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Newspaper Page Text4 CtrePorninfletos Corning News Building Savannah, Ga TuriMlAV. OCTOBER 15. XB9l. Registered at • ,l Mann f ~TbeMoKNiN'. News is , > the year, and is served to tor mi at *4S cents a *-eeK, j?l UO a nici.m, month? and SIO.O for one year. , montb> Tbe Mokxiso News, fa/ n ,hs If On: 5l 00: ti.rve roontns. $2 50. six n ’ one year. $lO 00. _ < x times a week The Mon SI NO Ssvs. * " , .:i s aoidn, $4 Ou; (without Sunday issue . three momus, ® Bix months. St fto one _>e lr J h|, Mondays, The Mormno lU ;..i*ys, Thurs- Wednesoavs and irlßy - ‘ , z • • hl x days and Saturdays, three ( months, aut £?ths. $- M;one>~r.s , ; ißf ye . r> $2 00. The Sr.vPAY News, by ''‘ a “\ o ne year fi 25. The Weekly News, Jv "'• °™J Rebut by Biihacnptior.s payable m Cur . postal order, check nr rency sent by mail t risk of *® , addressed Letters and telegrams should De "Mormno News.' ’ '/her than special Transient advertisements, a^ise _ Column, local or *”{ ;. o i u n.n. 10 cents a menta and cheap or wan. t ype-<iual to Une. Fourteen lines of *Undard of one inch •Pf ‘“^ t ra t and discounts measurement. Contract ! h l as omce . made known on application at Busmen. ” Ol R NEtV YORK OFFICE. Kr J J Flynn. Genera! Advertising Agent ,f the Mormno News, office 23 Park Row. New York. All advertising business outaide of th. states of Georgia, Florida and South Caro lina wil bo managed by him. The Morniso News is on (lie at the following places, where Advertising Rates and other In formation regarding the paper can be obtained: NEW YORK CITY— J. H. Bates, 38 Park Row 8. P. Rowell & Cos., 10 Spnioe street. W. W. Sharp & Cos.. 81 l ark Row. Frank Kikrsan A Cos.. 132 Broadway. Daccht & Cos., 27 Park Place. J. W. Thompson, 89 Park Row. American Newspaper Publisher* association, Potter Bulld og. PHILADELPHIA — N. W. AVER & Son, Times Building. BOSTON- __ B. R. Nilks, 256 Washington street Prttenoill & Cos., 10 State street. CHICAGO- . , . ( Lord A Thohas. 46 Randolph street CINCINNATI- . „ „ Bdwiv aldkn Company, 66 ” ®*t rourtn *rcet. MW HAVEN- . „ The H. P. Hi bbard Company, 25 him street. BT. LOUIS— Hrwon Cuksy.jln & Cos., 1127 Pin® strort. NT A Mormno News Bureau. Whitehall street MAOON- Oailv Tkleouapb Ofpicr. 59T Mulberry street. INDEX TO NBW ADVERTISEMENTS. Msktixos—Solomon's Lodge No. 1. F. & A. M.: St. Andrew's Society. Special Notices— Notice, Appel & Schaul; Offerings by Jobn J. Sullivan & 00., Real Estate and Insurance Agents; Notice to Water Takers; As to Crew of British os Cydoma and Pontiac; Just Arrived, Direct Importation of Havana Cigars, S. Guckenheimer A Sons; This Weather. Falk Clothing Company Steamship Sen socle -Ocean Steamship Com pany. Mikistkrs—B. H. Levy & Bro. Pcbucatios— The Polk County News, Bar tow, Fla. Auction Sales— Plug Tobacco, by J. J. Op penheim; Elegant Furniture for Sale, by R. D. Laßoche & Cos.; Damaged Groceries, by I. D. Laßocho & Son. The Savannah Dressmakixo and Day Goods Company— .irooss Brown Manager. Watch It:— Altmayer'sSpace. Chbap Column aovsutissments—HelD Want •l; C u j,>/n 5 jc ,'npl; ff or Rsat; For Sale; Lost; Persons!. Miscellaneous. When the groat gold-cure city of Dwight took iiro the other day it was about half burned up. Possibly that is because they don’t encouraged fire-water in that town. But the inebriate sanitarium of Dr. Keelev rqpiaiued uninjured. Reports from Dfiawae state that the Hon. Thomas F. Bayard is very actively at ■work in the effort to secure a solid Cleve land de egation from Delaware to the next democratic convention. In case Cleveland iselec.ed it is said taat Air. Bayard will ask for the British mission. In accepting Mr. Blair’s resignation as minister to China which t e Chinese authori ties had already rather peremptorily accepted President Harrison gives the New Hamp shire conversationalist a good character in rather a patron zing way. Still the old man could use the certificate in looking up another job. To-day our journeyman lawmakers leave Atlanta and go home—if they do the proper thing. There is one consoling redaction con cerning the most harrowiug of earthly affairs and that is that they must eventually come to an end. Singular what strange thoughts will momentarily occur to one at odd times. Now we shall probably see some parliamentary corn husking in Buch a lively strain as shall demonstrate for what useful purpose our voluntary iaw manufacturers wore originally create!. Intelligence from various points in Russia state that great numbers of peasants are flacking into the towns from the country districts, perishing from the want of food. At least 515,000 have passed through Tuinien alone, seeking food. Mauy are falling by the roadsides and dying iu their tracks. These wanderers have no fuel and the cold is intense. Incendiarism and pillaging are spreading. Destitute Jews expelled from Kieff, Astrakhan, Moscow and Odessa are swelling the ranks of the famished thousands. Everywhere the local authori ties are paralyzed for the want of funds. Therefore the organization of relief com mittees for the distribution of corn to the sufferers has been discontinued. But the assessment of taxes goes right on. Hence nihilism. Kansas farmers have great confidence in the moisture mac.iiue of Melbourne. Event ually they have signed a contract by which Fra ok Melbourne agrees to produce crop rains in Northwestern Kansas during J une, July and August, IS’JJ. When a meeting of citizens was called and a committee ap pointed to confer with Melbourne, the rain maker stood by his first proposition to furnish rain at 10 cents au acre. Hereafter a series of meetings will be held in the various counties of the slate for the purpose of awakuulog public interest. Melbourne will also attempt to make similar contracts with twenty counties in Colorado, claiming that he can eas.ly water the entire country from one point. In Colorado the it rlguUun companies will fight the scheme. It will probably be fought in Kansas on the ground that the irrigation act does not Cover a pr position such as Melbourne has submitted. Yet the irrigation act was probably intended to secure sufficient mo.st ure to produce cr ps. and the intent of the act is u doubiedly favorable to Ui* beet and cheap l method of Mtainiog the de •irwt result- As this method la certainly earjr pu*,wu#,ve three is apparently uegewd rmuu for r* jeetieg it. Cmlnous Signs in tho Orient. Apparently China goes about her war preparations almost as curiously as she pro ceeds in all othe ;Ta rs. Writing to a Parts nows sytuiicat : .Jer a recent dato a correspondent <ls: c : - : hesa omiuius pro ceedings of the strangely .ble Mongol who is at the head of them. Of Viceroy Li Hung Chang, whom Gen. Grant pronounced the ablest of the four really great men whom he met in bis journey around tbe tv. rl !, the writer states that bis present occupation is the comple tion of a railway from Tien-Tsiu to Tong shan. That is the extent of it according to present plans. But the writer thinks that every strategic!! reason indicates that tbe line should extend as far as Chang- Haikuaq. Unlike Port Arthur that port is not subject to the inconvenience of being frozen over during tbe winter. So the correspondent thinks that the world in genera! and the Flowery Kingdom in particular is about to witness a duel in railway cinstruction. Not in tho frieudly rivalry of commerce, but for the purposes of war. It is to be feared, however, that China will lose the race. All the plans are drawn and oa paper. Everything is ready. But unless a foreign loan is made it is diffi cult to see how the object can be realized. Should this railroad project fail every thing indicates that China will probably be unable to resist the strong rival who will at some time attempt to secure a naval station of vast importance in the Pacific and to annex tbe peninsula of Corea China is in a very awkward situation. In the interior she has the ret‘lt to contend with which threatens her Tyrone and her emperor. Abroad she is confronted with the European powers. One of these now presents an Immediate danger to the in tegrity of her territory. Only yesterday morning the Morning News dispatches told us that Premier Li Hung Chang bad just dispatched the European emissary of the Celestial empire posts haste to Russia to vigorously protest against the o rstant onroachments of the czar’s soldiers upon the Chinese Pameer frontier in Central Asia. Whether that protest will avail anything remains to te seen. Notwithstanding those apparently immi nent dangers Viceroy Ch appears to be perfectly serene. Really be doesn’t appear to appreciate tha actual gravity of the situation so implicit is bis confidence in tbe assumed invincible strength of the Chinese armies. Btlll the uaited forces of all Woo Sung a id Shanghai are said to number loss tbau 50,000 man, au and all the warships of the empire are reported to be docked in Port Arthur. Whether this os’ensibly calm indifference to surrounding commotion is the result cf an undares unate of tha gravity of accu mulating dangers or the effect of a knowledge of some secret source of streng h that inspires confidence is cot altogether clear. But the pres ent outiook indicates that Premier Chang will have need for ail his (Oriental cunning and subtle diplomacy if he eventu ally man .go* to safely steer tho Mongolian ship of state through the dangerously angry-lookmg breakers that novr surround it. No Wroncr in PrintlnT tha News. Last week William N. Tyler of the Rhine beok Gazette, who bad been indicted under the New York law for criminal libel, was virtually acquitted. Last August Charles Van Steenburgb, a Rod Hook constable, went to Rhinebeck one Sunday while peo ple were going to church and arrested a boy named Edison oa a charge of larceny. Persons who saw the arrect told the editor that Van Steenburgb waa intoxicated and treated the boy brutally, and made a show of bim along the street while he was hand cuffed. In its next issue tho Gazette called Van Stee.iburgh “a Red Hook tough,” ‘‘a loafer,” and other names. After being out some time the jury asked Judge Barnard if, in case thoy found the editor guilty, they could fix the amount of line. Judge Barnard replied in tho negative, and the jury then brought n a verdict of guilty aud rocommended a light flue. in sentencing him Judge Barnard said to Editor Tyler: “This officer came to Khine beck and made the arrest in a censurable manner. You printed the story. You did nothing wrong. But the jury has found you guilty, and I must punish you. I fine you 6 cents.” But the dispatch that rocoras this right eous judicial decision does not state what was done to punish the unworthy law of ficer who was guilty of the censurable con duct that wbb justly condemned. Advices from San Antonio state that Senor Salvador Malo, one of the chief pro moters of the great Tehuantepec railroad project in the southern part of Mexico re cently passed through Texas on his say to New York. Thence he will proceed to Lon don to hold a conference with t ie English capitalists who aro associated with him in the enterprise. At the present time the company is in a decidedly embar rassed condition financially. Very likely it will be some time before the plans for completing the work can be carried out. When Senor Malo left the City of Mexico it was done rather suddenly and somewhat uuder a cloud. Reports from there allege that he left behind an indebtedness of $5U0,003, which he contracted individually and as tto representative of the railroad c impaay. One of the heaviest claims against him is that of Gee Saoon and Wee Ruck, the 'Chinese contractors, which is for $300,000. So the sauor will have to do some very effective financiering and adduce some ex ceedingly seductive persuasions to so arrange his affairs as to be aguiu welcome to Mexico and the Tehuantepec railway man agement. au Indiana railway gateman re cently refused to admit to the train at In diauapolis a oouutry congro sman who had previously refused to comply with the rules requiring every passenger to first now his ti -ket the rural stateunan literally got up on bis solid ear and brought suit agamst the company for $7,000 damages. That's the exact figu: e at winch he estimated the wear and tear of his official uignity. This was probably all due to the rustic assumption so common te provincials that everybody knew him simply because he was well known in his own backyard as a local sjlju. ____________ Another disastrous railway wreck, in which three lives were lost and over a score of persons were more or l*-s< seriously in jured, has again stained tbeapparenlly fatal toll of Ohio with human blood. That was rather au unfortunate occurrence for the AU Hal odhlai trip of Manager Liu'no # hutiic In hi# private car. it is tt hoped that be to not alar Lug out with a 1 ’hoodoo." THE MORNING NEWS: THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15,1891. ! chief Questions of the Ohio Campaign. Aside from the recognized party i*suos in the Ohio campaign this fall there are two important constitutional questions to come before the people which have almost been lost sight of in the excited discussions of tbe tariff arid the currency. Last winter the general assembly decided to resubmit to the votes of the people that sug j jested section of the state constitution which provides for tbe regulation of tho state au thority over taxation. This amendment was defeated two years ago. It provides that “laws may be passed taxing rights, privileges, franchises and such other subject matters ts the legislature may direct." If adopted the effect of that amendment will be to give to the legislature practically unlimited power over taxation. It would place iu the hands of unscrupulous and evil-disposed politicians the power to legis late oppressive taxes upon any enterprise that refused to “come down” at their bid ding. It would confer rather dangerous authority. Under the operation of the so-oalled Massie law imposing heavy fees for securing articles of incorporation it is claimed that the office of the secretary of state would bring the state an income of SIOO,OOO or more a year. But that enactment is now being contested ia the courts on the ground of uuconstitutionality. Under the present provisions of tbe Ohio constitution such a law as the collateral-in heritance tax from which New York and Pennsylvania are Baid to derive a good revenue would be of very doubtful validity. It is to opeu the way for them that tbe sponsors of this amendment assign as the s.rongest reason why it should be adopted. Another important matter that seems to have who.ly escaped attention is the ques tion as to whether or not a constitutional convention shall be called to assemble at an early date. Under the provisions of the state constitution this question is to be placed before the voters to be passed upon every twenty years. In IS7I a constitutional convention con tinued in session 253 days aud cost the state $2.36,000. But the constitution evolved and submitted was so unsatisfactory that it was defeated at the polls. Nevertheless there is much general complaint that the state has so far outgrown the present constitution that many alterations are now noeded. Instead of the present plan of electing all the legislative delegation from a populous county on one ticket single legislative districts are desired in the interests of greater independ ence of action. Thin either party could "turn down” an objectionable candidate without jeopardizing the whole oounty ticket. Abolition of the spring local elections and the election of all state of ficers at tbe same time once every two years are also among the proposed changes. With all of these important and more or loss complex questions before tho voters to sustain public concern the campaign in Ohio cannot be said to lack interest for tbe average citizen this fall. Grain Futures Decreed Gambling. Those grain gamblers who are politely called “dealers in futures” in the technique of the speculative world have just met with a judicial retuff which virtually “knocks them clear out” at one blow. Under a re cent deoision of tho Minnesota supreme court at St. Paul their always rather ques tionable occupation is completely swept away. Inasmuch as it will practically enable those who may happen to get caught in the meshes of a disastrous grain deal to abso lutely repudiate their contraots unless thoy buy or sell actual grain the decision is likely to prove gravely important and far reaching in its effects. I This decision was based upon the case of Oscar Mohr against Moisen. From tbe evi dence it appears that Oscar Mohr and other brokers in the Milwaukee Chamber of Com merce sued Moisen for money alleged to have been expended on the defendant's or der in the purchase aud sale of grain. Iu his answer the St. Paul man sets up tho defense that tho alleged purchases and sales were not actual purchases and sales. They were described as merely gambling transactions whereby the plaintiff under took to t.uj' and Bell grain on the Chicago aud Milwaukee boards of trade ostensibly for future delivery but without any real intention or expectation on the part of either party to tho contract that such grain would actually be delivered. Large quanti ties of wheat and barley were formally bought and sold with the fully understood expectation and intention on the part of both parties that they should merely wager ou the rauve of the market prices. On this evidence the supreme court re verses the decision of a lower court. In his adverse opinion Judge Vanderburg holds that contracts for the sale aud delivery of grain or other comm xlities appointed to be consummated at some future day are not per so unlawful when the parties thereto ia good faith intend to perform them according to their terms. But agreements in the form of contracts merely designed to secure tte payment of the difference between the stipulated price and the market price at a future day and not intended to represent actual transactions are in the nature of mere wagers on the future price. Therefore they are void. Whether this will have the desired effect of restraining grain gambling or will sim ply stimulate tbe growth of litigation and the development of iron-clad swearing re mains to bo seen. At the recent annual meeting of the Chicago Methodist ministers the Rev. R. W. Bland road a paper untitled “The Literary Revision of the Discipline.” This subject is one which has interested the church for some time. ’’Pick up the dis cipline of our church,” the reverend gentle man said, ' ’and you will blush with shame at finding the must slovenly, barbarous, outrageous inaccuracies and inelcgaacies of composition. It does not possess even the ordinary elements of good writing. There is not a single meritorious feature in it. It would be tbe labor of a year for a man with the pen of an Addison to revise it. Take the marriage service,for example,"continued Mr. Blaud. “There is a passage in it which is almost an insult to decency. In oue paragraph it calls upon the couple to make it known if there is auy physical impedi ment which would prevent their marriage. It is au insult, and to thiuk of reading it at a church wedding!" Ali through tbe paper Mr. Uiaud was scathiug in bis denunciation of the discipline. At most of tue ministers seemed to agree with the expressed opiums of the speaker the paper caused little dis cussion. After its reading it was referred tv tbe conference delegates to take what action they deemed proper. But it to likely to arouse vary warm discussion to other pert* of the country. PERSONAL Dion Boccicaclt, the younger, is an author of plays of some repute. The clerx of the new court of appeals in Chicago is Oliver P. Morton, son of the great war governor of Indiana Rev. W. H. Quillian, of the English church in Liverpool, has embraced Mohammedanism. There is a Moslem ins itute in Liverpool. It is rumored in London that the Duke of Connaught will succeed Sir Frederick Roberts as commander in cai -C ol tbe army in India. Gen. Law Wallace can unbend his mind at times and has recently evidenced this by in venting a fishing rod and a rail coupler for rail ways. It is an open se 'ret that Ward McAllister i9 making overtures to certain newspapers with a view to supplying taera with society news. Fauncy. Goonod’s life Is known to be In danger from heart disease, and this will prevent him from ever again undertaking the production of a great work. Dr. Jacobi, the great specialist in diseases of women and children, rays that the baby of to day has a much better chance of life than the baby of fifty yea s ago. The kaiser is said to be a dismal failure as a dancer. Possinly he is, but he can make tho funds dance up and down the quotation list just as he feels dyspeptic or otherwise. Eleven years ago Nellie Hayden was a salesgirl in a dry goods store in Boston, and now she is the wealthiest woman in Denver, thanks to lucky speculation in real estate. Anew clerical champion of the ballet is Rev. w. a Caiger. a rector in Manchester. England He looks upon the ballet ns an artistic drama with a distinct plot and wdl-defined characters Lieut. Maxwell of the army thinks that the Dakota climate adds to one’s stature. Although supposed to have attained his full night, he has grown 3J4 inches in a little more than a year. Alexander Dumas, fils, wears his 67 years wonderfully well, as one could’scarcely discern a wrinkle upon his olive-tinted face. His hair is now quite tipped with silver locks, butremarka bly busby. The Kino of Siam has just finished a very in teresting book, giving a full account of his re cent trip to the Malay Feninsala, in which his majesty displays a very marked talent for literary work. Earl Dudley’s mother declines to accept the title of Dowager Countess of Dudley, which would naturally be hers, according to usage, on the marriage of her son. She desires to be known os Georgina, Countess of Dudley One of Gen. Harney’s old soldiers says that the famous Indian fighter, who was a finished athlete, was remarkably fond of pugilism, and used frequently get into rows beneath his dig nity simply to display his pugilistic skill. Ever since Queen Victoria patronized a trainer with three performing bears, these ani mals have been all the rage in England, aud no doubt the swells who usually follow the roval lead will discard their canine pets for the more fashionable bear. Mrs. Frances Woodring is superintendent of a coal mine at Ashland, Fa,, having occupied the position since the death of her husband, several years ago. She is popular with the miners, who number ISO, and is energetic and successful with her work. John Kurtz, a pioneer of California, Nevada and British Columbia, and oue of the best known old-timers on tbs Pacific coast, died iu Vancouver last week. He was one of theor ganizors of tho vigilance committee in San Francisco, and was captain of the first militia company formed in that city. BRIGHT BITS. “I§ that eagle thorough bred?” ‘‘How much du you want for him?” ‘‘Five dollars." "Why. do you sell a whole eagle for a half ea*le?” — Harper's Bazar. ‘‘lt is a quepr world.” said the deacon. "What leads you to make the observation," asked the elder. t “Why, since I have got a fast horse my neighbors criticise me; when I had onlv a slow one they lauded at me "-gjprlorado San. Fashionable TMy&cilJ <iw surprise to pa tieufi— Wily, you re getting bitter: PatientE-Y.cß, doctor. S Fashi aftbiePhysician (Incensed)—Well, didn’t I tell you there was no hope for you? Patient (meekly!—Yes, doctor, you must ex ense me; but I couldn’t help it .—Puck. “I'm noma with Tom Trotter, the Yalevard foot ball player, to the reception to-morrow night,” "How can you go with such a great over grown boy?" “Why. just think how he oan break through the rush-line for sapper!"— Harper's Bazar. One night the Associated Press dispatches nottd the arrival at New York of a transatlantic steamer with $1,000,000 in' gold on board, amt the next morning the Tribune informed its readers that the Cobden Club of London had sent $■?,000,000 in gold to this country to be used in tho Ohio campaign to defeat McKinley.—De troit free Press. Guay—l took those ladies into the stock ex change. and 1 expected to hear them complain that there was so much noise that they couldn’t hear themselves think; but they didn’t seem to notice it at all. I doa’t understand it, Dunn—O, that's all right. Those ladies are members of the sewing circle in our parish. Boston Transcript. Millickvt's SiSTiR- Why do you look so down in the mouth this morning. Mill? Millicent'a Litti" Brother—You’d look that way, too, .Mabel, if yoo’d spent a half an hour seeing Mr. Cutely to the door, like M l did last night. And the depths of Miiiicent’s coffee cup seemed to haw, au irresistible attraction just tnen.— Brooklyn Basle. Tarsoo urniTDia a dty Sunday school. Tho teache-had been reading the story of the centu rion who ha i great faith, and whose servant was healed at the Lord's word. The teacher had dwelt on thedesson of the story, and had seen that that was properly enforced; and then she said to a bright boy in the class: "And now can you tell me what a centurion is?" "Y es n ,” said the boy, very promptly, "it’s a horse with a man's head on him:” —Christian Beg.ster. Salesman—Vood ze madame not like ze bust ze great Napoleon? Very fine. Ze madame wi’l have ze bust, ceriainement ? Mrs. Sitveriodu {from Denver) —Yes, I would like a stachooette of Napoleon, but I prefer one showing the side face; it is much more striking. Salesman—Ah, ze madame p r-r-refer ze p-r-r-rofeel. Vood ze madame be so kind to stand on ze side of ze bust? Ah, zare is ze p-r r-rofeel! Magnifique!—Brooklyn Life. Mas. Blew—Where is Robert? Maj. Green—He avert into the darkroom with Ethel to develop a negative. Mrs, Blow -By the time they’ve been gone, I fancy they are developing an affirmative. Buck. Maj. Miroatroyd—My dear boy, pray re press your spirits. Remember this Is a very select ball. You must not swear, laugh boister ously or drink too much champagne. Ponsonby—But, major, if I behave myself like a gentleman, peop'b will take me for a waiter.—On,itv uray Monthly. CURRENT COMMENT. Pass On, Mr. Porter.' From the Providence'Journal (Ind. >. The idea of a permanent census Bureau is not anew one.'and has, moreover, much to recom mend it, but when it is suggested bv Mr Porter, who seems to he thinking of himself as a fixt ure, ;it is not worth considering at all. Growing Gray With Gloom. From, the Chicago News {lnd.). The Governor Gray boom for the presidency is neither to he seen nor to bo heard. It is hard to say what has become of It, but in all charity let us suppose that it has moved over Into Illinois to iry.tne Ketiley bi-cnloride of gold cure. It needed it. That Luck ia Really Too Tough. From the St. Louts Post-Dispatch < hem.). The gtrongert argument against Mr. Mills' eandi lacy f.,r the speakership is furnished by ex Sp.-aker Heed a support of him As Mr. Mills himself described the czar as a man destitute of all ae. a* of honor, bis support is no compliment to the Texan. That's Thrift. From the Louisville Commercial (to L). “Tim poet Tennyson ean ten* a worthless sheet of ||er." nays an exchange, "and by writing a poem on it w*ks It worth t'lj.lluif. Tent's genius ‘ True enough, but there Isa inwn In New York name! isouig who cak lake a piece of worthless |S(er an t by merely writing nisnauMi make u worth sldU,(iut,ouu. What 's lhatr Equal to the Exigencies. He was uo longer youn*. Time had not bent his form nor sapped his phj'sical energies, says the Chicago Tribune, but had laid its hand gent'y on his flea *, silvering a thread here and there, and had touched with kindly fingers his brow, and temple, leaving faint yet indelible traces ©f the caress. In the firm, even tones of voice there was no suggestion of fading pow ers. His eye was not dim nor his natural force abated. •‘lt is true, Miss Mildred," he said, ‘that there Is some disparity in'our n<es, but that is a pecu liarity that will become less noticeable a . the y* ars roll by. Call to mind the cases within vour own knowledge. Miss Mildred," he con t.nued, leisurely uncrossin z his le.s and cross ing them again Inversely, “in which the hus band is about the same age as his wife, but looks a dozen years younger. The tendency of the humdrum home life is to make the wife become aged more rapidly, while the husband, on account of his inevitable connection with the busy world, retains his freshness for a much longer period." “That is a strange argument for a man to use, Mr. Marshmallow- " “Beg pardon. Miss Mildred, but no argument is a strange one for a man to use who is plead ina his s lit at the court of beauty.*' And Mr. Marshmallow smoothed out a crease in his coat sleeve and looked smilingly at the young lady. “But—” “Beg pardon again. Miss Mildred. This is no ordinary affair with me, I assure you. lam deeply—l may say intensely—in earnest. In matters of this kind I never trifle." “But let me say Mr. Marshmallow—" ‘‘Don’t be hasty. Miss Mildred, I beg of you. Remember lam ffering you my hand and heart, and that I fully mean what I say." “1 understand you, sir," replied the proud young girl, with something like a shiver, “and I resneetfiilly decline." "What!" Mr. Marshmallow was both surprised and in dignant, ‘‘ls it possible I have heard you aright, Miss Mildred?" he esked. * *lt is. sir. Ido not know of any reason I have ever given you to suppose I would listen to a proposal qf marriage from you." "And you refuse?" "I do, sir, emphatically. Further than that, sir, you will permit me to say 1 consider you presumptuous and forward to an unpardonable degree. ” y r. Marshmallow slowly uncrossed his legs. roe to his feet, drew himself up to his full hight, took his hat, cane and gloves, and. with tne manner of a man deeply injured, but per sonally superior to misfortune, fie said to the young woman as he made his way with un- , ruffled dignity to the door: "it grieves me beyond measure, Miss Mil dred, to hear you a: eag in this disrespectful way to a man old enough to b© your grand father," Staked His Teeth and Lost. The recent story of the loss of the bank roll of John Daiy’s uptown gambling house, says the New ork Commercial Advertiter, brings to mind a story in which Con Daly, who sat behind tha "silver box" in that house for many years odc© figured. Con was dealing one right when a man who s2s?"* frost of him said; "Will you lean me "No," saii Con; ‘‘we don't do the banking business here." "Well," replied the man, "I've lost four hun dred here to night, and I'll make good the twenty-five the next time I come in." "Can t help it," Con chipped in, "can.t help it. When you win our money we don't ask you to loan us, an l you can’t expect us to ‘stake* you when *ou lose. TV 11 you what I'll do, though. If you've got any *oollxl' about you worth twenty five we'll loan you on that as a special favor because you are a loser." The man who had asked fer the loan sat back searching his pockets, felt in tho place where uis watch should have b en and could not bring to tbe surface anything worth the twenty-five He r< 8“ from bis seat to go when a bright idea struck him, and putting his hand in his mouth pulled out r.is upper s t of false teeth. They were a very fine set, mounted on very heavy gold plate, and several of the teeth were gold filled to give the appearance of genuineness. The set must have cost fully SIOO. Passing the teeth over to the astonished Con, the man said; "Leth me haf tber money on thotb." “Well, you’re a good un," ejaculated Con. "How’ll you have it—money or chips?" "Sthack of browns, please." The Btack was handed over and tho toothless man took the chips, “cut 'em in two,'’ played the ace open with half of them and heeled the rest from the tray to the ace. The next turn cut of the box camn ace-tray, and the dental chips were whipsawed. As Con pulled the chips in tne man with the bare gums murmured: "Well, thath hard luck. Go' th’ eat thoup till Thaturday." Putting: Him On. A young Nimrod of New York who went over to the Jersey marshes to shoot snipe, says the New York World, encountered a boy in a skiff fishing for crabs, ancl he asked of him: "Boy, is there shooting around here?'* "Yaas." "Seen any snipe?" "Yaas.’ "Will you put me on?" "Yaas. 11 you go to shoot over this way you'll hit dad, who’s after frogs, and dad is mean when anybody fires blrdshot into him. If you shoot over that way you'll pepper brother Bill, who’s got a lineojut after a dogfish. Bill alius raises a rumpus when he gits shot Over that way is where ma is hunting for a lost calf, and if you pepper her dad will want £SOO damages." "But 1 can fire in all other directions, can I?" •‘Yaas, but atm purty high" She Consented. "Will you be mine?" "Can you afford to dross me well if I marry you?" "It depends upon what you consider being dressed well It you mean Worth dresses from Paris, I can't afford them: nor do you need them," said the wily New York Press young man. "I don't?" "No. Your beauty n<?cds no adornment, and it will always eclipse any dress you wear.no matter how flue or how expensive it may he. No one that looks at you sees your dress. ' The beauty of face and perfection of figure only are noted. All finery sinks into insignificance be side them. Wnat satin is there like your skin? What silk like your hair? What colors to com pare with your lips, cheeks and eyes?" "John, 1 am yours. " Small Wonder. trom the B>ston Courier. We were standing there together Iu the mildly inooney weather Looking upward at the asteroidal twinks, And with purp se to support her My arm it rather “sorter” Kept a reaching out in promissory kinks. Our tonguee they were a-tether. Quite as silent as the heather Where the crickets hadn't yet begun to chirp, And tho’ half inclined to kiss her, I was fearfull 'twould preciDi- Tate her father aud his tweuly-dollar “purp.” But the scarcity of leather Agitating toward my nether Garments made me quite suspect a coup d'etat. So I asked her, feeling fated. Why it hadn't consummated. And she said ’twos cause she hadn't any pa. t New halves and quarters will soon be ready for circulation. in tbe competition by artists about a year ago between 200 aud 300 designs were submitted, but not one was available. The designs that have been submitted to Secretary Foster were suggested mainly by Director Leech, and the drawings are by Charles E. Bar ber, the designer in the mint at Philadelphia The character of the devices is limited by law to this: On one side shall be an impression em blematic of liberty, with the inscription, “Liberty,” and the year ot the coinage, and 0:1 the reverse side shall be the figure or repre • sentation of an earle, with the inscriptions, “United States of America” and “E Pluribus Unum." and a designation of the value of the coin. Most of the designs were on scales too minute for use, and a classic bead will make the new coins artistic. The design is to be the same for the two coins, except the words designating the value. BAKING FOWDKII. DspKlttS osSHSIg Used in Millions of Homes— 40 Years tlie Standard. FLAVORING EXTRACTS. rt?PßlCtv w DELICIOUS Flavoring Extracts NATURAL FRUIT FLAVORS. Vanilla perfect purity. L.GHIOn -I of great strength. Almond —I Econorn y inthe,ru3o Rose etc.7j Flavor as delicately and deliciously a3 the fresh fruit. ITEMS OF INTEREST. The Gaelic chieftain’s oath before going into battle has been discovered in an Irish text of the second century and deciphered as follows: “* he heavens are above us, tne land below us. the ocean around us—everythin? in a c rci© about us. If the heavens do not fail, casing from their high fortresses the stars like rain on the face of the earth, i shocks from within do not: hitter the land itself, if the ocean fro n its blues ditudes dees not rise up over tiie brows of nil living things, I, by victory in war, by com bats and battles, will bring bfcck to the stable and tuo fold the cattie, and to the house ail to their dwellings the women that have been stolen by the enemy." Here is the method employed by the hunters of British Colombia who poach upon the scaling grounds: When the schooner sights a seal the ittle boats are lowered. A hunter armed with , two shotguns anl a rifle and two sailors to pu 1 the boat take tueir places and the hunt begins. The seal maybe swimming at the surfac \ or perchance iie is sleeping. The boat is pulled quietly t jward the animal. In nine cases out of ten the seal takes alarm and dives out of sight before tbe boat is brought close enough to use the guns with effect, and in no case does the hunter shoot unless he feels sure of his quarry. The seal when shot at once commences to sink, and the boat has to be pulled rapidly up to it. when the body is “gaffed" and hauled aboard. This is repeated as long as s-*al can be se *n. In many cases only one or two will b© killed during a two da vs’ hunt, while at other times as many as twenty will be taken. Some thirty-five years ago all New* England was agitated a question of heresy which centered about the old Congregational church in Enfield, Conn., of which the Rev. Charles A. G. Brigham was pastor. The war resuited in two churches, known as the Brigham aud anti- Brigham flocks. It was then, as now, a time of controversy among the churches, and the two Presbyterian congregations at Thomasville, just above Enfield on the Connecticut, were known as Fiddlers and anti-Piddlers. a secession having occurred on the question of church music. Mr. Brigham is now angel (or bishop) of the Cat holic Apostolic church in Fifty seventh street, just west of Niutn avenue whose form of worship is as different from that of the Con gregational body as c juld well be imagined. This church, which is sometimes called Irving ton, has a highly ornate ritual, uses incense, holy water, lights, and all manner of ecclesias tical vestments, practices the laying on of hands and anointing for healing, and believes in a restored apostleship, propheejf, and sp ak ing with inhuman tongues—not a language, but tongues literally unknown of man. It is the most mystic of all the ebure ie3. a id the foun dation of its existence is a belief in the speedy coming and millennial reign of Christ. Ax enterprising boy who lives in a suburban village devised a burglar alarm which may not be entirely new. but which was new to him. By special permission of his parents he equipped two rooms for a preliminary t-’St. One of these rooms has three windows; the other, which :s the inventor's own room, has two. Upon the top of the cl sed lower sash of one of the win dows in the first room he placed a jointed fish ing rod, so adjusted that it would tumble off upon the floor if an attempt wa> made to raise the sash. The lower sashe3 of the two other windows were raised, aud screens covered the openings. Upon tho top of one of tbe screens lie placed a toy gun, and upon the other a gong that he had used on his sled. These, like the fishing roj, would be dislo'.ged and thrown down by a touch from the outside. In his own room the inventor put on the top of one screen a book, which, when it should tall, would strike the keys of a toy piano placed below it ou the floor. On the other screen, which covered the lower half of the open window near his bed, he placed three tin plates which ho had borrowed from the kitchen. At 3 o'olock the nt*x morning there was a great clatter in the boy’s room. The father grasped a revo;ver and rushed in. The boy stood near bis bed wide awake. The pie plates were on the floor, but there was no bur glar. The boy had awakened and feeling chilly had tri<*d to close the window. In the delight fully sound sleep of youth he had forgotten about the burglar alarm. His original proposi tion was to equip the entire house, out that proposal is now held for further consideration. In the death of Robert Stith, the hat man at tho Southern hotel, that house loses an invalu able employe, and St. Louis a character of national reputation. Stith's post of duty at the Southern ever since the opening of the new house was at the door of the dining-room, where he looked after the hats and wraps of the guests. Such was his marvellously reten tive memory, added to long training, that he never issued a check for a hat or marked it with the name of the owner. Yet, from year's end to year's end, where hundreds of guests sought their three meals a day, Mr. Stith seldom or never made a mistake in returning an article of head-gear. The patrons of the house will recall the swift, intelligent glance Stith would give a stranger, and then the com prehensive look into the interior of the hat. That was sufficient, and the chapeau would be deftly laid aside, while he attended to other f'uests who mwht be coming in by the score, t mattered not how long or short a tim the guest would devote to the pleasures of the table. Stith and the bat would be ready for him as be left the dining room. Schemes without number have bien tried with the idea of confus ing him an Jcausiug him to make mistakes, but they always failed.On one occasion, Herrmann, the magician, s toped into the dining-room un observed by Stiih and in doing so concealed his hat, a crush affair, known as an “opera hat.” in a remote corner of the rack. When ho '.ame out he told Stith that he was in a ter rible hurry to recover hia hat, which he describ'd as being silk of the "*tove-pip©" pat tern, and promised him a dollar if he could find it for him. Without a minute’s hesitation Stith handed Herrmann his hat Herrmann wanted to know how he ha l found the right hat in face of an incorrect description, especially I when there were a score of silk ha:s on | th© rack at the time. "Easily enougn," said Stith. “I knew that not one of those hats be longed to you. A little while ago I saw your hat iu the corner there, and I knew then that it belonged to the first man who came out of the diumg room whom I had not seen enter.” In addition to the above hapoy faculty Mr. Stith never failed to locate the species of hotel "beat" who taks his meals in a hotel under tho pre tense of being a guest. Regular guests were brought up with a round turn by Stith when they look “extra %" to meals with out reporting the same to the clerks. Mr. Stith's health failed to such an extent ! that ho lett the Southern finally last April to try the hea ing waters of various springs. It was to uo purpose, however, as he succumbed to an insidious kidney disease, and died last Wednesday morning. Stith was a very light mulatto, about V> years of age. Hia fellow em i ployesatthe Southern say that he was very ! frugal aud abstemious iu hut w r ay of living, and that he died possess >d by considerable real estate and other property in St. Louis. MEDICAL AtC ttMT'f; S..VE ... 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