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Charles Dudley Warnerchargcs Ameri
cans with fixing their literary standards
upon the same plan that they lix their
money standards, and in money “they lix
the value of a dollar at sixty-five cents
and resent the commercial assertion that
the dollar is 10(1 cents.” Our literature,
likewise, he thinks, is put up and passed
for more than it is worth. And that is
what he calls “literary Barnumism.”
Ohio has sent a military company to the
fair that will attract considerable atten
tion and prove instructive to soldiers vis
iting Chicago. The bicycle corps of the
Ohio National Guard is referred to. The
company, sixty strong, is mounted on
military bicycles arranged to carry guns,
knapsacks and blankets. The men will
go iuto camp on Midway Plaisance and
illustrate the use of the bicycle iu modern
wurfure.
Thrifty George Gould tells the New
York board of tax assessors that he and
the other heirs of his father were not in
possession of the Gould estate at the time
the assessment of $10,000,000 was made,
therefore he thinks they should not pay
the taxes. However, rather than be
counted mean, he is willing to pay taxes if
the Ixiard will reduce th 1 assessment to
11.000,000. This young Gttuid, it seems, is
actually more grasping and narrow mind
ed than his father was; and that is saying
a lot.
The colored editors of Virginia do not
agree with their Georgia brethren, that
“negro” shoal.l be spelled with a capital
“N." At a recent meeting of the Negro
Press Assoi iution of Virginia, the ques
tion of the kind of “n” to be us.'il came
up for discussion. One editor objected
to a consideration of any such question
going upon the minutes of tho meeting.
“We put too much importance upon • the
name by which we are called,’’. said he.
“Let us improve ours 'lves an 1 allow
people to si>oll our name with a big 'V,
or a little ‘n\ or any kind of u.’ they
wish to.” And his very sensible objec
tion prevailed.
While rumors of cholera are flying
thick and fast it should bo remembered
that cholera is a disease.that may be easily
avoided. The doctors, it is true, have not
discovered any specific that is a sure
cure for cholera, but they have demon
strated that it can be prevented and
stamped out. It does not travel in the
air, but in food and drink, and breeds in
the filth of decaying matter. Therefore,
keep clean. Keep the person clean, and
the house clean, and the streets clean.
Eat only wholesome and well cooked
food, and drink only pure water. If
there is doubt about the water lsiil it.
Do these things and defy the cholera.
Senator Jones of Nevada, is a typical
silver advocate. Asked for his views on
the financial situation, he summed it up
thus: “People say wliat we want is con
fidence. Confidence to gollyswasliod;
what the people want is money, money,
money. That’s what they want, and i's
what I want and silver is just as good
money as any other That’s the whole
story.” Senator Jones has silver to sell;
that’s the whole story about Jones. The
people want money, truly; but what they
need is something with which to pur
chase money. The coinage of an v amount
Of silver dollars would not profit tho man
who has nothing to give In exchange for
them.
The Borden sisters, Lizzie and Emma,
ensconced in a now residence in the aris
tocratic part of Fall River, and under the
patronage of “some of the best people" in
Miissacli usetts, have begun the task of
living down the horrors of last autumn
and the suspicions lhat attached to Miss
Lizzie. During the life time of Mr. Bor
den, father of the girls and oue of the
victims of the murder, the family lived
in a miserable little cottage and passed
an existence of toil and privation, for Mr.
Borden, although rich, was what is called
in New England a frugal and thrifty
man. Now. however, the new residence
of the Bordens is a “pretentious mo lorn
structure, and tha whole estate possesses
an air of wealth.”
The South anil Gherman Immigration.
Mr Igv is Hcninghansen. president of
the G ranin Society of Maryland, <*x
pn • ses the opinion that social conditions
at Ihe south are iv*| onstl.le for the fail
ure ~f the south to get dt. irable German
immigrants He was “curious to know
win (Mt.pie should locate at so great a
distance from the market, in the west,]
and pa;, higher pricer for land no better
than they might have purchased near
their landing places for less money.” To
satisfy his curiosity lie visited some of
his German friends who had settled on
farms in lowa He found, he. says,
"a far greater social equality and inter
coms. among the farmers and farmhands
in tie- west than in Maryland. Intermar
riages are there a matter of course.
Very little distinction is made at their
so. ial gatherings. These German farm
ers work hard six days of the week,
and <m Sunday after church service they
are foni of a cheerful gathering." The
trouble with the south, Mr. Heninghaus
en concludes, is that “the former slave
owner is not sympathetic to the foreign
comer.”
It may be true that the former slave
owner is slow to accept the friendship of
and mingle in fellowship with foreigners.
Hut it seems to us that too much stress is
laid upon the former slave owner’s exclu
siveness in social affairs and influence in
political affairs, it must be remembered
that all the whites in the south before the
war were not slave holders; probably not
half of them were. It has been nearly
thirty years since there were any slave
holders in the south. Since the abroga
tion of slavery the ranks of those who
held slaves have been greatly thinned by
death, while, on the other hand, young
men who know of the old institution
more as a tradition than as a repent fact,
have grown up to take the places of their
fathers. Furthermore, there lias been
considerable interstate immigration from
non-slave-holding states and not a little
foreign immigration into the south since
the war, so that the actual ex-slave own
er is but a minor part of the body politic.
That he is exclusive in his social relations
is true, but in business lie is as ready to
treat with a foreigner as a native, as
many excellent Germans in Georgia and
elsewhere In the soutli have reason to
know.
The idea of “Bourbonisin at the South,”
which some northern newspapers appar
ently regard it their religious duty to
preach, seems to have found lodgment in
Mr. Heninghausen’s brain, although as a
resident of Maryland he should know
that the south is democratic and
liberal, and extends a warm welcome to
desirable Germans. There may ho dif
ferences between the customs in the
south and in Germany—in the matter of
Sunday observance, for instance; but the
differences are not so radical as to cause
inconvenience, either to the immigrant in
their observance or to the native in their
broach by the newcomer.
The real reason desirable immigrants
from Germany do not come south is two
fold, and has been repeatedly referred to
by the Moknino News. First, the ad
vantages of the south have never been
properly presented to the immigrants,
who are ignorant of our section and our
customs. Second, the transportation lines
bringing immigrants across the ocean
•'•railroad’’ them across country as soon as
they are landed. In Europe they are sold
tickets good for passage to lowa, Dakota
or some other western or northwestern
state, but no tickets to southern points
are sold there. If the south were as well
advertised in Europe as the west, and
tickets were on sale to southern |>oints, as
they are to western points, we should be
receiving all the immigration needed.
Electric Heating.
Consul F. H. Mason, at Frankfort, Ger
many. in a recent report, sends tins gov
ernment an account of one of the most ad
vanced steps in tho matter of the applica
tion of electricity that has yet been made.
Two Belgian scientists, he says, have
patented at Berlin a process employing
electricity in the boating, molting and re
fining of metals. When application for
the patent on the process was first made
the officials of the German patent office
were Incredulous. The process was too
simple, they thought, to be effective, so
they demanded a practical demonstration.
The demonstration was made with bril
liant success.
The apparatus and process atv thus de
scribed: “The apparatus consists of a
glass or porcelain vase provided with a
lining of lead, tlio lead being connected
with a conductor which brings from one
pole of a dynamo a strong current of posi
tive electricity. Tho vase is filled to
three-fourths of its capacity with a edi
fied water. A pair of iron tongs, with in
sulated handles, is connccte l by a flexible
conductor with the negative pole of the
dynamo. The current employed varies
with the extent of the effect to be pro
duced. In the experiments at Berlin a
tension of 120 volts and energy of 220 am
l>eres wore registered."
With these simple appliances—a vase
and a pair of tongs—most remarkable re
sults were obtained by the inventors’ de
monstrating that simplicity did not mean
inefficiency. "The electrical current
haviug been switched on, a bar of wrought
iron was taken up with the tongs and
plunged into the water in the vase. Im
mediately the water began to boil tit the
point of ion tact. Presently the immers
ed portion of the bar became red hot,
then white hot, emitting a flood of bril
liant white light. In a few minutes the
heat became so great that the iron melt
ed and its exterior parts fell away in
bubbles and sparks, leaving a clear glow
ing surface in perfect condition for weld
ing. So rapid hud I teen the heating that
neither the watw nor the end of the bar
within the tongs had been more than
slightly warmed.”
This process, called the Eagrange-lloho
process from the names of its inventors,
utilizes, in heat 50 per cent, of the elec
tric current usecl.it is claimed. Hereto
fore. in other processes, not more than 20
per cent, of the current has been utilized
of. By employing powerful currents it is
believed that heat three times as great as
the temperature required to extract iron
from its refractory ores can be ob
tained.
Consul Mason explains the process as
follows: “The current passing from the
lead lining of the vase through the water
to the bar held by the tongs decomposes
the water into Its elements, oxygen and
hydrogen. The oxygen goes to the lead
lining of the vase, where it produces no
noticeable effect. The hydrogen, on the
THE MORNING NEWS: MONDAY. JULY 17. ISM.
ether hand, is set free on the surfaee of
the immersed portion of the bar. It forms
a sort of a gaseous nvelq>e, or varnish,
about the iron. and. txlr.g a bad conduc
tor of electricity, resists the passage of
the current and thus, according to the
theory, develops the heat which causes ■
the bar to glow and melt. So far the i
process has been applied experimentally |
only to the welding of various metals. But ;
its success in this Held lias lieon such as
to promise a complete revolution.’’
Sentiment Must Yield.
When the memory of Henry Clay was
almost idolized by the great majority of
the people of this country and his fame
reached every civilized people, his statue
was erected on Canal street in New Or
leans. For many years it has been the
most notable place in the city. Around
it mass meetings were held when the
question of seel ssion was under discus
sion, and later on the people met
there to denounce the carpet baggers who
had taken |iosssession of the city and
state. From that place the Mafia was
condemned, and from there the pro ces
sion started to kill tliS Mafia prisoners in
the parish prison. Indeed, whenever the
people of this city have had a grievance
or desired a reform they have made their
voices heard at Clay Statue.
And now it is proposed to remove this
old landmark. It is in the path of prog
ress. The space it occupies is needed for
the trolley cars, and the
city authorities have agreed
that it shall be put in a less conspicuous
place where it' will lie out of the way.
Old citizens are protesting agalast any
disturbance of the statue. They revere
the memory of Henry Clay, and, besides,
the associations that cluster around the
statue are dear to them, if it is removed
the place where it stands will cease to be
a rallying ground for the people when
wrongs are to be righted and corruption
in high places is to be exposed.
But thoir protests will not be heeded.
This is not an age of sentiment. Every
thing that can be made to yield a profit is
utilized. The old statue must go, and the
pcoplt- will have to meet elsewhere than
at its base when they want to rebuke
wrong and uphold the right.
The Siamese Situation.
Little Siam’s proposition to fight
France would seem ridiculous if there
was not a nation’s autonomy involved,
and certain to be lost whatever the re
sult.
Siam is not strong enough to hold its
own against France fora week. Without
the intervention of a stronger power, the
little kingdom of the white elephant
would be subdued and occupied in short
order. The stronger power that Siam is
depending upon is England. It is said
application will be made to England to
establish a protectorate over Siam.
If it should appear to the British that
Siam could be turned over to the French
in return for unquestioned occupancy of
Egypt, it might be difficult to persuade
the lion to go to the white elephant’s res
cue. Mr. J. Stewart Wallace. M. P., of
London, who is in New York, says on the
subject of a British protectorate for
Siam: “I am afraid it would be rather
premature to give an opinion on that sub
ject now. I think 1 can safely say, how
ever, that England will not be likely to do
anything in Siam ex’opt in conjunction
with France. There ?s a strong feeling
in England, and one which is constantly
growing, against the annexation policy—
or the protectorate policy, which is just
as bad. This feeling is most strongly
expressed in the present government.”
This feeling of opposition to territorial
extension is something new to England.
It has never yet interfered with tier policy
of grab, and it is not likely to do so in
this instance.
A romantic story of youthful love and
disappointment and subsequent lawless
ness comes from Wisconsin. Fifteen
years ago Annie Morris, a pretty girl fif
teen years of ago, lived at Halifax, N. S.
She had a beau and wished to get married,
but objections were raised on account of
her youth and her plans were frustrated.
Accompanied b.v a younger brother, she
ran away from homo, donned male attire
and made her way to the west. Kite
adopted the name of Jesse Blount, and
worked, gambled, smoked, drank and
fought along with the toughest men to be
found in tin' lumber and mining camps.
“Jesse" was also involved ia several bur
glaries and numerous forgeries. For one
Of these forgeries she was arrested the
other day, and it was only thin that the
truth was known. It is said that her
face, while firm and strong, has lost all
the distinguishing characteristics of a
woman’s face and become almost the
characteristic visage of a lumberman.
A Brooklyn girl who h; summering at
Bensonhursl, has developed anew fad.
For three weeks she has regularly, once
a week, been rescued from the briny deep
by a handsome young man; a different
young man each time, be it understood.
Last season she was rescued several
times, once by a girl, who incurred" the
bitter enmity of the rescued for being
more prompt than the young man she had
picked out as the rescuer. The '‘drown
ing” beauty is an expert swimmer. She
frolics in the water, swims, dives and
floats, until a nice looking young fellow is
attracted; then she suddenly and conve
niently’ takes a cramp, or faints, or does
something that looks like the first scone
of a tragedy, and is more or less promptly
rescued. This kind of thing seems to
afford the young woman lots of enjoy
ment, and as it impresses the young men
with the idea that they are unrecognized
heroes, there is probably lots of satisfac
tion all around.
Misleading headlines are positively
cruel during this hot weather. A ease in
point; The St. Louis Republic printed a
column a day or two ago under the eap
tion, “The Stocking Habit.” Now, what
was more natural than to suppose that
the learned editor had perfected a scheme
whereby the habit might be overcome,
tile reformer meanwhile moving in the
best society? But that wasn't the idea
at all; the editor had ground out a lot of
stuff about the financial situation, and
set it sailing under false colors.
Detectives have succeeded in “locating
the swag” stolen from the ,Bradley-Mur
tin residence. New York, some months
ago The stolen articles were watches,
jewelry, etc. But could the aristocratic
Bradley-Martins afford to take the
things back after they had become
•‘swag'”
The war-like xpeerh'-s made by Gov.
Waite, of Colorado, on the silver question
the other day rival!* to the New York
Press a prediction made by Horatio Sey
mour shortly before hie death. “Thenext
conflict in this country,” said he. will
be between the east and the west. The in
terests of the two sections are naturally
antagonistic, and will grow more and
more so as the years roll by. The time
will come, very soon, in my Judgment,
when it will require very wise statesman
ship to prevent an open rupture between
the east and the west. lam afraid that
these two sections of our country are
drifting further and further apart every
year. On the other hand. Now York,
New England, Pennsylvania and Ohio are
drawing closer to the late Confederate
States. I can s“e signs of growing trouble
in the west. The cloud is not very large
now, hut it will bfflir watching. If we
over have another civil war it will be be
tween the east and the west. Mark the
prediction.”
Mr. George Vanderbilt has a queer
neighbor at his North Carolina palace.
Near the center of the Vanderbilt tract
of 9,000 acres an old negro named Jerry
Collins owns fourteen acres, on which is
his little shanty. Mr. Vanderbilt neg
lected to acquire Jerry’s holdings at the
proper time, so when he came to dicker
with the old man, Jerry asked a price
*SOO larger than Mr. Vanderbilt was will
ing to pay, and aliout 500 times as much
as his land was really worth. Their fail
ure to reach a bargain put old Jerry on
his mettle, and he now declines to sell at
any price, although Mr. Vanderbilt is
willing to come to the figures he named.
The consequence is that Jerry and his
fourteen acres are surrounded, in tlie
midst of the Vanderbilt preserves, by a
high fence. Jerry jocularly remarks that
good neighbors have been the desire of
his life, and now that lie and the Vander
bilts arc living so close together, he does
not propose to move away.
Mr. Hagerinan, a wealthy mine owner
of Colorado and a representative silver
man, says Gov. Waite is the only man in
the state who is “ready to ride in blood
up to the horse’s bridle” in defense of
silver. However, some of the Kansas
populists might be induced to join Waite,
if he would reduce liis higtiwater mark
from the bridle to the -stirrups. Ed.
Snow, a Topeka politician, says the popu
list standing army of Kansas is getting in
good trim to “riddle the carcasses of a few
score republican thugs” iu case another
attempt should he made to lei. k mainst
tlie authority of a populist governor. In
case tho business of riddling republicans
should grow dull, Mr. Waite might get
the Kansas army to make a crusade
against tlie imaginary conspirators
against silver.
The silver dollar got a New York news
paper into trouble a few days ago. The
Recorder of that city printed a cartoon,
entitled, “Will he stop it or get out of its
way?” It represents a big silver dollar
rolling down on the President, who is rep
resented in an attitude of fright. Under
the law to prevent counterfeiting, it is a
misdemeanor to print a fae-.itnilo of
a silver dollar, and a United States
detective entered tho Recorder’s
office and carried off tlie electrotype
plates from which the cartoon was
printed, * together With the original
sketch. In view of the fact that the
Recorder’s silver dollar hasn’t a striking
resemblance to the genuine silver dollar it
is a question whether the detective was
justified in doing what he did.
The bumptuousness of the native New
Yorker was never better illustrated than
in this incident, quoted from the New
York Sun: “Some kindly folks in a
small interior city complained after they
hud entertained a cargo of tenement
house children sent out of town by an
oast side charity that the airs of superi
ority taken on by the youngsters as resi
dents of New York were offensive and
well nigh intolerable.”
Tho war in Samoa may necessitate the
sending there of half a dozen or raoro
great war ships, to take care of the in
terests of the foreign residents of tho
islands. And in that case the coal bills
of the several ships would amount to
more than what the little comic opera j
kingdom is worth.
BRIGHT BITS.
Ca V- “otter—What makes you think he is
man led?
i.o i . aylor He refused to eo near the
woman s t.uildinc World’s !• air Puck.
I c How uivy bridesmaids are you going
to hni-.• dearest.
Mi ■ None.
Ho -Why. i thou l.t you had set your heart
on it.
Sh" Thai: hut r rom present indications
the girls i want will ail be married first. —
Life.
“Give an example of a natural inference.”
tho college professor said. “Well sir,” re
plied ilie student, if you meet a carriage
some Sunday afternoon with a young man on
the front seat and another young man and i
pretty girl on the l ack seat, a ! natural
inference would be that they were going after
another pretty girl.—Somerville Journal.
■lt. is very sad.” said the twenty dollar
Mil. c ut since that stuck-up gold piece has
been to Europe and come l ack it positively
refused to recognize me as an equal.“—ln
dianapolis Journal.
CURRENT COMMENT.
A Rumor Traced.
From the Chicago Tribune (Rep.).
The prediction that Congress will he in
session a year comes from Washington board
inghouse keepers. who uro jealous of the bus
iness their ilk are doing in Chicago.
Training- for Pensions.
From the St. Louis Republic (Hem.).
A Washington pensioner, cited for reexam
ination, declared indignantly that it would
take him several days to get in condition for
it. some shrewd Yankee will probably act on
this suggestion and establish a training-school
tor prospective pensioners.
They’ll Purify Politics.
From the Louisville Courier-Journal (Dem.).
The women are in politics up to the elbows
in Kansas. They are after woman suffrage,
i and one of the leaders has confided a secret
to a mean man. who has peached. " It istr
the effect that the women will put Mu.(too
into the campaign where it will do the most
good. Woman has set out to “purifypoli
tics, and she is not going to stop for*the ex
penses.
Work for Democratic Surgeons.
From the Philadelphia Record (Deni.)
"Protection ' is an excrescent giowth on
the body politic. T lie longer excision shall
! lie delayed the greater will be the danger to
| the health of the patient. When congress
I shall take up the question of tariff revision
1 the democratic surgeons will do the neces
‘ uirv cutting and carving with as little blood
letting as possible They will carefully tie
up eve ry artery, and use' every septic precau
tion to promote early recovery, llut. pending
convalescence, nolssiv should be deceived by
the cry of tlie quacks w ho for the past thirty
years have ministered to the patient, robbing
him of every dollar in ills pocket, aud who
now seek to make him believe that he does
not know what ails him.
Several K inds of Luck.
Say ’ ■,.*!.! Colonel Reter Sweeney of the
Union Pacific the other evening last after
the man he was walking with stooped nd
picked i.pa pin that lav shlnluir close to the
ciirhKtoc- 1 did you ever notice bow many
cranks there are in the world! Of course,!
don't refer to present company—Oh. no. cer
tainly Hut I was just remarking on the
run*> is superstitions that people get into
their le ads No*, for IniteoOT. vou stopped
just now and picked up that pin from which
1 infer that you are fr. the hahit of doing o
whenever you see one.
Well. I know lots of men who never fail
to pick up a ptn the same as you do. Then
there ur* Hu sidewalk cranks, who always
step or. ea* h thinl or fourth crack according
to the Width of the boards, or. if thev are
walking on a pavement, they step tetweeu
and then on the cracks.
Vfter these come the stair crunlis. Tlmy
wouldn't tell it to anyone if they were asked j
about it.'.ut tlie fact is that these persons
always start up stairs left foot first, and feel ;
badly if the right foot donsn t strike the top 1
of the stairs first, -'these persons. I may re- :
mark, are usually those who have been
afflicted with a semimililary education, as
are Tie*-* 1 sock and shoe cranks who put j
their hosiery and footgear on the left foot
first.
"'I hen some men have a peculiar way of .
entering a room. They will always ent -r
with a certain foot foremost and their exit .
will he made in Hie same way. And —Great
Scot 1: I might go on for a year about cranks
ana never get through# But do you mind j
telling me why you pick up stray pins?" re
ports the Omaha Bee.
Why. no. certainly not." answered the
other man. I do it for luck, of course.”
"For luck, eh? Well, have these Moomiflg
pins ever brought you any luck?"
"To be sure. Why. only last winter, at a
time when I was in very uneasy Circumstan
ces I ( :eked up three pins in one forenoon,
with the point toward mein every case. 'I hat
afternoon I got '*
"You got a draft?" asked Colonel Sweeney,
in a sort of I-tliink-you are altar tone of
voice.
I got an insurance assessment of STO Oft,”
replied the pin crank, sadly. “And still you
say pins don't bring luck. Wasn’t that luck
—l ad luck?"
But Colonel Sweeney hadn't a word to say.
Too Hot For Tho Reporter.
The drummer in an east-hound Pullman,
just out of Pittsburg, had made friends with a
mild young man and was pumping him, says
the Detroit Free Press.
How far west were you ?’* he asked when
the young fellow had told him he had been
out in that direction.
■ In Idaho, in a mining town."
“Were you mining?' 1
“No. I was a reporter on a paper there "
"Oh anew spaper man?” laughed the drum
mer. Didn’t you like It out there?”
"Not much.”
“Why. 1 thought it was lively In those
places, and you fellows liked that sort of
thing.”
• ■>> we do. but m moderation.
‘Oho, somebody wanted to shoot the man
that wrote that article, did hoy” aud the
drummer snorted loud in derision.
“No; you’re off there. It was the other
way.”
“How do you mean?”
“Well, you see. we’d had a killing scrape in
the paper every day while I was there, until
the day I quit. That day. about 1 o'clock in
the morning, tho managing editor came in
from Dic k Lovloo s gambling place and
was looking over the proofs. I noticed
he began to get excited as he went over
them and didn't tind what he was looking for.
“ ‘IJy gum.' he exclaimed at last, wasn’t
there anybody killed to-day?*
“ No, sir.' replied the city editor.
44 ‘Are you sure of itV*
“ Of course 1 am; you don't find it in the
proofs, do you? *
• No, and he turned to me. as I was the
only man not busy, and taking a 44-Colt's re
volver from his desk, ho handed it to me.
• l ake that. Jefferson,' he said, ‘and go round
to Lovloo*s place and kill somebody or get
killed yourself. I ain’t particular which, and
do it quick, for we’ve got to go to press in
twenty minutes, and we can't do it without
the regular thing; the people are ueed to it
and want it and they must have it. Hurry,’
and he hustled me out.”
• And did you get tho item in time ?” asked
the drummer.
Did i?” exclaimed the mild young man.
“Well, not hardly. 1 skipped the town before
daylight and started back for the effete East,
it’s plenty good enough for me.”
His Services Not Required.
Lady of the House—No, my good man, I
have no astronomipal apparatus that needs
repairing.
Walkabout Beggs—Any repairin’needed in
the chemical labratory line!”
"We have no chemical laboratory."
“Don’t want no landscape gardenin’ done
on the roof o' yer house, I rackou?”
“Our house has not a flat roof as you can
see,”
“Want anybody to cal’iate to a cent what
it'll cost to make a trip round the world.
mum'”’
“We are not thinking of making a trip
round the world.”
“Any job fur a man that kin plan a *5.000
summer house?”
“No.”
“Don't want a design for a Moorish la
byrinth in the backyard?”
“We do not.”
”Nur a plan fur asphalt driveway, bordered
with flowers, and stone lions meanderin'
through the premises regardless ol expense,
an' fountains playin' in live or six places,
with gold llsh swimmin' in big marble ba
sins?”
■No.”
"I'm sorry, mum. but them's the ways I
earn my livin', an' it s pretty tough on a man
when he's willin', to work un' can't get any
thing to do in his reg'lerpcrfessions.”
•■lsn't there anything else you cun do?”
i With ala -rityi “Kf you was to arsk me ef
I could eat a mess o' fried eggs. mum. my an
swer would be that 1 think 1 could do it.
mum. Eggs over, please, an’ a oup o' cawfy.
Looks as if we was goln to have rain.”—Chi
cago tribune. •
An Episcopal Story.
Hero is an episcopal story. Bishop Wil
liams of Connecticut, is the hero and Scot
land the place of action, says the Boston Bud
get.
It scents that over in Scotland the rector of
a parish is called the ' incumbent,” and his
curate the "locum tenens."
One day Bishop WiWarns was dropped
from the stage coach in a little Gaelic town in
which the only respcctuble-lookln t house
was the parsona.e. the Bishop felt that h>
could not enter the wretched, dingy, one-story
inn. and he determined to beg from the rector
a night's lodging in the score of his episco
pal dignity, s> bo marched boldly up to the
door of the parsonage and knocked. liis
knock was answered by a wrinkled old Scotch
woman, who looked for all the world like
Meg Merriles. with an added sore of years
on her head. She glanced cannlly and sus
piciously at the Bishop, holding the door half
way open
■ is h'rector in, my good woman?” asked
tie Bi-hop.
"No. suit," came the answer in the inimita
ble Scotch brogue “K m sorry to see that,
the incoombraucc is oot, but if ye like ye can
see the local demon.”
Found Wanting.
From they’hiladelphla Ledger,
She had read the works of sages from before
•the Middle Ages.
And had studied ad the writings left from
pro historic times:
She would range from ancient Horace to the
verse of William Morris.
While she pointed out the difference ’twixt
the old and modern rhymes.
She discuss'd the moral hurt in those unhap
py thoughts of Burton,
And for relaxation revel din the sketches
cf Mark Twain:
And she held that Aristotle was addicted to
the bottle.
Or he never would have thought the things
that fill and his imphtv brain.
Chaucer. Dante and old Gower she would pore
on by the hour.
But, inspite of all her learning, I'd not have
her for m.v wife;
For, desiring once to serve her—this young
latter-day Minerva—
I took her out to dinner, and she ate It with
a knife.
Little Mary's Reasons.
Llttio Mary s the daughter of a Presby
terian clergyman in a pretty village of Wes
tern New York. says the New York Times.
One morning a very corpulent butcher called
at the parsonage with a roast of beef for
dinner. Mary answered the knock at the
kitchen door and proceeded to entertain him
until her mother should arrive. The pastor s
wife on her way down stairs overheard this
conversation;
"This Is a very lovely day, Mr. Mason.”
“It is. Indeed.”
“Do you like roast beef?”
“Yes.”
•Do you eat it every day?"
“Not every day. Why?"
“Nothing, only your stomacho sems to be
larger than ours.”
ITKMS OF IXTKBLST.
The late Justice Blatrhford had a great j
fancy for almanac* end calendars of which j
he collected a very large number during Hi** j
tinv he was a member of the supreme court j
bench.
It is the testimony of thos* who have seen
the gnat trees of (California. says
the New York Hun. that much of the
effect of astonishment Is lost leenuse the visi
tor approaches the tr e* through a forest of
giant" that gradually im reuse in si/.e. Manv
P fn s ten feet in diameter are passed on the
Journey, and in this way th* visitor slowly
works up to trees that measure above thirty
feet in diameter. If a horse be placed in
front of a tree with his side toward the ap
proaching traveler, some notion of the enor
mous size of the giant is obtained.
A report by Grant Bey of tho discovery at
Alexandria of the veritable tombs of Alexan
der the Great and Cleopatra is said by the
Aberdeen Univerity authorities, to whom it
Is made, to be extremely convincing in tone
and details. The tombs, says a London ca
ble were unearthed on the site of the ancient
city during excavations for anew terraced
garden overlooking the sea. Alexander’s is
the solitary sarcophague. 50 feet below the
level, and near it are several subterranean, !
chambers tilled with ancient and parchment
manuscripts, presumably of great historical
interest. Thirty feet nearer the surface and j
some distance a way is a row of connected
tombs of the Ptolemy dynasty, of which Cleo
patra's is the only one uncovered. At the
time Grant wrote he said there was no room
for doubt, since the names of the occupants
are over the doorways of the tombs, and the
bronze doors are covered with confirmatory
Greek inscriptions. Thus far none has been
opened, only peered into through corroded in
terstices in the doors by the aid of maxntv
sinin light. But the contents seem not to
have been disturbed since the original inter
ments.
Capt. W. C. Pidge, tho superintendent of
the Inyo marble quarries near the lake, has
two jars of alcohol in which are several ob
jects of unusual interest, says the Bishop
(Cal ' Register. Therein one of the little
rattlesnakes known as the “side-winder' be
cause of his peculiar method of progression,
which is sidewise, one end at a time, rather
than straight ahead, like other reptiles. The
side winder is found in great numbers in the
hot deserts, and during the warmer summer
nights keeps moving all night long unless he
happens to fetch up in a comfortable place like
th** folds of a blanket. It is said his bite is
certain death; nevertheless, we never hear of
any deaths from that cause. The captain's
sped men was one of seven he found under
the same rock near the quarry. With this is
another snake a foot or so in length, which
for certain powers and peculiarities can chal
lenge the reptile world This little snake
has a perfect head on **lfherendof his body—
not only that but during his lifetime he could
and did go in either direction without
turning, just as readily one way as the
other. Asa reptile he is as complete a dou
ble ender as one of these double ender ferry
boats, or even more, since his reversing gear
works quick as a flash ; and no matter which
way he goes he has a complete lookout a
stern as well as ahead. This specimen was
found under a rock which had been turned
over. He would dart ahead a foot or two at
a time, then as suddenly stop. Then when a
cane or stick was put in front of his eyes, he
would reverse and dart right back, tht* other
end or head first, precisely as if that were
the only head he possessed, and as if that
were the front end he hud depended on all his
life. Then, when an obstacle was placed In
front of that end. back he would go. the other
head lirst as if that were the only head he pos
sessed. 1 his is considerable of a snake story,
ana same of the snake editors may not believe
it. nevertheless it Is given as the actual truth.
The odious ‘‘black-beetle.*’ which is. prop
erly speaking, not a beetle at all. is., like a
number of other insect posts, not indigenous
to England, though it is now’ a “resident
alien." says the London Spectator. The only
use which we ever beard found for black
beetles. was to feed the llrst birds of paradise
brought to England b.v ship from the Malay
Archipelago. No four-footed creature that
we know will eat them except the hedgehog,
and cats, which are said to be poisoned by
them. This is hardly strange, for everything
which they touch is contaminated by their
repulsive odor. Even hedgehogs are a failure
though tradition makes them
thrive on cockroaches. An early
ambition of the present writer's
was to live in a house stocked with black
beetles. In order to keep a hedgehog. At
last this came about. The new house
swarmed with the insects: and we had the
luck to find a hedgehog in a cow shed and
brought it home. It would not uncurl in tho
kitchen, so we put it in a dark cupboard,
where there were enough of the creatures to
“feed right a great hog.” as the cook, who
w r as disappointed in tho animal's size, re
marked disparagingly. But the hedgehog
never uncurled. We looked at him night and
day. and found beetles running over him, and
speculating when they would begin to eat
him. At last we carried him to the lawn,
where he did move, and walked into tho
tennis-net. and had to be cut out. to the
great destruction of the meshes. Black
beetle killing is a limited but respecta
ble calling in London; and a leading member
of the craft sends his card round at intervals
to owners of the larger mansions in London,
to intimate that, in his pinion, the time has
come when his services ought to be required
ii tl c houses which he has attended during'
many changes of owns: ship or occupation.
One nabit of the beetle, it the observers are
correct, itself tends to their destruction. The
eggs are carried under the body of the fe
male, and not dropped at hap hazard. So that
if the creatures are once exterminated, their
quarters can only be repeopled by immigrants.
On the other hand, it is assorted that the
eockoach "gums” its eggs in cases to the
wall. Which of the statements is true, the
writer has not yet been able to discover.
Two large apple trees stand side by side in
an ore hard not far from Sydney, N. S. W.,
says the Chicago Record. On one hung fruit
which looked like tails of gold in the sun
light. The apples on the neighboring tree
were a bright red. One day the owner of the
orchard sent his men to pick the fruit. It was
to be sent to the world's fair, and he followed
them out among the trees to see that the
work was properly done. When at last tho
apples were packed in barrels the fruit-grow
er decided that these two barrels should sep
arate in the orchard and not meet again until
on the exhibition tables In the horticultural
building at the fair. Tho red apples were to
go east and the yellow apples were to go west.
The golden fruit was loaded into a steamer
and started toward the Suez canal, tvhtle the
rod fruit was started the same dav in a vessel
across the Pacific ocean. The fruit-grow
er marked No delay. Perishable goods,”
conspicuously on each barrel. He
wanted to ascertain which was the quickest
route to the world's fair. The barrel of yel
low apples passed through the canal, through
the Mediterranean sea. up the English chan
nel aud finally reached London. Here it was
taken from the boat and sent by railroad to
Liverpool. Then the barrel of New South
Wales fruit was loaded Into an ocean racer
and started on its way across the Atlantic to
New York whence it came to Chicago by
railroad. It was just sixt.v-six days to an hour
yesterday when Thomas Pugh, the Assistant
General Superintendent of the New South
Wales exhibit, received it. In the meantime
the red apples hud crossed the Pacific
ocean to San Francisco in twenty
days. Then they were sent by freight to
Chicago. After numerous delays along the
way the apples arrived They had been lifty
tw-o days on the way and had been admired
by world s fair visitors for almost two
weeks before the golden apples which grew
on the tree beside them in Australia were
placed on China plates and set on the table
beside them in the New South Wales fruit
display. The apples, which had traveled
through Asia. Europe, Great Britain and a
portion of the United States, were in a good
state of preservation, and their arrival was
the cause of no little excitement among the
fruit-growers in the horticultural building.
It Was Too Much.
The hungry sea beat ferociously against
the peebly strand, says the Detroit Tribune.
It had been cheated of its prey.
A swarthy sailor bent over the prostrate
figure of a being whose hair was dripping
brine into his eves, and whose breath came
and went spasmodically.
Presently the being revived.
“Where am I?” he gasped.
The sailor gazed silently Into his pale
face.
■Am I saved?" demanded the being, skep
tically.
The sailor nodded.
"Did you save me?”
“Yes.”
“Here is something for yourself.”
The being produced a wet $5 bill. The sailor
shook his head.
"I have never—
The seaman's countenance was exalted ty
the light of consciousness as he spoke.
“ yet accepted more for a service than I
thought it was worth.”
Whereat the being rose painfully from his
recumbent posture and gazed over the
troubled waters with a hard, dissatisfied
look.
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WHITE PETTICOATS.
49c, 73c, $1 00, $1.25, 81.50, *2.00, $2.25 and op
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DOMESTIC UNDERWEAR.
Comprising Night Gowns, Chemises, Draw
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LADIES’ WAISTS.
Made of French I’ercale, White Lawn,
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