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INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Muting*—Palestine Comroanderv No. 7, K.
TANARUS.; Mass Meeting of Citizen* at Maaonic Hall;
Mass Mooting of Citizens at Turner Hall;
Tammany.
Special Notices —Dividend Skidaway Shell
Hoad Company; The Jersey Dairy, C K. Uibbes,
Proprietor;' Grebk Society Ermea; Notice as to
Bwediah Bark Maohem and Norwegian Bark
Hacehorse; Garden Seeda. Solomons & Cos.;
lota for Three Hundred Dollars, O. H. Doraett;
Dividend Savannah Steam Bakery Company;
Dr. J. G. Jarrell.
Loeb’s Sanitary Underwear— B- H. Levy A
Bro.
Children's Kilt Scits— Appel & Schaul.
Ladies' Side Saddles— Neidlioger A Kabun.
Legal Notices— Notice to Debtors and Cred
itors Estate of John Feeley, Deceased.
We Inaugurated Yestehday— Falk Clothing
Company.
Auction Sales-Contents of Millinery and
Fancy Store by J. H. Oppenhelm 4 Son.
Cheap Coluhn advertiseren rs Help
IVanted; Employment Wante t: For Kent; For
Sale: Lost: Personal; Miscellaneous.
Another marriage by mall, between a
New Eofeland woman and a western man,
has turned out disastrously. Securing
wives and husbands through the '‘want”
column is not a decided success.
It is common, iu romance, to read of a
person’s hair turning from black to white
In a few hours. A news dispatch from St.
Louis says a case of that kind occurred there
this week. However, that may be a
romance.
A missionary, recently returned from the
wilds of Africa, where he lived mauy years
iu security of person and property, visited
Omaha recently. And before he had been
there twenty-tour hours he had been sand
bagged and robbed by the natives.
The alleged baronets, Mrs. Blanc, who Is
playing In a New York theater ‘ ‘in a reper
tory of eeyen gowns,” is having trouble
with the members of her company. Some
of them assert that they cannot possibly
•nbaist solely on the sight of seven gowns.
The city of Newport, ivy., is more than
well provided with policemen,but owing to
circumstances they spend nearly all their
time watching and arresting each other.
The reason Is, there ere two police forces in
town, one run by a chief wh < refused to be
deposed by the mayor, and the other run
by the mayor’s own chief.
Now, then, we ere in the swim again, in
■o far as tbe Mexican revolution is con
cerned . Garza has turned up end gone to
work in the chaparral. For some time both
Garza and the chaparral have been missed
In the news dispatches, consequently there
was no spioe in tbe stories. Had tbe corre
spondents dropped out oniy Garza and gone
on writing about the chaparral it would
have been ell right, but when they dis
carded both it was painful.
A member of tbe House committee on
pensions proposes, as a possible means of
remedying pension frauds, to submit a
measure providing that tbe named of all
persons drawing pension* shall be publicly
poeted in some conspicuous piaoe in each
locality where there are pensioners. Tnis
would enable the deserving pensioners to
ascertain if any undeserving names were on
tbe list. And they would, very likely, be
quick to report any such cases that they
might discover.
Wilson 8. Bissell, of Buffalo, a former
law partner of Mr.' Cleveland's, is being
talked of for a cabinet position. Should
both be and Lamont be called into tbe
oabinet—aud it is now regarded in certain
quarters, as curtain that Lament will te—
the coming cabinet would be the fourth in
which two of tbe ministers were from New
York, fiotb Johnson and Grant had two
New York men in their cabinet*, end in
Cleveland’s first cabinet.' Manning and
Whitney were from New York.
Ihe report that tbe Han Juan gold fields,
about which such marvelous yarns have
been pointed, are "a fake of tbe first water,”
tea little startling, especially wnen It is re
membered that the honorable Hecretary of
War, Stephen B. Klklns, was largely inter
ested in them. Ixits of people will be mo
irreverent as to inquire: “ Did (Steve Kikms
unload before the revelations came'” Tbe
New York Dress says Mr. Klkint is one of
tbe shrewdest financiers in ibis oountry,
and 1s destined to be one of its richest men
before long. If this te true It Is probable
that Elkins is unloaded sbtewd financiers
are a!way* unloaded when tbe crash come*.
New York's Eig Four.
In an editorial article entitled, "The Rule
of Four," the New York World says:
"Four men are in absolute control of \hs
legislature at Albany. Their power is like
wise supreme in every department of the
state government. Two of them rule the
local governments of this city and Brooklyn
a* completely es though they had been
actually invested with a dictatorship." The
fonr men referred to by the World are
Richard Croker, the Tammany leader;
Hugh Mclaughlin, the democratic leader
of Brooklyn; Senator Hill, and Edward
Murphy, Jr, who has been
nominated by the demooratio
caucus to succeed United States
Senator Hiscoek. If what the World says
i* true these four men rule absolutely the
state of New York and the cities of New
York aDd Brooklyn. They selected Mr.
Murphy for the Senate and virtually ap
pointed all the committees of the recently as
sembled legislature. They did not of course
openly do tblJ, but they did it through their
lieutenauts. For example, they told the
democratic majority In the legislature that
they wanted Mr Murphy sent to the Senate
and Mr. Sulzer made speaker, and Speaker
Sulzer made up the committees in accord
ance with their advice.
It Is difficult to believe that these four
men have the power with which they are
credited. If they have, there doeen't seem
to be any use in electing legislatures in New
York cr boards of aldermen aud mayors in
the cities of New York and Brooklyn. It
would be much simpler to let these men
exercise directly the power which, it Is
alleged, they exercise indirectly. ADd it
would save the taxpayers a very large sum
of money annually to let them do eo.
It must be that the IF..rid puts the case
too strongly. The people of New York
would hardly submit to the rule of four men
no one of whom holds on official position
in tbs state. If those who fill the offices are
simply clerks, and exercise no discretion or
judgement in the performance of their du
ties, tbs people of New York are in
a rather unfortunate condition. It
will be only a matter of time, if they con
tinue to submit to such rule, when they
will be wholly at the mercy of those four
men, or their successors. Thsy are in the
grasp of an oligarchy, which will becoms
more arbitrary and oppressive with each
succeeding year.
The resolution adopted by the presidential
electors of New York, indorsing Mr. Mur
phy for tbs Senate when they met tbs other
day to cast the electoral vote of the state,
bat attracted wide attention and excited
much unfavorable comment. They met
only for one purpose. Why then did they
consent to interfere in the senatorial elec
tion' It Is said they adopted the resolution
because Senator Hill requested them to
do so.
It is difficult to see what motive Senator
Hill oould have bad in getting tbe electors
to adopt tbe resolution unless it was be
wanted to show Mr. Cleveland that his pro
test against tbe selection of Mr. Murphy
for the Senate was resented by leading
democrats of tbe state. The electors saw
tbe impropriety of tbe resolution, and quite
a number of them refused to vote for it.
Tbe majority of them, however, voted for
it, for the reason, doubtless, that they were
afraid to vote against it.
It must be that tbe B arid's presentation
of the situation is not wholly corroot; but
if it is correct it is not surprising that Mr.
Cleveland protested against tending Mr.
Murphy to tbe Senate. and it would not be
surprising if hit administration should be
against Senators and Murphy and their
plane.
History In the Schools.
Tbe state board of education at its meet
ing Tuesday made history a prescribed
study in tbe public bobools. Iu future,
therefore, those applying for positions ns
teachers will have to be examined In that
important branch of study.
W bat text book shall be used; It i appar-
ent that this queetion is a very important one.
Tbe county authorities of each county nave
tbe right to decide it. In some counties it
will tie decided easily and lu others very
probably it will not.
Uniformity in text books is greatly to bo
desired—that is, text books in tbe elemen
tary branches. The use of the same kind of
text books throughout the state would be
an advantage in many ways, if parents
moved from one county to another they
would uot then be under the necessity of
providing new text books for their children
and the children would not have to make
themselves acquainted with anew kind of
text book. In ony county in which they
might make tbeir home the school hooks
would seem like old friends.
And it might he advisable for the -tate to
provide the text books at cost prices. It
could do so at a much less price than
parents now have to pay for then l , it oould
obtaiu them at wholesale pi ices and dis
pose of them at an advance sufficient to
cover the cost of bandliug them. It the
state selected the text books mid furnished
them to the different counties there would
be not only uniformity in the books, hut
the school children would get better books
ut prices considerably below those they nuw
pay.
The four murderers whoee sentences were
commuted by Gcv. Brown, of Marylaud,
day before yesterday were all boys, and
were under sentence, with four men, to be
hanged to-day, all for the same murder.
Their orime was the brutal kilting of Dr.
Hill at Chestertowu. During their confine
ment in jail this group of murderers bos
been the object of much interest on account
of their apparent disregerd of death. They
cared nothing for the hereafter, and spent
the greater part of their time in singing
soogs and cracking jokes with each other.
Through the extraordmory leniency of the
jailer, three days previous to tbe day
fixed for tbeir execution all eight of the
condemned w ere permitted the liberty of the
jail ysrd, in which workmen wore then
building tbe gallows on which they were to
die. But the sight of tbe grewsome timber*
did not cheok tbeir exuberant flow of ani
mal spirits, and after the younger of the
murderers bed grown tired of e gems of
leap frog they got together some of tbe gal
lows timbers and mode a see saw, on which
tbeyrodeaod jumped, the while laughing
aud playing. Whether tbeir conduct was
prompted by sublime philosophy or total
depravity may be an open queetion: but in
asmuch os tbeir crime was so brutal, tbe
depravity theory euetns to be tbe stronger.
John M. Ward, tbe famous sbort-stop,
announces that be has permanently retired
from tbe base bolt field aDd will engage in
the practice of law. He bos saved consider
able money from bis salary as a ball player,
so be aan afford to bang out a legal shingle
aod watch it gather rust and dust for oarer*l
J ears, while waiting tor clients.
THE MORNING NEWS: FRIDAY, JANUARY 13, 1893.
The Torrey BtU.
A determined effort is being made to get
the House to take up for consideration
the Torrey bankruptcy bill. The interest
in the bill is general and the sentiment sp
pears to be in favor of it. It ts as fair a
bill of the kind probably as could be drawn.
The committee that has it ta charge has
heard all the objections to it that have been
made and has given proper attention to
those which appeared res*unable. It is un
derstood that about all of the congressmen
who have made themselves acquainted with
its provisions are satisfied with it, aDd are
willing to support It. If it can be got before
the House, therefore, it is pretty certain to
pass that body.
The country has been without a bank
ruptcy law for more than ten years. The
last bankruptcy law was repealed beoause
it permitted of too long delays in the settle
ment of insolvent estates and because the
opportunities of the officers who adminis
tered the law for making exorbitant tees
were too great. The Torrey bill is not open
to such objections.
A good bankruptoy law would be helpful
to all parts of the country. The merchants
and manufacturers of the east, for Instance,
are not so liberal now as they would be if
there were such a law, in granting credits
to the merchants of the south and west, be
cause there are so many difficulties in the
way of having thair olaims settled in cases
of insolvency. The laws governing the col
lection of debts in one state are different
from those of another, and it often happens
that the least meritorious claims stand the
best chance of being paid. If there were a
bankruptcy law honest merohants would
find much less difficulty than they now do
in getting credit.
A Misnamed Melodrama
The black man in politioe and the Georgia
convict lease system form the basis for a
new melodrama, oalied the ‘ ‘New South,’’
that has been put on the stage in New
York. Judged by the meager details of the
plot that have been published, and the crit
icisms of the metropolitan press, the authors
of the play know very little about either
the negro politician of the “New South” or
the Georgia convict system, but have fitted
both, in their play, to the northern ideas of
what they are.
And It is probably well, from a box-offira
point of view, that they did so. for people
are not fond of having their idols smashed
by play-carpenters. The negro politician
depicted in the play may have lived during
reconstruction days, when he was taught
by carpet-baggers from the north to be ava
ricious and vindictive, and murderous, if
need be. But his species is extinct now,
and has been ever since 1876, when the south
was rescued from the vultures that swooped
dowu upon her and nearly euooeeded in
leaving nothing of her but whitened bones.
The pley begins on the lawn of a Georgia
homestead. The son of the family quar
rels with his sister’s lover, an artny officer,
and is stunned by a self-defensive blow from
the soldier’s scabbard. While he lies sense
less, and the other has gone into the house
to bring restoratives, a revengeful negro
finds him. This negro bad engaged iu a
ehrewd political plot, including the stealing
of ballot-boxes, whereby the 'ton of the
family had been defeated for congress; had
gone to the young man with a proposition
that he be bribed with a considerable sum
of money and an office to restore
the boxes and had boon horse
whipped for his insulting assurance.
Seeing the man who had flogged him lying
on the ground completely at his mercy the
negro stabs him to death. The officer is
tried for the crime, oonvicted of manslaugh
ter on good circumstantial evidence, and as
a convict falls into the bauds of a rascally
contractor, who is his rival in love and con
sequently treats him harshly. Hi* sweet
heart alone believea biin inn: cent. She has
the convict leased into her employ, in order
that he may clear himself, and the rest of
the play it devoted to incidents connected
with his finally successful efforts to right
the wrong.
If there is anything in that plot to sug
gest the ' ‘new south” it is not apparent to
an ordinarily intelligent man. In fact such
a series of events would not have happened
in Georgia in 1888 (the time of tbe
play) had tbe characters all been set
to work out tbe plot, even down to
the stealing of the ballot-boxes. For when
the colored politician approached the can
didate for congress to he bribed to return
tbe stolen ballot-boxes he would have tieeu
smilingly received, and, instead of a
rawhide on his back, be would soon have
felt a pair of handcuffs ou his wrists.
The only strength in tne play appears to
be its regrettable appeal to sectionalism and
race prejudice. One critic, the Recorder ,
says: "The race hatred which even to-day
exists betweeu the blacks and whits I ', in tha
south, is the motive of all that occurs. The
barbarous system of leasing convicts to
private individuals, thereby causing a
practical resumption of slavery, is also
treated with a free pen.”
As far as the convict lease system is con
cerned, it is not to be defended; it is
iniquitous and ought to be abrogated. But it
is not true that race hatred iu the "new
south” is so intense as tbe authors of this
play, and the critic quoted, would make be
lieve. There exists a very good feeling be
tween tbe white and colored people in the
south, which is growing stronger, and
whioh would grow much more rapidly were
it not for play writers and newspaper
writers that fan tbe smoldering embers for
a few paltry dollars. In fact, there is not
as much prejudice against the blacks iu tbe
south os there is m tbe north.
Tbe dauntless pluck of the average yankee
skipper has bueu well illustrated hv Capt.
Woodruff of the schooner Greeuleaf John
son, from Darien, Go., for New York Deo.
12. The vessel arrived off Sandy Hook
ou Wednesday. Although it took nearly a
month to make the trip in the "dirtiest”
kind of weather, it was made safely ond
without assistance. On the trip the
schooner’s boats were smashed, her decks
swept, her sails split and blown away, but
sliil she struggled on. When her sails got
so torn end tattered by the tempest that
they became useless she would Us to and
her crew would patob them up. Onoe tbe
steamer Algonquin bore 'down on the little
vessel and offered to take her in tow. But
Capt Woodruff said be'guessed be was all
right; he was just fixing up a bit. He
might be a little late In getting to New
York, but hs would finally get there. And
he did. His vaasel’s bull in still graceful,
but it te raid her spars and tails have lost
all semblance of their formsr symmetry.
Without intending to be In ths least de
groa flippant or disrespectful, it may be said
that Mr. Blalna te vary much like a oak
The common saying is that a cat has niue
lives, aod it really appear* that tbs sick
et -secretary te Massed with about tba same
amount of vitality.
Those persons and papers that bare been
trying to detract from Mr Ward MoAliio
ter’a fame as a society man, and to pull
him down from his high position as the
leader of the One Hundred and Fiftv, had
an object lesson in the recent Patriarchs’
ball, in New York, which, it is to be hoped,
will not be lost ou them. The New York
correspondent .of the Philadelphia Press
says of the function generally, and
McAllister specially: "The veteran never
looked better or happier than when he led
the distinguished society leader. Mrs. Ed
ward 8. Wfiling to the supper table, and he
bad paying hint such homage as was his
due the Vanderbilts, those of them who are
in society this winter; ths Pierpont Mor
gans. the Kbinelanders, and nearly all of
tboee who are competent to enter the inner
shrine where the One Huudred ana Fifty
meet. Mr, McAllister pronounced this
second of the Patriarchs’ gatherings the
most brilliant social event he had ever
known in New York.”
The lynching at Cotton Plant, Ark.. re
ported in yesterday’s dispatches, was an
affair among oolored people altogether. The
murderers were black, their victims were
black and the avengers were black. The
lynching was cne of those cold-blooded
affairs talked oyer beforehand and details
arranged openly and aboveboard. The news
papers published a notice of the contem
plated lynching the day before it occurred,
and said the irate colored avengers might,
instead of banging or shooting their vic
tims, burn them at the stake. That much
of the story, however, was probably a fig
ment of a reporter’s imagination, fired by a
desire to work the material at hand into the
most sensational story possible.
Several farmers in Berks county, Penn
sylvania, have determined to do a little
oombining aDd trust forming for their own
account. They have read of the coal com
bine, the petroleum combine and others of
the kind, and really they cannot see why
they may not apply the same system to the
thiogs they have to sell. Reoently they
tried it on milk and onoceeded In raising the
price on two or tnree milk routes as muoh
as 2 cents a quart. Now they are about to
try it on potatoes, and have got about 1,000
bushels represented in the combine. And
they ere a good deal more confident of suc
cess than ever a New York or Chicago ope
rator was when he had millions of bushels
of corn or wheat in a corner.
Mr. Cleveland will now probably devote
himself to cabinet building in earnest, in
the comparative solitudeof He
has received quite a lot of uninvited assist
ance in the work,, much of which will be
disregarded and much mere of which will
be given close attention. For the discus
sion of the possibilities that has been
going on for some time has brought out the
strength or weakness of the available cabi
net timber, and Mr.-Cleveland is not a man
to disregard honest efforts to assist him by
furnishing reliable estimates of- the ability
of the gentlemen mentioned in connection
with cabinet offices, and of their standing
iu public opinion.
BRIGHT BITS.
•*Mv love is like the red, red rose,"
I sing. You ask rat> why, fair querist?
Because, sweetheart, like Jacqueminots,
\ou arc iniluitely dearest!—Duck.
“My!” sai l the visitor, ns he lifted Willie up
in the air. "You are solid "
"Yes,” said Willie proudly. "There isn’t any
thing plated about ma-’'— Harper’s bazar.
Mine*—There’s: a"mnatg'good aecond kanii
bicycle I have in miad—
Yabsley—Seems like if I had a wheel in my
head it would be anew one.— Indianapolis
Journal.
On* of ths Exceptions.—“l tell you. Mar
bury, you can’t get something for nothing in
this world.”
"O, I don’t know. How about measles?”
Brooklyn Life.
She—Dudes haven't mere than half sense.
Mr. Sappy—Aw, Miss Jiavy, are there no ex
ceptions?
‘"O, yes, Mr. Sappy; some haven’t any."
Brooklyn Eagle.
Tnz Editor—Take a chair. Miss Bostin.
Miss Bostin (with a roll of manuscripti—Thank
you. I will not take the chair, but I shall be
glad to occupy it while I read you my poem on
icicles. —Texas Si ftings,
Mrs Harris—Poor Mrs. Swift, I suppose she
is heartbroken over her husband s elopement
with the cook.
Mrs. Pepper—Well, I don't eee why; 1 heard
her say she was a tuiserabie cook—lnter
Ocean.
First Boy—That there coal combine works
bully.
Second Boy -How?
First Boy—Makes coal so high-priced that
pop carries it in himself, ('cause I’d scatter it.
Good fieuis,
A new Word, "hy.jeneiltm.” has been coined
in Boston to describe a receptiou given by the
ladies o? a camera club It is not a word that
anybody would sit up late a< bigot to admire,
but it is as good as •••eatnune" aud belter than
"electr icution. —C,icugo Iribune.
Bu ss—You can do tbe re vainder of your
holiday shopping alone apd/oilost your will’
Mrs. Hicks—l haven't tried to dpi pose my will
on you. • ' -
Hicks—"Ye . you have: that part of it which
says: "Buy these presents.”- Se>o York Herald.
Warden-^oyon cot rid of your pastor?
Elder—Yes': be was a good man, but he was
too dry in his preaching, always giving us a
l i'tory of the Jews, eiut wo don’t like our new
pastor very much, eithfi).
'Wbat’sthe matter with him?"
"Well, tie preaches with tears in his voice
nearly all the time; emotion of the purest kind,
but too much af it."
"I see; the old pastor wts too historical, and
the new one is too Hysterical.”—Aetti York
Observer.
CURRENT COMMENT.
Makes ’em See Crooked.
From the Oalveston Aews {ltem ),
Tom Johnson, a western democratic congress
man, asserts that Wilson will be the speaker of
the next House. The .New Year's eggnog at
Washington must have been a most villainous
compound.
The Desirable Immigrant
From the Hew York Times ( Ind.).
The Scandinavian immigration is as nearly
an unmlxed good as any we have ever had, and
a general measure of restriction that would ad
mit it, if such a measure could be framed,
would not he obiected to by any Intelligent ad
vocate of restriction.
Postmasters Selected by Ballot.
From the Chicago Herald (Dem
The village of Oloey, this state, ha* held an
election for postmaster, the candidate receiving
the largest number of votes to be recommended
for the position This is not a bad idea If
the lucky man happens to be a good democrat
the administration will be spared tba retponsl
bility of making a choice.
Geary's Tariff Bill Idea.
Froth the Yew York Post (Ind.).
Congressman Geary’s plan of having a com
mittee prepare anew tariff bill and publish it
and invite public discussion on it a month or more
before congress is called upon to pass it. cer
tainly has some merits. It Is aboveboard and
straightforward, ami departs from ths historic
juggling of s conference committee in cecret,
in the last bonrs of congress, out of which have
been born the mysteries and iniquities of tbs
last two tariffs.
Editor* and Office*
From the Richmond Dispatch (Dem.)
Year by year the dignity and importance of
the press increases. T here sre editor* who oould
not be induced to surrender their prevent posi
tious for the rresidency itself \v* doubt if
,1 ainas Gordon Bennett would take the presi
deocy If It were offered him, but we should be
distrustful of either Wstterwoti or Dens, be
cause I bay have lieen tempted so often that we
fesr thair power* af OMistsnce m*y Uv* been
some what weakened.
The Tramps E- toyed the Joke.
A practical joke was played upon Charley
Pearson of the Coleman house, says the New
York Journal. The free lunch bad run a bit
low about du-k and a noble turkey was brought
in and placed on the table in ail the glorious
garniture of jellied cranberries, celery and
oysters Charley was leaning against the bar
v. hen a par" v or well-known actors came into
the cafe. With them were two rather rough
and-ready looking men in long ulsters and silk
hats.
Have a drink." said Charley. "No, have
one with us'“ said the-leader of the party.
The bowls were filled and the good liquor dis
appeared.
'• Pretty fine turkey that,” said the some
mau.
■'Yes,” said Charley.
"It would mate a meal for two men,”
observed the actor.
"Why, no two men could eat that turkey,"
said Charley
"Bet you the wine that two of this party can
clean it upsaid the actor.
Charley "sited up" the crowd The two men
In long ulsters and silk hats hadn't said a word;
but they looked all right. "Done!” said
Charley.
The actor said, "Pitch in. boys." and ordered
the drinks. The men in the ulsters and hats
waded into the turkey.
The white meat and trimmings disappeared
in a jiffy and another round of drinks came
along The two strangers demolished the
"walkers," and the crowd began to laugh,
whi e Charley stood staring at the two
hungry men in astonishment too deep for
utterance. In less than five minutes a bare
and bony skeleton was all that was left of the
gallant fowl.
“Well, boys,” said the actor, "give me those
hatsandcoats Here's a cigar. You needn't
wait for the wine!”
The two strangers divested themselves of the
coats and hats and stood forth as two un
kempt, ragged tramps. "Thank you, boss ”
said the two men, as they slouched out of the
cafe amid a perfect storm of laughter.
Charley bought the wine and made a vain ef
fort to pledge the crowd to secrecy.
Another Gould Story.
The fund of Gould stories seems inexhausti
ble, says the New York Press. WheD David
Dudley Field became Mr. Gould’s lawyer the
ereat financier sent him a retaining tee of
810,000 for personal services, and asked only
that Mr. Field should not take any case against
him. It was a busy year and cases were numer
ous. When tae Er e railway cases were called
Mr. Gould was blandly Informed that the re
tainer did not cover any corporation whatever;
it only retained Mr. Field for Mr. Gould indi
vidually. The law firm felt at perfect liberty to
take a case against him as president of the Erie
railway, or a director, though they could not
professionally act against him as an individual
Mr. Gould then “retained" them in behalf of all
the corporations in whicn be was interested,
and the corporation treasury in many cases
feels to this day the draft made upon it. Mr.
Gould was the officer on trial, but his interest
in the corporation was so large that he felt the
cost In every instance. In one year the bills of
David Dudley Field’s firm growing out of suits
in which Mr Gould was Interested were a little
more than $232,000. "I speak- from knowledge
directly from the books, ” said Alan P. Smidt,
who has had long practice at the bar since
“That reminds me of the difference between
the two men,” rejoined another lawyer “I
had to take an acknowledgment In a cate in
which both Gould and Fisk had to sign. Mr.
Gould was too busy, and he sent word asking
me to come down to the office and take the
acknowledgment I replied that I bad office
hours and I did not care to leave for the con
venience of any one else for the ordinary fee.
The next morning he came up and signed and
went out. It was only a few hours later that
a messenger came with a note from Fisk, ark
ing if it would be convenient for me to take
dinner with him that afternoon and at what
hour, and would tt be just as easy for me to
execute the papers afior dinner. It was. We
haul a charming, pleasant dinner, went to the
theater afterward, and I returned with the
papers duly signed and witnessed." There are
many men who to this day underestimate Fisk.
Gould did not .
Suicides Bore Hotel Clerks.
“Suicides are very ordinary things that come
under the observation of hotel clerks,” said
Billy Orrnes of the Southern to a St. Louis Re
tfUb’ic man. "During my brief expei ience as a
clerk I have seen no less than ten suicides
They have become so common of late tnat they
no lunger excite my nerves. I first went into
the hotel business at Omaha The second night
I was on watch one of the most popular guests
of the hotel walked quietly up to the desk, con
versed intelligently with me for a few minutes,
and then pulled out his pistol aud shot himself
through the heart.
“Of course tbat excited me somewhat. But
the next night several of the guests were sit
ting in the rotunda telling ghost stories. Sud
denly an aiqiarition floated quietly across the
corridor that attracted the attention of us all.
We stopped talking for a minute, when, all of
a sudden, a man jumped out of the third-story
corridor and landed in a heap right in our
midst. Wasn't that strange?
"The following week I went to work for an
other house The first night there the wateman
came into the office about midnight, leading one
of the waiters, who had tried to end bis life by
severing his jugular vein. He lived until the
following day, wnen he died. A month later
one of my most intimate friends came espe
cially from Chicago to pay me a visit. The
second day he was in the house he got on a
spree which lasted a week, and wound up by
going to the happy hunting grounds by the
morphine route.
"All of these happened within six months
after I had started iu the hotel business, and I
began to think that I was a Jonah' to the busi
ness. but I soon discovered that my experience
was not any more strange nor startling than
those met with by other hotel clerks.”
Trying tha Engineer.
The late Emperor Dom I’edro of Brazil, once
gave audience to a young engineer who came to
show him anew appliance for stopping railway
engines, says the Boston Globe. The emperor
was pleased with the thing and said:
"We will put it at once to a practical test.
The day after to morrow have your engine
ready; we will have It coupled to my saloon car
riage and then fire away. When going at full
speed l will unexpectedly give the signal to stop
and then we will see how the apparatus works.”
At the appointed time the emperor entered
the carriage and tbe engineer mounted his en
gine, and on they went for a considerable dis
tance: indeed, the young engineer began to sus
pect that the emperor had fallen asleep, when
the train suddenly came to a sharp curve round
the edge of a cliff, on turning which the driver
saw to his horror an immense bowlder lying on
the rails.
He had just sufficient presence of mind to
turn the crank of his brake and pull up the en
gine within a couple of yards of the fatal
block.
Here the emperor put his head out of the
window aud asked what thev were stopping for
The engineer points 1 to the piece of rock, on
seeing which Dom Fedro burst into a merry
laugh.
"Push the thing to one side!” he called out to
tbe engineer, who had jumped down from the
locomot ve; and when the latter, in his confu
sion, blindly obeyed and kicked the stone with
his foot it crumbled into dust.
It was a block of starch that Dom Pedro had
ordered to be placed on the rails the night be
fore.
Death’s Protest.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox , in the Independent.
Why dost thou shrink from my approach, O
man?
Why dost thou ever flee iu fear, and cling
To my false rival, Life? Ido but bring
Thee rest and calm. Then wherefore dost thou
ban
And curse me? Since the forming of God’s
plan
I have not hurt or harmed a mortal thing:
I have bestowed sweet balm for every sting.
And peace eternal for earth’s stormy span.
The wild, mad prayer for comfort, sent in
vain
To knock at the Indifferent heart of Life.
L Death, have answered. Kaowest thou uot
'tis he,
Mv cruel rival, who sends all thy pain,
And wears thy soul out in unmeaning strife*
Why dost thou hold to him, then, shunning
me?
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The oldest university in tne world is the Uni
versity of Fez, which Is to-day the principal
western seat of Mahometan theology.
Four years ago. says the New York Tribune,
Joseph Mativin, who has a farm near Stan
wood, Wash., discovered a peculiar head of
grain in a field of barley. Since then he has
been propagating it, until now he has consider
able land sown to this strange grain, which
yields about 100 bushels to the acre. The
grain is of a deep brown color, resembling
scorched wheat grain, and i* similar to wheat
in form. The bran or shell is thin and tough.
The grain is not tit for milling purposes, and
a brewer who examined it said that it was use
less for brewing purposes. It makes, however,
excellent feed for chickens aud hogs.
The cultivated and impecunious gentlewomen
over the sea, despite their conservative tra
ditions, display more originality in taking up
odd lines of work and in elevating commonplace
callings to artistic and successful professions
than do the American wage earners, who press
and jostle along In the overcrowded fields of
woman’s work, says tha New York Sun Milli
nery, fruit and Honor farming, poultry rearing
and business of all kinds are taken up by these
titled dames of high degree, who realize the fu
tility of earning a living by the more intel
lectual pursuits The Woman's Tea Company
of London is composed entirely of gentlewomen
who import their own tea, blend, pack and sell
it themselves In the heart of fashionable Bond
street. The tasting room is a pretty parlor
where one is served with a cup of tea by a gen
tlewoman in a waitress' cap and apron. The
com pany employs sixty women agents and ow ns
its own tea fields. In Paris a baroness and a
company of ladies make aod sell for charity all
manner of pure and delicately perfumed soaps,
toilet waters, dentifrices, powders, etc. It is
quite the thing to have the soap stamped like
letter paper with the crest. Initials, or armorial
bearings of the owner, and to have many tin
little cakes, called lawntennis soap, just largF
enough for once using. On a fine day there is 0
long row of carriages waiting while their own®
ers make their purchases and chat with the
baroness, who is always present, supervising the
business.
Perhaps no birds spend more of their lives on
the wing than parrots and pigeon*, the lat
ter being also among the most graceful and
rapid of the inhabitants of tbe air, says Sports
Afield. In New Zealand a species of parrots Is
found that, finding its food entirely on the
ground, has lost the power of flight. Tt differs
from the rest of its family only in that par
tlcular, and in being almost voiceless Among
recent breeds of pigeons is the parlor tumbler,
which has not only lost the power of flight, but
has nearly lost that of walking as well. Its
queer motions when it attempted to walk have
given it its name—the tumbler. "As thick as
the hair on a dog's back" expresses nothing in
Mexico, for tbe .V! exican dog is utterly devoid
of hair on his back or anywhere else. The hot
climate having rendered it superfluous, mother
nature kindly divested him of it. Nor does "tbe
little busy bee Improve each shining hour" in
that country. On the contrary, it soon learns
that, as there is no winter there, there is no
necessity for laying in a store of honey and de
generates into a thoroughbred loafer. "As big
as a whale" might be rather small, as there Is a
species of the ■ etacean genus hardly three feet
long. "As cunning as a fox" would have sounded
idiotic to tbe discoverers of Kemschatka. They
found foxes iu large numbers, but so stupid be
cause they had never seen an enemy that they
could be killed with clubs The "bird* of a
feather" that "flock together" do not helung to
the penguin family, as they are entirely desti
tute of feathers, having for a covering a kind of
stiff down. Another penguin peculiarity is
that it swims not on. but under the water,
never keeping more than iu head out, and,
when fishing, coming to tbs surface at sucu
brief and rare intervals that an ordinary ob
server would almost certainly take it for a fish.
Ducks swim tbe world over, but geese do not
In South America a domestic species is found
that cannot excel an ordinary hen in aquatic
accomplishmenu. It has lived so long in a
country wh re water is only found in wells that
it has lost its aquatic tastes and abilities en
tirely. "As awkward as a crab" does not apply
on some of the South Sea islands, for a crab is
found there that not only rune as fast as an
average man, but climbs trees with the ease of
a sehool boy.
Of all the routes across the United Btatea
to the Pacific coast, says the New York Sun,
there is not one that has not done more or less
to familiarize the traveling public with what is
called sage brush. Tbe further south the route
the more abuudant it this weed, which hss
added a phrase to our language by giving its
name to the soil upon which it thrives—often
when nothing else of vegetation can endure te
side it. To speak of a reach of country as "sag*
brush land” is to present a picture to the miDd
of a man familiar with tbe far west. Through
that phase euch a man eee* a treeless, parched
plain or bench of dull, baked looking earth
dotted with thick-stemmed, drv, fltnnel-like,
duet covered shrubs of a greenish, whitish
brown appearanoe. These grow as garden
weeds do in the east, a hand high or a yard
or so above ground. The land which is
distinguished by their presence, in greater
or less quantities, is that part of the
plains and Rocky mountain region
which receives the least rainfall A
major part of it was once known as the Great
American Deecrt. The sage brush is known to
scientists as artemisin tnaenlata. 51 ost per
sons who are familiar with it think of it a* an
ordinary weed of email size, as I have described
It, and even so high an authority as the "Ency
olopmdia Britannica" refers to it as growing in
"treeless valleys and slopes.” It will astonish
most persons to know that it sometimes grows
to euch proportions as to provide a section of
country with trees of its own wood, producing
groves of thick trunked and comparatively tall
trees, instead of mere weeds. Prof. Klwcod
Mead, the state engineer of Wyoming, wbileex
plormg the northern end of central parts of that
state last summer, came upon a district where
the sage brush thrived thus gigantically. slany
of the Fage trees that he saw were eighteen
feet high, with trunks at least a foot in diame
ter. This was in the Big Horn basin, east of tae
National Y'ellowstone park and northeast
of the Wind river Indian reservation, where
the No Wood river joins the Big
Horn. Prof, Mead returned to Cheyenne en
thusiastic in bis praise of tbe basin now little
known except to tbe stockmen whose cowe
range there It is as big a* some of the older
stale*, and will provide plenty of water for Irri
gation from the tributaries of the Big Horn
river. Several very large irrigable tracta have
been surveyed already. No railroads yet reach
the district, but the Burlington and Missouri
railroad is building to Sheridan In the county of
that name, and has employed Reagents to "spy
out the land" beyond Prof. Mead had never
seen such big sage brush aa he discovered there,
but since his return he realizes the truth of
Solomon’s assertion that there is no new thing
under the sun because he has been Informed
that, at some point In California, the same weed
“grows to such proportions that the people cut
It for cord wood."
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