Newspaper Page Text
c
THE WEEKLY TELEGRAPH: TUESDAY, JANUARY 31, 1888.—TWELVE PAGES.
THE TELEGRAPH.
rmnim ZVBKY DAY IN THK yeas *xb VESKLY
by the
Telegraph and Mexmtfr Publishing Co.,
97 Mulberry Street, Meeon, G».
Tbo Dally Is delivered by cnrrlcr* !u the city
«t moiled postage free to subscriber* for 75c. a
Mouth, 12 ter three mouth*, Jl for six month*,
•r Rayear.
• tne Weddy f* mailed to »ubterlber*, postage
tree, at $1 a year and 50 cent* for six month*.
Tran.I.':a) advertisement* will be taken for the
Daily at It per square of 10 line* or lesa, for the
#t*t Insertion, and 50 cent* for each subsequent
.Insertion, and for the Weeely at tl for each in
sertion.
Death, funeral, marriage and birth notice* II.
Rejected communication* will not bo re-
nreod.
Correspondence containing important new*
•md discussion* of living topic* I* lollclted, but
*nii*t be brief and written upon but one »lde of
‘ the papc r to have attention.
Rcralttaneea muit be made by oxprew, postal
bo to, money order or regfctered letter.
All communication* *hould be addrewod, and
*11 money order*, check*, etc., be made payable to
THE TELEGRAPH,
Macon. G».
Mr. Henderson*. BUI. ' State platform: “We indorse the adminis-
Our special Washington dispatch of yes- tration of Grover Cleveland anil believe
terday gave in full the bill introduced by that the interests of the Union will be best
'. Henderson, of North Carolina, dealing subserved by bis re-election.”
Announcement.
Office Macon Telegraph, December 11,
1887.—From and after this date the price
of the Telegraph will be as follows:
75cts.
$2.00
4.00
7.00
1.00
any
ing
Daily, one month
Daily, three month -
Daily, six months
Daily, one year 1
Weekly, eae year -
Terms caah in advance.
Present subscribers may continue on the
old basis for twelve months, or take cash
disco lint, at their option.
J. H. Campbell, Manager.
Tub “Sitierian outrage” mill grinds
slowly. It has been fully a week since a
poor illicit distillery was "dragged” from
its native mountain cove in Georgia.
Tub French Court of Appeals has deci
ded that Catholic -priests are entitled to
enter into tho married state. Pere Mya-
cintiie did so fifteen year* ago, The courts
were too slow for Pere.
Mu. Thoebe is being urged to run
against Mr.Carlisle again this fall. If.ha
Khali yield, we will know how mnch the
Sixth Kentucky district did ttdt want him
in the present Congress.
Bkxatob “Jo*" Baows, of Georgia, In a speech
the other day In favor of the BUtr bill, took oc
casion to dMur with *omc of tho distinguished
founders of the constitution. That 1* what he
has been doing pretty much all hi* Ilf*.—Phila
delphia Record. .
Hut he knows a Georgia Constitution
which always agrees with him,
Governor Lowry, of Mississippi, has
vetoed a bill calling a constitutional con-
• vcnlion. His reasons for doing so are very
flimsy. Tlte preseut constitution of that
state gives the Governor cnormons power,
and Gen. Lowry probably fears that acorn
vention would abridge his prerogative*.
Tho people of Mississippi at the next elec
tion will do more than that. They will
get rid of Lowry altogether.
Maxwell, the St. Loui* trunk murderer,
Las been under sentence of death a year
and a half. Ilis lawyers, with a zeal worthy
of a belief catijie, have appealed his case
front one tribunal to another until they
finally got to the end of the legal rope in
the Supreme Court of the United State*.
They were beaten everywhere, aud now
there is nothing to do .but to bang Max
well. We do not suppose the indefatigable
attorneys will take a hand in this part
tho case.
Dentil of Chancellor Melt.
The death of Dr. P. H. Mill, chancel
lor of tho University of Georgia, ended
lifo.of wide usefulness and distinguished
honors. For half acentury he was promt
iicut in the Baptist Church, and for many
years put has been, iierlui|is, its most con
Kpic.iiou* figure in the South. In IH06
-was elected a professor iu the State Ui
versity and since that time was thoroughly
identified'with that institution. In 1878
lie was elected chancellor of the universi
ty, which position he held until his death.
About three weeks ago, while
on a visit to his son, Professor
P. H. Mell, Jr., at Auburn, Ala,
Dr. Mell was prostrated from the effects
of overwork. lie rallied sufficiently to ro-
iufu iu iii* horns in Athena, but long year*
of devoted toll had broken his fine consti
tution, and early yesterday morning he
passed away.
I ' “ ‘ lle leaves a
»
His death is a public lost,
place in hii church, in the faculty of the
Slate University, and in Georgia whicli
-will be hard \Q.fU.l, 'His life was singular
ly pure, simple and strong. He was a re
markable roan, alike for the powerof his
intellect, the grace and dignity of hi* life,
the sweetness of hi* disposition. Gentle
ness and strength were beautifully'min-
gled in him. No man ever
hold firmer convictions than he, but they
retted in a broad and liberal mind. He
was above all mean ard narrow prejudices,
whether of creed or section. From earliest
youth his was a life of labor. Wherever
he was placed he faithfully met his condi-
liens and filled the measure of hii duty.
No mac had a loftier sense of responsi
bility or a truer ambition to do his best
under all circumstances.
The death of Dr. Mill will be a personal
sorrow to many of the young men of
Georgia who have enjoyed Uie
Jieneftts* oi bu tuition, and
still greater advantage of a close associa
tion with one who was so worthy of their
confidence and love. IIU life, so rich in
- good deeds, an bright with the highest vir
tues, so strong in noble purposes, so ousel-
. fish and so fruitful of good to others, ha*
D.cen crowned by a peaccfuldeath and irra-
•iliated by the unfailing promise, “Blessed
arc the dead who die in the Lord.”
Mr.
with the collection of the internal revenue.
This bill ha* been unanimously recont
mended for passage by the judiciary com
mittee of the House, and is almost sure to
become a law. Mr. Henderson represents
State which, almost as much as Georgia,
afflicted with the moonshine distiller,
and his bill is intended to prevent any un
necessary hardship to citizens in the collec
tion of the whisky tax.
The Tkleqbafh has never believed
that the man who knowingly breaks the
law in order that he may
defraud the government, and
fill his own private purse, has any right
■ complain if the penalties of the law,
which he voluntarily dared, are visited
upon him, as long as those penalties
in proportion to the offense committed.
At the same time, as those penalties are
only intended to aid in the proper collec
tion of the revenue, they should he no
more severe than is necessary to their pur
pose.
The Henderson bill gives the courts wide
discretion in dealing with offenders, and is
intended to remove every cause of com
plaint against the system which has even
trace of justice in it. One cause of com
plaint has heretofore been that persons
guilty of trivial offenses have been too
harshly punished; under the new law,
minimum penalties being abolished, tho
presiding judge may grade the punishment
crime or may discharge the prisoner.
The “infamous system of spies and in
formers” has naturally been hated and de
nounced by the thieves who have preyed
upon the revenue and those whose intcr-
it is that the whisky tax shall be made
odious; the new law discourages the use of
spy system and makes an abuse of it
almost impossible.
The “dragging” of poor men hundreds of
miles away from home, to answer
charges of illicit distilling, which has for a
long time been a fertile subject for gush, is
made unnecessary by the appointment - of
numerous commissioners, so that
man accused’ ef Sttfe^
from the government may
have & commitment triai in his own county
neighborhood.
Not satisfied with establishing these safe
guards for the moonshiner, the new law
provides on easy way for him to compro
mise after being convicted.
All the objections of the free whisky or
gans are met, unless it be that the moon
shiner whom several applications of the
cold walls of the Fulton county jail have
failed to cure of his bad trick* may still
be sent to the northern climate in wiiich
the Albany penitentiary is located, there
to learn tho lock step and work indus-
rtously at the shoemaker’s trade. Seeing,
however, that this desperate remedy has
been resorted to only threo times during
the last ten years, the failure to provide
another form of punishment is not of
much moment
This bill of Mr. Henderson’s is of course
concession to the deceitful clamor
which hss been raised against the internal
revenue laws, with the idea of breaking
them down, that an ulterior purpose may
lie served, and not of getting rid of any
of their imperfections. The bill Is also an
experiment, as It Is by no mean* certain
that the revenue can be collected and
frauds prevented under a law which leaves
so many loopholes for the man disposed
to violate it. But we are in favor of the
experiment. It may succeed in collect
ing the revenue, and,] be
sides, it is good politics.
orces the Pennsylvania organs printed
in this part of the country to demand that
the whisky tax be abolished, not liecaiuc
of any wrong* inflicted in its collection,
but because it is better to tax the necessa
ries of life than the most baneful luxury
in the land. This is the real issue before
the country, and if Mr. Henderson’s hill
make* this plainer its effect will justify
the wisdom of Congress in passing it.
It cannot be doubted that tbe proposed
law will meet with general approval in
Georgia. What opposition to the present
law exists is largely among those who
have allowed themselves to be
swayed by the stories of suffering so
graphically told, of the poor foundations of
which they have no knowledge. They
have no sympathy for the offense of illicit
whisky distilling, and will have none for
the offender when it is made plain to them
that the government deals with hi
spirit of extraordinary leniency.
Judge Stewart’s bill, dealing witb the
samo.subject, is in most rpeigU partiett
lars the saute as that under review,- and
Judge .Stewart fairly represent- ibe i
raent of the people of his district and of
the Htate.
Theotherevent occurred in Pennsylvania
last week. Boss Randall who had long
ruled the Democratic party of that State
with an iron rod, was on hand in Har
risburg to secure the re-election of Chair
man Sanders, who in turn would proceed
to secure the election of Randall delegates
to the national convention. The Stato
committee—a body of nearly one hundred
members, in which every county is repre
sented—proceeded, however, to wipe the
floor with Sanders. An anti-Randall chair
man was chosen, an anti-Randall executive
committee was selected, and the following
resolution was adopted:
Resolved. That this committee cordially and
emphatically endorse the administration of
President Cleveland. It ha* been thoroughly
true to tbe best Interest* of tho republic. The
peace and prosperity of the country arc largely
due to lta wise and benign policy with respect
both foreign and domestic matters. It has
reformed the ctvll service, abolished useless
offices, reduced the cost of government, restored
many millions of acres of land to tbe public
domain, cfTcrtcd s large reduction of the public
debt, prevented the Importation of foreign pau
per labor under contract, and has wisely and
consistently endeavored to effect a reduction of - Hon of tariff, and on the protection side.
How the Farmers stand.
Tlte New York Tribune's efforts to gel
together a convention of farmers who will
indorse the present policy of so-called
“protection” has brought out some decla
rations of principle which arc not to its
liking. The Teleorapii has already
printed the resolutions adopted by Han
cock and Wilkes county fnrmers, and it
mar be said that they fairly represent the
agricultural sentiment of the State. These
farmers see aa plainly as docs nny Btudent
of political economy that the underlying
principle of “protection” is discrimination
against one class of the community in fa
vor of another, and that theirs is the class
which suffers most under our present sys
tem.
It is not from Georgia alone, however,
that protests by farmers against our
infamous tariff laws have come. One of
the Tribune’s circulars was sent to Mr. J.
M. Thompson, manager of the Illinois
State Grange, and his reply shows that he
lias a proper appreciation of the real pur
pose of the organizers of the movement.
He says:
It appears to me that the object of the more,
moot Is to educate and frame the opinion* of
the whole country on the very Important ques-
My
AS IN A DREAM.
Mesmerism a Popular Amuse
ment in Washington.
And Other Didtliignlaliert
the MesmerUt—'Tlie
Literary Leaning of l*roiui-
nent Men—Other Sewn.
One of the sensitives, Mr. Anderson ,
he Intenor Department, I rendered cm*
lepnc. paralyz.ng one side so that he
oat pain! 7™T* le *
In its service ns nn anesthetic lies n,.
real use of mesmerism so far as at errand
c wfr,«ns
ed Men—*Secr®t» of accomplished master, but it * «*»*■$?*
o O’clock Club- JieW.U> the Intelligent observer
\r ,i Tn f ?'. x "’clock club.
My othe r fg d 18 the six 0>dock Q
very mild and inocuous semi-monthly d'u
sipatlon. It was organized at my b ou *.
two months ago, ami now it hu nearly
hundred members. Its requirement tc°
membership is “to be a clubablc fellow
w.th one dollar in pocket.” Its platfom
s: No dues, no debts, no fines, no com?
tution, no by-laws, no president, no u»he
nostcward.no salaries, nn acooantt r
defalcations no lone speeches, no parliV
mentary rules, no claw-hammer coSts t
dudes, no personalities, no bores, no gam
bling. no nrcnol\ir,rt - r? .5 Ul ’
the idle surplus In the treasury and to lighten
the burden of taxation borno by the mass of
the people. ' • • -
The tine of policy laid dew* in (he last
annual message of the President for the revhdoc
and reduction of the war tariff especially com
mends Itself to us awa sure guarantee of pros-
pcritv to til classes oi prouuoen aou oi iiia.
genuine and honest protection to labor so long
pretended bat never vouchsafed by the monop
olistic legislation of the so-called Republican
party. We therefore avow, without hesitation
qualification, our unshaken confidence In the
Minin, courage and patriotism of President
Cleveland, and earnestly and hnpefnlly Tccom-
mend and urge his ic-electlon to the great office
which he has so acceptably filled.
Mr. Davis, of Lancaster, objected to the
resolution because of other candidates for
the Presidential nomination, naming Mr.
S. 3. Randall and Gov. David B. Hill.
Congressman IV. L. Scott in reply wanted
the resolution adopted in order “to let the
country know where Pennsylvania stood on
thd question.” It was adopted by a strong
VOtf?. :, , |
The country therefore knows where tho
Democrats of iron-making Pennsylvania
and sugar-making Louisiana stand.
It is about time, too, that the Atlanta
Constitution explained its position. Not
long ago it warmly commended a commit
mention that anticipates Mr. Cleveland 1 :
defeat next November. It fully endorsed
“Wide-Awake.” It has since subjected
Mr. Voorhccs, Mr. T. W. Rucker, F.diwr
McClure and Congressman Stewart to cau
stic criticism, because of their support of
Mr. Cleveland’s tariff policy. Another
declaration in favor of Mr. Cleveland’*
candidacy and Against hi* policy and hi*
•upiHirters, is therefore in order, and wo
trout our esteemed contemporary will not
withhold it.
Plan* to Detent Hr. Cleveland’* Denom
ination.
Within a month the Philadelphia Inqni-
rer—a cautions, conservative paper—laid
before tbe country evidence of m plot to
defeat the renomination of President Cleve
land. This plot, the Inquirer charged, was
led by Mr. S. J. Randall, pi Pennsylvania,
was promoted in Ohio by Congressman
Foran, in New Jersey by Senator McPher
son, and in Maryland by Senator Gorman
and tbe irrepressible Higgins. Various
facta were recited showing at least a com-
Tho Situation Has Clinagoil.
The Atlanta Constitution quote* a sav
ing of Charles Dickens, during a visit to
the United .States, as follows: “Where
are your common people? I have no dif
ficulty in picking them out in Kngland,
but here people arc all so well dreseed, so
well educated and to well behaved that I
can’t distinguiah between the classes.” On
this is based an argument for a protective
tariff, to which alone is ascribed the
power of our workingmen to cam good
wages, wear good clothe* and educate their
children. The Constitution, however,dues
not state at what period of our tariff hi:
tory Mr. Dickens found himself in, to liipi,
so curious a dilemma. If during his first
vtyt, it was in the last year of
thq famous compromise tariff, when du
ties had been steadily reduced for nearly a
decade, and had reached about the lowest
point in our history. This is probably the
period when the remark waa made. Tax
ation was then low, nearly all the money
paid went into the treasury, and none was
extorted for the benefit of private enter
prise. The people were living under a
revenue tariff, and were equally prosper
ous, happy and content. The government
had not then gone into the business of
making classes, and Mr. Dickens naturally
could not see any.
It is poaeible, however, that the re
mark was made during his sec
ond visit, but, even then, what
he saw could not be credited
protection. That visit was made when the
smoke of battle hsd lint lifted from Month,
cm battlefields, only one year after protec
tion, in its highest form had been adopted.
Daring four yean before it had existed, at
first in a mild form; but the nation *peut
its energies during those four years, not i
peaceful development, but in a giganti
war. Protection can hardly be said t
have made the country prosperous during
those years.
It took some time for protection to do
its perfect work. If the great novelist
could return now—if he could have been
present in Chicago when crowded meetings
on the public square* shouted for the blood
of the rich; when representatives of tho
law were blown to pieces with dynamite
because, in the opinion of thousand* of
poor men, they were “the
bloodhounds of the capitalistic
tyrants,” and had seen those same thou
sands following with bare beads tbe funeral
cortege of four men hung for murder, he
would not doubt that now America ha*
classes in her society.
And he would not doubt that we have
common people now, if he should pass
Special Correspondence Macon Telegraph.
Washington, January 24.—I have, this
winter, two recreations wherewith I beguile
the off hours when I am not crooking my
elbow for you, dear reader.
One is the Six O’clock Club (step-daugh
ter of the brilliant crepuscular assembly
known as the Twilight Clnh, of New York
city) and the mother is the soiree hypno-
tique with its queer experiments in roes- , - ,, ., ..„ Kam .
merism. Each is an amusement at least dea.P-beatil^d^llhM*^ 1 ’ 00 ^ no
serai-intellectual, and both were organized This club, you see, is led by its no’? I
in my parlors at tho beginning of the win- holds no meetings, except those of cverv
r. Thursday night around the big tabic
The reader will kindly permit me to wV"sit town*'‘nnSb^lKdAy^i?'
make a semt-annual report; for when a enty-five. There are no expense* but the
man talks about anything that is very near e ®c!i paid for the dinner and $1 initia-
to his heart, one may be sure, at least, that
he does not depend for his mformat.on I some tIlerae aIwavs fal 1 o^ving t!?di nner 0,1
on hearsay. On Thursday night last the club had *
# THRALDOM. I literary treat, the question being “What
It is about dj.A'eur tJjfjjpe I first f«und out bookB<havo most influenced yon?” Thirtr
that I could mesnieristi'some young people | five Soixlown .to dinner., anil twsswy-eiekt
of my acquaintance,.....Thu domination of j of then: had written hooks. Tb’e tv’
them proceeded by. easy stapes; first, clos- hours were filled with tho narratives of
tng their eyes against their wills; then scholars, most of whoso names and record,
controlling all thoir voluntary tnuoo c* » author. Applet CycKl
During; tins preliminary control they I la of Biography. 1
were entirely conscious of what was occur-j Professor Marcus Bailev, the explorer
ring, and freely expressed their astonish- who has mapped the coast of Alaska over
ment at their inability to open their eyes, to the Artie ocean, said two books |„q
to move, or what not, and were filled with profoundly influenced his thought* Jn j
profound amazement when they discovered I life—Darwin’s “Origin of Specie*” and
that they had lost tho use of tneir tongues Mill’* “Liberty.” These gave a new
and could net speak. This muscular con-1 treud to his thoughts at the most impre*.
trol is the first stage, and is shortly fob sionable period of his life, modified his
lowed by illusions, imposed by the mes-1 ideas of human accountability and of
mcriser, in whicli all tlte senses play tricks criminal law, and broadened iiia horizsn
will, tho subject, failing in tlinir office ns and gave him a plimmcof thima thither-
faithful sentinels, and conveying false iro- to undreamed ol? Tlte truths of "natural
pressions In every direction. selection and modification hv envlron-
At my reception of Tuesday night quite merits had powerfully influenced bis
number of notables assisted. Senators I career nnd guided his raicarchcs.
Ingalls, Piatt, Morgan, Spooner nnd Har- Prof. C. V. Riley, the distinguished en-
ris were present with their families; with I tomologist, widely [mown for,his violent
tome half a dozen Congressmen, Gen. John engagements with the lucusts of Kama*,
ti Black, Commissioner Obcrlv, Gov. Col- said that of novels those of Dickens and
man, Public Ih-lnter Benedict, Gens. Stev- Scott had most moved and impressed him
enson and Bryant, Assistant Secretary j and he even enjoyed reading the WavetW
Muidrow and others. *; I novels now. Of othtr book* Darwin’s uli
Six sensitives responded, and us, one by the lead, and have probably left a deeper
one, they passed into thraldom, losing mark on the minds of the young men of
connection with other issues their identity in the land of dreams, it be-1 this generation than anv other writings.
came obvious that the experiments were I They are a vast storehouse of knowlcd-c
entirely new to several of the assembly, and cannot be omitted from any education!
Questions were invited, and conversation Capt. Clarence E. Dutton, "“the earth!
with the mesmerized was permitted. The quake fiend,” as the chairman playfully
latter was unsatisfactory, of course, os a 1 called him in allusion to his numerous
sensitive fully mesmerized is only vaguely books on volcanoes and his learned mono-
conscious of liis real surroundings, and graph on the Charleston earthquake, testi-
unable to converse coherently. tied that Don Quixote gave him the most
The doctors of the pension medical I minute pictures of human nature ever
board were deeply interested and inquisi-1 found in books. For accuracy of outline
tire, and Dr. Ward attempted to talk with j and delicacy of touch lie compared fir-
a yonng gentleman who was personating vantes to Stinkspoaro, and thought him
Senator Edmunds. not interior. But what makes civilization
“Where arc you at this moment,” said is our knowledge of the priori pics and Uwt
the doctor. of nature and our mastery over them, and
“Here on the Senate floor,” said the sen-1 in this realm lie was most indebted to Dir-
•itive; “what right have you here ?" I win, Huxley and Spencer, and especially
“Don’t you know that you are not on to Mill in his matchless work on “Political
the Senate floor at ail?” said the doctor, 1 Economy.” Prof. Dutton enlarged on
“and that you aro not Mr. Edmunds?” these books, giving a brief Kvniqni* of their
“See here 1 .” exclaimed the nw.meriud I purposes and uses. ’ ,
man to me excitedly, “this man is as crazy I Professor W. X, IJormuly, author of
as a lied hug! He ought to be put outl” I “Two Years in the Tangle,” “Canoe and
The doctor laughed. The sensitive ad-1 Rifle on the Orinoco,” etc., a naturalist f»-
vanccd uiwn hint menacingly and I had molts for his explorations, -aid that in
to recall him to the other side of the room I school and college lie acquired a mortal
i
Interest and education as a farmer teach me to
believe that I belong on the other side,, and that
our views will not be harmonious on this sub
ject
Mr. Thompson goes on to show that
farmers pay the great bulk of taxation—80
per cent, ho estimates—and have done more
than all other classes to develop the coun
try and perpetuate its institutions. Yet,
bearing, as they do, most of
the burdens of the government
they receive least from it, all our fiscal
legislation being especially framed to en
courage other industries at their ex
pense.
Mr. Thompson states in his letter that
he $73* reared a protectionist, hi* father
being proprietor of a woolen mill, but his
ideas have changed since he became a pro
ducer. This experience will be that of
thousands whom the issue between protec
tion and tariff reform is fonght out before
the people* The President’s message has
made this issue inevitable, and men will
begin to tbink of their own interests.
Heretofore it has been merely collateral.
Men have voted for pfotoctiori
wbicli have overshadowed it—voted for it
incidentally, as it were. Now the question
is thrust into such prominence that all
others arc dwarfed, and it will he decided
upon its merits. If President Cleveland
should have done nothing else when his
term ends, lie will have deserved well of his
country. Advocates of a tarifl for revenue
need fear nothing when the plain, common-
nsc people of this country can have an
opportunity to vote on this question, un
tangled from all others.
mon dislike of the man who had unflinch
ingly upheld the cause of the people against through the anthracite region of Pinusyl-
• lie* mnnnttlv ^msnlii•***" r\f ilia mhh. ' y&DlAj wllCfV 100,000 idle men, living In
semi-starvation on the charity of their
fellow workmen, straggle for the mean* of
a decent livelihood against an overgrown
monopoly wade possible by protection. We
have common people there.
the great monoply “combine” of the conn
try.
Bat two recent events have sadly inter
rupted tbe even flow of this fine scheme.
In the first place the Democrats of sugar-
making Louisiana met in convention on
the fourteenth day of tin* month, and litre The remsrlu of Mr. Dickens do not sail **???* horrt *’ 1 ?• 1
. ■ . . .. -. render’ “Do: I treated him with silent
is »hat the >'igar-makers •*: I their the facts of l.. day. ». . ....
Thus is a year of political campaigns.
Stato elections will be held on the fol
lowing dates: Alabama, Aug. 0; Arkan
sas, Sept. 3; Georgia, Oct. 3; Maine, Sept.
10; Oregon, June 4; Louisiana, April 1
Vermont, Sept. 4. Maine, Oregon and
Vermont will elect Congressmen on tho
same date as their stato elections. Grover
Cleveland will bo elected for a second
term on the 6th of November, and on
that date all the states except the three
named above will choose Congressmen
Tin-poliii ill cauldron sill -cm br
uin to boil
Mr. Anprew Carnegie says rich men
are fast becoming more liberal in this
country, and are falling into the habit of
giving away a large part of their fortunes.
On tho other hand, it might be said that
rich men are becoming more grasping and
falling into the habit of organising
“trusts,” the effect of which is to squeeze
better prices out of the poor for the neces
saries of life. Mr. Carnegie knows a great
deal more about the “truat” business than
lie will tell.
SHREDS AND PATCHES.
The bosritlni houie chicken Is not very apt
recall say tender memories.—Yorkers States-
man. _____ g
Uncle lllllilab (who hail unwisely sampled the
side dish of Rocquefort cheese)—"By gum! that
Putter ain't In no trancc."-dnil{e.
Flossie—"Mamma, ran I give one of my doll*
to Cicely Waffles?" Mother-Certainty not,
Floosie. Why do yon want to?" Ptoesle—‘
find that t» in* aro too great a charge?"—New
York Bun.
j Missed hi* bearings: Stranger to CtUsen)—
"Why. Philadelphia ain’t such a doll place after
all. There seems to be lota going on!" Citlxeu
—“You've mined yoor bearing*, stranger. This
ain't Philadelphia; It'* Camden—Life.
Depot Muter—Don't you see that notice?
"(ienlteuiea not allowed tasmnketn this room.’.
Seedy- Individual—t*•!'•*>*•>'( apply lame. Do
pot Muter—Why not? Keedy Individual—Be-
I . no-.; I'm no gentleman l’hlla !■ It Ida Call.
| ' rhall I pua.’you another piece ol pic, Mr,
JohurenP' Inquired the landlady, hesitatingly.
"What kind of pie 1* It?" “Why, the aarne as
the Ant ptcee you had, of course." "That’s
Just wbst I wanted to And onL"—llart/onl Post.
Mia* Ethel (shout to be married)—Oh, I know
I shall lie so nervous Just before the wedding
Mlu Clara (her bosom friend)—I don’t think
you will have any cause to feel nervous, Ethel:
f am quite sure George will be on baud.—Texas
gifting*.
It t* Mid that tbe spirit of tbe late Mr*. New-
sun, of Port Jervis, N. Y., returns to weave car
pel*. If thoughtful and similarly Inclined In
dustrious spirit* would only return to make Ihe
sasly morning Are they would All a long-felt
want.—Chicago Inter-Ocean.
He—There la <me thing aboutourtheatre* that
Anthony Cumnock can but approve, whatever
be cm the stags- she—Wbat 1* that, pray? Ho
use general ami growing use of opera glasses,
t* so much mote modest than tbo aae of tbe
Baked eye.—Lowell Cltisen.
"Bromley, what's the nutter with you? You
took aa though you bad been ungled In e
etone." "Why. that brute of a Cbumlejr
Molted me. lie knocked me <lu«rn nod lUmpnl
And wb*t did
COB
tempt'
by another imperative suggestion.
“It U verjr odd,” said Senator Ingalls. I both mathematics and mathematicians.
“They scent to lie conscious of incongrui-1 When In doubt what profession to choose
ties and contradiction*, while their present I and liking none, Andubon’e “Birds of
condition is nn inversion of nil reality.” I America" fell into Ida hnnd*. followed hr
"It is like a dream,” said Mr*. Senator I Livingston’s travels nnd Dn Chaillu's
Spooner, whom I knew twenty years ago in “Equatorial Africa,” nnd these set his face
Madison, Wis., as an exceedingly capable I steadily toward zoology and established
and interesting school teacher.
hi* career in life. In feet, so decided was
.i_.i —j C a m every
I concurred that it was exactly tike a this tendency that he said.
dream; for, a* in a dream, only the unreal I near going to Nyauza myself at 17, and
appeared to be true. A mesmerized per- was only diverted by family bribes to try
son will reason with his accustomed accu-| some enterprise less dangerous. Myown ex-
racy ; will perform oorrectly a problem in periencc shows how the life-work of a hoy is
mathematics; will remember jsielry, sing, I freuuentlv selected tor hint by some trifling
make speeches and write essays, a* will a accident.' If other books had fallen in mv
person in a dream or in an insane asylum, way during that all devouring year, "I
In fact, we arc all mesmerized once a should doubtless have been to-night a dii-
day—at night, when we go to sleep, for I ferent man." Prof. Hornaday extolled
sleep is self-mesmerism. The only differ-1 Matthews’s “Self-Help,” and declared that
enee 1* that a perron asleep Is generally I it had fixed his methods of work.
unresiNinsivc. Somnambulism and insaii- Dr. Burnett, husband of the great nor-
ity seem to me exactly analogous to mes-1 eiist, Fannv Hodgson Burnett, eulogized
merism, and I have a theory, suggested by | Homer’s ,f Ilaid” ns being the greatest
my thousands of experiments, that many. | human composition. He hoped to retd
if not all, lunatics are in a trance, imposed some of it before going to bed.
by some shock or some strange combina- The famous Dr. Ward, the author of
tlon of circumstances, and that if an inge- I “Social Dynamics,” and scholar oi th«
nions ojierator could find the key to it, I geographical survey, said he never hsd
they conld be aroused and let out of thral- leisure to read a 'book, consequently he
dom into freedom. Of course this is an never read a book for pleasure. But for the
audacious guess, and I am not certain that 1 purpose of obtaining information. II*
it is correct -.but it is certain that my sens- I said: “I never read a book in my life
itives arc all temporarily lunatics; they without seriously deliberating on'it •
lire for hours at a time in the roseate I montli in advance and weighing the cob-
realm of hallucinations, and, at any mo-1 census of intelligent opinion about iL I
inent, they can lie instantly led out of the can never read anv book but once, and
dreamland by the hand that locked them have no patience with those idiots who
V- While dwelling there they are happy I read DeQuincy fifteen times and David
in their very thraldom; they do not know I Oopperfield every year. When I read s
their own name, or age, or sex, or nation-1 l»iok I have a method of my own of mak’
ality, or color, hut will accept any sugges- ing a digest ami analysis of it, so that I
tion from the ojwrotor; they do not know | can recall It at any time vrithont a distinct
where they are, ami if they move they fall 1 effort of memory, r generally try to read
over chairs, knock, down lamps, tresli on I at least one work of erowv - timbof
spectators, and run against the wall with-1 except Darwin, jinxicy', Spcm-or and
out seeing it. I could make any on* of I Auguste Comte—vou must read them *U-
mr sensitive* fight with anybody, or com- I never read any tran-lativn. Thtrc is nv
put i-uiude, or jump down a well or off the I translation that U good for much. W»
roof i?f the house headlong, hut not one of can’t read the original I let it go; if x*
them could find the door If the house were I must be read 1 learn the language,
afire, without being Iml to it. I Gen. Cutehen, of Michigan, closed tk»
We made a trip to South Africa on “an ] symposium, tslliug bow meagre his bovi*
enchanted carpet,” which I erokd from a I opportunities were, lu,w lit- graduated frow
rug lying at the door—sailing over seas a cotton mill in Massachusetts, read IM
and ship*, to the great terror of my com-1 “Biglow papers" anil “UncleTom’* Cabin,
paniemt—ami there we fought with tiger* limhibing a hatred of war from the lof-
and caught ostriches forlhelr feathers. AI nier, and a hatred of slavery from the 1st’
young lady of the party had her synipa* ter, and how he studied mathematics snU
thies deeply touched by the wretched con- learned to love it, following its
dition of the people, and wantd to do j through the wfcsfe visible univerae in t‘ ie
something for their relief. Gen. Cutcheon, flow of (lie tides, the rlivthm of the *gj
Jf. C., of Michigan, askd a good many and the delicate pulsations of music; b *
question* aa to tbe condition of the sen-1 decplv “Ben Hur” had moved him,
sitives, and ascertained that neither they 1 how finally his service* in the w»r h:l -
uor the mesmerist were fatigued by tlie I fixed his character and his purpose*- ‘ 1 ‘
experiments, even by the simultaneous ora-1 spoke vrrr eloquently, from tbe heart ol •
tory of the unsatisfactory and noisy garnet man-in dend earnest.'•»>'■ ..
of poker, where three vneantcriaed young I 4b White, ol the P‘~ ! j|r l rl|l**j*
men nlayed with a nhcnton whom I'intro- said lie had hcpi n»t jo4peap$>jff 1 !/
duceu to them as “Mr. Smith, Of K>fa:na-I physics and jcffero'qiVworks in nine **f*.
zoo,” and'whom them YesjOested, solicited, I unlc*.
abjured and commanded to “put up his I l’anlon this superficial skMch,
money where they could see it,” and whom I reader; I will not often allnde tothet<>p»?
at last they treated with violence when he I here treated, but 1 am growing fond **■
failed to exhibit his wealth after be bod I garrulous, and I am proud of uiy hn;
stayed in. They knocked the shadowy I and promising twins, the soiree by j u■■u , l
spector off hi* chair and wiped the floor! and the fortuitous 1 * tuW
with him, to the great amusement of the | at the 6 o'clock symj
OQM0I
W. A. CROfTCT.
•_ !.
ifwl
) iQi itaji ,i
ZjK JlMiVOSil d
314J* 90J lm
mU ftiuiftcj r livow .-»9ao(*?:ibjho t *nM