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THURSDAY. .TT7XE 35. 1891.
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'INDEX to NKW ADyKBTISEMKNTS.
Meetings—Zembbabel Lodge No. 15, F. and
A M.; Savannah Soap Werks; De Soto Invest
ment Company; Savannah Board of Trade;
Union Workingmen's Association; Fidelity
Castle No. 7, K. G. E.
Special Notices —Dividend Notice, Ogle
, thorpe Savings and Trust Company; HoMt’s
[’Prices for Last Week in June; Dividend Notice,
(••Chatham Bank; Graduation Exercises of the
‘ Grammar School; Graduation Exercises of the
Ufligh School; Dividend of the Savannah Times
publishing Company.
Couldn’t Shut Down—B. H. Levy * Bro.
Proposals—Wanted for Constructing a Flood
at Mouth of Dundee Canal.
Join in the Race and Call—At Lindsay &
Morgan's.
An Excellent Shoe at Last—Geil it Quint.
Auction Sales—Sale Continued, by J. J. Op
. gienheim.
1 Educational—The Agues Scott Institute, De
-1 catur, Ga.
Cheap Column Advertisements—Hold Want
;•!; Employment Wanted; For Rent; For Sale;
i Lost: Personal. Miscellaneous.
Rumors to the effect that Supt. Porter, of
’ the census bureau, contemplated resigning
might hare been known to be false. Was
Mr. Porter ever known to resign anything?
Quite a presidential boom has been started
by a Nebraska politician (or Chief Justice
Fuller. But it is not at all likely that the
justice would allow his name to be used
in the convention.
When the announcement is made that
Emperor William intends to go Ashing in
Norway for whales it must be distinctly
understood that the word must not be bo
spelled as to imply any sort of angling for
Wales. ~
Bister Phoebe Couzlns is still engaged In
a persistent tussle with the government try
ing to secure the payment of the salary that
might have been due her if she had not been
dismissed Col. Cousins is becoming some
thing of a nuisance.
Borne of the watohful local papers are so
surprised to note that President Harrison
went to oburoh last Sunday that they felt
; bound to comment unoa it. Possibly Mr.
: John Smith was also there and just as
devout as our national egotist.
Precautions against the importation of
contagious diseases cannot be too stringent.
. Therefore it is gratifying to see that the
treasury department is instituting a system
of olose and thorough sanitary Inspeotion of
all immigrants landed ou American shores;
“Down with imported sluggers; our homo
pugilists must be proteoted,” is the ary that
the toughs oT this country have started.
Judging from the way Kilrain was treated
by Slavin it would appear that “our home
■luggers” really need protection when they
go into the ring.
For real hard trying the lowa courts at
Council Bluffs are away ahead of anything
yet heard of. Evidently they believe in the
try-again principle ont there. Else they
would not have kept one murder case on
trial for thirteen years, with no chanoe of
an immediate conviction.
Western dispatohes tell of an Indiana
mulatto at Laporte who is turning perfectly
blue after a short season of medical treat
ment* tor epilepsy. Very little medical
attendance is required to make one blue.
Possibly it was the doctor’s little bill that
affected the Indiana darky.
After all the talk that Kansas has been
doing about the farmers’ alliance and the
third party it is not altogether strange to
hear that the wind culminated in a veri
table cyclone that swept the state from end
to end and did no little damage. Wind
always does more or less damage.
Only think of the man who invented
nitro-glycerine living to the age of 66 years
and then dying calmly and deliberately while
thousands of people who only monkeyed
with it once died under 30 so suddenly that
their shoelaces smashed and they could
Bcaroeiy be swept up. Seems odd, doesn’t it?
Evangelist Sam Small has turned upon
his enemy and begun to make it exceedingly
torrid for the Rev. J. Wesley Hill, the
Utahite who recently accused him of
pecuniary impropriety of some sort. In this
warming up process the Rev. Small will be
very ably assisted by the weather clerk.
What Mr. Small charges is libal, and be re
quests cash compensation in damages.
Bartow's Indignation Meeting.
Citizens of Bartow, Polk county, Florida,
held an indignation meeting on Monday
and adopted resolutions condemning the
Times-Union for saving, among other
things, the following: “There is a big infla
tion in Fiorida phosphates. The business
needs to have a good bit of the wind taken
out of it right now." The Times-Union
also stated that the money thus far made In
phosphate; in Florida has been made chiefly
by speculation In phosphate lands, and pre
dicted that a reaction would soon take
place.
The Bartow people appear to be highly
indignant at these statements of the Times-
Union. They declare that the Times- Union
deserves the condemnation of every citizen
of Florida “for thus wantonly stabbing at
our great phosphate industry,” and they
stamp the Times-Union's assertion as “un
qualifiedly false and born only of
ignorance.”
There is no doubt about the richness of
Florida’s phosphate deposits. The state gov
▼ernmentand the government of the United
States have certified to the existence, in por
tions of Florida, of phosphates of an eicel
lsnt quality and in an almost unlimited
quantity. And phosphates are being mined
and marketed by the hundreds and thou
sands of tons. There are Savannah fertilizer
companies that have invested large sums of
money in Florida phosphate lauds and they
are not speculating iu the lands. They are
mining the phosphates and shipping them
to market.
But there is speculation in phosphate lands.
There is no doubt about that. And what
harm is there in speculating in these lands ?
All who buy them don’t intend to go into
the business of mining phosphates. The
majority of the people who buy lots in
towns which are being boomed don’t intend
to build houses upon them. They purpose
to sell them for more than they gave for
them. And why shouldn’t people buy phos
phate lands, or lands supposed to contain
phosphates, iu Florida with the the view of
selliug them at a profit.
What is taking place in Florida phosphate
lands is just what takes place In every min
ing locality. Some phosphate lands are
purchased for speculation and some for de
velopment, but ths foot that there is specu
lation in the lands Is not an indication they
are not rich in phosphate. Indeed, the
greater the speculation in them is and the
higher the prices received for them are the
stronger the presumtion is that they are
valuable.
It is not to be expected that everybody
who owns phosphate lands will begin devel
oping them at once, and it ia not desirable
that they should. The market for phos
phates would soon become overstocked and
the prioea would fall so low that there would
be no profit in mining the phosphates. But
eventually the valuable lauds will be worked,
And it is a matter of little consequence how
many phosphate companies are launched.
The stock of some of them will be very
valuable, and of some others comparatively
worthless. Those who invest in phosphate
companies will have to take their chances.
In making purchases they must keep their
eyes wide open. If they don’t, the proba
bilities are that their investments will not
prove to be as profitable as they expected.
Florida is all right. Years ago Horace
Greeley said that some day she would be one
of the richest states in the union, and it
looks as if his prediction would oome true.
Her phosphates alone promise to make her
rich, and without them she would be rich,
for her production of fruits, vegetables,
cotton and tobacco is increasing wonder
fully,
Bardsley’s Story.
The story which the defaulting ex-treas
urer of Philadelphia told in court Tuesday
was not what was expected Irom him. It
was thought that he would implicate quite
a number of prominent business men and
banks in his illegal transactions. Instead
of doing so he attempted to make it appear
that be is a much abused man and the vic
tim of the wrecked Keystone bank and
Bank Examiner Drew. He certainly placed
Drew in a very unpleasant position.
If what he said is true nearly all the
money belonging to Philadelphia and Penn
sylvama wbioh he lost was on deposit in the
Keystone bank at the time of the failure of
that institution. The reason he did not take
the money out of that bank whan rumors of
its weak condition were afioat was, accord
ing to his statement, because Drew told
him the bank was as sound as any other
national bank in Philadelphia.
And, if he is to be believed, Drew misled
him because Drew was under obligations to
the president of the Keystone bank, who
had lent him money.
Avery through inveitigation of Drew’s
conduot ougat to be made at once, and if ho
is found guilty he ought to be dealt with as
severely as the law will permit. He is a
government offioer, and the people who de
posited with the Keystone bank looked to
him to warn them if the institution was not
in a safe condition.
Drew pretents that be did all the law re •
quired him to do, but if what Bardsley says
is true he did nothing of the kind. He was
the tool of those who wrecked the bank.
It is quite evident that the Philadelphia
authorities have net got the bottom faots of
the bank wrecking business yet. The oon-
Aiotlng stories of these who were in a posi
tion to know all about the affairs of the
bank and of Bardsley make it certain that
much of the truth, if not the whole of it, is
yet withheld.
Senator Cullom of Illinois admits that he
it a candidate for the republican nomina
tion for President, and he wants it under
stood that if the nomination comet to him
he will not throw it over his shoulder.
There was no occasion for the senator to
make a remark like that. He doesn’t throw
anything in the shape of an office over his
shoulder. He thinks that Blaine could have
the nomination if he would announce his
willingness to take it, but If he makes no
effort to get it, Harrison, in the senator’s
opinion, will be the nominee. Evidently
the senator thinks bis own chance of getting
it is not a very good one.
Once more our old friend and whilom
townsman, “Maj.” J. Henry Gould, has
bobbed up serenely in Massachusetts
politics. Asa state organizer for the re
publican league he has been authorized to
“raise funds necessary to pay expenses of
the league.” Tradition here gives the
hustling “major” credit for great talent In
the art of “raising funds.”
Nothing will be apt to come of Emperor
William’s recently expressed disapproval of
the great American show of “tights.” Ap
parently the emperor is not half so averse
to that style of entertainment as the em
press is. It was merely formal loyalty to
her vehement opposition that iaduced him
to express a perfunctory disapproval.
Kaiser Bill is sly.
THE MORNING NEWS: THURSDAY, JUNE 25, 1891.
The Movement Toward Small Farms.
In their report on the sea island cotton
crop for IMDI-Itt, published in Tuesday’s
Morning Ntfws, H. F. Dutton & Cos., of
Gainesville, Fla., say that the acreage is
lees in each of the three sta’es which pro
duce this class of ootton than it was last
year. In Florida the decrease in the
acreage is very much greater than in either
of the other states. The reason given for
this is the activity in the phosphate in
dustry, which has drawn a great number of
laborers from the farms. The phosphate
miners and manufacturers can afford to pay
better wages than the farmers, and the la
borers go where they can earn the most
money.
The cotton growers therefore have been
forced to plant a smaller area in cotton.
It would be folly to plant more ootton than
they could cultivate and pick. And it
would not be surprising If the ootton acre
age would bare to be still further decreased
next year in Florida for the seme reason that
it was decreased this year.
The labor question is getting to be quite a
serious one in agricultural districts in many
parts of the sooth. Laborers can get better
wages in the Iron and coal mines, in the
factories and in ths lumber and naval stores
industries, and they will seek them.
The blacks prefer the towns to the
country and they are going to the towns as
fast as they can find a market for their
labor in them. The consequence is that the
farmers are finding it more difficult every
year to get sufficient labor to plant, culti
vate and harvest their orops. More of
them go into the fields and work with their
laborers than ever before. And the time is
not very distant when the larger planta
tions will be divided into small farms,
which the farmers can cultivate with very
little assistance outside of that which their
families can give them.
This condition of affairs will open the way
for a good class of immigrants—immigrants
who know how to conduct small farms
profitably. It used to be thought that white
men could not work in the cotton fields in
hot weather, but that impression no longer
prevails. White men work in the fields in
all the southern states and they stand the
heat just as well as the blacks. The period
of big plantations is almost past, and the
day of small farms is at hand. The labor
question is helping to bring about the
change. In Florida the phosphate industry
is only in its infancy. In the very near
future it will employ many more men than
it does now, and in proportion as it grows
the farmers will have to depend upon them
selves to carry on their farming operations.
Is Flower the Man ?
Some of the New York papers insist that
Representative Flower is to be the Demo
cratic candidate for governor of New York.
They say that Tammany has declared in
his favor, and that that settles the matter-
According to tneir story Gov. Hill wanted
to be the candidate, but Tammany would
not support him, having promised the nomi
nation to Mr. Flower.
No better choice could be made than Mr.
Flower. The fact that he ia a rich man
will not be against him, because he is very
generous with his money. And of his
democracy there is no question. He is a
genuine party man without being an offen
sive partisan. He is popular with all classes
of people.
Asa member of congress he bas a splendid
record. He bas never been conspicuous on
the floor of the House, because be is not a
fluent speaker, but in the committee room
his influence is felt. Being a map of ex
cellent judgmeut he generally advises the
right thing.
If he should be nominated there would be
no division In the ranks of New York demo
crats. He would reooive the support of the
entire party, and its enthusiastic support,
thus making his election certain. And his
election would have a good effect upon the
party in New York in selecting a delegation
to the national convention. WTith him as
the leader of the party a united delegation
would likely be chosen.
The nomination of Mr. Flower would be
a great disappointment to Lieut. Gov.
Jones, who is making a campaign in his own
behalf. But the lieutenant governor’s desire
for the nomination has never been regarded
seriously. He is a good man in iomo re
spects, but he says and does many foolish
things. He could not command the full
vote of the party. He is old enough but not
wise enough to be governor.
Mr. Flower is entitled to the nomination
by his party services. He is and has always
been a faithful party man and he has con
tributed a great deal toward the victories
which the democracy has won in New
York. There would be very little fault
found with his nomination.
One of the most astonishing things to the
friends of Mr. Chauncsy M. Depew, who is
now on trial in New York charged with in
voluntary manslaughter, is that one of the
most intelligent looking jurors frankly ad
mitted that ho did not know anything
about Mr. Depew and bad never beard of
him before. That astounded them. They
thought it incredible. But it is a pretty safe
wager that the same intelligent juror knew
all about P. T. Barnum. Fame spreads in
strata and it is of a very penetrating char
acter when it enters them all.
Careless people certainly do some very
astonishing things at times. Last Sunday a
Pennsylvania miner at Shenandoah put a
dynamite oartriags m his stove ts dry. It
dried. While the family was at supper the
cartridge got out of that stove without as
sistance. It tore $1,500 worth of shape and
material out of the house and fired the
children throngh the opening. If they all
reoover It will be due more to their distance
and native durability than to anything else.
Now the miner is sorry he put that cart
ridge in the stove.
Late advioes from Chile state that the
people ore rapidly joining the insurgent
forces by volunteering without pay in many
instanoes. This indioates pretty clearly the
trend of public opinion there as to the rela
tive merits of the two opposing elements.
With the people on their side the congres
sional leaders are sure to win ultimately.
According to the statement of the New
York Herald the latest Ben Batler scheme
is what is called "the paper city” of Talla
poosa, whioh is roundly denounced as a
wildcat enterprise without tangible basis
for the fabulous pro Ats promised to in
vestors. Intelligent investors are not likely
to regard the name of Ben Butler as one to
inspire conAdenoe in any enterprise.
Barbarous cruelties are said to be con
stantly practioed in the Chilean war.
Civilized usages appear to have been
wholly lost sight of in the savage despera
tion of their eagerness to conquer. Such
methods do not tend to enlist the sympathy
of outside powers on either side that may
permit practices so inhuman.
PBSHBONAL.
Congressman Willi iu L. Wilson of West
Virginia is the guest of Chauncey F. Black at
Y"ork, Pa.
At a recent sale of Wilkie Collins’ manu
scripts, “The New Magdalen” brought $lO5,
“The Woman in White” S7O, and “Moonstone'’
$5 50.
President Harrison claims the soldier's
chorus iu Gounod's “Faust” as his favorite air,
while “Hail Columbia” drives him into melan
choly.
Oscar Wilde’s latest exhibition of himself
was in a long brown coat fantastically fash
ioned. a heliotrope necktie and yeliow carna
tions.
Gordon- Ccmmino has been described by the
Duke of Cambridge as “the bast soldier in war
and the worat in time of peace in the British
army.”
J. N. Huston of Indiana, ex-treasurer of
the United States, has discovered a fine layer of
marble on bis farm, and will develop the
quarry.
Mr. BALrorR has sold his highland estate of
Strathconan, Ross shire, to Mr. Coo no be, the
brewer, for £IOO,OOO. The eetate is 72,000 acres
in extent.
In youthful date 6enator Gorman was left
fielder of the National Baseball Club of Wash
ington, and had an unerring eye and decided
grio 'in wandering flies.
Dr, J. A. Ouchterlomy of Louisville, been
elected a member of the Swedish Royal Acad
emy of Sciences. The society was founded by
King Gustavus 111 , and membership is es
tiemed a great honor.
Dom Pedro may have lost hi; throne, but he
has not abdicted from bis knowing how many
cents there are in a dollar. Recently, while
traveling with his suite in the Alps, he paralyzed
the hotel keepers by dumping wads of tourist
coupons before them wnen he was settling his
bill, and made them mad enough to go out and
call Mont Blanc and the Jungfrau a couple of
measly pimples.
The German emperor intends to be at Cowes
during the first week in August, when the
royal yacht squadron regattas take place, and
will sail the celebrated Clyde racing cutter
Thistle, which be has purchased from Mr. Bell
and has rechristened the Meteor for the queen's
cup. She is a vessel of 170 tons, and it is un
derstoed at Cowes that she is to be entered for
all the royal yacht squadron matches for which
she is qualified.
Labouchkre recently wrote: “There is a
ruffian in the United States of the name of John
L. Sullivan, a professional pugilist. Tbis man
has taken to the stage. He announces that no
inducement will tempt him to act In England,
and he desires it to be universally known that
he bolds the English people in contempt. I
hasten, therefore, to do my share in making
public this important pronouncement against
the English people. ”
Mark Twain and George W. Cable are enter
taining companions on the lecture platform, but
the public never sees the most amusing outcome
of their companionship. Cable is a devout
Presbyterian, while Mark Is what some good
folk oall a “careless” man. This latter fact
disturbs Cable, and be is constantly endeavor
ing to show Mark the errors of his ways. The
futility of Cable's effort suggests Artemus
Ward's proposed remedy for secession, which
was to go to Richmond and persuade Jefferson
Davis to join the Y’oung Men's Christian Asso
ciation.
An American officer says that the basis of
Moltke’s success was preparation, precision.
For years the ouiet man had bent every energy
to detail. He had devoted no time to show
work; he oared naught for the outward parade
of efficiency. He had made sure that what the
army was on paper it was in effect; that every
man and officer was ready and Knew his place
and duty; that mobilization should mean actual
assembly. Every uncertain element was eiim
mated So far as lav within human power
war had been reduced to a mathematical cal
culation.
BRIGHT BITS.
“ Cholly can’t get over his old dry goods
habits now that he is in real estate.”
‘•What has he done now?”
“Sold a man a house the other day aDd asked
him if he wanted it sent.”— Judge.
Furious—What do you think of Saltus’ “Mary
Magdalen ?’’
Wittious—l think if she was anything like his
description of her she bad cause enough to
weep as she did.— New York Telegram.
Hunks—l wonder that your son should be
such a spendthrift.
Closeflst—l can’t understand it, either; send
that boy eway to spend the summer and it
wouldn’t take him over a week.— Puck.
Kirby Stone—(meeting friend with a lantern
on his way to the ferry)—Hello, Diogenes! Why
don’t vou light your lantern?
Morrison Essex (blandly)—O I don’t com
mence my hunt for honest men until I reach
the suburbs.— Puck.
It will be a matter of surprise to many a
woman who never went beyond camphor,insect
powder, tar paper, cedar woo ), or pepper, that
international agreements can be used for the
preservation of s<-al fur through the summer.—
Philadelphia Times.
I do not care to run or jump,
But, OI do admire to see
That unbashed, oft arrant chump.
The base ball umpire on the ump—
That's exercise enough for me.
—New York Herald.
“I am not given tojslang, Nell.”
“No, I don t think you are, George.”
“Ydt I should like to apply a slang phrase to
your chaperon.”
"Indeed.”
“Yes, I would like to say she is ‘out of sight.’ ”
—i\eto York Press.
Chief Soda Jkrker (to customer)—Yes, it’s a
regular Kohlnoor, but I tell you it worries me,
for it would represent a great loss if anything
should happen to it.
Second Assistant Bottle-Washer—Hev’ yer
tried tber plate-glass insurance companies ter
ease your mind?— Pharmaceutical Era.
Mike—Sure, Mrs. Dooley, ye wouldn’t be
afther takin’ a ticket fur me clock ? It’s ter be
raffled ter help ould Mrs. Donnigan.
Mrs. Dooley—But that ould clock doesn't go
any more now, does it?
Mike—lt does not, Mrs. Dooley. But then,
you know, you moightn’t draw it.— Puck.
Mrs. Si.imscw (to little Willie Slimson, who
has been taking in the ball game)—So that’s
where you have been, is it? You just wait until
your father gets home, young man, and he will
give you a good trouncing.
Willie (confidentially)—He won’t be home yet
awhile. He staid for the last inning.— Harper's
Bazar.
Minebva (looking up from her reading)—Aunt
Fidelia, the JfCsculapea* attributes rheumatism
tos pathogenic micro-organism wh oh, under
certain favorable conditions la received and
propogated.
Aunt Fidelia—l don’t believe a word of it. I
have had the rheumatism twenty years, and I
never saw a sign of the creature yet.—Pharma
ceutical Era.
“Consider the range of subjects in Shake
speare.”
"Perfectly marvelous—but there is one thing
about Shake pea re that I never could under
stood.”
“What was that ?’’
"How with his dramatic power he could leave
untouched so magnificent an opportunity as
that afforded by Charles and Cromwell.”—
Life's Calendar.
CURRENT COMMENT.
They’re After Plumage.
FVom the New York World (Dem.l.
So long as the country's credit is good, no
matter what the treasury condition may be,
the pension sharks will regard the eagle as a
bird worth plucking.
Ready for Business.
Prom the St. Louis Republic (Dem.).
Gov. Fifer has vetoed a bill to keep threshing
machines in repair. This will not hurt the
democrats. Their threshing machine is in per
fect repair and waiting for the governor to run
through it.
Still Monkeying With Explosives.
From the Chicago News (Ind.).
It appears that a goodly portion of the Ohio
republicans favor, or think they favor, the pres
ent tariff legislation. With the thought of last
November lurking in the memory department
of their heads they still prefer a policy which
bids fair to raise the McKinley with the entire
party.
Compulsory Piety.
Prom the Pittsburg Dispatch (fad.).
The last ukase of the Russian government
that everyone must attend church is anew de
velopment of absolutoism. But it exempts
police officers and political prisoners, and as the
population of Russia is beiug rapidly divided
up between those two classes, there will not be
any necessity for enlarging the churches on ac
count ef the enforced piety.
The Man With the Gimlet.
I was sitting on a bench in Battery park the
other day, says M. Quad in the New York
World, when a rough looking, shabbily dressed
man who occupied the other end of it pulled an
old handkerchief out of his coattail pockH
With it came something which fell under the
bench unnoticed by him. I saw it was a gimlet,
a plain, cheap gimlet, without the least attempt
at style or ornament. I can take you down in
Fulton street and show you gimleta at $1
apiece—silver plated, full jeweled and good
enough for the use of the Emperor of Russia,
when he wants to bore the holes for the hinges
on a screen door. I can also take you over in
Barclay street and show you gimlets at 2 or 3
oents each—plain, unvarnished and dejected
looking gimlets, which will, nevertheless, serve
the purpose for which all gimlets are oreated
"Excuse me, but you dropped your gimlet."
I said, after making sure that the loss was un
known.
“So I did—thank you,” he replied.
It takes very little to bring two strangers to
gether, unless both are mighty mean men. A
gimlet will do it as well as a Fourth of July
oelebratien. I hitched a little toward him and
he hitched a little toward me, and I observed:
“I often carry a pair of gas pincers, a whet
stone, e door sprieg. a trunk lock orajackplane
around with me, but I can't say I have any use
for a gimlet.”
“No! Well, we are In different lines of bus
loess, you see.” he replied. "You travel around
the towD. while I travel around the country. A
month ago I was in Ohio.”
"A tourist, eh?”
"Yet, by the name of tramp. I came here
with a pard. who Is sick. When ha gets well we
are going to do the watering-places.
"But to return to the gimlet. Do you happen
to have hit it by aocident?”
“Oh, no. It’s a part of my outfit. I’ve had
this same one a year or more."
“I can sen where you might make use of a
crow bar, wagon-jack, hear trap or ox yoke, but
where does the gimlet oome in!"
‘ My de-ar sir," ho answered with a laugh,
“some men have to fight against being too
wicked. I have to struggle against being too
good. This gimlet assists me to strike a happy
medium, You don’t catch on? Well, I’ll ex
plain. The average tramp is not a had fellow.”
“No.”
“Generally given to drink, and not too am
bitious, but all he asks of the world is old clothes,
cold victuals and a bod on the haymow. He
seldom does any great wrong, and often does a
great deal of good."
• Well!”
“About one man out of twenty sizes a tramp
up correctly. The first and last idea with the
others is to give him the boot. When lam out
on the road I get kicked almost daily. It would
be foolish to kick back for I am in the minority.
I therefore take another way of getting even. I
will tell you how it works. 1 enter a grocery in
a small town and politely ask for a bite of
crackers and cheese. Grocer is one of the props
of the church, and weeps over the heathen of
Africa. Reads of a case of starvation in a big
city and calls the people savages. lam hungry
and ragged and penniless, but he take's me to
the door and gives me the boot and adds that I
ought to be in jail.”
“Well?”
“Well, I walk around until night. He has five
or six barrels of kerosene and three or four of
vinegar on the platform. As he sleeps to dream
of leaving a fortune to the poor I am at work
with this gimlet. I boro a hole in the head of
each barrel, low down, and when morning
comes they are empty and the account is
square. See?”
“I do. I read of a grocer in this state having
seven barrels tapped in this way.”
“I go according to circumstances,” he con
tinued. “If kicked ouce I tap two barrels; if
kicked twice I tap three; if kicked and sworn at
and threatened, away goes the whole lot."
“What's your best night’s work?”
“Well, a depot agent in a town in Indiana
kicked me four times, hit me in the neck, and
then threw me off the platform I had no pre
cedent to go by, but there were fifty-six barrels
of cider on fiat cars in the yard, and I tapped
every one of them I was ten m.les away when
daylight came, but I thought 1 could hear him
as he jumped up and down and swore blue
blazes. ”
The Tailormade Bride Markets.
In a close-fitting, tailormade dress, and a
light colored cape of Persian lamb, says the
Evening World, she appeared before the
stallkeepers at a noted Harlem market. She
carried a Russian leather note book, with a gold
pencil, and the most artistic willow basket im
aginable.
“O, the dear little piggies.” she exclaimed,
walking up to where a number of pigs were In
carcerated. ‘ How much are they a pair!”
"Forty shillings, mum.” said tne butcher
“Isn’t that pretty dear?” she asked timidly.
“I guess 111 take some oysters instead, " she
said, walking over to where the men were busy
opening the emblems of silence. “I want some
oysters sent up, escalloped oysters,” she said,
“with plenty of raising in them. ”
“Oh! those lovely pure pumpkins,” she said,
walking over to a stand where a lot of Wollon
gomg cheese was displayed.
“I’ll take four of these. I know its plebeian,
but Reg.nald does like pumkin pies.”
“Are all hams yellow, like these?” she asked,
pointing to a counter full.
“No, miss; that’s only the cover,” said the
man in charge.
“Thoi lovely pink onions will just match my
china. How do you sell them a dez in?”
“Seventeen and six a hundred,” said the
huckster.
“Send me up two hundred weight,” she said.
A Strong Writer Indeed.
Uncle Stephen, an old negro, had come to cut
the grass in the front yard, says the Brandon
Buckshaw. and as Col. Winter started out to his
office he stopped to greet the old n%an.
“Well, Btephen,” said the Colonel. “I hear
that you intend to give your sou an education."
"Dat’s what I does, sah. I knows what tis
ter struggle along widout lamin’, an' I is 'ter
mined dat my son shan't trabble bar'foot ober
de same hard road dat X did.”
"A noble resolution. Stephen. I wish all
fathers felt as you do. Is your boy learning
rapidly?”
“Ez fast ez er hoss can trot, sah. Why, last
week he wrote a letter to his aunt dat libs mo’
dan twenty mile from yere. an’ after a while he
gwine ter write tor his udder aunt dat libs fifty
mile away.”
“Why doesn’t he write to her now?”
“Oh, he kamt write so fur yit He ken write
twenty mile first-rate, but 1 tole him not to try
ter write fifty mile till he got stronger wid his
pen. But he’s gwine to gitdar, I tell you. Won’t
be more'n er year to' dat boy ken set down at
one eend ob de gumbronment an’ write er letter
cl’ar ter de udde* eend.”
ffhe Tramp.
Prom the Comhill Magazine.
The fields are all sweet with hay,
The brakes are all blithe with song.
On the i edges rose-garlands sway,
Convolvulus clusters throng.
As shoeless, and tattered, and grimy, and
gray.
He shuffles along.
A skylark sings high above,
A thrush from yon banging bough,
Far away in the wood a dove;
But he passes with scowling brow.
Their melodies once he was wont to love;
He hates them now.
Hates all; save the sheltering night,
When under a bat)k he creeps.
And Squalor is out of sight.
The hunger its distance keeps.
And unmocked by the birds and the mead
ws bright
His misery sleeps;
Hie Experience ae an Umpire.
“They toll me. Parson, that you’ve consented
to umnire the ball game this afternoon between
the Squash Hollow Baptists and the Zion Broth
er!) 'od. Is that so?”
“Dat'sde gospel trufe, sah!” alleges the Bos
ton Courier.
“It strikes me that's a rather precarious posi
tion for one of your calliDg, isn't it?”
“Now. looker yer. Mister Man! I hain’t no
prize fighter, ter be sho', needer I hain’t nuvver
wukked in no quarry an’ got mix’ up wid a
bias', but a genterman er my perfeshion dat’s
rumpired fo'teen chu’eh ’lections, whar de a'r
was dat bris’lin wid razors dat the ver’y wuds
dat yo’ done spresserfy git chop' up inter silly
bubs to' dey git half out de mouf, letnmo tell
yo’ dat Sine o' chap ain’t gwine tremple ’bout
rumplrin’ over dese yer ebby day base ball
erfaYs, deed he haiu’t, sah!”
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cat story literature: “A Parsons cat not only
soured on the household in which it was raised,
but after it ran away actually went back and
stole the mouse trap which the family had sub
stituted for the ungrateful tabby,”
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and roses impress you on entering the boudoir
of Mrs. Frederick Everything is
literallv couleur de rose, and the scent of the
v’ioet is over it all. In one corner of this room
is a charming nook, with a luvurious lounge,
heaped with downy cushions, a little gilded
cnair, with spidery spindle legs and a table of
smoothest white enamel. This she uses for
writing. In the center is the blotting book,
bound in silver; the inksrand is also of the
finest silver, and so are the other implements of
correspondence.
A hen belonging to J. R. Helms of Ossawat
omie, Kan., has distinguished herself by laying
what proved to be a great curiosity in the way
of an egg. The earg in question was perfect in
shape and measured eight inches in circum
ference one way by nine inches the oeher
Ijpon breaking the egg open to-day it was
found to contain the usual amount of white
and a very large yolk. Inside the yolk was
found a perfectly developed egg, which was
about the usual size and which had a perfectly
formed shell on it. Thus there were two com
plete eggs in one.
Rev. Carlo Maria Curci, the distinguished
Italian ecclesiastic, died in Rome June 10.
iather Curci was born about 1800, says the
New York Tribune. Entering the Society of
Jesus he soon became a distinguished ornament
to the organization, and acquired a high repu
tation throughout Italy as a pulpit orator and
as a writer on theological topics. Three times
he was the Lent preacher before the chapter of
Sau Pietro in Vaticano, wnene Pius la. was
wont occasionally to be present, priyat'-ly, at
his sermon. Father Curci also founded the
Civilta Cattolica. So highly did Pius IX. es
teem this periodical that he provided for its
permanent continuance in Rome and else
where, under the management of the Jesuits.
In 1871 Father Curci was in high repute as the
famous preacher in the great cnurch
of Ge.su, in Rome, wnere crowds
docked to listen to his fervent discourses. After
ttiat ha retired to Fiorence, where he preached
and published bis lectures on “The Four Gos
pels. ’ He gave utterance to opinions which
were quite contrary to those generally enter
tained by his colleagues of tbe Society of Jesus
respecting the temporal power of "the pope,
and the result was that he was expelled from
the order in 1877. His peculiar views are given
in a book entitled “The Modern Discussion Be
tweeu Church and §tate. Examined on the Oc
currence of a Personal Matter” (1877). In March,
1878, Father Curci wrote from Florence to Leo
XIII., describing the unhappy position in which
he was placed by his recent conduct and
expressing ad sire to offer a retraction of his
eirors.2l|This,i2\vaßj£ followed by a second
letter, maxing the largesu offers of submission,
aring himself ready to make public repara
tion if necessary, and expressing a desire to
make his atonement in person. He went to
aud had int*-views with some of the
cardinals, the result oelnga letter of retraction,
which appeared in all the journals But the
pope was dissatisfied with the letter, and re
fused a private audience to Father Curci until
he had written a fresh retraction, in which he
declared his sincere intention to submit his
opinions and his writings to the judgment of the
pope. For some years Father Curci was en
gaged on a translation of the Old Testament,
with notes. In 1888 it had proceeded as far as
the Psalms, and a volume was then published
with the sactionof the ecclesiastical authorities.
In the great cities of England and in several of
those of America a small number of men follow
the trade of climbing steeples, great chimneys,
monuments and other lofty structures, to make
repairs, put up lighning-rods, apply paint, and
do other things which are needed. The men
who follow this perilous occupation are lre
quently called “steeple-jacks,” and they are, as
a rule, proud of their occupation, and not in
sensible to the fact that they are, at certain
moments, the most conspicuous and closely ob
served men in their city. There are two or
three ways of making an ascent to the top of
a steeple or a chimney which has no means of
ascent on the interior. The oldfas'nioned
method of climbing sucii a place is as follows:
A kite is provided with a cord which hangs
straight down, in addition to the usual cord by
which it is flown. The flyers of the kite get it
directly over the apex of the steeple,
and then draw down upon both cords
until the kite rests upon the top
of the steeple. In effect, they now have
one continuous line from the ground passing
over the steeple and down to the ground again.
To one end of this line a stout ropo is fastened,
and the other end is pulled upon until the rope
is drawn entirely over the steeple. Then to this
is attached a light chain with a pulley-block
and tackle affixed to it The block is hauled to
the top. and then the “steeple-jack,” seated in
a boatswain’s or painter’s chair, begins his as
cnt. A less interesting but safer method has
been introduced, and was lately used in the as
cent of the great Vauxhall chimney in London,
which is 310 feet high above the surface of its
foundation, and 380 feet above the level of the
London docks. A sufficient number of ladders
was provided, each twelve feet long and fur
nisbed with four iron arms. Beginning at the
bottom, four iron sockets were driven into the
chimney between the bricks, and to theee the
first ladder was attached by means of its
arms. Mounting the ladder so fixed, the opera
tor placed a plank across the upper pair of
arms, and having thus provided himself with a
sort of platform to stand upon, drove(n another
set of octets, aad put another ladder iu posi
tion. In this way the entire bight of the great
Vauxhall cbimnsy, wldnh is considerably taller
than Bunker Hill monument, was sealed in
something less than six hours of actual work,
and a lightning rod was erected upon Ks sum
mlt. F.ach ladder Is so made that, iu case of
need, it can be detaohed from below and pinned
on abore, so that a workman could, if aecea
sary, make the ascent of a chimney
with only two ladders. In praotice, how
ever, it is found more convenient to
have a sufßoient number of ladders to
make a continuous way from bottom to top.
Sometimes it happens that to lengthen or repair
a steeple or chimney the ‘steeple-jack” is
called upon to build a scaffold or staging at the
summit, or at a great higbt from the earth. In
this case the scaffold is built from the too down
ward, and its construction requires a constant
exercise of courage and presence of mind. The
“steeple-jack’s” worst danger is from high
winds or suddenly rising squalls. It is said Shat
the bravest steeple-climber declines to face a
strong wind. A high wind will cause the solid
est chimney to vibrate at the top. In the ca iO
of extremely tall chimneys, like the Vauxbrn,
the summit actually swings in a gale ovvr a
space of six to eight inches. Although this
does not make the chimney any the less s*cure,
it invariably causes the "steeple-jack, ” if he
happens to be up there, to beat a retreat to the
ground.
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