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WEDNESDAY, FKB. 18, 1891.
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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.
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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."
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