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FRIDAY, MAY 8, 1891.
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INDEX TO NKff ADVKRTISEMRNTS.
Special Notices—As to Bills Against British
Steamship Pontiac; A Big Drive in Bathing
Suits, C. F. Law, Receiver; Base Ball. Mutual
vs. Chatham to-day; Call for Installments Chat
ham Real Estate and Improvement Company;
Notice to Truck Shippers. R. M. C. Crawford;
Fresh Strawberries, Liquors, Candies, Etc., at
Reily’s
Announcement Extraordinary—l 63 Congress
street.
Simmer Resorts—Mountain-Top Hotel and
Springs, Maagie 4 Cos., Afton, Va
For Ladies’ Shoes—Alma Polish.
Petition tor Incorporation—Suwannee Tur
pentine Company.
Steamship Scbbpvle— Ocean Steamship Com
pany.
Cheap Column Advertisements— Help Want
el; 15 n ploy meat Wanted; For Rent; For Sale;
Lost; Personal. Miscellaneous.
That brilliant oomet promised us by Dr.
Max 'Volf of Heidelberg has duly appeared
in California on scnedule time. It is ap
parency in good health and spirits and
appears to be having a glorious time.
Astronomer Bernard promises to keep an
eye on it from the Lick observatory. There
is no clause in our new tariff law that will
prevent its approach to the United States.
Chile is said to be anxiously looking for
the white dove of peace. When found both
of the belligerent elements will probably
join in trying to persuade that beautiful
bird to settle down in their country and
make himself at home. Each side is said
to be about equally tired of the scuffle, and
they are about to call in the neighbors and
ask them to adj .st the domestic differences.
One of the most ferocious of all the Italian
editors in New York when the Mafia assas
sins were lynched is now in durance vile on
an almost indisputable charge of perjury,
and investigation of his record also discloses
that he was a felon and a convict in Italy,
and must have left his country for his
country’s good. In view of these discoveries
his passionate sympathy for the conspiring
assassins of New Orleans is not altogether
surprising.
Under the recent decision of the supreme
court of Nebraska no decided advantage
appears to have been gained by either
party. While the democratic governor has
been ousted from the administration of
state affairs no authority has been given to
either the former governor or the repub
lican candidate for that office. As the
matter now stands nothiug short of a now
•lection will be apt to satisfactorily settle
the vexed question.
Writing by telegraph is the latest inven
tion that ..as been placed in process of de
velopment in New York. Such an idea
seems incredible. Still it would be a mighty
bandy thing to sit in an office in Washing
ton and write autograph letters to your
agent in Chicago. Or vice versa. W hat a
bandy contrivance that would be for the
irrepressible Sister Poop be Cozens to use in
her butlneos when she may have occasion to
oonsult the Secretary of the Treasury and
the administration in general as to bow she
•hall conduct the world's fair.
Patting out a thousand fires may have
afforded great amusement to the Ohio mis
creant who seemed to think it a great lark
to shut off the natural gas supply,
bat it was anything else than funny
to the thousand families of Sidney who
were thus deprived of tbeir dinner for sev
eral hours. Pranks of that kind may be all
very diverting to the perpetrator, but they
lack every element of amusement for the
victims. Beside, the people thus incon
venienced would probably find some way of
making him Quite as uncomfortable as he
has made them if they could ascertain his
i ntity.
Against the earnest protect of the officers
of tus Itata that she was not in American
waters to secure munitions of war, It seems
rather doubtful wbether the war depart
ment at Washington really bad any right
to seize tbe vessel unless the United States
go rerument Intends to take sides iu the
civil war now going on in Chile. Were tbe
administration to do that It would certainly
be an extraordinary course to pursue, and
to direct violation of all precedent, and tbe
policy established ever since toe republic
began. As tbe ship's officers say they
merely sought supplies at ban Disgo for tbs
Chilean Insurgent force* their t a Lenient*
are certainly entitled to credence In the
•basnet. of any evidence to tbe contrary,
(Georgia Nfust be Represented.
The conference, composed of representa
j tive men from nearly every part of the
state, which was held in Atlanta, Wednes
j day, for the purpose of suggesting how an
j amount of money sufficient to enable Geor
j gia to make a creditable show ug at the
world's Columbian fair at Chicago in 1893
j could be obtained, will have the effect of
calling the attention of Georgians to the
importance of the fair and of impressing
upon them the fact that they cannot afford
to miss the opportunity which
the fair will offer for advertising
their state, her products and resources.
Th'e indifference which, until leoently, has
been shown with respect to tbit matter is
difficult to understand. It cannot be that
the people of Georgia don’t care whether
their state makes a creditable appearance
at the fair or not They are too proud of
their grand old commonwealth to have a
feeling of that kind, ihe reason that so
little has been done in the matter is proba
bly that everybody has been waiting for
someone to take the lead. The governor,
however, has taken hold of it, and it now
looks as if something would be done toward
enabling Georgia to till the place at the fair
to which she is entitled.
The great obstacle of course in the way of
making an exhibit is the want of money.
With a reasonable sum Georgia could easily
make an appearance at the fair that would
excite the envy of all her sister states of the
south. But where cau the money be
obtained? The legislature does not appear
to have the right to make an appropriation
for fair purposes, and it would be difficult
to raise by subscription the money that is
needed. At the conference it was suggested
that the Income from the state road or the
proceeds of the sale of the Okeflnokee
swamp lands could be drawn upon.
Whether either fund is available is a ques
tion which the legislature will consider,
doubtless, at its summer session. Surely the
legislature will be able to find money some
how which it can legitimately appropriate
for so laudable a purpose.
If it is finally determined that the state
can do nothing the people will have to put
their hands into their pockets and contri
bute an amount sufficient to let the world
know something about the Empire stato of
the south. It would be shameful and dis
graceful for Georgia to make as shabby
appearance at the Columbian fair at Chi
cago as she did at the Cotton Centennial
fair at New Orleans. Under such circum
stances Georgians would hardly desire to
visit the Columbian fair. They would feel
humiliated if their state ranked in the
matter of exhibits below those incompara
bly inferior to her in every respect.
If Georgia were to rnako the effort she
could furnish exhibits which in number
and variety would make a very interesting
fair. Indeed the products of her mines,
farms, forests and factories are second to
those of no other state. What folly it
would be, therefore, for her people to
make no effort to place her in the position
to which she is entitled at the Columbian
fair.
To some of them SIOO,OOO may seem to be
a large sum to s;iend in making an exhibit
of the state’s products, but it is small in
comparison to the beueflts the state would
recoive from the expenditure of that sum.
The fact is, the world is just beginning to
unders and what a great slate Georgia is.
Only a little is yet known respecting her re
sources. but the more that is known the
greater is the inflow of capital and immi
grants, and the state’s wealth increases in
proportion to the increase of this inflow.
The state must be represented at the
Columbian fair, and in a way that will
cause Georgians to feel proud of her. If
the legislature does not appropriate the
money necessary to enable her to make an
exhibit her people must tax themselves to do
it And her exhibits must he such as will
leave no doubt as to the greatness of her
resources.
A Dissatisfied Brigadier.
Brig. Don. David P. Swaim, after six
years of silence, bobs up and says that the
sentence of the general court martial in
February, 1885, by which he was suspended
for twelve years and deprived of one-half
of hts salary and bis forage, was unjust, and
that he wants from tbe government,
the amount that has thus far been withheld.
When the sentence was pronounced against
him it was very generally thought that bis
suspension should have been wholly without
pay. If be was guilty—and there wasn't any
doubt in the miuds of his judges that he was
—be ought not to be permitted to draw
any money from tbe government, since he
performs no service. A generous govern
ment, however, pays him enough to live
upon, and lets him hold on to an office which
he doesn't administer, and which ought to be
filled by a better man.
And it ie not improbable that ho will win
the suit he has brought against the govern
ment. He baa friends, doubtless, who are
Influential in high places arid they may help
him have his sentence set aside, and the
money for which he bring* suit paid to
him. Much stranger things have happened.
When the will of the late Mrs, Lydia
Helen Degan comes to be offered for pro
bate in Brooklyn a vigorous contest by her
relatives is l.kely to ensue. Such a suit in
this case is not without reason since the
woman left an alleged will which be-
queaths to her former coachman all of her
immense estate, to the utter exclusion of
many blood relatives. There is something
very peculiar about the whole affair. Such
absolute control as Coachman McNeile ap
peared to exercise over the actions of the
decedent is rarely acquired in a legitimate
way. As the woman’s birthplace was in
Germany and all of her relatives lived in
New York state there is something strik
ingly mysterious about the hasty way in
which she was buried in Florida. Search
ing inquiry will probably be made to ascer
tain how the coachmau ever secured the
absolute power of attorney which he used
so freely. Similar casee seem to be quite
frequent of late.
Farmer Ingalls says his ideas are worth
money and he has warned the reporters
from his coign of vantage on a Kansas
stump that he dees not Intend to talk money
into tbeir pockets by tbs colu un any more.
Thrifty man. the farmer. Notbing slow
about him. Siuce he must live in seclusion
he evidently intends to make money and
try to accumulate avoirdupois at the risk of
incurring tbe eternal hatred of Editor Dana.
Notwithstanding the boasted grandeur of
the governor of Oregon, be seems to have
weazened before tbe irresistible magnifi
cence of Mr. Harrison's gorgeous travailng
array just aa all tbe Pacific coast did.
Gracloueuest is far mors becoming tba gov
ernor of a state than the stilted arrogatios
presaged by tba boasts attributed to tbe
ex. outlve of Oregon. It le good to tee tnet
the governor can he eeualbio.
THE MORNING NEWS; FRIDAY, MAY 8, 1891.
Will It Stand Discussion?
The sub-treasury scheme of the alliance
has never been subjected to the teat of a
thorough discussion in a political campaign.
It has been talked of and assertions aid
denials have been made with regard to it,
I but it never has been presented to the farm
ers in a way to make them study it and de
cide for themselves whether or not it would
ibe helpful to them. But it is going to be
presented to the fanners of Mississippi in
all its phases, and it is safe to predict that
they wiil decide against it.
The democratic executive committee of
that state has arranged for a thorough dis
cussion of it. The alliancemeu are divided
1 in regard to it, and they want to bear all
j that can be said for and against it. The
campaign for a United Stites senator to
succeed Senator W althall has been begun,
and tiie sub-treasury scheme is the main
issue of it. Hon. Ethel Barksdale is a can
didate and hs is seeking the support of the
alliance. He favors the sub-treasury
scheme. He declares that he will defend it
to the end of the campaign, and he calls
upon allianeemen to support him.
Gov. Stone Is also a candidate. He re
cently wrote a letter in which he said: "The
sub-treasury scheme promises nothing good
to farmers, who, above all others, will be
the victims of the evils of any inflation
which will disturb values. They need for
their welfare a currency as steady and sta
ble as themselves. The traders and specu
lators —those looking out for deals and
corners —can riot amid the excitement of
speculative values and fluctuations from
disturbance of the circulating medium.
The farmer and laborer stand no sort of
even chance in that condition of things.'’
Senator George has also taken the stump,
and his views in regard to the scheme are
well known. He is against it. He would
rather retire to private life than say one
word in behalf of it, so firmly is he con
vinced that it would work ruin to the
farmers.
There will be many other speakers—some
on one side and some on the other —and be
fore the campaign is ended the farmers will
know a groat deal more ab >ut the scheme
than they do now.
There is notone farmer in twenty in this
or any other state who knows anything
more of the scheme than that it is some
thing alleged to be for the benefit of the
farmers. In a general way the farmers
know that it involves the erection of gov
ernment warehouses in which they can
store their crops and receive from the gov
ernment 80 per cent, of their value, but
they do not know enough of it to form an
intelligent opinion as to whether it would
make their material condition better or
worse.
The campaign in Mississippi will be one
of education, and it is not venturing too
much to assert that when it is ended the
judgment of the farmers will be that the
sub-treasury scheme will not stand the test
of lair and intelligent discussion.
Some Us -is fur Warships.
Since the Unitad S ates warship Yantic
has been engaged in the somewhat novel
but decidedly useful employment of destroy
ing obtrusively bulky wrecks along the
Atlantic coast by blowing them up with
dynamite, an observant and thoughtful
metropolitan contemporary has been
prompted to suggest various and sundry
“peacetul uses for ships of war." But the
chief field of usefulness pointed out is the
demolition of wrecks in the channels of
marine commerce by means of dynamite
torpedoes.
That is certainly far better than having
the navy aimlessly sailing around the coast
and running aground on every flshtrap that
is projected out from the shore. But the
writer of that very able and original sug
gesiion has failed to state many of the most
graceful and attractive ways in which the
naval cruisers might be made peacefully
and tranquilly useful.
To start with, they might cruise all along
the coast until they get pretty well ac
quainted with the outside appearance of
their own country so that they may be able
tasail along it quickly in oase of sudden
emergency without knocking off any of our
national territory.
Then they might visit every coast city
and town that is approachable and carry
the star- spangled banner floiting aloft so
that the people may see it on the sea. That
is apparently about tbo only way they are
likely to seeit floatiug on the sea, and it
may have a tendency to inspire patriotism.
Other 6hips might bo assigned to protect
the clothes of the bathers along the New
Jersey coast and occasionally carry the
national administration to dinner.
There are many "peaceful uses for war
ships’’ beside butting their no6es together in
order to give employment to needy political
heelers.
Factories in Savannah.
Gradually the people of this city are be
ginning to invest money in factories.
Within the last year or two quite a number
of factories of one kind and another have
been established, and all of them are pay
ing. It has been satisfactorily demonstrated
that all that is necessary to make the manu
facturing of a good many kinds of articles
in this city pay is good management. And
It is not a matter of surprise, therefore,
that a number of factories are projected,
and that the work of erecting plants for
some of them will soon be begun.
Those who thought that cotton mills
would not pay in this city have been con
vinced of their mistake. The one in opera
tion here is paying good dividends, and, as
a consequence, ground for a knitting mill
will he broken within a few weeks, and for
a large cotton mill at Southover before tbe
summer has passed.
From present indications it is safe to say
that there will be a half dozen new
manufacturing establishments in opera
tion within a year. A canning es
tablishment is needed greatly, and it
would pay handsomely. There are thous
ands of acres of fertile land close to this city
which would bs cleared and cultivated if
there were establishments having a capacity
for canning large quantities of fruits and
vegetables. Much of this land has very lit
tle market value now, but it would orm
mand a good price If there were a steady
home market for what it will produce.
And that it will produce fruits and vegeta
bles abuudautly has been fully demon
strated.
There Is plenty of money In Bavannah
seeking investment, and now that there is
no doubt that tnauy kinds of manufactur
ing will pay lis.e it may be reasonably ex
pected that Savannah will become a manu
facturing aa well a a commercial olcy.
Church people are talking of the possi
bility of Bishop Brooks failing of confirma
tion as Bishop of Massachusetts when bis
name comes up before the convention of
bishops. Ho very unusual an occurrence
seams Improbable. If for no other reaeon
the bishop would probably be confirmed Oh
tbe grou&d of personal popularity.
PBBBONAL
Queen Victoria has left Grasse homeward
bound.
The Kino of Greece is the most economical
of European monarchs.
The earldom of Granvi le has devolved upon
a pale and aickly looking lad who is a student
at Eton.
Princess Alix, of Hesse-Darmstadt, is the
most beautiful unmarried royal girls in all
Europe.
Jerry Simpson, the Kansas congressman,
owns a farm of 600 acres and has eighty acres
in wheat.
Senator Daniel of Virginia has consented to
deliver an oration at Norfolk on confederate
Memorial day.
Senator Pi dmb comes near the truth when
be describes tne Italian embrogiio as "a lot of
letter writin’.”
Prof. Antonin Roche says in an Interview
that the late Earl Granville was the best French
pupil ho ever had.
Barrett Browning. son of the poet, has pur
chased a house at Asolo, where his father spent
his last holidays.
Michael Davitt is about to leave England
for California on a year s visit to his wife's
relatives in that state.
Mrs. Walter Dam id hor will pass the sum
mer with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. James G.
Blaine, at Bar Harbor
Mrs. John H. Logan tabes sides against
Phoebe Uouzins and in favor of the lady mana
gers of the world’s fair.
Joseph Pulitzer has a fad. It is to com
mence whatever he has to do of Importance on
the tenth day of the month.
Eugene Field, by the way, is writing his first
novel. He has given to it the title of‘‘The
Wooing of Miß* Woppitt.”
Thomas Nelson Page's first novel, "On New
foundland Hiver." a Virginia story, will shortly
be published by the Scribners.
The Pors will give a life size statue of himself
to St. Mary s church in Hanover for a monu
ment at the tomb of T >r. Windthorst.
Walter Besant denies that he is about to
start a company or a business for the purpose
of publishing English books in New York.
Ex Gov. Beaver of Pennsylvania has ac
c.’pted the presidency of the Philadelphia Den
tal College, to succeed the late ex-Gov. Pol
lock.
Congressman-elect Thomas E. Winn of the
Ninth Georgia congressional thinks
tnere is no doubt of Mr. Crisp's election to the
speakership.
The engagement is announced of George W.
Childs Drexel. the youngest son of A. J. Drexel.
the Philadelphia banker, and Miss Irickofan
old New Jersey family.
Mayor Shakespeare of New Orleans is unable
to trace, and does not claim, any relationship
with the Strutror i playwright, and the latter
doesn’t seem interested.
The German Empress is to reside this year
with her children at the schloss of Wilhelms
hobe near Cassel, w here Napoleon 111, lived
during the autumn of 1870.
President Sticknev, of the Chicago, Wil
waukee and St. Paul, has written a book called
"The Railway Problem," in which he advocates
state owner imp of all railroads
The four prima donnas was are to take the
leading roles at Covent Garden this season in
London are all Americans They are Emma
Fames, Sioyl Sanderson, Eelie de Lussau, and
Mine. Albani.
BRIGHT BITS.
Poet (consulting thermometer)—l declare!
already 60” and not one spring sonnet yet writ
ten! b'hegrnde Slat ter.
When a woman wants to drive anything out
of the house she “shoes” It A min usually
boots it. Yonkers Statesman.
There are a good many men in the pulpit who
would not be there if they had net misunder
stood the Lord.—The Ham's Horn.
Irate Father -1 never gave my father impu
di-nce when I was a boy.
Sou—Maybe your father didn't need it .—Life.
Lord Algernon—l really consider it my duty
to marry some American girl.
F.thel—A duty for revenue only is it not?—
Life.
“Why Jo you think Georgia will make a good
ameteur athlete?’’
"Why? Because he Is so quarrelsome.”—
Puck.
"Does your wife ever grieve over the loss of
her first husband?”
“No; I'm the one that griaves.’’—.Veto York
Press.
A baccon made a vicious attack upon a city
policeman at Jacksoa-ParK yesterday, but was
linally oxtlaguiihed by means of official revolv
ers.— Chicago hews.
■8
Mns. liuaor -O. dear This paper has pub
lished a horrid scandal about me.
Miss Mina Anu Puedey—How terrible! How
did they get hold of it?— Puik.
Ball Room Conversation—My dear madam,
why is it that we so seldom meet at the skating
ground? Is it because Ido not go or because
you do not?— FTiegende hint ter.
It looks ns if the United States was about
ready to drop the role of "asylum for the op
pressed of all nations"—especially the assassi
nation ,—lndi anapolii Journal.
A young lawyer in Springfield, Mo., took an
appeal from a justice bee iu so the justice was
suffering from a severe attack of grip wnen he
rendered his decision.—Kansas City Star.
Some “eat to live” they loudlv cry;
But from the pace they swallow pie.
And other food, promiscuously.
One would infer they eat to die.— Puck.
Visit!no Stranger—l want to invest some
money in stocks on Wall street. How can I find
out which ones arc no good.
New Yorser—By buying them.— Texas Sift
ings.
Vowblls—What would you suggest as a pre
face for my new book?
(irowells —Say that, owing to a press of mat
ter, the story was unavoidably crowded out.—
Puck.
Customer—Vour 10 cent shine isn't as good as
your 5 cent one.
1 ootblack I know it, sir; that's the reason 1
charge more. They injure my reputation.—
Puck.
Justback— So Miss Vere de Fair is no longer
the r-iening bal e?
Attome—How do you know?
J ustback- I met a society lady to-day, and she
spoke well other.— aeto York Herald.
Bunco Fete—Weil, d’ye go down an' do up
Farmer Haredo?
Slippery Jim—Yas, I dun him out o' three
huner’d, but that wasn't no good!
Bunco Pete—Why not?
Slippery Jim—l was jest blanked fool enough
to trade hosses with him before I left.—Brook
lyn Life.
CURRENT COMMENT.
No Milk: of Human Kindness Here.
Ffom the Boston Advertiser (Rep.).
Now that it is so widely known that Lord
Tennyson runs a thriving milk trade in connec
tion with his poem business, the unmistakable
‘‘unlk and water" character of some of bis later
poems is fully explained.
Uncle Sam's Servants Don’t Hurry.
From the Kansas City Times (Dem.).
The war department may be a little alow in
unravelling red tape. but. given plenty of time,
it gets there after a fashion The mer.t list for
ISB3 has just been ma le public One of tne
honored men is dead and others out of service,
but this makes no difference.
How Labor Is Helped.
From the Pittsburg Post(lnd.).
Of tbe 2.010 immigrants landed at New York
last Friday 1,428 were Italians. This Is tbe
kind of American labor that some of the rat
- Tied contributors to campaign funds in 1888 are
solicltoi.a shall receive steady employment In
the coke regions whenever It can be utilized at
lower wages.
Republican "Business” Results.
Prom the Chicago Times (Ind.).
Mr Harrison is very proud of hia "business
administration ’ Will he expla n bow it is that
a "business admlnleiretioa'' which entered
office with an overflowing tendency is now
oomnelled to make a delusive statement of the
nubile debt which seeks to hide s deficit of
|*,UOO,OCO. and is impelled to peort to the
devioe* of the email shopkeeper to tide over "a
plucb?”
Beeobain's Pills ours sick headache.
Adv.
Prove That He Is Himself.
A cittzeu of Detroit, who has resided here
for nearly twenty years, and who has for the
past dozen years run a email carpenter shop on
his own book, gays the Detroit Free Free-,
(jot a check on one of the banks the other
day and stepped in to have it cashed
"Have to be i lentlßed, sir," replied the cash
ier, as he banded back the paper.
“But I am John Blank, the carpenter.
“Possibly you are. but you'll have to bring
someone that knows you."
“I'll bring twenty in rive minutes!" exclaimed
the man as he walked out.
Standing on tue steps of the bank he scanned
the faces of the i<assers bv, aid, to tis own
great surprise, it was ten minutes l> ‘fore he saw
the phiz of a friend. The two entered the liank,
and tae latter said to tn- cashier:
• I know this man to be John Blank.
"But, who are you?”
"I’m Stephen Dash."
"Never heard of you. He must bring some
one whom I know is responsible ”
"See here' This is all nonsenseexclaimed
the owner of the check, who was in a hurry
“Perhaps so," was the cool reply. "Mr. Dash,
do you positively know this man to be John
Blank?''
“Of course T do.”
“Have you ever had a legal paper with big
signature?"
“No-o."
"Ever pay him an account or collect one by
that name?”
“I guess not."
“Could you safely make affidavit that that is
his real name?"
“I—l don't believe 1 could. I've just heard
him called John blank ”
Mr. Blank brought In three other men, each
one of whom started In with the greatest confi
dence, but came out of the little end of the
horn w hen asked the usual questions. At length
he remembered a man to whom he sold a pi c -
of property four years ago. and he walked half
a mile to bring him to the bank.
"You identify hunasJoba Smith, do you?"
querie I the teller.
“Well, he signed that nam j to the deed.”
“Would you make oath that he is the same
person?"
"0m! Um! I think he is ”
“But will you sign a bond to make this S2OO
good if he isn't? ’
“O, no! Now that I look at him more closely I
begin to see a difference."
"What?” snouted Blank. “Haven't 1 lived
within stone s throw of you for ten years?”
“Y-e-s,” was the hesitating reply.
“Didn't I build your barn for you?’’
“I—l guess you did."
"Haven't you seen me almost every day for
years and years?"
“Well. I’ve seen you or somebody who looks
very much like you. I think you are John
Blank, but of course I can't swear to it”
The money was paid, and the teller afterward
said:
"He was the right party, of course, but ha 11
carried out our rule to the lettei I doubt if he
could have found a man among all his neighbors
to swear to his identity. T don’t believe we
have ten men in Detroit who can prove their
legal idenity without faking an hour's ;ime to
do it One man knows another as Smith, Jones
or Green, but that isn't legal knowledge, and it
would hot h r some of our leading merchants to
furnish legal proofs to establish the fact that
they are the persons they claim to be."
Naminsr a Limit.
While waiting at the depot I noticed n colored
man look into the room several times, says the
Baltimore Herald, and he finally beckoned to
the African who had just filled the water cooler
to come outside. Too latter took a coupling
pin with him as he left the room, and I strolled
out, to 6ee what was on the tapis.
“Look-a-beah, Abrauam!" said the first, as
the two came together. "J has come down head
prepar'd to hurt- yo' mighty hard
"Belter look out for me. sab!” re died the
second, as he wavrd the iron pin
"Yes I has come down prepar'd to hurtyo’.
but Ize gwine to give yo’ a chance Ize gwme
to be a geinTeri, I is. "
"What sort o’ chance?"
“Ize gwine to let yo’ pologire fur sayin' I was
an -account nigger."
“I’ll nebber do it!"
“Look out, Abraham!"
"Doan’ you jump ou me!”
The man with the coupling pin was the
smaller of the two, and but for being armed
with that weapon would have been assaulted at
once. The bigger man didn’t quite like the
looks of things, but he felt bound to retire hon
orably, and, after walking around and finding
the other constantly on guard, he sri i:
“1 reckon yo' was mighty busy to day?”
"Tolerable busy.”
"Hain’t got much time to study up?"
"No, not much.’’
"An’ if you was broke all to pieces yo' fam lv
would feel powerful bad?"
“Who's gwine to broke me?"
"I is da pussou dat could do it, sir, but owin’
to my feelms fur dis railroad an’ yo’ fam’ly
coupled wid de fact dat yo' is powerful busy
jess now, Ize gwine to contain myself to soma
occasbun. Look me in de eye, boy! Now, yo’
lissen; yo’ either ’pologize to me widin da next
fo'y'ars, or I'll gin yo de moas’ powerful bat
terashun any nigger eb .er beard tell of in de
state of Souf Carolina! Fo’ y’ars, sah—not
anodder day beyan’ fo’ y’ars an’ (loan you dis
reckolect it!" .
Farted.
From the Domestic Monthly.
Once more my hand will clasp your hand:
Your loved voice 1 shall hear once more;
But we shall never see the land.
The pleasant land we knew of yore;
Never, ou any summer day - ,
Hear the low music of its streams,
Or wander down the leafy way
That leadetn to the land of dreams.
Still, borne upon the scented air.
The songs of birds ruse clear and sweet.
As when I gathered roses there.
And heaped their glories at your feet;
And still the golden pathway lies
At eve across the western sea.
And lovers dream beneath those skies,
Which shine no more for you and me.
No more, ah, nevermore! and yet
They seem s > near, those summer days,
Wnen hope was like a jewel sat
To shine aiown Time's misty ways.
I sometimes dream that morning’s light
Will brinz them back to us once more,
An that 'tis but one lon : dark night
Since we two parted by tbe shore.
We parted with soft words and low.
And "Farewell till to-morrow" said;
From s a and sky, and sunset’s glow
A golden halo round you shed;
Tiien as yon went, I heard you sing,
"Haste thee, sweet morrow!" Parting thus,
How could we dream that life w ould bring
Not any morrow there for us?
We parted; and that last farewell
Its shadow on our life-path cast;
And Time’s relentless barriers fell
Between us and our happy past;
And now we meet when cares and fears
Have dulled the parting and the pain.
But never cau the weary years
Bring back our golden dreams again.
Why tie D.dn’t Have a Crutch.
Three little boys were flying kites in West
Philadelphia yesterday, says the Philadelphia
Press, and another little boy limped along with
them, looking up toward the sky at the bits of
paper and wood which were dancing and sailing
through the air. The other boys were hearty,
healthy youngsters, with red cheek? and stout
limbs; but tue fourth one was under size, pale,
emaciated and a cripple. Every step that , e
took seemed to wrench his system, but still he
laughed and hobbled along In an ungainly man
ner. enjoyi g, as well as he could, the fun the
otner boys were having, A gentleman passing
by called to him, and be responded.
"How did you become crippled?” he asked.
“I tiad scarlet fe.er when X wai a baoy." the
child replied, hanging his head as if he had
been taugnt that bis infirmity was a disgrace,
“Wouldn't it be easier for you to walk with a
crutch?" the gentleman a-ked.
“Yes, sir,” tne boy replied, and a tear glis
tened in his eye. "it wouldo t hurt me near so
much sir, but mother, she says she couldn’t
stand seeing me walk around with a crutch,
and so I don't do it.”
And so the little chap limped awav, never for
the once thinking how cruei his mother was to
make him suffer so just b-cause sue disliked
the idea of having him use a crutch.
Ol the Misery of It.
Human wretchedness touches bottom tn sea
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remedy The mischievous properties of brack •
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wholesome or unaccustomed food, excessive
fatigue, whether bodily or mental, the dyspeptic
tend toy bred by sedentary putsuue, tbe per
nicious slTvote of esposure to estieines t tern
. vraturs or dampness, all thee are effectually
oointeracted by this genie! preservative of
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Uitou* trouble.—Ad.
ITEMS OF INTEREBT. *
There was a party of . three lunching in an
uptown New York restaurant the other day.
The young wom-n evidently susta ned the rela
tions of bister and fiai cee to the gentlemen.
All were busily talk ng aid the waiter was re
filling the clart glasses. As he left tte table
one of the youug women whirled sharply around
and said; "Put that b tt!e back on tae table”
Wlreu her brother begin a remonstrance she
calmly held the bottle up to the light and
showed him that it was still nearly naif fulL
"You can do just ss you pleas-, Ned," she said,
"but I don’t propose that any waiter living
shall g-t ahead of me. He saw we were en
gaged in conversation and he meant to gob le
the rema ning wine It doesn’t go." Verily
the New York maiden knoweth the wiles of mo
wicked world.
" k are at wo3K just now on some pcetty
small wire, writes a nAuufacturer. It is l-500th
of an inch in diameter—finer titan the hair on
your heal, a great deal. Ordinary fine wire is
drawn ttirouga steel plates, but that wouldn't
do for this wi rk. because if the hole wore away
ever so little it would make the wire larger, and
that would spoil the job. Instead, it is drawn
through what is practically a hole in a diamond,
to which there is, of course, no wear These
diamond plates are made by a woman in New
Tone, who has a monopoly of tae work in this
country. The wire is then run through mac ,in
ery, which winds it spirally with a layer of silk
Thread that is .0015 of aa inch in thickness
even tine-1 an the wire, you sea. This wire is
used in making the receiving instruments of
ocean caoles. the galvanometers used in testing
cables and measuring insulation of covered
wires.
Du. Stevens of South Lebanon, 0., was
awakened by the ringing of his bell, and found
three strangers, masked, waning for admit
tance Tn-ir prompt display of revolvers and
hasty demand gave him no time for reflection.
One of the men was badly cut in tae abdomen
and they wanted him to dress the wound. He
was repeatedly warned to keep quiet at the
peril of his life and not arouse anybody. He
completed the operation and received his pa y
for bis w ork As he bade them good-night one
turned and said: “if you tell this before 10
o'clock Friday we will return and burn you
0u.." Another of the trio, with a volley of
oaths, ejaculated: “He knows us and will tell.
'Ve il finish nim now." The villain made a des
perate plunge at Stevens, striking for his heart
with a murderous-looking knife. The doctor
saved his life by throwing up his hands. One of
his fingers, however, was almost cut off, and a
dan terous s ash was made across his breast.
The three then fled.
Half the fads in which women indulge to day
are due to newspaper writers. When some
poor to ling, moiling little newspaper woman is
grinding out au article fortne woman’s column
of a big Sunday paper and gets stuck for mate
rial on her last page of copy, does she tear her
hair and say: “No butter shall l have this week
to spread my Vienna rolls, because, forsooth, I
have not ideas enough to flil up my column?"
No! .She sits down calmly and writes para
graphs that begin with; “It is the correct
thing to—” The more unique and startling
tne "correct thing” is the better. Miss se\vfad
and Mme. Latewhim read it next day and im
mediately adopt it as their pet fancy, and so
the fa.d that my tired little writer up in her
tiny room originated to earn butter with is ac
cepted on the avenue and becomes the "correct
thing” after all. As they say in confidential
newspaper coteries: "A good fake is as good
as a genuine story any day."
Actor Joseph Haworth in private life is a
student. When away from the theater Ha
worth spends all his spare time in completing
the life of John McCullough. Havorthhasan
autograph le ter from McCullough which
money could not buy. It was written several
days previous to the death of the tragedian. It
was probably the last letter written by McCul
lough, in view of the fact that for months
previous to death his brain was shattered. "We
will climb the ladder of fame together, Joe,” he
said, "and I wi 1 help you until we both reach the
top round. ’ McCullough had a valet named Bob
Pritchard, who was a curious fellow” said
Haworth, recently. “He was a thrifty Scotch
man, and to ave money he always made his
bed in McCullough’s dressing room in the
th -ater. Once John missed a handsome robe
which he wore in’Richard III.’ It couldn't be
found. Finally, several monthrf later, when
playing in New York, two little Pritchards
came to the theater, and the dresses which they
wore were cut from McCullough's handsome
robe. Pritchard expressed his sympathy curi
ously the day the poor guv'nor was buried.
'He was a great man. Mr. Tlaworth,’ he sobbed,
'a good man. Many a dressing room through
the country has he wiped the floor with me,
sir”
Avert singular form of neuralgia is that
affecting the nerves of amputated limbs. It
not rarely happens that after au amputated
stump has healed the nerves of the stump, be
ing compressed in the scar, become exceedingly
painful Curiously enough, the pain is not felt
in the stump, but seemingly in the extremity of
the limb, which has prot ably been buried for a
year or more. In one case coming under the
notice of the writer a man whose arm had been
amputa'ed above the elbow often referred to
the Daiii he felt in the little finger of the sev
ered member for years after the operation. An
old, one-legged soldier, applying for an in
crease of pension, said: "i have more pain
in the foot that aiat than iu the one that
are.” This was his terse way of saying
that he continued to have pain in the
foot which was lost on the battle field years be
fore. The explanation of this curious phenom
ena con list in the fact that the terminal fila
ments of a nerve are its sensitive parts; they
are the "feelers," the points from which the
sensations start on the.r Course to the brain,
where they give notice that something is wrong
with the outlying districts. Wuen the nerve is
injured in t is continuity the sensation is often
referred to the terminal ends. Everyone who
has struck his "crazy-bons”—the point above
the elbow, where the ulnar nerve is very super
ficial and easi.y in jured—must have noticed bow
much ihe sensation wa< affected in the little
fi 'izer. the pain being often greater than that at
th i point wuere the bios- was street
The town of Gretna, the western suburb of
New Orleans, has been under water for nearly a
month from the Ames Crevasse. Scenes such
as are witnessed there have been frequent in
Oder towns along the Mississippi during over
flow years, but, although the water has been
phen- manaily high this season, reaching within
a few inches of the disastrous flood of last year,
Gretna a,one has been a victim. Wnen the
levee lirst broke at Ames, the entire population
of that town turned out and tried to stop the
break. Rich and poor worked side by side and
built the netded levee, but the work was
too haitily done, aid the dykes gave
way before the waters, inundating the
e ,tire town. Gretna is an American Venice
with vast discomforts. Most of the people are
still living iu the submerged district with false
floore to the r houses. The funerals there are
o: the most impressive character, for a skiff is
used instead of a hearse tne mourners follow in
other b ats to the cemet ry. The latter is sev
eral feet under water, but the tombs rise above
the flood, so that the dea 1 may bed posited in
the uoper vault?. A r deeming feature of the
fl 0(1 is tne abunda <ce of fish of all kinds, which
can be caught almost in one’s bac t yard. A
curious phenomenon is to be witnessed at the
Ames crevasse. Jh • water has taken to spread
ing up, running apparently up stream. Some
curiosity was felt over this Phenomenon, and
the cause. Anexami ation shows it to be due
to the prairie tremblantes, the floating or
trembling prairies of Southern Louisiana.
A Cincinnati family, according to the Times
Star, had two objects of affection—a large
tortoise shell cat and a baby. The cat was
there first; the baby, a girl, arrived but re
cently. During the years pending baby’s
arrival. Mme. Tabby had what sporting people
call "an all-round cinch.” Everybody petted
her, and fed her, and made much of her, until
she became the £a test, biggest, sleekest Tubby
cat in ti e neiguborhood. But at baby’s birth a
few weeks ago, Mme. Tabby found her nose out
of joint rigut away. This was one of the few
and far between babies wno, like angels’
visits, are appreciated all the more
because there aren't many of them
Every man, woman and child in the house
dandled baby, and wanted to kiss her
red face, and declared that she was the only
infant in the world. Mme. Tabby, in conse
quence, was relegated to the kitchen and the
cook, and dined off oold bones and flatirons
Jealousy grew rampant in the breast feline
and she "la;d for" the baby. Yesterday baby’s
mamma laid her on the floor to see her kick h“r
tiny, pink toes, and then turned her back for
an instant. With the snarl of a miniatnre
pantoer. Tabby leaned from behind the door
where she had lain in ambus i, and attacked the
baby. Amid a tumult of shreks from the
mother, streams from baby and vicious snarls
from baby’s assailant, tbe cat swept her slaws
across the little one’s face until it was scored
like a harrowed tie and. It was nip and tuck between
tue mother and ti e cat for the cuild's life when
grandpa came in. Tue kick that he gave Mme
Tabby raised her with sucu force against the
wai! that two ribs were broken The beast has
been sulking in the yard ever since.
FOlt BILIOUS DISOHLEB9
Use Hereford a ociu Those bate.
Da. D. Schaub, Muncia, Ini., says:
"Hava used it in bilious dis rders and it
djd all that was deeiiod. I think it an in
valuable remedy."— Ad.
Diamonds in greatest variety of settings
I at titeroberg's.—Ad.
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