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INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Meetings- Landrum Lodge No. 48, F. 4 A.
M.; Myrtle Lodge No. 6, K. of P.; Pulaski Coun
cil No. 153, R. A; Executive Board Merchants'
Week.
Special Notices—Notice of Removal, R. C.
Fetzer; Remember Special Saturday’s Trices at
Heidt’s.
Miiltary Order—General Order No. 17, Sa
vannah Cadets.
We Ctre Frrs—The Globe Shoe Store.
Onions, Potatoes, Etc.—W. D. Sim kins.
The New Process Vapor Stove—Cornwell 4
Chipman.
Largest and Cheapest Furniture and Car
pet House—Lindsay 4 Morgan.
Summer Resorts—Capon Springs and Baths,
Hampshire County, West Virginia, W. H. Sale,
Proprietor.
“La Hermitage” for Sale or Rent—F. S. F.
Adams, New Bedford, Mass.
Cheap Column Advertisements Help
Wanted: Employment Wanted; For Rent; For
Sale; Lost; Personal; Miscellaneous.
Quite a number of those who have posed
as good men in New York have become
candidates for the penitentiary recently.
Mr. Freddie Gebh&rd does not occupy a
great deal of space in the public prints of
New York now-a-days. Since the beautiful
Langtry deserted him he courts tranquillity.
The mayor of Cedar Key, Fla., evidently
believes in one man power. His refiorted
performances there justify the conclusion
that he would make a first-class mayor of
an Arizona town.
Manufacturers’ manners, as exhibited in
the House, are not an improvement upon
plantation manners. It is probable that
Massachusetts men will have nothing more
to say about plantation manners.
There is a suggestion that a railroad bar’l
has been opened at Frankfort, Ky., with the
view of defeating Mr. Carlisle for senator.
It was hoped that only whisky barrels
would be opened during the contest.
The Louisiana legislature, from present
indications, will look a long while at the
$25,000,000 offer made by the Louisiana
Lottery Company before making up its
mind to reject it, if it does reject it.
It is clear that the republican majority do
not intend to allow the McKinley bill to be
amended. They are afraid that if the door
to amendments were opened the bill would
be so changed that its best friends would
not recognize it.
Chicago appears to be getting some satis
faction out of the thought that European
visitors to the world’s fair will be paralyzed
by the sight of her suburban railway car
lamp. From all accounts nothing like it
has been or is likely to be seen in any other
part of the world.
Representative Ben Butterworth is quite
a lion in Washington now. No other republi
can had the courage to point out how great
a fraud the McKinley tariff bill is. Butter
worth is the most popular man in the House,
and one of the ablest. It is to be regretted
that the country is to be deprived of his ser
vices.
Col. Elliott Shepard, of the Mail and
Express, is trying to boost himself into
the mayoralty of New York city. There
is about as much probability of his getting
there as there is of his newspaper teiliug
the truth. He is a sort of a crank, out of
whom the ward bummers are having a good
deal of fun.
The two New York lawyers, Joseph
Meeks and Benjamin Wright, who helped
Sheriff Flack of that city to get a divorce
from his wife, stand a very good chance of
nt vei’ assisting in getting another divorce.
They have been required by the supreme
court of New York to show cause why they
should not be disbarred.
The ways and means committee was in
clined to shut off Col. Livingston’s speech
in support of the alliance sub-treasury plan
by giving him permission to print his re
marks. The colonel, however, gave the
committee to understand that it could not
squelch him in that way. He had some
thing to say in behalf of the farmers, and
he wanted to say it. The committee had to
yield, and doubtless it was well repaid for
yielding.
Is This True, Mr. McKinley?
The New York Evening Post says that
the tin plate duty “is not intended arid
never was intended to establish the man
ufacture of tin plate, but to compel people
to use galvanized sheet iron for roofing in
stead of tin." Thera is some reason for
thinking that this statement is true. It is
well known that tin plate is not now man
ufactured in this country, aid it is certain
that no money would be invested in the
manufacture of it unless there was a guar
antee of some sort that could be depended
upon that the duty would not be removed
until the industry was firmly established.
It is evident that no such guarantee could
be given. There is no probability that the
Republican party will remain in power for
any considerable length of time, and it is
not certain that if it should remain in
power many years it would not change its
position with regard to tin plate. It has
changed its position relative to sugar,
quiniue, raw silk and other articles, and it
might tase an altogether different
view of the tin plate question within a very
few years. Under the circumstances, there
fore, the presumption that the tin plate
duty is in the interest of the manufacturers
of galvanized iron is not a violent one.
The McKinley bill puts a duty of 120 per
cent, on tin plate. This duty would take
out of the pockets of the people about
$8,000,000 a year, and the greater part of
this enormous sum would be paid by the
purer people, particularly tae farmers.
The additional cost of tin cans for canning
purposes would he paid either by the fruit
and vegetable growers or by the consumers
of canned goods. And the people are to be
taxed to the extent of $8,000,000, for what!
Why. that the manufacturers of galvanized
iron may compel the use of that article for
roofing! These manufacturers expect that
the enormous tariff on tin plate would pre
vent that article from being used for roof
ing, and that galvanized iron would be sub
stituted for it. They would make fortunes,
of course, but in the meantime the people,
owing to the burdensome tariff, would be
come steadily poorer. Does Mr. McKinley
hope to win the confidence of the people by
such legislation as this!
The Law Doesn’t Beach Him.
The humiliating fact has been discovered
in Maryland that Stevenson Archer, re
cently treasurer of that state, cannot be
punished for embezzling $132,(100 of -the
state’s money. He was indicted for embez
zlement, and the state’s lawyers thought
they would soon have him in the peniten
tiary, but on Tuesday a demurrer to the in
dictment was sustained. In this demurrer
the point was made that under the law of
the state only officers who failed to pay
over to the state treasurer the state’s money
received by them could be indicted for em
bezzlement. As Archer, being state treas
urer, was not required to pay over money
to anybody, it was pretty plain that the
law did not cover his case, and therefoie
the indictment against him was quashed.
Is it not remarkable that the lawmakers
are so short-sighted? Very many of the
most important laws that are passed by
state legislatures and by congress are faulty
in some particular, and yet very able law
yers assist in making these laws. The
truth doubtless is that lawyers, when mak
ing laws, do not do their work as thor
oughly as when they are serving their
clients. They are satisfied with a very
careless reading of the bills upon which
they are required to pass, and often they
vote for or against bills of which they know
almost nothing.
It may be that Treasurer Archer will not
escape punishment altogether. He will be
indicted and tried probably for malfea
sance in office, but the punishment attached
to that offense is comparatively insignifi
cant. The chances are that, having stolen
$132,000 of the people’s money, he will not
suffer as severe punishment as is sometimes
inflicted upon a half-starved and friendless
man who has been convicted of stealing a
loaf of bread.
The North Dakota people think they will
soon be able to make all the sugar this
country needs. The state is well adapted
to the growing of the sugar beet, and there
is any quantity of coal close at hand with
which to rob the beet of its sweetness.
Senator Pierce of North Dakota, speaking
of this matter in Washiugton the other day,
said: “Some of our German farmers have
been experimenting with the sugar beet,
and they have been so successful that hun
dreds and even thousands will make like ex
periments this year. The temperature and
the prevailing degree of moisture s ;em to
be admirably adapted to the maturing of
this vegetable to the point where it con
taius the greatest possible amount of sac
charine matter. All over North Dakota
we have veins of soft coal from three to
ten feet in thickness, in many places crop
ping out at the sutfaco. If the beet crop is
what it promises to be arrangements to
transform it into sugar will be made on a
large scale, the coal supply being an im
portant factor.” North Dakota may fur
nish the country with sugar and Alabama
will probably furnish it with iron. This
will be rather changing things about, as
the popular i lea has been that the south
furnished sugar and the north iron.
British Minister Pauncefote on Tuesday
planted an oak sapling iu front of the tomb
of Washington, at Mount Vernon. The
sapling grew from an English acorn given
to the minister by the Prince of Wales on
the occasion of the minister’s last visit to
England. It seems that the prince planted
a tree at Mount Vernon in 18(52, when he
visited this country, and it died. He was
anxious to huvo another planted there, and
the minister acted in accordance with his
wishes.
Maj. George W. Steele, who his been
appointed governor of Oklahoma, is one o f
the President’3 Indiana friends. He is 51
years of age, and was a private in the
federal army daring the civil war. The
President finds it difficult, apparently, to
find good material for territorial officials
outside of Indiana. He seems to be de
termined to make that state solid for his
party.
It is seldom that a broken neck is mended.
Mary Donohue, however, who has just been
discharged from the Pennsylvania hospital
in Philadelphia, entered that institution
last September with her neck broken. Her
spinal cord was uninjured, but the bony
covering of the spinal cord was dislocated.
The doctors patched up the broken joint,
and now tier neck is apparently as good as
ever it was.
Emin Pasha doesn’t seem inclined to
publish the information concerning Stanley
which, he says, would create a sensation.
Emin has been so long a resident of the
interior of Africa that it is probable that
he doesn’t know what would be regarded as
sensation at the present time.
THE MORNING NEWS: FRIDAY, MAY 16, 1890.
Reed's Retreat.
Speaker Reed and (ome of the other re
publican leaders in congress are opposed to
passing a river and harbor bill at this ses
sion. They are beginning to find out, how
ever, that there is a very strong sentiment
m favor of passing tbe bill with as little
delay as possible. They have heard enough
within the last two of three days to con
vince them that a failure to pass the bill
would do their party a great deal of harm.
Several of the senators have inte rested
themseivei in behalf of the bill, and they
are sati-fie 1 that it could be put through
under a suspenstoi of tbe rules, so numerous
are its friends in both the House and the
Sena's.
Speaker Reed is reported to have said
to Mr. Henderson, the chairman of the
river and harbor committee, a day or two
ago, that he would permit him to call up
the bill immediately after the tariff bill was
out of the way. Assuming that this state
ment is correct, it is apparent that Speaker
Reed has changed his mind relative to per
mitting the bill to pass at this session.
No greater mistake could be made than
to delay the passage of the bill until next
session. The delay would cost the govern
ment hundreds of thousands of dollars and
would work inctlculable injiry to com
merce. The engineers iu charge of the
river and harbor improvements are waiting
patiently for the money with which to con
tinue work. To as great an extent as possible,
cons.stent with economy, they are retaining
their trained employes. If no river and
harbor bill this year they must
discharge their employes and close their
offices. Tue improvement works must be
virtually abandoned for a year or more,
and the da nage these works, in their un
finished condition, would sustain would be
very great.
It would be much wiser for the repub
licans to cut down the proposed appropria
tions for pensions, if they fear a deficiency,
than to refute to make aa appropriation for
rivers and harbors. Notwithstanding the
fact that a few men in congress make it a
point to oppose the river and harbor bill,
that bill has the approval of the great ma
jority of the people.
Methodist Conferences South.
The Chicago Inter-Ocea n prints some in
teresting figures relative to the general con
ferences of the Southern Methodist Church,
which is now holding its general conference
in St. Louis. This is the eleventh of its
quadrennial conferences, and the first one
that has been held in St. Louis since 1850.
The first of these conferences was held in
Petersburg, Va., in 1816; the second in St.
Louis In 1850; the third in Columbus, Ga,
iu 1854; the fourth iu Nashville, ia ISSB. At
the fourth conference all that was necessary
to make the separation of the Methodist
Episcopal Church South from the Methodist
Episcopal Church North final was adjusted.
The northern church offered to pay the
southern church SBO,OOO, aud the offer was
accepted.
The fifth conference was held in Now Or
leans in 1862, but nothing was done at that
time. It was adjourned to meet at the same
place in 1866. The physical condition of the
church in 1866 was pretty bad. The greater
part of the church property had been de
sjroved. Iu 1870 the sixth conference met
in Memphis, and the proposition of the
northern church to make an organic union
of the two churcho3 was rejected. The
seventh met in Louisville in 1874, the eighth
ii Atlanta in 1878, the ninth in Nashville in
ISB2. At the ninth conference the Woman’s
Missionary Society was established. The
tenth conference was held in Richmond in
1886. Again, after forty years, the confer
ence is iu session in St. Louis. What won
derful changes have taken place in the
church within that period 1
The carpenters’ strike in Chicago seems
to have affected some of the preachers of
that city. One of the aristocratic congre
gations had a preacher they liked very well,
but they were not willing to give him any
where near the salary he thought he was
entitled to. Not long ago he packed his
sachel and went to Brooklyn, the city of
churches, and preached a trial sermon be
fore one of the congregations there. The
congregation was so well pleased with him
that they gave him a call at once, which he
accepted. Now the aristocratic Chicago
congregation are bemoaning their loss and
beseeching the good man to change his de
termination to leave them. Ho yields not
to their beseechings, however, and declares
' that even the fact that Chicago is to have
the world’s fair is not sufficient to keep him
away from Brooklyn.
The impression is getting abroad that the
census enumerators are going to ask a good
many impertinent questions. The New York
Star says that they will demand from their
victims information on the following
points:
Whether suffering from acute or chronic
disease, with name of disease and length of
time affected.
Whether defective in mind, sight, hearing
or speech, or whether crippled, maimed or
deformed, with name of defect.
Judging from the amount of patent med
icines used nearly everybody thinks he is
defective in some respect. The enumerators,
therefore, may find the population in a
pretty bad condition.
A story has been started in New York
that Richard Croker, the Tam many leader,
is hurrying back to that city to put a pad
look on the mouth of brother-in-law Patrick
McCann. There is no truth, evidently, in
that story. McCann has done Tammany all
the harm he can, aud Tammany has lifted
him out of the St. Vincent restaurant in
Central park. It is true that Mr. Croker
quietly l.ft Wiesbaden several days ago.
It is understood that his de3tina'.ion was
Switzerland, not New York. It will bo
many months before Tammany will see
Richard Croker. if what his German physi
cians said about his physical condition is
true.
Mr. John H. Inra m is reported as hav
ing said that the Richmond Terminal wa3
ready to buy a controlling interest in the
Baltimore aud Ohio railroad, aud that the
holders of the stock are ready to sell. “It
is merely a question of price at present," he
said. Mr. Inman, however, declined to say
how much per share the stockholders
asked. In view of the fact that the stock
holders wanted S2OO per share two years
ago and that the Richmond Terminal peo
ple were willing to pay only SIOO per share
at that time, it is probable that buyer and
seller are a good way apart.
Dr. Talmage is congratulating himself
that his new tabernacle will have a $30,000
organ. Perhaps when the organ is ready
for use the doctor will have himself inter
viewed again, and will have the interview
illustrated with pictures of himself playing
it. Nothing pleases him better than the
thought that be is making a noise in the
world.
PERSONAL.
President Harrison rariW (*'*kes more
iban Uiree cigars a day, it is.Jttsed —one after
each meaL ___
Three of our Presidents. Monroe. Taylor, and
Hayes, were inaugurate lon Monday, March 5,
the 4th occurring on Sunlay. 9
The will of the late American hanker. James
Morgan, was admired to prohate in London.
The estate is valued at ?10,l!0.2:o.
It is expected that Johannes Wolff, the vio
linist who has mad" quite a reputation in
Europe, will visit this country next autumn.
BtR Frederick Leighton. the pointer, is a
man with curly hair and ruddy face, fringed
with a black beard. He is now 60 years of age.
Robert Lons Stevenson seems to have made
up his mind to remain in Samoa, and there is a
movement afoot to make him the British consul
there.
The most successful salon in Paris is that of
the Comtesse da Kers-iint, who will receive no
gentleman unless be ts clothed In as gay colors
and as fine st uffs as the women.
Surprise has been caused by the publication
in a literary monthly of a portrait of the Rev.
Dr. Phil ips Brooks. He has always been
strongly averse to the sale or display of his
portraits.
Edward Bellamy, author of “Looking Back
ward," said that he has not made the fortune
out of his book which the newspapers have
credited him with making. He is looking for
ward to the fortune.
''Ouida" uses on her hair and eyebrows a
scent that costs S3O an ounce. She can’t bear
starched muslin, and the touch of velvet makes
her flesh creep. “Ouida's" stories make some
people's flesh creep.
A Yor\G lady named Sensabough, who for
the past fourteen years has been a teacher at
the Educational home in Philadelphia, has been
married to one of her Indian pupils, a full
bloodeJ, fine-looking Mohawk.
The Czar of Russia wears the largest ruby
in the world, valued at SIOO,OOO, in his crown,
which is raiter shaped and has on its crest a
cross composed of five lag diamonds support
ing the ruoy. It takes diamonds to support a
ruby of that kind.
Mrs. Mary Miller of Western Pennsylvania,
probably the wealthiest colored woman in the
country, died the other day. Her income was
S2OO a day. Four years ago she owned a barren
piece of ground, but there was oil beneath its
surface, which made it oil right.
Several manuscript copies of music written
by Mozart have been accidentally discovered on
ttie shelves of a bookseller in Manchester, Eng.
Among them are two concertos written by him
when a child and several numbers from the
opera '‘-Uithridate,” composed at Milan in 1770.
BRIGHT BIT 3.
George Washington was worth nearly a
million of dollar *, yet he wasn't able to buy a
2 cent stamp with his portrait on it .—Texas
Siftings.
An old baldhead, who is likewise an old
bachelor as wed as an old scoundrel, speaks of
women as resembling gratifying news. They
are good; some df them too good to be true.—
Puck.
A Bit of Philosophy—lf you lend a man five
dollars he simply gets that much in your debt;
but if you allow him to wheedle you out of a
honored you've made him an enemy for life.—
Judoe
‘•Rusk is down on Harrison, I understand.’’
“What is the matter?”
“Harrison wants 1 to speak to him the other
day aud yelied ‘Hay’ at hlm.’V-.i/un.'K’y’s
Weekly.
Some Actior.d-Coal Dealer- Has Biggins
taken any action on that hi 1 of bis yet?
Collector —Yes. a little. He kicked me down
stairs the last time I called, and tue bill with
me.— Terre Hav e bigness.
“I have an aunt that is very unfortunate,”
said Maude. “She Is slightly deaf and very
near sighted.”
"Gracious"?' responded Mamie: “what a
lovely chaperone she would make.”— Washing
ton Post.
Old Million—What? Want to marry mv
daughter? Why, the child is hardly out df
school dresses yot. Bbe needs a mother’s care
as much as ever.
Young Poorchap—O, that’s all right. I'll live
here.— Life.
“Mother, our teacher came near lickin’ me
this morning. ”
“What for. .Johnny?”
“’Cause I argued that when it was more than
one gooseberry a ought to be called geeseber
Ties.’’— Kentucky State Journal.
Willie—Mamma, will God hate us if we don’t
do just exactly as he says in the Bitile?
Mamma— O, I trust,not darling! Why?
Willie—Because Billy Wilkins punched me in
the stomach, and I didn't have any other stom
acato turn. —Burlington Free Press.
“What's the matter with iuommer?” asked
the Prince of Wales.
"I fear her majesty has the grip,” replied the
royal physician.
"I know she lias,” qdrled Albert Edward, sad
ly, “the grip of the throne.'’— Eooch.
Scientist (delightedly trying a long distance
telephone)—Hello! I’m in New York. Where
are you?
Voice (at other end)—Say lend me SIO,OOO for
thirty days, will you?
Scientist—Wonderful! Wonderful: That’s
from Chicago.— New York Weekly.
Two young men graduated from a well-known
medical school, and both went into practice in
New York. One was a bright fellow and hard
worker and a modest man, the other a man of
showy parts and not given to overwork. The
latter soon secured a handsome practice. The
other got little practice, and when making a
call upon his classmate, remarked: “How is it,
J., that you, who never worked in school, who
often came to me for assistance over knotty
matters, which I rendered, (and J. admitted all
as stated] have a large practice while I am not
yet earning a living?" “Come to the window
and I will explain to you the whole case. Of
every hundred persons you see passing up
street eighty at least are fools. lam doctoring
the eighty while you are attending to the
twenty wise men.”—Brunswick (Me .) Telegraph.
Dcrisg a moment of sojourn in a law firm’s
office a Pioneer-Press interloper was surprised
by the sudden appearance of an ebon-bued sep
tuagenarian with a huge “For Rent” poster in
his hands. The letters were six inches long and
as black as the man’s face. Holding the placard
upside down he inquired: "Boss, dat's fer rent,
ain't hit?” “Yes,” answered he, “that’s for
rent, sure enough.” “De gemman in de nex
offls tole me ter cum an’ git hit an’ tack bit un
on er house. Hit's all right now, ain’t hit?”
“It won’t be if you put it up that way; it’s up
side down.” “Whuff difference dat make? I
kain’t read, boss; but bless my soul ef I kin see
how er man's gwine ter miss seein' deni elefunt
tracks ef ’tis upside down. I ain’t litery, but ef
I seel dat sign I shod stop in an' inquire what
was gwine on wrong inside, sure’null, boss.”—
St. Paul Pioneer-Press.
CURRENT COMMENT.
Real Estate’s Boom.
From the Philadelphia Times (/ad ).
The rate at which this earth is being mapped
off and sold in chunks of superfical area is
something startling. After a while there will
be nothing left but to dig holes in the ground
and sell the sides. And there is enough enter
prise lying around loose to hit on some way of
making the perpendicular surfaces desirable in
vestments.
Bough on the Toilers.
From the Philadelphia Record (Dent.).
The Cleveland leader (Rep.), admits that the
proposed increase of duty on tin plates will
make them dearer. Is this a good way to help
the workingmen in this country, who, liy invest
ing in loan associations, desire to build houses,
requiring more or less tin to make them imper
vious to rain?
Benefits of Promot Arbitration.
From the Kansas City Times (Dem.).
Distinctively a victory for organized labor
and the union principle as it is, the settlement
of the great carpenters’ strike in Chicago,
which cost $1,000,00J a week while it endured,
renews the thought that arbitration might in
the beginning have proved as effective as in the
end. The ecu .rntous losses attendant upon such
cessations of productive activity by vast bodies
of workers are shared in some degree by all
members of the community. Tbe blow of a
hammer by the lake side sends out a beneficial
resonance to the Klo Grande.
The 10 Per Cent. Mortgage.
From the Boston Herald (Rep.).
A Kansas farmer, who bad brought himself
down to a skeleton wrestling with a heavy
mortgage, was struck by a shower of meteors,
one of which he picked up and sold to a geolog
ical society for SI,OOO— enough to pay off his
mortgage. The possibility of lifting a 10 per
cent, farm vasxl gage dfjjpflds greatly upon
one's being striWk -by bghfaing or a two-ton
bowlder from the moon.
WHAT “BOTANY" DID.
A Younu Lady Who Ulxed Up Her
Misinformation Interestingly.
I was crossing the Roosevelt street ferry the
other day and chanced to sit near two young
ladies, says the Brooklyn Eagle, one of whom
wore a sprav of beautiful peach blossoms o' an
unususlly deep pink color. Her companion
remarked about their freshness and beauty,
and inquired what kiDd of flowers they were?
"O. thes • are pear blossoms,” was the reply.
• We nave a lovely great tree full of them, and
we have a jieach tree. too. but you know peach
blossoms are not out yet. They are not so
pretty as these. They are almost a pure white,
you know.”
*T>id you ever see apple blossoms?” asked the
friend.
“I don’t remember that I ever did,” was the
reply, “but they are even whiter than the pear
blossoms and they are not pretty at aIL”
•‘Why, how did you learn so much about
these things?” asked the friend.
“O, I studied botany Inst year ” she replied,
“and I took spch an interest in it that I think I
shall always remember it.”
I wondered how many of the Brooklyn girls
had "studied botany” and "knew so much”
about the common flowers. F.
A Fool for Luck.
Said a well-known sporting man to a Louis
ville Commercial reporter: “I saw a very
funny thing happen in a big game of poker the
other night. A coterie of half a dozen choice
spirits had their legs under the table and were
pleying a stiff game. Great stacks of reds and
blues were in front of every one, and fully
$1 .000 worth of chips were on the board. A
certain well-know n colonel of the city happened
into the room, and being pressed to it by the
crowd took a seat in the game. The old fellow
had been making a round of it and was in that
mellow state of semi stupor which dawns over
a fellow after the corks have been popping. In
other words he was loaded; but he sat down
anyway and bought SIOO worth of chips. Only
a few hands had been dealt when the colonel s
head sank softly down on his chest, his heavy
eyetids closed, and he was fast 6leep. When
another hand had been dealt, one of the players
'skinned’ ms cards carefully, and discovered an
ace-kiug high flush of red. throbbing, living
hearts. He reached across the table and gave
the co onei a dig in the ribs. ‘Wake up,’ said
he, ’wake up and play your cards.’ The colonel
finally roused up, picked up his hand in a jum
bled. careless fashion, and came in. Tne gen
tleman with the flush raised, and so did the
colonel, and so on till every dollar before each
had gone to swell a prodigiously big pot. The
boys hated to see the colonel betting away in
his maudlin way. They pitied him. They knew
he was throwing his money at the birds. ‘How
many cards?' said the dealer. Thump, thump,
the fists of the two men hit the table. They
were both pat. It was a show down then, and
the drowsy colonel spread out upon the board a
queen full, and the boys shoved him the pot; he
was too drunk to reach for it. The laugh was
on the other player, and he says it Is the first
time he ever wakened a man up to make him
play his hand,and he swears it will be the last.”
She Knew Him Best.
She stood at the writing desk in the postofflce
corridor with a sheet of paper and an envelope
before her, says the Detroit Free Frets, and as
a .man approached with a postal card she
queried:
"Alight I ask you to write a few lines for me
to my husband?”
"Certainly,” he replied.
•’Well, date it; begin: ‘ATy dear husband’;
and then I’ll tell you what to say.”
‘ All right, go ahead, ma’am.”
“Now Hay: ’Wood is out—flour is out—moat
is out—money is out and rent is due, and I want
S2O p. and. q. I' ”
’ Exactly. You know what the letters stand
for, l supi>o3e
"Certainly.”
"And—and qren’t they a little strong?”
"No, sir—not for my old man. I’ve lived
with him tweuty-flve years and know him liko a
book."
"All right—you kDow best.”
“And you may add; ’lf it don’t come by
Saturday IT) raise !’ ”
"Certainly.”
“Now I’ll sign: ’Your Dear Mary,’ and it
will be all ready to go, and I bet you five to one
I get the twe ity inside of three days. Strong!
Why, man, I can’t even get him to bring home
a bit of butter or a package of sugar without
threatening to knock his —— head off if he
forgets it. Thanks, you have done me a great
favor.”
Lost.
From the Newark Journal.
’Twas a summer ago, when he left me here,
A summer of smiles with never a tear,
’Till I said to him, with a sob. my dear:
Goof Dy, my lover, good-by!
For I love him. oh. as the stars love night!
And my cheeks for him Hashed red and white
When first he called me his heart’s delight;
Good-by. my lover, good-by!
The touch of his band was a thing divine
As he sat with me in the soft moonshine.
And drank of my love as men drink wine:
Good-by, my lover, good-by!
And never a night, as I knelt in prayer.
In a gown as white as our own souls were.
But in fancy he came and kissed me there:
Good-by, my lover, good-by!
But now, O God! what an empty place
Aly whole heart is! Of the old embrace.
And the kiss I loved there lives no trace:
Good-by, my lover, good-by!
He sailed not over the stormy sea;
And he went not down in the waves, not he,
But, oh, he is lost, for he married me:
Good-by, my lover, good-by!
James Whitcomb Riley.
An t. vallabla Explanation.
A citizen was pasdng up Maoomb street the
other evening, says the Detroit Free Press,
when a man rusljed out on him from an alley
and knocked him down, but had hardly done so
before he said;
"Really, now. I beg a thousand pardons. You
are not the man I was after.”
"But you have bunged my eye for me,” said
the otner as he got up.
“Yes, but it was through a mistake.”
“But wiiat am I to do?”
“lay for some other fellow and black his
eye.”
"But lam no fighter. I neverihit anybody in
my life. When Igo home with this my wife
will want to know bow it happened, and sue
won’t believe that there was a mistake.”
"Lay it to the police.”
“How?”
"Why, say that you were waiting on the
corner and a patrolman came up and gave you
a whack."
"By George! but that solves the problem! One
was around our place last week and notified
her to remove a pail of ashes, and she bit bim
with a tomato can. She'll believe it quicker’n
scat, and she's just the woman to go down and
blow up the superintendent. Much obliged for
your kindness, sir. This may be a blessing in
disguise.”
Wonders How He Stands.
Shelby Cullom of Illinois is in doubt just now
how he stands at the white house, says the New
York Star. He was entertaining a party of
friends the other evening at his house, among
them Gen. Bane of Illinois, formerly,by Cullom
and Logan’s iufluence, surveyor general of
Utah, and Gen. Gilchrist of Salt Lake City.
Just as these two gentlemen rose to leave a dis
tinguished-looking stranger, who gave his name
simply as "Mr. Sprague," was shown in, and
was asked to take a seat.
“Well, senator," said Bane, half jocularly,
half in earnest, "we must take good care of
your presidential boom. I’ll look after it in
Southern Illinois, and. Judge, you must see
that Utah is all right."
"I'll answer for Utah,” said Gilchrist.
Then tbe Illinois statesman turned to Mr.
Sprague and asked his pleasure.
"1 came from the white house, senator, at the
request of the President, to say he would very
much like to see you."
Cullom is wondering whether Mr. Sprague
has repeated that little incident to Mr. Harri
son, and, if so, what Benjamin thinks about it.
Wrong Kind of License.
A little misunderstanding, due to the city
clerk’s recent absorption In the dog-taxing
business, happened in Belfast the other day,
says the Lewiston Journal. A young man
walked bashfully into the office, and when his
turn came he huskily asked the clerk for a li
cense.
“What name?” said the clerk The young
man gave his name, and the clerk hastily wrote
it down on a dog license.
“What age, breed and color ig it?” was the
next question.
"I—l didn’t know you had to tell all that ”
said the young man.
"Have to do that in order to identify them ’’
said the clerk.
“But Mrs. Blank knows her. She has worked
there for a long time. ”
“Eh, what’s that?" said the clerk.
"Why, we think of getting married,” whis
pered the young man. It was strange that the
clerk couldn't spot that sort of a customer at
first glance:
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
The champion pug of England weigh* but five
pound*.
Or a family or sixties near Taylor*town,
Pa, thirteen have died of diphtheria
A Detroit electric light company in*urea
the lives of its employe* for $5,000 each.
The latest addition to the Hillman menagerie
is a cat with human bands on its front legs.
Ax lowa congregation borrowed SIOO,OOO to
build a church and secured the creditor with
insurance policies upon the lives of certain
members.
An American composers’ festival is an
nounced to take place at Omaha Neb , Nov. 27,
28 and 20, the works to be performed to be those
of native American composition.
McGill College Observatory at Montreal
and Greenwich have been placed in telegraph
communication. The time in transmitting sig
nals the 3,500 miles is three-quarters of a sec
ond.
Pittsburg Roman Catholics have organized
the American Federation of Catholic Societies,
the purpose of which is to consolidate all the
Catholic organizations in the country under
that name.
In the great library at Paris there is a Chi
nese chart of the heavens, made 600 years
before Christ, showing the location of 1,460
stars, correct as corroborated by the best sci
entists of the present day.
In mailing the first half of his manuscript of
“Darkest Africa” from Cairo to the Scribners
Stanley wrote: “When it is done, not Vander
bilt’s wealth would induce me to write upon the
subject at any length again.”
According to figures compiled by the Chi
cago Times, out of 14,779 murderers who took
human life in the Bix years from 1884 to 1889,
only 558 paid the penalty of their crimes by
yielding their own lives to the law.
An electric typewriter is being constructed
which will write letters in New York as they
are transmitted from Boston, and vice versa,
the communications being transmitted simul
taneously over four separata wires.
Twenty survivors of the charge at Bal
ak lava are in an English workhouse, and the
others are dragging out a miserable old age. A
recent effort to raisa a fund for these veterans
only secured the paltry sum oi $l2O.
A Manchester granite cutter has con
tracted, for SB,OOO, to cut out of Barre (Vt.)
granite a fifty-ton monument, to be placed over
the grave of Hugh W. Hughes, who in life was
known as the “Slate King of America."
During clear days people of Carthage, 111.,
have distinctly heard the ringing of a ponder
ous church bell at Golden, twenty-eight miles
away. The bell bangs in tbe German Lutheran
church tower at Golden, and it requires two
men to ring it.
Longfellow’s house in Cambridge is now oc
cupied by his eldest daughter and her uncle.
Rev. Samuel Longfellow. The home is kept
UDcbauged. Miss Longfellow’s sisters, Mrs. It.
H. Dana and Mrs. Thorpe, have built houses ad
joining the old estate.
Before the close of the year 1892 the pension
taxes alone will average over sl4 a year on
every head of family in the United States. The
present average per head of family is exactly
$9 a year, or $108,000,000 annually on 12,000,000
heads of family in a population of 60,000,000.
Sixteen years ago a Swiss cobbler named
Bernaserni left his home in the Canton Tessin
and emigrate ito the Argentine Republic. He
has now returned the possessor of millions
which he made as a dealer in leather and hides.
He is now building on the place w here his
Swiss house stood an asylum for 200 children.
A shoe factory at New Canaan, Conn., ha*
just made a pair of shoes for a Charlotte, N. 0.,
man. They ars the biggest ones ever made.
The size is No. 32. Eaeu shoe is twenty inches
long and eight inches wide. The man who is to
wear tnem is a clergyman, six feet ten inches
tali, and weighs 410 pounds, and the county in
which he dwells is a roomy one.
The Chinamen of Astoria, Ore., ar& amusing
themselves with a huge top made out of an
empty 25-pound white lead keg. A square open
ing is cut in the side and it takes three men to
spin it, one to hold the top and two to pull the
string with a stick which sets it in motion.
While spinning it sounds like the whistle of a
steamer, and can be heard three blocks away.
Robert Browning’s will, dated Feb. 12. 1884,
was witnessed by Tennyson and F. T. Palgrave,
and left all his property to his son, the artist,
Robert Barrett Browning, save a charge of
SI,OOO a year to Miss Browning, tbe poet’s sis
ter. Tbe gross value of the personal estate in
the United Kingdom is sworn under $84,000,
but there is also property in Italian stocks and
real estate.
At Durham, N. C„ since the city has had elec
tric illumination, the ravages of the tobacco
worm have been greatly reduced, tne insects
having been killed by the lights. It is suggested
that a powerful electric light in the center of
one of the sea islands growing the famous long
staple cotton might save all the plantations sur
rounding it from the destruction so frequently
wrought by the cotton army-worm.
>l. Bartholdi, the well-known architect of
the American figure of “Liberty,” is engaged
in designing a monument to commemorate the
baloon service of the Franco-Prussian war,
which is to be erected in the square of St.’
Pierre, Paris. He proposes to construct a
model of a baloon out of thick glass, with au
iron-work netting. An electric arc lamp will
occupy the centre, and light up the whole in
terior.
John Deutsch, 13 years old, is employed at a
basket factory at Baltimore, and during dinner
hour, while taking a pull at his coffee flask, his
tongue was drawn into the nozzle by suction, so
that, try as he would, he could not get it out. It
was drawn further and further in until the flask
was forced into his mouth. The toneue, to
make matters worse, began to swell, and after
vainly trying to get it loose himself, he hurried
to tbe hospital. Dr. Warfield, after some diffi
culty, released the disfigured member.
The Hindoo barbers of Bombay made an
extraordinary demonstration in the last week
of April. A monster meeting was held for the
purpose of considering the question of shaving
the heads of Hindoo widows, an old custom
About 400 barbers having assembled, one of
them, Babajee More, stated that the barbers of
old were happy and contented, but latterly had
been weighted with a curse. Trade had fallen
off and they had become poor. The curse could
only be accounted for Dy the fact that snaving
the heads of poor, innocent widows was a sin
It was against the Hindoo scriptures to deprive
a widow of her hair. The meeting thereupon
resolved that no barber should shave a widow’s
head, and that if he did he should be excom
municated.
A Polish pianist, M. Paderewski, is the lion
of the Paris musical season. He crams the
Salie Erard whenever he plays, and he plays
Chopin chiefly and best. A critic says: "Of a
surety no pianiste of our time has succeeded so
completely in rendering the works of that
strange musician witn the poetical insight man
ifested by M. Paderewski. His delicacy of
touch is simply marvelous, and he has the rare
recommendation of never by any chance
striking a false note. His extraordinary light
ness or linger does not by any means exclude
the exhibition of great power when the occasion
for it arises, so that he is enabled to infuss into
his playing an amount of ’color’ which is alto
gether unrivaled.” Not since Rubenstein has a
pian.st created such comment.
The proof that Marat, the French revolution
ary leader, was really convicted of theft has set
at rest a long standing controversy. Marat was
in England in 1776, was accused of a theft of
old coins, escaped to Ireland, was apprehended
at an Irish assembly in the disguise of a Ger
man count, and was brought from Dublin by
habeas corpus for trial in England. A contem
porary letter describing the a-sizes of 1776, at
which it was thought that Marat would have
been tried, is silent. The clerk of assize to the
Oxford circuit has at lAst supplied the missing
link in the evidence by finding that Marat was
convicted at the assizes which commenced at
Oxford on March 5, and ended on March 7, 1777.
The delay in the proceedings is accounted for
by the absence of the accused in Ireland.
Sia Morel Mackenzie, the celebrated medi
cal authority, says that a mania smoking too
much when the surface of the mouth or throat
is inflamed or roughened, or the tongue blis
tered or hardened. If the lips are inflamed or
cracked by the cold the greatest care should be
taken to protect them from the nicotine present
in strong tobacco, for there Is danger that such
a wound may become poisoned and impart tbe
taint to the blood. The slightest indication of
irritated papilla?, especially at the sides or root
of the tongue, should be carefully watched, and
the first indication of cancer most scientifically
treated. It is from such small spots of poison
ing that the disease spreads throughout the
system, and too often terminates fatally. Nico
tine is a tonic poison; the very quality in to
bacco which makes it to a certain extent a dis
infectant may become the destroying agent.
Ask for Van Houten’b Cocoa— Take no
other.— Ad u.
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