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Newspaper Page Text4 OciHorntitglTctos Morning News Bui diner Savannan, Ga. > iTI’BDAY, JAN CARY !. l s2. Registered at the Postoffice in NuranrioA. The Morsshg Maws is pAiJshsd every day in the year, and is served to subscribers in tie city at 25 cents a voer. $! '*') a month, t 00 for six months aud $lO 00 tor one year The Mobkiko News, by mat , one month, SI 00; three months, $x 50; six months. Si 00; one year. $lO 00. The M ohm so News, by mai, aix times a week Without Sunday issue , three months, $2 00; ■ix months. $4 o 0; one year, $K 00. The Morstinc, News, Tri-Weekly, Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, or Tuesdays, Tbnrs days and.“ Saturdays, three months. Si 25;six months, $2 50; one year, 15 00. The SIMIAY Nxws. r>y mail, one year, $2 00. Toe Wxkxlv News, by mast, one year. $1 25. Subscription* payable In advance. Remit hr postal order, ohevk or registered letter. Cur rency sent by mail at risk of Menders. letters and telegrams should he addressed “Morning News, 'Savannah.<ia. Transient advertisements, othe* than special ooljma, local or reading notices, amusements and cheap or want column. 10 cents a line Fourteen lines of agat * tyi>e—equal to one Inch space in depth is the standard of meas urement Contract rates and discount* made known on application at business office. OI B MEtV VOHK OFFICE, Mn. J.J. Flynn, General Advertising Agent of the Mobxino News, office 23 Park Kow, Mew York. All advertising business out sld3 ef the states of Georgia, Florida and South Caro lina will be managed by him. ~ The Morni no News Ison file at the following places, where Advertising Bates and other In formation regarding the paper can be obtained: NEW YORK CITY— J. H. Bates, AS Pars Bow. O, P. Rowbi-l A C-0., 10 Spruce street W. W. SHARP rt Cos.. 21 Park Row Frank Kibrnan & Cos., 152 Broadway. Papohy * 00., 27 lark Place. J. W. Thorpbon. 82 Park Kow. American N ewsyapkb Publisher's Association, Potter Building PHILADELPHIA— H. w. AYER A Sob, Times Building. BOSTON— B. R. Nii.e*. 2W Washington street. PRTTEN iiLL & Cos., 10 State street CHICAGO— Lord & Thokas, i5 Randolph street CINCINNATI - IsriN Aldus Corpabt, M West Fourth street ST. LOUIS— Pswsow Chbkban & Cos., 1187 Pine street ATLANTA- Mansrso News Bureau, SJ4 Whitehall street, MAdON Daii.y TEi.BmiApn Opeice, 597 Mulberry street, 6T. AUGUSTINE— H. Marootte, St. Augustine, Fla l¥m TO NKW ADVERTISEMENT! Meetinos—Stockholders United Hydraulic Cotton Press Company. Military Orders— Order No. 34, First Volun teer Regiment of Georgia. special Notices—As to Bills Against German Steamship l’emptos and British Steamship Ar danrigh. Are You Takino in Ora 20 Per Cent. Dis count'—B. H. Levy & Bro. Schooner Yacht Una For Salk—J. W. Aus tin, Boston, Mass. Men’s or Bovs’ Apparel—Falk Clothing Com pany. Auction Sales—Administrator’s Sale of Horses, Mules, Etc., by C. H. Dorsett, Auc tioneer. Chbap Column Advertisements Help Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Rent; For Sale; Lost; Personal; Miscellaneous. It sounds very odd to hear of slavery in the Congo “Froo” State. What is free! Canada is a true offspring of her mother country. They have just unearthed anew soandai there. The most appropriate place for the wedding of Prince Collars and Cuffs would be Balmoral, of course. Things are particularly and excessively “blue” in Russia now; but they say the czar cannot see it. Maybe he is color blind. 'Hie Princess May of course will not go Into the laundry business, but it is hoped she will put a little polish on the "Collars and Cuffs.” St. Louis has withdrawn from the con test for the national convention. The reason is the same as that which induced Jaok not to eat his supper. The New York law that can be stretched to cover the attachment of a corpse for the payment of a debt is about as elastic as statutes are ever made. Another “flag incident” having been turned up in Texas, the newspaper editors who make a specialty of that sort of basi nets will proceed to howl. Leo XIII. is a remarkable old man. Nob. withstanding his age, and all recent news paper reports to the contrary, he is said to be enjoying excellent health. James Muffin, of Philadelphia, had such faith in his rosary that he attempted to swallow, it believing that thereby he would gain eternal life. He is dead. The New York Mail and K.rpress- froths at the mouth at the mention of an income tax. The editor, it will oe remembered, is a son-in-law of Mr. Vanderbilt. Col. YVattersou vigorously objects to any legend being stamped on American silver dollars exoept that which properly goes along with the “star-eyed goddess.” “Garza Hemmed Iu” is uu appropriate bead-line over an item concerning the ex sewiug-machine-agent revolutionist. He will now probably be felled and gored. Cognac, rock-and-rye and hot toddies are •aid to be favorite grip remedies. If a patient seus snakes and lizards when the •old is cured, that is called “after grip.” Grip is no respecter of persons. It grasps khedive and ooal heaver with equal readi ness, and enjoys the society of the tramp quite as much as that of the prirna donna As the head of the oommittee on rules, is Speaker Crisp supposed to wear all the “black eyes” we are reading about nowa days? If so, his grip isn’t a “marker” to what he’ll suffer. Detroit has entered the list* to compete for the democratic national convention, to be held this summer, and tbe country will now be enlightened as to ths magnificence af the city and its situation. The Russian police are said to be dispos po6iug of the poasants somewhat after the fashion that preachers in country districts io Georgia are oared for during distriot conference meetings. They billet them on tbe well-to-do members of the community. Tbe Pittsburg man who “held up” an Al legheny railroad train “just for a joke” got thirty days in the work house. DeLaughter, who held up a Central railroad train for business, got tec years in the penitentiary. The Pennsylvanian drew pistols and terror ized everybody, but the judge probably and that the intent constituted the crime. Deal Honestly With tha Feopie. Mr. Plevwlanl. in the speech which be delivered before tbe Business Men’s liemo eralic Association last night, gave the eame kind of advice to the Democratic party that he has given in about ail the speeches he has delivered since be was 1 resident. He ad viced the party to deal honestly with the people and to pursue boldly, courage ously, and aggressively whatever policy it adopted. Mr. Cleveland, since the beginning of his political career, has been noted for his cour age iu taking positions upon great public questions and maintaining them with ail the ability he possesses. He does not leave tbe people in tho dark as to his meaning or bis purposes, and he does not hesitate to take a position that is likely to endanger his popularity when he believes he is right. His celebrated tariff message to congress was condemned by many of his party asso ciates as being unwise, and it has been fre quently charged that it caused the defeat of his party in the last national oontest. There is no doubt, however, that the message state-i the tariff doctrine of the Democratic party, and to it is due the overwhelming victory whiah that party won in the congro<eionai elections of 1890. His letter against the free coinage of silver is another conspicuous instance of his boldness. He knew the letter would not be acceptable to a very larger number of democrats in the west and south, and he could have remained quiet on tbe silver question as well as not. There was no weighty reason why he should take a position for or against free silver coinage, but he would have felt that he was not dealing honestly with the people if he had permitted the impress! on to be enter tained that be did not seriously objeot to the free coinage of silver. A notable part of tbe speech he delivered last night is the following: “We have preached the doctrine that honesty aud sin cerity should be exacted from political par ties. Let us not fall under the condemna tion which waits on shifty schemes and in sincere professions. I believe our oountry men are prepared to act on principle, and are in no mood for politloal maneuvering. They will not waste time in studying co nundrums, guesslug riddles or trying to in terpret doubtful phrases. They demand a plain and simple statement of political purpose.” If it were not for the faot that Mr. Cleve land always makes his meaning clear the foregoing might be interpreted as referring to Senator Hill’s Klmlra and Albany speeches on the silver question, tbe exact meaning of whioh uppears to bo in consid erable doubt. It is hardly probable, how over, that ho had Senator Hill’s speeches in mind when speaking of the necessity for frankness and sincerity in dealing with the people. A report has been published recently that Mr. Cleveland would soon write a letter saying that he would not accept the presi dential nomination of his party without it was tendered to him almost unanimously. It is not probable that be will write a letter of that kind, and it is oortain that he will make no effort to get the nomination. He could not. without loss of dignity, en gage in a contest for It. But should tbe nomination be offered to him there is no reason for thinkiug he would decline it. The Deeper Water Movement. It is evident from what ho has already done that Representative Duster is working earnestly in behalf of deeper water in Sa vannah humor. A day or two ago he in troduced a bill asking for an appropriation of f3,000.O(X) for Savannah harbor improve ment, and Thursday he introduced a reso lution authorizing the Secretary of War to make contracts for such materials aud work as may be ueoessary to carry out the plans for seouring the 20-foot channel to the soa which have been approved by the war de partment. The deeper water movement will be pushed forward earnestly and persistently until action is obtainod from congress, and there are excellent reasons for thinking that the action will be favorable. The interests involved are immense. They affect a vast region of country. Avery largo nart of the west and south lias indorsed, in the strong est terms, the efforts that are being made to deepen Savannah harbor to twenty-Bix feet, and when the matter cornea up in con gress for consideration, Representative Lester will find that it has a very large number of very strong and enthusiastic friends. Representative Lester hasn't an easy task, it is true. He aDd those who assist him will necessarily encounter opposition. The movement for the deepening of Galveston harbor had opposition, but it was so well indorsed and was so meritorious that it was approved. But it was not more strongly indorsed nor mere meritorious than the movement in behalf of the improvement of Savannah harbor is. There is no good reason for doubting, therefore, that the opposition to the Savannah harbor movement growing out of antagonistic interests will be over come. The Savannah harbor improvement is not a oity or a state affair. It is almost national in its ebaraoter. This is shown by the indorsements it has received in many states. With such backing it can hardly fail to receive the approval of congress. CoL Robert G. Ingersoll has found an un expected champion in the person of the Rev. Thomas Dixon, Jr., of New York. Mr. Dixon thinks the colonel a “superb dem agogue,” but believes God has raised him up to puncture the bubbles of superstitiou, lies, shams, humbugs and traditions of his toric Christianity which are no pert of di vine truth but have passed current as such. Concluding aa argument defensive of Col. Ingersoll Mr. Dixon says: “If God could chouse Balaam's ass to speak a divine mes sage I do not see why he oould not utilize the colonel. Give him ropo.” If the ruling of Justice Lawrence of England, that ‘*to call a man a thief is slander; to call him a thief is only abuse,” holds good in thii country the New York republican newspapers will have to lav in an extra supply of 2-em clashes with which to express themselves iu regard to Hill’s political methods. It’s tha only way they oau avoid suits for slander. Miners at Coal Creek hooted an American flag the other day and threatened to shoot it down. If suoh a thing should be at tempted the Tennessee stats troops, quar tered at the scene, would protect it. Then how in the world would tho good Elder Shepard and G. A. R. Commander Palmer make an “incident" out of that I The modest New York World announces that it will elect a democratic President this year, just as it elected Grover Cleve land. Tho people have been laboring all along under the impression that they had something to do with Cleveland’s election. But, if you lee it in the World it isn’t always so. ' THE MORNING NEWS: SATURDAY, JANUARY 9, 1892. The Pilotage Question. At every session of congress for the last few years there has been introduced a bill, or biils, for the purpose of altering and amending the laws of pilotage under which coasting vessels now sail. In the Fifty-first congress the Dingley bill proposed to dis pense with compulsory pilotage in the case of domestic vessels sailing from one port in this country to another, and allow the , master of a vessel to take her iu and out of harbor at pleasure. ; The chief argument in favor of the bill was that the chart*, maps and data fur- I nished by the government delineated all shoals and harbor entrance*, buoys, bear ings, soundings, etc., with such accuracy that a man competent to command a vessel would have no difficulty in taking hit ship | into any American port having fufficlent j water on the tar to float her. Tho real pur pose of tha bill was to benefit Mr. Diugley’s down-east constituency of ship owners, who would thereby esoape tho payment of pilot age charges and secure larger dividends on their investments. Tbe pilots of the various ports and the in- surance under writers fought the bill bitterly and finally succeeded in getting it shelved. It was shown by them that ocean bars were constantly changing, buoys going adrift and numerous other things constantly hap pening which raide it absolutely r.ecesßary for a pilot to remain on his “station" in order to know his bar, and that a man who only visited a port once or twice a year, or possibly once io two years, could not be de pended upon to take a ship over the bar of that port, by chart, with absolute safety to life and cargo. Aud subsequent events have proved that the pilots were right. During the past year if any proof were needed it has been abun dantly supplied in the several government vessels that have gone ashore and foundered through faults of the pilots they carried. Only Wednesday, according to a dispatch published in the Mousing News Thursday, the revenue steamer Gallatin was wrecked off Manches ter, Mass., because the pilot lost bis reckon ing, mistaking one headland for another, Th* vessel was a total loss and one man was killed. And this on a vessel of tbe govern ment—one supposed to be furnished with all the latest data from the hydrographic office, and commanded by expert and care ful seamen. If, under such oircumstauces, a vessel cannot be taken down the coast of Maiue to a Massachusetts port without a dis aster, it would appear to be worse thau folly to begin tinkering again during this con gress with a law affeotipg the water front of the United States on t wo oceans. Mrs. Falton and the Fair. Mrs. Felton has written an eloquent let ter to Gov. Northen about the necessity for having a Georgia building at the Chicago fair. She says that a Georgia building "accessible to all the world aud filled with Georgia manufactures and minerals will pay a dividend that is hard to estimate in figures.'’ Further along in her letter she says: “If we can get a roof to cover us and a foothold in the are safe. I for one would bo willing tt dress in Georgia homespun and wear Georgia’s ooat of arms as a badge to illustrate my faith in our brave old state, and my confidence in our people and our productive capacity in the grand dress parade that is to be carried out in Chicago next year. Georgia pino can build a house, Georgia marble can embellish it, and Georgia gold, copper, manganese, kaolin, graphite, iron aud coal will tell the talc of our resources to the world of money that is seeking an outlet and investment.” If all the men and women in Georgia were as deeply interested in the fair as Mrs. Felton is, and had as high an appreciation of its Importance, there would bo no difficulty iu getting enough money to erect a state bulldiog on the fair grounds and fill it w ith a very creditable exhibit. That Georgia ought to be represented at the fair no pro gressive citizen of the state can for a mo ment deubt. But how is the necessary amount of money to tie raised? That is the question the governor has been trying to get answered satisfactorily for months, and there is no money in sight yet. At least SIOO,OOO is needed. That amount would not enable the state to make very much of a display, but it would save her from the humiliation of not being represented there at ail. Why doesn’t Mrs. Felton employ her eloquent pen in stirring up such n feeling throughout the state in behalf of the fair that there would boa disposition to sub scribe aa amount sufficient to make a creditable exhibit? While no fault is to be found with her for advising the erection of a state building on the fair grounds, the getting of the money with which to erect the building would seem to be of far more importance at this time. Those western newspapers which im agine that Mr. Cleveland has committed political hari-kari and Mr. Hill has found ered on the free silver rock, thereby leaving an opening for a western man to become President, are apt to wake up oue fine morning to find they have made a great mistake. The Fall Mall (Juzettc asserts that seven teen of England’s best warships have de fective boilers. What with this newly found fault, and armed with great guns that cannot be discharged more than half a dozen times bef< re being rendered useless, England’s navy seems about to lose first rank. Tho lowa jury who arrived at a verdict, but refused to render it until they had been paid their fees, had less confidence in huniau nature than had the defendant in tho case. He was so anxious to hear the finding that he paid the foes, and then, to liU chagrin, the verdiot was against him. Mrs. Ikjalie Carter is again playing her strongest role —as a defendant in court. Aud tho reporters say she looks “just as natural” in the wifnoss chair as could be wished. She is being sued for a stabie keeper’s bill, which she rays she can’t pay, as she gets only SSO a wesk. Tho newly-formed typo trust is a “toney” affair. The body of capital la tho deal is English; the bourgeoisie and minion are “not in it.’’ Purchasers will probably be aware of an increase in dollar marks vrheu the syndicate assumes ownership of the foundries. Ben Webster, the West Virginia moon shiuer, unlike the illustrious Daniel, did not have an “unanswerable argument” to fire at his opponents when they aroused him—he had forgotten to load his gun. Consequently Ben, still unlike Daniel, was hurried off to prison. Anew lymph for the cure of tuberculosis has made its appearance. It is known as “Koch’s Lymph with Klebe’ improvement.” The K’s still have the call on lymph, and it is hoped this new one will prove O. K. PERSONAL* Trr intention of tr e czarma to visit Paris is questioned by the Parisian journals. J. I. Cass is spoken of a* r self made mao, be cause he left a fortune of $3, 000,000. When Prof. Tyndall wa* young be used to puzzle hie teacher with problems in Eucl and. Mas Joint Hherhan las not bad a picture taken since her husband first entered congress. The last British survivor of th© battle of Waterloo, Famuel Gibson, is dead at the age of 101. •'Capmen Byi.va,** the Queen of Roumaaia. who w stopping at Ballan/a, in Piedmont, is dy in* Lobd Wolselet is believed to aspire to sue- Lord Stanley of Preston as governor gen eral of Canada. Alphonse Daudet, the French novelist, 'has accord**-! permission for the dramatization of bis “Tara**oon” and “Evangelist©.” The gold medal given to Virchow on his'TOth birthday is the largest ever mad* 1 . It weighs f #IX * >oun(is ' llie alone is worth Charms Booth proposes that every person in England over 60 years of age shall receive from the state 5 shillings a week. That can bo done for £ir,ttA),ooo annually. Mounet Sully of Paris denies that he is com ing to America. He says that perhaps that he will come in a year or two for a month's tour, playing “Hamlet" an i other leading parts. Dr. David Crrna, of th© University cf Penn sylvania, has lust been presented with an hon orary diploma which mrikes him a correspond ing fellow of the “feociedad Espanoia do Hi *o*ne, M of Madrid. No photograph can do Ethel Ingalls, th© daughter of ex Senator Ingalls, justice, says Jean Mallory in an iuterestiug sketch of Miss Ingalls, for it is to her exquisite coloring that mucti of i.er beauty *s due. She is tall, well pr portioned and erect, with fine figure and smaii, beautifully shaped hands and feet. Congressman Grain of Texas says: “Garza, the Mexican revolutionist who is creating such a stir along the Rio Grande, is one of thegamest men I ever met. He looks the typical frontier desperado, yet he is not a rude, illiterate fel low. as some might imagine. He is fairly well educated, and prior to his late bold break was running a small uewsnaoer, printed on the Texas side in the Spanish language. Garza has been iu countless private brawls and is a lucky fellow to be alive, for he has been pierced by many a bullet.’* Edwin Booth used to encounter a preternat turally solemn audience once in awhile, nays the actor, Charles B. Hanford, and would be much distress and by bis failure to elicit a smile from a single face by his best hits. On one ojcasjonjt is said, becomiug exasperated beyond endur ance. he walked to the footlights, and, drawing down his face, said earnestly: “Ladies and gentlemen, I don’t ask you to laugh, hut for heaven s sake don’t cry ’• Needless to fay they did not. Mr. Hanford also tells of Mr. Booth consenting at another time, under like circumstances, to having one or two good lau 'hers placed ia the audience to relieve the gloom. BRIGHT BITS. Toti.ixo—Here’s a story called "The Politi cian’s Conscience." Dimling—Short story, isn't it .—The Epoch. Hz—Don’t you think my photograph is a good likeness 1 She—Really 1 am afraid it is.—Louisville Journal. Mamma—Willie,’what are you doing with that thermometer? Willie—l'm bringing it into the house. It’s too coid a place for it out here.— Chicago Tri bune. I’immnq—The duel has had its hour. Tatling—That’s too long. Dimling—What do you mean? Tatling—A duel requires ouly two seconds. Judge. "I nevah eat mince pie," said Chappie. "Why not?" asked Hicks. "it makes me dweam of my ancestahs, and between us, they were all twadesmen."— Life's Calendar. "I am told that you and Miss Glibly don't speak at you pass by.” "That’s au error. Miss Glibly speaks, but I do not. That's how the story Started, probably.” Button Boat. Father—Well, Tommy, how do you think yon will lino this little fellow for a brothe r ? Tommy (inspecting the new infant somewhat doubtfully}—Have we got to keep him, papa, or is he only a sample?— Chicago Tribune. Now she is oue and I am, too. ’Tis very plain that we. If any kind of sum should do, Could prove that we are three; But when we try we're sorely troubled, How e’er the sum be done; For, even alter we are doubled, Tho answer is but one. —Yew York Herald. Bulfimch—l have just been reading your latest effort in the Dry bones Magazine. Scribbles—My effort? Bulflneh—l was speaking from the readers standpoint.— Boston Courier. "Well, how do you liEO it?” Lucifer asked of a shade who had lived iu the lower regions for about a week. “First rate,” was the reply. "That's strange. Most new arrivals don't like it.” ‘Well, you see. I bad been married to a Chi cago woman for four years.— Brooklyn Lite. A mas, very much excited, burst in M. Gibi. r's laboratory, over in New Jersey, the other day. "O, doctor,” he criei, “I have been bitten I” "By a dog?" asked Gibier. “No; worse than that.” "By a cut?" "A kind of cat. But O, doctor, can you cure mo?" "It was a wolf, tben?” “Not a wolf, but much worse. It was my mother-inlaw!” "in that case,” said Gibier, turning to his work, “nothing can be done.”—Texas Siftings. CURRENT COMMENT. Lowered by the McKinley Tariff. From the Philadelphia Timet. The tariff has not raised everything as often charged. Sco how it brought down tiie U. O. I‘. in the Empire state. Bill end Cieyeland. From the Chicago Inter Ocean IRep.'i. Mr Hill in at heart as much of a free trader ns Mr. Cleveland, and not improbably is at heart as much of a friend to va id coinage, but Mr. Hill is what Mr. Cleveland is not, he is a Greek of the lower empire. We do not believe that Mr. Cleveland would care to be nominated upon a doubtful platform. All the world now knows that Mr. Hid has advised Id- followers to con struct a doubtful platform upon which he may oe nominated. Springer’s Free Wool Bill. From the Chicago .Vein (Dent.). If Mr. Springer's free wool bill should become a law an.! should not result almost immediately iu a reduction la tho pr.ee of woolen goods,* of course the high tariff on those goods would have to go down before a general mdaugbt. Lower prices would bring about increased consumption and a greater demand aud better prices for American wool, which, being of a different quality, does not come into harmful competition with foreign wool. The Issue In Boston. From the Chicago Yews. There is absolutely nothing In the telegraph reports of the Inauguration of Boston's new officials to indicate the administration's atti tude toward the important problems set forth by Henrik Ibsen. This is extremely unfort unate. It ts understood lhat the mayor's own ward In Boston is strongly Ibsenatei and tho American public has a right to know how that ward voted. The political issue in Boston is not now upon Mr. Browning’s "Red Cotton Night tap Country,” but upon “A Doll’s House." This much of e urse is understood, but the rest Is chaos Why is not the public fully informed In regard to the present status of the great con test over sore-eyed psychology? Some "Protected" Workmen. From the Pittsburg Pott. The McKinley bill put a tariff of 25 per cent, ad valorem on watches, watch oases, move ments and crystals. As in ail other instances, this was professedly to enable the American wateu manufacturer to compete with his Euro pean rival without lowering the wages of the American werkiogman. Yet the news is that tho employes of the Waltham Watch Company aro about to stnxo aa account of a recent re duction in their wa*es, and that for the same reason certain employes of the Elgin (111.) National Watcn Company have already struck and \OOO more aro getting ready to ge out. The fact io that a high tariff enables manu facturers to establish a monopoly and pay what wages they will. Where competition is work ing its natural regulid combination stops in. The Man Who Fscxped. I There was a pretty oil and a pretty verdant ! looking man at the Third street depot th© other j day. says th© Detroit ‘ re* Pr~u, and by and by ! be approached Officer Button and >aiJ he gueaaed he’d wander round for a soeh “Well, look out for yourself,'* replied tbe ! officer. | “Any danger?” | “T .ere aa; * ays slick fellows about. ’ I “Ya*. 1 tha* is, but I shan’t let nobody | fool me” “He was gone about an hour, and when he re turned be showed the officer a bank check for S*>> and asked: “I >oes tr.at seem all right to you?” ‘•Right/ Of course not. It s a check on & Bufiaio bank signed John Smith. It’s a dead fake, of course. ” “Fake Fake * What’s a fake /*• “You’ve t.-een faked. I expected you’d get into trouble when you went out of here! Seems singular that you can't talk common sense into some people. ” ‘ Then tbe check is no good?” asked the old man. "Why. o? course not. How much did you lend on it?’’ “I give him $25. ~ “Well, you've been eonfldenced, and now you'd better go and sit down and keep mum.” * Is that wnat they call a confidence game?” “Of course.*’ "Well. I thought so all th* tirr.e.’’ “Then what did you let him walk off with your money for? * “I didn't, you know. He started to go. but I grable.l him by the reck, like this, and backed him up ag in a wall, like this, and I pulled out this old pistil and laid the bar'l on his nose, and he give up that money quicker’n scat.” Ti;e ola man illustrate 1 the case in the most vigorous manner, evt*n to laying on the bar'l, which was a portiou of a weapon seemingly fifty years old. “So you got your money,” asked tbe officer, a* he got his neck loose from the old man'a KriP, “Got 'er right down in my breeches pocket, safe as a tank. How much more time have I got?' “An hour and a half.” “Wall, I guess I'll take another little walk around. Mebbe I’ll meet somebody else who don’t know that I run a side-show with old Dan Rice’s circus fur better than twenty years, and who thinks I'm a kitchen door for flies to roost on.” In the Days of Grf e'ey. Amoi J. Cummings tells these stories of old Tribune days: “George W. Smalley, now cele brated as the London correspondent of the Tribune , won hi newspaper spurs by reporting the battle of AntietAm. He went back to New York after the battle on a badly lighted train and purchased a lantern, by whose rays lie wrote a page account of the conflict. Once when John Russell Y r oung was managing editor of the 7rt6une he went to Washington and left Smalley to take his place temporarily. I was then night editor,and Air. Greeley on one occas ion asked me to read the proof of an editorial he had written, whilo ho weut out to deliver a temperance lecture. Th# proof was all right, but Smalley changed a name after it had passed through iny hand*, and a big mistake got into the paper. Mr Greeley came down the iioxt day almost wild with excitement. **‘You’re making the Tribune an object of ridicule,’ he wailed, pressing both hands to his heal. “I explained to him that Smalley had made the unf< rtunate change, and then he burst out: *Bo loug as l am editor of this paper I won’t let a tow-headed vankee like Smalley, or anybody else read proof for me. ’ “Ever after that Mr. Greeley watched the printing of every article he wrote with the gn*at**st care. He was afraid or Smalley, though, and never da rod tell him that he had boon guilty of the mistake. “Men e.re great practically and groat theoret ically. Mr. Greeley’s mind was not executive. It was pre-eminently speculative. His excep tional rnefital power and his sympathetic heart were the motors of his life. His nature was not warpo t by his training whe i a toy, for he had no training. There were no currents iu hi early life to bear him into the iron-fenced realm of religious bigotry, or to carry him into the domain of selfishness. He was like a man placed in an open b<*at on the lake whose waters are dead and motionless. His oars were men tal aptitude and physical health. With these be made his way to land. Fellow-feeling was his guiding star ” An Old Bum Named Wilsoa. Arnos Cummings tolls how a faithful body guard of Horace Greeley once kept Vice Presi dent Wilson out of bis room, story, after detailing how several New York politicians were disposed of, continues: “A few minutes later Vice Presidenr Wilson came in. He had b*en traveling a good deal, and his form was covered with the grimiest linen duster l ever saw. Heslamm Ad down his old oarpet bag on the floor and said: ‘I war t to see Mr. Greeley.’ “‘Git out,’thundered Ben, “be old man’s busy.' “ ‘Well, can’t you take my name?’ asked the Vice President. *“l guess I'll have to do it: but you stand right here and don’t move, op you'll ketch it.’ • Ben went into Mr. Greeley’s room, and I beard a hot dialogue going on for a little while. Then the office boy reappeared and looked at Wilson with supreme disgust. “ ‘Jest as 1 thought; he don’t want to see you.’ declared Ben. ‘Now, git out.’ “I pacified Ben. and went in to tell Mr. Ore*- lev who wanted to see him. The great editor listened to what I bad to say and the.i shouted: ‘Tell the Vice President|to walk right in. That fool of a boy said there was an old bum named Wilson loafing around outside who wanted to see me.’ ” The Luck of the Wllaona. In some of the social glimpses which the “Ob server” of the New Y'ork Recorder makes oc curs the following: By the way. where will you find a family in the history of New York that has made such fast time In society a* the Wilsons? Fifteen years Ago they cam* out of the west unheralded and unknown. To-day the eldest daughter is married to a Goelet. tho second daughter is tli wife of tbe lion. Michael Her bert of the British legation, one of tL© sons married Miss Asror, and the unmarried daugh ter, Miss Grace Wilson, can marry almost any man she chooses in town. It is not money that has done this, for many arc richer than the Wilsons. It is not brains or breeding, for many are cleverer and better bred; nor is it physical beauty, for the Wilson women are only passing fair, and tho men absolutely plain. HTheir luck ig said to emanate from a mascot kept carefully concealed in the big house on Fifth avenue, and there are fifty families In town just struKKling on the verge of society who are not a bit above breaking in and stealing the Wilson luck. Chaunc-y on Schedule Time. “Our Chauneey.” says the New York Adver tiser, the inimitable Chauneey M. Depew, dis played last evening one of t' e qualities which enabled him to be at once an ornament of society and a practical, hard-working corpora tion magnate. Mr. Depew, arrayed in evening dress, walked up to the office of the Fifth Avenue hotel, sei.-ed from the hand of the at tentive clerk a letterhead and envelope and dashed off his regrets at Detng unable to attend a dinner. Then he turned to a gentleman who had just request.' 1 his attention to a i impor tant affair of business and said tersely but genially: “I am engaged to dine at 7:30; it is now 7:20. Excuse my railroad horology, but I am running on time, and I wish no social col lisions. You will find me at my office to morrow.” Rvansrellne Married. From the Boston Courier. What, married: Evangeline married* Grf at heavens, it cannot be so: And yet. here it is ail in printing, And happened a fortnight ago. A wife: Why’t was only in August That, leaving her down by the sea, She swore by the round moon above us She would ever be faithful to me. And now she is wod to another. If I my poor eyes can believe; O, false: O. most faithless of women: So cruelly me to deceive. Of course I meant nothing; was only Killing time; but I swear ’t is a shames To think that that innocent maiden M as all the while doing the same. BAKING fOffUSR. ~ />eaW Baking Powder • Used, in Millions of'Homes— 40 Years tke Standard FLAVORING EXTRACTS. Perfectly Harmless. 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It is an heirloom. 200 years old. with pages two feet long, and but little less in width, and at the head of each page is a line in red ink, which translated reads: “This is a history.” Another resident of the same city has compiled, so to speak, a Bible in ninety volumes, hie additions to the text consisting of pictures and photo graphs which he has coilectel to the number of nearly 10,000. Tub largest oak now standing In England is the “Cowthorpie,” which measures 78 feet in circumference at the ground. At one time this tree and its branches covered more than an acre of space The gigantic old "Parlia mentary Oak” in Clipstone park, London, is be lieved to be 1.500 years old. The tallest oak on the British isles is called the Duke’s Walking stick. It is higher than the spire of West minster Abbey. The oak of Gelemos, which was felled in 1810, realized $4,350 for its owner; the bark was sold for SI,OOO and the trunk and branches for $3,350 more. The ancient Egyptian cat was the progeny of a species that is wild in that country to-day, being known as the fells manieulata. This lat ter may be regarded as the ancestor of nearly all existing pussies of domesticated varieties, its descendants were brought from Egypt to Greecs and Rome, whence they spread over Europe. When the Homans Invaded Britain they found plenty of wild cats in the woods, but the people owned no tame ones. The felis manieulata is of a yellowish color, darker on the back and whitish on the belly, with obscure stripes on the body and a tail ringed toward the end. Doubtless some domesticated cats are de rived from different origins, as is presumably the case with the Angora or Persian variety, which is thought to be descended from an Asi atic wildcat. “The columns of facetiae fnthe English cheap periodicals are mainly supplied from America, there being, unhappily, no copyright in jokes," says James Payn, “but tnere is a danger in tho appropriation. Up till now this has only ex isted with respect to stor es, many of which have been transferred, without acknowledge ment, from American sources by enterprising English oublishers to their own columns, with results that they have not calculated upon; for 'an original fiction’ is discovered to have pre viously appeared in England, and the author, having been twice robbed, has sometimes the ■satisfaction (through his lawyer) of getting twice paid A joke with a man's name in it, accusing him of a fraudulent transaction, was thus transferred the other day, aud a man of th i same name i which happened to he a singu la -one) has obtained damages from the English p rdishers of it. There was no suggestion of a libel having been Intended, hut the jokee proved damage to his reputation.” War itself will, at all times, be less hideous now in those days of smokeless powder, says Sir Charles Dilke in the t ortnigh tly Review, for while the uoise of the gu sis lessened, the flash is biue and far more vivid, and the trifling pur ple liaze which overspread* the landscape when t u) lire of musketry becomes intense beautifies all objects, though it in no way interferes with sight. As for the guns, they appear to have but tho smoke ot a cigar, and, 1 may add, the smell of a fuse*. Men and horses are now visible iu tbe battle, however hot the engagement, how ever great the numbers, with all the clearness in which they are depicted iu panoramic views of mediaeval haule. Woe betide, in future, gen erals who ride white Arabs, and armies whose uniforms or equipments glisten! "Their flut tering lance pennons add greatly to the spec tacu ar effect of our Held days" has lately been said of tbe lancers of the British army. Al though lance pennons have gone in France, yet the military palmer can still find subject*. The carnage when men next flcht wil! no doubt be awful, and the next war bloodier than the last, but the preliminaries of destruction will be love ly to the eve. The bamboo, ns It furnishes nearly everything else in Japan and Java, furnishes, too, a most daugerous poison. The young shoots of ths cane, w hen they first push through the ground, ar- c wred with tine, brownish hairs, which, under die microscope, appear to b# bayonet line spikes of crystals of sllex. infinitely sharp and hollow. Sn ail quantities of these hairs administered daily in the food bring on ulcera tion of the whole alimentary canal, simulating malignant dysentery. The action must be of a mechanical rather than a chemical nature, Just as the spores of the common puff ball act upon the eyes. The bamboo crystal is greatly dreaded by all tbe European residents of Java. A Dutch official report rays t at scores of deaths among European planters are due to the bamboo hairs and the jealousy of native women, who. whenever they take a fancy to a white man, will either have him or poison him on bamboo hairs, if it lakes months ro accomplish the job. The infinitesimal hol low tiirough those hairy crystals is tho most re markable thing in connection with them, they being the only known vegetable or mineral thorns or crystals. The cost of T’ritiah royalty is about $5,000.- 000 a year. In addition to the maintenance of palaces aud the building of royal yachts, the incomes voted to the family are enormous, says Henry Labouchere in L :udon 7ru th. Ths Prince of Wales hns over $500,000 and the princess $50,000 a year. 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