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FRIDAY. APRIL l.~>, 189S.
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INDEX TO NEW ADVEBTISEMKNTS.
Meetings—Executive Committee of the Dem
ocratic Party of Chatham County; Hilton |
liOdge No. 2, A. F. and A. M.; Crescent Lodge
No 2, K. of P. I
Special Notices—The Signs of the Times, C.
H. Dorsett, Real Estate Dealer; Everybody
Wants One of These Lots. C. H. Dorsett; Money
Easily Made, W. K. WilKinson, Auctioneer;
Lady's Jacket Lost; Notice to Superior Court
Jurors.
The Proper Clothing—Falk Clothing Com
pany.
Railroad Schedule—Savannah, Florida and
Western Railway.
April 15, 1892 Appel A Schaul.
To Planters, Etc—T. J. Davis.
Boys' and Children’s Suits—B. H. Levy &
Bro.
Auction Sales—Sundries, by J. McLaughlin j
dt Son; Sundries, by J. H. Oppenheim & Son. j
Easier—At Oollat’s.
Cheap Column advertisements Help
Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Rent; For
Bale; Lost; Personal: Miscellaneous.
There has arisen a serious difference be
tween Prof. Muldoon and his scholar, Sec
retary Blaine. Mr. Blaine says he is not
“in training” under Muldoon’s directions,
and Muldoon affirms that he is. Six-ounce
gloves and a 24-foot ring!
It is said that at the last meeting of the
cabinet Secretary Blaine walked up the
stairway to the cabinet room instead of
taking the elevator. In some quarters this
is taken as an authoritative declaration on
his part that he will accept the nomination.
The daring young speculator in Chicago
■who Is looked upon as the successor to “Old
Hutch,” the notorious plunger in wheat,
may win fortunes but he can never achieve
fame; the newspapers spell his name In
about twenty different ways, fluctuating
between Partridge and Bardage.
In a recent case brought before him by a
■woman who charged her husband with
having robbed her. Justice McMahon, of the
Tombs police court, New York, discharged
the mau and held that a husband cannot
steal from his wife. Thus, theft is not a
crime in New York, if a man is only careful
to steal from the right person.
Gen. A. K. Greeue, of Kansas, says if that
state gets rain in July it will make good
crops an.l drown out third partyum there.
Ho nttrioutos the Kansas crop of political
cranks to the drought in the summer of
1890, and says the political complexion In
bis state next November depends upon
whether or not it rains in July.
The theatrical profession these days ap
joears to be running pretty much
to the dogs. Patti’s dog, and Fabri’s
dog, and Bernhardt's dogs, and Lill
ian Russell’s dog have received more
attention recently than the actresses them
selves. But maybe it is because the "boys
of the press” have seen so much of the celeb
rities named that they prefer to write about
dogs.
A northern roan who had been down
there complained to a New York Tribune
reporter that they keep three kinds of time
in Jacksonville—“sun time, standard time,
and behind time, and business is
generally done by the latter." Sa
vannah can "go” Jacksonville “one
better” ; bore we have 75th meridian time,
90th meridian time, city time and up to
time.
A Georgia newspaper uses this argument
agninst the third party; “If the govera
ment owned the railroads, as the third party
insists in its platform, when a farmer’s cow
was killed by the tram be could get no pay
for it, because he could not sue the govern
ment.” Inasmuch as only the Br est Jersey
cattle, worth from SSO to SICO a head, are
ever killed by the trains, the force of the
argument it is at once apparent.
‘ 'Alaj. C. W. Hurd, of Georgia,’’ reported
to Inspector Byrnes, of New York, a day or
two ago, that he had been robbed by
Barney Baldwin, "the broken-necked man.”
The major and Baldwin are companion
freaks in a dime museum, where Barney
exhibits bis dislocated spinal column and
Hurd draws a salary as the "smallest ma r
on earth.” During a recent railway trip
the manikin sat in the broken-necked man’s
lap and listened to queer stories until be
fell asleep, when, be alleges, Baldwin
robbed him of S4O. The moral of this story
Is plain: Georgia majors while abroad
should refrain from Bitting in people’s laps
or associating with dime museum freaks.
The Pennsylvania Resolutions.
The Pennsylvania delegation to the
Chicago convention is not instructed for Mr.
Cleveland, but it is instructed to vote as a
unit, and about every member of the dele
gation is for Mr. Cleveland. He was eulo
gized in the resolutions adopted by the con
vention, aud every mention of his name
el'cited applause.
All the states thus far that have elected
delegates, except New York, have chosen
Cleveland delegations, and the Indications
are that Mr. Cleveland’s popularity is be
coming greater every day. The politicians
are trying to flud some way to defeat his
nomination, but they are not meeting with
any encouragement from the people.
The truth is Mr. Cleveland has a stronger
hold upon the people than any other man in
the country, democrat or republican. The
people canuot help respecting a man who
has shown so conspicuously a determination
to do what ha believes to be right aud for
the public good, regardless of consequences
to himself. It is said by
the politicians that his tariff message to
congress defeated his re-election in 1888.
Perhaps he did, but Mr. Cleveland has
never regrested writing that message and
it did the party good, for it brought for
ward prominently and clearly the great
reform for which the Democratic party is
contending, and insured an overwhelming
democratic victory in 1890.
Mr. Clevoluftd’s anti-free coinage letter
aid him a great deal of harm. But when
he wrote it he did not take into considera
tion his own political prospects. He simply
wrote yfflat he thought. He wanted the
country to know his views on the silver
question. He is not hostile to silver, but he
does not want legislation that would place
the country on a silver basis. He
wants legislation that will insure the circu
culation of both gold and silver.
And was not that an admirable letter
that Mr. Cleveland wrote to a friend in
Chattanooga under date of April 8? The
letter was published in the Morn
ing News. Democrats who studied
it carefully found new reasons for
supporting Mr. Cleveland for the
presidential nomination. He said: "I am
exceedingly anxious to have the party do
the right thing at the Chicago conveution,
aud 1 hope that the delegates will be
guided by judgment and actuated by true
democratic spirit and the single desire to
succoed on principle. * * * I have fre
quent misgivings as to the wisdom of again
patting me in nomination.”
He would not be disappointed if he should
not be nominated. Indeed, he says he is
not sure it would be wise to nominate him.
It is doubtful if there is any other presiden
tial candidate who is troubled with misgiv
ing such as Mr. Cleveland has.
But the democratic masses do not seem to
have any misgivings as to Mr. Cleveland's
availability. They have spoken in his
favor in five states and they are waiting to
do so in many others.
A Point Well Taken.
The point made by Col. Livingston and
other prominent alliancemen that the sub
alliauces must surrender their charters and
give up their organization if they go into
politics is a point well taken. The alliance
is a non-political organlzstion and its char
ter provides that it shall not take sides with
any political party. Notwithstanding this
prohibition, however, a good many of the
suballiauoas in this and other southern
states have adopted resolutions announcing
their purpose to affiliate with and support
the People's party. When they did this it
is probable they did not know they were
violating their charters, and were liablo to
lose them.
And the allianoe organ, the Southern
Alliance farmer, has been teaching the
People’s party doctrines, although its editor
must have Known he had no right to do so.
The indications are there will be a change
in the editorial management of the paper if
the present editor insists upon using it to
boom the People’s party.
The People’s party leaders in this state who
have been, and are still trying to get the
alliance iuto the People’s party must have
known that the suballiances could not law
fully urge alliances to indorse the People’s
party. Iu order to get help for their party,
however, they nave been willing
that the suballiances should forfeit their
oharters. Alliancemen themselves ought
to see that such men are not worthy to lead
them. The farmers will find them out,
however, in the near future, and will regard
them with no more respect than they re
gard other men caught in wrong doing.
There Is little likelihood of the third party
amounting to much in South Carolina this
year. The split in the democracy there
will preclude any possibility of it. Gov.
Tillman, who is the leader of the alliance
forces, is not “squarely upon the Ocala
platform” aud differs with the third party
leaders in other re.-pects, and may be de
pended upon to prevent his followers from
drifting away into any new political or
ganization. On the other hand is the re
form democracy—the old line regulars—led
by ex-Gov. Jifhn C. Sheppard. It is un
necessary to say that there is no taint of
third partyism in its ranks. Between these
contending factious the lines will be tightly
drawn until the democratic national nomi
nees are putin the field, when they will
unite and vote for the ticket of the party.
President Sears, of tbo Pearson alliance,
Coffee county, says he is "afraid” Henry G.
Turner, of the Eleventh district, has been in
congress "too long,” aod that Is one reason
why he favors Ju ige Atkinson’s caudidacy.
Length of service familiarizes a faithful
representatives with his duties and the rules
of procedure in congress, enabling him to
work to a better advantage and accomplish
more than anew man. “Watchdog” Hol
man’s constituents appreciate these facts,
and have recently nominated him for the
eighteenth consecutive time. So long as a
congressman truly and faithfully repre
sents his people nothing can possibly be
gained by putting a uew man in bis place.
The shoe and leather manufacturers of
New York and New England have de
termiued to have a separate exhibit at the
world’s fair in Chicago, and J 100,000 has
been subscribed by the trade for that pur
pose. A building STS feet long and 175 feet
wide will be provided, in which the evolu
tion of the footgear worn by the people since
the discovery of the country will be shown.
It will be a very Interesting aud instructive
part of the big show.
The People’s party has no existence in
Arkansas, according to the Arkansan
Gazette, except on paper. It Is said that
there is nobody m the stats willing to lead
the party who has brains enough to recon
cile the conflicting declarations made by
those who are trying to float it. These
declarations, the Uazette says, "represent
nearly everything good, bad and indifferent,
now drifting on political tea*”
TIIE MORNING NEWS: FRIDAY. APRIL 15, 1892.
A Better Outlook for Cotton.
There was a decidedly batter feeling i.i
■ the cotton market yesterday than lh-re had
j been for quite a long time, and cotton fac
! tors consequently were in a much happier
frame of mind. There was an advance in
the price of cotton, and consequently a good
deal of ootton that bad been held fir a bet
ter price was sold. The announcement that
a strong clique had been formed in New
York to buy cotton and -übMess had a good
deal to do with the advance in the price.
The low price at which cotton has ruled for
many weeks has had a very depressing in
| fl jence on business of all kinds in the south,
i If the advance in the price, however, which
! has taken place is maintained there will be
a revival in business all over the cotton belt.
The price has been low enough for the
greater part of the season to tempt specula-
I tion in cotton, even iu the face of the re
ports of a i enormous cron. The corapara
| tively small receipts recently at the ports
have had the effect of creating a doubt as to
whether the crop would, after all, prove to
be as large as it was estimated to be a
month or two ago. Naturally, therefore,
there is a growing feeling that cotton is a
good purchase at its present price.
It isn’t often that a big crop produces
business depression, but that is what the
cotton crop has done this year. Too much
cotton has made both the planters and the
merchants poor.
The advance which has already taken
place will cause merchants and planters to
brighten up and regard the future much
more hopefully. Confidence will return
and merchants will be much more liberal
in giving orders for goods. Let cotton ad
vance a cent a pound and the gloom that
has settled over the cotton growing section
will disappear at once. The present out
look is that there will be much bettor times
in the south in the very near future.
Extension of Bull Street.
The city authorities, it seems, are still try
ing to get the Vernon Shell Road Company
to make some conces-ions in connection
with the opening of Bull street, by threat
ening to open that street on its proper line
southward from Anderson street. It is
stated that rights of way have been ob
tained from some of the property holders
on the proposed line of the street, and it is
expected that all the land required for the
street will be obtained in a short time.
The extension, of course, will not go be
yond Twelfth street. What is to be done
toward opening the street beyond that
point? It may be that the city authorities
think that it will be time enough to think
about the difficulties that will be encount
ered beyond Twelfth street when the neces
sity for opening Bull street beyond that
point arises, and purpose to let their succes
sers wrestle with their mistakes as they are
now wrestling with the mistakes of their
predecessors.
There does not appear to be a great deal
of judgment exhibited in the proposition to
open a street immediately adjoining the
shell road. It is not improbable that suoh
a street would eventually benefit rather
than injure the shell road monopoly.
Would it not be a wiser plan to open Dray
ton street, or, better still, Barnard street to
Twelfth street, aud Bhell it in the same
manner that some of the other
streets nave been shelled? Let
the Bull street extension alone for
the present. The Vernon Shell Road Com
pany would soon find it to its advantage to
move its toll-gate and the city would have
another shelled street.
Open and improve East Broad, Drayton
or Afcercorn, Barnard or Jefferson street
and the Vernon shell road will soon cease to
be an obstacle iu the way of improving the
city.
The St. Louis Republic has made a calcu
lation to ascertain what the Springer free
wool bill would save a family of five per
sons each year. The two parents, it esti
mates, would spend SBO a year, at least, for
clothing of all sorts “with wool in it.” The
two half- grow n children would take at least
SBO more, and the baby would add S2O, mak
ing SIBO in all. This includes carpets,
blankets, bats and other articles with wool
in them used in a year, purchased by a
family in moderate circumstances; a rich
family would spend many times SIBO. What
proportion of this is protection? asks the
Republic, and in answer says: "Of
every SIOO spent for woolens, or alleged
woolens, in this country, at least $33
gees for nothing except prohibitive duties
Imposod to prevent imports, to keep revenue
out of the treasury and to so restiict trade
as to establish monopoly.” On tho same sub
jeot the Baltimore Nun says; ‘ ‘Some SOO a
year is a low estimate of the amount the
father of the average family is robbed of by
the wool tariff yearly. Take the tax away
aud this sum might go into the savings bank
against a rainy day. A sum of 500 a year
saved would be a fortune to many a poor
man.”
An Interesting inoident in America’s re
lief work in behalf of the poor Russians
occurred In New York Tuesday, when Dr.
Talmage "blessed” the cargo of provisions
to be sent over on the steamer Conemaugh.
The ceremony occurred in the loft of the
Inman line dock, in the presence of several
hundred men and women interested in
gathering the contributions. Twenty-five
sacks of flour to be sent to Russia were
piled iu the shape of a rude pulpit
American aud Russian flags were draped
behind it, and some of the barrenness of the
loft was hidden by flowers. In the im
provised pulpit the eloquent Brooklyn
preacher took his stand, and conducted a
service of thanksgiving for the bounty en
joyed by this country, offered supnlications
fer tho return of prosperity to the afflicted
people, aud asked the divine blessing upon
t.ie offering of brotherhood about to be
sent forward.
The meeting at Douglasville Wednesday
was not a success. Tho adherents of the
People’s party flicked together and left the
democratic speakers to address only simon
puro democrats. Their loaders were afraid
to let them hoar the truth. The only sensa
tional feature of the day’s proceedings was
the oharge made by Mr. Post that Col. Liv
ingston is responsible tor the third party in
Georgia. This, of course. Col. Livingston
promptly denied.
It is doubted If Mahone, of Virginia, is
quite ready to retire from the leadership of
the Old Dominion Republican party, as has
been alleged. He will probably retain the
chairmanship this year to take “one more
chance;” then if he finds himself ignored by
the administration, in case the republicans
win, be may quit politics in earnest At
present he shows no inclination to loose his
hold.
Hostess—Ah. Miss Budd. let me introduce
Sle Barbini, the great ariiat
Miss Budd (enthusiastically)—l am so glad to
meet you. What Is your specialty in drawing?
Sig. Barblnl (of the opera)—Crowds, signo
riaa, crowds. --Cincinnati Cummcicial-GateUe,
PERSONAL
Secretary Fobtik and Assistant Secretary
Net tie too have returned to Washington from
j New York,
TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY DOLLARS U the price
which the Princess of Wales is said to have paid
for a tabby cat.
Commodore Henry Bruce of the United
States navy l 95 years of aga and supposed to
be the oldest living naval officer in the world.
A Baltimore dispatch, dated April 12, says:
“Congressman Springer is cruising about the
bay and the capes on board a Virginia pilot
boat.”
Mr. Bcutwell, Secretary of the Treasury
under Gen. Grant, is now and then out on the
htreets of Washington. He is almost the only
survivor of that cab-net.
Edward Parker Beacon has been sued by
the propr ©tor of the hotel where he killed
Abeille for $2,000 damages. The relatives of M.
i Abeille have already paid S4OO upon the same
: plea. Deacon will contest.
Da Edward Everett Hale is said to have
told somebody who asked him the other day for
the secret of keeping young at 70, “Never work
after 3 o’clock in tht* afternoon, and sleep ten
hours in every twenty-four. ”
Hiram Maxim, the American inventor, is still
busy at Crayford, England, in constructing bis
dying machine, or rather, his apparatus “for
Ascertaining how much power is actually re
quired to perform lligut with a screw-driven
aeroplane.”
John W. Bookwalter of Ohio is in France
making an exhaustive study of French village
life. He is also collecting while in Europe a
library for the qse of his tenants at the new
town of Bookwalter, in Nebraska, which he is
building on the small holdings principle.
The Grand Duchess Alexandrine of Mecklen
burg-Schwerin, who recently celebrated her
90th birthday, is the oldest of European
princesses. Sue is a sister of the iate Emperor
William I, and the only surviving daughter of
King Frederick Wul.am 11. and beautiful Queen
Louise.
Rev. Lydia Sexton, a regularly licensed
preacher, who moved from Kansas to Seattle
three years ago, at the age of 90 years, has since
conducted many revivals and other religious
meetings, but her eyesight is beginning to in
terfere with her activity. She had hoped to go
on till she had reached the a*e of 100 years.
Lord Randolph Churchill has been dubbed
with a now nickname iu London. He goes by
the name of “The Carbuncle.” The origin of
this sobriquet is a remark which the Marquis of
Salisbury, who absolutely loathes Lord Ran
dolph, made, shortly after the latter’s return
from South Africa, in the hearing of a number
of tory politicians. Lord Salisbury had been
asked whether he would like to have Lord Ran
dolph back into the cabinet once more. “Does
any one voluntarily bring back a carbuncle upon
one’s neck?” exclaimed tne prime minister
wrathfully This reply, of course, was imme
diately published to the four corners of the
tory world, and ever since Lord Randolph baa
been known as “The Carbuncle.”
B3IGHT BIT3.
Guest—Who is that man who acted so boor
ishly at the dinner table?
Host*-That*B Mr. Piumloigh, the celebrated
civil engineer. —Brooklyn Eagle.
“Why is it that Fikil has such an admiration
for blondes?”
“I don't know. Perhaps it is because his wife
is a brunette.”— New York Press .
“I see most of your hair is gone,” said Brown
to Burton.
“Yes.” replied Burton, •‘it's left for parte un
known.”—Kate bittd's Washington.
Cholly—Do you object to cigawettes, Miss
Budd?
Miss Budd—Ot not in the least. They
are doing a wonderful service for mankind.
Judge.
Put away those winter flannels
That so many moons you've worn—
And you'll catch the influenza
Just as sure as you are born.
Chicago Tribune.
He—l’ve been worrying all day about that
kiss I stole of you lasi night.
She—Why?
He—Because I didn't know till after it was
ove** that it was such grand larceny.— New York
Hei ala.
“Who told you that Dowell had got re
ligion?”
“I didn’t hear that he had, but I imagine so.”
“Why?”
“Because he is going out of politics.” —New
York Pi ess.
Larkin (in the midst of a narration)—And
12 long years rolled by before I saw him again.
Ben brow * sarcastically)—Then some years are
longer than ot:ie*s, are they?
I-arkin—They are. Leap years are a day
longer.— Judge.
“We are very much embarrassed about the
old sodiors’ monument. Tne bronze figure
costs $4,000, and we have only $3,000.”
“Why don't you cut it down? Take off a leg
und both arms. Many an old soldier has lost
’em for hia country.”— Harper's Bazar.
Poets have very little chance
In these degenerate days.
A good old-fashioned cook book
Is the only tniog that pays.
—New York Evening Sun.
“Where are you going?” said Mrs. Murray
Hill, as her husband stal led to go out at the
end of the first act.
“O, no place much,” he replied; “I notice
that the curtain has taken a drop, and I thought
of doing the same thing myself .—Texas Sift
ings.
Coal Dealer—We’ll have to stop mixing slate
and stone and old iron and things with our
coal.
Yard Man—Phat’s th* matter, sor?
Coal Dealer—The stuff won’t burn, and one
ton lasts a customer all winter.— New York
Weekly.
“There is one thing to be said in favor of
fashionable mothers here,” said an American
society w >man. “They are not cruel to their
children.”
“No,” answered the crusty old gentleman;
“most of them don’t see tueir children often
enough to be.”— Washington Star.
Chicago Man—l understand that you have
said that I was not honest in my business af
fairs?”
Boston Man—A mistake, sir. I simply said
you were not sufficiently scrupulous to jeopard
ize success.
(’hieago Man -Then I have been misinformed.
I beg your pardon, sir— Texas Siftings.
CURRENT COMMENT.
That Senatorial Farce.
From the Washington Post Und.).
The executive session leakage has been
officially stopped, but the newspapers con
tinue to print tne news in reliable form.
Pennsylvania's “Favorite Eon.”
From the Buffalo (N. Y .) Courier ( Dem .).
Keep your eye out for the launching of the
Pattison presidential boom. A great deal of
shrewd and skillful work is going on in the in
terest of the Pennsylvania govern r. He is to
day a much more formidable candidate for the
Lounnat.on than Senator Hill.
A Republican Opinion of Blair.
From the Brooklyn Times < Rep.\
Henry W. Blair wants to be investigated.
Pending such investigation a commission should
bs appointed to take charge of his person and
estate. Mr. Blair may insist upon thinking
that his rejection by China as minister to that
country is all a conspiracy, but toother people
it seems like simple cause and effect.
The Equilibrium is Now Restored.
From the Harrisburg (Pa.) Patriot (Dem.).
There have been so many ups and downs in
the democratic scale in the last few months that
ti e Burewder politicians have temporarily
ceased to predictions as to the probable
no inee for 1 resident. Just after the Novem
ber elections Mr. Cleveland seemed invincible.
The defeat of Mr. Mills threw Gorman well for
ward 1 iter the action of the party organiza
tions in N-w York made Hill's chances seem
nearly certain Then a revulsion came and
again Cleveland s prospects stood far in advance
or any other*.
As to th* Currency.
From the Journal of Finance (Ind ).
The great error into which our legislators
have fallen is due to the belief that the
amount of currency can be increased by en
larging the issues, whereas the only effect
from the increased output beyond the wants of
commerce is that of displacing one class of
money by another—the east valuable and
elastic taking the place of the more valuable.
Ihe silver, instead of woing into circulation,
lodges itself in the tr< asury; the gold is x rad 11
ally departing the rea m, and paper, with no
inherent value, depending alone upon the cur
rency of one or the other metal, alone finds
us way into the paths of domestic circulation, j
Not to be Told Quietly.
She was ami idle-aged woman, dres?ed in
; black ar.d wearing ej sa: s the Boston
Journal. She carried b oth h*r head and ter
bundles in a way that ind cited self-reliance,
and, having failed to find a *e it in the Old Cos -
ony car sne entered first, although the train
was now in motion, she bravely crossed the
platform and went into it* n**xt car.
A masculine eye would protablv have noticed
nothing peculiar in her personal appearance,
but nearly every woman that she noticed
tr at, the new-comer still wore & draped over
skirt and that this part of her attire, instead of
having the necessary symmetry, was hitched
around on one side in a way that was not only
unfashionable but entirely ungraceful and un
becoming. Womanlike, they wanted to tell her
of it.
She had found a seat, had seated herself, and
was calmly depositing her bundles by her si Je,
when a very pretty girl in the seat just behind
leaned forward and said, in a low tone:
“I beg your pardon, madam, but something
seems to be wrong with your dress. The skirt
is caught to one siie in some way. and ”
‘‘Hey?’ said the woman, sharply.
The girl repeatel in substance what she had
said before, and added, humbly: A “I thought
you would like to know, so as to fix it before
you go oq the street again.”
The woman didn't understand She turned
i around, and, throwing her head back, in orde:-
| to direct her gaze through her glasses, care
fully scrutinized the young lady’s features.
Then, in a loud tone, with due deliberation, she
said: “I—don’t—think—l—know—you.”
The young lady blushed This reiteration
of her well meant information was more than
she had bargained for. and her voice, tht ugh
subdued, was very distinct. The passengers
near by were becoming interested.
“I don't want to seem rude, but your skirt is
somewhat one sided.”
The woman had a puzzled look on her face,
and she slowly repeated: “I—don't—think—l
know you. I’m a little deaf,” she added, “can’t
you speak a little louder?”
Her own tones, by this time, were loud
enough for an open air orator, and the audience
to the dialogue now comprised all the passen
gers in the car.
The pretty girl had gone too far to back out,
and in a tone that would have done credit to an
elocutionist, she tried again. “Your skirt is
one-side 1.”
For the fl r st time the face of the woman
lighted up with a show of interest, and, with a
delusive smile that raised false hopes in the fair
maiden s breast, she leaned far back so as to get
the full import of the reply and shouted:
“Did you sav you came from Rochester?”
She was a little deaf. It took the combined
efforts or all the ladies near her to make her
unders f and, but when she knew what they
wauted she seemed truly grateful, and, turning
around, would doubtless have added to her ac
knowledgment some words of apology to the
young lady, but the seat was vacant. The fair
Samaritan was gone.
Unconsciously Committed.
The husband stood before the mirror with his
face screwed into a horrible grimace, says the
Detroit Tribune. He was shaving himself. The
wi'e lingered at the opposite side ot the room
with her mouth full of pins. She was just fin
ishing her toilet.
"M m-m-ump,” observed she.
“Wah aw-ah-00, m-m,” he replied.
The husband took anew twist in his lips in
order to stretch taut his cheek and facilitate
the work on hand. The wife removed one Din
from her mouth and Dut five more in its place.
“Boe-r-soo-r-r, m-urnp,” she proceeded, with
a careless air.
”R-nt-nt, m-ump,” he promptly rejoined.
There was a moment's silence, during which
time the fire crackled in the grate and the lace
curtains rustled gently. The wife was the first
to speak again.
“Er-ah-mm m,” she remarked, with some
animation; “pah-ow-m-ump.”
“M-ump,” quietly answered he.
The lady, standing there in her statuesque
beauty, hastily ejected the pins upon the table
and stared in evident astonishment.
“And you consent without a murmur,” she
exclaimed at last, and her eyes swam with tears
of joy.
The gentleman, proud in the consciousness of
strength, suddenly pulled his face into shape
and stared likewise.
“Consent to what?” he weakly demanded as
if with a foreboding of evil.
“To my having anew sealskin. I had no
idea that you would 6ay yes so soon. O, you
dear old darling,”
She threw herself upon his bosom and got
some soap on her nose. He si ently acqui
esced, but remained in a fitful, moody abstrac
tion for hours, like one who has sustained a
great and unexpected blow through no fault of
his own.
An Untimely Sugrarestlon.
Those who taw Clara Morris in “Alixe,” years
ago, when she was Daly’s “lea ling la Jy,” will
remember one scene with her lover, in which
she cried bitterly, the t* ars really rolling down
her cheeks almost in rivulets, says the New
York Recorder. Bhe did this night after night,
and the people wondered how she c< u’d, for it
was “only acting.” But the nervous, high
strung women felt the scene; it appealed to her
emotional temperament, and she played it ac
cord,ugly. Yet, often under sad disadvantages,
for her lover on these occasions was that good
actor and Dial wag, Mr. Louis Ja nes, and it
was his delight to “spring” surprises upon her
in her most pathetic moments. One night as
he knelt at her feet a id gazed passionately into
her eyes, from which the tears were Wt liing
fast, the whole audience spellbound at the
scene, he finished his fiery declaration of love
with a whispered addendum which, but for her
strong will, would Lave “broken her up.” It
was:
“Do you like fried onions?”
Many was the fine that this merry actor paid
for indulging in “guying.” yet be solmnly
declares that he couldn’t help it. Mr. Daly
was, and is, a rigid disciplinarian, and keeps his
company at a distance at all times. This he
does, I fancy, more from a desiro to have hi*
system carried out and his time to himself than
from any personal ill feeling. This state of
affairs so worked upon Louis James that one
night as he was passing Daly’s private office,
which is upon the stage, he knelt before the
door and pretended to cross h mself! Turning,
he saw with horror the stern eyo of the great
Augustin glaring at him, yet lam much mis
taken If behind that glare there did not lurk a
smile.
The Independent Chlcifiro Woman.
Congressman Kem, who has been here with
the visiting congressmen, had an amusing ad
venture in a Madison street car, says the
Chicago correspondent of the Omaha Bee. The
car was full, aud at a certain corner a woman
got in who, owiDg to the amplitude of her pro
portions, had some difficulty in crowding
through the door. Bbe finally stationed herself
right in front of the Nebraska congressman. He
got up.
“Sit down.” said the worrai impressively;
“Sit right down. Don't trouble yourself. I beg
of you. I can just as well stand myself. I ”
“But,” expostulated the Hon. Kem, “but,
madam ”
She broke in upon him
“I insist upon your sitting down,” she ex
claimed hoarsely. “I have se'n too much of
tLis thing of women driving men out of their
seats. I don't believe in it. If you ”
Mr. Kem had become desperate. The con
ductor was nowhere in sight.
“ Mad\m,” he cried, “for God's sake, will you
got out < the way? I didn't offer you my seat.
We have just passed my corner and I want to
get out.”
Then the woman sat down.
Why 6he Waa Particular.
A young woman, whose attire and demeanor
betokened wealth and refinement, attracted
some attention in a fashionable candy store the
other day, says the St Louis Post-Dißoatch % by
her persistent inquiries about the purity ot the
confections offered for sale. “Are you sure this
candy is quite pure?” she asked “Yes, miss.”
answered the salesgirl; “we sell nothing but
pure candies.” “Well. I want soar* that Is not
scented,” said the purchaser. “W 11 these suit
you?” asked the girl, producing a pan of plain
white sugar drops. “Are these the purest that
you have?” questioned the young woman as she
looked the pan over suspiciously. “Yes, miss.”
“And are they perfectly fresh?” “Made this
morning,” replied the girl “Well, I hope that
you are not deceiving me.” said the young wo
man earnestly, “for I am very particular about
the kind of candy I buy. I want it for my little
dog. You may give me 10 cents' worth.”
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The number of foreign-born soldiers in the
United States armv during the civil war was.
actor.ling to Gt*n Franz Sigel. who has made
the subject a steady, about 500 000. Of these
144,121 were Irishmen and 176,767 were Germans.
The colored troops numbered 166,017, of whom
125.00d served at one time.
Gertha M. Prior of Bristol, Me., years
old, knows the alphabet entire, what state,
county and town she lives in. what the largest
city iu Maine is, who is President of the United
States, can tell her name and how old she is,
and can count to twelve and spell nine words,
four of which contain four letters eaca.
Black is the almost universal mourning color
in Europe, but there are a few exceptions. For
instance, in Russia black is never used for cov
ering coffins, the cloth being of a pink shade
when the deceased is a child or young person, a
crimson color for women and brown for wid
ows. Italians do not use black cloth, white
being used in the case of a child and purple vel
vet in the case of adults.
The smallest inhabited island in the world Is
that on which the Eddystene light house stands.
At low water it is thirty feet in diameter; at
high wat-r the light house, whose diameter at
the base is 2.6% feet, completely covers it. It is
inhabited by three persons. It lies nine miles
off the Cornish c ast and fourteen miles south
west of Plymouth breakwater.
Suspension bri does which were built in the
time of the Han dynasty [202 B. C. to 220 A. D.)
are still standing, striking examples of early
Oriental engineering skill. These crossings, ap
propriately styled “Hying bridges” by early
Chinese writers, are nigh and dangerous-look
ing in the extreme. At the present day a
bridge may still be seen in Shense which i< 400
feet long and is stretched over a chasm more
than 1,000 feet deep.
Meo Dodoe’s injunction, “To roast a hare
first catch your hare,” which has passed into a
proverb, was not the fruit of her caust ; c wit, as
s-eras generally supposed, but is a very neces
sary clause of her recipe for hare soup. Blood
forms an essential part of Scotch hare soup.
It the animal is sh. t, the blood is wasted, but
if caught in a snare, then It is saved for use.
As he r s eat only during the night, it is very
easy to catch these most prolific destroyers of
crops m this way.
Paris promises to send us something new in
the way of a barrel organ which may not be
af predated. The organ grinder sets down his
instrument in front of the house he has in view-.
He winds it up like a clock, after whioh it will
go by itself for an hour, while he adjourns for
refreshments to any public house over the way.
After the organ has played for a quarter of an
hour or so the dwellers begin to find it a
nuisance. A servant sent out to see what can
be done to stop it reads over the organ the fol
lowing notice: “If you wish this organ to stop,
put a penny in the slot.” The penny is dropped
in and the orgau is silenced It resumes its
melody, however, at the end of five minutes,
and kt* *ps it up until another penny is squan
dered.
Roumania mothers tie red ribbons around the
ankles of their children to preserve them from
harm. Ethiopian mothers tie small bits of
assafetida to the nock of their offspring for
the same purpose In old Ireland a belt woven
from woman's hair (blonde and brunette in
equal numbers) Is placed about the child s
waist to keep the “banshee” away. In Holland
the new mother insures the future good fortune
of her child by putting salt, garlic, bread,
cheese and meat in its cradle. Welsh and En
glish mothers frequently put a knife in the
cradle of a uew-born int'ant to ward off colic
and other infantile diseases The Welsh
mother adds to the merit of the charm
by occasionally throwing in tne sugar
tongs. Iu Lower Brittany the baby is put
through a regular gymnastic exercise, which
winds up with the head being soaked in oil, this
latter to “solder up the seams of the cranium.”
Among the Vosgen peasants children born at a
new moon are supposed to have their tongues
better hung than others, while those born at the
last quarter are supposed to have little or no
powers of expression. A daughter born near
the waxing moon is suppos and to beextiaordina
rily precocious. The Grecian mot er, in putting
her infant in the cradle,turns three times amund
before the fire, singing her favorite lullaby,
this to ward off evil spirits. In several parts of
the United States to rock the empty cradle Is an
omen of baby's death; in Scotland the same
performance is believed to insure the coming of
another occupant for it! In Spain the newly ar
rived bal>e has its face brushed with a pine
bough. In Turkey amulets of various kinks are
put on the baby's toes, fingers, ankles, wrists
and neck as soon as it comes into the world. If
its father be a priest, mud-cakes steeped in milk
are plastered on its little forehead. In London
a book is put under baby's pillow to insure apt
ness in educational matters, and money is put
in its bath as a guarantee of financial success.
In 1831, says the Philadelphia Ledaer. quoting
from the “Book of Days,” James Clelaud, an
Irish gentleman, being curious to ascertain
whether the climate or soil of Ireland was nat
urally destructive to the serpent tribe, pur
chased half a dozen of the common harmless
English snake (natrix torquata) in Covent har
den market in London. Bringing them to Ire
land, he turned them out in his garden atßath
gael, in the county of Down, and in a week aft
erward one of them was killed at Milecross,
about three miles distant. The persons into
wbose hands the strange monster fell had not
the slightest suspicion that it was a snake, but
considering it a curious kind of tel, they toox it
to Dr. J. L Drummond, a celebrated Irish nat
uralist, who at onco pronounced the animal to
be a reptile and not a fish. The idea of a “rale
live sarpint” having been killed within
a short distance of the very
burial 1 lace of St. Patrick caused an extraor
dinary sensation of a arm among the country
people. The most absurd rumors were freely
circulated and credited. One far-seeing cler
gyman preached a sermon in which he cited
this unf jrtunate snake as a token of the im
raeiiate commencement of the millennium,
while another saw in it a type of the approach
of cholera morbus. Old prophecies were raked
up. and all parties and sects for once united in
b-dieving that the snake foreshadowed “the be
ginning of the end,” though they very widely
differed as to what that end was
to be. Some more practical-minded per
sons, however, subscribed a considerable
sum of money, which they offered in rewards
for the destruction of any other snakes that
might be fouud in the district, and three more
of tne snakes were not long afterward killed
within a few miles of the garden, where they
were liberated The remaining two snakes
were never very clearly accounted for. Tne
writer, who resided in that part of the country
at the time, well remembers the wild rumors
among the more illiterate classes on the appear
ance oi those snakes and th* bfiter feelings of
angry indignation expressed by the educated
persona against the—very fortunately then un
known—person who had dared to bring them to
Ireland.
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