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Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-04-20
pnltatr Belts.
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EUROPE!

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- York in April, May and June. 1854. Pass
age Tickets by all Atlantic steamers. Special
facilities for securing good berths. Tourists
Tickets for individual travellers IN Europe by
all routes. at reduced rates.
Cooks EXcursiOnist, with maps and full
particulars, by mail 10 cents. Address
THOS. COOK x SON. 81 Broadway, \. Y.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-04-20
MARMAprkE II. JONES.

Here then was the solution Of the mys-
terry. There was another Marmaduke ii.
Jones, solicitor, and he was the real Simon
Pure, the hero of the big fish. But to live
at such an unearthly place as Pwm-
thing-umy-nO wonder / could not find
him in the Law List.v | took up the
book once more and looked out the dis
gushing little place. There he was, sure
enough. So simple, yet so terrible, was
the explanation of my mystery.
have confessed all TO Mrs. Jones, and
she has graciously agreed, as ] did not
really catch any fish after all, to look
over it this once. | have written an alb
iect apology to my Infatuated namesake,
who has taken no notice whatever Of it.;
and now, by Mrs. Jones' advice. | draw
up this plain, unvarnished statement, to
place the matter fairly before the public,
and 10 TehabIlitate, as far as possible, my
damaged reputation One word l would
say in conclusion. ] notice that pOpu-
lar writer in a current novel has made
his hero wrongiully take the credit Of
another mans book. l do not mean to
suggest that this is as bad as taking the
credit of another mans fsh-in fact,
from recent observation, | should say
that it would be regarded, at least in
sporting circles, as a verv mild Otlense in
comparison. But / am quite sure that
that popular writer, if he is a kind-heart-
ed man Gas / have no doubt he is J, will
be positively appalled,, as he goes on, at
the amount of misery he will bring on his
unfortunate hero. l do implore him to
pause while there is vet time and let the
offender make a clean breast Of it at once
before he begins to feel the mental agony
/ myself have eXperienced.-Be tgrdUid.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-04-20

ASTRONOMERS tell Us in their own simple
ineligible way that the gradual lengthening
of the days Is due to the "obliquity Of the
ecliptic to the terrestrial horizon This
ought To set al rest the foolish idea that the
DAYS are longer because the sun rises earlier
and sets later.-Fitts5Erg TeleyrGpA,
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-04-20
HUMPHREY BROWN.
I groaned an opened the other letter. it
was as follows:

PWMBWLYGWLLWTH, North Wales.
Sir: / think Of all scOundrels the man
who. at a safe distance, deliberately apprO-
pirates another mans distinction is the mean
est / find that yOu have taken advantage of
the accident of possessing the same name as
myself "a name OF which shall hencefOrth be
ashamed, since you share IT'D to take the credit
Of my recent fishing success, as mentioned in
the Gdsette. / write by this post to the same
paper to expose your contemplate conduct,
and trust ! may have have an early oppOrtu
nifty of pulling your nose.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-04-20

DedT Jones: That pike OF yours has
created a regular controversy in the Gazette.
/ send a copy for your perusal; the most con
tray opinions prevail as to the way you caught
him. Some maintain you throw IN Thames
style, some in Nottingham. on are report
ed to have used no less than seven different
kinds Of flight, including two that nobody ever
heard Of Some say your catch was made at
Tcnbury, some at TUtbury, some at Newbury,
and some ut Sunbury. You are reported to
have used gorge-bait, a live bait. and
spinning bait; and one idiot declares that You
spin with live bait. The funny thing is that
all these statements are said to be made on
your own personal authority. Do, for good
ness sake. drop the editor a line and set them
right. ours ever,
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-04-20
"Ah. what tangled web we weave
When once we venture to deceiVeW

RemOrse had begun to set in. ] began
positively to go round back streets in or
der to avoid meeting friends. / lived in a
morbid dread of the subject of fish crop
ping up, as it invariably did. in some shape
or other. Even pair of soles on the table
was enough to destroy all my appetite for
dinner. | dared not now undeceiye Brown
and Robinson, who, having related the
story Con my own authorityl) to others,
would naturally think that / had inten-
tionally befooled them. Again 1 met
Brown, this time in company with stran-
ger, tall, gentlemanly man, TO whom he
introduced me as "Mr. Marmaduke II.
Jones, the hero of the big fish" His
friend, whom found to be Sir Lionel Da-
mer, a noted fisherman, paid me the usual
compliments on my great catch, and then
proceeded to ask me one or two questions,
which would have been plain sailing
enough if l had really caught the fish, but
which, as it was, | answered in such an
incoherent manner that Brown charitably
cut short the interview, saying that we
must talk over details another time. |
have since heard that he apologized to Sir
Lionel for my being "a little Tight kindly
adding that he never knew me in that
condition before. Never in all my previ-
Gus experience had / been in so horrible
position. For the first time in my life /
realized what a ''cOld sweat meant. If
anybody suffers from a colder sweat, or
more of it, than l did on that occasion, L
pity him. And the worst Of it was that l
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1884-08-30
Mystery and Faith.

There is an almost irresistible fas-
cination in mysteries that battles US.
We fit about them and hover over
them like bees around flower bed !.
The future world lies before us like
q shadowy landscape; we can see on
ly its dim outlines, but we seek TO
know more. The dealings of God
with man are very mysterious; there
is high and far reaching plan whose
details we cannot understand. And
because we cannot comprehend God
and his ways, we sometimes frame
theories and construct doctrines
that are utterly at variance with the
word of God. We give ourselves a
great deal Of trouble about matters
that are above and beyond lis. For
example: Why should we know how
He will adjust their relation in the
general planp We are not charged
with the government OF the world.
He will attend to that Himself. He
will do right-this we know. And
IL we knew all the details Of his plan
we would know more than what is
covered by the certainty that God
will do right. The little bird clings
to its frail twig when the tempest
rocks the trees, though wrapped in
darkness and surrounded with dan
gers. SO may the child Of God,
cling with sublime and simple trust,
to the divine promises, rest securely
and calmly, though darkness and
tempest fall thick upon him. The
"secret things belong unto God,"
but the secrets of the Lord is with
them that fear Him. and the mys-
terry Of peace is revealed to their
souls.
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SABBATH READING.

Martin Luther said music Gained
the soul, and put to flight the evil
one.
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house and pushed out heavy row.
boat. / took the oars, and we pulled
off. The first stroke gave me fine
start. There had not been any IN
usual appearances OF phosphorescence
on the surface Of the water more
than Is often seen on tropical seas;
but AS soon as the oars stirred it
they seemed to be dipped in melted
gold. There was actual fire there,
| Was compelled to think. While /
was wandering at it, fish, startled
10y our spiatter, darted across the
pond near tile surface, and in his
trail was left streak OF yellow FIRE.
Then we saw at dlfferen. places on
the surface little vapory clouds of
fire flashing and darling about like
the northern lights.
III you have newspaper ia your
pocket" said my companion, "lay it
out on your lap and splash the water
with both oars, TO see whether you
can get light enough to read by.
did SO, and was able to read the
heading and all the large lines with
out difficulty. took an oar then
and splashed the water. and wher-
ever drop fell back iuto the lake
was Il round spot Of fire. There was
something startling In seeing SO much
fire floating about, and / had not the
faintest notion where we were. /
had gone out upon an unknown lake
in total darkness, and had no idea
how large or deep it was, nor where
the current--if there was any--might
carry US.
If you pull hard aud watch the
bow and stern OF the boat you will
see something curious"
l did so, and was well paid for
the exertion. When Il boat moves
fast there is always cutting OF the
water at the bow aud little eddy
lett just behind the stern. That
cutwater aud that eddy were Of
flaming fire. More fish darted about,
leaving fiery trails. Indeed, where
ever the water was agitated it turn
ed apparently into fire. When the
agitation ceased the fire disappeared,
except that there was always
little sparkling upon the surface.
We splashed, and rowed, and watch
ed. One OF the most curious effects
was to throw something from the
boat to distant part of the lake
and see the fire splash. A fountain
put In the center Of the lake would
be fountain Of fire. We measured
the depth with an oar and found 1t
to be four or FIVE feet. 1t is men,
toned as curious circumstance
that the water can be changed as Of
ten as desired without destroying
its phosphorescence. Various an
alyses of the water have been made,
but without any great results.
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The Fire.
The people sleep
Il. ..sA

The people sleep
In quiet peace,
In the old town SO still;
Slumbering on in dreams
With pleasure or sorrow filled.
Can danger Turk or creep
TO steal away
The rest, that day
In labor spent, has made so sweet.
Hark! hear the bell
Its wild alarum tell!
Look! See the sudden dull glow,
That lights the town up everywhere.
See the excited people rushing on,
Hurried by the belPs wild song,
To where the flames leap high,
Shooting up toward the sky
Then hiss around the building doomed.
Hear the wild wind
Add its fury to the din;
AS with its helping breath
1t gives the flames no rest,
But roars and blows in Its might
Making hideous the night
While the sparks float on
Der all the town,
Filling the people with alright.
Way up there,
Without fear,
4 ne brave HTelncH stOutly contest
The hot flames rapid progress.
Far below the nozzles send
Their well-directed streams
Into the burning mass
Stopping fast,
The onward rushing flames.
Hours wear away.
The day
Breaks DER the town.
Spread on every hand around,
Dark and smoking ruins
Look horrid in the morning SUMS
White light
In the night
Another happy home has gone.
God pity all
Who may feel
Addiction in this way!
Bright be their after-days,
Full of peace and plenty.
May sorrow touch them gently.
May flames no more
Around them roar,
Nor bring unhappiness to their door.
Grant Pitxer.
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WANT OF FAITH.-IfE. G. VIII

WANT OF FAITH.-If T.. G. Will
liams e. Bro. the Druggists, do
not succeed it l. not for the want
Of filth He has such faith In DR..
Bosanko's Cough aud Lung Syrup
as q remedy for Coughs, Colds, Con.
sumption, and Lung affections,
that he will give a bottle free to
eachand every one who Is in need
of a medicine Of his kind.
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A Lake or Fire.


AN ARTIFICIAL BODY OF WATER
THAT REsEMBLE s MELTED
GOLD.
A correspondent of the New York
Times, writing from Waterloo, an
extensive estate in Nassau, describes
a curious body of water to be seen
there. The lake is nearly one thous-
and feet long and two hundred to
three hundred feet broad. It is an
artificial lake, the former proprietor
of Waterloo having built it to store
green turtles in. The plan was to
buy the turtles alive and put them
In the lake and let them increase in
size and numbers, when they would
always be ready to be caught and
eaten. Millions Of fish could be kept
in the lake at the same time, and
thus the occupant of Waterloo could
always have good dinner waiting
in the yard. The lakes bed is cut
out of the solid rock, and is only a
few hundred feet from the ocean. 1t
is connected with the sea by a small
canal. also cut through the rock; and
when the gate in this canal is left
open the tide rises and falls in the
lake.
1t was one Of the darkest nights /
ever saw. We went into the boat
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Martin Luther said music Gained
the soul, and put to flight the evil
one.
Prof. Westcott said ut a meeting
of the Cambridge University Branch
OF the British and Foreign Bible
Society: In the ten years, work of
the revision of the English New
Testament, 1t was my privilege to
feel from month TO month, some
thing of the power which the frank,
calm-sighted, devout study OF The
text of the Bible has in calling out
sympathy between men widely diff
ferent ia temperament, education,
and opinion. And whatever may be
the judgment passed now upon the
direct results of the revision, there
can be no doubt that it has created
an unparalleled and unexpected in-
terest in the least words OF the Bible
among English speaking men.
Ii there is 4 disease in our modern
theology, and our modern philosophy
of life more conspicuous than an
other, 1t is indifference to sin. We
lull il with anodyne. We call itany-
thing but sin. We form our schemes
of social improvement and material
progress without any conviction of
the deep plague-spots of our nature.
We hide it from ourselves until it
breaks out in some scandalous form,
and startles us with its intensity.
We will drill men into morality; we
will repress crime by education; we
will empty our jails by philanthropic
legislation; but the sin dwelling in
us is too strong for human remedies,
to rampant for the social reformer's
pruning hook.
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COAL AND WOOD OFFICE
AND
Flour and Feed Store
No. 6s Queen ST., Staley's Block

F1NHE undersigned respectfully informs
4 the citizens of Martinsburg and Berk-
eley county that he has opened Coal and
Wood Office and Flour and Feed Store at
90 Queen Street, where all orders in my
line will receive prompt attention have
put in pair of Fairbanks new scales and
all coal sold by me will be weighed and
full weight guaranteed. Piedmont and
Cumberland run of mine, Fine and Lump
Coal; also best quality Nut and Egg an
thracife coal always on hand.
Farmers having Corn, Oats and Hay to
sell are solicited to see me before selling.
Thanking the public for the liberal pat
ronage extended me, and soliciting your
further favors,
am respectfully yours,
jy24-iy. J. w. ROBERTS.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1884-06-15
Northwest Roiters.

The BLAINE organs have been Boosting
loudly that Republican disaflection was
confined principally to New York city ano
New England, and that enthusiasm for the
ticket in the West and Northwest would
more than offset the eastern revolt. Adj
vices from the Northwest, however, show
that they can no longer lay such fiattering
JUNCTION TO their souls as far as that section
is concerned at least. A special telegram
from Milwaukee says:
1.-THE Republican ticket in Wisconsin i:
being bolted on all sides on account oil
Blaine's nomination. A large number oil
prominent Republicans have openly an
nounced that they Will not support the Re-
publican ticket. The ticket Is particularly
obnoxious to the German Americans. The
Freie Press, the afternoon German paper,
bolted the ticket on the day OF the noml'
nation, A sensation was created In politi'
cal circles last night by Der Herald. the
most influential and widely-circuatcd Ger
man newspaper in the West and North
wess. Hitherto IL has been staunth Re-
publican organ. 1t announces in double
loaded editorial that it will not support the
Blline and Logan ticket
The telegram further states that Dr.
SENNER, editor-in-chief OF Der Herald, de-
cIared in an interview Friday night that
he believed his paper voiced the senti-
ments of The great mass of the German Re-
publicans in the West and Northwest. 1t
begins to look as ii the BLAINE organs will
have to 60 entirely ont OF the country for
consolation.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1884-06-15

Lord Derby Is to have the garter worn
bv the late Duke Of Buccleuch. The Duke,
who was the 675th knight elected, received
II on the death Of Philip Yorke.
Larkin G. Meade Is at work in Florence
on drinking-fountain OF Carrara marble,
10 be presented by Elliott +. Shepard 10
New York city. The subject represented
is the Mississippi river.
Mlpe Benoit, bright young French
woman, has been graduated from the Sor-
bonnie with the degree OF Bachelor OF Let
ters and Sciences. During her medical
course she supported herself and her sister
by teaching.
Mrs. Almira Lincoln Phelps. the we'll
known writer and teacher. will, on July
18th. celebrate the completion of her nine
ty.frst year. She is in capital health ana
full enjoyment of all her faculties, with the
exception that her hearing Is slightly inn
paired. She still keeps up her diary, WHICH
She began at the age OF sixteen.
MFR. Clemens, better known as nark
Twain, has several blank forms pinned
over the table on which he writes. One Is
formal decination OF an invitation to
dinner. another is for destinations to give
opinions (otherwlse compliments. Clemens
phrases it) OH literary productions, and
another is blank for declining to send
articles solicited by this and that journal.
Mr.. Eugene Turpin, OF Paris, distin-
puisbed chemist, the inventor of harmless
paints for childrcn's toys, and also OF
- panclastite." an explosive, said to be OF
more destructive force than dynamite, was
recently arrested IN London. He had
taken quantity OF the new explosive to
England for the purpose OF experimenting
in the Darlington lrOn-StOnc Mines. and
was seized upon AS an agent OF the dyne-
mite plotters.
Sitting Bull VISITED Fort Smelling The
other day. Writing to the Boston journal,
a correspondent thus describes an amusing
episode: He was RECALLED at the CON-
mander's table with canned peaches; he
sat I'D TO the table like gentleman and
helped himself with his silver fork, but no
one could make him smile. Finally Mrs.
Colonel Andrews came into the room, and
the moment he saw her he jumped to his
feet. clasped her hands, and beamed all
over with delight. Is this not the way to
treat Indians :"
MeissoDier's models receive princeiy
wages, though they earn their money
hardly enough. They are liable to six
hours at a stretch, almost without a change
of position, and in attitudes which often
are the reverse of comfortable. "Thc Quar-
re" contains five figures, each OF which is
a marvel of anatomical draughtsmanship.
Meissonier took seventeen sketches OF 1t
before he put brush TO canvas. Fancy a
dispute in which the would-be combatants
try to get at each other, while two friends
on one side and one on the other endeavor
TO separate them. And the five models
stood in this attitude for three hours each
day for sixty consecutive days. "They
were better off still than the fellO" who
slammed death beneath real dead horse
on winters day when the snow lay foot
deep in my garden" said NJ. Meissonier.
No doubt they were.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1884-06-15
SHOOTING THE CASCADE RAPIDS.
The Perilous Run OF the Little Steamer Gold
Dust Among the Rocks OF the Columbia.
Portland News. !

The Gold Dust, staunch and trim lit
tie steamer, successfully ran the rapids at
ut the Cascades OF the Columbia recently.
There were five persons aboard. The
Gold Dust was built in Portland some five
years ago. She is eighty-iive feet in length,
with twelye-foot beam, and has draft OF
six feet light. For year or two she rln
as an independent boat between this city and
Vancouver. then she was taken 10 The CO.
lumbia river to run between the Cascades
and the DallcS. The owners had to cut
the boat in two and haul the sections with
teams around the Cascades rapids. Lately
her owners concluded to return the boat
to service on the Willamette river.
" IL was mighty tickliSh job 10 run the
rapids" said Engineer st. Martin to NeicS
reporter last evening as he was enjoying 4
smoke in the engine-roOm OF the Gold
Dust, snugly mOOred at Ham, Taylor Il
Co.'S dock. "Pye been on the water for
over fifteen years, and it was the hottest
time I've ever experienced. We started
from the Upper Cascades at $50 in the
morning, and at once shot into the
seething waters in the channel, close
to the Washington side. We shot through
the rapids, fully 800 feet in length, like
an arrow. 1t didn't seem to me TO take us
half minute. The water was very rough,
the mad waves dashing us TO and fro,
This channel is less than 100 feet wide
with savage rocks on both sides. Owing
to the high water these rocks are some six
feet under water, and this fact made the
trip the more dangerous. Twice in the
rapid voyage / thought we were goners.
The waves dashed against the boat vicious
ly, knocking in the lights in the engine
room and pouring volume Of water into
the boat. | was drenched to the skin and
80 were the others.
"Once out Of the main rapids we had
smooth sailing. We made the trip from
the Upper Cascades to the Lower Cascades,
some six miles, in about As many minutes.
The Oregon shore was lined with specta.
tors, mostly Government employees, and
they gave us a round Of hearty cheers a,
we safely rode through the rapids. One
such trip will do man for lifetime"
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FREAKS OF LIGHTNING.
4 Carpenter Stripped of his Clothing Before
One Could Say Jack Robinson.
IRochester HerNld

lhtNntSNcl iietNusI
At O'Clock yesterday afternoon, during
the first shower, lightning struck the new
house In process OF erection by Alexander
frank on State street near Mohawk, Lam
singburgh. Albert Painton, who was lath-
ing in the second story OF the structure,
was stricken by tue fluid. which passed
from his shoulder down his arm, tearing of
his shirt-sleeve, and from his hip TO his
feet, carrying away the entire leg OF his
pantaloons. His arm and leg were shock
ingly burned and for time were con-
pletely paralyzed. He speedily recovered
the use Of his limbs. and last night was
suffering only from his burns. The light
ming passed through both floors to the cell
lar without doing material damage. Ben
jamin Bailey, who was lathing alongside
OF Painton. was severely shocked, but not
injured.
A severe thunderstorm occurred vt
schroon Lake Friday. Mrs. E. NJ. Rounds
became frightened and took refuge in the
cellar Of her residence. Lightning struck
the chimney Of the building, following that
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1884-06-15

DR.. BAAR suggests very good remedy
for the reclllessness with which the average
American spends his earnings. He Is in
clined TO think that the fault rests back in
childhood, and that the best way to teach
children the value of money is to have
them work for every cent they receive. He
does not propose that all trihing services
they render should be rewarded, but adj
yocates that they be assigned light duties
about the house, and paid regularly like
any other employees. We know families in
which the experiment has been tried and
found TO work admirably.