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TWELVE PAGES.
INDEX V) r m ADVERTISEMENTS.'
Miktiko-E. S. 8. Club.
Spbcial Notices -Dissolution, McEachern,
Bwain V Cos.; Dav.s Music Company; Mules. J.
F. Goilmartin A Cos ; A Card. The Robinson
Steam Printing House; New House For Rem,
P. D. Damn A Son; For the Ladies. Brooks
Brown. Manager; Everybody's Meeting, Stein’s
Two Cigar Stores; Money to Loan; Strangers
No Longer. The Savannah Carriage and Wagon
Company. The Georgia Stste Building and Loan
Association: Hurrah for, Hon. Pat. Calhoun,
Cbas. P. Roseignol, Real Estate; Charles P.
Bossignol s Acrostic; Real Estate Market, C. P.
Roseignol; Pure Natural Ice, Geo Meyer; The
Faust Beer. Geo. Meyer; Semi Annual Picnic of
the German Volunteers Thursday, Aug. SO;
Fine Work, Empire Steam laundry; Change of
Schedule, Savannah Street and Rural Reeort
Railroad Company.
It Begins To sorrow Morning — C. Gray A
Bon.
This Week— At D Hogon’s.
Twe.vty five Per Ceht. Reduction— James
Douglass.
No Wonder— B. H. Levy & Bro.
Boys' Blue and Brows Lises Suits. Etc.—
Dryfus Bros.
Week orSpecial Bargains— At Eckstein's.
Extraordinary Bargains Offered Durisg
The Ensuing Week— Morrison. Foye & Cos.
"It's Pretty Warm is New York"—A- R
Altmayer & Cos.
Talks With Piano Buyers, No. 2-Ludden A
Bates S M. H.
Auction Sales —The Usual Monday's Sale, by
C. H. Dorsett; Assorted Merchandise, by Har
mon, Walker A Cos
Cotton Shippers— The Savannah Carriage
and Wagon Company.
Call asd See Us—Norton A Hanley.
. Specialties— Engel A Rothschild.
Reserved—!) B. Lester Grocery Company.
Cheap Column advrbtisimbxts— Help Want-
Ad; Employ, -neat Want si; Fur Rent; For Sale;
Lost: Personal. Miscellaneous.
Aooording to an interview with a certain
Furrier C. C. Shayae of New York alty at
Saratoga, he alleges that a fund of $500,000
is? been raised among New York silk im
porters to defeat Candidate McKinley. But
"when we take into account that Furrier
Bhayne is a rabid republican and a man
who is always eager for any sort of notoriety
his statements do not amount to much.
Nobody is satisfied with the cranky Can
adian fiisheriee regulations. Even the Can
adian fishermen are vigorously kicking
-against them. They want everybody to
have a square chance, in which they
#have the sympathy of fair-minded people
everywhere. Narrow legislative discrimi
aations never have the desired effect, and
Bo not even command the respect of those
designed to be benefited.
Advioee from Home state that our old
friend Christopher Columbus is to be con
verted into a saint of the first magnitude
•>7 the pope in order that bis remarkable
nautical adventure may be made to re
dound to the oredit of the Catholic church.
When Chris is duly canoniz.d and fastened
upon an appropriate pedestal it is to be
hoped that he will feel better and probably
help along the Chicago fair a bit In the
name of Saint Christopher it needs help.
Just now there is a slight diplomatic tiff
between the great Russian czar and the
Catholic pope at Rome relative to the lan
guage to be taught in certain Russian
parochial schools and the use of the same
language in religious services. Apparently
the pope is afraid to grant these concessions
for fear of conversions to the Greek church
consequent upon it. That the Russian au
tocrat should take the trouble to consult
the pope at all is the only cause for sur
prise.
In that recently published English book
called “Darkest Russia,” which purports to
recite the wrongs and tribulations of the
Russian Jews, the czarina is charged with
being even more hostile to the Israelites
than is the imperial autocrat himself. By
way of emphasizing this statement the
allegation is made that she requested to
have all Hebrews ordered out of the ranks
before the troops passed in review before
her, as she disliked the sight of them. While
she may have said that, on the contrary the
petty officer sent to order them out may
have said it for her. j
George's Splendid Victory.
Senator George of Mississippi is the mo3t
| prominent democratic leader in the south.
I He has won this position within the last few
J months. He has the qualities of a great
leader. Besides ability of a very high
order, he has the courage to do what he
believes to be right and for t'.e best inter
ests of the teople. The pc pie admire a
thoroughly honest and sincere man as much
as they despise a demagogue.
When the life of the last congress ended,
the sub-treasury idea had a firm hold upon
I the farmers < f Mississippi. They believe,!
i it was a good thing t r them, and they
j were very sincere in their belief. If Senator
! George had announced his approval of the
sub-treasury plan he would have been very
popular with them, and there would have
1 been no doubt about his re-election to the
I Senate. But he was satisfied that the plan
was a mistike, and that if it should 1
adopted it would injure the farmers greatly.
Instead of joining the popular side and tak
ing his ease, he set about combating the
error into which the farmers had fallen.
| He saw the path of duty, and hefollowed it.
For many weeks it was doubtful whether
he would meet with success or defeat. The
farmers, believing they were right, were
stubborn. Finally, Senator George’s un
answerable arguments began to have an
appreciable effect. The farmers began to
think, and the more they thought the less
desirable the sub-treasury plan appeared to
be. Gradually the tide of sentiment among
them that had been running so strongly in
favor of it turned against it. and when the
ballot begau to speak it w-as found that the
senator would win a splendid victory.
All the countie* have not yet expressed
themselves at the ballot box, but a majority
have. Senator George is so far ahead of his
sub-treasury opponent that there is no
longer any doubt about what the result
will be. In fact, his sub-treasury opponent,
Mr. Ethel Barkesdale, admits his over
whelming defeat. Mr. Barkesdale’s friends
are now begging that wnatever breach
there may be in the Democratic party of
the state shall be healed by electing Mr.
Barkesdale senator to succeed Senator
Walthall, who announced some time ago
that he would not be a candidate for re
election.
This request of Mr. Barkesdale's friends,
however, should not be granted. He made
his campaign as an advocate of the sub
treasury plan—a plan that has not, and
never will have, the indorsement of the
Democratic party. The proposed com
promise, therefore, would be the source of
further trouble in Mississippi. Senator
Walthall is in harmony with Senator
George, and, although be does not seek a
re-election, be should be sent back to the
Senate, not only because he is a very able
and a thoroughly honest man, but also be
cause he is tu harmony with the national
Ilemocratlc party on all the great issues
before the country.
Senator George’s example is one that
should be followed by leading democrat* in
other southern states. It is being followed by
Senator Butler, Gov. Tillman and Congress
man Tillman in South Carolina, and by
Congressman Oates in Alabama, All these
gentlemen see that it is the purpose of csr
tam democrats in the south to force the
Democratic party of their respective states
to adopt a platform that will make it an
tagonistic to the National Demo
cratic party, and eventually fores it
into harmony with the People’s party. They
see that Senator George has prevented such
a condition of affairs in Mississippi, and
they purpose to prevent it in their respect
ive states. And they will accomplish their
purpose, if they are as tireless as Senator
George has proven himself to be, because
the farmeis are willing to listen to reason,
and when oonvinced thst they are making
a mistake they will frankly admit it. And
those who convince them will be honored
more than ever, while those who avoid the
issue will be permitted to drop into ob
scurity.
An Honest Man.
George J ones, the editor and proprietor
of the New York Times, who tied last
week at the ripe age of SO years, was often
bitterly assailed in the columns of opposi
tion papers. but no one ever charged him
with being dishonest. If the charge had
been made no one would have believed it.
The Tweed ring had reason to know how
impregnable his integrity was. Mr. Jones
obtained documentary proois of the corrupt
practices of the ring long before any other
newspaper editor, and the ring discovered
that be had them before he published
them.
Through its agents the ring endeavored
to have the publication of them suppressed.
It offered to pay him any price for the
Times that he might ask. Mr. Jones said
the Times was not forsale. Then Mr. Con
nally, one of the principal members of the
ring, secured by strategy an interview with
him and offered him #5,000,000 in cash not
to publish the evidences of the ring's corrupt
practices. The bribe was a magnificent one,
characteristic of the rascals who offered it.
Many men in a position similar to that oc
cupied by Mr. Jonee would have accepted
it. He spurned it.
And it is probable that five times $5,000,-
000 would not have bsen sufficient to pur
chase his silence. His integrity would not
permit him to accept a bribe. He regarded
his duty to his fellow-citizens as above
price. There is a saying that every man
has hit price. Mr. Jones was a man who
bad no price-
A Fight Between Millionaires.
Timothy Hopkins, the adopted son of
Mrs. Hopkius-Searles. who died recently
and left all her $70,000,000 to her husband,
Mr. Searles, a house decorator, is going to
make a big fight for a share of the millions.
His adopted mother cut him off without a
cent because he made himself disagreeable
about her marriage with the house decora
tor.
And it is said that the fight which Timo
thy will inaugurate will bring on a fight be
tween the millionaire magnates of the
Southern Pacific railroad, Mr. Huntington
and Mr. Stanford. Mr. Huntington has
long wanted a chance to strike Stanford
some telling blows. It is reported that not
long ago he said: “I’ve always had to take
the name of Mephistopbeles in this railroad
business, and Stanford has always posed as
the grand philanthropist, but now I’m go
ing to show up Stanford as Faust, and don’t
you forget it.’’
There are a good many people who would
like to see Stanford shown up as Faust, and
if Timothy gives Huntington the chance to
do so be will earn their good will even if be
fails to get any of his stepmother’s millions.
And if the stories told of Timothy are true
there are very few people who care whether
he gets a dollar of the wealth his step
mother left.
THE MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY, AUGUST lfi, 1891-TWELVE PAGES.
Summer Mildness of Savannah.
While the eastern and western large cities
have been literally sweltering between the
sizzling swelli of a succession of hot waves
during the past week. Savannah has been
pretty tolerably comfortable, thank you.
In the states situated in the higher lati
tudes the inhabitants have come to asso
ciate the very name of Savannah with an
abnormally high temperature. Even those
who have spent many euccessive winters
here do not seem to fuliv understand the
real)v “ethereal mildness" of the climate
According to their reasoning if the atmos
phere is so balmy and full of sunshine in
midwinter, it must be positively torrid in
summer. Nothing could be more erroneous
than such a conclusion. It is in the even
ness of its temperature that the climate of
Savannah excels.
While Chicago and New York are hav-
ing two months of tropical summer heat in
July and August and the balacoe divided
between sudden alternations of late autumn
aDd hard winter Savannah has about two
weeks of the raw temperature of early
spring in January, which u gradually ap
proached from either side by bright and
bracing May-like mildness from the verge
of about five months of uniform summer
temperature averaging about 80 degrees.
When Chicago was so blistered with in
tense heat a few days ago that the very
green apples on the trees of suburban farms
were actually baked where they grew, ac
cording to the veracious chroniclers of the
local press, the temperature of Savannah
registered only 86 degrees. Even that
maximum temperature was relieved by a
fresh breeze coming up from the ocean.
While the people of New York and its
vicinage were actually dying from the ex
cessive heat to the number of a score or
more a day the thermometers of Savannah
were satisfied to rest upon the 85th to the
6Tth perch, and the people oould walk be
neath the fresh green foliage of long vistas
of umbrageous trees that stand as perennial
silent guardians of the little children who
plsy under their protection and give Sa
vannah a just claim to be called the Forest
City.
Before the lapse of many years the peo
ple from the ill-tempered atmosphere of
those over-crowded busy marts of com
merce will probably understand this oli
mate better and come to look upon Savan
nah as a summer resort, as well as a refuge
from the severity of the winters in their
own latitude.
Wnat?ver the city of Savannah proper
may lack of supplying thei r requirements
of sea air and diversions can be made up at
Tybee, where the driving and boating beach
and sea bathing are quite equal if not supe
rior to any place In the world.
Backer’s Plaint.
Note-broker Backer, who failed in New
York the other day having liabilities esti
mated at 14,000,000, and who is now await
ing the action of the grand jury on a charge
of grand larceny made by Judge Harden of
this city, seems to think that he does not
deserve the harsh treatment he is receiving
from the judge. To a representative of the
New Y’ork Herald, who represented him as
being in a very despondent frame of mind,
his chin resting on his diamond-embellished
shirt bosom, he said thac he could hardly
realize that the man whom he had helped
all his life could be so ungrateful as to want
to put him in the penitentiary.
Like moat men who do wrongful acts
Backer cannot understand why he should
be held responsible for his wrong doing.
It may be that he has often loaned money
to Judge Harden, and, perhaps, be has done
him other favors, but it is pretty safe to
assume that he exacted full payment for all
the assistance he ever rendered the judge.
And even if be did not it doesn’t follow that
he was justified in converting to his own
use betweeu SIO,OOO and $13,090 worth of
the judge’s securities.
The securities which he appropriated
were entrusted to him for a speoiflo pur
pose. They were to proteot him against
loss if the judge, for aDy cause, should fail
to pay a note indorsed by him.
Instead of keeping the securities for that
purpose Baoker pledged them as if they
were his own. If that isn’t larceny uader
the law of New York the law ought to be
so amended as to make it so.
And now Backer sheds crocodile tears
and complains that he is a badly treated
man. He doesn't appear to be in the least
disturbed about his own very shady trans
actions. He thinks of himself and not of
those who have lost thousands of dollars by
his unfaithfulness to the trust reposed in
him.
There are too many men of the Backer
kind abroad. If there is no law to cover the
kind of offenses of whioh they are guilty,
such a law cannot bo enacted too soon for
the good of society. They are the sort of
men who cause business men to distrust
each other and make the transaction of
business more difficult, l'ney are found in
almost every community, and, strange to
say, as long as they are out of the clutches
of the law they are given the same social
recognition as those whose business careers
have never been marred by a single dishon
orable act.
Backer says that one year ago he was
worth $1,000,000, and that now he is penni
less. His 1 abilities are placed at $4,000,000,
and yet only about SOOO,OOO of his paper has
been reported. The questi n is naturally
asked. Where is the other $.1,400,000? The
assignee has made no statement and Backer
says nothing, and in business circles it is
admitted that Backer’s failure presents a
most puzzling conundrum.
Vaguely mysterious rumors of a danger
ous contagious fever and also indefinite in
timations of insanity are circulated iu Ber
lin to account for the German emperor's
protraoted stay out on the imperial yacht
Borne ascribe it to the injury to his knee
cap sustained in his recent fall upon the
deck of the Hohenzollern. All agree that
the kaiser is seriously debilitated in some
way. But the usual mystery observed in
the case of all eminent personages prevails
to a bewildering degree. Concealment of
the facts can certainly no t benefit the em
peror’s knee-cap. nor his head either.
That junketing committee of Columbian
exposition commissioners is still chasing
exhibits and hobnobbing with the crowned
heads and other baldheads of Europe iu the
course of its impetuous pursuit of abnor
mal pumpkins and preternatural pigs and
things. Whether it secures many prize po
tatoes or not it is sure to realize a whole lot
of fervent fun for the commissioners.
Recent announcements of the sudden
death of Gen. Ben. F. Butler are met by a
vigorous denial from the general himself,
who declares that he was never kicking
harder in his life, and almost everybody
knows that the bevel-eved attorney is some
thing of a kicker. That settles the matter.
Burely no one should know better than be
does whether be is alive or not.
PERSONAL
James M. Turner of Michigan, candidate for
I governor last fan. be* failed. He was supposed
t be worth millions.
The last descendant of the Maid ot Orleans,
according to foreign papers, died recently in
France He was an inspector in the oommis
sar.v department of the army.
Daniel Bandmann. an actor well-known in
Europe and America, is a familiar figure on the
street* of Sacratner. \ , al., selling milk from
his locally famous Holsletn uairy.
Miss Florence E. 8 it, a recent graduate
of Wellesley College, has received the appoint
ment of teacher of Greek in the high school and
supervisor of music in the common schools of
Mankato, Minn
The Princess Helene of Montenegro, who
may some day be the Czarina, for she is
reported to be the all tied bride of the heir ap
parent to the Russian drone, is said to be the
I ret Host royal girl in Eastern Europe.
Mai Rath bone of Ohio, the new Fourth As
sistant Postmaster General, Is just 43 years old,
and is one of the most experienced men in the
service. He is a hanJsnme fellow, a thirty
second degree Mason, and a wideawake busi
ness man.
Rev. Edward Bee sir s adopted daughter
received at her baptism the name of Voice
Adams. She was of a family of fifteen children
whom her father, a great grandson of John
(Quincy Adams, supported by lecturing on 'The
t olee of Nature."
John W. Wat of Roxbury, Masa, has rumpled
some of the women of that town by putting a
couple of marble "Wenuses" on his lawn, and
they are thinking of improvising a lawn order
society to compel him to put the statues in
bloomers or Mother Hubbards.
Arthur Brand, the liberal, who was recently
elected to parliament from Wisbech, was ma
terially assisted in Lis campaign by his wife.
She is a;i accomplished musician, and captiva
ted the voters at political meetings by singing
songs during the intermission between
speeches.
Miss Antoinette Knaogs, a college educated
young woman of Ohio, owns and manages a
farm of 290 acres. She carries on her work ac
cording to the theories of hooas, rather than by
ancient traditions, and. contrary to t.,e usual
impression about book farmers, she is making a
success of her undertaking.
Mrs. H. S. Gould of (Georgia Is a railroad
woman. She gave her means and efforts to the
building of tbe Covington and Macon railroad.
She has also had a deal to do with Its manage
meat, and is said to have had a share in the
building of the Middle Georgia and Atlantic
railroad. She also runs a farm of 400 acres.
Gen. Abner Dopbleday. who aimed the first
gun fired in defense of Fort Sumter in 1961, has
been ill for weeks at Mendham, Morris county.
Mew Jersey. Recently the fourth of a series of
abscesses has been opened, and he is much ex
hausted by the attendant fever, though signs
of improvement are discernible His continued
Illness, however, causes Ms friends in Washing
ton much anxiety. As yet he is too feeble to
read, write or leave his bed.
BRIGHT BITS.
She—l won't take any more interest in you.
He—Will you accept the principal ?—.Veto
Fork Ledger.
Putmocff—Does your wife talk in her sleep?
Plane—Don’t know; she always talks me to
sleep first. —Binghamton Republ.can.
“When do you do your best work, Mr Cyni
eus?”
“Never. There is no market tor It."— Life't
Calendar.
Sniyelt— ls Mr. Scadds very wealthy?
Snodgrass—Well, I hear he is going to put
American tin on the roof of his new house.—
Brooklyn Life.
Managertus— l hear that Venus ballet of X.’s
was just saved from a failure.
Criticus—Well, it was a bare success.—Nete
Fork Telegram.
She—l suppose In Bohemia every one Is Tom.
Dick ana Harry*
He—Well, yes; hut Bills are rather more
numerous.— Brooklyn Life.
“I wonder why ail these timid fellows are
marrying brunettes I-’ ’
"Probably because Fafnt heart ne'er won fair
lady.’ "—Smith-Qfou Monthly.
"Well, Mr. Wabash, what do you think of the
Atlantic ocean?” asked Gotham.
“It’s putty fine, sir," returned the Chicagoan,
"but It ain't Lake Michigan.”—Epoch.
Watts— How tender hearted Judge Bigsley
Is' Why, there was a boy up before him who
cried for only half au bpur, and the judge gave
him ten days. lndianapolis Journal.
"It was a tight squeeze for me.” said Bjenks,
as he finished the story of his adventure, and
an old maid listener whispered softly to herself:
"If I bad only been there."— Somerville Jour
nal.
“Hello, Charlie, where yer goin?’’ asked
Willie.
“Sh-h-h-h-h Keep still. Don't talk to me,”
replied Charlie i Tee got two things to remem
ber.”—Buffalo Courier.
"Did any man ever kiss you before, darling?"
"Before—today! No, Edward yon are the
first."
And the recording angel didn't need to drop a
tear to blot out tho fib. for he was the first that
had kissed her that day.— Buffalo Express.
Ethel—Mamma and I were attacked by the
tramp, and 1 tbraw a stone and knocked him
flat.
Maui—How did you ever come to hit him
with it?
Ethei—l fired at mamma.—Harper’s Bazar.
He came from somewhere inland,
From Pittsburg, I surmise.
And down along the Jersey coast
He strayed, with bulging eyes;
He saw the dainty maidens
Among the wavelets slosh,
And when at last he ope i his mouth
He simply said, “Begosh!’’
—-Veto York Herald.
CURRENT COMMENT.
“Stick to Your Colors” No More.
From the .Veto York Retarder (Rep.).
In disposing of the question of the “c 1 >r line"
in southern posts the grand encampment wisely
preferred to stand by an Immutable general
prn -pe rather t ian temporary local expe
and riic.v. J 1 comrades who f ought for the nsg
rhiuld be treated as equal in veteran organize
tun
Paper Substituted for Powder.
From the Chicago Mail (Inti.).
Chile complains that her fighting is hindered
by a lack of arms and ammunition. Why not
follow Uncle Sam's course during the last
twenty years and do your fighting through the
newspapers? Plumbago has supplanted pow
der among the most powerful nations cf earth,
anyway.
Rural Virginia Editorial Repartee.
From the Roanoke Times {lnd\
The Roanoke Times makes all its .elegraras
“ipscinl." Now the question is, Does it more
rei eni 1} the ostrieb with its head in the road
or me monkey shinning up a pole! This is
from Editor Slack's "Bids lis Currear.” We
are in douht as to which sticks out the moet,
hog or dt g
Lo Can't Play Ball a Little.
From the Cleveland World ( Tnd. l
The Sioux Indians were badly beaten at Chi
cago by a team of boya “Rats in His Attic”
was floored by a liner, and "The Man That
Pinches His Ante" etruck out four times. The
best record was made by "Never Ask for a
Circus Ticket." He made three hits and ac
cepted three chances.
Crisp Has the Best Chance.
From the Washington Post (ind.).
Congressman Tarsney of Missouri has taken
occasion, now that he is in the west again, to
deny the New York interview in which he de
clared in favor of Gov. Boies of lowa for Presi
dent, and against Mr. Cleveland. Mr. Tarsney
says that Senator Gorman is very strong in New
York, regards the situation in Ohio as growing
brighter for the democrats every day. believes
Blame will be the republican nominee, and
sums up the speakership situation its follows:
"I believe that Crisp of Georgia has the best
chance just at present, and it begins to look
very much as though he would win. He will get a
largepiajority of the southern congressmen, and
besides that, will get votes from nearly every
state. Next to Crisp, I expect that McMillin of
Tennessee has the largest following. He is a
man very much like Crisp, and would undoubt
edly make a fine presiding officer. I regard
him as the lest posted man on the details of
the tariff that I know. Besides votes from Ten
nessee and Kentucky, he has developed consid
erable strength In New York and New England.
The other candidates who have a chance are
Hatch of Missouri, Mills of Texas and Springer
of Illinois, each of whom has a number of
vote* pledged Hatch is splendidly equipped
for speaker, but I hardly think be will be
chosen. The race has almost narrowed down
to Crisp and McMillin, with the chances ap
parently in favor of the former.”
Funny Thing on Dudley.
"The funniest thing I’ve seen in months oc
curred In Cincinnati last week,” aaid,a man who
travels for a big Ceicago wholesale bouse to the
1 Chicago Timet "Down in rorkopolis,” he con-
I tiaued, ”1 have an acquaintance who is one of
the Nit fellows on earth, end who has already,
though he le yet young, got the junior partner
ship for his ability alone in one of the big retail
stores. This youth is a corker in bis business,
but he is somewhat of a sport as well. He is
Inclined to occasionally get on a jamboree,
which is good for a week, and during which
everything 'goes' with a red streak around it.
."His name is Dudley, and duriug my last
visit there he got on one of lus sporty tears,
and for three days we painted the old town to
gether. Then I had to quit. I'm no good after
the third day. But Dudley kept it up for a
week. At the end of the sixth day, c umug up
\ ine street, it struck him that his course was a
little erratic, an j that his career for the last
week had been open to objections from the
older members of the firm With the eccen
tricity of a drunken man he resolved to 'swear
off' and brace up'—tne next dav. In order
that he might not forget it he wanted to fix
some sort of a reminder. A bright idea struck
him. He went into the Palace hotel, gota sheet
of paper, eat down and wrote himself a letter,
addressing it to the Burnett house, where he
Itved. I saw the letter afterward. It was funny.
He wrote as follow
' Dear Dudley Your course is ruinlug your
prospect* and losing your money. You must
brace up. old man, at ODce. Don't take a drink
to-day and stay In bed. Remember Apollmaris
is your best friend. Yours, Dcdley.
"He procured anenvelope and a stamp and
mailed this to himself at the Burnett house.
Then he had a few drinks, met some friends,
went down to the hotel, had a few more, and
finally got into a poker game in the hotel which
lasted all night. Drinks were served ou every
jack pot, and when it was morning the whole
party was pretty badly broken up. But they
kept on playing, just tbe same, till a rap came
on tbe door, a bell-boy entered with a silver
salver, and on it handed Dudley a letter. He
broke the seal and read it. Then he read it
again. It was his own. He read it a third
time, then cast it into the center of the table,
and said:
“ ‘See here, bozzh: read zat latter. Bhee?
Wnat I want know's shisb: Who th’ —'s ’Poili
naris, an’why she my besht frien'? An’ who
tbe —s Dudley, eh?"’
Thar’ Was Jim.
Cavt. Jack Crawford, in St. Paul Pioneer-Press.
Wildest bovin all the village,
Up to every wicked lark.
Happy at a chance to pillage
Melon patches in tbe dark.
Seemed a tarnal mischief breeder,
For in every wicked whitn
Put your hand upon tbe leader—
Thar’ was Jim.
He was eighteen when the summons
Come for union volunteers,
An’ the fifin's and the drummin's
And the patriotic cheers
Made us with excitement dance, sir,
Even old men, staid and prim,
And among the fust to answer—
Thar' was Jim.
One day when the giner'l wanted
Volunteers to charge a place
Where the rebel banners flaunted
Impudently in our face,
Seemed as though the cannon's belief*
Had no skeerishneas for him,
For among the fermost fellers—
Thar' was Jim.
How we cheered 'em at the startin'
On that fearful charge they made,
For it seemed that death was sartin
In that fearful ambuscade.
Ones the smoke riz up a show in’
Them as up the hill they clim’.
An’ ahead an’ still agoin’
Thar’ was Jim.
Gltthar'? wal yer jest a shoutin’,
Nothin’ could have stopped them men;
Each one seetned a howlin' demon
Chargin' on a fiery pen.
Purty tough when next I found him,
For with face all black an’ grim.
Dead, with dead men all around him—
Thar’ was Jim.
Friend o’ mine? I reckon, sorter; 1
Met him fust one winter night—
Lord, but wasn't that storm a snorter
When I went for Dr. White?
When I heard my wife a pleadin'
Me to come and look at him,
Lyin' in her arms a feedin'—
Thar’ was Jim.
Stopped the Crank From Squeaking.
The jVatial Mary Powell was on her daily
trip up the HudsoD, says the Texas Siftings . A
number of jtaesengers had gathered around
the open door of the engine-room, looking with
interest at the movements of the ponderous
machinery. Among the passengers was Sam
Foster, a New York gentleman, who is a prac
tical ioker. He is a young man of means and
was elegantly dressed He is, moreover, a very
good amateur ventriloquist.
•‘Now, boys,” said Foster, “let us have some
fun with the engineer.”
A creaking, squeaking noise was heard among
the machinery Tue engineer was somewhat
startled, and he lubricated various and sundry
parts of the machinery with great industry and
an oil can. The latter contained half a pint of
oil.
Foster nudged one of his boon companions in
the ribs, an<l pretty soon the machinery
squeaked again. Once more the engineer
calmed down a suspected piston bv annointing
it with his alleviator. The squeaking stili con
turned and Foster pointed out the piece that
needed oiling. Once more the engineer took his
alleviator, and removing the cork, poured the
contents down the back of the festive Foster,
and over his S4O suit of clothes.
“There.” said the engineer. “I don't think
that orauk will squeak again in a hurry.”
Why Horses Go Lame.
A coachman who is up to the tricks of his
trade tells the Chicago Tribune that there are
more ways than one for an honest coachman to
make a living.
“Of course,” he explained, “no boss is gom’ tc
buv a horse without consulting his coachman.
If he does that horse Will go lame, sure.”
“How's that?”
“It'll go lame. sure, and the boss'll have to
sell it for what he can get. ard lucky if he can
get half the prie. Then he won't try to
an honest coachman out of his commission. Not
the second time, see?”
Thereupon thi honest coachman explained
why a •‘boss” who buys a horse without oon
suiting the autocrat of his stables is sure to
have a lams animal on his hands.
“It s this way,” he remarked, ‘ any honest
man as respect* bimsrif win pull a hair out of
that horse s tail and ‘thread’ it in a needle.
Thee he’ll lift up that front leg of that horse
and 'hunch up’ in his fingers the skin between
the outer and middle tendons, see? Shove the
needle through, cut off the hair at each end,
aud let down the foot There’s nothing to see,
is thers?”
“Suppose not”
“Well, taat horse'll go lame in twenty min
utes.”
The Pastor’s First Call.
A lady firing on Remsen avenue, New Bruns
wick, says the New York World , owns a par
rot Anew pastor has recently been estab
lished over the lady's church, and a few days
ago be went to make his first pastoral visit. The
front door was open, but the Venetian blind
door was closed and Poll was in the cage just
beuind it. As the pastor reached for the elec
tric button. Poll said in a remonstrant tone:
“Goaway, please.”
“But I wiah to see the lady of the house.”
“Go away, please. We haven't a cold bite in
the house.’
“You are mistaken lam not a tramp. I
wish to see the lady of the house on business ”
“Go way?" screamed Poll, wrathfully. “Go
'way, you dirty tramp. I’ll call the police.
Police! Policer
This was too much for the modest minister,
and in a very considerable wondermeat he aban
doned his call
Simmons— You seem to bs at outs with Miss
Figg.
Timmons—Yes; on acoount of her disgusting
addiction to slang.
“Slang?”
“So I said. You see. I asked her to marry me,
and she said ‘Bats. ” — lndianapolis Journal,
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ITEMB OF INTEREST.
A New York theatrical manager has In
vented the verb “to feature.” He is going to
feature John Drew.
Miss Greene, one of the belles at Narragan
sett Pier, has acquired a certain prominence
through her peculiar taste in the selection of a
i>et It i a Florida chameleon, around the
waist of wbicn is a gold ring, to which is at
tached a slender gold chain and pin. The lat
ter is inserted iu Miss Greene's corsage, and the
little p-truns up and down her waist .front and
about her shoulder. The animal is about six
months old. and performs three cunning tricks.
It knows its owner’s voice, and springs from
her hand to her shoulder at the word of com
manJ.
A well-known woman in society at Bar Har
bor says tnere is no other resort in the world
where a married woman has so much liberty.
“To be sure.” she adds, “their husbands are not
here, and they really have to depend upon the
single men for escorts to the social affairs, but
it is a question in my mind whether the sailing
in the moonlight and canoeing in the starlight
and climbing the mountains before dawn with
young, handsome, unmarried men is just the
proper thing tor a married woman to do—
whether it is showing true loyalty to the hus
band.”
A funny incident occurred while some blast
ing operations were in progress lately at Hull,
Quebec. An unusually heavy charge was about
to be fired aud everybody had been warned
away A little dog immediately jogged over to
the edge of the pit where the explosion was to
take place. The canine stood wagging his tail,
the onlookers at a distance, of course, thinking
it was indulging in a final bark. With a loud
report the rock below was rent asunder, the
men ran over, and to their astonishment found
the little dog uninjured an l barking with all its
might at the noise in the middle or a cloud of
smoke.
A young Englishman, a reporter on oae of the
New York dailies, relates this as one of his early
experiences: “I was sent up to interview a fel
low by the name of Hayes, don't you know,
who was stopping at an uptown hotel. The sl.p
I was given by the city editor read. ‘See ex-
President Hayes at the hotel and get some
thing about his plans in New York.’ I found
the hotel and sent up my card. I was received
quite nicely by Mr. Hayes. He told me what
he was going to do, and then, as I wanted to
make my story complete, I asked him what he
was ex-President or. He told me he was ex-
President of the United States. It was awfully
confusing, don’t you know,” concludes the
young Englishman plaintively, “but there are
so many ex-Presidents here.”
The ringmaster of the popular circus in
Texas Siftings says that few New Yorkers ever
expected to see Broadway plowed up; but it has
been done to break the ground for the excava
tions of the new cable road. Stephen Frike
was striking a furrow with an old plow and one
horse on Broadway, near Twenty-first street,
last week, and a knot of clubmen assembled to
applaud him. To an interviewer Mr. Fiske said:
“My people onca owned a farm somewhere in
this neighborhood, and I thought that it would
be a curious thing to plow over the ground
which they formerly cultivated. So I gave the
driver a dollar to let me strike a furrow in the
old Jersey style. But I am not going into
Broadway farming as a regular business. It Is
too hard on the hands and pocket, and I sowed
all my will oats years ago.”
The favorite pastime of the Queen of the Bel
gians and her daughter, who have both been
staying at Ostead, is shell hunting on the sands.
One day last we*k they extended their quest as
far as Neuport, and in order to reach home be
fore dark were com polled to stop the railway
train aud take refuge in a first-class compart
ment occupied by a buxom German lady and
her husband. The ire of the former being ex
cited by the presence of a small dog carried by
the Princess Clementine, she roundly abused
them in German, expressed her doubts as to
whetherthey had really taken first-class tickets,
indulged in uncomplimentary remarks on their
shabby attire and finally bounced out of the
carriage with the avowed intention of taking a
cab to her hotel as to avoid the oont&minti
ti >n of such vulgar company. Tne queen, who
delights in traveling incognito, was greatly
amused at this adventure.
Larz Anderson of Cincinnati, the newly ap
pointed secretary of the United States legation
at the court of St. James, salied for Liverpool
Saturday. Mr. Anderson, who is a relative of
Maj. Anderson, who commanded the United
States troops in Fort Sumter at the outbreak of
the late civil war, had a narrow escape from
death at Long Branch several years ago. He
was stopping at the cottage of his friend, the
authoress. Frances Hodgson Burnett, and went
to bathe when the tide went out. He did not
take this fact into consideration, and dived off
a foot-bridge across a little estu&ry that ran in
from the ocean. When the tide is up there is
plenty of water in it for diving, but when it is
low there is only a depth of a couple of feet to
the water. Mr. Anderson nearly broke his neck
in diving, and was several weeks recovering
from the shoex, and strained to his head and
neck. He is a most estimable gentleman, and
will add dignity to his new position.
India is practically uneducated. The total
number of scholars in schools and colleges of
all sorts is only 3,250,000, or per cent, of the
entire population. These are mainly confined
to the cities and towns; out out of 250,000,000 in
ali India leas than 11,000.000 can read aud write.
A census of the illiterates in the various coun
tries of the world places the three Sciavio states
of Roumania, Bervia aud Russia at the head of
the list, with about 80 per cent, of the popula
tion unable to read and write. Of the Latin
speaking races. Spain heads the list, with fis per
cent., followed by Italy with 48 per cent., France
and Belgium having about 15 per cent. The
illiterates in Hungary number 43 per cent,, in
Austria 30 per cent, and in Ireland 21 percent.
Iu England we find 13 per cent., Holland 10 per
cent., United States (white population) 8 per
cent, and Scotland ? per cent, unable to read
and write Wnen we come to the purely
Teutonic states we find a marked reduction in
the percentage of illiterates The highest is in
Switzerland. 2.5, and in the whole German em
pire it is ! per cent., while in Sweden, Den
mark, Bavaria, Baden and Wurtemburg there
is practically no one who cannot read and
write.
An English traveler who arrived In Wllll
mantlc a few days ago has given an acoount of
his search for a live specimen in Connecticut.
"When I came to Connecticut, or Yankeedora,
this week, ’ he said, "I was anxious to see a
specimen of the native aboriginal yankee race.
I had often, when in England, read about the
yankee, the real yankee, the live yaokee, and
I had seen pictures of him, and had laughed at
the pictures more thau I ever laughed at those
of the wild Africans of Uuyanyembe. As I
penetrated the region of Connecticut I looked
everywhere for this Kind of a Yankee, but
could not see him anywhere. The people re
sembled those of New Y'ork, and I was greatly
disappointed, for I bad been told that a yankee
could make wooden hams and wooden
nutmegs and had a peculiar trait
that was described by the word cute. I had
given up the search, and had come to believe
that the yankee was a Action, like the troglo
dyte. But yesterday I saw a specimen in Willi
mantic, a typical yankee of the kind I had seen
in the pictures, but not like the Brother Jona'
than who is often portrayed in the American
papers. He was in the street, and I stopped
wiien I caught sight of him. He was very thin,
and had a sallow skin, a queer nose, keen eyes,
lank jaws, a tuft of beard on bis chin, long scat
tered hair, and wore a straw hat and a white
cotton coat and trousers. I stared at him, fol
lowed him along, looked at him on all sides,
and was pleased that I had seen at least one of
the live yankees in the region
wnere I had been told they lived. He
carried a basket and appeared to be peddling a
kind of fruit grown here called huckleberries.
When I saw him again in the street to-day I
iooked at him still more closely, and was think
ing about writing an account of him as a sur
vival of the original yankee type, for publica
tion in England. But, as they say in New York,
I was 'knocked endwise' when I came to make
inquiry about him. I asked the hotel keeper at
WilLimantic for information concerning him,
and you can imagine my disappointment when
this person told me that my ideal and typical
liye yankee was not a yankee at all, but was
actually a Russian Hebrew wbo had come to
Willimantic from Vladovistock within the
present year. Ido not now believe that a real
yankee of the kind I have seen in pictures can
be found in Connecticut."
CHRISTOPHER GHAT POR.
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