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SOUTHERN DIRECT TRADE
ONH OP THE LARGEST VICTORIES
BEING ACHIEVED.
'Western Exports Through South At
lantic Ports Being Worked Up by
Trade Bodies.
From the Setvs and Courier.
The direct trade movement, begun ten
months ago by CoL Stovall and myself, has
made many big steps and won large re
sults.
Several partial line* of steamers have
been started and oomplete lines projected,
evidencing that proof has been made that
the time is ripe for it and the conditions
ready to succeed, and seaports are seeking
the benefit Foreign ship men have
promptly put on any vessels desired and
supported; rail rued heads south and west
have rallied to the move lu all ways, and
merchants promised stuff.
One vital element of success was as low
rates of freight by the railroads from the
west to South Atlantic ports as by any
other route. South AMantio ports are
nearer to western markets by rail than
North Atlantic ports, and while not a< near
as gulf ports yet the sea sail around the
Florida reefs it over 1.000 miles longer, with
greater risk and insurance, and warmer,
more hnmid air on grain m bulk, with more
liability to damage.
Seeing the need of low rates, Col. Stovall
and 1 on April 21, 1892, applied to the South
ern Railway and Steamship Association for
them. As early as January, 1892, Mr.
Nathan did the same thing for Charleston.
The able commissioner quoted us the au
thority of the body for him to give us rales
when asked for by ship men, and said he
would do so. which we published and sent
to English ship men.
It was in this stage*of the general move
ment that oertain enterpi isiug and pro
gressive gentlemen of the commercial
boards of Bruuswlok, Savannah, Fort
Koyal and Charleston united to
gether, obtained from the association in
New York, on Keb. 14 last, ns low export
rates as by New Orleans, and organized an
able and active committee to work up ex
port business from the west to these four
South Atlantic ports. Export companies
have been formed in Charleston and Savan
nah for this purpose. The export commit
tee has held meetings in Charleston and
Savannah and will hold the next one In
Brunswick.
This is a strong victory for the southern
direct trade movement and means business.
The c mmercial bodies are the right
agencies to give success to any trade move
ment. The striking feat of the Savannah
Board of Trade under President L). G, Purse,
in getting a more than $2,000,000 fund from
congress for deep water, is in point. This
export effort is a magnificsnt stroke for
direct trade, and its chief force is that it is
a common union for the good of all. unit
ing the whole for the weal of each.
In concert is strength, and these official
crusades have a power that no individual
attempt can use. This organized method is
the sure means of triumph, and popular
thanks are due to the spirits that have done
this work.
Direct trade is moving right along. Two
•hips of the English K. ott Prince line
have sailed from Charleston under man
agement of the Street brothers. The Sa
vannah, Brunswick and Pensacola lines are
all successfully operating.
The arrangement- fir ibn liiglaud line at
Port Royal are being steadily o hisummated,
end I l,ave had a letter from Mr. Sands of
London in the last day or two that the
financial arrangements for his large line
were completed and that be expected to be
In the south within a month.
With western exports and southern naval
stores, phosphate, fruit and vegetables, the
dull summer season should be bridged over
to the next cotton season, beginning in the
early fall.
The able export committee consists of
Theodore Nathan, Charleston, chairman;
and Thaddeus Street, Charleston; I. B.
Tied.-man and G. P. Walker, Savannah,
and AF. Churchill and M. Isaac, Bruns
wick-. I. W. Avery.
CHARLES ON’4 CHURCH MATiEH.
What a Brunswick Man Has to Bay
About It.
Brunswick, Oh., March 17 .—Editor
Morning News-. In a recent issue of yopr
esteemed paper your Charleston corres
pondent has a short but spiritual account of
what he calls a “Ritualistic Rector,” In
which he tells us that the Rev. G. F. Degan
was too rich or too high for the local rulers
of the Episcopal church, and for such of
fenses the standing committee has retired
him to other and broader fields.
This t my mind is the most absurd and
unchristian charge which an intelligent
hotly of churchmen could bring forwaid
against ouv clergyman of their church.
Because a clergyman has lofty ideas of true
and spiritual worship due to Almighty
God and carries them out by combining
bodily and ou ward reverence with inward
piety; because he puts the cross—the
emblem of our holy faith—on the altar; be
cause he puts candles there also to remind
us that our blessed Lord is the light of the
world; because he chants the prayers w hich
has been the custom from the time of
Moses, in fact because he thiuke enough of
God to houor him outwardly as
much as the most pious claims
to do inwardly, or as much as high-minded
people pretend to honor and love their dear
friends, he is put down as “high church,"
“Romeward bound,” “ritualist,” and a very
dangerous fellow altogether.
Let us carry the same ideas into the social
world for comparison. Do the people who
objeot to light* on their ohuroh altar refrain
from lighting their own houses with the
most oostly and elaborate fixtures? Do
they who condemn crosses and
carved and painted representations
of our blessed Lord, frown down any at
tempt to fill their own homos with pictures
and loving mementoes of dear departed
friends and relatives* Do those who object
to elaborate priestly garments, whioh God
commanded should be worn for “glory and
for beauty” (Ex. xxviii.i refuse to dress
themselves and families in the finest cloth
ing that their means will allow ; And
would not any of them who so strongly de
nounce outward form and oeremouy in
divine service, more strongly condemn the
actions of ill-mannered and boorißh in
dividuals in their own parlors?
Ma >y Protestants seam to forget the fact
thus ihs beautiful aud grand ritual of the
Church of Rome can be imitated, without
imitating what they call the erroneous
teachings of Rome. Would that these serv
ices wete more imitated by the congrega
tions of Protestant churches, thon we shouid
not see people sitting in prayer. Bitting in
praise and sitting during the reading of ehe
Holy Gospel; in fact, offering a deadly in
sult to their maker iu his house, by not
showing him es much courtesv as they
would a trial justice hearing a ease of petty
larceny.
I have been told by peo: le yet living that
In their younger days some sects of Protest
ants objected to bells, organs, staiuglai-s
windows, crosses and every vaiiety of beau
•ful ecoiesiastn ai architecture, lueir meet
ing bousuß being a square, box-like build
ing, furnished with stiff back pews, and a
pulpit in one end, behind which the preacher
held forth Sundays to congregations who
came there, not for the purpose of worship
ing God so muoh as to hear tiie preacher.
All holy days which the ohurch observes in
rememorance of our biassed Lord and his
apostles, the blessed V irgin and other saints,
were ruthlessly discarded and people taught
to regard all such as the “rags of popery.”
However, while uncalled for prejudice still
exist against forms aud ceremonies by
many, it is lntereiting to note that others
are becoming more reconciled, and
even advancing toward them iu
many respect.; for these same
unsightly mooting bouses nave in
many instances been replaced by ohurohly
lookingedifices, with beautiful windows and
! with the "mark of the beast” capping their
I graceful spires; and the “ cbyloulsb tones
| of the devil’s bagpipe” is heard pealing forth
| anthems of praise, aud other “rags of
’ popery" ere flaunted in the very faces of a
non-protesting congregation.
W bat surprises many of us is that in -
te liigeut members ot our own communion
should confound the Anglican Catholic
’ church, and its branch iu this country,
with the Reman Catholic church. They
are two separata organizations so far ax
ecclesiasteal dignitaries are concerned, and
have been from the beginning, except for
tho s; a :e of time from the first of the XIII.
century, to about the middle of the XVI.
century, during which time our church
was under the unlawfully usurped juris
diction of the Bishop of Rome. Ho con
sequently whatever forms and ceremonies
which were used by the Rev. G. F.
Degan, and whioh gave such offeriße to the
local rulc-rs of the church in nis diocese,
were perfectly consistent and merely a re
vival of old customs that were discorded
for no earthly reason which aby one can
give, unless it was to appease the fa. atical
puritans in England during the XVII.
century.
Let us hear no more of such twaddle
about ritualism. It Is unbecoming to sav
the least of it.
“Let us worship the Lord in the beauty
of holiuess, and let tbe whole earth stand in
awe of him.” Layman.
WAYCROsS WAIFS.
Five Stores Closed by the Sheriff-Toe
Town’s Sanitary Condition.
Waycross, March 18. —Five stores owned
by Messrs. Hersohkovitz Bros, were closed
Filday by the sheriff. The stores are as fol
lows: One furniture establishment, two dry
goods and clothing houses, ouo bakery and
oonft'ctiouery establishment in this city, and
also a mammoth furniture and general mer
cantile store at Homerville, Ga. Herschko
vitz Bros, transferred the stock of each of
the five stores, amounting to about $85,000
in all, to VVemburg & Uhlfelder ot New
York, and tho creditors of Hersohkovitz
Bros, filed a petition for the appointment of
a permanent receiver. The pe.itiou will be
heard bef. re Judge Sweat iu chambers to
day.
The sanitary condition of the city is first
class. There is no town in Houth Georgia
that has as good a sanitary system as Wav
cross. The streets are kept clean aud close
attention is paid to the general cleanliness
of the city. The health record is remark
ably good. There is no sickness among the
people. There is no cauie tor malaria or
fevers. Tho death rate is very small iu
comparison with that of other towns of the
size of Waycross. Consumptives and those
affected with lung diseases will find the
climate and place benefioial to them. This
is destined to become a great place tor
tourists and invalids on account of tbe
salubrious climate, trie general cloanliness
and healthfulness of the place.
The Waycross Rifles failed t.< |go to Folk
ston y esterday on aooount of the rain. They
had made preparations to attend the speak
ing of Gov. Northen aud Commissioner
Brad well and they were disappointed in not
being able to do so. The Rifles are drilling
for the state encampment and they will
make a good showing there. They are
pleased to know that tbe encampment
grounds have been improved and expeot to
have a delightful time at the encampment.
RELIGIOUS NOTES.
The circulation of the Sunday Schoo
Revival in April will be 6,000 copies. The
paper will contain the proceedings of tbe
annual convention of the Twenty-seventh
Georgia Htate Sunday School Association,
which will be held at Blackshenr the last
weak in April. Editor Sweat is doing a
great work for the cause o t the Sunday
schools.
Tho colored Baptist’s district association
is In session iu this city. The openiug ser
mon was preaohed last night by Rev. W.
11. Scruggs. There is a large attendance of
delegates to tbe association. Rev. George
W. Mathews preached a sermon this morn
ing to a large audienoe. To-night Rev.
Bamuel (colored) will oonduot the services.
There will be a large congregation to-mor
row morning aud night. The association
will remain in session till Huuday night,
when it will close.
A telephone exchange is greatly needed
in Waycross. It would be well patronized
and would greatly facilitate business. The
movement to establish a telephone exohange
should be started at onoe. It is a necessity
td the business and professional men of the
place.
A. M. Knight was seen to-day in regard
to tbe new bank. He said that the bank
would be organized within sixty days. So
far $25,000 has been subscribed in Waycross.
A large amount of stock will also be taken
by persons iu Savannah, Jacksonville and
other places.
Judgo Joel L. Sweat has been bolding the
superior court at Baxlev, Oa., this week.
Several important cases have been tried
aud the session of the court has been very
interesting. A large number of civil and
criminal oases appeared on the court
docket.
W. P. Lee is dosing out bis business here
preparatory to moving to Fort Mudge, Ga.,
where he is engaged in the tie business. Mr.
Lee has some large contracts and oannot
look after a business here.
Judge AVarren Lott’s new building is
nearing completion. The building is con
nected with tbe old building ocoupied by
W. R. Molntosn & Cos., and will be used as
apart of the firm’s establishment.
MUSICAL CONCERT IN PROSPECT.
Ludden & Bates will give one of their
delightful musical concerts at the Hinith
building, on Pendleton etreec, Monday
night. Their conoerts are being compli
mented wherever they ore held.
The fourth quarter of the Wayoross
graded school oommences Monday.
A. Sessions and family, of Hessoms, will
move into their handsome residence on Lee
avenue next Tuesday.
F. M. Hawkins, bookkeeper for the Way
cross Lumber Company, returned to Wal
tertown, Ga., yesterday.
Rev. Mr. Way, who has been attending
the Pierson meetings, has returned to
Walthourvllle, Ga.
Dr. English of this city will leave Mon
day for New York and Saratoga Springs.
Messrs Uhlfelder and Weinberg of New
York are visiting Hersohkovitz brothers.
Mbs Met is Hasnett of this city is visiting
relatives in Savannah.
Miss .Mamie Hack is on a visit to her sis
ter at Maoou, Ga.
Mrs. N. B. Garrett is visiting relatives at
Raleigh, N. C.
Mr. and Mrs. Carson of Blaekshear, Ga.,
are visiting friends in the city.
Miss Jessie Freeman, who has been visit
ing friends in the city, has returned to Sa
vannah. •
Mrs. Dr. Wilkinson,who has been visiting
Mrs. W. W. Sharpe, has returned to Quit
man , Ga.
Mrs. J. O. A. Cook of Brunswiok is visit
ing her son, C. E. Cook.
Miss Lizzie Ambrose, who has been visit
ing in the city, has returned to Savannah.
Mrs. Dart, who has been visiting Mrs. W.
W. Sharpe, has returned to her home at
Brunswick.
Miss Christine Nelson, who has been vis
iting friends in Savannah, has returned to
tbe city.
COLQUITT’S SUCCESSOR.
Tbe question as to who is the cboloe of
tbe people of this section for senator, to
succeed A. H. Colquitt in tbe United States
Senate, is being agitated. The names of
Hon. Fleming G. dußignon aud Capt.
Henry G. Turner are prominently used in
this connection. Tbe general opinion is
that Mr. Turner would make a good sen
ator, and, should he enter tbe raco, would
reoeive the indorsement of his fronds in
the Eleventh congressional district” It is
not believed that Mr. Turner will be la the
race. Public opinion is about equally di
vided between Mr. Turner and .Mr. du-
Bignon. Should Mr. Turner not enter the
raoe Mr. dußignon will be the general
cboioe of the people of this section.
First Stranger—lt seems to me I have
seen your face before. Second Stranger.
Quite likely. That’s where I carry it.— Tit-
Bits.
THE MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY, MARCH 19,1893---SIXTEEN PAGES,
IIAROUN-AL-KASCHID.
WHEN THE CALIPH READ TALEB f
TO THS THREE FBI3ND-.
Forced to Listen to the “Arabian
Nights” In Manuscript—Two Favora
ble Criticisms—The Tailor’s Severe
View of tho Wonderful Stories and
ills Reward.
From the Sew York Times.
“About 1,000 years ago,” said a gentle
man the other evening to some members cf
his club, “when I was living at Bagdad
during the caliphate of that king of good
fellows and astute man of the world. Ha
roun-ai-Kaschid, I numbered among my
friends Mustapha ibn Abib the tailor, and
a crony of his called Cogia Arsian the fish
erman. Every day except Friday the latter
was aftcustoined to go down to the Tigris,
cast bis nets, light bis pipe and sit sinuking
on the stringpiece of the dook and wait pa
tiently till tho proper time came to draw in
his nets. If he caught anything he always
brought a fish or two to the tailor’s house,
where we all sharod it, but if look ran
again:-1 him, either Ahib or myself would
be the host on the housetop that evening,
eujoyiug figs, almonds, dates, raisins, and
occasionally a jug of wine, for, although
the prophet enjoins true believers against
the juice of the grape, any stndent of the
■ Arabiau Nights’ knows that much of it was
druok in tboie days, just as Mohammedans
get awny with a good deal of it now.
“Hitting ou the housetop In the cool of
the evening, we watched the stars come out
and the domes and minarets fade into
shadow. Sometimes we would go down
into the garden, where Mustapha ibn Abib
would sing to us, accompanying himself on
the lute, and tho musio would presently set
the ass of the neighboring tmsum to bray
ing, whereupon we would all pluck our
beards and curse tbe beast for a son of
Shitan, wandering and out of place among
tbe abodes of the sons of Adam. On such
occasions Mustapha was peculiarly adroit
in the administration of curses; but this
went for nothing, since he often cursed the
nightingales and swore at tbe stars, which
heeded him as lictlo as the imaum’s ass. It
is singular how little attention any of them
paid to him.
“If I remember rightly, 1 was not then a
thorough Mussulman, though I had the
greatest possible respect fur tbe prophet, 1
think 1 was an Armenian Christian, with
some slight leanings toward Brahmanism,
with whioh I had become acquainted during
my travels in India. While in the holy city
of Lhasa, in Thibet, I had come to look
with considerable favor upon Buddhism,
which was still further enhanced by a so
journ of some months in that strangest and
most ancient of oities, ltenares.
“in Bagdad I had formed the acquaint
ance oi several fire worshipers, whose faith
and whose simplicity of ritual I had learned
to respect iu Iran, and lu the bazars, which
I much frequented, I had become lutimate
with a multitude of Jbwish merchants and
physioians, and to their religion, after it bod
been explained to me, 1 was greatly drawn,
though the abseuoe from it of many at
tractive superstitions both shocked and
amazed me, till I perceived that, after all,
this absence was rather theoretical than
practical, and that ‘credat Judn-us Apelia’
was as applicable in the oaliph’s capital os
in the Rome of Augustus.
“It may be added that I was an expert
performer on the bassoon and was passion -
ately fond of poetry, especially of that
which portrays and expresses the sentiment
of love, such, for example, as one finds in
Hafiz and Firdouai. My predilection for the
sciences showed itself iu my devotion to
those of the astronomer and the oculist, be
cause stars and eyes are the loveliest thlnge
in the world. To some extent also I was
acquainted with botany, because of the
musktose, tbe lily, the various varieties of
convolvulus whioh grew iu profusion just
outside the oity walls on the road to the
cemetery. I was, moreover, food to fawn
ing of the cedars of Lebanon, under whose
shade 1 have often sat musing iu Palestine,
by cool Siloam’s shady rill. I looked, too,
with much favor upon the Gahda tree, a
fine description of which you will find in
Sir William Jones’ translation of the Moal
lakat, which is, or at least ought to be, in
tbe club library. As it ought to be there, it
probably isn’t, but the Enoyolopasdia
Bntannlca, which is everywhere, in the
American edition, may suffice.
“I was youug then to know so much?
Not so very young. I had seeu the
sculptured slabs of Persepolis put up; I had
delved for gold upon tha barren hillsides of
Handaracurgium; I had studied hieratic
writings with Amen-hotep, suggested the
architecture of cavo temple at Elepbanta,
with its sculptured Trimunti, had stood be
fore tbe Pharaoh with Moses when his rod
swallowed up those of the sorcerers, and
mine among them—and I wish I
had it now for purposes whioh
I dread to divulge—and. of oourse, I
had been among the disciples of Pythagoras,
and had even watohed the growth
of that great man when, as a delicate tre
foil for a thousand years, with other plants
of the same gonus, he muffled warm a slope
on Ida. So you may see that I was not so
very young when I found myself at Bagdad
aud among its towers of fretted gold in tbe
days of good llaroun-al-Raschld, with the
sun of Homer shining on me still, although,
alas! my comrades —kai gar spheteresin
atasthalissin olonto. Excuse this Greek,
but I feel it, aud there is a copy ot the new
edition of Li-dell and Scott in the club
library, annotated, if I remember rightly,
by Hcrevelius and tbe scholiasts.
“Cogia Arslan, the fisherman, had a
1-eyed camel, on whose back 1 made fre
quent jourueys into the desert, and so to
Bussorah.
•‘Sometimes when we three friends, Mus
tapha ibn Abib, Cogia Arslan aud myself,
were sitting in conversation or song upon
the housetop we would be visited by the
commander of tbo faithful, who would
come bustling up the ladder with a breezy
air and a hearty salutation and a vain aud
shallow pretense of no* wearing stays and
having false teeth, os he most assuredly did
and had. Occasionally ho brought Giafar
and Mesrour along with him, and occasion
ally, though not always, he left his disguise
at home. He was a good-looking man and
bore so olose a resemblance to George IV.
when he was prinoe regent that if he had
worn a blue ooat with brass buttons I
should really been quite startled. Mesrour
looked like tbe marquis there iu the oorner
and had his beautiful voice, but Giafar re
sembled a most pernicious sou of Shitan,
and none of us ever liked him.
‘ ‘Once on ihe housetop, Al-Raschid al
ways wanted to talk literature aud literary
criticism. At that time he was about to
publish his edition of ‘The Arabian Nights,’
nod ho hud the bad taste to insist on read
ing tbe whole of it to us piececneaL When
first he proposed to do bo it was our opin
ion that we should prefer to read it in
print, but tbe caliph wanted our criticism,
and was handsome enovgb to give us to
understand that if we refused to listen
Giafar would p: obably feel it his duty to
sew us up in a sack —in other words, to put
our heads in a Lag—and cast us into the
Tigris.
“We tried to shuffle and we pleaded en.
gagements that could not be put off with
out gieat peouniary loss. Mustapha had
sworn to meet a genie who had spared his
life in the previous year on oomUefrri that
on that day twelvemonth he would come
and be killed for putting out, with pome
granate seed, the eye of the son of the genie
as ho was strolling about the garden;
C g a Artean bad given his solemn word
to listen to the story of the one-eyed calen
dar who issued the first almanao and to
learn how he made his prophecies and
weather foreoasts with such exceeding ac
curacy, and, as for myself, 1 had promised
to witness tho transformation of Solomon
ben Dud, the Usurer, into a blaok dog by
Amine, tbe daughter of Hassan, the tant
mnkor, who was profioient in the resources
of white magic.
“But these excuses were of no avail,
plausible as they were. Then we all pre
tended to be terribly hungry and thirsty,
but the caliph, by rubbing his ring, just as
the marquis will kindly press that eleotrio
button, immediately summoned a genie of
terrible aspeot, who, at bis command. at
onoe spread before us a wonderful feast
served on golden piates. In the center of
each of which was a large diamond. Heeiug
that the genie had forgotten the wine, the
commander of tut* faithful gave him a ter
rible blast and sent him back in a hurry for
many flasks of the most delicate wine- of
b iiraz. There was no reason why we should
not listen so tha caliph, aud for many
nights he read to us—for many, many
night*.
“The commander of the faithful was a
reasonable man on the whole, even though,
when, as frequently happened, Cogia
Arslan grunted disapproval, he threatened
to bowstring the man and hamstring his
camel. He paid most attention to Mush
tapha ibn Abib, the tailor, and when this
person made some more or less Incisive
criticism. Harouti—which, by the way, is
only a fancy way of spelling Aaron —would
smile and always say, ‘Tetigit acu.’ which
remark Mustapha always received as a
compliment.
‘ 1 Whbn at lost the thousaud-and-flrst ta'.e
hod been ended, the caliph—anil, by the
wsy, what an abomination to the just is
not that modern way o t pedants to spell
that name khaleef—threw himself back in
his chair and said
“ ‘They thinn that because I am oom
mander of the faithful and bear on my
shoulders the burden of Bagdad 1 can’t
wnte novels. May their faces be turned
upside down and may jackasses sit upon
their fathers' graves! ! ickabxo thinks so,
and Huddud tho Weaver, and Tomato
Khan, tha potentate of China, aud Moomo,
tho daughter of Ghazi, tbe imauin. But
wbat do you think, gentlemen! Give me
your candid opinion.’
"Casting myself at the oaliph’s feet, I
said: ‘Commander of tbe faithful, I am one
of four brothers and two sisters who are all
of a literary turn of mind. What we do
not know oau hardly be worth knowing,
and 1 swear by the heard of the prophet and
the great seal of Solomon that never In
KsyP*l n papyrus or on tho rolls of As
syria, is hieroglyphic or hieratic text, navel
road such wonderful tales os those of your
majesty. You should lay in a stock of
fresh goods and live In an honorable way
on the proceeds of your pen alone. Dismiss
your harem; send Giafnrand Mesrour pack
ing, and devote you self to writing for the
remainder of your days, and your name
will shine like Aldebaran and Orion in the
literary world forever.’
““Tis well spoken,’ said the Caliph.
What is your opinion, Cogia Arslan the
fisherman V
“The fisherman prostrated himself and
said: 'Commander of tho faithful, I am
one of thirty sons and seven sisters, all of a
literary turn of mind, well instructed in
Koran from our earliest youth, punctual at
the mosque, and continuous in the practice
of (taring the nails of our hands and feet
and cutting our hair on Friday, as was the
custom of our holy prophet, whose name be
exalted. My father was a wealthy merchant
of Motsul, who became impoverished
through the malignancy of a frightful
genie, and was forced to become a fisher
man, though through the kind otilces of a
peri named Pari-Bamm’—and, by the way,
boys, do you know that Pari-Bonon
is the same a5 ti e Parasatla of Xen i
phon and the m nsr of Kho Khos
ron, that is to say, of Cyrus? If you don’t,
just look the thing up. 'This perl so
managed affairs that my father always
caught large fish, whioh he sold for a great
pries to tho Emperor of Persia, and so be
came rich again. On this n count I feel
qualified to say that as a novelist your
highness is to others as the full moon to
the moon two days old.’
“ ‘lt is well snoken,’ said the caliph.
“Wbat is your opinion, Mustapha Ibn Abib
the tailor?’
"Mustapha cost hiuoself at tho caliph's
feet and said: ‘Commander of the faithful,
I am one of forty brothers and an equal
number of sisters, aud I owu a toothless
donkey with no hair on its tail and lame in
its off fore leg. W# are all of a literary
turn of mind and houest to a painful de
gree. You ask my opinion. On my head
belt. Your novels are very good iu their
way, and are marked, at once by grace and
charm. They are, however, grossly disfig
ured by the element of improbability that
largely outers into them.’
"'On your head be it I’said the caliph,
making a note in his note book. ‘And
wherein, pray, do you find this element of
Improbability, which element I hold, with
other critics and men of letters, to bo the
true mark of incapability and laok of lit
erary culture?’
‘ “Of said Mustapha, ‘the whole book
is full of it. Tho grotesque jumps on the
back of the wonderful, even as the Old
Man of the Sea jumped cn the back of
Sinbad, and oomes nign to strangling it.
Do you suppose, for example, that the pre
tended uncle of Aladdin would have walked
all the way from Africa to China when he
might have summoned an afreet or a genie to
bear him thither in au Instant? Do you
think for a moment that anybody will be
lieve your tale of Prinoe Beder when you
say ti.ere that a Persian merchant paid
10,000 pieces of gold for a female slave,
when at that time the market prioe was
only 5,000 pieces at the highest? Can it be
possible that you can attempt to foist on
the public suoli an improbable and prepos
terous ftory that Baba Muitapha, in the
Forty Thieves, oould, when blindfolded, re
trace his steps through a great oity and
stop precisely at Cassirn’s door, to which,
when blindfolded, he had been but onoa
led?
“‘Where Is your critical aoumen, where
is your sense of congruity when you tell us,
as lu the tale of Ali Cogia, that a common
street beggar would, when receiving alms,
always insist on receiving a whack on the
ear with it? Are you so lost to every feel
ing of the likely, the probable, that you can
try to impose oa a discerning puilio with
the ridiculous humbug that in a well
ordered household a servant maid liko Mor
giaua would for an instant be permitted to
make remarks about tho nay in which a
guest and a gentleman eats his dinner? And
so on, and so on throughout the whole book.
Nothing but improbability on improba
bility piled till the eye of the critic glows
with fire and his impatient and rebuking
pen quivers in his trembling hand I On my
head be it!’
“ ‘This is really too bad,' said the com
mander of tho faithful, and l confess that
you are eminently right. Como and dine
with ino to-morrow night. Thero will be
only three other guests, and I am sure you
will like them. These are an aireet, a genie
and n peri, with eyes like sapphires and
arms like those of bouris in Paradise. I
shall expect you promptly at 7 o’clock.
As to those other gentleman— ’ and scowl
ing malignantly he withdrew from the
housetop.
“That very night Cogia Arslan hanged
himself, and before tho next sun arose I was
in the desert and half way to Bussorab,
seated ou the back of Cogia Arslan’s Loyod
camel.
RAIL AND CROSGTIE.
The custom among railroad lines of hav
ing some pot train upon which they bestow
unusual ntteution and favor is beooming
more and more popular each year. The
“Nancy Hanks” of the Georgia Central,
the “Fast Klving Virginian” of the Chesa
peake and Ohio road, the “Royal Blue Line”
of the Baltimore and Ohio and the “West
India Mail" of the Atlantic Coast Line, are
instances of the popularity of this fad. The
Baltimore and Ohio road now announces
that it will operate a “Royal Crimson Line”
between Baltimore and Chicago. The Rail
way Review, speaking of the announcement
in a humorous manner, snys: “The train
will be painted a bright crimson from the
nose of the cowoatcher, clear baok to the
bumpers on tbe hindmost coaob. A red
beaded fireman will shovel coal for a red
headed engineer, who will reoeive his orders
from a red-headed conductor, and will
answer the signals of a red-headed brako
man, and special rates will bo made to red
headed passengers” It is further noted by
the Review that this will be the only train
In the world that will be striotly in favor of
tho color line, aud the Review is inclined to
tbluk that the enterprising general passen
ger agent of the Baltimore and Ohio will be
responsible for some “red-haded” passenger
agents as well as passengers.
CHURCH SALOONS.
ALL SORTS CF PEOPLE LISOU33
THE SU3JECT.
One Gentleman With a Jag, a Trum
pet-toned Prohibitionist, Mr. Birt
wistle, Whose Nose Wbb Falsely
Accused of Redness, and Old Prof.
Bloom, Who Oau’t Be Shut Up—A
Great Night for Orators.
Front the Sew York Sun.
The Rev. Dr. W. 8. Raiusford ot St.
George’s ohuroh, the originator of the idea
of the ohuroh saloon, lsctured on hissoheme
before a large audience in the chapel of Bt.
Chrysostom’s church at 520 Seventh avenue
last night. Dr. Kaicsford’s lecture had been
extensively advertised and everybody in
terested had been invited. Those who came
proved to be very much interested, some of
them even exoited.
Dr. Raiusford began by saying that most
of the saloons in England were owned by
tbe distillers and brewers, and that this sys
tem was being gradually introduced here.
“When all of onr saloons are held In this
way,” said Dr. Hainsford. "it is going to be
a serious thing. The only thing that we
can do le to meet fire with fire. Alcohol has
come here to stay. It has always been in
nse and ulways will be. I have been
whacked and lambasted almost every day
by somebody ever since I first made public
my solution of the saloon question. Tne
whackings have never hurt me any, how
ever, and to-night I am just as firm in my
belief that my solution is the only feasible
one as I was when I first proposed it, and I
can stand twice as much lambasting in the
future as I have had in the past, and still
remain of tha same mind. To tail tbe truth,
every whaok administered to me nas made
me swell up with pride.
“All the men who keep saloons are not
bad men, 1 have met saloonkeepers who
were good men, although limagineit would
be difficult to convince some prohibitionists
of this fact. I say right now that Ido not
believe in prohibition at ail. You cannot
force men to be good by law. I think that
my scheme is the only one that will do any
good, and In proof I cite the case of Nor
way.
“Twenty-five years ago more liquor per
capita was sold there than in any other
country in the world. It was estimated that
in the course of one year on average of four
gallons of liquor for each and every man,
woman and ohlld in Norway had been sold.
In Gotbenberg the better classes bought up
each saloon as its license expired, then se
cured new licenses and ran the saloons m
their own way. They sold only the best
quality of liquors, and all of the profits out
side of 5 percent., which was retained for
expenses, was turned over to the munici
pality. The result has been that in the last
sixteen years the cases of delirium tremens
in Norway have fallen off 64 per cent. The
system does not include beer seliare. In
Norway a house which sells beer is known
as a temperance house.
“This is the system 1 want to introduce
here. I wanted to start a saloon in connec
tion with my church, but came to the con
clusion that one place of the kiud in this
large city would be of no use. I want to
see the day when olubs will be started on
every block in every street in this city for
the purpose of selling good beer and good
whisky, none to be served to drunken men
or to those likely to become druuk and none
to be sold after oertatn hours at night.
Make no secret of tho place, but throw open
the blinds and create a place where you
would not be ashamed to take your wife.
The present retail trade is the greatest
swindle ou earth. The Gotbenberg system
has got to come here, and the time will
come when the liquor business in this city
will be in the hands of the best people In
stead of in the hands of the worst, as is is
now.”
A fairly well-dressed mau, who had made
himself conspicuous several times during
the evening by bursts of applause, got up
and said;
“I’m jagged, for fair, but I’ve listened to
your remarks pretty carefully, Dr. Itains
ford, and to say tbe least you are logical.
Yes, sir,” went on this citizen, to tbe amaze
ment of the younger element in the hall and
the horror of the old ladies present, ‘ ‘l’m
pretty well jagged. lou may not believe
it, but I am.”
“You’d better sit down,” said Dr. Ralns
ford. Some of the people in the room agreed
with the doctor, while others urged tbe man
to keep on. After making a few more re
marks about his jag the man sat down. He
was heard from several times before the
evening was out. A young man who said
his name was Coleridge A. Hart got up to
speak.
“Never in my life,” said Mr. Hart, “until
now have I heard of a minister of the gospel
who advocated fighting the devil witn fire.
I always heard that the devil was to be
fought with the doctrine of the Holy Ghost,
and I tell you it is the only right way to
tight sin. Dr. Rainsiord’s idea is nonsense,
I say Some others and 1 started a club on
the lines of Dr. Rainsford’s Sunday school
saloon sometime ago. We divided into
three classes. In the first light wines oould
be indulged in. In the second good liquors
were allowed, while in the third total absti
nence was the rule.
“Before the olub had been going three
months every member in it belonged to the
second class, and half of them were drunk
ards, Don’t fight fire with flee, but fight it
with the Holy Ghost. How would it look to
go into a church saloon of the kind the
reverend doctor advocates anl read signs
on tbe wall: ‘Golden Text—Mint Juleps,’
•Sunday School Cocktails a Specialty.’
Wouldn’t that be——?”
Mr. Hart was interrupted at this point by
a storm of hisses. He tided to go on, but
the crowd would not let him. There were
more hisses when a small voice came from a
oorner as follows:
“I’m jagged, but you’re logical, dootor,
and ”
A tall, severed,loking man, with a minis
ter’s waistcoat, bald heod and iron gray
beard, arose aud said:
“Is this to be a free and open discussion?”
“It is,” replied the Rev. Dr. Sill, who
o(Hoisted as chairman.
“And I may say wbat I think!”
“You may.”
“Then," suid the man, "I want to say that
Dr. Rainsford’s church saloon is the most
infernal invention of the devil, and his idea
of fighting sin with sin is iniquitous. I
shout ‘prohibition’ now and at all times.
•Prohibition forever!’ ”he shouted. “Fight
tbe saloons with prohibition and ”
"Nonsense!” interrupted a little man be
hind the speaker.
“It is truth,” went on the toll man.
"I say it is nonsense,” replied the littie
man.
“ ‘Nonsense.’ you say,” shouted the tall
speaker, turning oa him. “That’s what ail
fo you red-nosed folks say."
“Red-nrsed!" yelled the little man, spring
ing up. "By goeh, that’s not so. Dr. Raius
tord, and audience, 1 leave it to you all, is
my nose red?”
“It certainly is not,” answered Dr. Rains
ford, who was plainly annoyed at the turn
affairs were taking.
“Well, don’t interrupt me again then,"
said tbe tali prohibitionist grimly.
“But you’re away off,” said the little
man.
“Hoy, do either of you fellows ever
drink!" began the gentleman with tbe jag.
Before he oould get any further about four
teen of the ohuroh brotherhood who were
acting as ushers jumped ou bis neok, and he
was led to a seat in a more secluded part of
the room.
“May Igo on now?” asked the speaker
who didn’t agree with Dr. itatnsford. There
was a chorus of hisses and groaos, but
Chairman Still said that be might, and he
resumed:
“I have four sons, and I would sooner see
them all buried than have anything to do
with Dr. Rainford’s infamous churoh
saloon. A young man In another pare of
the room wpom I saw applauding Dr.
Rainsfora’s idea might have to write a
letter to his home some day something like
this:
Dcaii Mamma—l hove always keptmy promise
to you about cot touching liquor, but our be
loved pastor has started a saloon ia connection
with tiie churoh, and wa nave lovely times
drinking whisky and other things 1 have
grown to like liquor immensely and feel max
our church saloon is doing a great work. The
other day I was downtown and wanted a drink
very bad. There were none of our beioved
church saloons around, so I went into a place,
ana to my great surprise found a German in his
shirt sleeves behind the bar, instead of one of
our ministers of the gospel.
•‘This,” said the speaker, “will be the re
sult of the church saloon. It will make
drunkards. Prohibition forever! Now hiss
all you want.”
The audienoe did hies.
It was learned later that the speaker was
the Rev. John A. B. Wilson. The gentle
man whom he had accused of having a red
nose was W. Thornton Parker Birtwistle.
Kearoely had Mr. Wilson sat down when
a half dozen men sprang to the floor, amoog
them tbe gentleman with tbo jag. He was
speedily squelched. Mr. Birtwistle finally
secured the floor. He said:
“Dr. Rainsford has been shamefully
abused,” and would have said more, but the
audience rose and cheered, until they
threatened to bring the roof down.
When they stopped Mr. Birtwistle was In
his seat and an old man was shaking his fist
at Dr. Rainsford and yelling something at
the top of his voice. One of the brother
hood, who stood beside the Sun reporter,
said in a hoarse whisper, “Holy smoke! how
did he get in?”
"Who is he?” asked the reporter.
"Old Prof. Bloom. If the crowd know
anything, they’il get out.”
But the crowd didn’t seem to know any
thing. The old gentlsman wandered from
tbe subject in baud, and seemed to be de
nouncing ministers in general.
“None of your Rainsford type gentlemen
ministers for me!” he oried. “None of your
ministers who live in brown-stone houses
four stories high aud who ”
“Sit down!” yelled half a dozen voices.
‘‘l won’t. I’ve got tho floor, and I ”
‘ ’Sit down 1” went up the cry from a
hundred throats.
“I won’t,” shrieked the old man so that
his voice was plainly heard above the
racket in the room. “The rest had their
say, and I’ll have mine if I have to yell all
night.”
Prof. Bloom was right. He did have his
say. When he sat down there was a storm
of hisses. He smiled in so.im.
“Say, you may not believe Pm jagged,
but 1 am,” came in a solemn voice from the
corner.
There was a sound as if a number of
boat’s were moving rapidly toward the
back door. Then a few groans arose aud
the gentleman with the jag was no more
heard of.
A man who refused to tell his name made
a forcible speech.
“I have been in this country juet four
years,” he said, “and when 1 first landed my
one idea of solving the liquor question was
by prohibition. I soon had that knocked
out of me. In the matter of liquor I agree
with Dr. Rainsford,
"Fight it with fire, I say. There are
other evils, though, which cannot be fought
In this way. Dr. Parkhurst, for instance,
oould not become one of the degraded
creatures he sought to exterminate in order
to bring aboutthe result he desired.”
A tall man, who said he was Axel Gustaf
son, addressed his remarks to Dr. Rains
ford. He told the latter that his statements
about the liquor traffic in Norway were
away off. Drunkenness flourished as muoh
as ever iu Norway, he said, and no attempt
was being made to cheek it by the authori
ties.
"Why, in Gothenberg, only a short time
ago,” he said. “I myself saw a crowd of five
men frightfully drunk, and I also saw a po
liceman turn his back on them and refuse
to arrest or interfere with them in any way.
I tell you that that officer knew that he
would lose his place if he interfered with
those men.”
No more speakers were allowed to take
the floor after Mr. Gustafsen. Dr. Rains
ford, looking very woary, r ise and made a
brief speech, in which he said he was very
sorry that so few people in the room agreed
with him in the matter of churoh saloons.
He had not expected to raise so much dis
cussion, but was not sorry that he had.
SIXTEEN YfeARS OF EUCHRE.
Nearly 20,000 Games, and One Side
Only 154 Ahead.
From the Chicago Sews Record.
Twenty thousand games of euchre! This is
the record ot the play of four Chicago gen
tlemen who have met every Saturday even
ing for sixteen years ami engaged in that
game which generally marks the initiation
of every novice into tbe never-ending mys
teries of cards. Daniel Westervelt and C.
L. Root have played against Thomas
Benton James and James Taylor. They
have been urged many times to play whist,
or casino, or pinoohie, or seven "up, but
never for one moment have they swerved
from their devotion to euchre.
To be absolutely correct, these four euchre
players, these two pairs of faithful ad
herents to the powers of bowers, reached
their 19,650 th game of euchre last Satur
day evening, and upon the occasion of the
2u,oooth game, whioh will arrive In the
course of a few months, eaoh of the players
intends arriving as the scene of play smok
ing aSO cent oigar. Except on holidays
and anniversaries, it is said, they are su
premely indifferent as to the quality of the
tobaooo they smoke.
Thomas Benton Jamas is a pensioner of
tho wholesale house of Marshall Field &
Cos. He wus a general salesman for that
firm and for twenty-six
years, and about two years ago was placed
upon the retired list with oontinued pay for
services rendered. He is a sprightly gentle
man of mature years, which he places at 69,
but which hie friends usually speak of as
being somewhere under 100. Mr. James’
partner is James Taylor, a congenial
companion with a life record of 70 years,
it is said that James Taylor can indicate by
a graduated system ot pressure upon the
foot of Thomas Benton Janies whether he
is holding right, left, aud ace, 10-spot and
queen, or no trumps at all. Daniel Wester
velt is 73 year; old. He was a salesman for
Field, Leiter & Cos., afterward for A. T.
Stewart & Cos., and fitinlly for Storm &
Hill, retiring when the latter firm retired.
C. L, Root is the * ’boy" of the quartet. He
ia only 63, and is considered ratner wild and
frisky by his companions. Mr. Root drove
stage between Blue Island and Chicago dur
ing the period between 1830 and 1840, and
took no stock whatever in the future of the
city.
Every Saturday night, ns regularly as the
week rolls arouud, these four cronies meet
and play euchre. They shift about, like
sittings of tbo supreme court, from one
bouse >o another, but they ai’.ays sit In tbe
same chairs and in the same relative posi
tions. Almost eight years ago Mr. James
brought to a meeting a copy of “Cavendish
on Whist,” for which he came near being
expelled from the society.
The four players have become so attached
to the simple game of euchre that it is now
a part of their very natures, and in the six
teen years of tlteir weekly contests only an
! occasional case of sickness, to tbe number of
three or four times in all, have oanceled
tbe engagement of either player. A com
plete record of tbe games is kept to show
which side leads from year to year. At
present Mr. James and his partner are 154
games ahead of their opponents. At the
10,000 th game they were 192 games in tbe
lead, but have been losing for tbe last two
years. For a period of five years there wae
no material gain on either side.
All tour of these lifetime euchreists are
gentlemen rather simple in their oustoms,
disinclined to adopt the intricacies of whist
or tho novelty of cinch, aud are unwilling
to conoede that some Saturday night three
of their number will meet at the appointed
plaoe, light their cigars, get the cards in
readiness, and wait for one who will never
deal the oards again.
“This is my youngest boy, Mr. Cynicus,”
said the novelist. “They say ho is very like
me.” “Does he go to sohooli” “Yes. He
can read quite well, but as yet he can’t
write.” “He’s very much like you,” said
Mr. Cynicus.— Harper's Bazar,
|
Many qlrls at school , novt
robust and promising well for sir#
future, were rot always so. In
fancy is a time of tr : al and of
weakness, and it seems a mere',
fui provision that in later years
ail knowledge of that critical
tim*—a struggle between lif, 3
and death—is entirely biottc 1
out. Many a life, now established
ypon a firm basis, owes its sub
stantiality to Johann Hoff’s Malt
Extract. When nursing mothers
have introduced into their dietary
this wonderful tonic the issuehas
invariably been strength ard the
maintenance of health. We know
what a terrible care it. trust be t j
the parental breast for a daughter
to br. ioHing about -n one place
or another th ough listlessness
or indisposition to exertion, or
for a son to be unfitted for study
or businerr through anaemic con
ditions. Begin early with Johann
Hoff’s Malt Extract and Jet every
mother make it a portion of her
daily beverage, and those appa!’.
ing scenes which make the most
luxurious home a mockery of
comfort will be less and Je-s frr.
quent. Purchasers are warned
against imposition and disap.
pointment. lnsist upon the
“Genuine,” which must have the
signature of “Johann Hoff” on
the neck label. Eisner and Men
dclson Cos., sole agents,New York,
■a 11 1 !■■■■ . • mi i _ii
VOYAGE OF THE VIKING 3HIP.
The Departure From Norway to Be
Made Early in April.
From the New York Times.
Tha Viking ship fitting out iu Norway to
bo sent to the Chicago exposition was
launched without accident Feb 4, at
Saudefjord, Norway. It was christened
the Viking and It carried the Norwegian
flag at the stern, and American flag ia the
bow, and the red standard with a golden
lion at the masthead. Besides these flags
it will carry the flag of the old-time Nor
wegian Y linage, a red square with a black
raveu, on its voyage across the Atlantic.
After the launch, which was attended by
prominent ineu from ail parts of Norway,
the ship was taken in tow by a tug, and
proceeded to Christiania, where the ship
will be rigged and fitted out. On this first
voyage the tugboat and its charge vers
caught in the ice about half way between
tbe two places, and, as a gale was blowing
at tbe time, the Viking had a narrow es.
oate from being wreoked by the heavy ice
floes. The crew, however, worked heroi
cally and got the vessel through the ioe
after two days’ suffering, during which
several of them oamo near freezing to
death.
The captain of tbe ship will be Magnus
Anderson, who, in the summer cf 1886, at
tempted to sail from Norway to New York
in an eighteen-foot open h at, aocompaued
by only one ass stant. This voyage dif
fered from most made acro.-s the Atlantic,
in that it was not undertaken for the sake
of personal gain and notoriety, but to dem
onstrate to shipowners and seafaring men
what oan be done with a well-proviaioned
lifeboat in case of Bhipwreck in mid
ocean .
Capt. Anderson had reached the New
foundland banks when his boat was turned
bottom Bide up by an immense wave, which
washed away everything except the skipper
and his crew of ons man. For thirty hours
they worked away before they again got
their boat on eveu keel. As their instru
ments and charts bad been lost they ware
oompelled to abandon the trip and board a
passing ship.
The orew of tho Viking has been selected
from a list of 280 volunteers, all good
sailors, and is undoubtedly made up of the
best material which Norway can produce.
The Viking will leave Norway early in
April, and it is supposed that she will make
a quick voyage acoss. Her first landing in
this country will be made at Newport, R.
1., whence she will pass down the sound,
then Hell Gate and East river, and then by
way of the Hudson river and Erie caLal to
The committee whioh has been formed to
give the ship a suitable reception is ar
ranging to tow her through tbe East river
on the first Bunday after her arrival at
Newport, so as to give everybody inter
ested a ebanoe to inspect her. Invita
tions will be sent to all the different yacht
olubs in the oity to 00-operate in these cere
monies.
Tbe Details of It.
From the Cleveland Leader.
Tha most agile youug woman in Cleve
land had a distressing experience Tuesday
afternoon. Her Sunday frock was damaged,
perhaps rained, but the 10-s would have
been made good had application been made
by her to the spectators favored with the
exhibition of her sprightliness. it was
worth tbe money.
She was about 20 years old and comely.
She wore a black jacket and a light b ro ® n
skirt. Beside her walked a man who held a
boy by the hand, and ju*t ahead was an
other woman. They crossed St. Clair street,
at Seneca, and the icy gutter cover was
hidden by a thin sheet of water. 1“*
woman ahead passed safely, and so did the
man and the boy.
With the young lady it was different.
Her left foot was confidently placed ou the
iron cover, but it slipped forward. He*
right foot was brought down quickly to
preserve her balauoe, but it also struck a
bad place aud flew out like a badly man
aged roller skate. Then tbe left foot was
brought to the rescue,and likewise the right
again, but without avail. For several mo
ments there were lightning movements to
gain a footing, and then there was a tum
ble. Bat she bad no sooner touched toe
pavement than she gathered her feet to
gether and was up again liko a flash—in tbs
twinkling ot an eve, as quick as lightning.
Her agility was a marvel, and it was sad
that it should not have saved her dress from
a coating of diluted mud. Her right hand
had also struok bottom, and as she walked
up Seneca street witn her sympathizing
companion the arm was extended from the
body. But the suddeuness of bar recovery
from an embarrassing and disagreeable po
sition has never been excelled in this city.
Larson Job—Horrible woather, Unela
Jacob. Uncle Jake-’At’s odzackly ’cordin
to how you look at it, parson. I don’t nevan
complain about de weddab, ’cause it *
week Id; but ef dia ktne of weddah * g F° ln
to continue to keep on remainin disheer
way muoh longah, Ibo dam. parson, ef l
don’t swop my patienoe fur a poatags
stamp, an’ mail myself over to Jersey.
Puck.