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THIS ISSUE
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'twelve pages.
INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
'Meetings— Forsyth Social Club; Christian
Temple Lodge No. 63, I. O. G. T.
Special Notices— The Pleasure of Knowing
and Feeling, Townsend; Investments in Georgia
by the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New
York; As to Bills Against the Bark Glama;
Notice to Traverse Jurors of the City Court;
Acres and Small Tracts Suitable for Subdi
vision, VV. K. Wilkinson; Notice as to Karly
Closing of Jewelers: As to Crews of Norwe
gian Barks Waaland, Bonita, Russian Bark
Meta and German Bark Elizabeth Mentz;
Chatham Real Estate and Improvement Com
pany; Services at Bt. Matthew's Episcopal
Church; Dividend Notice, Citizens' Bank of Sa
vannah; Notice to Water-takers; Attention.
Seal Estate Investors, Rowland & Myers; A Free
Ad at So Much Per Square Inch, The Robinson
Steam Printing Company; A Handsome Resi
dence for Sale, Rowland & Myers; The Georgia
State Building and Loan Association of Savan
nah; Card of Thanks by St. Mary's Home;
Highest Types of Butter and Sweet Cream
Received by J. J. Roily, Agent for Ellington
dreamery of Melrose, Conn.; Savannah Steam
laundry; Notice as to Family Excursion
Tickets to Tybee; Tin Roofing, Etc., E. C.
Pacetti. Practical Tinner: The Empire Steam
Laundry; What Uncle Sam’s Account Book
Says of Faust Beer, George Meyer, Wholesale
Agent; Store for Rent. S. Selig; A Card to the
Public; Teacher of Music. Mr. C. E. Everett;
Money to Loan. Isaac Beckett.
Auction Salks— Sundries, by C. H. Dorsett;
Yacht, Two Houses, by Laßoche & McLaughlin.
Amusements— Fourth Annual Picnic of the
German Aid and Benevolent Society, Wednes
day, June 11, at Tybee; Conversazione on Tues
day afternoon at No. 88 State Street for Benefit
of Organ Fund of Christ Episcopal Church;
BeZirks Turnfest Picnic of the Savannah and
Charleston Turn Vorein Monday, June 23; Picnic
for the Benefit of St. Patrick's Church Parson
age June 9.
The Stovier— James Douglass.
The Place roR Reliable Goods— Gutman's.
Si mmer Sweep—At Daniel Hogan's.
The Census Man—B. H. Levy A Bro.
Canfield Stockinet Diaper —Canfield Rub
ber Company, New York.
Continued Bargain Sale—At Eckstein's.
Lemons, Cowpeab, Etc —W. D. Simkins.
Splendid Chance at Private Sale— By La-
Roche & McLaughlin.
Summer Resorts— The Hunt House, Gaines
ville. Ga ; The Bristol. East Eleventh Street,
New York; Hot Springs. North Carolina.
Great Sale of Remnants— AS R. Altmayer &
Cos.
3 X 3-3—L. &B.S. M. 11.
Bargains— Morrison, Foye & Cos.
Road Carts—Savannah Carriage and Wagon
Company.
Whew! Bargaiss—Dryfus & Bros.
Dear Ladies !—Norton & Hanley.
New Deals—A. Hanley.
A Good Chance— At Gray’s.
Cheap Column Advertisements— Help Want
ed; Employment Wanted; For Rent; For Sale;
Lost; Personal; Raffle; Miscellaneous.
The McKinley tariff bill, conceived in
“original sin” will not pass as an “original
package.”
Col. Northen seems to have a pretty
smooth path now to the governor’s
mansion. However, he may en
counter an unsurmountable ob
stacle before reaching there. But if he
should not there would be no dissatisfac
tion.
Anew scheme looking to the final settle
ment of Virginia’s state debt has been de
vised. The matter will be submitted to
arbitration. The plan is for the creditors
to deposit their b mds and agree among
themselves on a basis of settlement within
the re venues of Virginia, which is to be
submitted to and approved by an advisory
board, consisting of ex-Prasident
Cleveland, Hon. Thomas F. Bayard of
Delaware. Hon. E. J. Phelps (recently
United State minister to Eogland) George
S. Coe, presiientof the American Exchange
National Bank, and George G. Williams.
■ president of the Chemical National Bank.
The people of Richmond regard this
prooosition with favor, and it is likely now
that the readjuster issue will soon disap
pear from Virginia politics.
The Alliance and Politics.
It does not appear to be clearly under
stood yet whether or not the alliance in this
state Is going to take an active part in
' state politics as an organization. Nearly
all of Its members a'e democrats, and notb
: ing has cropped out yet to ind cate that its
democratic members do not intend to stand
by democratic principles and adhere to
democratic methods. Some of the
county alliances have announced that they
would not take part in politics as organiza
tions, while others have shown a disposition
to do sa It is certain that there are aili
ancemen who would like to use the alliance
to advance their political purpose?, and to
some extent they may be able to do so.
When the campaign is fairly opened, how
ever, it is probable that the members of the
alliance will differ in their choice of candi
dates. All that the majority of them want
is that candidates shall regard the farmers’
interests with favor.
It is probable that a majority of the
members of the alliance are now committed
to what is known as the sab-treasury plan.
It is not certain that they will be, however,
when they have heard it thoroughly dis
cussed and have given it careful considera
tion. As yet they have heard only the
arguments in favor of it. When they have
heard the arguments against it, and they
will hear them, doubtless, before the present
campaign for nominations for state officers
and congressmen is over, they w ill be better
able to judge whether or not it would be
beneficial to them.
They know, of course, that the sub
treasury plan is not a democratic measure.
It is not a measure of any political party.
It is not regarded as feasible by the leaders
of any political party. It was proposed by
a few leaders of the alliance, and it is
understood to bo favored by the alliauce,
though it is doubtful if alliance
men generally have made up their minds
fully whether or not they want it. It is
noticeable that some of them, since the pub
lication of Senator Carlisle's strong letter
against it, pointing out that it would do the
farmers more harm than good, have shown
a disposition to give it further considera
tion before pronouncing for or against it.
The strong arguments against it of Con
gressman Clements at Rome the other day
have not been without effect.
The farmers are a conservative class of
people and want to do what is right. If
they become satisfied that the sub-treasury
plan would not relieve them of any of their
burdens it will not be possible to drag them
into supporting it, nor into supporting men
who advocate it. Indeed, they would
quickly abandon the men who are advocat
ing it if they should have good grounds for
suspecting that these men were making it
the means for getting into office.
The bolding of primaries has already
been begun, nnd they will continue to be
held uutil close to the time of the meeting
of the state convention. Alliancemen will
doubtless endeavor to have delegates chosen
who will favor such men for state offices as
are known to be in sympathy with the in
terests of farmers. They will show the
same discrimination, probably, in select
ing candidates for congress and the legisla
ture. There can hardly be any fault
found with them for doing so. They should,
and doubtless will, bear in mind, however,
that there are other classes of people who
have interests at stake. As good citizens
they must take into consideration the in
terests of all. The most capable men should
be chosen to make and administer ths laws.
No greater mistake could be made thai to
choose th so who could see and understand
the interests of only one class.
Fat Men at the Front.
Two forceful men who occupy very promi
nent places in the public view in this coun
try to-day are fat men. They are Hon.
Grover Cleveland and Speaker Tom Reed.
Both came up from from the ranks and both
have excellent staying qualities.
Grover Cleveland has been President, and
he stands a very good chance of being
President again. He leads all other candi
dates for the democratic nomination for
President. His hold upon the party is
something phenomenal. When he was
President he led his party. His will power
excited admiration. Even Andrew Jackson
did not show greater determination in
carrying out a policy that he had adopted.
Grover Cleveland's independence made him
enemies, but it won the approval of the
people.
Speaker Tom Reed is almost as strong
with republicans as Grover Cleveland is
with the democrats. He fought his way
to the front by sheer fores of will and
brains, and in the present congress he is
the Republican party. In the House bis
will is law. He brushes aside opposition as
he would a fly that tickled his rather in
significant nose. Those who get in his way
are in danger of being trampled upon. For
precedents he has no respect, and for
minorities the most supreme contempt.
Being a bitter partisan, he has few warm
friends. Even his party associates resent
his dictatorial ways, but they follow him.
They ai e afraid to do otherwise. They are
virtually slaves trotting along by the side
of his victorious chariot.
And the impression is growing that be
will be the republican candidate for Presi
dent. The next national campaign will be
fought by the republicans on bloody shirt
issues, and he is preparing the issues. No
other republican leader seems to be so well
fitted to represent th se issues. This be ap
pears to,understand. In other words, he is
trying to bring about a condition of affairs
that will make his nomination a neoessity.
He hopes that when the time for making a
nomination arrives his party will be pre
pared to accept him as its candidate.
It would not be surprising therefore if, in
1892, the two great parties should be led by
two forceful fit men. Grover Cleveland
measures around the waist a little more
than Speaker Tom Reed, but his feet are
not so large. Neither is unweildlv. Both
are active and in the enjoyment of excellent
health. Avery interesting campaign it
would be with these men as the standard
bearers. Fat men’s clubs would bo popular
and fat men would not hesitate to tell their
weight.
Another Caucus Victory.
The House passed a silver bill yesterday.
It is the bill that was agreed upon in the
caucus of the House republicans. The full
text of it was published in the Morning
News a day or two ago. It directs the
purchase of *4,500,000 of silver bullion
each months and provides for the redemp
tion of the silver certificates with
bullion. The silver purchased is to be paid
for by treasury notes, which are made legal
tender for both public and private debts,
except when there is a contract to the con
trary. If silver goes to par, then coinage
is made free. There is a provision also that
the funds held for the redemption of notes
THE MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY, JUNE 8, 1890—TWELVE PAGES.
of retired national banks shall be covered
into the treasury.
The silver men ought to be satisfied with
the bill, because it provides a market for all
the silver produced in this country, and
more. It is certainly a bill in tbeir inter
est. If it should be accepted by the Senate
and become a law it would not be surprising
if it should drive gold out of the country.
It is very n?ar free silver coinage.
The Lake Mohonk Conference.
The conference which was in session at Lake
Mohonk, N. Y., several days last week, try
ing to find a solution forthe negro problem,
adjourned Friday night. Our dispatches
yesterday stated that the conference
adopted a series of resolutions based upon
the discussions of the conference. The sub
stance of the resolutions was that it was
necestary that the negroes should be edu
cated ; that they should have better homes;
that a special effort shoull be made to de
velop in t em true manhood and woman
hood, and that particlar attention should be
paid to bringing about a feeling of onfl
dence and good will between them and their
white neighbors.
There is no fault to be found with the res
olutions. They are good enough in their
way, but they leave the negro problem just
where it was before the conference con
vened. About all those present were north
ern men of more or less prominence, and it
is quite safe to say that very few of them
know anything about southern negroes or
their condition. Those who read essays
were mere theorists and based what they
had to say upon what they had picked up
from northern newspapers and from other
more or less prejudiced sources.
It is probable that the greater Dart of
those present were under the impression
that there is no prejudice against the
negroes in the northern states, and that if
the southern people would only treat the
negroes as fairly as the northern people
there would be no such thing as a negro
problem. Under the influence of such igno
rance as this it is not strange that the con
ference threw no new light upon the sub
ject it met to consider.
One of the delegates to the conference,
President McGill, of Swathmore College,
appears to have had a little better under
standing of the status of the negro north
and south than most of the others. He sug
gested it would be a first rate idea for the
conference to consider how the prejudice
against the negro in the north could be
lessened. Doubtless this suggestion had a
somewhat startling effect, since most north
ern people have an impression that all the
prejudice there is against the negro is in
the south. President McGill told the con
ference that a negro was permitted to
carry mortar in Philadelphia, but was not
permitted to lay bricks. Ho also stated
that if a negro should undertake to drive a
horse car in that city he would be mobbed.
President McGill might have gone a little
further and told his wondering brethern
that in all southern cities negroes drive
horse cars and that there are about as many
black men laying bricks as there .are
wnite.
Asa matter of fact, there is more
prejudice against the negro in the north
than in the south, and a negro’s chance for
getting ahead in the world is much better
in the south than in the north. It is doubt
ful if a negro could got a place in a machine
shop in any northern state. Not long ago
one tried to get employment in a machine
shop in Massachusetts and failed because he
was a negro.
If the good people of the north would only
recognize the fact that altuough there are
very few negroes in that section of ths
country, in comparison with the number in
the south, there is more hostility to the
negro there than any where else, there would
be a great deal less discussion of the negro
problem in northern newspapers and by
those who seem to thiak that they are
specially commissioned to agitato the negro
question, and the south would be permitted
to deal with the negro problem in her own
way.
The Fight for the Lottery.
A day of two ago the opinion was ex
pressed in the dispatches from Baton Rouge,
La., that the Louisiana lottery people, who
are trying to get their charter extended,
would meet with defeat. Our dispatches
this morning seem to indicate that they are
confident of success. They have prepared
an amendment to the constitution of the
state which is to be introduced into the
legislature to-morrow. The terms of the
amendment are that the lottery company
shall give to the state $1,000,000 a year for
twenty-five years for the privilege of con
ducting the lottery during that period, the
money to be distributed as follows: Three
hundred and fifty thousand dollars to the
public schools, $350,000 to the levees, $200,-
000 to charities and pensions, and SIOO,OOO
to the New Orleans draiuage fund.
Unless the lottery people were pretty well
satisfied that the legislature would submit
theamendinent to the people for their ratifi
cation or rejection they would not introduce
it at this session of the legislature. They
would wait until a future seaslou, or until a
new legislature had been elected, because a
defeat at this time would strengthen the
opposition to the lottery company.
If the legislature should agree to submit
the amendment to the people it is pretty
certain that it would be ratified by popular
vote. The lottery people have plenty of
money with which to make a vigorous can
vass, and the bribe they offer is an immense
one. The levee parishes would look at
$350,000 a year for leroes a loag time before
rejecting it, and those who are in favor
of improving the public schools, even if
opposed to the lottery, would not have much
to say ngaiust the amendment. The sl,-
000,000 is skilfully distributed so as to catch
all classes of voters, and when it is consid
ered that if the amendment were submitted
to the people the lottery company would
have agents in every parish, amply furnished
with arguments, and perhaps money, the
conclusion is almost irresistible that the
amendment would be adopted.
There can be no doubt that Louisiana
would be much better off without the lot
tery. Her real friends are against it. Their
arguments are strong ones, but it does not
look as if tkoy would prevail. If the state
was out of debt and her levees and schools
n ere in good condition the chances are that
the lottery pe >ple would be defeated, but
her financial difficulties are so great that it
is doubtful if she will have the moral
strength to reject the bribe.
What is the use of maintaining an expen
sive signal service bureau at Washington if
it can’t manufacture any cooler weather
than this? And did you uotice how aggra
vatingly accurate Mr. Greeiy is these days
in predicting that it will be warmer?
Wicked people are now insinuating that
Pension Commissioner Raum takes too
much Lemon-aid in his.
PBRBONSU
Ed Yam Meterz, an Indian, has been admitted
to practic o law in the Dakota courts.
Lady Colin Campbell frankly declares that
she does not think much of George Eliot's
novels.
Bismarck goes out riding for several hours
every day in the Sachsenwald. which is now in
full bloom.
Rev. Dr. Lyman Abbott says he considers the
Rev. Dr. Phillips Brooks by far the foremost
preacher in America.
Senator Stanford owns the largest vineyard •
in the world. It is in Tehama county, Colorado,
and covers 3,325 acres.
Mrs. Charlotte Nichols of Peterboro, Ont.,
who died recently, worth $3,030,003, was the
richest woman in Canada.
George Bancroft i* the oldest ex-cabinet
officer, both in age and point of service, now
living. He was Secretary of the Navy under
Polk.
Mrs. Percgini, Charles Dickens' second
daughter, sketches for the English magazines.
She is also a successful painter of children's
portraits.
Judge Cooley of the interstate commerce
commission is still in ill health, and will not be
able to participate in the work of the commis
sion for some time.
Rev. Dr. Lindsay, minister of St. Paul’s
Protestant Episcopal church, Boston, was taken
altogether by surprise by his election as assist
ant bishop of Alabama.
Karl Leutenschlager, who has charge of
the Passion Play at Ober-Ammergau this year,
is connected with the Court theater at Munich.
His stepfather was one of Germany's most dis
tinguished trace lisns.
Miss Bessie Bole of San Francisco is 20 and
a beautiful little blonde with dark brown eyes
and a pretty figure She is a practical horse
shoer and would op-n a shop were it not for the
opposition of her family Sne learned horse
shoeing in an industrial school.
Pope Leo's resident physician follows his
holiness about almost like his shadow, and is
forever going to and fro with a thermometer in
his hand looking out for the slightest breath of
an intrusive draught that might venture to
blow rudely near the head of the church.
Mmb. Letitia Bonaparte Wtse Ratzgi de
Rute, the madcap granddaughter of Lucien
Bonaparte, brother of tne great Napoleon, is
still fascinating and romantic at the age of 68.
In this way sbe manages io keep her name be
fore the public, notwithstanding the extreme
length of it.
Belva Lockwood has a law practice that
brings her in more money than a congressman's
salary, has property in Washington worth
$20,000 and a country place worth $5,000, all
acquired in a comparatively short time from
ber legal business. This is more than she
would have had if she had stuck to school
teaching.
H. B. Plant, president of the Southern Ex
press Company, of the Plant Investment Com
pany and of the Plant steamship line, is one of
the shrewdest and most successful organizers
of business enterprises in the south. He is
somewhere about 70, w ite-haired with a
grizzly mustiche and shrewd eyes. His nose is
straight, and so is his talk. If he makes a
statement it is compact, terse and to the point.
Mrs. M. M. Kkli ,oqg. a native of Montpelier,
Vt., who died in New York during the past
winter, willed several thousand dollars for the
erection of a gateway to Green Mount ceme
tery in her native city, and $50,000 for a chapel
in the cemetery, giving the remainder of her
estate, which, it is said, will amount to nearly
$500,030, for the establishment of a public
library in the town, including the erection of
a building therefor.
A story is in circulation to the effect that C.
E. Silcott, the defaulting cashier of the late
House of Representatives, spent the past
winter in Baltimore at the home of hi3 son. It
is further claimed that he recently sailed for
South America, accompanied by his wife and
daughter-in-law. Common belief is that Sil
cott is to some extent a scapegoat for Sergeant
at-Arms Leedom. who is now talking of run
ning for congress, in Ohio.
BRIGHT BiTa.
The mercury goes climbing up,
The sunshine slippeth down.
And evety Soul with cash in hand
Prepares to jump the town.
Washington Star.
In olden times the flowing beard
Was reverenced by the youthful mind,
But now. alas, ’tis scorned and leered
And glibly coupled with the wind.
—Terre Haute Express.
“So vou had your clothes made by Worth?
Did you get a good fit?”
“No! My husband will have the fit when the
bill comes in.”— Liverpool Post.
Barber—How is the razor, sir?
Victim—l woatdn’t know I was being shaved.
Barberlfeeling flatters I)—Glad to—
Victim—l’d think I was being sand papered.—
Boston Herald.
Mamma—l wonder what we shall call the baby?
Johnny—l don’t think we’d better call him
any of the names Dapa called him last night
when he was crying. He mightn't like it when
he growed up.—J tunsey's Weekly.
Two wives were chatting in London market.
“I think I'm frightfully economical," said one.
“There wasn’t a day last week that I didn’t
haunt the bargain couoters picking up things
that will come handy.” —Philadelphia Record.
In Boston they want street car advertise
ments displaced for quotations from standard
authors. Pope's remark about something
“that drags its slow length along" would be a
fair start for our average Baltimore line. -Bal
timore American.
Baglev—Have you recovered from your re
cent sickness, Bailey?
Bailey—No, not fully.
Bagley—Why, you look as well as ever.
Bliley—Yes, but I owe the doctor sl3 yet.—
New York Ledger.
In a Pittsburg shoe store a show card bears
this inscription:
"B ing your feet with you and have them
fitted to a pair of our shoes.”
We would prefer to have shoes fitted to our
feet.— Shoe and Leatner Reporter.
Servant (answering bell)—My master isn't in,
sir; you may leave the bill, if you wish.
Caller (in surprise)—Bill? I have no bill
wish to ”
Servant (in surprise also)—No bill? Then you
must have called at the wrong house Le Qau
lois.
Husband— There is a tramp at the door.
Wife—Give him some of those biscuits I baked
this morning.
Husband—No. no, wife. Have you forgotten
the minister's text Sunday about a man asking
for bread and being given a stone?—Fosters
Statesman.
"How does your husband spend his time
evenings?”
"He stays at home aDd thinks up schemes to
make money."
“An l what do you do with yourself when he
is thus engaged?”
"Oh, I think up schemes to spend it ."—The
Epoch.
He had just laid his evening paper aside, and
sat for some moments in deep and anxious
thought. Then to his wife he said: “That new
hotel in New York is to be thoroughly fire
proof. It will be what insurance people call a
‘star’ building."
“Why do they call it a 'star' building?” asked
his unsuspecting wife.
“Because, tuy dear, it is an Astor risk.” And
he started at once for the club to work it off on
the boys.— Boston Post.
CURRENT COMMENT.
Como, Young Man, Go Weßt,
From the Omaha World 1 ind. ).
It is rather singular how many charming
young ladies can reside in Omaha and pass
through the year and remain “uncalled for.”
The Truth About It.
From the Philadelphia Times (Ind.).
The Republican tariff tinkers laugh at the
farmers’ dread of having to take additional
mortgages on their farms. They say they have
no ground for it.
The Aboriginal Greely.
From the Peora Transcript (Rep.).
The expected Indian Messiah and prophet did
not materialize according to programme, and
there is a vague suspicion floating around that
the great medicine man who predicted he would
appear must be in some way connected with
the government weataer bureau.
Still Full-aized.
From the Boston Herald (Ind.\
N. B. The proposed reduction of Harvard's
course refers not to the course rowed in the
'varsity race, but to the course, of study. It
seems necessary to say this much in order to
convince the popular mind that there is some
thing beside athletics in our colleges nowadays.
Honest, Improvident Carlisle.
From the lxmisviile Commercial.
“Do you Know the real reason Mr. Carlisle
dldn t give the boys a banquet the night af.er
his nomination?'’ a legislator asKed last night
while on the lubj-ct of the senatorial and other
warm contests. “Well, he couldn't afford it. I
was told by one of his friends, and in a way that
convinces me of its troth, that when he reached
Frankfort after the Beck funeral he had just 15
cents in his pocket, and that he didn't have a
cent more during his stay there. The expenses
of his ' headquarters’and for incidentals was
borne by his friends from Covington, and his
lact of funds was not an accident, but because
he is just that poor; besides the fact that te has
been an honest congressman and amassed no
wealth. Ijke other great minds, he hss no
earthly idea of financiering, and spends his
salary as fast as it is due."
Surprises of the Telephone.
It's a good one on Steve Holbrooke, and this
is the way it happened, relates the Electrical
Review. George Porter, the genial and popu
lar, recently was on a western cruise of pleas
ure, and one day landed in Tacoma, Wash. He
knew Holbrooke was located in toat city, and
determined to play a practical joke on him.
Porter was stopping at the Tacoma hotel, which
was but a short distance from Holbrooke's
office. Going to the telephone he called up
Mr. Holbrooke, and the following conversation
ensued;
“Hello:”
'"Hello:”
“I want to speak to Mr. Holbrooke.”
“This is Holbrooke—and if I wasn’t in Ta
coma I should say that was George Porter's
voice."
“It is Porter's voice. Do you get me,
Steve?”
“Certainly, George, I hear every word just as
plain as if you were in Tacoma. For heaven's
sake, where are you, anyway?”
"Metropolitan Telephone Company, 1R Cort
land! street. New York city.”
“Youdon'tsay so: Great Scott: How do
they do it, George?”
“Long distance line to Chicago, and a tele
graph wire from Chicago west.”
‘ This is the biggest thing yet. Any of the
boys there?”
“Yes. they are all standing round me here."
“Event of the century: I don't hear much
about these new things way out here till they
get old. Keep it up, George. Go on and talk.”
When the joke came out the consequences
may be imagined.
The Broker and the Bunco Man.
A story is going the rounds about Charley
is really too good to keep, says the Hartford
Times. Not many weeks ago he had occasion
to visit New York, when he had the following
unique adventure witn a bunco steerer. This is
how he tells it himself.
“I was walking up Broadway about 3 o'clock
that afternoon, when I saw a sprues young
fellow coming toward me with a jovous smile
of recognition on his countenance. Almost in
voluntarily I took my hand out of my pocket to
meet his.
‘•‘How do you do, Mr. Blank? How are all
the people in Hartford?’ he said, shaking me
cordially by the hand. 'I don't know as you re
member me. My name is .
“ ‘Now hold right on—stop right where you
are,'said I. ‘You’vegone far enough. 1 don't
know you and yon don't know ms. Hadn’t you
better go before I call a pol ceman?’
“The fellow turned and was rapidly getting
around the corner when I called to him;
“'Hello, there! Come back; I want to talk
with you.’
“He hesitated.
“‘That’s all right,' I said; ‘come on back.'
He walked toward me a few steps.
“ ‘Come, let’s go in here and have something.’
He accepted.
“ 'Now,’ said I, as we put down our empty
glasses. ‘I want to ask you what it was you saw
about me that made you think you could work
that game ?’
“ ‘Well, I will tell you,’ he said, with a depre
cating sort of smile. ‘I noticed that you wore
rubbers.’ ”
Blackburn Was There.
From the Louisville Commercial.
“I witnessed a very laughable incident last
winter,” said a Frankfort man the other day,
“and the moral, if there be any to the story, is
that a man should know the crowd before whom
he talks indiscriminately. It was in the court
of appeals chamber just after the adjournment.
A crowd of gentlemen were sitting around, and
the chief spokesman was a loquacious member
of the Frankfort genus loafer who was not
acquainted with nil present. One of the bright
est young lawyers in the state had just stepped
out after making a speech. He nad been
drinking, and the Frankfort man said; ‘What a
mistake some fellows make in thinking they
sneak better when they are half full of whisky.
Now, I have heard that our two senators keep
soaking full when on duty, and I think it a
shame.’
“ ‘One of them has quit.’ quietly remarked
one of the gentlemen present.
“ ‘Which one?’ was the query.
’“I have,’ answered Senator Blackburn, and
he got up and walked out.
“The dumfounded talkative man caught his
breath and said: 'Weil, now. that wa? one dirty
break of mine. I didn't know that Blackburn
was within a thousand miles of-here. But 1
don't care. I have heard that Senator Black
burn drinks too much to sustain even a Ken
tuckian’s reputation.’
“Still another stranger spoke up with: ‘Well,
he just never did drink to an excess, and I know
that Uncle Joe hasn’t touched a drink in a year.’
It was Senator Blackburn's nephew this time,
and the talkative man made his escape without
standing on the order of his going.”
The Original Dixie.
From the Netc Orleans Times- Democrat.
I wish I was in de land of cotton,
Old times dar am not forgotten;
In Dixie land whar I was bawn in,
Early on a frosty mawnin’.
Ole missus marry Will de weaber,
Will he was a gay deceaber;
When he put his arm around her
He look as fierce as a fort T-pounder.
His face was sharp as a butcher's cleaber,
But dat didn’t saem a bit to grieb 'er;
Will run away, missus took a decline.
Her face was de color ob de bacon rine.
While missus libbed she libbed in clober,
When she died she died all ober;
How could she act de foolish part
An’ marry a man to broke her heart?
Buckwheat cake an' cawn meal better
Makes you fat or little fatter;
Here’s a health to de nex’ ole missus,
An' all de gais dat wants ter kiss us.
Now, if you want to dribe away sorrow
Come an' hear dis song to-morrow;
Den hoe it down and scratch de grabble,
To Dixie land I’m bound to trabble.
Chorus.
I wish I was in Dixie, hooray, hooray!
In Dixie's laud
We ll take our stand,
To live and die in Dixie:
Away, away, away down souf in Dixie!
Away, away, away down souf in Dixie!
How He Tangled Up tpe Wind.
All old Kansans, and every one who traveled
in the state in days gone by, says the Kansas
City Star, remember'Old Me Meekin,”who dur
ing the years of his prolonged life was the
genial host of rnroe hotels than any other man
abd once famous as the lan Jlord of the imin ir
tal Teft house in Topeka, whose walls, could
they speak, might tell a story as thrilling, if not
as bloody, as those of the Bastile in the time of
Robespierre. In 1867 Mac was proprietor of the
Marshall house in Ellsworth, then and for vears
afterward the "hardest” town on the Am tic ;a
continent. The structure was a veritable shell
of lumber, its partitions of thin boards reaching
only half way to the roof, so that ordinary con
versation in any room could be heard in any
part of the wretched building. It was always
crowded, however, for business in the new
“city" was live y.
One night in February of 1868, when the wind
was blowing fearfully, the hous i rocking like a
ship at sea. and the cola so terrible that every
thing liquid on the premises was frozen solid
the snow sifting through every crevica until it
banked itself in gieat drifts on the floor of
every room, a commercial traveler who hai
retired early in the vain hope of keeping him
self warm managed to wake the landlor l by
repeated pounding on the wall of his little 7 by
9 don, intending to ask for more bed clothing.
“Haven’t you got more blankets, landlord’”
he appealingly chattered as Mac entered with a
dim kerosene lamp in his hand, “I’m almost
chilled to death."
“No,” replied Mac. “I’m awful sorry. The
house is jammed full, and everything is in use
But I'll see wbat I can do for you.”
The willing landlord then went oat into a
woodshed and, returning in a few moments
with a piece of a frozen flsb-net about three
yards long, but the meshes of which were four
inches square, threw it over the chattering fel
low with the remark, "There, that may help
tangle up the wind a little—it's the best I can
do,” and he went out.
Malaria.
This disease yields quickly to the wonderful
powers of P. P. P. < Prickly Ash. Poke Root and
Potassium). People living iu miasmatic coun
tries should never be without P. p. p. \ word
to the wise is sufficient.—Ado.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
His satantic majesty, arising from a moss of
Are, is brought out io relief on a silver match
box at present before the public.
Two cows were instantly killed by an electric
shock during the storm Sunday afternoon in
Somerset county. They were lying alongside of
a barb wire fence that bad been charged by
lightning. f f
At the next German maneuvers there will be
an extremely interesting event in a battle be
tween one corps armed with the new rifle and
ammunition and another corps with the old
equipment.
The Paris tribunal, in the course of a
gambl ng suit, announced the doctrine that
“the law grants no action for the payment of a
bet when it is not made on a game in which
still is required. ”
The word “honeymoon” is derived from the
German, and has its significance from the fact
that the Germans formerly drank mead—a
sweet liquid made of honey—for thirty days
after the wedding.
A. P. Gordon Custmino has discovered anew
species of violet on his place near Sykesviile,
Md. It is a single violet, and the flower leaves
are a suft white, striped or mottled with light
and dark purple. They are very fragrant.
An old man named Zimmerman has Deen
found living alone in a log shack near Ottawa,
f an. He has been living in the shack for thirty
six years, stark naked, and hops about lik6 a
frog or kangaroo, stealing out in the twilight
like a wild beast to get the air.
An Ac Sable thief went into a widow's barn
the other night an 1 milked the widow s cow.
Next morning that poor widow found a pocket
book containing $1 17 in the stall, and advertises
for the loser to come forward, prove property,
return the milk and get his cash.
Nebraska City, Neb., claims to have beaten
the record on divorces. A petition was filed
there at 2 o’clock pm.: the defendant’s answer
at 2:15 o'clock; the case was placed i*i the
referee's hands at 2:33 o'clock; he reported at
3:20 o’clock, and the decree of the Court was
rendered at 3:40 o’clock.
Charles Graham was born in 1819 in New
Vineyard, Kennebec county, Mass. The next
year New Vineyard became Industry. Somerset
county, Me. Later Industry became part of
another town in another County, and Mr. Gra
ham. who is now 71. and has never moved from
the spot where he was born, is a resident of
Farmington, Franklin county. Me.
The orange crop of Southern California for
the coming season is estimated by experts at
5,000 carloads or 1,500,000 boxes. Los Angeles
county alohe will produce 000,000 boxes. The
time of the fast fruit trains to Chicago will
soon be reduced from six days to four, and
when this change is made fresh vegetables and
perishable fruits will be shipped daily.
A thoroughbred Poland-China sow owned
in Mount Leonard, Mo., recently gave birth to
a hairless, flesh-colored monstrosity, with head,
ears, teeth and one fore foot resembling a bull
pup, and the rest of its body resembling a pig.
All who have seen the thing unite in declaring
its resemblance to the dog family, though its
skin is almost human and its body that of a
hog.
A hatlkss and coatless stranger rushed into
a Tacoma store and asked if they could cash a
S4O check for a man who has an office in the
same building upstairs. Being told that they
could, the stranger rushed upstairs, and la a
moment came down again with the checE, which
was then cashed. When it was sent to the bank
the next day the forgery was discovered. The
swindler escaped.
George T. Nicholson, general passenger
agent of the Santa Fe railroad, is very youthful
in appearance, and recently, while riding over
the line in Kansas, when the conductor took up
his pass he looked at Mr. Nicholson very
skeptically, and at the next stop he got off and
sent the following telegram to headquarters:
“Young Nicholson is riding on the old man’s
pass. What must Ido about it?”
Dr. A. G. Young, secretary of the Maine
state board of health, was recently suffering
from a disease that baffled his physicians, one
of whom finally sent a sample of the wall paper
from the sick room to Prof. Robinson of Bowdoin
College for analysis. The examination revealed
that the paper coutaided large quantities of
arsenic. Since Dr. Young’s removal from this
room his recovery has been rapid.
During the American revolution an English
magazine published an estimate of the future
peculation of the North American colonies.
Placing the population then at 2,000,000, and
assuming that it would double itself every
twenty five years, the writer estimated that in
the year 1830 the number would have Increased
to 64,000,000. Asa matter of fact, this is near
the present estimated population of the United
States.
Riverside, in San Bernardino county, which
is generally admitted to be the prettiest colony
town in Southern California, as well as the
lar.est producer of fine navel oranges, has
never had a saloon within its boundaries. It has
alwayshada prohibition ordinance, but recently
a high license of $2,000 was adopted. A rich
citizen took out tne license and agrees not to
sell liquor to minors or drunkards and not to
keep open on Sunday.
A useful attribute of paper not generally
known is for preserving ice in a pitcher of
water. Fill the pitcher with ice and water and
set it on the center of a piece of paper; then
gather the taper up together at the top anil
place the ends tighl ly together, placing a strong
rubber band around the coil to hold it close, so
as to exclude the air. A pitcher of ice water
treated in this manner has been known to stand
over night with scarcely a perceptible melting
of the ice.
This year is the 200th anniversary of the in
vention of the improved tobacco pipe—the
bowl, the tube and the mouthpiece Up to the
year 1690 the only medium of enjoying the fl-a
gr.int weed was by means of a cylindrical
instrument fashioned from the crude clay and
smelling of the earth earthy. The inventor of
the present combination pipe was a physician.
Dr, Vilarius of Vienna. Tne first tobacco pipe
manufactory was established in 1690.
Eleven old citizens of Little Equinunk, a
lumbering town in Wayne county, Pennsylvania,
have been counting up the number of their
children, and tuis is the record: Amos Tyler, 22;
Thomas Todd, 29; Jonathan Adams, 18; Eben
Brown. 15; David Eaton, 15; Jacob Killam, 14;
James Adams, 14; Josiah Cole, 13; J >hn Phil
lips, 12; Oliver Billings. 12; James Brown, 10;
William Tyier, 10; John Killam, 10. Amos Todd
is the only one of these men who has been twice
married.
At a conference recently held in Philadel
phia of the representatives of various American
organizations, with a constituency of about
503,000 members, there was adopted unani
rnously a platform and declaration of principles
which will be immediately submitted to those
organizations represented, and to upward of
sixty bodies of a similar character. A pro
visional committee was appointed, consisting
of Henry Baldwin. Dr. James M. King, John
W. Stevens, and J. Henry Williams. Tne plat
form declares for free speech and free press,
the separation of church and state, the protec
tion of the common school system, unrestricted
immigration, the proper usage of the suffrage
privi ege, the suppression of the liquor traffic,
and the granting of public lands only to actual
citizens. The selection of a judicious central
national council of American citizens is
talked of.
About 30,000 children are vaccinated annually
by the physicians of the board of health In New
York city. Adults who request it are also
vaccinated. The operation is performed upon
from 80,G0u to IXI,OOO persons every year. The
vaccinating corps of the health department was
organized in 1874. Tho result of Its work was
not apparent until 1876. The deaths from small
pox previous to 1876 averaged 50.57 per
100,000 per year; since 1876 they nave averaged
8.38 per 100.000 per year, anil this average is
being yearly reduced. During the past sixteen
months we have had only two cas -s of the dis
ease in New York citv. One of these cases
occurred in the most thickly populated part of
the city, where the number of inhabitants per
acre is greater than on any other spot in the
world; yet so well was the neighborhood pro
tected that not a single case occurred among
the many that were exposed.
A scheme has been organized and work begun
to generate electricity by the aid of Niagara,
says the Scientific American, sufficient to drive
all the machinery in the mills and factories,
propel every horse car, light up every street,
avenue and road in and saround the village of
Niagara Falls, the city nf Buffalo, and the
neighboring townsand vilfnces. The present
plains contemplate the production of 120,000
horse power, but there is no limit to the amount
of power wuich may be produced. A contract
bas been signed between the Niagara Falls
Power Company and the Cataract Construction
Company of New York for tbe construction of
the main and cross tunnels, raceways, ehc., tbe
price being $3,500,000. The contract calls for
the completion of the work by Jan. 1, 1892. The
Niagara Falls Power Company was organized
March 31, 1886, under the authoritv of the Ni
agara River Hydraulic Tunnel Power and Sewer
BMWOOOO ° f Slaeara Falls ' w a capital of
GRAY SOS
A GOOD CHANCE
AT
G R A Y’S
TO BUY
U nde rwear,
Hosiery,
White Goods,
Printed China Silks,
CoM&BWDressGoois
AND
PARASOLS,
E. CRAY & SIHL
SHOES.
PUT NOT YOUR TRUST
IN PRICES.
They are deceitful above all things, and DFS
PERATELY CROOKED.
PRICE AND VALUE
are not equivalent, though some people seem
to confound the two. We have set our feet
down solidly on
The Rock of Quality,
and we won’t be dared into fighting shadows
for these so-called "LOW PRICES" are hut
shadows, and can’t have the substance of
QUALITY at their back.
OUR BOAST AND PRIDE IS
QUALITY.
Nothing leaves our store that is not First-Class
and we find First-Class Quality brings First'
Class Custom. We shall never lack that, and
we want no other.
The Best Shoes
•re CHEAPEST in the long run, judged bv
Waste, W’ear or Worth. That's what we sell.
BUTLER & MORRISSEY,
120 Broughton Street.
J2JJU CATION AL.7
nooRKEEPWG versus" shorthamx
The demand for Shorthand writing, in th
South especially, is very slight. Bookkeeping
is far more easily learned and pays better
Again, those having a knowledge of dookkeep
ing are frequently promoted. Shorthand clerkt
are rarely, if ever, promoted. Bookkeepin*
will always keep the lead as a means of afford
ing pleasant and remunerative employmeut
and, moreover, it is the avenue that lead:
directly to the highest positions in the mercao
tile world.
I guarantee the competency of every stnden'
that finishes my eourse to pass an ezaminatioi
before a committee of accountants of his ith<
student’s) own choosing. My Bookkeeping course
is as go das those of the very best Northern busi
ness colleges, and far superior to that of an:
other school in this city. Fifteen hundre(
former students in business in this city alone
My terms are as low as the lowest, Now is ttai
time to begin, in order to prepare for situation!
in the fall. Day add night sessions.
1 J. V. B. MoCARTHY, Principal
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