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Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-03-29

GOV. Martin, of Kansas, in his procla-
nation urging the people of that State to
observe next Thursday as "Arbor Day"
makes some statements that are worth
while considering. He says; "The GUS
tom of appointing an ArbOr Day now pre-
walls in eight States of the Union. The
people of Kansas went to planting trees
as soon as they began to plow, and in
creasing millions of shade, fruit and
forest trees are planted every year. The
love of the Kansan for trees has shown
Itself on every farm and village lot, in
city parks and the grounds of the
church and the school, and the
Gods acre where our beloved ones
sleep their last sleep. This feeling is
equally strong in the minds of the old and
yOung-in women not less than men. 1t
leads to practical results in increasing
the value of land, and in ameliorating the
asperities Of our climate. That there has
bee an increase in the rainfall of Kansas
is fully proved by the statistics of our
Oldest meteOrOlo lists, and it leads to uses
OF beauty in adjoining our homes and
making them scenes Of lOyeliness, the re-
membrance of which will follow our chill
dren to the last days # their old age. The
State which the pioneers found treeless
and a desert now bears upon its fertile
bosom more than 10000, 900 fruit trees and
more than 200, 600 acres of forest trees, all
planted by our own people,"
There are those who can remember
when the plains Of Kansas were almost
treeless. The absence of trees gave the
impression that long time prevailed that
Kansas was a desert, which would never
be worth anything for agricultural pur-
poses. How erroneous that impression
was is shown by her present prosperous
condition. In a few more years the plains
will have almost disappeared. The entire
face of the State viii have undergone
complete, but most gratifying, change.
There will be a happy combination of
forest, field and orchard.
A very interesting fact to which the
Governor calls attention, is that the an
nual rainfall has increased gradually
since the tree-planting system was inau-
gurated. Once Kansas was subjected to
great droughts. She is much less sub
JecIeu 10 bueu uOW, anu luS OlHlC 10 HO1
distant, perhaps, when she will not be af-
ficted with them at all.
The experience of Kansas ought to be
needed by States that are permitting their
forests to be destroyed to the extent of
hundreds of thousands of acres annually.
The destruction of forests in this State
is simply frightful. At the present rate
of destruction there are those now living
who will see the State almost as bare as
was Kansas a generation ago. There is
no such a thing as systematic tree plant
ing, and there would be no need of it if
care were taken to preserve the forests
But, Notwithstanding the fact that the
danger of wasting and destroying the
forests is understood, no voice is raised to
avert it. We may expect disastrous
floods and droughts if we do not heed the
lesson which is taught by the experience
! of Kansas.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-03-29
PERSONAL.

JULIUS Won PAYER, the Arctic explorer, is
IN almost hopelessly poor health. and will
probably never regain full use of his eyes.
TEE late William Bachelor. of Baltimore,
was the Oldest and most conspicuous member
of the now almost extinct Association of Old
Defenders.
REV. DIR. GEORGE E. ELLIS will probably
succeed Robert G. Winthrop as President of
the Massachusetts Historical Society. Mr..
Wlnt hrop has held the office just 80 years.
MGR. CAPEL has no intention of leaving the
United States this season. He was recently
scribed by a well known Roman Catholic
ecclesiastic as the 'genlus of proselytism."
THE anxiety at Washington for an extra
session is due to the wish of an army of poor
office seekers who want the spitol h ated so
that they can have a comfortable lounging
place.
LOUIS KOSSUTH, now living at Turin, has
completely recovered his health, and pro-
poses, no doubt, to devote the entire summer
to reading his obituaries, lately printed in all
languages in all civilized countries.
JAMES H. BERRY, the new Senator from
Arkansas, to succeed Attorney General Gar
land, fine looking man about so years of
age. He is nearly six feet In height, erect and
vigorous, with black hair, black eyes and a
brown beardsslghtly sprinkled with gray.
HON. ALBERT G. JEwETF, the famous s'War
Horse" OF Maine Democracy, is now SO years
old, and is probably to be classed among the
very few members of his party who are not
tirement and feeble health, scarcely able to
go out of doors.
Hon. W. L. SCOTT, Democratic member of
Congress from the Twenty Pennsyl-
vanla district, is the owner of houses at scott
Haven now occupied by l50families of miners,
who are out on a strike. They were given
notice to move unless they went to work
again, but it is understood that they will not
for the present be turned out in the cold.
ARRANGEMENTS have been finally COM
pleted for the ornament establishment of
Gospel Temperance Church in Pittsburg.
of which Francis Murphy will be the pastor.
This eminent and successful advocate of COM
nonsense temperance seems to have been
made only more popular by the malignant at
tacks of some of j. p. st. Johns followers.
IT is understood that Mrs. Lila Pavy,
widow OF DR.. Pavy, of The Greedy expedition,
intends taking a trip to Godhaven, Greenland.
where her husband lived SIX months, and
from there to Cape Sabine, to search for
papers and souvenirs which may have been
buried there. Among the letters returned TO
Mrs. PaYy, it is said none were addressed to
her on intended for her.
SENATOR PENDLETON has given great atten-
ton to the question of the rights of German
naturalzed citizens. He is saia to have
drawn the plank in the Democratic national
platform on that subject. Germany has
claimed that her former citizens naturalized
here are still subject to military duty there,
doctrine that affects great numbers of Ameri-
cans and makes the post at Berlin an impOr-
tant one.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-03-29
TITLES IN AMERICA.
a List of Vain Degrees Common in this
Free Country.

Il List OF Vain Degrees Common in this
Free Country.
1t is an old taunt, says the Pau Mall
Gazette, that there is no one like your full
blown republican for love Of titles. Even
Americans are no exception. They are
indeed superior enough to titles of nobili-
ty, but they make up for it by excessive
Partially for titles Of learning. 1t seems
from list compiled by a writer in the
North american ReUtel0 that there are 10
different Doctors" degrees, "Mas-
ters'," and % ''BachelO so. The letters
an. A." do not argue very high in attain
ments in England, but in America they
mean still less, since they may stand
either for Master of Arts" or master
( of Accounts just as 'EB. AZ may mean
either Bachelor Of Agriculture" or
Bachelor of Arts" Even the venerable
letters sd. D." may be little misleading
in the States, where gentlemen have
passed for eminent diVines on the strength
of being doctors of Dentistry" AS for
the title of Professor, we know something
of what that may mean in England, for
has not Mr.. Matthew Arnold told us how
IN the old days when he held the chair of
poetry at Oxford he was 'Ealways shy of
| assuming the honorable style of Profess
scr, because he shared it with so many
distinguished men-PrOf. Pepper, for
instance, Prof. Anderson, Prof Frikel,
and Others-whO adorned it, he felt
much more than he did, In one respect
American precedents in these mat
ters might be found useful
over here. The admission of women
to all university degrees is only a mat
tsr OF time, but there is a good deal of
idle ridicule to be lived down first. Silly
fellows are constantly poking fun, for In
| stance, at the insults it would be to an I'M
graduated husband to be married to
''master," and at the incOngruity of Civ
ing clever but otherwise manageable
girls the title of F'bachelOr." The Ameri-
cans have cut the knot in their usual
practical fashion, and talk of Miss Blue
| stocking not as "Bachelor of Arts or
Bachelor of Science" but as ''Maid of
Philosophy" "Maid of Science" "Maid
of Arts" while girl who has taken de-
grees in all the faculties is, we suppose,
called "Maid of All Work." what in
| this aristocratic country is a badge of
servitude being in the free democracy of
| the West a prize of intellect,
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-03-29
BRIGHT BITS.

THE longest petition does not always take
the persimmons.-Bost0H Post.
II Henry county Democrat doesn't see
what he wants and can't reach it, he needn't
fool away any time IN asking for lt.--NO1o-
castle (Iad.) Courier.
The inability of George Washington to tell
lie left gap IN our national system that his
fellow -eOuntrymen have used every exertion
to fill.-Pittsbur0 Telegraph.
1T is said that bees and wasps will not sting
a person whose skin is smeared with honey.
This, of course, may be perfectly true, but the
trouble with the blarsted insects is that they
wont always wait until fellow can smear
himself.-JUd0e.
FIRST MISUNDERSTANDING any piaus for
next summer" Second POliceman-"Oh,
yes; shall spend the entire season among the
breakers" The entire season You don't
say soF' Eyes, among the law breakers. -
Philadelphia CAL.
WINTER seemed to have forgotten some
thing.-Boston Post. Forgot TO shut the door,
thinking there was spring on it.-BOstOn
CO'nmerciGk Bulletin: Automatic spring,
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Times. The above sum-
merry includes all the possible jokes in this
line.-LOaCeU Courier.
CAUCASIAN TRAMP-"My colored friend,
please lend me quarter. / fought, bled and
suffered four years in the Union army to make
you free man" Colored Gentleman-"YOu
did your duty, sab; but bout lOanin' you dat
memories Of the wah. "-TeedS Strings
FIRST Boston glrl-Going to vocal practice
this morning, MInerva2 second Boston girl
No, my dear CaliOpe, have a bad cold and
am quite hOarse. First B. G.-Ah been eX-
posing yourself TO the weather? Second b.
G.-Yes; / went out yesterday and forgot to
put on my spectacles.-BOstoH Courier.
Now, there's Mr.. Crimsonbeak," said the
boarding house mistress in low tone to the
new boarder next to her, "he always talks on
some live subject" where did you get this
cheese, Mrs. ShavepennY?" shouted Crimson
beak from the other end of the table as soon
as that lady had got the words out of her
mouth. The new boarder needed no further
proof that what Mrs, Shavepenny had said
was true YOnkers Statesman.
SPRING, spring, ''booteful spring!'
What cold, icy comforts You waDtonly bring;
Is this the warm weather you promised to
When winter had gone with its ''booteful
spOW{"
An expert in matters and questions like these,
Try as hard as he would and as much as you
please,
Could scarcely determine when toasting his
shns
Where winter leaves off and springt1me be-
gins. Chicago Sun.
a WARM, warm wave is wanted,
To make sweet songsters sing
And show the world
That winters hurled
From out the lap where he lies curled,
The stumbling block of spring,
We're weary now of winter,
We hate his icy breath,
And when he dies,
With mirth-lit eyes
Wen shout enough to shake the skies
And glory in his death!
--VeO York Journal
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-03-29
ARMY MEN IN WASHINGTON.
No Changes Yet COnsidered-HOw Er
rOneOus Impressions Regarding thu
Officers Get Abroad,

No Changes Yet COnsidered-HOw En-
rOneOus Impressions Regarding the
Officers Get Abroad.
1t is learned that no active steps are
being taken yet towards sending a num-
Der of army officers who are on duty in
this city back to their regiments, says the
Washington Star, although Secretary
Endicott undoubtedly believes in rota-
ton, and will eventually carry out that
policy. In reply to a question on that
subject this morning by a reporter, the
Secretary said that he had not yet taken
the matter of changes under considera-
ton, having more important matters to
attend to at present. An army officer
who holds an important office said to a
reporter to-day: ''It's a mistake to sup
pose that so many more army officers are
on duty here than are needed for
the transaction of military business.
Some of those who are now assistants
to the chiefs of bureaus, or who are on
duty under them will naturally return to
their regiments and make room for others
who ought to have change, and such a
course would be pursued under any cir
cumstances. The idea that has gotten
abroad that many army officers are kept
III Washington that they may have a good
time, arises from Une IacG LnaC army ON
GERS, like everybody else, are fond Of
Washington, and many of them spend
leaves of absence, to which they are enti-
tied, in this city, as they have right to,
and a great many when retired take up
their residence here. For these reasons
the army contingent is largely increased,
and things look worse than they are.'' 1t
is learned that with the exception Of the
line officers who are detailed for duty in
the signal corps in accordance with law,
there are not more than three or four Oh
detached service in Washington.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-03-29

sideration. The new Cabinet people find
that all their callers, Senators included,
harp upon the one string of ofice-beg-
ging. 1t is no wonder, then, that they
put all of their callers upon nearly an
equal footing.
The turn Of the Senators will come
next winter. l heard one stalWart Sena-
tor Yesterday swear, with clinched fist,
that when the ides of next December
came he would summon before his COM
mittee Of the Senate the proudest and the
stifest-necked of the new Cabinet, and
teach them that Senator is too powerful
and naughty person to be tritied with
with imrmnitV
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-03-29
CURRENT COMMENT.
stopped by Cleveland.

The disgraceful and too often corrupt work
OF devotlDg several months mainly to appoint
ments and rewards for party services which
have marked the beginning of each Republic
can administration. has been stopped by
President Cleveland This ia a GOOD tsDOInt -
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-03-29

The time is spoken of in prOphesy when
seven women shall cleave to one man. A
Pennsylvania girl. Miss Addie Kurtz,
who is deputy sheriff of Franklin county
in that State, carried seven male convicts
to the State prison one day last week, and,
strange as it may seem, she showed no
disposition to carry ON Irritation with
any of the unfortunates.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-03-29

The Pennsylvania man who tried to get
ahead OF his mOther-in.law, who was on a
visit 10 his house, by rObking her of $3.50,
VIII not do so any more. She only gave
him chance to spend a small portion Of
II for rum, and then turned him over to
rha Sheriff
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-03-29
Democracy Not of Narrow Compass.
Nm York Gun Ind

Mr.. Pendleton has invited the opposition OF
various members of his party on account OF
his attitude towards the civil service, but il
is a mistake to say that he has lost his fellow
ship on that account. Democracy is not OF
such narrow compass that it can be covered
over and smOthered by petty, and, we trust,
a temporary scheme to establish bureau
cracy Of OfficehOlders.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-03-29
The Profession of Politics.

1t is as legitimate to be politician as a
lawyer-indeed more so, for the politician
who advocates what he Enthusiastically knows
to be wrong can win no respect, no matter
how much money he gets for it. and if he
champions the cause of a confe7 sed scoundreI,
with or without fee, he sacrifices all the in
fuence he has.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-03-29

z One of the Pennsylvania legislators
cannot use his hands, and his wife acts as
amanuensis for him. There is one men,
Der in that honorable body who does not
carry on correspondence with the girls in
the gallery.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-03-29
Provided He win Come.

We must recognize the negro as our politi-
cal equal. We must give him voice and a
place IN our party councils. A true Demo-
6raI should be better pleased to work with an
honest, courageous Democratic nero than
with some lily fingered Republican masque-
rading within the lines of our party organiza-
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-03-29

The disease called ''pink eye," which
was SO common among horses a few years
a-O, has appeared as an epidemic among
the students of Yale College. The Har-
ward boys VIII soon be inquiring if this
disease has ever been known to attack
f1nkevs before
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-03-29

A Chicago milkman who accumulated
a fortune Ct $4,000 in a few years now
aspires to be City Treasurer. He would
doubtless make fine President for some
~ the great Western railroad companies
which have large blocks of watered stock
70 be thrown on the market.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-03-29

The tall hat parade at Union College,
schenectady, n. Y, which is to take
place on April !, promises to be a very
tame affair. The faculty threatens to ex-
pei every student who shall be convicted
and fined in a police court.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-03-29

Missouri and Kentucky have been by
az the hands of the new administration,
nut they have had very few of their petit
lions granted. They say they still hope
they will be allowed to sit on the fence
aud see the procession PASS.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-03-29

Chang, the Chinese giant, says he is
engaged to be married to girl in Kansas
City, Mo-, who is giantess, and who is
worth over 5000, 900 in her own right. He
SAYS that he intends to open the largest
tea store IN America when he gets mar
ried, and VIII petition the authorities to
allow him to vote. He thinks that he is
so large even a Cincinnati deputy mar
shall couldn't bulldoze him.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-03-29

Notwithstanding the law prohibiting
the making or selling of OleOmargarine
in New York, there are three large fac
tories at work turning out hundreds of
kegs Of the vile stuff every day in New
York city alone. The PROTECTORS have
been repeatedly indicted, but they have
plenty of money and are able to easily
evade the penalties of the law.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-03-29

The country is gradually coming to un-
derstand that we are really going to have
a Democratic administration.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-03-29
personal.

EAGELSIOR, LA, March "A ISSr -
~ ~ haTenS-DEAR SIR: The picture sr-,a ~
al safely, and am much pleased % curved e.
b hTse sno%n IL to many persons and seVer ~
when next in Savannah. R esnantSSn M see you
MAMIE L. MCCIESKEv
OFFICE OF RoUNDTREE & GARBrr
MlDVILLE, GA, March "a -
Mr.. HGCeRS-DEAR SIR; Yo,' 11o 'Ion ~,
Photographs right away; am Weyy, SEM emu me
VITA them. Yours. truly wei Pleased
JOHN J. ROUNDTREE
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-03-29

The park on Point Lookout has been
closed to ali visitors by Mrs. Whitesides,
the owner. on account of the passage of a
bin by the Tennessee Legislature pro-
hibitInc a monopoly Of the transfer BUSH
ness by certain parties. In the meantime
the c1nstitutionality OF the law is to be
tested. The hack business in Chatta-
n6oga is not worth much while the park
is closed. It is probable that the law
viii lie eyaded by one hack line being
granted the especial privilege of driving
into the park.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-03-29

A gOOd-lOoking German in New York
was very much amused the other evening
when he was kissed and embraced by two
pretty girls, who blushed and said they
though It was Charley and ran away, as
any girls would do under the circum-
stances. He didn't stop laughing until
he discovered ttat they had also made a
mistake and fingered S275 out of his
noeEpt
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-03-29
BOOK NOTICES.

"ChtneSe Gordon, the Uncrowned King"
is the title of handsome ribbon-tied
book, by Laura c. Holloway, which Funk
s. Wagnalls have just issued. 1t is the
compilation from GOrdOn's private letters
of his sentiments regarding life, duty, re-
ligion and responsibilities. A portrait of
Gordon, in mourning border, adorns the
cover. 10 and y Dey street, New York.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-03-29

The recent survey of the sources Of tie
Croton water supply, made at the in
stance Of the New YORK Board of Health,
Is not very reassuring to those who used
& consider this water as a standard of
purity. 1t is stated that the drainage
from the barn yards Of large area of
country finds its way into the streams
leading into Croton river, while the pollu-
ton from several large factories is dis
charged directly into the river. AS yet ii
has not been decided whether CrOtOn
water is better adapted as a germicide or
for the slaughter of human beings. The
board doesn't seem to take much stock in
the theory that running water purIfes
itself bat it is difficult for it to decide
vhs' Z IS going 70 do about it.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-03-29
MAGAZINES.

An informing and timely article on the
''Framers of the Constitution" with
twenty or more portraits, is the opening
gem of the beautiful Magazine of Ameri-
can History for April. 1t is the first in
stance in the historic literature of Amer
lea of the successful grouping of the
whole fifty-five these remarkable men in
one vivid pen-picture. The editor has per-
formed a service that will be gratefully
appreciated by hosts of students and
writer's, and by readers Of all grades and
ages the country through. 80 Lafayette
Place, New York.
Outing for April has its usual excellent
LIST of contents. Among its most inter-
esting articles are ''The Charcoal Burners
of the Green Mountains" "Across Ameri-
ca on Bicycle" Football in America"
etc. This magazine Is constantly improv-
ing, and its illustrations are uneXcelled.
Wheelman Co., 175 fremont street, Bos-
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tn preparing fer making a model for a
bronze bust Of Whitelaw Reid it was
discovered that one side of his face is
longer than the other. The unevenness is
supposed to have been caused by the
efforts Il Mr. Reid just after the Presi-
dental election to keep the Republicans
in -1od heart until the final count in New
York was completed. He tried to appear
eXultaat with one side Of his face while
the other was obliged to take an elongated
form