The morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, September 18, 1891, Image 4

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Newspaper Page Text4 £|r'<TloniingHclus Morning New; Building Savannah, Ga. ~~ FKI DAY. SEPT. IS. I*ol. Registered aj the Pottofflce in Sava*nah. Tha Mus-INO Nl*s > published every (lay m the ye&r.And is served to subscribers m the city at 95 cents a week, Si 00 a month, s■' 00 for biz months and $lO CO for one year Toe Morning News, hv motl. one month. 1 00. three months. 50; six months, $5 00, i u mail, six times a week (without Sunday issue-. tlir- months, it 00, six months Si O': or.e year. S'; 00 . The Mornino News. Tri-Weesly, MonJniß, Wednesdays and I rt iats. or Tuesdays. ">£ days and Saturdays, three inonthtt. fcl six months, $i 50; one year. $S 00. The Sunday News, fry mat/, one year. $4 >O. The Weekly News, bymatl, one year. 3i Subscriptions payable in advance. Kem postal order, check or registered letter. rir lency sent by mad at risk of senders , . , Letters and teleerams should be addressees "Morning News," Sawuroab, Os. ; , Transient advertisim-nts. other than OOlumn, local or reading not >''*f; manta and cheaper vant cohimn. l l ' <>eu . Une. Fourteen lines ot agate type-equal to ofie inch spac in depth—ib the • ,a ”dard measurement. Contract rates and discounts made known on application at business ofnoe. OUR NEW YORK OFFICE. Mr. J. J Flynn, Genera! Advertising Agent Of the Mornino News, office 23 Park Row, New York, AH advertising business outside of the states of Georgia, Florida and South Caro lina wil be managed by him. The Morning "skws is on tile at the following place*, where Advertising Rates and other In tormaiion regarding tha paper oan be obtained: NEW YORK CITY — J. H. Bates, 38 Park Row. a. P. Rowell & Cos., 10 Spruoe street. W. W. Sharp & Cos., 21 Park Row. JTranx Kiernas &. Cos.. 132 Broadway. Dacu ht & Cos., 27 Park Place. J. W. Thompson, 39 Park Row. Am eric ah Newspaper Publishers Axsociition, Potter Building. PHILADELPHIA- H. W. Ayer & Son, Times Building. BOBTON- B. R. Nines, 233 Washington Htreet. Prttbngill & Cos., 10 State street. CHICAGO — Lord & Thomas. 45 Randolph street. CINCINNATI— „ „ _ . Edwin Auden Company, 66 Weet Fourth street. NEW HAVEN - The H. P. Hubbard Company, 25 Elm street. *T. LOUIS— Nelson Cbrsman & Cos., 1127 Pine street. ATLANTA— Morning News Bureau. 3j4 Whitehall street. MACON— „ Daily Telegraph Oprirt. 507 Mulberry street. OBH TO NSW AOVKETISEMRNTS. Meetings—Landrum liOdge No. 46, F. and A. M.; Meeting of Butchers Bpecial Notices —As to Bills* Against German Bark Wiedand; Black Mare for Kale. K. M. Ikemere; Prairie Chickens and Faust Boer at Georg© Schawar/s. Steamship Schedule —Ocean Steamship Company. Boys’ Schcol Suite—B. H. Bro. Hardware— Edward Lovell’s Sons. Cheap Column Advertisements Help Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Kent; For Bale; Lost: Personal; Miscellaneous Prohibitionists in Kansas fiud that their party has been left completely out in ail of the republican reckonings of the state ami they will again have to get out and vigor ously fight for their political existence. Doubtless the hapless denizans of the Jer sey coast are most heartily glad that Great Man Ben and his band of duok huuters have left “them parts'’ with the vociferous Official shout of—'Tm a big Nimrod from New Jersey and I’ve got my gun with mo and I mean devastation and death to every thing tbat travels in feathers! Bogush! Watch ray style!” Britons within tbepolitical arena are say ing that Leader Gladstone's career is about finished. But that view of the situation i9 probably an opiuion proceeding from tory hopes more than the result of judgment based upon existing facts. Similar stories have frequently been started before. Blit the “grand old man” hag apparently not “lost his grip” yet by a large majority. Political prophets in New York are busily engaged in sagely and ominously wagging their knowing heads and saying that the democratic machine of Gotham without the Hon. Dave Hill at the throttle is liable to wobble about or else to suddenly buck and refuse to go. In that event the bitter feeling engendered will probably preclude any satisfactory repairs without recourse to Cleveland’s patent adjustable lubricator and propelling device. Asiatic cholera is reported to bo ravaging some of the Ijevantine Turkish provinces to such a disastrous extent that in the larger towns alone over :1,000 deaths have resulted since July I. While Christians and Mo hammedans are permitted to migrate from the towns where infected houses are being burned the Hebrews are not allowed to leave for the alleged reason that they are ao uncleanly as to infect other localities. Wbether that is true or merely a diplomatic pretext for restraining them it appears very harsh when we take- into account that the same absolute authority which can pro hibit their departure and thus subject them to all the dangers of tbe infection cjuld apparently enforce the needful degree of sanitary cleanliness. Most likely it is a>l a politic spirit imbibed from Russia. Sharpers from this country and England are said to have actually tried to steel the rich pilferings of Dictator ’Balmaceda at Santiago. Recent dispatches from San Francisco refer to an alleged attempt of one John Dow from Pennsylvania, and Henry Marrian, an English aii venturer, to seize $600,000 in bullion which had been secreted by Balmaceda and the surprise of the con spirators. Some days after, however, Dow, who had escaped arrest at the lime, was shot and killed by the officers while trying to escape from the house of a relative. It is said that Dow went to Chile in 1880, asserting that he was a citizen of the Un.ted States and a native of Pennsylvania. After making considera ble money peddling be married a Chilean girl, and they went to live at San tiago. There he and one Youngman are said to have concocted a scheme to swindle an English syndicate out of $300,000 by Dow alleging that he had discovered a rich silver mine. An agent of the syndicate was to accompany him. Then Dow hired Youngman and the two sharpers at the point of a pistol are alleged to have forced tbe agent to sign a statement that the mine was immensely rich and worth $500,000. But the agent was never seen again, and the scheme was thus blocked. Y it Dow escape-1 prosecution on account of having some knowledge of a scandal connected with one of the members of the syndicate. Ho it will be seen that tbo old story over again of the vulture preying upon the hawk has been enacted in Chile with pretty lively surroundings of alert falconers and sports men with guus which they chanced to know bow to use. For Buncombe's Fake. Wednesday, during the discussion of the bill which carries an appropriation for the support of the Girls’ Industrial School at Mtlledgeville, Representative Walker, of McDuffie countv. said that 4 *tbo House was tired of so much talking for buncombe’s sake." This admission is certainly gratify ing. It also indicates that the members of the legislature are gotting ashamed of the reckless wnv in which they are wasting the people’s money. The people have been tired a good while ot the “talk for buncombe’s sake." And they have the best of reasons for being tired. They have to stand the expense of the bun combo oratory. Do the members who indulge in long windod and utterly useless speeches ever consider how great the burden is they are placing upon the taxpayers? If they do not, they ought to. If all the members were ar. conscientious as they ought to be they would get through with the public business as quickly as possiblo and adjourn. By doing so they might bo able to appro priate all that is needed for widows of veterans and provide for a longer school year without increasing the rate of taxa tion. The legislature has been in extra session more ttaau two months, and what has it done? Not a great deal. It has scarcely touched any of the proposed reform meas ures, It liusn't enacted a ballot reform law, nor has it provided for amending the con stitution so as to keep special and local bills out of the legislature. But it has indulged in talk, much of which has served no good purpose whatever. Sometime ago there were signs of a dispo tion to adjourn Sept. 18. That date is here and final adjournment seems to be yet a long way off. What was the prediction when this legis lature was elected? Was it not that it would be a working legislature, and that the people would have reason to rejoice be cause the cost of it would be small? Well, the prediction hasn’t come true. It looks now as if this legislature would break the record. It promises to do little and cost a great deal. But it has furnished a vast amount of wbat Representative Walkor calls “talk for buncombe’s Bake.’’ Still At It. It would be interesting to know how many express car robberies there have been within the last yoar. Every few days one is announced in the dispatches. In yester day’s Alispatchos there was an account of one which occurred in Texas Tuesday night. The robbers got $2,500 ui.d escaped. They would have got a groat deal more if the express messenger could have opened the safe. They are being pursued, but it is doubtful if they will bo caught. Express car robbers in the west and southwest ap pear to be more skillful in covering their tracks than the same olass of criminals in Georgia. Those who were pursued into Mexico a few days ago have not been caught, as far as known. The robbing of express cars has become a serious matter for express companies. There has been a very marked inorense in the number of such robberies recently. And the reason is that an express car can be robbed very easily and without much danger to the robbers. The chief thing they have to provide against is being caught after they have accomplished their object, if they are shrewd in hiding their identity and covering their tracks they are very likely to escape detection and arrest. If the three men who robbed the express car on the Central railroad Friday night had not been associated with women, and had not been concerned in robbing the Central railroad’s freight cars, they could have re mained in this city without much danger of detection, provided they had been discreet. They did go about the city for a day or two, visiting the saloons and riding in the street ears without arousing suspioiom The prob lem of protecting express cars against robbers is one that has not yet been solved. Savannah Harbor Improvement. The people of this city are united in the efforts to secure an appropriation from this congress sufficient to complete the twenty six-foot improvement in Savannah harbor. The resolution adopted by the city counoil providing for n committee of twelve to invite tho President, his cabinet and the members of the river and harbor commit tee and of the oommittee of commerce to visit Savannah during tho coming winter and inspect the harbor shows that the city authorities are deeply interested in the matter, and purpose to do all that it is pos sible for them to do in behalf of deeper water in Savannah harbor. The only way for Savannah to get what she wants and what she greatly needs in connection with her harbor is to keep her harbor improvement question prominently before the public. After awhile congressmen will begin to under stand something about her commercial im portance, then they will be willing tq treat her as fairly as Galveston has been treated. At presant congressmen outside of tho ter' ntory tributary to Savannah do not know much about her commercial importance, and it will require a great deal of hard work to make them understand how great this importance is. This work, however, Sa vannah is willing to do. And she is very much in earnest and does not intend to fail in what she has undertaken. Recent reports from tho scene of dissen sion state that Defaulter Bardsloy’s mouth has suddenly shut up with a snap. Just what sort of a snap it is the intelligence does not disclose. But the chances are that the old sturdy promises of a speedy pardon are the prevailing persuasion. Meanwhile the public prosecutor must find another equally efficient witness or ali of his casos against the other wreckers will fail. So it will be readily seeu that the accused cul prits and their outside friends can not only afford to but must “take care of” Bardsley or suffer themselves for the neglect to do so. Once on tho witness stand “Honest” John Bardsley would probably tell some very as tonishing things that might prove quite em barrassing in many quarters of fhe Quaker City aud in Washington. Ohio republicans who recently assembled at Findlay to the number of abcut 2.U00 were literally astounded to hear the Kansas third party woman announced to speak on prohibition feather in on Candidate Billy McKinley and unmercifully ilay him and his high tariff policy. Amazement so bewildered them that they scarcely realized tbat their favorite was being “laid out” until Orator Helen Uougar had finally drawn her skirts about her and ably and effectually disappeared. Now they are >uid to be red-bot about the way they were roped into heariDg the Hon. Billy abused. They thought she was to talk sound repub lican sophistry. , THE MORNING NEWS: FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1891. Russia Threatens a "Ruction.” Later developments explaining the alleged seizure by British warships of the Ottoman possession of Mitylene upon the theory of various hypothetically innocent escapades of troops, ranging all the way from a prac tice drill to a moonlight picnic oa the island, recalls forcibly the craftily acquisitive tactics which have led Russia to reach out for Constantinople at, regular intervals about twenty years apart for the past 200 years. It is merely the continuation of an old game of diplomatic duplicity and treachery between the Russian and British sharpersof statecraft. Totho restof civilized mankind it is far more amusing than dangerous. 8o far as it has lately gone it strikingly reminds one of the encounter of brawn and brightness betwoen a courtoous but sensi tive gentleman and a bluff man of inten tions far less offensive than bis manners. When Mr. Bluff genially called Mr. Courtly a liar that gentleman affably though vigor ously knocked him down. Whereupon Mr. Bluff struggled to his feet and, as soon as he could recover his hat and his breath, made ha-te to shout: “What’s the matter, man? I was only joking 1” “So was 1,” blandly smiled Mr. Courtly. “But that was a pretty rough joke of yours,’’ grunted Mr. Bluff. “So was yours,” retorted Mr. Courtly. Probably Mr. Bluff could not have l>eeri so effectually impressed with the un couth ruggedness of that style of jocularity in any other way. When Russian transports with armed men recently passed the Dardanelles, in vio lation of the existing treaty, the czar’s min isters very suavely explained in response to England’s vigorous protest, that, since all morchant vessels were exempt from the treaty prohibition to pass througn the straits and all British merchant ships are constituted by English law a part of the naval reserve, the Russian reserve had the same right to be considered by construction merchant ships. Or in other words, if a merchant ship capable of carrying cannon is exempt why shouldn’t a warship capa ble of carrying merchandise be exempt? Very plausible sort of sophistry, that. But instead of wasting any time in intricate and learned discussions of those flue distinctions England adopted the much quicker and sim pler course of ordering the British Med iteranoau fleet from Malta to watch the Dardanelles, and then jumped upon the con venient island of Mitylene just to illustrate what could bo done upon a pinch. Then she gravely explained with pouderous diplo matic politeuoss that it was all an innocent escapade of the exuberant young officers in Britannia’s well-developed navy. That was all. It was quite as satisfactory as the ap parently effusive penitence of the great big man who has just deliberately crushed your pet corn under his heavy heel. Yet you hesitate to hit hiiu because you cau’t really determine whether his diabolical grin sim ply moans conciliation or an histrionic repression of ungodly glee. There are also prudential reasons which materially assist you in restraining your impotuous wrath. That is apparently the exact present posi tion of England and Russia. Between the crouching lion and the sulking bear nervously fidget* a somewhat panic-stricken Turkey. Neither of the animals appear to be particularly interested in it. Yet each is so alertly watchful of the other as to prevent any sort of sudden grab for the prize, Possibly the most curious and remarka ble phase of the whole ancient and intricate affair is that the groat Russian autocrats have not been actuated by a mere spirit of territorial acquisition. On the contrary, thore is good reason for the belief that their persistent and long-sustained maneuvers and machinations to get possession of Con stantinople have been and still are inspired by religious influence and zeal. Ever since the groat religious organiza tion established by Constantine the Great was divided after his death between the eastern and western empires of Rome the patriarch of Constantinople has held to the eastern church the same relation that the pope holds to the western church. That has made Byzantium the head and centre of the two most powerful and numerously followed religions in the world. As Russian rulers have long been ambi tious to have a duly authorized established national church similar to that of England, and Russian diplomacy and intrigue have thus far signally failed to secure from either the pope or the patriarch of Constantinople the needful ecclesiastical concessions, the Muscovite idea seems to be to seize the central sanctuary and get all the salvation there is in it all at one fell swoop. By controlling the prop erty of the church the czar seems to assume that ho will secure a more potent Influence with the patriarch. That is apparently what an unusually long dynasty of auto crats huve schemed and fought for with a tenacious pertinacity that has remained un- waveriug for centuries. Unless Russia makes some sort of further menacing movement toward Constantino ple Europe will probably continue in the enjoyment of sarene peace. Should the Muscovites manifest any more symptoms of acquisitive treachery, however, there will proliably be a very lively international “ruction.” Probably Col. Cockerill with his bright young family of newspaners is just begin ning to realize his great luck in getting safely out of the antique building in which the Commercial Advertiser had spent so many years of its eventful existence just before the disastrous fire came and com pletely destroyed it. It is a matter for con gratulation to the country as well as the colonel. But while speaking upon the sub ject it were just as well to say that the col onel should not create a corner on newspaper names. It is net only selfish but greatly re duces his chances for getting proper credits. Exchange editors do not consider such dis tressingly long names at all creditable. Since the names Commercial Advertiser • were inherited as it were why not divide them up and call the evening edition the Commercial aud leave to the morning edi tion the name of Advertiser f R. S. V. P. Apparently the peculation of public funds is considered no very serious crime iu Cunada since we are told by tclograpbio ad vices from Ottawa that Sir Hector Lau~ gevin has Leen skillfully whitewashed after the most approved American manner and gracefully acquitted of the improprieties charged against him. Doubtless the ab sconding eastern financiers and professional practical low-grade statesmen who have [ lately migrated thither have to some ex i tent carried their own peculiar methods along with them and introduced them among the gaping but appreciative Canucks I with great eclat aud success. P2890N4R Jcdoe Grisham spends his vacations with his mother. The latest drinker of note at Viohy Is Prin cess Maud of Wales. Mr. and Mrs. Kendal will sail for the United States m a few days. Prince Ferdinand reoently celebrated the fourth anniversary of his ele-'tion to the Bul garian throne. Mr. Stanley will be accompanied on his Aus tralian lecturing tour by Mrs. Stanley and his mother-in law. Mmk. Nordica aud Signor Bevignanl. the Italian operatic conductor, have saiied for New York by the Saule from Southampton. Among the most prominent of the surviving union generals are Schofield, Buell, Bosecraus, Butler, Pope, Banks, Howard and Slocum. F. H. Seward, son of the late W. H. Seward, has finished the biography of his father. He has been engaged upon the work a long time. Ms Balfour divides his time between North Berwick and Weittinghame, and is now having a real holiday pursuing his favorite game of golf. Edward Everett Hale is trying to get Bos ton to honor Oliver Cromwell by hanging the Puritan soldier’s portrait in the Old South church. Frank W. Smith will, in a few days, sail for Europe to obtain additional data and views for bis proposed national gallery of history and art at Wasuington. Ons of the many affaires gallant es of the late King William of Holland is embodied in the romance of the “Clemenceau Case," by Alexan der Dumas fils. The kaiser is a great admirer of white. Twenty of his different uniforms are made of white material, an 1 his wardrobe is said to contain more than !0J pairs of white trousers. Bismarck has the neuralgia, Diaz is regaining hi* health, Spurgeon grows weaker daily. Sena tor Quay is troubled with sleeplessness, the kaiser again lias earache, and Gladstone isn't feolii g very well. Alts* Emily Huntington Miller, who has been elected principal ot the Women's College of the Northwestern University, is president of the Woman's Club at Chautauqua, and was for many years editor of the Little Corporal. J. C. Heywood, the pope's now chamberlain, is a Harvard graduate of 1855. He was ad mitted to the bar In 185 H Mr. Heywood has written a number of poems ot merit. Harvard has given him the degrees I.L.D. aud A. M. The position he holds is not an ecclesiastical one. Kev. H. C. Shuttle worth, rector of St. Nicholas church, London, has lieen approached with regard to his possible acoeptauce of the rectorship of Holy Trinity, Boston, made va cant by Dr. Brooks'election to the bisaopric, but it is doubtful if he could be induced to come to this country. Thb Princess Ghika, sister of Queen Natalie, has one child—a boy. So displeased is the princess with the sex of her child, who is now 9 years old, that she calls him by a girl's name, dresses him like a little girl, in frills and lace, ana is bringing him up much after the fashion of girls. Judge John Martins of Kansas, once or twice an unsuccessful candidate for governor on the democratic ticket and ft leading lawyer of that state, is as much addicted to wearing a buttonhole bouquet as Gen. Butler, and his courteous manners have won for him the title of "The Chesterfield of Kansas.” BRIGHT BiTS. “Are you the owner of the house, Jones?" “I was before the baby was born. I am un der the impression the nurse owns It now." Judge. "He is a Dublin man, isn’t he?'’ "Mostly. ’ "Why mostly?” “He has a Cork 1 ep.”—Harper's Bazar. “O, G18L3," cried Amy Toure; “papa is going to get me a camera, aid I’m going to have it so pretty! I hate black, and so I’m going to have it lined with pink."— Puck. He—l have had you in mind a good deal lately, Miss Helen. She—You always did try to make me feel small, Air Chumply.— Brooklyn Life. “TnAT goes without saying." said Miss Bleeker in the course of a conversation. "Yes,” replied Aliss Baokbay of Boston; "it perambulates without articulation.” — Judge. ’’You’ve made your share of noise in the world," remarked the cigar stump. "Yes," mournfully replied the firecracker, “aud I’m busted.”— Kate Held's IVashington. Pills and powders! Powders and pills! Sovereign cure for earthly ills. Filliug the void that nought else fills. Pills and powders 1 Powders and pills! —Puck. Spatts—Which is correct—“politics is" or “politics are?" Bloobumper—ln a country with so much poli tics as this I think the word should be recognized as a plural.— Judge. "I don't know what makes me yawn so," said a bride on the Klttatinny porch. "1 suppose it’s from gaziDg so long at the Water Gap." replied her husband; “it's conta gious, you know. ’’ — Puck. “What was young Leonard Whits fired for?” “The boas caught him in a lie.” “Was it a whopper?” ‘‘Wall, be said bis salary was plenty big enough to suit him." — Puck. His head like some great wind mill whirls, F.ngaged to fourteen summer girls. A sudden thought Ids cheek inflames— He can’t rememDer all their names. —Judge. Sunday School Teacher —Johnny, who was the Prodigal Son? Johnny—On. that was the fellow who went away a dude and came back a tramp.—Cin cinnati Gazette. The Wrong Flavor.— Mrs. Beach—l think you have made a slight mistake. Grocer—How so. madam? Airs. Beach—This sand tastes salty. I wanted it sweetened.— Puck. Small Son—Dot suit fit dot man awful tight. Dealer—lt vas a dight vit. my son. ‘ Vy did you zell it zo shenp?” '‘l vas avraid I couldn't get it off without teariug it."— Good Sews. She (to Air. Hotspur, who has just proposed) —O, Mr. Hotspur, this is so sudden! Mr. H. irecently graduated)—Then pardon me. but I— r thought you could stand sur prise better than suspense.— Life. “You don't seem to have any barometer about the bouse. Haven’t you always had one?" "Yes; but pa got cured of his rheumatism last fall, and since then we haven't known any mors about the weather than the signal servic e bureau. ,/u dge. A gentleman who was visiting a friend who hud a rare collection of old paintings was shown through the gallery by a colored servant, "la that one of the old masters?” he asked, pausing before a portrait. "No sah. dat's one ob de ole missis," was the unexpected answer.— Detroit Free P. ess Editor of the Plaukvillo Bugle— That slug of boiler plate with Peffar’s picture is here yet, > ain’t it? Foreman—Yes. Editor—Just cut the whiskers down to a rea sonable length and run it as the kaiser since he grew a beard. It’ll be the scoop of the season . Indianapolis Jenin iL * CURRENT COMMENT. Various Points of View. From the -Ye w York Press (Rev). Viewed as an act of justice the verdict of the coroner's jury on the Park place disaster was a miserable farce. Viewed as a whitewashing per formance it was an able job. Destroys All His Devotion. From the Chicago Hat Hind.). The nxt editorial brother who rises to re mark that ’ Tuere is likely to be Samoa trouble at Apia" will please send back our letters and henceforth consider us simply a friend. Prospects of Progress. From the New York Advertiser (Tad.). The provincial government of Chile announces that the next presidential election will be held on toe hasis of universal suffrage Tbat sounds very republican. It means an end to dictator ship. Laudation for Gen. Lew. From the San Antonio Express i Bern .). Of all th men so far mentioned for the war secretary snip. Hen Ix-wWailaoeia the best. Tho author of "Ben Hur" bae a warm place in the hearts of the American people, dun as much to ms spotless character as to his undeniable genius. They Paralyzed Him. “The other flay two stylishly dressed young ladies entered our s&iesrooom and asked tc ex amine our stock,” remarked a Fifth avenue furniture dealer to the Chicago Mail. ‘ The floor walker recognized one of the women as a bride of a few weeks who belongs to one of the swellest families of the north side, and. as the salesman thought he saw a heavy order in sight, he called ine and 1 undertook to pilot the callers through the establishment and to look after their wants. What a dance they led me* Up to the fourth floor we went, then back to the ground floor, then to the third, back to the second, up to the fourth again, and at last the chase ended where it began. The shoppers priced enough furniture to stock -a dozen large residence*. asked me to quo*e prices on sets and in dividual pieces and oa each floor I laid aside, at their request, groups of our costliest cabinet sets, tables, chairs, bureaus, sofas, beds, side wards and divans, to say nothing of several acres of Brussels an 1 Moquette carpeting. At last we bad canvassed the whole stock pretty thoroughly, and as I mopped away the per spir&tton from my manly brow 1 made a men tal calculation concerning the size of the order l was about to fill. Then the bride said sweetly—oh, so sweetly: ‘We are ever so much obliged to you, Mr. blank. Really, you've been very kind inueed, and I'm so glad we came right here before going to any other furniture house.’ “Of course I assured her that I was her debtor; that I was always pleased to show our goods, as I felt confident that they would not suffer by comparison with those of other houses, and that we would guarantee both quality and prices. “ ‘That's ‘rust it, ‘ exclaimed the young wife, vivaciously. ‘Other dealers don’t do it, you know, and I don't like to trust them. 1 just wouldn’t do it, so there. now.' "And I remained discreetly silent as she stamped a pretty foot with great vigor and shook her head to add emphasis to her remarks “ ‘And so I improved my first chance to run down town,* she resumed, with a sigh, 'and see you about this matter. Torn has just furnished our new house, you know, from top to bottom, and I wanted to see whether he got bitten on prices. Good afternoon—so kind of you, I’m sure. * “And as the two women swept out of my sight 1 couidn t have uttered a word if I bad been offered a half interest in a gold mine to do so.” Both Were Assistants. A good story is told of Assistant Postmaster General T. E. Rathbone, says the Syracuse Standard. While on his recent trip to the St. the general with a party was stop ping at Frontenac. Ever having in miod his of ficial duties Mr. Rathbone one morning thought he would, just step down to the Frontenac mail slinging department and see how things moved along in bis line up on the St. Lawrence. The local office is situated in the pavilion on the dock in conjunction with the ticket aud express offices. Charge of postal affairs devolves chief ly on a clerk who is quite assertive of his brief authority. Mr. Rathbone peeped in at the window to see the clerk busy at his work. “How many mans do you receive hero daily?” the Assistant Postmaster-General asked. •‘Four,” vats the curt reply. 0 “How many go out?” “Same number.” “Where are the pouches received?” was the next question. “Right through this window.” “How do you handle them when they go out?” By this time the clerk’s eyes were as bigas saucers. ‘'H seems to me that you are pretty fresh with your questions.’’ he said, “But lam connected with the poetoffice de partment of the United States government,” said Mr. Rathbone, “and I ask officially for in formation.” “I don’t know whether you are or not,” was the clerk s answer to this “I am Mr Rathbone of Washington, Fourth Assistant Postmaster General of the United States,” said the iuqu sitor. “How do you rank?” “Fourth Assistant Postmaster General of the United States.” “Well,” said the clerk as he took his seat, “I am the first assistant postmaster at Frontenac, and you can go plump to 1” Tableau. When Mr Rathbone left Frontenac he sent tho clerk a bottle of champagne with his compliments. Sam Jones’ Cyclone. Sam Jones’ denunciation of the sinners of Gotham recalls a story of the noted evangelist that is an apt illustration of the old saw that there are always “two sides to a story.” The Rev. Sam has been dealing out gospel and brimstone in his usual vigorous style iu Nash ville. says the American, and one night devoted his entire time and attention to the “rum sel lers.” In the course of his harangue he de clared that the Lord did not always wait until they appeared before the judgment scat to mete out their punishment, bus oftimes laid his heavy hand upon them on this footstool. “I will give you a case in point,” said he. “Down in Georgia (the Rev. Sam always draws his illustrations from the land of peanuts and j gophers) there was a little town in whicn there were three saloons. One day the Lord sent a cyclone and it struck that town, swooped down on the&e saloons and didn’t leave a vestige of them. And, my friends, there wasn't a shingle lifted from the roof of nary another house iu town. Teil aie the Lord does not take care of his own,” etc. The next day the writer met a minister who was on the platform the night before and in the course of a conversation auent the Rev. Sam remarked that ho thought that cyclone story was a little bit too large to swallow. % “No doubt the story is true, or Mr. Jones would not have told it.” said tho minister, a very eminent Baptist divine, who is now in charge of a church at Sioux City, la., “but I will tell you a story on the other side if you won’t mention my name in connection with it. I know of a town—let u* locate it in Georgia for the sake of convenience -where there was only one saloon —that was visited by a cyclone, and after that cyclone got through toying with the Houses in that village the only shanty left standing was the saloon. I know that to be a fact,” Her Favorite Dainties. From the Chicago Globe . Though you may bi a gallant gay. Young, fond, and tall and debonnair, And though you bo of noble clay, And have a most distingue air While walking with your lady fair, Don’t hops to please the saucy jade, Unless you wet her lip3 with rare Ice cream and lemonade. Though you may write a roundelay That could the coldest heart ensnare, And whisper her from day to day The sweetest words that woman e’er Heard from a lover anywhere. She’ll ne’er respond, Pm sore afraid, If, sir, your purse to her can’t spare Ice cream and lemonade. For dainties such as these she’d dare Y' mr boldest Kiss in courting fray. And she’d put on a spoony air. Which, if interprets 1, would say: “I shall be yours, dear chap, alway— Your own -your loving, little maid. If you've got dimes enough to pay ice cream and lemonade.*’ Bf.liOious denominations are curiously dis tributed over the peninsula of Delaware and Maryland. Iu the northern counties of the peninsula the Presbyterians and Methodists form the bulk of the population, with a strong infusion of Catholics, chiefly immigrants ami the children of immigrants. Midway of the peninsula, on the Maryland side, the Presby terians almost wholly disappear, and in three eastern shore counties there are scarcely as many Presbyterian churches. Methodists. Episcopalians and a strong Cathoilf element, 200 years in the land,make up the church going population Farther south the Presbyterians thicken again, and in Worcester, tne most southern of the eastern shore counties, there is a creat host of Presbyterians, many of them descended from the founders of American Presbyterianism, in the Virginia counties of Accomaaand Northampton the Presbyterians again dwindle and Episcopalians and Methodists possess the land. A Japanese girl has arrived in San Francisco on her way to Chicago to learn dentistry. /jgg® Jakfng U^JPowder Used in Millions of Homes— 40 Years the Standard FLAVORING EXTRACTS. o?P RIC Cs p# DELICIOUS Flavoring Extracts NATURAL FRUIT FLAVORS, Vanilla d° f perfect purity. Lemon -I of great strength. Almond | Econo * ri y ,nthe,ruSo RoseetC.rJ F ,avor a3 delicately and deliciously as tho fresh fruit. ITEMS OF INTEREST. Tnz experiments in Bdlamyism don't seem to succeed as well in real life as they do in Mr. Bellamy's book. For instance, the Decatur Co-operative Housekeeping Club has just col lapsed. The club consisted of ten or twelve families, who rented a dining-room, hired a housekeeper to taxe charge of the servants and paid the expenses of furnishing hoard to the members ot the club. It was a success for a year and a half, but the novelty wore off, and this fall so many of the members concluded to set up establishments of their own that the few who were left did not care to keep up tho club, so they disbanded. Panama, the once gay and godless Babylon of the isthmus, is becoming virtuous andPuritini cal in her sere and seedy days. A Sunday clos ing decree was promulgated there two weeks ago providing that all places of business, with a few exceptions, shall bo closed on Sundays. The exceptions are the railroad and steamship offices, for urgent business only; hotels, drug stores, restaurants, cook shops, bakeries, and the ice bouse. But the exempted places that sell spirits are required to post a big placard notifying that no drinks will be sold before 4 p. m . when the prohibition ceases. The market, grocery stores and barber shops may be open uutil 11a m. The newspapers contiuue to an nounce the winning numbers in the Sunday drawings of the Pau&ma lottery, so presuma bly the lottery is exempted as a necessary busi ness. I have had the somewhat mixed pleasure, says a writer in the New York Truth , of seeing a polo match at Newport. “All the leaders of society were present,” I was told in the pap r next day, “and nearly 1,000 people saw the sport.” Sport! I had last seen the game at Allahaba i, in India. The Manipuri natives, who invented it. came across the continent to play the Ninth lancers; and as the officers of that regiment were reinforced by native troopers, it was virtually a match of Bengalees against Bengalees. Such suppleness of body, the play ers almost bending themselves double under their ponies; such furious charges; such flights across the piaiu; such desperate onslaughts; such unerringness of eye and wrist; such valor; such strategy, were surely never* seen anywhere else than on a battlefield; and the ponies were ridden with the lightest of snaffles, following tingnided every curve of the ball. At Newport I saw a number of spindle shanked youths be striding a number of (lumpy little horses. I heard the “leaders of society” gurgle with de light over the prowess of the piayers. and I thought of Allahabad aud laughed. A young mam cal student in Now York had a remarkable experience recently. He belongs to that sort of young men who are compelled almost to depend entirely upon their own resources to obtain their education, and he spends his evenings in a down-town office. For a long time he was accosted by a professional beggar, a strapping big fellow, with a still neck, while passing througa City Hall park. The beggar accosted him night after night in an in solent manner. Frequently it was difficult for the medical student to get. rid of the begga *, and they rarely parted without an exchange of epithets. This thing went ou for some time, and then the beggar suddenly disappeared. One morning shortly after this the meaical stu dent went into the dissecting room to dissect a body. He was surprised to find that the body assigned to him was that of the troublesome beggar. The student bad often wondered what wus the matter with tfce fellow's nock, and now he had an opportunity to find out. He dissected the body, and found that a layer of bouo had grown down the neck. preventing the head from being moved backward or forward. One of the attendants mounted tho skeleton for the student, and it now stands complete in l4s room at the foot of the bed. A well-known Rochester business man walked Into a cigar store the other morning acd took out two coins. One was a dollar and the other a half dollar. He laid them down on the case and pointed to a box of imported cigars, saving: “Give me $1 worth of those.” The cient handed them out and the buyer laid thesis that ho wanted in a row along the case. Then he said to tho clerk: “Give ine 60 cents worth of any good 5-cent cigar.” The clerk did as he was bid and the 5-cent.ers wore laid along in a row also. The gentleman then took tho row' of imported cigArs and cut the ends off of them ail. Then he mixed the 5 centers and the 20-centers up together and put them all into his capacious vest pockets. A friend who was standing near, and who had watched the operation with a good deal of curi osity, said: ‘ therefore ?” “Simply this, ray boy,” replied the man addressed. “I am in a business where I have to giv;* away a good many cigars. 1 am a man who likes a good cigar. I cannot afford to give away the kind of cigars that I smoke myseif, so I buy a day’s supply and cut the ends off. Then I buy some cheap ones. When it is necessary for me to givo away a cigar I pull out a handful and offer one to the person, whoever be may be. He thinks that the ones with the ends cut off I have had in my mouth, and takes one of the cheap ones, whoreby I save a good many dol lars in the course of a year and also keep my self on good terms with the people to whom it is necessary to givo cigars.” Many schoolrooms containing the correct amount of space for pupils, or perhaps even more than is necessary, writes Leicester Allen in the E'lyineci ina Magazine, are still faulty as regards space, on account of their propor tious. It may be set down as a rule amply justified by practical experience that all apace in a sctiooiroom lying above a horizontal plane twelve fo-1 higher than the floor is, for purposes of ventilation, to be considered a* waste spa.-e. 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