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THURSDAY, AUGUST 7, 1800.
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OCR MEW YORK OFFICE.
Mr. J. J. Flynn has been appointed General
Advertising Agent of the Morning News, with
an office at 23 Park Row, New York. All a iver
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BDEX TO I m ADVERTISEMENTS.
Meetings—Southern Star Castle No. 7, K. G.
K : Excelsior Igoao and Savings Company; The
Workman sand Trader's Loan and Building
Association; Solomon's Lodge No. 1. F. & A
M ; Haupt Lodge No. SS, I. O. O. F ; Savannah
Soap Works.
Special Notices—Proclamation, by J. B
Gordon, Governor of the State of Georgia.
Steamship Schedules Ocean Steamship
Company.
Three Leaders A. Ehrlich A: Bro.
Pianos and Organs Davis Bros.
Educational—Pantops Academy, near Char
lottesvlile, Va
Consignments To Arrive—A. Ehrlich A
Bro.
Auction Sale—Furniture, by I. P. Laßoche
Son.
Cheap Column Advertisements Help
Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Rent; For
Sale; Parrot Lost; Personal; Miscellaneous.
THE TKADE BE VIEW.
For years, on the opening of each suc
ceeding season, there has been presented
evidence of a large increase in Savannah’s
business. Heretofore this increase has been
due to the natural growth of Savannah's
tributary territory, a better understanding
of her commercial advantages, and the
gradual enlargement of her two great rail
read systems. These things will continue to
contribute to her growth and prosperity,
and, in addition to them, there are others,
which have recently come into existence,
that will make the business year of 1890-91
more notable than any preceding one in her
history.
Since the last trade review of the Morn
ins News there have been built three new
and important railroads to Savannah, or to
connect with her railroad systems. They
are the Alabama Midland, the Savannah,
and Western, and the Savannah, Amoricus
and Montgomery. These railroads have
already brought hundreds of buyers to
Savannah and increased her trade greatly.
But the number of buyers and the amount
of trade which these neiv railroads will
contribute to her markets when the crops
now in the fields tributary to them are
harvested will be many times larger. The
people will have money then and they will
geek Savannah to supply their wants.
The advanced condition of the cotton crop
justifies the opinion that the business season
will open early and with great activity.
The people are already thinking, probably,
of what they will buy with the fruits of
their labor. They are scanning the columns
of the Morning News to seo who are the
live and progressive business men of Savan
nah and what they are offering for sale.
There is a large and lucrative trade to be
secured from the territory which the new
railroads have made tributary to Savan
nah, as well as from the territory which has
heretofore been tributary to her. If our
merchants are wise they will not neglect the
only proper method of getting this trade.
That method is liberal advertising.
The Morning N'iws proposes to make a
special effort to reach every buyer in the
new field that has been opened by Savan
nah's enterprise. The agents of the Morn
ing News are traveling through the coun
try, and the people are taking the paper
just as rapidly as the mail facilities which
are being established permit them to.
It is proposed to send a copy of the trade
review to each subscriber to the Weekly
News, as well as to' each subscriber to the
daily, thus giving advertisers the benefit of
both editions at a little more than the usual
price of one.
An advertisement in a newspaper is an in
vitation to buyers to call. It virtually says,
“When you are in town please call on us.
We have all these things to show you.”
The annual review will contain the usual
resume of the business of the city for the
last year. It will be sent to thousands of
people who are interested in Savanuah’s
welfare and prosperity.
The Trade Review edition will be issued
Sept. 4. Space in its columns can be ob
tained upon application to the business
office.
About six weeks ago Speaker lieed an
nounced that he was a rusher from Rub
ville, and that he did not see why the House,
at the rate ho was rushing things, sb'u and
not take a vote on every bill before it. and
adjourn by the Fourth of July. The Fourth
of July passed over a month ag , and the
House is still in sesnon, with l.two bills
unacted upon.
England will have two vacant embassies
of the first class W fill soon. One of them
will prolmi ly he given to bir Evelyn Rar
ing He ought to bi sent over here. He
might gut the right bearing of the Retiring
Witt question.
lb? K‘ma’.er Execution.
Tbe law has been o mnli <i with finally in
the case of Kemmler. the New York mur
' derer. He was executed early yesterday
j morning in the pnsou at Auburo. The
i Kemmler case is a famous one. and enough
; las beea written about it to fi.l many rol
uu.es. Kemmler was only an ordinary
murderer. Not much would have been said
about him or bis crime if he had ben ‘*n
ttneed to be hanged. The fact that ho was
the first criminal sentenced to die by the
new mithod of judicial kdlmg was what
attracted attention to him.
He was sentenced to die by electricity
Jam U 4, 1889. His counsel appealed to the
supreme court of the state and tLea to the
court of appeals. In both courts the decis
ion was against him, although some of
the ablest lawyers of the New York
bar appeared in his behalf. The
main ground upon which ho asked that the
verdict be set aside was that death by elec
tricity was cruel and unusual. While his
case was pending in the higher courts the
day fixed for his execution passed, and he
was resentenced Aug 28, 1890. The lawyers
! had not finished with the case, however,
i They thought there was still a chance to
save his life. They sued out a writ of habeas
j corpus in the United States circuit court
j for the state of New Yark, and by that
means got the case before the United States
supreme court. That court heard the case
promptly and sustained the state courts.
That decision finished fCeminler'scase in the
courts. In the meantime the day fixed a
second time for the execution had passed,
and Kemmler was sentenced a third time.
The third sentence fixed the execution
at any time within the week beginning
Aug. 4.
The long legal contest in Kemmler’s be
half was not so much for the purpose of
saving his life as to have the new method of
excutmg murderers declared illegal. The
law authorizing that method was sustained,
and in future electricity will be the agent
with which the death penalty will be in
flicted in New York.
Thore was a great deal of opposition to
the substitution of electricty for hangmg
as the means for executing the death
penalty, although there was a strong senti
ment against the gallows. A commission
was appointed in 18*6 by the New York
legislature to report a substitute for the
gallows. It considered electricity, prussic
acid or other poison, the guillotine and the
garrote, and reported in favor of electricity
in 1888. There was a long and stormy de
bate in the legislature upon the bill author
izing the use of electricity. The advocates
of electricity, however, were finally victo
rious.
The law requires that executions by elec
tricity shall he private, and that no publi
cation of the details of them shall be made.
It is mude a misdemeanor for any newspa
per to publish any account of an execution
beyond the fact that a certain convict was
executed on the day named in his sentence.
It is not probable, however, that tbe news
papers will pay any attention to the law.
They certainly have not iu Kemmler’s case.
In future there will not be so much interest
in executions by electricity, and newspapers
may show greater respect for the law. It
is a question whether the restriction upon
newspapers is constitutional. They are
willing to have its constitutionality tested.
A question which presents itself is, will
other states follow New York in substi
tuting electricity for hanging! Doubtless
some of them will, if electricity is found to
be preferable, 'there appears to have been
some mislake made in applying the elec
tricity in the Kemmler execution, as death
was not instaneous. It was necessary to
reapply the electric current. If the public
becomes satisfied that death by electricity
is less painful aud quicker than by bang
ing, it is safe to say that the gallows will
gradually disapjtear.
To day's Convention.
The state democratic convention at At
lanta to-day will, there is every reason to
believe, be a very harmonious one. It is
well settled who the nominee for governor
will be, and for the other state offices there
are no contests except for those of attorney
general and commissioner of agriculture
As nearly all the delegates are instructed it
is not probable that many ballots will be
necessary to make nominations for either of
those offices. There may he some little
delay over the platform—that is, if an at
tempt is made to incorporate into it provis
ions that are not acceptable to all democrats.
However, there is not much reason for
thinking that an attempt of that kind will
be made. In view of the fact that there
is a pretty general agreement as to candi
dates,the convention ought to be able to get
through with its work to-day.
Over 230,000 applications for pensions
have been filed since the approval of the
dependent [tension bill five weeks ago. The
wonderful rapidity with which these claims
have beau Hied is duo to the disinterested
solicitude for the old soldiers of the Wash
ington pension claim agents, who receive a
fee of $lO for each claim allowed. Tbe
amount received for fees will make a fabu
lous tortune in itself. It will add millions
to the coffers of the pension sharks. The
amount that will be requiied annually for
pensions is now estimated at over $18! ,000,-
000. Thus ends the story of the vanished
surplus.
Senator Henry AY. Blair of New Hamp
shire has the proper appreciation of him
self. He acts as AA'ashington correspondent
for the New York Mail and Express, and
in his latest published letter occurs this in
formation: “I am one of the best senators
nowiu public life. I do more work than two
like Mr. Edmunds.” If Mr. Blair had in
troduced a resolution to limit senators to
about five Hues whon they write about
themselves instead of his resolution to shut
off debate, we would have less of Blair, and
that would be a comfort indeed.
Reciprocity woa t pay, says Mr. Read.
Immediately after the reciprocity treaty
with the Hawaiian Islands went into force
our exports to those islands began increas
ing until from less than $900,000 they have
come to exceed $3,(XX),000. It is fair to
assume, then, that something line the same
increase would follow reciprocity with the
Spanish- American countries.
One suicide, one death, two drownings,
two murders aud several murderous
assaults in Cincinnati on Kunday. mostly
all the result of whisky, sho ild furnish a
strong argument to the citizens who are
making efforts to have the saloons closed iu
lira'- city on Sunday,
When the Emperor William visited Queen
Victoria at the Osborne house the other day
he received a most cordial weleomv. The
quie it k his head between her hands and
kisstsl him upon both cheeks, and during
this liilervsung ceremony the bund play* and
au a* toeii.
THE MORNING NEWS: THURSDAY. AUGUST 7. 1890.
A Protest Against the Force Bill.
The democratic maj ritv in the Alabama
election on Monday was a large one. The
blacks manifested very little interest in the
, election. Only a small percentage of them
went to the polls. A significant statement
made in thef ptcials from Alabama to north
ern newspapers is that the promoted force
l bill ha* driven thousands of white republi
cans of the state Into the liemocratic party
1 There is no reason to doubt that this state
-1 meat is true. The republicans of the south
don’t want the force bill. The blacks don't
know anything about it. and the white re
-1 publicans object to it because they know
that it would seriously interfere with the
I progress and pro parity of the south, and
also tiecauae it would not beneflt their party
id the southern states in the least.
White republicans in different parts of
the south have passed resoluti ms against the
bill, end if a fair expression of opinion
could be obtained from all the white repub
licans in tbe south it would be found to be
against it. There are a few white repub
lican politicians who are clamoring for it,
but it is plain tLat they represent nobody
except themselves. They hope, doubtless,
that it wouid help them to get control of
tbe cilices.
Those of the business men of tbe south
who are republicans are. as a rule, against
it. They do not want the busints. and in
dustrial interests of tbe south disturbed,and
that is why, doubtless, so many of them are
acting with the Democratic party. The re
publi an leaders at Washington are begiu
nii g to understand that the force bill is un
popular with the members of their own
party, and that is one of the reasons, no
doubt, why the bill is not being pushed in
the Senate. In view of the fact
that the bill tends to drive republicans into
the democratic party, it would hardly be
wiso, from a party standpoint, to pass it.
If the force bill should pass it is pretty
certain that the republican party in the
south would soon contain very few white
members. It would be made up almost
wholly of blacks. Without organization
and white leaders it would not amouut to
as much as it does now. That being tbo
case the passage of the force bill would be a
mistake from a party standpoint, because it
would not accomplish the object for which
it was intended, viz.; the incrasaiug of the
number of republican congressmen from
the south.
An Anxious Organ.
The New York Tribune is applying the
party lash to tbe republican senators with
the hope of forcing them to pass the McKin
ley tariff bill by the same means that it was
passed by the republicans in the House. It
tells them that they ought to agree upomall
amendments in caucus, and then tire out
opposition to the bill by keeping the Senate
in session at nights, or pass a gag rule
to cut off debate and dilatory motions.
This organ of the protected monopolists is
so anxious for the passage of the bill that it
has no patience with those senators of it3
own party who want to discuss the various
provisions of it. It charges, in effect, that
these senators would rather see the bill fail
than to change the Senate rule which per
mits unlimited debate. “It really seems
to be the opinion of some senators,” says
the organ, “that Ihe people care nothing
about this measure.”
The fact is the people care a great deal
about “this measure,” but not in the wav
the Tribune pretends they do. They know
that it is a measure to increase their bur
dens and they are opposed to it. They are,
therefore, thankful that there are a fen re
publican senators who are willing to assist
the democratic senators to modify it so that
it would be less burdensome. The Tribune
pretends that the whole country is demand
ing its passage immediately. It ought to
show a little more respect for the intelli
gence of the people. The only ones who are
clamoring for the bill are the rich monopo
lists, and they want it because it would
enable them to make greater profits.
The republican senators who are assisting
to obstruct the bill are getting words of en
couragement from their constituents, and
the chances are they will remain firm in the
position they have taken. They understand
that they are defending the people against
a scheme for robbing them. Notwithstand
ing the free uso,of tbe party lash, therefore,
by tbe party organ, the tariff bill will not
be rushed through the senate at railroad
speed by means of a gag rule.
Senator Jones, of Nevada, is a eareles*
mau. He loft tbe Hoffman house, New York,
the other day to take the 2:30 o’clock train
for Washington. He was in a cab and had
three valises. He stopped on the way to
buy some cigars. AVhen he returned to the
cab he missed one of the valises. The valise
contained about $20,000 worth of negotiable
bonds. The senator postponed his trip to
AYaßbiogton and went at pnee to police
headquarter*, where ho made known hiß
loss. Ou hie return to the Hoffman bouse
he woe informed that his valise was there.
It had dropped out of the cab and a driver
of an Adams express wagon hod picked it
up. The driver was handsomely rewarded.
“Editors must first live before they oan ba
philanthropists; they oauuot afford to pub
lish what they cannot sell,” said the Rev. J.
Howard Hobbs of Jamaica, U. 1., in a ser
mon on newspapers, and he took a most
sensible view of the matter. The whole
thing resolves itself down to a business
proposition. Editors are not publishing
newspapers for their health. As the preacher
aptly remarked: “To be successful the
journalist must publish what the people are
hungry for. If he ignores this general
appetite the chances are that he must eke
out a struggling existence or close up
shop.”
The republicans in congress have a good
deal to say about majority rule, yet they
do not represent the majority of the people
of the United States. The republicans in
tile Senate and House represent 5,440,216 of
the 11,892,382 citizens who voted when this
administration was elected, being in the
minority by 511,950 votes. It is wrong,
therefore, to say that this is a governmeut
of the people, by the people aud for the
people. It is a government by speaker.
AA'hile the fruit crop is almost a complete
failure, the harvest of hay gathered this
year is pronounced the largest and best in
quality that has been known in ten years.
Tomatoes also have grown in abundance
this year. The outlook in other respects is
vory promising, and there is, therefore, no
great reason for complaint.
“Soiuethiug is still wrong,” says a dis
patch from Buenos Ayres. Probably the
people are still out of order.
Being of a foreign nature Mr. McKin
ley ought to put in hie bill a duty on cy.
clotios, to keep them out.
Tariff Bill McKinley says Mr. Blaine is
out in the cold. Well, hardly, with the
thermometer at 80*.
PERSONAL*
is now in better health than
he ha* had for years.
Cairo ba heloh. 97 years old. but rich, has
receive! 25<> auplioaGonb from la lies willing to
tie hi* wife and risk his dying pretty soon.
Ths recent dangerous illness of Count Kal
noky was Induce! by Lis reckleas eating and
drinßiog of rich foou and iced champagne.
Joseph Kainz, the famous Munich court
actor, has closed a contract with Gustav Am
herg of New York for forty performances at
s4ot) a mght.
Thb governor and ciuncil of New Hampshire
Lava invited John G. Whittier to write a poem,
to be read at the unveiling of the statue of tten.
Stark at Concord.
Tbxxyrox abhors sportsmanship that Include*
killing any kind of birds, but is. poaciblj, not
above relishing a it of rook pie, no questions
asked, if it should come nis way.
W. S Williams of Cherokee county. Ala
bama, is the lather of twenty-eight children,
the eldest of whom is 49 years old. the youngest
6. Mr. Willia ns is 70 years of a,-e.
Ward McAllister's al Jreeoo innovations at
Newport are giving rise to some social raspings,
but, as alls swell that ends swell, harmony
will, of course, round off the season.
Alma Tadema sa s he learned English from
two masters—one a poet, the other a footman!
From the former he acquised the use of ele
vated, and from the other that of ordinary,
language.
Of Rev. Dr. Theodoric Pryor, who died last
week in Nottoway county, Virginia, it is related
that in half a century of ministerial work he
never missed an appointment to preach on ac
count of ill health.
Col. Tom Ri s ell Marshall, who has just
b‘©a elected commandant ot the Virginia Mili
tary Institute, is 33 years old, and graduated
from that institute in Jf>bo. He 13 colonel of the
First Virginia cavalry.
Mme. Patti’s new theater at Craig-y-Nos
Castle is still in the hands of the working men,
but is expected to be ready for occupation
toward the end of August. Mr. Irving has
advised the diva concerning ail the decora
tions.
Among the guests already assigned to one
hotel in Boston for grand army week, this
month, are Miss Clara Barton, Mrs. Logan, Mrs.
Witienmeyer, Gen. Algur, Secretary Proctor.
S cruLary Noble, Secretary Rusk, Gen. Saer
man. Gen. Sickl *B,Gen. Hovev, Gen. Berdan and
ex-Gov. Foraker.
In accordance with a curious Austrian cus
tom, one of Archduchess Valerie's weddiug gifts
has been a collection of articles of clothing
worn by her in Inr lays of babyhood. Her first
wee pair of boots, perserved for this purpose
by her nurse, was brought to her at Vienna by
that worthy woman.
William Groesbeck of Cincinnati, who looks
like the picture of Julius Caesar, is at Saratoga.
Ho defended President Andrew Johnson in his
impeachment trial and was Tilden s choice as a
democratic candidate for President. Mr. Groes
beck is well advanced in years, very wealthy,
and be has said that be would not give up the
pleasures of bis home for presidential honors.
The betrothal of Alphonse Daudet's son Leon
and J ‘anne Hugo, the gran Idaughter of Victor
Hugo, forms an interesting alliance between
the naturalists and the romanticists. All of
Victor Hugo's childreu died before their father,
and this little grandchild, the sole survivor of
tbe family, the pet and companion of the
old man's d©< fears ie n D&udet is not
much more than a boy. a handsome, attractive
young fellow, and the idol of his parents.
BRIGHT BiTc.
Nobody knows what a fright he is.
Nobody knows if he's bird or brute,
Nobody knows from his sun burnt phiz.
What a man looks like in a bathing suit.
Washington Star.
Dcbbs I’m tired of Life.
Smibbs—Well, why don’t you stop your sub
scription? —Jester.
There is some consolation in knowing that
the man trim takes up two seats in the horse
ear counts for only one in the census. -Boston
Beacon.
It has been discovered that the cash boys
were very lazy in the days of Job, for he says:
“All the days of my appointed time will I wait
till my change comes. Figaro.
Oct or Her Element Wife My friends
used to tell me I sang \ ke an ang l
Hubby—As that’s the case, why don’t you
wait until you get to heaven?— Life.
Old Lady (to newsboy < You don’t chew to
bacco, do you, little boy?
Newsboy No, ma'am; but I kin give yer a
cigarette —Smith d‘ Gray's Monthly.
Someth!f-o Else Reqcired McC’anna (hav
ing borrowed $10)—-Oh, thank you! Words can
not repay you for this favor.”
De Tinn (dryly) No; 1 don’t think they can
Pueo
The Other Wav.—‘‘How does your girl treat
you, John?” asked the mother.
‘‘She doesn't treat me at all, mother; I am
obliged to treat her every time.”— Boston
Courier.
Undoubtedly Correct —“George," asked
Mrs. Cumso, “what paper in the United States
has the largest circulation?”
“Paper money, ' replied Cumso promptly.—
Brake's Magazine.
“Did your wife listen to your excuses for
staying out so late last night’’’ “Oh, ye*, of
course, she list -ned to me, and then ’’
“Then what?”
“I had to listen to her.” —Boston Beacon.
An old bachelor says that giving the ballot
to women would not amouut to anything prac
tically, because they would keep denying they
were old enoogh to vote uatil they got to be too
old to take any interest in polities,— Humbolat
(Tenn.) Messenger.
‘T’ll have a fit, I know I shall,” shrieked a
woman who was refusing to be coaxed into the
surf at Ocean Grove.
“Notin that suit you have on,” said another
woman next to her in such a tone that she fell
in a heap, and it was harder to get her out than
it was to get her in.— Washington Star.
Hand to Mouth.— Snagg*--Hello, Pages l
Haven't seen you for years. How are you liv
ing; now? \
Rage* Hand to mouth.
Soaggs-You dou’t6ayso! By Jove, I wouldn’t
have thought it!
Baggs—Why not? Can't a man boa dentist
and be respectable?— Burlington Free Press
No Consolation in Brick Hocsbs.—“Do you
know,” said one tramp to another, “that tb
old duffer who has just gone up the street had
the impudence to udl ms that if I hadn’t spent
ny money for whisky I might be omn a btlck
homo.”
“Wbat did you say?”
“I reminded him with great sarcasticness that
brick houses is not tit ter drink. ” Washington
Post.
“Papa,’’ said the young mother, “I’ve decided
on a name for baby; we will call her Imogen.”
Papa was lost in thought for a few minutes;
he did not like the name, but if he opposed it
bis wife would have her own way. “That’s
nice,” said lie, presently. “My first sweetheart
was named Imogen and she will take it as a
compliment.” “We will call her Mary, after
my mother,” was the stern reply. —Harper s
Bazar.
CURRENT COMMENT.
Forcible Truth.
From the St. Louis Post-Dispatch (Dem.).
Every protest from a business man against
the lodge election bill is a nail in the coffin of
that rotten scheme.
The Moon’s Naughty Examble.
From the Boston Globe (Bern.).
The moon was full twice in July. And ff the
hot weather continues the moon will have some
millions of imitators in August.
Don’t You Know?
From the Dallas (Tex.) Feres (Dem.).
It is curious that one man will know what
thoughts are in tie mind of another man, and
the other man w ill know that the first man
Knows that he kuows that he knows what he is
tliinklug about, yet neither of the men will tell
j the other man that he knows that he knows
what ke is thinking about.
The Short Cut to a Settlement.
From the Buffalo Courier lDem.).
>lr Blaine has used about 26.00 U words in try
ing to make l-ord Salisbury see the point in the
I Behring sea controversy. The point is this: All
seais are Kussiaus who have become naturalized
American citizens, and beuce are entitled to tbe
1 protection of the American flag. The best
, thing (or Mr Blaine to do is to suspend the
language of diplomacy, (supply every seal with
an American Hag. aud then, if a John Uul!
pirate tries to haul down tbe flag on any seal
| about hi a* on the spot.
Tliree-fourtlw of >ur ailments ariae from
I.lver troubles is bleb bliiimott* Utrr K suitf -
1 tor cure* Jdv.
He Epoke Too Late.
From the Sew York Htraid.
He wa* a pas or of high repute;
Tnat she was a beauty none could dispute.
He loved her dearly, yet loved in \ ain.
For ho dared pot tell her his long.ng pain.
But when at the close of church on* day,
She asked hi* e icort a part of the way,
H:s heart best h:gh. and he almost thought
He'd be able to plead for the love he sougat.
*Tve a favor to ask,” the maiden t aid,
As she biijsbed and dropped her lovely head;
*T wish to know if you'll marry nv
In church next Tuesday a* call i*it three.”
That's just wbat I waited t3 ask,” he said,
“And now we'll hasten each other to wed ”
‘‘Oh: no,” she cried, that was not mv plan;
You must marry in© to another man.
A Great Country.
"When I was a boy oae of the things I envied
England for was that upon her poss the
sun never set,” sai l Assistant Postmaster Gen
eral Clarkson to a Chicago Post reporter. ‘ln
everything eise the United States was aboad of
the world. I used to fuel bad because of that
exception, ai.d, in fact, until a month ago. while
up in Washington, the idea that England's
drum teat was, as Daniel Webster sail, heard
round the world,always made me look upou the
mother couLtry as possessin: something de
siraDle beyond our grasp. But in Washington I
learned that England is not alone in that glory,
that there is one exception, and that this
country is that exception, it is a fa_t. You
take the western point of Alaska and it is as far
west of San Francisco as San Francisco is west
of Maine, and you find that so tar around the
world does it reach that wh*.*n the fishermen of
Alas-:a is returning home just before the sun
sets the fisherman of Maine i> sailing eastward
toward the sud, which is an hour high. I teil
you,” said Mr. Clarkson in c.inclusion, ‘‘when I
learned that fact I felt a nigger American than
ever.”
The Drama of Sllonce.
He had a sample fly screen under his arm as
he came along to a small shoe shop on Ludlow
street, relates the New York Sun. The cohtler
looked up from his work, sized his caller up.
and then resumed his pegging without a word.
“Nice weather, this.” suggested the agent, as
he sat down on the only chair in the shop.
No response.
“That is, it s nice weather for flies. Beats all
how many the* there are around this year. Did
you ev r make an estimate of the number of
bouse flies in New York?"
Tl © cobbler didnt seem to hear.
like the full number would run
into the billions. Tnvre are in your shop at
the present time n t less than 6,752 flies, large
and small. Take this as a basis to figure on,
and the total in ti e city would be an almost iu
credible number.”
The cobbler dampened a piece cf sole leather
aiidhamnj red it out, but said nothing.
“But for the ingenuity of man the house fly
would make life almost a purgatory during the
summer," continued the agent as be nibbled at
a piece of the shoemaker's wax. “Left to his
own free will the pest would damage this city
$10,Oik),000 worth every year. The inventor of
the fly screen was a greater man than Colum
bus. Have you ever figured on the cost of
screens for the door and two w indows?”
The cobbler was silent.
‘ Probably not, aud you’ll be astonished at
the low price. Just let me measure. Now, I'll
figure a little. Ah’ here it is—a result to as
tonish you I can screen those openings with
our uatent woven wire cloth for—how mnch do
you think?”
The cobbler was burnishing off a heel and
never raised his eyes
“It figures $4 60, but as I want to introduce
these goods in this neighborhood 1 11 make it
even dollars. Come now, but it’s the biggest
l ai gain of the century. ”
liie cobbler reached for hi* hook and pre
pared to pull out the last.
“I shouldn't want you to give my figure away
to the baker above or the tailor below j-ou,
both of whom have given me orders at regular
prices. As I said, tbe object, is to introduce the
goods and secure a foothold.”
The cobbler pulled and nulled, and the last
finally came out with a “chuck!”
‘'Remember that I warrant the screens for
five years, which is something no other agent
dares do. They balk tbe fly. baffle the moth,
perplex the musquito, and make life miserable
for all kiuds of bugs. Tney have an aristo
cratic look, are generally accepted as evidence
of thrift, and I'll defy you to find a business
house in New York provided with our screens
which can't discount us paper. Let's see.
What is the name, please?”
“You like some patches put on?” asked the
cobbler, as he suddenly looked up.
' Patches’ Why. no. I called to take your
order for——”
“You want a lift on your heel?”
“Lift? Why, man, my heels are all right.
I want to supply these openings with our ”
“No work for you?”
"No, I don’t want anything done. As I have
several times informed you, I called to ”
The cobbler sat down, picked up an old shoe,
cut a ‘ rise” for the left side of the heeJ, and
began driving in pegs, and after standing for
two or three minutes, the agent walked to the
door and turned and said:
"Very well, lometo you not only as an
agent, out a public benefactor, and you treat
me with contumely and contempt. In brief,
you make me weary. Suppose we say $3 50 for
the three openings.”
No res pi nse.
“An even $3.”
Daep silence.
‘There is a limit to what even the fly-screen
man can bear,” said the agent. “That limit has
beau reached. The worm turns. I go.”
And the only response was a peggety-te-pee,
as the hammer sent the sharpened bits of maple
deep down into the heel.
A Forty niner’a Salmon Trout.
Away back in 1852 myself, a Bay Stater, and
Old Boss, a New Yorker, a fresh salt water
man, were running a trading store, and mining,
too. on one ot the branches of the A'uba river,
says a writer in tbe Boston Journal. Boss,
partner, liked to cook, and was a good cook.
I didn't like to cook; was a bad cook. So we
hitched wonderfully for near seven long years.
Old Ben—l say “old” because he was three
years older than 1 was—Old Ben one day says:
“Why don’t you go a-fishing? Indians get
plenty, and you don’t get nary one.”
Well, that was a poser; so. to solve the fish
business, I concluded to watch tbe Indians.
Bucks or squaws don't fish much; they do the
dressing aud cooking. Well, it was not long
before I observed an Indian with his dart; they
don’t flih with hooks and lines and such trash,
but have a dart about five feet long with a bone
toggle on the ed that goes through the fish
when thrown. I trailed my Indian fisherman.
He went down to the mouth of the creek where
it emptied into the Yuba, walked right into the
middle of it and began to walk up stream on
the slippery stones. He didn’t have to take off
his boots or roll up his trousers, for he had none
on.
Well, 1 didn’t haTe to go into tbe creek to do
ry fishing or watching, but walked up the
back among the bushes, keeping well out of the
Inolan'saight, fori wa a novice, only learning,
and it was not long before l heard a “ugh”
grunt, and soon 1 beard him say, “AVinnee
mueho grandee.” then saw him throw the fish
out on the bank I had to be careful from
being seen, but was ready to pick up the big
salmon trout, a regular beauty, three-pounder,
and put him on my sharpened crotched live oak
stick. 1 kept that up until I had a load, then
started back to the old store, marched into the
cook-house part of the store, told old Pard Ben,
“Now for baked salmon trout.”
Bon asked how rauen I paid.
“Well, just nothing,” was tbe reply. “I
picked them up witn my two hands; that is the
way I caught them.”
“Where did you do it?” said he.
“Up tne creek.”
“Well, just tell me how you done it, Pard
Harry,” says he.
I said. “No, I shall not give away my fisher
man’s luck.”
1 kept on fishing in that way for a long num
ber of weeks until one unfortunate dav I got
too careless and greedy and followed ’ up Mr.
Indian too fast, for I recollect I hid caught
most all I could carry, when I heard a “ugh!”
grunt, and, looking up, saw a 2X)-pounder In
dian, who yelled at me: “No good Americano,
mucho moolo.” I bad no time to plan what to
do, so I acted on my first impuUe and marched
direct to him and sa.d, “Black good Indian, me
give you half.” So I sat right down on't ie
ground and divided them, adopting the mu il
course of the white race, keeping the largest
fish for myself. T hen, rising to my feet Isa and,
'Blank good Indian” again, and gave him some
•tunning familiar whacks on the back; he had
no shirt ou. only a plug hat like any fanev buck;
they used to delight in deshabille appearances.
Well, the Indian looked at mr, then at the two
lots of fish, as much as u> say, “Tnat is decid
edly cooL”
1 said. “Come on. good Indian; me give you a
fancy shirtet* down at tbe store."
I picked up my half, w hich was a big load,
ands arted down the trail. 1 could hear the
bare feet following. I took them to old Ben. m
our cook houe- aud wild “There, mak" a good
spread of this lot Then 1 got a fancy shirt
and pair of iroustni and handed them to Mr
Indian, iauttilug That laugh spo.lrd all my
good kiudnesses, for the Indian said “mucho
muelo again, and then (fid Ben cam., l u ,- tUf j
said; “What's up’”
Well, if that fn-liaci dlde't Hurt out thewhoia
•tery how f •*,) gut M fln, and had been
getting tijeiu, too, fi many c oons That audnd
mv trout h*bi let tor as err In) an within fifty
miles knew of n vary soon, and i have not hern
trout fishing siaar.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
A little girl of 8 or 10, playing in the sani
at Long Branch, was approach *d by a well
dressed loafer, who. getting the child'* confi
dence. cooly drew scissor* from his pocket aqd
cut < *ff the Kold buttons on the little one's dre6S.
The thief was arrested.
At N*r*NDOßr. Prussia, the lightning fired
the gable end of a barn where a pair of storks
had built their nest for years The flames soon
caught the rn*t in which the brood was *c rearn
ing, but the mothur stork, refasinf to leave,
spread hur wings over the young ones and was
burned aliva
Tee medical men of Vienna have been throws
into a panic by the ciscovery that for months
they have been allowing a dry goods clerk to
treat patients in tbe city hospital. He got Ids
position by means of forg©l diplomas. lHiring
the • ay he sold ribbons, and at night he at
tended his ward. He Laa nev-r studied medi
cine. and is supposed to be responsible for any
number of deaths.
The New Haven Musical Union has gone out
of existence in a curious way. The by-laws pro
vided that if the dues were not regularly paid
the members should be expelled at the end of
three months; no one was allowed to resign. It
was soon discovered that poor music.ans could
get as good pay as good ones. S • in order to
escape, the talented ones shirked their dues and
weru exp-lled. Result, general collapse.
The Franciscan monks have recently opened
their first Canadian monastery in Montreal.
These monks live entirely by aims, and are
allowed totouen no money. If victuals are not
supplied, they go fortli and They preach
penance and conversion, and their principal oc
cupation is prayer, meditation and penance.
Their doors are always open to the poor, and
with them the monks share such as they have
themselves.
For some days past the clay diggers in Brown
& Clark's brickyard, at Grand Rapids, have
been bothered by wet ground. While at work
yester lay a vein of w ater was struck that fairly
gu.shea from the ground, overflowing every
thing. Bince then it has been flowing at the
rate of 50 .QUO barrels an hour, and the Grand
Rapids neople think they have struck it rich.
The water is cold and pure and the supply seems
inexhaustible.
The extraordinary feat of telegraphing be
tween St. Petersburg an i Boulogne, a distance
of 2,466 miles, has recently been accomplished,
according to the foreign papers. As messages
have long since beeu exchanged between the
two Portlands, Maine and Oregon, over about
4.000 miles of wire, what is there extraordinary
in telegraphing 2.465 miles? unless, indeed, the
message started iu Russian and landed in Flem
ish, for instance.
An albino or wniTE lion was born recently
in John Robinson’s circus, at Deer Lodge, ModL
There is not a spot or a blemish to mar its im
maculate color. A white lion has never before
been boaste l of. though albino.3 among men,
women, birds and some animals are common
enough. Robinson has received many tele
grams ot c mgrutuiation over his good tortune.
and it is said that a Washington scientist will
soon start for the west to examine the new
comer.
The remains of the bones of 230 French sol
diers, who die! at Berlin of the wounds or in
juries received in the ill-fated Russian campaign
of 1812. were moved into a newgi ave a tew days
ago. When they w ere first buried they were all
put in one large grave Some years later Prus
sia wanted the spac * for anew barracks, and the
remains were moved to a more convenient plac-u
Now another new barracks is to be built above
their second resting place, and once again they
have had to * move ou.”
There are more ducks in the Chinese empire,
says an authority, than in all the world outside
of it. They are kept by the Celestials on every
fa- m, on the private r a is, on the public roads,
on the s re-ts of cities, and on all the lakes,
ponds, rivers, struams and brooks in the coun
try Every Chinese boat also contains a batch
of them. are innum-rable Latching es
tablishments all through tbe empire, many of
w’hieh are said to turn out about 50.U00 young
ducss every year. Salted and smoked duck
and ducks' constitute two of the most
common and important articles of diet in China.
Cyrus Booker, who killed himself near Sagi
naw a few days ago, left this bit of ghastly con
solation to his parents: Dear Father and Mother
—I am tired to life. It has lost its chiirms for
me. I have nothing to live for. no one to care
for, and no one cares for me. Therefore, I shall
seek rest in the grave. Don't say it was foolish
to commit such an act, for you know not my
heart, and you are not competed to judge.
Don't say he was insane, for my mind is as clear
as you s. Don't mourn for me. I shall be much
better off, and I prefer a suicide's grave rather
than a life of misery. Forget and forg.ve your
uuhappy son, Cyrus.”
Chicken thieves raided the hen roost of a
farmer near Bellville, N. Y., early the other
morning. Just after the thie~es got to work a
heavy log in frout of the coops dropped and ex
ploded a big torpedo. The farmer was up and
after the two tnieves in a few seconds. He
chased them to the Second river. They jumped
iu and started to swim across, and he followed.
In the middle of the stre vm he caught one of the
uten. The oth‘*r swam l ack and hit him in the
face. Stunned for a moment, he released his
man and sank. When he came to the surface
he had rec jvered from the blow, but the fugi
tives were beyond reach
The Norwich Bulletin has come across the
following sign, which it wants deciphered;
tAPANHILD
FOR 75 NALAD
SOADIDLLAR.
Now this looks to us iike a cobbler's sign, and
must read as follows; Shoes (understood}
“tapped and be*de<l for 75 (cent 9), nailed; newel
one dollar.” The shoemaker in question seems
to have l>een very moderate in his prices and
probably did a good business. Although not a
scholar he caught the knack, wittingly or oth
erwise, which many advertisers pride them
selves on—of catching the public's eye with
something startling, absurd or incongruous.
Several months ago achewing gum factory
at Cleveland, 0., conceived the idea of making
anew brand of gum,wrapping it in imitation $5
greenbacks, and calling it “Greenback Chewing
Gum.” It was put on the market and made a
hit, large lots being sold. A government de
tective, who chews gum, bought a stick of the
brand, and he at once saw in the imitation go
bill a violation of the statutes of the United
States. He notified the treasury department at
Washington of his discovery, and this telegram
was sent out to all tiie district secret service
officers: “‘Greenback Chewing Guta' has a
wrapper that is a violation of section 5480.
Suppress it.” Large seizures of ths article wore
made, and the sale stopped.
J. W. Funk, a farmer of Hayworth, lIL, La
one of tbo 14,000 inventors who are competing
for tbe prize of $125,000 offered by the govern
ment of New S#ut.h Wales for the trap which
may ho decided to be the inost likely to be
effective in ridding that oountry of it* fearful
pest of crop-destroying rabbit*. He has re
ceived a letter from Australia saying that the
committee which is to decide the matter has
looked with favor upon his model, and inviting
him to visit Australia and demonstrate the
working of the trap. He will probably do so in
a few weeks. The trap is simple aud cheap. It
is a device to dump the rabbits, one at a time
into a pit by means of a platform swung on
pivots below a suspended bait. In a trap of
similar device he caught flfty-6even rabbits in
one night in a cornfield.
A farmer of J( auna. near Reading, in dig
ging an excavation the other day. unearthed a
large iron plate three feet square, bearing date
April 4, 1570. Two Indians are represented on
one side of the phife and a pair of anchors on
the reverse side The plate also bears this in
scription in German: “Oh, hope yet for a better
time, as all troubles w ill oase. Hope to see
that blessed beam of peace, when hatred, wars
and strife shall cease.” Farmer Moore's’ barn
was built ou property secured from the original
proprietaries. Thomas and Rich ird I’enn, sons
of old William IVnu, then governors-m-chief of
Pennsylvania. The old V'laker settlers in the
county lived side by side with religious refugees
from Hollaud and Germany, and had intimate
business dealings together, aud it is believed
therefore, that the iron plate just found was
part of a stove made in Germany or Holland 320
years ago.
One of the most remarkable cases of close
fisted stinginess ever known in this section has
just been brought to light, says a dispatch from
talom. 111. It is unnecessary to name the
parties, but the story, as vouched for by several
citizens of this place, is as teUow * A farmer
residinr near here, worth from fcS.O*JU to $lO,-
CHA), not long since hatl a brottier in the neigh
bun->od who was very sick. Tne attending
physician re jousted that the sick man be giveu
small quantities of lemonad-v T.ie wealthy
broth©! was dis;atchel to town to get some
lemons, lie came to a leadiug grocery st< re
hen* and purchased three for 10 dots. That
ai ht the sick brother died au l only one of the
lemon* hud been u ed The dav after tbe
funeral the wealthy brother brought tbo two
remaining lemon* b* k to the merchant and
said a* hu brother had died befoie usiug all of
them he ba tno furumr use for Lb*in aud he le
maudad 6 cents tor the two return and. The /uer
chant refused to take the lemon* back aud the
miserly old fellow went away mad
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