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THURSDAY, APRIL 11, 1805.
f Their Reni Purpose.
Until recently none of the newspapers
that favor the free and unlimited coinage
of silver would admit that they aimed at
a silver standard. They talked about a dou
ble standard, the money of the constitu
tion, and indulged in other ex
pressions which they would not
have been able to explain sat
isfactorily If they had been asked to do so.
Not once did they admit that what they
desired was to substitute silver for gold
as the standard of value. Now they are
gradually permitting their real purpose
(to be seen. They still say they are in favor
of bimetallism, but that if it comes to a
choice between gold monometallism and
silver monometallism, they are in favor
of silvgf monometallism. This practically
amounts to an announcement that they
are In favor of a silver standard.
If they had been entirely frank they
would have stated their position long
ago. They must have known that tjie re- 1
suits they claim for the free and unlim
ited coinage of silver could be obtained
In no other way than by making silver
the standard of value. They assert that
there would be an Immediate rise In prices
if the mints were thrown open to the free
coinage of silver. Higher prices would not
necessarily follow unless silver became
the standard. Prices would then of course
rise, because gold would disappear from
circulation. If the bullion value of sliver
remained the same as it is now, however,
a silver dollar would buy only half as
much as a gold dollar, and only half as
much as a silver dollar does now. There
would be just about the same condition
of affairs as existed during the civil war,
except that the money would not be de
preciated to such an extent as It was
then. Those who had an experience with
depreciated currency during the civil war
and are now clamoring for free sliver
coinage, must have short memories, or
they would not be so gnxlous for a similar
experience. The people were mighty anx
ious to get 'back to a sound money basis,
and they got there just as soon as they
could. The government Incurred a very
heavy burden to get to a gold basis again,
but the people approved the expense, be
cause they were glad enough to have a
sound currency.
Those who are advocating the free coin
age of sliver may be sincere, but they
are not safe advisers. If their advice should
be taken the country would bo over
whelmed by a great financial disaster. This
country is a debtor country, and a great
commercial country, and Its prosperity de
pends largely upon the soundness of its
currency. For 60 years gold has been its
standard, as It Is the standard of every
other great commercial and prosperous
country. Wo have sufficient faith In the
people to believe that they will never con
sent to have a debased currency. When
they fully understand that the silver
standard means a dishonest currency—
that it means calling an amount of sli
ver that Is worth only 50 cents the world
over a dollar—they will put their tftamp of
disapproval upon it.
A, ‘ .... ■
lintruthfalness In Children.
Some Boston schoolmasters who have
been Inquiring Into the shortcomings of
children under their oare have arrived at
conclusions that are interesting. They
find that the greatest weakness of boys Is
carelessness, which leads them into habits
of uncloanllness, while the greatest weak
ness of girls Is a desire to please, which
leads to deception and downright untruth
fulness. Girls seldom use coarse language.
Evon those who hear Improper language
•t home seldom fall into the habit of using
it themselves. But they find falsehood a
vice easy to acquire and hard to conquer.
Ono teacher, a woman, said that among
the girls under her care were a number
who would never think of using coarse lan
guage. and at the same time they would
not hestitate an Instant to tell an un
truth If by so doing there was a possi
bility of creating a favorable impression.
Among the boys, besides the vice of un
cleanlln««s, the teachers find the tobacco
habit the hardest to combat. And, as
might be expected, cigarettes are the form
of toKvco that gives the most trouble.
The teachers try persuasion first for the
tobacco habit, and if that foil} they apply
strict* discipline. It should be mentioned
•that they And the boys to be untruthful
also.
It may be that what is true of Boston’s
schools is true ot most other public
schools. Boys and girls are about the
same the worM over; and they may be
correctly taught the proprieties of Hfe
only by the most careful attention. In
this connection is It not true that parents
and teachers expect too strict an adhere,
ence to vemclty from little children, whose
minds cannot comprehend the he.lnousness
of falsehood? Is it not true that parents
•nd' teachers often induce children to re
sort to falsehood to escape punishment by
their severity, when a different line of pol
icy on the part of the parent or teacher
would bring the truth from the child? A
successful teacher of this city once said
'with regard to small children telling false
hoods: ''Nearly all of them will do it. It
Is natural, especially when there is fear of
punishment impending. My rule Is to try
to impress upon the child’s mind the desir
abitlty of telling the truth, by an assurance
that punishment will not be inflicted, how
ever gross the offense of which the child
Is guilty, if the truth is told about it. I
avoid punishing for falsehood as much
as possible, because I know that as soon
as the child grows old enough to distin
guish between right and wrong, if it is sur
rounded by proper home influences, It will
quit telling stories of its own accord.” „
If parents, teachers and guardians will
ponder this teacher’s philosophy they will
find that there is something In it.
Sibley Their Candidate.
It Is clearly the purpose of the sllverltes
to have a presidential candidate of their
own in 1896. In an interview at Washing
ton published in the Morning News yes
terday, Senator Stewart of Nevada, one
of the most prominent leaders of the silver
forces, is quoted as saying that It is
not the purpose of the silver men to make
the mistake, of former campaigns. They
will nominate and support candidates of
their own. The senator says that Mr. Sib
ley of Pennsylvania will be their candi
date for President. He describes Mr. Sib
ley as the greatest man who has “aspired
to the presidency since Abraham Lincoln.”
It is siricerqly to be hoped that Senator
Stewart is right about this. If they should
nominate their own candidates for Presi
dent, vice president and congress they
would find out just how much strength
they have. It Is pretty safe to predict that
they would be greatly disappointed with 1
the result of the campaign.
The sound money sentiment of the coun
try has not yet made itself fel't to any
great extent, but if the Issue should be
squarely made by the nomination of a sil
ver ticket the silver men would be sur
prised to find how greatly they are In the
minority.
The cause of the sllverites has been
aided greatly by the hard times. The
great majority of those who are now fav
oring the free coinage of silver are led to
believe that it would bring about a pe
riod of prosperity, They have no good
reason for that belief and they don’t give
any satisfactory reason for it. They are
willing to try free silver coinage as an ex
periment, but they have not considered
how costly that experiment might be.
They would have to consider that ques
tion, however, if the sllverites should un
dertake a campaign of their own. Many
of them would doubtless hesitate when
confronted with arguments, drawn from
past dishonest money craves, showing that
the cost might be a disaster of such pro
portions as to overwhelm the whole coun
try In financial rulp.
Strange as it may seem, the Impression
seems to prevail quite extensively among
the sllverites that the government’s stamp
on a silver dollar makes it as good as a
gold dollar and that the silver standard
can be made the equivalent of the gold
stjaijdard by an act of congress. They
would get rid of that impression if the
Issue should be squarely made by the sll
verites. The government’s credit will
keep a silver dollar in circulation on an
equality with a gold dollar at home as long
as it is believed the government can pay
gold for silver on demand, and no longer.
Away from home our sliver dollar is ac
cepted at only its bullion value, except per
haps In Mexico, from whence it can be
quickly returned.
If our mints should be opened to the free
coinage of silver we should soon have a
silver standard, and notwithstanding any
thing that congress might do we should
have to sell our surplus products and set
tle our balances abroad by the gold stan
dard. We should have to pay our national
debts by the gold standard er suffer a loss
of credit. All of the countries which have
the silver standard, Mexico, the Central
and South American republics, China, Ja
pan and India, have to conduct their for
eign commerce and pay their obligations
by the gold standard, and we should have
to do the same.
And what should we gain by having a de
based currency? When we had a cheap
currency after the civil war why did we
incur a heavy burden of debt in order to
get back to sound money and the gold stan
dard? We found out cheap money wasn’t
conducive to prosperity. Let the ellver
ites put up a presidential ticket. Nothing
else would help so much to kill the dis
honest money erase.
Kissing for Dyspepsia.
Recently so much has been said about
evil bacilli that it would almost seem that
every good bacillus had taken permanent
leave of absence and left humanity at the
mercy of the wicked members of the fam-
I ily. It is, therefore, a genuine pleasure to
! have so eminent an authority as the Brlt-
IFh Medical Journal say such is not the
case; that beneficent bacilli remain to bless
us all, when we acquire and treat them
right. And It Is more than ever pleasing
to have Dr. A. E. Bridger, a correspondent
i of the British Medical Journal, declare
| that “in the act ot kissing we encounter
beneficent organisms,” and add, further,
■ that “the advantages of kissing outweigh
; its infinitesimal risks, for It provides us,
with microbes useful for the digestion."
Now, as all newspaper and magazine
readers know, kissing is the one thing that
| has been most savagely attacked by sclen-
■ title men, because of its alleged trans
j mission of disease germs. Enough has
: teen said about the b&cilll of diphtheria
i and consumption, and other dreadful com*
plaints being transmitted in the I
I act es kissing to make a man
hesitate to kiss his mother-in-
law. The anti-kiss crusade, however, had
never reached the point of preventing the
labial salute between the young man and
his sweetheart; and now, since the eml
> nent authorities named have come to the
I defense of the delightful salutation, the
cAances are that it never will. Indeed, on
< the other hand, the practice may be fur
| thcr extended on hygenic grounds. For
’ what maiden could refuse an ardent ad-
I miner a few choice bacilli to aid his di
geszlon or cure his dyspepsia?
J AV hile Dr. Bridger does not say so, it
THE WEEKLY NEWS (TWO-TIMES-A-WEEK): THURSDAY, APRIL 11, 1895.
is presumed, as a matter of course, that
the “useful microbes,” or “beneficent or
ganisms” are to be encountered only upon
the lips of persons of the opposite sex,
and under circumstances agreeable to the
benefactor and the beneficiary; hence, It
Is safe to say the doctor’s opinion will
be coincided in by the youthful, and that
there will be‘ a strong demand for the
“beneficent organisms.” Dyspepsia may
become a populor complaint among young
men, and the- girls may rob the doctors of
many of their fees.
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PERSONAL.
—M. Gennadius, the late Greek ambas
sador to the court of St. James, returns
to his native country with substantial
proof that his fellow-countrymen in Lon
don are In favor of the revival of the
Olympian games. They have given M.
Gennadius $7,000 to add to the fund in
Athens.
—Count William Bismarck, the new gov
ernor pf Eastern Prussia, made his ap
pearance the other day in the Reichstag,
astonishing everybody by his remarkable
likeness to his father. He- has the same
haughty demeanor, and the gestures are
those of the old prince. But the genius is
lacking.
—Count Tolstoi’s latest work, which has
just appeared in the Severny Vestnik, is
called “Master and Man.” It is a story
of Russian village life, telling of the strug
gle in the mind o-f the master, lost in the
snow with his man, against the tempta
tion to abandon his helpless companion,
for whom he at last gives his life.
-James B. Ely, the general secretary of
the Inter Collegiate Branch of the Young
Men’s Christian Association, Philadelphia,
will start on Oct. 1 for India, where he will
engage in evangelistic work among the
low-caste people of Northern India. He
will -work under the auspices of the Pres
byterian Board of Foreign Missions.
—Mr. Harry de Windt, who has trav
eled extensively in Siberia, in lecturing re
cently on “The Prisons of Siberia” in
London, said that there are about 230
prisons in that country, two-thirds of
which are resting places along the great
post road to- the Pacific. To- these about
17,000 prisoners a year have been sent
during the last fifteen years.
•—Miss Helen Gould has been invited to
be • sponsor so-r the Veteran Chickasaw
Guards, the famous Memphis military or
ganization, in the coming spring drill.
The compliment is extended to Miss Gould
from the fact that her father authorized
the City of Memphis to draw on him ad
libitum during the epidemic of 1888. Miss
Winnie Davis will also be asked to act in
a similar capacity for another Memphis
organization.
—One of the latest re-enlistments in the
navy is that ot John K. Knowles, the
sailor who lashed Admiral Farragut to
the rigging of the Hartford in her mem
orable fight with the confederate iron
clad ram Tennessee in Mobile bay.
Knowles has been in -the service forty
five .years, during twenty-eight of which
he has been on duty at the Naval Acad
emy. As he is nojv 70. years c-ld he will
probably spend the remainder of his life
at the Naval Academy.
BRIGHT
—Murray Hill—What is the Brooklyn
Handicap?
Fulton Trolley—lt Is the yard and a
quarter start the mortorman gives you
when you try to cross in front of his car.
—Puck.
—“You say, parson, it’s never too late
to quit drinking and reform?”
“That's what I say. It is never too
late.”
"Well, then, there is no 'hurry, so I guess
I'll wait awhile.”—Texas Siftings.
—“I suppose you will be out again to
night,” remarked Sporting-ton's wife se
verely.
“I will,” he replied with feeling, “un
less I manage to hold better hands than I
got last night.”—Washington Sthr.
—Tommy: Yes, cats can see in the dark,
and so can Ethel; ’cause when Mr. Wright
walked into the parlor when she was
sittin’ all alone in the dark, I heard her
say to him, “Why, Arthur, you didn't
get. shaved to-day.”—Life’s Calendar.
—His Present Ecstatic Mood.—Why is
that man smiling so merrily all by him
self? t - *
“He's thinking of the coming election.”'
“He Is a candidate, I suppose?”
“Not a bit. He is a tinhorn fiend.”—Chi
cago Record.
—The doctor had presented his bill, and
tt was large.
“Humph!” Baid* Skinflint. “This is a
pretty big charge.”
“No doubt,” retorted the doctor, “con
sidering the value of the life I saved; but
it goes.”—Harper’s Bazar.
—Fogg—Do you know when I see an ar
ticle in the paper I always look at the end
of it to see if your signature is there?
Waltzabout (delighted)—Do you? Well,
• I'm sure—
Fogg—Yes, and when I find It I don’t
read the article.—Boston Transcript.
—Herr Bratwurst (in frenzy)—Dink of
us vorklngmans mldtoudt any bleashures
mit life! Mldtoudt any amooaements! It
maigs my bloodt poH ven I t’lnks of our
poor vlfes having to dake in vashing vile
der gapltallst Ilfs in luckshury undt does
not soil his handts mit vork!’’ (Profound
senatlon).—Puck.
—“WhatTl we do for news, with all the
congressmen at home?” said the rumor
editor/’
“I don’t know,” replied his assistant,
“unless—and his cyek glowed with the
fire of inspiration;—“unless we get up a
story that Senator Peffer is going to shave
off his whiskers because a Kansas Trilby
club wants him for Svengali.”—Washing
ton Star.
—"You perhaps do not know It, my son,”
said Mr. Jones, after he had chastised Wil
liam, “that It is always more painful to the
one who does the spanking than to the one
who receives it." *
“In that case, father,” returned Wil
liam, “had we not better rearrange our
system, so that hereafter when I have
given offence I shall spank you, instead
of as we now do it?”—Harper’s Bazar.
CURRENT COMMENT,
About Thnt Southern Man.
From Griffin (Ga.) News and Sun (Dem.).
David B. Hill is perfectly willing for the
presidential nomination'of the Democratic
party to come south in 1896, but the south
is perfectly willing to wait four years
longer. The nomination may be more val
uable in 1900 and that would be a good way
to begin the new century.
That Florida War Meeting.
From the Chicago Tribune (Rep.).
The war meeting at Jacksonville, Fla
Thursday evening was a notable incident
in the progress of the Cuban revolution.
Large numbers of Americans, among
them state officials, were present, and as
the outcome of the meeting resolutions
were passed, not only expressing the sym
pathy of those present with the Cuban
patriots, but calling upon the legislature
to express formally the sympathy of the
whole people of Florida with them. The
resolutions do not transcend the limits of
propriety. There is nothing which can
prevent Americans from declaring their
sympathy with the Cubans. It is high
time, as the Tribune once before has said
that Spain should be made to pack its
trunks and get out of this hemisphere.
The Spanish monarchy in Cuba, ruling a
country which wants to be free, is an ex
asperating anomaly. Spain has lingered
here too long. If sympathy with the Cu-
I bans will help their struggle, let them
have it. If nn aggressive application of
the Monroe doctrine, when the opportun
ity occurs, will help them let them have
that also. There is nothing that would
delight Americans so much as an Interna
tional complication which would warrant
the issue of walking or sailing papers to
Spain.
The Appomattox Battlefield.
Charleston News and Courier (Dem.).
J. E. B. Stuart camp of confederate Vet
erans of Clarke county. Virginia, have
unanimously adopted a resolution con
demning the proposition to make a na
tional park of the region about Appom
mattox Court House. They are right. It
is not easy to understand why any con
federate should approve the conversion
of any of our battle fields into “national”
picnic grounds.
A Dude* Eaiter Gift.
A very wealthy society man in this city
about a year ago had established himself
most valued friend of a charming
lady and her two daughters,, who occupy
, a fine house on the Avenue and entertain
a great deal, says the New York Adver
tiser. The man In question dresses well,
has handsome bachelor apartments where
he gives delightful suppers, which the
debutantes think deliciously bohemian,and
he is the soul of liberality when ft comes
to contributing toward the fund of some
? r J y which will place his name oh the
“St Patrons. In spite of these qualities,
there have been from time to time a num
ber of suits against this irreproachable
for unpaid tailor’s bills, rumors that he
paid his valet only in sweet words anil
smiles, and hints that he had even cheat
ed a summer hotel out of a board bill.
These disquieting whispers, however, had
never reached the ears of the mother
J-Dd daughters, and they regarded the
friend as only second to the saints and
angels and the fat rector of the fashion
able church where they attended services.
At Easter the amiable man decided that
the many attentions which had been
shown him by the pretty girls and the
charming mother must be returned by
at least an Easter souvenir. The worthy
man hied him to a Fifth avenue china
shop. He knew that very lovely gifts
would be sent the girls, and that to com
pare with them his present would need
to be something very pretty. For a whole
afternoon the society miser remained
amid the bric-a-brac and costly china try
ing to make up his mind to spend $lB for
a Serves cup or a box for sweets. Sud-'
denly the salesman at his elbow tripped
over something, and stretching over his
hand to steady himself knocked over a
supero vase of rare cloisonne of delicate
pink crackle. It fell to the floor, shat
tered into dozens of pieces. The shop
keeper gazed at it in silent despair.
"How much was it worth?” asked the
customer.
"Oh, $35 wouldn’t pay for the handle
even.”
“Dear me! Can’t it be fixed?”
“No, indeed. I shall just sweep it out
as it it is,” and his voice ch’oked with
emotion. A bright ’ idea came' to the
miserly society man:
“See here, my friend,” he said, “I will
give you $5 for those pieces just as they
are.” The man looked surprised. .
! “You do them up in the same size box
that you would have used for the vase,
and wrap it up and deliver it at this ad
dress which I will give you. Instruct the 1
boy to fling the package down at the
door, ring the bell and run away .to avoid
answering questions. Do you agree?”
The shopkeeper agreed.
The society man dined that evening
with his friends; it was the day before
Easter, and gifts from ali over were ar
riving. Finally a servant entered with a
box carefully done up. “This was left at
the door with no name or message, mad
ame,” he said, as he set it down. The
girls merrily cut the string and the so
ciety man stood by, smiling, ready to
burst into a passion of indignation. The
card was found flrst, and he was obliged
to accept their suppressions of surprised
pleasure. Then the inner box was opened.
The miserly swell gave one glance and
rushed from the room. The shopkeeper
had over done his part. Every Individual
fragment of porcelain was carefully
wrapped up in a separate bit of tissue
paper.
A Modest Millionaire.
I never saw a man take, life less serious
ly than John D. Rockefeller/ says a New
York Press writer. He has an easy way
of saying and doing things that appeals
to the aesthetic nature. That $1,000,000
suit brought by Lon Merritt is not cost
ing him a wink of sleep. Nothing wor
ries him, not ail his millions. At times
I have known John to seem dull.. I have
known people to take him for a soft
slow, stupid fellow instead of the hard,
gliding, firm, rocky fellow that he is.
He once had an employe, a nervous, irri
table young man, full of his own import
ance, but, withal, a capable clerk. He
occupied an office in which there was one
of those pulling and lifting machines,
and regularly every morning, about 9,
when he was immersed in figures or cor
respondence, a small, black-moustached
man, quiet and diffident in manner, en
tered, said “Good morning,” walked on
tiptoe to the corner and exercised for «.
quarter of an hour. It became a bore to
the clerk, who at last,,unable to stand It
longer, remarked, ’*’’.th considerable heat
and fireworks, to the inoffensive, but an
noying stranger: “How doi you expect me
to do my work properly while you are
fooling with that —— machine? I’m get
ting tired of it. Why don’t you put it
where it won’t worry person to death?”
- The strajiger replied With,a blush 1 : "I am
very eor. y if ft annoys -you! I will ’have it
removed at once.” A porter took it away
within an hour. A few days later the
clerk was sent for by Mr. Flagler, whom
he found In earnest conversation with
the small, black-moustached man. The
latter smiled at seeing him, gave Flagler
some insinuations and left the room.
“Will you ten me who that gentleman is?”
the young man asked; a light beginning
to break upon him. “That was Mr. Rock
feller.” was the reply. With a gasp for
breath, the clerk staggered back to his
office to think. It was his flrst acquain
tance with the Standard Oil magnate.
Nobody- Asked Yon, Sir.
From the Louisville Courier-Journal.
“Where are you going, my pretty maid?”
“To Vassar College, Sir,” she said.
"Sir,” she said.
“Sir,” she said.
"To Vassar College, sir,” she said.
“May I go with you, my pretty maid?”
“ ’Tis a Female College, Sir,” she said.
“How may one enter there, my pretty
maid?”
“Solely by intellect, Sir," she said.
“W’hat will you do then, my pretty maid?”
“Take an A. 8., if I can,” she said.
“Then won’t you marry me, my pretty
maid?” ,
“Nay, we’ll be bachelors, Sir,” she said.
“What will you do then, my pretty maid?”
"I shall be Master of Arts,” she said.
“Then won’t you marry me, my pretty
maid?”
“You would be master of'me,” she said.
‘W’hat will .you do then, my pretty maid?”
“Try for a Ph. D., Sir," she said.
“Then I won’t marry you, my pretty
maid?”
“Nobody asked you to. Sir,” she said.
"Sir,” she said.
"Sir.” she Said.
"Nobody asked you to, Sir," she said.
Five Thonsand Franc* for n. Curl.
Lady Harriet Dorsay was presiding at
a stall at a vente de charite, a bazaar,
held in aid of the funds of some asylum
or another, when there came up the young
Duke of Orleans, son and heir of King
Louis Philippe, writes G. A. Sala. The
duke, after some polite small talk, began
to extol the beauty of her hair, and, in
deed, her Henrietta Maria coiffure had
never looked glossier and softer than it
did that day. "Oh." said his royal high
ness. “if I could only possess one of those
entrancing ringlets!” "How much would
monseigneur give for one? Five thou
sand francs?” “A mere bagatelle!” “Six
thousand francs?” “Anything so charming
a lady chose to ask.” "I will not be ex
tortionate. We will say five thousand.”
Then she very composedly produced a
dainty little pair of scissors, snipped off
the adorable ringlet, wrapped it in silver
paper, and handed it, with a smile and a
curtsey full of graceful dignity, to the
1 duke. His royal highness looked very
straight down his nose, and, returning
Lady Harriet's salute, stalked somewhat
gloomily away. But his privy purse duly
forwarded the money the next day.
Not Understood in the North.
“Yankees have a knack of pronouncing
words in a most outlandish way,” remark
ed a gentleman from New Orleans, says
the Cincinnati Tribune. . “I am on my way
home from Buffalo. While I was in Buf
falo. I got a trifle mixed up about the
streets. In fact, I was lost. I stopped a
gentleman and asked him where I could
I get a car (pronouncing it kor, as we do
down south.)
\ “The gentleman was evidently puzzled,
and, after thinking a moment, said: ’What
1 did you say you wanted?"
" ‘Why. a car,’ I replied.
“‘A kor,’ he said, ‘what’s that? How
do you spell it?’
"That made me rather angry, and I an
swered: ‘Great goodness! Can’t you peo
ple up here understand English? C-a-r,
kor.’
“ ’Oh, I know what you mean now,’ he
said, ‘you mean a car’ (pronouncing it
exactly like care).”
—They say that if ex-Congressman Sib
ley, of Pennsylvania, runs as the silver
candidate for the presidency his platform
will be: “Sixteen to one, and I am the
one.”—Kew Ycrk Tribune.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
—J. Van Rusin of Chicago is enthusi
astic over a spectacle which he proposes
to produce In Chicago next summer. He
expects to lease 100 acres of land in one
of the suburbs and build a railroad track
thereon. He will buy t)vo engines at an
estimated cost of SIO,OOO apiece. Then he
will erect an Immense grand stand on each
side of the railroad, which will accom
modate 100,000 people. The engines will be
steamed up to their full capacity and
started toward eaclugther., The spectacle
when U ey collide, Mr. Van Rusin calcu
lates, will be so thrilling that thousands
will want to witness it.
—A new style of sleeping par to be made
in Kansas City by a newly formed com
pany, will have some qovel features, one
of the most startling innovations being
a berth which disappears at t.be will of
the passenger into the wall of the car,
and is confined ;n a space of X% inches—an
idea probably suggested by the disappear
ing pillow. It is further stated that ‘ ffiat
tresses of air are to be used; and all bed
clothing can be put in lockers underneath
the seats of each section. The berths will
be made of steel and aluminium.” Mat
tresses upholstered with air ought not to
be expensive; and possibly the new- sleep
ers can afford to dispense “tired natures
sweet restorer" to the traveling public
at rates that Senator Sherman will not re
sent as exorbitant.
—Charcoal making for gunpowder is a
much more complicated process than the
jordlnary field kiln manufacture, says
the Chicago Record. Only certain kinds
oC wood are used—usually the young
shoots of elder and willow —and it is cut
in the spring, so that the bark may be
stripped off. It'is then plied under airy,
open sheds and allowed to, remain several
years, until it is thoroughly dried, when
the powder-maker is ready for a new sup
ply of charcoal, the wood is cut Into
lengths and placed |n tight iron retorts,
under and around which a fire roars con
tinually. The dampers and pipes are so
arranged that the workmen have complete
control of the heat. At the end of of the
retort a hole is left for.'the escape of the
inflammable gases resulting from the char
ring process. A pipe catches them as they
leave the retort and conveys them into a
furnace, where they take the place of a
good deal of fuel. When the flame of the
gases becomes a deep blue color the work
men know that the wood is sufficiently
, charred and the retort is cooled down as
quickly as possible. The charcoal is then
left for a week or more before grinding,
because if placed in the machine at once
there is danger of spontaneous combus
tion. The best charcoal is jet black, and
fractures show a velvety surface. The
grinding machine is like a huge old-fash
ioned coffee-mill—two roughened cones
turning one inside the other. As pewderecl
charcoal comes out It falls upon a screen
and all that goes through: it- Is taken to
the powder mill and the residue ‘tailing
over” is returned to the grinder.
Every great power nas its own special
high explosive with which its shells are
filled, .says the New York-World. All the
high-power explosives, however, are in a
more or less experimental stage, and
wet gun cotton is the material upon which
most reliance is placed. There is no
doubt of the efficacy of the tremep/lously
powerful explosives which have recently
been exploded among the enemy. When
subjected to the enormous impact which
is necessary to obtain the required veloc
ity of 2,000 feet pep second or thereabouts,
they are almost as likely to explode before
leaving the gun as afterwards. If this
difficulty is overcome, the next question
is to prevent the- shell from exploding
before penetrating the object against
which it Is fired. The French pin their
faith to melinite, which has been very
thoroughly tested. Shells filled with this
composition have been fired through ten
inches of armor without exploding. The
sheßs In this instance left the gun’s muz
zle with a velocity of 2,000 fpet per second.
The English are doubtful of the safety of
melinite and use a composition called lyd
dite. It gets its piame from Lydde, in
Wales, where it is manufactured. The
lyddite shells have -been successfully fired
through five inches of ,armor. Ecraslte is
used by. Austria. Its oomposition is a
secret, known only to the two Inventors,
who are Austrians. This explosive has
been found to have especial destructive
power when used against earthworks.
Sweden has decided upon the invention of
a Swede, which is called bellite. While It
has not as much explosive force as many
of the other compositions, yet it is claimed
to be more stable. Its powers of preser
vation are also much greater. The United
States has been making exhaustive trials
of a kind of gun cotton known as emmen
rite. The air guns of the Vesuvius were
designed for discharging, emmenrite shells,
but they did not prove satisfActbry. Re
cently emmeiirite has been successfully
fired from a high-power gun with a vel
ocity of over 2,000 feet.
—Fish appear to play and fight something
as birds do, says the New York Sun. Two
burgalls In a tank at the New York Aqua
rium the other day spent half an hour In
downright skylarking, which was at timer,
a little rough. They , would loaf about at
some distance apart and thfan spring
around and make a’ rush for each other,
meeting, or perhaps halting just before,
and balancing in the water, waving their
fins as though sparring for an opening.
They would look at each other, noses
close together, but not touching, and then
perhaps one would back off, the other
following, until thfr first was pretty near
to h’s corner. Then the one following
would 'halt and go back tp hts own place.
Pretty soon the one that had backed off
wourtd come up again, and the other was
prompt to meet him. This time, perhaps,
they would meet—not tip to tip. of their
noses, for the end of the fish’s nose is
extremely sensitive, and he never runs
it against anything if he can help It—
their noses side t<o side, and then each
would push for all he knew how. They
would push until their heads overlapped
about one-third of their length back from
their Then all of 'a sudden thev
would flash apart as though one or the
other had hit the other a betivy blow and
the referee had called time at the same
moment. One fish seemed to win al
most every round, but the other didn’t
seem to care much for that. He came to
-the scratch again evey time. Sometimes
they skirmished a little and sometimes
they dosed nt once. Th-e contest was
at a point in the water to the left of the
center of the tank. The fish that .gener
ally won stayed in that’corner, so that
he hadn’t far t-o go after the rounds.
He just loafed about until the other fish
came up again. But the other fish went
further and further away after each round
until finally he took a Mttle more time
between the rounds, and after each round
went over Into the right-hand corner of
the tank as far as he could go. Over on
the right-hand side of the tank, close
against the side and lying partly under a
leaf of sea lettuce, was a, stadd black
, fish. He had lain there soberly all through
the skylarking and never moved. Rut
once, when the burgall that was getting
the worst of it was lounging back to his
corner, he got out of his course a little
and swung around near the blackfish.
The blackfish made a jump at the bur
gall instantly, saying as plainly as any
; body could: “None o’ your nonsense
around here!” The burgall jumped out
I of the angry blackfish's way and the
' blackfish backed down under the sea Jet
■ I tuce again. But the burgall wasn’t dis
turbed by the cranky old blackfish. He
swung around up In his corner, drew a
i long breath, and took a little rest. A
minute later he was down In the oppo
site corner again, nose to nose with the
other burgall.
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THE NEWS IN GEORGIA.
Gathered From Correspondents and
BxeJmuffei.
During the past month there was
shipped from Darien, coastwise and for
eign, 4,382,000 feet of hewn and sawn tim
ber and lumber.
A. J. Bankston, father of Trox Banks
ton, died at his home Tuesday, April 2.
He had been a resident of Ringgold for
more than twenty-seven years.
Amos Hall, the negro who killed Nat
Howell at Dale & Dixon’s camps a few
weeks ago, has been arrested at Darien
and will be taken back to Echols county
for trial.
The organization of the Darien and Sa
pelo Towboat Company took place in Da
rien on Tuesday last. August Schmidt
was made president, R. D. Wylly, secre
tary and treasurer, and Capt. W. H.
Payne, manager.
During the month ending on the 30th
ultimo there was measured at 'the public
boom in Darien 6,000,000 feet of square,'
scab and sawn timber. This does not in
clude the sawn timber and lumber which
came in during the month and was car
ried direct to the private booms.
Dr. Robert Thomas, one of the oldest cit
izens of Valdiosta, died a day or two ago.
Dr. Thomas was 'the father of W. L. and
David Thomas, Mrs. Willis Lang and Miss
Sallis Thomas, of Valdosta, Robert
Thomas of Thomasville, Henry Thomas of
Virginia, and Mrs. E. S. Wily of Titusville,
Fla. All of his children from abroad were
present at the funeral.
The most important real estate Change
of the week was the purchase of the Cen
tral hotel at Valdosta by J. W. Clark for
$9,000. The land on which the'hotel stands
was bought by J. A. Dasher, Sr., ten or.
twelve years ago for less than SSOO. The
building was erected several yeans ago
and the property has steadily gained in
value every since. It is probable that the
land alone would bring $3,000. now. Mr.
Clark intends to greatly improve the prop
erty.
Harritt Jones, wife of Jones, colored,
who was sentenced to 'the state peniten
tiary recently, was shot from ambush last
Tuesday morning near her home on the
Ocmulgee river in Coffee county. Smart
Jones, brother-in-law of the murdered
woman was arrested and taken to jail at
Douglas on suspicion, with strong cir
cumstantial evidence. Smart claims that
he did not commit the act and that he
will be able 'to prove his innocence. The
woman lived only a few minutes.
Ed Paul, who escaped from Bibb county
jail in February, at the same time that
Tom Allen and other prisoners, is now in
jail at Troy, O. Deputy Sheriff Vic Men
ard of Macon received a letter Saturday to
this effect from Marshal George F. Irwin,
Troy, O. The marshal said in his letter
that Paul was in jail under the name of
George Day, and was held on the charge of
burglary, that there was a good case
against Day. This being so, Paul is not
likely to be brought back to Macon until he
has served sentence for burglary' in Ohio.
Adie Ellis of Towaliga attempted sui
cide Thursday night about 9 o’clock by
taking an overdose of morphine. The
family suspected her of taking it when
she lit the lamp and told
them all that she wanted them
to sit- up with her and see her sleep. An
empty vial -was found, which, when last
seen was about half full. Dr. J. M. Thrax
ton was called to see her at 6 o’clock Fri
day morning. She was in an unconscious
condition. The physician says she took
about 100 doses. The cause of her taking
the poison is not known.
A special from Macon to the Atlanta
Journal says: “Judge Emory Speer has
been sued by a man named Kitchens for
S9O. The suit was brought in Justice
Thomas’ court and is for services ren
dered at Mount Airy, Judge Spehr's sum
mer home. Judge Speer’s defense is
unique. He sets up the defense that he
loaned the plaintiff his shot gun and al
lowed him to hunt with his blooded
dogs. And the distinguished jurist fur
ther attempted to show Kitchen’s ingrat
itude by stating that he appointed him a
baliff at a salary of $2 a day. The case
was dismissed.”
J. B. Blair, who lives near Villa Rica,
was at Carrollton Tuesday with a mystery
in the shape of a tree con
taining a jaw bone of a man
in in it. It was shown to five doc
tors, and they say it is either of an In
dian or a white man. But how it got
there is a mystery as it was near the
center of the tree, the tree being over
two feet through, and was found four
feet from the ground. Mr. Blair was of
fered SSOO for a half interest in it to show
at the Atlanta exposition. He says he
would not take $2,000 for it as he proposes
to exhibit it throughout the United States,
and at the coming Atlanta exposition.
Dy Tuesday’s mail, Sheriff Mcßae of
Lowndes county received a letter from
Sheriff Frank Dickerson of Clinch county,
instructing him to arrest Henry Cherry
who is charged with murder in Clinch
county. The letter contained a full de
scription of Cherry and stated that he
could be found among the section hands
at Ousley station. Sheriff Mcßae went
down Wednesday morning and made the
arrest, though there is some doubt as to
whether Cherry is the negro wanted, as he
has been working there for the past two
years. Cherry is charged with killing a
baby in Green Cove, Fla. Those who
know Cherry express doubts as to his guilt
as they .say he has lived in Lowndes coun
ty all his life.
A negro boy, named Frank Kendall, was
instantly killed Friday on the place of
G. J. Briant, a few miles from Rome. He
was plowing in a field, when an old
tree, without any warning, fell upon him
and the mule, killing both.
John Barker, of Lumpkin county, who
was shot by his father in a family row
on Thursday, died Saturday. The father,
Martin V. Barker, is confined in Lumpkin
county jail, charged with murder. Mar
tin Barker’s wife was the stepmother of
the son. Mr. Barker is about 50 years old
and his son is about 25. The quarrel
started between the wives of the two
men and the men became involved.
The appraisers of the estate of the late
Judge J. A. Kendrick of Americus have
completed their labors and made neces
sary returns to the court of ordinary.
The estate is appraised in round figures
at $45,000. Os this amount $41,000 is in real
estate, cash, bonds, stocks and notis.
The remainder, about $4,000, is in stocks,
the value of which is nominal or worth
less. Thornton Wheatley is the adminis
trator of the estate.
Walter Blanchard, the foreman of the
bottling department of the Chattahoochee
brewery at Columbus, attempted to com
mit suicide Saturday evening by taking
some poisonous compound. Blanchard re
sides in Phenix City, near Knight’s sta- f
tion, and when his purpose was discovered.
Dr. W. H. Stevens was quickly summoned,
who responded, finding the unfortunate
man in an extremely critical condition.
After several minutes of hard work, the
doctor succeeded in bringing him around.
No cause is assigned for the act.
A serious difficulty occurred at the Chat
tahoochee brewery at Columbus Saturday
afternoon, in which Carl Willauer,
the foreman of the brewing department,
and John Brown, a laborer, were the prin
cipals. The fight had hardly begun, how
ever, when it was suddenly brought to
an end by Willauer breaking Brown’s jaw
bone. A misunderstanding arose between
tho two men about some work, and after
exchanging a number of uncomplimentary
words with each other, they concluded to
settle their difference with blows, which
resulted as above stated.
Postmaster J. Tom White of Dexter
gave the required bond Saturday to cover
his shortage of S6OO in his postoffice ac
counts. Mr. White's father was accept
ed as bondsman. Postmaster White de
cided not to wave commitment, as first
intended, but, instead, he had his case
continued until April 20, which will pre
vent the grand jury next week from
finding an indictment against him. By
tnat time Mr. White says he will be
able to make full settlement with the
government and no case can be made
against him, as his bondsmen had not
grown uneasy about the condition of
his finances.
Plume Young, a 9-year-old negro boy,
had his foot cut off by a Georgia Southern
train Saturday afternoon at Gunn’s cross
ing, a mile below Macon. Young was at
the crossing with a number of negro
women. All of them were fishing in small
lakes on the side of the railroad. Young
set out his lines on one side of the road
and went on the other side to talk w-ith
one of the women, 1 and while over there
looked back across the railroad and saw
that he w-as getting a “bite.’ With his
eyes fastened on the bobing cork, and ob
livious to everything else, he bounded to
ward the other side, but just as he put
his foot on the track a passing engine cut
it off. He fell backward, which saved
him from being killed.
ROUND ABOUT IN FLORIDA.
The News of the State Told 114
Paragraphs.
James O’Neil, Singer sewing machine
agent for Nassau county, was bound
oyer to court at Fernandina Saturday
charged with embezzlement of funds of
tha company. He waived preliminary
examination.
Last Monday evening one of the dry.
kilns at the mills of the Live Oak Manu
facturing Company caught on fire. Tha
mill is well provided with pipes, hose and.
water and the fire which was on the in
side, was soon, extinguished. The loss ia
estimated at about SSOO.
The Congregational church at Tampa
s , a nea t and attractive room furn
ished with the latest papers, magazines
and other healthy literature. This is for
young men of all creeds and of no creed.
A social and literary center where all will
find a hearty welcome. The room haa
■ been neatly furnished by the ladies.
Chipley Guide: We expected to be able
to publish in this number the order restor
ing Maj. W. O. Butler to practice, but It
has not returned from the recorder’s office.
We have frequently been asked why he
was reinstated. We will briefly state the
case. He Was accused of writing a letter
to a client with a view of delaying a trial,
tie admitted this, but swore he wrote two
other letters the next day recalling the first
and telling his client to appear at trial
The party denied receiving the letters
and on the evidence of the first letter ha
was disbarred. It afterward appeared,
that his client has the other two letters*
and he finally sent them to Judge Barnes.
Aft&r receiving them the judge notified.
Maj. Butler that he would open the case
again for rehearing if he desired. So Mr.
Butler appeared before the judge again,
who, having all the facts before him, re
voked his order and reinstated Mr. Butler
with honor, freely admitting that he had.
been accused unjustly. When the people
in this and adjoining counties heard May.
Butler was disbarred they got up long pe
titions for his reinstatement, thus showinjr
the high esteem in Which they held him.
He has-many friends among the leading.*
citizens Who rejoice at the turn of affairs'.
True he has enemies, but the man who
hasn’t is a nonentity. Maj. Butler has en--
joyed a large and lucrative practice. He>
has the finest library in the country and.
is remarkably successful in his practica .
We hope success will still follow him.
At Pensacola the fire department wais
called out at noon Saturday by an alarrt i
from box 46, in the eastern part of thi i
city. On reaching the spot the firemei i
found that Sam Richardson, an invalid,
had been suddenly seized with hemorrhagi j
of the lungs on the street and expired in «u
few minutes. A man, who saw Richard -
son fall, attempted to send In a call for tin >
police patrol wagon, but in his excitemenj t
sent in a fire alarm.
F. E. Davidson, assistant manager of tht i
Owl Cigar Company, at Quincy, has ac
cepted the appointment of assistant ad -
jutant genereal, with the rank of lieu,-
■tenant colonel, on the staff of Maj. Gei».
Miller in the Florida state troops. Thi j
commission was offered him for his val
uable services in the organization of thi j
Gadsden guards, and his sincere interes t
in military affairs. Mr. Davidson servec I
seven years in .the Seventh regiment oil
New York.
Thursday night the dead body bf Hanj;»
Webster, a negro drayman residing ai:
the village of Millview, nine miles wesjt
of Pensacola, was found near the Mill ; -
vlew road, about three miles west of thi >
city. His dray was overturned near thi >
spot, and the horse, having kicked loose >
from the harness, was also near by graz
ing. Webster’s neck was broken, and it; >
was concluded that the horse had be; •
come suddenly frightened, and, running ;
into the woods, had upset the dray against:
a tree, throwing Webster out upon hisi
head.
Louis H. Fletcher, a young man ot I
about 30, who was well known through*-
out Marion codnty, where he was borri
and reared, was found dead near Ocald.
Saturday. A thorough investigation was •,
made by the jury, and after viewing all I
the evidence, a verdict was rendered that:
he came to his death by hemorrhage;,
brought on by dissipation and nervous i
prostration. The young man was lasi: "
seen on Monday, March 25, at the horns *
of James Duffy, where he breakfasted!,
and about 10 o’clock left in the direction t
of the place where his body was found,.
He had been dissipating considerably,,
and was in a very weak and nervous cone
di tlon.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
Very little phosphate, compared with
past years, is being used in Barnwell,
county. . • '■ ‘
Mrs. Hancock, who was perhaps the
oldest woman in Oconee county died last.-
week near Townville, aged 103.
The Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows for
state of South Carolina meets In Spartan
burg on the second Wednesday in May.
J. D. Wood and J. W. C. Greier of Spar
tanburg, opened a monazite mine near
Duncan's Thursday and got eighty-ona
pounds as a starter.
A party of gentlemen from Colorado
spent Tuesday in Florence. They are
truckers who wish to locate for the pur
pose of raising vegetables for northern.
Chester has become one of the railroad',
centers of the state. Twenty-two trains
carrying passengers arrive at and depart,
from the city daily, except Sunday, one
which day there are ten passenger trains*.
Spartanburg is working for a free de.--
livery system. The Herald says the citj*
has more than 10,000 population, and tho
sales at the postoffice for the past yeai
footed $10,266.55 for stamps alone, not;
counting anything for money orders or
other sources of revenue,
Dexter Harvey, a white man, shot amj!
mortally wounded Jim Davis, colored, ai:
Pacolet Tuesday afternoon. The men.
were playing cards when a dispute arose,
as to who was the winner, when Harvej
pulled his pistol and fired. The ball took
effect in Davis' breast. It is thought that;
he will die. Harvey has fled.
An Immense dynamo weighing 15,000
pounds was hauled from Anderson dowpi
to High Shoals Saturday afternoon last.
A very heavy wagon was brought oveff
from Pelzer to haul it and ten spans of
mules were hitched to it. The weight of
it broke several of the planks on Rocky
river bridge and nearly all the little*
bridges along the road were broken down..
Ned Harvin of Manning met with an
accident at the Atlantic Coast Line depot
at Sumter Saturday afternoon, as the train
from Charleston was leaving the station,
which may prove fatal. The train was
pulling out from the depot when Mr.
Harvin, who had just arrived, attempted
to board it. He, by some means, missed
his footing and was thrown under the
» cars, but succeeded In getting his body
out. His left leg, however, was badly
crushed, and will have to be amputated
at the hip. . ™ ,
Mrs. Virginia D. Young of Fa/rfax,
president of the South Carolina Squal
Rights Association, has made arrange
ments to have the question of female suf- ‘
frage thoroughly discussed throughout
the state. She says that the constitutional
convention will be asked to allow women
to vote, coupling the provision w'fih an
educational qualification or if not that a
property qualification. The speakers who
are to canvass the state are Miss Eliza
beth Yates of Maine, formerly a mission
ary to China: Miss Laura Clay of Ken
tucky, Miss Helen Morris Lewis of Ashe
ville, N. C.. Mrs. Young says the .-MBsocia
tion now has 125 active members, a.nd that
the movement is rapidly gaining strength.
Gov. Evans has granted the following
pardons on recommendation of tl|e peni
tentiary officials, the prisoners l»eing in
bad health: Ben Mitchell, conv'fctea of
burglary and larceny at the December
term of court in Charleston, sentenced
to six years in the penitentiary by Judge
Gary. John Caldwell, convictecl of lar
ceny and housebreaking at the J uly, 1891,
term of court in Newberry, senftenced to
five years in the penitentiary by Judge
Kershaw. Will Mills, convicted or rape at
the August, 1891, term of court in Spartan
burg and wrttenced to the penitentiary
for life by Judge Kershaw. The governor
has refused to interfere in the case of
Sloan Hurst, who is to be hrmged on
April 12.
Greenville started out to build five cot
ton mills this year. Saturday the third
mill was put on solid groun'? when the
Mills mill stockholders held a meeting,
A site just outside the city limit** was se
lected, covering about forty aerr-s on the
waters of Brushy creek. West Greenville.
The stockholders appointed a c ommittee
to secure a charter, and as soon as this
is done the organization of the company
will be completed. One hundred, thousand
dollars capital has been subscribed. Capt.
O. P. Mills, who ie at the head of the enter
prise. says he will begin digging the foun
dation of the mills in thirty d-.ays. This
? ®P lnnin f and weaving mill with
10.000 spindles and enough room to use ut>
the product. This is No. 3 min, and so far
represents about $400,000 capital.