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Newspaper Page Text4 C|efflormngftetos Morning News Building Savannan, Go. SATCHBAY. DECEMBER 8. IH9I. RegUtered at the Pattogtre in Savannah. ~Tbe Mokiiig Nets Is publish*! over/ day in the year, and to served to subscribers the city at as cents a *wt. |1 00 a month, *.-> 00 for aU months and $lO 00 for one year. The Morswo News, by ">*>, noe month. $1 00; threa months. $a 00; ei* months, $5 00; one year, $lO 00. _ . The Morn iso Nets, by maf. sis times a week (without Sunday Issue , three months, $2 00. •lx months. $4 W: one year, $' 00. The Morning Nets, Tri-Nteekly. Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, or Tuesdays. Thurs days and Saturdays, three months. $. as; six months. $a £0; one year, fS (V. The Sunday Nets, by ni. one year, fJOO The Weekly News, by mail, one year, $1_ Subscriptions payable In advar oe. Remit by postal order, check or registered letter, Our raccy eent by mail at rlst of aeudsra. letters and telegrams snould be ana reason “Mornwo Newr," Saannah. (la. Transient advertisements, other than special column, local or reading notices, amusements and cheap or want column, 10 cents a line. Fourteen linra of agate type-equal to one Inch apace In depth— to tbe standard of meas urement Contract rates and discount# made known on application at business office. OCR NEW YORK OFFICE, Mb. J. J. Flynn, General Advertising Agent at tbe Mornino Nets, offloe >3 Park Row, New York. All advertising business outside ef the States of Georgia, Florida and South Caro lina will be managed by him. The Mounlns Nets toon file at the following places, where Advertising Rates and other in formation regarding the paper can bo obtained: NEW YORK CITY— J. H. Bates, 38 Park Row. ©, P. Rowell A Cos., 10 Spruce street, W W. Sharp A 00.. SI Park Row. Frank Kurnan A 00., 152 Broadway. Daocht A 00.. 87 Park place. 'J. W. Thompson, M Park Row. American Newspaper Publisher's Association, Potter BAldlng PHILADELPHIA— 4S. w. a ter A Bom, Ttmee Banding. BOfITOIf B. R. Niles, 858 Washington street, Fettbnoill A Cos,, 10 State street, CHICAGO— i Lord A Thonar, 45 Bandolpb street. CINCINNATI— Edwin aldmn Company, 05 West Fourth street NEW HAVEN— Tni H P. Hthbard Company, 95 Elm street ST- LOUIS— Vsuoh Chbsmam A 00, HIT Pine street. ATLANTA- Mornins Nets Bcbrau, m Whitehall street, MACOW- Eailt Telborapb OmcE, 587 Mulberry street. TO HBW AD VERT IS KMK?ts7 Special Notices—Field A Hicks' Restaurant. Clothino and Fprnishimo Goods—At Falk Clothing Cos. A Net Year's Present tor rvrrybodv—At Colat's. Clear Brad—B. H. Levy A Bro. We Had A Bio Rush—Appel & Be haul. Cheap Oolcmn Advertisements Help Wented; Employment Wanted; For Rent; For Bale; Lost; Personal; Miscellaneous. Despite all declarations to the contrary the fiopktns-Hearles will case in still going on with less prospect than ever ot compro mise. Now it seems to be a matter ot tem per as well es ot mosey. Congressman Hemphill got married so trery quietly that few of his .iouth Carolina constituents heard of ft until it was all over. But he won one ot the most beautiful women to Washington society. Indiana developers have struck a sur prisingly strong flow of natural gas near Muneie. Possibly it may be the source of the Herrlson presidential boom. Since It blows with such Violence that inference is only natural. Casting aside all pretenses of official pro priety the administration is now said to be going in for bold and liberal assessments of all government employes. Alarm seems to have driven the President to throw oil his civil service professions. Cranks are beginning to lower their rates for doing business. Prom the original figs ures away up in the millions they have corns down to a few common hundreds "asked and no takers.” When the latest reported pensioner npon mankind called upon a millionaire he offered to take a measly S3OO and call thy account square. To what depths of humility have our cranks oome at last. Carping at the committees obosen by Speaker Crisp now begins. It seems to be rather too general to be really well founded. What is chiefly complained of Is that he •zeroised his own judgment instead of tak ing the advice of those who are always so willing to give advice by the barrel whether It Is wanted or not. But Judge Crisp is the man to bear all responsibility tor eny blunders that he may make. There* fore he eeems to be justified in allowing his ■elections to be guided solely by his own opinions of the men for whose fitness be is to thus become measurably the sponsor. Notwithstanding the fact that he Iras dis graced himself and hie office in the most Ignominious manner Secretary of State Boper actually has the effrontery to with draw his reeignatton from the hands of the governor of Michigan and to attempt to continue in the tenure of his office. Such mere trifles as remorse or shame do not •rouble him in the least. Losing his salary seems to be the principal cause of anxiety with the Wolverine statesman. But then ft seems that the state of Michigan should have in Its constitution or statutes some effective means of unloading such rogues. ’Squire Belva Lockwood persists in mak ing a national oirous of herself by obtrud ing upon the public the offer of her services •s President of the United States Just why the enterprising Belva should regard herself more competent than any of the several millions of men on this continent to control and govern the destinies of this great nation is a poser. Egotism must be literally ooziDg out all over the unique she statesman to inspire such amazing confi dence. Merely to suppose that all of the men in this country should imagine her superior to them must require a degree of vanity that would crack a mirror. Stealing to start a church is certainly a novel incentive to crime. Yet a New York missionary and two of his pious and peculiar accomplices assign that as their reason for robbing churches all over the city. Ap parently they were not particular as to what sort of a ohurch it wai. They simply wanted church furnishings. Intrinsic value was all that they were careful about. Evi dently they intended to start a ohuroh of rather elegant appointments and they were somewhat oritical in their tastes. But it did not ocour to them that the good brethren from whom all of their fittings were stolen might have dropped in to see them some time and embarrassed them greatly. There in! . ‘\ alway ’ ** to start about these things in the regular way. Chile Must Make Reparation. There is oo doubt that the government is ! preparing to enforce its demand for reparation for the insult to the American dag and tbe outrage upon the tailors at 1 tbe American cruiser Baltimore by Chile ans at Valparaiso. Id our dispatches yes terday It was stated that on Thursday tbe Secretary of the Navy, having just returned from New York, bad a long lnhrvisw with the President relative to the progress of the preparations for a naval demonstration at Valparaiso. It Is still hoped, however, that the new Chilean government will con sider It advisable to respond favorably to tbe and maud for reparation. One thing that to regarded as significant is the silence that to maintained at both the navy and the state departments relative to communications which are supposed to have been reoeived within tbe last few days from Minister Egan, our minister to Chile, and to the preparations of tbe government for making a demonstration of force in Chilean waters. A ooople of weeks ego all the news concerning Chilean matters was givea out freely. Now, however, nothing what ever can be obtained from them. The impression seems to be entertained to some extent that Chile does not intend to make any reparation unless forced to de so, and that she is now seeking to gain sufficient time to put her navy in a condition to resist an attack upon Valparaiso. Bhe has sev eral first-class warships and she may enter tain tbe belief that they are folly able to cope with all the warships this oountry can send against her. If that is her belief it may not be long before it is changed. This oountry hasn't a very big navy, but what there to of it is In excellent condition. It to expected that the President, imme diately after tbe holidays, will send a special message to congress that will oontaln all of the correspondence between this govern ment and the government of Chile respect ing the differences between the two govern ments growing out of the Valparaiso affair. There to considerable anxiety to see this correspondence. It to expected that among other things it will show that Minister Egan Is not exactly the man for the position he oooupies. Stories are told of hto career In Chile which are far from creditable to him. There may be no foundation for them, and the Presi dent In his message hinted there was not. However, it to advisable that the pnblio should know whether or not he is partly or wholly responsible for the hostility of the Chileans to this country. It Is not at all improbable that be is to some extent It seems to be quite certain that he was a warm friend of Balmaoeda, tho late presi dent, and that faot may have given rise to the story that the recent civil war was due largely to differences about nitrate beds, and that he bad an interest in them with Balmaoeda. No donbt the truth with regard to Min ister Egan’s career in Chile will oomc out very aoon. If he has been untrue to the Interests of this government the faot will be made known. There to a pretty wide spread belief now that be was not a fit man to send to Chile and that his appointment had a political purpose whloh has not yet ap peared upon the surface In any authoritative shape. It to the impression In Washington that tbe President will withhold hto message to congress relative to Chilean matters until tho Secretary of ths Navy has completed his preparations for a prompt demonstra tion of force in case such a demonstration should be regarded as necessary. Crime ae a Physical Complaint. Science fs developing very rapidly. Among the many revelations with which it has recently astonished the always more or less expectant world is the disoovery and disclosure that nearly all of human frailties and defects are dirootlv traceable to dis ease. Instead of moral deficiencies they are pronounced physical infirmities by the more progressive of the medical profession. Aooordlug to their theories what we need Is not prisons so muoh os sanitariums. In stead of confining our culprits to c ills and hard labor when they are convicted of crime we should commit them to tho care and experiments of physicians. Possibly that might be an equally effective and ovea more rigorous punishment than the usual sen tences Inflict. Still It is not what the pres ent laws provide for. Varlous orders of infractions of law have long been ascrlhod to certain kinds of mania under peculiar cireunistanaea. But this new proposition would bring that method of treatment of such cases Into general uso in a manner that appears somewhat radioal. There Is no question but some forms of crime have their origin and basis Id heredi tary taint In the blood and the consequent abnormal development of physical imper fections that fall to resist the ordinary tendencies of inherent evil propensities that are said to be oommon to all mankind. Still It does not appear reasonably plausible that a man could be diverted by a tonio from a prcdellctlon for robbing hen roosts nor that a sedative could be infused with that remark able degree of potenoy whlob would allay the most rapacious peuohaut for homicide. Such an idea appears absurd upon the fane of it. Yet the remarkable influences that good health aud wholesome environments exert upon human nature especially In youth are not to be denied. There is no question that many crimes are the rational result of n disordered mental oondltion produced by ill health. But as a general cure for all crimes hygienic treatment can scarcely be expected to prove an adequate remedy. Grotesque advertising devices of almost every description are resorted to by the new political orankt who hava broke into congress on the faith of their several sure prising absurdities. They have really uo other stock in trade. Were they to place themselves upon the measure of their act ual merits in point of comparative ability they would all probably fall short of the usual intelligence requisite to a first-class chambermaid in a livery stable. Ho they rely solely upon the oddities they cau affect to oommend them to public notice and tol eration. While Himpson livee and thrives npon the abolition of socks Herr von Feller strives for notoriety by wearing no necktie aud by swathing his rural neck in red flannel bandages. They are a queer lot of rustic freaks. Performing a surgical operation while under a threat of death In case of failure is not very well calculated to steady the nerves of any dootor. But that Is what two New York doctors bad to do tbe other day while au insane saloonist stood over them with a loaded shotgun and promised to let go in case they failed in a surgical operation upon his wife. Still they didn't lose nerve and the woman survived. That is no light tribute to their skill. Now they actually have to sue to oolleot their hill That's tough luck. THE MORNING NEWS: SATURDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1891. Tbe Bouse Drainage Question. The amount set apart for house drainage by tbe city for tne next year to only $5,000. As it to not proposed to do anything next year toward providing tbeoity with a house drainage system there was no oocasloo for making an appropriation for that purpose. For years the questioo of tbe necessity for a system of house drainage has been agitated, but, as yet, there are no indica tions that the city will have such a system in the vary near future. A sanitary expert has made a report on tbe subject, and there the matter rests The couooil says that be fore anything can be done in tbe direction of house drainage a better water supply must be obtained and an outlet for sew age must be provided. Assuming that the position of tbe counoll is oorreot, ought not a certain amount of money be put aside every year for a bouse drainage system! Indeed, if a house drainage system were adopted some work upon it might be done next year, and the year after, so thac when the new water works are completed it would not take long to finish the house drainage system. The heaith of the city to a matter of the highest importance. Without good health the city cannot be prosperous It to ad mitted that good health is dependent to a great extent upon good drainage. And thereto another thing that to entitled to consideration in this connection. It to that citizens are now compelled to submit to a very considerable expei.se to make con nections with sewers, and these connections do not always give satisfaction. There are hundreds of householders who are foroed to throw slops iato tbe streets because they have no other place to throw them, and yet they violate an ordinance and are liablo to be fined for doing so. Attention is called again to tbe subject of house drainage, because It is a moat im portant one, and one to whloh the ocuncil will have to give careful consideration soon. And tbe pressure in its behalf may come at a time when there is less willingness to stand the present heavy taxation. There is considerable grumbling about the taxes, and the fnorease in tbe budget for next year Is noticed with comments that do not indicate a feeling of general approvaL There is a feeling that tbe oouncil is yield ing to demands that increase expenses when it should strive to reduoe expenses. At the meeting Wednesday night one of tbe councilman said be did not want to havo to face an empty treasury at the end of the year. If there ware not danger of such a condition of af fairs he would hardly havo made such a re mark. Now that the city is In a good finan cial condition an offort should be made to accumulate something for house drainage. The policy of letting the future take care of itself to a mistaken one. The Grip Becoming Alarming. The physicians of Philadelphia are get ting very uneasy about the grip ill that city. When it first made its appearance there this season it was of such a mild type that very few people paid any attention to it The physicians said that they did not be lieve that It would become virulent, and they anticipated' very little trouble from it Within the last week or two the situation has changed greatly. Tho number who are suffering from the disease is very large, and the percentage of deaths has become alarming. The disease Is accompanied by a great ten dency to throat and bronchial complica tions, and one of the leading physicians says that the epidemic promises to be much more severe than the epidemic of two’ years ago. The deaths from the disease are now about thirty a day, and the number la expected to increase until there are more favorable at mosphoric oondltkms. In New York the disease is increasing in virulence and the death roll is stoadily growing larger. New Jersey, Connecticut and California are states in which the dis ease is appearing in its worst phasos. But there is scarcely any part of tho country that is free from it. In the south it has ap peared only lu a mild form as yet and it is sincerely to be hoped that the southern peo ple will escape It in its severer phases. Just now the Canadian government is In rather a critioal condition. Firing out tho Quebec provincial government has caused a degree of excitement closely verging upon a panic. Further dcvelopeinents threaten to completely overthrow the general gov ernment at Ottawa. Should it so result it would really redound to the advantage of Canada. Any government that is formed upon such gross corruption certainly de serves to be overthrown. At most it can only be a matter of tims until the Canadian provinces are annexed to the Unltod Stab s and the sooner the antiquated prejudices of the slow-going conservatives- are relegated to the shades of obscurity the sooner will tho annexation oocur. Now Is Mrs, Leslie Carter of tho un savory divorce notoriety beginning to show herself a true thospian in the astounding bulk of her unpaid bills and the truly theatrical craft and unscrupulous devices by which she manages to evade payment. With all of the plentiful experience brought out In the courts before them nay trades man who is so foolish as to give credit to stage people doserves to lose his money. And he generally does. Under the gulso of holiday presents so many valuable foreign articles have been smuggled that Uncle Sam has found it necessary to shut down upon the whole scheme. Asa consequence many very re spectable citizens will bo forced to go with - their Christmas gifts from “across the deep blue Bea." Probably the President will now begin to think himself really great An insane woman has threatened to "remove" him. But the chances are tlrat the duok-legged gentleman will remove himself with suffi cient alacrity It he only gets a suitable op portunity. An Effective Remedy. A smart little woman got Into the street car the other dsy with a baby In her arms, says the Arkantaw Traveler. It lay as still as a lamb. Soon, however. It changed its course. 16 began a loud tune. The mother took the badly and stood it straight up lu her lap. It yelled just the same. She hugged It to her bosom. It yelled right along. She stroked it aud soothed It. Still louder yells. She boxed Its ears Prolonged and spasmodic yells. She then changed her plans. She cleared a space all around, set the baby down, loosened the bands about its neck, gave it plenty of room and then said, in her most persuasive tone: "Now. dearie, let it go as loud as you can." Baby never uttered la sound. “I thought you wouldn’t,” she said. She took it up in her lap, the gentlemen re sumed their seats, and the car trundled on. Contributor—You complain of my article being verbose and empty rhetoric; butjust look at some of your editorials. Editor—Yes, but then you know I give all the people will stand of that kind of stuff without calling upon outside aid .—Boston Transcript. PERSONAL. Carter Harrison, Chicago's ex-mayor, has a fortune of moro than $1,000,000. Henry Border McDowell and two daughters are all that remain of Geo. Irwin McDowell's family. Lord Provost Bess ell Is prostrated with the grip, as D also the ex-lord provost, the Rt Hon. John Boyd. 8. L. Clemens (Mark Twain) will spend • por tion of the winter at 1 read on. where hie daugh ters are studying music. Grand Dcee Qeorc.e of Russia to spending the winter in Algiers in the hope of overcoming bis tendency to consumption. Bulwer-Lyttoe, the father of Lord Lytton, who died In Paris recently, was a great believer In the efficacy of water cures. Hon. W. W. Phelps, Ac American minister to Germany, left Berlin Fiiday for Cairo on a two months' leave of absanefv (Jdees Victoria to suffering from a very se vere attack of rheumatism, which has necessi tated fhe use of her ponv chair, Aston Rubinstein, tho Russian pianist, has accept au offer of iij.QQO for a series of fin™*, to be given Iqthe United States The Misses Irving, sistesa-of Washington Irving, still occupy th author's rambling little outrage at Tarrytown on the Hudson. They are now (Ad and loeble. A whip presented to W. H. Vanderbilt cost SB,OOO. W. K. Vanderbilt has one that cost $350. PI rre Loriflar J has one with a carved handle that cost S3CO. Ex-Gov. Porter, minister to Italy, to visiting the United State* and entertained a literary club recently lo Indianapolis by reading a ; aper od accieot Rome. Archdeaoon Farhar of London offers SSOO for the proof of any one case, either In the church or out of It, where drunkenness has been cured without total ai stinenfce, Tae Drlnce of Naples, heir apparent to the Italian throne, has been betrothed to the eldest oughter of ths Duke of ieJinburgb. The wed mg will take place next spring. Princxss Louisa Sochi a of Schleswig-Hoi Ktoin, who on June 14. 1889, was married in Ber lip to Prince Frederick Leopold of Prussia, has given birth to a son at Potsdam. Mrs. William O. Whitney and Mrs. Cor nelius Vanderbilt have received $83,000 from contributions for the purpose of establishing an infirmary at Yale University. Coxqretsman Shfrvan Hoar, sits In the same pew with bis distinguished uncle on Sun days, but it to believed mat their paths do not cross on the other six days of the week. Rosa Bonubur has finished the largest animal picture ever painted. It to called' 'LeDeplquage,” and represents ten horses large as life trotting over the thrashing floor still used in parts of southern Europe. Hon. Robert T. Lincoln, the States minister to Eng'and, has returned to his post of duty. During hto tour of the continent he vis ited Paris, Rome, Athens, Constantinople aud many other points of interest. JcesPH W. Bailey of Texas, the youngest member of congress, to thus described: “A young man of a strikingly noble face and com manding presence, his features refined and al most os regular os ooald be chiseled by an ar tist; eyes deep blue and a wonderfully hand some suit of jet black hair, worn very long and his soft felt hat of expansive brim. Mr. Ba.ley to 28 years old, well-to-do and a native of Mississippi." BRIGHT BITa CatcAoo Editob— Your poem. I fear, will hardly suit us, madam. Your feet are all wrong. Chicago Poetess—Sir!— Boston Gazette. Tux only men in th United States who can adequately and underatandingiy sympathize with the President are tbe base ball umpires. Tea u* Siftings. On winning a pr ze the runner is brat Who speeds down the rural lane? No, he's a suburban resident And Is running to catch his train. —.Veto York Pres*. "Skiteikins Is a fine fellow. When I was visiting him yesterday at New Utrecht he in vited me to go to tbe theater, on the spot. ’’ He was sale enough. There is no theater on the spot- —brookiyn Eagle. Hownow— What have you been doing? You look a trifle light-headed. Jagley—S’ think it might; just boon where there wfts greatest lot of Corks ypn ever saw. Boston Courier. The slugger who slugs and adorns rellow pugs. Till their features with ruby do gush, Deserveth that part in the language of art Which dnbs him a knight of the ‘ brush.” • —Boston Courier. Brobscn—What two kinds of men meet In the early morning hours? Crailt—l'm sure 1 don’t know. Brobson Why, the hardy sons of toil and tbe tardy sons of Hoyle, of course. —jVeto York Herald. “Do you drink?” asked the old man. “I do.” said tbs younger one, boldly. ’’Then come and have one on me,” returned the patriarch; "my dangbter bet me her next quarter’s allowance that you didn’t.— Boston Gazette. Brigos—l see that young Palter has been dis charged from his position as bookkeeper. Griggs—You don’t say! What was the mat ter? Briggs—His employer accidentally overheard that he was a graduate of a business college. Brooklyn Life. I RATH Passenger (to horse car conductor, who has tried to collect fare twice, and carried him beyond his crossing)—You’d suit the elec tric cars better nor this. I'm tDlnkin’. Horse Car Conductor—Why so, sir? Jrate Passenger—Ye’re such a divil o’ non eonducthor, yese era.—Epoch. "By toe way," remarked a guest to the landlord of a summer resort as he paid his bill aud started away, "do you permit your help to accept th(p?” “Why-=*h-o—n o,” he said with nervous anxiety, as he glanced back over Ihe account, "you haven't got any money, left, have you?" Detroit free Prase. Mr. Manhattan Beach has just been paying a number of bids which his hoDeful son, who Is a student at Yale college, contracted. "I had no idea,” said the old man to his son, “that studying was so expensive. ” >; "Oh, yes. it costs money.” replied the youth, “and 1 didn’t study so very much, either." Texas Siftings. Bulfinch—l understand, Drafnatleus, that you are writing a play. Dramatlcus—Yes, I have that honor. Bulfloch—Got It nearly done?* Dramaticus—Well, yes; the most Important part of it. I haven't started on tho play itself yet, but. I have nearly finished iqy speech of surprise when lam called on between the acts. Boston Courier. Irate Ocbtomer—Those shoes Jt bought for my boy last week are worn out Slready, and I found a t.htok piece of paste buted to the soles. What have you to say to that ? Dealer—My dear sir, the pasteboard is put in to keep tho feet from touching the ground when the leather wears out.-' You wouldn’t want your little boy to catch cold and die of consumption, would you?—Good fetes. "I DON’T see Why Brother Goodman should want a ugiole month for a rest,” observed a close-fisted member of the flock. "The devil never takes a vacation." “Neither does the Lord,” spoke op the Rev. Mr. Goodman. "He Is abundantly able to take care of the adversary for one month.” The vote in favor of granting Pastor Goodman's requ-st for a vacation was praotlcally unanimous. Chicago Tribune. CURRENT COMMENT. Must "Rile” Mills. Worn the St. Louis Republic (Dem.), II Mr. Crisp thinks be can turn Roger Q. Mills out of the Democratic party, lot him trylt. Better Take a Bath. From the Kansas City Star (Irut.\ A body of native government employes In India have asked for a vacation on account of “suffering from perspiration and a want of en thusiasm for their work." The dlfitoultloe In tho way of civil service reform Beam the same la every oouutry. Can’t Control His Foolleh Country. From the St. Tamil Post-Dispatch iDsmX It is said that John Sherman has re-entered tbe race for the presidency in order to save the country from floauolal lunacy. The old man lias tried to save tbe country on three occasions already, but with singular indifference to its peril the country has each time played. Emin to his Stanley, , Met Hts Man. When Col. Tngersoll undertook the defense of Dorsey of star route notoriety he was given a check for $50,000, with the understanding that be was to employ someone to asist him and pay for such services, says the Seattle Preu. Ineersoll determined to employ the late John McSweeney of Wooster, O , who was the fora most criminal lawyer in the Unit -d States In gersnll bad never met McSweoney, but he tel egraphed him to come to Washington. Mc- Sweeney. though a full-blooded Irishman had spent several years at a German university and looked like a German. Dorsey’s confidential man. George Eaters, was a German, and wasexpeoted the day before McHweeney would arrive. As Fakers nad some important know .edge, (Jol. Ingersod was anxious to see him. Be went up to the Arlington, where all the Dorsey party were quartered, and awaited his man's arrival. Soon there entere 1 a tall stout man with hig trousers tucked into a pair or No. 8 boots and his clothing bespattered with mud. Hto hair foil In ringlets to hto shoulders, and his whole appearance was that of a journeyman Texas cowboy. The stranger had scarcely had time to look around oefoi e hto band was in the grasp of tbe famous orator, who said: “I am Ingersoll.” "Yea," returned (be other, “I was looking for you.” "Ah, I thought (so,” chuckled the colonel. "Come right up to the room,” and without giving the guest time to register he escorted im to the room. "One of the first things I wanted to say to you, Mr. Fakers, was in the matter of my fee. It won't be worth while to mention the amouat 1 received to McSweeney when he comes, as he will naturally do his utmost. I propose to em ploy him as cheap as 1 can. Of course I mast have him, and if It comes to a plnoh I would pay him $35,000 to assist me, but I think I can get him for *6,000 perhaps, and I am satistt -d he won’t refuse $lO 000 in mien a case as this, if he thinks that to oil he can get. He's an awful stickler for fees, though, I hoar, go just oblige me and don't tellhim wnat I got." “O, oertaiuly not,” said the staid individual. “Well. I'll see you again in a few minutes." said Ingersoll as he left the room. A short time after that he saw the name John McSweeney on tho register ami sent up his card. He was directed to the same room. "Where's McSweeuey?" inquired Ingersoll, looking around hurriedly. “That’s my name."said the supposed Baker*, with a comioa! drawl that grated ou Ingersoll's ears. What followed need not be told. Of oourse they divided the fee equally. Choosing the Oostutn ?. “Say, who vui Kathreen uv Rooshla?" The littleoostumor wearily laid the dress aside; It was the tenth that the two girls had looked at without making a selection, says the Now York Commercial, and he was beginning to tire. “She wnsan empress," be answered, meekly. The girls giggled, and the one for whose benefit the costumes were being shown laughed out right. "Jes fancy, Mame,’’she said to her com panion, “WOI the girls In the rollin' depart ment ud say if I wuz t’ go t’ the Lonely Seven ball as a nempress!” And they giggled again. "Maybe you'd like something mediaeval?” suggested the costumers “No. Not too many g, angles,” replied num ber one, cautiously. "For instance, the Lady of the Lake.” "Wot lake” “No particular lake. Something light and pretty, thougn." “’Taiat a bathin' soot, is it?" "Of course not There it is—that plain white and gold robe.” "No-o-o, '"wouldn’t look well on me Agger. ’’ ‘•Then maybe you’d like to go as a bac chante?” " Wot’s a back aunty?’’ “Oh, a Jolly sort of a girl. Never used to do anything but sing and dance." ‘That hits me Trot it out.” The dress, all ablaze with spangles and cheap ribbons, was iroduced, and after an Intensely critical exam nation. Mame advised her friend to go and try It on. She did so, aud camo back robed in all its splendor. Jlarno went into an ecstaCy of admiration. "Crips, Lizzie," she gasped, “but ye look plum lovely." The dress was hired and borne awav in pride, and fust at present tho inner circles of the Lonely Seven are agitated by a report to the effect that Lizzie CnlTan is going to eclipse all tbe rest of the girls at the annual hall as “a back aunty”—though just what that to tho inner circles of the Lonely Beven are unable to dis cover. Reveries. BY O. B. BEACH. We are standing by the open grave Of the dying ninety-one; We hold the flowers of memory That have withered one by one. They all wore bright and beautiful When the glad New Year camein; Bright buds of hope and promise. Devoid of sorrow, shame or sin. Some have held their beauty For a time, but It did not last. They fell, and were trampled in the mire By the footsteps hurrying past. The bright carnation pink Was the heart ot a trusting maid; The regal tiger lily The courtier who to her homage paid. The pink has lost Its luster, Tue maiden's heart is dead. The lily blooms in other lands, His honeyed words—were they but unsaid. The blushing rose, the daffodil, They all have played a part In the drama of our human lives. Made up of tears and broken hearts. 'Twin be the same old story In the coming n’nety-two: Promises will be made and broken By hearts lalse, yet Beaming true. Some will ride on the topmost wave. Fortune, fame and honor win; Some will stand by the open door. Pleading, yet dare not enter in. To some will come the sunshine, To others clouds and rain; To some bright Hope's fruition, To others oaly pain. But be ft Joy or sadness. That is ours for the coming years; Let us try to live in the sunshine, And by truth, avoid the tears. Shrewd Sort of a SimplwtoO. A oircus proprietor once, when enterihg a arge town in Cornwall, was much annoyed at finding a turnpike gate close to the town, at which he had to pay toil for all his horses, says a writer In tbe Rider awl Driver. Very near the turnpike was the asylum, and itting on one of tho walls whiefi surrounded he asylum grounds was a perfectly harmless, but at the same time hopeless lunatic, who was very much Interested iu tbe discussion going on at tbe toll gate. “HI. master; ” he called out as the proprietor came up, “don’t you pay. He’s got money out of your pocket to put lnhlsowu. Piebald horses never pay toll.” “Never pay toll I Are you sure?” asked the proprietor, not knowing tbe mun to be an idiot “Of coarse i am. Ask anybody here, and they’ll tell you the same. You take my advice and go back and make him give up tbe money." Very much annoyed at lieing so robbed the angry proprietor tore back, and in language more forcible than polite demanded his money back. But the tollkeeper refused to give it up and indignantly denied the lunatlo’s assertions, desiring to be brought face to face with his traducer. The proprietor, only too pleased, brought him up to where the lunatic was still Bitting, revel ling in the row he had made. “What do you mean by saying that I robbed this fellow?" shouted the furious tollkeeper, "and the piebald horses never pay toil?" "Why, you fools," answered tho lunatio. "of course they don’t. Their masters have to nav for them.” Teacher— Bobby, where do we get our sugar? Bobby—From the sugar cane. Teacher—Correct. Now, Edward, where do we get our soap? Fdward—From the soapstone Rochester Post-Express. BA.KINU rOVTOKK. ll^Powder: Used in Millions of. Homes—4oYears the Standard flavoring extracts. Not Responsible. As regards food adulteration, the grocer 19 in no wise res ponsible for the acts of the manufacturer. If people want goods at cheap figures they must"expect quality tol correspond. Price’s De- i licious Flavorings Extracts,/ Vanilla, Leman’etc., come a fewceotsrhigher than other extracts In-’the; market,-, but j they contain-no poisonous or j hurtfiil matter as ari-adiriter- j ant; their qualify is the high-1 est, their flavor - the .„- finest and their perfect l *purity es tablished. itbms of interest. There to a human monstrosity at No. 309 Twenty-fifth street. New York. It la a man with half a dozen tongues four china, three cheeks and a monstrous ear Hto name is Juan Joe Ant'nio, and he ba* been brought hero hr bm benefactress, Mrs. Gonzales, wbo is trying to secure an engagement for him in some city museum. Properly speaking. Antonio has only one chin, but tbe convolutions of the mas sive appendage which hangs from his face seemed like additional chins and cbeelcs. The half dozen tongues which Antonio claims to have are in reality only one tongue, fright fully deformed and covered with short pro jections tike additional tongues. Antonio is a native of Jerusalem, where hi® mother and sis • ters are still slate?. He was taken to ifcgypt by a band of Arabs and subseqaonty brought to Mexico. He managed to escape to Flagstaff* Art. where Mrs. Gonsalon found him. Think ing she had a prize, she has exhibited him in several cities, and now takes him to New York for tho purpose of exhibition. It Is quite Important, when speaking of the longest day of the year, to say what par< of the world we are talking about, as will be seen by the following liar, which tell the length of the longest dav in several places. How unfortunate are children in Tornea, Finland, where Christ mas is less than three hours in length. At Stockholm, Sweden, It is eighteen aud one half hours in length. At Spitsbergen the longest day is three and one-half months. At London England, aud Bremen, Prussia, the longest day has six t con and one-halt hours. At Ham burg, in Germany. aud Dantzig, in a a U xEr a, A‘ le lon K est day has seventeen hours. At Wardbury, Norway, the longest day lasts from May 21 to July 22 without interruption. At St. Petersburg, Russia, and Tobolsk, Siberia, tne longest day is nineteen hours and the short* eat five hours. At Tornea, Finland, June 21 brings a day nearly twenty-two hours long, and Christmas one less than three hours in length. At New York the longest day is about fifteen hours long, and a Montreal, Canada, it is six teen hours. In Paris there will be commenced before the civil tribunal of Montdldler a case of almost unique interest, for It will show His Holiness 1 ope Lao XIIL summoned before the smallest tribunal in the Frenoh republic aud defending as a simple individual his Interest fn a legacy left him, the validity of which Is contested by tbe other heirs. On July 4 last year there dual at the Chateau de Moreuil Mine, de Pastoret, marquise de Pleests Belllere, leaving a fortune of 10,000,000 francs, part of which con sisted of the famous Chateau de Moreuil which for its marvelous parks, buildings, and collections, is renowned throughout tho entire world. By her will the marquis loft Pope L&o XIII. hefr t the entire property, nrovld ing for his unwillingness or fur his being un uDie through some technicality to noeept the magnificent gift. In that event it was to go to Cardinal Rampolla Again, in case both the pope und the cardina’ refused to succeed to her estates, then they were to be given to Count Alphonse de Colbert Turguis, with aa fhtunc tion to carry out the instructions that the will contains. This passage occurs In ths legal document making disposition of the rstate "Thirty years ago I expressed to His Holiness Pope Plus IX., my infcentiou and to inAfco him my heir. 1 here doclaro my absolute will to be that all property ot which I may die pos sessed shell become the property of the pene living at the time of my death " Tile natural heirs of the marquise are desperately contesting the validity of tbe will, and have raised questions of the highest in terest concerning international rights and the temporal and spiritual powers of tho pope They urge that this legacy was made to the papal state and not to the pope, and that this is clearly shown by the cars taken in selecting as sub heirs Cardinal Kampollaan J Curate Colbert Turguis, and as such a disposition It Is illegal under the French law. The case atlacts the highest possilde interest in France, pertlcularly in view of tbe recent dlsouesiohs between church and state. The pope will fight for toe property, and has retained a Parisian lawyer to re*.resent him. The heirs have engaged a long array of legal talent. 6 YVuen Congressman Amos J. Cummings and Congressman Charles F. Crisp were Introduced in the House cafe a few years ago, says the New York World, Cummings said: judge, 1 was & boy attache of a theater in which you played the leading roles some forty years eg-*.” Cummings’wink at others present, did not escape the Georgian, who turned the joke with the reply: “Really, Mr. Cummings, you ere more of an anc ent than I suppose?: I was a mewling Infant wheu you wore working for lay fatoer." It was tp the south and during the war period that the speakers father and mother wore best known. The Crisp company —“Mr. and Mrs. VFUHum H. Crisp, supported h/ (Miss Jessie Armant), Miss Cecelia Crisp and the talented young tragedian Harry Cnsp, and others’—were not so luminously advertised in the latter war days as our present .lay troupes But with $lO <tn con federate money) tor each admission ticket, chelr receipts w ere great r than are oven Biruhardt’s. When they ’strucK” a town where soldiers were encamped the gray uniforms w ere as numerous as were dress suits at a Daly opening night It was at Macon, Ga., in February, ltd!), that the Crisps received a notable tribute to the realism of their acting. “The Lady ot tbe Lake” was on with Harry Crisp as ’VitEjames’’ and Sam Hubbard as "Roderick.” Hubbard had quit tbe stage for the army, been wounded and was In tho hospital at Macon but had sufficiently recovered to, on request app-ar for the elder < Flap, wl o was indisposed! Among the soldiers in the audience was a mem ber of the company of which Hubbard was cap tain, with a big cast iron 8-shooter, one of a confederate armory make, with a peculiarity that tho firing of one barrel Insured the simultaneous discharge of the entire six. The soldier was charged with sorghum (cane) whisky but not too heavily to recognize in the dig guise of Clan Alpine's ctdof,bis own company's commander. When “Fltzjames ’and “Roderick" met in doath struggle the soldier with the army pistol became excited, aud when finally he saw his captain down he rose and fired at his slayer Tuat fusillade, though fortunately hitting no one, emptied toe stage and a considerable part of the auditorium. Chabdie (who has been blowing the cornet for an hour)—Ned, do you think there is any music in me? Ned—l don’t know—there ought to be. I didn't hoar and oome out.—Tid-Ufa. “Do you think that moukeys can be taught to talk r* be asked. * "I never put the question that way," she re plied. 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