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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1894.
A Mistaken Policy.
The policy of trying to placate the pop
ulists is a mistaken one. This policy has
cropped out in congress, in state conven
tions, and is apparent in about all the
state campaigns. It is not confined to
either of the two great parties. Both of
them have tried, and are still trying, to
curry favor with the populists.
Many congressmen, there is reason to
believe, voted for the seigniorage bill, not
because they thought it a wise measure,
but because they hoped to strengthen
themselves with men of their respective
parties who either had gone to tne popu
list party, or were likely to do so. In
state democratic and republican
platforms- there are concessions
to silver which are not
approved by the great majority of demo
crats and republicans. These concessions
were made with the hope of satisfying
those who are afflicted with the silver
craze. There are now candidates for
office in this and many other states
who are expressing in their speeches
views on the silver question that are not
authorized by the platforms upon which
they were nominated. If they are sin
cere in holding such views they are not
faithful to the platform declarations of
their respective parties, and if they are
not sincere they are making a great
mistake in thinking they are pursuing a
course that will strengthen them with
the voters.
In South Carolina Senator Butler, in
his campaign for the Senate, undertook
to placate the populist wing of the party.
It is now said that a great many of his
friends think he would have fared better
if he had stood squarely on the national
democratic platform. By the course he
pursued he alienated many of those who
would have espoused his cause warmly,
and he failed utterly in drawing from
Tillman any of the populist support
which the latter has.
Tillman will win the senatorship with
out much effort unless there should be de
velopments which are not now expected.
•- There is much dissatisfaction in the dom
inant wing of the South Carolina democ
racy, and sooner or later there will be a
revolt against Tillman’s leadership. If
Senator Butler had stood squarely for
the administration and democratic princi
ples he would be in a position to profit
by the revolt when it occurs. By
the policy he has pursued he has lost his
hold upon those who could help him
when the reaction takes place.
There is nothing to be.gained by mak
ing concessions to the populists. The way
• to do with them is to oppose them
squarely. Their demands are not such
as to win the confidence of the people.
Those who have become populists must
be shown what the demands of the popu
list party really mean and the dangers
that lurk in them. When that is done the
days of that party will be numbered. It
is already losing ground and there will be
little of it e,t the next national election.
Are Not the Courts to Blame P
Within the last few days four men of
more or less prominence have been shot
to death in towns so near to Savannah
as to make us feel that we had almost
a local interest in the tragedies. Capt.
H. O. King was killed in Atlanta last
Friday by a man named Carr, to whom,
it is claimed, he owed a small sum of
money. The evidence at the inquest left
no room for doubt that the crime was
committed deliberately.
On Tuesday at Blackville, S. C., Solo
mon Brown, a young man of consider
able prominence, and a state dispensary
constable named Gribben, were killed as
a result of an altercation between them.
Wednesday William Chatfield of Aiken,
S'. C., son of the manager of the High
land Park hotel, was killed by a police
man of the town. The facts presented in
the published accounts do not snow that
the killing in either of the instances men
tioned was justifiable. They do show,
however, that men are too ready to use
deadly weapons, and numerous other
tragedies show that they do use them
without provocation with fatal effect.
Are not the courts largely responsible
for this readiness to use deadly weapons?
If persons charged with murder were
tried promptly, and punished if found
guilty,would there be so many homicides?
It is safe to say there would not.
It is seldom that a white man is con
victed of murder, however outrageous the
murdei\which he committed may have
been. The reason is that he is not re
quired to stand trial until he thinks he is
reasonably certain of being acquitted.
He may be indicted promptly enough, but
when his case is called he applies for a
continuance and generally gets it. After
he has been in jail for a time he asks to be
admitted to bail and his application, as a
rule, is granted. Having gained his free
dom he is in no hurry to be tried, and the
court does not appear to be anxious to
have him tried. On one pretext and an
other he has his trial put off from term to
term. When the indignation of the pub
lic has subsided and the witnesses for the
state have gone to parts unknown, or
have forgotten the important facts of the
killing, his case is called and a verdict of
acquittal obtained.
The judge and prosecuting attorney
would be indignant if charged with
having permitted the murderer to escape
punishment, and doubtless they would be
sincere in asserting that they did all the
law required of them; but, after all, if
they had insisted upon a trial immediately
after the crime was committed, or as soon
thereafter as it was possible to have a
trial, the chances are the murderer would
have been convicted instead of acquitted.
The one great reason that deadly
weapons are used so frequently is the
almost absolute certainty that they can
be used without much danger of legal
punishment. The criminal may have a
good deal of trouble to get rid of the in
dictment. and it may impoverish him to
do it, but at no time, if he is a white man,
is he greatly apprehensive of ending his
life on the scaffold.
Until the courts act with more vigor
and greater promptness in bringing those
charged with crimes of violence to justice
such crimes will continue to be of fre
quent occurrence.
CZ) The New Tariff.
The new tariff bill has become a law
without the President’s signature. The
iniquitous McKinley tariff is a thing of
the past.
The new tariff is not as much of a re
form tariff as the President and the Dem
ocratic party desired. The purpose of *
the President and the party was defeated
by about a half dozen democratic sena
tors, who are protectionists. They would
have defeated all tariff legislation if they
had not been permitted to have their
way. They were in a position to dictate
terms, and the party had to yield to them.
The new tariff, however, is a vast im
provement upon the McKinley tariff.
There is no reason why the country
should not be extremely prosperous under
it. Manufacturers have no reason to com
plain of it, and farmers will be greatly
benefited by it.
The main causes of the business and in
dustrial depression have now been re
moved, and from this time on there ought
to be a steady improvement in business
conditions. Better times are expected,
and there is no good reason to believe
that the people will be disappointed.
Business may not return at once to the
volume it had in the most prosperous
period, but there will be a steady im
provement until the hard times will be
only a memory.
The work of adjusting the countryzto
the new conditions has already begun.
It will be some time before this work will
be completed. In the meantime, how
ever, the signs of increased business and
industrial activity will become apparent
in all parts of the country.
The President and the Tariff Bill.
Up to within a few hours before the
tariff bill became a law, the President
was strongly urged to sign the bill.
Even those democratic congressmen who
were the most outspoken in their opposi
tion to some of the leading features of the
bill wanted him to sign it, because they
believed that by doing so he would aid
his party greatly in the congressional
campaign. The President, however, felt
that after what he had said of the bill in
his letter to Chairman Wilson, he could
not consistently do so. He had condemned
the bill because it failed to carry out
fully the promises the Democratic party
had made to the people, and he took the
ground that if he should sign it his action
would be interpreted to mean that there
were to be no more efforts in the direc
tion of tariff reform.
He states his position very clearly in
his letter to Gen. Catchings, the full
text of which was published in our dis
patches yesterday. In that letter he is
particularly bitter against trusts and
monopolies. He undoubtedly had the
sugar trust in mind. He leaves no room
for doubt that the battle for tariff re
form is to go on until the tariff is shaped
in accordance with the tariff doctrines of
the Democratic party. At the next ses
sion of congress an effort will undoubtedly
be made to put coal and iron ore on the
free list and to take from the sugar trust
a part of the protection it now has.
The President is not a man to be satis
fied with compromises or half-way meas
ures. He wants the party to do what it
has promised to do. He understands, of
course, that his signature to the bill
would have been of some advantage to
the party in the congressional elections,
but he would rather have his party lose
a few congressmen than that there
should be any let up in the tariff fight
before a decisive victory was achieved.
The statement that Senator Jones of
Arkansas has given to the Arkansas Ga
zette of his work in assisting in the prep
aration of the tariff bill is calculated’ to
give the impression that the Senate bill,
before it passed the Senate, had the ap
proval of the President and Secretary
Carlisle. He says that he told the Presi
dent and Mr. Carlisle that the bill bad to
be prepared to suit the views of forty
three senators, and that both of them
told him to go ahead and prepare such a
bill.
No doubt Senator Jones states what is
true, but the President did not think the
character of the Wilson bill would be
almost wholly changed, and, besides, he
was confident that the conference com
mittee would, tn the end, make the bill
what it should be. He exerted all
of his influence to induce the
Senate to make concessions, and when he
failed he determined to let the bill become
a law without his signature.
He is frank to admit that the new tariff
is, in many respects, an excellent one—
that it is a great improvement upon the
McKinley tariff—and will be of immense
benefit to the country, but he had fought
for tariff reform so long and so earnestly
that he was disappointed in not getting
all he hoped for. He may be blamed for
not signing the bill, but he has the satis
faction of knowing that he has been con
sistent throughout the tariff struggle and
that he is in a position to urge a continu
ance of it.
State Senator Felix Corput has re
signed from the chairmanship of the
state aliance executive committee. He
found the affairs of tne order in such a
condition that they would require, if the
order was to be rehabilitated, more time
than he could give to the work. That is
what his letter says. To persons on the
outside it looks as if Mr. Corput had
reached the conclusion that the populists
have left nothing of the original alliance
to be saved.
THE WEEKLY NEWS (TWO-TIMES-A-WEEK:) MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1894.
PERSONAL.
The Czar of Russia plays on the cornet, it
is said, with such utter disregard to time and
place that some one once hinted that it en
tirely accounted for the existence of Nihil
ists.
Gen. Pousargues, who has just been placed
on the retired list of the French army, enjoys
the distinction of having been the tirst to in
troduce M. Clemenceau to the delights of
dueling, of which the French statesman has
since tasted so freely.
Mrs. Chika Sakurai, the br lliant Japanese
woman, who visited Chicago last autumn as a
delegate from Japan to the W. C. T. U., is
visiting Mrs. L. M. Stevens cf Portland, Me.
Mrs, Sakurai is the founder oi the tirstschool
In Tokio for the Christian education of na
tive women.
Roswell P. Bishop, who has been nominated
for congress in Gen. Cutcheon’s old district in
Michigan, was a policeman on the capitol
force at Washington a lew years ago. Moving
to Michigan. Bishop studied law. was ad
mitted to the bar, and soon took high rank as
a jury lay yer.
Norman L Freeman, who died last week at
Springfield, 111., had been official reporter of
tne Illinois supreme court for Hi years, and
was considi red one of the. ab’e st of such of
ficials in the country. During his term of
service Mr. Freeman had complied and issued
liO volumes of reports, covering over 7,000
cases.
Percy Sanderson, who will succeed Sir
William Lane Booker as British consul gen
eral at New York, has been consul general
for the past few years at Galatz. Roumania,
and also commissioner of the Lower Danube.
He was formerly a lieutenant in the British
army in India, but left the army for the con
sular service, in 1870.
■H. Weld-Blundell has just returned from a
complete round of the oases of the Libyan
desert, including that of Siwah, where are the
ruins of the temple of Jupiter Ammon which
Alexander the Great visited. The complete
tour had previously only been made by the
German traveler, Rohls. Mr. Weld-Blundell
traveled over 12.000 miles on camels.
Jeremiah Marston of Hampton, N. H., left
HW to the local Methodist church to buy ropes
for its bell. The executors were instructed to
place upon his grave a boulder and inscribe
on it “Marstons died m 1690, 1790 and l«90.”
the reference being to the first Marston, who
died at Hampton, the deceased’s grandfather,
to uen. Gilman Marston of Exeter, and to
himself.
BRIGHT BITS.
Mrs. Crandall—The servant of to-day
doesn't know her place.
Mrs. Talmage—How can she? She changes
too often.—Truth.
She—Why does the ocean make that moan
ing sound?
He—Probably one of the bathers stepped on
its undertow.—Brooklyn Life.
She—Speaking of brave deeds, I once pre
veqied a man from committing suicide.
He—How?
She—l married him.—Harlem Life.
“Es I give you your dinner,” asked Mr.
Haiseed, "will you turn the grindstone
awhile?”
“Naw,”, said ..Dismal Dawson. • “I ain’t nd
crank agitator.”—Cincinnati Tribune.
”Old man Rox seems put out about giving
up his pretty daughter.”
“It isn’t giving up his daughter that wor
ries him. It's taking in a son-in-law that
troubles him.”—Cincinnati Tribune.
Mrs. Nucook-—lsn’t it funny, dear, we are
never troubled with many tramps? Why is it,
I wonder?
Mr. Nucook—Probably because you always
give them something to eat, darling.—Chi
cago Inter Ocean.
Laura—Mamma, when I asked Mr. Good
catch to button my glove last night his Lund
trembled so that it took him a minute or two.
1 wonder if he is in love?
Mrs. Figg—l don’t know. Perhaps he might
have been out late the night before.—lndian
apolis Journal.
Teacher—Harry, if a basket of peaches
costs 82 and there are fifty peaches in tne
basket, how much does one peach cost?
Juvenile Pupil—l—l don’t know, ma'am.
We don’t never have to buy peaches at our
house. My papa’s a baggageman on a ’spress
train. Chicago Tribune. _
The man who had a little niece of lawn in
front of his house about as big as a green
back, and who took care of it as if it were a
baby, was pottering around it the other morn
ing with a pair of scissors and a razor, when
a neighbor came by and hung his chin over
the fence.
“Why don't you have a lawn mower?” he
asked, after contemplating the scene a min
ute or two.
“1 don't want a lawn mower,” replied the
landscape gardener: "what I want is more
lawn." and tfie neighbor hurried away before
the house should fall upon him and crush him
still more.—Detroit Free Press.
CURRENT COMMENT.
Cleveland and Others.
From the Galveston News (Dem.).
President Cleveland, unlike many members
of congress and other politicians, was not for
tariff reform merely for campaign purposes.
The Fruit of Hardheadedness.
From the New York Post (Ind.).
The Wool and Cotton Reporter rubs salt
into the still bleeding wounds of Delano and
Lawrence by reminding them of what they
were told in 1888, ivhenthev made their great
move for higher duties on wool. It says that,
in the convention of wool-growers and woollen
manufacturers, held in Washington in Jan
uary, 1,888. just alter Cleveland s free-wool
message, the Eqs on delegates flatly told the
Ohio sages that their plan would be “the be
ginning of the end of all protection” upon
wool, as it was “contrary to the general s< n
timent of the country and the spirit of the
times.” But the Ohio experts would not hear
to this, and lowered their heads and butted
blindly away, with the result that they now
find themselves lying on their backs, with
broken horns ana wildly pawing legs, in that
very free-wool ditch which the Boston men
told them was there all the while.
Unintelligible Sugar Rates.
From the Baltimore Sun (Dem ).
The “State of Havemeyer" can hardly feel
satisfied with the candy section of the new
tariff act, if. as seems clear, this sec.ion au
thorizes the importation of retinea sugars,
“when tinctured.” at 3> per cent, ad valorem,
or some 27 cents less per 100 pounds than or
dinary refined sugar is rated at. Says this
section '.83: “Sugar candy and all coniec
tionery. made wholly or in part of sugar, and
on sugars after being refined, when tinctured,
colored; or in any way adulterated. 35 per
cent, ad valorem.” It might be inferred from
this language that the trust has been fooled.
Ihe case is comnlicated, however, by what
appears to be a contradictory provision in the
main clause dealing with sugar. Section
18JV4 the “sugar” section—says: "There
shall be paid on all sugars above number 16,
Dutch standard in color, and upon all sug
ars which have been discolored, a duty of %
cent per pound in addition to the duty of 40
per cent, ad valorem" provided for raw sug
ars. Is “discolored" sugar the same thing as
“tinctured” sugar? If so. which clau-e shall
control, or shall both be declared unworka
ble and void? If section 183 is to be taken at
its word, the people may yet get a variegated
sugar enhanced in price by a purely revenue
rate of 35 per cent.
THE SHAD ARE GROWING.
The Waters of Georgia Will Soon Teem
With This Favorite Fish.
From the Atlanta Journal.
Dr. H. H. Cary, fish commissioner for
Georgia, has just sent his annual report
on to the fish commission at Washington.
The report shows that there has been
an increase of about 300 per cent, in the
number of shad planted in Georgia waters
within the last ten years.
Dr. Cary says before the shad were
placed in Georgia rivers none of them
were ever seen in any of the rivers emp
tying into the Gulf of Mexico, but now
they are found in every river in the state.
They are getting to be abundant in the
Savannah, the Ogeechee, the Oconee, the
Flint, the Ocmulgee, the Chattahoochee
and the Altamaha.
He (floundering in the water)—Quick,
quick; give me your hand.
She (coming up the last time?—Oh. this is
so, so sudden.—Exchange.
“Talk about temptation.” said the bald
headed philosopher. "there are few mental
tortures to equal those of the coy who owns a
ret kitten when a stray dog comes along.”—
Cincinnati Tribune.
He Had Cause.
The'coroner’s jury passed into the dimlv
lighted, sepulchral room where the remains
of the suicide lay upon a marble slab, says the
San Francisco Argonaut.
They came in noiselessly, with uncovered
heads, and spoke to each other in low tones,
as if fearing to disturb the silence which
death enthroned imperiously demands.
In life the suicide had been a man. young
and handsome. Beyond the fact that he was
dead nothing was known of him —tne wit
nesses could tell no more. So the charitable
placard, “Unidentified,” was still allowed to
hang acove him,
When the jury entered the room one of
them—a prosperous looking, elderly man—
quickly advanced to th? side of the corpse.
He bent his head down to the face ot the dead
and kept it there.
As he straightened up again there was an
indefinable expression of grim satisfaction
upon his countenance, which mildly shocked
more than one of his fellow jars men.
After the jury had retired and were waiting
in their room for the coroner to receive their
verdict,one of them ventured an interrogative
remark to him:
“You seemed to take an unusual interest in
our unfortunate subject?”
“Yes—surgically. ”
‘ Then you are a surgeon?”
“It was my profession once, but, unfortu
nately, it has been a long time since 1 prac
ticed it. The dead man in there did well.’*
“Did you say well?” interrupted an ascetic
looking juryman, with great severity.
“I dm,” calmly replied the surgeon., “He
did his work well. By placing the muzzle of
his pistol against the roof of his mouth and
shooting upward there was no possible es
cape from instant death, and that is what he
sought.
"An ill done deed well done,” was the epi
grammatic comment of another.
“I think it was well done in every aspect
of the case.” continued the surgeon. "He
had cause—he must have had cause—to jus
tify his action.”
This rather sensational assertion attracted
general attention, and the ascetic looking
juryman observed, with even increased se
verity.:
“I,take it you are not a religious man?"
“Probably not, in your acceptance of the
term,” was the answer. “I sybscrioe to
none of the popular dogmatic creeds, yet I
believe in conscience, morality and an in
telligent creator. If our death works no
injury to the living, it is none other but our
own affair. Only a coward would desert those
dependent upon him.”
“That line of sophistry has been refuted
a thousand times,” cried his questioner, with
some excitement.
. "Possibly; but those are my views, never
theless.”
As he said this he took from his pocket
a small memorandum book, tore from it a
leaf upon which he wrote something in pen
cil. and then replaced the book.
“No one was ever vet sane, in my opinion,
at the moment of taking his own life.”
“I do not agree with you,” said the surgeon
placidly. “Aoinethe persistent clinging to
a miserable life when death is far preferable,
is rather the evidence of insanity. Many in
stances can be imagined where death is a
boon; a deadly and incurable disease; cruel
suffering in all its forms, with no prospect of
surcease; life imprisonment; senility, in
sanity, deep humiliation and permanent dis
grace.
"The last are as strong as any to tempt one
to self destruction. I know of such a case. A
father had an only son—the apple of his eye.
The two Constituted the family. All that
money cou ddo was done for the son.
“Attaining: man's estate he was given an
important and responsible position in a large
financial kstitution In which the father was
interested.
“All went well, and to them both life was
well worth the living. But one day some
thing terrible happened. The son was a de
faulter—the father, disgraced and financially
involved.
“The son fled, and for a long time indigna
tion alone burned in the breast of the father.
Gradually the old all-absorbing affection for
his son came back to him, and he set out to
find him.
“After many disappointments, his search
was at last rewarded. He had but a few years
at best to live himself. Ho did not want
them after he had found his son. He wanted
relief—death.”
And then this man who had discoursed with
such impassioned fluency, deliberately took
from his pocket a revolver, placed it in his
mouth, fired, and fell over dead.
From his outstretched hand a cr mpled
piece of paper fell. Upon it was written:
“surjr us together. £ .Hp was my son.”
Persuaded to Enjoy a Home Dinner.
The young man had been playing the races,
and although his room was paid for a week in
advance, he found himself with just 20 cents
at dinner time. He needed that to get down
town in the morning. His credit account in
all the places he knew where dinners were
procurable had been considerably overdrawn,
and he bitterly regretted that he had not en
gaged a week of tabletoard somewhere and
paid for it in advance. However, he must
dine, and he walked around his block until a
thought struck him. He knew a
clerk on.upper Broadway, who lived ink
fashionable boarding house with his family.
He closed up at 6. and the young man con
trived to be passing down as the jeweler
went out. They down Broadway to
gether. and the young man remarked indif
ferently after awhile:
"By the way, what sort ot a house is that
of yours? Any better than the dismal aver
age ot the boarding house tables? I am get
ting really tired of knocking around hotels
and restaurants and paying big money fo’-
average food. What my system seems to
need is regularity and home cooking.”
“You’re right, my dear fellow.” said the
jeweler, earnestly. "Ycu ought to setile
down and live like a Christian. I’ve been liv
ing at this boarding house for five years, and
it’s one of the best in New York. You can't
order what you please, out the food is first
class, well cooked and served, and there’s
plenty of it. Come and dine with me to-night,
and I'll introduce you to the landlady. Just
try it for a week."
“Well. I don't know,” said ;hs young man.
hesitatingly. “There's a party waiting for
me at the Marlborough But 1 really think
I would enjoy a sensible, homelike dinner
for once. If I like it you may introduce me
to the landlady, and I’ll try it for a week,
anjhow.”
The young man had dinner, breakfast and
at> early lunch, as he told me gleefu-ly, and
is very likeiy to remain there permanently.
Armour’s Impecunious Kinsman.
It has been a matter of current repert for
years among board of trade men, says the
Chicago Herald, that Phil Armour has no
poor relations. “He will not allow any ot
thim to remain poor,” a veteran of the loard
remarked, byway of explanation of this un
usual gooa fortune of a rich man. "He makes
them all rich.”
“1 have heard that story I ©fore,” Mr. Ar
mour remarked with a smile, when one of his
friends asked him about it the other day. '
“But its a mistake. I have enough ot them.”
Then the big packer burst out in a laugh
and his friend knew a good story was coming.
“One of the poor kind—he lives down in
Illinois—is one of the most persistent men I
ever knew. He keeps writing und writing
for money all the time. He is not a bad fel
low, only improvident, and if he displayed
the same energy in attending to business that
he does in writing to me he would have been
rich a long time ago. Well, he kept sending
one letter after another, saying that if he
only had »suo he would be all right. He re
peated this so often that one day I told my
secretary to write that if he wouldn't bother
me for a year I would send him »5(i0.”
"Well, sir,” and Mr. Armour’s sides shook
with laughter, “as soon as the mails could
bring a reply I got it. He said. Make it 81.-
000 and two years,' and I thought it was such
a clever turn that I sent the money.”
“What happened next?”
“In about three months he wrote again,
saying the agreement was off because his
wife hadn't been included.”
Song-s of the Heart.
From the Philadelphia Ledger.
I love the sweet songs that never can die.
That gladden the heart and moisten the eye.
Echoes of song from the morning of life,
A balm to the heart when weary of strife.
O! sing me a sorg of the babbling brook,
The trees overhanging i s shauy noo!..
Where the pebb es the purling waters part,
Murmuring music so sweet to the heart.
Sing me a song of the house on the hill,
The creaking water wheel down by the mill.
The old broken boat we rocl el in our play
And laughed as the eddies dr.fted away.
Sing me a song of the bucket in the well,
Daisies and buttercups down in the del ;
Os the droning tee and its drowsy tune
In the listless lull of the summer noon.
Sing me a song of a mother so kind.
Bring the loved features back fresh to my
mind;
Over the mists of the years that have flown
Sounds that sweet voice in its tenderest tone.
Memories humble ani lowly the theme.
Only tne glimpse of a long azo aream.
Tenderv tuned by simplicity’s art.
These arc the poems and songs of the heart.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
The last pensioner of the revolution, Sam
uel F. Bakeman, died at Fredonia, N. Y-, in
at the ageotlJ9. He was a private in
VVaihingtcn s army, and lived four years
after Appomattox.
A writer in Scribner’s Magazine prophesies
the displacement of the newspaper by the
phonograph. Says the writer: “The voices of
the whole world will be gathered up in the
celluloid rolls, which the post will bring,
morning by morning, to the subscribing hear
ers. Valets and ladies’ maids will soon learn
how to put them in place, the axle of the cyl
inder upon the two supports of the motor, and
will cairy them to the master or mistress at
the hour of awakening. Lying soft and
warm upon their pillow, they may hear it all,
as if in a dream—foreign telegrams, financial
news, humorous articles, the news of the
day.”
The San Francisco Examiner says that the
American Railway Union is sending to its
friends envelopes bearing in red ink a picture
of a Pullman and the words, “A.R. U.
Strike, June 28, 1894. Souvenir.” The
envelope is intended as a sarcasm. The
American Railway, Union men say that if a
Pullman is necessary to complete the make
up of a mail train, an envelope is not maila
ble unless it bears a picture of a Pullman.
This logic has caused some trofible and hard
feeling in the interior cities. It is said that
postmasters at Sacramento and Los Angeles
would not accept letters inclosed in these, en
velopes. g,
“One of the latest and most singular expe
riments with bacteria.” said Prof. L. Werz,
of Berlin, who was in St. Louis a few days
ago, “is that made by a friend of mine at
home, who has proved that those microscopic
enemies of life and health can be discharged
from a gun without suffering any apparent
injury. He has infected rifle bullets with
bacteria and then fired the bullets into tin
boxes, filled with a gelatine preparation suit
able for the nourishment of micro organisms.
Upon examining the holes made by the bullets
in the preparation he found that the precise
forms of bacteria with which the bullets had
been charged rapialy developed there, al
though it was known that no organisms ex
isted in the gelatine previous to the experi
ment. He has also discovered that a bullet
will pick up bacteria from the air during its
flight, or from clothing through which it
passes, and deposit them, still living and
active, in a gelatine target.”
John Harvey, an engineer who lives in the
southern part of the city, last evening exhib
ited a mysterious-looking object which his
wife had pulled up from the bottom of the
bay while fishing, says the Seattle Post In
telligencer. Upon pulling the line in, she
was hPrrified to find thereon an immense
horned worm, or serpent about, eight and a
halt inches long and three inches thick.
The serpent was covered with reddish
horns or projectiles of a sensitive char
acter. almost transparent, and about a qura
ter of an inch long, the head was surmounted
by two horns, each about halt an inch long,
lhere were no eyes, but instead, several long
yellow feelers. When the object was pulled,
up on the dock it Scrambled about, evidently
in search of some way of escape, and seemed
thoroughly capable of living out of the water.
For a time the fish, or worm, or snake, or
whatever it was. displayed considerable vital
ity, but within an hour or two after its cap
ture it went into a state ot coma, from winch
it could only i e aroused with difficulty. Up
to date no one has been found who had ever
seen anything like'it.
Among the most common myths of man
kind is <that cf the flying reptile, or dragon,
says an exchange. It has been dipicted in all
styles of terrible manace ever since pian be
gan to make illustrations. That there was an
original for this flying serpent at one time in
the history of the world there is no doubt,
for paleontology and geology give evidence
sufficient to convinced!! emost obstinate jury.
Pterodactyls flourished by the thousands in
the days when the earth was give nover to
the repitilian inhabitants, and undoubtedly
were m existence long after man made his
appearance. That early man saw these fly
ing serpents is unquestioned, and the con
stant recurrence of the flying serpent
myth in all parts of the world among
aboriginal people, as well as among those
who live in England, is evidence list the
knowledge of the existence of the drafcon was
as widespread as man himself. At the pres
ent day no true reptile possesses the powers
of flight, nor are there any representatives of
-those bird-like reptiles which started the
myth now jn existence. The only repti.e
now on earth, in the knowledge of natural
ists, that pot susses the power of sustaining
itself in the air, is what is known aS the “fly
ing dragon" that is found in the Bast indies
and the Indian Arch!ufiJßgo. It lives on trees
and feeds on small insec ts. It is a very small
reptile,, e.ng less than six inches in length.
Ihe upper ribs are straightened out
and support a wing-like fold of
the skin on each side of the body, which
when tl.e animal is.running auout. is folde-l
down to the sice but is expanded when it
wishes to jump from trie to tree. These
wings or membranes can not lift the dragon
from the grot nd nor have they any propell
ing force; they simply sustain the rept.le in
the air aid enable it to muks prodigious
leaps. Tne flying sqti.-i el of this country and
the flying fox of Australia have similar mem
bra ties between the fore and hind legs,
cnaoling them to make long leaps from the
top of a tree. They do not fly. in the true
sense of the word, but simply use the mem
branes as a panchute to irjvept them from
falling too haid.
On the high, treeless plain of the north
west the phantasmagoric play of the auroral
light is seen in all its marvellous beauty, says
the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. The clear at
mosphere is a medium through which the
shimmering fire play is seen as nowhere else
in the world. All day long tne air has been
crisp, and thure has been a suspicious crack
ling about tne hair when itwas rubbed. The
electrical influences have been working in
their mysterious way, and as the sun goes
down it hides its head in a glorious mass of
color. Soon the northern heavens are rooed
in a mmtle of vivid green. Higher and
higher it ascends, blotting out the stars,
which pale beside the br Haney ot the new
glow in the sky. Up from theh rizon sweeps
wave after wave ot quivering light, folding
and doubling upon itself like a sheen of
silver lace. Up and up it rises until
the zenith is reached and the sky
is shut out by the ever shifting
shadows, while the earth seems close
covered by the new canopy. How delicate is
the green cf the magniticcnt electrical dis
play! It is the green of the fields and the
woods as they aie toned by the setting sun of
a summer’s eve. There is just a touch at the
sea in it and then a blending of the delicate
blue of a robin's egg. Yet. with all, it is a
dazzling display. One that brings to mind,
the shifting panorama of a prairie fire at
night, how comes on the horizon a broad
tan 1 of such deep color that it seems of the
blackness ot night. Deepening in intensity,
it grows and s.ireads until it extends around
the arc of a circle encompassing half of the
horizon. Then in an instant there spring into
existeace four creations of such marvelous
beauty that art stancs palsied before
their perfection. Out from the dark oelt rise,
at regular intervals, trunks of more vivid
green light, and from these spring limbs, from
the limis tranches and irom the branches
twigs, until immense phantom trees stand
high in the northern sky. At the same in
stant there it flung across the zenith, from
horizon to norizon, a broad streamer oc in
tense white light, while away off to the south
an answering beacon, an immense pillar of
li rhter green, flashes up to meet the unrolling
folds of the sheen of the n< r,h.
'ihe whole sky seems trembling with the
energy of the tossing and in'oldingof the
light, and thus they change with every new
kileidoscopic coloring, until far into the
night.
Hus’ and (meekly)—This is the fourth time
this week we've had tinned beef and cabbage,
Maria and I’m just a little tired of it.
His Wife—l'm sure, Ibomas. you’re very
unreasonable. You know, Ive had to correct
the proof sheets of my new book, One Hun
dred Dainty Dinners'— cii’Bits.
The Siberian millionaire Ponomarjeff, whose
death was announced at St. Petersburg some
months ago, left a million rubles with the
direction that they should oe placed in banks
at compound interest for ninety-nine years,
after which they are to be devoted to the con
struction and support of a Siberian uni
versity at Irkutsk, at which aH instruction is
to be gratis.
One of the most inveterate novel readers in
the House is Representative Gear of lowa,
ex-governor of that state and senator-elect.
He is regarded as one of the strongest men
in the House on the great question of govern
ment. but does not allow public problems to
absorb his whole time and interest. When
ever he has an hour s leisure be is sure to pick
up a standard novel and bury himssif in its
pages.
Manager—l’ve got a play now that will take
the town. Beats rtsen all hollow.
Friend—What's it about?
Manager—in the first act all the characters
are anarchists: in the second act thev all be
come theosopiiif.t :; Had m the third a :t they
all died of the plague.—New York
Weekly.
THE NEWS IN GEORGIA.
Gathered From Correspondents and
Exchanges.
J. V. Nixon of Eastman pulled a catfish
from the ccmulgee last week that weighed
thirty nve pounds.
Newton Cottle of Kingsland, Ga., was
thrown from a horse Monday.'and his leg was
broken and an eye badly injured.
A new postofflce has recently been estab
lished in Milton county named Lebanon, with
Lewis White as postmaster. Mail goes via
Roswell.
’lhe residence of Mrs. William Bunckley,
on Cumcerland Island, was destroyed by tire
Wednesday night: loss about SI,OOO. She had
insurance in. the Mechanics' and Traders’ of
New Orleans for $1,200.
Mail ( arrier Thrasher killed a large, nine
rattle ra t.esnake last Fr/day about two and
a half miles east of Canton, on the Dawson
ville road. He said it made a show of fight,
but ce to-jn l raise 1 its head and left it for
passers-by to get the rattles.
Cn a count of misfit ing stones in the
arches work on tee National ank bui d
in,' t Tho a. s ale has be n emporarily sus
je d d. Tae firm furnishing t.e granite—
Venabie Bios., Atlanta-have been w.red
for a stone cutter to come down and work the
stones orer.
Little Howard Ashburn is the most unfor
tunate boy in Eastman. While playing ball
last Tuesday with some of his playmates he
stepped on a piece of broken glass which left
a painful wound m the bottom of his foot.
Sometime ago he was thrown from a buggv
l?y a runaway horse and badly shaken up.
At Lexington Mrs. Lord, wife of the man
who, in a difficulty with Cicero Mitchell, shot
him some months ago. and who died this
week, has been placed in jail as an accessory
to the shcoting of Mitchell. She has a little
baby with her. and both are sick. The fam
ily now await the October term of .court be
hind i rison bars.
Way cross Herald: While playing baseball
Wednesday afternoon John Cox had his right
shoulder dislocated. Mr. Cox was sliding for
first base and threw his entire weight on his
shoulder, causing upward dislocation, hr.
English set the joint promptly and Mr. Cox
is walking about this morning. It is not
probable, however, thet he will play any
more tall this week.
Recorder: After a faithful service of nearly
nine years Postmaster J. C. Rooney of Amer
icus will retire from that position Friday
evening, and will be succeeded by Assistant
Postmaster Scarborough. Postmaster
Rooney’s resignation was handed in a month
ago, and two weeks later the Senate con
firmed the appointment of Ass ; stant Scar
borough, who, for an equal length of time, has
been connected with the office.
Recorder: Some time since the Americus
city council closed a contract with a Rich
mond company for an air lift pump designed
to increase the flow of the several artesian
wells at the reservoir. The pumps have ar
rived and will be put in position in a few
days. If the results obtained are as repre
sented. the new system will furnish the city
an abundant supply of pure artesian water,
and at the same time obviate the necessity of
laying mains to the source of Town creek, as
intended. The proposed system will cost
about $2,000.
Valdosta Telescope: Heretofore Lowndes
county has had to keep up the bridges be
tween this county and Brooks, because our
neighbors on the other side of the river
claimed that all the trade in that section
came to this city. Messrs. Webb and Peeples
of the county commissioners went over to
Quitman last week to adjust the matter with
Brooks county authorities. The result is
that Brooks will hereafter stand half the ex
penses for c ridge building and repairs. This
will make a saving of from $503 to SSOO to
Lowndes county.
Times-Journal: One of the first things to
attract an Eastman visitor’s attention is two
tall derricks in the rear of Peacock & Carr’s
warehouse, and when informed that they are
cotton compresses, their curiosity prompts
them to investigate, and they find tnat they
have been correctly informed, 'rhe Invention
belongs to J. C Carr, who now has one com
press in operation which reduces the size of
the bales one-half, and another that will be
completed in about a month which will re
duce them still greater. The compress is a
perfect success, and very simple, and Is a
great curiosity to all who see it;
Swainsboro Pine Forest: Judge Twiggs and
William Canady had a personal difficulty
here last Monday. Judge Twiggs made a po
litical speech during the noon recess of the
county court to a splendid andience. It was
one of his best efforts, and daring the speech
he discussed the recard as regards Judge
Hines. After the speaking Mr. Canady told
him he uttered falsehoods, whereupon Judge
Twiggs dealt him a heavy blow in the mouth,
which did considerable damage to the same
and sent him against the wall. Other blows
were exchanged, but no blood was drawn ex
cept from Mr. Canady. They were separated.
Mr. Canady was somewhat intoxicated.
Lome Tti une: Saturday a party of young
men posse.-s;d themselves of one lot of re
freshrr en s. two tiea-bitten co ,'s. a very large
amcunt of courage, and went a short dis ance
north of here, where that good matured Mexi
can lion was reported to hate been seen.
They vowed that they would kill the blood
thirsty least on S’ght. Arriving at list on
the sieve of action they were p anning the
best mode attack when they we. e startled by
a terrible howl. Their dogs rushed into their
midst chased by a jack rabbit. Their nerves
(the young men s; were so unstrung that they
returned without slaying the lion, which re
mains a constant menace to our lives and
property.
A suit was filed in the county clerk’s office
Wednesday afternoon that involves over
$100,003 worth of the most valuable property
in Rome. The suit was filed by the heirs of
Jonas King, deceased, thiough their attor
neys, Broyles & Broyles of Atlanta. The heirs
are Mrs. Charley Janes, wife of Judge Janes
of Cedartown, and Mr. John King of the same
place. The suit is brought under the plea
that Jonas King held only a life-time interest
in the property, and that it would revert to
the heirs at his death. The property involved
is the magnificent home of Capt. L. Lyle on
the outskirts of the city, the Masonic temple
and considerable other property in the heart
of the city. It has created a genuine sensa
tion in Rome.
Robert F. Shedden, the southern agent
of the New York Life Insurance Company
lives in charming bachelor quarters on
Peachtree street, and un:il last night was tne
owner of a costly English bull-dog. Yester
day afternoon Walker Dozier, the son of Mr.
Homer Dozier, who Ilves at 391 Courtland
street, was passing the home of Mr. bhedden
and was badly bitten by the dog. Reports as
to the cause of the boy s injuries differ The
man servant of Mr. Shedden says he was in
the yard playing with the dog while several the
of the child s companions say the dog was in
street. The boy was badly bitten on the leg
before the dog was secured and tied in the
yard. Last night some one entered the yard
of Mr. Shedden and shot the dog. 'io day the
injured child is better and while he is suffer
ing from the bite he is not thought to be in a
dangerous condition. The servant of Mr.
Shedden says the dog was kept constantly
tied and he thinks some one must have re
leased him.
Clem Walker, aged 50, of Florida, and Miss
Bowen, a popular Byromville young lady of
Ifi summers, were united in wedlock at Byrom
ville last Sunday afternoon-
E. M. Atkinson, telegraph operator and
station master at Kingsland, has a pet frog
which has destroyed all the roaches around
the depot. Mr. Atkinson is trying to teach his
pet to eat fleas, but so far his efforts have
been all in vain.
Dr. William Blain, during a thunder storm
Wednesday at*Brunswick. witnessed an un
usual occurrence. A bolt of lightning struck
a flying gannet (a sea duck) which was so
high in the air as to be barely discernable.
The gannet fell to the ground and was found
to be dead. C. J. Doerflinger obtained pos
session of the bird, and Joseph Walker, the
taxidermist, will stuff it.
Messrs. B. A. and J. C. Wood caught a red
fox with their pack of fox dogs last week
near Vienna. They jumped him not far from
their home, and soon the dogs forced him to
take refuge in a hollow log. The gentlemen
were greatly surprised at the catch, as they
had no idea that there was a red fox any
where about here. They captured Mr.
Reynard alive and invited their friends to
see him. The fox afterward escaped.
Southeast Georgian: Last Saturday as the
Georgian force was taking its noon day rest
there arose in the still, hot atmosphere a
mighty war-whoop, mingled with a roar and
clatter. The noise increased until we began
to think that a western cyclone having in its
employ a battalion of Coxey s army howlers
had struck the town and like the mighty car
of Juggernaut was crushing everything
before it. We hustled to the
windows and saw a light streak flying down
the railroad track, behind it came the lever
car at a Nancy Hanks gait, while the men
on the car ripped jagged holes in the air
with their profanity, shrieks and yells. The
streak which led the race turned out to be a
little yellow dog with an al reviated tail, and
the men were only seeing him run.
ROUND ABOUT IN FLORIDA.
The News of the State Told in
Paragraphs.
Weir and Hendry of Tampa, Thursday, re
ceived a letter from a party at West Superior,
Mich., who has a view of trading northern for
Florida property. They desire to obtain
farming, phosphate, or other lands in Florida
for improved and unimproved Michigan land,
in from $53(000 t 05153,000 lots.
A serious and probably fatal accident was
narrowly avoided at Tampa Thursday after
noon. when a section of a freight train on the
South Florida railroad collided with car No.
15 on the Consumers’ street railway. For a
few moments the wildest excitement pre
vailed among the fifteen or twenty passengers
on board the car, one lady was prilled out
from between the two cars and another
passenger came near having both his legs
broken.
Alf. Williams, colored, fireman on engine
210 of the F lorida Central and Peninsular,
was badly scalded Thursday morning between
Baldwin and this city. He went under the
engine to tighten up the blow off cock, but
turned it the wrong way and was struck bv a
stream of steam which scalded his breast and
shoulders terribly, those parts being a mass
of boiled flesh and blisters. The injured man
suffered agony on the ride to Jacksonville.
When he reached there he was sent home in
a hurry, and a physician summoned, who
made him as comfortable as possible.
St Johns roanty is certainly pushing
forward with her agriculturarpursuits. Farm
ers all over the countv are harvesting large
crops and making ready for others. One farm
of especial interest is Mr. Flagler’s fine place
at Hast ngsunder tne management of Mr.
Mott. T fibre has just been harvested Lom
this farm from 1.000 to I,’iOO bushels of as tine
a crop oi rice as can be grown anywhere, and
it is the first crop from the land, too. Twen
ty-five acres of this land is now being cleared,'
and it is the intention of the owner to set it
out in fine orange and grapefruit trees. The
work will begin at once.
Key West Herald: A large lot of sugar was
sold by the Martin Wagner Company at their
canning factory on Saturday. The season is
over and the factory is closed until spring.
George Babcock was the fortunate purchaser
of the largest part of it. The 40 per cent,
tariff will take effect, and, as refined sugar is
stiff in the n arket already, the price will rise
several .cents. Mr. Babiock is a shrewd
buyer and went into the market at the right
time, and, as usual, will come out on top. ne
will place this large amount of sugar on the
market at the lowest possible price to com
pete with the r.sing market. He has also
just received a large shipment of flour and
hay and has put the knife in the prices of
these goods.
A man who gave his name as Frank Dean,
applied to Marshal Preston at Orlando Thurs
day evening, and asked to be confined. He
claimed that he was in great mental trouble,
and wanted to be sent to an insane asylum.
His appearance would not indicate either in
sanity or imbecility, and yet he says that
while conscious of all that is going on about
him he loses himself, and seems to know
nothing. He is apparently about 25 years of
ege, and says that he is a carpenter by trade,
but owing to his mental affection is unable to
follow his vocation. The marshal .gave him
a terth in the “cooler" for the night, ,as the
man seemed to desire it. He was set at lib
erty this morning. He claims to be a native
of Pennsylvania.
The cons act for the erection of a two-story
brick building for Ocala Hose Company No.
1. on the old jail lot recently purchased by the
city, has been awarded to Allen Mclntosh,
and work was commenced Wednesday morn
ing.
The store of J. C. Andreau, at the corner of
Ocean and Church streets, Jacksonville, was
entered on Tuesday night or early Wednes
day morning by thieves, and a good haul was
made. The thieves seemed to be in the gro
cery business and wanted to lay in a full
stock without extra charge. Flour, sugar,
coffee and ether articles to the amount of $75
was taken. The thief, or'' thieves, had a
wagon in which to transport the goods. The
track was very plain yesterday morning where
they had driven up to the door.
The Florida Monthly Publishing Company
of Tampa filed articles of incorporation
Wednesday. It is capitalized at SIO,OOO. The
directors are: John T. Hearn, Peter-p.
Knight. C, Durant. L. Y. Jennessee, WllHatn
B. Henderson, Judge Charles E. Harrison and
Dr. J. P. Wall. The company is formed to
publish a monthly journal descriptive of and
in the interests of the state. The first num
ber will appear in October. That, with the
November and December numbers, will be
initiatory copies* the regular volume begin
ning with the January number.
Wednesday afternoon Orlando was visited
with the heaviest rain of the season. The
wind blew a gale during a short period of
time, but so far as heard from, beyond the
breaking of a few branches from the trees, no
harm was done. Heavy electrical discharges
were frequent during the height of the storm,
and reports say that, in the pine woods out
side of the city many trees were struck.
During the storm lightning struck the resi
dence of L. C. Horn on Central avenue, tear
ing away a portion of the roof and setting the
building on tire. After the fierceness of the
storm had abated, a fire alarm was turned in.
but when the department reached the house
the tire was out, and workmen were engaged
in repairing the roof to keep the water out.
W. S. Collins, a delivery clerk and day
watchman at the savannah, Florida and
Western railroad at Jacksonville, was struck
in the head by a negro drayman named Mingo
Washington Wednesday morning and danger
ously injured. Washington hiis been very
annoying to the clerks at the depot recently,
and has had several rows with them of a
trivial nature. Wednesday morning at 11:30
o’clock Washington was in the freight yard
after a load of watermelons. He wanted to
use some lumber that was the property of the
railroad, to keep the fruit on his dray. When
he started to nick it up. he was told by Mr.
Collins to let it alone, as they had use for it.
He made a saucy reply, and was ordered out
of the yard by the watchman. He then be
came very abusive, and said that he would
not move. Mr. Collins approached to eject
him forcibly, and as he moved forward
Washington took the board seat off his cart and
struck Collins over the bead, cutting a gash
about an inch long over his left eye, inflict
ing dangerous if not fatal injuries.
An exciting and what came near terminating
in a fatal encounter occurred on Sunday
morning at the baptismal pond of Pleasant
Hill church, in the western part of Alachua
county. The good people of that vicinity had
assembled at the pond to administer the
sacrament of baptism to six candidates, and
as the services were in progress and a party
named Wooley was making his way to the
water’s edge, he was stccosted bycJohn Cox.
Wooley halted, after having been repeatedly
ordered to do so. Robert Cox placed
his hands upon him. and Wooley,
apprehending trouble was heard to remark:
“Hold on. men: don t push it on me
here.” The request was not heeded, and
placing his arms about Wooley’s neck. Rob
ert Cox began to apply a knife vigorously to
his back, while his father oeat Wooley over
the head with a large hickory club. Wooley
then pulled his pistol and tired several times.
Fortunately nobody was struck by lhe flying
missiles, and the only harm done as a result
of the shooting was the burning of Robert
Cox s lace with powder. Men, women and
children fled from the scene in wild con
fusion, but further trouble was avoided by
the interference of friends. Wooley has
given himself up to the proper authorities.
John and Robert Cox will be arrested and
tried lor attempted murder and disturbing
public worship.
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