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WEDE>IrU. FEB, it, 1891.
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INDEX TO NEW ADVKRTISEMENTSL
Meettsgs—Savannah Castle No. 8, K. G. E. ;
Nacoochee Tribe No. 24, I. O. R. M.; Georgia
Historical Society: Merchant)' and Mechanics'
Loan and Building Association.
Special Notices— Notice. Levi J. Gazan; Real
Estate Purchasing Agent, Isaac Beckett;
Special Notice, I)r. Ira H. Thomas; For Sale,
Stock of Phillips Bros., John E. Dowling.
Auction Sale— Furniture, Etc., by I. D.
Xaßoche A Son.
Bacon—A. Ehrlich A Bro.
Cheap Counts Advertisements— Help
Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Rent; For
Sale; Lost; Personal: Miscellaneous.
Close attention to what the papers are
saying may lead you to think somebody
suspects that Consul General New is to suc
ceed Secretary Windom in the treasury
department.
Friends of Got. Hill are said to be schem
ing to delay action upon the silver bill in
order to attempt to emharms. Mr. Cleve
land and injure hi* presidential prospects.
Great democrats, they.
Chicago claims to be a great town for the
tramp. But when the world’s fair in
dustries get under way and begin to give
people work the tourists will probably
think it a very unhealthy place.
Can it be the longed-for and recently ac
auired increased protection that prevents
tbe groat Pittsburg coke works from ad
vancing wages and oompels them to lock
out 17,000 of (heir workmen in tbe odd?
When a man dies of consumption in one
of the large cities of late that seems to be
sufficient evidence to warrant the assump
tion that he has taken Koch's lymph.
Lately it has been uniformly resulting
fatally.
Pennsylvania has such a terrific attack of
tbe grip that it closed one coal mine by a
concerted symphony of sneezing. But the
aaloons all manage to scuffle along in spite
of it. Taking its course gradually west
ward it keeps up a sonorous chorus of
snorts.
Trouble continues to accumulate for that
great committee that promises to make a
world’s fair. Labor leaders now pledge
them some hearty opposition unless the fair
is made a union show. Those commis
sioners are not getting a fair show them
selves.
Philadelphia church belles are on a
•trike. That is to say, the pretty singers in
a Presbyterian churoh recently “went out”
all together because their favorite organist
was crowded out. Musicians, and especially
church musicians, should always manage to
“dwell together in harmony."
Talking peace while equipping his army
is one of the young Kaiser \\ ilhelm’s strong
est points. At the same time be manages
to have it distinctly understood that he in
tends to command his own forces in case
some European power Bhould obdurately re
fuse to listen to his earnest plea for peace.
Impartial rotation requires that Ray
Hamilton should be pronounced positively
dead, since the last of the series of rumors
declared him very much alive. But no tan
gible evidence to conclusively show whether
be is dead or alive has yet been adduced.
So the whole question remains very much
in doubt.
Passengers on the northwestern railways
now ought to carry their own provisions, or
they are likely to share the fate of the hun
gry train load of people who were recently
snowed in by the blizzard on the Union
Pacific in Wyoming. Being confined to
cold cars without food for four days is not
amusing in the least.
Ordinarily CoL Shepard has the reputa
tion of being so close with his staff on tbs
New York Mail and Express that the
shower of gold he is said to have distributed
in the office on the occasion of his daughter’s
marriage must have almost paralyzed the
whole force with astonishment. Such a freak
doesn’t strike the deacon often,
▲nti-poverty doctrines must be showing
a very marked tendency to disintegrate the
Catholic church when the archbishop of
New York finds it necessary to poll the
priesthood of his diocese in order to as
certain the trend of sentiment among hu
subordinates upon that subject. Such a
proceeding is almost unprecedented.
* The f tate Agricultural Soc ety.
The Agricultural Society of the State,
which meets in this city to-dav, is a notable
institution, and has beeu of immense benefit
to Georgia farmers. It is a very progress
ive institution, and is eompo ed of men of
prominence and influence in their respect
ive counties Thsre is not one of them,
perhaps, who has not contributed in some
degree to the state's progress and prosperity.
All of them are profoundly interested in the
development of the state’s agricultural re
sources, and each ore of them is ready to
lend a i elping hand to any undertaking that
promisee to promote the material condition
of the farmers.
Tbe society has steadily grown in in
fluence and importance since it was or
ganized, and the prospect that its useful
ness will Increase each succeeding year it
very flattering. It has kept the state fair
alive, and made it popular with tbe people
and profitable to the farmers. Its sug
gestions have been so helpful that the stock
on Georgia farms Is better in every respect
than in any previous period of the state's
history, and the farms are improving in
appearance, and, under intelligent cultiva
tion, are becoming more profitable.
The society is aa institution to be fos
tered. It will fully repay all the attention
that is given to it. It concerns itself only
with those things in which farmers are in
terested, and the farmers, therefore, should
strive to make it au ideal institution of its
kind.
The members will be warmly welcomed in
Bavamah. Toe people of this city understan 1
how dependent they are upon the farmers.
They know that they cannot be prosperous
unless tbe farmers are prosperous, anl that
when the crops fail their business is de
pressed. It is to receive tbe products of tbe
farms that our wharves are lined with sail
ing vessels and steamers from every port of
tbe world, and the handling of those
products affords a living for thousands of
the city’s population.
Some important papers will be read at
tbe meeting—papers which have been pre
pared with great care and which will con
tain many suggestions of value to agricult
urists. And during tbe discussions of the
various matters which will be before the
iseoting there will be much said that will
be well worth remembering. The farmers
will speak from experience. They will give
the conclusions they have reached relative
to questions nearing upon the growing of
crops and the raising of stuck.
The session of the society will not be a
long one, bat a good deal of business will
be dona And when not engaged with the
society's affairs the members will find tne
people of Savannah ready and willing to
give them all needful information about
the city, and to extend thorn any other
courteey in their power.
Senator Peffer’s Boom.
Senator-elect Peffer, of Kansas, is thought
to be by some of bis alliance friends in his
own state a great man. They are talking
of him as tbe presidential candidate of the
third party, which they think will be
organized for the campaign of 1892. He
must be very much surprised himself at his
sudden elevation. He has been struck by a
cyclone of luok. Nothing he has ever done
or said justifies the opinion that he is tbe
Bort of material out of which presidential
candidates are made.
Before his election to the Senate ho was
an editorial writer on* an obscure Kansas
paper. It is reported that his work was
paid for at tbe rate of $25 a week. Asa
writer he does not command the compen
sation that Senator Ingalls, the man whom
he succeeds, does. Ingalls could easily get
$250 a week. Indeed, it is said that he
has a standing offer of five ceute a word for
all that he will write. At that rate he could
easily moke SSOO or S6OO a week, and
not work more than two hours a day. But
Beffer is a long wav from being as bright
and brainy a man os Ingalls.
Feffei’s presidential boom grows out of
the fact that he is the first alliance senator.
Unless he develops rapidly, however, his
boom will collapse before be has been in the
senate six months. It is true he may have
judgment enough to keep his mouth shut
and look wise. Many a man has made a
reputation for wisdom by saying nothing.
But Peffer will not be nominated as a
third party presidential candidate, because
there will be no third party. He will stay
in the Senate, but’he will be lonely there.
There is no prospect that there will be an
other alliance senator soon.
There are a good many dissatisfied people
in different parts of the country who favor
a third party, but there are not enough of
them to make a respectable party. And
the south, where the alliance is strongest,
will furnish no third party recruits, unless
the blacks become third party men. The
whites are satisfied with the democratic
party. And they are likely to remain satis
fied with it a good while— 'ertainly as long
as sgich men as Hoar, Aldrich, Sherman,
Reed and others of their kind remain leaders
of the Republican party, and threaten the
south with such legislation as the force bill.
It is not clear what niche Peffer will fill
in Washington. He is not a society man,
having neither wealth, beauty nor line
social qualities. He is not an orator nor is
he likely to attract attention as a far-seeing
statesman. It is probable that he will drop
out of sight ufter the correspondents have
taken a few views of him. But it must be
said in his behalf that in tbe sjieecli be made
when he was elected senator ho showed good
sense in what he said on the race question.
It cannot be asserted, therefore, that he is
wholly without qualifications as a legis
lator.
Peru is apparently taking a lively in
terest iu tbe disastrous internecine struggle
in Chile, and watching the slaughter of the
rival forces with all the intent absorption
of one who contemplates taking a band and
whipping both sides as soon as they have
suffl.'iently decimated one another’s forces.
By that means she might be able to reclaim
tbe territory lost in the last struggle tbe
two countries had together. Offering a
premium to troops that do not engage
against tbe government is a uovelty in
revolutionary warfare which Chile has in
troduced.
Detroit likes reciprocity aud doesn’t mind
saying so in very plaia language. But then
Detroit is located directly opposite Wind
sor and has been engaged in a little discreet
trading with the Canadians across the river
on the reciprocity plan for lo! these many
years. That accounts for Detroit’s prompt
and unqualified indorsement of the
scheme.
Politics has reached a merry simmer In
Colorado when legislators begin to exchange
such cordial oompliments as “liar” and
“blackguard.” Before tbe legislature is
fully organized somebody may feel im
pelled to say something really offensive if
this sort of conversation continues.
THE MORNING NEWS: WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 11,1891.
1 be f unday Ordinance.
The Sunday ordinance ahould be amended
so as to apply only to places where intoxi
cating liquors are sold. Tbe ordinance, to
amended, would meet with popular ap
proval There are few, if any, who want
the barber shops closed and the sale of
cigars and newspapers prohibited.
The council understands very well what
[ public sentiment demands. Toe tale of in
toxicating liquors on Sunday is the source
of a number of evils, and tbe people want
the sale stopped. They have been asking to
have it stopped for years.
There are thousands of men idle on Sun
day, and the temptation which open bar
rooms hold out is stronger than many of
them can withstand. When the bars are
open oj Sundays there are more drunken
men on the streets on these days than other
days. And much of the money cf working
men, which ought to go to their familiia,
u wasted.
Tnere is no city in the country except this
in which a stranger stopping at a hotel can
not get a cigar or have his face shaved, and
strangers will not care to stop hers over
Sunday if they cannot have the ordinary
comforts of Ufa
In about all cities of tbe country bar
rooms are closed on Sundays, and the peo
ple of this city want them closed. Tne city
council as the authority to regulate tbe
liquor traffic, and it should regulate it just
as public sentiment wants it regulated.
There are those, doubtless, who are de
manding that livery stables, barber s :ops,
nows stands, cigar stands and soda foun
tains shall be closed on Sundays, not be
cause they have any objection to their being
open, but in order to create a sentiment
that will tolerate open barroom*. Council
will make a mistake if it permits itself to be
influenced by any such demand. It should
legislate on tbe line that is for the best in
terest of the people and of the city.
What is wanted is that the barrooms
shall be closed on Sundays, and that is all
that is wanted. When they are closed
Savannah will be in line with other cities.
If anything more is attempted it will be a
step backward and will defeat the very
object the mayor has in view, viz., the free
ug of the city from drunkenness, and crimes
of which whisky is the caus>, on Sundays,
and the securing of quiet Sabbaths.
A Sujgestion for Farmers.
There are reasons for thinking that the
shipment of cotton through the ports in
stead of to the ports tends to keep down tbe
price of cotton.
One reason for thinking so is that cotton
shipped abroad from tbe interior is not
always properly clussed, and often does not
come up to the sample. The consequence
is that there is dissatisfaction among the
buyers in iiurtpe, and they are not disposed
to be as liberal in their otters as they would
be if they were always sure of getting just
what they bargained for.
Another reason is that there is little or no
competition among buyers in the interior.
A farmer who has a few bales of cotton
niue timee out of ten accepts for his cotton
just what the nearest storekeeper offers
him. And the storekeeper is certain to
otter a price that leaves him a pretty good
margin for profit. At the ports there is the
keenest competition among the buyers, and
there are a great many buyers. The very
best prices, therefore, are obtained.
The Agricultural Society ought to ap
point a committee to devise a plan for hav
ing all the cotton sold at tbe ports. It
could be sold at the ports, probably, at a
comparatively small cost. There are ob
stacles, of course, in the way of putting
this suggestion into practice, but could
they not be overoome?
The farmers’ alliance is talking about
sending cotton diiect to Europo and selling
it there, thus avoiding the middlemen in
this country. If they were to do anything
of that kind they would soon find, probably,
that they had made a great mistake. But
it may be that they could not be convinced
except by experience that such a disposition
of their cotton would be a mistake. Asa
matter of fact, however, the farmers who
have sold their cotton at the ports this year
have realised much more for it than they
would bad they ghlppod it to agents ia Eng
land to be sold.
This suggestion about tbe selling of all
cotton at the ports is not made in the inter
est of the ports. If the farmers will study
it carefully they will see that it isn’t. They
will see that it is made in their interests.
And it is well worth their attention.
According to the director of the Phila
delphia mint the silver product of the en -
tire world for the year 1890 was 8,8*0,839
kilos, worth at the United States coinage
rate $161,389,938. Further, he says that
“the great bulk of the precious metals is
absorbed by Asia, and that now India is
taking a quantity of silver equal to the
United States product,* from which he
draws tbe conclusion that “while this is the
case there is no possibility whatever of a
dump of silver on this people beyond their
absolute needs for ooinage and the arts.”
Yet there are very few people who would
be apt to dodge a small load of it if it
should come.
How that erratic and intangible Un-plate
enthusiast expects to prove anything by con
tinually sending around elaborately labeled
specimens of the article, that may have been
made at Cleveland or Cardiff, is beyond
ordinary comprehension. Neither bom
bastic boasts nor prophecies prove anything
whatever. Why doesn’t this migratory
theorist reveal himself and start a mill
somewhere if he wants to verify his asser
tions? Just now he is doing his predict!ug
from an unknown address In New York
city. Much vagaries are suggestive of a
crank.
Failure to pass the force bill is said to
have disgusted the venerable Mr. H ar so
thoroughly that he thinks of abandoning
political life and retiring to the classic
shades of the Hub, wbeie his accumulated
wisdom will probably be more appreciated.
Very likely he also discovers obstacles in
the way of his re-election. Massachusetts
has thrown off much of the old hide-boned
republicanism aud became more progressive
of late.
Whatever the opinion Dsn. Miles might
have held of Mrs. Jefferson Davis’ writ
ings, he should have criticised her ex
pressions and statements In, at least,
civil language, if at aIL On the contrary,
if his utteranoes have been correctly re
ported, they were oertalnly not such as any
man should apply to a woman under any
circumstances.
Mining accidents continue to keep quite
a high average of people maimed, disfig
ured and killed. Mining operations could
stand the introduction of caution in large
quantities and be greatly benefited thereby.
That is just what appeals to be cblefiy
lacking.
PERSONAL.
Robert Boxwsa tas ninety-three horse*.
Friends of Senator Aldrich say he will leave
the Senate solely became ne is too poor to stay
there.
Bishop Lucies Halsct. one of the most elo
quent negro orators la Geergi*. was at one
time a slave on tbe plaatation of Richard M
Johnson, the author.
Pasteur is a small, selidly-built man.very pale
and rather sickly in app-arance. He limps
whenhenaiks. His face shows in every linea
ment a high order of intellect.
Private Secretary wife is in bet
ter health than when she first went to Georgia,
and ta now to be with her daughter, who is
studying music in Atlanta awhile.
As Cou iKoeneoLL is to lecture on Shakes
peare in Minneapolis soon an attempt will
be made to arrange for a public m-e:; ng
and discussion between him and Ignatius
Donnelly.
Leinster rouse the handsome mansion with
the 8100,000 staircase on Carlton House terrace,
in Tendon, and the future residence of Mrs.
J hn W. Vackay, was a b.rthday gift to her
from her busoand.
Mrs. Frances Hodoson Burnett is said to
have tried the “mind curs ' in Boston with
happy r-sulis, although MK Alcott, who also
experimented with tnat treatment, received no
appreciate benefit from it.
Tbe late Kino Kalakaca had more than a fair
knowledge of Greek and Latin, and also had a
speaking ncquaintanee with four modem lan
guages. He knew enougn Hebrew to read the
ongiual text of the old Testament.
The enmity eEiating between Gilbert and Sul
livan has grown more and more bitter with the
lapse of time on the part of the hot-tempered
Scotch member of the once famous firm of col
laioraters. Mr. Gilbert has always been quar
rels .me and has had throe rows wbicu have at
tract! and newspaper attention in London within
as many mouths.
Mr. VVindom, like Gen. Grant and Secretary
Manning, was a great smoker of cigars, and his
excessive use of tobacco is supposed to have
agg avated nis heart trouble. lie was disin
clined to take any physical exercise and disliked
walking. Even in going tbe short distance from
the treasury builling to the white house he was
accustomed to take a carriage.
Waro McAllister’s overcoat has become as
well known to New Yorkers as Seward's statue.
Mr. McAllister, who has many odd fancies and
prejudices, las twined his pure affections fast
ana firm around this particular garment. It is
a brown overcoat witn a velvet collar, and it
must be admitted that it has rather a rusty
look.
Mrs. John W. Mackay’s house-warming in
her New London residence was one of the most
brilliant events of the XVesi End season. Min
ister Lincoln, a crowd of distinguished diplo
mats anil a big slice of Drbrett aud Burke were
in attendance, admiring the magnificent man
sion and its appoiulments, discussing society
scandals and sipping tea whicn had cost $l2O a
pound.
John H. Littlefield, who recently lectured
in Concord, N. H., on “Personal Recollections
of Abraham Lincoln.’’ was told before he be
gan his lecture there not to expect much ap
plause. as a Concord audience was proverbially
undemonstrative; but during the lecture the
au nence cheered so uproariously at Linen n s
stories and hits at Douglas in the great debates
of lbtB that the chairman afterward said that
he never saw anything like it. Tue people never
seem to tire of hearing about the great war
President.
BRIGHT BUB.
Discourage the grumbler, but do not sit
down on the porcupine.—/lufla* .Veits.
Webb—Don’t you think Pitch is very funny?
Callowby—Yes, but I like Punch much better.
Webb—Well, you have rum tastes.
If the Vice President of the United States is
nothing more than a figurehead, he should be
employed to take the census of the country.—
-Vit> Or leant Picayune.
Husband (during a spati—You had better
shut your mouth; the fool killer is around.
Wife—l don’t care: you’ve got your life In
tured.—Men's Outfitter.
She (piqued)—l-don’t know exactly what to
make of you, Mr. Bland 1
He (eager to Buggost)—Er—why not try a hus
band?— American, Orocer.
A lawyer of California has just received $95 ,
000 for five years’ work on one case. The client
is not mentioned, probably because he is not in
It.— Memphis Commercial.
Somehow a handsome diamond never looks
quite so dee cable to a woman at any other time
as it does when she sees it in another woman's
ring.— Somerville Journal.
“Vast strides have been made in the improve
ment of gowns,” says the editor of a fashion
paper They must have been made in the
bifurcated skirts.—Boston Herald.
Strict honesty must rule to-day,
Tne public will no more be flouted
By wily rogues who used to say:
“What are you going to do about it?’’
—New York Press.
Broke, broke, broke 1
As broke as a man can be;
And the merry chink of the dimes that are
spent
Will never come back to me.
—Buffalo Express.
“Why won’t you take Flickeles as partner?”
“My dear fellow, Flickeles was engaged to my
wife before I married her. And would you bave
me take for partner a man who is cleverer than
I?’’— Fliegende Blatter.
Young America—Papa, is mamma a jeweler?
Fond Father—No, my son. Why do you ask?
Young America—’Cause when I took sister's
candy she gave me a box with more earrings
than I wanted.— Jewelers' Weekly.
Lecturer—The successive campaigns of the
Romans into Gaul form, perhups, the only rec
ord of a series of successful failures in bis
Auditor (interrupting)—What’s the matter
with the Deiaware peach crop?— Drake's Maga
zine.
De Jones -What fetid smell is this that per
meates the erstwhile balmy air. and causeth the
weary mind to moan in sadness? Is it not ter
rible?
De Bones—Yes; it is simply offal .—Brooklyn
Eagle.
Friend—You must be making money now, if
you bave discarded the pipe und taken up
cigars. Do you get three of those for a quarter?
Struggling Author—Let’s see; three for a
quarter would be a dozen a year. Yes, that's
just about what I get.— Detroit Eree Press.
“If your appearance is any indication, I
think 1 may be justified in assuming that you
are opposed to washing,” ventured Mr. Hungry
Higgins' hostess.
“Washin',’’ answered Mr. Higgins, after a
moment of mental abstraction, during which
he absently tried to blow the foam off nis cup
of cold coffee, “washin’ ma'am, is a mighty
good thing to support a family on, but it seems
to sorter sour a woman's temper. In fact.tbat’s
how I come to go on the road.’’— lndianapolis
Journal.
Sir Bovle Roche, the eminent “bullist,” has
a descendant at Lake Luzerne. New York, if
one inky judge from his conversation. One of
bis patrons (the individual is a boatman) at the
close of last season called for his account.
“ ’F.re it is, sir,” said the original, "sl2 and 10
cents."
“Phew!” whistled the debtor. “I’ll hare to
run up to the hotel and borrow the money to
pay you."
“Oh, don’t trouble to do that, sir," replied the
boatman, “I can lend you the money."—Har
per's Magazine.
CURRENT COMMENT.
Letting Him Down Gently.
From the Philadelphia Press (Reo ).
Senator Ingalls’ friends seem to have designs
on his life. They are giving him lunches and
dinners at the rate of three a day.
He Couldn’t ftand It Three Rounds.
From the Chicago Inter Ckyean {Rep.).
If the Rsv. Sam Jonas will take turns with
about a dozen parties that could be named, and
•rtake gate money," he could retire in a year
with a fortune.
Look Out for the Wizard.
From the New York Press ( Rep.).
Jay Gould is more talkative in tbe south than
when at home in the north, whioh, according
to Wall street rlstoa, implies that the silent
speculator has some deep laid scheme afoot.
An Englishman who had been Invited to dine
at a certain German count had the misfortune
to upset a glass a wine on the table. “Is that
tbe custom in England!” inquired a princelinr.
Not in the least abashed, the Englishman an
swered: “Not exact y; but when It does happen
nobody makes a fuss about it.”
To purify
Your blood
Take Hood's Sarsaparilla. —Ad.
She Wasn't to be Fooled.
There wag something decidedly belligerent In
her appearance as she approached the money
order window at the postofflce just before
closing time the other day, says the Chicago
Mail, and sharply said: “Do you remember
me?”
"So, madam, I can’t say that I do,” replied
the cleric.
"You don't, eh?” continued the visitor.
“Well, I'm not at all surprised at that. I didn't
suppose you would admit that you had ever
seen me before. But I remember you, just the
same, and perhaps that will do just as well.
There is no mistake about it—l know you; you
are the fellow lam after. I'd know you any
where.”
"I don't understand you, madam, I assure
you. What can Ido for you?”
•'Do' Do: Why, pay me back my money! I
don't care to make any unnecessary trouble for
you, but I don’t propose to be robbed in this,
that’s all.”
"Pray calm yourself, madam. Now, then,
what is it? Something about money ?”
"Have you the brazen Impudence to stand
there and tell me that you didn't set It?”
"Perhaps—l don't know. I receive a great
deal of money here sometimes. What are you
talking about?"’
“You know very well what I am talking
about. I'U admit that the amount isn't very
large, but it is plenty large enough, and I'm
going to have it, too. It's the principle I care
for more than the money itself.”
“Tnat’s right. How much was it?”
“Don’t try that dodge, young man You
know the amount well enough. I paid it to you
myse;f. But you never sent it—you just pock
eted it. It is of no use to deny it I can prove
it and 1 want tnat money back or there will be
trouble.”
“Aha! I see. You paid me some money.
Wren was it and how mucn was it?”
“I came here a week before Christmas and
pa 1 you $lO to be sent to my sister in Rocgford.
. h tnd>d the money to you right here, and you
kn >w it.”
"Well?’
“Well: she hasn't received the money. You
never sent it. You tried to keep It. But I was
smart enough to keep the receipt you gave me,
and I've got it yet; so I don't propose to be
swindled, and don’t you forget it!”
• H’ra: Yea You must have been very thought
ful. Sol really gave you a receipt, did I? I
must have forgotten it. Just look at the date
of that receipt, will you, please?”
From the mysterious depths of her pocket
the woman flsaed up a crinkled and folded
paper, which proved to be a money order pay
able at the Rockford postoffice. The purchaser
had mistaken it for a receipt for the money
which she paid the clerk.
The nature and value of the “receipt" were
fully explained, and as its possessor left t e
building she bestowed upon tna clprk a glare
which was so chilly that it completely covered
the money-order window with frost.
He Was Smith of Pottsville.
I had been dropped off the train at a small
station in Nebraska, says a Kansas City Star
writer, and the train had been gone about ten
minutes when a young man rode up and called
out to the landlord, who was also station agent
a nd telegraph operator.
"Has the train passed?"
“SDe has,” was the reply.
“Did you get a telegram from me to hold her
here till I came?”
“One from Smith from Pottsville. That you?”
•Yes.’
“I showed it to the conductor, and he said
you must be fresh to think he couid fool around
here.”
“Said that, did he? Saw it was signed Smith,
eh?”
“Yes."
“Went right on just the same?”
“Yes."
“Didn’t even ask what Smith?”
“No.”
“Didn't express any anxiety, eh?"
“Not the least ”
“Well, good by.”
“Hold oa a bit. What's up?”
“Oh. nothing much. My name is Smith of
Pottsville. I was going to marry the conduct
or's daughter this evening. Had to catch tnis
train to get down there, you know.”
“And there is no other until after mid
night!"
'That's all right. The supper will be spread,
the guests on hand, the poacher there, the
bride roady, and I’ll ride back home and get off
these togs and get drunk on hard cider."
“But, man, I ”
“Oh, it's all right. When the conductor
comes up in the morning just ask him if be
knows Smith of Pottsville, and how the wedding
went off last night. Ta ta, old chan, and you
needn't mind any wild eyed telegrams which
come whooping up the line asking for my
whereabouts.”
Her Presence of Mind.
It was 11 o’clock at night, and I was going to
my room in a Florida hotel, when a woman
came out of her room, fully dressed, and
asked:
“Do you belong to the hotel?”
“No, ma’am.”
“Are there many people here to-night?”
“It is crowded.”
“And it won’t do to start a panic. Let me say
quietly to you that the hotel is’on fire I have
known it for ten minutes, but aid not want to
create an excitement."
"Are you sure, ma’am?” I asked.
“Entirely sure, sir. I smelled the smoke
while in bed. You go quietly down and cell
the clerk, and j will kneck on all the doors on
this floor.”
She was wonderfully cool and collected, and
I never thought of doubting her assertion.
Going down by the stairway I beckoned the
clerk aside and told him of the Are. He went
to the elevator with me and ascended to the
third floor, where we found about twenty half
dressed people in the halls. The woman who
had given me orders came up and said:
“Come this way; I don’t think the fire has
much of a start yet.”
We followed her to her room and began to
sniff and snuff. There was certainly a strong
odor of something burning, says the Detroit
Free Press, but the clerk had taken only one
sniff when he went out and rapped on the next
door.
"Hello!”
“Are you smoking?"
“Yes."
“Smoking Florida tobacco?"
“Yes; wnat of it?"
“Nothing. Ma'am, you can go back to bed.
Much obliged to you for your sagacity and wit.
but both were a little too keen this time. The
stiugy old cuss m that room is smokiug swamp
tobacco, and it always smells like a fire eating
its way under a pine floor.”
No Divorce Wanted.
A well-known St. Louis lawyer,- says the
Republic, was called on one day during the past
week by a lady whose name is not unfamiliar
to the readers of the society columns of the
newspapers, and consulted on the subject of
divorce She was not quite clear in her own
mind as to whether she wante i a divorce or
not, and, even after she had been told just
what steps were necessary In the ordinary case,
she seemed to be in a puzzled frame of mind.
With a delicacy characteristic of limbs of the
law whose practice takes them into the divorce
courts, the legal light undertook to find out
what it was she was holding back, and finally
said to her:
“You will have to tell me all the facts If you
want me to take your case. I cannot proceed
lu the dark, aud I can plainly see something
is on your mind that you have not yet told
me.”
“Yes, there is,” she said; “and, in fact, lam
not a ire that X want you to take mv c: Bi. or, in
fact, that 1 will have a case. You see, my
case, if I apply for a divorce, will be just twice
ns bad as tbe ordinary case, for the very simpie
reason that Henry and I were married twice;
once privately, and with oDly the necessary
witnesses, aud the second time four mouths
afterward, in a church and with a big recep
tion; and of course there will have to be two
divorces in order to set me entirely free.”
The lawyer laughed. In fact, he laughed so
long and so heartily that the lady got mad and
flounced out of the office, vowing she would not
have a divorce; that sfye would rather light it
out with her twice married husband than be
laughed at by a lawyer.
An Audience Told to Go.
The damage done to the new theater at
Englewood by the recent fire is much regretted
by tbe people of that suburb, says the Chicago
Herald.
During the short Ume the house was open
quite a number of flne entertainments were
enjoyed. Rather an unusual and in some re
spects amusing incident occurred in connection
with one of them—he performance of “Essex”
by Janauschek and her company.
Wnether the play ends in a seemingly un
finished manner or was out because of the
small, stormy nignt aud.ence in attendance was
not known.
Anyhow, at the end of an act, which a small
number ol the audience th ught was the end of
the play, those *h prepared to go were told
by many others to sit down. They sat down
The orchestra played as it hsd between the
other acts, and everybody wanted to see the
ending of the play. They waited fifteen or
twenty minute*. Then one of the stage roust
abouts stuck bis head out of the side of the
drop-curtain and shouted:
“Do snow's out. Why don't you go home’*'
And aa audience that could have been bought
below par went home.
ITEMS Off INTEBBST.
The Island of Juan Fxrxandtz, once in
habited by Robinson Crusoe, is now tenanted by
a former Austrian officer, Baron von Redth,
who. after being forced by tbe terrible wounds
which he received at ihe battle of Sadowa in
1386 to leave the army, grew tired of the
monotony of existence in civilized Europe, and
determined to devote his fortune to a life of ad
venture. For fifteen rears past he has been
living on the Island of Juan Fernandes with a
small colony of 'natives and of European de
serters from civilization, and only communi
cating with the world once a year, when he
sends his fin-sailing yacht to Valparaiso for
provisions and supplies.
Ir you drop a niceel with a string attached,
keeping the end of the string in your band,
have you really dropped the coin? An lowa
judge has decided in the affirmative. An in
genious youth in that state tied a thread to a
nickel, dropped the nickel In a slot machine,
got wbat he wanted, then, withdrawing the
nickel by tbe thread, repeated the operation
until he had made a clean sweep of the recepta
cle’s contents. He was arrested on the charge
of theft, but the judge who tried him held that
he had committed neither burglary, larceny,
nor robbery, nor even obtained property under
false pretenses. He had merely done what the
inscription on the machine told him to do—drop
a nickel in the slot—and had kept on doing it.
Nothing was said about leaving the coin where
it was dropped. This decision will probably
abate a nuisance.
Many visitors to Paris have lately been re
marking on the rows of sealing wax of all hues
and shades, many being novel colors, which are
exposed in the windows of tne fashionable sta
tioners shops. It now appears that a meaning
is attached to each of these colors, which is as
eloquent in Us silence as the language of flow
ers. In this new language white means a pro
posal of marriage; black, death, and violet, con
dolence. Chocolate is us and for invitations to
dinner; Vermillion for business comraunicst ons,
while ruby, suggestive of coral lips aud bleed
ing hearts, is used to seal the missives little Don
Cupid inspires. Green is typical of hope for ob
vious reasons; brown, of melancholy; blue, of
constancy, and yellow of jealousy. Pale green
is the color selected for notes containing a re
proof; pink is affected by young ladies when
writing to each other, and gray is used for let
ters to friends who have passed the age when
pink would be appropriate.
During surgical operations it is often neces
sary to use a red-hot metal point to arrest
hemorrhage, and for this purpose an apparatus
is employed consisting of a hollow piaatinum
tube, through which a current of air and hydro
carbon vapor passes. The plantinum point is
first nested in a spirit lamp, and the vapor cir
culating in the center of the tube keeps it at
any desired heat, depending on the quantity
of vapor used. A modified device,
based upon the same principle,
has been introduced for engraving purposes.
In this apparatus the tracing-tool may be
changed to suit the character of work to be
done. For industrial decoration and orna
mentation on a large scale this method
of engraving, to which the name
of pyrogravure ha 9 been given, offers an ad
mirable and practical means of utilizing the
talent of the artist and the cleverness of the
workman.
“There was a northern farmers’ allianeeman
who went to Kansas to interfere behalf of Ingalls
who had a flea put in his ear which he thought
was as big as an elephant," says the New York
Press "His name is John Livingstone, and he
is president of the New York Farmers' Alliance.
He was in Topeka for two days trying to get
the aiiiancemea to vote for Ingalls. At first he
was taken into the inner councils as a brother.
Then he got the cold shoulder; then he was told
that it was not wise for him to stay in town,
and finally he got such warning about the pos
sitiilitv of violence being done him that he left
the city secretly, taking a night train, after an
nouncln - that he intended leaving at a different
hour. Would they have injured him? No.
They played a big game of bluff and scared him
out. He was as safe from barm In Topeka as
at home. The character of the members of the
legislature, I am bound to say, is much higher
on the average since the alliance came into con
trol of it.”
The astounding result which American en
terprise may bring from even such beginnings
as a "10-cent show” is illustrated, says the New
York World, by the case of a Buffalo and
Toronto promoter of popular amusements who
was in New York yesterday. This man's name
Is M. S. Robinson and he has actually, within
five years, starting with a capital of $5,000,
realized from that species of American enter
tainments which he calls the “musee-theater”
what some of his business rivals say can't be
much less than half a million. How? He
says it is possible for the cheapest to be
the best, and that he has succeeded in
getting the solid citizens of Buffalo aud Toronto
to go to his m usees with their w ives and
daughters by absolutely refusing to permit the
slightest coarseness of costume, song or action
in his houses. ‘ Then, too, I’ve made them
worth seeing for their own sake*; even were
th-re nothing but the decorations to see, a
musea on which I have spent nearly $90,000, a3
at Buffalo, will of itself draw crowds of the
curious. lam going to establish a circuit of
such houses, aud by and hy, when I am worth a
million, I am coining to New York to live, as all
good Americans do, and double or lose my mil
lion here.”
A man who made a fortune as a magician in
this country, and who is now making a fortune
in another line of professional endeavor, said
Thursday to the New Y T ork World that one of
the greatest difficulties he found in doing his
tricks was the securing of intelligent confeder
ates in the audience. Conjurers usually leave
the hiring of such people to their assistants
But he saw the confederates himself in each
oase and instructed them faithfully as to their
duties and how they were to perform them.
The difficulty that confederates have to over
come is tbe tendency to be too prompt in their
offers of assistance and in their proffers of
articles to loan. Very tew confeder
ates, again, are able to simulate
surprise naturally. There was another danger
to be overcome in the matter of confederates,
and that was thj danger of their becoming In
toxicated between tbe time they were employed
and the time they were called upon to perform.
In this condition they are apt to forget their
promise not to give anything awav, and become
instruments in the hands of practical jokers to
procure the discomfiture and embarrassment of
tbe magiciau on the stage. In one mstanoe a
young man. who was carefully arranged so that
the dexterous conjurer could pull two live rabbits
from inside his vest, was got hold of by the
humorist of tne theatrical establishment where
the magician was performing and two dead cats
were substituted for tbe two live rabbits, and
when the inside of the young man's vest was
called upon to give up the magician was just as
much surprised at tbe result as the audience
was. In another case a young girl who disap
peared from the stage during the course of one
of the tricks, and who was supposed to appear
at the back of the house at a given signal, was
arrested outside by a policeman when she was
making her way from the stage door to the
front of the house, and the conjurer, after wait
ing for her several minutes, was obliged to ring
down the curtain.
The tragedies in the official family of Presi
dent Harrison, says the Sun, great though they
are, are matched by those in the cabinet of
President Tyler fifty years ago. That adminis
tration began with a tragedy, for the death of
the aged Gen. Harrison, though occurring from
natural causes, cannot be couuted, in view of all
the circumstances, as angat but tragic. In
December of the next year, 1842, occurred the
tragedy of the United States ship Somers—the
mutiny, tbe trial by court-martial and the exe
cution of three sailors, one of whom was the son
of tbe actual Secretary of War. In
June, I M3, the President, with soiao of
his cabinet, journeyed to Bostou to at
tend the ceremonies of the dedication of
Bunker Hill monument; and there Hugh
Legare, Secretary of the State, was strickeu
with a mortal disease and died. But the trage
dies of the administration had act reached their
climax. On Feb. 28, 1844, at the invitation of
Commodore Stockton, the President, wit a his
fiancee. Miss Gardiner, her father, and with the
members of bis cabinet and nearly 100 other
persons of high official rank, emoarkvd on
Caph Ericsson s screw steamer Princeton be
longing to the navy, to inspect the new ma
chinery and to watch the firing of the two
great guns which the vessel mounted. On the
trip down the guns were fired twice On the
homeward trip, above Mount Vernon, prepara
tions were made to fire a third shot. Around
the gun stood nearly all the principal men who
carried on the government of tbe United
States. The gun was fired, and burst, killing
eight nersons, wounding nearly a score The
President had been called aside the instant the
gun was fired, but Secretary of State Upshur
and Thomas Gilmer. Secretary of the Navy
were killed, as well as Mr. Gardiner, Commce
dore Kenuon, Mr. Virgil Maxey, two sailors and
the P esidenfs servant Mr. Gilmer had been
Secretary of tbe Navy for only ten days, and
had taken the post much against bis own incli
nations. Thomas H .Benton was one of tbe
party whosega.vety was so terribly stilled; but
though th* President's servant, who stood at
his left, was killed, he himself was unhurt ex
cept for the breaking of his left ear drum. ’
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