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Sitting Bull should be given over to the
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After the fourth day of next March g. o,
p. will stand f r "git out. promptly.”
Jupiter is covr -aid to he the brightest
evening star. Mary Audersou ha< retired.
Receitly a Pennsylvania man eloped with
his own wife. Ha must have made a mis
take.
VYbat fun the newspaper paragraphers
are having with our brilliant contemporary,
the t'otujrtsxional Record.
Now that Jay Gould has a large salt mine
l)e will probably take the statements of
rival railroads with a grain of salt.
Au eastern a sailant of football asserts
that '‘the glory of football is a mere sham.”
This statement also applies to smoking.
Admirers of Hou. Alien G. Thurman
seem determined that he shall be well fed in
his declining years. Another testimonial
dinner is to be tendered him.
< >no of the t>est results of the ceremonies l
attending Gov. Tillman's inauguration was
the reuniting of the opposing factions of
the South Carolina democrats.
According to the President’s message what
the country most needs is a national safety
coupler. That’s true. One of those couplers
that will prevent people from getting Chi
cago divorces.
Good sleighing has been enjoyed in the
vicinity of Philadelphia during the past,
week, while we have been enjoying sum
tner sunshin* and April showers. This is a
wonderful country.
Chicago is disappointed and rather de
posed to be huffish because the President
didn’t mention the world’s fair in his mes
sage. He had trouble enough without wad
lug into that wrangle.
Editor Mike lie Young of San Fraiicite <
says that Chicago is selfish. What else
could he expect of a town that lives on
bogs. Naturally the people become some
what hoggish themselves.
Up to the present time the newspaper
correspondents have had to do pretty much
all of the kicking at the alliance congress.
It could not well be a congress without the
buoyant and airy kick. That leuds force
to the proceedings, so to speak.
Legal writers say that a first-class murder
is very difficult to perforin. That is to say
that the average homicide very rarely ful
fills all of the exactions of the statutes for a
murder in the first degree. Yet a good
many citizens manage to get hanged iu the
first degree without half trying.
Gov. Tillman of South Carolina had
something to say upon nearly every con
ceivable state topic at his inaugural, and he
took a good long time to say it. One sig
nificant circumstance was his having 4IK)
people on the stage with him. So it seems
that he has started a 400 of bis own.
Just before leaving South Caroliua for
Washington Senator Butler visited Colum
bia and urged the legislature to re-elect
Senator Hampton, telling them that there
are many and weighty reasons why Senator
Hampton should be re-elected, while there
could not be produced a single reason for
his defeat. Should defeat be folded to hi*
other recent misfortunes It would indeed he
>PtJ,
A "Troublesome Allianceman
The rresider.t of the colored alliance it
C'oL K. K. Humphrey. Me is a white man
—the only white mai m th organization
nnd he i- a strong a t vocite of a third part y.
For that re ison, and the reason that he is
an adv. <_-a?e of socialistic principles, be is
likely to give the white alliance a good deal
of trouble. He believes ,u the common
nwnershlp of land and Henry George's
single tux i lea It Is not to bs wondered at.
therefore, that he is very iridueutial with
ibe colored aliiancemeii. A platform hav
ing for its chief piank the common owner
ship of land would have a powerful attrac
tion for them. It would be the promise of
• forty acres and a mule” over agaiu.
President Humphreys is a Baptist minis
ter and h s home is in Texas. Ha is not
devoting vj much time to prea- hiug now as
he once did. He has a more agreeable and,
perhaps, a more profitable occupation. He
says that there art 1 .‘2oo,'AWcolored alliance
men. It is estimated that there are
about 11,0110, dW aUiaucemeu, white
and black. If Coi. Humph: els'
figures are correct, therefore, nearly
half of the all lanes men are colored, it is
probable, however, that his estimate is au
exaggerate 1 one if there are many colored
alliahcemeu in this stab*, or in South Caro
lina, or Florida, the fact has bee.-i kept very
secret. Col. Humphreys says that c iored
aldaucernea elected Tillman in South Can -
llca. It U a well-known fact that the col
ored voters in that state would have voted
tor Geu. Haskell if they had been encour
aged to do so.
Col. Humphreys declares that the Colored
ailiaucenieu have cut loose from the P.epub
bean party and will cot vote the republican
ticket again. And they will not vote the
democratic ticket. It they don't have the
opportunity t vote the ticket of a third
party they will not v -te at all. The colonel
appears to be pretty cohtident on rtus point.
There is one thing that Col. Humphreys
says that is w orth more lluu a passing
notice, it is that colored aliiancemeii do
not lavor the torce bill. They are not de
nied a free ballot and a fair count, he says,
and, hence, they see no necessity for sueh
legislation as the force lull. Col. Hum
phreys ought to write out hie force bill
views and send them to S-uator Hoar.
Teat statesman seems to be greatly in
need of enlightenment relative to the atti
tude of the colored voters with regard
to that bill. The senator seems to think
that by urging toe passage of that bill he
is doing the colored voters a favor. He
ought to be made aware of his mistake, but
it is not probable that he would abandon
the bill even if he were convinced rtiuc
every colored man in the country was
against it.
But what is the white alliance going to
do with regard to the third party move
ment, In view of the socitL->tic tendencies
of its colored ally? Some of the white
ailiancemen of Kansas are hot for a third
lrrty, and have already prepared a calf fur
a convention to be held a: Cincinnati. Will
they check the movement or will they en
cuurage it* If they encourage it tuey can
count upon one thiug, and tua. is that demo
cratic aliianeemea of the south will not
support it ia auv considerable numbers.
The Democratic party is good enough for
them yot awhile.
Death of Judge Chisholm.
Judge Chisholm, wbodied in New York
yesterday morning., was a rrmu of great and
varied talents. He wav also au excellent
citizen aud a model husband and father.
He early took a high rank at the bar of this
city, and before he had reached middle life
he was one of the acknowledged leaders of
his profession.
KU professional duties as the legal ad
viser of the Plant sy stem and the Southern
Express Company required him a number
of yar ago to make his home in New
York, and after his removal to that city he
became vice-president of the Plant system
and a director m several other great rail
road corporations. In all the positions to
which he was chosen he displayed ojuspicu
uous ability. Among men fomous for their
shrewdness in the handling of great enter
prises he made himself respected.
His health was never robust, but he had
an iron will, and he was often giving his
attention to his duties when he ought to
have been la bed. His devotion to duty
doubtless shortened his life. Hail he heeded
the warnings of his failiug physical powers
he might have lived to a good old age, but
who of those participating iu great business
enterprises heeds such warnings.' Interested
and absorbed in the matters presented con
stantly for their consideration they go on
until death calls a halt.
It will be remembered of Judge Chisholm
that he was ever a friend of Savauuah. lie
felt a pride in the city ia wbich ne won his
tirst successei, aud he missed no opportunity
to render her a service.
Kanawha county iu West Virginia has
suddenly attained an unique sort of promi
nence because of a very remarkable pecul
iarity of its legislators. They unanimously
refuse to be elected as presiding officers.
Hon. James H. Ferguson of Kanawha
county .one of the ablest niem berseleet, of the
West Virginia legislature, has published a
card announcing in advance that he is not and
will not be a candidate for the speakership
of that liody. He regards his place as on the
fioor of the House, where the people put
him, and “would regard it as a desertion of
duty to do otherwise.” State Senator-elect
C. C. Watt 9 of Kanawha county has also
published a card stating that he is not a
candidate for the presidency of that bodv.
He says bis seuatorial district needs legisla
tion more than it does honors, and that he
will content himself with staying on the
fioor and working iu that direction rather
than seeking personal preferment. This ap
pears to be a somewhat premature avoidance
of honors that may not be actually impend
ing. Nevertheless it manifests a com
mendable disjiositiou to stick to duty that is
lamentably rare.
Americau vessels engaged in foreign trade
stiil make a slight show among the arrivals
in New York. Of 428 that arrived there in
November 103 were American, 209 British
and 110 belonged to other nations. In
round numbers one-half were British, one.
fourth American and one-fourth foreign
vessels other than British. If tonnage
should be taken into account, however.
Great Britain would be found to be still
n.ore heavily represented. Arrivals from
domestic ports numbered 1,505, making an
average of 57 vessels a day lauding at that
port. That is no small business. It is much
larger than the aggregate last year.
Iu case he is defeated Mena tor Ingalls
threatens to publish his iridescent dream
in the form of a novel. That the gaunt
Kansan h:ua vivid and picturesque imagi
nation is amply Attended by his tiraleahi
the Senate every time anything ah >ut
democratic supremacy is moutloued.
THE MORNING NEWS: SATURDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1890.
Starved Into BtvJlt.
The other day when .Senator Man-er-on s
resolution authorizing the Secretary of
War t-> issue 109,'i0d adcitmtl rations to the
Indians in the northwest was under consid
eration in the Senate S?oator Voorhees
itartledtbeSenatebysayicg: "Ilooknpon
tne policy which has teen pursued ia the
administration of our ludiau affairs as a
• nme. revolting to man aud God." Such
an utterance was well calculated to make
the dleepy senators open their eyes aud
wonder whether or not they were
iiu any degree reap msibte for the
policy which the ludiaua senator so
passionately condemned. And ret
the utterance undoubtedly contained a great
deal of truth. (Ten. Milas, who is in com
mand of the army in the northwest, said
when he was in Wa-blogton recently that
the northwest Indians bad been hungry fur
the last two years, aud that they bad
dually come to the conciusios that they
would rather bs killel fighting the govern
ment which accorded them such niggardly
treatment than t > starve to death.
But the administration senators are *u
deeply interested in the force bill, by wbich
they hope to keep their party in power,
tbat ttiev are wiilmg to let the ghost dance,
which is a dance of desperation and a pro
test again*c starvation, goon. They know
that if the Indians go ou the warpath,
thousands of settlers iu the northwest will
be robbei aud killed, and yet, with this
knowledge, they refuse to lay aside fur
awhile their s - hems to retain power and
give thsir attention to ibe affairs of the
Indian bureau.
It has been notorious fur years that the
adairs of that bureau are not managed
honestly and efficiently. The Indians
have protested tune and again avaiast the
practices from which they suffer, but. their
OJUiplaiiiU have passed unheeded. At last
they have about decided to adopt a course
that will force the government to correct
the abuses of which they are the victims
Senator Voorhees would not have criti
cised the Indian policy so severely if he had
not felt that there was good reason for do
ing si. He knows very well that cbe abuses
tbat have wrought the Indiana un in their
present condition cf excitement ere of long
standing, and tbat nothin j will bs doue to
correct them unless congress is startled into
realizing bow shameful the policy of tne
government with respect to the Indians
i9. An Indian war may be averted,
but it it is it will be by giving the
Indians assurances that they will be treated
with a greater measure of justice. .Perhaps
if the Indian bureau were turned over to
the war department the Indians would have
less ground for complaint, if army officers
were made agents for pure lasing and dis
tributing the Tndiau supplies the lndiau9
would have no ground for chsrgtag that
much of the supplies intended for them
never reached rbem.
The National Board of Trade.
The national board of trade will meet at
New Orleans next Monday, and a very
important meetf ,g it promises io be. The
meeting will be the twenty first annual
one. and the list of subjects that will be dis
cussed is a large oue. It is expected that
a good deal will be said about the Nica
ragua canal, the necessity for its com
pletion as soon us possible and the influence
it will have upon the trade between this
country aud Ventral and South America,
Other subjects that will receive attentiou
are the Torrey bankruptcy bill, the bill
providing subsidies, in the shape
of fat mail contracts, for
steamship lines, the government
postal telegraph scheme, a national clearing
house for banks, reduced le.ter postage, the
necessity for uniformity in commercial law,
closer commercial relations with neighbor
ing countries and permanent annual appro
priations for all rivers and harbors upon
which work has begun.
If the national board of trade can con
vinca congress of the necessity for making
permanent annual appropriations for the
piiuelpal rivers and harbors it will
render the country agreat Se. vice,
for under the present system of river
and harbor appropriations about
half tha money appropriated iu the river
aud harbor bill is waste 1. Under a system
of permanent annual appropriations much
greater progress in improving rivers and
harbors could be made with u great deal
less money.
Iu sentencing Judge David McLean,
ex-president of the Savannah Savings Bank,
of St. Joseph, Mo., to the state penitentiary
for accepting deposits when he knew the
institution to bs insolvent, the presiding
judge was visibly affected. He said that a
sadder duty seldom devolved upou him.
For years he bad know Judge McLean. The
empty coat sleeve bore testimony to bis
bravery; the erect figure, iu spite of the
gray hairs, to the virtue of his daily exist
euce; yet, after U) years of honest living,
he fell, and, as a judge, he was compelled
to punish him for bis sins. “And now it
becomes my duty to pass sentence upon
you. The former purity of your life, the
wrinkled brow and gray locks plead more
eloquently for mercy- than could the tongue
of a gifted orator, and 1 will try to temper
justice with mercy. I sentence you to im
prisonment in the state penitentiary a* Jef
ferson City for a term of two years at hard
labor, and may you have strength from
God to bear up arid be brave under penal
servitude.” Although the prisoner was past
60 and hud lost au artn lu defending the
bank against robbers, he squandered SIOO,-
000 of the bank’s money in disastrous specu
lations. It was really a very sad case.
Many a much more guilty and wicked man
has been acquitted.
Before the Nineteenth Century club in
New York recently, Mr. Dartiei Green leaf
Thompson delivered a discourse on “Ameri
can Morals and Manners." in the coui-se of
which, he said that “Stealing is the princi- j
pal vice of the American people. Take the
ave-age employe, and he is continually seek
ing to see how little work he can actually do
for the money bis employer pays him. In
political life there is even a worse state of
things. A thief will make a good politician.
You will be just as safe with him as with
the average politician, if you only can keep
him away from the treasury box.” How true
the latter part may bo is an opeu question.
But the average employe is not usually
more disposed to get bis salary for as little
work as possible than the employer is to get
: his work for as little salary as possible.
I Still there are dishonest people in both
| classes.
Kmc KalnUaua has written a patriotic
ode to himself, urging his subjects to stand
for him. It has the merit of brevity and
some little literary style. Parts of it are
not by any meaus devoid of poetic fervor
and rythui. It Is a inucb uiors creditable
composition than many “enlightened”
monarch* codld produca.
PXRSOXAL.
Thxxf is h well circulated report in \tchUon.
Km , lli<vt Mr InpalJs ha- * scheme for a
•a! aoxe!. waich La* boon :a course cf c n
a!ruction for *otrte tieie.
Thl ia?e Isaac Chamber* *? Brooklju. w|*>
wa-i a folios- printer Mr. Shil xber .o hi*
youo/*r iidyn, i* said t > if rte origin \
of ‘Mr*. Fartlotfton • •Ue
itmwßtTATivi Umuv, wbo bat bsen re
circled from the Kiereatii Connie*mossl ci<t ric*t
of Texsp rbr in cho country
reprectents 97 dainties that are said to exceed
il area 10 Stares.
Ma Olad*toxc is the G*oer of the i*r*e*c
lead peucii In the world. It is the gift of a pen
cilmakor of Keswick. Aol *■ thirty nine inches
in length- In place of the customary rubber
• a;i it h& a ffokl cap. it* distinguished uv>
•i**s it for a walking gtics
Ii 13 said of Dr. Kerr, a madJ *i misihoiiary
of the Presbyterian boar J at t'antoo, that he
ha* in tha pa.-*t thirty aix year?* treaied over
d'JO.uuTipatients, aud prepa-‘vl twenty-seven
medical and s.irtftoal I; >ok*. ife has trained 100
medical assistant*, chiefly Chinese
Basok Hirsi h recent 1 v a-tke-l an Kngliah ixuy
*f rank to *e 1 on* ©t he horses, becauae he tad
one exactly like It. fht* laJy declined rather
curtly, whereupon the baron sent her his hois
vw h the ; Although 1 am disap- i
pointed. 1 am *till Ucii .>u* ihat ihcr should go
in a pair.*’
The Popf hat been lufoxoiei that souie
time ay art Italian ladv\ Addloiira du
M"i* made her will in 'ator of his holiness.
Hertortuae ainousiea to nearly 5.U00.0U' lire
She died recently, hi t her will cannot Us
found, ami, as th* la leaves n > heirs, her
money become* the properly of the state.
Avgust Belkomt wa* an enthusiastic colle.?
tor of old china He picked up niis and ends
in this lino wherever he could find them, and
when Ue yra** * decivpit rrtiii rheumatism aad
his old vv iuidlhat he could scarcely crawl.it una
not uncomntou to him oaiufully hobbling
homeward vim a hj£ china dish uuder one arm
aiid Inc short do/ at his heels.
Is a vsmyshort tim the subscription for the
eiiH;tiouof a Dumutncot bi/.et, the
c>ruposei of “Carmei . Y%a.* covered The list
of donor* fiiclui-s quite a number of
female names Mnie batti was i.ih of the
ear ieat subscriber* she sent l.uuo iraoc*. The
offering was rbat of the barouno Solo
mon <Je Kothschild, who coutributed 000
francs.
1 HE W ii>ow of Qilrci the celebrated Frenc'i
halter, alter who.a crush hat* were named,
died recently at Versatile*. it wa-, she who
Hi. usiire 1 the head* of hi* customers. She said
tha M <ui/.ot*N he it 1 was not at all like the
g rru of that of hi* illustrious rival. Thie s. Alt
h- aou? o' biiuipni, except the Due
•i Aniimie, had aumii *.? I*. Napuieou ill. did
n.*i need s t*i)£ hat, *. J ait (fibres' cu*tomer
icu.r Hugo and ?Lh- iiuc de bruallu, who
murdered hi* wife, the larsre*r Head*
Kossuth and Count favour had very aud
heads.
HKIGHT BIT a.
I rs sot coxsiderld form to bring a
au with you when you are inviied to go ou a
toboggan Shiite. - Toe Her*, a i;>orf.
Tas: KABhiKAT i-NsnsvE or gambling kuowu to
h storv was when a pan o dife wa* thrown up
by Alain arid Eve.—St. Joseph Sms.
'Wic* a big man in a l Tie tuwo move** to a
larh.-r town, he 1* putting himself inaposiriou
to his first lesson in numiiiatioo.—
Atchison iii ibe.
\Wiat is the solut jq of the negro problem*
demanded the orator.
Four-eleven forty four, replied a man iu the
audience.— Sew To/.. Sun
Alfhonso— Do you know. Mias Maud. 1 weailv
had naif a mind labsc mght.
Mlas Maud—O, wh\ *;dn*t you call on ine last
Uigtit':—Detroit Fite l*res.
: here will be a 0 xJnight iu the next House,
bur no Mooultffht Thr former wa> elected from
Kentucky, hut rae lurrer. \v:io wa3 in a Kausas
district, failed to pud through. Indio/tupuUs
Journal.
Bowsta—Fillers is an enterprising doctor,
isn't hey
Vvagrjfies—V©?. indeed Why. he ha* a motto
hungup in his office, "Fatieiusare a virtue, ’* —
Harper' $ fhi zcii
After an Involi .vtary Chanoe—Brown—Has
he resrgntxiy
Gray —Yes.
Bj-own—ls hese-.gned?
Hray—No. —Aontertulle Journal.
Ir the barber.* Lad charged by the inch—run
time measure—the lay after the election, there
would have been cousileraol© dirference in tne
price of snaring of interested politicians of the
two great parties Delhi Espw.
“I strc' kSr Louis on this trip. - ' remarked
a (.’hieago commercial traveler to his em
ployer, as he i npackeu his b.*xes.
•That's rigni replied tti© latter. ‘T hope
you hit the oi i town hard, '—'.'ntcajo infer
Ocean.
I EMfr*ER VNi K ADVOC VLE (to (lisp, paled VOlltig
man; It would bo worth a fortune to you if
> ou would sweai oif di inlviuir.
N ouug .Man—All a mistake, boss. I've a
sworn oft fifty t. uo a year, and i ain't worth a
cbllt. — fe.ros >ift: us
“1 never saw a man that knows less ”
"He ian't very brilliant, that's true.
‘•Why. I remember last winter, when 1 had
such a severe cold, he was the only man i met
that didn’t know and tell m© a sure cure for it
Ught Otf.' —F • ildlielphta Tunes.
Cali.er—Wha r do you think of the Berlin
idea or uniforming reporters
American F luor—Put reporters in uniform?
Nonsense! i 'informed reporters would be of
no rnor-s use in detecting crime than so many
policemen -.Sew York vVeekly.
“Papa. 1 wi.-h you would buy me alittie pony,”
said Johnny
"I haven t got any money to buy you a iiuuv.
my son. You siinuPi goto school regularly, my
son. study hanl. and become a smart man. and
some of these days, wbeu you grow up. you
will have money of your own to buy ponies
with "
"Then. I suppose, pa, you didn't study much
when you were a little boy like me, or else you
would hare ha-l money now to buy ponies with,
wouldn't you. pa:- ' — -Sj/U rc Moments.
Thk Bnon-os at the dinner tablet—Oh, bv
way. Mi * CbopsticKS, have you seen your little
boy. Millie, lately?
Mrs Chops! icKS—No, professor. 1 have not
seen him since 10 o'clock, and leant imagine
what has become of him. la fact, 1 am very
much worried about him.
Professor Well, seeing Martha pour ine out
that glass of water just now reminded me of
something that 1 had on my mind to tell you
some time ago, but which, uufortunateiy,
escaped my mind, it was just about !G o’clock,
l thiol", that I saw little M illie fall dowu the well.
—Boetun Coio i er.
A westerv mas, who owns au immense estate
in l>ikota. S|k-ut three months in England dur
ing the present year. For mauy weeks be heard
I nothing from the man whom he had left in
1 charge of his farms, and he became somewhat
i anxious He was aa illiterate person, though
an excellent farmer, and the wording of a tele
gram puz.U- i him. At last lie sent oil this
message: “Is things all right at the farm?”
Impatiently be awaited the reply. His trusty
representative was a man of few words anil
rigid ideas of economy, and tno envelope which
his employer rdeeived in due course contained
simply this message: “Tilingsis.”— lllustrated
S eo.
CURRENT COMMENT.
Coolness 6till Continues.
From hie Seal York Pres* iKep.).
lowa Is buried in snow, but has been so chilly
since election i nat her people will not mind it
in the least.
How to Prevent Disaster.
From the. Chicago Inter Ocean ( Ren.).
It Gov. 11:11 concludes to take the seoatorxbip
it will save tic expense of G. C. building a
cyclone cellar tinder Ids kitchen.
That A One of Cleveland's Btrong
Points.
From the Chicago .Veres Itnd .).
The President who shall first create tho prece
dent of writing short messages will confer a
favor upou the public which be serves.
All Playing the Sams Hole.
From Ihe Chicago Hail (hid.).
Sarah Bernhardt. Mrs. Langtry and Mrs. Pot
ter are all playing '•Cleopatra,” with Mr*. Car
ter, Mrs. hva Hamilton ant Mrs. O'Shea yet to
hear from.
A Large Bum Overlooked.
/ roi i the I.uurtlle Courier-Journal (hem. t.
Why didn't IV-aldsnt Harrison mention Gen
Kaurti otm,o)U eatimutet Doesn't the l*resi
■taut like Mr. ilaumt
Hood's Sarsaparilla hasasteadily increas
mg popularity, which can only Lie won by
an article of real merit. Give it a trial
Ait r.
Hl3 East Thought of Her.
FVorn rk* Setr York £*ui.
Three or four of u* aMfcrt >n duty at Fort
L**vn worth io I were out on the hill* oue
•Jay for a ramble, when a i.iau came fmm iie
J.tk tion of Topeka on taorceback. \V* saw him
that he was closely pursued by half a dozen
lu -ur.toi men. We knew That Liiviws*.
and we formed acrus* the highway and halted
the fugitive. Hi* horse no sooner arue to a
trp than :f droppe 1 doal with exhaustion,
j The rider, too. was about played out. an i h*s
made no resutauoe a* we collared hint A* the
cam* up and their lea ter.
who seemed to be familiar with the programme
to be followed, br sfcly observed:
“Now. bovw, £et a rope over the limb of that
tree and run him up:”
The fugitive had nothmjt to say. and iu about
two minutes he Lad a noose around his neck
and was waiting to be pulled up. Four men
taiiol on s* the other en*l, and tb~ leader ap-
the prisoner and said:
“It*s usual to frlve a man a few minutes iu
w;u;h to say bis prayers *’
"U s a sure thing. ] sup}>*se -
De;ia sure. You've su-ien your la-.! horse
“Got to go this time, eh %
"Br-t your last dollar “
Say, bo S." saitl the man. a* he locked
ai mnd him. with a go.>J by to earth in his eye,
“t?ome a bit eloMcr 1 am pretty well blown,
and you've drawn the noo*a a little too tight for
comfort. 1 can't do n praying—it's too late
l°r that. I've got a poor old mother over In Sr
Joe It isn : her fault that I've gone wrong.
I’ve got SIOO bore of stmight money, and 1 waut
you tj promise iue that some of vou will s-ud it
to her Heruau e U Mrs. John Webber Write
ber a letter anJ say tha: 1 died of fever, or
some such thing and that 1 was too nick to
write. Will vou promise * '
“Aye! we will: ' answered every man
“Cuss you and Kansas and all the rest of tha
world, but I can t go back on my poor old
mother' Make it easy boys. .Make it accident
or sickness, but don t 'ell h-r just how it was
She'* old an J gray and feeble, audit would
break her h-art. You've promise lin e. audit
you go back on your word i’ll hAiiot you to
your graves’ Now I curs? you all— defy you—
and you can pull away as fast as you
please: *
They pulled, ar.d be hung clear of the ground
until dead Then they lowered the body, se
cured the moneV. and a* thay rode away 'he
leader lo cked from ustotue buzzards eailiug
overhead and said:
l eaen aluue, bays— they'll take care of
it
Political Enemies Put Personal Friends
Many stories a r e told of the friendship be
tween Mr. Thurman anl Mr tMinuuds, says
the New York .S 'tar. Probably the judiciary
eominittje of the Senate was never so strong us
when >ir. Thurman and Mr. Edmunds were
fellow-members uf if. On all great measures
out involving parry differences tUev fought in
unison. Together rh-> drafted the Lill to com
pel railroads to fulfill their ob'igations t the
national government; together they forced i:
through congress a id caused u to become a
law it was m jeganito the d;bat*3 on this
Dill that Mr. Edmunds wrote nis famous letter,
in which be said that “Jay Gould was never m
peril in the Seoaie. but that Blaine started up
from bebinl Gould's breastworks musket in
hand This made Mr Blame Mr. Edmunds’
bitter enemy. whei eas he likes Mr. Thurina i.
who was equally efficacious in passing the bill in
question. In one thing tney did n .t agree—the
civil rights bill, so-callea. Mr Edmunds sup
ported them; Mr Tnuramn fought them with
**ll Lis powers as a threat coQstiltflioiial lawyer
Mr .'Thurman hassmee had the satisfaction of
seeing the cuipreme c urt adopt his arguments,
almost word for word, and iecide in accordance
with the and eta laid down by him as to tile *ou
structjoq of the fifteenth amendment.
Wad bull and Iron Horse.
A big black and white bull undertook the task
of butting a train off the track of the Port
Townsend Southern road, about four miles
north of Tenino this morning, says the (Jentralia
Xeu*. It seems mat a former attempt had
been unsuccessful, and. undoubtedly maddened
at the failure of the first attempt, he deter
mined to clean the whole train out this time or
die. He died.
The train was under fair headway, when his
mightiness was isecu hv the engineer m an atti
tude of Defiance directly in the middle of the
track. The engineer blew the whistle ami put
on air brakes, but Sir Boss not only refused to
give way to the approaching train, but eveu
with lowered crest charged up m it. The shock
was a gieat one to the bull. The pilot,
struck him full in the head, killing him iu
stantly, and throwing the body alight ij to one
side The combination car scraped by tbe body
and remained oq the track*, but the rear trucks
of the following car left the track and traveled
from one side of the right-of way to the other,
bumping over the ties, and tearing up both
•ides 0* the embankment. Two wrecking frogs
were soon produced, amt in tea minutes the
train was on its way agam.
Couldn’t Head Blank Verse.
11l th<- Kendal performance of “The Squire," i
says the New *York B'oi ld, the little girl '
who plays the juvenile role had to read a love
letter from her aweethe irt. She had had had
new* from home, and at the beginning of the
scene, at Mrs. Kendal's fast, she broke down,
nimble to proceed. •‘Never mind, ' said Mrs
Kendal, as if it were mthe part, ••i'll read your
letter, and proceeded with the scene riii the
girl s exit* No one bat the dumfounded
leader of the orchestra in front knew the real
state of thing*. .Mrs. Kendal Lad a brother
wno died before she knew hirn. It is said of
him that he was very lazy. On one occasion he
played a part in which he was required 10 read
a long letter. As n was written he did not take
the trouble, though it *s u*ual to du so. to com
mit lhe lines lu iremory. One night the letter
was a blank piece of paper, lie looked at 1t in
amazement, but he was equal to the occasion
(.'allmg a servant, he said, calmly: “John, no
tify Mr. Blank that if he cannot address me in
more legible handwriting he need not address
meat ail.” Then be proceeded with uurutHed
serenity to the lines he remembered.
He Started Out to Shine.
A. J.Welch of Hartford, Conn., is registeivdat
the Hotel Emery. His business here is to attend
the races at the City driving park, lie
began life as a boot black, says the Enquirer,
on the street* of Pittsburg. To day be is worth
s3oo.U(*i. and has made it all on the race-course.
Trie story of bis success is au exceptional one.
Eighteen years ago he was blacking boots
around the grounds of the Pittsburg Driving
Association, and, having a good run of luck in
vested $1 in a pool ticket, and won He placed
his winnings on a second horse, and won again.
Then he resolved to follow the races as a busi
ness. He was enrewd and managed to pick up
euough good ‘tips to keep him winning. He
finally bought a trotter of his own and put it on
the turf. The investment was a good one, and
the horse developed great speed, and a few
years afterward Mr. Welch sold him to an
English capitalist for SIO,OOO. He now owns a
good stable, and is worth in the neighborhood
of half a million. One peculiar method he has
which he invariably follows, that is, be never
bets on any kind of a race excepting a trotting
match.
Parting.
Georg* Trimble Davidson, in The Theater.
'Tin the end of your summer vacation,
To-night you must bid me good-by.
It seemsstrangs, though 1 kuew separation
Must come with the end of July;
Is it w rong if 1 weep when you leave me?
It ii wrong if l think of you more?
It would nor be wrong, ob, believe me.
If 1 had but met you before.
To-night, as we walked la the flicker
(if lights that burned dim by the sea
1 felt as my heart-beats came quicker
The meaning of parting to me;
From to-day, but one step to the morrow.
But a word and my day-dream is o'er,
Brief joy dearly bought by long sorrow,
Oh, would I had met you before!
Like a tendril of ivy entwining
Some column forgotten, thy love
Has grown 'round my Heart, and repining
Seems like mocking the sunlight above;
But *twers better I never had met you
Than to think of vou thus over more,
Time was when 1 need not forget you.
Why did I not meet you before :
The last strains of the music are dying.
The last rays of the moon kiss the sea,
The last moments of bliss are swift-flying
That will never again come to me: *
For the last time thy strung arm* are guiding
My steps a* we swing o'er the floor.
To the magic of Wal itciifel gliding,
As oft as we have glided bofore.
The last throb of the music is ending.
Like a heart that is breakiug it dies.
Above me thy dear face is bending.
There is something like tears in your eyes;
And muni we at such times dhift* r'ble
And smile when the heart is so sore!
God help us I pray and I tremble,
O, would I had met you before !
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ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Thomas J. Whitman* of St. Eoui*. who died j
the other day, was ft younger brother of Walt
Whitman, the poet He was an expert mechani
cal engineer. bi< List work being the buildiug of
Ihe waterworks t Memphis. He waa bom in
Brooklyn, in v bich city he spent his boyhood.
A wh ll £K in the .V o*th Cki,u% Daily N>ir*
records a caae of something like a postmortem
marriage in which a Chinese girl, recently <le
‘eased. was married to a deau boy iQ Another
village. ‘lt not unfrequcnGy happens,'' he ex
plains, * ihat the son iu the family dies before !
j.e is tnarne 1. and that it is desirable to adopt a
grandsou. The family east about for some 1
young girl who lias also died recently, and a :
p opjßitlou made for the union of the two I
corpses in the bonds of matrimony. If it is ac
routed, there is a combination of a wedding and
a funeral, in the proc as of which the deceased
bride is taken by a large number of bearers to
the cemetery of the other family, and laid be
side her husband.'
According to Health officer Hrendtwgast, of
Cmcinuft i. that town is liable to be destroyed
by the demoralizing and devastating gooee.
Going back to the history of Rome, this shows 1
that what is one town'* meat is another town's 1
poison. Air. Prendergast says that the vuoso
nuisance has g t such a firm grip ou the threat
or the fair qrucon of the West that ail the ma
chinery of tbe board of health has been used
to wrest it loose The giKiee nuisance springs j
from the vaulting ambition of many (laciu I
natiana to raise ge.*9e on their premise, and
not only are cellar?, porches and roofs of bouses
utilized for this pu p >se. but goose-culture goes
ou in many rooms occupied by families. And
vet. if a traveler asks for pate de foie gras in
a Cincinnati restaurant, the chances are be will
be put off with a link of weioerwunit.
The denizens of the Cocos Islands, in the
Indian ocean, were recent y started by the ap
pearance of a huge crocodile, among them. The
monster did a good deal of damage before
be wai placed hors de combat by the terrified
is aoden*. and bis carcass was conveyed forth
with to Mr. Ros. The *‘Kiugof thet’oeos. " who,
in the belief of tne natives. ‘kuoweth ail
thing * Mr. Ross was completely puzzled, for
such a thing as a crocodile has hitherto been
unknown in tlesi islands, and as the nearest
land is Java. ?0U miles distant, the adventurous
croc’ must Lave bad a good swim of it. The i
conclusion arrived at is that tbe saurian must !
have voyaged from either Java or the North !
Australian coasts likely euough the latter, as j
there are goodly-sized rivers there, down which
Ihe crocodiles often float on logs and heap* of
debris, and got carried off to sea.
Said am ocUl.mT: "If you are troubled with
your eyes, it will not be sufficient for you to
have your eyes carefully examined by a spe |
cialist,and then get your glasses and think that
you are all right. You may be <*areful to wear ,
glasses whenever you are u-dng your eyes, but i
this Is not enough. You most, in order to keep j
them in good con iition, and be able to rely upon j
them, have them examined as oftea as you do
vour t“eih. No sensible mau thin.,a that when
a good dentist has put his teeth 111 good ordei
he has nothing more t> fear He go-* to his 1
lientisr once every year, pernatjs often* r. And
ao with his oculist.* He should consult biui at
regular intervals If his eyes have uof grown
weaker, or if they have not changed 111 other
ways, he is assured of Ihe fact, ami mav use
them accordingly. If the t ightest change in
glassy is required, he i warned of this, and is
able to nip anew evil in tiie bud.”
A. L. Caldwf.ll. of tbe A. S. Corps, Chatham,
who vs as quartered in Barbadoea iu
l£Bs, who relates that in the be
ginning of that year an alligator over fifteen
feet in length went ashore ou that island. A
sergeant of engineers and some sappers shot ir
as it crawled ashore, and it was exhibited for
some time in Bridgetown. The nearest point
this alligator could have reached Barbadoe*
from was the Oriuooo. 3i)o miles off. but Mr.
Caldwell thinks this impossible, as tbe set of
the ocean currents would have carried if much
10 the westward of liar bad oes if its starting
point had been tbe mouth of the Orinoco. He
think* it much more probable that the alligator
came from the mouth of the Amazon, or from
the Easequib.>. some hundreds of mile* farther
to the east. In connection witht his Barbadoe*
alligator incident, if may tie remembered that
Dr. Mitchell of Trinidad stat'd at the time that
lie once saw an alligator on a small log attacked
by sharks in the gulf of Paria. In any case,
the West Indies for the present must play
second to the East Indies in the matter of a
large swimming saurian, as tbe TOO miles ac
complished by tbe crocodile recently killed ou
the Cocos establishes a record.
Richard Watson Gilder, editor of the Cen
-lury, is thin aud slight, with long gray hair,
piping, reedy voice, delicate features, and a
manner of nervous modesty, writes a Chicago
Tribune Correspondent. Ho looks the last man
alive to have won such a great prize a* tt.e
editorship of the Century, which came about
in this wise: When quite young Mr. Gilder
started a small publication, Golden Da us, or
something of that sort. It was bought by the
Century Company, and its editor, who had the
good luck to win Dr. Holland's approval, was
made that g. ntleman s assistant. A few years
later Dr. Holland died anil the directors of the
enterprise Honored his memory by putting
young Gilder in his place. Mr. Gilder's sanctum
is the handsomest in New York—in fact, alto
gether {esthetic. It has an open fireplace, brass
andirons, with rugs, hangings, draperies and
pictures in the highest style of art. It is full
of greens at Christmas, of flowers at Easter.
In it Mr. Gilder is altogether charming. His
wife is much more substantial looking than he
is. She is a cousin of Mrs. Grover Cleveland—
hence the intimacy between the two families.
Mr*. Gilder is also much given to art. and
spends much time at the brush, especially in
summer, when she is at Marion. Mass., where
her husband has had built, for her a studio of
big granite blocks which i* said to be the most
unique in America.
European countries have built large numbers
of torj>cdo boats. Italy has now about 800;
England. 175; France, 150; Russia. 130; Ger
man), 100; and Spam, 80. On this side of the
Atlantic the Argentine Republic has 18; Brazil.
15; and Chili, 10. Of course, you w ish to know
how many our own nation has Well, we hove
one. It was recently launched, and if you read
the papers you will no doubt see accounts of its
trials for speed. It Is a big one—a “deep sea"
boat—very much like the Italian Nib bio in ap
pearance. but not in any way designed after
that boat. It was built by the Messrs Ilerres
holT at Bristol, K. L This firm has built some
very fast launches and yachts, and can uo doubt
prove equal to the best foreign builders in con
Btructing torpedo boats should others
be demanded. Our torpedo boat is
rained the Cushing, after a famous
naval officer who, during the war, sank
a confederate ironc ad with a torpedo rigged
out on a *p*r projecting from a steam launch.
Torpedo boats are not always named. It is the
custom of foreign countries to give names only
t> their “deep M\a“ torpedo boats. The smaller
ones are simply nmnberod. I know you are
wondering why we have only one torpedo boat
and would like to ask me if wo don't need more.
I* rhaps wo do. The I' cited States lias a
longer aeacoast and more important
to protect than any other country; but flu*
Doited States is dellDerate and thoughtful. The
present Secretary of the Navy [ha* asked con
gretirt to appropriate money for five torpedo
boats lu audition to the Cushing, and no doubt
successful trial* of these will bring about the
immediate building of many more.
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