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Morning News Buiidinu Savannah, G*.
THURSDAY, MARCH !*. 1593.
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INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Meetings —Zerubbabel I-odge No. 15, F. and
A. M.; B. P. O. Elks; Savannah Loan Associa
tion
Military Order— Oglethorpe Light Infantry.
Special Notices—Notice of Application, Elec
tric Railway Company of Savannah; Proposals.
City of Savannah; Fullt
Clothing Company.
Steamship Schedules Ocean Steamship
Company; International Navigation Company;
Baltimore Steamship Company.
Fedora and Alpine Hats— B. H. Levy & Bro.
Some Great Surprises in Store for Custom
ers—Appel & Schaul.
Keal Estate Offers— Edw. W. Brown,
Auction Sale— Desirable Kesidence, I. D. &
R. D. 1-aßoche.
We Direct Attention— Falk Clothing Com
pany.
Cheap Column Advertisements Help
tVaatai; Enpliyment Wantel; For Rent; For
Sale; Lost; Personal; Miscellaneous.
There is “standing room only” in the
congregation of office-seekers.
Ex-Gov. Gray, of Indiana, appears to be
the Micawber of the new administration.
He is waiting tor something—anything—
to turn up.
Under the new base ball rules the pitcher
will not be the only player la the game.
The fielders will be given a chance to show
their mettle.
“Steve” Elkins did not do the right thing
by ‘ ‘Dan” Lamont. He should have been
on hand when the department was turned
over to his successor, so as to tell him all
about the army, and how to fight wars.
For “Dau” has no reputation as a fighter
with guns.
Kaiulani, the princess, importuning Mr.
Cleveland, the democrat, to give her back
ber throne will be in all respects a nine
teenth century scene. But a little more
than a hundred years ago it was the rep
resentative of the people who was forced to
beg recognition of royalty.
A New York court has ruled that the
payment of a lottery prize oannot be forced
bylaw. A woman had won $15,000, half
of which had been withheld by the agent
through whom she purchased the tloket, and
•he had sued for It. The court said it was
* gambling transaction and refused to make
the agent pay.
To-day was named by the union work
men employed at the world’s fair grounds,
Chicago, as the time they would go out on
■trike if the demands of the striking street
railway men were not oonoeded by their
•mployers. A strike among the fair work
men at this time would be very unfortunate,
as the opening of the fair in an unfinished
condition on May 1 would be the conse
quenoa.
Sullivan has consented to act as Mitchell’s
aeoond in bis fight with Corbett. All along
the big bruiser has been saying he was glad
the championship was to stay in America;
that the keen edge was taken off his disap
pointment by the fact that he had been
beaten by a native of his own oountry, etc.
Hut be is going to help the Englishman,
whom he hates, in an attempt to beat the
American, whom be hates more.
Mary E. Vanderbilt, daughter-in-law of
old Capt. Jacob Vanderbilt, of tbe famous
Vanderbilt family of Hew York, sued the
old captain some time ago for damages for
tbe alienation other husband’s affection.
She valued the loss of the young titan’s love
at SIOO,OOO, which she asked the court to
make the captain pay. The case was' ‘bung
up” in court for some time. But finally the
old captain got out his check book and
offered Mary a check for a sum away below
half the amount she demanded. Bhe ac
cepted it, and will sue for a divorce.
• It is interesting to note that every
member of Mr. Cleveland’s cab
inet, with one exceotion, is a Presbyterian,
and that the exception, Mr. Carlisle, is said
to lean toward the Presbyterian church.
This fact is said to have been the only one
in connection with the new cabinet re
marked upon by ex-President Harrison.
An old politiciau, quoted by a Washington
correspondent, sayß there are more Presby
terians lu both houses of congress than rep
resentatives of any other two churches.
And he says, further, that the governors of
more than a dozen states are Presby
terians. Can it be that tho Presbyterian
belief in election has anything to do
with this?
The Distribution of the Offices.
For several weeks Mr. Cleveland’s time
will be almost wholly occupied in passing
upon the applioations for office which have
been filed already and which will be filed
within the next few days. He oould uot
get rid of this work if he desired to, and
there is no reason for thinking that he would
like to get rid of it. Republicans now oc
cupy all the principal offices outside of tho
cabinet offices, and it is quite certain that Mr.
Cleveland does not intend to let them re
main where they are. Rome of the re
publican officials who were appointed for
specified terms may be permitted to serve out
their terms, but others, particularly those
who have been offensively partisan in the
discharge of their duties or have neglected
the public service to perform partisan
work, will be notified very soon doubtless
that their resignations are desired. It is safe
to say that democrats will succeed repub
licans la all the offices that are closely con
nected with the administration of the gov
ernment just as soon as satisfactory succes
sors can be chosen.
Congressman Holman is of the opinion
that Mr. Cleveland will bo more conserva
tive in the matter of appointments than he
was in 188.1. In an interview last Monday
he said : “ There will be an enlargement, I
imagine, of the Cleveland idea that ’public
office is a public trust.’ Undoubtedly there
are to be many disappointed office-seek-
ers.”
From this is to be inferred that it will be
Mr. Cleveland’s policy to permit the repub
lican office holders who have administered
their trusts faithfully and satisfactorily to
remaiu in office. While Mr. Cleveland
will be disposed to be conservative it is
probable that Mr. Holman’s outline of
what bis policy is likely to
be is inoorrect. A fair infer
ence from what Mr. Cleveland has said
in respect to the patronage is that merit,
and not party services alone, will guide him
in making appointments. The question of
the fitness of an applicant for an office will
be considered before any inquiry is made as
to the party services he has rendered. Party
work will not be an objection to an appll
cart, but it. will not insure his success unless
he Is fitted to discharge the duties of the
office he aspires to till. Mr. Cleveland
seems to have the idea that it is bis duty to
provide the people with good and accept
able officials rather than reward those who
may have been active in the campaign in
his behalf.
The civil service law will be respected in
every partiouiar. It has already been ex
tended to include nearly all the minor
places In the different departments, and it
would not be at all surprising if Mr. Cleve
land should still further extend it. He be
lieves that changes should be made in the
little places, the clerkships, only for cause,
because those who are familiar with the
duties of such places can render the publio
better service than those who have had
neither experience nor training.
The Democratic party would not be satis
fied, and it would have good reason not to
be, if the administration should be indif
ferent about appointing demoorats to the
places whioh are not under the civil
service law. To suoh places demoorats
should be appointed, not only because they
oould help to make the administration
popular and successful, butjalso because the
people by their votes have said that they
want the government democratic in all its
branches.
As Mr. Holman says, there will be many
disappointed office-seekers. That would be
the case if there were twice as many offices
as there are. The large number of ap
plicants, however, gives Mr. Cleveland and
his cabinet au qpportunity to fill the offices
with men who will serve the public faith
fully and satisfactorily, and at the same
time refleot credit upon the Democratio
party.
The Improvement of the Streets.
During the last city administration a
great deal of street paving was done. The
people did not complain beoause they saw
they were getting something for their
money, and, besides, street improvements
help the city in many ways.
Wbat is going to be the polioy of the new
council relative to street paving > The peo
ple would like to have the work of paving
the street* continued.
If any of the streets are to be pavsd this
year, the work should be done before the
beginning of warm weather or after the
beginning of cool weather next fall There
was considerable complaint of the disturb
ance of the surface of the streets last sum
mer, and while no harm may have been
caused by it, nevertheless there is a feeling
that the upturning of the soil in hot
weather, however slight, is likely to be pro
ductive of sickness.
The people want the street Improvements
continued, but they don’t want the im
provements made in summer.
The report of a $100,000,000 leather trust,
published recently, has stirred the shoe
manufacturers to notion in self-defense.
They say they will see that leather is not
controlled by a trust; they will oombiue and
go into the tanning business themselves,
first. By becoming tanners as well as shoe
makers. they say they could get tlielr leather
at “first cost,” without having to pay tan
nsrs' profits, and oould even afford to pay a
little more for hides than tanners now pay.
And, to an outsider, it really looks as
though the shoemakers have the advan
tage of the tanners.
The “lady ball players” who went over to
Cuba from this oountry to show the natives
some “dandy curves,” are not pleased with
their reception. Borne of the natives thought
they actually meant to play ball, and de
manded that their fielding, batting and base
running should be done in a scientific man
ner. And when the female ball tossers could
not play up to the standard the natives got
mad and smashed things. It is evident that
the Cubans are not admirers of the great
American “fake."
Secretary Noble’s “spoon” letter to the
commissioner of patents shows him to be
a man of muoh narrower mind than the
public would like to believe. The picture
of a confederate Hag on the handle of a
spoon nearly thirty years after the close of
the war certainly ought not to frighten
any one; especially when an olive branch
goes along with the flag. But maybe it is
the olive braucb, and not the flag, that
Secretary Noble objects to.
The world’s fair is to be closed on Sun
days But. in order to make up for It as
far as possible, Dr. Talinage is to be invited
to preach iu the largest theater in the oity
during the fair soasoo.
Those New Orleans people are making
prize-fights too common for their own
good. After a while a prize mill will be
|oo greater attraction than a firsl-olass
j opera.
THE MORNING NEWS: THURSDAY, MARCH 9, 1893.
Davenport Remembered.
The Harrison administration did not for
get John I. Davenport, chief iuspeotor of
elections for Ne w York. Although thou
sands of thing* claimed its attention during
the last days it found time to audit the ac
counts of Davenport and make out a check
for him. No doubt hundreds of other more
| meritorious claims than this one of Daven-
I port’s had been waiting for approval for
! many months, but they were passed over in
order that he might get his money.
The amount of the check given to him
was $31,000, and this money was for alleged
expenses in connection with bis office. Dav
enport has drawn large sums of money from
the treasury from time to time as chief in
spector of elections for New York, and the
very general impression is that whatever
j services be has rendered have been of a
partisan ebaraoter. He is a republican of .the
bitterest sort, and his idea of his official
duties appears to be to assist the Republican
party. That party has always seen to it
that be was handsomely paid, and its lead
ers do doubt have felt satisfied that he was
worth to them all he got out of the govern
ment.
He is the Davenport who dratted the in
famous force bill that Reed, Lodge and
others came near having passed by tbe
Fifty-first congress. If it had not been for
him it is not improbable that no suoh bill
would have been introduced into oongreßS.
The $31,000 he got from tbe treasury just
before the Harrison administration went
out of office may be regarded as a reward
for partisan work. First Controller
of tbs Treasury Matthews was partic
ularly zealous in putting this reward into
Davenport’s pooket. He doubtless was in
sympathy with the kind of work Daven
port did.
Davenport will not get any more money
out of the treasury very soon. His career
as an inspector of elections may be con
sidered as praotioally ended. Tbe Demo
cratio party has no use for him and it will
be a good while before the Republican party
will be in a position to pay him for politloal
work.
Not a Princess of Royal Blood.
In a letter to the New York Sun. George
Parsons Lathrop points out that Kaiulani,
who olaims to be heir to the throne of Ha
waii, is not a princess of royal blood. A
good deal of sentimental gush is appearing
in the publio print ebout her, end Mr. La
throp thinks it Is about time the publio
should know tbe truth. The monarohy In
Hawaii is not hereditary. When the reign
ing monarch fails to designate his succes
sor a suooessor is ohosen by the people.
Kalakaua was elected. He was not even a
man of high rank. He had two sisters,
Liliuokalani and Likelike. The former mar
ried John Dominie, a worthless American,
and tho latter married an obscure young
Englishman named Clegborn. The father
of this Clegborn was one of the poorer olass
of colonists in Bydney, Australia, and
drifted to Honolulu.
On tbe death of Kalakaua, Liliuokalani,
or, as she was known, Mrs. Dominis, be
came queen, Kalakaua having appointed
her his suooessor. Soon after Liliuokalani
became the head of the government she
named ner niece, Kaiulani Clegborn, the
daughter of her sister Likelike, to be her
successor.
Liliuokalani now poses as the deposed
queen, and Kalulaui Cleghorn is the prin
cess that is now in this country talking
about Hawaii as "her vineyard” and solioit
log sympathy in her own behalf.
No doubt Kaiulani has some sort of claim
to the Hawaiian throne, and her claim will
be recognized if our government should
decide to annex Hawaii. The pending
treaty provides for paying her $150,000.
That amount would give her a very band
some income.
There is danger of office-seekers being
“too previous” with this administration.
The advice that Mr. Cleveland gave his
secretaries at the first cabinet meeting about
taking plenty of time to make their selec
tions, indicates how he will go about mak
ing his own selections. He means to take
plenty of time, and nobody .need try to
hurry him. The New York World has this
paragraph in Its Washington correspond
ence, which illustrates the point: “There is
an enterprising young Georgian after the
Japanese mission, but be won’t get it. He
is B. M. Biaokburn, and he is hardly more
than 25 years of age. He is said to have
forfeited his chanoes by seeking an inter
view with President Cleveland, In which he
urged bis candidacy rather too warmly to
please the new executive. Mr. Cleveland
does not take kindly to forward young men,
especially when they are after offices.”
The report comes from Chioago that
those remarkable people, the exposition
managers, have decided to permit none but
shelled peanuts to be sold on the exposition
grounds. This is an infringement of the
people’s rights that should not be permitted.
Does not Chicago, a convention city and a
city full of politics, kDow that half the
pleasure of eating peanuts is derived from
cracking tbe pods, rubbing off the red
husk between tbe thumb and forefinger and
littering the neighborhood with the hulls?
Does Chioago suppose the great Amerioan
publio Is going to submit to ready-shelled
aud soggy peanuts just to please the fair
people? No; a thousand times nol The free
American olaims the proud privilege of ex
tracting the sweets from bis peanuts for
himself and casting the shells wheresoever
he listeth. And if be can’t do it at the fair,
why he’ll stay away; that’s all.
The Kansas legislature has oonoluded to
quit at midnight to-night. It is welL Tho
most important business done at the ses
sion about to end was the passage of a bill
to submit to the vote of tbe people at the
general election next year a constitutional
amendment extending the right of suffrage
on all occasions to women of 21 years of age
or more. Heretofore tho people of Kansas
have backed up every movement toward
the enfranchisement of women, so it is more
than probable that after the next election
Mrs. I .ease will have as many privileges at
tbe polls as her husband. The financial
vagaries of tbe Kansas legislature have not
amounted to much.
George Hall, a colored Baltimorean, has
tbe honor of being tbe first official to lose
his head under the new administration. He
was Private Secretary Halford’s messenger,
and made way for the colored man who had
formerly been Private Secretary Lamont’e
messenger. However, Hall will not suffer;
Secretary Lamont has promised to take him
into the war department.
The Col. Ingersoll spoken of in cormeotion
with the mission to Rome is not the famous
Col. “Bob." He would hardly do to send
to the Holy City. Besides, he is a repub
licau. Tho other Ingersoll is the ex-gov
ernor of Connecticut. He is a democrat
and believes in orttfodox Christianity,
PERSONAL.
Cardinal Vaughan, the archbishop of West
minster, keeps himself in good physical condi
tion by taking a 5-mile walk every day.
One of the peculiar features of the madness
of the ill-fated ex-Empress Carlotta of Mexico
is that sne requires a fresh pair of pearl-gray,
2.button kid gloves on rising every morning
throughout the year
Joseph W. Reinhart, who may succeed Allen
Manvel as president of the Atchlnson. Topeka
and Santa Fe road, is a Pittsburg man who has
climbed the railroad ladder from the lowest
round. lie is about 40 years old.
Gen. Dabney H. Maury, one of Beauregard's
schoolmates and a felluw soldier in the Mexican
war, lives In Houston, Tex. He is one of the
few confederate major g-nerale of renown who
survive, aod U still a stout and rugged man.
Miss Danoerfibld of Auburn is the president
of her class of eighty-six members, eizhty-tbree
of whom are men, in the law department iu the
University of New York. She is a thorough
Ijitin and Greek scholar, and has taken a course
at Cornell.
Congressman-elect J. F. Stalling*, of
Greenville, Ala., who succeeds Mr. Herbert, is
one of the youngest representatives in the
House, being but 35. He is a native of Alabama,
a graduate of the university, of that state, and
is married.
Mme. Antoinette Stirling is a great believer
in orauges as bsiug good for the voice. “A
few nights ago,” says an English print, “she
was singing at Chelmsford and wnen two little
children went to her private room to ask for
her autograph they found her sucking
oranges.”
Mr*. William Astor’s fondness for flowers
is well-known among ber intimates. “Lilies,”
she is quoted as saying, "are my favorites, and
I woulu rather see them growing than pick and
wear them. Somehow a Hower loses its charm
for me when its little life is c it off; it looks sad
and sorry and seems to wilt in grief."
At tbe news stands in Ital an cities the pub
lished sermons of Padre Agostino sell more
readily than novels Wherever Agostino ap
pears as a preacher s’enographers takedown
his discourses, and they are sold in pamphlet
editions yf tens of thousands. In tbe pulpit the
padre makes use of considerable theatrical dis
play and his oongregation frequently cheers him
to the echo.
It is said that Jtoscoe Conkling, was almost
the only public man of note who hated cartoons
wherein he figured. The sight of hi* nose in
high colors always made Evarts grin. Ben
Butlss collected every one where his game eye
cut a figure. Depew dotes on them, Senator
Hill says every one of them means votes for
him. and when the report went forth that Pef
fer had trimmed his vagrant beard the carica
turists all agreed that he bad shorn himself of
what reputation he had acquired.
BRIGHT BITS.
Daughter flooking up from her noveil—Papa,
in time of trial what do you suppose brings the
most comfort to a man.
Papa (who is district judge!—An acquittal, I
should think.— Brooklyn Life,
“Mamma," said little Benjamin, “I think it’s
awful nice to be a little boy. If I stay real quiet
all the time, and don’t take any exercise, don’t
you think maybe I could stay a little boy all my
life?”— Harper'* Young People.
Mra. Innocent—Doctor, my husband was
talking in hit sleep last night about cold bauds.
■What would you advise?
Dr. Oldhoy—Keep him at horns from the
club in future.— Harvard Lampoon.
Miss Ann Tieck—And, Mabel, just look at
this too sweet copy of Browning. That’s my
father's present. He always gives me a book
every birthday.
Mabel—O, what a fine library you must have !
Judy.
“Papa.” said Jaok, "what is extravagance?’’
"Well, my son," returned the wise parent,
“If you bad a 76-ceot straw hat blown off into
the sea it would be extravagant to hire a boat
for $1 to go out and get it,'—Harper’ t Young
People.
Psychological Impulses.— Cholly— Do you
ever have moments when you feel like doing
something absurd?
Myrtylla—Yes, indeed. Why, when you pro
posed to me last I felt fora moment like accept
ing you.—. Veto York Herald.
“I made an angel cake that was elegant, and
one that was awful," said Maud. "This is the
third, and it will decide as to whether or not I
can be considered an expert."
“I could tell this was tbe rubber,” said Harry
as he tried the cake. —Harper’ t Bazar.
“I SHOULD like to .meet, jour friend yonder,
whom you have introduced to anany people this
evening."
“Sh! You don’t know what you ask, I have
made him acquainted with a lot of feliows ,vhom
I don't like In order that he may have someone
to borrow of besides myself.”— Chicago Globe.
"Stamps, please," curtly said the young lady.
‘‘With or without?" queried the facetious
drug clerk.
“With or without! Without what?" was the
indignant inquiry.
“Whiskers, ma'am. One-centers have no
whiskers on Columbus. The 2-centers have."
Philadelphia Call.
"Is his lordship at home?” asked a gentle
man of a well-powdered flunky.
"Don't know, sir, I'm sure. I will just in
quire." He returned with the message, “No,
sir; bis lordship desires me to Bay he has just
gone out.”
"Ah', thank you very much. Kindly give him
my compliments and say I didn't call."—rif-
Btls.
CURRENT COMMENT.
High Grade Appointments Expected.
From the New York World (Dem.).
President Cleveland has sound conviotions on
this subject, and the full courage of them. We
shall look for a high vrade of appointments un
der the new administration.
Amendment Accepted.
From the Baltimore American (Rep.).
Tne esteemed Savannah News calls President
Cleveland "A New Ruler." The News is wrong.
The President is the nation's executive, but he
is uot its ruler. The people are the sovereigns.
The Annexation of Hawaii.
FVom the New York World (Dem.).
Mr. Cleveland said nothing In his Inaugural
in regard to the annexation of Hawaii, but,
judgiug by the natural bent of his mind aud
from his lormtr utterances on this and similar
questions, he is likely to prefer a protectorate
or some new treaty guarantees to the absorp
tion of those distant and alien islands into the
union.
Mr. Cleveland and Mr. Childs.
From the Spring field (Hast.) Republican (Tnd.).
UeorgeW. Childs' newspaper, the Philadel
{>hia Ledjer. has been giving the facts conoern
ng Mr. Cleveland's actions with so much con
cern for truth and fairness that the story goes
that the Ledger will be the President's official
mouthpiece during the next four years. The
pleasant relations between tne Ledger ' editor
and Mr. Cleveland are no secret, and the paper’s
criticism is%ure to be inspired by high motives.
Tbe ledger can never be any one's organ, how
ever, nor is Mr. Cleveland likely to have an
organ.
As to Penalooe.
FYom the Philadelphia Ledger (Tnd.).
There are unmistakable indications that the
country Is becoming restive under the many
and great abuses of tbe present pension sys
tem. There is a very dear and general de
mand that it shall be revised in accordance
with the principles laid down by Mr. Cleveland
in his letter of acceptance. This demaud will
become clearer, louder and more general under
ever-increasing expenditures, a large part of
which go to reward not genuine patriotism,
but sordid greed; not real heroes, but mere mer
cenaries.
Gold, Silver and “Coin.”
From the New York Journal of Commercednd.).
We notica that there is a general impression
that the treasury is under a special obligation
to redeem some portion of the bonds or paper
currency in gold But this is a great mistake.
The gold certificates which represeut a deposit
of gold are payable in that metal, and the silver
certificates are payable in sliver. Ail other gov
ernment obligations are payable in coin, and
the huge silver pieces, of which 865,474.835 were
held in tbe treasury March 1, will satisfy that
pledge as well as gold. It is said that a' large
number of people in tbe interior, aud especially
at tbe west, have; hoarded the “greenbacks"
wltb tbe understanding that tbe government
must make some prevision to redeem them in
the yellow metal, and that they have thus ’aid
by a stock of gold. There are outstanding
$343,081,016 of these notes, and tbe so-called
"go.d reserve’ of $100,000,000 is held to answer
any demand for their redemption. If this was
all paid out and the demand continued there
would be $346,000,000 still to be provided for
with no gold in tie treasury to meet it. It
should be, and probably will be, the policy of
the admit istration to maintain and provide for
geld payments, but tbe holder cannot insist
upon it if otljvr “coin” is tendered to him.
Fltzhugrh Lee as an Indian Flffhter.
One of the best stories heard In the hotel cor
ridors for a long time was told by Capt. Jack
Hayes, the Indian fighter and friend of Bill
Cody, to a Washington Star representative.
Capt. Hayes is from Cleveland. O. He is the
boeom and lifelong friend of Gov. Fltzhugh Lee,
and in the parade he ocoupied the honorary po
sition of chief of Gov. Lee's staff.
"It was in the winter of IS6O, at Camp Colo
rado, Texas,” said Capt. Hayes. "Our scouts
reported a body of Indians that had massacred
settlers and driven off their stock. Gen. Van
Dorn—then major- -was in command. Got.
Lee was a lieutenant and I was a bugler. It
was night and snowing bard. We started after
them, made eighteen miles that night, fifty
miles the next day and camped. It happened
that the Indians we were pursuing Lad camped
but three mile* ahead of us. As I said, it was
very co.d and the Indians bad their blankets up
over their heads, so they did not hear us, as the
next day we came upon them suddenly, and
they would not have discovered us until we
would have been right on top of them had not
one of our men accidentally discharged his re
volver. We charged. The Indians scattered.
There was a ridge of timber a
few miles away. Two of the braves
made for the timber Gen. Lee
and I pursued them. We killed one. We pur
sued the other fellow through the timber for
several miles, his trail being risible in tbe snow.
When we reached the open plain he had disap
peared. We knew that he was hiding in one of
the gulches. In a few moments we discovered
his pony. Turning we saw him on the other
side of an undulation in the prair e. As he
reached the top of the divide he waved his
shield and yelled defiance at us. We put after
him, but could not find him in the ledges of
rock. !,*■ then proposed that we separate,
which we did.
”it seems that the Indian was about thirty
feet from Gen. Lee at the time hiding behind a
ledge of rocks. As Lee came up be fired at him.
Lee saw him in time to dodge and the arrow
went through h;s arm. breaking off. The In
dian was a chief —a big, tail, powerful, muscu
lar fellow, over 6 feet in bight. Gen. Lee was
then a small man, but he is tbe bravest and
pluckiest man in tbe city to-day. In a
moment more thev were locked in each other’s
arms In a death struggle. The general
was carrying his revolver In his right hand.
The Indian grasped the barrel and the weapon
was discharged, but he was not hit. The pistol
dropped to the ground. Lee knew that his only
salvation was to hug the Indian, for the latter
had his knife in his hand, and as they swayed
too and fro packing the snow beneath their feet
he was unable to plunge his knife in his adver
sary’s body. I started to his rescue but did not
dare to shoot as I advanced, as they were
twisting and writhing so that I was afraid of
killing my comrade.
"In another minute they were on the ground
and lee on top. As luck had it they fell near
the revolver. In the second of time allowed Lee
seized the pistol and discharged It, the ball go
ing through the cheeks and mouth of the sav
age without even knocking out a tooth, for his
mouth was open in a yell. In another second,
however, the next ball crashed in bis brain. As
the general disengaged himself from the tight
embrace of the savage aud rose to his feet he
shook himself and feit of his body to see
whether he was wounded, for the knife had cut
his coat. I was fearful lest h had been injured
and asked him how he felt. He replied:'‘O, I
am all right: just getting my muscle up,’ rais
ing his arm as if he were tightening the bicep.
•When I went to college,’ he continued, ‘I used
to be very fond of wrestling, and it name in very
good servioe to-day. At the last moment I
thought of the “Virginia baok heel’’ trip and
down the redskin went.’ ”
A New Argument Against Corsets.
From the Times-Democrat.
This
is the
shape of
a woman’s waist,
on which a corset tight
Is laced. The ribs deformed
by being squeezed, press
on the lungs, till they’re
diseased. The heart
is jammed aud
cannot pump;
the liver
Is a
tor
pid lump;
the stomach,
crushed, cannot
digest: and in a mess
are all compressed. There
fore, this silly woman grows to
boa fearful mass of woes,
but thinks Bhe has a lovely
shape, though hideous
as a crippled ape.
This is
a woman’s
natural waist,
which corset never
yet disgraced. Inside It
Is a mine of health. Outside,
of charms it has a wealth.
It is a thing of beauty /
true, and a swaet joy ‘
forever new. It
needs no artful
padding vile,
or bustle big to
give it “style ”
It’s strong and solid,
plump and sound, and
hard to get one arm
around. Alasl if women
only knew the mischief that
these corsets do, they’d let
Dame Nature have her
way, and never try her
waste to “stay."
Funny Thinsra Do Happen.
At the Lyceum theater last night, saya the
Rochester Union and Advertise r, two gentle
men sat in the front row next to
the orchestra. Directly behind them sat
a gentleman and hia wife. A few mo
ments before the curtain went up one of
the gentlemen in tbe front row put hia arm on
the back of his companion's seat. While talk
ing to bis friends he felt a slight plnoh on the
arm. On looking around he saw that tbe lady
behind him had turned to look up to the bal
cony, and In so doing had placed her hand on hia
arm. Realizing that she had done so uncon
sciously, he did not move his arm.
Soon, however, he felt a hard pinch. Think
ing that the best way to call the laily’g atten
tion to what she was doing would be to ask if
anything was wanted, the gentleman turned
and asked:
“What Is it. madam?"
“Sir,” said the lady, and immediately the
husband blazed up.
"What do you mean by speaking to my wife!”
he demanded.
“Don’t mean anything," was the reply, "but
I would like to know wbat your wife metm by
pinching my arm."
Then both men looked at the lady's hand,
which still rested on the arm. Both smiled, be
came a little nervous and apologized. During
the rest of the performance tbe lady kept her
hand in her muff.
His Statement Was Correct.
The prisoner at the bar wae charged with
assault aud battery by his wife. She was a lit
tle womaD, but wiry and energetic. He was a
strapping big fellew. and on him the judge
frowned fiercely.
“So," said the court, “you have been as
saulting your wife?"
"Yes, yer honor,” admitted the prisoner,
doggedly.
"Well, you ought to be ashamed of your
self."
“I am, yer honor."
“The very idea, elr, of a great, big fellow like
you are whipping a little woman like that."
The little woman flushed up, but kept still,
with her eyes filed on her nasbaud expect
antly.
“I didn't whip her. yer honor."
"Didn’t whip her?" exclaimed the judge.
“Don’t lie to me, sir. You did whip her."
Again the little woman turned her eyes on
her husband.
“Beg yer pardon, yer honor, but I didn't
whip her She licked me in about three min
utes, and that's why I'm ashamed of myself,
yer honor."
The judge fairly gasped.
“That's right, your honor." put in the little
woman; “Henry gets ugly-sometimes, but he
won’t lie when I'm watching him."
The judge took a good, long look at both of
them and dismissed the case.
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The greatest engineering project of the age
it about to be submitted to the British House of
Commons with the indorsement of eminent En
glish and French engineers, says tbe Phila
delphia Ledger. It is a project to bridge tbe
straits of Dover with a cantilever bridge carry
ing two tracks- The bridge is to be 200 feet
above the sea in the clear. The cost is estimated
at $163,750,000, and the period for construction
seven years. Wmie there is little doubt from
an engineer’s standpoint that such a bridge
might be built, the risks from violent storms,
attending iu construction and use, would be
very great. There will be arrayed against tbe
project the insular sentiment of Rritons gen
erally, and the reluctance of oapitslists to make
an investment in a great undertaking that la
even less promising of returns than the Panama
canal.
Mr. Sargent, the electrioal engineer of the
world’s fair, lias completed hla scheme for
lighting the main basin on fete nights during
the exposition. Thousands of incandescent
lights of different colors are to he used One
row will extend just above tne water’s edge all
around the basin, and another row will reflect
deeper into the water from a few feet higher up.
Still higher on the loggias of all the buildings
that surround the basin will be other rows of
lights with here and there a handsome design.
Rows of lights will also reach around the colon
nade story of the administration building,
which stands at the head of the basin, while the
lower part of the building will be kept dark. At
the base of each tier of the MacMonnies foun
tain will be another row of lights, over which
the water will fall from the basin above. There
are also to be various search lights to help out
the effect. One of these will be placed in the
mezzonine floor of the administration building
to play on the MacMonnies fountain. Another
on the electricity building will throw its light
on the statue of the republic at the east end of
the basin, and still others will be employed to
help out at other places. The effect of all these
mauy-hued lights reflecting in the water will
doubtless be dazzling and beautiful.
A proposal to make London a glass-roofed
city is the subject of a long letter addressed to
us by J. Newton Mappln, says the London Daily
A'eu-s. Interesting as it is, we have not space
for the whole of it. The plan, which will not
be popular with the umbreliamakers, resembles
one in Mr. Bellamy's "Looking Backward." Mr.
Mappin, however, does not treat the subject as
part of a scheme fora future Utopia, but as one
to be oarried to a practical and successful issue.
He says: * "The covering of Oheapside, Poultry,
Queen Victoria street, RegeDt street. Bond
street or Oxford street with a gloss roof may
appear a Quixotic suggestion—but other, at
first sight, less practicable schemes
have been launched successfully, and
the world has not ceased to revolve on
its axis in consequence. The gain to
the great British public, or to that section who
are in the habit of traveling the main arteries
of London, from a point of comfort alone,
should be sufficient to warrant a trial. Most
people prefer brightness and beauty to dirt aud
discomfort. Nothing to my mind can hare a
miserable and tawdry appearanoe than Ca lead
ing London tboroughfore on a wet day, when
poor, dripping humanity descends to tbe depths
of despondency, and every object, animate aDd
inanimate, has a washed-out appearance A
change from the condition of things would be
delightful to all people concerned—those who
would reside under glass, so to speak, and those
who would use the thoroughfare for business
purposes. The former would, of course, be
called upon to bear the expense of improve
ment. If I say the outlay they would incur
would be returned to them In a few years,
owing to the increased flow of business to their
doors—and to the lessened expenditure upon
paint and cleaning—l should be under the mark.
Our wood and asphalt streets would be dry,
perfectly safe In ail weathers, and tbe lease of
life doubled or trebled. If tbe rain water were
not preserved for domestic use it could be use
fully applied in flushing the sewers with clean
water instead of liquid mud. Tbe health of the
inhabitants would be greatly benefited by
breathing a dry atmosphere instead of a damp,
humid one. Our clothes, boots, hats and gen
eral comfort would not suffer as they do now.”
The railway postal clerks have a unique
method for learning the routes on which post
offices are located. Take, for example, the
state of Pennsylvania, In which there are over
3*ooo offices. Aocordlng to the Philadelphia
Record the prospective mail distributor buys a
quantity of blank cards—about the sixe of the
ordinary visiting oard—and on each of those he
writes the name of an office. On the nack of
the card he writes the name of the route by
which the office Is served with its mail. Tak
ing in band a pack of these cards—say from
50 to 100—he goes over them one after an
other studiously, looking at the back each time
and getting the name and route clearly associ
ated in his mind The second time he goes
through the pack he finds that he knows the
half of the routes by reading the name of the
office. It is a dull student who, upon going over
a pack of cards a dozen times, does not know
them thoroughly. The method is so simple and
such an aid to memorizing that It is adopted by
all railway mail clerks. By it clerks have been
known to memorize a state like Pennsylvania
Inside of two months. On all large routes
clerks work but half time, the other half being
devoted to jest and study. The mail clerk at
home, continually reminded of coming exami
nations, carries his cards wherever he goes,
conning them over at every opportunity. One
demonstrative clerk on the New York and Pitts
burg railway postoffice is famed for
having learned the state of Ohio in four days
As he shuffled over his cards he walked from
garret to cellar and vice versa, from dawn until
the shades of twilight foil. On the lourth day
he went to the examiner's office and separated
Ohio without an error. It is related that the
wife of a postal clerk adopted the card method
for increasing her vocabulary in French. On
one side of the cards she wrote the Krenoh
word and on the other the English equivalent
to be learned. Another lady, hearing of this,
used the same system successfully for learning
mythology, placing the word “Mars,” for in
stance. on one side of the card and “war" on
the other. The method has so many advantages
over the old aud tedious wav of learning rrom
tne pages of a book that it might tie utilize l
with advartage by teachers ,ln search of new
methods of imparting instruction.
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