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Auction Sales—Matting, Oilcloth, Etc., by
C. P Miller, Auctioneer; Horses, Mules and
Buggies, at Guilmartin & Mehrtens’ Stables.
Proposals Wanted for Supplying 50,000
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ton, S. C.
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There is reallv no reason to complain that
Congressman Cannon, ot Illinois, is noisy.
What else can bo expected, but noise from a
Cannon’s mouth.
Maj. McKinley’s prophecy that the new
tariff bill would create a demand for labor
probably applies only to his own district,
where his partisans appear to be shedding a
great deal of perspiration in an anxious
effort to re-elect him.
Hon. Thomas M. Norwood has finally
announced that be is a candidate for the
United States Senate. One by one those
who declined to say they were candidates,
but who admitted they would accept the
senatorship if it were offered them, are
concluding that it is the better plan to enter
the senatorial race.
An enterprising young man out in Cal
?ornia finding himself short of funds, last
uesdav "held np” a stage and got SIOO.
Then be got caught and the money was ta
ken away from him and his skill as a bandit
was severely criticized. When arraigned in
a federal court he gave a confessedly ficti
tious name and said he wanted the money
to finish his education. He was pronounced
a dude and will probably get a good deal of
useful instruction, if not a finished educa
tion, out of his escapade. Still he cer
tainly had pretty hard luck. To bombard
a stage and get but SIOO, only to be chased
several miles and have it taken away from
him and be called a dude, was indeed pretty
tough. But the way of the transgressor is
rocky.
Aside from Queen Victoria, the Boston
Herald thinks that “no other woman could
have c died out the vast concourse in
and low estate from every corner of tho
kingdom who flocked to the funeral of Mrs.
Catherine Booth, ‘mother of the Salvation
Army,’ ” which leads the editor to assert
that “an organization, however humble,
that can produce such results deserves a de
cent respect in every community." Both
conclusions are quite erroneous. Almost
any sort of a hippodrome accompanied by
fifteen brass bands ani other elements of
gr )te-que spectacular novelty in street show
would have had pretty much the same re
sult. N j feature of it, however, was of a
character to particularly commond it to
proper public esteem.
Complications of an unexpected character
appear likely to result from the slaughter of
Barrundia by the Gautamalan troops
aboard the American steamship Acapulco.
Relatives of the desceasei have made a de
mand upon the United States for #100,090
damages on the gr >und that but for the
interference of Minister Mizuer he would
not have been surrendered and killed. That,
they hold, renders this government liable.
Paying $lOO,OOO would not trouble Uncle
Bam very much. But it would necessitate
calling on Gautemala for indemnity. That
might cause trouble if the Guatemala is
are foolish enough to resist. Seuor ban
goehea. a son-in-law of Barrundia, is in
New York to secure the best available ex
pounder of international law, and proceed
to Washington to lay the matter before the
state department. He claims that a clause
in the Gautemiiaa treaty with the United
States definitely places responsibility in this
case upon us. Damages may also be claimed
by tuQ Pacific Mail Steamship Company, on
one of whose vessels the crime was com
mitted. Serious complications may yet re
siflt from that murder. Gautemala should
certainly be held accountable.
Civil Service Rules f:r Candidates.
Always interesting, because of it* great
influence in Rational affairs and the pecu
liarly practical methods of its large num
ber of professional politicians, New York
city has this year one of its most exciting
local contests into which enter many of the
elements of novelty, not to say positive
drollery.
First a clamor for reform went up that
seemed likely to shake the Statue of
Liberty. Immediately following came a
mass meeting of citizens oste .sibiy “op
posed to corrupt political misrule’’ and dis
posed to purify the politics of the c.ty. It
was completely controlled by a lot of
fossilized hack politicians. They organized
a literary bureau, and put it in charge of
one of the most comical little political
freaks in all Gotham. He sent out tons of
elegantly printed theories of ideal politics
that aff irded the veteran ward workers of
Tammauj- no little amusement between
drinks, but caused them no anxiety what-
ever.
Next a multitude of Gospel ministers with
immaculately wnite cravati met in solemn
conclave, and, iu the course ot a discussion
of the general condition of the country,
said some pretty hard things about one
another, but finally decided to regulate the
whole matter to their liking by the applica
tion of “plenty of prayer,” as they ex
pressed it
Finally a convention was hold in which
the reformers entered into collusion with
ail the hungry Lack politicians iu the city
to beat Tammany, and allowed them to
nominate just such of their members as
they chose for the various offices. Mean
while Tammany stood off and wore a sar
donic grin as the farce went on. Some of
them suited the vrigwam so well that they
were indorsed. Then Tammauy announced
the regular slated routine candidates and
jumped into the arena with a wad of bills
ready to tight it out.
Now comes the New York Times with the
most singular proposition that ever para
lyzed a candidate. It is an offer of a prize
if the Tammany candidate for mayor oau
pass such a civil service examination as it
shall prescribe. It sets forth that "the
Timet is willing to contribute $.500 to the
campaign fund of Tammany Hall if Mayor
Grant, in the presence of a committee to be
appointed by Mr. Peckham, Mr. Patterson.
Mr. Power and Mr. Croker, will write one
foolscap page from dictation out of the
Bible (Douai version), or out of someone
of Scott’s novels, to be selected by the
committee; or if he will, in the presence
of the committee, comp me and write
with his own hand an eisay of not
less than 400 words upon some subject re
lating to municipal administration to bo
suggested on the spot by the committe ■,
provided that the Times be allowed to pub
lish a fac simile ot the writing in question
and that the executive committee of the
People’s Municipal League have ponnission
to adorn the dead walls and bill boards of
the city with an enlarged fac simile of the
same.”
These requirement! do not seem very
revere and they afford his honor an un
paralleled opportunity to secure a large lot
of free advertising and also to exhibit his
most picturesque signature if he has baeu
cultivating one in the prevailing fashion.
Beside, that's good pay for writing a
short ossny to say nothing of merely copy
ing one.
Lunacy in England.
In England, it appears, the genus tramp
has not the same facilities for traveling by
the back door route, and picking up a living
along the wav, as he has in this country.
Here he has made deadheading a science.
In England he makes lunacy a science. The
English tramp, when driven to the necessity
of choosing between the poor house
and starvation, makes a com
promise, if possible, by simulating a
mild form of lunacy, thereby becoming a
charge in an insane asylum. Thus the
statistics of lunacy have increased to an
alarming extent in England, and from the
figures it would appear that her majesty’s
subjects are lapsing into the miserable and
helpless condition of insanity.
In 1830, according to United States Com
mercial Agent Smyth, at Huddersfield,
Eng., in the county of Lancashire alone,
there about 6,833 lunatics of all grades. In
1880 this number had increased to nearly
9,000. The returns for England and Wales
for 1880 showed that over 61,000 lunatics
were under treatment or hopelessly affected,
while the report for 1893 informs us that
those figures have run up to the verge of
75,000. Of these 5,434 are pauper tramps.
But aside from the tramp paupers, who are
lunatics in name only or as lo.ig as they
are public charges, the increase in lunacy
in England has been great. According to
the figures one out of every forty in Eng
land is insane.
Of late the republican newspapers have
been glorifying themselves because they
had kbled off the lottery, administered
upon the estate of Mormonism, defunct, and
finally fixed the tariff. They were particu
larly proud of tho latter performance be
cause they thought it established a regular
income for the party. But these things
will not stay fixed. Mormonism his bobbed
up serenely again, and the foxy lottery has
broke out the back way and is now quite
healthy and happy and flourishing like a
green bay mule. Now to add the last straw
to their accumulating dismay, the tariff
threatens to fly up and hit somebody. All
these things have a strong tendency to
impress Brother Wanamaker with the in
stability of human retail trade and induce
him to lav up his next $430,000 treasure iu
heaven. For this wicked world bounces a
great man every day or two.
Newspaper guessing contests appear likely
to be ruled out under the lottery law. And
the queerest feature of the whole affair is
the fact that the very papers which clam
mored most vociferously for the suppression
of lotteries were the very ones that prac
ticed that particular form of petty lottery
themselves. Now they are likely to howl
for "the liberty of tie press” in self
extenuation. But the suppression of that
nuisance would be a positive relief to the
public. Yet it will cause sane artificially
inflated circulations to drop with a thump
that could be heard ia the next ward.
The exposition of the farmers’ alliance o
Florida, which opens at Ocala, Dec. 1, prom
ises to be a great success. The annual ses
sion of the National Farmers’ Alliance will
meet at that place Dec. a, and there will be
other attractions. The exposition will be
open sixty days, and during that time
Ocala will bj crowded with pe 'pie. Ample
provision has been made for taking care of
them.
In spite of the photographers’ nega
tive*, the tariff on photograph supplies has
gone up.
THE MORNING NEWS: MONDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1890.
Rewarding the Reporter.
Gratitude from politicians to reporters is
■o altogether unusual that it evokes no very
mild astonishment throughout the world of
newspapers w hen it is manifested.
Journalists are not, as a rule, easily
sbockfd, nor even surprised, and it is very
rarely that ths most erratic dsnizeue of
this queer old world can devise any eccen
tricity so uniquely origi lal as ti disturb
the calmly continuous routine grind of their
j laiiy lives, with a faint ripple ol the mildest
wonder.
All this accumulated and crystalizod
serenity has just been agitated to its lowest
stratum and badly shattered by a sensation
of genuine astonishment. It was manufact
ured in Connecticut, the land of “steady
habits’’ and exact c ilcu ations. Hartford’s
board of aldermen at a recent meetiug ten
dered, by the members stand.ng, a resolu
tion of thnnks to a reporter who through a
number of years hid faithfully chronicled
the proceedings of that body and was then
about to retire to another field of useful
ness.
Only think of that! Doesn’t it sound
rather incredible! If it is not wholly with
out a precedent iu the history of politic!
tbe.i the body which set so worthy an exam
ple has cereainly not bseu given due and
proper credit and sa >uld receive justice at
the bands of tho press without further de
lay.
What makes this unusual courtesy from
the Hartford aldermen still more astound
ing is that they are machine politicians and,
as the Morning News happens to know,
the reporters who regularly chronicle the
pr.iceedings of that bovrd are fairly well
paid for it by the city, in addition to the
salary they derive from tneir respective
papers. This seems to indicate that Hart
ford is something la the nature of an eiy
sium for political reporters.
Asa rule politicians seem to think that
they are doing the reporter a great service
iu allowing him tj copy and correct their
ungrammatical statements and fish-market
rhetoric. Few public men of to-day would
amount to much in public estimation if
their speeches were printed as they are
uttered. Many of tnein would thus be ren
dered a public laughing stock. Frequently
the reporter has to inject sense and reason
as well as good grammar into the alleged
utterances of so-called great nsen. No
small number of the pompous prominent
men of to-day owe their wisdom, for which
they so freely receive publio praise and ad
miration, to tho advice and assistance of
some friendly reporter who has written out
their speeches for them. Yet many of them
treat the reporter insolently as soon as they
have attained to any eminence. They for
get how much they owe to him until he or
some of his brother reporters tako a notion
to yauk them down. That, however, he
rarely does, except by leaving the inflated
quidnunc severely alone, and allowing him
to tumble into his native ob.curity under
the sheer weight of his own pomposity. To
his credit be it truly s rid that the capable
reporter is not often vindictive.
How many public men would be known
outside of their own ward if it were not
for some friendly newspaper) Still they
seem to think they are doing the paper a
particular favor iu allowing it to print tuelr
egotistical buncombe, which only too fre
quently has to be completely rewritten to
infuse any common sense or argumont into
it. But the putative author cannot see I
that. He strut* about and shows what he
calls “my views.” Yet such an idea as
gratitude or appreciation never once enters
his mind. In the vociferous lexicon of
politics there is no such word as thanks!
In view of all these historical truths the
novel and graceful act of the Hartford
aldeimen is positively refra-hing, and is
well worthy of emulation throughout the
land. Tnat document should ba entered
upon the records as a memento of the pro
gressive spirit of Connecticut, and an ex
ample for future generations.
Cotton Feed Oil in Commerce
Nearly every day we hear of some mam
moth new development of the already
enormous resources of the Standard Oil
Company. It is carrying everything before
it, and summarily crushes out all competi
tion by the sheer force and effect of its
masterly management.
Now if the cotton seed oil people could
only “get together” and consolidate under
the management of some alere and capable
director with anything like the sagacity
and enterprise of the standard people, cot
ton seed oil would speedily taka such a hold
upon the publio favor that no fear of hostile
legislation noed haunt its prospects nor
hinder its rapid growth in commercial
esteem. It has the merits to sustain it.
Fur many culinary purposes it is far supe
rior to lard, aud even preferable to butter,
because it Is pure aud pleasaut of flavor,
and can be much longer preserved in proper
condition than can either lard or butter.
Being a pure and sweet vegetable oil, it
is preferable to either lard or butter for
kitchen use, for the reason that it is more
cleanly and economical, as well as healthy.
Both butter and lard soon spill and become
rancid. But cotton seed oil remains sweet,
unless needlessly exposed to the air or ex
treme heat.
What damaged the business prospects of
this now industry more thau auvthiug else
was the use of the oil as an adulterant for
lard. It is really superior to lard, th nigh
much cheaper. And there are many people
in this country that are not of Jewish
extraction in the remotest degree who do
not like pork nor its products. To them
so pure and rich and cleanly an oil would
Drove a most welcome substitute. And
there are enough of these people to con
sume a vast quantity of it No doubt a
demand quite equal to the supply could be
found within a very short time if it were
made and placed upon the market solely
on its merits and undisguised.
What the producers need to do is to get
together and formulate some practical plan
for the economical manufactui e of it and the
systematic hatidliug of the product so as
to place it upon the market iu the best man
ner, and upon the most advantageous terms
so that consumers who may wisu to
try it may know where it is to be had.
There is a demand for just such an ar icle
and it o ily needs to be properly placed be
fore the public to meet with immediate de
mand.
Here is a great opportunity for some
body.
Kepuhlican editors in the Fifteenth dis
trict of Illinois have held a meeting, and
decided to fire their Cannon. Now look
out for a resounding explosion.
Though polygamy very extensively ad
vertised itself dead, it appears to bo still
doing business at the old stand. Those
Mormons continue to “practice their pro
fession,” so to speak.
PERSONAL.
A search for the oldest clergyman in England
shows that the Rev. John Elliott, vicar of Rand-
I wicb, will be 100 in three mocths. He preached
I up to the ag of 95.
| Commodore John Page, ct the Argentine
navy, died recently neSf theli-Uvlin frontier.
He wa* a native o' Virginia, a . 1 liaJ served in
! the CBited Ftatei and confederate states
’ navies.
Mrs. Custer, the wi low of the Indian fighter,
; is a buck-ha.red woman of medium height
an l gracious presence. Her complexion is
i rosy, and she is toe picture of health andj OJth
f fulness.
Chevalier Gustave Dhole r of Paris is in
| Montreal as representative of two large Paris
: ian institutions that wish to tender for the $20,-
OOO.tt 0 lousobdaed debt of the Province of
Quetiec.
Bishop Huntington of Syracuse goes so far
as to declare that more than half of the re
lig ous organizaiions, great or small, are at
present practical contradict! ..is of tho “Sermon
on the Mount.”
Miss Katherine Lee Bates, professor of
Enzl.ah literature at Wellesley college, and a
writer of verse, is now taking a
year’s r st in Eui ope, after which she is to enter
on a year's study at Oxford, England.
Mrs. Auousta Evans- Wilson, the southern
novelist, is short ani stout, with agoodni
tu ed, intelligent face, having an expression of
happy contentment, showing that she i, on good
terms witn her husband and the rest of the
world.
It is said that Gladstone is so sensitive to ad
verse criticisms that every newspaper, maga
zi ie, bx>k or other pubiiCAtiou that comes to
Hawar en is examined by members of the
family before it reaoaes aim. lor fear that
some unpleasant opinion may upset his equi
librium
Ex-Senator George W. Jones of low a is a
well-preserved and jaunty man of uearly 90
years. His head is covered with bunches of
wavy, white curls and liis Van Dyke bea:*d and
moustache are white ar.d curly. But Ins figure
i- still light, sinewy and giaceful. He lives iu
Dubuque
Marches!, in Parts, has discovered another
phenomenal soprano, said to outrival even the
high-voiced Sibyl Sanderson. Tuey ung lady is
MissSednhr Bnodes, the daughter of a i rater
New York journalist. She is reported to be
very beautiful, aid will probably make her
debut next year.
Gen. N. P. Banks is now more than 70 years
old. He began life as a factory boy, and for
forty years he has been prominent before the
public—as a member of congress, speaker of
the Housi. governor and major genera!. He
bears his years well, and is a man of dist.n
guished presence.
JuS::pn Savory, the new lord mayor of Lon
don. was for several years a member of the
London school board, but was distinguished for
nothing exc-pt hit conspicuous neglect of the
duties of his position. His triumphant election
to the lord mayoralty therefore conveys a moral
iu a slightly damaged condition.
Apropos of Mr. Bancroft's 19th birthday,
which was celebrated Friday, the Waahington
Post says: * But for a muscular weakness, a
gradual inevitable loss of muscular strengtn
and a very gradual lading of bis powers of
memory, -dr. Bancroft might .-eeui a score or
m >re years youuger than ho is. He still is an
untiring reader, and keeps remarkably well up
with tne advances of thougt of the times.
BRiGHT BUS.
M" to it wire—-I hear you have sworn oft*
Mudue—Yep. It was beginning to affect my
miud. Every time 1 got a little full Iwa ited to
di-.cuss tue tariff .—huiranapxjlis JountuL
Ethel fin Newport)—Are you going back to
town souu?
Maud—Not for a week or so. I must be en
gaged just once more before I go. —Epoch.
“I am accused of possessing talent,’’ said a
conceite i man.
“If you are ever tried you’ll be acquitted,’’
replied oqrijWne knew higi. r Siftings.
McCokkle— They say that Snooper finds it
diftlcylt to keep his l ead above wa.er.
McC’raekit—'That Hoes not surprise me at all.
He is a native ot Kentucky.— Drake's Magazine.
An Irishman declares that it was not until he
first partook of the Jisu called hash that he
realized the force of the expression, “Every
tiling courted to mm wiio at.”— Washington
Post.
Gargoyle (showing his curiosities)—This is an
Indian hatchet 1 dug from a mound in Ohio.
Mrs. l angle—How- interesting' I have read
that the ludians were in the habit of burying
the hatchet.— Harj n s Bazax\
Batcheli.er—Ned', how would you define a
love letter?
Benedick -A love letter is a thing that ten
years afterward you generally wisn you hadn’t
written,—komerrilfe Journal.
Elderly Visitor t to parrot)—You little love,
kiss mo
Parrot (moving oker to the other end of the
perch, m a a m)—Mehereute' next thing she'll
he wanting to marry me.— Epoch.
Judge— You confess to having stolen the
nionsy, do you? Well, have you any exonerat
ing circum tance, to offer?
Culprit—Yes, your houor; my grandfather
was an alderman St. Joseph News*.
She—How charmingly Mr. Gabley talks, Mr.
Greeneye. There appears to be uo subject he is
not informed on.
He (madly jealous)-Says he Inherits tho gift;
his ancestors were barbers, you know. —1 he
Jes er.
Prima Donna (proudly)—lf that is the Prince
of Wales sc the door, toll him that the queen of
the operatic tage has no desire to associate
with mere princes
Maid— It is not the prince, madam; it Is a soap
manufacturer.
“Oil! admit him." —Good News.
Jane labout midnight)—l say, Pete, don’t you
want to be a t angel?
Pete—l don’t know. Why so dear.
Jane (thoughtfully)— Well, I wa* just thinking
wnat a good one you'd make.
Pete—Make? What do you mean?
Jana (nervously pulling her apron string)—
O, y u'd have all eternity before you.
Pete proposes at once.—Puck.
Mrs. Mushroom— lt is a queer thing, Sophie.
I’ve b en all day searching the stores for an
eseutcheou. and I don’t think there’s one in
town. I he ird Mrs Startup say that the Mon
tagues boasted about their unvarnished es
culc ioon, aud I ain’t a goin’ to let the neigh
bors get ahead of me i’ll have an e eutcheon
if I have to send to Yurrim for it, and what’s
more, 111 have a varnished one, too.’’— Chicago
Ante ica.
“I heard you when you came home last
night," said Landlady Snapshort to a boarder
who had attended a protracted lodge meeting
the previous evening, “and it was tver so late.
Aud let me tell you, Mr P„ that if you were my
husba-id 1 would make you come home earlier
so I would."
’’lndeed,” said Mr. TANARUS., “and let me tell you,
madam, that if v it were mv wife I wouldn’t
come home at all.’’ —Bos on Transcript •
CURRENT COMMENT.
There’d Hava Been a “3crap.”
From the Philadelphia Rec.oxdi.Dem.).
It was lucky for Dillon and O’Brien that they
didn't meet >ir. Mizuer on the soil of France.
Still (a) Hoogrlng Things Ud.
From the Philadelphia Times (Dem.).
Whether hoops come again into vogue or not
taere 1< no doubt that just now the popularity
of the barrel is increasing.
Very Doubtful.
From lhe Boston Herald llnd.).
Will President Harrison have the good sense
to nomin te Judge )\ alter Q. Gresham to suc
ceed Justice Miller? Ttiat's the question the
lawyers are as ung.
Chicago Gives Bt. Louis a Walkover.
From the Chicago Tribune (Rep.).
The young woman who is walking from San
Francisco across the continent for a purse of
$5,000 was still ahead of time when heard from
last, and was bearing down in this direction. If
not too late steps ought to be taken at once to
assure her that me walking is much better by
way of St. Louis.
Life'** Tdo 'fchtfift He Thinks.
From the Nextx York Pres (Rep.).
’’Hughey’’ Grant says he “hasn’t time" to earn
SSOO rrom the Tixnes for the Tam many campaign
fund by writing one foolscap page from dicta
tion out of the Bible iDouat vert ion) or out of
soma one of Scott’s novels, or by composing
aud writing with his own hand an essay of not
les than 400 words upon some subject r lating
to municipal administration. That is very
likely. A job like that would take "Hughey” a
long, long time if he had to do rt himself.;
The peculiar enervating effect of summer
weather is driven off by Hood's Sarsaparilla,
which “makes the weak strong."
Pedal ‘’Climber*."
Two fair members of the Four Hundred, soys
the New Yort Sun, were orer enrd dicussing
the merits of oos of their sisters in society the
other day to this effect:
"Yes. dear, she means very well." said the
elder one. "but she really doesn't know how.
! After all. she is a ciitr.ber. don't you know?"
"Yes, that is true," assented her companion.
“Climber" is the latest addition to our vocab
ulary. Thus far it has been used only in tne
upper ranks of swelldom, but with such intro
duction it will undoubtedly so >n be common
property. Elbrilge T. Gerry the ether day
gave thi explanation of its origin:
“There are in society," he said, “some newly
admitted u.eaib rs. w ho, with the best inten
tions imaginable, are never able to do things in
just the proper style. T.iey ara persons of
wealth, fairly good breedii g, and possessed of
a d-sire to entertain. They try to estabii-ha
reputation as hospitable people, but they don't
even know how t<, e it rtain. With ail the good
humored witticisms that the newspapers in
dulge in upon t is subject, it is nevertheless a
fact that the art of entertaining requires deep
and careful study as well as natural aptitude.
Some of the greatest authors have stated this,
even way back to the early days of Greece.
Entertaining is a science pu-e and simple, as
my fried McAlhs e:- will tell you.
“The new name tor these unfortunates who
l ave not learned this, and still insist in parad
irg their ignorance, is de. ived from Sir Walter
Raleigh's remark apropos of Queen Elizabeth.
You will remember it:
“ Fain would X climb, yet fear I to fall.’
"A typical member of this class recently gave
a dinner to a number of persons in society. It
was a verv dull affair. There was prodigality
in everything, but no taste aid no refinement.
The fellow amused me sorn- time th-reafter
by te.lmg me that he had no difficulty in getting
up a fine dinner. .’ 11 that he had to do was to
tell his butler and his chef to get up a meal for
so mauy personsf and he found it unnecessary
to bother his head further. There are few par
s' r.s fortunate enough to possess chefs and
butlers . f that kind, und his certainly were not.
of the persons who attended his dinner nine out
of teu we e uispleased and will never attend an
other. it doesn't take long for t e thorough
tn < : her of society to know whetaer a host or
hos es- is qualified to entertain, and the 'ciitiib
ers' always find it difficnlt to secure gues-s. I
think the new title a very fittiug one.”
She Don’ ’siociate Wid Suckers.
Aunt Ia tidy returned from a visit to her son
with . eep marks of trouble on her ebiny face.
Pressed for tne cause of her distress she said:
"Honey, ycr ain't nuver gwine ter git dis chile
ter set >kie er strange white man ergin. Ef I
g ts oa de train nt Hopes station fur ter come
home fuai gw me ter see mer son wiiut’s de cook
at de hotel dore, I goes in de cheer car ca'se
dat's wbar er la ly like me belongs. I)ar wuzn’
but de one empty cheer. I look at de man wbut
wuz nde nex’ cheer, an'l says ter mer sef,
’Lindv. yer don' wanter set by dat man, fur he’s
fat on’ pussy an’ mos’ baP an’ de little bar he's
got’sred.’ l>es den de drummer whut wuz set
tin’ bin' him say,‘set down, aunty, set down.
Dat mans mer frenV I nuver lack it ’bout him
callin' me aunty, but I '[>ect he nuver know no
better. I sot down an’ tuck mer carpet bag in
mer lap. Den de drummer call de fat man an’
he wake up. I nuver luk at him,
ca'se er lady haster be mighty ’tic.i
ler ’bout er strange man. I ’uz er
stttin' dar wid mer caw pet bag in mer lap, des
lack I’m er tellin’ yer. honey, an’ i feel sumpiu’
drap inter mer lap. 1 look down, an’it wuz er
scase. Ides fetch one yeil, an’ fell outen de
cheer back'ards, an’ breck it all ter p ieces. I>e
cawpet flew up an’ come down an’ bits’ an’ all
mer clo’es an' de ham an’ de bread an' de vittels
tvhui. mer son gimme turn de hotel fly out all
ober de car an’ de to kses. Ad üb'em laT, an’
dat fat man laff de loudes’. Den I know dat it
wus him whut had de snake, Er man say,
‘Aunty, dat wuz er inja rubber ,nake.' Den I
gits mad. honoy. De couductor meek er big
fuss 'bout me breckin’ de cheer, but I nuver say
nuthin'tali ter him. Ides p ; ck up all de t’ngs
often de tto', au' I tell dat fat man my pinion
ob er man whut’s so low-down an’ mean an’
nasty as to skeer er lady list co'se she won’t
pay no ’tention ter him. Dat’s de las’ time,
honey, dat I oes er trablin' lessen I got er
geman wid me fur to ’tect me.”
To a Silent Eeauty.
From Vanity Fair.
Sweet Alice, you are fairer tar
Than most of your companions are;
’ Your form's all grace, you've tiny ioet.
And pretty little hands en suite;
Your radia’t smite shows teeth like pearls;
In short, you're Queen among tue girls—
On every side that's said.
And yet upon your dimpled hand
There shines no gemmed betrothal band I
I’m sir p, fair Alice, that you must
Consider it as most unjust.
When Fau—no beauty, ’tis allowed—
And Florrie, who is quite a aosd,
And Blanche, not fit to tie your shoe,
Have each a lover fond and true—
Are each engaged or wed!
Sweet Alice, beautiful but shy!
Incline your ear. I’ll whisper why
That slender figure doth n t bear
The ring that ends all girlhood's care.
And then my song is sung.
The reason is extrern ly clear,
You’ve not enough to say, my dear!
To wed you, Alice, were a thing
Impossible—for who can ring
A belle without a tongue?
i. a.
She Found a String.
The man who was paralyzed came in yester
day and told us all abont it, says the St. Paul
P.oneer Piess. The event, he says, occurred
at the Market honse, corner of Wabasha and
Seventh streets. He was out after spring chick
ens, but in a legitimate way and in broad day
light. He desired topurebasethem. Attracted
by the plump, sleek and vivacious appearance
of the inmates of a certain slatted box, he in
quired the price of the market woman. It was
satisfactory. He pointed out a couple of sp< ckled
pullets and said lie would take them. The mar
ketwoman opened a trap in the top of the box
and lifted them ont. Just here a dilemma pre
s -nted itself. How could he carry the flutter
ing birds with their legs untied? lie explained
that he had no stri g and looke 1 helplessly
around. The market woman took in the situa
tion at a glance and as once proceeded to adopt
heroic measures. Stooping down she deftiy un
wound a stout cord doing temporary duty as a
garter, and. tying together the legs of the
chickens, handed them over
“ She didn’t cut the Gordian knot,” explained
tbe paralyzed man, ’but she did the next thing
to it.”
Drums Were Plenty.
A boy 7 or 8 years old, whose parents live on
Third avenue, was beating a drum in the alley,
says the Detroit Free Piets, when a neighbor
appeared and asked:
“How much did your father pay for that
drum, sonny?”
“Twoshiuin 8, sir.”
“Will you take $1 for it?’?
“Yes, sir: rna said she hoped I’d sell it for 10
cents.”
The exchange was made and the drum put
wh re it wouldn't do any more good, and the
neighborchickled over his stratagem. How
ever. when he got home at n ght there were
four drums beating in fr nt of his house, and
the drummer Doy was prompt to inform him:
“Thes'areiny cou ins, anti I took that $1
and bought four new drums. Do you want to
give us 81 for them ?”
The neighbor bowi and to the inevitable and re
tired.
Brer Scmpson Liked Chicken Hise’f.
Rev. Sampson Doolittle lives in the suburbs.
The other evening he met Bro. Reaehtip in a
back street, strolling carelessly along with an
empty bag on his shoulder says the Detroit free
Press:
Hi: Brer Reachup!” said Rev. Mr. Doolittle
”Wha' yo' gwine so sly with dat bag dis hyuh in
theeb-nin'?”
“I 1 opes yo’ don’t spec’ I'se atter chickens
Brer Doo.ittlel” exclaimed Bro. Reachup, in
dignantly.
“Sho!” replied Rev. Mr. Doolittle. “Did I
says I spec’s yo’ ob dat ? But 1 got jes' hyuh to
say. Brer Reachup, au' dat is ef 1 draps into yo’
houset'mah’ to dinuah, an' ax s yo’ to’a wing
an’a piece obdebrt as an’ ae piece w'at goes
ober de fence las', wid plenty ob gravy, an’ yo'
says yo’hain’t got nt. chicken. I'll spec’ vo’ ob
p vanoatin’. Brer Reachup. Dat’s w’at I will.”
The Best Man In the World.
Well, if not positively the best, one of the
wisest is he who checks disease at the start in
his own system. In preserving or restoring the
beaTen-gran ed gift of health, he deserves pro
found consideration. His example is worthy to
be imitated The oomplalnts which afflict us
arc lareely attributable to a want of tone In the
stomach, either inherent or inflicted by our
selves upon that much abused repository of the
food that should nourish us. What is its re
quirement in adversity? A whol-s.me tonic
None so good, if we relv upon experience and
testimony, os Hostetter’s Stomaca Bitten Un
medicated stimulants won t do. Regulation as
well as inrigorationof tbe digestive viscera’ Is
not to be effected by these. Through ’tbe
agency at the stomachic named, strength of the
system is retrenched—dyspepsia and biiousuess
overcome. Malarial, kidney, bladder and rheu
matic complaints are eradicated by this salu
tary roomier of ill health.— 4dt>.
ITBMS OF INTEREST.
Apropos of an ail-rail trip to Jerusalem, Dr.
Talmage prophesies it will soon be available.
Wayxe is the name or part of the name of
more places in the United States than aDy
other.
A shrewd o’d pbilosper says: “People get so
well acquainted with their own faults that they
don’t mind their existence.’’
It :s said that the Florida Central and Penin
sular road, although it has been running
trains ever since 1357. has never killed a passen
ger.
The curator of the Brooklyn Institute told a
reporter the other day that cue beautiful but
terfly in tie collection of tbe institute is valued
at SI,OOO. that sum having recently been paid
for a duplicate.
A doctor and an undertaker beard of a man
who was hurt near Menominee and rode to the
scene of tbe accident in the same rig. tbe former
taking his plllb x and the latter bis coffin. The
doctor got the job.
The members of a stranded variety troupe
are living in a cottage at Reed City. The male
members are sawing wood and the female mem
bers are telling fortunes. The company finds
tbe new business luct attve.
While Edward Gruel was walking from Bos
cobel to Fennitnore, a ferocious wolf slipped up
b-hind him and bit him. Gruel had io weapons
of defense, but fought the animal off the bast
he could, and finally scared it away.
The fastest ship bi i udixo on record'is that
of the English Royal Sovereign. Her keel was
laid Sept. 80, 1889, and by the end of this month
(September! 5.200 tons will have been built into
the ship in fifty-two weeks, at the rate of 100
tons a week.
Evert time a cow moves her tail to switch a
fly she exerts a force of three peunds. In the
course of the summer a single cow wastes 5,000,-
000 pounds of energy. The cows of America
throw away power enough to move every piece
of machinery in the world.
A cucumber on exhibition at Montgomery,
Ala., is 35 inches long, 12J4 inches wide and
weighs 6C54 pounds. It is called the “Centen
nial,” and tue patch i t whiea it grew is full of
cucumbtrs, weigumg from one pound to the
weight of the one mentioned.
In England they have had a coin worth no
more than a quarter of a farthing, and a very
pretty piece it is. A piece of one-third of a
farthing was also minted in the reign of George
IV. and William IV. If in good condition it is
now worth a shilling as a curiosity.
” What becomes of all the stale candy?” was
asked a well-known confectioner. “It is made
up into fresh candy.” There is cot an ounce of
waste about confectionery. You like chocolate
caramels? Well, they contain more scraps than
any other candy-. They are especially adaoted
for this on account of their dark color, they
were first made by a confectioner who re
ceived the inspiration from his great stock of
stale sweets.
In Syracuse, N. Y., a few day3 ago, the jury
in Judge Oberiander’s court-room. In an action
for an accounting, found a v,rdict for the de
fendant, but the toremau blunderingly an
nounced a verdict for tne plaintiff, and the
court recorded the same and gave judgment ac
cordingly. Wlien tne mistake was discovered,
after the jury’s discharge, the judge declared
that he could not change the records. Several
local s lons are knitting their brows over the
prouiem.
The Soudanese women are a curiosity. The
hair is braided up into hundreds of little plats,
sn smail as to be mere strings. Tnese braids
have been soaked in castor oil and rubbed with
dus: until in places they are perfectly solid. In
tne middle of the forehead dangie short strings
of beads holding a fancy gold pendant, and in
the n strils a large ring. Arcund the neck are
strings > f onyx b.-ads, as well as long strings of
p dished pebbles and amber interspersed with
gay beads. Of bracelets there are several of
coarse dark horn upon one arm; upon the other
the massive silver.vork peculiar to the Soudan.
They wear wrapped around them a black
shawl, and their feet are decorated with ank
lets.
Prof. Dana of Yale frequently gives illustra
tions of wit in the recitation room, savs the
New York Herald. It is customary for the
students to bring with them from time to time
such bits of stoue as they have chanced aerots,
and to submit them to him for exam ination
and explanation. ’This Is a plesh of shyrnite
and that a very fine sp cimen of mica shist,”
he w ould customarily explain, with an accent
peculiarly his own. “And what is this, pro
fessor?’’ questioned an eager youth one day, as
he placed before him a small red specimen that
was strikingly suggestive of a it of brick. The
professor held it up to the light and scrutinize!
it withths closest attention. Then his brow
contracted, and he said slowly and ponder
ously: “This, sir, is a rare piece of impu
dence.”
James Mill and his gifted son, John Stuart
Mill, would appear to have moved no enduring
sympathies among their contemporary associ
ates. The sou, even when in conversation wita
others, would seem to Lave been preocupied
with his own thoughts, all the time moving
restlessly to and fro “like a hyena,” as de
scribed to me. When particularly inspired, be
fore sitting down to his desk he used not only to
strip himself of hts coat and waistcoat, but of
his trousers: and so set to work, alternately
striding up and down the room, and writing at
great speed He wrote an unformed, awkward,
sprawling band, which gave great trouble in
copying to the clerks, who used spitefully to
say he could not spell correctly. This is not
true, and wheD what he had written had been
fairly copied, it was found to be faultlessly ex
pressed. Still th-y literally Detested copying
riis manuscript, aud appear to have even dis
liked him personally for its illegibility.
A few days ago a Chinaman named Wong
Chin Foo, residing at 5 Mutt street. New York
city, rushed into an American drug store with
a prescription for a remedy ghen for cancer
Wong Ah Sing, the Chinese physi
c:an who wrote the prescription,
is said to be the most noted
Celestial M. D. in the Cninese quarters of New
York. This is the formula called for by the
recipe: Tickled lizards, two pairs, two males and
two female; Corea ginseng root, one half ounce;
willow cricket ins. half a dozen, three maies
and three females; rattlesnake tail, one-fourth
ounce: sweet potato vine, one ounce; black
dales, two ounces; elm bark, one-half ounce;
devil fish suckers, three ounces: reindeer's horn
(ground l , one-half ounce birds’ claws, one-fourth
ounce; lotus leaves, one half ounce; white nuts,
one ounce; dried ginger, one-fourth ounce’;
coffin nails (old bonesi, five ounces. Boil the
whole in two quarts of water; drink two
spoonsful a day and make paste with the
solution and powdered rat's flesh and apply to
the sore. 1
Mrs. F. M. H. Taylor, who died in Nashville,
Tenn., on Sunday, aged 95 years, was the
daughter of Judge Leonard Henderson of North
Carolina, in which state she was born in 1795
Her father was for fifty years chief justice of
the Old North State, Her graudiather, Richard
Henderson, was the head and front of the his
torical Pennsylvania Land Company, before
Which the land companies of to-dav pale into
insignificance. He bought from tile' Cherokee
Indians, lor a wagon load of tinsel, a territory
equal to a kingdom, a domain of no less than
100,000 square miles, situated on the back or in
terior part of Virgin a and North and South
Carolina, and comprehending the rivers or Ken
tucky, Caerokee and Ohio. The House of Bur
gesses eventually confiscated it on the ground
that no one man should own so much territory
and he was offered os compensation the county
of Henderson, Ky., and much surrounding
country, but refused it. That city takes its
name from him. Mrs. Taylor wns the mother
of foiirte-n children, ten of whom were Buns
of these, four sons aud two daughters survive
her. One son and one daughter resije iu Costa
Rica. Her remains were taken to Memphis for
burial, in which city she resided for many
years, and where two of her sons are in busi
ness
The Empress of Austria, says the London
Daily .Veits, lately sent for the clerk of the
Grand hotel at Arcachon, where she is staying
to tell him that she is not ati imperial person
age, and that it is very stupid of the servants to
address het- as her excellency. She is simply
Mine. Edina of Corfu and the wife of a Greeit
merchant. She hoped to be let alone The
other morning, long before daylight, members
of her suite were up, and went down to the
porter to get the outer door oovned. Their
mistress, they said, wanted to go to bathe She
went out into the sea at 5 o’clock Jin a boat
swam for a short time, and then came back to
take breakfast cooked on a spirit-of-wine lamp
Though the weather was rainy, she then went
out with a lady to walk. They came In drip
ping, but looking better for the exercise in
which they spent more than an hour. Bhe de
lights in going round the little shops, and picks
up souveuirs of all sorts. Her movements are
uncertain. The tandy soil of Arcacon just
suits her in this fearful weather. However
hard it rains tbe walks are never muddy. Or
ders have been sent to the prefects and the sub
prefects of the Landes and tbe port authorities
at Bsvonne to seem to take no notice of her,
but to be ready to give her any assistance she
may need.
Van Hoctkn’s Cocoa—Pure. Soluble.
Economical, —A dn.
QUEEy VICTORH.
W dial Sbr Drinks and Why the Court Physi.
clan Recommended it.
Tbe London World has been making au in
vestigation of what the Queen drinks and has
ascertained definitely that, upon the advice of
Sir William Jenner, she drinks whiskey diluted
in water. This is for the purpose of retain
her vigor, renewing her strength and prolong
ing her life. The whiskey which she drinks m
obtained from the distillery on her own Bal
moral estate, and of course H perfectly pure
Thus the World offers a valuable suggestion in
this fact: England’s sovereign drinks whiskey
under the recommendation of tbe court physi
cian and on account of iu medical properties
and she drinks it abs lutely pure, having it dis
tilled upon her own estate. These facts pr. ive
two things: First, that all modern medical
science demonstrates the superior value of
whiskey for sustaining the health and prolong
ing the life; and second, that it must be abso
lutely pure. The leading American physicians
and chemists hsve indorsed the-o views con
stantly and emphasized the necessity of having
whiskey that is absolutely pure. The best
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for the health of th- community. So true Ts
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nounce whiskies and liquors in general, thev
acknowledge the superior merit of Duffy’s Ma t
and use it medicinally continually. Great’cam
snou and os exercised, however, to secur e nr*
other, no matter how hard a dealer may seek
sell you soiiiethiotf else.
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