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Newspaper Page Text4 Morning N*s Building, Savannah, Ga. SATTRUAY, VEBRI’ARY S, IH9O. Registered <ii the Pistojjhce in SiWM ’h. The Morn;n ) News is published ©very day in (ho year a:d ivr-il subsorilrors in tie city at 25 cents a wees I 00 a month. $5 00 for (lx too ;ths an 1 $lO 00 for on© year. The Mousing News by mail, one month, $1 09; ttire© months, $0 50: six months, $5 00; one vear. $lO 00. ... T.ie Mousing News, by mc.il. six tunes a week (without Sat * lav isaue'. three months, $i 00; •IX months, $J on; one year. $s 00. # The Mousing News, Tri Weekly, Mondays, Wednesday- an i Fridays, or Tuesdays, Thurs days an I Saiuniays. three mouths, $1 23; six Cii ,nt s. *2 si; on© year, $e 0,1. The Sunday News, by m ill, one year. $2 0(*. The M eekly News, by mail, one year, $1 25. Subscriptions paya ;le in advance. R.unit by pos al order, check or registered letter, yClir reucy sen. by mail at risk or senders. Letters and tele trams should be addressed "Mornixo News.” Savannah. Ga Transient advertisements, other than special column, local or readmit notices, amuse ments and cheap or want column. 10 cents a line. Fourteen lines of agate type—equal to one inch space in depth—is the slati lan! of measurement. Contract rates and discounts made known on application at business office. OLB NEW YORK OFFICE. Me. J. J. Flynn has been appointed General Advertising Agent of the Morning News, with (u office at 23 Park Row, New York. All adver tising business outside of the states of Georgia, Florida and South Carolina will be managed by him. The Mornuno News is on (11© at the fol owing places, where Advertising Kates and other in formation regarding tho paper can be obtained: NEW YORK CITY — J. H. Hates, 38 Hark Row. G. P. R iweli. & Cos., 10 Spruce street. W. W SilA p A Cos., 21 Park Row. Frank Kikrnan A Cos., 152 Broadway. Dapchy Jt Cos., 2? Park Place. J. W. Thompson. 30 Park Row'. American News ©aper Puiilishers* Association, Potter B Hiding. PHILADELPHIA— N. 'V. Ayer & Son, Times Building. BOSTON— S. R. Niles, 25(i Washington street. Pe rrrNoiLi. A Cos.. 10 Suite street. CHICAGO— Lord A Thomas, 45 Randolph street. C NCINNATI— Edwin Aldus Company, 60 West Fourth street. NEW HAVEN— The 11. P. Tl’ibard Company, 25 Elm street. ST LOU IS— Nelson Chssman A Cos., 1127 Pine street. ATL VNTA— Morning News Bureau, Whitehall street. MACON— Daily Telegraph Office. 607 Mulberry street. Hi to M advertisements Special Notices —Southover Lots, W o. Woodlln: Sal© of a Jersey Cow at Cox's Lot; Uimer'a Liver Corrector; Remember Saturday’s I’rices at Heidt’s. Military Orders—Oglethorpe Light Infan try; Republican Blues; Savannah Busch Zouaves; Bartow Light Infantry. Legal Notices—Petitions for Incorporation of the City and Suburban Improvement Com pany and the Palmer Hardware Company. Steamboat Schedule- Ocaan Steamship Com ■ pany. Auction- Sale—Horses. Mules, Etc., by Guil martin A Mehrtens. Cheap Column- Advertisements Help Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Kent; For Sale; Lost: Personal; Miscellaneous. Gen. Mahcme and Gen. Goff are two of tno most solitary statesmen in the country. There is but one suitable place in this c untry for a great world’s fair, and that is New York. Will congress sea it in that light? Will congress select New York, Chicago, Washington or St. Louis? This is a fair question, to which the answer will be given in a few days. Before President Harrison gots that $52,500 he ought to be made to earn what he is already getting from Uncle Sam. He isn’t carrying out his contract. Corporal Tanner remarked that the sur plus must go. By tho time congress ad journs there will be no occasion for him to repeat the remark, for thore will bo no surplus. Senator Blair, having delivered the funeral i ration of the defunct Blair educa tional bill, some other senators will make remarks upon it in the next week or two, and then it will be laid to rest. Asa funeral orator Senator Blair takes the cake. Some of the white people of North Caro lina are becoming angry and alarmed be cause so many- colored people are being induced to leave that state, if the em igrant agents will come to some Georgia towns and take away a number of col ored people, nobody will kick. It is said that the Louisiana Lottery Company, foreseeing failure of its attempt to secure a charter in North Dakota, will advance upon Montana, from whose legis lature it expects to draw something other than a blank. Of cuurse it will look for support to the rutnp republican House. Congressman Lodge, of Massachusetts, professes to have discovered that a prece dent for Sneaker Reed’s action in counting a quorum was established iu ISO 7. There are also some people who claim to have dis covered perpetual motion. Mr. Lodge is entitled to have his name enrolled upon the list of such discoverers. Col. James R. Sneed, who was formerly a resident of Savannah and editor of the Savannah Republican, has lost his position in Washington, and will, it is said, make his residence in future in Chicago. Col. Sneed Las held office at Washington since Grant was President, his last office being chief of the loan division of the treasury department. He was one of Cleveland's appointees, and was removed, doubtless, because he is a democrat. Susan B. Anthony, Lillie Deveraux Blake and oter females are again declaring in convention that women in this country should be allowed to vote at ail elections and to hold office. They have made this declaration m convention once a year for a number of years, but the country refuses to chime in. Miss Anthony and ail other un man ied women who believe as she does in this matter of suffrage should compromise by marrying. Then they might vote by proxy. The people of Attiens say that they have bought their last bill of goods from Mr. Wanamaker's variety store, 'this may be amusing to some, but Mr. Wanamaker is not among the number. For years he has had a large trade from thy south, and if the Athens movement should spread through out the south, he would find bis profit., greatly decreased. Why should the south ern people buy gmids from n man who im poses ignorant officials upon them against thoir protests? That Surplus. It is quite evident that the republicans J intend to pc' lid of the surplus, but not in a I way that will benefit the people. There is no very prouii-ing prospect that they will reduce the revenues by reducing the tariff, and thus r. licre t e treasury of its unnec essary acc imiila'.ioiis, but there is a very strong proliabdity that they will distribute the public money so as to strengthen their party and enrich their friends. It h s 1 ecu announced that the next ap propriation fir ponsions will bo many millions of dollars greater than it was last your/ The pens.on attorneys and lobbyists are said to be so numerous in Washington that they are in each others’ way. They all have schemes for helping lhe poor soldiers, but a litt!e inquiry shows that their chief object is to help themselves. If they do not sue -ecd in getting log.slalion from this co gross that will make the annual pension burden at least f 100,000,000 a year keen ob servers at Washington will be greatly dis appointed. The subsidy lobbyists are on hand ia full force. Tho pai-Ain“ricao congress was convened iu the interest of the subsidy scheme, ad, although it has not had tho influe.,ce that it was expected it would, it is being worked in behalf of that scheme. The fact that the Republican party owes its return to power to the free use of money encourages those who have charge of the subsidy movement to b lieve that it can be depended upon to support that movement heartily. The republicans have not shown their purposes ii detail yet, because they have not got the majority in the House that they want. When they have unseated about a dozen democrats, and seated as many re publicans, they will bring forward their schemes, and, with the help of the speaker’s arbitrary rulings, they will put through measure; that will make the surplus look very small iu comparison with the demands upon it. And in distributing the surplus the repub licans will take care that the bulk of it goos where it will do thoir party the most good. They will not waste any of it on their po litical enemies. They realize that the struggle for the control of the next House is going to be an extraordinary one, and they are strengthening themselves in every way they can. According to reports, Washington is over run with all sorts of people, who hope in some way to get a chance at tho surplus. They uuders and that, with the govern ment republican in all its branches, the watch upon the treasury is not a very strict one, and that, with a speaker who is in har mony with tho looters of his party, it is not going to be a difficult matter to got at tho surplus. Merciless Hatton. Ex-Postroaster General Frank Hatton is making l fo something of a burden for the two republican members of the civil service commission. By his attacks upon the com mission in his paper, the Washington Rost, he brought about an investigation of the charges which ho had made against it. One of tho charges is that Commissioner Lyman caught his brother-in-law, an employe of the commission, copying examination papers aid furnishing copies of them to a woman in one of the departments who was prepar ing for an examination for proaiotion, and that instead of dismissing the official who thus proved himself unfit for any position of trust and responsibility he promoted him, and that, too, without requir ing him to undergo the re quired examination for promotion. The evidence that has thus far been taken sus tains the charge, and it would not be at all surprising if Commissioner Lyman were asked to resign. The commissioner is cer tainly guilty of having failed to discharge his duty faithfully. The offending employe would hnve been dismissed from the service promptly, after his offense was discovered, if he had not been the commissioner’s brother-in-law, and it is quite safe to say that he would not have been promoted without an examination if that relation ship had not existed. Mr. Hatton was present when Commis sioner Lyman was on the witness stand, a; and also when Commissioner Roosevelt made his statement. Ho dragged the whole truth from Commissioner Lyman, and forced Commissioner Roosevelt to admit that he had not advised the dismissal of the offending employe, although he had ad vised the dismissal of democrats who had committed offenses before be became a member of the commission. Commis sioner Roosevelt v.-as very much averse to making such admissions, but Mr. Hatton was merciless, and insisted upon having the truth, tho whole truth and nothing but the truth regarding scandals connectod with the commission. If the commission wants the respect of tho country it must be worthy of it. Ju>t as certain as it begins to show favoritism, or attempts to shield wrong-doers, it will bring civil service reform into disrepute, it re quires courage and firmness to fill creditably tho office of a civil service commissioner, and if Commissioners Lyman and Roose velt haven’t these qualities they should be asked to resign at once. There is no doubt that Commissioner Lyman is guilty of shielding his brother-in-law, and with pro moting him without first having him sub jected to the examination for which tho civil service regulations provide; neither is thore any doubt that Commissioner Roose velt took no stops to have the offending official dismissed. If tho President is the friend to civil service reform that he pre tends to be he will ask both of these com missioners to seek employment iu some other field of labor. Matt Davis was good enough to be ad dressed by Judge Emoi-y Speer as “My Dear Matt” when the judge, as an inde pendent candidate for congress, was very anxious to get republican votes, but he isn’t good enough for postmaster of Athens. The people of Athens don’t regard him as highly as Judge Speer seemed to. They want a respectable white man for postmas ter, and their wishes should be gratified, but the administration is proceeding upon the idea that this is a government for, of and by the Republican party, and not the people. The Springfield (Mass.) Union says: “The western farmers will have to content them selves with smaller profits than they have enjoyed heretofore.” This is cheering news to western farmers who are selling corn at 20 cents a bushel, and who are also burning it for fuel. AV'hy doesn’t the House committee on the election of president and vice president call before it some people who could testify as to corrupt republican methods at northern elections* i.s recent wituesses have dealt in fiction; now let us have facts. THE MORNING NEWS: SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 22. 1800. A Word to Georgia Congressmen. There is some ground for believing that the river and harb r c mimittee will report, favorably up u the project to give Savan | nah a channel twenty-six feet deep from her I wharves to tho sea. The arguments that | have boon made before the committee in beha’f of it are ccrtiinly strong enough to justify such a rejsort. And even if the com mittee shout i not report in favor of the project there is no doubt that the Georgia delegation would oxer; itself to the utmost Ito induce congress to approve the project. The growth of Savannah's commerce has Leon s i great within the last ten years that to refu-e to givo her the depth of water in ter harbor that she asks for would be a clear discrimi ation against her. A day or two ago the Senate committee on commerce agreed to rep rt favorably a bill appropriating $8,20.),0 JO to deepen the harbor of Galveston. Thera is no doubt that the river and harbor committee will give to this bill its approval, and that within a year a $0,000,000 improvement will bo begun in Galveston harbor. In the face of the favorable action in behalf of Galveston, whose commerce is not ns great as that of Savannah, it is hardly probable that Sa vannah’s demand for deeper water will be refused. Tue Texas representatives and senators have worked faithfully for Galveston, and they are begining to see the results of thoir efforts. Georgia’s reprosentati ves and sen ators have always been ready to lend Savannah a helping hand, but with the ex ception of Senator Brown and the represen tative from the First district, they have not been as earnest and persistent in Savan nah’s behalf as they might have been. It is not our purpose to find fault with them, but only to show them that thore is room for them to be a little more earnest and active in Savan nah’s behalf. Savannah is the groat port of Got rgia, and in proportion as her hnrbor is improved the state will be benefited. Lower freight rates will follow deeper water in her harbor and lower rates will be of advantage, in one way and another, to at least three-fourths of Georgia's popul ition. liOt the whole Georgia delegation make a strong effort in bohalf of Savannah’s harbor. Where the Blacks Go. There are some facts which show that the blacks are not so much disturbed by alleged unjust treatment in the southern states as their leaders pretend. The other day ex- Congresiman Lynch, a black man from Mississippi, was before a committee of con gress giving what ho said was his experience in elections iu that state. According to his story, the blacks are prevented in several ways from having full effect given to their votes in Mississippi. But why is it that the blacks who are leaving North Carolina, and even South Carolina, by the thousands are settling in Mississippi and Arkansas? More of them are settling in Mississippi than in any other state. It is notorious that the blacks of North Carolina have no occasion to com plain of their treatment. Indeed, the black politicians thore are becoming so independ ent that they recently told the President that they would not support him for re nomination if he did not give more of them offices in Washington. Senator Butler, of South Carolina, being asked the other day, in an interview rela tive to his negro emigration bill, about the movement of the blacks southward, said: “The tendency of the movement of the negroes now is to the alluvial lands of Mississippi, into that stato whore Mr. Ingalis nays they are so much outraged—strange perversity of human nature. The largest exodus so far appears to bo from North Carolina, where, I believe, it is admitted they have more political freedom than else where in the south —another strange break— all going to show how idle aud empty and vapid is this twaddle and talk about out rages by the southern whites upon tho negro.” If the blacks were so badly treated in Mississippi is it reasonable to suppose that they would emigrate from North Carolina to that state? The blacks as a people—those who are industrious, law-abiding and order loving—are not making complaints. Those who are producing all the noise about out rages are politicians who are trying to use the black vote for their own selfish purposes. They want legislation that will enable them to organize tho black voters and get their votes. Let Senator Ingalls explain why the blacks are leaving North Carolina for Mis sissippi. The recent terrible calamity at Secre tary Tracy’s home has set Col. Ernest, the superintendent of public buildings and grounds iu Washington, to thinking, and as a result he has concluded to provide the w hite house with special tire niarm boxes. That is to say, he has induced a Washing ton firm to do so free of charge, although it is not very clear why anybody should be asked to do that sort of thing without being paid for it. The firm will place seve ral boxes in the building. At present several minutes of valuable time would be lost beforo an alarm could be given in case of fire. The white house would be quite an uncomfortable place to bo in with a fire raging, as it is old, the woodwork is very dry, the rafters are not particularly strong, and there would tie excellent opportunity for the tire to get a good start bofore being touched by water. It is stated that the members of the democratic congressional committee are preparing for au active oamnaigu. The fact that they are preparing thus early is encouraging, and it shows that the arbi trary and unjust course pursued by Speaker Reed and the republican members of the House has aroused them to prompt aud vigorous action. The republicans may pass all of the partisan laws they please, but they can hardly prevent the next c in gress from being democratic. Toe people see that a republican congress is not to be trusted. Mr. James Whitcomb Rilej\ the Hoosier poet, seems to have been unfairly treated by Bill Nye, who dissolved their literary partnership and proceeded to abuse him for being a drunkard ami a sot. Mr. Riley takes more firewater into his system than he needs, but he didn’t deserve the abuse heaped upon him. His answer to Nye’s charges was earnest aud dignified, and his recent resolution to show himself worthy of the respect of the people added force to his statements. The report is current that Elihu Root, one of the most prominent of New York re publicans, lias decided to become a demo crat. and a member of Tammany Society. Mr. Root has thrown away much valuable time as a republican, but if he will come into tho democratic ranks and work with all his might for the people ho may yet feel that he has lived to some purpose. CURRENT COMMENZ Divine Help Needed. From the New York Tinea (fnd.). When that devout and candid republican, “C >rp ral” Tenner. off r* 1 n.> hi* f.* nous pe tition, “God help the surplus'' he could hardly hv 7 realized how soon an. h“w sorely divine an! would be needed in tha* 'iireetion. Where to Be^ir. Fro),i the Philadelphia Record (DemX President Harris >n and Attorney General Miller -ay the law shall enforced in Florida. T hft first step in this dir ction should be the r*m >val of the federal officials who have per verted the laws to the worst partisan ends. Mighty Moan Politics. From the Boston Globe iDcmX Tf Senator Hoar’s ears ar - not made of asbes tos they must burn with the indignant com ments that havel>een made on iiis bill to inter fere with the rignts of a:l tho states in order to prevent the domocratic le ri-datureof Ohio from on loing the rep u olican gerrymander. It was rr.ignty mean politics for the successor of Web ster and Sumner to be engaged in. Burying a Dead Bill. From the Xeio York Herald ( Ind.). Senator Blair ia takiug needless pains to talk his own bi.l to death. It is as gooiasdeai already. Several southern senators nave sensi bly changed their minds ab *ut it, and will vote against it. The/ might not suffice to kill it, but Home northern senators aud representatives feel themselves put in au awkward position by the pjre nptory demands of the two colored conventions recently hel l that the republicans shad pass the bid. Tn*y do not like to saem to be coerced by conventions, especially when they see that the Blair schems is losing ground. BRI3HT BITS. Iv America every man has a right to his own opinion, but nobouy who has an opinion seems to recognize that right except as to himself.— Me i cha n t Travele r. “I am something of a wit myself at times,” said a stupid man to a wag. “Just as a bright man has an occasional dull period,” was the repl y.—Texas Siftings. Not Dealing in Futures.—(At the perfume counter) clerk (nanding out a bottle)—This, mada n, is the “Sweet By and-by.” Lady (smelling it)—Umpb! It maybe sweet by aud-bv, but it’s awf,d now.—Harper's Bazar. Siie Was Right.—Mabel—Did you hear that Bessie Willis was married yesterday to Tom Guzzler? Maud—Really? I thought she would bo the last person to marry him. Mab I—Well, sue was, wasn’t sho?— Harvard Lampoon. By actual count, 162 republicanJnswspaper3 have said that the sp * tker of the House is not a R *ed shaken by the wind, and 147 democratic papers havosaid that the republicans will find that they are leaning on a broken Reed before the session is ever. Both jokes are very funny. Nashville American. ‘Tm afraid,*’ said Ethel, “that Harold’s now situation at the caDiiol is having a bad effect on him.’’ “Do you mean the young man who didn’t go away till after 12 oY.oc* last night?” “Ye ; be makes so many motions to adjourn and then doesn’t.' 1 — Washington Post. Mistress (kindly)— Jaue, I hear you have been s en in the park with my husoand. Jvine (defiantly)—Yes, ma’am; I have. Mistress (still more Kindly)—Well, June, you are a good iri, and I to lose you, but I cannot have any one at* utthe house who keeps bad company. —New Haven Nutmeg. She—l can’t imagine what makes our naughty parrot swear sol He—Wasn’t lie brou rht up in bad c )tnpany ? Sue—No, indeed! We got hirn from a mis sionary, and he has lived in my own parlor ever since—except for a lew days after the donation party, wneu he was in papa's study.— Brouk.ya b ree Press. A church choir in n neighboring town a few Sundays ago were singing “A Charge to Keep 1 Have” to the music • f the “Prima Donna Waltz.'* A lady, observing that a stranger in her pew hail no hymn book, politely hande 1 him one. “Thanks,” said the genth inm, with great suavity, “1 seldom use a libretto!”— Boston Saturday Evening Gazette. A Precocious Youngster.—Teacher (to class in grammar j—in tue sentence, “The j mis guided wretch was taken to prison,” what part of speech is “poor?” Johnny Biiven’s hand is raised. Johnny may answer. Johnny Biivens—“Poor” is an unneessary word, mom. There ain’t any rich misguided wretches ever* taken to prison.— Chicago Trib une. She Can't Miss It.— A woman may be very ill, and fill her friends witu fear; The doctor even may declare that death is draw iug near. But just let there be advertised a milliner’s display Of new spring hats, she’ll fool them all, and go down town that day. —Chicago Herald. “Can you tell me—?” he queried as he en tered the city hall—“can you inform me—?” “What is it?” ‘ Upon my soul, but I have forgotten what I wanted to inquire for. Well, never mind.” He toiled siowiy up two pairs of stairs and was resting after his asceut, when he suddenly slapped his ieg and exclaimed: “ave got it! 1 wanted to ask him where the elevator was!”— Detroit tree Press. PER3ONAL. Gen. Rodriguez Arias has been appointed captnm-goneral of Cuba. Gen. Adam King’s leading rival for the con sul-generalsnip at Paris is Gen. Mahone. Jay Gould is reported to have been taken in to tue extent of in a recent deal in Richmond Teriniual. Albert K. Hiscock, son of Senator Hiscock, is about to 1 tavj Syracuse, N. Y. t to engage in real estate business at Tacoma, Wash. Baron Lamixoton, whose death is announced at tue age of .4. was father of tae Countess of D iaware and Marcuioness Francesco Mobile Vitileschi. No man who sits within the precincts of the House if congre s loves sherry and egg before breakfast bevier than Congressman Amos J, Cummiugs. John Stephenson, the street-car builder, is seriouslv ill at nis home in Harlem, lie is 81 years of age. He built three-fourths of all tho stivet cars in the Un.ted States. 1. 1 Hung Chang, the progressive Chinese vice roy, has it is announced, obtained the assent of the premier (the emperor's father) to the intro duction of asys cm o t silver coinage into China. Admiral Sir P. W. P. Wallis, who is nearly 99 years old, is the oldest Hag officer on the active i.st of tho British navy, and not unlikely the eldest officer in any naval service ut this time. The late Sultan of Zanzibar was a peculiar mixture of cleverness, treachery, progrcssive ness, and barbarity. Ho always pretended to be friendly to Europeans, but he was not to be trusted. Dr. Kino, an American lady, who is physician to tho family of Count Li, at Shanghai, has greatly incr ased her reputation tueieby tue successful performance of a delicate surgical operation. Senator Vest is much disappointed because King Kalakua, of the Sandwicn Islands, did not spend this winter iu Washington, as ho had planned. Senator Vest dearly loves a famous po*er-player. Mrs. Reginald De Koven, Senator Farwell’s daughter, is one of the pretty woman of Chi cago. She is a little above medium height, slender and graceful. She has considerable li.erary ability. Robert Louis Stevenson has bought a plan tation of 400 or 690 acres near Apia, where he intends to make his future home, lie finds the climate of Samoa to be betu r for his health than any other place he has visited. Sig. Salvini will leave this country with the record of having made fewer acquainta: ces here than any foreign actor who lias ever passed many months on our soil. This is the more |>eculiar as Salvini is very social by nature. Howard Crosby Warren of Montclair, N. J., who was graduated from Princetou with the class of 1839, and has since his graduation held tin* Chancellor Green fellows.lip in mental science, lias neon appointed assistant instructor in logic at the college. Prof. Frank Stouch, a dancing master of Berks county. Pa., is 84 years of age, and has been a teacher of dancing for fifty-four years of his life and is till at it. conducting his classes as successfully as he did thirty or forty years ago. lie now''has seven classes in Keadiug and Lebanou, w ith 150 pupils, and during his career has tuugot over 2 ;,(XX> young people the mys tery aud art of dancing. HOHSFOHD’B ACID PHOSPHATE For Wakefulness, Hysteria and other diseases of the nervous ayatotn. A Shart> Vinriaia Farmer. From th+ New York Tribune. ConETcssmsn Paul Edmunds of is a new member. When the arstand n<com mittees of tue Hou/te wet a being from the c era’s desk in December Le kept wonder in? wuei-e he would be plac and. iiein* a democrat he had do right to expect much, and iLdT ordinary circuiiista tees he wau’d not have been and Cotnmitree after committee ha 1 biOfi a mounced, ani Mr. Edmunds began to think taat ne wasn't going to get any assign mem and that, his name had been lost in me snuffle. Finally thi clerk earns to the com mittee on revision o r ' the laws, and the name of t.ie new member from the Lynchburg district of v irgiMa was read out n“ar the bottom of the list. He then listen and att nlively for the balance oi the Coxn.mtte s, uopiug tuat *ue night get an other assignment more congenial to his taste and a -'iuirements, as Mr. Edmunds is a life long farmer by occupation, aud says he and >esn't Miuwtne firot rudiments of law. Bui he got nothing else, and the members of his delega tion have been joking with him a good deal by asking how mauy laws he has revised up to the present time. • ot until a few days ago did Farmer Edmunds meet 6|>ea er Reed. He did not have a formal introduction, but simply met the Maine states man in the lobby of the House, and said to him: ** ani Mr. Edmunds cf Virg.uia, *1 r. Spaaker. I would like to know how you happened to put a farmer like myself ou a committee to revise the laws. 1 know nothing about law. Why, I’ve been a fanner all my life. However, lean go back to my people and tell them that a republi can speaker p it me on a committee purposely to prevent rne from doing anything for the .reat cause of agriculture. You have done me a ser vice. and 1 ought probably to thank you. I got •MHO majority in 1888, aud I ought to have 5,0u0 majority t .is year.” ‘‘Really,” said Speaker Re‘d, “I had so much worry in fixing up our own side that many dfinoerats had to be put on any committee that had room for one more man. During my first term in congress I was placed on the committee on territories, and I pledge you m> r word that I would not have known a territory if I had met one on the avenue.*’ The sj*eaker and Farmer Edmunds had a very satisfactory talk together, and Mr. Reed was so please i with the genial Virginian that he hunted up Congressman “Ha rry" Tucker and asked him to tell him more about “that rare old fellow, * as he styled Farmer Edmunds. The latter resembles ex-(iov. Fit/ Hugh Lee of Vir ginia, and is frequently mistaken for that gen tleman. His Clothes Didn't Fit. From the New York Times. A group of well-dressed and prosperous-look ing business men sat about a table in a famous down-town restaurant after luncheon a few days ago, chatting on ah sorts of topics and watching the smoke rings from theircigars float up to the frescoed ceiling. The couv rsation di ifted after a time into tales of business sue ct*ss, aud the eulest an i most impost nr member of the party did his part by telling this story: I owe my present prosperity," be began, “to the fact that when I was a luc y youth of 17 my clothes did not fit me. To be more explicit, 1 was at tnat ace in dreadfully hard luck My p ople were dead, I hadn't a friend that I could turn to. I was able to make but $6 a week, and was half starved in consequence, and my one suit (a cheap John rig) had shrunk until the lower edge of my vest an i the band of my trousers were absoiuteiy divorced "One Sunday morning in December I was trudging along Sixth avenue, principally b■- cause my room was even more comfortless'than the streets, and I remember how 1 was railing and repining at everything and everybody’. I was passionately fond of music, and I went into the firs church I came to, attracted solely, I must confess, by the thought of the warmth and harmony I would find. •1 was too bashful then to sit still while the rest of the congregation stood, so 1 got up every time they did, and as my vest and trousers were, as 1 told you before, not on speaking terms, 1 was forced to lean forward in a most rever ential manner to hide my zone of shirt front As 11 1 rnedto go out at the close of the service aa old gentleman behind me slipped a card into my hand and said: *f like to see reverence in a young man. You look as if you were hiving a hard time of it. Come aud see me to-mor row. I may help you.' “I went and got a good berth in his employ and from th it time I worked myself to com parative wealth. Queer, isn’t it?” Birthdays. From the Philadelphia Timet , I am content To let the added years That come to me, Roll baeK into the past so far That memory Can only find along the shore Borne perfect shells and nothing moie. I am content That seaweed, bits of wreck, And pebbles gray. Drift out of sight iuto the sea. For them to stay Would be to cherish grief and pain I would not, must not, feel again. I am content That none of life Can ever be Lived o'er with self same throb and thrill: No more to me ’ Will former song, or book or toy, Fill the measure of my joy. I am content To live all of to-day; And when I dream Let fancy revel in the light That hope had seen Beyond the present, and afar, A steadfast, Sweetly-beck’ning Btar. I am content— For age upon the heart Can never creep; And when, at last, in stillest night I seem to sleep, A birthday comes to me in truth; The gift it brings—immortal youth. Mr. Flower’s Rash Promise. Congressman “Billy” Mason was telling sto ries yesterday to a group of laughing listeners says the Washington Post, when Thomas Jeffer son Clunie. the new member from San Fran ci co, came up. “You are from Chicago, are you not?” said he to Mason. “Yes," Mason replied. “And want the world’s fair there?” “Yes, and we are going to get it, too.” “Well, this hand," said Clunie, impressively as he extended his right, "never took a brio ■’ but ofthiv one,” sail he, holding out his left "I have 1 ost control." i When the laugh was over Mason told this story on Clunie: “Roswell P. Flower was entertained in San Francisco last year by Clunie. who made him pro rise to help him in any scheme he might have in congress. At a club banquet given in Mr. Flower's honor one night Mr. Clunie said that Mr. Flower had promised privately to do anything he wanted, and now he wanted him to make the promise publicly. Mr. Flower laug i ingly did, and he is now embarrassed by Mr Chinie’s modest request for him to vote for Chicago fortim world's fair. Clunie is in earnest about it, too." Love’s Tactics. From the Boston Courier, Miss Hurryup—Ah! George, you cannot tell what troubles a girl has who is receiving the attentions of a gentleman. Mr. Holdoff—Troubles, Carrie? Ot what nature, pray? Miss H.—Well, one's little brothers are always making fun of one, and one's relatives are always saying, “Whin is it to come off?” as if marriage were a prize fight. But that is not the worst. There’s the inqu sitiveness of one’s parents. They want to know everything. There's pa, now; he Is constantly asking sues questions as: “Carrie, what are Mr. HoMoff's intentions? What does he call upon you so regularly for and stay so late when ho does call?” And he sometimes looks so mad when he asks these questions that I actually tremule. Mr. H.—And what answer do you make to his questions, Carrie, dearest? Miss H—l can t make any answer at all, for you see. you haven’t said anything to mu and— aud—of course I—l Then Mr. Holdoff whispered something In Carrie's ear, and the next time her fatner ques tions her she will be ready with a satisfactory reply. The New Order of Things, From the New York Star. “I make it a rule." said a friend to me. “to buy stamped envelopes in packages at the post office. Yesterday I went to the window on the easterly side of the postoffice, and, as usual, said: ‘Give me a package of two-ceut stamped envelopes, please.' " ‘Wmat kind do you wish?’ said the young man. “ Same kind—usual kind,’ said I. “ ‘ Well, sir.' said he, very politely, ’wo have a very nice thing in the way of stamped envelopes which’— “’Good gracious" I exclaimed, ’has Wana maker and his bargain counter phrases perco lated down to the stamp window?’ The young man didn’tseem to see he was doing the bar gain counter act. Hedid it unconsciously; such is the power of exa npie aiiAtlie strength of imitativeness iu human naturi” If you want to enjoy vour arnU strengthen your digestion with himiiuK* Liver Hcgu. later. , ITEMS OF INTEREST. The Dcchess or Albant, widow of Prince Leopold, has just received her diploma as a hos pital nurse, after taking the regular course and standing the usual cxauiination. At Beloit, O . a tramp jumped from a slowly moving freig it train, seized a gold-headed cane that was standing at the door of a residence, got back on the train and went Ims way. The French government proposes to cele brate the twentieth anniversary of the estab lishment of the republic on Sept. 4 in an extra ordinary style at Paris, Bordeaux, Lyons, and Marseilles. The bloodhocnti at the New York dog show which has the distinction of pretending to hunt ’Mack the Kipper," received a good deal of at tention. His wrinkled face, long ears and solemn-looking mug. had a 1 of the light an and agile points of a British detective's counte nance. CorxT Gleichen of London has been writing his impressions of New York. He found only one thing which London could copy to advan tage. and that is th • cab driver’s fashion of blanketing his horse wueu tue animal is stand ing in the cold. In other things he thinks New Tors much behind European cities. The Naples correspondent of the London Telegraph says of the Buffalo Bill’s show at that place: "Col. Cody is thinking of taking his Indians up Mount Vesuvius some moon light nigat and giving them a war dance round the crat r. These ludiuis have never seen a volcano, though they have heard of such as places whore tue devil keeps up his fires.” Amoxo the delicacies which graced Queen Victoria’s table at Christmas was a turtle 100 years of age, which had been brought from the Ascension Island a week previously by the gov ernment cruis r Wye, bo thoroughly did her majsity enjoy the soup produced from the fat of the reptile that the Wye has just been despatched to Ascension, a distance of many thousand miles, for a further supply of turtles. Coblenz, the favorite resid nee of the late Empress Augusta, benefits by her will in the sum of SG,OoO, most of which is to be applied to the improvement of the river front, an improve ment which it certainly needs. The empress has left a collection of correspondence, and this may, at some future time, be published as sup plementary to her memoirs, the manuscript of which was a few days ago delivered to the em peror. Her majesty, it is found, has carefully preserved letters from many literary and scien tific celebrities on whose behalf she more than once grew almost enthusiastic. What an immense amount of wealth has been accumulated by the Hebrew citizens of New York: says the New York Star. The other evening at the silver wedding of Joseph C. Levi, at his handsome residence on Ninety-first street, I saw an example of it. Of the hundred guests present, but a quarter wpre of Gentile origin: the remainder were relatives or friends of the hist. Nearly every individual of the latter class is well known in the mercantile world, and is rated from $50,000 to $1,000,000. The combined wealth of the company present, ex cluding the Gentiles, did not fall beiow $25,- 000,000. Among the pictures which belonged to Wilkie Collins, and which are to be sold at Christie’s on Saturday, is a veritable gem. This is a view of the Bay of Naples, by William Collins, in which the pamtingof a deep biuo sea is posi tively perfect. Th s little picture excited the rapturous admiration of the late Sir Rooert Peel, who made a fabulous offer for it to the artist, who was his intimate friend, but Mr. Collins declared that he would keep for himself the best picture in that line that he had ever paint ‘d, and afterward refused another most tempting bid from that fine judge, the late Jacob Bell. The statistics of visitors to the Grand hotel, Paris, during the exhibition year 18S9 are inter esting reading. An extract from the books of the immense host dery on tne Boulevard des Capueines shows that during the grande annee 37,912 visitors stayed in the house. Of the e 13.255 were French, 9, 41 English. 8.108 Belgians and 2,303 citizens of the United States. The Germans, strange to say, stand at the top of the other six nationalities with 1.912. A corre sponding return of the "cheap trippers” would no doubt give an equal preponderance of En glish visitors of this class over all other na tions. The inventive genius of this country seems never to sleep. The two latest ideas apply to the decoration of walls. One stamps out great sheets of metal, which can be either polished, hammered or grained, and which, according to the customer’s fancy, may bo made to resemble copper, bronze, red gold, silver or brass. It is fire proof, water proof, insect and rat proof. The other makes a wall covering of burnished and faceted steel. The metal is one of the new iron alloys, and neither rusts nor discolors. One form is almost perfect lace work, while another resembles the Milanese armor of the sixteenth century. It is hard to say which of the two systems produces the most striking results. I was talking with a lawyer last night about the profits of contractors on public work, says a writer in 1 1© New York Press, when he said: “If the public knew what profits are made by contractors there would be a big revolt against the present system of letting bids. Asa rule there is a combination or conspiracy among the bidders, by which, in any event, the public gets the worst of any bargain made. lam engaged just at this time in prosecuting a suit against contractors w-ho had much to do with the new aqueduct. The suit relates to another job done by rhem in a different location. Let us say that tne total amount of the contract was $1,40 ,- OK). The evidence shows that on that amount they made a profit of $600,000. Of course, they could not make so lar e a sum without collusion wit h the engineers and superintendents and in spectors of the work, but the evidence shows that this collusion cost a mere trifle, not SIO,O K> all told. Tfie affair will all come out in a few days. ’’ A dispatch from Kingston, Ont,, says Prof. Greene of the Deaf and Dumb Institute at Belle ville, Ont., who died Tuesday, was the first mm to whom the “Ohatauqua salute” was given. "Unable to speak a word,” said to-day Bishop Vincent, who was there, “by gesticulations most graceful, by i eautiful and rarely eloqu-nt facial expressions, he gave us a series of inci dents from Bible history, and did his work so well that the people were enraptured. When he was through they applaud and" in the usual way and it occ irred to me that a deae man would not be profited by the clapping of hands and I proposed bringing out our hand kerchiefs to wave ns testimonials to his eloquence. About 3,000 handkerchiefs were made ready for the signal, and when I gav • the word they flew into the sunny air of that ba.utiful day,'and tears came to the eyes of the min f>r whom tne demonstration was intended. Since then at Chautauqua when we have a particularly dumb man we give him the Chautauqua salute.” Rebecca W. Taylor, widow of the late Joseph Taylor and mother of the distinguished poet, author and diplomat, Bay-ard Taylor, died at her home in Pennsylvania, at 1 o’clock Tuesday morning, after a short illness. The deceased was born at Wagontown, Chester county, Penn sylvania, of English and German parentage, Oct. 13. 1799; consequently she was in her ill si year. In IHIS she married Joseph Taylor and moved to Kenuett Square, where she has re sided ever since, c elebrating in 1868 their golden wedding. Here her family of children was reared, and by her thorough unselfishness, purity of character and obliging disposition she has alwtiya been a great favorite in the commu nity, and was known aud held in veneration by most of the citizens as "Aunt Rebecca.” She always had a friendiy greeting for her legion of friends and admirers. and the citizens of Kennett, as well as in other parts of the world, will learn with deepest re gret of her death. During her long and active life she newer had any severe sickness, being very active, both mentally and physically. She has been a sufferer from rheumatic affliction for the past twenty years, which has coufined her to a chair for a long time, but she has been bright and cheerful under her atiliction. Sue was the mother of eleven children, six of whom grew to manhood and womanhood and attained considerable distinc.ioD, especially Bayard, who died while acting as United States m'inister to Germany. Another. Col. 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