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MONDAY, FKKHI Ain !, 18>L
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INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
Meetings —Clinton Lodge, No. 54, F. A. A. Mi
German Friendly Society: DeKalb Lodge No.
#, L O. O. F.: Calanthe Lodge, No. 28. K. r.
Special Notices lnstallment Notice.
Chatham Real Estate and Improvement Com
pany ; Saturday on Monday, at Heidt’s; As to
Bills Against British Steamship Storra Lee; -As
to Crew of Norwegian Bark Carl Bach; Pickled
Mullets and Roe, Geo. C. Hudson; The Music
Box at White Elephant; Notice to Citizens.
German Preserves— A. M. and C. W. West.
Railroad Commission op Georgia—Circular
No. 184.
Auctions—General Merchandise. J. J. Oppen
beim.
Steamship Changes -Baltimore Steamship,
Company; General Trans-Atlantic Company;
Ocean Steamship Company.
Special Inducements— CHlat Bros.
Chsap Column advertisements—Help
Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Rsnt; For
Sale; Personal: Miscellaneous.
If the treasury portfolio was really offered
to Dr. Chauncey Depew, as alleged, he lias
certainly been very coy and deliberate
about making public bis response.
Why the Illinois Editorial Association
should choose Joliet as a place of meeting
when there are so many places in the state
that do Dot contain the penitentiary is just
a trifle strange, to say the least.
Northwestern wheat is said to be quite
seriously affected by the unusual severity of
the winter. And if the forthcoming peach
arop is not injured then this is the first time
it has ever missed such an opportunity to be
damaged.
Curious Savannahians will probably
have the pleasure of gazing upon the saga
oious countenance of Millionaire Jay Gould
this morning when he goes out to view the
city. There is no sort of doubt but he will
be cordially welcomed.
Prospective revolution is now disturbing
the comparative calm of Spanish politics
again. Very likely it is a sort of contagion
communicated by the agitation in Portu
gal. Mercurial Spain is nearly always on
the verge of a political ferment.
Once more “all is quiet along the
Potomac,” the Temple of Janus is closed,
and Wanamnker and Gould are at peace.
So friendly have the belligerents become
that it is said Gonld will not “squeeze”
Deacon John any more on his holdings of
Heading stock. Suoh “fond harmony” is
an inspiring spectacle for gods and men.
Such a man as Bradlaugh could be toler
ated and even admired in the London par
liament, because he was not only a man of
native talent, but a scholar as well. But
the proposition to allow so blatant a ranting
agrarian as Socialist Aveling to succeed him
naturally fills the dead atheist’s former con
stituents with disgust. They regard Aveling
as an interloper of a very commonplace
order.
Shallow water freight vessels drawing
only eight inches of water are the latest
acquisition to the facilities for inland navi
gation. Plying lu Mexican waters they
may serve the purpose for which they are
designed, but they must be too top-heavy
for streams that are exposed to any sort of
rough weather. Loaded down, however, it
is difficult to realize that they should draw
but eight inches of water. Still they are
said to be capable of making twelve miles
an hour or more. Great invention.
Once more the serene and “child-like and
bland” heathen Chinee bobs up serenely
with a sly wink in his placid almond eyes.
Close inspection shows a simple Celestial to
be ahead of the San Francisco customs
officers over $30,000. It is the custom there,
wheu goods are imported, to take to the
appraiser’s store 10 per cent, of them, from
which the total duty is to be calculated.
Then the custom house broker has to file a
bond of S4OO for tbe payment of the duty,
and the owner is allowed to take the other
ntne-teutbs to his place of business. Jan. 1
of this year the Cbinamau went through
this routine, leaving 10 per cent, of a large
shipment of opium with the appraiser.
Now that bo is wanted to pay the duty he
cannot be found. As the duty on tbe full
amount of opium he imported would be
about $35,000, and the 10 per cent, left by
him is only worth #3,500, he makes a clear
profit of over $30,000. He cave what is be
lieved to be an assumed name, and has so
long a start that it is not believed be can be
caug .L
Government in Connecticut.
The contest over the state officers m Con
necticut is still going on. The Senate, which
is democratic, insists that the officers who
were declared elected by the state canvass
ing board shall be permitted to take their
office*. The House, which is republican, in
sists that only one state officer was elected
at the election last falL Tnat one is Staub,
a democrat He was elected controller.
The House bases its position upon
a report of a committee of its mem
bers. The majority of tbe committee were,
of course, republicans, who went behind the
returns. They did not open the ballot-boxes,
but they secured affidavits of election offi
•ers, who stated that certain ballots which
did lfot conform to the law had been re
jected. There is no authority for going be
hind the returns of the state canvassing
board, and there is no authority for count
ing tbe ballots which the election officers re
jected.
Those ballots were rightly rejected. They
were not in compliance with tbe law, and
had their rejection been beneficial to tbe
republicans the republican leaders would
insist that their rejection was in accordance
with the law.
Connecticut Is not ruled by the majority,
and hence has not republican government.
The state is democratic, but the republicans
manage to retain control of all the state
officers through the legislature, which is a
product of the minority. Tbe constitution
has not been changed for more than sixty
years. Under it senators are elected by
districts and representatives by
town?. Towns which were incor
porated prior to 1785 and towns
which have more than 5,000 inhabitants
have two representatives each. Towns of
less than 5,C00 inhabitants have one repre
sentative each. It happens, therefore, that
the large cities, like Hartford and New
Haven, have no greater representation than
some of the towns which have only a few
thousand inhabitants. Tbe large cities being
democratic, and tbe majority of the small
towns being republican, the republicans are
able to retain control of tbe House.
Another provision of the constitution re
quires a majority of all the votes cast to
elect state officers. The democrats have
bad a plurality for their ticket several
times, but, of course, under the constitu
tion they did not get the offices. The legis
lature elected the state officers. Last fall,
however, tbe democratic ticket received a
clear majority of all the votes cast.
The republicans are determined that the
democrats shall not have the state offices.
They know that the democrats want to
amend tbe constitution so that the majority
shall rule. They say that although they
haven’t the majority they represent the in
telligence and morality of the state, and,
hence, ought to control. Their refusal to
yield to the will of the majority, as shown
through the ballot-box, indicates that their
control is dangerous to the state.
With a constitution which would permit
the majority to rule, not only would the
state officers be democrats, but the United
States senators from that state would be
democrats. The contest going on in the
legislature, therefore, is for big stakes. The
democrats are in the right They want the
majority to rule. The republicans, by
force and fraud, hope to perpetuate the rule
of the minority.
Victims of the Force Bill.
A special Washington dispatch says that
Senator Hoar has announced his intention
to withdraw from public life at the expira
tion of his present term. His term will
expire March 6, 1895. His announcement
would seem to be a little premature. He
may change his mind within the next four
years. But he can be spared. There are
other men in Massuchusetts who are much
better fitted to serve that state.
In answer to a question when he made up
his mind to drop into the obscurity of pri
vate life, lie is reported to have said that
the refusal of eight republican senators to
vote for the force bill had touched him so
keenly that he bad at once formed a resolu
tion not to seek a re-election. He is, there
fore, a victim of the force bill, or will be a
victim of It if he holds to his resolution.
It is much better that he should be a
victim of that measure than that the south
should be. And the south would have been
damaged greatly if tbe bill had become a
law.
Anothor victim is reported to be Senator
Aldrich of Rhode Island. He championed
the cloture rule. He, too, has given his
friends to understand that he will not be a
candidate for re-election. His time will ex
pire March 3, 1893. But there is a chance
that he will ebauge bis mind. Ho feels a
little out of sorts just now because of his
failure to get a vote on the cloture rule, but
before congress adjourns he will forget all
about that.
Both he and Senator Hoar act like a cou
ple of school boys, who, having been beaten
in a game with their fellows, refuse to play
any more. But there is satisfaction in the
thought that the nation would not go into
mourning if they should resign at onco.
Legal Rights of Murderers.
A case was decided by the supreme court
of Nebraska the other day that is very sim
ilar to a case that is pending iu the superior
court of Wayne couuty in this state.
The chief facts in the Nebraska case were
as fellows; A man killed his daughter, who
owned an interest in eighty acres of land
near Nebraska City. Had she died a natural
death, under the laws of descent he would
have inherited her portion of the land. He
assumod, however, that the land was his
by inheritance, and he conveyed it to a law
yer whom he had engaged to defend him
when he was prosecuted for mur
dering his daughter. He was
subsequently lynched by a mob, and the
lawyer brought a partition suit to have the
land divided, and to obtain the interest of
the murdered daughter. The decision of
the lower court was in his favor, but the
higher court roversed.the decision, holding
“that the father’s blood was tainted by the
crime.”
In the Wayne county case a husband
killed his wife, who possessed considerable
property. Tne question which presents it
self is whether he can inherit the property
of his wife.
There is a record of a case in North Caro
lina where a widow was adjudged entitled
to a dower, although it was clearly proven
that she was an accessory before the fact to
the murder of her husband. That appears
to be the only caso on record in this coun
try, however, in which that view of the
law has been held by the court of last
resort. In a celebrated case in New York
the doctrihe that no one can be permitted to
acquire property by his own crime was
held, and that, doubtless, is the correct doc
trine. It is at least tbe doctrine that is ap
proved by common sense and in harmony
with good morals.
THE MORNING NEWS: MONDAY, FEBRUARY 9,1891.
Carolina's New Commission.
North Carolina is to have anew oommis
sion in charge of the general transporta
tion interests in the state. Under tbe direct
supervision of the commission is to be placed
all the railroad, steamboat, canal, express
and telegraph business done within the
boundaries of tbe commonwealth. Under
the provisions of a bill recently introduced
in the legislature the commission consti
tuted for the above purpose is to consist of
three members, who are to be elected by
the general assembly and paid a salary of
$2,000 a year each. They are also to be pro
vided with a clerk to do ail the work at a
salary of #1,200 a year.
Extraordinary powers are to be vested in
these commissioners. They are authorized
to regulate freight rates and fix the passen
ger tariff pretty much according to their
own ideas of how snch things should be
done. This seems to be rather a dangerous
power to place in the bands of inexperi
enced men. Severe penalties are provided
for infractions of the laws to be formulated
under tbe act and supplemented by the
commissioners.
Any company “which shall charge,
collect, demand or receive more than a
fair and reasonable rate of toll or compen
sation for transportation of passenger or
freight” is declared to be guilty of extor
tion and subjected to such penalties as the
commissioners may think proper to impose
between the maximum and minimum
punishments prescribed by tbe provisions of
the act.
Notwithstanding the unusual and rather
unsafe power thus placed in tbe hands of the
board well-informed observers express con
fidence that the bill will pass both houses
without material alteration. Should it go
through it is apt to prove a prolific source of
lawsuits, as the transportation lines are
likely to contest its validity at every point.
Politicians express surprise that tbe or
ganization of tbe commission is not placed
in the hands of the governor, and there is
no doubt of the executive disapproval of
this part of the proposition. But that Is
not half so important as the personnel of tbe
board and the manner in whioh the commis
sioners deal with the great interests com
mitted to them. If they are wise men they
can do much good. Otherwise, they are
sure to do harm and a great deal of it.
An Important Railroad Deal.
Friends of the great Pennsylvania rail
way system, which has heretofore always
had advantageous trafflo arrangements with
the southern liDea, manifest some uneasiness
over the increasing interest of Jay Gould in
the Richmond Terminal system and its ru
mored close alliance with the Baltimore and
Obio line, giving tbe Pennsylvania’s great
est rival close connections for all southern
points, and throwing the bulk of southern
through business into Baltimore and Ohio
bands. Through another deal with the
Jersey Central the new combination is to
have an entrance into New York equal in
point of business facilities to any other road
terminating there.
Such an arrangement, if really con
summated ,may well alarm even thepowerful
“Pensy.” It would be sure to divert thous
ands of tons of freight from that line. Both
western and southern business would be
seriously "affected. At many points along
their lines the Baltimore and Ohio and
Pennsylvania come into direct competi
tion.
Under the proposed combination it is Baid
that a large share of the Missouri Pacific
and Louisville and Nashville business that
has heretofore been handled by eastern
trunk lines i* to be turned over to the Rich
mond Terminal system and its connections
for transportation to South Atlantic coast
ports.
That the “Little Wizzard” could easily
accomplish such a result if he set his schem
ing head to it no one is disposed to doubt.
And it seems only reasonable that he should
take such an interest in lines in which he
has lately acquired considerable holdings to
the prejudice of those in which he has no
sort of pecuniary ooncern.
Railway and commercial interests here
will undoubtedly watch the outcome of the
pending negotiations with no little concern,
as it is likely to affect Savannah interests
to a greater or less extent whichever way
it may eventuate.
A Taxpayers' Menagerie.
The taxpayers of Washington are kicking
vigorously against the decision of the House
that they must pay half the expense of
maintaining the National Zoological Park,
better known as the government’s animal
show. The show doesn’t amount to a great
deal. There are a few monkeys and
parrots, some snakes and a live
buffalo, and perhaos a lion and
§ tiger in it It is hardly worth look
ing at But the Washington people
wanted the animals, and insisted upon hav
ing a zoological park with as much noise as
Atlanta insisted upon having an elephant.
They thought it would be just too nice to
have some wild animals to show to their
children. But they didn’t think they would
have to help pay for food for them. They
expected the people outside of Washington
to do that. They hoped to have all the
benefit of the animals at other people’s ex
pense.
The Washington people are a thrifty lot.
The government pays half the taxes of the
place, and they are constantly finding fault
because the government doesn’t pay all of
them. Next thing they will have a petition
in congress asking for pensions or rations.
They seem to think they are the wards of
the nation. The most of them are. They
draw their provender from the publlo crib,
and their never ending complaints about
the quantity of it mako the country tired.
The House did right. It ought to saddle
the whole of the support of the monkeys,
parrots and snakes upon the District of
Columbia. Nobody cares anything about
the Zoological Park except the Washington
babies, and tf Washington fathers are un
willing to pay for the amusement of their
babies they ought to emigrate.
Now that Colorado silver men want to
bear down upon Chicago and do all they
can to help in diverting trade to other cities,
and also to incidentally smash that long
discussed fair, just because the board of
trade petitioned congress against free silver,
possibly the hog-kllling magnates may real
ize that the states withholding their appro
priations to await the aid of Illinois in pro
tecting their highest rights were not so
illiberal after aIL
Every few days the telegraph tells of
some gaping “harmless spectator” who has
been fatally shot in a barroom broil—
by mistake of course. Still dying
by mistake appears to be just as
fatal as any other arrangement. If
this doesn’t carry with it a strong admo
nition to the harmless spectator to keep out
of saloons then it has no meritorious pra
cept concealed about it at aU.
PERSON AL
Miss M. Louise Edwards of Annapolis has
j bean appointed to the chair of oratory of Almira
College, Greenville, 111.
Mas. Grover Cleveland and Mr. and Mrs. L.
7. Letter and family are at the new winter
hote. in Lakewood, N. J.
Gen. Lonostbmzt has returned to Atlanta
from his Texas trip, and has almost entirely
recovered from his recent illness.
Ex-Attorney General Garland has built
up a large and lucrative practice in the supreme
uenrt at Washington, which is now his home.
J. C. Bancroft Davis has been selected to fll
the vacancy in the Washington National Monu
ment Society caused by the death of his uncle,
George Bancroft.
Louis Cyr of Canada, the champion heavy
weight lifter, is a native of St. Johns, Quebec,
and 27 years of age. His last and biggest lift
was 3,993 pounds.
Rev. Henry (J. Swentzel of Scranton, Pa.
has been chosen by the Protestant Episcopal
house of bishop* as bishop of the missionary
jurisdiction of Japan.
Lieut.JJenn says that a three months' sc
quaintanoa with Florida fishermen would enable
a man to fetch the truth from the bottom of a
wed and use it for bait.
Lucy Stone (who always retained her maiden
name) is assisted iu her literary work by her
husband. Henry B. Blackwell, and their only
child. Alice Stone Black wail.
Hendrix Ibsen says he treats no “problem”
or propounds no "thesis” in his new play,
"Kedda Gabler,” but has just tried to represent
men and women as exactly as possible.
Bruce Douglas, aged 28 years, who claimed
to be a nephew and heir of Robert Percy Doug
las. sixth earl of that name, died recently at the
county hospital in Han Francisco, as a result of
dissipation and pneumonia.
Rev. Dr. Bridgman of the New York Madison
Avenue Baptist church wears a Genevan gown
in the pulpit. He is the only Baptist clergyman
in New York who wears one, ana the only other
in the country is Rev. Dr. Moxom of Boston.
Charles F. Crokeb, vice president of the
Southern Pacific railroad, is at San Antonio,
Tex. It is believed his visit to the eastern part
of the rood is to make arrangemants tor a
steamship line from New Orleans to South
America.
The termination olani in Hawaiian names
means “of the heavens.” Thus, Lulinokolani
means “Lilv of the Heavens.” The new queen
of the islands possesses great executive ability
and is courageous, truthful and honest. She is
a woman of handsome presence and is a
skillful musician.
Charles Lever, the novelist, was a dark
eyed, nervous man. very affected in his manner
and as emotional, when excited, as a French
dancing master. He ha 1 a wonderful power of
observation and a remarkable memory for
peculiarities of dress, manner and speech. His
bandwriting was worse than Balzac’s.
Sir Edwin Arnold saw the Emperor of Ja
pan at the opening of parliament, where he
presented a very interesting figure. He is tall
in comparison with the majority of his subjects
and has strongly marked features. His eyes
are dark and watchful, and he has a slight
beard and moustache. His manners are at once
gracious and imperturbably reserved. Tne
Mikado was dressed in the uniform of an army
general and wore tbe broad rod ribbon of the
Order of the Rising Sun.
BRIGHT BITS.
Wry are colts like rich men’s sons? Because
they won’t work until they are broke. —Pitts
burg Dispatch.
Tommy (gazing after dude)— When I get to be
a mao, papa, will I dress like that?
Papa (severely)—No, Tommy; not if you get
to be a man.— Life.
Greene— Gibson is fond of ventilating his
opinions, isn't he?
White—Yes, and tbo Lord knows most of ’em
need it. — Munsey's Weekly.
Garrulous Stranger on a Train—My wife’s
name was Wood. What wasyours?
Crusty Old Bachelor—l guess mine’s name
was "wouldn't.” I didn’t get her Washmy
ten Star.
Mamma—Willie, you must not spin that hum
ming top of yours to-day. This is Sunday.
Willie (whirling it again)—That’s all right,
mamma. It’s humming a Sunday school tune.
Chicago Tribune.
Mrs. Gummey (reading)—A man in Chester.
Pa., has insured his horse for $250 and his wife
for $75.
Gummey—H’m: He must be awfully fond of
his wife.— Judge,
Bummer hy is it that poets always make
the barefooted farmer’s boy whistle.
Bubble -I sir pose it’s so that he will keep his
courage up when he goes into a stubble pasture
after the cows.— Chicago Times.
‘‘l don’t see how you gentlemen can render a
verdict of not guilty,” said the judge.
"Well, your honor,” said the foreman, po
litely, “if you’ll watch us close we’ll do it over
again and show you how.”— hew York Sun.
A sight that must make angels weep,
As this broad earth they scan,
Is a S4O suit of clothes
On a 99-cent man.
—Smith, Grey <t Oo.'s Monthly.
“Oh, madam, Jip has just hit a man on the
street!"
"What kind of a looking man was it?”
“He was nearly in rags.”
"Poor Jip! Was the darling’s mouth out with
a little eau do cologne.”— Judge.
Wickwire—l tell you, Yabby, my boy, there
is nothing Uke a baby to brighten up a man’s
home.
Yabsley—l h ave noticed that the gas seems
to be at full bight in your house at almost any
hour of the night. — Indianapolis Journal.
Deacon Hardscrabble (to passenger requir
ing three seats for himself and baggage)—You
are from the city, I presume?
Mr. Shoat—Yes; how did you know it?
Deacon Hardscrabble—O, we butchered our
country hogs three months ago.—A’etc York
Herald.
At 10 she jumps the rope and performs on a
trapeze. That is the age of action. At 20 she
lollsonaßofa or hammock aud reads novels.
That is the age of passion. At 30 she wields the
slipper or stove poker, according to the size of
the subject. That is the age of reaction. And
yet they say that action and reaction are equal
and opposite In effects— Buffalo Express.
Young Husband— Here's the old chestnut
about a rose being just as sweet by any other
name. It's a lie; it wouldn’t.
V oung Wife—Pray, what difference could the
name make ?
Young Husband—Well, here’s your own case.
Two months ago you were Miss Catchim, and
Moses: how sweet you were: and now you're
Mrs. Uottlni, and—Jerusalem:— Boston Courier.
Lovely Daughter— Pa, Mr. Nicefello pro
posed to me last night and I referred him to
you.
Pa —Well, I really don’t know much about the
young man, and I’ll have to—
Daughter—When he calls to see you about it,
you are to receive him kindly—real fatherly,
remember—and help him along all you can,
until he asks for my hand, and then you are to
look alarmed and talk about what an angel I
am and how many millionaires and dukes and
princes I’ve refused; and then you are to reluct
tantly consent and give him your blessing.
“O, I am, am I? But suppose I don’t, then
what ?”
‘'l’ll marry him anyhow.” New York
Weekly. __
CUBBBNT COMMENT.
Ardent Mutual Admiration.
From the Philadelphia Press (Rev.).
Mr. Blaine is like the Press, and the Press.
likes Mr. Blaine because he usually gets there
with both feet.
This fs True.
From the Louisville Courier-Journal (Dem.).
Mr. Dudderar, of Kentucky, is a better man
than Pasteur. He charges nobody a cent for
the use of his madstone.
They Didn’t Crack Any Jokes.
From the Chicago News 1 Tnd.).
Burglars broke into an eastern novelist’s bouse
several days ago and found two or three of the
literary man’s manuscripts lying upon hie desk.
The burglars escaped uninjured, although in
their haste one of them dropped his hat and the
other an expensive revolver.
Talk About Trunks.
From the Chicago Mail (Ind.).
Bernhardt landed in New York with 107
trunks. Perhaps she intends to wear trunks In
“Cleopatra.” When Bernhardt leaves New York
the railroad orer which she travels wili be a
trunk linej
“Who said Hood’s Sarsaparilla*'’ Thou
sands of pooplo, who know it to be the best
blood purifier and tonic medicine.—Ad.
Besr Was a Revelation.
One day recently a New York doctor, says
the Timet, prescribed beer for a patient. "Take
it with your meals." be said, "and I reckon that
it will do you lots of good." Then be chatted a
few minutes with the patient s wife and at
length started for the door.
Suddenly be turned about. "Look here, Mr.
W ilberforce,’’ be sad. "did I ever tell you about
the pa;lent I had up m Achusnei?"
"No," said Mr. >\ ilberforce, "you have never
told me about him. Sit down, doctor, and tell
me now."
"t\ ell," said the doctor. "I went to Acbos
net last summer to rusticate for a week. It's a
Massachusetts town near New Bedford. One
day an old farmer came to see roe. 'I have
hearn tell,’ be said. *thet you was a New York
doctor, an’ I thought thet if you wasn't too
expensive I'd like to git a prescription writ
out.’
“ ‘I don't know what you would consider too
expensive,’ 1 answered, thinking to have a little
sport, ‘but I ordinarily cborg- a man $lO when
becomes to my office for a prescription.'
“ 'Bless my soul:’ exclaimed the old farmer,
‘You’re an awful costive doctor, you be. I
wouldn’t mind ftivin" of ye a dollar or even a
dollar'a a quarter, but I deolar' to goodness,
doctor.l haven't had a ten-dollar billatweeumy
fingers for ten years.’
’’’Ob, well,’ I said when I saw that the old
fellow was disappointed, ’don't go away. I’ll
prescribe for you without makiug any charge
at all.’
“The old man protested that be wouldn’t have
it He said that I must allow him to pay me
something. And finally, I was prevailed upon
to accept a fee of 15 cents. I ordered several
things, and wound up by advising the old man.
just as I have advised you, to take beer w ith his
meals. He had never heard of lager beer be
fore, so I wrote the word for him on a card.
"Next day the old man sent to New Bedford
for the things which I had prescribed. I heard
all about it that same day while I was at the
post office waiting for my mail. He gave the
messenger a bottle to get the lager—a pint
bottle.
“’I guess the bottle Is clean,' he said. ‘Sairy
biled it all the forenoon.’
’* ’How much shell 1 git?’ demanded the mes
senger.
‘“The hull bottle full,’my patient answered,
’an’be sure you git the best. Tell’em it’s for
sickness.’
“The next day but one the old; farmer was at
the house where I was stopping long before I
was out of bed, and as soon as I got down stairs
he was after me.
’“l'yj got the layger.’ he said,‘but I don't
know how much you want me to take to a dose.
Sairy says that it’s such pow'ful stufT that she
wouldn’t want to taks raore'n a teaspoonful at
a time, but 1 thought, seem' as it was a tonic,
that I ought to take a leetle more. Tonics
gen'ly goes by tablespoontuls doesn't they,
doctor’’
“ 'You go home,' I said. ‘Don’t take any of
the medicine for breakfast, and when dinner
time comes 1 will be st your house and show
you how much to take at once.’
“When 12 o'clock came I was at the old man's
house.
" ’Give me a glass,’ I said.
"Sairy bustled about for a moment, and then
handed me a big, old-fashion*! tumbler.
“ ’Sit down,’ I said to the old man.
“He obeyed me, but looked os a man looks
when he sits down in a dentist's office. I took a
corkscrew out of my pocket and drew the cork.
Then I emptied the bottle into the glass and
handed the glass to my patient.
“ ‘Drink it all,’ I said.
“ 'AH!’ gasped the old man.
“ ‘All!’ ejaculated Sairy.
“ ‘Yes, all,’ X sternly replied.
“The old man was whiter than a Bheet when
he took the glass from my hand. He looked at
me steadily for half a minute as though he
wished to determine whether or not I was in
full possession of my senses. Then with such a
look on his face as the martyrs used to wear
when they marched to certain and horrible
deaths, he began to drink.
"I hardly need tell you that the martyr look
went out of his face very quickly, and that the
eyes which were reflecting terror when be put
the full glass to his lips, were bright with a look
of blissful contentment as he set the empty
tumbler down upon the table.
“ '1 reckon that layger was jistwhat I needed,
doctor,’ the old man said when he had recovered
his breath.”
A Discomfited Soouse.
The citizens of Oilbertsville, Montgomery
county, Pennsylvania, have been furnished with
quite a sensation by the actions of a married
couple of that place a few days ago.
According to the Pottstown Daily Metes the
harmony of the family circle was broken bv a
rupture between man and wife, and the woman
in a fit of anger gave her liege lord to under
stand that she would get even with him even if
she ha I to poison him, and warned him to look
out. He, believing she would carry out the
threat, went to the stores through the village
and notified them not to sell her any poison.
Sure enough—so the story runs—she was on
hand in a short time, and asked for a box of
“rough on rats,” and the merchant, to accom
modate her, mixed np a potion of which flour
was the main ingredient, which she paid for and
left the store. The storekeeper In the mean
time notified the husband of her actions, and
when he went home for his meal he was pre
pared for the next act
The meal was eaten in silence and upon its
completion he began to complain of pains, and
went into the next room and lay on the lounge
and pretended to be helplessly sick
The vindictive woman quickly went upstairs
and getting a rope dropped it through a pipe
hole. fastening one end to a bedpost, then com
ing down stairs again, made a loop, placed it
around the neck of the apparently sick man.
She then hurried upstairs, and drew the rope
taut, and pulled on the same until she had. as
she thought, her husband suspended. She then
hurried out and informed the neighbors that he
had hanged himself.
They rushed iu, and behold, he was sitting on
the lounge, coolly smoking his pipe, while sus
pended from the rope was a small stove. The
discomfited woman ran unstairs to escape the
laughter of her neighbors, while he explained
that when she had gone, after having placed
the rope around his neck, he had quickly
fastened it to the top of the stove.
Courting In Andalusia.
It is well known that in Spain the methods of
“courting" are often exceedingly singular, says
Youth's Companion. Generally the lover sig
nifies his choice by coming for three successive
evenings with a guitar and singing a serenade
under the fair one’s window, and if he is regard
ed by the young woman's parents as an eligible
candidate he is invited into the house.
In Andalusia, a Spanish province, a still more
singular custom has lately been observed.
When a young man there aspires to the hand of
a young lady ho calls for three successive days
at her parents' house at the same hour. The
third day he always brings a oane, and goes
away leaving it behind him, apparently forget
ting it.
If his suit is regarded with favor the young
girl keeps the cane, and gives it back to him
when he calls the next day. This makes him
her affianced husband.
But if, on the contrary, the young man’s suit
is not pleasing to the family his cane is thrown
out of the -window into the street. This is re
garded as a delicate way of telling him that he
need not come atain, and the young man, who
has lingered near meanwhile, reads his own
fate in the indignity put upon his walking
stick.
Hough on the Dog.
A solid, sensible-looking woman, who was
bound east, entered the baggage rooms of the
Third street depot leading a dog, says the De
troit Free Press, and asked:
“Can this dog go in the car with me?"
“No, ma’am.”
“Has he got to go in the baggage car?”
"Yes’m."
“Is it extra?"
“Fifty cents."
"Well, it’s a shame!”
“Yes'm, but it’s the rule.”
She walked about for five minutes, the dog
smelling at her heels, and then returned to
say:
"There are three of us, myself, the dog and
my husband.”
“Yes.”
“If my husband went in the baggage car
couldn't the dog ride in the seat with me?”
She managed to choke down her indignation
when told that no suoh change could be effected,
but later on. In the waiting room, she was giving
her husband fits, and it was probably because
he was satisfied with the rule of the road.
Two Little Stories of Gambling.
"The biggest money I ever saw on a gambling
table at one time," said a guest to the St. Louis
Globe-Democrat at the Laclede, “was $2},090,
and I saw that at Spokane Falls. Wash., last
year, just after the big fire. Everybody had
plenty of money, and all kinds of gambling
snaps were running in tents, houses, either
brick or frame, being few and far between. The
little tent had a faro bank and three men called
the turn. There was $22,000 in cash on the
table and S2O gold nieces were used as chips
They all lost, and tee house scooped In the pot."
“That is a good story,”said a bvstander, "but
I will tell what I saw io Tucson, Art, Christmas
night. ISM. 1 was a stranger, and wandered into
the gambling room by accident. Everything
was wide op#n In those days. I saw sitting st a
faro bank table an army officer, a Chinaman, a
negro, a Mexican, an Indian and a woman.’ I
watched the game for more than an hour, and
the Chinaman and the woman were the only
ones who quit winners."
ITEMS OP INTEREST.
The exports op potatoes from Jersey last
year amounted to 54,109 tons, valued at £293.-
581. as compared with 52,700 tons and £264,153
in 1889. and 70,98 k tons and £242.109 in 1888. The
export season commenced during the first week
in May, when potatoes fetched £25 per ton. The
potato area in Jersey is now 6.856 acres. Dur
ing last year 81.654 pipes of port were shipped,
as against 85,211 pipes in 1889 and 85.305 pipes
in 1888 L The shipments of sherry during the
same period were, respectively, 60,063 butts,
55,130 and 49,269 butts.
This is an age of electricity, even swindlers
turning it to account. The following is their
method of “sweating” gold coins: The scientific
swindler constructs an electro-deposition plant,
using a $lO gold piece as anano.le and a small
metal plate as a cathode. The battery is “set
in motion," and, presto: in a few minutes 50
cents' worth of gold is deposited on the metal
plate, and the gold com is worth so much less
than before. As tne gold is removed equally
from all parts of the surface of the $lO gold
piece that coin passes for one “as good as new."
Acooßhixo to the estimate of Director Leech,
o£ the mint, France is the richest country in the
world in specie, with a gold currency of $900,-
000,(100, and $700,000,000 in silver. The United
States comes next, with $702,000,000 in gold and
$482,000,000 of silver. Great Britain has $550,-
000.000 an i $100,0,10,000 silver; Germany, $550,*
000,000 gold and $145,000,000 silver; India, $900,-
000,000 silver; China, $700,000,000 silver, eto.
Director Leech estimates tne total gold circula
tion of the world at $).727,000.(100, and the total
silver circulation at $3,824,000,000. Of the latter
$2,930,000,000 is legal tender.
The New Argentine Pacific Railroad from
Buenos Ayres to the loot of the Andes has on
it what is probably the largest tang -nt in the
world. This is 340 kilometers (211 miles) with
out a curve. In this distance there is not a
single bridge, and no opening larger than an
ordinary culvert, no cut greater than one meter
in length, and no fill of a height exceeding one
meter. There is almost an entire absence of
wood on the plaiu across which the western end
of the road is located. This has led to the ex
tensive use of metallic ties, which will be em
ployed on nearly the entire road.
“That a man or any number of men could
steal 609 hens without awakening everybody
within a mile is what beats me," said a man
who walked out of station 1 in Boston scratch
ing his head. Inquiry developed the fact that a
man had been arrested there charged with steal
ing 600 hens from poultry yards in Wakefield
and Melrose. James Sargent was the name of
the accused. The poultry had been disposed of
to a dealer at 116 Richmond street, and has been
recovered—or its value. Any one who ever
caught a hen (wanting to be quiet about it) can
appreciate the query of the individual who al
lowed he was beat.
"Do you have many orders like those?” in
quired a gentleman of a clothing dealer, who
had just taken the measure of a customer who
wanted a pair of trousers to be delivered in two
hours, says the Detroit Free Press. “Wo do,”
was the reply. “You would be surprised,”
added the dealer, “how many people receive a
sudden call, either of duty or pleasure, who dis
cover, at the last moment, like a woman get
ting ready tor a journey, that they 'have noth
ing to wear,’ So they rush down here and we
fit and deliver our goods to order in two hours.
How do we do it? That’s one of thetricksof
the trade. We could beat that record if we
wanted. In fact, there is no reason why we
could not fit and deliver a pair of first-class
trousers while our customer sat down for a few
minutes and read the morning paoer.”
H. M. Bompas, Q. C., recorder of Plymouth,
England, whose ruling in the trades union ap
peal is causing so much uneasiness in labor
circles, is the son of the man immortalized by
Charles Dickens in “Pickwick,” as “Mr.
Sergeant Buzfuz.” The youngest son of Sergeant
Charles C. Bompas, the prototype of the famous
leader in Bardell vs. Pickwick,’ the recorder is a
mild-mannered man, and as different as can be
from the advocate who tore a passion to rage
over "Chops, gentlemou of the jury, chops and
tomato sauce;" Born soma fifty-seven years
ago, he was fifth wrangler at Cambridge, but,
being a nonconformist, he could not, before
the abolition of university tests, bold a fellow
ship. Without ever doing a big business, he
has always been in fair work on the western
circuit, and might have done more did he not
create the impression that he was more at home
in the chapel than in the law courts.
“It is bad enough,” says a New York phyß
ician, “to have quinine sold as freely as sugar,
but morphine is a drug whieh ought to be re
tailed only under special conditions. Some
cough pills contain aa extraordinary amount of
morphine, and it is really wonderful more ser
ious oonsequences do not result. A few days
ago I was called to see a man who was very
sick, and who had evidently taken a large quan
tity of morphine internally. He explained that
he had been taking some pills for dyspepsia,
and when these were shown to me I saw at once
that cough pills had been given to him by mis
take. He ha I taken as many as six at a doge,
and if he had not been blessed with a wonder
ful constitution he would hav9 found it difficult
to pull round. There 1b no objection to patent
medicines and pills being powerless to do any
particular good, but they ought certainly to be
powerless to do any harm.
Kilter or kelter Was an ‘'Anglicism" long
before it was an “Americanism.” Skinner, in
1671, was Kelter; he is not yet in kelter, nondum
est paratus.” It is also given in a reprint of
Kay’s Collection of 1691. The k before points
to a ; Scandinavian origin. Cf. Dan, kilte, to
truss, tuck up, whence E, kilt. Rietz gives
Swed. dial., kiiter-band, a hand for holding up
tucked-up clothes; kiltrtx-sia , to gird up, tuck
up, and fasten. The metaphor is obviously
enough. This word kelter. as it should be
s[>elled, is given in Johnson’s Dictionary, and
derived from the Danish kelter. to gird; a quo
tation is given from Barrow’s works, where the
word is used. Bailey, in his Etymological Dic
tionary, derives it from the Latin cultura. Hal
liwell (“Dictionery of Archaic and
Provincial Words”) gives it as used
in the east of England both aa a
substantive and as a verb. It is a word of
every day use in Surrey and Sussex, in the sense
of order or condition. The Rev. W. D. Parish
in his “Dictionary of the Sussex Dialect.”
notices it in the phrase; "This farm seems in a
very good ‘kelter.’ ” I have often heard it used
in the same way, and anything that is out of
condition is described as being “out o’kelter ”
On reference to the publications of the English
Dialect Society, it will be seen that the word is
of very general use throughout England. In
the neighborhood of Whitby it occurs as a verb
and a substantive, and in the Mid and East
Yorkshire glossaries also; it is used also in West
Cornwall, Hampshire, and the Isle of Wight,
In West Somerset, in Sheffield, and in Hudders
field the word means money. These references
will be sufficient to show that the expression is
not an Amer canism, but that the word has
found, and still finds, a place in vernacular
English.
The Anemone coronaria commonly grows
wild about Smyrna and in Asia Minor, spread
ing far and wide as the most beautiful of spring
blossoms, growing o chalk soil along the edges
of shrubbery. We cannot wonder that it was
already in anciont times a favorite of the inhab
itants and excited in poetic minds sensations
suoh as can only be excited by surprising
beauty. “I am the Rose of Sharon and the Lily
of the Valleys,” sing the first voice of the sec
ond chapter of Solomon’s song, and there can
be no doubt to-day what is here meant by the
Rose of Sharon. It was an American, Fiske P.
Brewer, who decided this question, Narcissus
Tazelta, which likewise grows in Palestine
having previously been considered the biblicai
flower. This gentleman. according to
the Edinburgh Review of 1896
while traveling in the year 1899’
from Jaffa to Ranleh, came upon a place where
a considerable expanse of ground was half
oovered with brilliant red flowers. At the sight
of them some of his native companions imme
diately exclaimed, “Roses of Sharon,” and,
when he inquired about the name he was told
that the aaemone was there universally so
called. In truth it would not be easy other
wise to speak of a rase iu Palestine, for native
ruses do not exi9t there—at least not where
they would justify the association of the Plain
of Sharon with their name. Wild roses are
found in Palestine only on Lebanon, or where,
here and there, R. centifolut is cultivated for
the production of attar, as in the Wadi-el-
Werd (rose valley), near Hebron. According to
Ebers and Gutho, in their ‘‘Paiastine,’’ the
translations of the Bible often use the word
rose where there is no Warrant for understand
ing by it a true rose. The roses of Persia and
Media were not Introduced into Palestine before
the Grecian period.
Feels Better.
"Are you happier since your second mar
riage?” he asked of his friend as they rode
down town on a Broadway car.
“Oh, much happier.”
“Then it was a case of love?"
“Exactly, the same as with my first, but
there is this difference—l feel more settled."
“In your mind?”
“Yes, and ail other ways. It was never quite
clear in my first venture who ran the house,
bat in this case everything is plaiu sailing, aad
no oo o6ion for dispute."
“She knuckled, en?"
“Oh. no. She's boss.”
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