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Newspaper Page Text4 f , |f|Horningßctos Morning News Bui ding Savannah, Ga. SATURDAY, AUGUST 22, 1891. Registered at the Postoffict in Savannah. The Horsing News is published every -lay in the year, and u served to subscribers in the city at 26 cents a week, $1 00 a month, $5 00 for six norths and $lO 00 for one year The Morning* News, try mail, one month. Si 00. three months, $2 50; six months, $5 00; one year. $lO 00. The Morning News, by mail, six times a week (without Sunday issue l , three months, $i 00. six months. $; 0>: one year. 00. The Morning News. Tri-Weekly. Mondays, Wednes-lay s and Fridays, or ’Tuesdaya Thurs days and'Saturdays, three months,!! 25. six months. 50; one year. $5 X). The Sunday News, by mail , one year, $2 00. The Weekly News, by mail, one year $ 25. Subscriptions payable in advance Remit by postal order, eneck or registered letter Cur rency sent by mail at riss of senders 4 Letters and telegrams should be •‘Morning News,*’ Savannah, Oa. Transient advertisements, other than special Column, local or reading notices men is and cheap or want column. I certs a Pne Fourteen lines of agate type-equal to one inch space m depth- .6 the mcasureraec: Contract rates ad discounts made known on a; . a v* _ Ol R >EH \ OKK OFFICE. Mr J J.Flynn, Genera! Advertising Agent Of the Morn: NO Ntw. office Park Row. New York. All adwrtisin# business oouile of fee state* of G**T. Flohdi *° d 3011111 C * r<> Rna wH he managed hr hi™- Morning News is on Hie at the following places, where Advertising Bales and other in formation regarding the paper can be obtained. K*W YORK CITY— 3. H B.tss, Sc Far* Row 6. F. R.-wsu. A Cos., 10 Spruce street. W. W Shjkf A Cos.. 41 Park Row. ri>i Kiirn.n A Cos . 15* Broadway. Dsccht A 00.. 27 Park PlacA 3. W. Thompson, Sy Park Row American Newspaper Publishers Association. Potter Building. PHILADELPHIA— X w aits A Son, Times Building. BOSTOS- B. B. Niles. 259 Washington street. Prrrtx nu. A Cos , 10 State street. CHICAQO- Lo*r> A Thomas. 45 Randolph street CINCINNATI- _ fcw:. alden Company, 96 West Fourth street NEW HAVEN- Tat H- P Hubbard Company. 25 Elm street. BT. LOLTS- Ihuoi Cersman A Cos., 11 ST Pine street. ATLANTA- Mornino News Bureau, It, Whitehall street MAOON— Daily Telegraph Office. SSC Mulberrr street. INDEX TO m ADVKETISKMENTS, Meetings— Fico.;ty Castle No. 7, K. G. F. Special Notices —Grand Concert at Tosch ack s Pavilion Sunday. Aug. 23; As to Crews of Norwegian Barks Brodrene and Louise; Base Ball To-day, Centrals vs. Guytons. Don't Wear Everybody's Bathing Spit—B H. Levy A Bro. Steamship Schedule Ocean Steamship Company. Cheap Counts advertisements— HelD Want •l; Emplo/miot Wantvl; For Rent; For Sale; Lost; Personi!. Miscellaneous. Hurricanes at Martinique are almost as Lad as the average revolt in Hayti. That is a windy and tumultuous country down that way : Judging by the talk of the average tem perance evangelist he knows a great deal more about debased drunkenness and atrocious intoxicants than a large number of the subjects upon whom he attempts to operate. Under the provisions of the last will of Jaunts Russell Lowell all of his property ex cept his library goes to his daughter’s family. But most of bis library is be queathed to Harvard. As literary execu tor Charles Eliot Norton will get all of his papers, and will probably from time to time publish such manuscripts as the poet left. Bitter opposition to Harrison is said to be rapidly organizing in Indiana, and the peo ple interested declare that Harrison shall certainly not have a full delegation, even though they cannot prevent him from get ting the necessary majority of it, and they will even then oppose any unit rule and light him to the last. They are “agin him” in dead earnest. Since the Haytian minis ry so precipi tately resigned a very good reason for it has been disclosed. Something like $2,000,- 000 cannot be found, and the ex-ministers may be called upon rather peremptorily to acoount for it if they don’t emigrate before the necessary papers can be made out. But they may get a friendly committee to whitewash them. Experts have introduced evidence in the Montana case of the alleged will of Million aire Davis at Butte to show that the docu ment was rather skillfully manufactured to look many years older than it really was by the use of chemicals and other very simple applications. It appears to have been a part ol a very skillfully devised plot to get possession of the old man's vast wealth. Making rain by the bomb-bursting pro cess has proven quite a success down in Texas. When the farmers’ crops were suf fering for moisture these experiments brought down veritable torrents of rain. Gradually man is getting the elements of this world into such shape that he can work them to suit himself. But he has not yet contrived to successfully stand off death. Detective O'Malley has again begun to bluster around New Orleans, and breathe defiance and future vengeance. Now he is clamoring for a trial, and tho oitizens’ com mittee should get together their counsel and testimony and see that he gets a good one. Give him one of those trials that people mix up with tribulations and complain of. It •will do him good, and have a tendency to purify the atmosphere of the back alleys in ibe Crescent City. When the authorities come to consider the case of that Atlanta young lady, who is supposed to be insane simply because 6he talks too much, they should bear in mind that if every woman were adjudged insane for similar cause the asylums of the coun try would have to be greatly enlarged, and they would then be always overcrowded and resonant with feminine voices. But iu that case there would probably be fewer insane men to be accommodated. Profs. Matt Quay and Chris Magee ac tually shook hands in the Pennsylvania con vention, the telegraph tells us. That’s proper. I3y way of a faint imitation of tho customary civilities of the dueling cartel it is said that the rules of the London prize ring require two combatants to shake hands before they “let go” and begin to slug one anuther. So far as possi hie Quay and Magee have always given each other the Bbake. There is every indication that each would very much like to give the other a knock-out blow. But they can at loast unite on one thing. They both delight to boister ously jump on Harrison and “walk around.” They Ought to Be Satisfied. Col. Livingston,"Dr. Maeune and others who wera so liberally indorsed by the alli ance convention doubtless feel much more comfortable than they did a few days ago. They were not certain until the convention acted that they would n■: he cailel upon to defend themselves against some ug,y charges. Tney had power enough, how ever, to prevent any charges from being presented, and they b >pe, probably, that nothing more will be heard of the charges. The people kmw, of course, what the charges against Dr. Maeune are. They were examined by a committee at the Ocala con vention. and a report exonerating him was adopted A member of the committee, how ever. said that the report was a white washing one and was made to prevent a scandal. Tne member who made this state- ment is Mr. Hall, president of the Missouri alliance. In view of the fact that the charges were made in connection with the senatorial election in this state last year it is rather remarkable that the alliance con vention at Atlanta took no notice of them. It is not yet known what Gov. Northen’s charges against CoL Livingston are. It cannot be possible that they are trivial. The governor is not the kind of a man to deal in trivialities. And the proof that the charges are not trivial is found in the fact that CoL Livingston, who controlled the convention absolutely, would not permit teem to be presented. It is true that he said, when an attempt was made to get them before the convention, that an oppor tunity would be given to present them, but the opportunity never came, an and it is fair to presume that Col. Livingston took good care that it did not. Col. Livingston may be innocent of any wrong doing, but iu this matter he has not acted like an innocent man. He has not demanded to meet hi* accusers face to face. It is underftood that the governor is his ac cuser, and the governor was in the conven tion and tried to get a hearing for the dele gate who was to speak for him. • Col. Livingston would appear to much better advantage if be bad called for an in vestigation of the charges. The course he has pursued with respect to them leaves on the minds of many the impression that he is afraid of an investigation. That is certainly a rather unpleasant position for the head of the alliance to occupy. Liquor Drinking to be Llconsed. Unique schemes for acquiring a little brief notoriety and somewhat of political prestige are growing so multifarious as to become rather bewildering. About the most extraordinary one that has yet been announced is the remarkable economic device by which a Kansas City councilman expects to enrich the municipal treasury at short notice. Under the iutri ate operation of his presumably profitable plan, every citizen who intends to imbibe any sort of intoxi cants is required to go somewhere into the interior of the city government and take out a license for that privilege. Charges for such permits are to vary from S2O to SSO, acoording to the style of bitters to which the applicant proposes to dedicate himself. Before a gentleman in Kansas City can become a registered and licensed public In ebriate uuder this unique enactment it is necessary that be shall first have his peti tion signed by his wife. That would show either that drunkenness Is approved at his house or that his wife was too timid to op pose his commands. But the ordinance does not prescribe any method by which a man who has no wife •hall secure a legally-inscribed indorsement of his contemplated course of debauchery. Nor does it provide for any rebates nor im munity from fines when these licensed “lusters” shall bring up for repairs in a po lice court. Just imagine the opening scene early “on the morning of the first day” that such a law should go into effect. On the front bench in the clerk’s office a row of “promi nent citizens,” from college professors down to ward politicians, with their money and domestic credentials iu their bands and an eager and thirsty look on their mobile features. Back of them the petty "public officials, soldiers mid citizens,” down to the luminous noses at tho rear—ail anxious to join the bibulous brotherhood. Whether physical infirmity is to consti tute an exemption from taxation is not stated. If not, then the man with the ex tempore cucumber colic, or an impromptu snake bite would be placed iu rather an em barrassing position while soma one hustlod after a license to save his life. On the other band, if “medicinal purposes” constituted au exemption, Kansas City would soon become the sickliest town on this continent, and the physicians would do the same sort of a land office business that they do in all prohibi tion towns. After awhile they would prob ably come to the wholesale method of sell ing medicinal “indulgences” after the fash ion of the thrifty pope who used to thus humor tho medieval knights at so much per humor. Then there comes the stranger within the city gates. This mode of taxation gives him either an undue advantage or inhibits him from taking a casual nip to mellow up his diaphragm. In either event there is in justice In it. Should a man wish to change his tipple, what’s to be done about it? Surely the city could not afford to send around a vigilant detective to keep tab on every registered roysterer. That would cost more than the oity got. Nor could a gentleman reason ably be compelled to produce his license be fore each drink. Neither oould he be forced to allow the booze inspecter to taste his tipple and see that it was all right accord ing to law before the registered imbiber swallowed it. Clearly these things would prove too objectionable to be allowed. Con sequently every registered reprobate in Kansas City would take out the very cheap est possible “lushing” license and then drink what he liked. Lest the name of the ingenious council man who invented this marvelous scheme should otherwise fail to reach remote pos terity in a perfect state of preservation it were just as well to tell the world that his patronymic is Dennis Bowes. Notwithstanding the claim of Mr. Bowes that his wonderful idea "would greatly promote the cause of temperance," he still insists that it would also “greatly” increase the municipal income to not less than 31,000,000 a year. But there is just a bare chance that Mr. Bowes is “greatly" mis taken. Palpably he is far more familiar with rum than arithmetic and “greatly” impressed with the potent allurements of the former. Moreover when the aldermen of the mu nicipalities of this country come to contem plate and marvel upon the symmetrical beauties of the “dead smooth” scheme that Mr. Bowes has laboriously constructed aud introduced, it were as well to bear in mind that his front name is Dennis. THE MORNING NEWS: SATURDAY, AUGUST 22, 1891. Honesty, Not Style, Needed. The Philadelphia Press, the leading re publican organ of Pennsylvania, in com menting upon the resolutions adopted Wednesday by the republican state conven tion of that state, says; “The silver plank is a curiosity, and betrays the need of a com mittee on style, clearness and precision to rev.se the deliverances of the convention. The platform undertakes to ‘indorse the action of the Fifty-first congress ia provid ing for the purchase and coinage of all the silver produced from Amerioau mines,’ and it recommends tariff duties to keep out foreign silver. The Fifty-first congress passed no act providing f:r the purchase and coinage of all American silver, ft provides for the yearly purchase of 54,000,000 ounces of silver, without limiting it to American silver, and the issue of treasury notes ia payment of the same, only so much of the bullion to be coined as is necessary to provide for the re demption of the treasury notes. If the committtee on resolutions simply meant to approve tne silver bullion act of the last congress, they would have done better to refer to it by title and not have attempted to describe it without having its provisions clearly in mind.” Doubtless Mr. Quay and other republican leaders feel like kicking their party organ for unintentionally exoosiag their little scheme. They ought to have sent a special messenger from Harrisburg to tell the Press not to make the blunder of supposing the committee on resolutions and tho conven tion did not know the meaning and scope of the last silver act, and it is probable that the Press would not have blundered had It not been so anxious to show that it knew ail about the silver act. No doubt tho wording of the silver reso lution was intentional. The purpose, it Is safe to say, was to convey the impression that the act provided for the coinage of the whole silver product of American mines. An impression of that sort would tend to satisfy those republicans who, although knowing nothing about the silver question, are demanding free silver coinage. It was a rather shrewd scheme on the part of the leaders of the Harrisburg convention. And to think that their own party organ should have spoilt it by trying to show that the men who framed the silver resolution were unable to express themselves clearly or were ignorant of the matter about which they undertook to instruct the people! When republican leaders attempt to mis lead the people again they will have to take their organ into their confidence. Other wise it will spoil their work. A Good Word for Patti son. Gov. Pattison of Pennsylvania is being spoken of in connection with the democratic nomination for President in many parts of the west, and even in the scuth he is not without admirers. Outside of Pennsylva nia , however, none of the democratic lead ers have expressed for publication the opin ion that he has a ebanoe for the nomina tion. There are republican leaders, how ever, who think that he wili have a strong following in the next national democratic convention. At Bedford Springs, Pa., the other day, Stephen B. Elkins, Blaine’s great friend, and one of the most prominent of the republican leaders, declared that he thought Gov. Pattison’s chance for the nomination better than that of either Hill or Cleveland. In the course of his talk he said: “I have heard no man more fre quently mentioned by prominent democrats recently in connection with the nomination for President in 1892 than tho handsome young governor of Pennsylvania. If I were a democrat I would rather have his chance for the nomination than that of any ether man in the United States.” There is no doubt that Gov. Pattison is a striking figure in politics. There are few public men who have bad so remarkable a political career. He hac been in politics since he was a very young man and ho has never met with defeat at the polls, notwithstand ing the fact that his home is in the repub lican city of Philadelphia and that there is a very large republican majority in Penn sylvania. He was eleo!ed controller of Philadelphia twice and has been elected governor twice. Until recently he was not thought to be a shrewd politician nor a man of conspicuous ability. Each time he has been elected the people have voted for him because they be lieved him to be a thoroughly honest man, and his career in office has been suoh os to justify the confidence placed in him. If it were believed that he could carry Pennsylvania as a candidate for President there is not much doubt that he would be the democratic standard bearer next year. But it is not believed that he could. Penn sylvania republicans close up their ranks and vote solidly for their ticket in presiden tial years, and, however much Pennsylva nians admire Gov. Pattison, it is doubtful if many of those of them who are republicans would vote for him for President. Unless it can bo demonstrated pretty clearly that he could carry his own state the talk of making him tho democratic nominee for President will not amount to a great deal. He is a young man, yet, however, and the time tnav not be distant when be can come forward as a presidential caudidate feeling that he can depend upon the electoral vote of bis state. Just at present Mr. Cleveland is the most prominent democratic presidential candi date. Notwithstanding the attacks of bis enemies his popularity does not show any signs of waning. And next to him Senator Gorman seems to be the favorite. The steady growth of Mr. Gor man’s popularity Is beginning to attract a great deal of attention. Connecticut probably now contains six of the maddest as well as the sickest men in the United States. They were re cently invited to eat “coon chowder” with Mr. Sam Starr at Birmingham. But Mr. Starr happened not to have a “coon” handy. So he made them eat dog. They did not recognize the cur as they cheerfully chewed him up. But Starr thought it too good a joke to keep. Yet when he proceeded to make a neat little speech to apprise them that they had been eating stale dog every man of the six was suddenly “took bad in the stnmmick,” as Starr expressed it. Within two minutes they were actually too sick to fight, although they wanted to trounce the joker awfully. And it is said that between grunts they are still swearing to slaughter him just as soon as they can forget the taste of that last plug of dog. Meanwhile Mr. Starr would do well to emigrate. Negotiations are said to be in progress for the purchase of the Kaosas City Times evening edition, to be removed to Topeka as the Kansas organ of the third party. For the purpose of running such a machine a third party stock company has been formed. PERSONAL. Labocchere promises to visit this country next autumn. Sir William Gordon Ccmming’B relatives and friends are being socially ostracised for their loyalty to him. Associate Justice Lamar of the United States supreme court is taking a vacation at Bethlehem, N. H Pnor. Harrin.ton. chief of the weather bu reau, has gone to Europe to the meteorological conference, which meets in Munich- ' Kino George of Greece devotes himself to aoeostio experiments with liells and glasses, from which he obtains extraordinary results. Mrs. Lavinia Fillmore, one of the late Presi dent Fillmore's relatives, celebrated her 10lth birthday a few davs ago. She lives at Clarence, near Buffalo, N. Y Grant Allen asserts that out of twenty girls whom he sits next to at dinner in London, nine teen are Hedda ashlers All in all. Mr. Allen's dinners must be pretty lively affairs. Mrs. Rachel Gurney, the protege of the Duchess of Bedford, who is to marry the young Ear! of Dudley, is, Desiles being vary handsome, extremely accomplished, and one of the best amateur singers in England. The Norwegian National Assembly has granted Dr. Fridti of Nansen 355,091 toward his Polar expedition, and thirteen Norwegians in tneir private capacity, one of them lieing the king himself, have given the Intrepid ice-wand derer $30,000 more. Sir Windshaw M. Petit, one of the most famous men in the English queen's Indian coun try, is a millionaire and philanthropist, owns thirteen of the largest spinning mills in India, and with one exception is the only native ever knighted by Victoria. It is ijceer how they write. Andrew Lang is declared to write best in a rose garden; Tolstoi sits on big bed an i puts the inkstand on his ruffled pillow; Dumas fils uses an ebony dess, while Mary Anderson Navarro's is mother of-pearl; James Whitcomb Riley is at his best when the room is b.eak and uncomfort able. The Marijuis of Ailesburv, who has just been refused permission to impoverish the family es- selling a £150,000 s iue of them, is a sporting man who, having once won a big race with his horse Rarernake, has managed to Eatable tway more than a hundred times ns much upon worth less horses and polished black legs, a- u ■James Wmiu. Lowell was one of the first men. If not the very first, So make the true esti mate ef Lincoln. This is a noteworthy thing. Keen a*d acctirae judgment of a contain fw rary leage not onlv of human na ture ana character, but the prophetic vision of the future development of sentiment and race history. Mr. Spurgeon, the famous English speaker, has found enough of spare time in his busy life to become a botanist, a floriculturist and a practical landscape gardener, ana his Norwood residence has glass houses, gardens and grounds surrounding it which are the envy of the neighborhood. He knows every gardener and every choice plant in Kew gardens. Mr. Cremer, the radiant member of par liament, who has give* netkpe that he will in troduce a resolution favorfg a treaty with the United States by wines disputes shall be arbitrated, is an interesting sort of person, according to s London newspaper gossip Cremer reads German, philosophy as a diver sion, although he had no schooling to speak of. *—E— +- BRIGHT BITS. Two or three tears ago the first woman bill collector started the rounds in Atchison. Now more than half the collecting is done by women, and the people have learned to ask them to “call again to-morrow 1 ’ without embarrassment or hesitation.— Atchison. til jbe. "Whail Jane,” sai l tho mistress, breaking in on the chambermaid in the kitchen, "is it possi ble have two different lovers?” "Mb ma'am; not at all, rrta’ im. I'm engaged to bo married to the one who was here last night, ma'am.”— Philadelphia Times, “What do you think of Smith?" ”1 think he Is a very bright fellow." “Well, you know lie doesn't speak wall of yon?" "What do you suppose I care what an ass like Smith thinks of me?’’— Uarper's Bazar. "I hear that you are engage !to Lord Hard squoze," said abel >to her wealthy friend. "Is it so?" "O, no," said the business-like young woman. “1 shouldn't sav we ware engaged, but I—l bare ait option on him.'i'riy a.ihington Star. "Wrat a sad face ghp has! It looks as if it might have a woful life history.” "lthaa. She was disappointed in love when youug She Inis never Vieen able to get overit." "Did he jilt her. or die, or what?" “Neither; he married her. '—Detroit Free Press. Daughter -Papa, I want to get married. All the other girls of my set are getting married. Tapa ffondiyl— And what the mischief do you want to get married for? Dauznter—For heifer or worse, papa. I'm sure that’s enough. Isn’t it?— Detroit tree Press. a o “Papa, is my UnctebXMee a good farmer?” “No, Dickey. He leaves his agricultural im plements out in the weather, and they get all rusted." tPy * After a prolonged mental struggle!—"Papa, is thnt the way he got his teeth all rusted’"— Chicago Tribune. “Talmaoz is not doing much with his new church in Brooklyn." "What makes you trunk so? I heard he was doing splendidly." "Guess rot. I read n the paper the other day-that he sold his pairs. .Must be pretty hard up. I reckon.”— TertJA ,s'/tings. “Bay Harry," said one small boy to an other, "they's peoples in the moon." "No, they iiain't." , , "Yes, they is. HppKeaid so.” “How does you pa know? He was never in the moon." j "No, buthe is out every night and sees lots. I guess be snows more’n us,— St. Louis Republic. Affairs in this distracted world Are sometimes twisted badly: To t ry to get tbem.ntrnlghtened out Would worry one most sadly. Tor instance, there's n man I know. It's odd, there's denying, Who now, for twenty years or so. Has made his living dyeing. — south's Companion. “Charlie has had such bad luck with watches,” said younz Airs. Tocker. "He lost two because they got saturated " “Charlie said they got soaked," remarked his mother "I know, but saturated is a much prettier word, and means the same thing. These rains are so penetrating: I suppose thev got nto the works and rusted them."— irasAtnofcm o tar “Stranoe," said Mrs. Jones, as she locked up the house, "how old fashions come in again." “What is it, now?" asked Mr. Jones, yawn ing. "Why. Mr. Simmons passed just now. and I guess he thought it was you he was talking to, for he called out that he was going down the street to get a nightcap ” And Mr. .Tones didn t enlighten her, but he wished— O, how he wished -he had gone shop ping with Simmons. -Detroit Free Press. CURRENT COMMENT. How That Would Gratify Him. From the New York Advertiser i Dem.). If Mr. Roosevelt finds that the Baltimore cus tom house has been too much of a political ma chine, what a sensational field of discovery is awaiting him here in New Y'ork. She Will Do It. From the Brunswick Times. The Georgia legislature has accepted an invi tation to visit Savannah. If Savannah would do as much work on her harbor as abe has done to work up favorable sentiment she would ad vance the date of obtaining what she wants. Great Improvement on Old 6tyle Ge nius. From the Chicago Mail I Did.). We have received a monograph translated from the Italian by Dr. J. G. Klernan. the local insanity expert, iu which an attempt is made to prove tnat "genius is a degenerative epileptoid psychosis ” We do not know what this is, but presume it is a good thing to have in the house. Been Studying the Meaning of An archy. From the Philadelphia Press <Rep.). Anarchy is threatened in China. Anarchy means disruption, disintegration, and immigra tton on a larger scale than ever before. This bodes no good to Europe or America Rome, overrun by the barbarians, was no more help less than would America be if the celestial hordes were let loose upon her. FLAVORING EXTRACTS. To Escape: To escape the worthless abominations offered under the title of Flavoring Extracts, and force them out of the market, rests wholly with consumers. They are the ones that have to suffer. Look upon cheap goods as evidence of their worthlessness. Pure articles cannot be sold as cheap as adulterated ones. Or. Price's Delicious Flavoring Extracts are acknowledged to be the purest and the only scientifically prepared Flavorings in the market. Now used in a million homes and daily increas ing in popular favor. Their Honeymoon. “The funniest experience I ever had/' said Col. L. A. Leonard of Cincinnati to a New York Morning Journal man, “was during a visit I recently made to N *w York in company with my slater. We went to the Grand Union hotel, aDd I asked the clerk to give us a couple of ad joining rooms. “I understood the clerk to say that we were assigned to rooms 99 and 101. We were con ducted to the rooms, and 1 was shown to 99. Snortly afterward my sister in ormed me that she could not succeed In getting any one to answer the bell, and requested me to ring mine and order a pitcher of ice water for her, I rang and requested the boy who responded to take a pitcher of ice water to room 101. Before going down stairs, a few minutes later, I asked my sister if she received the ice water, and was in formed that she had not. I rang again and told the second boy to take a pitcher of ice water to room 101. I went below and soon returned, and was surprised to learn that no ice water had been delivered in ray sister's room. “By that time I was interested, and told my sister that I would see that she got some ice water if I had to go after it myself. So I rang once more and told the bell boy that a pitcher of Ice water must be taken to room 101 right away, and he said that he would surely attend to it. “After waiting some time I made inquiry of my si6ter again, and she said that no ice water nad come, and begged me not to botuer myself about it, as it seemed to be a hopeless task. But I replied that water was cheap, and she should have some sure. I went to the person in charge of our corridor and preferred a request that a pitcher of ice water be sent to room 101. I received a promise that it should be attended to instanter. But it wusn't. **My next attempt was to prevail upon the eie vator boy to take a pitcher of ice water to room 101. He declared that he would do so on thß next trip. “He failed. In despair I went to the office of the hotel and asked the clerk If it were possible to have a pitcher of ice-water sent to room No. 101. “‘Certainly/was the answer; ‘that can be done without any trouble/ “ *1 have been trying to get it done ever since I came here, and I haven't made the riffle vet/ 1 said, ‘And if it is a possible thing I would like to have it done/ “Later I stepped into the elevator, and the boy there asked me if I were going up to the 101 floor. “ ‘Yes/ I responded. ‘Why?* " ‘A hundred and one will throw you out of the window if he catches you/ said the boy. “ ‘What are you ta king about?' I asked “ ‘Why, there is a brido and groom in 101 and you have been firing ice water in their room all evening, and the man is wild. He swears he will murder you. “Upon investigation I found that my sister's room was not 101 at all, but was 97. My room was 99, and as my sister's room was next to it I thought it was 101. There I haa sent aoout ten pitchers of ice water to 101, and didn't know it. “I had left a call in the office for 93 and 101 for 4 o'clock the next morning when 1 was going down-stairs last, and never thought to have it changed. So at 4 o’clock the bride and groom were awakened by a thundering knock at the door, which made them furious, and they were firmlv persuaded that the early call was a part of the ice water fiend's scheme to annoy them. “I escaped with my life and wa3 glad of it/’ Arab Humor. At a time of great drought a schoolmaster, accompanied by his pupils, went out to pray for rain. He was met by an inquisitive fellow, writes Prof. A. 8. Isaacs in the 7n dependent, who asked where they were going. “We are going to pray for rain/' the teacher replied; “Gol will hear the prayers of innocent children.'’ “If that were so/'answered the man, “there would be no teachers alive.’’ One day in the coffee-house a singer sang a melody whose re frain was “Let a lover do what he may, he is to be excused/' His voice was execrable, and yet he persisted in repeating the song. At last a wag, who could endure it no longer, threw a cup of sherbet in his face; wheu the singer angrily inquired the reason, he rejoined: “Why. lam in love, and am to be excused.’’ The Oriental Joe Miller is parent to many jests that are still current among us. For instance, a preacher in a mosque began the history of Noah with this citation from the koran: “I have called Noah/’ Unluckily he forgot the rest of the verse and repeated tho same words over again. At last an Arab exclaimed: “If Noah will not come call somebody else/' More careful was another preacher who was sbeik as well. One Friday when the muezzin rang out the call for prayer he mounted the pnlpit iu the mosque and asked the people if they knew about what he inteuded to preach to them. “No,” they re plied. “Well, then. 1 shall not tell you,’’ and he stepped down. The next Friday he asked the same question, and now, taught by expe rience, they answered “Yes, we know." “Well, if you know, you do not need me to tell you," and again he stepped down. The third Friday, when the same inquiry was made, the people said: “Some of us know and some don't know.' “In that case/’ the preacher rejoined, “let those of you wno know tell those who don’t know.” And again there was no sermon, Allan Thought God Was Angry. The present visit of Gen. Alger to this city, says the San Francisco Call, recalls an incident of his last visit here which is peculiarly touch ing in Its nature. At that time Allan Alger, who died last February, was a bright eyed, curly-haired little fellow of 8, a thorough boy aDd the pet of the family. “To that time/' related the general, “he had never retired at night without first saying his prayers, but one day we had been out to tb* CIUT hone© and through the park, so that the little fellow was well-nigh worn out when we returned to our rooms at the Palace. The re suit was that he lay down to rest and in a few moments was fast asleep. Not having the h*art to disturb him, his mother and I undressed him and carefully put him to bei Late in the evening an earthquake occurred, and the great building rocked violently to and fro. I will con less that we were all alarmed, and our two daughters rushed headlong into the room, thoroughly frightened by tne unusual experi ence. Iu the midst of this confusion little Allan sprang out of bed, and realizing what had occurred, fell upon his knees “When he arose he said: ‘That was because I forgot to say my prayers, and God is angry.' “He never missed saying them again.'* BAKING POWDER. (ipM Baking (C'-dPowder: Used in Millions of Homes— 40 Years the Standard ITEMS OF INTEREST. Mrs. Amanda Eitnier, a handsome widow of Ephrata. was shot and instantly killed by Lemon Ellsworth, a widower of the same place, at a hotel in Lancaster, Pa., Wednesday. The couple had eaten dinner, and then engaged in conversation in the parlor, when the tragedy occurred. It is supposed the man was desirous of wedding the woman, who was quite wealthy, and upon the latter’s refusal committed the fa tal deed. A curious story about John A. Lo~an is told by Truth (New York). A short time before his death, says this publication, the general re turned from Mexico to Chicago, and there a youug lady of 20, a favorite of his, who had p.cked up palmistry, was by him to tell his fortune. She laughingly took his hand, but her face soon grew serious, and she told him that death was marked in it, and warned him to change his method of living and working and get rest Mrs. Logan, who stood by, ob served that this revelation had a disturbing effect on her husband, and with some reassuring remark and alaugh held out her hand and told the young lady to read her hand. The girl took it, looked at the lines an instant, and burst out crying, “You will be a widow within six inoaths/' spbbed the young palmist, dropping the hand. A Berlin correspondent says that the offl cial report of the committee appointed to in vestigate the alleged cancer grafting operations of Profs Bergmann and Hahn “will declare that it is incorrect to describe the treatment in question as an experiment, and that what actu ally happened was this: After the patients had undergone the usual operation for the removal of cancerous growths, pieces of sound skin were grafted on the part w'hich had been operated upon, while p.eces of skin from tbe tainted place were sewn on the wound caused by the re moval of tne sound skin. This was done in each case with tho consent of the patient, and it was done at a time when the profession was still ignorant as to whether cancer was or was not contagious. Tbe fact that it is conta gious Las been established by means of the ireatment described, and was recorded at a chirurgical congress hel l in 1889. The report further declares that Dr. Leidig, the assistant judge, who raised the whole controversy, is not competent to pronounce upon the treatment, and that he has erroneously described it as an experiment.’’ This would l*ave at least two important poiuts unexplained—first, whether the patients really unlerstood the nature and purpose of the operation performed upon them, and second, whether or not the inoculations proved fatal. “I see/' said a Louisville gentleman, “that Phil Thompson has opened a law office in New York in addition to his office in Washington. His practice is said to be very lucrative, and it will not be long ere he acquires a floe income. As ho has joine i th * Tammany Society, it is only a question of tune when he will be a Tam many congressman from the metropolis. I heard an anecdote of Phil not long ago that I have never seen in print. When he was mem ber-elect of the Forty sIrUT con?rees he spent tne winter of 1878-’9 in Washington, and attended daily the sessions of the ex pi ring Forty fifth congress. At that time Joe Blackburn was connected with a committee investigating some star route rascality, and Joe was very officious and earnest in the matter. One of the star routers took mortal affront at some in congruvial talk Blackburn had given utterance to on the floor of the House, and sent a hostile message to Joe, who showed the note to Phil. The latter at once sought the sender of the note and waid to him: “I am at leisure and my friend Blackburn is quite busy investigating a lot of thieves living off the postofflee appro priation. I will not have him disturbed, and I want you to understand that I will act in his stead in the adjustment of the matters touched on in this note/’ showing it Phil th in looked like a beardless boy, and his voice was as soft as a woman's, t but there was such an air of business in his calm an i sedate manner that the challenger expressed himself as wholly satisfied. I heard it stated that when Phil and his brother John were with Morgan that one of them invariably went a quarter of a mile in front and the other a quar ter of a mile in the rear of the command when it was on a march—both*were posts of danger and posts of honor. As to his services in the army, I have never heard Pbil say a word. Tue Fact that no serious accident has be fallen the ocean grayhoundshas done much to remove the popular appraheniion when it first began to be demonstrated that a voyage be tween Queenstown and Sandy Hook might be accomplished in six days or even less. The claim that a difference in speed of a few miles a day, more or less, increases danger from col lision or from foundering has not been sustained by actual experience thus far. wnatever the future may have iu store. And meanwhile the rivalry of steamship lines is resulting in swifter vessels ev-ry year. Tbe Alaska lowered the record to days, the Etruna to 6 days and 3 hours, and tbe City of Paris 5 days, 22 hours 60 minutes. Since then a German company and a French company have brought for ward ships, the Fuerst Bismarck- and La Tou rame. whose p-rformancee have led experts to believe they are faster than the City of Paris And now it is announced that in reply to the performances of the French and German fliers, the Messrs. Thomson of Groenock, the con structors of the City of Paris, are out already, in fact, with the model of a vessel which they are about setting to work to build, that will make 21U knots every hour of the journey and put a bridge over tbe Atlantic in five days. 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