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Newspaper Page Text4 £|e Horning Hffos Morning News Building Savannah, Ga. SATURDAY, JUNE 20, 1801. Registered at the Postoflice in Savannah. 'moutinoNicwr is published every day to the year, and is served to subscriber* in the city at 25 cA its a week, $1 00 a month, $5 00 for six month* and $lO 00 for one year. The Morning News, by mail, one month. Si 00; three months, $2 20; six months, $6 00; one year, $lO 00. _ . The Morning News, by mail, six times a week (without Sunday issue), three months, $2 00; Six months, $4 00; one year. $8 00. The Morning News, Tri-Weekly. Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, or Tuesdays, Thurs days and Saturdays, three months, $1 25; six months, $2 50; one year, $5 00, The Sunday News, by mail,, one year, $2 00. The Weekly News, by mat/, oue year. $1 25. Subscriptions payable in advance. Remit by postal oraer, check or registered letter. Cur rency sent by mail at risk of senders. Letters and telegrams should be addressed “Morning News,” Savannah, Ga. Transient advertisements, other than special column, local or reading notices, amuse- Eenta and cheap or want column. 10 cents a e. Fourteen fines of agate type—equal to one inch space in depth—is the standard of measurement. Contract rates and discounts made known on application at business office. OIL R NEW YORK OFFICE. Mr. J. J. Flynn, General Advertising Agent Of the Morning News, office 23 Park Row, New York. All advertising business outside of the state of Georgia, Florida and South Caro lina wil be managed by him. The Morning News is on file at the following place*, where Advertising Rates and other In formation regarding the paper can be obtained: NEW YORK CITY— J. H. Bates, 38 Pork Row. O. P. Rowell £ Cos., 10 Spruce street. W. W. Sharp & Cos.. 21 l ark Row. Frank Kiernan & Cos., 152 Broadway. Dauchy A Cos., 27 Park Place. J. W. Thompson, 39 Park Row. American Newspaper Publishers’ Association, Potter Building. PHILADELPHIA- N. W. Ayer & Son, Times Building. BOSTON- B. R. Niles, 256 Washington street. Pettengill & Cos., 10 State street. OHICAGO— „ Lord A Thomas, 45 Randolph street. CINCINNATI- _ „ _ , Edwie Alder Compary, 66 West Fourth street. NEW HAVEN- _ , The H. P Hcb3ard Compart, 25 Elm street. ST. LOUIS— Nelson Chesmar * Cos., 112: Pine street. ATLANTA— Morrirg New* Bureau, SMj Whitehall street. MACON- Daily Telegraph Office, 597 Mulberry street. INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Meeting—De Soto Investment Company. Special Notices—Heidt’s Special Prices for Saturday; Special Saturday Treat at Geerge Schwarz’s. Amusements—Base Ball to-day by V. M C. A. and C. R. R. Teams. Excursion—Excursion of the Ladies' Wesley Monumental Association to Warsaw, July 3. Auction Sals—Ship Chandlery and Grocery Store, by J. J. Oppenheim. Quite Many?—B. H. Levy & Bro. Cheap Column advertisements— Help Want #l; Emoloymeat Want*!; For Rent; For Sale; Lost: Personal; Miscellaneous. The Morning News is forced to discon tinue, tor the present, the publication of the story entitled "A False Position,” begun last Sunday. The manuscript of the story, nailed in England, has failed to reach the agents in New York who have the handling of it. The Morning News, therefore, has sub stituted a brilliant story of love and war by Capt. Hawley Smart, a soldier novelist, entitled "Beatrice and Benedick ;A Romance of the Crimea.” It is in the author’s happi est vein. It is full of movement and there are numerous scenes of highly-wrought sensation. The action takes place in Eng land and the Crimea, the story opening just prior to the outbreak of the war with Rus sia. From start to finish this new novel of Capt. Smart’s will be found brimful of in> terest, exciting without being unduly sensa tional, full of variety and with a romantic termination. Capt. Smart is one of the best and most widely known writers in England. While the President is taking his outing this summer he should very studiously avoid any visitors who come to him pro vided with the deeds to seaside cottages that they wish to give away. Compared with the recent railway dis aster in Switzerland the frequent accidents in this country are comparatively unim portant. Destroying 150 lives at one fell swoop is something horrible to thick of. Siuce the torrid season began in the east ern cities the metropolitan newspapers have fallen to tracing crime to the weather. That may serve well enough as an amuse ment. But it doesn’t sound very reason able. It seems rather a pity that the Louisiana statutes provide only so light a punishment as one year in the penitentiary for the crime of attempting to bribe a jury. Such a sentence appears trivial compared to the offense, Freight Payer Jones says that his “posi tion is unchanged” with reference to bis candidacy for the governorship of New York. After the neminating convention Mr. Jones may find that his position still remains unchanged. Since the notorious baccarat inquiry the British people and pulpit and press have literally turned the Prince of Wales’ some wnat tattered record inside out for public inspection. And it is not a very pleasing spectacle to contemplate. Talk of burning Hebrews at the stake in Russia must be a gross exaggeration. This is not the midst of the dark ages. Nine teenth century civilization would not toler ate that sort of barbarism even In the do minions of the autocratic czar. Asa result of the ocean mail subsidy the ranks of boilermakers and iron shipbuilders are becoming overcrowded, according to the reports of republican newspaper! Just how this is to benefit those engaged in the trades named, unless they happen to be em ployers, is not altogether clear. Financier Yard turns out to have been a whole acre lot, with stock barn, wood-shed and back alley attached, judging from the magnitude of his growing projects. From the latest accounts he had a fingor In nearly all of the real estate improvement enter prises going on anywhere around Philadel phia, bwSido owning a largo pert of an in cipient city out in Southwestern Virginia. Quite an active young man, Mr. Yard. Pity he didn’t confine his manipulation to the scope of his own iaclosure. It would have been better than the confinement that is in otore for him. I Georgia’s Educational Interesta The people of Georg,a are taking more interest in educational matters than ever before. That they are doing so is a sure sign that they are advancing in everything that makes a state great and frosperous. The commencement season is about over, and the press of the state has noticed very fully the exercises at the different colleges aud seminaries. And Georgia has reason to be proud of her higher educational institu tions. They compare favorably with those of any other state, both in number and edu cational advantages. Thoir graduates are as well equipped for studying any one of the learned professions or for entering upon the duties of life as these of more pretentious institutions of some of the other states. There is no reason why the girls and bays of Georgia should be sent to northern edu cational institutions. They can find in their own state schools that offer them all the advantages that can be obtained elsewhere. And the increased interest that is being taken in the common schools is very grati fying. At Tifton, Berrien county, Thurs day, 3,000 people who were assembled to witness the laying of the corner-stone of the Tifton institute listened with profound in terest to Gov. Northen and Superintendent of Education Brad well point out the needs of the common school system and the bene fits which flow from education. The people cannot hear too much about the importance of education, and they are willing to listen. The governor and school commissioner can render them no better service than to strengthen the growing de sire for a better system of common schools. This awakening interest in common schools is shown in the gradually increasing appropriations for common school purposes. But the appropriations are not yet any wtaere near as large as they should be. Bet ter schoolhouses and a higher grade of teachers aio greatly needed. And it is im portant that the schools should be kept open nine months of the year. To accomplish these reforms money is required, and a great deal of it. The people must be taught that they cannot put their money to a better use than that of building up the common school sys tem. They must invite taxation for that purpose. If they give their children a good common school education they will give them something that will be of more benefit to them than the money they may leave them, because a good education is something that oaDnot he lost and is always available ineirnlng a living. And just in proportion as the common schools are improved will the state prosper. A good class of immigrants will seek homes where there are churches and first-class schools, which are the signs of an advanced civilization, and which are rocoznized to be such by all. Where they are comfortable homes and a thrifty and prosperous people are sure to be found. It Is certain that the 3,003 people who as - at Tifton are more deeply im preesed with the necessity for better common schools than they ever were before, and that in future thoir influence will be ia favor of larger common school appropria tions. A Brilliant Carser Ended. Our dispatches yesterday contained the announcement that H. Victor Newcomb, one of th" boldest and most successful oper ators In Wall street, had been take l to an insane asylum. Heisoneof the host known men in the country, having attained promi nence in connection with one of the greatest railroad systems in the south. It is not probable tint Mr. Newcomb will ever take part in business affairs strain. His insanity, it is believed, is not due to nervous prostration caused by ovorw >rk. His mother was insane, and was confined in a madhouse for thirty-five years, and it is probable that his affliction is inherited. Mr. Newcomb has not been sound men tally for quite a long time. His conduct has attracted attention for several years, but no one suspected that his eccentric actions were the signs of a disease that would eventually necessitate his confinement in an asylum. Last October he returned from a trip to Europe, and just before reaching New York his condition became such as to greatly alarm his wife. He was taken to his splendid Fifth avenue home and was nevor again able to attend to his affairs. Gradually he became violent, and when it was no longer safe to be in his presence he was taken to the institution in which, in all probability, he will end his days. A few years ago, when he was a power in the railroad world and in Wall street, no one would have ventured to predict such a sad ending of so brilliant a career. He was regarded as an exceptionally able man, and his success made him the center of as brill iant a set of men as there was to bo found in New York. Those who did not kuow of bis affliction will hear of bis sad fate with great surprise. Church people of all denominations will doubtless be no little shocked by the recent statement of the editor of the Baptist Examiner to the effect that the “No-Bap tlst' U called upon to believe in the absolute accuracy of the Bible as to matters of history and science.” If it cannot bo relied upon for the absolute accuracy of m >re matters of chronology and mathematical reckoning how is it to be relied upon for the absolute accuracy of its prophecies and traditions which merely rest upon correct quotation for their authenticity? Such a basis for incredulity once set afoot will, within a short time, shake all belief in the divine origin of the book that has for cen turies been reverently regarded as Holy Writ. Notwithstanding all of the recent vocifer ous declarations of the New York Sun and its satellites in this states to the effect that Georgia was against Cleveland, the recent meeting of the press association shows that the editors of the state, who give a pretty accurate reflex of the general sentiment in their various localities, are favorable to Cleveland by nearly a two-thirds majority, and only two were in favor of Hill. That’s about the way the two men will relatively stand in the next national democratic con vention. Talk is cheap. High church triumphed in the election of the new Episcopal bishop of Milwaukee. Electing Dr. Isaac Nicholson of Cleveland is attributed more to his high church pro clivities than to superiority or excessive popularity in any other respect. But it seems a trifle strange that Bishop Potter of New York should have been placed in nom ination. It is not at all likely that ha would have accepted. Nothing free that is worth seeing is al lowed to escape the ladies of the Harrison household in their European jauut. They are to visit Patti at her Welsh castle before they go to spend a spell with Minister Reid at Paris. Anybody who has any more free fun to offer has only to speak up. THE MORNING NEWS: SATURDAY, JUNE 20, 1891. Insurance Methods. The defalcation of one of the principal agents of the New York Life Insurance | Company has Parted a good deal of talk in Now York about the lobbying which, it ia alleged, the life insurance companies of that state do at Albany when the legislature is in session. According to this gossip the life companies spend vast sums of money to get the kind of legislation they want or to pre vent legislation which they regard as in imical to their interests. There may or may not be foundation for this gossip. If there is Done the companies should take steps at once to stop it, because it is exceedingly injurious to them. It is calculated to create the impression that they are not doing a strictly honest business, and, therefore, are in a position to be black mailed by unscrupulous lobbyists and legis lators who know their secrets. If the life insurance companies are honeetly managed and the statements they make to the public are true, they have nothiDg to fear from the lobby or the legislature. The legislature would not dare to enact legists', tion that would injure them, because they are trust institutions in which a vast num ber of people have an interest. But if there is anything crooked in the way they are conducted they are certain to be the prey of all the dishonest men who make a living by hanging around the legislature. or who succeed in getting themselves elected members of that body. While there seems to be no doubt that the New York Life insur ance Company is a very sound and solid institution it would perhaps be wise for the insurance commissioner to investigate it thoroughly. People in all parts of this country and of other countries hold its policies, and they would feel better satis fied if there should be a thorough investi gation of its affairs. A well-known New York insurance man said recently that a revolution in life insurance business was bound to come at nd very distant day. According to his view the management of some of them was not in accordance with safe business methods. Medicinal Fropert es of Music. For uncounted generations we have been told "music bath charms to sooth the sav age,” to which the immortal Joe Miller hdd the hardihood to add that it will also “split a rock and bust a cabbage,” which clearly demonstrates the irresistible force of its power when it once “gets going.” After centuries spent in regarding harmonious sounds as merely the carbonated beverage of life, useful only for soothing purposes. It is quite agreeable to have eo eminent a medical authority as the London Lancet seriously advance the theory that music may be utilized as a mental and physical tonic with the most satisfactory results. With the true principle of orthodox medical ethics the Lancet distinctly an nounces that thu now symphony specific is not a general panacea for all human ill-. It is merely commonded as a desirable treatment for nervous disorders of a cer tain sort which may be readily affected by the vibrations of “sweet sounds.” Its ad vocates regard it only as “one of those in tangible but effective aids of medicine which exert their healthful properties through the nervous system.” Harmony is desigued to be used in such cases simply as a tonic to strengthen the nerves and in vigorate the overworked brain by “re freshing the vasoularity of every organ.” By judicious application it might really prove beneficial in that way, as any reason ing person wholly devoid of medical learn ing can readily see. Such a suggestion sounds easily probable. But the strangest application of the new mental tonic is its supposed effectiveness in the treatment of iusanity. Unless we place the hypothesis upon the homoeopathic theory that like cures like the proposition sounds rather incredible at first thought. Consid ered from tbat standpoint, however, it may not seem altogether unreasonable. Many a man is supposed to have been driven in sane by discordant sounds alleged to be music. But in that view of the case we cannot expect to heal his disorder by the ap plication of the exact like. Else the very bad quality of discord with which we should be forced to persecute the afflicted would be sufficient to excite the earnest commisera tion of the humane the world over. Good music would doubtless have a very salutary general effect as a preventive agent. It should be judiciously adminis tered to the public as one of the sanitary precautions of every city. It would tend to smooth out the rough places in the mind and produce contentment and probably divert the thoughts of many unfortunates from despair and suicide. Unless President Hippolyte is a far differ ent looking man from what the newspaper pictures represent him to bo, his brutal looks should have warned the people of Hayti of what they had to expect from so murderous-looking an animal. Nothing but bloodshed could be expected under the domination of such a man. Hayti is an ex ample of a republican form of government under difficulties. Appropriately enough it is called the Black Republic. It has had a dark history. Such industry as these “ fakirs” of tin mill stories exhibit would be valuable to the country if directed toward some legiti mate enterprise that has a tangible existence. But they seem to prefer going around the country inventing plausible yarns about mythical tin-mills that never materialize. This time the inventor has located his fictitious enterprise in Dakota. It’s pretty well out of reach there and safe from investigation. When the congress elected under the di rection of Dictator Balmaceda undertook to literally abolish the constitution of Chile it virtually abolished the republic in so far as any illegally constituted body of men could do so. Naturally enough the people of the country were not allowed any voice in the matter. Securing their ratification of such a radical and dangerous subversion of law was more than they dared attempt. Giving the proffered fee for performing a marriage ceremony between two Boston Salvationists to the bride of the ceremony would have appeared an exceedingly gra cious and kindly act on the part of Rev. Dr. Lorimer had he not done it in so unneces sarily ostentatious a manner as to render the act suggestive of an advertising deviea. Really considerate actions are rarely made so conspicuous. One of the disastrous effects of excessive heat in some parts of the country is the Urge percentage of deaths among cattle on the way to market. Losses of lambs and young calves have been particularly heavy. Asa measure of safety they should not be en trusted to the railroads. Keeping them at home a while is better than losing them altogether. , PERSONAL. Lillian Russell patronize® the race® erery fine day. She always attracts attention and nfver wears the same costume twice. She can pick the winners, too. Oen. Armstrong, founder of the famous Hampton school for Indians and negroes, leaves San Francisco this week fora visit to the Sandwich Islands, his birthplace. AnJaffectino incident is related of Sir John MacDonald's invalid daughter, who. on being told of her father's death, said; “I must try and not be a care, but a comfort, to mother DOW.” The Czar of Russia will celebrate bis silver wedding next November in a moderate fashion near Copenhagen. Immediately thereafter, if invited, he will visit Emperor William in Berlin or Potsdam. Ex Senator Ingalls deni js the report tele graphed from St. Louis that he had been ten dered the chancellorship of the Washington University of St Louis. The report was as great a surprise to him as anybody else. Marie Wainwright visits the stores in the neighborhood of Twenty-third street Dearly every day when in New York. She always dresses stylishly, and attracts a great deal of attention on the street. She will be at Saratoga this summer. Gen. William B. Barton, who died at the Gilsey house. New Yo.k, Saturday evening, was a brigade commander in the Army of the Poto mac*, afterward a street railway builder in Pitts burg. and since 1878 had been engaged in vari ous theatrical enterprises. Phof. Theodore Woolsky Dwight, who re tires from Columbia College on July 1, was one of the best law teachers in the country. His re tirement from active service in Columbia Col lege will create a vacancy in that “house of learning” which will be difficult to fl 11. Lord Coventry, of whom 60 much has been heard in the Gordon-Cumming trial, is the principal steward of the jockey club, the final authority on racing matters, and chairman of the tribunal before whom all offenses against the laws of the turf and of betting are tried. Bartholdi has just completed two female figures, clothed in Alsatian costumes, for the monument of Gambetta at Ville d'Avray. One is bowed down with grief, while the other seems full of hope. They are intended to represent Alsace and Lorraine seeking refuge at the altar of France. By Henry Irving's special desire, his son Henry will commence his theatrical career under John Hare, the lessee, manager and lead ing actor of Garrick's theater. Young Henry Irving will make his debut at tbat theater dur ing the coming season as ‘‘Lord Beaufroy''in the “School for Scandal.” Lady Brooke in her girlhood was as demure as a little quakeress and even more devout. she was a constant churchgoer and had a ‘‘mission'* for parish work. So, perhaps, after all her in tcre*t m the Prince of Wales is purely platonic and springs from a laudable desire to turn H . R. H. from the error of hi® wavs. “The Sleeping City” is the rather suggestive title of a comedy melodrama dealing with New York life which has Just been completed by Octavu® Cohen, managing editor of the Charleston (S. C ) Daily World. The play is said to abound in thrilling episodes, including a humic asylum oi fire, a gambling house scene, a steamship wharf, a newspaper office, and the rescue of a child at the Pars Place station of the Sixth avenue elevated road. BRIGHT rilTo. He—l have never yet met the woman I thought I cou and marry. She—No. they are very hard to please, as a rule.— Life's Calendar. She—l am afraid that bell ringing means an other caller. He (imploringly;—You know there is such a thing as you not beiug at home. She—Yes. and th<*ie is such a thing as my being eugaged. —B. oOKlyn Life. Waht do you conceive to be the chief end of man, doctor?” asked the freshman. “Well,” returned the professor, thoughtfully, ‘it all depends. If you are going in for scholar ships, I should say the heal; if tor tootball honors, the foot is the end to be cultivated.”— Hat per's Bazar. Tourist (in Oklahoma)—Why. Mr. Harps, I am surprised to see you here at the race track, three miles from your church, on the Sabbath! The Rev. Mr. Harps (with dignity)—You didn't suppose ray voice was st rong enough to reach my congregation at a distance of three miles, did you?— BUck. Young man -I hate a poem here. Editor (after examining iy—Well, how does $lO strike you? Young man—That's really more than I ex pect ed. Editor—Well, we can’t publish such a poem as that for less than slo. Judy*. A New Yorts woman has gone into the busi ness of selling second-hand trousseaus She was horrified the other day by receiving this epistle, written in a masculine hand: "Madame—Pleas* send one pair second-hand trowaers to my address. See that they do not baj at the knees." —Detroit Fiee Press. They took the Fitchburg from Boston to Troy. At the Falls the brakeman thrust his head in at the door and seemed to interrogat •: "Hoosick? Hoosiok?” Alfred Rufus looked in quiringly around the oar. and discovering no object in need of a physician’s care, appealed to his father. "Papa, who is sick?'"—Pharma ceutical Era. “Cyrus,” said his wife, as he came in wearily and threw himself on the lounge after an evening down town, “I wish you would let politics clone. Tue excitement and worry are just ruining your health." “I can't help it, Emily," replied the alder man from the S'teenth ward. "I am not in politics for my health.”—-Ckic go Tribune. A gentleman at the Free Synod of Suther land and Caithness said that the Highlands were not yet ripe for preaching total abstinence. He quoted the case of a candidate fora vacant con gregation having offended an elder by refusing a giass of whisky. The elder remarked that he could not see how the young preacher could have grace when he would not drink whisky.— The Cnurchman. Hicks Wonder what’s the matter with Sur leigh. He never 590a anywhere, never sees anybody, and in foot is as much a hermit as though he lived J,ow miles from a human habi tation Wicks—Nothing at all's the matter with him. He is engaged in solving the social problem, and naturally he does not wish to have his mind dis tracted by association with his fellow man.— Boston Transcript. Judge Varderstalk Is a prominent New Yorker, who is immensely wealthy and closer than the bark on a dog. He walks the entire distance from oity hall to his residence on Ninety-ninth street, although just now the heat is very great. There are street cars running right to his door. A friend said to him: "It must make you sick to walk eight miles home to dinner. I don’t see how you can oat a mouth ful." “That’s just why I waUri” reDlied Vander staik, who is descended from one of the very original butch settlers, "yes, that's why I walk. It makes me so tired I can’t eat. Iff were to ride home I’d have a starving appetite, but when I walk so far 1 have no appetite at all wnon I get home, so you see I save both car fare and dinner."— Texas Siftings. CURRENT COMMENT. Tricks of the Tariff. From the New York World (Bern.). When the taxpayers begin to pay the $12,000,- 000 annual bounties to sugar growers they will appreciate the republican trick of “free sugar." Sociable, But Suspicious. From t\e Cincinnati Bnouirer (Dem.). At the various games of craps which boomed and bloomed in Cincinnati last evening it was solemnly resolved that when Sir Gordon came over he snail be permitted to play, but that he shall be closely watched. Persistent Piety. From the Chicago Mail (fntf.j. A Wayne county, Ohio, clergyman who was sentenced to the Columbus penitentiary a few days ago upon a two-year sentence for burg lary. announces; that he will resume his minis terial functions as soon as his sentence expires. The Ohio man is irrepressible. Practical Proposition. From the Chicago Inter Ocean (Rev.). A correspondent of an eastern journal at Washington complains bitterly of ‘ the small salaries paid derss br the government.’• Why don't they strike and quit and come west and plow corn? There is a whole army of young men and women ready to jump at “the small salaries'’ paid by Uncle Sam. Therfc is danger in impure blood. There is safety in taking Hood’s Sarsaparilla, the great blood purifier. 100 doses one dollar.— Trials of an Author. There came to a man who has been a success in literature which we should envy did we not a’j agree that he deserves it, says Arlo Bates in th* Book-Bvyer, a lady who was neither young nor fair, but who had the assurance of youth in combination with the obstinacy of advancing years. ”1 have decided.” she said to him, “tbat I must earn my living by writing poerr. <. I sent a poem to the Blank Magazine and they re turned it with a printed slip. Now, I want you to write to the editor and tell him teat he made a mistake.'* It naturally seemed to the author tbat he had to deal with a humorist or a mad woman; but the lady was certainly in earnest and apparently sane. He endeavored to snow her that it was not his business to interfere with the decisions of ediror.' of magazines, who might be supposed to know their own business. The lady insisted, however, and at the end he was forced to decline point blank to do what she asked Thereupon sne turned upon him and declared that he was one of those who endeav ored to ke m others out in order that they may have the field to themselves, and who are meanly jealous of other authors who are sure to eclipse them if they are but heard. ”It is all a ring,” she declared with vehemence. “I have been told so before, and now I am sure of it. I can't make you do justice to me, but I can show you up.” Iler method of “showing him up” has been to send letters of bitter invective to the papers, one of which fell into my hands. Of course nobody would print them, but she per .everes, and in addition to,this she sends to the luckless author, whose crime is that he did not make the editor print the rhymes of an unknown woman, a letter one s a week. Of course he burns them unopened, and it is not easy to see what satisfaction it can be to the woman to keep on with this sort of thing; but the fact remains that she does The story is not of profound importance, but it throws a curious bid of side light upon the life of the successful author of to-day. Two Marvelous Stories. “Your average Californian possesses a most fertile imagination; that is, he is the most in genious liar in the world,” remarked H. E. Barnes, Jr ,to the Minneapolis Journal. “Do you know Jack Harding? No? Old classmate of mine who, when he went through college, was the model of 'B4. Well, I met Jack at the West yest *rday. He had sought his fortune in California and failed to find it. Quite acci dentally 1 spoke of an enormous cactus plant which I had seen while in California, and gave it as my opinion that it was about four feet in circumference. ‘That's nothing,' replied my old chum. T recollect riding through the woods in California one day last spring, when 1 was suddenly astonished by seeing a man come out of a door of what appeared to be an enormous green rock. I ap froached, and surely there was the door. knocked, and the door was opened by a handsome young woman dressed in tbs highc of ashion. I said: “Excuse me, madam, but I was curious to learn whether or not this was a human habitation." She smilingly said it was, and took me through the house. There w ere ten rooms and an artesian well? Would you believe it? That family were living in the interior of a cactus plant, the walls being formed or the branche,s of the plant. There was only one trouble, though. You see the plant was young and thriving, and consequently the house and rooms kept getting larger. The ladv of the house told me they were going to move as soon as they could find a plant small enough to suit them, and that her husband had just gone out house or cactus hunting.” “And the artesian well?” queried the Journal man, with breataiess interest. “O, yes! Well, California beets grow to an enormous size, you know, and are porous. Jack says that the root of the beet grows down until it strikes water; then there you are—a ready made artesian well.” The Law's Msj sty in Arizona. They are not very rigid as to court formal ities, says the San Francisco yews Letter , down on the Rattlesnake Lode in Arizona. “I don't see the prisoner,” said the county judge, as he walked up preDaratory to sentenc ing a culprit. “Where is he?” “I'm blessed if I know,” said the sheriff, look ing under the b“nches. “Just lent him my paper of fine cut, too.” Was hea bi< red-headed man with a soar on his chest?” asked the foreman, who was playing stud-horse poker with the rest of ths jury. “That's the cuss,” said the clerk,who had beun Getting on a horse race with the prosecuting at torney. “Why, then,” said the foreman, “he asked me to go out and take a drink about an hour ago, but I showed him I had three sixes, and he said, ‘Well, next timo, then,' and walked out.” “The thunder, you say,” roared his honor. “However, he's sure to be in town next week to see the dog fight, and some of you must remiud the sheriff to shoot him on sight. The docket is just jammed full of horse-stealing cases, and there is no time to waste over a measley homi cider. Next case.” T h 9 Angel-Post. The following graceful poem by Mary H. C. 3ootd, published ia 1864. anticipated the con ceptions of telepathy and telephony which have been realized since: “I nave nothing to say to you, dearest— Nothing that 1 can write, For all the word that I had to send, I sent by the post to-night. “Not in the form of a letter. With mark, and stamp, and seal. Did I trust the te ider message Tbat my soul had to reveal. “Not in a bunch of blossoms, Not in a sweet bouquet. Did I hide the beautiful meaning Of the words I dared not say. “But I sent the sweet heart-music No mortal on earth e’er wrote What need that the soul’s soft melodies Be written down by note? “So I've nothing to say to you, dearest, But to send you my love at most. And the news of my heart that I cannot write, I send by the Angel-Post." A Chivalrous Shiner. On the corner of one of the business streets of the city the other morning, aays the Detroi Fret Press, a shoeblack had just finished polish ing the shoes of a well dressed and gentle ap pearing man. The latter was unfortunate in having a deformity which compelled him to wear a shoe on one of his feet with an exceed ingly thick sole, thus endeavoring to make up mechanically for what nature had denied him. “How much shall I pay you?" he asked of the boy. “Five cents, sir." “O, but you should have more than 5 cents for polishing my shoes," said the gent'eman, tapping the thick sole significantly with his cane. “No. sir," said the hoy; “5 cents is enough. 1 don’t want to make no money out o’ your hard luck." The customer handed out a coin, laid his hand on the youngster's head for a moment and passed on. Who says the days of chivalry are over? Sho Was An Unknown. A story of Ella Wheeler Wilcox, which is too good to slumber, and which Mrs. Wilcox tells herself, says the New York Times, is of her call not long ago upon an uptown rector in whose parish book she desired to enroll the nime of a needy woman, a protege of hers. The reverend gentleman received her request favorably, and, opening the register, asked, as he began to write, who it was that recommended the sempstress. "My name is Wi.oox,” replied his visitor. “Ella Wheeler Wilcox.” “Ah," commented the clergyman, “I do not remember to have heard of you. ’’ Mrs. Wilcox laughed. ‘‘Really,” she said, "I think you are the only man in New York who has not." The rector smiled in his turn, and, coming to the next question, continued: "And to whom do you refer, Mrs. Wilcox?” "Sir," replied the lady, with impressive dig nity, “I refer to the whole world.” A Poem Condensed. Newspaper traditions in New York contaia many quaint instances of the art of boiling down copy says the New York Times. It is a common saying that a newspaper receives twice as much matter as it prints. A large sacrifice to the blue pencil or rejected copy spindle Is In evitable. The champion boiler of news in the New York offices in the days that veterans in the business still remember was Dr. Wood, who exercised his art in the .Sun office for many years, and the most artistic feat of condensation remembered of him is worth recording. One night a half column poem was turned over to him to edit. Copy was copy to his practical eye, and be set out to get at the meat of the verses and state it in the fewest possible words, this was the result: Do you love me* No. Then I go. Do not weaken the stomach with strong chemicals. Simmons Liver Regulator is mild, but effective— AxL ITEMS OF INTEREST. Jefferson Brown, a wealthy bachelor farmer residing two miles east of Harrison, 0., on Tuesday evening last retired as usual, but was soon awakened by a dream that someone had stolen his horse and cart. He determined to inves; urate, ana found that the rig which he saw in his dream was missing At the toil-gate on the Cincinnati and Harrison pike it was learned that the horse ana cart had passed through in charge of a female. A search was at once made of the town end the missing prop erty lound at A. F. Burk's livery stable, where it had been left by a domestic in the employ of Mr. Brown. She had taken this means to at tend an entertainment given in the city hall that evening. A Fifth street car was bounding merrily along through the down-town Russian settle ment in Philadelphia recently when one of the horses slipped upon the sifcny cobbles just above South street, and, falling, was consider ably injured by the wheels of the car running upon him. A telephone message brought a horse ambulance dashing down the street, and with a degree of celerity and discipline that would have done credit to the crew of a hospital arnoulanca or a police patrol wagon, the suffer ing beast was placed in the padd**d vehicle, secured with straps ant bauds, and hurried away to the stable. Each of the passenger rail way companies now has a regularly organized ambulance service. Manilla is one of the most important ports in the Philippine Islands, but, strange to say, is one day behind all other places of its size in the world. Tnis curious fact is accounted for in this way: Although the Pnilippine Isla ds lie near the Asiatic coast, they were discovered 1 y Spaniards who bailed from America. When they crossed the magic line where Sunday sud denly changes into Monday, these fiery dors of proud Castilian ancestors did not revise their calendar. When toid of this years later, when informed that their mode of reckoning time was not up to modern notions, they only said that that was so much the worse for modern notions. Anyhow, the fact remains that these Philippine islanders keep plodding along one day behind all the rest of the world, which reckons time by new style. Mrs. Peary, who accompanied her husband on the latest Arctic exploring expedition, writes the Philadelphia Inquirer th*t she is a great walker and fond of roughing it, and expects to spend a great deal of time out of doors this summer. “I shall botanize, sketch, take photo graphs of all the curious and pretty scenes,” her letter says, “and expect to do considerable gunning. There are quantities of loons, eider ducks, ptarmigan and various other sea birds. Then, too, there will be a daily romp with my two jet black Newfoundland dogs, which were brought direct from St. Johns, N. F., for me by Captain Pike, and I will practice snowshoeing ana skier running. During the three months when we will have continuous night I shall keep myself busy mounting my botanical specimens, reading and looking after such things as belong to woman’s department. Besides, we take wita us many games, including chess, checkers, dominoes, parchesi, backgammon and cards We will also have occasional musicales, each member of the party playing a different musical instrument. We propose to be a jolly party.” A gentleman has just arrived in Kansas City from Greer county, in the extreme southwestern part of Indian territory. The Red river and its north fork have been out of their banks for over a week, completely hemming the people in and shutting off all communication with the outside world. The rainfall there has been ter rible and the people are suffering everywhere. Over half the wheat crop has been ruined and corn and oats are nearly ail killed. A cloudbuisfc inundated the little town of Frazer, ruining every merchant's stock of goods and compelling the people to flee for their lives. Two persons were drowned in the town and three in the country. Along Turkey creek and Salt Fork a dozen or more houses were washed away. A Mr. Phillips and his daughter-in-law floated a mile on a portion of their house and finally washed ashore. Mrs. Phillips and her iittie daughter grasped the limbi of a tree and hung there until morning, when they were rescued with a raft. Hundreds of people ate living ->ut of doors on highland. The damage done in that county alone will ex ceed $500,000. A copy of the Wurtemburg Tageblatt has reached this country containing an interesting account relative to the world’s Columbian ex position. The paper states that it is a matter of congratulation that a United States world's fair commissioner had just made arrangements with Herr vou Egle, royal director of the Stutt gart industrial training seh >ol of Wurtemburg, whereby ten graduates oi that school were to gd to Chicago and assist in the erection of cer tain portions of the world’s fair buildings. The article also states tbat the students are promised $l5O a month for their services. Pitts burg artisans say that the men must be wanted for certain pecu.iar work unusual to American skilled labor, as advices to trades organizations from Chicago unions state that that city is overrun with workmen, ski led and unskilled. Regarding too probable bearing of the importa tion or the Stuttgart students on the contract labor laws, lawyers here say tnat an interesting question might arise, as the contract is made between a world's fair commissioner on one side and the head of a scnool controlled by the gov ernment on the other. Rnv, *Pr. George E. Ellis of Boston says: ‘There is a story about a oertain distinguished orator, lawyer and statesman of Massachusetts that has never been told,and I dare say the gen tleman wouldn't like to have his name men tioued now Besides, the story is very old, aud it all happened somethin? like thirty-five years ago. But i is a good story. and its value is only very slightly diminished by the necessity for withholding names. Here it is: As I say, some thing like thirty-five years ago I lived in the Highlands, and in my house there was a young domestic who was very bright and very indus trious One day I discovered her in earnest conversation with a braw young man at the back gate. She talked with him ioug and tenderly, and when he went away I chaffed her about her company. But she surprised me very much by bursting into tears and declaring that she was ready to give up her place, but that she meant no harm. I questioned her further, and discovered that she nad loaned some books out of mv library to the young man. and he had come to return them. The yrun? man was her brother, aud he was studying iaw, bu v Jbe bad little money to buy books with, and he had taken this means of pursuing knowledge under difficulties. To -day men call tbat young man ‘general,’ and if I told you his name you'd be startled, 1 assure you.” Grace Raynor is only 15 years old. She lives with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. William L. Ray nor, at Patohogue, N. Y. She is the youogest child. For some time David Curtis, aged 19, who lives near by, bas slyly paid her attentions. The girl has had the advantages of a good borne, schooling and music lessons, and her parenta were much opposed to her keeping com pany witn Curtis,who is a hratler in the employ of Stage Driver Overton. Curtis was at last forbidden by the Raynors to come upon their premises or have anything to do with their daugnter. Tuesday sne disappeared. Mrs, Curtis told Mrs. Raynor that Grace had gone to her brother’s. Claries Raynor, but she was frightened later by a search warraut into ad mitting that Grace had gone to I. K. Dodge's, three miles north of Patchogue. Thursday Charles Raynor went to Dodge's and took her home. Her father, to prevent her i raving home until his return that evening, placed a small chain about her shoe top at the ankle and fast ened it to the floor. Grace, from a window, complained of cruelty to a friend of the Cur tises who was passing by. He lodged a com plaint with Justice Carman. On receipt of the letter Mrs. Raynor said they intended to pre vent. if possible, the threatened calamity to their daughter, whom she released, but put a guard over. Dr. H. H. Terry has made nfficiavit, after an examination, that Grace received uo injury either from tne chain or from the beat ing. Curtis was arrested for abduction. Dr. H H. 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