THE WORLD OYER,
EPITOME OF THE INTERESTING
NEWS OF THE DAY.
The lrifch Tronblts Labor Agit illon Every,
where What In Doing North, East;
Wettand Acroutlie Araa.
The packioar house of
the Hancock
chemical works, Mich., was
blown up
aid six men killed.
Fourteen persons were killed by an ex
plosion in a coal mine at Grtisenan, neai
Dortmund, Germany.
At Peru, Ind., the station agent of the
Chicago & Atlantic Railroad discovered
a dynamite bomb in a a freight car.
The reported marriage of Clara Louise
Kellogg to Carl Btrakosch is confirmed,
the ladyj herself admitting the fact.
Rev. Dr. Francis L. Satton, professor
of geology, at Princeton college, N. J.,
will succeed Dr. McCosh as president of
that institution. ,
Notices have been posted in County
Clare, Ireland, ordering a boycott of the
Shannon steamship company for convey
ing prisoners to Larick jail.
At a meeting of the church society of
Plymouth church, Brooklyn,N. Y.,it was
voted to extend a call to Rev. Charles
Berry fWolverhanuon, England.
Two children, while 1 returning from
school, near High Prairie, Rice county,
Minnesota, were attacked by wolves, and
before assistance could reach them they
were devoured.
In the switch yard of the St. Louis,
Arkansas & Texas Railroad, a locomotive
passed over a dynamite shell, which ex
ploded and very severely injured John
Jloss. . .
The . Royal Clyde Yacht Club will
withdraw . , its challenge to compete for
America's cup, on the ground that-the
conditions, as changed by the New York
.Yacht Club, are unjust and unsportsman
like. Gen. Joseph Hawley, United States
Senator, of Connecticut, was married at
Philadelphia, Pa., to Miss Edith Horner,
of England, who has been for several
years one of the head nurses at Blockley
hospital in that city.
I "It is reported in Rome that the Pope
has entirely disapproved the lawlessness
and political fanaticism of people in Ire
land, and has sent instructions to, the
cleigy with reference to their future atti
tude regarding the relations between
landlords and tenants.
An unsuccessful attempt was made to
blow up with dynamite the residence of
David Seldon, who lives in Aqueduct
ville, N. Y. ne has in some way in
curred the enmity of men who work on
the aqueduct. The fuse did not burn,
owing to dampness. Six people were in
' the house.
JohnL. Bancroft and Seth Van Allen,
two striking printers, who, it is said
have been active in inducing '.'rat" print
ers to leave the employ Of Pole Bros., of
Chicago, 111., were arrested on complaint
of that firm, charged with conspiracy,
resulting in the injuring of their busi
ness. The members of the Unity Church at
Hartford, Conn., have called a special
meeting to take action in relation to Rev.
J. C. Kimball, pastor, who has created
contempt by a sermon, comparing the
Chicago anarchists with the Saviqr. He
preached from the text about Christ be
. fore Pilate, and the cry of the mob to
crucify him.
So prevalent is typhoid fever in Al
bany, N. Y., that Mayor Thacher, at the
instance of the Board of Health, has is
sued a proclamation asking that all citi
zens, before using the reservoir water
obtained from the river, boil it, as the
seeds of the disease are supposed to lurk
in it. The" river is very low, and the
water is, therefore, of an even worse
quality than usual.
Nearly all the agency buildings at Fort
Bennett, in the Cheyenne Indian agency,
were burned. A large portion of the an
nual annuity goods were..cfvftsumed. be-
8ld P-S-J-5'3SBB'I"t'!o1 fViA norpnev ftcrri.
?LmfT5j ton ui -" "o - o -
- - n a .- i m.nA hnrdlCI
ititrai imim3iuv"i" - '
The loss is estimated at f,wu. An
Indian,! Jumping Dog, started the lire to
get revenge for having been confined in
the guard house a few days.
Private advices show that the recently
discovered gold mine, ten miles from
Prescott, Arizona, on the Lassayampa
river, is richer by far than anything ever
discovered in the world. The ore aver
ages $1,000 per ton, and thousands of
tons are in sight. Two men with a
common mortar pounded out $800 in less
than an hour. The gold clings to the
rocks in the purest scales. A man with
- .
a knife can scale of handful in a few
minutes.
Rev. James TV. Saul, D. D., vice-president
of the Universal Peace Union, died
at the Episcopal hospital in Philadelphia,
Pa., ageel 80 years. He was a native of
Pennsylvania, but settled down early in
Hfe in New Orleans, following mercan
tile pursuits there for years, lie filled a
number of public municipal places in
New Orleans and was tendered but de
clined, the Federal offices of superintend
ent of mint, and assist aut treasurer of the
United States. '
Fourteen men were seriously, and it is
feared, some of them fatally burned, by
an explosion of gasoline,at No. 908 San
eom street, in Philadelphia, Pa. The
building is used by the Edison Electric
Ujght Company as a storage house for
tools, gasoline lamps used by the work
men in lighting up street trenches, while
working at night, and other utensils.
One of the workmen, named Dooley,who
t is S3id, was drunk, was filling a light
ed gasoline lamp with gasoline, and the
fluid, coming in contact with the flames,
an explosion ensued.
There is much interest still manifested
in the imported liquor question in Au
gusta, Me. Burns is selling his imported
goods openly at the north end of Water
street, disposing of a large quantity, and
the'prohibitory law is nullified practically.
It will perhaps be years before a decision
is obtained from the courts, and a most
determined effort is to be made 'at. the'
coming seas-n of Congress? to obtain th;
enactment of a fiction which shall pre
vent clashing between the United States
customs regulations and the state prohibitory-law.
Marshal Dyer,, recently appointed re
ceiver to take charge of certain property
belonging to fhc Mormon Church made de
finand the other day for Temple block, on
which stands the Mormon temple, assem
bly hall and the large tabernacle in Salt
.Lake City, Utah. These . buildings '-.and
'adjacent grounds have been used upward!
; of forty years exclusively for "religious
purposes, lie also tooK possession of the
jparsonage known as the Guard house and
",he church historian's office, leaving men
'in charge. A demand was further made
for all books, papers, securities and other
personal church property.
Ihe newspaper Alarm, of which Par
dons was editor, will be issued for the
; first time, at Chicago, 111
since the execution. The lea d
ing article, written by D. D. Luna, suc
cessor of Parsons, says: "The former
editor" of the Alarm has been strangled
to death by the state. The seal of legal
disapprovaLiias been placed upon free
speech. Even the "Marseilles" is forbid
den to be Sung at festivals. Law, the
father 8f all crime, the source of ail in
justice, the barrier to all voluntary co
operation s'ands grim and red-handed
over us. The duty of the hour is now to
wage battle through a free press." -
Herr Most, the anarchist, has been ar
rested by the New York police. His ar
rest was made by direction of Inspector
Byrnes, on a warrant issued by Justice
Cowing, for having made an incendiary
speech, calculated to incite riot, in a hall
in Seventh street. After the audience
got well warmed up, Most male a speech
which was particularly bloodthirsty in
character. Most insists that he did not
use the language attributed to him by
the police. As this is the second time he
has been arrested on the same charge, he
will probably get the full extent of the
law, which is one year's imprisonment,
with fine.
GREAT FIRE 5
Occur In Tenaemee, Alabama Mlehlf au
and Illinois Cotton Destroyed.
The most disastrous fire that ever visited
Memphis, Ten n., occurred recently and
resulted' in the complete destruction of
13,200 bales of cotton and compresses
Nob. 4 and 5 of the Merchants' Cotton
Compress and Storage company. About
forty cars belonging to the Chesapeake,
Ohio & Southwestern Railfoad,and which
were loaded with cotton ready to e
shipped East, were burned, together with
their contents. The cotton destroyed
was principally for export. It was valued
at $630,000. The amount of insurance,
in all probability, will not exceed 60 per
cent of the loss. Fire broke out just be
fore two o'clock in the morning in the
Saratoga European hotel at Chicago, 111.
Electric fire alarm bells were at once rung
throughout the building, and an mde-
1 V i A. I . A- . J
tcriDaDie panic ainoDg iuc guests cuoucu.
The fire had started in the kitchen of the
Saratoga restaurant, on the first floor,
and rapidly spread through the building,
ascending to the top at the rear by means
of a ventilator. Half an hour's haid work
subdued the fire sufficiently to allow t wo
truck companies to hoist their ladders
and make a search of the rooms. It was
at first believed that some of
the guests had been caught in
the fire, but none were found.
The steamer Arizonaf of the Lake Supe
rior transit line, was burned to the water's
edge, near Marquette, Mich. When out
thirty miles a heavy sea was encountered
and the boat was turned abaut to come
to Marquette. Wh n she was still five
miles out, the boat commenced rolling
heavily, whereupon a tank of acid began
leaking and set the boat on fire. Nothing
could be done to put out the flames, every
man being driven from his post by the
fumes of the acid. The Arizona was a
freight boat, valued at about $100,000.
She was on her last trip for the season.
At a few minutes of midnight, a fiie
broke out in a laundry adjoining Stoops
Bro's. skat'ng rink in Chattanooga, Tenn.
It spread to the rink immediately and it
was a mass of flames before the firemen
jeached it. It then spread to Chapman
Son's delivery stables, which, with the"
rink, burned like tinder. The firemen
were unable to control it and it reached
the new Second Presbyterian church. A
fire broke out on Bank street in Decatur,
Ala.j and destroyed the buildings on the
west side from Church to Lafayette
streets. The business houses of Warner,
Harris & Watkins, Dows & Burleson,
Crane & Brodix, Max Cohn, Houston &
Murphy, E. L. Lyons and M. Cartwright
were burned, A portion of the stock of
goods of the merchants burned out was
saved. The loss is estimated at $60,000.
W. C. T. V.
MtM WitlRi-d Say Woman Snffrace U
the Hand-Maiden of Prohibition.
The National Woman's Christian Tem
perance Union met at .Nashville, Tenn.,
with representatives from almost every
state and territory. For the first time
Indian Territory has sent its representa
tive. Mrs. LideMerriwether, President,
of Tennessee, presided. Upon the plat
form were seated Mrs. Judge Thompson,
of Hillsboro, Ohio, mother of the cru
sade in 1883; Pundita Ramabai, vice
President of the World's W. C. T. U.
for India, and officers of the National
Union. The hall was decorated with beau
tiful banners and flowers. Mrs. Hannah
Whitehall Smith, lately returned from
England, opened the convention with a
Bible reading on Love. Before the
crowning event of convention Miss
Willard's annual address the entire
front of the platform was lined with
representatives of the press. At the
conclusion of Mus Willard's address,
Mrs. Zerelda Wallace led in prayer, and
then followed the introduction of dis
tinguished visitors of Nashville, and Dr.
Tanner, of Alabama. The afternoon
session was opened with benpture read
ing and prayer. The treasurer's report
showed a balance on hand in 168G of
$1,871 ; total receipts for 1887, $1,842;
balance in the treasury, $3,592. In view
of the encouraging financial condition of
the National Woman's Christian Teja-
perance Union, the convention adjourned
by singing, ''Praise God from Whom All
Blessings Flow."
BIG EXPRESS WAR.
Lloyd Tevis, president, and John J
Valentine, vice-president of Wells, Fargo
& Co., left for the Pacific coast after hav
ing completed a contract with the Atch
ison, Topeka & Sauta Fe Railroad Com
pany giving their express company an
exclusive franchise on the entire (SantaFe
system, 8,000 miles in extent. This is
regarded as a signal for a general express
war. For many years the Adams, United
States, American and Wells, Fargo fcCoM
each had by common consent, divided
the territory among themselves, with the
understanding that they would not in
fringe on one another's rights. When
the Baltimore and Ohio Company entered
the field it became a guerrilla, and when
the United States Company ab.-orbed' the
Baltimore and Ohio and began to operate
its lines, it was looked upoa'bv ihe other
companies as a breach ot faith, and it is
now predicted that the move of Wells,
Fargo & Co.. will result iu open war. it
will result in a war of rates all over
the countrv.
SOCIALISTS DOWN EAST.
The Socialist element among the Ger
man population of Adams, Mass., is like
ly to cause the removal of some mill op
eratives from that community., Hallmann
Hall was occupied by a small party of
German Socialists, who were harangued
in German by a few of their number, and
the deeds of violence for which the Chi
cago anarchists were hanged were loudly
applauded.
SOUTHERN BRIEFS.
READABLE ITEMS CAREFULLY
OA THE II LD HITHER AND YON.
Social, Temperance and Religion Mere
mento Fires, Deaths and Suicides Rail
road Operations and Improvements.
Miss Mary J Lou Harvie died at her
home in Browneville, Ga., from the
effects of a ten penny nail which she
swallowed last March.
The unveiling of the monument to
John C. Breckenridge. took place at Lex
ington, Ky. Representatives of both
Federal and Confederate armies took
part in the demonstrations.
William Hey ward Adkinson, who at
one time during the late War was the
private secretary of Gen. R. E. Lee, died
at Beech Island, in Aiken county, S. C.
Mr. Adkinaon was seventy years of age.
The registration of Atlanta, Ga., was
completed, and it was the biggest ever
shown in that city. In 1885 there were
registered 8,966 votes for the prohibi
tion election. This year the grand total
.reaches 11,140.
The Elyton Land Company of Alabama
recently declared a scrip dividend of $1,
200 per share equal to twelve hundred
per cent. The stockholders are to issue
bonds at six per cent for $2,500,000 to
pay oh this dividend.
A syndicate of Northern and English
capitalists has bought the entire inter
est of D. A. Appletun in the city of Port
Royal, 8. C, and vicinity, and will at
onde build half mile docks and open di
rect railroad communication with Bir
mingham Ala. ,
" Thomas II. Kiles. a prominent farmer
of Darlington county, S. C, who was
shot in the neck on October 14th, Dy
March McCutcher, a negro laborer dur
ing a dispute about wages, died from the
effects of the wound. McCutcher fled
and is still at large.
The registration for the municipal
election closed at Charleston, S. C, with
a rather startling result,, the total vot
being 10,785, against 7,017 in 1883. The
increase is largely in the negro vote. The
white vote is 4,972, against 4,517 in 1883.
The total white majority is-only 57,
against 2,005 in 1883.
A syndicate of Augusta, Ga. men, have
formed a company and purchased the lit
te town of Gracewood, about 8 miles
from the city, on the narrow gauge road.
It is situated about 300 feet above Au
gusta, and it is their object to build a
hotel and cottages and convert the place
into a resort.
A large bomb was found on the steps
of the city hall at St. Joseph, Mo., lead
ing to the police station. An hour later
another was found back of a wholesale
grocery house. Both were taken to a
point above the citv on the river bank
and exploded by the chief of police. The
bombs were of dynamite and evidently
constructed by an expert bomb maker. .
Walhalla, 8. C.,-was thrown into a
state of excitement by the acts of a
drunken riotous mob. Going around
to the middle of Main street, they spent
their fury destroying the town lamps,
teiring down bridges, cutting and de
stroying well ropes and buckets and lev-
elmff fences. I heir depredations were
stayed by the timely discovery of the
town authorities, who at once arrested
the principal rioters, viz : Columbus
Seeba, Junius Hooper and C. G. Head,
whom the police placed behind the bars.
The mayor of Anderson, S. C, is mak
ing it exceedingly hot for violators of
the prohibition law in that city. Within
the last two weeks, John O'Donnell, an
ex-barkeeper, has been convicted five
times of . selling whiskey, and in each
case sentenced to pay a fine of $100 or
work thirty days on the streets. About
a dozen more cases against O'Donnell
will be tried. Thirteen other persons
have been convicted on the same charge
during the past two weeks, their fines
aggregating thirteen hundred dollars.
George W. Russell, the largest cotton
planter in Texarkana, Texas, was fatally
wounded by a negro, at Garland City,
Ark. The negro had been a tenant of
Russell's and was indebted to him. In
the heat of conversation about the negro's
failure to pay a debt, Russell assumed a
belligerent attitude, whereupon the negro
rushed upon mm with a large bowie knife
and plunged it into his bowels. Russell
was unarmed, but his young son, Rube,
who witnessed the attack, ran to a neigh
boring store, and grabbing a shotgun,
discharged both barrels into the negro,
killing Mm on the spot. "Russell amasaed
a fortune esdmated at $200,000.
Five colored laborers on the extension
of the Nashville, Florence fc Sheffield
Railroad were killed by being buried in
a mass of rocks and earth, loosened by
an explosion of chargea of dynamite in a
side cut on a road bed. The fatality oc
curred near Wayland springs, and w.a
the result of a misunderstanding. The
foreman had sent his hands away to a
place of safety, with orders not to return
until he sent for them. He, with one or
two otner nan ere, remamea to cnaTge me
holes in the rocks and fire the fuses. By
some misunderstanding five of his hands
came back in the-cut just below the facing
where the blasting was to be, and in
stantly tons of boulder3 and earth were
hurled in on them, burying them so that
they were not gotten out for forty-eight
houra . , "
DOINGS OP ANARCHISTS.
Peter Heldt, a prominent local anarch
ist, and Fred Gerhart, a traveling magi
cian, with anarchistic tendencies, we're
adjudged insane by a commission at In
dianapolis, Ind. On the day of the Chi
cago hanging Heldt became a raving ma
niac, and Gerhart believes that he is pur
sued, by a mob. Rev. II. C. Heisser cf
the East - .New York, N. Y., German
Evangelist church, has resigned, owing
to the fact, as he alleges,
that some members of the
church are anarchists and socialists,
A gas pipe bomb .filled with dynamite
cr-guncottOn -was thrown into the Iowa
iron works, in Dubuque, Iowa, at nighty
an 1 exploded.' The building was seton
iii;e but the tl times were extinguished by
the workmen. ;' The theory is that the
bomb was prepared by some one having
a grudge against the works, or else an
out and out anarchist. The house of Inr
spec tor Andersoaj of Orangeville, Onta
rio, was again blowrn up by dynamite; the
charge was placed on the veranda at the
front of the house, and two front rooms
were badly shattered. Mrs. Anderson, who
was alone in the house was sitting beside
a stove in the dining room and was badly
shocked. The inspector had just left the
house and was only about ten yards away
whoa the explosion occurred. He .was
stunned by the concussion. Several Or?
angeville hotel keepers have been fineo
for violating the law during the ,pas
week, and it is a notable coinc dence thatj
dynamite explosions always occur after
the liquor men have been fined for brea-'
ing the law.
WASHINGTON ITEMS.
PICTURES OF THE DOINGS
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.
AT
The Departments Getthj Down to Hmlnew
Acain-Tne Nation's Finances-Appointments
and KemoraJs Pergonals.
MAIL MATTERS. '
The annual report of T. E. Nash, gen
eral superintendent of the railway mail
service, shows that to handle the mails
while in transit, there were employed on
railroad routes 4,403, and on steamboat
routes 57 railway post d clerks, being a
total of 4.4C0 men. While in the per
formance of their duty, postal clerks on
railroads traveled (in crews) 107,068, t4d
miles, and those employed on steamboats,
1,868,747 miles. During the year, rail
way postal clerks distributed 5,834,690,
875 pieces of ordinary mail matter,
and protected, recorded, receipted for,
and dispatched 15,752,568 registered
packages and cases, and 950,613 through
registered pouches and inner registered
districts.
- THE FISHERIES COMMISSION.
Joseuh Chamberlain and Sir Charles
Tunoer. who. with Minister West, con
stitute. the commission on the part of
Great Britain to endeavor to secure a
settlement of the vexed fisheries question,
arrived in the city from New York. They
were immediately driven to Arlington
hotel, where thirty-seven rooms had been
engaged for them and tneir party.
Besides the two high commissioners,
the party includes Messrs. Maycock and
Bergne, of the British foreign ofhee ; Hon.
J. S. D. Thomoson. Canadian minister
of justice; Major-General D. R. Came
ron, omcial secretary to sircnaries i up
per; C. C Chapman, his private secre
tary, and Wallace Graham, tj. C, his le
gal adviser.
"DRITEN WELLS" DEFEATED.
What is known as the "driven well
patent," which has been several times be
fore the United States supreme court, ana
which has alwavs heretofore been sus
tained,, was declared invalid in an opin
ion by Justice Blatchford, based upon
the record in case number sixteen, An
drew Green and others against George
Hovey, brought by appeal from the
United States circuit court for the south
ern district of Iowa. This court holds
that the fact is now made to appear for
the first time in "driven well" litigatii
that the invention was used in public
at Cortland, New York, by others than
Green, more than two years before the
application for patent was made, is fatal
to the patent's validity. The decree of
j- r
of the circuit court in favor of the al
leged infringer, Hovey, is affirmed.
NOTES.
Commissioner Sparks received from
the President a letter accepting his resig
nation to take effect at once. .
The Acting Secretary of Treasury ap
pointed Samuel Taylor to be inspector of
hulls of steam, vessels at Mobile, Ala.
The Acting Secretary of the Treasury
appointed e-uaffers and storekeepers as
follows: Richard L. Harris, fifth district
of North Carolina : John T. Cannady,
sixth district of Virginia; W. G. Hauser,
fifth district of North Carolina.
Secretary Lamar said to a re
porter when asked if he would accept a
nomination to the Supreme Court bench:
"If President Cleveland sees fit to ten
der me the nomination, I will accept the
appointment as the greatest honor of my
life."
An official list of the members of the
next House of Representatives shows that
the house will consist of 168 democrats,
158 republicans and 4 independents. The
independents are Anderson, of Iowa;
Nichols, of North Carolina ; Hopkins, of
Virginia, and Smith, of Wisconsin.
Don M. Dickinson sent a dispatch to
the President from Detrqit, Mich., saying
that he would accept the post-omce port
folio if the Senate would unanimously
confirm him; otherwise he would not.
Senator Palmer says he has no doubt that
the Senate will unanimously confirm the
nomination.
Surgeon-General Hamilton has received
a telegram from Dr. Porter, at Tampa,
Florida, saying that there was one new
case of yellow fever and no deaths. He
also inquired if he could offer govern
ment aid in case the fever should break
out in any town or in any of the neigh
boring counties.
VOICE FUOitt PRISON.
The Arleiter-Zeitung, of Chicago, 111.,
publishes a letter from Michael Schwab,
written in the county jail, the day before
the execution of the anarchists. The
letter is printed under the heading,
"August Spies as man," but is devoted
to proving that, while Spies and Lingg
had different ideas, the editor, neverthe
less, had a high opinion of the bomb
maker. Schwab asserts that when Death
Watch Osborn, informed Spies of Lingg's
death, Spies burst into tears. The letter
further says that when Fielden, Spies
and Schwab were taken to the jail library,
the afternoon of the day before the hang
ing to bid goodby to their families, the
trio were in the room for fully two hours,
in company with two deputies; that con
versation naturally turned to Lingg's
death, and "we all agreed that he was an
extraordinary man." Spies said: "Lingg
was a man of strong principle and could
not be frightened back from any" idea
that he had undertaken as principle. He
was impelled by high ideas. John Brown
was such a man. French revolution had
its Danton and its Marat, and also the
American revolution showed characters
similar to Lingg." The Arleiter-Zeitung
"also publishes a letter addressed to the
wife of Engel, by a certain showman,
offering her $10,000 for the body ol
Lingg, the purpose being to place it on
exhibition in different cities throughout
the United States.
BAPTIST NATIONAL CONGRESS..
The sixth annual meeting of the Bap
tist National Congress, began its ses
sions at Indianapolis, Ind. The con
gress is not official or business, but wa
organized in order tint current ques
tions might be discussed by its members.
The foremost men of the denomination
participate in its discussions.
ATTEMPTED- ESCAPE
Tom Woolfolk, the Macon, Ga., mur
derer, attempted to escape from jail, by
sawing his way out. A double bladed
knife and an iron cot hook were the ar
ticles used, and he had a big hole made
when the attempted escape was discov
ered. The woo3hoppers axe is said to be
rapidly stripping New Hampshire of
much of its most beautiful s:cnerv.
THE PENSIONERS'
When berries are ripe, what breezes pass
By the hillside slope of tangled grass,
As under the warmth of shotver and sun
FlavAr and fragrance melt in one!
The treasure is hidden, the leaf is spread
To mock the eye with a gleam of red,
And the ant that dwells by the pasture stone
Tastes the sweets of the hour alone.
When cherries are ripe how fair a sky
Arches the hills of hot July,
While over the land a joyful lay -
Sounds the praise of the dawning day!
Tiha reapers turn from the weighted sheaves
To rifle the depth of dazzling leaves,
And the farthest flush in the tell-tale East
Calls the robins to share the feast.
When apples are ripe the fields are bare
And the frost dissolves in the kindling air,
And a murmur of laughter comes and goes
From the rustling length of the orchard rows;
The turf is streaked with a crimson hue,
And the loaded cart is rumbling through,
And the dream of a glancing hearth is dear
When apples are ripe, in the waning year.
Dora Read Goodale, in Independent.
A CONSOLIDATION.
BT SARAH &. PRATT.
The sanctum of the Bloomville Journal
was occupied by two 'persons. One of
them bat on a rickety chair, his feet on
the table. He was smoking and absent
ly scanning the walls. The sanctum, to
his fastidious taste, was not an attractive
place, but his friendship for the young
editor who was workinsr hard at a desk,
drew him here every evening. On a table
lay great bound files of the Journal. The
dust on them was only disturbed when
the editor desired to look up some edi
torial. The telephone was convenient
to the table, and on the wall beside it
were some fresco ornamentations which
might be traced to the "devil." A big
bodied brass lamp with the corpses of
hundreds of summer insects glued to it
by the exuding coal-oil, sat on the table.
bomebody had improvised a shade by
cutting a hole in a piece of paper and
putting it over the chimney. 1 he mu
cilage bottle, inkstand and shears were
side by side as if ready to abet each oth-
in any undertaking. A window opened
into a back room and a begrimed face
appeared at it and called:
"Copy, sir." inis "sir" was a com
pliment only bestowed upon the editor,
the "devil" having no respect for any
dignity less than that one.
John Edwards caught up a pile ot
loose manuscript and handed it in.
There," he said, "that will run them
lor a while, t ulton, if you are in a
hurry don't wait for me. I have some
thing I want to write up for my literary
department."
He threw his head back and paced
around the apartment, his tall athletic
form seeminor to enjoy the freedom of
using its legs. He looked around at the
dingmess of the place and laughed.
"Shabby place, isn't it, Fulton?
I've just been wondering: where on
earth you get the inspiration for those
fine little criticisms of yours. This place
is enough to kill genius. Ever been
down at Newtown? The Critic down
there has a perfect gem of a sanctum.
Clean, neat ."
And flowers, I'll bet a hat," inter
rupted Edwards.
Fulton lausrhed
"Not only flowers
tiles and brass, and
but a desk with
carved wood. Then
there's a carpet,
brussels carpet, and chairs, whole chairs.
mind you, and papered walls and pict
ures.
John Edwards stood still, enjoying
the description-.
"1 don t know that fellow, but I have
great curiosity to, but reading his, paper
every week, I've formed an opinion of
him which your description iustifies.
He's no force in politics at all but in
everything pertaining to literature and
good taste he is unusual."
Just then a boy entered with an arm
full of mail. Edwards walked to the
table, glanced over it, and singled out a
paper.
"Fulton, do you believe in twin souls?"
"I don't believe in any of those heathen
ish fads, theosophy and the like, don't
know a thing abjut them and care
"You're a most unprogressive fellow,
Fulton, but look here." He bent "over
the table and held up a piece of paper
on which were written the headlines:
"The New Craze Buddhism and Boston,
The Light of Asia, Reviewed."
"You see what I intend to write," he
resumed. "Well, there is a queer liter
ary sympathy between this Newtown
. Critic man and myself. I would almost
bet that in this paper or in next week's
anyhow there will be a criticism on the
light of Asia.'"
He tore off the wrapper, turned to a
certain department and laughed. "Here
it is. : He skimmed over it rapidly. "It
is so good," he said, "that I shall copy it
enure and leave my own article unwrit
ten, rou see," and Edwards walked
around and resumed his chair, "this fel
low is perpetually scooping me on such
articles. He comes out two days before
I do, and he invariably writes on subjects
xnai i nave in view. Now, if I print my
BUDjects, my views are so near his own
that he will think I am simply 'adapting'
his articles, so I eppy them entire, and
my printers have the impudence to tell
me there is more Critic than Journal
about the paper. What's his name, any
how?"; -
' Irving, Washington Irving. " He
claims to be a third cousin of the original
I believe. 3Iiss Irving, the sister, is a
daisy of ,a girl. I see her often. I'll tell
you, Edwards, how you can get out of
the difficulty," and Fulton lighted a wisp
of paper, held it to his cigar and made
ready to go. "Propose a consolidation
to Irving.".
Edwards rose to his feet ; his eyes shin
ing. "Jove ! but that's a magnificent idea.
Why did it never strike me? Whv
Fulton "
But that gentleman was already half
way down stairs, and Edwards s enthu
siasm took the form of a long and minute
letter to Washington Irving, editor of
ine ewiown uriric, setting lorth the in
es.timable benefits that would accrue to
that paper from a permanent union with
the Bloomville Jmtrimt. "From a long
acquaintance with you editorially,1' f-o
rail the letter, "I am certain that our
united work would result in unusual suc
cess. The wonderful tact and observa
tion manifested in your general article?,
combiGed with my practical knowledge,
would make the Bloomville Journal a
paper of the highest class." Then fol
lowed financial propositions, very liberal
oe8, for John Edwards was the embodi
ment of libeiity both in theory and
practice.
The sixteen hours that elapsed
before
an answer came, were long ones to the ; of work in Kasia states that the hours-of
impatient young editor. Finally he j labor there vary from six to twenty, and
broke the seal. A letter courteous and ; that in one or two special instances work
liberal in tone as wras his own concluded men were compelled to labor twenty-four
thus: "lam as highly pleased with the ; hours uninterruptedly.
idea of a consolidation as yourself. My : t ...
paper has always lacked the element j The largest insane asylum in Gcrmanv
which you can supply, viz.: greater prac-is at Hildesheim, and contains 800
tical knowledge than I possess, laving patients. '
been educated for an entirely different
profession and drifting into this merely -1
by accident, l azree as io ieru m ctwj
respect, but I cannot consent to be en
tirely merged into the Bloomville Jintr-
not. The name oi vrtue is ir wuci
such a paper as ours will be, and while I
agree that your city wui oe me ueuci
point of publication, I must refuse to
cr'ivt iin thw mime nf mv own paper."
i-B.-v " I' j IE
"Here s a now-de-ao,' muueieu .to
ward. He laid the letter down and proceeded
to think. Just then Fulton came up,
and to him was poured out the dilemma.
Fulton laughed heartily, too much so
to suit the perplexed editor, who was
running his fingers through his pom
padour until it stood as straight as a
West Point cadet.
"Tell you what, John, come go down
there with me to-morrow night. I ve
told them about you; we will spend the
evening with the family, and you can fix
up he name without , any trouble, I
know. I think myself the Crkk is the
better name." ,
"But, deuce take it 1 I've built up
this paper, put my heart's blood into it.
I'm identified with it, and III be
switched if I give it tip. But I'll go with
you." ,
The evening that followed was to Ed
wards the red-letter evening of his life.
Never had he met with such charming
entertainment, never such unassuming
and pleasant hospitality as in the Irving
mansion.
'Remember, no business to-night,"
Fulton had said as they pulled the bell.
Mr. Irving, however, was not at home, a
fact that Edwards had no occasion to re
gret after he had met the ladies of the
homestead. The easy grace of the moth
er and daughters, the" humor, the music,
the charming conversation 'enthralled
him. When Fulton roe to go Edwards
was surprised. Casually he mentioned
his errand. He was glad to find the
ladies favored the prolect. "Only:" they
said, "you must not expect 6ur Critic to
give up its name. '
Wo chall cao tn.morrow."
laughed
Edwards, "after a consultation with
M V U a ft uuw - - - - -----
the
ctiicf coo lt "
"Well," said Fulton, when they had
walked a square, "what do you think of
them?"
Edwards was not smoking. He was
quiet and thoughtful. He turned to
Fulton and said gravely: 4Fulton, they
are a family of angels. I've known nice
women, but none that compare with
these. I see now where their brother
gets his delicacy and refined notions.''
Two hours later Edwards aid to his
friend, who was half - asleep: "Sfiy,
George-j have you any claim on either1 of
"No," mu: mured Fulton, sleepily;
"im li?nlr5nr nf n'fl.emntinn tht vonn O.
est, though. Go to sleep."
"Well, then, as sure as my name is
Edwards," John was half soliloquizing,
hers hall be Edwards, too."
"Whose?" energetically asked " his
friend, turning over in bed "the young
est?" "No, the other one."
"Oh, go to sleep then, and don't bother
me with your maunderings." ,
If Edwards did go to sleep, it was not
until some very decisive plans had been
formed which, for the time being! drove
the newspaper consolidation entirely into
the background
It was not nine o'clock when he pre
sented himself at the sanctum the next
morning. An office boy was dusting it
and had the windows raised. Edwards
smiled as he surveyed it. He -walked to
the desk, on which stood a vase of
flowers, fresh the day "before. A pile of
letter-heads with " Newtown Weekly
Critic, M. W. Irving, editor," printed at
the top, lay on the desk. Instinctively
he threw his cigar away. The very air
of the place said' " no smoking allowed."
He was intent on his admiring examin
ation when there was a step on the stair
and a lady entered with a bouquet in her
hand.
"Ah, Miss Irving !" and Edwards
stepped forward to greet her as she sank
into a large chair." "You fill the edi
torial chair very well."
"As to draperies, yes," she laughed.
" But when am I to see this very elu
sive M. W. Irving, your brother ? I have
not many more hours in this pleasant
loitering-place."
Miss Irving looked aroniy at mm.
" Have you not guessed that M. W. Irv
ing is myself ? Mary Washington Irv
ing. They had to get our distinguished
relative's name in somewhere." She
naused and looked at Edwards. 'An ex
pression of almost pitiful perpexity was
on his face.
"But," he gasped, "your brother, the.
editor."
"I am the editor," she said, quietly,
disliking to laugh at him. in his embar
rassment. "It was your own mistake,
Mr. Edwards, and it was so funny that
Mr. Fulton and all of us let it go on.
You will pardon us."
But Mr. Edwards had withdrawn with
a hasty' bow. He wanted time and air.
He finally concluded to remain until the
evening train, and a boy from the hotel
bore to the sanctum of the Newtown Critic
a missive saying, that at 8 of the clock
on that bright September afternoon Mr.
John Edwards would present himself at
the Irving mansion. It was sudden, but
love often is." After several hours of tete-a-tete,
Mr. Edwards and 3Iiss Irving
joined the faniily group, of whom Fulton
f made one.
"Gentlemen and ladies," and Edwards
led Miss Irving to her mother, a " con
solidation has been effected on most fa
vorable terms."
Smiles and congratulations went
around. It seemed to have been under
stood from the beginning.
"Which is it to be, Critic, or Journal .?"
questioned Fulton.
" I bow to her in that,! answered Ed
wards. "It is the Critic, but she has
promised not to be as tenacious of her
own name."
"Irving is too historic a name to give
upMary," said her sister. "Mr. Ed
wards should take your name." -
"Yes, indeed, chimed in Fulton. "Irv
ing should not be" chan2red except for
one fullv as historic. Fulton for
ln-
:. stance
Dian t a fellow named Fulton
luveui me steam engine or
of the kind?"
something
"Don't worry any more about jiames,"
said Edwards. ".Mary Irving tdwards
will look very well on bur marine,'
' 'Can't you ring in the Washington ? It
seems a pity to drop your greatest c laim
to distinction. Yes," went on Fulton,
"the; new paper will be a big thinj.
They will get soaps and medicine ad
vertisements, get railroad passes and
theater tickets. I tell vou. mv friends.
it
behooves us to ' stand in ' with ihe
consolidation. Chiccjo Current.
A report based upon an inspection of
1,214 factories in 12 different LrantliM
TO-MOHROW. "... " V
Bind tip a wreath and" five it ia - . (
Before this duU.day closes, j
And in the garland! let there be
The thorns as-well as roses;
.Weave violets in.and greenest bayti V
Weave willow f oh my sorrow.
Sad flowers for th yesterdays,. 1
White lilies fioc to-morrow. f
White lilies, for they tell of pea
. Beyond the gates of even, i
Where whispers, of the soul's releas.
Seem myscic hints of heaven, '
And yesterday but that has gone,
And so I needs must borrow ,
A hope of that swift-coming daws.
The promise of to-morrow.
' ' - $
For evermore to-morrow lends
Bright visions of completeness; ,
True lovers, and the steadfast friend , j
With faces full of sweetness; '
But backward all soems dim, and grajr
And vaguely touched with sorrow; -
I ear Hot for your yesterday
If I may have to-morrow..
The past is past ah! dead indeed
I weep not for its going,
Its phantoms weird no more I heed
Than west winds wildly blowing ;
Tress onward, aye! and upward, heart, y
While I my gladness borrow,
For Hope and I shall never part
While I can have to-morrow.
Ernest M'Gaffey i the Inter-Otwm.
PITH AND 1'OIM'.
During a storm it is all up with an nmv
brella.
The hornet always manages to keep his
endup.
Odd, isn't it, that fast colors wret
run! TidBiU.
"Put up and shut up" the stovas and
doors. Dansv'dle Breeze.
Upright pianos are often played by
downright bores. Duluth Furagrapher.
How sweet and pleasant H is to eat a
big dinner for one's country, Philadd
phia Inquirer.
"Does he go by machinery?" inquired'
a little girl who saw a dude on a bictcl
passing. New Uiven News.
It is not every bicycle rider wh,a caa .
lower the record, but it is a poor bicycle f
that cannot lower the rider. PhihdclMa
Call. ;
"I think I'll give this country fho
shake," remarked the malaria, as if
preparing for business, Washington'
Critic.
Our best friends arc those who keep
perfectly quiet when some one is enume-r
rating our virtues. Shoe and Leather
Reporter. ' ' ?
A Harlem lady put her tongue to a hot
flat iron, thinking it was not hot, and
her husband has had a quiet time of it
lately. Neic York Netcs.
'I cannot be content with less than heaven,'',
ftmri Mr. Rflllov a nrwrf nf rrmr-h wnrtK
Not so modest be as many later, i
Who would be satisfied with the earth. '
' , Life.- '
"In literature there seems to be a nan
writer. " 1 es," some one rejoined, "and
the trouble is that he catches them before
you do."
"What do you sell that ribbon fori"
asked a young lady in a dry goods
store. "Eight dojlars a week oh, beg
pardon 50 cents a yard, miss."- Wash
ington Crt'tc.
The subject of "The American Bar" is
attracting daily attention in the Eastern
press. It receives considerable attention
ere, but mostly ' closes at midnight.
Cincinnati finjuirer.
"That man may not be a pugilist," re
marked a hotel proprietor after a Stormy
interview with a guest who kicked at
the amount of his bill, "but I'm sure
that he is a price-fighter. -Arhantaif
Irateier.
"No, darling," said a Burlington
mother to a sick child, "the doctor says
I musn't read to you." Then, mamma,"
begged the little one, "won't you pleasa
read to yourself out loud?" Burltngton
Free Prest.
"Pig pens close to the wall, or close
to the house," says the Farmer's, Friend,
"mean death." You bet; death to the
pig. It's pretty hard to locate the pen
so as to change this fatal signification,
too. Bvnktte,-
"Lay off your overcoat or your won't
feel it when you go out, said a landlord
of a Western inn to a guest who wm sit
ting by the fire. "The last time I was
here I left off my overcoat. I didn't feci
it when I went out, and I haven't felt it
since. " Industrial 'World.
LET HIM QUIT.
"As this changeful world you go traveling
through,
With its mixture of wrong and of right,
Re kima that, von crivn nil cvmnnthiw tn
The under dog in the fight.''
This all is very well as it goes to be sure,
But it seems for this comment to call ;
The dog that is under is foolish, by thunder.
To be in the fight at all! Boston Cowrier.
A Carious Bird Diet.
One of the most curious and new of
all bird special diets consists of cared
Mexican mosquitoes. The Mexican mos
quitoes being low flyers, rise in dense
masses during the evening time, when
the miasmatic vapor begins to lift from
swampy and low ground. . For. captur
ing these masses of mosquitoes a light
upright framework of branches is con
structed, on which are fastened larga
sheets ot paper made from some coarse
vegetable fibre peculiar to the country;
on Doth sicies of the sheets of paper a
coating of sticky vegetable glue is spiead,
which is soluble in warm water. The
clouds of mosquitoes moving with the
wind strike these obstructions and be
come fastened to the sheets ol paper,
which, after remaining up all night, are
taken down and placed in tubs of warms
water, which soon dissolves the glue and
sets the dead mosquitoes free. These
are collected in strainers and, after being
sun-dried, are put up O package?. New
Yorb Pott. '
Creatures of Yesterday.
With all his pride at our progress,
the thoughtful student beholds with dis
may the rapid sweeping away of. many
animal and vegetable .ppceies, which to
future science would be most precious.
In his biographical address to the British
Association, Prof. A. Newton lamented,
as an example of what is being done,
the disappearance of the; birds .of New
Zealand. In the more thickly settled
districts imported species alone are now
to be stcn, white the natives are fast
being pushed inland, and 'must soon
vanish. These native species are almost
exclusively peculiar to that country, and
supply a link to the past, that once lost
can never be recovered. The forms of
life that are being killed off are mostly,
the ancient ones, that must teach us'
more than the recent ones of the way
life has been spread over the globe, and
Prof. Newton therefore urges haste in
gaining all possible knowledge of these"
creatures before they have passed away.'