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Newspaper Page Text4 ; C|cl|loniingllttos Morning News Bui ding Savannah, Ga. SATURDAY. SEPT. 5. 1891. \ Registered at the Poetnftlre in Savannah* I The Morning News is pub Ut iay m the year, and is served to subscriber* in the city at 25 cents a week, $1 00 a month, $5 00 for six ■lontbe and $lO CO for one year The Morning Nuts, by mail, one month, $1 00; three months, $2 50; six months, $5 00; oae year, $lO 00. The Morning News, by mau, * x times a week (without Sunday issue*, three months, $2 (X), ex mouths. $i 0j; one year. $8 00. The Morning New*. TTi-Wfekly, Mon-lava, Wednesdays and Frt .ays. or Tuesday*. Thurs days and Saturdays, three months, $1 26; six ■lonths, $2 50; one veAr, $5 00. The Sunday News, by mad, one y*ar. ?2 The Weekly News, by mad, one year. $1 £'• Subscriptions payable in advance, Remit by postal order, check or registered letter. Cur fenev sent by mail at risk of coders. , Letters and telegram* should be adJriast - o K n m ••Morning News," Savannah. Oa. Transient advertisements, other than . p*n ai Column, local or reading notices an w men * and cheap or vant column. b Mae. Fourteen lines of agate type el one incli space in measurement. Contract ra.es ma>le known on application at busm J- . OIK !\EW * OHh OF! H L. I Kn J. J Flynn, Genera! Advertising Agem , Of the Moons* S *>“ 43 F ‘ rk KJW ' • e- York. All adrertisin* business outside of ws.es of Georgia. Florida and South Carer Una wil be managed by him. wlAnt . .hen- Ad vertising Hates and other In formation regarding the paper can be obtained: NEW Yi IKK CITY— J. H. Bates, S- Bars Row 8 P Rowell .t Cos.. 10 Spruce street. W. W. Shaiif & Cos.. 21 Park Row. Frass K i e r n a > & Cos.. 152 Broadway. DsrrHT 4 Cos.. 27 Park Place. J. W. Thompson’. 59 Park Row. American Newspaper Puulishers Association, Potter Building. PHILADELPHIA— |i. W AVER & Son, Times Building. BOSTON— , . . B. R Niles. 25* Washington street pKTTENmt.L & Cos.. 10 State street. CHICAGO- . , Lord 4 Thor AW. 46 Randolph street. CINCINNATI— _ „ Bdwix Alder Company, 68 West Fourth street. NEW HAVEN- . . The H. P Hubbard Compa.RY, 2o Elm street ST. LOUIS- Mblson (’herajar and Cos.. 112. Pine street. ATLANTA- t ~ _ , Morning News Bureau, Whitehall street. MACON - Dajxy Tkt.korafh Office. 507 Millberry Btrcflt. INDEX TO NKV ADVERTISEMENTS. Meetings- Branch No. 401, Irish National league. SrsriAi. Noti css— Fresh Sausage, George I)eiter & Son. Oats, Rye* Etc.—'T J. Davis. Steamship Schedules— Ocean Steamship * impany; Baltimore Steamship Company. Educational—Commercial College of Ken tucky University. Lexington. Ky. Amusements— The Ferguson aud Mack Com pany at thp Theater Sept. 8. Saturday B. H. Levy 4 Bro. CaAi* Column adtsrtissments—HelD Want E I ; Employment Wanted; For Rent; For Sale; Lost; Personal; Miscellaneous. Congressman Jerry Simpson said nothing about the People’s party when he was mak ing speeches in this state, hut in an inter view in Washington the other day he de clared the south was ripe for a break to that party. Isn’t Jerry a little too enthusiastic in bis statement about this matter? Mr. Blaine’s friends are now satisfied fhat 'lf Mr. Blaine is olTorod the nomination for President by his party next year he will not refuse it. And this condition of affairs doe* not fill the soul of the President with joy. Perhaps Russell Harrison stiff hopes to pre vent the nomination of Mr. Blaine with bis little Montana paper. Eva Hamilton, alias Mrs. Joshua Mann, notorious on account of her state prison ex - perienee and her connection with Robert Ray Hamilton, is being ‘"tioomod” In New Jersey towns as a theatrical star in a play entitled, “All a Mistake.” She is not meet ing with much success. Doubtless she would do better in a dime museum. The legislature cannot make up its mind to adjourn finally on the ISth. It is willing to say it will adjourn on that date if the condition of the business before it is such that no public interest will *uffer. There are those who think the ohief danger to publio interests is in the legislature remain ing in session beyond the 18th. The idea of inviting the President, his •abinet, aud the two committees of congress which have the framing of the river and harbor bill to visit this city next winter aud take a look at Savant ah harbor Is a good one. The Savannah harbor matter must be kept before the public until euch an appropriation us the harbor needs Is ob tained. It is evident from what Mayor McDon ough says that be intends to leave no means untried to enforce the law against keeping Bn loons open on Sunday. Those who comply with the law very naturally expect that those who evade it, either openly or secret ly, will be promptly and severely punished. If tbe impression gets abroad that a tew are evading tbe law it will soon be a difficult matter to enforce it. • The death of Miss Mary Toombs Harde man, which was noticed la the dispatches of the Morning News on the day of its occur rence, has called from the press of the state many expressions of sympathy au&eorrow. Bhe was the only daughter of Honndamuel Hardeman, and her mother was Miss Julia Toomb9 before becoming the wife of Mr. HardemaD. She was a most lovely charac ter, and by her gentleness and courtesy charmed all who catno within the sphere of her influence. Mayor Grant, of New York olty, favors a law in that state that will permit the sa loons to be open a few hours on Sunday. It is entirely safe to say that it would be about impossible to get the legislature of New York to pass such a law. If the privilege of opening the saloons a few hours on Sun day were granted there would soon be a de mand that they should be permitted to re main open the entire day. Ail the pulpits in Gotham would thunder agaiust open sa loons on Sunday. Dr. Stokes, editor of the Cotton Plant, at Orangeburg, S. C., and Senator Butler, of that state, are having a controversy relative to remarks Senator Butler made in a speech wtiich he delivered at Prosperity some time ago. Senator Butler insists that Dr. Stokes misrepresented what he said, and Dr. Stokes persists in saying that what he printed in his paper was a logical deduc tion from the senator’s remarks. Senator Butler has an altogether different view of the matter, and has asked for a retraction, which Dr. Stokes thus far has declined to make. It is difficult to twist from Senator Butler's remarks the meaning Dr. Stokes Rives them. A Poor Prospect for Ballot Reform. The prospect for the passage of the ballot reform bill winch is pending in the legisla ture, or, in fact, of any bill remedying the evils of the present system of voting, is not promising. When the hill was introduced it was thought that it would receive able consideration, but al >ng came the alli ance convention and virtual.) k, . it. Tbe convention passed a resolution hostile to ballot reform, and since then nothing has been done with the ballot reform bill m the j legislature. And it is Joabtful if a half-dozen members ! of the alliance convention knew anything of the merits of tbe bill or of ballot reform. (lao or more of the alliance leaders, per haps, were opposed to tbe bill, aud com mitted the alliance against it. But there is no reamn why the ail.ance should oppose it. It is in the line of reform. Its object is to secure a purer ballot. Most of tbe members of the alliance con- vention did not see ar.y need of it, for tbe reason, probably, that they were from the country. It is in the cities that ballot re form is especially needed. If alliancemeu should witness a municipal or county elec tion in some of the cities they would say at once that something ought to be done to correct the evils they witnessed. And yet without inquiring into the merits of the pending bill, and without seeking to find out whether it was needed, they adopted a resolution condemning it. Did they act wisely? Did they show themselves fit to exercise a controlling interest in matters which affect the welfare of the poople of the whole state? Ballot reform has been adopted in quite a number of the states, and in all of them it gives tho greatest satisfaction. They would not abolish it on any account. It makes bribery about impossible aud greatly lessens the chances for intimidation. It in sures to every one the opportunity to vote as ho pleases and seoures an honest expres sion of publio sentiment. Why, then, should it not be adopted in this state? If there are reasons let them be stated. The time of the legislature is occu pied with a great number of minor matters of little consequence to the people, while here is a great reform measure for which no heariug can bo Obtained. And no reasons have been, or can be, giveu why it has been pigeonholed. More Money For the Fair. The national commissioners of the Chi cago fair purposo to ask congress for a loan of $5,000,000, and perhaps $7,000,000, aud this scheme is backed by ail tbe influence which the Chicago directors possess. The fact is the fair is in financial trouble. Those who have had the ordering of ex penditures have not been as economical as they should. Their idea has been to make a big display without counting the cost. Indeed, they do not appear to have taken into consideration tbe question whether they would haye sufficient money to carry out their plans. Will oongreS3 loan the fair money, or do nate any more money than it has already? it is hardly probable that it will. The piressure upon it to do so, however, will be enormous. It will bo said that the whole country has much more at stake than Chi cago, and that the country cannot afford to permit the fair to be a failure. Arguments like these will, of course, have their influence. But it will be remembered that Chicago insisted upon having the fair, representing that nothing would be asked from the government except sufficient to baudlc tbe exhibit which tbe government would make. New York wanted the fair, and would have made it a success without government help, in all probability, but Windy Chicago carried off the prize, and now she wants to carry off a big lump of Undo Barn’s cash. There is an impression that a great deal of the capital of tbe fuir is being wasted in one way aud another. At the very begin ning enormous salaries were paid to men who did little or nothing, and who will not have much to do before the opening day of the fair, and, oven then, they will be figure-heads rather than workers. Aud it would be interesting to know whoso money the five couunissio/iers are spending who are journeying from city to city In Europe tolling the people through an interpreter what a big city Chicago is, and what a stupendous' , affair the exposi tion is going to be. Are they spending their own money or that of the fair? And, from all accounts, they are having a glorious time without accomplishing much for the fair. It would not be surprising if a groat deal more than $7,000,000 should be asked be fore the fair is opened to the publio. It will be two years beforo the opening, and, notwithstanding tho amount raised by Chi cago, it is understood the treasury is empty. There has always boon a suspicion, however, that a large percentage of the peo ple of Chicago have nevor paid their sub scriptions. Whether they have or not should be made public before congress eveu considers tbe question of helping the fair. United States Marshal Walkor, of the Southern district of Alabama, appears to have been rather hnst£ in telegraphing to Washington tor assistance to prevent an alleged mob from keeping a number of men who had been arrested for illicit dis tilling of whisky from returning to tbeir homes. According to the marshal’s story the persons who are kept from their homes are hot guilty of any crime. The federal government, however, has no au thority to interfere in the matter. If there is mob violence in any part of Alabama it is the duty of the state authorities to quell It. If the federal government should inter fere whenever there was a neighborhood squabble in any state it would soon become altogether too paternal. There is a growing impression that the Tennessee legislature will not tind it an easy matter to settle the convict lease question. Tne newspapers of the state are trying to remove some of the difficulties by assorting that the people do not expect impossibilities, and that they will be satisfied with a settle ment which will insure the ultimate extinc tion of the leaso system. The miners are very much in earnest, however, and it is quite clear that they will not bo satisfied unless the convicts aro removed from all mines u* which free labor is employed. The second son of the late President Gar field has had bis ambition for political distinction "nipped in the bud,” as it were. He is an Ohioan and has all the love of office which distinguish the men of Ohio. He wanted to represent in the state Senate the district his father once represented, but the politicians told the young man to wait awhile. He bas plenty of money and in fluential friends, and It is probable that he will bub up again in the near future. THE MORNING NEWS: SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1891. Justice Nefther euro Nor Swift. Mr. Alfred Russell, of Dartmouth, who delivered the annual address before the National Bar Association at Boston last week had a good deal to say about the law’s delays. He mentioned some of the causes and suggested remedies for these delays. He might have pointed out with benefit to so iety some of the reasons why so many murderers escape punishment and com mented upon the number of lynchings in consequence of the failure of the courts to enforce the laws promptly and vigorously. Recently Gov. Hogg, of Texas, published a statement relative to murderers in that state that is startling. His statement covers the last seven years, and contains a record of tbe disposition of murderers which is as follows: Lawfully Unlawfully hanged, lyncaed. 1885 4 43 lssfi 5 17 1887 3 15 IRBB 8 15 1883 3 14 18)0 3 21 1821 (to date) 3 12 Total 27 140 From this it appears that only twenty seven murderers have been lawfully hanged in Texas in the last seven years, and that 140 have been lynched. And it is safe to say that there are no more innocent men among those lynched in proportion to their number than among those lawfully hanged. And why was it that so many were lynched ? Simply because of the lack of confidence in courts and juries. By this it is not meant that courts aud juries are corrupt, but that, through delays and technicalities of one kind and another, which the law s permit, it is seldom that a murderer in Texas is hanged. It is stated that there is one Texas law yer, who is now a mornber of coDgress, who has a record of 113 murder cases, aud not one of the murderers was convict’d. Will anybody venture to assert that the whole 113 were innocent? The probabilities are that all of them were guilty, and that they escaped punishment through the instru mentality of their shrewd and successful lawyer. Their cases were put off, doubt less, from term t) term until all of tbe wit nesses for the state had disappeared, or if any of the accused were oonvioted appeals were taken to the supreme court, and by that tribunal were sent back for retrial on account of some technical defect in the first trial. Bo many murderers escape that it is not to be wondered at that when a particularly atrocious crime is committed the people take tbe law into their own hands and deal out summary justice to the criminal. Gov. Hogg says that since 1865 there have been 957 men convicted of murder in the courts of Texas who have neither been legally hanged nor lynched. They have been permitted to go free. And those men se cured their liberty by stays of executions, appeals, exceptions to tbe rulings of tbe trial judges and other pettifogging methods known to sharp criminal lawyers. ' And Texas is not the only state in which murderers escape. A murderer has a better chance for his life than a thief for his lib erty in many states. It is evident that there is need of reform in the courts of the most radical kind. Blaine Must be Beaten. According to common belief in Washing ton official circles the official family of the administration is growing restively anxious about the omiuous silenoe of Secretary Blaine. They are eager to know the trend of his thoughts. Especially do they grow more and more impatient to have him freely speak bis mind upon the subject of the forthcoming presidential nominating con vention so that they may know his pros pective position on that very important event. From their standpoint four yoars more of Harrison means four years more for them. There are several of thorn when you come to oouut noses. But with Blaine as thp republican candidate their interest in tbe contest would he comparatively shattered if not wholly lost because they could not ab solutely count upon beiug retained by him. They are iu favor of the man who is most likely to favor them. Many of them would just as lief see Cleveland elected as any republican who is not definitely favorable to retaining their valuable services to the protection of the country. Beforo Mr. Blaine returns to Washington their alleged purpose is to devise some ef fective moans for goading the President to force his hand. That will not require much urging, they think, as the executive is him self quite anxious for that information. Should tne Secretary of State prove to be an actual candidate for tbe next presidential nomination the programme is to first try to dissuade him by picturing the dangerous consequences to bis health. Failing in that, they have decided to bring about such a con dition of strained official relationship as shall force him out of the cabinet. That is the announced purpose of the im petuous partisans of Harrison and the subordinate "professionals.” But no such blundering course is likely to receive the aporoval of the shrewdest managers of the Harrison faction. Nothing would suit the Blaine people better. Such a performance would be certain to give Blaine the nomina tion if he wanted it, and defeat the party at tbe polls if he declined. Every Blaine man would then have a political kuife up his sleeve. On the other hand, the openly avowed purpose to so exaggerate the secretary’s physical ills as to work upon the anxious fears of his nearest relatives and thus in duce them to exert their influence over him is really a subtle and dangerous plot against his aspirations. But Blaine understands politics and knows his party. Representative Mills is confident, appar ently, that he will be elected speaker of this congress. Mr. Mills has suffered several severe disappointments during bis political career, and it looks very much ns If he would suffer another. If he would look at the situation be would see that Judge Crisp is too far ahead of him to be overtaken. But hope springs eternal in the human breast, and Mr. Mills will continue to be a candidate probably until the oboice is made. The Bellamy scheme of co-operative housekeeping, which was tried at Deoatur, Ills., proved to be a failure. There arc very few people who can co-operate in any un dertaking. The majority of people are satisfied only when they can have every thing their own way. When the leaven of Christianity has worked several centuries more co-operative housekeeping will stand a better ohance for success. A remarkable feature of tbe alliance movement in politics is tbe intolerance of tbe alliance. It will not consent to have tbe wisdom of anyone of its demands ques tioned, and it regards as enemies all who do not admit that all it does is right. PEWoONAL. It is said that Secretary Proctor, who may succeed ex-Senator Edmunds* does not drink cold tea. Mr. Blaise’s fortune is estimated at about $750,000. a friend of his says, and much of it Is invested in railroads and mining properties. Probably the oldest living twins are Mrs. Hannah Eustis and Miss Sarah Barr of Wake field. Mass., who were bom in Salem on March 31. 1500. Gen. Lew Wallace is at work on anew story, but as he i6 an extremely careful and painstaking author, it is not likely to be pub lished for some time. It is claimed that the Mikado has become a convert to UoitarUnism. One would have thought that with his experience of the “Three Little Maids From School,’ - ne would have been more likely to embrace Trinitarian ism. The first child born of white parents in California was Thomas A. Sutherland of Portland, Ore., who becam** a newspaper man, and was the editor ’f a weekly paper when he was drowned the other day while endeavoring to catch a ferryboat. It is only when Chauncey M. Depew begins to reflect that then* are GOO innocent and help less children who will have to stagger through life bearing his name that he loses all pleasure in a good dinner an 1 vaguely eats olives instead of cucumber to his salmon. John G. Whittier is so modest that his niece, who is preparing a biography of him, has found it very difficult to obtain any aid from him in her w rU His strength is grad ually failing, and he is forced to give up the long walks he formerly took. Like many other pe iple who amuse the pub lic, nni whose life seems frivolous to the un thinking, Comedian Francis Wilson is a hard student. He has a fine library in his New Hocuelle home, is a man of domestic tastes, and has only one pronouuced weakness, a pas sion for lawn tennis Clarence H. Freeman, the champion checker player of the land, is a mulatto with a slight tinge of Pequot Indian blood He used to be a porter acd errand b v in an old tavern in Provi dence where he lives, and began to play check ers when he was 7 years old, usiug white aud black beans for men. Mis* Charuhte Higgins, who carried off the honors of entrance into the University of Lon don over 1,600 male students, is a little Scotch girl CO years old, aud. t > judge from her pict ure. a v*-ry youthful-looking person. Her brilliant education has been due to the efforts of her mother, her father having died when she was * child of F years. BahOn Nathan pe Rothschilds is an ama teur photographer who goes tramping around the Jtaliau frontier of Austria taking snapshots at pretty views But his tramping has no hard ship with it. Servauta and equipages are at his command and he lives lie h lord and feeds like a gourmet, his meals being fonyarded by tram from Vienna. No country hotel fare lor Na than. John C. Williamson, a colored man who edits a Raleigh, N. C\, paper, is going to run for congress on a platform which should make his candidacy a howling suqhess among the voters of his race. One planjr in It modestlv demands that the government shall appropri ate S3OO for every negro held iu slavery since I*oo. the mofcey to he divided between the ex slaves and their former owner| Richard Harding Davis, the young author an i editor, is a rather handsome fellow of me dium bight, with an athletic and well-knit figure. His features are dean cut, his eye bright, and he has th * hearing of a well-bred gentleman. If the adulation with which he is at present being overwhelmed does not spoil him, he may some day take ldgh rank in the American world of letters. Edward Atkinson, the only man in America who fi af>le to make statistidC'fes interesting to the gfceVt reader as a love story, is a hand some man of large, robust figure. His hair and beard are white with the snows of sixty-five years, lie wqars steel rimmed spectacles when at work and always talks in a precise, judicial tone. He has been a student of economy and finance for nearly forty years. -■" "*T -■ ■ BRIGHT BIT& The experienced 1 A rt never lets her righteous ImliKnalioD become apparent beforo tbe kiss. It looks just exactly as well afterward, and it doesu t spoil tbe fun. - Somern lie Journal. “Do you think you Could support my daughter?” inquired the cautious father. “Why, sir.” replied the suitor, “I think so; I nexer heard it intimated that she was insup portable.’’—Washington Star. Mas. Yolnu Wife- Haveany shad* Fishmonger—Yeß’m.- Mre V Please glrewne a pouad, if you have any without bones. My husband doesn’t like tbe hones.- Minneapolis Journal. GcpjsT'TO she Host— -Gaund, how Is it you lia*e your old servant, Jacob, still wait at table? Why, he has tbe palsy terribly. Count—O, you see I Only use him for scatter ing sugar out the strawberries.— FlitgenUe Blatter. Evln.iNA—See how gracefully the white yacht leans ovgr. . , ;: Edwhi—Yes, she is hngeing that buoy. Eveiiua—That shows rather bad taste. Wouldn't it be nicer for tha boy to hug her?— Boston Budget. Mrs. Sqrui.s—Oh. George, arise instantly. I fear something terrible is going Cos happen to baby. Mr. Squalls—What's the row? Mrs. Squalls For Heaven’s sake! Telephone the doctor,—.l/mneopofis Journal. Miss Pass* (of uncertainagei Tehe! I don’t know whetherto go into the surf or not. Some folks say that salt water makes wrinkles. Old Fisherman—No. mum, it’s just the other way, mum Salt water takes wrinkles out, mum. Just you try it an’ see.—. Veto York Week!]/. Mas. Binuo —You know we ladies are anxious to do alt we can toward building the new cbiirob, so each one of us has agreed to deny ourselves the privilege pf anew gown Mrs. Kingley—How self sacrificing! Have you subscribed? v* Mrs. Bingo-Oh, yes, 1 go| the money from my husband the first day -Cloak Review. Miss I,aymu>w—Really, Mr. Bquirmley, I do not think that you had better take me out. You don’t know what a perfect Jonah I am and always will be. Mr. Squirmley (seizing a long awaitedchance) —O, Miss Lavm—Clara -lot uie he tbe whale. Miss Laymlow—This is very sudden, Mr. Squirmley. But I have no desire for a three days’ engagement.— Puck. "How’s the patient to-day?” asked the doc tor. "I’m afraid his mind is affected nnw so that he never—will—recover," sobbed the sick mans wife. ‘‘Has he been undergoing aDy great mental strain?” “I don’t know. sir, but the symptoms com menced just after he tried to read your pre scriptions.”— Washington Star. Etiiki, Do you like Mr. Eames, mamma? Mamma (a young widow)—Why, y-e-s, dar ling. Ethel—And Mr. Webster? Mamma—Yes. dear. Ethel—And Mr. Fish, and Mr. Dixon, and Mr. Sheldon ? Mamma-I like them all, pet. Etnei—Whioh one are you going to marry, then? Mamma- The one who proposes first, darling. Oreensburg (Pa.) Sparks. CUHBBNT COMMENT. Not to be Sneezed at. From the Baltimore American. The association of the hay fever sufferers of the country have just held their annual meet ing. and the reports say that tne work of the convention is not to be sneezed at. The Warring Nations of the Earth. f>om IKe Mail and express (Rev.). The whole world see ms to be in a fighting mood just now. It is true some of the larger powers are only making faces at each other, but the lesser ones are really getting into pugilistic shape. A Warrior and a Christian. From the Boston Herald l/nii.). Col. Elliott F. Shepard is now mentioned for the war portfolion. The colonel is everywhere conceded to Pe an eminent warrior in time of peace. He is likewise as good a Presbyterian as Brother Wanamaker. Peff ir’s Preside ntial Boom. From the St.Bouis Republic (Dem.). When Mr. Peffer mounts his presidential boom and start* to ride over Missouri be must turn to the right as the law directs. Nobody is disposed to interfere with his hobby horse until he begins trying to ride it rough-shod over them. When he does that, crying “treason” will not get him the right-of-way. FLAVORING EXTRACT?. Unshaken While other articles of their kind are largely made from ethers and poisonous oils, Dr. Price’s Delicious Flavoring Extracts Vanilla, Lemon, Orange, etc., hold their unshaken position in the estimation of thousands, that in all particulars that constitute perfect results, they cannot be approached. One trial will satisfy that for purity, strength, and deliciousness of flavor Dr. Price’s Extracts are alone in the market. / A Practical Character. A young Methodist minister, lately equipped for business in his line, took a trip on horse bac* through Eastern Kentucky in search of a place from which he could distribute spiritual food to the best advantage, says Janies Noel Johnson in the Evoch, when ho encountered an old follow in a field near the road digging po tatoes. “Good morning, old gentleman," spoke the j’oung minister with a piou? smile. “It's not sich a very good mornin’," was the reply, “but I guess it’ll do ter say howdy." “Whore do you live, old gentleman?" “Don’t yer see me?" “Yes." “Well, I’m livin’ at present whar ye see mo standioY* “How far is it to the nearest church house?" "Donno—never measured it from whar you're standin'." “Are there a good many church members in this neighborhood now?" “Donno " “Why don't you?" *• ’Cause thar is a big-to-do at Gainesville to day, an’ the people mav mostly be tbar. I aiu't been over tne neighborhood this mornin’ in search uv church folksos." “Who are your local preachers here ?" ‘ Thar ain't no preachers hur 'thout you're oue." “I mean, who is preaching at the Mount Ver non church at present?" “No one’s preachin’ thar at presont that I know of. Never heard of no ’pointment for ter day. “Do you belong to the church?" “Noah, I don't belong ter nuthin' 'thout it's my ole woman." “You’ve got a wife?" “I had oue when 1 left home this mornin', but she may 'ave sloped off by this time." “Do you ever study about your immortal des tiny?" “My what?" “Do you ever reflect on that part of you that will live forever?" “Hardly ever. It's this 'ere part right hur (patting his stomach) that bothers me awful ter see after." “Would you not join me in helping build up a church here?" “Noap. I've got a cow shed an' a hog pen ter build party soon. 1 tell you, though, stranger, what I'd be mighty glad ter join ye in." "What's that?" eagerly retorted the preacher. “I'd join ye in tan la’ a snort of good red liquor if ye've got any left iu thorn ar saddle bags." “Good day. sir,*’ was the indignant rejoinder. “It’s a toler’ble like good day!" 1 Lid a Federal Cbarg-e. “I think I am the only survivor of the confed eracy who led a federal charge,’' said Maj. J. W. McClung of San Faancisco to the St. Louis Globe-Democrat . “This singular thing I did. and here’s how it was: I was at the battle of Selma. I was carrying orders, and had to pass straight through the town. It was terribly hot, and I had my coat off. We had captured a wagon train a few days before, and out of the spoils I had appropriated a brand-new federal cavalr> hat, so I didn't look unlike a yankee officer. “In the main street of Selma I met an aide named Brown—a gallant feilow. He shouted to me that our line had been broken and that Arms.rong was falling back, and told me to getoutorl'dbe taken. Then Armstrong and his staff galloped pa3t, and the general, recog nizing us, called out: *You must hurry out of of this, gentlemen. They are close on our heels.’ “Brown had a dispatch for Col. Johnson, and he said he would wait and deliver it if he died for it. While we were talking, pistols in hand, a column of federal cavalry swung into the street where we stood, coming full tilt. We were so taken by surprise that we could not get away. Brown had anew uniform that had just run the blockade, and he was a good tar get. Half a dozen troopers dashed out from the line to catch him “We were ridiug for our lines. Brown a little in the lead, so that it looked as though I was chasing him. The pursuers passed and I over hauled Brown, and I caugnt a glimpse of him as I passed, down on his back working a revolver with a group of the enemy about him, all shoot ing down at him and cutting at him with their sabres. “By this time I was at the head of the column, which had not slackened its mad pace. For at least a mile I rode at their head, exchanging remarks about the retreat of the ‘robs' and joining in the cries of ‘Hurry: let's eaten Armstrong.' As we carne to a side street that ran down to the river I dashed out and swerved sharply, and then I rode for dear life. In a second tuey were after me, aud the bullets sang all around me. “I never halted, but plunged off a low pier into the water and swam straight across to where our people were tryiug to form anew front. The water was torn by a perfect rain of bullets, out I was not scratched, and my horse was only slightly wounded. I would like much to know the name of my federal commander." Queer Hospital Incident. At the city hospital several days ago, says the Cincinnati Inquirer, the clerk entered M ward, and. walking to the side of Henry Juelg's cot, said: “You can go out to-day. Your name is on the discharged list." .Juelg. who was suffering with heart disease, leaned over on his elbow, and turning to Dr. Wolf, who was standing near by, asked in an anxious tone: “Doctor, am I discharged?" “Why, no," was the answer, “you are not well enough." Before the physician could utter another word tne pa tient dropped back on the bed—dead. Dr.- Wolf was at his side in a moment.JbutJJuelg was beyond all hope. The patient was formerly an officer iu the German army and was at one time stationed in Africa. Diplomacy. A gentleman, says the Philadelphia Record, should know his goods and his customers, and if. beyond that, he has some general knowl edge of human nature, he will often find it useful. “I am very sorry, sir," said a clerk In a dry goods store, “but 1 have nothing exactly like the sample. The very last lemnant was sold yesterday." “But I must have it," said the customer. “Otherwise how shall l face my w ife?" “Well, now,’ 1 answered the salesman, “if I might venture to suggest, why don't you invite a friend home to dinner with you?" baking powdkk. O^PRiCfS fioM Baking Ik^aPowden Used in Millions of Homes— 40 Years the Standard ll'aiMS OF INTdlHIfi-ir. Ii is a curious fact that the Rev. Joseph Pil moor, one of the two missionaries whom John Wesley sent to America in 1T69. and who started the old Methodist church at New Rochelle, which has just celebrated its centennial, became an Episcopal clergyman in later years. After the revolution a church was built for him on Aan street, and was called Christ church. It w f as afterward removed to Anthony (now Worth) street, near Broadway, and has since made two pilgrimages farther up town. In 1797 there were 150 negro communicants of the Episcopal churches m tho city, and “in Mr. Pilmoor’s. Cnrist church, ten members,’’as the record says. A country judge in Hungary gave a decision a few da3 r s ago of which Solomon himself might be proud. Members of the Nazarene sect in the town of Gyorna requested his honor to be al lowed to crucify one of their number, “who wa3 a Messiah, and had been called by heaven to save men." The judge for a moment was durnhfounded. “Friends,** he replied, after re covering his smses, “I do not wish to Interfere with your religious practices. If your Messiah wishes to be crucified, let bim prepare himself for death. Remember, however, that if he does not rise again in three days, I shall cause every one of you to be hanged.’’ The Nazarenes, it is needless to add, allow ed their chief to live. In the August number of Free Russia Step niak draws a terrible picture of the impending famine in the land of the czar. He believes that it will be worse even than the famine of 1840. "l’he crops have been destroyed," lie saj's, “or almost destroyed, in twenty six prov inces of European Russia. Iu six other prov inces more than one half of the districts will be afflicted with the same calamity. In thirteen provinces the harvest promises to be middling, sufficient for the needs of the population, leav ing no surplus. Only in the northern Caucasus, in the northern provinces and in three districts of the southeast is the harvest expected to ,be above the average." He declares also that “thousands of people are starving upon grass boiled in water;" t:.at people have died in tho street > of hunger, and that children are offered for sale by parents who do not wish to s *e them perish before their eyes. It is to be hoped that Stepniak's story is greatly exaggerated. Several Englishmen, of the critical sort, have been, with few exceptions, writing with faint praise, or even with disparagement, of Lowell hr a serious poet. As might have been expected, their very criticisms reveal that they know lit tle or nothing of his poetry outside of the “Big low: Papers.'' In the course of an article on the American author, the St. James Gazette savs that it doubts very much "whether it would be easy to find one cultivated Englishman out of fifty who has a quotable knowledge of bis works." This writer adds -we repeat i: for the sake of the curious assumption to be found in it —that “one can understand the severe literary artist like Edmund Gosse, who frankly tells us that the flavor of Lowell’s verse is not delicate or subtle enough for him; but one would nave said that the general reader should have sworn by a poet so varied, so interesting. so full of healthy, straightforward sentiment, so apt in the choice of popular themes, so strong in the command of picturesque language aud easy, ringing verse. ’’ Lowell is “not delicate or subtle enough" for Mr. Gosse! That is to say that tbe stroke of the king’s beat Toledo bla le is not delicate or subtle enough to suit the pruniug-hook of his majes ty’s gardener. “The longer I live the less regard I have for so-called ‘expert opinion,’ " said an intelligent young man of Washington, D. C., who is fa miliar with the vinous belongings of a fashion able uptown hotel, to the Post of that city. For instance, we have occasionally a patron whose boast is that, like the actor Dixey, he confines his drinking to champagne exclusively. Now. this fellow has a hobby—only one kind of wine will suit bim. Ho will tell you there is only one brand fit to drink. He can tell it anywhere and under all circumstances. If you can’t give him that he will go somewhere else. “Not long ago a customer belonging to this family of the genus crank entered our place with a friend and ordered a bottle of ‘White Seal.’ I went back after it, but to my chagrin found it oil gone. In the ice, however, wae a bottle of ‘Cabinet Sekt,’ a to tally different and inferior wine, with a very dry taste, almost as sour as Rhine wine, where as the Seal is moderately sweet. A noth n came over me to pass this for the article called for. It wasn’t quite fair, I’ll admit, but there are tricks In ad trades. I nervously tore off all the labels and the wine was served, my heart thumping all the while lest my patron would denounce tho imposition." “And didn't he?" “Not a word. On the other hand, he gave up bis $4 w ith a anile, remarking to his friend that here was the place to come for the real stuff. It was the genuine article." “New York certainly boasts the prettiest women of any city in the world,” remarked a gentleman at the Hoffman, New York, who ba9 traveled extensively, and was felicitating him self upon his safe return from the contin ent. “She doesn't boast of them exactly, either, for yoa are so accustomed to the sight that you take it os a matter of course. 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