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INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
Special Notices —As to Bills Against
Norwegian Bark Gler; A Competent Man to
Superintend Mine and Mill of a Florida Rock
Phosphate Mining Company: As to Crews of
Norwegian Barks Agder and Vimeira; Choice
Peaches. L. Putzel.
Have You Seen Them?-Appel & Schaul.
Bovs Knee Drawers—B. H. Levy & Bro.
Wilmington Island Lots—Edw. W.
Brown. Real Estate Dealer.
Steamship Ocean Steamship
Company.
Educational—Columbia College, School
of Mines. New York City.
Summer Resorts—Fauquier White Sul
phur Springs. Virginia.
For Comfort, Style, Durability, Etc.
—Falk Clothing Company.
Excursions to Wassaw Island—The
Steamer Camusi.
Cheap Column Advertisements Help
Wanted; Employment, Wanted: For Rent;
For Sale; Lost: Found: Personal: Miscella
neous.
It has been learned that Dink Wilson
■was the person who robbed the Missouri
Pacific express near St. Louis a few
nights ago. It is alleged that he is a
Georgian.
Talk about Mr. Christopher Columbus
as the Spanish ambassador at Washing
ton seems to have died out, so his
fame will probably continue to rest on the
facts that he is the descendant of his
twelve-times removed grandfather and
raises belligerent bulls.
The state of New York is at present
wagging along without the presence of an
executive head. Gov. Flower went to
Chicago yesterday fora two weeks’ stay,
sr.d Lieut. Gov. Sheehan is in Kurope.
However, the state is big enough and
strong enough to take care of itself for a
few days.
The Spanish caravels now at New York
will leave that )ort to-day or to-morrow
in tow for Chicago. A New York firm
will gqt 13,000 for taking them to the
mouth of the St. Lawrence river and an
other contractor will get £4,000 for taking
them the remainder of the distance. The
original caravels that bore Columbus on
his voyage of discovery probably cost less
than this towage bill from New York to
Chicago.
Antonin Dvorak, the New York Herald
and others are discussing “negro melo
dies.” Dvorak thinks the future music
of America must be based on “negro melo
dies.” What are negro melodies? If
Dvorak thinks the blacks originated the
plaintive tunes to which so-called plan
tation songs are sung, he is in error. Those
tunes are almost without exemption the
compositions of white people, who have
set them to dialect poetry or doggerel,
also by white people. If “negro melodies”
is only a name used to distinguish the
peculiar class of music applied to songs j n
the black man’s dialect, then Dvorak is
advised to change the term to American
melodies, ami say the music of America
must be based thereon.
The office of Assistant • Secretary of
Mar is still without a democratic incum
bent. Secretary Lamont has offered the
place to at least three men, each of whom
declined it for the reason—not so stated,
however—that they could not afford to
work for £3,500 a year, the salary the
place pays. The duties of the position
are very exacting, requiring that the in
cumbent shall have a thorough acquaint
ance with military matters, shall jiossess
more than ordinary executive ability and
shall be a good lawyer. Men so well
equipped find little trouble in making
much more than $3,500 a year. And in
these days few men work for glory or
patriotism solely. One gentleman who
recently declined the position is Gen. J.
C. Lockwood, ex-governor of Kentucky.
Tybee Island is proving t<x> strong an at
traction to South Carolinians to be esjKv
ially pleasing to our friends in Charleston,
who r,;ill cling to the delusion that Sulli
van's Islanu is a summer resort. The
numerous trains between this city and
Tybee. and the fact that anybody'ssteani
boat may carry passengers there, save the
island Irom the inconvenience of being
isolated, as Sullivan’s Island is at the
pleasure of a ferry company. T.vbe* bus
excellent hotel accommodations in opera
tion ; Sullivan's Island has not. At Ty
bee the train takes the passenger to the
beach: at Sullivan’s Island a ride of a
mile and a quarter on oien street cars
drawn by mules is necessary to reach the
beach hotel The time from Savannah to
tin lull - I at T.vbee is forty-live minutes;
from Charleston to the hotel at Sullivan's
Island, by boat thirty minutes and by
street ear from fifteen minute* up; total
forty-live minutes or more. At Tybee the
Visitor is regaled with music; at Sullivan's
Island he may listen only to the moaning
Of ■•Drunken Dick." The|ieojd of U|, r
and Middle Carolina bate beeonie ne
qua,nti il with then and other facts that
might la* cuumemti and jj, favor of our sea
00.-fet suburb, Jieoce they * onc-dow n to Ty*
its* Un a whiff of and a dip ini u tho- salts.
Pension Reform Begun.
When it was stated by the democrats
during the presidential campaign last fall
that if Mr. Clevi land were elected nu
merous pension abuses would be reformed
the republicans replied that there were
no abuses worth mentioning, and that
what the democrats meant was that they
would cut off the pensions of deserving
pensioners They made this statement in
order to alarm pensioners and influence
them to vote the republican ticket.
Mr. Cleveland has been in office scarcely
three months, and yet a ruling has been
made that, according toconservativc esti
mates, will save the government at least
£15.000.000a year. The ruling is in the
ease of ’harles T. Bennett, who draws a
pension of #l2 a month for partial deaf
ness. Undue the law of I*9o a pension is
allowed for a permanent disability of
such a character that it incapacitates the
person afflicted from earning a support.
The amount that can be allowed ranges
from £0 to £l3 per month.
This man Bennett was not only allowed
a pension, but tho very highest that the
law permits. It is clear, however, that
he is not entitled to any pension, be
cause a slight deafness does not prevent a
man from earning a support. But suppose
he was entitled to a pension, he was not
entitled to £l2 a month. This Commis
sioner Raum must have known when he
allowed the pension. He wanted, how
ever, to give every pensioner the largest
amount that he could. He, therefore, in
vented an ingenious order by which the
pensioner could be given the highest
amount under the law without any refer
ence to the merits of his claim.
It is fair to assume that other (Tension
abuses, involving large annual payments,
will be discovered and reformed. The
promise made by the Democratic party
relative to pension reforms will be kept.
And when the reforms are well under
stood by the people and the veterans they
will be approved. Honest veterans have
nothing to fear, and they should be and
doubtless are ready to assist the govern
ment in making the pension roll a roll of
honor. This can be done only by taking
from it the name of every dishonest pen
sioner.
It has been asserted often that Com
missioner Raum was under the influence
of the pension agents’ ring in Washington,
and it looks very much as if the assertion
were true. He was backed up in what he
did by Assistant Secretary Bussey, who,
doubtless, helped to swell the pension
charge through ignorance. It is cer
tainly a good thing for the people that
Raum and Bussey are no longer running
the (Tension bureau.
A few more decisions like that in the
Bennett case, and the rigid exercise of
economy in the administration of the
government in all its branches, will
strengthen the hope that new sources of
revenue will not have to be found to en
able the government to meet its expenses.
Let the good work of reforming abuses in
the government go on.
A Change in the Southern Society.
The Southern Society of New York
city is one of tho best known and most
popular institutions of the kind in the
country. It has been in existence more
than thirty years, but it is only within
the last few years that it has readied its
present importance. It has a club feature
which it is now proposed to abolish.
It seems that only about 20 per cent, of
the society's members use the club house,
and those who do not naturally feel indis
posed to pay for club privileges. If the
club feature were abolished, tlie expenses
could be greatly reduced. An annual fee
of £2O for resident members and £lO for
out-of-town members would be ample for
the society's needs.
The ('resent officers and directors have
submitted the question abolishing the
club house to the society, and a meeting
has been called for June 14 to consider it.
There is no indication as yet as to what
tho society’s action will bo, but as NO per
cent, of the members never attend the
club, while they are assessed to keep up
the club house, the conclusion is that the
club feature will be abolished.
It is expected that the 20 per cent, who
avail themselves of the club privilege
will make a strong plea for continuing
tho present order of things. The ma-,
jority against them is so large, however,
that it is hardly probable they will get
anything more than a patient hearing.
There is no doubt that the society will
be kept up, and that it will have its din
ners and receptions as usual, if the club
house should be done away with.. The
southern feeling among southerners living
in New York is too strong to let the society
go down. The southern colony is a large
one, and the percentage of its members
that have met with conspicuous success
in business and the professions is large.
' The statement that tjie Chinese govern
ment has given the stqte department at
Washington its ultimatum in the event of
the enforcement of the Geary law is an
“important if true” bit of news. The
new Chinese minister is expected to ar
rive in this country in about a month's
time. It was thought that he' might be
the bearer of his government's conclu
sions. But J. Hubley Ashton, one of the
counsel for the Chinese government, says
Secretary Gresham has been already no
tified that ”if anything is done under the
Geary law all relations with China, dip
lomatic, commercial and otherwise, may
be considered as terminated. The Amer
icans now in China will lie ordered to
withdraw and what trade
we have with China will
stop.” Having served this notice on the
United States government. China will
say nothing further, but will live up to
the ultimatum. Ships that carry Chinese
hack to tho Flowery Kingdom will, there
fore. find return passengers waiting for
them.
The enemies of ex-Gov. Isaac Puse.v
Gray, minister to Mexico, %i.ive another
drop of gall to swallow. Mexico will
shortly raise the rank of her representa
tive at Washington to that of ambassador,
and, as this government will return the
compliment. Minister Gray will soon Ik
on the top of the diplomatic |iot. While
on ihi 1 subject o? ambassadorships, it may
he mentioned that Baron Favn, the Italian
minister, who loomed into such ini|K>r
tanco at the time of the New Orleans
lynching, will soon become the Italian
ambassador at Washington.
• -■ .
1-ewis tin colored Student at Harvard
who was refused a hair-cut in a Chiu
j bridge barber shop a few days ago. will
J not bring suit against the burls r, hut will
; endeavor to have bis friends boycott the
1 cAciuxivu knight of tUi- shears.
THE MCVRNTNG NEWS : WEDNESDAY, MAY 31, 1893.
Society as Seen by Rev. T. Dixon.
The Rev. Thomas Dixon, of New York,
doesn't purpose to dyop back into ob
scurity. He intends that his friends in
his native state of North Carolina shall be
kept aware of the fact that he is steadily
forging to the. front in his efforts to
achieve pulpit notoriety. He had become
quite well known before he was arrested
for shooting song birds on Iking Island, or
was sued for libel by Tammany chief
tains, or had that well remembered news
paper controversy with an Atlanta min
ister. but he has become better known
sineo. His sensational sermons are a feat
ure of Sunday life in New York.
Last Sunday he told his congregation
what,he thought of the "best society."
It is fair to assume that he had in mind
Mr. McAllister s Four Hundred. In the
course of his remarks he said: “There
is a certain coterie or clique of people in
every great city who arrogate to them
selves the title ‘society.’ This so-called
society is in one sense insignificant; in
another sense it is practically omnipotent.
The little clique, so far from constituting
society, is simply a inob. Their arrogance
is something sublime. The impudence
with which they assert their right to the
title which designates the solidarity of
the race is something amazing. They as
sume that they are the aristocracy of the
world. Asa matter of fact, they are an
aggregation of all sorts and condi
tions of light-headed, insignificant
people. They could all be dropped
from the world to-morrow and
the world’s business would not suffer.
The pretensions of this set are accepted
by thousand? of people as facts, and their
ideals are bowed down to as though they
were the deliverances of the oracles of the
Most High God. This insignificant, light
headed set of people are only worthy of
study and discussion because of this tre
mendous influence upon the ranks below
them. It has been forcefully said that
society is divided into hut two classes —
namely, the masses and the asses. The
more we study this statement the more
absolute we see its truth. The so-called
high society of our great cities is in its
pretensions a humbug, in its customs the
incarnation of vulgarity, in its standard
of life essentially immoral and corrupt
ing.”
It may be that the Rev. Thomas Dixon
was influenced largely in what he said
by the accounts in the New York
papers of the conduct of some of the Four
Hundred at the ball given in honor of In
fanta Eulalie. A Philadelphia paper,
commenting on the published accounts of
the ball, said: “What is called and mis
called ‘our best society’ a big
ger ass of Its collective self than at the
infanta ball, Friday night, according to
all the New York papers. The poor women
who acted as ‘patronesses’ were a nice,
respectable lot, who probably ordinarily
know about how to behave, but in the
vain desire to make believe that New
York for one precious moment had a court,
they managed to make egregious fools of
themselves.”
The Rev. Mr. Dixon is all wrong in his
estimate of what is called society. In try
ing to be sensational he sacrifices the
truth. There are foolish people and bad
people in what is called society, but the
percentage of those who are foolish and
bad is not sufficiently great to justify an
arraignment like that of the Rev. Mr.
Dixon’s. There are foolish people and
bad people in all ranks, and it would be
strange if there were none among those
who are called society people.
Returning Confidence.
The exporting of gold to Europe has
ceased in a groat measure to have a dis
turbing effect upon the finances of the
country. There is a prospect that in
a few weeks there will be comparatively
little said about gold shipments, and the
flurry in Wall street that alarmed
bankers and business men will be almost
forgotten. Business men believe that the
silver purchase will be repealed as soon
as congress meets.
The strain upon the banks that existed
during and immediately after the flurry
did nn£ hurt thorn. The few that closed
their doors would have had to do so in the
very near future, even if there had not
been a stringency in the money market,
because, they had not been doing a conserv
ative Banking business. They were either
being use£ for purposes thjit were not
strictly legitimate or they had impaired
their capital by bad investments. The
bank examiners would have soon dis
covered their shaky condition and the
temporary stringency in the money mar
ket ci impelled them to do what the bank
examiner would have soon required them
to do. It is probable that they remained
open longer than they would if it had not
been for the help they received from the
stronger banks, the latter feeling a sym
pathy for them in a condition of affairs
that was common to the whole country.
Tliis country is too great in resources
and the individual prosperity is too gen
eral for troubles in Wall street lo cause
widespread disaster, if there is n fair and
honest administration of the government.
Had the Republican party remained in
power much longer there might have been
a panic that would have been very disas
trous, because the people had lost confi
dence in the Republican party.
A New York preacher a few days ago
preached a special sermon to a class of
young lady students of stenography. At
the beginning of the service they sat de
mtffvly enough. Imt when the text was
announced and the sermon begun there
was a fluttering of pa(>er, a flash of pen
cils and every girl of them was making
chicken tracks to represent the. (Treach
er's words. The sermon is said, by a re
porter who was present, to have been a
good gospel discourse; but not one of a
dozen girls questioned could tell a thing
about the text or Its treatment. All of
their time and thought had been taken up
in the attempt to write the words in their
proper sequence; wliut tho words meant
made no impression on them whatever.
It is to be wondered at that American
Inventors have not produced an army
rifle equal toanything the foreigners have
been able to devise. But it appears that
such is the case. The Krug-Jorgcnsou
rifle, a foreign invention adopted by the
board of ordnance, is to bo put into the
hands of the army soon, unless Secretary
Lamont interferes. It may he that, had
our Inventors given less time to win
wound cannon, flying machines, etc., and
more time to smaller .things, the govern
ment would lutve U•<:!i spared the mm
ity of going abroad for a light gun model
just at the lime when it is beginning U>
I build its own heavy guns and warships.
PERSONAL.
The only Greek woman at the women's
congress was Mrs. Culler hoe Parren, who left
her home for Chicago on one day s notice of a
special request from the Queen of Greece.
The wife of Prof. Bell, the inventor of the
telephone, wawa deaf mute until taught the
lip language; hat she now converses easily
and understands all that 1s said around her.
Her husband Instructed her in the sign lan
guage.
C. K. Dixon, the recently appointed super
intendent of tffee IjVrt Dodge and Sioux City
branch of the Illinois Central railroad, has
started on a over the entire system of
the line, which covers *9l miles, accompanied
by a private tar.
Col. R. I. Fleming of Washington has bought
the former residence of President Cleveland
and about two acres ground. The price.it is
understood, was ftO.dofi. Mr. Cleveland paid
about |HOO an acre for ihe property In 1883 or
£21.500 for the twenty-six acres.
Gen. Booth has passed over his son, Lieut.
Gen. Bromwetl Booth, and nominated his
daughter. Le Marachale Booth Clibborn. to
succeed him in eommand of the Salvation
Army, and explains himself by saying that
women "make the best rulers.”
Guy Boothby, the Australian traveler, who
has just completed the remarkable feat of
crossing thq continent of Australia, has ar
rived in tgjidion aumi.paiiiqd by his private
secretary, G.’BjtJ.ongfey Tu vler. his sole com
panion on this momentous journey.
Holloway jail, in which the Dowager Duchess
of Sutherland is imprisoned, is a green em
bowered reproduction, stone for stone, of
Warwick castle, and one of the most pleasing
objects to the visitor in that neighborhood.
But it is all lost on the insiders.
Carlos Gomez, the operatic composer and
a member of the Brazilian commission to the
world s fair, has arrived in New York. His
best operas have been heard in almost every
important theater in Europe and South
America, and at least one of his works is to
tie presented in Chicago next fall.
Miss Marian Phelps, daughter of the re
tiring minister to Germany* is to be married—
probably in the parlors of the legation in
Berlin, within a week or two—to Dr. Franz
von Kollenburg, under secretary of state of
the imperial German department of the in
terior. Chancellor von Caprivi and a few
other German dignitaries will attend.
The Queen of England Is a lover of flowers,
but her table decorations are of the simplest.
A few bowls of roses or other blossoms, cut in
the beautiful gardens at Old Windsor, and the
rest of the decorations laid upon the table, in
plain glass troughs, straight and curved, and
of quite cheap and ordinary kind, constitute
as a rqle the whole adornment of the royal
dinner table, the only notable exception being
the magnificent silver gilt punch bowl which
stands in the state dining room, and is crowned
with flowers on great occasions. Forordinary
dinner parties, however, the queen's table is
decorated with excellent taste, but great sim
plicity, the one inflexible rule being that upon
no two consecutive occasions shall they be in
the same style.
BRIGHT BITS.
Herdso—Do you believe in the faith cure?
Saidso—Yes; one treatment cured all the
faith I had.—Vogue.
“Parslow is what you 'call a hack writer,
isn't he?”
"No; Parslow writes truck.”—Puck.
"Pa mortifies me so." said Miss Jinkins.
He always wlllsay sassiety instid of saucie
ty.”—Harper's Bazar.
Lord St. Agnant—The trouble with you
Americans is that you will joke about things
from which humor is entirely absent.
Sallie De Witt? —Even about Englishmen.
Life.
Maude (poetic)—April showers bring May
flowers.
May (praetlcaD-'-April showers aren't in it
with the young man who is now calling on me.
Puck.
Jinks—Don’t you think that the intentions
of French duelistjs are more honorable than
is generally conceded''
Filkins—O. yes', as a rule they aim high.
Brooklyn Life.
Mrs. Halsey Putnam—Are you going to
clean house this spring?
Mrs. Macon McDonough—No. I have just
joined the society for the prevention of cru
elty to husbands.—Brooklyn Eagle.
"Here is a very sensible article on ’woman
and her surroundings.' ” said Mrs. Baskens.
“ ‘Woman and' her surroundings.’ ” re
peated her husband. "Sflinph! another arti
cle on the crinoline, I suppose.”—Washington
Star.
He Was No Bully.—“No," sadly said the
stranger at the re. taurant. as he looked at
the cup of coffee handed out to him. "you can
take it bark. 1 haven't the heart to attack
anything so weak as that. It's against hiy
principles.”—Texas siftings.
Had Every Way.—“T hirtoen is an unlucky
number in all cases." said Jarley.
T don't know.'.' said Butler. "I'd rather
have £l3 than £12.”
"I wouldn't," said Jarley. "If I had £l2 I'd
spend only £l2; but if I had £l3 I'd spend £l3 ”
Brooklyn Lifo.
Behind the Times.—She—And when you
went to Canterbury cathedral did you see the
spot where tho poor archbishop was killed?
He —Ya-as: but it won't compare with Irv
ing's scenery, dotitchaknow. It s disgraceful
the cathedral people don't bring the place up
to date!—Funny Folks.
Mrs. de Bloolter —Really, Mary, I could not
engage your young friend. She is too ugly by
far.
Mary—l'm.very.sorry, hut you said so par
ticularly that 1 was ! to Took out for a good
plain cook that I thought you had some par
ticular reason^-Boston Budget.
Decisive Matrpn—lYe’ye tome to git' mar- ■
rled.
Justice of the Peace—Pardon me, ma'am,
but isn't there a great disparity in your ages?
Decisive Matron—Never you mind about
that. Jest go ahead. My daughter Henrietta
wuz goin't’ lope with this youngfellert -night
an'lmgoin t' stop him or bigamize him.
Judge.
CURRENT COMMENT.
Secretary Foster’s Explanation.
From the New York Times (Dem.l.
It is, to say. the least, not delicate for the
late Secretary of the Treasury at the present
nu'nv'nt to undertake to lecture the present
administration as to its duty in the matter
of finance. Mr. Cleveland s declaration that
gold payments will be maintained is entirely
free from "ambiguity or uncertainty." and it
will be carried out in letter and in spirit, with
absolute fidelity to the rights of all and
favoritism to tjone. if Mr. Foster could sav
so much of his own course in the treasury, his
insinuations would bo less Impeitlnent. lie
says that he has lost a fortune by too ranch
politics." That ought to suggest more
prudence for the future.
Lynching at the North.
From the Philadelphia Press(ltep ).
There is no blinking the facts that lynching
by mobs is growing more common in the
north, and that there is as little disposition
to punish the perpetrators of these outrages
as there is in ;fle south, Already, with tho
year less than half gone, there have been
nearly as many lyncliings north of the Ohio
river as were recorded in the whole of lwr2.
People have been accustomed to look Upon
lynching as Indigenous to the south and the
far west. The condition of society prevail
ing in those neighborhoods has been regarded
as especially favorable to such outbreaks,
and the belief has been general that with the
advance of refinement and civilization these
lawless acts would end. But the experience
of the (mst few months apulnulicts this
theory, and favors the iHtyti-ses>n that Die
whole country is returning to the barbarous
method of inflicting punishment. It is cer
tain that the crime of murder is increasing
out of proportion to the growth of population.
Secretary Smith's Ruling.
From the Philadelphia Record (Dem.T.
Messrs. Raum and Bussey. In their con
struction of the pension act of June ’27, 1890.
virtually took the law into their own hands In
regard lo disability (Tension)*, and In their
free handed style virtually gave ev'ry appli
cum the maximum rating of sl2 per month
Under Secretary Smith's reversal of this un
warrantable and wasteful ruling the disability
pensions will be given, as the law content
plates, only where the disability Incapacitates
the applicant to yerfairm uisuunl labor; and
tin' pensions willwi graded as the law pro
vides This decision insures an annual sav
ing to the treasury of from flMuuin to fgil.-
<*iti(i. but It mentis vastly more than that.
It iiieuiisthat a hull bn* been tailed on the
reckless business of 'dumping original cases
on Die country and distributing the people's
millions la tin doubtful states ami It Is a
grateful assurance to Ihe country that the
herculean u> it of eloansiQtt the foul rrannleu
of the (K-uslou buruau Udn ueeo taken >lgur
ousiy In hand.
Two of Evart*’ Jokes.
Ex-Senator Evarts paid a visit to the scene
of his many former triumphs a day or two
ago. He took a seat on the floor of the Sen
ate and was soon surrounded by a small host
of senators. From the frequent laughter in
which the group indulged I imagined, says a
contributor to the Washington News, that the
great New Yorker was giving vent to some of
his characteristic drollery. It may not be
generally known, but he is the possessor of a
veritable fund of dry and ready wit. He was
given in the preparation of his speeches and
opinions, to exceedingly long and involved,
though perfectly lucid sentences. This gave,
rise to more or less jocular criticism on the
part of the press. Someone mentioned it to
Evarts one day. His eye twinkled as he said:
“Yes, I know there are two classes of people
who are very much opposed to long sen
tences: one is telegraph operators and the
other is criminals."
When Queen Kapiolani visited America a
few years ago Senator Evarts was one of the
party on an excursion up the Potomac river
given in her honor. An army officer and he
were giving her the history of the various
points of iuteiest along the river, 'ihe officer
finally pointed out a bend - in the river ahead
where Washington marched his troops across
the stream. The queen expressed surprise
that an army could ford so large a stream.
'Hut." said the officer, “it is said that you
could throw a dollar across the river then.”
The queen again expressed her wonder, when
Senator Evarts came to the rescue. “You
see. madam." said he, “the conditions are
greatly changed since Washington's time.
A dollar went a great deal farther in those
days,than it does now."
A Georgian’s Extraordinary Feat.
“The most successful and, at the same
time, most unique civil service examination
I know of occurred during the war." said T.
C. Be Land of the examining hoard at the
treasury, says the Washington Post “The
confederacy was very much in need of a
railway locomotive in order to operate its
supply system. It was in 1864, and it had not
the means to buy an engine, so the invariable
alternative arose—steal one. A band of 100
men was selected from Lee's army andplaced
under the command of a big six Toot-four
Georgian, who had been foreman of a stone
quarry, and was more or less skilled in the
use of derricks, etc. .
"He took his men up into Maryland and
they tore up a section of the Baltimore and
Ohio railway tracks, flagged the next train,
and with nothing on earth save plenty of rope,
those hundred men carried the locomotive
fifty-two miles over hills, across streams,
through bogs and woods, until they struck a
line the confederacy had built. Then they
ran the engine down to Virginia.
When Robert Garrett, then president of
the Baltimore and Ohio, heard of the feat ho
couldn t believe it. He went out and person
ally inspected the scene; went over the route
and declared it the most wonderful feat of
engineering ever accomplished. After the
war he delegated a man to And the leader of
the band. He was located in Georgia. Gar
ret sent for him and on the strength of that
single feat made him roadmaster of his entire
system of railroads.
Any man that can pick up an engine with
fishing lines and carry it over a mountain has
passed his examination with me,' said he.”
Not Ambitious.
I had stopped to smoke a pipe with a Geor
gia “cracker" on a log at his door, says a De
troit Free Press writer, and noticing the
general shiftlessness of the surroundings, I
finally asked:
“Why don'tyou fix the roof of your cabin?”
“Gwine ter some day,” he replied.
“That chimney ought to be rebuilt.”
"I'm a considerin' to do it."
“I should be afraid that stable would fall
down and kill the mule.”
“Reckon I've got to prop it.”
“The weeds appear to be too much for your
corn.”
“Yes, weeds is powerful around yere.”
He was so placid and good-natured about it
that I ventured further and said:
“It seems to me that with ambition and
hard work you could not only make a good
living on this place, but get something
ahead.”
“I could, forsuah,” he answered.
“Then why don't you do it?”
“Waitin’.”
"Waiting for what?”
“Waitin' fur to git that ambishun you spoke
of.”
“And do you think you'll ever get it?”
“He refilled his pipe, lighted it, and slid off
the log to get a brace for his back. When he
had got comfortably settled he queried:
"Stranger, yo’ doan' live around yere, I
reckon?”
“No.” ,
“ 'Cause if yo’ did you'd diskiver that I hev
a mighty good thing of it as it is and would
he a fool to let go for sum thin’ new!”
It Never Varied a Second.
As they passed the city hall they all pulled
out their watches to compare them with the
municipal time, says the Cincinnati Commer
cial-Gazette. The Price Hill man slipped his
hunting case into his pocket again and re
marked: You may say what you please
about tine timepieces, but I've got a cheap
clock up at the hous3 that I bought twenty
years ago that has never varied a second
from the day I bought it to this.”
• What?” panted the crowd.
• bought it twenty years ago
for $3: took it home, placed it on the mantel,
set its hands, and Wound it up—and from
that day- to this it has not varied a second. ”
“Wonderful!”
“Stupendous;”
“Amazing!”
“Not a second?”
“No, sir. not a second." said the man from
Price Hill. “The main spring broke when I
wound it up, and it has never varied a second
from that instant.” .
It -was surprising the number of cigars he
got out of the crowd.
A Sentry’s Wit.
The Russian Marshal Suvaroif was famous
as a jester, and was fond of confusing the men
under his command by asking them unex
pected and absurd questions, says a writer in
Lippincott's. But occasionally he met his
match. 1 hus. one bitter January night, such
as Russia only can produce, he rode up to a
sentry and demanded:
■ Flow many stars are there in the sky?”
The soldier, not a whit disturbed, answered
coolly:
“Wait a little and I'll tell you.” And he
deliberately commenced counting: “One,
two. three," etc.
When he had reached 100, Suvaroff. who was
half frozen, thought it high time to ride off,
not. however, without inquiring the name of
the ready reckoner. Next day the latter
found himself promoted.
“Why Should We Weep for Those
Who Die P”
From Poems by Two Brothers.
Why should we weep for those who die?
lhey their dust returns to dust;
1 heir souls shall live eternally
Within the mansions of the just.
They die to live, they sink to rise.
They leave this wretched mortal shore;
But tirighter suns and bluer gkles
Shall shine on them for evermore.
Why should we sorrow for the dead?
_ Our life on earth is but a span;
They tread the path that all must tread,
They die t,he common death of man.
The noblest songster of tl>e dale
Must cease when winter's frowns appear;
The reddest rose is wan and pale
When autumn tints the changing year.
The fairest flower on earth must fade.
The brightest hopes on earth must die;
Why should we mourn that man was made
To droop on earth, but dwell on high?
The soul, th' eternal soul, must reign
In worlds devoid of pain and strife;
They why should mortal man complain
Of death, which leads to happier life?
Alfred Tennyson.
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It Is proposed to build a big dam at Lake Al
bert Nyanza for the purpose of giving' Egypt
a plentiful supply of water during the low
Nile.
A Detroit city ordinance requires street rail
ways to sell eight passage tickets for 25 cents
on the ears during certain hours for the bene
fit of workingmen.
High art souvenir stockings will he on dis
play at the world's fair in all the glory and
resplendence of the'designer and the color
caldron, says Godey's Magazine. For the
Chicago girl there is a special pattern, with
black foot, embroidered in violet with the ap
propriate motto "World's Fair of 1893" at the
top of the instep. The upper part Is yellow,
decorated with a bright red sun and “Hail
Columbia” in violet letters.
This newspaper man had a tough job on
hand. The tory is from Fort Dodge of Iowa:
“A hevy of pretty girls are on a strike at
Charles City. They were employed as com
positors on the Advocate, a local paper. A
short time ago the proprietor noticed that
some of the girls set very little type on sev
eral mornings in the week. and. upon investi
gation, discovered that the girls had been en
tertaining masculine company until a late
hour on the previous evening. The result was
a peremptory order that every girl in his em
ploy should go to bed at 9:30 every evening.
The girls refused to obey, and every one of
them walked out. The publisher is now
running on a short force and is vainly seeking
to compromise with the strikers on 10;3o
o'clock as an hour for'retlring.”
The endeavors made to discover the ci-use
of, cholera seem to have failed all the way
along the line, says the English Mechanic,
for at the Pathological Society of London
the other day Dr. E. Klein read a paper on
Anti-Choleraic Vaccination." in which he
stated that the views of Haffktne and others
as to the specific action of a cholera bacillus
could not be maintained. Dr. Klein stated
that his researches showed that “a protection
produced by a first injection of the intra-cel
lular poison against a second injection of an
otherwise fatal dose of the intra cellular poi
son was not a protection against the specific
toxines; as a matter of fact, guinea pigs pro
tected against the intra cellular poison of the
cholera bacilli succumbed after intra-perito
neal injection of the toxines produced by the
cholera bacilli in gelatine cultures.” The
subject is obviously a very difficult one: hut
at present the net result is very much “as you
were.” That, however, should not discourage
investigators: there must be some cause for
cholera as for other diseases, and the cause dis
covered, the remedy may be found.
A visitor at the world's fair, whose name is
legion, is the English sparrow, and he has be
come such an intolerable nuisance that the
authorities have determined to destroy him.
The sparrows have built nests up among the
girders and in many nooks and cranniee of
the big buildings, and sally in thousands from
their retreats to forage among the food ex
hibits and pick up the crumbs that fall from
the restaurant tables. Their boldness aston
ishes even the Chicagoans, who admire au
dacity. Director of Works Burnham says:
“The invasion is fast assuming proportions
that make it imperative that something he
done at once to drive the predatory bands
from the White city.” Capt. Bonfleld, chief
of the Columbian secret service, was
asked to devise some plan of
getting rid of the sparrows, probably
on the theory that as they were incorrigible
thieves the police should look after them.
The captain had a consultation with Dr. Hill
mantle of the medical bureau, who suggested
that corn meal into which the germs of chick
en cholera had been Introduced would be the
death of all the sparrows. But as the birds
might live long enough to carry the disease
into chicken yards in the neighborhood of the
grounds, and as the doctor could not promise
that the little pests would not occasionally
fall dead on the very tables of the Jackson
Park restaurants, this plan was abandoned.
At last accounts the police officer and the
scientist were still conspiring to exterminate
the unwelcome visitors, and both agreed that
the undertaking was no easy one.
The two strongest men in the world are
giving exhibitions of their herculean power,
the one in the extreme northern and the other
in the extreme southern part of Germany,
says the San Francisco Examiner. The
famous Carl Abs lifts an elephant in Ham
burg, while Hans Steyrer surprises the Ba
varians with his marvelous feats. It is erron
eous to suppose that these muscular giants
owe their success to Inherent strength onlv.
On the contrary. It Is a fact that in this
branch of athletics the most patient and
scientific training is the primary require
ment. Pugilists, wrestlers and acrobats con
cede that without practice they can never at
tain the muscular development of which they
are capable. They aim at a uniform exercise
of all their muscles, while men like Abs and
Steyrer coniine themselves to the gradual
strengthening of arms and hands only which
enables them to handle with apparent ease
the heaviest weight, and affords them great
dexterity in their performances with iron
balls, dumb bells, rods. etc. In the lift
ing of enormous weights, however, the whole
body is employed, but only certain parts, such
as shoulders and hips, receive special
treatment and drill. For a long time the feat
of lifting a horse was regarded as the greatest
achievement in this department, hut Carl Abs
has broken the record by obstructing with his
body the centripetal force which keeps a large
sized elephant on his feet. In order to pre
vent accident to man and beast many precau
tions must be taken before the performance.
The behomoth does not relish the swinging
act, so that it is necessary to strap him so
that he is hors de combat in midair, and Abs
must be out of reach of the elephant's trunk,
which is liable to seriously interfere with the
fun. Bans Steyrer also enjoys an interna
tional reputation, and is known as the Her
cules of Bavaria. He is an innkeeper on the
Tegetjtseeland strasse in Giesing. and only
amuses his guests and the villagers with his
feats. He is Ihe greatest expert in the world
in finger lifting. He thinks nothing of sus
pending 200-pound weights on his index finger.
His most wonderful exhibition is the homing,
horizontally, of a heavy iron bar on which his
son is engaged in gymnastic exercises.
Seventy-two years ago, says the Brooklyn
Eagle, when Brooklyn was a very small
town, Cornelius Bergen, who has long been
dead, found a land turtle on the farm, and
carved his initials on its back. In 1857, his
son. Garrett Bergen, encountered the
creature, and added to its decoration by
carving G. B. upon its shell. lie let it go. anil
never saw it again. The old Bergen estate
after being in the possession of that family
for over 200 years, was sold to Percy G. Will
iams and Thomas Adams. Jr., of this city a
few weeks ago. They found themselves in
possession of 300 acres of land on Jamaica
bay, also *ith the possibility of bulkheading
the land under water clear out to the channel
and reclaiming 100 acres more They began
immediately to lay it out in city lots, with
the expectation of selling it to men who
would buy a house and lot and live on the
place. Bergen Island has, accordingly, had
more people running over it In the last ten
days than in many previous years of its his
tory. There wag a good deal of grubbing and
leveling and eleanfhg up to. he done. The
owners cut Island avenue through and cleared
out the woods. The latter operation brought
the old turtle to light again. He lay under
an old stump, near a large Georgia pine. The
two sets of initials were plainly carved and
members of the Bergen family who have seen
him have no matter of doubt as to his identity
He was found last Saturday and taken to the
officers of the owners of the property. He has
been there ever since and has nothing
to eat, it being the general im
pression among his captors that he
does not need and does not want to eat
Garrett Bergen, who has seen the turtle
believes it to be at least 109 years of age. It
Is eight inches long and six inches broad The
color is dark green on the back, with brown
markings. T he apertures of the shell through
which the head, tail and claws work are
orange colored and the under part of the shell
light yellow For hours the turtle will be on
the floor with his head, tail and legs drawn
way in his shell and having to all appearance
no more life about him than an ink stand
Then he will suddenly come out and walk
about the room in an aimless kind of fashion
Mr. Bergen says he has nut grown any in 75
years.
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