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Newspaper Page Text4 cpo ruing Hctos Morning News Bui ding Savannan, Ga. ■ MONDAY, MARCH 8, 1892. Rtgutcrtd at the Poatofice r Savanna*. '’’TteMoaNiNU Nmre is published every day in tim year and is snivel to subscribers in the sry st SI 00a month, $5 00 for sU months and SJO 00 for one year The Morning Nsws. by mail, one month, si 00; three months, £2 SO; six months, S3 00; one year, $lO 00. The Morning News, by mat , six times a wees (without Sunday issue , three months, $2 00; six months. $4 00; one year, $8 00. The Morning Nswh, Tri-Weekly. Mondays. Wednesdays and Fridays, or Tuesdays. Thurs day. and Saturdays, three months, 3* 23;six months, $2 JO; one year, 16 30. The Sunday News, by mail, one year, 8- 00 The Weekly News, by mail, one year, *1 . Subscriptions payable to advanoe. Remit by postal order, check or registered letter. Cur rency sent by mail at risk of senders. .. letter* and telegrams should be addressed “Mornino News, ’ Savannah. Ga. _. . Transient advertisement*. other than special Ooluuin. local or reading notions, auiusemoots and cheap or want column. 10 cents a Une. Fourteen lines of agate type-equal to one tech space In depth-is the standard of mess ■rement. Contract rates and discounts made known on application at business office. ' OVBNKW YORK OFFICE, Vs. J. J. Flynn, General Advertising Agent of t* l * Hoikiso News, office S3 Park Row, Mew York. All advertising business outside ef the states of G.-orgla, Florida and South Caro lina will be managed by him. The Measure News Is on file at the following places, where Advertising Rates and other in formation regarding the paper can be obtained: NEW YORK CITY— J. H. Bates, 38 Park Row. R, p, Rowell A Oct, 10 Spruoe street W. W. Suasp £ Cos., *1 Park Row. Franx Kiernan & 00.. 162 Broadway. Pauchy A Oo . 27 Park Place. J. W. Thompson. 82 Park Row. /MlttlfiAN N KWfIPAI'KB PUBLISHER • ASSOOIATXOK, 0 Potter Building. PHILADELPmA— H. W. Aver A Son, Times Building. BOSTON 0. R. Niles. 256 Washington street Pbttsnoill A 00., 10 Stale street CHICAOO- Pord A Thomas, 45 Randolph street. CINCINNATI- _ _ Bdwin Ai.den Comp Ain, 66 West Fourth street ST. LOUIS— Kelson Cbesm an &00. 1127 Pine street ATLANTA- . Kosnino News Bcreau, Whitehall street, BT. AUGUBTINI& H, Mahcottk. St Augustine, Fla INDiiX TO m TomiMMENTS. Special Notices—A Very Attractive Home ot Auction, by C. H. Dorsott, Real Estate Dealer; Mare Mules for Sale, Denis J. Murphy. Auction Sales-Furniture, Dry Goods, Etc., by C. H. Dors itt. Sprino Goods—Falk Clothing Company. First Shot ok the Season—Collat’s Cover the Boys—B. H. Levy & Bro. Railroad Schedule—Central Railroad of Georgia. Cheap Column advertisements Help Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Rent; For Bale; Lost; Personal; Miscellaneous. If the color of the new ships of the navy is to be changed from white, what Is the matter with painting them soal brown In deference to the Bering sea controversy ? j£ Mr. Whltelaw Reid, United States minis ter to France and editor of the New York Tribune, is credited with saying that he is not a 'Acs presidential candidate,but is wlll f ng to be. Ferdinand Ward, the famous ’’financier,” may get only ono whiff of the air of free dom when he is released from Sing Sing prison on April 30. He was indicted in the United States court on Feb. 12, 1885, as an accessory to and accomplice of James S. Fish in the misappropriation of the funds of the Marine Bank of New York. This in dictment still hang* over him, and he may be immediately rearrested os he steps out of tho prison. Russian Hebrew refugees have been pro hibited passage through Germany. This in formation cannot be promulgated through out Russia for months, and as a oonsequence the unfortunates, prodded at all points by Russian bayonets, rush to the frontier in the hope to escape. There they are halted and frequently shot to death if they refuse to turn back. They are like hares in a hol low log that is burning at each end. To escape is impossible, and to remain means suffocation. The English soldiers who were punished for wearing the shamrock on St. Patrick’s day while they were in undress uniform, plead in mitigation that the late Duke of Clarenoe, s. not tho Prince of Wales, who was a major of huc-ars, wore the shamrock Whe 1 he was in full dress uniform. The •oldiers evidently overlooked the fact that Prince Edward, clothed with the “divine right,” could wear what he pleased on any oocasion, while they, who uphold that “divine right” by force of trim, have no privileges whatever outside of those pre scribed by army regulations. President Eliot, of Harvard University, bas stirred up a hornet’s nest by a speech he Is alleged to have made at Salt Lake City a week ago, in which he likened the Latter Day Saints to the Pilgrim Fathers in their fidelity to religious liberty, and further made the statement that a Mormon colony existed among the Harvard stu.leuts. All Cambridge is aroused over the matter. President Eliot’s friends do not believe the report, and the students say they can only account for the remarkable language attributed to tho president on the hypothesis that be is ‘ ‘too fresh”—that the Mormons gave him a big dinner, whioh ho “celebrated” in flue style and the “cele bration” got the better of his discretion. The last issue of the State Board of Health Bulletin, published at Nashville, Teun., oontains a carefully prepared precis of tbo sanitary report read by Dr. J. C. LoHardy before the Citizens’ Sanitary Association of this city on Feb. 23, taken from the full reports published in the Morn. Ing News the day following. Commenting thereon the Bulletin says: “The report does great credit to all concerned. It Is evident that the people of Savannah have not been asleep of late years, anl that her leading citizens are determined that no steps backward shall be taken. Where there is plain speech and no whitewashing there will sanitary progress tie genuine and perma nent.” The Bulletin also notes, with some concern, the fact that from Maine to Florida an unbroken Une of state boards of health, with two exceptions, co-operate with each other and with the federal authorities in guarding against the impor tation of exotic diseesM into America. “These badly distinguished states.” says ths B ullet in, ’’sre tbs large, rich and ad vane ing common weal tbs of Virginia end Georgia” While the slate 1* regarded as lethargic in that very important matter, the Citizens’ aasoc'.eUou of Havanuah is con gratulated upon its activity and interval in a matter eu greatly affecting the state at love* The Campaign In Rhode Island. An election will be held In the state of Rhode Island next month. A governor and other state offloers will be chosen, and also a legislature that will elect a successor to Senator Aldrich, one of the strongest of : the republican senators. Much attention is being paid to the Rhode Island campaign in all quarters. It is claimed in some of the newspapers that the result will Indicate the drift of public opin ion as regards the policies of the two great political parties. But, It seems, that claim is not well founded. If the democrats win the state it will indeed mean much; if the republicans are victorious It will mean very little. The difference is this; The state Is at present republican, that party is in con trol of the “machinery’’ of elections, is thoroughly organized, has a large “cam paign fund," and is favored by the system of apportionment in the general assembly. The democrats, on the other hand, aro not so well organized, and have already lost the opportunity to elect several members of the legislature by neglecting to comply with the requirements of the newly enacted secret ballot law. As far as the state officers are concerned, the parties may have about equal chances to elect their tickets. But wban it comes to the election of members of the legisla ture, the Democratic party la under great disadvantages. Under the peculiar Institutions of Rhode Island mere votes do not count In an election of representatives. The “town rule” and “majority law” ideas, relics of 1663, still dominate Under this system the village of 600 or 700 inhabitants elects the same number of representatives to ths state Senate as the city having 100,000 population. Thus, 124,000 people in the small towns of Rhode Island eleot as many senators as 250,000 people in the olties, and in the lower house the small towns have forty members and the oitles thirty-two. The democratio votes are In the large towns, as Is usual in northern states; but whatever advantage might aoorue from a plurality in the popular vote Is lost under the system which oontracts the power of the cities. An instance of the working of this system to the advantage of the republicans exists In the case of the present governor of the state. He was not selected by a direct vote of the people, but by the legislature, not withstanding that on the basis of a plural ity vote, the democratic candidate for gov ernor led his opponent. If the Rhode Island campaign could be fought on national issues, with a fair field aud no favor to either side, the result might, in truth, be a “pointer” in the com ing presidential contest; but, with the ad vantages enumerated all in favor of the re publicans, their suooess could not be con sidered a fair test. Democratio victory in tho face of such odds, however, would be glorious. And It is pleasant to note that the democrats are fighting sturdily with good prospects of winning. A Bootless Errand. George Alfred Townsend, who Is better know as “Gath,” the newspaper corre spondent, has gone to Spain to get materia for a biography of Columbus. His purpose Is to have the publication ready la time to catch the boom of the world’s fair. Mr. Townsend hus gone to a good deal of troublu and expense for nothing. The peo ple do not want another “life of Columbus.” And if they did tho versatile “Gath” would beabla to wrltaup a 15,000- word story about him without any data—a sketoh that would be interesting. He ban repeatedly oonstruoted stories as long as that on topios that he know a lot less about than he knows of Columbus, and had them printed, too. However, there Is no need of another history of Cohimbua. The people are satis fied os to tho nationality of the great dis coverer of this oontinent, and prefer to think of him as ths school books teaoh. If they want to know more than can be gained from that source, Washington Irving’s “Life of Columbus” will furnish the desired information, presented in a mush more ac ceptable style than “Gath” oould give It, There may be incidents in the old stories of Columbus that the modern historians object to; but American readers, on the eve of ths great Columbian festival, do not desire that any idol-smasher step in be tween them and the Ideal Columbus. They prefer to think of him as crushing the egg to make It stand upon its little end. and looking around in proud triumph when he succeeds. Then the story of the queen's jewels, and the Incident of the chains, and other bits of history, or romance as the case may bo, have come to be a part of the history of the discovery of Ainerloa. Let them stand Cob Jones, of the St. Louis Republic, it a very provoking man. He is the animated interrogation point of the profession, and ex-Congressmun Neidringhaus, the tin plate man, gets no rest or peace of mind because of his persistence. Whenever ; news in the local field gets dull Editor Jones sends one of his young men to interview Neidringhaus on tbe manufacture of bright tin plates for the trade. This has been goiug on for some time. On Tuesday of this week the re- porter made bis accustomed visit to ths manufacturer, and asked him the same old question. .“O, what do you want around here again?” said the platemaker. "f. have nothing to tall you. Ido not want to talk about tin plate. You don’t know anything about it and you might just as well get out. Whenl want to say something about tin plate I will write it.” And that is all of tbe satisfaction there 11 to be had on the American tin plate question. Meantime, people who use tin in any form whatever are paying for the “protection” of Mr. Neidringhaus. It was Cbaunoey M. Depew, the famous republican after-dinner speaker, who, on the 9th of October, 1890, at a dinner given to Judge Roger A. Pryor, said: “If I am to name tbe typical American, the man who loves and believes in his coun try beyond everything else; the man who, determining onoe in what direction his duty leads, cannot b* swerved from the path; ths man who is doggedly persistent in what be bolieves to be right; tbe man who thinks not ot self, but of hD country and its needs, I would name Grover Cleveland.” What was true of Clavalaud then is true of him now, e id that is why the enomies ot tariff reform so strenuously combat bis renomi nation. A correspondent of the New York Nun says the word “sheeny,” o nutnonly used as an expression of oooumpt, is really not a word of “Christian” invention, nor does It express in Its small compass any degree of wicked ness or immorality. He says “sheeny" is merely a pert, or the end syllables, of a pure Hebrew word, “Masheany,” meaning "ex vraorliLary,” “different,” “out of the 67 miiMtU.’ 1 THE MORNING NEWS: MONDAY, MARCH 28, 1892. Jewish Congregations In Georgia. A bulletin recently Issued by the United Stateefcensus bureau, the sixth of a aeries on statistio* of churches, contains some in teresting information concerning the Jewish oongregations in this state. Tho bulletin sets forth the fact, not generally known, that the first Jewish congregation to organ ize and exercise the rites of tbeir religion In this country was in the city of Savannah in the year 1733. About eighty years before that time (in 1654) the first Hebrews in the America arrived at New York from Brazil. They shortly afterward built a synagogue in what Is now Broad street in that city, but were not permitted to worship therein, because the authorities of New Amsterdam would "tolerate no public worship but by those who profess faith in Christ.” An act of the Assembly read to that effect, and the authorities were zealous to ses it enforced. The next synagogue established was iu Savannah in 1733, as noted, wherein serv ices were held regularly. The suooeeding congregations were organized at Lancaster, Pa., in 1776; at Philadelphia tn 1780 and 1782 and at Charleston, 8. C„ in 1791. Of these congregations those in this oity and Charleston and one in Philadelphia used the ritual of the Portuguese Jews, the others that of the German Jews. During the century and a half that has elapsed since the Hebrew faith was first established in Georgia the increase in syna gogues and membership has been slow but steady, nntll there are at present some 1,901 members of “reformed” oongregations and 250 "orthodox” members in the state, own ing church property approximating 8165,000. The growth of the Jewish oongregations, like the growth of a palmetto tree, is all from the Inside; there Is no “church ex tension” or "missionary” work done. He brews are born, not converted, henoe the comparatively slow inoreaae of the faith as oompared with the gains of other religious denominations. Statistics of the Jewish religion have heretofore been dllßoult of aooess because each congregation is autonomous. There is no central bead governing the body of or ganizations, as most of the Christian churches have, to which the subordinate or ganizations make reports yearly, or half yearly, and from whiob data may be bad at any time. Bat a oount of Jewish strength as a religious body oould only be had by polling eaoh individual congregation. Only two such counts have been held dur ing the last forty years. Why Take Any Risk? Two sailing vessels from Santos bound for this port bavs been sent to Sapsio this week. After being disinfected at Sapelo and re maining there two or three weeks they will be discharged, and theD, in all probability, will oome to this oity. There may be no danger in admitting them to this port, but there is a chance that there is. And would it not be advisable for the oity authorities to consider seriously whether it would not be advisable to deny them entrance here) The whole world knows the condition of Santos. It is simply terrible. Ths death rate is almost, if not wholly, uupracedsnted In the history of epidemics. For months people there have been dying dally by scores. And the last reports received show no improvement iu tbe situation. The fever Is ot the most malignant kind. It is true the two vessels at Sapelo left Santos two or three months ago, but there is no certainty that they do not carry the germs of the disease, or that, if they do, tho germs will be destroyed by the treatment the vessels will receive at ijapalo. The wiser course would be for the oity authori ties to take no risk. They should at least carefully consider the question whether it would be advisable to admit the vessels. The eoho of a hostile gun fired by Eng land in the Bering sea controversy would be heard around the world, and probably inaugurate almost a universal war. Russia is notoriously the friend of this country, and in this quarrel especially is the Romanoff Interested, because America is defending a right aoquired by purchase from Russia. Furthermore, America’* very recent practical demonstration of friendship for the Slav will serve to strengthen the ties that have heretofore existed between the two governments. England knows this, and knows, further, that Russia has very little respect for Groat Britain—in fact would rather be pleased to give the lien’s tail a twist, A British shot directed against a yankee ship might, and probably would, furnish a pretext for the black bear to join in the affray—then where would it end? The whole catalogue of in ternatisnal “questions” wculd be opened, and war would be tbe arbiter. The Morning News has received a tele gram from Mr. Henry T. Williams, of Charleston, S. C.. stating that the candi dates for state offices named by tbe recent convention at Columbia are “merely before the people to secure the nomination in the September democratic convention, the only body competent to make nominations for the Democratic party.” The opinions ex pressed iu the Morning News of last Sat urday were based on oar report of the Columbia convention and that of the News and Courier, published the morning after the convention, neither of which stated that the candidates named were submitted for the approval of the September conven tion. If such is the intention of the move ment, however, we are pleased to record the fact and note that tbe campaign in South Carolina will be "within party lines.” There Is a possibility that misguided patriotism has caused Mr. Orlando B. Potter to invest $140,500 in New York real estate whioh he doesn't want. A few days ago, it will be remembered, Mr. Potter paid that sum for a plot of ground upon which stood thirteen trees alleged to have been planted by Alexander Hamilton in symbolism of the thirteen original states in the union. “And now comes William Woods,” as the lawyers say, and makes a statement which strips those trees of all their legendary glory. He says they were not planted by Hamilton, but that the story was ‘ ’worked” for speculative pur poses. Tbe Pennsylvania editors who were im prisoned tor “libeling” Quay have been "pardoned” by Gov. Pattison. They accepted the "pardon,”tbareby | aoknowlodg ing guilt. Had they ' 'stayed in” to the end ot their sentence they might have had pub lic sympathy, but wban they stultified them selves m order to get out they forfeited sympathy. Mouth Carolina is drawing again on Georgia to supply bar newspaper (aleak It is announced that Mr. Jesse T. Gantt, for marly of Athens, will take charge o t tbe Greenville iff. C.j IkmocraL , PERSONAL. Casa. Scares la engage] la writing his "Remi niscences of Public Mea and Events.” Senator MoaaiLL. it is said, grows more and mors like Charles Sumner in appearance, and to be rather proud of the (act. Mias Hayden, architect of ths woman's building at Chicago, was bora In Chile, and her mother was a Peruvian of Spanish ancestry. Tax famous portrait of Robert Browning painted by Mascheles has been secured by a Chicago party and is sow exhibited in that olty- Miss Moodt, daughter of the well-known evangelist, is traveling in the Orient, and writes vividly of the scenes aud scenery of Egypt. Nearly forty committees have been ap pointed to canvass among New York's business men for funds sufficient to complete las Grant monument. Mrs. Ezeto, ths wife of the President of Sal vador. left San Salvator for a trip through the Unlt-d States and Europe. She in accompanied by her fattier. Honor iiarroqulo. Sir Edward Watxin, the most powerful rail road magnate In England, is about to marry the widow of Mr. Ingram, the founder of the Illustrate 1 London Stun. Mrs. Ingram Is 88 years old. Annocncembmt is made in New York of the disruption of the well known law Arm of Tracy, MycFarland, Ivins, Boardman £ Platt. Mr Tracy Is Secretary of the Navy and Mr. Platt son of ex-Senator Platt. Erik Siboni, music teacher to the Princess of Waiee and Czarina of Russia, while yet they were unmarried and living in Denmark, has just died, at the age of 64. He was the son of an Italian tenor, bat was educated at Leipsic. Spuboeon’s attkntion was once called to a man in another preacher's congregation who stopped his ears with his fingers; and the ques tion was asked what could be done In such a case “I would pray the Lord, ” was the an swer, “to cause s fly to light ou his nose,” The President has approved the finding of the court-mortal in the case of Msj. Lewis C. Overman of the engineer oorps, charged with irregularities in his pay accounts while in charge of the government works st Cleveland. Maj. Overman was sentenced to be reprimanded. Alxxandee Dumas, the younger, has com missioned an auctioneer to sell at the Hotel Druot ths magnificent collection of pictures In the novelist's Avenue de Vllllera mansion. Among the works are twelve Meissonlers, eleven canvases by Corot, Troyon and Julee Duprt The sale is announced for May 9. Caft. J. T. Hill, of Guthrie, Okla., who Is In Washington on business for the Kiowa Indians, of whom be represents twenty tribes as attor ney, closely resemble* the late Oen. Sherman. He wa the first president of Guthrie's town council, and with a 6-shooter and with a deter mined force of med onos prevented a mob from hanging Maj. Dyer. He predicts a great future for Oklahoma, BRIGHT BITa That New England woman had her own Ideas of godliness who said of her Irasotble spouse; ••John la os good a Christian as ever lived, but you’d never mistrust It from bis dally Ufa" Bottom Commonwealth. "It Hxn married life Is unhappy she has only herself to blame. She went into it with her eyes open.” “Yes—but, poor thlnz, she is so terribly near sighted.”— Art in Advertising. Little Johnny had heard the minister exhort ing his hearers to strivj to enter in at the strait gate A few moments later, when the con tribution box was passed around, he whispered: "Ma, are they after the gate money?"— Button Transcript. A teacher of natural philosophy onoe asked the bright boy of the class how many kinds of force there were, and ivas astonished to receive the following reply: 'Three, ma'am. Ylsntal force, physical force, and police foroe.”—Phar maceutical Fra. “John," she said gently, “you ae Interested in temperance movements are you not?" “Of course I am," he answered. “Well, suppose you go and make a few of them with tbe pump handle. I need a pall of water right array."—Washington Star. “So," he said sadly, “you refuse ms on ac oount of my poverty. V “No," she replied, in sensible tones. “No, it is not on that account." "Then why is it?" “On account of my own.”— Detroit FVee Frees. Rubicund Passenger— Have you the time? Sanctimonious Passenger—No, sir. I have stopped my watch during Lent. Rubicund Passenger—Stopped your watch during Lent? Sanctimonious Passenger (emphatically)— Yes, sir. My watch is fast, sir— Jewelers' Cir cular. "JoHN.’’sald Mrs. Harkins, “there are burglars downstairs.” "Very well, my dear. Go tail them to move on." “You awful brute!” "Why? You requested me not to Interfere tn domestic matters last night. Surely this is one. ” Harper's Bazar. Returned Tourist— Whet has become of that fool, Sapheai . who bad more money then he knew what to do with? Business Man—l don’t remember him. Was he much of a fool ? "Perfectly idiotic.” *’l presume he has dropped Into soolety.” Seio York Weekly. Miss Bangle (on the beach at Florida)—Are you not tarrying here longer than you ex pected, Mr. Flushback? Flusbbaok—O, yes, but I’m doing it under ad vice. Miss Bangle—From a physician? Fiushhack—O, no, from the hotel clerk. He advis and me to stay until I could hear from my friends up north.— Truth. CURRENT COMMENT. Tennyaon Not In It. From the Boston Herald. The verdict of the New Yorkers on Lord Ton nyeon’s p!ay seems to be that Mr. Daly U a very able manager. Diplomatic Procrastination. From the Chicago Sews {lnd.i. It is considered probable that Lord Salisbury will consent to a modus vivendi at the close of tbe sealing s -ason— by which time, probably, the selling industry will be in much greater need of an approved rnodo of burial. 'Twss Protected to Death. Frrm the Sew York World (Dem.). The competition between England and Ger many for the control ot the passenger traffio between this country and Europe is something with which we have nothing to do. Thanks to republican legislation the great ocean carrying trade bas been taken out of our hands. William Unlikely to Maka War. From the Philadelphia Press (Ke.). The German kaiser Is an uncertain quantity, but much in his actions during the past six months renders war by bis act extremely im probable. It promises to be a very interesting year abroad, but this is much more likely to be due to revolution in Portugal or elsewhere than to war. Lord Salisbury’e Foreign Policy. From the Philadelphia Record (Dem.] King Sackity, of Croboe. West Africa, is dead. In one sense this fact has about as much Interest as had the death of the Akoond of Swat; but. then, the royal Sackity was an ally of England, and even though he wore only a breech-clout, aud ate with his fingers, It is state policy to recognize his lost. Tbe President’s Diplomacy. From fke S. Y. Commercial Advertiser {Dem.). Mr. Harrison is proceeding with the Bering sea contention as he did with the Chilean mktter; that is to say. blusteriugly, precipitately anil without consultation with Mr. Blaine. His manner of handling it is ad c<tr>(undum and un dignified. and the general effect is to weaken our case, a case that Is none too strong, in the minds of thoughtful Americans. It is no Justi ilc tion ot this sort of method to say that the tone ot the British tory pre-ia Is offensive. The destinies of the Uailed States are not dependent ou the British lory proas. Not Yet “Out of tbe Wood*.’’ From the Sew York Times (.IndX There is still tbs danger that Mr. Bland, with the backing of Speaker Crisp, who sustained him In the most extreme aud arbitrary faablou on Thursday, may he able still to gel from tbe committeeua rules the favor tbs', be seeks. It Is also still posubia that he may cum mood a bars majority of tbe House, end thus to fasten upon tbe Dauioerau- party the fatal responsibility of passing his bill in lbs branch of congress wninu loey o mroi and for whioh they are aoeount able. Tns stluou-n mane* It leaf old ’.be duty of every frieed of beoost money t j do ail that be cau do to tefoatUta Oliver kiii. The Colonel's Title. “The average American heiress hopes to marry a title some day,” said a local turfman the other night, says the Chicago Mail, "but I can recall only one instance in which a free born A voter actually succeeded in ac complishing that feat- I wo* at Frankfort, Ky., last summer sod chanced to m et an oil Ken tuckian whom I had not seen for several years. Just as we were shaking bands in the hotel lobby another old friend of mine from Cncio nati approached and I introduced the two men. ’Mr. Plans.' I said, ‘permit me to present my old friend. Mr. Jones of Cincinnati.' To my surprise the Kentuckian drew himself up to hU full higbt and remarked very idly, 'Col. Blank, by sad, sir, if you please.' lat once made the proper correction with an apdogv for my over sight, and we immediately adjourned to the Lai to sample some of Kentucky's staple product. At the end of an hour all of us had reached a state of extreme friendliness, not to say confi dential hinu-ity, and I felt warranted in making an attempt to solve a conundrum over wbioh I had been puzzling my brain for some time. ‘“Colonel, were you ever in the army?’ I asked. “ ’No. sab,' he replied with great emphasis. *1 am glad to say. sah, that I took no paid In that unfortunate unpleasant nets.' ’“Were you ever a member of the state militia*’ “ ’No, sah; do I look like a play soldier” ‘■’O, no; not at all. By the wav. were yon ever a member of the governor's staff” ’“No, sah; although I don't mind tailing you that I have been offered other and greater po it leal honahs.tab, which I have declined.' “ ‘Precisely. But, colonel, bow in thunder did capture your military title V I insisted. "'I married it, sah.’ “ ‘Married it?’ “ 'Yes, sah. married It. I married the widow of Colonel 8m Ith, sah, last spring.' ’’ A Disgusted Tramp. Kite-shaped tracks are all the rage nowadays, says ths San Francisco Chronicle, and not to be behind the times, the Santa Fe road has built an Immense one on this model, taking in the prin cipal towns In San Bernardino, Los Angeles and Orange counties. Start ing at San Bernardino, for example, one may take a train and ride for several hours, Dever passing through the same town twice, and yet at the end of the time he will be just where he started from. A tramp who was not familiar with this unique bit of railroading, and who had been passing some time amid tns orange groves of the lovely Sen Bernardino valley, decided It was time to seek fresh fields, so with a party of his friends he went to the Santa Fe station in the city just mentioned, And, finding a train there on the point of starting out, be bade bis comrades along farewell, agreed to meet them somewhere in New Mexico within a couple of months, and as ths train moved swung himself in on a brake beam and was soon flying through the country. The train made many halts, but none long enough to allow the Impecunious traveler an oppor tunity to get out and stretch himself. Finally, however, a place of large size was approached, but when ths train stopped it was evident a long halt was to be made. The tramp concluded It must beadlvlsion headquarters, so be sneaked eut from under the car, straightened up, and then looked about to see what sort of a place he bad struck anyhow. Tnere was a familiar air to bis surroundings, and, looking at the sign board on the station, he was paralyzed to see the name “San Bernardino!” He had put in the best part of a .lay riding on a belt train over the kite-shaped track! A Diplomatic Romance. "Mr. Simpkins Harold," she said, with falter ing ooyness, while he gave a sudden start of ter ror ss the thought that this Is the year 1892 flashed upon him. “I am the bearer of a mes sage from my father. Ha says you must come here no longer without stating your intentions. And, Harold, you know this is leap year, and and, O, need I say mure?" "Miss Boggs." replied the young man, recov ering his seif possession and his hat, "am 1 to understand that vour father charged you to de liver to me an ultimatum?” •’Why, yes, Harold, if you will use those news paper terms at such a moment.” “Say to him, then," said the young man, in a Jorge Montttone of voice, “that bis representa tive is persona non grata to me, and that I firmly but respeotfully decline to continue diplo matic relations.” In a moment he was gone, says the Chicago Times. But the young girl did not falter Pertona non grata, ami?” she mused. "That might have done a week or two ago, but Mr. Blaine has shown that when really serious com plications havearisen that plea doesn't go. And I just reckon, Harold Simpkins.” she continued - aloud, as a rosy flush mantled her plump cheek, "that I've got a little batch of diplomatic cor respondence which, wheu read before any court of breach of promise arbitration in the coun try, will bring me In a good big indemnity, too." The Grave of Penn's Surveyor. In a little clump of woods just off the line and to the eastward of the Buslleton branch of the Pennsylvania railroad, one mile from the vil lage of Holmeeburg, lies the body of Thomas Holme, the man who, as surveyor general for William Penn, laid out tbs city of Philadelphia says the Record of that city. The little ceme tery In which the body of Holms lies is so iso lated and so unfrequented that s stranger could not well find it without the aid of a guide. In it, beside the body of the great surveyor, there are a hundred or more graves of thoso of his descendants In the center of this acre and a half devoted by the Helme family to the burial of their dead stands a little white marble monument, erected by private subscription in 1863. The inscription on this monument reads: “In memory of Thomas Holme, died 169i, aged 71 years, sur veyor general of William Penn. He drafted the plan and laid out the oity of Philadelphia.” The song of the Shad. From the Rotton Courier. With donkey weary and worn. With garments scaly and grim The huckster sits in his creaking cart Venting his vernal hymn. Yawp! Yawp! Yawp! Till the neighborhood goes mad, With voice of a broken calliope He sings the song of the shad. Bawl! Bawl! Bawl! Thro' the winding village streets This fiend with thecraokel sheet-iron lungs His echoing cry repeats. Tho’ weary women and men Do their ears with cotton pad To the aural drums yet wildly comes The vendor's song of the shad. O man of metal mouth! O chSD with exhaustless wind! ’Tis not yourself you're wearing out But the patience of mankind! Yelli Yell! Yell! ’Till the whole town prays, egad I That a thunderbolt would bore clean through This shouting, snorting, brawling Sioux That sing, the song of the shad. Women’s Rights. From the Housekeeper' t Weekly. The "rights of women,” what are they? The right to labor and to pray; The right to watch while others sleep; The right o’er others' woas to weep; The right to succor In reverse; The right to weep while others curse; The right to love whom others scorn; The right to comfortall that m urn; The right to shed a joy on earth; The right to feel the soul's high worth; The right to lead the soul to God Along the path the saints have trod— The path of meekness and of love. The path of patience under wrong, The path in which the weak grow strong. Seventy-five years aoo Thomas L. Walker, then a mere boy, planted four walnuts by the roadside, opposite his father's house, in the Eleventh civil district, near Cedar Bluff, and some ten miles west of Knoxville. He died ten years ago, yet he lived to see four walnut trees grow to a measure of 4 feet in diameter, worth. If cut and properly seasoned, at lean S4OO each.’ Had he planted 300 walnuts on an adjoining acre of ground his heirs when he died would have been 8120.000 better off. To-day they would be $200,000 better off. Had he planted ten acres they would be worth at least $2,000,000. D-PRICE’S psed in Millions of Homes— 40 Years the Standard. FLAVORING EXTRACTS. p? prices fr DELICIOUS Flavoring Extracts NATURAL FRUIT FLAVORS. Vanilla Of perfect purity. Lemon -I of great strength. Almond If Economy In their use Rose etc. 7! Flavor as delicately and deliciously as the fresh fruit. ITEMS OF INTEREST. Bom* experimental tests In regard to the strength of waterproof bricks have resulted in exhibiting a resistance to crushing on their part of from 5.000 to 82,000 pounds per square inoh, according to the qualitv or grade of the bricks —the average of ten varieties being7,lso pounds per square inch. Corean native cotn Is copper cash. Mexican dollars and Japanese yen are used In the ports to a moderate extent, but are almost unknown in the interior, and the cumbrous nature of the medium employed, together with the great fluctuations In its value. Is a serious obstacle to the expansion of trade. An American lady, bent on being originßl In the selection of her attire, has just invested In a wonderful dress, tho trimming of which con sists of 1,800 buttons of various colors, shapes and sizes There are 100 buttons on each sleeve, 330 on the collar and the remainder are dis tributed all over the garment. There are many kinds of beetles In the United States, whloh are as good for the pur pose of blistering as the Bpanlsh fly belonging to the same family with it. One species In and about Washington preys destructively uoon the petals of chrysanthemums and asters, but has the redeeming habit of devouring grasshop pers' eggs. Elijah Davidson, who went to Oregon In 1850, was the father of twelve children, six hoys and six girls. The first ohild born to Mr. and Mrs. Dividson hod red hair, the next one block heir, the next one rod hair again, and so on al ternating red and black through the whole twelve, no two In succession having hair of the same color, Photography has been utilized as evidence in the question ns to the destruction of seals. Sir G. Boden Powell paid a visit to the Bering pea and took a number of photographs, especially of those spots known as tho Breeding islands. These plates have now been developed, and the prints and selose the presence of seals is hundreds of thousands. According to the last report of the Michigan bureau of labor statistics, the farmers number more than one half the population, but their profits constitute only one eighth of the total net proceeds of the Industry tn the state. One fortieth of the population own all the timber lands, railroad and farm mortgages and manu factures in the state. Out of every 1,000 persons, men, women and children, in the population, 602 are unmarried, 345 are married, aid 53 are widows or widowers. During the year 18.“9, the last year for which the complete figures are available, there were 218,- 8 5 marriages registered in England and Wales. Of the hutbands. 24,660 were widowers, and of the wives 17,321 were widows. A singular casualty attended the suloide of an artillery man in the barracks in Vienna on Saturday. The man shot himself with a War mi rifle. The bullet, after passing through the suicide's breast, plowed through the head of a second soldier standing near, killing him, and then imbedded Itself in the arm of a third sol dier, Inflicting a serious Injury. Secretary Langley, of the Smithsonian In Btitution, has been experimenting for some time past with fire flies from Cuba. He says that the light they give is tho “cheapest” in the world—produced, that is to say, with the least host end the smallest expenditure of energy— and he believes that a successful imitation of it would prove a most profitable substitute for gas and electricity. An interesting experiment is being made on gome of the engines of the Great Eastern Rail way Company to test the advantages of oil as fuel In the ordinary locomotives. Several of the engines have been supplied with oil tanks, and the firemen have the option of using the oil or the coal as they think fit. Experience has shown that the men prefer the oil. It requires less stoking and produces a steadier body of steam. Avery novel feature was introduced at an entertainment given recently by Mrs. Astor. It consisted of the turning loose of a lot of auto matic toys, tiny alligators, papier mache roost ers, tiny toads and other animals which were wound up and then set going by the gentlemen of the party. Each man closely followed the progress of the animal whloh he had wound up, and selected as his partner the young woman before which it paused. , At a Brooklyn entertainment, held at a club bouse not long ago, a novel means to call car riages was adopted. A sheet, somewhat larger than tied size, was stretobed across the side walk of the side street, and on this were thrown the carriage numbers as they were desired by their owners. Coachmen could thus keep watch f r their numbers, aud the incessant shouting, usually a confusing accompaniment of such functions, was done away with. The crown of the emperor of Russia dates from the year 1768, and Is the masterpiece of the oourt jeweler. Jeremiah Panzio, a native of Geneva, who made It for the coronation of the Empress Catherine 11., says the Jewelers’ Re view. Its chief ornament is the Orloff dia mond, which i said to weigh 779 carats and to be worth 30.000,000 rubles. It formerly be longed to the Brahmin temple at Tcherigam, and was sto en by a French grenadier, when it came into possession of Prince Orloff, who pre sented it to the empress. The scepter, too, made by order of Paul 1.. is adorned with a diamond of 196 carats, bought by Catherine 11. from an Armenian for 450,000 rubles. Its present worth is estimated at 30,000.000 rubles. This brill ant diamond formed one eye of the massive golden lion on the throne of the Shah Nadir; the other eye was the famous Koh-I- Noor. An important experiment, designed to test tho power of endurance possessed by the Rus sian infantry soldier in campaigning work, dur ing a period of intense cold, has lately been made in a district near the western frontier of Russia. It was desired to discover under what degree of cold troops could camp out in tents, and for this purpose eight infantry men were chosen at random. The snow, which lay deep on the ground, was leveled over a certain area, a tent pitched, and Its interior covered with mats, on which were laid fifty-six pounds of straw.4B.The men, accoutered in heavy gray coats and Wellington boots, lay down to rest, using tbeir knapsacks as pillows, at 9 o’tlock In the evening. Outside, the thermometer, pro tected from the wind blasts, then Indicated 81° Fabr. An officer remained outside all night making observations. At 1 o’clock the temperature inside the tent was 17° above zero and outside at zero. Toward morning the ther mometer gradually fell without and within. Until 3 o'clock the men slept quite comfortably, but toward 4, when the oold became so intense, sleep was impossible. The soldiers left their tents and ran about in the open air to prevent being frozen to death. BAKING i*owdek. HOSE AND ROPE. PortaMe Fo®i Lmr Blowers. Dprinlit Sell-Feed Drills. Liiltein Screw Plates. 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Carter’s I.n-n.s Liter Pills are very small and very esey to take One or two pills make A dose. They are strictly vegetable and da •ot gripe or purge, but by their gentle action ■lease all who use them. In vials at S6 cental Bee for (1. Sold everywhere, or sent by me& / CASTXS msicorx CO., Hew Tort. > Seal Pi Small Dose. Mftk There is nothing in a phy sician’s life that gives him more satisfaction than seeing the prompt effect of Scott’s Emulsion of cod-liver oil in bringing back plumpness and color to thin and pale chil dren. “Poorbaby!” Everybody sees the sad picture. No one but the physician appreciates it. He knows what dangers threaten thin children. Let us send you a book about thinness. Scott & Bownk, Chemists, xts South sth Avenue, Nw York. Your druggist keeps Scott's Emulsion of coddhrer •A—nil druggists everywhere do. sz. 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