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THI ESDAY. AUGUST 28, I 0
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INDEX TO NtW AD VERIISEMLV TS.
Meetings—Fidelity Castle No. 7. K. G. K ;
Zerubbabel Lodge No. iS. F and A M
Special Notices— Two Residences to N* Con
sidered. C H Doreett. Auctioneer; The Equit
able Life Assurance Company; Onion Sots. J T
Shuptrine A Bro.; Brick for Sale. Decker *
Fawc-tt. Vines and Liquors, by A. H. Cham
pion's Sot Notice as to Absence of Ttr. H. H.
Groth
Auction Sale- Hav and Furniture, by 1 D.
Laßocbe & Son Office desks, etc.. J Mo
Laughlin A" Son
Not How Cheap, Bi t How Good— A. Falk &
Sens
Chsaf Oolcmn Advertisements Help
Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Rent; For
Sale: Lost; Personal: Miscellaneous.
Ol R ALU YORK OFFICE.
Mr. J. J. Flynn, General Advertising Agent
of the Morning News, office 23 Park Row,
New Y'ork. All advertising business outside of
the states of Georgia, Florida and South Caro
lina will be managed by him.
THE TRADE 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 beeti
due to the natural grow th of Savannuh’s
tributary territory, a tetter 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 1893-91
more notable thau any precediug one in her
history.
Since the last trade review of the Morn
ing 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, Americus
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,
at 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 News 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 mall facilities which
are being established permit them to.
it is proposed to send a copy of the trads
review to each subscriber to the Weekly
News, as well a* to each subscriber to the
daily, thus giving advertisers tbs benefit of
both editions at a little more than the usual
price of one.
An advertisement in a newspaper to 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. 6. Space in its columns can be ob
tained upon application to the business
office. __
Speaker Reed’s honorifleabilitudinity is
only excoeded by his modesty.
Hoard and Treat head the republican
state ticket in Wisconsin. That eertainlv
will uever be a winning ecmibinntion. If
can’t be.
It sounds like sarcasm to hear talk about
an extra session of c ingress n( o r the elec
tions in November. Congress Ims been in
extra session for nearly two months now.
A woman in Bridgeton, t'otin., ofTrsl"U
fora husband. Khe will nay <lO down aid
$!/ per month until the full an unit is (mid
If tt,e husband is not wh it he is represent, and
to be the bargain is off, and pay uw .t*
cease. The iindg tton ides furoisliai a cap)
la! suggest) ii 111 matrimouial n neltlei tv
s/m enterprising Individual to furnish
hostmieis mi tlm loet slhomit plan, and, for
that matter, worse too.
Information Wanted.
The following extra'ts nr* from an edi
torial article in the Atlanta Journal:
The Augusta Chro nicle and the Savan
nah Morning News ar-> opposing the
project of establishing a line or lines of
tteam>bine to e ry c 'taco direct to Europe
instead of shipping it by rad or c -Bitwise
steamers via New York.
* A A A A A A
The opp sitioo of the Savannah News is
as eanlv explainable as taat of the Chroni
cle. Savannah has coa-lwua steamens
owned by tne West Point Terminal, watch
eiso has a bar.d in carrying what cott > i is
shipped by rail to New York. The direct
line cf steamstnps would injure both, and
hurt the factors of Savannah as w ell.
It would be interesting to know where the
Atlanta Journal gets its authority for stat
ing that the Morning News is opposing
the project for establishing a line, or hues,
of steamship* to carry cott tn direct to Eu
rope. We give it credit for honest intentions
and therefore we are forced to the conclusion
that it sometime* attempt, to discus* mat
ters it does no: clearly understand. In or
der not to mislead its readers, would it not
be better for it to let such matters alone, or
at least study them a little more carefully
before writing about them?
Asa matter of fact the Morning News
has published nothing that justifies the
Journal in asserting that the Morning
News is opposed to the establishing of a
direct line, or lines, of steamships to Europe.
On the contrary, the Morning News stated,
in the only article which it has had on the
subject, that it would be very glad to see a
direct line of steamers from Savannah or
Brunswick to Europe. The Morning
News did, however, express a doubt that
such a lino, or lines, would be established,
and it gave reasons for its doubt.
It takes a largo number of steamships to
carry to Europe the cotton received a: Sa
vannah. This cotton is not all taken to
Liverpool. It is taken to many ports. If
the farmers, therefore, undert 10k to furnish
transportation to foreign markets for all
th<ur cotton they would have to own a very
large number of steamships, and these
steamships could not form a line between
Savannah and any one European port.
They would have to go to the ports in which
the cotton was sold, and, therefore, would
be virtually tramp steamers.
But what would the farmers do with their
steamships during that part of the year in
which there was no cotton to transport?
Would they send them tramping around the
world? But to do that the line between Sa
vannah and Europe would have to be dis
continued for a number of mouths each
year.
But, perhaps, the Journal's idea is that
the cotton would be sent abroid only so
fast as the projected direct line of steamships
could take it, and in that way the steam
ships of the line would be employed all the
time. The cotton, however has to be
shipped as fust us sold, and there are many
things which control the selling of it, the
principal one being the price. When the
price is high the farmers push their cotton
into market.
The Morning News again assorts that it
would like to see a line or lines of steam
ships between Savannah or Brunswick and
European ports, but doos no; at present see
bow such steamships c >uld be supported.
Does the Journal* The Morning News is
anxious for information on this point, and
as the Journal claims to be the parent of
the direct steamship line idea, and assorts
that those who do not think the idea a feasi
ble one are the enemies of the farmers, it
ought not to withhold any information in Us
posse sion. If it has uo information and
cannot make it clear that it would be profit
able for the farmers to establish a line of
steamships between a Georgia port and a
European port it ought to say so frankly.
It ought certainly be able to say something
in behalf of its idea. Assertions in a
matterof this kind count for not.ang. In
so far as the coastwise steamship lines from
this port are concernel, the Morning
News does not believe that a direct line of
steamships from Savannah to Liverpool, or
any other European port, would hurt
their business in the least; and
the Journal will perhaps remember that
when’the foolish boycott talk was started
in Atlanta a gentleman deeply interested
in the West Point Terminal Company,
which controls most of the coastwise
steamship linos, suggested that that com
pany would inaugurate direct trade with
Europe. The Journal certainly owes it to
itself and to its readers to point out how the
farmers would be benefited by establishing
a steamship line to Europe.
The Responsibility Located.
Immediately after the Ruprome council of
labor leaders at Terre Haute refused to
order a strike on the Vanderbilt roads of
the men belonging to the federated labor
unions, Grand Master Workman Powderly
addressed a meeting of the striking Knights
of Labor at Albany, N. Y. Xu the course of
bis remarks he said: “I have a few blunt
words to say to you. This strike is your
own. You have ordered it yourselves, and
it was not ordered by the order or by the
general officers. You went into it with
your eyes wide open.’’
From this it would seem as if Mr. Pjw
derly does not think that the knights acted
wisely in striking, and that while he is will
ing to do all he can to help the strikers, ha
wants them to understand that they acted
on their own responsibility In striking, and
also that they acted un wisely. It is certain
that it would have been much the wiser
course to have placsd their case in the hands
of Mr. Powderly and those who are associ
ated with him in the management of the
affair of the kuights. What are the leaders
for if not to settle the grievances of the
members of the order on the best terms that
can be obtained? The mistake that em
ployes too often make is that of acting with
out due consideration. They ought never
to strike without a reason that would be
certain to be approved by the public. If
they should follow that rule thoir strikes
would almost always he successful.
There is a tine object lesson in tariff re
form iu the treasury report on customs du
ties. In 1889 this couutry imported goods
valued ats<Bl,Boij,7o7, and paid ou them
duties amounting to #218,701,773, or about
43 per cent, of the value of the goods. The
price of the bome-mado goods is, of course,
enhanced in prop rtiou to the price of im
ported goods, and as our prole ted manu
facturers soil from thr -e to five times as
much as we imp irt, w* pail, taking the
l otos’ estimate In ISBJ. as much as
105,219 of tarirt benefits, and, with rlie
$ 118,701,7*1! pal 1 to the government, <*74,-
'O i,9 .‘ m all! Wh i got the lieaellt of these
uuliio the farmer or the manufacture. I
The eastern l uespajieis are doing a g eat
d*ul of figuring these days to strike the
happy tin hum for u basis of apporUou
fneu , ao that tnwr respective states will
first, fall behind their presold cnngroMiuual
i epi as* illation.
THE MORNING NEWS: THURSDAY, AUGUST 28, 189 ft.
Inconsistent Sneaker Reed
Speaker Reed does not object to fllibat
temg when he has a point to gam. He
permitted the republicans to block leg.ela
tion to their he Arts' content a day or two
ag i when the compound lard bill as under
consideration, altuougb, when be an! his
party were engage! in unseating demo
crats and putting republicans in their places,
be would not rec>giiz any member who
desired to mane a dilatory motion, and he
would n t permit any obstructive tactics of
any kind. The country wanted legislation,
he sail, and be ignored the minority alto
gether, and had passed et railrred spssd
both the forci bill and the tariff bill.
It is sai l that the reason he permitted a
few republicans to filib’LSter the other dsy
was that he wants to defeat tbs Butter worth
option bill, and iie allowed the time set
apart for tue consideration of that bill to
be consumed by the filibusters.
The speaker's inconsistent ccurse will not
escape the notice of the c auntry. His at
tention will be cAlled to it in his campaign
for re-election, and as be cannot give a sat
isfactory explanation of it he may find that
it will greatly lessen his chances for getting
back to the House. His arbitrary and un
constitutional uso of h s power as speaker
might have been overlooked by the majority
of liis constituents, but many of them wifi,
not readily overlook the glaring inconsis
tency of which he has been guilty.
Broader Reciprocity.
If this country is to have reciprocity
wita the I^a'in-American countries they
must furnish a market for her manu
factured goods as well as for her breadstuffs.
They produce pretty much ail the agricul
tural products they need, and even export
some. Their total imports of breadstuffs
and provisions are very small. The value
of the imports of breadstuffs and pro
visions of Chili, Uruguay, Paraguay anil
the Argentine Republic last year was
2,300,891 pesos, while the value of the im
ports of other merchandise was 194,894,373
pesos—a peso being the Spanish dollirof
exchange. The part which this country has
in this trade is ridiculously insignificant,
amounting last year to 2,480 pesos in bread
stuffs to the Argentine Republic and 88,-
286 pesos in provisions. The exports of this
country of breadstuffs and provisions to
Chili aro not more than half of what are
sold to the Argentine Republic.
The truth is that the Argentine Republic
and other South American countries are in
a position to export breadstuffs, and the
Argentine Republic actually did export
during the year 1887 wheat to the value of
9,514,635 pesos, corn to the value of 7,236,-
886 pesos and dried beef to the value of
2,398,424 peso3. The exports of wheat for
1889 were small, because of a failure of the
crop, but there seems little reason to sup
pose that the Soutu American coun
ries, with their vast agricult r- a
area*, cannot produce their own food.
Notwithstanding our large imports of
wool, hides, coffee and sugar from the South
American countries, our exports to them
of manufactured goods are but a very
small part of their total imports. In this
respect, however, it is uot true, as iu the
case of breadstuffs and provisions, that
they supply their own demani by home
production. Great Britain, and France
supply most of the manufactured articles
which this country, by means of favor
atile treaties, might hope to supply.
Our exports of cotton goods to South
America are only about one-teath of Great
Britain's. As Secretory Blaine said of the
McKinley tariff bill, that it contained “not
a section or lino that will open a market for
another bushel of wheat or another barrel
of pork,” so it might be said of his reci
procity programme that it promises very
little unless be broadens it. Larger reci
procity is necessary, so that this country
may have a market for her manufactured
goods in the South American countries as
well as for certam of her agricultural
products.
Congressman Feathers tone of Arkansai
is a curious combination, like his name. He
has hitherto been noted for the political
summersault he turned when he deserted
his farmer constituency and went over to
the republicans. Since he performed that
acrobatic feat ho has developed other quali
ties. He proves to be a humorist of the
grimmest kind. A bill he introduced in
the House provides that the surplus money
in the treasury of the United States or out
on loan to banks may be lent to such states as
wish to borrow, they paying one-half of 1 per
cent, a year. Any state which wishes to
do so, however, must first pass suitable
laws for distributing the loan between such
counties as may desire to borrow it, they to
pay 1 per cent, per annum. The counties are
then to lend the money to their individual
citizens for 2 per cent a year, ta ing as
security real estate or products of the mill,
farm or factory. It will be noticed that the
bill provides that the loans shall be made
from the surplus in control of the treasury,
but as the surplus has been wiped out, Con
gressman Featheratone’s farmer constit
uency will at once see that the gentleman
who so ably misrepresents them has made
them the victims of a cruel practical
joke.
The only place ia the country whieh is
really satisfied with the census, so far as
hoard from, is Miles City, Mont- At first
there was an inclination to “kick” because
it was noised abroad that the enumerators
had only suoeeded in finding 979 residents
within the corporate limits. The citizans
were anxious that there should bo at least
1,000 inhabitants, and they fully expected
that the census bureau would find that
number. All they wanted was a population
of a thousand or more so that they could
avail themselves of the state law, which
provides that a low liquor license shall pre
vail in towns of less than 1,000 inhabitants,
and a high lioeuse in towus above that limit.
But the fates have been propitious, and the
cause of temperance reform has triumphed.
Miles City, according to the official count,
has 1,021 people.
Philadelphia pays annually #IOO,OOO judg
ments for injuries to individuals, due to
defective pavements and similar examples
of bad administration. The publication of
these facts has opened the eyes of the
Quaker City taxpayers, and the republican
machine is likely to be out of a job uxt
winter.
U everybody votes as they feel about the
force bill at the election* next Novemb -r
the supporter* of that obnoxious ms .sure
will dlM'jver that they are not numerous
enough ta give it a decent burl I.
Nellie Bly till* 28*1 page- with the Kt iry of
her trip around tile world wb.eh occupiel
only seventy-two days. It * a long story of
a short Journey.
Tar ■* uu *baks bail* o> if he woo I
1 smmiv v our digit* *boh>.l In (iirimd over o
j (ho twv’ietr tor me Kuppre**i'>u of ties.
I U mu** m(<i /#/< h/ i? <| i
A few days ago the Brunswick Times
asked tb* Morning News if it proposed to
contribute a b icket of whitewash to the
benefit of Mr, Fei.x Corput. Tne Morn
ing News asked the Times if Mr C .rput
hal been teuid guilty of wrong-doing.
Tne Times admitted that he hadn’t, but it
failed to explaio why it su’geited white- ,
wash for him. It seamed determined, ]
however, to put the Morning News in the
position of whitewashing or coidemmng
somebody, and it assert©i that the Morn
ing News coniemus Mr. Clark Howell.
The Morning News, somewhat sur
prised, request and it to quote anything which
the Morning News had said condemning
Mr. HowelL Did it frankly comply wita
the request? It did not. It an
swered in just about the way the
}lop.NtxG News expected it would. In one
paragraph it tried to le abusive, and lr.
another it gava its experience in flea
catching. The Morning News has had no
experience with fl sa. an 1 is therefore un
able to say whether the Times is an expert
3?a-catcher or not. The Morning News is
willing to admit that it is, and will laave It
with the hope that it has found an occupa
tion in which it will meet with more success
than it doss when trying to state facts.
Congressman Brosiu, of Pennsylvania,
in an article in the Christian Culture calls
attention to a singular omission, or rather
omissions, of signers of the declaration of
independence, in the celebrated painting by
Trumbull, in the rotu .da of the enpitol at
Washington. Of the signers from Poin
sylvania George Ross is omitted. Vir
ginia’s quota of omissions consists of Francis
Ligbtfoot Lee, Carter Baxter and Thomas
Wilson. Jr. In North Carolina’s group
John Penn is missing. Georgia looks in
vain for Button Gwinnett® and Lymau
Hali, and New Jersey for John Hart.
These omissions greatly detract from the
historical value of the painting. It wonld
be interesting to know why the artist
slighted thes j eight patriots.
PERSONAL
Royalty is always dear in England. An
ebony walking stick which once belonged to
Georgius Tertius was lately sold at auction in
Loudon for S9O. The gold top was engraved
with • ('I R.“ and crown, and contained the hair
of Princesses Augusta Elizabeth, Mary Sophia
and Amelia, and was inscribed as the gift of
Princess Vary.
Ocr word "honeymoon"’ is derived from a
marriage custom formerly much practiced
amongst the nations of Northern Europe. In
iincioi t times it was the practice tor newly,
married couples to drink nothing but metheglm
or meal, a kind of wine made from honey, for
thirty days after marriage. Hence the term
"honeymoon" or "honeymonth."
The death of Cardinal Newman atld the
insanity of pardinal Howard leaves Cardinal
Mauning the only British representative in the
sacred college. It is generally concede 1 that a
red hat will be bestowed upon Bishop Walsh in
the fall, anti the aristocratic pinion of the
Eugtish Catholics are urging lir. Butt, bishop of
S uthark. as a candidate for the second
vacancy.
G. W. Giffen, of Truckee, Cal., makes the.
following unique political announcement: "I
am a dependent candidate for the office of i old
overseer in and fur District No s—dependent
upon the voters of sain district. lam pre-emi
nently sound upon all the leading questions—
from the tariff down to ‘who struck Billy Paiter
son?'—and. if elected, will do my dutv. and, if
defeated, will submit without kicking."
George and John Waldro n of Wolfboro, N
H., are twins, 62 years of age. Their great
grandfather was one of the famous Boston tea
party; their grandfather served in the revolu
tionary war; their father commanded a com
pany in the war of 1812, while they themselves
were among the first to enlist in the late war.
They look so much alike that no on© who does
not know them intimately can tell them apart.
Sir Morrell Mackenzie has given up. for
the present, the lecturing tour in the United
States which had been arranged for him dur
ing the autumn, as he imagines that, after his
recent indisposition, he might not be equal to
tbe exertion of speaking before large audiences
for an hour and a half on alternate days, it is
more than possible, however, that should cir
cumstances permit, he may undertake the task
next year.
BRIGHT BITo.
Peace Hath Its Victories.—
Put away the belt and saber
Each brave soldier used to wear;
Neiglib r no more wars with neighbor,
Sweetest peace reigns everywhere.
Idle rests the shell and rocket.
Overhead no storms arise.
Now the question is which pocket
Shall secure the largest prize.
—Chicago Post.
It is a very meek and gentle congressman
who is not always anxious to return blow for
blow. —Washington Hatchet.
If money could be borrowed as easily as trou
ble the world would be full of rourid-shouMered
people. lnd anapolis Rani's Horn.
I'at—This is a great scheme.
Bridget—Pnwat is?
Pat—l see that a man can get a postofflee
money order for SiOJ tor 45 cents. I have
a dollar left, and I'll git some ov thim ordhers
this very day and sthart In business again. T.ns
is a great country.—.cai Hampshire Repub
lican.
She Would Take Care of Him.—Mamma-
Urn—ah —my dear. T is youDg man who is
calling on you so constantly— dc you think he
has any intentions.
Laura—He doesn't know whether he has or
not. lam the only one whoso intentions are
going to cut any figure :n this deal.-Terre
Haute Express.
No Permit Necessary,— Daughter—Mamma,
Tom tried to kiss me on the beach last night.
Mamina—You did not permit him to do so. of
course.'
Daughter—No, mamma—.
Mamma—l'm glad of that, my child.
Daughter (resuming)—He did it without per
miss. on. .V e w York Wo rid.
Gossip from the Track—Rube (the stable
boy-)—Did jo’ heah 'bout dat pore Swenson, d'
jock ;
Mrs. Cukey—Wbad. Josey Swenson?
Kube—Yaas. Hossdooe fell on him in d' lartt
race.
Mrs Oukey—Fo’d' lan'6 saik! Did be break
anything?
Kube—Yep; broke Cunnel Toml'nion. He
was ridin' his two-year-ole.— Frank Leslie's
Illustrated Weekly.
CURRENT COMMENT.
Both Rather Ragged.
Fyom the St. Paul Pioneer Press (Rep \
Speaker Reed his laid aside his red silk sur
cingle somewhat frayed at the edges. It now
matches his policy.
bigrnlflcant Silence.
From the Washington Post (lnd. Rep.).
It is significant that while the Wisconsin re
publican platform favors reciprocity it has
nothing wnatever to say about the McKinley
tariff bill. _____
Bully for the Bullionaires.
fVom the Omaha Bee (Rep.).
Colorado's silver produc ion averages $2,f100-000
000 per month. The recent advance in price is
estimated to have aided s4iK),iX)o to the value of
the monthly product. With such marked bene
tits flowing from favorable legislation it is uot
eurpr sing that the bullionaires feel encouraged.
But wbcie does the farmer's profit come in?
McKinley’s First Born.
From the Chicago Tribune < Rep.\
But the darling is his first born, au 1 ne can
uot ***** us blemisues, or if be does, thinks them
excellencies. Were he not thus blinded by
paternal f-ellng be would never talk of the Hu
publican party beiog * be efped" by u measure
winch wifi make it harder for every body to feed.
h"uw and clothe himself. That political organ
l/a ion winch is foolish enough to ass for popu
iarsupport ou thi* gruftod that it hs made
people i o .r r and life hat dar to live da* tvh, m
i t liras Id Jg If the Republican party were So un
I a* hi do what McKinley Wise** and begin
, i*oiiU g with pride to iit* fact that it ha>
harmed ad but a selected few. the sooner the
p*ii b**ar rs would be picked out Uie I tetter
Bookkeepers aui others of sedentary
tiekifs cure * oesitpeiiou hid, s miuious Liter
Regulator 4d*>.
Why He Was leaving the Town.
• I remember.” said tb© colonel when the
party r©acbei tb© ©cd of a good dinner and th©
waiu-rs tood b hind tb© chairs vi;h lighted
matches. ‘ I remember an incident which
stamped upon my mnl the fact that when a
man ha* an eye tor business he has an eye for
nothin? else
Tue colonel te l Is a story well and paused her©,
waiting for the cigars to be lighted and f r the
inamrinT fragrance of the Havana*, says
New York Tribune. ■
“I shall not tell you how long ago it wa>. for
I am getting to© old to sneak lightly of decades.
Hut when I first set foot—and it was a tender
foot, let me say—in Hugo, Col .I at one© con
ceived agr ;at respect for a man named Htg
gins I Could not pel ;> feeling a reverence for
Higgins. Higgins was an undertaker He was
the only und *rtaktr within 100 n.iles and he
was getting rich. Sever a day passed but my
friend Higgins had a funeral on hand If© wi
th© most cheerful undertaker, perhaps, that
•ver flourished.
“1 remember well the day that I had© Higgins
good-ry. He was as light-spirited as a
hopper and a thousand times erpr©iS‘Ci his r -
grt% that I was going into the inter.or until 1
felt cia niny lest he might b© grieved at th©
tiuughtthat someone -Is© might hate the
profitable job of burying me.
• When I next saw Higgu sit was a-ter a two
years' expo iepe© of coasing wild stetrs I was
glad to see him. he 'fas such a jolly old under
taker.
•Hello. Higgins. I said cheerfully wnen I
w alked into his establishment- How are you,
old man?’ , „
"Higgins shook his head mournfully, and
then I .-topped suort in amazement, for I saw
that he was nailing down boxes and packing up
his stock.
“ ‘You aren't going to move, ar© you.' I on©d
in su: prise, but he only jammed a roll of crape
into ad-y goxls l>ox and went on with his worn
“ ‘See h©re. Higgins.' I cried, W’uat's th©
trouble ? Tell me about it
• The old mau turned on ir.e wrat fully
“ ‘Ain’t I been one o' Hugo 6 b*st citizens?' h©
asked sternly.
“ *\ou have, Higgins.'
“ ‘Ain't I paid my taxes?'
*‘ You ha -e, my fnen-i '
“ p dot I organize a board of education?'
** ‘You did.*
‘‘ Wasn't I its president?*
“ ‘You certainly were, and a good one, al
though we haven't auv school yet
“ ‘Didu't I head th > citizens' movement for
law and ord r?'
“ You did, Higg ns.'
“ ‘Well, that's all Now. bow do j'ou think
this pesky town has treated its forem jst citi
zen?'
“ ‘Tell me, Higgins. You have my sympa
thy.'
‘ ‘Well, I was matin' a decent livin.' I l©t
out contracts for the only buck bunding in the
town.’
‘“Yes '
“‘I was goin' to call it the Hizgins block I
was goin' to let tne volunteer fire d* partment
have rooms in my block for nothin'. I pr*-
rvsed to have a temperance union in the n.
hoped to have a free library. You know I'm
a progressive ciiizen, don t you ; '
“ ‘You are. Higgins.'
“ ‘Well, what uo you think this town has done
to me?’
“ Surely nothing bad, Higgins.'
“ ‘Nothing bad!' he screamed. ‘Do you know
what they've done? Tuey v© lyuened Bill
Smith, and if ever there was a cowardly blow
aimed at a foremo-t citizen, ir was that.
“ ‘But you can bury him, Higgius.’
“‘Bury him!' he screamed. ‘Bury him'
Bury Bill Smith! Way, man. Bill Smith was
makin' a fortuue for m?. He killed his man as
regular as the, sun went dowu; and I buried
every one of'em. He wa> worth Sunday to
me, he was. So I'm goin' to leave ’em. This
town don't offer no inducemen sto an honev t
man like me. Thiuk wbat I've done for 'em. I
was goin' to erect a monument to our def artod
brothers. And now there won't h© a death in
this town once a month. Poor Bill!' and Hig
gins seized a winding-sheet and tried to stifle
his sobs.''
A Story of the Wild West.
Years ago there was ia Cheyenne a saloon of
the concert ty, e called "Tne Gold Dust," says
the St. Paul Pioneer Press. It had oue story
architecturally ; historically it had rnauy, and
this is one of them: There was a Spaniard in
C'hevenne then. His name, it turned out after
ward. was Ramon Brazuda, but those by whom
be was surrounded, too iinpatient for foreign
pronunciation, called him “Chariie.’’ Bragula
was not sociable, but aft* r he had been in
Cheyenne a while it was discovered that he
could danc i and sing. Ttiere were plenty who
could fling in Highlands fashion and play the
clog upon t e sawdust floor of " 1 tie Gold Dust,”
but the foreign rhythm of Bragu la's favorite
song and the mysterious convolutions of his
dance placed him easily the favorite.
The last time that Braxuda visited ‘‘The Gold
Dust" was in December, nearly fifteen years
ago It was about 11 o'clock at night. Brad
ford has always claimed that Braguda had been
drinking, but I, who was near the platform
when he dauced. am not so sure. The moment
that the piauist noticed him he changed from
"The Kiss Waltz"—a mighty popular composi
tion in those days on the western plains—to
Braguda's m-dody. Brnzuda began singing near
the bar, lifted his wide-brimmed hat from nis
black hair, flung it among tne crowd and swung
himself, half dancing, to the dai*.
"Para jardines, GranaJa,
Para mujetes. Madrid,
Para am ires, tus ojos,
Cuanda me miran a mi.''
That was the song. Most of us had learned
the words.
‘‘For gardens. Granada,
For women, Madrid,
For love, thine eyes,
When they look at me.''
Over and over again the last two lines:
“For love, thine ©yes.
When they look at mo.
When they look at me.
For love, thine eyes."
And as Braguda danced and sang, some
tuneful ruffian in the audience b gan humming
with him—another joiued and ai.other until
there was a strong, harmonious swelling, threat
ening tumult. Th© Spaniard's voice rose clearer
a:id richer, his dance seemed to strengthen it,
giving him breath. Are. purpose. Stevenson!
who stood near the door, was a small, nervous,
excitable man, who lived a half intoxicated life*
and for whom music was a mistress, it was
Stevenson who pulled a revolver from his Docket
at this instant and tired througa the window.
Nobody thought much of this then; men were
in the habit of shooting to express their feelings
The report of a revolver was 6imply a louJer
expletive. But it happened that tne crack of
Stevenson's revolver met exactly the strong
beat in the Spaniard's song, and with the flash
of thought Braguda drew his revolver, and
still dancing an l singing, marked toe second
beat with a shot Toward the low roof of the
saloon—and then the third and th© fourth- Tne
storm broke. The murranr of the audjenco
became a hundred shouts. It was the fifth ball
from Braguda's revolver whicu stopped the
dance and the song, and which changed the
delirium of She crowd to wondering horror.
No one ever ascertained why Braguda shot
himself A friend to whom I told this tale the
other day sai 1 that, he co*Hd understand it per
fecilv—*t was, he claimed, toe only artistic
thing that Braumda couid have done.
Tha Boy Next Door.
(Trtorge Cooper in thr Fnd’pendrnt.
Yells that brought to mind the savage
Ia his war t a.at, all alert
Raids that oft recalled the ravage
Of some borderland expert:
Hanging on the trees and fence.,
In ms efforts to explore;
Startling to a body’s senses
Was the little boy next door:
If a window pane was shattered.
Or a missile cleaved the air
If the street's repose was scattered.
Heads out peeping everywhere—
Little need for explanation.
All had hppened oft before;
Mitt of terror and vexation
Was that little boy uext door.
Cats and dogs by intuition
Knew of bis approach and fled;
Jaunty was tbe nut . position
On his roguish, curly head;
As with bearing independent
He would bound tbe crossing o’er-
With rood nature all resplendent *
Was the little boy next door'
Brave, ehivalrio. and respectful
To the old w ho came bis way
With a sympathy rdgretful
Toward each beggar, day by day
dow wjM and uuiig vt©r© mingle*
In iue nature s noun cma store-
How my nerves ere hourly tmgi’ed
My that little boy next door:
When, at sunset, homeward walking
*iuce 1 im.se.i the children', muse’
Marked u.etr group in w|ii,,„. r a taUmg
I. living all their romping, toy.■
Haw the .now w.,ite r,owing alniug
i-roui tbe house I .topped
lear ur- iw on tny clew* • g.eaiiutir
)or th* lil te boy next door *
If that lady at the lecture the otbor night
o ly knew bo* nicely Had'. |{„ r Keuuwer
•"'lid leuiove damiiuiT and i,„|rove p,,.
air the would Buy a Uittia. ~A<l<
ITEM3 OF INTEREST.
What i* considered the finest and largest
melon patch in Warwick, R. 1., is lighted bv
lanterns through the night, and guarded by an
arm© i watchman.
Steele Mackave has gone into the real estate
bu>iness as a side speculation in a Dakota
town His ere is© is that be has a friend who
desires to m-ike him a millionaire.
A family in Park'rsburg. W \a , have b©n
losing meats so often from the we l. where they
were put to ke°p cool and fresh, that last we k
they seta watch and found th© thief to be a
blacc snake several feet long.
A monstrous brass casting was successfully
run at a foun iry ia Pittson, Pa , the other day
It ia p imp chamber weighing
It took three men nearly a Tnonth to build the
mold, a ;d the material cost $ 1.50 ft.
A remarkable proceeWkg if reported from
Ch cago, where a father—Jac>b Lanfleid— was
arrested for not takii g out a lujense for a thea
ter. which h:s children ran in th© cellar, charg
ing five pins admission. He wa* arrested on a
warrant sworn out by a policeman.
The coming election is likely to be the last
one in which Maine will choose four congress
men. Its gain in population has been so small
in the past ten years t* at any increase in the
ratio of representation which stands much
chance of adoption will cut its list of members
in tne H*use down to three.
Dr. Leonard J. Gordon, president of the
Jersey City board of health, has made a sug
gestion that all telegraph poles on which live
electric wires ar© strung be painted red, that
the public may be able to distinguish them
Dr. G *rdon will bring the subject up for dis
cussion at the next meeting of the board.
Gertrcpe Btthe, CO years old. arrived In New
York on the steamship Eras from Brem *n Tues
day and told the clerk who registered her at the
Barge office that she was searching for a bus
band. She is only 3 feet {* inches in She
claims to te wealthy, and exbibite I $5<V) to the
registry clerk. The woman said s’.e had trav
eled nearly around the world looking fora hii6
ban 1. but thus far had failed to And a suitable
mate.
A few days since a party of gentlemen and
ladies were walking in the cemetery. an J,
glancing at an adjacent lot. they saw a sight
which has only b *en seen in savage and half
civilized lands, says the Hudson JournaL The
suht referred to was that of a young girl
hitched to a cultivator, like a horse, and driven
by an apology of a man, who. when the poor
girl f altered in the work, would urge her on by
threats and curses.
A Maine contemporary notes that of the two
gifts which the Indian has made to modern
civilization- the birch canoe and the snow shoe
—the canoe apjTears to be passing away, owing
to the scarcity of material. Tne Passamaquod
dies are now compelled to go away under the
sha low' of Katahain to find birches of suffici nt
size to furnish the material for building, and
are thems ues substituting canvas, which costs
le*B and will Dear rougher handling.
The London correspondent of the Chicago
Xetcs makes this statement: "The Duke of
Edinburgh (thrifty soul!) went all the way from
London to Edinburgh last spring to open th© ex
hibition, and after his return he sent in a bill of
expenses for the exhibition people to pay.
Among other items was a charge or SI,OOO for a
special train, whe ©upon it was remo istatei
that the duke did not t avel in a special train.
"That's true," said the duce, “but I was en
titled to one; and even if l didn't take it. you
should be whiling to piy me the cost of one."
According to reports from the principal
states north of the Ohio river it appears that
the potato crop this season will be almost a
failure. The Ciiicag T> ihune says that,
“averaging the probable yield in thee states, it
will be th© smallest ever known in one season.
In some parts the failure is almost complete,
in otners the yield is fair, but nowhere above
the average. The surplus will be small, hence
prices higher, though the unfavorable seasou
precludes the raising of any superior qual ty.
la many places there will not be enough for
home consumption.''
Enterprise of the most modern variety has
at iast struck the ancient profession of surgeon
dentists. Recent visitors to the croweded se •-
tions about Fourteenth and Sixth avenues could
not help noticing a huge dentist's sign that is
like a pillar of fire by night. What it proclaims
can he gleaned from the following information
told in the minor announcements of the same
place: “Open all night. No time lost. Nomore
suffering toe tortures of the damned waiting
for daylight and the dentist. Orders for new'
teeth or repairs to o*d oaes left at night finished
next morning."
“The residents of Dyer street, Saco, are
puzzling." says the Kennebec Journal, “over a
strange phenomenon recently noticed at the
home of Lawyer George F. Haley. About 11
o'clock at uigut a dark cloud was seen to ap
parently descend from the sky and settle upon
the roof the hous *. There was a flash of fire
ftDd then volumes of smoke rolled away from
the roof. Those who were witnesses began to
cry fire, but before the alarm had spread the
smoke hud cleared away and the house was
seen to be all right. A dozen responsible par
ties say they saw the queer spectacle"
The following story is told of a young man
in Elizabeth, N. J.; “He is said to be quite a
masher, and on a recent Sunday wore quite an
elegant new suit of white flannel. He forgot to
take ■ >ff a big blue tag stitched on the back of
tbe coat, and on which was mar.ed the size,
together with the price of the garment. The
gailant marched into c iurch, and. as usual,
took a conspicuous seat way up in fronf No
sooner had those behind him caught a glance
of the tar on the coat than a general titter ran
through the churcu, and the young man, dur
ing the r-st of the service, was more an ob
ject of interest than the officiating c ergyman.
None of his acquaintance was charitable enough
to call his attention to the matter, and he
walked home from cbuTch with the unsightly
tag still attached to his coa'"
The Qi’onochoutang maid who bagged a
shark weighing 200 pounds has been eclipsed by
a coupl-of South Stamford, (Cona) bovs, not
in the amount of pluck displayed, but in the
size of tbe booty. The shar; tbe boys captured
weighed 400 pounds, and this is said to be th**
wav they caught the big fellow: "It was at
Ware island, near Pine Island, and the boys
were out wdth a boat and seine. Suddenly, well
up in the coarse s- dge of the island they saw
a monster fish of some sort. They did not try
the seine business on him—tnat was useless
But they so managed with boat, and bushes
that tbe big fish seemed afraid to try to reach
deeper water, and the falling tide finally left
him agrouDd Then the boys out with jack
knives and went at the fish in regular harpoon
style, and soon bad him in such shape that he
wouldn't kick. They towed their prize to the
old steamboat dock at Waterside, whore it was
put on eßutiition. The fish was just thirteen
feet long.’’
Here is still a new field for electric lights,
says a special dispatch to the St, Louis Globe-
Denu.crat from Little Rock. Ark.: Dr. James
Bryson, one of the largest planters in the statu
is enthusiastic over what he thinks to be the.
most practicable and affective method for and.
stroying tee fly that deposits the boll worm .eg
He says that coal oil lamps are too much trouble’
anfl it takes too much labor to give them th©
proper attention. It is his opinion that extern
sive planters would find it to their advantage to
put ii an electric rotor, and use electric light*
scattered at proper distances over tbe cotton
tvm t xe ™° r calcnU: ? thal h I' 1 **-* from
SI,OOO to $2 000 every year from worms. It will
cost aoout SI,OOO to put in an electric motor on
bis plantation, with lines, lamps and full emiin
meats for destroying every moth, miller and
insect which may hatch out during a seas-.n
and he proposes to be a pion ©r and brinz the
electric motor into general use by putting iu
on© hi.i.salr. After the plant is once put into
working order, one man can operate it and at
tend uo uoo acres of cotton.
It was a qt-EER life, says the Malchias fMe )
Republican, which ended last week at South
Addison, that, of Walter L. Tabbut, the hermit
whn was found end in his hut. Not having
been seen for several days, his father went in
search for him, and to.irnl him dead, lying
rude box that ba I served him for a bed for five
years. W hen he was a bov Walter ioined the
Adventists, and gave himself up to Bible read
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tate to pray at ail tunes and on all occasions
and during sch'jol hours he would break out m
boisterous pray er A few years tat er he tooir e
reading ,h„ Koran, and when a little more than
" years o.d came out a full fledged Mohamme
dan Forsaking tua fat her s house here i aired to
a neighboring w r„d. where he built a -mall stone
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