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President Harrison isn’t a dead statesman.
To say that he is implies that he was once
a live one.
It apnears that there are some colored
people in the south who favor Senator But
ler’s emigration scheme. They live in Bes
semer, Aia., and they held a public meeting
the other day and indorsed the plan. They
said that they wanted to go to their own
country.
The republican press of New York*
announce every day that the world’s fair
project for that city is dead. It pretends
to wish that it was very much alive, but its
pretensions are not worth much against the
secret stabs it gives the project. Boss
Platt’s grip never relaxes.
A young girl has boeu admitte 1 to prac
tice as a pension attorney in Irontou, O.
f Sho is said to be the youngest and by all
edds the prettiest pension attorney in that
state. This sort of thing should be stopped.
The national treasury will cortuinly ho
depleted if the pension claimants a-e to be
represented by young ami pretty female
pension attorneys.
• A (|eath which is likely to develop into a
sensation ia that of Miss Gertie Franchy, of
Philadelphia. "Phis young lady was walk
ing across the Ninth street bridge, in thut
City, with Charles Austin. Austin says
that she suddenly left him and jumped into
the river, but it is suspected that he threw
her in. He has been arrested, and some
interesting evidence may bo givon.
The republican Senate seems to make no
bones of confirming unsuitable appoint
ments. One day this week it confirmed the ap
pointment of Robert Moorman as postmaster
at Newberry, id. C. The preceding day Moor
man had killed a man. It then confirmed
the appointment of Otis H. Russell as post -
master at Richmond Va., not withstanding
Russell had been shown to De totally unfit
for tbe office.
Mr. Lampoon, as our dispatches stated
the other day, has concluded not to carry
tho contest for the lieutenant-governorship
of Ohio into court, but it is stated that, if
occasion offers, he will ask for vindica
tion in his congressional district, or, failing
in that, he will ask to be elected
governor. Lampson understands very well
that he can't bu lieutenant-governor, and
bis intended resort to tho vindication racket
■howß that he is an old hand in politics.
Mr. Stanley says that he is not an En
glishman, nor yet is he an American. In
answer to a question put to him by a rep
resentative of the Egyptian government, ho
said: “lam a cosmopolitan.’ 1 The world
is, indeed, his country, but he was born in
Wales, his original name was Howlands, he
became a pretty good American while in
New Orleans, where ho adopted the name
of his benefactor, aud he has displayed En
giish tenacity in Uis /.frican explorations*
Richard Crokc-r, the chief if the Tam
many democrats, is in very bad health.
Ho has been compelled on that account to
resign an important municipal office in New
York, and it is said that his physicians
La •*: advised him to resign the leadership
of laminauy, lot politics severely alone,
mid go to Europe. Such a resignation
would cause a big sensation among N’eiv
York democrats, as municipal iwlitics in
that city is regarded with n gnat deal
were interest than national politics.
Edmunds Ignored.
Senator K lmunds has l>ee:i regarded for
1 a long time as,t <• republican leader of tho
Senate, and ye: he appears to have bee i ’so
s'verelv snubbed in the executive ses.i >n of
i that body on Thursday, by members of bis
j own party, that be was tremulous with in
j digtia’ion, aud announced bis intention to
; resign from the committee on foreign rela
! tio: s. Tne Sam mu treaty was ratified on
i Wednesday by a vote of 38 to li Mr. KJ
; mueds, before the vote was taken, was not
j sati-lied that ourr>ght to I’ago Pago har
: bor ia Samoa, which we bad obtained by
the treaty of ISTS, was protect si
bv the treaty under consideration, and lie
offered a resolution that was intended to
euro the defect. He was induced to with
draw it until a vote ou the question of rati
fication was taken. After the treaty had
been ratified tbo Senate, it is alleged,
treated his resolution with something like
contempt. He then m ived to consider the
vote by which the treaty was ratified, and
when that motion came up on Thursday
Senator Shermau told him if had taken the
trouble to inform himself ho would have
found that the state department had made
provision for the occupation of Pago Pago.
Of course his motion was beaten, and
be complained that laS was not
afforded the same opportunities as other
members of the foreign relations committee
to get information. This is certainly an
unhappy conditions of affairs. Is it possi
ble that the republican leader of the Senate
is shut out from the state department, al
though the administration is republican?
If it be true that Senator Sherman said to
Senator Edmunds, as reported, that the
latt- r did not know what he was talking
about, Edmunds must bo in his dotage.
After all, may not the Senate have acted
rather hastily in ratifying the treaty? Per
haps it may turn out that it would have
been wise to have listenod to Senator Ed
munds. If this country is to have the rights
in Pago Pago which tho treaty of 1 STS gave
it, why was not the fact stated ia the tro ity
just ratifi“d? It may bo that there were
good reasons for not stating it. The coun
try, however, would like to know what
they are. Unless we are secure in our
rights in Pago Pago, it is difficult to see in
what respect we are particularly benefited
by the Samoan treaty.
ProsDacts of the South BouDd.
It is quite safe to say that the South
Bound railroad will hi built. Very nearly
all the stock Savannah is required to take
has been subscribed, and other places on
the line of the road have complied with the
conditions imposed upon them. There lias
been no difficulty in getting subscriptions to
the stock of the construction company.
Thore is no doubt that Savannah’s business
men are ready to take more of that stock
than they can get. They have taken over
$300,000 of it, and have given no intimation
that they have enough.
The construction company should bo
organized as soon as possible, and work on
the road begun at an early day. As the
road will be a good thing for Savannah it
cannot be built too soon if tho wishes of
the people of this city are consulted. There
are of course some important questions to
be settled, but if they are taken hold of
promptly and energetically they can be
settled speedily.
The road will help Savannah in more
ways than one. It will not only increase
the volume of her business, but it will in
crease confidence in her prosperity. The
movement in the direction of building fac
tories will be greatly strengthened. Every
important factory that is built will encour
age the building of other factories. It
would not be at all surprising if there were
a half dozen or more large cotton factories
in operation in this city within the next
five years. There certainly will be if the
one that is now being built proves to be as
successful os it is predicted it will be.
Savannah is steadily growing in favor
with those who have capital to inve-t. Her
advantages are now more generally rec
ognized than ever before. Last year there
was an increase over the previous year of
$11,000,000 in her exports, and the indica
tions are that this year she will make a
much better sbowiug than she did last
year. The navy yard question is not set
tled by any means. Congress has not
yet said that New Orleans shall have tho
navy yard, and there i, a probability that
it will not say so.
If Savannah’s business men act together
energetically and harmoniously, they will
make her future a very bright one.
Hon. W. J. Nortben s ivs that the farmers
will continue their fight on the jute bagging
trust. Tho trust may reduce tho price of
its bagging considerably in order to de
crease the sales of cotton bagging, but the
farmers will stick to cotton bagging, Mr.
Northen says, even if it costs more than
jute. He thinks cotton bagging should bo
used by all of the farmers, because the
farmers themselves, owning tho cotton,
oould manufacture it if a cotton bagging
trust were formed. Ho believes, however,
that the search for tho best substitute for
jute bagging will lead to tile discovery of
many valuable fibers which may add to the
riches of the south. He has himself discov
ered, he says, that poa vinos furnish a better
fiber than either pine straw or tho stalks of
okra.
At tho elections to fill vacancies in the
Ohio legislature tho democrats were suc
cessful by greater majorities than wa at
first supposed. In the election for senator
the democratic majority was about 2,000,
an increase of about 500 in tho usual ma
jority in the district, and iu that for repre
sentative the majority was about 4,000, an
increase of several thousand. Gov. Camp
bell regards these results as being signifi
cant, and be professes to have confidence
that Ohio will continue iu the democratic
column. If it goos democrats at tbo next
stats election, and re-elects Gov. Campbell,
the name of that gentleman will be board
in the next national democratic conven
tion.
Washington has a sensation iu the shape
of a rumor that someone has attempted to
blow up the capitol with dynamite. A
messenger found in uspittuon in tho rotunda
a few days ago a small tin box, containing
several grains of a substance resembling
saltpetre and a small quantity of something
that looked like punk. The chief of tfaocap
itol polico concluded that it was a railroad
torpedo. That was all the foundation there
was for tho wild rumors. Thore have been
a good many explosions in the House lately,
but they were not dangerous to the lives of
the members of that branch of congro s.
Senator Blair has been in a condition of
ummxed happiness this week. He has
talked about his educational bill to tho Sen
ate and to colored conventions. The Senate
has passed his bill three times, and it w ill
probably pass it again, and yet it may not
become a law.
THE MORNING NEWS: SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 8. 1890
The Jesup I,rnching.
We publish t*to in >rning another eora
munie.nl ju from the in ay >r of Jemp relative
i to tho lynching that occurred iu that t >wa
i some •reeks ago. Tiio mayor says that our
j comments on a previous communication of
his, with respect to the same matter, in
which be stated tbo off mses for which the
i two men who were lynched were in jail,
wore “manifestly unjust,’’ tiecauso
i they implied a doubt of tne accuracy
of his statement. The mayor must
have read our comments hastily. Wec -r
--tain y had no intention of questioning the
correctness of his statement, and fail to ses
that we did so. In the article of which he
complains we said: “We have no reason to
question the correctness of the mayor's
statement.” That ought to have been
sufficient tu satify him that we ac-
C'pted His statement as correct.
Indeed, the conclusion of our article
as thut, though c irreet, it contained
no excuse for tho lynching. It is true that
we said tnat our rejsirter, who was in Jesup
when the lynching occurred, did not hear
of any such offense as was mentioned in tho
mayor’s communication, but we referred to
our reporter, not to throw doubt upon the
mayor’s statement, but to explain, in a
measure, why wo had referred to tho
offenses of the rnen who were lynched as
•‘minor offenses.”
In his communication, which we publish
this morning, the mayor, w"hile deploning
the lynching, makes what we interpret to
be excuses f r it, ad ho further asserts that
editorials like those which have appeared
in the Mokmno News “are fearful instru
ments in perpetuating strife between the
races.” We are perfectly willing that the
.mayor shall entertain whatever opinion he
pleases about our editorials. Wo propose
to be tbe judge of whether they tend
to stir up strife Or not. We
have said that the Jesup lynching was au
outrage, and that wo repeat. We have al
ways condemned lynch law. We condemned
the Barnwell lynching in the strongest
terms, and w*e condemned the Jesup lynch
ing. 1\ e have never been able to see any
excuse for either. We have no fear that
the condemning of lynching will stir up
strife between the races, and we regret that
the mayor of Jesup appears to entertain the
opinion that it will
It may bo that on Dec. 25 the people of
Jesup were excited and apprehensive, bat
tho military were there, and, we have
every reason to believe, were ready to
afford ample protection to the town, if we
are not mistaken the officer in command of
tbe troops offered to guard the jail. If his
offer had been accepted the excesses which
the mayor deplores would not have oc
curred. As wo have said several times, we
regard the lynching as inexcusable, and tho
governor clearly takes the same view of the
matter, because be has offered a reward for
the arrest of those who were concerned
in It.
The mayor makes a defense of the people
of Josup. We have never said they were
not law-abiding, and we have never doubted
that they were. We have stated that we
have never supposed that they had any part
in the lynching or that they approved it.
We do not understand, therefore, why the
mayor should defeud them as if they had
been attacked.
We shall continue to denounce lynch law
and lynchings, and to urge the punishmeot
of those who take the law into their own
hands, whether the lynchings occur in this
state or other states. In well-regulated
communities it is the duty of the courts, not
of mobs, to administer justice.
Gubernatorial Candidates.
There are a good many men spoken of in
connection with the democratic nomination
for governor in this state. Although the
nominating convention will not meet for
months the state press and tho local poli
ticians are indulging in a great deal of
speculation as to who will be Gov. Gordon’s
successor. Not long ago it was thought
that either Mr. Northen or Col. Liv
ingston would be the next governor,
but now there is an impression that either
Representative Crisp or Representative
Blount will be the fortunate man. There is
no doubt that Mr. Crisp and Mr. Blount aro
very popular. They have excellent public
records. In the struggle of the democratic
minority against Sneaker Reed’s arbitrary
rulings last week Mr. Crisp made a speech
that gave him a national reputation. He
may not want to leave congress, however,
where he is doing his state oxeollent service,
and it is a question whether for his own in
terest it would be wise for him to do so.
There is no doubt that ho would make an
excellent governor, but it would boa pretty
hard matter to win as much attention in
the gubernatorial chair ns iu tho halls of
congress.
Mr. Blount has a very strong hold upon
the people of this state. His services in
congress have been exceptionally valuable,
and if he should seek tho nomination for
governor it would be a difficult matter to
prevent him from getting it. Whether or
not he will seek it is an unsettled question.
Ho could depend with confidence upon all
classes of people for support. Indeed, it is
doubtful if any more popular man with the
farmers could bo named. He can stay in
congress as long as he wants to, ana his
chance of getting into the Senate is as good
ns that of any other aspirant for senatorial
honors.
There are other candidates, and there are
one or two men who are now thought to bo
out of the gubernatorial race who may show
an extraordinary amount of strength in
certain contingencies, but at present it can
be said that the publio mind will not lean
strongly toward any candidate until it is
known what the intentions of Messrs.
Blouut aud Crisp are.
The appointment of aa ignorant and in
competent man to the office of postmaster
of auy town iu this country would be an
outrage ou the people. The President has
appointed a colored inan postmaster of the
prosperous and rapidly growing city
of Amerieus, and it is al
leged that he is totally unfit
for the office. Was it the President’s de
liberate purpose to arouse the indignation
of the citizens of Amerieus to such au ex
tont as to cause thorn to do some net out of
which a republican congress might make
political capital? If so, it is to be hoped
that he will bo disappoiutoil.
A fund for Mr. Randall’s family is being
raised in Philadelphia. Messrs. George W.
Childs and A. J. Drexel are the chief pro
moters of it. About $50,000 has been raised,
but Mr. Chil Is thiuks it very unfortunate
that the plan has been made public, os Mr.
Randall, who was always opposed to the
acceptance of gifts, may interfere with it.
Mr. Randall, it is statod, is dependent upon
his salary as a congressman for the support
of himself aud family. He has not, like
somo other publio men, got rich in office.
CURRENT COMMENT.
It Wou’d Save Expec3e.
From the H <ib>l*c > Deni.).
There's doom paying 32>
a ye ir **wh if oue of muxiu*r is k*to
*verythin*. We that Ka.jaii lietni’s
Sis. try to s]tJu,o>-0 and ail th regt
.f <* m?rpca tv* aboii.shtM. Uncle Sam would
*a*’e $I, r 2\OOU a year iu salaries by that little
economy.
Fncouragin fir.
F-O”* thf New York World (DemX
Dispatches from the principal cities and
towns of t‘ie state agre* that tta course of **x-
Senator Platt in injecting politics into world’s
fair and his obstructive tactics
toward ibe c*n r erprise, will do much to displace
him from his pedestal. With e<jual unanimity
the dispatcher that ti e Republican party
will be a heavy sufferer at the hands of its dic
tator.
Only Harrison Men Need Apply.
From the Ixniisrille Cowier-Journal ( Dem .)
President Harrison, in spite of his evident un-
I"pularity, has. it is said. past*d a second term
i lea under that famous hat of his. He isusinj;
his position to further his interest in this direc
tion, and none hut Harrison men are put on
guard in the offices. When a congressman in
d >r**s a man for postmaster, oce of the first
questions Asked in Mr. Wanamaker’s depart
ment is: “Is he a Harrison man?”
Defective Houses.
Fi om the Washington .N/ar (Rep.).
Scarcely a day passes without the occurrence
somewhere in this country of a fire which de
stroys life. When the fire is over and the ruh
bi-h cleared away it is plainly seen why the fire
was fatal. Yet on the v ry site of the burned
building will be erected anew one quite as de
fective ns its predecessor. Men know how to
*-r ct better bu Idings, but they do not want to
exp*n<l the money where it cannot be seen, and
as beiweeu SIO,OOO spent invisible ornamenta
tion or a like amount in rendering a building
fir- proof or secure, the ornament will get the
money nine times in ten.
BRIGHT BITS.
She Had a Beac.—Mother—You’d better put
on a veil. The wind wiij chap your face.
Clara—Never mind. A cnap never hurts my
face. I rather enjoy the sensation.— Boston
Herald.
Ci.everton*—l am going away on a little trip
ami may have to draw on yju. How much no
tice would you want?
Dashaway- About two y*%rs.— Clothier and
Furnisher.
t4 .* thi* bump,” said the phrenologist,
“indicates a combative disposition.
“Thr.ie for ycz,’’ said patient.as he rubbed
tne lump ruefully, “and it’s me wife that has
the same.— Washington Post."
Old friend (unexpected arrival)—And so this
is vour daughter's coming-out party?
Practical Mother—Yes, and if I hadn't put my
veto ou those dressmakers she would have been
out a good deal farther than she is. New York
Weekly.
“So you have had the influenza':” said tho
housewife to her washer woman. “That I have.
And for one long week not a mouthful of bread
passed my lips.” “What did you live on?”
“Sure, I lived on the strength of me grip.”—
Hartford Post.
Mrs. De Sense (to benevolent friend)—l pre
sume those idiot asylums do some good, hut I
ca ,*t see how they can hope to make idiots
self supporting.
Small Son (gloomily)—I guess they set ’em to
writin’ children’s books.— New York Weekly.
Mrs. Craubley—Did you h r *ar the Wiggins
dog howl last night?
< rabbley—l did, and I believe it to be a sure
sign of a death in the neighborhood.
Mrs. Crabbley—Do you, really? Who do you
think is going to die?
Crabbley—That dog.—„ 1 merica.
W iLLiE-—Mamma, will God hate us if we don’t
do just exactly as he says in the Bible?
Mamma—Oh, I trust not, darling: Why do
you ask?
Willie—Because Billy Wilkins punched me in
the stomach and I didn’t have any other stom
ach to turn to him .— liurlinyton Free Press.
New reporter (anxiously)—Say, lend me a
few sheets out of your note book. I've forgot
mine, and l ve got to interview the city officials
to see what they know about gambling in Chi
cago.
Old Reporter—Haven't you a visiting card?
“Yes.”
“Well, use the back of it.”— Chicago Tribune.
Many queer inquiries are made by the new'
member* of congress. Yesterday a youiu
western memlier, who is cutting his eye teeth
in congressional experience, asked Speaker
Reed if it wouldn't be batter for anew member
to board and work hard the first winter in con
gress than to bring his family here and keep
house and incur heavy society expenses, besides
losing a great deal of valuable time that might
be employed to the advantage of the country
and the promotion of his own fame.
“Weil, I don't know how hard you will work,”
said Sp aker Heed with Lis peculiar down cast
drawl, ‘bill I can tell you oue thing, it is always
cheaper to buy milk than to keep a cow. You'd
l>etter board.’’— New York Sun.
PERSONAL.
Osman Pasha, grand marshal of the Turkish
army, whose heroism at Plevna was one of the
grandest incidents of the Russo-Turkish war
has written a French poem for the journal pub
lished in New York by Tello d' Apery, u 12 year
old boy.
The czarowitz has been appointed com
mandor of a squadron of the imperial guard
the Grand Duke Paul, brother of t:io czar, to
command of a regiment of hussars, and’the
Grand Duke Nicholas Nicolaevitch, cousin of
the czar, to the command of a brigade of ar
tillery.
The Que n Regent of Spain shows the results
of her recent excitement at the bedside of her
rick son. Her pale complexion is whiter than
ever. The queen regent is a very intellectual
woman. Site can converse in Spanish, French.
German and English. She is very fond uf music
and literature.
It is said that the memoirs of M.Hyrvoix.the
chief of tli private police of Napole >n 111., will
soon be published, unless his executors are pre
vailed upon by members of the Bonaparte fam
ily not f o re eal the inner life of the Tulleries
during the lifetime of several of the people re
ferred to in the memoirs.
Gen. Boulanger is slowly recovering on the
Isle of Jersey from the injury his head recently
received from contact with a chandelier. His
skull was not fractured, but au ugly scalp
wound resulted, and be was much prostrated
by the sight < f Disown blood. The brave gen
eral is very sensitive as regards gore.
Man v Kit J. M. Hill has concluded an nr
rangemciit with Nellie Bly for a series of lec
ture- on lier recent record-breaking tour round
the world. She will give three lectures in New
\ ork, and wdl then be heard in Boston, Phila
delphia, Chicago, St. Louis, and other large
cities. She wants to lecture in Pittsburg, and
will probably arrange to do so.
Mrss Dinah Mt’LOCR(Mrs. Craikhthe novelist,
gave her literary pension of SI,OOO per annum
for a number of years to Dr. Westland Marston,
the father of the recently deceased olind poet,
Philip Bourke Marston. On her death the
pension lapsed, and it is said that Henry Irving
then volunteered to continue tne allowance, and
did so until the death of tho recipient a few
weeks ago.
An instance of Browning’s kindness of heart
is told in the Athene?,uni. A young girl was io
write au explanation of “Prospice.” Not satis
fied with her essay, she ventured to send it to
Mr. Browning, to whom she was an entire
stranger, and he took the trouble to make
sundry corrections and additions, winding up
with: “There, my dear young lady, l have
done L ie little that was necessary, and hope it
may suffice. Affectionately yours, Robert
Browning. ”
Mrs. Louise Chandler Moulton never sends
out cards for her afternoons at homo, hut sim
ply announces through the daily papers that
she will be gla l to see her friends on such a day.
A number of friends are asked to receive with
her, and they como in street dress and bonnets.
Anybody conies who wishes, announces himself,
and has the liberty of tue house at once. There
are always dainty refreshments provided, but
no attempt is ma le to have them served. They
stand on a table in the dining room, and each
guest goes out as he chooses to pour his own
chocolate or coffee.
“Prince Bismarck,” says the London cor
respondent of the Binningnam Gazette, “even
if hi were not a state man. would be a famous
nuui, if only for the extent and variety of his
different businesses. DistUer, farmer, and
paper-manufacturer, he has now added to his
occupations that of brick-inaker, having lately
suev ssfully established a large brickyard by
which he hopes t make much money. Tne
clay in the neighborhood of lAumiberg, where
it is situated, is said to be of the finest quality;
and as no has been spared in furu.s
ing every requisite—lncluding a rail road--for
the successful working of tbe industry, there
seems every probability of the aged Chancellor
realizing in time the dream of his life—a for
tune and an hereditary dukedom.”
For coughs and throat trouble* use “Brow n’s
Brimcliial Troches.”—“They slop an attack
of my asthma cough very promptly.”— (J.
Filch. HianxiviUe, Ohio,
A Nervous Banker.
From Texat Sifting *.
Polite Beat -Can't you accommoiate me
with SC?
Banker— Man alive! you make me nervous.
Why do you always ask for $3, instead of ask
ing for $1 or s2*
Polite Bat Mr. Moneybags, if you think you
understand the bejfiring business better than l
do, just you beg for a while and let me be
banker.
The Mystery of Mince Pie.
From the Detroit Free Pres.k.
“Say!" he called to a Woodward avenue gro
cer the other morning. “I'm in a great hurry
and can t linger. My wife wants the stuff to
make some mince meat. Put it up and I’ll call
as 1 go to dinner.”
"Very well,” was the and when he re
turn and the grocer |xmte J to a heap of packages
on the table and said:
"Guess I've got everything put up for you.”
‘‘Gewhi taker! but you donx mean that pile
is lor me?’’
‘‘All yours, sir.”
‘‘But you don’t claim that I want thirty-four
ingredients to make a mince pie
Only the usual ingredients, sir—meat.apples,
currants, raisins, allspice, pepper, vinegar, cin
namon, citron, cloves, and so forth. If your
wile happens to remember anything else she
wants to put in just call me up by telephone.
Been over the list twice and am sure I have it
right.”
The Ohio Man’s Independence.
From the Toledo Blade.
He was t*ll ( unshaved, and independent, and
he came from Findlay. He had just leased
some oil land down in rhe field, and was ‘‘sign
ing up” the lease in aSt Clair street real estate
office yesterday afternoon.
” What’s your wife's name?” inquired the clerk
who was filiing out the instrument.
“Barbara,” he replied.
“Barbara what?”
“Barbara M.”
“What does the M stand for?”
“Well, durned if I know*.”
“What! Don't know what the middle initial
of vour wife's Same stands for?”
“Nope.”
“Why, man, how long have you been mar
ried?”
“ Bout forty-four years.”
‘‘Been married forty-four years, and don't
know your wife's middle name?”
‘Yep.”
“Well, why didn't you ever ask her?”
“Ask her Why, I’m too durned independent
to ask her, that's why, young feller!”
W ho Carries on the Business?
Fro*n the James town Journal.
Men don't believe in a devil now, as their fa
thers used to do;
They've forced the door of the broadest creed
to let his majesty through.
There isn’t a print of his cloven foot or a fiery
dart from his bow
To be found in earth or air to-day, for the world
has voted it so.
But who is mixing the fatal draught that pal
sies heart and brain.
And loads the bier of each passing year with
y ten hunored thousand slain?
Who blights the bloom of the land to-day with
the fiery breath of hell?
If the devil isn't, and never was, will somebody
rise and tell?
Who dogs the steps of the toiling saint, and
dizs the pits for his feet?
W ho sows the tares on the field of time, where
ver God sows his wheat?
The devil s voted not to be, and of course the
thing is true;
But who is doing the kind of work that the
devil alone should do?
W e are told that he does not go about as a roar
ing lion now;
But whom shall we hold responsible for the
everlasting row
To be heard in home, in church, and state, to
the earth’s remotest bound,
If the devil, by a unanimous vote, is nowhere
to he found?
Won’t somebody step to the front forthwith,
and make his bow and show
How the frauds and crimes of a single aay
spring up? We want to know.
The devil was fairly voted out, and of course
the devil’s gone;
But simple people would like to know who car
ries his business on?
Alfred J. Hough.
"Bob!”
An Australian “forty-niner,” who had struck
it fairly rich at the gold diggings, was taking
his nuggets and dust to says the
New York Herald. He was walking along by
the side of his t ain with his rifle under his ami,
indulging in pleasant speculations concerning
the good time he would have aft-r he had sold
his gold, when a stranger appeared on the road,
and. accosting him, said:
“(live us a piece of ’baccy, mate.”
Those-were day s when people, especially those
who had been to the diggings, didn’t stand on
ceremony. Suspecting no treachery, the miner
thrust a hand into his pocket to get a chunk of
the much-prized weed.
In a moment the rauzzlo of a pistol was
thrust against his forehead, and the stranger
shouted:
“Ball up!”
The stranger was a bushranger, and that was
the way bushrangers ordered their victims to
tli 'gw up their hands before going through
them.
Without pausing an instant, although he
knew that the bushranger had only to e.vercise
a little gentle pressure with his forefinger to
blow him into eternity, the miner bawled out
at the top of his voice:
“Bob!”
There was no “Bob’* around there. It was a
ruse conceived by the miner in the fraction of a
second, and immediately put into execution, to
attract the attention of the bushranger. It
worked. The bushranger thought the miner
was calling a companion to his assistance He
looked around to catch a glimpse of the ficti
tious “Bob.” That was the miner’s opportuni
ty. Quick as a flash he swung Ins left arm and
knocked the pistol out of the bushranger’s
grasp. Then he brought his rifle to his shoulder
and leveled it at the bushranger's head. In
much less time than it takes to t 11 it the situa
tion had been completely reversed. The bush
ranger was at the mercy of the miner.
“Now,” said he “you scoundrel, just fold
your hands behind your back and march ahead
of me. If you move or try to run away I'll save
the hangman a job by letting daylight through
you.”
In that way the miner escorted the bush
ranger into town and handed him over to the
police.
What a Boston Man Swallowed.
From the New York nun.
There were a number of us in one of the Lon
don taverns made fatuous by Dickens, when a
great, big fellow slouched in an l made himself
very disagreeable with his mouth. < >ue of our
party was a man from Boston, and some way
or other he and the big man came to exchange
words. The first we heard of the row the big
man was saying:
“You Yankees are great on the brag, and
that's all you can do.”
“Well, 1 duuiio.* replied Boston.
“But I do. When did you ever do a blooming
blasted thing:” *
“How about 1776?”
“Never heard of it .”
“How about 1812?”
“Never heard of it!”
“Did you ever hear of Bunker Hill?”
“I have. sir. That’s where 600 red coats
licked the life out of 4,000 bragging yan tees!”
“1 guess not.*’
“Not! Does you dare to dispute the Liver
pool Kid?”
“You'd better read what history says.”
“I have done that 'ere, you bloomink idiot,
and it says as how all you yankees run at the
first fire! Don't it, now? '
“1 never heard that it did.”
“Don’t it say that?”
The big fellow had pushed up his sleeves and
put up his fists, and it was plain that a row was
on hand, lie was big enough to eat up two
such men as Boston, while he had friends to
look out for the rest of us. Our companion
therefore took the most prudent course and
acknowledged that history might say so, and
probably did say so. This satisfied the big fel
low, and he turned away and glared at a
Frenchman, also a tourist, who had come in
later. After a long stare he walked up to Crapo
and shouted:
“Blast yer blumink parley vous, but we've
always licked ye out of yer boots on land and
sea!”
“You speak von big lie!” shouted the French
man. hot in a minute.
“What! Call the Liverpool Kid a liar to his
face!'*
“Aye! and I shall now give you von awful
beeg licking!”
“Johnny” got out of his coat in a jiffy,
danced around with his hands up, and to our
astonishment the Kid went right down into his
boots and slunk out of the room, having no
more pluck than a hen. We sat there for five
minutes before any one spoke. 'Then it was
the Boston man. who said:
“Just think of it! I can lick six fellows like
that banty Frenchman, and yet that big duffer
made mo swallow two wars for independence
and Bunker Hill on top of them!”
Bass' Ale and Guinness' Stout, Dog’s Head
Brand, bottled in London by Head Brothers, is
conceded to be the perfection of Burton and
Dublin Brewings. Lippman Bros, and M. Lav
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ITEMS OP INTEREST.
The average pulsk in infancy is 120 per min
ute; in manhood, 90; at 60 years, fO. The
puise of females is more frequent than that of
i males.
A bundle of spider webs, not larger than a
buckshot and weighing less than a drachm,
would, if straightened out and untangled, reach
a distance of miJcs.
The queen has granted to the Crown Derby
Pottery Works the right to place the word
Royal before the name of their ware, thus
placing its on a level in taat respect with the
Royal Worcester work.
A leading Chinaman in New York, being
chaffed on bis custom of spreading a splendid
feast for Joss, replied with a broad Celestial
grin: “Chinaman teedee his god; lazy Christian
man waitee for his god to feedeo him.’’
a to, Tex, toasts of the finest artesian
wells ou earth, and proposes giving a water
carnival. The enterprising Wacoites are going
to'demonstrate the many novel ways in which
a large supply of pure water can be used.
Cremation is becoming popular in Sweden,
and during the last few weeks eleven bodies
have been cremated in Stockholm, among them
b ing several ladies and gentlemen of distinc
tion. In Gothenburg anew crematorium has
just been completed.
A European authority calls attention to the
fact that many cases of colic among beer drink
ue to P°isocing from drinking beer
that has been either pumped through leaden
pipes or through pipes into the composition of
which lead largely enters.
Frank Di’tciter, a burglar, notorious through
out Northern Illinois and Wisconsin, has had a
singular career. He has been sent to Joliet
prison four times. On each occasion he has
become insane. When transferred to the Elgin
asylum he has made his escape.
I. H. Davis of Clarksville, Mo., was three
times married to the same woman, his own
temper and two divorces making this possible.
His record breaking career was cut short on
l iiesday, when his three times brother-in-law
killed hi n. The good old pledge, “till death do
us part, holds good for one?.
" HIIjR fixing a frozen pump on his farm an
old resident of Pottawattamie county, lowa,
slipped on the ice and started for the bottom of
the well. His s>n grabbed him by only one foot
as he was disappearing and, being firmly
braced succeeded in drawing his father up.
Ihe oldl gentleman remarked that though he
was old he never before knew he had one foot
in the grave.
The introduction of smokeless powder Into
The German army will involve the uniforms of
several regiments being altered, as the wearers
ot bright colors will be too plainly visible to the
enemy without the protecting cloud of smoke
Wrtrfare * The White Cuirassiers and the
nea Hussars in particular are to wear much
darker garb instead of their present well-known
and conspicuous uniforms.
A correspondent of the American Field ,
writing from Stockton. California, calls atten
tion to the depredations which are being com -
nutted by the Nevada Piute Indians in that
state They make annual raids into California
and slaughter deer by the hundred for their
nines and for dog meat. A band of 300 of these
Indians is now in Calaveras county on a hunt
mg expedition. In two days they had killed
over 100 de r.
A surgeon in Tennessee is reported in the
local press as the hero of this episode: A pa
tient brought his amputated finger to the doc
tor who sewed the finger on. Being drunk when
ne did so, the doctor sewed it on with the plain
surface turned the wrong way. The doctor,
ar.er sobering up. wanted to amputate the
finger and put it back right, hut the patient de
clined. The doctor can now be punished when
ever the patient points that finger at him.
An amateur trapper at Lebanon Center.
Conn., recently caught in bis “squat traps” the
funniest looking animal ever seen in Connecti
cut; nobody seems to know what he is or was
intended tc be. The beast has the feet and tail
ot a skunk, hut the rest of him cannot be even
approximately classified. The most curious
tiling is that there is not a hair on him. He is
about as large as a skunk, and looks as it he
might be one that had been well scalded. He
is dead.
tv hat is said to be the most powerful elec
tric light in existence has recently been put into
operation in a lighthouse at Houstholm, on the
dangerous coast of Jutland. It is of 2,000,090
candle power, mounted on a tower about 200
feet hign, and can be seen at a distance of
thirty-five miles even in rainy weather. Besides
the lights there are two great sirens, one about
6.k) yards and the other about three miles from
tlie tower, which are sounded in foggy weather
by electrical connection with the same currents
that supply the light.
It appears now that the famous text in
Leviticus, on which the opponents of marriage
with a deceased wife’s sister base their princi
pal argument, has hitherto been wrongly trans
lated. Prof. Schroeder, the president of the
imperial German commission for the revision of
the Bible, says the verse means that a man
must not take his sister-in-law as his wife while
her sister is alive. That is to say, that he must
not have two wives living at the same time in
Ills house who are sisters. Luther's text essen
tially agrees with this.
The Central Meteorological Observatory
op Mexico, which is situated at 7.489 feet above
the sea, lias published a summary of meteorolog
ical results for each month of twelve years end
ing 18S8 (excepting January and February, 1877).
I .ie coldest month is January, the mean tem
perature of which is 54°, and the warmest month
is April, the mean temperature of which is G4°
The absolute maximum in the shade was 89°'
and the minium 28.9°. The wettest month is
August, in wbicli the mean rainfall is 3.4 inches
and the dryest month is February, with an aver
age of 0.4 inches. The greatest fall at one time
was 2.5 inches. The prevalent direction of the
wind is northwest.
In Illinois habitual drunkenness for the
space of two years is ground for divorce. On
this ground a Chicago wife sued for divorce.
The evidence showed that the husband was not
an excessive drinker. It proved, however that
for years he had been in the habit of using
morphine by hypodermic injection. The effect
was a condition analogous to intoxication.
1 ■' e supreme court of the state admits that the
effects of morphine thus administered are
very similar and in many respects apparently
identical with those produced by the excessive
use of intoxicating liquors.” But it holds that
the word “drunkenness” in the statute is used
in its ordinary and popular sense. It m-ans
intoxication from liquor, not morphine. The
divorce was accordingly refused.
The present Crown Prince of Germany will
lie eight years old next May. He is a very
“bumptious” young man, very fully aware of
the prominence of his position, and requiring
all the authority of his very dictatorial father
the only person whose rule he recognizes to
keep him in order. The Emperor, soon after
his accession to the throne, found his turbulent
heir in the act of cuffing and kicking one of his
Httle brothers. On being commanded to stop
the boy replied: “Leave me alone! lam the
Crown Prince of Germany, and I have a right
to whip whom I please.” “Very good,” re
sponded his father, "but I am the Emperor of
Germany, and I have a right to whip the Crown
Prince." So, suiting the action to the word he
bestowed upon his cantankerous little son a
sound thrashing.
Pedestrians show a great deal of interest in
the new houses of the Huntingtons and Astors
in course of erection on the big lot at Fifty
sixth and Fifty-seventh streets and Fifth ave
nue, New York. C. P. Huntington's house,
which will be a structure of magnificent size!
consists practically of two buildings. One is
small, and about tue size of the city residence
wh.ch faces on Fifty-seventh street, and the
other is a huge, palace-like structure, facing on
Fifth avenue. It is not true that the large
house is to be used by the Prince and Princess
llatzleldt, while Mr. and Mrs. Huntington will
live in the smaller house on the Fifty-sevemh
street side. The conditions will be reversed
Mr. Huntington will live in toe larger house'
while the smaller dwelling, which is practically
a wine of the principal structure, will be re
tjiintHt as the New \ork home of tlio princess
The corner below, where the Astors will build
will be occupied by a substantial and bolid
building without extraordinary exterior orna
mentations. ith Cornelius Vanderbilt, Floyd
Jones, C. P. Huntington, and William C. Whit
ney occupying the four corners of Fifty-seventh
street and Fifth avenue, there will be probably
as important a quartet of millionaires there
about as could lie found elsewhere in the world.
It will be a great place for anarchists to har
angue about when they take their Sunday
walks.
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please send another bottle by mail. We
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