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Newspaper Page Text4 CjjcUkrranglJctos Morning N#w* Building, Savanna, ua. SATURDAY. DEC. -20. ISOO. Registered at the Tottofflce in Savannah. Tbs Morning Niits U published every day in •be year, aud is served to subscribers in the c.ty at 25 cents a weee. $1 00 a month, £5 00 for six months and $lO 00 for one year. The Morning News, by mail, one month, SI 0); three months, $2 50; six months, $5 00; One year, $lO 00. The Morning News, by mail. sir times a week fwithout Sunday issue', three months, $2 00; six months, $1 00; one year, $8 00. The Morning News. Tri-Weekly. Mondays, Wednesday- and Fridays, or Tuesdays, Thurs days and Saturdays, three months, $1 25; six months. SI 50; one year, $5 OOi The Sunday Nk.vs, by mail, one year, $2 00. The W'sekly News, by mail, one year, $1 25. Bulrscriptions payable in advance. Remit by Ktal order, checx or registered letter. Our cy sen; by mail at risk of senders. Letters and telegrams should be addressed “Morning Nnwa," Savannah, (la. Transient advertisements, other than special Column, local cr reading notions, amdse tnente and cheap or want column, 10 cants a line. Fourteen lines of agate typo equal to cue Inch space in dopth--is the standard of measurement. Contract rates and discounts made known on application at business otßoe. OLR NEW YORK OFFICE. Mr- J. J. Flynn, General Advertising Agent of the Morning News, office 28 Park How, Maw Tort All advertising business outaide of ttie states of Georgia, Florida and South Caro lina will be managed by him. The Morning News Is on (He at the following places, where Advertising Rates and other In formation regarding the paper can be obtained: NEW YORK CITY — i. H. Bates, 38 Park Row. a. P. Rowell <ft Cos., 10 Spruce street W. W. Bha p A 0c.,21 Park Row. Frank Kierxan A Cos.. 152 Broadway. Paucht A Cos., gr Park Place. IV. W. Thompson, 19 Pars Row. America - Newspaper Purlisrers' ASSOCIATION, Potter Building. PHILADELPHIA— ft. W. aver A Son, Times Building, BOSTON— a R Niles. 858 Washington street rKTrENGiu. & Cos., 10 State street. CHICAGO- Lord A Thomas, 45 Randolph street C NCINSATI- Udwin Alben Company, 86 West Fetirth Btreet NEW HAVEN— The H. P. Hibbard Comp ant, 25 Elm street ST LOUIS Nelson Chssman & Cos., 1127 Pine street. ATLANTA— Morning Nrws Bureau, *K , Whitehall street MACON- Daii Y Telegraph Opniti. 597 Mulberry street INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Special Notices—Mr. John G. Carter, Artist; The Chatham Bank; As to Crew of British BteamshipSalsdo; Turkay Presents, at Logan’s; Dividend Central Railroad and Banking Com jiany of Georgia; Ice Cream, Etc., at Reily’s; Truffles, Dressed Turkeys, Etc-, at Reily’s; As to Extension of Protest German Bark Hans; This Saturday's Cut prices, at Heidi’s; Holiday Goods and Sample Cologne Free at Heidt’t. Bankrupt Clothing Bale Winos Up Jan. 1, sß3l—Appel A Sohaul. Railroad Sea souls—Change of Tybee Sched tale Central Railroad of Georgia. Auction Sale—Horses and Mares, by J. J. (Ippenhehn. Educational—Commercial College of Ken tucky University, Lexington, Ky. Cheap Column Advertisements—Help Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Rent; For Sale; Lo3t; Personal: Miscellaneous. Anglomaniacs are to wear high hats and abort coate this season. So will ballet dancers. Despite all that may be Bald the butterfly of fashion is, after all, the product of ordi nary grub. When esteemed contemporaries credit paragraphs to Hardware it is only fair to assume that the boiler-plate literature is re ferred to. Both factions in the Irish conflict are posing their leaders as martyrs. Au Irish patriot without a grievance would doubt less feel very forlorn Indeed. Heavenly harmony is a great thing for railroads, says an exchange. Yet it is a symmetrical adjunct that is not much in use on those iron institutions. Depend on Jay Gould for a surprise every time. How he breaks forth with the start ling statement t-at $100,000,0(10 is hid away in stockings. Is there no way to get at all this wealthf Wonder how Jay found that out. Duelists in France are to he restricted to eight hours work a day and have their Sun days off. Eminently humane, that. Even a duelist should not be run to death. Such a law should make a direct hit, whioh a duelist rarely does. i Withdrawing her long and faithful sup port of Experimenter Keely, Mrs. Bloom field Moore intimates that Keely’s motor now manifests a disposition to mote. So mote it be. Still it has not even kicked a {fly off its proboscis up to this time. Banker Kean and bis pard are now pair of Chicago suspenders. They have jotnod the long procession of the embarrassed, aud assigned their chattels to cover about $700,0K) of claims. Though not quite Kean enough he seems to be square and will probably pay out in full. Assigning as his chief reason that he did not wish to desecrate the day on which the Son of Man is supposed to have been cruci fied, an Arkansas judge has designated Thursday instead of Friday as the day on ■which a condemned murderer shall hang. Considering that hanging is not generally considered a very cheerful sort of diversion, what’s the matter with Blue Monday as a regular day for that sort of a festival ) Now comes the Chicago ItUer-Ooean with the acknowledgement that it inspired the New York Herald to put Charis* Antifat Dana in nomination for the United States Senate. Those who know th# rabidly re publican and ultra protection proclivities of the Inter-Ocean will readily understand why it should desire to augment its party strength iu tne Senate in that way. Every democrat must have understood that such a suggestion could only have emanated from a republican source. Queer people*, the** republican editor*. They have a (‘union of Into tit perabily vili fying able dem crate when in office aud then tbreaetlcally bewailing them alter they aregino. Why can’t they tell the truth and do them justice la th* first place? Just now the New York Tribune is euga;red in th* pleaiing task <4 lauding Wads Hampt u io Ifie apex of tho skies in ordor to make li by appear luslguittuant by corn pMiwiu, sso thu. reflect discredit up u bis oouHilaaxi.-y, Knowing the methods of tbe TrU/Uu* an am m bo sea* It I* Lksly to b* ■*“** imptsosadby tael transparent darlo*, ** **• u ths MUgULsst uselemie. A Clo3sr Union Deaired. Avery noticeable feature of the inter state immigration convention at Asheville, N. C.. is tbe desire for a genuine fe-ding of confidence and good fellowship between trie north and the south. And this desire was strongly expressed at the recent convention of the National Farmers’ Alliance at Ocala, which was largely composed of southern men. Nothing would give the southern people greater satisfaction than the entire disappearance of sec tional animosity. They think that the feeling of bitterness engeud red by the civil war ought to have disappeared long ago, and that the people of the north and south should work together harmoniously for the prosperity of the whole country. The resolutions relative to sectional ani mosities, introduced into the Asheville con vention, are indicative of the sentiment which prevails In the south, and if the peo ple of the north would meot tbe people of tbe south half way there would be no more sectional legislation and no more exhibi- tions of sectional bitterness. Aud there is no good reason why there should be a political line dividing the north and the south. There would be no such line if the republican leaders would cease their efforts to use the south to keep their party in power. These leaders, ever since the civil wareuded, have not only misrepre sented tbe south with the view of keeping the northern people hostile to her, but thoy have insisted that the south should be dealt with o if she wore not loyal to the government. They, and they alone, are responsible for the sectional aniraosties which find expres sion in northern newspapers aud on the door of congress. What is the force bill but an effort to put the southern people under bayonet rule and humiliate them? That the bill would be productive of race disturbances and retard the south’s prosperity no thinking man, who fully understands what the effect of that bill would be, for a moment doubts. There is no necessity for such a bill, but the attempt to pass it leads the northern people to think there is, and creates tiho impression that the south is doing something that demands strong re pressive legislation. The great majority of the northern people who harbor feelings hostile to the south do not know what the true condition of affairs in the south is. If they know the truth very few of them would have any animosity to the southern people. The truth, however, is kept from them by the republican leaders and repub lican organs. What the southern people want is peace and prosperity. They have lands which they want oocupiad, mines which they want worked and advantages which invite factories. The Asheville convention says, and says trnlv, that the south wants capital and immigrants. She will weloome both warmly, and to both she makes offers that cannot be equaled any where else in the country. The southern people do not want any political divisiou. They are willing and anxious to lend a helping hand to tbe upbuildiug of the whole country. Indicting the Attorney General of the United States appears rather a singular proceeding. That it should bo necessary to do so is still more strange. That the chief law officer of the United States should com mit a petty infraction of the law he is sworn to enforce does seem positively in credible. That it should have been covertly done only aggravates the offense. Should he be proven guilty of the offense charged against him at ladiauapofis he ought to be punished to the ntmost penalty of the law. Violating a well-known law, on which there is a penalty ot S3OO, merely to save 3 cents postage, is just a trifle too mean to go unpunished. But who is to do it? That’s the question. Certainly a man who had committed a petty violation of bis oath of office could not be safely ralied upon to prosecute him self very vigorously. Nor would his sub ordinates be likely to take such a venture, le6t their couscisntious zeal might cost them their official heads. Thus the matter stands. What the great Chief Red Cloud says about the Indian distur ances may safely be credited. He says that the agent got scared about thu ghost dances and asked for troops, who arrived und pillaged tbe Indian villages and subjected them to many indig nities. Writing very sorrowfully the old chief tells his troubles to a friend in the east with the solemn assurance that none of his people had done auything to provoke assault. Yet whenever there is tho slight est approach to an outbreak the rad man always gets the worst of it. There is no doubt but these untutored savages are out rageously treated by those e trusted with their property aud the custody of their liberty. Nor can they communicate with others higher In authority except through those inimical agents. It’s rather bard. Talk about your spook soirees but they do say that Smith Weed hath struck a double shuffle ferninst the gable end of the New York senatorial reservation that makes the Hon. Dave Hill’s eyes bulge aud his bald head to shine on. Smichie is whooping for tho wampum that is in sight, and will uot be comforted. Nary a comfort. Big Cuss Weed has a keen blade in his bel f , aud he is just famishing for gore or provisions. Should the wily governor turn agin his old jrd be might as well chop off his scalp and throw it away. For it won’t prosper much after Weed gets a wlreck at it. Republicans threaten to join and help the old man. That makes the situation doubly dangerous. Therefore all of tbe gubernatorial advisers are saying; “Now, Dave, mind the thing you dol” And Dave’s a-listening. What doe* the government mean by talk ing about “original widows’ pension?” There isn’t anything strictly original about a widow. From any standpoint that one may choose to observe her she is not an original package. Tuan again, wliat’s her pension for? Uncle Ham now has 55,3:13 widows up to the present writing, wi b a few back counties yet to hoar from. That knocks Solomon clean out of the wilderness round about Judea back among the rocks of Epbisdaiumim. They cost $550, 14)0,000 a year. Taking all of this into account tbe Huuday Mou.vinu News is just dirt cheap at 5 cents. Mexico has tried the tariff method of making her citizens pay more for t heir supplies Uiau loraigiiars lutve to pay ter the same articles. Htill tbe greaser isn’t much of a urea er without his gi ua**. Ho ths Mexicans have decided to bate bog meat or “bust.” They are now getting the Csicsgo hog tty aarload*. Busting will come later ou, as in the case of our tariff, luereasad duty has xsiit up tbe pries of pork uer cent. Iu tbe city of Mexico. That makes so diffsruiicv to exporters. They gat just thy asutv pro-; and pay nothing, THE MORNING NEWS: SATURDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1890. No Regrets for Sitting Bull's Fate. No regrets are expressed wiy where, ex cept, pet haps, among his immedtaU* fol lowers, for Bitting Bull’s fate. The oon ee sue of opinion is tha' he was a bad In dian, and that the Indians will be more peaceable and belter off in every respect without him. He has always been a f e of the white people, and for raauy years he wagod re lentless war against them. Ho passionately expressed the determination on many occa sions in his younger days never to become an agency Indian—that is, he would never consent to settle down at an Indian agency and receive bis food and clothes from the government. Ha was forced to do so finally, however, but ho was not content in that position. He was always looking for a favorable opportunity to bring about a rupture between the Indians and the govern ment. He would have succeeded in doing that long ago hod bis lnlluence with the Indians been greater. Asa rule, tne Indiaus did not respect him greatly, because they considered that ho would rather gratify his hatred of the white people than to advise them the best course for them to pursue. But be could depend upon tbe more reckless and irresponsible of tbe Indians to follow him. When other chiefs left the agency for tho Bad Laud* the government was not greatly disturbed, because it was not believed that any one of them had the skill and courage to lead a revolt, but when it was reliably reported that Bitting Bull had determined to leave the agency it was determined to have him arrested at once, because it was thought his going meant mischief. Had he submitted to arrest quietly ho would not have been harmed. The efforts med- under h;B orders to rescue him shows that he was a desperate and dangerous man, and that if he had got into a safer locality he would have given the government a great deal of trouble. It is imriossible to say what effect tho killing of Sitting Bull will have upon the northwest Indians. Some of them havo already gone on the warpath, but the num ber is small. By far the most of the In dians are yet disposed to keep peace, be cause they know they would have no chance to be successful in a struggle with the gov ernment. Toe few who have gone have succeeded in doing a great deal of mischief. Under some circumstances Sitting Bnll might havo passed into history as a patriot. If, for instance, there had been under his command enough ludians to enable him to resist successfully the government’s Indiau policy, and to force concessions from the government beneficial to the Indiaus, he would have been regarded as a great and good Indian instead of a bad man. Success makes a great difference in tho estimation in which one is held. Fanciful Financiering. Naturally enough Secretary Windom’s great combination safety interconvertible 2 per cent, bond scheme was very promptly reje; ted by the senatorial republican caucus. Though it was not dangerously weak nor essentially wiokad it was so very mildly meritorious as to be wholly lacking in any definitely practical purpose. There fore it was defeated not so much because it was especially baneful as that it was ap parently in no way beneficial. Brielly Bum merited here is the proposition; Two cent bonds were to be Issued to the amount of $300,000,000 say, which any holder might at any tlmo deposit with the treasury and receive treasury no. es therofor. While the bonds wore in the treasury, how ever, no interest was to be paid on them. Surely nothing could be safer or more nicely balanced. Notes would then be amply secured by the bonds. Since the bonds would bo public bonds and not rail road bonds or farm mortgages they would not constitute class legislation. Since any individual who held these bonds—no matter in how small an amount—might deposit and re ceive currency for them, there would be no favoritism to national banks. So perfect was the elasticity of the plan that the bonds would be sure to be depos ited when the rates of interest were high and more money was needed. As 6oon as the rate of interest fell, aud less money was needed, they would be redeemed. Since it would pay no interest on the bonds which it held as security for the currency issued the government would thus become a gainer. It was a V9ry symmetrical and plausible thing indeed. But like tho beau tifully polished and brilliantly inoperative flying machine of immortal memory it wouldn’t work. IV hen people buy bonds of any character whatever two all important conditions or prospects prompt them thereto. Either they want a safe investment at fair inter est, or they want to make money immedi ately or ultimately. Possibly both are taken into account. At least one is indis pensable. Hero we have tho eloment of safety surely. But there is nothing to be made. Other things quite as safe offer quite fair returns. Profits would certainly never induce any one to invest in this scheme. How would it profit a man to borrow SI,OOO when he must put up SI,OOO to get it ? If he had the SI,OOO he wouldn’t want to borrow it. As for the two per cent, interest paid while the bonds are out of pawn that would simply be a needless tax upon tbegoverumeut for inomy which it has no earthly use for. No poor man could afford to’invest his savings at 3 per cant, when the savings banks are pay ing 4, 5 and 6, accordlr.g to tbe location thereof. And if the owner should need the use of the money he eau certainly get all he has on deposit at any time and without uurolling any red tape shout it. So tse government would simply wavte 2 per cent, interest by offering the rich an investment for surplus cash, while tne national treas ury now has more than It really knows what to do with —legitimately. No, the oouutry doesn’t want Mr. Win dom’s scheme. Storms of great soverity raged all along the Atlantic coast during the past few days, and also along the Alleghany range of mountains. Great damage was done la many places in land and on ths coast by wind and snow. Vessels were wrecked In many harbor* arid coast traffic rendered very dangerou*. Considering all this turbulencj of tlie ele ment* what a de'iglitfally picturesque ao<l quaint sight it must have been to ree the guests of tbe hotels in Albuquerque, N, M., ssrsneif sitting 'Hit eu the piazzas in the Mny-lik" sunshine aud watching a heavy snowstorm raging in wild revelry u;*>;i th* .Saudi* mountains but a few id Jet away. Truly this is a wonderful aud glorious country. Kim** ;u* lata eu>:<-aeeio<! ut democratic victories HoMou's death rata ll said to tie ruuuUig unusually high. PERSONAL. Mrs Jenter son Davis has received 45,000 subscriptions for tbe ii'.e of her husband A life of Jennie Lind, written by Canon Scott Holland, Is one of the pro ml led publications for this year. Gov. Tillman of South Carolina has appointed i Mrs. < aroiine Le Coats of Columbia to suc ceed Maj. 11. Clay Ric’iarJsou as state libra rian . In accordance with the request of the Count of Paris, Mayor Fitler cf Philadelphia has for warded him photographs and a history of the public buddings of that city. Lord Lytton (bett'-r k own to the world of letters us Owen M -redithi i the present British ambassador in Paris. HU Sunday morning breakfasts, at which he brings together the greatest literary and diplomatic lights, are the talk of the town. Miss Nellie Kelley of the Ohio State Jour nal is a regular "first-wire" operator of the Associated Press, at the same salary that is paid to first-wire men. Blie takes 15,900 words in a uigbt, and at 2.30 a. m. she goes home alone und unmolested. Gen. Robert E. Lee’s birthday, Jan. 19, is now a legal holiday in Virginia. The proper celebration of the day is now under discussion among the confederate veterans of Kicßmond, who expect to have a military parade on the anniversary and mane the iccaaiou an imposing one generally. The Duke of St. Albans, who holds the two hereditary patent places of grand Falconer and registrar of the court o. chancery, and has fur ther au hereditary pension, is deeended from Cnarle*, soa of Neil tiwynnr aud Charles 11. (?) who married tne daughter, eventually to be the heiress of Auorey Ce Vere, twentieth and last Karl of Oxford. His grandson, Topham Beau clerk. was Johnson’s friend, so often alluded to by Boswell. I*o ninth duke married the cele brated Mrs. Contts, nee Mellon, but had no children by her, and only derived a life interest from a portion of the vast wealth which she bequeathed, in accordance witii the verbal wishes of Air. Contts, to his granddaughter, that very kind hearted aud philantbropical old lady concerning whom a wag wrote: She likes her beasts big aud she likes her men manly. See Irving aud Bartlett and Jumbo and Stan ley. , Litn Carrington, who is now on his way home from Australia, his term of office having expired, has been one of the mast popular representatives her majesty has ever had at the antipodes. One of tic most interesting events In connection with the jubilee celebrations in Austral a was the entertainment given at gov ernment bouse to over 1,090 boys belonging to the humbler mass, including factory boys, newsboys aud shoeblacks. Lord Carrington, addressing his young guests after they had been ng.it royally regaled, remarked: "We can congratu.ate ourselves that we live in these days. An honest, upright workingman Is no longer disqualified for the high offices of state. Tne best men, however humbiu their station, can come to the front. Nor need any man consider it a reproach that he has come from an humble stock. Nearly 200 years ago, in the reign of good Queen Anne, a little boy, whose father kept a shop, lived in tbe town of Nottingham. The boy worked hard, and when as a man he took over the busi ness, people would give him money and valu able i to take care of when they went abroad, as the country was then unsettled and the roads were unsafe. He died at a good old age, re spected by Ijlh fellow citi/.eus. and left his sons to carry on his small bank. I, in the reign of the good Queen Victoria, am proud to be able to say that that little buy was the founder of my family." BRIGHT BITS. McKinley said he was ready to go before the ccuntry. Well, he did, considerably before. Texas Siftings. It is a rule for Christmas to come only once a year, but it is a good rule to go buy.—Phila delphia Tiroes. A policeman should never cuff a person on the ear. Handcuffs are the only variety he should use.— l\ttAura Chronicle. A close observation is likely to lead to the conclusion that what the human mind most craves is some slight pretext for going crazy.— Washington Tost. Why. I kavn’t been able to make a fire in the stove here all winter. It doesn’t draw. Ijradlord -So? Then 1 must have saved about s.’>o for you in fuel. Is such a cose I’m afraid I'll nave to ratso the rent on you.— Flirgende Tlatter. ‘ ‘What fault have you to find with my ‘occa sional verses" ?” asked the author of the unac ceptable communication. "Sir,” replied the able editor, “I find only one fault with your occasional verses—they arc not nearly occasional enough.”— Judy. GLOBETRo r:,k —Did you ever travel on a per sonally-conducted tour? Mr. Meeko—Often. Globetrotle—Whom did you have for man ager usually? Mr. Meeke—My wife.— New Yortc Weekly. Fooos—The high tardt is sending everything up; I’m getting scared. Boggs You needn’t worry; you're safe enough. Foggs—How do you make that out? Boggs—Sinners are not going up. —New York Herald. Reassuring.—“O. it frightens me, John, to think how wrriblu it would be if that great lion should get out of his cage?" "That’s why i took a back seat. Now if he were to get out. he would be quite satisfied, you see, before he could reach us.’’ —Fiiegende Tlatter. Photographer—^Your son, the student, or dered this likeness from me. "It is ce taiuly very much like him. Has he paid for it?” "Not yet." "That is still more like him.” —FUegende lilatter. Proud Father (showing off his boy before company)—My son, which would you rather be, Shakespeare or Edison? Lttle Sou latter meditation) —I’d rather be Edison. "Why?” “ ’Cause he ain’t dead.” —Good News. Editor (to literary aspirant)—lf you are anxious to do some literary work, write some tiling, say, on the chapel, but make it short and forciile. Literary Aspirant—Not if I know inyself! A man was expelled from college last year for doing that very same thing. —Harvard Lampoon. Murrayhilu— I understand that the railroads around Boston are managed very carefully and precisely. BeaconhiU—Well, rather so. For instance, the train on which I usually go Into tin city is entered on the time table a* “Arrive in Boston —Front car of train, 10:15 a. m.; rear car, 10:15)4 a. m."—Bostonian, First Woman—l cannot think vrhat to give ray husband at Christ mas. Doesn’t the some question pnrclex you? Second Woman—No; I decided it in less than a second. First Woman—How nicel What are you going to gno him? Second Woman—Nothing.— Boston Herald. CURRENT COMMENT. Hear the Elder Joke. FVom fhe New York Hail a id Express (Rep.). The farmers’ alliance seems to be dreadfully afraid of malting a mesalliance with one of tlie two great parties. His Actions Gave Color to Him. From the Boston Herald Und. L That was rather neatly put by Gen. Butler when he said, referring to hie boyhood reminis cences of Wendell Phillips, that Phillips couldn’t Lave treated him with more kindness if he (butler) had been black How Did You Find That Out t From the Washington Star Und.). It takes nerve to kill in cold blood It takes more to commit such a crime elaborately planned a lon - way ahead. It takes au Infinity of nerve to conceive the plan, execute it la de tail. and w ban caught to reveal tbe same with par foci composure. They Need Washing Borne. Too, From the Chicago News ( Ind .). In iqieakina against Mm election bill ou Mon day, iSi-naior \ o.iae very aptly introduced this quotation to lil isirate the futility of sb* mens ure: "Th* River Brins, it is well known. Doth <• aau th# city of Cologi e. Rut til me Mfial, y<- podlvu,*, Will h ii tforUi *ata tbs Ihter Rhine?" Or, to apply lu* 111 jv!ration, tbe supervisor, pledge t ’l.-ir 1-o.ll* to bo . wirii csoiiou at tu* polls: bill will you k.suily make leuly.aus, Wa Ibere t. obeli tur suial visors Every tissue •( ti e body, every uervs, trine aud iiiuacl* I* mad* a' rung er at. 4 ibMt sumlUiy by V a.ug Hood'* MuMMcariilg. Ade. Oomadian Hopper Fears the Critics. “To look at De Wolf Hopper,” a theatrical manager remarked to a Chicago Pott reporter, as the stalwart comedian} strolled through the Palmer house rotunda, “one wouldn't think that te was subject to nervousness or fear, and yet 1 doubt if there is a man in the profession who suffers more acutely from imaginative causes than does Hopper the first two davs of each engagement he plays in Chicago. He likes this city. Likes it very much, in fact, but tie will never look upon it as a perfect paradise unt 1 either the press ceases to be or its critics take ad. lerent view of hi- abilities Hopper is a g Ood comedian and possesses an excellent voice—though I admit tost because he seldom uses hie nutural voice in singing the public, in a large measure, does not know <3 its existence— and. as the critics know this, they decline to acknowledge anything he may do that is chiefly noted for its horse play to deserve praise. Were he unable to do anything Itetter they might not be so hard on him; but, knowing his abilities and aeetng him abuse them, the critics seems to take especial de igbt in proddinj him with their sharpest pencils. Hop" per knows this. And be has come to look for if. In consequence, he begins to show signs of uneasiness during ths weak prior to bis opening in Chicago This increaaea gradually until he reaches Chicago on Suuday and reads In the papers that ‘‘Hopper will try to be funny at such a theater this week." Then bis uneasiness soars like a rocket, and continues to soar until Tuesday morning, when, after having passe 1 a sleepless night, he reads the roasts in the morn ing paper*. Then he begins, after finishing them, to sweat blood until the afternoon papers have had their say. Whea he has devoured them ne sighs hard, like a man relieved of a load, and spends the first easy moments of his arrival, and, until his departure, he is all rig t Once in awnlle his uneasiness comes back on Saturday night, as he thinks of the weekly re view of the next day's pairers; but as usually but little reference is made to him, then he manages to get his sleep.” Terrapin Fattening Without Food. Everybody has neard of the toothsome terra pin, surnamed the'diamond back, dear to the epicurean palate, but even in Washington, where they are comparatively plentiful, it is not everybody that knows that it will take $3 in good American coin to buy one of these dimin utive little dainties with the peculiar marked shells. That is to *ar, it takes $3 to possess one in the raw shape, says the Washington Pott, before some expert chef has converted him into an edible. In the latter state nobody but millionaire* and gastronomists line Col. Tout Ochilt ree are in it. In cooking taem only but ter worth 50eents a pound is fit to be used, and wines of the rarest vintage, which help to mske the figures loom up on the ticket that comes when the least is ended. “What will you take fer a dozen of them?” was asked a Twelfth street dealer, whose front window was pretty well filled with tiie little crawlers. "Take a dozen for $30,” was the reply, “though only hotels and restaurants usually order that many. Yes, that’s the lowest price. We get them from a little town down in Mary land, where they are bought up from the fishermen who catch them in nets in Cbesnoeake bay. "Thera are diamond becks in other southern waters—here Is one that came from Savannah —but none are supposed to have the exquisite taste of those caugnt in the Cnesapeaks.” • ‘How long will they live?” “For three or four months, and, strange to sav. got fatier the longer they are kept. All the fo'od they get is a little sea grass put down for them to waddle about in.” The average terrapin isn’t over seven inches long, and in the shell doesn't weigh over two pounds. The iate Mr. Wormley, of hotel fame, was a connoisseur in diamond backs, and bought m? many as 300 at a time. He put them away in a remote room, where no light entered, so that they wouldn't stirabout, locomotion being a hindrance to the fattening process. He Will Eat, Drink and Be Merry. "Billy” Mason was ia his seat in the House this afternoon for the first time this season, writes a Chicago Hrrald correspondent, and re ceived quite an ovation at the ha.ds of his fel low-members. There is no doubt of the popu larity of the West Side congressman among both republicans and democrats, for he was surrounded half the afternoon by groups of friends who worobigging him to explain how it all happened and telling him how sorry they were. Mason comforted his sorrowing friends by telling them that, while the people have tired of him as a congressman, oertaiu corpo rations have coma nobly to the front and guar anteed him $lO,OOO a year at the law. Judge Payson Is another Illinois congressman who is about to retire from politics “You will be back again two years from now,” said one of his friends to-day. “No,” replied Payson; “no I'll never be in congress again—never, as long as I live, will I be a candidate for an elective office My wife and I have agreed on this, and it is a solemn compact between ns. {am not disgruntled at the result of the last election; 1 am not sore, but 1 have bad all the puhlie life 1 want. There is nothing in it in the way of happiness or satis faction, and I am done with it forever Nor am I eager to make money. I have all the money I wont. It is not much, but it suffices for my simple needs and the simple needs of my good wife. My one child, a boy, will be started out ia life better than I was started out. I am 50 years old, have (food health, a capacity for enjoying the good things of life, and my wife and I are determined to spend the re mainder of our days discovering how much contentment life may have in it for us. Xdo not mean abandon politics; I like it too well to give it. up; but hereafter my participation in political activities be it little or much, will be for iuy friends and not for myself.” Just a Trifle 100 Funny. ‘T remember a friend of mine,” said 'Squire Johnson to the delegate, "who considered him self funny. He went, to a prominent Jeweler on Fourth street, Cincinnati, and purchased a watch for $5O, receiving a written guarantee that the watch would k ep good time tor a year. If the watch failed the purchase money was to be refunded. Well, my friend was called to Europe soon after that, and spent several months traveling about various parts of the earth, and it happened that he returned to Cin cinnati on the very day the guarantee on his watch expired. Asking me to a company him. we wont to the jewelry store, and, ca ling out the proprietor, uiy f loud laid down the guaran tee, w hich the jeweler read and then expressed himself ready to fulfill hi3 contract The watch was placed upon the counter, and was found to he just une-haif miuute too fast The jeweler placed it carefully in a drawer and, going to his safe, counted out five crisp *lO bills and passed them to my friend with a smile. ‘Yes, but I don’t want the money,' he stammered; give me back my watch. It was only meant as a little pleas antry.’ T have complied with my contract,’ replied the jeweler, 'and I onlv meant a little business.’ 'But I must have tliat watch,’ said the thoroughly disconcerted funny man. ‘Weli,’ replied the jeweler, proceeding with ills work, '1 consider a watch that varies only one-half of a minute in a year worth more than $5O. I will - ell you the watch for $lOO. So chagrined that I lie hardly knew what he was doing, rey face tious friend paid over the $lOO anil pocketed the watch. When you need another good watch give me a call,' said the Jeweler merrily as we took our departure. Well, do you know, I have never heard of that fellow doing a funny thing since.” E© Fxcassfi tbe Sovernor. Rev. Myron W. Reed, the well-known clergy man of Denver, Col., teds us an amusing inci dent of his military career. During the war hi* regiment got into Nashville one morning, says the New York Tribune, asd the following morn ing ho was tola to go and relieve the guard at the capitol. He took up his company, and was told the first business was to put the prisoners to work to clean out tbe place. He set them to work with mops, pails and brooms, and just as they were fairly at work a person came up to him and wanted to know what he wus doing, making such a notes. “Here. I don’t want any thing of that,” said Mr. Reed; “just get your broom and balp these man.” ‘Tto you know who lam f “No, I don't know;” and he told him again to get his broom and fall in quick. Then lie introduced himself—Andrew Johnson, military governor of Tennessee, and Mr. Heed excused him. What Made the Boy Mad. From the Young Woman's Journal. Hardly closer their heads could be bent If 'twere tried: "i'weep 1 Pweep) Pv*p!” Tbe dickey bird sat in tbe window outside, “Pweep! I'weep' Pwaepl” And the small boy In hiding me sofa beneath. Clean lied bis gst In Me anger and gritted his teeth. 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Teosb old bachelor tales of the hatred, malice and uncharitableness of womankind, one toward the other, are scandalously false, and yet there are women to whom another’s physical love liuess is a criminal offense. Honestly ugly girls ar: invariably generous in according ths full beauty of their rivals, but it is the tepidly, vaguely pretty creatures who rebel against su- P J rior attractions and cannot tolerate to hear a belle spoken of kmdly. A telegram from Boerne, a mountain town northwest of San Antonio, Tex., tells of the death there of J. J. Bayard. The death of Bayard reveals a romantic and weird story of life. He came to this section of Texas a quar ter of a century aro, selected an isolated spot in the mountains of Kenall oouuty for his home, cut himself off entirely from ail communlca tlon with men and women except in case of sickness, when he volun’arily ministered to them. He claimed to he a doctor by education, and compounded strange drugs out of the native herbs of bis muuntain home which proved very efficacious iu nearly all forms of disease. When forced to talk he conversed in monosyllables, and preferred to use a child as interpreter be tween himself and the persons with whom he conversed. He built a little log hut with his own hands, feeling the trees himself, and in front of the door of his house he dug a cave fifty feet deep, in the entrance of which he would sun himself. In this cave he was buried, according to a provision of his will. He claimed to be a brother of ex-Secretary of State Tnomns F. B i.vard, and to have been on the personal staff of Gen. Tavlor during the Mexican war. He also claimed to have seen rough service in the Crimean and modem wars of Europe. In his will he bequeathed his property to the Catholic church with the request that on it be built a home for the aged poor. Some idea of the enormous value of real estate in New York can be gathered from the fact that a single plat of ground on the north west corner or Thirty-first street and Broadway has been the subject of sharp bidding for nearly two years on the basis of #fioo 000. There is a building on the premises, but as it a somewhat antique structure it does not enter into the negotiations for the sale of the land. It is said that $030,000 was refused last week for this lot. Tue enormous value of property along upper Broadway is the main cause of the somewhat dilapipated and rugged appearance of the buildings on that thoroughfare. Many of the tumble-down three-story brick build ings pay their owners $7,000 ami SB.OOO a year in rents. It U more profitable to keep them in their present condition than it would be to pull them down and put up more pretentious structures. The wedge-shaped lot at the junction of Fifth avenue, Broadway and Twenty-third street, which is covered by a ram bling lot of two-story buildings, bos been the subject, of exhaustive figuring by every builder and real estate speculator of consequence in New York. None of them can figure out higher returns on the capital invested than the ram shackle little buildings now pay If the owner were to take them down and put up a ten-story building bis loss in the way of interest, on the capital mvestei in the new building and tbfi net logs on rents during the construction of the building vou'd be equivalent to a good-size 1 fortune; hence one of the most important bits of ground in America is slated under the head cf unimproved real estate. “When I went to the war in 1861,” said Sena tor Wade Hampton, “I took with me three thoroughbred stallions that were worth a prince’s ransom. One was as black as night, ono was a dark chestnut, and the other was a chestnut-sorrel. You are perhaps aware that my father was not only a noted Importer of runni ig horses, but a famous breeder of the t lorougbbmd as well. “I rode the black stallion at the first Bull Hun battle, where 1 commanded tbe Hampton Legion, comprised of infantry, cavalry, and artillery. At the famous cavalry fight at Brandy Station with Pleasanton in 1883 1 rode the chestnut. He wav a hard horse to control in a charge, and he nearly carried mo into the enemy’s lines on that day twice. I rode the chestnut-sorrel at tne great cavalry fight in the rear of Meade's army ou the third day at Get tysburg, and came near meeting the same fata as that I escaped from at Brandy Station a few weeks previous. My experience with thorough breds is in time of war that they are safer horses to get away from the enemy with than when you are going toward them espeaially when ou a gallop. But when it comes to endurance one thoroughbred will kilt three cold-blooded corses in a campai i n. They will go further with less food, go faster and show more courage in the face of danger. I have ridden tin; stallions 1 mention into federal batteries, and they never once liinehed. All of tiiem were wounded three cr four times, but tiiey pulled through, 1 think a body of men mounted on entire Hooded horses would prove much more formidable in a charge than the same force mounted ou geiding3 of tbe same blood. Our anoestors in ancient times always went to war on entire horses, aud in order that their presence might not be betrayed to the enemy their nostrils were slitted so that they could not neigh. Tbe Arab* in their journeys prefer entire horses, as they seem to have more courage, sense, strength and endurance than inares or geldings. The late John Morgan owed his succeed in the late war to the fact that in his rants iiis men were mounted ou Kentucky thoroughbreds.” “Foxbs iscur’ous critters,” said Andrew the otiier night, after gazing thoughtfully for some time at the picture of a fox wbioh adorped an advertisement for the sporting powder, says the Lewiston Jvurnal. “Yes. they are. I’ve lived right among 'em. ye might say, ever since i was a boy, and kaikeriate that. I kuow about all there ir to know about 'em and their peculiarities. Why, I hunted ’em when I was s> lit! In that I had to rest my gun over a fence or a stump, an' shot ’em, too. On* funny thing about 'em is their taU. Now a fox sets a dret ful sight by his tail, an’ he can no more get along without it than you can raise chickens ’thout eeltln' the eggs. How do T know? Why, ’sperlence, o’ course. 1 most alius speak from ’anTience.” And he paused to relight hit pipe, which had grue out during the lecture on natural history, aud having aeeem plished this, he resumed. "Gen'.lemeo," he said, “you ail kuow where the old Peacock tavera is. o’ course, way out there by the pond ori tbe Brunswick rood -used to oc to old stage tavern. Weil, me and Bill were o round there gunniu' one day, ou' start and a fox on them hills that lead down to the popd. It was pretty near Christmas, but there niii'l no snow on the ground, tho’ the pond waa frozen over That fox uiado for tbr pond for all be was worth, en I 1 see Hint If something wasn't done pnety quick we and ioa> iilm; so 1 gays to HIL, last him Lave it!” but Kill was so excite I that bn couldn’t do anythin' but holler. And there wee that fox gom a mile a miuute for the Ice. Hu was r.M in ueti as U 0 yards away, but I'd a tried Idm If he'd bees 500. Jon than he went Soiling ovmr a stone wall, an' as lie rose aheve ir i took a quh k aim an' fit I fiometn.fi cropped As both aaw it, eu Bill turned to iue an saM ‘An drew, the 1 was e devlMrb find shot when we got tii tue wad there waa lisat fox • lad cut as chan o f ex ii e razor had dorm it, but tbe fox warn t no*lure round We homed eve* y where, but c/ui4 t lie j Ihm when Hill ..an pened to look out on th p of en’ arm e red u, I a gutn over Ur* tee like e streak U wee uat tvs He •-ruidw t rou sire gut with iet bis tail, but knot ruin over an ever like e cert *be< I As die ii t wexit to ioae ho* ,we followed os. end found via e**y up oti Wu*iorp sir.asu waers be bed 4ro*; boused I. an Air Lon be Ml so meat* wrln-itM Id* MB IWt'e why I is re a fos Mil get w knout tt f evu 4 twti you lone Mi ne ebUMt 'em, but I beve* t got Use mow.” M-KJUILAI. 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