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INDEX TO SEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Meetings—Alpha Lodge No 1. A and S. R
F- M.: Oglethorpe I,odge No. 1. I. O. O. F.
Special Notices— I The-Olortous Fourth of
July. Henry Solomon & Son: Notice. ,1 A
DeGaugh's Palace Pharmacy: The Regular
Rifle Practloe of the Guards To day; All Aro
Welcome to the Picnic and Sale, C. H. Dor
nett. Auctioneer: A Slice of the Earth, C. H.
Dorsett, Real Estate Dealer and Auctioneer.
The Siben Songs—B. H. Levy & Bro.
Legal SALEs-City Marshal's Sale of
Goats, hy Robert J. Wade. City Marshal.
Never Wore a Pajama'-—Falk Clothing
Company.
Sick Competitors—Appel & Schaul.
Cheap Column Advertisements Help
Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Rent;
For Sale: Lost: Personal: Miscellaneous.
A Pittsburg crank predicts that the
world will come to an end on Nov. 20,
1890. Can anybody predict, with any
degree of certainty, when this class of
prophets will come to an end?
This is the season of the year when the
fashionable dentist feels at peace with
the world and canvasses the luxuries he
means to provide for himself a little later.
For now it is that 'society'’ and otlnSrs
go to the seashore for a dip into the salts.
The dip is always accompanied by more
or less gaping “Oh’s” and “Ah’s,” and
“Oh’s” and “Ah’s” in the surf are
frequently fatal to false teeth. That is
why the dentist is happy.
Mr. 3. F. Stone, traveling agent for the
Morning News, writes from Waycross to
the effect that ‘‘there is not one word of
truth" hi the widely-published story that
Mrs. t). M. Crosby .killed a man, some
weeks ago. He says, also, that tho re
port that Lewis Wilcox, of Beach, shot
through the heart a colored man who was
trying to force an entrance into his daugh
ters’ room, is without foundation. As far
as Mr. Stone can learn, there was no pro
vocation for either of the alleged occur
rences, which never occurred.
A second Viking ship has recently been
found in Norway, having lines and
dimensions almost identical with those of
the craft recently sailed across the At
lantic by Capt. Magnus Andersen. This
latest discovery was made at TJedling,
near Laurvig, in Southeast Norway, and
the craft was fully two miles from the
sea. A3 yet no relies or treasures have
been discovered, though at last advices
the work of disinterment was not com
plete. Tho find was made by farmers
digging a 2-foot ditch through a level
farm.
During the embryonic stages of the
world’s fair the directory found it neces
sary to maintain a “department of pub
licity and promotion,’’ which is Cliicago
ese for newspaper press bureau. But
now that the great show is full-flcdgSß,
and newspaper correspondents by the
hundreds present their passes daily at the
gates, the directory has determined to
dispense with its press bureau and turn
the stream of dollars that flowed in'o it
into the fair treasury. The fair will,
therefore, depend in future upon being
ad vert is--d gratis by its loving friends.
Under the schedule of the Southern
League, the series of games played by
each club on its home grounds is extraor
dinarily long. During foimcr seasons,
with the series much shorter, it was
found that iuterost in amt attendance at
the games waned as tho end of the series
approached. But, so far, nothing of the
bind has occurred this year. Notwith
standing the number of consecutive
games, the attendance has been excep
tionally good. This indicates that the re
vival of the popularity of the game is
genuine, and that a successful conclusion
of the season is not only possible but
probable.
It would really seem that Charleston
has gone daft on tin- subject of summer
opera. Because Savannah declined to
“s’.op over" last week, when there was
no'hing to call forth such an undignified
proceeding, she lias earned tho unap
peasable enmity of her neighbor on the
wrong side of the river. In its daily col
umn of Bertiniana, the News and Courier
Of yesterday says: “All of the members
of the company appear to be delighted
over their return to Charleston, and it is
probable that few, if any, of them have
brought away the pleasantest of recol
lections of Savannah." Savannah treated
every one of those opera singers with
marked forbearance—even with extreme
kindness, for Charleston's sake—and if
they have not taken away with them
pleasant recollections of Savannah, it is
because they have lost their lower of
discriminating between decorous defer
ence and frothy adulation through long
Immersion in the froth. In the same de
partment of the News and Courier of the
•ame date, an alleged correspondent
writer,: “When all is said and done, the
fact remains that wo can supjiort sum
mer opera here, which is more than Sa
vannah can do.” There is a vast differ
ence between “can support” and “will
•upport.” Savannah can and will sup
per: anything that pleases her. She is
critical, with correct Judgment.
OxtHonn Ideas About Money.
At !* we discovered vrhat the
| Columbia (S C i Kevister understandsthO
silver plank of the nati<'r.l iiem<*cm!ie
i platform to mean, and we venture fo say
that its tm-!-rsUindlng of it is vastly dif
fer, nt ftom that of any demoi ratie loader
or any other demo-ratic newspaper that
has taken the trouble to study cure fully
the silv. r question. According to tin
Register, the silver plank in the national
democratic platform means that the
1 bits of the United States shall be
opened to the free coinage of silver at the
ratio of Ift tod, that the government sh ill
undertake to keep up the price
of silver by providing that silver dollars
shall be received at. their face value for
all dues.both public and private. Tt isquife
clear that the silver plank in the plat
form does not mean anything of the sort,
for if it does there is absolutely no tnean
ing to that part of it which says "the dol
lar unit of coinage of both metals iriust be
of equal intrinsic and exchangeable
value." If the Register’s interpretation
is right the national democratic conven
tion. instead of adopting the plank it did,
would have adopted something like this:
We favor the free coinage of silver at the
existing ratio ami demand that silver dob
lars shall bo received at their face value
for all dues, both public and private.
If the convention had said that it would
have declared in favor of compelling the
people to accept ft 4 cents' worth of silver
as a dollar. It could Just as readily and
with just as much reason, have said that
it favored making 25 cents' worth of silver
pass for a dollar, It would have simply
put itself on record as favoring flat money.
Fortunately it did nothing of the kind,
and no democratic convention is likely- to
do anything of the kind. And if the gov
ernment should open its mints to the free
coinage of silver at the present ratio it
could not maintain the parity between
gold and silver except to the extent that
the commercial world believed it could do
so. The silver dollars would circulate
at their face value only so long as there
was confidence in the ability of the gov
ernment to redeem them in gold. They
wouldn’t be received at their face value
on account of their intrinsic value, as gold
dollars are, because their intrinsic value
would be much less than their face
value.
And if the coinage of silver were made
free at the present ratio, how long would
the silver dollar remain on a parity with
a gold dollar? We venture to say that
the act would hardly be signed by the
President before the silver dollar would
be at a discount. Silver bullion would be
sent to our mints not only from our own
mines but from Europe to be coined into
dollars, and it would continue to
be sent just as long as 04
cents’ worth of silver, or even 84 cents’
worth could be coined into dollars that
would be interchangeable in this country
with gold dollars. But, as alnadv stated,
the silver dollar wouldn’t remain on a
parity with tho gold dollar Very long.
The currency of t iris country would be
forced to a silver basis, and we should be
afflicted with all tho evils of a debased
currency.
The Register is of the opinion, proba
bly, that the credit of this country would
bo sufficient to keep stiver dollars from
depreciating to their bullion value. But
what reason has it for thinking sof Does
it know one free silver coinage
country where silver passes on a
parity with gold? If not, why does
it think this country could carry tin s
whole silver burden of the world? If it
should adopt froo silver coinage why
should it be more fortunate than other
free coinage silver countries in prevent
ing its currency from becoming debased?
The main ground of opposition to the
silver purchase act is the fear that the
government will not be able to re
deem tho silver certificates in gold.
If the government cannot keep the
certificates issued on our own sil
ver product at par with gold what pros
pect would it have to keep silver dollars
on an equal footing with gold dollars if
our mints wore open for the coinage of the
world’s product of silver ?
The Register asks if silver dollars are
not now accepted at their face value,
although intrinsic ally worth only 04 ceuts.
Certainly they are, but the belief in the
ability of the government to maintain
gold payments sustains them at par. Free
coinage of sliver would drive gold
out of tlie country and make it. impossible
lor the government to maintain gold pay
ments, and then the Silver dollar would
be accepted only at its bullion value. We
are inclined to think that if the Register
will give the silver question more careful
study it will sec that its interpretation of
tho democratic platform is erroneous, and
its views of the silver question ere not
sustained b : sound reasoning.
The Drought in Europe
The drought in England ami France is
much more serious than it is generally
understood to Vie. For several weeks an
nouncements of the prevailingdry weather
itave ? pp red from time to time, but they
attracted no particular attention. It was
assumed that they were made like similar
announcements respecting portions of this
country that, appear in public prints
almost every, year It turns out, how
ever. that the situation itt botli England
and France is becoming alarming. In
England the drought has destroyed tho
hay crop, and has done sin immenseamount
of daruago to other crops. In
I-otidon tho owners of horses cannot got a
sufficient amount of hay for their stock,
and are sending to this country. Canada
and Australia for supplies. The extreme
dry weather is also causing sickness. The
water supply of many towns is insufficient,
and it is steadily becoming less.
In France cattle, for lack of pasture are
dying by the thousands. Farmers, not
being able to get food for them, are offer
ing to sell them at almost any price. The
market is glutted, and they can hardly
give them away.
Tho people have been hoping for rain
for weeks and still they are hoping.
Unless rain comes soon there will be an
enormous loss of stock, and, perhaps, a
vast amount of sickness, besides great
suffering among the poor. While sympa
thizing with the people of the afflicted
countries it is asourcoof satisfaction that
abundant harvests are promised in this
country.
A New York policeman stumbled across
something extraordinary the other night.
It was tlie body of Charles E. Gladstone,
who says tho “grand old man” is his
cousin, and he was as drunk as if he were
a lord instead of being only the cousin of
a statesman.
THE MOTIVING NEWS: TUESDAY. .TUNE 20. I*o3.
Overanxious to Defend a Trust.
Under the title "Mow About This" the
At Inn to Journal in an editorial article
says:
We are in receipt of a copy of the pro
endings of the th-orgia < Irand Oommaud
<•>■>- of Knivhts Templar bearing the
imprint of the Savann ah Morning News
.101 l t hfflee.
Typographically this is one of the hand,
some*! pamphlets we have lately seen.
The gorgeously illuminated cover is
particularly attractive, printed as it is in
two Of the latest series of handsome type
that have been issued by one of the
eastern type foundries In the purchase
and use of this type the Morning News
|M-op|c pay a very high compliment to the
foundry making it. and one that will he
more highly appreciated when it is known
that it is made by one of the foundries
that the president of the Morning News
Company asked the Georgia editors to
withhold th ir patronage fromina resolu
tion offered at the last, meeting of the
Georgia Press Association.
Is not the Morning News somewhat
inconsistent in the purchase, and use of
this type when the publisher of the News
offered and had passed the resolution
referred to, pledging the members not to
patronize what is called the American
Type Founders Company, but to buy their
material from foundries outside of this
so-called “combine"?
But, after all, perhaps. the Savannah
Morning News is not different from the
Atlanta Journal and other first-class print
ing establishments, in wanting the best to
be had in type and other facilities. This
is Just as it should be, but we cannot re
frain from good-naturedly remarking, "we
told you so.”
We regret that the Journal shows such
anxiety to defend the type founders trust,
t is true that the proprietor of the Morn
ing News offered a resolution at the last
meeting of the Georgia Press Association
asking the Georgia editors to withhold
their patronage from the trust. The
manager of the Journal is the president of
the Georgia Press Association, and the
resolution was adopted without any ex
pression of dissent. Many other press as
sociations have adopted similar resolu
tions.
And now the Journal tries to make, it
appear that the proprietor of the Morn
ing News is inconsistent because some
type Vised on the cover of a pamphlet
printed in the job office of the Morning
News was purchased from the trust, and
endeavors to create the impression that
the type manufactured by the trust is su
perior to that manufactured by anti-trust
foundries.
The type to which the 4 Journal draws
attention was purchased beforo the anti
trust resolution adopted by the Georgia
Press Association was offered, but even if
it had not been the charge of inconsist
ency against the proprietor of the Morn
ing News could not be maintained. The
type in question was not purchased of
the trust because of its superior quality
or its cheapness, but because it was the
kind wanted, and it could not be obtained
outside of the trust. It may be that the
proprietor of the Morning News will
have to buy other type of the trust. If
lie cannot get just the kind he needs from
iinti-trust founderies he will be forced
to patronize the trust and submit to its
exactions. He will not patronize the
trust unless it becomes absolutely ncees
ary for him to do so.
But does it not seem a little remarkable
that the Journal should so eagerly seize
upon the opportunity to call attention to
the fact that a few dollars worth of trust
type ware used in printing the cover of
the pamphlet in question and' failed to
point out that the type in which ttie con
tents of the pamphlet are printed was pur
chased long before there was any type
trust, and that the new dress of the
Morning News, costing thousands of dol
lars, is anti-trust typo? Does npt. the
purchase of this now dress from an anti
trust foundry show that the proprietor of
the Morning News is acting consistently
with his resolution offered at the meeting
of the Georgia Press Association?
Having shown that the purchase of the
few dollars worth of type from the trust
was a necessity, and nqt an act of incon
sistency, it would be interesting to know
why the Journal sets itself up as a de
fender and champion of the trust. Was
the article to which we call attention in
spired, or does the Journal really think
the Georgia Ijpess Association made a
mistake in adopting the anti-trust resolu
tion and consider it its duty to defend
the trust? We ask this just as “good
naturedly” as the Journal intimates that
the Morning News is inconsistent.
Some interesting and spicy stories with
regard to the Lizzie Borden case begin to
find their way into print as tlie end of the
now famous trial draws near. Miss Bor
den and her sister, it will be r< mem
ber and. are worth something like ?2.‘0,000.
It is no.v common talk at Fail River that
certain police officers tried to blackmail
Lizzie shortly after her arrest. It is said
they offered to furnish testimony that
would tear the •esc of the pros •eur.ion
into shreds if she would pay them 10 per
cent, of the value of her own and lew sis
ter's piYqtorty., about A25.000. Lizzie de
clined, saving she would rather die than
pay “one cent of tribute to such villains.'”
During the trial the chief evidence
against her was given by the police; and
it was also brought out that they had sup
pressed certain facts that were in her
favor. There may be nothing in tlie story
of attempted blackmail, but the facts
mentioned would appear to give it color,
vvhJ'n taken in connection with tlie fur
ther fact that suits for perjury are likely
to be brought against certaiu of the police
witnesses in case the vgjrdict is in favor
of Miss Borden. Another story bearing
on the comes front Baltimore, to the
effect that a wHd.ypung man named Felix
Borden, the adopted spti of Lizzie Borden's
uncle, left Baltimore five days before the
murders to go' to Fall . River “to get
money.” Two w<jeks' later ho returned,
having gqt the money.' Shortly after
ward lie disappeared and is still missing.
McKinley's race for the governorship
of OhioAvas “hoodooed" at the start. It
has been discovered that the eloquent
speech made by' ,1. Wilbur Nichols re
nominating McKinley was about one-half
plagiarized from the' speech of
Conkiing nominating Grant in 1880. Can
it be expected that one who begins on
filched fireworks will conclude a success
ful campaign?
A cable dispatch says scarlet fever is
raging in London. The hospitals are un
able to receive half of the number of
patients applying for admission, so that
the disease spreads without restraint.
With this state of affairs existing, the
correspondent “cannot help wondering
what would happen if the advancing
cholera should find lodgment” in Lon
don.
FIIRBONAL.
Thu* fur I** applications have twß wcetvM
' for artmisa**. V. *** W#st Potat Military
| Acal*mr
One of the N*m preserved of British perra
j 1* the Ear! of JtnoeHoW who at H* Is In ex
celhut health.
Knox College at Galeshurg, 111., ha* con
ferred the honorary decree of master of arts
on Eugene Field.
Alexius Colnrahfes a former shipbuilder
now nearly 87 years old. ‘who claims to l*e a
lineal descendant of great < Christopher, has
been discovered in Buffalo. N Y.
Lord Lome receives frt.ooo a year as gov
ernor and constable of Windsor castle. Abso
lutely his only duty in this sinecure is to sign
a receipt for his salary every quarter.
The accident that befell Lottie Collins at
the Tivoli, in London, was due to the same
cause as the one that ipset* her mi a New
York stage. In attempting a particularly
ambitious kick she lost her center of gravity
and camp down with a thump flat on her back.
rapt. James B. Hatch of Springfield. Mass.,
who figures ki R. H. Dana s Two Years Be
fore the Mast” as “-Mr H." is still living. H*
says the book is true in the main, but that the
author in making himself out to be a good sea
man stretched*’the facts, as he was only a
boy without much experience.
The Queen of the Belgians is reputed to be
one of the best living performers on the harp.
When recently her. chjpf ladv In waiting be
came t\ nun the queen, as sponsor, presented
the postulant at* the aitar and then played a
solo on the harp, to th ' groat delight of the
sisters who thronged the convent.
Little is printed .about the Empress Au
gusta Victoria of Germany, wife of the young
kaiser, yet she Ls a woman of strong per
sonality. and U is sain that the somewhat
erratic ruler is frequently dissuaded from his
startling project* throm/h her advice. She ts
thoroughly German In her appearance and
disposition.
Kx President Harrison leads a very quiet
life in Indianapolis. lie is seldom seen on
thf* streets and never rocs into society* He
has not renewed busin-As relations with his
old partners. Mcdate Miller & Liam, but has
a desk in the his old confidential
clerk. Howard Cite,-^here he transacts his
private business v .
Historic homes arfv cheap in. London. The
house of the banJctmxuLpoft. Samuel Rogers,
was withdrawn- from a?i auction sale last
week because of* tap- smallness of the bids.
This house, still in tflhshionable quarter, was
in its prime, the -Mfeort of Fox. Wellington,
more. Sydney Smith, Macaulay
and a host of other great- people. Rogers oc
cupied it for nearly' kalf a century.
o Another dtetinsruUßked Japanese artist on
his way to the world*# fair is Chutaro Ando,
who will visit Chicago as aht' critic.* for the
Japanese trove rumen t and secretary of the
imperial Japanese commission. Ho received
a gold medal at the bret world's exhibition in
Paris for his painting ot a group of Japanese
girls enjoying a picnic on the shore. He has
two pictures on Exhibition at Chicago. Mr.
Ando acts as correspondent for Kokumin.-a
leading newspaper of Tokio. in which he has
a proprietary interest, and he has been so
struck with American newspaper methods
since he has been in this country that he in
tends to introduce them in his paper on his
return.
bright bits.
White--Hnw do you suppose Eve managed
to dress herself without a mirror?
Greene—The devil only knows.—Brooklyn
Life.
“Does Mr. Lynch suffer from chronic
thirst?”
... 9 , . c i ear no - He doesn’t wait long enough."
Pick Me-Up.
Maud—What can I do for a sensation at our
wedding, Jack.
Jack (thinking hard)—You might do the
high kick instead of kissing the rector
Truth.
Melton—That fellow Alltaike is the windiest
man I know. '
Messcrly—No wonder. His* wife takes par
ticular pains to blow him up everv chance she
gets.—Troy Press.
The bath!rig heach.fhe smaU hoy said,
Was just the placq fee him;
He’s not a social flgunfc*ut A ,
..Re's haj>j)y*ift r r ■ t
'-Washington Star.
‘ Whut kibd of a clock itftbat Jdwkins’ It
doosii ttseem to be right."
SfU-sh: It s call.ifl the 'Married Man's
Dolight. ray .boy. Thehakds stopat 10 aflock
every evening, but the;ticltiug goes on as loud
as ever. See?" w
Mrs.,Larkin —T want a little money to-day,
F red."
Mr. Larkin—l'm very grid of that.
Mrs. Larkin (siirprisatjl— Why arc you glad?
Mr. Larkin— lioeauso generally vou want a
good deal?—Puck.
T itnl erwheol Wasm't Rope, the poet, an
renetny of the red man?
Gildortjleevo—No, •he wasn’t. He wrote a
poem at out them.
Ttuitonvheel—Exactly; and didn't it begin
Loath the poor Indian?"
“That's too forte,"-said the music teacher
to his pupil.
"What do you moan by ‘too forte?' " asked
the latter, as' he stopped playing.
"Too loud.','
"O, I thought tw.o-fgrriy meant too fast.”
Truth.
First Tourist rto companion, who has just
cracked a very senseless joke)—Do you call
that wit? . : ,. .
Second Tourist -Certainly.
First Tourist Well,, I don't.
Second Tourist But you ferrget we’re in
England now.
First Tourist —O. yew Sure enough I Beg
pardon! Ha: ha: hat hoi—Truth.
Sweet Sixteen—What is meant by fatal
curiosity. Dick?
Her Big Brother—You ought to know. I
cun t. stop to explain now.
Sweet Sixteen Youflaena thing. You know
I hat en t toe sl'.-htest. idea, and I'm just dying
to learn —Boston Courier.
■ Say. ' said Chappie, "what do yon think?
I vo got a doosi.i good-joke All my own too."
l.et s have i: said the fellahs at the club.
■u hat is the difference between thr. envy
of a lost, sinner and the bakerwv business,
don t you know?"
They all gave it up.
■'Well, one is-thc wail of a soul and the
sail? of u wqll. Doosid good, isn't
current, comment.
Mr. Blount and Hawaii.
From the Philadelphia Record (Dent.).
Minister Blount is.not to be disturbed at
Honolulu, and the perplexing question of
Hawaiian annexation will have to be finally
sot tied before his successor shall I o appoint
ed 'the soasuttan mongers at Washington
do not seem tq have been fortunate in their
guesses concerning tho Hawaiian policy of
the administration..
Disappointed, EhP
From the Atlanta Herald iDcm ).
We don t know how it, is in other sta’es hut
Georgia, just now. is poire.' through a period
of mediocrity that ir? appaljlng. Starting with
the alliance < raze, four of live years ago men
ot mediocre mentality have been coming to
■he surface with a rush that has caused the
representative element in politics to look oh
with absolute dismay. This is particularly
gratifying .to men of small caliber, but is it
well for the future of Georgia?
Ropoal the Sherman Law.
From the Chicago Herald (Dem.t.
Thereicalnf the .> harm an act before the
end of July would he worth a great many mil
lions to the country. It wpuld at once put an
end to, the nervous fooling of apprehension
which basso long !.een constricting tlie loan
raarkol and producing injurious effetts upon
the business community. If tho President
lias information sufficient to satisfy him that
congress will repeal that mischievous law he
can render the country a greater service try
calling an extra session immediately than in
any other way.
The Indian Organization Scheme.
From the New York Press (Rep.).
Thc.proposition to organize the CTierokees
Chickasaw*, Choctaws. Creeks and Seminoles'
who now occupy part of tho old Indian Terri
tory.lnto an Indian state.is Interesting Those
tribes number a hour 30.000; own 20,000.000 acres
of land, much of which is under profitable
cultivation; maintain each a government of
thoirown. with legislative, judicial and ex
ecutive departments, and elect many of their
officers by l-allot. It Is doubtful, however
whether they are tit ted yet for the duties and
responsibilities of statehood. They have made
gratifying progress in the way of education
but ranch yet remains to be accomplished in
lino icspoct.
A lok* on Billy Florence.
In the day* before Btß|r M Florence and
Larry Jerome had become victim* of the
great practical Joker. Death John W Mackav
gave a dinaer at the Hoffman house. New
York, to Florence. Jerome. Hob luertoil,
ttoacoe onkilng and Tom Ochiltree The din
ner lingered late, says the San Franciaeo Ex
aminer At about 11 o’clock Florence began to
fldeert m hi* chair. He knew that his wife
was waiting for him over at the Brunswick,
and that keeping late hours and peace in the
family was not possible under his domestic
arrangements He hinted at going.
* O. no; you can't go yet." said Jerome, his
mind ever alert for a chance to play pranks
with his friend. *lf you go now Mackay 'll
think you don't like his dinner You'll of
fend him ”
So Florence sat. Each effort to break away
was met by the same objurgation from
Jerome. The actor grew more uneasy ns the
hours drew on. but he didn't dare offend the
host.
At about 2 o’clock in the morning Jerome
made some excuse and slipped .away for a
moment. Going to the office, he wrote a note
and sent it by a messenger boy. The note
read:
“Dear Mrs Florence—Where’s Billy? *We
have been expecting him at dinner all night,
but he hasn't come. Has anything happened
to him * Yours. Lawrencb Jerome.
In a few minutes the jolly gourmets rose
from the table, and Florence wandered home.
He wus mot by mi indignant wife.
“Where have you ijeen?" she asked, sharply.
• <>. I've just been over at the Hoffman
house, dining with Mackay. Jerome and some
of ihe—
Liar' O. you treacherous villain! Read
that note' The ink on it isn't dry yeti”
1 ho angry woman held Jerome’s note up to
the dumbfounded actor’s eyes.
The next day Florence took Mackay,
Jerome and the rest around to the Brunswick
to “square" him with his wife. But she
merely looked at the pleaders with a pitying
scorn and said “O. ves: I know you’ll all lie
to help each olhir.”
He Got Them.
"One day m October. 1877,1 was staging it in
Northern California." said Thomas M. Spen
cer. There were s'x of ns in the coach. We
were talking about stage robbers. Suddenly
there was a halt, and one of the party said:
Speak of the devil and he will appear.' Well,
wo all got out and stood in a line and gave up
our purses and watches. The driver hnd
thrown off the mail bag and the Wells-Fargo
safe There were two robbers, neither of
them masked. They wore not polite like the
knights of the road of romance, but swore con
tinuously. The job was done in about five
minutes and the robbers told the driver to go
ahead. We did so for a half mile or so.
when one of the passengers, a silent man
whom I had taken for a commercial man. said
to the driver: ‘Go slowly and wait for me at
the ford. Ho then produced a Winchester
from the bottom of the coach and started
hack over the road alone. Who -is he?’ we
asked of the driver Wells-Fargo man, I
guess never saw him before, but I guess he
knows his business If he comes back, ho
wdll have got them, if ho don't they will have
got him.’
"Twenty minutes later we heard some rapid
firing. We stopped at the ford. Nearly an
hour passed, and then the man who had gone
back appeared on tho trail. He walked
slowly, as if in pain, and a bloody handker
chief was tied about his head. Drive back
and get. the box,' he said to the driver ‘Did
you get 'erh?' asked the driver- Both of ’em.’
he replied. We drove back. In the middle of
the road where we had been held up. both
men lay dead. The Wells Fargo detective,
calculating that they would stop to rifle the
mail bag and the strong box. divide the plun
der and then separate, had quietly walked
back. One of them he dropped with his Win
chester before he was suspected; the other
got in one shot before he fell, and that had
struck the brave man a glancing blow on tho
head. Our property was all restored to us.
We helped bury the dead robbers by the
roadside. The brave officer refused to accept
the purse we hastily raised for him.”
Origin of a Famous Song.
How The Lost Chord," perhaps the most
successful song of modern times, came to be
written is related hy Mr. Wileby in a touching
little story, says the London News. Only a
few months after Sir Arthur Sullivan had ac
cepted the post of principal of the National
Training School for Music he received a se
vere blow in the death of his brother Freder
ick. whose talent as an actor is well remem
bered. For nearly three weeks he watched
by the sick man's bedside night and day.
One evening, when the end was rapidly ai>
proaehing. the sufferer had for a time'sunk
into a peaceful sleep, and as his faithful at
tendant was sitting as usual by the
bedside it chanced that he ‘ took
up some verses of the late Miss Adelaide
Proctor, with which lie had some years pre
viously been much impressed. Now in the
stillness of the night he read them over again,
and almost ns he did so he conceived their
■musical equivalent.” A sheet of music
paper was at hand, and he began to write.
Slowly the music grew and took shape until
becoming absorbed in it. he determined to fin
ish the song, thinking that even if in the cold
light of day it should appear worthless it
would at least have helped to pass the weary
hours, and so he went on till the last bar was
added Thus was composed a song of which
the sale up to now has exceeded2so,ooocopies.
The Penalty of Pride.
In portions of the south the old-time negro
still lingers, preserving toward the white
race the exact relations of forty years ago. so
far as outward difference goes*, says Kate
Field's Washington. A southern friend of
mine, while visiting in New York, ran across
an bid cook who had faithfully served her
family for three quarters of a lifetime. She
had wandered north ana was trying to satisfy
the northern appetite on orthodox southern
dishes, produced painfully in the Bxlo kitchen
of an uptown flat, she begged so hard to be
sent home that my friend yielded and bought
her a ticket for th** sunny south. On the ap
pointed day the young woman went down to
the ferry with Aunt Cindy to be sure the lat
ter was started on the right train. The old
darky was radiantly happy, but seemed to
have something on her mind. At lust it came
out.
Yo’ spese yo’coold git me er 11 1’ tin cup
Miss Kate?" said she. when it was almost
t me for the train to leave. I like ter died for
drink when I come norf."
‘ Why. wasn't there a cup in the train, Aunt
Cindy?" asked the other in surprise.
"Lor' yes, honey," was the reply; ‘but they
wan t but one. 'n' all the white folks had ter
use that. Yer po’ ole Aunt Cindy didn't get
er drink for most two days."
Twilight.
Harriet Prescott Spofford in Harper's Bazar
Slowly dies the long June day.
Softly rolls the earth away.
Lovelier light at length divining.
All a dream of misty bloom.
Trembling stars, and golden gloom.
Larger heavens and sweeter shining—
Which is dearer, dusk or day?
Where the glory dyed the dark,
Lost in light the ruby spark,
Violet gleam and saffron splendor,
M**lt and . ingle into one.
When the long June day is done.
All the depths throb close and tender—
Is it day. or is it dark?
Love! the long June day had life.
Silver showers and sunny strife—
Now its rosy wraith fades o'er us!
Eld s vast twilight fills our eyes,
Yet what freedom of the skies
Parts the star-sown path before us—
Is it doa.th. or is it life?
Teacher (to little Johnny)—What mount
diil the ark rest on.
Little Johnny—l don’t know, ma’am.
Teacher—O, yes, you do—Mount Ar—
Ar.
Little Johnny—O, yes, I know—Mount
Ar-r'.i-ra-boom-de-aye.—Harper’s Bazar.
Arlo-Bates, the novelist, and for several
years editor of the Boston Courier, has beon
elected professor of Knit Us h literature in tho
Massachusettslnstit ute of Tehnology.
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ITEMS OF INTEREST.
It Is stmtiffe that one of th. moss popular of
[ humorous entertainments t modeled or the
| oddities of r people who are deficient Ir the
seßse of humor. sav the Cffiltuxro Herald Vet
| a manaaer who has been asaoelatnd with a
minstrel troupe of real new roes eavs thst the
preatest trouble expertem-ed by him was in
trptrur to pet them to he funnv. All the sonas
and jokes and comic acting that really made
the audience laugh were Inventions of white
men The aningot the negroes was full of
purposeless antlr* that ludleated high spirit*,
but that were not amusing, and. while they
were always ready to laugh, at jokes, they did
not make any of their own
The expression. "Mind your Ps and Qs.” ls
of comparatively recent origin, dating per
haps from the Invention of printing. P. D. Q
and B are letters of the same form In the
lower case" (p, and. q. b), dlCtorentlyffised, and
the saving was a warning to printers to get
the letters In the right boxes. Other explana
tions exist; one is that when wigs was worn
it was difficult to be graceful ana remain be
wlgged, so that men were admonished to
mind their pieds (feetl and queues (wigs). A
third ls that the tapsters marked P for pint
and Q for quart against the names of men who
ran up scores at the inns, and were adjured
by their customers to mind their Ps and Qs.
The first suggestion soems the best.
Italy expends every year £96,000,000 for her
soldiers and less than *4.000.000 for schools,
says the New York Advertiser. In Spain it
costs £100,000.000 to maintain the army and
only £1.500.000 to educate the children, but
then it ls the exception to Hnd a Spanish
farmer who Is atile to read or write. Ger
many boasts of being in the foremost rank
among the nations in the kulturkampf cf the
world, yet she expends £165,000.000 on her
army, while £10,000,000 is deemed sufficient for
the education of her children. France main
tains an army at an expense of £151,000,000
and supports her schools with |21.000,00. The
United States expends $115,000,000 for public
while the army and navy cost only
#54,000,000.
More than 6,000,000 whtteflsh fry ’ were
placed In Lake Michigan, near Milwaukee, in
one week recently. They were emptied In the
bay at a distance of between one and two
miles from the shore. Ihe white llsh is able
to swim the moment it ls hatched, an advan
tage it has over many fish. B,rook trout, for
instance, do not swim until they are two or
three weeks old, and on this account they re
quire more care than whiteflsh. This fish as
soon as it is hatched swims out of the jar
through a spout provided for the purpose,
and tumbles into the tank where it is kept
until transferred to the river or lake. At that
time the llsh ls about an inch long, with a
transparent body and eyes that are out of all
proportion to the rest of the body.
It has often been proved that dogs are able
to track their masters through crowded
streets, where it would be Impossible to at
tribute their accuracy to anything except the
sense of smell alone. Mr. Romanes, the nat
uralist, once made some Interesting experi
ments as to this wonderful power as exhib
ited in his own dog. In these tests the nat
uralist found that his dumb friend could easily
follow In the tracks of his master, though he
was far out of sight, and that, too, after no
less than eleven persons had followed, step
ping exaotly In the tracks made by Mr. Ro
manes. It being the deliberate Intention to
confuse the senses of the poor dog if possible.
Further experiment proved that the animal
tracked the bcots Instead of the man, for
when Mr. Romanes put on new footgear the
dog failed entirely.
The Two Republics of Mexico says that the
mints of that country have stopped coining
quarter dollars, and are making preparations'
to turn out 20 cent pieces. A law has recently
been passed decreeing that from and after
June So, 1896, the quarter dollar will no longer
be current money. The object of the law is
to establish the decimal system of currency
In common use. The old coin of Mexico was
based upon the Spanish real, eight of which
made a dollar. The coinage of reals, and half
reals (rnedots), was discontinued some years
ago. and dimes and 5 cent pieces Issued In
their stead, but the common people have
clung tenaciously to their old familiar mone
tary methods, and still buy and sell by the
real. The 25 cent piece, being equal to two
reals, has made this easier for them, and for
this reason it is to be abolished from the Mex
ican mints.
Telegraphic communication In Persia is
said to work fairly well in dry weather, but in
times of rain and damp It is unfortunately
far otherwise, says the London News. This
arises from the fact that the Insulators are
not fixed to poles of wood or Iron as with us,
but ore driven into trees that have branches
growing round the hooks and touch the wire,
thus intercepting the current. When a large
tree is not available a small one is resorted
■ to. which often broaks, or tne shaking of the
slender tree by the wind dislodges the insu
lator or hook on which it is fixed, and the
wire trails on the ground. It is no uncommon
thing for the wires to be seen lying right
across the high road, which is followed by
hundreds of mules both in Uhtlan und Astra
bad. A case is officially reported of a high
foreign official telegraphing to Teheran from
Europe announcing his intended arrival at
Resht, in which the telegram was received in
the sender s presence eighteen days after its
dispatch.
William Crozier, a farm laborer who lived,
until the other day, near Purdy on the New
York and Harlem railroad, suffered very
much, he complained, by the noise of the
passing trains; the whistling and rattling of
the cars drove him almost wild. He wrote a
letter to the section boss about his grievance
and then to the superintendent of the road,
but finding that his letters did not count, de
termined to take more active steps to abate
the nuisance, and last Friday went over to the
track, a short distance from where he was at
work, and collecting a lot of fishplates that
lay along the track he piled them on the rails
and hid in the bushes close ny to await de
velopments. Presently an express train
came dashing along. The engineer saw the
obstruction and put on his brakes, but not
soon enough to avoid the trouble. The train
crashed into the fishplates, but. fortunately,
did not leave the track, and the crowd of pas
sengers experienced no harm but a bod shak
ing up. Tho engine, tender and baggage car
were badly damaged. Crozier w%s discov
ered lurking near and boldly avowed his
deed, saying that he was only sorry that
more damage was not done and that he did
.not care for the tonsequeucos to himself.
The Baltimore oriole is a prince in a house
of princes, says the Chicago Herald. The
family to which he belongs is composed of
birds remarkable either for plumage, note,
nest, eggs or habit. Each can claim some
thing curious and original, but the Baltimore
shines in every one of these particulars, for
in plumage, song and nest alike he is an espe
cially remarkable bird. When the Earl of
Baltimore became the lord of Maryland his
followers quickly noticed the correspondence
between his heraldic livery of orange and
black and the orange and black of the splen
did bird that so abounded in the new estates,
so that very naturally, the name "Baltimore
bird” was suggested, and has been borne ever
since. His nest is one of the most wonderful
examples of bird-weaving in existence. It is
made of separate threads, strings, horsehair,
or strips of bark, closely interwoven into a
sort of sack, and so firmly knit together
that it will bear a weight of twenty
or thirty pounds. In the southern parts of
this bird's range the nest is suspended from
two or three terminal twigs for protection
from numerous enemies, such as snakes
opossums and the like. It is also made six or
seven inches in depth to prevent the eggs
being thrown out by the high winds. But in
the colder north, where tree-climbing foes are
rare, it is hung not at the extremities of the
branches, but in a cluster of twigs that affords
shelter. It is much shallower than when ex
posed to the wind, hut is very thickly woven
and lined with soft, warm materials. The
oriole s loud, fife-like notes ringing from the
high tree-tops in the morning are an ample
refutation of the old theory that melody and
bright plumage have never been bestowed on
the same bird,
Bennington B. Bedle, who succeeds "Cousin
Ben" Folsom as consul at Sheffield, England,
is a son of ex-Gov. Bedle of New Jersey and
the appointment is credited to Congressman
Fielder of Jersey City.
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A full line of Printed Swiss Muslins in beau
tiful floral designs, from two to five colors;
have been 50c and 60c, now offered at SOe and
35c.
Finest quality Dotted Swiss, interspersed
with neat floral colorings and of tho newest
ombinations; have been 60c. now offered at
0c yard.
French Foulard Sateens, best imported, all
dark grounds; have been 45c and 50c, nowgo
ing at 30c und 35c.
LACES.
Black Chantilly Lace Flouacings, 42 inches
wide.
Black Lace Drapery Nets, 45 inches wide,
heavy and light, at 85c, $1 and *1 25; worth
twice the price
Dress Goods.
Previous to our semi-annual inventory we
will offer during the coming week, Dam as so
(’repons that were $123, Checked Cheviots
that wete sl, Armure Serges that were 95c,
Crepon Vigeraux that were *l2O, English
Checks a*nd Fancy French Cheviots that wero
$1 —the entire line will be offered this week at
75c per yard.
LINEN DEPARTMENT.
Bleached German Table Damask, all linen,
37*/4c: worth 85c.
Bleached Satin Table Damask, yard;
regular price 50c.
Double Face Satin Damask, *1 and $t 25;
absolutely worth 1 25 and *1 50 per yard.
100 dozen medium size Double Damask Nap
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