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Meetings—Golden Rule Lodge No. 12, I. O.
O. F.
(special Notices— Turkeys and Beef, Central
Market; Thanksgiving Day Schedule on the City
and Suburban Railway; Bills Against the
British Bark I'nicon; Telephone Subscribers of
Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Ex
change; To the President, etc.. Continental Life
Insurance Company, of Hartford, Conn.; Tur
keys, etc,, John Lyons & Cos.; Variety Bakery,
JohnDerst; State and County Taxes, 1881'; No
tice, H. C. Carr & Cos.; Chocolates and Cocoas,
L. C. Strong.
Steamship Schedules—Ocean Steamship
Company; Baltimore Steamship Company.
Turkeys, Kto.—Adams <fc Flemiug.
To Sportsmen—Palmer Bros.
Cheap Column Advertisements— Help Want
ed: F.mployment Wanted; For Rent; For Sale;
Miscellaneous.
For Charleston Beaufort and Port Royal—
Steamer Pilot Boy.
Auction Sale—Santa Claus, by D. R. Ken
nedy.
Thanksgiving Day at Tybef. Island-John
Wright, Proprietor.
Boynton Heaters—Cornwell <fc Chipman
The apology of the Chattanooga Times is
accepted. •
The cotton fires at Memphis and Little
Hock have contributed a good deal toward
making the cotton crop a short one.
Poor, foolish Nina Van Zandt! It is al
leged that she has lost her mind, and it may
be that she will have to be sent to an insane
asylum.
The impression is getting abroad that,
though the Atlanta Constitution is neither
a wet nor a dry journal, it is very, very
thrifty,
The story that Secretary Whitney has
had a few unpleasant words with the Presi
dent, and that he is having a fit of sulks in
New York must be an invention Of an
enemy.
The experiment of heating trains by
steam supplied from the locomotives is being
extensively made in the North, and on the
New York Central road it is reported to be
successful.
There is an impression that there are
several aspirants for Congressional honors
Iki this district. If that be the case there
may be a very interesting contest for the
nomination next fall.
A New York editor thinks a woman of 21
unfit for such a position as school Commis
sioner by reason of inexperience. Now, if
that editor would only marry a girl of 31 he
would soon change his opinion.
It is asserted that work on the Panama
canal has actually cesaed. Is this assertion
true, or is it only intended to injure the
credit of the Canal Company in order to
help forward the Nicaragua scheme?
The Princess of W ales on her return from
Denmark to London did not receive the
•welcome recently extended J. Lawrence
Sullivan, although befoit- John’s appearance
she was the most popu*.*,-person in England.
The “greatest show on earth’’ was the
burning of the winter quarters of Bamuni’s
circus at Bridgeport. The big showman
never gave a more interesting or novel ex
hibition in all his long and varied ex
perience.
The Clerkship of the Superior Court is a
very nice office, and it affords a very- pretty
income. There may be others than those
whose names are mentioned in connection
ftith it who have a covetous feeling with
regard to it.
It seems as if no man were so repulsive os
not to attract some woman. It is stated
that so unclean and repulsive an object as
the Anarchist Most has quite a number of
admirers among the gentler sex. It is pos
sible that the most of these admirers would
not command much attention from the aver
age man.
The Hon. Samuel J. Randall has written
to the Hon. John G. Carlisle asking him if
he stated that he believed that he, Sam J.
Randall, was assisting Mr. Thoebe in his
contest against him, Mr. Carlisle: and the
Hon. John G. Carlisle has written to the
Hon. Samuel J. Randall that ho never made
such a statement, and no w all is serene again
between these eminent statesmen.
President Cleveland is not a gift taker.
Some parties in St. Paul sent him a deed to
a comer lot and he quietly returned them a
quit claim deed with a note stating that he
appreciated their kindness, but that he was
not an object of charity. What the Presi
dent mpaut probably was that he was able
to earn his living and did not propose to be
used to advertise anybody’s property.
The proclamation issued by Gov. Oglesby,
of Illinois, calling ujkiii the people of the
State to observe Thanksgiving day’, is prob
ably the shortest on record. It merely
designates the day and asks the people to
“appropriately observe the occasion with
all humility, benevolence and charity. ” It
is probable that the Governor at the time
did not know that the State would be free
of the raving Anarchists who had created
so much trouble.
The “wet” element in Atlanta recently
took a novel way of showing that “prohibi
tion does not prohibit.” Five negroes, it is
said, were token by the leaders of the move
ment and filled with fighting whisky. When
they hail become beastly drunk they were
paraded through the principle streets. Such
an exhibition, it seems, should tend to pro
mote the cause of prohibition and make
thinking men insist that tho prohibitory
measures already adopted be strictly iu
foroed.
Republicans in Doubt.
The belief that Mr. Blaine will be tho
Republican candidate for President is not
as strong ks it was a few weeks ago. He
will not accept the nomination unless he
thinks he can be elected. He has had ex
jierience enough as an unsuccessful candi
date. But if he is not to be the candidate
who is? None of the Republican leaders
feels competent to answer that question.
The fact that there is no strong and agres
sive demand for anyone of the Presidential
aspirants indicates that there is very grave
doubt in the Republican mind whether any
Republican can be elected.
A day or two ago a little effort was made
to bring Mr. Roscoe Conkling forward as a
candidate. It met with poor success. It is
quite certain that he could not carry New
York. Ho is popular with one faction of
tho Republicans of that State and hated by
another. No man who cannot poll the
whole strength of his party can carry the
State, and Mr. Conkling cannot do that.
He is not as strong in Now York as Mr.
Blaine, and Mr. Blaine lias friends there
who would rather see the party defeated
ttian to see Mr. Conkling carry the State.
They believe that he defeated Mr.
Blaine in 1884 by influencing his
friends to remain away from the
polls. Mr. Conkling may not have
done anything of the kind, but they believe
he did, and they would like the opportunity
of having revenge. If the Republicans are
wise they will not nominate Mr. Conkling.
The latest suggestion is that the ticket
shall be Blaine and Sherman. It would
take a great deal of coaxing to get Mr.
Sherman to accept tho second place on a
ticket with Mr. Blaine. The promise of the
first place in 1893 might induce him to ac
cept it. It is understood that a promise of
that kind was made to Gen. Logan, and if
lie were alive lie would be recognized as be
ing entitled to the nomination.
But would Mr. Sherman add any strength
to a ticket headed by Mr. Blaine ? It is
doubtful if the ticket would carry a single
State that Mr. Blaine could not carry with
out him. It is true that it is asserted in be
half of a ticket composed of Mr. Bi&ine and
Mr. Sherman that tho latter would
have the Wall street influence,
which Mr. Blaine could not get,
and that together they might carry
New York and thus be elected. Mr. Sher
man has a strong hold upon Wall street, but
the business men of that street, as well as of
the entire city of New York, are pretty
well satisfied with Mr. Cleveland. They
ha,v-e discovered that he is a safe man, and
that is tho kind of a man they want. They
know that Mr. Blaine is a very unsafe man,
and as he, and not Mr. Sherman, would be
President they would hardly support a
ticket on which Mr. Sherman occupied the
second place, however friendly they might
be to him.
The indications now are that either Sena
tor Allison or Senator Hawley will be the
Republican candidate for President. They
are botli able men, and both arc popular
and conservative. But even they may not
bo anxious for the empty honor of a nomi
nation.
The National Conventions.
The national conventions of the two great
political parties will not be held for several
inontbs, but there is a very brisk discussion
going on respecting the ad vantages offered by
the different cities which are seeking to have
them hold within their respective limits.
The leading Republican journals say that
their convention will, in all probability, be
held in either Philadelphia or Chicago, and
the Republican journals of the former city
insist that as no national convention of their
party has been held in the East since 1872,
and as two have lieen held in Chicago since
that time, tlie convention next year should
be held in Philadelphia.
There is no doubt that Philadelphia has
ample accommodations in the way of hotels
and a hall. It also has many attractions
which would interest the thousands of visi
tors that are certain to be present in what
ever city the convention is held.
Chicago, however, has all the advantages
which Philadelphia has, and its attractions
are not inferior. It has, besides, one thing
in its favor that will go a long way toward
making it the choice, and that is its central
location. Delegates don’t want to incur any
more expense nor lose any more time than
they can possibly help, and the Western
delegates will object to going to Philadel
phia, when the Eastern delegates will
be so close to their homes that they can
almost go to them at night and return to
the Convention the following morning by
the time it is ready to begin the day’s busi
ness.
The Democratic Convention may be held
in any one of half a dozen cities
that are contending for it. San Fran
cisco, Cincinnati, Chicago, St. Louis,
Saratoga and New York are all de
sirous of having it. San Francisco
has sent a committee to Washington to pre
sent her advantages, and tho other cities
may do the same thing later on. A 5-ery
strong effort is boing made to have New
York selected, and it is pretty safe to say
that either that city or Chicago will lie
chosen. Of course Chicago has the advant
age of position, but there are
some reasons urged in of New York
that are very strong, and may be considered
weighty enough to settle the matter. The
chances, however, that the Democratic
party will be victorious in tlie next national
campaign are so great that it is not neces
sary for it to consider in selecting a place
for its convention which one will contribute
the most toward its success.
Judge Van Brunt, of the General Term of
the Supreme Court of New York, has an
nounced his decision not to admit to prac
tice Hong Yen Chang, the young China
man who recently passed a satisfactory ex
amination. He is a graduate of Yale Col
lege and the Columbia Law School, and lias
boon denied naturalization by the United
States Court. The Legislature passed un
act for his relief last May, authorizing the
court to waive alienage. Justice Daniels
agrees with Judge Van Brunt, but Justice
Brady differed with them. In the case of
William Lane O'Neill, a British subject who
was debarred in 1881 by the General Term,
the Court of Appeals held that while the
court had power to debar an alien, the
Legislature had authority to pass an act
permitting his admission. The case is at
tracting considerable attention in legal
circles.
Anarchists will learn in time that they
cannot threaten people with impunity. A
New York reporter who was “warned” im
mediately caused the arrest of tlie blatant
scoundrel who interfered with him, and a
police justice thinking it liigh time to put a
stop to tho nonsense of Herr Most’s follow
ers imposed sentence of six months’ im
prisonment in default of SI,OOO bail for
l£‘xs\ behavior.
THE MORNING NEWS: WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1887.
A Man With an Imagination.
It is the general impression that Mr. Don
M. Dickinson, of Detroit, Mich., will be
PostmastertGeneral in the near future. It
has been quite positively stated that he has
consented to accept the position as soon as
Mr. Lamar is appointed to the Supreme
bench and Mr. Vilas is transferred to the
Interior Department.
Mr. Dickinson is already having more
newspaper notoriety than he likes, and
more, in fact, than is good for him. A De
troit paper published an editorial a day or
so ago. in which it stated that Mr. Dickin
son was going to become a member of Mr.
Cleveland’s Cabinet in order to furnish it
with a policy. The following is a part of
what the Detroit paper said: “Mr. Cleve
land will have in his new Postmaster Gen
eral a man who has grown up with the
country, and who does not shiver with
alarm when he hears anew idea advanced.
It is in this latter respect that Mr. Dickin
son will be most valuable to the administra
tion, which, thus far, has been one of mere
routine. Mr. Cleveland, himself, has no
more imagination than a clam, and his con
stitutional advisers ore very much the same
sort of men. The result of this combination
has been an administration without a pol
icy, for certainly no one will call the civil
service business a policy. It may have
been well enough that the Cabinet was
formed of such men in the beginning, but
it is now time to show the country that the
party is capable of something more than
routine."
This was telegraphed all over the country
as the utterance of a journal whose editor
was a warm personal friend of Mr. Dickin
son. It was even stated that the article was
inspired by Mr. Dickinson. When the
President saw it he wondered whether he
hadn't made a big mistake in asking Mr
Dickinson to become a member of his offi
cial household. The second sober thought,
however, convinced him that Mr. Dickin
son couldn’t have had anything io do with
the article, and Mr. Dickinson himself soon
after satisfied him that it was the work of a
political enemy and that no attention should
be paid to it.
Nevertheless, it is not improbable that
when Mr. Dickinson becomes Postmaster
General the President will watch for evi
dences of that exuberant imagination which
the Detroit editor says he possesses, and it
may be that it will be quite a while before
the President will cease to suspect that
every suggestion of his Postmaster Genera’
is due to his imagination rather than hi
reason, and will weigh his suggestions care
fully with the view of determining whether
or not they possess any of the gravity which
is supposed to be characteristic of anew
policy.
The Next Congress.
The Fiftieth Congress will meet in less
than a month from now. On account of tlie
questions which it will be called upon to
settle it is the most important which has
been elected in several years, and by reason
of certain peculiarities of its composition its
action upon them is so uncertain as to
arouse much interest and cause considerable
anxiety. The House is not only divided upon
party lines, but upon questions of fiscal
policy—the opposing forces being nearly
equal in each division.
Of the 325 members of the House 168 will
lie Democrats, 153 Republicans and 4 Inde
pendents —three of the latter with Republi
can antecedents. It will be seen that tin
Democrats have a clear majority of only 11.
It will require a discipline stricter and
more exacting than has been en
forced of late years by the Democratic cau
eus to make so 6lim a majority always
effective. On a division upon a question
affecting the principle of protection by ex
cessively high tariff duties, as now prac
ticed, the count would perhaps be as close
as upon party lines, though there is no way
to determine this positively. A small num
ber of Democrats might, on such a question,
vote with their party enemies, while, per
haps, an equal number of Republicans
would support a Democratic motion to re
duce the tariff taxes.
In the Senate tho weight of the opposing
parties is even more nearly balanced than
in the House, there being thirty-nine Re
publicans and thirty-seven Democrats.
Among the Republicans, however, is count
ed Mr. Riddleberger, whose conduct has
been so eccentric and animosity toward cer
tain leading Republican Senators so great,
that they cannot with any certainty depend
upon his vote. Among the Democrats, on
the other hand, are counted the Senatsors
eleet from Indiana and West Virginia,
about whose certificates there are irregular!
ties which the Republicans may seize upon
as a sufficient pretext to exclude them from
their seats. It is hardly probable they will
be so bold, but they may venture upon such
action in order to retain undisputed control.
It will be seen that the parties are so
nearly equal in both branches of Congress
that any bill representing party policy will
meet with strong, and unless discipline is
strictly maintained, successful opposition.
The question of first importance which
will come before this Congress is the aboli
tion oft unnecessary taxation. Tlie piling
up in the Treasury of an immense surplus
has already alarmed the business commu
nity to the verge of panic, and it has been
neoesary to resort to expedients, which
would bo open to criticism were the circum
stances less urgent, to keep tlie millions un
necessarily collected within reach of trade
demands. The future policy of tlie govern
ment is involved in the sottiemont of this
question, which can no longer be deferred.
Another great question which will come
before this Congress, and which may be
said to in some degree hinge upon the dis
position made of the surplus problem, is the
demand so loudly made for largely increased
pensions to ex-Union soldiers. The Repub
licans would no doubt be willing to con
tinue the (ftllection of $100,000,006 above
the needs of the Treasury aiinuuljy, and
divide it with liberal hand among pension
ers. This policy would obviate the neces
sity of tariff reform. In the pension ques
tion the South is peculiarly interested, as,
though it pays its full share of tiie taxes,
none of the money comes back. It is both
absolutely and relatively weakened by the
drain.
These are only two of tho many impor
tant subjects which will come up for discus
sion and action, and it is to be regretted
that the Democratic party in Congress is so
hampered that it may find it impossible to
enforce its policy in its entirety. There was
never a time in the party’s history when it
more needed firm, but conservative, leader
ship.
Carter Harrison, who is at present
travelling in Japan, writes from Hiogo that
“there is no suck thing as conventional de
cency” in the Mikado’s domain. Iftheex-
Mayor of Chicago possesses the enterprising
Yankee spirit with which he is credited he
wiil be l uluiH the town shortly.
CURRENT COMMENT.
Shameless Exposure.
From the Boston Globe (Dem.)
The attention of Mr. Anthony Comstock is re
spectfully called to the fact that tho trees on the
Commons are all tore.
One of the Earmarks.
From the St. lx>uis Post-Dispatch (Dem.)
Foraker is disclaiming all desire for the Presi
dency. This indicates that the Foraker boom is
preparing to expand itself The Ohio plan of
managing a boons is peculiar.
Making a Distinction.
From the Philadelphia Record (Dem.)
While the vigilant police will Sunday watch
the back doors of obscure saloons for thirsty
souls in quest of a furtive glass of lieer, the
front doors of spacious club houses will tie wide
open and their sleek and aristocratic visitors
will have no difficulty in obtaining limitless
dunks at their- unlicensed bars.
Civil Service and the Tat iff.
From the Boston Traveler (Rep).
It is the true policy all round to have an open
fight on the principle of protection, and let the
best side win. Should the next canvass be con
fined mainly to the civil service issue and the
tariff, without reservation or dodging on either
side, it would do much to lift the controversy of
1888 away from sectional lines, and make it
more national than it has been for fifty years.
The President Liked Terre Haute Best.
From the Cincinnati Enquirer (Dem.)
The President, in conversation with a promi
nent Indiana Democrat who called at the White
House yesterday, said, in alluding to his recent
trip through the West and South, that the re
ception accorded him at Terre Haute afforded
him more satisfaction than he received at any
of the other points visited. He says that the
Terre Haute reception was the nicest and most
cordial of all others on his trip.
BRIGHT BITS.
So you are the friend of the workingman ?”
“Yes, sir, I am. I clip off coupons to encour
age the poor men who work their lives away
making shears.”— Chicago News.
First Burglar—Wot’ll I do with this burglar
alarm. Bill, take it along?
Second Burglar-Yes, slip it in the bag. We
can get something for it.— New York Sun.
Why is ft that a man who would scorn to steal
even an umbrella will, without a qualm of eon
science, walk off with the editor s lead-pencil
and paralyze the power of the press for fifteen
or twenty sulphurous minutes’— Washington
Critic.
“Clawexce. what does the expwession ‘with
out whyme or weason’ mean?"
"Don’t you knaw. deah boy?"
“I don’t, woolly.”
“Why, it wefers to blank verse."— Merchant
Traveler.
"Has your husband gone to the meeting of
the United Sons of Toil?”
"He has, sor."
"Was lie delegated!”
“If that's a high toned word for dhrunk, be
wor.”— Washington Critic.
Chicago and Atlanta, acting conjointly, have
struck a great business scheme. Atlanta makes
cotton seed oil out of lard, and Chicago makes
lard out of cotton seed oil. The possibilities of
ttiis scheme in the way of “furnishing employ
•nent" to labor are absolutely unlimited.—Bos
ton Globe.
Baltimore girl do young Mr Wal 10, of Bos
ton) —Are you addicted to the habit of cigarette
smoking, Mr. Waldo?
"Well—er—really. Miss Terrapin, I ah—am
ashamed to say that Ido occasionally, only oc
casionally, you know, smoke them.”
Baltimore Girl—Well. I wish you would give
me one. My case is quite empty.— The Epoch.
A female servant sweeping out a totchelor’s
room found a four-penny piece on the carpet,
which she carried to the owner.
"You may keep it for your honesty,” said he.
A short time afterward he missed his gold
pencil-case, and inquired of the girl if she had
seen it.
"Yes, sir,” was tto reply.
“And whut did yft do with it?"
“Kept it for my honesty.”—Pori's Figaro.
“Gentlemen,” said the Judge of an Arkansas
court to the attorneys during a trial, “I don’t
mind your shooting at each other occasionally
if the circumstances seem to justify it, but I see
that one of your bullets has nit an overcoat be
longing to the court and broken a quart flask in
the inside pocket. I wish it to be distinctly un
derstood that if there is any more such careless
shooting in this court I'll lift the scalp of the
galoot that does it. Now go ahead with the
case.' '—Chicago News.
An old gentleman of Detroit was passing
through the ceremony of taking his fourth
wife the other day. At the impressive climax
of the good preacherman’s part in the per
formance somebody was heard sobbing in an
adjoining room. "My goodness'." exclaimed
one of the guests in a dramatic whispqr, “who
on earth is crying on this festive occasion?"
"That?" replied a mischievous member of the
experienced bridegroom’s family—“tliat’s no
bodj’ but Em. She always hohooes when pa’s
getting married. ” — Detroit Free Press.
•-sT<viv " ssid August?!*, as he carefullv
spread his hemstitched handkerchief on the floor
a i,i i.eiiou n it nis luol s leel—"Mamie, i
would die for you; yes, 1 would even be crema
ted for your sake.”
“Ah, Augustus, dear, 1 know you would," an
swered Mamie, tremulously, “but I will not ask
so much. 1 will only ask you. Augustus, to go
down town and buy uie a yard and an eighth of
brocaded satin cut on tho bias, just the color of
this sample," and she handed him a sliver of
skv-blue gros-grain ribbon.
But Augustus wilted and declared he would
rather die any day than undertake such a
task, and now Augustus kneels no more on his
hemstitched handkerchief at Mamie’s feet.—
Buffalo Courier.
PERSONAL.
Lady Mandevillb enjoys the distinction of
being the most popular American in London.
Miss Cleveland, a second cousin of the Pres
ident. is the author of "See-Saw, by One of
Ein.”
Kino Milan, of Servia, is writing a history of
l <• onnaign against ex-Prince Alexander, of
Bulgaria.
"Phil” Armour, the Chicago millionaire, gets
to his office before his clerks, and is in bed by 9
every night.
Walter M. Gibson, King Kalaultau’* former
Minister of Foreign Affairs, has been beaten in
a breach of promise case.
Mrs. Henry Fawcett, widow of the blind
Postmaster General of England, contemplates a
lecture tour in this country.
Emperor William has conferred the Order of
the Black Eagle upon Count Schouvalolf, the
Russian Ambassador at Berlin.
Congressman Scott, of Pennsylvania, is re
ported to have spent $50,000 in a social way in
Washington last season, and will expend the
same amount this winter.
Prince Alexander, of Battenburg, it is ru
mored is to marry the Princess Louise of Wales.
Queen Victoria, in order to obtain the consent
of her father, had to promise to endow the bride
with $1,000,000.
Samuel J. Randall's Washington house is bis
borne, it is a plain, but substantial, brick i.uild
lug, with an L at the rear, where the Congress
man lias his study or work room. The only
books in the room are "Congressional Records.”
Rev. Dr. Howard Crosby has bepn the pastor
of the Fourth Avenue Presbyterian church, New
York, for twenty-live years. Dr. Crosby comes
of an old and wealthy Knickerbocker family,
and was bom in New York sixty-one years ago.
Senator Standford. of California, has about
twenty jockeys at his Palo Alto farm and nearly
!00 stable employes. He has recently estab
lished a uight school for their benefit, at
which Mrs. Standford herself frequently gives
instructions.
Marland Cogswell Honns, of the Harvard
14w School, has beeu awarded the Summer
Prize of SIOO. This prize, which is now given
for the llrsl time, is the gift of the late Charles
Summer. It calls for a dissertation on “Uni
versal Peace.”
Two ex-ITesidents of Yale are still living—Drs.
Woolsey and Porter. Of the two. Dr. Woolsey
lias the greater power of recollecting the unmes
and faces of Yale graduates. His memory is
wonderful, aud he otten astonishes an alumnus
by reoailiugsoino trivial detail of the past,which
had entirely passed from the mind of the young
er man.
Among the women doing good newspaper
work are Mrs. Joy, A M. B. Ellis and Miss
Josephine Jenkins, of the Boston Herald; Miss
Utaee Sotier. of the Boston Journal; Miss Mi
nerva Smith, of the Boston Advertiser; Mrs.
Washburn and .Miss Hatch, of the Boston Globe;
Alice Stone Blackwell, editor of Woman's Jour,
nal; Miss Lilian Whiting, of the Boston Trawl-
Ur; Katherine Conway, of the /'dot; Mrs. Col
by, of the Woman's Tribune (Nebraska); Mrs.
Underwood, of the Often Court ; Miss Fell, of
the New Orleans Times- Democrat, aud Miss
Louisa Knapp, of the Home Journal. Scores
of other uames might be properly added to this
11*1, showing that women are making their way
in this Held shoulder to shoulder with the
sterner sox.
An Astonished Literary Critic.
From the Pittsburg Dispatch.
A novel writer of my acquaintance Fome
years ago was writing short stories for a New
York magazine, and was on very intimate terms
with its owner and editor. The latter was a
bright, enterprising fellow, somewhat conceited
and imbued with the belief that he was torn to
shine in the literary firmament. One day he
handed a manuscript to the novelist with the re
mark that it was the first production of a be
ginner in story-writing and he should like an
impartial opinion on its merits The novelist
took it and read It, though it was very tough
reading. He returned it to the editor, saying:
“It is a very crude affair, not worth printing, in
my judgment, but there are gleams of reason in
it at rare intervals. I should say that the au
thor might lie declared sane, though I have iny
doubts even about that.” A month later "the
very crude" affair 'appeared in the New York
magazine, subscribed with the name of the
editor and proprietor. But he was generous; he
never mentioned the subject to his crude critic,
but treated him even more kindly than before.
In the Toy-Shop.
From Longman's Magazine.
The child had longings all unspoken—
She was a naughty child.
She had a "will that must he broken;”
Her brothers drove her wild.
She read the tale, but skipped the moral,
She thought "One might be good,
If one could never scream and quarrel
If oue were only wood?”
Meanwhile the Doll; “Ah, fatal chasm
Although I’ve real curls
I am not made of protoplasm,
Like other little girls.
You see on every wooden feature
My animation's nil.
How nice to be a human creature,
Get cross, and have a will!"
And what may be the real issue
There’s none hath understood;
But some of us are nervous tissue,
And some of us are wood.
And some to suffering, striving wildly,
Are never quite resigned,
AVhile we of wood yet murmur mildly
At being left behind.
The Three Met Again.
From the Chicago Tribune.
During the triennial conclave in Chicago near
ly eight rears ago, two men stood in front of the
Loland Hotel. A third man approached them
with an armful of pamphlets, and offered them
for sale. One of the men first mentioned was a
New Yorker, the other was at home. They took
a book, and after scanning it over, the New York
man said: “This book is rapk treason, and you
ought to be locked up for hawking it on the
street,” The Chicago man said to the peddler:
“You ought to to hung forffrying to sell such a
book as that.” The man o. the pamphlets
passed on, and the New Yorker and Chicago
man soon separated. They never met again
until last Friday, and both were witnesses to
the hanging in the county jail. The New York
mar. said to his Chicago friend: “There is a man
on the scaffold whoml have seen tofore. Where
was it?" indicating his felon. The Chicago man
replied: “That is Parsons, the Anarchist. He is
the man who met you and I seven years ago in
front of the to Land Hotel. He was hawking his
pamphlets then. You said he ought to be lock
ed up, and I said he ought to be hung. The
drinks are on you.” The New York man opened
a bottle after the hanging.
London Fog Insurance.
London Cor. Few York Sun.
Twice this week London has been shrouded in
a fog of unprecedented density. Sir Charles
Warren, fearing the roughs would utilize the
darkness, hod a couple of thousand of police in
reserve at Scotland Y'ard, with numerous ve
hicles ready horsed, to take them to any part of
the metropolis, as the railroads were blocked
and signals invisible. Brokers in London were
equally nervous. Wednesday, when the fog was
thickest and nastiest, was the last day. It was
the Stock Exchange fortnightly settlement, and
known as pay day, whereon bonds, etc., to a
fabulous amount, change hands. Brokers had
grounds for nervousness, for a fortnight ago a
clerk was stopped and robbed in broad daylight
of a big bagful of bonds. Therefore clerks on
Wednesday groped their way through the
streets cautiously, armed with revolvers, with
bags fastened to their sides by steel chains. The
day passed without robbery, but the scare set
smart people thinking, with the result that a
scheme is is now iu operation whereby nervous
brokers may insure bonds in transit through
streets at a premium of 10s. per £IOO per an
num. maximum individual insurance £20.000.
The risk covers the transit of bonds from the
sender’s doorway until it is duly delivered.
How Some Men Write.
Font the Philadelphia Press.
Bancroft uses a typewriter and stenographer,
but he thinks 290 words a good day's w ork, and
James (i. Blaine thought he was doing well when
he accomplished 1.500 words of a morning. One
of the fastest writers among the public men of
to-day is Admiral Porter, whose brain works
like the wheel of a dynamo throwing off snarks
at eTery turn, and whose pencil rushes across
the paper at almost a telegraphic speed. Ad
miral Porter wrote bis history of the United
States Navy in eleven months, and during this
time his average was at least 75,000 words a
month, or nearly 2.500 words a day, including
Sundays. The book is as big as a dictionary
and it contains from 700,000 to 800,000 words.
During many of these days he did not write at
all, and his average during his working period
ran as high as 5,000 words a day. Admiral Por
ter is fond of writing. He never uses anything
now but a lead pencil, and he says he cannot
think well without he has his pencil in bis hand.
He had a slight attack of pen paralysis once,
and his bund refuses to act whenever his finger
touches the steel of the pen. He began his
novel writing for amusement, and he wrote
“Allan Dare” without any idea that it would be
published, much less dramatized. He stands up
while writing, and, when he becomes interested,
he works right along for hours at a stretch.
George Bancroft works only in the morning.
Blaine did his best work before noon and Logan
worked both morning and evening.
What Woman’s Big Hand Did.
From the Few York Sun.
Roseoe Conkling sat in a theatre the other
evening. A hand was laid on his shoulder from
behind. It belonged to a certain highly fash
ionable matron of his acquaintance, but it was
a large organ, notwithstanding i lint it had never
done any labor. “Yes, sir,’' said Conkling, mis
taking it for the hand of a man. Then his
eyes toll on the feminine sleeve attached to it,
and he confusedly murmured, “I beg your par
don"
“Ob, no offense, I assure you,” the lady good
humoredly responded.
Mr. Conkling then said: “This reminds me of
an actual case in w liich a mistake in the gender
of a hand brought about a divorce suit. A wife
had a large hand, and it happened one evening
that sho sat with her husband and several others
on a rural veranda. The husband was smoking
a cigarette, and us it was very dark indeed, the
wife took it from him for a surteptitious whiff.
Now. right along side the couple ait a flirtatious
gill. She and the man were on sentimental
terms, but until now quite unknown to the
woman. The well-developed hand of the wife,
with the cigarette, chanced to swing into con
tact with that of the girl, who took hold of it,
thought from its size that it was the husband s,
felt convinced of it by the cigarette, apd there
upon pressed it to her lips, rapturously boliev
ing that, she was biking a safe opportunity of
the darkness. The eyes of the wife w ere ojiened,
metaphorically if not physically; sho watched
the pair for a few days, and action for divorce
was soon instituted.”
How Conkling was Chosen.
Front the Washington Post.
Col. John Scott. of Farquhar county, who is
one of the petitioners iu the Virginia habeas cor
pus casps now pending for decision tofore the
Uniteu States Supreme Court, says: “In order
to take off the Southern edge from the ease it
seemed to me desirable that we should have on
our side some Northern lawyer of ability
and reputation, and Mr. Conkling, in my
opinion, complied best with that demand.
Without consulting any oueat all, but
feeling that I was authorized to act alone
on account of the deep stake whirl as a party,
I held in the ease. I requested the editor of the
Richmond Dispatch to introduce the subject to
the public. He did so in an excellent manner,
and as soon ns 1 saw it in (lie columns of the
Dispatch I went to the Capitol 1 in order to prefer
my request and make my recommendation to
the Indemnity Board of the State. Fortunately
I found the board in session in the office of the
Attorney General, and lat once brought the
subject to their attention. I urged very warmiy,
as a party in the case, and then recently
a prisoner, that Mr. Conkling should lie re
tained. After some conversation the board
consented and sent one of their number to con
fer with the Governor on the subject. The
latter was found reaily for the pr oposition, his
attention having been called to It, us 1 after
ward learned, by a correspondent from Fau
quier county, to whom the propriety of the step
bad also occurred. The result was that Mr.
Conkling was communicated with by telegraph
and consented to to retained. There may have
been auxiliary agencies at work. I give only
those of which 1 have positive knowledge.”
“Did you hear Mr. Conkdiig s speech and
what did you think of It? Were you disap
pointed with his effort?”
”1 did hear Mr. Conkllug's speech from be
ginning to end. and only regretted that there
was not more or It. I thought it a very able
s|ech, and war satisfied that ir the points
which Mr. Conkling urged were successful in
convincing the opinion at the court that the
case tvouil V> rai-.til ”
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
There are (5,692 boys taking lessons in military
matters from army officers serving as teachers
in the colleges.
A Wellsvi lle, 0., boy took his first chew of
■tobacco, became dizzy, an 4 fell over a bank,
breaking an arm and receiving other injuries.
A Lowell (Mass.) woman investigated a blast
ing cartridge brought home by a child, using a
hair pin for the purpose, and lost two fingers in
consequence.
The Pennsylvania railroad made hash of a
carload of Chicago dressed beef near Tyrone
last Tuesday, for which impromptu cooking
lesson the company must pay in the neighbor
hood of $10,090.
It is estimated that the pine trees on the
Menominee reservation, in Wisconsin, where
1.500 Indians sre quartered, would yield 350.000,-
000 feet of marketable lumber. This lumber is
worth $5 per 1,000 feet standing.
The scientific boring in the soil of the Nile
Delta has reached a depth of over 308 feet with
out finding the rock. A 4 inch layer of blue
clay has just been penetrated, the overlaying
soil from a depth of 100 feet being sand.
In Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, a man
was imprisoned 298 days to insure his presence
as a witness at a murder trial, and when be put
in a bill of $1 a day for bis time the bill was not
only disallowed but the man was charged $2 a
week for board.
Cases of piracy still occur on the Mediter
ranean sea. The Italian schooner Pepino Salvo
was boarded near Gallipia, on the Tunisian
coast, and robbed of a sum of about $1,750.
Several similar cases have lately occurred in
the neighborhood.
It is reported that during the war there were
178,957 negro soldiers enrolled in the United
States volunteer army—99,337 by the authority
of the national got ernment and 79,638 by the
several States ana Territories—and of this num
ber 36,847 died in service.
At one time 56-pound raiis were considered
very heavy and costly on American railroads.
The New York Central has for quite awhile been
putting down those of 80 pounds to the lineal
yard, and the Pennsylvania road has undertaken
to put down 90-pounders. The big locomotives
can soon hammer away to their full bent.
Ir is getting to be the fashion now in the up
per circles of Chicago society to name children
before they are born. Engraved cards are sent
to friends the instant the new baby makes its
advent into the world, and to guard against
any mistake in prognostievtion two sets of cards
are printed, one bearing a masculine and the
other a feminine name.
Whenever a prominent man has two given
names, the English papers seem to take an in
tense pleasure in dropping the first and using
the second in full, in accordance with this
practice, a provincial English paper recently in
-1 formed its readers that “Mr. Marshal! De Pew,
who has for some time been the efficient Presi
dent of the Central New York State, is now un
derstood to be a prominent candidate for the
Presidency of all the other United States of the
American government.”
Dn. G. H. Martin, one of the men who caused
the revolution in the Hawaiian kingdom and
practically overthrew King Kalakaua’s govern
ment, said in regard to the story that Claus
Spreekels had quarreled with King Kalakaua:
“When Spreekels found that he could not rule
all of the other planters in the kingdom he left
Honolulu. He lias not returned, and is not
wanted. He cannot run the island. Beet sugar
is not as sweet or profitable as cane sugar and
cannot compete with it.”
ThE pedal zither, a development of the ordi
nary zither, is eoming into favor among the few
who know of this new instrument. The charac
ter of its sounds is inor decided, it is easier of
comprehension, and can be more readily fin
gered, its possibilities of perfection in harmony
are larger, and altogether it affords greater
scope for executing musical compositions As
its name obviously suggests, its marked feature
of superiority over the ordinary zither consists
in the facility w ith which effect can be given to
the harmonic chords.
By the way, a decree has gone forth from the
highest authority in these matters that soiled
and wrinkled gloves, which hail their origin in
Sara Bernhardt's ”go-a you-please’, style, are
no longer good form. The present fashion of
trim and dainty skirts and a partial return to
the time of the Directoire in ladies’ dress de
mands a fresh, well-fitting glove, or the whole
significance of the costume is lost. The reap
pearance of the neat, closely buttoned glove,
which outlines a pretty hand to becomingly,
will to welc med by all who value finish and
completeness in a lady’s evening toilet.
At Vienna, Austria, the club of tourists es
tablished at the beginning of last year a weather
station for the purpose of making prognostica
tions of the weather. The forecasts are limited
to Saturday, the evening papers of which day
report the probabilities for the next day, Sun- 1
day. in order to enable the Viennese to make
their preparations for their Sunday excursions,
The Vienna papers report t hat out of nearly
one hundred forecasts hithertogiven there were
eighty exactly correct, as verified by the facts,
10 per cent, just available but not quite correct,
and only 10 per cent., or one tenth of the proph
ecies, were failures.
Dr. Ernest Besiner lately made a report to
the French Academy upon the reappearance of
leprosy in Europe. The disease, he says, has
had a disquieting development in Spain, chiefly
in the province of Valencia, w hence large quan
tities of fruit and greens go to Paris and other
French cities. But the disease, he maintains,
can only be transmitted from man to man di
rectly ; it does not either travel by the ground or
by water or by air. Neither is it hereditary.
The bacillus of the disease is similar to that of
tuberculosis: it may even be the same species.
The tost means to prevent infection consists in
proper attention to hygiene, cleanliness and
careful diet.
The Sultan of Turkey is at present in a highly
virtuous state of mind. He has apparently only
just heard of what all the rest of the world has
known for centuries, that a brisk trade in male
and female slaves, chiefly the latter, is con
ducted by so-called pilgrims to and from Mecca.
3he Sultan has prohibited the traffic, and or
dered an inquiry, but the trade goes on as usual,
thanks to the wealth of the slave dealers, ena
bling them to heavily bribe the officials, whose
salaries, small enough in themselves, are gen
erally two or three years in arrears. The Sul
tau was recently' engaged in trying to raise a
loan wher w ith to pay his long-suffering ser
vants a week or two of these arrears, but he
failed dismally, and so the sufferers returned to
their blackmailing with the energy of despair.
A legal verdict against a dead man is causing
a good deal of gossip at the city of Lomberg,
Austria. The dead man concerned is no less a
person than the Duke de Ohambord, former pre
tender to the crown of France. The court of
the little city of Tmca gave a decision against
one Henri Count de Chambord, “w'hose wherea
bouts are unknown to the court,” or against his
heirs-at-law, “equally unknown.” to the effect
that certain parts of the estate of Lomna, re
ported to he the property of Chambord, should
be handed over to Salomon, Abraham, and
Naphtali Hirt. One lawyer, Constantine Teii
szevski. of Turca, was appointed care-taker of
the Chambord estate until the lawful proprie
tor should come forward and take charge or ap
point some other representative. The brothers
Hirt were quickly satisfied regarding their
claims, and Chamliord’s heirs have not yet put
in an appearance.
Music has been invaded by a sporting spirit,
and we are likely to have in the future any num
ber of contests for the testing of the endurance
and skill of rival players on various instruments.
The first important event in musical sport has
taken place in F.nglund where a pianist named
Napoleon Bird hasbeeu making and breaking
the record for long-time, piano playing. IBs
latest accomplishment was I lie playing of a pi
ano for tliirt v-six and a quarter hours without
stopping. His best previous record was tw enty
five consecutive hours. It is said that during
the last hour or two of this extraordinary feat
he was much troubled by sleepiness but that ho
roused all his energies at the final moment and
concluded his performance by singing “Rule
Brittania” to liis own accompaniment. No one
has yet appeared in England to rival thiss|>ons
man at the piano, but it. is quite possible that
some enterprising American may step into the
field before long.
The drought in the central portions of the
Mississippi valley has become very severe. Over
a large area there has been little or no rain
since the beginning of July. The Mississippi
river at Vicksburg is 3L6 feet lower than the
lowest water known since any systematic
gauging of t lie Western rivers was commenced,
and the Ohio is no nearly dry that navigation,
except for the smallest classes of boats w hich
are ordinarily used on the small tributaries, is
practically suspended. All the States on the
upper Mississippi and along the Ohio river are
suffering. The ordinary crops were much cur
tailed. and the supplies of drinking water for
man mid toast are in many places entirely ex
hausted. At Cincinnati an epidemic of typhoid
fever prevails, attributed to the unwholesome
water in the depleted river, aud the medical
men have strictly impressed upon the people
the importance of boiling alh w ater and milk
before being used as beverages, so as to de
stroy the germs q{ disease they may be sup
noned to contain. *
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Observer E. A. Banner, of the U. S. Sig
nal Service, says there is every indication
of cold weather for next week. This means
a big demand for Boys’ Clothing, Blankets,
Wraps, Cloaks, etc., etc. The house that
can show the most reliable value in these
goods is the one that’s going to sell the big
gest share of ’em. Try us. You take no
chances. We are here for success aud tv
stay. Here’s a few hummers for you to
gaze on, only a few of the thousand iu
vincible bargains to he found iu this the
largest establishment of its kind in the
South. Blankets are our hobby; here’s ona
from 150 bargains in this department:
100 Pairs 6 1-2 lb. White All
Wool 12-4 Blankets,
Conceded by Wholesale Dealers to be
Cheap at $6 50;
We’ll Sell 100 Pairs This
Week for $4 a Pair.
Purchase a pair; you’ll need ’em; then
step to counter directly opposite and ex
amine sample of
100 Dozen Ladies’ All Wool Undervests,
Guaranteed Medicated Wool Scarlet, were
Considered Cheap Last Week at $1 50;
This Week We’ll Run ’em at sl.
You MUST have a Muff? Well, here’s
1,000 elegant Black Fur ones we’re running
off at 50c.; $2 50 is their value.
How are you off for Wraps? Didn’t get
one of the 75 we sold last week ? Well, here’s
•a chance: $25, $35 aud S4O Imported
Plush Satin-lined Short Wraps have
TAKEN A TUMBLE for this week only
to sl7 08.
Two bales Heavy Canton Flannel was sel
ling last week at 10c.; this week’s price 6; ,c.
Come and see the quotations in our pet
department (Dress Goods); see the unap
proachable bargains on centre Dress Goods
counter. The small fry will now stand
aghast and cry “a bait, a bait,” acting on
the principle that “good wine needs no
bush.”
We respectfully solicit an inspection of
the above and ask you to kindly be the
judge as to the genuineness of these invin
cible bargains.
A. R. ALTMAYER k CO.
Broughton and Bull Sts.
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ft matte from Fnc Materials, contains no Aeidh
Bard ant. or injurious matter
It is Rube, Refined, Perfect.
Nothing Like It Ever Known.
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ore In recommending Zonweiss on account o. its
e!Bccy and purity.”
From !Urs. Gen. I.oran’a Dentist* Br
]E. is. Carroll, Washington, D. C.-“I hare tad
Zon welss analyzed. It Is the mott perfect denti
frice I have ever Been.”
From Hon. Clin*. P. Johnson.
Gov. of >lo. -“Zou welss cleanses the teeth thor*
is delicate, convenient, very pleasant, ana
leaves no after taste. Isold bt all druggists*
Price, 35 cents.
Johnson & Johnson, 23 Cedar St., N. T.
Fcr sale by LIPPMAN BROS., Lippman'
Block, Savannah. _______
FOOD PRODUCTS.
test Citj Ills
W E arc making an extra quality of GRUS
and MEAL, and can recommend it to the trad*
as superior to any iu this market. Would W
pleased to give special prices on application.
We have ou hand a choice lot of
SACKS, which we are selling cheap.
tBOND, HAYNES & EL-TON