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tery,’’ by Miss Adeline Sergeant, author of
“Jacobi’s Wife,” one of the most successful
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Morning News.
Mr. Lawrence Barrett’s throat was cut
the other day. It was done by a well
known surgeon of Boston, however, and Mr.
Barrett is feeling better from it. Tho sur
geon declined to say exactly what was the
nature of the disease which necessitated the
operation, but he stated that the growth
which has caused Mr. Barrett considerable
trouble was more a fatty glandular deposit
than anythiug else.
James B. Allen, formerly of Merchant
ville, N. Y., but for the last Bye or ton
years a resident of Baltimore, committed
suicide in New York a few days ago. He
was deeply in love with a servant girl, who
g;ave him the mitten. Mr. Allen thought
that life would be a burden without tho
servant girl. There are many people who
think that but for her the pleasures of life
would be greatly enhanced.
Secretary Proctor needs anew desk.
His old one was almost destroyed by fire a
few days ago. At 9 o’clock at night some
one, while passing through the corridor of
the war department, noticed a glare upon
the transom over the secretary’s door.
When the room was entered the desk was
ablaze, and it is said that many valuable
papers were destroyed. It is supposed that
the fire was caused by a discarded lighted
cigar, or a carelessly thrown match.
The Athens Banner goes to the trouble
to tell the Boston Advertiser that no dis
loyalty on the part of southern people was
meant by anythiug connected with the
funeral of Mr. Jefferson Davis. The state
ment of the Ban tier is correct, but why
should it be made! Northern poople who
persist in having such opinions about the
south as the Advertiser expresses are wel
come to their opinions. The south cares
nothing for the opinions of such fanatics.
The Christian Index, published in At
lanta. and read by thousands of Baptists in
Georgia and other states, is exceedingly
fortunate in securing the services of Dr.
Nuaually, President of Mercer University,
iu Maoon; Dr. Lansing Burrows, pastor of
the First Baptist church in Augusta, and
Dr. Henry McDonald, pastor of the Second
Baptist church of Atlanta, as editors of
that publication. These gentlemen are
very prominent in Baptist circles. They
will enter upon their duties Jan. 23 next.
An inventor has on exhibition in Wash
ington a machine which, he claims, will
enable farmers to sell a much larger quan
tity of cotton 'seed than thov do at presant.
The machine will put the seels in such
condition that they can ba exported to Eng
land, where the demand is greater than the
upply. This kind of exportation has been
out of the question, because the seed is sur
rounded by a fiber which becomes heated iu
. hol<i of the vessel, and rots. Tne ma
cmae will clean the seed of this fiber.
I Points in the Cronin Case.
It is not expected that those of the de
j fendants in the Cronin case who wre con
victed will be removed to the penitentiary
within twelve months, even if they fail to
get anew trial. If the motion for anew
trial is denied, and it probably will be,
the case will go to the supreme court, and it
; will require at least a year to get a derision
■ from that tribunal. The verdict may be
| set aside, ami in that event it may be two
years before the case is finally disp aed of.
| The state’s attorney appears to be confident
| that if the verdict should be set aside, he
would be able to get auother verdict against
j the accused parties.
The story of how a verdict was reached in
' the jury room has beou made public, and
I it appears that the various reports that
j there was considerable trouble a nong the
: jurors were well founded. On the first,
j ball it the jury stood eleven for conviction
• and one for acquittal, the juror who
i favored acquittal of all the defendants
| being John Cu lver, of Evanston. Culver
j declared that there was nothing la the
state’s side of the cose, and that he believed
that the state’s witnesses were either mis
taken or hail committed perjury.
After several days the eleven who favored
conviction succeeded in getting Culver to
agree to a compromise verdict with rega-d
to O’Sullivan, Burke, Coughlin, and K inze,
provided Baggs was acquitted. There
s*ms to be no doubt that Culver was liouest
in believing that none of the defendants
was guilty. He is a man of high character,
but he is one of thoss kind of men who are
never happy except when thoy are opposing
everybody else. He is very obstinate, and
always believes that he is on tho right side.
There is a great deal of indignation against
him in Chicago, and he will not venture
out of his house until the feeling against
him subsides somewhat.
It is thought to be strange that Beggs
and O’Sullivan are so vehement in their
protestations that the little Gorman, Kunze,
kno .vs nothing about the Cronin murder.
Why do they speak so confidently with re
spect to him, aud say nothing about the
others* Do they mean to be understood as
admitting that the others do know some
thing about tho crime, or ore they afraid
that Kunze will make a confession with the
hope of getting a pardon *
The Chicago police force is being investi
gated for the purpose of finding out who of
the members of it are Clan-na-Gaol sympa
thizers. Several have been dismissed
already, and others will be as fast as those
who sympathize with that organization are
discovered. The Cronin case is not settled
yet by a great deal, and there may bo some
startling developments in it before the last
is heard of it.
Farmers Benefited by Speculation.
This has been an exceptionally goad year
for cotton farmers, and an exceptionally
bad one for cotton speculators. The farm
era, as a rulß, have not only raised good
crops and had good weather iu which to
gather them, but they have received excel
lent prices for their cotton.
The great cotton importing houses of Eu
rope early in tho season calculated
that the cotton crop would be a very large
one, and that prices of cotton would bo very
low. They therefore sold large quantities
for future delivery, at prices which they
thought would leave them a big margin for
profit. They wore right about a big crop,
but they were wrong in their calculations
with respect to prico3. Tho prices have
l teen high all through the season in this
country. During this week cotton has
been higher in Savainah than in Liverpool.
Notwithstanding this fact, cotton has been
bought steadily for export, and the Eu
ropean importers have been heavy losers.
The European houses, having sold so
much cotton for each month, have been
compelled to fill their contracts, and thoy
have had to pay prices that mears losses to
them. Tho farmers have been the gainers,
however, by the speculations of European
houses. They have received from $1 to f3
a bale more for their cottou thau thoy
would probably, had there been no
speculation. Of course there may be
times when speculation is hurtful to
farmers, but this year, so far as cotton is
concerned, it has been beneficial to them.
For cotton to be higher in price in
American than European ports is a rather
curious condition of affairs.
Boston merchants who have dealings with
Brazil are not pleased with the change of
government in that country, and it is stated
that they may petition congress to inter
vene “to either restore the late govern
ment or to compel the military demagogues
now in power to act in a more constitu
tional manner.” The Philadelphia Record
says that the cause of the dissatisfaction is
that the provisional government has agreed
to collect three-eighths of a cent a pound on
all rubber goods bought by dealers, and
turn the money over to a great Brazilian
rubber company to help build up its busi
ness. The Record asks: “Was such a
thing never done noarer home than Brazil?”
Senator Platt, of Connecticut, is proba
bly somewhat of a humorist. Ho roma'-kod
in the Senate the other dar that one of the
departments in Washington didu't have
enough clerks. Senator C ic'xrell, of Mis
souri, was not certain whether Mr. Platt
was speaking ironically or otherwise, but
he thought it was a good time to say some
thing. Ho declared that there were too
mauy clerks in tho departments; that the
heads of departments knew nothing about
tho work in detail, and that as the clerks
ran things generally, they were vary natu
rally always calling for more clerks. The
senator hit the mark. He knows that that
particular surplus ought to be reduced.
Speaker Head hasn’t learned how to con
duct himself in his new position. He can.
hardly be called a dignified presiding offi
cer. He can’t refrain from dipping into
debates by making side-remark" in reply to
members. This is a very bad habit. The
presiding officer is not supposed to fiave an
opinion upon questions under discussion un
less his vote is needed, or unless ho wants to
go upon the floor and express his views.
Perhaps it is difficult for Mr. R9ed to bear
in mind that he is no longer upon the floor.
The Now York Tribune repoats the old
misrepresentation that the magnificent
strides which the south has made industri
ally are due to “the national policy of the
party against which the south has fought
solidly, and still fights.” The Tribune may
hug that delusion, but the southern poople
understand that the Republican party has
dono nothing for thorn.
Tho republicans carried tue Meriden,
Conn., muuicip il election tho other day.
borne of the organs of that party seem to
think that this offsets tho recent democratic
victories in Virginia, lowa, Ohio, and Ne.v
York, but whoa thev come to view things
rationally, thoy will conclude that it
doesn't.
THE MORNING NEWS; FRIDAY, DECEMBER 2”J 1889.
Not a Business Congress.
The pan-American congress has done
nothing yet ia the way of business, and the
1 question whether it will do anything is
I being asked. The d-legates are havings
goed time nt the expenso of the govern
ment, and from all accounts they are en
joying themselves. They have boen in New
j York for several days, and will remain
! there until after the holidays. Thoy are
' getting a pretty fair ilea of our
country and its indus'ries, and when
they return home they will be
able to tell their governments
a great many interesting thing' about this
ropubiic. They will set the southern stati-s
before they lake their departure from our
shores, and also the far west. Senator
Morris M. Estea said in New York on Tues
day that he was authorize! to announce
that tho delegate would start on a tour of
the sou'll about Feb. 1.
The deiegates wiil appreciate doubtless
the greatness of this country and the
variety and magnitude of its industries,
but will they bo able to suggest any way in
which our trade with the countries they
represent can be increased* An answer to
this question is what is wanted. They are
under tlje influence of Mr. Blame, who
objects to any modification of the tariff
laws that would not bo in harmony with
the protection doctrine of the Republican
party, and it is certain that if we cling to a
tariff that makes it impossible to compete
with European countries in manufactures
we cannot control any considerable share of
the Central and South American trade. Of
course we could tax the people to support
lines of steamships between our own ports
and those of Central and South America,
but more steamship lines would do us little
or no good, unless we coulTl find a market
for what we have'to sell.
Senator Frye, who is one of the most
prominent of the republican leaders, said,
a few days ago, that he would favor reci
procity treaties with the republics of Cen
tral and South America. In other words,
ho would advise free trade with those re
publics. It is extremely doubtful, however,
if his party would sustain him if ho should
take such a position.
The whole country wants the pan-Ameri
cans to have a good time, aud nobody will
complain because of their junketing trips
about the country, but at the same time
there is a growing curiosity as to what the
practical outcome of the congress is going
to be.
Children in tho Factories.
One of the first questions brought before
the South Carolina legislature, now in ses
sion, was whether or not the factories of
that state should tie prohibited from em
ploying children under a certain age. The
press of the state seetns to indorss the pro
hibitory bill introduced, and the strongest
opposition to it comes from the children so
employed and from their parents. The
Greenville News has published several let
ters showing the opposition of operatives in
different factories, and other newspapers
have done the same thing. In one town the
operatives have unanimously signed a peti
tion against the passage of the bill.
It is not difficult to arrive at the cause
for this opposition. While parents would
like vory much for their children who are
employed in the factories to eoj oy healthful
ana childish sports and to go to school, and
while the children would be glad todothese
things, poverty stands in the way. Tho
money received by the children for their
work may be a mere pittance, but it is some
thing toward the support of a family where
every cent counts. It is possible that these
familios might get along without it,aud that
tho children might be sent to school,but they
don’t think so. They may be mistaken, and
they would probably be willing to admit
their mistake after the law had been in
force a while.
Wherever such a law hat been enacted
its results have been satisfactory. They
could hardly be otherwise. It promotes the
health and morals of children, and givei
them a chance to acquire some education,
and it must be admitted that very great
hardships should be endured by parents, it
necessary, in order to give their children a
better chance in life. The temptations to
which operatives are subjected in South
Carolina are probably not so groat as in
some other states, and the system of the
mills there may not be so injurious to
health, but it is very unfortunate for chil
dren of tender age to be shut out from
childish sports, and to be deprived of evon
the meager advantages which thoy might
enjoy.
Tile will of the late Jefferson Davis was
filed for probate at Mississippi City, Miss., a
few days ago. By its provisions the per
sonal belongings of Mr. Davis and the
plantation iu Mississippi, known as Brier
wood, are given to Mrs. Davis. Mary
Routh Ellis, of Philadelphia, gets the Ellis
ton plantation in Louisiana; Mary Ridgoly
Dorsey gets the Limerick plantation in
Louisiana, bequeathed to Mr. Davis by
Mrs. Dorsey, and Miss W iunie Davis gets all
of the other property that Mr. Davis re
ceived from the same source. Mrs. Davis,
Mrs. Ilayes, and Miss Winnie Davis are
made residuary legatees of any property
not mentioned in the will. The executors
are Mr. Davis’ friend, Jacob U. Payne, of
New Orleans, and his son-in-law, G. Addi
son Haves, of Memphis, who will serve
without bond.
Perhaps the most brutal prize fight over
witnessed in this country took place at
Butte City, Mon., the other day. The
combatants were John Gallagher and
George H. Ward. They had had a dispute
over a debt which Gallagher claimed that
Ward owed him, and they met once or
twice and came to blows, thus gaining some
notoriety as pugilists. Their friends ar
ranged that they should fight to the finish
with bare knuckles, and decide the debt.
They hammered each other unmercifully
until the end of tho losth round, when
they were unable to keep up the fight.
They were taken to their homes, and both
died ia a day or two. Warrants have
been issued for the arrest of the spectators.
The report has been circulated that Con
gressman Mills, of Texas, will retire from
politics at the expiration of this congress,
but it is contradicted, and by Mr. Mills
himself, who says that he will be a candi
date for re-election. When the time c linos
for electing a successor to Senator Reagan,
it is thought that Mr. Mills will offer
himself for the succession, and he doesn’t
say that he will not. He is a man of large
ambition.
Relatives of the late Gen. Hancock are
very anxious that a story going the rounds
of the press, that not evon a pioce of wood
marks his burial place, should be corrected.
During Gen. Hancock’s lifetime he had a
$ 1,303 tomb erected in Pennsylvania. There
he, his mother, father, and daughter are
buried.
CUK3BNTCOMMSNL
Kick Bussey Out, Too.
From the Nashville Ame rican <Dem.\
Tinner, as a matter of truth, has gone, but
Tannensm, with Bussey as its impersonator, is
still with us.
Worth Remembering.
From the Washington Post (Rep.).
Justice Simmons, of the supreme court of
Georgia, ha* deci ied that the courts of that
state shall lie governed by sun time instead of
railroad time. Persons wao want to get to the
ears in season must bear in mind, however, that
the raiiroais pay no sp-vial deference to the
s >lar orb. and will continue to run on standard
instead of supreme court time.
Put Yourself in the Juror’s Place.
From the Philadelphia Inquirer (Rep.).
Possibly, if you pul yourself in the place of
one of the Cronin jurymen and try to realizi
how vou Would feel witn a well-founded and
healthy perception clinging to you tnat an in
definite number of unknown assassins were
waiting for a good chan e to murder you—pos
sibly in tbat case you will cease to wonder why
tue jury brought in such a verdict as thoy did.
What They Are After.
From the ynr York Freninq Post (/ad.).
of course meu like Senator Sherman and
“Bill” Cuandler cannot expect the passage of
such schemes as they advocate, because their
own states ot Ohio and New Hamashire would
not submit to such treatment. Why, then, do
they bring them forward! Apparently for no
other reason than to make them the text for
bloody shirt speeches, lint this is as short
sighted from the politician’s point of view as
from the statesman's.
BRIGHT BITB.
One of our contemporaries, in noting the
■ucceesful career of a venerable man who has
just died in Maine, makes the startling state
ment that “he was born without a dollar in his
pocket.” —Lowell Courier,
Jac.os—l think lam entitled to a pension.
Pension Agent—What is your claim?
Jaggs-Well, my feelings were hurt by sev
eral people calling me a coward because I
wouldn’t enlist.— Philadelphia Inquirer.
Thk worst time.to hand a man a tract on the
sin of swearing is when he steals down stairs ill
tho stilly night and catches his toe in tho up
turned corner of zinc that lurks near tho fire
light’s uncertain glow Philadelphia Inquirer.
Feminine Reasoning—Little Sister in Rail
road Car—How long this tunnel is! Sweet
Girl Graduate—lt seems so. dear, because this
is the last car, you know, and of course all the
rest get out before we Ao.—Fhe<jerute Platter.
The omr. who has rejected a man never reads
his marriage notici two vears afterward with
out saying to herself, “Poor fellow! 1 really
hope he will be hapgy, ’ and all the time she
knows she doesn't mean it. —Somerville Jour
nal.
The Last Resorts Tonsorial Artist (con
temptuously)—Say ! what good are you Har
vard fellers anyhow ? Yer can’t play foot ball,
yer can’t play base ball, yer can't row-; all yer
can do is to get an education.— Rarvard Lam
poon.
A Graspon Fake—Parson—Fame,my brother,
is a bard thing to grasp.
Traveling Companion—Well, 1 don't know;
but I think I have a grasp on it—a case of
mine in the supreme court is docketed for 1923.
Time.
Meteorological Item,—Tommy—Pa, may I
ask you a question?
Pa—Certainly, my child.
Tommy—Well, where is the wind when it
doesn’t blow?— From the German, in Texas
Siftinqs.
First Female Spirit—Why are you unhappy ?
Why do you weep?
Second Female Spirit—-Look at the inscription
on my tomb. They’ve made me a year older
than I really was. O, I shall never know what
rest means. — Life.
The New York Tribune says; “The girls ot
Wellesley college are busy inventing a college
cry." If someone were to admit a mouse into
the room where the girls are discussing the sub
ject, the college cry would qnickiy invent itself.
hiorristoum Herald.
Mr. Skimmer—^What do you mean by rats
when you speak of labor matters?
Mr. O. S. Bourgeois—A rat is a ivonkman who
is satisfied to take less pay and work more
hours than a member of the union.
Mr. Skimmer (somewhat dazod)—Strange that
the white house should be overrun with rats,
when It ought to be the strongest union estab
lishment in the land!— Puck.
The manager of a matrimonial agency is re
sponsible for the statement that when be pro
poses a can lidate tor tbe hands of lady patrons
the young girls invariably ask;
"What’s he like?"
The widows inquire:
"What are his business prospetts?”
While the old maids breathlessly ejaculate
“ Great heavens! quick! Whore is he?”—
Judge., '
PERSONAL.
Speaker Reed has made a collection of news
liaiier pictures of himself, and on his desk is a
large pile of these cuts. He takes pleasure in
showing to his friends how mauy different faces
he turns to the public.
John Christopher Schwar, a graduate of
Yale in the class of 'BC, has taken from one of
the leading German universities the degree of
Ph. D. minima cunt laude. This degree is very
seldom given, an l its acquisition by a foreigner
is almost unprecedented.
It is stated that the Rev. Pamphile de Veus
ter. Father Hamim'* brother, who is in England
collecting subscriptions for tbe erection of the
Damien institute for the instruction of candi
dates for the mission among the lejiers will
shortly visit the United States.
Mrs. Hodgson Burnett has recovered from
the effects of her recent accident, aud has
returned to London. It is confidently expected
there that she will now make an early reply to
the serious accusations that have been made
against her iu the matter of "Little Lord
Faiuitloroy.”
Warner Miller breakfasts alone and early
at the Union ixiague in New York, with per
haps half a dozen other men scattered about the
room at different tables, and the general prev
alence of that air Of inaccessibility with which
men surround themselves at breakfast. The
Union League’s breakfasts are famous, and
perhaps as many well-known faces are to be
seen tHere in the early morning as at any club
in town. B.- the way, early breakfasts are the
rule at nearly all New York clubs, and one that
should not open its breakfast room by 7:33
o'clock in summer and 8 o'clock in winter would
lose popularity.
A lady well known in Boston society, having
been informed that the poet Whittier, when he
received an inspiration, was wont to retire to a
certain corner of a certain room and thero
kneel, while lie reduced his thoughts to words,
at once, with her own fair hands, made a hand
somely embroidered cushion. This she con
veyed herself to Oak Knoll, anil formally pre
sonteil it lo Mr. Whittier, although she had not
had the slightest previous acquaintance with
tho poet. The emotion of the latter upon the
receipt of this attention can scarcely be de
scribed, but they are more easily imagined than
is the spectacle of the good old man lugging a
pillow about with him to kneel upon in the
event of a bright thought striking him.
Speaking of the late Martin F. Tupper, a
London journalist says: “When it was mv good
fortune to become acquainted with Mr. Tupper
1 found him the most cordial friend. The storm
of contemptuous criticism which about that
time hailed down upon his works never dis
turbed his equanimity or ruffled his temper: in
looks he was a ruddy-faced, white-bearded,
handsome English gentleman, hearty, courteous’
and enthusiastic. Asa proof of his good tem
per I may here repeat an anecdote which I have
published elsewhere. It is to the effect that
when I visited Mr. Tupper at Albany he showed
me an immense volume, in which were pasted
all the criticisms, favorable and unfavorable, of
his works, and all the parodies of his poems.
Among the latter I saw with horror some which
I had written, and with more horror a marginal
note in Mr. Tupper's handwriting: ‘I under
stand these to be by Edmund Yates; they are
very smart.’ ”
Increasing age and infirmities are greatly
altering the ouce jovial character of the j'rince
of Wales. He is said to feel greatly|;the disap
pearance one by one of all the personal friends
and companions of his6arly years, some to un
timely graves and others into dark abysses of
dishonor ten thousand times more terrible. He
has become singularly stern and severe on the
sub. ject of morality, an illustration of which
was afforded by an iucident which took place a
few weeks ago. A man well known in London,
who for years lias been a prominent member of
tho prince’s coterie, appealed to him when he
got into some trivial scrape, and instead of
meeting with the cordial sympathy wnich he
had expected, and which would have doubtless
been extended to him a few years back, was
comforted with the following words: “My dear
F ,I am really tired of this You must re
member that I am not the pope, and I can’t
grant indulgences."
“I cannot praise Hood’s Sarsaparilla half
enough,” says a mother whose son, almost
blind with scrofula, was cured by this med
icine.
tie Gave It Up.
From Time.
‘'Elijah, dear, wiil you dress Willie this morn
ing? I’m in such a hurry, and it won't take you
but a minute or two."
••Certainly.” replied Mr. Bixby cheerfully.
1 and jus* as noon dress the little chap as not.
Here, my little mail, come and let papa dress
ave you as neat as a pin in a jiffy.”
'v l ” l ®* a^e 4. comes reluctantly from his play
things. and Birby begins:C
* Nojr,. let's off with your nightly gown and
- §till dear, or I can’t unbutton it. There
now, we 11 sit still, child. What makes vou
squirm around like an eel? Where’s your little
shirty* Ah, here it is, and—sit still! Put up
your arm—no, the other one and—can’t you
keep still half a seconds Put up your other arm
and stop hauling and pulling so! Now, let’s—
come here, boy! What under heaven do you
mean by racing off like that with nothingon’but
your shirt? Now you come and let me put the
rest of your duds on. Stand still. Isay: l’ut
your leg in here! Not that leg’ There you go
squirming arouud like an angle-worm. Now. if
you don t keep still, young raau. I’ll—atop pull
ing at that chain, and—here, Mary Ellen, you'il
have to dress this wriggling animal yourself,
l couldn t do it in ten years. Go to your
mother, sir!"
He Wasn't a Sucker.
From the Washington Post.
There are a number of good story-teller* in
congress. Everybody knows of the tame of
Allen of Mississippi, and "Billy” Mason of Chi-
< ‘ a k° i in this regard, and now that Representa
tive Spinola ana Fiower, the one gray-bearded
and the other rotund, sit close together, they
are always sure of a crowd around their desks
to hearthem swap their varied and interesting
experiences. Gen. Spinola regaled his friends
with a good poker story yest nlay. “I was
coming down the Hudson one night,” he said,
"in company with Cornelius Vanderbilt, Thur
low Reed, Dean Richmond and George Daw.
when Weed proposed a game of poker, and I
was asked 'to come In. I hesitated, for I had only
about $-1,000 m my pocket, and I knew that it was
to be a game without a limit. I mentioned the
state of my finances to Law, but he told me to
take a hand, and said that he w-ould back me to
any amount. T am willing to lose $30,000 or
*tO, ooo to-night,' he said, and to-morrow I will
tell you the reason.’ So the game started and
I staid in, hugging the shore pretty close and
getting startled every once in a while when
someone went SI,OOO bllad. When we quit at
daybreak I had won about. $4,000, but Law had
lost about ten times that amount. The next
day I met him. T will tell you, Frank.' he
paid, -why I lost that money. I wanted Van
derbilt to think I was a sucker and so I played
like one. The result was that to-day I sold him
a lot of steamboats for nearly $600,000 more
than I ever expected to get from him. Don’t
you think the money was well invested?’ ’’
The Hunter.
From the New York Sun.
When the frost has stripped the branches.
Left them lmfiess, seeming lifeless;
When o’er every lake and river
Rests a dresm of coming snow storms.
Then the wild duck staris and shivers,-
Calls in accents loud and urgent
To his mates that linger with him,
Meaning time has cc.ne to vacate.
To take wing for warmer climates.
Where the gentle snow squall comes not.
Then, too, sallies forth the hunter,
With his gun upon his shoulder;
Sutffs the frosty air with pleasure,
Says, with smiles and winks unnumbered,
”Xo.v, I'll get me to the forest.
To the lake, and to the river;
I will draw the duck aud partridge
To my game bag, as the full moon
Draws the mighty t des of ocean;
Laden with my spoils of hunting
X will wander home at evening,
And the people all will cry out,
’Lo! here comes the modern Nimrod,
Crown him chief of lucky hunters.’ "
Shadows gather: evening slowly
Blots tue sunshine from the landscape
O’er the meadows comes tho hunter,
But his steps are slow and weary.
Empty is the luckless game bag,
Empty- is the useless shot pouch,
Empty is the gun he carries,
And his heart is sad within him.
But a brilliant thought comes to him,
As he steers his footsteps homeward;
Through the back streets sf olks he slyly.
Sneaks into a wayside market,
Buys of duck a handsome dozen.
Buys a brace or two of partridge.
Then, with conscience hushed and sVified.
Ploddeth home, the mighty hunter!
Wonders of Modern Surgery
From the Chicago Tribune.
“Doctor, is there any help for her?”
"Mr. Fyke, there is.”
A dark cloud of anxiety lifted itself from the
face of the jWung husband.
"Spare no expense, doctor," ho said. “If
necessary, call to your aid the highest surgical
skill and the most approved appliances known
to your profession ”
*T will,” answered the eminent surgeon.
There had been a terrible railway accident.
By one of those well-known coincidences that so
often happen none of the high oltlcials of the
'road were on tho train at the time of the dis
aster, and it was several days before they had
learned enough about it to be ableto give any
inf ormation to the reporters.
But Buenavista McCorkle Pyke, the young
wife of Bolivar Pyke, was among the passengers
on the ill-fated train.
When the crash came she was caught between
two pieces of broken timber iu such a way that
she could only be released by the sacrifice of
her uose. It was a remarkably handsome nose
of the pure Grecian type, but it had to go.
Over the harrowing details of the amputation,
lierformed, as it was, hastily, and with a 38-oent
:nife in the hands of a sympathizing but busi
uess like commercial traveler who happened to
be uninjured, it is best lo draw a veil.
The unfortunate woman was taken to her
home and a distinguished surgeon summoned
at once, who gave the opinion, as we have seen,
that the damage was not irreparable.
“I cannot replace the former nose, Mr. Pyke,”
he explained, "but I can provide an admirable
substitute. Have you any live poultry about
the premises?”
“We have."
TheD order a servant at once to kill a pullet,
remove the pointed portion of the breast, tak
ing bone anil all, and bring it to me while yet
warm,” said the surgeon, briskly, as he roiled
up his sleeves, and i repared fo an operation
the most dariDg, original, and skillful he had
ever undertaken. With the practiced hand of
a master he rapidly adjusted his instruments
for instant use, prepared the stump of the nose
to receive its extraordinary graft, and all was
in readiness when the servant came in with the
require! section of breast bone.
"It is too large,” muttered the surgeon, as h
looked at it in surprise, "it must have been”
taken from a very heavy pullet. However, I
can cut it down.”
He did so. With the hand and eye of an artist
as well as a surgeon he trimmed the cartilagi
nous yet plump and shapely fragmen. to tne
proportions of a human nose, adjusted it to its
place with marvelous skill, sewed it firmly to
its base, applied the proper dressing, and the
operation was over.
Weeks passed. The new nose of Mrs. Bolivar
Pyke was an unparalleled success. Only the
closest scrutiny would have enabled a stranger
to see anything peculiar in its anchorage, its
configuration, or its complexion. Happy iu her
restored beauty and the tender care of her de
voted husband, she went into society as before
and received hearty congratulations fromjall.
The golden autumn grew toward its close.
Withered leaves fell from the trees and sharp
frosts whitened the morning landscape. One
morning Mrs. Pyke came down to breakfast
with a look of strange alarm on her face.
“Bolivar!" she said, with a trembling voice,
“do you see anything unusual about my nose?"
"It seems rather ruddy, Buenavista," he
replied, “but I have always supposed that to be
a characteristic of the female nose in cool
weather. Is it worse than usual?”
"It is not mere redness, Bolivar. Look at it
closely.”
Bolivar complied.
“It seems mottled with dark purple spots,”
he said, after a careful examination. "Won't
they come off? Have you tried—er—soap,
Buenavista?”
“They are not on the outside.” said Mrs.
Pyke, w ringing her hands. “I don’t know what
is tho matter, but I have a dreadful fear. Send
for the doctor at once, Bolivar!”
The surgeon was brought in haste. He exam
ined the nose, and a look of mystification and
dismay spread over his face.
”1 cannot account for it,” he said. “It might
be that the—ha' An idea occurs touie. Where
is the servant who assisted me the night when
the operation was performed? Let him be
brougnt in."
It was done.
"Jacobs, a word with you.”
The doctor took him to one side and asked a
few searching questions.
“Mrs. Pyke,” ho said, a few minutes later, "it
is as I oxpected. In the hurry of the moment,
an 1 in the darkness of the night, your servant
made a mistake in selecting his fowl. This
mistake, which it is now too late to remedy,
will be attended w-ith unpleasant consequences
only at the beginning of a cold winter. These
spots are not on tho surface, but show through
the transparent skin. Mr. Pyke," he added, "I
congratulate you on having a handy and in
fallible weather indicator in your possession.
Your wife's nose is made from the breast bone
of a goosePJ
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Ax Edison- cextral station will furnish
1 Buenos Ayres with 80,000 Edison electrical
lights ard some 6.000 arc lights Other smaller
works of the same comp iny will be established
in other parts of this city.
British capital is developing the resources
of South Africa at a remarkable rate. The re
turns from the mine3 have increased from
*360,000 to $7,300,00) a year. At the same
time silver, coal, petroleum and planting com
panies, with all their attendant industries, have
been started, and in many eas -s are doing well.
M. Matsowhaiti, says the Bulletin Interna
tional de l'Elertncitie, having noticed that the
passage of a current of eiectriaity through
milk retarded the formation of cream, made a
series of experiments to see whether milk could
be sept fresh in this manner. The result of
these experiments is a patent for the preserva
tion of milk by means of either static or current
electricity.
The Frisch minister or war is making some
experiments in electric shooting, and intends
to arrange so that he can discharge his guns
upon the enemy from unexpected places by
means of an electric cuiTent. By placing a bat
lerv on a hill, in a fort, or at the entrance of a
ueftle, it would be possible to shoot from a dis
tant- ■ or automatically discharge the artillery
at any precise point of the lino of defense.
At the Paris expositiox was shown a novel
form of triple-expansion engine. There were
four cylinders arranged like a double-tandem
compound. All the cylinders wer • of differ
ent sizes. The engine could be used as a sim
ple compound if one side should give out, or as
a double compound or triple extension, the
right-hand higt\ pressure cylinder exhausting
into tho left-hand high pressure cylindr of
somewhat larger diameter, usiug it as an inter
mediate, aud thence into the two low pressure
cylinders.
Henry Hall, inspector of mines for Great
Britain, estimates the available quantity of
coal in Breat Britain at 90.207,000,000 of tons.
That is the quantity estimated at less depths
than 4,odofeet, allowing any additional quantity
that may b-> got from under the red rock to
Rtandasaset off against that which maybe
found impracticable or approaching 4,001 feet
On this data, if we add 3,000,000 tons to each
future year's production, tills being the awtrage
increase since 1851 up to 1888, we get a life of 192
years. But the increase over the ten years
previous to 3889 is 4.000,000 of tons, and assum
ing that the future increase will be equal to this,
we get a duration of 171 years.
Mrs. Ann Adams, nee Smith, died the other
day in Chicago, aged 69 years. In 1836 her
mother was eaton up by wolves not far from
the spot now- known as the corner of Twenty
second and State streets. The Smiths then had
a farm out toward Blue Island, and it was
about fifty years ago last month that Mrs.
Smith left town late one afternoon with some
groceries. She went out by a road now known
as State street, aud, a little he 1 ore dusk, was
striics by a blizzard from the northwest. The
snow blew so furiously that she lost her way
and traveled around in a circle for several
hours. Fiaallv she sat down to rest and eat
some of the groceries she had with her. when
suddenly a pack of wolves pounced upon her.
Two brothers, William C. and Sydney C.
King, living at Newport, Washington county,
Minnesota, were discussing an advertisement
for a wife which recently appeared, and were
soon in a heated argument Finally Sydney
offered to bet s.'>oo against William’s farm that
the latter would not choose a wife by a lottery
scheme that he proposed. The offer was ac
cepted and a contract was drawn up. It pro
vides that William is to make a hundred tick
ets. numbered from J to 100, which are to be
put in envelopes and one given to each lady
wishing .a husband, regardless of her age or
rationality. A certain day is announced for
the drawing, and public notice is to be given of
the place where it is to take place. William
must marry the lady bolding the corresponding
nnmber to the one that he draws.
The cheese trade between America and En
gland is a very large one. Last year we im
ported 613,000 hundred weights from the United
States and 638,000 hundred weights from Canada,
making together 1.481,000 hundred weights,
says the Pall Mall Gazette, and this year tho
figures promise to be as large. This extensive
business is thought to offer a favorable oppor
tunity for introducing modern methods of or
ganization, and a scheme is on foot for the
formation of a large corporation for this pur
pose. To put it briefly, the scheme is intended
to bring about a direct deal between the pro
ducer and the foreign consumer, so as to cut
down unnecessary expenses. While maintain
ing a fair margin of profit, the cost to the con
sumer is to be reduced. There is said to be
abundance of capital at the back of the under
taking.
Col. F. W. Hiooinson contributes an interest
ing war paper to Harper's Bazar. He speaks of
tne early regimeDts recruited from the freed
slaves of the south, saying that nothing was at
first a greater obstacle than the unwillingness
of the ignorant colored people to be subjected
to one another. Not only had the commissioned
officers at first to be taken from the white race,
but, in some cases, the sergeants were similarly
appointed, and it was only very gradually that
the colored soldiers could be brought to obey
any one of their own race. "I don't want him
to play the white man obar me,” was the
frequent protest. By degrees they came to un
derstand that they wore not to obey their of
ficers by reason of color, but because they were
officers, and then they gradually learned to take
pride in having sergeants and corporals of their
owd hue.
Men of tho present day who attend the opera
and theater and are debarred the pleasure of
seeing the actors aud the stage by the high liat
nuisance, may takecomfort from the fact that
their grandfathers and great-grandfathers suf
fered a similar infliction. In the European
Magazine, published in London, for December,
1783. is the following: "It is the fashion in
Paris for the ladies to wear straw hats of a
m nstrous size, made in imitations of theareo
static globes: on which account they are ‘les
chapeaux au balloon.' It is to be hoped that
the whimsical mode will not be introduced
among the people of Englaud, as it would
prove still more inconvenient at the play houses
than the late high head 9.” And again we read:
"Woe to the frequenters of the play houses if
tho new French balloon hats are ever brought
into fashion here in their present form.” But
tney were.
“We have a sure proof that the average cold
of tho winter is not so great nor extended over
so long a period as it was twenty years ago,”
remarked a Philadelphia hardware dealer, who
has been in business since 1850. “It is that we
do not sell half as many pairs of skates as in
my earlier years. It won’t do to attribute the
decrease to the fashion of roller-skating, nor to
say that young people and adults have given
up the notion of gliding over the ice. If we had
the ice, this generation would be as quick to
take to it as their predecessors were. Carry
your mind back twenty years, and you will re
call that there were a dozen ice-rinks in and
about the city, the largest and best of which
was that in old Eastwick park. Men rented
the grounds, flooded them, put up restaurants
and dressing-rooms, and then made money,
because ihero was rarely a winter when the ice
was not good for week after week. Climatic
conditions have changed so that the man who
should go into it now would be bankrupted.
Freezing weather does not last long enough to
insure any profit for the venture. We hardly
sell one pair of skates in the holiday season
now where we sold a dozen in the old days of
frozen streams and ponds.”
Out in Creston, la., one Sunday night not
long ago. there happened an amusing incident,
which railroad trainmen will appreciate.
Creston is a division point on the Burlington
road, and the town is naturally the stopping
place as well as the home of a great many rail
road employes. On the evening mentioned,
Donnelly and Girard were playing "Natural
Gas” there. The house was crowded, and
among the gallery gods were soma 250 brake
men, switchmen and yardmen, who had come
directly from their work, consequently they
were not only dressed in their laboring garb,
but each man carried his lighted lantern.
About the middle of the performance, when
the railroad boys were enjoying immensely the
funny specialties of the two comedians, a smut
covered chap rushed up to the door and in
quired of Manager Bert Riddle whether or not
Jimmy McCool was in the audience. ”If he is
i want to see him right away.” he added. Kid
dle replied that ho did n >t know “Jimmy” by
sight, but said that as soon as the act was over
he would go out before the curtain aud call for
him. This did not appear to satisfy the smut
covered party. He pushed by Riddle, rushed
up stairs, and called out in a loud voice; "No.
7, east bound, on time: No. 9, going west, one
hour late; all hands wanted in tne yards!” At
this every man of the 250 left his seat, aud,
with lighted lantern in hand, marched out.
The effect of such a disturbance upon the per
formance mav be imagined. It simply broke
the actors all up and completely knocked them
out.
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