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THIS ISSUE
—CONTAINS—
TWELVE PAGES.
INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Special Notices— The Question of the Day,
Who is Townsend? Notice of Mr. Drummond’s
Retirement and Appointment of Jose H. E.
Berry as His Successor, R. G. Dun & Cos.; Fine
Horses and Mules at Guilmartin & Mehrlens'
Boarding and Sale Stables; A Very Attractive
House at Private Sale, M. J. Solomons; Co
partnership Notice, D. Y. &R. R. Dancy; Insure
Your Titles, Title Guarantee and Loan Company
of Savannah; The Real Estate Offerings on
Tuesday, 6th, by C. H. Dorsett, Real Estate
Dealer; The “Georgia State” Building and Loan
Association; We Are the People, A. Hanley;
The Croaker, Robinson Steam Printing Com
pany; Imported Cigars at S. Selig’s; Notice as
to Secretaryship of Merchants’ Week; Notice as
to Abandonment of Excursion of Steamer Cres
cent City To-day; Savannah Steam Laundry;
Empire Steam Laundry.
Summer Goons—Milius & Cos.
Down Go the Prices— Morrison, Foye & Cos.
Rock Bottom Prices— C. Gray & Ron.
Hotel— Eureka Hotel, Clarkesville, Ga.
Special Notice— Savannah Plumbing Com
pany.
Mantels, Ere.—Norton & Hanley.
Auction Sales— Rapidly Enhancing Building
Lots, by C. P. Miller; Fine Property Near Cen
tral Railroad, by Harmon, Walker & McHarrie;
Special Auction Sale for the Ladies, Harmon,
Walker & McHarrie.
The Rush of May Week Over—Dryfus
Bros.
Special Notice —Eckstein & Cos.
The Stovier—James Douglass.
A Great Opportunity— A. R. Altmayer &
Cos.
The Place for Reliable Goods—Gutman’s.
“Little Annie Rooney,” Sono and Waltz—
L. & B. S. M. H.
Truthful Advertising Brings Its Reward—
The A. J. Miller Cos.
Mason & Hamlin Piano—L. & B.' S. M. H.
Must Sell Patent in Ten Days— M. I. Welch,
Cordele, Ga
Special Sale of White Goons—Jackson,
Metzger & Cos.
Summer Goods at Summer Prices—Emil A.
Schwarz.
Amusements Flower Exhibition by the
Savannah Floral arid Art Association; Basket
Picnic of the German Friendly Society at War
saw Island. May 15.
Cheap Column Advertisements Help
Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Rent; For
Sale; Lost; Personal; Miscellaneous.
Since the beginning of the strikes in
Chicago the newspapers of that city have
not been saving a great deal about the
world’s fair. They probably believe in
attending to one thing at a time.
Mr. Gladstone proposes that the Church
of Scotland shall be disestablished and dis
endowed. It would not be surprising if
before long a similar attack shoilld be made
on the Church of England.
Thß New.York murderer, Kemmler, being
under the impression that he was soon to
die, made his will, in which he bequeathed
to his spiritual adviser his pigs-in-the-clover
puzzle. Evidently he had designs against
the good man’s peace of mind.
The protectionists in congress are not in
favor of protecting the products of authors’
brains. If authors were rich enough to put
op campaign boodle they would stand a
better chance of getting the protection for
Which they have been so long asking.
Senator Doiph, having failed to find out
how the secret3 of the executive sessions of
the Senate find their way into the news
papers, is now employing his detective skill
in trying to find a way to keep the Chinese
out of the country. The chances are that
he will he no more successful in the case of
the Chinese thau he was in that of the news
paper correspondents.
It does not now look as if the young
emperor of Germany would have a chance
to show that be meant what he said when
he announced that if thereshould be exhibi
tions of violence on the part of the working
men iu Berlin he would in person lead the
troops to quell the disturbances. Perhapi
the knowledge that the emneror means
business has prevented the socialists from
making violent demonstrations.
Temperance People Troubled.
The impression in the prohibition states
appears to be that the decision of the United
States supreme court last eek iu the lowa
case completely check* the prohibition
movement. The prohibitionists therefore
regard the outlook for the temperance cause
as exceedingly gloomy.
There does not seem to be any reason why
the temperance people should slacken their
efforts to lessen the whisky evil. The decis
ion is DOtsuch a blow to temperance as the
prohibitionists would have the public
believe. It is simply that intoxicants may
be imported into any state, and may be sold
there in the original packages. lowa has a
law which prohibits intoxicating liquors
from being imported into tho state. This
law is declared to be unconstitutional. It
is doubtful if any other state than lowa has
such a law. Kansas has a law which pro
hibits the sale of intoxicating liquors im
ported into the state, and quite a number
of other states have similar laws.
Under the resent decision a man cannot
open a saloon Mild Sell w hiskey or beer by
the drink in a prohibition state. He can
only seli it in the packages in which he re
ceived it. Ikis doubtful if much more in
toxicating liquor will be sold in that wny in
the pn hibition states than w'as sold before
the decision was rendered. Ever since
the prohibition law was passed in Kansas
vast quantities of intoxicating liquors have
been carried into it in jugs and kegs.
Scarcely a railroad train passes into the
state that does not have freight of this kind.
What is true of Kansas is true of other pro
hibition states.
But the recent decision does not permit
the opening of drinking saloons, and after
all the chief purpose of a prohibitory law is
to keep them closed. Drinking habits, as a
rule, are formed in drinking saloons, and if
they are closed the whisky evii is far from
being as great as it would otherwise be.
There is no reason, therefore, why tem
perance people, or even prohibitionists,
should feel that all their work has come to
nothing. The temperance people can con
tinue making converts, and with the cer
tainty of good results. And the prohibi
tionists can still render the temperance
cause valuable assistance, but they must
give up the idea of shutting intoxicants out
of a state altogether. The highest author
ity in the land has decided that that cannot
be done.
Merchants' Week.
Savannah has reason to congratulate her
self on the success of Merchants’ week.
There was a very large number of visitors
during the week,and it is safe to say that all
were thoroughly satisfied. The programme
for each day was carried out and every
featuieoftbe festival that was premised
was presented. The trades display and
Wednesday night’s procession were particu
larly good. It was not thought by many
that Savannah could approach so closely
the wonderful carnival processions which
are seen in New Orleans at Mar.li Gras
time, but those who thought so were not
aware that the young men of Savannah are
equal to almost any emergency.
Those who were entrusted with the duty
of carrying out the week’s programme
proved themselves fully equal to the re
sponsibilities which were placed upon them.
They were not only careful and faithful,
but they showed skill and judgment worthy
of the highest praise. The visitors w ere
looked after and made to feel that they
were among friends. If any of them ever
doubted Savannah’s hospitality, or ques
tioned her ability to make anything a suc
cess which she undertook, they do not doubt
or question now.
Savannah was glad to havo her friends
in this and other states pay her a
visit. She is getting to be a pretty big
city, and her commercial importance is
keeping abroast of her growth. She wants
the world to know that she is prospering,
and particularly does she want those who
trade w ith her to see the progress she is
making.
Merchants’ week last year attracted a
great many visitors, but not as many as this
year, and the week next year, no doubt,
will be a greater success than any previous
one. Each succeeding year the attractions
for the entertainment of visitors will be in
creased until Merchants’ week will rival the
carnival season in New Orleans. In the
meantime Savannah can congratulate her
self that Merchants’ week this year was
creditable to her and sustained her reputa
tion for generous hospitality.
Benator Beck’s Death.
The announcement of the death of Sena
tor James B. Beck, of Kentucky, will cause
sorrow throughout the country. He had a
national reputation and a wide circle of per
sonal friends. He was a native of Scotland
and possessed all the qualities which make
the people of that country honored and re
spected citizens wherever they make their
homes.
Senator 'feeck was a sincere and loyal
friend, a true patriot and a statesman of
high rank. He was a great student
and seldom took part in a debate in con
gress unless be was thoroughly acquainted
with the subject under consideration. He
was particularly well informed with respect
to the tariff and the currency, and he de
lighted to engage in intellectual combats
with the ablest of the republicans when
those subjects were being discussed.
Senator Beck was a member of the House
of Representatives for four terras, and
declined a renomination. He entered the
Senate in 1877, and was re-elected in 1882
and 1888. He was very popular with the
membersof that body. During the last few
years of his life he suffered considerably
from ill-health, and during the last year or
two was often not able to be at his post of
duty. Kentucky has few men who are
fitted to serve her and the country as well
as Senator Beck did.
The city authorities should enforce
the ordinance against throwing
rubbish into the street. This
ordinance is not now obeyed as it
should be. Very frequently some of the
streets and squares are so littered with
paper and other things that they present a
very unsightly appearance, and the cost of
picking up tho rubbish is vory considerable.
Cannot the city authorities impress upon
the minds of the people, in a way that they
will not soon forget it, that the street is not
the p ace for paper and other refuse arti
cles for which they havo uo use in their
houses and stores? If they should givo
their attention to this matter they might
save the tax-payers a good many dollars
now spent for street cleaning.
A few days ago a Philadelphia paper said
that the financial institutions of that city
rested upon too solid a foundation to be
shaken by the failure of one of its banks.
It begins to look as if the foundations of
some of those solid Institutions ought to be
inspected.
TIIE MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY. MAY 4. 1806—TWELVE PAGES.
Danger in Farm Mortgages.
At a banquet at the Parker house, Boston,
on Thursday night, Gen. Bu’.ler made seme
remarks about farm mortgages which are
worthy of more than a uaseing notice. He
declared that there was danger that farm
martgages would bring about a financial
crash. According to his figures there is
$3,450,003,000 invested in farm mortgages
in the Western states. This vast sum is
drawing interest at the rate of from 7 to 9
per cent, per annum, and there his already
been paid to the brokers who obtaiaed the
money for the fanners f per cent. Of
course the farmers cannot pay such high
interest. The mo it reliable estimates show
that the profits on farms are between 4 a ;d
5 per cent. It is apparent, therefore, that
there will have to be a great reduction ia
the interest, or el-e the mortgagees wil 1
have to t ike the mortgaged lands.
Gen. Butler said that there was every
probability that the demand of the carpen
ters—that is, 40 cents an hour and eight
hours to constitute a day’s work—would be
granted. In that case a carpenter, working
eight hours a day, would be able to earn
$920 a year, while a farmer, working six
teen hours a day, would be able to earn only
sll2 50, if corn were only 15 cents a bushel.
It is difficult to realize that tho earnings of
the western farmers are so smal'. The
wonder is that they are able to live at all
with prices of corn and wheat as low as
they are at present.
When it is known how small the earnings
of the farmers are it can be easily under
stood ho v heavy a burden the high protect
ive tariff system of the Republican party
imposes upon them. They get scarcely anv
thing for what they produce, and, in conse
quence of the tariff, they have to pay almost
two prices for nearly everything they need
oa their farms or in their hous holds. With
high interest and high protective tariff it is
not to be wondered at that they are over
burdened with mortgages.
The farmers of t he south are much better
off than those of the west, because their
great crop, cotton, generally brings them a
price that affords them a profit. Many of
them, however, have a pretty hard struggle
to keep from getting deeper in debt, but as
a general thing their material condition is
much better than it was a few years ago.
In tho course of his remarks Gen. Butler
referred to the sub-treasury plan. He
found nothing in it to commend. He did
not see how it would enable farmers to got
better prices for their crops, but he did see
how it would enable the speculators to get
control of the crops and fix the prices of
them to suit themselves. The speculators,
he said, would buy the warehouse receipts,
and they would then be m the same posi
tion as if they bought the crops.
There is no doubt that the farmers ought
to have relief, but th 9 problem is how to
give it to them. None of the solutions to
this problem that have been offered are
satisfactory. However, something may
come of the present agitation for their
relief.
Cleveland’s Acts Approved.
It seems that the Postmaster General has
astonished and disgusted some of his politi
cal friends by adopting the order to office
holders which Mr. Cleveland issued when he
was President. Recently he has been re
ceiving a great many letters from post
masters asking him what the position of the
administration was with regard to office
holders taking an aotive part in politics.
To a letter addressed to him on this subject
by a member of congress he answered by
sending a copy of President Cleveland’s
regulations relative to the personal conduct
of officials.
The whole country is familiar with those
regulations. When they were issued they
excited a great deal of comment. They met
with oppositioft from many democrats, as
well as republicans who had been permitted
to remain in office, ana the republican press
attempted to destroy tho force of them by
ridiculing their author. They were enforced,
however, and now it turns out that this
administration thinks they are very good
regulations—so good, in fact, that they
must be enforced.
There are other things which Mr. Cleve
land did that this administration will do
well to approve. Indeed, if it follows close
ly in the course pursued by Mr. Cleveland
it will be much less likely to make mistakes
than if it follows its own judgment.
It is worthy of notice that President Har
rison has thought it advisable to veto a few
bill3, rushed through the House at railroad
speed by means of Speaker Reed’s methods
of doing business. He remembers, proba
bly, that the country commended Mr.
Cleveland for keeping a watchful eye on
legislation and vetoing bills which he knew
to be bad. If the President models his ad
ministration on that of Mr. Cleveland's he
may recover some of the popularity he has
lost.
Alger's Presidential “Boom.”
Gen. Alger’s presidential “boom” gives
him a good deal of trouble. He is contin
ually getting into business enterprises which
threaten to damage it. When public senti
ment began to be hostile to trusts, and his
party was forced to take a position against
them, It became known that he was at the
head of the diamoud match trust. Uf
course, if he remained in that position his
“boom” would be ruined, and so he was
forced, for the sake of it, to sever his con
nection with the match trust.
But no sooner was he out of the trust
than the fact was published that he and his
friend Platt, the republican boss of Ks.v
York, were the chief lessees of the convicts
of Tennessee. It seems that they hold posi
tions of trust in the Tennessee Coal and Iron
Company, and that that company works a
largo force of convicts. If Gen. Alger
doesn’t get out of that company, his “boom”
will disappear altogether. The Republican
newspapers, which are continually criticis
ing those of the southern states which lease
their convicts, could never support a convict
contractor for President. Doubtless Gen.
Alger will carry his “boom" out of the Ten
nessee convict camp just as soon as he can.
The longer he permits it to remain there the
less attractive in the eyes of his admirers it
will be.
It is somewhat remarkable that Mr.
Chauneey M. Depew, when he was saying
so many unpleasant things about the con
vict system of Georgia and other southern
states, forgot to mention that his friend
Platt was interested in a Tennessee convict
lease. It may be, however, that he is one
of those men who can suppress truth with
an easy conscience when their friends are
interested.
It is quite certain that this congress will
not provide for a system of coast defenses.
The money that might have been appro
priated to that object has been given to
pe sioners who are expected to vole tho re
publican ticket la future election*. Money
speut for coast defenses would not have pro
duced republican votes.
PERSONAL.
Mary Anderson’s marriage to Mr. Navarro
will bes lemnized at Brompton oratory, Lon
don. this month. “Our Mary” wil! be hi* Mary
then.
Henry Warren, a news vender on the Derby
railroad in Connecticut, is cutting hi* third set
of teeth at the age of 82. He has to do it in his
business.
Gen. Phil Sheridan’s three little daughters
are day pupils at a Catholic convent in Wash
ingtom The eldest, Man-, is 14, and looks very
much like her father.
Salvixx plays a game called pallone. a cross
between hand-ball and racquet. He will have
to learn to play base ball before his acting will
be appreciated in this country.
Kaiser Wilhelm has only ten years of sanity
or life before him. So say some leading medical
authorities of Germany. But they have not
got the courage to say this to Willie's face.
A syndicate of wealthy senators is reported
as having in view the purchase of Chief Justice
Chase's historic home at Edgewood, overlooking
Washington. T„e property consists of about
fifty acres.
Dr. King, physician-in ordinary to a distin
guished statesman of China, is an American
woman. She has an extensive practice in
Shanghai and her surgical operations have at
tracted wide attention.
Howard Lloyd, who died a fortnight ago,
was the founder of Lloyd’s Few?, which is said
to be read in nearly every public honse and
worksnoD ail over England Douglass Jerrold
edited the paper for some time.
Emperor William of Germany is about to
build a yacht that will be the largest in the
world. He tnav.pay the United States a visit in
it. Ho should enter it for one of the cup races
and learn how it feels to be beaten.
The Roumanian quESN. "Carmen Sylva,” is
an illustrious epicure. She has Invented sev
eral di ,hes. and sometimes cooks one for tho
king with her own hands. She tries them on
h r royal lord, and if ho rurvives she knows
they are all ri„bt.
John Thomas Helsop of Birmingham, Eng
land, has such marvelous powers of vision that
he is known us “the jiving microscope.” He
can distinguish the animal life in-water, and so
doos n t drill a water. lie might be able to find
the lost oyster in the church fair soup.
A man named Fields has just died near Dan
ville. Ky., who, though 67 years old, never slept
a single night out of the hous ; in which he was
born, and never ate but one meal away from
home. H ■ \va3 only twic; o itsideof his native
county, and then only for an hour each time.
Sarah Cowell Lzxoyns, the interpreter of
Browning, is an ashen blonde and a quaintly
original talker. Her marriage to W. J. Le
moyne, the comedian, was a pure love match,
still they must have same jolly discussions if
they gi ve much time to interpreting Browning.
M. de Haraucourt. author of the “Passion
Play,” is a marquis of undoubted nobility. In
point of aristocratic higlit in Lorraine, it was
impossible, before it was annexed to France, to
get higher than the four nobles who were
styled Les Quatre Chevaux, of whom he was
one. From poverty he dropped his rank. He
is described as the ugliest man in France.
BRIGHT BITo.
What is May to the oyster ?
What is June to the rose ?
What is life to every
Blessed thing that grows ?
“Mr. Gould, how is your canal stock to-day?"
“I have no canal stock, sir.”
“I beg pardon; my mistake. For the mo
ment I imagined the largo amount of water in
your railways hail converted them into canals.
Life.
The announcement that th-re are not appli
cants enough to fill the positions of census
enumerators iu Massachusetts is calculated to
occasion some ostonisumeut. It isn’t likely that
there will be a drought, how-ver, now that the
fact i3 known.— Boston Herald,
An up-town man wno moved to another house
says he unearthed tilings that he had forgotten
he owned. ’ He had no idea he had so much
property. His only drawback is that i e foun 1
so much stuff that, he doesn’t want that he is
debating whether to have an auction or a fire.
Kingston Freeman.
A prominent rp-towN club narrowly missed
an exciting episode the ot ier evening. Du n
leigli rushed up to Snarpieigb and exclaimed
threateningly. ”J-hoar you have been saying I
looked a bigger fool than I am!" "Quite the
contrary, my dear fellow, I assure you ” The
mollified Dumleigh retreated.— Washington
Post.
Practical Traveler—What a splendid land
scape you have up here; these great noble
mountains, these peaceful lakes in the valleys.
Mountain Maid—O, just let me have your
glass for a second.
Practical Trawler—So you would like toad
mire the beautiful prospect nearer?
Mountain Maid—l only wanted to look down
as far as our pasture, to be sure our cows were
feeding all right.— Fliegende Blatter.
Modern Rich minus American Business
Mau—Now, sir, you have all the details ot my
new manufacturing scheme. If we succeed
we’ll make millions.
Timid Capitalist—But if we should fail?
American Business Man—Fail? In the bright
lexicon of American enterprise there’s no such
word as fail - because whenever a thing don't
pay we can ala-ays unload it on an English syn
dicate.— New York Weekly.
In a Sunday school class in the neighbor
hood of Meridian Heights the teacher last
Sunday asked who was the first man.
“Adam,” replied the small boy.
“And who was the first woman?” she asked a
little girl.
The child hesitated for a minute, then her
face brightened.
"Madam,” she sung out, and the teacher
hadn’t the heart to correct her.— Washington
Star.
A Mere Literary Pleasantry. —Miss Minerva
Beacon-Hill (who indulges only in jokes that
have a literary flavor)—Do you know. Mr. Spoo-
Sendyke, I think that the czar must be fond of
Ir. Howell’s novels?
Mr. Spoopentlyke (who never has read a line
of Howell's, but hasn't courage enough to con
fess it)—You really tnink so, Miss Beacon Hill ?
Why?
Miss Minerva Beacon-Hill (with a ghastly sug
gestion of a smile)—Because he hates plots.—
Life.
A subscriber to the telephone exchange
asked to be placed in communication with his
medical man
Subscriber—My wife complains of a severe
pain in her neck'and occasional nausea.
Doctor—She must have malaria.
Subscriber —What’s best to be done?
At this moment the clerk at the central
station alters the Switch by mistake, and the
unlucky husband receives the reply of a me
chanical engineer in answer to Inquiries of a
mill-owner.
Engineer—l believe the inside is lined with
excoriations to a considerable thickness. Let
her cool during the night, and in the morning,
before firing np, take a hammer and pouod her
vigorously. Then get a garden hose with strong
pressure from the main and let it play freely
on the part affected.
To his great s u prise, the doctor never saw his
client again .—Electric Age.
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CURRENT COMMENT.
Imitating? Cleveland.
From the FewYoik Evening Post Ibid.').
President Harrison does well to imitate Mr.
Cleveland’s example in making careful use of
ths veto power Within the past week be has
returned two bills to congress without his sig
nature. Neither was of much importance, but
each involved a principle.
The Church and the Schools.
From the Chicago Inter-Ocean (Rep.).
Prof. Swing’s sermon on the future of the
Roman Catholic church is liberal in the ex
treme. He affirms that the commonwealth has
nothing to fear from the c ergy or laity of the
Roman church, as a force working against
popular education. We hope the learned and
literal gentleman is right.
Cumulative Voting:.
From the St. Louis Republic (Bern,).
Judge J. A. P. Camjibell of Mississippi has
issued an address to the people of that state
which shows him to be a man of ability who has
mount©) a very unmanageable hobby. The
hobby is a plan for basing suffrage on the real
estate freeho'd with a feature of cumulative
voting—one vote for so many acres or so many
dollars worth of real property.
A Puzzled Politician.
From the Few York Times (Ind \
It is a sourc© of perplexity to Mr. Clarkson,
the headsman of the present administration,
that the best newspapers and periodicals in the
country are exercising their influence, on the
whole, against the repub iean . arty, and he is
very anxious for the managers of the party to
study tips fact and see what they can do about
it. ile may as well give it up. It is a question
quite beyond his capacity or theirs to under
stand or deal with.
She faw the Latest Ptyles.
“ You don’t seem to understand how to man
age a baby," said a union depot official to a
young man who was holding a 6 months’ old
infant as if it were a bunch of lath.
“I ain’t entered in a baby-holding race by a
jugful,” replied the young man, wearily. “I
don't aspire to no championship in this line,
and if my style of holding this kid don’t suit
you. I'll gixe it to you and make you. jump it
awhile.”
“Make me jump it! Can’t do that, you know;
I ain’t jumping other people's cbildred for my
health."
”Nor I either. Perhaps its mother will get
back soon. She's been gone an age. I wonder
what her name is?”
"Wny, ain’t that your kid?”
“I should say not. I can’t indulge in no such
luxuries on $9 a week.”
“Did its motner give it to you to hold?"
“Yes; said she’d step into the restaurant and
eat a bite. Had ridden three dsys and nights
on the cars, and was almost beat out."
The railway official, says the St. Paul Pio
neer Press, took a squint into the restaurant.
It was empty. He reported to the young man,
whose knees began Immediately to knock to
gether. Ast 11 bu t for the mother proved
fruitless. I-aay passengers gathered around
commiseratingly They tootsie-wootsl<-d the
babe, and at one time a wild ligat came into the
young man's eyes as though be were meditat
ing a oreak for liberty. An hour passed. The
youth considered his doom sealed. The mother
appeared in the room, somewhat flushed, but
profuse in apologies.
’’Yes,’’ she explained, “after eating I just ran
up town to 1 ok at the spring hats and summer
foods combinations in the shop windows.
laven’t had a chance in four dais. Stayed too
long, but I'm a thousand times obliged to you,
sir. ”
“Don’t mention it,” replied the young man,
with a kind of "Listen to my tale of woe" in
flection in bis voice.
Tho Land of Drowslhead.
From the Boston Globe.
I’ve wandered east. I've wandered west;
To many a spot my feet have sped.
But there is on-1 love the best
Of all wherein I’ve made my bed;
Whate’er's been writ, whate’er b en said
By men, O there’s n place for rest
Like the dear Land of Drowsioead!
But just this side the gate* of sleep,
A perfume rare, me seems, is shed
From poppy blooms whose breath 1 reap,
Ane poppy le .ves, me seems, are spread
O’er all the path that I must tread.
As on my way to dreams I keep
Thro’ that sweet Land of Droivsihead.
I have no hopes, I have no fears,
I take no tuought for daily bread;
Earta's bum my soul but vaguely hears,
I’m not alive, nor am I dead,
An.l yet of time I lose the thread,
Myself as some gray ghost appears
lb that dim Land or the Drowsihead.
A half-way house betwixt the strife
Of day and night: Who does not dread
To find the world of dreams is rife
With foes as that from which he’s fled!
As on his way to sleep he’s led,
Who'd not lay down the load of life
In this lair Land of DrowsiheadT
’Tis not Nirvani. Yet. for grac \
Tis next to that. The heart that bled
But now finds here in this still place
The peace for which It Jong has plead.
My weary spirit. O 'tis fed
From Lethe! For a little space
I rest in this dear Drowsihead.
He’il Watch "Bloomin’ Young Gale.”
A young man in corduroy pantaloons, and
wits the bloom of a foreign country still linger
ing on his cheek, told the following story at
police headquarters yesterday, says the Detroit
Free Pi es?.
“You see, I was waitin’ in a daypot, as you
folks call it, down ’ere in a town called Toledo,
when a b oomin’young gal comes hup to me
hand says:
“’Couldlbax a great favor of you, young
man ?’
“ ’You could,’ says I.
“ ‘Hare you a fighter?’ says she
“ ‘Suntbink of one,’ says I, ‘ 'aving taken
twenty-four lessons iu boxin’ of the Liverpool
Kid, hand aving put hup me dukes along with
several good uns. ’
“’Then sit beside me, young man, hand pro
tect me from a duffer who is takin’
of the fact that I bam hall alone ’ere in this
daypot.’
“ ’l’ll do it,’ sacs I, ‘hand hi? he dares to wink
at you hagain I'll bust the bloomin’ ’ead of turn
self widebopen.’
“Hand I sat. Hand she sat. Haod haf an
'our, without no bloomin' duffer showin' hup, I
took the train for this town, hand arrived "ere
to find that I ’ad neither watch nor wallet.
That bloomin' young gal 'ad despoiled me.”
"Well?”
“Well, that’s hall, hexcept that I should like
to strike a job, hand that 'ereafter the bloomin’
young women hof America will not puli wool
hover the heyes hof yours truly. ”
Hie Face Won the Case.
Judge West was trying a very important case
in Bellefontaine, says the Toledo Blade. The
plaintiff—the blind orator appeared for the de
fendant—was by all authorities conceded to be
the homeliest man in Logan county. His face
was frequently the cause of great, nerve-bar
rowing paia to him; and often in the stilly
night he was compelled to arise from his coucn
and have his son curry it in order tnat he c m and
get some sleep. It gave him more trouble than
almost anything he ever had that militated
against him.
When he appeared in court Judge West, who
had been told of his facial misfortune, imme
diately had him placed on the witness stand.
“I wish you’d turn around, sir.” said Judge
West, "so the jury may all see you."
The plaintiff turned his soul-destroying face
on the jury.
“Turn clear around, if you please, sir.” said
Judge West, “so all the jury can see you.”
The man wheeled himself into a truer posi
tion yet, and the jury received the full benefit
of it. ,
During an awful, pamful silence of five min
utes the man sat there. No one spoke. The
jury, with gaze riveted on that baneful fare,
sat mute and motionless. Judge West calmly
stroke his beard. Then, when the people began
to grow nervous and apprehensive, he quietly
said:
"That’s all.”
He won the case. The influence of that awful
face had done its deadly work.
Why Tho Judge Hurried.
Judge Peters, says the Lewiston Journal, tells
the following story, and always laughs as he
tells it Sheriff Brown had been; elected in
Penobscot county, and had made his son page,
or messenger, in court. Judge Peters presided
at the first term, and in the middle of the fore
noon announced a recess of fifteen minutes.
He retired to tne library and soon becamo im
mersed ia some legal books, looking up some
points of law. When the time mentioned had
expired the jury came in. but the judge did not.
Tbe Brown boy. who was anxious to have
everything go off in good shape under his
father's administration, grew nervous, and at
last made a bolt for the 1 brary. Walking in
and pulling out his watch, he tapped the judge
upon the shoulder and said: "Come, Mr. Peters,
you’ve got to hurry. Y’our time is up, and the
folks are a waiting." The judge “hurried.”
One on Charles Francis Adams.
It iq veraciouriy chronicled, says the New
York Tribune, that once upon a time, while
traveling west of Omaha, Mr. Charles Francis
Adams was visited in his private car by a typ
ical cowboy, dressed in regulation costume. He
was as much above tbe average hight as Mr.
Adams was below it. Turning to the railway
president be inquired.
“Be you Charles Francis Adams?”
“Yes,” was the reply.
“Charles Francis Adams, president of the
Pacific road?”
"Yes.”
“Then you are the man who writes those
heavy railroad articles for tbe papers.”
“Yes.”
“Gracious, but I expected to see somebody
seven feet high: Y’ou ain’t as big a man as I
thought you was, anyhow!’)
A Story of a Bohemian.
Told at the Press club to tho Chicago Few?
man: I think Cliff Sanders was the most per
fect type of the bohemian in his early days I
ever saw He has, so lam told, settled down
and is doing well. Sanders was working on a
morning paper in St. Louis once, when he had
an offer to go on an afternoon paper. He called
on the city editor, and the following dialogue
ensued:
"How much salary do you want, Mr. San
ders?”
“More than I am getting where I am.”
“We will pay you sls per week, Mr. San
ders.”
“I can borrow more than that," said Mr. San
ders. as he bowed himself out.
Iu that remark is the essence of the philoso
phy which makes a bohemlau happy.
“Why doesn’t he take Hood’s Sarsapa
rilla?” is the general inquiry of friends
when a person suffers from any disease of
the blood.— Adv.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
There are about 640 miles of electric railway
in the United States. Kansas leads with thirty
four miles.
The government telegraph service of Great
Britain transmits, it is said, on the average
1,53:1,270 words a day to newspapers alone.
Between the Ural and Okhotsk seas there is
a spot half a* large as the state of Michigan
which is frozen ground to the depth of ninety
four feet.
The last prison statistics of Prussia dherw
that in the year 1988-’S9 39,700 Prussian prisoner*
worked, all together, 11,900,000 days for wages
of 10 cents each per day.
Ix Paris all the electric wires are under
ground telephone and telegraph, as well as
electric light. This is accomplished under
stringent municipal regulations.
A Kent Island Old.) farmer placed twin or
phan lambs in the care of a female Newfound
land, whose pups he baa sold. She took kind y
to the lambs, and treated them with a motherly
care.
A c-year-old child in Lafayette, N. J., was so
deeply affected by the death last week of his
grandmother that he cried almost continually
thereafter until Sunday, wnen he burst a blood
vessel aad died before medical assistance ar
rived.
Bishop Mackenzie of Zululand, who died on
Feb. 9 of euteric fever, gave instruction* previ -
ous to his demise that bis corpse should be
buried in Zulu fashion. Accordingly no coffin
was used, but the body was tied up in a blan <et
in a kneeling position, and was thus placed in
a hole.
The citv of Philadelphia has a population
of over 1,000,000, and the total number of liquor
licenses granted for the year 1870 is 1.173. Buf
falo has one-quarter of the population of the
Quaker City, but issues double ths number of
licenses.
A New York canoeist has started on the
longest canoe voyage ever undertaken. He set
out from the Statue of Liberty and will end his
voyage, after 7.UXI miles of paddling, at tho
mouth of the Columbia river, low Canby,
Washington.
There was a path >tic scene on the street car
lines of Nashviile a few days ago in the long
line of mule oars that were being taken from
the central to the suburban stables. It was
raining, and the improvised teams were making
their lost trip. Electricity had driven the mule
away.
Thu method employed in inflating the census
in Lyons county was quite ingenious. It con
sisted in “raising" the figures reported by the
assessors by placing the figure 1 before the true
numbers. I'or instance, a family of 3 was
made to show up on the rolls as 13, a family of
5 as 10, and so oh.
Elijah Watson, of Rushville, Mo., has doubt
less held the office of postmaster longer than
any other incumbent in the United States, hav
ing been appointed in 1842, on the establishment
of that office. He is still vigorous, and meets
all trains with aad for his mails as regularly
as he has for so many years.
Anew Atlantic cable is spoken of, to extend
from Claw Bay, in Ireland, to Greenly Island, in
the straits of Belle Isle. The comparative
shortness of the cable -*-1,900 miles—is used as
an argument in favor of the scheme, although
telegraph lines will be required than for any of
the English-American cables.
In a copy of the American Mercury published
in Hartford. Conn., in 1804, the following item
appears: "The drawing of the third class of the
Episcopal Academy Lottery will positively
commence at New Haven on the first Monday
of January next, and to continue from day to
day (Sundays excepted) tili completed.”
Santa Cruz has a horse that is 53 years old.
He went to California in 1848 with William
Handley, and was called an old horse then. For
many years Jerry worked out in the brewery,
but was turned out to rest last year. His favor
ite food is the refuse malt from the still, and he
does no disdain to wash it down with a bucket
of warm beer.
A nation is known by the tobacco it smokes.
England and Germany smoke pipes, and they
are the two most powerful nations in Europe.
France smoked bad cigars under the second
empire, with the natural result of Sedan;
while we all know the decadence of Spain
and Portugal has kept pace with the spread of
cigarette smoking.
When Rome was an empire the males wore
black for mourning, while the women indicated
their grief by wearing white garments. In Tur
key at the present day the mourning hue is vio
let; in China, white; in Egypt, yellow: in Etbi
ophia, brown; in Europe and America, black.
The mourning color in Spain was white until
changed by the laws of 1498.
Over a dozen correspondents have replied in
a London paper to Lord Bury’s invitation to
suggest a convenient verb for electricity. The
following are among the suggestions offered;
To motor. To mote. To electricise. To electrise.
To electrate. To trie. To run. To speed. To
squirm. To spark. To gleam. To flash. To cou
lomb. To volice. To volize. To amber. To bury.
The historical house built by the. Marquis de
Talleyrand on the St. Johns river, near Jackson
ville, Fla., in 1793, is now the winter home of
Mr. and Mrs. Richard R. Paulison. The latter,
an accompl.shed and beautiful woman, is
known as the best lady shot in the south. She
can cut off a coot's head with a rifle at two
hundred yards or shoot an eagle on the wing,
and has performed many other difficult feats of
markmanship.
The Mexican postoffice department is about
to adopt a novel device. A phonograph is to be
placed in each principal office in the country,
for the accommodation of the numerous citi
zens who cannot read or write. The illiterate
Mexican will go to the postoffice, talk his mes
sage into the receiver of the phonograph, and
when the cylinder reaches its destination the
person addressed will be sent for and the mes
sage will be repeated to him by another ma
chine.
At a lecture given In Fairbank, Ont., by a
citizen of Toronto on the subject of “Balaam's
Ass," and illustrated by a magic lantern, John
Windlass attempted to turn the proceedings to
ridicule, and ’ throw suspicion on the verity
of the story of the angelic voice by counterfeit
ing the loud and discordant bray of the unin
spired animal. For this he was summoned to
appear before Justice Wingfield on Tuesday
night on the charge of disturbing a religious
meeting, and was fined $1 and costs.
A sample of cotton with a history has just
been exhibited in Nashville. “It came from a
bale raised near West Point, Miss., in 1863. The
man who raised the cotton was offered 42 cents
per pound for it in 1864, but refused to take it.
He has bince been holding for a raise that never
came and on March 19 last he sold it for 10 cents
per pound. Estimating the bale to weigh 500
pounds, and counting simple interest on the
money at 6 per cent the planter lost $487 6(Jny
not disposing of it twenty-six years ago. ’’he
cotton is perfectly sound and as good as when
taken from the field.”
There appeared last week In the obituary
columns of the Philadelphia Ledger notices of
the deaths of twenty-two persons, four men
and eighteen women, who had lived to or be
yond the advanced age of 80 years, to wit; Mary
A. Rigby, Louisa Yocum, Henriette Campe, 80-
Jane Anderson, Susan Jagoe, Elizabeth Vander
veer, Elizabeth V. Brown, 81: Margaret G
Sheppard, Almyra L. Cooley, Sarah Smith, 82;
Joseph B. Smith, Thomas Drake, Mary Lord,
Henrietta M. Simpson, S3: William Steele, Pat
rick McAleer, Esther Cummings, 84; Elizabeth
Wolfe. 85; Matildi Bookbinder, 88; Elizabeth
Eline, 91; Matilda Norris. 92; Hinda Grose, 104.
In repairing Goethe’s house recently, says
the Frankfurtur Zeitung, a package that in
cluded seventeen love letters in Goethe’s hand
was found in a rec’ss in one of the walls. The
letters were datea in 1774, and addressed, “An
die Jungfer Klarchen Laubenthaler in der Gold
federgasse.” Tied up with these letters were
five manuscript poems in Goethe's handwriting
four of which appear in the edition of his col
lected works, though the fifth called “Liebes
gluck,” has never been printed, “probably,"
says the Frankfurtur Zeitung, "on account
of its very free There were
also a miniature of Goethe as he was
at about 20, twenty-nine letters signed by
Klarchen. addressed to “Dr. Goethe, the
younger," and a miniature representing a beau
tiful young girl, as well as two locks of hair,
one dark bioude and one light blonde, which are
supposed to have been Goetbe’sand Klarchen’s.
Klarchen is thought to be the girl whom Uoetbe
was in love with before he knew Lili Schone
mann. This girl as he said, he “carried in his
heart like a flower of spring.” Klarch-n is also
supposed to be the original of the character of
the same name in Goethe’s “Egmont.”
An Aromatic Fragrance
Is imparted to the mouth by the use of
SOZODONT. It is beyond doubt the clean
est, purest and best wash ever offered to
the public. SOZODONT and comfort are
synonyms. It cleanses the cavities in the
enamel of the teeth.— Adv.
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