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THE TKADK REVIEW.
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 uuderstanding
of her commercial advantages, and the
gradual enlargement of her two great rail
road 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 18'.I)-!)!
more notable than any preceding one in her
history.
Since the last trade review of the Morn
ing News there have been built three new
an 1 important railroads to Savannah, or to
connect with her railroad systems. They
ere the Alabama Midland, the Savannah
and Western, and tho Savannah, America
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 new 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
seek 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
cif the Morning News to see 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
necur. and 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 News proposes to make a
special effort to reach every buyer iu 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 Savannah’s
welfare and prosperity.
The Trade Review edition will be issued
Sept. 4. Space in its columns can be ob
tained upon application to tbe business
office. _
Just when the cotton crop is ready to be
moved, reports of a tight m >nev market
come from New York. The condition of
the tuoDey market, however, will not check
tbe moving of the crop.
The force bill, according to Senator
Quay, is “a sickly infaut destined never
to attain its growth.’’ It is Speaker Reid’s
infant, and he will be a br ken-hearted fat
man if it should be cut off in its infancy.
There is nothing that would give the
country greater satis/action than to see l ho
republican leaders quarreling among them
selves over the tariff tiiU and the force bill.
Tbe former is intended to rob the people,
atd the latter to deprive them of tbeir lib
erties.
Fmberraseed by Two Leaders.
The republican? in cmgresi are greatly
embarrassed. Their embarrassment has
been cau-ed by two of their leaders. Mr.
1 Blaine and Mr. Quay. A month or so ago
thev had about agreed upon their pro
gramme and were confiient of carrying it
out. The main features of their programme
were the tariff bill on i the force bill. Speaker
Reed, by disregarding all the rights of the
minority, bad put both these bills through
the House in short order, aud the republican
! senators were expected to follow the ex
! ample set them by the Housi and pass them
i without delay.
The first sign of threatened trouble was
Mr. Blaine’s letter favoring reciprocity. It
demoralized the republic in senators be
cause it was so promptly approved by their
constituents. In all parts of the country
the reciprocity idea was though; to be a
pood one. Why, it was argued, should this
country give u > an annual reveiue of
#55,000,090 ani admit fr.se of duty the
sugar of the sugar-pro lucing countries un
less these countries would agree to admit
free of duty sucu of our exports as were
needed by their people? The So late has
not yet reached the sugar schedule
of the tariff bill, but when
it does there Is likely to be
a very interesting discussion of it. But Mr.
Blaine went further in his criticism of the
tariff bill than to object to free sugar with
out reciprocity. He virtually declared that
the bill was more harmful th in helpful to
the farmers, because it imposed additional
burdens upon them without benefiting
them in any way. Such a declaration from
the greatest of the republican loaders and
the most prominent of the protectionists
very naturally created a feeling of indiffer
ence among republicans as to the fate of
the tariff bill, and it encouraged some of
the republican senators to attack it.
While the tariff bill was being attacked
in the house of its friends the pressure in
favor of the passage of tho force bill was
being increased. Although there was no
demand for the bill the republican leaders
regarded its passage as necessary to the con
tinuance of the Republican party in power.
While its friends were still hopeful of its
passage Senator Quay, the chairman of the
national republicau committee, struck it a
deadly blow by offering a reso
lution which, if adopted, would
prevent its consideration at this
session. This resolution the republican
senatorial caucus has considered and lias
not rejected. The probability i? that the
caucus will adopt it. If the force bill is
not passed at this session it is safe to as
sume that it will never be passed.
Mr. Blaine and Mr. Quay are severely
criticised by the republican organs, but
they don’t care for such criticism. They
know that they have the support of the
great majority of their party. They have
come to the front as the' real leaders of
their party. Reid, Hoar, McKinley,
Spooner and the rest of those who, have
been thinking that thev were run
ning their party may 6cold and
threaten, but what cai they
do? They have been forced to take back
seats, where they will likely remain during
the rest of the season. In the meantime tho
embarrassed republicans iu congress hardly
know what course to pursue. The only
ways out of their embarrassing situation
are those, apparently, which have been Bug
gered by Mr. Blaine and Mr. Q lay. These
are the incorporating of reciprocity into the
tariff bill and the abandonment of the
force bill.
The World’s Fair Site.
The country is losing a good deal of its
interest in the worlds fair on occount of
the difficulty experienced in securing a site
at Chicago. It has been stated quite fre
quently within the last two or three weeks
that the site question was settled, and that
a part of the fair would be on the lake
front and another part in Jackson park. A
dispatch from Chicago says that as a mat
ter of fact nothing is as yet definitely set
tled with respect to the site.
Frederick Law Olmstead, the engineer
who was called to Chicago from Boston,
after examining Jackson park, expressed
an opinion as to its fitness for fair purposes
that was not at all satisfactory to the
directors of the fair. An ex-congressman
said that Mr. Olmstead’s “report had givon
Jackson park a scientific knock out.”
It seems also that there is trouble with
respect to the lake front site. The Illinois
Central railroad has a lien of some kind
upon it, and that corporation will not enter
into the agreement with respect to it which
the directors of the fair regard as necessary.
Besides, before that site can ba used many
acres of the lake must be filled in, and it is
regarded as doubtful whether the Secretary
of War will permit that to be done, because
the to be filled is the only available
harbor for vessels along a large part of the
city front. The outlook, therefore, for a site
on the lake front is not very promising.
Chicago does not realize the importance
of settling the question of a site at as early
a day as possible. If she does not make
greater progress than she has yet in select
ing a site it will be a very long time before
she will be ready to open tbe fair.
Fate plays some peculiar pranks. All of
us believe that fate has more or less to do
with our destinies, but fate or destiny has
taken a most peculiar course with John
Steinel, a citizen of Heading, Pa. He never
leaves home without being robbed, and
his friends are beginning to believe that his
misfortunes are due more to habit
than fate. About six months ago he went
to New York to sail for Germany, and two
days later returned, saying that he had
been robbed of all his money. Three
months later he went to New York and was
again robbed, this time of both his money
and his trunk. A few days ago ho left home
with $6OO, planning as usual to visit his rel
atives in Germany, and the same day he
returned to Reading minus his trunk. His
wite, tired of suca a monotonous perform
ance, has had him arrested and compelle i
him to give enough bail to keep him at
home. Thu- he is finally robbed of his
liberty by his own wife.
A Cincinnati woman was victimized in a
| most original manner a day or two ago. A
stranger called at her house and informed
her that her son had been arrestel, and that
t~j was necessary as hail money for him.
The amount was handed over without a
question, and when the son came home a
little later it was found that there was
nothing in the story, except t'i s for tbe
auarpor. Cincinnati woman, it appears,
have more ready money than wits.
The Chicago inter Ocean savs that the
chief ambition of ttie Georgia democracy
these days seems to bo to circumvent tbe
constitution. The dear Inter Ocean is mis
taken. It is striving hard to jre vent the
republicans from doing tbat very thing
THE MORNING NEWS: SATURDAY, AUGUST Ifi, 1890.
Florida Nominations.
The Florida democrats have nominated a
strong state ticket. It is a ticket that will
arouse the enthusiasm of the democratic
voters, and will be elected by a majority
larger than that by which the last stale
democratic ticket was elected. Ex-Gov.
Bloxham, the nominee for controller, is o; e
of the most popular men in Flor
ida, and i eserve ily so. In every
capacity in which he has served
the people he has proved himself worthy of
the trust repxnsi and in him, and capable of dis
charging the duties imposed upon him. The
people respect him and have unbounded
out! la ice in hi u.
The nominee for justice of the supreme
court, ex-Lieut. Gov. Mabry, although a
young man, has a reputation for ability and
sterling integrity second to that of no other
man in the state. Being well read iu the
law and pissjssing an excellent and dis
criminating judgment, together with tire
less industry, he will be an ornament to the
bench.
The platform upon which the nominees
stand is a sound one. It makes a slight con
cession to the farmers’ alliance, but there is
nothing in it that is hostile to democratic
principles. It is a pla form that will meet
the appro val of all de moerats.
It is a source of satisfaction that Gen.
Robert Bullock has been nominated in the
Second Florida district. Of course be will
be re-elected. He was elected over bis oppo
nent, Goodrich, to the present congress by
more thaa 3.000 majority, but
a partisan House deprived hun
of his seat. Tae people of
the Second district will show how unjust
tae action of the House was by re-electing
him by a still greater majority. They know
his worth, and will give him such an in
dorsement that the next House, if it should
be republican, will not dare to question
his right to his seat.
The Caucus and the Force BUI.
Tne republican senatorial caucus on
Thursday night virtually settled the fate
of the force bill for this session at least.
Between fifteen aud twenty of those present
at the caucus were found to be opposed to
taking up the bill at this session. Had
there been an overwhelming sentiment in
favor of the bill Senator Quay’s resolution,
putting it over until next session, would
have been disapproved.
Of course the republican organs will call
Senator Quay, and the other senators who
support him, traitors and cowards, but they
will effect nothing by such a course. When
ever the business men of the north began
to send to Washington their protests against
the force bill tbe bill was doomed to defeat.
Senator Quay would not have of
fered his resolution bad he not
been satisfied that there was no demand
among the mosses for it. He is altogether
too shrewd a politician to make the mis
take of going counter to the wishes of the
rank and file of his party. When he finds
out the drift of public sentiment it is a mat
ter of no consequence to him what the
leaders and organs say.
To the business men of the south belongs
the credit of defeating tie bill. They fol
lowed the advice of tho Morning News
and adopted a course that aroused the bus
iness sentiment of the north against the bill.
A foolish suggestion of a boycott tbreat
ened at one time to interfere with their good
work, but they repudiated that suggestion
so promptly that the harm it did was hardly
noticeable.
Tbore will be, of course, more talk of the
bill, but there is no reason to apprehend
that it will be due to any probability of its
passage. Senators H ar and Spooner and
Speaker Reed will doubtless make as much
noise os possible to cover their defeat, but
all that eminates from them will be nothing
more than noise.
Tho governor of South Carolina has been
making some remarks to the President of
the United States. The governor appointed
two democrats, instead of one republican aud
one democrat, as commissioners to the
World’s Fair, as the law provides. His at
tention was called to the matter by the
President, and the governor replied that he
appointed two democrats because there was
no republican in the State of South Caro
lina to whom he was willing to intrust so
responsible a duty. The law on the subject
is plain, however, and the question now is
whether the commission of one of the com
missioners from South Carolina is not in
valid. Unless a republican is appointed
South Carolina will probably be the only
state in the Union which will not be fully
represented officially at the Columbian Ex
position.
The delay of the republicans in congress
to act on the petition for the relief of the
starving citizens of Oklahoma recalls tue
story of the miser and his mule. It Co3t
him more to keep the animal than himself,
and he determined to cut down expenses. So
he gave the mule a little less feed every day.
The mule got thinner and thinner, and just
as the miser had reduced his alio wane j to
one straw a day. the mule died. The miser
threw up his hands in despair, and wailed;
“The fool,” he exclaimed, “just as he was
getting used to it he had to lay down and
die.” So it will be with the starving Okla
homans. Relief will reach them long after
the vital spark has fled.
If at any time there has been a doubt
about the re nomination of Col. Lestor that
doubt was set at rest yesterday by the pri
mary election in Scriven couuty. There is
only one other county to choose delegates
m the First congressional district, and that
;s Charlton. Col. Lester will be renomi
nated, and. of course, re-elected. The num
ber of delegates instructed against him is so
small that it would be a graceful thing to
renominate him without any show of oppo
sition.
A bill of considerable importance to
shippers in the coastwise trade has just
pass “and congress. It amends the law of
TSTJ relative to the shipment of sailors and
the mutual obligations of seamen and
masters so as to apply tbe obligations and
penalties for refusal to perform duty to
seamen shipping in the coastwise trade as
well as in vessels in the foreign trade.
Senators. IX Brad well,of Liberty county,
who has been made first vice president of
the State Agricultural Society, is one of
Georgia's truest and noblest sons. He will
fill his new office with credi t to himself
and the state, as be has every position of
honor and trust to which he has been
called.
The State Agricultural Society acted
wisely iu making Hon. J. O. Waddell of
Polk County t >e successor of Col. Northen
us president of tbe society. Ha is well
worthy of the position to which be has been
chosen, aud under hit a<l minis.rati iu tbi
agricultural society will uot fall below tne
standard fixed by Col. Northern
Little Rock is a disappointed community.
'Judge John R. Jones aud H. G. Allis of
that city recently had a controversy in
which the name of Capt. H. T. Coffee of
Chicago was brought in t y Mr. Allis in a
manner that did not reflect credit on that
gentleman. CaDt. Coffee sent a friend to
Little Rock to demand an apology, which
Mr. Allis declined to make, whereupon
Capt. Coffee’s friend handed Mr. Allis a
note asking him to fix a time and place
where they couli settle tbeir diffe ences.
. The people of Little Rock construed this to
mean pistols and Coffee for two, and ex
| ported to hear at aty time that Coffee had
been reduced to grounds, but Capt. Coffee
puts a different face on the matter in an
interview with a Chicago reporter. “Any
sensible man, 1 ' he said, “if he puts the right
construction upon my note, will see that it
was not a formal challenge. I expect to
sue for $35,000 damage-. lam a mild man
nered man. and not of a bellicose disposi
tion.” The captain evidently b.lieves in
Coffee, but not in pistols.
The citizens of Shelby county, Indiana,
seem to have forebodings of itn destruction
of tbe world by brimstone a .and fire, from
the way speculation in town lots and farm
land has been spoiled by the late upheavals
of tbe earth there. They should not take
such a fateful view < f the matter, howeve \
All kinds of predictions about a fearful
visitation, disaster and destruction were
made when natural gas began to make its
appearance in the vicinity of Pittsburg.
But, whether people disdained the thought
of such things, or thought it wise to make
money out of the deposit before the calamity
came, they paid no heed to it, unless by
becoming more diligent in the search for
gas. Aud they found it in abundance,
piped it, and some of them made millions
out of it. Unquestionably s ime enter
prising Hoosier will soon dispel all this
superstitious dread in the same way the
Pennsylvanians did.
It is a much easier task to solve tbe
Chinese puzzle than to determine the true
state of affairs in Guatemala and Salvador
from the accounts received. It Is hard to
say whether United States Minister Mizuer’s
conduct should be praised or censured,
whether Mr. Blaine is trying to patch up
peace and bring his pan-American policy
into play, or whether he is going to let
them fight it to a finish. What is he doing
about it, anyway ?
PERSONAL.
Mrs Deborah Powers of Lansingburg, N.Y.,
who celebrated her 100th birthday last week, is
rather incredibly asserted to be still the active
manager of the bankiug firm of which she is the
bead, D. Powers & Sons.
The body of the Queen of Corea, who died
June 4, is still kept in brine, the process of em
balming being unknown to the people of that
far-off land. The body will be kept four or five
months, according to tbe custom of tbe coun
try, and then interred with much pomp and
ceremony.
Mr. Manderville Wiggins of New Brighton.
Staten Island, writes to the New York World
to suggest drowning as a humane form of capi
tal punishment. 11 • says that he came near
being drowned not long ago himself. He went
far enough to discover that death by that
method would be painless.
Miss Sallie Holley, a Virginian, Is estab
fishing small schools in that state for the pur
pose of teaching negro girls how to sew, darn
and cook, and giving them an opportunity to
learn to read, write and make c rrect change.
Newspapers will be tbe chief reliance in teacn
ing them spelliag, geography, etc.
John Burns, who gained international repu
tation by his conduct of the London dockers’
strike, has experienced the unstable character
of leadership He is compelled to resume work
as a journeyman engineer, it is stated, in conse
quence of a falling off of the contributions
which the workers have heretotore paid him to
devote himself to their interests.
J. McN. Whistler, the artist, is pictured as a
small, slight man, with dark hair streaked with
gray curling all over his head His blue eyes
have a merry twinkle with a quizzical light iu
their depths. He has a short, grayish mus
tache, wbicn he pulls at nervously now and
theu. He is altogether a very uncommon-look
ing man, and his attire is likewise.
BRIGHT BITa.
A brief poem on a boy and a watermelon:
Morn: Rolicksome.
Noon: Frolicsome.
Night: Colicsome.
Washington Post.
Though shafts that satirists have launched
may whiz
From morn til night,
Lives there the man who thinks his gas bill is
Exactly right
Washington Post.
“How can I get rid of superfluous hair, Mr.
Druggist !’’
“Get married, sir.”— Boston Courier.
An Echo.— “ When do you do your best, Mr.
Cynicus?''
“Never; There is no market for it."— Life.
Brioos— There was another addition to Watts'
family to-day.
Braggs -Lemme see. Is that the second or
third?
Briggs—Judging from the cigars he has been
passing around it must be about the ninth.—
Terre. Haute Express.
“That doctor is the most dressy physician I
ever saw"
“You think so!”
“Yes Every time he goes out on his visits
he looks as if he had just come out of a band
box"
“I see. Dressed to kill.”— Boston Courier.
Settled —Ramrod—l can't make out whether
Teogage is a genuine sportsman or not. He
talks Dig, but then
Trapp—Hold on. There he comes row. I'll ask
him a question. Hello, Tengage' Did you ever
see a deer lick?
Tengage -Sea a deer lick what?
Trapp—Rats. Ramrod and I have an on
gagement. Good day. —Burlington Free Press.
Infxpi rienced.—Grocer (to son)—l see that
you don’t know how to buy watermelons.
Son—Why so?
Grocer—Because all those you have selected
have short steins.
Son- Does that make any difference?
Grocer—Of course it does. When they have
long stems you can cut off part of the stem
every day and by that means have fresn melons
every day .—Arkansaw Traveler.
CURRENT COMMENT.
It Will Not Down.
From the Ch caqo Tribune (Rep.).
All efforts to have the duty on castor oil re
duced have failed thus far. It seems bard to
get castor oil down in any imaginable way.
An Improbable Yarn.
From the Louisville Courier Journal (Dem\
Nobody ready believed the story that Uncle
Jerry Rusk was wearing a sash, lie might for
a tew days wear a silken wrapping of some sort,
just to encourage tbe cocoon business among
our depressed farmers, but he would never do
it merely to ornament his already graceful
figure.
A Vanderbilt Weakness.
Prom the Chicago Post ( Dem .).
The most melancholy spectacle afforded by
tbe New York Central striae is that of the Van
derbilts weeping for the discommoded and in
jured public, liver since the days of the late
William H. this has been a weakness in the
Vanderbilt family.
Yes, if it Was for Good.
From the Philadelphia Ledger t ßep ).
A great deal is said about Quavism. but the
particular sample of it now before the D-oiate
committee <>o rales providing for the doing of
necessary business by congress, the dropping of
the force bill for this session, and an early ail
Jour.mem meets with iiopular approval! and
srsms likely to have tbe support of Senate aud
House. _______________
Tbe peculiar enervating effect of summer
euatb o Is driven off by Hood’s Sarsaparilla,
which “makes the weak strong."
Complaisant Philosophy.
“Re who sajs that complaisant ph losophy
does not exist in the Irish race should hare been
with me a few days ago whs , under the wing
of Mike Cudaba. I took in the eights at Ar
mour* packing house,*' remarked an English
tourist to a Chi ago Pa * reporter “Tne
weather was very hot.** he continued. * and after
tramping a good bit we stopped to c~ol off by
an open door iuto which h little t reeze was
blowing. In the roadway, upon which the sua
was pouring, an aged Irishman pushing bar
rel of pork a ong with a sp.ked stick It was hot
work for him. and after shoving it a little ways
he came to a sba iy spot. Tnere he sat down on
the barrel, took his pipe from his pocket, filled
and lit it, then crosse : his legs and puffed away
to Lis heart's content. It was 11 o'clock, an
i hour before stopping time, and after watching
him for tea minutes without seeing any signs
on his part of r suning work Cu lahy deem and
it his duty to the company to see that trie man
earned his wages So, stepping up to the man,
Cudahy said:
“ Well, my mac. you seem to be taking it
pretty easy.*
' Might as well,* puff, p iff, ‘as not, this
weather.* the Hibernian replied without taking
his pipe from ms mouth.
“‘And whom do you work for!** Cudahy
| asked.
- ‘armour,* puff. puff. ‘Good man to work
for, to).’
*' bo you know who I am?* was Cudahy's next
quest on.
*' I do not,' the Irishman rep ied in a tone
that implied that Cudahy’s identity was a mat
ter of perfect indifference to bioi.
“ ‘Well, my name is Cudahy. And lam super
mtendent of Armour & Co..' replied Cudahy,
who expected at least toat the man would, at
the announcement, jump up and resume work
But the man didn't. He looked at Cudahy a
moment as the latter ceased, took a few puffs,
and said, in a tone of mild and curious sur
prise:
“ 'An* are you raley the superintendent?*
“ I am.* replied Cudahy, straightening him
self uo to his greatest bight.
“ ‘Well, sorr.* the man responded in a confi
dential ton* as he shifted the cross of his legs
and pressed the tobacc > farther into the bowl
of his pipe ‘well, sorr, you've got a mighty n ce
job,* puff, puff, ‘if you take care care of it.’ **
An Incredible Trance Story.
The facts herein contained were related to a
St. Louis Globe-Demoo at'* correspondent by a
friend of the physician in question—a strictly re
liable man—who. for obvious reasons, refused
to permit the use of names at this time.
borne time since a caller at the offic j of the
physician desired, as he said, to place himself
under medical charge that his mental condition
might be properly diagnosed, as his friends, he
alleged, believing him insane, were determined
to send him to an asylum. He contended lie
was as sane as any man alive, but freely ad
mitted that at times he was t)oside himself, as
he frequently went into trances, during which
periods his conversations were of a most re
markable and unnatural character.
Soon he enlisted the doctor’s interest and
curiosity, and was retained about the office
Only a few days elapsed when the physician,
upon entering nis office, observed his patient s
peculiar condition, and was startled and sur
prised beyond his power of expression. The
man was in a trance, and immediately intro
duced himself as a learned Berlin physician,
deceased the past fifty years. This learned
physician was the author of many valuable
professional works, now accepted authority
throughout the medical world. Ihe patient—
a rough, illiterate German, who speaks very
broken English—used the most polished lan
guage and professional term-; in discussing and
reviewing the learned doctor's career upon
earth as well as his medical works. The phy
sician who hr. 8 him in charge, and who is inti
mately acquainted with the medical writings
of the deceased German physician, declares no
professional, however well acquainted with
these writings and discoveries, could have
handled the subjects so well as his remarkable
patient. He explained how certain discoveries
were made—in short, the doctor was treated to
a miraculous interview with the learned physi
cian, dead half a century.
Since, in trances, the patient has appeared as
dead statesmen and warriors, and in every
instance reproduced the distinguished traits of
the great men he represents. The doctor will,
as soon as possible, so his friend says, introduce
this spiritual wonder to the world
Human Nature.
“There’s a pretty good story they tell about a
friend of mine,” remaikedone of a coterie of
gentlemen the other day, relates the Chicago
Alai l.
“It happened while Sam Jones was holding
revivals down at Farwell hall, and it’s just
leaked out. My friend's wife became greatly
interested in the meetings, and one night when
he got home he found a cold supper laid for
himself, and on the table was this note:
“‘Dear John: The children are over at Mr.
Brown's. I’ve gone to hear Sam Jones.'
“Well, this wasn’t very pleasant, but he ate
the cold viands and nothing. The
night he found the house dark as a pocket, and
very little in the way of edibles—everything
stone cold. He was naturally exasperated, and
used a little strong language to himself, but
still said nothing to h s wife.
“Human nature is only human nature, boys,
you know, and wneu the third uigbt a dark
cheerless house and no supper at all greeted my
friend, it was more than he could endure, but
the climax was capped by this note that he
found on the dining--oom table:
“ ‘Dear John— I .don't know where the chil
dren are. I’ve gone to hear Sam Jones.”
“This did settle it. He swore both loud and
long, raved, turned the chairs and table in un
natural positions, and inscribed the following to
his wife:
“ ‘Dear Mary--Sam Jones be . I've gone
on a big drunk.’
‘And the story goes that be told the truth.
Anyway, he didn't appear at home for ten days,
and by that time Sam Jones had departed.”
An Outfit for an Author.
Florence F. Prait % in America.
I meant to be a writer of the very highest class;
My work must be like Caesar's wife, not merely
“made to pass;”
And so, to reach the wished for end with all
that's necessary,
I bought encyclopedias and Webster's Diction
ary;
To learn the sort of articles within each paper's
means,
I took a year's subscription to eight leading
raagaziues.
Then, seeing an advertisement of special
author's paper.
With envelopes and pens and ink and s, aling
wax and taper,
I bought a wagon load of these in order to have
plenty.
Then, as to copyrighting names, I copyrighted
twenty.
Then, in another column, a book was adver
tised.
To buy which indispensable all authors were ad
vised.
I bought it. Then, exultantly, ray wealth around
me heaped,
I sat and waited for ideas, my mind in revery
steeped.
My brain ts still untenamed; and could you tell
me, please,
A first class place for purchasing the very best
ideas?
'The Common Sense of the Court.
One of the oldest and best practitioners at the
Erie county bar, s .ys the Buffalo Courier , was
arguing a motion at a neighboring county seat,
and was depending more upon his own sound
logic than upon authorities for success. At a
critical juncture the judge interrupted the
speaker with this inquiry:
“Yes. 1 understand, but where are your au
thorities upon the subject?”
“If vour honor please,” retorted he briskly,
“I will explain the absence of authorities, with
your permission, by telling a little story: A
young man fres ly admitted to practice had
produced in court in support of a motion a
wealth or authorities. After allowing the young
man to read page upon page of dry decisions,
the judge at length interrupted wearily. ‘You
are .lust beginning in practice.' said he: ‘Jet me
give you some advice It does very well to cite
authorities once in a while, but you must
always trust somewhat to the common sense of
the court.”' It was a bold, almost audacious
position to take, but it won his case.
Her* J-ummer Lover.
The Chicago Tribune is responsible for the
following story:
“Mabel," faltered the youth in the gorgeous
blazer. "I am deeply disappointed. The partial
ity ytu have shown for my society during the
many little excursions we i ave taken together
and the delight ul little evening—er—lunche*
we have had sine** the summer season began led
me to expect a different answer.”
“Because I have looked upon you as an agree
able escort to picnics and lawn tennis parties,
and f*>r summer evenings promenades, you have
regarded yourself aa iny accepted lover, have
you, George?"
“And it is because I have been available for
these things.” he said indignantly, “that you
nave accepted my attentions, is it? You re
gard me merely as a summer lover, I pre
sume?”
“That la about the case. George,” replied the
maiden, an she dug a hole in the sandy beaeh
with i *er parasol “I have looked upon you as a
lover in a ptooicklau sense only.”
Headache. Indigestion and all disorders >f
the Liver, elaiiuvoa Lifer Kegtilator urH>
—f—i— Adv.
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iinMS OF INTc.tt.iS..
It is estimated that the wheat product of the
northwest will amount to 90,000,000 bushels,
being 5,000.000 bushels less than the crop of last
year. It is tuoug t that twenty bushels to the
acre is a fair average estimate of the yield.
< >ats will yi -ld from thirty to forty-five bushe l;
rye twe ve to fifteen bushels; barley, thirty to
forty bushels.
A complete list of the sultan's wives shows
that he has five first-class wives, valide;
twenty-four second class or morganatic wives;
and some 250 third-class partners, variously
described as “favorites” and "slaves." The
care and attendance of the female establish
ment req lire the services of 6,000 persons, who
are the only people in Turkey wno receive their
full pay with regularity.
The questions to be asked by the new English
census are those in regard to the name, sex,
age, profession or occupation, condition as to
marriage, relation to head of family and birth
place ot every person who abode in any house
on the night of the census day. showing also
whether any such person was blind or deaf and
dumo or imbecile or lunatic. Tne only new
question to be put is one recomtneuded by the
census committee namely, whore the occupier
is in occupation of less than five rooms, as to the
number of rooms occupied by him. Ode partic
ular that was asked for at the last census and is
now omitted, in accordance with the commit
tee’s recommendation, is the ‘.'rank” of each
person.
The moral reformer of China is the “Pro
vincial Treasurer of Soochow.” He has issued
a proclamation commanding managers of
theaters in Shanghai to desist fro m the repre
sentationof immoral piays. Restaurants and
other places of public interest must discontinue
employing female performers. “Immoral
plays,” the provincial treasurer says, “excite
the female mind, and sometimes lead women to
imitate the wicked actions portrayed on the
stage.” Because theaters have “been estab
lished so long that it would be impossible to
wean the public mind from them so far as to
per.nit of abolishing them," all that can be
done is to purge them from their "sensational,
degrading, and licentious" dramas.
In 1772 Prof. Maskelyue, with his assistants,
made experiments at Mount Schinallion, Perth
shire, Scotland, by which they determined
that the attraction exerted by that
mountain caused the plumb line to deviate
nearly 6' from its normal. Profs. Playfair,
Cavendish and Hutton, knowing the
structural co position ot Schihallion, de
termined that the mean density of the
mountiin was to that of the eatth
as sisto 9. P rom this the mean density or tiie
earth as compared with water was determined
to eassto 1. Other more recent experiments
make the ratio vary from 416 to to 1. Tak
ing 5P£ as the average result of all experiments,
the diameter of the earth as 7,912.41 miles, a 1 id
the weight of a cubic foot of water as 62.32
pounds, the weight of the earth would be 5,642
trillions of tons of 2,240 pounds; that is, in
figures, 5,842,000,000,000,000/OOC,OOO tons.
Miss Lucretia Craddock, of Lincoln, Neb.,
says a special to the Qlobe-Democrat, is Miss
Lucretia Craddock still, though she had hoped
ere this to have been Mrs. Tom Meyers,The event
was to have taken place Friday night, and the
feast was prepared and the bidden guests ar
rived on time. But the bridegroom came not,
though they waited and waited for his coming
until the wee sms' hours, when they dispersed.
Next day this story was told: “A number of
his friends strongly opposed the match. They
took advantage of the ocasion and filled him to
overflowing with bad red liquor, and while in
the state which follows a dose of this kind, they
loaded him on a train and billed him for Kansas
City. Meyers is the son of a prominent whole
sale liquor dealer of this city.’’ Now that the
“original package" bill has become law, prac
tical jokers will have to mind how they send
liquor, in calf's skin or otherwise, into a foreign
state.
Winifred Sweet (“Annie Laurie”) of the
San Francisco Examiner has “livened up" the
Pacific coast greatly with her journalistic
feats. On one occasion she called on two or
three lawyers who advertised to secure easy
divorces. She played the part of a wife who
sought release from matrimonial bonds, but
who had no tangible grounds for divorce. She
struck a rich lead in her interviews on this line,
and when "Annie I-aurie” gave away her in
formation on “How divorces are obtained with
out just cause or the knowledge of the other
party to the wedding contract,” a genuine sen
sation followed. One of the lawyers whose
name she gave sued the paper for $100,005 libel
The trial resulted in the plaintiff paying the
cost of the action Another lawyer took a more
practical view of the matter. He said the ex
pose had brought him lots of business in the
sham divorce lute, and had really added a long
list of clients who sought divorce “without pub
licity."
The medal for the meanest man no longer
belongs to the individual who turned brick in
his sidewalk to save laying new ones. At one
of the Kansas City hotels the other day a pretty
little flaxen-haired, blue-eyed baby girl was
playing with a big Newfoundland dog about tte
office, when she was induced to quit her romp
ing and sit on the lap of a fat commercial
traveler. The traveler amused the baby for
awhile by showing her his watch, key ring, and
various trinkets; then, seeing that the little one
was restless and wanted to "det down.” he
promised to let her go if she kissed him first
His was not an attractive mouth, and the child
strongly objected. Asa final inducement, after
much coaxing, the drummer went down in his
pocket and pulled out a big shining silver dollar
and held it before the baby with the remark.
"If you give me a kiss you may have this.”
Such a glittering offer as ibis proved too much,
so up went the little mouth, with lips puckered
as though about to receive a dose of medicine,
and "smacKl” and all was over. "Now ’oo div
me the money,” said the baby, holding out
both of her chubby little hands to receive it
The man put the dollar back in his pocket, and
instead fished out a copper cent and gave it to
the child with the remark: “Now go and play
with doggy.”
The peach crop in southern New Jersey, says
the New York Sun. has been a disastrous fail
ure this season. Orchard after orchard has
oarely enougn fruit to furnish a dozen cans of
preserves for the owners. The reason for this
is said to be that the very mild winter caused
the trees to blossom, which was followed by
blighting frosts. One ntav ride over a large
tract of country without finding half a dozen
trees which bear any fruit at all. This means a
considerable loss to the farmers down there who
rely largely on their orchards for their profits.
On the other hand, there has not been such a
successful berry season as the one just passed
in many years, and some of the farmers have
Cleared large sums out of their berry farms.
Sweet potatoes are also unusually promising,
and perhaps between them and the berries the
farmers will be tided over Asa rule South
Jers y farms are very valuable and give large
net returns In talking with the farmers toe
writer learned that the value of the farms has
increased very largely within the past few
years, although the vineyards have proven
fanures. In a number of instances farms that
bad been bought for $2,900 five vears ago have
recently been sold for SIO, OOO anil $15,000. A
good deal of speculation is going on there, too,
and some of the farmers are holding land with
the exiiectatiou of continued increase in values.
Scrofula cannot resist the purifying
powers of Ayer's Sarsaparilla. Sold by
druggists.—Ado.
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uo morbid condition, consequently their use
is followed by greater eostivenr'as. A rem
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