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MONDAY, SEPT. 7 * 1891.
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INDEX TO NIODYKBTISKMKNIS.
Meetings— Stone Square Lodge No. 25, A F.
and A. M.; Mount Sier Lodge No. 2441, G. U.
Of O F.
Special Notices— Japanese Cream at Row
linski’s; Card of Thanks by Capt. Murray of the
6learner Crescent City.
Railroad Schedule— Central Railroad of
tdeorgia.
Whole Hoc.- Lindsay & Morgan.
Knox Hats— B. H. Levy A Bro.
Steamship Schedule— Ocean Steamship Com
pany ; Baltimore Steamship Company.
Cheap Column Advertisements Help
Wanted, Employment wanted, for Rent, for
Bale, Lost, Personal Miscellaneous.
Lieut. Parry has hardly become estab
lished in Greenland, and yet there is talk of
a relief expedition. The futuro relief ex
peditions will probably be sent along with
the original expeditions to tho Arctic re
gions.
Mr. Teddy Roosevelt, the brains of the
civil service commission, says that tho Btate
of Maryland is to-day an awful example of
tho pollution of tie civil service. Mr.
Roosevelt should lecture on the rotten con
dition of the civil service and take the state
of Maryland around with him to exhibit as
an awful example.
Secretary Rusk has returaod to Wash
ington and announced that ho has organ
ised a pork inspection station at Milwaukee.
Isn't that rather small business for a mem
ber of the cabinet ] Perhaps tho President
thinks Uncle Jerry can do xnoro good es
tablishing pork inspection stations than in
participating in cabinet meetings.
M. Zola is now trying to lire tho heart of
France with the view of having her “wipe
out Sedan. ’ It is entirely safe to assume
tbat should the wiping out process begin ho
would not be “in it.” He is one of those
kind of warriors who advise others to fight,
but who do no fighting themselves. There
are numerous bold w arriors of Zola’s kind.
No sooner do the authorities check the
green goods thieves in one direction than
these rascals find cut other ways to avoid
the officers of tho law and rob their dupes.
But then the dupes are not eutitled to any
sympathy. Their purpose is to commit
crime. They know they are doing wrong
when they undertake to purchase counter*
feit money.
The Queen of the Hawaiian Islands is
altogether too English, you know, in her
likes and dislikes in the administration of
the Hawaiian government. If she doesn’t
modify her dislike of Americans and her
appreciation of the English, the chances are
she will have an interesting revolution to
contend with. Her subjects are inclined
toward annexation to th*s country.
Maj. McKinley is represented as being en
tirely confident of being elected governor of
Ohio. The Major has a large stock of con
fidence, and It surprises him greatly to find
that his confidence is sometimes misplaced.
He was confident, or at least he said he was,
that he would be re-elected to congress las;
fall, but when the returns were all in he was
surprised to find himself in the soup.
North Dakota has a wheat orop of 50,000,-
000 bushels, and yet this same state a few
year ago was as combination of trackless
prairie and howling wilderness. Only here
and there was there a settler’s cabin, and
there were no wheat fields. What a mar
velous change has taken placed It Is al
most impossible to keep up with the won
derful development that is taking place.
Col. Shepard, editor of the Mail and Ex
press, who does more inconsistent and
idiotic things than any other newspaper
man in New York, is advertised to make
epoecnes for McKinley in Ohio. It is un
derstood that he will pay his own expenses
and furnish his own applause. But even
on these terms he will not be appreciated.
A dozen. orators like Col. Shepard would
insure McKinley’s defeat.
It is not wise for clergymen of light
mental caliber to attend Methodist camp
meetings. The excitement in these meetings
is sometimes tremendous. At Sydney,
N. Y., the other day Rev. E. H. 'i’ruesdell,
an amiable young minister, while exhorting
the brothers and sisters to flee from the
wrath to come, lost his mental balance, be
came wildly incoherent, and, finally, the
combined efforts of tte congregation were
required to keep him from doing somebody
harm. A little excitement in religious
meetings is a good thing, but a super
l abundance of it is dangerous.
The Sunday Question and tho Fair.
It is evident that an extraordinary
effort is going to be made by well-meaning
people to prevent the Chicago expositioa
from being opened on Sunday. Indeed,
they have already begun the agitation of
the question, and they will keep it up uutil
it is finally settled.
What view of it tbo exposition commis
sioners will take ii is impossible to say. If
they are controlled by the weight of public
sentiment they will keep opea the gates of
the exposition every day in the week. But
they will be carelul that nothing is done in
the exposition grounds on Sunday to which
any reasonable exception can be taken.
All bazars and bars will be dosed, and all
traffic will be prohibited.
Kora long time the Metropolitan Museum
of Art la New York was closed
lon Sunday. Nearly all the minist
ers and a majority of the church-going
pedple favored keeping it closed on that
day. Tho sentiment in favor of opening
the museum doors on finally pre
vailed, and now comparatively few are op
posed to the new order of things. It has
been found that no harm comes to anybody
from the museum on Sunday, and that
many who could not visit it on any other
day now avail themselves of the opportunity
to enjoy its treasures.
And if the Chicago exposition is closed on
Sunday, iu harmony with the Puritan
notion of the day, there will b* hundred* of
thousands of people who will never have a
chance to see the exposition.
And what will be gained by keeping it
closed on Sunday! Those who would visit
it on that day would not go to church if
they couldn’t go to the exposition. The
chances are their time would be spent iu a
way that would do them far more harm
morally than if they were permitted to in
spect the treasures that will be iu the ex
positioa buildings from all parts of the
world.
There arc two sides, of course, to the
question, but the arguments in favor of
Sunday opening are far the stronger.
How’s Hayes For a Hero?
There is iu Boston a publication called
the Oolden Hah which is published osten
sibly '• for Christ and tho church.” But in
a recent number of the print that Rev. C. J.
Ryder, who describes himself as “district
secretary to the American Missionary Asso
oiation,” undertakes to manufacture a hero
of the first magnitude from no better ma
terial than the conspicuous Ohio hen pro
fesior of fraudulent presidential notoriety.
It would be interesting to know in which
category ho is included.
Apparently tho reverend scribe has no
better reason for this than that aftor actu
ally holding the office of President of tho
United States Mr. Hayes recently traveled
almost alone on the same train with his
ardent admirer, and talked quite socially
with him. T hat so delighted the dominie
that he ecstatically pronouuees his new
hero “au American nobleman, quiet, unas
suming, dignified, radically unselfLh, widely
useful,’’ and “very high in the list of the
most unselfishly patriotic of our Presi
dents.” Even after all that he has breath
enough left to denounce those who criticize
hi 6 patron saint as “narrow-minded politi
cians.”
V/hile there will probably be developed
no general disposition to dispute tho en
thusiastic declaration that ‘ ‘his type is not
often found in tho white house or elsewhere
prominent in politics,” the impressive
silence of assent will undoubtedly be em
phasized with a collective sigh of relief and
gratitude to Almighty God that the country
is thus spared another national disgrace.
Warmed with his own glowing enthusi
asm this modern vassal accumulates rapture
as he proceeds to laud without stint the
martial exploits of his alleged “American
nobleman.” Most of his hero’s claim to im
perishable military renowu he bases upon an
incident at Winoho3tor in which the daunt-
less hero hereof dramatically “had his horse
shot under him early in the battle, being
himself injured in the fall.” Nevertheless
“he remounted, and commanding a
battery to follow him down the
road, so as to take a position
to rake the enemy's lines, he dashed anoad
to select a position in which to plant the
guns.” But he soon met Gen. “Sheridan
riding toward” him, very indecorously
“swinging his hat over his head” and
“shouting at the top of his voice, ‘We have
them beaten all to pieces. O for a bat
tery to put shot after them! 1 ” To that the
hero responded, “ ‘I have a battery.* It was
hidden behind a hill.” To this devotee of
the hero there is apparently nothing ludi
crous in that very obscure “position to rako
the enemy’s lines.”
Then he tells us with all the awe of ineiTa
ble admiration that “after the battle was
over the dead lay in heaps where the shot
from that battery had raked their lines.’ To
deliberately plant a fresh battery faced
upon an enemy already “boatea all to
pieces” merely for the purpose of seeing “the
(lead lay in heaps where the shot from the
battery had raked their lines” can scarcely
be considered worthy of “an American
nobleman” and “philanthropist!.” whatever
may be said of a mere soldier like Gen.
Sheridan.
But the dominie is so devoted to his idol
that, with an unwavering resolution of gen
eral approval of every act, he is even wiil
iug to concede that in “his administration
of southern affairs the withdrawal of troops
and the recognition of democratic govern
ments was doubtless necessary.” Doubtless
it was.
Yet when the fascinated worshiper of this
"marvel of genuine modesty," in his perora
tion rhapsodizes u poll'‘how much more noble
that a man retiring f fom the highest honor
the nation could confer should devote his
life to the promotion of needed though un
popular reforms, thau that he should, by
every possible device, press his claim for re
election and seek to make every reform con
tribute to his own selfish advancement!”
be does not credit Mr. Hayes with the
really strenuous efforts he actually made to
retain the bold upon that high station that
he had secured by such dishonest means.
Richard Schwarz, a merchant of Val
paraiso who reached New York last Fri
day, expressed doubt whether the trouble in
Chile was yet over. He said: "So far as the
trouble between the old government and the
congressionalists is concerned 1 think it is
over, but the congressionalists are made up
of numerous political parties, and they may
fight among themselves for office and
power.” And it would be just like the
Chiloans for the leaders of the successful
party to get into a squabale among them
selves which would result in more barm to
Chile than the war that has just ended.
Congressman Jerry Simpson says that
here and there a Judas Iscariot is found In
the alliance, but he calls no names. Why
so reticent about names! Alllancemen
would like to know their betrayers.
THE MORNING NEWS: MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1891.
Errors as to Relative Education.
Newspapers and politicians in the eastern
states have long been accustomed to super
ciliously sneer at the alleged ignorance
which they claimed has prevailed in those
American states which are popularly in
cluded in one group that has always be-n
commonly denominated “the south for
purposes of partisan politics before and
since the late civil war, while they con
stantly vaunted the complacently arrogated
superiority of their own educational insti
tutions and intellectual development.
But a cursory glance at the facts which
a careful recourse to the actual figures
bring forth from the educational statistics
of the country shows that the prevailing
impression that has been so sedulously dis
seminated was egregiously fallacious. In
fact a recent report from Trustee J. L M.
Curry, of tue Peabody auxiliary educa
tional fund, dearly proves the real intel
lectual condition of the country, both prior
and subsequent to the conflict of arms, to be
almost the reverse of the commonly accepted
theory.
Few men are more thoroughly conversant
with all phases of educational topics than
Dr. Curry, who is generally recognized as a
man of unuiually high intellectual attain
ments and whose thoughtful li/o study of
the subject entitles him to be considered an
authority.
In the course of his latest report the
doctor states that “much misapprehension
and ignorance exists among cultivated
people in reference to the status of educa
tion in the south before tho war. Acade
mies and colleees abounded. By the census
of 1860 the population of the north was
about 19,000,000, and of the south about
8,003,000, one-third of whom wero
slaves. At this tiaie the north
had 205 colleges, 1,407 professors
and 29,044 students, while the south had 260
colleges, 1,488 professors and 27,055 stu
dents. Dr. Ruffner, in his report as state
superintendent of education in 1872, said
that Virginia, considering the white popu
lation only, had a larger proportion of her
sons in superior institutions of learning
probably than any state £>r country in the
world, and, including the negro population,
she was first on this continent, and second
only to Scotland among all nations.”
Continuing, he says that “the University
of Virginia, in ante-bellum days, had a
higher standard for the degree of master of
arts than any other institution in the
United States.”
And he adds that “all the states north
and south should hang their heads in shame
for their criminal neglect of the higher edu
cation of women—for the grossest injustice
in discriminating agaiust tho weaker sex.
But to Georgia, I believe, in her charter
of the ‘Georgia Female College,’ in 1836, is
due tho honor—no small one—of being the
first civilized state in the world to incor
porate au institution with power to confer
baccalaureate degrees on women.”
Beside these tangible evidences of a fair
degree of intelligence it is a weil-known
fact that many of tho most learned pre
ceptors who contribute their quota to estab
lish the putative intellectual pre-eminence
of Massachusetts and Connecticut are na
tives of Virginia and of Georgia. Pretty
much the iisme may be said of the more
distinguished of the literary celobnties who
have for various prudential reasons taken
up their abode in the large moneyed marts of
commerce.
Prohibition Pays.
If the statements which appear in some or
tho newspapers relative to prohibition in
Kansas are true, that state is much better
off with prohibition than Bhe was without
it. The statement has been industriously
circulated that the prohibitory law is not
enforoed. This appears to be a mistake.
There is only one town in the state where
there are saloons regularly ran, and that is
Wichita. That city has about 30,000 in
habitants and sixty saloons, bqt the saloons
are not run openly. They are conducted
behind closed doors and a stranger has to
have a pilot in order to get into one of them.
There isn’t a saloon in Topeka, but in
other cities there are what are called joints—
that is, places where whisky can be obtained
surreptitiously. And all druggists sell in
toxicating liquors. Before an applicant
can obtaiu it, however, he must swear he
wants it for a certain disease, naming the
disease.
It is noticeablo that prohibition pays in
Kansas. The cost of the enforcement of the
criminal laws has decreased greatly. When
prohibition first went into effect there were
1,000 convicts in the peuiteutiary. Now,
although the population has increased 250,-
000, tho number is only 800.
Tho present dull times in Kansas are at
tributed to prohibition. Asa matter of
fact, however, the towns in which prohi
bition is strictly enforced are the most
prosperous. Wichita is at a standstill,
while Topeka is advancing rapidly.
There is no probability that the prohibit
tion provision will be taken out of the con
stitution. The People’s party says that pro
hibition is no longer a political Usue, but
about all of the allianco members of the
legislature, at it last session, voted against
resubmitting the prohibition question to
the people.
It is stated that young Mr. Russell Har
rison attempted to make use of certain in
formation that ho bad picked up some
where to obtain a loau from a New York
bank the other day. It seems that the
Western National Bank has been issuing
certificates for silver deposited with it, and
it is a question whether its action is not in
violation of the national hanking law.
The controller of the treasury is now In
vestigating this matter aud it was being
kept very quiet. Young Mr. Harrison
found out about it, however, and, it is al
leged, attempted to use the information to
obtain a loan on doubtful western secu
rities. It looks as if the President would
have to suppress his hopeful sou.
The tax assessors of Terre Haute, Ind.,
are much bothered as to the value they
shall place upon the stallion Axtell for tax
ing purposes. The syndicate whiob owns
him paid $105,000 for him two years ago,
and his earning power is about $50,000 a
year. Last year be was assessed at $5,000.
It is claimed that he ought to be assessed at
somewhere near his true value, but bis
owners say if the assessment ou him is
raised they will take him out of the state.
And, therefore, the assessors hesitate.
The attempts to rob express cars con
tinue. The robbers in the last attempt,
which was made near Los Angeles, Cal.,
failed to accomplish their object, but they
showed that they were very desperate men.
They fought boldly for the possession of the
express car, and killed one of the detectives
who attempted to resist them. Do not the
rapidly increasing number of train rob
beries indicate that some plan must be
adopted for guarding express and mall cars
against highwaymen!
PERSONAL.
Mrs. •'Bob" Inoersoll is a tall brunette, with
hair of ebony blackness, fine features and a
pretty mouth.
Sir Arthur Sullivan is no slouch as a pedes
r rian, an<l in fair he**l and too work can rub off
the miles in a way that would not discredit a
professional.
Jules Verdi's son, Michael, is making fast
headway as an author, and is branching out into
a line of novels which are as highly imaginative
if not as fresu as those of his father.
Mrs. Hannah Eustis and Miss Barah Barr of
Wakefield, Mass , are probably the oldest pair
of twins now living in the country. They were
born March 31, 1500, and are now' enjoying life
together.
There are no flie3 <>n the Khedive of Egypt.
He has only one wife, and when his councilors
remind him that he is entitled to have four, he
says: "Not much, thank you. Enough is as
good as a feast.”
Worth, the Parisian dressmaker, will be mad
der than a sore-taile 1 bear at the thought of
Mrs. Astors beautiful dresses getting so much
fr e advertising whou he did not happen to be
the builder of them-
Miss Nellie Arthur, daughter of the late
President Arthur, Is as pretty, plump and rosy
a little creature as there is to be found in a
day s hunt among society buds. And she is as
good-tempered and jolly as she is pretty.
“Hillside,” the beautiful home which John
B. Gough built near Worcester, Mass., and upon
which he spent $200,00u, has been sold at a price
much below its first cost, and his heirs, Mrs.
Gough's nieces, will vacate the place on Novem
ber, carrying with them much of the furniture
and the whole of the library.
Mrs. Logan still dresses in the most somber
black. The only tim * she h&3 omitted it was at
a white house dinner, when she appeared in
lavender faille, a very becoming costume. She
still wears her mourning veil and widow's cap,
and at her throat is a big, old-fashioned brooch,
containing the picture of Gen. Logan.
The modest little Scotch girl who astounded
the I.COO male students of the University of
London by carrying uiT the honors of entrance
in named Charlotte Higgins. It was her
widowed mother gave her tue education nee led
to encompass her brilliant ambition. Miss ilig
gins is :&) years old. but does not look it.
The new Cunard boats will bo almost as long
as the Great Eastern, though not nearly so wide.
They will have quite as much engine power as
that unfortunate steamship had, but it will be
so compact and economized that it will not oc
cupy one-third as much space nor be one
quarter the weight of the old paddle und screw
engines.
Republican France is the hospital for kicked
out potentates, as Paris is the hotel of those
who are yet in luck. But recently there was
the biggest collection of these personages, with
a big P, which has tieea seen in tho land since
1815, and one emperor, four king*, one queen,
two heirs apparent, one grand duke, and the
wife of an neir presumvtive were breathing tho
air of France and making happy the hearts of
Parisian purveyors.
The Duchess d’Uzks is tho most enthusiastic
sportswoman, the finest horsewoman and the
most popular patron *ss of athlecic sports in
France. Moreover, she plays the organ, is a
talented sculptor, has written u drama, is in -
tensely religious and indulges in the choicest
brands o£ champagne for she is a granddaugh
ter of the famous veuve Clicquot. Really, she
is so lively a woman as to mak j a modest Ameri
can matron feel dizzy.
BRIGHT BITS.
Caller—ls Mrs. Browston at home?
Servant—Yes’m. She'll be at liome all the
ovemn'. It’s my night out — Sew York Weekly.
Cadsok—Cholly's a reckless dog; seems al
ways to live from hand to mouth.
The Major—Yes; and mostly from some other
fellow's bund. Life.
Said one hotelkeeper to another; “Did you
ever board a vessel?”
“No,” said the second, ‘ but I have occasion
a'ly lodged a complaint. "—Baltimore .Ameri
can.
Fiogs—Closeflst left his property so that his
widow could not marry again.
Diggs—How was that?
Figga—He left it all to his son.—Xeui York
Herald.
College President—All the boys have at
tended prayers regularly this week.
Pfofessor—Not one has missed for two weeks.
President— Humph! Bome infernal mischief
is brewing.—Good Aetna.
“There is nothing new under the sun,” re
marked Bolomon.
“O, yes, there is,” said the milliner’s collec
tor, as lie came up with the bill, “and your wife
is wearing it.”— Washington Star.
The Duchess of Marlborough has been ex
pending her American dollars in making her
husband's castle, Blenheim, habitable. She has
put in bath rooms and electric lights and sent
to America for a shipload of coal for the fur
nace.
Visitor (in Jones' room at 1! p. m.)—Tbat
young lady in the house across the way sings
like a bird.
Jones (unkindly)—Well, not altogether. You
see, a bird stops singing at night.— Detroit Free
Press.
Mapok Pi, that nice young fellow, Mr. Down
ing, is awful fond of kissing.
Pater-How did you find that out, you good
for-nothing girl?
Madge—l got it from his own lips, pa.— Lon
don Times.
Dick (at s aside hotel)—Where is Harry? We
can't go without Harry.
Torn—He is up in his room writing t o his
father.
Dick—Then never mind him; he must be
broke.— Fuck.
Watts— l believe there is something in the
theory of people being disinclined to marry
those of similar character.
Potts—Why, sure! You never find a grass
widow wasting her time on an ideal man of
straw, do you?— lndianapolis Journal.
Mr. SArucAn-rvo got a fad, too, don't yo
know. 1 collect old and rare violins. Come
around and see 'em.
Musician—Do you blay?
Mr. Saphead bless you, no, not a note.
Musician (enthusiastically)--! villcome. —yew
York Weekly.
“How are you coming on. Uncle Mose?”
“Poorly, poorly, thank God.”
“What'B the matter?”
“I has seben cals to support, boss. It costs
a power of money to fill up seben rnoufs free
times a day"
“Yes. but I heard one of your daughters was
going to get married, so that will only leave six
to support.”
“Pat's whar you am foolin' yerself, boss.
Dat ar gal am gwine ter marry one of dese
cullud politicians, so instead of h&bin' only six
to support when she marries, I'll have eight
moufs to feed, for mighty few ob dese politi
cians, white or black, is wuff de powder hit
would take to shoot No, boss, it will be
eight instead ob six ter feed when dat gal
marries, not countin' de natural consequences.
—Texas Siftings.
CURRENT COMMENT.
Yas, the Democratic Party Will Con
tinue in Power.
From the Waycrott {(fa.) Herald.
The Democratic party will continue in power
in the state of Georgia. In the national conven
tion it will adopt or re affirm its time honored
platform, upon which all men who love democ
racy can stand. When this time comes the Sa
vannah Morning News will ha*e less “crow” to
eat than any other dally newspaper in Geor
gia.
Delighted With Savannah.
Freon the Darien I Oa .) Timber Gazette.
The Georgia legislators were delighted with
their trip down to Savannah. Of course they
were. We knew they would be delighted before
they started on their trip
But Savannah is not satisfied. She wants to
get congress to come down and visit her, and
inspect her river. Well, Savannah can enter
tain congress just as easy as she did tne legis
lature . .
Capt. Pur99’s Gigantic Scheme.
From the Columbus Enquirer-Sun.
Capt. D. G. Purse, president of the Board of
of Trade of .Savannah, is one of the hustling
ettiz-ns of that growing metroiKjlis. Capt.
Pun=e is full of vim and enterprising notions,
and is an Indefatigable worker for any enter
prise, public or private, in which he embarks
He engineered the entertainment of tho Geor
gia legislature last Saturday to Savannah in
the interest of deep water, and has Dow started
another and more gigantic scheme. He now
projioees to invite tho President and congress
to Savannah, and give them au insight Into her
importance and the necessity of more liberal
appropriations for her river. The people cordi -
ally approve of Capt Purse's plan, and will
back him in it. He is now at worx, and there
is no doubt he will succeed in yanking the
entire administration and the House to Savan
nah benefit the city, and give the eminent
statemcn a good time. May success attend the
genial captain la his move*
“Dayo Crapa.”
•‘Say, come off o’der perch dere. cul; don’t
git too fresh, see’ Dat’s mine, see?”
The speaker was ono of a crowd of dirty,
ragged little imps of the street, says the Chicago
Times, and it was addressed to another, whose
eager fingers were just closing on thre > copper
pennies which lay on the asphalt pavement at
the end of an alley just off Clark street. Five
of the gamins were clustered around on knes
and haunches, and a lively dispute at once
bre>ke forth.
“Goon wid yes. Mine's de nearest dere;
lo k.”
‘‘Mika say/a righta—make a mark an'Jsee." It
was h swarthy young son of Italy who spoke,
an l the first speaker bad to give in under the
pressure of a majority.
"Well, dat breaks me, see? Len' ’me a dime.
Carlo, till I git de b o’clocks. 11l give it to you
t'nite.”
little dago handed over the dime—in
pei n es—and the ‘ busted’’ one arose to leave.
"vk'atwuzwe playin’?’’ Ho looked up in
quiringly at the question "O, dat’s dago
raps, see? Yer doau* have to use no bones fer
dat. When yer uses bones dat’s nigger craps,
see? An tier cop 'll fan ye ef be catcnes yer at
it. Dis way yer kin jist make one toss an’ set
tie it an' git away, see?"
"And what is dago craps?”
“W’y, as many fellars as wants ter play takes
a cent an’ chucks it up into de air. an’ de one
failin' closest to der crack wins, see? Den he
takes all dor rest. Dat's all: it's easy enuff
when yer on.” And the youthful gambler
smiled in a superior, pityine sort of way at the
ignorance of one who didn't know what ‘dago
craps ’ meant, and trudged away whistling.
E© Heard and Heeded.
It was out to the race track, says the Repub
lic. Furthermore it was over on the stable side
of the track, and a dozen imps of varying shades
of darkness were walking an equal number of
blanketed beauties slowly about iu a circle cool
ing off Presently a white man came by. He
was a big white man, and he looked mad. He
glanced malevolently at a beautiful 2 year-old
which had won the last race, and which was
tripping daintily along behind a lanky, saddle
colored negro. He recognized the horse, and
from his clinched teath hurled at it a single
malediction condemning the pretty animal to
future perdition, and reflecting on the horse s
parentage, though the animal had proved him
self that day in turf parlance to be no dog.
It was a lew down white man’s trick to ‘‘cuss”
the gallant victor of the race, and the black at
tendant of the flyer appreciated that fact. The
white mau had no sooner let go the objectiona
ble epithet than the darkey straightened up, his
eyes ab aze, aad yelled back;
‘Look hyah; yo' cheap w'ite trash; doau’ yo'
cuss dia heah boss! Yo’ all listen to me, now.
Doan’yo’call dis boss uone o’dem nam s. Ff
yo’ wan’ ter cuss somebody yo' cuss me. Doan'
yo’ cuss dis hoss. An’ ef yo’ cuss me I’ll come
long ovah dar an’ swat yo’ one along da side o’
you’ sasvy head. I will! You jes’ g’long bout
yo’ bigness now, fo’ yo’ an’ me has trouble. Dey
ain’ no man a gwine cuss dis byah hoss wie
Joe’s aroun’. Yo’ heah me!”
And the prof me white man did hear and
heeded. He looked hack with malice in his
eye, but he kept on walking just the same*, and
Joe returned the hickory "sweat-rubber” be
had in his hand to his trousers' strap and took
up hia inarch with his fuvorito agaiu.
Beating a Bier Hotel.
"I’ll wager $5 that I can address a letter and
have it stamped and mailed for me without
touching it after I writs the address, or without
speaking to anybody," remarked a commercial
man at the Grand Pacific, addressing a travel
ing friend, in the presence of the Chicago yens.
“Can't play any of your tricks on me,’’re
sponded the companion.
"No tricks. I want to teach you a point
about hotel life. Watch me.”
Bigelow hurried up to the counter, seized a
hotel envelope and addressed it in a bbld, sym
metrical hand to a friend in St. Louis. Then he
suddenly left the counter, leaving the envelope
ready to mail near the register.
Soon along came Clerk Shaeffer. He eyed the
missive, sized up the penmanship, said some
thing about the guest trying to play the house
for a postage stamp, placed on° of those neces
sary little plasters on the envelope and mailed
iu
"See," said Mr Bigelow, "I told you the ‘gag‘
•would work in a large hotel. That is an old
trick played bv a great many chairwarmers.
The clerks find the unstamped envelopes, and
fearing that a guest has forgotten to mail an
important letter, they sond it. That is one wuy
of saving postage, but let us hope it will not
spread.”
A Pino View for the Cows.
A New Hampshire farmer, says the Youth's
Companion , gave evidenoe of his belief in his
cattle's appreciation of scenery not long since
when showing a visitor over his estate. After a
long tramp through the woods the two men
climbed a steep hill, on the summit of which
was au inclosure where several cows were stand -
ing
"Isu’t this a grand place for a pasture?"
asked the farmer.
The visitor looked out over the beautiful sheet
of water which lay at the foot of the hill, more
than a mile away, and agreed that it was a
grand place.
“But," he said, after a little, "there isn't
much grass here for your cows to feed upon."
"No. that's true,” the farmer admitted; "but
it’s a grand good place for them.”
“There doern't seem to be any water handy,
either,*’ remarked the visitor.
"No, but they drink just before they are
driven up here and when they come down at
night.”
“There isn't much shade, is there?” the criti
cal visitor further remarked.
"Well, no!” replied the farmer. "But good
lauds, man! Just think of the magnificent
view!”
He Was Giving Him a Last Shave.
The Washington barber, writes a World cor
respondent, shaves a good many celebrities in
his day, and comes in time, like this man who
waited on Mr. Lincoln, to hold as steady a
hand over one man as another.
This scene occurred but a few days before the
unfortunate Lord Sackvilie loft for homo in dis
grace. His lordship, probably as a parting com
pliment to the country, dropped into the Will
ard hotel barber snop, and seated hirnsolf, in
true democratic style, to have his ha;r cut and
whiskers trimmed. While the operation was in
progress, one of the regular customers of tho
barber so employed strolled in, but, finding the
chair occupied, looked a little impatient and
started to go out. The barber, leaving his lord
ship for a moment, clicked his shears anil
walked across to his regular customer, with this
remark:
“I'll be ready for you in a minlt.” Then, jerk
ing liis right thumb over his shoulder in the
direction of the chair, no added, in a still lower
tone. "That’s Lord Sackvilie. I’m flxiu’ the old
boy up for the last time. The President’s done
bounced him, you know.”
Why He Was Rejected.
“Before you coldly reject me, Laura Ka
jones," said the excited young man, according
to the Chicago Tribune , getting on his feet and
speaking with the eagerness of a grand stand
crank 6houting to old Cliff Carroll to pound out
another three-baaer. "1 want you to hear what
1 have to say A cat can look at a queen. Miss
Kajonea, and the humblest individual on the
foot stool has a right to aspire to the fairest
and best of earth's possessions. Nature knows
no aristocracy. She bestows the same protec
tion, the same kindness, the same fostering care
on the cocklebur tbat she does on the $ 10 orchid.
Men are equal. Why shouldn't i dare to lift my
eyes to you? lain as good a man as George
Ferguson any day. He hasn't the capacity to
love you a thousandth part as well as I do.
Who is George Ferguson, anyhow? Why should
I be afraid to rush in where George 1* erguson
doesn’t fear to tread? Who made George Fergu
son any better than ”
**Mr. Hankinson,” interposed the young lady,
“will you listen to me a moment?'*
“A moment, Laura, I’ll listen an hour, a
month, a ”
“A moment will do, Mr. Hankinson,” said
Miss Kajones, yawning dismally. “You are
simply talking through your hat.”
Great Hotel Clerk—Well, what seems to be
the trouble?
Finicky Guest—This towel is—is not very
clean.
Clerk—Well, now, fifty people here used that
towel, and you’s the first one that's found any
fault with vL—Boston Courier.
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cost. who recently was a very prominent evan
gelical "Evangelist,” has announced a change
in his creed. He believes now in no (rod, no
devil, no angel, no immortality, no 60ul, no
heaven, no hell, no Bible, n6 cnurch and no
state. All these, he says, are figments of the
imagination. It is curious to notice how t hings
disappear from a man’s view when he gets into
a hole.
California pears are unusually plentiful this
season, and while smaller than they used to be,
they are also sweeter. The secret of the change
lies in the fact that California fruit growers
have discovered that irrigation may be over
done. It was once the custom to keep the
orchards well irrigated up to the ripening of the
fruit, but now' the water is shut off when the
pears are well erovvD, and they are permitted to
ripen and sweeten in the California sun and
wind, unaided by artificial moisture.
In Connecticut they are tAiling this story
about Chief Justice Andrews: While attending
a college reunion he met two young lawyers
who were also graduates of the same institution
and acquainted with him It was a hot day,
and, as Id* paused to greet bis juniors, the judge
mopped his brow and asked: "Boys, can you
tell mo if the old town is still without a license?”
Truth compelled them to answer in theatfflrma
tive; but after a moment’s pAuse, they
iu *i tioned a "late decision” which permitted
persons in dire distress to cope with the stern
st itutes of the commonwealth.
President Harrison has rsceived two flno
baskets of peaches from a democratic peach
grower iu Delaware, says the New York Sun.
The same man sent two baskets of his best
peaches to President Cleveland in 1888. When
a republican neighbor announced his intention
to send two baskets to the republican occupant
of the white house, should there be a good crop,
during the next President’s term, the democrat
was so sure that Mr. Cleveland would succeed
himself that he volunteered to furnish the fruit
to the next occupant of the white house, no
matter who he might bo. In fulfilment of this
agreem-nt, tho peaches were s**nt to Mr. Haf
rison during his stay in Cape May.
The Philadelphia Inquirer has this story
about Edison's first important achievement as
a Western Union telegraph operator: He had
been bothering the officers of the company
with telegraphic they had no need of.
He came to the office one day when it was im
possible toobtaiu communication between Now
York and Albany, and the seat of the difficulty
cou and not be located. He was banteringly in
vited to remedy the trouble. He said he could
do so in two hours. He was laughed an and
given two davs for the task. His process was
very simple. He telegraphed to the best opera
tor in Pittsburg and instructed him to tel graph
to the best key manipulator in Albany. The
latter telegraphed down his New York line as
far as he could, feeling his way from point to
point and sending the results to the Pitrsburg
man. who forwarded them to Edison. In less
than one hour Edison said to the anxious offi
cials: "The break is two miles beyond Pough
keepsie.” That simple device secured his status
with the Western Union people and won for
him a heariug in relation to his various in
ventions.
This one comes from Brazil says tho Sun.
No photographers or affidavits accompany it,
probably through a mere oversight. There is
a Brazilian snake called the giboia, which can
give poiuts to the smartest terrier on ratting.
The houses in Brazil are infested with rats, and,
the traveler relates, the Brazilians train the
giboias to habits of domesticity, and ke-p
them around the house as we do cats. The
giboia is a small species of the boa, and it at*
tains an average length of fifteen feet with a
thickness of about five inches. It is raised es
pecially for killing rata, and is sold in tho pub
lic markets The snake is harmless and
slow of movement by day, and lies around
the house as does our pussy. But at night
it is a hustler, and roams all over the premises
on the hunt for rats. It catches the rats by the
back of the neck and crushes the cervical verte
bra. The snake soon becomes accustomed to its
owners and follows the members of the house
hold around like a dog. If carried away from
the house it will always find its way back. But
fancy stepping on fifteen feet of cold, slimy
giboia when hunting for ice water in tho smail
hours.
A family in Main consists of six brothers who
look so much alike that only their most inti
mate friends can tell them apart. They are
rather close-fisted young men, and one day
while visiting in a strange town took advantage
of their remarkable resemblance to each other
to save a few dimes aud make life miserable for
a barber. Each brother wanted a stiuve and
went into a barber's shop and had his beard
removed and paid the customary 10 cents. Five
minutes later, apparently the same man rushed
into t lie shop wtyh a three day's growth of
heard on his face, declare that he had not
been half shaved and demanded that the work
be done over again. The astonished barber
apologized and shaved the man again, but in
less than ten minutes apparently the same man
came back, angrier than ever and with his
beard still bristling. The barber, after a feeble
kick, went through the process a third time.
When the fourth brother came, however, the
barber lost all patience and yelled: “See here,
if you are trying to sell me some patent hair
raiser I'll take your whole stock, but if you are
an escaped museum freak either you'll have to
get out or I'll have to close this shop!” The re
maining brothers patronized another shop.
It's an especially propitious season when
the Delaware peach growers can't get in a
plaintive wail. The peach crop this year is
a copious success, out an oarly blight fell
upon the peach basket crop and it is reported
to be almost a complete failure. A basket
famine is spreading woe and desolation
throughout the fair |>eninsula. The crop of
peaches is estimated at 2.000,003 baskets, but
there is n >t nearly 2,000,000 baskets to be had.
In 1889 and IKK) the peach crops were pracri
bally failures, and a great many basket mak
ers went out of business. The growers were so
mournfully .sure that this year’s crap would be
equally a failure* that very few of the remaining
factories started work, and as a result two
weeks after tho crop ripened all the baskets
in Delaware were used up. The factories are
now running night and day with largely in
creased forces, but are altogether unable to
keep up with tne demand, and tho growers are
scouring the whole country for baskets, going
even to Michigan for them. The cost of the
baskets has been increased from 3 to 5 cents
each, while peaches are commanding a much
lower price than usual, and this is playing
havoc with the profits. Ex-Gov. Biggs has
shipped 70.000 baskets and wants 25,000 more,
but can't get them. Other growers are in the
same fix, and the famine is growing serious.
Canned peaches will be very plentiful next
winter, and so will peach brandy. There is
hardly a barrel of peach brandv in the state of
Delaware to-day, out the distilleries will soon
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