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TH I’RS DAY, APRIL 25, I*os.
Not a Third Term Candidate.
The President’s sound money letter does
not give the republicans unalloyed satis
faction. They pretend to see in it a pur
pose on his part to make himself the
“logical” candidate of the sound money
people for President in 1896. Therefore
some of their organs are industriously
engaged in endeavoring to belittle him as
a stateman, and to make it appear that
his letter is a weak production. They are
not willing to give him credit for disin
terested motives and a sincere purpose to
do what he believes to be for the best
interests of the country.
It is doubtful if the President has any
intention whatever of trying to so shape
public sentiment as to bring himself into
prominence as a candidate for another
presidential term. Nobody of course
Is authorized to speak for him,
but from some of ttye utter
ances attributed to him, it is entirely
aafe to say that he is not thinking of an
other term and doesn't desire to be a
presidential candidate again.
Last July when the whole country was
fearful that the railroad riot at Chicago
■would result in an open defiance of the
authority of the government, he acted with
promptness and vigor. The riot was
checked and order restored. His courage
and wisdom in that affair strengthened
hla hold upon the people. What he did,
however, was not for the purpose of in
creasing his popularity, but for the good
of the country. His object in writing his
celebrated tariff reform message, which
gave new life and strength to his party,
was to bring aboGt a reform in which he
believed, and not to advance his own
political fortupes. His recent letter in
support of sound monqy 1® having the ■
effect of crystallizing the sound mSne/
sentiment of the country, it was the <
opening gun, as it were, of the campaign
In behalf of sound money. It wasn’t writ
ten with the hope that it would make its
author a candidate for a third term.
It is quite safe to say that Mr. Cleveland
will not be a candidate for the presidency
again. The republican papers are wast
ing their time in attacking him and trying
to shtiw hte unfitness for the presidency.
The people have twice shown their con
fidence In him by making him President
and he has served them faithfully and
with conspicuous ability. Ha is not
scheming for a third term.
Northen's Colonisation Scheme.
When ex-Gov. Northen established his
immigration bureau no one thought he
would make such an extraordinary suc
cess of it. Our Atlanta dispatches yes- i
terday stated that he had dosed a con
tract for the sale of 100,000 acres in South
ern Georgia to the Soldiers’ Colony Com- j
pany, and that between now and next '
September this land will be occupied by !
12,000 Immigrants.
These immigrants are not foreigners.
They are Americans and have money with
which to clear the land they have pur- I
chased, and to build good houses, estab- j
Hsh stores, and small manufacturing in
dustries. They are an extremely desirable
class of immigrants. They will be on
the side of law and order, and will erect
churches and school houses. They will
make good citizens and will join heartily
in every effort to build up the country
and promote its prosperity. They are
thrifty people, and within a very few
yeqrs the section of the state in which
they have decided to make their homes
will be dotted with valuable farms, thriv
ing villages and comfortable houses in
which there will be peace, plenty and
happiness.
They are but the vanguard of a vast
army of immigrants that will come to
the south within the next few years
frem the west and east. And Georgia
w|ll get her full share of them. Indeed,
•he ts likely to get much more than her
ehare, because she possesses just the ad
vantages they are seeking. They will be
cordially welcomed, however many of
them thera may be. Ex-Gov .Northen is
to be congratulated upon the success
which la attending hla efforts to settle
the unoccupied lands of the state with
a class of people that will contribute
greatly to the .state s wealth and pros
perity. -
Harvery'* Mt*lendlnsr Arguments.
It is quite clear that Mr. Harvery, the
secretary of the Bimetallic League, and
author of "Coin's Financial School," which
Is just now attracting so much attention,
is not Interested so much in getting the
truth before the people as he is in trying
to force the country to a silver standard
His little book, which is befogging the
minds of so many people, is full of mis
statements and false arguments, which
WIU be fully exposod before the people
have an opportunity to act definitely upon
the silver question. As an illustration of
the kind of arguments that Mr. Harvery
uses take his open letter in reply to the
President’s sound, money letter, published
a few days ago.
In his letter Mr. Harvery says: “The
owners of products must now give up
twice as much property to pay their taxes
as in 1873.” Is this statement true? Corn
is a product, a very great product, one
of the greatest in this country. Does a
farmer have to give up twice as much,
corn to pay the same amount of taxes
now that he paid in 1873? By no means.
At no time in 1873 was th* price of corn
as high as it is now, and in June, 1873, it
would have taken more than twice as
much corn to pay the same amount of
taxes as It takes in this year of 1895, for
corn in June, 1873, was worth in the mar
ket only 27 cents a bushel, and now it is
worth about 54 cents.
And yet there are thousands of people
In this country who are going about quot
ing this man Harvery's book, entitled
“Coin’s Financial School” as financial
truth. No doubt they are sincere, but if
they would examine what he says carefully
they would have no trouble in discovering
that his statements are as reckless as the
one to which we have called attention.
If the silverltes have no better arguments
to sustain their cause than those fur
nished by Harvery and his book they will
be the laughing stock of the country before
this silver campaign'is ended.
Not Satisfied With the Platform.
Who is there who does not remember
that during the last national campaign
the democratic papers that favor the free
coinage of silver asserted aggressively
and persistently that the national demo
cratic plartform was squarely In favor of
free silver coinage? But do they assert
any such thing now? If they do, why is
it that they are applauding the free silver
coinage democrats of Illinois, who have
called a state convention to make a decla
ration in behalf of the free silver coinage?
If the national democratic platform con
tains exactly the declaration in respect
to silver they want, what is their excuse
for calling state conventions? Evidently
there is a lack of frankness and consis
tency in whatJ they say and do. *"
By favoring silver conventions now they
are virtually admitting that they did not
believe what they taught respecting the
silver plank in the national democratic
platform, and if they did not believe what
they taught then, is there not good ground
for questioning their sincerity in respect
to much they are now saying in behalf of
silver? In other words, are they not us
ing arguments and making statements
which they have good reason to believe
are not correct. And if they are doing
that should not the people be on their
guard against them?
For instance, they persistently assert
that the act of by which the silver
uolla>, c... <>f tii._ iNga' colas aMhs-
United Stales, was dropped, was surrep*
titiously passed. Do they not know that
that statement is not true? That act was
not “sneaked” through congress as they
are fond of saying. It would be impossL,
ble to “sneak” such an act through con
gress. The act of 1873 was practically be
fore congress for three years and was
given very careful consideration. And
there were excellent business reasons for
passing it. The silver dollar at the ratio
of 16 to 1 was worth more than the gold
dollar, and therefore it was about impos
sible to keep it in circulation. It was
more valuable, as bullion than as money.
What a pity it is that facts are disre
garded in so important a question as this
one of silver. Is it because the silverltes
have no case that they are constantly
ignoring facts? They must have a very
weak cause, indeed, since they are driven
to manufacturing statements to sustain
it.
Morthero Farmers Moving Mouth.
The movement of northern farmers to
the south Is becoming so marked that
northern papers are commenting on it.
The last issue of Leslie's Illustrated
paper contains an editorial article in
which the subject is quite extensively dis
cussed. From reliable sources the informa
tion Is obtained by the writer of the article
that thousands of farmers of the west
are settling in Georgia, Alabama. Arkan
sas, Florida, North Carolina, South Car
olina, Texas and Virginia. Land agents
in all of these states are not only re
ceiving more inquiries relative to the
location and prices of lands than they
can attend to, *but they are selling lands
rapidly. The opinion is expressed in the
article in question that within ten years
nearly all the vacant lands In the south
ern states will be occupied by a very de
sirable class of settlers.
Georgia seems to be the favorite state
of these northern home seekers. They
are coming to South and Southwest Geor
gia in large numbers, and those who have
secured homes are very well satisfied with
the change they have made. The Morn
ing News has called attention several
times to the rapid development of the
country in afid about Tifton, in Berrien
county. In fact the greater part of the
wire grass section has special attractions
for the new-comers. Each settler is an
immigration agent, because he is so well
satisfied that he advises his friends in the
north to sell out their holdings and join
him.
Gov. Northen has said nothing for a few
days In respect to the colony of ex-federal
soldiers and their families that he expects
will locate somewhere in Middle Georgia,
but we understand that the negotiations
are still pending, and that they are likely
to be successful. There are about 70.000
persons In the colony, and they would
contribute largely to the building up of
the state in which they should settle.
They are greatly attracted by the ad
vantages which Georgia possesses, and if
they should make her the state of their
THE WEEKLY NEWS (TWO-TIMES-A-WEEK): THURSDAY, APRIL 25, 1895.
adoption they would be quickly followed
by thousands of other settlers.
The fact 'that the northern papers are
noticing the movement of northern farm
ers to the south shows that the movement
has already attained large proportions.
The more they say about it the greater
the movenient will become. And with
the immigrants will come industries of
one kind and another. Then years h£nce
the appearance of the south will be very
different from what It is now.
1 *
PERSONAL. I
.~ D £ Charles Montezuma, a full-blooded
says the only way to civilize the
Indians is to place them in direct contact
with the whites and compel them, to earn
their living by the sweat of the own
brows.
—Sarah Bernhardt’s latest role Is that
. Pdncesse Lointaine, the heroine
of a four-act play in verse by M. Ros
taud It is founded on the story of the
Geffroy Rudel, who fell in
love with -the Princess of Tripoli from
the fame of her beauty, and died on
coming into her presence.
—Albert Morris Bagby, who has been
as a possible successor to
Ward .McAllister a arbiter of social ele
n£ es ’ ’ s a y°b n S man on the shady-side
of 80 who has had a singularly successful
career in music and society In New York,
and who has recently made a promising
debut as an author. Mr. Bagby is a na
tive of Illinois, where his father was a
judge, and he was destined for the law, but
he chose wisely when he went to Weimar
to study with Liszt. He is a man of en
gaging personality, tactful, clever and
thoroughly versed in the fine art of living,
as society understands it.
—The gold mine said to have the largest
output of any in the world is the “Little*
Johnny,” of Leadville, Col., owned by John
F. Campion. He went to Leadville and
took up the “Little Johnny” after four
other miners had abandoned it because
they could not find a trace of carbonates.
When he was a poor prospector, two years.
ago, he became acquainted with a school
teacher, Miss Nellle , May Daly. He could
not marry her because he was too poor,
but with an income of $300,000 a year,
W’hich he now has, that obstacle has been
removed, and they were married in Den
ver on Monday last. He has ordered the
construction of a residence there to cost
SIOO,OOO.
BRIGHT BITS. ” .
—A man may smile and smile, but If
he doesn’t quit he will see snakes.—Texas
Siftings.
—You never know how fond you are of
a boy until you become engaged to his
sister.—Tit-Bits.
—^Manager—lsn't Jenkinl a tenor?
Agent—That’s whait he claims to be, but
he isn’t really more than a fiver.—lndia
napolis Journal.
—Spencer*-They say that Dick Stryklt
married a cold million.
Ferguson—Yes; his wife was a Boston
heiress.—Puck.
—Clana— You haven't seen my engage
ment ring yet, have you?
, Maude—l don't know. Who is the man?
—Brooklyn Life.
—A maiden lady In Newburg keeps a
parrot which swears and a monkey which
chews tobacco. She says between the
two she doesn’t miss a husband very
much.—Atchison Globe.
—Tailor (to apprentice): What should
you do if a man came to you with one
leg shorter than the other?
Apprentice: I should pull his leg for
him.—Boston Transcript.
—She: It will be a pleasure for me to
share your troubles and anxieties.
He: But I haven't any.
She: Oh, you will have when we are
married.—Texas Siftings. ,
—Chicago Visitor—What would you do
if you was me?
Boston Madd—Wedl, the first thing I’d
do. L believe, would be to take a few- les
sons in grammar —Detroit Free Press.
—Already the small boy. dreams of the !
,’a.y-ar"w_ _ . J , !
When to the river he can scoot
And enjoy himself in divert ways
In a Trilby bathing suit.
Indianapolis Journal.
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Candidates and “Doubtful** States.
From the Boston Post (Dem.).
Presidential candidates this year have
been mentioned from almost every state
and some of the best of these candidates
hail from states that are not "doubtful.”
It might not be a bad thing next year for
both of the great parties to nominate
their candidates from states that are not
"pivotal.” Geographical considerations
have too long controlled the selection of
candidates.
Sound Money in Georgia.
From the <Macon, Telegraph (Dem.)
An attempt has been made by the
free silver press to convey the impression
that there is practically no opposition to
the free silver movement in Georgia.
This attempt is mere political strategy
When the test comes it will be found that
the sentiment among Georgia democrats
in favor of maintaining in this country
as good money as is current in any other
country is exceedingly strong. We be-
J le X® U is strong enough to elect a ma
jority of the delegates to the convention.
That it Is very strong Is admitted by*
Chairman Clay when he says that opposed
F.° tree coinage resolutions will be found
a solid and determined opposition, made
HP men who will never surrender
their convictions on this question
most of them at heart friendly to silver
money, but advocating other means of se
curing it than those arbitrarily set forth
by out-and-out free coinage men.”
They Snap Action.
From the New York Post (Ind.).
,J£ bo free-coinage men plainly betray
lenß,0 i n that thorough dlscus
r .uS the lssue ISI" 1 * state ' v ’>l fatal
to their cause. The tactics which thev ;
have adopted in Illinois show their con- ■
viction that the only hope of success is
In a snap judgment. The call for a state :
convention a few weeks hence to define
the position of the party on the silver
issue was sent out by a minority of the I
state committee, after a meeting which
had not been publicly called. The fac
tion who thus carried the call for the
convention are now pulling wires In the
various counties to have the primaries
called at a very early day, with the view
of preventing a full consideration of the i ,
questions involved. It is perfectly plain
that the free-coinage men are afraid
that they could not carry the state if on
portunity for deliberation were afforded
and that they realize that their only hone
lies in snap caucuses and a snap conven
tion. There could not be better evidence
of the essential weakness of the sliver
craze.
Strength of the Stiver Position.
From the New Orleans Picayune (Dem.).
If It should so happen that congress shall
decree that all public and private debt*
shall be paid with silver dollars on a
basis of silver monometallism, that
would be an act of partial repudiation on
the part of the government, but it would
not be in the case of the individuals who
should take advantage of the opportunity
to scale their debts one-half. On the con
trary, it is scarcely possible that there will
be found any who would refuse to take
advantage of the opportunit.v to pay their
debts and then employes, too, at one-half
the actual amount due. This la the argu
ment of the silver monometalUsts, and
when addressed to the debtor farmers of
the west. It Is simply unanswerable. Ap
peals to reason against such a showing
are simply futile. Every man whose home
or farm is burdened with a mortgage
would, eagerly catch at any opportunity
which would enable him, without commit
ting an act of personal dishonesty, to pay
it off at half price. To these unfortunate
debtors, talk of bimetallism means noth
ing. but silver monometallism means
everything. Here is the great strength of
the silver position, and. whether the sup
position on which It is baaed be true or
false, it cannot be weakened so long as
the hope of paying debts with 59-cent dol
lars is cherished But there are other
classes—the enormous body of people
whose homes are not mortgaged, and who
work for wages. They need the best money
to he had in any country, and they may
listen to reason.
Resented the Test.
It was late when the Pitcher street man
came home, and notwithstanding he walk
ed In with a smile and sat down on the
other side of the lamp stand from his wife,
and picked up a newspaper, as men do
when they come home, she, "for some un
accountable reason, suspected him, says
the Detroit Free Press. She looked up
over her work at him two or three times,
and finally spoke:
“By the way, John,” she said, “will you
do me a favor?”
"Certainly, my dear; what is It?” said
John.
♦“I want you to say this for me: ‘Gaze
on the gay gray brigade.’ ”
“Graze on the gray gay bigrade,” replied
John, triumphantly.
“IJovely/’ she exclaimed. "Now try*
this one: ‘Give Grimes Jim’s gilt gig
whip.’-”
“Grive Jimes Grim’s gig jilt whip,” re
sponded John, as glibly as you please.
“Excellent, excellent,” she cried. “Now
this one: ‘Sarah in a shawl shoveled soft
snow softly.’ ”
He shivered a little, but never let on.
“Sarah in a shawl soveled shoft snow
softly,” he said, with oratorical effect.
“Oh, you dear old thing.’ she laughed.
Now, one more, and then I won’t trouble
you again.”
“No trouble, I assure you, my dear,”
said John. “Go ahead.”
“Well, say this: ‘Say, should such a
lovely sash such shabby stitches show.’ ”
John gave a great gasp. "My dear,” he
said slowly, ”1 begin to shuspect that you
shuspicion me; but you are
entlrely mistaken, and I positively decline
to pose further as a pronouncing diction
ary. You have observed that I have made
a shueshess as far as I have gone, but
there is a limit, and the next thing I know
you will be asking me to say ‘the scene
was tuly rural,’ a thing I never could say
without getting pay tongue twisted, and
you will think your shuspicions are well
grounded, when you ought to know they
are not,” and Jqhn buried himself with his
newspaper and utterly refused to hear any
further appeals from the other side of the
table.
This Was in Illinois.
He is employed in a wholesale house in
Chicago, and has a remarkably good opin
ion of himself and all that pertains or be
longs to him, says the Chicago Post. What
he has is just about right, and if it differs
in any respect from what others have,
so much the worse for the others. Some
of his fellow-clerks had been investing
In new hats, and he could not quite ap
prove of them. They were of the latest
style, of course, but then they were ratner
common, he thought. So he went out
and bought a silk hat that he considered
just the correct thing. At any rate, it is
described as being unique.
“What do you think of it?” he asked of
one of the others plerks.
“Well, I don’t know that I quite like
it,” replied the clerk, cautiously.
“Like it!” he exclaimed. "Why, it’s the
latest thing out. I wouldn’t be found
dead with a hat like yours. It’s common.
Every second man you see on the street
has one like it.”
Then he made similar remarks to the
other clerks, until they decided that it
was time to retaliate. They took the ne
gro porter out and bought him a dupli
cate of the silk hat owned by the self
sufficient young man; and when the lat
ter arrived at the store the next day he
found the porter working near his desk
with a silk hat on his head. He tried to
ignore it, but before long the porter looked
up fitom his work and exclaimed:
”Fo’ de Lawd, es you ain’t done, gone
an’ boughten a hat jest like mine!”
The clerk abandoned his desk tempor
arily, but wherever he went the porter
and his silk hat loomed up before him.
Both are still looming up on every possi
ble occasion. And the other clerks are
simply watching the two and saying noth
ing.
It isn’t necessary to say anything.
The Boston Boy Explains.
"Apropos of the peculiarly American
tendency to explain things,” he was say
ing, according to the Toledo Blade, “there
occurs to my mind the attempt some
times made to account for the deriva
tion of- the compound word Welsh-rabbit.
1 regret to notice that Webster falls into
the common error of considering the word
rabbit a corruption of rarebit. Now, as
shown by lexicographers who have had
the advantage of a technical acquaint
with facts relating to the origin of-,
♦be a slang
term him "n&i. u- rLpttdh -tfe Ab. It
never was anything but Welsh -rabbit,
and in its genesis it wiy> essentially a
slang term, yet, by reaWh of Its long
habitude in the language, it has lost or
outgrown what might be called the coarse
ness of its origin, and it is now entitled
to a place in the accepted vocabulary
without an apology omfanciful explana
tion. in proof of this I may cite other
example, notably”—-
"Wendell,” interrupted the mother of
the little Boston bby, "you weary the
lady with your chatter. Run out now and
play awhile."
He Was a ’Piscopnllun.
An Episcopal clergyman passing his va
cation in Indiana struck an old farmer
Who declared that he was a ‘ ’Pisco
pal,” says the New York Tribune. "To
wha,t parish do you belong?” asked the
minister. “Don’t know anything ’bout en
ny parish,” was the answer “Well, then,”
continued the clergyman, "what diocese
do you belong to?” “They ain’t nawthin’
like that ’round here," said the farmer.
“Who confirmed you, then?” was the
next question. “Nobody,” answered the
farmer “Then how are you an Episco
palian?” asked the clergyman. “Well,”
was the reply, “you see, it’s this way.
Last whiter I went down to Arkansas
visitin’, and while I was there I went to
church, and It was called ‘Piscopaj,’ and
I he’nd them say ‘that they’d left un
done the things what they oughter done,’
and I says to myself, says 1, ’That’s my
fix, exac’ly,’ and ever since I considered
myself a Piacopaliaai." The clergyman
shook thq old fellow’s hand, and laugh
ingly said.*. “Now I understand, my friend,
why the inembership of our church Is so
large.”
Russell Sage and His Trou«er».
Henry Clews the other day told a char
acteristic story of Riwssell Sage, says the
New York Press.
“I was going up town on the elevated
with Mr. Sage about five years ago,” he
said, "and we got talking about the
changes in the fashions and how they
traveled tn a Circle. Trousers, for in
stance, I said, were sometimes tight at
the knee and big around at the feet; some
times big at the knee and smhll at the
bottom; sometimes small throughout their
length and sometimes large; and then, in
a few years, the shapes were repeated
Mr. Sage listened attentively. I met him
a few days ago and he said: ‘Clews, do
you remember what you said that day
about fashions in trousers repeating them
selves? ‘Yes,’ I answered. ‘Well, that’s
true,’ he said, slapping his leg; ‘now
here’s the pair of trousers 1 had on that
day, and I ve been wearing them, wait
ing to see if you were right; and, sure
enough, the fashion has just come round
again.’ ” s -
An Important Question.
The rough man from the wild south
west was seated at the same time in the
hotel with a nice, little gentleman from
New York, as daintv as a flower, and he
had just struck an oasis of pie in the des
sert and was subdividing it with his
knife, says the Detroit Free Press. The
little man became so absorbed in watch
ing him eat that pie as to attract the
ro’jgh man’s attention
“What you watchin’ me fer?" askert
the rough man fiercely.
“Merely to settle lb Important question
in my mind,” replied the little man, as
brave as & lion.
“What’s the question?” said tti>. rough
man, hitting the table with his fist.
“Well,’’ replied the Httle mam, “I wanted
to find out whether you were eating your
pie with yoor knife, or eating your knife
with yeur pie.*
~~—r
The Rival.
This is the hardest of my fate— ,
She’s better whom he doth prefer
Than I am, that he worshipped late
As well as so much prettier,
So much more fortunate!
He’ll not repent it—you will see
She’ll never give him sause to grieve.
I dream that he comes back to me.
Leaving her; but he’ll never leave.
Hopelessly sweet is she!
So that if in my place she stood
She’s spare to curse him; she’d forgive.
I loathe her, but I know she would.
—Fogg has named his cat Napoleon, be
cause. a* he says, a cat has so many lives.
—Boston Transcript.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
—A valuable walnut tree which stood in
the center of the gardens of Garvock,
near Dunning, was blown down during tho
recent storms. The tree was the largest
of its kind, in Scotland. Some years ago
the laird was offered £IOO for it, but re
fused it.
—ln London there are about 170 piano
forte factories. Over 1,300 shops and fac
tories in the metropolis are devoted to,
the supplying of musical goods of all
sorts. Throughout the provinces there
are 3,000 musical establishments of vari
ous kinds.
—Lace is a fabric that can quietly be
made to represent large amounts of money.
The Astors have been cred'iited with own
ing lace worth $3,000,060, and the Vander
bilts value •their laces at $5,000,000. The
Pope is said to be content with only $75,-
000 represented in lace and the Princess
of Wales can boast of only the modest
sum of $250,000 expended in the dainty
meshes.
—A Philadelphian who has been visiting
Jamaica says that the photographer of
the party induced a group of native girls
to pose for him. .After arranging them to
his satisfaction, he prevailed upon one of
the other girls to take a peep through the
camera. What she saw quite astonished
her, and she lost no time in imparting to
the posers the fact that she had seen
them all standing on their heads. The
effect was ludicrous. When the photograph
was taken, it revealed each maiden fran
tically clutching her skirts about her
knees, while a look of great distress ap
peared upon each black countenance.
—Preyer, the German student of the
child’s mind, taught his son of 2 years
so distinguish primary colors by means
of small ovals each of a different color.
A student of Preyer’s book, has hit upon
a less scientific, but more practical scheme
of teaching .the same- thing to a little
child by means of flowers and other nat
ural objeetjs. The difficulty, of course,
is to be sure of uniformity of color :n
natural objects throughout the year. Even
a very young child soon learns to disso
ciate thft idea of color from the object
Itself when a yellow pansy, a red rose
or a blue violet is presented after a drill
with different colored flowers.of the same
kind. A red rose and a yellow rose are
quickly recog'nized and differentiated, and
the quality of color is accentenuated when
a red rose and a yellow pansy are brought
to the child’s attention. Blind persons
distinguish color by touch. Musician's
have named tones by colors. Intelligent
childhood draws jthe color line early.
The locks on the mail-pouches are so
constructed that It is impossible to open
one without its betraying the secret.
There is a little dial on the look and
every time the lock is opened the figures
on the dial move up one. Suppose, for
instance, that the register shows 1,147 at
the point of departure, and that when'
the pouch is delivered at the point of
destination the 'lock is opened, the regis
ter will then, show 1,148. This increase
of one 1s made for each trip of the pouch
and eventually the number reached is
9,999, which in an average bag requires
thirty-three years to reach. The bag is
then taken apart and the numbers are
reset. These locks were first introduced in
1881 and a mail clprk made a .'bold at
tempt to rob a bag in transit, soon after
the4r introduction. He (took la. small
turning lathe In the mail car with him
to aid in the scheme. After unlocking
the bag he rifled the contents and con
nected up the lathe to the lock. His
idea was to twist the numbers around
until they were the same as before the
lock was touched. He set the lathe
humming and soon reeled off the numbers
up to 9,999, when to his Consternation the
register remained at that figure aaxl re
fused to move any more. The lock must
be taken apart before it will start No. 1
again, but he did not know this. The
trick was, of course, discovered and the
guilty clerk punished. Since then the
locks have never been tampered with.
—Says a writer in the Popular Science
Monthly: “Among the curiosities of
thought which the physician meets with,
uneirpected perceptions suddenly appear
ing before the mind with the same vivid
ness as ordinary perceptions, but without
any accompanying external excitant, are
net uncommon. A person may look at an
empty chair and yet see a familiar form
seated in that chair, and may even hear
remarks made by this imaginary figure,
and not doubt for n. moment tnat the
sctvrul 1 hsye wsen ‘
p<=K’»ons talking' With sugh iffiavicarj tu
dividuals and have had them assure ms
that they were- as tswe of their preseaeff
and of t<helr voices, as .they were of my
own. I haw seen persons manifest the
greatest alarm at the presence of animals
about them, and refuse to- believe from
assurance that those animals were net
there. A young woman, having once been
frightened by the sudden presentation to
her of a white mouse, has been troubled
for years by seeing this mouse running
about her, upon her clothing, upon any
thing she is handling, and even upon her
food; and, as a result, she is in a state
of constant agitation and perplexity,
though at times convinced that thia is the
product of her mind. She washes her
hands and her clothing frequently be
cause she is convinced that this animal
has made them .dirty; and she cannot
divest herself of the belief that it is real.
I have been sometimes able to convince
persons that such fancied figure® were
not real by asking them to push one eye
ball up a little with the finger. This makes
all objects about them seem double, as
anvone can prove to himself, but it does
not double the false image—the product of
the mind. The yoijng woman just men
tioned was much comforted by this ad
vice.”
—The five-fingered orange is a queer
thing, says the Boston Journal of Com
merce. It grows in exactly the shape of
a human hand, with a thumb and four
fingers. It is a half open hand, that of
this curious fruit, and the close resem
blance to a lean, long-nailed Chinese
hand is startling. Even the nails are
identical, hard pointed and claw-like, tip
ping the oragne fingers with a length
equal in soma cases tb three Inches. It is
no Interloper in a well regulated family
of oranges, but a regular member, be
longing to the osage variety. It has a
family name and a Christian name of its
own, but its pet name is ”five-fingered or
ange,” and nobody but the botanist cares
to call it by the long one which means the
same thing. The tree Itself is a ragged
little shrub that does not average more
than five or six feet in hlght. It does not i
grow straight, as a properly behaved
tree is supposed to do, but is curved ev- I
erywhere. It would be very difficult to
find two consecutive inches In the entire i
tree whose line of direction is the same. ;
Even the branches grow in spiral form?,
so that the width of the tree is often as j
great as the high:. There *is a generous
supply of thorns hidden under the leaves,
and they are thorns that mean business.
The fruit itself is of a light yellow color,
a pure lemon hue, growing greenish to
ward the stem. The size is immense,
considered relatively to other oranges or
to the size of the tree, the largest ones
measuring when mature fully ten inches
from the wrist to the point of the mid
dle finger, including the nail. The fruit i
is not edible—none of the osage variety
—but what it lacks in being unable to '
tickle the palate it mofe than makes good 1
in perfume. The strangest thing connect- i
ed with the perfume is that it is the '
fruit and not the flower that is most
odorous. The fruit when ripe is so redol
ent that its scent can be recognized a. full
mile from where the oragne is growing.
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THE NEWS IN GEORGIA.
Gathered From Correspondent* and
Excliantren.
-Ex-Congressman Cabaniss has gone to
vv ashingion to report for duty as a mem
ber of the Dawes Indian commission. The
position pays $5,000 per annum.
R. C. Keen, of Macon county, has ar
ranged to sell this melons at $35 per car
and a division of the profits above that
sum. He says he can make money at
that price and is planting for 100 car loads.
A gentleman of Fort Valley who owns
sixty acres in peaches on which he has
between 7,000 and 10,000 trees, has been
offered $1,500 for the peaches as they
stood, the purchaser to gather and case
them. This offer was refused, as the
owner believes he can get more for them.
Mrs. O. E. Lowe of Americus, is criti
cally ill at her residence on Lee street,
and grave fears for her recovery are en
tertained. A day or two ago she took a
quantity of corrosive sublimate, a deadly
poison, and though physicians have used
every means to counteract the effects of
the drug it is feared their efforts will be
in vain. No cause is assigned for the deed.
Wiggle Dean, a negro woman of Colum
bus, was attacked Friday afternoon by
an unknown white man at her home,
and, though not seriously injured, was
badly beaten. The woman’s assailant was
unknown to her. and haxi the appearance
of a traveler. He carried a small grip in
his hand, from which, on entering the
house, he took two large pistols. These
he threw' into the woman’s face, threaten
ing to take her life. She at once «fled,
running from room to room until she
was finally caught by him, when she re
ceived a severe beating. A neighbor see
ing what had happened ran to the bar
racks Where an officer was detailed to go
to the scene of trouble. On his arrival
there he found the neighborhood in a
state of wild excitement, while the un
known man. who is supposed to be crazy,
had completely disappeared.
.Elberton Star: A practical joke was
played on several of our citizens in con
nection with the creamery. It was re
ported on the streets that free lunches
were being served down at the cream
ery and John Bailey got some old lunch
tickets used during the last election and
scattered them around. Several made a
break at once for the creamery, armed
with their tickets, to test the quality of
cheese turned out by Elberton’s latest
industry. Capt. Burch and Mr. Shumate
closed their stores and went down to get
free lunch. One man possessed himself of
two tickets and gave onV- to his friend
that he might feast also. Visions of green
pastures and fat cattle feeding therein
rose before them and tended to whet their
appetites for fresh cheese, which they
thought awaited their arrival, but picture
to your mind if you can the disappoint
ment of those who had gone to the cream
ery when they found their tickets to be
w’orthless and that they had been made
the butt of a joke. The woebegone looks
they wore on their faces told the story
too well and Capt. Henry returned home
by another route rather than face the
music up town.
Brunswick Times-Advertiser: City
Clerk L. O Bodet put $116.67 in cash in
his pocket Saturday morning and went
to Collector Thomas W. Lamb’s office in
the custom house. The $116.67 was the
amount fixed by the city council as due
Mr. Lamb for unpaid salary from Jan. 1 to
Feb. 5, 1894. The council directed Clerk
Bodet to .make the ex-mayor the legal
tender, and he called on him for that
purpose. Mr. Lamb refused to take the
amount tendered. “I will accept it on ac
count, leaving a balance due,” he told
Clerk Bodet. Clerk Bodet, however, de
clined to ply the money unless a receipt
“in full for all demands” was given him.
This Mr. Lamb refused to give. Ex-
Mayor Lamb's refusal to accept the money
was based on the fact, that he claims
S6OO more than the council voted him.
His claim was for full salary, SIOO per
month, from Jan. 1 to the date when his
resignation w'as handed tn, July, 1894.
The city council, however, voted on the
advice of the city attorney, that he. was
only entitled to salary to Feb. 5, W'hen he
took the oath as collector of customs,
the city code prohibiting the mayor from
holding two offices. Mr. Lamb intends
bringing suit against the city for the
amount he claims, and says he w’iil carry
the ease to the supreme court if neces- ,
sary. ’
t Athens Bunner: "At a certain residence
or, "X'Wn£.r avenue there live® n jesimg.
bachelor who is devoted to flowers. He is.
in fact a very expert and successful florist,’
and horticulturist. He has paid unusual
attention to the cultivation of a beautiful
species of hyacinth. One morning last
week he noticed that a thief had slipped
in during the night and stolen ■some of
his best specimens. He accordingly de
cided that the visits would more than like
ly be repeated again, so he bought at a
hardware store a very ingenuously ar
ranged burglar alarm. It consists of an
electric battery and a number of cart
ridges, and the apparatus can be so ar
ranged that the thief while groping around
strikes against the wires in such a manner
that the cartridge# explode and bullets
begin to whiz in all directions. This en
thusiastic florist decided in his mind that
a flower thief was the most despicable
kind of a criminal, so he carefully set this
burglar trap, with the wires and cart
ridges hid away in the leaves and bushes.
Late that night the sounds of ten shots
followed by the scared yells of four men
and the rapid beating of their feet on the
ground as they disappeared around a cor
ner. awoke the whole neighborhood. The
florist ran to the window with a Winches
ter intending to make sure of what was
left of those yet in reach, but the scared
rascals had disappeared front sight. The
trap W'as set again and it will be many
moons before any of those thieves steal
flowers again. *
Albany Herald: John Johnson, one of
the prosperous farmers of East Dougher
ty, and Morris Mayer, the well-known
merchant of this city, were dickering
over a cotton trade all day Thursday.
Mr. Johnson had 63 bales of cotton which
he had been holding over from last year’s
crop for an advance in the market. Mr.
Mayer had offered him 5% cents a pound
for it, and Mr. Johnson wanted 6. Finally
Mr. Johnson proposed that they “throw
heads and tails” to settle the difference
and close the trade. “Good!” said Mr.
Mayer—“it’s a go.” A coin was to be
tossed up—the old game of “heads and
tails”—and if Mr. Johnson won he was to
get 6 cents for his cotton, and if Mr.
Mayer won he was to have the cotton at
5% cents. A silver half dollar, furnished
by J. G. Laßoque of the Alliance ware
house, was tossed up, and Mr. Johnson
won. And Mr. Mayer paid Mr. Johnson
6 cents a pound for his 63 bales of cotton.
The difference between the two men set
tled by the toss of a coin was nearly S2OO.
Friday some of the members of the grand
jury heard of the transaction, and during
a lull in business Messrs. Mayer and
Johnson were summoned to appear before
that body and were put through a rigid
examination as to whether they knew any
thing about any gambling. After putting
them through a regular “course of
sprouts” and fastening the transaction
above related upon the witnesses, a mo
tion was generously made by one of the
jurors and promptly carried by the whole
body, that they be “excused this time, ’
provided they send up a box of good cl- :
gars.” The grand jury got the box of ci
gars.
A Dublin special to the Atlanta Consti
tution saws: “On Friday morning two
white men, named James Chipley and
Thomas Hightower, residing at Lovett,
went to the house of William Moore, a
colored lad. and asked him to accompany
them to the swamp for the purpose of
identfying a certain shoe track which
they believed was Moore's. Moore stren
uously objected at first, but afterward
went with them. A short distance from i
the house the men belabored the boy over i
the head with pistols and Injured him
severely. On reaching Cox’s crossing, the
trio stopped for refreshments. The men
were intoxicated, and entered the store
of J. W. Cox, taking the negro with them.
Here the negro became obstinate and re- <
fused to go any further until he was again
struck with the pistols. Opposite the store <
the boy picked up an ax and struck Chip
ley a terrific blow on the arm. This an
gered Hightower, who, seeing the negro
flee, fired several times at tne runaway
with a Winchester. The bail took ef
fect in the negro’s thigh, making a mor
tal wound. At the time of the fusilade, a
wagon, loaded with turpentine, drawn by
two mules, was on the way to the river.
One of the bails struck a mule, from
which he died in three hours. AH this
transpired near a colored schoolhouse.
The balls coming in close proximity to
the building. caußed the teacher and
children to rush from the house pell-mell,
and several o i f the children ware injured.
Warrants have been issued for the ar
rest of t.he men. Chipley is a son of Rev.
John Chipley A prominent Baptist minis
ter, and High.*wer is a son of an influen
tial citizen.”
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ROUND ABOUT IN FLORIDA. U
The »ewg of the State (Told i«
Paragraphs.
B. L. Baldwin of Gainesville has been
allowed a patent upon his new refrigera
ator car. Before the death of Superinten
dent Fleming Mr. Baldwin had arranged
with the Savannah, Florida and Western
for manufacturing the cars. Since his
death, however, Mr. Baldwin does not
know What arrangements will be made
for manufacturing the cars. This has
been declared one of 'the finest models
for refrigerator cars ever patented.
Doc Leggins, who lives near Dry Prai
rie, in Alachua county, and who cultivates
a strawberry patch, Is in trouble. He
sold his crop to G. F. Sickles, who paid
him an advance upon them. He carried
some berries to Gainesville the other day
and sold them to some other parties. Mr.
Sickles had him arrested. He was held
in SIOO 'bond to appear before Justice Col
man to-day, when he will have a prelim
inary hearing.
The pineapple Industry along the east
coast of Florida evidently looks brighter
and more encouraging than most people
would imagine. George C. Matthams,
manager of the Florida Pineapple Com
pany of West Palm Beach, and one of the
best posted men in the business, in a
recent letter says that their pineapples
have escaped well through the late freezes,
and they hope to ship as many or more
pineapples this season than they did
last. All their plants are sending up
numerous suckers, and are growing splen
didly.
Tampa Times: The passenger elevator
in the Frist National Bank building is
the first ever seen in Tampa and is an ob
ject of great curiosity to many of the na
tives. A few days ago a gawky country;
boy of about 18 years was vending straw
berries in front of the bank, when a well
known real estate agent told him he
wanted two quarts. He asked the boy to
take them up to his office, and led the
way to. the elevator The boy stopped
mouth open, with astonishment, in front
of the elevator. Twice he was told to step
in before he would then he
stepped just into the doorway. The ele
vator boy could not close the door, and
urged again, the country youth moved
half a step. The elevator began to move,
so did 'the boy. Before anyone could stop
him he leaped out backward landing on
his head In a deluge of strawberries that
carpeted the hallway. He fell about four
feet amid the laughter of the office men.
Later on he refused to deliver the straw
berries, eVen by the stairway in the bank
building.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
Henry W. Boyd, oldest son of Coun
ty Treasurer Boyd of Newberry, died
Wednesday morning.
The movement to organize the Sumter
Manufacturing Company with a capital
of SIOO,OOO is well under way.
L. Frank Shuford, a white school teach
er, is lying in the York county jail on
the charge of having attempted a crim
inal assault on one of his pupils.
The secretary of state has Issued a
commission to the West End Bath House
Company of Charleston, the corporators
being C. W. Bailey, E. A. Denning and C.
E. Prioleau. The capital stock, $2,500.
A commission has been issued to tha
Furman Robb Company of Greenville.
The company proposes to manufacture
smoking and plug tobacco and cigars and
cigarettes. Capital SIO,OOO, with right to
increase \to $20,000.
C. A. Floyd, a resident of the upper
portion of Newberry county, killed a ne
gro Friday who w’as advancing on him
with rocks in his hand. The’negro’s name
was Jake Coleman. The coroner’s ver
dict was justifiable homicide.
Fred Nix, Jr., of reconstruction noto
riety, was shot and mortally wounded by
B. R. Carroll Friday afternoon at 2:30
o’clock in front of the postoffice at Black
ville. The difficulty arose from Nix post
ing an article on the bulletin board at
the postoffice, at which Carroll took of
fense. »
Assistant Attorney General Townsend
returned to Columbia Saturday morning
from Aiken, where he went to assist in
the prosecution of County Treasurer Mur
ray, who several years ago was short
about $17,000 in his accounts. He reported
that Murray had been acquitted in both
cases. IL. ■
The state supreme court has just de*
eiu.-.i that a judgment <- f divorce. ’’.ranted '
a wife in another state against a husband
in this state, to which judgment such
husband neither appeared, answered or
demurred, while that judgment was: pend
ing, is not recognized as a valid divorce
in South Carolina, and such divorced wife
does not lose her right of dower.
Adeline Williams and Mandah Quarles
were tried at Aiken Friday for the mur
der of Louis Williams by striking him on
the head and breaking his skull. Adeline
Williams was found guilty of manslaugh
ter; recommended to the mercy of the
court. Mandah Quarles was found “not
guilty.” The prisoners were then brought
into court and sentenced. Marion Toole,
convicted of manslaughter, was sentenced
to eight years In the penitentiary. Ade
line Williams, for the same offense, got
two years.
At Charleston Thursday morning the
police captured John Salters, Francis Kin
loch and James Evans, colored, and
lodged them in the Central station charg
ed with entering the store of J. J.
O’Rourke, 447 King street, on Wednes
day, overpowering the clerk and helping
themselves to various articles. John Sal
ters was recognized as the party who
shot James May in the leg with a. pistol
in Columbia on Monday last, and on
this charge also he will be tried at tha
court of sessions.
Tuesday morning Mrs. Clair Taylor, who
lives in the Cardarelli building. In Lady
street,at Columbia.was on the front piazza
leaning against the railing when it sud
denly gave way, precipitating her to the
ground. Mrs. Taylor struck the edge of
a cellar door with her head, receiving a
severe wound. Medical attention was
promptly supplied. and It was
found that the wound was
about five or six inches long. The char
acter of the wound could not be told, and
it is not known how if will result.
Superintendent of Education W.D. May
field Is endeavoring to supplant the in
stitute system of summer educational
work among the teachers in the state,
by the summer school system. His idea
is to get all the leading educational in
stitutions to hold summer schools and do
away with the county institutes in the
counties In which they are located and
those counties adjacent thereto, thus leav
ing the institute system to be operated
only in a few outlying counties. Spartan
burg has given Assurance of one there.
Columbia State: In 1890 County Treas
urer J. E. Murray of Aiken county was
found to be a defaulter to the extent of
$15,000. He was forthwith indicted for
breach of trust, but the case has been
postponed from time to time for one reas
on and another. Now, however, Mr. Mur
ray is to stand his trial on the criminal
charge. His sureties have made good the
shortage and the county has lost nothing.
It has always been believed that Mr. Mur
ray was the victim of others and that he
derived no benefit from the misappropri
ated money.
The secretary of state has issued com
missions to two new colored companies in.
Barnwell county, as follows: The Colored
Mutual Building, Loan and Trust Compa
ny of South Carolina, at Allendale, the
corporators of which are Joseph A. Ow
ens, William Watts and M. A. Johnson.
The capital stock is SIOO,OOO, divided into
shares of SIOO each. The Colored Joint
Stock Company of South Carolina, of Al
lendale, the corporators of which are-Jo
seph A. Owens, William Watts, T. S.
Myerss and M. A. Johnson. The object of
the corporation is to provide relief funds
for the members of the families of de
ceased members, etc. The capital stock
Is to be $1,000,000, divided into 100,000 shares
of $lO each, payable in monthly Install
ments of 25 cents.
At Columbus Thursday afternoon Post
master Wade Leaphart of Lewiedale was
brought before United States Commis
sioner Bauskett upon a warrant sworn
out by Postoffice Inspector Peer, charg
ing him with violation of the United
States postal laws, in that there was an
alleged shortage of $169 in the money or
der department of his office. He claims
that his office was robbed of the money.
Under the law the postmaster has six
months in which to make good any
amount of which his office has been
robbed or give satisfactory explanation.
The government authorities claim that
this time has elapsed since the alleged
robbery, end Mr. Leaphart has done
nothing. Commissioner Bauskett sent
the case up to the United States courL
fixing tne bond at SSOO,