Evening Star Newspaper, August 23, 1889, Page 7

A HUDSON RIVER INCIDENT. Why the Clerk ‘of the Boat Didn’t Bounce Uld Sam Hammond. ‘From the Kingston Arrus. “You do not remember old Sam’ Hammond of Hudson, who built the steamboat Legislator, which ran between Hudson and New York forty-five years ago?” said an old resident to an Argus reporter. “Oh, no! you had not seen the peep of day then. But Iwill tell you an amnsing story connected with old Sam and his boat. Hammond was a wealthy man for his time, liberal with his money, but indifferent and careless with his dress, His appearance was slovenly, while the knot of his necktie gen- erally rested above his shoulders, “Old Sam thought he would take a trip to New York upon his boat, and when the gong sounded for — the old man found his way to the table, and took a seat at the side of a finely-dressed lady. The cierk of the boat, only employed the day previous, and never having heard of its owner, espied Hammond. and immediately made for him. ‘Say, old man,” he said, ‘you will have to get up and eat at the next table.’ Hammond was a little deaf, and either did not hear him or pretended not to, and kept on munching his food. The clerk rushed to the captain and asked permission to ‘yank a dirty-looking old top from the supper table. “The captain came into the cabin and gave one glance at the offender. ‘Good heavens, = man,’ he whispered, ‘do you know who at is? ‘No,’ replied the affrighted clerk. ‘That is old Sam Hammond,’ answered the captain, ‘who owns twenty-nine buildings in the city of Hudson, and owns this boat.’ “The paralyzed clerk was speechless for a time. Finally he said, ‘Cap. lend me two dol- lars, and let me off at the next landing.’ ” ss ae THE “HONEYMOONERS’ HOTEL.” A Proposed Idyllic Retreat for the Sole Use of Newly-Married Couples. From the London Figaro. I am awaiting further particulars of that honeymooners’ hotel which, according to a circumstantial correspondent, is to be built on the south Devonshire coast for the special and, if possible, sole use of newly-married couples on their wedding trips. That the surroundirgs of the establishment are to be made as idyllic and fairylike as possible need searcely be said. Romantic arbors in shady corners, gushing streamlets, secluded sylvan nooks are to be provided ad lib., while with the aid of science every night will be a moonlight one and every day one of seeming bright and warm sunshine. The prospectus is even said to hint at the presence of mechanical nightingales, which, thanks to persistently winding up, will warble on every suitable tree. The decorations, artistic and otherwise, of the hotel are, of course, to be all in character, though I must admit that I question whether the proposed transformation of the ordinary week-kneed hotel waiters and the somewhat too substantial chambermaids of the provinces into attendant Ganymedes and Hebes, as ar- tistic in their poses as they are classical in their attire, will really be an advisable step to take. ‘The laying on of Aeolian harps and other mys- terious music in every apartment is another detail open to criticism. But there is nothing like actual experience after all and I shall be curious to hear more about the honeymooner’s hotel when it has been opened for business for a few weeks. Women Own the Dollars. From the New York Sun. A western bank president is the authority for the assertion that all the gold dollars in exist- ence in America are being carried around on the arms of girls and women. On March 3, 1849, the United States mint was authorized by law to coin $1 gold pieces. The weight of the coin was to be 25.8 grains, and the degree of fineness was fixed at 900. The same year the first gold dollar coin was registered, but from the begmning it did not meet with popular favor, because of its incouveniently small size. So apparent is the objection to the gold dollar asa cireulating medium that for the past de- cade its coinage has virtually been suspended, except the issuance of a few special copies each year. About the time the coinage stopped a craze for gold bangles sprung up. The society young man felt himself obliged to present a bangle to eaeh of his lady acquaintances. In the begin- ningthe dear creatures wanted only silver dimes, but by and by silver bangle bracelets beeame common and gold ones were substi- tuted. The young man bought a gold dollar at TEN CENTS A BUSHEL FOR PEARLS. The Craze in Wisconsin Likely to Sub- side, as the Jewels Are Valueless. From the Milwaukee Sentinel. A rusty-looking old hayseed from the vicinity of Sugar creek, where the pearl craze has been rampant for a week and a half, walked into Stanley & Camp's jewelry store Saturday. In one hand he tightly clutched a red bandana handkerchief tied ina bundle and the other held a knotted hickory stick. His trousers were tucked into a pair of boots that had seen better days, and his general appearance was that of a man who wasn’t over particular about his personal appearance. He looked suspiciously around, as though antjeipating that some one had evil intentions with regard to himself, and then he slowly untied the knots in the hand- kerchief, unfolded it on the showcase and dis- played a good-sized handful of pearls. “What'll ye gimme for ‘em?” queried the stranger, addressing Mr. Camp. There were large pearis and small pearls, white pearls and yellow pearls and pearls of all kinds of shapes. Some were as big as an ordi- nary pea and some were only one-fifth tliat size, but they were undoubtedly pearls. “Where did iyou get them?” the pearl-gath- erer was aske “Out of the oysters in Sugar creek down n Albany,” he responded. “Found them my- self and walked all the way in, too, I wasn't going tohave any train robber hold me up after going to the trouble of wading in the river and picking up the clam shells. Not much.” There chanced to be a New York diamond importor in the store, un expert in judging the value of precious gems, and he took up the handful of pearls and examined them carefully, “They are not worth ten cents « bushel,” said he, as he carelessly allowed them to sift through his fingers. “They are genuine pearls, and some of them have a very good creamy color, but their commercial value is spoiled by their lack of roundness. You see there isn’t a perfect spheroid in the whole lot. They re- semble in shape the shell of a snail. Such pearls have no market value.” “But they are ali that way down around Sugar creek,” persisted the old man, who looked disappointed and at the same time seemed sus- Picious that he was being fooled. “Then = are all worth _ about ten cents abushel. Their shape spoils them. You can't cut a pearl the way you can a diamond. When you cut it you spoil it, because a pear! is formed of layers of a secretion, and when you attempt to cut it the seams show and ruin the gem. ‘There may be some valuable pearls found in Sugar river clams, but I doubt it.” And the old man tied up his bundle in a hard knot and went in quest of another jeweler. ~ —soo———__— VIEWS UPON THE CIGARETTE. Contrary Opinions Regarding the Paper Smoke by Observers and Experts. From the New York Sun, The proprietor of a big cigar store near the city hall says that if the sale of cigarettes is falling off he hasn't discovered it. “I think it is increasing,” he said, “for big strong-bearded men buy cigarettes now, and this makes it plain to me that cigarettes are now smoked by all sorts and conditions of men. For many years the sale of them was confined to boys and females, and men were given’ to scoff at them, but this has changed.” The dealer said that he found it remunera- tive to sell cigarettes singly, and that many men who wanted a short smoke would run in and pay acent for one. Perhaps the class of men who patronize this dealer are different from those who support a cigar store in the lower end of Broadway, whose proprietor said that it scarcely paid him to keep cigarettes now. “In so many of the big stores and business houses,” he said, “notices are stuck up prohib- iting the smoking of cigarettes on the premises that men are ashamed to smoke them. I think men object to them principally on account of their vile odor, but the danger of fire from the | burning stump has also something to do with it. Cigarettes are more dangerous in this re- spect than cigars, for the same reason that two burning matches are more dangerous than one. | ment ‘commemorates, | cheek and in the right temple. in the assemblage to witness the ceremony, and President Harrison was loudly cheered. The exercises of the day began at 2 o'clock, the state and the state militia and local civic organizations. It is estimated that 8,000 were in line. ‘THE PRESIDENT'S ESCORT. In the second division, commanded by Gen. Ruckle, immediately in the rear of the military, was the escort to President Harrison, one hun- dred strong, all mounted and in command of Col. Oran Perry. Between the sections of the escort rode the President in a flag draped car- riage, Mayor Denny and Gov. Hovey with him. The President Lee codes op the compliments of the crowd by repeatedly lifting his hat. The crowd watched in silence the laying of the corner stone by Charles M. Travis, deputy commander of the Indiana department, G. A.B. When the stone had been placed in position the national flag was raised and “The Star Spangled Banner” sung by Mrs. Zelda Seguin Wallace. Following this Gov. Hovey, as presiding of- ficer of the occasion, made a brief address and he was followed by Gen. M. D, Manson of Crawfordsville, and Gen. John Coburn of In- dianapoiis. At the conclusion of the latter's address President Harrison was introduced to the as- semblage and after the applause which greeted him had ended he delivered a brief address which was frequently interrupted by loud cheers, THE PRESIDENT’S ADDRESS. He said that the suggestion that a monument should be builded to commemorate the valor and heroism of those soldiers of Indiana who gave their lives for the flag attracted his in- terest from the beginning. Five years ago last January, when the people assembled in the opera house yonder to unveil the statue which had been worthily set up to our great war governor he had ventured to express the hope that near by it,as a twin expression of one great sentiment, there might be builded a noble shaft, not to any man, not to bear on any of its majestic faces the name of a man, but a monu- ment about which the sons of veterans, th8 mothers of our dead, the widows that are yet with us, might gather and pointing to the stately shaft say: ‘There is his monument.” The hope expressed that day is even revived. He said that no American citizen need avoid this monument to the soldiers of the Union or pass it with unsympathetic eyes, for it does not commemorate a war of subjugation. “There is not,” he said, “in the United States to-day a man who, if he realizes what has occurred since the war and has opened his soul to the sight of that which is to come, will not feel that it is good for all our people that victory crowned the cause which this monu- I do seriously believe that if we can measure among the states the benefits resulting from the preservation of the Union that the rebellious states have the larger share, It opened the way for a com- mercial life that if they will only embrace it and face the light means to them a develop- ment that shall rival the best attainments of the greatest of our states.” see - Tragedy on a Fish Boat. Yesterday, on a fish boat in the Ohio river near Shawneetown, Ills, Waunel Brooks shot his wife in the head with a pistol, inflicting a fatal wound. He then shot himself in the The wounds were necessarily fatal, but Brooks succeeded in running to the river and jumping in, thus drowning himself while dying from the ghastly bullet wounds. Mrs, Brooks had separated from her husband and was keeping house for George Battes, the owner of the fish boat. Brooks had been drinking hard and it is be- Aman can smoke half a dozen cigarettes in Jess time than it would take him to consume a cigar. The boys are so given to the practice that if smoking them was allowed at all in the stores you wouldn't be able to tell a drug store from # tobacco shop by the smell.’ Negro Blood and Spinal Columns. From the Indianapolis News. Capt. O. C, Terry, who has just resigned the position of executive clerk to the governor to a bank and ‘carried it to his jeweler, who filed and polished the reverse side of the coin and engraved the young lady's initials upon it. Sometimes the Goddess of Liberty upon the obverse side of the dollar was replaced by a word of sentiment and the date upon which the bangle was presented. There was not a belle in the city of Cleveland who did not have @ bracelet adorned with from half a dozen to twenty of such converted coins, ‘The bankers with an eye to a good thing had brokers in the large cities who gathered up all the good dollars to be found. One Cleveland bank alone has sold several thousand gold dol- lars in this city. The coins at first were not hard to find and brokers sold them to bankers at $1.05 each, the bankers in turn disposing of them to sentimental young men for $1.10. Gradually the market grew stronger and the pricesadvanced. Many persons will remember that at various times they have seen hundreds of gold dollars in the windows of a Superior street banking house, with a card hung above them reading “Gold dollars at $1.25." The price went up from €1.25 to $1.50 then to $1.75, and now the coins are quoted at $2. Even the bankers find it hard to buy them nowadays, and they have come to the conclusion that the supply has been practically exhausted. : = oso Heroine for a Novel. From Life. Mrs. Bright—“Ob, Mr. Kowells, I know a young woman whom I am sure you would put into one of your novels if you should meet her. Shall I introduce you?” Mr. Kowells (great American novelist)—“A thousand thanks; yes. What are her character- istic Bright — “Characteristics? Why, she Mrs. hasn't any.” ———~— ee Toeing the From the New York Sun. There had been some" hard words between Julius and Moses before, as near as I could Make out. Moses was blacking my boots on the veranda when Julius came around from the kitchen and began: “Look heah, boy; I'ze dun got my eyeball ox you, an’ de fust thing you know I'll pound Ye to squash!” Scratch, joes you know who you is con- versin’ wid?” demanded Moses, “Doan’ you talk to me dat way, black man.” “Who's black man?” ou was a liah, sah!” > was you!” ‘ k out boy! A feller dun called me liah One time. an’ de county had to bury him.” An’ you look out fur me, black man. I'ze mighty hard to wake up, but when I gite aroused I was pizen all de way frew.” “Shoo! I jist want to say to you dat de las’ fight I was in it took eight men to hold me. Doan’ you git me mad, boy; doan’ you do it.” “Bum! 1dass put my hand right on yo’ n’ I dass put my hand on yours.” ow what yo’ gwine ter do?” os what yo’ gwine ter do?” 0 And after standing in defiance for a moment, each backed slowly away aud went about his business, to reuew the “deti” at the first op- portunity, and always with the same result, or — Trial of O’Brien and Gilhooly. The trial of Mr. William O’Brien and Mr. James Gilhooly, members of parliament from county Cork, on a charge of holding a na- tuonalist meeting which had been proclaimed under the crimes act, was begun yesterday at Clonakilty. The defendants refused to recog- nize the authority of the court and declined to cross-examine the witnesses for the prosecution or to present any testimony in their own behalf, met wrens Ahenrta neni Yesterday’s Tennis Tounament. The®econd round of the national champion- ship tennis tournament was played yesterday st Newport, B.I. The defeat of Taylor by Campbell was the notable event of the day. ‘The scores of the games played yesterday are as follows: C. A. Chase beat R. B. Hale—6-4, 6-3. A. Shaw beat B.V. Beach 75,62 60; 6-2, napp beat J. A. << ‘4 beat GH. Fearing, F. BR. Mansfield beat F. L. V. Hoppin—7-5, 1. ES Meers beat M. R. Wright 3.8 Clark beat S. T. Chase-§3-6, 61, OF Cc, 5. ©. S, Campbell beat Howard A. Taylor—e-4, consolation For . prize BR. ©, Sands beat A. L. gt P: Huntington beat E. A. Thomson—s4, become a special pension examiner, was born and grew to manhood in Tennessee when slay- ery was in its prime. “I saw enough of slavery myself to set me against it,” said the captain a few days ago in speaking of this period of his career. “In sev- eral instances I saw slave children sold whose yeins contained so much of their master's blood that their skins were without a tinge of the African color except in the invariable stripe down the spinal column. “What do I mean by the stripe down the spinal column? Why, I supposed you knew the presence of African blood in any person, no matter how slight the proportion, can be in- stantly detected by a dark line along the spine. Even an octoroon, with a and features purely Caucasian, invariably has this line of k. It w a never-failing proof of mixed blood. The mark ie not always black, but is always considerably darker than the rest of the surface of the body. “Since you didn't know that perhaps you don’t know that a negro child at its birth is as light colored as a-white one. You wouldn't notice any difference in the color at all. In three or four hours after birth the skin begins to turn dark and ina short time becomes as — as the child is destined to be during its fe. eres ERE ae To Artantic Crry via BaLtrwore axp Onto.— Special train leaves Baltimore and Ohio depot, Washington, at 4:30 p.m. August 24 Parlor cars Washington to Philadelpbia. Parlor cara Philadelphia to Atlantic City. for supper at Baltimore and Ohio Philadelphia station. Round-trip rate $3, including transfer in both directions. Arrives at Atlantic City at 10 p.m. Tickets valid for return passage on all regular trains until August 26, i Train leaves Atlantic City Sunday at 4 arriving in Washington at 11 p.m. The Balti- more and Ohio is the shorest, quickest and best route. The view of the harbor and ship- ping, of Baltimore and Fort McHenry to be ad from Baltimore and Ohio train is perfectly charming. The view from the great Baltimore and Ohio bridge across the Susquehanna at Havre de Grace is worth the price of the trip. Let everybody take the Baltimore and Ohio,— — A Laster’s Lockout Likely. At Cincinnati the outlook is that there will be @ general lockout of all lasters in the shops be- longing to the shoe manufacturers’ association, At Koppendorf’s factory yesterday there were but five lasters of the eighty at work and these were not members of the union. One of the strikers said: “All this trouble comes about from the firm trying to inaugurate | piece work or the task system. Girls who were making $12 per week last year are now making bat $6 and $7. The firm promised to keep the wages up till December, but two weeks after the promise was made, they began the work of reduction.” The manufacturers are determined not to re- cede from their position to recognize no labor organization or committee under any circum- Thirty minutes | lieved he premeditated the deed. see His Credit Injured. From the Epoch. “T’ve been injured by a statement in your paper.” “Tm sorry, sir, What did I say?” “You stated that I had compromised with my - ; rs for 70 cents on the dollar.” “Well, I have’t done anything of the kind; it was 40 cents. a Discovered at Last—A Tragedy. From Harper's Bazar. “John, did you mail that letter I wrote to mother three weeks ago?” “Yes, dear.” “Strange she didn’t get it.” (Pause, during which John strives to disappear.) “John, did you put a stamp on it?” “N-no, darling.” (Curtain.) Colored Baptists in Convention. The twentieth annual session of the Colored | Baptists state Sunday-school convention assem- | bled in Danville, Va., yesterday, composed of | delegates from all parts of Virginia, the Dietrict of Columbia and some parts of Maryland, about one hundred and fifty in all. The open- ing address was delivered by Rev. Dr. J. E. Jones of Richmond theological seminary. ‘The convention will be in session until Saturday night. B. axp O. To AtLantic City.—Another select excursion to Atlantic City via B. and O. Train will leave Washington next Saturday at 4:30 p. m., August 24. Round-trip fare only $3, in- cluding transfer at Philadelphia, Tickets good until Monday for return trip.—Advl. ———__ Washington’s Work Completed. At Olympia, W.T., the constitutional conven- tion completed its labors yesterday and all the delegates are hurrying home. No business of importance was transacted yesterday except | that a clause was passed confirming all govern- | ment patents in tide lands. The closing hours were very orderly and there was not the slight- est indecorum. Train Wreckers Arrested. At Pittsburg, Pa., John Wilson and Wilbert Douden were yesterday afternoon committed to jail in default of $2,500 bail each, charged with attempting to wreck the “Ow!” train on the Pennsylvania railroad, Monongahela divis- ion. On the night of July 20 two heavy oak planks were wedged over the rails at the curve near Lostock station, The engine and train fortunately passed safely over the planks. A ter- rible bumping was the only injury re- ceited. Detectir discovered that the two young men named, together with George Gales, who lives at George's Creek, Md., were the perpetrators. Wilson and Douden confessed, stating that they had sat on the hillside to watch the train go to pieces. They say that Gales suggested the crime and that they as- sisted from ‘pure hellishness.” Gale wi be arrested. Fatal Explosion of a Blasting Charge. Aterrible accident was reported last night from Buckley's Mills, Russell county, Va. A railroad tunnel is being driven through a big hill at that point anda large number of men are employed thereat, A blast of 80 pounds of giant powder was put in yesterday, but it failed stances. They maintain that their be free for all. The Reno Monume: The Reno monument which is to be unveiled with appropriate ceremonies September 14, arrived South Mountain on Tuesday, and was placed in position in “Wise’s field” Wednesday, It weighs five tons and is a hand- occasion of the unveiling will be delivered by occasion vei wi vere ex-President aoe sak ex-Governor ‘Hart ——_——-ce0____ A Florists’ Protective Society. At Buffalo, N.Y., yesterday the Florists’ pro- to explode. Yesterday, while extracting the charge, it exploded prematurely. An 18-foot drill was driven through Michael Dance’s head, 9 feet protruding on either side. He died in- stantly. John Ramrey had both hands blown off. Joe Moore's right shoulder was torn off by rock. Andrew Martin hada leg blown off at the knee and William Kunz was terribly in- jured by flying rocks, Nebraska Prohibitionists. {is a lack of Three Men Killed and Forty-one Badly Injured. ‘A terrible wreck, which resulted in the death of three men and the injury of several others, ocourred on the Knoxville, Cumberland Gap train was the first to go over the new road and carried a select party of e: com- posed of members of the city council and the board of public works, representatives of the chamber of commerce and the very flower of the business and professional men of Knox- ville. The train of two cars left the track at a crossing and the rear car went down a tressle, Only one man was uninjured. It was impossi- ble to obtain medical aid fora wen de: and until 4:30 Bm, when the train reached Knox- vilfe, scanty attention was rendered. Many had to brought back on flat cars and the last part of the journey was made in a driving rain. THREE MEN DIED FROM THEIR INJUBIES. and others cannot live, The dead are Judge George Andrews, the most prominent lawyer in east Tennessee; 8. T. Powers, the leading mer- chant and former president of the East Tennes- see fire insurance company, and Alexander Reeder, a leading politician who has held many offices of trust. The injured are Alexander A. Arthur, presi- dent of the chamber of commerce; Isham Young, president, and Peter Kern, member of the board of public works; John T. Hearn, edi- tor of the Sentinel; W. W. Woodruff, a leading wholesale merchant; Charles 8, Rimour, attor- ney, and Alexander Wilson, assistant chief en- gineer Knoxville, Cumberland Gap and Louis- ville road. County Judge Maloney, Aldermen Barry and Hockings, Gen. H. 8. Chubert of the governor’s staff, A.J. Alberts, a wholesale mer- chant; Rev. R. J. Cook, professor of U. 8. Grant i ; City Physician West, Judge H. H. H. R. Wetzell, W. B. Samuels, C. Abbie, Capt. H. H. Taylor, 8. McKelden, Ed. Barker, J. F. insoll, John B. Hall, Phillips Samuels, aged ten; R. Schmidt, W. A. Park and one of the train crew. Out of aif persons on the train forty-one were injure a eae The Only 6 O’clock Dinner in Maine. From the Lewiston (Me.) Journal. The only Maine summer hotel, so far as heard from, where down easters and their guests can getalo’clock lunch and a6 o’clock dinner is the Menawarmet at Boothbay, that the Wol- cotts of Hotel Vendome (Boston) fame are run- ning. Here the presence of imperturbable Golaced watend anit ti interpolation of finger bowls and solid silver plate astonish the new comers, The Menawarmet is a novelty in Maine, and folks who chat, chat on the Mena- warmet, for it is an ideal house with an ideal cuisine, The 6 o'clock dinner is sometimes served ‘table d’hote and sometimes a la carte, but it gets there, so to speak, justas eloquently even after six hours on the ocean wave, just as rofoundly as corned beef and cabbage and aked beans and brown bread ever couid do, and oh my! ain’t it nice! soe One of the New Poets. From Current Literature, Mr, William Ernest Henley, whose verses have just been published by Scribner, is a Scotchman, a literary protege of Robert Louis Stevenson, and the editor of Scott’s Observer. He is one of the men who have had literary greatness thrust upon them, and he has paid a fearful physical price for his mental develop- ment He began life as a laborer, unconscious of latent intellectual power, unversed in the primary elements of education, and a man of dissipated habits, He met with a termble acci- dent, both lower limbs being crushed beneath a boulder, and while at the hospital for treat- ment met Robert Louis Stevenson, who was also a patient in the institution. Then com- menced the mental existence which has led him through the stages of newspaper cerrespondent, art editor and magazine contributor to the rank of poet. His limbs are still completely paralyzed, and he does ali his work in an in- valid chair, out of which towers his massive blonde head, set on a magnificant pair of shoulders, His conversation is brilliant, and he counts his friends among the cleverest and most brilliant literary men of London, penitence Omri Funerals in Venice. Where is the person who, upon the first eager introduction to the gondola, has not felt that he is stepping into his coffin when, with scant grace, he creeps into the black cabin of the little black boat? With me the impression was, perhaps, deepened, because in our passage up the canal we twice made way for a funeral pro- cession bound for the island cemetery to the north of the city. Theone funeral was that of agirl. She lay under a blue pall in the middle of the boat, a crown of white flowers, symbol- ical of her virginity. being over the pall. The other was a youth, whose tender age was marked by the crimson pall. Both were flanked by tall candles, After the bodies came the friends in other dongolas, priests in violeh and acolytes in scarlet. The sun blazed upon all from the blue heavens, so that even this dolorous scene, enacted to the smooth purpled water, between the big mildewed old “palazzi,” was not wholly melancholy. oo Gum in Felt Hats. From the Men's Outfitter. Of late some complaint has been heard as to the wearing quality of these hats. It is stated that they are over stiffened and over finished, and that the gum soon appears upon the eur- face and the structure is easily broken. This is a fault which in years past dogged the steps of the American hatter and wearied the retailer. A hat when sold would seem to be perfect, with no trace of gum on the surface. In a few days it would be brought back looking as if a glue pot had been upset upon the brim, It was difficult to convince some customers that the retailer was not aware beforehand that such a condition would ensue, The reasons why the gum ehowed itself first upon the brim was that brim was more heavily stiffened than the crown and was handled more in use. The discovery and the application of the wire edge for brims enabled hatters to dispense with much of the stiffening, aud crowns as well as brims were gummed lighter, and thus the whole hat became flexible. Freedom from the gum nuisance and ease of adjustment to the head were both secured by this improvement, —s0. Miss Murfree’s Dialects. From the Nashville American, For Miss Murfree, the chief writer of Ten- nessee mountain dialect stories, I have a pro- found respect—for her talents, for her womanly courage and industry, and for her descriptive powers, In justice to her it must bo said that she sometimes, but seldom, uses words not found here and there spoken by mountain peo- ple. Her chief fault lies insiving a false view of the people by making them speak in a dialect doesn’t exist, using words which the closest observer will’ hear only at very rare in- tervals by a few people, but never forming the basis, the woof or the warp of daily colloquial speech, Hence she has woven a language for her characters which is composed of words so rarely heard that they are scarcely noticeable, It is not and doesn’t resemble the speech of the rae This is a violation of the truth of ction, and fiction has its own inviolable laws of truth which can not be violated with im- ACCIDENT TO EXCURSIONISTS. |THE INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS. The Excursion Provided by the Gov- ernment for the Delegates. On the 24 of October the international con- gress will convene in this city. It is expected that there will be present some fifty or sixty delegates, including some of the most distin- guished men in Central and South America. The congress will perfect ite organization and on the next day will start upon an excursion tendered by the United States government, A special train of parlor cars will be provided for the party. They will leave this city on the morning of October 3, and take the Fall River boat at New York that evening. The next ten days will be spent visiting the commercial and mannfacturing centers of New England and northern New York, witha day at the West Point military academy, and the party will Niagara Falls to remain over Sunday, Oc- tober 13. On Monday the journey will be re- sumed and continued to Chicago, with stops at Buffalo, Cleveland, Detroit and other cities, POINTS TO BE VISITED. It is proposed to visit Harvard university, Yale college, Michigan university, and several benevolent and reformatory institations en route. The next Sunday, October 20, and the two following days will be spent at Chicago, when the largest cities of the northwest will visited, From Minneapolis the ial train will run down via Sioux city and Omaha to Fort Leavenworth and return to St. Louis via Kansas City. ‘he capitals of Illinois and In- diana and the natural gas region will be visited en route to Cincinnati. From Cincinnati the ty will be taken to Mammoth Cave and then pea eastward, stopping at Pittsburg, Al- toona and other cities cn route. From he ii burg the train will be run to Menlo Park, where the party wiil inspect the laboratories of Mr. Edison, and return to Philadelph: Here three days wil be spent, and Wilmington and the ship yards at Chester will be visited on the way to this city, where the party will arrive on the 14th of November. It is proposed to take a trip through the southern states after the adjournment of the congress. ees aS HACKMEN FIND A FRIEND, A Farmer Worth $50,000 Bequeaths it All to Found a Home for Them. From the St. Louis Republic. Among the wills recently admitted to record by Judge Myers of the Hancock county pro- bate court, in Findlay, Ohio, was the testament of A. B. Arthur, an eccentric farmer of Marion township, who departed this life some time in June and left behind him an estate valued at about $50,000. Arthur had never married and his nearest of kin living are a number of nephews and nieces, who naturally expected that his earthly accumulations would be divided among them in an equitable manner by their wealthy uncle when he made his will. But after his death, when this important document was made public, none were more astonished than the expectant heirs when it was found that the old gentleman had devised and set aside his entire possessions to be sold by his executors and the proceeds invested in the building and maintenance of a “home for indigent hackmen,” the institution to, be erected on ground which he designated in Marion township, remote from even a village, much less a city. In fact, the spot selected for the “home” is seventeen miles from Findlay, in an open field surrounded on all sides by large farms. Here he directed that a building capable of accommodating at one time fifty indigent hack- men should be erected and furnished, and ap- ointed his executors and trustees to carry out jis wishes and to keep up the establishment at an annual expense of $4,000, or until all hi funds were exhausted, by which time he in- dulged the hope other bequests will be made by parties in sympathy with his ideas to carr: out the freak to which he so freely dopated his wealth, What adds to the queerness of this “last will and testament” is the fact that there are not a half dozen hackmen in the country who are ever likely to need such a “home,” and none in the township in which Arthur—who had always been a farmer—lived and died, Besides all this, if such a home was provided its proposed location is so remote from the natural haunts of hackman that one would have to be in pretty bad shape, financially, physically and mentally, if he accepted the hospitality Mr. Arthur 80 generously provides for in his will. It is hardly necessary to add that the relatives of the dead friend of the hackman have already commenced proceedings in the court of common pleas of this county to have the will set aside, on the ground that the old man was not in his right mind when he executed the document, and the case will come up for hearing at the September term of the court in this city. ————eee. ENOUGH OF MARRIED LIFE. The Bride of Rabbi Kohane Has Re- tothe Home of Her Parents. About six months ago the Rev. Joseph Ko- hane was installed as rabbi of one of the Jewish Washing Clothes or cleaning house with ordinary soap is like roll- ing a heavy stone up hill; it takes main strength and agood deal of it. Thesame . work done with Pearline is like rolling the stone down hill—it’s easy ; quick; true; goes right to the mark; and —\ with very little labor, All ‘dirt must go before PEARLINE. It robs woman's hardest work of its drudgery. praiseworthy theft, by the way). The question is—does it or does it not hurt the hands, clothes or paint? We tell you it don’t —but we are interested (as well as you ask your friends who use it; you'll find most of them do; the annual consumption is equal to about three packages a year for every family in the land. But better yet—geta od age (it costs but a few pennies, and every grocer keeps it) and try it for yourself—your gain will be larger than ours, Peddlers and some unscrupulous grocers are offering {mitations Beware which they claim to be Pearline, or ‘* the same as Pearline,” IT’S FALSE—they are not, and besides are d 338 JAMES WL. 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BAKER & €0.’S Breakfast Cocoa mae or! pee The Sponge is Mightier costing less than ome cent @ cup. delicious, noursshing, stre » Bae SILY DiGEstxD, and admirably adapted for invalids as well as persone in heaith. Sold by Grocers everywhere. It is synagogues at Rondout, N.¥. One day the | W- BAKER & CO., Dorchester, Mass, PEARS’ SOAP rabbi announced to one of the church officers that he was about to marry and settle down, | He said that soon after his arrival | in New York from Europe he became acquainted with a young Jewish maiden | to whom he had become betrothed. This ayer the members of the congregation, who | felt satisfied that they were going to have a settled pastor. On May 28 the Rev. Joseph | le the MOST ELEGANT /TOILET SOAP In THE WORLD. Kohane was united in marriage to Miss her Schmelzinger of New York city. A reception followed, and many gifts were presented the couple by members of the congregation. The salary of the rabbi was also increased. Hardly a month had passed, says a dispatch to the New York Sun today, before it became noised about that Mr. Kohane was ill-treating his young bride. Soon the quarrels were so violent that they attracted crowds of People to the front of the residence occupied by the newly married couple. Officers and members of the church interested themselves, and the young bride said that /her ‘husband was fast squandering her money, and when she refused to accede to his demands threatened to do her bodily harm, She was about to invoke the law, when members of the congregation induced her not to make matters worse by publicity, and effected ‘ion. Mra, Kohane charged her hus- ith spending money she had given h to settle bills, A handsome gold watch she resented him asa wedding gift, costing $100, fe pawned for a quarter of that amount. As he did not spend money extravagantly, it was a tery what he did with it. Col finally requested the mation, and about a month ago he went to New York, whither his wite followed him. He left her there with her parents, while he went to Philadelphia, ostensibly to take charge of a synagogue in that city. ‘The deserted bride says Kohane robbed her of about $1,500, and even tried to get ‘ion of her diamonds and jewelry. Vhen asked if she intended to get a divorce she replied that she would not, but had enough of married life for the present. Montana Nominations. At’ Anaconda, Mont., the republican state convention yesterday nominated the following J WoltsAGMEBlacking women know a good thing and wild have it, and the men ought to. Itpreserves the leather and gives a brile liant polish. Water and snow slipoffit as duck’s back. Men's shoes require ing ONCE A WEEK— ‘women’s once a month, that’s all. Worth | trying, isn’tit? It is also the best dress- for harness,on which it lasts THREE MONTHS. ‘WOLFR& RANDOLPH. 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