Newspaper Page Text
4
CgelPflntmglte
t Morning Building. Savannah. G*.
MONDAY. AI'KIL 1 NIK?.
*~The Mornino News is published every day in
in ii- ■ ■! t • subscriber* ■* the city
g rents a *WK. Si t)j * JOiith. $5 oO for six
ii 'intlis and U> for ont 1 o&r.
Tie Mansi VO Vests, by mail, one month.
(; oj; Mure n.onths, $2 50; six months, 55 U>;
\'ns h V mail,Bix time* a week
I, ,| 10l ; s,'n:idv issue l , three months, $i 00:
, ' mo nths *i 00; nne year, $5 00.
. • i • Tri Weekly. Mondays,
Wednes iav'“ and Fr lays, or Tuesdays Thurs
tav* and 'Saturdays. Hire • months, $1 25; bix
months S2 50: une year. §5 iM.
e-t,,. s',-si iy News, by in til, one year. 32 00.
ThV Wki-'KLY News, by mail, one year. $1 25.
Suoserirtlons payable in advance. Remit by
postal order, check or registered letter. Cur
re icv sent bv mail at risk of senders.
Letters and teiesrrams should be addressed
••Nor.nivo News,” Savannah, Ga.
Transient advertisements, other than special
column, local or readme notices, amuse
loents and cheap or want column, 10 cents a
line. Fourteen lines of acute type—equal t >
o ie inch space in depth —is the standard of
measurement. Contract rates and discounts
Kiwsle known on application at business office.
OCR MW YORK OFFICE.
M*. J. J. Fltnn hah been appointed General
jUFrertising Agent of the Mornino News, with
®n office at 23 Park Row, New York. All adver
tising business outside of the stales of Georgia,
yic.-rida and South Carolina will be managed by
tolm.
The Mohn.no News is on file at the following
|1 laces, 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 A Cos., 10 Spruce street.
W. W Shap & Cos., 21 park Row.
.Frank Kikrnan & Cos., 152 Broadway,
Dauchy & Cos., 27 Park Place.
J. W. Thompson, 39 Park Row.
.American Newspaper Publishers' Association,
Potter Building.
PHILADELPHIA
K. W. Ater & Son, Times Building,
BOSTON
s. R. Niles, 250 Washington street.
JhCTTV M.iLr. & Cos., 10 State street,
CHICAGO —
JjOrp A Thomas, 45 Randolph street,
CiNCINNATI
JEdwin Aldkn Company, 66 West Fourth street.
NEW HAVEN—
•The H. P. Hubbard Company. 25 Elm street
BT. LOUIS—
Kelson Chesman A Cos., 1127 Pine street.
aTLANTA-
Morninc. News Bureau, 8)4 Whitehall street
MACON—
Daily Telegraph Opwce. 697 Mulberry street
INDEX TO NEW" ADVERTISEMENTS'
Meetings— DeKalb Lodge No. 9, I. O. O. F.:
Chatham Gun Club; Georgia Historical Society;
Tyler Cotton Press Company; Title Guarantee
and Loan Company of Savannah.
Special Notices— Merchants’ Week Commit
tee to the Merchants of Savannah; Notice,
John M. Doty.
Military Orders— Battalion Savannah Yol
trateer Guards
Auction Sales— Bacon, Cigars, etc., by C. 11.
Dorsett; Furniture, etc., by C. P. Miller.
STEAMsmp Schedules— Ocean Steamship
Company; General Transatlantic Company,
Proposal— For Lease of the Steamer Ad
vance.
Stock, Boyd and Real Estate Broker—F.
C. Wylly.
Legal Notice— Notice to Creditors of Alfred
IT. Oliver, deceased.
Cheap Column Advertisements Help
Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Rent; For
Sale; Lost; Personal: Miscellaneous.
The following curious information was
cabled to this country a few days ago;
“The empress of Austria has presented her
wedding dress to the statue of the Virgin
Mary, to be worn by the sacred image dur
ing the month of May in St. Matthew’s
Church."
The Chicago Tribune insists that the
farmers—meaning the western farmers—
meed help. Of course they do. They are in
n very bad condition. Why doesn’t the
Tribune make a determined fight on the
tariff that robs the people for the benefit of
the monopolists?
Gen. Thomas C. Anderson of New Orleans,
■who died a few days ago, was a member of
the Louisiana returning board, which
eounted in Haye3 in that state in IS7O. Of
course Hayes rewarded him with an office,
end he was expecting President Harrison to
appoint him to one.
A leading Paris journal is inclined to think
that very few Europeans will attend the
American exposition if it is held in Chicago.
It will be held in Chicago or not at all, and
no reasonable person expects that as many
foreigners will attend it there as would
have attended had it been located in New
Congressman Wilson, of YVest Virginia,
fcwn’t going to retire from congress. Gov.
iPrancis, of Missouri, wants him to bo presi
dent of the Missouri State university, but
lie prefers to remain whore he is, and the
people will applaud his decision. He is one
of the ablest democrats in congress, and
that is saying a great deal.
Congressman Coleman, of Louisiana, says
that he is going to fight the republican
tariff bill on account of the cut in sugar,
mnd be intimates that ho will no longer go
into the republican caucus. Mr. Golem in
got into bad company very early in his
public career. He ought to carry out his
implied threat and return to the democracy.
Johnny Coakly, a 9-year-old boy of Ham
ilton, 0., has gained considerable news
paper notoriety on account of precocity.
He has mastered telegraphy, is woll ai
vanced in mathematics, and it is said can
correctly spell any word in the English
language. Until last fall he was consid
ered a rather dull boy, but at that time his
father took him to a county fair, and he
witnessed a balloon ascension. That seemed
to awaken his dormant wits, and ever since
then he has applied himself assiduously to
study. His parents should be careful that
he does not overdo the thing. Youthful
prodigies frequently become adult block
heads.
The public has not forgotten that Miss
Jessie Y\ bite of Joliet, lil., recently com
mitted suicide, because, as was stated, she
had for several years received anonymous
letters and had been made the subject of
sensational statements, nor has it forgotten
that by some she was thought to have writ
ten the letters herself. It may never be
known whether she did or not, but at pres
ent her cousin, W. H. Parks, is trying to
fasten tho guilt upon F. T. Lettz, who was
a reporter for a Joliet newspaper, and who
is said to have written the letters to furnish
sensations for his paper. He says that
lieltz seemed to know exactly when a letter
had been received by the White family, and
that when he went away for uwhile they
came by mail Tho editor of the paper ii,
question denies that Isettz had anything to
lo with writing or sending the letters.
Let Ua Have a Correct Census.
Are we to have colored census enumera
tors in this state? The Montieello (Go.)
Timex said a few days ago that it was
understood that two colored men were
booked for enumerators for that (Jasper)
county. A week or two ago S; per visor
Thibedenu was ia Eatonton, and it was
reported that he was tnere to find colored
man for enumerators for Putnam. We
have not heard of an intention ia any other
district to appoint colored men to these
important positions, but if they are ap
pointed in one district it is probable that
they will be appointed in others.
So far as’Ja-per and Putnam are con
cerned, there is not a colorod man in either
county who could do the work satisfactorily,
and the same may be said of nearly all of
the other counties of the state. Tne statist
ics to be gathered are of such a character
that the enumerators should bo men of more
than ordinary intelligence, and possessing
considerable information concerning the
people ana affairs of their respective coun
ties. Such men ure scarce among the col
or'd population of Georgia.
The people demand a correct census, and
it ought to be the desire and intention of
those having the work in charge to give
them that kiud. This cannot be done if
colored enumerators are appointed in the
south. The census would be practically
valueless. No one would rely upon it.
If Supervisor Thibodeau, or any
other supervisor, thinks of ap
pointing such enumerators, he
should dismiss the thought at once. Even
if colored men could be fouud having the
necessary qualifications for enumerators
they would not be as satisfactory as white
men in other respects. The colored people
would not give colored enumerators tho in
formation required nearly so quick as they
would give it to white ones, and in some
localities the white people might not think
the census of sufficient importance to fur
nish correct information if colored men
were chosen to take it.
Mr. Depew a Discovery.
In a little speech which he delivered at
Chattanooga tho other day, Mr. Chauucey
M. I)epew said that never before had he
been in the south, and that during his trip
he had been trying to find out what differ
ence, if any, there was between the people
of the north and those of the south. He
was glad, he said, that his observations
led him to the conclusion that in all things
constituting good citizenship, honest patriot
ism and intelligence there was no difference.
Did Mr. Depew expect to find the people of
the South less patriotic, less intelligent than
the people of the north, and did he think
that they were not as good citizens as
the northern people} If not, what did Mr.
Depew mean by his remarks ?
He is a student of history, ami he knows
that the southern people are not less brave
than those of the north, and that tho south
has furnished fully her share of great sol
diers and statesmen. Mr. Depew has read
so much in the northern press that reflected
Injuriously upon tho southern people that
he was prepared probably to find a civil.za
tiou in the south much inferior to that of
the north. He was agreeably disaopointed
and was frank enough to say so.
If Mr. Depew had made a longer stay in
the south, and had mingled freely with the
southern people in their homes, he would
have found not only many things worth y
of admiration, bat also many things that
would hare made him wonder whether,
after all, the civilization in the south, in some
important particulars, is not superior to that
of the north. He would have found that
kindness, courtesy, and frankness exist here
in a greater degree than at the north, and
he would have discovered a profound re
spect for all the virtues which are the foun
dation of society.
It is a source of gratification that so in
fluential a man as Mr. Dopew has had his
eyes opened with respect to the south, aud
it is also a source of surprise that so well
informed a man should have supposed that
there was great difference in essential things
between the northern and southern people.
Congressman Amos J. Cummings feels it
incumbent upon him to do a good deal of
explaining with reference to the coming
eulogies of the late "Sunset” Cox. The
eulogies were postponed, on motion of Mr.
Cummings, from April 3 to April 19, not
withstanding Mrs. Cox and a number of
friends of her late husband had come from
New Y ork to hear them. Mr. Cummings
was censured for this, and also for not se
lecting such men as Carlisle, Crisp, Breck
inridge and McMiilin to make the speeches.
He does not attempt to explain why he
moved for a postponement, but he says that
he did the best he could under the circum
stances, and that if everybody should speak
who wanted to an all day and all night ses
sion would be required. The chosen sneakers
are Messrs. Holman, O’Donnell, Outhwaite,
Grosvenor, Buekalew, McAdoo and
McClammy. It really seems as if Mr.
Cummings might have made better sa
lections.
Our dispatches announced a few days ago
that the Greeley homestead at Chappaqui,
N. Y., had been destroyed by fire. It was
established by Horace Greeley forty years
ago, and became the property of his daugh
er. Miss Gabrielle Greeley, after his death.
The first house he built was burned in 1873.
It was vacant at the time, and the insurance
had run out only a few days before. When
the fire broke out the other day. Miss Gree
ley was at church. Arriving upon the
scene, she calmly stated what articles of
furniture she desired to be saved, if possi
ble. The loss is estimated at about ?10,000,
and among the things not taken from the
house were about $4,000 worth of jewelry,
including a handsome gold watch presented
by Mr. Greeley to his daughter, aud some
of Mr. Greeley’s books. There was $1,500
insurance on the house and SSOO on the
furniture.
An investigation by the Baltimore health
authorities of a faith cure hospital in that
city revealed some curious facts. The
hospital is run by a colored man, who calls
himself Dr. G. \V. Kennird. It is said that
he makes no charges treatment of
patients, but accopts whatever they cho >se
to give him. He is teaching a class of
twenty-three pupils t j be faith cure doctors,
and for this he charges nothing. He keeps
two horses and carriages, and is always
very busy. Mauy patients come to the
hospital, and among them are white women
of respectability. It is hard to realize that
these things are true, but the fact that they
are is only additional evidence that there
are some very credulous people in the
world.
Congressman Frank Lawler, of Chicago,
is one of the advocates of the phonetic
system of spelling. One can hardly blame
him , for, from all accounts, he would begin
phonetic with an “f,” and wonld end it with
a “k.”
THE MORNING NEWS: MONDAY, APRIL 7, 1890.
The Industrial Condition of the South.
A number of interviews with southern
congressmen on the condition of farmers in
the south, how they are affected by the :
I present tariff, and what legislation would be j
! most beneficial to them, and on the manu- |
facture of cotton fabrics in the south, were
published a day or two ago in a western
paper. Among the number interviewed
were Representatives Oates and Herbert, of
Alabtma, whose close relations with the
farming classes and accurate knowledge of
their needs and conditions enabled them to
speak with confidence on the subjects dis
cussed.
Col. Oates thought that the planters of
his district who were making the most
money were the ones who raised cotton as a
surplus crop, and made their farms self
supporting m other jiarticulars. The
average cost of producing cotton, he said,
is from 8 1 .7 to 9 cents a pound. It is a paying
crop if it is produced at 10 cents a pound. The
present demand for cotton seed makes that
product the best future of the crop. Cotton
raised at 10 cents a pound nets at present
prices for both the cotton and the seed,
about sls a bale.
It is proper in connection with the above
calculation to call attention to the fact that
it has reference only to the large plantations
which are cultivated by hired labor. On
the small farms which, particularly in the
less fertile sections of the cotton region, are
far the most dimerous, where the farm
work is done by the farmer and his family,
the farmer can expect not only the profit on
his crops,'but also pay for the labor ex
pended in their cultivation.
In the opinion of CoL Oates the cotton
planters have suffered by the depression of
other farming interests only sympatheti
cally, in the s mss of a general condition.
He thought that all the cotton planters
needed in the way of federal legislation was
an increase of the circulating medium and a
reduction of the tariff on all articles which
they consume, butfar thought state legisla
tion against eicslnve charges of interest
would be beneficial. With reference to
cotton manufacturing in the south. Col.
Oates said that cotton goods could be manu
factured with profit in the south if the tariff
was wiped out. As it is, he added, facto
ries are multiplying rapidly, particularly
in Alabama, Georgia and South Carolina.
Mr. Herbert’s views were about parallel
with those of Col. Oates. He favored di
versification of crops, and an abandonment
of the credit, system as rapidly as it could
practioably be done. He called attention to
the fact that cotton goods were beingfnaau
factured in Anniston, Ala., and Columbus,
Ga., in spite of a tax of about 4)
per cent. ou factory machinery.
The views of these gontlemeu,
who have direct and intimate information
concerning the needs of the cotton-growing
section, are worth attention. The demands
of the southern farmers, and manufac
turers, too, are in pleasing contrast t > thoss
of other sections, who claim that it is the
duty of government to make their business
profitable, regardless of its adaptability or
inadaptability to surrounding circum
stances. AU that the southern farmer and
manufacturer ask is hands off, and permis
sion to trade where they can do so to the
best advantage. This is little enough, and
should be accorded them.
Jefferson Chandler’s Candidacy.
The people of Missouri would make a
great mistake if they should send Jefferson
Chandler to the United States Senate in
place of Senator Vest. Tho reason why
this is so is very plain, and it is not likely
to be overlooked by those who are most
interested in it. Senator Vest is a much
abler, sufer and more efficient senator than
Mr. Chaudlor would be. He is one of the
foremost democrats of the country, and his
party would miss him greatly if he should
be left at home. He io identified with the
interest of the people. That cannot be said
truthfully of Mr. Chandler, who is running
as a protection democrat, and is really a
sort of assistant republican.
Mr. Chandler’s record cannot commend
itself very favorably to democrats. In ls7’2
he was the republican candidate for attorney
general of Mistoiri, and in his canvass he
made some of the most bitter bloody-shirt
speeches ever listened to by the colored
people of Missouri. Some of these speeches
were printed in the St. Louis newspapers
at the time, and they would be
interesting readiug just now. He
went to such extremes that nobody would
have lie'll surprised if the colored people
had acted so as to cause vory serious
trouble in the state. Wnen he moved to
Washington ho was an attorney of the star
route gang, and a lobbyist of considerable
notoriety. He was the principal stock
holder of the National Republic in, oae of
the most vindictive republican journals
ever published in this country. When he
professed to be a democrat it was
probably for tho sake of office, and his
professions have never appealed to
many people as being sincere. His
chief backers in his preseut canvass appear
to be a set of railroad men, at the head of
whom is a smart republican, and doubtless
ha would not put on the disguise of a demo
crat if he did not hope thereby to get the
support of enough protection democrats to
land him in the Senate with the help of the
republicans. In this it may be freely
assumed that be will be disappointed. Mis
• souri knows her interest; better than to
j gratify his ambition.
■
Republican organs have not yet ceased to
\ speak of the alleged injustice done the late
| John Reach by ex-Secretary Whitney,
i They say he was driven into bankruptcy
1 and hastened to his death by Mr. Whitnev,
i and they call him the honest old ship
| builder. This is all very affecting, and it
j would be more so if it were true. Mr.
Roach’s widow is in very comfortable cir
cumstances indeed, and all that Mr. Whit
ney did was to require the shipbuilder to
stand up to his contract.
Eer Grandmother’s Fan.
From Life.
Ivory sticks and {minted face.
Bits of yellow tattered lace,
liny mirror set in place,
Beauty sadly marred by age,
B it a treasure I'll eugaze
When the minuet was the rage.
Fancy l can see her now
Powdered locks above her brow,
Sweeping courtesy, miucing bow;
Such a dainty, graceful maid—
One hand holds her stiff brocade,
Other yields the coquette’s aid.
Ghostly, fleeting vision fair.
Flashing eyes and powdered hair.
Marble shoulders glancing bare -
Time rolls backward for a space.
O'er tins faded silk aid lace
Gleams the witch'ry of thy face.
Mrs. Brownstone— By the way, doctor, my
daughter aud I think of taking an ocean voyage
this season; now what would you advise as the
best tbiug to take for seasickness?
Doctor—Well, 3lrs. Brownstone. I think the
best tiling for seasickness is an ocean voyage.—
Ocean,
PERSONAL.
A. Hero has been appointed assistant United
States treasurer at New Orleans. It is hoped he
will be sufficiently heroic to resist the tempta
tions of the position.
Chancellor von Capriyi has declined the
services of detectives for his protection. Pi-ince
Bismarck always had a bodyguard of detectives
following him wherever he went.
Ernest Kenan, the French philosopher, in
dulges in a booby of not riding in vehicle* of
any kind, preferring to walk, although his
health is teeble, and a stout cane is necessary
to support him.
Mrs Mackay, of bonanza fame, has pur
chased the magnificent house of Charles Wilson
in Grosvenor square, London. Mr. Wilson
spent S3OO.(XX) a couple of years ago renovating
and repairing it.
Prince Eugene of Sweden has passed two
years in Paris, studying art under the direction
of M. Henri Gervex. The latter has ju*t had
confen-ed upon him the cross of a cnevalier of
the order of St. Olaff.
Prince Bisnarck, it is said, has already be
gun work on his memoirs. If his pen shall
prove as mighty as his sword, they will make
what Mr. Oreely tersely' described as “mighty
interesting readiug."
Miss Bbaddon, the novelist. Is described as
fair, with flaxen hair and a stout figure. She Is
a collector of bric-a-brac. a lover of Dickens,
and an accomplished cook She was fortuuate
enough to marry her publisher.
Yax Phon Lee, the Chinaman who graduated
at Yale college and soon afterward married a
wealthy New Haven girl, recently went to San
Francisco to engage in business. He didn't like
the city and is now back in New Haven.
The picture by Romney, which was sent to a
recent London exhibition by an old maid who
feared she was presumptuous in asking that it
lie insured for $2,500, “because it was an old
heirloom and much esteerne i iu the family,”
has just been sold, it is said, for $40,0 0.
Mr.'Gladstone was recently asked by the sec
retary ot the Lowestoft Women's Radical Asso
ciation for a log of wood wherewith to make
articles for a forthcoming bazar in aid of the
building fund or the Lowestoft Radical Club.
Mr. Gladstone consented, aud eventually a log
arrived, was duly exhibited, admired and wor
shiped. Later the actual gift of Mr. Gladstone
was delivered by the railway company, and the
ladies discovered that the first log that they had
done homage to had been sent to them by a
local wag.
King Lobengula of Matabele Land is pict
ured by a recent visitor as a giant, weighing
more than 280 pounds. “Never,” writes the
visitor, “have I seen such a brutal, sensual and
cruel expression ns he has. However, he re
ceived us very well, and after our royal letter
had been read aud translated, some excellent
beef was produced, and we were soon busy
tearing it up with our teeth and fingers. Next
week commences the big war dance, so probably
we shall not get away for at least a fortnight.
The king returns to his capital to-morrow.owing
to gout. He is now being attended by witch
doctors. Last September and October he killed
400 people, but has never touched a European.”
BRIGHT BITJ.
With just enough the father was content.
The wo determined that he would be richer
If possible, so he to college went.
And now he is a famous base ball pitcher.
— Pittsburg 1 1 it l j mteh.
Taking a Deep Interest in Him.— Dr. Pills—
You've been working like a hero, doctor, to
save young Starvely's life. And he is as poor
as Job's turkey, too:
Dr. Hack -no That's just it. He owes mes7s
alre idy on my lull, and if he dies 1 won't get a
cent.— Harper's Bazar.
Portly Individual—What, is a fair cigar
worth per thousand?
Dealer—About S7O.
•■What:’!”
“Beg pardon, colonel I didn’t recognize you
at first. About $7 50 I tow are you making it
in your canvass for alderman':” -Chicago Trib
une.
Johnny- My book. pa. says ttiat honesty is
the best policy. Is that true, pa?
Murmibaggs -Yes, my son; if there hadn’t
beeu honest people in the World haw do you
suppose I should ever have bean able to get
ahead as 1 have? Yes. my son, honesty is a
great help to a inan, a greac help— Boston
Transcript.
Little Boy - This ; taper speaks of a young
lady who has an attractive face. Does that
in-an pretty ?
Papa—What young lady is the paper talking
about?
“It’s about an heiress.’’
“It means she isn’t quite homely enough to
stop a clock." -Yew Yurie Weekly.
Farmer's Wipe—Who is that horrible looking
man at the gate?
Tramp—That's a friend of mine, mum.
Farmer's Wife Well, he's the worst looking
thing I've Seen in seventeen years.
Tramp—He ain’t very pretty, inum. I’ll ad
mit, but between you and me he stands very
high in our profession. —Harper's Weekly.
“Why don't you eat, Mr. Bliveri?” said that
young man's landlady. "You seem in doubt
about something. ’
“1 am.”
“What is it?”
“1 can’t make up my mind whether that is a
very small piece of steak or whether the serv
ant simply forgot to wash the plate." Wash
ington Post.
■‘Wb vt were you about to remark?''
“Nothing at all, I assure you,” replied Willie
Washington.
“But you looked as if you had something to
say.”
■ Ya as; I m verwy deceptive that way. I've
often thought, myself, that 1 had something to
say. and diseovahed aftah 1 said it that I
hadn’t.”— Washington Post.
Census Taker tin Texas)—Yes, I've got the
name down all right. How many children have
you ?
Native—Sev—let me see. ITo wife)— Nance,
is it seven or nine?
Wife—Eight, o' course.
Native (.indifferently)—So it is. Eight.
(Proudly)—And I’ve got eleven of the slickest,
purtiest, scrumptiousest hunting dogs, by gum,
that ever treed a coon.
Ready to Proceed to Business.—Man with
blank book (to large, cross-eyed woman at doori
—I am the census taker. I wish to see the
head of the family.
Voice from inside the room—H’m, h'm.
ahem!
Large, cross eye! woman (peremptorily to
owner of voicet—Keep that cradle going.
James. (To census taker) -Go ahead with your
questions, sir.— Chicago 'Tribune.
Accounted foe - Chicago man tin hotel corri
dor to fellow-guest!—Excuse me, sir, but I be
lieve you have taken my hat by mistake; 1 just
came out of the dining-room and noticed my
peg was empty; yes (trying it on), 1 was rignt
This is my hat.
Fellow-guest— But, sir. you must be in error.
Why. it is altogether too small for you.
Chicago man ( haughtily i—Precisely. But you
must hear in mind, sir, that I bought that hat
before we got the world's fair.—Clothier anil
i urn ish er.
CURRENT COMMENT.
Sherman's Sham Fight.
From the Louisville Courier-Journal ( Dem .).
Instead of wasting his time inwritiug shoo fly
anti trust hills in Washington. Mr. Sherman
should go back to Ohio and help Mr. llayes
with his poultry.
Stone Told the Cold Truth.
From the Philadelphia Times (fad.).
Honor to Stone of Missouri, a brave man who
is not afraid to speak what others feel, that the
pension craze is debauching congress and de
bauching the soldiers, and if it does not de
baueh the people will drive them to revolt
against the wholesystem. The cowards In con
gress took frignt at Stone's courage aud made
haste to disown him; but every man of them
knew in his heart that Stone was speaking the
truth.
Atkinson’s Idea Of It.
From the Philadelphia Press (Rep.).
Mr. Edward Atkinson, an acute observer and
at the same time a free trader, has writen a
letter to HrarlstreeC* in which lie says that the
chief cause of any distress tnat there may be
among the farmers is that they do not know
how to farm. Sew processes and new machin
ery have ch tapenod the coat of production, and
those who do not learn these new methods suf
fer as such men do in all callings.
Intended to Deceive, Not Relieve.
From the Memphis Avalanche (Dem.).
The McKinley tariff bill, as reported to the
House yesterday, does not differ materially
from the abstract already published. It offers
the country, in place of the bread demanded, a
nice, smooth stone in a fanciful wrapper of
verbiage. The bill is intended to deceive, not to
relieve, but it will fail of its purpose. The
“Campaign of Education” has taught the peo
ple something. They will not take shucks for
corn any more.
His Ides of a Dinner.
A good story is going the rounds of the press
now about CoL George W. Hooker of Vermont,
says the Washington correspondent of the New
Torn Tribute, telling how he and ex-Congress
man W. L Bcott of Pennsylvania breakfasted
together In New York one day, and bow the
millionaire coal operator told CoL Hooker that
he would give all bis worldly possessions for a
good appetite; this after seeing CoL Hooker
devour a breakfast of enormous proportions. A
gentleman who read the paragraph in a Wash
ington paper said to me:
"I hav -a sequel to that story -without which
11 is really not complete. Col. Hooker is tond
of drinking as well as of eatiog. One day be
was going 'town Broadway in New York with
the light of a recent experience beaming iu bis
eye. when bo met a friend who was well
acquainted with his convivial habits.
•’ 'Hello, Hooker!’ said this friend. ’Where
have you been?'
’‘'Been to dinner," said CoL Hooker, his eyes
rolling in his head, and his Ups moving as
though some sweet flavor lingered upon them
stilL
‘“Did you have a good dinner?’ said his
friend.
“ ‘Good dinner?’ said Hooker. "Good dinner?
The finest dinner I ever had.’
“ What did you eat?' said his friend.
“ ’Eat!” said Col. Hooker. ’Eat? We didn't
eat. We drank.' ”
A Terrible Infant.
“Young people are terrors.” This concise
statement, says the New York Tribune, at least
is made by a certain member of congress wbo
represents a district not more than 100 miles
distant from New York. He invited the other
day to his house to tea a gentleman whose sepa
ration from the “partner of his joys and sor
rows” has but recently ceased to be the talk of
the town. Immediately upon being seated in
the drawing-room the gentleman was ap
proached by the little daughter of the host
with:
“Where is your wife?"
Somewhat amazed and decidedly embar
rassed, the gentleman stammered forth:
“I don't know.”
“Don't know,” persisted the infant terrible,
“why don’t you know?”
Finding that the child kept on asking trouble
some questions despite the mild reproof of her
parents, he concluded to make a dean breast
of the matter, and hare it over at once. So he
said with calmness:
“Well, we don’t live together; we think, as we
can t agree, we’d better not.”
He stifled a groan as the child began again,
and uarted an exasperated look at her parents.
But the precocious youngster would not be
quieted, and at last she exclaimed;
“Can’t agree? Then why don't you fight it
out as pa and im do?”
lam unable to say what occurred subse
quently.
Mr3. Cleveland's Receptions.
There has been a kind of regal magnificence
about Mrs. Grover Cleveland's receptions dur
ing the last two or three months, says the New
York Times. Her drawing room has been
crowded on some days and almost empty on
others, as would fall to the lot of almost any
lady outside of official circles, but she has ap
peared in costly aud elaborate gowas on each
occasion, and impressed every one with her
grace of manner and amiability. To he sure,
there have been a few grumblers who have
questioned her taste ia appearing in evening
dress with broad daylight streaming in at the
windows, but even they have softened their
remarks by saying that she looked very pretty,
and the soft fur which she was foud of
having in tho edge of her decollete bodice was
very becoming She did not wear any gloves,
but left to tiie admiring gaze her well shaped
arms and beautiful hands, which were almost
free from jewels, as but two rings graced her
fingers, and they were worn on her left band.
Mrs. Cleveland's house is very well adapted for
receptions, hut the arrangement or the rooms
implies that there must bs at least three ser
vants to show the visitors to the drawing room.
There are stairs to go up before this room is
reached, aud the first door at the top of the
landing leads into the library, a much cozier
and more homelike room than the drawing
room, which is all while and gold and cu pet
less. Airs. Cleveland seems to have ordered the
room to suit her gown, or her gowns to suit the
room in which she receives, for the latter are
almost always white.
Rich in Years.
Nathaniel Sampson died at Lakeville, Mass.,
recently, at the age of 94.
Joseph Datinbauer of Owensboro, Ky., died
recently at the ag s of 96 years.
Judge K. L. Cooper ot Greenville. 111., is 91
years of age, an 1 is well preserved, mentally
and physically.
.Mrs. Phtebe Wilson of Harnett county. North
Carolina, is 109 years of age. She lias been
thrice married.
John Gamier, the oldest white settler in
Oregon, died at Newport just alter he had
rounded a century.
The oldest person ill New Jersey died on Mon
day last in a soldiers' home. He was John
Caldwell, aged 106.
Mrs. Nora McCarthy of Bennington. Vt., a
centenarian, recently took a five mile walk, and
still does all the housework for herself and son.
Mrs. Hanuah Amidon of Webster, Mass., lost
her husband just after the celebration of their
golden wedding. She is 96 years of age and iu
good health.
In a house occupied by her family for 200
years lives Mrs. Sar ih Naroonneat Salem, Mass
She is 95 years old, aud yet appears as keen and
bright as ever.
The last survivor of eighteen brothers and
sisters, Mrs. Polly Merwin. is in excellent health
at the age of 95. Sne is the oldest resident of
New Milford, Conn.
The years of Jane Harvey of St. Joseph. Mo.,
were 119, yet she never wore spectacles, had no
gray in tier hair, and was in full posse ision of
all tier faculties to the day of her death.
Some Large-Sized Ifs.
From the Philadelphia Press.
If you were the only one fit for your place.
What a jolly old world this would be!
If there wasn’t a thing like a parallel case.
What a jolly old world this would be!
If t he feat you achieve had an air of Us own,
1 f nothing just, like it could ever be shown,
If you were the only original known.
What a jolly old world this would be!
If there wasn't that woe of divided applause,
What a jolly old world this would be!
If the progress you madechecked your enemies'
cause,
What a jolly old world this would be!
If the story you tell was admitted the best.
If it didn’t a dozen just like it suggest.
If your style and your art made you snine from
the rest—
What a jolly old world this would be!
If you knew what was best for you, just at a
glams l ,
What a jolly old world this would be!
If you saw through the tricks and disguises of
ebauce,
What a jolly old world this would be!
If your hindsight could only be changed for
" your fore,
if the horse wasn't gone when you fastened the
door,
If a blunder came not with a multitude more,
What a jolly old world this would be!
Didn't Forget the Rebuke.
Nearly t wenty years of my early life—from
the grade of midshipman to that of lieutenant—
were s[vent in what might now be called the old
navy, says a letter from Princeton, N. J., to the
New York Times. During those years I sailed
in various ships with various officers, but in all
my experience I never knew one who so far
forgot what was due to his position or himself
as to strike a sailor with his fist or to chase him
about the deck with a bela ving-pin, as appears
to have been the custom on board the United
States ship Enterprise.
Asa youngster 1 remember hearing a story
w hich may interest some of your readers and
at the same time illustrate what wsh thought
of that kind of discipline l or the want of it) by
tbe old-time heroes of the service.
Early in the century one of the most dis
tiuguished officers of the navy was the first com
modore, Preble. The gallaut Decatur—wbo
afterward became so famous—was a lieutenant
on board a ship commanded hy him. One day,
in a moment of passion, Decatur knocked’ a
man down. Such au unheard-of breach of dis
cipline was at once reported to tbe commodore,
and Mr. Decatur was suspended from duty.
After a few days be was sent for by Commo
dore Preble and rec -ived a lecture that prob
ably made both of Ids ears tiugle, but like the
manly fellow that be was, he promptly ad
mitted his wrong-doing and proposed to make
such reparation as was possible. He suggested,
however, that he had naturally a violent tem
per and sometimes could not control it.
“Mr. Decatur,” replied the commodore, “since
you have been on board this ship I have beeu
obliged, on several occasions, to caution you,
and once or twice to speak pretty sharply, and
yet, sir, you have never knocked me down,
when you do that I will believe you cannot
control your temper. That is all, sir. You can
return to your duty.” It is said that through
all his future brilliant career, Decatur never
forgot that rebuke. Perhaps some of the offi
cers of the Enterprise might "profit by his ex
ample”—after tbe reprimand.
Van Houten’s Cocoa—Pure. Soluble.
Economical —Adv.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Jrxirs S. Morgan ot London gives SIOO,OOO
and J. Pierpsut Morgan of New York $50,000
for a free public library and art gallery at Hart
ford, Conn.
Gen. Caprivi, Bismarck's successor, is an in
veterate smoker. He smokes a pipe now and
then, but he usually takes his tobacco in the
form of cigarettes.
A peculiar cover for & wine bottle is of silver
and lizard skin, and is made in two parts on
hinges. The case hits also a handle with which
t j facilitate pouring the liquid.
Herr Johann Strauss declares officially that
the story that he intends to alter the tempo of
the waltz to an andantecommodo is n complete
mistake. Tne idea, he says, never has occurred,
and never would occur to him.
Someone has figured that there are in Den
ver, Col., thirty-one millionaires whose aggre
gate wealth is $40,500,000, and thirty-five serai
millionaires, whose wealth aggregates $17,500.-
OuO, making in all $54,0J0,0J9. owned bv sixty
six men.
All the first-class race tracks employ a doctor
by tns year, or rather the season. They pay a
liberal price, from $lO a day and upward, and
expect him to report for duty a half hour be
fore the races begin, and to remain ou hand till
all the visitors have left.
It is said that a large proportion of the
plumes worn by the ladies who attend the
queen's drawing rooms are hired from a shop
which makes a business of renting out plumes.
The feathers are worth from $4 to $lO, and the
rent of them is $2 50 for each occasion.
The rheumatism, from which Queen Victoria
is suffering, which has become chronic, has
caused a contraction of the muscles of the leg.
It does not impair her general health, and she
looks well, but every one admits, wbo sees her,
that she has aged much in the last two years.
The rat plague in Lincolnshire continues in
spite of the enormous destruction of the ani
mals by the farmers during the past, few months.
One farmer, who scatters |>oisoned barley about
his yards every night, gathered in one day a
crop of 1,300 ra s. Three hundred rats were
killed from one scack of grain in another place.
A Cleveland Judge refused to naturalize a
foreign-born applicant because he had never
read the constitution and could not tell how
and for what length of time a United States
senator was elec ed. Said the judge: “Cana
man lie supposed to be attached to the princi
ples of our constitution if he has never
read it?”
Negotiations are going on for transferring
the two great pictures by Rubens from tbe Ant
werp cathedral to the new Antwerp museum.
The pictures, which are tbe property of the
state, are said to be gradually perishing. Their
exhibition hriugs to the church about 20,000
francs a year, for the loss of which some com
pensation will have to b i offered.
W. W. Hanworth, a trackman on the Balti
more and Ohio railroad, and residing at l’aw
Paw, W. Ya, was robbed of $1,500 a short time
ago. Mrs. Hanworth confesses to having stolen
the mo ey for the purpose of eloping with a
young railroad workman. She turned over S6O
to her husband, and it is supposed that her
lover has the remainder of the boodle.
The woman reporter who is trying to get ad
mission to the press gallery of the House of
Commons has got so far along as a statement
by the speaker that til ire is u i law to prevent
her being admitted there. It, was coupled, how
ever. with the remark that as there was also
no law to admit her there it flight be just as
well to let things stand as they are for the
present.
Mrs. R. A. Weston, of A’a ueda, Cal., had a
narrow escape from suffocation. She was play
ing .with a pet canary, and pushed the bird's
head into her mouth. Just then she grew hys
terical and shut her teeth together, so as to
strangle the bird. Her daughter pulled the
canary and severed its head, which got into
Mrs. Weston's gullet. She was black in the face
when the obstruction wa3 removed.
The most interesting feature of tbe Washing
ton medical museum is said to be a pair of
shatter and skulls. They look as though they had
interfered In a locomotive collision. They
originally belonged to a couple of plucky
dark es who loped the same dusky Venus. They
agreed to light a duel with their heads aud the
survivor take the girl. Neither of them remem
bered anything after the first butt.
The three locomotives that went over a 60-
foot liauk near Cape Horn Mills, on the Central
Pacific road, some weeks ago, have not been
recovered. Carloads of coal cinders are being
brought up from the shops at Sacramento to be
used as a bedding to support the necessay ap
paratus for handling the engines, as tne ground
is so full of water that no other material can be
obtained that will serve the purpose so well.
The Empress of Austria has caused her wed
ding dress to be cut up and made into a set of
vestmeuts for the Church of St. Matthew, in
Pestb. The dress was of white brocade, with
silver threads, embroidered all over with beau
tiful garlands of roses in silver. Her bridal
wreatu encircles an embroidered picture of the
Virgin, which is to bo hung up in the Loretto
chapel of tiie same church, which the empress
selects for her devotions. The vestments will
be used lor the service iu honor of the Virgin
Mary in May.
A rare curiosity is owned by a lady of
Phoenix, R. I. It is a Hartz mountain canary,
which, it is asserted, can talk. It was brought
to its present home ab, ( nt the same time a
young par ot was purchased. The two birds
have been in tlieir cages Side by side always.
The parrot has caugnt some of the singing
notes of the canary, and the canary has learned
to enunciate plainly from the parrot. It has
learned thus far only two sentences: “Sweet
little dicky hird“ and “O. poor Billy/’ which it
speaks with startling distinctness. “
A kindly faced man at a Kansas City street
crossing tapped a passing gentleman and ashed
him if hs had lost a 820 gold piece. The gen
tleman looked at the coin and said he had The
old man drew out a note book and took the
name and address of the loser, and turned
away. Well,” said the other, “do you want It
all as a reward?" “O, Idi t not find one," said
the benevolent old man, “but it struck me that
in a large city like this there must be a great
deal of money lost, and upon iuquiry I And that
you are the thirty-first man who has lost a S2O
gold piece this morning.”
“Photography properly dates from 1640,” re
marked Prof. Henry W. Farnum in a recent
facetious lecture, “although several disco varies
were made in the art before this time. Still,
everything can be shown to be old, and I pro
pose to show that the photographic art was
practiced by Egyptians 4000 B. C. This great
pyramid must have beena photographic labora
tory. It contains a dark room, and the diction
ary defines a dark room as a place in w hich
photographic plates are developed. Hence the
Egyptians must have been photographers.
Cheops, the builder of this pyramid, was proba
bly the first amateur photographer.”
The other day in East Java, says the North
China News, a band of contraban l opium
dealers passing through a jungle saw two tigers
following them. They lost not a moment in
hastening ttieir steps, but the least nimble of
them found the beasts of prey at his heels when
he spied a tiger trap. He crept into it with the
forbidden freight on his back. The trap shut
the closer for the heavy weight, and, when
danger no longer threatened the dealer, he at
tempted to lift up the door ot the trap, but all
his efforts proved unavailing. Next day the
setters came to have a look at the trap, aiid re
joiced to see it closed, thinking a tiger had been
caught. Their joy knew no bounds when the
prize proved to he a smuggler with thirty cat
ties of opium.
Thebe are multitudes of interesting historic
relics of the later Pizarro period in 1 jma. The
old city walls have disappeared but many
buildings of solid stone work in whole or in part
remain. The records of Lima's former extra
ordinary wealth are as curious, however, as
anything extant. It is said that the merchants
ot 1653 paved the city streets with liars of silver
on the arrival of anew viceroy. The national
library has one room tilled with old manuscripts
and another with valuable portraits of viceroys
and former presidents. This is the
only collection of pictures open to
the public of Lima. The library has also a
commodious reading room—what a field for the
historian and romance writer: and the walls of
the office of Benor Ricardo Palma, the librarian,
are covered with excellent, and costly paint
ings. The librarian is a scholar, and has a for
eign as well as local reputation as a writer on
Peruvian traditions. The library building is in
the quadrangular style, two stories high, and is
entered'through large, handsome iron gates.
The ceiling and book cases are in plain dark
wood, and the books are screened by wire
doors.
Ladies Are the Best Judges
On all matters connected with the toilet.
They have decided that SOZODONT is
what they will have. “When a woman will,
she will, you may depend on’t; and when
she won’t, she won’t, there’s an end on’t.”
This accounts for the popularity of SOZO
DONT. — Adv.
SAD EYED WOMEN'.
Why so Many Ladies Are Misers Me Cle r )
Explained—lsoroe IMirrlng Remark, hy
One W ho knows.
“I feel sad every' time I see a woman.” Ths
above remark was made to the writer by one .f
the oldest and most prominent physicians in
New York.
“Is it possible that you are a woman hater
doctor?”
“Not at all, but I have seen so much suffer
ing, so many women who are miserable, that 1
cannot help feeling sorry for them all How
many ladies do you know that are lierfeetlv
well and healthy ? How many enjoy life as thev
should? Is this not enough to make one feel
sorrowful?’’
•There must ho a cause for all this, doctor. ”
“There ia Women are weak and their tr .utl-s
largely arise from weaknesses When a woman
is weak she requires strength. Her body, tier
mind and all lier functions must be put in a
healthy condition, or she cannot secure
strength. Nothing does this so easily and surelv
as pure spirits taken in moderation, either be
fore meals or lietweeu meals. 1 k now scores of
ladies that are kept in perfect health, strength
and brilliancy, by the judicious uso of Duffy'.
Pure slait Whiskey. Many of tnese ladies ar
wives of min isters and professors, and most of
them are temperance, women. They realize
that Duffy's Pure Malt Whiskey furnishes the
best and only positive help, and they are intelli
gent enough to profit bv such knowledge 1
know whereof I speak, and I speak as
a temperance man. The best temper
ance people of to-day are the ones
who use pure spirits in moderation and find
that strength, vigor, color and brightness are
the results, rather than weakness, salloane>s
and a toss of interest in everything in life.”
I was much impressed with the remarks of
the doctor and, believing their important r.
produce them entire.
MEDICAL.
CURE
Sick Hendaohf* and relieve all the troubles inci
dent to a bilious state of the system, such as
Dizziness. Nausea. Drowsiness. Distress after
eating. Pain in the Side, Ac. While their most
remarkable success has been shown in curing
SICK
Headache, yet Carter's Little Liver Pills
are equally valuable in Constipation, curing
and preventing this annoying complaint, while
they also correct all disorders of the stomach,
stimulate the liver and regulate the bowels
Even if they only cured
HEAD
Ache they would be almost priceless to those
who suffer from this distressing complaint:
but fortunately their goodness does not end
here, and those who once try them will find
these little pills valuable in so many wavs that
they will not be willing to do without them
But after all sick bead
ACHE
is the bane of so many lives that here is where
we make our great boast. Our Dills cure it
while others do not.
Carter's Little Liver Pills are very small
and very easy to take. One or two pills make
a dose. They are strictly vegetable and do
not gripe or purge, hut by their gentle action
please all who use them. In vials at 25 cents;
five for sl. Sold everywhere, or sent by mail,
CASTES Min:INS CO., Hew Tori.
U& M M Small friss,
? ■ Iflß
A NATURAL REMEDY IMS
Epileptic Fits, Falling Sickness, Hys
terics, St. Vitus Dance, Nervou*-
ness, Hypochondria, Melan
cholia, Inebriety, Sleepless
ness, Dizziness, Brain and
Spinal Weakness.
This medicine has direct action upon tho
norve centers, allaying all irritabilities and
increasing the flow and power of nerve
fluid. It is perfectly harmless and leave.s
no unpleasant effects.
Our Pamphlet for sufferers of nervous dis
eases will be sent free to any address, and poor
patients can also obtain this medicine free of
charge from us.
This remedy has been prepared by the Rev
erend Pastor Koenig, of Fort Wayne, Lid., for
tbe past ten years, and is now prepared under
his direction by the
Koenig SVledicine Cos.,
50 W. Madison,cor. Clinton St., Chicago,lll.
SOLD BY DRUGGISTS.
Price per Bottle. 6 Bottles for #5.
If you hare a i
COLD or COUCH,;
J acute or leading; to ;
i CONSUMPTION, i
i SCOTT’S |
EMULSION
; of pure con mvkk on- 1
: AND HYPOPHOSPHITBS !
’ OF LIME AND SODA
! IS sumit CtTHB FOta IT. !
( This preparation contains the sttmula- {
{ ting properties of the Hypophosphites ;
J and fine Norwegian Cod hirer Oil. Used ,
Jhy physicians all the world over. It Is as j
> palatable as milk. Three time3 as cffica j
( clous as plain Cod Liver Oil. A perfect f
{ Emulsion, better than all others made. For j
! all form'; of Wasting Diseases, Bronchitis, i
CONSUMPTION,
* Scrofula, and as a Flesh Producer J
( there is nothing like BCOTT S EMULSION, j
* It is sold by all Druggists. Let no ono by ;
( pr'duse explanation or Impudent entreaty ,
f Induce you to accept a substitute. f
MINARP’S
LlNimenT
A Reliable Remedy
For PAIN of all kinds,
piinro Rheumatism. Neuralgia, Hoarseness,
bUnCO Sore Throat and Croup. HEALS
Burns, Scalds, Cuts. etc. Most Economical
Medicine in the World. Should be in every
family.
LARGE BOTTLE FOR 25 CHATS.
All Pni||hll NELSON & CO.. Boston
n 111 ■■ and Whiskey Habits
■ U use n 9 g Ef*s
■ H W" Si i Soßout I'din. Hook'.: : ■:
L 49 lU9f fl ticulars sent f'Bhk
MS—SSm H. ■! -.V " " ’ ’
WF Atlanta,Go. OfficeWhitehallW
