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Morning News Bui ding Savannah, Ga.
MOK DAY, MAX H 10. 1893.
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NEW YORK CITY—
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Amrbioak NEwsrArßaPohbiesEß a Association
Potter Building
PHILADELPHIA—
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BOSTON—
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iNDEUij NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Meetings—DeKnlb Lodge No. 0, LO. O F.:
Workingmen's Benevolent Association: Cl.nton
Lodge No. lit, F. and A. M.; German Friendly
Bocietv; Skidaway Shell Road Company,
Special, Notice—The Onatliara Keal Estate
and Improvement Company.
Wk Will t>rF.N To-day— Falk Clothing Com
pany.
Getting There With Both Feet—Appel 4
Sr haul.
Spring Spits Now—B. 11. Levy 4 Bro.
First Openi.no of the Season- Leopold
Adler.
Auction Sales—Office, Parlor an.l Bedroom
Furniture, Etc., by C. H. Dorset!; Hosiery,
Notions, Etc,, by J. H. Oppenheim 4 Son.
Cheap Column advertise sen rs Help
Waate i; E npljy.nent Wants 1: For Rent; For
Bale: Lott: Personal: Miscellaneous.
The young ladies in a Brooklyn college
have taken up the street cleaning problem,
in order to put the men to shame for allow
ing the streets to got so dirty. Now, its
dollars to nickels that many of those girls
never sweep their own rooms.
Among all the notices about Robert A.
Maxwell, the new Fourth A-sistant Post
master General, who is to wield the ax,
there has been no mention of the circum
ference of his biceps. And what strength
blow can be deliver, swinging the weapon
once!
It has been “unofficially" announced that
Secretary Hoke Smith will appoint L. Q. C.
Lamar, Jr., son of the late Justice Lamar,
to be obief clerk of the interior department.
Mr. Lamar wis formerly an employe of
the department when his father was secre
tary.
The Morning News would be willing to
lay odds to a considerable amount that no
captain of Savannah military company oan
be found who would ride, singly and alone
and carry a local Hag, in front of an At
lanta military company in a great parade,
m order to advertise Savannah. Of oourse
the Atlanta captains are gentlemen. But
they are Atlanta gentlemen. And they
have been eduoated to the belief that any
thing and everything that will give At
lanta a prominent place in the picture is
right aud fair.
Cbloago is going to reap the benefits, in
dollars aud oents, of the Sunday cioaing of
the fair, if possible. It is proposed that the
■bops, faotones, etc,, be kept open and in
operation on Sundays, and that the em
ployee of such places be given holiday on
Mondays. By this means the Chicagoans
will advertise themselves and furnish
amusement for the visitors locked out of
the fair grounds ou Sundays. And the
laotory operatives will hardly object, be
cause the plan will afTord them an oppor
tunity for visiting the fair which they oould
not otherwise enjoy without losing time.
The New York legislature recently dis
covered that it had neglected to provide tor
state supervision of the private
enterprises of the merobants in the
stite, and Senator Saztou at once
Introduced a bill to repair the o ve r sight.
Bis bill provides, among other things, that
no person under 18 years old and no woman
•hall work in a wholesale or retail store
more than sixty hours in one week. Fines of
from *2oto*loo or imprisonment from thirty
to ninety days or both are the penalties
which may be imposed for violations of the
act. It is estimated that there are in New
York city twenty-five stores which alone
employ more than 500 bands and do a busi
ness of from *1,000,000 to *10,000,000 each,
that would be affected by the bill should it
become a law. If the New York legislators
■re diligent they may, during the next year
or two, succeed in putting spies over every
business enterprise in the state.
A Washington paper has tukentbe trouble
to hunt through the flies of the Congres
sional Record to ascertain what arguments
bad been brought against the proposition to
ohange the date of the inauguration from
March 4 to April 30 when it was before oon
grofS some time ag). It was found that the
opponents of tho change could be divided
Into two classes, the “constitutional” class
*nd the "selfish'’ class. “The arguments of
the first-named class amounted simply to
this, namely, that the constitution ought
not to be altered for any su-h ‘trivial
reason as that afforded by the bad weather
in March aud the good weather in April.
The selfish class of arguments came from
the congressional shirks and ‘beats’—the
members wbo were opposed to a lengthen
ing of the second session of congress because
it would make them work for the public a
few weeks longer."
Which Is It?
Ex-President Harrison’s first declarations
after bis return to private life are Interest
ing. He left Washington without regret,
he says, and, had ho been permitted to re
turn to Indianapolis under the conditions
whieh prevailed when he left that city, hs
wouid have returned in jov. That much, by
the way, it Is only natural he should aay.
Wbat may boa significant utterance,
however, was in regard to the book which
current report said he was to write. It was
given out, on wbat authority is not
known, that be would, like the late
Mr. Blaine, present the publio with a his
tory oovoring the period of his political
career, and that it would deal especially
with the questions at issue during his ad
ministration as President, as well as explain
some Incidents of his term, concerning which
the public is not fully informed. On this
subject Gen. Harrison says: “I could not
very well write on my own administration.
The probable foundation for the report is
that 1 anticipate making some memoranda
for my own private use that will make
clear certain affairs of stato that have arisen
during the four years I was President that
might not be reodlly understood otherwise.
I do not expeot to publish these memoranda
during my lifetime. There were numerous
complicated situations that posterity will
wish to understand and I desire to make
plain.”
If Gen. Harrison bad an eye upon his
party's nomination four years hence, would
be write for posterity or for voters? A
natural supposition is that he would have a
book defending bis public policy in the
hands of the printers at the earliest pos
sible moment, and that it wouid not only
offer an explanation of state questions, but
of numerous things that happened while he
was President. Thore is the Blaine resigna
tion, for instance, which nobody has ever
yet fully understood and which might be
explained. The mode of conducting the
Chilean controversy is another matter that
might be elucidated. The cause of the dis
affection of Clarkson and others might be
eet forth to the satisfaction of some portions
of the party. And, not to make the list
longer, there are numbers of republicans,
doubtless, who would 1 e very glad indeed
to know the true inwardness of the appoint
ment of Judge Jackson. The writing of a
book would afford Gen. Harrison an oppor
tunity to make votes by explaining those
and the many other things that might be
mentioned. But, then there is danger in
writing books. “O, that mineenemy would
write a book!”
Does Gen. Harrison mean that he will
write for posterity because posterity cannot
vote against him, or that he wiil not write
for voters l> -au.se he does not deßire them
to vote for him!
V. hy v, yoming Is Wroth.
Free s irr coinage is a minor question in
Wyoming just dow, and tho sub-treasury
scheme has been lost sight of. The great
mass of unterrified reformers don’t care a
rap whether the government owns the rail
roads or not. A greater question is before
them. Wbo stole Guv. Osborne’s “ pauts?”
Gov. Osborne is of the “reform” school of
politics. Ho was elected to office chiefly be
cause he represented the down-trodden
masses, on whose necks the heel of Wall
street had been planted. He was,
himself, one of the victims
of plutocracy. Consequently the loss of
his trousers means mu hto him. He l 9 the
governor of Wyoming, not of the Garden cf
Ellen. He lives in the era of crinoline,
cutaways, plug hats and “pants.” Fig
leaves hafce long gone out of fashion.
Furthermore, the llg tree does not flourish
in Wyoming. The climate is too rigorous.
“Pants,” however, in limited quantities, are
to be had there, and Gov. Osborne bad
provided himself with a pair
But somebody stole them—the villain
stole them from the governor’s room wbiie
he was asleep. The tbief may have been a
politician with “an ax to grind,” and he
may have adopted this means of makiug
the governor non cst, as the lawyers say,
until he had fluished bis grinding. But it
was a mean trick, whether porpetrated by a
politician or oommon tbief.
The governor “sot a heap o’ store by
them pants.” They were not only his
friends in need and bis comforters in cold
weather, but were bis protection against
the cupidity of wioked bankers. For, be
side banking on his “pants” he banked in
them. He claims to have bad a neat little
deposit of #llOO iu gold stored away in them
at the time they wore stolen, “took" and
carried away, against the peace of the state
and the dignity of its governor.
The whole of Cheyenne is aroused, polit
ically and socially, and is “up in arms to
dlsoover the thief,” aooordiug to newspaper
reports. It is not stated what Gov. Osborne
is up in, whether it is a blanket or some
thing else. “The affair has created tre
mendous excitement,” we are informed.
Everybody is after the purloiuer of Gov.
Osborne’s “pants,” and Wyoming will not
resume Its wonted quiet until he is found
and gibbeted.
Tbe older subscribers to the Morning
News will remember Mr. R. M. Johnston,
its city editor of twenty years ago. He was
familiarly known as “Rienzi” Johnston, and
was a cotemporary in Georgia weekly
journalism with Congressman “Ben” Rus
sell before his connection with the Morn
ing News. Mr. Johnston has been man
aging editor of tbe Houston (Tex.) Daily
Post for the past ten years or more, aud
has brought that able paper up to the first
rank of southern journals. The Post Is one
of the best and brightest papers iu tbe Roue
Star state, aQd is a credit to its talented
managing editor.
A Chicago paper recently gathered
statistics for several years, of murders,
lyncbings and legal executions in this
country. In 1887 the murders were 2,335;
iu 1889, 3.567; in 1890, 4,290; in 1891, 5,906,
and in 1892, 6,792. There were 123 legal
bangings In 1891, or one legal hanging to
forty-eight murders, and 107 legal hangings
in 1892, or one to sixty-tbree murders.
Murders are increasing and legal punish
ments for murders are decreasing. Yet
wonder is expressed that lyuchings are in
creasing. The only way to check lynch law
is to enforce the statute law.
Tennessee has captured the first postmas
terahlp under the new administration. The
congressman who named the appointee had
won like recognition from the first Cleve
land administration, and he was afraid that
if he failed to name the first postmaster this
time bis constituents would think that he
bad retrograded. He put it to Postmaster
Gonerul liissell that nay and carried his
point.
The fourth Tammany brave has died of
"inauguration pneumonia." And it is said
that the sick list of the New York braves
look very much like the roll of a Tammany
convention.
THE MORNING NEWS: MONDAY, MARCH 13, 1893.
A Dnzz’.lr.y Railroad Jctsffl?.
Talk of an all-ratl line from this country
! to Europa ha* been revived by a Ban Fran
cisco dispatch. John D. Hutchinson, an
engineer, and ore of a party of engineers
who have been making a survey for an
Alaskan railway which “is to bridge Berlog
strait,” bos arrived in that city and been
! interviewed. He state* that the survey,
tho money lor which was raised at a dinner
given by New York capitalists to Henry
Clews in 18‘JO, has been completed from
Vancouver to Cape Brince of Wales, the
point of land in Alaska r.oarest to Asia on
Bering strait, a distance of 2,346 miles. At
that point work was suspended for the
winter.
As far as the survey has been made, Mr.
Hutchinson says, the engineers have found
the proposed routo '’available.” There are
no great natural obstacles to bo met. The
grades would bo easy, and for a larger part
of the distance an air line could be run.
That applies to the land route. Of the
water route, or the bridge across the Btrait,
he says: “There is no quicksand anywhere,
and tho bottom of the strait furnishes a
sound and solid foundation for piers. Nor is
there any danger from icebergs, for all tbe
larger ones are stranded forty miles up. In
one place a stone breakwater would have to
be built to protect tbe piers from the smaller
bergs.”
Concerning tbe backers of tbe gigantic
Bcheme, which Is as great as that which
ruined De Lesseps, Mr. Hutchinson says:
“Henry Clews & Cos., Drexel, Morgan &
Cos., and Isaac C. Seibert, a Jewish banker
of St. Petersburg and Prague, are inter
ested in extending the road from East Cape,
on the Siberian shore of Bering sea, to
Sandeluske, on tbe Great Siberian road, a
distance of 2,275 miles. There would thus
be found an all rail route from Vancouver
to Sandeluske of 4,621 miles, which would
enable Americans to travel by rail all the
way to St Petersburg and connect there
with all the rest of Europe and Asia."
Tbe scheme Is dazzliDg. A trip on a
vestibule train from semi-tropical Florida
to Paris by way of frozen Sitka and St
Petersburg, would be grand. But there
are several obstacles in the way of building
such a line, besides the heavy snows of the
far northwest to bury and blockade the
tracKs, tbe problem of coal supply, tbe dif
ficulty of keeping cars at a living tempera
ture during the long trip through tbe zero
zone, etc. And tbe greatest of them is the
difficulty of inducing capitalist# to put their
money into scheme# of suoh magnitude.
One of the men quoted as backing the en
terprise—Mr. Henry Clews—has said: “It
is all bosh and moonshine. There is noth
ing in it. I wouldn’t put ?5 in such an en
terprise.”
Colored Tramps
The Mor.nino News again calls attention
to the crowds of idle blacks who infest this
city and who are eating up the substance of
tbe industrious people of their race. Many
of them are tramps who drift from town to
town and who, if they were white men,
would not be permitted to enter or remain
in the city. It i* understood, of course,
that the blacks enjoy privileges that are not
allowed to any other race, but the Una
should be drawn against black tramps and
vagrants. No privileges should be permit
ted to blacks that encourage them to be
come tramps and vagrants. Black
vagrants have be orae so numerous
that they are a great evil—an evil that all
southern cities should unite in abating.
Every man who does not work is a bur
den on those who do. He is a consumer,
and yet produces nothing. The expulsion
of the idlers and tramps, black and white,
from the towns of the south would con
tribute greatly to the prosperity of those of
their populations who are iudustrious. The
respeotable and industrious blacks should
encourage and assist tbe authorities in
ridding their respective communities of tbe
idlers and loafers among them, as tbe
whites do in respect to white tramps.
The number of non-producing blacks is
steadily growing larger in all the southern
towns, and the authorities will be forced to
take some action against them in the very
near future if they do not voluntarily un
dertake the task of getting rid of thorn. If
these idlers were made to understand that
they must work or move on, the army of
idle blacks would soon be greatly reduced.
Idleness breeds crime, and the jails are
already full of black criminals.
The Fort Valley Leader desires to see
Col. B. H. Richardson, of the Columbus
Enquirer-Sun, get any office be desires un
der the administration. The Leader says:
“If Mr. Cleveland prizes able services iu
behalf of bis nomination and election he
will certainly give Col. Richardson what he
desires without any parleying whatever.
No man in Georgia did better work for Mr.
Cleveland from the beginning of the cam
paign than did this gentleman, and be de
serves prompt recognition and reward at
the hands of Mr. Cleveland. The Leader
heartily wishes Col. Richardson success."
Col. Richardson may almost be called a
Bavannahian. He was tor twelve years
city editor of the Morning News, and left
it to become editor aud one of the proprie
tors of the Evening Times, with which he
was connected for a couple of years. HU
Savannah friends would rejoice at any
recognition he may receive from Mr. Cleve
land.
Louisville appears to have a good lead in
the race for the Kentucky capital. There
are five cities in tbe contest, Lexington,
Louisville, Frankfort, Bowling Green and
Danville. The new state constitution pro
hibits any city or town voting money for
any local enterprise. But Louisville, some
years before the adoption of the new consti
tution, passed a *1,000,000 appropriation
for the purpose of ereotiug a capital build
ing in that oity, and legal opinions have
been given to the effect that the money is
still available, which puis the oity of the
star-eyed goddess just that much ahead of
the other competitors.
The office-seekers, iu Washington and
out, are passing many an uneasy quarter of
an hour. The few appointments that have
been made oan hardly be judged as “point
ers,” indicating what policy is to be pur
sued further than Mr. Cleveland's declara
tion concerning ex-office holders. How
ever, the non-office-seekiug multitude may
rest easy iu the assurance that fitness fur
office holding will be the standard by which
appointees will be measured.
Three of the largest and most costly
buildings destroyed during the reoent fire in
Boston were of tbe “guaranteed fire-proof'
kind. They "were of modern construction
and built in the most nou-cumbustlble style
possible for mercantile use. The Brown.l)ur
reli had front walls of sandstone and rear
walls of brick. The Ames and Lincoln were
muon like it.” It is a little remarkable that
so-called “fire-proof" building* yield so
readily to the Haines.
Chicago take great pleasure In announc
ing that one of her daughters, Miss Ka
tioka—poetic name; Katinka, “white and
red, with great blue eves, a lovely hand and
arm,” etc. —Miss Katinka Peterson has been
married to a son of a Swedish king. Konrad
St. Jernfeldt i the groom’s name, and Chi
cago assures us that he is the eon of Karl
XV., and has been holding revival meet
ings and singing operatic music merely be
cause he liked to do -ueu things. But Chi
cago has failed to state whether or not the
prinoe and the Chioago princess will be on
exhibition in the tig tent, or in one of the
Bide shows. The oversight is unworthy of
Chicago.
The Washington Evening Neivs says the
purpose of ex-Postmaster General Waua
maser’s Mexican tour “is to look over tbe
ground and to see how his millions may be
best invested in a new line of railway in
that country.” Tho ruling passion is strong
in Wauamaker—always looking for bar
gains!
PERSONAL.
The Shah of Persii travels with a suite of
10,1X10 people and 300 wires when he takes his
summer trio in the U.atant provinces under bis
control, and he borr "S the money needed fur
traveling expenses.
The wealthy Mrs. .11 intgomnry i'-ears of Bos
ton, who won the SSOO prize offerod by the Now
sork V'ater Color Society, has generous',y
handed it over to a school teacher m that oity
who has not had a vacation in fifteen years.
W HtTTiKR for some time was the only person
in Haverhill, where he lived, who had a parrot;
and it was a great pleasure to him to be called
by the children of the village “the man who
owned the parrot’’ instead of Whittier the poet.
Mme. Camille Collett, the well-known ad
vocate of tbe emancipation of women in Nor
way, recently celebrated the 80th anniversary
of her birth. A festival was given in Uhri-tiania
la honor of the day, and was attended by Ibsen
and many other fatuous wr.ters.
The King of Saxony will celebrate the 60th
anniversary of his entrance into the army next
October The people of Saxony are already
making preparations to honor the anniTersary
With ihe exception of tbe Grand buke of
Baden, his majesty is the only German ruler
now living who took a prominent part in the
wars with Austria and France.
Mrs. Louise J. Barney, wife of the retired
millionaire car-builder. E. E. Barney, who owns
two large James river estates and recently
purchased the historic Jamestown Island, has
just given to the Association for the preserva
tion of Virginia Antiquities that part of the
Island on which are located the old church,
graveyard and other historic landmarks.
Whf.n Senator Gibson met Adlai Stevenson
in Washington the other day the next Vice
President said to him ’’Well, Gibson, you are
a good prophet. Here I am, as you predicted.”
This had reference to a remark Senator Gibson
made in Chicago during the convention, to the
effect that Mr. Stevenson would return to
Washington March 4 ns the democratic Vice
President.
BRIGHT BITa
She—Dearest, do you believe there is luck in
odd numbers?
He—Pin sure I don’t know Why, dear?
She—Well, this is the third time we have been
engaged to each other, vou know, and I thought
possibly we might marry this time.— Texas
Siftingt.
“I am engaged, Jennie."
“To whom?"
“I declare 1 don't know. I was introduced to
him at tbe Dawsons’; he was lovely, he loved
me, proposed and was accepted, ail in the same
evening. Unfortunately I didn't catch his
name." —Harper’* Bazar.
“How do you sell your eggs, mister?" said a
lad to a grocer.
“Seven for tl pence, my lad.”
“Seven fo rtl pence?" said the lad; “that's six
for 5 pence, five for 4 pence, four for 3 pence,
three for 2 pence, two fur a penny, and one for
nowt. Aw think I’ll take one.—2'id Bits.
Pity. Editor (to new reporter)—l've got to
send a man to writi op a ship launching. Have
yoa had any experience tn that line?
New Reporter—No, sir, but I think I could
write It up without saying that ‘like a thing of
life the noble vessel glided swiftly into its native
element.'
City Editor—You'll io.—Chicago Herald.
Great Head- ’Arry with Uarthur is visiting
the Eagle editorial rooms.
’Arry— Bay, Harthur. me boy, do ye know
why these bloomin’ hapartmeuts are called
hedltorial ?
Hnrhur—No.
’Arry—ltekaws, haw I haw' haw i because hits
where all the ’ed work is done. Ows that for
PuncM —Brooklyn Eagle.
Only Waitino.— "Who is going to be your
next postmast--r?” inquired the republican.
"Why. it’s this way." replied the prominent
Blanktowndemocrat: “Vou know Cleveland
said some weeks ago that the men who didn’t
send in any application for office would be the
ones he would appoint in preference to the
others. There's nineteen of us here that want
the postofflee, and every one of us is afraid to
send in a petition because it would give the
other eighteen the advantage. Don’t you see ?"
Chicago Tribune.
CURRENT COMMENT.
Magic in the Name.
From the Philadelphia Record (Lem,),
Judge Hoke of Kentucky is an applicant for
a foreign mission. Tlite is a good year for the
Hokes, and the judge may secure the fulfill
ment of his desire.
Elesel'a Measure for Postmasters.
From the Washington Post ( ind. i.
Mr Bissel has announced a most excellent
theory as to the postoffices. He holds that no
man wflo is not prepared to devote his entire
time to the duties of the place should be ap
pointed to a first or second class office in the
service. Now, if Mi. Bissel will apply his theory
practically we shall ail applaud him.
New Orleans Tired of Prize-Fighting.
From the Chicago Neus Record (Ind.).
Now New Orleansjannounces that she has had
enough of prize-fl.hts. Pulpit and press are
united against any such unlawful exhibition
in the future. It is not to be presumed that the
reform movement is in any measure due to the
fact that the festival just ended was a financial
failure, but even so. New Orleans has gone over
to the right side along with Ban E rancisco.
Pugilists must now turn to the towns of Texas
and New York.
“Our Royal Landlords.”
From the Boston Globe (Dem.).
It Is reported that Queen Victoria has been
Investing quite actively in real estate in
ttiis oountry of late. The German royal family
have already heavy real estate interests hero,
and, in fact, about every monarch in Europe,
including the Russian czar, ias set a stake
down iu our soil. This shows that faith in the
future of the republic Is entertained right roy
ally abroad. By and by the candidate for
naturalization wbo hae forgotten to pay his
rent on American royal territory will be able to
swear truthfully that be renounces all allegiance
to every foreign prince or potentate.
“An Evaporated Panic.”
Fro hi the New York Tribune (Rep.).
The events of the last week have given most
instructive lessons in finance to those who are
able to read them. It is to be hoped that the
memberi of the next congress, whenever called
upon to sustain the administration In defend
ing the credit of the government and the pros
perity of the country, will not forget the things
which the last week should Lave taught them.
The financial alarm has evaporated as suddenly
as It arose. But the causes of real financial
difficulty still remain, and it Is not within the
power of the administration to remove them
without sensible action by congress
The Senate Finance Committee.
From the New York Times (Ind.).
It seems very clear now that the finance com
mittee of the Senate ott the Fifty-third con
gress is to be organised with a majority favor
able to free coinage. So far as party tradition
governs, it is quite legitimate that a portion of
the party whicli is considerably the larger shall
be represented on a committee of thischaracter,
and it is unfortunately true that a majority of
democratic senators are favorable to
the free coinage of silver. What
these senators will do, or try to
do, remains to be seen Whatever
they do to secure the enact
meut of a free;coinage law by this congress will
be in vain, for it cannot get the approval of the
President and canuot become a law without it.
Still, attempts of this sort may be made, ana
may add to the confusion and disturbance which
all business interests have already had to suffer
from this source.
BuDcresslnar a Snorer.
Of all the trains from New York to Washing
ton during inauguration travel none *as more
crowded than the one that pul ed out of the
Baltimore and Ohio station a few minutes after
midnight Friday, says the New York on. The
passengers w- r fretful and uneasy, and sleep
hard to woo. By 2:30 a. m., however, the cars
grew quiet. On hoard the sleeper ‘‘Norway”
the commotion had subsided Into a stillness
w hich prevailed until of a sudden it was broken
by a loud snore, which echoed through the
coach, it increased in volume and regularity
until remonstrances began to be howled from
nearly every berth.
“Give the baby some syrup!” “Hit him with
a club:” “Give us a chance to sleep!” “Call
the porter, d—n it!” were among the objurga
tions heaped upon the Beeper, who snored un
mindful through it all. There were no signs of
the pore* r, and it seemed that desperate meas
ures were about to be undertaken. Several
heads protruding from berths joined in the
statement that the snore came trom upper 12.
The angriest fellow of all, the one in lower 16,
was getting ready to c amber out and by forci
ble meons try to suppress the annoying dis
turber of the car's peace when a voice was
heard in upper 8:
“Watch me stop that snore."
Then there came three sharp raps on the side
of the car. The snorer gave a groan, was beard
to roll over, and after that he became silent.
Muffled applause was heard up and down the
coach.
Once more during t! e night the snore began,
but when several ; assengers called out. "Shut
him off again," the three raps again were given
and the snorer subsided.
lu the morning everybody was smiling. The
peace giver who had been wakened the night
before, a young Gothamite, quiet of dress and
manner, was discovered. He was asked to ex
plain his power over the snorer.
“it is no power,” he explained. “It's a trick
I discovered by accident in a Brooklyn board
ing bouse several years ago.”
•“'Let mo have it. pledse,” said along-bearded
traveler,who had been telling his fellow passen
gers what a snorer his wife was.
“Well, it's very simple,” went on Upper
Eight. “In a neighboring bedroom was an
awful snorer. who nearly drove me frantic.
One night I made a peculiar, rap-like noise. To
my surprise the noise ceased. Then 1 got a lonz
sil’k and put it by my bed Every time the
snore came 1 would strike three sharp raps.
They never failed to bring silence. Last night
was the first time I ever tried it outside. Was
it a success, gentlemen?"
"It was," was the unanimous verdict, as half
a dozen flask-shaped tokens of appreciation
were simultaneously handed to him.
Drew to the " T ypewriter."
Senator Pettigrew of South Dakota, who has
been making himself quite popular recently at
the Fifth Avenue hotel, is very fond of a quiet
game of draw poker, says the New York Adver
tiser. It is told of him that soon after his ap
pearance in the Senate he joined In a game
which soon produced a jack pot, and someone
of the party opened it for $5. Senator Petti
grew hesitated at first, out finally concluded to
come in, and drew four cards. The man who
opened the pot bet SSO, which ttie senator
promptly raised a like amount. The third
player dropped out, as the man who opened had
not drawn any cards. It being then the turn of
the opener, he raised another $ 10. which Petti
grew doubl. and Thissort of thing went on for
some time, until the fellow who had opened the
pot began to get uneasy.
"How many cards did you draw, Pettigrew?”
he asked.
"Four," was the laconic response.
“Well, you are betting lively on a 4-card
draw."
Senator Pettigrew said nothing except to sug
gest that they raise the limit to SIOO. lhe other
fellow thought that his opponent could not
possibly have a better hand than his own and
he raised it another fifty. Pettigrew came
right back at him without a smile, and the first
man in desperation called. Pettigrew laid down
his hand—ace, king, queen, jack and ten-spot
of clubs.
"Great Scott!” was the chorus
“Guess that's my pot,” said J'eltigrew.
"What in thunder did you draw to?” aske i his
companions.
“That typewriter,” replied the senator, indi
cating the modest little queen of clubs.
“What did you open it on?”
“Three kings and a pair of aces.”
Washing! n experts are very careful nowa
days when they tackle the senator from South
Dakota at the game of draw poker.
Thougrht He Had ’Em.
L. B. Dyke of Colorado is anew kind of
temperance reformer, says the Chicago Newt
Record. Being the owner of mines he is en
abled to travel and yesterday he arrived in
Chicago on his way home from Florida. Jußt
to be eccentric, he bought a chameleon down
south and had it fastened to ttie end of a little
gold chain, so that he could wear it as a scarf
decoration. The lizardous little reptile was
about three inches long, and like all of its kind,
changed the snaklsh color of its body when
disturbed.
Yesterday afternoon the owner walked up to
the hotel lar to take a drink with a traveling
man who bad been "laying over" in Chicago
three days, raising his expense account and
other tnings. The traveling man did not see
the thing on the scarf until be had poured his
drink. Then he glared hard.
"What’s that," he asked.
"What's what?"
"That—scarf pin."
"I wear no scarf pin."
The chameleon flirted its tail and crawled out
on the lapel of the coat, as the owner brushed
his hand toward his scarf.
‘‘lfoly scissors, it’s alive!" shouted the trav
eling man.
"What’s alive?" and the miner again brushed
the Utile animal, which crawled under bis vest.
Tnen he looked down and said, "Now, do you
Bee anything?"
The traveling man stood, shaky and pale,
looking for the thing to reappear. “No more
liquor for me." said he suddenly, and made a
rush for the elevator, By the time the crowd
broke Into a laugh he was too far away to hear.
Cbtuse J. Augustin.
J. Augustin Dressgoods is a floor walker in
one of the large dry goods stores, says the Buf
falo Exiress. The other night he went to a
party out on the west Bide Miss Clara, the
daughter of the host, is a bright girl and a
pretty one, and J. Augustin has had serious in
tentions in that quarter for a long time.
Somehow he has never been able to impress
Miss Clara very favorably. She has intimated
to him that he is stupid, and since an experience
ho had at the party he is beginning to believe
that she is right.
•Miss Clara has an oldpr sister, married, who
is just as bright as she. The married sister has
two children and Clara was tel.iog the guests
about them
“1 was over to Min's house the other day,”
she said, “and I heard something that I thought
was funny. Min wanted to wash Bobby's face
and she said to him: ‘Come here Flannel till I
wash your face.’ I asked her why she called
Bobby ‘Flannel.’ and she said it was because he
always shrinks from washing. Wasn't that
funny?”
Everybody laughed but J. Augustin. “Why,
Miss Clara,” he said. "I don’t see anything
fuDny about it If she bjugbt her flannel of us
it wouldn’t shrink."
And until this day Mr. Dressgoods cannot
understand why it was Miss Clara looked at him
so disgustedly, or why she has treated him so
coldly since that evening.
Shorthand Language.
"One col.” he brusquely announced, as he en
tered a gents’ furnishing store on upper Broad
way, says the New York Clipper.
“Cert,” replied the girl in attendance, as she
took down a collar and wrapped it up
"Much?” he queried as he toyed with a sliver
piece.
• ’Quar dol," she answered as she gave him the
change.
“O. K.." he said as he turned away.
"Tra la," she replied as she went back to
finish waiting on an old man, who had been
looking at neckties
“What sort o' language do you call that?" he
asked.
'‘Shorthand, sir.”
"O. that's It? Sort o’ saves your breath,
doesn’t it?”
"Course."
"Well, I don't think I could ever get used to
it at ray age. It don’t express enough.”
“How?"
“Why, land o' love. I want to say to you that
I'll wear one of my suspenders around my neck
for a tie before I’ll pay 50 cents for euch shoddy
os these. How could you express all that in
three or four words?”
“I can do It in one,” she replied.
"How?"
"Git."
And he ambled
Thby are dredging some very queer stuff at
McNear's basin, near Petaluma. Cal. They
struck it a few feet below the surface and have
cut through about twelve feet In depth of it thus
far. It is the very embodiment of toughness
It requires to be cut into shavings as it were, by
one passage of the machine, and then in disen
gaging and lifting it the 830-horse power
machine is strained to the utinosv. It is very
much like dredging a stratum of India rubb r.
The same machine w ould make at least five
times the speed and headway through the fri
able rock that underlies our principal streets,
says the Chicago Heiald. Besides being tough,
indicating a very large percentage of aluminum
in its composition, it Is remarkably heavy;
much more so than the hardpan or ordinary
clays of the vicinity.
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Loso before Elaine Goodale went as a mis
sionary to the Indians to become the wife of an
educated savage. Delight Sargent had tried to
convert the Choctaws and Cherokees in Tennes
see ana Georgia, and married E. C. Boudinott,
who was a prominent figure in the land troubles
between the Cherokees and the United Bta;fs.
After the assassination of her husband, Mrs.
Boudinott went to Troy, N. Y., where the ven
erable lady died a few days ago at the age
of 92.
A Hamburg firm. It is said. Is making a
fortune by selling bogus Heligoland postage
stamps to collectors lu Germany. As soon as
the Anglo-German agreement concerning the
island became kuown there was a tremendous
demand for the old Heligoland stamps, and the
prices went up to 45 and 50 cents apiece. The
firm in question at once bought the Heligoland
stamp for little more than its value as old
metal, and has kept it going day and night ever
since. It has sold already 20,000. and has more
orders in sight than it can All. At a recent
meeting of the l'os’.age Stamp Bourse at Berlin
a movement to stop the fraud was started.
The jasperized wood of Arizona has become
W'ell known by reason of the many cabinet
specimens, paper weights and decorative slabs
of it that are sent to the eastern cities, but this
is by no means the only petrified forest in this
country. In the Hoodoo district of the Yellow
stone stumps of trees are converted to
stone, some of them showing knots, grain of
wood and bark as plainly as the living tree, and
the pebbly beaches of the Yellowstone river are
strewn with tons of fragments of fossil wood
In the dreary desert of the Dakota bad lands
leaf impressions are frequently found in the
hardened clay, and at Little Missouri, at the
point known as the Burning mountain, where a
coal seam has been on fire since nobody knows
w-hen, there are half a dozen tree trunks about
thirty feet long. This is remarkable on acocunt
of the almost total lack of tree life in the region
at present.
Prof. Moller of Carlsruhe has made most in
teresting observations on clouds. The highest
clouds, cirrus and cirro-stratus, rise on an aver
age to a bight or nearly 30.000 feet. The middle
clouds keep at about 10,000 to 23,000 feet in
hlght. while the lower clouds reach to between
3,000 and 7,000 feet. The cumulus clouds float
with their lower surface at a bight of from 4.000
to 5,000 feet, while their summits rise to 16.000
feet. The tops of the Alps are often hidden by
clouds of the third class, but the bottom of the
olouds of the second class and especially of the
thunder class often enfold them. The vertical
dimensions of a cloud observed by Prof. Moller
on the Netleberr was over 1 *OO feet. He
steer ed out of it at a flight of about 3,! 00 feet,
and high above the mountain floated clouds of
the miudle class, while vales of mist lay on the
ravines and clefts. The upper clouds were
growing thicker, while the lower ones were dig
sclvlug, and soon it began to rain and snow.
The New Orleans Picayune quotes some in
teresting statistics from a recent issue of the
Bluefields Meuenger. published in Bluefields
the leading shipping port of the Central Ameri
can republic of Nicaragua. showing the ship
ments of bananas from that point during 1892.
According to the Meuenger, there has been a
considerable Increase in the chipiuents of ba
nanas from there, and that had the shipping
facilities been larger the movement would have
been even more extensive, as sufficient fruit
was ovailable to swell the exports to 2,000,000
bunches, or practically 500,000 bunohes more
thon the aotual shipments. Notwithstanding
the drawbacks placed in the way of the trade
by insufficient shipping, the exports for 1892
showed an excess of 20 per cent., says the Mes
tenger, over 1891. The total shipments aggre
gated 1,484,775 bunches. Most of these bananas
were shipped to New Orleans, which the Pica
yune claims has beoome the loading importing
point for that fruit in this oountry.
•‘Did you ever see a rainbow snake’” asked
B. M. Vanderhurst, ohairman of the Prevarica
tor*' Club, in session at the Southern, says the
Globe-Democrat. “Well, sir, I had that plea
sure a few weeks ago. I was down among the
Yaqui Indians, who inhabit the Sierra Madre
mountains is Mexico, a young buck had a
rainbow snake for a pet, and would not part
with it for any consideration. I offered him
SSOO for it, but he did not appear capable of
realizing that there could be any sum of money
greater than a handful of Mexican dollars. He
said that he had caught the snake in the mount
ains two or three years ago, when it was but
half grown. It is now about two feet long
rather sleuder. and, when lying in the shade Is’
a very pale green, or rather a compromise be
tween blue and greeu. When the sun strikes it
it looks like a streak of variegated Are, Red
yellow, orange—in fact, all the colors of the’
rainbow—chase each other in broad rings from
the head down to the tail, blending, shimmer
ing aud seeming to almost crackle. It was the
most remarkable thing I ever witnessed I
tried to get the young fellow to accompany me
to the states with the wonderful reptile, but he
had just married a young and pretty wife, aud
she would not consent to leave her native
mountains. The snake is believed to be per
fectly harmless and feeds chiefly on rice and
milk. 1 would have stolen it, but did not care
to take the risk of a racket with the Yaquia,
who are remarkably quick on the trigger aiid
have precious little use for white men. I would
rather have that snake and a streak of sunshine
at the world's fair than to be the sole proprietor
of a drug store in a prohibition town. ”
Only five years ago. says the Engineering
Magazine, a magnificent harbor was discovered
at the mouth of the Pungwe river, about 115
miles below the Zambesi delta. It is about two
miles wide and six miles long, and on its north
ern shore has arisen the town of Boira. w here
500 Furojeaus, halt of them British, are now
living Beira is one of Africa's latest marvels
Probably no white man, six years ago, had over
seen the barren promontory or sand it occupies.
On Nov. 28, U 92, a locomotive that had b>-en
put together in Beira puffed through oue of the
streets and a little way out ot the town; for
Beira is to be the port of Masbonaland. the re
gion ot mountain aud plateau where British en
terprise is opening Dew gold fieldß. A month
ago thirty-five miles of the railroad had been
completed The route for nearly half the way
to Massikesse lies along the Btisi river.
Its total length is not less than 20U miles, its
longest bridge has !a span of about
300 feet, and the coat of the road is estimated at
about $5,100,000. The Mozambique Company, a
Portuguese corporation, is carrying out the
work, but by arrangement the British South
Africa Company is to have certain privl eg** in
the management of the road and will build an
extension from the Portuguese frontier at Mas
si atkine to Fort Salisbury, the seat of govern
ment in Mashonalaud. The Portuguese line is
to be completed by the end of this year, and
then the British extension will be pushed for
ward. This tine will give to Masbonaland—
which In agricultural a >1 mineral resources and
the salubrity of its climate is one of the most
favored pans of Africa—its shortest outlet to
the sea i-elra is destined to be a port of large
importance, and lots for business purposes are
now selling for 31.530 to $9,500 apiece iu a place
wnicn not many months ago was a barren
waste. Five years ago only two or three white
men had ever visited Masbonaland, its present
population includes 3,000 white tattlers.
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