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INDEX TO m ADVKRTISKMim
Ms uncos-Georgia Chapter; No. 8, R. A M.;
The Equitable Building and Loan Association.
Special Notices— Notion of Dissolution, G.
Darts 4 Son; Portland Cement of Direct Impor
tation. Moore 4 Johnson;"as to Bills Agaiust
British St -airships County of Cork, Lord War
wick and Btate of Alabama; Huyler’s Candies,
at Solomons 4 Oo.’s Two Drug Stores; State
and County Taxes, 1891.
Wednesday— B. H. Levy 4 Bro.
Always in th* Swim— Appel 4 Schaul.
Legal Notices Notices to Itebtorz and
Creditors.
Solomon’s Answer.
Shelled Nuts— W. G. Cooper.
The Big Shoe Sale—At Altmayer’s.
Low-Priced Suits— Falk Clothing Company.
Amusements— First Annual Ball of Irviu W.
Kelly Commandery No. 5. K. G. E., Tuesday,
Nov. 10.
Auction Sale-Fine Furniture, by I. D.
LaKoche 4 Son.
Cheap Column Advertisements Help
Wanted; Employment Wanted: For Rent; For
Sale; Lost; Personal; Miscellaneous.
Kick the man who dares to shout “I told
yon so.”
Proceed to collect your bets before the
other fellow forgets about it.
Plain soda and phosphate is said to be the
best thing to take tho next day.
Who’s Fasset anyhow? This political
world is big. But he’s “not in it.”
Gold is said to have been found on the
banks of the Missouri river at Kansas City
Saturday last at a depth of 117 feet, whilo
workmen were boring to find the location
of rook under which to tunnel tho Mis
souri river. It i^described as rich ore and
is found in great quantities ou both sides
of the river. Beveral tons of the sand will
be taken out at once. Now thoro is no
telliDg just how high Kansas City real es
tate will go at a Bingle jump on the strength
of that find.
Gotham is in a paroxysm >4 delight.
Sarah Bernhard has arrived. She has her
pet 'possum and St. Bernard dog. Though
the critics have been saying that she lias
lately accummulated flesh she is described as
far from corpulent yet. Still she announces
her intention to go duck-shooting, and the
farmers of New Jersey are hereby duly
warned from this respectful distauoe of
loug range to bolt for their barns and close
all the doors whenever she is known to be
at large with her gun. Otherwise they
are liable to get peppered.
Texas men are not very easy to shock.
After comfortably absorbing 1,453 volts of
Westingaouse alternating current elec
tricity a Saa Antonio electrician pulled
hipiself together and went serenely to work
again as soon as he bad disposed of bis
burned shoes that the current destroyed.
Apparently the man is unhurt. To ail out- 1
ward appearance he Is something of a gal
vanic battery himself. Such a subject w >uld
make the best system of electrocution
ever invented a disastrous failure. But the
old reliable back-country rope never faiis j
to choke off the worst crimiual that ever '
undertook to pull against it. In view of
this and other similarly discouraging oc
currences the state of New York is likely to
long monopolize the distinction of main
taining the only luxurious device in the
union for executing the tender and gentle
murderer.
Nobody seems to have noticed what a
shrewd move that was on the part of
Senator Quay to engage District Attorney
Graham as assistant counsel in his suit
against De tocra.i: Chairman Kerr and a
few newspapers for alleged libel in ex
posing Quay's connection with BarJsley by
reproducing in print the senator’s indorse
ment upon a check from the defaulting
treasurer of Philadelphia. After the
United States district attorney of Phila
delphia had furnished that check to the
press it does appear rather significant that
the man whose official duty it is to prose
oute violators of law should ba retained to
defend the man inculpated by the evidence
of guilty transactions that it furn
ishes. Probably Quay merely made that
move in order to close the district attor
ney’s mouth. Such a wily scheme ts
very much like the cunning of Quay.
Yet the plot can scarcely succeed. Oil tho
contrary the intended victims appear to
h ive a pretty fair prima facie case of bold
bluff against Quay and his attorney. No
fonder he refuses to talk about the case.
fo commit himself in the slightest degree
vould be fatal to his scheme.
fmv : .• :o .' cr*cy.
m • ~ a ( cers!=c the icdfcmftooe
jmt* An e, as rt> la wtaofc g>eral
„ j ftti T-< rriar f '-r had (0(M
1 , K , i ir: wpcN aa. The six
- >#• York, Penn
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.• x .* -r* !7e rm >.-rst, sre irtono-
A awn~:New York. Marsla i
Hnt : nni li.w rarrwd bj the repohli
nw a-e ,J . i-i IVar.iy.ra tft
> • a a repth .'an :te in
n-w.iw .*a ’’ears. It ftr. 4 -aiiesl Har
■mnt a.-■ -.rality. iK’r. HuawU.how
xwmfc -i ii year hr a plurality oi
nloiri .IX a.-*.; * year lr a somewhat
smaliip jUnrs ;y.
;i Vt '. -i-x :be Jem-XTSt* hare won a
i—ic.7'-.rx4 y.- ry. FVowrrs majority will
ban../ 7a... hfl.w 4S.XV 1 and may reach
R..KV. 7bi rtaSe may be confide:, tly
xvmttai .-a hr .-asl : electoral rote for the
xmrn.vri .- prastJeotlal candidate next
' The low of New York is a great dis
ari.vutfaamt to the national republican
it h: base', their hopes of electing
zf xi Prer.dent upon a yictory in that
iSAie !i.;i year.
Thar* was no doubt that Maryland would
g} demrcrav.c. The only question in doubt
in that state was the site of the democratic
majority.
At 1 o’clock only meager returns were at
hand from lowa, but they pointed to
the re-election of Boies, the demo
cratic candidate for governor. It
has not been many years since lowa was
counted on as a safe republican state, its
republican majority being as much aB
40,000.
There does not seem to be any doubt that
McKinley has been elected in Ohio by a
plurality larger than that by which Camp
bell was elected two years ago. Gov.
Campbell made a brilliant canvass, how
ever, and the causes of his
defeat are not now apparent.
Probably the uncertain attitude of
the Democratic party in that state on the
silver question had something to do with it.
However, Ohio is not a democratic state.
It always goes republican in presidential
years. It remains to be seen whether the
fight made by the farmers allianos on
Senator John Sherman has givea the legis
lature to the democrats.
The democrats hardly expected to carry
Pennsylvania. They hoped to do so because
of the discovery of corrupt practices among
republican officials. The republicans were
united this year, however, and have elected
their ticket by a good majority.
On the whole the democrats have reason
to be satisfied with the result of yesterday’s
electionr. Their victories justify them in
taking a most hopeful view of uext year's
national contest.
Tennessee’s Convict Trouble.
The miners in the mining districts of
Tennessee are settling the convict labor
question in that state In u very summary
way.and thoy are doing it without obtaining
permission from the state authorities. Thus
far they have liberated uoarly 500 convicts
and their intention seems to b 9 to continue
their work until all the conviots in the
mining districts are released.
The legislature refused to do anything
toward settling the troublesome question
that had grown out of the employment of
convicts in the coal mines of the state
although it was convened in extra session
for that purpose. It seemed to be incapable
of grappling with the question successfully,
nud so it did nothing virtually beyond
authorizing the governor to call out the
militia to check any attempt tho miners
might make to roleaso tho convicts, and to
increase the penalties for leieusing or at-
tempting to release convicts.
The miners have shown their contempt
for tho militia and the penalties by de
stroying tho stockades iu which the con
victs w ere confined end furnishing the con
victs with citizeLs’ clothes in which to
make their escape. They have done more
than that, Thoy ba 1 o taken recaptured
convicts from the officers and tu; r.ed them
loose again. And what has the state done to
check tLe violence of ihe miners or restrain
their lawlessness! It has Uono nothing.
The governor, it is true, has offered rewards
for the arrest of those who destroyed the
stockades and released tho convicts, but the
miners apparently do not fear urrost. Who
is there who can identify any one of them?
And if there is any one who can do so, is
the reward sufficient to tempt him to take
the risk ?
Nearly all tbe miners who participated iu
releasing the convicts were masked, at and it
would be a difficult matter to identify, be
yond a doubt, those who were not. The
people in the vicinity of the mines are in
sympathy with the miners, and the proba
bility is that no arrests will be made.
But does not Tennessee present to tbe
world a rather shameful spectacle? A great
state virtually admits that it cannot suc
cessfully guard its convicted criminals
against a few hundred men. The militia
was not even called into service. The gov
ernor, it is reported, said that the civil au
thorities were capable of preventing the
release of tho convicts. Ho does not appear
to have taken the precaution to inform him
self of the stiength or intention of the
miners. He let matters take their course,
and hundreds of desperate convicts aror.ow
wandering about the country near where
they were recently confined.
It must have cost the state hundreds of
thousands of dollars to arrest and convict
the criminals who have been released, and
the most of them doubtless will continue
their criminal course. The jails will be
tilled with t.em and they will become a
burden upon the taxpayers.
The lessees had a right to expect that the
convicts would be protected against mob
violence. Their leases were worth a great
deal to them and they will undoubtedly
claim from the state large damages.
This Tennessee affair is much more seri
ous than it appears to be at first thought.
| The elections have drawn attention away
from it, but it is certain to reoeive most
careful consideration in all the states in
which convicts are leased. What has been
done by free laborers in Tennessee is pretty
certain to be done sooner or later in the
other states in which like conditions exist.
Both the legislature and the governor of
Tennessee are likely to be severely criticised
for what lias occurred. At this distance it
looks as if the legislature was weak aud that
the governor was not equal to the demands
of his position.
THE MORNING NEWS: WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1891.
To 3o Tried for Heresy.
The much talked of trial of Dr. Briggs, a
professor in the I'tnon Theological Semi
nary of New York, will, it is expected, be
gin before the New York presbytery to
day. Hi, friends announce that he is ready
to d-feud himself, and that be will do noth
ing to postpone his case.
I*r. h iggs gave expression to the alleged
heresies last January. He had been trace
ferrvd frvni the professorship of Hebrew to
that of biblical ttxeol -gy and on taking the
latter place he delivered an address which
contains the doctrines to which bis accusers
take exception.
The alleged heresies are as follows: (1)
There are three co-ordinate source 1 of au
thority—reason. the church and scripture.
N Hut.su beings may become sanctified
after death, that is, they may go into the
next world as sinners and there receive for
giveness of their sins (3) Denial of the
inerrancy of the scriptures.
It is stated that Dr. Briggs explains that
the charges brought against him are not
correct He does not believe that reason
and the church are autho: itles equal to the
scriptures, but that they are authorities
worthy of consideration. Neither does he
Insist that the scriptures are full of errors,
but that coming through human agencies
they contain some error. The interpretation
placed upon his remarks about sanctifica
tion after death is not, he says, in harmony
with his views.
There is a possibility that there will be no
trial. It is understood that there is a
strong disposition to drop the whole matter.
The vote in the presbytery by which it was
decided to prefer charges against Dr. Briggs
was 04 to 62, and it is asserted that many of
those who voted in the aflirmativo now
favor withdrawing the charges. If the
case is tried the proceedings will attract a
great deal of attention. The whole country
is informed of the case and many would
like to have a decision of the points involved
in it. A trial would arouse a good deal of
discussion of questions like those involved
in the charges against Dr. Briggs, and it
would be found, probably, that many who
are now thought to be severely orthodox
would be found to be in harmony with Dr.
Briggs.
Elkins is Excused.
Notwithstanding the commonly accepted
report about Washington that the Hou.
Steve Elkins was denied a plaoe in the Har
rison cabinet because of his conspicuous
lack of a war record tho New York Press
still maintains that the matter wa3 at one
time differently "decided upon” and that
the war deoartment portfolio "bad been
tendered to him and accepted.”
But within the brief space of forty-eight
subsequent hours c.roumstanoes arose
“which resulted in a declination by Mr.
Elkins." Then the paper proceeds to
sagaciously predict that “it will bo alleged,
probably, that the President caused an inti
mation to be sent to Mr. Elkins that a de
clination would be acceptable. But that
statement will be untrue. For reasons
which cannot be made public at present
Mr. Elkins has, of his own volition, in
formed the President that he canqot be
come a member of his official family.”
By way of lending plausibility to this
story the Press adds that "it is Relieved
that Mr. Elkina would prefer to be United
States senator from West Virginia."
Just why the Press should feel called
upon to advance that surmise relative to the
probable consequent allegations as to the
President's unacquiesceut attitude is beyond
conjecture except upon tho natural hypoth
esis of directly "inspired” sympathy. Yet
it is not very hard to gue-s at those "reasons
which cannot te made public at present,”
To make public at present or in future the
many reasons why the thrifty Mr. Steve
Elkins should not be Intrusted with so im
portant a cabinet position as the war de
partment would certainly not be good re
publican politics.
Concerning his preference for a West
Virginia senatorship there is little reason
for dispute about that. Still there is a
broad baste for doubt of his chances to
reach such a goal.
If Mr. Steve Elkins was ever chosen for
any conspicuous position of trust and honor
by the free franchises of his fellow citiz ms
then the historians of our times have failed
to accord him full justice.
Australian advices state that the English
ship Lord of the isles recently arrived at
Sydney with important news from the
South Seas. Just before the Lord of the
Isles sailed for Sydney a report reached
New Britain to the effect that three
missionaries in German New Guinea had
been murdered by natives. No particulars
were obtainable, and the steamer that
brought the news to New Britain gave the
intelligence as a rumor in circulation at
Frederick Wilhelm Uuveu I efore she left.
Another white trader is also siii to have
been murdered by blacks on the north coast
of New Ireland. Apparently Alexander
Guodorson was iu charge of a store whon
the natives made a raid on the place. They
killed Gunderson and set fire to ihe build
ing. Shortly afterward two of the crew
of the schooner Glide were murdered by
natives at New Hanover. 8o it seems that
the South Sea islands are not altogether
the most comfortable plaoe of abode.
When a man is caught in the cowardly
act of surreptitiously setting fire to another’s
house he must be the most callous sneak if
ho doesn’t feel mean over it and particularly
when tho building is crowded with un
conscious sleeping people. Yet that is what
one Benjamin Rosenberg did in New York
tbe other day, and be didn’t seem to mind
what he had done ball' so much as getting
caught at it, although bis paid duty was to
watch ihe building. But a man who will
do such a sneaking meauness as that is so
mean and has generally been that way bo
long that he is incapable of feeling it. Since
deliberate arson almost invariably
jeopardizes human lives it should be uni
formily punished as a capital offense. That
might have a tendency to discourage one of
the most dastardly of crimes. No sort ot
murder could be more brutal than roast
ing unsusuecting women aud children alive
in their beds.
Intelligence from Paris states that a man
sleeping in a tram running between Paris
and Havre wus attacked at uight by another
man who tried to chloroform him and then to
shoot him. In tbe struggle that ensued the
innu who was attacked caught the cord of
the alarm bell and stopped t:.e train. Then
his assailant was arrested. When questioned
the latter said he was Carlo Boulaverd and
claimed to be a trader of Buenos Ayres.
But he refused to answer any further ques
tions. It is surmised tbat he meant murder
and robbery. Another peril of the com
partment system.
Are you perfectly satisfied with the dead
smooth way things went! Surely you ought
to be.
PEBBONAL.
Mm. Pabvxii. is reported to be mending in
health. She is now able to partake of food.
las a bamcv has irene to Scotland to help
Mr. Moody in his evangelistic work this winter.
Frsvx Monos, lißssnr, the private secretary
of the Prince of Walee, is visiting Philodelphia.
Er>:s->* is modi-st in his demands. He only
asss for a seven I. >f the space in the electrical
building at the world s fair.
-M as. Dux, wife of the President of Mexico,
will probably be chosen leader of the women of
Mexico who will take part in the Columbian ex
position.
Hall liar, the English novelist, looks just
like a portrait of Shakespeare. Mr. Caine
should take some means to prove that he is not
the reincarnated poet
Jbrrv Simpson is averaging $351 Income per
week, or about what he used to get per annum
Of this tun he gets $96 as his congressional
•alary. $57 for hi, harvest and S3OO for his cam
palgn speeches
Ex-Sinatob J. R. Doolitti i of Wisconsin,
although 7b year, old, is still a busy and active
practitioner before tae courts. One of his re
cent arguments bef xrv the supreme court of
Illinois is described as • ’masterly.”
Thx a host of Lester Wallack is said to per
ambulate the dusky recesses of the 6tar theater.
New York. The actors in that temple of Thes
pis, however, view with unconcern the repotted
sjxook so long as the traiit.onal ghost maintains
bis weekly walk.
Col. E. N. Stearnr of Vermont and Gen.
Harry Heth of Virginia, a major general under
Lee, appointed bjr the Secretary of War to des
ignate the positions of regular army commands
in the battle of Antietain, have resumed tueir
work on the battietieUl.
Adam Pox, grandson of the famous Ohio In
dian fighter, and an old river man, is in Steu
benville arranging to put on sale his interesting
history of the celebrated fight of his grand
father, Adam Poe. with Big Foot, the Indian.
He went from Tv ronto in a skiff.
Much sorrow is felt in Athens over the tragto
death of the poetic Demetrius Kokkos. While
on his wsy from the theater a few evening* ago,
Kokkos was stopped in Station street by a ser
geant in the army. After the interchange of a
few words the'soldier shot the poet in the
breast.
Kmilk Grainxr, the French millionaire, is
credited with having done more than any other
one man toward the development of the state
of Wyoming. In the eight years he has lived
there he has spent $400,000 in the work. His
first winter's exp-riui.ee made him a rheumatic
cripple for life.
Thx cold gray koo that settled upon London
Saturday was nothing to the fog that has
descended upon young Clyde Fitch, who in
tended Up take Lon ion by storm at the Court
theater with bis play “Pamela’s Prodigy.”
The critical heaven, opened, and a great Hood
descended upon the unfortunate young man.
Never in the history of the London drama has
a play been damned so heartily.
A rumor spread in Boston a few days ago
that Queen Victoria was dead. It seems
to bavu developed from a dispatch pub
lished in a St. Louis paper which road: “A ru
mor is in circulation hero to the effect that
Queen Victoria i, dying." The rumor had no
foundation. Queen Victoria has now reached
beyond the good old age of 72. She was born
May 24, 1819; was crowned in 1838; married to
Pi ince Albert in IS4O, and her eldest son, the
Prince of Wales, is nearly 50.
BSIGHT BITS.
"Suppose coal were to give out, what should
we use In its place' asked Hicks.
“Poems,” returned bis editorial friend.— Lift.
"Say—er—Miss Nellie, will you—er—accept
m-mme and me?"
“Well—yes; I’ll accept the mine.’’ Boston
Bud jet.
‘‘Wk will be consistent to the end," said one
western horse thief to another.
“Yes,’' was the reply, "we will hang to
gether.’’— Colorudo Metre.
A POKER game that took place in Washington
not long siDoe is grammatically described:
Positive, "Raise; ' Comparative, “Razor;”
Superlative, ''Resist. Washington Star.
She—When she bsgins to act the audience
forgets that it is in a theater.
He—Yes, it seems to think it is in a parlor,
and begins 1 .ugbing and talking.— 'l hr Enoch.
Though Jack Frost has come and gathered
All the heat of days gone.
We are still beset and bothered
By the bold, belated fly.— Washington Star.
"The worm will turn’’—a saying true.
1 told my love to Maud last night.
And asked if she would be my wife;
Hhe jilted me with sweet delight,
So thereupon I told her all,
And ever since she's been engaged.
I said I didn’t care, because
To three sweet girls I’m now engaged.
— Meu- York Herald.
Toil—You say you have succeeded in casting
from your mind all feelings of pride?
Jack—Yes, that is the trutn exactly, and I
am proud mat I am able to say it.— Yankee
Blaae.
Pirns'. Driasocst Have you noticed the
absolute correctness of Mr. Studihard’s speech.
Mr. (iettUrre—Of course. That is the on y
thing about his conversation there is to notice.
A etc Yo k Weekly.
Clara -Mr. Mild is very bashful. We made
him stay to dinner, and at tho table we couldn't
get him to say beaus.
Stella— V\ ny, he would starve to death iu Hos
ton. —Brooklyn Citizen.
Chicago Bellk—Would you advise me to
marry for love?
Chicago Widow— Yes; it might do for once or
twire. but don’t allow yourself to get into the
habit of it.— Texas Siftings.
Ji'RT as Brooks Nati rally Do.—" Well,”
said the boras editor, “Phillips Brooks is now a
bishop.”
"Yes,” replied the snake editor, “at length
Brooks r- aches the sec."— Pittsbu. g ChnmicU-
Yeiejrauh.
Clara— Papa, the jeweler charged you only
SBOO lor the new watch I bought this after
uoou.
Doting Father—Sow I know what ailed the
poet when be wrote that verse about golden
mornei i ts.~ Jewelei s’ l Veekl y.
“Heilo, Hunker!" exclaimed Spatts, as he
came in. “Your tailor, hatter and furnisher
are all down stairs with bills in their hands,
waiting for you to come down."
“Tuat must be a regular dress pay raid,” re
plied Hunker.— Smith, Cray it Co.'s Monthly.
CURRENT COMMENT.
Consistency Doesn’t Count.
FYom the Providence Journal (Ind.).
if it were true that the McKinley tariff has
reduced 1 rioes. how could it fail to be true that
it has also reduced wages, aud it it is true tbat
wages have not generally gone down under
teat tariff, how can it possibly be true that
prices have fallen? Some of the protectionist
assertions of the day must be abandoned if
others are to stand.
Bo tho Senator Has Abandoned the
Stage.
From the Santa Fe New Mexican (Rep.)
After ail the fuss and feathers the only
change made in the directory of tbe Denveraud
Rio Grande Railway Company is the entry of
the Hon. Ik O. Wolcott, United Stales senator
from Colorado, as a member of that organiza
tion. This won’t do Colorado any harm, while
at the same time it is rather pleasant news for
New Mexico. Senator Wolcott is a tried and
true friend of this territory. He is a broad
guage man in every sense.
Detailed Description of Human De
pravity.
FYom the Boston Pilot (Cath.).
The man who accepts a bribe to refrain from
voting (which is the latest device for evading
the Australian ballot system) is a mail who
would sell his soul, if Satan were fool enough to
waste money iu that way. Thq man who
bribes auother to stay away from tne polls is
even a meaner wretch. It is a thousand times
better to Vote tho wrong ticket honestly than
through cowardice or corruption to refrain
trom exercising the highest privilege of citizen
ship and manhood.
Suitable Placs to Stop.
From the Buffalo Express (Rep.)
Now what does the American I’ubllc Health
Association wont of a secretary of health in
tbe President's cabinet v The news raters might
as well ask for a secretary of the press, or
Ignatius Donnelly for a secretary of Shake
spearean cryptograms. Expensive official ua
chlnery and added dignity will not promote
public bnaJtn any better than the present ar
rangements, whlen smack less or centralization.
By virtue of a prior request a secretary of labor
would be tbe next addition to the cabinet any
way. But tbe line must be drawn somewhere
and eight departments are enough.
Gen. Grant With a Torpedo.
One of the authors of “Military Essays and
Recollections" suggests, with reaton that the
explosion of a certain torpedo might have
changed the entire 1 lstorr of the ciil war
On the evening before tbe battle at Fort
Hem-y in 18.12. Gena Grant, MeClernand and
Smith went on board the Cincinnati about
ausk to bold a conference wiQi Admiral Foote.
"flute they were in the cabin the gunboat
Conestoga, which bad been reconnoiteriog up
the nver to ascertain whether t' e channel va.
cle r, came alonside the flagship and unloaded
on the ship’s “fan-tail" a tu/e torpedo which
she bad pulled from the water above, says toe
1 oufA' Cos • panion.
The “fan-tail" of these ironclads was clear
space at the stern of the boat near the water's
edge; from its extremity rose the iron end of
the gun deck, to be reached by a ladder.
When tbe conference was over the officers de
scended the ladder to this fan tail, and as they
were about entering their rowboats the torpedo
attract dtbe.r attention.
Gen. Grant expressed a wish to see its mech
anism, and so tbe ship's armorer was sum
moned, and soon appeared with monxey
wrench, hammer and chisels. Its iron end was
removed, disclosing another, terminating in a
cap with a screw-head. The examination was
growing interesting, and every officer bent
closely over the deadly contrivance.
The cap was unscrewed and suddenly allowed
vent to a quantity of gas, probably generated
from the wet powder. It rushed "out with a
loud, hissing noise, and on tbe instant two of
ficers threw themselves face downward on the
deck.
Admiral Foote sprang with tbe agility of a
cat up the ship’s ladder, followed witn com
mendable enthusiasm by Gen. Grant Reach
Ing the top and realizing that the danger had
passed, the admiral turned to Gen. Grant, who
who was and splaying more energy than grace in
his first efforts on a ship’s ladder, with his quiet
smile.
"General, why this haste?"
"That the navy may not get ahead of us."
as quietly responded the general, turning to go
down.
After this little Interruption the business of
examining the torpedo continued.
New Branch of Journalism.
There was a gentle tap od the corner of the
editor's desk, says the Detroit Free frets, and
the busy mau ceased for a moment the death
dealing work of his blue pencil.
"Good morning," said a soft little voice from
a bunch of whiskers on a mild little man
“How are you?" replied the editor, without
the slightest indication in the tone that he cared
a continental how the little man was.
“ ’May I have a few minute, of your time?’’
inquired the little voice, pleadingly.
"What is it?"
“X have something you may need in your bus
iness. ”
"What? Money?" Inquired the editor, sar
castically.
“No,” said the little man, "not money; but
something else. Did you ever hear of a
neologizer?"
"Something to cloon clothes with? To keep
out tbe tiies? To destroy cockroaches? To
ke?p paste sweet? To destroy m ths? To
make old butter young? To remove freckles
or tan? To cure fits? To eradicate hair moles?
To " and the editor hesitated a moment in
his sarcasm
“Go on," said the little man softly, "goon;
you are not half way there and I’ve got a week’s
vacation."
Tbe editor warmed a little.
“Well, what the deuce is a neologizer?’’
“I’m one,” said the little man.
“O,” growled the editor.
“Yes, sir, I’m a neolog zer a joke neologizer
—neologizer from the Greek neos, new, and
logos, speech, word discourse. See? I intro
duue new words for puns and new ideas for
jokes. lean ”
“Hold ou a minute," interrupted the editor.
"I'm not the man you want to see. Let mein
troduce you to our funny man."
The editor took him back and stepped outsido
to listen, and five minutes afterward he heard a
dull thud on the floor and a scatierment, and
then the funny man, with a handful of wniH
kers, came out ana asked the janitor for a dust
pan and a broom.
Remarkable Poker Hand.
"I have seen some pretty good hands in draw
poker in my time," said a Capitol hill man to a
reporter, “but I must tell you of a little bit of
experience I bad recently at this American
game," says a writer iu the Washington Host.
“1 called at the bouse o* a friend by appoint
ment a few nights ago to take part in a four
banded contest, out some of the boys disap
pointed us, so we two sat dowr. and had a little
single set-to ail to ourselves, one cant ante and
five cents limit.
•'Well, we two playod on for awhile without
striking anything t . speak of, when a I of n
sudden I felt a bite, so to speak. X bad stragged
a whopper, sure enough. My friend had dealt
me a hand. 1 took it up carelessly and looked
at it, and for a moment l was staggeted. Dog
my buttons if he hadn’t given me a straight
flu h, and a king straight tlush at that.
“1 tried to appear unconcerned and made a
move as though to draw a card or two, and
then I apparently changed my mind and con
cluded to stand pat. My friend drew one card,
and 1 bet the limit, 5 cents. He saw my bet and
wents better. I saw his raise, of course, and
went back at hi u with the limit.
“He came back at me, raising me to the limit
again, and thus we went on until all the spare
change we had about us was on the table
quite a respectable little sum—and then not
wishing to take alt the fellow’s money', who
could not well afford it, I concluded, as I had
had about enough of the picnic, to call him and
put him out of bis agony, intending to band
him ba k half of the pot.
“And so 1 called, and—well, I’ll be darned if
he didu’t show down an ace-straight flush—a
royal invincible—that beat ray hand just one
measly spot. He had held the ace, king, queen
and jack of diamonds, and blow me If be
hadn’t captured the ten-spot of diamonds on
the draw."
Tom Roed When a Boy.
An interesting old gentleman from Maine ha3
been down in Washington this week. He comes
from Portland, whore Tom Reed was born, and
he remembers all about the ex-speaker when a
boy. "I remember," hs said, “the first time
Tom Reed went to school an J the first speech
he ever made. I was one of the big boys in the
school, and one day two of the giris brought in
a funny-looking little chap, with round, fat
cheeks, eyes to match and a tow bead. It was
the future speaker, and a very good portrait iu
miniature. That was the begiuniug of his school
days, and for a long time he was th -most de
mure little fellow imaginable. We used to
speak pieces’ every week, and the first time it
came Tom’s turn he got off something about
‘old Jim Crow,’ in four lines, and he did
it so se iously in his queer little voice
that the effect was ludicrous. Tom
grew into a very sedate kind of
boy. Everybody wore long f air then, and his
appearance was comical, as he was rather tall
anil thin, and his locks even then were sparse
When he was IB or IB y ears old he experienced
religion, and his exhortations iu tbe evening
meetings were the pride of the good church
people. Everybody expected then that Tom
would develop into a preacher and he went to
Bowdoiu College with that intention, but some
thing or other switched him off. In colleze ho
was as quiet as he had been when a boy, but no
body ever got ahead of him. He was the best
debater there and some of his essays were re
markable productions. I remember one he
wrote for a prize ou 'The Fear of Death.’ It
was the weirdest thing 1 ever heard, and Tom
addea to the effect by the curious way in which
he delivered it."
Her 1 eason.
From the Clothier and Furnisher
She speaks about my new silk hat.
And says it’s not on straight;
She hints about my awkward pose
Until I grow irate.
She says my trousers are too short.
And puts mo In a state.
She glances at my wiry hair,
And thinks It might be brushed;
She says that when I tied my tie
I must have been quite rushed.
And talks about the way X sit
Until I feel quite crushed.
And yet I am not vexed with her,
1 could not be, you know.
For when I asked her wby it is.
She makes so hard my row,
My pretty critic smiles and says:
“Because I love you so.”
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ITEMS QF INTSREBT.
“It is the prevailing belief,” said Gen. Stihbs,
the special examiner of pension*, to a Chicago
Herald man. "that the great army of pension
ers is b und to grow larger as the years go bv,
and Anally, at a period remote from the war,
reach immense proportions. This is an error,
however, for the next lew years will witness an
immense reduction iu the number of persons
who draw quarterly stipends from Uncle Sam's
treasury. Some years ago, down in the
moil: tains of Tennessee, I eame upon the case
of a young woman who was drawing
a pension as the widow of a soldier
of 1812. The investigation of the
case showed that she, a girl of 17 years,
married a veteran aged 95 years, who had fouc ht
with Jackson at New Orleans. The veteran
died in a short time and the youthful widow
succeeded to the pension. and she is drawing it
yet. She will continue to draw it, too, as long
as she lives, for she will never forfeit it by
marryiug again, although she is atili a youn g
woman. Among those mountaineers $34 every
three months is a big iucome, enough to make
the nappy poss-ssor or it an aristocrat, if ih s
young woman lives to be GO years old and that
is not u! all unlikely, she will be drawing a pen
sion as a widow of 1812 one hundred ana forty
years after the close of that conflict.
Gen. Grant’s body will now Anally he at rest
in New Y ork. Blocks of granite and shafts of
marble will be reared above it, but the body
itself will not bo disturbed. For nearly a mor 11
the operation of moving the tomb in R verside
Park has been in prog ess The little red brick
arched building, with its foundation of con
Crete, weighing nearly 100 tons, has been lifted
ten feet in the air and carried twenty-five feet to
the northward. Then it was moved nine feet to
the westward to its permanent site. The tomb
rests on a fretwork of heavy timbers and
Jumbo jack-> crews and is pushed
a ong inch by inch by a lateral pressure of
the screws. Men have been at work night and
day. as it was nec s-ary to get tbe concrete
foundations well settled before the front came
Th ■ resuit is a fine demonstration of the posG
biiities of American engineering. Hydraulic
pumps and several new a- plications of standard
principles of leverage were brought into use to
move the huge mass, w hich will ba located on
the northern foundation pier of the final monu -
ment. This foundation is twenty-five feet and( ep,
of solid cement, and it and a similar pier to tne
southward will sustain the total weight of the
immense superstructure. For the present the
old red brick tomb will be banked with earth
around the foundations and a path and stem
will lead up to the door to allow the public, as
heretofore, to visit the resting place of the dead
general.
A few days ago, when a Chicaro newspaper
gave an assignment which caused the deaths of
three bright young members of the profession,
one of the trio remarked exultingly: "This is a
job for my life.” leaving out of consiileratiou
the superstitious phase of tne case iu point and
the terrible, prophetic truthfulness of the re
mark it snould serve to call attention to the
fact that in the journalistic profession, perhaps
in a gn-ater degree than any other, succes- often
is largely a mere matter of chance. Circum
stances make an unknown reporter great in an
hour, while another equally endowed may re
main in obsc rity half a lifetime. Ability, ener
gy, fidelity—the dements which oomman I suc
cess in any line of work—bring their rewards as
certainly and probably as promptly in the
newspaper field as in any other; but every
active newspaper worker knows that his oppor
tunities to achieve greatness suddenly are few
and very far between. It is. therefore, easy to
understa and the eagerness with which an ambi
tious young writer embraces his first chanoe to
prove his mettle and to show his worth. A
few years ago an unknown tramp reporter ap
piled for work at the office of the Cincinnati
Enquirer and was given temporary einploy
me t He was taciturn, unsociable, morose,
and bis work gave no indication that he was
anv exception to the army of bohemian news
paper workers to whict he belonged. One
night there came an unusual rush of news, and
J. B. McCormick, the well known "Macon" of
the New York prss, who at
I hat, time filled the city editor’s chair
in the Enquirer office, was driven nearly wild
hv tbe unprecedented crush of important mat
ters to be covered. F,very man on his force
who could be utilized was prested Into reporto
rial s rvice and sent out on asßgnments. At
the last moment word was received that a mur
der had been committed at the Cincinnati gas
works. Iu desjie atl-rn this was turned over to
the new man with instructions to investigate
the case as thoroughly and as quickly as possi
ble. Witnin an hour he was back at the office
Without saving a word to any one he threw
himself down upon a loug table in tne report
ers’ room, and, stretched out at full length,
began to write with his face held close to t tie
paper beneath him. Several of his cc
workors. who spoke to him leceived no reply.
The ' copy" bov was unable to claim his attorn
tion. McCorm ok himself came striding across
the room and shook him roughly bv the shoul
der. He glanced up angrily, handed over a
dozen pages of manuscript, ad again buried
himself in his work. As the city editor's trained
eye hastily ran over the matter before passing’
it to a “copy ’ reader he suddenly stopped, re
turned it to the writ-r, who seemed to be oblivi
ous of all except his work, and again grasped
him by the shoulder. "You may nave all the
space you can cover," he said, quietly, an i re
turned to his desk. The first page leader of the
Enquirer next morning was a three-column
article which competent judges have pronouned
the finest specimen of descriptive reportorial
work ever published in a newspaper. The story
of the Rufer-Sc illlrg tragedy is a classic m
American literature. The murderer had hacked
his victim to pieces and burned the body in a
furnace at the gas works The deed was dis
cover and imme .lately afterward and the half
cooked rerna ns wore r covered. Tne re
port r who first v sited the scene seemed
to steep himself in the awful horror. He
felt of the cr sp and b'ackened flesh, ha
smelled its sc. fining odor, ne took the un
recognizable he id in his hands and ran hit
fingers mto the empty eyesockets, he felt t e
keen edge of the w eapon with which the mur
der was committed, and as he did so the gray
hair of tne dea < man, clott and Ith blood and
brains, stuck to bis hands. Asking a half
dozen questions of the horrified bystanders he
bounded away aid disappeared as suddenly as
he came The man who did ail this became ta
rn in a single night. He is known throuch
ou tbe entire literary world. There are few
. . icrs of modern literature who have hot been
fascinated and delighted by bis matchless word
painting. His mine when lie acoieved fame
was unknown; to-day everybody knows Laf
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