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Horn Chauncey F. Black believes in
democratic clubs ms a means of attaining
denjpcratic success at elections. Ho says
that if such clubs are plentifully organized
the demo era’s will carry congress this year
and the presidency in 1892. There is no
doubt that organizati on amounts to a great
ideal in a political fight, and orgauiz ition
can be effected through these clubs as
effectually as in any other way.
The only colored man in congress is from
the Second North Carolina district, and a
good many colored people are leaviug that
district. He has become alarmed, aud it is
said that he will turn his back upon congress
for awhile, and stump the district agaiust
emigration. Last fall he received less than
700 majority, and he realizes that if the emi
gration is not stopped, his congressional
career will be at an end pretty soon.
The country is now informed by the
Philadelphia Press that Mr. Cleveland and
Gov. Hill remained away from the Jackson
dinner in New York because someone by
the name of Lathers was billed for a speech.
This statement is not in accord with that of
other republican organs. As republican or
gans are going to lie übout Mr. Cleveland
and Gov. Hill, they might ns well agree
beforehand upon something plausible, and
stick to it.
Some of the New York physicians say
that the dangers of iufluenza in that city
are greatly exaggerated, but they won’t
have an easy time getting people to believe
it; particularly if the death rate continues
as high as it has been lately. It is true
that very few of the deaths have been duo
to influenza directly, but nearly all of them
have been due to that and to pulmonary
diseases aggravated by it. The death rate
has really been alarming.
Senator George wants to give all of the
encouragement possible to any attempt to
defeat the bagging trust. He introduced
the other day a bill authorizing the Secre
tary of Agriculture, after experiments, to
purchase auy machine or process for decor
ticating ramie or jute that shall prove well
adapted to such purpose, making the use of
the machine or process free to the people of
the United States. He wants 8100,000 ap
propriated to carrv out the purposes of the
bill.
A fresh young man from New York,
named Owens, was in Washington the other
day, and he knocked oft a piece from the
base of the Washington monument to take
home as a memento of his visit. He was
arrested, and the piece was pulled out of
his pocket. He was fined 820, and the
judge said he regretted that there was not
some more efficient way of stopping the
practice of mutilating the public structures
of the city. There ought to be a more
efficient way.
Republican newspapers may derive a
certain kind of pleasure from printing Mr.
Brieok name “Calvin (. Brice,” but they
don’t hurt the man they hope to injure.
There may have been something droll in the
idea of printing his name that way when
it was first put into execution, but even that
has worn off, and the thing has become a
combination of a very moldy chestnut
and a last year’s bird’s nest. Can’t the
would-be witty republican newspapers
think of something now 1
The contest for the United States sena
torships from Montana will soon lie trans
ferred to the United States Senate. Will
that body, which Is republican, hunt up
excuses for seating the republic in candi
dates, or will it put its foot upon political
fraud by seating the democrats? If the
republicans are seated, the country will
again have causa to t lush with sha ne. It
bad cause to do so in 1870, when Hayes was
counted in, and m 1888, when Harrison was
e’ected by the use of money. The repub
lican party is mixed up in about as many
political scandals as it can stand.
The Contest for the Fair.
The representatives of New Y rk and
| Chicago w ere given a hearing Saturday by
I the special committee of the Senate which
has charge of the question of a site for the
1592 fair, and they said about all there is to
be >aid ia behalf of their r spective cities.
The representatives of St. Louis aud
; Washington were heard a day or
! two ago. Washington did nut make much
S of a showing, as she does uot propose to
sDen 1 a do.lar to assist the fair. She ex
pects the g over .meat to furnish the money.
Her c Gef desire is to reap the benefits of the
fair. St. Louis d-p nds upon circles for suc
c Her representatives presented to the
c uumittee maps in which she is made to
appear t > be the center of the wealth aud
population of the country. They did not
tell the committee, however, that her
water supply is drawn from the Mississippi,
aud that it is si loaded with mud that
]>eople would rather miss the fair than
drink St. Louis water.
Chicago’s representatives presented her
case strongly, and it is evident that Chicago
does not intend t j spare any effort to get the
fair. Her people have pluck, energy, aud
public spirit, and these things will have a
great influence with congress. New York,
however, is the city in which the fair ought
toßeheld, aud those who want the fair to be
a success, financially and otherwise,
realize that it ia S(je has the wealth
to make it what it ought
to be, and her situation on the seaboard
would be an inducement to foreign coun-
tnewto send exhibits, and to foreigners to
visit .it. All the arguments that can be
mad?.for Chicago can be made for New
York, and, besides, there are reasons why
New York should be chosen that do not
exist in the case of auy other city. Con
gress will make a mistake if it does not
choSse New York.
Causes of Race Disturbances.
The Morning News hss frequently stated
that two of the chief causes of race disturb
ances in the south are the resistance of
colored people to arrest and the encourage
meat of the colored jieople by demagogues
north aud south to commit deeds of vio
lence.
The recent Jesup riot was a case in point.
It was due to both causes. Primarily a
white man, who is a republican, and who no
doubt had mapped out for himself a politi
cal future, gave tue colored people, it is
nllegoa, bad advice. He told them, it is
believed, that they were being deprived of
their rights, anil that they ought to “assert
themselves.” Such talk put them in bad
humor with the whites, and when a party
of meu startul out to arrest the negro
Biower on the day of the riot. Brewer uot
only resisted arrest, but deliberately killed
the assistant marshal aud another man.
It is significant that very few, if any,
race disturbances occurred in the south dur
ing the Cleveland administration. Repub
licans may say that this was because the col
ored people w ere frightened into submission,
but they say also that the disturbances
during the last ten months were due to
efforts to accomplish the same purpose.
Why should the colored people be less sub
missive now to this alleged treatment than
they were during the four years of demo
cr tticrule? The fact is that such a state
ment is far from the truth. During the
Cleveland administration, designing repub
lican politicians iu the south kept
quiet. They had nothing to gain
by instigating race disturbances in which
they might represent themselves as tho
supporters of the colorod man’s rights, but
they again took up their unscrupulous
work when the republicans came into power,
and the result was that peace and good will
gave way to a considerable extent to ill
feeling, followed by what the republican
press is pleased to term “race wars.” If the
Republican party would gag its emissaries
in the south, it would hear a groat deal less
about “race wars."
Still Working for Female Suffrage.
For more than a quarter of a century
women in this country have been trying to
get congress to bestow upon their sex the
right to vote, ami what is the result of their
efforts? In some cities they are allowed to
vote for school officers, and in one state,
Kansas, they may hold municipal office,
and vote in municipal elections. Consider
ing that they have accomplished so little on
this line, it would seem that they would bo
disc uraged, but if they are they don't
admit it. They are preparing to swoop
down upon the Fifty-first congress, as they
have upon other congresses, in the interest
of their cause. They declare that they will
never be satisfied until a sixteenth amend
ment to the constitution is udopted, allow
ing them the same political rights that men
have. They want to make their way
through muddy streets at night, with
transparencies held aloft in one hand, and
torchlights in the other. They want to
make their throats sore shouting for their
favorite candidates. They want to engage
in acrimonious discussions, from the hust
ings and in the press, as to the relative
merits of political aspirants, and try their
powers of persuasion upon voters, white
and black, upon the street corners. In
short, they want to save the country, just
as the men have been saving it for years.
One reason why their ambition will not
be gratified, for a long time at least, is that
very many more women in this country are
opposed to, thau in favor of, female
suffrage. If they could make their sex virt
ually a unit in favor of it, their chances of
getting what they want would be much
better. Asa general thing, the women are
content to let the men rule the country
while they rule the men, and it must be
admitted that we are getting along very
wblftmder this arrangement. The female
suffragists have made some converts among
national legislators. Speaker Reed is said
to champion their cause, and so do Senators
Hoar, Dawes, and Blair, and perhaps others,
but it is only in a half-hearted sort of way,
and this condition of affairs will continue
uunTthe women march iu solid phalanx, so
taspeak, to Washington, and storm both
ends of the capital. Will that time ever
come?
Word comes from Virginia, and John L.
Wise is authority for it, that President
Harrison is liable to a fine of §2O and to
ha-va his gun confiscated for shooting ducks
in that state. Mr. Wise says that an old
law provides that punishment for non-resi
dents who kili ducks below tidewater. But
how does he know that the President killed
ducks! Did be kill anything besides Gilbert
Wooten’s pig?
The people of the Fourtn congressional
district of Pennsylvania are already much
interested in the question who shall succeed
the late Judge Ivelley. Two names have
been brought forward. State Seuator K-y
--borfl contested the nomination with Judge
Kelley several years ago, aud it is thought
that his chances are very good.
TIIE MORNING NEWS: MONDAY, JANUARY 13, 1800.
The President's Defender.
One of the most active c mmpions and
def aiders of President Harrison is Senator
Cliaridl. r. The fact is the more noticeable be
cause there are so few who say a good word
for the President. At heart Senator
Chandler may not admire him personally,
j but if he and -esu’t, be keeps that to himself,
lie frequently speaks of him quite flatter
ingly, and now aud then he writes an arti
cle or submits to an interview,
in which he puts him in the beet
posible light His most recent
effort in this direction was a letter to a New
Hampshire new.-ptper, setting forth that
the President had done ail t.iat he consist
ently could, iu view of his convictions con
cerning and his pledge to uphold civil serv
ice reform, to fill the offices with
republicans. It appears that New Hamp
shire republicans were becoming dissatisfied
on account of U-day ia turning a number of
democrats out of office in that state. Sen
ator Chandler told them to be patient. He
thought they should forget their disappoint
ments and overlook any mistakes the Presi
dent might make, and present a united
front fur the next national campaign.
It hardly speaks well for the Pre-ideat
that about bis most active defender is
Senator Chandler, who has the reputation
o adopting auy meaus to gain bis end in
politics, who has never do.ie anything
in the line of statesmanship, and whose
hobby is the bloody shirt. Is there a bond
of sympathy between them? Does the
President indorse Chandler’s political
course, and his erratic and malignant public
utterances, and does Chandler feel drawn
to the President because their political
sentiments are in accord? The most natural
thing for a clean and patriotic administra
tion to do would be to give the cold shoulder
to such men as Chandler, but the senator,
and Messrs. Quay, Wanamaker, and Ma
hone seem to be the ruling spirits of this
administration. The President has not
been fortunate in the selection of his close
political friends.
Case Against Mr. Fowderly.
It is very likely that Grand Master
Workman Powde.ly, of the Knights of
Labor, will ultimately be arrested at the
instance of Mr. Edward Callaghan, of
Scottsdale, Pa., on the charge of conspiracy.
Our dispatches stated a few days ago that
another warrant for his arrest, this time a
properly drawn one, had been received in
Scranton, but that the constable into whose
hands it was placed delayed making the
arrest b cause Mr. Pow lerly was ill. At
this juncture Mr. Powderly’s statement of
the case against him will be interesting.
He made such a statement two or three
weeks ago, from which it appears
that the commencement of the trouble
dates back to his appointment in tho spring
of 1887 of a committee to watch legislation
in the interest of workingmen as it came
before the Pennsylvania legislature. A few
weeks later Mr. Callaghan complained to
him by iettor that tho committee was not
properly attending to its business, and said
that influential Ktiig .ts did not want the
committee’s report published. Mr. Powderlv
requested him, under the seal of the grand
master workman, to furnish him with the
names of these ii fluential knights, but Mr.
Callaghan indignantly refused to do so, aud
coupled his refusal with unnecessarily
strong language. Shortly afterward Mr.
Callaghan gave a history of the correspond
ence which ensued, find complained bit
.terly of Mr. Powderly’s treatment of him.
The ill feeling thus engendered was inten
sified, so far as Mr. Callaghan was concerned,
when that gentleman was defeated for the
nomination for assemblyman from the
Scottsdale district. A short time before
the nominating convention met he asked
Mr. Powderly to publish his (Callaghan’s)
letters to him, in order to correct injurious
statements that had been made against him
by a certain person. Tie request was not
complied with; Mr. Callag lati was defeated
for the nomi mtion, and he
charged Mr. Powderly with assisting
iu the circulation of stories
which led to his defeat. “Had you pub
lished my letters,” he declared, “you would
have saved me; but you would have ex
posed your own treachery to the knights,
and you sacrificed me to save yourself."
He also alluded to Mr. Powderly as “the
most contemptible, the most hateful, and
the most designing villain who ever escaped
a halter.”
While this is only Mr. Powderly’s state
ment, it seems to be a fair one, and it
places Mr. Callaghan in the position of a
man soured by defeat. The matter is not
an important one, and the chief point of
public interest in it is that legal action is
likely to be brought against the leader of
the Knights of Libor.
The Philadelphia Inquirer is annoyed
because Senator Vorhees wants the Senate
to investigate the “blocks of five” business.
It asks the senator if he thinks the Dudley
letter will have any more influence in the
next presidential election than the Morey
letter had iu that of 1881. “If not,” it says,
“why waste tho time of the Senate in a hot
tempered political debate?” The Morey
letter was written by an irresponsible per
son, it proposed no crime, and it was con
demned by democrats The Dudley letter
was written, it is asserted, by the
treasurer of the republican national
committee, and it proposed a grave
crime, and one that, it is thought,
was committed. That is tho difference be
tween the two, aud when a republican
newspaperseekstopreve.it Dudley’s con
duct from being investigated, it virtually
admits that it is afraid the probable expos
ure would injure the Republican party.
The Inquirer, by the way, is not usually
onp wed to “hot-tempered debates” in con
gress, especially if political capital for its
party can be made by them.
A copy of the draft of an extradition
treaty between this country aud Canada,
agreed upon by Lord Salisbury and the
1 American minister to London, has been
forwarded to Ottawa. Among the crimes
intended to be made extraditable are at
tempt or conspiracy to murder, man
slaughter, counterfeiting or altering money
and uttering counterfeit or altered money,
and larceny of any sum or article of a value
of §SO or more. The treaty is not intended
to apply to crimes com uitted before legis
lative sanction shall have been given to it.
“Another black eye for Gov. Hill, ’’ re
marks the New York Tribune. How many
does that make? How many eyes does the
Tribune think Gov. Hill possesses? It has
counted up “black" ones against him until
1 he number reaches probably several hun
<Lred, and one would think that under tho
c ircunistances he would be so much bruised,
l olitically speaking, a; to be compelled to
goto bed; but he is still able to kuock out
the republicans of that state when ho runs
l or governor.
CURRENT COMMENT:
Mr. Elaine's Oversig-ht.
From Vie Philadelphia Record < Dem\
Secretary Ii a ne missed a point when he for
got to n*.T.in 1 Air. GUd.-tone tnat the farmers
"t the western arates are so prosperous that
taey can aff rd to use hu„ar-cora to warm their
mortgaged hearthston e.
Chambers Understood tho Business.
From the Philadelphia Times ilnd.).
°f eour*-* the attorney general answers the
promptly that :io instructions were
is>u and by his department t > the district attorney
at f di&napolis to Oiscontinue the prosecution
or Dudley. That is prticisely the answer that
th.r senate resolution was intended to elicit. If
Mr. Mill r couid not mase the Indianapo is
prosecutor unde stand his duty in this business
v. ithwiit instruction* they wouJd both be pretty
dulL
The Florida Jury-Box Fraud.
From the .Xew Yrk Star (Dem.).
The outrage is of the most flagrant and bold
est s rt. bu Judge Swrayne seerns to treat it as
a trifling informality, respecting wmeu the
chiet didieulty is that it lias been found out.
The case x*n trial wueu the disclosure occurred
grew out of the elections; the accused at tne
bar was a democrat, and the obvious effect of
the selection ot a hostile partisan jury was to
prevent a fair hearing aud just judgment of
trie cause. Tne letter of tue marshal was, in
fact, complete evidence of the greatest job of
“jury fixing” on record.
Te6tinjr Their sincerity.
FVom the Kew York M'orld (Dem
Senat introduced some amend
ments to Senator Sh‘*rman's bill providing for
federal e >ntrol of congre.ssi jnal elections which
will test tle sincerity of the republicans. Oue
requires t e elections to be conducted under
the Australian ballot system, substantially as
inocifieti and applied in Massachusetts. Tne
oloer adds t he r miiremeut of publicity to cam
pal/n expenses, after tne model of the “Corrupt
Practices Act.*’ Will the republicans accept
these reforms for the soutnern elections? Upon
what grounds could they reject them?
brig it bi ra.
One o>the Professor.—Professor pupil
whom be lias caught mimicking him)— Mr.
Jones, if you and >n’t stopacti ig like a fool. I shall
s jnd you fro®, the class.— Time.
A Friend in Need—Postage Stamp—l've
.just been receiving a terrible licking.
F.nvelope—Well, stick close to me and we ll
get through all l — Drake's Magazine.
GriLTY Consciences.—Waiter lat the club)—
There is a lady outside who says that her hus
band promised to be home early to night.
Ail (rising)—Excuse me a moment.— Boston
Budget.
Fl vino machines will play an effective part
in future wars, if the commanding general can
he induced to get into one of them, Rapid
1 romotion would be one of the results.— Texas
Si (tings.
She (at the mint)—Ah, now T know, Harry,
why l think you as good as gold.
He—O, get out!
She—No; but you are, really. You are pressed
for money, you know.— Boston Transcript.
“Ah, Jones, moving again?”
“Yes, the landlord tells me this house had all
the conveniences, but he deceived ine. I've
looked the place all over, but I haven't found it
convenient to pay the rent.”— Boston Tran
script.
C.— Jones is making lots of money out of his
play.
I>. He is, eh? I'm glad to hear that some
body can make something out ot it. I went to
se * it, and I couldn't make anything out of it.
Texas Siftings.
‘ld dod hake ady differedce— achew!
achew 1 " said a sufferer, ‘‘whether you gall it—
achew: -alter— a hew Agrippi,Juliusbueezer,
rany other oi l Roman to make it fashVble; 1
dod wad ady bart of it. Tooot!” Boston Com
mercial Bulletin.
Miss TifiaTY-KmHT (coyly)—What a pity it
seems, Mr. Somerset, that a man like you
should be a bachelor!
Mr. Somerset—Yos, Miss Thirty-eight, it does
seem a pity, but I can't help it. You Know I
was born so.— Somei v/lle Journal.
Why Han.o Organs Vanish— Philanthropist—
Yours is tne first hand organ I have sren for
some weeks. Got too cold for them, I sup
pose.
Organist- Eet, ces so. signor. Zee peoples
beepa windows shut and notta pay us to mova
on.—.AYic Ycftk Week y.
The Effect of the Divorce System.— Mrs.
Upperten—l hear that wedding presents are
going out off ashion this year.
Mrs Detrow (from Chicago)—O, yes; they are
getting to be so common. Oue tires of getting
the same kind of things over and over again.
Drake's Magazine.
First Tramp— Let's go up to this house and
see if we can't get a bite.
Second Tramp- Not by a long chalk.
F. T,—Why not? Do they keep a dog?
S. T. - No, but there's a newly married couple
living there, and the wife gave me one of
her pies the other day, and it nearly killed me.
Downing a Lie.—Editor's Wife -Pretty condi
tion for you to come home in—staggering
througn the streets in broad daylight.
Dilapidated Spouse—(!ouldu't helpit, m'dear;
beeu accused of (hie) bribery.
“Bribery?”
“Yes, m dear; people said I was (hie) bribed
to oppose pro'bit ion. Had to show folks I
'sposed to pro'bition in' own accord. Acte Yorfc
Weekly.
PERSONAU
Prof. Ti cker of Andover is said to limit the
original thinkers of America to three—Jona
than Edwards, Benjamin Franklin, and Nathan
iel Hawthorne.
President Hippo i.yte of the republic of Hayti
is said to be 79 years of age. but with the ap
pearance of a man of tie. If this be true, he is
one of the liveliest octogenarians on record.
Stepniak, the Nihilist author, who is coming
to this country next y ar, is described as a
black-haired, bristly-bearded, vigorous looking
6-footer, with gentle manners and kindly ways.
Miss Mary Angela Dickens, granddaughter
of me novelist, is the latest member of the
family to join the ranks of writers. She wrote
a Christmas story this year entitled "A Social
Success."
EnMrmi C. Stedman, the poet, says that tho
grippe is a result of vapors through which our
planet is passing on its way around its orbit
lie contends that the greater the elevation the
worse the grippe.
Senator EvARTs ie noted for being a court
eous go tinman. Even in the bustle of a big
city crowd he never fails to lift his bat and bow
if. by any chance, he runs into any one of the
fair pedestrians who throng the thoroughfares.
Tub Dpke op Portland heads the list of
winners on the English turf the past season
lie won 83.19.000 this year and §131,0j0 last year’
making the snug sum of over halt' a million for
the two seasons, aud from horses of his own
breeding, too.
Nellie and Hattie Cook, aged 14 and 16
years respectively, daughters of Lvmaa Cook
of Smith county, Kansas, husked 1,000 bushels
of corn for their father this fall, for which he
paid §2 , having agreed to pay them cents a
bushel for all they would husk.
Beverly Tucker, who came n >ar to being a
commissioner to Hayti, is becoming noted in
Washington because he refuses to wear an
overcoat. Some men are born great, some
achieve greatness, and some play the Victor
Hugo, Hanuibai Hamlin dodge.
Senator Pettigrew of South Dakota has the
only hefd of buffaloes now in existence. There
are fifteen animals in the herd, and they are
corralled on a farm about four miles from
Yankton, at the end of a railroad built by him
and used by the public for excursions.
Joseph H. Craig of Kentucky weighs COO
pounds and is tall in proportion. He is an Odd
Fellow and carries a gold me lal given him by
Ills associate: in commemoration of the fact
that he was probably the heaviest Fellow who
had ever succeeded In going through the third
degree
Senator Tirpif. of Indiana is said to be a
perfect master of no less than seven languages
beside the English. Ho -eads Latin, Greek, and
Hebrew almost as fluently as he does English,
and can speak French, Spanish, German, and
Italian. He lias also pursued studies in Indian,
Celtic and otuer tongues.
Jay Gopld and his son George were on Fifth
av, nue. New York, tlm other afternoon. Jay
snddenly stood stock-still at the corner of one
of the streets and turned up his face to George.
Smack went a kiss from George plump upon
his father's mouth. That was their farewell
salutation for the afternoon.
The Duchess of Fife and her husband are
often seen about London unattended. They
generally sit in tb • stalls when at the theater.
A few days ago they declined Barnum’s offer of
the royal box at the circus, preferring the shil
ling seats, which they took. The Prince of
Wales enjoys being in the company of his son
in-law, aud appears satisfied with him.
The liver and kidneys must be kept in
good cendiiion. Hood’s Sarsaparilla is a
great remedy ter regulating these organs.
Bumblethorpe and the Bull.
From the Boston Transcript.
Gen. Bumblethorpe is certainly a bis? man—
bi£ in stature and still in his own con
ceit. brimming over, as ae constantly is, with
iiis otu importance. Gen. Bumblethorpe was
never in the army: he never was even in the
mill ia But be was a surveyor general once, a
£oi while ajjo, and has. of course, worn the
title of general ever since, and has always in
sisi-M upon it. He has been a shade more
overbearing since he became a general in this
wav. though he was sufficiently overbearing
baf ire that.
' tie fine afternoon iast summer Gen. Bumble
thorp- was taki g a wals through the outskirts
of the country* tow a which he had honored by
cnoo>ing it as his place of summer sojourn. In
the-.ourse of his wanderings he came upon a
pair of bars lea ling int > a grassy aud inviting
meadow. The bars he let down and walked
into the meadow. He hal but half cr *ssed the
meadow when he .>4iw to his h rror a great
black and wh.te Holstein bull emerge from the
dark shadi of an apple tree and advance to
ward him. Gen. IJumblethorp -is not an active
man. hut the steady advance of this enormous
animal stimulated him for the moment to great
activity. And his own rapid flight also served
to stimulate tne bull, who lowered his head and
chargr-d furiously, bellowiug the while.
It was a mad chase, but Gen. Bumblethorpe
had some good rods in advantage in the start,
and the opposite fence of the held was not far
away. Tne general ran wil ly and succeeded
in turning a somersault over the fence, just in
time to escape the infuriated animal.
And then it was Gen. Bumblethorpe who was
infuriated. From the safe side of the fence he
stormed and raged at the bud.land. seeing a
farm house not far away, he stalked over to it.
Ihe farmer was choring around the barn when
the gen ral sus led up to him.
“Is that your bud over there, sir?” exclaimed
Gen. Bumblethorpe.
“Well, I guess ’tis,” said the farmer.
Do you know what it s been doing?"
“Chasin’ ye, m^bbe."
“\eß, sir; chasing me; and it is an outrage I
won t tolerate—an outrage, 1 tell you, that I
should be pursued and humiliated in this way."
‘‘Wall," says the farmer, "it’s a thing that
bulls will do; he can’t help it, ye know.’’
“Help it?” said the general, blue with indig
nation; "do vou know who I am?”
“No, I don't."
“Well, sir, I am Gen. Bumblethorpe!”
‘ Is—that—so?” said the farmer with great
deliberation. “Is—that—so? Way in thunder
didn t you tell the bull, gen’ral?”
The Power of a Plugged Nickel.
From the Sew York Sun.
A tall man with a dark mustache and im
perial got into a south-bound Broadway car at
Twenty second street the other day. and took a
seat about mid way up the car. When the con
ductor came for ms faro the inan Ashed a nickel
from his pocket. The conductor* looked at the
coin sharply and passed it back again.
“What's the matter?”asked the man.
“It's plugged," said the conductor.
The man put a pa r of eye-glasses on his nose,
and critically surveyed the nickel. He found
that the conductor was correct, and handed
him a good nickel. He was about to put the
bad one back into his pocket, when be noticed
that every one in the car was loyking at him.
He turned red. hesitated, and finally dropped
the nickel slyly on the floor. Every one saw
him do it, but every one tried to appear as if
he didn't notice it. Tne nickel lay on the floor
iu plain sight, but no one would look at it. All
seemed to think that they would appear as if
they coveted it. if they did. Every one seemed
quite uncomfortable. Two or three men tried
to read, but tney couldn't concentrate their at
tention on their newspapers. The conductor
passed over the nickel once or twice, and tried
not to notice it.
At Fourteenth street a man got in and was
about to sit down, when he espi and the nickel.
He picked it up and tried to hand it to an old
gentleman with a red face and a white mus
tache, saying. “Youdropped this, sir."
“No, I didn't,” said the old gentleman, with a
laugh.
Then everybody laughei, as if greatly
relieved. The inan who had nicked up the
nickel looked closely at it, turne i bright crim
son, aud dropped it again. Everybody saw
him. but whichever w.y he looked he saw only
averted faces. The people would glance slyly'
at him from the corners of their eyes, and then
look away again very quickly. Again no one
looked at the nickel, although every man there
knew to a nicety’ just where it lay. It staid .in
the same place on the floor until the car stopped
just above Chamber < street. Here the con
ductor told the passengers to take the next car,
as that one was going to switch off and go up
town again. As they left the car all the pas
sengers took a glance at the plugged nickel, but
no one touched it. It started up-town ag in,
and all the passengers went down town with
that nioktd weighing heavily on their miuds.
Persecuted for Their Good Fortune.
From the Boston Conner.
W bile the Squadron of Evolution was in Bos
ton recently, Admiral Walker invited a couple
of Chat leston lads, sons of friends of h;s, to
come on board ship and visit him. The boat
was sent on shore for their especial benefit, and
with flags flying, and in a state which filled their
whole boyish souls with joy, they were ta en
on board at a time when the general public
were not admitted, and there were shown all
about it with.the greatest care.
When the pair of you \gs ers reached their
homo it is hard y necessary to say that they
were ill a condition of proud self-consciousness
hardly to b overstated, and during the follow
ing days the amount of bragging which they
did to their school-fellows was by no means
small. The other boys were willing to listen
until they had been put in possession of all the
facts of the case, and until all their questions
had be.eu answered, and then, boy like, they
b gan to devote themselves to taking down the
pride of tho favored youths. One day, about a
a week after the visit to the squadron, one of
the lit le feliow-s came home in spirits so evi
dently downcast that his mother inquired what
was the mat ter.
“1 don’t care,” was the somewhat illogical
reply; “I think the boys are just as mean as
they can be. ”
“But what is the matter?” his mother asked.
"Well,” was the reply, “you see they are
down on Tommy and me because we liat a
chance to go on the Chicago when they didn't,
and now they are grinding us.”
“Grinding you,” repeated the mother, “what
are they doing?”
“Why,” the small lad answered in an ag
grieved tone, “we are playing history games,
and all tho other boys are kings, and knignts,
and gener is, and they won’t "let Tommy and
me be anything but outcasts!”
The touch of human nature which shows the
boy world to be akin to that of their elders is
very droll.
That Settled It.
From the Philadelphia Inquirer.
Ward McAllister, the leader of New York's
Four Hundred, is never an easy man for the
newspaper reporters to approach, but of all of
tnose whom he has bluffed off, Charlie Metcalf
is the principal sufferer. Last summer Metcalf,
who now- represents Daniel Frohman m the
management of “The Prince and the Pauper.”
was on the local staff of a New York daily, arid
was assigned by the city editor to interview
McAllister concerning a statement
relative to him that had been made
in another paper. He went to
McAllister's house and rang the bell. The door
was opened by a suave, gray-haired and gray
bearded person, whom Metcalf, not being
familiar w ith the appearance of the master of
the house, took for the butler.
“Is Mr. McAllister in?” he inquired.
"He is,” was the reply.
“Won’t you please take him my card and say
that I wish to see him?” said the reporter.
“Mr. McAllister will not see you, sir,” firmly
responded the supposed butler.
“But I have come here on important business,
and I must see him,” Metcalf insisted.
"I tell you that you can't have that pleasure,"
was ail the consolation he got.
“How do you know that he won't see tne until
you have taken my card to him?” asked Met
calf.
“Because I am Mr. McAllister.” was the bland
response of the man at the door.
Metcalf reached the sidewalk at a jump.
“Have you anything to say about this?” lie
shouted, as he held aloft the paper in which the
statement had appeared. “No," exclaimed Mc-
Allister, as he retreated into the house and
slammed the door behind him.”
Tit for Tat.
From the Buffalo Express.
“Lost or stolen, or wandered away,
A heart that was light as a feather.
Buoyant and free, and bright as the day,
No matter what kind was the weather.
Hello, little maid, X won’t be rash—
If you are a thief you don't look it;
But, as my heart went off in a flash,
I—sort ofe-itnagined you took it.
"Now, I hate to believe that a face
The angels might covet for beauty
Wo Id be liiiked with so deep a disgrace,
And yet to believe is my duty.
Fact is, my heart went just as you came;
A moment before it was s iy-pmg
Own up at once your part in this game—
I’m cer.ain the tiling s in your keeping.
“You won't give it back? Well, now, that’s
cool:
Some folks would make quite a case of it:
But tit for tnt's quite a good rule.
And I'll just take vours in place of it."
He did, and the end's not hard to tell—
’Twas an easy way out of the bother.
Thoy tramp through life now, i appy and well,
While each keeps the heart of the other.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
William Arendt aad Airs. Susan Iseley were
marr.ed the o her day in the Dickinson county,
Kan., poorhous*. The groom is 70 and the
bride 7 years old. It is comfortable to near of
a we Ming occasionally to which no suspicion of
mercenary motives attaches.
Faosi 180 to 300 battle-nosed whales* were
driven ashore below Bar ns tan kern ess. Scotland,
the other evening. About twenty boats took
part in the exciting chase, ani the finish was
witnessed by a larg- number of people. Some
of the w’haies were unusually large.
Not everybody is rich enough to lose SoAO
without Knowing it. but tnis is what a Fairfield
Me.i woman did. Mrs. H. A. Small recently
found a railroad bond of SSOO that had been laid
avay in an old book for the past ten years, and
wh.ch she had forgotten all about.
Hep.r Possart, the German actor, before
stepping on th- stage, bends bis body forward
until it forms a right angle with his legs, shakes
his head vigorously, and then stands up straight
again This apparently acts as a throwing
off of his own individuality and an assumption
of that of the character which he is to play’.
Paul White, a prosperous Colorado ranch
man. about a month ago advertised for a wife,
giving an accurate description of himself and
his surroundings, etc. His mail has been s>
heavy ever since that it has been necessary to
put it in barieis at tne postoffice, and Mr. White
was compelled to bring his far n wagon to town
to haul it home. lie tus not yet made a selec
tion.
It has been calculated that the mobilization
of the French, German, and Russian armies
would cost $100,000,000. and their maintenance
in the field would cost $300,000,000 a month. A
war of six months duration would, therefore,
use up, for thes-* three countries alon?, the sum
of $ 1.300.000,000. Besides that every nation In
Europe including England, would have to arm
and hold itself ready, which would cost millions
more.
The power of one of the greatest political
figures of the day\ of all time, is said
to be on the wane. The Empress Dowager of
China has been sham of her prestige by the
rebellious independence of the voung emperor.
He refused to see the bri ie which she forced
upon him, and has been issuing vigorous de
crees on his own account. He has been censor
ing the old ministers right and left, particularly
Cuang Chi Tung.
An extraordinary case came before a Lon
don police court. On a servant girl being
charged with stealing tw’o pairs of boots. It was
stated on her behalf that frequently she was
for a time unaccountable for her adieus; that
on these occas.ons she did most inexplicable
things, and that once, a doctor having certified
that sne was and ad, she lay three days in a coffin
ready for burial, signs of life being discovered
at the end of that period.
A spiritualist proceeding out of the ordi
nary run took place at the Metropolitan temple
in San Francisco the other evening, in which A.
S. Cleveland and Mrs. Louise Beatty were mar
ried, as the medium said, by the spirit of
Thomas Starr Kiug. Two thousand people
gathered to witnes> the ceremony, and listened
attentively to Mrs. J. J. Whitney, who, array’ed
in a costly costume decked with diamonds, pro
claimed herself a minister invested witn all
necessary authority to tie a binding matri
mo.iial knot She claimed to speak only as
Starr King's spirit dictated, and, after r peat
ing the usual Unitarian service, pronounced the
couple man and wife.
Brooklyn can now boast of a “traveling shoe
shop." Its stock, of course, is small, consisting
of about 100 pairs. A pu>h cart serves as the
store, and a day or two ago. when a representa
tive of the Shoe and leather Reporter ran
across the enterprising owner, as many as
twenty or twenty-five penple w*ere gathered
around him, many of them women. They
would examine the shoes, glance at the size,
pay their quarter, and take them home without
trying them on. The seller called them "shop
worn goods.” hut the Reporter believes that
some of them at least were pretty fair looking
second-hand shoes, blacked up ana put in shape,
for shoe dealers, it says, could sell scores of
shopworn shoes at 50 cents a pair at a special
sale.
Several thousand gypsies of Croetia recently
held an open air indignation meeting at Orda
to protest against the measures to put a stop to
their wanderings, the authorities having even
threatened, if necessary, to set fire to their en
campments. The orators warmly defended the
time-honored privileges of th * race, especially
the free vagabond life inherited from their fore
fat hers from timnie imemcrial. The meeting was
unanimous as to the necessity of appealing to
some protector to intercede for them. The ma
jority looked to the Ban of Croatia. Count
Kheun-He Jervdary; but there wa> a strong mi
nority in favor of applying to the Archduke
Joseph, the king of the Hu -garian gypsies, while
a few of the more radical orators recommended
emigration en masse from Croatia to Bosnia
and Herzegovina. This suggestion was rejected
on a show of Lands, whereupon a free fight en
sued between the Banites and Josephites, and
there was no decision.
The lost even distant relative of Aaron Burr
is dead. He was a hatter. He was born in
Western New Y'ork as long ago as 1810, aud
came to the metropolis to learn the hatters'
trade. He pateuted a hat machine in 1852. Up
to that time hat bodies had been made by
hand. Burr's machine so revolutionized the
business that in 1856, 6,000,000 hats were made
upon his machine. For many years he virtu
ally had a monopoly of the hat trade, and
when his patent expired, in 1872, he had amassed
a great fortune. At the breaking out of the
war he practically organized toe Ells.vorth's
Zouaves, and contributed liberally to the mili
tary establishment. He was in many respects
a singular man, but a pus ling, euergeijte citizen.
He was an active director in man)' large in
stitutions in New York. His father was Aaron
Burr’s first cousin, aud his grandmother a
sister of Jonathan Edwards. He sprang from
that large Burr family that once lived near
Cooperstown.
An interesting anecdote of Daniel Webster
is given by Hon. Charles K. Tuckerman in his
article on “Bygone Days in Boston” in the
North American be view. Webster was deliv
ering a i address in Faneuil hall on the neces
sity for individual exertion and unflinching
patriotism to avert the dangers that threatened
the political party whose principles he espoused
when he perceived a terrible sway of the packed
assembly, consequent on the rush of those en
deavoring to enter, and noted the danger that
might ensue. Til - orator stopped short iu the
middle of a sentence, advanced to the edge of
the platform, extended his arms in an authori
tative attitude, and, in a stentorian voice of
command, cried out, "Let each man stand
firm!” The effect was instantaneous. Each
man stood Arm; the great heaving mass of
humanity regained its equilibrium, and save
the long breath of relief that filled the air, per
fect stillness ensued. “That," exclaimed the
great orator, "is what we call self-govern
ment !”—so apt an illustration of the principle
he was expounding that the vast audience
responded with deafening cheers.
The Boston Correspondent of the Book Buyer
quotes an amusing letter sent by T. B. Aldrich
to Prof. E. S. Morse, ex-president of the Ameri
can Academy for the Advancement of Science
Prof. Morse is credited with a handwriting so
illegible as to be quite indescribable. The lett r
rea Is as follows: “My Dear Mr. Morse—lt was
very pleasant to me to get a letter from you the
other day. Perhaps I should have found it
pleasanter if 1 had been able to decipher it 1
don't think that 1 mastered anything beyond the
date (which I Knew) and the signature‘{which X
guessed at). There’s a singular and perpetual
charm in a letter of yours: it never grows old
it never loses its novelty. One can say to one’s
self every morning: There's that letter of
Morse's. I haven’t read it yet. I think I’ll
take another shy at it to-day, and maybe I shall
be able in the course of a few years to make
out what he means by those t’s that look ike
w’s aDd those i's that haven’t any eyebrows ’
Other letters are read and thrown away and
forgotten, but yours are kept forever— unread
One of them will last a reasonable man a life
time.”
At Saint-Gall, Switzerland, an old colonel
named Martignoni has just died at the age of
80. He had abundant opportunity for acquir
ing a practical knowledge of men and manners.
No romance writer would dare to give to his
hero a career so varied as that of old Martig
noni. He began life as a lawyer. Then he
turned a soldier, and fought in the war of the
Souderbund. At the close of that struggle he
rose to the bench and served as a judge. Then
fortune deserted him, and he went down hill
until he became a street sweeper in New Y’ork
and afterward a waiter in a coffee and cake
saloon. Soon afterward he managed to get to
California, where he Locame a miner. Harm -
been cured of the gold fever, he went to
England, joined the army, and served under the
English co ors in the Crimean war. At the end
of that difficulty he went to the Argentine Re
public. Tuere again fortune deserted him, aid
in a few years lie returned to Europe. He
labored ns a railroad conductor, a policeman
aud a town clerk, and at last settled down to a
quiet life in his native country. His final re
quest was original and easily granted. It was
tnat nobody, except the undertaker and his
assistants, should attend bis funeral.
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