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THIS ISSUE
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TWELVE PAGES.
index to W ADvmmm
Meeting— Citizen's Sanitary Association.
Special Mottoes "The Old Saying,” the Sa
vannah Carriage and Wagon Company; A Card,
O. T. Shaffer; To the Patrons and Friends of the
School for Boys, J. R. Baylor, Jr ; One Thing
Uncle Sam Overlooked, Townsend; Splendid
Investment at Private Sale, R D. Laßoche,
Real Estate Dealer; Chronic Constipa
tion cured hv the Electropoise; Foot
Race at Tybee To-day; "Pro Bono Publico," the
RobiDson Steam Printing Company; Tinsmith,
etc , E. C. Pacetti; Georgia ‘ late Building and
Loan Association of Savannah; Empire
Steam Laundry; Savannah Steam Laundry
Amusements— " Above the Clouds." by the
Fleming Dramatic Association on Ang. 36.
Educational —University of Georgia.
Exactly!— L. &B.S.M. H.
Auction Sales Valuable Property, Elegant
Lots, by R. D laKoohe, Auctioneer.
A Golden Opportunity— C. Gray A’ Son.
We Mean Every Word— Dryf us Bros.
Tailor and Importer— E. .1. Kennedy.
The Bargain Seeker's Paradise—A. R. Alt
mayer & Co.’s.
The Great Slaughter Sale Continues—At
Eckstein & Co.'s.
For This Week Only— The Globe Shoe Store.
Furnaces—J as. Douglass.
The Largest Vehicle Dealers in the
South— The Savannah Carriage and Wagon
Company.
Bargains in Pianos— Davis Bros.
Boys’ Suits— Jackson, Metzger & Cos.
The Sacrifice Bargain Sale Morrison,
Foye & Cos.
Cheap Column Advertisements Help
Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Rent; For
Sale; Lost: Personal: Miscellaneous.
Gallium, the most valuable metal in the
world, is worth #3,350 an ounce. Speaker
Reed ought to be presented with a tea
service of solid gallium.
A miniature likeness of Gen. Meade
brings #I,OOO now—when it appears on the
new treasury notef of that denomination
just issued. Rarities always come high.
An Indiana county treasurer, who was
the manager of a base ball club, Is short in
bis accounts. This is not surprising. There
is no money in base ball for managers; only
for players.
Mr. George Wallace Delamator, republi
can candidate for governor of Pennsylva
nia, has made a general denial of the
ctharges of corruption against him made by
State Senator Emery. He says in effect,
‘•The charges are not true.” Now let the
country hear from Senator Emery.
Col. Shepard has finally been brought
around on the reciprocity issue of the ad
ministration, and in the issue of his paper
on Thursday last, he remarks significantly:
“Every intelligent man now knows that the
President is in thorough accord with the rec
iprocity views of Mr. Blaine. We regard
the combination as irresistible.”
Asa result of the increase in importation
costs under the new customs administra
tion bill selling prices have been advanced
to a proportionate extent. The increase in
price comes out of the consumer, of course,
and if the McKinley tariff bill, which
raises taxes further, should become a law,
there would be a another increase in selling
prices. The increase is merely an addi
tional tax on the consumer for the benefit
of the favored manufacturer. The im
porter derives no benefit from it. He
raises the price of his goods in proportion
to the increased duty.
The cry against perpetual pensions has
again been raised in England: Those which
have incurred the strongest hostility are
pensions of #45,000 a year to the Duke of
Richmond. $34,500 to the Duke of Grafton,
and that of over #BO,OOO which is paid yearly
to the Prince of Wales. The government
of the United States also pays pensions
which are almost perpetual. Hundreds of
pensioners, not satisfied with having Jived
for many years at the expense of the gov
ernment, marry young women when they
have one foot in the grave. The widows
receive as a legacy the pension which their
husbands had.
The wor derful industrial progress of the
south continues. One hundred and eight
cotton and woolen mills were established
within her limits during the last six months,
Georgia leading with 33. North Carolina,
South Carolina, Alabama and Texas follow
with 18 eacn. Out of .85 blast
furnaces and 68 electric light works
established during that peiiod, 8 of the
former and 25 of the latter were
located in this state. Besides these there
vtere -tablished in the southern states dur
ing the six months 97 flour and grist mills,
94 foundries and machine shops and
45 water works. Numerous other
• improvements also were male. The cotton
rxup is a success, and w ill yield the south at
iohst #4 O, UK), 000. The outlook for a pr *■
porous fall and winter season is, t ierefers,
g od.
Reed s Other Twin In Danger.
The tariff bill ar.d force bill are Sneaker
Reed's twins. Having bad so much to do
with bringing them into existence he very
naturally thinks a great dea! of them.
He depends upon them to keep his party in
power, and to make him a much g"eater
man than he is. He has work and bard to
get then) as far al mg ia life as fey are,
and he resents every attempt to check their
progress toward raatir.tv. When be re
members that they would not now be in
existence if he h <1 not used bis power arbi
trarily and unconstitutionally to get a
majority large enough to cirry them
through the House, hie anger against those
of his party friends who dare to speak an
unkind word of them, or to put an obstruc
tion in their wav, knows no bounds.
One of tb -se twins is already in a mori
bund condition. It is the force till. At
the suggestion of Senator Quay it is to be
abandoned virtually for this session of con
gress, and before the next sessiou it will be
so near dead that it will not be possible to
revive it. Of course Speaker Reed grieves
for it, but his anger is greater than bis
grief, and those who ar i responsible for its
unhappy fate may count him as their
enemy.
But the other twin—the tariff bill —is by
no means a vigorous infant. The chief re
publican organ, the New York Tribune,
says that Senator Quay suggests! the
abandonment of the force bill in order that
the tariff infant might have a batter chance
for life.
It insinuates that a few rich men—pro
tected monpolists—who are Senator Quay’s
constituents are deeply iutero ted in it, and
for that reason he plotted to sacrifice the
force bill to save it. It warns him, how
ever, that the tariff infant is in danger and
that his scheming in its behalf may come to
nothing. There are republican senators, it
says, who do not approve of many things in
the tariff bill, but who have supported it
because they hoped by doing so to get the
entire party support for the foroe bill.
The real sentiments of the republican
senators and representatives relative to these
twin measures of Speaker Reed appear to
be coming out at last. Speaker Reed and
those who follow his lead favor both the
tariff and the force bill, but there are re
publican congressmen who are opposed to
one or both of them, but who have been
forced to support both by party pressure.
The whole country has condemned the f >rce
bill, and the prospect is that it will receive
no further consideration. And it would
not be surprising if the tariff bill should
meet with the same fate that has overtaken
the force biil. When the leading republican
organ declares that Senator Quay wants
that bill passed to oblige a few rich con
stituents, and that there are re
publican senator* who find many
things in it that are objectionable,
it is certainly time for the people to begin
to ask whether they should not speak out
strongly against a measure that is admitted
to be against their interests. There is a
steadily growing sentiment against the
tariff bill, and it is among the probabilities
that Speaker Reed will see his tariff twin
abandoned almost as unceremoniously as
his other twin was.
Why the Knights bo Olten Fall.
In face of the fact that they are already
defeated, the strikers on the New York
Central railroad contiue to assert that their
strike is successful, and that the road will
have to agree to their terms. It is difficult
to understand why they make this asser
tion. Tney certainly cannot help their
causa by pursuing such a course. It can
hardly be possible that all the newspapers are
unaware of the true state of affairs or that
they have conspired to publish false reports
of the situation. It is true that the leaders
of the strike say that the reports in the
newspapers relating to the strike are not
true, and they have arranged to publish two
bulletins a day giving what they regard as
the facts, but it is pretty safe to assume
that the newspaper reports are not very far
out of the way.
As far as the public have been able to
learn there was no cause for the strike. The
employes of the road had not stated to the
road’s management that they had griev
ances. A few men had been discharged for
cause, and their reinstatement was
requested, but as the road has a right to
select its employes, it is not a matter of
surprise that the request for the reinstate
ment of the discharged men was not
granted. Several demands have been made
sinoethe strike was inaugurated, but it
seems to be quite clear that they were au
afterthought, and were intended to create
the impression that the strike was excusa
ble.'
The public are always ready to give their
sympathy to those they believe to be in the
right, and in the present case they would
have supported the strikers if they could
have found any reas >n for doing so. Tue
truth seems to be, however, that the strike
was brought about by incompetent leaders,
or leaders who consulted th >ir own inter
ests and feelings in preference to the inter
ests of the thousands of employes who look
to them for guidance. The Knights of
Labor can hardly hope for much success in
their battles with capitalists and corpora
tions as long as they select unfit meu to
manage their affairs.
If the strikers have been defeated their
leader s ought to tell them so. It is wrong
to keep alive hope when there is no ground
for hope.
A Hideous Freak.
Mythology furnishes nothing more
strange than the story of a baby which was
recently born in Columbia county. New
York. This baby has attracted widespread
attention by its most singular conduct
When sleeping it is like any other baby, but
when it wakes up it neither lies still nor
begius to wail like other ordinary babies.
As soon as it opens its eye3 it raises itself,
climbs over the cradle and leaps on the
floor, where it has a regular frolic
like a kitten. In fact, its
actions and appearance have all the charac
teristics of a kitten. One of the bsby’s legs
does for it duties similar to those which a
kitten’s tail sometimes doos for a kitten.
While engaged in this sort of exerci e it will
tumble heels over head, roll about the floor
like a ball, doing itself uo more harm than
if it were really a kitten. If a spool or
some object of the kiud be thrown to it,
this uncanny babe wul toss it about, threw
it over its head and play with it in the same
way as a cat would.
One of the most remarkable things which
this remarkable baby does is tais. By
means of a rope it clambers up to the top of
the tiedn t, whore it sit . surveying the
spectators with an air of gaiety that is ap
i palling to b'holJ in ono so you ig. No e
uUnation of this pec iliar freak of nature is
offered. And p-rnapi there is no le to
offer except that name sometime* fur
.i-hps tTange products.
THE MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY, AUGUST 17, 1890-TWELVE PAGES.
Why the Stralghtouta Withdrew
Th > straigb'out dem sera's of South Caro
lina stits nothin; in thiir address giving
their reasons fo- w.thd rawing from toe
convention at C dumb.a last U>l ieday
that was not already known to the public.
They sax tha' the convention was called by
the state executive commutes of th? Demo
cratic party to do only oie thing, viz; to
dec de whether the and Megatei to the regular
state convention in Seotemb’r should be
ch-ise i by pn nanes or byconventi ms, and
that. CHitrary to tne constitution of the
party and to precedent, it did more than
that—it aiopted anew constitution and
elected anew executive committee.
Doubtless the straijbtouta are right in
saying that the convention exoedei its
authority, but it doesn’t foil >w that they
acted wisely in withdrawing from tho con
vention. Th >y did not strengthen their
po-it on by doing so, nor did they iaeraase
their chances for boating Tiiima i in tbs
.Septemberc invention. Had they remains!
in the convention and pr itestei against the
unconstitutional ant they woul 1 have been
in a more advantageous position t lari they
now are for appealing to the paopls, ii tle
contest for delegates to the Se .temb3r
eonventio 1, to put the stamp of
disapproval upon the high-handed and ar
bitrary exercise of power by the Till
manites. Having withdrawn from the
conventi n they are likely to be looked upon
as malcontents who have taken themselves
outside of their party because they were not
permitted t> manage it their owu way. If
that view should be taken of them, and it
probably will be, they will finditd.ffiojlt to
gain the sympathy of the people in the
campaign for delegates t> toe September
convention. Their aim being to prevent
Tillman’s nomination they should have re*
mained in the convention.
Mr. Hoar and the Festive Codfish.
A frolicsome, jolly old fellow is
the Hon. George Fnsbie Hoar, United
States senator from Massachusetts.
Recently in a republican caucus be is re
ported to have made some very unstates
manlike and unwise remarks, to the effect
that he would sooner New England work
men should live on 50 cents a day and cod
fish than that the force bill should fail to
become a law. The language was reported
by the press, but Mr. Hoar maintained a
Quav-like silence, and the country accepted
the report as true. The report of his utter
ances and the statement that he was a man
of wealth and no friend of the workingmen,
which appeared in the Pittsburg Post, seein
to have awakened him to a realizition
of the outrageous uature of the as
sertion attributed to him, and he at once
wrote a letter to the editor of the
Post. The letter is chiefly interesting for
two reasons. The first is, that it is very
different from anything that has come from
the Senate chamber recently, and the sec
ond is that it is a brief autobiographical
sketch of the senator.
“My dear man,” writes the senator to the
editor, in that easy, good-natured way that
is calculated to establish a firm belief
in the equality and fellowship of
man. “My dear man—Somebody has
sent me a copy of your paper con
taining an article of which you do me the
honor to make me the subject. Who could
have put such an,extravagant yarn into tho
head of so amiable and good-natured a fel
low 1 I never said the things which you
attribute to roe in any interview, or caucus,
or anywhere else.”
Mr. Hoar here indulges in a few personal
remarks, showing that he, like his father,
was poor, and that, like a true martyr to
his country and his cause, he got poorer
and poorer during his public career. And
he adds pathetically: “During all this time
I have never been able to hire a housuin
Washington. My wife and I have expe
rienced the varying fortunes of Washing
ton boarding houses, sometimes very com
fortable, and a good deal of the time living
inafas iontowhich no Pittsburg mechanic,
earning $2 a day, would subjact his house
hold. Your ‘terrapin’ is all in my eye,
very little in my mouth.”
But now listen to the glowing eulogy of
the codfish, judiciously seasoned with a
little New England puritanism. A truly
royal dish, a relish for the gods: “The
chief carnal luxury of my life is in broak
fasting every Sunday morning with an
orthodox friend, a lady who has a rare gift
for making fishballs and coffee. You un
fortunate and beuighted Pennsylvanians
can never know the exquisite flavor of the
codfish, salted, made into balls, and eaten
of a Sunday morning by a person whose
theology is sound, ancF who believes iu all tbe
five points of Calvinism. lam myself but
un unwor thy heretic; but I am of puritan
stock of the seventh generation, and there
is vouchsafed to me also some share of that
ecstasy and a dim giimpse of that beatific
vision. Be assured, my benighted Penn
sylvania friend, that in that hour when
the week begins all the terrapin of
Philadelphia or Baltimore, and all the soft
-Bhelied crabs of the Atlantic shore, might
pull at my trousers’ legs and thrust them
selves on my notice in vain.”
A man who regards the codfish as such a
delicate morsol, a man poor, hut honest aud
of Puritan stock, could certainly not have
me mt to offer any indignity to the New
England workmen if he did say that be
would rather they should live on 50 cents a
day and codfish than see the force bill fail
to pass. Codfish is only another word for
feast, according to the senator, aud a feast
everyday aud 50 cents besides ought to sat
isfy the most fastidious. Mr. Hoar’s cod
fish story is bound to make an impression
on all who read it, and the workingmen for
whose benefit it is told will not soon for
get it.
Pretty Miss Falosof Newark, N. J., who
went to New Haven a few days ago and woke
up one morning aid found herself marr.ed
to a blear-eyed young man named Stevins,
tells a most remarkable story. She ays
that she doesn’t love Stevins and wouldn’t
have married him under any circumstances,
and that she has no recollection of having
gone with him to a minister and being mar
ried. She doesn’t kn jw whether she was
drugged or hypnotized, but she is sure that
she was put under some influence that
deprived her of her senses. She is asking a
New Jersey court for a diverce, as 3he
thinks life would tie a b irdea too heavy ts
bear if she had to live with the blear-eyed
young mao.
John Rockefeller of the Standard Oil
Company is going to put $30,000,000 of his
surplus wealth in a Baptist university. He
could hardly make a better disposition of if.
His partner, Mr. Flagler, still has uml:min
is bed faith in St. Augustiue, and continue*
to add to the attractions of that superb
winter resort.
There are about 30 >,00) hy fever suTer
ers iu the United (State*. Their seatjn for
sneezing U about beginning.
Gen. Butler on Pensions.
At the grand army reunion in Boston the
other day Gen. Butler said that tuoe who
are Members of the grand army were onoe
banded together to fight for the union, and
tr.at they are now Daniel together to get
wrat th) government owes them.
Gan. Alger, the retiring commander of
th i grand army, sail in th a course of bis
adlrees that the grand army was now re
ceiving in pensions *110.003,000 a year, and
that within tho next twelve months it
would tie receiving #150.000,000, very nearly
half of the revenues of the government.
Does Gen. Butler want all the revenues
paid to the grand army? It certaioly ap
pears so. Geo. Butler seems to have the
idea that the gran I army saved the country
and that now it o vns it.
It and the pe .sion claim agents will come
very near owning it if the republican party
remains In power much longer. There are
pens! n bills pending which, if passed, j
would bankrupt the government. So.ne of
the republican organs and leiders have
called a halt in the pension business. They
have become alarmed at the demands of the
Grand Army. There are plenty of demo- !
gogues line Gen. Butler, however, wno will
outinue to tell the veterans that the
nation’s debt to them is not paid, however
great the annum distributed in pensions
miy be.
The north is becoming filled with pau
pers. The most of them are the product of
the pension policy. The ex-confederates
get no tie isions and the south is not over
run with paupers. There never was a
greater demagogue than Gen. Butler, and
if he were poor he would be a very danger
ous one.
The striking anarchist cloakmakers who
believe in an equal division of wealth, that
is, a share for them cf somebody else’g
wealth, have determined “to teach the
wealthy manufacturers a lesson.” They
have started In opposition to their employ
ers a shop on the “equal share” plan, a sort
of co-operative movement. The men have
established a code of rules for their govern
ment and elected a foreman and assistant
foreman. The chief interest in the move
ment is not so much the question whether
the men will succeed in teaching manu
facturers a lesson as in the question whether
they will succeed with th ir experiment.
The probabilities are that the leaders will
castoff the yoke of equality, and quarrel.
Working for a living is not in tneir line.
The only practical tests they make are with
their mouths.
Mr. Quay, the proprietor of Pennsyl
vania. has announced that he will not inter
fere in the matter of local nominations iu
Philadelphia He will allow voters to select
their own candidates. Quay is not even a
citizen of Philadelphia, but graciously per
mits Philadelphians to do their own voting.
“But he does this even only iu words,” says
a correspondent. “The announcement, as
made, is simply notice to Mr. Quay’s fol
lowers that he. will not be angry with them
if they combine to defeat the candidates
backed by Mayor Fitler, against whom
Quay cannot affor I to make au open flghf.”
How is this for sublime impudence of boss
nils?
Gov. Bvrd, of Indian territory, called out
the militia to make sure of bis re-election a
few days ago. He got 106 votes for himself
to 21 for his opponent. This shows what
can be done with troops at the polls.
PERSONAL.
Dr. William Lomax of Marion, Ind., has
given SIOO,OOO to the medical college of that
state.
The Crown Princess of Denmark is the tallest
princess in the world. Her hight is announced
to be 6 feet 3 inches.
The Due d'Aumale has given up his splendid
home at Brussels, and during his recent visit to
Sicily his collections of pictures, books and
artistic bric-a-brac have all been removed to
Chantilly.
Miss Alice Wood of Queechee, Vt., has just
mowed a field of grass fifty acres in extent.
She did the work alone, using a mower drawn
by two horses. Next year she will be graduated
fiom the high school.
Hattie Harvey, Mine. Patti's American pro
tege, denies that she has changed her name to
Hattie Pattie. as she is proud of her own. She
may be just as proud of another if the right
man offers it “some day.”
Dorothy Tennant Stanley received one strik
ing wedding present. Stanley received £30,000
spot cash for his book, and rumor has it that he
put tbe money In au ivory purse and presented
it to his wife in lieu of jewels.
When Henry Goorge returns from Australia
a national conference of siugle tax clubs is to
be held iu New York. It will open Sept. 1 and
be held three days. Bet we n 400 and 500 dele
gates will attend, representing twenty-five or
thirty stat?s.
Osman Diuna, who has lately been resus
citated, after a number of supposed killings, is
said to be a Frenchman by birth, a native of
Rouen, whence he went when 15 years old to
Cairo, to learn the art of wai fare with Capt.
Merall. an ex-French officer.
BRIGHT BITS.
“I assure you. Judge, that my physician is
responsible for my being a thief.”
”Do you meau to say he hypnotized you and
compelled you to coram t a crime?”
“I won't say that, but I do know that he or
dered me to tako something beiore going to
bed."— eui Yu, k Herald.
“Mamma, you haven't given me any dimes
aud uicKols," complained Jimmy Shattuck, after
the physician bad gone
"What do you mean, Jimmy?” asked Mrs.
Shattuck in surprise.
“Why. the doctor said I needed a little
change.”— Chicago Inter Ocean.
A.—You should marry. Women exerts a
refining influence on man. What you need is a
wife.
B—Are you married?
“O, yes: I've been married twenty years."
“Why haven't you atul your wife been living
toget her all i be.se years ?' '—Si/tings.
Tbs Reward of Politeness.— Office boy (to
busy merchant)—A friend of your father wishes
to see you, sir.
Busy Merchant—Tell him my tather lives at
Kalamazoo, an i I'm sorry.
Friend of His Father (after messaao is de
liver'd—Very well; I'll place my SIO,OOJ order
for goods elsewhere.—Ruck.
CURRENT COMMENT.
The Point of View.
From the Kansas City Star (Ind.).
This is the difference: Secretary Blaine is an
international man; preside it Harrison is an
ißUianapolis man.
Depew on the Strike.
Frori the Cincinnati Enquirer (Dent.j.
They do say that Queen Victoria asked cur
Chauncey whether that strikj was "a tbree
haser or a home run," and that he replied.
"Madam 1 , the umpire, w o can be relied upon,
will decide that." ™
United and Btronsr.
Fr ri the Boston Ad’vrtiser (Rep.).
From Maine to California, from Minnesota to
Mississippi, from Mount Washington to Pike's
P ak, from the Falls of Niagara to the Falls of
the Yosetn.te from tin land of tie pine to the
land of the palmetto, the people of toe union
sre a milled people.
Evldoncsfl of Civilization.
From the Baltimore American (Rep.)
The appearance in Fort Worth of a man with
a sash is taken by the (~"sette of that city to
me.u that it is tune to tare it out of tbe tut of
frontier towns Wueu tbe woman with the
■■.>•••> front shirt and the mau a necktie and
co.lar dazzles the eyes of the eiiizeosof that
Uiwti.U* people wifi doubtless thin* tbe tune
has arrued to make it the capital of the nation
A Fugitive From Justice.
Tom Maul was the best catured man in the
county. He bad so many friends that they em
barms-el him. He had to become a total ab
sta ner in order to Keep from becoming a drunk
ard. It was only in ton manner that he could
shield himselr from the genrro-tty of his fr. ends i
One day he was elected sheriff, says the Pitts
burg DitDatch. This was a compliment, spon
taneously extended. To he sheriff in that
c unty meant to draw a salary Tom. whose ;
trade was doing alittle ot everything in general
an i nothing in particular, was delighted. He
bought a g'.ld watch with some money he had
laid up for a rainy day During the first three
months of ms service Maul mode four arrests.
He had a couple of sa'.-s He was affability it
self. It was almost a pleasure to be sold out
by him. He apologize! to the men oe ar
rested, and trade as many excuses ’or them as
possible in court. He spent most cf his time in
finding homes for stray dogs, and seeping de
erf pit norse, off the street.
One day the oou ’ty was electrified. A mur
der had been committed within its precinct—
hnh-rto guiltless of bioed. Torn Maul arrested
the murderer That night when he sat a one in
his room old Dr Tudd called “I want to ta e
your t"mperatura, Tom. said he He bad been
present when Maul was norn “One hundred
an i five." he remarked, wiping his thermometer.
"Are you coiiig io hang that man if iie is fou ud
guilty." Tom sh dde ed.
The country court was not a busy one There
was plenty of room on the and ic<er for the trial
of amn derer who had k lied a g ,od icizen.
Tom Mad was more sociable in a way At
least he no longer refuse 1 to drink, tho ign, on
the orher hand, he had ceas and to laugh or t il
his funny stories. The murderer was found
guilty. A day was set. acco dm ;to the law of
tne state, for his execution by hanging. Tickets
of admission to the hanging were extended to
the press an i ih; prominent men of the city.
The women toon satisfaction from the fact that
the hanging was to be on Fr.day. Mrs. Maul
awoke in the middle of the nigat" and saw the
figure cf Tom over by his little son's bed. She
beard him weeping. But sne was very sleepy
and her eyes closed io spite of herself.
The morning came with sleet and wind. Maul
was not to be found. Mrs. Maul knew nothing.
A deputy sheriff was appointed, and the exe
cution took place. Maui was heard of by no
one. But in ih* winter a body was found in the
woods, half buried in toe snow, and iu tbe
frozen hand was a bunch of seed pods.as if they
had been the plaything of the man’s last mo
ments. On one of these hands was a ring with
a cameo. Mrs Maul recognized it. It had been
worn on the hand of a man incapable of blood
shed—a man who, in anew sense of the word,
was a fugitive trom justice. He fled, not from
the execution, but from the administration of
the law.
His Baby Friends.
“Every day as I come down town." said a
Bachelor Club tr.an. according to the Pittsburg
Dispatch, "There is a certain door yard I look
into, or rather I used to, I don’t now. The two
prettiest children 1 ever saw in my life, 1 think,
lived there. Little things they were. Georgie
was about 4 years old—fat. pudgy little rascal
ha was. Margery was just a step higher than
he. It was funny to see the motherly ways she
bad L used to see them playing keep house,
and it was always Margery who would p'te.id'
she was tiie mamma. Well, sir. it us- and to do
my bachelor heart good to see them. I reme Ti
ber how I learned tnei names. It was just as I
was passing by when the front door opened and
a sweet faced woman call and out; 'Georgie’
Margery: come in now and let me fix s'ou up,
and we’ll go visit grandma "
“In a minute. Dis as soon's we dit iss pie
fixed."
“Well, it got so that they came to know me,
and they used to strike me for cigarette pict
ures regularly. I used to look forward to meet
ing them every day. Maybe you know how
hungry a man gets for a little of tne simplicity
of child-life now and again it was just about
the latter part of April I was called away to be
eone about, two weeks. If you rem mber.
diphtheria was raging then, and many a ‘little
white hearse went glimmering by.'
"The first day after 1 returned you may be
sure I looked at the cottage where 1 had so
often sen the little children playing. It was
silent now. The blinds were closed. There
was none of the ringing lau liter and nobody
shouting; 'Dit off. de tars is "topped." My baby
friends were gone,"
"Dead;'" asked somebody, breaking the hush.
"No; moved away."
Tbo Quest.
Donald R. McGregor in Phijadeln’iia Ledger.
The Ca iph sits upon his throne.
And all the com t is gay;
But from bis own breast joy has flown.
And why they cannot say.
The fairest of Arabic maids.
To music's sweetest sounds.
Dance iieath the weirdly carved arcades,
And every flower abounds.
Before him every fruit is set.
The horsemen guard the wall.
And from the graceful minaret
Comes the muezzin's call.
But still the Caliph sits in thought;
So one before him falls.
And asks with what joy can be bought,
And on their Allah calls.
Now is the Caliph all a king;
He issues his command:
"Go find tne purest, fairest thing,
And place it'at my hand."
Then through the city, o’er the land,
And in the deep blue sea
They sea ch, they find all Allah plan’d.
But moody yet is he.
Thorns he has found upon the rose,
The diamond's specks hassien.
Life in the purest stream tnat flows—
Then kneels his favorite queen.
Now gloom is dashed into its grave.
Now loud the loet's sing,
"A wife, be she of king or slave,
Is the purest, fairest thing."
Bsnevolent Mr. Jones.
We were wailing at the depot at Texarkana
when a young man pulled out a thimblerigging
outtit, and began to call for bets aga nst his
game. If it was against the law no one inter
fered with him, and in a few minutes he had
worked up quite an excitement, says the New
York .S'au I was with a friend from Buffalo,
and we wer i not “in.” However, at we sat
apart from the crowd a benign and banevoient
lookir.g man about 50 years old came over to
us and said:
“Gentlemen, I am Mr. Jones of St. Louis. I
have four sous. This is a wicked, wicked world,
and I take every precaution to guide them in
right paths. I have heard of this game, but
never saw it before. I want to play it—just a
little. I shall lose, of course, and that will make
a strong point for me when warning my Ixoys
against such temptations. I can prove to them
that it is a skin game.”
••Well?”
"Weil, I have no sma 1 money. If you could
cbaag * a J2O bill for me l.thiok I'd lose about
;5 for the benefit of mv boys.”
The Buffalo mau sad he and he only too happy
to oblige, and he gave him four fives.
The benevolent Mr. Jones disappeared at
once, but we didn't worry aoout tout. It was
only when my friend went to the ticket office
and had the s'2o thrown back at him as n. g.
that we went out to look for the benign father
of four sons. The earth had swallowed him up.
No, Sab! by Gad, Bah.
“No, sah," sail Judge Riley of Accomack,
whom a discriminating president has selected
from 10,000 applicants to represent these United
States as consul at Puerto Cabello, Venezuela,
to a Washington reporter. “I do not fear to face
the yellow fever on its native heath or in its
native lair, so to speak, sah. Wherever my
country calis me, there 1 go, by gad, sah I
never know fear, sah, especially when the clarion
call of duty resounos within the convoluted
c lambers of my ear, sah, with a salary of
$2,000 a year attached. Besides, sah. I nad the
yellow fever many years ago when I had the
honah of representing m.v country as consul at
Maracaibo. No, sah, lam not aware, san, that
an at ack gives you immunity from a second;
but in the equatorial regions, where veilow fever
is ind genous to the soil and to tne climate, sah,
it is lighter and less dangerous than in more
northern latitudes. If the yellow fever broke
out in Boston now, by gad. san, ninety-nine out
of 100 would die of it. But in the far south,
sah, yellow fever is no more dangerous than
our home brewed bilious fever on the eastern
sbo’ of ole Varginay. by gad, sah.”
Didn't Like the Medicine.
Some time ago a patient, evidently of Hiber
nian extraction, nays the st. Paul .Pioneer Press,
consulted a doctor for his ills, and the man of
medicine gave him some quinine la capsules,
alter he bad made av with these be returue i,
and the doctor decided that a little tonic was
necessary to brace up his system.
"All roigbt, door her, Oi've no objection to the
tonic, but Ol don't want enny moore av tbim
little bottles.”
“What s the trouble with the little bottles?"
Inquired the doctor
liivil a lolme Oi've had gettin tb sbtuff out
av thini,"ua the astonishing reply as a grim
ace of disgust played over the features of the
invalid.
"But m? dear sir," Interrupted the doctor,
"all vou have to do l to awalicw them,”
• Swallow Hum dum bon * ■ exclaimed the
patient, as lie started up. “do you think Ul'd be
afther ruinin' tne stomack?”
ITEMS OF INTSBE6T.
An event has happened in Keaaington, N H ,
which has set toe inhabitants wild with excite
ment The first house to be built in the place
for thirty years is ap;roacn:ng completion,
and a grand celebration is expected when the
inmates tase possession.
Get. Booth has taken steps to stop smoking
in the Saltation Army. He has issued an edict
announcing that no member who smokes shall
receive a promotion, anl that sergeants, bands
men. sergeants-major. secretaries and treasur
ers must resign office or give up smoking.
An English scientific person has discovered
that sitting down is an acquired habit. The
majority of mankind do not sit, but simply
squat, or. as it is sometimes said, sit oil their
heels. This oviticn. toe scientific person thinks,
is the natural one. while sitting on a chair is an
artificial one.
The ways of auctioneers in d.fferent parts of
the world vary greatly. In England and Amer
ica the seller b-ars the expense of the sale, bet
in France the purchaser be irs the cost. 5 per
cent, b iig added to ms purchase. In Holland
it is still worse, trie buyer b sing required to pay
1) per cent, additional for the expeuses of the
sale.
A peculiar freak of nature was discovered
at Palmyra a few days ago. A farmer's wife
brought in from the poultry yard a large hen's
egg. On examina ion it was found to contain
a we 1-developed yo.k and whi.e together with
a 'veil-formed egg or smaller dimensions, the
size of a guinea's egg, with a shell as solid as
the outer one.
A social cycloxe is reported to have raged
at Bar Harbor in consequence of the hostess at
a reception setting apart a private room, where
she feasted some naval officers and a few
friends in a regal manner, while the remainder
of a large company of the elite were turned
into a large dining room to hustle for refresh
ments of an ordinary quality.
Among the examination papers recently sub
mitted by candidates in San Brrnandino county
were the f dio ving answers: “Seattle is on the
west coast of Africa;" “Seattle is in the southern
part of France;" “The town, of San Bernardino
county are: San Francisco, Oakland, San Jose.
San r.afael and Sacramento." Another gem:
“Toe Gulf Stream is a cool, moist breeze that
helps to cool the air."
"While prospecting for borax.recently in
Salt Well Valley, Cal., Dr. Woodin found some
petrified bones of an extinct animal. The ball
part of the hip joint is nearly as large as the
crowu ot a derb .• bat. The corresponding bone
of an ox is about the size of a hen’s egg. The
siz ' of the extinct animal may be inferred from
t his comparison. Other parts of the skeleton of
the same animal were found.
T. J. Mitchell, who lives on the National
road, three miles east of Greenfield, Ind., dis
covered a large stone weighing 500 or 600
pounds in his cornfield one morning last week,
and. as it was not tnere when he last plowed
the field, Mr. Mitchell does not know how to
account for its presence. Large numbers of
people have seen the stone, and many think it
meteoric. Its size, formation and the uninjured
condition of the corn seem to preclude the fact
of its having been carried there for a joke.
A correspondent writes to "American Notes
and Queries:” My uncle having made inquiries
concerning tbo price of board in a country
town, received this teiegram in reply: "Board,
s2l a week, including washing up the carriage
and piano agent. Robinson.” He wrote, in
answer, that, though both piano agent and
carriage required cleansing, he wa not accus
tomed to such charges in a board bill; and soon
after learned that tile original copy had run
thus: “Board, S2O a week, including washing, use
of carriage and piano. Agnes Robinson."
Two young electricians were disputing as
they rode on an Albany (N. Y.) motor car the
other day as to whether they were m an elec.ric
field or not. The Aigus says that one strenu
ously insisted that no electric current passed
through the car. and urged that all the fluid
went underneat.i the floor. "I will prove it
otherwise,” replied the other, as he drew a
bunch of keys from his pocket. Tossing his
keys on the floor h nodded to his friend to
pick them up. He did so, but found a percepti
ble resistance. Another part of the floor was
tried, and it was clearly shown that a strong
electric current was passing through the floor.
"Well." he remarked, as he handed the keys
back to his friend and removed his watch to his
upper pocket and buttoned his coat, “I believe
it now.”
From Cook county, Wyoming, comes the
news that citizens ’of that district
are indignant over the attempt
of a Mi s Kent to file the i reemtion on
the 1 0 acres on which the Devil’s Tower stands.
“The Devil's Tower is said by geologists to be
the most wonderful specimen of basaltic crys
talization in the world It is a natural obelisk
nearly 1,200 feet high. 897 feet in diameter at
the base and 35 feet at the top. The ground on
which it stands has heretofore beeD regarded
as public, ad it was intended by tbe citize: s
that it snould remain so. It has been discovered
that an English iaiy has filed a preemption on
it and is endeavoring to prove up. It is not
known what she intends to do with it, and, as
the ground is worthless for agriculture, peti
tions have been sent to the land department, at
Washington, asking that her application be
rejected, and every effort is being male to
prevent Miss Kent from proving up on the
land.”
A STORY is given to the press from Lowell,
Mass., of a wonderful electric man which has
been constructed by an ingenious citizen pf that
place. The automaton is described as appeal
ing like a fine-looking young man of about 25
years of age, 5 feet 8 inches in bight, and with
an open, intelligent countenance. He (the elec
tric contrivance under consideration) is dress-e I
at present in a suit of gray-mixed goods, white
shirt, colla- and cuffs, soft felt hat, kid
gloves and No. 6 tan shoes. The
account says that "there are none
of the je ky movements that are
so commonly seen in mechanical figures.” but
that on the contrary his motions are easy aai
natural, aud that he is as much at home in the
draw ing room as on the street His walk is
particularly natural and he has a firm, springv
step that suggests the trained athlete. At
present this combination of cast-ir6n, elec
tricity and o:her things is engaged in pushing a
sort of overgrow n baby carriage about town in
which two or three persons can ride, and the
dispatch closes by saying that be lifts his hat
gracefully when he receives a fare.
Some time ago a man named Metz bought a
ticket at Kansas City for California, and, after
cbf c ting his trunk there, boarded the train.
Upon ois arrival at Canton, Cal., he discovered
that his trunk had gone astray. He waited a
reasonable time for the railroad aompany to
produce the trunk, and, failing to do so, he put
in a claim for $350 damages. Over S2OO of this
amou t was for jewelry for female wear, and
the railroad claimed it was not bound io pay
for it, inasmuch as it was not his personal bag
gage. Metz brought suit in the Los Angeles
county (California) court and recovered judg
ment for the full amount, and the railroad
company appealed. The supreme court, in de
ciding the case, said the railroad company is
obliged to pay only for the luggage of the
claimant, and luggige meant in law only such
things as the claimant needed for personal use
on his travels. Had Metz been traveling with
his wife there would be no question as to the
raiir .ad company's liability. But Metz was a
singl -man ad trave log alone. The articles of
female jewelry in his trunk could not, there
fore. be regarded as luggage and the railroad
company need not pay for them. The court
ordered ihe judgment reduced by the amount
of the jewelry.
Patrolman Thomas MpGrath , of the eleventh
precinct, Brooklyn, asserts positively that the
City of Churches is the haunt of a genuine
ghost, and that be has 6een It with his own
so ber eyes. He appears to be thoroughly in
t amest, and, in telling his story, acknowledged
t at he was exposing himself to ridicule, but he
declared that what he said was “solid truth,”
and that he was not the only one who saw it
Mr. McGrath describes with particularity his
discovery of the ghost, whicli he at first thought
was only an every day, mortal woman; how he
followed it u ;til they were near together, and
how the spectre disappeared before his eyes
He says: “We approached to within ten feet of
each other, and were coming still closer
together, when the woman completely
disappeared I was going toward her
-1 bad my eye on her, aud there
was nothing between us and the electric light
was shining full on her when she disap
pearea. The woman was young. I saw her
face plainly. She was very pretty. I should
think she was 18 years of age, and she was
and essed from head to foot in white, she wore a
Mother bubbard gown and a Nellie Bly hat
She mowed very slowly and her footsteps made
no sound; neither did her dress wave about as
a woman's dress does when she is walking I
fell you I saw that. I trembled like a leaf, for
I knew I had seen a ghost.” . fter recovering
his n.rve McGrath got a lantern and searched
the Vicinity, where, in the full glare of an
electric light, the ghost resolved itaeif into dew
or some otner iuvLiole form that defies arrest
and laughs at club*, but he found nothing
Country Epito* iout West)—This has been a
luelty day for me.
Fanli ui Wife Has someone been In to pav
a aubscriptloat
Editor—Well, no. It wasn’t as lucky as that;
but I was shot at and missed -ffo.tua Beacon.
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