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I ALBANY WEEKLY HERALD: SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1S92. 5- ALL SORTS OF THINGS ABE FOUND PAFKBA ■N the A ad Dlehed Up for ID Itrndrr* of the Herald. A Whole ThomMiNd of ’Em. One thousand American girls and women are now studying art in Paris. Ale* nbnkei Braggadocio for Hold* ■roe. From the Atchison Globe. Every man defines cowardice in his own case as discretion. Hm’a Your Thumb t A long flrst joint of the thumb shows willpower; a long second joint indi cates reasoning power; a thick, wide thumb indicates marked individuality. Pen no Old no the Phnrnohe. Three-thousand-year-old dried peas from the hand of an Egyptian mummy, lately sprouted at Riverside, Cal., and furnished a'surprisingly large crop. He flhonld nitre Asked the Widow. A good Rochester (N. Y.) pastor, a widower, proposed to a young lady a short time since, but was rejected. His feelings hnd the second severe test when a widow neighbor sent him the following text to preaoli from; “You ask and receive not, because you ask a miss.” Thera Are Times When Nothing Will ” Melitfr Hint, From the Now York Press. “No,” said the housemaid, “I don’t apologize to a man when I throw a buoket of water down the front Bteps to wash ’em, and he comes along and gets drenched. I’ve tried apologizing, but I’ve found there’s nothing you can say to a man will satisfy him.” Ther night Have Been. From the Brooklyn Lite. Hollie: -I wonder why they mar ried. He isn’t rioli, nor a foreigner; nor even an English lord. Dollle: No; and she hasn’t any money, nor been on the stage, nor done anything like that. And her father is only a common American, not even a Knick erbocker. I can’t understand It. Hoi- lie (with a bright thought); Perhaps— perhaps they were in love! A Brand New Use fer Uncle Benjamin and Brother Grover. From tfio Now York ltecoi-dor. At a recent hotel hop the favors for the men inolnded Harrison and Cleve land matchsufes, distributed aooording to the political faith of the favored. They were silver-plated affairs, neatly oast in the mould of the candidates’ heads, and were a welcomed obange from the scarf pin, too well known to male germairdancers. The Candldnte of the Bnnk nnd File. From tho Philtidelplnu Record. Since Gen. Jackson wns flrst elected President of the United States there has never been a candidate for that of fice In either party who owhd his nom ination so much to the rank and file and so little to the leaders as Grover Cleveland. He was nominated at Chi cago beoause the voters at home, in the fields and in the shops, insisted upon it with a vehemence that did not brook refusal. They forced his nomination, and they can be relied upon to ratify their own choice by electing him There Ip probably not a man in the country who does not believe in Graver Cleveland’s honesty, nnd his fidelity to his public duty as he understands it. That is the secret of his strength. AMONG THE U11UBCHKH. Interesting Exercises nt the Plnces of ■ Worship Y'esterdny. The Issaes Uppermost. From tho Philadelphia Record, There are two important issues in- ’ volved this year in the struggle be tween parties fqr the oontrol of the Federal government. The attempt of the Republican party, to fasten Negro domination upon the people of the Southern States by Federal interfer ence with elections Is one clear issue. The division of parties on the tariff -question raises another clear issue. There is no room for mistake about one or the other. The New York Sun insists that the tariff issue is not prac ticable, because if the Democrats should eleot both their President and a majority in the House of Representa tives they could not make any change in the tariff without the consent of the Republican Senate. Our esteemed 1 contemporary might as well argue that the force bill issue is a mere stuffed olub beoause the Republicans were un able to carry it in the Senate. Both issues are immediate, urgent and uppermost in the minds of the people. Those who wish to tear open afresh the scarcely healed wounds of sectional strife and hatred should vote for Harrison and the force bill. Those who may desire to enoourage further the building up of unproductive in dustries at the expense of productive industries and to fasten permanently upon the oountry a policy of elass leg islation, should vote for Harrison and protection. Those who do not believe in force bills and protective tariffs will vote for Cleveland. There is no excuse for making any mistake this year about the position of parties or candidates; An excellent likeness of Hon. J. W, Walters, “Our Jess,” appeared in Sun day’s Constitution. The entire plant of the Augusta Chronicle was destroyed by the recent destructive conflagration in that city Notwithstanding the heat which prevailed Sunday it was an inter esting day for the worshipers. The ohurohes were well filled and in each and ail the services were greatly enjoyed. At the Baptist church, after an able sermon in the morning by the Pastor, Rev. E. B. Carroll, the doors of the ohnrah were opened and three ap plicants for membership reoelved, Mrs. and Miss Peacock by letter, and Misa Bessie Carroll, the Pastor’s daughter, by experience. The right hand of ohuroh fellowship was ex tended the two former and Chris tian fellowship to the latter, to whom the rite of baptism will be administ ered next Wednesday night. At night Miss I.ouells Gilbert read an interesting essay upon Mexican Missions, and Mr. J. 8. Davis followed with an able and interesting address upon Mission work in general. The music wsb Very fine, both morn ing and evening. A solo by Mr. Goode Price, and “Calvary,” exquisitely ren dered by Mrs. J. M. Tift, were particu larly enjoyed. At St. Paul’s Episcopal cliuroh Mr. ,D> W. Shaffer, in the absence of the Rector, held services as a lay-reader, He read, with great feeling, the beau tiful ohuroh services, and in the morn ing an eloquent and touching sermon was delivered, taking the double text: “Blessed is the Lord God of Isreal, for lie hath visited and Redeemed Ills People,” and “For God so Loved the World that He gave His only Begotten Son.” It wns replete witli beautiful similes showing God’s great love for man. At the evening service no ser mon was read. The music was ex- qusite, a solo being rendered by Mr. Julian Price. At the Methodist church tho Pastor, Rev. Wm. J. Robertson, oharmed his large congregation witli one of his timely and manly sermons—full of timely warnings against the evils of the day. At the morning servioe the text was taken from Proverbs and tho subjeot discussed, Justice, the Theater and Marriage. “If you are wise he wise for yourself. If you give a wise man advice he will appreciate anfl ac cept it. If you chide a foolish man he beoomes angry. How mnny of us nre just? Are we ns willing to applaud the efforts and sucoesses of the daugh ters of the poor as we are the daugh ters of rich men? The theater is an euemy of the ohuroh and is no place for a Christian. The managers and the actors are no friends of Christianity. It is true that the theatre has im proved of recent years, but there is still muoli of harm in it. In regard to marriage he scored the mothers for their apparent unseemly haste in mar rying off their daughters, throwing them upon society nnd trusting them 111 the company of mature men when they should he at soliool improving their minds and building up lovely characters. At night the authenticity of the Bible was proved from the in ternal, external and experimental standpoint. There was a sweet solo from Miss Halite Oox, and the rich strains of music from the grand organ filled the snored edifice. At the A. M. E. Church Bishop Abram Grant gave 1 three sermons— morning,afternoon at|d night—to large congregations. He is, without doubt, one of the most remarkable oolored men in America. Born at Live Oak, Fla., he was elected Bishop In 1868 at Indianapolis, and the diocese of Texas and California placed in his charge. LaBt May, at the General Conference, he was assigned the work in Georgia and Alabama. He presides over eight hundred ohurohes. He is president of the A. M. E. Church Extension Board. At his morning sermon there was not a dry eye in tbe ohuroh, every hearer being moved to tears.’ Seventy-two applicants for membership advaneed to the altar. In the afternoon the ser mon was given by special request of many prominent white citizens, who were anxious to listen to his eloquence, At the First Colored Baptist ohuroh a memorial sermon was preaohed in THEY WILL FUSE. The Third Party and Republicans Have Made a Compact. HAVE SECURED $100,000. BepaMinra* Will Sappart Third Fan? Iltaln aad CnaaraMinaal Caadldnlna aad the Third Pnrlr Will Vale the Hepahllcaa National Ticket. The Macon Evening News of yester day publishes tile following speoial: Sparta, August 25.—I have It direct (rout a prominent State official who himself will shortly oharge It up 011 the stump that the long talked-of-fu- sion between the Third Party and the Republicans of Georgia has at last been formally accomplished. The trade is that the Republicans will sup port all Third Party candidates for Congress .and State offices and the Third Party will support the national ticket. Said the gentleman referred “There Is no possible error in this. I have it from a personal friend of Buok, who has effected the fusion and it has come to me from two other well Informed persons slnoe, one of them a leading Democratic Negro who was asked to Join the movement. The effect of this fusion is that immediate word has been passed along the line and the Negroes everywhere are being pushed Into the Watson ranks. There were nearly two thousand of them at Sandersvllle to hear hint, and to-day they are hero from every oorner of the county. It is expeoted that their num bers will swell as the campaign grows old. Behind the movement is a cam paign fund of $100,000 for which Buok Ims gone Ito Washington. A like amount has been assigned to Alabama, North Carolina and West Virginia. Tho national campaign will be fought out in these States, the loss of apy one of whloh, unless great ohanges occur elsewhere along the line, will be fatal to Cleveland. Such Is the programme, H. S. Edwards. memory of the late Pastor—good old Uncle Raph Watson. These are bay fever days, but that fashionable malady has never taken bold on Albany society. Friends are better than money, and the man who uses them aright and never abuses or betrays them will never be without. If you want your advertisement to grow in circulation and fructify your business, plant it in the Herald. The office of C. H. Camfleld & Co’s warehouse had a visit from a coon Frl day night. He stuck his p,aws into the inkstand and then left his big black tracks all over the desk and books, The tracks were unmistakably those of a very large coon. He ate up Fort Tarver’s meerschaum pipe and tore the sponge that was on the coanting table all to pieces. This is evidently a reg ular town coon, and having bis den somewhere about Camfleld & Co’s warehouse, he probably visited the office last night tp get tbe market quo tations and learn something about the backwardness of the cotton receipts to date. MB FOBBED AN ORDER Aad la Naw la a Fecit a> Traable aad Itaagalahca la Jail. Felix Dawson, a Negro who has been working on the Lamar plaoe, out in the Oaky woods, was arrested by Dep uty Sheriff Godwin and lodged in jail just before daylight Friday morning. Felix has been worklngon the Lamar place until about two months ago, when he came to town. Before leaving the country he forged an order on Stal- naker’s store at Duoker Station, sign ing the name of Mr. C. W. Summer- foot, superintendent on the Lamar place, for some goods. The forgery, It seems, was not dis covered until a few days ago, when warrant was sworn out and plaoed In the hands of Deputy Sheriff Godwin. Mr. Godwin located his man in house on the outskirts of the city, and surprised him before be was out of bed this morning. He Is now in jail. The Herald had a pleasant eall last Saturday from Rev. R. F. Riley, a for mer pastor of the Baptist ohuroh of this olty. He waa here in 1878, then young minister just from the seml- nnry. Now he is a full-fledged D. D. and President of the Howard College at East Lake, Ala., the Baptist college of our sister State. Mr. Riley was reeognlzed as a young minister of rare ability when he flrst entered the min istry, and those who predicted a bright and useful future for him have not been disappointed. He left for Amer- icus to-day, after renewing pleasant acquaintanceship with friends made in Albany fourteen years ago. He said that he has never seen a town take on more substantial growth In tbe same length of time than Albany has slnoe he last saw it. Folton county’s six candidates for tbe House have had their joint debate, and have now settled down to aotlve campaigning. The ’Atlanta Journal very wisely suggests preesutious hygenlo meas ures in every city in the United States, as a guard to the probable Invasion of the cholera. While the Are was raging, around the press room of the Augusta Chron icle Saturday afternoon, tbe employes went manfully to work and the morn ing edition came out on time. “It is a conceded fact,” said Mr. C- C. Campbell, the compress man, to the Herald to-day, “that the cotton mep of Albany are the best educated in the cotton business of any in the South to-day. Tbe railroad men, the com press people and everybody else that knows anything about it, concedes this to be a fact.” Albanians are now beginning to congratulate themselves on the fast that only about thirty days more of this excessive warm weather remains, In faot September is generally a much cooler month than August, and in Oc tober the temperature falls so much that life Is really to be enjoyed. Au gust is, witbont a doubt, our hottest month, and as its race is now run, we may congratulate ourselves on the faot that tbe rest of the summer will be comparatively cool. But September Will yet make us swelter, see if it doesn't. A HOPELESS CASE. Ha Bail Figured II All Out and Took Thing* Philosophically. A claim, beautifully situated on upland prairie, but waist high with weeds; a dilapidated sod Bhack whose thatched roof, us in the old song, let in the sunshine and the rain," whose cubby hole windows were broken here and there and stuffed with wearing apparel of various hues, and whose four walls were so Btorm worn that they barely held together; an ancient wagon here, with one wheel off and a hopeless stagger in the other throe; a ghost of ahorse there, grazing in a patch of thistles, and a man intheBhadowof the shack smoking and complacently eyeing the desolation about him. “Hello," I cried, halting my horse; what's the matter here?" Matter with what!" drawled a voice, us the speakor turned upward a pair of languid eyes. “Why, with this form. Running down, isn’t it!" He shrugged his shouldors and smoked on in silence. “Do you live horel" “Uh-huh.” “Married!" “Gosh-a-mighty 1” “Why don’t you fix things up! Look at that wagon, there. How do you get to town!” “Ride horseback." I looked toward his shadow of a horse and remarked pointedly; “Thistles are poor fodder." “Shot I wonder.” “Why don’t you picket your horse an the long grass down yonder in the bottom!" Puff, puff, puff—and a wreath of smoke was my only answer. "Don't you know," I went on se verely, “that the animal will die if rou don’t take care of him! Then low would you get to town!" "Hoof it, I reckon." “If I were you I’d have some snap about me. I'd plow up all these weeds and get this farm into some kind of conditioh." ‘Fate’s agin it,” he Bold, shaking his head ominously. "Why so!” Knooking the ashes out of his pipe, he put it away and hooked up one of his knees with both handB. “Look here, stranger, this here claim's full o' wild mustard. Do you know how many seeds there is in one o’ them plants!” “No." “Well, I spent all last summer findin out on avoragin up tho chances. They’s 81,000 seeds in one o' them tarnation little plants. That means 81,000 plants to raise 81,000 more seeds next year, an how many billion plants d'you s'poso they is on this plaoe, anyhow! Jest guess an multiply that by 81,000—why, stranger,' you couldn't git all the Aggers on an ordinary slate. I ain’t no fool, tho’ I do brag a mite on filosofy, an I tell you, now, I ain’t to struggle agin fate. I've been ite Capped in Kentucky, grass- boppered in Kansas, hailed out o' Dakoty, an now if this blamed mus tard’s goin to drive me out o’ here 1 shan’t fly in the face o' Prov'dence— on that’s what.” Then he took his pipe out of one pocket and a handful of tobacco out of the other, and proceeded to fix himself for another smoke. I looked at him a moment, resigned him mentally and rode away. “But Fm glad that mustard hain’t burdock,” he called after me " ’cause every domed burdock is responsible for 400,000 more, an” I lost tho rest. Ibad heard enough, however, to set me thinking.—De troit Free Press. Two Bookf of Rntots Leo Tolstoi, the Rusaian novelist, who has ideas of his own as to tbe If Woman Were Left Handed They Could Alight lletter from Street Cara. She half rose from her seat, glanced toward the rear of the open car, and raising her parasol signaled to the conductor on the rear platform that she desired to have the car stopped at the next comer. As.it slowed she stood up and stepped to the side, shifting her parasol from the light hand to the left and grasping the, arm of the seat with the disengaged right. "Wait till the car stops, please,” the Conductor shouted. She glanced up with a Blight ex pression of fright, and the conductor ran along the footboard at the side to assist her, but she did not wait for him. Sho stepped down while tho car was in motion, and when the car stopped with a slight jerk she had her left foot on the pavement. Sho had kept hold of the arm and was about to release it and put down the other foot, while facing to tho rear, when the jerk threw her off lier bal ance. The conductor grasi>ed her ami and prevented her from tailing. She smiled her thanks and stepped away. The conductor blew his whistle and started to return to the platform. "There’% another,” he remarked to a serene and observant individual at the end of the next seat. "A woman uever gets off a car while facmg tho right way; ut least I've never soeu one. If she'll wait till the car stops it's all right; if not it's all wrong.' 1 •”Tisn't her fault,” tho individual remarked. Huh I" No. It’s tho fault of the car, or the company, l mean.” •Hull I" 'Of courso. I’m not saylug a Word about grusping coiqiurutions or any thing of llio liko, but I say it’s the fuult of tho company.” T’d liko to know how,” the con ductor said suggestively. “We do lending members, saw the other day a policeman take an individual into custody. He at once walked up to the constable and saidi “Can you read!" "Certainly, eir." “Have you read the Scripture* 1" “Yea, sir.” “Then you forget that they com mand us to love our neighbors as ourselves.” ' The minion of the law, quite taken aback, stored at the count; then, after a. moment’s reflection, made answer: "And, pray, can you read I" “Yes.” “Have you read the police regula tions!’’ “No." ' “Then read them."—Green Bag. Th* Ice Cream Scoop. An inexpensive utensil is the ice cream scoop. It costs but forty cents, and is worth several times the price to the woman deputized to ladle out the ice cream at a fair or fete. These scoops cut out the cream in perfect forms, giving Tom the same amount as Dick or Harry. Anybody who has tried to preserve even a de gree of impartiality in her haste be hind the scenes at a church fair, for example, will recognize the value of this invention.—Her Point of View in New York Times. In • Prohibition IWn, A sign that was placed on a store door about forty years ago now adorns a Biddeford place of business and is of course obsolete in its .pur port and should be discontinued at once. It reads, “Wines, ales, etc."— A MYSTERY EXPLAINED. Ell Allcnllon nc Glrcn lo Nuniini > | Itlntters nml Micktinm Gimrilt il Again*'. o very tiling wo can to help ’em.” “ThHt may be so, but tbe company ought to change the direction of its lines or start a movement for the de velopment of ambidexterity,” the philosopher remarked. “Whutt" “Ambidexterity—ability to use both hands,” tho philosopher ex plained. “The trouble is that most loople can use tho right hand only n grasping anything, with confidence in the effort—women particularly. In this oountry the cars pass to the right, and hs it is safer to alight from the side nearest tho sidewalk it is very natural for a woman to grasp the arm of the seat, urthoHidoof the rear platform of s dosed car, before stepping down Now if the care rah the other way, to the loft, women would get off from the other side and would use thoir right hands. If woman goto off now ut tho side near the track she uses her right hand and is uot pitched Imckwurd. You watch the next time. If women were left handed the present system would bo all right, but they are not." ‘I never thought or that,” the con ductor said. “It has always been mystery to me." “Do you think they'll change!” tho philosopher nnUntl. “Wliol” “The company." "No, nor the womeu oilliol.”— New York Sun. Let us prepare for war In time <>r| pence. Not the war that costs thousand* m l human lives on the field of battle, but.I the merciless demon of disease tlmt is I equally as terrlblo when allowed to get I hold in a community where sanitary I precautions lmvo not been strictly| token. It Is a sad faot, but none the lossl real, that the health of Albany is nt I present more threatened than it has | been ntnny time in several years past. I And why? , Simply beoause during the last ten | years we have escaped all serious sick ness, thanks to artesian water and I good drainage; but now we nre tlirent-1 ened from another quarter. Tho Her- [ ald doesn't menu to pose ns a fault-I finder or an agitator of unpleasant | questions, and there is really no im mediate cause for alarm, tho health of I the city having been extremely good | all through the past summer. But the question now arises, Will w continue to be free from sickness 1 the olty isn’t cleaned? Numbers 0 persons are fearful for ih« health of I the city, and have not hesitated In ex- I press themselves foroibly In speaking | of tho matter. Said a prominent gentleman ihisl morning: “There nre plaqes In this city where germs of disease are sure to arise unless they receive limm-dintc attention. There arc vnonnt lots In tho very heart of the oity where weeds I lmvo been allowed to grow six or eight feet high nnd very thick,and tho smell | they oause Is terrible. In various alleyways the stench arising from foul matter thrown out I of private yards Is enough to cause sickness in the whole neighborhood. Suppose the olioiera should rcncli bany in its present condition? It is I not probable that.it will, but there is | certainly a possibility." The City Fathers have now token the matter in hand, nnd at tbelr next I meeting will jirobalily pass an ordi- | nance in regard to having tho city thoroughly cleaned. And Albany certainly, needs ek ing. It won't do to wait until the | horse is stolen to look the stable, but now Is tho time to act. It Is to be hoped that the City Council will Ink- determined action in the matter, and seo that tile sanitary precautions nec essary to the perfect health of the olty will be promptly token. One lViiiiitri-sl Hollar* Will buy my pony, enrt and harness complete. [8-28-tfJ T. 1*. Green. Bemerkeblo Selmulug r-it. On one occasion a man named Fisher swam from Dover to 8nnd ite in two hour* und a half, a dis- inco of ten miles. He started with a favorable tide, and although it took him out a mile to sea he swam to the shore and landed without assist ance. Previously be had attempted, with Professor Dalton, to swim from Dover to Ramsgate, and had then succeeded in doing twelve miles. Subsequently he made another at tempt to swim between these places, and started at 8:80 in the morninp At 4 o’clock he had reached Pegwel hay, hut as the tide had dropped add he was making little progress he de cided to givo up. Although he had been in the water for seven hours and a half he was able to get into the boat unaided. The Professor Dalton .referred to also swam from Deal to Ramsgate, a distance of nine miles, in less than four bourn. The sea was somewhat “choppy,” but notwithstanding this he appeared little worse for his long immersion, and left the “briny” un assisted.—London Tit-Bits. An XsMnllnl Quality, A committee went to a distant city to hear a r ilnister, and when they returned, in conversing with the per son who had reocommended the aforesaid minister to their notice, one- of them said: “He preached splendid sermon and we were very much pleased with him. If he only had your pLysic we should certainly give him a call.” Ministers will do well to take a hint, and with all their getting in the way of under standing, eloquence, tact and piety, let. them get a good “ph; Christian Advocate. Had Noticed It. Mr. Richfello—Isn’t Miss De Mure pretty when she blushes! Miss Beauti-Yes. I noticed it tho other day. It was the first time I ever saw her face color. "Indeed. What was she blushing over!" “Over a plate of hot soup.”—New Wc CLEAN THE CITY. AGAIN That Troublreonie Broad Mlrr.-l Drain age YVoll Clatule Mirairlpnl Aura,ion When street Overseer Coffey ami his torco of hands flnished work 01 the old well on Broad street Move mouths ago, tho City Council and lie generally hoped that it had covered up for good, and woul heard from no more. Overse had worked faithfully to ryniei evil Hint find been an eyo sore i. long, and it was believed that would not cave again. llut tho terrific rain that fell weeks ago proved hiore than well could atand, and it caved Mayor Gilbert now says it’s a bog case, and at tho last mecti the council, the contract comm was Instructed to confer witli Chase, to find out the best way remedying the evil. * The committee 1ms conferred wi Mr. Chase, who has examined the wi and is now engaged in investlgatm; three different routes for draining place. One route Is straight Broad street to the river, one Fine, nnd the other through the between tlio two streets. The that can be most easily utilized tho least expense, will be obosen The work will bo done with terra cotta instead of brick, and the piping will be ordered as soon ns tbe agreed upon. It is to be hoped that the.well wi: conquered tills time. A vigorous National campaign I been inaugurated in the Northwest. All tbe business men. of the city who hnve been off on summer vaca tions lmvo returned home, T'lie busi ness season 1ms opened. Work on the Mayer & Crine build ing is moving right along. Tbe brick foundations are now being laid, and Architect Gunn gives the matter his personal attention. Extreme vigilance Is being pised by the quarantine officers to ; vent the entry of cholera into our e ports. Ex-Surgeon General 1 declares that there is absolutely no 0 casion for alarm. Tom Watson’s latest play upon credulity of the Negro is by them that the “dolor line” in South has been broken. Jn grati for tliis valuable information si the Negroes have dubbed Tom 1 Jesus Christ. A seven-room dwelling j pleted. Large, airy rooms wit plate mirror mantels, Mosaic tiling. Handsomely flnishi neighborhood, a healthiest point