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Newspaper Page Text4 C|tWomngß ftos Morning News Buiiding Savannah, Gi , HONDAY, .IANVARY 9, 1893. Reoisterea at the Postottice in Savanna*. The Morning News Is published every day in the year, anil is served to subscribers m the tity t *1 00 s month. $5 00 for six months and gJO 00 for one year The Morning Nsws ’ v ™a r . K 00: three mouths. fxM;stx months, If 00; sue veer |lO 00. ... . The Morning S***. by mo ‘ • *>* umoß W'e tsrithout Sundav issue, three months, 4. Six months. *4 00; one Tear. *' 00 The Morning News, Tn-Meeklf. Mondays, Wednesdays and Friday*. or Tismsys. Tt ire iters and Saturdays, three months, 5 ■ s;six months. M SO; one Tear : 6 . *TCe Snnur Nets, by mod one year. SSO> The Wsrki v Set?. M/”?.hJ. one yri' **• Subscriptions payable In Costal order, check or registered letter. Cur rency sent by mail at risk of sends**. Lesters and telegram* should be addressed "Morning Sits. 1 Savannah.. G*. . Transient a-3vorttoeraenia, other th&n Bpeclai eolumn, local or reading n.’tk**. •ad cheap or want column. 10 cents a line, fourteen lines of agate teoh space in depth—is the standard of mesa- Contract rates and discounts made known on application at business oßte OIK SEW' lUHh OFFICE. M* J. J. Flynn, General Advertising Agent at the Morn ms News office B Park Row, Hew York. AU advertising business outside el the states of Georgia, Florida and South Caro tin* will be managed by him. The Morning Nhws Is on tile t the following places, where Advertising Rates and other tn- Jrrnation regarding th. ( aper can be obtained: MEW YORK CITY ■ i H. Bates, Jh Park Row. Q. P, RowikiJ. A Cos., 10 Spnio© street W. W. Sharp A Ckb.ll Frank Kirrnan A On., 18* Broadway. Daucht St 00.. *7 Park Place 3. W. Thompson. 88 Park Row. An Ratos* N swap aprr Publisher s Association Potter Building. PHILADELPHIA- K. W. Atrr A Son, Times Building. BOSTON- R, H. Nilrs, at* Wssklngton street Fsttenoill A (Jo., 10 State street. CHICAGO , , . Lost' A Thomas, 46 Randolph street. gnwi n iuna Comp ant. 86 West Fourth street PT LOUIS— HU>o* Chssman A Cos, 1I!7 Pine street. ATLANTA Mossing New* Bi reap, m Whitehall street. ST. AUGUSTINE- H. Mahoottr. St. Augustine. Fla. _ "index to new advertisements. Meetings—Clinton Lodge No. 3i, F. and A. M.; German Friendly Society; Savannah Bread and Biscuit Company; Savannah Lodge No. 70. Golden Chain. Special Notices—As to Bills Agairst British Steamship Vulcan; Notice, K. 8. Long A Bro.; Special Notice, C. D. Lee. ABOUT Your Bov—B. H. Levy A Bro. Steamship Schedules Ooean Steamship Coinpauy; Baltimore Steamship Company; Genera! Trans-Atlantic Company. Do You Neel a Suit—Falk Clothing Com pany. Fedora Hats—Appel A Schaul. Railway Schedules Suburban Railway; Charleston and Savannah Railroad; Central Railroad of Georgia. Amusements—‘‘Jane," Savannah Theater. Bane Statxmzxt—Citizens Bank of Savan nah. 189S. 1893--Lindsay A Morgan. Auction Sales—Clothing Store Fixtures, Etc, C. H. Dorsett; Household Sale, J. H. Oppen helm A Son; Twenty-five Rolls New Brussels Carpet, .1. H. Oppenlieira & Son. Cheap Column Advertisement* Hein Wanted; Employment Wanto I; For Heat; dor Made; Lost, Personal; Miscellaneous. An elevator trust has loen formed in Chicago. The lift will now go up. The Vesuvius rounded Cape Hatteras during a storm, which would Indicate that her seagoing qualities are first-class. If the armament is as good as the ship the Vesu vius is all right. Mr. Hyams, of Johnson City, Tenu., iate of Bakersville, N. C., got into the wrong department of newspaper work. His talents eminently fit him for the position of circu lation editor on some great gift-enterprise dally. Chicago is going to build for the fair a wooden elephant, SOU feet high, with a hotel on the “stomach floor’’ and a steam piano in the trunk. This is probably for (be convenience of those who will attend the fair merely to “see the elephant.” The Texas legislature will oonvene to morrow. This session will elect a senator to succeed Roger (j. Mills, who is now filiing the unexplred term of ex-Senator Reagan. Mr. Mills will probably be elected, though there will be spirited up position to him. —i One effect of an increase of the internal revenue tax, on whisky would be an in creased output of ‘ ‘moonshine” liquor in the mountain districts of this and other states And that would mean more work for the United States marshals, probably necessi tating an increase of force. The higher the tax plaoed on whisky, the more illicit whisky will be made and sold. A St. Louis woman, m bringing suit for divorce, alleges that on one occasion she took HO from her husband’s pocket wane be was asleep and that when he a .voke and dis <X>vered the peculation he swore at her. Madam ought to be given her divorce. The man who refuses to recognize woman’s in alienable right to rifle her husband’s pockets while he is asleep does not deserve a wife. The immense size and importance of the proposed machinery exhibit at the world’s fair ia made more than ever apparent by tbs statement of the director general that PO per cent, of the 3,000,000 feet of space has been allotted, and still prospective ex hibitors are clamoring for room. The director general is nonplussed; he doesn't know what to do, for the 1100,000 ftet of space still to be disposed of will not confe near accommodating those who have applied for room A correspondent who writes pieces from ■Washington for Col. K. F. Shepard * Mail and Ex press has pierced the veil of mystery that surrounds and envelops the political spbynx and given the world the benefit of his discoveries. He says Mr. Cleveland has persuaded Senator Carlisle to accept the treasury portfolio by promieiug. through mutual friends, that “all kinds of work will b done to make Mr. Carlisle President in Iflitfi.” The correspondent also bus a straight tip—the Mail and F.rjirc is a great paper for straight tips—that “Mr. Cleveland will use the name and geograph ical powers of bis Secretary of the Treasury to break down the presidential hopes uf Honour I/avia H. Hill four years hence.” All of which is very interesting tattle, and is probably as near to the truth as the average pointer on races to be found iu Col. Bhepard’s paper. The Empty Treasury. When Mr. Cleveland left the white house four years ago the treasury contained au immense surplus. The surplus was so great that It was proposed to make a very material reduction in tarilT taxes. When Mr. Cleve land returns to the w bite bouse next Maruh be will not only find au empty treasury, but als i that tbo lax burdea has been greatly increased. The whole country knows that the re publicans. when they defeated Mr. Cleve land and took charge of the government, deliberately adopted a policy, which, they thought, would make it impossible to change their tariff policy in many years. They in creased the peusion charge enormously so as to get rid of the surplus, and they greatly increased those duties which are levied for the protection of certain manufacturers rather than for revenue. They have got rid of the surplus and they have brought the treasury almost tv the verge of bankruptcy. By a system of book keeping that is difficult to understand they have endeavored to conceal the actual con dition of the treasury. They have not suc ceeded, however, in deceiving the public to the extent they hoped to do. The fact that the actual amount of cash in the treasury is comparatively small cannot be concealed. Nor can it be concealed that the cash bal ance is gradually becoming smaller. The December debt statement showed a cash balance of ?ll),000,000 less than the Novem ber debt statement. And the amount de manded monthly for pensions is steadily growing larger. The condition of the treasury will pre sent a very serioui problem for Mr. Cleve land's administration to solve. As soon as possible after Mr. Cleveland’s inaugura tion a statement ought to be published showing wbat the condition of the treasury was when he left the white house in 1880, and what it was on his return in 1593. Such a showing would tend to convince the people that the manage ment of the government by the democrat* was economical and that the management of it by the republicans was recklessly extravagant. It would be a strong argument in favor of keeping the demoorats in control of the government and at the same time would (how the great difficulties in the way of restoring the treasury to a healthy condition. How Elkina Makes Money. • ‘Secretary Stephen B. Elkins,” said a well informed Washington man to a New York Press reporter, 'be likely to beooine one of the richest men in the country. I see he is said to have a large interest iu the reoently discovered gold fields in Colorado which are reported to be the richest mines discovered since the days of ’49. Mr. El kins Is a great financier.” The extent of Elkins’ bonanza is given in a dispatch from Mancoe, Col., to the Balti more American, as follows: "J. P. St. Clair has just returned from the gold fields on the San Juau, bringing the first direct and trustworthy informatlou from the new El Dorado. Mr. St. Clair states that Stephen B. Elkins is manager of a oompauy that has seventeen miles, from the Rio San Juan, staked down the river from the mouth of Clay Wash." That is nice; very nice, iudeed, from Mr. Elkins’ point of view. It may, indeed, mean that in the near future bo will rank as one of the richest men in America. But how did he get control of this bo nanza do you ask? Did he pay for it, or take his chauoe with others? Hero is what the Denver correspondent of the St. Louis Republic says about it; “The Navajo In dian reservation ban, it is alleged by promi nent Colorado mining men, been opened by stealth with the connivance of government officials in the interest of great mining cor porations, and the miners and prospectors, who Lave been waiting patiently for the lands to be thrown open, find that somebody has been beforehand and located all the best mineral lands lu the strip.” Before the lands were thrown open for settlement the prospectors were "amazed to sos miles of the hex; location being staked out on the reservation, but the prospectors were not allowed upon the sacred soil of the Indians.” Finally some of them telegraphed the facts to Washington, and from private source* there learned that a "portion of the reservation bordering on San Juau and Clay Wash rivers had been thrown open for settlement so quietly that no person seemed to know whenit wasdoue.” The company for which Elkins Is the man ager got the advantage of the "quiet” open ing and grabbed all of the valuable laud. Elkins worked at the Washington end of the scheme, and according to the Republic's dispatches, held off the prospectors w ith deputy marshals until those seventeen miles of claims bad been staked off. That is what Elkina’ Washington friend, who talked to the Now York Press, calls "great financier ing.” To most people it will look like an il legal aiul mean uio of his official position for the beuefit of his own pocket, and at the expense of the poorer prospectors. It has long been the opinion of the knowing ones that Mr. Elkins is a man who does not hesi tate at small obstacles when there is money to be mado. No svaiou was over more auspicious for the south to attract investments than tbe present. Iu Colorado, Kansas and other weeteru and northwestern slates that fcave t unfortunately for them, fallen into the hantU of the popuiist party, everything possible in the way of legislation is being or will be dune to drive capital away. Uov. \\ aite. of Colorado, the leader of tbe popu listi in that state, has given notice tlißt the policy of the party will be to enact stringent ias against corporations. Aud what Colorado thus drives away Georgia and the south should strive to attract. The people of this section of tbe country have not yet come to the conclusion that invest m nts of money in enterprises that will give employment to numbers of workers and create a demand for native products is a bad thing for the couutrv. What tho south wants Is more mouev- more cauital is:s and corporations; oven u trust or two might be borne with for a while for the sake of developing dormant resources. The considerate treatment ot tho people who own money will bring it here. Nothing else will. The demure and mild eye Chinaman is not much of au inventor, but as au imita tor be is great. John has seen the Ameri can bunco man—very likely has had some experience with him —aud has taken the natural step and imitated him. The au thorities in IVantiiugtou have information that a bright Chinaman, named Ah Hun, is going about the country representing him self to be an agent of the Six Companies and collecting $1 each from his fellows under the pretext that it will be used to de feat the Chinese exclusion law. Uo suc ceeded iu collecting S9OO or more in New Orleans before the Chiuauien there found out that be was a fraud. THE MORNING NEWS: MONDAY, JANUARY 9. 1893. The Vesuvius’ Teats. Considerable general interest, both In this country aqd Europe, attaches to the ooming test of the dynamite cruiser Vesuvius in Bort Royal harbsr during the early part of next month. And, li asinuch as the tests will be made within thirty miles of this city, considerable local inter est is felt In the vessel and her programme of evolutions and experiments. Upon the outcome of tbe tests will depend whether or not naval warfare, especially along tbe ooasts. is to be revolutionized, whether email and swift vessels are to sup plant floating fortresses of steel and iron for harbor and coast defense whether the pneu matic tube is to succeed tbe rified breech loading cannon in such harbor defenders. whether compressed air Is to succeed gun powder as the projecting force, and whether globules of high explosives, to be dropped on the enemy, are to take the place of solid shot and shell. The tests are to embrace the safety of the vessel while engaged, so far as her guns are concerned, and the accuracy of the aim where it must be dependent upon the steer ing of the vessel and the pressure of air be hind the projectile. As tbo vessel would, in action, carry guncotton and other explo sives enough to blow half a dozen lineof battle ships out of the water, the consequence of a premature explosion at tbe guns may be imagined. During the time of the tests nearly all of the explosives will be stored aboard the cruiser Philadelphia, which will be in the harbor. but even then the firing of the guns will be accompanied with great danger, one charge for a gun being about •YOU pounds of guncotton. However, the offloers in charge have taken every precau tion and apprehend no untoward incident. The theory upon which the Vesuvius is constructed is entirely novel. She is called a dynamite cruiser, but really no dynamite is used aboard of her, and she is not of the cruiser type of vessel. Her principal guns hurl guncotton instead of shot, the object being to drop tbe explosive on tbe deck of tbe enemy ins'.ead of send ing a solid shot "between wind and water." These guns have no motion of their own, depending entirely on the move ments of the vessel and the projecting pres sure of air admitted into them to secure ac curacy of aim. Whether or not the de sired accuracy of atm could be secured in action has never beau ascertained, and the tests of next month will be directed to that •ad. The vessel can steam at the rate of about 21 J* knote (twenty-fiveland miles) an hour, and if, ruuning at that rate of speed, she should prove her ability to drop a charge of 500 pounds of gunootton on the deck of a moving hulk a mile away, without damage to herself, the correctness of Lieut. Zalinskl’s theory would be demonstrated. The success of the Vesuvius’experiments would mean that, with a dozen such little vessels on eaoh coast, our country wouldbs impregnable to a foreign foe, and tho alleged necessity for heavy and expensive harbor defense vessel* and massive iortifl cations along the coasts would disappear. Goy. Tillman, of South Carolina, ap parently has lost sight of tho faot that state governments in this country consist of three distinct and separate branches—tho legislative, the judicial and the executive. When one of these departments enoroaches upon the functions of another it Is in viola tion of the conservative and safe repub licanism which moved the founders of this government to frame and adopt a constitu tion providing for a triple alliance of au thorities in the government, and limiting the powers of eaoh of these authorities. The legislature of South Carolina went to tbe limit of its authority when it passed the Evans liquor law, aud the governor w;ll roach the limit of bis authority when he has exhausted all legal means at bis command to have the law carried out. Meanwhile it is the function of tne courts to say whether or not the law is coastitu. tlonnl, and a decision of the court would overrule and set aside any opposite opinion that might be held by the governor. Con sequently Gov. Tillman is "talking through bln hat” whon ho says the Evans law "will go into effect on July 1, 1893, despite the courts or anything else.” How is he going to override the decisions of the courts if they should be against hie opinion; by out ting tho judges iu jail and calling for United States troops to uphold hiin. ! There U no statute law compelling ous vessel nt sea to go to the rescue of another vecoel in distress, or even to go to the ns sistauoe of men on a wreck. There is, how ever, an unwritten law of humanity which urges men to save their fellows from watery graves whenever it is possible, and this la v is seldom disobeyed. Hut au instance in which the avar:ce ot a tugboat captain caused him to abandon a shipwrecked craw to their fate comes from Baltimore. The schooner Edith Bern ind, from Port Tampa for Baltimore with lumber, was wrecked u:i Smith’s Island shoals. The cap ain and crew took to the rigging. After having been there for fifteen hours, suffering in tensely from cold, a tugoamo almost within hailing distance of them, but put about aud left them when she saw a schooner desiring to bo towed into Wiimtngton. The wrecked crew were subsequently taken off by a life saving crew. Smith’s Island is tbe body of laud from which Cape Foar projects into the ocean, and tho tug mentioned was probably a Wilmington vessel. Gov. Smith, of New Hampshire, gave his legislature some advice iu his annual mes sage that might well be repeated by every governor iti the country in every message sent to the legislatures In closing his paper he admonished tbe legislators to "make a brief session aud be chary of enact ments.” Ihe tendency of the times in legis lation is to do too much, to make too many laws. Fewer and more carefully considered laws would undoubtedly be batter for the states in which they are made. And tbe next congress might also do well to be brief and do little except change existing laws to conform to public opinion as expressed at the poll* last fall. The genius who writes paragraphs for tbe New York Tribune thus disposer of several prominent southern gentlemen: "‘Snolly goster’ Ham, of Georgia, is about to start out on a lecturing tour, following in the wake of ex Gov. ’Bob’ Taylor, of Tenneeeee. Tbe subject of bis discourse will be ‘Chest nuts Cracked in the Ark.’ ’Bob’ Taylor expect* to wied up his tour with an election to the l nited Btates Senate. Ham hopes for an appointment as minister to Dahomey. John Temple Graves wants to go at consul to the Austrian capital. Ex-Congressman P. M. B. Young doe* not tbiuk seriously of returning to Bt. Petersburg.” Tbe German emperor la a kind of antl option Bill. B* proposes to have tbe military measure passed without giving the Itdubstag any option ip the matter. PKftSONAL Onk of the oldest of British noblemen If the Duke of Northumberland. %ho wi ueirly Ik). He ban b*en a member o.' hr ? and sat in parliament for yean* before be suc ceedea to his title. Cleveland was the only President to deliver bis inaugural address extempore. Fillmore made no inaujwv&l. Garfield was the first President to inakn any political speeches ia a foreign i nvuvs. German was used. Tn Richmond, Ya., last week. Mrs. Mark Darts, wife of a well-known hotel proprietor, pro fessed her belief in the Jewish faith and be came a member of Beth AiiaLa svnaeoijue. | After the ceremony Mr. and Mr. ! >avis were re married aaosHsHugr to tbs Jewish ritual. Susan B. Anthoict admits that Gov. Flower’s appointment of her as manager of the state in dustrial school at Rochester arT- ctacS her deeply. ‘‘You see I have been regarded as a sort of hoofed and horned creature for so lonsr.” said she,** that eren a little thing touches my heart.” Dr. Heniiy G. Byer, surgeon in the naval academy at Annapolis, >ld., tested the breath ing capacity an J the leg, arm and back strength of five foot, bail t ams and made a formula for the strength of each team, and he concludes that the result of the game is determined by the absolute strength of the team. As the result of extensive improvements Robert Garrett's Baltimore home now has a hatlway 39x40 feet and a ceiling 40 feet high. The upper half of the hall ia cove re 1 witu valuable tapestries, and around it runs a gal lery la carved oa*. The library has a white ceiling and the walla aru hung with wiae-col ored velvet. The Prince of Wales has consented to sit as a member of the commission on the aged poor, of which Lord Aberdare is chairman. Among the other members of the commission are bras* sey, Sir Lyon Piayfair. Josep 1 Arch, M. P . and Henry Broadhurflt, .•. p. John Burns wa-* in vited to become a member, but could not ac cept tbe invitation. It is said of the late Jacob Henrici, the vener able chief of the Econoinites, that his life was as free from guile as if he had never come in con tact with the world. The man who will succeed him. Trustee Duse, is ren.e nbe red by old timers in Pittsburg as the handsome-faced boy who used to carry Father Heuricl's foreign looking carpet-bag w ith its inevitable supply of crab apple cider. Thomas Hooper of Allegheny. Pa., is one of the numerous American gentlemen who take up some science as a diversion, aside from their regular business, Rad yet become experts of national notation. He is a successful carriage maker; but he is also an arcbaydogis r , and has a collection of Indian implements uum bering about 2,000. Some of his specimens are not equaled by anything in the Smithsonian Institution, it is said, and he has an extensive correspondence* with thd'eurators of European museums in relation to exchanges. It is possi ble tl at liis collection whl be placed fr the Carnegie library when that building is com pleted. BRIGHT BITS. “Have you got a collection of . any kind." asked Uncle Mark, “that 1 can help you with?” “Yes. sir,” repl.ed Ned. “I've got a collection of United States coins in my bank, and nothing larger than a dime.''— Harper's Young People. Waiter—l expect you to pay in advance. Guest -What ao you mean, sir? Waiter—No offense, sir, whatever; but the last gentleman who ate mackerel here got a bone fh his throat and died without paying, and the guv’nor took it out of my wages. lVonder. Mrs. B -This is disgraceful! You'll have no one to thank but yourself. I've warned you often enough bow you are shortening your days. Mr. B.—Yes, my dear; but you don't seem to realize what long nights I'm having.— -bunny toU§. Old Fribnd—Well, I declare, old boy, your wife is fully as tail as you are ” Mr. DeMeelc (In a whisper;—Y es, I guess that’s so. "How came you to marry such a big woman?” "Well—er—she didn't seem so big before marriage.”—Aeto York Weekly. "Yus, stranger," said the native of the aspir ing western village, "live years ago this hull place were a Wilderness: nothin’ but prairie grass and red lujuns. Now, stranger, there be twenty men In that jail over yonder aud forty raore in the poorhus. It’s a growin’, stranger." Boston Tran.-cnnt, Picnic Scenk LAufa fto her cousin who has just Kissed lion—G. Rudolf, wo are lust! there is Mr. Miller. Rudolf—Never mind him, he is a harmless fellow Laura—He was; but now he is an amateur photograph t. h Itegende Blatter. Wife—Herr Zartheimer is a charming man. Just fancy, he has been inarri and fifteen y- ars. and only yesterday when speaking to me about his wife he ended her an ang 1! Husband—it is very possible that she is an angel now; don’t you know that she died twelve months ago?— Schu'etzer IJaniiels~Uourier. Excited Lady (on the beachl—Why isn’t something done for that ship in distress? Why don’t some of you—— Coast Guard (hurriedly!—^We have sent the crew a lino to come ashore, mum Exc ted Lady—Good graciout I Were they waiting for a formal Invitation ? Wonder. Sun (sitting downy—l see you are not a regular traveler on tuose suburban trains. He (standing upi—That is true. Ilotv do you know? "You gave me vqurreat.” "And you, madam, par ion me, are Dot a reg ular traveler on suburban trains either.’’ "Ah, how did you gtiess that?” "You thanked me.' —Chicago Tribune. Mother—Johnnie, why are you crying? I’m oniy going to he away a week and yoilr papa will be home with you. Johnnie—No, h < won’t; he’s going to Rome. "Going to Kernel Why, child, what do you mean?” "I heard him say that he would make Romo howi wt en yon left •’ "O. ind ?ed Weil, I won't leave you, Johnuio.” Texas Si/lme*. CUP.Lt’.CN r COM AriNT. 11l Lancer of Reiner StePD?<d < n. Front the Lo’jisvitte Courier-Journal (Dem.;. ’ A democi*aticcauaus3houid appoint a coat-tail committee id pin up wine of the ; kins tuai are ■dragging the ,round so invitingly at Wash ington. Punishment to Fit tho Crime. Front the Phildde!ohia Record ((Jem.). If some indignant posse of North Carolinians should seize .upon tho inventor of that B.ikers yillo riot story and nail his ears to tne nearest convenient town pump there would not be lack ing an approving chorus from the country over of "served him rig nt.” Fault Finders Don’t Amount to Much. From t>e Washington Post (Ind.). Wo think that Tammany can w ell afford to brave the discontent of the New Y ork mug wumps. Gentlemen who sit about in luxurious club rooms and occupy themselves with suarl iug criticism ppon public affairs in which they are too ale,tan! or too selfish to mingle do not count for much iu’ the equation of free govern ment. How Llttie They Know of Us. From the Washing on Star ilnd.). The announcement In a Paris journal that Charles A Dana is the intimate personal friend of L! veland is followed by a statement in the London Tunes that the President-elect is hunt ing in the Adirondack* in Mexico, it becomes constantly more evident that Europe has quite enough to db at home without bothering about American affairs. Electric Lights on Railway Trains. From the hew York Tribune (Rep. I, It is s gratification to record the decision of one of the western railroads to equip a consid erable number of its trains witli electric fights. Electric lighting has reached such a stage of de velonmem that railway travelers Pave a right to demand that the companies shall illuminate their car-* by this rarans. home experiments hitherto tried have hot been altogether success ful, hut the points of difficulty ought to bo easily overc mio by electrical engine rs Tho storage battery system is to be used by the company referred to and chore seems to be no doubt in the minds of the officials that it will give satisfaction. Gold and Silver. From the .Vet t York journal of Finance (Ind.). No hints suffii-e to confine tho fever of specu lation when once it Pa, taken strong hold, an fi tbe sentiment now predominant must be guided aud curved or we will again witness a r tietl tion of the oonditlou existing from the conclu sion of the war to the resumption of Specie payments, conditions which, year by year, worked the gradual dost ruction of values to owners of farms and real estate, leaving un altered the figures of mortgages. Whether gold goes to slight premium through the Hherman enactment remaining upon our slat ule hooks, or whether stiver become* Uie standard of value, tbe deplurable consequences that must follow mil differ oniy in degree. Th© Ways of the Borrower. ‘ >ne of the b st agents of a large Boston bouse has a propensity for spending more than he earn* and borrowing from friends to keep things moving, says the B<>Btcn Herald. During a pucceasful trip to Springfield he ran short, and borrow©! from a number of his customers, une man who loaned him $lO be. au to get anxious about it. and wrote several letters to him m care of the Boston office. The agent tore thou* up as fast au he received them and const'll and the picois to the wa*t>* basket with out a thought. The Springfield man decided to make a trip to Boston and leave an order wi.h one of tbe wholesale house* for hie line of goods, before leaving home he determined to call on the agent, with the intention of collect* fr g th* $lO, but the order was to be given to au otber firm. When he called upon the agent he had worked himself to tho highest pitch of in dignation, with the intention of giving tree ex pression to his opinion of men who borrow money and do not return it- The Springfield man waikod into the office with fire m his eve* But it had no effect on the agent. When he recognized his creditor h jumped up, gras* ed his hana. said he was glad to see him, and in quired about ali the folks. { “That's all right,” said the Springfield man, “but will I have to take my money out in bluff r* “My d_*ar fellow,” said the agent. “I mmt confess I am ashamed of myself, I received your letters and always laid them aside with the intention of sending the money that day, but, really, the matter always seemed to slip my mind. 1 cannot tell you how badly I feel about it How much did I get that time?” “Ten dollars,” saii the Springfield man, be ginning to feel that pernaps he had been a iiitie too hasty. “Ten dollars, ye*-,” gild the a;ent. effusively; just step this way ami I will t:et it for you.” [hen going to the bookkeeper heeald: “Just let Mr. J have $lO, w. 11 you. Fred?'* The bookkeeper handed over the money with out any trouble, and the bpmgfleld man be came very strongly of the opinion tuat e hal made a mistake in f rming such an unfavor able ustiniAte of tho agent His manner changed, and. after talking awhile, the two te- CAuie as close friends as ever. The Springfield man then thought it belter to l*ad tbe ag nt to believe that he had not come to the citv for ti.e special purpose of collecting the siu, and spoke at om the order he wanted filled, lie finally gave it to the agent, aud went norne earisii and that he l ad made a mistake an i atoned for it. In due time the order arrived. With it came the bill. The Springfield man looked it over, and w hen he reached tho last item opened his eyes very wide. This was the item; To borrowed money ~..110 The agent had . made no explanation to the bookkeeper and hud allowed matters to take their cou Tho Springfield man now gets his orders filled elsewhere. E© Wes Worth a Fortune. “When I married,” said a South St. Louisian yesterday, “I moved into one of the suburbs .My wile's health was not very good and I thought the air out there would be in every way beneficial I usually went home on the 5:27 o'clock train, but one evening a few months ago I was later than usual A crowd of us were pushing to get into one of the cars, and it was my fortune to be wedged in with a poorly dre-sed laboring man, whose nationality I had been speculating upon as a means of passing the time while I stood waiting upon the plat form. “We han succeeded in getting on the step* of the car and the man was just above ine. Once there was a sudden backward surge of the crowd and the man came down upon both my feet with one of his at right angles, Turning as best he could, he said: •* T beg your pardon, sir. It was them in front that pushed me.' “I told him the accident was of no conse quence. “ ‘Thera fine-dressed people never act like gentlemen, nohow,'be continued. ‘They crowd like beast*.’ “I had now gotten into the car ad had found a seat, but the workingman was still looking about for one. There were only two or three vacant places, and one was by me. He took that. “ ’Did it hurt you much?' he asked, with ap parent concern. “I had now recovered mv breath and part of original color, and the shooting pains in my corns had decreased to probably 100 per minute", •<>, no,' l replied, unfolding my evening naper. Ho surveyed me for a moment, possi bly thinking he had not r aid just the right thing regarding the behavior oi well-ores'©l peop.e, for I was tolerably well dressed myself. “ ‘T .at reminds me.’ ho resume!, *of an inci dent in my own history. It was howl made my fortune.’ ••‘Fortune!’ I gasped. " ’Yes. my fortune. It was before I got mar ried. We w ere in a crowd one day—the girl I married and me—and 1 stepped on her foot. ’Ob. John!’ said she. ’I didn’t mean to do it.’ says I "How I ever could have stepped on such a little foot is a wonder to me,’ Baid 1 From that miuute I knowedshe was snfhe. All that liked was tbe askin’.’ "But,” said I. "What about your fortune? "’That was it,’ said be. a little scornfully. ‘A man what's got a good wife ia rieb, ain’t h ’ "And I was compelled to admit that he was.” Couldn't Fool That Boy. A few days ago a party of gentlemen were about starting on a hunting tjip out into Mary land, says ihe Washington Post. Tiny had to go iu a largo wagon, take their own provisions with them and rough it among the hits for a week or so in approved style. When o' ery thing was put in place and a start about to be made one of the party, who is considerable of a gourmet, suddenly discovered that he had for gotten to procure some of his favorite Roque fort cheese. His companions were equally as fastidious In their tastes, and a halt was ordsre J until the article could be procured. The man Friday of the expedition was dispatched to a leading grocer with a note stating what was wanted, and followed the clerk who took it to the cheese counter. His education in matters of refined cuisine had beou tailiy neglected, and when he saw the clerk cutting in naif a tinfoil covered disk, whose irtonur appeared anything but de sirable to him from on edible point of view, he inquired: •’.vlistah, what is you er doin’ ?” "I'm getting t o cheese Mr. M sent you for.” war, the reply. The colored youth’s eyes expanded. “I Is vou g-g-gwine ter s- n' Morse Will dat ar' green lookin' stuff?" ho gasped. "Why, c-rtainlv,” responded the clerk. ‘ Den y ou gutter seu’ hit by sum udder puseon 'sides me. Ef I war ter take filarse Will enny ole rott ii cheese liku dat ar’ he’d beat me mos’ nyarly ter death ” And In- reiused point blank to take it, in spite of all explanations ’You dm sen’ sumbuidy else. You ain’t gein’ to git my bee t broke wid none of yo’ fooiishcoss. Catch myse'f takin’ Jiarue Will enuv stuff like dat! No sail.” An Ant que. E. A. tipper in Harper's Magazine She gazod at the tall old clock on the stair; ’1 was a relic of days long fled. A costly timepiece, a treasure rare. But lately pu chased and perched up there. “A quaint old gem!" she said. “Did you stand in some old colonial hall, Where the firelight flickered red On polished floor and on carven wall. Where fell the shadows of chair-backs tall And strangely stiff!” she said. "Did you look, perchance, on a winsome maid— Alas' a century dead Softly demure and sweetly staid. In a tortoise-shell comb and a gay brocade With a very short waist?” she said "Did you see her lover, a comely swain, A-bendiug his stately head To touch her lips and to touch again, Till her fair cheek warmed with a crimson stain? O quaint old gem!’’ she said. “O. the wondrous pictures once known to you' And the tales that you have read!" But the tall old clock fetched a grin to view. “1 wonder what shod remark if she knew I was ma le last week ?” it said. Kow Mr. Cleveland Receives. A western politician calDd on Mr. Cleveland the other day. says the New Y ork Press, and, as the story ot bis visit goss, the President-elect asked: "Well, what can Ido for you?" "O, nothing.” replied tbe congressman. "I did not come to ask you for anylhiug. but called merely to pay my respects. ” ‘•Sitdown,’’ responded Mr. Cleveland. "This,” said a fellow congressman yesterday, “seems to indicate that a man who cads to see th* Presi dent-elect to pay ids respects is offered a chair, while one with an ax to grind or some favor to ask Is supposed to stand during the interv ew." The 3a-i Franciaoo Chronicle draws a forlorn picture of the world aa it wiil be a thousand years hence. It says we are rapidly using up the stock ot coal and lumber which tbe ayes placed in store before mankind became so numerous and voracious, and ihe time will come whan the fuel of the world will become exhausted This will neceuarily stop (he cook ing of food, while the supply of iron ore having hecamn exhausted about the same time, the making of iron, tor a two-told reason, must also stup. The destruction of our forest* will, furthermore, resultiutuu general diminution of our water supply, and drought will coote in and finish what wastefulness began. flavoring extracts. (I’ DELICIOUS * S Flavoring Vanilla ° f pertect Purity. great strength. Almond Economy In their uaa Rose etc. F!avor aa delicately gUld deliciously as the fresh fruf+- ITiiMS OF INTEREST. An article under the caption “Does Gold Grow?’ was pablished in your paper a few days ago, says a correspondent of the Butte Inter Mountain, and, as I have made a few experi ments to demonstrate the truth or falsity of the claim, I am of the'opinion that gold does net grow;. I have found chat when a sptek of gold is placed in a solution of chloride of gold the gold so placed will gradualiy grow into a small grain on a piece of wood or cork introduced into the liquid. Iu other words, the metal contained 1g the chloride would come out from Its corn binauon as native gold aud unite with the tiny sp ck of pure metal which served it as a nucleus. It is not improbable that the gold m quartz was similarly deposited, ho that lathe literal sense it may perhaps be true (despite Aristotle's dog matic statement to the contrary) that gold grows, although very slowly. Aluminium horseshoes are said to have been tried with remarkably successful resuits in the Russian army. According to a note translated by f apt. E. Lambart from the Invalide Rune a few horses in the Finland dragoons were first chosen and shod with one aluminium shoe an l three iron shoes eacn, the former being ou the fore L ot in some cases ami on the hind in other*. The experiments lasted six weeks and showed that the aluminium shoes lasted longer and pr-served tbe feet better than the iron ones. No aluminium shoes broke, and they were used over again for reshoeing. The horses, moreover, were worked over hard and very stony ground. The most important fact of all is that aluminium horseshoes are only one-third to one-fourth the weight of Iron sho s. Their cost is admitted greater, but, on the other hand, very little charcoal is required in suoeing; there is no loss in weight and the value of tbe old metal is the same as teat of fresh. Bome one has been gathering statistics about the money left by authors. Lord Tennyson, the most successful of English authors, left about $250,000. Robort Browning, of whose will A. Tennyson and F. S. Palgrave were the attest iDg witnesses, left personalty in London of the vaiue of £10,775. Victor Hugo, who, like Ten nyson, attained the age of 88 years, 1 ad per sonal estate in England to the amount of £92,- 126. Dr. Charles Macs ay's property was valued at £2,640, aud that o? Eliza Cook at £5,057. Matthew Arnold's estate amounted to £1,041. His will, in bis owl handwriting, was one of the shortest that ever came under probate. It was: “I leave everything of which l die possessed to my wife, Frances.” Lucy Browning's will was in her own b autiful handwriting, with the initial letter of all the nouns substantive in cap itals, after the old use. Victor Hugo’s will w'as not written by himself, but “dicte et signe par moi,” and is in its style eminently character iaiic of tne author. An autograph letter of Dean Swift has re cently been discovered amon? some old papers at Cape. Loder-Symond's seat, Hinton YValdrist manor, Berkshire. It is addressed to some member of the earl of Oxford's family, and says: "I have the ’ ouor to be ca . tan of a band of nineteen musicians (including hoys;, which are, I hear, about five less than my friend, the duke of Chanfios, aud I understand music like a Muscovite: but my choir la ho degenerate un der the reigns of former deans of famous memory that tho race of people called gentle men lovers of music tell me i roust be very care ful in supplying two vacancies which I have been two years endeavorin' to do. For you are to understand that in disposing these musical m ployments I determine to act directly contrary to ministers of state by giving them to those who best deserve. If you had recommended a person to me for a church living in my gift 1 would be less curious, because an indifferent parson may do well enough if he be honest, but sin rers, like tunic brothers the poets, must be very good or they are good for nothing.” Trk fact that Boston women are “making up” more this season than usual Is uow recog nized, says the Boston Gazette. This practice originated among the society women who have been much abroad, where a "smart” woman makes up as regularly as she dresses herself. Tbe practice i9 spreading now among the younger girls, and of course is being copied by women not in the smart set, so that it is now sometimes difficult to tell at first sight whether a woman be a :ady or not. The two fashiona ble sisters who have for years had the reputa tion of being the only women In society who painted have now many associates in their art,. Une of the belles who came out a few seasons ago looks like a china doll, her creeks being all too rosy. There Is no reasi n why a woman whose attractions are on the decline sbou and not make an effort to look as pleasing as possible: and there are many women among "the fringe of society” who make a herculean effort to re main young, but it seems a shame to find young married women and girls of 21) turning to rouge and powder before it is necessary. It is even more unpleasant to meet n man who touche* himself up, and yet it is no necret that there ore men in society who resort to artificial means to make themselves "beautiful.” There are fashloug In maladies as well as iu drees, sajßthe London Hospital, and frequently the mala lies are aa little new as the "latest novelty” in dress, only they are both new to our attention, and thereto rj of special irnpor - tanca. We are inclined to think that in the matter of disease, “nerves" are especially ab sorbing attention at the present aud are con sidered quite a feature at the preseut age. We ourselves are inclined to think that modern i erves are very much like their older brethren. We have only to open the paves of the Ifghterlit erture of less than a century ago to read, with a mixture of amusement and contempt, of the ’’vapors,” “swoons" and "sobbings” of the female element of society, and of the nervous irritability of the stronger sex. Under the light of our present knowledge, we trace the prevalence of neurotic and hysterical condi tions quite unconsciously placed before us and treated very much as a matter of course. Bearing in mind that we live in an age of pres sure and hurry, that nervous tendencies are detected and classified iu an unhesitating and relentless fashion. quite unknown when ’’vapors” and “swooning" seemed to have the correct characteristics of "truly lady like be ings." and the broken heak of a post boy was but a mild indication of irritation on the part of youDg men, we consider that modern minds may with reason abate some of their "nervous” fears as to tho degeneracy of the age. A French statistician, who has been studying the military and other records with a view of determining the hight of men at different periods, has reached some wonderful results. Ho has not only solved some perplexing prob lems in regard to the past of the human race but also is enabled to calculate its future, ami to detoriniee the exact period when man will disappear from the eai th. The recorded facts extend over nearly three centuries. It is found that in ldlO the average hight of man in Europe was 1.75 meters, or say :> feet 9 inches In 17;0 it was 5 feet 6 inches. In ISA) it was 5 feet 8 inches and a fraction. At the present time it is 5 feet "(4 inches. It 1b easy to deduce from these figures a rate of regular and gradual decline in human stature, and then ap ply this, working backward and forward to tbe past and to the future. By this calculation it is determined that the stature of the first man attained tbe sur prising average of 1 feet 9 iuc es. Truly, there were giants on tne earth in those davs The race had already deteriorated in the days of Og, and Goliath was a quite degenerate off spring of the giants. Coming down to later time,-ve find that al the beginning of our era th* average bight ot man was 9 feet, and at the time of l harlemagne it was 8 feet 8 iuc ies. But the most 1 stenishing result of this scientific study comes fr.ua the applicstlen or tbe same inexorable law of diminution to the future. 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