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Morning News Bui ding Savannan, Ga.
MONDAY. JANUARY 85. 1899.
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Special Sale op Handkerchiefs—Falk
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No. 1, Jan. 23,
Lkoal Notice—As to Claims in Favor of
in<l Against Estate of Win. Hunter, Deceased
They’ve Got to Go—B. B. Levy A Bro,
Mjcwcal— Dr. Taft’s Asthmaleno.
Cheap Column Advertisements Help
Mantel; Employment Wanted; For Rent; For
Eale; Lost; Personal; Miscellaneous.
A king decorating a painter is much bet
ter than having a painter decorate the
kiuß-
Reports all agree that there is nothing
wooden about Beerbohta Tree’s impersona
tion of Hamlet.
Jay Gould’s privately inspired rumors
have more effect oa the stock marketß thau
all the war rumors afloat.
The Alger boom, with its experience in
the ranks, is losing some very valuable
time now. Frobably its battery has run
down.
A Chicago agricultural item, taken from
the Intor Ocean : “Thocrop of women who
want more alimony and less husband is un
usually large this year.”
Mr. Speaker Crisp is fast getting into
condition to again wield that nice, new
Amerious gavel. Then let the treasury
looters stand from under!
A game roostor being put upon the wit
ness stand to crow, in order t"> identify him
by his voice, is one of the nonsensioal inci
dents of a Oarlstadt (N. J.) court scene.
The Missouri militia, recruited for a war
with Chile, might turn out and do a little
skirmish and scouting work after Missouri
Pacific express robbers while they wait.
There may be others about besides Meyers
and Francis.
New Orleans would do a good thing by
procuring some of the contemporary presi
dential booms for Mardl (Iras attractions.
Tbe New York Herald has one of the gro
tesque species on hand, which is worthy a
place near the head of the column.
Tbe party called Columbian being propa
gated in Boston, bas announced its deter
mination not to vote for any candidate who
will not 6ign its declared principles, wbioh
are nothing more nor less than a condensa
tion and codification of mugwump ideas.
A circular announces that Mr. Albert
Winter, on Feb. 1, will begin the
publication of the Thomasville Evening
News. He promises that the new paper
shall be as bright, typographically and
otherwise, as good material, unlimited en
thusiasm and whatever ability he possesses
can make it.
The New York Herald is a journal in
love with the profession. Whenever a big
office is to be filled tbe Herald finds bd
editor eminently fitted for tbe place. There
was Dana for tbe Senate, and now we are
told Watterson is just tbe man to be Fresi
dent. Why don’t somebody return the
compliment and nominate Mr. Bennett for
•’perpetual member of the diplomatic
corps * ”
A dispatob from Kansas City, published
in the Morning News yesterday.oontaiDed
splendid materia) for a yellow-back novel,
or one of tbe more pretentious stories of the
Crawford kind. A train twloe “held up”
during one run, onoe by a lynching party
and then by robbers, furnishes too good a
base upoD which a vivid imagination may
build to be thrown away, and tbe chanoes
are tbat some oompiler cf florid word* will
avail himself of the opportunity.
Tbe Nicaragua Canal Bonds.
It is apparent that an extraordinary
effort is going to be made during this con
gress by tbe promoters of the Nicaragua
canal to get tbe canal company’s bonds
guaranteed by the United States govern
ment. Tbe question of guaranteeing tbe
bonds is already being discussed by oon
‘ greumnu, and tbe fact has been developed
that there are a good many senators and
representatives in favor of lending the gov
ernment’s credit to tl.e company.
It is asserted by Admiral Amman, who is
at tbe head of the enterprise, that If the
bonds are guaranteed by tbe government
tbe canal can be built for about one-balf
the amount it would otherwise oost, and
that o insequently tbe canal tolls would be
very much less. As this country will be a
large patron of the canal the question of
tolls is well worth considering.
One thing that is greatly in favor of the
success of the effort to get the desired
guarantee is the fact tbat party lines are
not drawn with regard to it. Those con
gressmen who favor it include both demo
crats and republicans. The most apnspicu
ous democrat who is favoring the guarantee
is Senator M.Tgan, and the most conspicu
ous republican is Senator Sherman. In tbe
last congress Senator Sherman made a
strong report in favor of a guarantee.
It is uuderstood that if this country re
fuses to guarantee the bonds the canal com
pany will ask congress to pass a resolution
to tbe effect that this country has no ob
jection to Great Britain guaranteeing the
bonds. It is pretty certain that congress
would not pass suoh a resolution as tbat.
Tbe country that guarantees the bonds
will control the canal, and this oouutry
would not oonsent to anything looking to
Great Britain’s control of it. And yet it
would seem as if this country ought not to
object to Great Britain helping the canal
enterprise if It does not think it advisable
to do so Itself.
With an abundance of money it is be
lieved that tbe canal can be constructed In
about three years. That appears to be a
vory short time to accomplish so great a
work. Frobably six years would be as soon
as tbe canal oould be completed, however
much money the canal company might
have at its command.
The canal would give this country an im
mense advantage in trade with some of tbe
South American countries, and for that
reason it Is believed that some of the
European countries do not regard the canal
with favor. Their opposition, however,
would not amount to muoh If this country
should decide to lend tbe canal enterprise a
helping hand. The question of guaranteeing
the bonds will attract wide attention when
the dlsoussion of it is begun in congress.
The Kiss In tho Church. -
It is probable that the history of the kiss
bogan on the sixth ilay of the Creation, and
its literature as soon as primeval man began
to record his thoughts and actions. Tho
sweet salutation, for ail known to tho con
trary. was the predecessor of even speech
itself; it is not written that Adam spoke to
Eve when he waked from that nap which
cost him a rib and gave the world its
brightest Jewel, but the most natural thing
iu the then brand new world would be for
him to have seen, been conquered and im
mediately to have implanted a kiss squarely
and heartily on those rich lips. A perfect
man, of divine mold; a perfect woman, a
goddess in face aud figure—certainly he
kissed her, or he was not a man.
So muoh for the beginning of the kiss;
where it will end heaven only knows. Dur
ing the successive chapters of its history it
has run the whole gamut of tho human pas-
Bious, from purest and blessed love to most
despicable deoett, leading to destruction of
body and soul.
Again, heaven knows where it will and,
for kissing has entered theology as being en
joined in one of the tenets of a peculiar
faith recently evolved from the fertile
brain of an Illinois minister named
Morrow, who feels that a part of
his mission on earth is to cheer the weary
in spirit—or the vigorous, it doesn’t seem to
matter muoh—with a hearty, resounding
"holy kiss." This dispenser of spiritual
comfort by labial contact is no respecter of
persons, if they only be women, and as
readily kisses his cojored cook as anybody.
Another instance of kissing disturbing
theological repose, to the horror of the
congregation and discomfiture and disrup
tion of a marriage engagement is that of the
Rev. Mr. Dill.of Sterling, N. Y.,who forsook
his pulpit during servioe to kiss his affianced
bride in the aisle of the church, right be
fore the assembled multitude. Aud every
body giggled and smirked. That led the
young lady to ooncluda she would stop at
the affianced stage of the proceedings and
not go on to bridehood. The upshot of tho
whole affair was that people got to lalking
and investigating and surmising, until It
was concluded that the Rev. Mr. Dill was
not a nice and exemplary young man; that
he sometimes told fibs, and flirted with
other girls whenever the other girls wou'd
let him. Now, everybody knows that more
or less kissing is a necessary
accompaniment to a real, jolly bang
up flirtation, and with a man of tbe Rev.
Mr. Dill’s temperament it was a foregone
conclusion that be had been the beneficiary
of clandestine osculatory sweets when bo
“hadn’t ought to." So Mr. Dill was
brought up before the church court to
answer for his conduct, and his trial is now
going on, to the delectation or countless 5
o’clock tea parties, and other parties of both
sexes, who are ourious as to the outcome.
Tbe verdict will be looked to as a kind of
precedent in social ethics and personal
privileges, besides deciding, for tbe time,
the relation of the kiss to orthodox theology.
From the stand point of a layman, tho
Dill version of the kissing problem has de
cided an insuperable advantage over the
Morrow version.
Postmaster General \Yanamaker did a
wise thing when he issued instructions
against tacking fanciful aud hyphenated
names on to postoffices. "Pattaguinpus,
Me.," bo says, it sufficient to tell where a
letter is going, without drawing it out to
“Pattagumpui-on-the Penobsooh” This
will strike Columbin-on-the-Canal, but Co
lumbia can survive it.
Tbe Wilmington (N. C.) Messenger says
"Bosh!" because a trade journal Bays the
south is better off at present thau at the
corresponding period last year. True, such
a conclusion is ’ ‘bosh,’’ but it is the busi
ness of the trade journal to keep things
booming right along in print whether they
are in fact or not.
One of the strangest of strange things is
that the “most startling evidence” in bo
balf of a murderer in a murder trial i* al
ways discovered after his oonvlotion.
Hat anybody seen a “dark horse” with a
“some good western man’s” boom astride of
ltl
THE MORNING NEWS: MONDAY, JANUARY 25, 1892.
Recruiting the National Armv.
Gen. John P. Hawsins. of the United
States army, stationed in California, Las
published a circular letter on recruiting the
standing army, and giving his views, tbe
fruit of experience, in the betterment of
the service. Gen. Hawkins coincides with
ex-Secretary of War Proctor in regard to
reducing tbe period of enlistment for serv
ice to two years, making the maximum
j limit of age 30 years and allowing no re
i enlistment, except that he would make tbe
( age limit 25 years, with an optional re en
listment of two years. This, he says, would
: make mil.tary service an incident of citi
zenship at.d not an avocation fur life, and
j tbe training received by young men would
make them better citizens than if they had
never known such training.
Gen. Hawkins’ plan, or rather the idea
upon which be would base a plan, contem
plates the establishment of recruiting sta
tions in each of the several states, with the
understanding tbat the men enlisted are not
to be removed from the state In which they
enlist during their term of service, except
in time of hostilities or for some temporary
service. The short period and this proviso
would make the service popular in the
rural districts, be thinks; would improve
the service by a constant infusion of new
and enthusiastic young blood, and would
be of benefl t in a great degree to the men in
teaching them discipline, . promptness of
action and how to take care of themselves
generally.
Under a modification of the general idea
outlined Gen. Hawkins thinks there is no
good reason why tbe garrison at Fort Mc-
Pherson, near Atlanta, should not be able
to obtain all the soldiers required there from
tbe population of Georgia and the states
adjoining. “The men,” he says, “while
serving at the post would not feel out off
from their people, who are near by, and an
occasional furlough would keep them iu
touch with home surroundings and home
sympathies, and at the end of their enlist
ment they would go baok to their people all
the better for having had a tour of service
In the army.”
There is no suggestion of compulsory en
listment, of course, with the cutting down
of the time and age limit of service, but it
is rather thought to make the service at
tractive to young men who would like the
adventure and appreciate the experience.
Gen. Hawkins has made a suggestion to
which he has devoted much careful thought,
and it coutains so much of such apparent
practicability that the authorities may con
sider it advisable to formulate a plan con
taining the essential features of It.
Among other things the suggested method
of enlistment would certainly tend to Ameri
canize the army by having each section of
the country recognized therein, without dis
tinction of north or south, east or west.
The efforts of State Commissioner of Agri
culture Nesbitt, in urging planters of cotton,
to experiment in tobacco culture as a pre
liminary to getting out of the rut of devot
ing ail of their time and acreage to cotton
are commendable. Tobacco, howover, is a
crop requiring great care and considerable
technical knowledge to make It a profitable
crop. To rush hurriedly into tobaaoo cul
ture would be folly, hence tbe commission
er’s caution to “go slow.” Farmers begin
ning on a small scale, say one-fourth of an
acre in tobacco, have worked up to a larger
area and found the venture quite re
munerative, and where several have done
this, it is a matter worthy the consideration
of all.
Senator M. 8. Quay is out gunning with a
libel suit blunderbuss, and bas brought down
two small newspaper birds. But there is big
ger game awaiting him which, it seems, he
must tackle or show the white feather. The
Pittsburg and Beaver newspapers were on
Quay’s own preserves and claim to have
been beaten unfairly. But there is a big
paper in New York which has printed
much worse things about Quay than the
Pennsylvania papers. That paper invites a
libel suit.
The failure of the rice trust is no more
than might have been auticipated. Savan
nah has never been approached on the sub
ject, and the mill men here do not antici
pate a renewal of the movement. Not that
Savannah is predispoied to enter a trust;
but whatever scheme is raised for the pur
pose of controlling rice must have the con
sent of this, the third rice market in
America, before it can hope for sucoess.
Ten glass manufacturing houses in Pitts
burg closed this week, ten or twelve more
to close next week, 2,500 men out of work,
a decrease of 1,000,000 tons of pig Iron
product and a decrease of 500,000 tons of
Bessemer steel—these are some of the bless
ings of the McKinley bill reported in the
Morning News telegrams.
Reports from Kansas say that an organ
ized conspiracy to kill public officers has
been discovered. Presently we shall hear
that the conspirators are all democrats and
mean to wipe out the republicans. It is be
ginning to be about time for the harvest of
Buch j ams for campaign consumption.
Our esteemed avuncular relative Sam is
distinguishing himself as an art collector.
The beauty of his scheme is that the old
masters do not cost him a cent. His agents
the customs officials, have during the week
seized thirty-six splendid paintings, to bo
added to a lot similarly acquired.
Oysters have entered Connecticut politics
and will make an issue at tbe coming elec
tion. We have all seen the political clam,
closed to interviews as well as to reason
but the embryo statesman who will pro
claim, “I’m your oyster,” is a noveity.
Tbe Society for the Prevention of Cruelty
to Animals is after the truly good Elder
Shepard with a sharp stick for permitting
extreme cruelty to his street car horses.
And tbe elder continues to issue a traot
daily.
Some of the Kansas newspapers of the
contemporary period ought to be sent to
President Month. The stories told therein
would certainly inspire respect for tbe
American arm and aim.
If Rudyard Kipling’s wife is the right
kind of an Amerioan woman the opinions
of that overestimated young man relative
to this great oountry will undergo great
changes in short order.
Garza, the Mexican revolutionist, is
worth $430,000. Diaz has offered an ad
ditional reward of $400,000 for his body,
and his bead is valued at $30,000 by the
Mexican government.
The great water mains of tbe northern
cities are not able to hold their own agsinst
the thermometer, but freeze and burst.
Another argument against the use of water
in oold weather.
PERSONAL*.
Chacncev M Depew will give a dinner at bis
New York residence Thuriday evening. Jan. 28.
commemorative of the completion of his
twenty five years' services in the New York
Central Railroad Company
Joseph Crosby of Dezter, Me., one of the
ablest lawyers of the state, and 70 years of age,
attributes his robust health to his practice of
taking a bath in ice cold water every morning.
Sometimes by way of variety the old gentleman
rubs himself with snow.
Th* “founder of French journalism.’’ The
ophraate Renaudot, is to be commemorated by
a statue. He was by profession a physician
and started the Gairt e lie Im, the first
Irench newspaper. In 1531. He alto established
the first Slontde Piete, and died poor.
Mrs . Moss Came, who la not at all a par
ticularly brilliant writer, and wUoro celebrity
really grew out of a “catchy’ ’ Dhraee, ‘ Is Mar
riage a Failure?" is about to publish a novel.
It is tod -al with socialism. She is also oollecting
f r publication in book form her essays on
marriage.
Bam Lewis is tbe general banker of the Lon
don nobility in distress. It is sail that the
capital at his disposal is put up by two men,
one of whom is a peer and tbe other a man well
known on the turf, and who. for some time at
any rate, formed part of the Marlborough
house coterie.
Senator Morrill’s oratory is of the severely
classical order, but he knows the benefit of
using metaphors occasionally, as he showed in
his recent speech on silver, when he sail:
“Dynamite may not bring rain from tbe clouds,
but tne showers of financial balloonists will not
tail to bring portentous monetary storms upon
our people.”
Thh Duchess Eugenie Litta Bolequine of
Milan is winningthe admiration and regard of
all good women. Wearied of the monotony of
fashionable life, she has sold her jewelry, laces
and fans to secure SOOO,OOO with which to build
a hospital for the little children in her own city.
It is her purpose also to take a subordinate
p -sition in the convalescent ward of the hos
pital.
Survivors of the charge of the Light brigade
are few enough to make tbe fact noteworthy
that Sergt. John Levich of Indianapolis is one
of the gallant 600 who withstood tie murderous
fire of the Russian guns He wears one of the
silver medals with four clasps, representing
Alma, Uaiaklava, Inkerman and Sebastopol,
which the queen gave those who returned from
the Crimea.
Lxelt. George Taylor Langhorne, who has
been distinguishing himself on the frontier in
the efforts of the United states troop 6 to cap
ture Garza, is the man who had the historic
fistic encounter with a brother cadet from
Baltimore at West Point. The difficulty grew
out of the assignment by LaDghorne of a colored
cadet to the Baltimorean s mess-table, and
Langhorne was the victor in the affray, which
lasted two hours.
BRIGHT BITS.
Society Reporter—Mrs. Sklhigh complains
that the picture we printed does not look a bit
like her.
Kditor—That's lucky. We can use It for some
one else, then.— Aew York Weeklv.
Said Cupid: “All these bachelors
Are but a sorrv sort,
I think I ought to punish them
For their contempt of court.’’
—hew Fork Herald.
Mrs. Muslim—Dolly, hand me some writing
pajier.
Dolly—How many sheets, mamma?
Mrs. Muslin—Sheets! Give me the whole box.
1 am writing to my dressmaker.—Judge.
He said without her photograph
He really couldu’t live,
And asked for it, she with a laugh
Gave him her negative.
—.Veto York Press.
“Where are you going, my pretty maid?”
"I am going to sneeze, kind sir,” she said.
“Whom are you sneezing at, my pretty
maid?"
“I'm going to sneeze—a-chew 1" she said.—
Puck.
Editor— How's this for cool gall! You know
Brown is always saying that poetry is a gift?
Bobber—Well?
Editor—He writes to know why I don’t send
hitnacheck for his last piece of verse!—Dry
Uoods Chronicle
Anxious Wive—What Is his ailment, doctor?
Physician—l pronounce It paresis, madam
Boston B olt Man (feebly)—According to—re
cent authorities, you—don’t pronouuce it—cor
rectly. The—accent—is on the-flrst syllable.
—Chicago Ti ibune.
A Wise Course—*'Pfell over the rail," said t'-e
sailor, "and tbe shark came along and grabbed
me by the leg."
"And what did you do?" *
“1 let him have the leg. I never disputes with
a shark."— Baltimore Herald.
Lawyer (to man called for the jury)—You say
you never read the newspapers?
Juror—l never do.
Lawyer—You can read?
Juror—Yes, but 1 don't. I’m a candidate for
public office aud the reading of newspapers gives
mo no pleasure.— Boston Post.
Jeweler— Really, miss, I've shown you the
bes' rings in our stock. There are diamonds and
rubies, and"——
Miss Green—Ob, but everybody wears those.
I would so like to see a welkin ring.
Jeweler—Well, 1 11 send my office boy out and
see if he can make orm.—Brooklyn Eagle.
A man recently from lowa says that he saw
a farmer standing at the foot of an enormous
cornstalk.
"How big is your corn?" asked the stranger.
“I don't know,” answered the farmer. "I
sent one of my boys up to see a little while ago,
and I'm worried to death about him.”
"How so? Cau’t he get baok?”
“No; that’s the trouble. The cornstalk’s
growin’ up faster than he can climb down.
Washington Btar.
CURRENT COMMENT.
Who Pays the Fiddler?
from the Kansas City Star.
If we have a war with Chile it should be with
ttie understanding that Chile is to pay tho ex
penses. The example set by Germany after the
war with France should be followed. He who
gets broken pays. Chile made Peru pay and we
should make Chile pay. If there is to be no
money in it there should be no war.
A Fair Trade Suggestion.
From the Denver News (Dem.).
Juan Fernandez, or “Robinson Crusoe's
Island," belongs to Cbile. It is a spot dear to
tlie heart of every American boy, a :d should
properly become American property. Now, if
Blaiiewill donate Pat Egan in fee simple to
Chile in exchange for "Crusoe's Island" and its
goats, our Chilean troubles may lie amicably
settled.
Tho North Claims tho Credit.
From the Philadelphia North American (Rep.)
But the planters have puffed themselves to
qgether a uarterof a century later aud urge
southern farmers to do exactly what northern
economists urged them to do thirty yeras ago.
Let tue south diversify its crops as the Initial
step to independence in all things. They have
begun right, these wise men of the south, and
if they can hold firmly to their propositions
they will have all else added to them in due
time. If they want capital they must show that
they deserve it.
“High Bepublican Ethics."
From the Chicago Times (Dem.).
White Caps in the south are accepted by re
publicans as causes f< r t rce bills and over
throw of state sovereignty. White Caps in
Ohio under tho rule of McKinley and the re
publican party are only little incidents showing
how the morals of the community may be
guarded by pious zealots. The good people of
St. John's, O , recently pronounced their dis
approbation of the habits of two citizens by
taking them out in the cold and ducking them
to death in a horse pond. The morals of tlie
community wore cleansed, according to high
republican ethics.
A Radical Expression.
From the St. Louis Republic (Dem.).
There are some pusillanimous cowards here
and there at the south who believe they ought
to join iu oppressing some other people in order
to get forgiveness from radical bloody-sblrt
shakers for Sherman's march through Georgia
and all the reit of that sort of thing. But the
real manhood of the south would feel itself dis
graced if it spat upon such cowardly and
tyrannical Imbeciles as those who would say to
the bloody shirt radicals: “We are ready to
join you in oppressing anybody you wish. So,
do please forgive us for ail the oppression you
hare inflicted on us.” The south is in the union
to stay. It wants liberty and justice. It does
not wish to suffer oppression, but it is still less
willing to buy immunity from it at the price of
oppressing others. If any other nation at
tempts to oppress this With a war of invasion,
tbe south will furnish millions of men to de
fend tbe flag, but iu people are not cowards
enough to ask immunity for themselYes from
radicalism by joining it la oppressing others.
Mockingbird jokes.
No one who bas studied the wsys of birds can
doubt tbat many of them have a strong sense of
humor, says tbe Youth's Companion. They
play jokes on each other, perhaps even on us,
and they “see tbe point ' in on astonishing way.
Toe catbird is a notable example of the feath
ered joker and the mockingbird is little, if any,
behind Idm in this regard.
A droll exhibition of bis love of fun was once
given by a mockingbird confined in a cage that
was separated only by a network partition from
a large family of canaries When first placed
there he seemed to be struck dumb by his volu
b.e neighbors, while the truth was he was sim
ply biding hi - time
Several :ays he remained silent, taking notes,
mastering their song, and suddenly, without, so
far as is known, any preliminary rehearsal,
burst out into the canary song in'a loud, ringing
tone that struck every little yellow throat
speechless for a time.
After this it was his favorite amusement to
keep quiet until half of tbe 200 canaries were
singing at the top of their voices, and then,
without warning, break into tbe melee of music
with their own trills and quavers, so loudly de
livered as completely to eclipse them and com
pel Instant silence. Then he hopped gracefully
back and forth on his perch, flirting his tail and
Jerking his wings to show his relish of the con
sternation he had caused.
A curious exbinition was given by a free
mockingbird toward a playful kitten on the
grass. The bird took his place on a tree almost
directly over punsy. leaning far over, jerking
his tail and uttcriug a p ouliar sound like the
“fuff" of an excited cat, This is, in fact, the
bird's war cry, and for the little fellow to de
clare war upon the hereditary enemy ot his
race, even in infancy, was very droll, and his
manner showed plaiuly that he intended it as a
joke.
On one occasion iu the south, when some
thing had attracted to a certain spot beyood
the fence a crowd of tbe enormous tursey
bti.zirds, native to that part of the country, a
mocking-bird chanced to notice the unusual
gathering. His singing ceased, he flew across
the yard, and perch-d on the fence close to
where they were busily engaged in the road.
Fora few moments he stood motionless, look
ing at them, then suddenly, with a loud war cry,
dropped down among them.
Consternation fell among the spectators!
Would he be killed? They started to go to his
assistance, when they were amazed to see the
buzzards instantly rise in a panic—twenty ot
them. The mocking-bird knew them better
than we did, and undoubtedly intended a joke,
for the next moment he hopped gayly upon the
fence and resumed his song, wrigging his little
body and flirting his wings in a suggestive way.
An Oklahoma Mystery.
A report comes into this city of the finding of
a house in the dense woods along the river over
in the Indian country, which had been deserted,
and an examination of which solves a mystery
which bas been puzzling tbe people of that city
for several years, says a Caandler (O. TANARUS.) dis
patch in the Cincinnati Inquirer.
The house was situated in a deep piece of tim
ber, and was about a mile off the stage roa 1.
It was approached by a circuitous trail through
the woo Is and was in such a position that it
was only dis covered by accident. For years It
has been a matter of frequent occurrence that
travelers have disappeared when traveling along
this road, and no trace of them was ever after
discovered. On reveral occasions search has
been made for the missing parties, but such
search has always been fruitless. Lately the
United States marshals have been making it
very warm for the outlaws which have infested
the territory, and the result is that inanv of
them have fled to other parts until the storm
blows over. It is evident that the house spoken
of was the rendezvous of some of the robbt-rs,
for it was built for that very purpose, as is evi
denced from its structure.
It is a small cabin of three rooms, leading one
into the other in a line. Near tue door which
leads from the first to tlie second room is a
large trap-door, which a person passing from
one room to the other would be compelled to
step upon. This trap door swings downward,
and is held In place with an arrangement simi
lar to that u*ed on scaffolds, and it was so ar
ranged that a person in the rear room could
spring the trap and send the victim to the bot
tom of a deep hole. It was evident that it was
used for this purpose, for the bottom of the
hole was covered with jagged rocks, and on
many of these could be found dried blood ant
hair. No indication of remains could be foui-d,
but the ground near by will be thoroughly
searched by the officers.
A Persian Tale.
There was once a prince who, having been
much displeased with one of his nob'.es, deter
mined to punish him. The prince commanded
that he should be shut up in a high tower. Into
this tower there was only one entrance, which
was walled up immediately after tbe nobleman
had been placed there. Thus all hope of escape
seemed to be cut off, and the unhappy man was
left to perish.
Inside the tower was a long, winding stair
case, by which the prisoner reached the top.
While looking down from there he observed lus
wife, who had come indulging a faint hope
that she might be able, by some means or other
to aid her husband in escaping from his place
of confinement
On Inquiring if she could be of any service to
him, lie replied: "O, yes. Go and procure a
b a:k beetle, a little grease, a skein of silk, a
ball of twine and a long rope."
The wife hastened to obtain what her husband
asked for, wondering, no doubt, at the strange
ness of his request She soon returned, furn
ished with the things. Her husband then
directed her to put the grease on the beetle's
head, to fasten the silk on his hind leg, the twine
to the silk, and then the rope to the twine, and
then to place the beetle on the wall of the
tower.
On being set at liberty on the wall the beetle,
smelling the grease on its head and not being
able to discover where it was, crept up the
tower in search of it until it arrived at the top.
The nobleman caught It, and, taking the silk
from its hind leg. carefully drew it up. When
he came to the end of the silk he b und the
twine, and next he oame to the rope. Fastening
this to a crook, he let himself down, and thus
male his escape.
An Anecdote of Browning.
This anecdote of Robert Browning is related
In a recent number of Temple Bar: The poet's
son bad on one occasion hired a room in a neigh
boring bouse iu which to exhibit his pictures
Iu the temporary absence of the artist Mr.
Browning was doing the honors, the room being
half filled with fashionable friends. Mr. Brown
ing was standing near the door when a visitor,
unannounced, made her appearance He im
mediately shook hands witli the stranger or
tried to do so. when she exclaimed: ‘O, I beg
your pardon, but please, sir. I'm the cook. Mr.
Barrett asked me to come and see his pictures. ’
‘And I'm very glad to see you,’ said Mr. Brown
ing with ready courtesy. ’Take my arm and I
will show you round.’ ”
To Shame the Fellows.
Avery seedy, tramp like character was stand
ing in front of a downtown saloon, says the St,
Louis Post-Dispatch. He needed a shave and
hair cut, to sav nothing of clothes, soap and
cash. "Hey, dere!" he called. The reporter
stopped to hear the hard-lues story, when a
little bunch of printers and presimen came
along, steering straight for the saloon. They
all knew ih' seedy individual and ca led him by
name, but went in to drink without ajking him.
The seedy man said to the reporter: "Say!
stake me to a nickel, will you?” “What for?”
"I want to go in dere and buy me a beer, just
to shame them fellers." He got his nickel and
went into the saloon, with the parting reman;
“If I had a dime I’d ast ye to drink wid me.”
Death.
Florence Earle Coates in the Mail and Express.
I am the key that parts the gates of Fame;
I am the cloak that covers cowering Stiame;
1 am tlie final goal of every race;
I am the storm tossed spirit’s resting place.
The messenger of sure and swift relief,
Welcomed with wailings and reproachful grief-
The friend of tho,e that have no friend but me’
I break all chains and set all captives free. ’
I am the cloud that, when Earth’s dav is done
An instant veils an unextinguisi-ed sun;
I am the brooding hush that follows strife.
The waking from a dream that Man calls—Life!
Gen. Lew Wallace is suffering from an em- i
barrassment of the riches in the way of offers
from the publishers for his new novel. * i
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FLAVORING EXTRACTS.
Indifference.
0
The indifference and willing
ness on the part of consum
ers to purchase adulterated
articles because they are
offered at a lower price, has
become so general that many
grocers find it difficult to han
dle pure products. If cus
tomers will understand that
the cheap are always the
adulterated, and will pay the
fair cost of a genuine article,
they will lend the only help
ing hand that will secure a
radical reformation. It is a
fact that there is no class of
articles used in the prepara
tion of food that is so com
monly and systematically
debased as flavoring extracts.
The manufacturers of Dr.
Price’s Delicious Flavoring
Extracts invoke the cooper
ation of consumers to stay
the tide of evil now sweeping
over the market.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Among the curious taxes levied on trades
people in Corea, according to Col. Rockhill, was
one on sorceresses arriving at the capital, where
they had to pay the board of revenue a certain
number of logs or sticks of wood, for wbat pur
pose it is not said, hut certainly not to burn
them with later on, for they are an influential
class in the community. The tax is no longer
levied.
Is Grass Valley, Cal., is a quarry of one of
the most remarkable and valuable building
stones known to the Pacific coast. It is unlim
ited in quantity, cropping out of the surface
like an immense ledge, traceable for a long
distance It is so soft lust underneath the sur
face of the ground that it can be cut with a
knife, chipped with a hatchet or planed with a
carpenter’s plane.
One of the most persistent beggars in Port
land, Me., is a collie dog whloh is a very fond of
doughnuts The collie, in company with his
mistress, visited a bakery one day last fall, and,
perceiving some doughnuts in a show case, he
sat down and pleaded, by means ot short,
sharp harks, for a treat. Tne clerk generously
fed the smart dog, but now he wishes that ha
hadn't, for every day since the oollie has ap
peared to beg for more doughnuts. If the shop
door is closed he will wait outside until some
one opens it, and then dodge in to get his regu
lar free lunch.
Some of the Maine'eoast dwellers are no better
off in respect to school and church privileges
than the people of the remote Aroostook wil
derness, who never see anything much except
trees and bears. A man who lives on Great
Diamond Island, Portland lower harbor, has
three children of school age. but there is no
school on Great Diamond, and therefore he ap
pealed to the mayor of Portland for assistance
in the matter It has been arranged tbat the
children shall be transported daily at the city's
expense to Peak's Island, where there is a
school. It isn’t every poor family who have
a private steam boat at their disposal daily, as
In tills case, and the children enjoy the distinc
tion about as much as they do the ride.
Just before Christmas Hans Egorlein, 9 years
old, sent from bis home inSpandaua letter to
Emperor William in which he said tbatheand,
hia younger brother had long wanted uniforms,
rifles ami swords. Their father who was a ser
geant in the Prussian army was too poor to buy
these things for them, and they therefore
begged ttiat they might have the small arms
and military clothes outgrown by the princes.
On New Year s eve there arrived at the Egerlein
house in Spandaua package from Potsdam con
taining two little helmets, two swords, two
drums and two tiny rifles of tlie 'BB model. Ac
companying the box was an autograph letter
from tbe emperor exhorting the two little Eger
leius to learn to use their arms for the defense
of emperor and empire.
One of the first settlers of Wayne county,
Pennsylvania, was John Swingle, who settled
in South Canaan nearly 100 years ago. He
came from Germany. His wife presented him
with a child every two years for fifty years,
and was only 6“ when Bhn died. When Swingle
died the twenty-five children were all living.
Eighteen of them married and had large fami
lies. One of the children, Mrs. Catharine
Maineß. died a few days ago in Dunmore in her
With year. She was the last but two of the
twenty five, two brothers being alive, both
octogenarians. Besides them sue Is survived
by six children, twelve g ran do hi id re n and
eighteen great grandchildren. It Is est mated
that the descendants of John Swingle in Penn
sylvania number over 600.
If all the locomotives in the United States
were coupled together they would make a train
of solid iron and steel over 800 m lisa long. Add
the passenger oars and wo would hav# 300 miles
more of wood aud iron; this would give us a
gigantic passenger train 600 miles in length,
counting both engines and ears Should we
want a huge "mixed" train we might add the
"box,” "flat" and every other kind of freight
oar. and our train would then have a total
length of over 7,000 miles! The passenger cars
In this gigantio train would be capable of seat
ing 1,600,000 people, and upon tho freight cars
could be loaded the weignt of all the pyramids
of Egypt, and all the state capitol buililiugs iu
the United States besides. Verily, great is the
railroad system of America.
TnERE recently died at Westminster, Md., an
aged negro, Abraham Ireland, who was a sub
ject of study amen; medical men. In bis youth
Abraham was as clack as jet; when he died ha
was entirely white. Tlie change was gradual
but sure, first appearing in the form of white
spots, which in course of time spread over his
whole body, until there was no black to be seen.
Both his parents were full-blooded Africans
aud slaves. He was born in Baltimore county,
on Palm Sunday. ibUD, and changed masters
several times, until the emancipation proclama
tion made him his own. Tbe old man received
handsome offers to exhibit himself from P T.
barnum and other showmen, but he preferred to
work for a living at bis trade of tanner, and
kept in retirement as much ns public curiosity
would let him. He died of the grip.
A short time ago a leading Scotch news
paper printed a let ler from a correspondent
who sought for information and advice in re
gard to emigrating to Australia. The expecta
tion was that the inquirer would get some
advice from some Australian reader of the
paper. He did. A man writing from Sydney
offers the following advice to the eager emi
grant: "First, change your mind. Second,
take a course of lessons from an acrobat in
lightning changes. We have no climate, only
samples, and we show a great many iu twenty
four hours. Third, take a life belt. Fourth
let your clothes be mud color. They will as
sume this bue very soon, anyhow. Fifth, take
a few hogsheads of carbolic add. The people
have neiier seen their way to knock a 10 per
cent dividend out of a drainage scheme, hence
they do without oue, aud ask you, ’What do
you think of our tramways?’ Sixth, ouva
return ticket.” ’ 1
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