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Newspaper Page Text4 Cljc looming Tlf Ids Morning News Bui ding Savannan, Gi WXDNEsDAT, FEB, 10, IBM, Registered <if t•• ; t‘ * Sara . aA. The Voun , Nm i* published every day in the yea*, ami is aerrel to subscriber* n the ctty at 25 o-nt* a \*eefc, $1 00 a in-.min, $5 00 for nil month* and $lO 00 for one year Tbe Morniso News by ma * , on® month, $1 00; thrs*e months, $2 50; six moutbs, $5 00; one year, $lO iti. The Morning Sewh, by mat , ait timea a week (without Sunday issue , three months, $2 00; ■ix months. $4 00; one year, $* 00. The Morning News, Tri-Weekly. Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, or Tuesdays, Thurs days and Saturdays, three months, $1 28; six months, $2 £0; one year, :5 00. The Sunday News, by matt, or.e year, $- 00. The Weekly News, by mail, one year. $! 25. Subscription* payable In advance. Hem it by postal order, check or re*jisu*red letter. Cur rency sent by mail at risk of senders. Letters and telegram* should be addressed ‘•Morning News,” Savannah. Ga. Transient advertisements, other tlian special column, local or reading DOtioes, amusements and cheap <r want column. 10 cents a line Fourteen line* of agate type—equal to one inch space in depth is the standard of mean uremenL ContVHCt ratfs and discounts made known on application at business office. ‘ OIH M.IV IlIRk OFPICK, Mb. J. 3. Flynn, General Advertising Agent of the Mornino News, office 28 Park Row, New York. All advertising business outside ef the states of Georgia, Florida and South Caro lina will be managed by him. The Morning News is on (lie st the following gjteoes, where Advertising Rates and other in formation regarding the paper can be obtained: NEW YORK CITY 3. H. Bates, 89 Bark Row. G. P. Rowell A Cos., 10 Spruce street. W. W. Shake A Cos.. SI Bark Row. Frank Kikrnan & Cos., 152 Broadway. Dacchy Cos., 87 Bark Place. 3. W. Thompson. 89 Park Row. American Newspaper Publisher's Association. Potter Building. PHILADELPHIA— N. W. Ayer £ Son, Times Building. BOBTON -8 K. Niles, 956 Washington street. Fettengill £ Cos., 10 State street. CHICAGO — Loro £ Thomas, 45 Randolph street. CINCINNATI— In win Allen Company, 66 West Fourth street ST. LOUIS — Nelson Chesman £ Cos.. 1187 Pine street. ATLANTA Morning News Bureau, Sjt Whitehall street MACON Drily Telegraph Office, 697 Mulberry street. ST. AUGUSTINE— H. MARCorrE, St. Augustine, Fla. INDEX TO NEW ‘aDVKbSS Meetings—Young Men’s Hebrew Association; The Merchants and Mechanics Loan and Build ing Association. Special Notices—To Fatrons of Linden Park Dairy, T. R. Heyward, Manager; Notice to the Publio, Walter P. Corbett, United States Marshal; Pianos, Organs, etc., Davis Music Company; Still in the Ring, Dr. Cook; Thanks, by the Daughters of Israel. Military Orders—Republican Blues. Legal Notices—As to Demands Against and In favor of Catherine Feeley'S Estate. Extract of Beef—Letsibig’s. Lord Chcmley —B. H. Levy £ Bro. Steamship Schedui.es—Ocean Steamship Company; General Transatlantic Company. Amusements—Gormans' High Class Minstrels lit tho Theater, Feb. 12 and 13. Auction Sale—Tho Bale of the stock of W. S. Cherry & Cos. Continued by E. Karow. An Extra Pair of Pants—Falk Clothing Company Cheap Column Advertisements Help Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Rent; For Sale; Lost; Personal; Miscellaneous. “Napoleons” of finance are growing com mon. Why not try a Wellington or a Blucher? Those Pennsylvania delegates may have to swallow an olegant bait of crow at Min neapolis. The most interesting hit of flotsam beached high and dry by the Plaice breaker is Matthew Stanley Quay. Anew United States mau-of-war is to be named "Marblehead,” in honor of the whole navy department possibly. The ruling high price of eggs in the north is a serious drawback to James Owen O’Conor’s popularity on the stage. * ‘Candor,” says the Chicago Inter Ocean, •‘is the best cold compress for curing vani ty. Chicago is in want of an immense con signment of candor. “The more the merrier" is Gen. Russell Alger’s idea of the contest for the repub lican nomination. Alger will be tu the merry-making throng. Thmgs must be coming on “swimmingly” at Coal Creek. A little pistol and shotgun frolio on the part of a few drunken miners is the only news reported from the seat of war in something like three weeks. A California club is trying to work up a penny edition of the Tranby Croft scandal by accusing one of its members, “a prom inent man,” of cheating at cards. There ■were no pistols, so the sensation will prob ably fall. It must indeed be a low standard of jour nalism which permits of the interviewing of a convicted murderer to obtain for pub lication his opinion of the jurymen who convicted him, as has been done in the Carlyle Harris case. According to tho New York Recorder the burning of the Hotel Royal left twenty-four other unsafe hostelries in the metropolis. In which case twenty-four other holocausts are merely a matter of time, unless tte authori ties condemn the buildings. Spain does not believe in moral suasion for reforming anarchists, and has instituted heroic treatment, which will make good anarchists of one hundred and sixty-odd of them in that country where Bret fiarte •ays all the good Indians are. Dr. W, A. Hammond recently removed a portion of a man’s skull In order to give tho brain more scope. If the operation proves •uccessful the doctor is earnestly recom mended to the host of embryonic statesmen with wild cat schemes in hand. The Russian government’s agricultural department, it appeurs, has achieved a high degree of knowledge of crops and fam ines, but the government places no confi dence in its predictions. It is claimed that the famine now holding tin country in its grip was foretold, upon scientific calcula tions, eight years ago by a Russian Totten. Grover Cleveland will deliver the annual address before the law students of the Uni versity of Michigan at Ann Arbor on Washington’s birthday. He may dwell with propriety on the circumstantial and direct evidence the colonel had against George In the cherry tree case, as well as the propriety of admitting a confession made under fear of flogging. Cleveland and Hill. The New York World is trying to find ! out whether the drift of democratic senti ment is to ward Cleveland or Hill by making I inquiries of democratic officials at state I capita’s. From the reports its publishes it i is difficult to determine whether Cleveland or Hill is in the greater favorite. In some of the states Cleveland’s friends are in the majority, while in others Hill appears to have the greater number of supporters. The fact is generally recognized that Hill is earnestly seeking the presidential nomina tion and that Cleveland is making no effort whatever to get it. In the towns, as a rule, Cleveland is the more popular, while in the country districts Hill seems to have the greater number of supporters. The reason of this is apparent. Alliancemen have not regarded Cleveland with favor since he wrote his letter against the free coinage of silver. Before that letter was written he was very popular with them. It is easy to understand why that letter made a change In their sentiments with re spect to him. but not why they should pre fer Hill to him. Hill is not in favor of the free coinage of silver. He doesn’t dare to say that he ia In a speech that he made at Elmira not long ago be endeavored to create the impression that he was in harmony with those who are trying to bring about the free coinage of silver, but in a subse quent speech at Albany he made It quite clear that he does not think it advisa ble to attempt free coinage legislation at this time, and be also raised a doubt in the minds of other democratic leaders as to whether be is au earnest believer in the cause of tariff reform. In a speech in New York last Friday night Congressmnn Mills hinted that Hill wanted to take a step back ward rather than forward so far as the tariff is concerned. When democratic alliancemen under stand fully that Hill is not an advocate of free silver coinage, and that he Is nowhere near as sound on the question of tariff reform as Cleveland is. much of their en thusiasm for him will disappear. The most of those alliancemen who are for Hill now are so under a misapprehension. When they clearly oomprebend the truth they will insist upon the nomination of either Mr. Cleveland or some man whose name has not yet been brought prominently before the public. There are a great many democrats in the south who favor Hill on the ground of availability. They thiok he can carry New York and that Cleveland canuot. The pres ent revolt in tho democratic ranks against Hill in New York justifies a doubt as to whether Hill can poll any-where near as largo a vote in New York state a9 Cleve land. The opposition to Hill is strong and steadily growing in strength. There is practically no opposition to Mr. Cleveland. There may be some Tammany men who would not vote for him, hut they are bis personal enemies. They do not dissent from his views upon publio questions, nor do they find fault with his publio record. The opposition to Hill eorues from the beet element in the Demo cratic party in New York. It contains thousands of voters who would not vote for Hill under any circumstances. This being the oase, it looks as if Hill were not as available a candidate as Cleveland. In this state delegates to the oonventlon that will select a delegation to the national convention at Chicago will not bo elected before May. Before that time the Hill sentiment among alliancemon will be much leas than it is at present, however great the effort may be to strengthen it. A Newspaper's Successful Fight. The New York Times, in Its fight against Mr. Beers, the president of the New York Life Insurance Company, has won a nota ble viotory. For many months it continued its assaults upon Mr. Beers, its purpose Do ing to force him out of the presidency of the company. Our dispatches yesterday stated that Mr. Beers had resigned and that he would receive a lifo pension of $25,000. Whether Mr. Beers is responsible for any part of the losses winch the New York Life Insurance Company has sustained from bad investments, and through its agents, is a question about which there is a great differ ence of opinion. Doubtless Mr. Beers made some mistakes, but the trustees do not seem to think he made any more or greater mis takes than any other man in his position would make. There is no doubt about the solvency of the company. It is perfectly sound and the public has confidence in it. The Times, however, determined that Mr. Beers should not be retained as president of the company if it could preveDt it. And Mr. Beers’ resignation is proof of the Times' success. When the Times began its war on Mr. Beers that gentleman retaliated by having a suit brought against the Times for SI,OOU, 000. It is probable that the suit will never be tried. Many of the charges made by the Times have been either partly or wholly sustained by the report of tho state insur ance commissioners. Of President Beers’ business ability there is no doubt. The trustees of tho company want his services, even though they are forced to accept his resignation. His integ rity is unquestioned, and that be has a very wide and valuable experience in life insurance matters is beyond a doubt. It is probable, therefore, that he will earn the pension he is to receive and that the trust ees of the compaL y acted wisely in retain ing him in its services. The fight the Times conducted was an ex traordinary one, aud one that was watched with a great deal of interest, because for a long time there was a doubt whether it or President Beers would win. Its success shows how powerful a newspaper is that has a recognized standing. The electrocution of Mcllvaine at Sing Sing, N. Y., Monday under the revised law permitting reporters to see the exeention, was followed by plain, straightforward stories in the newspapers, devoid of sensationalisms, giving the public an opportunity to judge for themselves whether or not the new mode of capital punishment is a success. There is a vacancy in the interstate com merce commission which must be filled by a democrat. Speaking of the subject, the New York Press (republican) says: "Ex- Mayor John T. Glenn, of Atlanta, who is a guest at the Imperial hotel, has been pressed on President Harrison as a capable man. Mayor Glenn fills the bill as to politics as well as ability.” Reports of small-pox, yellow fever and other contagious diseases are beginning to circulate early this season. The present is the time for action to avoid a visitation of a plague later on. The Harrisonites are hard to please. Last week it was: “O, if he’d only write a let ter!” This week it is; ‘ ‘O, if we could only believe him!” THE MORNING NEWS: WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 10. 1892. The Fast Mall Service. Under the policy of the Postmaster Gen eral, the New York and Florida fast mail service is likely to be discontinued after June 30. 1892. This is very unfortunate. The lenefiU accruing to the Atlantic sea board cities, especially these of North and South Carolina, Georgia and Florida, are . sc many and so great as to make the con tinuance of the service a positive necessity. The Postmaster General’s purpose in an nouncing the suspension of the fast mall is in line with his policy cf reducing appro priations to the minimum. That determi nation is commendable where the service can lie dispensed with without serious in convenience or loss to the people along the line. Butin this instance the discontinu ance would be accompanied with both loss and inconvenience. Depending on this fast train Florida has instituted a number of small industries, tho products of which are perishable, but handled by the flying trains are marketed m season. Prompt mail delivery, attainable only by the fast trains, is an accommodation that cannot be overestimated, not only to people who desire to receive their letters and pa pers before they grow stale, but to the busi ness community of the four states and all of their northern correspondents. It has been said that the time saved on bills of ex change between the north and south amounts to more than enough to pay for the service. What the stoppage of the fast through trains means to travel, especially tourist travel, may be readily conjectured. During recent years millions of dollars have been expended in the south in fitting up palaces for tourists from the north, and they have lately begun to extend the season on each end until it embraces a good part of the year. With the fast mail stopped the “sea son” will be cut down to about three months. Another consideration, reaching beyond the United States territory, is the quick communication afforded under the present system with Cuba and the West Indies. In view of the recently ratified commercial treaty with the British West Indies it seems that direct and rapid mail communi cation must be maintained, or much of the advantage claimed to accrue from that ar rangement will be lost, and by no route can the West Indies be reaohed so quiokly as by the New York and Florida fast mail, connecting with a steamship line at Tampa. The last congress passed a bill subsidizing American ships for mail service to foreign porta; then why can not congress pay—not give a bounty to—railroads for a line of mail service of such great advantage to so large a section of country? It Is to be hoped the appropriation and the fast mail will be continued. Death of Editor Pool. Our dispatches yesterday contained the announcement of the death of Stephen D. Pool, one of the editors of the New Or leans Times-Democrat. Hla death was a great and sad surprise to quite a number of newspaper men in thiß state and other southern states who bad recently seen him in Atlanta at the meeting of the Southern Press Association. It was only a week ago last Friday that he parted with his fellow member* of the association and expressed the hope that it would not be long before he would meet them again. He was in good health at that time and had every reason to look forward to a long life of usefulness. Mr. Pool represented the Tlmes-I)fmocrat for quite a number of years at the meetings of the Southern Press Association and was regarded as a very able and careful coun-, solor in all matters pertaining to the southern press. He was not only an excellent editor, but also a good business man. He was about 40 years of age at the time of his death. Before joining the editorial staff of the Times-Democrat he was a printer and a very good one. He was the son of Col. Pool, of North Carolina, who com manded a regiment from that state during the war of secession. Stephen D. Pool, un aided, won the place he held in New Or leans, and had he lived it is probable that in a few years he would have made a reputation as au editor that would uot have been confined to that city. Miss Jeanne V. Deschamps, a German lady with a French name, started out from Hamburg on Dee. 14, 1891, to beat the record as a “globe-trotter.” She had the time of the American woman, 72 days and 11 hours, and the claim of Citizen George Francis Train, 66 days, against her, but trotted bravely across a continent, several seas and an ocean, then another continent, arriving in Philadelphia Monday, ten days behind time, Realizing that even Phineas Fogg could not have earned ten days by reason of difference of time, she gave up the race. She is certain that it is possible to put a girdle around the earth in fifty-six days, and will try it again soon. Typesetting by machinery is becoming so common that the typographical union is taking steps to make the most of it while accepting the inevitable. At a recent meet ing of union No. 6 of New York it was de termined to establish a school for operators on tho inaohinos, and adopt a standard ma chine for use in union offices. The New York papers containing stories of the horror in the Hotel Royal also con tained a number of high-priced first-page “ad3” of ‘'absolutely fire-proof” hostelries. The chances are that the Hotel Royal had one of the same kind after tho hoiel fire im mediately preceding the cne by which it was destroyed. The Rev. Mr. Januskiewcz, a Polish churchman at Reading, Pa„ accused a member of his congregation of being a chicken thief, and got a blow in the face. Instead of presenting another face of the front part of his name he reseated it, and a big row ensued. A Paris report says the King of Dahomey has been making 6lave raids in order to supply the Belgians on the Congo and tho Germans in the Cameroons. Here is a theme upon which Prof. Muench, the Ger man poet, may build an addition to his “Camaroonia.” “The miscreant who put matches among the cotton bait s of the Lepanto should bo put to death in the fumes of sulphur,” says the New Y"ork Recorder. The execution would take place at that end of the line; those matches never left Savannah in the cotton. The New York confidence man who had tho nerve to slap a stranger on the back Monday and calmly remark: “Hello, Nel woczski, old man; how did you leave the people over in Yekaterinoalav?” certainly deserves consideration for his fluency of speeoh. Lord Sandwich is about to visit this country. Reports say he isn’t a “ham.” PERSONAL. Miss Grace Howard, daughter of “Joe” Howard, whose mlsiionary work among the Julians of South Dako:a forthe last four years. Las been remarkably successful. ha* come east and is visiting in Washington this week. Spuboeom, like Grant, loved a good cigar, and be smoked almost as many of them as the gen eral did. The great preacher was a man of cu rious physique. He was short and fat. or of • portly habit,” as the doctors say euphemisti cally. Count Pucki.br. who was a member of the household of the late Emperor William for sixty years, and who was court marshal and mas er of the robes during the whole of his majesty's reign, has just celebrated his 90th birthday. A. L. Hopkins, son of Mark Hopkins, once president of Williams College, and Miss Kitty Dodge were married on Saturday at the resi dence of the brides mother in Boston. This is Mr. Hopkins’ third matrimonial venture, his first wife being dead and his second divorced. Mrs U. S. Grant, Mrs. Jefferson Davis, Mrs. Garfield, Mrs Doming, Mrs. Eaton. Mrs. Edward Raby, Mrs Margaret Eottome, Mrs. A. Roman Salus, Mrs. Jeremiah S. Black and Mrs. John H. King are the first ten vice presidents elected by the United States Daughters of 181 L Each lady has accepted in patriotic letters. There are thirty-two pictures of Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale, In the latest number of a famous English weekly, and the duke's valst. h% doctors, his horses, his tutors, his shipmates on the Bellerophon. his fellow soldiers and ever so many relatiTes are also depicted. The ’’faithful valet’’ is a curly headed, red-bearded man named Fuller. A hong the European princes who are now in active naval service are Prince Henry of Prus sia. Archduke Charles Stephan of Austria, Archduke Leopold of TuscaDy, Prince Walde mar of Denmark, Prince George of Greece, Grand Duke Alexis, Grand Duke Constantine and Grand Duke George of Russia, Prinoe Oscar of Sweden, the Duke of Genoa. Prince Louis of Savoy, and Prince George of Wales, Rafael Oassel, editor of the Imparclal of Madrid, hada narrow escape from death a few days ago, Fxancesco Diaz, the Spanish anarchist, angered by an article in the news paper, called upon the editor and demanded satisfaction. As Senor Gassel was about to show the intruder to the door, the anarchist drew a revolver from his pocket and tried to shoot him, but was overpowered before doing any harm. BRIGHT BITS. Heard in a Library— "l want a good new novel to read, without any psychology or philanthrophy or any social conundrum or a bit of dialect." "Well, you’ll have to wait till the spring trade to get it. There’s none this winter.”— Boston Transcript. Policeman—Why did your husband kill that young man? Mrs. Peanutti—He maka love toa mea. Policeman—What did he say? Mrs. Peanutti—He say that a cook stove and two beds too heavy for mea to carry.— New York Weekly. Triumph of Art Over Nature.— Serious Artist—l think you knew the model tor this fig ure-poor beggar, deaf and dumb. Light-hearted Friend—l know—used to sit at corner of street. Deaf and dumb 1 By Jove, you've made a "speaking Mkeness” of him! Wonderful.—Punch. Seeker— So your friend Dumbleton has-writ ten a novel, eh ? Sageman—He has, for a fact. Seeker—What is his plot? Sageman—His plot seems to be to Inveigle the public into buying a book that isn’t worth read ing.— Notion Courier. Didn't Havb Pie—Mrs. Wayback—Mandy, did you notice that all the time we was visitin' at Cousin Eldora’s. in the city, she never once had pie on the table? Mandy—Yes, I did. I 'spose It’s cause them silver knives o’ thor’n ain’t sharp enough to cut pie with.— Street <f: Smith's Good, News. Excited Farssenoer ion southern railroad)— Conductor, my wife has lost her bonnet out of the window. Conductor—How long ago was It? Passenger—About half an hour. Conductor—l guess we can back up. Look out of the window and sue if you can see it.— Cloak Review. Employment Agent -Why do you leave a place in which you have worked so many years? Domestic— Well, you see, the misßus died last month c “The house is lonely now, I suppose." “’Taln’t that; but, now the missus Is dead, the master blames everything on me.”—.Vein /Xork Weekly. The Limit Reached.—Johnnie—Where you goin’ ? Tommy—Home. Don’t you hear maw a callin' me. “That’s nothin’. She called you two or three times before.” “Yes; but she’s out at the peach tree now, cuUin’oiT a ultimatum.’’— lndianapolis Jour nal. A Welcome HallrlujAh. —Clara—l never saw such a friendly choir. They stopped right in the middle of the anthem Suuday morning to speak to me. Auut Huldah—l didn’t notice it, my child, , Clara—But they did. 1 wore my new cloak to church for the first time, and as soon as I came in the choir sang “Hardly knew you, Hardly knew you" two or three times.—Aeto I’yrfc Tribune. Lady- AU your marine pictures represent the sea as being calm. Why don’t you paint a storm once in a while? Artist—We painters in oil can’t paint a storm, I have often outlined astorm on the canvas, but ns soon as I begin to spread on the oil colors the waves subside, and the sea liecomes as calm as a duck pond. Lady—Yes, I’ve read about the wonderful ef fect oil has in calming the waves, but I had no idea it was so effective as all that.—Texas Sift ings. CURRENT COMMENT. Opinions of the Press on Mr. Blaine’s Letter of Declination. From the New York World (Dent.). Without Blaine, what? An ppen-to-all race, with tho chances in favor of the perpetually re appearing dark horse. From the New York Recorder (Rep.). The great American statesman has announced a decision which is a renunciation of the presi dential office, and he must now be taken at his word as to decided aversion to the candidacy of 1892, whatever the future may bring forth. Front the New York Tribune (Rep. I. In accepting as final Mr Blaine s determina tion not to be a presidential candidate, the party, and. we believe, the whole country, will still hope to have the benefit for many years to come of his invaluable services in a publio sta tion. From New York Commercial Advertiser ( Dcm.). But what an embarrassing situation it would be were this letter to augment the Blaine boom instead of removing it from the presidential problem! Caesar thrice declined a kingly crown; and in the matter of politics Blaine could have given Caisar points. From the New York Times (Ind .). Mr. Blaine's letter does, however, make Mr. Harrison’s renomination as certain as anything in politics can be. There is no other man in the party that can command anything like the same strength in the convention. Aud it is only just to Mr. Harrison, though it is not particularly flattering to the party, to say that there are few other men in it who deserve so well. From the Washington Post ( 1nd.).~ It remains to be seen whether or not the men who have been urging Mr. Blaine’s candidacy, but who insisted that with the Maine man out of the fight the nomination would surely go to Mr. Harrison, will now enroll themselves under the President's banner. The Post wllj make another prediction, and that Is that in loss than a week the number of candidates talked about will increase from two to several. What head way they will make time alone can tell. From the Philadelphia Times (Dem.). The plumed knight is now finally and irrev ocably out of the contest for the presidency, and the opposition to Harrison is turned loose to browse around and finally pull itselt together on some favorable man. It will henceforth be the field against Harrison, and with four months' time to crystallize party sentiment it is reasonable safe to assume that the republicans will select anew man to make the battle of 1892. From the Nev> York Herald (Ind.). As to the democrats, their shrewdest oppo nent has retired from the field. They have a large number of men who oan certainly win against Harrison and who ought to be able to win against Blaine. If they handle their forces with skill and enter the contest with a strong western man it will be their own fault if they fail to carry the day, for the great hulk of the American people in all sections of the country are with them. Ell Perkins’ Contraband. An elderly colored man. with a very philo sophical and retrospective cast of con:*nance, was squatting with his bundle upon the hurri cane deck of one of the western river steamers, casting his sains against the chimney and apparently plunged In a state of profound medi tation, says Eli Perkins’ "Wit and Humor of the Age. ’ His dress and appearance indicated familanty with camp life, and. it 1 eing soon after th * selge and capture of Fort Donaldson. I was inclined to disturb his reveries, and on inter rogation found that be hai been with the union forces at that place, when I questioned farther His philosophy was so peouliar that I will civ* bis views In his own words, as near as my mem ory will serve me: “Were you in the fight?" "I bad a little taste of it, sah.” “BtooAyour ground, did you?" “No. sah. I runs,” “Run at the first fire, did you?" “Yes. sah. an’ would have run soonah had I knowed it was cornin’. ’’ “Why, that wasn’t very creditable to your courage." “Dat isn’t in my line, sah, coo tin’s my pro fession." “Well, but have you no regard for your repu tation?” “Reputation's nuffln to me by the aide of “Do you consider your life worth more than other people’s?” "It’s worth more to me, sah." "But wny should you act upon a different role than other men?” " ’Cause, sah, difl’rent men setsdifl’rent value on derselves; my life’s not in de market.” “But If you lost it you would have the satis faction of knowing that you died for your country." ’ ’What satisfaction would dat be to me when de Dower of feelin' was gone?" ’Then patriotism and honor are nothing to you?" "Nuffln whatever, sah.” “If our soldiers were all like you, traitors might have broken up the government without resistance.” "Yes, sah; der would have been no help for it I wouldn't put my life in <le scales 'gainst any guberment dat ever existed, for no guberment could replace de loss to mo. ’Spect though dat de guberment's safe If de're all like me. ’’ “Do you think that any of your company would have missed you if you had been killed?" “Maybe not, sah; a dead white man ain't much wid dese sojers, let alone a dead nigeah But I’d a missed myself, and dat was de D'int wid me.” Hie Curiosity was Satisfied. In an elevated railway train last week sat a tired-looking workman and with him was an active boy of about 10 years, says the New York Tribune. They were going np town. At Chambers street a young man with a big basket got into the car and sat down opposite the pair. He put the basket on the seat beside him. and pulling a newspaper from his pocket, held It up before his face and was soon oblivious to his surroundings. The boy was restless. He was constantly fidgeting. The man had restrained him several times, but ohalns and a gag would hardly have kept him perfectly quiet. His eyes were In stantly fixed upon the basket. He made np his mind that there was something good inside it. “Paua, papa!" he demanded. "Hush, boy!” said the tired man. as be leaned his head against the window, closed his eyes and tried to sleep “Can’t I look into it papa?" "Don’t bother me, I sav." Bilence followed for a little time and then: “Ray, papa, I only want to look. Can’t I?" “Look at anything you like, but don’t wake me again or i’ll cuff you.” The boy slipped from his seat cautiously. He kept an eye on the owner of the oasket, but the newspaper still held him and the coast was clear The basket had a strong wicker cover, which, was fastened firmly with a string. He tried to untie the string for some time, but failing in tills, ho took a jack-knife out of his Docket and stealthily cut the knot. Taking another careful look st the owner of the basket, the mischievous lad lifted the lid slowly and putting his eye to the opening, peered in. Then quick as a flash the cover was knocked up out of his hand, and a browu streak shot from inside it to the top of the boy’s head. The lad’s first ory of surprise was followed imme diately by shrieks of pain and terror. Some thing live was perched on the boy’s bead tear ing the hair out in wisps and scratching his face and ears till the blood ran. The father grabbed his precious boy just as the owner of the animal grabbed tbe monkey from the boy’s head and restored it to the basket. The lad had not had much of a look at the monkey, but his ouriosity seemed to be fullv satisfied. A Story to Suit All Preachers. lu its obituary notice of Mr. Spurgeon the Washington Poet said that wheri entering his churcu one Sunday he heard a young man say: “It’s a d-d hot day,” and that he made it the text of a powerful sermoa against blasphemy Whereupon a correspondent of the Poet shows what an ancient and peripatetic old rounder this story is. “In 1848,” he says, “the year be fore Mr. Spurgeon entered the pulpit as a ‘hoy preacher,’ I was the youngest apprentice In a printing office, the foreman of which used to repeat a story exactly identical with the above except that he laid it to the charge of a minis ter who had labored and died in Erie, Pa., years before, when tho foreman was a boy Twenty years later tbe story was revived, with Henry Ward Beecher’s name In it. After it had gone rounds for several years in the face of explicit denials. I mentioned to Mr. Beecher my first acquaintance with the story, under circum stances which carried it back to a period before his birth. He smilingly replied that be wbb tired of denying the truth of the story as ap plied to himself, and felt compelled to let it run. And now the same old lie comes to the surface again, with Mr. Spurgeon as the princi pal actor; It will never die. In the di-fant fut ure, when some dusky scholar from Central Africa sits upon the crumbling orohos of the congressional library and views the ruins of the capitol, it will still be in circulation, modified only by Inserting the name of the latest renowned dreacher.” The Bachelor’s Toast. William H. Hills in the New Yoi k Sun. Many maidens fair I’ve known. Girls with soft and potent eyes That would melt a heart of stone, Every maid a lovely prize; I have worshiped at their feet. Yielded to their charms; and yet Is the best of them as sweet As the girl I’ve never met? They have witching little ways, She enraptures when she smiles} They enchant; amuse, amaze. She enslaves me with her wiles. That they are obarming, I agree; They are exquisite; and yet None of them entices me Like the girl I’ve never met. She has all their winning grace, All their wit and b-auty rare, Flashing eyes, a perfect face. Low, sweet forehead, rippling hair. Fancy makes her all my own, lean see her now; and yet, Though full many maids I’ve known, She’s tbe girl I never met. Shali I meet her? Who can tell? Life is short, tho world Is wide. While I wait, I know it well. She may be another’s bride. Fate has kept us two apart. We may never meet; and yet. Here’s a toast; I pledge my heart To the girl I've never met! A dealer in watches of thirty years'experi ence says that he has known many men who have tried to wind their watches every morning Instead of at night, but has never known one to succeed. There are men who wind their watches at a fixed hour every day. but men in general are accustomed to wind them just before going to bed, and they seem unable to change that habit. "When do the funeral services take place?” “They are not going to have any services ” “Indeed 1 Was ne an infidel?" "No; he was a practical joker. "—New York Press. FirstTruculmnt Prize-fighter—Come on! Second Truculent Prize-fighter—Come off' Somerville Journal. fleaßßakirtf tH^Powder Used in Millions of Homes— 40 Years the Standard FLAVORING EXTRACTS. Striking. The delicate aroma and fruit taste of articles flavored with Dr. Prices Delicious Flavor ing Extracts as contrasted with the coarse and disagree able taste of those flavored with the common flavoring extracts now in the market, is really one of the striking peculiarities of these famous and valuable products. The difference is so notable that any person once using Dr. Price’s Flavors will never again use any other. They are valuable additions to our food, the use of which is cer tain to increase as knowledge of their superior qualities spreads. ITBMS OP INTEREST. In Ireland Dennis Koorobee died recently, poss?ssed of 48 children, 236 grandchildren and 944 great-grandchildren. The largest gun manufactured at the Krupp gun works, Essen, Germany, weighs 270.000 pounds and is of the finest duality of steel. The cal: her of this monster engine of death is 19<4 inches and the barrel is 4i feet long. The great est diameter of this gun is 6J4 feet, and its range is about 12 miles. Guus of the above size can be fired twice per minute, each shot costing $1,600. The projectile is 4 feet long, weighs 2,700 pounds, and is fired by a charge of powder weighing 700 pounds. This gun will *‘carry up” for 9 miles and penetrate 20 inches of solid steel armor. The latest story about Secretary Blaine's superstitions is that he will never sit down with thirteen at a table. A western congress man's wife who has frequently been a guest for days at a time in the Blaine home at Augusta, says that one evening just before dinner they were chatting pleasantly, when Mrs. Blaine came in to tell her husband that some expected guest had failed them, leaving thirteen to sit down to dinner. Mr. Blaine rose nervously, put on his hat without a word, and hurrying out soon returned with a neighbor, whose presence probably broke the hateful spell. The senator's wife is also quoted as say ing that on ono occasion, to satisfy Mr. Blaine's fear of thirteen, she remained away from the table. Senator Mitchell, whose pretty daughter is to become on Thursday next the Duchess de la Rochefouoauld, is detained In Washington by business and will not be able to witness the ceremony. The young woman is the senator’s second daughter, and is a blonde. Her elder sister, who was married when only a girl, is a brunette, and is considered by many the prettier of the two. Her husband is employed in one of the departments here, and they live qu etly. They have several children, although the mother is still young and girlish looking. Senator Mitchell has a comfortable income, but he is not rich. He is considered a good lawyer, and prior to his election to the Senate was em a ployed by one of the big railroad corporations' of the west. He is handsome and has an especially fine complexion. A NEW arrangement, designed to supersede chains in safety bicycles and obviate the annoy ance with which bicyclists are so familiar, of loose and dirt-clogged gearing, has recently been protected According to this invention a toothed wheel Is provided on the hub of the driving-wheel, which gears Into a circular rtox This rack is supported by two cranks mounted on pivots and is oscillated through connecting rods by a small toothed wheel driven by a pinion on the crank shaft. This wheel has a pin on its face which engages with the connecting rods and at each revolution oscillates the rack which acaulres a circular motion by reason of the cranks, and thus re volves the driving-wheel. The speed at which the driving-wheel is rotated depends upon the proportionate number of teeth on the rack and on the wheel with which it gears. To illustrate the early dilliculties whioh ap palled naturalists, the case of Charles Darwin iu his explorations on the Beagle are to the point, says Goldthwaite'a Geograohiciil Maori zine. He found, on the coast of New Zealand, enormous oanyons rising to a hight of several thousand feet and reachlngjclose to the water's edge. It is now believed that these valleys were worn out by the action of running water, and that by a sinking of the coast line the mouths of the rivers have been transformed into fiords. Darwin could not appreciate, at that time such enormous denudation hy sub-aerial forces and he publishes his theory that they are great bays worn out by tho tides wnen the land was be neath the waters At about this time and earlier the curreut belief was that most great river valleys were the products of the great universal Hood described as Noah’s deluge. The use of an electric micrometer has been imported into the manufacture of boots and Shoes. The function of this device is the sorting of pieces of leather, according to their thick ness, and their distribution in their respective receptacles. So accurately is this performed that the pieces in the various raceptaoles hardly vary I.OUOth part of an inch in thlok ness Besides the sorting of the pieoes of leather the inachiue automatically records the number distributed. When the apparatus is in operation all that is required of the attendants is to put the taps n a trough-like box. A follower is adjusted behind the taps, which keeps them in an upright position and maintains a constant pressure as they are fed from the trough into two abutting flanges, the taps in return being fed from the trough into the micrometer fin gers, which pass successfully into position The fingers, which are moved around ny a ratchet movement, pause a short time over the recep tacles for taps, and when one of them reaches a bin in which the tap should be dropped, the inner extension of the finger touches an electric contact, and the tap falls from the jaws. The operation of the finger is made to actuate a connector, which indicates the number of taps in e\e y receptacle Two prominent little society women of Wash ington, D. C., who are enjoying themselves rather more than the ordinary devotee are Mine. Tateno, wife of the Japanese minister, and Mme. 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