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INDEX "TO NEW ADVEKTLSEMKNTi
Meetings Palestine Commandery No. 7,
K. TANARUS.; Pocahontas Tribe, I. O. R. M.; Improved
Order of Red Men.
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Continuance of I). A. Altick s Sons; Real Estate
for Sale by Rowland A Myers; Notice to All
Whom it May Concern, John R. Dillon, Clerk
C C. C; State and County Taxes, 1890; As to
Bills Against British Steamships Starlight and
Ardancorrah; Notice as to First Installment of
Preferred Stock of Odd Fellows' Hall Associa
tion.
Financial— Report of the Condition of the
Merchants' National Bank of Savannah.
Fall and Winter Millinery—At Krouskoff’s
Mammoth Millinery House.
To Arrive To-day— At Ehrlich A Bros.
For Sale—The Sumter Republican Material.
Hotel— The De Soto, Savannah, Ga.
Cheap Column Advertisements Help
Wanted; Eaiploymoot Wanted; For Rent; For
Sale: Lost; Personal: Miscellaneous.
Thanksgiving day comes immediately
after the base ball season ends.
When Mr. Harrison journeyed westward
he was accompanied by a few friends and a
rain storm.
Spain has mode a duo and formal anplij
cation to the government at Washington
for some of Mr. Blaine's reciprocity.
Now cometh the hustling candidate carry
ing his hand in front of him. Shake with
him now, and he’ll give you the shake later
on.
When the tariff law took effect it was
greeted by cannon-firing in Pennsylvania.
There are 6till a good many big guns in that
state that ought to be fired.
Philadelphia has nominated a Mr. Seltzer.
He isn’t very strong, but it is against their
principles to take anything strong. They
say they’ll stick to Seltzer this trip.
Nearly all Europe is kicking about the
United States laws of one kind or another.
They have no reason to complain of us.
Most of our laws are made by foreigners.
Since the republicans vaunted success
with the tariff bill, some impetuous indi
vidual has robbed a train in Ohio without
awaiting the result of the current cam
paign.
Not satisfied with committing a cold
blooded murder, for whioh he is to hang,
that heartless young scapegrace, Birchall, is
now engaged in writing a book. Revenge
is sweet.
Historian Bancroft ascribes his great
longevity to incessant equestrian exercise.
That, however, largely depends on whether
you manage to stay on the horse when you
get there.
Physicians now state that chewing gum
makes wrinkles in the face. So does chew
ing apple fritters. Nevertheless gum-chew
ing ought to be prohibited by statute, under
penalty of deep-water ducking.
Bryant’s “Thanatopsis” was read over the
remains of the suicide who recently died in
Si. Paul’s Cathedral, London. Then they
should have sung "Annie Roonie” just to
make sure that he was quite dead.
Strauss’ grand Dutch concert! at the
Minneapolis exposition last week wore at
tended by over 60,000 people. They wore
probably greatly disappointed when they
found it had nothing to do with wheat.
When wo contemplate the multiplied
difficulties New York has with her census
count, we cannot blame the French people
for banishing the Comte de Paris after
tolerating him for fifty continuous years.
Congressman Atkinson, of West Vir
ginia, virtually admits that the republican
managers, under advice of Quay, had a
scheme to colonize the state in time for 1802.
They haven’t got that neat little scheme
now.
Strong men should be sent to congress,
says the New York World. That’s sound
advice. They should at least be strong
enough to get out in case the door is sud
denly closed just as they chance to want to
sie a man.
Realistic drama hat alreaiy introduced a
tank of water, a pump, a locomotive, a load
°f hay, a fire engiue, a tramp, a live lion,
bloodhounds and a buzz-saw. Next we
shall expect to see a real actress or a genuine
quart of milk.
Ie the Mormon Problem Solved?
On last Sunday, at a general conference
of the Mormon church in Salt I-ake City,
Mr. Woodruff, the president of the churcri,
read a manifesto prohibiting p flvgamy.
There were at least 10,OOJ Mormons present,
and the manifesto was approved unani
mously and accept'd as binding. In view of
this action of the church there is a quite
general disposition to consider the Mormon
problem solved.
Only a week or two ago the governor of
Utah, in his annual message, said that it
was not probable that the Morman church
would ever make a declaration against
polygamy, and he stated that there had
been a large number of polygamous mar
riages within the last year. There is no
reason to doubt that the governor was
sincere in what he said, but he does not ap
pear to have been well informed with re
spect to the feelings in the Mormon church
concerning polygamous marriages. That
church has done what he said there was no
probability of its doing.
But is the church sincere in the action
which it has taken? Tnat is a question
upon which there is certain to be a division
of opinion. In the absence of evidence to
the contrary, however, would it not be fair
to accept the declaration of the church as
an honest one? It may be that the purpose
of the Mormons in openly agreeing to obey
the anti-polygamy law is to get Utah ad
mitted into the union, believing that under
a state government which they might be
able to control they could do as they pleased
with respect to polygamy, but the proba
bilities are that they havo no such purpose.
There is, of course, no desire to interfere
with the Mormon religion if polygamy is
not a part of it. The Mormons are wel
come to profess any religion they please so
long as they do not violate the laws. They
must, however, respect the laws, and as
long as they do that they will not be inter
fered with.
The government will hardly relax its
vigilance in enforcing the anti-polygamy
law—at least not until it is satisfied that the
Mormons intend to obey that law. Avery
little time will be sufficient to demonstrate
whether their abandonment of polygamy is
genuine or not.
The Vice Presidents Trouble.
The one thing which makes Vice Presi
dent Morton wonder whether life i6 worth
living, is his hotel in Washington. It is a
magnificent hotel, and cost a groat deal of
money. When jt was flnlshod and ready
for guests Mr. Morton took out a bar-room
license. He knew he could not run a tem
perance hotel successfully in a place like
the national capital.
When it became known that he was run
ning a bar, or, rather, a hotel in which
there was a bar, the prohibitionists made
life a burden to him. They attacked him
so viciously and so persistently that he was
forced to put the responsibility for running
the bar on his wicked manager.
Some time during the summer he rented
the cafe to one man and the privilege of
letting the rooms to another, and then he
had a greater trouble than ever to contend
with. The man who controlled the rooms
insisted that the man who controlled the
cafe should not sell intoxicating liquors.
Both these men being hot-headed, quar
reled almost daily, and they carried
their grievances to the Vice President, who
did his best to adjust their differences.
Fiuding whisky was the cause of all the
trouble he ordered the bar closed. The
order closing the bar was followed by the
removal of many of the best paying guests.
Mr. Morton is satisfied that he caunot
keep a hotel. He is sorry that he built a
hotel. He is as much a failure as a hotel
keeper as he is as Vice President. He is a
very nice gentleman, but statesmanship and
hotel keeping are not in his line.
The Stuff Seat From Atlanta.
The New York Nun has an Atlanta cor
respondent who recently sent that paper a
dispatch which the Georgia legislature can
hardly regard otherwise than slanderous. A
good deal of rot of one sort and another is
sent to the northern papers from Atlanta.
There must b* those there who desire to
bring Georgia and Georgians into disrepute
with the people of other states.
The dispatch in the Sun contains the
following about the newly elected legisla
ture: “Georgia that never threatened with
such a deluge of ignorance before! Many
of these legislators caunot spell or write
the English language or any other lan
guage.” The dispatch also says that it is
proposed to pass a law breaking up the com
mon school system by making the white
man’s taxes pay the schooling of white
children, ieaving the colored children to the
tender mercies of the colored brethren.
If there is any purpose to disturb the
common school system it has not yet been
made public. It is safe to say there is no
such purpose. The correspondent ought to
bo asked to name the legislators who are so
Ignorant that they caunot spell or write the
English language, aud failing to do so
should be dealt with as he deserves.
Choctaw Indians are much excited over
an anticipated visit from Monitou and wiil
not talk land to Uncle Sam’s agents. They
say they expoct all the white people in this
country to be drowned in a flood of mud
next summer. As the presidential cam
paign will be well under way by that time
their conjectures are not wholly ground
less.
Readers of democratic journals must
surely feel astonished that the country has
not gone to smash, says the Pniiadelphia
Press. No; the country is quietly standing
and submitting to being robbed by statute.
But the terrific shaking up in this land
about a year hence will be apt to persuade
republicans that something is “going to
smash.”
Edmund Yates, the eminent novelist and
journalist, was recently “done" out of £BO
by the ex-wife of his son, a id the old man,
who had been very liberal to her, soems to
feel quite sore over it. He accused her of
forgery, which, however, was not proven,
os she had merely filled in a check signed in
blank, and altered the date.
Actors of repute ere denouncing the ultra
erotic poster. While they are at it they
might just os well denouuce a good many
plays and players that are equally destitute
of merit. But these giddy and radiant
females on the dead walls are merely exem
plifying the fact that under the new tariff
law dresses are away up.
Cupid seems to have lost his “pull.” He
doesn't seem to have auy influence in mod
ern matrimonial arrangements. Yet he
lugs around such a load of arrows and re
sponsibility that it makes him bow-legged.
Iu the eloquent and graphic language of
the Greenland Nzaronfeldrzpan, “Arro
gogliotio Nalioglinaruik Suparamiaarsir
iek.” Them’s our sentiments.
THE MORNING NEWS: FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1890.
Breckinridge in Danger.
According to our dispatches yesterday an
attempt was made to assassinate ex-Con
gressman Breckinridge, of Arkansas, on
Monday nigbt, near Center Ridge, Conway
county. In that state. Mr. Breckinridge
was deprived of his seat in th> present con
gress, althouga no one coatee.ed bis right
to it. The republican majority turned
him out of it for the reason, as
they alleged, that he bad not been
fairly elected. He was at ones re
nominated, and is now making a canvass
of his district. In his last campaign his
opponent was John M. Clayton, who was
assassina ed near Plummerville while look
ing for testimony to sustain the contest
which he had begun for the seat in congress
which was held by Mr. Breckinridge. There
was never the least particle of evidence to
show that Mr. Breckinridge was in any
way concerned in bis assassination. It is
certain that Mr. Breckinridge regretted the
crime greatly, and did what he could to
assist in the discovery of the assassin. The
republicans, however, held him responsible
for the crime.
The present canvass in his district is
rapidly becoming a most remarkable one.
The republicans of the district have nomi
nated Powell Clayton, a brother of the
Clayton who was assassinated.
Powell Clayton is one of the few carpet
baggers remaining in the south. He is a
man of much more than ordinary ability
and he hates Mr. Breckinr.dge, and intends
to leave nothing undone to defeat him.
If Mr. Breckinridge should be assassi
nated during the canvass Powell Clayton
would be to some extent responsible for the
crime. He would not, of couree, assassinate
Mr. Breckinridge, nor is it probable that he
would hire any one to do it, but his wild
and reckless talk is well calculated
to inspire some of the scalawags in
the district to do it. In toe convention
which nominated him a few days ago he
made a speech, in the course of which he
said: “Breckinridge must bo defeated. He
is responsible, either directly or indirectly,
for John M. Clayton’s assassination, and the
state of Arkansas will never be cleared
from the stain of that murder so long as
Breckinridge remains in c.'ngress. 1 intend
to make this campaign the effort of my
life.”
It would not be at all surprising if the
attempt to defeat Mr. Breckinridge should
fail, notwithstanding the efforts of Powell
Clayton to make it successful But, whether
it fails or not, it is not at all improbable
that other attempts to assassinate him will
be made. The republicans talk about demo
cratic fraud and violence at the south.
What have they to 6ay about the attempt
to assassinate Mr. Breckinridge?
There are. no doubt, a good many bad
men in the Second Arkansas district, and
the majority of them are republicans. It
is not improbable that if the murderer of
John M. Clayton is ever discovered, it will
be found that he was a republican and
killed Clayton for reasons which havonevor
yet been made public.
The Ocala Meeting.
The annual session of the supreme council
of the National Farmers’ Alliance and In
dustrial Union which meets in Ocala, Fla.,
Dec. 2, 1890, promises to be a pretty big
affair. The letter which Mr. Polk, presi
dent of the National Farmers’ Alliance sent
to Mr. L lucks, president of the Farmers'
National Alliance recently, contains an in
vitation to all the farmers’ organi
zations to send delegates to the
supreme council. The invitation doubtless
will be very generally accepted. President
Polk, in the course of his letter to
President Loucks, after stating that the
National Farmers’ Alliance and Industrial
Union now embrace thirty-five states of
the union, and that the depression in
agricultural iutcrests in all parts of the
country makes it necessary for the farmers
to stand together and act in harmony, says
that the democrats must carry as many
congressional districts as they possibly can.
and that “rnea who would cause dissensions
in the party ranks to-day, or bring about a
split or division, are allies of the republicans
co-operating with Reed’s congress to oppress
and injure the south.”
From President Polk’s statement it would
soern that the National Farmers’ Alliance
embraces thirty-five states—that is, it has
a strong foothold in that many states. It
would seem from this that it is a power ia
republican as well as democratic states.
The general impression is that in the
northern states it is largely composod of re
publicans. That being the case it is diffi
cult to understand that part of President
Polk’s letter which says that every effort
must bo made to elect the congressional
candidates of the Democratic party.
It is certainly not to be expected that
alliancemen who are republicans w ill make
a special effort to elect democrats to con
gress. It is barely possible that the state
ment that there are republican members of
the alliance in the different states is a mis
take. It is certainly the popular impression
that any farmer of good standing can be
come a member of the alliance of his
county whatever his politics may bo. He
is not asked about his politics when ho
applies for membership. It is pretty safe
to assume, therefore, that the majority of
the alhaucomen in the western states are
republicans. Is it to be understood that
President Polk says that if those republican
alliancemen vote for republican congress
ional candidates they co-operato with Reed’s
congress to injure the south?
This question is not asked with the view
of criticising Mr. Polk’s letter, but for the
purpose of gaining information. If it boa
fact that all the members of the National
Farmers’ Alliance are democrats, it is an
interesting one. If all alliancemen are not
democrats it is not an easy matter to under
stand that part of President Polk’s letter,
in which he requires all alliancemen to vote
for democratic congre sional candidates.
Enterprising young grangers who go to
New York looking for “green goods” men
whom they may devour, will hereafter
bear in mind that the police are about the
toughest citizens they can stumble against;
more dangerous, because they are quite ns
crafty and unscrupulous, and docidedly
more numerous.
Titles have a great charm for the average
American despite our national affectation
of indifference to such things. That is
shown in the way men cling to the official
designations attached to petty offices they
may have hold even though it may be ex
deputy constable.
Wyoming is a state and yet the census
accredits her with only 60,582 population,
while Idaho with an officially accredited
population of 84,220 is still rapping for od
mittauce. But then Idatio has only Utely
demonstrated her ability to vote 'he repub
lican ticket.
PERSONAL.
Cowt Herbert Bismarck U not engaged to
Lady Eliih Ward.
j Guiovani Morosini, Gould's old partner, is a
| collector of watches.
Jay Gould bei seres electricity will soon be in
use on the elevated roads.
Among the several editors in the party with
the English engineers i-s Arthur R. Bylus, editor
of thf Bradford Obst i
Gertrude Atherton, the novelist, receiree
SIOO,OOO by her mother in law's will, probated a
tew days ago ia San Frau .-.sco.
Smith A. YV'hiteiej and. appointed First Assist
ant Postmaster Gem rai ui Mr. Clarkson'S place,
was formerly postmaster in Cincinnati.
Secretary Blaine. Cnr.uressman McKinley
and Inventor Edison are said to be the Ameri
cans most talked about in London just now.
I’Ror. Metschikkow. an eminent zoologist of
Odessa, has gone to Par.s to take charghtof the
Pasteur Institute thrre, under the direction of
its founder.
A football game between Yale and Wesleyan
on Wednesday was umpired by a son of ex-See
retary Bayard and refereed by a son of Secretary
of State Blaine.
Archbishop Kenrick of St Louis, who is ex
pected to receive a cardinal's hat next year, is
in his 85th year, aud is the oldest of living
American archbishops.
Gfn. Adam Badeau was the only man in New
York who followed European etiquette in writ
ing his name in the Cento de Paris'visiting
book instead of sending in his cord.
Presilent Diaz began his political career
whiie an officer in the army by heading an in
surrection. He kept ou in that line until he
reached the presidency, hut is now the most
conservative politician in Mexico.
Tennyson is said to write many short poems,
but his own judgment is that the publication of
them would not help his fame, and they are
pigeon-holed or destroyed. In this he sets an
excellent example to poets generally.
Sir Charles Hall, who has become engaged
to Miss Leiter of Chicago, is possessed of a
large income of his own. He is not only a rich
man, but a member of parliament, a conserva
tive. a Q. and one of the best whist players
in England—likewise fiddler.
The French traveler. M. Crainpel, who
acquired a reputation by his expedition into the
French Congo, has planned anew journey
through undiscovered Africa. He intends to
g° fr- nil Unangi across the country to Upper
Schari anil Lake Tchad, and thence across the
Sahara to Algiers, or, if that is impossible, to
the lower Beunwe river.
BRIGHT BITS.
In purple and fine linen
My country farm house shines—
The purple on the lilacs,
The linen on the lines.
—F. L. Knowles.
We buy the classics, hut we do not read them,
whi.e we read the novrlmts, but we do li t buy
them.— Fliegende Blatter.
The czar seems to bear a charmed life, though
the probabilities are that the czar is not
charmed with his life.— Baltimore American
Friend— l should think that in that Arctic
scene, where you are clad in furs, you would al
most base. Actor—lt is a pretty hot “roll,”
LiyLt.
“You are beneath my notice." as the land
owner remarked when he found t>e tramp
asteep under the sign, "No Trespassing.”—Bos
ton T. a men lit.
The newspapers are publishing an account of
a mail dowu in Maine being paralyzed; and yet
the Maiueiacs claim that it is a prohibition state.
boston Courier.
Philanthropist—l suppose this laziness is
bred in you fellows.
Trarnp—Not by a durn sight. I’m as empty
as a vacuum.—. Vein York Herald.
"I hope to pay my board regularly. Mrs.
Hashleigb,” said young C. unterskip. "i should
be very much put out if 1 missed a payment."
"You certainly would. Mr. Counieiskip," re
plied Mrs. HssUleigh, meaningly. Racket.
Simmons— That is a rather peculiar stone you
are wearing Timmins, Must lie something
rare, is it not?
Timmins—Very rare stone indeed, my boy.
That is an 1890 peach stone.— lndsanapolis
Journal.
“Gold can be beaten 1,200 times thinner than
printing paper,” said Philips.
"Guess it can." said Whiflin. “Tom Patton's
father left him a great heap of it and he has
battered away until you can hardly see it.”
Chicago 2\mes.
“Wav, Bridget, did my mamma have another
husband lief ore she married my papa?”
"Yis, darlint, but he doied, yer see.”
“Oh, Bridget, I'm so sorry mamma lost her
husband!”
“Faith, and ye’d betther be glad, Bessie. If
he'd a lived he inigat a made ye a cruel stip
feyther '."—Life.
"There are my Poe relics. That is the quill
with widen he wrote 'The Raven.’ That is the
first draft of 'Annabel Lee. ’ This cane is made
from the wood of a tree under which he wrote
the'Pendulum.’”
" What is that white liquid in the bottle?”
"That is water—s nnething Poe rarely ever
couched.”— Hemy Herbert harkness.
Devoted Wife—Mercy! Whads the matter?
Struggling Author (with a gasp)—lt’s all over,
all over! My dream of fame and fortune has
ended! I’ll bs nothing but a nobody, after
all.
Devoted Wife—Horrors! What has happened
to your book ?
Strug-ling Author (despairingly)—The Post
master General hag refused to suppress it.—
New York Weekly.
Some years ado a young man applied to the
district court of Dallas, Tex., for admission to
the bar. It looked very much as though he
lacked the requisite preparation, and tue exam
min lawyer badgered him until his brow was
beaded with peripiration. “Do you know- what
fraud is in the judicial sense of the word?” he
inquired. "I don’t—i hardly think I do,” was
the stammering reply. “Well, fraud exist*
when a man takes advantage of his superior
kuowledee to injure an ignorant person.” ‘ ‘So,
that’s it, is it” Tnen if you lake advantage of
your superior know ledge to ask me questions I
can’t answer, and iu consequence thereby, I am
refused a license, I will be injured, and you
will be guilty of fraud, won t you judge!”
The lawyer was very tuoughtful for a few mo
ments, and then added reflectively: “My young
friend. I perceive you have great qualifications
for the bar.”— Texas Siftings.
CURRENT COMMENT.
He Finds That Much Easier.
From the Chicago Inter-Ocean (Re a.).
The politician who can’t stand on a party
platform generally winds up by lying on it.
Law Is Rouarh on Patriots.
From the New York Hail and Express (Rep A
No matter how much you love the republican
cause, you must register before you can vote.
Enousrh to Make Him Desperate.
From the Philadelphia Inquirer (Rep.).
Jefferson Davis’ library contains 123 volumes
of the Congressional Record, and now we
know why he wanted to break up the union.
He Immediately Rushed Home.
From the Chicago Herald ( Dem,).
The President has been up to Johnstown to
see the effects of the great flood. The specta
cle ceuld have given him only a faint idea of the
flood that awaits him in November.
New They’ll Hava to Kick.
lYom the Galveston News ( Dem .),
A few days ago Speaker Heed said that the
American (icopla had the most ridiculous rev.
ereace for United States senators. “J wish,”
he said, "the American people could be present
some time and see the old grandmothers in
action.” Ho call* the senators grandmothers
at all times, and never almdes to them except
in the most severe manner.
She Considered Hia Interest.
“I have something to tell you, Alfred.” she
said a! they stood under the trellised portico
previous to his departure. “Jack'Ashton, to
whom I was engaged seven years ago, has re
turned.”
"Of course he can't insilt on the engage
ment,” replied Alfred Vurgrave, with emotion
"now that you nave promised to be my wife" ’
"No," (rather hesitaiingly.) "But he has be
come immensely rich.”
"You wo ild have rue release you, then so
t hat you might marry him ? ’ exclaimed Alfred
fiercely
"No.” (Still hesPatingly.) "I am only think
ing wether you wouldn't amass a fortune sooner
by going away for seven years than by waiting
here for my uncle to die."
Ask for Van Houten’b Cocoa—Take no
other.— Ad v.
They Met Again. ' v
One of the most interesting of the many in
teresting stories told by the survivors of the
battle and siege of Lexington. Mo., says the Bt.
Louis Republic, who met at Lexington Sept. 16,
17 and 1* for the purpuee of co np.'.ing a com
plete and correct history cf that memorable
fight, was the one told by Dr T. J. Bluthardt of
Chicago, who was the surgeon in charge of the
federal hospital. During the text cf toe battle
the doctor fc&d occasion to jfo from the hospital
to the fort, several hundred yards distant and
when aocut midway between the two buildings
was confronted by several confederates, who
made him a prisoner. One of the confederates,
not a soi her. but a brute, as were some In both
armies, said be was going to “have a little fun
shooting at the Dutchman," t n 1 accord
ing commanded the doctor to back up against
a tree, wnich command was obeyed. The
doctor realized his position and put ou a bold
irjot, however, and said: “You are a coward;
I alU 'Unarmed and you would slarg ter me;
you dare not give me a pistol and stand off te i
paces and let one of your comrades give the
command to fire.” At this juncture one of the
three confederates raised his pistol and declared
the doctor should not be molested; that he bad
not come all the way from Kentucky to kiil
unarmed men in such a manner. The doctor
was th n told to go his way, w*hich he
did. This was in the morning. In the afternoon
the confederates took charge of the hospital
and soon the federal* rna ’e a terrific charge
and retoo* the building. The house was sur
rounded and the doctor rushed into au upstairs
room to see a patient lie bad left there The
room, upon thedoctor's entrance. was found to
be filled with the smoke of battle, which w as so
dense one could scarcely see; but above the din
and roar of musketry the doctor distinguished
the voices of two men exiling out: “For God's
sake save us!" Ti e doctor knew not who it
was that called to him thus, but rushed to a
corner, picked up two blankets and threw
them ov r the two surrounded confeder
ates, and when he was asked who was unde--
neath the blankets replied to the soldiers
ou his side that they were his patients. When
an opportunity offered its“lf to allow the men
to esc ipe the doctor ra aid the blankets, only
to discover that one of the men he had saved
was the man who "had not come all the way
from Kentucky to slaughter unarmed men,”
and this man was “Tip” Mansur. now cashier of
a bank at Salisbury, and a brother of Congress
man Charles H. Mansur of the Second district.
The doctor, when he related the story, did not
know who the mau was—never had seen him
afterward- but the identity of the brave soldier
was soon learned through those present at the
reunion, and who distinctly remembered the
circumstances.
Couldn’t Fool Him.
“What star is that?" Inquired the raw-boned
stranger, halting at the street corner, says the
Chicago Tribune.
“That ain't a star," said the faker with a tele
scope. “That’s a planet.”
“H'm! What planet is it?”
“That, sir, is Jupiter.”
“It’s Jupiter, is it? How do you know it's
Jupitqr?”
“Why, everybody knows that planet is Jupi
ter.”
“But how do you know it?”
“Know it by its belts.”
“Hain’t any other planet got belts?”
“Possibly some of them have. In the re
motest depths of space there may be myriads
of worlds that the telescope has not revealed
to us, and some of them may have belts like
this one.”
“That's what I thought. Do you s'pose Jupi
ter is inhabited?”
“Some persons think it is, and some say it
has not yet cooled off sufficiently for human
beings to live upon it.”
“Do you think it’s likely that the people who
live on it. if there are any, call it Jupiter?”
“O, no; it isn't at all likely.”
“H’m! How much do you charge for look
ing at it through that thing?”
“Only five cants.”
“Five cents, hey? You want five cents for
squinting about ten seconds at a planet you call
Jupiter because everybody else c ills it Jupiter,
ana because it's got belts, when you say your
self it ain’t the only one that’s got belts, and
you acknowledge the people on it don’t call it
Jupiter? It’s my belief you don't know whether
it's Jupiter or Job's Coffin, I say it's a durn
swindle."’
And be elbowed bis way out of the crowd
and walked off, leaving the telescope man
jumping up and down in speechless rage.
Ben and the Gocd Boys.
It was the middle of the afternoon. The boys
had sat in their seats for so long a time that
they had begun to grow restive, says the Chicago
Herald. Even a good school boy is only a boy.
The teacher’s back is turned. Ben Parker took
a handful of birdshot out of bis pocket and
rolled them noiselessly over the floor The
teaoher turned quickly and saw a number of
the boys mildly laughing. They couldn’t help
it.
“George come here !” he called out sharply.
"Charles and William and Thomas and Henry,
you may come also.”
The boys named came forward.
“I am sorry, boys, to be compelled to make
an example of you." he said. I saw you laugh
ing. Undoubtedly it was the whole five of you
that threw these shot over the floor. I shall
punish you by making you stand on the floor
where you are now the rest of the afternoon.
And while you are standing there I want you to
observe the quiet and orderly conduct of your
schoolmate, Ben Parker, who has been faith
fully studying his lession all tl is time, un
moved by your boisterous behavior and your
ill-timed mirth. I take pleasure in commend
ing Ben Parker. He is at this moment the best
behaved boy in the school. Stand where you
are, boys, the rest of the school will now have
recess.”
All through the long recess that followed this
lecture those boys stood there, while Ben Par
ker looked in at the window furtively now and
then and winked solemnly and made faces at
them.
It is a painful thing, children, to be under the
necessity of knocking a time-honored proverb
into the middle of next week, but it does not al
ways pay to be good. Facts are facts, and this
is a true story. It comes from Ben Parker him
self.
The Apology Wasn't Made.
We have known Jim Hastings for over two
years, says the Arizona Kicker , drunk and
sober, and we never supposed that he was a bit
sensitive about having the entire American
population know that he sleeps in the ditch
oftener than in his bed. In our last issue we
accidentally referred to him in connection with
a barrel of whiskey, supposing he would feel
flattered if anything. To our great amazement
he walked into this office yesterday and de
manded a personal and public apology. He
had with him a written apology, good for six
solid columns, which he wanted us to publish or
take the consequences. We generally prefsr
the consequences. We did in this case, and it
was a painful spectacle to see poor old Jim,
who was once a gifted lawyer, and is nowliv
ing on his mother-in law, peel off to do us up
We simply dropped him out of a back window,
and when he borrowed a guu at the Star saloon
anl fired six bullets into the Kicker office
wo paid him not the least attention. He is
around town boasting of how he is going to
shoot us on sight. Foolish old man: We can
only pity you.
Staggered tha CritiC3.
Two men were standing outside a Broadway
jeweler’s window recently, says the Jewelers'
Weekly, admiring the gorgeous display of glit
tering jewels that lay before them and critieiz -
ing such as failed to suit their fancy. Presently
one of them, pointing to an object in a red
push tray, said:
“Just look at that scarf pin representing a
fly. Any one can tell that’s not real.”
“Well, I should think so.” answered his
friend. "Who ever saw a common fly with
such a bright appearance? Why. it makes me
weary when I think that the jeweler who pro
duced that fondly hoped that someone wou'd
purchase it to deceive his friends. If I saw that
on a man’s scarf I could tell directly that it was
an enameled imitation and an unartistic one at
that.
At that moment the object of the critics' con
demnation moved across the tray, flew into the
air and vanished The two men looked each at
the other, gasped, aud moved away without a
word.
Human Frailty.
Wo are frail creatures physically—the most
robust among us. Tne unhealthy man or
woman is in great measure incapable of
bmefit to society. If, for instance, biliousness,
a trouble of frequence and often obstinately
resistant of ordinary medication, obstructs the
harmonious action of the liver and the bowels
the sufferer is sure to be dyspeptic. The three
disordered conditions are sure to be confirmed
by neglect. Under the erroneous impression
.iTowms !L n ° hpe fo T im - an impression in
a I likelihood confirmed by the use of ojection
able remedies, ths sufferer is apt to become
neg.eetful, nay, even reckless, and that the
sooner he is removed from th < sphere of human
l)elt * r for all parties concerned
W hat a senes of mistakes! IBs liver is responsi
ble. It is an incorporate part of himseif. How
mre,‘Pi ne C “ e Bid of Hostetler’s Stomach
c ® r,Bl “ tor the re-establish
menc of luiited, regular action in the stomach
liver and bowels. It also cures and prevents
malarial, rheumatic and kidney trouble*.— Adv.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Georgia has 300 life-time prisoners in the
penitentiary.
! Sportbhex ix Maine are fast going into the
woods to try their luck with the birds and the
big game, as soon aa the law will allow. Close
time on deer and moose will be off on Oct. I.
It is estimated that if the tobacco used in
France during a single year were twisted Into a
cord two inches in thickness it wouid be long
enough to encircle the earth thirty times, fob
lowing the line of the equator.
A school girl coming home to report having
won two prizes, says the Cincinnati Commercial,
remarked that one of tl em was tor having the
best memory. Being asked what the other prize
was for, sne replied: “For the life of me, I
can’t just now think what that was for.”
Mr. Gotschalk of New York owns the only
genuine and perfect holy shekel in the world.
The interesting relic is about 3,400 years old,
and wn used in King Solomon's temple. Mr.
G t chalk is on 111 i way to San Francisco I o
fuinlla promise and show th- shekel to a friend
who is a celebrated numismatist, and has the
largest collection in this country.
The wholesale destruction of forests in this
country is attracting attention in Germany,
and it is predicted that we shall in a few years
be impoverished in tree property. A striding
comparison is made of the two countries.
hue the United States has 11 per cent, of its
area covered by forests, the empire of Ger
many has 2U per cent, of its entire area so
oovered.
The attendance at St. Paul’s Cathedral, Lot
don, when Canon Liddon was in resident: o was
probably the most cosmopolitan ever seen in
any church. Ou tbj o casion of bis last ser
mon, it is stated, there were present Japanese
Christians, in their picturesque costume: au
African priest, a distinguished lay member of
the Greek enuroh, and representative members,
probably, of every religious denomination.
The following epistle from a market man to
a lady who dealt with him is published in the
Horth China Herald of Shanghai: “Please
don’t cut my weight the leg of mutton at the
iast day I sent lb. according your Cut half
pound, sent back have got six pound and tne
price I Charge your ten cent for pound anybody
charge 14 cent pound I give you the price very
cheaper. My dear Sir, Your Loving Marck
Mex.”
Rev. F. D. Perrott, an English clergyman,
has discov red in the garden of an old bouse in
Suffolk a sun dial bearing the following inscrip
tion on its base: "This pedestal was a part of
the balustrades of Old London bridge, which
was bui t In 1176, altered 1756, when the balus
trades were put up in lieu of the houses which
stood on the bridge, and was taken down in
1832.” Tnis should be preserved for the inspec
tion of Macaulay's New Zealander.
Two beggars, named Jakubowski and Wasi
lewies who for y are have solicited alms be
fore tha doors of the Kief cathedral, have just
retired and set up as rentiers, says the New
York T at. Jakubowski possesses a house
worth 20,000 roubles (£3,000), and a sum of 56,0c0
roubles (£6,600i, lodge# at the Reicbsbank.
Wasilewics has invested aii his earnings in
property, and owns two houses of the value of
75,000 roubles (£7,500) each, which he lets.
Somebody gives out the f showing as a correct
list of wedding commemoratfcas: Three days,
sugar; sixty days, vinegar; first anniversary,
iron; fifth anniversary, wooden; tenth anniver
sary, t n; fifteenth anniversary, crystal; twen
tieth anniversary, china; twenty-mth anniver
sary, silver; thirtieth anniversary, cotton;
thirty-fifth anniversary, linen; fortieth anniver
sary, wooei; forty-fifth anniversary, silk;
fiftieth nnmv rsary, golden; seventy-fifth anni
versary, diamond
New York will probably witness one of the
most impressive spectacles in its history when
the young Czarowitz of Russia, accompanied
by his brother, the Grand Duke George, visits
tho city early in the spring. The metropo.is
will be the last place visited previous to their
return, and a big Russian fleet will anchor in
the harbor and welcome him The exact length
of time he will remain in the city is, of course, a
matter of sp-cuiatiou, but it is probable that this
government will make a naval display in the
harbor.
Does a meteor belong to the man who hap
pens to find it, or to the owner of the ground
into which it plows when it strikes the earth?
On May 2, this year, a sixty-six-pound black
stone fell on the farm of John Goddovel, in
Winnebago county, lowa. Peter Hugland
found the stone and sold it to Prof. Winobell.
Goddovel brought suit against Hugland for the
value o the meteor. The court has just de
cided in favor of the owner of the land on which
it fell, as past of the realty, appeal has been
taken to the supreme court of lowa.
A young eastern tenderfoot, who i3 now in
the state of Washington, writes thus to a
friend: “What do you think of trees 650 feet
high? They are to be found in the unsurveyed
townships near the foot of Mount Tacoma, and
what is more, I have seen them and made an
instrumental measuremeut with that result.
There are lots of trees in that locality whose
foliage is so far above the ground that it is im
possible to tell to wbat family they belong ex
cept by the bark. Very few people know or
dream of the immensity of our forest growth.’’
The extreme and touching devotion of a
widow for the wishes of her deceased husband
has probably seldom been better illustrated
than in the case of a recently bereaved French
woman, who visited a crematorium for the i ur
poseof making arrangements for the incinera
tion of her late husband. The manager of tne
institution, after sympathizing with her over
her recent loss, finally aslreS her: "Madame,
we have two methods of areniation, the French
and Italian; which do yqt think the deceased
would prefer?” “O. moflMepf,” she responded,
"the French, by all meMsy Alphonse was a
true patriot and hated,ltalian cooking.” Alp
honse wag accordingly not cremated a l’ltal
ienne. 43
The delicate operation of skin-grafting was
performed in St. Mary's hospital at Astoria a
few days ago, says the Portland Oregonian.
The patient was Ole Anderson, who had his left
foot badly crushed at the jetty about two
months ago. The skin frurn the ankle down the
side of the foot for the space of four or five
inches s mare was torn off and the flesh left ex
posed. From the leg of Anderson several strips
were taken, but not enough to oover the space
necessary Another patient offered to lend An
derson a little section of his cuticle. The offer
was accepted and from the patient's arm
enou h was taken to complete the operation,
and four out of the six new pieces are growing
nicely, and in a short time Anderson will have a
skin all over his injured foot.
On the French coast of Croisie may be seen
thousands of little sea urchins ensconced in
cavities in the granite rock, the openings of
which are too small to p-rmit their ingress or
exit. The animals, it is not doubted, make and
widen the holes for themselves, but the ques
tion how has not been answered. Chemical
solution of the rock does not seem possible as
no sufficiently strong acid is found in the ani
mal. 31. John has recently explained it by me
chanical action. With the so-called lantern of
Aristotle, a curious formation with which the i
animal breaks up the hard substances on which
it feeds, it probably bites tho rock; the sucker
feet are attached, and a rotary motion is im
parted to the body, the spines and the lanlem
slowly wear.ng down the surface of the rock
The wittiness of ex-Congressman Roswell G.
Horr of Michigan is proverbial. In one of the
tariff debates in that state he made a hit in re
plying to Congressman Springer of Illinois
which will be widely appreciated. 3lr. Springer
had referred to Dives in hades as a republican
lifting up his eyes to Lazarus, a democrat in
heaven. Mr. Horr, in answering the Illinois
statesman, said that under ordinary circum
stances lie might differ with his opponent as to
the political complexion of Dives and Lazarus
but <ne circumstance of the Bibio relation'
which 3lr Springer had omitted, convinced him
that Dives was a republican. “We read that
Dives cried aloud for water," said Mr Horr
“and we know perfectly well that if he had
been a democrat he wouldn’t have dona that
No democrat ever cried for water.”
A 3IICHIGAN politician said the other day:
“Tho motive that prompted Gen. Algar to go
into politics in Michigan is not generally known
or understood I was in his office about the
time that he decided that he would accept the
nomination for governor. He talked with me
about it, an i among other things sari: ‘I have
had my fair share of success la life- I am
wealthy, as men count wealth, and all I have to
live for is my family and my country. I would
like to leave the t iti of governor as a legacy
to them of the esteem in which my fellow men
hold me, and I would like to
be able to serve the people of my
state ani my party in that office.’ Then he
w-ent on to say that although he knew little
about politics, he saw the need of a head of the
party in the state, and thought he might be
able to take that position to the benefit of the
party, because he knew he had the capacity
* o A orKa, " zatiorl, Michigan was wabbling in
politics at the time and rapidly turning demo
cr&tic, but it is now surely republican.*’
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