The morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, November 04, 1891, Page 4, Image 4
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JT "I-* :'*-■*■ J w tftne?*.-*. ® ?rt *-' a--•. * > AJ4OCI4TIOK, ?t3C>l34- ft w i'T* S So*. T.SC.M BaDdteg sorr.'N- „ f. ft Xaa. ?tr. Hrdwu i Oa,, U S*M stnwt. cuacAeo- , . -soiLi*, Sndoiph street. CDC*>" S ATI- _, Jfew is nmm Compist, 66 West Fourth street. SEW HAVtN- Tsi H. P. Hnjuu> CotPiST. Elm street. ST. LOUS— „ ftsie*’> Csmis t Cos., 1137 Pine rtrert. ATLANTA— , .. Jlo*3rr'<i Nsirs Brxttc. Sis Whitehall Street *lOO.l - Tgtjftairg Omct 5h7 Mulberry street. 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 -mt.m. u- iaUii’ --> I-'" A. The .• 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.” BAKING POWUKtt. jiao Baking . U<_dPowder Used in Millions of Homes— 4.0 Years the Standard FLAVORING EXTRACTS. Not Responsible. As regards food adulteration, the grocer is in no wise res ponsible for the acts of the manufacturer. If people want goods at cheap figures they must expect quality to correspond. Dr. Price’s De licious Flavoring Extracts, Vanilla, Lemon, etc., come a few cer ts higher than other extracts in the market* but they contain no poisonous or hurtful matter as an adulter ant; their quality is the high est, their flavor the finest and their perfect purity es tablished. 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. 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