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4 Cfet Wttkjg SUBSCRIPTIONS. WEEKLY NEWS, issued two times a week, on Mondays and Thursdays, one year ® 1 OO WEEKLY NEWS, six months 75 "WEEKLY NEWS, three months ... 50 THE MORNINC NEWS every day m the year (by mail or carrier) 10 oo THE MORNING- NE WS every day for six months (by mail or carrier).s OO THE MORNING NEWS Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, or Tues days. Thursdays and Saturdays (by mail), 1 year ... « 500 ADVERTISING. Display advertising #1 40 an inch each inser tion- Discount made for contract adver tising, depending on space and length of time advertisement is to run. Local and Reading Notices S 5 cents a line. Marriages, Funerals and Obituaries 81 00 per inch. Legal Advertisements of Ordinaries. Sheriffs and other officials Inserted at the rate pre scribed by law. Remittances can be made by Postofflce Order, ’ .Registered Letter or Express at our risk. CORRESPONDENCE Correspbhdence solicited; bpt to receive at tention letters must be accompanied by a responsible name, not for publication, but as a guarantee of good faith. AH letters should be addressed to MORNING NEWS, Savannah. Ga. REGISTERED AT THE POSTOrnCE IN SAVAN- Rah as second-class mail matter. THURSDAY. JUNE 14, 1894. Why the Tariff Bill la Delayed. ' Less than a month ago it was freely predicted, that the tariff bill would pass the Senate by June 15. A sugar schedule <h«d been agreed upon by the finance com mittee, and that was the occasion of the . prediction. The sugar duty had given the finance committee a great deal of trouble. At one time it looked as if it would, not be possible to reach an agreement in respect to it that would be acceptable to a majority of the Senate. The republican Senators were so sure that the democrats ■ would never get together on the sugar duty that they talked confidently Os de feating the bill. Therefore, when an agreement was reached the prediction was made that > the end was near, and that by the middle •of-June the bill would be through the ’ Senate. The prediction has failed because the republicans have persisted, and still per sist, in hindering the progress of the bill in every possible way. They no longer hope to defeat the bill, and it looks as if they were delaying it for the purpose of continuing the hard tir.os as long as possible in order to influence the con gressional elections in favor of the repub licans. It is now conceded on all hands that just as soon as the tariff bill becomes a law there will be a great improvement in business. All the great industries and other busi ness interests are waiting for the settle ment of the tariff question. The country is bare of manufactured goods of all kinds, and the demand for them will be immense as soon as the pew conditions upon which manufacturing is to be con ducted are known. With the starting up ot the la'-tories i Qy lifq would bo infused into all kinds* of business. There would be a demand for the monay that is now idle and the ex isting business depression would ,be a thing of the past. The republicans understand this, and they know that with the return of good times the dissatisfaction with the Demo cratic party would disappear, and that, in all probability, the democrats would again carry the House by an overwhelm-- ing majority. It looks, therefore, as if they were de laying the tariff bill with the view of preventing the return of business pros perity until it would be too late for the democrats to profit’by it. Are the demo crats in congress- going to permit such tactics to succeed? The democratic sena tors would deserve the condemnation of their party if they should allow them selves to be outgeneraled in such away. A Question That Bothers Dr. Depew. Dr. Chauncey M. Depew delivered an address before the students of the Uni versity of Virginia yesterday, and a very good address It was, as the short extract from it which we publish this morning shows. He is the first northern republi can who has been asked to take part in the commencement exercises of that in stitution, and the compliment is one that he doubless appreciates. Dr. Depew is being strongly argued hy his political friends in New York to be come the republican candidate for gover nor of the state, it is regarded as cer tain that he could have the nomination. The argument used to induce him to accept it is that if he should be elected he would have an excellent chance of getting the republican nomination for President in 1896. Dr. Depew is considering the matter. He declares he is not in the hands of his friends and has not made up his mind as to the course he will pursue. He realizes that if he goes into politics he will have to sever his connection with the two great railroads of which he is president, and give up a salary of $50,000. He has been connected with the New York Cen tral railroad system a long time, and his services to it are regarded very .highly. He has a life position and his duties; and fiis relations to the owners of the great properties are in every respect pleasant. If he should give up what he has he might not get the political honors. Dr. Depew can afford, of course, to go into politics because he is a rich man, but ■ he wpifid not like to enter politics and fail to secure the objects of his ambition. As a defeated and disappointed politician he would not be nearly so interesting a person as he is as the head of the greatest railroad sys eji in the country. And it is by no means certain that he would succeed in politics. There is no doubt that he is a very popular man. He has aimed to be popular, and he has sue- , needed without any loss of dignity or self respect; but because he is popular ; as a private citizen and a railroad presi- , dent, it doesn't follow that he would ] have the kind of popularity in politics • that would induce people to follow hiiu. . It is no J always the ease that intellectual brilliancy and agreeable manners make a man strong with the people. Those who ! make their way in politics have, as a rule, possessed the qualities of a leader. Dr. ' Depew may have those qualities. He has not had many opportunities to show whether he has or not. During the summer he will make up his mind whether or not he will enter vol ities. The question is not one that he can determine quickly because it involves a great deal. In fact, he himself says that j to wholly sever his relations with the great railroad system with which he has been connected for thirty years would amountito a tragedy. Lawlessness in Alabama. Our dispatches this morning contain the announcement of the firing of another railroad bridge by persons believed to be coal mine strikers. There have been seven railroad bridges either destroyed or partly destroyed in the last six days. Gov. Jones, of Alabama, has offered a very large reward for the arrest and con viction of each bridge burner. The re ward may Induce some of those who know who the guilty parties are to become in formers. The situation in the coal section of Ala bama is becoming daily more serious. The burning of bridges is not helping the cause of the strikers. It is making an adjustment of the trouble more difficult. The lawless acts are uniting all interests against the strikers, and the mine opera-, tors, instead of making concessions, will become firmer in their resistance of the demands of the strikers. The bridge burners may not be caught immediately, but the railroads that have suffered from their lawlessness will see to it that they are caught and punished. They will not find it safe to remain at the Alabama coal mines. Means will be found to discover them and bring them to justice. The burning of bridges not only inter rupts travel and traffic, but endangers human life. The trains are in danger of being wrecked on bridges partly burned and thus weakened. Men who would ex pose a train load of passengers to-the hor rors of a railroad disaster would commit almost any crime. It is doubtful if among such men there are.any Americans. They must be imported cheap laborers who have no regard for either life or prop erty. They must be taught to respect life and property. If they are not it will not be long before, becoming bolder from their ability to escape detection, they will lay violent hands upon all kinds of property. Dr. Edward Everett Hale, the distin guished author and Unitarian preacher, in an interview at Pittsburg, Pa., a few days ago, said his belief was the solution of the labor troubles was to be found in the southern states. “If, instead of import ing foreign pauper labor to work in our mills and along ©ur great enterprises of all sorts, we would seek laborers among the thousands of unemployed negroes down south a most beneficial change would be Instituted in the United States.” This plan, as the reverend gen tleman said, would keep out thousands of undesirable immigrants, to the great benefit of the country, and many colored citizens who now find it difficult to obtain employment would be given something to do. There is no class of day labor more satisfactory than the negro, as the Penn sylvania and Ohio people would discover If they, -would give him a trial. Dr. Hale’s idea carried out would be of inestimable benefit to tH» seuth x * and would have southern co-opera tioO. The south has too many blacks and the north and west too few. The south needs another class of working people than the blacks. It needs white farmers and tradesmen to develop its resources. The black man is not much of a developer on his own hook. He must have somebody to direct him and keep him at the work. Dr. Hale’s plan, furthermore, would do a great deal toward settling the so-called race problem. If it were possible to dis tribute the black population of the south evenly all over the United States to-mor row, nobody would talk of a race proolem five years hence. Gov. MpKinley, of Ohio, is in an em barrassing position. Thousands of miners in his state are on a strike, and he has found it necessary to respond to the de mand of the mine owners and call out every military command in his state, with one exception, to hold strikers in check. Now, these strikers have votes. Indeed, it is probable that there are enough of them to constitute a balance of power in Ohio. Mr. McKinley knows this, and is loth to do anything to dis please them; he Wants their friendship— and votes—badly, and at the same time he wants the support of the mine owners. He was in an uneasy frame of mind about the matter last week when a happy idea, as he thought, struck him. The idea was to make himself solid with both the oper ators and the strikers: so while he called out troops to please the one party, he put a $lO bill in a letter expressing sympathy, and sent it to the other party. Day be fore yesterday he received the strikers' reply. Tbe£ sent back his $lO, refusing to touch it as it “would contaminate” them, and wound up their letter with the sarcastic observation: “Your ambition in a political way. so far as the miners are concerned, is sure to be gratified henceforth.” . They are having great “fun” over in the Kentucky district that Breckinridge still claims. Desha Breckinridge has "branded” Candidate Owens as a coward and a whole string of other uncompli mentary things, and oneof Owens’friends wishes satisfaction at ten paces. And , again, several prominent society women have been informed *by an anonymous Breckinridge partisan that unless they desist from harping on the Washington ; trial and its antecedents, the doors of their several family closets will be un locked and the world given a view of an • array of skeletons that will make the world's hair stand on end. These are j merely the incidents of a day in the cam i paign, and other days are nearly as fruit ful of sensations. Under such circurn stances, the Ashland district ought to ■ poll a full vote. It is a matter of the utmost importance that the next legislature shall be an im- I provement upon the last. The legislators peed to be carefully looked after. The j governor does not make laws; the legisla ’ tors do. It would be of little benefit to j I the state if the very best man in it were ! made go\ ernor if a light-weight legisla i ture should be chosen along with him. I We have already had enough of the light i Weights, the people owe it to themselves ! to bring forward and send to the legisla j ture men who are competent to perform ’ good and intelligent work at lawmaking. THE WEEKLY NEWS (TWO-TIMES-A-WEEK): THURSDAY, JUNE 14, 1894. PERSONAL Lord William Cecil, rector of Hatfield, England, provides a room in his church where worshippers may get their bicycles checked during services. Miss Peel, a granddaughter of, the great Sir Robert Peel, has recently published an addi tion to Arctic literature in a volume en titled "Polar Gleams.” It is a journal ot her ex periences on a yacht voyage around the northern coasts of Norway and Siberia. The memorial to Phillips Brooks has been placed in the wall along the south aisje of St. M argaret s church. Westminster. England. It symbolizes the command. "Feed My Sheep. ’’ The Archbishop of Canterbury com posed the Latin quatrain, inscribed ’under neath. Lincoln University,, the school for colored men. at Oxford. Fa., graduated forty-two students this year, the largest outgoing class in its history. Os these eight were from Maryland, nine from Virginia and eight from North Carolina. The valedictorian’ was Wm. Davis of Texas. Sir George Gray, ex-premier of New Zea land and governor of Cape Colony, proposes, in a London journal, a close federative alli ance between this country and Great Britain, including an agreement that neither will make wav’ without the consent of the other, and prophesies, its accomplishment. Albert E. Redstone, of who ran. or rather took, a gentle stroll for the Presi \dency. and lately turned up in Washington as the advance agent of Coxey’s army, has become a claimant before congress. He says the government seized some of his property for a park, and he wants $2,800 for it. Brother Joseph, who is voluntarily spend ing his life at Molokai, and devoting it to the lepers in that settlement, is Ira P Dutton, a native of Vermont, who adjudicated ivar claims .in the border states after the civil war for the federal government. He began his services in Molokai under the heroic Damien. / Mr, Louis Stevenson, son of the Vice Presi dent, who has teen abroad with his bride since their marriage •at Bloomington last year. Is expected to return in about a week. President Cleveland,recently appointed Mr. Stevenson assistant paymaster in the army, and on pis arrival he will be detailed to duty in-Washington. BRIGHT BITS. Doctor—Did you apply a mustard plaster to your spine: Patient—Yes. Doctor—Didn’t you .find it a great help? Patient—No: 1 felt that it was a great drawback.—Fashions. Grandma—l see that the locusts with a “W” on their wings are out again. It means war whenever thej’ appear. Miss Laura—Not this time, grandma. It means "woman.” This is the era of her emancipation.—lndianapolis Journal. He (having nothing better to say)—Do you approve of short courtships? She—Yes; but not too short. I have only . known you but a week—but. after all. what does it matter? Speak to mother, and I guess it will be all right.—New York Press. "I saw your name in print the other day,” said one man to another who was very fond of notoriety. "Where?” asked the other, in pleased ex citement. "In the directory.”—Philadelphia Record. “No,” said Chawles. “I shall nevah speak to him again. “His conversation is unendura ble, you know.” “Why. does he lack gram mar?” “Gwammah, deah boy? It s fah worse than a mattah of gwammah. He we ferred to my walking-stick as a cane, don’t you know.”—Washington Star. “I'm humiliated disgusted—disgraced!” said the snob, as he threw down the paper. "What's up now?” "See there, fifteen horses and a man slaugh tered in publicin Madrid. even in the pres ence of women and children, and all for sport—" "Well, let ’em go: what is it to us?” . “To us? Why, that’s the crowd that dis covered us?” —Cleveland Plain Dealer. Elies—What is that yop say? Bryce mar ried? Well, I will never believe In men again. Edith—Why? EHse—The vows of love that man made to mo! Edith—Well, but you threw him over. You’ve been married tour months. < Eftee—l don’t care; he was so devoted to me. He might have been decent about it. He might have kept single for six months, any way.—Brooklyn Life. CURRENT COMMENT. Talking of Carlton for Congress. From the Madison (Ga.) Madisonian (Dem.). It is said that Hon. H. H. Carlton is out of the race for governor and will be in the race for congress against Judge Lawson and Judge McWhorter. Turn About Is Fair Play. From the Philadelphia Ledger (Ind.). A legislative candidate in Georgia expects his canvass to be helped forward by the ac quaintances he made while running a hotel elevator. He extests, no doubt, that the many to whom he gave a lift will now give him one. Big Men for a Big Office. From the Sylvania (Ga!) Telephone (Dem.) Turner, Bacon and Garrard—that is a splen did trio in the race tor United States sena tor. They are all safe and large-brained men and any one of them would illustrate Georgia right nobly in the Senate. Happy, indeed, the state that can put forth three such candi dates for her highest national office. Liberty for the Correspondent! From the Washington Post (Ind.). We fully agree with the New York Mail and Express, the New York America, the Arizona Kicker, and the Bungtown Blister and ail the rest of them, in insisting that the free and soaring Correspondent shall not be muzzled, and that cheap romance shall still be fed to the hungry millions. But we also bold that congress need not ha’t anti shiver before men in buckram on Gad s Hill, and that business at the capltol should go right along without reference to the fakir’s chir rup or the whangdoodle's plaintive moan. ~ Before and After. From the Valdosta (Ga.) Times (Dem.). A few months ago the. Times, and a few other newspapers, stood almost alone in the breech defending Cleveland and his adminis tration against a tide of abuse and misrepre sentation which threatened to sweep this state and the south. It is a cause for con gratulation to see how the current sweeps back as soon as the people begin to meet in primaries and express their views. It is amusing to see how those who led the on slaught are now trying to prove that they never opposed the President, and only dif fered with him on a "minor” point—only one. How-tame a fellow gets after you have licked .him?, A West Georgia Opinion. From the Talbotton (Ga.) News (Dem.). The populists are anxious to have Col. At kinson nominated. They think they can de feat Col. Atkinson with Judge Hines. In the event Gen. Evans is not nominated, they ex pect a large soldier element, and another ele ment rendered discontent because, of the general’s rejection for the sake qf his voca tion, either to remain indifferent or to pass over to their side, it papers like the Tele graph persist tn calling such talk as the above mere rot.” they have only to wait and see If Evans is nominated he will be elected. If Atkinson is nominated, the populists have a good fighting chance. Mr. Atkinson cannot do now what and as he did two vears ago. ' We need a conciliatory candidate, and Evans ' is the man. The present is not the time for Mr. Atkinson’s style. The people of Georgia will not be driven. The Passing of Pennoyer. Frotai the New York Times (Dem.). The disappearance of Pennoyer from the American political horizon is 'a matter for’ congratulation beyond the confines of Oregon. Pennoyer is. in sooth, a horrid hoodlum. He calls himself a democrat, and he was elected I as a democrat, but essentially he is a popup s: in the most offensive sense of lbe term. He has made, himself conspicuous Vy insulting, in the crudest and grossest way. two suc cessive Presidents of the United States -of opposed political faiths.” Also he has been appealing to the ignorance of his people in Oregon with a simplicity that might have been attractive if it had not been mischievous. He wrote a ridiculous review article not long ago to show that the prosperity and import ance of historical nations had been (directly as the amount of currency, preferably silver that was in circulation among them "per ' capita.” In fact, there could not-well be a 1 worse kind of a man than Pennoyer. It is gratifying to remark that the people of Ore gon have come to appreciate him. i t* .Tv / t • /■* - : THE OLD FRIEND with red Zon every package It's the Kiqg or Liver Medicines, is better than njlls. and takes the place of Quinine and Calomel. Take nothing-offered you as a'substitute. J. H. ZEILIN & CO„ proprietors, Philadelphia. Terrible Tragedy Averted. The boys in the barn were performing an iihtromptu but highly realistic ' and blood curdling drama of border life In the far west, which they called "ThS Arizona Regulators,” says the Chicago Tribune. The Regulators had captured a horse thief and were prepar ing to hang him. - ■ "Dick Deadshot,” said the leader of the avengers, solemnly, "you ve got just five min utes to live.' Say yfef prayers!” The boy who stood on the barrel, with the rope aroupd his neck, temporarily forgot his part. ... . .. “I—l don’t know how. Shorty.".'he said, with spme .irritatiOTi. ./"Gimtay somethin’ easierj’ , .... J ‘ "You don't kHow’ lidW** exclaimed the leader in a terrible Wdef •• "No I,don’t.” ■< “Can’t’s&y vet ‘Now ilay me?’ ”. “No. 1 can’t, honest.” ’ - “Fellers, ’ sajd the.leader of the Regulators, ‘“aloaeoi deep disgust, "cut de kid down. We 11 stop a may right here. It wouldn't be right,to hang a poor, igner ht, dog’-oned heathen,” A Mbnhey’s Good Wanners,. “I was-ambsed as an act ot politeness I once witnessed on the part of - a monk’ey that had a very peculiar, effect bn my dog.” said Stephen L. Warner, of Beatrice. Neo.,rdcent-ly. “One day an Italian organ grinder, accompanied by a trained monkey, wandered into our town and the unan. stopped before my house to plhy. The monkey w’as an intelligent little tfri ®,"’’ was attired in a jacket and a cap; While his .master was grinding out the music the monkey hopped down from tho organ where he had been sitting, and, jumping the fence, came up into my yard. He was at once spied by a fox terrier of mine, and the dog made a rush, at him, The monkey aWaited the onset with such undisturbed tranquility that the dog halted within a few feet of him to reconnoiter. Both animals took a long, steady stare at each other, when suddenly the monkey raised his paw and gracefully saiuted his enemy by raising his hat. The effect was magical. The dog’s head and tail dropped, and he sneaked off into *the house and would not leave it until satisfied that his polite but mysterious guest had departed.” Jim’# Advantage. A young man stood at the foot of Griswold street gazing steadily into the river, says the Detroit Free Press, when a policeman who happened along Inquired; Looking for anything in particular out there?” “Well, no,” replied the gazer. “I was just a-thinkiu’. It is almost three years ago to a day since my brother Jim was drowned right here.” ‘ And you thought you might see his hat floating around?” “Oh, no. I was thiAkin’ how curious ft all came about. Jim went right off the wharf here. They said he just gave one yell before he struck the water.” “It was a case of suicide, then?” “Straight ease. You see, Jim and me were both in love with tne same girl. Jim was the best looking, but I had the most land.” And the girl preferred'you?” "She did. . Jim and me didn’t have no fuss about it. but as soon as he founfl out bow < ihiugs was be com eta/,o Detroit and walked down here dud jiontM.jff. Poor old Jiin!” ■There are many sad things in our lives.” said the p< hcernan as he tapped the head of a pile with his baton. “You bet. and this is one of them, though Jim can’t complain.” “Complain of what?” “Why, he suicided because he couldn’t git the girl, and now I want to suicide because I did git her. On the whole. I think Jim is about a year and a half ahead of me." Retributive Justice. The trees have taken off their clothes and gone to sleep, writes Fredrick Stansbury in Donahoe s. In the midst of a deep wood, that might appear somber btit for the fliterd rays of the setting sun. a hunter sits upon the lichen-covered irutik of a faljen oak. At his feet is carelessly thrown the day's bag—squir rels and rabbits and other pretty denizens of the forest, now forming a most pathetic picture of still life. , The hunter’s bronzed face 18 tinted with the glory of the dying day. Contentment is writ ten oh his attitude and in the expression of his eyes. He has had a good day. Game has been plentiful and the air bracing and de lightful. The stock of his gun leans against the pros trate oak, the barrel at an angle pointing to ward him. . His thoughts are pleasant, and the grim finger of destiny has no meaning for him. 1 , ' _. ~ He takes out his pipa, gazing the while amid the “Hare ruined choirs Where late the sweet bird sang.” Slowly and peacefully he strikes a match on his russet boot, and applies it to the fra grant contents of the mellow briar bowl,- As the clouas ’of aromatic incense arise, they are shot through with the golden shafts of sunlight, and disappear among the groined arches of the grand old trees. Motionless, statuesque, the hunter falls into a reverie. Thd dead monarch on which the hunter sits is honeycombed withjsylvan caverns. It forms a tenement house for strange and diverse little creatures whose home is the forest. And now. from one of the apertures Os its many hollows, a little red squirrel appears. Its movements are quick and nervous, and it throws its little body and brush into pretty waves as it advances. The hunter moves not. The patter of the tiny feet of the little red and brown midget bn the leaves is not heard. Halting momentarily to raise itself on its haunches and look acout. it approaches the gun stock. In a spirit of frolic it attempts to flash through the steel circle that guards the lock. Click: A shot rings out through tjm forest, and the hunter lies amid Ms gatae; Picnic Time. ,-From the Chicago Ke cord. It’s June again, an’ in my soul 1 feel the filling joy That's sure to come this time.o’ year to every little boy: For, every June, the Sunday schools at pic nics may be seen, Where ’Helds beyond the swellin’ floods stand dressed in livin’ green :” Where little girls are skeered to death with’ spiders, bugs an’ ants, , An’ little boys get grass stains on their go-to meetln pants. It’s June again, an’ with it all what-happiness is mine— There's goin' to be a picnic an’ I’m goin’ to jine: One year I jined the Baptists, an' goodness! how it rained' ■ (But grampa says that’s the way “baptizo” is explained). - ■•' And once I jined the ’Ptscoptls an’ had a heap o’ fun— . But the bosSxof all the picnics was the Presby ter! un:-: ' . i ■■ ■' ■■■■ -• They had so many pudditi's. sallids, sand widges an Mate • .;! '' That a feller wisht his stummick was as hun gry as his eyes: Oh. yes. theeatin’PresbyteTiuns give ver is so tine That when they have a picnic, you bet I’m goin tojine: But at this time the Methodists have special claims on me. • ’ For they’re goin’ to give a picnic on the 21st. D. V.: Why should a liberal Universalist like me ob ject , To share the joys of fellowship with every friendly sect-?’ However het’rodox their articles of faith else wise may be. i Their doctrine of fried cblck'n ii a savin’ grace to me.’ So on the 21st of June, the weather bein’ fine. They re goin' to give a picnic, an’ I’m goin’ to I jinei ITEMS OF INTEREST. Mr. Walter Wellman, now on an Arctic expedition, writes the following from Norway about the aluminium boats built in Baltimore* "The Norwegian boatmen were delighted with the aluminium boats. They rowed them to and fro and smiled as the shells glided so easily over the water. They tried in vain to tip one of them over, half a dozen men throw ing their weight upon the gunwale of.the Lockwood. The Norwegian boatmen cut qp all sorts of capsrs-with these little craft, and ' finally gave their opinion as experts-—and ’ there are no t etter boatmen in the world— that they Would do the work for which they had been built; that they were splendid -Sea . boats; that they could bebeached through a roaring Surf: and that they- would do every ; thing a small boat ought to do. except sail to windward. ThitTwe already knew, and it is a point without importance.in our scheme. We were, therefore, much relieved to learn that the verdict of the jury of grizzled boatmen and fishermen was m our favor.” The growth of new words in our existing languages is the safest gidde to the origin of language in general. Such new words are continually arising from day to day' in bur midst. Just at first they are usually immita- , five or onomatopoeic, and more or less inarti culate, They are deficient in vowels. The steam engine seems to say to us, “P’s. p’s, . p’s : ” the cat seems to say to us, “p’rrr, p’rrr, p’rrr;” the sound of a cannon ball, as it strikes the ground, we represent by ‘Th'd:” the sound of a gun we represent by “B’ng.” But when we come to use these sounds fami liarly as parts of language we soon grow totyo- ' calize them. We say. puff, puff, puff: purr, thud bang. In proportion as we use such words in composition do they become more and more, articulate and- less and less onomatopoeic, while at the same time they tend to become widened and conventionalized jn meaning. At . last, when we talk of whizzing wheels, of a banging door, of giving a friend a puff in the paper, or dexterfously booming a new inven tion,. we have almost lost sight of onomatopeia altogether. Even when we remark that the cat purrs, or that we distinctly heard a loud thud ata distance,, we are scarcely conscious of the imitative.intention. In the earliest times of’purohase, a woman was bartered, fpr useful goods or for services rendered to her father, says the Westmins ter Review.- In this latter way. Jacob pur chased Rachel and her sister Leah. This was a Beena marriage, where a man. as in Gene sis. leaves his father and his mother and cleaves unto his wife, and they become One flesh or ktn—the woman’s. The pricb of a bride in British Columbia and Vancouver island varies from to £4O worth of arti : cles. In Oregon, an Indian gives for her, horses, t lankets, or buffalo robes? in Califor nia, Shell-money or horses; in Africa, cattle. A poor Damara will sell a daughterfor a cow; a richer Kaffir expect* from three to thirty. With the, Banyai, if nothing be given, her family claim her children. in Uganda, where no marriage recently existed, she may he obtained for half a dozen needles, or a coat, or a pair of. shoes. An ordinrry price is a box of nercussion caps. ♦ln other parts a goat or a couple of buckskins Will buy a girl. Passing to Asia we fitjd her price is sometimes 5 to 50 rubles, or at others a cartload ot wood or hay. A princess may be purchased for 3,000 rubles, in Taratry a woman can be obtained for a few pounds of butter, or where a rich man gives twenty small oxen a poor man may succeed with a pig. In Fiji her equivalent is a -whale’s tooth or a musket. These, and similar prices else where, are eloquent testimonj’ to the little value a savage sets on his wife. Her charms vanish with- her girlhood. She is usually murned while a child, and through her cruel slavery and bitter life she often becomes old ■ and repulsive at 2£. , Why is it that’the colors of a soap bubble change as the film gradually alters in thick ness? Another cause of color is here in volved—that of interference, says Longman’s Magazine. If a stone be thrown into a smooth pond a circular wave is produced, gradually widening toward the edge of the pond. If a second stone be thrown into the pond a sec ond wave will be produced, which will influ ence the first. If the stones be dropped In simultaneously at the same spot, the wave will just be doubled in hight: and if the sec ond stqne be thrown in exactly a wave-length behind the first, the same effect would be ob served. If. however, the second stone be thrown into the water exactly half a wave length behind the first, the motion of the water will be destroyed. Similarly wjth light; when light impinges on the soap bubble, part of it is reflected from the exterior surface, and part enters the film and is reflected from the interior surface, ’this latter nortion traverses the we ter medium between the two surfacM twice, .rwo is. therefore, kept behind the first refifwtc.d ray. The two sets of waves interfere with each other, and produce a colored light, in stead of a white light. Other waves, again, may destroy each other and extinguish the light. Some of the constituent colors of the impinging white light-so med by their pass age through the fllpi—interfere so as to destroy each other, while others remain un affected. As the film diminishes in thickness, the colors must necessarily vary. In this way is accounted for the marvelous variety of beauty of colors in the soap bubble, the iridescence of- oil upon water, the changing color of steel when being tempered, and the gaudiness of some insects’ wings. The Telegraph, of Hong Kong, China, says that the native merchants are beginning to understand the importance of the press and the advantages of advertising. ’I here are three papers printed in the Chinese language in Canton alone. The Figaro, of Paris, men tions the following as the most prominent periodicals at present published in China: Chen-Pao (Shanghai News). Hu-Pao (News of Hu. another name for Shanghai), Tsing- Pao (News.of the Capital. Peking). Che Pao (Daily News, Tlen-Cjfln), Kwong-Pao (Canton News), Ling-namje*Pao (News of Lingnam, old name for Canton). All these papers reg ularly contain leaders discussing questions of international interest, telegrams from Pe king and abroad and the usual news found in European journals. The Osta Asiatische Lloyd, of Shanghai, a German paper repre senting in particular the commercial inter ests of the Fatherland..in the east and re plete with interesting notes of mercantile and ethnological character, in a recent number gives a few editorial com ments translated from the native Chinese press: “It is sad to see how short is the life of man. In Europe they invent remedies against death, but they don’t work. The rice harvest promises to fall out very good this year. It is to be hopefl that the great exami nations in Li-Whah will be just as good.' They will take place during the harvest. A murder has been committed near the seventh tower of the great wall. Two Peking merchants were killed there. It is a blessing that they were not Mandarins. As the emreror was being carried through the Yellow street recently blows were given to the multitude to make room. The mighty Son of Heaven laughed heartily over <his. During a recent review at Manking, Prince Ho-Tu-Lin-Sab (the second son of the late emperor) swore at the soldiers because the cannons were not polished.” With all the improvements that have been made in fire-extinguishing apparatus, the fact remains that the simple pail of water is. even at this day, one of the most efficient pieces of apparatus of this class that has yet been in use. Insurance statistics, indeed, show that more fires -are put out by water pails than by all other appliances put to gether. the only point that can well be raised against them being that, while they are gen- ■ erally provided abundantly enough in places where they are likely to be of service, the water is very apt tobe wanting. It is true, also, in a meosure, that, even if the pails were kept full, they are often borrowed for some purpose and not returned, so tbat when most needed tney are unavailable. As away out of this difficulty It has been proposed.- says Cassler’s Magazine. to use pails with round or conical bottoms, which will not stand on a > floor, and are not.; therefore, likely to be taken off for some me for which they were not intended, but this form seriously dimin - ishes the value ot -the pail as a tire extin guisher. since a man with two of them in his hands. Arriving at tjie scene of action, cannot use either without setlipg the other on the floor and losing all its contents. As an im provement on this a superintendent in one of the large New England mills, who had found it difficult to keep the tire pails full and in good order, some time ago adopted the follow ing interesting expedient: The hooks carry ing the pails were fitted up with pieces of spring steej_ strong enough io lift the pail when nearly empty, but not sufficiently ”sor- to lift a full pail. Just ovtet each Spring in such a position to te out ot the way of the handle of the pail was set a metal point connected with a wire from an-open circuit battery. So long as the pails were full their weight, when hung on their hooks kept the springs down, but as soon as one was removed or lost a con siderable fortion of its contents by evapora tion. the spring on its hook would rise, coming in contact with the metal point, thus closing the battery circuit and ringing the bell in the manager's office, at the sameXime showing on an annunciator where the trouble was. as the bell continued to ring until the weight of the delinquent pail was restored it was impossible to disregard the summons, and no more reason was found to complain of the condition of the Are buckets. LIFE OF THE SOLDIER. The South Georgia Companies Keep ing Up Their Record. Griffin, Ga., June 11.—To-day has been devoted to routine work in camp. It has been very dusty and warm. The Waycross Rifles broke camp at 4 o’clock this afternoon. During their seven days itl camp they have had the honor of furnishing the orderly daily. To-day they furnished both the senior and junior orderlies. Sergt. James Syd boten was awarded the gold medal for the most-perfect accouterments. The Valdosta Videttes are nutting up some beautiful drills under command of Capt. Cassey. Commandant J. O. Varheaoe is an ex cellent officer, and is the admiration of the camp. Capt. Cassey is feting adjutant of the Fourth battalion. Lieut. Louis Jerger, commanding the Thomasville Guards, is an efficient officer. Capt. Hansell of the Guards is acting , post adjutant. Everybody admires Lieut. McCants of the Guards. Capt. Simmons of the Brunswick Rifles has made a name for himself as a com mander of a virtually new company. Capt. Wooten of the Albany Guards, very ably commanded the battalion, at dress parade. CAMP NOTES.- ' It is very warm in camp: all tlje boys are getting sunburnt. They- are doing their, duty regardless of the heat. ' The health in camp continues to be remarkably good, all have become aceli mated and no.complaints are heard. The Way cross Rifles left at fl o'clock for home. It was with much -regret that they left their fellow soldiers in camp.- They have made a remarkable showing in camp and have received compliment after compliment. AU will break campon June 14. ■ ■'. FLAGLER’S TAXES. The Statements Made by Maj. Abrams Seem to Be Erroneous. St. Augustine, Fla., June ll.—That part of Maj. St- Clair Abrams! speech repro* duced in your Sunday edition, touching the amount of taxes paid by Henry M. Flagler in St. Johns county, needs correc tion. Mr. Flagler’s county assessment is $533,840, on which he pays a tax of over SIO,OOO. His personal property tax and his railroad property tax Within the county limits, city licenses and realty taxes amount annually to nearly $30,000, with a steady increase. . Such is the low estimate of the amount of cash Mr. ' Flagler pays annually to the city and county collectors. His railroad property is assessed and the taxes paid to the state controller, except where the railroad is taxed by entering the corpora tion’s -‘city” limits. No information, it is claimed, was given Maj. Abrams speci fying the amount of the assessment of Mr. Flagler’s property other than the personal property by the county assessor. Maj. St. Clair Abrams is in error for that reason. Mr. Flagler pays about one third of the whole city taxes, and in addition when his shops, hotels and rail roads are in full operation, gives St, Augustine its main support. THE MELON PROF. Shipments Will Begin To-day—The Crop a Good One. Dixie, Ga., June 11. —The watermelon crop is maturing quite rapidly. Shipping will begin here to-morrow, three days later than last season. Possibly ten or a dozen cars will be loaded 9 here this week. After that the shipments will greatly in crease for the next mouth. The crop is better than was expected it would be a few weeks since. Our railroar' agent in forms us that the Savannah, Florida and Western railroad has made suitable ar rangements for hanfiling the ctbp promptly, and every shipment will go forward without delay. Mrs. R. B. Talley, of Corsicana, Tex., the aged mother of our esteemed towns man, Rev. William R. Talley, arrived here safely a day or two since on a visit to her son, and her many friends will cel ebrate her 80th anniversary in Dixie this year. Miss Annie N. Alford, a young lady of Sulkirk, S. C., is on. a visit to the family of Maj. James N. McLean at Dixie. QUIIMaN TO ISSUE BONDS. Electric Lights and Water Works to Be Put In. Quitman, Ga., June 11.—Quitman voted to-day on issuing $20,000 in 6 per cent, bonds for putting in electric lights and water works. The vote stood 177 for bonds to 6 against, out/>f a total registra tion list of 222. The town already has contracts with the General Electric Com pany for the lights and the Stillwell- Bierce-Smith-Veile Company for the waterworks. The bonds will be sold at, once, and the work of putting in the sys tems is to commence when the town has given tbe contracting companies thirty days’ notice. Quiiman is one of the solid towns of Georgia, is out of debt and her bonds should bring a good price. LITTLE RESIGNS. He Has No Time to Devote to the Western and Atlantic. Atlanta. Ga., June 11.—Col. W. A. Lit tle, of Columbus, appointed special attor ney for the state in the Western and At lantic railroad litigation at a salary of $2,000 a year, under a resolution of the legislature of 1893. resigned his position to-day. Gov. Northen accepted the res ignation and will leave the case in the hands of Col. W. A. Wimbush, of Colum bus, who was recently associated with Col. Little. Col. Little gives as his rea- < son for throwing up his state job that his ' private business Remands all his time. 1 . i A Railroad Cutting Down. Paducah, Ky., June 11.—The Chesa- ' peak, Ohio and Southwestern shops here 1 have shut down, throwing over 300 men ) out of work. Eight trains have been • taken off one end of the road and six off j the other. Scarcity of coal and falling i off of business is the cause. 1— . 1 Fatal Earthquake in Spain. Madrid, June 11.—An earthquake shock I1 occurred to-day in the towns of Granada ; 1 and Almeria. Many houses were de- : J stroyed and several persons killed. In ■ Nacunento a few houses were ruined, but t nobody was injured severely. - - ...'S!r.T* " - '"T*" ~ BAK NG POWDER. ■ Awarded Highest Honors World's Fair. DRPRICE’S The only Pure Cream of Tartar Powder. —No Ammonia; No AJuffl. Used in Millions of Homes—4o Years the , * • ■ - - RIOT AT GILES’ STILL. Blacks Resist Arrest and Threaten to Kill the Whites. Lyons, Ga., June 11.—It is reported here to-day that there has been, and still is. trouble at Giles’ still, about seven miles from here, between negro turpen tine hands and the whites, caused by the arrest of a negro there last Friday. Af ter his arrest he was forcibly taken from the sheriff by an armed mob of negroes. This caused considerable excitement at the time, which was renewed yesterday by a large body of armed negroes assemb ling at the still and cursing and threatening to kill all the whites on the place. The three white families living on the place were so terrorized that they left yester day. To-day a posse has been raised and gone there to enforce the \rrest of the negro arrested Friday, and also seventeen of the leaders of the riot. Trouble is ex pected, as the negroes are said to be heavily armed, and defy arrest. Crops and gardens are suffering from dry weather. BITTEN BY A MAD DOG. Severn persons Attacked at Dallas and Thres Expected to Die. Dallas. Tex., June 11.-—A mad dog. a huge specimen of the St. Bernard breed, yesterday bit seven persons, three con sidered fatally, besides killing two cats and three dogs. Albert Adams; a negro boy, was bitten so badly that he cannot live. • ■ ■ Mrs. Mary Arthur, an invalid, was at tacked jn her bed and so badly lacerated that her life is despaired of. Jennings Moore had his arms, legs and body badly torn, and George Young, Mrs. Word on and Nick Powers were severely bitten. • . ’ It js feared that hydrophobia will re sult in a number of cases. Doctors are applying mad stones, but they will not stick. - - . - LUOY COBB COMMENCEMENT. "T" ' . ' 1 ‘ Lucy Bloodworth Takes First Honor With a High Average. Athens. Ga., June 11—Seney Stovall chapel was opened this morning to the public to witness the opening exercises of Lucy Cobb commencement. The pro gramme was an elocution contest between young ladies of the lo.ver classes. The exercises were far above the a verge. and reflected much credit upon the institute and Mrs. Lipscomb, the elocution teacher. Although the honors have not been licly announced, Lucy Bloodworth, daughter of F. D. Bloodworth, formerly of Savannah.has.taken first honor with an average of 99.72. Other Savannah young ladies will take prominent parts in the commencement. The exercise to-night was the annual musical concert. A Mill Bun by Electricity. Columbia, S. C.,June 11—The Columbia mill, manufacturing cotton duck fabrics, 30,000 spindles, commenced operations to day. The opening of the mill is interest ing from the fact that the machinery is run entirely by electricity generated by the Columbia canal water newer. A BRIDGE TO COST 940,000,000. It Must Span the River Within Ten Years. From the Philadelphia Record. New York, June B.—The President has just signed the New York and New Jer sey bridge bill, and the next step to ba taken by the promoters of the enterprise is to submit the plans, which have al ready been drawn, for the approval of tha Secretary of War. The company must com pie r-e the br id»» within ten years from its beginning, speiffiingl on its con struction at' least S26O,(XX) the first year sind $1,000,000 a year until its The work will be begun, officers of tha company say, as soon as-Secretary Lamont approves the plans. The bridge will be a suspended canti lever bridge, and will cost, including ap proaches, in the neighborhood of $40,000,- 000. Its promoters say it probably will be completed in four years. At the cen ter it will te fifteen feet higher than tha Brooklyn bridge. The bridge will be purely a railway bridge, with six tracks, for trains of ail the railroad systems now terminating on the Jersey shore, including the Pennsyl vania, Jersey Central, Erie, Lackawanna, West Shore, Ontario and Western and others. It has been reckoned that 790 trains can pass over the bridge in a day. The project looks toward the erection of a union station on the west side to pro vide a terminus for all these railroads. According to the company’s plans it is proposed to take two city blocks, each 200x800 feet, and bounded by Forty second. Forty-third and Forty seventh street, by Seventh avenue and Broadway and Eighth avenue, giving an area or nearly four acres. On this will be erected two buildings, each 200x800 feet, connected by a footbridge over Forty-third street. These will contain the usual watting and other rooms and ticket offices, an ar rival platform and a departure platform, each of twentry tracks, a terminal hotel, a general receiving and distributing post office for the city, and a house for ex press and perishable freight; also eighteen stores, with their cellars, and about 180 business offices for the railway and for rental. The bridge over the Hudson river will be connected with the station at Broad way and Forty-Second street by a steel viaduct, the average hight of which will be sixty feet, and the total length about 10,680 feet. Republicans and the Income Tax. From Springfield (Mass.,) Republican (Ind.l. It is a curious and' significant fact that not. one of the republican s.ate conventions •so far held has had a word to say against the proposed income tax. Volleys have been fired at all other conspicuous points in the demo cratic armor, but the income tax question is carefully avoided. It has been true of the western.conventions held in Indiana, Ohio and. Kansas, no less emphatically than of the * party gatherings in the eastern states of ‘ Pennsylvania and Maine. Poor old New- York The more its organs have raged against the tax the more popular it seems to become elsewhere. Indeed, we cannot but think that the intemperate attack upon this tax which has teen made by the New York Sun, Evening Post. Trinune and other metro politan journals—based as it has been on the utterly barbarous and unheard of principle that taxes should be levied per capita, and that those assessed upon faculty or income are “socialistio”—has done more to insure the adoption of this new feature in federal taxa tion than all the favoraole influences com bined.- /