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4 Cjjclllenunglfctos Morninpr News Building, Savannah, Ga. MONDAY. DECEMBE* 84. 1888. Jteeittrred at the Past Office in Savannah. in the rear, and .sserved to aubsoribers in the city at 2B cents a week, $1 00 a month, JO 00 for six months and SlO 00 for one year The Morning News, try mail , one month, J 1 00; three months, $2 50; six months, #5 00; one year, $lO 00. The Morning News, by mail, ix time* a week (without Sunday iasue). three months, 1! 00; six months, $4 00; one year, ft) 00. The Morning News. Tri weekly, Mondays, ■Wednesda'-s ami Fridays, or Tuesdays. Thurs days and Saturdays, three months, $1 -S>; Bix months, $2 60; one year SI OO. The Sunday News. by mail, one year, $2 00. The Weekly News, by mail, one year, $1 26. Subscriptions payable in ad ranee Remit by rostal order, check or registered letter. Cur rency sent by mail at risk of senders. letters and telegrams should be addressed ‘'Morning News," Sarannah. Ga. Adrert'slmr rates made known on application. The Morning News is on file at the following places, where Advertising Kates and other in formation regarding the paper can be obtained: NEW YORK CITY— J. H. Bates, 38 Park Row. G. P. Rowell & Cos., 10 Spruoe street. W. W. Sharp A Cos., 21 Park Row. Frank Kiernak & Cos., 162 Broadway. Dauchy A Cos., 27 Park Place. .1. W. Thompson, 89 Park Row. John F. Phillips A Cos.. 29 Park Row. American Newspaper Publishers’Association, 104 Temple Court. PHILADELPHIA— N. W. Aver A Son, Times Building. BOSTON— B. R. Niles, *66 Washington street. Pettenoh.i. .* Cos., 10 State street. CHICAGO— Lord A Thomar, 45 Randolph street. CINCINNATI Edwin alden Company, £0 West Fourth street NEW HAVEN The H. P. Hubbard Company, 25 Elm street. ST. LOUIS — Nelson Chesman & Cos., 1127 Pine street. atlanta- Mornino News Bureau, 3% Whitehall street. MACON— Daily Telegraph Optics, 597 Mulberry street. Jacksonville morning News Bureau, Room 1 Ely Block. INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENT! Meetings —DeKalb Lodge No. 9,1. O. O. F. Special Notices— Choice Fresh Killed Tur keys, L. Putzel; Notice, W. H. Connerat. Christmas Day at Tybee Island—Two Trains on Tybee Road. Legal Notice—Application for Incorporation of the Savannah Electric Company. Steamship Schedules Ocean Steamship Company; General Transatlantic Company. Auction Salks— Plush, Bronze and Brass Goods, Furniture, etc., by' C. 11. Dorsett. Lottery Drawing— Louisiana State. Railroad Schedule— East Tennessee, Vir ginia and Georgia Railroad. Champagne— Due de Montebello Extra Dry, P. H. Ward, Agent. Chap Column Advertisements— Help Want ed; Employment Wanted; For Kent; For Sale; 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.” BAKING POWDER. PU R E _ tiir g pBPRICEIs CREAM {AKINg •‘OWDEfi Its superior excellence proven In millions of homes for more than a quarter of a century It is used by tbe United States Government. In dorsed by the heads of the Great Universities as the Strongest, Purest and most Healthful. Dr Price's Cream Baking Powder does not contain Ammonia, Lime or Alum. Sold only in Cans. PRICE BAKING POWDER CO., NEW YORK. CHICAGO. ST. LOUIS. DRY G °OT>9. 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