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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 27. 1888.
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Special Notices—Registration Notice: As to
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“The new south”—what is the new south?
Isn’t it the same old south, rendered capable
of accomplishing something since she was
allowed to manage her own affairs?
Col. Fred. Grant was in Washington the
other day and called to see president Cleve
land, whom he is said to hold in high esteem.
This is a point in the colonel’s favor.
Gov. Hill, of New York, has selected as a
member of his military staff a son of the
late Gen. McClellan. The young man is
doing newspaper work in New York. The
appointment is quite an appropriate one.
The late republican candidate for con
gress from the Fifth Maryland district —
bis name is Mudd—will contest the election
of the democratic candidate, who had only
two majority. Mr. Mudd thinks such a
slim majority ought to be easily wiped out
by a House bent on securing additional re
publican members.
Lawyer Luther R. Marsh has reappeared
in defense of Mrs. Diss Debar. He pleaded
the other day for the restoration of her
children to her, and took occasion to re
affirm bis faith in her power over the
spooks. Her power over the spooks, how
ever, is not as great as that over Mr. Marsh.
Probably the old man will have to be
rescued again from her clutches.
Dr. Carver, the well-known riflemaD, is
again astonishing people with his skill. He
lim undertaken to break 6,000 balls in six
days at Minneapolis, and the record tbe
first day or two indicates that he Swill suc
ceed. On tbe first day he broke 325 in suc
cession—a feat which he has not accom
plished before. If he breaks tbe 6,000 in
the time stipulated, he will receive $2,500.
One of Senator Sherman’s friends says
that the senator would like very much to
(dose his political career, and that he would
be greatly pleased to close it with four
years as Secretary of State. Very likely
than he would want to close it again with
four years as President, and, if his ambition
were gratified, he would reach out after a
second presidential term. Sherman’s polit
ical ambition can’t be satiated.
Mayor Hewitt received a Christmas pres
ent of a picture of the log cabin in which he
was born. On the picture was written;
“No spot too humble to be the birth
place of a great man.” The log
cabin is still standing, but it has
not been occupied for a number of years.
Mayor Hewitt says it is one of the few log
houses remaining in that part of the
country.
Ex-Senator Henry 8. Davis, of West Vir
ginia, is reported as having referred to the
republicans in the first person plural while
talking with ex-Senator McDonald and
other democrats the other day. He is rep
resented, also, as saying that tbe West Vir
ginia legislature was republican, and that
“we” meaning the republicans had
elected Gen. Goff governor. It is useless to
deny that there ore indications of Mr.
Davis’ flop to the republicans, or that the
democrats would be weakened to some ex
tent by his withdrawal from their ranks.
The national encampment of the Grand
Army of the Republic will bo held at Mil
waukee next summer, and a number of the
people of that city will ask tbe legislature
to allow a direct city tax to be levied for
the purpose of raising the amount required
for the sntertainmeut expenses. The propo
sition has tbe approval of a majority of the
heaviest property owners in the city, but
v *ry naturally a large class of citizens, who
do not fsel tlimt they an. able to contribute
to the cause, are opposed to it, and the
' hanoes are that it will fail. Avery strong
objection to It Is that If it should be adopted,
*k* of needless litigation would follow,
w hieh, tu tho etui, would mist the city almost
** much as is,required for the ex penes < f
volet-taming the Grand Army. Reiter
k <b w out the old subset i ytklll list.
The Mississippi River Disasters.
Two terrible disasters have occurred on
the Mississippi river within the last few
days. Two fine steam boats have been de
stroyed, and a great deal of property and
many lives have been lost. On Sunday the
Kate Adams, a splendid passenger steam
boat, having an immense cargo of cotton,
and carrying a hundred or more passen
gers, was burned to the water’s edge near
Commerce, Miss. She was run ashore as
soon as the fire was discovered, but so swift
were the flames that she was enveloped by
them before her passengers and crew could
be landed. Some of her passengers and
crew were burned to death; others were
drowned, and tboie who reached the shore
were in a pitiable condition. Many of them
were without sufficient clothing, and nearly
all of them were either scorched by the
flames or benumbed by the ice cold water.
On Monday night the steamer John H.
Hanna was burned noar Plaquemine, La.
There were about 100 persons on board of
her whon the Are occurred, and nearly a
score of lives were lost. As in the case of
the Kate Adams, she was run ashore, but
the steep banks prevented her from making
a landing. The scenes on both boats were
terrible. Imprisoned between hundreds of
bales of burning cotton, the fire making
rapid progress iu the inflammable material,
the terror stricken people hardly knew
which way to run or what course to pursue
to save their lives. Some lost control of
themselves and acted like madmen, and
others, thinking there was no way of es
cape, calmly prepared to meet death.
No tongue can tell and no pen describe
the scenes which follow the panic caused by
the announcement of fire upon a cotton
laden Mississippi river steamboat in mid
stream. Everybody on board "knows that
in a few minutes the entire boat will be in
flames, so fast doas tbe lire run through th i
cotton. There nre on such occasions always
acts of heroism and instances of rare cour
age, but, as a rule, few have any other
thought than to save themselves. There is
barely time for fathers and mothers to think
of their children. It is an occasion when
there is seldom an opportunity to thiuk of
rendering friendly services.
All who travel upon the cotton-laden
Mississippi steamers know how dangerous
they are. Hundreds of them have been
burned. There is scarcely a season that
some of them are not destroyed; and yet
people continue to travel in them as freely
as ever. The innumerable disasters that
have occurred upon the great river has net
taught them caution.
The Mississippi river boats are built so
that they burn rapidly when they take fire.
Indeed, it is about impossible to stop a fire
on them that gets a fair start. But whon
they are so loaded with cotton, as they fre
quently are, that from the snore nothing
can be seen of them except their smoke
stacks, they are virtually huge tinder
boxes.
Why these river steamboats are not re
quired to keep the cotton which they carry
covered with tarpaulin, or asbestos cloth,
in order to protect it against chance sparks
from the smoke stacks, or carelessly handled
lanterns, cigars, or cigarettes, is something
that has never been explained. Perhaps
the two terrible disasters or this week will
lead to a reform in this matter, and that
before long efforts will be made to render
travel on cotton laden Mississippi steam
boats less hazardous.
Blaine Waiting for a Call
Extraordinary efforts are being made by
Mr. Blaine’s friends to induce Gen. Harri
son to offer him the Secretaryship of State.
There is no longer any doubt that he wants
the position. If he did not he would have
said so long ago and saved his friends the
the trouble they are taking to serve him.
Senator Sawyer went to Indianapolis the
other day in Blaine’s interest. He was ac
companied by ex-Senator Davis of West
Virginia. These gentlemen say that they
are satisfied that Mr. Blaine will get the
place he They were unable, how
ever, to get Gen. Harrison to commit him
self in Mr. Blaine’s favor.
It ;is probable that Mr. Blaine will get
what he is so earnestly seeking through his
friends. It looks, however, as if Gen. Har
rison does not want him in his cabinet, but
he may not deem it wise for party reasons
to resist the influences exerted in Mr.
Blaine’s behalf. Allthongh having many
bitter enemies, Mr. Blaine’s admirers are
numerous and influential, and they will ex
ert themselves to the utmost to serve him.
Gen. Harrison knows, of course, that if
admitted into the cabinet Mr. Blaine would
cause him a great deal of annoyance. He
would, therefore, like to avoid any closer
relations with him than at present exits.
At the head of the state department Mr.
Blaine would endeavor to run the adminis
tration to suit his own views, and to reward
his friends by finding positions for them in
the government’s service.
Gen. Harrison is not the man to submit
to directions from any one of his cabinet,
and, therefore, it would not be long proba
bly before be and Blaine would quarrel, and
he would have to reorganize his cabinet.
That would be unpleasant for him. The
reason, doubtless, that he hesitates to de
cide in'Mr. Blaine’s favor is that he sees
trouble ahead with Mr. Blaine as the load
ing figure in his administration.
There is no doubt that Senator Sherman
would make a much better cabinet officer
than Mr. Blaine. He is a much taler man,
and, besides, for solid attainments hs is Mr.
Blaino’s superior. If G*n. Harrison is per
mitted to follow his own judgement the
chances are that Mr. Blaine will not be one
of his trusted advisers.
The Indianapolis newspaper which is sup
posed to lie Gen. Harrison's organ, aud
which is edited by Gen. Harrison’s private
secretary, has announced that Col. Dudley
will not be indicted, aud that a wrong in
terpretation has been placed on the notori
ous Dudley letter. It is not easy to under
stand wbat interpretation could be placed
on tbe letter other than that it was one of
instruction to buy voters, but it it very easy
to understand why Gen. Harrison’s home
organ has come to Dudley's defense. The
public lias become convinced that he is
guilty. #
Senator Sawyer, of Wisconsin, who vis
ited Gen. Harrison tbe other day, very
frankly admits that he told the general that
Mr. Blaine was the choice of two-thirils of
the republicans for Secretary of State, and
that they would feel slighted if he should
not be a|ipolnled. That was a mild sort of
way of saying that a failure to appoint Mr.
Blame would cause a rumpus iu Lba Repub
lican party.
Quit* a number of esteemed republican
organs are calling on I ’resident Cleveland lo
I semi a iiset In Htusa. Are these netaeii md
urgfciui **ur# tbai w<jul4 not rank* a
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THE MORNING NEWS: THURSDAY. DECEMBER 27, 1888.
The Samoan Question.
In our Washington dispatches the other
day the statement was made that Senators
Sherman, Dolph and Morgan, who have
been appointed a committee to investigate
the Samoan question, would hold a meeting
for that purpose this week. Instructions
have been sent to the acting American con
sul general at Samoa to maintain a neutral,
but friendly, attitude. Our consul general
is at present at hts home in Maine on a visit.
He will start for Samoa iu a week or two,
and will carry with him from the Secretary
of State directions for his guidance on his
arrival there.
The little war which is being carried on
by the rival chiefs in Samoa threatens to be
extremely injurious to the Samoans.
Mataafa is the king chosen by tbe people,
and Tamasese is the king set up by the Ger
mans. Mataafa was chosen to suc
ceed the king carried off by the
Germans over a year ago. He has about
4,000 warriors, and Tamasese has about
1,700. The latter, however, has had tbe
benefit of the counsel of the German officers
at Apia, and also has received arms and
ammunition from them. Two battles and
a number of skirmishes have taken place
between the rival kings since Nov. 6, so far
as heard from. The lateßt news received is
that a battle occurred on Nov. 28, and that
each side had about fifty killed. In all the
fighting since Nov. 6 about 120 have been
killed and 150 wounded. The advantage
thus far has been with Mataafa. He has
beeu able to confine Tamasese to a very
uarrow area and render it impossible for
him to play tho part of king to any consid
erable extent.
This country, England and Germany have
war vessels at Banna watching the interests
of their respective citizens. There does not
appear to be a very friendly feeling be
tween the officers of the German vessels
and those of. the English and American
vessels. The Americans and English are
acting in harmony, and favor Mataafa,
while the Germans, of course, favor their
puppet, Tama-ese.
About the middle of November an at
tempt was made to stop the fighting and
place the government of Samoa in the
hands of the American, English and Ger
man consuls until they should receive in
structions from their respective govern
ments. The attempt failed, however, be
cause the German consul said be was bound
to continue to recognize Tamasese.
This government insists that Mataafa is
the rightful king, and it refuses to recog
nize Tamasese. The Berlin government
says that it has great commercial and
planting interests in Samoi, and cannot
consent that the local government shall be
in the hands of ignorant savages. It set up
Tamasese as king, not because be is any the
less a savage than Mataafa, but, because,
while he is at the head of tho government,
Germany will direct Samoan affairs.
It is probable that Germany will have to
abate some of her pretensions in Sam a,
because this country and England have
too much at stake in keeping Apia open
to their ships to permit her to take charge
of Samoa and dominate it in her own int
erest.
Mrs. Lillie Devereaux Blake doesn’t think
Senator Ingalls is much of au ornithologist.
In a lecture iu New York the other day,
she said: “Though women have been de
prived of so much, they have been glnrifie !
in symbolism. Columbia is a worn iu; so is
Liberty. On our silver and gold coins is
stamped the head of a woman; on the cop
pers appears the head of a man. The na
tional bird is a female —the Hon. John J.
Ingalls to the contrary. In a late number
of the Forum., in an art icle in which he tries
to frown down the do nnnd for woman’s
suffrage on the ground that, this c mntry is
founded on force, he says: ‘*V r hy, lo ik at
our national bird, the great American
eagle, which screams forth our independ
ence to the world—force is written iu his
great talons and his powerful beak.’ Now,
Mr. Ingalls should know that the eagle
which he refers to in the third person, male,
singular, is not that kind of a bird. Any
ornithologist will tell you that ths American
eagle is a hen, for the male eagle is too
small and puny to be emblematic of any
thing except insignificance.” Ingalls should
by all means reply to this, s > as toentsr into
another controversy with a woman.
What means the visit of Mr. Henry G.
Davis, late democratic senator from West
Virginia, to Gen. Harrison? Speculation
is not wanting concerning its object. Some
of the newspapers 6ay it was a purely social
visit, but everybody understands what is
meant by a social visit to a President-elect.
It seems to be more generally accepted that
Mr. Davis wanted to further the political
ambition of his son-in-law, Mr. Stephen B.
Elkins. Isn’t it possible, though, that he
wanted to bag an office for himself? He
was mentioned in connection with a cabinet
position a short while ago, and probably ho
has concluded that, since the democrats
won’t intrust him with another office, ho
will try for one from the republicans.
Congressman William Walter Phelps,
who will retire soon from the House, wants
very much to be senator from New Jersey.
He refused a renomination in order to im
prove bis chances for the Senate, but con
trary to bis hopes the democrats obtained a
■mall majority iu the legislature. Mr.
Pbelps was stunned at first, but be has re
covered, aud now is at work to create dis
sensions among the democrats, with a view
to preventing several of them from voting
for the caucus nominee. In this way he
hopes to bring about a deadlock, and to be
elected eventually himself. He probably is
doomed to another disappointment.
Mr. Russell Harrison, son of the Presi
dent-elect. spent one day of tbe week in
Philadelphia, and hobnobued with Mr.
Hamilton Disston and Mr. John Wanu
maker. Young Mr. Harrison should be
more careful of bis associates. Mr. Ham
Disston is the man who wanted to “per
<uade” Florida democrats to vote the re
publican ticket, and it was Mr. Wsds
rnaker’s money that bought up a good many
“blocks of five.” With his son hobnobbing
with these men, aud with his home organ
defending Col. Dudley, Gen. Harrison is
liable to tie unpleasantly criticised.
Senator Sherman said the other day, re
ferring to tbe little affair between tbe
United States and lisyti: “That’s tbs kind
of war 1 should always I Iks—s bloodless
contest." Probably tbs Senator made that
remark to emphasize tbs difference that
would exist between bis maatgeiueul of
affairs of stats aud Mr. Hlaiue’*, Hs would
be for pesos; Mr. Blame would baa bluster,
iug, sensational premier, who might plunge
\i*m vAAinUry w*r at any Uuia. TU*
iKJttt|jafiMx* wliiub II li Ua yubiU:
j kbaiJ Ui*UUil4 ii out in hauAkir bim.uaut*
14i*a4va*jU£*.
The suggestion made by a correspondent
of the Morning News, the other day, that
Georgia convicts be employed in cutting
granite out of Stone Mountain, so as to pre
vent convict labor from coming into con
tact with free labor, is somewhat on a tone
with that of ex-Speaker Husted, of New
York, for the employment of the New
York convicts. Mr. Husted is in favor of
abandoning Sing Sing prison by that state,
and of the erection of anew prison in Sul
livan county, in which Is the tall range of
the Shawengunk mountains. He would
then have the convicts put to work cutting
stone out of the mountain. Mr. Husted’s
plan differs from that of the Morning
News’ correspondent, however, in that the
stone cut in New York woqjd be piled up
and put to no use, while that cut in Georgia
would be utilized. Non-productive labor,
whether by convicts or othors, is demoraliz
ing to the laborers. The suggestion of the
Morning News correspondent does not
prevent convict labor from coming into
competition with free labor and, hence, is
not a solution of the problem presented by
protest of Savannah workmen.
Rev. T. Harley writes to the London
Christian H orldof a recent date to protest
against tho actiou of the general purposes
committee of tbs Baptist Union in instruct
ing its secretary to omit his name from the
list of Baptist ministers in the haud book.
He says this action was taken solely because
he has preached once or twice in a U nitarian
temple. “Had I preached in a music hall
or theater,” he says, “or, like Gon. Havelock
in Rangoon, in a Buddhistic temple, it
would not have mattered, but a Unitarian
chapel was really too bad. That the Uni
tarian congregation were generous enough
to ask a Baptist minister to preach to them,
aud that they had an opportunity of hear
ing the unadulterated gospel, such os Bap
tist souls enjoy, counted for nothing. The
Baptist minister who crossed a Unitarian
threshold to preach the undenomi
national grace of God became thereby in
fected, and tbe Baptist Union must adopt a
strict quorantice And iurn the transgressor
out. But the matter is not yet seftled.”
A breach of promise suit, which promises
to create a sensation and to bring out some
rather testimony!! has been
brougl k in Lowell, Mass., by >4ss (JjKt'ieriue
TeresdF McEnry against Mf?* John H.
Buttrick. Miss McEury is highly educated
and moves in the best circles, while Mr.
Bottrick is wealthy and is oae of Lowell’s
select 400. As to age, neither one is a spring
chicken. Their courtship began 35 years
ago, when Miss McEnry, as a young lady,
had numbers of suitors. Mr. Buttrick was
her choice, but there was objection by her
family to her marriage to him, and the
affair has been kept up for the uumb-T of
years stated. Recently, however, Mr.
Buttrick seems to have grown cold, or to
have become tired of pressing a suit that
seemed destined to fail. At any rate, he
ceased to pay attentions to his old sweet
heart aud tbe consequence is that he finds
himself the defendant in a $75,000 breach of
pi omise suit, Gen. B. F. Butler las been
engaged as Miss MeEury’s attorney.
The game of chess is supposed to require
ot those who engage successfully in it a good
deal of thought. In fact, it is a game in
which strategy may be practiced. There
fore, those who like ir, and who regard it
as an intellectual recreation, will be filled
with sorrow when they learn that an auto
maton is be iting all the expert players of
the intellectual center, Boston, just as it
did those of Augusta at the exposition.
They will probably ask themselves, does the
game require no exercise of intellect, or can
a machine be constructed which possesses
more brains than a man ?
Anarchist Grottkau of Milwaukee will
have to serve twelve months in the peni
tentiary after all. It will be remembered
that after Grottkau was sentenced, there
was some hitch in the proceedings, and it
was several months before he entered upon
his term. His attorney then coatended that
the tertn dated from the time of the sen
tence, and that, therefore, Grottkau would
havo to serve only a very short while. The
supreme court of Wisconsin decided the
other day that he must serve twelve
months from the time he was imprisoned.
.
The Philadelphia Press says: “The appro
priation of $500,000 for educational pur
poses by the Georgia legislature is a hint
that the new South will be republican.”
Not at all. On the contrary, it means that
Geergia’s population is going to be increased
by northern and western immigrants, who
will help to give her increased representa
tion in congress and the electoral college
af er 1800. Besides, education in tho south,
as should be the case everywhere else, makes
good democrats of people.
CURRENT COMMENT.
The Inscription Is Still There.
From the tiew York World IDem.)
If Mr. Randall will lift his eyes to the demo
cratic masthead, he will iiiul naiiivl there the
flag which represent* "Tax Reduction Through
Tariff Reform. No Taxation for a Surplus. No
Tariff for Bounties.”
The Correct Heading.
From the Memphis Avalanche (Dem.)
“Prosperity of the New South" is the caption
given by a Chicago paper to an item regarding
the growth of this section. It is incorrect, it
should read, “Renewed Prosi>erity of the Old
South.”
Everybody Understands That.
fYom the St. Louis Post-Dispatch ( Dem .)
The republicans insist on the division of the
southern vote, but they only mean the division
of tbe southern white vote. They want the
southern colored vote polled in full, and they
expect it to be solidly republican.
Future of Tariff Reform.
From the Few York Times (Ind.)
When the high tariff again comes before the
people it will be forced to meet the criticism
and the oppotltiou not only of those who by
study and observation have been convinced of
Its unwisdom, but by organized interests to
which it is hostile, by men whose prosperity de
pends directly upon Its reform. That is the
fact that mak s the future of tariff reform
secure, in spite of the reverses that it has lately
been obliged to encounter.
BRIGHT BITS.
“Ma," complained Bobby, "can't I have a
better knife than that old iron one* 1 haven't
cut myself once with It.”
“No. Bobby: that's a very good knife for auch
a little boy. 1 '
“But, ma. Tommy Traddle* is no hlgger'n me.
and lie's got a jlmdandy You ought to tee bis
fingers '’- Harper * Hausr.
Asotiieh One llkahii Prom. “Yes. you can
bet marriage I*a failure'" be exclaimed, as lie
came out or a saloon wipiog bis cbm. "Here's
uiy case to prove it "
" I loti t you live napplly f'.asEed one of bis
crowd
•‘fin.*’
"Wbyr ’
“Why* Hocaute I have only $3 a week to run
on My wife earns s’■ but she won t giv- up
liul $5. and I've gut to squeeze along on that
while some other huebendv have lit. Yes,
nisir is<;r is a 'lead flat failure Moms of us bus
band* are hived and supported as we ought to
he!' 1 - Detroit Free Free*.
Augne*ura bttier* are iam best rseiwilp for
removing lodigssUny Ask your druggist for
the genuine, prepared by Ur. J U h. bUtgert 8
i Unite
YOUNG MAN, B3 HONEST.
Uncle Jonas Catches His Brisk Young
Nephew Imitating Him.
From the .Veto York Sun.
*‘l am on the turf now," said a flashy, black
eyed young inan, still in his.teens, to an ac
quaintance whom he met at the Guttenburg
races a day or two ago. “I aui out for money,
and everything goes.”
“When did you quit your uncle's hock shop?”
asked the boy's acquaintance.
“Las’ week We’n'ady. He fired me out for
trying to work oue of his own games. One of
the funniest rackets you ever heard of, and I'm
just sore enough on the old man to give it dead
away. The old man was going up Center
street one day last summer and he stopped in a
second-hand tool shop to see a friend. While
he was there he got monkeying with a second
hand signal box. It was a little cast iron thing
with the word ‘police’ on the front and a brass
button on the top. When he pressed the button
it set a lot of clockwork going in the box, and
made as much noise as an alarm clock. He
was stuck on the thing, and bought it for a
half. I asked him what he was going to do
with it, and he said he would stick it up
on the wall and ring it if any toughs tried
to mase trouble in the shop. Well, that’s just
what he did with It. He screwed it up in plain
sight behind the counter and fastened wires to
it to make it look as if they went somewhere.
Then he took some bronze paint and touched up
the letters so that nobody could make any mis
take in reading them. I don’t believe he thought
of what a great graft the box was until EMiad
it up about a week. Then he made it useful for
the first tune. A young fellow came In with a
dress coat wrapped up in a newspaper and
wanted five cases on it. Uncle Jonas held the
coat up and sized it up with the fellow that was
trying to soak it The coat was big enough for
two like him and the old man says: ’Dot's a
nice coat. Ees id your own)'
“ ‘Betcher life,’ says the_young feller.
“’Vaittill I call my bruder,’ says the old
man, and he turned and jammed the button
(down hard on the signal box. The young feller
just gave one glance at the box. and he shot out
of the door and left the coat behind. He ain’t
been seen around there since. After that the
old man gave me to understand that I was to
come along kinder slow any time lie rung the
box, so that if people didn't scare, they would
take it that the call was for me, and then he
would consult me about the goods that were
offered. He worked the call on a man with a
gold watch next day. and tl.e man snatched the
watch out of his hand and skipped. After that
he was more careful, and when a crook came in
with a ring a day or two later, he laid the ring
down out of reach and touched the button, say
ing that he would call his son and get his opin
ion about the stone. The crook looked at the
call box and ran his eye along the wires which
ran toward the front of the shop. Then he be
gan to swear, and made a jump for the side
door. Next day a nice-looking feilow came in
and described the ring, and said that it was
stolen from him, and that he bad cornered the
man who stole it ar.d learned where it was.
‘•‘All right; I vill semi for it,’ says the old
man. and then he touched the button again.
“ ‘I will come in again in a half un hour,’ says
the nice-looking young feller, and skips out the
door. Did he come back? Naw. Welt the old
man worked the new snap every chance he got,
but sometimes he got fooled, and then I had to
come to the front and be consulted, abvavs
askin’: ‘D.d you ring, sir?’ One day when the
old man was out to dinner a feller come in with
a stud. It was a real bug and I wanted to win
it. So I sprung the call box on him. He shot
out of the side door and I dropped the ring in
my pocket. Two minutes later me uncle put
his band on my shoulder, and two big tears ran
down his nose as he told me that he was sorry
that he had found out that I was not honest.
He gave me a calking old lecture on honesty
being the best policy, and told me that he had
been watching me from the hack part of the
shoo and seen me git the cheuuine tinmont,'
I had to give it up to him, and he is wearing it
now while lamon my uppers. Oh. yes, he fired
me, ‘yust os soon as ue found 1 vasn't honest.’
You go up there to-morrow and see if he don’t
ring the box on you and try to bluff you out of
your watch. Then ask him about me.”
Song of a Single Man,
From the New York Graphic.
With a spirit all weary and worn.
With the end of his nose dyed red,
A bachelor sat in a lonely room,
Plying a needle and thread.
Stitch, stitch, stitch.
Repairing a rent in his shirt;
No wife, no mother, nor sister there,
To undertake the work.
Oh, men with sisters dear.
Oh, men with mothers and wives,
Remember, when wearing your liaen out,
Of poor bachelors’ weary lives.
Stitch, stitch, stitch.
With a soul above the work,
Sewing at once with a single thread
A finger as well as a shirt.
Oh, but to breathe the breath
Of a lager beer so sweet.
Or a cocktail to clear mv head
And warm me to my feet;
Oh, but for one short hour,
To feel as I used to feel
Before I roomed at a cheap hotel.
Or on a free lunch made a meal.
But why talk of a lager’s breath
And free lunches of gristle and bone.
I fear I love that perfumed breath,
It seems so like :ny own.
It seems so like m.v own.
Because my credit I always keep,
And lager beer is not so dear
At a nickel a glass—it's cheap.
Work, work, work.
By a dim old candle light,
And work. work, work.
When the saloon’s so warm and bright.
A little something would ease my heart
Before turning into bed,
But ray drinks must stop.
For every drop just paints my nose more red.
With a spirit all scarred and worn,
With a wet towel round his head,
A bachelor sat at his shirt all torn,
Plying a needle and thread.
Stitch, stitch, stitch.
Scorning and hating the work.
For he sewed at once with a single thread
His fingers as well as the shirt.
Whimsicalities from the Newspapers
—How a Congress Argument was
Ended.
From the St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
“Our agricultural community" is the term
Mr. Reed of Maine, the leader olft'ue Republican
side, employs to designate Farmer Wade of
Missouri and Farmer Funston of Kansas. The
other day Mr. Reed upou the farmer
statesmen as they were discussing some dis
puted point with vigor. Fuston was just say
ing:
“Well, Wade, I’ll bet you a dol ar."
The Missourian didn't respoud to the chal
lenge, and Mr. Reed drawled out in his Yankee
twang:
"That is the way with you fellows from out
west. You are great at blowing, but that is all
you do. You don't bet anything but wind."
Farmer Wade pulled his fist out of his
breeches pocket, opened it, and showed a big
bland dollar In the palm
"You tbiuk we are all wind out west?" he
snid to Reed "Now match this."
With true New England del beration Mr. Reed
regarded the go n for a quarter of a minute.
Then he slowly produced unothor big dollar and
laid it down. They didn’t match, and Farmer
Wade pocketed both.
A Story with a Moral.
From the Washington Post.
Once upon a time, a crow, which is a wise
bird, sat on the limb of a tree, and n fox came
that way. The lo* wanted the crow. Not that
he desired to eat crow, but on general princi
ples. So he looked up at the crow and the crow
looked down at him. Thun the Fog addressed
a few iocongruvial remarks to the crow lie
spoke of his love for him: of his admi
ration for the crow family; of his
respect for the crow himself; of moral
and political affiliations of the crows and
the foxes. And so on. The crow listened po
litely. even with interest. But he did not say
anything. He looked down upon the fox in a
sad, retrospective manner, shook his head and
climbed up to the very highest limb on the
tree Ami the fox. on the <-old, cold ground
under the tre<\ eat down upon a chunk of dlsnp
point inent and wept bitterly. Moral: Gov.
Foraker is gelt.ug sweet on Senator Sherman.
Brutal.
From Judge.
Jones is frankness Itself.
Being si an evening pariv betook occasion to
compliment s hut) , not otherwise remarkable
for her tjsauly, on her small feel
"You can't mean what you say, Mr. Jones,"
said the lady, greatly Haltered, as she still
further, by a deft movement of the hand, tit
posed the members In question
You're quite right, madam," said Jones,
looking down; “I only saw half of them,"
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A French doctor advised a nervous woman
to sit in a room with a dozen rats running about,
and she tried it and was made crazy.
A trainload of DRY ooods, containing twenty
cars, was shipped from New York city one day
last week to a wholesale dealer in Tacoma,
W. T.
Little Lizzie Rollins, born In Marne, Cass
county, lowa, last week, has six grand mothers,
the oldest, her great-great-grand-motaer, be
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A WELL KNOWN LAWYER Of San DiegO, Cal.,
while in a barber’s chair turned suddenly to
soeak to a friend, and a piece of his nose was
sliced off.
The mummified remains of Santa Tongo,
or “Big Heart,” one of the old chiefs of the
Utes, are in a cave near old Fort Caspar, in
Wyoming,
A spring of natural cologne has broken forth
in the southern part of Algiers. The liquid has
not been analyzed, but its odor is very similar
to that of patchouli.
Leavenworth claims a mule 38 years old, and
he has never been ill a day. Stock-growers say
that all domestic animals would live longer if
more kindly treated.
Moses Bradshaw, of Claiborne county, Tenn..
celebrated his 100th birthday anniversary, this
week, by riding fifty miles on horseback. He
made the journey on a wager.
A i.aw in Prussia provides that any person
carrying a stick or an umbrella in such a way
as to be dang rous to other travelers may be
punished by fine or imprisonment,
It is estimated that the Boston stockholders
of two great western railroads have lost
$82,000,000 by the shrinkage in the value of their
securities in the last fifteen months.
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company
has placed an order for thirty new passenger
coaches with the Pullman Palace Car Company,
to be delivered before March 1, 1889.
It is said that Saxony furnishes the largest
percentage of suicides of any civilized btate.
The number last year was 1,104, or one to about
every 3,0u0 of the population. In 1881 the total
number was 1,248.
Eight gigantic pears from Stanislaus
county, California, that were recently exhib
ited in San Francisco, weighed 33V6 pounds, or
4 1-16 pounds each, and they completely filled a
five-gallon glass jar.
It is estimated that SIOO,OOO has been sent as
Christmas gifts to Ireland from Boston—nearly
all of it by the servant girls of that city and
vicinity—during the last week. One house
alone drew drafts for $60,000.
Frank Melville of Clay county, Va., fol
lowed a fox into a hole and found himself in a
cave almost filled with foxes. He had only a
club with him and thev made it lively for him,
but he succeeded in killing ten of the animals
and drove the others off.
Another bill has been introduced into Con
gress to authorize the construction of a railroad
bridge across the Detroit river. It is in the in
terest of certain Canadian and Michigan inter
ests and is likely to meet fierce opposition from
the lake shipping interests.
Medical men in Nebraska are interested in
the case of a girl there who is gradually losing
her power of speech without any apparent
cause. She can t now talk above a whisper,
and it is expected that, in a very short time,
she will be entirely speechless.
Armstrong Hall at the Tuskegee, (Ala.,)
Normal School, has recently been completed.
It was built by the Tuskegee students, who are
no roes, they sawing the lumber, making the
brick, ami doing all the work of erection and
finish except putting on the tin roof.
Miss Clara llarnish of New Danville, Lan
caster county, Pa., on Wednesday night, while
delirious with typhoid fever, escaped from her
home, and three hours later was found sitting
with her feet in a brook. The next day the
fever broke and she was much better.
Some time aoo, Mattie Tenneli, a young
woman of Santa Barbara, Cal., had some lemon
juice accidentally spilled over her hair on one
side of the head. Since then the hair on that
side has become perfectly white, and the ends
of the hair curl, os though treated with a curl
ing iron.
A St. Louis ruicide wrote: “I am 62 years
old. In eight years I would have b 'en 70, an
old. dilapidated, tottering fossil. I have played
the world out. and it don't owe me a cent. I’ve
had more fun than a mule in a cornfield and
I’ve got enough. Therefore I will cheat the
course of nature and jump the time to come.”
The programme of the newly organized po
litical party of Japan is thus described: T.ie re
duction of the land tax; the abolition of cen
tralization in the administration; the introduc
>j*n of the volunteer system into the army, and
the revision of the existing treaties, with a view
of putttng Japan on an equal l ooting with other
l>owers in International Intercourse.
J. Stansfield of New York ft bus writes, over
his name, to the World'. “Trusts are private
affairs, and, as the solicitors for the sugar trust
say, for the benefit of the people. Here is an
example: For the last two years there has been
a sand paper trust, during which time they
allowed me 15 per cent. For some reason the
trust is broken, and this morning I received an
invoice withso per cent, off and circulars from
all the other makers offering especial terms."
Four young fellows thought they would go
out and “see a man" between the acts at a cer
tain theater in Louisville recently, and so they
attempted an exit. Avery large ladv sat in the
aisle seat, and the determined air with which
she viewed the proposed flight boded evil for
the youngsters. They stepped all over the
others in the row and reached the fat lady.
“You can’t get out here!" said she in so loud
and determined a voice that the boys blushed
deeply and returned to their seats much em
barrassed. This ponderous lady is a reformer
and she deserves a large following.
The principality of Liechtenstein, which
Prince John 11. offered as a refuge to the Pope in
case the latter should abandon Rome, is a semi
independent mountainous territory lying be
tween the Rhine and the canton of Orisons, It
covers, about ninety square miles and has a pop
illation of a little under 10,1)00. Liechteuste la
boasts an army of fifty men, which was mobil
ized in the war of iB6O, and it is a standing joki
among Austrian officers tnat tbe principality is
still at war with Prussia, as tharkingdom forgot
to conclude a separate peace witli Llechtenstien
when it signed the peace of Prague with Aus
tria
A recent traveler in New Zealand describes
the great Sutherland waterfall: “The water,"
he says, “dashes over the cliff in three grand
leaps, and constitu'es about one-half of tbe en
tire volume of the Arthur river. The first leap
is over a dizzy cliff into a rocky basin 815 feet
below. Jumping forth again it makes another
leap of 751 feet, and then goes tumbling and
leaping in one wild dash of 38W feet Into the pool
at the foot of the precipice. The total height Is
exactly 1.C04 feet, making the waterfall one of
the highest yet discovered. A'hrn the sun is
shining rainbows of all sizes hang over the fall,
and the effect is indescribably beautiful."
The catch of salmon in Puget sound this year,
although not so large as expected on account
of the delayed fall rains, will be about 15,000
cases, four dozen cans per case. There aro
five factories engaged in the business. The
largest has a capacity for canning ’JU.OOO pounds
of llsh per day and employs six semes, costing,
with the necessary skiffs aud scows, $1,500
each, manned by Indian crews. The packing is
done by Chinese, of whom 150 are employed at
$1 per day per head, boarding themselves. The
cost of the llsh is $lO per 100—10 cents each.
The average weight is six pounds. Single speci
mens are frequently caught exceeding twenty
pounds, but the smaller sizes are more palat
able and more In demand for home consump
tion.
A Mr. McKinhtry of Joplin, Mo., is astonish
ing the natives of his state by hts peculiar gifta.
It is sold that whon he walks over the ground a
few hours he Incomes thoroughly exhausted,
and so limp and helpless that lie has to he
assisted home. Hut he has to keep walking, for
when he stands firmly on one spot of ground for
a few seconds he becomes as it rooted, and has
to have one foot assisted loose, when the other
can be moved, and then, by treading up ami
down for a minute, tbe electric current becomes
broken. In tbe course of which, however, the
■•oculist sparkling incident, for lust mice, the
brushing a black cats hair hick ward, U de
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beneath the earth by using a (s-adi tree switch,
and finds where mlnenil* are by similar mean*.
He baa sat a number of prospectors homing
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