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Newspaper Page Text4 CljclHornmgtlctos Morning News Building Savannah, Ga. SVM )AY - XOV - Register- l at the Pot?office >n .Saranna*. The Morning News is published every day in the rear, and is served to subscribers in the ctiu at 23 cents a week, *1 00 a month, S' 00 for six months and *lO 00 for one year Tbe 'lorning News, by mill , one month. Si 00; three months, $2 id; six months, $5 00; one year, *lO 00. The Mon NINO News, by mat, six times a week (without Sunday issue , three months, *2 00; six months. Si oO; one year, *d 00. The Morning News, Tri-Weekly, Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, or Tuesdays. Thurs days and Saturdays, three months. *1 *5; six months, $2 50; one year, f 5 (. The Sunday News, by mail, one year, ft 00. The Weekly News, by mail, one year. *1 25. Subscriptions payable ia advance. Remit by postal order, check or registered letter. Cur rency sent by mail at risk of senders. Letters and telegrams snould be addressed “Morning News, ” savannah, (la. Transient advertisements. other than special column, local or reading notices, amusements rad cheap <ir want coiumn. 10 cents a line ourteen lines of agate type-equal to one Inch space iu depth is the standard of meas ■rement. Contract rates and discounts made known on application at business office. ’ OCR MEW YORK OFFICE, Mr J.J. Flynn, General Advertising Agent Of the Morning News, office 23 Park Row, New York. All advertising business outside ef the states of Georgia, Florida and South Caro lina will be managed by him. The Morning News is on flle at the following places, where Advertising Rates and other In formation regarding the paper can be obtained; NEW YORK CITY— J. H. Bates, 38 Park Row. G, P. Roweia A Cos.. 10 Spruce street. W W. Sharp* Cos., 21 Park Row. Frame Kiernan & Cos., 152 Broadway. IJavcby A Cos., 27 Park Plaoe. J. W. Thompson, 39 Park Row. American Newspapkb Publisher's Association, Potter Building PHILADELPHIA— N. W. Ayer & Son, Times Building. BOSTON— £. R. Niles, 356 Washington street. Psttkkoill Si Cos., 10 State street. CHICAGO— Lord A Thomas, 45 Randolph street. CINCINNATI— JCnwiN Alden Company, 66 West Fourth street. NEW HAVEN- The H P. Hubbard Company, 25 Elm street. ST. LOUIS— Nelson Chesman A Cos., 1127 Pine street. ATLANTA- Morning News Bureau, SX Whitehall street, MACON- Daily Telegraph Office, 597 Mulberry street. THIS ISSUE -CONTAINS .3 TWELVE PAGES. INDEX TO NEW ADVKKTISKMm Bpicial Notices—Special Offers at Stern’s Cigar Emporium; A Festival of Ceres Under Auspices of St. Matthew's Episcopal Church, Monday, Nov. 30; Holiday Goods, E. M Connor; Thanksgiving Proclamation. Geo. J. Mills. Act ing Mayor of Savannah; Tinning, Guttering, Etc., E. C. Pacetti; Largest Vehicle and Har ness Dealers South, The Savannah Carriage and Wagon Company; Wood for Sale, A. Ernst A Co’s Wood Yard; Ladies, Attention, A Turkey at Joyce's; Furniture, Etc., by C. P. Rossignol Agent, R. H. latem. Auctioneer; Real Estate and Bi nkerage, Wm. F. Blots A Cos.; Our Discount, Barbour Bros,; A Card, The Ellington Creamery Company; First Grand Masquerade Ball of the 8. T. and S. Club Not. 6; Notloe, E. R. Hernandez; Savan nab Steam Laundry; To Physicians, The South 6ide Pharmacy; Special Notice, Empire Steam Laundry; To the School Children, Falk olotti tiur Company, Look at these Low Prices, Estate B. W. Branch. Am us it UK nt —Concert at Armory Hall Nov. 23. Shirts and Collars—Falk clothing Com pany. Get in the Rush—The D. B. Lester Grocery Company. Children's White and Colored Silk Caps, Etc.—At Gutman’s. Tornado of Bargains—C. Gray & Bon. Gl ass at the Huge Candle—Appel & Schaul. Cloaeb Almost Given Awat—At G.Eckstein’s. This Week—D. Hogan. A Poor Stove—James Douglass. Wbar Pants?—B. H. Levy & Bro. , Gdess on the Bmi. Candle—Appel 4 Sobaul. A Great Dissolution Sale—Morrison, Foye & Cos. $150,000 Stock of Dry Goods—At Altmayer’g. The Bombardment Commences To-morrow— At Almayer's. A Beauty- M. Boley & Son. Pianos and Organs—L. & B. 8. M. H. Dinner Sets, Etc.—Norton & Hanley. Down Go Prices—Globe Shoe Store. Phaetons in All Styles—Savannah Carriage *od Wagon Company. Gilt-Edged Dry Goods—Orohan & Dooner. A Surprise to Every One—The A. J. Miller Company Latest Importation—Engel & Rothschild. Oranges—J. S. Tyson, Jr., & Cos. Dew Drop Canned Goods—Wm. G. Cooper. Cheap Column Advertisements Help Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Rant; For §ale; Lost; Personal; Miscellaneous. At the great mining congress in Denver nearly every state was fully represented. If we may judge from the recorded absorp tion of hilarious moisture there was about as much sapping as there was mining going on. " " a Matrimony doesn’t appear to greatly im prove the habits of the convivial man after •11. Before marriage he is generally "up with the boys” half the night and after marriage he is frequently up with the baby •11 night. And in the latter case he is just as boisterous as in the former. When a Washington bank recently failed for $300,000 at the town of Spokane it owned a silver miue in Idaho among other assets turned over to the reoeiver. Within the past few days that mine was sold for SOOO,OOO to a Milwaukee syndicate. That pays all debts of the defunct bank and leaves a big fortune for a dividend among the stockholders. Not so bad a failure after all. Without consulting Mrs. Jefferson Davis the Virginia legislature will probably ap propriate for her benefit a moderate sum In the form of a voluntary testimonial fund as the basis for the general fund to which all of the states of the former confederacy will be invited to contribute. That is the plan of the Riohmond committee having the affair in charge and it appears to be a very good one. Nevada society is greatly agitated over the recent elopement of pretty Miss Beisie Blossom with a grim and not particularly well favored Washoe Indian. Bad for Bonnie Bessie. At best she can never be more than a Washoe woman now—even though her lurid liege doesn’t presently compel her to dig potatoes or saw stove wood for the tepee. Then she would surely be no longer a Blossom. A State Health Board Needed. The epidemic of small-pox at Harris’ Neck, Mclntosh oountjr, shows how impor tant it is that the state should have a health board. The small-pox has prevailed there for about three months and the number of cases has been steadily increasing, and yet until recently nothing was known of tho epidemic in other parte of the state and little or nothing was done to stamp out the disease. Harris’ Neck is an isolated place, but it is very accessible, and the colored people along that part of tho coast con stantly visit it. It is somewhat remarkable, therefore, that the disease has not been car ried to other points along the coast, and even into the interior. It is probable that tho county authorities knew very little about the epidemic until it had assumed alarming proportions, or if they did they did not know what steps to take to prevent its spread and stamp out the disease. If there had been a state board of beaith it would have been notified as soon as the disease made its appearance, and an epidemic would have been prevented. The first few cases would have been isolated and other preventive measures adopted. It seems rather remarkable that a great state like Georgia has to call on tho na tional government to take charge of a lit tle epidemic of an infectious disease, lo cated in an out-of-the-way place iu one of its counties. The state ought to be prepared to look after epidemics of diseases which oocur within her borders. She ought not to be dependent upon the national govern •ment. It is well enough to call Tor gov ernment aid when an epidemic threatens to get beyond her control, or when the bur den of fighting it is too groat for her to bear alone, but it is against onr theory of good government to be so dependent upon the central government. If the states are to depend upon the national government for assistance whenever they suffer from small epidemics, overflows or cyclones it will not be long before state authority will sink rat of sight altogether, and the na- authority will be exercised on the slightest pretext. The governor was placed in a rather humiliating position the other day when he was forced to oonfess that he had no means of aiding the sufferers at Harris’ Neck, or of doing what was necessary to be dons to check the epidemic there. But, as a matter of fact, he was powerless, and had to per mit the national government to do what the state ought to have been prepared to do. The national government responded promptly and willing, to the re quest for assistance, and its action is appreciated, but this oontinual calling on the national government to exercise the functions of state govern ments Is calculated to magnify in the eyes of the people the importance of the national government and lesson their respect for and dependence upon state govern ments. The time may come when the cen tral government will be disposed to en croach upon tho authority of state govern ments, and it may be found then, when too late, that the people are not as jealous of the rights of the states as their best interests require they should be. But, aside from the danger to be appre hended from the gradual growth of central power,each of the states ought to be pre pared to take care of its health matters on all ordinary occasions. In this state, for instance, theie may be at any time, an epidemic of small-pox.diphtheriaor typhoid fever in someone of the countios of too great proportions for the local authorities to handlo, and tbe public good would be served by state assistance. But there is no way in which the state can render help. There is no state board of health and no ap propriation for health purposes. In times of danger from epidetnlos the state is power less. This is a regrettable condition of af fairs andshould be remedied at tho next ses sion of the legislature. Brazilians Wanted Fonseca Banished. Kather u remarkable disclosure relative to the governmental complications in Brazil is that made by a Chilean correspondent of the London Times in a dispatch from San tiago. he says that “a person who was a principal aotor in the revolution against bom Pedro now states that at the time tbe premier sent a note to Petropolis urging the emperor to return to Klo Janeiro.” But Dr. Fonseca is said to have somehow possessed himself of the note and pocketed and managed to forget it in the prevalent excitement incident to that stir icg period. Consequently bom Pedro fled tho country Instead of facing the move ment which tbe participants now acknowl edge would readily have yielded to the strong influenco of his always impressive and popular presence. Further than this the undisclosed "per son" referred to positively avers that la May and June of last year certain in fluential people in Brazil who kaew the story of the note that was never delivered had made complete arrangements to ship Dr. Fonseca and his cabinet away from Brazil just os the wily doctor had shipped off Dom Pedro. But those of their number who were interested iu the freedom of elec tions failed to come forward at the ap pointed time, and the project was ulti mately abandoned. Now that the doctor has openly usurped the functions of a dictator those who proved recalcitrant at the opportune moment may not feet altogether satisfied with them selves. Under the arbitrary sway of the dictator the press has been literally gagged and deprive! of any voice in the shapiag of public affairs. That probably does not convey to the admirers of a froe ballot much ground for expeotiug to see any im mediate fruition of their patriotic hopes. But what are they going to do about it! Rueful reflections are fruitless. Regrets come too late now. Since Col. Watterson’s Courier-Journal has declared against the spelling of the name of Chile that the inhabitants adopted by legal enactment and persists in having it spelled ’’Chili” there is no reason why the other papers should not take the same liberty with the name of the colonel’s own town and spell it “Lewisvil” instead of Louisville as all good Louisvillians prefer to have it. Or they might spell the colonel’s own name “Watersuu” instead of the way he prefers it spelled if they were boorish enough. Leader John M. Langston is still talking and Btiil in his chronic condition of vocif erous indignation because the republican national committee doesn’t accord him as much 1 ‘rec’onishun” as he thinks his ooloris entitled to. So he is now engaged in the act of frowning darkly upon the offending com mittee. Possibly the declaration of Henry Clay that he “would rather be right than Presi dent” was the correct view, Quite right, it is also a very rnuoh easier tbiug to he. THE MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1891—TWELVE PAGES. A Man Who Will be Remembered. Hon. Nelson Tift, of Albany, whose death was announced in the Mobnino News a day or two ago, will not soon be forgot ten by the people of Southwest Georgia, lie was greatly beloved in Albany, where the greater part of his life was spent, and he was one of the most useful citizens of the state. He came in his youth from Con necticut to Georgia, and at once took a deep interest in the state’s welfare and prosper ity. He was the founder of Albany, and be lived to see it change from a pine-cov ered knoll on the banks of Flint river to a flourishing city having an immense business and railroads runuing in every direction. In all of his aims and undertakings he kept in view the interests of his adopted state, aud endeavored to advance them, especially the interests of that section of which Albany in the business center. In no part of the state outside of that of his residence was CoL Tift better known tbau in Bavannah. His never changing purposes, and his never changing form and face made him as familiar to the preheat generation as to that to which he more properly belonged. He ably seconded the efforts that werb made to construct a trunk line from this city to the gulf. These efforts were not entirely successful, hut tne road that was constructed is now the Savannah, Florida and Western railway, aud he con tributed greatly to the building of it. It was diverted from Albany by the opposi tion of the Central railroad, but CoL Tift lived to seo three roads built from Albany to a connection with it, two of them being completed many years before he died. He aided his brother, the late A. F. Tift, in his work ia this city of converting the British steamship Fingal into the con federate iron-clad Atlanta. Col. Tift was a member of the constitu tional conventions of 1868 and 1877. He was on three several occasions a member of the general assembly, and was three times elec ted to congress. He was a plain appearing aud plain spoken man, and withal a very courteous gentleman. He was not only an able, clear-headed, persevering man, but during a life of the greatest activity and aggressiveness he maintained a well-de served reputation for being at all times controlled by disinterested motives. He died at the advanced age of 83 years, while yet in appearance and In impulses a man in the prime of life. His death sug gests the reflection that the allotted period of three score and ten years is altogether too short for the labors of such a man as be was. His standard was high and the num ber of those who measure up to it is com paratively small. In Gsorgia’s history he will rank as one of her great men. A Ridiculous Charge. The republican organs of New York assert day after day that the democrats of that state are trying to steal the legisla ture. If they are to be believed Gov. Hiii is devoting his whole time to finding a way to commit the theft without being de tected. The truth doubtless is that the republloanß committed a great many frauds on the ballot-box in the late election, and they are afraid these frauds will be detected. They are, therefore, crying "Stop thief in order to turn attention away from them selves. Gov. Hill has never been detected in any wrong-doing, and Is not likely to be, for the reason that he does nothing be is ashamed of. His political enemies continually assert that he is a tricky politician because they are jealous of his success. They have never been able, however, to point to anything discreditable in his political career. The republicans are afraid they are going to lose control of the Assembly, and nat urally they are hysterical and abusive. They have the same chance to watch the count in the close districts that the democrats have, and if they should see any attempt at cheat ing they would be quick to disclose it. They have seen nothing yet. But they have not ceased to charge tho democrats with a purpose to steal the legislature since it beoame evident that there was a probability that the latter would control the assembly. The republicans have much the better rec ord for stealing. They stole the presidency once, and whenever they are in the ma jority in congress they manage to steal a number of seats both in the House and Senate. In the last congress they obtained a working majority in the House by steal ing seats that belonged to democrats. Having such a reoord they should never charge the opposition with theft. The Deeper Water Movement. Capt. Purse has completed his canvass of the west in the interest of deeper water in Savannah harbor, and will arrive home this morning. His canva has been a very suc cessful one. He met with encouragement everywhere. Capt. Purse has the ability to make friends of those with whom he comes in contact, and of impressing them favorably aud strongly with whatever undertaking he has in hand. He undoubtedly made a favor able impression in tbe west, and did excel lent work for the movement for deepening tbe harbor. The outlook Is certainly very encourag ing for favorable congressional action. It is admitted by all who have given the sub ject the least attentiou that owing to the magnitude of Savannah’s oommeroe the work of deepening her harbor should be done as quickly as possible. Capt. Purse has done his work in the west well, and cordial assistance from that section may be looked for when Savannah's demand for deeper water comes before con gress. Hanging is about the right penalty for Murderer Almy since there is nothing worse. Really the man ought to be glad of such a good opportunity to sbuffie off and hustle through the mysterious regions of the unknown hereafter In search of the butchered victim of his brutality If he loves her half so much as bis profuse pro fessions imply. To a man so Insanely anxi ous to recover a mislaid affinity what differ ence should it make whether he is hanged unto death by the neck or fired into eternity from a catapault? In either event “he gets there just the same”—lf his calculations are correct. That ought to satisfy him. Therefore the world will have some reason to doubt the sincerity of the sentimental murderer’s ostentatious sobs if he should make any overt effort to “break away" from that righteous verdict of death. Though the tardiness of the North Ger man Lloyd steamsblp Eider gave her own ers and many other poople a great scare she finally managed to reach Southampton safely after a rather tempestuous voyage. Fast running Is not practiced on that line to such an extent as to be very dangerous. But she broke her machinery and was thus , partly disabled at sea. PERSONAL. Rudyard Kipling left Sydney. New South Wales, on Monday for Colombo, Ceylon. Gov. Russell and friends of Massachusetts, are up in Somersot county, Maine, on a bunt ing and Ashing trip. SGkn. Lsw Walla, c Is Arm in his refusal of all offers to publish his forthcoming novel in serial form or in the papers. Rev. Brooks Hereford, who has accepted a call to his old parish ia London, will preach his last sermon in Boston Sunday, Jan 10. The marriage of Prince Henry of Pless with Miss Cornwallis West will take place on Dec, 8, at St. Margaret's church, Westminster. Dr. Edward Warrsn Bbv, the American physician of Paris, has just been promoted to the grade of conmiatider of the Order of Isabel the Catholic of Spain. The son of Hiram Powers has finished at Denver, CiL.agroup of statuary composed of an Indian standing above a dying buffalo. It is called "A Closing Era. ’ A lady’s sile collar was exhibited at the late fair in Sullivan county, Pennsylvania, made from silk grown in that oounty and spun and knit by Miss Mary Clark. The oldest surviving graduate of West Point Is Col. William C. Young of New York city, who graduated in 1822. He will be 97 years old the day before Thanksgiving. Charlxs Brigham, who entered the postal service in Boston in 1837. is still a clerk in the postofline of that city, in which he has seen ten Pasi masters oome and go, and is now serving under the eleventh. Daniel D. Mahoam. Jr., and Miss May Morti mer Talmage, daughter of Rev. Dr, Talmage of Brooklyn, are to be married Dec 3. Miss Talmage is a brunette and 22 years of age. Mr. llangam ia a New York grain merchant. Mas. Poultnby Bigelow, who is the latest New York society woman to break into litera ture, is said to possess $1,000,030 in her own right. Most women possessing such a fortune would rather spend their time writing checks than hooka. Mrs. Francis Hodoson Burnett has founded an asylum for newsboys in Drury lane, London, In memory of her dead son Lionel, the original of ‘‘Little Lord Fauntleroy.” It is called “Lionel's Home,’’ and Mrs. Burnett will devote to its maintenance a generous portion of her in come. Queen Victoria has abandoned the Idea of going to the theateru this season, but by way of compensating some people for the disappoint ment thus caused sue has arranged for a per formance at Windsor castle on Nov. 26 by Sig. Lango’s company uf Mascagni's opera, “Caval leria Rusticaaa.” The leading illustration of George Leonard Chaney’s article on "The New South” In the November number of the .Veto England Maga zine shows a tall telegraph pole as the most conspicuous object in the foreground of the state house at Atlanta That is the sort of illustration which illustrates. Eugenie, the ex empress, was just 26 years of age when Napoleon 111. fell in love with her at a ball. He had heard of her magnificent physique through the rumors of her appearance when dragged in flowing draperies from a little lake into which she had fallen on her mother's estate in Malaga. From a pale, thin, shy girl she sud denly blossomed out into a dazzling beauty. BRIGHT BITS. Popular Novelist-I only know two women who are absolutely perfect. Mrs Lovelace—Who is tho other?—From the French, ( young De Vere is a very promising fel "Ah! how muoh did you lead him.”—Balti more Amerftsan. Author—j),, you suppose these society wo men’s novels pay ? Cynic—The publishers they employ? O yes. Baltimore 4merisan. She—Whioh of Mr. Caroll’s poems do you think evinces the holiest flight of imagination? He—That In which he refers to himself as a potst^-Funny A tobacco export says that Oklahoma will become a great tobacco growing region. This is not the first land boom to end in smoke. Yonker*s siesteentan. - - ——■ Blown an Blabb (labor agitator)—Well, I’ve done a good day’s work. (fi f "How?!’ T j "I got three hundred men td stop working." Life. At the Chryranthehum Show.—Mother- How do you like these. Dora? Dors—Wouldn't they look-better, mother, if they had tfleir half 'combed?— Boston Tran script. Mr. Opentop—l can’t eat this pia of yours, Maria. It would be suicide. Mrs. Opehtop (tearfully)—And yet. before w we were married you said you would die for me!— Puck. “I’ve often wondered to myself,’* Said thoughtful Mr. Roth, “Why clergymen are spoken of ‘As gentry of the cloth.’ ’’ Quote Witticus—a man of jokes And tendency to shout them— “l guess it's ’cause there's apt to be Abundant 'nap' about them.’’ —Boston Courier-Journal. Bloobumpbr (to Jsysmlth, banker)—Fan gle is oae of your (referred oreditors, I under stand ? Jaysmith—Not much! He was always dun ning me.—Smith-Gray Monthly. “What a bri -ht lot of darky boys 1” “Yes—all but that little one over there—a regular little pickaninny, isn’t he?” "Well, yes. If 1 ware going to pick a ninny out of the lot, 1 should take him.”—Philadel phia Press. Twtnn—l do all my writing with my left hand. Triplett—Then, of course, you cannot obey the Scriptural injunction. “What injunction?” “ ‘Let not your left hand know what your right hand does.’ " —Smith-Gray Monthly. Doortender—Very sorry, sir, but I can’t let you go in. The lecture is exclusively for ladles. Lon;-haired Applicant—l am a Browning reader Doortender—O, pardon me, pardon me, pass right In.—Boston Courier. Teacher—Tommy, why didn’t you lqarn your lessons for to day? Tommy—Well, papa was sick and mamma had to be with him, and sister was away. Teacher—How did that affect you? Tommy—Why, there wasn’t any one to re mind mo of them.— Harper's Young People. CURRENT COMMENT. Meditating a Dlßttnottve Oregon Move. From the Portland Weelely World (Dem.). “O. wad som' power the gif tie gie us, to see oursels as ith-ra see us."’ Then possibly wo might get a distinctive "move on us” and raise a fund sufficient for a creditable representation at the world's fair. Meets With Approval In Michigan. From the Jae'uon Saturday Star (/rid.). The Savannah Nswg is a democratic paper, but it is not far wrong when it says: No party that favors the free coinage of silver can carry asinglr eastern state, and without help from these states no party can elect a President. New York and Massachusetts, which have lust elected democratic governors, are against it, and the democratic parties of those states were wise enough to condemn It in their platforms. Political Quaylsm Reflects Upon the People. From the Philadelphia Telegraph (Rep.). Mr. Quay is not an ideal senator, yet nothing but a popular uprising against him and his class will accomplish his retirement to private life; and of such uprising, or of the feeling that would lead to it, there are no present indi cations. He is a senator by their will and power, and. bad as he Is, he Is their creation, and of course quite as good as they are. The stream cannot rise higher than Its source, and the seu ator cannot be any worse than the people who made him senator. Not until the people rise superior to Quay and Quay is in shall these two political evils be overthrown. Should Be Wiped From the Statutes. From the Buffalo Exvrete (Rep.). Secretary Foster neglects to state that to day the price of sliver is lower than it has been at any time since tha Shermaa law was enacted, and that lta value is but a very little higher than before the law was made. In spite of all theories the fact remains that the act has not shown the"tendency to reduce the difference in value between the two metals” which Secretary Foster claims for It. And the worst of the mat ter Is there is no prospect that It will have any such tendency. The Sherman law can be de feuded only as a compromise which prevented the enactment of a free coinage bill. But it is not a law based on sound financiering, and if It can ever be repealed without running us Into graver dangers It should be wiped from the statute books. No Typewriters Wanted. “I don’t want a typewriter,” said the Boston Globe man. He had a supremely bored look and a certain grirr.aees of demeanor which might mean that he would presently kick the agent downstairs. It was hot, however; so hot that the agent, who was well acquainted with that sort of lock on men s faoes, felt that he might trust the i-tiding day to keep off active hostilities yet a little longer. It was a forlorn hope, for the agent had al ready dilated on the perfect alignment of the machine; on Its speed, proved superior to all competitors in the Philadelphia typewriter com petition; on its perfect adjustment, neat look, small keyboard, etc. But all he could get out of the man was; ”1 don’t want a typewriter.” The agent had even resorted to that last re sort of running down ail the rival typewr.ters, but to no use. He gave a weary sigh and be gan to pack up his sample He glanced out of the door at the blinding and suffocating sun shine. Then he turned again to the man and said; “Well, I’m afraid I cant sell you a machine. To tell you the truth I’m as sorry for you as I am for myseif. I never knew a man yet who repented buying one of these. One man I knew broke nis to smithereens the first night he got it, but be didn't repent having bought it.” The agent stopped to wipe his forehead care fully with his banderchief He knew that there was not much hope, but a few more minut-s in that cool office wouldn’t be watted, even if he didn’t sell anything. “Yes, sir,’ he continued, briskly, since the man gave him no encouragement, "he made over SSOO by means of that machine. It was this way. He was so much struck on the way it worked that he took it up to his bed room and monkeyed with it until ncarlv 1 o'clock. “Then he went to bed; but he hadn't much more’n got to sleep—you see. he kept thinking shout that machine and how nice it worked when he heard someone around at the side door. “Well, up he jumped and looked out of the window, but there wasn't anybody at the side door. He was just going back to bed whan he saw two men a-working away at the dining room window, a; and before ha could think what to do in they climbed. “You can just bet my friend was scared. There wasn’t nobody but him in the house, and he hadn’t so much as a toy pistol to defendhim self with. "He knew what they was after. His family had a lot of silver that was worth a heap, and these burglars bad beard about it somehow. “The only thing that made him feel good was that all the silver was up-stairs in his bedroom, where It was put every night. Now. thinks he, when the burglars don’t And the silver they'll ge away "But almost before be got so far as this he beard them creeping softly along the hall. “Well, he was scared then, Hs walked quickly across to the hall and ’most died of f right when he stumbled over a table and pretty □early fell. To steady himself he put out his hand and it came on the typewriter. “That put au idea into his head and he nicked it up ami walked out into the hall and leant over the banisters “The men had stopped at the foot of the stairs and he heard one of 'em say: " ‘ Wbat wil! we do wid de dude?’ “ ‘Stick a knife into him, damn him,’ says the other, ‘if he an’t quiet. ’ "Then, with a bull’s-eye in one hand and a bulldog revolver in tbe other, one of the bur glars led the way up and tbe other followed. "When he was half way up the stair, my friend, he threw down the typewriter on the burglars just as hard as he could. It struck the first man on the head and then bounced over and hit the second one in ths breast, knock ing both of ’em down stairs and clattering after toem as if every key in the machine was a pair of handcuffs. “The second one wasn't hurt much anl he lit out like a thousand of brick, but the one that was hit In the head was clean knocked out, and when he came to Jacobs—mv friend's name was Jacobs—was standing over him with his own revolver pointing at him.” The agent stopped and waited for the man to speak. “I don’t want a typewriter,” said he. The Little Woman. “Don’t talk to me of Olympus’ maids, Divinely tall and fair” Of Cleonatra's imperial form, Or Juno's stately air. Those mighty dames, with redoubted names. May erst have held their sway; ’Tis the little woman—bless her heart!— Who rules the world to-day. With her willful, winsome ways, Her artful, artless smiles— Her airy grace and her fairy face— Her wisdom, wit and wiles, She mocks the pride and she sways the strength, She bends the will of man, As only such a despotic elf— A little woman—can. Though her pathway may lead thro’ the darkest ways. She always finds a light; Though her eyes be dazzled by fortune’s rays, Sbe's sure to see aright; Though her wisdom be of no special school. Her logic, "just because,” Tbe first has settled a kingdom's fate, The last has made its laws. 'Tis the little woman that goes ahead When men would lag behind; The little woman who sees her ohancs, And always knows her mind— Who can slyly smile as she takes the oath To honor, love, obey, And mentally add the saving clause In a little woman's way! Would the diamond seem such a perfect gem If it measured one foot round? Would the rose-leaf yield such a sweet per fume If it covered yards of ground? Would the dew drops seem so clear and pure If dew like rain should fall? Or the little woman be half so great If she were six feet tall? ’Tis the hand as soft as the nestling bird That grips the grip of steel; 'TIb the voice as low as the summer wind That rules without appeal; And tbe warrior, scholar, the saint and sage, May fight and plan and pray, The world will wai to the end of time In the little womau s way. She Refused to Strip. A good story is told of a pretty young Cali fornia lady. Miss Mattie Fake, at one time the only female station agent on the Southern Pa cific railroad. It seams, according to the Banning Herald, the road decided to uniform all its agents, and the contract for making the clothing was let to the San Francisco firm of Cowie Bros. In order to expedite matters Ned Cowie sent the fol lowing telegram to all the agents along the line: “Be on the platform when No. 19 passes, wit h nothing on but your panto and shirt." Cowie was thus enabled to m insure the candi dates in short order aud pass on. When No. 19 pulled into Banning Cowie jumped off, looked around, aud said: “Well, where’s the agent?” A stalwart youth, who happened to be Miss Fake’s brother, stepped up and asked him if he was the man who sent the agent a telegram. Cowie answered in tho affirmative, and the fel low started to climb him. It took half an hour to explain matters to young Fake, but everybody laughed so over the story that the company decided to let its coun try agents continue to wear overalls. Norton S. Hill was reoently married at Lex ington, Ky.. to Miss Fannie Dishman by County Judge Frank Bullock in his private office. This wedding is the sequel to one of tho most pecu liar romances ever enacted iu Kentucky. The bridegroom bos been in the Fayette county jail ever since March 23. charged with the crime of bigamy. His bride of to day is the woman he so oruvlly wronged here last year by marrying, when at the same time he ban another wife liv ing in Ohio. The second wife discovered her husband’s perfidy, but not until a child had been born. Then her father had Hill arrested. Friends came to Hill’s rescue, and a day or two ago succeeded in securing for him a divorce from his Ohio wife. The Lexington wife loved him still, and as soon as the divorce was granted hastened to marry him. The child died two months ago. BAKIXO fOWUKB. rtea®,Baking UsL^Powder t7s*d in Millions of Homes— 40 Years the Standard, FI*AVORIXG EXTRACTS. Lemon and Orange. Dr. Price’s Delicious Flavor ing Extracts of Lemon and Orange are made from the fruit and have their grateful, agreeable taste, without the turpentine odor which is observed in those extracts usually sold, made from poi sonous oils, acids, and taste sharpened by cayenne pep per. Those who wish choice, pure extracts, should try Dr. Price’s. They are all that is represented, pure, strong and of fine flavor, and stand alone in the market in these import ant respects. Be willing to pay a fair price for a pure artic/e. ITEMS OF INTEREST. Hafsan Ben Ali of Morocco is seeking a con cession to make a Morocco exhibit at the expo sition. He says he will spend $50,000 in showing the people, manners, customs, amusements, etc., of his country, and in bringing to Chicago a tribe of Berbers. L. TAKAqui and K. Ikxda, two representatives commissioned by the Mikado of Japan, have been in Chicago seeking detailed information concerning the exposition. They were greatly pleased and said their gauntry would make a fine exhibit, and that In it would be a number of the -private art treasures of the mikado. A fact not generally known to the public has gained added interest through the death in France of Mrae. Bartholdi, mother of the well known sculptor and designer, who died a few days ago at the advanced age of 90 years. She it was who stool as the model for Bartholdi's statue of “Liberty Enlightening the World,” which now occupies suco a prominent position in the harbor of Naw York. Several gentlemen- were sipping wine and enjoying a good dinner at a city hotel yesterday, says the Pittsburg Bisralch, when the conver sation turned to tne subject of good feeders. “I don’t think it is true,” remarked one of the men, “that a large maa eats more than a small one. I understand Gmver Cleveland, who is sensitive about his fat, doesn't devour as much food daily as a thin, lank man like Senator Evarts.” "That may be true,” replied John Boyle, an Ohio newspaper man, who was one of the company. “But did any of you ever see Stephen A. Douglas. the Chicago lawyer? He is a son of Lincoln’s opponent, and a man of large dimensions.” They all admitted they didn't even know Dougins had a son. “Well." continued Boyle, “Douglas was one of the big gest eaters I ever saw, and he is not a gour mand, either. I remember I made a stumping tour with him once in Illinois, and when we weut to a hotel he would order a dinner that would satisfy the hunger of the average man. When the waiter put the dishes down before him he would say: ’Now duplicate everything you have brought.’ The waiter would be dum founded, and sometimes explanations were nee led. Douglas had a largo body to support and he needed the food to do it." There is an old tavern down near the Dela ware river with whioh history associates the name of William Penn in connection with his first landing on Pennsylvania soil, which bos dispensed good cheer in liquid shape for over two centuries. The present dispenser of nut brown alo in tbe cosy little “tap room” is not as old as the tavern, but his hair and mustache are white and he has dealt in intoxicants for more than two score years. In that he is not peculiar, but in the fact that in all those years he has never askod a man to take a drink or a customer what he would have to drink When a customer walks ud to the bar, he stands like a statue until the order is given and then he fills it promptly, but without a w ord. The other day two noisy and freshly-familiar young men blew Into the barroom with a draught of hold air and returned the inquiring look of the bartender with a brazen stare At lest one of theui banged the har with his fist and roared, ’’Well, why don’t you ask us what we’ll have to drink?" “I never asked a man that question in my life, ” replied the old bartender quietly, but with a warning snap in his eyes as he added. • 'You can give your order, or get out.” When the customers had gone ont the old man was asked whether he followed his rule on principle. “Yes. sir,” ho replied, “it is on princip’e. lam opposed to treating, because 1 don’t think it’s right." The Pacific extension of the Groat Northern railway promises to be M rich in soonic wonders as the Canadian Pacific. It Is the only trans continental road that reaches the summit of the Rocky mountains on what is known In engineer ing as 1 per cent, grade, or one foot to the hun dred. The extension leaves the main line at Havre, a town seven miles east of Assinaboine, and runs through the Ple gan Indian reservation over the “great, divide.” It has been found necessary to build over Cutbank river a trestle 149 feet In hlght and 1,500 in length, and across the canyon of Two Medicine river a trestle 212 feet in higbt and 751 in length. The latter is said to be the highest wooden trestle in Amer ica. No tunneling has been made in the route over the mountains. From the summit down to Essex, eighteen miles distant, the grade attains the maximum—l.B per cent., or ninety-five feet to the mile. The maximum curvature is 10*. The mountain peaks are very steep, and often rise to great hights. More than one of the lofty peaks west of the summit bears the scars of snow-slides, which must have rushed down the .mountain sides with tre mendous force as trees were pulled from tho ground and can be seen lying at the bottom of the mountains heaped upon rocks and other debris just where the snow melted ia the siuiog The engineers hope to see the track laid as far as Spokane by May 1 next, C. S. Clark, who has been studying the Kceiey cure at Dwight, writes to a Milwaukee paper: “The chief ingredient in the Keeley cure for tbe future is a man's will power. By hit coming here ho has voluntarily arrived at that neotssary stage where he admits his utter weakness to light tho awful battle. He goes through the treatment with an earnestness born of trust aud faith. He knows he has been placed on his feet in from two to three days in stead of that number of weeks, as heretofore. He knows he has, for tho first time in years, not the faintest desire for the stuff that brought him to Dwight, and he kneels in supplication and anxiety for relief. He goes away entirely built up. aud with the experi ences of the dark past, and the known departure of the terrible appetite, he can look all mankind squarely in the face and know he is released. With all these new blessings his, the man who would deliber ately proceed to rekindle the fire of bis earthly hell would be an ingrate, a suicidal wreten, and death should, as it certainly would, be his earthly portion. This, to my mind, constitutes the Keeley cure, and in giving it I would bid all unfortunates to hope. Coine here if you be lieve you have lost ali control of yourself. Go through the mill of manly and heroic endeavor, and if you are still a man I believe you can be saved. Many leading business men of the country daily reach here perfectly sober They have come becausa they realize the old fight is coming on and they are determined to escape it and beat the devil at his own game. And this they can do oy hastening hither.” CHRISTOPHER GRAY * SOS TORNADO' BARGAINS! IN Lace Curtains, DRESS GOOD!!, CLOAKS, Blank ets, WOOL UNDERWEAR, Table Linens, Napkins and Doylies.' ALSft BL4CK DRESS GOODS. C, EBAI & SI GROCERIES. " Getintheßih If you wish to see things move make s bee line for the D. B. Lester Grecerj Cos. People oan't stand still when great bargains are being offered. We cordially invite the public to examine our fine stock of TEA and get our prices. A pure full-bodied PORT WINE for one dol lar per gallon is worthy of attention. D. B. LESTER GROCERY CO. SANITARY PLUMB IN t,. REMOVAL. The Savannah Plumbing Company has removed to cor ner Drayton and Congress streets, and is now prepared to do work with its uual3 rapidity and efficiency. BUiICRBAN RAILWAYS. SUNDAY SCHKDIIX CITY AND SUBURBAN RAILWAY —AND— COAST LINE RAILROAD CO. The 8:00 p. m. train leaves from Second ave nue and Whitaker street depot. All other trains leave from Bolton street depot for Bonaventure, Thunderbolt, and Isle of Hope, Montgomery, and Beaulieu, city time. For Bonaventure and Thunderbolt—9:oo.lo:oo, 11:00a. m„ 8:00,3:00, 4:00,5:00, 6:00 and 0:30p. m For Isle of Hope—10:00, 11:00 a. m., *3:00, 6:30 p. in. For Montgomery—lo:oo a. m„ *3:00 p. m. Returning, leave Montgomery 7:30 a. m., 18:50. 5:10 p. m Returning, leave Isle of Hope 8:00 a. m, 13:1J, 1:05, 3:10.5140 p. m. Returning, leave 'Thunderbolt 8:80, 10:00 am., 18:80, 8:80, 3:30, 4:30. 5:80,6:00, 6:30 p. m. Arrive in Bavonnati 3:40. 10:30 a, m., 12:50, 1:40, 8:50,* 3:50, 4:50. 5:50, 6:80, 6:50 p. in. ‘♦Second avenue and Whitaker street depot. Trains for city leave Bonaventure cemetery live minutes after leaving Thunderbolt. Q. W, ALLEY. Supt- JAW ELK*. ft.L.DESBOUILLoE 21 Bull Street. zdi^ahvlountos. 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