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Proctor's Last Essays.
A series of popular scientific articles, by
tbe late Prof. Richard A. Proctor, the emi
nent astronomer and author, will appear in
the Morning News on the dates announced
below.
The article in this series upon “Plagues
and Pestilence” was received only the week
before the author’s death, and was written
apropos of the yellow fever in Florida.
Indeed, the whole series is Prof. Proctor's
last popular scientific work for newspaper
publication.
They are expected to attract great atten
tion throughout the whole country, and will
prove a valuable addition to scientific lore
which no one can well afford to lose. They
were obtainable by the Morning News
only on account of its prominence in the
world of journalism, and have an especial
interest for the newspaper readers of the
Southeast.
These articles, six in number, are upon
the following topics:
I. For September 23.
Plague anti Pestilence.
C. For September 30.
Learning the Stars.
3. For October 7.
Our Two Brains.
4. For October 14.
Famous Comets.
6. For October 21.
Ark Men Advancing?
6. For October 28.
Great Telescopes.
The famous Whvo gang in New York
seems to have become a retiring set. An
other member of it has been retired to
the privacy of penitentiary life.
Mr. Blame’s name wns hissed at a repub
lican convention in Montgomery county,
Pennsylvania, the other day. Blaine’s de
fense of trusts is having its effect.
Mr. Cleveland seems to have fished to
some purpose in the Adirondack* a year or
two ago. In the neighborhood of Lake
Placid there was only one democrat when
the President was inaugurated. Now there
are 179.
Mr. William A. Krug, of Indiana, is 98
years old, and yet ha talks about living to
attend the funeral of the Democratic party.
Why, it's extremely doubtful if he lives to
attend the Republican party’s funeral next
November.
Chairman Quay, it is said, has allowed
himself to talk long enough to state that
New- York und Indiana are very doubtful
states. It is understood, however, that
Quay still has confidence in the ability of
the republicans to carry Pennsylvania.
Slugger John L. Sullivan is better, and it
Is hoped he wiil get well. Sullivan has been
■fvA persistently followed by misfortunes
late.y that ne deserves to be pitied by the
people. He should give up prize fightiug
and w hisky and go at somo honest work.
The Ocean Steamship Company has pre
pared for an increased business this season
by adding two more steamships to its fleet,
making twelve vessels in all. Savannah
can well be proud of its splendid lines of
Steamships to New York, Philadelphia, Bos
ton and Baltimore.
“On the republican side,” says the New
York Star, “this is a campaign of cant.”
Certainly it is, and the nearer Nov. 7 ap
proaches, the better the fact will be appre
ciated by the republicans, who will And
that they can’t carry several states which
are essential to their success.
It Mr. Kelley, of Pennsylvania, who waa
renominated by the republicans for con
gress the other day, should be elected and
should live out another term, he will have
served Unity years of continuous service in
Uie House. The young men in Mr. Kelley's
district won’t have a chance until death re
nt ov-es the old man.
The people of Wabash, Minn., don’t be
lieve in tar and feathers as a remedy. They
have caused the arrest of a party of men
who administered that dose to a disreputa
ble person in the community. The treat
ment is on tbe heroic order, and it must be
admitted that it frequently effects a cure
where other remedies fail.
Justice Murray, of New York, thinks
marriage is a failure. His experience in its
bonds has not been very pleasant, and he
attributes all of his uuhappiuuss to his
mother-in-law. “Too much mother-in-law,”
b says, “makes marriage a failure.” This
is hardly a fair verdict. A man doesn’t
fcarry his mother-in-law.
The colored people of Jacksonville have
suffered more from yellow fever than the
white |ieople for tiie last few duys, and if
ll| e present ratio of cases among the two
k races keeps up for any length of time, tbe
■ *nd of the epidemic will furnish proof if
inaccuracy of the statement that ne
comparative immunity from
The Colored Voters.
As was seen by our dispatches yesterday,
Mr. Thurman made on the preceding day
some very sensible remains to a delegation
of colored people from Arkansas who had
called on him, and what he said applies
equally to every colored man in the coun
try.
For a number of years after the colored
people bad been freed from slavery and
given the franchise, they voted the repub
lican ticket almost to a man They were
the political slaves of republicans who bad
come south expecting to be elected to office
by colored voters. These carpet baggers
never thought of asking a colored man
what ticket he preferred to vote. He was
expected to vote the republican ticket- upon
every occasion and under all circumstances,
and if a desire to vote any other was ever
expressed, it was smothered very effect
ually, even if intimidation and bulldozing
bad to be practiced.
This political bondage has been broken in
great measure, because, perhaps, it has
dawned upon the colored people that the
republicans cared not for them, but for
their votes. A great many of them have
ceased to appreciate the alleged duty of
voting tbe republican ticket, and have used
to better advantage the time which was de
voted formerly to political meetings nud to
elections. Others have become democrats.
It is not probable that the republicans
will be able to arouse in this campaign any
special enthusiasm among tbe colored peo
pie for their ticket. Mr. Cleveland’s ad
ministration has been marked by a regard
for the best interests of all the people, with
out regard to section or color. The col
ored people have found out that they may
obtain all the rights and privileges under a
democrat ic administration that they can un
der a republican bne. The fact is that ap
pa ently Mr. Cleveland has been to some
pains to show his interest in the colored
p epic, and many of them have learned to
regard him very highly. Quite a number
of Cleveland and Thurman clubs have been
organized in different parts of the country.
The best interests of the colored people
demand that they vote the democratic ticket
next November. The triumph of that ticket
means the continued prosperity of thecoun
try. It means the reduction of taxation to
the actual needs of economical government,
and under the plan of reduction advocated
l.y the democrats the colored people would
be relieved from paying as high prices for
the necessaries of life as they pay now.
The Freshets and the Cross Tides Dam.
What caused the damage done by the
recent freshet, which resulted in such
general disaster to the planters on
the Savannah river, is worthy of the
investigation of the representatives in
congress whose constituencies are the suf
ferers by its devastations. That the greater
pa:t of the destruction of the rice crop was
caused by the improvements made by the
government for tbe benefit of the commerce
of the country, is apparently capable of
proof. From observations made by com
petent parties, the freshet had no danger
ous effect upon the Frout river, i. e., that
in front of tbe city of Savannah, as the
water did not attain a hight greater than
an ordinary spring tide. It would appear
from this that the immense volume of
freshet water found its exit elsewhere; that
it was backed up by thecross-tidesdam at the
upper end of Hutchinson Island, until it at
tained a hight and volume sufficient to go
over the rice field dams, and the river left
its natural channels and swept in one
immense sheet over the plantations below,
and also backed up the water on the places
above. Year after year have the planters
of Georgia and South Carolina lost their
crops, and in some instances been totally
bankrupted,by reason of the damming of the
main channels of the river above the city.
Years ago the planters protested against
the building of the cross-tides dam, because
they were of the opinion that the wuter
might be entirely diverted from the Back
river into the Front river. The river has
been diverted, but not in that direction.
The narrow channel left for the exit of
its waters is not sufficient during a freshet,
and the pent-up flood is diverted and rushes
madly over all the low lands on its way to
it* level, the ocean, sweeping before it, sea
son after season, hundreds of thousands of
dollars of property. It is within the power
of the government to remedy these ever re
curring disasters by building a levee along
the river to protect the low lands and plan
tations from these pent-up freshets. Not
only are the planters sufferers
by these continued devastations, but
thousands of negroes who are dependent
on the rice fields for their daily bread are
threatened with starvation, and a largo
taxable area, valuable to the country for its
products, is on the verge of abandonment
because of the immense losses of its
owners. This is not a pic’ uro drawn by an
alarmist, but one that is painted in colors
not as dark as the subject warrants. No
question to-day is more important to the
constituents of the congressmen from
Georgia and South Carolina than that here
presen toil.
"Mr. Randall has been set aside by the
democrats in this canvass, because he is not
a free trader,” say the republican organs.
There was a very well defined impression
some time ago that Mr. Randall’s tempo
rary retirement from politics was due to
illness which threatened for somo time to
end his life, and from which ho has not yet
recovered. It is understood, however, that
Mr. Randall is vory much interested in the
success of Cleveland and Thurman, and that
if he were well enough,he would make a few
speeches in their behalf.
Postmaster General Dickinson and Com
missioner of Pensions Black expect to go to
Michigan next Tuesday, to make a few
speeches for the administration. As these
gentlemen are in position to know what the
administration has done for the people, no
-1 ody should object to hearing them tel!
what they know. The republicans, how
ever, don’t care to have tbe truth made
prominent in the campaign, so they are
raising a howl because Messrs. Dickinson
and Black are going to disseminate it.
The republicans throw up their hands in
holy horror while charging that Commis
sioner of Pensions Black is trying to use
his office to help the democratic ticket.
They have probably forgotten the infain us
work done by one Dudley when he was
commissioner of pensions under a repub
lican administration. These republicans
have the most convenient memories of any
set of people on the top siao of the earth.
Mrs. Leslie, one of the parties to the re
cent prize fight lietwcen women near Buf
falo, has been arrested for the part she to k
in that affair. Isn’t it a little odd that men
nmy engage in prize fights without being
arrested, while women may not? Evidently
the officers of tbe law think that prize
fighting is one of tbe prerogatives of inau.
THE MORNING NEWS: SATURDAY. SEPTEMBER 22. 1888.
The President’s Luck.
The President’s luck stands by him. If,
as the republicans asserted, the passage of
the Chinese exclusion bill put him in a very
embarrassing position, tt.e official notifi' a
t.ion that the Chinese treaty has been re
jected by China removes his embarrass
ment, and puts him in position to act ac
cording to the wishes of the Pacific c >a>t
people and at tbe same time to promote the
political interests of the Democratic party.
When it was stated on what was thought
to be authentic informa:ion that the Chi
nese treaty had been rejected by China, the
Chinese exclusion bill was introduced in the
House by Mr. Scott, the President’s trusted
adviser, while a republican from California
failed to introduce a similar bill, only be
cause Mr. Scott was too quick for him. The
bill was passed by the House with a rush; it
was also passed by the Senate, but about
that time the intelligence was received that
the treaty had not been rejected.
Its consideration had been postponed.
An attempt was made in the
Senate to reconsider the action of that body
with regard to the Chinese exclusion bill,
but it failed on a close vote, and the bill
was handed yesterday to the President.
The republicans thought they had Mr.
Cleveland in a very deep hole, so to speak.
Their thoughts ran in this channel: If he
signs it, he will lose the confidence of the
people in his devotion to duty; if he vetoes
it, he will lose all chance of carrying Cali
fornia. They forgot to add: If his luck
should assert iJself, there would be no sort
of dilemma. His luck did assert itself, and
at the most opportune time. Was there
ever such a lucky man as Grover Cleve
land, President of the Unites! States now
and for four years after March 4 next?
Stock Raising in Georgia
It is gratifying that a great many farmers
in various parts of this stat - are giving at
tention to the raising of stock. If their ex
ample should be generally followed, the
question, “Is this state becoming poorer?”
—a question which is asked oftener than it
ought to be—would be forgotten in a short
while.
Morgan county has just held a creditable
colt show, at which it was demon
strated that Kentucky need not expect to
take much more money out of the pockets
of her people. Greene county is arranging
for the same kind of show. At the annual
fair in Hancock county, the principal feat
ure is the display of stock. Hancock is giv
ing considerable attention to the Jersey
breed of cattle, having been induced to do
so by the success met with in stock raising
by one of her valuable citizens, President
Northen, of the state agricultural society.
Putnam county, which, since the war, has
paid out for horses and mules raised outside
tbe state mere than one-third the
total present valuation of her prop
erty, has turned her attention in
late years to stock, and, led
by Capt. A. S. Reid, is in a fair way not
only to keep a great deal of money from
going out of the county, but to make con
siderable profits on sales of fine stock. It is
said that the best mules in the county are
home raised. Putnam has invested largely
in Jersey Cattle, Mr. B. W. Hunt intro
ducing them into the county, and Mr. J. M.
Williams establishing the first dairy farm
there. The county’s shipments of butter
for the year ending Sept. 1, 1888, were not
less than 45,000 pounds, and, liesidee, the
home market was well supplied. A num -
ber of other counties are giving attention
to these things.
Why should Georgia buy her stock out
side the state, when she can raise it herself?
Why don't her people keep in their pockets
the enormous sum thev spend annually in
other states for it? Judge Jenkins, of the
Oomulgee circuit, besides being thoroughly
posted in law, is a practical man who takes
great interest in tnatteis looking to the ma
terial advancement ot the state, and on the
subject of Georgia’s advantages for
raising stock he says; “Our winters
are short and mild, the shelter netxhxl is
comparatively nothing, water is absolutely
without cost, and a large part of the food
needed can be obtained by building a pas
ture fence. No known rough food for
stock is superior to our bermuda grass,
none approaches it for cheapness, no other
product of the soil so completely accom
plishes two great ends, that of furnishing
the best of stock food, and at the same time
of preserving and enriching the soil.”
Americans want to keep Chinamen out of
this country, Chinamen are said to be as
anxious as Americans to keep them out, and
the Chinamen who are here already are op
posed to the letting in of any more of their
countrymen. These things being true, it
would seem that no difficulty would be ex
perienced in preventing Chinese immigra
tion; and yet the people with the pigtails
and the almond eyes slip into the United
States by way of Cana la when they can’t
come any other w ay, and tne immigration
is by no means stopped.
For a “great republican victory," in fact
a “political revolution” in favor of the re
publicans, the Maine election requires a
great deal of explanation by republicans
who took part in tue campaign. Mr. Joseph
Mauley, the chairmnn of the republican
state committee, has not ye ceased his en
deavors to explain away the falling off in
the republican majority and the gain in the
democratic vote. Manley isa pretty shrewd
fellow, but these are things which no or.e
can explain away.
Mr. Thurman is a very lively man for
one of his age When he gets hold of a pole
he stirs irp the republican animals at a tre
mendous rate. The g. o. p. organs say he
is “an old, wornout man,” upon whom it is
a great imposition to be “dragged into the
canvass,” hut they don’t believe a word of
what they say. The old Roman has made
several very vigorous speeches since he had
that attack of cholera morbus in New York,
and be will make several more before No
vember.
Congressman "Sunset” Cox 1 as Addod to
that of other democrats his testimony that
New York will go democratic in Novem
ber. Mr. Cox makes this center shot: “The
ratio of gain mude by the democrats in
Maine, compared with the vote of I*B4, if
repented in Now York, will give Mr. Cleve
land a plurality in the last named stale of
17,100." It is expected, however, that the
ratio of gain will be considerably greater
than it was in Mr. Blaine’s pocket borough.
Another baud of boy burglars has been
arrested, this time in Chicago. The leader
of the band is only 8 years old, liardly old
enough to read, and yet in the burglary
business! He must have gotten his big
brother to read to him the abominable flash
literature of the day.
Candid lies Hill and Miller are speaking
to the voters of tbe rural districts of New
York. No doubt they are tolling them how
to raise a crop—of votes.
CURRENT COMMENT.
No Free Trade.
From Fuck IDem.)
A 7 per cent, reduction upon a 47 per cent,
tariff is no more like free trade than washing
your face is like drowning yourself.
What He Would Protect.
From the Mew V'’i t World (Cem,)
President Cleveland is the kind of a “protec
tionist” who believes in protecting the people
trom unjust taxation and from trusts, and in
giving manufacturers and operatives the benefit
of free raw materia!
For the Prophets.
From the fVashinoton Pott (Ind.)
Horace Greeley’s reproof to an offending
subordinate is still pertinent ‘ Don’t you know,
sir. that it’s hard enough to tell the truth about
what has happened, without trying to tell it
about w hat is going to happen?”
Coming Round.
From the St. Louis Post-Dispatch (Dem.)
Senator Sherman, in a recent interview, said
that the tariff should lie revised and reduced,
that lie is opposed to taking the tax off whisky,
and that the bloody shirt is a thing of the past.
If Senator Sherman continues on his honesty
policy, the first thing be knows he will find him
self in the Democratic party.
BRIGHT BITS.
It is all well enough to talk about a needle
being lost in a hay stack, but it wouldn’t be lost
long if you were to walk on the hay in your
bare feet - Puck.
A man- has just died in Connecticut who
smoked over 2,000 herring a day Worse than
the tobacco habit. No wonder he died. -Bur
lington Free Press.
Phiiadeluhi a Girl fat the seashore) —Do you
ever find bottiea w hich tell of wrecks ?
Native—Yes, mum, often -eraply bottles—
Philadelphia Record.
A New Orleans paper has an editorial on
“When to Draw.” Our advice would be to draw
when you happen to know that the man who
owes you is flush.— Lowell Citizen.
‘ Give me neither poverty nor riches," said
the wise man. “All I ask for is to be chosen a
delegate to a closely contested congressional
district convention." Horton Transcript.
Philadelphia Dare lat table)-My gracious!
You are spilling that gravy on th carpet.
New Waitress (cheerfully)—There’s pllnty
more in the kitchen, mum.— Philadelphia Re
catd.
The largest crop of cranberries this countrv
has ever produced will be gathered this fall,
and yet just about half the politicians will have
nothing but crow to go with them during the
holiday season. —New Haven lieus.
He (anew arrival at a country hotel to un
known ladyi—Aw, have you been long a captive
in this er -menagerie?
She—You can hardly call me a captive; per
hnps keeper would be better, for I am the wife
of the showman and have to help feed the ani
mals. —Harper's Bazar.
A Knowledge of Hcman Nature.—And bo
your nice clergyman is going to be married,
Mrs. Marigold! I hope you’ll like his wife as
well as you like him.”
“Well, ma’am. I’m sure 1 hope so—but we
generally find that when the gentleman i3 haffa
ble, the lady’s ’aughty.” —London Punch.
An Unknown Spei iks. New Governess—Now,
my- dear, in what zoological classification would
you place man?
Pretty Girl- Man?
“Yes; don’t you know what a man is?”
“No, ma’am. I've been spending my winters
in a convent and my summers at seaside
resorts.”— Philadelphia Record.
“And so,” said he, bitterly, when he realized
that she had rejected him, “and so you have
been flirting heartlessly with me all the while.
Well, thank heaven, 1 nave fouud you out at
laat!”
“Yes,” she replied, “you have; and what is
more, I think you will always find me out here
after when you cull " .Somerville Journal.
Popinjay—l am a dreadfully nervous, restless
fellow—so much so that hardly a night passes
that I don’t kick the bed clothes completely
off the bed.
Dtimpsey—lndeed! I'll tall you what you
want to get.
Popinjay—What’s that!
Dumpsey—A sheet anchor.— Burlington Free
Piest.
Wipe (ominously)—lt must have been late
when you came in last night, John, for I didfTT
go to sleep until after 11 o'clock.
Husband (fearlessly)-It was 11:30 o'clock, my
dear.
Wife— And you kept muttering in your sleep,
“Set ’em up again.” “Set up again “
Husband- Yes, I was playing tenpins with
Brown. I need a little exercise of that sort.—
Mew York Sun.
Mbs. Mushroom—l wonder why it is Miss
Loftus never calls nowadays. Curious, too, she
neglected to send us cards for her reception. I
know it must have ben an oversight, though.
Mr. Mushroom I don’t know anything about
it. and, to tell the truth, I don’t care.
Young Mushroom—l saw her last week. pa.
She said 1 was a w-icked boy to use a bean-blower
at her. I told her she was a lean, scrawny,
attenuated and blase old maid, 'cause my pa
said so, and he wouldn't tell a lie.— Drake's
Magazine.
PERSONAL.
Representative Reed of Maine is a fine clas
sieal scholar and reads French with ease and
pleasure. He is particularly fond of French
novels.
Eulalia, youngest sister of the late King Al
fonso, is suffering from weak lungs, and has
been sent to Northern Italy in hope of r rolong
ing her days.
P. H. Goodei.l, the republican nominee to the
New Hampshire governorship, is the inventor
of that fascinating and useful article, the “light
ning apple [Hirer “
The Toronto Telegram says that Sir John A.
Macdonald anil Senator Edmunds have estab
lish -d a bond of sympathy between each other.
They both regard President Cleveland as a bold,
bad man.
Mrs. Andrew Carnegie carried an instanta
neous detective camera on the memorable trip
just completed by tbe Carnegie coach, and took
photographs of the principal objects of interest
along the road.
Gov. Luce, of Michigan, is said to he the first
governor of thut slate who has lived within his
salary As this salary is but §1,003 a year. Gov.
Luce has certainly demonstrated the right to
be culled an economical man.
Mrs. Nellie Grant Sartokis is visiting Mrs.
George W. Childs; Miss Nellie Arthur,daughter
of ex President Arthur, is visiting Miss Freling
huysen at Lenox; Mrs. Fred Grant has spent the
entire summer at West Point.
Mollis Maguire of New Y'ork is a woman
with a record. She lias appeared 300 times in
the Tombs police court. Friday morning she
took a farewell for three months, during which
she will reside on Blackwell’s Island.
Dr. William Knight of Cincinnati Is learned
enough to be a professor in a college of dental
surgery, but be was foolisb enough last week,
while feeding one of the Zoo bears peanuts, to
put his band through the cage bars and get it
nearly bitten off.
Mrs. Huldah Rockwell of Westville, Conn.,
better known as Granny Rockwell, who in her
early days was one of New England's promi
nent Methodist exhorters, and also a ■ ook in a
tavern at Green farms, kept by Aaron Burr,
died recently, aged ttil years.
3lrs. James Brown Potter has secured anew
play in Europe. The lending role offers a
magnificent opportunity for a well-sustained
evening dress, w bile Kyrlo Bellew’s part is filled
with splendid lines for a clever tailor's art.
The play is sure to make a hit at dress rehear
sals.
Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes says that he
usually replies to th-■ request for his autograph
when a card for Inc signature and a stamped
enveloped arc enclosed. Among the requests
that he did refuse was one addressed to “Miss
olive W. Holmes.“ He thought the writer of
that knew too little about him to have a genu
ine longing for his handwriting.
Von Bulow doesn't allow greedy host* and
hostesses to lute Ids services gratis to entertain
their guests. He always makes It a proviso
before entering a sirange house that he shall
no: be asked to play, it is O'laid of the cele
brated violnist Ernst, that upon being asked to
dinner mid invited to bring his violin with him,
lie replied: ‘’Thanks! M.v violin doesn’t dine.”
John Burroughs is one of those fortunate
writers who will not and need not write unless
they feel Inclined, strange to say of a man
who devotes hi* pen to nature Mr. Burroughs
never writes in summer. He spends all Ins
time out if doors during that seas m, laying up
material Ur the winter’s work. He lives withiu
sigut of the Cat skill mountains and has a little
farm of his own.
Rkv. J. J. Jayne, whom Lord Salisbury has
appointed bishop of Chester, a position worth
fZI.OUUa year, is a Welshman by birth and
descent. He was a fellow of Jesus College,
Oxford, the academical house of his country
men. Mr. Jayne has of late been Vicar of
Leeds. Queen Victoria wanted Hi-hop Barry,
of Kydn y, to have the See Of Chester, but her
wuines did not have much weight against those
of the pi eui.er.
The Reason Why.
From Time.
“Young: man," said an intellectual old party, i
with a high forehead and deep lines of thought
beneath his eyes, "you teil nie that you are a
writer for the alleged funny papers?"
“Yes, sir," replied the young man very
humbly.
“Now, I am a writer myself," went on this
wise old gentleman ponderously. “I write
upon subjects that instruct; that lift the mind
upward and carry it onward; I give the people
food for thought, and broaden and develop
their lives. You simply amuse them; you
drag them down and flatten them out. Why do
you fritter away your talents thus wantonly
and perniciously?"
“Because." replied the humorist, very much
depressed, I can make about $l5O a week at
it?"
“A hundred and fifty a week!" shouted the
old man, and he nearly fell off his chair. "Great
•Scott, my and ar young friend, lend me $10."
Baby fiae Gone to School.
The baby has gone to school; ah, me!
What will the mother do?
With never a call to button or pin.
Or tie a little shoe?
How can she keep herself busy all day
With the little "hindering thing" away?
Another basket to fill with lunch,
Another “good by" to say,
And the mother stands at the door to see
Her baby march away;
And turns with a sigh that is half relief.
And hall a soinetmng akin to gß^f.
1
She thinks of a possible future morn.
When the children, one by one.
Will go from tneir home out into the world,
To battle with life alone.
And not even the baby be left to cheer
The desolate home of that future year.
She picks up garments here and there;
Thrown down in careless haste;
And tries to think how it would seem
If nothing were displaced;
If the house were always as still as this.
How could she bear the loueliness?
H© Would be Macter.
From the Youth's Companion.
The French nile in Algiers has improved the
condition of Arab women, by exacting ven
seance from the husband who ill-treats his wife
too outrageously. The tourist who sees an
Arab inarched through the streets by mounted
French soldiers, will be told, if he inquires the
man'soffense: "It is his wife he has been beat
ing; they all do it, these Arabs."
As the Arab buys bis wife, he regards her as
bis chattel, to be driveu and beaten, to be
worked and treated as a slave. A story illus
trates the Arab's method of showing that he is
master m his own family.
An Arab chief, having taken an affectionate
farewell of his household, departed for Constan
tine. In a few days he returned, greatly ex
cited, and bade his favorite wife bring him four
posts and a cord, leashing her to the posts driv
en in the ground, he began to beat her.
“What has she done?" asked the villagers, at
tracted by the woman's cries.
"She is the best of wives and mothers, the
pearl of the tribe!" exclaimed another.
The iufuriated chief stopped to explain that
at Constantine he had seen an Arab woman ac
cu e her husband of ill usage; and the Cadi,
backed by the French authorities, had actually
given a judgment in her favor!
"I ielt that all men were insulted through
that woman!" exclaimed that chief. "And I
am assuring myself that I, at least, am master
in my own family."
Matrimonial Catechism.
From the Detroit Free Press.
He was very practical, and in order to have
everything fair and square beforehand, he said:
“You know, darling, that I promised my
mother that my wife should be a good house
keener and a domestic woman. Can you cook?"
“! can," she said, swallowing a great big
lump in her throat.
“Can you make good bread? That is the fun
damental principle of all housekeeping."
"Yes; 1 went into a bakery and learned how
to make all kinds of bread." She added under
her breath, “maybe."
"And can you do your own dressmaking? I
am comparatively a poor man, love, and dress
maker' bills would soon bankrupt me."
"Yes," she said, frankly, “I can make every
thing I wear, especially pattern bonnets."
“You are a jewel," he cried, with enthusiasm;
“come to my arms "
"Wait a minute there's no hurry," she said
coolly. “It's my turn to ask a few questions.
Can you saw wood and carry in coal?”
“W’hy, my love, I should hire that work
done."
“Can you make your coats, vests, trousers
and other wearing apparel?"
"But that isn't to tne purpose"
“Can you build a house, dig ditches, weave
carnets and
“I am not a professional.”
“Neither am I. It has taken the most of my
life to acquire the education and accomplish
ments that attached you to me. But as soon as
1 have learned all the professions you speak of
I will send you my card. Au re voir," and 6he
swept away.
And the disconsolate young man went to the
nearest drug store and bought a two-for a
quarter cigar, with which he speedily solaced
himself.
Grit and Pluck in Sickness.
Dr. M. Maurice in the St. Louis Republic.
I have seen grit save many a life. I have had
a patient who coolly said to me, “I will not die.’
I was compelled to assure her that she would.
There was no hope for her. “Doctor," she
auswered, “you are a fool. I shall not die."
Orifc it was that carried her through. A few
years later she was sick again, and, as I
thought, unto death; but there came the same
all-comiuering reply, “You are talking non
sense; 1 shall get well." And she did. This
was repeated a third time, till I actually began
to believe she would get well any way and at all
times. It never occurred to me to thing of her
as liable to die. Finally her mortal sickness
came, and 1 expected to help her up as usual.
But now she replied: “Doctor, you can come
or go as you please; I am going to die; this is my
last illness." “Oh, no," 1 said; "we will have you
out iu a few' days." “Nonsense," she answered;
“you are talking what you know nothing about.
I shall never be well again." In two days she
was dead. Her grit gave out: her pluck was
gorwl to the last, She had pluck enough to face
death; she had no longer grit to endure dis
ease. There is no question but that moral and
mental grit go with physical to sustain vitulity.
A stout, will wards off the bio .vs <*f disease. In
this case the patient went straight ahead to die
without a flinch or whim*, She bad a vast faith
iu the “All Right," and allowed no one to dab
ble in theology at her bedside. She marched
into the “next life" as she often had into the
next year, and had not a tremor. She took her
pluck with her. She treated a neighbor s pray
ers as she treated any medicine. “You can
come if you like," she said, “or you can go.
Your prayers can't stop me, and they can’t
change me —no more than the doctor's pow
ders?* She was a woman of extraordinary in
telligence and determination.
It Reminded Vance of a Story.
From the New York Tribune.
“That letter of acceptance which the Presi
dent wrote, reminds me." said Senator Vance
of North Carolina, “of a man down in my
county—l will call him Jones, bucau?* that is
not his name—who after an absence from his
native town of fifteen years, attended divine
service in the samechurcn in which he had once
worshiped. He found in the pulpit the same
Old preacher (hat he had listened to fifteen
years l>efore. Apparently much impressed by
the sermon, Jones made his way to the vestry
at the conclusion of the servic * and, renewing
his acquaintance with the clergyman, said:
“It is fifteen years since I heard you last. In
this very place, fifteen years ago, 1 heard you
preach a sermon that I have never forgotten. It
did me more good tuan any sermon 1 ever
heard. It stuck by me, and I have always wanted
to tiiauk you for it.'
“ ‘Ah. indeed,' replied the pleased preacher.
‘Such reward of my joor labor is very grateful.
I should like to know what sermon it was. Do
you remember the text?’
“ Well, no, I can’t tell what the text was
now, but it was the greatest sermou I ever
heard. It just lifted me up. I never forgot
t bat senML*
“ *1 should really like to know whAt sermon It
was.’replied the clergyman, much Interested
in so decided a case of th|>owerof the pulpit,
if you cannot recall the text, what was the
subject <t the sermon?"
“ ‘Well, now, doctor, it’s gone from me; I
forget what the text was, and I can't take up
the subject now; but I tell you it was a great
sermon. It did me more good -it was the most
powerful discourse I ever heard. I sha’n't for
gf it if 1 kin to bt Nl
** ‘But can’t you recall anything in it? You
excite my curiosity, ran t you give me a clew
that will identify it?'
“‘No, I cin’t tell what was in It exactly; the
subject baa sipped out of my mind. I don't know
exactly what you said, but it was a magnificent
sermon. It did me more good than all the
preaching 1 over heard. It has just staid by mo
for flit eon years.’
“ ‘And you can't recall a word that will help
me to identify it?'
“•Well, I cai't now bring up what it was
about, but I remember how it wound up. You
said, “Theology ain't religion—not by a—
sight."'
“That's the way the President argues: *My
me snag- of last December wasn't a free trade
mobdago-uot by a— sight.' ’
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
The cherry-wood cradle in which Mrs. Ruth
Hull, of Wallingford, Conn., was rocked when a
baby, has been made into a coffin for that good
lady, who, at 74, hears death knocking a little
way off.
The ravenous starfish which have been prey
ing upon the big oyster beds down Narragan
sett Bay, are reported as thick just now as cran
berries in a Cape bog They have cleared out
more oysters this year than ever lief ore.
Prof. Robert Spice, of the Brooklyn Poly
technic Institute, has been appointed, at a sal
ary of $1,500 a year, as inspector of street light
ing in that city. The gas companies pay half
the salary of the position, whose duties will
give a pleasant variety to the life of Prof. Spice.
It is estimated that 3,000,000 francs (about
$000,000) have been expended in the interest of
Boulanger and his candidates thus far, and sev
nal French join nals confess themselves unable
to divine where the money comes from. The
source of his influence is scarcely less of a mys
tery.
Missionary Beach of China, claims to have
succeeded in representing the Chinese spoken
language by a system of clear and simple pho
netic symbols, fashioned after the Pitman style.
It is said that an educated foreigner can learn
the system in from two to five hours, and a
bright Chinaman in ten hours.
Ix)rd Wolsei.ey says that one of the bravest
men he ever knew is Lieut. Gen. Sir Gerald
Graham, V. C.. who was in chief command at
the battle of El Teb. Graham is several inches
over ti feet in hight and rather indolent physi
rally. Many times Wolscley has seen him en
danger his life rather than take a few extra
steps in safety.
In the correspondence which passed between
the present Emperor of Germany and Count
von Moltke regarding the latter's desire to re
sign as chief or the army, the count addresses
his sovereign as “Most illustrious, most puissant
Emperor-King, most gracious Kaiser-King and
Lord Herr." Emperor William writes to Von
Moltkejas “Mein lieber Feldmarschall."
Shakespeare, who left his wife his second
best bedstead, has been surpassed in indiffer
eoee by a modern English testator, who be
queathed his wife one farthing, which he di
rected the executrix to forward to her by post,
unpaid, as an indication of his disgust at the
treatment which he had recejved at her hands,
and especially in respect of the abusive epithets,
such as “Old Pig," that he considered unjusti
fied.
An Omaha man on Sunday, inquired of a bar
ber the cost of shaving a dead person. On
being told that $5 was the usual price, the man
remarked: “Then I'll save my friend# that ex
pense by getting shaved now." He then went
to the hotel w'here he was boarding and retired
to his room. He failed to respond to the call
for sypper, and at 8 o'clock one of the bell boys
opened the door and found him dead on the bed.
Death, it is said, had resulted from quick con
sumption.
Hep.e is a good story of Judge Hastings of
San Francisco, who is well known for his
shrewdness in not being imposed upon. He
once gave a dinner |>arty to some few of his
friends at a famous restaurant, and when the
bill was sent to him he scanned it closely and
counted the bottles of wine. He then drew a
number of corks from his pocket and paid for
as many bottles as he had corks. He had kept
tally. That was all.
Capt. Robert Phillips, of the fishing schooner
Alice Carver, of Salem, Mass., while fishing off
Halfway Rock, captured a curious specimen of
the finny tribe, which proves to be an electric or
torpedo fish. Capt. Phillips states that when
he gaffed the fish he was nearly knocked to the
deck by a shock, and that it was some time be
fore be got the fish on deck. The fish measures
feet in breadth by 3 feet in length, and its
mouth is 2 feet long.
At the Paris exposition of 1889 a special point
in the section of military arts will be made of
the sword in all its branches. Gen. Gervais is
forming a retrospective exhibition to show the
history of fencing, and appeals to amateurs and
collectors for loans of books on fence, paintings
and weapons of all kinds pertaining to the art.
Besides the military museums of France, the
general will have the pick of the collections of
Messrs. Vigeant, Daressy and IL Gallice.
The following message has been received by
Bishop Crowther of the Niger mission from the
Mohammedan Emir of Nupe. West Africa: “It
is not a long matter; it is about barasa <rum).
Barasa, barasa, barasa! It has ruined our
country; it has ruined our people very much; it
has made our people mad. I beg you, Malam
Kipo. don't forget this writing, because we all
beg that he should beg the great priests that
they should beg the English queen to prevent
bringing barasa into this laud. '
The officials of the Erie Railroad in New
York city have issued an edict against flirting
on the part of its employes. The order reads
that in future conductors, brakemen and depot
policemen must not assist ladies on entering or
leaving theoomnany's cars,on pain of dismissal.
The order was tne result of some serious cases
which were complained of. and is designed to
Frotect ladies and young girls traveling alone,
t would not be a bad idea for all the railroads
in the country to issue similar orders.
The tallest smoke chimney iu the world is
probably one that can be seen from the win
dows of trains crossing the Newark meadows.
It is being erected in East Newark. Its diame
ter at the base i6 28 feet. It is solid brick to an
altitude of 310 feet. At its top it is 9 feet in di
ameter. A cast iron rim, 20 feet in di
amefcer and a bell surmount the whole, and
make the total altitude of the structure 335
feet. One million seven hundred thousand
bricks were used in its construction, and it cost
$85,000.
A lumber dealer in Minnesota, whose given
name was Isaac, had quite an extensive corre
spondence. His bookkeeper made a memoran
dum of every time his name was misspelled iu
liters directed to him, and the list roads as fol
-I<tws: Isiac, lisac, leaack. Iscac. Ysac, Isaag,
Izic, Isiace, Icac, Isach, Isic, lsiaac, Isaace.
Icaas. Icks, laasic, Aisec, Isaar, laasac. Iceie,
Isa as, Isica, laac, lassac, Izk, I Sic, Issach. Isac,
Isick, Issaec, Issaace. Iseka, Issick, Isaak. lisace,
Isak, Isaack, Icaac. I Sick, Isicb, Isaac, Issac,
Isace, lsoac, Isice, Isaic.
Is the Santa Anna and San Gabriel valleys,
the San Francisco Bulletin relates, "a disease
has broken out among the vines, the cause of
which un one can understand and which is
termed sapsour. The vines begin to wither and
in a short time die. The disease is infectious
and spreads very rapidly, and unless it is
checked will dertroy every vine in the south.
The most successful remedy thus far discov
ered is to dig up the vines as soon as they be
gin to show the blight and burn them, continu
ing the action until every infected vine is taken
out."
The World mentions an almost incredible ac
cident which befell a horse In the upper part of
New York city on Monday. The animal is a
trotter, and was engaged in a “brush" when, in
trying to increase his soeed, he reached too far
forward with his nigh hind hoof and caught the
forward off hoof before it descended. Tne
shoes became locked, the animal fell heavily to
the ground, and its driver was shot out of his
wagon atop of the horse. The horse's shoes
were so tightly locked that they had to be pried
off before he could get on his feet. Thu ani
mal's legs are badly strained.
A REMARKABLE COINCIDENCE OCCUITed OH the
trans-Atlantic steamer Rider, which reached
New York Tuesday, The wife of one of the
steerage passengers, Johann Stacker, a shoe
maker, gave birth to a child when tne Eider
was in mid-ocean, and oil Sept. 5, at !i o'clock
a. m., the entry was made in the Rider's log
book and by request of the father the child was
named Carl Johann at I :3t> o'clock p. m., the
Norwegian bark Carl Johann was passed bound
west. The passengers of the Eider made up a
purse of sid for the young voyager and wit
nessed his christening with a St. Louis merch
ant as his godfather.
According to a dispatch from Birmingham,
Ala., "several days ago three horses were placed
in a car on the Georgia I’aciflc railroad for ship
ment to Atlanta. The car was sealed on the
outside in the usual manner, but when the train
reached Henryellen, 15 miles from Birmingham,
that night, the conductor discovered that the
cai door was ojien and o cot tho horse's miss
Ing. The officials of the road have had a thor
ough search made between Birmingham and
Henryellen, but so far they have found no trace
of the missing horse. How the door was
opened, when or where the horse got out can
not be Imagined. The train made no stop ex
cept at crossings."
A movement is on foot in London to hold a
theatrical exhibition on one of the South Ken
sington sites in 18'JO. The object of the under
taking is to provide a fund for the establishment
of an orphanage for children of deceased actors
and actresses, uuda home for aged and disable I
persons connected with the stage in all its
branches. It is intended that there he shown at
the exhibition the mule of manufactui'O and
preparation of everything relating to a thealer
both lief ore and behind the curtain; models of
theaters and t, e various methods of construe
tlon most favored on the Continent and In
America; collections of historic thaatrical cos
tumes. properties manuscripts, etc ; while the
g -minds are to Ire laid out to resemble tLe bet
tor known scenes front Shakespeare.
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