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Morning News Bui ding Savannah, G-..
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"index tonew advertisements.
Meetings—Solomon's Lodge No. 1, F. and A
M Excelsior Lean and Savings Company; St
Andrew's Society. Tammany
Military Orders— rder No 2, Third Bat
talion Georgia Volunteers (S. V G.), Order No.
r*. Republican Blues. Oglethorpe light Infantry;
Order No. 2, Fa annah Cadets.
Special Notices—As to Bill Against Swedish
Bark Minuet and Finnish Bark Clara; Rubber
Coats, Falk Clothing Company; Lincoln Ben
nett & Cos. Hats, Falk Clothing Company;
Notice to tbe Public, Murtagh F. Sullivan.
SrictAi. Run on Hosier?—Appel & Scbaul.
Bovs' Drrs—B. H. Levy ft Bro.
Railroad Schecl'lrs-Charleston and Sa
vannah Railroad; Jacksonvillo, ’iarara and
Key West Riilway Company.
Orress of Heal Estate— Edw. W. Brown.
Medical—Pond's Extract.
Legal Notices Rule Nisi.
I'ijsrv Cold Weaihsii i alk Clothing Com
pany.
Steamship Scnsr.fi.eb Ocean Steamship
Company; lia’.tiincro Sieainship Company.
Ohiap Cm/: At advertisements Help
SVanted; Euipl >yie it Waite i; For Rant; For
Sale; Lost. Personal; Miscellaneous.
ft Col Shepard, of Now York, has written
a letter to President Harrison urging him
to suspend the coinage of souvenir half dol
lars until Chicago agrees to close tbe (air on
Sundays. Col. Shepard la the owner of
some thousands of souvenir coins; eau it be
that be is trying to bull the market?
An Atlanta metecrolog st not long ago
came to the conclusion that the cold snap
was caused by comet dust floating in s;>aoe
between the earth and ti e sun and absorb
ing all the warmth of tbe sin's rays before
they reached the earth. Now will he say
that comet dust, which lias taken on moist
ure from the atmosphere while traveling
oarthward, make* snow'
If t,ho popular vote could have made yes
terday Christmas, or New Y ear’s, or the
Fourth of July, or nay other holiday, it
would have been a holiday, and such a ono
as Savannah has not seon for years. The
snow made the people recklessly joyful
and without respect to “raco, color or pre
vious condition, etc,” they turned out to
have a good time while it lasted.
Census Commissioner Porter says, lu
Uorense of his wonderful ceusus:
‘■Both at home and abroad the
eleventh census has beeu accepted
by governments and statisticians os
standard authority: and. perhaps more sig
nificant still, nearly every American col
lege of consequence is employing the census
bulletins as text books. These facts are
lesiimouy to tbe thoroughness end relia
bility of the work.” Asa matter of fact,
tbe foreign countries and tbe schools have
ha l to take "Hobson’s choice.’’
English society is perplexed- that is, it
was perplexed until English iugenuity re
lieved the situation. Tbe cause of society’s
late predicament is that Englishmen of the
inner circle no longer dance, consoqueutly
hostesses were for a long time at their wits’
end to secure partner? for young women at
balls and dancing parties. But now, ac
cording to a cable dispatch . the trouble has
been overcome. Hired guests armed with
guarantees of lituess aud respectability np
peai at the proper hour, warranted to dance
every Dumber on the card aud not give
more than three dances to one young
woman. Teas England will got along with
out the lazy swells of society, the girls will
have a good time, and mauv an iuipecuui
ous young fellow will turn un honest penny
with his legs.
There is an ordinance on the city’* book
of law* against letting hydrants and water
faucets run when water is not being drawn
for actual use. The waste of water during
warm weather made the passage of such an
ordinance necessary. But when the city
father* were considering the matter they
probably did not take into consideration
the possibility of freezing weather coining
down upon the city and cracking water
pipes, or they would have put In a proviso
allowing water-takers to leave their
hydrants dripping, in order to prevent
tbeir freezing. At any rate, it is hardly
likely that tbe law Would be rigidly en
forced if faucets should be left tbe least bit
open during tbe very cold snap*. .Nash
villa also baa a municipal law of the kind,
hut it has just btvu virtually suspended
during cold auaps, the city judge lining
parsons against whom charge* of the kind
yr re brought and iuusadlaloly remitting
we fine.
The Reorganization Plan.
Tbe plan for reorganizing the Central
Railroad ami Hanking Company, published
tbH morning, will t-e read with deep inter
est by thousands of people in this c.ty aud
state. It is a plan that has the upproval of
many of the largest of the security holders
of the companv. and of a large number of
others who are not security holders, but
who feet an interest in the grand old com
pany whose credit, during the many years
it was in the hands of Ueorgiaus, was uf tbe
highest, and who want to see its credit re
stored and its securities again a favorite in
vestment.
The plan appears to be a fair one- as fair
! to all the seourity holders as could be rea
[ sooably expected. The holders of the se
cured floating debt and the tripartite bonds
will, of course, get their money under the
plan dollar for dollar They would get
it if the road were sold, but the junior se
curity holders would get nothing. Theiutw
ior security holders, therefore, must tak™
what is offered them unless they can bring
about a reorganization more edvantageous
to their interests.
The holders of tbe securities of the auxili
ary (roads have pretty good reason to be
satisfied. It is very doubtful if these roads,
if severed from the Central, would yield the
holders of their securities anywhere near
what the reorganization gives them.
There will, of course, be much dissatisfac
tion among those who do not get the full
face value of their securities, but they must
remember that if it were not necessary for
them to give up anything there would be
no occasion for reorganization. And they
are not in a position to make terms. The
question for them to consider is whether the
best has been done for them that is possible
under tbe circumstances.
Those who are in a position to place ap
proximately a value upon the securities are
of the opinion thac the bonds will be worth
SO cents on the dollar, the preferred stock
40 cents and the common stock
25 cents. All classes of the
securities will be worth considerably
more than these figures in the very near
future if the business of the road improves
as rapidly as it is confidently predicted it
will Tbe outlook is that this year will be a
very prosperous one. It should not be for
gotten that the net earnings of the com
pany approximated $2,900,000 in 18S8. That
amount would pay the fixed charges, the 3
per cent, dividend on the preferred stock
and a dividend of 2>, per cent, on the com
mon stock.
The security holders know now what
the plan is. It is for them to say whether
they will accept or reject it. If they re
ject it, what then?
Kutherford B. Hayes.
Ex-President Kutherford B. Hayes,
whose death was chronicled in the Morx
imo ,Nis yesterday, will be remembered
chiefly in connection with the returning
board that made him the nineteenth Presi
dent of the United States. The campaign of
1876 arid the declaration of the returning
board in February, 1877, that he bad been
elected President, were the chief incidents
in Mr. Hayes’ life. Little mention since
1877 has ever been made of Hayes the
lawyer, Hayes the soldier, Hayes the con*
Krcs6man, or Hayes the governor, although
he was each in turn. Asa soldier and com
mander he won praise from Grant, particu
larly for his services at Fisher’s Hill and
Cedur Greek in the Virginia campaign. As
a member of congress he served his party
with credit, though with no remarkable
ability, and as the governor of Ohio his
constituents were pleased with his adminis
tration of affairs.
Had bis career ended before 1877 Mr.
Hayes would always have been spoken of
with honor and tha highest respect. As it
is bo baa since that time been, and will for
years to corns be spoken of almost solely as
the *• Fraudulent President.”
Of the merits of the returning board mat
ter, this it not the place to speak, even it
all of the mystery surrounding that remark
able commission and its doings could be
made clear.
Mr. Hayes was born In Ohio in 1823 and
recoived a thorough education, which was
finished with a course of law at Harvard.
Asa young man he was the friend and
associate of such men as Salmon P. Chase,
Thomas Kwtng, “Tom” Corwin, titan ley
Matthews, Moncure D. Conway and other
men of note, or who subsequently won dis
tinction. Hayes was a thinker and n
debater, so that other thinking men found
bis company congenial. His Urst office was
that of city solicitor of Cincinnati, which
he held ono term, but was defeated for
re-election. He went into the army of
toe union as a captain, and gradually rose
to the rank of a brigadier general, which
rank was conferred on him for his services
at Cedar Creek.
In ISOS Mr. Hayes was elected to congress,
where he served two term*. In 1861 lie was
nominated for governor of Ohio. Alien G.
Thurman was his opponent. Hayes vas
elected governor, but the legislature that
was elected with him sent his opponent to
the United States Senate. He served two
t 1 ms as governor and then ran for congress
ogniii, but was defeated. It is worthy of
note that iu that nainuaigii in Ohio (in
!872). Hayee put forward civil service re
form and sound money as the policy of the
Kepubllcan party. There was very little, if
any. talk of protection in those days. After
his defeat for congress President Graflt of
h red Mr. Hayes the office of aisistaut
treasurer of the United Htates at Cincin
nati, which he deolined. lu 1875 he
was again nominated and elected
governor of Ohio, and a year
la.er nominated for President of the
| United states. His opponent in that strug
gle, as everybody knows, was Samuel J.
Tildon, of New York, who was elected, but
never took his seat for obvious reasons. Mr.
| lie.' es’ administration was characterized by
I numerous minor difficulties encountered iu
| the way of legislation, one of whioh was
the adjournment of congress on March 3,
; 1877, without passing an army appropri
ation bill; thus, at the very beginning, the
administration was placed in an embarrass
ing position. The President culled an extra
1 session of congress to pass an army bill. On
the whole, however, Mr. Hayes’ adminis
tration wua, probably, satisfactory to the
people at large.
After retiring from the presidency Mr.
i Hayes led a very quiet life, devoting him
i self chiefly to his home and farm at Fre
mont. and in part to the management of
the Peabody educational fund, of which he
u t trustee, lie was uiso deeply luter
: ested in prison reforms, and took an active
advisory part in the Improvement of prisons
1 aud prison alicipiiue.
Yesterday was a great time for the “old
est Inhabitants," and tha varus that some
some of them spun must have made Ananias
uneasy lu his isst resting place.
TITE MORNING NEWS: T HURSDAY. JANUARY 19. 1593.
A Great and C- rowing- Evil.
Now that tne local elections in this
county and citv are over, thoughtful
Citizens— those * no are deeply interested iti
the futu o of tbe city and county—should
at once give attention to the great aud
growing evil of vote buying. It is evident
that with our very large colored popula
tion—a population that contains a very
large rereetitage of He purchasable
vote—something must 1 e done to prevent
bribery at elections. Unless something
it done to- prevent it the time may come,
and, that too, before many years,
when it will be in the power of a few men
well supplied with money, and having in
view only selfish purposes, to get control of
both the city and county governments.
Such men could do the city an immense
amount of Injury in a very short time.
The purchasable vote will steadily in
crease under the influence of tbe high price
paid for votes. The mai who was paid $5
or f!0 this year will think
at the next election he can get more, and
will demand a higher price, aud bit suooees
will influence others to sell their votes who
have never yet done so. Tbe evil will grow
greater until those who demand a price for
tbelr votes will hold the balance of power,
and the offices can be obtained only by buy
ing them outright.
A good many thousands of dollars
were spent in buying votes, if re
po-ts are to be credited, in the recent
county and city elections. The amount is
not known, of course, but a conservative
estimate would be, probably, between $30,-
000 and 540,000. And the vote buying was
done so openly that the scandal could
hardly have been greater had the purchas
able votes been sold at auction.
Neither political faction can be held
wholly responsible for this evil, for the rea
son that the faction that refuses to pur
chase votes is certain to be beaten. Neither
are those who sell their votes to be unqnali
fiedly condemned. They have not a suffi
ciently strong moral sense to resist the
temptation which a bribe presents.
Courts cannot check the evil It is ex
tremely difficult to get evidence against
those who furnish the bribes or those who
receive them, and it might be a difficult
matter to get a jury that would convict any
one giving or receiving a bribe for voting,
because many of those who help to mold
public sentiment contribute to the vote buy
ing fund. Indeed, this fund is a heavy tax
upon those who furnish it.
What then is to be dons? It is evident
that the best thing, in fact the
only thing, that can be done is to
adopt a system of balloting that will greatly
lessen tbe evil, if not prevent it altogether.
The Australian ballot system has been tried
with lenefleial effect. In the slates in which
it exists bribery at elections, it is said. has
practically ceased. The voter is placed
beyond the immediate influence e! tbe vote
buyer. He does not receive a ballot until
he is out of tbe reach of temptation and
there is no way of finding out tbe ticket he
voted. The vote buyer, under suoh circum
stances, does not care to buy votes, because
he is not sure that he will get what he
purchased.
The attention of tbe legislature should be
called strongly to the vote buying evil, and
it should be urged to give tbe Australian
system very careful aud conscientious con
sideration.
Thousands of Savaimahians saw snow ou
the ground for the first time in their lives
yesterday, and it may be that thousands of
them will never see the like again. To
them it was a source of wonder and delight.
It was a beautiful novelty; something to
play with, to stimulate fun and frolic.
Hardly one, probably, thought of the
misery and death that every heavy aud
long continued fall of snow causes in sec
tions of oountry less favored than ours.
Hera wo have no really poverty-stricken
people, as the people of the north under
stand that term. Nobody ever dies of
starvation or cold. by reason of absolute
inability to obtain food or fuel, in Savan
nah or in Georgia, at frequently ocours in
the north or northwest. The reason, of
oourio, is, chiefly that our winters are not
so eerare as the winters of the north; then
again, our population is not so dense, per*
mittiug every man to koow his neighbor
and the neighborhood, and if any case of
sulTeri-ig occurs it is quickly discovered
and relieved. It is not that we, as a peo
ple, are so very different from our more
northern cousins that there is not more
suffering in the south, but because kind
nature has blessed us with a climate and a
soil as fine aud as fruitful as any on ear Ah.
For which we should be profoundly grate -
ful.
The “World’s Fair Sunday Closers" and
Mayor Wasbburne, of Chicago, are at war.
The “Sunday Closers” have sued out a writ
of injunction restraining the city treasurer
from paying the expen.-es of Mayor tt"ash
burns and a committee of aldermen who
went to Washington recently to advocate
Sunday opening. The judge before whom
the matter was Heard indignantly referred
to the trip as a “junket,” and said the tax
payers had endured that sort of thing quite
long enough. The members of Mayor
Waahburne's party characterize the others
as “long-haired cranks,” and say they i aid
the expenses of the Washington trip out of
their own pockets, and will do it again as
soon as they please. And thus grows the
great world’s fair.
There are a number of bills in committee
in Washington affecting naturalization,
nearly all of whioh provide regulations and
observances more strict than those in force
now. The result is that there has been a
rush of prospective citizens to the federal
courts in some sections of the country, in
anticipation of the passage of some of these
bills. In Pittsburg, according to the Dis
patch , the number of applicants for citizen
ship has not beeu equalled for years. The
same is said to be true of other manufactur
ing and mining centers in Pennsylvania,
where there are large numbers of foreign
ers.
l'be Washington Star announces that the
opposition to Speaker Crisp’s re eleotion is
dying away. "The talk of a contest over
the speakership of the House for tbe Fifty
third congress is practically closed; to start
with, there was not enough strength be
hind the movement,” it says. All along the
opposition has shown its weakness by its
unsuccessful endeavors to drag Mr. Cleve
land into the fight against Judge Crisp.
Mr. “Bteve” Rvan, of Atlanta, who Is en
joying his liberty after having been locked
up a year for falling to produce money
wbicn the court said he had, fires this shot
at some of the people interested in bis esse:
“Now I am out of jail and have no money,
my creditors ought to put tbs lawyers, re
ceiver and auditor id jail bacauao they have
it •11."
Egg flips gave wsy yesterday morning to
snow ooektails.
PERSONAL,
lo> < SpamsU i di*
commuted owinjc to hi* holiness
having a.'vn taken Lis OM stand a mar
I et>eo l>ou Jaime, his son, and Mercedes,
llie <l%u£ ler \A the Kegeir* of bpam.
Ihe Pauline potterr at K<lgeu*n, WU.. is a
stoclr companv. under tbe management of Mr.
Jacobus TrJUie Ma V.ftt. for reborn Up potterv*
*• Las cbarg>- of U*e dee* rttive depart
ment. r*ey employ about iorty 1 *u*t* in tb;
busy ronion of .hey? *r.
M*e. Udcsv-A MfAOKKii rule* at Hnyreuth in
the mot autocratic and will not per
mit the Klitf iteet exception to her rules. At re
liear%aU neither performer* nor members of
tbe audience are allowed to carry * para
sols. pursesr-pr small belongings of any kind.
Thk wife of Col. WHltent F. C ody, better
known os “Buffalo Bill," Is an amiable, home
loving woman, who is popular in tbe neighbor
npoa of North Platte, where she lives. She has
a debghtful home about four miles from the
town, set >n the midst of ;?,OCO acres of prairie
land
31. Cap*#. *ho hns fceen recently appointed
director of the obserratory on Mount Blanc, is
sir jularly well prepared for the position he is
to nil, having passed many months at a time
on bights as great as Mount Blanc. Although
Btiliayouug man, he has made a reuiarkable
record in natural science.
Mps. to. p. Kimba 11. whose husband, the
president of the Pennsboro and Harrisville rail
rood, lately died, has been elected by the direc
tors of the rood to fill hi* place. Mrs. Kimball
h known through West Virginia a> a woman of
business ability. The road ii in Ritchie county,
e*? \ irginia, anti nlae miles m length.
Kcs t na Yokes got a Mack eye recently from
the band of an octree la her company; but as
the blow* was trarsly acei -en4al no serious harm
will ensue. It appears that Miss Lrangeline
Irviog, in-dismusoing a recreant lover with an
an impressive wave of her hand, overdid the
gesture and hit Miss Vokes, who was close by.
Sir Arthur Buli.itan is said to have once per
formed a remarkable musical feat against time,
p® accented the challenge that he would strike
1,000,'00 notes on the piano in the space ot
twelve hours Taking a compass of ttu©' oc
taves, ascending and descending, he struck 110.-
OuO notea in the fintt hour, lAO3O in the second,
and the total 1 in just eight hours, and
allowing for the intervals of rest, came off vic
tor iounrftiiin the abetted time.
BRIGHT BITS,
SuEepy Parent—l don't think much of Mr.
Lonk'stsy's manners.
Fair Daughter—Nb; they are just like his
calls -tbey lack finish. —Foie Record.
“Do you ouAree! W ith your neighbor still
about his dog comiagover into your garden V’
"So. that s all over now.”
“BuriedLtbe hatchet?*'
“No; buried the dog. —Tit Bitt
REVExoff.—Slim'Bon—Why, Willie, you must
have been in a terrible fight.
Willie—Yes. I was; Tgot 1 eked by the minis
ter’s sou.
“What <3fld fie whip you tor?"
“He bad on a suit of my clothes you sent him
and he said that was the only way he could get
even ." —dottier as £ r urnmher .
She Knew the Intaat Mind.—^“Bah Jove,”
said Chappie- to the young woman at the
church fair. **theahßeoms to be a sort of—er
ah intellectual sympattiy between us. don’t
cber know. Aw you literary or something of
the sort V *
“No," she answered. “I am a teacher in the
kindergarten.”-^- Ifidtanavol.a Journal .
Mr. Mi*vsa— I That girt was decent enough to
Mack the stove before going, I see,
Mrs Minks—No-; 4 biaeked them myself, and
it’s lucky I did.
“Lucky?"
“Yes, indeed Mrs. Pe Fashion and Mrs. De
Style called right in the midst of it, and so I
just put a little more'blaoKing on my face and
went to the door and told them I wasn’t in.
Thev &aid they’d coil again.”— New York
Weekly.
The Marco or Science,—Hiram—Well, Si,
I heard ye bin daowp to Bostin
Silas— Well, ye heard right. Hi; I wuz ther
nigh onto a week.
Hiram -Well, hev they got anything difrunt
ther’ from what they’ve got daown to Brattle
bory?
Siias—Di runt' Well ye ought to go ther’
once. They hev fypas keera that will hold agoiu’
onto a htradrbd amPtney putt ‘em reoun t with
a leetlo wii* ' ncr btgge‘n a straw .* Boslcm
Courier. . ... _. r
Friend—What are you working at now?
Inventor—greatest thin.' of the age—a dollar
in tne slot voting ani weighing machine; it
collects the polltax, couuts tne vot s ami so
beautifully discriminates that there’ll be no
more trouble, no more politics, no more
speeches, no more brass bands, and, b.st of all,
no more boodlers.
’’My stars: What’s the idea? %
“Simple as As B. G. The machtne only counts
the votes of those under a certain weight.
Quickks the party in power begins to get fat
on the spoil* of office, their votes are thrown
out, and the half-starved minority walks m;
and when the new party gets fat, It goes out.
and so on. Beats Bellamy.’'—.Vein ork Week y
CURRENT COMiiUNT.
Talk 6 1 a Session in September.
Frans the Cincinnati Enouirer (Drm).
Senator Brice is quite correct in thinking that
this congress wil. take no action regarding sil
ver. U wdftake none of importance elsewhere.
The bur Jenof all the great pending questions
will be left upon the Firty third congress, which
will be called in extraordinary session in Sep
teniber.
7 he Amount of Barth It Deserves.
From the Chicago Inter Ocean (Rep.),
Uncle Sam would do well to have his eye open
to th <t big Nova Scotia coal ileal now being
compleled and engineered by the corrupt coal
trust of the east, i bat “coal trust” wants the
earth, and .t should be given a space of ; x 6
feet and buried so deep that it wiil-nover hear a
horn blow.
They Thini Striking- Thoughts.
Flow the Lews' Ft Courier-Journal (P-ml.
•V republican ngan sarcastically remarks
that democrat*thiuk with their leet.” Per
haps ihat explains vhv. a tor tha vigorous and
l roperly applied hmkmg dona by the damu
era's last Soretiber, the republi can candidate
fo.- tins rreAlottfy * ill not be -able to taxe his
sea: m March, i■
A Natooal Quarantine.
l>.-. Jos. Holt, Health Officer at Xew Orleans.
In the mana.eineut of health affairs in their
national extras on the present congressional
move to create t mixed eonce n of co oner tire
state and tod. ra responsibility, under the dc
tation of one mm. is a poor compromise of na
tiooal authority to placate personal and local
notions and interests, instead of seeking purely
and simply the ctrect course to the speediest
and most effectual public relief of danger aud
anxiety. In ttill year of tlje world’s Columbian
exhibition and Cor all time to cpme tbe people
of our entire country demand and expect only
tho very best instrument of national protection
that congress cav possibly devi-e and nothing
less." They warn no hermaphrodite mixing or
functions or temporizing measures, but the
highest attainable guarantee of safety, aud
that imtned atejy.
The zonfon Times Corrected.
From the Sprint/fleld (Mass.) Republican (Ind ).
The London rimes told its readers not long
•go that. Mr. Cleveland was hunting in the
Adiroudacks in Mexico. Tbe Times omitted
the interesting iact that Hog Island, where Mr.
Cleveland was bagging ducks, is in the center
of a vast late lathe crater of lztaccihautl, the
greatest ext inct volcano in the Adirondacks, of
which the Hi.(lson river is tho outlet, emptying
Into Chesapeake hay near the city of New Or
leaux. The ducks of Hog Island arc, of cours -,
rare abd highly prized game, and it is only by
the courtesy cf President Diaz to a brother
president (as Mt Cleveland is now—Mr. Harri
son merely hetdiug over as Vice President un
der the constitution until March 4' that the dis
tinguished sportsman had the privilege of shoot
ing them. We trust the iimee will receive this
information, t uttered for purely charitable
purposes, with grateful acknowledgments.
Whet Free Coinage Means.
from the Chicago Tribune (Rep.),
There need he no doubt that free coinage
would declare and constitute nets grams of
standard silver, one-tenth of whim is alloy, a
“dollar ” But what would that dollar be worth
as determined by It* buying power* It would
take more than three of such dollars to pur
chase what can now be bought witli f.’ and if
the mines w hich aro turning out large quantities
of ailver at a coat to themselves of not more
than Zb cents per ounce should increase their
product ion to the extent promised incase of
free coinage, It would soon taae at least to
pay for what can now bj purchased for sl.
i hat is, tbeonrrcDCy unit of Lite l a led State)
would Is- debase*! M per cent to please a few
silver Inina owners who have already waxed
enortaousty rich, for It u n .tori us that tha
plilK’l I*l pressure in favor of free coinage wne
originally exarlrd by tbe owuerx of those best
paying properties.
No Pay Unless Fat Ibfactery.
A Boston pa;er tells a gooJ story of a Boston
subui ban pastor, lie wa* k thing in hi* library
one evening recent;/, when a a nock at the door
came He answered, and feund a couple who
desired to be united in matrimony. The pastor
asked them into his parlor and performed the
ceremony, afvr which the groom
handed him a sealed envelope, supposed to hare
contained the u*ual conrpensatlon The happy
couple departed, and tne reverend g-nt!emau
, oi*-r ©d the envelope aud found the following
note: *‘Jfhe turns out as wed as I think
will I will coaie ba*k aad j>ay you for your
services.”
Evidently They Were Not Hungry.
Among the many good stories told by Dean
Flole in bis “Memories" is the following: There
wrs a very large congregation, and tbe rector,
seeing that there n only one aims dish, made
signs to a rustic from the chancel entrance to
come to him. and bade him go into the rectory
garden through a glass door into the dining
room, where there had been a slight refection
before the service, bring a dish from the table,
take it down one side oi the north aisle and up
the other, and then bring ft to the clergyman
at the place from which fc started. The rustic
disappeared, reappeared with the dish, took it
a* he was ordered and presented it to the peo
pie on either side of tte aisle, aud then, ap
proachiDg tne rector, whispered in bis ear. “Ive
done as you told-me, sir. I’ve taken it down
yon side the aisle and up t other—tney’ll none
on >ra’ave any.” No order had been given to
empty the dish, and it was full of biscuits!
Not Quite as Exp3Ctad.
We were talking of the autograph collectors,
says Walter Besaot in the London Queen and I
told this story. A certain collector—a lady—
a*ked n e to get for her an autograph letter of
Prof. F CL, a trend <yf myown f agreed to
asK him for his signature at least. But the
great man proved curiously amiaile. He very
Kindly said, ‘T will give you, for your friend, not
only my signature, but also an autograph let
ter ” He sat down and wrote that letter, which
he gave me. I read it and thanked bnu without
a smile. At certain supreme moments one has
complete command of both muscles aud nerves.
His letter ran as folio**
‘ F am pleaded to be able to give th* applicant,
named, l believe. Walter Besant, a testimonial
of personal character. I would give him many
testimonials if I could get a permanent income
for a persistent borrower, I have known him for
some years. He is frequently so.twrv sometimes
respectful, well mannered wheuße pleases, and
haa never been found out, no far as 1 know, in
any dishonesty. How far be may be trusted
with other people s money, those who know
him better tnan myself will be able to speak
For my own part I have never trusted him ary
further than [ could see him. Ho is said to
gamble habitually, but I do not state this of
personal knowledge, because I sboul i decline
to play with bim even if he were to invite
me. The little difficulty: of tbe.rifcht bower
up his coat sleeve at a recent race meeting was.
ho says, satisfactorily disposed of. He does
not, as a rule, spend mure than twice his
wapes—without counting the ticks which he
newr pays. I believe that it Is not true, as has
been alleged, that he has a wife in every colo
Dial port. He cannot do anything practical cr
useful. But he has a pretty wit, and has lam.
poone 1 several very respec able gentlemen into
the grav e In bl ickmading he is a past master.
It is not true that he has been frequently horse
whipped, but I kQow for a fact that several
persons who at various times have get out with
the purpose of horsewhipping him have re
turned on shutters. He is a most earnest, whole
souled gentleman whose appointment to the
post which he seeks, that of window cleaner to
the work house, will give the greatest satisfac
tion to ail those who at present have to lend him
half erowus, on application, to keep him going.
A Story of Ben Butler.
*‘l remember going over to Washington on
the same train with Ben Butler,” said Capt.
Gore, an old Mississippi river pilot, to a New
York Herald writer. “We were standing in the
Jersey City station when a couple of New York
detec lives came up to us and raid: ‘Your friend
there (indicating my companion) better douse
the glim. There’s a nngnty hard gang about
here. Like enough they'll be folio wing you
over to Washington. Do you know G<?n. Hut
lor?' I said I did, but very slightlv. i had seen
the g-neral go forward and into the near, st car.
’Then tell him when you go aboard to lo jk out
fora long hatred crank who has been overheard
making threats agajjist him. Aud all of you
mind your diamv>;<ds.’
“Now, my I rend <vho was with me was Joab
Lawrence, who owued a line of coats plying be
tween Siou* city aid fort Beaton called the
Iflwrt no*.line. He was a very rich and eccen
tric man. He never went with less than $30,000
to SIO,OOO worth of diamonds on his person—in
plain sight. On this particular occasion he had
a brace of immense shirt studs, diamond cuff
buttons, a lovely collar button and a diamond
studded watch, aud everybody who knew him
knew that he carried loose diamonds in a bag in
his pocket. He was scared half to death at the
words of the detectiy . When we got in the car
he began to strip his diamonds off. He wanted
me to take care of them for him, but I told him
I would o* iust as apt to lose them as he would
and rofnseato take the responsibility.
“While this was going on 1 went down the
aisle to warn Gen. Butler. Mind you, thU was
in 1872, and there was more hot blood and law
lessness abroad iu the land then than there has
been since. The old general looked un at me
and that peculiar quizzical smile of his flitted
across his rugged face:
‘“There are always some of the old guard
around. lam not afraid. Are you armed?’
“I told him I was. And then I told him tbe
•tory of the diamonds.
** ‘All right,' said he. ‘we will stand together.’
“Well, nobody molested us. We got to Wash
ington all right and my friend Lawrence got
the bulk of hi* diamonds in the hotel safe I
met Butler the next day down at the capltol
and Kpoke of the day before.
'‘Pshaw: taid he, *‘my life is threatened
tw ice a day on an averaTe. I’robablj more peu
pie have threatened to kill me than auy man
who ever lived. I'll did of old age.”
Ths Shoot.
Irene Osgoocl in London Country Gentleman.
XVe were late for the drive, and swung along
Through the park and tho bushes thick and
strong.
Then last by the lake, all frozen white,
A nd fast through tho covers left and right.
While the sound of the beater’s swash-swish
whack
Came echoing through the forest back;
Back where we crouched, not knowing tbe turn,
w hile ttie p ng of the shot Hashed o'er the fern.
“Kun low. ’ he whispered, with eyes ablaze,
“And perhaps we’ll pass without a phase.”
The woods were a poem in frosty hue.
The sky was a study in snowy blue.
We rushed through the trees like startled deer,
And held our breath when shot whistled near;
One struggle more, and we stood with the guns.
Then the colonel began to make bis puns
On people who shun fine spi n winter mornings,
And hate to get up on beastly cold dawnlngs.
Stout Uudiey. tbe keeper, a- brown's a berrv,
With his son, whose eyes are English and
merry.
Placed us In line—no! he isn’t a fool. ,
An odd thing to do, for 'tirn't the rule
To give the best number to sportsmen who
lark:
But I'udley was clever, and just then cried
“Mark!”
I up with my gun. and a flue cock pheasant
Flopped down at my feet with clutter pleasant;
A robbit. went shooting Tong side the holly,
T marked him my own, he paid for bis fully.
The smoke of the powder curled above us,
My friend in a fright cried; “Look out. Lord
love us“’ ,
For our neighbor was aiming straight at his
boots.
Not an unusual thing at big English shoots.
Bang! and a hare sped ov. r the grass.
I tried with my left, but missed him, alas:
While the sound ot the beater’s swaah-swish
■whack
Came echoing through the forest back;
Back where we stoou. all nungry and tired.
When again the cry of "Mark !’• and he fired
Tho bag was immense, and our app-tites, too.
As we sat down to lunch, and drana nut-brown
brew;
Each twig and leaf in lace was dressed,
Each blade o’ grass bad a crystal uest.
We were late for the shoot, but what did we
care?
For we ran the fire 'thout scorching a hair.
And the woods wore a poem a frosty blue.
And the sky a study in suowy hue.
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Mrs. Fred Vanderbilt's cat Koko is said to
have cost, counting origin il price paid and cost
of importation, close upon ±11,030. Ha was
born in the palace of the rmtado, and lathe
most beautiful, as well as the most costly, cat
in this country Of unusual size, he is like a
maltese cat in color and inteHleence. His
mouse-colored coat ia like heavy satin, so rich
and showy, and aleck. Every morning he has
his bath and is combed and fed before he is
aliowed to present himself in Mrs. Vanderbilt’s
rose colored morning room. His breakfast of
cream and grilled homes is served in a delicti e
china bowl and soup olate, very much Use tnose
used by children for tbeir oatmeal One of
Koko's accomplishments is the delicate way in
which he partakes of his meals. He never spills
a drop Of cream or touches the delicate carpet
with a piece of meat or bone Mrs Vander
bilt laughs and says Koko could eie lessens m
table manners to a (food many people.
Tissot attempts to account for the greater
longevity of women as compared to that of men
by the theory that the large amount of talking
for which women are noted is a healthful ex
ercise that promotes the circulation of the
blood w ithout overtaxing the vital organs. This
may do for a cynical French joke, but the
Detroit free Pres, thinks the real explanation
prolably isthe qu eter and mors regular life that
women lead, thus preventing the premature
wear out of tne nervous system. One of the
most famous of female centernaians was the
Countess of Desmond, who lived to be 145 and
died in the reign of James I. from the effects of
an accident. This wonderful woman found her
self, at the age of 100. so lively and strong as to
be able to take parr in a dance, and when she
was 140 she traveled all the way from
Bt istol to London—no trifling journey in those
days—in order to personally attend to
seme bus ness affairs. Lady Desmond is, how
ever, quite thrown into tbe shade by a
French woman, Marie Prion, who died in St.
Columbe in June, 1838—it is said—at the won
derful age of 158. Toward tite end cf her life
she lived exclusively on goat's milk and cheese.
Although her body was so shpunk that she
weighed only forty-six pounds she retained all
her mental faculties to the last It is an extra
ordinary but incontestable fact that some
women at >he aje when most people die under
go a sort of natural process of rejuvenation—the
hatr and teeth grow again, the wrinkles disap
pear from the skin and sisrht and hearing reac
quire tbeir former sharpness. A Marquise de
Mirabeauls an example of this rare and remark
able phenomenon. She died at the age of 86.
but a few years before her death she became in
appearance quite young again. The same
c ange happened to a nun of tbe narn 1 of Mar
guerite Verd ur, who at the age of 63 lost her
wrinkles, regained her sight and grew several
new teeth. When she died ten years later her
appearance was almost that of a young girl.
The elder Ilerschel fully believed that on one
occasion he saw the flames of an active volcano
on the moon, and only a few years ago. 1875,
Ur. Klein announced his discovery of a crater
on the lunar surface. Still the prevailing im
pression among astronomers is that the moon is
a dead world, and that while evideuce of past
volcanic action on that satellite is abundant its
Internal tires have long since bepp extinguished.
It is recalled by the St. Louis Republic that the
controversy on the supposed existence of active
volcanoes on the raoou was renewed and waged
with much bitterness during the year 1879
by the publication in the Scientific Anteri.
can of an account of a supposed vol
canic eruption on the moon, which was
viewed by Urof. John HArames and his
son on the evening or Nov. 12. 1878, atOska
loosa. la. Hammes lives at Keokuk, la., and
spends a good part of bis time traveling over
the country with a .'.l ined telescope, through
which he shows the moon and planets to stu
dents and professors of colleges which are not
able to possess instruments of tbeir own In
tnis capacity Mr. Hammes has become quite
familiar with Luna and the other planets, as
well as with hit instrument He describes the
great lunar eruption es lasting a full half hour,
and as being as plainly visible at any other ob
ject or pieoe of icenery on the lunar surface.
His son also saw the phenomenon, but describes
the eruptive streaks as being less fan shaped
than those noted by tne father, which, how
ever. m ikes but 1 ttle difference, as no two men
see alike. According to the sketch furnished
by the professor, this, the most wonderful of
all volcanoes. Is in the vicinity of Paco, Harocius
and Nicolai, as given on Ueer ft Madler's map
of the moon. As the phenomenon was alto
gether unexpected. Mr Hammes was not pre
pared for taking measurements ot the hight of
the eruptive streaks. In the absence ot more
exaot data he furnishes his sketch, which ena
Dies one to form a pretty good opinion both of
the hight aud width of this, the only clearly ob
served lunar eruption on record, as w ell as snow
ing quite plainly the clearly defined crater from
which the stream of fire proceeded.
Paper money developed from the bills of ex
changeor certificate, of the banks was pro >a
blv first issued by the Italian bankers of the
fourteenth century, says the San t-rancisco
Examiner. Governments found it an easy way
of obtaining money in times of necessity, being,
in effect, a forced loan from the people. Paper
bills are promts s to pay, and when the goveru
ment issues them in exchange for supplies or
services it has actually borrowed just s > much
from the man to whom it pays them It, how
ever, allows him to pass this note in payment of
his debts, so instead of being a loan from him
a ugly it is a loan from the wi.ole people. The
case with which the notes may be issued has
led many govern i ents into disastrous experi
ments in time of war or stress, the
promises being issued in such profusion
that they became of no value. The continental
currency issued during the revolution by the
American congreas. and the assignats of the
Fnench revolution may b.- instanced. Paper
money depends for its value on the ability of
the authority that issues It to give value for it
when payment is demanded. When the issue
of the civil war was in doubt the value ot
the greenbacks Issued by the United States
sunk to one third their face value, due partly to
a lack of confidence in the government and due
still more to tbe certainty that pay men t of the
notes must be indefinitely postponed. Even
when the war closed and there was no lon.er
douptof the government the currency was de
preciate 1 for thirteen years. The government
was in the position of the man known to hie
neighbors as “good, but slow pay.” His notes
pass at a discount. The government was
known to be good for the amount, and it
was certain that it would be ready to redeem
its notes some day, but that was notenougb for
the man who wanted to use the money right
away. He thus passed the notes at a discount.
Tbo value of paper money thus depends at any
given moment on the promise of the govern
ment to redeem it. If the promise will lie met
when the notes are presented they pvss at their
face value. If there is doubt on this point the
notes must pass at discouut, greater or less ac
oordi gto circumstances If there is no chance
that they will ever be paid they are worth
nothing at ail. As tbe United States govern
ment has stood ready since 1579 to redeem in
gold any notes as soon ar. presented, its cur
rency passes without question at its face value.
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