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CORRESPONDENCE Correspondence solicited; but to receive at tention letters must be accompanied by a responsible name, not for publication, but as a guarantee of good faith. All letters should be addressed to MORNING NEWS, Savannah, Ga. REGISTERED AT THE POSTOEEICE IN SAVAN NAH AS SECOND-CLASS MAIL MATTER. 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. BAKING POWDER. Awarded Highest Honors—World’s Fair.': •DIV CREAM BAKING POWDER MOST PERFECT MADE. A pure Grape Cream of Tartar Powder. Frei from Ammonia, Alum or any other adulterant. 40 YEARS THE STANDARD.