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Newspaper Page Text4 Cbcfftorntwillrlus Morning News Bui : C' , 'z Savanna*!, Ga. (ATPRDAY. liErr.MBBK 12. 1891. Registered at the Petioff Joe <n SnrannaA. The Morriro News is publish'd every Jay in the year, and Is aerrtM to subscribers in tnr city* at 25 cents a week. $1 00 a months c 00 for six months and #lO 00 for one year The MORRIS!) News, by mat', one monta, $1 00; three months, S- 50: *l* tn intbs, $5 00; one year. $lO it). . The Morning News, 6y mat . six times a we-S (without Sunday issue', throe months, i~ It); six months. #4 00; one year, 1? ft). Tbe Morning Nsws, Tri-weekly, Mondays. Wednesdays and Fridays, or Tuesdays, Thurs days and Saturdays, three months, #: *s;six months. $2 ro; one year, 5* 00. Ihe Sunday Newb, by mail, one year, 52 00. The Weekly News, bv anil, one year. S 25. Subscriptions parable in advance. Ketnit by postal order, check or registered letter. Cur rency sent bv mail at risk of senders. Letters and telegrams should he addressed “Morning News, ' Savannah. G*. Transient advertisements, other than special column, local or reading notices, amusements and cbeau or want comma 10 cents a line. Fourteen Hues of agate type-equal to one Inch apace In depth —-Is the standard or meas urement. Cod react rates aud discounts made known oh application at business office OCB NEK YORK OFFICE, , s' Mb. J-J. Flyrr, General Advertising Agent of the Morning Niws, 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 Mornino News is on file at the following places, where Advertising Rate3 and other In formation regarding the paper can bo obtained; NEW YORK CITY — J. H. Bates, 31 Park Row. G, P. Rowell ft Cos., 10 Spruce street. W. W. Sharp & Cos., 31 Park Row. Frank Kifrrar & Cos., 152 Broadway. Patchy & Cos., 27 Park Place. J. W. Tnosipsoß, 39 Park Kow. American NewspapkrPtblirhir's ASSOCIATION, Potter Building PHILADELPHIA— N. W. A ykr ft Son, Time* Building. BOSTON— B. R- Niles, 256 Washington street. Pettengill & Cos., 10 State street. CHICAGO— Lord & Thomas, 45 Randolph street. CINCINNATI— Edwin Allen Company, 66 Wait Fourth street. new haven- The H. P. nruDARn Compart, 25 Elm street. ST. LOUIS— Nelson Chesman & Cos., 1127 Pine street. ATLANTA- Mgrmro News Bureau, BJ4 Whitehall street, MACON- Daily Tbleoraph Optice, 597 Mulberry street. INDEI TO NBW ADVERTISEMENTS. Special Notices— Notice as to Screven House Cate and Saloon. R. H. Seay 4 Bro.; Dr. Goo. A. Bowyer, Veterinary Dentist: Why Do You Suffer? Suwannee Sulphur Springs; Chatham Real Estate and Improvement Company; As to Bills against German Steamship Sophie Rick mere; As to Crews of Norwegian Barks Sondre. Souvenir, Droonning, Louise, Hugh Fortescue, Sea-Breeze. Brilliant. Advena, Pisco, Herlof Herlofson, and Italian Bark Feppina M. Tub Candle Com mittee- -Appel it scbaul. Usderwbar— Falk Clothing Company. Steamship Schedule— Ocean Steamship Com pany. Auction Salk— Underwriter’s Sale of Furni ture, Eto., by C. 11. Dorset*. Cheap Column Advertisements Help Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Rant; For Sale; Lost; Personal; Miscellaneous. After a very guileful aud enterprising Canadian medical student had smuggled a skeleton aoross the border he wan very much obagrlued to learn that there Is no duty on spooks in Canada. Then there was a decidedly disgusted young man In Leam ington before night. Before wasting their shrewdness the designing smugglers ought to consult the tariff. Now the reports from China begin to see saw in the regular revolutionary way. First we have a bloody horror and then a flat con tradiction of it stating that the revolution was only a street fight or something of that kind. Atrocities have been pouring In from Chiua only to bo modified by the statement that the revolution ended long ago and never did amount to anything any how. By next summer we shall probably get at the truth. Queer things happen these days. Well within this category is the recant marriage of a venerable Indianian of 86 to a girl of 18 near Leavenworth. Avowedly she only marriod him to inherit hii SIOO,OOO estate at his death and he well knew it. In fact he prompted her to it. After giving her an expensive education he feared that his relatives would wrest his money from her unless she inherited as a wife. Hence the nuptial celebration that has set the Hoosler state in a great social commotion. What a crafty brute was that Massa chusetts man who actually murdered and mutilated his own brother in order that be might get more than his share of their father’s estate. During his trial at Concord for the murder that be committed in New Hampshire he calmly described how ho had lured his brother from Boston to kill him. Such brutal depravity appears almost be yond belief. Yet the court records verify every horrible detail. What can have come over puritanical New England? Within the past few years tho most revolting crimes are becoming shockingly frequent there. Reports from YY ashington indicate that Candidate Mills is Indulging in a season of Bulking since he failed of election as speaker of the House of Representatives. If that be tjhe case the choice of his opponent is there by proved to have been wise. As Mr. Mills ha i no particular alaim upon the gavel the members bad a perfect right to ohoose whom they preferred to preside over their deliberations, and the unwarranted resent ment of any defeated candidate will only serve to arouse general dislike and make the members feel glad that so narrow minded and spiteful a moo was not placed In the chair. Sensational features are by no meanß lacking in the London divorce suit of Kicker Florence St. John. But an additional feature of unusual peculiarity was fur nished by the jurors striking for more pay after they had heard nearly all of the cases before they would agree to finish the trial. They got it and continued. Possibly no other country but England could have furnished such a singular occurrence. Still she boasts of the pretentious dignity of her courts in which such a faroe could be en acted. In almost any other country they would have been locked up for contempt of court. At the same time we must admit that sitting tamely and listening all day to such a disgusting recital of vulgar Intrigues and beastly exhibitions of temper was really worth more tbau the law allows for such services. Yet every good citizen owes something to his country and should occa sionally submit to disagreeable ordeals for tho sake of duty. Evidently that jury was not of the class who pay to see St. John kick. • Mr. Springer’s Tariff Po’lcy. Mr. Springer has already decided what sort of tariff legislation he would recom mend if he should be so fortunate as to be appointed chairman of the ways and means committee. He is never backward in ex pressing his views. While be is not a great student ami does not go very deeply into any subject be knows something about a groat many things. As chairman of the ways and means committee ai d Irader of the House be would not increase his reputa tion as a statesman, but it is probable that bo would fill the position acceptably. His idea is that the House should not un dertake a general revision of the tariff, but should pass a number of bills putting such articles on the free list as would give tbe people tbe greatest relief. If tbe House should take up the whole subject of the tariff its time would be occupied almost exclusively with it for a number of months without any prospect of accom plishing anything. The republicans are not going to permit tbe McKinley tariff to be changed. They have control of the Seuate, and a tariff bill passed by tho House would get no farther than the Senate. If tbe House should pass several tariff bills, putting certain articles, chiefly raw materials, on the free list, it would show the country very clearly the purpose of the Democratic party and would bring strongly to the attention of the country its tariff policy. The republican Senate would, of course, refuse to pass any of these bills, and the Issue between tbe two parties would be made ae clearly as 11 a bill making a general revision of the tariff were passed by the House and rejected by the Senate. Mr. Springer’* views seem to be common sense ones, and may not be essentially dif ferent from those entertained by a majority of the democratic representatives. Whether tbe views of Mr. Mills are dif ferent from those of Mr. Springer is a question concerning which there is no re liable information as yet. It is reasonably certain that he will be the chairman of the ways and means committee if he will accept tbe position. Tbe impression seems to be, however, that be has determined not to play a prominent part in the present congress. His friends say that he thinks he would not be supported in fol lowing out bis ideas in the matter of tariff legislation, and that he prefers therefore to take a baok seat. It is probable that the tariff policy outlined by Mr. Springer is the one that wiil be followed. It would not be wise to waste time in useless tariff discussion. If the House should not pass a bill making a gen eral revision of the tiriff the country would understand the reason. The Democratic party will not fail to relieve the people of the burdens imposed upon them by tbe tariff as soon as it has the power to do so. Ttie Quorum Rule. Ex-Speaker Reed says that he would bo glad to nave tbe preseat House adopt the rules of the last House. If the democrats bad only a small majority they would, he says, be forced to adopt bis famous quorum ru la Mr. Reed was the first speaker to count a quorum when a quorum did not vote. The democrat* of tbe laat House doubted bis right to do so. Indeed, none of the demo crats admitted that there was either law or precedent for his bigh-banded exercise of power. It is not probable, tberefore, that if the democratic majority in the pressnt House was small Mr. Reed's quorum rule would be one of its rules. Tbe question of the con stitutionality of that rule is now before the United fitates supreme oourt. It was raised in tariff cases Involving tbe constitution ality of the McKinley tariff law. The Attorney General, in bis argument Iu these cases, maintained that the Reed quorum rule was constitutional on the ground that the House bas tbe right to adopt Its own rules and that a quorum was present when the quorum rule was adopted. The democrats in tbo last House always maintained that Rsed had no right to count a quorum when no quorum was present and voting, because the constitution require i that a quorum shall be disclosed through a yea aud nay vote. There Is no probability that the demo crats will ever adopt the Reed quorum rulo, howevor small their majority may be, un less the supreme courts holds that it is law ful to count a quorum when a quorum does not ayopof on roll call. Sportive citizens of the Pennsylvania town ot Johnstown have been having fun with tho local Vidocqs. Probably there are not within the boundaries of the Key stone commonwealth two more irate and thoroughly disgusted detectives than a pair now located at Johnstown but liable to emigrate at auy time. Last Saturday night they looked down into a tailor shop through a skylight. There they identified a half-dozen well-known business men playing cards. Apparently they used #5 gold pieces as the smallest amount bet. But It happened that the offenders wore playing only with brass buttons for chip*. As the officers had no authority to break iu the doors and as the players refused to open for them a quiet game of freeze out began. Being already out the officers did most of the freezing. Meanwhile the players guyed them to the limit. When the Western Union telegraph operator came around to open the building in which both the shop and the telegraph offices are located the detectives demanded that he admit them. Once inside the oper ator said be wouldn’t mind a game himself and refusod tho officers admittance. Dy 9 o’clock a great crowd had gathered about tbe plaoo cheoriug both officers and players. Finally tbe police secured admittance by a ruse. They proudly marcbod tkotr men off and each gave a deposit for a bearing which is not likely to take place. Still the detectlven are not happy. Nor are they doiug any tx astiog about the performance since they discovered that it was only a dummy game with buttons. There seems to boa question of veracity between William R. Laidlaw, Jr., John Bloodgood’s private secretary, and Russell Sage, growing out of the bomb throwing Incident In Mr. Hage’s office. According to the accounts in the New York papers Mr. Laldlaw, who is still in tho hospital buffer ing from the injuries cause 1 by the ex plosion, says that when he was about entering Mr. Sage’s office the latter grasped bis hand and tried to drag him into bis private office, and that when the bomb was dropped Jlr. Sage shielded himself behind him, thijs saving himself from the full force of the explosion. Mr. Sage de clares that Mr. Laidlaw is mistaken. He says he did not grasp Mr. Laldlaw by the hand and did not invite him into his office. As the only witness, the bomb thrower, is dead, the question of veraoity is likely to remain unsettled. TOE MORNING NEWS: SATURDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1891. Mr. Porter’s Scheme. About the first thing to which the atten tion of the Senate was called, after tbe ne w senators bad bean sworn in, was a report from Mr. Porter, superintendent of the census, recommending tbe establishment of a permanent census bureau. The report was accompanied by a biil containing Mr. Porter’s ideas of tbe kind of a census bureau tbe government should have. Mr. Porter evidently believes that delays are dangerous. But would he not have shown better judgment if he bad carried his report and bill to the other end of the Capi tol and had it introduced into the House The House will look out for expenditures during this congress, and it is not likely that it will Qgree to tbe establishing of any more bureaus unites It can be shown that there is on urgent necessity for them. Mr. Porter has already spent about #*.000,000 on the census, and he wants 12,000,000 to complete what he calls his “work.” He will have to make a most ex cellent showing for bis bureau to get that #2,000,000. There is a pretty general im pression that his “work” has already cost a great deal more than it is worth. Mr. Porter’s census does not give satisfac tion. It is charged that it is very imper fect and In many respects unreliable, Mr. Porter will have a chance, doubtless, to say something in its defense, but it is difficult to see what he can say that will satisfy oon gresa He has already said a great deal in the public prints, but he has not succeeded in establishing confidence in it. When the House gets through with asking him about his census “ work” it is probable that he will not fool much like urging the passage of his permanent census bureau bill. There is, of course, something to be said in behalf of a permanent oensus bureau, but it is a question whether such an insti tution would be of much benefit. However unpretentious it might be in the beginning, aud however small the cost of it for the first few years might be, it would be steadily enlarged until its employes would be numberel by tbe hundreds. That is the history of about ail the bureaus. In all the departments at Washington there are a great many tmugs done which are of no benefit whatever. It would be a good thing for oongress to appoint a com mission to inquire into the affairs of the dif ferent departments and find out how much unprofitable and utterly useless work is done and to what extent tho expenses of the departments could be reduced without em barrassing the government. The country would uot suffer if a permanent census bu reau should not be established yet awhile. Disease Also Causes Drunkards. Notwithstanding that for countless centuries drunkenness has been considered one of those frailties which verge upon vice it is now rescued from that category by the more progressive modern medical prac titioners and placed among the numerous other former vices that they now assign to treatment as a disease. For the purpose of studying the different types and experimenting with the various developments of tbe disorder an English physician is now traveling over the United States. Should he chance to drift in this direction he might find many of tbe most curious and varied of ‘‘horrible examples” hanging about the corner of two of the city’s principal streets almost any fine day or night. For the space of half a block either way tbe most rankly “full” developed speclmous are frequently found to be so numerous as to actually block up the side walk In a way tho police should not allow. There could tho student of the strange science that analyzes inebriates be gratified to the top of bis bent with an aggregation including some rare freaks. Any sort of treatment that good judgment might suggest that should tend to so clear the atmosphere of those objectionable ob jects with their oaths aud offensive stale alcoholio odors in such a way as to render travel on the south side of one of the stroets in question more comfortable and unobstructed tor inoffensive citizens aud safe for ladies and children who are timid about running the gauntlet of the in solent staring and ribald comments of maudlin idlers would be a healthful im provement in the condition of the city. They certainly have a diseased look. Feasibly the traveling scientist could sug gest some means by which such people could be relegated to the society of ash barrels in the back alleys until they are put into more presentable form for the publio inspection that they appear to so greatly delight in. In that case tbe world will be forced to admit that ho has effecuated achievements most wonderful. Those few people who took tho trouble to read the last annual message of President Harrison probably noticed that it consisted of twenty-eight more or less argumentative dissertations upon as many different sub jects.- They were eaoh about the usual length of an ordinary short editorial news paper article. Beside that he had ten short allusions to as many distinct subjects. They wore about the length of newspaper editorial paragraphs, and would probably have made n column. Almost any practiced and facile editorial writer could have done the whole work in four days of ordinary wrlttng, without over-exertion, and quite as well as Mr. Harrison did it. Yet wo are told that the President occupied nearly a month of anxious hustling with disheveled hair and withont his coat to get it done in time. Though thousands of newspapers amiably printed it all for him many of them would not have bought nor printed either his theories or his arguments from a professional writer. Hero is sliowu the principal reason why public men are failing into the habit of selecting practical journalists for their pri vate secretaries. Had the President turned Secretary Halford loose upon that message it might have been finished in half the time and would probably have been a much more readable document. Probably the western acquaintances of the always bustling and cheerful “Brick” Pomeroy will be truly glad to learn that he has been in New York trying to explain his views upon morality and religion. No body would ever bo likely to understand that unique set of views unless they were thoroughly explained to him. Apparently tho job is likely to keep the Hon. "Brick” engaged for quite a spell if he expects to make all of the intricacies quite plain to the pubiio. Friends of Senator Quay say that he is anxious to succeed himself in the United States Senate. Consequently he deems it important that lie should push his libel suits agaiust the Pennsylvania papers that published bis connection with the Keystone bank failure. Should he manage to pull through before tho Pennsylvania legislature while those cases are pending he will* probably discreetly drop them aa soon as he is once more safely In the Senate. PKRSONAL, China’s ehpxkoa bss got tired of counting with the abacus ad is now studying English arithmetic. s B. F.LEIKA ha* lately offered #50.000 toward tbe erection of a Baptist church at C larksburg in West Virginia. Tax queen and Princess Beatrice took lunch Saturday with ex-Empress Eugenie of France, at her residence a: Kamborough. President Hyde of Bowdoin College bas started a crusade against tbe obnoxious cigar ette, giving datlv lectures on the subject. Archbishop Kerhick's completion of half a century as a bishop is only the second incident of trie kind in the history of the Roman Cath olic church. Loro Cawdes and lady Evelyn Campbell in tend to start early In January for a cruise amoug the West Indies in his new yacht, the Maid of Honor Karl Lunwio MicnELET, one of the founders of the Philosophtsche iiesellschaft, will shortly complete his Doth year, and the event will be celebrated in Beriiu. Miss Ixicise Bayard, the daughter of the last S-cretary of Statv, is to be married at her father's home in Wilmington, on Deo. 21, to Dr. Frank Angell of Ithaca. The Duke or Clarence and Avondale, eldest son of the lYince of Wales, whose en gagement to the Princess of Tuck is announced, is 27 years old. The princess Is 24. Interstate Commerce Commissioner Veazht, who was on the supreme bench of Vermont be fore] he was made ommander-in-chief of the grand army, finds his chief relaxation In watch ing foot ball games. Cardinal Gibbons and Archbtghops Corrigan, Kyau, Feeban and Williams have accepted the Invitation of Canon Plancarte of the City of Mexico to attend tbe opening of the Collegiate church, Ousaoloupe. a famous shrine la Mexico, next month. President Harrison Is a great pedestrian, and bis favorite method of getting a good tramp is to be driven out into the country In the white house mail wagon and have the driver set him tk>wn at a long distance from home, so that he can walk back. An odd experience in the Interesting life of Sir Edwin Arnold, which seems to have been overlooked during his stay here, was his climb ing 15,000 feet to the summit of Fuji San, in Japan, Bud writing on the edge of the crater a picturesque poem of ninety-two lines, in order to win a wager made with a woman. G. W. C. Lee, who is the president of Wash ington and Lee University, Is a tall, brown bearded man, straight as a soldier, and so re served and modest In bis tastes that the ap proach of a young girl will bring blushes to his cheeks. His special fad Is mathematics, and he is very popular with tbe students. Mlle. Bilcesco, the young Roumanian re cently admitted to practice law in France, is a tall, graceful auJ 'ark haired girl of 23. She is the only child of a banker of Bucharest, and in that oily she has hung out her sign Her course of instruction in the law In Paris lasted six years, aud during tuat time she was absent but one day from tbe lecture room. Andrew Johnson was the only President who ever stood on foreign soil while bolding office. It occurred during the famous “swing around the circle,” In 1835, while visiting Niagara Falls, when he went in a carriage to the Canadian side. Tho President did not think at the time that ha had violated a precedent, and it occurred to him only when lie had returned to bis hotel and was alone with bis secretary, who promised to keep the matter secret. BRIGHT BITS. At thb Motkcm—Mrs. X.—Tity dear. I want you to observe this beautiful statue of Apollo. That one is his wife, ApoLlinarls.— Brooklyn Life. "What is the matter with your clerk this morning ? He seems very much put out." "So he la I've just discharged him. "—Balti more American. llk— Do you know what I'd do If I were yonf She—No; wt^at? He— l’d marry me.—Puck. Brioqs— l hear that you are not rooming with Plankinsrton sib note. Griggs—No. He got so stout I couldn’t wear his dress suit.— Clothier and Purnith.tr. "What did you think of the heavy dews down there?" “O, It made me right at home! You see. here I belong to sle bonovolent protective asso ciations."—Christmas Puck. Why do the farmers laugh in glee And why do the farmers thrive? Fat turkeys ore worth twenty cents a pound. While shot costs only five. —Brooklyn Eagle. American Hostess—l wonder why women never tight duels. lam sure they get angry enough. Foreign Visitor—Zey know nozzlng of weap ons, madam \ Zey would hurt each oznire. Washington Star. Rev. Dr. Primrose—l hear your husband is dangerously ill. I hope he is prepared if the worst should come. Mrs. Surface—l’m happy to say he la Pa insisted upon his taking out the policy before he married me Epoch. Doctor—How is the patient this morning? Nurse—Weil, ho has been wandering a good deal In his mind. Early this morning I heard him say, "What an old woman that doctor is!" aud I think that was about the last really rational remark he made.—/“until. "Father," said the little boy, “who is that young man across tho way who wears specta cles au l a walking cane bigger than himself?" “Hush, my son," said the parent, “that man is an idiot, and he is trying to make the world believe that he is only a fool." — Texas nif tings. Brown—Do you believe there’s such a thing in married life as perfect love? A case where both are of the same mind ? Fogg—Oli, yes; there are tho Googleys, for Instance. She thinks there never was a man in the world ike her husta id. and so does he. Boston Transcript. Bi-i.fi sen - Mibs Smilax has simply a wonder ful memory, Wooden—Why, what proof has she gtven of it? Bulflrch—Why, I met her at a supper last night, and she not only reminded me about our being engaged last summer, but gave me a number of the details.— Boston Courier. At Monte Carlo.—Young English|Lady(to Mr. Coiney, who is staying at ti e same hotel)—Do you know, I must put a ’-franc piece on the number or my age. just for fun. (Puts one on No. 25. No. 3Bwins ) Little Bister—O, I say, Ethel, wbat a pity! Now, if you had really put it on your right age you would have won, wouldn’t you?— Bunny hoiks. Rector's Wife (Instructing an Aspiring But tons, who has answered her advertisement!— You'll have to open the shuttere and the hall door, tee to the study fire, put the things ready in the bath room, then call your master punctu ally at 8 o’clock, clean his boots and brush his clothes, clean all the ohl dron’s boots and shoes and brush their clothes, lav the breakfast punc tually at 8 o’clock, after which you’ll have to set the pony and trap ready to drive the chil dren to school, and be back in good-time. After you’ve dressed the pony and cleaned your knives and silver you will make yourself tidy, and then you’ll lay the lunch Aspiring Buttons (gasping)—i'teaso ’m—big pard’u— place won’t do for me. Why, 1 should want anew suit o’ clothes before you’ve finished telling me what I’ve got to do, and then I sh uldn't find time to be measured for ’em! Good morn’n. (Exit.)— Punch. OURRBNT COMMHJNT. Henco Prices Are na High ae Hats. From the Chicago Times (Dem.). It now appears that Sarah Bernhardt's mother was a milliner, which may account for Sarah's prices. Seems a Very Natural Sequence. From the TAttle Rock Gazette (Dem.).' "After Blaine, what?" continues to be asked by the press. Wny, a democratic Secretary of State, of course. Likewise Many Other Things to Learn, from the Albany Journal (Sep.). Wo have yet to learn of a Cleveland democrat who is pleased over the outcome of Monday’s speakership contest. Reckless Sophistry Deserves Reward. From the Providence Journal (/ad.). Both the prize-winners in tho competitive de bate at Harvard took the affirmative of the question: "Resolved, That a young man cast ing his first vote in 1882 has better reasons for voting the republican than the democratic ticket." Young men who have sufficient In genuity to deduce out of the political oouditious of to-<lay any arguments on the affirmative of that question deserve prizes. She Boded tbe Tug of War. The Sbotwell Ftreet school has caught t v e tug-of war infection. A few days ago* wheD the bell rang at I o'clock for the pupils to come in, says tbe son Francisco Chrontele, the teacher* found there were no boys to come, and, n lcok mg into the yard, the cause was at ot ce seen. Some of the boys had procured a clott es fine and organized two tug-of-war teams. A little before 1 o’clock the referee, a boy from t*e eighth grade, gave the signal to pull. The twenty boys hem with a will to their wiTk They tugged and strained, and worked considerably harder than they bad worked over a problem in arith metic or a question In grammar Round the rope stood the rest of the boys of tbe school, howling and yelling, now cheering on the team of their respective choice, an 1 now hooting In derision at the opposing one. For some time the battle raged furiously. One team would draw tls opponents a few inches, only to lose the advantage again. Finally one of the teams got a decided advantage. This was too much for several of the smaller boys, who had Det hundreds of mythical dollars on the tram of their choice, and so, with one accord, about a dozen of them canght on to the rope on "their" side and added their strength to that of their friends. Of course the friends of the other team ob jected. bnt as tbe excitement was too intense to allow much talking they simply hitched a few more boys on to the other side and went at It again. The reet of the boys than began to take sides, dome hitched on one end. some on the other, and when the rope was so full I hat there was not room for another list, Jimmy would catch hold of Johnny’s waist and Dick would take Tommy by the eoat tail and so rnimage to do a tittle pulling any way. Tbs whole male portion of the school had hold of the rope, and amid the pulling and tho yelling tbe 1 o'clock bell rang. The boys did not mind it, though, and the tug of war went on regardless of whether school kept or not. The teachers had a different notion, however, and three or four of them came into the yard and attempted to ship the contest. Tho bovs objected to a draw except one over the line, and they did not believe in a no-content, so us they had numbers on their side the boys disre garded the commands of their teachers and pulled away as if there was not a teacher in the world. Things were getting serious when a quick-witted teacher solved the problem. Step ping up to the middle of the rope she quietly took out a pocket knife and at the moment of a terrible strain cut the rope. In an instant there was a terrible time. The rope snapped with a loud crack, and the pull became a draw. Boys tiew in every direction, and piled up one on the other until the quick witted teacher became afraid that manslaughter or bovslaughter was the result < t her effort to restore discipline. No one was hurt, however, and the boys dis tangled themselves and filed slowly up to their class room Truffle-Hunting With Pi*?9, Speaking of pigs reminds me that I lately went truffle-hunting with one, says a Paris let ter to the Boston Tranect ipt. It was not near Paris, for there are no truffles hereabouts, but far to the south, in tho region of the Dordogne. Tho pig was about the ugliest and most de praved-looking beast ot its kind that can be imagined—one with a stl.ted baok and shock ingly exaggerated nose, having the curve of a pump-hanJl’, but, like many human beings who are not beautiful, it was exceedingly intel ligent. Its greediness, of course, made it so, but greediness is not always a corrective to stupidity. The truffle-hunter-in-chief was the pig's master, and as far as appearances went there was really not much difference between them. He had ale* > a bent hack and a nose that seemed to have been designed for no other purpose than that of turning up truffles NevertheleßS.it was the pig that did all the digging work, the man's part of the business being to take oare that the cryptogram did not get swallowed on tbe spot. To guard against this accident he had filled his pocket with maize, a few grains of which the animal accepted in exchange for a truffle. Once or twioe the sybaritic instincts of the beast Wore too strong for its Judgment, and it ate tbe fungus before the man had time to snatch it, but blows upon the nose with a stick counterbalanced the satisfaction thus derived and tbe pig being a reasonable animal soon came to the conclusion that it was better to accept the maize and leave the truffle. f hocked the Red Man's System. When the electric telegraph was first intro duced into Chile, says the Santiago Timet, a stratagem was resorted to In order to guard the posts and wires against damage on the part of the Araucanlan Indians and maintain the con nection between the strongholds on the frontier. There were at the time between forty and fifty captive Indians In the Chilean camp. (ien. Pluto called them together, and, pointing to tho telegraph wires, said: “Do you see those wires?" "Yes, general." "I want you to remember not to go near or touon them, for if you do your hands will be held aad you will be unable to get awav " The Indians smiled lncreduously then the general mate them each in succession take hold of the wire at both euds of an electric bat tery in full operation, after whioh be ex claimed: "I command you to let go the wire!” "I can't; my hands are benumbedl" cried each Indian. Th# battery was then stopoed. Not long after the general restored them to liberty, giv ing them strict to Junctions to keep tho secret and not betray It to their countrymen. This had the desired effect, for, as Jmight be expected, the experience was related in the strictest confidence to every man In the tribe, and the telegraph has ever since remained un molested. Suggestive of More Salary. "Young Legaloap Is a smart fellow," said the manager of the collection department to the great lawyer. “Yes? What’s he been doing now?" asked the great lawyer. “Why, he was in the office alone yesterday when he heard that Silk & Batin were finan cially embarrassed. We are holding one or two claims against them, and he rushed out and slapped on an attachment just fifteen minutes before they closed their doors. " "Got in ahead of everyone, did be?” "Beat every other creditor,” said the mana ger. The great lawyer, says the Chicago Tribune, look pleased. "It was a good piece of work,” he said. T like to see a young man with some enterprise and brains. What did you do?” "I told him it was a piece of good work.” "What!” The great lawyer looked startled. "Why. I complimented him for his prompt ness and business sense.” “ileroiful heavens, man ’ that will never do!” cried the great lawyer. "He'll be asking for more salary. Go out and tell him that if he hadn't been here the office boy could have done It just as well." A Domestic Episode. Prom the Somerville Journal. She stood at the glass with a glowing cheek. And looked at the face reflected there. And thought that the mirror, if it could speak. Would say she was very sweet and fair. As she turned with a smile to her husband, he Remarked, and bis tone conveyed a sneer, “It pleased you very much, I see, To look at yourself in the glass, my dear." She bad learned the art of keeping cool. So she answered him in a gentle tone; "I’m glad to know I am beautiful For my husband's sake and not my own.” A flush of shame bis face o’erspread And crossing over to where she stood He kissed her warmly and softly said, “You are more than beautiful—you're good.” George Washington was one of the richest men of bis time In America, ne attached to his will bearing date of July 9,1799, a schedule of hia property aud placed the total valuation of tbe name at #530.000. His estate was un doubtedly worth more, and all of 8000,000, ami oven more. The estimate of 5530.000 was con sidered by Washington himself a very low one. for in the notes which acoomparded the w ill and schedule he frequently refers to the "moderate value" and "lowest price affixed" of the various pieces of property. The Ohio lands Included in the estate increased immensely in value. BAKING POWOKR. O^Spovßler Used in Millions of Homes— 40 Years the Standard. FLAVORING EXTRACTS. Largest in the World. In the department of flavor ing extracts, the Price Fla voring Extract Cos. has the largest and most completely equipped laboratory in the world. Thousands of pounds of the true Mexican Vanilla Beans are consumed every year in Dr. Price’s Flavoring Extract of Vanilla. This im mense business is accounted for by the purity and excel lence of their production, the result of effort—a deter mined effort to make articles as perfect as can be made— free from hurtful materials, of the highest strength attain able, and at a price within the reach of all. With push honest success is achieved and held. ITEMS OF INTEREST. The “mother-in-law.” a curious plant, ob tained its curious name in a very curious way. An expert at the Smithsonian Institution, in ex plaining the properties of tho plant to a reporter, mentioned the fact that It had the power of paralyzlug the tongue. “A good thing for a mother-in-law,” said the reporter, and then and there the name mother-in-law was applied to the plaut. 8. R. Shelton, while cutting up a tree laD which ho had cut down for a rail tree eight yean before, Bays the Covington (Tenn.) Record, cut into a hollow, exposing what he thought was a squirrels nest. Upon opening a large ori fice he drew from the hollow a dead ooon. per fectly preserved from decay, which had laid there for eight years. The tree had fallen on the hole by which the coon had entered. It had died of starvation, and the body was preserved from decay, as is supposed, by the tan ooze of the red oak treo. They have a heifer at the University of Pennsylvania Veterinary School for which dime museum managers have made numerous offers. She is a brindle yearling, with good health and of usual size, hut unlike any other ever known. Her heart is entirely outside of the bony cavity of the chest, and hangs loosely in the dewlap, where its pulsations may easily be seen. One can hold it in his hands and feel it beat between them. Apparently the animal suffers no inconvenience whatever on ac count or the position of her erratic organ. She comes of perfectly normal parents, and the doctors are agreed that it is the strangest case of displacement on record. The Mikado of Japan has made a proposition to the management of the world's fair to erect a permanent building on the grounds, surround It with a typical Japanese garden, and then make tbe city of Chicago a present of tbe build ing and gardens. The mikado is witling to spend sloo,ooo on It If the world's fair board gives him the site he wants. This is about two acres at tbe north end of tho wooded island. The building would be copied from the finest specimens of Japanese architecture extant at the time Columbus discovered America, In the elaboration of tbe grounds, the highest achieve ment of Japanese laadscape gardeners would be Shown. The Astor baby was born on Bunday, Nov. 15, at 4 a m. As was tbe custom in the middle ages a horoscope has been cast for It by an astrologer, ullhough not by the solicitation of the baby's parents. The baby was t>orn under Libra, with liars within the sign. This repre sents a tall, well-proportioned person, oval face, sanguine oomplexlon, cquntenance full of ex pression and vivacity. In disposition luxurious, fond of personal adornment, affected, boastful, conceited, fond of tbe opposite sex, yet unfort unate in lovo affairs. Taken in oonnecrion with the position of tho sun aud mooa at his birth, bis horosoop * shows he is sure to grow up to mauhood and to become a stirring and promi nent figure in the distinguished circle tn which ho is destined to move. He will pa proud, dig nified and intellectually rather superficial. He will have a baudsome face and a keen penetrating glance His temp-rament will be rather warmer than the traditional As tor temperament, but like his ancestors, he will be practical and no dreamer or romancer lie will order, not argue. It is hardly itkeiy that he will marry under 30, but ho is pretty sure to marry prudently and felicitously. It seems scarcely necessary to dls uss this baby's future from the standpfdnt of wealth yet as illustrating the sympathy that obtains between mundane affairs and planetary Influ ences, it may be stated as a significant circum stance that in the "Second House'' of this horo scope-which signifies "the native wealth aud worldly good’’—are posited the sun Venus and Mercury, indicating not only great wealth, but wisdom and discretion in handling and using i*. There are no strong indications of great civil or political honors In this horoscope. From this ft would appear that the fate of the Agtor baby will, aft.rail, be not sq very different from other babies when It attains manhood. "The old circuit rider, who long ago van ished in the north and west, still survives to some extont in the south,” said tbe Rev. C. M Qrandison, president ot Bennett College, North Carolina, in the 81. Louis Globe-Democrat. "A few years more and he will be a reminiscence, because railroads are beginning to penetrate the primitive communities existent in a great portion of the southern states. The old circuit rider was a remarkable man. twin type, as it were, ot the class of men who penetrated tho wildern-BB of tho western world in advance of civilization, in all that stands for coura-e endurance and resolution. The circuit rider sowed the seed that we of this gen eration are reaping the harvest. Tho old cir cuit rider was the nvant courier of Methodism iu America. lie could ride all day, exhort and sins at revivals at night, throw himself down on the cabin floor for a few hours, rise early aud resume his Journey to some other spot where there were souls to save; handy with his fists if assailed, and last, but not least, he was a rood judge of horseflesh, and the worldly brother that could get the host of him on a trade had to be extra sharp. The old circuit rider, I am sorry to sav, had some small vices, such as chewing and smoking, and occasionally took his dram, and in my region some few Htill retain those babita The horsey, tobacco loving elder is, however, rapidly dis appearing in the southern states. V’e iu the Booth. are beginning to draw the llna firmer in these things We don't object to his owning a good piece of horseflesh; but young men who ask to be admitted to the ministry are sharply questioned as to whether they uso tobacco or not, aud it Is understood that the use of tobacco In any form is a bar to admission. By So doing we are gradually rais ing up a class of men in the mintstry who are cleanly in their habits. Then, too. the exporter is no longer the igl norant man that lie once was We now en courage a regular course of Hudy for admission to the ministry. A large percentage of our most powerful preachers have in the past been men of no education, but men who could preach the word with singular power. But how much more effective would they have been in their work had their minds been properly disciplined in early life.” BOUSES OF MILLIONAIRES. Two New York Structure That a.. Talked About. 8 Work on C. P. Huntington’s rr.ajslvea-.j striking grand chateau, at the scutheast corner of Fifty-seventh street and Fifth avenue, says Blakely Hall in the Brooklyn Eagle, Is advancing steadily. aDi Huntingtons will certainly be able tn r cupy it next season, if not in tbe latter Leri of this season. This house Is wholly nnhs any other in New York, and is in * e freshing contrast to the dull monitor rows of brown stone fronts which enootnbre so largo a part of the avenue. The masks, w hioh decorate the lintels and e nlces all over the house, rivet Vi attention of the passer by Th * are wonderfully expressive, although re!! are carved iu a material which, as mu appears to be intractable and inexpen.lv’ tn comparison with bronze. These mask are cut out of granite of a lighter hue a i finer grain than that of the walls of th. house themselves, and the sculptor has he.! marvelously successful iu p -rt,ravingre! van. .us expressions which these face*!!! meant to depict. The leers, the frowns th! grimaces and the laughter are amazmglv true to Ufa. It Is understood that this massive stone mansion will the scene of much gayety when m 7 and Mrs Huntington take up their resident there. It is believed that Prince Hatzfel it who married Mr. Huntington’s adontea daughter, will have a part of the house ( - himself and tbe princess, and that th! Huntingtons and the Hatxfeldts will entLr tain there brilliantly and extensively Prince Hatzfeldt remains throughout th! fashionable season in Now York, he is <*r tarn to make no small stir in the clubs re which he will be admitted, for he has tern noted ever since his boyhood for his abiii'y to make existenoe extremely lively for him. self and all around him. While Mr. Huntington’s nqw home is an. proochmg completion William Waldorl Astor has not yet even scratched the ground for the house which he proposes to build the northeast corner of Forty-sixth (.tract and Fifth avenue, on the same block with the Huntington chateau. It is somewhat surprising that the two multi-millionaires Mr. Huntington and Mr. Astor, did not buy the whole block between them, each taking ” UDt '? 2t , on took tha northern third of the block, whilo Mr. Astor took the southern, having e Hji a third between their two portions fronting on Fifth avenue. It has not yet been sold by the Bonners, to whom this an tire pieoe formerly belonged. One of the best investments of Robert Bonner’s strik ingly successful businoss career was the purchase of this superbly situated Fifth avenue block. It is to be ho; ed, for the sake of the attractions of this part of Fifth avenue, that the two houses which are to b built on this block, south of Mr. Hunting ton’s home, will be as impressive aud in teresting examples of architecture as is Mr. Huntington’s castellat.d man- Slon. If Mr. Astor, however, should not build a handsomer home on this de- Ughtful corner than the new hotel which he is now building on the former site of hii father’s house at 1 hirty-third street and Fifth avenue now appears to be, his resi dence would not give much additional charm to that part of the city. The lower part of tbo new hotel is built of a peculiar sort of brown stone of a gloomv and f. re boding hue. Perhaps the upper stories may take away the effect of undue darkness and lack of attraotiveness, but tho present aspect of tbe building is such os to suggost that It will compare but poorly with the Holland house at Thirtieth street and Fifth avenua and Judge Dugro’s towering hotel of light stone at the southeast corner of Fifty ninth and Fifth avenue. Just north of Judge Dugro’s hotel is tbe seconi brown stone hotel which Mr. Astor is constructing on this ruagnifloent avenue, but the lines of this one are more pleasing, the proportions appear more suitable, and the general ef fect is much more gratifying than that of tbe one at Thirty-third street. “Rosalie has adopted an idea that makes all the eirls awfully jealous.” ‘‘What is that?" "Why, she has taken all her engagement rices of last summer and had them made into a I’Ji ' for her pug.’’— Harper's Bazar. CUTICURA REMEDIES. SCROFULOUS BABY Our Family Physician Recommends ('uticara Remedies, and Says They Cured Our Child. 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