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SIXTEEN PAGES.
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SUPPLEMENT
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Meetings—Branch 88, C. K. of A.; Society of
Liberal Views.
Special Notices—For Rent at Tybee Island,
C. F. Graham; Notice, R. C. McCall; Notice, P.
M. Adams; Seasonable Obods, Solomons & Oo. ;
Special Notice, Andrew Hanley; All My Trade,
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Miscally, Jr.; To the Stockholders of the New
South Building and Linn Association; Copart
ners tup Notice, Wilson & Grade; General Insur
ance Agents. Wilson A Grady; The Meyer Beer
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nol. Real Estate; Notice to the Publio, J. W.
McFarland, Superintendent K ectric Railway of
Savannah; Go to K. C. i'acotti for Galvanized
Iron Cornices, Etc.
The Monarch— Wakefield & Lee.
Great Bargain Week—At Eckstein's.
Dr. Jaeger's Sanitary Underwear—Appel
& Schaul.
Amuiemknts Wilfred Clarke, at Theater
April 10; Free Lecture, Prof. Etienne I-auibert;
Strawberry Festival Tuesday, April 11.
Ain’t it Time You Examined Your Wardrobe’
Appel & Scliaul.
You May Travel in a Circle—Falk Clothing
Company
Facts for Consideration— Leopold Adler,
Some Coolers—B. H. Levy & Bro.
Ladies' Week— D. Hogan.
Never—Crohan & Doouer.
Please Look on Page 7—lt's Dollar Sense.
Spring Opening in Furnitubk —Emil A,
Schwarz.
A Few of the Many Thing!— At Gutman’s.
Roof Paintings— Lloyd & Adams.
Grand Spring Sale—At Collate’.
Keeping Everlastingly at it Brings Suc
cess—Foye & Morrison.
Offers for Sale—Edw. W. Brown, Real
SJstate Dealer.
Come and See— Gardner & Einstein.
Good Advice- The A J. Miller Company.
A Sample of Our $3 50 Shoe—Byck Bros.
Call and See the New Oil Stove—Cornwell
& Chipinan.
Undergoing Repairs—H. Howard Cohen,
Cheap Cos,, urn Advrrtissken rs Help
Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Real; For
Bale: Lost; Personal: Miscellaneous.
The cholera scare has awakened Boston to
the neoessity of disposing of her garbage in
a sanitary manner. A committee of the
Boston city council has started on a tour of
the principal cities of the oountry to investi
gate the garbage problem. The committee
should visit Savannah. In this city, what
to do with the garbage is not a burning
question, but merely a question of burning.
This is from the New York Tribune :
•‘Some Georgians will learn with regret
that ‘Lord’ Beresford’s appeal bas gone
against him. Though a cheat aud a swindler,
be is more esteemed in certain parts of Geor
gia than the man he swindled." A Georgia
newspaper might, with truth, oomment on
the esteem in which Carlyle Harris, the
murderer, is held in New York. But
that would be bad taste. The Tribune’s
paragraph combines bad taste with talso
®ood.
Says the New York freest “Southern
people express wonder why Immigrants do
not go to that region in large numbers.”
And then the Press goes on to explain why
Immigrants do not come south; “They
[the people of the south] are suffering from
bourbonism," and more of that kind of
stuff. The chief reason why immigrants
have cot heretofore come south is because
the south has boen, and still is, grossly mis
represented to them by the radical element
bf the republican newspaper press of the
north. It is. apparently, the policy of such
newspapers never to say anything good of
the south, except at advertising rates. But
they delight to exploit every individual
shortcoming of a southern man in such
manner as to make it appear that the man
is only u type of the community in which
he lives, aud that the south as a whole is
desperately wicked. The narrow-minded,
ness of the newspapers of this class makes
them jealous of the south. They dislike to
see the oountry, crushed to earth twenty,
e.ght years ago, again becoming prosperous
and happy. They oannot, or will not,
realize that the south is no longer a political
division, but is a part of the United States
of America, and os loyal to the union as
New England. All the southern states ask
is fair play, and that the hypocritical press
slop preaching aud go to practicing justice.
Activity of the Health Authorities.
The activity of the health authorities iu
all parts of the oountry is regarded with
satisfaction. because it indicates that if we
hare a visitation of cholera this year
we shall, to some extent, be prepared for it.
The interstate conference of the representa
tives of boards and other sanitary officers
that was in session at the Fifth Avenue
hotel, New York, last week has thrown out
many suggestions that may have the effect
of oausmg greater efforts to be made to put
j our oities in good sanitary condition. A
1 few of those who took part in the confer
ence expressed the opinion that there is no
danger of the oholera gaining a foothold
in this country this year, but the majority
held a contrary opinion. They thought
there was considerable danger, and favored
the most vigorous preparations for It.
Even if the cholera should not come a
thorough cleaning of our oities would be
beneficial. Those health officers who should
act upon the belief that there is no danger
to be apprehended from oholera, and there
fore neglect to guard against it in their
respective localities, would take a risk that
no official would care to take who has a
proper appreciation of the responsibility
resting upon him.
While It is true that the cholera was kept
out of this oountry last year, although
many cases of It were at the New York
quarantine, and may be kept out this year
if it should make its appearance this sum
mer at any of our ports, still it would not
be wise to depend upon quarantine.
The disease has already assumed alarm
ing proportions in Russia, and it has made
Its appearance at L’Orient, a seaport in the
western part of France. A number of cases
have also ocourred In Hamburg recently,
and on shi s from that port. The conclu
sion, theret re, that the disease will appear
in ma> y places in Europe before the sum
mer Is over Is not a violent one. It is a
conclusion that should impress upon the
health authorities of our cities the necessity
for insisting upon a supply of pure water
and the removal of disease-breeding places.
It is, of course, important that our streets
should be kept clean, but it is a mistake to
assume that the sanitary condition of the
oity is good simply because its streets are
clean. In faot, there is danger of neglect
ing greater sources of danger than the
streets. For instance, during the last few
months all the employes in one of the
offices on the Bay in this city have been ill
from fever, one of them being critically ill
at the present time. The number of those
who were ill pointed to a local
cause for their illness. A careful
examination showed that a water closet on
the floor above the office in which they were
employed was leaking and was saturating
the walls of the offloe and even entering the
water cooler. The sicknekk was caused by
the polsoued air and polluted driuking
water. *
Much of the sickness in every city is
traoeable to just suoh causes a3 the forego
ing. In this city there are many places to
which the attention of the authorities has
been called frequently that oause disease.
They poison the air. In preparing for the
summer, therefore, especial attention should
be paid to such places. There is compara
tively little danger from such filth as is seen
in the streets, but there is great danger from
bad plumbing, cheaply constructed water
closets and negleoted vaults in backyards.
The health authorities will not be excused
if they clean the streets and neglect these
unseen but far greater sources of danger.
Bright Bide of a Prosy Picture.
This Bering sea arbitration business is
very interesting, from a dozen or more
different points of view. It is uninteresting
from one only, embracing the case In Its
legal aspect. There is nothing in the treaty
of seventeen hundred and this,
or the concession of eighteen
hundred and that to really Interest any
body. Even the commissioners themselves
doze and nod over the proceeding. But here
is something about the court of arbitrators,
oulled from the columns of that careful aud
correct journal, the Philadelphia Public
Ledger , that is indeed refreshing; "The
daily meeting of the Bering sea commission
is becomming one of the show sights of
Faria Casual visitors strive with Ameri
cans and Britons for tickets of admission.
More than two-thirds of the visitors are
women, and the showing of toilets is in tho
nature of an international contest of taste,
in which the Americans easily held their
own against the English and the French."
Good. Victory is ours, whether we win
the seals outside of the three mile limit cr
not. Blnce our women, for whom we wish to
protect the seals, have met the opposition,
retnforoed by the French, on forelgu terri
tory, in the very citadel of fashions, and
"held their own" against the oombined
host, we shall be happy, whatever the out
come. And so will the American woman.
The glory of that achievement outweighs a
season's catch of pelagic Beal fishing.
The report goes on: "The small hall,
filled with warm colors—red, purple aud
gold—and with profuse decorations, hight
ened by mirrors, is divided into halves by
crimson cords, separating the commission
officials from the visitors who ooms to sit in
casual judgment upon the forensto efforts ot
the great men behind these r >pea. At the
end of the ball where the seven arbitrators
sit upon a dais are six windows. All the
rest of the place is In semi-darkness. Ho tbs
windows serve muoh the same purpose as
footlights." What a kaleidoscopic scene!
What a delightful place for the pretty
women to show their pretty gowns In! So
dreamy and picturesque, with a flood of
light turned on in just the right place and
■hut outevery where alsa. And what a splen
did foil for the fetching dresses of the ladies
and the dazzling uniform of Maj. 'Llge
Halford, the wigs and gowns of tbs seven
sedate and sleepy old judges affords! And
the regal decorations red, purple and
gold—how splendidly they harmonize with
the surroundings; especially the gold with
Maj. Halford's salary list.
There Is, however, one suggestive thing
about this hall of arbitration that mars the
symmetry of the delightful day dream of
beautiful women, lovely gowns, high
salaried attendants and sealskins, namely,
the roped arena. For after all, it is only a
legal prize-fight between nations, for a seal
skin purse.
The world’s fair will be one of the great
est immigration bureaus ever opened in this
oountry. The states having there the most
attractive exhibits Illustrating and describ
ing their natural advantages will be the
ones most benefited by a subsequent influx
of desirable Immigrants. Therefore, It
would appear to be a good Idea for Florida
to invest the £7,000 balanoe of her immigra
tion fund In an enlarged exhibit at the fair.
Money so expended is, Indeed, a good in
vestment, and it may turn out to be a very
profitable one.
THE MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY, APRIL 9, 1893—SIXTEEN PAGES.
Fighting the Liquor Traffic.
Two methods for cheoking tbs evils
of the liquor traffic are attracting much at
tention at present. One is proposed by Dr.
Ftalnsford, an Episcopal clergyman of New
York, and the other is called the dispensary
system, apd is about to be tried upou an
extensive soaJe lu South Carolina.
It is astonishing how many ways are pro
posed for limiting the evils of the liquor
traffic, and how little is accomplished by
aDy one of them. Dr. Kaii.sford thinks if
saloons were opened in connection with the
churob.9, and only good liquors sold iu
them, much of the evil of the liquor traffic
would disappear. The rules he would have
adopted in suoh saloons would prohibit
what Is known as "treating” aud no liquor
of any kind would be sold to an intoxicated
person or any one wno was Inclined to
drink to intoxication. The lnfluenoes. Dr.
Hainsford thinks, that would prevail in
such saloons would prevent meu and woman
from drinking to excess.
It is apparent that Dr. Italnsiord’s plan
stands no chauce whatever of being adopted,
even in a limited degree. Each time he
has discussed it in publio it bas met with
ridicule and the greatest opposition.
Women particularly, object to it. They be
lieve it would be the means of causing their
sons and daughters to form tha driuk habit.
Few parents believe their sons visit dram
shops until the evidence that they do be
comes so 6trong that It oannot be ignored.
Dr. Halnsford's plan, therefore, may be con
sidered as being outside of the list of possi
bilities.
But what about the dif|>en sary system!
It is being tried in Clarke county, in this
state, and, it is said, with great success. It
has the approval of the most Influential cit
izens of the county, and the belief seems to
be that It will be a permanent Institu
tion. But can it be made successful
throughout a whole state! liov. Tillman,
of South Carolina, thinks it can. It goes
into operation in that state next July, and
it will have the hearty support of the state
government. All the saloons will be closed
and it will not be possible to obtain either
spirituous or inalt liquors except at dis
pensaries designated by the state.
The South Carolina experiment will be
watohed with the keenest interest. If it
should be successful other states may adopt
it. Absolute prohibition by state authority
has proved, a failnre, aud prohibitionists
may be willing to abandon it for something
that will limit the evils of the liquor traffio
without prohibiting that traffic.
The most successful method for dealing
with the liquor traffio that has yet been
been tried is local option. Under it the
liquor traffio can be prohibited only where
publio sentiment is against the traffio. If
wo are not mistaken more than half the
oounties of this state have voted out intoxi
cating liquors and are, consequently, pro
hibition counties. And prohibition is
enforced in them. If the advocates of all
the other methods should combine with
those favoriug the local option method it
would not be a difficult matter to oonvert a
very large part of the whole country to
prohibition.
Judge Speer and the Engineers.
The Central railroad engineers are to
have anew oontraot under Judge Speer’s
ruling, and are to work under the old con
tract until the new oontract is made. But
if we understand the judge’s ruling, before
anew contraot is made the engineers must
agree to abaudon that one of their rules
which requires them to refuse to haul the
cars or freight of a railroad on which there
is a strike of the Brotherhood of Locomo
tive Engineers. The court virtually holds
that the engineers are not in a position to
make a contract as long as they stand by
that rule. The railroad is bound by a oon
tract, but the engineers do not consider
themselves to be bound by it if the oc
casion arises for the enforcement of the
seoret bovoott rule of their order.
But will the engineers consent to abandon
the boycott rule! They agreed to abide by
the decision of the court, and if they do
that aud Insist upon anew contract they
will have to give up the rule.
But oan they give it up miless it is stricken
from the by-laws of their order! That is
one of the questions they must decide for
themselves. Two United States judges have
now held the rule to be a violation of the
law of the land, and the Brother
hood of Locomotive Engineers may consider
it advisable to strike it from their rules.
In Hayti.
Reports from Hayti during the past week
or ten days have been so contradictory and
muddled that it is impossible to tell whether
a revolution is in progress there or not.
Bnt it Is certain that it none is going on at
present there will be one shortly. Hayti
bas been peaoeful about as long as she can
stand it. Fighting is just as r.ece sary to
Hayti as eyeglasses ore to Boston. Without
glasses the average Bostonian is obliged to
"go It blind," which pretty well describes
the condition of the average Haytian in
times of peace. As long as somebody is be
ing deposed from power and somebody else
set up, he iB happy. But after one revolu
tion has euded and before the next one has
begun, he gropes in the dark. There are
no schools and few churches for him to at
tend. While he Is fighting the Haytian has
no time to build school houses and churches,
aud he is nearly always fighting.
The trouble in Hayti at present is between
I-ogitime, the president, aud Manigat, who
believes in rotation in office, and would like
to rotate In the offloe of president awhile
himself. He argues that Legitime has had
the plaoe more than a year now, and ought
to give way to new blood. But he soems to
lack the backbone to back up his argument
with bis sword. He knows that if be fails
to |oarry bis point his head will be the
penalty, and he is not anxiour to risk that.
In the meantime the people have grown
restive. They wish to overthrow somebody.
If Manigat should continue backward, they
may conolude to throw him and leave
Legitime where he is. However, the only
certain thing In the Haytian situation is
that there is nothing certain about it.
It it difficult to understand why Gov.
Tillman, of Bouth Carolina, should have
"blacklisted” Editor Hemphill, of the
Charleston News and Courier. He is not a
candidate for anything. Already serving
hia oountry In one of the most honorable
and influential positions in his state, he bas
expressed no detiro to leave the state to
serve bis oountry elsewhere. The governor’s
action appears to be purely a gratuitous
"fling.” Taken as a whole, the very act of
filing a “black list” with the President is a
piece of presumption on the governor’s part
quits sufficient to warrant the President in
making a federal appointee of every man
on the list.
It will please be borne in mind that the
frequent references being made in the pa
pers to the ‘ ‘cracker trust" are not personal
to the Georgia oolonels In Washiagton.
PBRSONAL.
Max Judd, who has be-n appointed consul
general at Vienna is one of the foremost ama
teur c .ess players iu the United States.
Assistant Postmaster General Maxwell
wes a devoted fireman in his younger days.
He’s now firing batches of postmasters daily
with a good deal of zeal.
Mlle. Clkmznoe Everap.t, a young lady to 28
years, has reoeived the degree of doctor of
medicine at Brussels and is the first woman in
Belgium to be so honored.
P. H. Morgan of Currituck county, North
Carolina, has received the appointment of
superintendent of the life saving stations of
> lrginia and North Carolina.
Georgs Heywood was elected town olerk of
Concord, Mass., the other day for the forty
first time. The records of the office have been
In charge of the Heywood family for more than
a oentury. *
Mr. Allison, the newly appointed commis
sioner of agriculture for Tennessee, is about 60
years of age ana a graduate of the Western Ke
serve College of Ohio. During the war he was
on the staff of Gen. Forrest
lls.vry Ward Beecher was subject to occa
sional lapses of memory, and it is told of him
that he once made an announcement from the
pulpit in this way: "Next Sunday this pulpit
win be Occupied by—by—by my son-in law. I
can t remember his name ju.it now, but we call
him Sam!”
Bev. J. F. Doeschf.r, who bas just been sent
out by the Lutherans of Ohio as a missionary
for the state of Texas, was formerly pastor of
Emanuel church, New Orleans, and the founder
of St. John’s in that city. In .8u he went as a
missionary to South Dakota and remained
there until called by the synod of Ohio to un
dertake his new work, He was installed an
itinerant minister in New Orleaus a few days
ago.
One of the recent volumes issued by the Fn
glish Folk 1.0 r.) Society exhibits tlip extraordi -
nary erudition of Miss Hoafo Cox, who after
wading ttirough innumerable books and
pamphlets in numerous languages baa discov
ered that ihe story of ( iuderella has been told
in 345 ways. All of these lifTerent versions Miss
Cox has printed in the volume referred to. The
generally current story of the glass sllpter
maiden has been known since 1t97.
A New York correspondent of the St. Louis
Republic says: "Mrs. Jam a Brown Potter will,
it is said, soon retire from the stage to become
the wife of a wealthy widower of this city, Mrs.
Potter has been contemplating this move for
quite awhile; ever siuae, iu fact, the aforesaid
widower popped the question some two years
ago. The name of the prospective groom is a
stute seoret known only to Mrs. Potter’s most
intimate friends, but he is said to possess, tie
sides two pretty young daughters, a fortune
estimated at from J 1.2:0.000 to 32,000.000.
When her season expires Mrs. Potter will re
turn to New York and begin suit for the cus
tody of her daughters, who have been in their
father’s keeping since he secured a divorce from
the actress."
BRIGHT BITS.
"That air is very familiar.” said the musician
as a gust of wind took his hat away .—Harvard
Lampoon.
It was the first time Johnny had ever heard a
guinea hen, "O, ma”’he shouted, “come and
hear thischickeo a windin’ itself up:”—lndian
apolis Journal.
Uncle Bluegrabs—Will them colors run!
Clerk -Yes, but I can give you something else.
Uncle Bluegrass—No; Maudy said to be sure
anil git fast colors.
First Fair One—So Fred and Arthur both
proposed to her. Which was the lucky one?
Tne Other Fair One—l don’t know yet. Fred
married her .—Life.
Applicant— Don’t you recognize me, Mr.
President!
Cleveland—Yes. I reoognize you, but I can't
place you.— Texas Sittings.
Fair Visitor—How can you tell an optimist
from a pessimist!
The Artist—The one says 'that’s good,” and
the other "that’s not bad.”—L/.
"I wonder why tho Prohibition party hasn’t
availed itself of mugwump support!”
’’Easy to explain. The prohibitionists do not
believe in working the growler."— Puck.
Young Husband —Didn't I telegraph you Dot
to bring your mother with you?
,Youug Wife—That’s what she wants to see
you about. She read the dlspatoh.— Life.
First SuaußßANiit—What’s the use of run
ning? The train is thirty minutes late.
Second Suburbanite—Yes; bnt if we hurry we
may catch the earlier oue, you know.—Har
per’s Bazar.
Mrs. Y'ocngrusband— Why can’t you stay at
home this evening, Get rge? Your employer can
get along without you.
George-I know it, but I don’t want him to
find it out.— Life.
Bishop Oullem— Yes, it is a good work, and I
trust you believe in maintaining foreign mis
sions.
Parishioner—lndeed, I do. Why, papa sees
Mr. Cleveland every day about one.—Life.
An Vyse—Don’t work for another man all
your life. Strike out for yourself.
Write Field—That wouldn't do in my profes
sion.
Ad Vyse—Why wouldn't it?
Wright Field—l’m a base ball player.— Puck.
Mr. Bonanza— Who is the lady with the swell
turnout?
Lord de Pendant—That’s her Majesty Queen
Victoria.
Mr. Bonanza—Um-m. Seems to me I have
beard my wife and daughter speak of her.
Harper's Bazar.
DeSmith—There is one thing about Miss An -
gehca Popinjay that X don’t lino.
McGinnis—What is that?
"Haven’t you noticed that she has to use both
hands when she wants to hide a yawn;',
"Small hands nre pretty."
“But a b.g mouuh ain’t. "—Texas Sittings.
CUKRBNT COMMENT.
What .a His Name?
From the Few York Tribune (Bev.).
There is a man inGriffln, Ga.who is hoarding
SUKIo.UOO of confederate money, in tho hope
that it will become valuable some day.
Ee is a Home Ruler.
From the Philadelphia I edger llnd.)
President Cleveland is reported to have
adopted a good principle of home rule to terri
torial offices, lie proposes to appoint to these
offices residents of the territories when suitable
men can be found, aud uot treat them as prov
inces to which tho government sends alien offi
cers.
Waiting for the Tariff Revision.
From the Louise lie Courier-Journal (Dem.i.
The people, patient but confident, are waiting
for the passing of the office-seeker, aud the
conaiiierailun of the tariff. Though the ques
tiou of revenue is not discussed just now ai
fiercely as are 51 r. Cleveland s appointments,
the people are considering it, and they expect
the next congresg to take prompt and radical
steps for the relief of the community from ex
cessive taxation.
1 "
The Workers and the Shouters.
From the St. Louis Republic (I)em.).
Having In Mr. Cleveland a President they can
trust to do his best for the country, and know
ing thet whether they understand him or he
understands them, they can rely ou him to do
all in his power for the welfare of the country
Democrats are going about their business,
leaving the affairs of government to the mem -
bers of the administration, and leaving the re
publicans to do the shouting and perspiring in
polltios.
Balfour’s Queer Proceedings.
From the Pittsburg Dispatch IRep.).
Supposing congress should.pass and the Pres
ident sign a free trade measure, it would lie a
strange thing for the ex-Secretary of tho Treas
ury, with the oonnivance of the ex-President,
to stump the country inciting riot and urging
the people to take up arms to resist the law.
Yet that would be about a parallel to Mr. Bal
four’s behavior in Ulster with the sympathy of
Lord Salisbury and other tory leaders in stirring
up theological prejudices to offer armed opposf
tlon to the home rule bill in the event of its pass
age.
Baum’s Successor.
From the Philadelphia Press (Rep.).
The appointment o! Judge I.ochren of Min
nesota to be commissioner of pensions Is ered
itable to the President's judgment and good
sense. It lias become a well-esiabiished pre
cedent that this office shall be filled by an ex
soldier. There is reason for this, as the pension
commissioner’s duties are wholly concerned
with ex-soldiers. Judge Lochren fills this re
quirement entirely. He served with distinction
in the war, aid tils training since as a lawyer
and as a judge have given him the baa! expo
rieucj necessary to a proper performance of bis
It is Impossible to speak absolutely of
the fitness of such an appointment until after a
fair trial, but with the present knowledge, Mr
Cleveland seems to have made a wise selection.
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Capturing a General.
The only prisoner made by the English re
serve at Waterloo wsi a French general, whose
capture was due to the cool Lead and stout
heart of a young brigade major anxious for an
adventure. Baron Malortle telis the story in
his book." ’Twlxt Old Times and New.”
During the battle several regiments of cav
alry and infantry were kept in reserve under a
heavy fire from the French guns. Great was
the havoc, and neither men hor horses relished
the passive attitude to which they were con
demned.
While a group of young officers In front of
the left wing of the reserve was discussing the
situation, their attention was attracted to a
I ranch genera! and his staff, all on horseback,
who were looking through their glasses at the
Englishmen. One of the group was Capt Hal
kett, a young brigade niaj'or, mounted on a
thoroughbred. Huddenly be exclaimed:
“1 11 lay any one £5 that I will bring that
French general over here, dead or alive. Who’ll
take my bet?”
"Done—done—done!" shouted several offi
cers.
The captain examined the saddle girths and
his pistol. Then shouting ‘ ’good-by!" and put
ting spurs to bis horse. he dashed at a furious
pace across the plain between the English and
French lines.
Hlg comrades followed him with their glasses,
not Bp. akinz a word. Ihe Frenchmen opposite
so mod puzzled. Believing that the English
man’s hor.-e had bolte 1, aud that the rider had
lost control of him. they opened their ranks to
let the runaway through.
Halipv t steered his steer so as to graze the
mounted general on tne r gbt eide. At that
instant fie put his arm around the French
man’s waißt, lifted him bodily out of the sad
dle, and, throwing him over his own horse s
neck, turned sharp and made for the Engl sh
lines.
When the French staff realized the mean
ing of the bold rider they dashed after him.
But he had a good start an t not a French
man dared to Lro for tear of hitting the gen
eral.
Half a squad of English dragoons, seeing
Halkett chased by a dozen French officers,
charged them. They opened their ranks to let
Halkett through, closed them up again the mo
ment he was in the rear, and then forced the
Frenchmen to turn swiftly aud seek shelter un
der their own guns.
Amidst the maddestcheering Halkett stopped
in front of the British linen, with the general
half deal, but securely clasped in bis strong
arms. He jumped from his horse, apologized
to tho prisoner for the unceremonious way in
which ho had been baudied, and In reply to the
congratulations of his comrades, said simply,
“Praise my horse, not me.”
The captured general was treated with’the
utmost courtesy. Horses and servants were
placed at his disposal, and he was sent under
escort to Brussels.
An Austrian Rat.
This is the true story of a big Austrian rat.
which lived in the Saltzburg cathedral, says
Harper's Young People. It did not get much
to eat. and it was as poor and hungry as the
traditional church mouse.
Before the chief altar in the cathedral is a
great lamp that burns night and day. lienee it
is called the "eternal light.” It is supposed
never to go out. But one morning the lamp did
go out, aud the deacon was very angry when he
saw it. So he called the attendant whose busi
ness it was to fill the lamp with oil, and said to
him: "Do not let this happen again!”
"But, your honor.” protested the attendants,
"I filled that very lamp with my own hands
last night "
A second time the “eternal light” went out in
the morning. Now the deacon was really an
noyed. He called the attendant, and angrily
inquired of him, "Did you fill that lamp last
night?”
"Certainly, your honor,” replied the fright
ened attendant; ”1 put in enough oil to last
through the night.”
“Then why did the light go out? Ah! you
are getting old and lazy; you neglect your
duties. The next time yoc will be discharged.”
“Indeed, your honor ” raid the attendant,
“the lamp must be bewitched, for as true as I
stand here l filled the lamp with sufficient oil
for the night.”
The deacon decided to look at the lamp at
night before he retired. One morning alter he
had done so, behold, the light and the oil were
out! He was puzzled.
The deacon ma le up his mind to watch the
"eternal light” all night long. So he hid in bis
confessional and kept w-att h. His pat ence was
rewarded about midnight when a monsler rar
ran along the celling of the vault, crept down
the rope whicb bold the lamp, drank his fill of
oil, aud then stole softly back the w ay he came.
Learned Care From Experience.
It used to occasion comment from those who
received letters from the late Senator David
Davis to see bis name subscribed so near the
bodv of the letter that it, would have been im
possible to have written anything between the
signature and the letter itself, says the Chicago
Sews Record. He left no white paper; the up
per parts of the letters of his name were made
to touch the last line of tha letter. Judge Davis
used not to write so many letters when he was
a supreme court justice as he did afterward
when he became a member of tho Senate, and
he was never a very active correspondent.
He explained one day why ho had adopted
this rather unusual custom. He said that w hen
he was a judge in Illinois a case was brought
before him of alleged forgery of a note. The
signature to the uote was admittedly centime,
but it was claimed by the apparent maker of
the note that the body of it had been written
upon a piece o' paper to which the genuine sig
nature had been attached. The trial developed
that someone had secured a letter written by
the apparent maker of the note. The man’s
signature had been written at a considerable
distance below the end of the letter, leaving a
sufficient space of white pap r to write in the
words constituflng the note The original let
ter had, of course, been cut off.
This experience. Judge Davis said, taught him
a lesson, aud he never signed his name to any
document without taking care 1 1 make it im
possible lor any oue to make a forgery over the
genuine signature.
Irish Wit.
An Irish orator was arrssted in London the
other day for drunkenness, but he pleaded his
own cause and got off. He said: "It happened
this way, your banner. I was leot’rin on home
reool in Iloide i’ark. and a lot of Orangemen
wld no argyments but leathery lungs was ob
structin' me. The debate was at itshoight when
n poiisman came up and moved the closure.
•McCarthy,’ he says, ‘go home and finish up
your spaciie to-morrow night.’ So away I went,
but when 1 turned the corner into the Edgware
road a poiisman taid I was drunk, though I was
as sober as any member of the House of Cam
mons, and here I am, your hnnner " This was
the explanation given by John McCarthy, boot
maker and home rule lecturer, of his appear
auce before Mr. Blowden at the Marylebone
police court. "Didn’t you have a bottle with
you?” asked the constable. "I bad,” said Mc-
Carthy. "Do you carry your arguments In it?"
suggested the magistrate. "No, your hanner,
only water to wet my lips to let the words rowl
out wituout thnpping themselves up."
The Georgia Belle.
Bg Meta Telfair McLaws.
Ot all the girls I know full well,
Tho fairest is a Georgia belle;
Whose racy air and queenly gait.
Proclaim her of the Empire state.
Her voice is of the purest tone,
And always conquers by its spell;
For words unkind she Bpoaks of none.
This dark-eyed, winsome Georgia belle.
She numbers by the score her beaux—
Ah! envious tongues unkindly say,
She lures them on, and gently throws
Her subtle darts e’er In their way.
Yet, still she reigns—this southern queen—
In spite of all that gossips tell,
For beauly hath a power, 1 ween.
When given to a Georgia b lie.
Mrs. Houser— l wonder why it is they put a
woman Instead of a man on all the silver dol
lars?
Houser—Because money talks, Mrs. Houser
money talks.— Troy press.
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Invention is sometimes thought to have
reached its limit, saya the Philadelphia Press.
but of the energy in a pound of coal when
ourned only 1 per cent. Is used in moving a
passenger and only half of 1 per cent, in in
candescent electric lighting; the rest goes in
friction and waste generally. The problem of
the next century is going to be saving tbi*
wasted 99 or 99)4 per cent., just as the problem
of the last century has been to secure the use
of the 1 per cent, which moves trains and the
Vi per cent, which makes an electric light.
According to C. C. Hawkes, the veteran
builder of the great iron water towers which
grace nearly every city in the United States,
tne largest stand pipe in the. world is that at the
corner of Seventeenth and Crocker streets, Des
Moines, la. it was built during the early months
of 1(591, and is situated on the highest ground in
that portion of lowa’s capital. The tower is
twenty odd feet across and Is 15k feet in hight,
made of twenty courses of great iron plates, the
-bottom tier being an inch in thickness, gradu
ally "thinning out" until the last course is
scarcely the fourth of an inch through. The
•pipe" has a ca| ao ty of 550.0C0 gallons, and
is provided with a winding stair trorn bottom to
top.
"A snaii.’s pace” need no longer be used as a
terra more or lese indefinite, says the Philadel
phia Press ; those skilled In the science of
"sriailology" can tell you just to a dot the
snail’s rate of travel. These interesting facts
were ascertained by sou e wonderful experi
ments at the Florence, Ita'y. Polytechnic in
stitute in 1889, and those inc ined to be exact
can now use figures to support their arguments.
It was a 1 done in this way: A half a dozen of
the mo Husks were permitted po crawl between
two points ten feet apart. Exact time was
kept from the start to the finish, and thus the
average "pace’' was ascertained. The experi
menters reduced their figures into tables of
feet, yards, rods, furlongs, etc., and thus found
that it woud take a snail exactly fourteen days
to travel a mile.
An observer writes that he is satisfied that
there is just as much rivalry between humming
birds and bees in their quest for honey as there
is between raeml ers of the human race In their
struggle for the good things of life, and de
scribes a recent quarrel that be saw In a Port
land garden, where a hummingbird with an
angry dash expressed its disapproval of the
presence of a big bumble bee in the same tree.
The usually pugnacious bee incontinently Bed,
but did n t leave the tree: He dashed back
and forth among the branches and white blos
some. the humming bird in close pursuit.
Where wiil you find another pair that
could dodge and dart equal to these? They
were i k flashes of light, yet the pursuer fol
lowed the track of the pursued, turning when
the bee turned. In short, the bird and the bee
controlled the movements of their bo lies more
quickly than he could control the movements
of his eyes. The chase was all over in less time
that it bas taken to tell it, but the excitement of
a pack of hounds after a fox was no greater.
The bee escaped, the bird giving up the chase,
and alighting on a twig. It couldn’t have been
chasing the bee for food, and there is no pos
sible explanation of its onptrovoked attack ex
cept that it wished to have all the honey itself.
Speaking of the death of Jules Ferry, the cor
respondent of the London Times In Paris says:
“That the malady of which 51. Ferry died is
traceable to the attempt on his life by the nul l
man Aubertln on llec 10, 1857. is shown by the
fact that a fit of suffocation supervened in Sep
tember, 1838—that is, after the usual interval
between the lesion of an intercostal nerve and
its reaction on the heart. This told his doctors
what had happened, a’.td from that time he lost
strength and b catne thinner and thinner. When
he went last year at the head of a senatorial
committee to Algeria, his friends remon
strated against the imprudence, but i.e
replied, I do what I cau; if there is
no way of escape, so much the worse.’
The excitement occasioned .by the senatorial
election and by the Panama trial is thought to
have brought on the final attack. There had
been two previous attacks—the first during a
tour In Switzerland, and the second and graver
one a year later. The change Is his appearance
had long disquieted his friends, although le
himself, as his brother told me, made light of
It with characteristic philosophy, and seemed
to drive it from his mind. In this state of health
any strong emotion was necessarily dangerous,
and the bitternesses which benad for yearsex
perlenced certainly hastened his end."
The discovery of the oxygen blast rendered
great service to chemistry. The apparatus is fed
with coal gas and oxygen, and a temperature
of 2,000 degrees lias been obtained. Nothing
except quicklime has been found to resist this
heat, according to the St. Louis Pot: Dispatch.
It is. however, sometimes necessary to submit
substances to a temperature exceeding 2,000 de
grees and Henri Molssan, a French chemist, has
designed a furnace which, by employing the
heat yielded by the electric arc, has given
a temperature of 2,000 dtg ees. He uses
a 60-borse power machine, and the arc
measured up to 450 amperes aud 70
volts. When the temperature approaches
2,250 chromium desquiuxide aud magnetic non
oxide melt rapidly When the temperature is
close upon 2,500 lime, strontia and magnesia
crystalize in a few minutes. Uranium oxide
which cannot be reduced by charcoal at the
highest tempi rature of our furnaces, is quickly
reduced at 3,000, and in ten minutes it is easy to
obtain au ingot of 120 gramun-sof seranium
At 3,000 even the material of tee furnace (quick
lime) melts and flows like water, wnile carbon
quickly reduces calcium oxide aud the metal is
liberated in abundance. While this is goiug on
In France English chemists are work
ing at the other extreme. Prof
Dewar is experimenting with the
new scientific agency, inconceivable cold, Air
has been reduced not only to a liquid but to a
solid, two or three times within the past fort
night. Prof. I >ewar has succeeded in producing
in his laboratory a piece of solid air. Ho has
not yet tested the nature of the solid, which is
almost as clear as crystal. It may be a jelly of
the solid nitrogen, containing liquid oxygen
much as calves' foot jelly contains water difl
fused into gelatine, or it may be a true ice of
the liquid air in which both oxygen and nitrogen
exist in solid form. A doubt arises from
the fact that Prof. Dewar has not been
able by his utmost efforts to solidify
pure oxygen, which, unlike other gases, resists
cold produced by its oivn evaporation. Under
the air pump nitrogen, on the other hand can
be frozen with comparative ease. It hasalready
been proved that iu the evaporation of liquid
air nitrogen escapes first. Consequently the
liquid, is constantly becoming richer in that con
stituent, which has hitherto resisted solidifica
tion . It thus becomes a question whether cold
produced is sufficiently great to solidify oxygen
or whither its mixture with nitrogen raises its
freezing point, or whether it is really frozen at
all, but merely entangled among the particles
of the solid nitrogen.
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