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Newspaper Page Text4 Soiling N• wi Building, SnnM>, u. WEDNESDAY, FKB. 18, 1891. lUgistered at the Potto flee in Savannah The Mon-vino News u published every day In the year and i* served to subscriber* ia the city at 25 cents a wees. $1 00 a month, $5 00 tor Mx months and $lO 00 for one year. The Morning News, by nail, one month, $1 00; three months, $2 SO; six months. $3 00; one year, $lO 00. The Morning News, by mail . six times i week (without Sunday issue', three months, $2 00; six months, $4 (X 1: one year, $8 00. The Morning News. Tri V. eakly. Mondays, Wednesdays and Fri.lays, or Tuesday a Thurs days and 'Saturdays, three months, $1 25; six months. $2 50; one year, $S 00. The Sunday News, by mail, one year. $2 00. The WsutT News, by mail, one year. $1 25. Subscriptions payable ia advance. Remit by postal order. cheeX or registered letter. Cur rency sent by mail at risk of senders. Letters and teleirrame should be addressed ‘'Morning News.” Savannah, Ga. Transient advertisements, other than special column, local or reading notices, amuse ments and cheap or want column. 10 cents a line. Fourteen lines of agate type-equal to one inch space in depth—is the standard of measurement. Contract rates and discounts made known on application at business office. “ out NEW YORK OFFICE. Mb- J. J. Flynn, General Advertising Agent fg the Morning News, office 23 Park Bow, Mew Tort. All advertising business outside of fee states of Georgia, Florida and South Caro lina will be managed by him. The Morning News is on flle at the following places, where Advertising Rates and other in formation regarding the paper can be obtained: NEW YORK CITY— J. H. Bates, 88 Park Row. Q. P. Rowell & Cos., 10 Spruce street. W. W. Shahp * Cc ,21 Park Row. Frank Kiernan A Cos., 152 Broadway. Batchy A Cos., 87 Park Place. J. W. Thompson, 89 Park Row. American Newspaper Publishers' Association, Potter Building. PHILADELPHIA— N. W. Ayer A Son, Times Building. BOSTON— 8. R. Niles, 258 Washington street. Mttenoill A Cos., 10 State street, CHICAGO— Lord A Thomas, 45 Randolph street. CINCINNATI — Kdwim Alden Company, 66 West Fourth street NEW H AVKN— The H. P. Hubbard Company. 25 Elm street ST LOUIS - Nelson Chesman A Cos., 1127 Pine street ATLANTA- Morning News Bureau, 8H Whitehall street MACON- Daily Telegraph Optics, 597 Mulb erry street WDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS Mewting—Georgia Chapter No. 8, R. A. M. Special Notices- -Notice, Dean A Branson; Residence. W. K. Wilkinson; Notice as to Com pulaory Vaccination; As to Crew of British Steamship Uplands; Hsve you Seen That Ele gant Display of Silver Plated Ware! C. H. Dorset!, Auctioneer; A Real Treat for the Patrons of Faust Boer; Mendelssohn Quintette Club Concert To-night at Masonic Temple. Sauce— The original and Genuine Lea A Perrins' Sauce. Legal Notices—Application for Increaae of Capital Stock of Savannah Inveatment Com pany. Steamship Schedule— Ocean Steamship Com pany. Cheap Column Advertisements— Help Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Rant; For Bale: Lost; Found; Personal: Miscellaneous. Whenever Bismarck or Kaiser William are not out-shining one another, they are figuratively among each other’s hair. It is their favorite diversion. Finally the treasury portfolio has fallen upon Foster of Ohio in popular report. But as no formal appointment has been made It may yet change several times within the remaining twenty-four hours allotted for the appointment. Tidalwave Gov. Russell of Massachu setts gives to Cleveland generous praise for bis letter on the silver question, and heartily oommends its tone and purport. That may serve as a fair offset for the antagonists Views of Gov. HilL a Anguish such as greeted the remains of the dead King of Hawaii was no slight to the firm hold the deceased monarch had upon the hearts of his people. Whatever his faults and foibles such a man has clearly not lived altogether in vain. Religious fervor and denominational zeal have wrought up the people of Dubois to such a pitch of excitement that the whole region of I’ennsylvania thereabout is more or lass involved. Yet religion is pop ularly supposed to be productive of peace. Not only did the alleged cheating at cards in London get the fat Prince of Wales into a tremor of apprehension, but it is said to have finally separated the ac cused baronet from the American heiress to whom he was engaged. Still he insists Chat he didn’t cheat. Friends of Secretary Gibson of the whisky trust say that he has not run away and never did so nor intended to escape. When ever he is wanted in oourt, they say he will come forward. Nevertheless he is not plainly visible, and evidently fears the con sequences of that “chemical experiment” that be says he intended to try. Speculation upon that “Cherokeo strip” is being conducted upon a very progressive basis. Selling land before one gets possession Of it, as the Cherokee Land Company has been doing, is certainly a breezily ex peditious way of conducting business. It denotes a sublime confidence in success that precludes the possibility of failure. One of the most touching incidents of the death of Admiral Porter was his request that representatives of both sides in the late civil war should in equal numbers stand at his bier and bear the pall. To die with such words of amity and peace upon his Ups evinces a loftier order of patriotism than many of the greatest men of the pres ent day have ever manifested. Public sentiment overrules the law when a prisoner is convicted and 6imply fined 1 cent for killing another man. But when the deed was provoked by the unbearable irritation of having the victim flagrantly vilify the mother of the accused, as in the recent Louisville case, the virtual verdict of justifiable homicide appears to be not far from right. Abuse of that character is really beyond human eodurance. Laying eggs by machinery is the latest cute contrivance attributed to a Kansas genius, who threatens to produce them by the ton. Mill-turned scrambled eggs may soon be had at a nominal cost. Buch an industry would also furnish profitable em ployment for many people who have a talent for raw eggs. But It will doubtless be a stunning surprise to the hens. Like Othello they’ll find their occupation gone. It's enough to discourage the cueeriest sort of a hen. Two Different Kind of Men. Before Mr. Cleveland’s letter against the free silver coinage bill was published the republicans and Mr. Cleveland's enemies in bis own party ware constantly asserting that he did not dare to state bis views on the silver question, notwithstanding there was no evidence to justify any assumption that his views on that question had under gone a change. They thought that, having every prospect of being the next candidate of bts party for President, he would regard it as potitle to remain silent with respect to a question upon which his party was divided. They were greatly surprised, there fore. by his letter, and while they were com pelled to admire his frankness and courage they asserted with great p-aitiveness that he had destroyed his chances for the presi dential nomination of his party. But the tame man who wrote the letter which drew from Mr. Cleveland an answer placing him on the side of those opposed to free silver coinage also wrote at the same time a similar letter to Gov. Hill. Both letters were Invitations to an anti-free sli ver meeting. Gov. Bill did not answer the letter sent to him. He will hardly dare to say that he did not receive it. Why did he not answer it? Was it because he was afraid to antago nise the democrats of the eau! He certainly did not show as much courage as Mr. Cleveland. Gov. Hill’s friends will say, perhaps, that his views on silver are well known, and therefore there was no reason why be should have expressed them again in answer to an invitation to an auti-free silver meeting. But so were Mr. Cleveland’s. He had said that he was opposed to free silver coinage unless the commercial countries of Europe would agree to It. There was no more rea son, therefore, why he, more than Gov. Hill, should have restated his views. But Mr. Cleveland Is not the same kind of a man that Gov. Hill is. He is willing that the people shall know whore he stands upon any public question. He doesn’t want them to rest under any any misunderstand ing with regard to his opinion upon publio matters. And his honesty and straightfor ward way of dealing with the people is what makes him popular. The people like an honeet man—a man who has the courage to say what he thinks and to do what he be lie vee to be right, regardless of consequences to himself. If Gov. Hill were such a man his admirers would have a better reason for thinking of him in connection with the preeidency. Commerce Appears to Grow Corrupt. Day after day the telegraph is bringing more details of the alleged conspiracy of Secretary Gibson of the Chicago whisky trust to destrogr the Shufeldt distillery by means of powerful explosives and with the connivance, as be apparently supposed, of a government agent, who was merely acting n pert under instructions. Had his purpose sucoeeded more than 150 lives would have been sacrificed, to say nothing of the valu able property destroyed. When Secretary Gibson was arrested a suspicious-looking bottle full of light bluish fluid was disclosed. So securely was the cork wired and sewed in that it was drawn with no little difficulty. Only one single drop of it tried upon a piece of paper is said to have produced a flash of flame and sulphuric fumos that filled the room and oould be quenohed only after it had been drenched with a bucket of water. Thereafter everything that came in contact with the liquid was in stantly Inflamed, so that the bottle was finally ssaled up with the greatest difficulty. This shows the deadly danger of the stuff. Fapers in the possession of Mr. Gibson are said to definitely fix upon him the purpose of destroying the rival distillery. Aside from that, what possible use oould a reputa ble business man have for any such danger ous explosive? Wers this merely an isolated Instance of overiealous and unscrupulous business op position it would really not be worth refer ring to. But it isn’t. Unfortunately simi lar eases of recklessly malignant envy are ooming to be heard of altogether too often in the great business centers. Commerce appears to be drifting into a tendency to cheat and take unfair advantages much too rapidly of late. How a man so prosperous os the accused In this case can bring himself to enter upon such a dishonest enterprise of inhuman cruelty is past comprehension. No penniless and desperate thug could have done worse if he tried. Before It goes too far a wholesome chock should be put upon this developing tendenoy to unscrupulous methods in competition for trade. Close observers of politics seem to think that Speaker Reed’s arbitrary course in the chair of the House has wholly destroyed his future as a political faotor, and permanently consigned him to ultimate obscurity at the end of his term. In the next House he will probably not be very conspicuous for any thing but robust’avoirdupois and well de veloped feet. Such a position might slightly reduce his accumulation of meet, however, and contract the great disten tion of his bald head. Fanner Jerry Simpson traveled all the way from far-away Kansas to admire the in tellectual tone and dignified manners of con gress, and did not admire either very much after ho scanned them o /er. That expected imposing dignity he found to be as entirely imaginary as his own dearth of socks, aud he appears to be somewhat disappointed aud disgusted. Why, ho probably thought he could "fling off his coat” aud do better orating than that himself. Great military pomp and display are ex pected to characterize the funeral of Gen. Sherman to-morrow. It is expected to be quite equal to that of Gen. Grant. But the friends of the departed veteran should try to see that bis burial is not turned into a stupeuduous commercial advertisement, as Gen. Grant’s was. Buch desecration of the funeral rites ought to be prevented iu some way. That Massachusetts minister who preaches for $1 a year certainly cannot be aocused of a mercenary object. But when we take into account that this underpaid devotion is because of differences with the church trustees, it is difficult to determine whether his apparently unselfish zeal in the good work is prompted more by piety or preju dice. When a woman pays $2,000 for an espe cially gorgeous gown, and then spends sun dry other dollars in persaadmg the news papers to advertise the fact at regular rates, as did a certain New York writer of flash literature recently, her morbid craving for notoriety positively approaches luuacy. Virginia has lately shown a disposition to make rather an imposing display of her ma terial reaouroes at the Columbian exposition. Few states in the onion oould make a finer exhibit. TITE MORNING NEWS: WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1891.' Senator Quay’s Defense. It is doubtful if the answer which Senator Quay made on Monday in the Senate to the chargee which have been pending against him to long will be generally ac cepted as satisfactory. His answer was a general denial of them. But it is difficult to see how he could have made any better answer. It is true that he shows that there was some little foundation for some of the charges, but intimated that he was forced to suffer for the wrongdoing of others. Senator Quay ia entitled to fair play. He has made a square issue with the authors of the charges and, as he is on the defensive, it is tbeir duty now to bring forward their evidence in support of taem. If they fail to do that they must admit that they did him an injustice through ignorance of the truth or stand convicted of having deliber ately injured him. Several of the leading northern papers printed the charges and dared the senator to sue them for libel. Assuming that the defense which be read in the Senate la in every respect true, it would be interesting to know why bs did not accept their chal lenge. If it be true that he suffered in silence for the misdeeds of others it would have been greatly to his benofit to have had that fact known. One of the gravest of the charges was that while treasurer of Pennsylvania he used the money of the state In private specula and lost a large amount of it. It has been stated time and time again that he would have been placed in a very disagreeable po sition bad not Senator Don Cameron come to his assistance and loaned him SIOO,OOO. In bis defense he says that Senator Cam eron did lend him SIOO,OOO, but the money was not used to pay his own debts, but the debts of a partner of his, contracted in ■peculation of one kind and another. It is left to be inferred that this partner of his was a treasurer of the State and had mis appropriated state moneys. Those who are responsible for the charges cannot, of course, permit the truth of Sena tor Quay's statement to remain unchal lenged. To do so would be to admit that they had willfully published false charges. It may be expected, therefore, that there will be a great deal more said about the obarges before they are finally and forever dropped. Judge Boarman's Peril. The evidence in support of the charges against Aleck Boarman, judge of the Northern district of Lousiana, must be pretty conclusive or congress would not go to the trouble and expense of impeaching him. There have been rumors for quite a long time to the effect that he is not fitted for bis position, and is not conducting him self as a United States judge should. There are quite a number of charges against him, the chief ones being that he has taken public money for his private use and has permitted his decisions to be in fluenced by money considerations. Judge Boarman Is quite well known to the bar of this city, having held a term of court here. He is a native of Yazoo City, Miss., and is about 52 years of age. A while before the war of secession he settled in Shreveport, La, and engaged In the praotice of the law. He served through the war on the confederate side. He was city attorney of Shreveport in 18C9, and was then known as a democrat, though some of his warmest friends were republi cans. Ho was elected to the Forty-second congress to complete an unexplrod term of a deceased member from Louisiana, and while in congress he changed his politics, becoming a republican. It was in 1881 that he was appointed to his present position. There have been very few impeachment trials—only seven since the foundation of the government. The last one was that of Secretary of War Belknap, and it took piace fifteen years ago. Two United States district judges have been impeached, viz., Jndge John l’ickering, of New Hampshire, in 1803-4, and Judge West W. Humphreys, of Tennessee, in 1826-31. Both judges were charged with malfeasance in office. Judge Boarman is a man of agreeable manners, but not, perhaps, very deeply 1 oar net 1 in the law. His appointment, doubtless, was the result of the efforts of the republican administration to build up a re publican party in the south. Mr. Cleveland’s anti-silver letter does not seem to have changed Editor Watterson’s opinion relative to his prospects for being the democratic presidential nomiuee in 1892. In an interview, In answer to the question, Who will be the democratic nominee in 1892 ? he said: "I do not see how we can get away from Cleveland. He seems to repre sent the logio of the situation. His anti silver letter was not opportune. The senti mont in favor of free coinage in the south and west is so strong that the view he has taken of the matter may serve to imperil his chance for the nomination, but that is only a possibility. I believe he will be nomi nated.” Borne of our esteemed contempo raries rashly expressed the opinion a few days ago that Watterson’s letter to Hill would not have been published had Mr. Cleveland’s anti-silver letter appeared a day or two sooner. But they are seldom right. Labor organizations intend to make themselves felt and establish their prestige, if such a thing can be done by impressive advertising and posting up bills. Paris and London are said to be literally covered with luminous posters declaring that: “On May 1 all frontiers will be effaced, and in the entire universe will bo seen a union of that which should be united and a separation of that which should be separated. On one side are the producers, hand in hand, on emancipation, and on the other the exploiters, trembling vainly before a movement that nothing can stop and will overwhelm them.” This is fol lowed by a voluminous explanation of the eight-hour law and various claims and arguments. All Europe is apprehensively expeotaut of what may follow. Salvation army women who have volun teered to find that mysteriously murderous Individual known to all London as “Jack the Ripper” may learn that they have taken an abnormally large contract. But it is to be hoped that they will not grapple with the first drunken sailor they may find who happens to have a bloody nose from his last brawl, as the London police did re cently. That crim mal’s success in escaping detection is something wonderful. Whenever he gets a chanoe to see the country at somebody elso’s expense Mr. Harrison usually takes It itn. So it is then no wonder that he should have accepted the invitation of Senator Stanford to visit his magnificent Palo Alto farm. It is a sight really worth inspection. At the same time the President can look wise and cultivate California political favor against nomina tion day. PERSONAL. Ex- Vice President Hamlin is quoted as sat ing that be is “oct sanguine at republican suc cess in 1892. but hopeful. ' Tnx Qlexn a! the Netherlands has adopted white as the proper color for mourning. Tnere it much to be said in favor of her selec tion. Keely. the motor man. thinks the greatest men In the world are Koch. Pasteur and another gentleman, whose name be modestly declines to mention. Bismarce is said to have sent a large quan tity of bis papers to England for safe keeping against any possible sudden swoop upon them by the German government. Mr & McKee, the widow of Gen. George C. McKee, is the only woman in the United States holding the offloeod reesiverof public moneys Her district embraces Mississippi. Ri'kkim is a very small man physically, and a person beboldteg him for the first time is sure to be disappointed in him He has a sweet and fascinating smile and very light blue eyes Washington will oontinue to be the home for the present of Mrs. Windom and her daughters. They are perfectly familiar with Washington life and have been popular in society there. A valcaale portrait of Commodore Decatur, painted by Bully, has been discovered among the rubbish in the attic of the New York oounty court house, and is to be reetore.l and hung in the governor’s room at the City hail. Phillip Brooks will hold midday services for business men in Boston Mondays during Lent, in St. Paul's church. It Is believed that his talks on these occasions will attract as much attention as those in Trinity church. New Y'ork, last year. Prop. Woodrow Wilson of Princeton, the authorof “Congressional Government,’’ is writ ing a history of the United States, coveming the period from 1829 until the present time. The book will be one of a series of three on “Epochs of American History.” Isaiah T. Montgomery, who made a plea for education of blacks In the late constitutional convention of Mississippi, is trying to raise SSOO to extend the term of free colored school in his neighborhood. He applied to Mr. Cleveland, and received a check for $25. The honorary degree, of LL. D. was con ferred on Lorettus S. Metcalf, editor of the forum, at the semi-annual meeting of the trustees of Grinnall (lovvai College last week. Mr. Metcalf passed much of bis life in Boston, and was editor of the north American Review after its removal to New Y'ork. Mrs. Tennant, mother of Mrs. Stanley, says to an Interviewer; “In America, as in England, there are thousands and thousands of sweet, lovely, worthy girls who are fading away be cause there are no husbands for them. This Is really deplorable, and a question of far more importance, in my miDd, than the labor prob lem.’’ Bishop Hare of South Dakota, who is well known In the east because of hi* devotion to the elevation and material interests of the In dians, will make a six months' visit to Japan very soon, to look over the field for the Episco pal church. A bishop has been chosen especi ally for that field, but is not yet quite ready to enter It. Prof. John P. Barrett, the city electrician of Cnlcago, who has been appointed chief of the electrical department of the world's fair, is a native of Auburn, N. Y., 54 years of age, and was in early life a sailor. He is wholly self educated. and began his connection with the fire department of Chicago in 1865 os fire watch man in the city ball tower. BRIGHT BITS. “Mrs. Small, this coffee won’t settle,” com plained Jlo'Vatty to his boarding-house keeper. ‘Then it is in good company, Mr. McWatty,” replied Mrs. Small, frigidly.— .Vein York Sun. Ethel— What are yon going to give up In Lent? Maud—Well, If I don’t get a chance to rest before Lent comes 1 think 1 shall give up the ghost.— Hew York Herald. Bellows— lt looks like there ought to be an abunpanoe of everything now. Fellows—Why so? BelloWß—The McKinley bill raises so many necessities.—Yeu? York Herald. First Critic—What did you think of that trapeze performance last night? You could hardly call it perfect, could you? Second Critic!— Hardly that, but I can say it was absolutely floorless —Boston Courier. Mirth is catching, so they say. My wife takes things the other way, When lam sober, she Is gay; And vice versa, strange to say, When I get jolly She’s melancholy. V. H. C., in Puck. Sniffles— We had a fine musical treat at our church last Sunday morning. Snaffles—ls that so? Bnifflec -Yes: the tenor waited outside for the organist, and then licked him before the whole congregation for spoiling his pet solo by paying a wrong accompaniment.— Brooklyn Materfamilias— lmogen, you musn't marry George Rockpate. He was such a hard-headed boy 1 I couldn’t bear to have my grandchildren like him. Imogen—Yes, mamma, I know all the Rock pates are awfully hard-headed; but you must remember there is a softening of the brain In our family.— Judge. Miss Hauohton— Monseur Dj Luc, pray ex plain yourself. What did you mean by shrug ging your shoulders at the dinner table, when I told them that mot I made was original with her? M. Do Luo—Ah! madeinoselle did not see. Zat was ze great compliment, mademoiselle. Zat was to say mademoiselle do not look as ze centenarian.—Harper’s Bazar. Wife (from upper window at 1 a. m. to tipsy husband) Well, what's your eicuse for coming home at this hour? Husband—Let me in M'ria. Just (hie) come from meeting of the labor union. Been con siderin’ what (hie) we’d do about the recent strike. Wife—Well, you just sit down on the door step and consider what you'll do about the re cent lockout. And she slammed down the window.— Boston Herald. “What is that, dear mother?” “That is a rose, my child ” “But what, dear mother, is that next to the rose?” “A sunflower, darling." "But, oh. what is it that is growing next to the sunflower?” “That is a pond-lily.” "But, oh, dear mother, they are all growing out of the same vine ” “That is the way, my child, they grow on lambrequins.”— Upholsterer. There is a public library in New England to which Mr. Edward King of Newport had made gifts, including several statues. On the pedee tals of these was duly inscribed an acknowledg ment to the donor. A lady who was being shown about the library one day paused to look at one of these figures and read aloud the legend: “ 'Gift of Edward, King of Newport,’ ” she read, with the superb stupidity of which the human intellect is capable only in great mo ments. “Why, bless my soul! I did not know that Newport had ever had a king!”— Boston Courier. CURRENT COMMENT. Actually a Good Word for Abram. From the Boston Herald (ini). For a man who owns a silver mine Hon Abram S. Hewitt is a good deal of a patrioj. It Really Does Seem Necessary, From the Philadelphia Press (Rep.). Henry Watterson should take the precaution to register any future letters he may send to Gov. Hill. Far Off His Reckoning. From the Nero York Press (Rep ). If Gov. Hill expected Watterson to “take water” on that letter, he reckoned badly. Wat terson is a Kentuckian. Another Commercial “Combine.” From the Chicago News (Ind.). Hot pie at breakfast is said to be growing ia public favor. Undertakers with an eye to trade will be pleased to learn this fact. An Opinion tbet Is an Opinion. From the Chicago Inter-Oc*an(Rep.). When ''unlimited silver coinage" gets to be the leading democratic favorite—as it will be several democratic journals will be In deep holes, out of which it will he bard to climb. HORSFOBD’S ACID PHO3PBATB For Wakefulness, Hysteria, and other diseases of the nervous sy strne, — Ad. Wondrou Wisdom. Many yearn ago. say*the Philadelphia Timet. there lived in an eastern land a man who was prominent and thought to be rich. When be died, however, it was found hie possessions were very slight Indeed. In his will, among some trilling legacies, was the following: “Of the three young men who consider them selves my children I have a just claim to one alone. The others are not of my blood, hut adopted. I will not say who the rightful heir is. but have left the matter te the decision of tbecadL In his possession is 1,000 pieces of gold, which will be given to my true child after he has proved his claim.'’ The three reputed sons at once repaired to the cadi. He thereupon handed each of them a gold ring, saying: ‘‘Take this ring and go about In the world and seek your fortunes Use the jewel as a talis man, watch orer it, preserve it, and aft*r three years return to me. I will then announce who is the true son of his father, and deliver to him the 1,000 pieces of gold." The boys at once withdrew, and disappeared in different directions, amid the crowded haunts of men. They never crossed each other's path, nor heard ef one another, but at the appointed time again made their appearance before the cadi for weal or woe. “Where is your ring?” he asked of the first and eldest. The gold band was handed to the judge with the remark: “It is here. It has brought me luck. I have had good worldly fortune and ail goes well with me." Then was questioned the second. “Here is my ring." He opened his cloak and showed it. bound round his neck by a silk rib bon. "Fortune has followed my every footstep. It has been a continual blessing.” At last the cadi turned to the youngest. “Well, and where is your riDg?” The hoy was silent. A blush stole o’er his face, and his eyes fell to the earth. Then, after a struggle, he managed to say: “I haven’t got it. Pve pawned it.” Tbs cadi, handing him over the thousand pieoes of gold, cried: “The money is yours. By your disposal of the ring I recognize that you are really your father's son. ” Useful Annie Rooney, A horse which had been pulling a heavily loaded wagon suddenly took it Into his head to lie down on State atreet, says the Chicago Inter Ocean, and then he refused to rise. A large number of men gathered around, and, of course, every man had a suggestion to offer. "Yank the bridle I” yelled a man in a buggy. The bridle was “yanked," but the horse stlil lay there. “Twitch his tail!” screamed a man on the sidewalk. The tail was twitched, and the horse seemed rather to like it. “Poke him in the ribs:” said a third sug gested The prodding was promptly performed. No result. “Stiok pins in his ear!” remarked a man evidently an active member of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. ’Twas done, but the horse only moved his head from side to side. “Three or four fellows get astride him, and he’ll get up," was the next suggestion. The crowd was reedy to try anything, and it detailed four venturesome men. who olimbed on the horse and kicked simultaneoualy with their double quartette of heels. But the ani mal never budged. The situation was setting serious, for the crowd was blocking the thoroughfare, when a genius yelled: “Sing 'Little Annie Rooney’ to him." That was enough. With a snort of rage the horse raised himself to bis tore feet, then to his hind ones, and started off so rapidly that many of the spectators had hairbreadth escapes. They Struck a Deal. The wits have in all ages found funny things to say about the professions of the doctor and the preacher, says the Chicago Times. Some times the witticisms come directly from gentle men engaged in those professions, for they do occasionally come together in a tilt. No two men are better known or are more popular in the aristocratic suburb of Evansville than Dr. Ed Webster and the Rev. N. H. Hillis, pastor of the Second Presbyterian church of that village Some little time ago the reverend gentleman hurt his kt>ee, which accident laid him up for repairs. Dr. Webster was called in to attend him, and in due course brought him around all right. One of Mr. Hillis’ first visits, when he got out, was to the physician, and at once he asked the amount of the doctor’s bill. The doctor said in a careless way: “Oh, never mind the bill, Mr. Hillis: It’s nothing." But the minister would not have it that way; he said there was no reason why he should not pay his bill the same as other people, and again asked the amount. Dr. Webster then said: "I’ll tell you what I'll ao. I’ll make a con tract with you, Mr. Hillis. If you will agree to get me Into heaven I will contract to keep you out.” The reverened gentleman could not help smiling at the proposed arrangement, but as he looked at Dr. Ed he replied: "Well, 1 don't believe I dare enter into an absolute con - tract, doctor, but I shall oertalnly do the best I can for my share.’’ Tho Power of Habit. I have read of men who have acquired the habit of chewing cloves or coffee beans until the habit had taken as strong a hold as ever did alcohol, morphine or coeaine upon its Victims, says Dr. A. G Robinson of 6t. Louis in the Globe-Democrat. 1 readily believe this, because there is a young man of my acquaintance who actually acquired what was for a long time an uncontrollable taste for tincture of aloes, one of the bitterest substances in or out of the pharmacopoeia. He hail been addicted front childhood to the dis agreeable habit el biting his finger nails inces santly. He was advised to touch the tips of his fin gers with the tincture of aloes. At first the remedy was successful, but the desire to nibble at hiß nails was lnoessant. Gradually be got used to the bitter taste. Later on he craved It, and he actually reached the point where he carried a vial of the fluid about with him and applied it from time to time to bis finger ends, being utterly miserable without it. The effect on bis constitution ot this ideal ized narcotization at last became so serious that he applied to a celebrated specialist, who treating the habit as a disease, in some manner effected a cure. The young man now grows talons where he had the nails gnawed down to the quiok formerly. Satisfied With Hla Apartments. “In every bouse. Miss Powelson." said young Mr. Habenshaw of the Chtoago Tribune, with some agitation, “there is a spare room. It is kept for the use ot some honored guest. In every heart too’'—and be laid his hand impul sively on bis own—“there is a spare room—” “And we find one, too, in so many heads,” she murmured. "Miss Powelson—lrene!” the young man ex claimed, choking down a large and expansive lump of rising sighs, “in my heart there is a spare roam sacredly set apart for you—’’ "Only one, Mr. Habenshaw?” she asked dreamily. "Do not mock me, Irene Powelson! It shall be a whole suite if you like. More than that! Y’ou shall have the entire premises if you’ll only say so, and if that isn’t enough, we'll tear down and build bigger.” "This spare room—this suite of rooms, Ar thur.” said the maiden, softly, “that you are speaking of—how—how are thev furnished?” "In first-class modern style, Irene.' replied the young man, with a business-like ring in his voice. “Uncle Bullion died last week.” “Say no more, Arthur," whispered the lovely girl as she pillowed her rich blond head on the young man's heart and listened to the wild thump: thump! that resounded through its spare chambers. ‘Til take them.” Not Always the Proper Caper. One day a peasant carried a baefcet of pota toes to the field and dug holee In the soil and planted them, says the Detroit Free Press. His young son watched the operations for a time and then inquired: "Pon, why do you put those 'titers in the ground?” "By so doing each one will bring me back ten.” reDlied the father. The boy went away and when his father came up to dinner he found him digging in the yard and asked: "Sonny, what are you seeking for?” ‘‘Why, pop. I have planted the clock, the bootjack, two umbrellai, the tea pot, your Sunday hat, ma’s shoes and a tablecloth, and each one will bring me back ten." "You young tdlot,come out and be paralyzed.” shouted the father, and he tanned that boy up and down and crosswise and sidewise until the supply of peach-tree llmba gave out. “Pop planted 'raters to gel back ten," mused the boy, as he sat down under the low shed to think, “but 1 planted elocks and bats and shoes to get a licking. It must be the difference m the soil." ■tout. And the next fall, when the father cut down hie corn stalks to save them, and the son cut down the currant bushes for the same object he got licked again. Beechnut's Pills act like magic on a weak stomach. —Adit ITEMS OP INTEREST. Private Ko*r of Troop L who was killed In the fight at Wounded Knee, was with Custer in the Little Big Horn country, and for a number of years past he had been the keeper of the horse Comanche, the only survivor of the Cus ter m vesac re. Comanche is now 29 years old, and is the idol of the reiignnt. Some other veteran of Troop I will be assigned to look after him. The orricaiu of the German army, the enp talna in particular, are requested to deliver lectures to their men on the subjects relating to the latter's duties, says the Chicago Herald. A certain captain quartered in Berlin was due at the barracks a 6 o'clock one mori.ing at the class room. Oversleeping himself and not arriving till 8:20, he finds to his dismay and annoyance a young-looking officer attending to his work, and busy at the blackboard. On his angry approach the young officer turns around and the captain at once recognizee his em peror in the substitute. Speech ess wita hor ror and unable to utter a word he tremblingly receives the text book which his majesty quietly hands him. saying: “We have got as far as there, captain,” and leaves the room without appearing to hear the officer’s stuttered excuses. The officer awaited a crashing dismissal, but for weeks there came no decision of his fate. At last, when the sus pense had become fairly unbearable, on Dec. 6, when St. Nicholas holds his disciplinary inspec tion among the German children, he recelv-d a present from the emperor. It was an alarm clock. A correspondent who has Just returned from Pine Ringe Agency tells a story of the visiting Sioux Indians who are now in Washington. He said: Reading of the reception the Indians re ceived in church last Sunday, and the fact that they attended the thealer Monday evening, recalls a funny incident that happened when they were in Chicago a few days ago en route to Washington. The manager who has charge of the visiting Indians thought he would amuse them by taxing them to the theatre in the evening. He never for a moment thought that tragedy would rouse the war-like nature, of which tha Sioux is so abun dantly endowed. Well, he got them into several boxes all right, and everything went wed until the third act. The play was a heavy tragedy, aDd in this act the heroine was to be killed. The minute the villain attempted to strike the woman with a knife, three of the Bioux rose from their seats and actually prepared to leap over the boxes onto to the stage for the purpose of rescuring the heroine. The theater was soon In an uproar, and it was only by removing the three refractory Indians from the theater that the actors could proceed. That also explains why they were taken to see a light opera in Washington. The marriaok of Mile. Hugo, the grand daughter of Victor Hugo, with M. Georges Daudet, was celebrated in Paris Thursday even ing by the malre at Passy. The Salle des Fetes was splendidly decorated for the occasion and the ceremony was conducted with great solem nity. All the most notaole people in the poetical, literary and artistic worlds of Paris appeared to be present. The stairs were found to be too narrow for the crush, and the wedding cortege had the greatest difficulty in making its way through the crowd to the table, where the maire awaited its arrival. Owing to the great number of guests pres ent there was some crushing, and numerous altercations occurred among the spectators, who were naturally forced to make way for the wedding procession. After the cermony was concluded the maire read a short speech, and M. Jules Simon delivered a nuptial ad dress in which he referred to Victor Hugo, and the great service he had rendered to the world of letters and to France. He concluded by speaking of the very great interest all Paris took in the ceremony. On the termination of his speech, whioh was frequently interrupted by bursts of applause, M. Simon kissed the hand of the bride. The marriage was ex clusively a civil one, and the ceremony was con cluded at 7 o’clock. Brison Hill, a Pocohontas county. West Vir ginia. farmer and hunter, last December saw a snow-white deer while out hunting. In follow ing its trail he came across a tremendous birch tree, on whioh ha saw the marks of bear’s claws. Looking closer he saw a large hole in the tree, which was hollow. Satisfied that there was a b -ar in the tree he started home lor help, but during the night the snow fell to a great depth and continued to fall for many days, and it was not until Jan. 2ti that be was able to re turn to the tree. When he went back he was accompanied by George Brook, Sam Hodge and Pat Henry. All of them were armed with Winchesters and axes. They had no trouble la finding the tree, which they speedily out down, as the tree foil the men stood at short distances away with guns leveled. The tree had scarcely struck the ground when a tremendous female bear rushed out of the hole, but she was shot dead at the first fire by HiU and Henry. Before the men had time to look about another bear came rushing and growling from the same hole, and, like the other, was iustantly killed by a bullet through its head. Before the second bear had ceased to thrash about two more came out of the tree. The two last were killed by Winchester bullets before they ran thirty feet. The bears were a mother and three large yearlings. A New York World correspondent had an interesting interview with Mrs. Stanley, the explorer's wife, in the Smdau World. Mrs. Stanley said: “I did not. think anything of the men at Mrs. Aster’s ball; they did not com pare with the men in the literary circles, and were not the equal In polish or intellect of the ladies I can’t say that I was overpowered by the beauty of the New York women at the ball. There were strikingly handsome belles, but the average personal Beauty was lower than you would find in a London drawing-room. The ice water an American girl drinkß in one day would kill me. Our disappointment was in the audience. In the boxes there was fashion beautifully arrayed. but lacking in musical interest, wnile down in the stalls there were evening toilets, walking costumes and demi-dress side by side. Many of the gentle men were in business suits. The Amerlean women are not so partial to the typical decol lete bodice, as we make more iho w of our arms, shoulders and back than you do. and I think we are more adroit in slanting the corsage into a V shape or round effect, getting not oulv more modesty but suitability. ” Mrs. Stanley thought the American women overdid the matter, and had their bodices slashed instead of cut decol lete. They run too much to square neck.where as the standard favored is the round or pointed. Ariel could put a girdle round about the world In forty minutes, but he was slow com pared with the most ordinary dream. We sur vey mankind ia China and Peru at the same instant of time, and in the course of one re volving moon we may walk with Plato in the groves of Academe, applaud Luther at the let of Worms, set out for Holy Palestine with Coeur de Lion, assist Noah in building the ark, and call on the mountains to oover us at the Day of Judgment. Many stones are told showing the different count of time. Lord Brougham relates that he dreamed a dream of long-continued action during a short doze while a droning couasel was pleading before him. Lord Hol land fell asleep while listening to someone reading, dreamed a long dream, and awoke in time to hear the conclusion of a sentence, the first words of which were in his ears when he became unconscious. Dr. Abercrombie relates that a gentleman dreamed that he had enlisted for a soldier, joined his regiment, deserted, had been apprehended, carried back, ti led, con demned to be shot, and at last led out for exe cution. After all the usual prepartions, he awoke with the report, and found that a noise in an adjoining room had both produced the dream and awakened hitn. Another dreamed that he had crossed the Atlantic and spent a fortnight in America. In embarkinfl, on his return, he fell into the sea, and, having woke with tne fright, he found that he had not been asleep ten minutes. * “The great drawback," said Mr. Richard, one of the agents of the Hamburg-American Packet Company, “to cross the ocean quicker than we do at present Is the expense of coal. More powerful engines could be built which would increase the speed, but these engines would re quire so much more coal. The steamers of the Hamburg-American Packet Company now con sume about 210 to 250 tons of coal a day; if 350 tons were needed daily these steamers ’ would be run at a loss, for besides the cost and the valuable spaoe required for the additional 100 or so tons of coal, more engineers, more stok ers. etc., would be needed. Bui if we went to an unlimited expense for the most powerful engines in tne world, the gain of time in cross ing the ocean would not be more than eight or ten hours, so long as coal is used “I have great faith, however, in el-crticity seme day or other taking the place of coal for the propnlsion of ocean steamers, and when that ia brought about they will run much cheaper. The weight of the coal does not make the steamer slower; that has nothing to do with it. Sometimes a weighted steamer goes faster than one that is not weighted, all depending on the wind and weather. Steamers can Dever go as quick as locomotives, because they have to contend against water and air, whereas the railroad cars have only air as a resistance. As suming the maximum speed of a locomotive to be about sixty miles an hour over short dis tances, it may be said that it goes throe times as rapidly as a steamer, although the average time made by the fastest limited express train is only twice the average time made by a fast steamer." Van Bouten’s Cocoa—“ Once tried, always used. 6 —4dr. | 1 &£STLSSNBSS- m fa ZTRicTL waiT.ove iiSfjJf I , FRUITLESS r*l4t MEDICINE, Ln-T ji ■■ r ti ) pum.tk..' iH I fil The majority Of tie ills of the hmnan body arise from a d*eased Liver. Sim ttons Liver ReguUto- has been the mean* of restoring more people to health and Happiness by giving them a healthy tuver than any other agency on earth, ifcfi THAT Y#D GET THE GENUINE, ~CURE Sick Headache ati relieve ail the troubles tool dent to a bilious Cate of the system, such as Dizziness, Nauset Drowsiness, Distress after eating. Pain in th Side, Ac. 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