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THURSDAY. NOVEMBER I<>. 1887.
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INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Meetings—Savannah Mutual Loan Associa
tion; Zerubbabel Lodge, No. 15, F. A* A. M.; Sa
vannah Cotton Exchange.
Special Notices—As to Crews of Br. Ship
Ceylon, and Ger. Bark Ludwig; As to Bids
against Br. Steamships Wetherby and Anjer
Head: As to Br. Steamship Resolute and Her
Cargo.
Amusements —Grand Wrestliug Match at The
atre.
Economy or Money, Fuel. Etc.—Cornwell &.
Chipmau.
Drives This Week--At Cohen's.
Fob Sale— C. H. Dorsett.
Cheap Column Advertisements— Help Want
ed; Employment Wanted; For Rent; For Sale;
Lost; Miscellaneous.
The adhesion of Great Britain to the Cen
tral European alliance is a further guaran
tee of peace for the present.
Hanlan, the ex-ehampion oarsman, was
received very eoolly in Australia, where he
has gone to row Beach. It is only the
champion oarsman or slugger who is a
hero.
Comic opera in Hebrew mast strike some
men about as it would to hear a love ditty
sung to the tune of “Old Hundred.*’ But
they are having opera of that kind in a New
York theatre.
Snapper Garrison, the jockey, has won
fame this season, and he is jiayiug the pen
alty promptly, suffering with violent hem
orrhages. As George Fordham’s tomb
stone says, “It is the pace that kills,” and
Garrison has ridden fast.
“I thank you white men and I thank you
colored gentlemen for your attention,” is the
way a Republican orator wound up his re
marks at a Richmond political meeting. He
was perhaps thoroughly acquainted with
the standing of those whom he addressed.
The editor of the Cleveland Leader
thinks it necessary to deny having apolo
gized to Gov. Gordon for the brutal slanders
upon him printed in that paper. It will readily
be believed that this editor is incapable of
such gentlemanly conduct as apologizing for
a wrong done.
Steve Elkin* says Blaine can have the Re
publican nomination if he wants it, but he
will not accept it unless he feels perfectly
sure of success. If this be true, then Mr.
Blaine will not be a candidate; but Mr.
Elkins probably means Blaine will run if
not perfectly sure of defeat.
Parsons’ successor as editor of the Alarm
says the people are afraid to hang the
Anarchists. This is not the proper tone for
the Anarchist organ to adopt if it wants
mercy shown the condemned men. The
penile are in no humor to put up with in
solence, and they aie not afraid to do any
thing they think proper.
It has cost 1100,000 less to do a greater
amount of work than was ever turned out
by the government printing office the last
year. Reform of the sort Public Printer
Benedict is enforcing is what the people
want, as the saving comes from good man
agement and not from scrimping the earn
ings of employes, which have been larger
than ever before.
The Washington correspondent of the
Chicago News telegraphs that it may be
considered Rettled that should Mr. Lamar
be nominated for the Supreme Court bench
he will be rejected by the Senate. This
means that the Republicans are determined
that in one of the three co-ordin branches
Of the government the South shall have no
representative. It has had none for many
years, but that only deepens the injustice.
The late Justice Woods, though credited to
Georgia, was in no proper sense a Southern
man.
Senator Morgan has returned to Mont
gomery after a speaking tour, and is in a
cheerful frame of mind. Any attempt to
Mahonize the State on the tariff issue will
fail, he is certain, as Democrats who are in
clined to protection will not desert the
party. Gen. Morgan is an earnest advocate
of tariff reform and one of the strongest
men in Congress from the South. His re
election is assured, in spite of the timid op
position of certain journals in the upper
part of the State who want the present tax
abuses to continue.
The new repeating rifle bad hardly been
put in the hands of the German soldiors
when it was discovered to be so greatly in
ferior to that adopted by other nations, that
another change was decided upon. Now
the gun factories are working night and
day to i-earm the troops as soon as possible.
The new rifle is said to compare favorably
with the French Lebel. The rivalry be
tween European nations must at no distant
day break out in war, which may involve
most of the civilized world, and in the mean
time, in the search for the most perfect
death-inflicting appliances, they are loading
themselves with debt. The condition of
affairs is a reproach to civilization.
The Federated Trade and Labor Uniou of
New York have issued a call for a great
meeting of workingmen in Union Square
Thursday night. The opening sentence of
the call says that “seven of your best breth
ren will be murdered.” Other language in
keeping with this is indulged in. These
men in former struggles for better . wages
and to right wrongs under which they suf
fered, liave almost uniformly had the sym
pathy of the press and public, but they will
get little of it hereafter. They have taken
a distinct stand against law and order and
in favor of anarcliisin. The idea that the
•even Chicago murderers represent Ameri
can workingmen is prepxfterout.
Arguing: With the Commission.
The railroads of Florida are very much
dissatisfied with the passenger and freight
rates which the Railroad Commission of
that State has published. Against the pas
senger rate of three cents a mile they enter
a very strong protest. In support of their
protest they urge that threeeentsamile will
j leave them no margin of profit, and in the
1 cases of some, if not most of them the rate
! is not sufficient to meet actual expenses.
The commission, doubtless, is anxious to
do what is fair between the railroads and
the people, but in endeavoring to the
people as many' benefits as possible under
the railroad commission law, it s ould not
forget to bo just to the railroads. It will
hardly be denied that the railroads are
much 1 letter acquainted with their business
than the commission can possibly lie. They
know what their receipts and expenses are,
and they can form a very fair estimate of
what increase in business they can depend
upon. When they say emphatically, there
fore, that if they are permitted to charge
no more than three cents a mile they will
either have to run their trains at a loss or
give the people an inferior service, the
commission should hesitate about insisting
upon that rate. Before the commission de
cides upon a rate finally it should satisfy
itself beyond a reasonable donbt that it is
not only ample for all purposes of expenses,
but will afford n fair profit.
There is no part of Florida that is verv
thickly settled, and most of the State is
sparsely populated. It will be several years,
even if the growth of the State in wealth
and population continues to be remarkably
rapid, before the railroa’ds even in the most
favored sections can be operated profitably
at the passenger and freight rates which
prevail in the thickly populated States.
The railroads have 'lone more for Florida
than any other agency. They have penetra
ted the wilderness where it didn’t pay
them to do so. They were influenced, how
ever. by the hope of rewards in the near fu
ture, but not in every case lias this hope
been realized. Asa matter of fact none of
the roads of the State has become rich from
its earnings. One of the most important of
them is now in a receiver's hands, and will
soon be sold to the highest bidder.
The railroads ought not, of course, to be
permitted to charge excessive rates, but it
cannot be determined what are excessive
rates from a comparison of the rates of the
roads of the State with those of the roads of
States in which the passenger and freight
traffic is greater. What are fair rates can
only be determined from a knowledge of
the receipts and expenses of the roads of
the State.
In his remarks before the commission at
Tallahassee, the other day. Col. Owens, of
the Savannah, Florida and Western rail
way, called attention to something that had
doubtless escaped the attention of the com
mission, if, indeed, it ever knew of it. He
pointed out that railroad ties and bridges in
Florida last only three years. It is doubt
ful if there is any other locality in this
country where they decay so quickly. In
these two items the Florida roads have a
heavy expense, which the roads of other
States escape.
The commission cannot afford to fix the
rates arbitrarily. It must not only take
into consideration the business of the roads
and their expenses, but also the effect that
the rates it finally fixes will have upon rail
road building. To take from the roads all
chance of making anything upon their in
vestments will check railroad enterprises,
interfere with immigration and give the
State a set back from which it will not
quickly recover.
Cabinet Rumors.
Washington is now quite full of rumors
relative to the successor of Secretary Lamar,
who, it is understood, will take the vacant
place on the Supreme Bench about Dec. 1.
The impression appears to be pretty strong
that Postmaster General Vilas will become
the head of the Interior Department, and
that Hon. Don M. Dickinson, a Michigan
politician and lawyer, will be made Post
master General.
The reasons given for transferring Mr.
Vilas to the Interior Department are rather
interesting. They are, in the main, that the
President, if he is to be re-nominated, would
like to have Mr. Vilas nominated for Vice
President. He thinks that there should
be an ex-soldier on the ticket, and
has selected Mr. Vilas as the most available
one for the position. Mr. Vilas was a very
good soldier, but not a remarkable
one. He apjiears to have made himself very
popular with the President, who evidently
intends to do all he can to advance his polit
ical fortunes. It might be asked why he
cannot lie nominated for Vice President
while filling the office of Postmaster Gen
eral. as well as if he were Secretary of the
Interior. The reason given is that the Post
Office Department has about 1,000,000 em
ployes, and it wouldn’t look well for a
Cabinet officer, having so many govern
ment employes under his control, to seek
an office to which his employes would feel
under obligations to assist him.
Mr. Dickson, spoken of as the successor of
Mr. Vilas in the Post Office Department, is
about 41 years of age. From the frequency
of his visits to the White House and the
number of appointments it is alleged he has
controlled it is safe to to assuino that he is a
shrewd politician. He seems to have been
heard of outside of his own State ouiy since
Mr. Cleveland’s election.
A Good Example.
Mr. H. C. Hanson hus set an ex-ample in
reducing the Columbus Enquirer-Sun from
an eight to a four-page paper which might
be followed with advantage by a number
of other news|>aper proprietors. It re
quired some nerve to make the reduction,
but it showed good business sense. A city
of 15,000 to 35,000 people can't support a
paper of the same size and class as one
of from 40,000 to 60,000. A newspaper
can’t live on the desire of some of the
people of the town in which it is published
to have a "big paper and all the news,” to
support which they contribute little or
nothing. The people of Columbus and the
owners of the Enquirer-Sun will lose noth
ing by the change which has been made in
that paper.
The grandchildren of Horace Greeley are
said to be in want and in danger of being
turned out of doors. Their mother married
a man for his good looks, and he proved to
have no other good quality.
Gen. Roger A. Pryor says he has “not the
least particle of doubt” that the ( lives of the
Anarchists will be saved. The condemned
men would lit a great deal happier if they
had even a small share of his confidence.
Newport seems to be now a winter as
well as a summer resort. New York papers
still print “society notes” from that gather
ing place of New York aristocracy.
THE MORNING NEWS: THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1887.
Civil Service Testa.
The Civil Service Commissioners have
found that their system of examinations
for promotion in the departments answers
so well in the War Department, where they
have given it a pretty thorough test, that
they have determined to put it in force in
the Treasury Department. Of course it
will be much more difficult to adapt it to the
Treasury than it was to the War Depart
ment, for the reason that there are about
ten times ns many employes in the former
department, who are subject to the juri-die
tion of the Civil Service Commissioners, as
there is in the latter.
The examining of employes for promotion
greatly increases the duties of the commis
sioners and their assistants. The em
ployes in the Treasury Department,
for instance, are divided into quite a
number of grades, and not only will
different questions have to lie prepared for
each grade, but they will have to be
changed for each examination. It is not
possible to keep the nature of the questions
a secret, and If the questions were not
changed all the employes would soon be
come familiar with them, and the conse
quence would be thnt the unscrupulous and
good-for-nothing ones would pass the best
examinations and stand the best chance for
promotion.
There is some ground for saying that the
questions provided by the Civil Service
Commission, whether for appointment or
promotion, are not calculated to discover
the fitness of the applicant for the place he
seeks. They do nothing more than show how
much of what be learned in his school
days he remembers. A man or a woman
may be well posted in grammar, geography
and arithmetic and yet have no special fitness
for the performance of the duties of any
position in the civil service. The examina
tions, particularly for promotion, should
have a strong bearing u£on the duties of the
position that is sought.
It seems that the Secretary of the Treas
ury inaugurated a system of examinations
for promotion several months ago. The
public, however, has known nothing about
the matter, and it may be would have
known nothing of it but for the movement
to apply these tests for promotion to the
Treasury Department.
In view of the lack of judgment in admin
istering the civil service law, and also the
great difficulties in the way of civil service
reform, it will be rather remarkable if suc
cess finally attends the efforts to place the
reform upon a firm basis.
Sullivan's London Reception.
According to the cable dispatches the re
ception which the Boston slugger, John L.
Sullivan, received on his arrival in London
was far greater than that received by Gen.
Grant when ho made his celebrated tour
around the world, or that which was given to
any one of the members of the royal fami
lies of Europe on the occasion of the Queen’s
jubilee celebration. The great depot at the
station was so crowded with people that it
was impossible, for quite a long time, for
the members of the Sullivan party to get
out of their car. The crowd was good na
tured but enthusiastic. The police tried
to force the people out of the
depot, or at least to open a way for pas
sengers to get to and from the trains, but
they found it impossible to do so. Sullivan
himself had to undertake to force a passage
for his party from his cat* to his carriage,
and he succeeded in doing so only afttr a
long struggle. The people followed him to
his hotel and blocked up the street in front
of it. The only way the police could get
the street cleared for traffic was to beg Sul
livan to make his appearance at the window
of his room and request the people to go
away.
Jay Gould has attracted comparatively
little attention abroad. With all of his
millions he is a far less important person in
the eyes of a vast majority of Englishmen
than the famous slugger. He has moved
about just as he pleased, without being dis
turbed either by an enthusiastic or a gaping
crowd.
Of course the great majority of those
who express such admiration for Sullivan
in England are the lower classes, but not a
few of them belong to the most cultivated
and exclusive class. Is it Sullivan’s strength
they admire, or his skill as a prize tighter!
Englishmen are very great admirers of
pluck and strength and Sullivan has both.
It seams rather remarkable, however, in
this day of advanced civilization that a
prize fighter should command more atten
tion in the largest city of the world than
the greatest soldier, statesman, or scientist.
There was no great desire among the
masses to see Blaine, although he has been
a famous man for nearly twenty years, and
it is doubtful if the President were to at>-
pear suddenly in London there would be
anywhere near the crowd to greet and wel
come him as there was to cheer Sullivan.
New Railway Mileage.
Two months ago the Morning News re
printed figures from the Railway Age show
ing the great activity in railroad construc
tion during the earlier months of the year.
The last number of that periodical, just
received, brings down the account to Nov. 1.
In ten months 9,408 miles have been built, a
record surpassing even that of the remark
able year 1883 when for twelve months the
construction was 11,568 miles. This indi
cates that during 1887 at least 12,000 miles
of new road will be put in operation, an
expansion greater by more than 2,000 miles
than in any previous year, except 1882.
One remarkable fact connected with this
great activity is that so large a proportion
of the building is induced by the fierce
rivalry four great railway sys
tems in the far West.no less than 3,400
miles of new road having been constructed
by four companies whoso lines extend west
of the Missouri river, while more tlian half
of all laid was in Kansas, Nebraska, Texas
and Colorado —4,798 miles.
Some of the Southern States,however, show
also a very considerable activity. In Ala
liama 377 miles of new road were built, in
Georgia 219, and in Florida 84. The indiea
tioas are that the present rapid rate of con
struction will continue next year, but that
will of course depend in a large meas
ure upon the continued prosperity of the
country and the state of the money market.
The effort to oust John J. O’Brien, the
New York Republican boss, from his posi
tion of Chief of the Bureau of Elections,
seems likely to fail, as Judge Donohue has
decided that he does not come under the
State civil service law. He was in office
when the law was passed, and the clause ex
empting office-holders from examination is
hold to protect him and render him eligible
for re-appointment. It is only fair to add
that he voluntarily underwent the exami
nation, and stood at the bead of the class.
The question now is: Is there any legal way
•f getting rid of him!
CURRENT COMMENT.
Ben Butler's Conscience.
From the Chicago Tribune (Rep.)
The ganglionic mass in Ben Butler's anatomy
that serves him in lieu of a conscience is pre
stunably satisfied with the manner in which he
has discharged his duty to his $250-per day
clients, and if the clients themselves are satis
fied nobody else has any business to complain.
A Platform for Blaine.
Chicago NewsiDem.)
Congressman Buchanan, of New York, nomi
nate* Mr. Blaine and Mr. Phelps, of New Jersey,
for the next Republican ticket. An excellent
platform for this seaside combination would lie
the f Rowing: “Resolved tlint Mrs. Partington
did sweep back the ocean with her broom after
all.”
When Petitions Will Do No Good.
From the St. Louis Republican (Dem.)
The Chicago citizens who are now so unani
mously petitioning the Governor not to hang
the Anarchists will lie equally of one mind in
petitioning the Anarchists not to touch off
dynamite bombs the next time an odious capi
talistic system of society may seem to require
reforming.
Sentiment Better than Cankering Hate
From the Boston Herald ( Ind .)
Gen. Jackson, who ma le the "lost cause”
speech in Georgia, is said to be a |>oet. His
sympathies were touched and his heart over
flowed with tender memories in the presence of
Jefferson Davis, and he gave utterance to many
of them, including some exploded theories of
government. We may well believe this, and we
may also feel that such a manifestation is not a
matter to make a great fuss about. It is far
better, in fact, than to have a heart into which
the canker of hate is eating, or a soul so small
as to see in these effusions of sentiment nothing
but material for party capital. Tuttle and For
aker and Murat llalstead arc not poets.
BRIGHT BITS.
“ What's the matter with the baby. John?"
“Dunno, Mariah: but I think it must be the
yeller fever. Washington Critic.
"Ikey” said Oliver Sweat to his only son, at
dinner the other day, "what have you in the
shape of pie.”
“Pie plates,” promptly responded Ikey.—
Stoughton Sentinel.
Philadelphia Man—Do you mean to say your
street care are not heated in winter?
Omaha Man—Not at all.
“What in creation do you do to keep warm?”
“Talk politics.”— F.xchange.
In olden times the sound of brass, it was
thought, had power to put spirits to flight.
Well, it has now. We have often seen a proud
spirit take a tumble when a brass band was
playing in the neighborhood.— Yonkers States
man.
Don’t be a clam, my son; but if an old friend
comes to you and asks for the loan of $5 until
Saturday night, just close your shell for repairs
It may look rude, but under some circumstances
it is better to leave than to be left .—Burlington
Free Press.
Southerner (in Glasgow, to friend)—By the
way, do you know MeScrew?
Northerner—lien MeScrew? 00, fine! A
grand man, MeScrew! Keeps the Sawbath—an’
everything else he can lay his hands onl.—Lon
don Punch.
“Mabel, I have something to say that I think
will astonish you,”
“What is it?”
“I am going away.”
“Oh, Harry; You are always getting up
some nice surprise for me. ’’ — iferchant Trav-
There is an uncanny sort of a man in Mis
souri. w ho claims that he can tell what a woman
is thinking about by the way she winks. We
have seen this thing successfully tried in the
case of a man. hut, curiously enough, every
mother’s son of them was thinking about the
same thing.— Burlington Free Press.
Omaha Dame (to applicant for domestic ser
vice) —You do not look very strong.
Applicant—lndeed I am mam. The last
woman I worked for said she believed I walked
ten miles every morning.
"Walked ten miles every morning? Why,
what were you doing?"
“Getting breakfast, mum.”— Omaha World.
"Look here, my friend,” said a well-dressed
man to a Washington policeman last .Sunday,
“I want a drink very badly. Can't you help me
out ?”
"I can. sop," rejoined the guardian of the
peace who was of Hibernian extraction.
“Ah, thanks. Here's something for you, by
the wav. Where did you say I could get a little
drink? ’
•'Right around the corner to your lift, sor;
yeze'll foind a poomp an' dipper. $— Exchange.
“What flavor?" inquired the waiter of the ice
cream saloon, as the bridal couple sat down in
all the pride of their Skowhegan youth and
beauty.
“What’s yourn, Mari?" the bridegroom asked;
“mine's plain vemeller.”
“Verneller!” said the bride, with a little touch
of nasal asperity in her tones. “Reub, I don't
somehow s'pose you'll ever get reel refined—
some varnt el flavor for me, young man, with
jist a spoonful of strawb on the side.”— Puck.
Eastern Financier—Yes, sir; greatest scheme
yet. We are going to organize anew telegraph
company in opposition to Jay Gould. Want to
join?
Omaha Capitalist—Jay Gould is going to
Europe I hear.
“Yes."
“Will he stay there?”
“Oh, no. He’il back in a few months.”
“He will?”
“Yes."
“Well, I'll buy stock in your new company if
you'll agree to take the poles and wires in at
night.”— Omaha World.
PERSONAL.
Oen. Grf.kly is again in the Signal office.
Secretary Endicott is on a tour of inspection
in the West.
Gen. Boulanger's mother was a Welshwoman
named Griffiths.
Rev. Hiram Gee, of Ithaca, has given $.'10,000
to Syracuse University for the establishment of
a chair of social ethics.
Mrs. Zach. Chandler is in Germany with
her daughter, Mrs. Senator Hale, and her three
grandchildren, who are pursuing their studies
there.
Miss Jeannie Youmans has succeeded her
brother. Prof. Edward L. Youmans, in the edi
torship of the Popular Science Monthly. Miss
Youmans has always been her brother's assist
ant and companion in his studies.
Ex-Secretary George S. Boctwell's first
work, which he has entitled “The Lawyer, the
Statesman and the Soldier,” is a volume of
essays discussing Lincoln. Grant, Rufus
Choate, Daniel Webster and other famous Amer
icans.
The Pope has already received many jubilee
gifts, including a ring from the Sultan, a
splendid Sevres vase and inkstand from M.
Jules Ferry, vases from Marshal MacMahon,
and SIOO,OOO from the Prior General of the Car
thusians.
Henry Ward Beecher never smoked tobacco
himself, but often presented his friends with a
pipe. He had a great fancy for amber, that
beautiful mineral so highly prized by smokers,
and never failed to buy a fine specimen when
ever he saw it.
“My parents," says Ristori, “were middling
comedians. They thought, it only natural to
introduce me to their 'ait,' and I was not yet
three months old when I made my first debut.
They were playing a little piece iu which a
grandfather had to he reconciled to his daughter
y the sight of her infant child. I was put into
a basket filled with flowers and carried on the
stage, but lam sorry to say that I howled so
dreadfully that I was carried back to my
mother. Next day I was replaced by a splendid
baby doll, which jtorformed the part far better
than 1 had done.”
John M. Kapkna. whose death is annouced in
the latest news budget from the Sandwich
Islands, was a full-blooded Hawaiian who had
tieen prominent in public life for many years.
From 1870 to 18H0 he was the Governor of the
Island of Maui. Then he went as Minister to
Japan, and on his return was made Prime Minis
ter. He remained at the. head of the govern
ment for two years, served subsequently as
Postmaster General, and was Finance Minister
in the Gibson Cabinet which was overthrown
last July. Mr. Kapena accompanied KingKala
kaua on his visit to this country in 1874, and
again made a tour of the United States two
years ago.
The Rev. Morgan Dix completed on Sunday
his twenty-fifth vearus rector of Trinity church.
New York. Of the nine clergymen connected
with the parish in IW2. all but one are dead, and
the number of the parish clergy has increased
to eighteen, serving at seven churches and chap
els. Of these, three have beeu built during Dr.
Dix's rectorship. St. Cornelius', St. Chrysostom's
and St. Augustine's chapels. There have also
Iteen, built the Parish Hospital, new school
houses at Trinity and St. John’s, and the new
office building at Church. Fulton and Yesey
streets. In the same period the communicants
of the parish have Increased from 1 ,227 to 6,585,
and the children in the schools from 2,570 to
7,071, mid the contributions of the parish from
$22,000 to $91,000.
A CRUEL POLICEMAN.
A Vacancy Undsr Official Buttons
Where a Heart Ought to Be.
From the Detroit Tribune.
It was long past midnight, and the Rtillness
was broken only by the measured troad of a
policeman in the distance. Occasionally there
would boa pause in the steD. and the sharp rat
tle of somebody's door would sound forth evi
dence that the faithful guardian of the peace
was keeping a faithful watch over the locks aud
bolts which protect the law-abiding citizens
within from the prowling marauder. The step
advanced, and presently the stalwart figure of
the blue coat emerged from the shadow into the
glare of an electric light. He paused and gazed
earnestly up the street, for it was time to expect
the roundsman on his tour of inspection. Ah,
there is a sudden blaze of light in an up stairs
window across the way. A small hand holds
back the curtain and an anxious female face
peers out. Presently it disappears, and the
officer walks leisurely across the street and
takes up a position under the windows. Again
the curtain flies back and the flush face reap
pears. "Ah, Charley, I thought you'd never
come," came down from the window in a loud
whisper.
■‘l—l'm alius on deck,” responded the police
man. “I thought you’d overslept yourself.
Look out for the satchel," and a dark object
suspended on a cord twirlod toward the ground.
Presently the voice in the window whispered,
"Charley!"
“Well?”
“Look the other way."
"What fer?"
“Why, you ninny, I'm coming down the
rope."
The policeman then moved out of the shadow.
"See here, young woman, you’d better yank
that grip sack up there liefore I ring the bell
and put your pa on to your caper. If that Char
ley o’ yours shows up on this corner I’ll run him
into the box.”
The curtain dropped and the window was sud
denly engulfed in gloom, and the poi iceman re
sumed his beat in the happy consciousness that
an elopement had been frustrated.
A Malingerer.
From the Manchester Guardian.
“Malingering,” or the imitation of disease or
disability for the purpose, of evading work or
obtaining money, is a not uncommon form of
roguery. Sometimes the deception is so clever
as to be very difficult of detection, but usually,
it may be hoped, the resources of modern
science are sufficient to baffle the malingerer.
At Metz a short time ago there happened one of
those accidents which are said to occur occa
sionally even in the best regulated workshops.
A hammerman, whilst forging, let the tool slip
from his grasp, and it struck bis assistant near
the left eye. The injury was of course duly at
tended to, and in a few days the doctors de
clared the man to be completely cured. The
man. however, would not admit the correctness
of their statement, hut insisted that he had lost
the power to see with the injured eye. Special
ists examined him aud declared that the organ
of flight was uninjured, but the man steadily
maintained that they were wrong. Various
experiments were tried without decisive re
sults. Finally, one of the experts, basing him
self upon M. Chevreul’s investigations as to the
laws of the contrast of colors, made a fresh
trial. After writing some words in green ink
upon a black screen, he placed on the nose of
the malingerer a pair of spectacles having a
red glass for the right eye and a white glass for
the left eye.
"Now read what I have written," said the
doctor, and without the least difficulty the man
read the words.
“Did you read that with your right eye?" was
the next question. “Certainly; for I oannot
see with the left eye at all." “You are mis
taken; you have read this with the left eye.
Y'ou cannot have read green characters upon a
black ground because of the red glass, for red is
a complementary color of green, and the let
ters are lost and effaced in the black ground of
the screen. It is therefore with the left eye and
through the white glass only that you have
read w hat I have wrote.” When the case came
before the tribunal the reasoning of the special
ist was approved, and the malingerer was
defeated in his endeavor to obtain compensa
tion for the imaginary loss of sight in an eye
with which he could still read.
The Farmer’s Seventy Years,
From the Hartford Times.
Ah! there he is, lad, at the plow;
He beats the boys for work,
And whatsoe'er the task might be,
None ever saw him shirk.
And he can laugh, too, till his eyes
Run o'er with mirthful tears,
And sing full many an old-time song,
In spite of seventy years.
‘ Good morning, friends! 'tis twelve o’clock;
Time for a half hour's rest,"
And farmer John took out his lunch
And ate it with a zest.
“A harder task it is," said he.
"Than following up these steers,
Or mending fences, far, for me
To feel my seventy years,
“You ask me why I feel so young;
I'm sure, friends, I can't tell.
But think it is my good wife's fault,
Who kept me up so well;
For women such as she are scarce
In this poor vale of tears;
She’s given me love, and hope and strength,
For more than forty years.
‘‘And then my boys have all done weil.
As far as they have gone.
And that thing warms an old man's blood,
And helps him up and on;
My girls have never caused a pang,
Or raised up anxious fears; \
Then wonder not that I feel young
And hale at seventy years.
“Why don’t my good boys do my work
And let me sit and rest?
Ah! friends, that wouldn’t do for me;
I like my own way best.
They have their duty; I have mine,
And till the end appears,
I mean to smell the soil, my friends,"
Said the man of seventy years.
In Search of a Jewsharp.
From the Cincinnati Enquirer.
Cal Thomas, who always has a good story to
tell, has this one on Platt Evans, a stuttering
joker, who was one of the early pioneers of
Cincinnati: “In early days,” says Cal. “it used
to be thought capital fun to send a countryman
from store to store inquiring for the things he
would be certain not to find at the places to
which he was sent. One day a fellow came as
he had been directed to Platt's store to buy a
jewsharp. Platt was a merchant tailor. He was
busy with a customer as the man appeared, but,
observing that several of the ‘boys' had dropped
in at the door just to see what Platt would do, he
‘caught on’ at once, and responded to the in
quiry for the musical instrument, ‘W-w-walt a
minute.' Having served his customer, he picked
up a pair of glove-stretchers and approached
the rural melodist with ‘L-l-let me m measure
your m m-mouth,'and introducing the stretch
ers, manipulated them so as to transform the
aperture into a horizontal yawn, awful to see,
and capacious enough to hold a dozen jews
harps. Removing the apparatus, he examined
it carefully and deliberately, as one might scrut
inize a thermometer or pocket compass, ami
then dismissed the unsuccessful hunter for
jewsharps, as he said in a tone of well-feigned
disappointment, ‘W-w-we hain't g-g -got any
your s-size.’ ”
Hugo Anecdotes That Are Plausible.
From the Pall Mall Gazette.
In spite of M. Sareey’s denial, there is a good
deal of priori likelihood in one of the anecdotes
of vector Hugo publishod in M Pavlosky’s
reminiscences of TurgeniolT. Hugo is said to
have declared ‘‘Wallenstein” to be Goethe's
greatest work, and, when corrected by Turge
niefT, to have replied that he had read neither
Goethe nor Schiller, but knew them better than
those who had their works by heart. This so
much resembles other dealings of the master
with both literary and political history, that it
is difficult to doubt it: and Mr. Swinburne
would probably defend his hero by explaining
that it does not in the least matter who wrote
this or that in so barbarous a tongue as German.
M. Pavlosky’s second anecdote we may fairly
disbelieve. It is to the effect that when some
Ilugolatcr suggested that the street in which he
lived should be called by his name, another out
bade him by crying: "Not a street alone, but all
Paris should bo callocl after him;" whereupon
the master remarked: "That will come in time.”
We do not require M. Sarcey’s aid to find a
touch of exaggeration in this legend.
The Result of a Dream.
Banian Correspondence Providence Journal.
The story is being told at the clubs how Mr.
Endicott invented the rough-backed playing
cards which are just making their appearance.
Mr Endicott is a member of various well-known
clubs, and at one of them he had passed an
evening playing cards, when in the nlgnt he had
a dream. He dreamed that he was playing
poker and made a misdeal. One of hisconq>an
ions who had an excellent hand reproached him
for making him lose the benefit of it.
"Very well,” said Endicott in his dream, “if
you had had rough-bucked cards it wouldn't
nave happened. It isn’t my fault.”
When lie awoke in the morning he remem
bered his dream, and the idea of rough-hocked
cards seemed to him a good one. He reflected,
experimented, perfected his improvement,
patented it in three or four countries, und is
now likely to make a fortune out of his clever
and fortunate dreuu.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
A Chesterfield (Mich.) man has a hog 38
months old that is the mother of fifty-nine pigs.
A report comes from Akron, 0., that the
coal fields in the Massillon district of the Tusca
rawas Valley are giving out.
The new- iron railroad bridge across the Mis
souri river, a few miles below Kansas City, is
7,3(13 feet long and weighs 31,275 tons.
Gen. Grant's old war horse, Claiborne, has
been presented to the members of the National
Military Home Kansas, by Capt. Campbell, of
Fort Leavenworth.
The island of Grand Matian is the home of
cut-and-dried monopoly that would be hard to
match. Grand Manan puts up annually more
than a million boxes of smoked herring, and
controls the market.
The Supreme Court of Ohio has decided that
the act providing for the laying of a tax to raise
funds for the building of a monument to Gen.
William H. Harrison. President of the United
States, is valid, and the monument will there
fore be built at an early day.
Corea recently broke down her ancient bar
riers so far as to send an envoy to Japan, but
the government was so poor that it could not
suppo’thim. and. soon coming to the end of
his resources, had to ask aid of the Japanese
government to avoid being put in desperate
straits.
Miss Lavra Winllkr. of lowa, is one of the
most successful temperence workers in the
State. The fact that she is totally blind seems
no bar to her vigorous work in her favorite
field, the workshop, where she makes strong
and personal appeals for men to give up liquor
drinking.
A small Scotch terrier dog in Little Rock
steals his way on the street cars regularly four
times a day, to and from his master's place of
business. Whether his muster is along or not
he waits for the car at the crossing and hops on
behind and alights with gentlemanly ease when
it arrives in front of his master's store or resi
dence.
Mrs. Isaac Armagost, of Crawford county,
Pennsylvania, was ill, and her son started out
with his gun to*kill a pheasant for her. He re
turned, after a long hunt, without any game,
but shortly after he had entered the house a
crash of window glass was heard in the parlor,
and a plump pheasant was found cn the floor
with its neck broken.
The leading newspaper man in Japan Is Mr.
Murayama. Nine years ago he started Asahi
Shimbun (which, being interpreted, is Rising
Sun .Yen's), at Osaka. It now-has a circulation
of 36,000, aud an agent of the editor and pro
prietor is inthis country to buy improved presses
for the Asahi Shimbun. It is partly illustrated,
and sells for four-fifths of lc.
Twenty-one large wagons have been shipped
to South America by an Indianapolis maker on
which to haul as much as can be loaded on
them. Each weighs about 2,800 pounds, and
each wheel weighs 288 pounds. The tires are 4
inches wide and 1 inch thick. The axles are of
hickory, the hubs of black birch, and the re
mainder of the wagon is of oak.
John Irwin, of Cuba, lost his voioe last sum
mer, and regained it in a singular manner. He
started to the St. Louis Exposition with his
family, and the cars being crowded, the conduc
tor sent him back to a sleeper. The porter
ordered him out. and a heated discussion fol
lowed, during which Mr. Irwin warmed up till
his feeble whisper gradually developed into his
natural tone of voice. The restoration appears
to be permanent.
In China all the roads except the Imperial
highways are tracks over private land. The
owner does all he can to restrict them. When
the soil washes down into the road—the road is
always deeper than the laud—the owmer digs
out the road, to get back his soil with interest.
This makes the roads in the rainy- season succes
sions of deep puddles, and over all Northern
China traffic is suspended for four or five mouths
every year, ou account of the impassabilitv of
the roads. .
Mr Edison, the electrician, has again brought
to notice the subject of distant signaling by
means of throwing the rays from the electric
light upon the clouds, and by a combination of
short and long flashes, somewhat similar to the
Morse telegraph code, communicate from one
station to another some twenty miles away. To
demonstrate the practicability of this scheme it
is proposed that it should be tried aboard any
of the government vessels fitted with the electric
search light.
A blue-blazer is made with two silver or
plated mugs. Take one small teaspoonful of
powdered white sugar dissolved in one wine
glass of boiling water, one w iueglass of Scotch
whisky. Put the whisky and the boiling water
in one mug, ignite the liquid with tire, and, while
blazing, mix both ingredients by pouring them
several times from one mug to another. If well
done this will have the apperanco of a continued
stream of liquid fire. In practicing the making
of this beverage the novice should use cold
water to avoid scalding himself.
A citizen of Copenhagen, Denmark, recently
wrote to the St. Louis Chief of Police, asking
for an appointment on the police force of that
city. He inclosed his photograph and said that
he was 6 feet 4 inches in height, weighed 220
pounds, and could out-run and out walk any
man of his size in the country. He also stated
that he was not lacking in courage and coolness.
His photograph was returned by the chief, who
informed him that there were already over 200
hundred applicants ahead of him, 'and that
every one of them resided in St. Louis.
Maooie Arlinoton, an actress, who died in
New York on Sunday, was born in Lawrence,
Mass., in 1853, and began her career in St. Louis
in 1872. Her real name was Margaret Ryerson.
She subsequently married a nephew of Admiral
Jouett, by whom she had one child, a son. but
the two separated on account of the husband's
refusal to permit her to remain on the stage.
While leaning over the dumb waiter shaft at
her residence Sept. 13 last, she slipped and fell
a distance of 85 feet, breaking both legs and an
arm, besides injuring herself internally.
Oneda Cavalho, the last of the Humboldt In
dians, died in San Francisco the other day.
She was only 32 years old, and was undoubtedly
the last of her tribe, which was nearly wiped
out of existence twenty-seven years ago, when
the Modoes. with whom the Humboldts bad long
been at war. surprised them and killed over 600
men, women and children. Oneda s father was
killed, and the mother escaped with the 5-year
old child, whom she sold to a steamboat
captain. The captain reared the little girl until
she was 17, when she went to five w ith the
family in whose house she died.
One day last week George Wilk and his wife,
living near Scottsburg, Indiana, went to town,
leaving their two boys, aged 7 and 8 years, with
their grandparents During the day the chil
dren amused themselves by plaving with a pet
squirrel. Finally the oldest found an old
twenty-two calibre revolver upon a shelf in a
closet, and. while the squirrel was lying upon
his little brothers arm, he point'd the dangerous
weapon at the animal and pulled the trigger
The weapon being discharged, the ball killed
the squirrel and penetrated the arm of the
youngest boy, causing a serious wound.
Fire drill in theatres has been tried in
Algiers at the National Theatre. During a
full-dress rehearsal of anew piece the house
was filled with spectators, an alarm of fire was
given, and the garrißon firemen speedily arrived
on the scene to rescue the audience. In ten
minutes time the firemen had emptied the
theatre, bringing out the spectators from the
upper galleries by means of ropes and ladders.
The drill was well and quickly done, hut as the
audience knew that it was only a false alarm
there was none of the panic likely to com
plicate matters in the event of a real disaster
and so the value of the experiment is not very
great.
About six years ago tho expeiiment of stock
ing Oregon with Chinese pheasants was tried.
A number of these beautiful birds tvas imported
from China, and they were turned out in Land
county. At the same time a law was passed
protecting foreign game for a term of t en years
Ihe (unless of the venture now appears to he
unprecedented. The hen birds raise two big
broods every year, and never iose a chick The
result has been that the birds have increased to
marvelous numbers. It is said that there are
thousands of them in Willamette valley and
that t hey destroy so much wheat t hat the fat m
ers will attempt to have the protective laws re
pealed this winter. The fanners sav that one
pheasant will destroy more wheat than four
lively wild geese.
Indians on the Pacific coast in times of
scarcity of food sometimes eat pine bark.
Around many of the watering-places in the pine
forests of Oregon and California the trees mav
be seen stopped of their hark for the space df
three or four feet near the base of the trunk
This ha* been accomplished by cutting with a
hatchet a line around the tree as high as one
could conveniently reach, and another lower
down, so that the hark, severed above and be
low, could be removed in stri|>s. At certain
seasons of the year a mucilaginous film separ
the bark from the wood of tin* trunk. Part
of this film adheres to ©aeh surface and inav 1
scra,,ed off The resulting mixture of mucifage
cells and halt formed wood is nutritious and not
unpalsiable. so that, as a Inst resort, it mav be
used as a tlelejjse agaitjst stai vaUyu. 1
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