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She is not only the mistress of the white
home, but also a sensible, kind-hearted
woman.
The political movement of the South
Carolina farmers aff >rds considerable
pleasure to the republican organs. They
generally refer to it in a gleeful sort of
way as the “revolt of the fanners agains t
the democratic ring.”
A committee of faith curists in Brooklyn
callod upon the coroner the other day, and
told him that hereafter they would em
ploy physicians in cases of sickness. Tlmy
were induced to take this cou 'se because
they were threatened with legal action.
The News and Advertiser of Albany is
showing vigor and enterprise. Its issue
next Sunday will be twelve pages, a id will
be largely devoted to the interests of the
Georgia Chautauqua, tho second anuual
Bession of which begins in Albany March 23.
The Willaooochee (Ga.) News is a bright
and newsy paper, and as it deserves liberal
patronage, it is no doubt receiving it. Mr.*
Pafford, the editor, understands his duties,
and is performing them in a way calculated
to bring his paper into general notice in
his part of the state.
A movement has been started for the re
lief of old Mrs. Babbitt, who was recently
turned out of her home by the widow of
Millionaire Babbitt. It is proposed to buy
the borne for her. The millionaire's widow
ought to feel very badly over her cruel ac
tion, but it is very doubtful if she does.
The Rev. Heard is still on the rampage
in Pennsylvania. The Rev. Heard was on
the rampage in Elbert county, Georgia,
several years ago, and he showed himself to
be unworthy of the respect of either white
or colored people. He seems to be quite
popular with the republican press of the
Keystone state.
Edmund Yates charges the death of
young Abraham Lincoln upon Parisian
surgery. He says that an imprudent aud
unsuccessful operation by a Paris surgeou
made other operations necessary, and that
the patient sank under the attendant ex
haustion. It will be noticed, however, that
Miuister Lincoln doesn’t make any such
charge.
Ex-Secretary Whitney again states that
he Is not a presidential candidate, and that
he will not be, under any circumstances. He
wouldn’t refuse the nomination, however
He doesn’t say so, but it may he positively
stated that he wouldn’t; and It may also be
said that he is not very likely to have the
chance, for the people are clamoring for
Mr. Cleveland.
The statement was widely circulated sev
eral years ago that Charles H. Reed, who
was Guiteau’s lawyer, bad committed sui
cide, and it was remarked that a blight
seemed to strike everybody who was con
nected with Guiteau s case. Reed, however,
isn’t dead. He tried to commit suicide iu
New York Rod failed, and now he is making
a poor sort of living lu some other city.
The Houston (Tea.) Post calls Rev. Bam
Jones 'that revarend slang (linger." Mr.
Jcma sometimes umm slang, au l h doesn't
always emprea Ids thoughts according to
the rules of grammar, hut he I- .juite capa
ble of using the most vl.a.tc Euglub, ►
those Who have been accustom and Vo hearing
him preach know very well. He sometimes
hsw to come down to the level of his cmgre
gttL'.u.
Republican Extravagance.
There are two strong reasons for think
ing that a bill re hieing the tariff will n-t
be passed at this session of congress. One
is that the republicans cannot agree upon a
bill, and the other is that the republicans
propose to pass bills that will not only use
up all the surplus, but will. In all proba
bility, creat- a deficiency. A few days ago
Representative Peters, of Kansis, made a
statement on the floor of the House which
created a doubt whether the revenues
would meet the expenditures during tho
next fiscal year. Ho is a republican an 1 a
member of the committee on appropria
tions, and would hardly havo made a state
ment of that kind if ho had not boeu thor
oughly convinced of its accuracy, liecause
he knew that it would tend to injure his
party.
A day or two ago ex-Speakor Carlisle
said the outlook for a deficiency in the next
fiscal year was very promising. The total
receipts from the revenues will be about
$>85,000,000, and the appropriations that
must bo made, including those for rivers
and harbors, can hardly fall below that
amount. Indeed, it is thought by those who
are well informed that they will go much
above it.
It is expected that the bill repealing the
limitations clause m tho law granting ar
rearagos of [tensions will require the pay
ment of $471,000,000. The grand army
service pension bill also is on tho calendar,
and if it should become a law it would add
$144,000,000 to tho pension burden. It is
proposed to give to ex-union veterans who
were confined in prison during the war
$3 for every day of their imprisonment. If
this proposition should be carried into effect,
it would take $10,000,000 out of the treasury
at once. The dependent pension bill is also
a popular measure, and if it were to become
a law it would require $50,000,000 a year to
satisfy its requirements. There are several
other pension bills pending, the passage of
each of which would necessitate the pay
ment of very large sums.
In view of proposed legislation of this
kind there does not Beera to be much of a
chance for appropriations for coast de
fenses, for new war ships or for subsidies to
steamships. In fact, one of the reasons for
the growing hostility in congress to the
Biair educational bill is the want of money
to meet the financial obligations which it
would c: eate.
Of course, all of the pending pension bills
will not be passed, but there is no doubt
that one or more of them will, and the con
sequence will be that congress will have to
begin to think of ways for increasing
instead of reducing the revenues.
If the people could have a, chance to be
heard fully and fairly, they would doubt
less decide that there should be
a halt in the granting of
pensions. Already the pension burden
amounts to $100,1X10,000 a year. The Re
publican party, however, is determined to
leave no means untried to control the sol
dier vote. That is a matter, in its estima
tion, of far more consequence than an
economical administration of the govern
ment. It is willing to commit any extrav
agance to retain power, and it may be
expected, therefore, that the appropriations
for the next fiscal year will exceed the
estimated revenues.
Why didiUt Postmaster General Waua
maker come south? Ho said last week that
he wouldn’t come because he was afraid
the southern people would make his visit
unpleasant to him. The Washington cor
respondent of the Baltimore American, a
republican newspaper, says: “The Post
master Gewral said to-day that he had not
changed ha mind since making the state
ments printed last week.” Did Mr. Wuna
maker want to receive an ovation in the
south? Did he expect southern people to
break their necks in an endeavor to do him
honor? And did he stay away because he
heard that they were not going to do any
thing like that? He must be a very con
ceited man.
According to “the pale young man” of
the Pocket fainilj-, in one of Dickens’ works,
the younger members of that interesting
family were greatly inclined to marriage,
“as the children of not exactly suitable mar
riages always are.” Such seems to be the
case wiih the girls of the Pettigrew house
hold of Chattanooga. One day last week
Miss Kate, aged 16 years, ran off and became
Mrs. Richardson, and four days later Miss
Mamie, aged 13 years, eloped with and mar
ried Walter Craft, who is 19 years old. The
mother of these matrimonially inclined girls
wanted to appeal to tho courts in the lost
named case, hut she found that the laws of
Tennessee permitted a boy of 14 or a girl of
12 to marry.
Mr. Cate, the Arkansas democrat who
was unjustly deprived of his seat iu congross
the other day, speaking of the political
outlook, says that the republicans will con
tinue to unjustly unseat democrats; that
they will soon make the surplus a matter of
hist ry; that the Blair educational bill will
hardly become a law, and that a strong
effort will be made to pass a federal election
bill. The effect of these things, ha says,
will be that the democrats will make large
gains in the northern and northwestern
states at the next election, and that the
solid south will remain unbroken. Mr.
Cate seems to have a level head.
Among the funny things in the republi
can newspapers of Philadelphia are such
as the following: “If ex-Senator Wal
lace enters tho race for the democratic
nomination for governor of Pennsylvania,
he must first show a permit from ex-Ccm
gressman Scott.” Urn would suppose from
this that the Philadelphia republican press
was strongly opposed to political bossism,
and yet S lhator Quay has the Republican
party of Pennsylvania in one of his pockets,
and he does what he pleases with it, and,
furthermore, the republican organs of
Philadelphia submit tamely to his dicta
tions.
Mayor Grant, of New York, has received
a letter from Virginia, offering to sell to
New York the house in which George Wash
ington spent the early part of his life. The
house, with about 1,000 feet of ground, is in
a desirable part of Fredericksburg, and is
offered for sale, partly because the present
occupant and owner intends to move soon.
The writer of tbe letter suggests that it
would be an attraction for a world’s fair,
if one is held iu 1803, and be says that he
would prefer to sell it to New York rather
than to Chicago.
President Harrison has lieeu appealed to
frequently to withdraw tbe nomination of
United States Marshal Mi/.jIJ, and it is said
tutu sot no of the app ala have been from re
publicans. He has apparently paid uo atten
tion to them, aud Musell lut only retains his
office, but bos gone lute the business of
apparently furnishing southern outrage
stories iu a sort of official capacity.
THE MORNING NEWS: FRIDAY, MARCH 14, 1890.
A Section Pregnant with Surprises.
South Georgia is making remarkable
progre s. There are surprises in store for
i those who are not acquainted with the re
-1 sources of that section. The immense tracts
| of pine forest, the products of which have
, made Savannah the leading naval stores
market of the world, and which have con
tributed so largely to the building up of
Brunswick and Darien, are only a single
item of its natural wealth.
Every year the early fruit and vegetable
crops become more important, and the fame
of the Georgia watermelon has spread all
over the land. But these are merely some
of the trifles that make up the total. The
soil, most unpromising in appearance in the
interior counties of South Georgia, responds
gratefully to cultivation. Not only the
staple farm products thrive, but small
fruits grow to perfection. The crop3 grown
by the late Primus Jones in Baker county
furnish an illustration of the possibilities of
cotton culture in that section.
The noted LeConte pear was first intro
duced into this country by a farmer of
Thomas county and grows to greater per
fection in South Georgia than anywhere
else.
The culture of tobacco has been success
fully tried in the northern counties in Flor
ida, notably in Leon and Gadsden. An ex
cellent quality of tobacco for cigars is
grown from Havana seed. Large returns
have been received for the outlay in those
counties, and there is no reason why tobacco
could not be grown just as successfully in
the adjoining Georgia counties, Thomas
and Decatur, where the conditions of soil
and climate are the same.
South Georgia is the natural home of the
peanut, the sweet potato and sugar
cane. At present sugar cane is cultivated
mostly for home use, but it has been repeat
edly demonstrated that it can be grown
with profit.
One thing that will be of no small im
portance in connection with the future of
South Georgia is that its further develop
meus will be effected by white men. While
colored people are numerous in the more
populous counties, its future population
will be largely white. The black man is
not a pioneer. He follows, but doei not
lead in tho work of development.
The farmers follow close on the heels of
the turpentine and lumber men, and long
before the wealth of the pine forests is ex
hausted far greater wealth will have boen
created by patient husbandry.
Last year the Georgia Southern and
Florida railroad was completed, and this
year will witness the completion of the Sa
vannah, Americus and Montgomery arid
the Savannah and Western, making in all
more than 300 miles of new railway line
through virgin territory. Capitalists do
not put money in railway lines unless they
expect to reap profit from their investments,
and the construction of these roads fur
nishes a strong indication of the future
possibilities of South Georgia.
Booth, it is said, was much annoyed while
in Baltimore recently by requests of young
ladies to form his acquaintance. Almost
every day a dozen or more sentimental
young things came to his hotel and requested
an introduction. He resolved to give them
a wholesome lecture, and one day a card
was handed him, bearing tbe names of two
girls. He sent word that he would see
them in the parlor, and with stately step
and dignified countenance he walked into
that room. “In what way can I serve
you?’ he asked the giddy girls. “Oh!” said
one of them, “We saw you at the play last
night, and came to form your acquaint
ance.” Drawing himself up to his full hight,
Booth reminded them cf the indiscretion
and danger attending tho pursuit of actors,
and, looking at their cards, he said he knew
the names thereon were assumed. “If I
knew your right names,” he said, “I should
certainly inform your parents.” He wasn’t
again annoyed by young lady visitors.
When Birchall, the supposed murderer of
Be iwell, was masquerading in Philadelphia
in 1885 as an English nobleman under the
name of Lord Somerset, he fooled the
sleepy and silly Philadelphians completely,
from all accounts, and cut a very wide
swath. He was a social lion. He was ban
queted and petted by the elite, and no social
event was considered altogether complete
unless be was present. There was an air of
aristocracy about him, or his assumed name,
that appealed very strongly to Philadel
phians, and on the strength of it a number
of the Philadelphia imitators of English
dudes lent him money. They never
got it back, and when they found that they
bad not only lost it, but had been gulled by
him, there was quite a little scene among
them. It is hardly to be wondered at that
bogus lords sometimes visit this country,
when it is remembered how anxious many
Americans are to lick the boots of a man
who has a title.
Editor Murat Halstead has turned his
tongue loose again. Every time he does so
ho says something either malicious or silly,
aud frequently both, Ha thinks that Okla
homa ought to be made a negro state and
admitted, with Idaho and Wyoming, to
help the Republican party. "If this is
done,” he says, “New York city and the
southern confederacy will not be able'to
elect a democratic President.” Halstead
really seems to be trying to make himself as
ridiculous as Elliott F. Shepard is.
Congressman Boutelle, of Maine, has
“soured” on the President, who, it seems,
appointed the congressman’s bitterest enemy
census supervisor for his district, and this
supervisor is appointing aati-Bmtelle enu
merators. Cap’ll Boutelle says that if Har
rison is renominated he won’t get up iu the
middle of the night to fill appointments to
speak for him. It is rather thought that
he will do all he can to prevent him from
being renominated.
James D. Brady, whose nomination as a
revenue collector for Virginia will soon be
confirmed, after considerable delay, is tho
man who got tbe appointment as a reward
for trying to bring the Wise faction into
the Maliouo camp during tbe last Virginia
campaign. Brady was a Wise follower.
The cause of the delay in a favorable report
on bis appointment may tie the inability of
the republican members of tbe committee
to see what good he did Mabone; but they
at last decided that be was eutitled to be re
warded, as he did the best he could.
Mr. Amos J. Cummings, in an article in
the New York Sun, on me übors of the
House of Representatives, says that Mr.
Itester worthily represents the queen city
of the Hm< b Atlantic coast. Col. Lester it
popular with bis feliot* members.
The (Southern Baptist convention, which
will me t in Fort Worth, Tex., next May,
I will represent more than 2,000,01*, Baptists,
j Fort Wortu is making extensive prepare-
I lions tv entertain tbe delegates.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
An English naval officer has invented a pneu
matic line-throwing gun, very light and porta
ble, which fires a hollow shell, bearing the cord
to wrecked vessels, or into a burning building on
dry land.
In a library in Paris, the largest in the world,
is a Chinese chart of tbe heavens made about
600 years before Christ. In tbis chart 1.460 stars
are found to be correctly inserted, as corrobo
rated by the scientists of the present day.
Whisky and tomato ea tsup have caused
trouble. The former is alleged to have wrecked
Cashier Pope of Louisville, who levanted with
$60,000. and the latter is the moving cause of a
divorce suit in the McCann case in Brooklyn.
Notwithstanding that it made a good many
old enough to die before their time. Dr. Brown-
Sequard is still engaged on his youthful elixir
at Paris, and persists in believing that his exper
iment will at last be successfully established.
Elizabeth Pbister of Sidney, o_, was taken
sick aud tbe doctor was called. He pronounced
her dead, and her relatives were summoned,
''bile they were talking about the suddenness
of her supposed death she revived, spoke, re
covered aud is out of danger.
For nearly a century there has existed In
New York city a society for the "relief of poor
widows with small children.” It was formed
by 3ome of the foremost people of the city, and
for three generations the daughters have taken
tue place of the mothers in its management.
Chicago is already commencing to develop
on the strength of the world’s fair. A surgeon
there says be can put a man to sleep with
chloroform and then, by the use of the knife,
so alter his facial expression that his own
mother will swear that she never saw him be
fore.
I (thing the late snow blockade 600 passengers
at Reno, Nev., to amuse themselves, issued a
handsome little paper entitled. "The Snow
bound, a Souvenir of the Sierra." It contains
very handsome illnstrations of the place, and
recites the efforts made to pass the two weeks
of waiting.
Fifty shillings an ouTlCo was the price paid
in England the other day for an Irish toilet
serr ce in silver of the time of William and
Mary. It was not very highly ornamented, but
it sold for $3,560. All tie glut of silver from all
the mines in America cauuot alter the price of
good work.
That girlh in some asrtions have other ideas
in life besides looking pretty is shown in the
case of a girl in West Virginia, who has made
enough money by trapping muskrats to buy a
gold watch. Her only ambition now will
doubtless be to go to catch scats enough for a
sealskin sacque.
It; high life or in low life it seems to be the
same with the fair sex all over the world. The
widow of the late Duke Amadeo of Italy is now
living in Rome, where she is already said to be
prospering in a Napoleonic way for anew and
young husband. She is very young herself aud
was opposed to marrying her old uncle.
A Hartford hardware merchant named Hill
is responsible for the invention of the American
lawn mower. He sent a number of the clumsy
English mowers to a Philadelphia man and
overcharged him 75 cents for bxing. The
Philadelphian refused to [,uy for them, and sat
down aud invented a lawn mower of his own,
which has driven out the English contrivance.
The government printing office is now en
gaged in filling one of the largest orders in its
history. This if for 18,000,000 blanks for the use
of the 40,000 enumerators of the eleventh cen
sus, who will begin work in May. It will take
15,000 reams of paper and twenty presses will
have to be worked twenty-two hours each day
for six weeks before the order will have been
completed.
Jewelry is constantly being twisted into all
sorts of odd shapes and styles. One of the latest
is a bar pin, representing a caterpillar, being
formed of cats' eyes. The main part is a fuzzy
substance held in place by a slender gold
chain, twining round ami round and round be
tween the stones, and giving the most lifelike
appearance to the creature. Tho head is of
beaten gold with ruby eyes.
An exhibition of unusual interest will be
opened in London in a few weeks. Its field will
cover the whole of Africa between the tropics,
and its purpose is to illustrate as far as possi
ble the characteristic phases of Ventral African
life aud scenery, the history of its exploration,
and the growth of civilization and commerce.
No Rimilar exhibition devoted to Africa was
ever arranged under circumstances that prom
ised so favorably for its complete success.
A burglar in Bondy, France, got into the
rooms of two men while they were absent, and,
fastening the door from the inside, prevented
them from getting in when they came back
unexpectedly. The police sent for the village
locksmith. But be, very strangely. couldn’t be
found, so they burst open tile door just as the
burglar got upon the roof of the building. He
was seen and pursued down to the street and
into a canal. The shock of the cold bath made
him unconscious, an l he died In a short time.
When they washed from his face the black with
which lie had disguised himself the riddle of
the village locksmith's whereabouts was solved.
He was the burglar himself.
The presence of several fine-looking men of
commanding stature, wearing full beards and
having a strong resemblance to one another,
attracted the attention of the passengers in a
car on the Sixth Avenue Elevated railroad,
New York, the other afternoon. One of the
men entered into conversation with a Tribun e
reporter, and it was learned that the party
was composed of seven brothers, ranging in
age from 35 to 56 years. They had, in accord
ance with an old family custom, been celebrat
ing the eighty-second -birthday anniversary of
their father, James W. Hughes, at the old
homestead, at South Orange, N. J. Three of
the brothers live iu Washington, one in Newark
and one in Lrooklyn. The other two live with
their father and sister.
A popular-price theater manager has pur
chased the site of Rev. Dr. T. DeWitt Talmage’s
tabernacle in Brooklyn, and will erect upon it
an immense liou e of amusement. The prop
erty is almost as large as that covered by the
Metropolitan opera house. It has undergone
any number ot changes in ihe past forty years.
During t lat period it has been the site of a
circus, a boxing ground for pugnacious youths,
a coal yard, of a lot of hovels, and of two
churches. Both the latter were destroyed by
fire, as were several of ttie shanties. The neigh
borhood has undergone chan res equally great.
At one time it was a very fashionable district;
then it began to stagnate and retrograde until
ten years ago. Now it is a favorite thorough
fare from tue Hights to the lines of palaces
which have grown up upon Prospect hill.
“New York is the paradise of lawyers,” says
a veteran member of the New York bar, “and
some of the fees paid here would amaze the
practitioners in the other cities. The late James
T. Brady was paid a fee of $60,000 in one case.
Henry L. Clinton is credited with having re
ceived 8100.0J0 in the Vanderbilt will suit, in
which he appeared for William 11. Vanderbilt.
Scott Lori, counsel for the contestants, received
$10.1,000. aud both fees were paid by William H.
Vanderbilt, under the terms of settlement with
his brothers and sisters. How much the late
William O. Bartlett received in tho Danser will
suit Ido not know, but his fee must have been
large, and the estate was ample to pay a lilieral
reward for bis successful efforts in behalf of
the forgotten heirs. The surrogate's court is the
place f, ir plums, but they are not such easv [lick
ing as in years gone by. when an allowance was
made whether a contest had merit or not. The
fees of lawyers in criminal practice are, as a
a rule, what they can get, and often such
cases are carried through without any pay
whatever.”
The makvelous growth of the life insurance
busineas in this country is shown by these fig
ures. In 1860 the total amount of life insur
ances in the world was $1,195,000,000. This was
divided as follows; Great Britain and Ireland,
$850,000,000; Continent of Europe. $168,000,000:
( inted States, $177,000,000. The total amount
had increased in 1870 to $4,24t.000.0.)0, divided
as follows: Great Britain and Ireland, $1,445,-
000,000; Continent of Europe, $606,000,000;
United Stales, $2,186,000,010. The total in 1880
was $5,153,000,000, of which s2.loo,ooo,UN)>ras in
Ureat Britain and Ireland; $1,281,000,000 in the
Continent of Europe. and $1,596,000,000
in the United States, lu tbe next six years the
amount in force increased to $7,2&5,u00,000. and
Great Britain had $2,800,000,000; the continent
of Europe, $2,01",OX),0.8); the United States.
$2,520,000.000. and Canada aud Australia, $333.
000,000 In 1889 tile total amount of life msur
aoee in force in tbe United States had readied
the stupe dolls sum of S3.7*I,'XIU.OUI). There la
now more new life Insurance issued in the
United States than In all the rest of lhe world.
In 1860 th-re were $38,000,000 of new life insur
ances issued in this country, nod In Inch the
amount of "v Insurance issued was a round
$1,000,000,000.
Mark all the ladles that grace tbe latll,
Blonde or brunette, full-formed or slight,
And she, you find, transcends them nil.
Whs*, teeth are the in ad pure snd white
M’busw toilet never knows ihe wont,
Of the victorious OO£OI>OMT. —Ado,
PERSONAL.
Mary Anderson is always a welcome visitor
at Tennyson's house.
Mrs. Senator Pettigrew believes in co-edu
cation and all things that will assist woman in
earning her bread.
George Mxrkdith has been named in one
English journal as Lord Tennyson’s possible
successor. Austin Dobson is just as curious a
selection. Mr. Swi-iburne and Sir Elwin Arnold
*' re seriously spoken of. and Mr. Morris is
looked upon as having claims to the national
honor.
Since it became known that Speaker Reed
was fond of light literature he has received at
teas* one novel by every mail. Duplicate copies
of the same work have sometimes reached him
from the author and the publisher. He would
like to know who informed the public of his
fondness for fiction. He would send that man
to Siberia.
Lord Salisbury, who. in his younger days,
was as lank and abnormally thin as his nephew,
Mr. Arthur Balfour, the secretary for Ireland,
has now become exc-edingly stout, and even
ud wieldly. While staying at Sandringham
with the Prince and Princess of Wales a few
weeks ago, he was persuaded to permit him
sdf to be weighed, and tipped the beam at 230
pounds.
Says a correspondent: “Edward Bellamy, the
author, is in poor health. Readers of ‘Looking
Backward’will regret to hear this, and those
who are personally acquainted with the modest
expounder of nationalism will feel a still
keener sorrow. How much do you suppose
Bellamy his made thus far on his famous book?
Just $16,000. How much the publishers? Just
$50,090.”
Mme. Patti said to a Denver reporter: “The
human voice, if preserved up to a certain
period, will retain its richness and flexibility
almost indefinitely. As you ought to know, I
have always been careful of myself, and at no
time in my professional or private career has
my voice suffered from overwork. Hence lam
as capable to-day of captivating an audience as
I was many years ago. I expect that my voice
will be as good in twenty years from now if I
continue to eujoy good health.”
Herr Bebel, the famous leader of the Social
ist party in the Reichstag, and the author of
"Woman in the Past, the Present and the
Future,” is a man of about 50, of medium
hight, with a short, dark beard, auburn hair,
and a delicate, rather prepossessing appear
ance. When he is not engaged in fighting the
cause of the socialists, he iollows his trade as a
woodturner. He is the bete notr ot the great
chancellor, and has frequently been imprisoned
for hurling inflammatory speeches against the
government.
Chief Jubtice Fuller stubbornly refuses to
shave off his mustache. Ever since he was ap
pointed to his present position he has been
urged on all sides to take this step, but up to
the preseut time he maintains on his upper lip
a flowing hirsute adornment. His position in
this matter is the more heroic in that the un
terrified crank is on his trail. Mr. Fuller re
cently received the following: “Ef yer doan’t
shave of that there hary mam on yer moutweal
sea that yer doant havs no eezy time. Do yer
ketch on? Weo'l shave it of for yer pritty soon.
Take worning.V This epistle was anonymous.
Evidently it was not written by Fuller’s col
leagues on the bench.
Sir William White, the British ambassador
to the sublime porte, enjoys the exceptional
good fortune of standing as high in the favor of
the liberals as of tbe tones. He is a big, burly
Briton, aud as clever as he is big. His voice
would be audible in a storm at sea without the
aid of a speaking trumpet, aud bis mind is as
acute as his lungs are strong. His hair and his
long bushy beard are snowy white. The Rus
sians nickname him “tne English Ignatieff,”
and to an ambassador at Constantinople they
could not pay a greater compliment, Notwith
standing the fact that he is a devout Roman
Catholic and married a Polish lady, they greatly
admire him
He Would Not Be Fired.
“I was the lord mayor,” said Will McConnell
to the Chicago Mail, apropos of theatrical dis
cipline, “and came on with the staff, you know,
the citizens following. As I was crossing the
stage I saw a hole, and at the next step I
plunked the staff in it and fell with a flop. It
was the only thing in the performance that got
a laugh, but Barrett didn’t appreciate it—didn’t
like it at all. No, sir) Discharged me for it.
Used to do that right along. First time he
tired’ me was when, as a grave-digger in
‘Hamlet,’ I went down in the grave and took off
my doublet and eight vests one after the other
before I began digging. It made a great hit
and had the house in roars, but—would you be
lieve it?—Barrett kicked, and discharged me.
Then I tried something else. When the other
fellow had brought me a stoup of ale I took a
gull at it and set it down over by the left stage
ox, which was occupied by four young fellows.
Then 1 took two or three steps and stopped,
looked around dubiously at the fellows in the
box. and went out and took the ale away to the
back of the stage, still looking at them distrust
fully. Good stage business, wasn’t it? And it
caughtou, too; but Barrett never could appre
ciate those good things, so he fired me again.
“One time he fired me in San Antonio, Tex.
The next morning I was at the train as usual
and ran against Barrett on the depot platform.
“‘I thought I discharged you, sir,’ ho said,
savagely.
“'lf you have an impression,’says I, ‘that 1
live in San Antonio you’re mistaken. My ad
dress is Detroit. I don’t think I would like
walking, so, if you please, don't fire me again
till I get back home. A discharge at Detroit,
yes; at San Antonio, NO.’
“I forget how many times Barret ‘fired’ me,
but it was always for something that showed
his lack of artistic appreciation."
Hard Case.
“I struck the hardest game of my life to-day,”
said the agent of a very successful collecting
firm to a San Francisco Examiner man. “I
tackled, my man for S2O that he owes a res
taurant. He’s an artist—paints landscapes and
portraits—and you see his name all covered
with taffy in the newspapers week in and week
out. ‘l’m sorry,’ says he, stopping work on his
picture and pushing his velvet .raoking-cap onto
the hack of his head while he looked lazily at
the bill, “but I can’t pay this for a few months
yet.’ ‘Why not?’says 1. ‘Because,’says he, ‘I
have a more pressing liability.’ ‘.More press
ing than a board bill?’ says I, sarcastically.
‘Yes, a good deal.' says he. ‘l’m buying a
pair of shoes on the installment plan, and
the second shoe is to be delivered to
day if I can make a partial payment. The
coin’s here,’says he, tapping his vest pocket.
‘All right,’ says I, 'but you just give that coin
to me on account or I'll sell you up.' 'Sell what
up?’says he. ‘Why, these here pictures,’ says
1, sweeping my arm in a comprehensive way
around the studio. ‘These pictures?’ says he. ‘All
right, my boy, go ahead. If you can sell them
I’ll be much obliged to you. It’s a derned sight
inore’n I can do.’ With that he lighted up his
pipe and went on painting as tranquil as a sum
mer's day. I admired hnn aud asked him out
to have a drop ot somethiug. ‘Excuse me,’ says
he, standing back and regarding his picture
with one eye closed, but not even glancing a.
me; ‘I tever have any social relations with my 1
tradespeople.’ I was faint when I got down to
the street.”
CURRENT COMMENT.
A Cutting Answer.
Prom the Nashville American (Dem.).
The New York Sun wants to know why the
blanked fools in the Democratic party are al
ways selected to manage it in a presidential
campaign. Well, you remember, Mr. Dana,
that in 1884 you were employed in giving an
imitatio lof managing the Ben Butler party,
and in 1888 when your valuable services were
needed you were again otherwise engaged; so
what could the Democratic party do for a real
smart manager?
Might Have Taught Him a Lesson.
From the Mobile Register (Dem.).
It is not surprising to learn that the demo
cratic leaders were indignant at the absence of
their men An opportunity to teach tyrannical
and dictatorial Tom Keed a lesson was lost.
That fat and rotund despot had to come down
from the speaker's stand and apply the part y
lash vigorously to hold his men together. Tne
reason that he did not allow Hill of Illinois to
make a siieech was because he knew that, if a
republican came out openly for Cate it would
cause a stampede among his herd.
Will Congress Investigate f
thorn the Sew York World (Dem.).
Congressman Mctdoo is after Secretary Win
dom’s scalp for selecting Bedloe’s island as a
place for landing Immigrants. He will ask for
the appointment of a joint committee of the
Hout - aud Ibe .Senate to review the depart
ments action in the matter, together with an
inquiry whether the secretary had any right to
act at all without the sanction of congress. A
more useless and wicked waste of money wus
never and terimned upon by a cabinet officer, but
it is iinclcm to suppose that it |*ri issii commit
tee will luvosligttte mat I .art of liie problem
Tbs celebrated Dr lyslm of (Joecu’s College,
Hellas'. Ireland, says: “Grattan's Ginger Ate is
of spteudid quail y aud may Is: considered first
.-toss “ Uppiuau Bros, aud M. Latins Estate,
agents, bavauuab, Ga.— Adv.
BRIGHT BITS.
A Dismal Outlook for New York.— “Pa,
wbat makes it rain so much?’'
“I don’t know, Charlie, unless it is because
New York is under a cloud just now on account
of this fair business. "—Texas Siftings.
Satisfactory.— Mr. Rich—My daughter. I
wish you would busy yourself about something,
and not he for evsg reaiting those silly novels.
"But, my dear Tath-r, you ought to be per
fectly contented that you have such a wealthy
heiress fora daughter." —Fliegende Blatter.
“I see you’ve got anew man in your em
ploy.”
“Yes.”
“Is he trustworthy?”
“I should say so. He’ll stick to any kind of a
story you may wish him to tell.—Washington
Fast.
Mrs. Brown—JohnDy broke A ffane of glass,
but as he told me about it at once I gave him
an apple.
Mrs. Cobwigger—That will teach him a great
leSSon.
Mrs. Brown—l am afraid not. As soon as he
had eaten the apple he went and broke another
window.—The Epoch.
Governor— l want you to accept a prominent
and highly honorable position within my gift.
Citizen—Wcat’B the pay?
"The place is entirely honorary and without
emoluments.”
"Tnen I can’t take it. I really haven’t the
ability to fill an office which has no salary at
tached.”—Chicago Times.
The Y'oung Ladies.—
Young ladies—would you guess It!—are like ar
rows, don’t you know.
They cannot pierce a single heart until they get
a beau:
And like the arrows, which without a bow can
nothing do,
Young ladies, tilltheygetabeau, are ina quiver,
too. —Oakta nd ( Cal.) Echoes.
Little Tommy had spent his first day at
school.
“What did you learn?" asked his auntie, on
his return.
"Didn’t learn anything,” said Tommy.
“Well, what did you do?”
“Didn’t do anything. A woman wanted to
know how to spell ‘cat,’and I told her.”—Lon
don Tid-Bits.
Hoffman—l don’t believe a word of that ma
licious story the fellows are telling on Adonis
Greatshape.
Madison Squeer—What is it?
Why, they say that at the last club entertain
ment, when the speaker quoted the words:
“Beauty unadorned is most adorned,” Donny
ripped off his coat and called out, "Take my
clothes, there, mister; I don’t want ’em!"—
American Grocer.
Be Social.—“ Farmers, be social with your
cattle,” is the advice given by an agricultural
journal. We never considered the subject be
fore, but we see now how farmers miss it. They
could have a good deal of fun with their cattle
if they would only be more social. When they
have company in the evening they should ask
their oxen in to join in the conversation. A
game of checkers with the old brindle cow
would enliven a dullevening.— Texas Siftings.
The Engine of Civilization— Great Editor
(severely)—There was no base ball news in the
paper to-day.
Local Man—But, sir, base ball isn’t played in
the winter, and I’ve exhausted all the new club
rumors, new association fakes, and reports of
possible changes of one sort and m other. There
isn’t a scrap more I can get hold of.
Then print the old scraps over again. You
don’t suppose I want to lose all my subscribers,
do you?—.Yew York Weekly.
Sleeping-car Porter—Had a pleasant trip,
sah?
Passenger (getting into his overcoat)—De
lightful!
Porter—Nothin’ happen to mar your pleas
ure, sah?
Passenger—Nothing whatever. Came through
safe anil sound.
Porter (insinuatingly)—Sometimes gem’men
like to give a small fee, sah, to
Passenger—Good idea. I’ll hand something
to the engineer.— New York Weekly.
Tired of Praying for Him.—ln a certain
church not 1,000 miles away, there is a drunk
ard whose case has been made the subject of
special prayer in the minister’s family for some
time. The other day, little golden-haired Elsie,
5 years old, came down stairs looking rather
pale.
“What is the matter, darling? Are you sick?”
asked the mother.
“No!” replied the infant, with a toss of her
head. “But I'm just tired to death praying for
that man!”— Burlington Free Press.
Confessed the Impeachment.
A dilapidated boy on the seat of a creaking
cart was undertaking the task of urging a
weird and awful horse up Fifth avenue one
morning this week, says the New York Sun,
when he was stopped by a policeman and at
once became the center of a curious crowd.
“Get down off that cart,” said the policeman.
"Why fur?” asked the boy, permitting the
horse to perform its bent of coining to a com
plete standstill.
"Your plug is lame,” said the policeman.
"Me plug's me own. an’ he’s just after havin’
his breakfast,” responded the boy.
“Yes. on tomato cans!” sarcastically ex
claimed the policeman. "Get down oft your
cart."
The boy descended to the pavement.
"Unharness that horse and take him home or
I’ll make a complaint against you.”
The boy went quietly about his work of un
harnessing the wretched beast. For a few mo
ments nothing was said. All eyes were fixed on
the boy as he untied the ropes that held the
angular and dejected animal to the shafts of
the wagon. The horse did not evince any sur
prise whatever at the unexpected experience
that he was the hero of, but merely hung his
head and caught a few winks of sleep, while the
cold breeze stirred his grizzled mane and almost
performed an .K iliari melody among his ribs.
After awhile he was free of the wagon, and tne
boy, after tying up the fugitive ends of rope
and leather that dangled from his harness,
gathered the reins into his hands and cast a
look toward the implacable policeman.
"Wull?" he exclaimed interrogatively.
The policeman looked back into his inquiring
eyes and said:
"Now, you get home.”
The boy turned the horse's head in a down
town direction. The beast straightened up
strangely,and gazed with brightened eye down
through the hazy vista of the avenue. Then he
waved his tail aloft and whinnied.
"G'ep!” cried the boy.
That was sufficient. The crowd was reminded
of the scamper that ensues when the Hag falls
at a race track. It was a lame horse, that one,
but he evidently had a grain of thoroughbred
blood in him, for, with his hind quarters hitch
ing like a kangaroo, he sped over the pavement
as though a purse of SI,OOO was laid on his get
ting home at a certain time. The boy clung to
the reins, and just before getting out of hear
ing he turned and shouted back at the amazed
policeman:
"Now, ain’t youa d—d fool?”
And, as the tlyingsteed vanished with the boy
in the distance, the policeman acknowledged to
the crowd that he was.
Philosophistlc.
From thr Boston Globe.
O what’s one fellow's poison’s another man’s
food!
It's a mighty ill wind that blow* nobody good-
But, still, wuen you’re in sorrow, you’re none
the less sad
Tho’ you should be—for thinking that others
are glad.
When your stomach is empty, small comfort
you get
From the thought of the lots that are loaded—
when uebt
Doubles up, does it help you, O brother, to bear
Y'our own burden to know Gould’s got millions
to spare ?
O this world is a see saw! If one fellow's up.
Why, another is down, and if one fellow’s cup
Is o erbrimming with joy, why his neighbor’s is
bound
To be empty. And so the old earth runs its
round.
For, since time first began, man he’s known ups
and downs;
Old dame nature, herself, has her smiles and
her frowns;
O there's nothing stands still! Tho’ it sounds
mighty strange,
There is nothing on earth quite so changeless as
change! , j
O there’s upper and under) There’s milk and
there’s cream.
Inequality seems a big part of the scheme
Of what mortals call "things." To the fellow
on top
It is fun, but it’s hard on cold fate's "second
chop!"
O h 6 big fish tltey eat up the little fish, but
O the Utile fish know, you can bet, what is
what,
And you can’t make them think—whether
linked, broiled or fried.
That a • hsl, who is love, with mankind is allied!
Tho' tlie saints they go under, the sinoors sur
vive;
Yet, while good folk: like you and like me are
stive,
Why, we can't quite discredit our ears and our
eye*.
Jfor loiibt ‘orath earth's ferment that love's
leaven lies 1
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