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INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Meetings— Delvalk Lodge No p I, O. O. F
Special Notices— A Trade Winner. Lo
Panto Cigars. Dr. Corson has returned to the
olty.
Extraordinary Special Sale—Daniel
Hogan.
Railroad Schedt-i.e—Savannah. Florida
and Western Railway.
Heavy Winter Clotiung —B. H. Levy &.
Bro.
WE Mean This a Clearing Sale That
Clears—Appel & Schaul.
Portland Cement— C. M. Gilbert & Cos.
Pyblications— Magazines for September
at Estill's News Depot.
Steamship Schediles— Ocean Steamship
Company. Merchant's and Miner's Transpor
tat:on Company.
Lgai. Notices— Citations from the Clerk
of the Court of Ordinary of Chatham County
Cheap Cow m advertisements' He p
Wanted: Employment Wanted: For Rent;
For Sale: Lost; Personal; Miscellaneous.
Now that the cyclone excitement is
ended and the money market has almost
reached a normal condition, l<“t us turn
our attention to business and see what we
can do to make the season begrinningSept.
1 an especially prosperous one.
•This city does not look as if it had been
struck by a cyclone a week ago. Indeed,
it presents a particularly bright and at
tractive appearance. The city authori
ties cleared away the fallen trees and re
moved the rubbish and dead leaves in a
remarkably short time.
The populists and prohibitionists of
New York state will have more than six
weeks start on the old parties in the
state campaign, but at the end of the
race the new parties will be beaten out of
sight. The prohibitionists nominated
candidates last week, the republicans
will nominate at Syracuse on Oct. 6, and
the democrats at Saratoga probably a few
days later.
“Store teeth” have a propensity for
placing persons in embarrassing situa
tions. The Count Zarwiski of Russia, who
is-making a tour of this country, had a
little experience with his one day last
week. He was making most polite bows to
a Pennsylvania audience out of a car win
dow when the train started, and as it be
gan to get up speed lie jerked his head in,
but didn't shut his mouth, so lost his
teeth. The conductor was informed of
the accident, and, backing the train half
a mile to the scene of disaster, recovered
them.
The opinion obtains in Washington that
both Congressmen Bryan of Nebraska and
Sibley of Pennsylvania are populists at
heart and are seeking, through ttieir re
peated voting with the populists, to win
the good will of that party. Congressman
Sibley, by the way. has an interesting |>o
lilical history. The Philadelphia Record
sys he began his political career as a
hide bound republican, ha boxed the
political compass, and if there is a party
to which he has not belonged, it is one he
never heard of. In his congressional
campaign he began as prohibitionist and
raked in all the other nominations that
were offered him, securing his election
chiefly through the personal unpopularity
Of his opponents.
Some three or four hundred populists,
so it is alleged, have formed themselves
Into a company to found and run a town
in the Cherokee strip upon the plan out
lined in “Looking Backward.” The com
pany has been chartered at Topeka under
the name of the Bellamy Colony Com
pany. The corporation will own
all of the houses, all of the
land, all of the stock—everything. Nobody
who will not join the company will be
permitted to settle in the community.
All of the supplies, under the plan, are
to be dispensed from a central store, all
of the food cooked at a central kitchen,
etc. If these fanatical persons would go
to the strip and run their settlement, and
not try to run the balance of the earth
contrary to the wishes of the rest of
humanity, it would please the puhlic.
There is too much of what is called sen
atorial courtesy in the Senate. The sena
tors who favor the repeal of the Sherman
silver law say they have a clear majority
for repeal, yet they cannot get a vote on
the question of repeal for two or three
weeks, because a number of the silver
senators want to make long-winded
speeches, and senatorial courtesy requires
that they shall be permitted to talk as
long as they want to. It has been pro
posed that the Senate shall meet at 10
a. m. and not adjourn until 10 p. m., so
that those who want to talk may get
through as soon as possible, but it seems
that the present rules of the SenaU* inter
fere wjtli this programme. If the silver
senators were willing to let the stronger
side win as quickly as possible they would
hand their speeches to the public printer
and let them go to the country in' the
Congressional Record, and thus save the
time it would take to deliver them. Their
speeches will change no votes aud very
few care to hear or read them. It is a
pity there is no way-to shut off the flood
if talk.
Jonas' Two Opinions.
Senator Jones, of Nevada, is now a ram
pant silveriu*. He Is so much in favor of
free silver coinage that he is ready to
force upon the country s debated curren
cy There was a time, however, when tic
used ail liis eloquence and logic in favor
of sound currency. That was years ago.
when the greentnk craze had a firm
grip upon a large i>ortioii of the people
In a speech at that time in the Senate,
speaking of the appeal that had boor,
unde in behalf of the "debtor states." he
said
• “Most of the representatives here of
states that an- claimed to be debtor
slab's desire an increase of this currency.
I say to them that no nation can lie strong
and be dishonest; no nation can be strong
and attempt to confiscate the property of
one citizen and give it to another; no na
tion ran makemoney plenty when it says
to the creditor who has loaned it, ‘You
shall roeeive bark only a t*>rtion of what
you have loaned in full satisfaction of the
debt.' A sjioliation of this character will
take away the inducement for the crea
tion and pocamulation of property, and'
if such a policy continues, 1 venture the
prediction that the time is not far dis
tant when, as was said in the times of
the worthless Continental money, the
hard-hearted and nimble-footed debtor
will pursue Ills fugitive creditor and will
pay him without pity and without re
morse.”
And this same Senator Jones was then
in favor of a gold standard. In the
speech alread referred to he said :
"Does this congress mean now to leave
entirely out of view and to discard for
ever a standard of value? Did any coun
try ever accumulate wealth, achieve
greatness, or attain a high civilization
without such standard? And what but
gold can be that standard ? What other
thing on earth possesses the
qualities?” ' ,
Why is Senator Jones, who once stood
up so squarely for sound money and a
gold standard^, pow favoring legislation
that would bring a silver standard and a
debased currency ? Can anybody give any
other reason than that he is now largely
interested in silver mines? He may
have been interested in silver
mines when he spoke for sound
money and a gold standard, but
silver was not then cheap as it is now.
It commanded a high price, aud Senator
Jones had no occasion so ask for legisla
tion favoring it. But the situation has
changed. Over production has made sil
ver cheap, and Senator Jones would like
to’make the people help the silver pro
ducers bear their losses.
It does not look as if Senator Jones
was an unbiased and fair minded legisla
tor. Indeed, it is a question whether he
is qualified to protect the interests of the
people. His own interests seem to be in
fluencing his judgment at present.
Goldman and Lease.
During the recent socialistic demon
strations in New York city Emma Gold
man. the companion of Berckman, the as
sassin, made a speech advising the des
perate men who heard her to arm them
selves and put down by force those who
opposed them. Especially did she advise
that policemen and capitalists be shot.
The Goldman woman professed to be a
leader in a certain revolution for univer
sal brotherhood and government without
law.
In a speech before the Pennsylvania
farmers at Mt. Gretna, the other day,
Mrs. Mary E. Ijease, of Kansas, told her
audience: “On the broad sun-kissed fields
of Kansas we raise hemp enough to hang
every enemy/ to free silver and every
traitor to the, np.uon." Mrs. Lease pro
fesses to be a leader of an exalted [Kilit
ieal policy dominated by brains and
founded upon equality, and the prophetess
of a religion superior to that of the cross.
But wherein is tho doctrine of Gold
man essentially different from that of
Lease? Goldman openly adviseg the
shooting of capitalists; Lease covertly
advises that “gold hugs" be hanged. It
is probable that each would accept the
means Of disposing of their bugbears sug
gested by the other; and if they should
be sent out to rid the earth of the “en
emies of mankind" they would, no doubt,
attack the same persons.
It is fortunate, however, that the rout
ings of these two extraordinary women
can have ho ill effect upon the country at
large. The people who M ere addressed by
the Goldman womaa are constantly under
the police eye and would be dealt with
summarily and severely if they should at
tempt to put her advice into practice.
The people addressed by Mrs. Lease were
farmers. And they have too much com
mon sense to take seriously any such in
cendiary talk as she has been pouring out
upon them. They listened to her the
other day with astonishment. In the
near future they will repudiate her aud
she will return to the obscurity from
which she recently emerged.
Another Falsehood Nailed.
It would be impossible to enumerate all
the false statements the silverites have
made during the silver discussion. One
they made, and to which they te
naciously clung until Senator Hoar com
pletely refuted it in the Senate, was that
Mr. Earnest Seyd, of England, cams over
to this country in 1873 as the agent of the
'•gold bugs.” and with #500.000 bribed con
gress to demonetize silver. No doubt the
silverites believed this statement. They
wanted to believe it, and so they accepted
ij, and reiterated it without inquiring as
to its iMS’,it.
hat are the facts? Senator Hoar
read in the Senate a letter written from
London by Mr. Earnest Seyd in 1872 to
Mr. Samuel Hooper, who at the time
was chairman of the committee on bank
ing and currency. The bill to
drop the silver dollar from the currency,
which afterwards became a law, was at
that time under consideration by Mr.
Hdoper's committee, and Mr. Hooper had
asked Mr. Seyd, who was regarded as an
authority on banking and currency, for
some information. The letter of Mr.
Seyd, which Senator Hoar read, made it
clear that Mr. Seyd was not the agent of
the "gold bugs” and was not a “gold
hug" himself. He was a bimetallist, and
he urged Mr. Hooper to use his influence
to retain the silver dollar in the currency.
And .set upon this incident was built the
story of the silverites that an English
agent with $500,000 bribed the American
congress to demonetize silver. This is a
specimen of the arguments of the silver
ites. Is it to he wondered at that the
people are not with them l
THF MORNING NEWS: MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1*93.
Derelicts on the Ocean.
The matter of dealing with dereiVt ves
sels .it*.'A recently considered by the New
York Maritime Exchange, has, since the
groat storm, become more thanevera mat
ter of interest to this port For the num
ber of derelicts to which the attention of
the New York body was called has un
doubtedly been greatly Increased during
the past week, and many of them are
drifting about in the paths of commerce
between Savannah and domestic and for
eign ports.
Then 1 are probably more than
a hundred derelict*, some bot
tom up. others water-logged on
their keels, and still others rolling at the
caprice of the waves, in the Atlantic.
Their field is, indeed a large one; they
are as sjiecks upon a sheet of
news paper. Nevertheless, they are
constant menaces to both freight and
passenger vessels. If. during a fog or
the thick blackness of a stormy night,
a heavy steamer under headway should
strike one of these unyielding water
logged wrecks, the effect would be about
the same as If she had struck an iceberg or
been struck by the ram of a warship. The
chances of a disaster would be decidedly
favorable. The nrwspai>ers might be
called upon to chronicle another mys
terious disap|>earance of ship, crew and
passengers, similar to that of the ill-fated
Narouic. Indeed, a derelict may have
sent the Naronic to the bottom, with all
on board.
The necessity for the destruction of the
derelicts is patent. But by whom shall it
be done? The derelicts infest not Ameri
can waters alone, but the high seas and
the waters of other nations. A dere
lict may be off Hatteras to-day
and off the Irish coast within a few
weeks. Therefore, it is not right that
this government should do all of the
work of clearing the sea of obstructions.
Other nations should help. The proposi
tion of the New York Maritime Exchange
is that the United States and England
should each furnish two vessels to patrol
the ocean between the American and
British coasts for the purpose of destroy
ing derelicts. Such a distribution of
patrol duty would hardly be fair to this
government, which has not anything like
the number of ships afloat that England
has; still there should be no haggling
over so important a matter. A police of
Ate Atlantic should be provided in some
manner; temporarily by the navy, as
heretofore, and permanently by an inter
national agreement. And the temporary
provision should be immediately.
An Opportunity Thrown Away.
To call attention to a lost opportunity
is thankless work; nevertheless, as the
Morning News urged Georgia and the
other southern states to make adequate
exhibits at the world's fair, it feels con
strained to point out what has been missed
by them through their failure to taka its
advice.
“There are at the fair,’ - says a Chicago
paper, “a number of expert special agents,
sent over by foreign capitalists, who go
about among the various state exhibits,
making elaborate notes of each display.
This information is put in shape for the
thorough and exact information of the cap
italists as to the mineral wealth, agricult
ural resources and other attractions to en
terprise that these states contain. The
states unrepresented will simply be re
ported as absent.'”
With the exceptions of Kentucky, Ar
kansas and Louisiana, which have build
ings of their own and are fairly well rep
resented, the remainder of the south fs
practically “absent.” Florida tried to
make a showing, but her business men
failed to take a proper interest in the
work. However, Florida will have at
least some mention in the reports of the
European experts to their millionaire
employers, which is much more than can
be said for our own state.
What the states “absent” from the
fair have missed can only be conjectured.
Georgia, for instance, has within her
borders undeveloped resources that might,
and probably would, astonish and please
wealthy investors if they were only
brought to the investors’ attention. Hut
when the rich Englishmen, Frenchmen
and Germans read that Georgia was “ab
sent” from the fair they will conclude
—and quite naturally—that Georgia
either has nothing to offer or does not
care to invite investment and immigra
tion.
There is great complaint that many
senators and repres. utatives who favor
the repeal of the Sherman silver law are
absent from Washington. On Friday last,
says the Washington Correspondent of the
New York Sim, “there was hardly more
than a quorum in either house, many of
tho congressmen evidently realizing that
general debate on silver in the Senate and
the rules in the House may run along for
an indefinite period. The members who
are here on duty say it is unfair for their
associates to run off and leave them be
hind to bear the brunt of the burden in
watching the movements of the free silver
men The latter are alert and ready to
take any advantage that may present
itself. The repeal congressmen by their
absence encourage the free silver men in
the Senate to insist upon their unreason
able course of delay. There are many
congressmen who come to Washington on
the first day of the session and remain
constantly in attendance. There are oth
ers who appear and qualify, and then are
never heard of again until some important
occasion arises and their votes are
needed. There is a long and constantly
growing list of 'do-nothing' eongijsssmen.”
Controller of the Currency Eckels is
sure that the financial depression will be
dissipated more rapidly than it grew. "I
believe,” says he, "the recovery from the
financial depression will be more rapid
than tin l people have ever witnessed be
fore. Conditions are favorable all over
the couutry.” He calls attention to the
fact that there has been a net increase of
$20,000,000 in the circulation of national
bank notes during the depression, and
says nearly 00 per cent, of tho suspended
banks will resume business.
The gold stringency has been relieved
in, r t>?ie section of the country at least.
That is. at Washington. Day before yes
terday the government paid not only the
senators, representatives and other offi
cials, but the whole army of clerks as
well, in gold. It took something over
$500,000 of the yellow metal to do that. A
good deal of gold was already in circula
tion at Washington, nearly $700,000 hav
ing been paid out in that coin during the
previous week.
PERSONAL.
Six th..uau4 Smith gathered on Wed Be*
dajr at the farm of the late ivtrr 7. smith who
organised the reunion* * igho'rn year* ago at
IVnpack Jj, Y. Atn< ;he ilecorat ion* was
a picture nr the ship that w* said to have
i-t"’ tilth’ urea sotiths ever M tat* ewvatee
in the seventeenth cert irv.
Mr*. Virginia Beverly McLean widow of
the late Maj. Wiluier Mrl-mm. in whose house
(Sen*. Grant and Lee signed the articles of
surrender at Appomntox ,ir*wl last week at
the residence of her son in L* H. E. Spill
man. at Spillman. W. Vu she was 75 years
old ami was a remarkably well preserved
woman, cultured and retlaed.
Over tray friends and relatives attended the
golden wedning of ex-Senator and Mrs. Ev
arts at Runnymcde. their country place in
Windsor, Vt. Among them were 17 grand
children, ns follows I our children of Mrs.
CharlesC. Beaman.kof Mrs. Tweed. sof Mr*.
Perkins. 3 of Prescott Hearts. I child of Mrs.
Scudderand 1 child of Maxwell Hearts.
The prohioitiouists of Nebraska nominated
a woman, Mrs. Ada Klttenliender of Lincoln,
as their candidate for justice of the state
supreme court. They also nominated two
women for regents of the Mate University
Mrs. C. H. Walker ami Mrs. J. P. Heald. One
forlorn man was aum*-d for regent, and is the
solitary representative of his sex on the gen
eral ticket to be voted for at the election in
the fall.
MissCntherinc Cole writes from Chicago to
the New Orleans Picayune that the unpop
ularity of Miss Pbnebo < 'ozzeus has doubtless
come to an end, as she owns a lot of wooded
land in a southern sUl< . and has just re
ceived letters from land ac nis informing her
of its enormous value, so that she will be a
millionaire. Miss C'ozzens. she says, is a
slender, black robed w man. with the saddest
face you ever gazed upon.
Ex-Secretary Richard W. Thompson of In
diana. who is now H 4 years of age. says that
in early life he was an excessive vhewer of
tobacco, but fearing ill effects upon his ner
vous system he abandoned the practice over
fifty years ago. and has never taken a chew
since. Hut he has been au incessant smoker
all the time, and is one now. not permitting
much tune to elapse between cigars between
breakfast aud bedtime, which is. ordinarily,
near midnight.'' The cigars he smokes are
very mild ones.
Frederick H. Fowler, clerk of the Massa
chusetts State Board of Agriculture. has dis
covered, in indexing its reports, ono made by
It Oliver Wendell Holmes in 1*49. as chair
man of the committee on a ploughing match
at the Berkshire society s annual fair, it be
gins; "The plough is a very ancient instru
ment. It Is written in the Knglish language,
p l oug h, and by the association of free and
independent shelters, p-l-o w It may be re
marked that the same gentlemhn can, by a
singular process, turn their coughs into cows,
which would he the cheapest mode of raising
live stock: but it is to be feared that they (re
ferring to the cows) would prove but low-bred
animals.”
BRIGHT BITS.
White—l'm astonished at the way Gray
treats his wife. Think how much he owes to
her' , .
Black—nut think how much he owes to his
tailor: And see how Gray treats him.'—Bos
ton Transcript.
I wonder where grandpa gets all his money
from?" said Tommy.
I think he gets it from the Sunday
schools.” replied Bobbie. "We take up
collections for the ophans every month, and
grandpa's one.—Harper's Bazar.
Margie—The scales are fastened on fish
just like the shingles on a house, aren't they?
Mamma—Yes, Margie dear.
Margie—l suppose they are put on that
way. mamma, to keep the fish from leaking,
aren't they?—Harper’s Young People.
Tuner —Your daughter left word that I
should call and repair your piano.
Mr. Binks—What’s wrong with it?
Tuner—She says three strings are broken.
Mr. Binks tconiidebtiully)-Say. here s a
dollar. Break the rest of ’em.—New York
Weekly.
"Why.” said the voluble man. ‘we are
getting to a point where gold will be a drug in
the market."
"May be so,” was the reply. “And I’m
thinking it's tlje kind of a drug that will act
as a tonic to our financial system."—Ameri
can Industries. , lu
Customer—lf you fever send me another
piece of meat like the last one I'll take away
my custom.
Butcher—What was the matter with it?
Customer- Why. it was so tough that when
it was cooked I couldn't even get my fork
into it.—Harper's Bazar.
“I never got a cent that I didn't work for,”
said Meandering Mike as he stood on the
farmhouse door step.
Didn't you?" was the surprised inquiry.
“No ma'am. Not a cent, and often I've
walked miles and miles lookin’ fur somebody
to work.”—Washington Star.
Ebony Hughes—Don't yo' want a boy fo’ to
bait your hook?
Luckless Angler—Yes. If you'll guarantee
that I'll catch some fisli.
Ebony Hughes I done helped a man las'
week, an' he's got turned out oh do church fo'
tellin' de truft about do fish he caught.—Puck.
First Tramp—Goin’ in that house over there,
pard?
Seiond Tramp—l tried the house last week;
I ain't going there any more.
" Frairt on account of the dog?”
“Mv pants are. "
Pants are what?”
Frayed on aocqunt of the dog.”—Texas
Siftings.
.lobnnie Mamma, are twins doubles or
halvi*??
Mamma Why doubles, of course, darling.
Arentyou and your brother Tom two whole
dear boys'-" You are not half-boys Haven't
you two round eurly heads?
Johnnie -Well, we may be doubles on
her. is. but we re halves on apples.—liarper s
Young People.
I would not live always;
I ask not to "stay.
ISnt sti'l if 1 am not
1 oo much in the way,
Id just as lief watch
\ few centuries melt
To realize just
How Mt'tnus 'lah felt.
—Yonkers Gazette.
CURRENT COMMENT.
The Question of Quorums.
Prom the Chicago Record (Ind.l.
But the practice of counting a quorum, be
gun by speaker Reed, might well tie formu
lated into a rule, with certain safe restrictions.
Much of every session is spent in useless
delays brought about by the practice of break
ing a quorum in order to postpone final and
desirable action.
The Cranks in the Senate.
From the Milwaukee Sentinel (Dem.l
On the grave question of placing the coun
try on. a sound financial basis, me Senate
and not the House is the cause of fear. The
House is more easily persuaded to adopt the
methods 0 reason and safety than the Sen
ate where cranks and demagogues heat! the
leading committees. The brains of congress
arc mostly In the House, and conservatism,
which used to be the pride of tho Senate. Is
more marked in "the bear garden" than in
the Senate. The glory of the Senate has
passed away, but it is to be noted thent there
is not much that is glorious about the House
either.
The Cause of the Shortage.
From the New Y’ork Post (Ind.).
The extravagance of pension legislation is
alone responsible, and more than responsible,
for the largest estimate of the possible defi
ciency in government revenues this year. It
is now more than twenty one years since
Janies A. Garfield, as chairman of the House
committee on appropriations, said, on the 23d
of January. 1573: We may reasonably ex
pect that the expenditures for pensions will
hereafter steadily decrease, unless our legis
lation should be unwarrantably extravagant."
The expenditures then were less than $30.u00.-
00 1 a year. Now they are much more than
$i50.0u0,000.
Gordon, Voorhees and Morgan.
From the Philadelphia Record (Dem.).
Senator Gordon, of Georgia, ts a believer in
bimetallism; but he is of the opinion ex
pressed by Senators Voorbees and Hill that
the Sherman act is a stumbling block and
hindrance in the wav of the free coinage of
silver. He will vote for the repeal of the sil
ver-purchasing clause of the act: and the rea
sons he gives for his vote are sound from any
point of view. Senator Gordon and Senator
Morgan, who have both been set down as op
posed co repeal, must both be counted hereaf
ter as favoring the Voorhees bill. It Is no
derogation to the abilities of any of the advo
cates of free silver to say that Senator Mor
gan was the chiefest among them His de
fection must leave them without hope.
The Sacrad Benares.
Benare* i* the *■ redest place tn India it
the statement in one of Phillips Brook*' tetter*
In the September Century There are live
thnvsuid Hindoo temples in Benares It is
the very Back Bay of Asia. You stumble at
•vary atop nm a tompta with ts* htheooa Mot.
If you hear a gentleman or lady muttering
lichtnd you in the street they are not abusing
you. but only saying prayers to Vishnu or
Siva who has a little sbrtne somewhere in
the ba k yard of the next house.
I went down to the Ganges, where hundreds
and hundreds of people were batb’ng in the
sacred river I'ilzrim* from all over India
had come to wash their sins away, and were
scrubbing themselves as thick as they could
stand for two miles along the bank of the
stream. It is a beautiful religion, at least in
this that it keeps Us disciples always wash
ing themselves.
By and by we came to ua piace-where In a
little hollow by the rtver'sslde a pile of wood
was burning: two men were waving a big
piece of cloth to fan the flume, and gradually
as it burned you caught sight through the
flame of a strange bundle lying in the midst
of the wood and slowly catching tire. Then
you knew that it was the funeralffhleof some
dead Hindu who had died happy in knowing
that ho would lie burned beside the sacred
river, and that his ashes would be mingled
with its waters. Then came another curious
and pathetic sight. Close bv the side of this
burning pile was another, all prepared,
hut not yet lighted Soon I saw a man
leading a little naked boy some 4 years
old into the water, lie washed the little chap
nil over, then stood him up beside the pile of
wood; a priest up above on a htvh altar said
some prayers over iilm. and the man gave
the little boy a blazing bunch of straw, and
showed him how to stick it into the midst of
the wood until the whole caught Arc. It was
a widower showing his small son how to set
his mother on tire. The little fellow seemed
seared, and cried, and when they let him go
ran up to some other children,—probably
cousins who put his clothes on for him ana
then he squatted on his heels, and quietly
watched the flames.
While this was going on they had brought
down the body of a child perhaps seven or
eight years old. and for it they built another
pile of wood close to the water. Then they
took the body into the stream and bathed it
for a moment, then brought it out and laid it
on the wood. The father of the child went
into the water and washed himself all over.
After he came out the priest at the altar
chanted a prayer for him ’1 hen he went up
to an old woman who sold straw, aod bought
a bundle haggling sometime over the price.
This 1 e lighted at the burning pile of the little
boy's mother, and with it set his own child's
pile in flames. They had covered tho little
body with a bright red cloth, and it was the
prettiest funeral pile of all.
By this time another body, a wasted
and worn old man. had come, and
they were already bathing him in the Ganges,
while some men were gathing up the ashos
iof somehody who were burned earlier in the
day) and throwing them in the river where
they float to certain bliss. So it goes on all
the time, while a crowd is gathered around,
some laughing, some praying, some traffick
ing, some begging. While we looked on. an
interesting-looking fakir came up with a live
shake pleasantly curled around his neck, and
beggeu an alms, while the boys kept behind
pulling the tail of his hideous necklace to
make him mad. and just down the slope be
side the water the mother was being burned
by the little boy. and the child by her fatbor.
This is not a cheerful letter, but on les6
serious occasions the Hindus are a most
amuso;-. people. On these cool mornings the
whole population seems to go about with its
bedclothes around its head and legs all bare.
A Story of Bourke Cockran.
Bourko Cockran has now become so
marked a figure before the country that
nearly everyone had forgotten that he had
dropped out of public life for a couple of
years with avowed intention of never enter
ing again. They tell a funny story about
this in New York.
In tho early ’so s Cockran had obtained a
good deal of local fame as an orator, both at
the bar and in democratic conventions, and
his friends had urged him to go to congress
and make his reputation national. He was
accordingly elected to the Fiftieth congress,
hut. being anew man and unacquainted with
parliamentary practice, no scope was given
nim for the display of his peculiar talents.
Before his first session was over he was so
disgusted that he refused to run again, and
Roswell P. Flower was elected In his stead.
One day in the summer of 18W) he met in the
street an old friend of his, Franklin Bartlett,
a clever young lawyer of high social standing
and a fellow member of Tammany Hall. They
stopped to chat a moment, when Bartlett
said:
"Bourke. lam thinking of making a run
this fall for your old seat in congress. Mr
Oroker tells me that Flower doesn't want jt
again, and that he offered it to you. and you
wouldn't touch it. I have an idea I should like
the experience. lam to give him my answer
to-morrow.”
"Wqll. my boy." said Cockran, “I wish you
joy. I got enough of the job in less than three
months. Washington simply wore my sou 1
out. A coach and six horses couldn’t drag
rue back there.”
"That's just the trouble," argued Bartlett.
"You dldn t. stay long enough. The only in
ducement for an active man to go to congress
is the opening it offers for a career: but you
can t achieve a career in three months. Look
at some of those southern fellows. They go
back term after term, making little headway
at first, but gradually tiecoming better ac
quainted with their duties and the methods
of legislation. By /ml by the country finds
them out. and then they work their way into
history."
"Well." answered Cockran. thoughtfully,
"I dare say there is something in your idea,
I hud never looked at the matter in just that
/light."
"I he next morning Bartlett concluded to ac
cept the nomination and dropjied in upon
C'rokcr to say so.
"You are too late, Bartlett," remarked the
Tammany dictator, with a smile, -that place
is pre-empted. "
You astonish me." exclaimed Bartlett, "I
was not aware that you had offered it to any
one except Bourke Cockran, who didn't care
to consider the proposal at all."
"That's true." said Croker. "but Bourke
called ten minutes ago to say he had changed
lus mind.”
This shows to how narrow a chance Tam
many Hall, the Democratic party, New Y'ork
city—shall we say the nation also?—owes its
recovery of tlie public services of Cockran,
and what direction his ambition now takes.
In Memoriam.
Nancy was a Central s train;
Its origin was in Wadley's fertile brain.
Her dress was blue, all trimmed with gold—
A streak of blue,” with speed untold.
Three hundred miles she made with ease.
And tore the air just like a breeze.
For months she was the poet s theme,
The drummer's ease and joy supreme.
In her arms was peace and rest—
A Heaven on earth." a Bluebird s nest.”
The traveler's comfort anjl delight,
Was the Nancy Hanks of rapid flight.
Of noble heroes’ rides I've read—
O'er whose graves we now with reverence
tread,
Of Custer's charge and Sheridan's ride,
In days when brave and gallant men were
tried;
Of Jennie McNeil- yes, women, too—
But I prefer the Train of Blue.
The farmer gazed from the rustling corn,
But like a Hash she had passed and gone.
On her speedy wings she bore
The traveler almost to the ocean shore;
Then back to where the hills grow higher.
In seven hours, sped the Central s Flyer.
My story is now half done,
And Nancy Hanks has ceased to run.
Twas this way it came about;
Mr. Wadldy and Judge Speer fell out.
Geo. Dole thought he’d host resign,
And the receiver appointed Mr. Kline.
This new man began to look around,
To see where he could cut expenses down.
(Now, there were run two trains a day,
The "Hanks" and a local train each way.)
Soon his eye lit on Miss Nancy,
Which did not exactly strike his fancy.
He said this blue and golden flyer
Would soon pull the road in deeper mire.
Of such a train there was no need,
Therefore she must decrease her speed.
The public entreated, but all in vain.
So on August 15th she became a local train.
They run the old equipment yet,
But Nancy's star hag long since set.
We mourn her loss. The nation sighs.
Farewell! Adieu to the traveler's pet!
The fastest train neath southern skies.
G. R. W.
ITEMS Or INTEREST.
The Arabian I* unquestionably good as a
goer: but in a country where there Is neither I
feme hedge ditch, nor other division of the
Held* one raa scar. elv expect a horse to
tump says a writer in Harper s Magazine.
TV*wa 1* kewwvwr a ran* recorded M hvo
been taken by one Rarh Ap (or Amin Bevi at
the time of the massacre of the Mamelukes,
whieh in these (lavs of prize tumping is cer
tainly worth a notice, whether credited or
not. In order to escape from the massacre
this man headed his Arabian for the edge of
the cliff, where now stands the Citadel of Cai
ro. The noble animal never paused, but, con
scious of his master s peril, took the leap, a
most prodigious one and landed the fact is
well authenticated by the footprints in the
stone shown by pious and horse-loving Mos
lems to day eighty feet below and som thing
over a quarter of a mile What, after
that, becomes of our paltry seven feet three
of horse, show timber?
Man lived continent earlier than or
at least as early as he lived on the European
continent, but it i* not believed that the In
dians are descended from such early peo
ple. says the, St. Louis Globe-Democrat. The
latest theory seems to be that the so-called
American Indians are desc* nded from Chinese,
who in some way reached the western coast
thousands of years ago. The parallelisms
between the customs of the Cninese and the
ancient Peruvians are often very striking;
the systems of government of the two peoples
were similar; the emperor and the inea both
claimed descent from heaven; 1 oth countries
had irrigating canals, and in both countries
taxes were paid in kind and stored in public
warehouses; both countries maintained
public roads, disposed of their dean with the
same ceremonies and built houses in much
the same style, Humboldt found in the Mex
ican calendar strong resemblances to the an
cient calendar used in Tartary. India and
Thibet. The skull of the American, except tn
its greater length, greatly resembles that of
the Chinese.
Speking of a dwelling house in India a wri
ter in the September Century says; Fancy
an enormous house rambling out into a series
of immense rooms, all on one floor, piazzas
twenty feet deep, immense chambers (in the
middle of which stand the beds), doors and
windows wide open, the grounds tilled with
palms, bananas, and all sorts of tropical
trees, the song of birds, the chirp of insects
everywhere, and a dazzling sun blazing down
on the Indian ocean in front. A dozen or
more dusky Hindu servants, barefooted,
dressed in white, with bright sashes around
their waists, and bright turbans on their
heads, are moving about everywhere, as still
as cats, and with no end of devotion to their
little duties. One of them seems to have
nothing to do hut to look after me; he has
worked over my limited wardrobe till he
knows every shirt and collar better than I do
myself. He is now brushing my hat for the
twelfth time this morning. The life is lux
urious. Quantities of delightful fruit, cool
lounging-placcs with luxurious chairs, a
sumptuous breakfast, (or 'tiffin.’' as we call
It herei and dinner table, and no end of kind
attention. lam writlag in iny room on the
day before Christmas, as if it were a rather
hot August morning at home.
As to their condition during the winter sea
son frogs pass the time in a comfortable way
in a state of torpor called hibernation, says a
writer in the September St. Nicholas. The
place selected seems anything but comfort
able—a tomb in the mud in the margin or bot
tom of pond. Hibernation is a state of entire
or partial torpor. It seems like sleop. but is
proved to tie not really the same. In torpor,
the breathing, circuit tiott of the blood, diges
tion, are almost entirely stopped; but in sleep
these all go on. An animal is awakened from
sleep by a mere jostling; while in complete
torpor It will not be roused, even if subjected
to treatment usually fatal The frog Is sus
taiued, when he ceases to eat. by lobes of fat
stored inside his body for that purpose.
This is another method of meeting
privation which our amphibious friends share
with the camel, whose humps are little else
but stores of fat. As to diet, the general rule
is that frogs eat. or are eaten by almost ev
erything. Slug*, water bugs, grasshoppers,
and other lnssots are specially relished.
There is a peculiar arrangement for catching
insocts. The tongue is hung by the ouier in
stead of the Inner end, so as to flap forward
and back lilge a flash, and entrap its prey. It
happens that Insects, curiously enough, dis
appear for the winter and reappear in the
spring at just the times when the frogs hi
bernate and come out again. Bullfrogs in
dulge also in small lish, Held-raice. and duck
lings. They will often eat their own tadpoles.
While in captivity they will learn to eat al
most any food given them.
A famous anti-slaverv orator once publicly
thanked God that Daniel Webster was not
born in Massachusetts; and this tvas received
with acclaiming shouts by the audience, says
Mtllen Chamberlain in the September Cen
tury. Nor did they appear to notice any in
congruity when the orator proceeded to ob
jurgate Webster, just as though he had been
born in Boston, and were a recreant descend
ant of Thomas Dudley. This is the common
mistake—to judge We? ster as a Puritan in
origin, descent, inherited principles, educa
tion and consequent responsibilities. He was
no Puritan, nor did he ever pretend to be one.
The Massachusetts Puritans, who came to
Boston Bay in 1030, were east of England peo
ple.. Daniel Webster's ancestors were from
the north of England, and, coining six years
later, entered New Hampshire by the Pisca
taqua. and lor generations w ere dispersed
along tho skirmish line of civilization, remote
from the Puritans of the Bay, and shared nei
ther in their glory nor in their shame. In
Webster was no admixture of na
tionality, no crossing of plebeian
with patrician blood, tie was a genu
ine son of the soil, though not, like Burns, of
a soil alive with a hundred generations of
the dead, nor of a soil like that about Bos
ton, every sod of which was quickened
with associations touching the hearts and
molding the characters of those born on it;
but of a soil on which his father's footfall
was the first of civilized man ever heard in
that silent wilderness. He was a rustic, yet
with the marks of gentle blood in his shapely
hands and feet, his well-proportioned limbs,
and his high-bred face of no known type, un
like even his own brother, who was of Grecian
form and face. Of the Puritans neither t.y
birth nor by circumstances, he possessed few
of their virtues, and none of their Jlfects;
and least of all their indomitable provincial
ity of thought and conduct. In this he stands
quite alone among the public men of his day
in New England. His spirit of nationality
appeared so early in life that it indicated
character rather than education And the
dopthof the sentiment appears from this,
that though born a federalist, and from early
manhood associated professionally and so
cially with some of the very able men promi
nent in the Essx Junto" and in the Hartford
convention, he neither accepted their princi
ples nor imitated their conduct. At no time
was he a southern man or a northern man.
but to the end of his life a national federalist
after the fashion of Washington.
In the Midway Plaisance of the world's fair,
says a writer in the September Century, Is
probably the greatest collection of fakes'’
the world has ever seen. The proprietors
thereof rejoice, however, in the proud title of
"Concessionaires.’' Whenever I grew tired
of formal sight seeing I would stroll down the
Plaisance (which was so popular that every
body soon got the knack of pronouncing It
correctly) to the Egyptian temple. Here was
the greatest fakir of them all lam proud to
say he was an American. In Egyptian rai
ment he squatted in front of the temple, and
delivered his speech as follows: This, la
dies and gentlemen, is the temple of Luxor,
the tomb of Kameses 11. You will Jind his
mummy about (a most delicious inflection of
the voice on this word l the flfth one on the
right. On the left the mummy of King Solo
mon's father in-law —also his sister-in-law.
The sacred dances are about to begin." To
discover, after all this, that the mummies at
which people were gating so reverentially
were nothing but dummies was an unmiti
gated joy. One evening after tne Egypto-
Amerlean above mentioned had
delivered his speech about the
temple of Luxor and the mummy of
Raineses 11., a man in the crowd turned to me
and asked, "Is this the German Village?’ 4
The personnel of the Plaisance shows re
minded me of Thackeray's inventory of pas
sengers in the "White Squall." there are
Innumerable Oriental dances— I Turkish. Alge
rian. Persian and Egyptian, the latter in a
theater annexed to the "Street in Cairo."
These dances are supposed to be very sug
gestive. but 1 think most people must And
them simply ugly, and wonder If they really
convey the Oriental idea of grace in motion.
Much more interesting is the dancing in the
large Japanese village, and in the theater of
the South Sea Islanders. The former is really
gtaceful; the latter is the best dancing in the
Plaisance. It mages no pretense to gross
ness. but is simply downright savage. There
is a certain indescribable ebarm about the
Plaisance with Its varied life; and the crowd
which it attracts is an added feature of in
terest. Not far from the Plaisance was
Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show with its Pead
wood coach, “which, ladies and gentlemen,
has carried more royalty, and more royalty
at one time, than any other coach in the
world—Col. Cody on the box!” It costs about
130 in dimes and quarters to do the Plaisance.
But Hie fakes, including the Beauty Show,
are often seen In procession through the
grounds.
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