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Newspaper Page Text4 C|c|sflrrang|Jefos Morning Nws Building, Savannah, Ga. SXTURDAT. XOV. 23, 18W0. Registered at the Pwtogire in Savann iV The Morktivo New* n published every day in year, and la sirred to subscribers m the rifj •t K oecu a week. $1 OO a month, Si 00 tor six Booth* and $lO 00 for one year. The Moeniwg News, by mail, one month. §1 00; three months, $3 50; ax months. $6 00; aae year. $lO 00. The MoairiNO Nrwa, by mail, six times a week (without Suaday issue i. three months, $3 00; yb months. $4 00; one year $8 00. The Korkin* News, Trl-Weekly, Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, or Tuesdays, Thurs days sad Saturdays three months. $1 3ft; As Months. $130; one rear, $5 10. The SrirDiT News. by nail, one year, $f 00. The Weekly News, by mail, one year. $1 35. Bubecriptloos payable in advance. Remit by postal order, check or registered letter Ottr rancy sent by mall at risk of senders. Letters and teleirrama should be addressed ‘’Mokmimo News," Savannah. Oa. Advertising rates made known on application. The Morning News ik on file at the following places, where Advertising Rates and other in formation regarding the paper can be obtained: NEW YORK CITY— 3. H. Bans, 38 Park Row. G. P. Rowell 4 Cos., 10 Spruce street. W. W. Shart 4 Cos. .31 I'ark Row Frank Kiernan 4 Cos., 133 Broadway. Dacchy 4 Cos., STT Park Place. J. W. Thompson. 39 Park Row. American Newspaper I t ei.iSHrßS'AgeoctariON, Potter Building. PHILADELPHIA— K W. Atzr 4 Son, Times Building. BOSTON— 0. R. Nii.cs, 366 Washington street, Psttxnoili. 4 Cos., 10 State street. CHICAGO— Loro 4 Thomas. 43 Randolph street. CINCINNATI— Edwin Aj.den Company, 66 West Fourth street. NEW HAVEN- Thr H. P. Hl-bdard Company, 25 Elm street ST. LOUIS— Nki/ion Chesm an 4 Cos., 1127 Pine street ATLANTA— Horning News Bureau, 31* Whitehall street. MACON— Daily Telsoraph Office. 637 Mulberry street INDEX TO NEW ADVEHTIStME.Vn. Meeting—Myrtle Division 256, B. of L. E. Special Notices—Dissolution, etc., Gottlieb 4 Moore; Prairie Chicken, Grouse, e|g , at H. Logan's; Potatoes, Haynes & Elton; Piano for Sale; As to Crew of German Steamship Donar; As to Bills Against British Steamship Crete and German Steamship Wuotan; Copartnership Notice, Stewart, Lassiter & Cos. Amusements—Musical Concert by tho lead ing Musical Talent of the city Under the Aus ipces of the Ladies’ Auxiliary of the Y. M. C. A., on Tuesday evening. Dealers ut Silverware— Samuel Kirk 4 Son, Baltimore, Md. Railroad ScBEDULE-Savannah, Florida and ■Western Railway. They Have Come—A. Falk 4 Sons. Christmas Fireworks—Masten 4 Wells, Bos ton. Mass. Steamship Schedi-les Ocean Steamship Company; Baltimore Steamship Company. Cheap Column Advertisements Help Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Rent; For Sale; Lost; Personal; Miscellaneous. The attempt to raise a $5,000,030 world's fair guarantee fund in New" York city •hows that there are a good many free lunch millionaires there. Congress will meet Monday week, and one of the first things it ought to do is to select a place for the world’s fair of 1802. There is no time to be lost it' tho exposition is to be successful. The Teutonic has again broken her record from New York to Queenstown. If these ooean greyhounds don’t let up on the record breaking business they will eventually move with the speed of a bullet. Senator Blair is confident that his edu cational bill will be passed at tho coming session of congress. Mr. Blair has expressed an opinion of that sort at different timos for a good many yea-s, but his bill isn’t a law yet, and whon the next session termi nates it may occupy the usual pigeon hole. Senator Sherman says that in the Ohio senatorial contest the longest purse will win. This is rather an unkind remark, and somebody might retaliate by remind ing Sherman that he is a millionaire sen ator himself. The Ohio democrats will probably elect Col. Brice, and in doing so they will not consider whether ho is wealthy or poor. The Italian count who married Mist Vir ginia Knox of Pittsburg, Pa, aud who treated her cruelly afterward, is in this country trying to effect a reconciliation with his wife, who is now at the home of her brother in Gordoasville, Va. Miss Knox’s relatives are very strongly opposed to a reconciliation. They have had enough of the count, and it is very likely that Miss Knox has too. The Montana legislature convenes to-day. Democratic members have been in Helena several days, and they expected to hold a caucus last night to determine what would be the best course to pursue to prevent the republicans from stealing the two United States senatorships. It seems probable that they will decide to prevent an organization of the House for ninety days, at the expira tion of which time the democratic governor will appoint the senators. Mrs. Goedloe did not get tho office made vacant by the killing of her husband, but Bhe seems to have every reasen te bo satis fied. It was given to her son-in-law. and it is said that she will be made postmistress at Lexington, Ky. In this way her family will get two well-paying offices. Some of the Kentucky republicans are kicking, how ever, because Mrs. Goodloe, who is not in need of assistance from the government, is likely to draw pay that otherwise would be drawn by someone in needy circumstances. Senator Allison believes that he is going to be re-elected, but reports from lowa say that Governor elect Boies is very popular among both democrats and republicans of the state, and that enough republicans iu the legislature may vote for him to elect him. Senator Allison is a very nice man, aud his habit of putting on old clothes and a slouch hat every four years and attending country fairs in lowa may be a very good thiag for his political welfare, but he seems to have slipped up this year. Perhaps his clothes were not sufficiently antiquated, but it is more probable that he is on the wrong side of the tariff question. Mayor Grant of New York has appointed two female school commissioners for that city, to succeed Miss Grace Dodge and Mrs. Agnew. Mrs. Agnew was re-appomted, but Miss Dodge was replaced by Mrs. C. N. Williams. The mayor’s course is thought to be very adroit. By refusing to re-ap point Miss Dodge lie satisfied the people who had made a fight on her, and by ap pointing two female commissioners, he yielded to those who demand that women shall be represented on the board. He ap pointed several other commissioners, selected from a list of more tnan 400 names presented to him for consideration. More Republics. Our dispatches yesterday indicated that there might be two more republics estab lished within a year or two. The changing of Brazil from a monarchy to a republic hn* brought to the surface the sentiment in favor of a republic that exists in Australia and Canada. Both of these countries art dependencies of Great Britain. The territory of each is of im mense extent, and each is growing rapidly in wealth and population. Neither has any particular fault to find with the government which it has at present, but in each there is A growing sentiment nniong the people that they would have greeter prosperity a,’ republican form of gov ernment, and; BWHes, they want to have absolute control of their own political af fairs. It Is well known that even in England there is a steadily increasing sentiment iu favor of a republican.f irm uf government. This sentiment is' in a measure, kept in sub jection by frequent extensions of the elective franchise. Tne English government is about as mild a form of monarchy as it is possible to have, and the English people enjoy an extraordinary degree of freedom under it. There are, however, features of it that do not meet with their approval. It is becoming more difficult to get parliament to make what is deemed suitable provisions for the members of the royal family. The increasing popularity of republics is due to tho marvelous success of this republic, and to the increase of intelligence among the masses. The whole world has been watching the United States since it became a nation. Those who have longoil for greater liberty for the people have hoped for its success, while those who have little sympathy with the masses have wished for its failure. It was not until after the civil war demonstrated how capable it was of resisting destructive forces that confidence in its stability was fully established. Siuee that conflict the advocates of monarchies have ceased to predict its early dissolution, and the senti - mont in favor of a republican form of gov ernment among tho peoDle of monarchical nations has spread and strengthened. The republic in Brazil may not become firmly established without violence, owing to the character of the population, but it will live. The country will not go back to a monarchy. The day of hereditary rule there is over, and, it is highly probable, will soon be over in some of the other coun tries in which it notv exists. A Man of Ideas. Wonder is sometimes expressed that ex- President Cleveland continues to occupy so much of tho attention of tho public. There is no occasion for wonder. Mr. Cleveland is a man of ideas, courage and convictions. He is invited to be present at important public gatherings, not only bocauso he is liked and respected, but also aud mainly because he nearly always says something that sticks in the public mind. For instance, at the chamber of commerce dinner in Now York the other day he made a brief speech wuich has excited a good dual of favorable comment. Iu tho course of it he said: “I cannot be mistaken whon I say that some dingers which beset our political life might be avoided or safely mot if our business men would more actively share in public affairs, and that nothing would bet ter beflt tho character and objects of your organization than a practical movement in this direction.” These are words of wisdom, and all who rend thorn recognize them as such. Busi ness cannot prosper unless the laws are wise ones. It Is of the utmost importance to business men, therefore, to have good laws. But how few business meu there are who are willing to devote any part of their time to public affairs. They are so busy trying to make money that many of them do not even take the trouble to vote. The result is that very often men of inferior ability and questionable honesty got into the places of po or and do the state incalculable harm. It is true that a great majority of busi ness men have no taste for politics and regard with feelings akin to horror some of the methods adopted to secure political suc cess, but if they were to take an active part in public affairs they might not only purify these methods, but insure the onact ment of laws more in harmony with the requirements of the business needs of the country. Mr. Cleveland is showing by bis example that ho is not a mere theorist. When he was President he did what he could to purify politic*, and as a private citizen he is doing the same thing. By his example as well as by his words he is trying to make business men feel that it is their duty to take an active part in selecting those who are to make and administer the laws. Pension Commissioner ltauin has for bidden two members of tho Little Sisters of the Poor from taking a stand near tho pav office of that department on pay days and solid ting subscriptions for the poor. Mr. Baum’s solicitation for government officials is both new-born and remarkable. Some years ago, when be occupied a differ ent government position, he was noted for his success in bleeding department employes on the eve of an election. In the case of tho Little Sisters of the Poor, the employes need not subscriba anything unle > s they want to, but Mr. Raum gave them to understand when he wanted campaign funds that they must come down with the cash or be bounced. Perhaps he now wants them to save up their money until the next presidential campaign. A republican organ, itself at heart bitterly opposed to the civil service system, notes that there is less talk among republican members of congress about repealing tho civil service law than there was a month or so ago. “The fact is,” it saya, “that a man who goes to congress, aad wants to stay there, must make up hi3 mind that the civil service act; bas come to stay also.” Exactly. Tho republicans, as a party, are opposed to civil service reform. They want to feed upon government pap. They have found out, however, that a majority of the people are in favor of the merit system, and they <4rb afraid to speak out, lest, in stead of getting more offices, they lose rnauy that they already have. The prohibitionists of Massachusetts are said to be talking about making Gen. Ben Butler their candidate for governor next time, although a gubernatorial election was held only a few weeks ago. Gen. Butler as a prohibition candidate would strike the public as being a very funny spectacle. It is true that the general has been the candi date of nearly every other party, but no body ever supposed that he would care to be nominated by tho prohibitionists or that the prohibitionists would care to nominate him. It must be a joke that the press is trying to play on him. TOE MORNING NEWS: SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1889. The Administration's Chance. The administration now has a chance to show the country whether or not it is in favor of enforcing the civil service laws. It asserts that it U in favor of enforcing them, but its sincerity is a matter of considerable doubt. While the Virginia campaign was in progresidthe ‘‘Old Dominion Republican League” solicited contributions from the department employes in Washington for campaign purposes. The civil service com missioners have made a report to the Presi dent, it is said, in which they say that the officers of the league are guilty of violating the law, which prohibits the s dicitation of contributions from office-holders for cam paign purposes, and have recommended the prosecution of the offenders. What course is the President going to pursue in the matter! The answer to that question is waited for with a good de tl of interest. If he acts in accordance with the recommendation of the commissioners he will prove that he has the courage to live up to his promises, but if he takes no no tice of tho recommendation it will be gen erally understood that he winks at viola tions of the civil service laws while pretend ing to enforce those laws. No doubt many of the republican leaders have already advised Mm to pigeon-hole the report and recommendation of the civil ser vice commissioners. Whatever money was collected in violation of the civil service laws was used to help Mahone in his campaign, and it is well known that the President was very anxious that Mahone should be suc cessful. It will be an unpleasant duty for him to perform, therefore, to prosecute those wh > violated the law in their efforts to do what he wanted done. Tho President’s duty is plain, however. It is his duty to order tho laws enforced, even though his frionds should be hurt. To refuse to support the commissioners would bo to shirk his duty and admit that he has no sympathy with civil service reform. The commissioners have done their duty. Will the President do his? The Farmers Prosperous. This has been an exceptionally good season for the farmers of Georgia. It is probable that they are more nearly out of debt than they have been at any time since the war. About all crops have been good, the cotton crop particularly so, and the prices for cotton have been excellent since the opening of the season. The farmers, as a general thing, have settled with their factors fully, and have a great deal of cotton yet on band. The merchants report excellent collections, which shows that tho farmers have paid up their obligations to tho country storekeep ers. A member of a large fertilizer firm said yesterday that his collections this year were one-third hotter than they were last yenr, and that his sales wore far greater this year than they had been in any previous year. When the farmers are prosperous busi ness of all kinds i9 in a flourishing condi tion. If the farmers of Georgia could have three or four years in succession like this one the talk about farming not paying and about farmers getting poorer would cease in this state. The farmers are not now giving their whole time and attention to cotton as they once did. They are raising food crops as well as a money crop, and tney find that good results follow this diversified system. The all cotton system belongs to the past. It has pas-ol away never to return. The farmers can make corn and b icon cheaper than they can buy them, though it required a long time for them to bs convinced of the fact. The farmers will have a happy thanks giving, and a merry Christmas. They sea their way clearly for meeting all tlioir ob ligations, and they can afford to spend scmetiiing to make their families happy. Should the World’s Fair be Postponed? In his annual address before the National Society of Mechanical Engineers in New York the other day, President Towne made a statement which is certain to be widely discussed. It was that a successful world’s fair could not be held in this country in 1892. His reason for saying this was that tne time for preparation is too short. The Paris exposition required four years for preparation, and the director general of the Philadelphia centennial was appointed three years before the gates were opened. It is proposed to make the Columbus exposition much more elaborate than that of 1876, and yet if it is held in 1832, less than two and a half years will be allowed for arrauging for it. Mr. Towno said that from eighty to 100 acres of buildings would be required, and that it would boa physical and engi neering impossibly to construct them prop erly in tho time named. He thought that at least four years would be required. It is not probable, however, that Mr. Towne’s views will lead to a postponement of the exposition. The exposition is in tended to celebrate the 490th anniversary of the discovery of America, and to hold it two years after that anniversary would be rather out of place. Mr. Towne may say that sentiment alone calls for 1892 as the year, but it is a sentiment which is share! by all of the poople, and if the exposition is not held theD, it will not be held at all. Mr. Towne may have reviewed the mat ter theoretically. It is quite true that the time for preparation is short, but American energy is capable of doing wonderful things, and it may be assumed that the emergency will be met. Probably if Mr. Towuo himself were asked to get the proper buildings ready in time, he would take the contract, and would show that such a thing could be done. Some of the other members of the society of mechanical engineers do not agree with his views. Congressman Bayne, of Pennsylvania, says that while the democrats controlled the House, river and harbor appropriations, particularly for the south, were made without regard to merit. Mr. Bayne doesn’t adhere to the truth. It is only a democratic congress that accords anything like justice to the south in the matter of such appropriations, and even the last House did not do as much for the south as it should have done. Enormous appropria - tions are made for tho improvement of riv ers and harbors in other sections, whila the south is obliged to put up with an inade quate sum. No doubt Mr. Bayne will ad vocate a continuance of this sectional policy. Ex-Senator Platt of New York denies that ho is opposed to that city as the place for tho world’s fair. On the contrary, he is highly in favor of it, but, he adds, he doesn’t want the fair to be made a big political machine. As nobody will try to make it a political machine, Mr. Platt had better go to work for No v York. He and a few other political manipulators are the only ones who have pretended to believe that politics would be mixed with tho fair. CURRENT COMMENT. The Next Best Thing. From the Philadelphia Inquirer (Rep \ Every new democratic club cannot get ar. autograph letter from Andrew Jackson to frame and hang upon its wails, but it can get a letter from Grover Cleveland. Business of the Democracy. From the Cleveland leader (Dem. L Henceforward the demo-racy should make the issue*. It has lost too much in the past by its passive policy of allowing its adversaries to choose the vantage ground in presidential con tests. The Same as to the Dead Ones. From the leiuievUle Courier-Journal (Dem.). In his haste to remove dem <crats. Dr. Har rison has appointed dexd men and burglars to office. The trouble about appointing burglars lios in the fact that some of them maybe in confinement, and thus unable to attend to their official duties. Why Dom Pedro Didn't Rejoice. From the Cincinnati Enquirer (Dem.). Dom Pedro has not grown ecstatic over the statement that the republic will continue to pay him his regular income of $450,0 0 a year. Mr. Pedro is a pbilos pher, aud, therefore, quite familiar with tne changing moods of re- ti ibiles. He serenely contemplates the proba lility of his being cut off on the first quarter. BRIGHT BITS. Examiner—Can you give me an instance of a person inciting auotiier to perjury? Candidate—Yes; when the c mrt asks a fe rn de witness how old she is Texas Siflings. “Well, Tom, do you ever write to your fian cee?” “O, yes, three timesa week. I only see her on Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Sunday.— Ann York .Sun. Admiring Friend (to struggling artist)—That drawing is grand. Is there anything you can’t draw? Struggling Artist—Yes; my check and a prize in the lottery.— Epoch. “And Minnie has made a fortune out of her piano playing. How did she do it so quickly?'’ “.-he practiced on the p ano so much that her uncle committed suicide, and she was his heir, you know?”— Epoch. A Kind Hearted Girl. Dude (to shopgirl) —Lovely creature, I adore you. Do you give me your love iu return ? Shop Girl—Of course 1 'dp. Anything else this afternoon?— Texan Siftings. A Wise Inn ant. —“By-o-tny baby—by-o-my—” “look here, mother,' said the baby, “don’t sing to me. That keeps mo awake. Read the editorial page of the Mail and Express to me if you really want me to go to sleep.”—Pact. He Won.n Profit by Experience.—Lady—My poor man. if you had in your possession again all the money you have spent for bad whisky, l have no doubt you would spend it differently. Tramp—O, yes mum; I'd buy good whisky with it.—Acta York Sun. Kiois —What a confounded fool Shaw was to hang arouud that young woman all evening! liicks—O, get out! You’d do the same thing under the same circumstances. Biggs—Yes, and that's what makes me so plagueymad with Sliaa".— Boston Transcript. ”After ail," remarked the student of Scrip ture, “Sampson was tho greatest dramatic actor who ever lived. ” "How do you make that out?” queried the listener. “Why, no man,” explained the speaker,“ever brought down the house as he dot.”— Chicago Globe. Rural Minister—None of the brothers whose duty it is to pass the plate are here to-day. Would you object to taking up the collection? Modest Worshiper -I never passed the plate in church in my life, and I’m afraid I’d be rather awkward. “Oh. never mind about that. It won’t be noticed. Most of my congregation become ab sorbed in their hymn book about the time the plate goes round.” —Sew York Weekly. Blinks—What? Cant keep your engagement with me? Jinks (.sadly)—No, 1 can't. I was drawn on a jury this week, aud couldn't get out of it. "Did you try?” “Indeed I did. I did my best to make myself out to be a hopeless ignoramus, but they wou'dn t let me go.” “Great Scott, mao: The way to escape jury duty is to act as if you knew something.”—Aeic York Weekly. “I hear,” said Clement Sellers of Harlem, “that your daughter’s marriage with the Count Uehaben Gehapt Haben has been post poned.” “It is off,” replied Auction Sales, for it was he, “it’s off entirely. He wanted six chairs and a cigar counter, and I knew mighty well there wasn't a corner in Harlem where such a shop would pay. I offered to fit him up a four-chair shop with a bathroom, and be could take that or nothing. So it’s off.”— Burdette. “Can't you put a poor starving man in the way of getting a bite of bread?” inquired a hungry tramp, as he presented himself at the door where lived the humorist of the local paper. “Why, certainly, my poor man,” said the kind-hearted wife of the humorist, “here is a cake of yeast that you are welcome to.” “But I can’t eat yeast, ma’am.” “No; but perhaps you can raise some bread with it; we do.” And the hungry man lifted his hat and re treated in the shadow of a smile that was sub lime.— Boston Courier. PERSONAL. The Shah of Persia has announced that he will never visit England again. M. Z TLA, the author, is a candidate for the seat in the academy made vacant by the death of Emile Augier. The late Sir Charles William Sikes was the founder of England’s great system of postoffice savings banks, and it was in recognition of that important public service that he was knighted. Herr Jaeger, one of the most popular of Norwegian novelists, but poor withal, has shipped as an ordinary sailor on a Scandinavian s..ip in order to get the exercise and air that his broken health requires for its restoration. Miss Mary Tart of White Bear, Minn., has sued Dr. Romans for $5,000 damages for breach of promise, and in anticipation of a verdict in her favor has attached the doctor’s funis in bank. For business shrewdness Miss Tart takes the cake. J. Scott Harrison, the President’s democratic brother, was hauled before a Kansas City court the other day tor maintaining a nuisance on liis promises. His offense consisted in allowing water to stand in the basements of some unoo cupied houses. Dr. J .H. Batchelder and wife, of Salem, Mass., who were married in a log cabin in Wis consin territory by a minister who came ten miles on a horse, and with a gun over bis shoul der, to perform the ceremony, celebrated their golden wedding last week at their Salem home. Assistant Postmaster General Clarkson, it is reported in the east, has determined to re tire from his official position at an early day and return to journalism. When he was in New York ten days ago he is said to have looked over a newspaper property with the idea of buying it. Archduke John Salvator of Austria has expressed a desire to resign all his titles aad appointments and lead the life of a private citizen. He has been offered the captaincy of an English merchantman. It is thought un likely that the emperor will give his consent to tho change. Henry Irving’s views on the prospects of those who adopt the stage as a profession are not very encouraging for youthful aspirants. Of the total number of actors iu England, estimated to be above 20,000, he expresses the conviction that quite half of them would be glad of au assured $l,OOO a year. Dr. Prince A. Morrow of New York, who spent some time at the leper settlement at Mo lokai, says that leprosy is contagious, and that forty-two cases exist in New Orleans, and scat tered cases along the line of the Southern Pa cific railroad, anil also in Indiana, Illinois, Wis consin, Utah and California. Mme. Erard, widow of the famous piano and harp manufacturer, died recently at La Muetie, Frauce, at the age of 70. Her husband died in 1856, without issue, and Mme. Erard adopted one of his nieces, now wife of the Comte de FranqueviUe. Mme. Erard devoted her time and a great part of her fortune to assisting musicians and actors at their start in life or when in distress. Another royal wedding is that of the Infanta Blanca of Spain with Archduke Leopold Sal vator of Austria, which took p ace at Castle Frohsdorf, near Vienna, last week, and wai at tended by a great gathering of French royalists an t Spanish Carlisle. Ttie bride, a haughty Spanish beauty, much resembling her father, Don Carlos, was given away by her brother, Don Jaime—two years her junior. The infantas Elvira and Beatrice were bridesmaids, and the best man was Archduke Charles Louis, brother of Arohduke Francis, who is soon to marry Archduchess Valerie, daughter of Emperor Francis Joseph. Thirty French and Spanish cavaliers d'honneur, sat down to the wedding breakfast. TUe Poor Outraged Saloonkeeper. From Texas Sift ingt. “What an outrage it is," said th? seedv man, Sunday morning, leaning against the bar in a car jiess attitude and addressing the barkeeper, who was wiping his tumblers with a cloth' “what an outrage it is for the authorities of New York to int -rfer • with the rights of saloon keepers, and for e them to shut up their places on Sin lay. You pay your license, don't you*” The barkeeper cold.y nodded ani mentally sail, “if you get anything here you'll pay for it, too. •‘That's it, you see. There's where the wrong conies in. You pay for privileges that you don i get. Give me a little brandy." *'My brandy is 2> cents a drink, and I can't afford to give it away, j>articularly as my rent was raised the other day." “You are fortunate in having your rent already raised. I don't know when I snail be able to raise mine. As I was saying, we live under a very tyrannous government, in which our rights are little respited, with perhaps the single exception of John L. Sullivan's ‘right.’ Katb r neat, that. eh? A little whisky, please.” will have to excuse me unless you have 15 cents about your clothes. I am only half partner In this bar, and have to look out for tae lights of others besides myself. You had bet ter go somewhere else.” “Rome," continued the seedy man. without appearing to have h°ard the last remark of the tumbler wiper, "Rome, in the most tyrmnous days of her power, never dared to close her saloons on Sunday." “How was it in Syracuse?" ‘ Dionysius, the tyrant of Syracuse, com mitted many outrages, but he never went so far as that. He even ordered saloon doors to be removed from their hinges altogether on Sunday, and a thirsty man without any money " "Do you think it's going to rain?" "Saloon -keepers shou <1 fight this excise board to the death, and I for one am with you. It is the sacred cause of human liberty, for which our fathers—a glass of beer if you don’t mind." "Now you get out of here," cried the bar keeper, sta ting from behind the bar. "I don't wnnt no broke men nor deadbeats in here. Git!" I'll report you to the board," cried the seedy man, hurrying to the side door. "You're break ing the law selling liquor on Sunday, and I’ll have your license taken away. I'll have you shut up " An empty beer bottle struck the wall in dan gerous proximity to his head, and he inconti nently shut up himself ami fled. Didn’t Know They Stuttered. From the Washington Post . Though it is hard to make people generally believe it, it is unquestionably true that few persons who stutter are conscious of doing so. The present writer knows two gentlemen, both journalists, one of them well known a few years ago in Washington, and both persistent stutterers. v One day they met on the street in Chicago. "•i-g-g-good morning, W-w w-will." said one. "G-g-g g-morning, Cd-ch-charley," auswered the other “W-w-w-will," said Charley, "wb-li-h-why don’t you h-h-have yourself c-c-c-curod of st-t -tutteriug?" "Id- i-don’t st-t-t-tutter," answered Will. "Ye-ye-yes, you d-d-do; y-y-you st-t-tuttor as n-bad as ever, and I c-c-cau t-t-tell you how to c-c-cure it. J-j just go down t-to the Pa-Pa- Palmer house ands s-st*e that d-doctor there. He'll c-c cure you in one 1-1-leason. He d-did me." Hut wo have a more recent proof of the un conscious inai.no •in which persons stutter. A prominent Washingtonian, whose name it would be indelicate to give in this relation, took a phonograph home w r ith him night before last to dictate som? correspondence for his secretary to write yesterday. The gent'eman’s little son, a lad of a dozen years, had never seen a phouo grap i, and was anxious to see it work. “bay something in the tube," said the father, "and I will show you how it works." Tne boy stood for some time trying to think of something to say. Finally he turned to his father. ‘ Wh-wh-what shall I s-s-say, p p-papa?" "Anything you please, my son; say this is a wonderful instrument." T ie boy said it and the father set the cylinder back and told his son to listen. "Th-th-this is a w-w-wo-wo-wonderful in6t-st instru-m-m-ment," said the phonograph. "Why, p-p papa," exclaimed the ooy, "I w-w -wouldn’t have s-s-s-such a phonograph." "Why not?" "I*i-it st-t-tut-ers." The Old Songs. S. Greenwood in Detroit Free Press. Over and over again. In every time and tongue. In every style and strain Have the world’s old songs been sung; Since the sign from the soul was stirred, Since the heart of a man was broken, Have the notes of despair been heard And the rhythm of pain been spoken. Tho sßng that you sing today. Sweet on tho printed pages, Was sung in the far away. In the youth of the worn-out ages; The charm of your love-born time. The gems that your lines uncover. Were set in some savage tune By the heart of some pagan lover. Tho fancies that fill your rhymes, The visions that haunt your lays, ' Are the specters of olden times And tne ghosts of forgotten days; Y’e players on notes of woe. Ye dreamers of love and sorrow, They sang in the years ago. The songs you will sing to-morrow. But what if tho rhymes are new. And what if the thoughts are old, If the touch of the chord he true And the flight of the singer bold! Let them come to us still again, To-morrow and yet hereafter, Fresh as a moraine’s rain, Old as the sob and the laughter. Preparing to Kick. A well-known citizen was discovered going through some singular motions in oue of t ie corridors of the city hall yesterday, says the Detroit Free P ess, and an acquaintance who ran against him cried out: “What on earth are you up to now?” “Taking off my diamond pin.” “But where’s your watch?” “In my coat-tail pocket.” “Afraid of being robbed?” “O. no. It’s business.” “How?” “Why, the assessors have put me down for $4 tax on personal property, and I’m going in to kick.” “But you’ve got a horse.” “Yes, but he wasn’t in the day they called.” “And a piano.” “Tint happened to be at tho factory to be re varnished.” your bank account?” "Sh! It’s in my wife’s name! Keep quiet. Now, then, I’m ready to go in and tell them that the pwple are ready take up arms to rid themselves of this terrible burden of high taxa tion.” He Did Not Patronize Everything. FYom file Washington Star. A young attache of the British Legation here, at a dinner party the other night chanced to find hi mself seated next to a very pretty and vivacious girl, whose talk cousistod chiefly of interrogatives. line questioned him about Eng land, diplomacy, the nobility of Great Britain, everything imaginable, until at length it oc curred to her to query suddenly: “And do you patronize Irving?” “Patronize Irving!” said the youthful diplo mat, puzzled. “Oh, you mean to ask if Igo to see Mr. Irving play? Yes: when J am in London I sometimes have that pleasure.” “And do you patronize Gilbert and Sullivan?” she inquired a few moments later. “Really—ah—yes, I have heard most of their operas, if that is what you mean.” A little time after the asparagus was being handed around, and the attache declined to take any. The pretty giri helped herself liber ally from the dish, and then said sweetly, as she turned from it to her neighbor: “You don’t patronize tho asparagus, do you?” Common tense Don’ts. From Texas Siftiugs, Don’t shake a hornets’ nest to see if any of the family are at home. Don’t try to take the right of way from an ex press train at a railroad crossing. Don’t go near a draft. If a draft comes to ward you. run away. A sight draft is the most dangerous. Don’t b! ;w iu the gun your grandfather car ried in the war of 1812. It is more dangerous now than it was then. Don t hold a wasp by the other end whllo you thaw it out in front of the stove to see if it is alive. It 1< generally alive. D n't try to pursuade a bulldog to give up a yard of which he is in possession. Possession to a bulldog is ten points of the law. Don’t go to tied with your boots on. This is one of ths most unhealthy practices that a man, especially a married man, can be addicted to. Benkr—Are you going to see Molctni, the famous actor, to-night? Dobson—No, sir. Benks—Why not? Dobson—lt costs too much. I paid SSO for seeing an actor last week. Becks—How was that ? Dobson— Ho held four aces.—Kearney Enter prise. ITEMS OF INTEREST. The hundredth year of the existence of the firm of Messrs. A. & F. Pears was celebrated by a banquet in London recently. The celebrated Menzel cElection of pictures and sketches, relating to Frederick the Grer.t and bis re;gn, has >em placed in the Royal Na tional gallery at Renin. It i a eaoposLD to organize a line of merchant steamer betw*en Naples, Palermo and London, which wouid receive a subvention from the Bank of N&p.es and the L&nk of Sicily. The Indianapolis Sentinel modestly asks this in the way of a supreme court for Indiana: hat fhe state of Indiaua needs is a supreme court that lias some knowledge of law, an 1 enough honesty to decide what it knows to bs the law.” Recent widespread failches in the tea trade in China have had a curious effedtoh the ruined merchants. Five of them have taken refuge in a I y. Oliaster > r * n preference K- meeting ttieir creditors, one committed suic-cV-’,. and many have disappeared. j i They have taught deaf mutes to talk in Paris! 1 his result has been accomplished after years of labor, and M. Javal, “director” of the National Deaf and Dumb Institution, has given the public an example of the ability of some of his pupils to speak. G ambling especially of a low kind—has assumed such large proportions in Paris that a special brigade of detectives, under the direc- \ 1 !?} . Rossignol, who superiuten lea the ex hibition police, is about to ba formed for the purpose of dealing with it. It is reported from Europe that the Italian government has loan! among its archives a circumstantial, exhaustive and authentic ac count of tuc martyrdom of Giordano Kruno, and will publish tne documents, Tms is said to have caused excessive annoyance at the Vatican. A certain yocnq lady in Cincinnati is sorry she bet on Foraker. She agreed to wheel hi r sweetheart about town in a wheelbarrow at noontime in case she lost, and now in the horri ble reality of tbe tiling the gentleman has con sented to allow the performance to tuka place at 1 o’clock in the morning, when the sti eels are not so crowded. An electrical instrument has been invented which is designed to remove the pain incidental to the extraction of teeth. It consists of ad justable, pivotally-connected prongs carrying Duttons and connected witn an electric battery, tbe buttons being placed on the face over the nerves leading from the teeth to the brain, and a circuit established the moment tbe tooth-ex tracting instrument touches the tooth to be re moved. According to an official report just issued of the 3!), 47R people whose marriages were regis tered in Massachusetts last year, 633 were men ei women who had reached their 50th year; I ?2 n am * 5 women were over 75 years of age. and 7 men and 3 women were over 80, The total number of mules under 30 years of age were 368, 1 and of females 3,318. Two females wero 13, 3 wi re 13, 13 were 14 and 51 were 15 years of age. One male was 15, and there were none under that ago. From the other side of the water has been cabled the engagement of Miss Mabel Sands, daughter ot the late Mahlon Sands by his first wife, Miss Edith Minturn, to Clarence (}. Sin clair, son and heir of Sir John Sinclair, Kart. The marriage will take place at an early date, and Mrs. Sands is expected to spend a part of the winter with her uncle, the Vice President, at his home in Washington. This time it is only a baronet’s son. Presently we shall be getting down to plain misters with no expecta tions. Henry Caby, whose real name is Kish-ka-ko, lives up in Arenac county. Michigan, is a great grandson of an Indian chief of the same name, and he sets up a claim that in 1819 his royal an cestor was, by treaty with the government, given sections 2S and 39. on which much of the most valuable part of Kay City stands, and now his lawyers propose to get tue land for him or the money value thereof. It is alleged that the treaty records show no further disposition of tbe land has ever been authorized since the treaty of 1819. At a recent meeting of the Association of American Physicians, Dr. Peabody read a re markable paper on a case where a pin was found in the heart, where it had evideutly lain for an indefinite p jriod. The point of the pin was distant five millimetres from the external surface of the heart. The pin seemed eroded and was broken by the scissors in dissection, without, however, becoming displaced. There was no evidence of recent local inflammation, but tne endocardium in the neighborhood of the protruding head of tbe pin was greatly thickened and snow white, and firmly adherent to the edge of the head. A stream near Benton, Tenn., ia said to be full of phantom fish. Standing on the rocks and looking down into the water the eye can see hundreds of trout, some of them remark ably large, darting about the pools or resting with tbe gentle motion peculiar to their tribe. The angler casts his line in one of these poois literally swarming with fish, to ail appearances, and no matter how attractive the fly, or how skillful tbe fisherman, he never gets a bite. As plentiful as they seem to be no oue has ever yet been able to catch a trout in that stream. The, fish pay no attention to the hook or line, and when the bait is thrown at th 'in, or an attempt is made to spear them, the instrument has the appearance of passing through the fish, but he is not caught; when the barb or spear is re moved ha is still there. A man whose locks were sprinkled with the frost of 75 winters, with slow and solemn de meanor, strolled into Castle Garden the other morning and said to Detective Peter Groden, now known ns the “wise obtainer,” that he was Jonathan Mcßeynolds of Greenwich, Conn., where he has a farm valued at SBO,OOO. He wanted a wife, not a giddy girl, hut a plump Irish lass who would love him for himself alone. Detective Gruden told him to take a seat and then trotted out Mary McGown, just arrived from county Tyrone, Ireland. Her looks and general appearance satisfied Mcßeynolds, but her solicitude about bis worldly and financial affairs made the old man suspicious. Slary was allowed to depart, and Detective Groden is now watching out for another candidate for Mcßey nolds’ hand and money. The companies owning the drop-a-peDny-in the-slot machines are having a hard time of it with the devisers of new schemes to beat the game. Somebody evidently has gone into the business of turning out round pieces of metal which serve as well as coins when put in the slots. At one of the elevated railroad stations in Brooklyn, a day or two ago, th’ collectorwho was making a round of the machines found in the box of candy machine many pieces of lead the size of a penny. Nearly fifteen of these were in the box of the peppermint department, and perhaps were thrown in by some dishonest pep permint fiend who is in the habit of using that station. The collector said that stealing was going on everywhere the companies had automatic machines, and that for some reason or other the thieves could not be caught. Among the curiosities to be found in the Min nesota state library are two volumes of the colonial laws of Massachusetts, 1760 to 1773. They are, of course, reprints, but “ye olden style’’ has been faithfully reproduced. The c jdeof laws in vogue in those provincial days was trulv very crude. It was then that the whipping post was resorted to as a mode of pun ishment, but it is stipulated that “no man shall be beaten with above forty stripes, nor shall any true gentleman, nor any man equal to a gentleman, be punished by whipping unless his crime be very shameful, and his course of life vicious and prodigal-.” Again the code savs: “If any man shall Blaspheme the name of god, the father, Sonne or Holy ghost, with direct’ expresse. presumptuous or high banded blas phetnie, or shall curse God in the like manner, he shall be put to death.’’ The exquisite American beauty, which, so says a florist, is the most popular and best-sell ing rose in all the market, has a pleasing little history of its own. In the first place, it is the only new variety of roge tjisrt America has given to the world. France juml jiLigland have pro duced nearly all the cultivated varieties. America but this incompi*i#ff4 one. Curiously enough, too, the flower wn* not the res ,It of cultivation. Without waiting to have its advent into the world encouraged by th • coaxing pro cesses of hybridization, this sturdy floral ex ponent of American enterprise was found one morning, perfect in form and color, exquisite in fragrance, on a scrubby little bush in the garden of a Washington gentleman. lts un usual beaufy attracteu the immediate attention of flower lovers, but when classification was attempted no variety wus found to include the new specimen. How it was produetod has never been ascertained. Some liappy cross be tween two specially adapted varieties, and that cross the result of chance, probably origi nated this marvelous and perfect variety of the rose. Loyal to our American genius, it is em phatically self-made. Angostura Bitters are used by mothers to sop colic and lcosoness of the bowels in children. Dr. J. G. B. Siogert & Sons, manufacturers. Ask your druggist. BAKING POWDER. IS YOUR BAKING POWDER PURE? Do its Manufacturers Publish all the Ingredients Used? 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