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WEDNESDAY. SKPT. ’2. 1881.
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INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Meetings—The Equitable Loan and Building
- Association.
Special Notices—House and Lot on Henry
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Cheap Oolumn advertisements—Hold Want
#l; Employment Waatad; For Rent; For Sale;
'Lost; Personal. Miscellaneous.
The honorable legislators oontinue to
Introduce bills. Do they expect to stay in
Atlanta altogether; They have now work
enough to engage their attention for the
next six months.
Tho Missouri alliance has shown its wis
dom by refusing to indorse the sub-treasury
scheme and the government ownership of
railroads. Tbe popularity of these features
of tbe Ocala platform seems to be on the
wane.
It is said that ex-Senator Ingalls would
not feel the defeat he suffered in the Kansas
legislature so keenly if ha had been beaten
by a man nearer his own intellectual caliber.
What fills his soul with bitterness is the fact
that collarless Peffer was preferred to him.
It is noticeable that fine weather has
brought a more hopeful feeling to tbe cot
ton growers. Now, if the price of cotton
would only advance to 10 cents for mid
dling there would be sunshiue in tbe
farmers’ hearts as well as in their cotton
fields.
Has the Emperor of Germany a grudge
against the barbers of his empire! It is
announced that he has "turned out bis
whiskers,” and all Germany may be ex
peclod to follow the fashion thus set. And
how are the barbers to earn their bread if
the men do not have their faces shaved!
There is an impression that our minister
to Chile, the Hon. Fatriok Egan, will soon
find it so unpleasant at the Chilean capital
that be will ask to be permitted to return
home. The sudden departure of his friend
Balmaceda, for a more congenial country,
must have caused him profound sorrow.
Notwithstanding the fact that Repre
sentative Watson is notan allianceman, it
is said a good many altianoemen are think
ing seriously of him as a candidate for gov
ernor. It is doubtful, however, if the Hon.
Mr. Watson will ever become the occupant
of the governor’s chair. He has some good
points, but not enough to enable him to
climb to that political higbt.
An Ohio political prophet, who is watch
ing the campaign in that state, says the
effect the People’s party will have on the
political situation in that state is wholly
problematical. Well, that settles it.
There is no use pursuing the subject
further. As long as it is problematical in
the opinion of the political prophets, neither
of the old parties has much cause for
alarm.
There continues to be a good deal of In
quiry for tbe southern statesman who went
to President Harrison soon after he became
President and begged him, with tears in
his eyes, to do nothing that would annoy
tbe south, but his identity still remains a
secret. Perhaps there is nosuch statesman.
Tbe President may have dreamed the inci
dent he related in one of his Vermont
speeches.
Here is another man who wants a unani
mous nomination. Andrew D. White,
president of the Cornell University, says
that he will accept the republican nomina
tion for governor of New York provided it
is a unanimous one. President White is a
good man, but it is probable;that.bis desire
for unanimity will defeat his ambition. Tbe
example of Blaine should have been a warn
ing to bim.
Now and then Jay Gould rises to make a
few remarks. A letter of his is being shown
in Wall street, iu which he says: "The
business outlook seems to mo brighter than
at any time in the last dozen years.” These
deliverances of Mr. Gould are of quite
frequent occurrence, and seem to mean
that he has something to sell. However, on
this occasion, it does look as if times were
becoming better.
Tennessee’s Convicts.
The legislature of Tennessee is consider
ing tho convict problem, which was brought
to the attention of the public bv tbs action
of the Bri'eville miners. It is evident that
the problem is not going to be solved
quickly, ard the chances are that it will be
pretty much in the same condition at the
end of the twenty days’ session for which
the legisla uro has been criled together, as
it is now.
Tho legislature doesn’t hnow what to ilo
with the convicts. Many suggestions are
made, but none of tham seem to meet with
general approval Tbe state now gets a
revenue from the convicts of SIOO,OOO a
year. If the lease system should be aban
doned the atute would lose this large addi
tion to its revenue, and would have Cos ex
pend a large sum in feeding and guarding
tbe convicts. It is pretty safe to say that
at least $250,000 more would have to be
raised by tax it ion than is collected at
present.
The people are not willing to bear so
large an additional burden of taxation.
And, besides, the state has no penitentiary
building. The prison it had was destroyed
by fire, and it would cost an immense sum
to build another. The people, particularly
the farmers, do not feel rich. Tbe low
price of cotton has a depressing effset upon
ali kinds of business, and, hence, there is a
desire that the taxes shall be as low as pos
sible.
But what is the legislature to do! The
miners say they will not submit to competi
tion with convict labor, and it Is probable
that if the miners should be successful in
their resistance to that kind ot competition
all other free laborers would object to the
competition of convict laborers.
And there is another factor iu the prob
lem. Those who have contracts with the
state for convicts object to having these
contracts broken. If the contracts should
be broken they would hold the state for
damages. The 6tate, therefore, seeai9 to be
in a dilemma. It does not s.-o any way out
of the trying situation in which it is placed.
If it could get a release from its contract
with the lessees It might employ the con
victs upon the public roads. In that way
the taxpayers would get the benefit of the
extra taxes they would have to pay for the
support of the convicts.
It may be that the discussion of the con
vict problem In the Tennessee legislature
will suggest a solution of tbe problem that
will be acceptable to all the states which
now have the lease system. It is certainly
to be hoped that it will The lease system
is very unpopular la this state. If a
better system should be suggested—
one that would not impose too heavy a bur
den upon the taxpayers—it would be
adopted without much opposition. But this
state, unpopular as the lease system is,
would not abandon that system for one that
would require a considerable increase in
tbe rate of taxation. It would certainly
not do so as long as the class of men who
now direct the state's affairs are in power.
The present legislature will not, in
all probability, make an appropri
ation for the military organizations,
although it understands that these
organizations are depended upon to preserve
the peace should disturbances of an unusual
character arise. And that such disturb
ances are to be expected ts evident from
what occurred at Briueville, Tenn. Con
victs are working in mines and at saw-mills
in this state, and a revolt against competi
tion with convict labor is likely to occur at
any time.
But the lease system has got to go. It
may take years to substitute some other
system for it iu all the states in which con
victs are now leased, but the Bnceville
demonstration marked the beginning of an
agitation that will not cease until tho lease
system passes out of existence.
A School Book Exchange.
There has been established in Atlanta
what tbe Morning News advocated in con
nection with the public schools of this city,
viz., a school book exchange. By m ans of
the exchange school children can dispose of
their school books when they have no fur
ther use for them, and they can obtain
others for much less than the original cost.
School books are quite an item of expense
in the education of children. And the
books are not much the worse for wear
when the first owners are through with
them if they have been handled with a
reasonable amount of oare. But there is no
market for them unless there is a place
where they can be exchanged for other
books, and yet they are of no benefit to the
children who are through with them.
There may be reasons why an exchange
is not a helpful institution, but they are not
so apparent as to be quickly recognized by
the average observer. The rich, of course,
do not care much what becomes of the
schoolbooks of their children which are no
longer useful They are able to buy new
books as often as their childrsn need them.
The poor, however, are forced to notice
such minor matters. Money is so hard to
get that the cost of sahoolbooks for two or
three children is a matter of very consider
able importance to them. To the poor,
therefore, a schoolbook exchange would be
a most desirable institution. And the rich
would not hesitate to avail themselves of
its benefits.
Why should steps not be taken at once to
establish an exchange in this city! It would
certainly be appreciated. And in view of
the good which It would do it seems a little
remarkable that the school commissioners
have not long before this given it serious
attention. Perhaps they will do so now
that the exchange idea has borne fruit else
where.
Mr. Blowltz, the Paris correspondent; of
the London Times, tells a rather remarka
ble story relative to the visit of the Empress
Frederick, the kaiser’s mother, to Paris.
It Is that the kai ier had determined to in
vade France before the republic could arm
if any rudeness had been offered to the
empress during her visit. Every prepara
tion was complete for the instant move
ment of the German army. All that would
have been necessary was the giving of the
order for tho army to move forward. But
no Paris gamin throw a stone at the em
press, and hence a bloody war was averted
—according to Mr. Blowltz.
The junta which now have control of
Chilean affairs are exceedingly anxious to
secure recognition from this government.
As Balmaceda’s government has disap
peared. and the junta are in control of
affairs, it looks as if they would have to be
recognized os the government of Chile. And
tbe junta are going to make the situation
decidedly unpleasant for those of the lead
ers of the Balmaceda party who helped to
bring about the war. But it is to be hoped
that nothing prompted by revenge will be
done. The aim should be to allay bad feel
ing and induce the people to get to work
again as soon as possible.
THE MORNING NEWS: WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1891.
A Health Commission.
Dr. Ls Hardy, in his ssmi-annual report
to the Citizens’ Sanitary Association, pre
sents some very good reasons why all mat
ters relating to the health of the city
and county should be placed in the hands
of a commission. A great deal has been
done to improve tbe health of the city
within the last ten years, and it
is very much better than it used to
be, but much more would have been done
In all probability had the sanitary work of
the city and county been under one man
agement and conducted in accordance with
plans adopted after mature consideration.
The county commissioners have accom
plished a great deal in the way of draining
the low lands an and swamps in tbe vicinity of
tbe city, but there remains a vast am mot
of this kind of work to ba done. And it is
a question whether tha drainage would not
now be more effective than it is had there
ben a clearly defined plan when the drain
age work was begun.
The city authorities alao frequently con
sider matters pertaining to the publio
healti. Not long agi they were aroused to
the necessity for inaugurating a system of
house drainage, and later they concluded
that more water was necessary before at
tempting to solve the house-drainage prob
lem. They may be right about this, but in
the meantime there are disease breeding
places in this city which ought to receive
more attention than are tow given them.
Not only are there vaults whioh frequently
become offensive, but there are places
where the water remains for several days
after heavy rains. Shallow ponds, under
the influence of the hot sun, are very
likely to produce sickness.
And ths paving question is a highly im
portant one in its relations to the public
health. It is a question that should be
studied carefully in a climate like this. And
there are many other matters
pertaining to the publio health
of which the city and county authori
ties have jurisdiction. No doubt they
give all the attention to them they can, but
they do not hove as much time to consider
them as their importance demands.
And, besides, there are frequent changes
in both city aud county officials. New
men with different ideas oome into powef,
and before their ideas are put into practice
their places are taken by others. In this
way sanitary work, so necessary to the
city's health, is delayed, and when it is
entered upon it is done without any clearly
defined connection with other work having
sac Ration for one of its objects. Hence
years go by without needed sanitary work
being begun. A commission—provided it
was composed of the right sort of men—
would effect a great reform in this matter.
Injured "Infant Industries."
Tinplate Magnate Neidriughaus was
formerly a St. Louis congressman. Suffi
cient intelligence to fit him for the duties
of that responsible office coupled with a
business experience and capacitv sufficient
to raise him to the crest of the wave of suc
cess should also supply him with a tolera
bly accurate knowledge of the national
lows which apply to industries.
Still, whan Mr. Neidrlnghaus failed to
find the necessary skilled labor in this
oountry to operate his tinplate works at St.
Louis, and was confronted with the inhabi
tion ot tbe 60-called contract labor law
when be thought of sending abroad for
competent help, he took recourse to the
formality of consulting the Secretary of
tho United States Treasury before acting
upon the obvious necessity for bringing the
essential mechanics from abroad, and
when that official bluntly denied him the
privilege, Mr. Neidringhaus decided that he
had o right to do so without suoh permis
sion.
But in order to secure the right to do
what is essential to operate his mill without
vexatious interference from the party
that boasts so much of "the protection of
infant industries.” this republican manu
facturer found it necessary to fall baok
upon the sensible enactments of "a demo
cratic congress, signed by a democratic
President,” as he describes them.
What particular laws these are Mr.
Neidringhaus does not state. But it is a
trifle significant that when his business is
aotually stopped under all of the promised
benign influences of a republican adminis
tration and the full operation of the repub
lican pet policy of high tariff protection
that was to foster American infant indus
tries this staunch republican should im
mediately tvirn for relief to democratic
measures “passed by a democratic congress
and signed by a democratic President” and
appeal to a republican high official as a
mere formality.
Possibly this is what the Pittsburg Dis
patch refers to when it says that it "will
not enhance his reputation for discretion or
good taste.” Come to think of it, tho resort
to measures so injurious to the falacious
theories of so-called protection was not a
bit lady-like of him.
The Brunswick Times says that the jeal
ousy between Savannah and Brunswick is a
thing of the past. Yes, it is a thing of the
past, and let it remain so. There was never
any good reason for it, and it never bene
fited anybody. The two ports can work
together with benefit to each. If they pull
different ways they are certain to do eaoh
other harm. If there is to boa rivalry let
it be a friendly one—a rivalry that will
spur each in the direction of greater mate
rial prosperity.
Maj. McKinley does not find the tarifT
question so interesting as he thought he
would when he began his campaign in Ohio,
and he is therefore devoting the greater
part of his speeohes to the silver question.
He is telling the farmers that if they don’t
change their demands they will be carrying
the South American dollar in their pockets.
The farmers, however, do not seem to un
derstand him. At least they do not applaud
his allusoms to the South Amoricau dollar
There is an old woman in New York oity
who is just turning a round century of
years. But the most singular character
istic noticeable about ber is that she does
not claim to have ever seen George Wash
ington nor to have given him the shake of
the hand that every other centenarian
seems to have administered at some time
before this country became an orphan.
Canada is greatly disappointed and dis
couraged over the returns from the domin
ion census. It reports a very meager gain
in population. Judging from the criminal
records of this country, our neighbor should
have got more than 498,534 involuntary
emigrants from this country, each of whom
carried a more or less large bulk of capital
along.
The recent heavy and long continued
rains have damaged cotton a great deal, but
it is doubtful if the damage is as great as
reported. If good weather prevails until
frost, and frost does not come too soon, the
crop will be a pretty big one.
PERSONAL.
Mr Gladstosr now appears to have quite
j regained bis usual health.
Hon. Hallam Tennyson, only surviving son
and heir of the poet laureate, enters upon his
4Cithyer.
A. E. Buck, Unite! Slates marshal for the
northern district of Georgia, is on a visit to
Fox croft, Me., his nat.ve place.
President Harrison is said to be a diligent
re .der of tbe political speeches made through
out the country by republican orators.
"You may.” recen’lv sail Prince BismarcE,
"tell everybody that I would regard any ditnu
nition of our com duties as a national misfor
tune.’’
Qen\ Vor Vebdy dc Vbrnois, who is the
original inventor of the war game, is regarded
in Germany as the most scientific soldier in
Europe.
The wife of Consul General New. whose son
Harry married Miss McLean, the actress, the
other day, traces her lineage back to Poca
hontas.
Politics does not seem to have agreed with
Bjornstjerne Bjornsnn, the novelist, for be has
retired from the activities and absorption of a
public life to bis literary pursuits.
Mme. Tamae left to her sister. Mile. Dosne,
her far-famed collection of strings of pearls,
which it took three years to bring together, and
the price of which was 400,000 francs.
Williar J. Vannort, republican candidate
for governor of Maryland, is acative of Chester
town, and about fifty six years of age. He has
a first-rate army re rd and is vice president of
the State Farmers' Association.
Ellen Terry’s daughter, who some time
siDce adopted the stage name of "Ailsa
Craig," has definitely resolved to make tbe
stage her professi-m, and will be a member of
tbe Lyceum Company next season.
Sin Richard Temple will, presumably, end
his parliamentary life with this parliament.
He has told his South Worcester constituents
that he shall not again contest the seat, and
tnnt be has no other constituency in view,
Stephen A. Doughs, prosecuting attorney
for the city of Chicago, and son of the famous
democrat of that name, never visits Springfield.
111 . without going to the tomb ot his fathei’s old
political opponent and friend, Abraham Lin
coln.
The engagement has been announced of W.
S. Moody, Jr., editor of the Sunday edition of
the New Yom Recorder, and Miss Helen Wat
terson. the "Woman about Town” editor of the
Now York Evening Sun. They will be married
about the middle of September.
Sir Henrt Pottinger has just leased in
Norway what is perhaps the largest sporting
estate In Europe, the area being about the size
of Yorkshire, and the game varying from the
elk to the rbyper, while salmon and trout are
in abundance. Tcis immense tract includes
veld, fiord, moorland, and river, but is very
thinly peopled.
One of the distinguished Americans at pres
ent in London is Prof. Arthur Sherburne
Hardy, the novelist and mathematician. Prof.
Hardy is well known in this country also, by
the "Wind of livstiny.” and by his historical
romance, "Passe Rose." He Is professor of
mathematics and English literature in a New
England university, and he ha3 just finished
two mathematical works.
BRIGHT BITS.
Spique—l wonder why Jack Fraizey always
wears a slouch hat!
Spanne—To match the rest of his dress, I sup
pose!— Puck.
She—Mrs. Shaveinwost savs she is descended
from one of the noble families of Saxony.
He—l shouldn't wonder. All the family plate
is German silver.—Life.
Blizzard Bill—Wot yer doing there?
Imdey Dan-I’ve jest opened a letter from a
girl to ner feller. She's sending him a kiss and
I’m a-gettln’ ov it.—Puck,
Jaiji— I wonder why fishes can't talk; some
birds# o.
Tins -My dear fellow, did ypu never hear of
a whole spoutiig?— Baltimore American.
“My DKAR,”asid the czar pensively, as a bomb
exploded in the imperial courtyard, “I could
really fancy unkself at lon seaside—don't you
hear tpe - booOiiUg of the Surf I"—Baltimoi e
American.
Oravslleb—And yon Wsy you have a hundred
souvenir spoens! Didn't they cost you lots of
money ?
Traveler—Not at aH. The waiter turns hia
back, and I do the rest.- Tcteao Blade.
Alas, for ail their ecstasy.
They knew not what was best;
The yousg man reached the front door.
The old man did the rest.
4 —fort Valiev Enterprise.
Mr. Havseed's Idea Mrs Hayseed (looking
over the popm La, me' The legislator has
offered a reward for killin' English sparrows.
Mr. Hayseed—Huh! Them legislators will do
anything t’ cotch th’ Irish vote.— Sfreef <t
Smith's Hood Mews.
Oh.hooi.y- I see Hostetter McGinnis walking
the streets all day long. What is he doing for
himself*
Gus be Smith—He is looking for employment
and congratulating himself that he can't find
auy!— Texas Sifting*.
“It heems Io me that you might make a bet
ter use of your time than in loafing around sa
loon*"
“Greatsnakes! You can't expect a man to
sit in the parks such rainy weather as this, can
you?'—lndianapolis Journal.
Mr. Keeper—Don't you find much enjoyment
in reading Shakespeare, Mrs. Shadmind*
Mrs. Shadmind —To a certain extent, yes. i
think, though, he would have made his works of
much more Interest to us if he had introduced
some of our great Americaus iuhis plays.—Bos
ton Courier.
Hhipprr Clarke (to his employer, leaving the
oflicei—Oh. Mr.System, haven't you forgotten
your umbrella! It’s raining.
Mr. System Can’t help it I've made a reso
lution to have one here and one at home, to pro
vide for all emergencies. Now, if I take this,
they’ll both be at home '.—Puck.
“Once I was declaiming Heine’s ‘Storm at
Sea,' and I made it so vived some of those in the
room actually got seasick. "
"Pretty near the same thing happened to me.
X was reciting Schiller's 'Lions and the Glove,’
and when I came to 'The lions yawning came,'
everybody in the room began to yawn and kept
it up till the end.” —Fliegende Blatter.
“Whoopee! Jimmy, I seed more fun'n you
cud get into an ocean steamer."
“Wot win it. Tommy!"
“W’y, it wuz that gawk of a Jobson a pro
posin' to my sister.”
“Did she hev’m!"
“Course she did. I tell you. Jimmy, it was
quick work, though. One niinnit he wuz on his
knees n ther next minnit she wuz."
"Wuz what, on her n!”
“Naw, you gump. on his n.”— Detroit Free
Press.
CORBENT COMMENT.
Improve the Roads.
From the Baltimore American (Rep.)
Good roads mean less wear and tear on
vehicles and larger prices for real estate. Our
people should study the subject and do all they
can to improve our highways.
Information About Oolumbue.
From the. Xetc York Recorder (Rep.)
The appeal of Cardinal Gibbons to the officers
of the great religious Catholic orders to search
their archives for data in regard to the discov
ery of America will probably bring forth a
great volume of history never before pub
lished. Historian Prescott was the pioneer
there, but he only struck the mine.
Alliance Leaders Criticised.
From the .Yen' York Timet tlnd.)
There are indications that the life of the
farmers' alliance as afactor worth considering
in national politics is drawing to a close. Ad
mitting the sincerity of the men who organized
the alliance and the existence of the evils It
especially- sought to reform, it has for some
time been apparent that It has fallen into
bad hands. No beneficial or even practical re
suits can be expected from its present leader
ship.
Cleveland or a Western Man.
From the Richmomd Dispatch (Dem.)
It is hardly probable that the hopes of the
friends of Mr. Gorman can be realized. Every
one coocedes that Gov. Hill cau, if he is de
termined to do so. defeat Mr. Cleveland’s nomi-
Datioa by controlling the New York delegation
against him; but when he has done that he has
done all he can. He cannot command the nom
ination for liimself, and if Cleveland fails to
get it a candidate outside of New York will tie
looked for. For these reasons the next demo
cratic presidential nominee will be neither
Gorinao nor Hill. He will be either a Cleveland
or a western man.
Why He Refused a Room.
Leo Mandelbaum registered at the Richelieu
from Germany, and was assigned to room 13,
says the Chicajo Herald. He had been in the
room but a few minutes when he came rushing
into the office and asked for another room at
once.
“Tbiok I'd sleep in room 13?" he explained.
"I'd sleep in t:.e park first.
"That ill-fated number was never so dreaded
in Germany as it is to-day. In most of the
hotels there it has be-n changed to some other
number. Von Moltke's death is attributed by
some to that number.
The Field Marshal could never retire with
out bis game of whist. When he was before
Sedan he had his rubber every night. The
evening before his death he sat down to play as
usual, and his luck was phenomenal.
'•While matched against a skilful player he
won trick after trick. The last game he scooped
the entire thirteen tricks. Then he retired
‘ The fact that he died soon after taking
thirteen tricks of whist has caused horror with
all the superstitious people of Germany, and I
assure you they are many.
"I’m not so bad as that, but I will not sleep
In room 13, and especially so as to-day is
Friday.'’
He was changed to 31 ana his old room renum
bered. There is no 13 in the hotel now.
Ran Agr&lhst a Snag.
He walked into a Kearney street dry goods
store yesterday afternoon and asked for a pair
of overalls. It was evident that he had not
been long in town, and the clerks eyed him with
amusement depicted plainly on each face, says
the San Francisco Call.
“Very sorry, mv friend,’’ explained the polite
gentleman behind the counter, “but this is a
dry goods store and we have no overalls in
stock."
“Ain't, eh? Well just give me three of your
best flannel shirts, and I won't kick."
"Sorry, but we don't keep them, either."
"Show me a pair of long legged boots, then."
“No boots, either."
"Got any plug tobacco?’*
“No."
"Any pipes or tallow candles?'*
"No."
"Skillets or fryin’ pans?"
"Not here; you will have to go to a hardware
■tore "
"Well, have you got any blood and thunder
novels?"
"Sorry, but"
"See here, old man, Ivo come ail the way
from Alpine to lay in my supplies, and the first
place I strike I run up against a snag. I always
had a kind of sneaking idea that you fellows
down here was frauds, and now I know it.
There ain’t one of them things but what 1 can
get in the little store up to home, and here you
don’t keep 'em. So long," and he strolled out
with a look of disgust on his face, and disap
peared in the throng on the street.
Stimulated by the Force of Exampl e
An amusing instance of the contagion of ex
ample has recently been afforded by a case in
the Berlin police court reports, says the Pall
Hall Budget .
The outrage on the Turkish railway and the
stories of brigands which have lately idled our
newspapers seem to have acted on the imagi
nation of two boys named Oscar SchelTner and
George May.
They determined to become bandits, and they
prevailed on several of their schoolfellows to
join them.
The average age of the band was thirteen
They inaugurated their defiance of the law by
boldly playing truant, and then they took rer
uge in the wilds of the Gruuewald, where, in
true brigand fashion, they hid themselves.
After a night passed in this fashion they felt
the pangs of hunger, and consequently they
sallied forth at an early hour nnd seized the
milk cans and baskets of new rolls which had
been left at the doors of the neighboring villas.
This, however, they thought was scarcely
heroic, and the next step was to garrete an old
gentleman who was taking a mormug stroll in
the park.
Somehow or other the Berlin police got wind
of the affair, and the juvenile bandits were
seized. They are now languishing in grewsome
dungeons, where, by nv ans of a cane adminis
tered at intervals, it is hoped that they may be
mad** aware of the historic fact that in North
ern Europe brigandage is an anachronism.
To Hope, Elg-Utaen Months Old.
W. Trego Webb in London Spectator.
Per.ing, with those big eyes of blue
That stare me bravely through and through
In babyhood’s undaunted wise.
Whence came their color and their size ?
Did Nature, kind to nurseling new,
Lend them her speedwell's artless hue ?
And did the open eye of Pay
Teach yours to open the same way ?
Half with their gaze abashed, I call
Your name or toss the aimless ball,
As counter-charms to rid my sense
Of those twin fixed stars' influence ?
Come, shall I lift you ? Round you wheel
With arms outspread, prepare to feel
My hands beneath them laid, and soar
To spot oft visited before.
Pear, on my shoulder perched so high
Yet deign with my meek suit comply,
Mix condescension with your bliss
And bend your cheek for me to kiss *.
Nay. listen must I, when you prate
So eager inarticulate?
What Daniel could interpret, pray.
Those voluble wise things you say?
Yet words you have, your little store;
For see, 1 poke your pinafore
And cry "who's this?" and straight I hear
Y~our answer" Baby," sweet and clear.
And when some far piano plays,
With lifted finger and flxeil gaze
A solemn "Hark !" you utter plain,
Rapt listener to an elfin strain.
Then, worldlier busy, dolly head
You amputate and earthward shed
Its sawdust soul with fiattening list,
Small Leveler, infant Nihilist:
Sweet Hope! Me thinks for comfort's sake.
As here our toilsome way we take.
The haud that gave us flower and star
Made you the winsome thing you are.
“Old Abe” Helped Hla Soldiers.
In the latter part of 1862 the One Hundred
and Fifty-seventh Pennsylvania volunteers were
stationed at Washington, preparatory to
moving toward Richmond, says the Detroit
Fre* Pres*. For some unknown reason their
salaries had been delayed for two months, and
tae boys found themselves “strapped" pretty
closely for money.
Among the members of company D was a
wild, hamm scanim sort of a fellow, hailing
from Lancaster couuty. For about a week he
had been without an ounce of tobacco. From
everybody he questioned he received the same
answer: “Haven't an ounce. Money all went a
month ago."
The poor fellow endured the aeony for
awhile, but finally, becoming desperate, he got
leave of absence from camp one morning and
started off up G street in the direction of the
white house Arriving there he stopped for
awhile looking over the fence into the grounds
surroundiug the executive mansion, and pres
ently caught sight of the President walking
along the path in front of the house. Just then
a bright idea struck him. Mustering up his
courage he ttalkod into the garden and pres
ently neared the President.
"Good morning, Mr. President," he said,
touching his cap.
"Good morning, my man," replied "Old
Abe;" "what can I do for you ?"
The soldier hesitated for awhile, but noticing
the President's kindly look, finally said.
"The faot of the matter i, Mr. President, we
haven't bad any money for two months now,
and every one of u are dead broke, and I’m
almost dead for a chew of tobacco."
A mile lit up the face of the great war Presi
dent as he received this information, aud then
his haud went down into his pocket. Drawing
forth a silver dollar, he handed it to the
"broken" volunteer, and said:
"It shan't be said that one of my soldiers died
for the want of some tobacco. I need his
services too rouoli for that. Buy some tobacco
with this, and I think by the time it is gone you
will have received all the money that is due
you."
With a gratified "thank you, Mr, President,"
the soldier lifted his cap and passed quickly out
of the grounds. The t>ack salary was paid
shortly after the occurrence.
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from Toul, and daughter of a former mayor of
that town, has died at Vincennes under rather
peculiar circumstances. She was a person in
independent circumstances, and was thought to
be possessed of a large fortune A few days ago
her neighbors missed her. and when the com
missary of police was sent for she was found
dead from heart disease. Among her papers a
will was discovered by which she leaves all her
property, e-timated at 200,000 francs, to her na
tive city. She has left 1.200 francs for the ex
l*enses of her funeral at Vincennes, but with the
express condition that she is to be buried "as
far as possible from her late husband."
An enthusiast on the subject states that each
head of clover contains about sixty distinct
flower tubes, and each of these contains sugar
not to exceed the five hundredth part of a grain.
The proboscis of the honey l>ee must therefore
be inserted into 500 clover tulies before one grain
of sugar can be obtained. There are 7,000 grains
in a pound, and as honey contains three-fourths
ot its weight of dry sugar, each pound of clover
honey would represent the insertion of the pro
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A Baltimore freak is a frog of good size and
a trifle light in color, but apparently not differ
ent from any other frog. The freakishness
developed when his frogship was worried,
when, instead of hopping off or giving utterance
to the deep, sonorous note usually heard from
frogs, he simply opened his mouth and cried.
The frog is nothing if not human, and suggests
both iu tone and volume a bad, peevish child.
The cry is not a single note, but several, and is
continued even aft-r the annoyance ceases.
A snake, with marked climbing ability,
mounted a high grape vine in Waterbury,
Conn., and then entering a bedroom window
that was open managed in some unaccountable
way to get into a bird cage that was suspended
from the ceiling. There were two canaries in
the cage, and one of them the reptile had eaten
when the head of the house appeared on the
scene. The other poor bird lay in a stupor on
the bottom of the cage. The snake eodeavered
to escajie on hearing the noise of the footsteps,
but it didn't succeed, and was dispatched. It
measured, it is said, several feet.
A plucky and indopendtnt girl is Miss Eliza
beth More of Edgeworth, Pa., says the Buffalo
Commercial. With her own hands she recently
built a neat little cottage, laying the founda
tions, plastering the walls of the different rooms
and performing all the carpenter work to a
builder’s taste. To do this she found it neces
sary to don male attire, and a young girl friend
helped her over the hardest part of the work.
Miss More is said to be as pretty as she is ener
getic. She was once a protege of Jane Gray
Swisshelm, and the lessons that stern champion
of woman's rights taught her apparently have
not been forgotten.
John Silverly bought a half pound of pow
der, a pair of shoes and anew tiu pan in Moul
ton thin week, says the Mobile Register. He
put the powder and shoes in the pan on his
wagon .and started homo, but before he had
gone two blocks from where he had made the
purchase the powder exploded, burning bim
terribly. His hat was blown ten feet high, his
clothes burned almost entirely from his body,
and his face and arras burned as black as a ne
gro's. There were only two persons on the
wagon, neither of whom smoked or had a
match about his person. The conclusion is that
the powder was ignited from the rays of the
sun, concentrated to a focus by the tin pan.
The sun was shining very hotly, and being
thrown against the paper containing the pow
der by the bright inuer side of the new tin,
must have set the paper on fire.
Whiskers are going out of style again, and
in the future clean-shaven faces only will be
popular. For two years, says the St. Louis
Globe-Democrat, every man who could raise a
mustache and whiskers did so, because it was
all the rag<\ Now it's the proper thing fc) shave
every bit of hair from the race and let the hair
grow long ani fall over the collar if you can
train it to do so. Full faces are not going to be
fashionable in the future, and professional
massueses are doing a prosperous business in
training the skin and flesh on the face to look
flabby and j>eaked. The object is to look as
intellectual as possible, and with a hatchet face,
the hair brushed back from the forehead and
falling over the coat collar the effect desired is
obtained. The fad originated in New York and
is gomg to be a craze in a lew weeks. It is not
Known who is responsible for it.
The gangplank had been hauled in. the pilot's
bell had rung, and the Danish steamer Vinsing
-Boa was churning the water a dozen feet from
the bulwark at Rlddarholmon on its way up the
lake, when a woman was seen racing down the
hill for the landing, with skirts flying wildly
about her. As she ran she waved a small bun
dle above her head and shouted, between her
gasps for breath: “Stop the boat, Mrs Holm
berg, stop the boat!" "I can't; go away,"
snouted back the captain, and the open water
between the boat and the shore grew wider.
The woman stopped on the landing, exhausted.
"Well, then, go on," she yelled with her expir
ing breath, "go on without Mrs. Holrnberg's
fare. I have it here." The steamer went on,
while one of the convulsed spectators volun
teered to throw the money, which was knotted
in a handerchlef, to its deck. He threw it way
over the vessel on the other side, where it sank
with a plunk. Mrs. Ilolmbergdid not appear.
If she was aboard she m ght justly claim that
her fare had been tendered, at least, if not col
lected.
The sect of Illuminated Apo3tlea has been
increasing considerably in Spain. They claim
to have power to heal the sick by prayer and
the application of cold water. Some of them
were recently arrested in Madrid, but were sub
sequently discharged Several of them then
called upon the local authorities aDd asked
that their sect be officially recognized as a
legally constituted association. The spokes
man of the party, a venerable looking man w ith
a long white beard, said that they derived their
doctrines from the writings of the Evangelists,
and were C hristian apostles. All they asked
was to be allowed to preach their doctrines
and to cure the sick. "Have you any diploma
entitling you to practice medicine?" asked the
governor. The old apostle replied that he had
a divine diploma that could net be questioned,
and* that was better thaa any diploma that a
human being could give. He would give an in
stance of a cure that they had made, and how
they practiced on an old woman who had the
smallpox and was given up by the regular phy
sicians The apostles took her in hand, prayed
over her, told her and her relatives to trust in
God, to make her drink plenty of water, eat
well and roll her up in wet sheets. And the old
woman got well The apostles added that they
hAd established congregations of their sect in
thirty six provinces. The governor did not
think it proper to give permission to men to
practice medicine who rolled up small pox
patients in wet sheets and dosed them with
plenty of water.
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