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INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Meetings—Golden Rule Lodge No, 12, I. O. O
F.; Savannah Castle No. 8, K. P.; Nacoochee
Tribe No. 24, I. O. R. M : Savannah Soap Works.
Special Notices—As to Bills Against British
Steamships Grandholm and Holyrood; Tele
phone Notice, R. B. Rood, Manager; Fried &
Hicks' Ladies’ Restaurant; Do You Want a
Home? C. H. Dorsett, Real Estate Dealer.
Amusements—“ The Great Metropolis," at the
Theater Saturday. Oct 25.
Success Flour— L. J. Dunn, Southern Agent.
Proposals— Wanted for Material at the
Charleston Jetties.
Auction Sales—A Capital Bay Street Comer,
by C. H. Dorsett.
Bio Vegetable Sale—A Ehrlich & Bro.
Legal N iricics—As to Claims in Favor of and
Against Joseph Ealen’s Estate.
Cheap (iolumn Advestissments Help
Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Rent; For
Sale: Lost: Personal; Miscellaneous.
Arkansas expects to send at least five
democrats to the next congress. That
■would give her a s lid democratic delega
tion. Good for Arkansas.
Rumor hath it that Judge Gresham has
received the appointment to the vacancy in
the supreme court. No ma i would receive
a more cordial indorsement from the whole
country.
Young Abraham Lincoln’s body ia to be
placed beside the remains of his illustrious
grandfather in the crypt of the Lincoln
monument at Springfield, 111. Thus the lad
la sheltered by the old man’s fame. It was
big enough for two.
Quarantine against American cattle in
Belgium is hereafter “to be governed by
circumstances.” That probably means that
they are to be detained longer than the
customary ten days in order to obstruct tbe
increasing importation.
Last Monday the first cargo of southern
coal, consisting of 700 tons, was shipped
from Norfolk to Liverpool. This is “carry
coals to Newcastle” in earnest. It is proba
bly but tbe beginning of what promises to
be a very profitable traffic.
Independent republicans in Pennsylvania
are making life a burden to Quay and his
gubernatorial candidate, Delamater, Re
volt is breaking out on every band, and the
kickers seem bent upon knocking the silent
statesman’s “fat” into the fire.
Crowds that almost amount to a mob at
tend the lectures of Rev. Dr. Taltnage at
the New York Aoadetny of Music in spite
of the statements of a rival minister that
some of his descriptions of the Holy Laud
are incorrect. Fame catches the crowd.
Oklahoma citizens are said to be still
actively gunning for their governor because
he vetoed the bill ordering the removal of
the capital from Guthrie to Oklahoma, aud
he is sedulously staying indoors in order
that tbe majesty of tbe law may be main •
tained.
Jersey City is to have the largest passen
ger station in tbe world to accommodate
the trains and traffic of tbe great Pennsyl
vania railway. Foundations for it have
just been laid. It is to be magnificent in
every way. If any road can afford such a
luxury tbe Pennsylvania can.
There is a rather improbable story cur
rent that tells of a Shaker at Enfield, Conn.,
who was expelled from bis church for read
ing the New York Sun. But his name is
Wait Warner aud we are told that “All
thingscime round to him who will but
wait.” There is a fine Hold here for a barrel
full of puns. But we refrain.
That must have been rather an affecting
sight when veterans of “the blue and the
gray” knelt at Fredericksburg, Va., and
united in prayer for the preservation and
prosperity of the uaiou. Nothing more
pathetically touching has occurred since
tbe fratricidal struggle ceased. Partisan
dissension has no legitimate pretext for
existence after such a scene.
It is said that the recently burned Syra
cuse hotel was fired by an incendiary, and
that it was consumed in ten minutes. That
was called a fire-proof hotel. Prisoners
serving life sentences should be kept in such
hotels, where they would not be likely to
escape. But discreet tiavelers will have to
sit out on the stoop all night so that iu case
of fire they can get away before the house
falls on them.
Prices WUI Rise to the Limit.
Trying to bolster up a cause with plausi
ble sophistries is, to reasoning minds, tanta
mount to a confession of its innate weak
ness.
ReDlving to a pithy statement in which
the New York World siys “every time
rhat a man buys s gold c.gar or a good
coat now he is reminded, by the increased
price, of the beauties of the re pub. lean law
to ‘reduce revenue’ by raising taxes, the
Chicago Inter-Ocean beg: the question in
an attempt to prejudice the pubii’ mind by
deciari g “that is simply saving ‘there are
no good cigar' and Hi good coaC except
such as are manufactured abroad," and
gdbly continues to assure us that “the real
fact is that the multitude wili go on wear
ing ‘good coats’ and sm iking ‘good cigars’
made on American soil, aad neither should
be dearer to the purchaser under the new
la*.” “Neither should be" is good.
Unless we shall be so uncharitable as to
lelieve that the Inter-Ocean is deliberately
attempting to imp se upon the credulity of
its readers, c mat in courtesy compels the
assumption that the writer of the above
statements has not the faintest understand
ing of the important subject he has at
tempted to dispose of so airily.
Americans, he should weii know, are not
in the habit of holding their productions, of
whatever character they may be, in such
light esteem as to regard them inferior to
similar articles of foreign make without
verj' go and cause. And they are altogether
too thrifty to sell their goods for anything
less than the highest market price for their
class and quality. Th refore any conces
sion in price may fairly be regarded as a
pretty conclusive evidence of Inferiority in
quality. *
American manufacturers are not so
philanthropic as to religiously adhere to a
low price merely to illustrate by contrast
the disparity between the cost
of the home-made article and
the foreign product under the
beneficent operation of a high tariff. They
go In for what they can make every time,
and may be relied on to avail themse.ves of
every favorable circumstance to promote
their own advantage.
If the tariff raises the price of a foreign
article 60 per cent, above the present or
former price of that article here, there is
no reason why the home manufacturer
should not get just as much for his product
of equal grade. At best he would not do
more than shade the price of the foreign
article, say 5 per cent, or less to monopolize
the trade. So the consumer may buy the
best article at an advance of 45 per cent or
the inferior grade for 30 per ceub more than
the best formerly cost.
To tell us what “should be” done is merely
idle. That has nothing to do with the case.
It is not what shiuld be doue, but what is
done, that we have to deal with.
Riches and Respectability.
Before the chancery court in St. Louis is
now pending a case that Is not without the
elements of romance; Yet it carries with
it a strong moral. It involves the owner
ship of a very large sum of money. For
the past fifteen years the heirs, who are
very poor people, have been struggling to
establish their title to the property,and now
that they seem about to succeed, some
singular events of the history in two lives,
and curious phases of human nature, are
revealed.
More than a hundred years ago John
Miillanthy and John Walsh jointly owned
a fishing boat in Ireland which they oper
ated in partnership. They divided the
profits until Mullanthy suddenly disap
peared with all the money. Arriving at
8t Louis in 1804 he prospered and grew rich,
and his family affected aristocratic
airs. It was his cotton that precipitated
the historic battle of New Orleans. That
only lends additional interest to the case.
Afterward he cleared from that cotton over
$500,000, which was the foundation of his
immense fortune. All these years he had
toon as silent as the hinges of a tomb con
cerning his early life, and when he came to
die his burdened conscience seems to have
impelled him to make restitution to the
heirs of the man ho had wronged. Ho he
willed to the heirs of John Walsh their due.
With Interest it now amounts to $5,000,000
or more.
Meanwhile his old partner died poir, and
his family scattered. His nearest living
relative appears to be Mrs. Powers, of
Laurel, Md., who is 73 years old, and has
spent many years and all tbe money she
could raise trying to establish her claim.
Now comes the most singular part of the
whole affair. Until lately it has been inex
plicable. While the descendants of Mul
lanthy do not appear averse to tbe award
of the legacy to Mrs. Powers, they seem
horrified that she has found it
necessary to enter suit, and thus bring out
the whole early history of the elder Mul
lanthy for the delectation of their social
rivals and five hundred, more or less,
curious friends. Such an exposure means
great humiliation to them and tends to
explain some of their actions that have
heretofore appeared unaccountable It ac
counts for the always manifest reluctance
of this family to discuss their ancestor, and
the absolute refusal of one member, who
had established a charitable fund, to di
vulge any particulars of a biographical
nature.
When the case comes to trial, if it ever
does, the evidence offered for the claimant
can but prove very painful to the innocent
family connections of the man whose career
is to be thus publicly reviewed. And it is
very likely that his surviving relatives will
make strenuous exertions to stop the con
test.
This clearly demonstrates the absolute
necessity for a good fou idation on which to
start a family. Yet there are many very
conspicuous families in this country—.
especially in the east and west—whose
claims to respectability rest upon an
equally rickety basis. Still they are al
ways the most rigorously pretentious aud
imposing in their demeanor.
Some excitement among c mnoisseur9 in
art has been caused by a picture represent
ing "The Crucifixion,” which was recently
sent to Dean Wagner, of Windsor, Ont., at
the dying request of the mother superior of
an Ursuline convent at Prague, Austria.
Though the coloring is somewhat faded by
its evidently remote aatiquity.it has been
positively ide itilied a3 a painting by Hans
Hetnmling, that has been vainly- searched
for more than two hundred y-ears, and
from which Van Dyke copied his famous
picture of “The Crucifixion.” It is now on
exhibition at Windsor. If genuine it is
certainly a priceless treasure.
President Harrison adopted a very de
vious and shamefaced way of approaching
Maj. McKinley’s district to make campaign
stump speec es. Directness would have
been much more creditable.
THE MORNING NEWS: WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1890.
Consumption Among Firemen.
Aside from the perils incident to his duties
the occupation of fireman would impress
the average observer as among the least
likely to engender pulmonary diseases. Ye:
physicians have lately maintained that fire
men are particularly susceptible to cou
sump ion. That seems ir.credibl“. Consid
ering how much physical exercise they get
ore would naturally suppose them to be
among the healthiest of men. Exposure is
the chief cause to which is ascribed the high
rate of m- rtalitv among them.
Recently Dr. Tho.nas J. Mays, of the Phila
delphia Polytechnic Institute, contributed to
tQe Medical mid Surgical Reporter an
article in which he sets fortn statistics col
lected from the fire departments of the
principal American cities, tending to refute
the argument heretofore offered to sustain
the accepted hypothesis thit consumption is
contagious, nud showing that the death
rate is almost equally high among people
engaged in open air pursuits as among
those of indoor occunati ns.
Explaining that firemen when they enter
the department are subjected to tests no less
severe than those applied to insurance risks,
Dr. Mays asserts with apparent reason that
the men start their respective careers upon
the same hygienic footing.
Among fire departments the average
death rate from consumption amounts to
33.73 per cent, of the total mortality, while
the death rate from the same cause among
the insured amounts to only 17.61 per cent.,
or 16.12 per cent. less than the firemen’s
death rate from the same dis?ase. Further
Dr. Mays states that “the average mor
tality from consumption among tne general
population between the ages of 20 and 70,
as founded on the statistics of a number of
large American cities, is 27.29 per cent.,
which exceeds the death rate among the in
sured 9.68 p r cent. Basing our estimates
on the mortality of insured lives, we
add 9.68 per cent, to 16.12 per cent., and
this product, 2ABO per cent., represents the
liability of the firemen to consumption over
and above that of the general population.
If we now add the latter to the death rata
of the general population we get 53.09 per
cent, which represents the relative death
rate of firemen from consumption. In
other words, if the whole adult population
were turned into firemen, 53.09 per cent, of
all their deaths would be caused by can
sumption.”
Lately Dr. George Cornet, of Berlin, pub
lished statistics to snow that 2.83 per cent,
of the nuns acting as nurses in the convents
and monasteries of Prussia die from con
sumption. As those nurses are largely en
gaged in the care of consumptives thes?
figures have been held as convincing evi
dence that consumption is contagious.
But after pointing out that
the death rate among inmates of German
prisons ranges from 64 to 90 per cent, from
consumption, Dr. Mays brings out the
further fact that prisoners undergoing
solitary confinement are at least 20 per
cent more vulnerable to the disease than
those who are allowed to freely mingle to
gether.
Added to his own investigations an 1 ex
perience the doctor thinks this evidence
very strongly points to the conclusion that
pulmonary consumption is not contagious.
Firemen spend much of their time in the
open air. They are never confined to sun
less and ill-ventilated buildings. Here are
eliminated all the sanitary and hereditary
factors known to conduce to the disease.
Yet when the death rate from consumption
among them is compared with that of the
general populace it is found more than 50
per cent, above. After closely watching
the various stages of the developmeut of
consumption Dr. Mays concludes that this
very high rate of mortality is chiefly caused
by the excessive exhaustion of the physical
energies, whether or not attended by
exposure to a specific germ. Certainly
no class of men is more exposed to
enervating physical influences than firemen
in large cities. And it is, in the language
of Dr. Mays, “the sudden transition from a
warm room to active duty on a cold win
ter’s night, sometimes the urgency be
ing so great that they are compelled to fin
ish their toilet en route to a fire; the daring,
tbe excessive aud almost superhuman exer
tion demanded in battling with the flames;
the extreme oscillations of temperature to
which their bodies at e subjected, bathed
m perspiration at one moment and
drenched and chilled by an icy stream of
water the next; the necessity during emer
gencies of wearing and even sleeping in wet
clothing from one fire to another, are bur
dens which no human constitution can long
successfully withstand, and are unquestion
ably some of the most prominent causes
which undermine the health of these self
sacrificing men and m tke them so vulner
able to the disease under consideration.”
Still, to look at the average fireman, no
one would not be likely to suspect that he
had to deal with anything more serious
than maintaining his grip on ladders and
eluding flying bricks and such things.
Another thing the doctor ha? wholly
overlooked: While the standard of physical
requirements in tire departments is quite
as high a< in insurance companies, yet po
litical influence frequently aids applicants
in evading many essential details of these
requirements.
Those valiant and sanguinary republicans
who have not fonnd out that the war is
over were probably concealed where they
could not see the fighting, and only came to
sight when they desperately decided they
could not stay away from the provisions
any longer. They are the ones who are
most lusrily clamoring for pensions for
losing a button jerked off while in the act
of nimbly passing behind a tree to avoid an
unexpectedly long range noise.
Boulanger is no longer great aud no one
is so bitterly hostile to him now as his own
former parasites who fawned upon him
when his star was in the ascendant. Still
le brav generate, who is also somewhat dis
creet, has saved many bright little francs
as memento*of the eminently baug up times
he once had. They tend to console him in
the loneliness of exile among the fair dam
sels of Jersey Isle.
There is something suggestive of the com
ical about the recent reunion of the s ildiers
who followed Gen. Bard Grubb in the late
war. It doesu’t seem to bo much of a tribute
to their valor that they only fought under
the inspiration of Bird Grubb.
Explorers on Mount Saint Elias, in Alas
ka, report the discovery of many beautiful
flowers and ferns amid the glaciers in that
frigid latitude. How these frail little plants
manage to exist Is a mystery.
South Dakota is said to be suffering for
“wool, water and woman suffrage.” But it
seems that she ought to manage to pull
through the winter if she cau only get tbe
wool and water.
PJtRSOK A L.
The Austrian emperor subscribed $500,000 for
the relief of the sufferers by the floods in his
dominions, and his brothers gave $400,000
more.
BBoca, the French anthropologist, declares
that the broad-head*,-d race now represented by
the reopie of Central France are the true Gauis
or Celts of Caesar.
In his letter from Florida Gen. Francis Spin
ner says there i3 litt.e change in his condition.
His cmcer is slowly growing larger, and he
hues “it wul soon carry him tohiseter:^
rests."
Persistent rumors are current in royal
circi-s that Luke Guenther, brother of the
German empress, will shortly marry the
Princess Maud, daug-t-r of the Prince of
Wales.
Alexander C .auk of iota, the recently ap
pointed minister to Liberia, Is spending a few
days in Ne e York before starting for his post,
and receiving many atientions from his colored
friends.
Roeef r Lotus Stevens s, the noveli t, is ex
pected in England next month. He is return
ing with the intention of arranging his affairs
in England and settling permanently in
Samoa.
By the will of the late J C. Newton of Wor
cester, Mass., the buL of his estate of SIO,OOO
is left to An h-irst Coileg-' as a permanent en
do vment for C ,e chairs of Greek and the art of
sculpture.
Gen. Grenville M P ge, at the urgent re
quest of Gov. Boies an ! others, has presented
the state of lowa with a life size portrait of
himself, which will be hung in the capital at
D -s M lines.
Fraclzin Helene Lange is said to be one of
the most influential women in Germany at the
present time. She is a lecturer and essayist,
with a remarkable pow r of critical analysis
and originality of thought.
Col. William A. Dian, who is running for
congress in Clifton county, Ohio, bat been a
candidate for co.,gres-. six times before, but
was n oer elected. His motto is. if at first you
Doan succeed, try, try again.
The painter Muneacsy, who is visiting Buda-
Pesth, has promised to pain: a colossal picture
for the new parliament house of the Hungarian
O'a. ital, toe subject being tne first appearance
of the Hungarians in Europe.
Rev. John M. Worhall, who succeeded Dr.
Burchard in the Thirteenth Street Presbyterian
church. New York, has r si.-n-d from the pres
bytery to accept a chair in tao Danville Theo
logical Seminary of K* ntucky.
California friends of Gen Fremont propose
that his remains shall be removed from New
York—the vault of Trinity church—to San
rrancisco, to be interred probably at Lone
Mountain, where a monument will be erected.
Senator Stanford says he came near being a
newspaper man. He was appointed editor of a
weekly jour: al in the ea,t. but the propriet rs
failed in their arrangements to get the concern
started, so he remaine iin the west- In a fit an
cial point of view the senator, with his $100,0U0,-
000, is perhaps as well off as if he bad got his
weekly publication under way.
Aunt Dinah Mosley, who lives in Boone
county, Missouri, is sail to be 133 years old and
the mother of twenty children, all of whom are
dead but the “baby," wno is 76 years old. She
is an old Virginia pla-itatiou Legreos and un
doubtedly th oldest person living in the United
States, has never taken a spoonful of medicine,
and has smoked a pile fur 115 years. She has
been blind for six yea*’*, but can walk yet and
sing the songs she sang when Washington's
army lay at Valley Forge.
BRIGHT BiTa.
A young bachelor is an nsi! fellow, and some
woman is always trjftug to get even with him.—
Washington hatchet,
A Boston child, becoming impatient at its
mother's delay in he a, tig rs evening prayers,
exclaimed: "Come, ma uma, Dod's a-waitin’."
Ltiwell Mail,
“Muggins, how many more times are you go
ing to deal? Seßfns to me It’s my turn."
‘ Huggins, do you see, that sign? Tills is the
‘I deal Whist Club." ChicagoZTnbune,
He—No sensible girt will ever accept a wid
ower’s proposal.
She—Why, pray? **
He—Because a man who can’t profit by ex
perience is certainly a fool.— Munaey's Weekly.
First Summer Girl (just returned from a
long, lonesome shksoil at- the summer and
autumn resorcin—O, how delightful the city is!
S-cond Summer' Girl—Perfectly heavenly!
Broa Iway is just black with men.—. Vein York
Weekly.
“Nature,” says Seappleton, “never makes a
mistake.”
“Oh, I don’t know about that; look at the
dude."
"Yes; but she didn't waste any brains on
him," —Washington p. st.
Travers—Can I get off two hours, sir, to buy
abut?
Head of Firm-Two hours? For gracious
sake! What and > you want so much time for?
Travers—Halt an hour to buy the bat, and
the rest to establish my credit.— Clothier and
Furnisher.
Farmer’s Wife—Couldn’t you sell the pota
toes, Hiram?
Farmer—Naw; the grocers said they wan’t
good for nothin’.
Farmer’s Wife—Well. I wouldn't lia' brought
'em home when you owe the editor s'7 for bis
paper.— Judge.
“And you mean to say that your train crossed
the c.ia m where tho bridge a 1 burned without
being t r eked? Heraarkabie! What kept it
from going down?”
“As good luck would have it, just at that mo
ment. it was being held up by train robbers."
Chicago Post.
Author Mr. Director, may I ask as to what
the committee think of my drama? It is per
haps accepted.
“The three members of the reading com
mittee wer of the opinion that one of the three
acts ought to be struck out. but each wanted to
cut out a different one.”— Fliegende. Blatter.
“Do you know." she said, “that clock reminds
me of yon every time I look at it. Do you no
tice anything peculiar about it?”
"Why, no; I really can’t say that I do," he
replied, as he drew bearer, "except that it
doesn’t go.” Then be got red in the face, and
in a few moments vanished. —Washington Post.
“Does your cyclopedy tell anything about the
toottiacue?"
“I think so. mum; it touches on all useful In
formation. We haven't published the T volume
yet.”
“Well, you e.tn put me down for a T volume,
an’if it goes ahead of ouralmanick on tooth
ache cures I’ll take the whole set.’’— Munsey s
Weekly.
Rev. Mr. Jones—Sister White, it grieved me
las’ Sunday ter see you at church in deep
mournin', an’ at de same time er wearin'yaller
strings on yer bonnet. Dat ain’t zactly de way
ter mourn, sister.
Sister White— Brudder Jones. I wears dem
yaller ribbons in memory obmy ios’ lubhed one
—who wuz er bright mulatter befo’ he up an'
died. —Texas Siftings.
Employment Agent—Th’ top o’ th' mornin’
t’ ye, Biddy Maloney. Oi've found a place fur
ye. Go to the strafe an’ number ye foiud on
this card
Domestic—Sure it’s a noice neighborhood.
Oi’U go.
Agent—Wait a minute, Biddv. Take off that
French cap. It's not a French maid, but an
American gurl they wants.—. Vein York Weekly.
CURRENT COMMENT.
And Puts It on tho Consumer.
From the. Chicago Inter-Ocean (Rep ).
The McKinley bill relieves 700,000 from the
payment of internal revenue taxes formerly
assessed.
They Are a Fly Pair.
From the St. Louis Republic (Dem.).
A maiden at Oregon, 111., has eloped with a
drummer after twenty minutes’ courting. This
is an age of pernicious activity.
Und ir tha Pi o 7 si in Wagon.
From the Philadelphia Times (Dem.).
Considering the number of applications put
in by tbe pension sharks, one has to wonder
where the extra soldiers kept themse.ves during
the war.
They Coma Cheap.
From the Chicago Tribune (Rep.).
Col. Bussey, who wants to go to congress from
the Fit teenih Illinois district, is a rich banker
and has for manv years “loved the farmers”
of bis district at tbe rale of 10 and 12 per
cent. He can afford to buy several republican
weeklies.
The declining po a ers of old age may be
wonderfully recuperated and sustained by
the daily use of Hood’s Sarsaparilla.— Ado.
His Opinions Didn’t Count.
The following inci lects in the career of
Alphonse Daudet are related, says Public
Opinion , by H. H. Boyesen, who enjoys Ibo
privilege of a personal acquaintance with the
distinguished French author: “Alphonse
Daudet. a little, de.icateman, with eard pa-ted
at t ie chin, heavy ringlets like a lion's mane
surrounding fcis head. soft, dreamy eyes, and
extremely robust chest—such he is' vVn-'i a
boy, h.s lather failed, and for some time Al
phonse lived with him i'i penury at Lyons. But
an elder tirother procured a position in a glass
store a Paris and Alphonse went to live
w ith him. They t ok the cheapest lodgings in
thecitv. for money was exceedingly tc tree. In
fac:, Daudet t ravelled to Paris in a freight car.
wearing a pair of rubber boot-;, inside of wnich
were neither slippers nor stockings The jour
ney occupied two days, an I the boy di 1 not
taste food during th • whole t.me. Finally,
when Paris was reachei. he was nevrly frozen
as weii as starved Tnere they dwelt, far up in
the atec of a building six stoi ies in he.gnt. But
neither of the brothers lost heart. Both had an
abiding rai;h that the vo ingerpovsess-d genius.
“One day a stray volum- of Daudet s poems
found its way into the Tmh-nes. Tne Empress
Eugenie was de i rh*ed with it. and exclaiinel
to her brother-in-law: ‘Can't w e do something
for tne boy who wrote taese?’ The duke re
plied: *ls e can do everything for him if your
majesty so desires. ’ ‘Tuen find out about him
and offer him assistance i’she cried. Tne next
day Alphonse loosed down rom his attic win
dow in surprise to se * a great carriage, bearing
the imperial coat-of-arms, stop before the door.
In a moment a huge, impressive, dign.fie I,
liveried lackey came ponderously creaking up
the stairs. As he kn eked heavily on the do >r
Dauuei reeled forward half in a faint. What
could it aii mean? What would b ippan? Noth
ing. the lackey said, except the duke sent his
card to M. Daudet, wlio would plea->e call on the
duke one wees from that day.
“Ah, what prepa atious were made for that
visit: Sur *ly Daudet could not go to the palace
in rags and tatters, so he searched the clothing
stores of ail Purls, trying to hire a drees su t,
but- wir gto nis peculiar physique none could
be fmnd. After many trials be succeeded in
getting bold of a tailor who mad** him a suit
on the strength of the duke's card—for Daudet
had no money to pay for it—and on the ap
pointed day be went to the palace. A score of
o:h rs were present, but he waited his turn,
and it came. He was ushered in to where the
duse sat. ’Can you write?’ ‘Ye;, sir,’ replied
Daudet. ‘Very good; I want a secretary. Pay,
5,(00 francs. Good morning.’ The boy was
nearly overcome. He bad never imagined that
any one was paid that much a year—about
£2OO. But he suddenly remembered that he
differed in politics from the duke, and, drawing
himself up. announced the fact. Instead of
bring deeply moved by this heroic course, the
duke said: ‘Oh. go and get your hair cut. I
don’t care anything about your political be
liefs.’”
Overcome by a Woman.
There were four pretty tough looking charac
ters sitting on a teach in Battery park the
other day, says the New York Sun,
relating their adventures to each
other. One had been in a mutiny at sea; a sec
ond had been a terror to a whole country and
a third intimated that he had once trained w ith
a band of pirates. The fourth was a lanky,
long-faced man with a sunken chest, and when
the others had finished he said:
"Gentleman, why was I run out of Chicago?
Because the papers called me a holy terror
and put the police force on to me. You prob
ably remember of the five policeman who were
found dead in a bunch ? I had to do it.
“Of cours you did,” they assented.
“Why did the governor of Kansas set a price
on my head—3l',ooo. dead or alive? You prob
ably saw in the papers that only one man out
of the thirteen in tne sheriff's posse returned
alive? Didn’t want to do it, but had to.”
“Certainly, just our case,” they replied.
“I'd Use to go to St. Louis," he continued, “but
it wouldn’t be prudent. You probably saw the
account of my stealing a steamboat and run
ning her off?"
“Of course we saw,” replied the three.
The lanky man was ready to relate another
chapter of his life, when a lame woman with a
few pears in a basket came along and said:
“Come, now, move along, and give me a bit
of the bench.”
No one moved. They hardly realized her
presence. Tney were busy thinking what des
perate men they were.
"And that’s the kind of gentility ye show a
poor, lame woman, is it!” exc aimed the indig
nant female, and, dropping her basket, she
seized them one after the other and flung them
into the middle of the patch. As the last one
went she sat down in the middle of the bench,
got a brace for her-feet, and continued:
“And now lot's see the whole four of yez trot
me out of this!
They didn’t try. Humbly, meekly, and lamb
like they sauntered away to find an ther bench,
totally ignoring 'the fact that they were desper
ate men of decided villainy.
He Cot the Cash.
Col. M. A. Aldrich tells a good story on the
late Alexander Mitchell, onee president of the
Chicago. Milwaukee and St. Paul railroad, says
the Chicago Herald. It was at a
time v-hen the colonel was col
lector of tne port of Milwaukee, and was
somewhat a leader of the Democratic party in
the Cream City. During a campaign it was de
cided to organize a large torchlight procession
aud go down to Racine to stir up some enthusi
asm. Of course they would want a train, and
the colonel called upon Mr Mitcheil to secure it.
He broached the subject by asking the president
how much it would cost for train to take about
500 persons to Racine and return. Mr. Mitchell
stammered over ihe problem for awhile, evi
dently figuring in his mind the coances of the
company getting its pay for the servics. "Will
the money be all right?” he dubiously
inquired of the colonel. “Oh, yes," replied
that diplomat. “There will be no trouble
about tho money. That is all arranged
for.” “Well, well, I don’t know about the
price; I must ask Mr. I win., ox,” and the presi
dent sent for his right bower. Ben came in
bris; and smiling, and when the question of
price was asked figured on his shirt frout a mo
ment and then named a sum “Is that about
right?" asked the president of the colonel.
“Oh, if Ben Lennox says it's right it’s bound to
be right,” said Aldrich, "and if you are satisfied
w ith the price lam not going to kick. It's all
ruht, tnen, Mr, Mitchell, is it? Wu cau have
the train?" “Yes, yes." said Mr. Mitchell, “you
can have the train." But you are sure that the
money is all right, colonel?’’ “Why, certainly,
no troubleaboutthat at all. When the affair is
over I shall come direct to you for a check for
the amount.” ’1 he colonel says tne president’s
face was a picture for a moment and that Hen
Lennox we'nt out choking with laughter. The
torchlight procession went to Racine just tte
i-a ue and the colcxel got the check from Mr.
Mitchell.
My Neighbor Jim.
O F. Pear-re in the Blcominaton Pantagraph.
Everything pleased my neighbor Jim.
When it rained
He never complained,
But said wet weather suited him.
“Tnere’s never too much ram for me,
And th s is something like.” said he.
When earth was dry as a powder mill,
He did not sigh
Because it was dry,
But said if he could have his will
It would be his chief, supreme delight
To live where the sun shone day and night.
When winter came, with its snow and ice.
He did not scold
Because it was coll,
But said: “Now this is real nice;
If ever from home I’m forced to go.
I’ll move up n rth with tho Esquimau."
A cyclone whirled along itß track;
And did him harm—
It broke his arm.
And stripped the coat from off his back;
"And I would give another limb
To see suen a blow again," said Jim.
And when at length his years were told.
And nis body bent.
And his streugtu all spent.
And Jim was very weak aud old;
“I long have wanted to know,” he said,
“How it feels to die,’’ and Jim was dead.
Tho angel of death had summoned him
To heaven, or—well,
I cannot tel;
But I know that the climate suited Jim;
And cold or hot, it mattered not ’
It was to him the long-sought spot.
The Way Made Clear.
One of the. most serious obstacles to success
in the way of man is planted right in the mid
•dle of the road to health. How to restore and
to maintain a regular habit of body and diges
tion is too often a source of needless, and un
happily, of yam inquiry. It is not necessary to
inveigh against drastic purgatives. They who
have used them continuously know the 'oonse
' quence. A remedy which unites the action of
I a regulating med Kine for the bowels with that
of a tome Doth for those organs, the liver aud
the stomach, is Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters
sanctioned by the best rnedioal authority and
receiving daily the indorsement of our fellow
countrymen. M ith this effectual, though gen
tle. laxative at han 1, it is possible to and -fv those
of temperature productive of cor.stipa
tion, as well as constitutional attacks of hil
S® Ma'aria!*dyspepsta BSS
the'Bitterss —Md remßalel &Ud P^ated'by
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
So PHI 7 France, aged <F> years, has sued So'o
rroi Ovistt, also aged 60 yeans, for $2,000 for
stealing a kiss. Both parties are from Akron, O.
A gigantic dam is being built across the Mis
souri. It will be *-00 feet long an i47 feet hi h
and the reservoir will cover an area of 429
square miles.
Conservative Londoners are shocked at the
prop >sal of an American insurance com
pany to purchase the historical Mansion house
for the headquarters of its English agency.
Our Chinese brethem make bold strikes for
free opium. Some time ago the Americm
vessel Halcyon was wrecked on the Japanese
coast. In a fresh water tank was found 560.00 J
worth of tie drug. It was supposed to be in
tended for British Columbia.
Ir is stated that patent medicines have paid
to the British g ivernmeat in 1390 the enormous
sum of £220.000. or §1,000,000, in the shape of
duties, and it is estimated that before lie end of
Ihe year *1,500,000 will have been expen led by
the owners of these nostrums.
Dec. 11 will be the hunlredth anniversary of
the storming of Ismail by the Russian troops.
There still lives a veteran who was present on
that occasion, and received a gold cross for
bravery Col. Gritsenko has been on the re
tired list since 1815, and is now 117 years old.
Rochester, End., is vain of a prodigy 5 years
6 months old, distingnithei fir his wi n
derful pronunciation," “marvelous gestures"
and ’'remarkable m raierv.” He d-livers lect
ures bv Dr. Talmvge. recites fanny sketches y
Mark Twain, and is au all-round elocutionist.
Sunday observance is steadily gaining ground
in Paris. In the west end the great majority of
the shops are closed, and the railway companies
nave lately a rreed not to reckon Sundays in
charging for the warehousing of goods. Tha
postoffices, too, an: to close in future at 6 p. m.
instead of 8, aud the two evening letter deliv
eries are to be abolished.
It is becoming “the correct thing" for En
glishmen to wear wedding rings. The fashion
able design is said to be somewhat more ornate
than the plain broad band which a lady deems
toe only permissible form of nuptial circl t.
and bears a true lover's knot, white a motto or
posy is freqnently inscribed inside, after the
fashion of our grandmonhers.
The oldest printed boos in Germany ha;
lately been acquired by the Royal Library in
Berlin, says the American Bookmaker. It is au
early edition of the Cninese art treasurer. “Po-
Ku-t-u-io.” printed from m tal blocks, aud
dating from the y -ars 1303 to 1312. The impres
sion of both the text and tne illustations is said
to be beautifully clear and distinct.
A burglar got fast in the window of a house
occupied by John KoachJ of Paterson. John
is a moralisi, and he dressed himself an 1 sat
down on a chair and talked to that burglar for
two long hours witnout a break. Then the
burglar asked to be eitner knocked on the head
or let go, and Mr. Roach talked to him one hour
longer and then suffered him depart.
In round figures, 25,000 square tneais have
been served in the House of Commons this
session, namely, 15,000 dinners and 10,000 lunch
eons. Members have had 12,000 dinners aud
8.000 luncheons. In the strangers' dining room
1,125 dinners and 1,142 luncheons have been
serv ed, and there have been 1,614 dinners and
325 luncheons in the terrace dining-rooms.
In an Episcopal church, near Boston, the
other Sunday a lady in passing up the aisle
caught Ler dress on a corner of a pew and tire
it. As the process of tearing was very audible
to the congregation the feeling of the lady may
be imagined, when, at that moment, the clergy
man began the service by reading the sentence,
“Rend your heart and not your garments."
The old New York Marble Cemetery on
Second street, between First and Second
avenues. New York, is notable as containing
not a single grave. The ground was fi led up
from thebegining with the sunken stone vaults,
in which the uead are jNhced. Tuese vaults
have a thm covering of soil thrown over them,
which is now laid out in gr..ssy plots and walks,
Robert Fulton, of steamboat fame, is buried
in this cemetery.
The natives are making preparations for the
coronation of their young king and chief para
mount of the Swazli nation, says the New
Castle Chronicle. An imp! has been sent out
hunting for a lion, tiger, buffalo and a large
snake. Part of the ceremony at the cor na
tion consists of tne king eating a portion of the
hearts of the first three animals to give him
couare, afterward being anointed with the
snase’s fat to prevent him bemg bewitched.
“We can give a point to New York people
about getting their money’s worth out of these
little movable electric bulb lights,” said an Ida
hoan the otfcer day. “Out our way we take
them to bed with us. For keeping one com
fortable on a cold night they are as good as a
roaring fire in a room. Ruober bags, tin boil
ers and other devices for holding hot water get
cold. When I begin to get ready for bed I put
the lights between the sheets. By shifting it
about very little while it takes the chill from
the bed by the time lam undressed. As I slide
in I push the light down with my feet, and usu
ally fall asleep with it there. ”
Some time since a hansom cab was driven
at a very rapid pace along the strand in Lon
don. and passers by observed, to their horror
, there were two men inside engaged in an ap’
pearantly deadly conflict. Fearing that mur
der was about to be committed, they raised an
alarm, and some bold individuals rushed to the
horse and brought the animal to a standstill
Thereupon the two persons who a minute bA
fore seemed to be engaged in a life or death
stru.glequitly leaned forward and distributed
among the crowd some handbills inviting them
to go to such and such a theater to witness a
certain performance.
A little town near Providence boasts a Con
gregational church whose pastor, besides being
an eloqnent preacher, is a man of stalwart pro
portions. At one of hi3 everting prayer meet
lugs, say the Boston Globe, the services were
disturbed bv two young men who audibly
scoffed at everything they saw or heard
Fiually the pastor remonstrated with them on
their behavior, and asked them why they at
tended the meeting. "We came expecting to
see miracles performed," impudently replied
one of tne rascals Leaving the desk and
walking quietly down tbe aisle, the past r
seized one after the other by tne collar, and as
they disappeared out of tne door, with the
imprint of his boot in their trousers, remarked
“We don’t perform miracles here, but we cast
out devils."
Sir Rowland Hill’s great discovery of the
value of simplicity in vast undertakings, says
the London -Yens, se- ms to have produced little
impression as yet upon those who l ave the
management of our railways. In Paris the
directors of the queer little line which runs
right round the city inside the fortifications
aud torus a means of communication between
all the great termini, have just made a consid
erable advance in the right direction Forthe
future the fares will be reckoned by the mtm
her of stations one passes in traveling For
tne first two stations the fare will be 2 nenee
beyond these it will be three pence. One has
only to remember that first-class i 8 j ui< t double
the price of ,he ordinary or se ond-dass and
that return tickets are issued for a fare and a
half, and one can, by looking at a plan, see at a
glance what one has to pay. Why not trv
sinie such plan on the District railway in Lon
don? J
An English woman of some fame wrote re
cently, in response to an invitation to si eak in
public on the freedom of women: "I wish with
all my heart this question of woman’s righ s
were settled. I have been tired of it for a very
long time: but I am something more thantir-d
of tne smoki g. slanging, utterly unwomanly
specimens of our six which one meets too often
nowadays. It was only the other day that I
heard from the Ups of a fair young girl the
astounding statement, made seriously too
that the home now was an exploded notion !
I cannot see what us the use now of simply
preaching for or against the habit of woman
smoking. I was at a pretty little public func
' aay - ari *r luncheon. I saw at
.east half a dozen girls smoking. Among them
was a distinguished foreigner, but she of
cour e, simply followed the custom of ’ her
country, so she may pass; but to see nice
1 okmg young English girls puffing away bJ
fr*me b " r ’ " at 0S ’ t 0 me ’ sh °c k mg j D th(< ex .
Mexican onyx is a form of marble
and its colors are formed by oxides of
metals In the earth over the caves
through Whicn the calcareous water passes
Gold is represented by purple, silver by yellow
iron by red, copper by green, and arsenic and
zinc by white. Volcanic eruptions and earth-
Sf h . ave almost destroyed the caves in
L'f *'? n >' x Mists, and the native Indian*
who mine it i.ave to cut through masses of
ruins Blocks of the material are quarried in a
ve n way ’ ,n or ; ler nt to shatter the sub
“ t. D T P r ° UI v h a9'S are drilled by hand
on a line. In each hoie is inserted a snugly fit
eutf t l6C en° wo ° d * hich has been grooved from
tr™ ? v Ho L water is poured into tba
F “.’* 8 at This swells the wood, and the
TANARUS? nn l S| *l a onK the line w >thout damage,
nwiuh s S ? B ’ the blocks into slabs and
P” l s o h thPß urfai?e by r and. Each piece is serni
’ ““d when placed between the eye
a remarkably beau
tiful effect in form tod color.
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