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Newspaper Page Text4 Morning News Building, Savannah, FRIDAY. MAY , IXOO. Register*d at the Postofice in Savannah^^ ”~Th Morning News is published every day in fc,. rear, and is served t > subscribers in the city tt 25 cents a wees 51 00 a month, 55 00 for sir Months and $lO 00 for one year. The Mornino Saws, by mail, one month, 00; three months, $2 50; six months, $5 00; J 0 00. The Morning News, by maid,six times a week fwitbout Sunday issue', three months, 9- 00; Mx months, 54 00; one year. 5s (M The Morning News. Tn-Wek]y, Mondays Wednesdays and Fridays, or Tuesdays, Thure tava an ! 'Satunlays, three months, 51 25; six months, 53 50: one year, $5 00. The Sunday News, by mail, one year. $2 00. The Weekly News, by mail, one year, $! 25. Subscriptions payable in advance. Remit by e*:al order, chocs or registered letter. Cur ncv sent by mail at risk of senders. Letters and telegrams should be addressed M Morning News," Savannah, Ga Transient advertisements, other than special solumn. local or reading notices, amuse ments and cheap or want column, 10 cents a U’ o. Fourteen lines of agate type—equal to one inch space in depth—is the standard of measurement. Contract rates and discounts made known on application at business office. OCR lEW YORK OFFICE. Ms J. J. Flynn has been appointed General Advertising Agent of the Morning Nkws, with an office at 23 Park Row, New York. All adver tising business outside of the states of Georgia, Florida and South Carolina will be managed by him. The Morning News is on file at the following places, where Advertising Rates and other in formation regarding the paper can be obtained: NEW YORK CITY— J. H. Rates, 38 Park Row. G. P. Rowell & Cos., 10 Spruce street. W. W. Sha Cos., 211’arx Row. Frans Kiernan A Cos.. 152 Broadway. Pauchy & Cos., 27 Park Place. J. W. Thompson. 39 Park Row. American News pater Publishers' Association, Potter Bidding. PHILAiiELPHLV- N. W. Ater & Son, Times Building. BOSTON 8. R. Niles. 256 Washington street. Fettenoill & Cos., 10 State street. chicago- Lord & Thomas, 45 Randolph street. C NCINSATI— Edwin Aldxx Comp ant, 66 West Fourth street NEW HAVEN— Tee H. P Hubbard Company. 25 Elm street. 8T I.OUIS - Nelson Chksman & 00., 1127 Pine street. ATLANTA— Mornino News Bureau, 3qj Whitehall street. MACON- Datlt Teleoraph O epic a, 597 Mulberry street. INDEX TQ NEW AfIVERTISEMENTI Meetings—Landmark Lodge No. 4, F. & A. M.; Executive Board Merchants’ Week. Special Notices—As to Crews of Norwegian Bark Regia and German Barks Wieland and Carl Linek; State and County Tax Returns; Sa vannah Brewing Company’s Pilsen Beer; Mer chants’ Week Bills. Auction Sales—A Corner Store and Dwell ing, by Rowland & Myers. Steamship Schedules—Oceau Steamship Company; General Transatlantic Company. Excursions—Grand Excursions by the Steam er Crescent City on Friday, Saturday and Sun day. Circular No. 166—Railroad Commission of Georgia. Railroad Schedule—Savannah. Florida and Western Railway; Savannah and Atlantic Rail way to Tybee. Cheap Column Advertisements Help Wanted; EmploymentWauted; For Rent; For Sale; Lost; Personal: Miscellaneous. Merchants’ week thus far has been an un interrupted success. Savannah does noth ing in the entertaining line by halves. Will Mayor Grant, of New York, be able to prove that Brother-in-law McCann is a blackmailer? If he cannot what will Tam many do about it? The pan-American congress and all it did appears to have dropped completely out of sight. Did Mr. Blaine get as much satisfac tion out of it as he expected? Gold win Smith says that there are 30,000 Canadians in business in Chicago. If Cana dians are coming to this country at that rate will they not soon begin to talk about annexing this country to Canada? The McKinley bill does not reduce the revenues, though the republicans pretend that it does. Having got rid of the surplus revenue by increasing the pension charge, they cannot afford to have the revenue re duced. The republicans are legislating apparently so as to phase different classes of people, and thus gain votes. Will they try to please the farmers by passing a law for their relief ? The farmers' vote is well worth having. The New York World, having published a highly sensational history of the rela tions between Judge Hilton and the late A. T. Stew art, will now have a chance to prove that that history is true. There is a great deal that passes for history that isn’t true. Miss Hose Cleveland, sister of ex-Presi dent Cleveland, had a narrow escape from drowning while sailing along the coast near Punta Gorda a few days ago. A violent storm overtook the boat in which she was, and came very near capsizing it. AU her baggage was lost. For a week or two a story, emanating from the “City of Fakes,” Birmingham, has been going the rounds, gravely stating that John Wilkes Booth is still living. It is now in order for the Birmingham story teller to revivify Lincoln. Lincoln is just as much alive as Booth. Brother P. M. G. Wanamaker’s soul is probably in a state of exaltation at present. The last white house reception for the sea son has been given, and the dreams of the pious P. M. G. will no longer be troubled by visions of wine flowing like water, and of ladies ia dresses cut decollete. Gen. Joseph E. Johnston is in Savannah. He is one of the few remaining generals who illustrated the South in that four years of battles. Savannah is glad to welcome Gen. JohDston. Many residents of this city were under him when he was stayfhg “Sherman’s mnr h to the sea.” The republican programme appears to be a tariff bill to please tho monopolists who furnish the campaign funds, a silver bill to please the silver millionaires and pension bills to please the ex-union veterans. Hav ing pleased all these classes it hopes that they will be pleased to give it anew lease of power. Editor Watterson's lecture on “Money and Morals,’' delivered before the Southern Press Association at Charleston on Wednes day night, contained a good manv suggest ive thoughts. Avarice and party spirit, he thmks, are the two great agents of de moralization and misgovernment, and there are few who doubt that he is right. Dangerous Haste In Legislation. The republicans of the Hous9 are passing the moat important bills with a rapidity newer before known in congress. 1 bey re vised the rules so as to give the speaker almost absolute control of legislation, and they are now virtually ignoring the minor ity. They decide in caucus upon the bills they will pass, and they pass them almost without discussion. Is there not great danger in legislation of this Are all the bills which are passed approved by a majority of the House! It is quite safe to say they are not. Those of the republicans who do not approve of of them hesitate to oppose them, because the caucus has decided that they shall pass, and the democrats are [lowerless to prevent their passage, or even to show clearly their defects. On Wednesday the House passed a pension bill which will add 450,000 names to the pension roll and about $50,000,000 a year to tho pension burden. One of the republican representatives explained that soon after the bill became a law the pension roll would contain 950,000 names and the pension charge would bo $150,000,000 a year. No time was allowed for discussing or amend ing the bill. The democrats protesled against such hasty legislation. They pointed out that tbe bill would increase the amount an nually required for pensions to a sum that was equal to 43 per cent, of the gross reve nues of the government, but their protests were not heeded. They were, in effect, t Id that the Republican party was running the government and that it was not accepting any suggestions from democrats. There is no longer any reason to doubt that the republicans have determined to enact legislation of the most extreme parti san character. They have the House in a shape to do it, and a step has been taken to prepare the Senate for doing it. Mr. Chand ler’s resolution provides for introducing the Roed methods into the Senate. If that body adopts the previous question and au thorizes its presiding officer to count a quo rum it will be impossible for the democrats to prevent the pasiage of a national election law. Will not the Senate adopt the 'Chandler resolution? There are good reasons for thinking that it will. It is probable that Mr. Chandler had obtained the views of a majority of the republican senators with re gard to it before he introduced it. The ad mission of the republican senators from Montana, in the face of tbe fact that they had not been chosen by a lawfully consti tuted legislature, looks very much as if parti san legislation had been decided upon. The admission of those senators increased the republican majority, aid improved the chances of having enough votes to pass any party measure, however partisan it might be. Maj. McKinley says that he intends to limit the debate on the tariff to a very few days. In other words, he intends to rail road the bill through the House. He is afraid to have it discussed. If he thought It a good measure—a measure that met the approval of the best judgment of the people—he would be glad to have it dis cussod. It may be, however, that there are republicans who will not be bound by any caucus action that may be taken with regard to it. In that event Mr. McKinley may not be able to limit the discussion of it. The Republicans are aiming at a long lease of power. The bills they are forcing through congress they regard as necessary to their success in 1892. They are doing campaign work, and are not legislating for the benefit of the country. There is groat danger in this kind of legislation, but it may awaken the people to a knowledge of the real character of the Republican party. The McCann Story Denied. The testimony of Patrick McCann before the Fassett investigating committee in New York city, in which he made charges of bribery and corruption against two of the leading men of the Tammany society— Mayor Grant and Richard Croker —has caused a great deal of uueasiness among the Tammany leaders. It is true that Mr. Croker and Mayor Grant have both denied the charges. Mr. Croker is in Europe, and is a very stck man, and caunot therefore appear before the Fassett committee, but in a long dispatch in the Herald he has given some strong reasons why the charges are not true. It was expected that Mayor Grant would go before the Fassett commit tee as soon as he could after the charges were made, and deny them. He has, how ever, failed to do so, and his failure has been construed by many as indicating an unwillingness to subject himself to a search ing cross-examination. The committee, being a republican one, is hostile to him and the Tammany society, and it would not show him any favor. It is evident, however, that the Tammany society must do something to remove from the public mind the unfavorable impression with respect to it and Mr. Croker and Mayor Grant that McCann’s charges have created. While it is admitted that in mak ing the charges McCann was influenced by motives of revenge, it is pointed out that he made the charges under oath, and with the full knowledge that if they were not true, he would in all probability be sent to tho penitentiary for perjury. Tammany has weathered a great many storms, and it will not be wrecked by the present one. Its purpose, however, is to avoid any damage, and to do that it must make it clear that McCann’s charges are not true. Mayor Grant and Mr. Croker have excellent reputations for honesty, and those who know them well will never be lieve them guilty of wrong-doing. The general public, however, knows them only by reputation, and will not be so ready to accept their simple denials of the charges as their friends are. The Tammany society is a powerful orga nization, and if there is a conspiracy to break it down by bringing it into disrep ute it ought to be able to ferret out the conspirators and expose them. It certainly cannot afford to let the matter rest whore it is with the hope that it will blow over and be forgotten. Does President Diaz of Mexico propose to have himself re-elected? The constitution of that republic forbids a re-election, but a year or so ago he had the constitution sus pended and was chosen to the presidency for a second term. It is now announced that a bill has beon introduced into the House of Deputies to remove all restrictions upon the re-election of a president. It looks as if Diaz intends to stay where he is for an indefinite period. The republic seems to be receding into the dim distance and a despotism to be looming up. Savannah is a pretty citj r . There is no doubt of that. Bjit Savannah would be much prettier if the city fathers would take steps to prevent the littering of the streets with waste paper. Liberty street on Tuesday afternoon looked as if an editor’s waste basket had been dumped into it. THE MORNING NEWS:!IFRIDAY, MAY 2, 1890. Reform in Railway Service. It is expected that Dr. T. J. Charlton, at the suggestion of Dr. Duncan, will offer a resolution at tbe annual meeiing of the National Association of Railway Surgeons, at Kansas City, providing for uniform medical service upon railways. Dr. Charl ton is a member of the association, and is present at the meeting. Railway surgery has become of more importance than mili ary surgery. There are nearly 700,000 railway employes in this country alone, and a great many of them meet with accidents in the course of a year. The idea that will be embodied in Dr. Charlton’s resolution is that there ought to be uniformity in the treatment of these accidents. There ought to be constant communication between rail way surgeons, so that the best methods of treatment of the injured, as made evident by experience, mignt be adopted upon all railways. The reform al s o includes the settlement of damages for injuries. The physicians svho attend the injured employes are the best judges of (hi s rioti-ness of tbe injuries, and the extent such injuries wiil incapaci tate the injured for earning a living. When there are suits for damages the surgeons of the railways, as a rule, furnish the evidence upon which juries base their verdicts. Why should not tbe railways have a uniform rule for settling with those who are injured in their service, thus saving costs of court and insuring to the injured the full amount received from the railroads? If the reform suggested should be recom mended by the association, and accepted by the railways, both the railrways and the in jured railway employes would be benefit ed, and the courts would be relieved of a great deal of litigation. Of course, if any claimant for damages were not satisfied with the amount awarded him by the surgeon he would be at liberty to go into the courts. Some, of course, would go there, but the chances are that a vast maj irity of the cases would be settled outside of the courts. There is now talk to tho effect that alum inum may soon take tho place of iron and steel in many important lines of manufact ure. It is getting to bo very cheap, and it is found in almost unlimited quantities. What has heretofore made it so costly was the difficulty in reducing it. Not many years ugo it was more costly than gold. New it is worth about as much as nickel, and is four tims lighter than that metal. A cheap process for redueiag it has been discovered, and should the cost of it be still further lessened it might come into use for ship-building purposes. A ship having the brightness of silver would be a very attractive spectacle. The London Spec tator, commenting upon aluminum as a material for ships, says: “It is calculated that a ship which, if entirely constructed of iron, would draw twenty-six feet of water, would, when made of aluminum, not draw more than four or five. Practically, then, the light metal would treble or quadruple the number of miles of navigable river in the world, and we should think nothing of vessels crossing the Atlantic in seventy-two hours.” Is Census Superintendent Porter expected to handle the census in the south so as to benefit the Republican party? The Wash ington correspondent of the New York Times says that “one way in which the republicans expect to gain great advantage in the south, with the assistance of the rigid election law that they propose to put through, is in the manipulation of tho census returns. It would greatly’surprise a good many democrats if the negro popula tion in tbe south should not turn out to be greatly in excess of the most extravagant calculations of African increase. The re publicans propose to prove that they can elect a republican in every district in the south where tbe black population exceeds the white.” They will have to show a groat deal more than the correspondent indicates to satisfy intelligent people that thier party does not now get ail the congressmen in the south it is entitled to. They wiil have to show that the blacks are willing and anx ious to vote, and are prevented. That they cannot do. Prohibition has received no heavier blow than the recent decision of the United States supreme court in the lowa case. Intoxi cating liquors can be imported now into any prohibition state, and sold there in the original packages. Therefore a man can opon a liquor shop in a prohibition state, have whisky, beer, or wine 6ent to him in quart and pint bottles from another state, and sell the intoxioants freely so long as he does not break the original packages. The only resort of the prohibitionists now is to insist upon a license so high as to bo prohib itory. Miss Wheeler, of Philadelphia, who married Count Fappenheim of Bava ria, yesterday, will have a very beautiful home. It is at Ettal, at the entrance of the Valley of the Ammer, and only two miles distant from the Valley of Ober-Ommergau, famous as the place where the Passion Play is performed once every ten years. Miss Wheeler, being a beautiful and lovable Quaker girl, deserves a beautiful home and a good husband. A correspondent of the Washington Post wants to know why it is that congressmen who lost money by the Silcott defalcation were so prompt in appropriating the money to pay their claims against the government while they refuse to appropriate money to pay the claims of the thousands of claim ants who have been knocking at the doors of congress for years. There is no reason for asking such a question as that. Con gressmen see a vast difference bet ween their claims and those of other people. Judge Hilton, in his communication to a district attorney of New York, complain ing that the New York World had pub lished statements of a libelous character reflecting upon him, shows that he is quite a master of invective. It may be that he will get as much satisfaction out of the in dictments against the World's editors as they got out of the W orld’s history of Hil ton and Stewart. The farmers’ alliance and the national grange do not appear to agree upon a good many things. They are both sincere, how ever, and perhaps they will find a common ground upon which they can stand after awhile. At the recent election in Stanley county, Dak., forty Indians marched to the polls with their tickets in their hands, ready to vote. They were all challenged, but their tickets were re ceived and laid aside until a decision can be reached as to their qualifications as voters. Between the Aral and Okhotsk seas there is a spot half as large aS the state of Michigan, which is frozen ground to the depth of ninety four feet; that is. it has never thawed out since he world was created, and probably never will, and even if it should nobody would have any use for it. PFR u OV a u. Rider Haggard will soon visit the Rocky mountains and write a romance of that region. Clara Barton of Red Cross fame is visiting Johnstown and being feted by those she helped to relieve. Canon Farrar will dedicate his new book, “Truth to Live By,” to George W. Childs of Philadelphia. P. T>. armour, the Chicago packer, whose for tune has grown to $30,000,000, is said to be as modest as a schoolboy. The late Claries Lowell Hancock of Chicago belonged to the old Hancock family of Boston, and was a classmate of Dr. Holmes at Harvard. Gov. Tavlor or Tennessee met Calvin S. Brice in New York tho other day, and after ward conti l-d to a reporter toe deliberate judg ment that “he has a groat mind.” Amei.ie Rives, who was recently prostrated in Paris by a serious illness, is said to be com pletely restored and at work once more. She is one of the most diligent pupus in Lassars studio. Editor Watterson indignantly denies the curreLt story that he recently lost $1,900 in ”a little game of draw” at Memphis. Mr. Watter son seems to have been a victim of the im aginative reporter. Viroini a’r first woman physician is Mrs. C. L. Haynes, who has recently been elected assistant physician of tbe Western Lunatic Asylum after passing a successful examination before the state medical board Mr. Wolcott, the handsome bachelor Sena tor from Colorado, is not famous as a fisherman, yet be has just landed the largest Bass of the season. Bbe is a widow, aad tne wedding will take place at an early date. Jules Simon says he finds himself very much alone in the world. “I can see nobody left liv ing around me,” ho says, “who knew anybody connected wita tue revolution. Why, I dined with a sister of Robespierre when quite a young man.” M. Bartholdi, the well known architect of the American figure of Liberty, is engaged in designing a monument to commemorate the balloon service of the Franc j-i’russian war, which is to be erected iu tne square of St. Pierre. Paris. Kossuth has had M. Ignaz Helfy, a Hun garian deputy, revise his memoirs, as he him self (as he remarks in the preface) was painfully conscious of the fact t nat during his 41 years of exile he had not kept up with the advance of the Hungarian tongue. Shortly after his conversion to Roman Cath olicism, “Joe” Btggar, 51. P., attended a church service and fell asleep, to dream, doubtless, of obstruction at Westminster. When be awoke the service was over and almost all others had left the church; whereupon, glaring at the empty benches, he exclaimed, “Mr. Speaker! I move that the House oe counted.” BRIGHT BITS. When Quay his committee Togetner has got, With a nice lot of whitew ash All mixed in tho pot. He'd better cling to it By night and day. Lest Dudley should steal it And scamper away. —Chicago Times. Shad roes by any other name y-ould doubtless taste about the same.— Berkshire Sews. No bald-headed man who sits in the front row at the theater is a hero to his ballet.— Boston Gazette. There is a good deal of laugh in a girl’s cry, and a good deal of cry :n a w oman's laugh.— Atchison Globe, There are some circles where it is only the mm with the income that can come in.—Bing hamton Leader. The people in the flooded districts of tho Mississippi do not believe in current Action. It’s all tact with them. Washington Star. Pharisee—l thank God 1 am not as other men. Publican—And so do they.— Washington Star. Preacher—My friend,you ought to stop drink ing. In the end it biteth like an adder. Boozy—Thash why I don't sthop. Can’t be any end till I do. “Trade yer an orange for a piece of pie,” whispered one schoolboy to another just before recess. “Haven’t any pie.” “Then it’s all right. I haven’t any orange.” Judge. Country School Trustee (to young lady ap plicant)—Have you ever teached? Young Lady—No, sir; but I think lam qual ified. C. S. T.—’Twon’t do; ’twon’t do. I want some one here with a pedigree. Not to be Had. - Mrs. Suburb (looking up from the paper)—lt does seem to me as it these city officials had not one particle ot conscience. Mr. Suburb Inot quite hearing)—Well, if they haven’t, it's because there is none in Now York to steal.— Sew York Weekly. The Picture Not to Blame.—“ Shall we hang this picture on the line 1 asked the committee man. No. I don't think I’d hang it at all; but if we could get hold of the artist we might see what could be done with him.— Sew York Commer cial. Unanswerable.—Anxious Sister (to brother just returned from a sparring lesson)—O. Jack, don't learn to fight in that brutal way. If you want to perfect yourseif, take lessons in fencing. Jack—Yes, but if I was attacked I probably wouldn’t have a foil with me. She (triumphantly)— But you might not have your boxing gloves, either.— The Jester. Female Consistency.—“l consider it a burn ing shame,” remarked a lady, “that the over wort ed clerks in this city are not allowed a half holiday on Saturday.” “I see that Smith & Smith close at "noon,” said another lady. “I know they do. I went down there last Sat urday afternoon and found the place closed. I was too provoked for anything,”— Texas Sift ings. Kneesout Hauley (the tramp)—Say, neigh bor, gimme a dime, will yer* I want to buy a brindle elephant with green spots on his wing feathers. New street Broker—A what? Kneesout Hauley—Just what I said, friend. I’ve mentioned a cup of coffee, square meal of beans, ferry tickot, an’ night's lodgin’ to my clients this mornin’, an’ none of'm don’t seem to work. Tnought I'd try anew deal.—Pack. CURRENT COMMENT. Partisanship Run Mad. Prom the Philadelphia Telegraph (Rep.), The adoption of either the Lodge bill or the Hoar bill, as it now stands, and its approval by the President, would be followed by scenes which no patriotic citiz n can contemplate with serenity. Partisanship in the present congress seems to be running mad. Reed Pleased Clarkson and Dudley. Prom the Philadelphia Record (Dem.X “Let us do our own registration, our own counting, and our own certification,” said .Mr. Reed at the Pittsburg banquet. No doubt Clarkson, Dudley and toe other eminent count ers and certirtcaiors reciprocated this personal recognition with applause that made the glasses jingle. No Wisdom in Reed's Plan. From the Pittsburg Dispatch (Rep.). It may be a recommendation for a presiden tial boom to the partisan class, to propose to legislate republican success; but it will not do to rely on that doss alone for support. There is more hope for perpetuating the republican supremacy by appealing to the republicans who place public nonesty, constitutional gov ernment and the protection of popular interest above mere partisanship. Turned to the Negro Too Late. From the Neio York World (Dem.). Why should the negroes choose or care to sustain the repuDlican party? What has that party done for them in the past twenty years? It has given them no offices, no protection, no boodle. A republican president withdrew the federal troops from tne south. A republican supreme court nullified the civil rights act. The last two republican presidents before Harrison barely mentioned the negro or the southern question. Tile republican politicians have sim ply used the negro ns a merchantable delegate maker at the south and a scarecrow at the north. And now that their power is slipping from them they turn to him as an instrument to save themselves. It is too late. An Aromatic Fragrance Is imparted to the mouth by the use of SOZODONT. It is beyond doubt the clean est, purest and best wash ever offered to the public. SOZODONT and comfort are synonyms. It cleanses the cavities in the enamel of the teeth.—A dr. The Loyal Mountaineer. The loyalty of the mountaineer* of Tennessee, says the New York Herald , has long been cele brated. The history of the career of the inhab itants of F.ast Tennessee during the revolution ary war is written in letters of gold, and their firm adherence to the union during the dark days of a quarter of a century ago is a matter of no little remark. The following brief episode, therefore, occurred on rery natural premises. When the signal service stnions were estab lished throughout the south there was no groat heralding of the event in the principal cities, and when the cold wave flag one January day floated in a listless breeze from the top nf the custom house flagstaff at Knoxvilie the sight of it created no little wonder, especially among visitors from the country. A coatless, white ha red patriarch of the smoky mountains build, leaning against a tele graph pole opposite the government building. Stated at it in unconcealed astonishment. " Whut—whui—whut?" he sputtered. Then anew light struck him with terribl • force. "Look-a-hyar!" he cried, hoarsely; "look-a hyar—that bain’t—hain't ’’ “Tea, that's her.” asserted a gray uniformed letter carrier standing uear, soberly, and guess ing the purport of ibe old man’s inquiry— "that's her—that’s the rebel flag, and the con federates have taken the town agin!” With a long-drawn whistle the countryman disappeared. Five minutes later lie reappeared with live other countrymen, and he was bran dishing a quart whisky bottle in his hand. “‘Come on, boys! come on!” he was vocifer ating. "Whoop! Come on! By Zack’ry. we re goin’ to t'ar the derned old thing down! Yeow! Hooraw for Linkhorn 1” A half hour afterward the entire gang were panting heavily on the floor of the calaboose, while outside the cells several policemen were industriously applying arnica and court plaster to bruised limbs. No Bank There. There was an eastern man, says the New York Sun, with us in the stage as we were making a route in Kansas, and at noon, as we stopped at anew town for dinner, he said to the landlord of the board shanty tavern: “This seems to be a brisk sort of a town.’’ “Yes. She’s gaining right along.” “Is there a bank here?” "Regular bank?” “Yes." “Regular bank, with president, cashier and so on where they receive deposits, give drafts on Chicago, and so forth?” "Yes." "No, there isn’t any such bank here now.” "Then there was one?” “Yes, but it closed up. The president and cashier are here, though,” “Then, perhaps, I could have a little talk with them before dinner?" "Hardly. They are lying underground out here in my back lot.” "Wlat! Dead?” “As door nails ” “Sickness or accident?” “Well, sort o’ betwixt. The bank tried to fail and pay 50 c *nts on the dollar, and the boys turned out and hung 'em to that telegraph pole there, and divided the cash so that we got j i 10 apiece on our deposits. If you want to start a bank, however, I'll ” "O! no! no! no! I had no idea of it. I’m going on to Emporia to go into business.” Becomes Ignorant to Be Great. I was sitting in the Senate gallery, says a Washington Post writer, wondering why so learned a speaker as Senator Teller should per sistently say “air” for "are;” why so eloquent a gentleman as Senator Daniel should say “cam” for “calm,” and why Senator Moody should say "extryordinarywondering, too, why pretty nearly every senator when he has nothing to say says it in his most oratorical manner, and why most of them begin their long speeches with the assertion that t! ey do not intend to make speeches, and end them by sav ing they have taken more of the Senate's time than they intended to. I was sitting there thinking of these things when 1 spied my old friend. Uncle Jab--/. Larrabee of Illinois, in the gallery across from me. Always interested in his observations, I went over and sat down be side him. “I've been thinkin'," said he, “what 'tarnal nonsense it is for us to teach our children how to write accordin’ to rule. Now-, out in our vil lage they teach what they call the Spencerian system, an’ they make every child set jest so at his desk an'bold his pen jest so, pointin’ over his right shoulder, and his arm restin’ jest in such a position on the desk. I snum 1 don’t see no use in that at all, fer no man ever got to be great, seems to me, till he unlearned all them rules an’ went to writin’ accordin' to his own idee of how it should be done." Fhe fctared Calmly Ahead. A young girl, tall, with wide blue eyes, still innocent of evil, says the New York Press, got into a Madison avenue car at Eigbty-fifth street last Sunday morning. She carried in her lap a prayer-book and in her hand a novel—one of those paper bound novels with the title stand ing out in bold relief. Her expression was so demure that the three men in the car wou id have sworu that she cared more for the prayer book than the novel. At Eightieth street a severe looking man and his wife, both gray hatred, took the car. Tho older woman looked across at the young girl, at her novel and prayer-book, frowned a little and turned and whispered something to her husband. He was little deaf, the car made a good deal or noise, so he put his hand to his ear andsaid: "What?" His wife repeated her remark a little louder, and still be could not hear. Finally shes houted in a tuin treble so that all the car could hoar: "I think it is a shame to see a young woman with a Bible and a novel; her thoughts are all on the novel, and she would better have left the Bibl at home," Everybody looked at the girl with tho novel, but she stared calmly ahead and pretended to have beard nothing. Heredity Revealed. The following is from Puck: “Johnnie, ’ said a prominent mine operator to his youngest the other day, “I’ll give you $1 if you’ll dig up the front yard all ready for your sister’s new garden.” "All right," said Johnnie thoughtfully, “but I shall have to ask for 25 per cent, of the con tract price in advance. Noe as an evidence of good faith, but for working capital.” “Work! What do you mean?” “Well, you see, I guess I’ll just bury the quarter somewhere, and tell all tne boys in the neighborhood that a pirate hid some treasure . ’round there. When they strike the quarte.r they’ll make the dirt fly, I can tell you. In that way I can clean up about 75 per cent. In fact, “Well, what?” “In fact, I don’t know but wbat I can also arrange so as to find that quarter myselt. i'll work it just like that salted mine you were telling mamma about unloading ou the street last night.” f ADd the father wept tears of joy as he thought what a cold day it would be for Jay and Rufus when his boy grew up. Serenade to Clara. The soft skies are gleaming. And Love's star is beaming; The night breezes tell of the roses’ perfume; My dear one is sleeping, While silent watch keeping I stand in the shade of the jessamine's bloom. The moonbeams are falling, The nightingales calling— I hear the sweet notes on the summer wind blown. My heart, in its beating. Is ever repeating How dearly I love you, my darling, mine own. Sweet be thy dreaming. With fair visions teeming. While night, in soft splendor, is fleeting away. liri.:ht be thy waking, When, slumber forsaking, Thine eyes, in their beauty unfold to the day. Miss Kate Ware. Jesup, Ga. Woman Suffrage a Long Time Ago. In a controversy on an Illinois Central su burban train, says the Chicago Tribune, a strong-minded woman downed a weak-minded man who had asked audaciously, "When was it your set first wanted to act like men?” in the following language and facts: “You haven’t read the history of your coun try, sir, or you wouldn’t ask that question. As far back as ISOO unmarried women were recog nized as freeholders in the state of New Jersev. Yes, and voted, too. When John Adams was a candidate for President against Jefferson the women of New Jersey voted for Mr. Adams.” “And Jefferson was elected,” said the Hyde Park man. “He was, and that’s why you are a democrat, I suppose,’’ replied the woman with two snaps of the eyes and a closing of the lips. The train had reached tbe Twenty-second street station, and the man who is described in this story got off at that point and came down town on the cable. Van Hoctin’s Cocoa—“ Once tried, always used,"— Adv. ITEM3 OF INTEREST. A baby that weighed only 1H pounds was born in Algona, la., a day or two ago. The Dickerson mine, in Morris county, New Jersey, has reached the perpendicular depth of l. I TTO feet. The bottom is now 335 feet below the sea level. The Rev. Albert Gallatin Morton of Araes bury. Mass., Is stdl preaching in a pulpit that he has regularly Ailed since 1825. without, in a single instance, writing out a sermon. When you meet a man and ask him how he feels, if he doen’t stop to think he always says “First rate." If he stops to think a minute he will always begin to unfold some tale of woe. Within a few days a stout iron fence will be put around the Lincoln monument at Spring field, 111., and nobody wiU be allowed inside the inc.osure except during certain hours of the day. This step Las been decide lon to prevent the monument from being mutilated by relic hunters. The cost of municipal government in Paris is asserted to be now far greater than it was under the empire by reason of the trebling of sinecures and the greater expenditures (said to be five fold) for fetes, carriage hire and the like. Liberty seems to have taken a shy at the Paris treasury. The meteorological observatory at the Vat ican, to be opened in May. is being fitted up with the newest and most e'aborate instru ments. Besides the study of meteorology proper and volcanic phenomena, the obser.a tory is i.,tenled to provide especial facdities for photographing the heavens. A lecture course, known as the “merchants' lecture,” has been given in London for 220 years. It was founded in the reign of Charles 11. by merciiauts, with the professed design of upholding the doctrines of the reformation against the errors of popery, sociniamsm. and infldeiity. Lecturers of to-day are weekly car rying on the purpose of the founders. Two mammoth red bats, of the species iden tical with the vampire bat of the Brazils, have just been captured in Tensas parish, Louisiana. They are in shape like bats, but many times larger, measuring twenty-two inches from trie tip of one wing to the tip of the other. In color they are a revolt.ng blood tint and are of a snapping, vindictive temper. The animals will be sent to the zoological gardens of some northern city. A gentleman who has just returned from South Africa says that it is oae of the best countries in the world for profitable real estate investments. “South Africa," he says,"already has beautiful and thriving towns, and it is destined to be the seat of a great and progres sive English-speaking race. When I was there some years ago I was surprised at the extensive improvements, at the energy of the people, and the natural resources of the laud. It is the place of places to put away a few thousand dollars to let them grow.” The tact that the will of the late Sir William Gull has been proved, showing property to the amount of 51,750,000, has created much talk of late. It is beyond a doubt that for the last few years, since physicians have doubled their fees, and since both branches of the profession are constantly in receipt of verv large sums for ex peditions by rail, the earnings of members of the healing art have very largely increased. There are possibly a dozen medical men in I -on don who at their death will be found to have amassed §500,000, but there is probably not one who has put by anything like the fortune left by Sir William Gull. An engine driver on one of the Scotch lines reports that he has noticed that certain hawks of the merlin or "stone falcon” species make use of the passing of the trains for predatory purposes. They fly close behind the train, near the ground, partly hidden by the smoke, but carefully watching for the small birds, which, frightened by the train as it rushes roaring past, fly up in bewildered shoals; the merlins tneD, while the little bird3 are thinking more of the train than of lurking foes, swoop on them from the ambush of the smoke and strike them down with ease. If they miss, they return to the wake of the carriages aud resume their flight and their hunt. They cau, it seems, easily keeo pace with au express train, and outstrip it when they please. Some remarkable statements arc made by Prof. Rein, a scientist who has been investigat ing the material resources of Japan. They re veal a national frugality and economy of a marvelous type. Tue areiqof Japan is less titan that of California. II s cultivated land is less than one-tenth of its total acreage, yet its prod ucts support about 38,000,000 people. In Japan 2,5(i0 persons subsist from each square mile of tilled land. A people existing in such circum stances must from necessity of preservation be provident, painstaking, hard-working, ingeni ous and frugal. The Japs appear to deserve all these adjectives. Agriculture with them is liter lly market gardening, because the soil is required to produce more than any other place in the world. Out in the wild west a mail bag was emptied of valuable contouts by parties unknown, and filled with stones. Tho loss was not discovered until the bag reached Its destination, and no one had any notion where the theft was com mitted within 1,000 miles of the journey. But a petrologist was shown the rocks, and he said there was only one place in the United States where such rocks were to be found. He told where the place was, and a detective goin*’ there—it was 450 miles away—found two Cuiua” men at work in an isolated spot, where, it was subsequently remembered, the robbed train had stopped for water. He promptly charged them with the crime, and they were so taken by surprise that they confessed it. So much for rocks. Most of the tomb-like fireplaces and mantels erected in New York houses twenty-five or thirty years ago are horrible to contemplate, but now and then a beautiful antique ot this sort is found. A decorator bought for $5 some years ago a b autiful marble mantel that was being taken out of an old house in Greene street. He interfered just in time to prevent its destruction, aud could probably h ive bought it for half the sum he paid. It was of statuary marble, delicately carved in relief. The pur chaser sold it to a rich suburban resident for §SOO, and would gladly have it back at that price, for since the second sale there has been discovered upon the marble the name of a famous sculptor. The piece was brought over from Holland by an early Knickerbocker. Sig. Nicolini will probably rank in history as the most perfect type of a husband-attendant in civilization. Apparently he lives only for Patti. Ho watches her comings and goings with the absorption of a lover, and he presides over her meals with the tenderness of a royal chef Very often when a special dish is in course of preparation for the great singer, Nicolini descends to the kitchen of the Hoffman house and personally superintends things. He Is ex ceedingly popular around the hotel, liberal in his tips, and his only dissipation, aside from an occasional ciiarette, is a game of billiards. He plays billiards extremely well, and is popular with the habitues of the Hoffman house, as he was in the Windsor. A great many stories have been told about Nicolini, but the truth seems to be that he is a gentle, amiable, confiding and polished Italian, with no very pronounced char acteristic of any sort. An extensive leather dealer of London, now traveling in this country, says that never before was there such a craze in London for queer leather as at the present time. He adds; “All kinds of skins, from elephant’s to frog’s are pressed into service to meet the demands of the fashionable. Some of our shops are stocked with a supply of fancy articles that are made from the skins of all sorts of beasts, reptiles and fishes. These queer objects are displayed in the windows, where their appearance at tracts wondering crowds. Made up into various articles are yellow pelican skins, lion and pan ther skins, buffalo skins, fish skins, monkv skins, snake skins, and the coverings of almost every living thing known. They are tanned and sometimes covered with blue, gray or red. 1 think it looks hideous to see a pretty English girl walking along the street swinging a porte monnaie made of the scaly hide of a boa-con strictor, But it’s fashion's order, you know.' Women have always had curious ideas about where to keep money when traveling, jays Bab in the New York Star. I know one who traveled from New York to Florida with §2,000 between the sole of her foot and her stockihg; and she slept with her stockings on. Another one al ways pinned her money just inside her corsets, until she was told that if she fainted anywhere the first thins a trood Samaritan would do would be to unloosen her bodice onJ stays, and then some wicked Pharisee would discover the ducats and grab them. Since she has heard this she ha3 taken to pinning the fortune to the back of her corsets, claiming that even; if she were taken ill, as she would be laid fiat on her back, insensible or not, she would be sure of her treasure. Women never appre ciate tho value ot a check-until it is cashed. It doesn't seem like money to them, and 1 feel certain that if the average woman were offeivd her choice between §530 in notes and §i,ooo in a cheek, and both were before her arid she had no tim) to think it out much, she would choose the §SOO and conclude she had tbe best of the bar gain. There is no exaggeration in the story of a woman who, on hearing somebody say that a diamond cost §1,500. asserted: “O. no; I am sure it cost more than that—l am sure It was something over §1,000!” SPRING ADVICE. [Scientific ilanazine.] Be careful of your diet. You do cot need heavy food such as you require during the winter. Spring may be beautiful, but it is treacher ous. 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