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4 CklJlttnuitglJctos Mornincr News Building, Savannah, Ga. TUESDAY. Al t.IST 16, 1887. Rffiitu-i . •/ at the Post Office in Savannah. ""'Vhe Morsixo News Is published every day in the year, nnd is served to subscribers in tin’ city, by newsdealers and carriers, on their own ae count, at cents a week, $1 00 a month, So 00 for six months nnd $lO 00 for one year. The Mokniso News, by mail, one month, fl 00: U.r. e months, $2 50; six months, $5 03; ore year, $1" 00. The Mobkinu News, by mail , six times a week (without Sunday issue), three months, fit 00; six- months. $1 00 one year, 00. The Morxixo News, Tri-weekly, Mondays, Wednesdays nnd Fridays, or Tuesdays, Thurs days arid Saturdays, three months, $1 25; six months, $2 50; one year. $5 00. The Sunday News, Oy mail, one year. $2 00. The Weekly News, By mail, one year, ?1 25. Subscriptions parable in advance. Remit by postal order, check or registered letter, Cur renry sent by- mail nt risk of senders. letters atitl telegrams should bo addressed “Morxixo News, Savannah, Oa." Advertising rates made known on application. INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Meetixos—Live Oak Lodge No. 3, I. O. O. I.; Chatham Mutual Loan Association, Series B.; I. O. O. F. Notices of Meetings; Local Branch, 447, O. I. H; Golden Rule Lodge No. 12. I. O. O. F.; Haupt Lodge No. 6S, I. O. O. K; Canton Chatham No. 1, P. M., I- O. O. F.; DcKalb lodge No. !>, I. O. O. F.; Oglethorpe Lodge No. 1,1. O. O. F. Special Notices—To Water Takers; Base Ball between Amateurs and Warrens; A. Card, D. R. Kennedy. Exccrsiox to Avousta, Oa.— By the Central Railroad. Aectiox Bale— Hay and Sundries, by I. D. La Roche's Sons. Sealed Proposals For Relaying Pavement, etc., at Custom House; Notice to Contractors. M. S. Belknap, General Manager C. U. R. & B. Cos. Steamship Schedvle—Baltimore Steamship Cos. Cheap Column Advertisements— Help Want ed; Employment Wanted; For Kent; For Sale; Personal: Miscellaneous. Tin Roofing, Etc. —Chas. A. Cox. Apples, Cabbac.es, Etc.— W. I). Simkins & Cos. The Buyers are Many Bit the Sellers are Few— C. H. Dorsett. Real Estate Dealer. Pianos— Schreiner's Music House. ANNUAL SPECIAL EDITION —OF THE— Savannah Morning News —AND THE Savannah Weekly News, —TO BE Issued ox September 3d, isst. The Annual Special Edition of .the Daily and Weekly News will be issued Sept. 3. It will contain a complete and comprehensive review of the trade of the city for the past year, and will show the progress the city has made in everything that helps to make up its wealth and that contributes to its prosperity. The facts relating to cotton, naval stores nnd the different branches of the city's wholesale trade will be so presented as to give a clear idea of the city's business for the year ending Sept. 1. The business men of Savannah cannot make a better investment than by buying copies of the Morxixo News Annual Special Edition and sending them to their friends and correspon dents. A newspaper like this Special Edition, containing an accurate account of the business of this city, is the best advertisement of the energy and activity of the people of Savannah. Every citizen, whether he is a capitalist, mer chant, manufacturer, mechanic ora man of leis ure, should feel a pride in the progress the city is making, and in presenting to the world the inducements which it offers to those who are seeking homes in the South. This Sjecial Edition will bo sent to all sub scribers of the Daily and Weekly News, and a large number of extra copies will be mailed, thoroughly covering the territory tributary to Savannah. Advertisers will find this Special Edition of great value, and space in its columns can be ob tained upon application to the Business Office. Some recent Wall street experiences indi cate that brass is not always safe cupital to bank oil. Witness Ives and his collapse. A pretty woman in a bathing suit is de cidedly an attractive object, but a man in a bathing suit is a spectacle to make ungels weep. “The man from Sumter” has been given an ovation by his fellow citizens of Ameri cas. Will “the creature from Bartow” bo similarly honored i The prevalence of another hot wave re minds us that the back —but then, what is the use of talking about a bone that nothing but a freeze can break? What this country needs is a vigorous movement in favor of man’s rights Woman, especially on tho sidewalks, lias more than her share of rights. The drawing card for the Piedmont Ex position is this: “Mrs. Cleveland will be on the platform. M Georgians will go a long way to see Mi's. Cleveland, on the platform or elsewhere. Tho negro newspapers published in Geor gia have lately been noted for their incendi ary tone. The doctrines taught in certain schools aro bearing fruit that may yet cause scrams trouble. “Railroad earnings for the first- week of August show notable increases,” says tho New York Times. The fact means that the country is prosperous in spite of the fore bodings of Wall street gamblers. A New York sculptor is making a bust of Dr. McGiynn. If he is let alone the doctor will soon accomplish for himself the work the sculptor has undertaken. Indeed, the doctor is already somewhat of a “bust.” Woojfoik, tiie murderer, expresses sur prise because his friends do not visit him and the ladies of Atlanta do not send him flowers. He seems to have forgotten that ho is not in jail in Now York or Louisville. The statement is made that ex-Senator M&hone has recently gained in flesh to the extent of twenty pounds. If his conscience were tender his political sins would long ago have reduced him to mere skin and bones. There are two kinds of farmers in Geor gia. One forms to obtain a living and tlie other to obtain office. The former should be encouraged; the latter should be discour aged. Nevertheless it is the political far mer that generally occupies tho place of ■nimmiMiirA at. ajrriciiltm*u! nouvuulJoiui. The Dean Bilk An opportunity will soon lie afforded to see what the Legislature thinks of the Dean bill which provides for the fade of tho West ern and Atlantic Railroad. Tho impression is that the sentiment among tlic people and in tlie Legislature in favor of selling the road is growing stronger. The more tho matter is considered the stronger appear tile reasons for its sale. As long it' the State owns the road there will be no legislation that will tend to deorcaso the value of that property, oven though such legislation would benefit a great many people and assist in the development of a very large section of the State. Assuming that tho property lias been hon estly managed in tho past, what assurance is there that it will continue to lie so man aged? If the road is leased for another term of twenty years its value at the end of that term may be greatly impaired. 71 te management of it may be wholly different from what it has .been, and it may come back into tho possession of the State a com plete wreck. Who can tell what political changes will occur in the State within the next twenty years, or what kind of men will control tho State’s affairs? While the probabilities are that honest and patriotic men will be chosen to fill tho places of honor anti trust there is a chaneo that demagogues and tricksters will get into power and rob tho State, as lias I teen the case in other States. There is no doubt that the road can now lie sold for all that it is worth and all that it is likely to be worth. What its approxi mate value is can easily be obtained from exTierte. The Dean bill provides that it shall not Ik- soltl for less than 4.50,500. Tt may lx* worth a great ileal more than that. If it is offered for sale there will be bidders for it, and they will be willing to pay its full value for it. About the only argument that, is ad vanced against its sale that finds a lodg ment in tilt' public mind is that the school fund will suffer a serious loss. Why should it? The money that is obtained for tho road will be used to pay the State’s bonds, anti the money that is now paid out for in terest on tho bonds can bo used for school purposes—or so much of itasitrnay bedeem ed wise to use for that purpose. Indeed, the State will be in a better position to assist tho public schools if the road is sold than it is now. There need bo no fear that if the debt is paid the taxes will lie so reduced that there will lie nothing for tho schools. Tho common school system has a warm place in tlie affections of the ponplo ami they would not consent to givo it up. We do not undertake to say that tho Dean bill cannot be improved. When it is con sidered it may appear that it is faulty in many respects. Wo approve, however, of its purpose, because we think that tho best thing that can be done with tho road, for the good of tlie State, is to sell it. I ! Condemned by the Farmers. The emphatic and almost unanimous con demnation of the Brady bill by the State Agricultural Association at Canton last week ought to convince Representative Brady anil the sup|>orters of his bill that the farmers don't want it. If the farmers don’t want it, who does! The pretense is that it is in the interest of the farmers. This pretense can no longer lie sustained whim the representatives of tho farmers from all parts of the State declare that it is hostile to their interests. Representative Brady must now admit that lie is trying to force upon the farmers something they do not want, or abandon his bill. The farmers do not want to bo placed in the position of seeking legislation tiiat will permit them to repudiate their contracts, and they are wise enough to see that if this Brady bill becomes a law it will do them more harm than good. It would tend to ruin their credit, and that they cannot afford to have ruined; and in ruining their credit it would bring them no compensating advantages. In fact, it would bring them no advantages whatever. Tho hill is a reflection upon tho Agricul tural Bureau of the State because it is based upon the assumption i hat the inspection of fertilizers, performed by its agents and under its direction, is not an honest one. If Representative Brady does not think fer tilizers are honestly, conscientiously and intelligently inspected heought to have the inspection improved instead of insisting upon legislation calculated to bring promis sory notes, given for fertilizers, into disre pute. Now the naked facts about fertilizers are these: Experience has shown that for the past ton years the several compounds sold as fertilizers differed but little in their constituent ingredients. They contain so much ammonia, a certain proportion of hone phosphate, the requisite amounts of sulphuric acid, kainit, cotton seed meal, and, perhaps, sonje other ingredients. And where the crops are kept clean ami well cultivated, the results obtained from ferti lisers do not vary much, usually aggisv gating at least n hundred fold over the print net of the natural soil; but with Careless culture, or injudicious application of the fertilizers, the results of course are differ cut. Asa general thing, however, a ferti lizer about doubles the yield. At n picnic given by his followers on Sunday last Dr. MoGlynn virtually claimed that ho was inspired. He said: “1 am hf ginning to feel myself in some sense a mes senger of God to men to show them the dawn of a better day. Does not this scene remind you of one which you have read of as having occurred eighteen hundred years ago, when the great teacher of man gath ered His disciples about Him in the wilder ness; when Christ spoke, in simplicity of justice, the sublime t ruths of divine philoso phy?” The doctor has been made mod by much vanity. From Atlanta the rumor comes that it is hardly probable that ladies will again as soluble at the capital to listen to debates in the General Assembly. They are afraid that some honorable gentleman nmy again make them blush by his vulgarity. It Is a disgrace to the State that they should be kept away from the capital by such a cause. _ The Now York Timm says: “Chauncey M. Depew and Robert Garrett are on such friendly terms in London that stock specu lators over there are sending cable dis patches about it, and all sorts of extrava gant theories are current.” Perhaps the two gentlemen are trying to bring another Haiti more and Ohio deal into existence. Some of the proprietors of wine rooms in Atlanta ore preparing to sell out. The Fel ton wine bill, taxing them $lO,OOO, is the moving ilower that induces them to seek fields and pastures new. One of these days the Ant* Prohibitionists of Atlanta will lie willing to admit that prohibition in that eitv does urnhibit. THE MORNING NEWS: TUESDAY, AUGUST 10, 1887. The Proposed Reformatory Institution. There has been a great deal of dismission in the Legislature of tho bills which provide a reformatory institute for youthful con victs and women convicted of crimes, and the pisipln arc beginning to wonder whither there will be any legislation on tne subject covered by them. Most of tho members who have engaged in the debate have had more to say about the lease system than about tho proposed reformatory insti tution, and tile two members whose speeches have attracted the most attention api>ciired to think that certain matters personal to themselves were of more importance than tho bills under consideration. It is pretty safe to say that public scuti ment is in harmony with tho purpose of the hills, though there may not lie entire satisfaction with either of them. Indeed, there is a suspicion that they are both rath er crude affairs, and that before they will be acceptable a great deal of intelligent vyork will have to lie done upon them. The de bate has disclosed tho fact that no one knows what the probable cost of the pro posed reformatory institution will be. Until that is approximately known the Legisla ture will hesitate to act. While tho people believe that youthful convicts should bo given a chance to reform, and while they are satisfied that the per centage of them that will reform if given a chance will be large, they do not want to lie burdened with a greater expense than is absolutely necessary in affording them that chance. Cannot the proposed institution tie made to a large extent self sustaining! Tho cost of tho plant and tho expenses of the first year will necessarily lie large, but after the institution is thoroughly es tablished there ought to bo no great diffi culty in making it support itself. Of course a great deal will depend upon the way that it is managed, and upon the plan ujion which it is conducted. Would it not be wise to secure all the in formation obtainable with regard to re formatory institutions in other States be fore taking any definite action? Of course there are niemliers of tho Legislature who know, in a general way, something of the reformatory institutions in different parts of the country, but it is doubtful if any of them have a thorough knowledge of all the details of their organization and manage ment. It is not necessary that tho proposed Insti tution should be modeled upon that of any other State, but the experience of other States may be of great value to the Legisla ture in perfecting their work in this matter. Tho debate on the reformatory institution hills has disclosed the fact that there is a great lack of accurate information among members of the legislature relative to such institutions, which, if it docs not prevent all legislation on the subject, may lead to legis lation that will bo proiluetive of unsatisfac tory results. The Republicans in Massachusetts fear that they will bo defeated in the approach ing fall elections. They think flip Prohibi tionists will weaken them. A document prepared by leading Republicans lias boon sent to tho prohibitionists begging them not to desert the Republican party. It con cludes as follows: “If our third part}' friends —most of them in sympathy with the Republican party in its political creed, its splendid national history and the character of its niemliers —will, instead of standing aloof, come into its primary meetings, join in influencing its selection of its candidates and electing them, and will put into that work half the zeal and activity which some of them, mistakenly we think, ex pend in defeating it, and thereby aiding the saloon by helping into power its ally, tho Democratic party, they will alike pro mote tho cause they profess to influence over public sentiment, which they cannot secure by isolation or by raising their hands against their own household. It is not a good thing in the interest of temperance to supplant the Republican government of Massachusetts with the extravagant and un savory Democratic liquor power of the city of Boston.” Considering the record of the Republican party in Massachusetts, it is likely that the only effect this ridiculous and impudent screed will have upon the Prohibitionists will Ik? to make them smile. It is said that tho Irish Nationalists in Dublin are angry over Mr. Blaine's flight from Ireland. Mr. Dnvitt was particularly chagrined, after having hurried to Dublin for the express purpose of urging Mr. Blaine to permit himself to be honored by the Irish organizations, to findhiingone. Mr. Blaine did not himself decline the invitations offered him to attend public entertainments, but hi? had Mrs. Blaine to do so. Evidently the Maine statesman is very much afraid that lie limy say something while abroad that will give him trouble to explain when he comes home. The Pegram Battalion Association, com posed of the surviving members of the bat teries which wore attached to the brigades forming Gen. A. P. Hill’s Light Division in the Confederate army, proposes to erect a monument over Gen. Hill’s grave. Contri butions are invited from all ex Confederate soldiers, and also from the women of the South. They may lie sent to ( 'apt Thomas Kllett, President of Pegram Battalion Asso ciation, No. 28 N. Ninth street, Richmond, Vh. Not many years have passed since the close of tlie war, and yet, says the Washing ton Critic, it is probable that half tho present population of the United States was born since that event. Twenty-live years hence it will be difficult to realize that the States were ever engaged in a deadly strug gle with each other that is, of course, pro vided the bloody shirt wavers end Fairchild and hi* palsies do not survive that long. In the Northern and Western cities many of the churches are closed and on the doors are placards bearing these words: “Re ligious services are suspended while tho pas tor is taking a vacation in Europe.” The arch enemy has it all his own way, in the meantime, for he never takes a \ neption nml ho can bo in both Europe and America at the same t ime. The latest society “fad’’ at summer resorts is the village cart drawn by a donkey. This has given all Urn humorous impors in the country the npjiortunity to say that “some times there is a donkey in the cart as well a* between the shafts.” A novel thing about the witticism is that it possesses more than a grain of truth. At an election in Kingston, Can., tho other day, the oldest lady in the town np jieared at the voting place and dropped a ballot into the box marked: "Pure water and plenty of it.” The women in Kansas who voted against pure water, not long ago, might lie profited if they could bo lectured bv tho old ladv. CURRENT COMMENT. Leave Somethin# for Posterity to Pay. From the New York World (Dem.) Having taxed themselves at the war rate so lon# in order to pay their full share of tho cost of a restored Union", the men of this generation art* entitled to relief. Tucre is neither justice nor true economy in making them pay the por tion of tlie debt belongin'' to the future. Brokon, Yet Solid. From the Bouton Globe (.Drm.) Tbe solid South is full of kicking, contrary minded men. who vote the Democratic ticket cheerfully and gladly but once in every four years. In local. State or Congressional elutions i his independence has often manifested, hut there was never a sign of it iu tho Presiden tial returns. No Regrrots. From the Boston Herald ( hid.) Harper"e Weekly is right, we believe, when it says that no friend of reform regrets voting for Mr. Cleveland. We do not know one. There are no regrets on that account. \' T e should be glad to see the cause of civil servle * reform advance inoro rapidly, but we did not exieet it. All that wo expected of this admin istration was an honest ex* c ition of the specific civil service law. We have had that, and a little more. Cleveland Represents tlie National Sentiment. From the New York Herald (hid.) Mr. Cleveland, however, represents the na tional sentiment us it lias been seen in no ad ministration since the first years of Mr. Pierce, before the repeal f the Missouri compromise came with evil omen 1o menace the Union. Mr. Cleveland is the President of the whole people. There were no bayonets l>ehind the ballots which elected him; no reflected bayonet power gleams in the authority he wields. BRIGHT BITS. The bald-headed man is just as well satisfied with a back scat as with a front one—at church. —Boston Convict. The most economical man has been heard from. ll* tried to pawn a coat of tar and feath ers, the gift of his neighbors. Burlington Free Press. In the front parlor, 11 p. m.: Ethel-Harry called to-night, papa. He was too witty for anything and all ninth's. Papa - Yes; I can smell the smiles yet.— Town Topic *. “Have you read ‘Half Hours with Insects?” 1 asked Air Analf of Sim Pulton. “No,” replied Him, “I was out at the lake last evening ami read about, two minutes with in sects, and that, was enough forme.— St. Paul Herald. Dr. Mary Walker recently received the fol lowing note: “Dear Doctor Can you oblige me by saving which is the cooler, loose pantaloons or a Mother Hubbard. They say you have tried both. (1 have a bet upon the lington Free. Press. Landlady—Wheat fell yesterday, they say. Boarder -Yes. That accounts for the state of these biscuits. Landlady—What do you mean, sir? Boarder—The biscuit fell too. Sympathy, madaine; nothing but sympathy.— Omaha Her ald. They were talking about expenses and how some men get rich. Said one: “My butcher and baker have made money enough but of me to build themselves splendid houses. 11 Responded the other: “The barkeepers I patronize have built whole blocks out or what I owe them.”— Terns Siftings. When a young man takes his best girl out for a summer evening stroll and she waits until she is opposite an ice cream saloon before she re marks, “Don’t you think it Is too warm to go any further?" it is time for that young man to treat or else gain that young maiden’s undying hate.— Philaaelph ia Hero Id. Mr. PrBENBt’RY— “I wish, dear, that you wouldn't take part in that church fair. The games of chance”— Mrs. Dusenbury—“Oh, yes! I suppose you never indulged in a game of chance?” “Only once in my life, my dear.” “And when was that?” “When I married 3’ou.” — Philadelphia Call. An old grandma with a small hoy boarded a Gratiot avenue car the other day, and tho col lector rang the register twice. “What's thnt for?” she asked. “That’s 2 o'clock,” answered the hoy. In a minute or two another passenger got on, and again t he register rang. “Three o'clock !” exclaimed the old lady as she boblH'd around on her seat. “My stars! but how time does fly in a city!”— Detroit Free Press. First Bank Director—“l am a little afraid our smart cashier nmv take a notion to run off with the funds. Hadn't wo better raise his salary?” Second Bank Director- “Yes that will keep him out of temptation, hut the trouble is we can’t very well afford to increase expenses.” "We can take part of it from the teller. His salarj- is bigger than necessary.” “But then may be he will want to steal ” “No danger. lie's thoroughly honest.”—Oma ha World. “What is that man here for?” inquired the Judge as a third rate variety actor was brought into court. “For trying to jump his board bill, yer Honor.” “What have you to say for yourself ?” “Nothing, except that ain't what I’m here for. I was arrested for try in’ to improve me physique.” “Trying to improve your physique!” “Yes, Judgel was t'rowin’ out me chest.”— Merchant Traveler. PERSONAL. Miss Eleanor Winslow, the American beauty, is dubbed the “Ex-Chamberlain” in London. Verdi and his wife arc bin ding a splendid hospital at Busseto, which they will richly en dow and give to the town. Herr Harmonist, one of the leading players at th** Frankfort chess conference, was formerly a ballet dancer in Berlin. M. Heredia, the French Minister of Oom merce, is a Unban half breed. M. Rochefort in variably refers to him as “the Ministerial nig ger.” Alfred Kri*pi, the great Prussian gun-maker, left ft'£io,ooo to his employes, and his son Fred erick ha-x added sl£>,')oo for tlie people of Essen. On the theory that one good turn deserves an other, Esso.i is going to give Mr. Kmpp a monument. Tiikhe is a current belief that the gowns of the Queen of England are made, and have for some five and twenty years been made, by a dressmaker who plies the art and mystery of her calling in a little shop in the little town of Windsor, beneath the castle walls. TANARUS!. Martin William-, writes to the St. Louis Republican that, accord ing to the lest of his knowledge and belief, Gen. W. 11. Lytle wrote the verses beginning: “1 am dying. Egypt, dying' Ebbs the crimson life tide fast,” while very drunk. The Divur** or Ui evelayo. a New York paper fcay*. has set- tho fashion in London of carrying an open parasol while riding on horse buck. \s the Pneliess is close on 80 j’onrs of age nnd n confirmed invalid, there cannot lie much truth in the statement. She is the mother of Lord Knsel**rry, h iving married in 1843 as her first husband Lord Daimeny. Dn. C’huilzs W. Dabney, Jr., late Chemist and Diivefor or the Experiment Station of N rth Carolina, and one of tlie most enthusias tic and well--eqilipped workers for the spread of sound industrial education in the South, has been elected President of the University of Ten iickhin*. at Knoxville, an institution where special Attention is given to scientific farming, mining and t he practical arts. The official Journal de Bruxelles announces t hat I In* Marquise Arcoimci, daughter of the French Senator Tvytral. has presented her castle mi l the domains of Gfieslwvk the State of Belgium. In making tlie donation she stipu kited that “if. in conseqmmce of a war, Belgium becomes a dependency of Germany, the gift is revoked and l he proin rty reverts to the heirs of the Marquise; if, however, Belgium becomes French, in consequence of a war. the castle le m.iius in poa. ewdon of tbe State*.” h Ra oration I mehtj NSKi, wltoiuthe cable uimouncoH as Russia's candidate for the throne of Bulgaria, is 50 yearn of age. and like her former candi date. the Priiuv f Mingrelin. is descended from A Caucasian family which formerly possessed sovereign rights. He took part in the quelling of tho Polish insurrection in ISG3. nnd gave proof of military Ability m tho battles before Plevna. He has lxvui for some years Adjutant General of the Csar and Procurator General of the Russian army. Laroi kf.he. at ter studying the forms of the English women who plnv leunt*. submits it as his modest opinion that "the ladies who play, more esjKH'ially the practiced players, an* all ns crooked as rams' horns.” He finds, he says, “that the right shoulder of the average female athlete, however otherwise charming, is about t wo in dies broader man the left that the body India** pro post *mus!y and to my sympathetic mud most painfully r < the right side, that tho right anu and fist ore those of a blacksmith, while the left arm resembles the drumstick of the chicken of a Gimui.au table and IjoUl” Fate’s Cruelty. Eva Wilder MeGla won in Tid-Bits. I see two eyes behind her lashes' haze. That hold an amber light within their gloom. A low, curl-shadowed brow, red lips, whose bloom Is lik** some tropic* flower's crimson blaze; And underneath, the sweetest littl#chin That ever dimfne found a refuge in. With interest keen I marl: her every graco Because my husband loved her long ago, Before I came, and .aw (fate willed it so, i And won what might have been her honored place. The mcm'ry of it all has power to roll A flood of bitter waters o'er my soul. And. yet. it is not that I doubt his love, Nor envy her that beauty past compare. That makes this burning sting of sharp despair, Whose, pain but women s hearts have know ledge of - It is because harsh fate did not defer Our meeting until he had married her l Using Snake Tails for Bait. From the Kansas City Star. % “I have discovered a sure bait for bass," said au old fisherman recently: but mind you, don't you put t his in your paper. It is snakes' tails. Everybody has observed that the tail of a snake don't die until sundowft, but keeps wriggling nil day after the rest of the snake has climbed the golden stairs. Now bass above all fish want a lively bait. The idea struck me one day wheu I was fishing. A freshly killed snake was lying In the weeds while its tail was keeping up a lively agitation. I took my knife, cut the tail off, put it on the hook and threw* it out about thirty feet from the shore. I had no sooner tightened up my line than I had a vigorous bite, and in five seconds I was pulling away on a three-pounder. In hull an hour I had landed eight bass, aver aging two pounds each. The ninth one got away with the bait and my fun ceased. I tried other bait, but only got one fish in the next four hours. I then started out to hunt snakes. I found one after an hour's search, cut off its tail, and ii lasted me for five bass, which I pulled in inside of twenty minutes, but I had a fine basketful and was ready to quit. He Knew It All. From the Detroit Free Press. There was a family on the train between Bir mingham and Anniston who had come out of the woods of Mississippi and were on their way to some place in Georgia. it was their first ride on the cars, but whim the wife and children were full of natural curiosity, the husband didn’t propse to give his Ignorance away. When the wire asked him what kept the coaches on tne track he looked at her with pity in his eyes and answered: “.Maria, don’t you know nothin' ’tall. They put tar on ’em to make 'em stick!" She was satisfied until we switched in on a side track to let a passenger train go by, and then she asked: “Gordon, what did they do this for?" “ 'Nother train going by, Maria." “And do we have to git off the track?" “Yes. It's the new way. The.y.used to have one train scramble over the other, but it scart the p\ssepgers so that they have adopted another plan." She loured up at the ceiling and then out on the extra track and replied: “You orter buy some peanuts of the boy, Gor don, and show the railroad that we appreciate this extra expense they have gone to. They must have feelings as well as us. Maggie Mitchell and Daughter. Long Branch Letter to the Chicago Inter Ocean. There is no more venturesome swimmer in the West End than Maggie Mitchell. Every after noon at 5 o'clock she comes over the cliff from her Hollywood cottage with her daughter Fanchon, a timid young girl, who has the fresh ness of the sea in her face and its light in her eyes. She wears a bathing suit of iet-olack ier sey cloth, with tiny buckles at her knees and a black turban knotted over her temples after the style of the Rub ms Madonna. She is out on the sand kicking up white pebbles and pink shells or floating stranded jelly fish long before the figure iu l'russian blue, with ocure cap and belt, appears: aud as she leaps to let the silver-crested waves mss. her figure is silhouetted in charming relief against the shin ing background of atmosphere and sunlight. She moves along for a distance of fifty yards or so till a tremendous white cap tries to climb down her throat, but only success in filling her stomach half full of salt water and dashing her up in a bed of shells and seaweed. She Is up and on her feet, like a jack-in-a-box with the cover open, and filled with as much merriment as brine; she opens her mouth, empties one ear and then the other, takes a long breath, gulps down a remnant of salt water with a dubious smile of relish, pulls the gathers of her skirt round, squeezes her knotted kerchief and falls down in the hot sand, left leg first, and, folding the other knee in her arms, looks across the sea. Too Much for Robert. From Tid Bits. Dwellers in villages and rural districts are un trammeled by the absurd little conventionalities that give cirv society such an air of stiffness, coldness and reserve. This freedom from fixed and silly rules of etiquette gives usual society a certain charm and grace and dash of its own that is most refreshing to the average spectator. But somehow Mr. Robert St. Clair tfo Jones didn't think so. He was, however, a stickler for the newest and most excruciatings things in etiquette. The host of the little village hotel at which he was spending a week introduced him at a ball at the notcl as “Mr. Robert St. Clair de Jones," which was gratifying enough but he winced a little when his pink-cheeked partner said at the clow? of his first waltz: “On. wasn't that just lovely, Rob?" And he turned green when his next partner said: “Now it’ll be our turn next to ‘lead to the right,’ Bob." And he felt he could stand no more when she said confidentially: “1 always did like ‘Bob* for a name; I've got a pet pig to home named that." Then the “caller" yelled out from his perch on the dning-rooin table: ‘lHey. you Jonesy, or Bob, or whatever your name is, you want to lead your lady to the right, and not to the left. Ain't up in fancy dancin', are you. Bobby, my boy?" Then Robert St . Clair de Jones, alias “Bob,” alias Bobby," alias my boy" and “Jonesy," sought, the hotel clerk to ask what time the first train left for Newport. A Bonanza for the Doctor. From the Chicago Herald. l'hil Armour has got another touch of rheu matism from running: to his own fire. He starts off to-day for St. Clair, Mich., with bis physician, Dr. Horsey. This is a good arrangement for Armour, for besides understanding his busi ness, Horsey is first rate company. It is a bonanza for the good-looking doctor. Since the millionaire got his firm twinge of rheumatic pain his physician has had a very rich thing of it. Every day for months, as regular as every body else in the Armour employ, Dr. Horsey has called around at the I-a Salle street office to see bis rich patient. He lakes a seat and watches Armour at his work. It isn’t his in variable custom to interrupt him at his work. He r often leaves with out having any interview at all. If he wants to have a talk they go into the “box" together, ns the little private office in that big establishment is called. This one patient is said to be worth SIO,OOO a year to the handsome doctor, not an extravagant figure, either, when i,t is remembered that he lms dropped his general practice for a month or more at a time, aud given his whole attent ion to this one big patient. When \nnour is ailing he wants to get well in a great hurry. Ho does not want his doctor scattering. If a good round fee will get all his time, the fee is ready. lie want s to gei a doctor just ms he’d get a superin tendent for a packing house, lie wants the doctor to charge a good fee, and. the f*e being paid, there’s the mischief to pay if the doctor doesn't do what he’s set at work to do just ;.s there'd be if he packing house superintendent didn't do wlmt he was hired for. Ho Put tho Price Too Low. From the Chu'ago Herald. A tall, gaunt, cadaverous man. wearing a full beard, a time worn frock coat aud a shirt front that might t have been sent to the laundry be fore t'u* hot weather set in, stood at the corner of Madison and Clark tu roots last evening with a bundle of good-sized hand bills under his arm. “My friend," he said to a pale-faced, middle aged citizen, who wore his hair a trifle long for July, “you look like a man who has helped many a good cause —" “possibly, sir." “i have some figures that utterly expose the Anarchists, spiritualists and at hoist ■* prove t in* divinity of Christ you've got t believe it," and theu ho poured forth a jumble of words from hi*printed document. “I’ve already die tributed free of charge l.ftOrtof these, and would toUod 1 oouid rive away thtMQ they're .ill i have left. Anything you choose to give- " “Intemperance is the greatest curse we have." interrupted the middle aged man oa be got to the windward of the whisky-scented breath. “Exactly sir." was the Iracl peddler'* candid reply: “if a man wants to look like the devil, act like the devffl, and lie a devil, let him fool with Alcohol—even lager beer." Abruptly changing the subject, he Continued: “Yes. the Bible's all right, but these figures are my own; they make it clear, plain. Atheists won’t accept the Bibb*; they've got to take my figures. I? you <‘are to help the on use along even Sc. will lie— “ Oh. you can t get Chicago whisky for a nickel," and before the “Aggers" man could finish his appeal th' saucy, long haired man was around the corner and lost in the crowd. ITEMS OF INTEREST. One fair swimmer at a watering place per forms the feat of eating bon-bons iu the surf. She carries the sweets in a water-tight silver casket at her waist. A fine old dwelling in Deerfield, N. H., that was burned some nights ago, was built by the owner's grandfather I*s years ago, and had been occupied by three generations of the family. The Taeomrf(W. T ANARUS.) Leader is authority for the statement that “a wicked small boy who noticed 1 hat a young lncly's bustle was dislocated the other day. shouted out: ‘Say. Miss, your hereafter is out of place.’" A railway train, drawn l>y a siugle locomo tive, passed over the Hudson River railroad recently, consisted of eight mail and baggage cars and t welve passenger coaches, the latter nearly all heavy sleeping and parlor cars. Samuel Davenport, of Nanticoke, Pa., was killed on Wednesday by the fall of topconl in the Grand Tunnel mine of the Susquehanna (J >al Company. On the same day Levi, his son, was struck aiul killed by a loaded oar iu another part of the same mine. A cow brought to Kewaunee, Wis., to be sold for beef was large and had two tails, the extra one being on the left side of her neck, and the length and size of a boy's arm. covered with hair. The tail on her neck was used to good purpose in fly time, for by a slight toss of her head she could flop the tail from one side of her head to the other. A Western town, Appleton, Wis., which conld have the free postal delivery system, de clines the luxury. A merchant explains it by saying that "the post office is the general ren dezvous. The old men go there to talk polities, and the young men go there to meet their girls, and there is no wide spread desire to have let ters carried to the houses." Gov. Lee, of Virginia, who has returned from a hunting and fishing expedition ho had at Dag gers’ Springs withOeu. Wade Hampton, relates that while he was out in the woods rigged up in a fantastic hunting costume, he stumbled upon a party of mountain girls picking huckleberries, whereupon one of the members cried: “Great Jiminy, girls, there's a bear,’ and they threw away their baskets and tied. An innovation has been made within a year or two in the style of hose worn by a certain class of Ne\v Yorkers. The change is not one of quality but of form. It consists iu providing a separate pocket for each toe after the fashion of a glove. This makes the regular “digitated" lies*', but there is also a “one-toed" style, ma le like, a mitten, with a separate pocket for the great too. Leading dealers say that many of these stockings are sold. In his memoirs, Gen. Cluscret, the Communist, relates that after the Versailles troops entered Paris lie was saved by a priest to whom he had given facilities to see Archbishop Darboy in bis prison. He knocked at his door and said: “You recognize me! You know what I want!" The priest replied: “Perfectly: you are at home." He provided M. Cluscret with ecclesiastical cos tume, kept him for five months and with the aid of his order got him safely across the frontier into Belgium." The gold held by the Treasury in its vaults at Washington weighs M 9 tons. If packed into ordinary carts, one ton to each cart, it would make a procession two miles long, allowing twenty feet of space for the movement of each horse and cart. The silver in the same vaulis weighs 7.806 tons. Measuring it in carts, as in the case of the gold, it would require the ser vices of 7,896 horses and carts to transport it and would make a procession over twenty-one miles in length. Outside the walls of Jerusalem a new town has sprung up, a building club having been established a few years ago, under the opera tion of which 130 houses were erected in four years by the Jews; while along the Jaffa road many country villas have been erected of late by European residents as summer abodes. The latest development of the building of new houses without Jerusalem is to be found in the enterprise which has led to much building be ing done on the slopes of the Mount of Olives, the summit of which is crowned with the Church of the Ascension, The Boston Evening Record says that some thing like a w eek ago the Edison Electric Light Company b°gan to dig a trench along Boylston street for the purpose of laying their wires. As the workmen ascended the hill they encoun tered the graves and vaults w’hich extend from the burial gronnd on the common under the mall and into Boylston street. The roofs of the graves were broken in, and their contents thrown out on the side of the street with earth, brick and ston \ Scattered all along the side of the trench, says the Record , are all parts of human skeletons. Some of these bones have been hung up on the fence of the common, where they are the subject of scurrilous jests. Queen Anne’s old home at Wandsworth (Lon don) the Manor House, is threatened, as the site is coveted for building purposes. Designed by Wren, the Manor House was a gift from Charles 11. to •his niece Anne on her marriage with George of Denmark. Here Anne lived for eighteen years befo e ascending the throne, and even when Queen, she is said to have returned occasionally to her former home. The royal arms are still visible below the gable, while on one of the wall panels can be seen a portrait of Anne's mother, Anne Hyde, the first wife of James 11. The hall, staircase and wall panel ings are adorned with wood carvings by Grin ling Gibbous, and paintings by Sir James Thornhill. The capital of Dakota is now quite perma nently located at Bismarck. The capitol build ing consists of one wing of the main building which it is “proposed" to erect some day. This wing lops some, and the wind has blown the tin roof off and a cyclone has part ly demolished the gable end. A good many of the windows are boarded up. and 5,000 or 0,000 of the brick on the north side have been pried out of the mortar and carried home by members of the lost Legislature. The bar in the basement is a little shaky, being only a second-hand bar any how. Take it altogether, the building Is not ex actly what it should lie, but. at the same time, the capital is pretty firmly located fit Bismarck. It is thought that its time for excursions is JMISt. Eacii set of the four great locks of the Man chester. F.ng., ship canal, now in process of con struction, comprises a large lock, five hundred and fifty feet by sixty feet: a smaller lock, three hundred feet by forty, for ordinary vessels; and one lock one hundred feet by twenty, for coast ers and barges of the smaller size; aud all of these* ar* capable of being worked together. Each set of locks will be worked by hydraulic power, thus enabling, it is asserted, vessels to be | Missed in the brief jx*riod of fifteen minutes. It Is also expected by the projectors of this great undertaking that Irwell and Mersey rivers - which will lie diverted into the upper reaches of the canal will supply more than sufficient water for the locks, even in th“ driest seasor. According to the plans of working at present contemplated, the expectation is entertained that vessels will be able to navigate the canal with safety at a speed of five miles an hour, and that the journey from the entrance at Eastham to Manchester will lie accomplished in eight hours. The head of one of the biggest restaurants in Chicago came very near losing a customer the other day by asking him if he knew how to eat corn in the ear. The customer, Yankee-like, spunked up with this query: “Do you take me for a liog?" After a reconciliat io:i the restau rant man talked a;; follows: “No one man in fifty knows how to eat corn in the ear so as to gel at the good of if. In the first place. I admit that no man or woman looks very pretty with an ear of corn in his or her mouth. The fact is there is no artistic way to ont P. Take your car of corn and lay it Across your plate, or leave i: in the side dish. Hold it with your fork in your I *ft hand. Take the knife and run it over the row of kernels, cutting them or lanc ing them. Take the next row. and so on until you cut .til the rows. Ihp ou your salt and pep )ier and butter and then cat. My word for it. if the corn is not ro< old. yon will relish the corn as you never did Ixifoie. The husks remain on the cob. And you can then s*e what -ort of indigestible stuff lias escaped your stomach." A singular marine battle is <U scribed by the I/melon Telegraph as having occurred at Doirnr nenez. on tue Breton coast, between a diver and a “boultous," described as a variety of shark. It apitcars that the diver, w ho was engaged in lay ing a foundation for an ocean pier, had de scended into the sea, but had scarcely got to the las; rung of the ladder when he saw the s*a monster lving between two huge lumps of rook. He had in his bauds only his stone chisel and a hammer, and he inteoded to go up for a crow bar at once, buy the fish was too fast for him It came toward him through the green water with its enormous jaws wide open. Without losing a moment lie managed to wound the animal in the throat with his chisel, and then held it down on a stone while he drew hi*knife and made a hole in its body, through whirl) he passed a ro|*\ and thus sent the fish to the sur face. Had it notbeeu for his quickness and dexterity the diver, owing to the rents which th-* fish would make in his apparatus, wrmld have been drowned and then devoured. As it happened it was the boultous that was not only defeated but eaten, for its body was di vided among the victor and his comrades, who | made u capital boiiillala.iitfii of Us grime uarL*. POWDER. * PURE pspßlCE’u CREAM Used by the United States Government. En dorsed by the heads of the Great Universities ns the Strongest, Purest aud most Healthful. Dr. Frio-■■*’B the only Baking Powder that does not contain Ammonia, Lime or Alum. Sold only in Cans. PRICE BAKING POWDER CO. NEW YORK. CHICAGO. ST. LOUIS. COTTON SEED WANTED. COTTON SEED WANTED THE SOUTHERN COTTON OIL CO., CA.IIT.AX, $5,000,000, HAS just constructed eight new Cotton Seed Oil Mills, located at the following points, each having the capacity per day indicated. Columbia, S. C., - 100 Tons. 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