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INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS;
Meetings— CliDton Lodge No. 54. F. and A.
M. ; Knights of Pythias Tybee Club; Merchants’
Week Association; DeKaib Lodge No. 9. I. O-
O. F.
Special Notices —Did You Notice the Terms
on That Residence? Reorganization of the Cen
tral Railroad and Hanking Company of Georgia
and Its Allied Lines; Notice to Water Takers.
Military Okdek— Order No. 7, Savannah
Cadets.
A Housekeeper— Estate S. W. Branch.
Steamship Schedules— Ocean Steamship
Company; Baltimore Steamship Company,
Railroad Schedules— Savasnab, Americas
and Montgomery Railway; Florida Central and
Peninsular Railroad.
Amusements— Concert, Y. M. C. A. Course,
March ST.
These are Grand Lots on a Beautiful
Bill —C. H. Dorsett. Auctioneer.
Neckwear— Falk Clothing Company.
Avoid the Rush Just Before Easter—Appel
& Hehaul
Spring Suits To-day?— B. H Levy&Bro.
Auction Ha es— Fine Furniture, etc., J.
McLaughlin & Son; Carpets, Furniture, etc.,
J H. Oppenhe.ru .£ Son.
Chsap Column Advertisements Help
Wanted; E npl lyment iVaate !; For Rent; For
Sale: Lut: Person\t: Miscellaneous.
The speech which 'Senator Hill is to de
liver at Tacoma, Wash., next fall will be,
it is said, his opening gun iu his campaign
for the democratic presidential nomination
in 1890. Isn’t he beginning rather early?
It is said that among his intimate friends
Mr. Cleveland speaks of Secretary of War
Lam int ‘ ‘as assistant President.” It is cer
tain that Col. Lamont relieves the President
of a good many annoyances and keeps him
from making a good many mistakes.
Paul Neumann, the representative of the
deposed Queen Liliuokalaui, and W. R.
Castle, of the Hawaiian commission, are
hurrying to Honolulu so as to be present
when Commissioner Blount makes his in
vestigation of Hawaiian affairs. They left
"Washington hurriedly as soon as it was
known that Mr. Blount had been charged
with the duty of going to Hawaii and re
porting upon its affairs.
One of the reasons given why planters
will plant more cotton this year than last,
Xiotwlthstanding the probability that a big
crop will knockdown the price of the staple,
is that the high price of cotton seed enables
the planters to make cotton for a lower
price than they oould afford to when cotton
seed was thrown away. But is there any
certainty that the price of cotton seed will
be as high next season as it is this?
It Is announced that preparations for a
great mass meeting in New York city to
protest against the execution of Carlyle
Harris, the convicted wife murderer, are
being made. It seems that Harris’ lawyers
are Instigators of the meeting. They want
to get resolutions adopted that will aid
them In application to the governor for a
commutation of Harris’ sentence from death
to imprisonment for life. The efforts to
•ave Harris’ life are extraordinary.
It Is not believed that the attempt to blow
up the Ancini Mattel palace last Friday in
Rome with a dynamite bomb was the re
sult of a desire to injure Hon. William Pot
ter, the American minister to Italy. Mr.
Potter resides in that palace, and at first it
was thought that the purpose was to injure
bim and his family because of the killing of
Italians in New Orleans, but investigation
showed that other attempts to blow up
the place have been made, and besides
other families reside in the palace.
No sooner was our ports thrown open to
immigrants than one of the steamship lines
proposed to bring immigrants from the
cholera Infected sections of Russia by a
roundabout wav. It is said the Hausa
line sent circulars to Russian villages to the
effect that immigrants from those localities
would not be permitted to embark at Ham
burg, but that they could find transporta
tion to this country by going to Antwerp.
It is astonishing how much more important
a few dollars are in the eyes of some than
human life.
Ex-presidential candidates do not receive
special consideration iu the court of Judge
Van Brunt, of New York, even though
they are women. Through lior counsel,
Belvn Lockwood, applied to be admitted to
the New York bar last Friday. She had
not complied with the rules, and when she
undertook to address the court Judge N an
Brunt said; “Sit down, madam. When
you are admitted to practice in this court
then you may address it and offer any sug
gestion ( oncerning its rules you may have
to make and give any information the court
may desire,” uad Belva subsided.
Growi”er Interest In Better Loads.
For the first time in the histo-y of the gov
ernment there is an appropriation for the en
couragement of road making. The last
congress appropriated sld,iKJ(f to enahie the
Secretary of Agriculture “to make inquir
ies in regard to the systems of road man
agement and to make Investigations in re
gard to the best method of road making.”
There is nothing that Secretary M irton
can do that would be of greater benefit to
the farming interests than to encourage the
making of good roads. The benefit of good
roads to the farmers of the s.uth, for in
stance, would be equal, annually, to a cent
a pound in the price of cotton. The
saving to them in horse flesh, in
harness and wagons, to say nothing
of the increase in the value of their farms
and of the pleasures of driving upon hard,
smooth roads, would be far greater than
most farmers have aDy Idea of.
If Secretary Morton does nothing else
than inspire the people in all parts of the
country with a desire for good roads and
inaugurate an era of road-building, he will
have accomplished more than any previous
Secretary of Agriculture, and will make a
name that will be honored in every house
hold In the land.
The great need of the times is good roads.
Vast amounts of money are spent every
year on the roads iu every state, but little
or no permanent good is accomplished.
The roads are worked without any regard
to intelligent methods, and little more than
a temporary benefit is aimed at. Holes are
filled up and ridges are scraped down, but
the same work has to be done several times
a year, and even then the roads are barely
passable.
Let the Cleveland administration lead in
the movement in behalf of good roads, and
if it does nothing else worthy of considera
tion it will go out of office honored and re
gretted.
Is Progressive Euchre Gambling?
An interesting game of tit-for-tat Is go
ing on at Columbus, Ind. It is between the
“sporting” element of the city on one side,
aud the minister and local ‘ "Four Hundred'
on the other. To begin at the beginning, a
short while ago a determined fight was be
gun by the ministers and the Law and Order
league against saloons aud gambling dens.
The good people worked with a will, and
soon bad the naughty ones in a decidedly
uncomfortable position. Then came the
blow of retaliation. The liquor dealers
and gamblers cut out the names of
the people printed in the daily papers as’
having taken part in progressive euchre
parties, playing for prizes, and sent them to
the grand jury. There was prima facie evi
dence that gambling was going on in the
parlors of the good people, and the saloon
men demanded that an investigation bo
made. Inasmuch as the law is no respecter
of persons, the grand jury issued summonses
for about forty well-known society men
and women to appear before it for examina
tion. But many of them could not be
found. They had suddenly determined
upon a visit to out-of-town relatives or
friends, and had acted at once upon the de
termination. A number of the men, how
ever, answered the summonses in person
and succeeded in saving the ladies the
chagrin of being forced to testify.
There are several questions upon which
the outcome of this matter may bear. Is
playing progressive euchre for geegaw
prizes to ho classed with rolling craps? Is
the grabbag player at the church fair a9
much amenable to the law as the player
who “bucks the tiger" on the green table?
Are the golden youth In his swallow-tail
and the society’bud, who play “old maid”
for necktie against gioves, liable to arrest
for gambling? Are private homes in In
diana to be subject to police raids—patrol
wagons, cells aud police court accompani
ments—lf a penny-ante game of poker
should be indulged in? It seems absurd to
suppose that the laws against gambling
would be enforced in the lines indicated.
But the issue is joined at Columbus, and the
statutes make no discrimination.
In Washington, among people who are in
a position to obtain “inside information,”
it is said that Mr. Blount’s trip to Hawaii
does not mean that the President is unfa
vorably disposed to annexation. It is
said “on excellent authority,” that Mr.
Cleveland has “never changed in his en
thusiasm over the prospect of the annexa
tion of tbe Hawaiian islands to the United
States,” and that intimations have been re
ceived wbioh indicate that Secretary
Gresham is favorably disposed toward an
nexation. The sending of Mr. Blount to
Honolulu, says current comment, "is en
tirely in accord with the purpose which
Mr. Cleveland had when, last winter, he
was told that the annexation of Hawaii
would be one of the prizes of his adminis
tration. He does not expect that Mr.
Blount will bring back any Information
which will change his opinion, so that it is
simply tbe manner of annexation rather
than the scheme itself which is affected by
what he has done."
Eli I’erkins has been making jokes at the
expense of railroad porters and the rest of
humanity for years. But he discovered a
day or two ago that the porter is no joke.
He “ ran afoul” of one on a Chicago train
who not only refused to laugh at the proper
time, but refused to be bullied, with the re
sult that Eli started in to give him a drub
bing. At the end of it the humorist would
not have been recognized by his oldest and
most constant joke; he was a wreck. How
ever, ho had a "pull” along with him, and
succeeded in seouring the discharge of tho
porter. Eli, it will be remembered, lately
became a protectionist. And he is now
more than ever a beliover in protection.
Should President Cleveland apply to the
presidential postotficoa the rule that Post
master General Biased has laid down, that
postmasters mast give all of their time to
government service. Postmaster Van Cott,
of New York, would have to get out before
the expiration of his commission. His
commission will expire Dec. 1,1893. In the
meantime he is devoting himself to tho man
agement of tbe New York Base Ball Club,
of which he is president. It is said he will
not resign as postmaster. Hut the chances
are that New York will seriously objeot to
having her great postoffice run as a side
issue to a base hall aggregation.
Chicago papers say that city is overrun
with idle men and women, “some of whom
aro starving to death.” They have beeu
drawn there by the prospedt of obtaining
employment during the time of the great
fair, either in or about tho fair itself or in
somo line of business to be made necessary
by the influx of visitors. They had very
little money at the time of their arrival,
which little was soon spent, leaving the un
f rtunates dependent upon charity. It is
probable that tbe condition of affairs will
not bo much improved during the con
tinuance of the exposition.
THE MORNING NEW'S: MONDAY. MARCH 20Vl8&:i.
Cb csgo's -'eter Supply.
In view of the fact that millions of peo
ple wiil visit Chicago between May 1 anil
Nov. 1 of this year the condition of the
drinking water of that city is a matter of
the first Importance. It is admitted by the
Chicago papers that there was on extraor
dinary amount of typhoid fever in the city
in the last three years. The number of
deaths from that di ease was 1,0 X 1 in ISO.),
1,097 in 1891 and 1,4-17 iu 1892. No figures
are furnished for January and February of
this year, but a Chicago physician, in one
of the paners of that city, makes the state
ment that typhoid fever has entirely disap
peared.
But if the cause of tbe disease was the con
dition of tbe water supply it is doubtful if
the statement of the physician is to bo re
lied upon. Until quite recently the city
obtained water from a point two
miles out in the lake, and it
was generally admitted that the
sewage of the city was carried that far
into the lake. The water was tainted with
sewage. The city, therefore, constructed a
tunnel four miles from shore, and the
greater part of the water is now drawn
from that source.
The Chicago Tribune , however, telis the
people to boil the water before drinking it,
because the melting snow and high winds
have created a current in the Chicago river,
into which the sewage of the city is
emptied, and tbe sewage is carried four
miles into the lake. It seems, therefore,
that the people are still drinking water that
is tainted with Bowage. In that event,
and if the tainted water is the cause of the
typhoid fever, it is a question whether the
fever has disappeared from Chicago.
Iking before this Chicago should have ex
tended tbe two mile tunnel to a point at
least four miles from the shore or even far
ther. She certainly should draw her water
supply from a point in the lake beyond the
danger line. If the impreislon gets abroad
that tbe city is full of typhoid fever and
that her water supply is full of disease
germs the attendance at the world’s fair
wiil fall far below the expected number.
People will not run tbe risk of an attack
from typhoid fever in order to see the fair.
The Washington correspondent of the
esteemed Baltimore American reports:
"Another odd name has come up from
Georgia. * * Mr. Potsdam Sams, who is
private secretary to Gov. Northen, of
Georgia, to-day applied to Secretary of
State Gresham for appointment as consul
at Bangkok, Siam.” It must be very
mortifying to a gentleman who * ’speaks
the Persian language fluently” to have both
his name and his desires so incorrectly re
ported. What do the natives of Siam know
of the Persian language? What would it
profit a consul at Bangkok to be able to
rattle off Arabic lingual hieroglyphics like
a native of Teheran or Atlanta? Why
should an aspiring young man delve In
Sanskrit literature and lore, and train his
Georgian tongue to speak the Persian
language fluently, if he wished an appoint
ment in the land of singular twins and
white elephants? Why, hesimply wouldn’t;
ad the Washington correspondent should
have known that he wouldn’t. The corre
spondent of the American has made an
egregious and inexcusable blunder. Let the
correspondent bear in mind hereafter
what language it is that Mr. Sams speaks
fluently, and that his name is Stanhope,
not Potsdam—the very idea of Potsdam
speaking anything but German is ridiculous
—and he will not again do the gentleman
such injustice.
Unrequited love and the lack of a bottle
of mucilage are responsible for the down
fall of a Missouri postmistress. She was a
love-lorn maiden in charge of a fifth-class
postofiioe, and it became her official duty
every day the mail left to forward to her
hated rival a letter from the school teacher
they both loved. Frequently the fortunate
girl remarked to her lover that the alleged
kisses with which be sealed the flaps of tbe
envolope had a peculiar odor, as if of the
white of an egg, which finally led to a little
detective work on the part of the swain,
and the final arrest of the postmistress on
the charge of opening the letters of the lov
ers. And she confessed, not omitting to
state that she opened the letters because sho
couldn’t overcome her curiosity to know
what the man she loved was Baying to her
rival. She blames her discovery upon the
fact that the postofiioe could not afford a
bottle of mucilage, which necessitated the
use of the white of an egg to reseal the ten
der missives.
The Secular Union is the name of an or
ganization of Chicago people who favor the
opening of the world’s fair on Sundays.
And the Secular Union Is doing everything
in its power to keep the gates open seven
days in the week. One of its latest move
ments was to have introduced iu the Illinois
legislature a bill to open the Illinois state
exhibit to the publio on Sundays. It is
claimed by backers of the bill that the
state has not ceded the jurisdiction over
Jackson park to the United States, and,
therefore, Illinois retains its police power
over the park. The attorneys say that had
congress contracted with the exposition to
keep open on Sunday the state legislature
would have had the power to close the
gates. There 19, however, little prospeot of
Its becoming a law. If it should, however,
it is believed that the opening of tbe Illinois
exhil it on Sundays would lead to the whole
exposition being thrown open also.
What can the New York Press mean by
the assertion that the charging of tariff
duties on sugar, coffee, tea and wines would
be to “tax tbe breakfast taole?” 1s it not
the boast of the JWss, and other proteotion
ists, that the foreign exporter of tariff-taxed
articles must pay the tariff duty in order to
be admitted into the Ameriosn market? If
a tariff on the articles named would tax
the consumer, why is it that a tariff on
wenriug apparel, iron, steol, etc., doee not
tax the consumers of these necessary arti
cles?
The Boston Journal calls attention to a
peculiar phase of the trouble at tbe state
prison: "Of all the ludicrous things wbioh
are told of the condition of the discipline in
tbe Massachusetts state prison, that story of
the ooovict Booth, who, having appointed
himself chairman of a committee to select
a testimonial to the retiring warden, coolly
picked out headquarters aud hung up a
sign, ‘No admittance,’ which was duly re
spected by tbo prison guards, is the most
amusing.’'
It is the purpose of the Chamber of Depu
ties that Jules Ferry, the French states
man, shall have a funeral worthy of his
fame. The amount ot money appropriated
for that purpose is ample. His death aston
ished Paris. It was not known that he was
seriously ill. He played an important part
in French politics, and was one of the
strongest of the opportunist leaden.
The removal of Laura and Secretary La
ment’s declaration of independence are in
clden's which give promise of pension
reforms. The pension bureau is not con
nected with Secretary Lamout’s depart
ment, it is true; but his action in refusing
to Listen to the “influence committee” of an
organization that makes pension demands a
specialty will have g.od effect. It will
serve to warn all persms interested that
“pulls” are no longer potent to prevent the
working out of needed reforms. At tbe
same time there is no reason for deserving
pensioners to feel apprehensive that their
interest# may suffer under the new order of
things. Raum will be replaced by a union
veteran, and the Interest of pensioners at
the Senate end of the capitol will be looked
after by a federal major general—Senator
Palmer, chairman of the Senate commit
tee on pensions. It is interesting to note,
by tbe way, that Chairman Palmer is not
in favor of the proposed change of tbe pen
sion bureau from the interior department
to the war department. He thinks the sys
tem in use now is all right, in so far as the
system itself is concerned, but says it has
been much abused. These abuses, however,
can bo reformed satisfactorily without such
radical olianges as have been proposed.
It is a very easy tbrag to get married. In
many states jumping over a broom stick
together is almost sufficient to make a man
and woman husband aud wife. A public
declaration of intention to live together as
man aud wife, constitutes, in some states, a
common law marriage. But tbe rule doesn't
work both ways. The Atlanta couple who
divorced themselves by advertisement will
not find getting unmarried quite so easy.
The laws permit the aasumiug of the re
sponsibilities of marriage in a very slip
shod way, it is true, but they do not per
mit of their being so easily cast aside.
There seems to be no haven of refuge in
Chioago from the footpad. He assaul.s and
robs ac readily In the temple of justice as he
does In the principal shopping streets, which
is saying a good deal, for the Chioogo high
wayman delights to operate In public places.
A bank colleotor had business in the Cook
county court house a day or two ago and
went in to attend to it. From tbe county
treasurer he collected *9OO and from tbe
county clerk S3OO. But before he could
leave tbe building a thief knocked him
down, stole the money and escaped.
PERSONAL.
Ms Olney, Cleveland's Attorney Genera], Is
the owner of a farm iu Greenwood county, a
few miles northwest of 1 ureka, Kan.
Max. Grew, who died recently, regretted by
all France, was a domestic servant before be
coming the wife of the statesman-president.
The marriage of Prmce Ferdinand of Bul
garia and tbe daughter of the Duke of Parma
is to be celebrated at Viareggio, Italy, on April
10.
Henry M. Howe, the Dew president of the
American institute of mining engineers, is a
son of Mrs. Julia Ward Howe of Boston and
Newport.
President Cleveland doesn’t need to sub
scribe for any newspaper. A wagon load of
marked copies Is said to reach the white house
every day.
Mme. Camille Collett, the well-known ad
vocate of the emaocipat ion of women in Nor
way, recently celebrated the 80th anniversary
of her birth. A festival was given in Christiania
In ho or of the day.
The University of Notre Dame, Ind., this
year bestows its crowning honor, the Laetare
medal, Patrick J. DiLohoe, editor and pro
prietor of the Boston Pilot, the Nestor of
Catholic journalism iu America.
The scientific world of Germany has suffered
another heavy loss in the sudden death of Prof.
Hermann Schauffhausen, the famous an
thropologist of the University of Bonn Ho
was a pupil of Johannes Mueller in Berlin in
tbe ’Bos. After extended travels he became
a professor at Bonn in 1844 He was one of the
first advocates of the theory now known as the
Darwinian. He was born in ISI6.
The late Samuel E. Adams of Richmond.
Ind , was fond of telling a remarkable coin
cidence which happened several years ago.
During a severe thunder storm a canary bird
flew Into the house Within a few minutes a
shivering aud badly-frightened spaniel was
found begging for nil mission. The dog was let
in. Less than an hour afterward a child was
heard crying on tue outside and the door
opened to admit a little tot scarcely 2 years
old. The child, dog and canary were never
claimed. Mr. Adams found a comfortable home
for the little one, while he continued to care for
tbe dog and bird.
BRIGHT BITS.
■ 1 1,1
Mr Brown—l say, doctor, what school of
physicians does vou belong to?
Dr. Quick tiudignantly)—l don’t belongs to no
scho Is. sar! Pse graduated long’go, and got
my degrees hanging on de best door in de office
Blade and White.
“Well, mademoiselle, isn’t he a handsome
fellow?”
’Yes, he is; but certainly one of his legs is
too short.”
"Too short?” Qui etlie contrary; one of his
legs is too long ."—battler.
“Were you calm an I collected at the battle
ot Gettysburg, major?"
“Well, madam, 1 was calm enough, but I
wasn't collected. AVith a leg in one part of tbe
field, an arm in another and a left ear in an
other, collection was difficult. ’’ — Harper's
Bazar.
Uncle Timothy— Now this is what I call car
ryin’ card playin’ too fur
Aunt Hannah—What is it?
Ui ole Timothy— l his here paper in tailin' of a
weddin’ says the house was a perfect bower,
and the bride like a queen.— Chicago Inter
Ocean,
Jimpson— By George, there goes a fellow with
my umbrella.
Pottles—Well, why don’t you make him give
it up?
Jimpson—Confound it, the man I got it from
is right behind him. Just my infernal luck!
Troy Pi ess.
Making It All Right.—Customer (to head
waiter)—Here, sir, this clumsy fellow has
spilled over half of my cup of tea down my
back.
Head Waitento clumsy waiter,sternly)—Bring
this gentleman a full cup of tea instantly.
Texas Biftings.
OURRBNT COMMENT.
Banke and the Treasury Gold.
Prom the Philadelphia Press (Rep.).
Secretary Carlisle is not likely to be deceived,
however any one else may be, by the offer of
gold to the treasury by western banka This has
proved a very present help in time of trouble,
but it is a help only for tbs present.
Now You’re Talking. Mr. Watterson.
Pram the Louisville Courier-Journal ( Dent.).
There are thousands of men connected with
the press in subordinate capacities—men of
brains and culture—who would grace the offi
cial fabric. Having no rights of ownership, oc
cupying places of nsither responsibility or in
fluence, they would pass from the newspaper
service to the public service without the
shadow of the suspicion of subsidy.
Mission of the Democratic Party.
Pram the Reuj York World (Dm.).
This is to be a democratic administration. Its
mission is to rectifv Inequalities and restore jus
tice by an equitable readjustment of tbe bur
dens of government. It was to effect tills long
needed reform that an overwhelming majority
was given at the polls, and the Democratic
party placed in control of the legislative as well
as the executive department of the government.
A Different Man.
From the Philadelphia Inquirer (Rep.).
The explosion of a bomb in the reeidence of
the United States minister to Italy yesterday
prompted two New York evening’ papers to
bring out their picture of ex-Gov A. G. Porter
of Indiana, whom they assumed to tie still serv
ing his country iu Italy. We recommend our
contemporaries to make a note of the fact that
the present minister to Italy is William Potter
of Philadelphia,
A Newspaper Ep socle.
One incident happened in the early history of
the A>tr* that shows in acouspiouous way the
shrewdness and inge uity or Editor stone, say3
the Chicago Poet, There was in those days an
Evening Poet, owned by the McMullen Bros.
They had one creat fault, which Stone quickly
detected. This was me habit of pillaging the
3 o clonk edition of the A-in for -peciat dis
patches, which were printed in the 5 o'clock
edition of the Post as its own specials. Stone
decided to lava trap for them: ro he wr t• a
long bogus dispatch, anl dated it as coming
fromSrfla the capital of Bulgaria. The dis
patch pictured in glowing colors the great
fam ne thai was then ostensibly raging in Bul
garia and the threatened revolution of the
Bulgarians. The Bulgarians we-e said to be
marching through the streeiß of Sofia carry.ng
huge banners on which were emblazoned the
legend:
Er Uss. Iht la etsl liws nellura cme ht.
This was supposed, so the dispatch read, to
mean some frightful threat against the gov
ernment for its failure to provide against the
famine.
After having written the dispatch Brother
Stone sat down and waited, occasionally snick
ering in his sleeve at tbo nice scheme that he
had arranged to catch the McMullen boys.
Sure enough, the trap worked to a c arm and
ttie game was caught. Late the same day the
entire 'etqs establishment wore a broad grin.
Stone laughed until h s sides ached. Lawson
was tickled almost to death. The .\eire grinned
through all its editions tbe next day. On the
editorial page wai a double leaded editorial ex
po- in : the whole tning and showing how that
faked Bulgarian legend read backward:
*
The McMullens Will Steal This Sure. j
* * * *
Then Stone rubbed It in a most exasperating
way. He editorialiv commented on the vroful
ignorance of the MeMul en-. and declared if
tuey had understood the Bulgarian lnnsjuaire as
they should have understood it. repre
sentative Chicago newspaper men, they never
would have allowed themselves to be duped in
that wholesale way. The incident wan town
talk for a whole week, and Stone and the Xttws
largely profited by it.
Pe Couldn't Remember Any thin c*.
He came homo some nights af?o a bit tired
from a busy day's work, and his wife waited
until he had zotoff his overcoat and eat down,
eays the Poston Globe .
“Did you pet that piece of silk I asked you to
brinp:*'' sh* inquired, seeinp that he had not
laid it betore her
•‘Yes. dear; I left it out there in the hall.'*
“Did you fp?t the pioa?**
“Y’es, dear.”
“And the ribbon?”
”Ye>.”
“Aud Bobbie's shoes?”
“\ r es‘”
* And a hearth broom?”
“Yes.”
“ 'ndrv wick for the kitchen lamp?'*
••Yep.”
“Ann some matches ”
“Y es; they are with the other bundles.”
“And did you S3e the man aoout the coal?”
“Y es; ho wilt be up on Monday.”
“And the man to flx the grate in the dining
room?”
“Yes; he*s coming as soon as he can.”
“And did you go and pay the pas rate?”
“Yes, dear.”
“And—and-O. yes. did you order anew
shovel for the kitchen?”
“N—n—no,” he hesitated; “I forgot it.”
“Good gracious, sue exclaimed. “W* at did
you do that for? Y'ou know we* needed that
shovel, and I told you about it the very first
thing when you went to town this morning. I
do think you men are the most forgenful anl
careless creatures that ever lived.”
And she was cross for the rest of the evening.
The Pursuit of Culture.
“Bon soir!” said Mrs. Oilriz as she swept into
the room She said it with a delicate rising in
flection that she had learned with great care
from her French teacher, says the Detroit tret
Press.
“I should say so,” was the answer, “with all
my rheumatism. I'll bet I’ve got about the
sorest bones of any man in this ward.”
“Dear: dear Sighed the good woman “How
Ido wish you'd go in m re for culture and
tniugs What are vou reading?”
“ ‘Chaucer,’ but I can’t say I like it much.
When it comes to real first-class spelling, gim
me Artemus Ward every time. *
“Have you read that new book in the library
about ‘Plutarch?’ ”
“No. Who was he?*'
“I'm so surprised at you. I really am. He
was the mythological person who had so many
lives. Don't you remember?”
”0, yes,” answered Mr. Oilriz. ‘T believe I
do,” aud he started to leave the room.
“Are you going out?”
“Y es, for a little walk.”
“Would you object to doing a little
errand?”
"Nope. What is it?”
“1 want to send a letter of condolence to Mrs.
Pursington. She's lost her husband, you
know ”
••Well, you don’t want me to have it wrote, do
you?”
“No, indeed But I want it proper. When
you go by the stationary store get me a bottle
of sympathetic iuk, there's a dear.”
And Mr. Oilriz said he would.
Gen. Dan Macaulay's Rich Strike.
Gen. Dan Macauley, appointment clerk ot the
trea-ury, has wielded the ax with great vigor
and enjoyment, says tbe Washington Post, and
now it wiil flash above his own official neck.
But It makes no difference. He is fixed. Bome
eighteen months ago he became acquainted
with a Brazilian, who mentioned that there was
land upon his father’s estate which lie knew to
be diamondiferous in some degree, but capital
to work it was lacking. Mr. Macauley had not
much money, but a large amount of confidence
in is friend. Laoor is cheap in Brazil, and the
few hundreds ho put up for a one-third interest
in the results went a long way. Yesterday he
exhibited a small box which contained not ess
than 815.000 worth of the gems. He displayed
othrr brilliants of rare value, which had been
sent to him by his partners to be estimated and
sold to jewelers in tills country. One-third of
tbe proceeds, of e urse. belong to him. Gen.
Macauley says that in the letter which accom
panied the snipment his associates ex press the
utmost confidence in the future of the mine,
saying that the output becomes richer and the
finds much more frequent us the deptn is in
creased He has visions that a bauble will yet
be produced that will eclipse the Koh-i-noor,
Sound Reasoning
The difference between common sense and
mathematics was illustrated in a remark which
Tommy Jones—who is not exceptionally bright,
but just a common, natural boy—made in his
class at sohool the other day, says Youth's Com
panion.
it was the class in mental arithmetic. The
teacher asked Willy Smith:
"Wbioh would you rather have. Willy, half an
apple or eight-sixteenths of an apple?"
"Wouldn’t make any difference, ’ said Willy
"Why not?"
“Light-sixteenths and one-half are all the
same. ”
At this reply Tommy Jones, wno was several
steps further down the class, sniffed scornfully.
The teacher heard him.
"Well. Tommy, ’ said she, “don’t you agree
with Willy?”
"No’m, “ said Tommy. “I'd a good deal
rather have one half an apple.”
"And why, please?"
“More juice. Cut up half an apple Into sight
sixteenths and you'd lose half the juice doiug
it!”
Whom Do You Love?
Cy Warman in Aeui Fork Sun.
“Whom do you love, my love?" she said,
As I bent my face aoove her:
And I tried to calm her, and held her bead
And again in the saute sweet voice she said:
"W’horn do you love, my loyer?”
“Look in your heart to night and see
If there is a shadow in it,
A shade of a thought that is not of me.
And tell me truly if there should be;
Whom do you love tLls minute?"
"Whom do you love?*' and her trembling hand
I eft wandering caresses
Upon my face; and all the land
Was lit with love, and tde night wind fanned
Her brow and shook her trescss.
“A woman's love Is a priceless prise.
And if you should want to win it;"
And again 1 looked, and to my surprise
I saw two tears in her deep, dark eyes:
“Whom do you love this minute?”
“Whom do you love?” and I caught the swell
Of her breast her grief hail given;
And 1 touched her lipi and L smelled the smell
Of the passion flower and the asphodel.
And the earth was changed to heaven
“To me there is just one world, my dear.
And just two people in it;
And now to-night, ai we stand here,
AD 11 hold your baud, have uot a fear,
For 1 love you every minute!”
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ITEMS OF INTEREST.
An Atchison woman, says the Globe of that
city. Is going crazy on the souvenir pitcher fad.
Bhe has every shelf, cupboard and cioset in her
house filled with pitchers in sizes ranging from
the kind fairies would use at tea parties to one
as big as a barn door. Sbe trades off every
thing she can lay her hands on for pitchers, so
that Her family is eating out of pitchers, drink
ing out of pitchers and washing its face in
pitchers. The woman is undoubtedly crazy and
her family is growing so.
Two of the thirteen leading English railroads
pay dividends amounting to 9 per cent., two
others pay exactly 1 per cent. less, while ttiree
others pay 6 per cent. aDd one pays 4. These
are upon the par value of the stocks, and as the
market prices are generally far above par, we
have here some explanation of vrby so much
English capital finds its way to this country for
investment. The standard rtocks are there’held
by men and women who rarely sell uniesa there
is a heavy rise, and the average investor does
not buy at such a time. Over here they hope
for larger dividends and greater advances In
value from tha development of the new coun
try.
The cloud-piercing summits of the Himalayas
are not the only untrodden bights of our pres
ent world. Monnt Elbrus and Demavend, in
Western Asia, and the pinnacle of Mount Acon
cagua, in the Chilean Andes, have baffled the
most enterprising explorers, and iu the Aus
trian Alps (the so-cailed dolomite region of the
Eastern Tyrol) there is a whole group of tower
like peaks that have never vet bei n reached by
a wingless visitor. Asa rule, asipe of 45° is
the steepest practical incline, and the dlfflcul
ties of a precipitous mountain wall become
almost hopeless in the latitude of Greenland,
where frost turns every highland brook into a
glacier.
Tbs improvement of firearms in the course
of the present century almost equals the prog
ress from cross bows to flint-lock muskets. The
trumpet shaped musquetoons of the fifteenth
century could be used only at close range, but
their chief defect was their liability to miss fire
altogether. As late as 1752 Marechal Saxe par
doned a deserter because every one of the six
muskets lu the hands of the firing squal had
failed to explode its charge, and the delinquent
was considered a protege of providence. Im
agine the ohauces of that soldier if the six
marksmen ha t used rifles of the Manlicher pat
tern. with cartridges warranted to explode 449.-
995 times in S W.OOJ shots.
Watches were made in Geneva as early as
1500, and now that watchmaking has become a
national industry In Switzerland, schools for
the perfection of this profession have been cs
tabiished there. The principal one of 11 use is
L Ecole Municipals d’Horlogerie. in Geneva.
boy enters this school at the age of !4 and
Works ten hours for eleven months. Seve ■
hours out of every week, however, are given to
various studies. The second class requires a
stay of five or six motitns; tho third, six or
seven months: the fourth, six montns; the
fifth—when the work is growing very compli
cated—eight months; the sixth, thirteen
mouths, and the setonth and last class ah ,ut
one year, making about five years In ail. At
the end of the five years each boy has made
twelve watches, which are his own property.
The chimpanzee is supposed to stand next to
man, says the New York Tribune. This is ow
ing principally to h s brain and the formation
of his thumb. It has a man's appetite, when
cultivated. It learns to sit at table, a3 a man
has to do, and partakes ot everything, being
particularly fond of sweets. It has even been
known to become addicted to strong drink
another manly art. It can us >in fe. fork and
spoon with facility (never putting the knife in
the mouth lj; receives visitors with politeness,
and shows them out when it is time tor them to
go. It has another manly failing—it loves
bright colors, aud is especially attentive to a
woman wearing a gay dress. It makes au ex
cellent clubman, as It is very fond of looking
out of windows Mr. Crowley was the most
interesting animal that was ever in tbe Central
Park menagerie.
Great excitement was caused in Barcelona
recently by an Invasion of bulls, says the Pall
Malt Gazette. The town was literally at the
absolute mercy of about 100 of these animals.
Three hundred American bulls bad that morn
ing arrived by the Italian cargo steamer Dur
ing the unloading process a rope that bound a
whole herd together suddenly broke, and be
tween 90 and 100 bulla escaped. Tne animals
stamped across the quay and finally dispersed
indifferent streets. The inhabitants were pauio
stricken. Soon a formidable battle was waged
against the infuriated animals, hut It was not
till evening that the populace had succeeded in
partly killing and partly capturing the greater
number ot the beasts. Two people were killed
—namely, a young girl, who was trample i to
death, and old lady, who was gored, Niue per
sons were injured, fonr fatally, and tho dam
age done to houses, shops and lamp posts was
considerable. The slaughtered hulls lav about
the streets, and many of the mhabi tautg helped
themselves.
Why some birds which could pick up food
among us all the year round should leave when
food is plentiful, while others with similar ways
of life remain is still a mystery, says the Lon
don Standard. It is easy to understand that a
species which preys on fresh water fish and on
frogs should seek other quarters when the ponds
are frozen and the frogs are buried in the clay.
But it Is not quite so clear why the swallows
and the fly catchers leave a region where there
is perpetual summer and winged food iu abund
ance to risk a long journey over the sea
and land, only to find a great scarcity of the
same kind; of food. And it is equally
puzzling that the seed and fruit
eaters, who, since October, have
been fattening among the gardens of Algeria
and Egypt, should suddenly, in March or April,
be seized with such an Inordinate craving for
a change or diet as to fly B,noo miles on the
chance of picking up the short commons of an
English spriug. Perhaps It will be found
that migration is natural to all birds, and is
greater or less as circumstances may deter
mine. Every animal shifts its quarters accord
ing to the plentifulness or scarcity of food.
Even our residents move up and down the
country at different periods of the year, living
in th„ lowlands in the wiDtor and in the uplands
in tho summer, and it is well known that all
winter there is a continued drifting of the birds
frim the continent to our islands, according to
the weather,
I have searched far and wide, says a writer
in the Bt. Louis Republic, for something like an
elaborate description of the colossi Memnon,
otherwise known as tbe singing and talking
statues of Memnon. Eastern travelers, as a
rule, almost ent.roly ignore the subject, or. if
they do happen to allude to these present day
wonders and old time miracles, give very un
satisfactory aocounts of tneru. Frank Dobbins,
in "Error's Chains.'’page 114, says: “Near
Thebss are the statues of Memnon, which
are said to sing when the rays of tho rising
sun touch their lips. Possibly the breeze of the
early morning struck upon some oonceeleil
musical contrivar oi in the statue and produced
the sound " That is every word he says
In reference to these old time wonders.
What could be more unsatisfactory? From
the vast pile of unsatisfactory data
gathered I have compiled the following:
Tbe easternmost ot the two sitting colossi is
the “vocal Memnon" of the old Roman ac
counts, which was said to praise the sun on
his regular reappearance. The statue 1 are
both exactly alike as far as size and compcsi
tion are concerned, measuring 18 feet and 3
Inches, 18 feet 6 Inches from the top of the
shoulders, 17 feet 9 inches from the elbow to
the tips of the fingers anil 19 feet 8 inches from
the knee to the sole of the foot. The thrones
upon which these gigantic statues sit are
ornamented with a figure of the god
Nilus, who is represented as binding plants
around the name of the Pharaoh which the
colossi represent. The singing sta ue is said
to have risen to its feet aud groaned several
times just before the great earthquake shock
which ruined Thebes came.
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Boys' Mackinaw Hats, and Chil
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Our assortment of Scarfs is of the
newest patterns and designs, and
reasonable in price.
Athletic and Bicycle Goods,
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Spring Underwear in Gauze, Nain
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Don’t forget that for Easter Hats’
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