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THIS ISSUE
—CONTAINS3
TWELVE PAGES.
INDEX TQ NEW ADVKRTISEMENT&
Meetings —Oglethorpe Lodge No. 1, I. O. O.
F. ; Magnolia Encampment No. 1. O. O. F.;
Solomon's Lodge No. 1. F. &A. M.; German
Friendly Society; Savannah Turn Verien; Execu
tive Board Merchants’ Week Association.
Special Notices— Notice, lister A Ravenel,
Attorneys at Law; Brimful of Trouble, Towns
end; Miss Carmichael's School; Night School,
W. H. Baker, Superintendent; Wood for Sale,
Henry A. Ernst; The Chatham Rank; Mules for
Sale, Palmer Hardware Company; Special
Notice, R. 1). 1-aßoche; Notice to Contractors,
G. Paulsen; Tinning, etc., E. C. I'acettl; Aato
Crew of British Steamship Boskenna; Notice of
Dissolution, MacDonell & Saussy; The Little
Suburb, '‘West End;" Notice to the ladies and
Gentlemen as to Van llouten's Cocoa; Dealers
in Stocks and Bonds, P. D. Paffln & Son;
Business, Savannah Carriage and Wagon Com
pany; A Card to the Home Seeker, The
Georgia Building and Loan Association; Gooa
Real Estate the Best Bank,Sam K. Platshek.Heal
Estate Auctioneer; Savannah Steam Laundry;
Do You Want to Buy a House? C. H- Dorset,
Beal Estate Dealer and Auctioneer; Six New
Bouses for Sale, C. H. Dorsett, Real Estate
Dealer and Auctioneer; Programme of the
©vide Musin Grand'Concert Company, Feb. 4;
Notice of Partnership W. P. Green A Cos ,; Whole
sale Dealers in Fruit*, Vegetables, Etc., W. P.
Green £ Cm; To the Public, Robinson Steam
Printing Company; Notice to the Patrons of
the Late 8. W. Branch; Empire Steam Laundry,
Military Orders— General Order No. 4, Ger
man Volunteers.
Amusements— An Elegant Entertainment,
•The Choice of Liberty,’’ at Catholic Library
Hall Feb. 5; First Grand Masquerade Ball of
Improved Order of Red Men of Savannah at
Odd Fellows’ Hall Feb. 10.
The Public Is Invited— J. S. Tyson, Jr., A
Cos.
What Do You Want?— D. B. Lester Grocery
Company.
The Enthusiasm Aroused— L. A. B. 8. M. H.
Talk About Bargains— M. Boley A Son.
Sicilian Suit—Altmayer’s.
Gents’ Unlaundiried Shirts —Altmayer’a
Night Shirts—Altmayer’s.
Kid Gloves— At Altmayer’s.
Fancy Handkerchiefs— Altmayer’a
Embroideries— Altmayer’s.
Challies—Altmayer’s.
Bedspreads— Altmayer’s.
Muslin Underwear— Altmayer’s.
Dress Stuffs—Altmayer’s.
Embroideries. Etc.— Eckstein's;
Stoves, Ranges, Etc.—James Douglass.
The Big Bargains— D. Hogan.
Imported Zephyr Ginghams— C. Gray £ Son.
Auction Sales— Store and Dwelling, by R. D
L&Roche; Two Delightful Cottages at Guyton,"
Ck P. Miller; Bedroom Furniture, Etc., by C. H.
Dorsett.
The Mason and Hamlin Piano—L £, B. S.
M. H.
No Humbug Bargain Sales—The Globe Shoe
Store.
Our Clearing Out S ale—Crohan Pp Dooner.
In Its Worst Form— The Famous.
Medical— Pennyroyal Pills.
Huyler’s Cocoa and Chocolates—Henry
Bolomon £ Son.
Order Now—Savannah Carriage and Wagon
Company.
Wood Mantel*, Etc.— Norton £ Hanley.
Something for the Ladies— Krouskoft’s An
nual Announcement.
Specialties— At Engel £ Rothschild's.
A Shrinkage in Prices— Jackson, Metzger £
Cos.
Cheap Column Advertisements— Help
Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Rant; For
Bale: Lost; Found; Personal: Miscellaneous.
Paris student* attacked a newspaper
office and nearly wrecked It recently. They
were angry about an article. No fighting
editor was present.
Phenomenally old men appear to be
dying off In battalions of late. They seem
to have been saving up their energies to peg
out “all together.”
If this Bering sea dispute continues It
may lead to something serious yet. Russia
and Germany jnow threaten to take a hand
In the game, which may bring about awk
ward complications eventually.
Cp to this time the assembled wisdom of
the American press congregated at Pltt
burg has devoted its oollective energies to
chasing the dusky wonders around town,
and hasn’t yet given itself up to drawing
beautifully symmetrical resolutions.
IWbere State Control ia Needed.
An exposure has just been made in New
j York of the method* by which unsorupu
i lous money lenders of that city take ad
-1 vantage of the necessities of comparatively
poor people whose financial affairs are not
in a prosperous condition. Acclng.under
j corporate names, they loan money at
! usurious rates of interest, taking as security
property worth a great deal more than the
amount of money loaned upon it.
If tbe interest or principal is not
paid promptly the property is seized
and sold. In rood cases the property is
sacrificed, it b£ing impossible to obtain fair
prices for it at a forced sale. Four of tnese
loan companies are conducted by a man
named Silverman. He has quite a number
of assistants,and tbe homes of bis companies
are high sounding ones. The Silverman
gang have lately come into unpleasant
notoriety. ' Their seizures of property have
attracted ptibHc attention, and the officers
of tbe law are now in search
of them. They loan money for
about 10 per cent. per month,
but they <Tfft6t loans for a longer
time than four months. Tbe security is
almost Mpw* house furniture, though it
is sometlfiy# orders on the employers of
those to 4slioin the money is l a ed. There
is an excellent prospect that Silverman and
his gang wilj Qnd it a pretty difficult mat
ter to get out of the clutches of tbe law.
They are money sharks of the most merci
less kind, Jjnd there would lie no sympathy
for them *if they should be dealt with
severely.
The Morning News has several times
called attention to the necessity for state
oontrol of the loan aDd trust companies of
this state. There is no similarity, of oourse,
between the unscrupulous loan companies
like those with which Silverman is con
nected and the loan and trust companies of
Georgia, but there is danger tbat
tbe money iutrusted to these
loan and trust companies will
not be wisely invested. There are millions
of dollars invested in them, and the stock
holders in some of them know little or
nothing of the fiaanoisl affairs of them.
The state banks are under the supervision
of the state, 'and there ia no satisfactory
reason why these oompanies should not be.
Their charters come from the state, and
they are obtained without difficulty.
The projectors of the companies, after
they have secured tha indorsement of a few
respectable men, find it au easy matter to
get people to put their money into them.
The companies may be properly conducted,
but at tbe same time would it not be advisa
ble for the state to require them to make a
statement of their financial affairs at least
twice a year, fixing a heavy penalty for a
false statement! Tbe shareholders in them
would then know just what was being done
with their money, and whether or not it
was being safely invested.
Some of those companies make money in
two ways. One is by getting possession of
the shares of members who fail to pay their
installments regularly. There are penalties
for failures, and the penalties soon equal the
stock of tiie delinquents. Of course people
know about tbe peualtlos before they Invest
in the companies, but they do not expect to
hove their stock virtually confiscated. Tbe
other way of making money is by loaning
money at a high rate of interest.
Although it is pretended that all the mem
bers of suoh oompanies stand on an equal
footing in so far as benefits are concerned
such it not the case. The officers got good,
fat salaries and the big stockholders get the
lion’s share of the profits.
Of course these statements do not apply
to all loan, trust and building companies.
The majority of suoh companies are hon
estly conducted, and one shareholder is not
Benefited more than another, but there are
enough of them that are started and con
ducted for tbe benefit of a few men in them
to justify the position tbe Morning News
haa taken with respeot to such com
panies, viz., that they should be
supervised by the state. They are handling
tbe people’s money, and the legislature could
not do anything tbat would be more gener
erally approved than to throw suoh safe
guards around them as will prevent their
being made wildcat concern*.
Praise for Gorman.
Senator Gorman is receiving a great deal
of praise for the admirable way in which
he managed the fight against the force bill.
He was pre-eminently the leader in the
fight, though be did not seem to feel that a
great responsibility was resting upon him.
He would not permit himself to be worried.
He realized that much depended upon him,
and he therefore exerted himself to be
cheerful, so that his mind would readily
respond to all the demands upon it. If he
made a mistake the fact has not been made
public. He was obeyed willingly, beoausc
there'was the utmost confidence in his
ability to do the right thing whenever an
emergency arose.
Senator Gorman is getting his full re
ward for his work. Among democrats in
all parts of the country be is looked upon
as the man who did more than anybedy
else to defeat tbe force bill. And be has
even been spoken of in connection with the
presidency. If tbe time of the meeting of
tbe national democrntio convention were
near at haud he would be a pretty strong
candidate for the presidential nomination.
His party will not forget his service*. It
may not reward him with a presidential
immination, but it will always regard him
arfene of its ablest leaders.
While Oscar Erickson was guilelessly wan
dering through Indiana street looking after
some Chicago salvation Thursday a salva
tfah army captainess suspected that he was
devilish and had him fired out before he
could get any repairs applied to bis weather
beaten soul. Salvation is free we are told.
Ip this cose the Salvationist* seemed alto
gether too free in banging about a soul
which was just a trifle battered up.
Peremptory instructions have been sent
.to Henator Don Cameron by the Pennsyl
vania legislature directing him to vote for
the force bill. It was by a strict party vote
that the resolution was adopted. So it may
bp regarded as merely a partisan republican
manifestation. Only one republican had
the nerve to vote against it. At the same
time, the senior senator is not likely to do
much satisfactory voting for the benefit of
the resolution.
Should the charge against a Reading
family of Bunns, who are alleged to have
compelled a little girl to do the work of a
farmhand, be sustained they should get a
healthy application of Penns .Ivania justice.
There is altogether too much of suoh brutal
treatment of helpless “charity” children.
Millionaire Macfcay says he pounded
Bonynge because he has been inspiring
those ruffianly anonymous attacks upon
Mrs. Mackey. In that case he didn’t pound
the follow enough.
THE MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 1,1891-TWELVE PAGES.
Secretary Wlndom’a Last Speech.
The peech which Secretary W indocn de
livered at the New York board of trade
dinner a few minute* before he died was a
notable one. He attempted to show tbat
subsidies to steamship lines were neceaeary
to enable this country to get a fair share of
tbe ocean carrying trade, and that free
silver coinage would contract tbe currency
instead of increasing it He expressed the
opinion that if tbe free silver coinage bill
should pass there would be a financial panic
tbat would be extremely disastrous to all
business interests.
Quality of the currency, h said, was
more important than quantity. The baleful
effects of a debated and fluctuating cur
rency could not be over-estimated. Such
a currency is absolutely fatal to a foreign
commerce. Owing to tbe belief tbat a free
silver coinage bill would be passed more
than $24,000,000 of gold bad been drawn
from tbe treasury since Dec. 1.
Mr. Wlndom said tbat be was a bimet
allist; but be would welcome tbe time when
the great commercial nations should reaoh
an international agreement which would
make tbe free coinage of silver safe. In
giving his reasons for thinking that the
free coinage of silver would produce con
traction be said: Free silver coinage by
this country, while other great nations
pursue an opposite policy, would invite all
the owners of tbat metal throughout the
world to exchange 371 grains of pure
silver, worth about 83 cents, for 23.22
grains of pure gold, worth every
where 100 cents. Nearly all the nations of
Europe are anxious to exchange their silver
for gold, and they would at onoe accept bo
tempting an offer. Tbe mint statistics of
the treasury department show that tbe
stock of full legal tender silver in Europe
amounts to $1,101,400,000. A large part of
this vast stock of silver would te sent to
this country at once, in order tbat gold ex
change on Europe might bo obtained for it.
The people of this country would not await
tha arrival of silver cargoes from Europe.
Bank depositors, trust companies, the
holders of United States notes and gold
certificates would instantly lock up
all the gold at command, and
then join the panic-inspired pro
cession to the treasury .each
and all anxious to be in time to grasp tha
golden prize before it was too late.
This sudden retirement of $630,000,000 of
gold, with the accompanying panic, would
came contraction and commercial disaster
unparalleled in human experience, and our
country would at once step down to tbe sil
ver basis, when there would be no longer
any inducement for oduage, and silver dol
lars would sink to their bullion value.
Are these views of the late secretary cor
rect! The majority of congress think they
are not. They are the view* which the late
secretary expressed in his last annual report,
and which Senator Sherman presented to
the Senate when the free coinage bill was
before that body. They are tbe views
which the ablest financiers of the country
hold, and vrhich are caqping tbe Housj of
Representatives to heiitkto to pass tbe free
coinage bill sent to it by tbe Senate.
The advocates of free silver coinage have
no fear that free silver coinage would drive
gold out of the country or produce a finan
cial panic, but, of course, no one knows
what tbeeffeotof the adoption of unlimited
silver coinage would be.
The fall is the time of the year when tbe
demand for money is greatest, and the late
secretary had a plan for increasing the
amount of currency in circulation at that
time. In two and a half months last fall
the treasury .paid out over #75,000,0CX).
The late secretary favored inter-oonvertible
bonds bearing a low rate of interest. He
believed In exchanging the present bonds
for such bonds, instead of paying them.
These inter-convertible bonds could be ex
changed for money whenever there was a
great demand for money, and when the de
mand slackened the bonds could be obtained
again. In 1862, when Mr. Chase was Secre
tary of the Treasury, there was such a bond,
and it answered admirably the purpose of
supplying the demand for more currency
when more was needed.
Whether tbe late secretary’s financial
views are sound or not they will have a
good deal of influence in determining the
aotion of the House on tho free silver coin
age bill.
Increase of Religious Denominations.
According to the most correct data that
the census bureau has been able to oollate
the throe plain forms of religion with
which we started the republic have been
augmented until in this 113th year of
American independence we have as many
as 140 distinct sect* or denominations, all in
a more or less flourishing condition. B>
side them the census people tell ut there are
also a great “mauy independent congrega
tions,” whatever that may imply. No
doubt but many of these independent con
gregations will eventually develop into
additional separate denominations, to still
further swell the total.
This does not appear to indioate growth
of religion so much as it does increase of
dissension among its devotees and schisms
tbat are constantly separating not only
single congregations, but whole denomina
tions. Still, the differences are, in many
instances, of the most unimportant char
acter. Many of them that appear so slight
as to seem readily reconcilable, however,
are mure tenaciously maintained than those
of grave import and serious moment. While
they do not seem far apart they are still
separated as cloarly as if their differences
were immeasurable.
And while the different denominations
aro by no means so vindictively hostile as
they used to be, they not only continue
each to maintain a separate and distinct
autonomy, but the number of such local
divisions upon minor theological points is
constantly increasing.
Spook-snooper Ann O'Delia Solomon has
long been trundling around 300 pounds of
grease and cussedness and now talks about
fasting a mile or two with lean Slg.Suoci.the
accomplished professor of starvation. Ann
O’Delia is apt to keep ahead of Sig. Suoci in
a conflict of this sort, because if she should
rush up an alley he couldn’t get by, or if she
should sit on him he would be apt to die
before she could be unloaded by a derrick.
Why it would take Ann about six months to
starve down to a civilized condition of nor
mal plumpness
Importers of goats’ hair appear to be
almost as belligerent as the goats. They in
tend to resist the collection of the new high
duties on hair, and will take the matter
into court. They eay the tariff if sustained
would greatly Increase the cost of oarpeta.
Ladies in Memphis have organized a
charitable association for the purpose of
building and maintaining what they will
call the Womea’s Hospital. Laudable eater
prise.
PERSONAL
Sakasate. the violinist, has pocketed $28,000
as the set profit of a two months' tour in Eng
land
The Empkror or Germany, while entertain
ing much more freely than his grandfather did,
has a keen eye to economy.
Mr*. Chaumcet M. Depen ha* given it out in
a congenial state that her husband mat not at
tend so many public dinners.
Charles Stewart Kexmedy of Detroit pos
sesses a contemporary miniature of Mary Queen
of Scot*, painted on porcelain, and her auto
graph.
Yorso Frank Singer, son of the sewing ma
chine man, is about to be married to Miss
Biauche MarceUn. The affair wifi come off Feb.
7 in Pari*.
The latest "oldest Mason" to be discovered
in tbe United States is Henry Ruby of Cham
bersburg. Pa., who is 87 yearn of *ge, and
joined the fraternity July 1, !s2S.
Rider Haggard's wife i* a plump and roiy
little English woman, the personification of
energy, and in that respect as well as In stature
the very opposite of her talented husband.
Announcement Is made of the engaMOment at
New Haven. Conn., of Prof. Arthur T. Hadley,
professor of txiiitical economy at Yale, and Miss
Helen, daughter of Hon. Luzon B. Morris.
Rev. Charles A. Fulton pastor of the First
Baptist chnrcb, Norristown. Pa., ha* received a
call to Immanuel Baptist Tabernacle. Balti
more. Asajcceesor to Kev. A. C. Dixon, and will
probably aocApt.
Elias Howe, Jr., who wa* worth $1,900,000,
was the richest private who served in the war.
He enlisted in Bridgeport, Oonn.. in 1892. At
one time when supplies were low he paid the
two month*’ pay of his entire company.
Mr. Edison, in a speech to the employes
of the Ogden iron mines at Dover, N. J., on
Tuesday, said; “Boys, wait until next winter,
and we shall have no snow to bother u* upon
this hill. During the cominsr year T shall invent
electric and sunlight reflectors that will melt
the snow as fait as it falls."
Franklin W. Smith of Boston is the pro
jector of an ambitious scheme to build an im
mense temple of the arts at Washington. It is
to cost $6,000,000. and occupy 150 acres of
ground. .Mr. Smith has bad the plans drawn, it
is said, and hopes to raise enough money in the
next live years to begin the work.
Paor. Hyrtl of Vienna, the famous anatom
ist. recently celebrated bis 80th birthday anni
versary. Fora long time he had tbe flnest eve
and hand for anatomical preparations, and his
collections were the moet valuable seen until
1848; when they were destroyed by Are A
short time before he had published bis great
book on anatomy, which bos lived through
more than thirty editions. Since then modern
anatomical science owes many of its triumphs
to Prof. Hyrtl.
Chaunoey M. Dipew is the most delightful of
gueßts at a public dinner, not only because be
is such a good speaker, but also because he is
such a fine listener. He fixes his gaze on the
man who is talking, and whenever a witty or
especially good thing is said he is always the
first to appreciate it. All tbe other diners take
their cue from his laughter or applause and fol
low his leadership. Hi* function at the dinner
table Is. in short, that of the man who directs
the cheering at a football or base ball game.
Mr. Depew's laugh is catching. It seems to
come right from his innermost self and spreads
over the whole of hi* countenance. To see him
laugh is almost as good as to hear him teli a
story, and the speaker who causes him to show
signs of appreciation is sure of widespread ap
plause. Sir. Depew is especially in his element
at the annual dinner of the {lew York alumni of
Yale, and an uninformed person who woe pres
ent at the recent dinner would be in doubt
whether the occasion was in honor of Mr.
Depew or of the alma mater of the guests.
BRIGHT BITS.
In some churches a preacher is called a rector,
but all the world over a school teacher ia a cor
rector.— Ham's Horn.
Bonn (the author)—Walt a minute, and I'll
show you the proofs of my novel.
Gore—No, no I I don’t want any proofs. Your
word Is enough.— Puck,
Namey—She Is very rich. Do you suppose he
had a tender feelhjg for her?
Hooks—Of course, of course—a legal-tender
feeling. —Nets York Herald.
“Wbat shall we do with our ohildren?” asks
a Boston author. In going to leave a house or
to rent apartments, leave them at home and
pretend you haven’t any. Philadelphia
Ledger.
Teacher—Tommy, will you give an example
of tautology?
Tommy—Saw one in our paper this morning.
It spoke of a "brainless dude."— lndianapolis
Journal.
“You advertise that you are selling wine at
original prices, and yet you are charging double
what any one else is asking.’’
"That is what there is original about it.”—
Fliegende Blatter.
PkdaMtkts —I mean to so live that when I die
all the great cities of the earth will quarrel over
the question of which was my birthplace.
Wittious—Yes, each one will lay the blame on
some other. — Milwaukee Sentinel.
It is to be hoped, in the interests of barmonv
that the Decatur, 111., young woman whose nose
was patched up with tne ribs of a oat may never
meet tbe New York boy lately repaired from
the leg of a dog. Indianapolis Journal.
Wool—How do you go to work to tell the age
of a hen? ,
Van Pelt—By the teeth.
Wool—A hen hasn't any teeth, you idiot.
Van Pelt—No; but I have.— Harper's Bazar.
Old SpraiTUALtST—That coat you sold me is
all going to pieces.
Dealer—Mein frieut. you go to doo many off
dose seances Dose spirits dake a vancy to dot
fine coat und dey dematerialize it eo as to haf
it for derselves.—Good .Veir*.
When a man goes into anything be should
always go into it with his whole soul, but It does
seem a little absurd for a sprint runner to shave
himself clean in order to remove the obstruc
tion caused when ho runs by the wind blowing
through his whiskers.— Somerville Journal.
Cassius—Your western tour was not a suc
cessful one. then, my Brutus?
Brutus—No. Cassius; it was, I own, a failure.
Cassius—Walxed out of town Detween the
rails, eh, Brutus?
Brutus—No, Cassius; rode out on top of one.
—Somerville Journal.
Old Loafer (to drummer)—Pickia',yer teeth,
stranger?
Drummer—Yes. What business ia it of
yours?
Old Loafer—Wal, none, only I don’t piok my
teeth.
Drummer—Don’t eh? Why not?
Old Loafer—Oh, I’m contented to take ’em
just as they come.— Oreemburg Sparks.
Of all the deadly things that war
Against our peace and kill us
The worst and deadliest by far,
As proved by tbe researches of rclentifle men in
Germany, France, and several towns in
Michigan, who have made the matter a
Btudy and found out by experimenting with
guinea pigs and other cheap animals how to
curs almost anything except warts and
catarrh,
Is merely a bacillus.—Chicago Tribune.
CPRRHNT COMMENT.
It Discounts tbs Mortgage.
FYom the Chicago Mail Und.).
An editor suooeeds Senator Ingalls. The pen
is mightier than the mortgage.
Also a Few Surprises.
From the New York Press (Sep.).
This has been a winter of sharp contrasts.
Some of them have been in the weather in New
York and others in the Senate at Washington.
1 1 vsfci
Unanimous Cintent.
fYom the Boston Herald (.Ind.).
Tho Prohibition Voice pronounces Senator
Blair's defeat a national misfortune. Every
other newspaper seems to be perfectly satisfied.
But They Are Rapidly Finding Out.
From the Louisville Courier-Journal (Dem.).
Every self-respecting republican congressman
should go home aud stay there until the party
selects uew leaders. The present leaders do not
"know the times.”
Frantic Appeal for Rellet
From the Cincinnati Enquirer (Pern.).
If President Harrison would only climb Into
his grandfather's hat. and sit down and quietly
reflect, he would see the propriety of speedily
relieving Cincianati of her agony over the selec
tion of anew postmaster. Why, we are Just
about to erect a monument here to his grand
papa-
For Coughs and throat troubles use “Brown’s
Bronchial Troches.”—“They stop an attack of
my asthma cough very promptly.’’— C. Falch,
MiamivMe, o.— Ad.
Contempt ot Court-
A stranger onoe walked into a Massachusetts
court, says the Boston Traveller, and spent some
time watching tbe proceedings. By and by n
man was brought up for contempt of court and
fined; whereupon the stranger rose and said:
"How much was the fine?"
“Five dollars," repl od the clerk.
"Well,' said tbe stranger, laying down tbs
money, "if that's aB, I'd like to jme ml I've
had a few hours' experience of this court, and
no one oan feel a greater contempt far it than I
do, and I am willing to pay for it.”
It Was Force of Circumstances.
A newsboy about a foot and n half high
tossed a cent up on the Chicago Tribune's
counter yesterday morning.
"Dere’e de cent I owed ye ’while ago,” he
said.
"You are an honest boy,” replied the clerk,
shoving the oote back. "You may keep it.”
“Here’s another to Keep it company,” replied
n bystander, taking a cent from hi* pocket and
handinr it to him. "Now you’ll go and hooc
crane, I suppose."
"I don't shoot craps," said tbe youngster.
“You don't? Then here * some more;” and
the bystander gave him a dime.
"No, I don't evr shoot craps," **ld the boy,
pocketing the money. "I ain’t old ’nough yit.
De other kids won't let me."
His Novel Excuse.
A young newspaper man. who is somewhat of
a wanderer, found himself in Whitman county,
500 miles from his base of supplies, and “broke,"
says tbe Walla Walla Journal. In the midst of
his adversity he wa* fortunate enough to find a
farmer who wanted a hand. The young man
wa* put to work plowing furrows for potato
plant mg. Tbe horses were not very well trained,
and the driver was far from being an excep
tional one. Asa result tbe rows were not par
allel. In fact, they looked an If they had been
made by some monstrous spider which had been
by an upheaval of nature partly buiied in the
soil, and whose terrific struggles to extricate
himself had left hie zigzag leg prints on the
ground.
In tbe evening the happened around
that way, and somewhat testily criticised tho
wopper-jawed appearance of the rows. The
newspaper man felt that the time tor his de
parture was at hand, but not wishing to capitu
late without a protest, replied: ’*l know the
rows are rather crooked, but the un was ex
otedingly hot to-day and it warped them." Tbe
answer turned away the farmer's wrath, and
instead of being discharged the newcomer was
given an easier and much pieasaa ter job, and is
now tbe farmer's son-in-law.
Deserved a Recall.
Young actors often find themselves in tight
places, but I doubt If any one was ever obliged
to take eight parts at the same time without a
change of clothing, says Walter Collier, in the
Bt. Louis Otobe-Democrat. We were playing at
Philadelphia, "Macbeth” was the drama and
Louis James took the leading part. I wav one
of the accusing specters tbat .rise from the
caldron. As it was but the work of a moment
and I bad nothing else to do after my little act
I merely threw on tbs white shroud over my
street clothes, intending to v.sit some other
theater.
But when tbs ghosts came to waltz the
master of the supers found that in his hurry be
had forgotten all about the scene, and had
allowed the other seven specters to go home.
Evidently there was nothing for it hut for me
to take the place of the others. As I had ap
peared once, and as I walked off supposing I
was done, the master caught hold of me and
literally fired me back.
I bad to run around behind the painted rocks
in order to appear from the kettle. The rook
was a huge affair of canvas, propped up from
behind by two long supports. Then I began
mv race.
1 jumped out of the caldrob, and passed be
fore Macbeth. I was caught again and hurled
baok by the manager over the long props and
out of the kettle again. This seven times, re
member.
lly the fourth time the audience caught on,
and you can imagine my dismay to find that
my shroud was falling off. By the sixth suc
cessful appearance tbe thing hnng by the neck
only, my black coattail sticking out behind. By
the eighth It fell off completely, and I sunk ex
hausted amid the plaudits of the multitude.
James was so convulsed with laurhter that he
had to take a seat upon a rock, and the curtain
went down. I was recalled by the house, being
probably the only super who ever made such a
pronounced hit.
An Old Maid Offended.
“To err is human,” and even phrenologists
are human. One of them visited a school pre
sided over by a maiden lady a few days ago and
expressed a desire to examine tha heads of
some of the fair pupilsand delivered a lecture
to the others, says the Memphis Appeal-
Avalanche.
The principal was willing tbat her pupils
should have the advantage of hearing a scien
tific discourse on skullology, but her soul rose
lip in revolt at the idea of a man fingering the
cranluins of the ewe lambs she was herding.
There was a struggle between her desire far the
intellectual advancement of the lambs and her
apprehension for their moral welfare. She set
tled the matter by telling the professor of
phrenology tbat he oould examine tbe head of
a boy ana tell the girls what the knots thereon
indicated.
The professor accepted the amendment, and
the principal sent for one of the job lot of
small boys that were studying in an adjoining
room.
"Here is one of my boys, professor,” said the
principal as the lad entered; "you may examine
The professor looked at the youngster a
moment, then said admiringly; "This boy
has a fine face and a noble head. He is the
image of his mother. Is he your oldest,
madame?"
The principal cast a strong glare on tbe pro
fessor and replied icily:
"I am unmarried, sir.”
The professor turned red in the face and
began stammering out an excuse, but the
principal relieved him by saying that she would
prefer for him to deliver his lecture on another
day.
And the ewe lanihe never smiled till after
school.
Flo’s Letter.
A sweet little baby brother
Had come to live with Flo,
And she wanted it brought to the table
That it might eat and grow—
‘•lt must wait for awhile,” said grandma,
Id answer to her plea,
"For a little thing that hasn’t teeth
Can't eat like you and me.”
“Why hasn’t it got teeth, grandma?”
Asked Flo, in great surprise;
“Oh, my! but isn't it funay?
No teeth—but nose and eyes?
I guess” (after thinking gravely)
"They must have been fordot—
Can’t we buy him some, like grandpa's?
I’d like to know why not 1”
That afternoon to the corner
With paper, and pen. and ink
Went Flo, saying, "Don’t talk to me
If you do it ’ll stop my think;
I’m writing a letter, grandma,
To send away to night.
And ’cause it’s very 'portant
I want to get it right.”
At last the letter was finished,
A wonderful thiog to see—
And directed to ‘God In Heaven."
“Please read it over to me”
Said little Flo to her grandma
"To see if it’s right, you know."
And here is the letter writtea
To God by little Flo!
"Dear God—The baby you brought os
Is awful nice and sweet,
But ’course you fordot his toofies;
The poor little thing can t eat;
That’s why I’m writing this letter
A purpose to let you know.
Please oomeand finish the baby;
That’s all; from
Little Flo."
Ox* of the oldest houses on th New Jersey
coast is that of Col. Albert L, Johnson, an ex
confederate Kentuckian, who, after passing the
better part of his lifetime far inland, found
leisure in advancing years and came straight to
the Atlantic coast that he might indulge a long
cherished passion for the soa. The oouse is
close to the water at Bay Ridge. Whan ap
proached from the land it appears to be a one
story structure set upon a hill, but once inside
one finds thst the front door is almost in the
roof, and that below that part of the house vis
ible from the landward side is story after story
facing the sea. In faot the house Is built
against a bluff, with only the roof and one story
peepmg above the hill. Thus almost every
room in tbs bouse has a sea view, and is cooled
in summer by the sea breeze. A powerful tele
scope Is one equipment of the plaoe, and with
this the ewner la able to epv out every ship
entering or departing from this harbor.
ITBSJS OP INTBBSBT.
J. D. Carter of Birmingham, Ala., who killed
Rube Burrow*. the outlaw and train robber,
hia received $1 000 of tbe $2,500 offered oy the
railroad and express companies Tbe various
stats reward* have not been paid- Carter is a
cripple for life from wounds received during
tbe fight.
Farmer Bartress vas seized with an ambi
tion recently to get on the police force of
Springfield. 111. Sme friends, for a joke,
brought him before a bogus board, which put
him through a nhyzioa examination, both
tedioua and ridiculous. He was then sect home
to await his commission, but the letter that he
longed for never came. The story leaked out,
greatly to tbe farmer's discomfiture. He brought
suit against tbe jokers for $5,000 damages, and
was awarded $:5 and costa
This tear, for the first time, the Japanese
army has gone through a series of maneuvers.
Tbe troops engaged numbered SO,OOO men, and
were divided into two npnwnng forces. Tbe
general idea was an advance ih two columns on
Tokio. and we are told that the general in chief
command made some adverse comments on the
manner in which the cavalry was maneuvered.
The peace strength of tbe Japanese army is
56.000 men, and if, as Lord 'Wo.seley says, the
Chinese is the coming race, it may, perhaps, be
as well to take into consideration tbe Japanese
as a possible military factor.
The Queer of Italy wore a costume of ex
traordinary magnificance at the recent opening
of the Italian parliament, which was also most
becoming to her style of beauty. The dress
was of violet satin, exquisitely embroidered,
over which was thrown a short velvet mantle of
slightly darker shade. The bonnet was of for
get-me-not blue velvet, covered with gold lacs
and adorned with a plume of pale blue feathers,
fastened with an immense pearl diamond clasp.
The queen also wore earrings of pearls, dia
monds and such ropes of pearls in three rows
as would have enchanted Lothair.
Large quantities of jibu> are every year
used for ornamental purposes in the manufact
ure of plate and jewelry. The wealthier a
country grows the greater the demand for
these articles of adornment, and until more
gold is imported the less there remains for
monetary purposes as bullion or coin. Some
years ago. says The I lent lumen's Maqazine, Mr.
Giffen estimated that, in England alone. £50.-
000,000 worth of gold existed in the shape of
plate, jewelry and ornaments, and about one
half or the total production of silver is said to
be tried in arts and manufactures. The amount
of gold in England for monetary purposes the
same high authority estimated at £80,000.000.
While a Chicago, Burlington and Quincy
freight train was running from Burlington re
centljathe engineer noticed an eagle sitting on
the track feasting on a rabbit. The eagle arose
when the engine drew near, but the locomotive
was running so rapidly that the big bird could
not clear it. One of the wings flapped into the
wedge-shaped spaoa formed by tbe headlight -
bracket and the extension at the front end of
the boiler, and was held there as in a vise. The
flreman went foreward and released the wing,
and carried tha eagle into the cab, where It
showed light, and made things lively for the en
gineer, who finally cornered it, and brought it
here alive. It is now the property of R. W
Colville, master mechanic of the Chicago,
Burlington and Quincy, and is an unusually fine
specimen.
An odd prank was played on one of the fash
ionable young bridegrooms of tbe week,ln Balti
more. says the New York World. He is a North
Charles street swell, noted for his fastidiousness
end observance of the properties. After the
ceremony at the ohurch tha ushars gathered all
the white ribbons together, and, in a spirit of
fun, strapped up the bridegroom's trunk with
it while he was donning his traveling suit. As
eight or ten blocks of broad ribbon had been
employed in tha church, the trunk was com
pletely covered, presenting exactly tbe effect
of a white satin-incased chest. Across the
front one man wrote C. O. D. in red chalk.
When the unconscious bridegroom arrived at
his destination the next day and inquired for
his trunk this bei ibboded affair was gravely de
livered to him.
She was a plump woman, says the Boston
Courier , and it would not have been a violent
stretching of the truth to call her a corpulent
one. With the fatuity which sometimes seizes
upon her sex In the way of deciding to wear the
most conspicuous stuffs, she had selected as the
material of her gowu a brocade such as of old
was used by the upholsterer. She wag covered
with figUres so large that, had she been smaller,
not so much as a single one could have been
crowded upon her; yet which she displayed as
fully as a conscientious sign-board could have
done There were those in tbe company who
were not restrained by the loftiness of her so
cial position from remarking upon her striking
appearanoe, and as she sailed across the room
one of these persons said to her neighbors: “Do
look at Mrs X ; isn't she astonishing to-night. ’’
"Yes,” was the reply; “she looks exaotly like
an escaped sofa.”
The existence of silver in volcanic ashes is
of rare occurrence. Only in two cases have
argentiferous ashes been met with. The first
sample was obtained during an eruption of
Cotopaxi, in July. 1888, in the ashes of which
Mr. J, W. Malet proved the existence of one
part of silver in 83,000 parte of ashes. In the
following year the same Investigator was able
to add another instance. In January, 1888, a
violent eruption of Tunguragua, ih the Andes of
Ecuador, between fifty and fifty-five mile# from
Ootopaxl, took place, the eruption continuing
at longer or shorter intervals up to November
of the same year. The ashes thrown ud by this
volcano, which had been at rest for over a
century, contained silver to the extent of one
part in 107,200 parts of ashes. This appears, at
first sight, to be only a very small percentage
of tha metal. But, when it is considered what
enormous quantities of ashes are erupted, and
what a vast extent of area they cover after an
eruption, the quantity of the silver thrown up
with them must be considerable.
Johx W. Bcokwalteh of Ohio, who spends
more of his time in New York than at the loca
tion of his agricultural implement works in
Sprlngfleld.has been a guest for several months
at the Hotel Brunswick, He predicts that more
money vill be made in the next ten years by
investment in lands that are fitted for raising
corn thm in any other direction. Said he: “I
have been watctilng the corn product as it re
lates to consumption. We demand more corn
every year than the production will supply.
The deficiency in the supply Is growing greater
every rear. You will never see corn
below 4Ccents a bushel again in this country.
Now, thit means that oorn laud is going to be
valuable I have recently sold a large tract of
corn lani, whiob I have held for twelve years
It wai tie poorest of all my land Investments
It brougit me just twenty-one times what I
paid for It. I have been buyiDg land for in
vestment for years. I began fourteen years
ago. I figured up the other day that I could
sell all nr Holdings and average over sixteen
times wixt 1 paid for the various properties
That tellsyhat there is in land purchases.”
A gold A- haired boy lay dead on a cot in
Harlem hotpitai, New York. The chiM was
little Patsy McCarthy, the 2-year-old son of
Patrick and lary McCarthy of No. 439 East One
Hundred anoTwenty-first street. On Tuesday
morning Mrs McCarthy left Patsv and his
4-year-old sixer Nellie in the kitchen, after
giving them aalate and pencil to amuse them
selves with. Then Nellie went into the parlor
and Patsy vjs loft alone. He became
lonesome, art. ran into the room where
his mother \*s, still bolding the slate pen
cil in his ertbby little hand. He tripped
on the thrshold of the room, and
fell with a heat-rending scream of agony On
picking him uihls mother was horrified to see
the pencil Liking out of his eye. It was so
tightly wedgedin the socket that Mrs. McCarthy
could not rezove it. She hurried to a drug
store at Pleasnt avenue and One Hundred and
Twenty-first feet, where the pencil was re
moved. Mr*.ffcCa.rthy then took the child to
'the Harlem kspital which is only a square
away. It was discovered that the pencil had
entered the e above the ball and reached the
brain. Tbs cSd uieds# 10:10 o’clock on Wednes-
day night.
Ax BXOBBDtoLT xior matronly looking lady,
in whose faertx-amed ejection and kindly good
nature, boarrtd a Cortandt street ferryboat.
New York, Wednesday, accompanied by her
son, a lad afxat 14. but snail for bis age The
mother evideUy made agroat pet of the boy
and the pair talked out U the bow of the boat’
the youth beilg interestec in looking at the’
shipping on tie river, ana the pair took up a
position near he railing wlere they could enjoy
a full view. Ifesently the lady, finding it too
cold on dedc,ift her son ana want back into the
ladles' cabii.vbere she me, and entered into
conversation with a friend. Meanwhile a
handsome yung woman, svjtiahly dressed
walked up and took the vacant place
by the toy's sido. The latter
eutlreiy absoried in the scene otthe water and
absolutely Ui Onscious that a stfinger was next
to him, aflfectimately put his atn around the
girl and beganasking queatbns about all that
he saw. The yiung lady, loikin* upon the lad
as too much of a boy to be dangsreus, smiled
at the sltuatnn and sail lothiit. In a few
moments the anther cams lack tc look for her
boy. She fount him, and faiked lim away so
quickly that 1b did not Saow for a moment
whether it was a collisionbi merely an earth
quake. Then, with a wemn’s infallible pro
pensity to blame one of hr urn sex when she
Is mnooent, the mother gke the young woman
an awful wigging for Mr Waxen attempt to
lead the boy astray, wbe be lad stood by in
painful oonf union.
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