed soft hat, his cape overcoat
and his fiowing gray beard. He must be verg
ing on to 70 years of age, and has had a i event
ful career, whi h he says he intends to put into
the form of autobiographical relation one of
these days. His connection with the
government finances during the war period
would make a chapter that would be
read the world over. Although his
hanking house failed, Mr. Cooke has a large
fortune now. and enjoys life thoroughly. He
has a country place in the wilds of Northern
Pennsylvania, where the hunting and fishing
are good, and he still owns the famous Gibral
tar, a pleasure house on a rocky island in Put-In
Bay, Lake Erie. lam told that he has extensive
holdings in Buluth projierty, and with a gentle
man named Fuller he built the Harrisburg and
Gettysburg railroad, which they are about ex
tending to Washington, It will thus be seen
that the sphere of .Air. Cooke’s usefulness and
activity is still very wide.
A German paper some time ago invited all
masculine readers over forty who had remained
single to make a public statement of their
reasons for not entering into the matrimonial
alliance. The best and wittiest piece w T as to re-
ceive a prize of twenty marks. The jury ap
pointed to decide upon the merits of the state
ments consisted of three persons —a young girl
a young married lady and a mother-in law. In
response to this invitation 147 answers were re
ceived at the office of the paper. After long
discussion aud deliberation the jury awarded
the prize to the author of the following declara
tion: “From my earliest youth I was hot-tem
pered aud vain, and never was satisfied with the
good things which I enjoyed, but always wished
and strived for better tilings; theretore I was
guided by the words of the holy gospel, which
say that he does well who gets a wife unto him,
but that he who does not do so acts still bet
tor. As an idealist I could be perfectly sure
that the poet’s words in reference to ‘two hearts
that beat a3 one,’ would never bo justified in
matrimony. Asa realist I could understand
that marriage was a lottery, and that, in view of
the small chances for success, it was not worth
while to take any risks. As an egoist I can say
‘I entirely gratify my own self, and why should
I make any sacrifice?’ for marriage is nothing
but a sacrifice of the ego. Asa crank I add
that a girl without a dowry I do not wash to
marry and a girl with a dowry I cannot get.”
The announcement made the other day that
Jay Gould would sit for his portrait in oil to the
French artist, Benjamin Constant, created con
siderable surprise among Wall street men who
know something of Gould’s characteristics and
hi3 disinclination to have his features repro
duced. It was only recently that his family
were able to induce him to su fur a photograph',
and the photographer he patronized was in the
immediate neigborhood of the Grand Central
depot, uud was selected because that location
represented less loss of time than unv other
in the city. The result was very satisfactory,
and the photographer obtained Mr!
Gould’s permission to put tbe photographs on
sale. Ten years ago there was no such a thing
as a photograph if Mr. Gould, at least as New
York kew him, in existence. Some of his
associates wanted his picture to put, on a tele
graph bond, and he would give them no assist
ance whatever. in fact, he good naturedly
opposed the idea, aud they were as good
naturedly iutent on carrying it out. Finally a
photograph of Mr. Gould was secured, showing
him a very young man with a flowing tie and
an old-fashioned coat. An artist got to work
on this, and it yvas fixed in shape so that it
could be used. There is a picture of Mr. Gould
extant which shows him with an abundance of
curly black hair and a very large quantity of
black beard. This is contained In a flashy
volume on New York Fife and New York men,
which is printed for country sale and circula
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