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INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Meetings -Directors Metropolitan Savings
and Loan Cos.
Special Notices— The Great Southern Por
trait Company; A Card, S. K. Mayers; As to
Crew of British Steamship Marion.
Cheap Counts Advertisements-Help Want
ed ; For Rent; For Sale; Boarding: Miscellaneous.
Steamship Ocean Steamship Cos.
Acction Sales Horses. Wagon and Harness,
by J. McLaughlin* Son; Klegant Costly Furni
ture. Truck Farm, by I. D Laßoehe’s Sons.
Acocsta Melons— T. P. Bond * Cos
A Boston preacher complains that the
Federal constitution has no religion in it.
Many people think that one of its greatest
merits.
Lotta has made her apjicarance in a now
play, “Pawn Ticket No. 210.’' It is said to
afford numerous opportunities for the
actress’ famous and fascinating kicks, and,
of course, was well received.
The practical utility of dynamite guns is
to be tested in a few days. Would it not
have iSoen a very good idea to have had
such a test before building a $500,000 ship to
be armed exclusively with them f
Dr. Charles J. Simmons, who attended
Samuel J. Tilden in his last illness, and for
some time before, has put in a bill against
the estate for $143,000, for medical services.
One would think he considered himself the
old man’s heir.
That firms of “very high credit” find it
difficult to discount their notes at. 12 per
cent, in Now York shows that the piling up
of millions in the treasury is threatening
the busings prosjierity of the country. The
tariff must be reduced.
Murat Halstead, who was one of the Re
publican leaden? who participated in the
conferences at Hotnburg, is at home again.
When interviewed by a New York reporter
be displayed a painful degree of ignorance
•didn’t know anything: but, perhaps, the
course of his paper, Commer
cial Gazette, will soon indicate what was
agreed upon.
The young Chicago ruffian who. to prove
his skillful marksmanship, beta companion
that lie could hit a woman who was seated
in a moving wagon, and killed her with the
first shot from Ills Winchester rifle, ought
to be hung without any unnecessary delay.
But promptitude is not one of the charac
teristics of Illinois justice, as tho experience
M the Anarchists has proved.
For use in its fight against the Irish
leaders, the London Timex is said to be
offering large prices for letters which they
may have written to friends in this country.
It published some time since the fac simile
•fa letter said to have been written by Par
fteli, and which Mr. Parnell said was a
forgery. More of the same sort can doubt
less be manufactured. The Times is en
gaged in a very small business.
It is said the excitement caused in Mani
toba by the Dominion government's at
tempts to prevent the building of the Red
river railroad does not lessen, anil that the
people are preparing to resist by force any
Interference with the work. Their attitude
is very like rebellion, and may cause Cann
da a great deal of trouble. It may have an
influence in liberalizing the trade regula
tions between this country and Canada.
Mr. James Bartley, of Amsterdam, N.
Y., publishes a newspaper which advocates
Henry George's theories and supports him
for President. Mr. Bartley also carries on
the business of reai estate agent, and to
induce the sale of some of the land adver
tised states that it will in the future becomo
business property. He evidently does not
think government confiscation of land iR
near enough in the future to hurt his busi
ness.
Mr. Benet, who has lately been engaged
in a controversy with Rev. Dr. Hawthorne,
of Atlanta, growing out of a charge made
by him that the latter had been guilty of
plagiarism, was in Atlanta for a few hours
Tuesday, and though a stranger, received
an ovation. The description of him, and his
high qualities given by a local pai>er, might
almost be called extravagant. This is clear
fy a case in which Mr. Benet is loved for
the enemies he has made.
Tammany and the County Democracy
threaten to allow Irving Hall no voice in
the nomination of Democratic candidates
for the numerous offices which will soon
need refilling in New York. If they carry
out their threat they will make it oven
more difficult than it now promises to lie to
elect the candidates nominated. While
politics in that State are in such a chaotic
condition as at present Democrats cannot
afford to fight each other.
Our esteemed contemporary, the Jack
sonville Timr.s-Union, has a way of crawl
ing out of an unplna.su.tit position instead of
getting out of it in a manly fashion,
although it brags of its truth-telling, square
acting record. A few days ago it rnnilit the
unqualified statement that Savannah's busi
ness was $4.000,000 less last year than it was
the year before last. The Morning News
took rstcasion to draw its attention to its
mistake. It replied by saying it relied upon
ita memory, and by insinuating that the
Mohmkii News has a reputation for feme
riding. What a conclusive reply! If our
esteemed contemporary will get astride the
truth once in awhile, instead of riding its
apparently fagged-out and unreliable mem
ory no continuously, It mav succeed In re
covering, partially at least, the place it
s* held in Ua, oonlldence of the juvqilo of
tQorida.
The Co-Education Issue.
Tho substitute for tho Glenn bill, which
the Senate Committee on Education has re
ported will, in all probability, meet with
very little, if any, opposition in either
branch of tho Legislature. The Glenn bill
bad only two votes against it in the House,
! and the Senate, doubtless, would have passed
it if it had been offered an opportunity to
! vote upon it.
The substitute will accomplish the saino
object that it was proposed to accomplish
by means of the Glenn bill, and wdl, per
haps, be less criticized outside of the State.
There is not much reason to doubt, how
ever, that those of the Republican papers
that are always seeking opportunities
to create a sentiment unfavorable
to the South, for political purposes,will make
it the excuse for misrepresenting the South
era people. Their utterances, however,
should not influence the course of the legis
lature. The people of the State, and of the
entire South, approve of the purpose of the
Glenn bill, which is to prevent the educa
tion of white and colored children in the
same schools. The penalty for violating its
provisions may be rather harsh,but it should
not be forgotten that if it should become
a law, it would not be violated ignorantly,
nor by ignorant i>ersons. If violated at all
it would be by those who were well in
formed, and determined to defy public sen
timent.
However, it is probable that the substi
tute will lie adopted in the place of the
original bill, anil there will he no complaint
if it is, as there is no desire to send to the
chain gang those who insist upon teaching
mixed schools. The only reason why the
Glenn bill, or its substitute, is favored is to
prevont the establishment of mixed schools,
and the substitute will answer about as
well for that purpose as the original bill.
Some of the Northern journals, in dis
cussing race questions, so far as they relate
to the South, aim only to make party
capital. Of course there is no use in telling
them that they haven’t taken the trouble to
get all the facts that are necessary to form
an intelligent opinion They have no use
for facts. What they want are opportu
nities for partisan work. While tie
discussion of the Glenn bill was going on
a few weeks ago, they were asked to explain
the numerous instances of discrimination
against the colored people at the North to
which their attention was called, but they
made no response. No better evidonce was
needed that they had a partisan purpose in
view, and that they did not intend to con
duct the discussion, which they had started,
in a spirit of fairness.
There are some Northern journals which
are sincere in their condemnation of the
Glenn bill, but they appear to labor under
the impression that the condition of affairs
at the South, so far as the races are con
cerned, is alxiut the same as it is at tho
North. They cannot appreciate, apparently,
how great the problem is which is presented
by the existence in every community of two
distinct races, nearly equal in numbers, one
ticing far below the other in intelligence,
and which the Southern people are endeav
oring to solve. If they could see the situa
tion just as it is it is probable that they
would criticise and condemn some of the
acts of the Southern people which are con
nected with this problem much less fi-eely.
Legislation like that proposed in the
Gleun bill, or its substitute, is absolutely
necessary for the preservation of the public
school system, and no one will deny that
that system is essential to the improvement
of the black, as well as of the white people.
There are people who favor mixed schools,
and they seek every opportunity to estab
lish them. The establishment of such
schools means the destruction of our public
school system. Shall a few fanatics be per
mitted to destroy that system? Is it not
better to preserve the system that the chil
dren of both races may be educated than
that a few ill-balanced people shall have the
satisfaction of carrying out their ideas? If
the Legislature is wise it will do what its
common sense tells it is the proper thing to
do to prevent mixed schools. It will not
permit itself to lie halted by the long-haired
cranks of Boston.
No Hope for the Bomb Throwers.
The condemned Chicago Anarchists must
hang. The judgment of the court which
condemned them was affirmed by the Su
preme Court yesterday, and the tragic event
is fixed for Nov. 11.
While there is no desire for anybody’s
blood in this country, the decision of tho
Illinois Supreme Court will give general
satisfaction. There is no doubt that the
condemed Anarchists are assassins. The
proof that they assassinated the police with
bombs and pistols at the Havmnrket meet
ing in Chicago, a year ago last May, was
overwhelming. They had a good jury ami
a fair trial, uud it is right that they should
suffer the penalty of their crime.
Extraordinary efforts wore made to clear
them at their trial, and it is prol>able
that attempts will now be made to induce
the Governor to pardon them. The Gov
ernor, however, will make a grave mistake
if he yields to any pressure in their behalf.
If they were to escape the gallows now the
Anarchists in all parts of the country
would become more aggressive than ever,
and would use dynamite with increasing
frequency to assist them in their efforts to
overturn tho existing order of things.
Any leniency would be interpreted
by them- to mean that those
intrusted with tho administration and
execution of the laws were afraid of them,
and emboldened by this belief they would
assume such a hostile attitude that, in all
probability, other lives would have to le
sacrificed to uphold the laws. Only the
other day in New York, Anarchist Most,
in making application for naturalization
papers, defiantly asserted that he wouldn't
obey the laws unless ho thought they were
good ones, and that he would resist the
authorities in trying to enforce them. Of
course he did not gel his naturalization
papers, but his assert ion t.but he would use
force to resist laws which did not suit him
indicated the temper and purpose of all the
Anarchists. The only way to deal with
them is to make them understand they
must obey the laws or take the con
sequences. There is not a word to be said
in favor of the bomb throwers at Chicago,
who are waiting for the hangman to do his
duty. _____
The Boston Herald quotes n Republican
member of the last Congress as saying that
Mr. Carlisle was ao good a Kpoaker that the
Republicans should all vote fur him. Hut
they will not do anything of the kind. They
would rather support the most unfit man of
the Randall contingeni, should he l put up
| in oppuoltion to Carlisle.
The North Atlantic rtquadron will 1> on
exhibition at the Philadelphia celebration,
! The ship* will illustrate the state of naval
i arclutevluru Grant f live year* ago.
THE MORNING NEWS; THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1887.
The Constitution's Centenary.
Today, in Philadelphia, begins the cele
bration of the one hundredth anniversary of
the adoption of the Federal Constitution, an
event scarcely second in imjiortarico to that
celebrated eleven years ago, in the saino city,
the Declaration of Independence.
The celebration will be a fitting one. The
President and the Governors of many of
tlie States will be present, the latter attend
ed hv numerous representative citizens. A
trades procession, for which preparations
have been in progress for weeks, will illus
trate in an impressive way the changes anil
improvements of a hundred years in the
industrial methods of the country. To
morrow, the principal day of the celebra
tion, there will be a parade of perhaps the
largest body of soldiers seen together in this
country since the war, reviewed by the
President. In Independence Square the for
mal celebration will take place. A brief
address by the President will be followed by
the memorial oration of Justice Miller, of
tho United States Supreme Court, and the
recitation of anew national hymn, com
posed by F. Marion Crawford.
The celebration will be continued through
Saturday, and the time not taken up by the
exercises mentioned will be devoted to en
tertainments of various kinds. Philadel
phia is a hospitable city, and is determined
that her thousands of visitors shall be well
entertained.
Tho celebration will no doubt interest anil
instruct the thousands who will be present
and participate, but its effect on the millions
wlio will not be present is the matter of
chief importance. The American constitu
tion. which the leading English statesman
lias declared to be tho greatest work ever
struck off at one heat by the human mind,
which every citizen looks upon as the
foundation law upon which nil other laws
of the country rest, the bond of union anil
the shield of local rights, is yet to a vast
majority of citizens a thing unknown.
They reverence it and lielieve in its
greatness, because their fathers did,
but hardly one in a score has even read it.
In many private libraries, otherwise well
stored, a copy of it cannot be found. If
this celebration shall have a tendency to
cure this ignorance of the fundamental law
by arousing interest in it, then it will have
done a good work.
The people of the country have good cause
to celebrate its adoption. It is true that
it was a compromise which left open to a
double interpretation the most important
point which could be raised under its pro
visions, the extent of a State’s rights, but
had it been more definite it probably would
have failed of adoption. So the wisdom of
its framers was not at fault, and they
could but leave to time the settlement
of a question not then ripe. In every
other respect the Constitution has proved
equal to the demands upon it. It has made
possible a strong government, which is yet
thoroughly responsive to the needs of the
people, while leaving to States the control of
local affairs.
Postal Service Irregularities.
There still seems to be ground for
complaining of the postal service in this
section. It has some defects which should
be remedied at once. Very lately there was
a remarkable delay in delivering at its
destination a registered letter mailed at
the post office In this city, and addressed to
a party in Mobile. It is probable that the
delay will cause a loss of several hundred
dollars to the party in this city who
mailed it.
As far as can be learned there was ample
time for its delivery, but it was not sent by
the right route. It was mailed Aug. 11,
and was delivered Aug. 17. It was neces
sary that it should be delivered to the party
to whom it was addressed on Aug. 15, as
that was the last day for filing claims in a
pending case.
The attention of the superintendent of
the railway mail service was called to the
delay in connection with this letter, and he
replied that tho fault was with the Savan
nah post office—that the letter had been
missent. It was put in the through pouch
for Macon, and from Macon was sent to
Atlanta, at which place it arrived on a Sat
urday night. There being no registered
letter business done on Sunday the letter re
mained in Atlanta until Monday. It should
have been put in the through pouch for
Atlanta, and then the delay of one day at
Macon and two at Atlanta would not have
occurred.
It is somewhat remarkable that the post
office regulations do not always permit the
sending of registered letters by the most di
rect route. A registered letter mailed here
at 7coti in the morning would reach Mobile
at 3:15 on the afternoon of the following
day by the Savannah, Florida and Western
railway and its connections.
The post office regulations should bo
amended. This country is getting to bo too
big to be hampered by rules and regulations
the purpose of which seem to be, how not to
do it. Why should a registered letter be
three or four days go'ng from this city to
Mobile when it can be sent in less than a
day and a half ? If registered letters are
sent to their destinations in this locality by
the longest routes is it not probable that the
same thing is done in some other localities t
The Postmaster General should have this
registered letter business looked into, ami
improved where improvements are found to
bo necessary.
Moving: In the Right Direction.
The purchase of the Pritchard rice planta
tion by the county is a very important one.
It will not only ufford the county a poor
farm, and thus lessen the expense/, of the
county for charity, but it will give the
county authorities an opportunity to carry
out their system of drainage—an opportu
nity they have been seeking for a long time.
The draining that has already been done
has greatly improved the health of the
county, and especially of this city, and that
which this purchase will enable the county
authorities to do will still further improve it.
Tile county authorities linve requested a
conference with tho city authorities with
the view of securing joint action in deepen
ing Musgrove creek, in order to drain tho
Minis swamp, and tho lowlands just beyond
the southwestern suburbs of the city.
Tho opening of Harmon sw amp canal lias
drained the country along the Whit** Bluff
road, south of the four mile post, and west
ward toward the Huvaimnli, Florida and
Western railway track of an immense
amount of water.
The prospect of the improved healthful
ness of the county, which is certain to fol
low the carrying out of these projected
drainage schemes, is certainly very gratify
ing. _
The Western Union office In New York is
said to Is* making room for a large iminl r
of new wire**. This is further evidence that
the Baltimore and Ohio telegraph system
iuu Locu ul.u; bod by Gould* great ovluyua.
CUHRENT COMMENT.
Mr. Rand.all and the Republicans.
Fran the Jitmton Herald (Ind.)
Randall is sent to Congress by the Uepubli.
cans, anil is maintained there, simply liecause
their purposes are better served by having him
act as a block in the way of Democratic pro
gress than they would be by having a Republi
can elected in his place.
The Democratic is the Workingman's
Party.
Pram the New York Star (Dem.)
Tlie real purpose which underlies and sup
ports trades unionism and Knights of Labor
(which is not State Socialism i is to compel em
ployers, and especially the factory lords, the
mining lords, the iron ore lords, who are en
riched by protective taxes, to yield to working
men from the gross product of those indus
tries the maximum which the business will
justify, rather than a minimum which will
keep the workingmen from starvation. In that
purpose and that struggle the sympathies of
the Democratic party should be. and are, with
the workingmen.
The Poor George and McGlynn Work
For.
Prom the Philadelphia Inquirer (Rep).
One cannot gather figs where the thistles
grow, neither should one expect the Georges
and McGlyiuis to neglect their ow n interests for
those of other people. As they understand it
they themselves are the poor; they ore to lie
dally fed. clothed and housed. It is for that
that they are the sort of philanthropists they
are. They enter upon their great work of abol
ishing poverty from the face of the eartli by
getting riches for themselves -from the poor.
It is not a good way to begin, but it is the com
mon way for all such self styled social re
formers.
BRIGHT BITS.
The World shows that it is like its great
namesake in its ability to revolve. Its present
attitude toward the President is a complete
revolution.— Life.
“This is a sad and bitter world,” remarked
a gentleman of Irish extraction. “We never
strew flowers on a man’s grave until after he is
dead.” Washington Hatchet.
In tiie honeymoon -She (beaming)—What first
attracted you, dear? What agreeable charac
teristic did 1 possess to place me above all
others in your sight anil estimation?
Ponders—H'm. Oh, darling, I give it up.
C’n'ious thing, dear -1 never conld guess wid
dles'—London Punch.
Omaha Dame (reading)—The King has just be
gun a suit for divorce against bis wife.
Chicago Dame—l didn't hear the first part.
What king!
The King of the Society Islands.
O, I often wondered why they were called So
ciety Islands. - Omaha World.
Miss Qciller -Of course, while I am herein
Chicago I must dress as the Chicagoans do, but
these hats are simply outrageous.
Madame Zemoud'*—Ah Mam'syl. You don't
know ze genius zat I haffio bring to get ze—vat
yon call ze balanze—between ze head and ze
foot, here in Chicago.— Tid-Bits
“What’s your husband doing now
“He’s a speculator."
“Indeed! What in ?”
“Oh, things in general. He just sits around
and puts in his time speculating about the pub
lic debt and the distance of the sun, and I don’t
know what all" Washington Critic.
Bartender (to customer) —You are putting
water in your whisky, sir. I thought you al
ways drank it straight ?
Customer (hastily)—Why. so I do. I forgot
mvseif for the moment.
Bartender—That's what I thought Well,
how is the milk business, Mr. Yelloh?— New
York Sun.
Charley (aged S) to hiR sister Fannie's new
beau—Say, Mr. Sophtly, Fannie said last night
that you were not such a fool as you looked.
Billy (aged 7) —Why, Charley, she didn’t say
anything of the sort.
Mr. Sophtly I should imagine not, Billy,
what did she say ?
Billy—She said you didn’t look as great a fool
as you wer e.-Tid-Bits.
Johnny—Needn’t think you’re so smart.
We’ve got a wet cellar, and the doctor comes
every day.
Billy—That's nothin'; we’ve got a swill barrel
at the back door that’s brought down all the
rents in the block.
Johnny- My pap’s a policeman and can arrest
yonr'n.
Billy—Ho,that's nothin’, neither; myd&d could
buy him off for a cigar, an’ report him an’ git
him fired— Omaha Herald
A 3-year-old miss on the east side is very fond
of the head of a neighboring family who has
been abseut for three weeks past oh a trip up
the lakes. Last evening while at his home she
remarked: “lam just mail at papa . He
hasn't written to me once.”
“What of that ?” remarked his wife. “He has
not even written to me.”
“Well,” added Miss Precocity, “that’s just
like these men; as soon as they get away they
cease to think of ns.”— Buffalo Courier.
“I don’t see why your friend Miss Smith re
ferred to my moustache as ‘down,’ Maude,”
said young Sissy to his pretty cousin. “There
is nothing of the‘down’about it; it quite bris
ties I have to shave twice a week. I assure you,”
“I know it bristles. Charley." returned the
girl, knitting her brows, “although not very
fiercely, and I am as much perplexed as you are
to understand why Clara should speak of it as
down. (Sudden happy thought). Perhaps,
Charley, its because it grows on a—a goose.”—
New York Sun.
PERSONAL.
Mark Twain will be 53 years of age in Novem
ber.
Joy Wo is the contradictory name of a San
Francisco Chinm^m.
Henry Trvino advocates government super
vision of popular entertainments.
Lady Coi.in Campbell is earning pin money
by writing for the Isvndon Saturday Rrine’r.
Miss Gwynne, Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt's
sister has lust broken her engagement with Mr.
Beatty at Xarragansett.
Gen. G. W. Cvstis Lee is improving, and
hopes to be able soon to resume his duties as
President of the Washington and Lee Univer
sity.
Gen. Greely, Chief of the Signal Service,
lias gone to Europe for two months. Now is
the time for Wiggins to get in his fine cyclonic
work.
Tony Hart, the New York actor and manag
er. has lasi iiis fortune since leaving Mr. Ed
ward Harrlgati. He Is now seriously ill with a
throat affection, the result of applying ‘'make
up paints' for theatrical work.
The Republicans of Roanoke. Va., have nomi
nated for the State Senate C<>i. I>. F. Houston.
He is a native of Pennsylvania, and ten years
ago was the Republican candidate for Congress
in the district so long represented by Samuel J.
Randall.
Now for the oldest postmaster. This time his
name is Roswell Beardsley, and be licks postage
stamps nt North Lansing. N. Y, He was elevated
to the position of P. At. June 3K, 1838.and tie ha
held it ever since under his original commission
nearly sixty years.
Prop. Dana, of Vale College, reached San
Francisco last week from Hawaii, where he
spelt* one week studying the crater ef Kilaitea.
lie tffld examined the volcano forty-seven years
ago. and found, on his recent visit, that it had
not aged as much as lie had in the Intervening
years.
Mary Anderson opened her season at the Ly
ceum Theatre, London, on Saturday night with
an elaborate production of "A Winter's Tal*-.”
in which she plays both "llermione and Pordi
tn.' The cable reports say more ub >ut the
sumptuous costume* than about the perform
ance, which appears, however, to have .been a
success.
Secretary Endicott is very fond of having
his picture taken. A photographer says that
Mr. Endicott is one of the best oustouters among
public men that he has ever known. Mr. Endl
eott. It is said, orders a dozen or more pictures
every two or three weeks. He is a good sub
ject for thccumcru. lie |s*ses In a dignified and
striking manner, and looks every inch a de
scendant from Muyftower stock.
Gen. Berdan, who is known in army circles as
the "General of Sharpshooters," is one of the
pipular clut) men in Washington Just at pres
out In* is receiving congratulations upon the
fact that his son In-law. F. Marlon Crawford,
the novelist, has lieen the successful competitor
for the position of poet laureate at the constitu
tional celt ;,r.it i.,u at Philadelphia. Mr, Craw
ford's poem will Is* rend from the plat form at
the public exercises on 8 *pt. 17. Mr. Crawford
is now at Ills home in Sorrento, Italy.
The Confederate General, Longwtreet, intro
duced Gen. Grant to Miss Julia I tent, who is now
Gen Grant's widow Is>ngstroot s mother was
a I’etit tin graduating from the Mlllltary Acad
eII IV loiivsli* et was assigned to a command,
amt was stationed at Jefferson Itarraeks. lielow
SI. Is,ills While there he visit***! hls relatives,
the Dents, on the Gravoi i road, and w hen Grant
was assigned to the same regiment with Is ug
street, tie* latter aismuiiMinicd him on hls first
VUII lo lae lient place, and prreeuted "tie* little
muii with the big epaulettes," us Grunt won
aometlnwa called in ihuaa dura, tu his future
wifu.
THE TODDY PALM.
A Western Statesman Expresses His
Admiration for the Plant.
From the Vein York Sim.
“When I was down in Washington the other
day,” remarked a Western politician at the St.
James, “they showed me a wonderful Indian
palm at the botanical gardens. They call it the
caryota ureus, and it cuts a bigger figure in the
world as an intoxicant than all the distilleries of
the United States. Just in proportion as the
followers of Brahma aud Buddha in India are
far more numerous than the Christian popula
tion of the United States, in the same propor
tion does that palm tree surpass all our appli
ances for making an intoxicant. It is a beauti
ful tree, with a trunk something over a foot in
diameter, grows to the height of about sixty
feet, aud is surmounted by an elegant crown of
gracefully curved leaves. The flower
spikes are ten or twelve feet long, and
issue from the trunk at the base of the
leaves, hanging down like a horse’s tail. They
are not produced until the tree basarrived at its
full period of growth, and the manner in which
the numerous spikes succeed each other is rather
singular. The first spike issues from ihe top of
the tree, and after it has done flowering another
comes on below it, and so on. a flower spike lieing
produced from the angle of each leaf stalk, or
from the circular scar left by leaves that have
fallen away from the trunk, until the process of
flowering reaches the ground, when the tree is
exhausted and dies.
“The English in India gave it the name of
Toddy Palm because they traced a kinship be
tween their old home toddy aud the juice of the
tree. The natives work it in this fashion: When
the spikes are in the bud they cut them off, and
the sap that would have flowed into the bud is
caught by them in a gourd and used as a liquor.
It's very powerful and produces a flue crop of
delirium tremens in India. They expect this
Oriental distiller} - to flower some time this fall.
Yes, it’s the only Toddy Palm in this country.”
The Sarcastic Observer at the Range.
From the San Francisco Examiner.
One of our crack militia companies amused it
self all day last week h v speeding the blithe bul
let at the irresponsive bullseye. Along late in
the afternoon, during a break in the stream of
lead, a stranger passed that way and entered
into conversation with the marker, who was re
pairing the target,
“Mighty skillful shooting this has been," said
the stranger: “it is very difficult to miss the
bullseye every time in a whole day's practice.”
“You talk as if they tried to miss it, ' said the
marker.
“What!” the stranger exclaimed, with sudden
emphasis, “do you mean to say they tried to
hit it?”
“Certainly—why not?”
A pallor overspread the visage of that strange
man; in the language of the novelist, he
“gasped for support.” He brandished his jaw
in vain, for his tongue refused its office-there
was no salary attached to the office —and was
flourished in ineffectual curves. “Why not?”
he at last repeated—“why not? Because that is
one of my patent back-action retaliatory tar
gets, designed to test courage as well as skill.
When struck in the bullseye it strikes back.
Sir, a man who should inadvertently put his
bullet into the geometrical centre of that tar
get would be shot dead! For Heaven’s sake put
a stop to this perilous amusement!”
The marker tranquilly consulted his watch.
“Got about done now,” said he; “only two
hours more allowed for shooting. Oreatly
obliged to you sir, but I guess It's ail right.”
And jumping into his pit, he waved his flag
for the firing to proceed. No casualties.
The Champion Liar.
S. W. Foss in Tid-Bits.
The snake liar and the fish liar, both bowed in
their gray old age,
Came traveling hack from their journeys wide,
from their earth-w'ide pilgrimage;
A tear drop stood in the snake liar's eye, and
the fish liar groaned in pain,
And a death like look of infinite grief came over
the face of the twain.
“I cannot compete w-itta the modern lie," the
sad-eyed snage liar said,
“In its limitless length, and breadth, and depth,
and I xvish that I were dead:
For I stand rebuked with a shame faced look
'neath the triumphant gaze of the eye
Of the newspaper affidavit liar with his circula
tion lie!
“For the snake liar, and the fish liar, and the
horse liar own his sway,
And the easy-going liars who work by the job,
and the liars w - ho work by the day;
The traveling liar, old inhabitant liar, and liars
of low degree,
And liars who lie for the fun of the thing, and
liars who lie for a fee.
“The horse liar, the peach crop liar, the sea
serpent liar and all.
With tneir wide, untraveled wastes of cheek,
and their soundless seas of gall,
All bend the knee to the sceptred sway of this
crowned and peerless one,
And the father of lies looks tenderly down on
his most accomplished son!”
An Anecdote of Gladstone.
From the Philadelphia Times.
Perhaps it is in private life thut Mr. Gladstone's
vitality and x-ersatility are most remarkable It
if a great sight to watch him at dinner with a
few friends He never talks for the sake of
talking, but listens attentively to every one else,
and is eager to draw out from his company all
they can tell him. But, they feel the influence
of a master mind in the smallest details. Mr.
Gladstone asks a dozen searching questions in
a few moments, und presents the subject In an
entirely new light by some exposition that the
listeners never dreamed of. He is full of reminis
cences. and seems to imagine that everybody's
memory ought to be as tenacious as his own.
One night when he was Prime Minister he
sat on the Treasury bench xvith only one col
league beside him. He was apparently asleep,
and the other man thought he might indulge in
a doze. But presently a Tory speaker ventured
upon some historical statement. Mr. Gladstone
was on the alert at once. Turning to his com
panion he said: “That is entirely wrong. This
fellow is mixing up his facts and his dates.
Don't you remember?” Then lie proceeded to
explain some obscure passage of political his
tory of which his unfortunate colleague was
obliged to confess entire ignorance. Mr. Glad
stone looked at him for a moment in pitying
wonder, and as soon as he dared the hapless
man slunk away. Meeting a friend he sai l ; “I'm
going home; I can't stand that fiendish old man
any more. Why. he actually cross-examined
me about something thut happened lie fore 1 was
born.”
Count Von Moltke’s Parsimony.
A Schweidnitz newspaper—Count von Moltke's
estate, Kreisan, lies in the neighborhood of
Schweidnitz—relates the following story of the
great Field Marshal: A short time ago Count
Moltke visited an inn not f. r from his home and
called for a glass of common beer. The land
lord retailed b >th this kind (einfacher. bier) and
“double beer" Moppet bier), the prices being 5
pfenning and 10 pfenning respectively. Think
ing common l>eer unsulted to the position of his
guest, the man supplied Moltke with the best
quality After drinking off the foaming glass
the Field Marshal praised the brew and placed
on the table a 10 pfenning piece, expecting to
receive the half buck again. The landlord, how
ever, approprlited t lie whole, and Moltke left
without s lying a word. A few (lavs later the
Count visited the same inn again, and ordered a
glass of l eer as usual. Again double beer was
brought. Before leaving Moltke called the
landlord and said, “When I was here last I gave
you P> pfenning, and as you gave me nothing
(sick I was 5 pfenning to the good, so that we
nis* now straight," The landlord remarked
that ho had drawn double beer, which cost 10
pfenning. “Oh. hut I did not order double
I leer," said the Count, and he drove away smil
ing.
What Truthful Bill Died Of.
From the Texas Siftings.
An El Paso, Tex., man iioing in Sar. Antonio,
was asked by a gentleman how Bill Hart was
coming on in El Paso.
"lie went by the name of Truthful Dill, didn't
he*"
* * Yes. “
“Well, he is not •hmiug on at all. He was
buried the day before 1 left El Faso."
"What caused his death 1”
“His death was caused by imprudence •
"Perhaps Truthful Bill drank too much."
"No."
"Was he imprudent in changing his clothes?"
“No, it wasn't that. He was imprudent in
telling tlie truth He got up in a saloon pat
rnnized by the elite of the town and said that
tlie whole crowd present, were liars and horse
thieves. The verdict of the Coroner's jury was
that he died of lead-poisoning.
A Circus Man's Sarcophagus.
From the 'Frisco Argonaut.
A certain niuiuvaer of a menagerie died and
word was sent to his native village that his re
mains would he brought home for interment,
ami thut they would Is* accompanied by a mem
ber of the Iroiuie Wh**n ihe box arrived, how
ever. the friends noticed that It was very large
ns large as a table and exceedingly heavy; so
they thought an iuvesi igation might to be made
and the)- opened the Isix. lib at was their
aimuenient to discover the carcass or a huge
lion. They culled to tlie man having It m
charge anil asked: "How ia this? We received
word that the body of t lie manager was coming,
and iiixi.-ad of that we ttn<J the carcase of this
great llirti." Hr answered * Well, that's just
It llliii- the toiler w list at* up t-iof manager.
lue manager a -mods. ' ~
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Three new studies have been added to the
curriculum of the Louisville high school. They
are typewriting, stenography aud cooking.
The Prohibitionists have carried every county
in Florida so far, but one, in which an election
has been held under the new local option law.
Abraham Souther, a colored man of Old Fort,
N. C\, has in his possession documents which
show - that lie is 101 years old. He chews and
smokes, and is a devout Methodist.
A poor woman in Gratiot county, Mich., who
had been scrimping along on two acres of land
for many years, went up to Ithica the other day.
drew $3,000 back pension, and inside of an hoil
blew in S3OO for dry goods.
A family that recently removed from Lee, N.
11., took along a cat that soon disappeared. It
has since been found at the old homestead in
Lee. but how it got back is a mystery, as it
must have traveled fifty miles without a guide.
Winnipeg is an exception to the saying that
there is no Sabbath west of Chicago. The
streets ore empty and the churches fall. In
deed, there is said to lie church accommoda
tion for 15,000 in a population of 33,000, aud it is
all utilized.
AN intelligent farmer who thought that the
banks xvere not safe lives in Elba, Minn. He
sold a farm for $2,001 and hid the money in his
house, and in a few days, while his w ife was at
the spriug getting a pail of water, the money
was stolen and the house set on lire and burned.
A wealthy octogenarian of Cincinnati, who
married a young Kentucky beauty, a few years
ago, is now- suing for divorce on the ground of
willful absence. He asserts that trouble prompt
ly liegan on the wedding trip because he re
fused to transfer $30,000 worth of property to
his bride. They separated, and she refused
to live with him unless he made the transfer.
Honey will be high this year. The three lead
ing honey producing States, Illinois, Wisconsin
and Michigan, have absolutely no honey at all,
and in many parts of these States the bees are
fed on sugar to keep them from starving. Last
year California sent honey to the East by the
car load, this year they have scarcely enough
for home consumption.
A cone of burnished tin, 30 inches in height
and 13 in diameter, has been placed on the sum
mit of Mount Katahdin by the Bangor (Me.)
Appalachian Club, in order to note the distance
from which the peak can be seen. It is expect
ed that the cone will reflect the sun's rays far
and wide over Maine, and enable observers to
determine the question.
In Palestine, Tex., last Wednesday night Mr.
John Rampy and a neighbor climbed a big tree
to watch for wolves. About midnight the
wolves appeared. The neighbor blazed away at
them, and turned just in time to see Mr. Rampy
drop to the ground, a dying man. It is sup
posed that the ti igger of his shotgun must have
caught on a twig. Anyway he had shot himself
fatally.
Forty-five years ago there wasn’t a postage
stamp in the United States, says the Buffalo
Courier-, but in the last twelve months the peo
ple of this country have individually and sever
ally put their tongues out 1,968,341,000 times to
moisten the postage stamps for the billions of
letters and millions of newspapers, periodicals,
and parcels that are carried and delivered by
the government.
A citizen of Providence, R. 1., makes many a
dollar by catching bats, which he sells to tax
idermists for 50 cents apiece. He fastens a flah
hook to the end of a long horsewhip, and on the
hook he fastens a moth miller. Then, standing
near an electric light in the evening, he waves
the whip until one of the many bats which are
hunting the insects that fly around the light
grabs the miller, and then he yanks him in.
One of the members of the Harrisburg City
Grays is Private Task, who for twenty-five years
has been a Sunday school scholar, and In all
that time has never been absent from his class.
Recently, when in camp with his company,
Saturday came, and he found some difficulty in
getting permission to leave, but when he pleaded
that his failure to get to Harrisburg would break
the record of a quarter of a century's attendance
at Sunday school, the commanding officer had
not the heart to refuse a request which was
backed by so unusual an argument.
Otto Schroefel was the son of wealthy
parents in Weiselberg, Wurtemberg. They gave
him a good education and he bid fair to make a
reputation as an architect, but the old Adam
was too much for him, and be ran away ten
years ago and came to this country, Since
then he has been living on husks. Three months
ago he was stabbed nearly to death by a negro
near Camden, and a policeman took him to the
hospital There he was cared for, his life saved,
and by the chance reading of an old torn news
paper he learned that he was the rightful heir
to a fortune, the income of which will amount
to SIO,OOO a year.
An important railway enterprise is announced
in Turkey, a syndicate of British financiers hav
ing received from the government the right to
construct a grand trunk line to traverse the cen
tral plateau of Asia Minor and connect Constan
tinople with Bagdad, covering a distance of 1,330
miles It is said that for years past this under
taking has been the goal of rival speculators.
English, French, German and American com
panies have ail sought to obtain the franchise.
The line to Ada-Bazaar from Ismid is to be com
menced forthwith and finished in two years.
In four years the line is to be opened to Angora,
and eight years afterward to Bagdad. It is
estimated to cost some $90,000,000.
The case of Joseph Garrison, of Idaho, illus
trates how a capital of patriotism can be made
to yield lucrative returns under the pension
system. From the statement of it, which ap
pears in the Hailey (Idaho) Times, it seems that
he was struck by a stone thrown from a roof
as the American troops were entering the Citv
of Mexico. He served afterwards in the civil
war as a Lieutenant in the Second California
Cavalry. He filed a claim for “total disability”
from the wound received in Mexico, but waived
it and accepted an allowance on which he has
thus far drawn a total of $!0,no(). His civil war
pensions and arrearages will reach $20,000 more.
Besides this the soldiers of the Mexican war re
ceived warrants for 180 acres of land, and Gar
rison was entitled to homestead another 160
acres free.
Keeper Maest, of the Erie county almshouse,
says that in his experience one of the peculiar
freaks of insanity is the seeming reversal of
natural tendencies. “For instance." he says,
"we have in the male wards fine collections of
potted plants and climbing vines, which grow
so luxuriantly that they curtain the windows.
Tiie men tend these carefully, pluck away the
dead leaves, stir up the dirt in the pots, prune
th“ vines, keep them carefully watered, and in
divers other ways manifest the tenderest watch
fulness. Not so with the women. Every attempt
to introduce plants and vines as a feature of tlie
female wards, save in tlie cottage where Die
mildest eases are confined, has proved a fl it
failure. The women pull out the plants by the
roots, tear down the vines, and manifest other
destructive tendencies entirely at variance with
the nature of the sex in general."
A funny sight, the other afternoon, in Spring
field, Mass., was a little urchin about 10 years
old, who, having sold all his papers for the day,
took out of a satchel swung across his shoulder
a dead blue and white shirt, which, after wash
ing his face and hands and drying them on his
soiled shirt, he proceeded to put on. Then he
brushed his t rousers and boots, brushed his hair
with a brush carried in the satchel, and. having
dusted bis hat and replaced it upon ids head, he
really did look much improved. Then he danced
a hornpipe. He next proceeded to dine on the
curbstone, spreading out thereon a niece of
pajier, two bum sandwiches, a pier,, nf go ger
nread and a slice of watermelon. After ttiis Hue
repast he washed it down with water from the
Jerry McAuley fountain. And then came to me
the most remarkable part of the whole proceed
ing. He actually stooped down to tlie lower
basin. Intended for dogs and cuts, and proceeded
to wash the soiled checkered shirt he had pre
viously worn. It was duly rinsed, wrung out
and bung up on Ihe iron railing surrounding the
flower garden to dry. All this time 1 sat in a
building directly opposite awaiting my turn to
come at my dentist's, who toll! me afterward
that the small boy was a daily frequenter of the
fountain, and be didn't believe the lad had any
other home.
An AwfUl Catastrophe.
From ttie /Joston Transcript.
Guy Beuuclerck stood la-fob l the mirror in the
great Ivory bedroom of <'liln Castle, placing
upon his manly form the "arments In- was that
day to wear in the iib*eooe of his monarch.
Suddenly there shot from his hand a glittering
disk, which, sparkling for u moment us it
imsaed through a sunbeam, buried Itaelf in the
obscurity of the rich Turkish carpet. With u
wild shrink, a heart piercing cry, Ony Beau
clerck threw himself ujion tlie floor and groveled
like a groveli-r from Drovcltown. In au inslunt
his wife, the Is-autiful I sidy Constance Itcaii
clerck. was at his sale, title whom even ihe
tib-seia-ii of royalty itaelf could not la-ntl. now
Isiwed tu loving solicitudo over tin- iiroatrate
form of her h'isliaiid
"bisaik-i., me. tiny," she cried, "tiuy, have
you lost your reason?"
"bo." Is- moaned, faintly, “l Lais test uiy
Miliar button. '
I BAKING POAVDER.
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Used by the kijted States Government. En
dorsed by the y u ls of the Great Universities as
the Strongest, \rest and most Healthful. Dr.
Price’s the onlyjaking Powder that does not
contain Ammonn Lime or Alum. Sold only in
Cans. \
PRICE BA IMG POWDER CO.
NEW YORE. CHICAGO. ST. LOUIS.
DRY jpODS, ETC.
l
AT—
froli 4 Hour's,
SUCCESSOIS TO
B. F. McKema & Cos.,
137 BROUGHT!)! STREET.
FIGURED BAM CLOTHS.
WE will close out the reminder of our stock
of these fine goods, formerly sold at 18c.
a yard, now reduce! to 12!4c.
25 pieces Figured sawns, 33 nches wide, regu
lar price 12)4e. a yari; now SJ^c.
75 pieces Figured lawns, choice styles, at3)<c.
50 pieces Wide Wflth Lawns, regular price
10c. a yard; now
One lot Crinkled Ssersuckers, rcgula rice
15c. and 17c. a yard; nw 12^c.
One lot of Dress linghams, choice styles
regular price a yuxT; now 10c.
36 Imported Marseille Quilts, slightly soiled,
formerly sold at $3. Wa will close the lot out
at $1 85 each.
Hosiery and Underwear.
100 dozen Unbleached Blacland Colored Hose,
regular price 12)<c.; now 9c. tpair.
A mixed lot of Misses’ File English Hose,
Ribbed, Plain ana Bilk Clocked regular price of
these goods from 35c. to 50c. We will close tha
lot out at 17c. a pair.
50 dozen Ladies’ Gauze Undervests, regular
prices 35c. and 35c.; now 19c. each
35 dozen Ladies' extra fine qualty Gauze Un
dervests, regular prices 50c., 65c., ‘Sc. and 85c.
We will offer the lot at the extra*rdinary low
price of 47c. each.
Onr SI Unlaundried Shirts Reduced to 90cl
75 dozen Gentlemen's Unlaundried Shirts, re
inforced back and bosoms, the best $1 Shirt
manufactured. In order to reduce our largs
stock we will offer them at 90c. each.
CROIIAX & DOONER.
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ff taken the lead In
tlie vales of that cl*e of
rtnieiJies. an<l hat given
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MANHOOD RESTORED. ASSShSJSS'
ng Premature Decay, Nervous Debility. I-ost
Manhood, etc., having tried in vain every known
remedy, lias dine ivered a simple self-cure, which
he will send FREE to his fellow sufferers. Ad
dn-ss tJ. MASON, Poet Olffco Box dlftl, New
York City.
UHI US ANI) MEDICINES,
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WHY don’t walk our tony with fh*t
▼ v uioH div*M #r Aijjt of rlotli#** on with HtAini
or (ifNMD Kjxjin In, It; wbicli (hi< Ktuimmli dual
Btbrlui "dwr than u brother, M wlmni
Japanese Cleansing Cream
will t*kc !Uuj uit hm * iww pin. 2ftc. 4
bottle. MiMii* iHily by
J. R. H ALTIW ANGER,
At in* Drug tk'orMt. Broughton and UfSjUMk
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