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Meetings —DeKalb Lodge No. 9,1. O. O. F.
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Christmas Day at Tybee Island—Two Trains
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Reward; Miscellaneous.
The fellow who started the sensational
Story at Indianapolis of a plot to assassi
nate (Jon. Harrison ought to be drummed
out of that city.
Gen. Goff, of West Virginia, declares
that he will be inaugurated governor of
that state. Still the governorship isn’t
settled.
Rev. Sam Small declared in Cincinnati
the other day that the prohibitiunists were
bound to elect a candidate for President,
but he declined to set a date for that event.
Mr. Small seems to be becoming more cau
tious in his public statements.
Mr. Joseph Manley is represented as say
ing that Mr. Blaine would accept uo office
except that of Secretary of Stale. Mr.
Manley is supposed to speak by the card,
and if Gen. Harrison is thinking of making
Gen. Sherman premier, he will probably
ponder very seriously before he leaves
Brother Blaine out in the cold.
Under the heading, “Why New Mexico
Should Not Be Admitted,” the Chicago
Shritker gives several alleged reasons for
keeping that territory out, but it doesn't
give its main reason. The Sbrisker may
as well be honest and admit that it is be
cause New Mexico would be a democratic
state.
The Philadelphia Press makes this fling
at our legislators: “The Georgia legislators
receive tea cents mileage each way to and
from the state capital. It would seem as if
the state of Georgia would do herselt more
lasting good by paying her legislators
twenty cents mileage on the way home.”
Let the Georgia legislators alone, won’t
you? They have been doing pretty good
work, and Georgia doesn’t And much fault
with them.
If Senator Sherman should go into the
cabinet there would be a bard light for the
vacant senatership, the contestants being
Gov. Foraker, ex-Gov. Foster, Congressmen
Butterworth and McKinley, and [lerhaps
others. Ex-Speaker Keifer has announced
that he would not 1m a candidate. “Ii ave
built up a law practice since retiring from
politics,” he says, “ti at no office could
tempt me to abandon.” If Knife is a suc
cess as a lawyer, be had better stick to the
law. He was a good dual of a failure as a
statesman, aud it would be a national mis
fortune if be were sent to the senate.
It is quite apparent to the ordinary ob
server that the law against selling liquur on
Suuday is not enforced in this city. Dur
ing a short walk yesterday afternoon a
representative of the Morning News saw
a dozen negroes and three white men more
or less under the iuflueuce of liquor. The
negroes were seen soutn of Anderson street
and the white men in the vicinity of the
parks. There should be a vigorous effort
made by the solicitor general to arrest aid
convict the men who are continually violat
ing the Sunday liquor law. The violation
of this law is a fruitful source of crime, and
those who are guilty of violating it should
be ferreted out and punished. Why is it
that they escape punishment ? What is the
use of having a law that is not respected t
Congressman XV. D. Kelley, of Pennsyl
vania, writing to Mr. F. O. Wicker, of
Bandersville, Ua., predicts that tiie progress
of the south in wea.tb, intelligence and
development will be immeasurably greater
during tbe four years froth March 4 next,
under a republican aiimiuislratiun, than it
has been undur Mr. Cleveland's administra
tion. Mr. Kelley may be right. The south
made greater progress under Mr. Cleve
land's administration than it did under Gen.
Arthur's, and it may make still greater
under Gen. Harrison’s, but if it does, the
Republican party won’t deserve the
credit for it. The south lias gotten into the
habit of improving each year ujkhi the last
year’s recurd, and she won’t allow a repub
lican administration to prevent her from
continuing the habit. It is too good to
•banduu.
Protecting a Monopoly’s Victims.
An investigating committee of the House
is trying to find out how much truth there
is in the charges that the employes of the
Alaska Fur Company are active in corrupt
ing the morals of the natives on the sea
islands.
Some rather startling stories are told of
the immoralities and outrage® committed
by these men, aud a good deal of testimony
is being secure iin support of them. The
natives are inoffensive, and easily influenced
with evil ways. A good many of the fur
company’s men, it is alleged, have no re
sist for virtue und morality, and have re
duced the harmless Aleuts to a most de
plorable condition.
The purpose is to hold the Alaska Fur
Company responsible for the acts of its em
ployes, and if the charges are found to be
true the company will be in danger of los
ing the monopoly which it enjoys. The
monopoly is a rather extraordinary one,
and is very valuable. The company pays
the government so much a year for the ex
clusive privilege of taking seals in Alaska
waters, and agi oes not to kill more than a
stipulated number each year.
Of couase tbe co npany immense
profits. It has become so Wch and strong
that it acts as if it owned Alaska. The gov
ernment has agents at all the principal
points where the seals are taken, and they
and the company’s agents appear to be al
ways quarreling. It may be that the
charges against tbe company’s employes
are greatly exaggerated by the government
agents, because of the ill-feeling
between them. So many of those
who have had a chance to see what the con
dition of affairs on the Seal Islands is, how
ever, support the statements of the govern
ment officers, that it is not improbable that
the stories of immorality aud outrage are
pretty well founded.
The Aleuts are, to some extent, the wards
of the nation, and the government is bound
to give them such protection as it can, es
pecially against a company which exists
only by i*s permission. It is better that the
Alaskan Company’s contract should be an
nulled than that the ignorant and harmless
Aleuts should be debauched and their re
gard for morality and virtue destroyed.
Gov. Bullock's Plan.
Ex- Gov. Bullock’s interest in southern
election matters finds expression in frequent
letters to the press. In a very recent letter
he gives his views with regard to what he
thinks should be done to bring out the al
leged suppressed vote of this section. He
do s not favor the plan of placing the elec
tions under federal control. That, he says,
would boa step backward. What he pro
poses is that “the ‘cotton south’ be ex
cluded from congress until our delegates
applying for admission represent a full,
free, fair vote and count in their states and
district.”
This plan would work hardships upon the
South. It would be an attempt to compo
voters to vote, and it would exclude from
congress members who represent a free and
fair, though not a full, vote. For instance, a
full vote is very rarely cast iu a Georgia dis
trict; therefore, although Gov. H.illock ad
mits that every qualified voter in this State
who presents himself at the polls is allowed
to vote, the State would be unrepresented
in the House. In that event, who would
look after Georgia’s interest l Who would
work for appropriations for her river and
for public buildings, and who w> mid at
tend to other important matters for her ?
Gov. Bullock does not propose that his
plan shall be applied to the north. He says:
“No harm can come to other sections if
our states and districts remain unrepre
sented while wo are holding experimental
elections, which will at the same time be
experience lessons to oursolve6.” Why
should not the plan be applied to the north
as well as to the south ? There are many
districts in that section where full and free
votes are not cast.
Although Gov. Bullock is opposed to
“letting the south alone,” experience shows
that that policy is the best for
her. Her industrial progress did not
begin until she was given control of her own
affairs, and it will be retarded from the
time this right is taken from her. The south
doesn’t need the so-called help of alleged re
formers. Her ability to attend to her own
affairs must lo a imitted. It is feared that
some of the alleged reformers arc more
deeply interested in the Republican party
than ir securing. continuance of justice to
the south. If they waut to test their re
form methods, let them put them in prac
tice in the northern states where election
frauds have become notorious.
Mr. George Alfred Townsend makes this
sugg*tion: “I have once or twice thought,
since Ihe disappearance of the mugwumps,
that they might be the White Caps who
have broken out in Indiana and Ohio. The
mugwump was always wanting to flog
somebody for not supporting his wife or be
ing aide to explaiu how .he came by every
thing iu his |>os ession. The mugwump
newspapers invariably laid a bundle of birch
rods at the door of every public man as a
gentle intimation that if he asked for any
thing at the hauds of the people, they would
lick him with the said rqtfs. The skull and
bones were the symbols of these reformers.
Tenderness they know nothing about. At
the late presidential election everybody
wondered why the mugwumps wore so
scarce and few. It seems to be accounted
lor by their reappeirauce.” Mr. Townsend
is certainly mistaken. If the Ohio White
Caps aud the mugwumps were one and tue
same, Gov. F> raker would have done some
thing more than issue proclamations to ex
terminate them.
One of the latest rumors connected with
the next cabinet is that ex-President Hayes
will be offerod a portfoli >. The friendship
existing between Mr. Hayes and Gen. Har
rison is said to be of long standing, and
when Hayes was making his cabinet iu 1577
he is reported to have bean desirous of ap
loiuting Gen. Harrison Secretary of War
or Secretary of the Navy. The Indiana
republicans could uot fix upon a preference
between several men, however, and finally
ex-Senator Oliver P. Morton recommended
Mr. Richard Thompson, who was appointed.
! Now, according to gossip, Gen. Harrison
wants to show bis appreciation of the
| esteem in w hich he was hold by making Mr.
! Haves one of bis cabinet members. If he
should, what would become of Sonutor
Sherman’s aspirations, and how many dis
np|K>ited aspirants for the Ohio senator
ship would there bef
Senator Ingalls’ successor will be elected
in about a year, and it is stated that ex-
Gov. Osborne and Mr. J. A. Hudson will be
candidates against him. The country
would not love much if lugalls should be
permitted to remain at homo, but the couu
Itry hadn’t had a very good run of luck,
politically, lately.
THE MORNING NEWS; MONDAY. DECEMBER 24, 1888,
A Northern Man's Impressions.
Mr. Henry E. Bowen, of New York, who
recently visited different portions of the
south, has made public home of the impres
sions be formed. He was surprised at the
very great material progress made in this
section within the last five years. The
building, mining, and manufacturing inter
ests, he says, have been rapidly advanced,
and immigration bureaus have succeeded in
Securing very many desirable settlers. The
progress since he was here a year ago, he
says, is very noticeable, and it was shown
in no other way more clearly than by the
expositions which have been held lately in
Richmond, Columbus, Dal.as, aud San An
tonio, aud the one which has just closed
in Augusta.
With regard to politics, Mr. Bowen
thinks the southern democrats feel very
sore over Mr. Cleveland’s defeat, and that
they are disposed to grumble at New
York's treachery. He thinks that in the
future New York's influence in democratic
councils will not be nearly so great as it has
been, and that if Gov. Hill should
be nominated for President four
years hence he would not receive more
han one southern democratic vote
out of ten. The southern people, however,
he says, regard Gen. Harrison as a fair
minded man, aud abuut all they will ask of
him is that he will treat the 'south as well
as he does other sections of the country,
and that he will appoint the better classes of
republicans to office. He seem3 inclined to
think that anew and strong Republican
party could bo built up in the south. Con
cerning the Mills bill, he says he was told
in Texas that the democrats of that state
supported it, or tolerated it, because they
did not think it would become a law.
What Mr. Bowen says about the material
south is on the lips of every observant per
son who visits this section, or who knows
anything about it, but the facts that he has
made frequent visits here, and that he was
particularly impressed with the last year’s
progress, indicate that the growth of the
last ten years has placed the south in posi
tion to advance yet more rapidly, and that
she has made a fresh start. His impressions
of the political situation are probably in
correct in several instances, but they are
given in a sincere and pleasant manner,
and show that he feels an interest in the
southern people.
A Growing Evil.
The Dublic is alive to the evils of cigar
ette smoking. In Philadelphia, a short
while ago, there was much unfavorable
comment on the fact that the president of
the faculty of a boys’ high school in that
city, where 700 boys were being educated,
was an inveterate cigarette smoker. It wa>
very properly held that his example could
have no other than a bad effect. In New
York, seventy-five members of the cotton
exchange united the other day in condemn
ing the cigarette habit. In Nashville, some
time ago, a paper was read before a body
composed of the leading physicians of the
city, and its condemnation of the evil was
strongly indorsed.
The evils of cigarette smoking are not
over-estimated. They can hardly be when
it is remembered that young boys, upon
whom the future of the country depends,
are the greatest sufferers.
The injurious effects are felt upon the
body ami the mind, and frequently upon
the morals. Hardly a day passes that the
newspapers do not rec rd the loss of mind
or the death of some boy from excessive
indulgence in cigarettes.
There are several reasons why cigarette
smoking is more hurtful than smoking in
any other form. More smoke is inhaled,
and more nicotine is taken into the system;
the smoker of cigarettes is more likely to
become an abject slave to tobacco; opium
is frequently mixed with the tobacco, and
arsenic is often used iu the preparation of
the paper covering.
Mere children, who would hardly be
come addicted to the smokiug of cigars,
may bo seen, in this and other cities,
smokiug cigarettes. They don’t pa}
much attention to the quality of the to
bacco; in fact, generally they use the low
est grades.
Numerous calls are being made for legisla
tion against the cigarette evil. A bill was in
troduced iu congress some months ago,
lookiug to its suppression in the District of
Columbia, and the best physicians iu Wash
ington favored its passage.
One way to abate the evil is for parent*
to keep themselves better informed con
cerning their children, and to correct
their evil habits. Negligence on their
part is iiitle less than crime.
Mr. Wharton Barker is on the ragged edge
of expectancy. He wants to be appointed
Seci etary of the Treasury, and he wants
the office very much. If he doesn’t get it,
he will be a disappointed man. Says he:
“There is, of course, only one position in
the cabinet that I would accept—that of
Secretary of the Treasury. It is the only
one I am fitted for, and if I do not get it, I
shall have greater cause to be disappointed
in General Harrison than any other man
could have. I have known General Har
rison for a long time, and have for eight
years labored earnestly and persistently for
the result that was obtained at Chicago
last summer. Of course, if lam not recog
nized now, I know I never will be. If lam
not appointed Secretary of the Treasury, 1
am out of politics forever and completely.
Every one knows that I was one of the first
Harrison mou in this country; every one
knows what I did at Chicago, and no oue
knows these tilings better thau General
Harrison himself. He knows my standing
and everything about me; aud. well, after
all, there is only one thing to be j-aid—if 1
don’t get this, I shall have great reason to
be disappointed in General Harrison.”
Gen. Harrison will hardly put two Pennsyl
vanians in his cabinet, notwithstanding
that state gave him 70,000 or 80,000 major
ity. Either Mr. Barker or Mr. Watminaker
probably is doomed to disappointment.
Homebody is trying to bring about a
muddled slate of affairs with regard to the
law providing for executions by electricity
iu New York. The other day Judge Mar
tine sentenced Henry Carlton to be hanged
on Feb. 13 next, but Carlton’s counsel raised
the point that the new law abolinliod hang
ings from the date it was passed, and that
ns no criminal could bs executed by elec
tricity unless sentence was pos>d on him
after Jan. 1, Carlt >n could not be executed
by either method. The judge said the
question was too important for him to de
cide at that time, and suggested that the
court of appeals was the proper body t> de
cide it.
Chairman Quay is said to hare ignored
ex-President Hayes' presence on the tram
with bun the other day. Perba| Quay’s
eyesight wav a flee tad temporarily by a
headache.
CURRENT COMMENT.
First Catch Your Republican.
From the Chicago .Yeitw (Ind.)
Those people who want a southern republi
can to have a place iu the nexi cab net should
remember the famous receipt for cooking a
hare.
Westerners in the South.
From the New Orleans Picayune ( Dem .)
They are coming—they are here— more and
niorefvery year, and they make the best dem>
crats in the world. (They will continue to come,
if for no other reason lnan tint investmentin
the south go further and yield better returns
than in the north, the cast or the west.
Did That Settle It?
F\‘om the St. Louis R public (Dem.)
The character of the Harris >n administration
is fixed. Tbe grandfatner who weakly allows
hi* grandson to run the risk of injuring himself
with a tack, because the grandson cries when it
is taken away from him, will never be able to
resist the demand of the rascals to be put back
into ofllce.
Bad for Harrison.
From the New York World (Dem.)
Tbe worst thing that has been said of Gen.
Harrison since tbe election is Senator Quay's
remark: ‘I can get along with him all right."
The soil of a President that Matt Quay can "get
along with all right" is hardly one to invite the
confidence of the people.
BRIGHT BITS.
“I wish," said Rev. Mr. G.’s little 4-year-old,
"that w hen I’m naughty you wouldn't always
talk to me in your heavenly father voice
Exchange.
At the Door—ls Col. Gilderoy in?
Butler—Yes, sah.
Stranger—Just my blamed luck. I heard h§
had gone off on a’ four weeks' visit. I only
called to say I couldn’t pay that SSO until week
after next.— St. Paul Pioneer Press.
He (trying to play a trump card)-As I
passed your house last evening 1 thought I
heard an angel sing.
She tstilfly>—l wa< at the theater last evening
Mrs. Mulhooly and her twins were at our house
visiting the cook.— New York Weekly.
Good Minister—Tne fervor with which you
joined in the hymn "I want to be an angel" de
lighted ine.
Little Dick—Yes sir, the teacher told me there
wasn't any preachin' an’ prayin' an' catechism
lessons in heaven .—Philadelphia Record.
Miss May—Did you see Shakspeare’s tomb in
England?
-Smith-Yes, and Ignatius Donnelly’s, too.
Miss May—Are they turied together?
Smith— No. Shakspeare is buried at Avon
and Ignatius is buried iu several book stores.—
Time.
Mistress—What on earth are you going to do
with that scuttleful of dirt, Mary?
Mary -Dust the pianner
Mistress—Dust the piano?
Mary—Yis. Didn't ye tell me to dust it ’m?
An' it’s takin ivery bit o' dust I can foind.—
Buffalo Courier.
First Young Lady (at Broad street station)—
These young men are so rude. I’ve a great
mind to complain of them.
Second Young Lady- We might go into that
big waiting room and sit down.
"Oh. it’s so stupid in there. It's reserved ex
clusively for ladies.—Philadelphia Record.
They are talking of names.
"I hate the name of Smith; don't you, Miss
Ethel?"
"Indeed, I do, Mr. Wallstreet. If it were
mine I'd change it."
"What to?"
"Well. I don’t know. Wallstreet, perhaps, if
I got the chance.'' < this very demurely).
And then Mr. Wallstreet, remembering it was
leap year, blushed and told Miss Ethel she
would have to ask his mother.— Harper's Baza..
All Kisks Avoided.— Mrs. De Paris ( in Pans
—Oh, my husband. I fear to have you leave me.
Must you really travel on one of those dreadful
railway trains? Think of the accidents that
have occurred.
Mr. l)e Paris (a noted French journalist)—
Fear not, my beautiful. The plan has been
changed. We areuot to travel by rail.
"Thank heaven?*
"No; my foe and I have concluded to journey
to the dueling ground by carriage.—Philadel
phia Record.
She Forc.ot Nothing—Mrs. Anglomaniac (to
Sutler) Matthew, his grace, the Duke of
Tweedledum, dines and sleeps here to-ni :ht. I
want everything in the most correct English
wav.
Matthew—Ho, yes, hindeed, mum
Mrs. Anglomaniac—Serve tea in the drawing
room at 5 and dinner at 8:30 o'clock. Have no
napkins at breakfast to-morrow, and serve cold
game plates from the sideboard.
Matthew—Ho, yes hindeed. mum.
Mrs. Anglomaniac—And, Matthew, see that
the weather is foggy. I want his grace to feel
entirely at home.
Matthew- -Ho, yes, hindeed, mum.— New York
Sun.
PERSONAL*
A correspondent writing from New York
says that Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt frequently
prepares the dessert for her family.
One of St. Paul's wealthiest citizens is Will
iam Dawson, who has a fortune of $8,000,000.
He reached St. Paul in 1861 with $2,000 in his
pocket. His wealth has been acquired in real
estate
Ida Newman, well known in society in Provi
dence. R. 1., and an energetic worker in char
itable circles, has been expelled from tlie City
Missionary Society because she married a mem
ber of her Sunday-school class. Wee Hung is
the man’s ua-oe, and Mr. and Mrs. Hung
are now housekeeping in the rear of a
laundry.
Mr. Lie, who is now in charge of the Corean
Legation at Washington, nas ad iptel Euro
pean attire, but his efforts to dress in style are
actually painful. His waistcoats are Oriental
in their brilliancy, while his trousers are almost
as wide as the skirts which i>ertained to his
Corean costume.
Mas. Belknap and her daughter are now with
Gen. Belknap at Washington, where he has re
mained. absorbed in ids profession, all tn*
years, aud has led a rather solitary life. His
rapidly whitening hair has softened the outlines
of his florid, military looking face, and the
mental discipline to wiich it bore silent witness
has |H*rhaps softened into pity the stern judg
ment of many old friends.
Munemitsp Mrrou, Japanese minister to the
United States, is becoming a fluent conversa
tionalist in English. He spends much time iu
the studv of our congressional system, as he is
looking for features to be adopted by his home
government. He has been very much shocked
at Senator Riddleberger and cannot eompre
hend how our Senate can stand the i resence of
the Virginian. “In Japan,” says Mutsu,
tor Riddiehergee would be compelee to go out
and cut his stomach into twoee.”
The oldest student at Princeton Theological
Seminary is Henry Cuaprnan, who is 72 years
of age, aud by no means well-preserved. About
fifty years ago he was graduated from Lafa
yette college He had al ays wanted to go into
the ministry, but |K)verty obliged him to enter
commercial pursuits. About nve years ago bis
brother died, and Mr. Cuup nau came into pos
session of an income sufficient to maintain him
m comfort for the remainder of his life The
longing of his youth returned and he is now
studying theology with enthusiasm.
Edward Atkinson, the eminent statistician
and authority on affairs temporal, recently ud
dressed the Unitarian clergy of the Norfolk
i Mass. * couferenc *. He defended the busmens
men of the period, denied that “in all trade
each man is trying to get a mad vantage over his
customer, that in all manufacturing each man
is trying to make tlie poorest substance that
will pass the test of the market, that each man
will cheat his neighbor, adulterate his goods,
put on false marks and mislead the iguoratu
and poor, provided he doesn't get found out.”
He declared •‘that fraud, peculation and dis
honesty in trade are conspicuous because they
are not common.”
Mu. Jarvis says he does not intend to return
to Brazil, to which empire be is accredited as
minister He s|>eakH in terms of high praise of
tlie Brazilians! “who favor,” he says,” •‘every
thing that will hriug them into closer relations
with thm country, Tim government has not
yet taken official action in regard to the pro-
IHised Three Amen.-am' Exposition at Washing
ton, but the project Is regarded with the great
est favor, as is everything else that will tend to
bind the American nations closer together. The
emperor is a man of met attainments, and hit
enlightened policy has dune much to advance
the country. The regent, Princess Isabella, is a
really remarkable woman, of great force of
character, but at the same time very modest
a.id unassuming ”
Father Larkin, who lias jus* leen made a
chapluiu in the army, obtained his continuation
from the 8 nau* through pure grit He had
been bluffed off by the Senate military commit
t e until bis paiieu<-e was exhausted. Last
Thursday be entered the committee room and
colling the clerk aside said, m a tone of voice
winch cnjUl be heard in all parts of tie- room :
Ist ok here, young man. I want mv nomination
confirmed I want my cave settled so that i
can draw iny money \ have no money, aod
tHe hotel people -ay that if i don't pay mv b 11
111 have to go. Tell the committee iuy predka
ment," An hour laLer tlsibeaatehad approved
of his apiM id ment Ills iwm was the only
ooa acted on in a large hatch of KxauiuaUou* j
before the committee. J
BTEEN 8 FY 8.
An Anxious Maiden's Twilight Reverie
on the Last Chance of Leap Year.
From the Boston Bu Iget.
I draw my chair beside the grß
And dreamily I meditH
Upon my present single stß>;
I wonder if relentless F8
Ordains for me a loving mB—
dreams have haunted me of late.
This year, which 1 would celebrS,
Is leap year, but its precious frß
Of lawful days to fascinU.
Decreases at a rapid rB,
Oh. happy youths, who need not w 8
And try to be a tempting b 8
To catch the fish that pass your gB,
You need not condescend to prß
Thit you would not reciprocS
Should loving hopes our hearts inflS,
And cause us to appreciß
One fitful privilege of dS.
We really do not con tempi 8
Confe*sing what ’tis woman's trß
To keep nor ever desecrS ;
For this no man could compensß ;
But do not joke and aggravs
Our feelings in this tender strß.
If you our chance would extirpß,
Just speak the opposite of h 8
And you've six chances out of 8.
Keeping Ahead of the Burglars.
From the Neto York Sun.
An officer of one of the great safe making
concerns talked very frankly about his business
the other day. Said he: "We do not make a
safe that we would guarantee against burglars
They are as smart as we an*. Safe making is
like the science of warfare. Each new improve
ment is met by something that beats it, aud so
another step in advance has to be taken. We
have to try to keep ahead of the burglars. We
have got so far as to make safes of solid metal
ami tremendous weight that we will insure
against drills and all other tools for forty-eight
hours in an open lot, but we cannot insure them
against tremendous explosives. Good burglars
carry few tools now. They take lugh explosives
in compact form and little arrange
ments for blowing or putting the explosives in
the cracks of the safes. They used to use
powder, but it is not powerful enough for blow
ing loose solid doors that weigh many tous. We
first got ahead of them by putting India rubber
in the places where the doors fit into the frames,
but they beat that now by pouring in an ac and
that eats the rubber out. They put in small
wedges increasing in size till th*y make an
opening, then putty up all the rest of the crack,
put in their explosive and attach a fuse.
“Wo do beat their drills, though. We make
the safes of combined layers of hard and soft
metals. The drills that work through hard
metal will not work in softer metal, and. as they
cannot tell which is which, or where each metal
is, they are defied. The best of our devices,
though, is the use of little steel balls in the
walls of burglar proof vaults. When the drills
strike them they get no hold, ami even if a hall
should be held and broken through another
would fall iu its place."
Whiskey in Congress Twenty-Five
Years Ago.
From the Nexo York Times .
The incident related In a recent letter about
the whiskey drinking practices prevailing about
the House of Representatives twenty or twenty
five years ago baa suggested to some veterans
further illustrations of the convivial habits of
legislators at ft little earlier time. Before the
tlouse of Representatives was changed from
the old hall, that is now devoted to tne recep
tion and exhibition of statues of specimen
statesmen. of the House had an offle *
in what is now tbe document room. In an ad
joining apartment the clerk kept a barrel of
whiskey always on taD and not very closely
gua*ded. It was usually put in at the beginning
of a session, drawn off in a smaller vessel to be
conveniently used on tbe clerk's table, and
everybody who was so disposed was free to use
the liquor. It did not cost much for it wa~
not taxed and it could be bought at
30 or 40 cents a gallon. The free use of it some
times made even the clerk of the House frisky.
There was one clerk, who was famous for his
size,|as weil as his originality and bis thirst,who
after clicking glasses with friends on the morn
ing of the last day of the session, went to the
door of the Senate with a House bill that it was
necessary should be }>assed. ‘The Senate is in
•xecutive session," he was informed, and
could not admit him. He returned to his room
By and by he was interrupted, as he was about
pouring a dram of whisky from a pitcher, by a
messenger from the Senate making anxious in
quiry for the bill. Drawing himself up as higi:
is circumstances would permit, and tossing off
his whisky, he answered: “You go back to the
Senate and say to the honorable body tqat I am
in executive session and cannot be interrupted."
“Uncouraged.''
From the Arkansaw Traveler.
An old negro with his wife, eighteen dogs,
and a wagon load of children, was met in the
road by a white man.
“Hullo, old man, which way*”
“lookin’ fur er gotflfttace tpr settle, sah.”
“Where have you bren living ?”
“Down vere in Florida, but de time* dun got
too hard down dar now.”
“Why. 1 should tr>ink that the times were im
proving, as the yellow fever is about over.”
“Data je* de reason, sah, de times got hard
Long ez de fever wuz <lar an.' to*ks sont in hams
an' bread an' sich. time*. jvpftjgood an' it wuz
wuth whihi ter live dar, fyqL now - dat de fever is
over au' er pussom haster naStfe, w y it ain't
no place fur er po' man.”
•Where do you expect to go?”
“Wall, sah, I’s lookin’ out fur er place whar
de high water ser ragin', but I's mighty feerd
1 kain't find it dis time o' year.”
“How will high water help you?”
The negro gave the white man a look of pity
ing contempt. “Look yere man. wharf o’ you
ax sich foolish questions? Doan vou know da'
when de high water rages de guberment send*
vision and meat to de folks? I clar ter good
ness I goes erround dis country er good deal
an’ sees mo* ignunce 'miing de white folks ever
year. It do 'pear ter me like it wuz time du
wuz rantin' suthiu, but dad >an. Da jes keep
on in dar own narrer an’ ignunt way. Is
mighty encouraged wid 'em.”
Gross Wastefulness at Panama.
“ Gossip ” in Sew York Tribune.
De liesseps would have been a marvel if he
had persuaded the people of the government of
France to see hirn through with the P.nama
canal. A contractorbut recently returned iron,
the Isthmus says that more money has been
sunk in the ditch than is required to com
plete it.
1 inquired how this money had been wasted.
“Well, he replied. “I'll give you an instance
The best make of American locomotives. Bald
win's, I think, are used for hauling away the
earth as it is excavated. They pull the cars
from the cuts out on to the dumps, where the
unloading is done Tlie tracks are down grade,
and if a train gets loose, nine tiroes in a doze a
it goes over the dump. 1 counted no less than
twenty brand new Baldwin engines lying at tin
base of these dumps, if was impossible to get
thorn bacK on the rails without taking them to
piec- sor lifting them up with derricks. There
were ho derricks big enough to handle them,
ami taking them apart was too much trouble,
or the men didn't know how to go about it;
consequently they were left where they fell, to
be covered up by the waste earth. These
twenty locomotives must have cost, delivered
at the Isthmus. SB,OOO apiece. Ko here's one
item of SIOO,OOO literally buried out of sight
and nothing to show for it.”
1900 Not to be a Leap Year.
fVom the London Standard.
The following explanation is given why the
year 1000 will not b* counted among the l**np
years. The year is 86*> days 5 hours and Ik
minutes long. 11 minutes are taken every year
to make the year days long, and every
fourth year we have an extra day Thin was
Julius Caesar's arrangement. Where do these
eleven minutes come from? Theycome from the
future, and are paid by omitting leap year every
100 years. But If lean year is omitted regularly
every 100th yesr. in tne course of 100 yean il i
foiind that the eleven minutes taken each year
will not only have been paid back, but that a
whole day will have lieen given up. Ho Pope
Gregor y XIII, who im pro veil on Oesar's calen
dar 7u 1562, decreed that every centuriai year
divisible by four should lie a leap year after all.
So we borrow eleven minutes each year more
than paying <ur borrowings back by omitting
three leap years in three cent unal y<*ar, and
square matters by having a leap year in the
fourth ce .turial >ea . Pope Gregory's arrange
ment is so exact, and the borrowing and payTng
back balance so closely, that we borrow more
than we pay liack to extent of only one day in
3,800 years.
Two Peculiarities of America's Richest
Man.
From the Epoch.
It is said that when Jay Gouid is going up or
down the stairs of the “L” road he always put-,
his left foot on the step find, even if he has to
get out of step to do it. If. by accident, or
through t houghlkesrieiM, he happens to stari
with the right foot, he is certain to remark It
before r aching tlie top of the steps, and. if be
does, will return and atari over again. Another
rejiortod iiaciiliarity of Mr. Gouid I* his aulipa
tby to fair haired toen There Is not a single
blonde clerk in his Immediate employ, and It Is
■aid that he dislikes Pi do busmen* with men
who have fair hair
As l lays 9.OOOjOQU eggs How insignificant
thy work, •> hen' <*o lo the eel. thou cackle**,
courtier tmr ways and glut the marhei -limy
tuimloh hej/uOItCAAH.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
A doughnut received by Josiah Tillotson of
I Vermont in his Christmas stocking sixty-four
j years ago, is now on exhibition in Beunington.
j There are 2,800 members of the Michigan
Anti-Horse Thief Society, and during the past
yea* they have not had a cent's worth of prop
erty stolen.
A New Hampshire woman has set out to count
the kernels of corn on 50,000 full-sized col, and
at l;ist reports she had got through with 3,000
cobs and was not discouraged.
A fox being chased by a party of hunters ran
through the farm of John Patterson of West
Goshen, Pa., a few days ago, and as be ran he
seized a chicken. With tbe bird in his mouth
be disappeared over a hill before the dogs came
along.
An interesting experiment, consisting of
the loading of books to passengers at a small
fee, is to be tried on Austrian and Hungarian
railways next spring. A deposit covering the
cost of the work will be exacted from each
reader.
Almost a panic was caused in a Washington
theatre on Monday night by the high wind
tearing off a portion of the roof. Cool heads
restored quiet, and after a tarpaulin had been
stretched over the gap, the performance pro
ceeded.
A St. Louis sportsmam recently procured in
Oregon a trophy that is one of the greatest
curiosities of its kind in the world. It consists
of a large aud perfect pair of caribou antlers,
which are entirely covered with a flue, close
growth of hair.
Last year there were 5,315 divorces granted
in France. The demands were largely made
by the wives, and those who had been married
from five to ten years were the most numerous
in seeking release from matrimonial bonds,
there were two divorces granted in the cases
of couples who had celebrated their golden wed
dings.
A Black Loon was shot in Washoe Lake,
Cal., recently. Such a bird .had never been
seen there before, and it is supposed to have
been driven out of its course by a storm while
migrating s >uth from the Arctic regions. The
bird measurdfl 8 feet 6 inches from tip to tip of
its expanded wings, and (5 feet 3 inches from the
point of its bill to the end of its tail. The bill
was nearly a foot in length.
A Ludlow (Mass.) housewife who dreamed
that she put a tramp to flight with her son’s
shotgun, the next morning resolved to see if
she could manage the weapon in case she
needed it. Accordingly, she raised the gun and
began fingering the trigger, when off went a
heavy charge of shot, tearing a panel out of the
door, riddling the jacket of the parlor stove and
destroying two portraits on the wall.
A "Famous Madstone" is owned by a Chi
cagoan. He declares it is more than a century
old. It has been in his possession eighteen
years, and he says that during that time it has
been successfully applied to innumerable dog
and other bites. He used it upon himself some
years ago after having been bitten by a rattle
snake. be relates. The wound, though painful,
healed up and he was not bothered afterward
by it.
After the execution of his brother Maximil
ian, the Emperor of Austria, according to the
London Globe, was extremely loth to sign a
death warrant. "For ten years he never did
sign one, but even his clemency could not hold
out against the terrible crimes which were per
petrate, and he had to revert to the ordinary
practices. Persons who believe that the aboli
tion of capital punishment would diminish
crime will please note."
A British Columbia paper says: "This is the
veritable land of the giants of the forest, and
one of the first things that strikes strangers is
the enormous size of the trees. But in spite of
their exclamations of wonder, very few of them
really comprehend how large the trees really
are. A stick of timber was cut the other day at
the Hastings mill which was 106 feet long and 24
iuches square. There were sawed out of the log
12,000 feet of cedar lumber, weighing 30 tons."
For generations a certain Jaiiauese family
had a box into which they put percentages.
•Said one of them: "If I want to buy a garment
that costs sl. I buy it for 80 cents; or give a
feast that would cost $5. I give it for $4: or to
build a house for SIOO, 1 build it for SBO, and put
the balance in the box. At the end of the year
we meet, open the bores and give the contents
to the poor. It costs us some self-denial, but
we are always prosperous and happy." They
call this worshiping "The Great Bright God of
Self-Restraint."
There is a horse in the town of Sprague,
Conn., belonging to Allen Williams that has to
be put to bed to be shod. As blacksmiths do
not have beds in their shops for the accommo
dation ot such eccentric animals, Mr. Williams
has to carry a mattreas and pillows to the shop
where his horse is sbo 1. The horse does not like
to go to bed, and as il takes good management
to throw hirn down on to the mattress, and get
him into a mood and a position to have the
shoes put on his hoofs, few blacksmiths like
undertake the job. The horse is thrown down
and held on the mattress by straps across the
body, ami his owner insists ou having the horse's
head bolstered up in a comfortable position
with two pillows while the work is being done.
“I was talking with an American author
who had recently returned from Eng'and,” says
a writer in the Critic. “ ‘Do you Know,’ he asked,
•what strikes me with more force every time I
revisit London? It is the American invasion of
England. As the years go by there are more
and more American plays in English theaters,
American books iu English shops, and American
magazines on English newsstands. Harper'* has
a circulation in England of over 30.000 copies a
month, far more than that of any English
•najrazine selling at the same price. I
believe that it is only a of time when
dl the ieiding .unericau publishers will
have branches in London. The Lio
pioco ts and the Appletons have agencies now;
the Putnams have a store where they sell not
only their own books but those of Houghton,
Mifflin &Cos . whose English acents they are.
The Harpers Mr. Osgood ii London, and
sooner or later they will se • that it is to thir
interest to enter the English market boldly,
publishing their own magazines themselves
and their own books, too. and bidding against
the English publishers for the liest books of the
loading English authors."
A strange occurrence, near Reading. Eng
land, last month is thus described in the Ijon
don Times by two spectators : “At a time as
near 8 o'clock as possible the tens of thousands
■>f sheep f lded in the large sheep-hreeding dis
tricts north, east and west of Reading were
taken with a sudden fright, jumping their hur
dles. escaping from the fletty, and running
hither and thither; in fact, there must for some
rime have been a perfect stampede. Early on
Sunday morning the shepherds found the ani
mals under hedges and in the roads, panting
and frightened as if they had beeD panic
stricken. The extent of this remark
able occurrence may lie judged when
we mention that every large' farmer from
Wallingford on the one hand to Twyford on
• m the other seems to have had his sheep thus
frightened, and it is also noteworthy that, with
only two or three exceptions, the hill country
north of the Thames seems to have been < rin
cinally affected. We have not beard, nor can
any of the farmers give any reasonable explana
tion of what we have d-ecrihed. The night was
intensely dark, with occasional flashes of light
ning, but we do not think either circumstance
would account for ‘uch an effect being produced
over such a large area. We would suggest the
probability of a slight earthquake being the
cause.”
Harold P. Brown, an electrical engineer of
New Y’ork, writes to the Tribune concerning the
relative danger of alternating and c onlinuous
electrical currents. The letter is in reference to
a communication in which Mr Westinghouse
attacks the results of experiments conducted
by Mr. Brown. The latter says: “Mr. W sting
house asserts that the alternating is less danger
ous thin the continuous current, but has failed
to prove it. I, on the contrary, have claimed
that the alternating in tar more dangerous than
the continuous current, and have publicly
proved iuv claims by numerous practical
demonstrations, during two of which (in Colum
bia college) the alternating current people were
invited aud urged to test the correctness of my
experiment*. measurements, etc., with their
own instruments, which they failed to do. lain
prepared, further,to prove iny theory In practice
by records of a large number of de lilts already
cauoi* I by the alternating current, and to
prove by affidavits ami otherwise that this same
current has already In numerous instances crip
pled, paralysed, or otherwise injured for life a
number of men. several of whom are now
Slotted by the alternating current interests
Notwithstanding all tins, for reasons of a merely
eclllsh commercial nature, Mr. Westinghouse
advertises tie* death dealing alternative cur
rent os leas dangerous to life and limb than the
continuous current. I therefore challenge Mr
tVe*tirigu<M!se to meet me in the presence of
coiitiwuml ele ti leal experts and take through
bis body tlie alternating current while I fak
through mine a continuous current The alt-r
--uatiug current must have not less than 80U al
teraitona per second (as recoinmeud'-d by the
I**gsl K's-iety. We wilt begin with 10G
volte, and will gradually Increaw the preseure
M volta at a time. I lea flag with ec lncrease,
until either one or the o'her has cried enough,
tad pubbidy admits his error.”
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