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Meetings— Savannah Yacht Club; Medical
Bociety.
Military Order— Order No. 9, Georgia
Hussars.
Special Notice— Notice to Superior Court
Jurors.
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Publication The Midwinter (February)
Century.
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Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Rent; For
Sale; Lost; Personal; Miscellaneous.
Peoria, 111.. is trying an experiment with
b Chinese policeman. He takes the cue
well.
The Chilean agitation is depended upon to
give Warner Miller's canal scheme a big
boom.
It must be that they have Garza sur
rounded in a woman's pocket. Nobody baa
yet been able to find him.
If honest men possessed and utilized as
much ingenuity us thieves, this world would
move ahead at a 2:10 gait.
Henry Clay is a ward politician in Phila
delphia, and George Washington is in jail
In nearly every state in the union.
It was rather tardy, but the report finally
obtained currency Wednesday, that Egan
had been assassinated in Valparaiso.
Three to one is the proportion of Georgia
editors favoring Cleveland’s nomination.
And they truly represent the choice of the
masses.
The English curate who advised the grip
patient to “cry mightily unto the Lord”
and take his medicine regularly, is not a
faith curist.
Kisses at ohuroh fairs, at 25 cents each,
are more than apt to be flat and stale, but
they are profitable. The stook in trade is
never diminished.
The increased mortality In England from
influenza has given an impetus to orepe
manufacturing. “It’s an ill wind that
blows nobody good."
The New York World's Washington cor
respondent finds “Tom” Watson’s chief
characteristics to be "dark red hair and a
wealth of gestures.”
It is stated that the grip epidemic in Eng
land has cost the life insurance companies
two and a half times as much as did the
cholera epidemic of 1842.
Chile’s suggestion that she is willing to
allow Brazil to arbitrate her differences
with this government is funny. Brazil
needs help to settle her own affairs.
Don’t call it "Koch’s lymph” when you
■peak of it again. “Tubsrculocidin” is the
proper name, and not to know it is to ac
knowledge yourself behind tho times.
It appears that Congressman Watson was
Clowning when, during a speech, he laid his
band on ex-Speaker Reed’s shoulder and
referred to czarism in the last congress.
A scarcity of water in certain Jersey
towns is reported. Nothing is said about
the “lightning” and apple jack crops, so it
ia inferred that the common wealth is safe.
It is charged by “physicians of emi
nence” that cigarette smoking caused the
death of the Duke of Clarence. Presently
we shall be told, on authority, that ciga
rettes killed Cock Robin.
Although the war cloud has been dissi
pated, naval preparations go on. The de
partment presided over by Mr. Tracy still
hopes that it will be found necessary to
overawe somebody by an imposing naval
display.
President Montt is said to be compromised
by the outcome of the war scare, and it is
not improbable that he may have to deal
with a fight at home. But if the Chileans
must fight, it is much better to let them do
it among themselves.
The Harris murder trial in New York
demonstrates that this is the day of chemis
try. “Elements," "traces” aud “precipi
tants” knock logic and rhetoric higher
than a kite. Retort and condenser furnish
proofs that oratory cannot oontroyert.
Caucus Action Necessary.
Widely different views are entertained by
1 the democrats in congress as to the course
j the Democratic party shout 1 pursue with
| respect to the tariff and silver. A great
many think that an effort should be made
to pass a general tariff bill, or at least to
pass strong resolutions condemning the Mc
j Kinlev law and the tariff policy of the Re
' publican party, while others favor Mr.
; Springer’s plan, which is to pass a numl er
! of tariff bills, each one reducing the duty
1 on one or more articles or putting the arti
cle on the free list. So far as silver is con
cerned all the eastern members, and some
of the western and southern members, ob
ject to a free silver coinage bill, while per
haps a majority of the members from the
west and south would vote to make the
coinage of silver free.
There is no possibiiity of harmonizing the
different views on these two important
questions. It is admitted that it is abso
lutely necessary that the Democratic party
shall have a settled policy upon both of
them before the beginning of the presiden
tial campaign. Under the circumstances
the only thing to do, and. In fact, the only
thing that ca:i be done, to insure harmony
is to submit the questions to a caucus and
abide by its action.
Already a caucus is talked of. Mr.
Springer, the chairman of the ways and
means committee, in the few short meetings
the oommittee has had, has found out there
is a great deal of opposition to his plan for
tariff legislation. The committee has done
virtually nothing as yot, and the prospeot
that it will do anything soon is not very
promising.
Unless a course of aotion is deoided upon
in caucus the greater part of the session will
be taken up with profitless discussions, and
when the national campaign begins the
democrats will have accomplished little or
nothing in the way of legislation. The
country will be in doubt as to what the
party proposes to do with respect to either
the tariff or silver.
There is not muoh doubt that a caucus
will be called at an early day and
that It will be decided to pass strong tariff
reform resolutions In order to make the
tariff the leading issue in the national
campaign, and that a way will be found to
push the silver question into the back
ground so as to keep it out of
the campaign. A great many
democrats favor the plan that was
outlined in the Morning News a few days
ago, viz., to refer tho silver question to an
international monetary conference. That
would be, certaiuly, tho best way to get rid
of it for awhile. There is no doubt that
democrats cannot reach an agreement with
respect to it at the present time. The ma
jority, therefore, must rule, and a oaucus is
necessary to find out what the will of the
majority is.
The Farmers Aro in Earnest.
The farmers of the south aro very much
in earnest, apparently, in their efforts to
bring about a reduction in the cotton crop.
The resolutions adopted by the cotton
planters’ convention that met iu Augusta
and adjourned Thursday, show that they
understand how important it is that a very
much less number of acres shall be planted
in cotton this season. But will the farmers,
in accordance with the advice of their
representative men, do what common sense
tells them they should ? It is all well enough
to pass resolutions urging a reduction of
at least 20 per cent, in the cotton
area, and for the newspapers to print ar
ticles showing that the farmers will be ben
efited by such reduction, but how can the
farmers be induced to act in accordance
with the resolutions? Some of the very men
who assist in passing the resolutions
will plant more aores iu cotton this
year in ail probability than they
did lost. If somebody could hit upon
a plan to seoure honest and harmonious
action in this matter there would be cause
for genuine rejoicing ail over the south.
The farmers are very much in earnest in
their desire to cut down cotton production,
but unfortunately they want their neigh
bors to do what they do not propose to do
themselves. The low price of cot
ton this season will do more toward reduc
ing the next cotton crop than all the resolu
tions that have been passed, because
thousands of farmers have neither the
money nor the ore.) it to plaat as much
cotton this year as they did list.
However, there is no reason why the farm
ers should not call conventions and adopt
resolutions. The resolutions cannot do any
harm and may do some good.
Ttie Augusta convention made one sug
gestion that hod not been made by previous
conventions. It is that commission
merchants of the south that handle food
products assist in making a market for
such products from southern farms. If
food crops could be made money crops
there would be less hesitation among
southern farmsrs in giving attention to
them.
"If you will come to-night you will find
me dead, and have a good story,” wrote a
young man to a Chicago reporter. Then
he went to bis room and took poison. That
is the kind of friend for a reporter to have,
and is only excelled by the devotion of a
condemned man who consented to bo hanged
half au hour ahead of time so his friend, a
reporter ou an afternoon paper, could se
cure a “scoop" on tho morning dailies.
South Dakota, that incubator of cranks
and cold waves, has turned out another
specialist in theology. Ho maintains that
disease of every kiu.l is unnatural aud un
holy, and that science and conscience will
soon make disease and death impossible,
and that all men in future days will attain
the age of the patriarchs, aud, like Euoch,
finally be translated.
Benson Mills, aged 70, and Sarah Whita
ker, a grandmother, of Long Island, wore
married a day or two ago. They realized
that there was no time to be lost "keeping
company,” burning gas and attending
singing school, so they crowded the w hole
time of courtship aud marriage Into fifteen
minutes.
The Rev. Mr. Wadsworth's diagnosis of
"society” is unique. He finds that there
are four elements in it, "the cutaway coat
of the man at tho bottom, the cutaway
dress of the woman at tho top, cards and
liquor." And yet Mr. Wadsworth urges
that liquor dealers be “ostracised from
society.”
Tho young German emperor has time and
again been criticised for attempting to solve
off-haud abstruse economic problems that
have claimed the attention of the wisest
minds for centuries. But the young em
peror has yet attempted nothing that ;haa
not benefited by the agitation.
The amount of Grace and Flint in this
Chilean business makes it appear ungracious
and rocky all the way through.
THE MORNING NEWS: SATURDAY, JANUARY 30, 1892.
The Trial of the Meyer Murderers.
The case of the men accused of murdering
August IV . Meyer should be tried just as
soon as the solicitor general can get ready
for the trial, and he ought to give his at
tention t>it at once. No other business of
tbs court, that could be postponed, should
tie permitted to S'and in the way of it
Public sentiment demands that thoee who
are guilty should be punished quickly.
The murder was a carefully planned,
cold-blooded and brutal one. It indicated
a depth of moral depravity scarcely con
| ceivable. For the purpose of getting
j possession of a few dollars a human life was
■ destroyed. Hat! not this been a law
' abiding, order-loviDg and conservative
j community those accused of the crime
would have been lynched. It was far bet
ter, of course, that the law was permitted
to take its course, not only because no room
will be left for raising the question as to
the guilt of those who may be adjudged
guilty aDd punished, but also because swift
punishment by lawful means will have a
far more beneficial effect than punishment
inflicted by uuiawtul means would have
had.
The sooner a verdict is reached and punish
ment is inflicted the more deeply impressed
will be the class to which the murderers be
lone. And it is absolutely neoossary that
the impression that justice strikes quickly
and with terrible certainty should be as
profound as it is possible to make it. In
proportion as it is believed that the crimes
of violence can be committed with im
punity will crimes of that character in
crease.
Among the blacks born since the civil
war there are altogether too many worth
less and depraved characters who will not
work If they can avoid doing so, and who
eventually become vagabonds, thieves and
murderers. About the only way to prevent
the number of them from increasing is to
inflict quick punishment upon them when
ever any of them are convicted of crime.
Bo cold-blooded a murder as that of Au
gust W. Meyer, which had only robbery
for its object, is well calculated to cause un
easiness. The punishment of the murderers
should be bo prompt as to territy other evil
doers of a like character and lessen the
probability of other similar murders bolDg
committed.
"Harrison, 1892.”
Mrs. Harrison's beautiful blue-bordered
Limoges china, bespangled with American
stars and emblazoned with American flags
by the manufacturers in France, is likely to
furnish the platters upon which will be
served hot some of the choicest tld-bits of
the approaching campaign. Already the
pretty plates have been passed arouud
among the editors, and the pottery manu
facturers are understood to be getting
ready to fire a shot at them. The news
paper men have left finger marks all over
the dainty ware; when the potters get hold
of them nothing but the imprint, “Harrison,
1892," will be left.
Comment on this sosthetio crockery has
caused it to bo deemed necessary that an
explanation should be made by somebody
at tho white house, and it has been given
to the world through the Washington foil.
The name of the apologist is not given. If
it is Mrs. Harrison, the lady will have the
credit of innocence and sincerity; otherwise
she showed bad judgment for a protection
ist politician’s wife, look at it as we may.
After detailing at length the need of
china for the executive dining room, it is
said: “American manufacturers were con
sulted last fall or in the summer, but they
could not make the plates. Tho blue bor
der cannot bo made here In its perfection,
because it is a secret of the Limoges people,
never divulged. If the order was given to
them the plates must be imported from
France by the manufacturers, and decora
ted in this oountry, and, even iuthat case,
they could not be finished in Beason for tho
state dinners this winter.
The American potters will be disposed to
resent these criticisms upon their ability to
produce effects as pretty aDd artistic os the
Frenchmen. Indeed they claim to possess
a knowledge of the art of coloring china
which makes it almost impossible to detect
an American piece among a lot of imported
ware. In a recent article one of the leading
protection journals in the country printed
pictures of American china, which it de
clared to bo equal to anything that could be
produced anywhere, and descanted proudly
of tho benefits of a protective law that
produced such results.
One of tho nice points about the Limoges
china mentioned in the inspired explanation
is its price. Mentioning the number of pieces
ordered—six dozen each of four articles—
the concluding sentence is, “Andthesum ex
pended was but S7JO.” As the money to pay
this bill is supposed to cone out of the pub
lic purse, the economists will have a word
to say about that.
The most interesting point of the matter,
if a dinner plate may be said to have a
point, is that gilt legend ou the bottom of
each piece. Here is the explanation vouch
safed: “Then, to guard against the recur
rence of such a dearth of chiua by auction
sales of good articles, aud also as a matter
of reoord, the name of the administration
and the date of purchase were nut on tho
bottom of the plates, which is quite a com
mon practice with china made to order.”
Happy thought! Matter of record! His
tory writ on porcelain—porcelain with stars
on it, and flags. Blua-bordered, naturalized
American porcelain, made in Franca at
$29 17 per dozen!
It is perhaps a laudable ambition in Gen.
Harrison to tier ire t hat knowledge of his
having once been I‘resident of those United
States be handed down to posterity; but it
does seem that the chief executive of this
great republic would prefer that that
knowledge should be transmitted through
other than the scullery department.
It may be vitally important that some
practical plan be adopted to reduce the
cotton acreage and increase that of grain;
butdo these conferences, being so frequently
held appear to approach the desideratum?
Last winter a number of such meetings
convened in different sections of tho south,
resolutions and recommendations were
adopted and planters were urged to di
versify their crops. But last season the
cotton acreage was as large as ever. It is a
very difficult matter to get cotton planters
to reduce their acreage, and it would appear
that the only way to do It is to make a
personal oanvass among ail of the planters
in alt of the states and have eaoh one sign
an agreement to that end. It must be a
general movement, or it will be of no effect.
Half a dozen men in half a dozen localities
reducing their cotton acreage one-half
would produce no result in the cotton
market; and to get the unanimous consent
of planters to a reduction is a herculean
task. However, talking over the matter
can pcssibly do no harm, and some happy
plan to relieve the situation may be hit
upon.
PBRSO-NAL.
A son of the late William *1 Tweed is a
patient at the Keeley Instlt .te. White Plains,
N. Y.
Mrs. Hodgson Burnett, the American
authoress,has founded a Newspaper Boys’ Home
, La London.
H. G. Marocand, president of the New York
Metropolitan Museum of Art, has made a gift
to the museum of (50,000.
Father Edmund Didier, for twenty-one
years pastor of St. Vincent’s Catholic church
in Baltimore, haa resigned his charge.
Fannie Edwards, a girl of 15. Is preaching the
gospel to Tennessee mountaineers. She is both
eloquent and attractive in ap[>earance.
Mr. Gorman is the only man, with one excep
tion. who ever received a third term as United
States senator from a Maryland legislature.
The sword of Gen. Warren, who commanded
the Amer.cans at Bunker Hill, is the private
treasure of William C. Aldrich of Dedham,
Mass.
Senator Brice’s wife has given an order for
a stained glass window to D: presented by her
to Oxford College, Ohio, where she was edu
cated
Ellen Terry says that It Is Impossible to
achieve distinction as an actress without three
great requisites, "Imagination, originality and
industry.”
J. W. Robbins, a brother-in-law of the
famous Old John Brown, died in poverty the
other day at Atchison, and was buried in the
potter's field.
31 ias Sybil Sanderson, the American prlma
donna, made her debut last Tuesday night at
St. Petersburg in •'Esclarmonde” and scored a
gratifying success.
The oldest member of the British House of
Commons, Mr. Charles Villers. was 90 years
old last Tuesday, and was given a banquet in
honor of the event.
David J. Williams of Saratoga, is 102 years
old. He was a soldier in the war of 1812. helped
to build the Erie canal, and has always voted
"the Jackson ticket.”
Gen. Meigs wrote a hand so unreadable that
Gen. Sherman is said to have once indorsed an
official paper from him to this effect: "I concur
in these recommendations, but don t know what
they are.”
Miss Olive Ribley Seward, adopted daughter
of the late William H. Seward, and his private
secretary during his journey around the world
shortly before his death, is now contributing
frequently to the newspaper press.
Luigi Emanitkle Farnia, the Italian deputy
who died a short time ago, was a politician of
unique electioneering devices. On one rainy
election day he sent to each of about 400 voters
an umbrella, with his compliments.
The Emperor William or Germany, before
he came to the throne, was much given to skat
ing and was frequently seen on the ice with his
wife. He would put one hand on her shoulder
and she one on his, and then they would skate
forward and backward. Their skill excited
wide admiration and the fashion they set was
taken up by many other people.
BRIGHT BITd.
Miss Ootrox— l just wish I could make him
real. downright jealous once.
Miss Flyppe—Tell him you are going to leave
your money ail to charity lndianapolis
Journal.
"I hear that Nellie Nightfoot, the clever
soubrette, has got anew part.”
“What is it?"
“She has parted from her husband.’’—.Veic
York Herald.
Snooper— lf you saw the gentleman drop the
bank note, why did you not restore it to him?
Jaysmitn—We had never been introduced to,
each, tber, and 1 felt a delicacy about address- 1
ing him.—Judge.
Hit in the Neck.— Managing Editor—We shnl
have to lay you off, Mr Screed. Sorry; but
hope you feel resigned to what can’t be helped:
Screed—No, I dont’ feel resigned a little bit; 1
feel fired \~t uck.
Sunday School Tkacheb,—Why did Nebu
chadnezzar eat gross like an ox?
Small Boy—Maybe because he had no upper
teeth and couldn’t eat It like a horse.—Bing
hampton Republican.
“I have a pair of suspenders for every pair of
trousers I’ve got," he said.
“Gracious, how many pairs of suspenders
have you?”
"One pair." —New York Press.
“You seem rather broke in spirits," Cos!. Jag
gins.
"Yes, sah,” was the reply, "I am, sail. I
leaned against the marble mantel and eternally
smashed the liask iu my hip pocket, sah."
Washington Star.
“Your ii pen and is writing his memoirs, is he
not?” inquired the visitor.
“Yes," assented the venerable professor’s
young wife with an engaging simper. "He’s at
work on his—on his—autopsy, I think he calls
it.”— Chicago Tribune.
Photographer— That is certainly a good pict
ure for au amateur; very good. How did you
manage to get suc,i a pleasant expression on
the gentleman's taco?
Amateur—l told him I wasn't going to charge
anything. —New York Weekly.
Jack llardcp (with unwonted enthusiasm)—
liy Jove! I see that some fellow is talking
about introducing a bill into the House making
it a misdemeanor to send annoying letters to
anyone. Very clever idea that. I'll have my
tailor locked up for six months, by Jove?—Tit-
Jiits
Professor— ln estimating the multitudes
that nave inhabited the earth, we are obliged
to consider, of course, both the quick and the
dead.
btudent— That classification would leave out
tho messenger noys altogether, wouldn't it?
Boston Courier.
"You are a correct orator; there is ho mis
taking it,” said one congressman to another,
“but you put me in my mind of a great mauy
railways.”
"How?”
“You aro sadly in need of a terminal facility.”
Washington Star.
Not Too Easy.—A famous railway president,
while out for a constitutional a few weeks since
noticed a son of toil digging a ditch. “Pretty
hard work?" suggested the railway magnate.
Tfce laborer nut down his pick and shovel and
replieu, with deliberation: “Well.it ain’t lawn
tiunus.”— Harpers Drawer.
CURRENT COMMENT.
A Republican Bugraboo.
Pom the Kansas City JY mes (Dcm.).
Tho republicans are trying to frighten the old
soldiers by stating that Holman’s resolution is
a blow at pensions. Intelligent pensioners will
view the demand for economy as in their favor.
An empty treasury is the most serious threat to
pensioners.
Cleveland and Hill.
From the Kansas City Times tDem.).
The general verdict will bo that Gov. Hill has
placed party expediency before party honesty.
His speech emphasizes the desirability of nomi
nating Grover Cleveland, whose coinage views
are no worse than Hill’s, and whoso tariff views
are as sincere as they are sound.
Cardinal Manning's Prediction.
From the New York Tribune (Rep.).
Americans will be interested in a prediction
which Cardinal Manning is said to have made
some years ago. It was to the effect that the
pope after the next one will lie an American,
aud that this result will be brought about by
the rapidly growing vigor of American Catholi
cism.
Maj. McKinley’s Mistake.
FVom the Louisville Courier-Journal (Dent.).
It is now believed that Maj. McKinley regrets
that a hen egg bounty, instead Of a hen egg
tariff duty, was not put into his law. A bounty
of 1 cent on every egg laid in the United States
would soon have paid off all the farm mort
gages. tor with suoh a stimulus alt the hens
would have spread themselves.
A Republican View of tho Alliance.
From the New York Mail and Express (Rep.),
The tarmers’ alliance resembles the “one
hoss shay," not in its antiquity, but in respect
to its going to pieces all at once. From all
quarters where formerly the alliance flourished
come reports of its sudden dissolution. General
prosperity has killed it. Take Kansas, for in
stance. The farmers there, 001. James R. llol
lowellof Wichita, Kan., says have made money,
are bu.viug land, and no longer “dream of loans
at 1 per cent, and the other nonsensical propo
sitions of the I’effer Simpson crowd." aud he
cites as a significant fact that tho alliance ex
eeutß e committee has been unable to collect
25 cents each as dues from the members on the
rolls of the alliance. The farmers rightly re
fuse to contribute even a quarter of a dollar
apiece to pay for the funeral expenses of the
alliance.
He Begun at the Top.
If this story is not new, the writer offers no
apologies, for some old stories are good enough
to be told until they are well known. A well
known club man, an ex-judge and a much re
spected and admired man altogether. Is respon
sible for this tell ng of It A memb-r of bisclub
who had some trouble with his creditors got a
"streak’’ of luck and began to pay off his debts
A friend came up to him one evening and said:
”l’m glad to hear of your good fortune, X .
Isrt me congratulate you." X looked very
virtuous and smiled to a superior way. But an
oth*-r man who had heard the conversation
came up and interrupted the conversation.
“May I remind you, Mr. X he said, "of a
little claim against you which I represent? Hear
ing of your good fortune I venture to remind
you of it." Mr. X gave him a very bland
smile. "Ah.” he said, "I am very glad to see
you. You are quite right, quite right. -What is
the name of your client, please?” "His name,"
said the other, very much tickled, "is T .”
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and disappointment. "I'm very sot ry,"’he Bail,
"but when I began paying off my debts I began
alphabetically, and I've only reached the 'C's.' ”
A Hotel Inducement.
The advertisement of a well-known hotel at a
mountain resort in the south, which appears
from time to time in the great newspapers of
the north, ruts among the chief advantages of
the hotel, along with the resident phvsici tn and
the mountain air, the fact that "tenderloin
steaks" may be had by the guests, says the
New York Tribune. It seems to the uninitiated
somewhat unnecessary to pay high advertising
rates to announce a thing like that, in connec
tion with a first-class hotel; as well say that
hot and cold baths are furnished, and clean
beds. But people who have tried southern
hotels, outside ti.e big cities, know that real
tenderloin steaks, with the accent on the tender,
are as scarce In the south as hens’teeth. I’eo-
P o with jaws of only ordinary strength gener
ally despair of deriving any satisfaction from
steaks of the tough, wiry little grass led cattle
of the south. As well chew on a piece of Har
lem goat or a grayhound's leg, and after you
have eaten fried chicken for a week or two, a
good mouthful of tenderloin from a stall-fed
steer of the north is a tidbit that is not appre
ciated at iLs true value when one can get it
every day.
Answering Letters.
A certain great practitioner invariably pre
scribes for his patients one dish and one glass
of wine, says Vanity Fair. The other even
ing he chanced to find himself dining
with a patient on one hand and a staunch
teetotaler upon the other. The patient, who
through many weary weeks had followed the
dreary curriculum of a dish and a glass, watched
his physician to see in what manner he dined,
but was incensed to find that the doctor ate and
drank heartily of everything that ca ne before
him. At last he burst forth: "Well, sir, you
certainly do not practice what you preach.
Why you have eaten of everything on the
menu?" "Yes, yes," said tha doctor testily,
•’but what is a man to do who runs about all
day aud eomes home at night with thirty or
forty letters to answer? He must have a bottle
of champagne. Here the teetotaler burst in
angrily, saying: "But, doctor, do you mean to
tell me that a man is better able to answer
thirty of forty letters when he has had a bottle
of champagne*’’ "No,'* said the doctor, "but
when he has had a bottle of champagne ho does
not care a fig whether they are answered or
not."
Mr. Cleveand’B Luck.
During the last administration, 6ays the Bos
ton Globe, Col. Christy called at the white house
one day with Mr. Heffnor, an aged gentleman
of venerable appearance, who had passed many
years of his life on the South American con
tinent.
"President Cleveland.” said the colonel, "I
have brought this gentleman, who has spent
most of his long life amid the magnificence of
the little republics of South America, that he
might look upon the simplicity of the great re -
public of our northern continent.”
“Yes,” replied the President, affably, grasp
ing the stranger's hand, "we are very simple
here."
"You have encouragement from on high, Mr.
President," rejoined Col. Christv. "You re
member that speaking through the mouth of
his Inspired psalmist ho has said: ‘Tho Lord
proserveth the simple,’ and I'll bo blest if he
hasn't taken good care of you.”
"This world Is full of coincidences,” said Col.
Christy, when reminded of the incident yester
day. *T bad occasion to remind Mr. Cleveland
of the Lord's oversight the other day when I
congratulated him on the birth of a daughter
and called to his mind the expressive Spanish
Kroverb: ’The lucky man has a daughter for
Is first-born.’ ”
A Married Coquette.
Fi ovt the San Phancisco News Letter.
Sit still, I say, and dispense with heroics!
I hurt your wrists? Well, you have hurt me.
It Is time you should know all men aro not
stoics
Nor toys to be used as your mood may be.
I will not let go of your hands nor leave you
Until I have spoken. No man, you say.
Dared ever so treat you before? I believe you.
For you have dealt with hoys only till to-day!
You women lay stress on your fine perception,
Your intuitions ore prated about;
You claim au occult sort of conception
Of matters which men must reason out.
So. then, of course, when you asked ruo kindly
“To call again soon,” you read my h art,
I cannot believe you were acting blindly:
You saw my passion for you from the start.
You are one of those women who charm with
out trying;
The clay you are made of is magnet ore,
Ami I am the steel, yet there's no denying
You led me to loving you more and more.
Y'ou were fanniog a flame that may burn too
brightly.
Oft easily kindled, but hard to put out;
I am not a man to bo played with lightly.
To come at a gesture and go at a pout. ’
A brute you call me, a creature inhuman.
You say I insult you and bid me go.
And you? O, you are a saintly woman.
With thoughts as pure as the drifted snow.
Bali: you are but one of a thousand beauties.
Who think they are living exemplary lives. ’
They break no commandments, they do all
their duties
As Christian women and spotless wives.
But with drooping of lids and liftiug of faces,
And baring of shoulders and well timed sighs.
And the devil knows what other subtlo graoes
You are mental wantons, who sin with the
eyes.
Y’ou lure love to wake, but you bid it keep
under.
You tempt us to fall, but bid reason control.
And then you are full of an outraged wonder
When we get to wanting you body and soul.
Why, look at yourself! You were nostranger
To lhe fact that my heart was already on tire;
When you askea me to call you knew my dan
ger.
Yet hero you ore, dressed in the gown I ad
mire;
For half of the evil on earth is invented
By vain, pretty women, with nothing to do
But to keep themselves manicured, powdered
and scented.
And seek for sensations amusing and new.
But when I piay love at a lady's commanding
I always am certain to win one game; ’
So there, there, there! 1 will leave my brand
ing
On lips that are free not to cry "Shame’
Shame!"
Youbatome? Quite likely! It does not sur
prise me.
Brute force? I confess it; but still you were
kissed.
And one thing is certain: you cannot despise me
For having been played with, controlled and
dismissed.
And the next time you see that a man is at
tracted
By the beauties and graces that are not for
him.
Don’t lead him on to be half distracted;
Keep out of deep waters although you can
swim,
For when he is caught In the whirlpool of pas-
Bion
Where many bold swimmers are seen to
drown,
A man will reach out and in desperate fashion
Ho drags whoever Is nearest him down.
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Herodotus gives a remarkable description of
the manner in which the Ethiopians were ac
customed to preserve their d-ad. According to
his account, having dried the body, thov plas
tered it over with gyps im and painted it so as
to make it resemble life as nearly as possible.
Then they put it in a hollow column made of
crystal, which material they dug up in abund
ance. Thus inclosed, the coiqjse was kept in the
house of is nearest surviving relations for a
year, after which it was buried.
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Rameses 11., during the earlier years of his
reign, was always escorted by a female dog,
which was called Anaitiennaktou, or brave as
the goddess Anaitls. A petty king of the
eleventh dynasty, about S3OO B. C., had five
dogs, which he so loved that he carved their
names anti engraved their portraits on his tom b.
They were, indeed, blooded animals, whose
names revealed their foreign origin. The finest
of them.was called Abalknrou, a faithful tran
scription of the word abalkarou. by which the
hunting dog is designated in many of the Ber
ber districts.
As an article of industrial use, the fibrous
covering of the cocoanut is much in demand,
under the term of coir, for making ropes, mats,
etc. Coir is now we 1 known to be one of the
best materials for cables, ou account of its
elasticity and strength. They are made in large
quantities in the Lacadive islands, entirely by
hand, and chiefly by women, without the aid of
machinery of any kind. Cocoanut husks are
now also imported by Britain for the manufact
ure of mats -known as coir and cocoanut fiber
mats—which give employment to the inmatesof
prisons and industrial and ragged schools.
In countries where flocks of turkeys are
raised one can learn very quickly from their
gobblings when they have captured a hare. If
they meet him standing still or lying down,
they form in a circle around him, and, putting
their heads down, repeat continually their
peculiar cries. The hare remains quiet, and it
is sometimes possible to take him up, terrorized
as he s in the nvdst of the black circle of gob
bling beaks and heads. The language of the
turkeys is at that time incontestably significant.
It is war like, aud slini ar to that of the males
when they are fighting. In tie present in
stance, they have joined for war, and they
make it on the frightened hare.
A’VEry singular bet was once made in rela
tion to the master of the revels to George 11.
named Heidegger, who was declared to be the
ugliest person iu the world. One of the king’s
courtiers wagered that he would produce a
person whom the judges would pronounce
uglier than Heidegger. The courtier was
allowed three days in which to unearth his
champion. These three days ho spent in per
sonally ransacking Whitechapel St. Giles and
other quarters of London most frequented by
the lowest of tho shuns, rmmewhere In St.
Giles l.e found an old woman whose features
were sufficiently diabolical to be put up against
Heidegger When the two were brought face
to face, the judges declared that it wasimpossi
Ue to decide which was worthy of the title of
“Ugliest Person in London." A friend of
Heidegger suggested that that worthy put on
the old woman’s bonnet. This he did, and the
additional ugliness it gave him was suoh that he
was unanimously declared the winner.
The following cat story was translated from
the Revue Scientifique for the Popular .Science
Monthly: "The mewing of the cat is alwavsthe
same; but what a number of mental conditions
it expresses! I hs.d a kitten whose gambols and
liveliness entertained me greatly. lunderstood
well, when it came up to me mewing, what the
sound meant Sometimes the kitten wanted to
come up and sleep in iny lap; at oher times it
was asking me to play with it. When, at my
meals, it jumped on my knees, turned round,
looked at uie and spoke in a coaxing and flat
tering way. it was asking for something to eat.
When its mother came up with a mouse in her
jaws tier muffled and iow-toned mew informed
tlie little one from a distance, and caused it to
spring and run up to the game that was brought
to it. The cry is always tho same, but varied in
the strength of the inflections and in Its pro
traction, so as to represent the various states of
mind with which my young animal is moved—
justasltwos with the drunken man in the
mimicry scene. These facts are probably well
known to a!l observers of animals.'’
The composition of the “Philosopher’s Stone”
was the prime problem of mediaeval alchemy
and although many practioners of the “holy
art" declared that they bad discovered the iu
gradients necessary to it 1 production, nothing
is now certainly known in regard to the compo
sition of this ".secret of secrets.” By way of
explanation it may be well to mention that the
"Philosopher's Stone” was a substance wh ch
the ancient alchemists thought would change
all baser metals to pure gold. legendary his
tory savs that Noah tool: the true and origi
nal “Philosopher's Stone" with him in the ark
and that lie "hanged it up in the center of the
great boat that all of the living creatures
gathered therein might be lighted by its pres
ence." Frirn the time the philosophers,
alchemists, etc., began to make their celebrated
experiments there was a hot controversy as to
whether the “stone" had a corporal or merely
an ethereal existence. One adept declared that
it was composed simply of common mercury
another maintained that it was not a stone at
all. but that it was at one and the same time
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metals.” The doctor has the support of
Morienus, who says that it was red and soft to
the touch, but Raymond Lulli declares that It
was “harder than the diamond or sapphire ’’
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