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4 Ck!ltloviung|ltli)s Momincr News Building, Savannah, Ga. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1887. Registered at the Past Office in Savannah. ”~Tfce Morning News Is published every day In the year, and is served to subscribers n the city, by newsdealers and carriers, on their own ae count, at 25 cents a week, $1 00 a month, $5 00 for six months and $lO 00 for one year. The Morning News, by mail, one month, fl 00; three months, $2 DO; six mouths, $5 U 0; one year. $lO 00. The Morning News, by matt, sit times a week (without Sunday issue!, three months, $2 00; six months, $4 (X) one year. $S 00. The Morning News, Tri-Weekly, Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, or Tuesdays, Thurs days and Saturdays, three months. $1 2D; six months, $2 50; one year. $5 00. The Sunday News, by mail, one year. $2 00. The Weekly .News, by mail, one year, $1 25. Subscriptions payable in advance. Remit by postal order, check or registered letter. Cur rency sent by mail at risk of senders. 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Special Notices— Metropolitan Savings and Roan Cos.; Agents British Bark Siberia, Straehan A' Cos.; As to Crew of Spanish Steamship Puer toriquena; Tribute to American Tiauos; Savan nah Volunteer Guards Club. Steamship Schedixe— Ocean Steamship Cos. Bank Statement -Merchants National. Cheap Colton Advertisements Help Wanted; For Sale; Raffle; Rost; Personal; Pho tography : Miscellaneous. Auction Sales— Sundries, by D. R. Kennedy; Ranges, Stoves, etc., by Marshall A Mcßeod. Publications Colman’s Rural World; Christmas Periodicals, at EstiU’s News Depot. Great Rush This Week— At Cohen's Bargain House. For Butfton, Etc.—Steamer Pope Catlin. Mr. Henry George seems to have been eompletely knocked out in tho late elections. Prof. Orr’s death removes from the ranks of the promoters of education in Georgia one of its best and ablest men. It is on record that Mr. Sullivan is “very proud of Wales.” The Prince’s opinion of Sullivan has not yet been given. If any gentleman of prominence has not been interviewed concerning the President’s message, let him step forward and express himself. With the exception of the Widow Butler, pretty much the whole realm of politics has given its opinion of the President’s message. Perhaps tho New York Sun will interview Gen. Butler. President Cleveland’s message was not needed to bring forth Mr. Blaine as a Re publican candidate, but it will help to ac complish that result, and that is another good point al>out the message. Senator Stanford has prepared a bill, it is said, which, if it becomes a law, will deny citizenship in this country to all foreigners until they have lived here twenty-one years. It Is safe to say that no such law will be enacted by this Congress. Mr. Murat Halstead, of Cincinnati, should compose himself. There is no probability that Ohio will go Democratic as long as Sherman nnd Foraker and the Commercial ifazelte retain their power of convincing the people there that the war is still raging. The New York papers contain interviews with Henry George, who says he will not be a candidate for President on the Labor ticket next year, but he wants his party to assume anew name and then enter the Held. Suggestions as to the name are now in order. A Washington correspondent says Secre tary Bayard’s hair is silvering a little, but he never looked better in his life, and that all the talk about his being in a mental and physical decline originates with people who are constantly trying to misrepresent his official acts. The people of Jacksonville would doubt less like to do their duty to-day with re spect to the composite and Pope tickets, but do they know exactly what their duty is? If they listen to their local directors of pub lic opinion they will be as hope'ewly mud dled as their municipal politics is. The New York Star says that Mr. Fitch, the only Republican Congressman from that city, is virtually in accord with Presi dent Cleveland on the tariff. He is in fuvor of a revision of the tariff, and will vote to readiust it to the changed conditions of man ufacture and trade that now exist. His sentiments, says the Star, are those of the great majority of intelligent business men and manufacturers in New York State and city. And yet the Ruudall organs say that Mr. Randall is indispensable in carrying New York for the Democrats next year. Monopolies Fa vored. The Pennsylvania Railroad Company is about to get into trouble on account of its alleged failure to comply with the State law preventing discrimination against ship pers. One oil refining company of Phila delphia is reported to be about to bring a suit against the company for $500,000 for damages, the complaint being that advanta ges were given to other oil shippers in the shape of rebates. If this suit should be decided against the company no doubt others by different parties would be brought, and the company would find itself in an exceediiujly unpleas ant position. The law prohibiting dis crimination was intended to meet an evil that was reaching vast proportions, viz.,the monopoly evil. The individuals and com panies favored by the transportation lines were getting control of the busiuess in which they were engaged, and were threat ening to prevent comjietition. The people saw the danger to which they were exposod and went to the Legislature for protec tion. The existing law was enacted, but it seems that it has not accomplished the ob ject for which it was intended. It is stated that the President of the Penn sylvaniu company is in favor of abolishing all rebates, and living up to the law strictly, but that there are others in the company who want to continue the rebates. It is possible that those who favor the rebates are interested in other companies which profit by them. One business man cannot compete with another who pars only about half the regu lar transportation rates. If railroads, there fore. are disposed to make discriminations they can ruin many industrial interests while building up others. That they ought not to be permit ted todo anything of the kind is too apparent to need the support of an argument. Discrimination does not benefit consumers. It only benefits the producer who has the advantage of it. Eventually the favored shippers must get all the busi ness, and when they have it in their own bands they are certain to demand tbe prices which monopolies only are able to com mand. It is understood that the Standard Oil Company is the monopoly that has been especially favored by the Pennsylvania Rail road Company. George and McGlynr.. Very little about Henry George and Dr. McGlynn finds its way into the public prints now-a-days. They’ and their doings have ceased to be of as much importance as they were just prior to the November elec tions. It is doubtful if they ever again oc cupy as large a share of public attention as they once did. It is now evident that the Labor party doesn’t count for as much as it was thought it would, and politicians in their political calculations do not regard it as a very great factor in the Presidential problem. Henry George says that there is a chance that the Labor party will not have a Presi dential candidate, because of the cost of conducting a political campaign. If the leaders are very urgent, however, an inde pendent ticket may be placed in the field. It is plain that Henry George doesn’t want to spend any money on the Labor party, and that his confidence in its success is not as strong as it w as. It is probable that he will drop politics for the present. There is a little sympathy cropping out hero and there for Dr. McGlynn. He is stranded, as it were, and is not certain about the course to pursue. The enthusiasm over the Anti-Poverty Society is dying out, and the George movement is virtually dead. It is believed that the doctor wants to get back into the Roman Catholic Church. He would be happier there than anywhere else. It is noticed that lately he has been very careful not to say anything that was out of harmony with the teachings of the church, and be has almost wholly dropped politics and turnod his attention to religious mat ters. It is probable that he realizes he made a great mistake and would now like to cor rect it. The Paper City. The Morning News has inquiries con cerning the Tallapoosa Land and Mining Company, from parties who invested in it, and who are alarmed at statements which are being printed with regard to it. It is always safe for those who invest in such schemes to do so with the same idea with which they purchase a lottery ticket, namely, that they may draw a prize, but that the chances are they won’t. A flaming advertisement or even a very resjieotable list of officers is not always a guarantee that the scheme is one in which money can bo invested with a cer tainty that it is all that it purports to be, especially if the headquarters of its pro jectors is so located that it is not an easy matter for those invited to invest in it to find out the truth about it and those erf gaged in promoting it. Asa rule men who have a good thing keep it. It is hardly probable, however, that those whose names are connected with the “Tallapoosa” scheme would bo parties to a wrong, and it is due to them that they be regarded as honest and having honest purposes until a thorough investigation by those who have put their money in it proves it to lie otherwise. The Rev. Dr. Parker has sailed for Europe. He was given a graceful send-off by Plymouth church, whoso membership turned out in considerable numbers to see him depart, and to leave with him some to ken of their esteem. One pretty young lady .the granddaughter of the late Thur low Weed, wanted to give him a parting kiss. “May I net?” she asked Mrs. Parker. The good lady smiled; the Doctor was suf fused with blushes. He glanced bashfully about him, as if looking for some means of escape, and finding none, met his fate like a man. The young lady kissed Mrs. Parker twico, to balance the account. The Rev. James J. Curran, director of tlfc Catholic Protectory, at Arlington, N. J., thinks that ho can cure hydrophobia, and he wants to know why our physicians “cannot once In a while descend to what they call unprofessional practice to save life?" The fact is if the doctors should de scend from unprofessional practice every time a crank or a quack thinks he has dis covered a certain remedy for an incurable disease he would be down from the profes sional plane about all the time. The Rev. Mr. Curran says that he cured a man Who had hydrophobia by putting him in a vapor bath. Perhaps he did. Senator-elect Barbour, of Virginia, is 88 years old, and, for one of hit ago, has re cently done some v ery remarkable political work. He served in the Virginia Legisla ture four sessions, his first term beginning wuen he was 27. Ho has also served in the lower branch of Congress, but since 1883 his talents have found employment in managing the State campaigns. THE MORNING NEWS: TUESDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1887. Looking Back Three Years. The assertion of Mr. Blaine and the pro tection organs that the President’s message is a free trade manifesto is rather amusing when its tariff recommendations are com pared with those made by Mr. Arthur, the last Republican President. In both 1882 and 1884 Mr. Arthur recont inondcd the repeal of ail tbe internal reve nue taxes except that on distilled spirits, and such reductions of the customs duties as could lie judiciously effected, and his Sec retary of the Treasury, Mr. Folger, said that the duties on articles used or con sumed by those who are least able to bear the burden of taxation should be reduced. The last Republican administration clear ly favored the reduction of the duties on the necessaries of life, and it did so when there was still millions of outstanding bonds that were subject to call. No protection editor then frothed at the mouth, as it were, and asserted that the administration was running the country in the direction of free trade. The difference between the recommenda tions of Mr. Cleveland and those of Mr. Arthur relative to the reduction of the revenues is not very great. The former be lieves that in making the reduction only the taxes on the necessities of life should lie touched, while the latter advised that both the internal and tariff taxes should be re duced. When Mr. Arthur advised a reduction of the tariff the surplus was not a matter of much importance because there were ma tured bonds to the purchase of which it could be applied. Now, however, the sur plus is a very important matter. It is so great that it threatens to bring about finan cial troubles. In 18813 the Republicans ad mitted that the tariff ought to be reduced, and appointed a commission to gather in formation upon which to base a tariff bill A bill was passed but it was framed in tbe interest of all the great monopolies which are fostered by protection. In view of the fact that the last Republi can administration ail vised a reductio . of the tariff, does it not seetn to be a little strange that all tbe protection organs of that party are now saying that the President’s message is a free trade paper? Republicans fre quently find short memories convenient. A Word About the Streets. A gentleman who recently returned from Washington expressed himself as delighted with that city. Its smooth streets, magnif icent shade trees and beautiful residences make a charming picture which he will be a long while in forgetting. He, however, expressed the opinion that so far as hand some streets are concerned this city could, at a moderate cost, be made to equal Washington. In Washington the principal avenues are very wide, and their whole width is needed because of the largo amount of driving upon them, but in this city wide drive ways are not needed upon any of the streets except those given up almost wholly to commerce. The gentlemen in question has been think ing over our street paving problem since his return, and is satisfied that the suggestion of the Morning News, viz. : That a roadway about twenty feet wide in each of our wide streets should be daved, and that the remainder of the street, either on the sides or in the centre, should be properly graded and planted in grass, is an excellent one, anil ought tc be adopted at once. If the suggestion is adopted the work ought to be done in a systematic manner, and under the direction of a competent, though not expensive engineer. In connec tion with street paving the work of putting down sewers for house drainage purposes and of keeping the city clean might be car ried on. To attend to all of these things would occupy the time of an engineer pretty fully. If these suggested improvements were made Savannah’s attractions would be greatly increased. Her population would grow more rapidly and her wealthy citi zens would not l>e so anxious to seek North ern summer resorts as soon as the cotton season is over. The Council will earn the good will of the entire city by giving these suggestions, with respect to street paving and sewerage, early and careful considera tion. “Gail Hamilton” has decided that she would rather join Mr. Blaine’s family in Europe than spend the winter in Florida, and accordingly she is on her way to the Old World. Miss Dodge has for a lung time been an inmate of Mr. Blaine’s home, and being a woman of keen perception and of unusual aptitude for political work, she has frequently acted as one of the trusted lieuten ants of the “Maine statesman” in his con tests. If some political trick is evolved out of the coming consultations between these two remarkably sharp people, it will not be a matter of surprise to those who under stand the love that each has for political intrigue. A special from Washington says that Chicago will also secure the Democratic National Convention. The national com mittee will meet in Washington early in January, and New York will make a strong pull for the convention, but it is considered reasonably certain that Chicago will be suc cessful. It looks as if 1884 were going to be repeated alt around, except that Blaine will meet with a much more decisive defeat at the polls. It seems early to begin to talk about de feating Congressmen lor the next election, but the regular biennial movement against Congressman Tom Reed, of Maine, is assuming shape. This time, however, the opposition to him comes from Republicans, No doubt there are a good many Republi cans in Reed’s district who are tired of waiting for his shoes, but there is none who could fill them. Gov. Lee’s suggestions relative to the solution of the Virginia debt problem arc said to meet with the hearty approval of his party. The Republicans have had little to say on the subject, but if anything can be mado for them out of the message of the Governor, little Mr. Muhone will, doubtless, be heard from through some medium before tbe Legislature adjourns. The Boston papers devote nearly a half column of flaming headline to announcing that Mr. Sullivnu shook hands with the Prince of Wales. It is but just to add that they gave almost as much prominence to the local campaign there, but Sullivan is evidently a sortiowhat bigger issue than either O’Brien or Hart. Of the seventy-six United States Senators, sixty are lawyers, and of 335 members of the House, 213 are of the same profession. Either the legal profession pays very poorly, or the ambition to serve one’s country is stronger uraong lawyers than among those of other professions or of any occupation. CURRENT COMMENT. The Truth from Louisville. From the Louisville Courier-Journal (Dem.) If the New York un had net gone off and flocked with Ben Butler in 'B4, to help Blaine, it might now have more influence in Presidential matters. A Good Man for Plymouth. From the Net!) York Graphic (/tut) Dr. Parker's talk about Gladstone made n pleasant impression. It is evident that Glad stone would be just the man for the Plymouth church pulpit could he be persuaded to think of it. And Dr. Parker might not be a bad Prime Minister Just the Size of It. From the Providence Journal (Rep.) Mr. Blaine is in favor of distributing any sur plus that may be created by the continuance of tbe internal revenue tax among tlie States of the Union. The results of a similarexjieriinent in the early history of the country were about as disastrous and mischievous as anything that could be conceived. All such nostrums as that are for the infancy of political economy. To impose taxes for the purpose of giving them away is pure folly. BRIGHT BITS. We know of one girl in Lowell who admits she is an Anna kissed.—For Populi. No philosopher ever philosophized more truly than he who said 'poverty sharpens.” Even a razor would not be sharp were it not strapped.— Binghamton Republican. “Papa," asked little Bobby MoSwilligen. “what is a railroad pool?" “A railroad pool. Johnny,” replied McSwilli geu, “is where they water the stock.”— Boston Btulget. Henri—Jules and Alphonse quarrelled and fought a duel yesterday, but fortunately neither was injured. ■Maxime--What was there between them ? Henri—Fifty paces.— Tid-Bits. A man named Killer is under arrest for mur der and will be tried shortly. Any man bearing such a name is more to bajpitied than blamed, and the jury should recommend his discharge, but that the name lie sentenced and hung.— Boston Budget. Lately the country has had the “Oil Trust,” tbe “Sugar Trust,” and the le-ad Trust,''but that familiar standby, “No Trust,” continues to do business at the old stand, and turns away more trade in a week than all the oi her trusts will get m a yyar —.Sou Francisco Alta. “Charley." said a young wife, “is there real ly any Such person as tbe fool killer’" “Oh, T guess not; I don't know,” said Charley, who was reading the morning paper. * “Well, Charley, all 1 wanted to say is, please don't go out after dark any more until you find out."— Washington Critic. It poured for weeks together. 'Twas the dolefulest of weather, Yet in her eyes there beamed a happy light; And I pondered well the reason Of her smile in such a season Till she said, “I see a rain beau every night Harper's Bazar. Here’s a box addressed to you,” said the wife of a prominent man. "I don't think you'd better open it, though. ' What shall we do with it! - ’ “I'll tell you; we'll take it out and get the hired girl to open it. She has lit the fire with kerosene three times this week, and I don't think that dynamite will hurt her.— Washington Critic. A miser for whom a man had just performed a service grudgingly asked, “And what's the charge?” “Not a cent.” was the unexpected reply. “Not a cent?" repeated the miser, overjoyed. “Why, really, I’m—” “No, not a cent,” Interrupted the other; “two dollars.”— Somerville Journal. Little things sometimes accomplish great results. A Lansing organ boy fell asleep last Sunday and thereby kept a whole church choir as silentas the grave. The organist fingered the keys, but nary a sound came forth, and the preacher, whose wits are keener than a curb stone broker's, promptly and devoutly ex claimed. “Let us pray!”— Detroit Fetes. “I think a bath daily would be beneficial in your case,’’ said the physician to Plodgers, the valetudinarian. “Well, I don't know, doctor,” replied Plodg ers, in a feeble voice. “I took a bath a year or two ago. I felt better for awhile, but it wasn't long before I was as bad as ever, and 1 have been growing worse ever since.’’—Sf. Louis Magazine. In a Chicago (after looking at negative)—Not a single hair is shown on the head. Photographer—No, for you are entirely bald. Customer—Yes, 1 know that; but I intended to have my picture taken with a good crop of hair. What difference does that make ? Customer—Makes a great deal of difference. I am the manufacturer of the celebrated Never Fail Hair Restorer.—? Arkansatv Traveler. “Bit, Mr. Superintendent, you will admit, 1 suppose, that your street cars are outrageously cold?" “Well* yes; in winter they arc pretty cold, of course, but you ought to be willing to take a reasonable view of the matter." “Reasonaoie view?” “Why, certainly. Now, if you should put a thermometer in our cars and leave it there the year round, you would find that with the 110° above zero in the summer, and the 10° below in the winter, we strike a pretty good average in the entire year.”— Chicago Met vs. PERSONAL. Bret Haute is said to be making from $7,000 to SIO,OOO a year in London. Nina Van Zandt indignantly denies that she has money. But she still insists that she had matrimony. Mrs. Alexander Brown, of Baltimore, Md., gave a supper party in honor of Mrs. James Brown Potter Thursday evening. Prominent society people of Baltimore were present. Ella Wheeler Wilcox sings: “The seasons are made by the heart, I hold, and not by out door beat or cold.” And yet we advise Ella not to venture out without her wraps ami rubbers during the approaching snow-storms. A warm heart is a good thing theoretically, but a seal skin sack is not be sneezed at in winter. Ex -Senator Camden has presented tbe Cam den Guards, of Marion county. West Virginia, wit'll a large and handsome double silk (lag, costing near a hundred dollars. The Senator has extended an invitation to the company to visit him at his home in Parkersburg early in the spring and partake of his hospitality, which invitation has been unanimously accepted by the Guards. Mrs. Cleveland owns three dogs, one at Oak View and two at the White House. They were given to her by personal friends. The last comer is a handsome St. Bernard recently pre sented to Mrs. Cleveland by her college chum. Miss Kingston!. He is tall, heavy and hand somely colored in white and brown. His new owner has named him “K,” in honor of the donor. Mi's. Cleveland allows no one to give K a bite to eat, but feeds him regularly herself. K and his mistress have become inse|>ai'able, and Hector is entirely cut out by the new pet, In her daily life Mrs. Dinah Mulock-Craik was, says the London Daily News, remarkably methodical. Though many of her works ap peared in periodicals, she would never under any circumstances consent to a beginning of publication before the work was entirely out of her hand, and what is very singular, she is said through the whole course of her forty years' labors never to have begun writing anything which she did not carry straight through, and it is believed that she has not left behind a single line of unfinished work intended for publication. she ever wrote with a view to publication has been published. Roonn O. Mills, of Texas, who is attracting a good deal of attention at present as the prospective chairman of the Ways and Means Committee of tile Fiftieth Congress, is one of the boldest politicians in the country. He is constitutionally opposed to dodging any ques tion ill which the people ure interested, lie is a fighter from the headwaters of Bilter creek. He holds that a public man should have views on every public question and express them freely. In tuis way he plunged into I lie middle of tile prohibition campaign in Texas last summer, when the other members of the Congressional delegation wore laboring earnestly to avoid the issue. Mills can pour out rhetorical thunder bolts by the hour. His eloquence is fervid aud his voice luxuriant. He is nt ais best in a fight. He approaches the contest tike the flagship of ail Admiral, and while he I* in action there is not, n sinew of bis bodr at rest. If Mills and Kan dall grapple over the tariff question, there wifi be such a fight as was never seen lu tbe House liefore. Mills is nearly six feet high, and is about 55 yeai-s old. His hair and droopiug moustache are white. His eyes are gray-blue, and flash and glitter, while under the influence of intellectual excitement. He is a mortal e:i"- my of prohibition, or any sjiecies of sumptuary law, and believes that when the citizen Is de prived of responsibility to care for himself true lilierty ends. He is an absolute teetotaler, end was a member in good standing of the Metho dist church South until the ministers of that de nomination in Texas took the political platforms to preach prohibition. Thomas Jefferson is Mill's political idol; he did not like Tilden, and was an advocate of the uoniinatiou of Thur man for Fresideut iu !S2t HE COULD HANDLE HIMSELF. A Muscular Drayman is Woefully De ceived by a Lab De Daw Dude. /•'mm the Philadelphia Press. A muscular drayman was belaboring a dray horse at Front and Market streets on Monday in the endeavor to make the animal drag a heavily loaded truck up the hill. A young man with a two story collar, an overcoat that was shorter than the coat under it and a wondrous l>air of checked trousers stopiied on the corner, and for a moment gazed with languid air on the man and the horse, stepping to the street he said with a most abominable drawl and an affectation of an English accent, "I say, me man, you shouldn’t lieat that horse in that man ner. It's positively cruel you know. I shall cer tainly call a bobby." The draymau turned his bead, gave a con temptuous glance at the speaker and cut the straining animal more cruelly than before. "I say, me man,” continued the dude, "you’ll have to stop it, you know; you’ll have to stop it.” The drayman turned aguin. “If you don’t git away from here,” he cried, ‘Til paste you in tne nose. Go on, now, or I'll give it to you good.” The languid young man said not a word. He drew off ids gloves, put them in his pocket and buttoned up his coat. "I say," he began, but the drayman, dropping his whip, aimed a swinging blow at the speaker, which cut the words short. Mr. Dude countered, led again with his left, got there, and then followed with a vicious upper-cut with his right, which caught the drayman on the jaw and knocked him nearly under the horse’s feet. The dude simply unbuttoned his coat, put on his gloves and walked off before the astonished drayman came to. "That fellow don’t look as if he could fight a mosquito," said a bystander, and I was as much surprised os the teamster. WALKING WITH A BROKEN LEG. Judge Massey Rebukes the Inhuman Treatment of a Prisoner. From the Few York Press. A case of almost inhuman cruelty on the part of the police of the Congress street station was publicly rebuked by Judge Massey in Brooklyn Thursday. George Cartwright, a sailor on the steamship Royal Prince, lying in the Erie Basin, while on shore Wednesday hecame intoxicated, and while going through Columbia street fell and broke his Teg. Officer Keyiaber arrested him and took him to the station house, where it was first, learned that his limb was broken. Ambulance Surgeon Sheppard was summoned and dressed the limb, but said that the Long Island Hospital was crowded, and that the man had better be allowed to remain in the station house and be taken to court in the patrol wagon in the morning, as he had to answer to a charge of intoxication. Thursday morning the man was compelled by the police to walk several blocks to Justice Mas sey’s Court, where he was arraigned before the Justice, who said it was au outrage, and that the man might become a cripple for life owing to his treatment. He immediately discharged Cartwright, and ordered his removal to St. Peter’s Hospital. Sex aad Bravery. From the Boston Transcript. The disaster to the steamer Scholten in the English Channel is said to have been made more dreadful by the wild shrieks of the women. No doubt the report is accurate. The shrieks of women are, perhaps, to be expected on occa sions of peril and disaster where they are pres ent in considerable numbers. And yet there is an impression, gained upon three or four occa sions of public disaster, that rather the most strenuous demonstrations of terror at such times are made by men, and this impression is con firmed by the observations of a gentleman who has been the master of a steamer, and who, on several occasions, has been present during panics on board vessels, who says that on all those occasions the women were easily quieted if some cool-headed man would talk to them. "If the men could be kept cool,” this gentleman says, “the women could be. The worst time I ever had on such an occasion was with a clergyman from Maine, who, during a panic on the steamer once when we had struck another boat, but sustained scarcely any damage, rushed about shouting: ‘The wrath of the Lord is unon us!’ Of course, he scared the rest of the people, including the women, into a frenzy. I got him one side and cowed him into quietness, but I am afraid that I had to use a little profanity to do it. When I got him out of the way it was easy enough to calm the rest of the passengers. On another occasion of panic, when the passengers were buckling on life-preservers, I beard cries of dis tress from a woman I went to her and found that her trouble rose from the difficulty she. had in fastening a life-preserver on her male escort. She had got it around him hut did not know how to fasten it to his back, and was screaming for fear he might drown, in consequence. She begged me to show her how to fasten it 1 said: ‘I will,’ and took the life-preserver from around the man's body and buckled it around hers.” We recall a certain crazy theatrical panic where there was no difficulty in persuading all the ladies in the vicinity to keep their seats. Some male acquaintances on the same occasion dis tinguished themselves by jumping clear over the heads of the orchestra upon the stage and making a frenzied exit. We would not infer from these experiences that women are neces sarily braver than men. Their tendency, on the contrary, is to depend upon men in such emer gency. But when the male coward bellows and runs the thoroughly frightened woman gener ally faints or trembles and moans. Proselyting- Under Difficulties. From the Chicago Tribune. The Mormon elders are having considerable trouble in proselyting in Alabama. Shotguns and bloodhounds are the principal draw hacks to the work of the church. They frequently make converts, but great trouble is experienced in taking the fruit of their label's with them. When o-e of the elders with a convert under each arm is running through the underbrush toward the nearest railroad station to have half a dozen bloodhounds suddenly come tearing along after him on the run makes it very dis couraging work. The native Alabama blood hound with its mouth o|ien is almost enough to dishearten a missionary working for the true religion, to say nothing of a laborer for a re ligion which is a little shaky on its pins, like the Mormon variety. When an old. bald-headed Mormon missionary has worked two hours to bag a nice moss of Alabama converts, it is calculated to discourage him to go across the county line only about four feet in advance of a bloodhound. One night last week two of the most zealous workers the church has in Alabama were tarred and feathered. Before they fully recovered from the depressing effects of this, tney were chased up a tree by the bloodhounds, and forced to stay there all night. As they sat there on a limb of a tree, with the damp, Gulf night wind blowing through their feathers, one of them said: “Brother Mower, the glorious cause of the Latter Day Saints in Alabama appeal's to lie languishing." “Somewhat, Brother Masters,” replied the other. "If I had a rock to heave at that infernal bloodhound with the red eyes ttiat is trying to gnaw the tree down, the outlook would improve.” While the dogs that had been on during the night were retiring and before the day dogs took their positions the two elders tiad time to slide down the tree, hastily read a notice pinned to the trunk informing them that they would lie shot if found in the county after twenty-four hours, and then skin up the next tree just as the other set of dogs came up oil the run. They managed to make one tree a day for about a week, when the dogs tired out anil gave them a chance to depart for n pew field of labor. The time has arrived when a man who can run under 2:1:% can name his own salary at the headquarters of the Mormon church in Ala bama. Don’t Mention It. From the New York Graphic. Were her eyes gray or blue? I dare not say. How could X judge of their soft, lucent ray? I only know she looked at me the way That angels look When mortals pray. Was her voice proud or kind? I do not know. It whispered to me as I turned to go; And stole into my heart’s recesses so I thought it sweet, And soft and low. Was her hair gold or brown? I cannot tell. Its clustered glory wrought on me a spell. While dreamy eyes beneath her lashes fell In tenderness I knew full well. Were her feet small—or large? 'Hb—whisper low— She owned a pair of munbnr nines, you know, Broad at the heel and spreading at the toe; Don’t niention if— -1 loved her so 1 ’ There has been a complete reconciliation between the Empress Eugenie and Prince Victor Bonaparte," says London Troth. "The Empress visited Brussels the other day, and her young relative met her at the station, dined and break fasted with her at the Hotel Bellevue, and escorted her tothe new picture galleries. Prince \ ictor is to visit the Ktupresg at Amsterdam, and he will come to England to be present at tbe reinterment of the coffins of the lato Emperor napoleon and his son at Faruborouxh." ITEMS OF INTEREST. Mas. Collier, daugher of I’rof. Huxley and wife of John Collier, the artist, died in London recently. She herself had remarkable talent as an artist. Her first picture, "The sins of the Fathers,” was favorably placed in the Royal Academy in 1879. She was also an exhibitor in 188], showing, in addition to * subject-picture, a full length portrait of her sister, Miss Nellie Iluxley. In another year her picture “By the Tideless Midland Sea,” was one of the chief at tractions of the Grosvenor gallery, where Mrs. Collier also exhibited some very charming child portraits. The position of medicine man to a band of Indians at Bay Centre, on Shoalwater Bay. in Oregon, is about being vacated, and a competi tive examination was at last accounts being held for a successor. The examination was unique and in accordance with the laws of the tribe, which provide that the candidate who dances for one week, night and day, without giving out, and succeeds in the meantime in finding some object, which lias been previously hidden, is chosen. He is forthwith declared the medicine man, and the "healing business'’ is turned over to him. When last heard from the candidates had liean tripping for four days, and several were almost exhausted. Ax atmospheric phenomenon was observed in San Francisco the other evening, and is re ferred to by the Chronicle. About 11 o'clock c thin band of light, of the consistency of a cloud, and extending across the zenith from east to west, was seen skirting the heavens. The sky was almost perfectly elear aud there was uo fog. At first it appeared like a thin baud, but gradually expanded until it was about two feet wide. The light emitted from it was consider able. It continued to be visible for about an hour, and, after Hashing like an aurora, flnally disappeared. During the continuance of the phenomenon an electric disturbance was pro duced and many of the telephone wires failed to work. Ax engagement slate is one of the things which the very English girl finds it necessary to have on her desk. They are framed in many symbolic ways, for all the ancient devices in vented for inkstands are brought out and used for them. For instance, one of them is im bedded in a tangle of carved netting and has two lawn-tennis raeqnets crossed above it, and a tiny inkstand concealed in a ball, which lies in a racquet in front of it. The engagement “slate.” be it understood, is really a card, with blanks for each day in the week. A porcelain tablet would be much more convenient, and as it cou id be cleaned, would enable one to keep a record for a fortnight without any trouble, but the card is the proper thing. In a little basin of the Alps, 7,708 feet above sea-level and five miles from the end of the great Aletsch glacier, is the unique little lake known as the Marjalen sea. This Is fed by moun tain streamlets, its waters being held back by the ice of the great glacier itself An English geol ogist mentions having seen it in 1858 as a body of water :)00 yards wide and three times as long, with a maximum depth of ninety-seven feet. But the next day it had vanished. The ice-flam had yielded sufficiently to allow the pent-up water to escape beneath the glacier and plunge into the valley below, devastating the fields, and considerably raising the level of the Rhone. These discharges take place at irregular inter vals, though reputed to occur every seven years. The latest outbreak was in September last, since which it has been proposed to lessen future damages by providing an artificial outlet to re duce the lake's capacity one-half. Southern* Women are growing independent, The New Orleans Times-Democrat says: The custom of women In attending the theatre in groups of three or more without an escort is even more general this winter than ever before. It is a very sensible and proper sort of indepen dence, for it has always seemed rather hard to debar the sex from visiting either opera or play simply because no man happened to be availa ble at the moment. It is still a bit awkward and embarrassing, for on enteringa public place every one present has a way of staring over one’s shoulder as though hunting up a missing man, but if the courageous individual be full of pluck this is soon overcome. Then, there is strength in numbers. No one thinks of ven turing out with less than two companions, which set iat rest any scruples on the score of personal protection. To many there is no pleasure equal to theatre-going, and a prejudice will soon be Lived down that Is based on such narrow limitations. An ix’STAxce of the remarkable coolness and audacity of a thief, though perhaps not an uncommon one, is worth relating. One day a Liverpool “stalk V—a man capable of doing mis chief of any kind for a trifle—having watched his opportunity, took up a coat that hung out side a pawnbroker's shop Flinging it over his arm, and carrying it into the shop as if intend ing to make a purchase, he offered it for sale. Not recognizing his own property, the pawn broker bought the coat. But even this did not sat sfy the thief. He handled some silk hand kerchiefs, and in choosing one remarked care lessly: "Take pay for this out of the money for the coat.” “But I have given you the money,” indig-antly answered the paivnoroker. “Oh no, you haven't,” said the thief. A warm alterca tion ensued. In vain the shopman protested that he had paid the money; and at last the thief went out in search of an officer to settle the dispute, taking with hitn some silver spoons, several silk handkerchiefs, as well as the silk handkerchief in question, which in his excitement the broker had forgotten. Ax - American, who at one time resided in Berlin, relates a characteristic incident about the Crown Prince of Germany, whose kindly disposition is well-known among his own people. “One Sunday." the narrator says. “1 was at tending one of the churches in which the royal chaplains preach. In these there are scats decorated with the royal arms and reserved for the exclusive use of the royal family. The church was crowded and many had to stand. I was standing in the gallery just back of the royal ’box,’ in which alone there were some vacant seats. An old and plainly dressed woman, who might have been a seamstress or a laundress, came near me looking for a seat, and finally, as it seemed from ignorance, went into the royal inclosure and seated herself just back of ’Unser Fritz' aud the Princess Victoria, An aid or military attendant ut once made a move as thougn lie were going to show the intruder out. But the Prince, in the most quiet way, touched him on the arm as a sign that ho should remain seated. The charming thing about it was the utter lack of auy effort to draw atten tion to the kindly act. The poor old woman sat to the end of the service with Ihe royal person ages, and this shows the kindness of heart which marks the man." Gov. Hill is about to take lessons in horse back riding. His private secretary, Col. Rice, is an expert horseman, and the Governor has finally yielded to his persuasions to accompany him mornings in a canter over tho country. Tne Colonel intents to ride at least au ho jr every morning this winter in spite of wind, cold, bliz zards, or storms. The Governor will not pledge himself to any such heroic sacrifice of comfort, but he has consented to ride on pleasant morn ings until the weather becomes too cold for com fort. The Albanians remcmlier that Gov. Tilden was a skillful rider, and took much exercise on a blooded black, which soon became as well known in the surrounding country as its distin guished master The only exercise which Gov. takes is a walk twice a day to and from the I .eeutnc Mansion and the Capitol, the distance tails traversed b'-ing only about two miles. Sometimes he lias a visitor nights who can piny billiards, and w th him he will walk another two miles around the table. He is not so alert in his movements, and, generally speaking, is not in so good trim physically as he. was some months ago. say about the time the discovery wits made that Cleveland’s friends had secured fully two thirds of the Mate committee. Still. Gov. Hill cannot be said to bo utterly depressed. Col. Bacon, who was formerly in his law office at Elmira, is authority for the staleuieut that the Governor will never accept a l-enomination. This would seem to indicate tliatt.be Governor really contemplated opening a law office after Dec. 81. 1888. In London, at this very moment, lives one of the brightest, the cleverest, the happiest of that class known as the ‘average” woman. Sho is pot young, not pretty, not fascinatin g, but sho Is healthy, ambitious and wise. For ten years this woman has not had a gonereus ltma'l ex cept when invited to the house of friends, has not known what a vacation was, or the "change of air" nowadays considered s. • necessary to well being, since tier properly was squandered by a faithless agent a decade ago. She is a cripple, walking with a crutch, and tons de barred from many employments where a hobble and a crutch uie disagreeable to employers, She earns her food and shelter by cop ing manuscripts—a most pie -arious business Her ‘grub box" is oftener empty than full; she cannot often afford butter uni Coffee; a go cart has charms superior to her garret, She tuke her empty box, the cheerio ts garret, the widowed butter, the unmated coffee, not of ab solute necMßlty, but of deliberate choice. She earns ®l!i a month, and has no more. Out of that pittance she buys her-always neat— clothes, and subscribes to Mudl-'s. she pays promptly her subscription to a literary club, as also to a dramatic society, No great theatrical event takes place, no famous "first night” that she is not present, high up towards heaven, ttio pit regions being too expensive tor h-r. She Is thoroughly en rapport with every intellectual ptilse of the times, knows scores of clever peo ple, and is cordially invited to scores of pleas ant houses She is really what may lie called a tramp ’ in intellectual ways, hut those wavs -mteliectual, aud she sjteaks the luuguagu of BAKING POWDER. py r ns PERFECT Itssunerlor excellence proven in jnHrionsnf ornes for more than a quarter of a century. It i* eed by tho United State* Government. Ir. rsed by the bead* of the Great Universities *4 •e Strongest, Purest aud most Healthful. IV. rice’s the only Rabinsj Powder that does not *ntain Ammonia, Lime or Amin. Sold only in ans. PRICK BAKING POWDER CO. nw yohk. rn , f , 4ro. tj. r,nrn. A. R. ALTMAYER <fr CO. A. H- Aitmayer & Cos. Hanau k Sod Gents’ Hand-Sewed Shoes $5. Gents’ Patent- Leather Dress Shoes U 98. A LTMAYERS: Gentlemen s k i (ii Gloves. 3-button Tan, 99c. 5-button Tan, SI 23. 5-button bl’k. SI 59. We ask of those who wish to avail themselves of the phe nomenal bargains in the above department to make their visit as early as possible. We par ticnlarly wish to bring to your notice the fact that we have the most extensive line ofßoys’ Clothing ever shown in this city. We have everything from the very cheapest to the extreme finest, and we guar antee our prices are much lower than any house iu the State of Georgia. We invite you specially to examine the goods and prices here before you make your purchases. Boys’ good everyday Suits $1 50 and upward. Boys’ neat Dress Suits $4 and up ward. We’ll sell the greater portion of our HOLI DAY GOODS between now and Christmas. The dullness in the money market has given oui Northern buyers the golden opporl unity of pur chasing goods at prices never before heard of. Holiday froods of sound starling merit that art useful, artistic aud ornamental. Elegant Plush Dressing Sets, Satin liued, Celluloid Comb, Brush and Mirror $1 95, a beautiful article and extreme ly cheap. A Lady’s Walnut Writing Desk, ll inches long and 12 wide, only 99c.; very cheap, A 14-iuch Indestructible Doli, kid body/real hail and bisque head, just think, ouly 49c. A 27-inch Wax Doll, real hair, etc., the largest, prettiest an<l cheapest Doll in the city, only 75c. A Odnoh Glass Night Lamp, all complete, filled with XXX Cologne, only 35c. Full lines of Toilet Cases, Ornaments, Fancy Boxes, articles of every de scription, and all at prices that will attract economical people ands) *"ewd buyers. Mail orders receive careful and prompt attention. ’STORE OPEN UNTIL 8 P. M. CHIMNEYS. This is the Top of the Genuine Pearl Top Lamp Chimney. Allothers, similar are imitation HE Insist upon the Exact Label and Top. For Sale Everywhere. Made only by SEP. A. MACBETH & CO., Pittsburgh, Pa. rOKOITS PLASTERS. For Localized Rheumatism, Sciatica, Neuralgia, Pleurisy, Lung and Chest Difficulties, Backache. Spine and Hip Dis ease, Lumbago, Sprains, Kid ney and IJver Affections, Ner vous Action of the Heart, Cramps. Lameness, Stiffness or Weakness of tbe Joints of Muscles, Severe Aches. Fains and Stitches, Inflammation, and all maladies for which Porous Plasters, Liuiments, Medicated Oils, Solves, Oint ments and Lotions have been found useful. Beware of imi tations and worthless subslj lutes that may bo offernl Ask for a “ Benson Blaster,” and take ml substitute under names simi lar to “Capcine” or any other name. i BENSON’S IS THE BEST PLASTER! AVOID IMITATIONS. SOAPS 7 SOAPS) PEARS’, RIEGER’S, COLGATE’S, CLEAV EU’S, EECKELAER’S, BAYLEY’S, Lb BIN’S, FUMBLE S MEDICATED just received a BUTLER’S PHARMACY. Our great sale of Ladies’ Plush Sacques, Wraps Cloth Baglans and Newmark ets has been a magnificent and an astound ing success ever}" day for four weeks past & although the season has hard ly commenced for these goods we find our stock getting extremely low.