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American Newspaper Publishers' Assocxatiox, Potter Building. PHILADELPHIA -11. W. atkr 4 Box, Times Building, BOSTON -15. R. Niles, 25? Washington street nrrrENGiLL 4 Cos., 10 State street. CHICAGO- ZaORD & Thomas, 48 Randolph street Cincinnati— Edwin Aldev Compaxt, 86 West Fourth street NEW HAVEN— The H. P. Hubbard Coupary. 25 Elm street. ST LOUIS— Nels 'N Chesman & Cos., 1127 Pine street ATLANTA— Morning News Bureau, t<4 Whitehall street MACON- Caily Telegraph Office, 697 Mulberry street INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Meetings- Landrum Lodge No. 48, F. 4 A. M.; Myrtle Lodge No. 6, K. of P.; Pulaski Coun cil No. 153, R. A; Executive Board Merchants' Week. Special Notices—Notice of Removal, R. C. Fetzer; Remember Special Saturday’s Trices at Heidt’s. Miiltary Order—General Order No. 17, Sa vannah Cadets. We Ctre Frrs—The Globe Shoe Store. Onions, Potatoes, Etc.—W. D. Sim kins. The New Process Vapor Stove—Cornwell 4 Chipman. Largest and Cheapest Furniture and Car pet House—Lindsay 4 Morgan. Summer Resorts—Capon Springs and Baths, Hampshire County, West Virginia, W. H. Sale, Proprietor. “La Hermitage” for Sale or Rent—F. S. F. Adams, New Bedford, Mass. Cheap Column Advertisements Help Wanted: Employment Wanted; For Rent; For Sale; Lost; Personal; Miscellaneous. Quite a number of those who have posed as good men in New York have become candidates for the penitentiary recently. Mr. Freddie Gebh&rd does not occupy a great deal of space in the public prints of New York now-a-days. Since the beautiful Langtry deserted him he courts tranquillity. The mayor of Cedar Key, Fla., evidently believes in one man power. His refiorted performances there justify the conclusion that he would make a first-class mayor of an Arizona town. Manufacturers’ manners, as exhibited in the House, are not an improvement upon plantation manners. It is probable that Massachusetts men will have nothing more to say about plantation manners. There is a suggestion that a railroad bar’l has been opened at Frankfort, Ky., with the view of defeating Mr. Carlisle for senator. It was hoped that only whisky barrels would be opened during the contest. The Louisiana legislature, from present indications, will look a long while at the $25,000,000 offer made by the Louisiana Lottery Company before making up its mind to reject it, if it does reject it. It is clear that the republican majority do not intend to allow the McKinley bill to be amended. They are afraid that if the door to amendments were opened the bill would be so changed that its best friends would not recognize it. Chicago appears to be getting some satis faction out of the thought that European visitors to the world’s fair will be paralyzed by the sight of her suburban railway car lamp. From all accounts nothing like it has been or is likely to be seen in any other part of the world. Representative Ben Butterworth is quite a lion in Washington now. No other republi can had the courage to point out how great a fraud the McKinley tariff bill is. Butter worth is the most popular man in the House, and one of the ablest. It is to be regretted that the country is to be deprived of his ser vices. Col. Elliott Shepard, of the Mail and Express, is trying to boost himself into the mayoralty of New York city. There is about as much probability of his getting there as there is of his newspaper teiliug the truth. He is a sort of a crank, out of whom the ward bummers are having a good deal of fun. The two New York lawyers, Joseph Meeks and Benjamin Wright, who helped Sheriff Flack of that city to get a divorce from his wife, stand a very good chance of nt vei’ assisting in getting another divorce. They have been required by the supreme court of New York to show cause why they should not be disbarred. The ways and means committee was in clined to shut off Col. Livingston’s speech in support of the alliance sub-treasury plan by giving him permission to print his re marks. The colonel, however, gave the committee to understand that it could not squelch him in that way. He had some thing to say in behalf of the farmers, and he wanted to say it. The committee had to yield, and doubtless it was well repaid for yielding. Is This True, Mr. McKinley? The New York Evening Post says that the tin plate duty “is not intended arid never was intended to establish the man ufacture of tin plate, but to compel people to use galvanized sheet iron for roofing in stead of tin." Thera is some reason for thinking that this statement is true. It is well known that tin plate is not now man ufactured in this country, aid it is certain that no money would be invested in the manufacture of it unless there was a guar antee of some sort that could be depended upon that the duty would not be removed until the industry was firmly established. It is evident that no such guarantee could be given. There is no probability that the Republican party will remain in power for any considerable length of time, and it is not certain that if it should remain in power many years it would not change its position with regard to tin plate. It has changed its position relative to sugar, quiniue, raw silk and other articles, and it might tase an altogether different view of the tin plate question within a very few years. Under the circumstances, there fore, the presumption that the tin plate duty is in the interest of the manufacturers of galvanized iron is not a violent one. The McKinley bill puts a duty of 120 per cent, on tin plate. This duty would take out of the pockets of the people about $8,000,000 a year, and the greater part of this enormous sum would be paid by the purer people, particularly tae farmers. The additional cost of tin cans for canning purposes would he paid either by the fruit and vegetable growers or by the consumers of canned goods. And the people are to be taxed to the extent of $8,000,000, for what! Why. that the manufacturers of galvanized iron may compel the use of that article for roofing! These manufacturers expect that the enormous tariff on tin plate would pre vent that article from being used for roof ing, and that galvanized iron would be sub stituted for it. They would make fortunes, of course, but in the meantime the people, owing to the burdensome tariff, would be come steadily poorer. Does Mr. McKinley hope to win the confidence of the people by such legislation as this! The Law Doesn’t Beach Him. The humiliating fact has been discovered in Maryland that Stevenson Archer, re cently treasurer of that state, cannot be punished for embezzling $132,(100 of -the state’s money. He was indicted for embez zlement, and the state’s lawyers thought they would soon have him in the peniten tiary, but on Tuesday a demurrer to the in dictment was sustained. In this demurrer the point was made that under the law of the state only officers who failed to pay over to the state treasurer the state’s money received by them could be indicted for em bezzlement. As Archer, being state treas urer, was not required to pay over money to anybody, it was pretty plain that the law did not cover his case, and therefoie the indictment against him was quashed. Is it not remarkable that the lawmakers are so short-sighted? Very many of the most important laws that are passed by state legislatures and by congress are faulty in some particular, and yet very able law yers assist in making these laws. The truth doubtless is that lawyers, when mak ing laws, do not do their work as thor oughly as when they are serving their clients. They are satisfied with a very careless reading of the bills upon which they are required to pass, and often they vote for or against bills of which they know almost nothing. It may be that Treasurer Archer will not escape punishment altogether. He will be indicted and tried probably for malfea sance in office, but the punishment attached to that offense is comparatively insignifi cant. The chances are that, having stolen $132,000 of the people’s money, he will not suffer as severe punishment as is sometimes inflicted upon a half-starved and friendless man who has been convicted of stealing a loaf of bread. The North Dakota people think they will soon be able to make all the sugar this country needs. The state is well adapted to the growing of the sugar beet, and there is any quantity of coal close at hand with which to rob the beet of its sweetness. Senator Pierce of North Dakota, speaking of this matter in Washiugton the other day, said: “Some of our German farmers have been experimenting with the sugar beet, and they have been so successful that hun dreds and even thousands will make like ex periments this year. The temperature and the prevailing degree of moisture s ;em to be admirably adapted to the maturing of this vegetable to the point where it con taius the greatest possible amount of sac charine matter. All over North Dakota we have veins of soft coal from three to ten feet in thickness, in many places crop ping out at the sutfaco. If the beet crop is what it promises to be arrangements to transform it into sugar will be made on a large scale, the coal supply being an im portant factor.” North Dakota may fur nish the country with sugar and Alabama will probably furnish it with iron. This will be rather changing things about, as the popular i lea has been that the south furnished sugar and the north iron. British Minister Pauncefote on Tuesday planted an oak sapling iu front of the tomb of Washington, at Mount Vernon. The sapling grew from an English acorn given to the minister by the Prince of Wales on the occasion of the minister’s last visit to England. It seems that the prince planted a tree at Mount Vernon in 18(52, when he visited this country, and it died. He was anxious to huvo another planted there, and the minister acted in accordance with his wishes. Maj. George W. Steele, who his been appointed governor of Oklahoma, is one o f the President’3 Indiana friends. He is 51 years of age, and was a private in the federal army daring the civil war. The President finds it difficult, apparently, to find good material for territorial officials outside of Indiana. He seems to be de termined to make that state solid for his party. It is seldom that a broken neck is mended. Mary Donohue, however, who has just been discharged from the Pennsylvania hospital in Philadelphia, entered that institution last September with her neck broken. Her spinal cord was uninjured, but the bony covering of the spinal cord was dislocated. The doctors patched up the broken joint, and now tier neck is apparently as good as ever it was. Emin Pasha doesn’t seem inclined to publish the information concerning Stanley which, he says, would create a sensation. Emin has been so long a resident of the interior of Africa that it is probable that he doesn’t know what would be regarded as sensation at the present time. THE MORNING NEWS: FRIDAY, MAY 16, 1890. Reed's Retreat. Speaker Reed and (ome of the other re publican leaders in congress are opposed to passing a river and harbor bill at this ses sion. They are beginning to find out, how ever, that there is a very strong sentiment m favor of passing tbe bill with as little delay as possible. They have heard enough within the last two of three days to con vince them that a failure to pass the bill would do their party a great deal of harm. Several of the senators have inte rested themseivei in behalf of the bill, and they are sati-fie 1 that it could be put through under a suspenstoi of tbe rules, so numerous are its friends in both the House and the Sena's. Speaker Reed is reported to have said to Mr. Henderson, the chairman of the river and harbor committee, a day or two ago, that he would permit him to call up the bill immediately after the tariff bill was out of the way. Assuming that this state ment is correct, it is apparent that Speaker Reed has changed his mind relative to per mitting the bill to pass at this session. No greater mistake could be made than to delay the passage of the bill until next session. The delay would cost the govern ment hundreds of thousands of dollars and would work inctlculable injiry to com merce. The engineers iu charge of the river and harbor improvements are waiting patiently for the money with which to con tinue work. To as great an extent as possible, cons.stent with economy, they are retaining their trained employes. If no river and harbor bill this year they must discharge their employes and close their offices. Tue improvement works must be virtually abandoned for a year or more, and the da nage these works, in their un finished condition, would sustain would be very great. It would be much wiser for the repub licans to cut down the proposed appropria tions for pensions, if they fear a deficiency, than to refute to make aa appropriation for rivers and harbors. Notwithstanding the fact that a few men in congress make it a point to oppose the river and harbor bill, that bill has the approval of the great ma jority of the people. Methodist Conferences South. The Chicago Inter-Ocea n prints some in teresting figures relative to the general con ferences of the Southern Methodist Church, which is now holding its general conference in St. Louis. This is the eleventh of its quadrennial conferences, and the first one that has been held in St. Louis since 1850. The first of these conferences was held in Petersburg, Va., in 1816; the second in St. Louis In 1850; the third in Columbus, Ga, iu 1854; the fourth iu Nashville, ia ISSB. At the fourth conference all that was necessary to make the separation of the Methodist Episcopal Church South from the Methodist Episcopal Church North final was adjusted. The northern church offered to pay the southern church SBO,OOO, aud the offer was accepted. The fifth conference was held in Now Or leans in 1862, but nothing was done at that time. It was adjourned to meet at the same place in 1866. The physical condition of the church in 1866 was pretty bad. The greater part of the church property had been de sjroved. Iu 1870 the sixth conference met in Memphis, and the proposition of the northern church to make an organic union of the two churcho3 was rejected. The seventh met in Louisville in 1874, the eighth ii Atlanta in 1878, the ninth in Nashville in ISB2. At the ninth conference the Woman’s Missionary Society was established. The tenth conference was held in Richmond in 1886. Again, after forty years, the confer ence is iu session in St. Louis. What won derful changes have taken place in the church within that period 1 The carpenters’ strike in Chicago seems to have affected some of the preachers of that city. One of the aristocratic congre gations had a preacher they liked very well, but they were not willing to give him any where near the salary he thought he was entitled to. Not long ago he packed his sachel and went to Brooklyn, the city of churches, and preached a trial sermon be fore one of the congregations there. The congregation was so well pleased with him that they gave him a call at once, which he accepted. Now the aristocratic Chicago congregation are bemoaning their loss and beseeching the good man to change his de termination to leave them. Ho yields not to their beseechings, however, and declares ' that even the fact that Chicago is to have the world’s fair is not sufficient to keep him away from Brooklyn. The impression is getting abroad that the census enumerators are going to ask a good many impertinent questions. The New York Star says that they will demand from their victims information on the following points: Whether suffering from acute or chronic disease, with name of disease and length of time affected. Whether defective in mind, sight, hearing or speech, or whether crippled, maimed or deformed, with name of defect. Judging from the amount of patent med icines used nearly everybody thinks he is defective in some respect. The enumerators, therefore, may find the population in a pretty bad condition. A story has been started in New York that Richard Croker, the Tam many leader, is hurrying back to that city to put a pad look on the mouth of brother-in-law Patrick McCann. There is no truth, evidently, in that story. McCann has done Tammany all the harm he can, aud Tammany has lifted him out of the St. Vincent restaurant in Central park. It is true that Mr. Croker quietly l.ft Wiesbaden several days ago. It is understood that his de3tina'.ion was Switzerland, not New York. It will bo many months before Tammany will see Richard Croker. if what his German physi cians said about his physical condition is true. Mr. John H. Inra m is reported as hav ing said that the Richmond Terminal wa3 ready to buy a controlling interest in the Baltimore aud Ohio railroad, aud that the holders of the stock are ready to sell. “It is merely a question of price at present," he said. Mr. Inman, however, declined to say how much per share the stockholders asked. In view of the fact that the stock holders wanted S2OO per share two years ago and that the Richmond Terminal peo ple were willing to pay only SIOO per share at that time, it is probable that buyer and seller are a good way apart. Dr. Talmage is congratulating himself that his new tabernacle will have a $30,000 organ. Perhaps when the organ is ready for use the doctor will have himself inter viewed again, and will have the interview illustrated with pictures of himself playing it. Nothing pleases him better than the thought that be is making a noise in the world. PERSONAL. President Harrison rariW (*'*kes more iban Uiree cigars a day, it is.Jttsed —one after each meaL ___ Three of our Presidents. Monroe. Taylor, and Hayes, were inaugurate lon Monday, March 5, the 4th occurring on Sunlay. 9 The will of the late American hanker. James Morgan, was admired to prohate in London. The estate is valued at ?10,l!0.2:o. It is expected that Johannes Wolff, the vio linist who has mad" quite a reputation in Europe, will visit this country next autumn. BtR Frederick Leighton. the pointer, is a man with curly hair and ruddy face, fringed with a black beard. He is now 60 years of age. Robert Lons Stevenson seems to have made up his mind to remain in Samoa, and there is a movement afoot to make him the British consul there. The most successful salon in Paris is that of the Comtesse da Kers-iint, who will receive no gentleman unless be ts clothed In as gay colors and as fine st uffs as the women. Surprise has been caused by the publication in a literary monthly of a portrait of the Rev. Dr. Phil ips Brooks. He has always been strongly averse to the sale or display of his portraits. Edward Bellamy, author of “Looking Back ward," said that he has not made the fortune out of his book which the newspapers have credited him with making. He is looking for ward to the fortune. ''Ouida" uses on her hair and eyebrows a scent that costs S3O an ounce. She can’t bear starched muslin, and the touch of velvet makes her flesh creep. “Ouida's" stories make some people's flesh creep. A Yor\G lady named Sensabough, who for the past fourteen years has been a teacher at the Educational home in Philadelphia, has been married to one of her Indian pupils, a full bloodeJ, fine-looking Mohawk. The Czar of Russia wears the largest ruby in the world, valued at SIOO,OOO, in his crown, which is raiter shaped and has on its crest a cross composed of five lag diamonds support ing the ruoy. It takes diamonds to support a ruby of that kind. Mrs. Mary Miller of Western Pennsylvania, probably the wealthiest colored woman in the country, died the other day. Her income was S2OO a day. Four years ago she owned a barren piece of ground, but there was oil beneath its surface, which made it oil right. Several manuscript copies of music written by Mozart have been accidentally discovered on ttie shelves of a bookseller in Manchester, Eng. Among them are two concertos written by him when a child and several numbers from the opera '‘-Uithridate,” composed at Milan in 1770. BRIGHT BIT 3. George Washington was worth nearly a million of dollar *, yet he wasn't able to buy a 2 cent stamp with his portrait on it .—Texas Siftings. An old baldhead, who is likewise an old bachelor as wed as an old scoundrel, speaks of women as resembling gratifying news. They are good; some df them too good to be true.— Puck. A Bit of Philosophy—lf you lend a man five dollars he simply gets that much in your debt; but if you allow him to wheedle you out of a honored you've made him an enemy for life.— Judoe ‘•Rusk is down on Harrison, I understand.’’ “What is the matter?” “Harrison wants 1 to speak to him the other day aud yelied ‘Hay’ at hlm.’V-.i/un.'K’y’s Weekly. Some Actior.d-Coal Dealer- Has Biggins taken any action on that hi 1 of bis yet? Collector —Yes. a little. He kicked me down stairs the last time I called, and tue bill with me.— Terre Hav e bigness. “I have an aunt that is very unfortunate,” said Maude. “She Is slightly deaf and very near sighted.” "Gracious"?' responded Mamie: “what a lovely chaperone she would make.”— Washing ton Post. Old Million—What? Want to marry mv daughter? Why, the child is hardly out df school dresses yot. Bbe needs a mother’s care as much as ever. Young Poorchap—O, that’s all right. I'll live here.— Life. “Mother, our teacher came near lickin’ me this morning. ” “What for. .Johnny?” “’Cause I argued that when it was more than one gooseberry a ought to be called geeseber Ties.’’— Kentucky State Journal. Willie—Mamma, will God hate us if we don’t do just exactly as he says in the Bitile? Mamma— O, I trust,not darling! Why? Willie—Because Billy Wilkins punched me in the stomach, and I didn't have any other stom acato turn. —Burlington Free Press. “What's the matter with iuommer?” asked the Prince of Wales. "I fear her majesty has the grip,” replied the royal physician. "I know she lias,” qdrled Albert Edward, sad ly, “the grip of the throne.'’— Eooch. Scientist (delightedly trying a long distance telephone)—Hello! I’m in New York. Where are you? Voice (at other end)—Say lend me SIO,OOO for thirty days, will you? Scientist—Wonderful! Wonderful: That’s from Chicago.— New York Weekly. Two young men graduated from a well-known medical school, and both went into practice in New York. One was a bright fellow and hard worker and a modest man, the other a man of showy parts and not given to overwork. The latter soon secured a handsome practice. The other got little practice, and when making a call upon his classmate, remarked: “How is it, J., that you, who never worked in school, who often came to me for assistance over knotty matters, which I rendered, (and J. admitted all as stated] have a large practice while I am not yet earning a living?" “Come to the window and I will explain to you the whole case. Of every hundred persons you see passing up street eighty at least are fools. lam doctoring the eighty while you are attending to the twenty wise men.”—Brunswick (Me .) Telegraph. Dcrisg a moment of sojourn in a law firm’s office a Pioneer-Press interloper was surprised by the sudden appearance of an ebon-bued sep tuagenarian with a huge “For Rent” poster in his hands. The letters were six inches long and as black as the man’s face. Holding the placard upside down he inquired: "Boss, dat's fer rent, ain't hit?” “Yes,” answered he, “that’s for rent, sure enough.” “De gemman in de nex offls tole me ter cum an’ git hit an’ tack bit un on er house. Hit's all right now, ain’t hit?” “It won’t be if you put it up that way; it’s up side down.” “Whuff difference dat make? I kain’t read, boss; but bless my soul ef I kin see how er man's gwine ter miss seein' deni elefunt tracks ef ’tis upside down. I ain’t litery, but ef I seel dat sign I shod stop in an' inquire what was gwine on wrong inside, sure’null, boss.”— St. Paul Pioneer-Press. CURRENT COMMENT. Real Estate’s Boom. From the Philadelphia Times (/ad ). The rate at which this earth is being mapped off and sold in chunks of superfical area is something startling. After a while there will be nothing left but to dig holes in the ground and sell the sides. And there is enough enter prise lying around loose to hit on some way of making the perpendicular surfaces desirable in vestments. Bough on the Toilers. From the Philadelphia Record (Dent.). The Cleveland leader (Rep.), admits that the proposed increase of duty on tin plates will make them dearer. Is this a good way to help the workingmen in this country, who, liy invest ing in loan associations, desire to build houses, requiring more or less tin to make them imper vious to rain? Benefits of Promot Arbitration. From the Kansas City Times (Dem.). Distinctively a victory for organized labor and the union principle as it is, the settlement of the great carpenters’ strike in Chicago, which cost $1,000,00J a week while it endured, renews the thought that arbitration might in the beginning have proved as effective as in the end. The ecu .rntous losses attendant upon such cessations of productive activity by vast bodies of workers are shared in some degree by all members of the community. Tbe blow of a hammer by the lake side sends out a beneficial resonance to the Klo Grande. The 10 Per Cent. Mortgage. From the Boston Herald (Rep.). A Kansas farmer, who bad brought himself down to a skeleton wrestling with a heavy mortgage, was struck by a shower of meteors, one of which he picked up and sold to a geolog ical society for SI,OOO— enough to pay off his mortgage. The possibility of lifting a 10 per cent, farm vasxl gage dfjjpflds greatly upon one's being striWk -by bghfaing or a two-ton bowlder from the moon. WHAT “BOTANY" DID. A Younu Lady Who Ulxed Up Her Misinformation Interestingly. I was crossing the Roosevelt street ferry the other day and chanced to sit near two young ladies, says the Brooklyn Eagle, one of whom wore a sprav of beautiful peach blossoms o' an unususlly deep pink color. Her companion remarked about their freshness and beauty, and inquired what kiDd of flowers they were? "O. thes • are pear blossoms,” was the reply. • We nave a lovely great tree full of them, and we have a jieach tree. too. but you know peach blossoms are not out yet. They are not so pretty as these. They are almost a pure white, you know.” *T>id you ever see apple blossoms?” asked the friend. “I don’t remember that I ever did,” was the reply, “but they are even whiter than the pear blossoms and they are not pretty at aIL” •‘Why, how did you learn so much about these things?” asked the friend. “O, I studied botany Inst year ” she replied, “and I took spch an interest in it that I think I shall always remember it.” I wondered how many of the Brooklyn girls had "studied botany” and "knew so much” about the common flowers. F. A Fool for Luck. Said a well-known sporting man to a Louis ville Commercial reporter: “I saw a very funny thing happen in a big game of poker the other night. A coterie of half a dozen choice spirits had their legs under the table and were pleying a stiff game. Great stacks of reds and blues were in front of every one, and fully $1 .000 worth of chips were on the board. A certain well-know n colonel of the city happened into the room, and being pressed to it by the crowd took a seat in the game. The old fellow had been making a round of it and was in that mellow state of semi stupor which dawns over a fellow after the corks have been popping. In other words he was loaded; but he sat down anyway and bought SIOO worth of chips. Only a few hands had been dealt when the colonel s head sank softly down on his chest, his heavy eyetids closed, and he was fast 6leep. When another hand had been dealt, one of the players 'skinned’ ms cards carefully, and discovered an ace-kiug high flush of red. throbbing, living hearts. He reached across the table and gave the co onei a dig in the ribs. ‘Wake up,’ said he, ’wake up and play your cards.’ The colonel finally roused up, picked up his hand in a jum bled. careless fashion, and came in. Tne gen tleman with the flush raised, and so did the colonel, and so on till every dollar before each had gone to swell a prodigiously big pot. The boys hated to see the colonel betting away in his maudlin way. They pitied him. They knew he was throwing his money at the birds. ‘How many cards?' said the dealer. Thump, thump, the fists of the two men hit the table. They were both pat. It was a show down then, and the drowsy colonel spread out upon the board a queen full, and the boys shoved him the pot; he was too drunk to reach for it. The laugh was on the other player, and he says it Is the first time he ever wakened a man up to make him play his hand,and he swears it will be the last.” She Knew Him Best. She stood at the writing desk in the postofflce corridor with a sheet of paper and an envelope before her, says the Detroit Free Frets, and as a .man approached with a postal card she queried: "Alight I ask you to write a few lines for me to my husband?” "Certainly,” he replied. •’Well, date it; begin: ‘ATy dear husband’; and then I’ll tell you what to say.” ‘ All right, go ahead, ma’am.” “Now Hay: ’Wood is out—flour is out—moat is out—money is out and rent is due, and I want S2O p. and. q. I' ” ’ Exactly. You know what the letters stand for, l supi>o3e "Certainly.” "And—and qren’t they a little strong?” "No, sir—not for my old man. I’ve lived with him tweuty-flve years and know him liko a book." "All right—you kDow best.” “And you may add; ’lf it don’t come by Saturday IT) raise !’ ” "Certainly.” “Now I’ll sign: ’Your Dear Mary,’ and it will be all ready to go, and I bet you five to one I get the twe ity inside of three days. Strong! Why, man, I can’t even get him to bring home a bit of butter or a package of sugar without threatening to knock his —— head off if he forgets it. Thanks, you have done me a great favor.” Lost. From the Newark Journal. ’Twas a summer ago, when he left me here, A summer of smiles with never a tear, ’Till I said to him, with a sob. my dear: Goof Dy, my lover, good-by! For I love him. oh. as the stars love night! And my cheeks for him Hashed red and white When first he called me his heart’s delight; Good-by. my lover, good-by! The touch of his band was a thing divine As he sat with me in the soft moonshine. And drank of my love as men drink wine: Good-by, my lover, good-by! And never a night, as I knelt in prayer. In a gown as white as our own souls were. But in fancy he came and kissed me there: Good-by, my lover, good-by! But now, O God! what an empty place Aly whole heart is! Of the old embrace. And the kiss I loved there lives no trace: Good-by, my lover, good-by! He sailed not over the stormy sea; And he went not down in the waves, not he, But, oh, he is lost, for he married me: Good-by, my lover, good-by! James Whitcomb Riley. An t. vallabla Explanation. A citizen was pasdng up Maoomb street the other evening, says the Detroit Free Press, when a man rusljed out on him from an alley and knocked him down, but had hardly done so before he said; "Really, now. I beg a thousand pardons. You are not the man I was after.” "But you have bunged my eye for me,” said the otner as he got up. “Yes, but it was through a mistake.” “But wiiat am I to do?” “lay for some other fellow and black his eye.” "But lam no fighter. I neverihit anybody in my life. When Igo home with this my wife will want to know bow it happened, and sue won’t believe that there was a mistake.” "Lay it to the police.” “How?” "Why, say that you were waiting on the corner and a patrolman came up and gave you a whack." "By George! but that solves the problem! One was around our place last week and notified her to remove a pail of ashes, and she bit bim with a tomato can. She'll believe it quicker’n scat, and she's just the woman to go down and blow up the superintendent. Much obliged for your kindness, sir. This may be a blessing in disguise.” Wonders How He Stands. Shelby Cullom of Illinois is in doubt just now how he stands at the white house, says the New York Star. He was entertaining a party of friends the other evening at his house, among them Gen. Bane of Illinois, formerly,by Cullom and Logan’s iufluence, surveyor general of Utah, and Gen. Gilchrist of Salt Lake City. Just as these two gentlemen rose to leave a dis tinguished-looking stranger, who gave his name simply as "Mr. Sprague," was shown in, and was asked to take a seat. “Well, senator," said Bane, half jocularly, half in earnest, "we must take good care of your presidential boom. I’ll look after it in Southern Illinois, and. Judge, you must see that Utah is all right." "I'll answer for Utah,” said Gilchrist. Then tbe Illinois statesman turned to Mr. Sprague and asked his pleasure. "1 came from the white house, senator, at the request of the President, to say he would very much like to see you." Cullom is wondering whether Mr. Sprague has repeated that little incident to Mr. Harri son, and, if so, what Benjamin thinks about it. Wrong Kind of License. A little misunderstanding, due to the city clerk’s recent absorption In the dog-taxing business, happened in Belfast the other day, says the Lewiston Journal. A young man walked bashfully into the office, and when his turn came he huskily asked the clerk for a li cense. “What name?” said the clerk The young man gave his name, and the clerk hastily wrote it down on a dog license. “What age, breed and color ig it?” was the next question. "I—l didn’t know you had to tell all that ” said the young man. "Have to do that in order to identify them ’’ said the clerk. “But Mrs. Blank knows her. She has worked there for a long time. ” “Eh, what’s that?" said the clerk. "Why, we think of getting married,” whis pered the young man. It was strange that the clerk couldn't spot that sort of a customer at first glance: ITEMS OF INTEREST. The champion pug of England weigh* but five pound*. Or a family or sixties near Taylor*town, Pa, thirteen have died of diphtheria A Detroit electric light company in*urea the lives of its employe* for $5,000 each. The latest addition to the Hillman menagerie is a cat with human bands on its front legs. Ax lowa congregation borrowed SIOO,OOO to build a church and secured the creditor with insurance policies upon the lives of certain members. An American composers’ festival is an nounced to take place at Omaha Neb , Nov. 27, 28 and 20, the works to be performed to be those of native American composition. McGill College Observatory at Montreal and Greenwich have been placed in telegraph communication. The time in transmitting sig nals the 3,500 miles is three-quarters of a sec ond. Pittsburg Roman Catholics have organized the American Federation of Catholic Societies, the purpose of which is to consolidate all the Catholic organizations in the country under that name. In the great library at Paris there is a Chi nese chart of the heavens, made 600 years before Christ, showing the location of 1,460 stars, correct as corroborated by the best sci entists of the present day. In mailing the first half of his manuscript of “Darkest Africa” from Cairo to the Scribners Stanley wrote: “When it is done, not Vander bilt’s wealth would induce me to write upon the subject at any length again.” According to figures compiled by the Chi cago Times, out of 14,779 murderers who took human life in the Bix years from 1884 to 1889, only 558 paid the penalty of their crimes by yielding their own lives to the law. An electric typewriter is being constructed which will write letters in New York as they are transmitted from Boston, and vice versa, the communications being transmitted simul taneously over four separata wires. Twenty survivors of the charge at Bal ak lava are in an English workhouse, and the others are dragging out a miserable old age. A recent effort to raisa a fund for these veterans only secured the paltry sum oi $l2O. A Manchester granite cutter has con tracted, for SB,OOO, to cut out of Barre (Vt.) granite a fifty-ton monument, to be placed over the grave of Hugh W. Hughes, who in life was known as the “Slate King of America." During clear days people of Carthage, 111., have distinctly heard the ringing of a ponder ous church bell at Golden, twenty-eight miles away. The bell bangs in tbe German Lutheran church tower at Golden, and it requires two men to ring it. Longfellow’s house in Cambridge is now oc cupied by his eldest daughter and her uncle. Rev. Samuel Longfellow. The home is kept UDcbauged. Miss Longfellow’s sisters, Mrs. It. H. Dana and Mrs. Thorpe, have built houses ad joining the old estate. Before the close of the year 1892 the pension taxes alone will average over sl4 a year on every head of family in the United States. The present average per head of family is exactly $9 a year, or $108,000,000 annually on 12,000,000 heads of family in a population of 60,000,000. Sixteen years ago a Swiss cobbler named Bernaserni left his home in the Canton Tessin and emigrate ito the Argentine Republic. He has now returned the possessor of millions which he made as a dealer in leather and hides. He is now building on the place w here his Swiss house stood an asylum for 200 children. A shoe factory at New Canaan, Conn., ha* just made a pair of shoes for a Charlotte, N. 0., man. They ars the biggest ones ever made. The size is No. 32. Eaeu shoe is twenty inches long and eight inches wide. The man who is to wear tnem is a clergyman, six feet ten inches tali, and weighs 410 pounds, and the county in which he dwells is a roomy one. The Chinamen of Astoria, Ore., ar& amusing themselves with a huge top made out of an empty 25-pound white lead keg. A square open ing is cut in the side and it takes three men to spin it, one to hold the top and two to pull the string with a stick which sets it in motion. While spinning it sounds like the whistle of a steamer, and can be heard three blocks away. Robert Browning’s will, dated Feb. 12. 1884, was witnessed by Tennyson and F. T. Palgrave, and left all his property to his son, the artist, Robert Barrett Browning, save a charge of SI,OOO a year to Miss Browning, tbe poet’s sis ter. Tbe gross value of the personal estate in the United Kingdom is sworn under $84,000, but there is also property in Italian stocks and real estate. At Durham, N. C„ since the city has had elec tric illumination, the ravages of the tobacco worm have been greatly reduced, tne insects having been killed by the lights. It is suggested that a powerful electric light in the center of one of the sea islands growing the famous long staple cotton might save all the plantations sur rounding it from the destruction so frequently wrought by the cotton army-worm. >l. Bartholdi, the well-known architect of the American figure of “Liberty,” is engaged in designing a monument to commemorate the baloon service of the Franco-Prussian war, which is to be erected in the square of St.’ Pierre, Paris. He proposes to construct a model of a baloon out of thick glass, with au iron-work netting. An electric arc lamp will occupy the centre, and light up the whole in terior. John Deutsch, 13 years old, is employed at a basket factory at Baltimore, and during dinner hour, while taking a pull at his coffee flask, his tongue was drawn into the nozzle by suction, so that, try as he would, he could not get it out. It was drawn further and further in until the flask was forced into his mouth. The toneue, to make matters worse, began to swell, and after vainly trying to get it loose himself, he hurried to tbe hospital. Dr. Warfield, after some diffi culty, released the disfigured member. The Hindoo barbers of Bombay made an extraordinary demonstration in the last week of April. A monster meeting was held for the purpose of considering the question of shaving the heads of Hindoo widows, an old custom About 400 barbers having assembled, one of them, Babajee More, stated that the barbers of old were happy and contented, but latterly had been weighted with a curse. Trade had fallen off and they had become poor. The curse could only be accounted for Dy the fact that snaving the heads of poor, innocent widows was a sin It was against the Hindoo scriptures to deprive a widow of her hair. The meeting thereupon resolved that no barber should shave a widow’s head, and that if he did he should be excom municated. A Polish pianist, M. Paderewski, is the lion of the Paris musical season. He crams the Salie Erard whenever he plays, and he plays Chopin chiefly and best. A critic says: "Of a surety no pianiste of our time has succeeded so completely in rendering the works of that strange musician witn the poetical insight man ifested by M. Paderewski. His delicacy of touch is simply marvelous, and he has the rare recommendation of never by any chance striking a false note. His extraordinary light ness or linger does not by any means exclude the exhibition of great power when the occasion for it arises, so that he is enabled to infuss into his playing an amount of ’color’ which is alto gether unrivaled.” Not since Rubenstein has a pian.st created such comment. The proof that Marat, the French revolution ary leader, was really convicted of theft has set at rest a long standing controversy. Marat was in England in 1776, was accused of a theft of old coins, escaped to Ireland, was apprehended at an Irish assembly in the disguise of a Ger man count, and was brought from Dublin by habeas corpus for trial in England. A contem porary letter describing the a-sizes of 1776, at which it was thought that Marat would have been tried, is silent. The clerk of assize to the Oxford circuit has at lAst supplied the missing link in the evidence by finding that Marat was convicted at the assizes which commenced at Oxford on March 5, and ended on March 7, 1777. The delay in the proceedings is accounted for by the absence of the accused in Ireland. Sia Morel Mackenzie, the celebrated medi cal authority, says that a mania smoking too much when the surface of the mouth or throat is inflamed or roughened, or the tongue blis tered or hardened. If the lips are inflamed or cracked by the cold the greatest care should be taken to protect them from the nicotine present in strong tobacco, for there Is danger that such a wound may become poisoned and impart tbe taint to the blood. The slightest indication of irritated papilla?, especially at the sides or root of the tongue, should be carefully watched, and the first indication of cancer most scientifically treated. It is from such small spots of poison ing that the disease spreads throughout the system, and too often terminates fatally. Nico tine is a tonic poison; the very quality in to bacco which makes it to a certain extent a dis infectant may become the destroying agent. 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