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INDEX TO SEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Meetings— Tammany Club.
Special Notices— Golden Apple Tobacco;
Notice to Tailors. F , E. Rebarer, Clerk of
Council; Richmond County Melons For Sale,
Jessie A. Moore: Notice, The Electric Supply
and Construction Company.
Triff Reform To-Day—Appel & Schaul.
A Boy's Start— B H. Levy & Bro.
Remnant Day— Leopold Adler.
Steamship Schedules— Baltimore Steam
ship Company.
Auction Sale—Fine Parlor and Bedroom
Suits. Etc., by A. K. Wilson. Auctioneer.
Cheap Column advertisements— Help
Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Rent;
FohSale: Lost; Personal: Miscellaneous.
Applying the rule of common sense to
the situation. Secretary Carlisle is rapidly
straightening out the tangles in the new
tariff bill. By Jan. 1. when many of the
new rates go into effect, the custom house
machinery will be working as smoothly
as if no change had ever occurred.
Congressman Abbott of Texas, who
was renominated on Wednesday on the
3,398 th ballot, as told in our dispatches,
has been in the House for eight years.
The papers nearly always speak of him
as J. O. Abbott, but that is wrong; it is
Jo Abbott; just plain Jo, not Joe, or
Joseph or Josephus or Joshua.
This is not a good year for the woman
politician. The prohibitionists of Indiana
have repudiated Mrs. Helen M. Cougar’s
schemes to gain votes; the populists and
female suffragists of Kansas have given
Mrs. Lease to understand that they de
sire to hear nothing from her this season,
and the constitution makers of New York
have told the women politicians of that
state that their plea for the suffrage can
not be further considered.
There seems to be, in the populist cam
paign, the need of a weekly bulletin
showing what candidates are still run
ning and what candidates have dropped
out since last advices. The Constitution
has advices to the effect that Ur. Felton
the other day wrote a letter retiring from
the race for congress in the Seventh dis
trict, but was persuaded by Tom Watson
not to send it in. The presumption is
that tho letter is still in the doctor’s
pocket, to be used if things do not go to
suit him. In Spalding county, according
to advices from there, doubts exist as to
who is the populist candidate for the leg
islature.
The republicans are "tickled to death”
because Harold M, Sewall oi Maine has
left ihe Democratic party and become a
republican. He is the man who, while
consul at Samoa, thought he knew better
what this government's foreign policy
should be than Secretary Bayard, and did
not hesitate to criticise harshly the sec
retary’s policy. For his criticisms he
was fired out of the consular service; and
that accounts for his change of political
affiliations. This makes two recruits
that the Republican party has drawn
from the ranks of former democratic
consuls—J. Hampton Hoge and Harold
M. Sewall.
The promise of an “international navi
gation company” that the government of
Liberia will give to each colored colonist
who goes from the United States to Libe
ria “twenty-five acres of land and the
necessary implements with which to cul
tivate it,” is strikingly suggestive of the
“forty acres and a mule” promise made
the colored people of the south by repub
lican politicians some years after the war.
It is the right of the colored people to go
to Liberia, or anywhere else, if they want
to, and nobody is going to try to stop
them. But they had better not start to
Liberia with the expectation that the
government of that country is going to
meet them at the wharf with carriages,
and later set them up on model farms, to
be bestowed without price. There may
be opportunities for enterprising people
in that country. But there, as elsewhere,
valuable things are to be had only for
valuable considerations.
The more the silver standard for
money is studied the more beautiful the
scheme becomes. And Peru presents a
splendid object lesson from which to study
it. Peru’s standard is silver, and her
government provides her people with an
abundance of money. They fairly revel
in money. It is true that Peruvian mouey
has not as much purchasing power in
Peru as Fuglish money has in Peru.
It is true, also, that Peru re
cently issued a decree decreasing the tax
paying power of the peso two English
pence, and later she further de
creased the purchasing power of the peso
by advancing import duties ’Jo to 80 per
cent. The amount of revenues received
in depreciated pesos was not sufficient for
the needs of the government. But these
facts do not detract from the paramount
fact that in Peru money is plentiful. The
plenty of money and not the value of it,
according to the philosophy of a latter
day school of pulith s, is what makes peo
ple ricu and prosperous.
Are Not the Courts to Blame?
Within the last few days four men of
more or less prominence have been shot
j to death in towns so near to Savannah
1 as to make us feel that we had almost
a local interest in the tragedies. Capt.
j H. O. King was killed in Atlanta last
i Friday by a man named Carr, to whom,
! it is claimed, he owed a small sum of
j money. The evidence at the inquest left
| no room for doubt that the crime was
committed deliberately.
On Tuesday at Blackville, S. C., Solo
mon Brown, a young man of consider
able prominence, and a state dispensary
constable named Gribben. were killed as
a result of an altercation between them.
Wednesday William Chatfield of Aiken,
S. C.. son of the manager of the High
land Park hotel, was killed by a police
man of the town. The facts presented in
the published accounts do not snow that
the killing in either of the instances men
tioned was justifiable. They do show,
however, that men are too ready to use
deadly * weapons, and numerous other
tragedies show that they do use them
without provocation with fatal effect.
Are not the courts largely responsible
for this readiness to use deadly weapons?
If persons charged with murder were
tried promptly, and punished if found
guilty .would there be so many homicides?
It is safe to say there would not.
It is seldom that a white man is con
victed of murder, however outrageous the
murder which he committed may have
been. The reason is that he is not re
quired to stand trial until he thinks he is
reasonably certain of being acquitted.
He may be indicted promptly enough, but
when his case is called he applies for a
continuance and generally gets it. After
he has been in jail for a time he asks to be
admitted to bail and his application, as a
rule, is granted. Having gained bis free
dom he is in no hurry to be tried, and the
court does not appear to be anxious to
have him tried. On one pretext and an
other he has his trial put off from term to
term. When the indignation of the pub
lic has subsided and the witnesses for the
state have gone to parts unknown, or
have forgotten the important facts of the
killing, his case is called and a verdict of
acquittal obtained.
The judge and prosecuting attorney
would be indignant if charged with
having permitted the murderer to escape
punishment, and doubtless they would be
sincere in asserting that they did all the
law required of them: but, after all, if
they had insisted upon a trial immediately
after the crime was committed, or as soon
thereafter as it was possible to have a
trial, the chances are the murderer would
have been convicted instead of acquitted.
The one great reason that deadly
weapons are used so frequently is the
almost absolute certainty that they can
be used without much danger of legal
punishment. The criminal may have a
good deal of trouble to get rid of tho in
dictment, and it may impoverish him to
do it, but at no time, if he is a white man,
is he greatly apprehensive of ending his
life on the scaffold.
Until the courts act with more vigor
and greater promptness in bringing those
charged with crimes of violence to justice
such crimes will continue to be of fre
quent occurrence.
Southern Roads in Good Shape.
The time made by the Plant system and
Atlantic Coast Line's special train on
Sunday night and Monday last, running
from Jacksonville to Washington in 15
hours and 49 minutes, makes the record
for a distance of over 500 miles. The
special, as it ran, cutting off corners at
junctions, covered a distance of 778 miles
at the average rate of speed of about 52
miles per hour. The New York Central
railroad holds the record for a long dis
tance run, less than 500 miles, that road
having sent a train in September, 1891,
from New York to Last Buffalo, 436.32
miles, at the rate of speed of 61.50 miles
per hour. In May of last year the
same road made a record run
from New Y r ork to Chicago, 964
miles, at an average rate of speed of 48.2
miles per hour. Both the New York
Central and the Pennsylvania road have
repeatedly made runs of 100 to 200 miles
at the rate of 65 to 72 miles per hour.
The fact remains, however, that for dis
tance and time, the southern train stands
at the head.
The record, considered in itself, does
not amount to a great deal. But there
are facts connected with the making of
it that are interesting and imbortant.
In order for the train to run from Jack
sonville to Washington at a rate of speed
two miles per hour higher than
the speed of the “fastest regular train
in the world,” the Empire State ex
press of the New Y'ork Central, it was
necessary for the engines, rolling stock,
roadbeds, bridges, etc., to be in perfect
condition. The Empire State express
goes over what is known as “America's
greatest railroad, - ’ with its quadruple
tracks rock-ballasted. Y’et the northern
flyer never ran swifter and smoother than
did the southern flyer over its gravel-
ballasted single track. Passengers on
the southern special “could cot tell from
the motion of the train that they were
being hurried aloDg faster than the reg
ular schedule” of about thirty, miles an
hour.
The success of this attempt at record
making will show to the world that the
southern railroads are not behind
the roads of any other section
of country in enterprise, and that
their physical condition is first-class.
What is true of the roads over which the
record-breaking run was made is true
probably of most of the roads in the
south. The improvement in their condi
tion during the last ten years has been
very great, and it is doubted if there is a
southern system to-day that is not iu
“the pink” of condition and ready to
race for a record, at the drop of a hat.
Cardinal Gibbons has been summoned
to Rome by the pope, and, it is announced,
will leave for that city in November. It
seems to be understood that his visit is in
connection with the trouble that has
grown out of the exercise of authority by
Mgr. Satolli. There seems to be a desire
among the Catholic clergy that Mgr.
Satolli's authority shall be more definitely
described. There have been more appeals
to Rome, it is alleged, since he has been
in this country than be lore he came.
Judge Bartlett of the New York su
premo court has decided that education
in public schools is a privilege, and not a
right, and that the school authorities
have the right to make and enforce
regulatious for the schools.
THE MORNING NEWS: FRIDAY, AUGUST 31, 1894.
Ingersoll’s Moral Liability.
A week or so ago the New York World
published over the signature of Robert G.
Ingersoll an article justifying a resort to
suicide in certain cases. The arguments
used in the article are well calculated to
influence persons worried by troubles of
one kind and another, and who are without
strong religious convictions and who are
incapable of reasoning clearly. The
public ation of the article was followed
by a crop of suicides. It is said that in
some cases the persons who had taken
their lives had been influenced to do so
by the Ingersoll article. The article was
found with the remains of two persons
who had committed suicide in
Central Park, New York, and
with the remains of another who had
drowned himself in Lake Superior. How
many others were led to seif destruction
by Jngersoll’s argument it is impossible
to say. It is pretty certain, however,
that the number is greater than it is
known to be.
The question has been raised whether
Inge-soll was justified in presenting such
an article for publication, and whether
the World was justified in publishing it.
Not a few plain speaking people are in
clined to hold both Ingersoll and the
World responsible for being the indirect
cause of the death of a number of people.
Ingersoll himself does not relish the
so"t of criticism he is receiving. He is a
lawyer and hence an officer of the courts,
and it is rather unpleasant for him to be
placed in the positiou of counseling the
breaking of the law. He has made a
statement, in which he asserts that he
did not write the article on suicide, and
that the signing of his name to it was
without his authority. He pretends to be
much grieved over the fact that he should
have been the cause of a number of sui
cides.
According to his story a reporter came
to hint and put a number of hypothetical
questions to him relative to suicide, which
fie answered. To his surprise the next
day the World published an article on
suicide, for which it held Mr. Ingersoll
responsible.
It is noteworthy, hotvevor, that Col.
Ingersoll did not deny the authorship
of the article until it was so harshly
criticised that he found it uncomfortable
to remain silent. He had another in
terview published, therefore, in which he
1 denied that he was the author of the
article.
If he was not the author of it and knew
the harm it was likely to do he should
have made a prompt denial. By waiting
until be was practically forced to do so
he gave the public good reasons for be
lieving that the article was his, and that
it had been published with his approval.
But is not the World blameworthy for
publishing the article? It must have
known the effect it would have. But
then, according to some of its New York
contemporaries, it doesn't care what it
publishes as long as It acquires notoriety
and makes money out of its sensations.
The story of an incident, reported in
our Wayoross dispatches yesterday, is
worthyof repeating by the way of pointing
a moral. The actor in the bucolic trage
dy was a Berrien county farmer. “It
seems that he was trying to stack his
fodder before the rain came. The fodder
•bulged out’ and fell from the pole three
times in succession, after he had about
completed the stack as many times. The
last attempt vexed him. The rain had
begun to fall in drops here and there, and
the fodder bulged for the third time,
throwing him down beside the foot of the
pole. Wearied of the task, the man fired
the fodder. The rain never came, but
the fodder was burned.’’ Let the Ber
rien farmer represent the people of Geor
gia, and the fodder their material pros
perity. Would it bo an act of good judg
ment for them to “fire their fodder” be
cause there are clouds in sight, as the
populists are urging them to do? The
Berrien farmer's impatience, because he
didn't succeed in his undertaking as soon
as he thought he should have done, cost
hint his fodder stack, when, with a little
patience and well directed effort, he could
have saved it. Nine farmers in ten who
read this paragraph will laugh at the
Berrien man’s childish exhibition of tem
per. Yet they are individually and col
lectively being importuned by the popu
lists to "burn their fodder” merely be
cause a shower might fall.
The pope loaned to this government
last year certain articles from the Vati
can museum to be exhibited at the
Chicago fair. The exhibit contained a
number of "precious things” and- price
less treasures” that could never be re
placed in case they should be lost, de
stroyed or stolen. They were loaned un
der the express stipulation that they
should be conveyed hither on a warship
and returned to Rome in a similar man
ner. The treasures havo never been re
turned. They are now in the corridors
aud vaults of the state department at
Washington. They were borrowed un
der the authority of congress, but con
gress made no provision for their return.
It is understood that the gunboat
Mactaias will take them to Naples,
leaving Washington about the middle
of September. A good deal of criticism
is being passed upon this government's
apparently careless way of attending to
the matter.
The Iron Age, quoted in our dispatches
of yesterday, says: “A significant fact
is that American cotton tie makers have
captured orders during this week in com
petition against free foreign cotton ties.”
That is, iudecd, significant. And It is
significant of nothing more than of the
fact that the republican papers and poli
ticians were simply “talking through their
hats" when they said American manu
facturers of cotton ties would bo ruined
and their workmen reduced to poverty
if the free cotton tie item in the tariff bill
should be adopted. American manu
facturers will continue to make cotton
ties just as they did before; and they will
sell them, too, wherever the matter of
freight rates will permit of competition.
The freight rates on these goods are the
rates that have been kept up by the tariff,
not the rates of workingmen's wages.
These latter rates were long ago reduced
to a minimum.
The St. Charles hotel of New Orleans,
which was destroyed by lire some months
ago, is to be rebuilt. The lines of archi
tecture of the old building will bo fol
lowed in the new, and the host of times
before the war will again assume the
management. The St. Charles, while a
local landmark, was a southern institu
tion.
PERSONAL.
'‘The Uninterrupted Roar of the Fiery
Trumpet of the God of War" Is the name
of a Chinese daily newspaper just started
la Near York by Yung Kwui, a graduate of
Yale.
Gen. Schuyler Hamilton a grandson of the
famous first secretary of the treasury and the
eldest member of a notable New York fam
ily. Is probably the most picturesque tig’ire In
the list of retired offic-rs of the United
States army. The general, though about ft
years old. preserves his erect and soldierly
figure almost as well as ever.
Mrs. Cleveland has been quite devout in
her attendance at the little Methodist church
at Bourne, whither she drives frim Gray
Gaules, attended by her maid says the New
York Herald. The congregation hastens out
ot church and forms a respectful but curiots
line on each side of the path down which
Mrs Cleveland walks to her carriage after
the service Is done.
Capt. James Hooper, who is 96 years old. is
said to be the only surviving participant in
Balltrriore of the war of 1012. He entered the
war at the age of 14 years Capt Hooper was
cockswain on the United States sloop Comet
inComrnociore Barney's flotilla. It is expected
that the old gentleman will be present on
September 12, when the Society of the War of
1!2 will celebrate the Moth anniversary of
the establishment of Fort McHenry.
Japan would not seem to t ea specially feli
eitious country to choose for a concert tour
just at present, but Mme. Minnie Hauek has
been singing there lately with much success.
She gave a concert at Yokohama, singing
eight songs, among them the. Inevitable
•Home. Sweet Home." and clearing fl.t’Ot.
She narrowly escaped death at Tokio in the
great earthquake, and Is now enjoying her
self at the hot mineral springe of Miyauosliita
at Hakone.
Of Lawrence T. Neal the democratic candi
date for governor of Ohio last year, the Cin
cinnati Enquirer says: Out of politics Mr.
Neal is devoted to tne profession of law. in
which he is eminently successful. Being a
bachelor, ho can ha"iily l e said to have a
home life, yet he takes mu h quiet pleasure
at Tanglewood. the residence of Judge ."af
ford, ai whose hospitable mansion Mr. Neal
has resided ever since he came to Chillicothe.
and where he is as much a mem cr of the
family as though to the manor born,"
Durant Da Ponte, a prominent journalist of
New Orleans, who died recently, was a grand
son of Lorenzo Da Ponte, the Italian poet and
author of tne librettos of Mozart s operas
"Le Nozze di Figara” and "ion Giovanni."
As Mozart's operas are seldom spoken of
without an accompanying wish that they
could have had a better text, the honor is a
rather ambiguous one. but the family makes
a still more exalted claim to fame. Durant
nta Fonts asserted his descent from tho doge
of Venice who built the bridge of the Rialto,
from w hichdhe family name was taken. An
other story, however, is to the effect that Da
Ponte was a Jew. and that his name was as
sumed by him and bis brother out of compli
ment to their henelaotor. 1 orenzo Da Ponte,
bishop ol Ceneda, who adopted them.
BRIGHT BITS.
Summitt—Miss Gayley seems thoroughly
imbued with the idea that youth will tell.
Bottom—Yes; you see. she has three or
four small brothers.—Buffalo Courier.
Radbourn—l hear that Olcott has been dis
charged from the police force. Do you know
what for
Chesney—Yes. Refusing to accept a bribe.
—Brooklyn Life.
An ariist being asked. "Is sculpture diffi
cult answered: "Why. bless you,no! You
have only to take a block of marble and a
chisel, and knock off all the marble you don't
want."—Tit-Bits.
Young Miss—l don't want any man to ask
me all of a sudden to marry him.
Old Miss—Neither do l; still, I'd try to
offset it iy accepting him as suddenly.—ln
dianapolis Journal
Lawyer—Did he call you a liar in so many
words?
Client—Well, he called me a weather report.
Lawyer—That is sufficient; you are sure to
get damages.—Tit-Bits.
Teacher—What was Washington's object in
making the perilous trip across the Dela
ware 5
Dick Hicks—He wanted to see if the peach
orop was a failure.—Puck.
"How did von come to break with Miss
Sweellirs? You always said she was as good
as gold."
"Yes; hut I got acquainted with a girl who
had the gold.”—Boston Transcript.
Mamma (engaged in correcting Johnny)—
Y r ou know! hate to do it, Johnny. I sympa
thize with you, but—
Johnny—Haven t there been enough sympa
thetic strikes without your beginning: Bos
ton Transcript.
The three branches of the Japanese arinv.
the aclivt, territo-ial and national are the
Josigun, the Kobigaun and the Kokumigun.
It is surprising, tinder the circumstances,
that China didn't know it was loaded.—New
Haven Palladium.
Those Needless Questions.—She—Oh. Mr.
Williams, did you fall in?
He (dripping in his walking-suit)—Oh. no,
indeed. I've just neeti taking a dip. I al
ways bathe in this suit. No i other getting
dressed afterwards. Harper s Baxar.
Clerk—As I am about to get married . I came
to ask if you would not give me an increase
of salary.
employer—My dear sir, that is not neces
sary. You know, a young man always saves
money by marrying.—Detroit r ree Press.
CURRENT COMMENT.
The Work Well Begun.
From the Augusta Chronicle (Dem.i.
The next session of congress will tako up
democratic pledges where they have been
left oil and will continue the work of fulfilling
them, which lias only been well entered upon
at the session that has just passed into his
tory.
What Congress Has Done.
From the Philadelphia Record.
It has made elections free by the repeal of
the force bill.
It has stopped the purchase and storage of
silver bullion.
It has passed a stringent anti trust law.
It has saved millions of dollars to taxpay
ers by the repeal of the McKinley act.
if nothing more had been accomplished
than what is above recited the Fifty-third
congress would have earned the lasting grati
tude of the people.
Georgia Will Soon Recover.
From Columbus (Ga.j Enquirer-Sun (Dem.).
With the good times coming in Georgia
from the tine crops, the settlement of the
iaritl question and the general revival of
business confidence, we may expect next
spring to see Georgia s J2d.000.0u0 of lost
property oreep back on the tax digests, with
probably many new millions to keep It com
pany. We haven't the slightest lost confi
dence in the stay-at home qualities of Geor
gia properly, and we believe that it is all
here, even if not accounted for on the tax di>
gests.
Too Much Politics.
From the Marietta (Ga.) Journal (Dem.i.
It is perhaps true that we have too much
politics in our country. With the electlou of
a president every four years, governors and
congressmen every two years, we are kept in
a constant political htoil. The result is ns
soon as one fallow is elected to oftlcb the
other fellow begins to plan to get him out; as
soon as one party is placed in power the
other party begins to plan to supplant it at
the next election. This breeds demagogues
and fosters political corruption. Why not
give the President six years, governors four
*
tion? It might be wise to give our nutional
reDresentatives four years, and let the sena
torial term remain as it now is. We would
then have more legislation and less politics,
more patriotism and iess demagoguery.
What It Means.
From the Macon (Ga.) Telegraph (Dem.).
The chief significance of the President's
failure to sign the tariff bill Is that he refuses
to accept that measure as a final settlement
of the tariff controversy. He is glad to get it.
on the principle that a half loar is better th n
no bread, but he is determined to have the
whole loaf at the earliest possible moment. It
is because his action has this stgnllUance.
even had he not written his letter to Mr.
• l atchings, that it meets the disapproval of
I many people, above uli things, for Industrial
peace ’1 he attitude of the President in tins
matter is exactly the same as that assumed
by the House. When the so called popgun"
hills were rushed through that body without
debate within an hour or two after the Sen
ate bill had tieeu accepted, that was notice
thut tiie House did not consider the tariff
questloh sptued—that it took what it could
i get of tariff reduction and would immediately
1 go to work to get more.
They Were AH There.
- WMt tfce President. Secretary On*fateH
Secretary Gresham and Capt. Evans were on
one of their trips down the coast, says the
Washington Star, they happened to be nearby
waere the Cedar Point lighthouse burned I
down owing to the dereiletioa of the keeper, I
who was acsent from his post of duty, in ;
due course of time he was removed, and also |
in due course of time the dismissed keeper i
with a congressional friend visited the secre
tary of the lighthouse board to secure a rein
statement
"I want to know who wrote the letter rec
emmeniing this mans dismissal,” sa.d the
congressman.
'lne polite secretary invited the member
and his friend to ne seated, and touched bis
l ell. "I will send for a copy of tha letter,
and you shall see it for yourself," said he
1 suppose -proceeded the congressman,
taking a seat, that the dismissal was made
on the report of some and and inspector who
didn't know half the facts. I um going to
see Capt. Evans about it and have the matter
fixed."
By th s time the letter oox was brought,
and, placing it before the member, the .-e.re
tary said; You see, the letter is signed by
Capt. Evans."
"Oh: 800 Evans signed it, did he -" Then
reading the letter, he added. "It is just as I
thought; he has based his recommendation
on the report of an inspector. Give me a
copy of that letter; I am going to 6ee Capt.
Evans about it."
"Certainly." replied the bland secretary, “I
will have a copy prepar-d at once; but—er—
I believe that Capt. Evans is personally ad
vised of the facts in this case."
"Personally advised! What does be know
about the matter except from this inspector s
report "
'.Veil, you see. it happened that. Capt.
Evans was at Cedar Point wnen the light
house was burned."
Evans was there himself ’"
"Yes; he was there ai the timo, on one of
the lighthouse vessels, and. i ihirik. he made
some inquiry into the matter."
"Oh. well, if the captain was there, and has
signed this letter. I suppose there is no use of
my seeing him. Give me the copy, thougn,
and i will go and see Carlisle.”
Certainly; of course; the copy will be
ready in a moment; but, I think, the secre
tary, too, knows about toe matter, as he was
also at the lighthouse at the time."
Carlisle was at Cedar point when the
lighthouse was burned up v "
"Yes: he and Capt. Evans were there to
gether."
"The devil they were. Well, then, there's
no use of my seeing him. I’ll have to go to
my friend Gresham: he'll lix It for me. Let
me have the copy all the same."
"Yes; to be sure; out—er—general—the fact
•e—er—that Secretary Gresham was also
there."
"Do you mean to say that Carlisle and
Gresham and Bob Evans vvers all at Cedar
Point when the lighthouse burned up?"
"Yes; it just happened that they were all
there."
" Well, I’ll be d—d. This Is very st range.
I ll have to see the old man himself: I’ll go to
the President. Is that copy ready?”
"Yes: it has just come: here it is: but—per
haps! ought to say—you ought to know—that
is to say, that the President pro ally knows
about the case, as he was likewise at Cedar
Point.”
“The President was there? Good God!
Well. Smith," turning to his man. T guess
your goose is cooked. We'll have to give it
up."
Too Bashful to Tell Their Love.
It is not olten that young folks fall in love
with each other and never tell about it. It is
not often, either, that getting married is
robbed ei the sublime pleasures of courtship,
and should never be. But the Charlotte :N.
C.) News says that Providence township,
Mecklenburg county, furnishes a case out of
the usual order. Duncan Gordon, a young
wire man. lived in that township, and did all
he could to prosper and be happy. The only
social drawback he had was an extreme bash
fulness, winch he seemed powerless to over
come. liut in going about in the neighborhood
he saw Miss Betide Cooper, an attractive but
bashful young ladv. Duncan ieil in love.
He fell in deep, too. He told his heart
aches lo an old negro woman, who communi
cated them to Bettie. and reported her an
swer to Duncan. Thus the thing went along.
Finally the old colored woman planned a run
away for the couple. The v met in the night
-and skipped to south Carolina by the light of
the moon. A squire at Culp mar
ried them and they returned home. They
were both so scared that they did not speak
on their way to and from Culp's, but after
their return home they made up. They are
geitlng along nicely now. They can both
talk, and always could, but, owing to their
bashfulness, never sooke to each other prior
to their marriage ceremony.
The Ruling Passion.
From the Cincinnati Enquirer.
She had suffered wfth the phthisis, and had
taken tons of physic.
And whole barreifuis of hitters, and whole
loads of nauseous pills.
She'd be< n troubled wiih miasma, and choked
up with the asthma.
And been shaken for a month or two with
ague and with chills.
She had had the yellow fever, of which noth
ing could relieve her.
And the rheumatism lamed her so she could
not go about;
And she groaned with tonsllitis, and the most
acute bronchitis:
And she suffered endless tortures from
twinges of t he eout.
She had tried old school physicians, Christian
scientists, magicians,
Indian doctors, electricians and magnetic
healers all.
And drink tons of nasty liquor, but grew ever
sick and sicker,
And they got the undertaker to prepare her
shroud and pall;
Then the great cheap sale of laces, advertised
in various places
Caught her feverish eye one morning, and she
leaped up sound and well;
She shook off death's stiffening rigor and
with most emphatic vigor
She grasped her husband s pocketfcook and
rushed down town pe,i melt.
Cornering a Fisherman.
“So you've been fishing,” said City Ticket
Agent Green of the Wisconsin Central to
Commercial Agent Lord on his return from
an expedition last week near Stevens' Point,
on the Portage branch, says the r>t. Paul
Pioneer Press. "Where are your fish:-”
"We ate em all." replied Lord, "Collins,
Horn, Dr. \ ittum. and myself ate ’em all.”
Green's eye twinkled under the lid. He in
geniously turned the conversation in other
channels until fiord was off his guard, when
he asked in all seriousness: "And so you
really had good luck-on the square?”
"We had line luck,” responded herd, boast
ingly.
"What would te your average catch
apiece?”
“About 10C trout each.’
“Average weight?”
“Easily a pound and a half?”
“And you were away four days?”
“Just four days.”
“Do you mean to tell me that you and Horn
and Collins and Doc Vittum ate 2,100 pounds
of fish "
•Vo i re a smart mathematician. Green.”
meekly responded Lord,” ' and I guess I'd
better buy."
A Kentucky Indictment.
The following, the Courier Journal says, Is
a true copy of an indictment found a few
years siuce by the grand jury of Lawerence
county, Kentucky; "Lawrence Criminal
Court. Commonwealth of Kentucky against
jury of Lawrence county, in the name and
by the authority of the Commonwealth of
Kentucky, accuse—•— of malicious i mis
chief, committed as follows: The said
on the day of A. D. 18—in the
county and circuit aforesaid, did unlawfully,
wilfully and maliciously kill and destroy
one pig. the porsotial property of George
Pigg. the said pig being of value to the afore
said George Pigg. The pig thus killed
weighed aoout twenty live pounds, and was a
mate to some other pig owned by said George
Pivg which left George Pigg a pig less than
he i said George Piggi had of pigs, and thus
ruthlessly tore said pig from the society of
George Pigg's other pigs against the peace
and dignity of the Commonwealth of Ken
tucky."
A Washington Incident.
A clerk In the war department went out to
look for lodgings the other day, says the
Washington Post and called at a nice-looking
house on Eleventh street, in the window of
which was a placard, Rooms for rent. " The
landlady showed him a large, front room. Hie
rental of which, she stated, was rltlu month,
• That is more than I can afford to pay,”
said the clerk.
" Well,” responed the landlady, apologet
ically. would you object to occupying a room
In which a lady had died?"
"No," replied the clerk, “I guess not. What
caused the death •"
Consumption."
"that Is not a contagious disease. How
long since the lady died
•Why, she isn’t dead yet. but It Is only a
question of a few days. Can't I engage the
room to you ?''
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
The word cotillion means petticoat, and
was originally applied to a species of the
modern skirt dance.
A Bible distributor died recently In New
Hampshire at the age of 76. who, during his
life, distributed ItO.UX Bibles.
Mrs. Eunice W. Beecher, the widow of
Henry Ward Beecher, though 82 years of age,
still continues to write magazine articles.
Early in the approaching fall ground will
be broken for the first of the buildings of the
Methodist University, which will be erected
at Washington.
Col. R. G. Ingersoll Is very fond of his home
and never visits clubs. It is next to impossi
ble to get him to a dinner where speechmak
ing follows dessert Not even Neal Dow him
self Is more tempers e.
Blondlu began to toddle across a rope when
he was 4 At the age of Bhe performed before
the king of Italy. Since then he has appeared
in all parts of the world, and has earned as
much as 1500 a performance.
A crusace is being started against the en
gagement ring in Boston. One of the reasons
given for its proposed abolition is that many
girls become engage*! for no other purpose
than to aid another ring to their collection,
and break off the contract as soon as it be
comes convenient.
A fac simile message, obtained through a
medium, and purporting to have come from
the late Mi Windqm. is published in the New
Yors Herald, signei "Windom, Sec v.” The
Philadelphia Ledger observes: "The uews of
Carlisle s appointment doesn t seem to have
reached the other side.”
It is still the busy season with fashionable
candy makers, but a month lienee, when the
summer hotels shall have closed, dullness
will come upon the trade and many working
folk will be dismissed until business revives,
about Dec. l, wnen the factories are again
driven to the utmost to supply the demand of
the Christmas holidays
It is said that the Germans are now the
best educated people on the continent of
Europe. This advance in education has been
made within the past century, for previous to
IsOU school teachers were so poorly paid and
so little appreciated that they were often
compelled to sing on the streets in some in
stances in order to earn a few pence to sup
plement their meager salaries.
The slab that is to cover the grave of Rob
ert Browning in Westminster Abbey is almost
completed and will be sent shortly to Eng
land from Venu e. It is of Oriental por; hyry,
of which the poet was particularly fond. an
in a frame of Sienna marble, and, though
rich, is extremely simple. The inscription
will consist only ol the name and date with
an English rose at the head and a Florence
lily below.
The navy department has decided not to
electroplate the bottoms of the steel cruisers
to prevent their fouling, as has been stated to
be its intention. The patent process spoken
of was thoroughly examined by naval con
structors some time ago and condemned in
an official report to the - ecretarv of the Navv.
The report declares that instead of improving
the c mdition of a vessel So treated the treat
ment would t>e positively destructive, as the
moment the thin skin of copper was broken,
ns it certainly would be by contact with any
obstruction, galvanic action tetween the
copper and steel plating would ensue, and
the steel would be rapidly destroyed by the
action of salt water.
The appearance of Messrs. Brodie and Cor
bett as “actors” reminds the British Journal
that the present condition of the stage is tut
a repetition of history, and that the world
does not change much. Dr. Doran in his 'His
tory of the English Stage” speaks thus of the
end of the seventeenth century: “The cen
tury closed 111 for the stare. Congreve's play,
■ The VVay of the World,’ failed to give it any
lustre. Dancers, tumblers, strong men and
quadrupeds were called in to attract the
town; and the elephant at the Great Mogul,
in Fleet street, drew’ to such an extent that
he would have been brought on the stare but
for the opinion of a master carpenter that he
would pull the house down." And it is set
down that the treasuries at both Covent Gar
den and Drury Lane were well nigh empty,
owing to the rage of the town for curiosities.
The immense importance which oyster
culture has assumed in the north Is shown ly
an enterprise recently undertaken in Mary
land, in the inland waters known as the Isle
of Wight. Assswoman and idaepuxent bays.
Some,capitalists have oi tained a charter au
thorizing them to construct and maintain a
canal across the narrow strip or land lying be
tween the inland bays of the Maryland coast
and the Atlantic ocean, the obje. t i eing to
impregnate them with salt water in which
oysters could be propagate!. Asa reward
for cutting the canal, which would be of
great value to commercial interests,
the state is to give the company
control of one-half of the oyster beds in tbe
inland bays. Maj. Hutton, engineer of the
Baltimore haroor board, says the project is
feasible, and the company has determined ;o
login obstructing the canal at a point op
posite the St. Martin's river a'oove Ocean
City. It is said that by producing a current
of salt water from the ocean through the
bays an area of seventy-live square miles of
oyster-ground will be made available-48,-
00J acres—capable of accommodating an an
nual oyster crop of 40.000 0 0 bushels, worth at
the landings about $20,000,000. Ohlncoteague
bay alone would give forty miles of oyster
ground.
Berah Colburn (born at Cabot, Vt.. Sept. 1,
1804; died in Norwich, Vt.. March 2, 1840) was
the most wonderful of all mathematical prod
igies. says the St. Louis Republic. His re
markable powers ecame manifest as soon as
he was old enough to talk and by the time ha
was 5 years of age he was the wonder of both
Europe and America. In 1812. when he was
only years old, he was taken to London in
order that the great mathematicians of the
British metropolis might try his powers.
I his was done to the r satisfaction, and with
the following results: He raised any num
)er consisting of one figure, progressively to
the tenth power, giving the result mot from
memory, 'out by actual multiplicationi faster
than the person appointed to keep record could
set down the t,fares. Next he raised the
figure 8 successively to the sixteenth power,
naming the last result, which consisted of
la figures, almost instantly every figure being
found by “proof'' to he right. Od le.ng asked
the square root of 106.928 he answered 327 be
fore the recorder had time to write down the
number to be squared. He was then require!
tn find the cube root of 268,336,121. and with
celerity that was really startling, replied that
it was 615; whereupon the astronomer. Young,
who had teen well Grille 1 in mathematics in
problems where Millions" were handled as
often as "hundreds." spent forty-five minutes
In proving tbe correctness of the answer. He
was then asked how many minutes there were
in forty-eight years, and before the question
could be ’written down replied that there
were 2d.228.8J0, and Immediately after
gave the correct number of seconds In the
same period of time. On being requested to
give the factors that would pro luce the num
ber 247.483 he immediately named 941 and 263,
and it was afterward learned that thev are
the only two numbers the multiplication of
which will give the result. His taskmasters
next proposed that he give the factors of 36,-
083. but without seeming to reflect a single
moment he replied that it had none, which
was really the case, that being one of the
prime numbers. He was next asked to name
the square of 909,1X10, a feat which he per
formed in nine seconds by twice multiplying
the square of 37,037 by 27. the answer being
(8.999.902.000.049. Remember that these feats
in mathematics were all performed by a boy
three months under 8 years of age.
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