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Whnt the People Want.
The great majority of those who are in
favor of the free coinage of silver at the
ratio of 16 to 1 do not care anything about
silver. The proof that they don’t want
that kind of money is shown by the fact
that there are hundreds of millions of dol
lars of it In the vaults of the treasury, and
the treasury officials are unable to get it
into circulation. The people'don’t want
silver and they won’t have It as long as
they can get other kind» of money. Only
recently the state school commissioner
asked the teachers if they would not ac
cept silver. He told them he could have
them paid in that kind of money without
any discount on their warrants. Nearly
all of them refused it.
What the people who are demanding'
free silver coinage want Is more money,
not silver money. And they want the ad
ditional money to bo Just as good as our
present money is—that is, just as good as
gold.
Representatives Maddox and Livingston
of this state, who are recognized as sil
verltes, were interviewed in Washington
last week, and both of them said that
what the people of Georgia want Is an in
crease of the volume of money In circula
tion,and that they favor free silver coin
age because they think It would Increase
(he volume of money. When Messrs.
Maddox and Livingston speak of the peo
ple of Georgia In connection with the sil
ver question they mean of bourse those
Who are crying out for the free coinage
®f silver.
There is a good deal of truth tn tne
Statement that what the great majority
of those who are favoring free silver coin
age want is more money, and not free sll-.
{er coinage. They have an Idea that if*
the volume of money was greater they
would be able to get more money and get
it at less cost. And they are demanding
free silver coinage because they have
been led to believe that it would increase
the volume of money in circulation.
They are beginning to understand that*
they have been misled In this matter.
They are gradually grasping the fact that
the making of the coinage of silver free
would be followed by a reduction of the
Volume of the money in circulation because
U would cause all the gold to disappear,
and the money that would remain would
he debased money, having only about half
the purchasing power the present curren
tly has. When they grasp this fact fully
they will not be as rampant sllverltes as
they now are, and the silver craze will
cease to be epidemic. If they will take
the trouble to read the Covington and
Memphis speeches of Secretary Carlisle
they will see, beyond a doubt, that If what
they want is more sound money they don’t
Want th© coinage of silver made free.
There are of course sllverltes who want
the coinage of silver rnado free for what
(they would make out of it. They are sil
ver mine owners and dealers in exchange.
The great cost of silver production is the
labor in minlnj and milling the silver ore.
By paying labor the same wages now
paid, but in depreciated silver money,
tthey could make silver mining very profi
table. The genuine sllverltes therefore
are the silver mine owners and exchange
dealers, and associated with them are pol
iticians who hope to use the silver erase
to get prominence and office. And these
are the ones who are misleading the peo-*
pie.
Why Christ Was Crucified.
According to the teachings of the Scrip
tures, Christ suffered death upon the cross
In order that all who repented of their
gins and believed in him might have ever
lasting life. His death completed the plan
of salvation upon which tha Christian
religion is based. In so far as the religi
ous aspect of the case is concerned, it
makes little or no difference what form
the legal proceedings took, or for what
technical offense Chrjst was sentenced
to death. It is, nevertheless, interesting
to get a view of the proceedings from a
legal standpoint, such as is given in a
book recently published in Germany, en
titled “Jesus of Naaareth,” written by
Rabbi Hamburger, who holds under the
Prussian government a church office
■o me what similar to that of a bishop. The
rabbi’s opinions are learned through a
review of his book in the Literary Di
gest. '
The gospel of St. Matthew says the
proceedings against Christ wore on the
ground of blasphemy, and gives some ac
count of the trial, which was held in
public. The gospel of St. John says that
Caiaphas demanded the death of Christ,
not because he deserved death, but be
cause a prophesy had to be fulfflled. Rab
bi Hamburger quotes from the gospels to
show that Christ had an open trial, and
then quotes from the Talmudic code to
•how that, that being true. Christ could
not have been tried and condemned to
death Sr alleged blasphemy. Such trials
were always held iu secret, and never
•pculy. A charge of blasphemy could only
be preferred before a full conclave of the
Sanhedrim, which numbered seventy-two
members, and formed the highest court
in all secular and religious disputes. The
case could only be heard in the temple,
and in the day time; conviction and sen
tence could not be had until the follow
ing day, and the verdict could
not t be published until three days
more had pa.ssed, to allow time for the
defense. But if the sin of blasphemy had
been committed, no sentence could be
prondunced unless it had been deposed
by witnesses under oath that the accused
had Persisted in his blasphemy after hav
ing been warned three times. In the case
of such convictions, the sentence had to
be executed by the witnesses. Nobody
could be sentenced upon his own asser
tions, as the Jewish law made provision
for suicidal intentions. Moreover, Christ
recognized the Jewish faith as his own
by acknowledging God,* and claiming him
as his God.
The accounts in the gospels of the trial
therefore clash with the Jewish laws in
such essential particulars that Rabbi
Hamburger says there must have been
misapprehension as to the nature of the
charge, and the cause of the inflicting of
the death penality. The sentence of death
was not passed upon Christ for religious
teachings, but for political purposes, he
says, and the driving of the money chang
ers out of the temple was the cause of
the proceedings. Both before and after
the death of Christ the country was filled
with political agitators, who sought to
lead the people into open rebellion against
the Roman authority, and thousands of
such agitators were put to death on the
cross. In the Acts it is told that two
“messiahs,” Judas and Theudus, were cru
cified shortly before Christ was, and it
was the opinion of Caiaphas that Christ
was a political agitator merely, like the
others. That the masses in Jerusalem re
ceived him joyfully was sufficient to
arouse the Romans, who were wont to
crucify Jews by hundreds and thousands
if they removed the votive tablets and
statues of the emperors.
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Carlisle's Memphis Speech.
We publish this morning very nearly
the entire speech which Secretary Car
lisle delivered to the sound money con
vention at Memphis yesterday. It is
equally as fine as the speech he delivered
at Covington, Ky., last Monday night. It
deals with other features of the silver
question than those that received his at
tention at Covington, and it presents
them so clearly and so simply that every
one can understand them. In his ability
to state a proposition plainly, together
with his reasons for the conclusions he
reaches, he stands second to no man in
the country. He handles the most abstruse
questions in such away as to make them
interesting.
In his Memphis speech he discusses a
number of the features of the silver ques
tion, but the one that will interest the
largest number of readers perhaps is that
relating to the debt question/
One of the favorite arguments of the sll
verites, and the one they rely upon proba
bly more than any other to make converts
to the free coinage of silver, is that by
making silver the standard of value it will
be easier for the debtor to pay his debts,
because money will be cheaper. The debt
or will be benefltted and the creditor will
be injured. Mr. Carlisle points out that
while It is certain the qreditor would be
injured because he would have to accept
from his debtor money of less purchasing
power, it is by no means certain that the
debtor would be benefltted. But suppos
ing the debtor would be benefltted, what
advantage to the country would a change
in our monetary system be that would in
jure vastly more people than it would
benefit? For every farmer and mechanic
that is in debt there is a creditor who has
loaned money with the expectation of get
ting back money equal in purchasing
power to that which he loaned. If the
creditor should be paid in money of only
half the purchasing power he would be de
frauded of half of what he is entitled to,
and therefore injured. But, outside of the
farmers and mechanics who have mort
gages on their farms or homes, there are
millions of people who have life insurance
policies, money in saving banks and pen
sions, or their savings are invested in na
tional, state, municipal or railroad bonds.
To all these millions of people the sllver
ites would give money of only half the pur
chasing power of that they now have.
Admitting, therefore, that the man whose
farm is mortgaged would bo benefltted'by
a oheaper currency it is evident that
where a thousand would be benefltted by
the proposed cheap money scheme there
are ten thousand that would be injured
by it.
The news dispatches from day to day
tell of the advance of prices in cotton,
wheat, corn and other commodities, and
in the wages of workingmen in various
parts of tho country. It seems that prices
and wages are, to a degree, advancing to
gether. And the best feature of the mat
ter is that the advance is measured in
gold. The 10 per cent, or the 12 per cent,
that has been added to wages by Mr.
Disston and others means so many cents
on the dollar in gold. The advance is not
deceptive, and meaning really a relative
decline, as would be the case if a nominal
increase were to come through the adop
tion of a debased currency. Cotton in
New* York on Friday was quoted at 7 5-16,
in gold or money as good as gold. Under
the cheap money scheme of the free sil
verttes, it would have to bring something
like 15 cents a pound to be relatively as
valuable as it is now. Has anybody a
satisfactory reason to give for thinking
that with the free coinage of silver the
price of cotton would go to 15 cents a
pound? Somebody hAs guessed that |t
wouM go to 10 or 12 cents, but that is the
wildest kind of speculation on cotton.
A millionaire named Baker, who died
in Brooklyn a short while, ago, was prob
ably one of the most vindictive men of
whom there is any record. He said he
hoped that after death he would be trans
formed into a mosquito, in order that he
might come back and annoy his wife. In
asmuch as the mosquito season is at
hand, the cold blooded flendishness of this
wish can be appreciated.
THE WEEKLY NEWS (TWO-TIMES-A-WEEK): MONDAY, MAY 27, 1895.
PERSONAL.
—A .certain Pe’rUvfa’n heiress once paid
the late M. Worth $24,000 for a custume,
which contained nearly* $23,000 worth of
lace.
—Miss Margaret Burrows of New Haven,
-Conn., is to marry the Frince di San Faus
tina Bourbon dbl Monte’ Santa Maria of
Rome. , ■ ..
—Since his. assignment, to. St. Mary’s
parish at Newburg, N. Y.. Dr. McGlynn
has taken to lecturing again; and he is
drawing large audiences.
—Foreign papers say that the fastest
speaker in the world among public men
is Signor Grimaldi, the Italian deputy. He
can speak 200 words a minute with ease.
—Mrs. Langtry is at home, has been to
the Newmarket races, has launched with
the dear prince, Lord Rothschild and oth
er swells, and is quite in the old swim.
, A cablegram from London to the New
Y ork Times says of Austria’s new Premier,
Goluehowski: “The new Austrian minis
ter of foreign affairs is not only a Pole,
but is the husband of a Murat princess, in
timate with the Bonapartes and much
more Parisian than Viennese in his exper
iences and tastes.”
When Wade Hampton’s residence was
/ 0 11 the time of Sherman’s invasion
of South Carolina the fire partly destroyed
a fine old cedar tree that stood near the
house. From the trunk of the ruined tree
Gen. Hampton afterward fashioned with
his own hands a small glove
b E x ’ _Y bl< r b he to a Car-
olina friend, a lady, with the remark that
he hoped he should find him more success
fill at construction than at reconstruction.
Ine box Is still in the lady’s possession
and naturally highly prized,
—The Rev. John Constantine of Ommot-
Geloy, a town located in Kurdistan, on
the boundary between Turkey and Per
sia, and a priest of the Restorian church
that remarkable body of Christians who
have held their faith in the midst of at
first a hostile infidel and later a fanatic
Moslem population since the end of the
fifth century, is circling the earth on a
begging tour for the support of Christian
missions among his people. He is now
in St. Paul, and will soon proceed east
ward. >’ ■
BRIGHT BITS.
—JesS—The first thing Mrs. Bieeker did
was to break her husband of all his bad
habits.
Bess—Then what?
Jess—He became so insipid that she had
to sue for a separation—Oakland Acorn.
—Possibly True.—She—Here is the story
of a man who says he never made love to
a girl in his life. Do you believe it?
He—lt may be true. Some fellows make
a specialty of widows, you know —lndia
napolis Journal.
—Doubtless -They Would—Johnny—Maw
I should think it would be a heap more
careless to cast pearls before chickens than
to cast ’em before swine.
His Mother—Why so, Johnny?
Johnny—’Cause they’d eat ’em.—Chicago
Tribune.
—“This hasn’t a sign of a clam in it,”
said the guest who had ordered clam
chowder. “It’s a swindle; that’s what it is.”
“Excuse me, sir,” responded the waiter,
who is too good for that business, “but
we only undertake to serve a chowder, not
an aquarium.”—Life.
—“Have you ever noticed what a dis
tinguished air Prof. Baretoni has?” asked
the soulful girl.
“I have noticed an air of garlic, if that
is what you mean,” said the sharp-nosed
girl.
And the soulful girl looked disgusted.—
Indianapolis Journal.
—A washerwoman applied for help to a
gentleman, who gave her a note to the
manager of a certain club. It read as fol
lows :
“Dear Mr. X.: This woman wants wash
ing.”
Very shortly the qnswer came back:
"Dear Sir—l dare say she does, but I
don’t fancy the job.”— Tid Bits.
—“lt’s hard to get my Wife interested in
sports," said Mr. Gailod. “I told her yes
terday that 1 came within a dot of plav
ing Hornpipe in the Brooklyn handicap.
"And what did she say?”
“She said she was glad I didn’t try it.
She didn’t think I had the slightest talent
for music.”—Washington Star.
CURRENT COMMENT.
LeitveM Northing to Be Guessed.
From the New York Post (Ind.).
The speech of Secretary Carlisle at Cov
ington was an exceedingly lucid and im
portant deliverance on. the silver question.
Indeed, we doubt If it has ever been sur
passed by anybody. Mr. Carlisle has, in
an eminent degree, the faculty of mak
ing hard things easy to the common un
derstanding. This is the first and highest
requisite of public speaking.
“Wot for Joe.’’
From Louisville Courier-Journal (Dem.).
Twelve hours before thq delivery’ of Sec
retary Carlisle’s Covington speech Senator
Blackburn broke out in a cold sweat and
a hot interview’ proclaiming that he pro
posed answering it and holding Carlisle
to the record. Senator Blackburn w ill not
answer that speech. If he ever attempts
to do so it will be the most amusing per
formance yet of the free coinage cam
paign. What Senator Blackburn will prob
ably do will be to make a great deal of
noise in insisting that Mr. Carlisle has not
always known quite as much about silver
as he knows now, and will call that an
"answer.”
Carlisle In the South.
From the Philadelphia Ledger (IndJ.
Secretary Carlisle’s sound money tour
through the south should be of great bene
fit in the direction of exposing (he specious
arguments of the advocates of the free
coinage of silver. As Mr. John H. Inman
of New York clearly shows, the free coin
age of silver would be of advantage onlv
to the owners of. sll.ver bullion, while ft
would be to the direct disaslvantage of the
rest of thejcommuhlty. At the present
time tpe patise of honest monev is not'
menaced so much by the out-and-out free
coinage men as ,by tho -demagogues who
are prating of their devotion to
lism,” but are carefully refraining from
explaining what they mean. Within the
ranks of the republican and democratic
Parties are numerous smart pbliticians
who do their qtrrtoet, tb'chYFy water on
both shouldeYS. 1 Stiver they say is the door’
man’s monel, and. ’as’a great American
product, it deserves protection: Therefore
they are the firm supporters of "bimetal
lism.” Os what sort of bimetallism? Free
coinage at the 16 to 1 ratio, of Rie 32 to 1
or the re-enactment of the forced pur
chase of bullion by the government? The
politicians would like to leave this ques
tion in a fog, but the people will not toler
ate such shiftiness. We are not obliged
to cross Mason and Dixon’s line to And
agitators who are promoting humbug
Secretary Carlisle's missionary work in
the south should be paralleled by mission
ary efforts in the north and west.
“Scientific” Bimetallism.
From the New York Sun (Dem.).
In the debate, which took place at Chi
cago last Friday evening, between William
H. Harvey, author of "Coin’s Financial
School,” and Prof. J. Laurence Laughlin
of the University of Chicago, Mr. Harvey
formulated his position as follows;
"What we want is bimetallism, and
scientific bimetallism is thia:
“1. Free and unlimited coinage of both
gold and silver; these two metals consti
tute the primary or redemption money of
the government.
"2. The silver dollar of 371(4 grains of pure
silver to be the unit of value, and gold to
be coined into money at a ratio to be
changed if necessary from time to time
if the commercial parity to the legal ratio
shall be affected by the action of foreign
countries. t ,
“3. The money coined from both metals
to be legal tender hi the payment of all
debts. • .
"4. The option as to which of the monevs
is to be paid in the liquidation of a debt
to rest with the debtor, and the govern
ment also to exercise that option when
desirable, when paying out redemption
money.” .
And to this he added a little later: “Re
peal all laws allowing a discrimination be
tween the two metals; stop gold notes from
being taken."
"Scientific” bimetallism, .therefore ac
cording to Mr. Harvey, amounts to noth
ing more nor less than the compulsory es
tablishment of the silver standard and
the banishment of gold.
Os Course It Was a Goldfish.
, . are i ust Hke Ash,” observed the
tall girl In gray, “and I don't wonder
that Mr. Darwin thinks they are de
scended from them.”
“I think Mr. Darwin only spokd of apes,
dear, mildly suggested the girl with the
eyeglasses, according to the Chicago
Times-Herald.
"Did he? Well, It’s all the same, any
how. I m so busy with the man of to
aa T I don’t care to go back any
farther: 1 m sure the poet was quite sen
sible when he said that the proper study
of womankind is man.”
. ."I—J think he said ‘mankind,’ dear,”
b"*£ e d the girl with the eyeglasses.
,_ he ,.rF rI . * n « ra > r turned fiercely upon
her: See here, Emily Marshmallow, you
may know all about apes, yes, and the
hight of the north pole and—and lots of
other unnecessary things, , but you know
a p well as I do that they won’t do you a
bit of good with a man unless he is ex
amining you for a teacher’s certificate;
and precious little, then, with tne pair of
eyes you have in your head,” she ended
up triumphantly.
“What was it about the fish, anyhow?”
asked the girl with the eveglasses, sud
denly interested in the subject.
“The fish? Oh, I remember. Well, you
see > if you try to catch them with a hook
and line they are too suspicious to bite
unless you lure them with a very bright
colored fly. But if you go after them with
a net and just slip it neatly over their
heads they are easily enough landed.”
“Oh!” blankly replied the girl with the
eyeglasses.
“M’hm. And that horrid Clara ”
“Oh, It’s all about Clara, is it?”
“It is. She is busy to-day deciding
whether to call him Wilfred or Mr.
Sweetie after they are married.”
“But I thought he was quite as atten
tive to you as to her?”
“He was; but I used a hook and line,
Clara a net. He is gasping a little yet,
but he is safely landed. You see, Clara
and I had a discussion not'long ago about
the best way to manage a man who kept
calling and calling—and saying nothing
in particular. To decide it we wrote to
the editor of the Young Ladies’ Chaperon,
the reply was refuse occasionally to see
the young man.’ ”
“And did you follow—
“I did. Wilfred called the very day the
paper came, Clara happened to be with
me up in my room at the time, and I sent
down word that he would please, excuse
me as I was engaged. Then what do you •
suppose that deceitful Clara did?”
“Went down herself?”
“N-no. She suddenly remembered that
she had forgotten to post an important
letter and ran down the back stairs and
over home. Os course he went right Ovei
there, as the sly thing knew he would,
so she just ran into the back parlor,
w r here he’d be sure, to hear, and sobbed:
‘Oh, mamma, he—he has just been over
to see Eva again and—and she wouldn't
. even see him, while I ’ Her mother
being a widow, understood at once, and
said: ‘I really don’t know what you are
talking about, my poor child. Mr. Sweetie
is in the parlor.’ ”
“But how on earth did you find out
just how it happened?”
“I suspected something, dear, so I fol
lowed close on Clara’s heels, but before
I could get into the room the door had
closed upon her and that horrid mother
of hers took me upstairs to ask my advice
about the making over of an old gown.”
Serenading Himself.
We sometimes think that the fqnny sit
uations in the pictures in the comic papers
are too absurd to be real, and yet every
day there happen things quite as absurd
as any there depicted, says Harper's
Round Table. One of the German news
papers gives an account of how a steadj
old burgomaster recently serenaded him
self, which certainly brings before our
minds a picture quite as laughable as any
we have seen in print. The story is to
this effect: Herr Notel, merchant and bur
gomaster, who is passionately fond of
singing, is the first tenor and president of
the Schnitzelburg glee club. The plub con
sists of only a single quartette, but small
as is their number, the gfeatfer is their en
thusiasm for the songs of Germany. Notel
would shortly celebrate his silver wedding.
They must give him a serenade; there was
no help for it. But wha-l was a quartette
without the first tenor? There was no
getting a substitute, bud for all that they
would give Note] a sm-Arise, On the eve
of the festal day the thjwe mtrttbbrs Os the
club, armed with lanterns, met at the ap
pointed time before the house of their re
spected president, and after some clearing
of throats and twanging of tuning forks
the music began. A small crowd collected
in the street, and the windows in the vicin
ity were lined with appreciative listeners.
The herr burgomaster and his family also
appeared at the windows of their brightly
illuminated sitting room. The first bars
of the well known song, •‘‘Silent Night,
left much to be desired, but the three
voices bravely held on their way amid the
surrounding stillness, and in a few mo
ments Herr Notel went down into the
street and joined in the quartette. No
sooner was the song finished than he ran
upstairs again, appearing at the open win
dow, and in loud, clear tones thajiked the
club for their ovation. Seen on a public
stage, an old gentleman madly rushing up
stairs to a window to thank himself for
serenading himself would cause a good
deal of laughter. _____
One of Life’s 'frngedlcK.
“Good by, darling!” said the young hus
band, pale but calm. 4 ‘Cheer up! Be
brave!”
“O, I will, John!” she replied, with brim
ming eye and quivering lip, says the Chi
cago Tribune. “See! 1 am brave!”
"Besides,” he went on, “I shall not be
gone more than three months. Think of
it, darling! Only three months!”
"1 know it, dear!”—and she smiled
through her tears—"but three months is
an eternity! How can I bear it?”
“Agatha,” he whispered, “perhaps it is
not too late even yet to give it up. Ten
thousand miles of ocean lie between my
going and my returning. Are you prepar
ed to forego—”
“No, John!” she hurriedly answered.
. “It is hard, it is terrible, but we cannot
help it! You must go—you must go—but
O, it will break my heart!”
A groan burst from the young husband’s
breast. He pressed her to his heart once
more and was gone.
He was an American resident of the
South Sea Islands going,to New York to
do a little shopping for his wife.
Demoralised the System.
"What time will that train be in, do you
think?" asked the impatient map, says the
Cincinnati Tribune.
‘lt is purty hard to tell, answered the
agent of the little southern branch line.
Hence Bill's tree was cut down by a pack
of durn fool niggers after a coon he finds
it a heap of trouble matin’ jest-the right
time.” „ . .
“Bill’s tree?”
“Yas. Bill, he is the conductor, you
know. The tree I was speakin’ of stood
alongside the track, about thirty miles up I
the road from here, an’ when the train
come along and the shadder of the tree
laid acrost the middle of the top rail of
Buck Johnson’s fence Bill knowed he was
on time, and could gauge her about right !
to git here on schedule time. Now them
fool niggers has cut it down, and all Bill
has to go by is his own guess. Company
was talkin' some of puttin’ up a pole in the
place whar the tree useter be, but they
hain’t done it yit.”
French nnd English.
Those of us who have grown weary and !
perplexed over the peculiarities of the
French language, and who have wished
that our parents and school teachers did
not consider that language necessary to
our education, will rejoice at this item
from an English newspaper, which shows
that the Frenchman has as hard a time
mastering our tongue as we have in mas
tering his, says Harper’s Round Table.
According to the story three French boys
were studying a volume Os Shakespeare
in their own tongue, their task being to
render portions of it into English. When
they came to Hamlet’s famous soliloquy,
“To be or not to be.” their respective trans
lations were as follows:
L “To was or not to am.”
2. “To were or is to not.”
3. “To should or not to will.” 1
Only u Fly.
From the Syracuse Post.
He was a guileless springtime fly.
He stroked his filmj- side.
And jumped upon a baldhead’s pate—
" This is a bully slide!”
He slid this way and then slid that.
The veins with rage did grow;
The little fly he laughed and laughed
To hear the man swear down below.
No matter how the baldhead whacked.
No matter w-hat the oaths he swore,
The little fly was wide awake,
And kept on sliding more,
At last when night spread out her wings,
The fly toward home did glide,
Anti murmured as he fell asleep,
"That was a bully slide!” ’X
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
—A Baltimore clergyman has just
brought two mummies from Egypt, which
are to be given to the Woman’s College,
of that city, says the New York Tribune.
They are about 2,000 years, old, and are
thought to be the bodies of princesses. It
is strange, by the way, how inconsistent
people are In their way of looking at
things. If some one were to bribe the cu
rator of a moderri Cemetery to let him
have two dead bqdie?, and were then to
place these bodies in a public museum,
there would be a howl of indignation all
over the country, ant] the perpetrator of
the deed would be called a ghoul. But
these princesses lived a long time ago.
in a distant land, and were only heathens,
anyway, no ' one objects' to their being
taken from their resting-place. Besides,
how could we study archaeology if we
didn’t rifle the graves of the venerable
dead?
—ln Los Angeles, in a jewelry store, a
three horse-power motor is used in the
cutting of precious stones. The machine
worked by the motor is described as a
new invention, and is said to be the only
one of the kind in the country. In the
old method of cutting the stone was
centered on the end of a stick or piece of
brass and held by the end on the grind
ing lap. In the electrically-driven ma
chine the stone is held by a quadrant,
which is adjusted by a set screw to its
required position on the lap. As many
as 60 stones can, it is stated, be cut at
one time, and the method of adjustment
is so accurate that in no case would there
be the slightest possibility of over-grind
ing, even if an attendant were to leave
the machine to look after other duties.
This enables the cutting to be done with
certainty and minuteness. The quadrants
are all indexed to cut any style of stone.
—The vervain humming-bird is the small
est bird in existence, says the Philadelphia
Times. It is very little larger than our
familiar bumble-bee. Its plumage is very
brilliant in coloring. Two specimens are
on exhibition in the national museum at
Washington, and the tiny balls of bright
colored feathers average about 2 1-3 inches
in length. The nest is a frail and almost
perfect piece of bird architecture. It is
composed of mosses, vegetable fiber and
wild cotton, wijh a delicate lining’ of spi
der s webs. In gathering the latter mate
rial it is no uncommon occurrence for the
little birds to become ensnared in the webs
?U b . e la F ger spiers, by which they are
The size of the vervain’s nest is
tnree-fourths of an inch in diameter across
the cavity, and slightly more than an inch
in total diameter. The eggs, always two
in number, are pure white. They never
measure more than one-thifd of an inch
in length by one-fifth of an inch in width.
These diminutive birds are found only in
the island of Jamaica.
—Everybody has heard of straw’berry rash
and shad rash, but quinine rash is some
thing new, says the Philadelphia Record.
A prominent manufacturer told of its rav
ages at the I nion League yesterday after
noon. Said he: “It broke’out on me like lit
tle water-blisters, and becoming alarmed I
consulted my doctor. He knew I had oeen
in the habit of taking largo doses of quin
ine, and told me it came from trgit. Well,
I stopped the quinine, and the rash disap
peared. Last week I decided to change my
barber, and went to a new shop. The next
day the rash broke out again, as bad as
ever. I knew 1 hadn’t taken any quinine
for a month, and I couldn’t account for It.
I went back to the barber shop, and after
shaving me the barber began using some
stuff on my head. I got a whiff of it, and
then it all became clear to me. ‘What is
that you are.puttlhg on my head?’ I asked.
‘Oh, that’s just a preparation of quinine
to invigorate the scalp.’ he replied. That
settled it, and the mystery was cleared
away. 7 lie quinine from the hair invlgor
ator had gotten into my system, and
brought out the rash. Funny, wasn’t it?"
—ln the Massachusetts School for the
Blind is a little girl named Edith Thomas,
says the New York Times. She is deaf and
dumb, as well as sightless, but thanks to
admirable training received at that mag
nificent institution she is as intelligent
as any child of her age, can read and write
and enjoys a multitude of pleasures and
takes part in multitude of activities that,
a few years ago, were far beyond the reach
of such unfortunates. In a report just re
ceived Ijy her teacher appears a pathetic
anecdote. Edith was reading—with her
finger tips, of conrsfe—a paragraph Ln
which were several difficult words. She
stopped to inquire What the first of them
meant, but passed the others without queS'
tion. A moment later, when asked to ex
plain one of the long words, she confessed
her complete ignorance as to its signifi
cance, but added quickly, “I do not care if
I am not very wise.” This statement was
not, the 'teacher says, an — expression of
weariness or mental indo’eine. Apparently
it was prompted by a mingling of philo
sophic resignation to inevitable limitations
and of considerate hesitancy to give trou
ble when the necessity for it was nbt quite
obvious.
—The dandelion belongs to the largest,
oldest and most widely diffused order of
plant, says Cwod Words. While other or
ders of plants have d’ed out and become
mere fossil remains in the rocks, this order
has survived the geological changes of
ma.ny different, periods, on acount of it:;
power of adapting itself to those changes.
Anfl these changes in their turn have onlv
made it better suited for all the varied soil's
and. climates of the ear h of the present
day.' We And members of this order in
every part of the globe, in places as far
apart from each other as,they can be. It
is the prevailing and dominant order of
vegetable life, and the most highly finished
and the most successful family of plants.
And the dandelion is one of the most per
fect forms belonging to.it. It is the head
and crown of the vegetable kingdom, as
man is the head and crown o' the animai
creation; and it is curious h< w this high
est type of plant always h found only
where man,the highest type >f animal life,
is found, and where he dwells or cultivates
the soil. It is never found apart from him;
it follows him wherever he goes—to Amet
ica, Australia and New Zealand; and there
in the new home Lt becomes a silent but
eloquent reminder of-the dear old land he
may rtAver see again.
—A new invention for the production of a
fabric for window’ blinds is reported from
Yorkshire, England, says the Upholsterer.
The material and apparatus employed and
the process adopted in the manufacture
a fabric that is transparent from the
room, but opaque from without. The fabric
contains linen, aluminium, isinglass, bo
rax, tallow, etc. The apparatus contains a
cylinder filled with a patent glassifying
compound in which bobbins of linen varn
are placed. The yarn is saturated and coat
ed with this compound-as it is wound off
the bobbins, and drawn through an opening
at the top of the cylinder; it is then passed
over a roller situated above this opening,
and down to a series of heating and dry
ing then around another- roller, to
the rfcwirialng' arrangement of the appa
ratus, .where the yarns are wound upon
the bobbins again, and are then ready for
a knitting machine. The inventor claims
that this blind is so flexible that it can be
easily rolled up and down; that it is so
transparent that a room is not darkened
when it is drawn; that while those inside
a room can see through the blind almost as
perfectly as though it were glass, those
outside cannot see inside the room, un
less the latter is lighted most brilliantly
and darkness prevails outside, and that it
is artistic, and therefore pleasing to the
eve. The blinds shown are hand-painteel.
but it is expected that in the future it will
he possible to print them by machinery,
and thus reduce the expense of production
so that the cost of fitting wihdow’s will not
be much greater than that incurred by or
dinary blinds.
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THE NEWS IN GEORGIA.
Gathered From Correspondents and
Exrluintrei.
The citizens of Dawson are enjoying ah
ice war. Ice is selling for 10 cents per
hundred pounds.
During the past ten months—from July,
1894, to May, 1895, the deposits in Atlanta’s
banks have increased almost $1,000,000.
J. A. Glover of Augusta is suing before
Judge Eve for $250, that amount being due
him by the “Wool Hat,” a populist paper.
Spellman a week ago was united to Daw
son by telephone, and the line will be At
once carried forward connecting Dawson
with Cuthbert.
It is estimated that there is about 40,000,-
COO feet of all kinds of timber at the dif
ferent booms and alongside of the vessels
now In port at Darien.
Thomas Edwards who stole S2O from the
money drawer at the postoffice of Austell,
was sentenced at Atlanta Friday to three
years in the government reformatory at
Cheltenham, Md.
David B. Gibbs, an bld and highly re
spected citizen of Atlanta, was found dead
in bed at his home on Culberson street
Wednesday morning.
John T. White, colored, a United States
postal clerk between Atlanta and Augus
ta on the Georgia railroad, has been ar
rested on a charge of robbing letters.
The prospects of the farmers look more
brilliant every day in Pulaski county. The
crops though not quite so far advanced
as they were this time last year are high
ly promising.
Messrs. Wright & Govzen and Brewster
Phillips of St. Simon have formed a co
partnership under the firm name of
Wright, Phillips & Co., and will in a few
days open a grocery and supply business
at the Altamaha cypress mills.
Emma Brown, a small white girl, was
severely hurt at Atlanta Tuesday after
noon by being thrown from a buggy in
which she was riding along East Fair
street. One of her shoulders was disloca
ted, and she was otherwise injured.
The Southern railroad authorities have
at last begun an improvement that has
been sadly needed for years. It is the dig
ging out of the smaller tunnel in the
Allatoona hills, just below Rockmart,
which has long been a menace to train
men as well as passengers.
Sheriff J. C. McConnell made a levy
Wednesday on the property of the Rome
Electric Light Company in favor of Arn
old Broyles, receiver of the Rome Gas
Company, for SI,BOO, the amount claimed
as rent for one year. The claim and levy
will be contested in the superior court.
M. Anneberg of Watertown, South Da
kota, has moved his family and effects to
Augusta to go into the celery producing
business. He is negotiating with Col. D.
B. Dyer for-the purchase of a lake on Tur
pin Hill, three miles from Augusta. He
intends to drain the water off and use
the bottom as a celery bed.
. Ben Walton and the two children of
Henry Hardeston, all of Byron, were bit
ten by a mad dog Tuesday. An effort will
be made to have the children sent to the
Pasteur institution in New York.
The ladies of Rome have taken in hand
the work of completing St. Peter's Epis
copal church so that it will accommodate
the congregation.
William Edwards, the defaulting cash
ier of the Encyclopedia Britannica, has
been released from jail and will not be
prosecuted on the charge of embezzlement
for which a warrant was taken for his
arrest. He was taken back to Atlanta
from Gainaville and placed in jail where
he remained until last Saturday, when he
was released. It is said that the case has
been settled to the satisfaction of all par
ties concerned.
In the suit of City Warden Hunter of
Atlanta against H. A. Haegler, the editor
and manager of the People’s Advocate,
lor $10 ( 000, the jury brought in a verdict,
awarding damages in the amount of SSOO.
This suit was occasioned by the publica
tion in the People’s Advocate of an arti
cle reflecting upon the character of Mr.
Hunter and proceedings were instituted
on the charge of libel. The paper in which
the article was published is an organ of
the colored people and the defendant is n
negro man.
Thrire is a stroiig probability thhi Che
Merchants’ Bank of Rome, which was put
in the; hands of a national examiner several
weejts ago, will soon be reorganized and
be put on its feet. It is understood that
the only trouble was lack of cash to oper
ate with, and that there were no other ir
regularities. Rumor has it that Capt. W.
P. Simpson, one of Rome's strongest busi
ness men. will succeed Mr. King as presi
dent, and that W. M. Gammon, another
leading business man, will succeed J. F.
Simpson as cashier.
Alphonse Auguste Riche, a Frenchman
of considerable means, president of flhe ge
ological commission of Paris and a well
known figure in French scientific circles,
through correspondence with his friend,
Dr. Sanveille of Jacksonville. Fla., learn
ed of Georgia’s gold fields and lost no time
in setting out on a tour of investigation.
He arrived in Atlanta on Saturday last
and in company with I}r. Sanveille, Prof.
Caldon of Atlanta, and Prof. Audenard, a
French expert, M. Riche, visited the gold
fields in the vicinity of Buford. He secured
several samples of ore. He was delighted
with the prospects and spoke in most en
thusiastic terms of the outlook for prac
tical work in that line. M. Riche has left
for France, and carries with him a report
made by Prof. Caldon, showing how a
profit of $145 per day can be made in the
Georgia gold fields.
Americus Correspondence of the Morning
News: One. the 7th Instant Mrs. Burt, wife
of Dr. W. P. Burt, left for Annapolis, Md.,
on a visit to her son Cadet C. P. Burt at the
Naval Academy. She bought a. Baptist con
vention excursion ticket to Washington,
good for 15 days. Stamped on margin
“Good for return passage 22d inclusive.”
Upon her return she stopped over in At
lanta a few days and was told by the tick
et agent there that her ticket was good
until Wednesday night, 22d. She left At
lanta on the afternoon train yesterday,
the conductor refused to take her ticket
on the ground that more than 3 days had
elapsed since it was stamped in Washing
ton for return passage. She was forced to
borrow money from other passengers to
avoid being put off. The incident is being
pretty generally discussed to-day. Dr.
Burt feels very indignant, as the conduc
tor who refused hi? wife’s ticket Informed
her that the money paid him would be re
turned to her.
The Chattanooga Times gives a long ac
count of an exciting adventure, last week,
in Northwest Georgia, in which a young
man recently of Atlanta was a prominent
actor. A strange negro man was artested
by the town marshal of Graysville, Catoo
sa county, Ga„ for riding a bicycle on the
sidewalks. He protested that he was on
nis way to see his sister married and was
in a great hurry; so he offered to leave his
wheel as security for his reappearance.
This was agreed to, and he departed.
About half an hour later. C. D. Martin,
late of Atlanta, and now bookkeeper for
the Graysville Mining and Manufacturing
Company, saw and recognized the bicycle
as one that had been stolen from John
Tinker, an employe of the Chattanooga
Times, and advertised in that pafier. He
and the marshal, Mr. Rhodes, immediately
started in pursuit of the negro—'Martin
on his own wheel, and Rhodes on the
stolen one. They were also joined by J. M.
Vaughn, a swift, runner, on foot. The
chase was a long and difficult one, over
a rough country, and led to Chicamauga
Park. Rhodes' wheel became punctured
and disabled, and Martin and Vaughn con
tinued the pursuit in advance. The negro
passed a fishing party on Peavine creek,
and seeing a gun in their buggy by the
roadside, seized it and continued his flight.
When Vaughn and Martin were about to
overtake him he turned and snapped both
barrels of the gun at them, but fortunately
it was.not loaded. He then continued his
flight. Here Henry Warner, one of the
editorial staff of the Times, who was out
for a morning ride on his wheel to Craw
fish Springs, met the party and joined in
the pursuit. They soon thereafter over
hauled the negro, and he again showed
fight, but surrendered when Martin ex
hibited a revolver. Warner and Martin
took him to a negro house near by whera
Martin left him and the pistol in charge
of Warner, and started back to meet and
bring up the marshal, who had seen the
negro with the stolen wheel in Graysville,
and could identify him. In a moment when
Warner was off his guard the negro
seized a Ratchet or hammer and dealt him
a terrible blow on the head, knocking him
senseless. He then resumed his flight. A
few minutes later, Martin, Vaughn, and
Rhodes came up, and were horrified to
find Warner lying apparently lifeless, and
the negro gone. They conveyed Warner
to the residence of Dr. Johnson where his
wound was attended to. He was very
painfully hurt, but was doing well at last
accounts. The negro, Jim Fralix, by name,
could not be again overtaken. The pur
suing party ran over twenty miies, and
were all “stove up” at tire end of the race.
ROUND ABOUT IN FLORIDA.
The News of the State Told in
Paragraphs.
Daniel Hardy, an employe of the F. B.
Everett Fish Company of West Palm
Beach, recently, on a wager, ate one gal
lon of ice cream in twenty minutes.
A large deposit of clay has been dis
covered near St. Petersburg. There 13
some talk of forming a co-operative as
sociation for the purpose of making brick.
William Bowen, a recently employed
driver at the main fire station, while ex
ercising one of the horses at Tampa Tues
day, was kicked by the animal on his
right arm, which was broken by the blow.
The boys who stole a boat at Mandarin
about two weeks ago were captured by
Deputy Sheriff Thames Tuesday. They
proved to be Webby Armstrong and Man
uel Ellis, two white boys about 18 years
of age.
Mr. and Mrs. B. L. Armstrong’s little
boy, Freddie, was kicked on the side of
the head by a horse at Inverness Tues
day morning. He died from the effects
Wednesday morning at 3 o’clock, at Ham
bro.
A heavy rain,. hail and wind storm
passed over a portion of De Soto county
Tuesday about 3:30 p. m. About five miles
north of Arcadia hail as large as goose
eggs covered the ground. No damage is
reported.
Mayor J. S. Earman, who was recently
suspended from office by the city council
of West Palm Beach, pending the Investi
gation into the charges preferred against
him by C. L. Leon, will be tried by the
city council next Tuesday evening.
The millinery emporium of Mrs. B. Stern
berg at Ocala was closed by Sheriff Hodge
Tuesday morning by an attachment issued
by Armstrong Cator & Co., wholesale mil
liners of Baltimore, for $725. It Is reported
that the stock of millinery was sold to
Krouskoff of Savannah, a few davs ago.
and that Mrs. Sternberg was acting as
agent since the deal.
At St. Augustine Tuesday Deputy Sher
iff Turner arrested Col. and Mrs. French
charged with trespassing by J. H. Slater.
They appeared before Justice of the Peace
Forward Wednesday morning and he dis
charged the complaint for want of juris
diction. This promises to become a case
of interest to those absent citizens whose
properties have been, sold at tax sales.
Adams Bros’, store, at White Springs
was burglarized Tuesday night, and the
safe blown open, supposedly by profes
sional white crooks. Another store was
also entered. The booty obtained is re
ported small, SSO in cash from Adams
Bros’, safe and some merchandise. The
vault of the safe was not reached, or
more money would have been obtained by
the robbers.
C. M. Gardner, the editor of the Gazetteer
a weekly newspaper published at West
Palm Beach, was arrested by Deputy sher
iff Ross early Monday morning on a war
rant sworn out by L. L. Dodge, sheriff of
Dade county, charging him with criminal
libel. The editor was taken before Jus
tice of the Peace A. L. Knowlton, and
placed under SSOO bond to appear before the
October term of the circuit court at West
Palm Beach.
Sol Holly, the* negro who shot B. P.
Boulware at Orange Heights some time
since, was tried for assault with murder
ous intent in the circuit court at Gaines
ville Tuesday, and found guilty as charged
in, the indictment. Holly and another
negro were stealing corn from Mr. Boul
ware's corn crib one night. Holly was
on the outside, and as Mr. Boulware ap
proached to frighten the thieves, he was
shot in the side, a pistol ball striking
one of his ribs. Mr. Boulware recovered.
The truck farmers of Alachua county
are now taking a much needed rest until
tomatoes will be ready to ship. There
will be a large acreage this season, but the
rains of the past two weeks have greatly
reduced the prospect for a crop, and it
will be a light one. As a rule, the truck
ers have not realized much from the ship
ments of vegetables this year. Canta
loupes will soon begin to move. Os this
crop this is a large acreage and a fair
yield. One farmer has sixty acres planted
in canteloupes.
John Malphurs, who resides near La-
Crosse, met with an accident recently ,
wiisvh nearly cost him his life. He bad
been to Starke and was returning homo
late at night. He made a fire under a log
which rested a foot or two above the
ground. The fire burned the prop which
held the log up and when it fell it pinion
ed his feet which were under the log to
the ground. The fire spread and soon
reached his feet which were badly burned.
He laid in that position all night, but his
screams were not heard. A farmer saw
his horse the next morning and drove
back to the camp, where he rescued Mr.
Malphurs. The injured man is recovering
from his wounds.
St. Augustine, May 22.—0. P. Havens of
Jacksonville, who recently made a trip
along the entire east coast for the pur
pose of takiqg photographs of fields and
crops, has completed his work. He has ex
hibited a full set of photographs to the
officers of the J., St. A. and I. R. railway.
The pictures, about fifty in number, all dif
ferent views, are Bxlo Inches. They illus
trate fields on different parts of the line,
from Hastings dow-n to Palm Beach. In
the collection are scenes of potato fields
with workmen in the act of digging and
harvesting the crop, with large potatoes in
the trenches and baskets. Then there are
corn fields, showing healthy stalks waving
four feet above the men’s heads, who are
standing by them gathering the well-filled
ears. Next come the pineapple plantations
which will be a revelation to many people,
as will also be the honey-making industry,
showing thousands of bee hives at one
place. The object in having these photo
graphs taken, which are costing a great
deal, is to get out a beautifully illustrated
pamphlet showing the field crops of the
east coast. This is the first lot of field
crops, showing the products and crops just
as they are being harvested, that has ever
been taken, and when published will make
a very acceptable book. Mr. Havens has
, still pne more section to cover. He will
visit the Moultrie vineyards a little later,
when the grapes will be at their best.
At the station known as Novilla, on the
S, W. railway, seven miles from Green
Cov.e, a large turpentine camp is located,
where there is a considerable number of
South Carolina negroes employed. About
8 o’clock Tuesday night a difficulty arose,
in which a woman was the bone of con
tention. The, principal actors were Bte
phen Brown and Jack Singleton, both
having wives in South Carolina. Pistols
and' winchesters were used indiscrimi
nately.- Brown received a dangerous
wound’in tlie*back and shoulder from a
gunshot- There were fifteen or twenty
shots fired, but Brown- was the only one
one hurt. Jack Singleton has been ar
rested and put in jail. Brown, it is
thought, cannot live.
The depositors of the Bank of Daytona,
and creditors of R. B. Wolseley held a
meeting tn the council room at Daytona
Tuesday morning, and a committee was .
appointed to examine the accounts of the
bank, and also to hear Mr. Wolseley’s ex
planations. About 4 o’clock the committee,
with a number of the citizens, assembled
in the Town Hall, and Mr. Wolseley made
a statement of the affairs of the bank,
and the cause that led to the suspension.
He attributes the failure to the refusal
of the New York banks to handle Florida
paper. The committee finds that the lia
bilities amount to $41,337.58, and the assets,
at what they consider a fair valuation.
$29,966.31. Mr. Wolseley has made over
everything to C. E. Smith, assignee, for
the benefit of his creditors. Talk is heard
on the streets of the establishment of a
state bank in Daytona.
The war between the pilots at Fernandi
na has culminated in the arrest of the
young pilot, Jones Davis, on a warrant
sworn out by E. F. Morse, a member of
the pilots’ association. Davis is charged
with having acted as a pilot for the port of
Fernandina without having obtained a
proper license from the board of pilot com
missioners. Jones Davis, who was a pi
lot’s apprentice entered himself at Fernan
dina and at St. Marys, Ga.—the latter act
without the knowledge of the Fernandina
commissioners. Fearing he could not ob
tan a license, as there are already eleven
Fernandina pilots for the Cumberland bar,
he went before the St. Marys board and
was licensed by them; since which time
he has beeft trying to act as a Cumberland
sound pilot. He brought in and took out
the steamer Feliciana. For these acts he
was arrested. Deputy Sheriff Higginboth
am visiting the Feliciana, which Davis had
boarded, to serve the papers on him. The
penalty for acting as a pilot w-lthout li
cense Is a fine of SIOO for each offense.
Gus P. Anthony, on Monday, made an ex
change of a house and lot in Washington,
Ga., for 120 acres of land at Hardeeville,
about twelve miles south of Titusville.
Eight acres of the land are planted in
orange trees, the balance being pine and
hammock land,
f