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THE TRADE REVIEW,
For years, on the opening of each suc
ceeding season, there has been presented
evidence of a large increase in Savannah’s
business. Heretofore this increase has been
due to the natural growth of Savannah’s
tributary territory, a better understanding
of her commercial advantages, and the
gradual enlargement of her two great rail
road systems. Those things will continue to
contribute to her growth ana prosperity,
and, in addition to them, there are others,
which have recently come into existence,
that will make the business year of 1890-91
more notable than any preceding one in her
history.
Since the last trade review of the Morn
ing News there have been built three new
and important railroads to Savannah, or to
connect with her railroad systems. They
are the Alabama Midland, the Savannah
and Western, and tho Savannah, Americus
and Montgomery. These railroads hare
already brought hundreds of buyers to
Bavannah and increased her trade greatly.
But the number of buyers and the amount
of trade which these now railroads will
contribute to her markets when the crops
now in the fields tributary to them are
harvested will be many times larger. Tho
people will have money then and they will
seek Savannah to supply their wants.
Tho advanced condition of the cotton crop
justifies the opinion that the business season
will open early and with great activity.
Tbe people are already thinking, probably,
of what they will buy with the fruits of
their labor. They are scanning the columns
of the Morning News to see who ara the
live and progressive business men of Savan
nah and what they are offering for sale.
There is a large and lucrative trade to be
secured from the territory which the new
railroads have made tributary to Savan
nah, as well os from the territory which has
heretofore been tributary to her. If our
merchants aro wise they will not neglect the
only proper method of getting this trade.
That method is liberal advertising.
The Morning News proposes to moke a
special effort to reach every buyer in the
new field that has been opened by Savan
nah’s enterprise. The agents of the Morn
ing News are traveling through the coun
try, and the people are taking the paper
just as rapidly as the mail facilities which
are being established permit them to.
It 16 proposed to send a copy of the trade
review to each subscriber to the Weekly
Nf.ws, as well as to each subscriber to tbe
daily, thus giving advertisers the benefit of
both editions at a little more than the usual
price of one.
An advertisement in a newspaper Is an In
vitation to buyers to call. It virtually says,
“When you are in town please call on us.
We have all these things to show you."
The annual review will contain the usual
resume of the business of the city for the
last year. It will be sent to thousands of
people who are interested in Savannah’s
welfare and prosperity.
The Trade Review edition will be issued
Kept. 5. Space in its columns can be ob
tained upon application to the business
office.
It is reported in some of the specials from
Atlanta that Gov. Gordon is showing some
anxiety with respect to the senatorial con
test. Perhaps the excitement which he is
showing in anticipation of opposition is mis
taken for anxiety.
The Jeffersonian democrats of Floyd
county got together to-day. Do they mean
to thrown down the gage of battle to the
alliancemen of the Seventh congressional
district? If they put Dr. Felton in the race
against Col. Everett there will be lots of
fun in the Seventh district
The heavy rains night before last and
yesterday interfered greatly with tbe rice
liar vest, and perhaps damaged cotton con
, siderably in the section of country covered
| by the storm. However, the farmers can
not expect that every day will te a bright
day. It is to be regretted, however, if tbe
storm caused them serious loss.
The Reciprocity Idea
The reciprocity iden. of which Mr. Blaine
is the leading advocate, has taken a pretty
strong told of the Senate. It looks now as
if it would be incorporated into the tariff
bill. Its friends in tbe Senate have steadily
increased in number, nnd it is even said that
Maj. McKinley no longer opposes it, al
though he did rot deem it worthy cf con
sideration hen Mr. Blaine presorted it to
! the ways and means committee at the time
thst committee was framing the tariff bill.
In fact, it is assertod that Maj. McKinley,
who is chairman of the wavs and
means committee, ridiculed reciprocity .and
regarded with impatience Mr. Blaine’s ap
pearance before the committee la behalf of
it. Now that he finds that it is popular he
admits that it deserves more than a passing
notice. Even the cold-blooded aud crafty
Senator Sberinau favors it, for the reason,
perhaDS, that he sees that the drift
of public sentiment is toward it.
He is not averse. therefore, to
seeking whatever popularity there is to bo
gained from it by identifying himself
with it. The resolution which he offered in
the Senate yesterday, extending reci
procity to Canada, is a pretty g od indica
tion that the republican leaders are begin
ning to see that the country is about tired
of high protection, and that even in the Re
publican party there is a strong and grow
ing demand for freer trade.
When Mr. Blaine suggested, a month or
so ago, that instead cf admitting sugar free
it should be made the means of extending
cur trade with the sugar producing coun
tries, it was said by some of the republican
leaders that tbe suggestion was not a prac
ticable one, and that it would not meet with
the approval of tbe countries south of us.
That they were mistakon is shown by the
statement of Senator Aldrich in tbe Senate
on Monday. That Senator declared that
Brazil, Chiii and Peru bad announced
through their representatives at Washing
ton their willingness to enter into reciprocal
trade relations with this country, and there
is every reason to believe that about all the
other countries south of us will gladly do
the same thing.
In his speech at Watnrville, Me., the other
day Mr. Blaine pointed out that from fig
ures taken from the books of the treasury
department it appeared that our trade with
Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, Hawaii
and Canada left a balance in our favor of
$129,000,000 annually, but that our trade
with the countries suuth of us not only
wiped out this favorable balance, but cre
ated an annual balance against us of over
$13,000,000. It is not to be wondered at,
therefore, that the reciprocal idea is grow
ing in favor.
But it is growing in favor for another
and a stronger reason—a reason which Sen
ator Paddock of Nebraska, a republican,
pointed out in a speech in the Senate on
Monday. It is that the people ore getting
very tired of. being taxed to build up mo
nopolies. The hign protective tariff, they
are beginning to understand, bears very
heavily upon the masses and benefits only a
few. Senator Paddock illustrated bis
meaning by referring to the proposition in
the pending tariff bill to tax the whole peo
ple with the view of allowing a few persons
to get rich out of the manufacture of tin
plate. He declared that he would much
rather pay a bounty to those who want to
manufacture tin plate than to make every
family in the country contribute to tbe
support of a tin plate industry.
The republican leaders see that tho people
are dissatisfied with the liigh protective
policy of their party, and that is why they
are taking hold of the reciprocity idea,
which means freer trade. Mr. Blaine was
tbe first of them to admit the existent of
this dissatisfaction, and was quick to seek
some means to allay it.
The truth is, the position of tbe Demo
cratic party with respect to the tariff is the
correct one, and the Republican party will
have to come to it, either by the reciprocity
road or some other. There is a revolt,
which is spreading, agaiust the high pro
tective policy, and sooner or later the Re
publican party will be foroed to abandon
that policy.
Farmers and Crop Prospects.
The Morkikg News fails to see how the
farmer will be benefited by the failure, or
partial failure, of some of the crops, as a
number of the newspapers seem to thiuk.
The latest summary of the crop prospects
indicates a deficiency of 50 per cent, in
potatoes, 40 per cent, in fruits, some of
which are a total failure, 20 per cent, iu
wheat and 25 per cent, in corn. The con
clusion is that higher prices will pre
vail. From this our misguided
contemporaries argue, upon the shallow
theories of artificial scarcity, that if tbe
production of any crop is lessened, the ad
vance in prices will more than make up for
the loss. This is only the case where there
is a close combination that is able to force
prices up out of all proportion to the actual
deorease in production.
Applied to the farm-rs it would mean
that because there is half a crop of potatoes,
for example, the price of potatoes will be
more than twice as high. Carrying
that logic to its legitimate conclusion, if the
farmers should lose ninety-huodreths of
their crop they would be just as well off as
if they had a large crop. Of course such
views are incorrect. When our crops are
good we export many millions of dollars’
worth of agricultural products yearly, in
exchange for which we receive values
which represent an addition to our national
wealth. When tha crops fail our
means for keeping the balance of trade
In our favor is cut off. Wealth is created
by production. A natural shortage of pro
duction is a calamity for which no one cau
be blamed. An artificial restriction of pro
duction is a wanton prevention of tho
inortase of wealth. A shortage of crops is
a misfortune alike for producer and con
sumer.
When republican senators fall out the
people get a peep at what is actually going
on in the average republican mind. On
Monday, when Seuator Aldrich hinted that
Senator Blair was only a gas bag, and was
v/asting the time of the Senate in making
buncomlie speeches, the latter intimated
quite strongly that Aldrich was a repre
sentative of monopolies. Aldrich is the
manager of the tariff bill, and it is to be in
ferred that Blair thinks that thit bill is in
the interest of monopolies. He will, how
ever, vote for it.
Some of tho rebublican senators are le
ginning to entertain the opinion that the
tariff policy of their party is nursing too
many infant industries. They think if
those industries were not treated so tenderly
they would sooner be able to take care of
themselves. It is needless to say that these
senators who are losing their sympathy for
the infants belong to ths great and growing
west.
TIIE MORNING NEWS: WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1890.
Cotton Mills in the South.
The rapid increase in the number of cot
ton mills in the south is calculated to make
thinking men wonder how long it will be
before the cotton which is grown in the
touch will be manufactured into cotton
goods in southern mills. And why should
not tbe south cousume tbe bulk of her
cotton crop in mills of her own ? She ought
to be able to manufacture cotton goods
cheaper than they can he manufactured
elsew here, because she has good and cheap
labor that can be easily trained to tend
the spindles and looms. She has a genial
climate and she produces food products in
such quantit.es as to make living as cheap
within her limits os it is anywhere else iu
the civilized world. Her mills can get cot
ton for several dollars a bale less than it
can be obtained by the mills in Now Eng
land or in Europe.
According to an authoritative report,
which the Morning News published yes
terday, tbe southern cotton mill* eonsumed
in the year ending Aug. 31. 546,383 bales oT
cotton, and in the previous year 481,345
bales. The increase in the consumption of
southern mills, therefore, was 65,118 bales—
a very gratifying Incre so, but not as great
as it ought to have been, yet great enough
to show that the south is waking up to the
fact that there is great wealth for her in
manufacturing her cotton crop.
The number of cotton mills now in opera
tion in the south is 270, having 1.665,191
spindles. Thirty-nine new mills hare begun
working this year, and they have 241,864
spindles. Fifteen more mills will be com
pleted ihis fall, and will be in operation be
fore Christmas. Quite a number of mills
are idle now from one cause and anothor,
but it is expected that nearly all the idle
ones will soon be in operation. The total
number of mills in the south is 336, having
40,819 looms and 1,819,291 spindles.
It is a noteworthy fact that, the increase
in the number of spindles in the south dur
ing the last year is equal to almost half the
number that was in the south ten years
ago. This fact shows that cotton manu
facturing in the south is increasing at a
wonderful rate. It justifies the conclusion
that within a comparatively few j-ears the
south Will be the cotton manufacturing, as
well as the cotton producing, section of the
country. The future of the south certainly
looks promising.
On the War Path After Wanamaker.
Col. William Henderson of Baltimore is
and has been for a long time a republican.
He was a candidate for the postmastership
of that city; but Mr. Wanamaker put the
geutle Henderson aside, because a suspicion
had been born in bis mind that Hendorson
was a Louisiana lottery man—that he
was, in fact, the eastern agent of
that concern, and that, as such
he was a bad inan from away back—that
he was a man of deep, dark, damnable de
signs upon the country. And thon he pro
ceeded to follow Henderson—to spy upon
him; and, as a result, the discovery was
made that the lottery ooinpany mailed mat
ter in the city of Baltimore.
Henderson, therefore, is furious—his
righteous soul is aroused into sinful republi
can wrath, and lie has announced himself
accordingly as on tbe warpath, panting for
revenge. Indeed, he is now yearning every
moment for thescalp of the good man who
is managing the mail service.
“It appears,” Col. Henderson declares,
“that Wanamaker is trying to besmirch my
character.” And he adds, significantly:
“He’d better take care!” Mark that,and keep
a sharp lookout for dreadful news. There is
blood on the moon, for the supremely in
dignant Hendorson prooeeds to say, threat
ingly: “I am prepared to ruin Mr. Wan
amaker and drive him outof the President’s
cabinet.” Ho! ho! coma again, Mr, Header
son, come again. Tell us, and tell us quick
ly, what has Mr. Wanamaker done? Whv,
“he ruined the character of a lady and
gentleman in his deportment,” replies the
irate Henderson, and then branches off
into the irrelevant declaration: “My
character is as good as his.”
Well, admitting this, what has that fact
to do with the lady and gentlemau of the
postoffice department who have been ruined
by Mr. Wanamaker? How did Mr. Wan
amaker ruin this lady and gentleman?
Why did he ruin them? When did he ruin
them? Did he ruin them both at the same
time? How many times, Col. Hendbrson,
to the best of your knowledge and appar
ently accurate belief, did he ruiu them?
And what has become of them? And is
Wanamaker sorry? And is it likely the
ruin thus wrought can be repaired?
Let tho public have the whole story, if,
in fact, there is a story.
There was very little opposition to Col.
Lester's renomination in the convention of
First congressional district yesterday. His
brief, but effective campaign a couple of
weeks ago knocked the props from under
those who were engaged in packing the
convention against him. He will have
anothor terra, and it may be several other
terms. The satisfaction over his renomina
tion is quite general. He has served the
district well, and as long as a representative
does as well as it is possible to do for his
constituents there is no reason why they
should not ko-p him in congress. Only four
out of the ten cf the Georgia delegation
will be in the next congress. The alliance
ax has been wielded with almost as much
skill and vigor as ex-Assistant Postmaster
General Clarkson wielded the postoffice ax
in dealing with fourth-class postmasters.
A doctor in St. Louis hypnotized a young
man and then was unable to awaken bis
subject from sleep. When even a medical
man shows his inability to cope with the
hypnotic uowor, how much more danger
there must be in it in the hands of au un
practical layman. The necessity for some
stringent legal restraints upon experimen
tation with this power is strongly empha
sized by the St. Louis incident.
More people have visited Savannah this
summer than in any previous summer in
her history, and more of Savannah’s citi
zens have sought recreation in the moun
tains and on the soasliore. Aro the people
in this part of Georgia getting to be more
prosperou.? It wouid certainly seem so, in
view of the fact that they can afford to do
more traveling than ever before.
Some of the yourg ladies of the Indepei -
dent Presbyterian church congregation par
ticipated in a mock marriage ceremony in
the unfinished church the other day. One
was chosen w ithout much trouble to take
the part of a bride. Do coining events cast
their shadows before?
The Baptist preacher. Eagle, seems to
have distanced the Methodist preacher,
Kizer, in the r-ica for governor in Arkansas,
Monday. The republicans surely cannot
claim that there was not a free ballot and a
fair count in an eUctloo in which tbe lead
ing candidates wore ministers of ths gospel.
PERSON 41*
Ssxator Edmunds is said to be much con
cerned about hi* failing health.
Probai-.y the last survivor of the soldiers who
teiped togar.-.s * Fort Fish iu 1814-15 is Col. C.
“ Tap pan of N-w York.
The Crown Pmxcasa or Denmark is tbe tall
est princess in the world. Her bight is an
noucced to be 6 feet 3 inches.
Queen Margaret of Italy likes nothing so
much ns the museum of gloves, fans, boots and
shoes used and worn at different periods at the
various c rarts of the ststes of Italy.
The poet Tenxvson s seldom seen bow with
out a pipe in his mouth. If he would only put
acme of hit recent poems in his pipe and smoke
them the world wvuld breathe easier.
Racl dc Ohaillc is a thorough American,
having been bom in Louisiana, and not in
i ranee, as ia commonly supposed He is bald
and over 50, but is still ga v snd agile as a hoy.
Joe Howard says that Ward McAllister "is a
much misjudged man. He is not a person of
individual fortune- He married a little money,
not much, and ha • been known h-re for the last
forty years as a dancing master."
The will of Miss Bessie Allen of Philadelphia,
who was killed in the recent accident on the
Old Colony railroad, gives $4,000 to the Presby
terian church and :ts missions Mina Allen left
property to the value of $luO,OOt).
The craze for titles seems to have attacked
the King of Italy, and he talks ot making him
self "Emperor of Erytfirea and Eastern
Africa," because of bis protectorate of Abys
sinia and some colonies on the Red sea.
The two mos; famous of English yachts
momen are Mrs. Hudson Reed and her sister.
Miss Cox. Each of these ladies sails her own
boat—the former holding the helm of the
Troublesome and the latter that of the Mliss.
The marri age arranged between Prince Bau
doin, son of the Count of Flanders, and Princess
Clementine, daughter of King Leopold, indicates
that the House of Belgium means to consoli
date itself against all its enemies within and
without.
Prince Bismarck never looked in more robust
health than during his twelfth visit to Kissin
gen. He appears to be mexuberantspirits, and
every morning at 11 o'clock he drives with his
doctor to the baths, where he La •> a special room
aud ante chamber.
Mr. Carnegie offered flO.ffl.) to build a
library in Ayr, provided the community adopted
the free libraries act. A plebiscite of the in
habitants was taken, and tr.e result of tbe vot
ing shows that out of 3,738 bousenoMers 2,015
voted for the adoptiou of the act and 123
against.
Reports concerning tbe health of Henrv M.
Stanley are not altogether reassuring. He has
failed to recover from his rec nt illness as rap
idly as was nopei for. It is not unlikely that
the privations which he endured in his African
journeying i have seriously undermined his con
stitution.
British royalty is inclined to scout with con
siderable asperity the statement that the pres
ent reigning house is not entitled to the high
flown family name of Guelph. In marrying
Prince Albert, however, tie queen would natur
ally be expected to take his surname, and this
is Wettin, the family name of the house of
Saxony.
BRIGHT BITa.
"A happy heart makes a dooming visage."
So does poor whisky.— Detroit Free Press.
Satan smiles when ho sees a young person who
believes there is tun in being wicked.—Milwau
kee Journal.
The men who never paid anything else will
surely have to pay the debt of nature. —Ashland
<, Wis.) Press.
The Sabbath was made for all men. and that
Is probably why some unselfish souls don’t try
to keep it. —Texas Riflings.
It is a mystery how some physicians retain
their practice until we learn that their patients
carry life insurance.— Whites de Herald.
Old Coquette—Ten years of my life would j
willingly give if I could only make myself
twenty years younger.— Fliegen.de Blatter.
The convivial man doesn't care much for a
storied urn. but an animated "bust" is fre
quently very much to his liking.— Washington
Post.
First Boy (to second boy, who has been flsh
ipgl—Catch anything?
Second Boy—l haven’t been home yet.—
Racket.
Mrs. Jason—When they tie up a railroad
they don’t actually use a rope, do they?
Mr. Jason—No; it is generally done with a
string of resolutions.—Terre Haute Express.
He—What a beautiful moon that is, darling!
Could you ask for a better one?
She (tired of waiting for him to propose)—
Yes, George, a honeymoon.— Lippmcott's Mag
azine.
A., to his chance roommate-Do you think,
then, that I am a thief, that you put your pock
etbook under your pillow?
"Oh, no; but I like myhead a little higher.”—
Fliegende Blatter.
“Come down out of that apple tree! What
are you up there for, anyway?”
“1 only got up because when I was under
neath the anples kept falling on my head."—
Fliegende Blatter.
Georoe M. Pullman, the parlor and sleeping
coach Cro-sus, was originally a carpenter at
A b;on, N. Y., where he was born. Many of tbe
porters, also, began life quite modestly,—
Philadelphia Ledge’ .
Put not your trust in slot machines, O my
brother, for have ye not noticed that when
bribed by a single dirty nickel this same ap
paratus always gives you a weigh?— Sew York
Commercial Advertiser.
Maud—Good evening. May. How do you do?
I see vary little of you nowadays.
May—How could you? Why don’t you come
to Newport, you dear girl? Now, speaking of
bathing suits—, —American Grocer.
“1 trust you are on your way to heaven,” re
marked a clerical looking man to a chance ac
quaintance on the traiu.
“No, sir." replied the latter. "Fact is, I am
bound for St. Louis. '—Chicago Inter Ocean.
"What is that horrid noise in the kitchen?”
"It is our new cook. She's altogether too
conscientious. Just because she has burned
the roast to a crisp, she feels that bad over it,
she’s smashing all the crockery. "—Phtladephia
Times.
Secret Service Official—This special mis
sion requires a man of the utmost delicacy,
tact and diplomacy. What credentials have
you?
Applicant—l’ve jest been umpirin’ a babv
show. — Pue.k .
Miss Erxeste— Clara Larker came near being
drowned yesterday.
Miss Pauie—Really?
Miss Erneste—Yos; Lord Randegsrer proposed
to her just as they were diving off the float, and
she said yes under water.— Judge.
Amy—Fred. I hear that your engagement
with Miss Biesser is broken ?
Fred—Yes, it is.
Amy—lt must have been built on sand to fall
so soon.
Fred—l thought it was founded on rocks, but
I discovered she hadn’t any.— Munseg's Weekly.
CURRENT COMMENT.
Pot and the Kettle.
Frm the Courier- Journal (Dem.).
It is said that ex-Speaker Keifar objects to
newspaper comparisons of himself with Speaker
Reed.
He Had to Leave It.
From the Washington Post ( Ind.).
An Ohio miser died the otter day, leaving an
estate of $125,000, after iving fitly years at an
average expense of less than 3 cents a day. The
sole compensation to tbe world in careers like
his lies in ihe fact that there are no pockets in a
shroud.
They Do Not Hurt—Only Annoy.
From the Inter-Ocean (Rep.).
Prosperity has its penalties. Chicago is the
second, ana prom ses to be tbe flrst citv of the
con inent. aud New York Is envious, ft is not
p'easant to a kindly natured city, a city whose
exceedingly anundant measure of prosperity is
due more to ihe exceeding catholic.ty of its be
nevolence and policy to bear the older munici
palities growling maledictions upon it- The
maledictions will not hurt, but they maytnnoy.
An Ugly Reminder.
from the Pittsburg Dispatch (Ind.).
But the record of Mr. Clarkson, gratifying as
it may be to him personally, may not prove a
source of unmixed comfort and joy to tbe Re
publican party when next it appeals to the
country upon the same old platform of con
scientious civil service reform. The President
may have forgotten his promise to be guided In
appointments and removals by none but con
siderations of tbe public good, but the people
have net. And Mr. Clarksvn's record is so ugly
rtmm ier of how that promise bos been broken.
Shorty.
Jim Duncan’s familiars called him "Shorty,"
and he deserved the nickname on two accounts:
He was short of stature and was also short of
cash—in a general way, relates the Pittsburg
Dispatch. His people were "well-to-do," and
kept him decently dressed, and as be was a
jolly good fellow, with a fair education and a
keen wit. be had many friends, as well as bu
rn rous hearty enemies. Tne humor .n bis wit
ainuaed those who weie not its butts, it angered
those;who were.
Jim could never be kept at work in tne lines
which those who 'were interested in him pro
vided. He was br might up in a large village of
oue of the Middle states, and at various times
attempts were made to make of him a dry
goods merenant, hi.te keeper or lawyer, by the
usual processes, clerking in a store taking the
uiebt watch behind a tavern counter, reading
elementary lawbooks in a lawyer's musty den.
etc. But all failed: Jim neglectel his duties for
tne more genial pursuits of fishing, rabbit hunt
ing, swimming and ball playing But he dis
played great fondness and aptitude for m-cian
l-un, so far as it could be learned in a horse
shosr's shop, and be frequently assisted a
friendly b acksmitb by ’’striking' for him with
a big sledge hammer, wnen the blacksmith s
regular helper vt< absent or otherwise engaged.
Jim always tel 1, however, that tls dislike tv
the small details of a small business arose from
the fact that he wss calculated to "bore with a
bigauger." Atauyrate.be wore threadbare
the patience of a'l who attempted to make a
merchant, hotel keeper or lawyer of him. and
eventually became proverbial as a ne’er-do
well
Jim grew up in the village with a girl who
was very fond of him. as he was of her. Sue
was the youngest daughter of the richest man
in the place; a man who had sold dry goods at
retail in that village.boy and man, for fitl v year.-,
aud besides his drv goo Is store and numerous
holding in the village bank, he owned an excel
lent firm u a- by, and was presilent of the
village bank. Of course he was violently op
posed to Jim's attentions to his pretty daughter
Sue, and the young lady's old maid sisters and
prim mamma were in a chronic state of arita
tioa. superinduced by the same cause. Jim took
Sue behind bim on his saddle horse one even
ing, ami they rode away unknown to a I others
in tho village, and were married by a ’squire in
a ne ghboring village, who had performed this
excellent office for so many other fugitive
c uples that his village had become famous, in
four adjoining states, as a sort of Gretna Green.
When Jim and Sue returned to they home
and Jim complacently told what thev bad done,
consternation prevailed extensively in both
families, while outsiders chuckled and meta
phorically patted "the high contracting
parties" on the back. Sue's fatner was irrecon
cilable in the premises, a id the polar coolness
with which Sue was received by Jim's people
fortunately aroused Jim’s indignation. He de
cided to go west and do something, if it was
nothing more than to grow up with the country.
He negotiated a small loan and Jim and Sue
were shortly in a carbonate camp
It is not necessary to this history to tell how
Jim quickly developed his ability to "bore with
a big auger." Fortune favored him in obtain
ing the opportunity, and in an incredibly short
space of time ha was an important factor in a
great silver mining syndicate. The news of his
success reached his native village, flrst as a
rumor, finally as a settled fact, and proportion
ately as the information took solid sbape. let
ters from tbe two famLies, which began to go
to Jim and Sue upon the flrst informa
tion concerning his success, grew in
warmth as the information increased in relia
bility. Tbe rich old merchant-banker-farmer
became excessively affectionate and yearned
for Jim and Sue to return an l receive "the best
and freshest blessings in the homo market. Jim
was very’ busy, but he took time to write a very
expressive, though brief and not altogether ele
gant, letter. It read:
Respected parents, on both sides, and all others
whom it may concern:
I have neither time nor inclination for episto
lary elaboration. Got the earth in a sung.
Yours, Shorty.
A Lesson to t e Bovs.
"It was the shortest and most effective ser
mon I ever witnessed—didn't hear it.”
The gentleman who gave voice to the above
remark, says the Chicago Mail, stood chatting
with a number of friends last evening in the
foyer of Hooley’s Theatre, awaiting the close of
the last act of “The Cbarity Ball."
"Let us have it," said one of the listeners.
“Anything in the shape of a sermon w hich
could interest you must indeed be one of para
mount importance."
"Oh. it won't take long to tell it. There was
not a word said in the sermon-just a motion,
that's all. Boy made the mot inn—was the
preacher."
"Well, tell us about it, why don't you?”
"While waiting for a grip-car on Ashland
avenue and Madison street, this evening." he
begaD, "1 noticed a number of little chans hop
ping on snd off the cars whenever the conduct
or’s back was turned. It looked like dangeruus
play, and I felt like catching one of tnem and
giving him a good old-fashioned spanking.
Besides myself there was a gray-haired, kindly
faced old gentleman, who looked at the antics
of the boys rather sadly.
"Suddenly the old gentleman in a shrill voice
cried out to the youngsters: ‘Boys, boys, don’t
jump on those cars. Scms of you will surely
get hurt.’ But, of course, the rascals paid no
attention to him; in fact, they laughed as they
continued their sport at every opportunity. I
had missed several east-bound grips, so inter
ested w as I in what was going on.
"Again the old fellow called the lads: ‘Boys,
come here a moment and let mo tell you how
foolish you are and what danger you are plac
ing yourselves in by leaping on ami off those
cars.’ The boys scrambled up to the curbstone
near the walk where the old man was standing
and prepared to listen to what he might have to
say.
"‘Did you ever hear your papas real of the
many accidents which happen to little fellows
like you while playing about moving cars? Did
you ever see any person who had been hurt by
his carelessness on a grip train?'
“There was i o answer, except that the young
rogues looked s. each other and sort of grinned
and wondered why the old gcnt.eman took such
au interest in them and their spurts. And evi
dently grandfather read their thoughts, for he
hastily added: ‘I have a little grandson who
played about these cars, though forbidden to do
so by the conductors as well as his parents. He
does not do so now, does he, Frankie?’ asked the
old man, as he turned to a flaxen haired, blue
eyed little fellow wrho stood beside him.
“ ’No. grandfather,’ answered the bov.
“ ‘And will you tell those foolish little fellows
why he does not ?’
"Now. here’s the sermon," said the man in
the foyer. "The boy made no answer; he just
shoved out the stump of what had once been
his right leg and burst into tears. Tnat was all
The kind old grandpa kissed his pretty butcrip
pled grandson, and with his hand on has shoul
der the two slowly walked up the avefiue.
“Well, sir, those little rats stood stock still
for a moment or so and gazed with wide eyes
at the crippled hoy as he moved away. Then
with very earnest faces they quietly turned
corn irs and went their various ways to their
homes as thoughtfully as though they were
going to their own funerals. That’s the sermon
the most impressive and effective that 1 ever
witnessed, for there was notuing to hear
about it."
"Quite so." vouchsafed one of the party, "but
it’s dollars to peanuts that those little fellows
were back again inside an hour making the life
of the conductors a burden. •’
“Well, perhaps. Guess you’re right. Boys
will be boys.”
The Red-Headed Girl.
From the New York Clipper.
Oh. give me the girl with the auburn hair!
The lass with tne peachblow curls;
The one that the white horse alwavs is near
For she’s the boss of all girls.
The one whose topknot is ttamingly red—
The color we paint the town—
Of a rosy tinge, most luridly spread
O’er a cirroty, sunset crown.
Oh. give me the girl whose cranium’s hued
5V ith Harvard's selected shade;
The tint of neckties worn by the dude,
The pink of the blushing maid.
The one with the wavy, raspberry bang
That casts forth fiery rays; " ’
Whose caerry bowcatchers witchingly hang
Like bunches of currants ablaze.
Oh, give me the girl with the ketchup crop
Crabapple. crauberry tinged;
Whose dome’s adorned with a tomato mop.
All crinkled and coiled and fringed,
With a sorrel Psyche knot on her pate.
Like grape juice, or old port wine— ’
With the coral, the ruby, garnet plait
Like peppers or drug store twine. ’
Oh. give me the girl with the gold-flsbcrimDs
"Ith ringlets like beefsteak rare;
The one with t ne locks of fricasseed shrimps—
The one with the lobster hair;
The weinerwurst, fi ankfurt sausage girl
5\ ith the soft-sheH crab line braids,
For the oue with the danger signal curl
Lays over all other maids.
So give me the girl whose canopy's down
Is rouge, lilee a toy balloon:
-Whose cupola’s capped wi.b a scarlet crown
Or carnation, brick, m^roea.
The one with the strawberry knob, so fair
She ll mate things tarrid through life- ’
Oh, give me the girl with the raw meat Wr-
The red headed girl for a wife:
Freoobiox Goldthwaitk.
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ITEMS OF INTEREST.
A bell east recently for the Kharkov cathe
dral contains 68 per cent, of pure silver. It
weighs 6;6 English pounds, and its viorations
last several minutes.
Ninety years ago Mr. Palmer, an actor, fell
dead on the Liverpool stage. The moment be
fore his death he had exclaimed, “O, God, O,
God, there is another and a better world."
The Primrose League of England is nearing
the millionth n ember. When the returns were
male up at tbe close of last month the regis
tered members numbered 939,130, and the hab
itations 2,103.
The Indian government publishes a return
sbowing that in ths years 1887, 1888 and 1889 372
males and 132 females were tortured by dacoits
In the central division of Upper Burmab.
One hundred and eighteen cases resulted In
death.
A train was recsntly brought to a standstill
at Brierfleld, near Nelson, owing to a truck
laden with seven bxrrels of strawberries comb g
into collis on with the engine. The fruit so
clogged the machinery that it tooc 20 minutes
to clean it.
The three reasons which a good woman
presented for objecting to a preacher were
striking ones. She said that, in the first place,
he read his sermon; in the second, he did not
read it well; and in the third place, it was not
worth reading.
Koussa Bey has been banished to Mecca, a
punishment he professes to like. He says ban
ishment is much better than the bowstring, be
sides which, banishment to tne Holy City is
really a prize package, so to speak, as such
things go.
The youthful kino of Spain has not been
out of the cradle long, but he appears to have a
full appreciation of his position in life. One
day recently he was served for lunch with the
breast of a chicken cut into small pieces. He
at once began to help himself without the
aid of either spoon or fork. “Sire,'’ said the
att.-n lant, gravely, "Kings never eat with their
fingers." This king does," responded his
majesty, continuing his meal.
A New York man says he has discovered a fly
destroyer that discounts all the fly papers and
fly poisons that have yet been put into use.
Last spring he went into tbe country and
brought back with him when he returned a num
ber of bunches of clover blossoms. He bung
them in his rooms to ornament the walls. The
clover dried, and since then he says not a fly
will stay- in the room. He watched and studied,
and says he has discover! that flies cannot stand
the scent of dried clover.
John Hitz, late consul general of Switzer
land. thinks there s some mistake about Will
iam Tell having been turned down. as it were by
that government. He observes: "Oniy recently
collections have been made all over this coun
try for a monument to William Tell, to be
erected upon the place in Altdorf where the
hero made his famous apple shot. These col
lections were forwarded by the representative
of the Swiss government at Washington to the
federal authorities in Berne. The Swiss govern
ment itself contributed to tnis monument fund,
I am informed, and would surely not have
done so did they consider the Tell story merely
a myth, or had they taken the action your
well-meaning article refers to."
Although Lord Tennyson, who recently cel
ebrated his 03th birthday, is still hale and
hearty, yet the Loudon press has again started
a discussion of the rival merits of the various
candidates for the post of poet laureate, which
will become vacant at his death Tennyson
himself has nominated "Owen Meredith" as
his successor. The Queen favors tbe Earl of
Rosslyn, whom but few outside oourt circles
have ever heard mentioned as a poet. Lord
Salisbury supports Alfred Austin, who is a fre
quent visitor at Hatfield bouse, and the Prince
or Wales is supposed rightly or wrongly to
favor William Morris. Swinburne is consid
ered to ha\ e put himself out of running by his
recent ode commending the plots to assassinate
the Czar.
Something in the wheel pit at Cook’s Mills,
Prestontown, Conn., the other day, made the
wheel gurgle, w heeze and clatjter, so th ■ mill
min shut off the water and the machinery
stopped. Then the water oozed out of its pit,
he and bis man went down into the dark ho’e to
see what the matter was. Lying on their faces,
they gazed into the gloom, and heard someth log
creak and splash about in the wet pit. Two
big snapping turtles were in the hole, and they
appeared to share tne miller s desire that in
some way they might be got out. Tbe neigh
bors rallied at the mill, and after a good deal of
work and by means of tackles and ropes the
beasts were hoisted out of the pit. One turtle
weighed forty-three pounds and tße other thirty
seven.
There are trusts and trusts m almost every
conceivable product, but it has remained for a
Chicago man to form a tonsorial trust, the first
on record. A. B. Russell, a broker, is the origi
nator of the scheme. It has grown out of the
great difficulty experienced by the traveling
public in finding well regulated barber shops
where good service can fcA obtained in cities
with wnich the unfortunate traveler is unac
quainted. Seekingtoreruedy the evil, Mr. Rus
sell has incorporated an institution known as
the National Tonsorial Parlor Company, with a
capital stock of $25,000. Barber shoos are to
be established in all the large cities of the United
States, to be owned and controlled by the coin
pa iy. Tickets of membership will be issue!
for a sum comparatively small, probably sls,
which will bo good for one year, and which will
entitle the holder to all the service required
for that length of time in any city included in
the trust.
A lady of Warsaw advertised in tbe papers
that she was willing to accept proposals for
marriage, and, giving a description of herself,
she also enumerated the qualifications she re
quired in her suitor. Among these qualifica
tions she mentioned that he must be the owner
ot real estate She received many letters in
reply, but one of them was strikingly original
The writt r said that he possessed a 1 that which
the lady desired in her future husband. He was
good looking, he held a respectable position, he
had many friends and was received in good so
ciety, and could support a family comfortably
As to real estate, he had that, too; he was the
owner of a plat of ground in a cemetery which
was large enough to accommodate him, a wife
and six children. The lady selected the writer
of this letter from the whole number of suitors.
She reasoned that a young man of his position
who had thought of acquiring graves for him
self and a large family before ha was married
was surely worthy of the endowment of her
hand and heart.
Police Justice Duffy is one of the “charac
ters” of New York. His "decisions” from the
bench have a uniqueness and originality to
which no other judge in this city can lay ciaim
Recently he made two interesting decisions
Two women were arraigned before him who
were charged with disorderly conduct. They
were returning home from a theatrical matinee
and were caught in a crowd on the street. Two
policemen ordered them to "move on.” which
resulted in the women giving them "pieces of
their mind.” Then they were arrested.
Judge Duffy decided that “women
no matter how respectable, should
not go to the matinees unescorted by male com
panions.” This, from his standpoint, was the
cause of all this trouble. Then he fined them
$5 each, but remitted the fines afterward on ac
count of the good character they had estab
lished. Another case was that of a woman who
made a complaint against her husband for non
support. This led Judge Duffy to remark-
Why, woman, he can t live with you. No man
could. It is the frequent sight of such women
as you, and the hell on earth they can make for
husbands, that has deterred men from marry
ing. It would be just my luck to get such a
wife.
Hon. .1. Henniker Heatos, M. P„ the advo
cate of international penny- postage, is in this
country. He will visit Washington soon and
lay the question of penny postage before Post,
master General Wanamaker. Mr Heaton’s
hobby, if it be dignified to use such a term
to express the Engllsoman’s intense interest in
this postal reform, is one that will be am to
meet with popular favor, whatever may be the
judgment of postal authorities upon its practi
cability In arguing the matter with the
postmaster to-day Mr. Heaton said- “The
rates paid by the United States government to
the steamship companies for carrying: the rna 1 <
are low enough to admit of a penny ocean post
age. Tne writers of letters are charged 5 cents
cr two pence half pennv, while the steam
snip companies receive only l
?<•„ ha" a . penny for
* et a C n' The White Star line receives 1 shilling
and P pence a pound for the mails, and reckon
ing the average of forty letters to the pound
the writers pay the United States Govermnern
8 shillings and 4 pence for every pound Al
though reducing the postage to i penny or 2
cents may seem to cut off a portion of the
postal revenue, the increase in the number of
te„T" tt T k r° U,d m ? re than makl? "P 'be
™, lhls " aS clearl > - shown whe£ the
penny postal system was introduced in En gland
by Sir Rowland llill.” Mr. Heaton became rich
whil St h B ‘L Waere h ’ WTOt a boy, and
wbeie be became a member of the colonial
££ Tt e 18 D ° W ? raernber of the British
parliament. He comes here not as an agent of
ver 2 ment ’ but on his own account, in
'be interests of the reform to
wnioh he is devoting his energies.
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