Georgia Historic Newspapers

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SATURDAY, JUNE 20, 1801.
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Of the Morning News, office 23 Park Row,
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the state of Georgia, Florida and South Caro
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MACON-
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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.
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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. Donaldson, formerly of the psy
chological laboratory of the Johns Hopkins
University, has just finished an examination of
tho brain of Laura Bndgman, who died in 1889
at the age of 60. She had lived contentedly and
with quite a good knowledge of the world
around her, and of the higher things of life, al
though a mute, and from her second year de
void of the sense of sight, hearing and smell,
and nearly all sense of taste. Yet, in the most
marvelous manner, she became highly edu
cated while under the care of Dr.
S. G. Howe of Boston. Prof. G.
Stanley Hall, late of Johns Hopkins, se
cured in 1578 from her some data of
the highest interest to physiologists and psychol
ogists. Her tactile sense, on which she de
fended almost entirely to establish a connec
tion between her mina and that of others, was
nearly three times more acute than that of
others. She was mentally eccentric, but not
defective. She lacked certain data of thought,
but not the ability to use what data she pos
sessed. Her brain, contrary to ail expecta
tions, though examined with the greatest care,
was found to weigh not quite three ounces less
than that of an ordinary Anglo-Saxon woman,
although she was small in stature. Probably
the most interesting information is that her
brain has served a good purpose in locating
somewhat more exactly than had been done
which of its lobes and convolutions are given
up to the several human organs of sense. Un
less further microscopic examination reveals
something additional the scientists will feel
somewhat nonplussed for a reason for her de
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