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Morning News Buiiding Savannah, Gi
, HONDAY, .IANVARY 9, 1893.
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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.
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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.
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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.
The calculation shows that by the year 400 u A.
D. the stature of the sverago man will be re
duced to fifteen inohea At that epooh there
will be only Ldliputia is on the earth. And the
conclusion of tbe learned statistician it irresist
Ible that “the end of the world will certainly ar
rive, for tbe Inhabitants will have bee.une so
small tuat they will finally disappear’’—'"O fish
by disappearing,” as the French Idiom ex-
J’toises it—"from the terrosllal globe.’
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