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INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Special Notices—Le Panto Cigars. W
W Ferguson it Cos: Timber on Timbered
Lend for Sale. Jos Glover. Jr., flrahamville.
S. C: Bids Wanted. Chr. G Dahl & Cos . No
tlce to the Public. The Electric Railway Com
pany of Savannah; The Place to Get Your
Hat. Falk s:
The Last Dat and the Last Chance—
Appel & Si haul.
No—Falk Clothing Company
Amusements— Jolly Nellie McHenry In “A
Night at the Circus" on Tuesday. Sept. 12.
SUMMER CLOTHES ARE TOO THIN—B. H.
Publications—North .American Review
for September, at EstiU’s News Depot.
Railroad Schedule—South Bound Rail
road.
Legal Sales— Receiver's Sale, Savannah
Telegram, J. J. Doolan Receiver: Administra
tor's Sale. L. C. Malm.
Circular No. 22#— Railroad Commission
of Georgia.
Cheap Column advertisements—Help
Wanted: Employment Wanted: For Bent; For
Sale; Lost: Personal; Miscellaneous.
The prohibitionist candidate for gov
ernor of lowa is a man with a prophetic
name—Coffin.
If the senators will kindly leave off
speech-making until the silver matter is
disposed of, the country will grant them
unlimited indulgence w;hen the McGarra
han bill comes up.
Shipping people have about given up
hope of hearing from the missing steamer
Alvo. from New York Aug. 16, for the
West Indies. She is now seventeen days
overdue, and probably caught the full
force of the recent cyclone.
At Washington it is believed that
■within a few days the Havraiin matter
will be placed before congress and the
people. Secretary Gresham has con
cluded his report to the President, it is
said, and the administration's position
has been determined upon.
Max Rothschild, a Chicago millionaire
and society leader, forty-four years old
and of healthy body, committed suicide
the other day because he feared that pov
erty might overtake him. A man who is
too timid to risk such long odds against
poverty has no business living.
Some of the New York i>olicemen may
lack intelligence, but wliat they lack
in that respect they make up in at
tention to their duties. The other day
one of one of the police in
spectors, mistaking him for a green goods
man, and took him to the police station.
Emma Goldman, the woman anarchist,
has been indicted by a New York grand
jury for her incendiary utterances, she
has repeatedly used every effort at her
command to incite her hearers to violence,
and should be made to answer for it. Her
sex should make no difference w hatever
in her punishment. She is an anarchist
of the most dangerous type.
Hippolyte, of Hayti, is preparing to nip
in the bud another revolution. He has
prepared a little list of people who can be
spared by his administration. He will,
it is said, take time by the forelock and
have his list wiped out with shot guns be
fore the revolution has begun to revolve;
then he will give his attention to the sil
ver question that is affecting the tight
little island.
The report current some days ago to
the effect that a vigorous fight was to be
made by certain Wes\ Virginia democrats,
led by Senator Faulkner, against the re
election of Congressman 'Wilson,chairman
of the ways and means committee, is vig
orously denied by the senator himself.
The democrats of West Virginia are not
yet ready to furnish the republicans a
stick with which to crack their own
heads.
Representatives of two of the largest
wholesale drygoods and grocery firms in
New York—Mill's O'Brien, of H. B.
Clafim & Cos., and K. B. Thurber, ofThur
ber, Whyiand & Cos —are quoted as say
ing the stocks tarried by the leading
wholesale houses were never so low, be
ing only about one-third of the amount
usually carried at this season. Business,
they say. has perceptibly increased tim
ing the* past two weeks, and should it
continue to glow, the demand will pre
cipitate an advance in prices. The im
provement is ascribed to the probability
of tlie repeal of the Sherman silver-pur
chase law.
A second California judge has decided
that Chinese who failed to comply with
the terms of the Geary law must be sent
back to China. He says the law is man
datory ana not permissory. So far, so
good. But the judge failed to say how
the iaw is to be carried out. Where is
the money for that purpose to t ome from?
Secretary Carlisle saA some time ago
that there was no money available for
that purpose. However often the Cali
fornia courts—or any other courts, for
that matter may pass upon the law, it
will remain a dead letter until money is
provided for its enforcement.
What la Up f
Afi *n*im,Tt ion wasT7lro*efi out by Ren
atorgtatt in the Senate last Thursday
that u v t on the hill to re|>eal the Sii r
m.m siifer lawtnight be roachnl n*’v l
THut'dav Senator Itnniel gave notice
that In- would deliver some remarks on
tbe to , n that day, and Senator Platt
>ugc.''t<st it mivlit be advisable for him
to name in earlier dato that it wm hoped
n vo'e on the iiili would is r-ached on
Tl prsil i No intimation that anun.h r
standi ig ti.a 1 issn reaelusi by which all
pars s would agree to a vote lieing taken
at that time was given, nor. as for as
known, have there been any concessions
madi-totbe silver senators which have
indu isl them to cease their opposition.
N v ite can bo Laken oa the re|s-al bill
under the rules of the Senate as ion ’ as
there ais • senators who desire to discuss
it. aid the impression has prevailed that
eu .eh of them want to talk on the silver
question to occupy the rest of this month.
The prospect of a vote in a week, there
fore-. seems to indicate the existence of an
understanding of some sort, of the nature
of which the public is yet in the dark.
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would b<-s.itistied with a very small cne s
■don something that would enable them to
say l hat they did not suffer a total defeat.
They know, of course, that their fight for
the free coinage of silver at any ratio
they are willing to accept is a hopeless .
one. With a large majority against
hem in the House, no measure providing
for free silver coinage could be got
through congress, even if the Senate
should pass such a measure—and there
is no probability that the Senate will pass
a measure of that kind.
All the silverites can possibly hope for.
therefore, is a concession that may
be a fighting chance for their side of the
question at some future time. Therelsone
thing, however, to which they might as
well make up their minds now as at any
other time, and that is that this coun
try will not accept the free coinage of sil
ver except upon terms that will main
tain parity between gold currency and sil
ver currency. The people may be clamo
rous for more money, but they don't want
dishonest money, and they won’t have it.
One of the astonishing things of the sil
ver debate in congress is the reiteration
of the democratic silverites that they
stand upon the silver plank of the nation
al democratic platform. They can't help
knowing that the statement is not true.
The platform calls for an honest silver
dollar. and they have not
signified their willingness to
favor the coinage of a dollar of that
kind. When they gave up the ratio of 16
to 1 they did so because even they lacked
the gall to ask the people to accept 60
cents worth of silver for a dollar. They
wouldn’t, however, agree to any greater
a io that 20 to 1, and at that ratio a sil
ver dollar wouldn’t be worth more than
■iO cents. Adollar of that sort would be
a dishonest dollar as well as one contain
ing only 60 cent’s worth of silver.
The free silver coinage democ rats do not
stand upon the silver plank of the nation
al democratic platform, and will not until
they agree to a ratio that requires
a silver dollar to be worth intrinsically a
dollar. The weakness of their position
all along has been so apparent that their
speeches have lacked force and effect.
Indeed, the more they have talked the
weaker their cause has become. If the
discussion should be continued much
longer they would be without arguments
and without supporters.
The Dukes and Lords.
The dukes and lords have made a show
ing of indifference to the popular will by
defeating the home rule bill.
The debate in the House of
Lords on the bill did not in
terest anybody either in this
country or England. It is admitted
that the speeches did not rise to the level
of mediocrity, and some of them were so
e teeedingiy dull and stupid that atten
tion was called to them because of
those qualities alone. Few of the dukes
and lords know anything about the home
rule question. They are so much occu
pied in finding ways and means to amuse
themselves that they do not concern them
selves with the great questions which
agitate the* masses.
It was well understood, of course, that
the bill would be defeated in the House of
Lords. The dukes and lords were called
rom he pleasure resorts on the conti
nent and from their country places to de
feat it. But its defeat in the upper house
of ]>arliament will not kill it. Mr. Glad
stone has his programme all mapped out,
and now that the dukes and lords have
done what they were expected to do he will
apiwal again to the masses and will be
sustained by such a majority that the
dukes and lords will have to do his bid
ding.
The House of Lords is one of tne ancient
institutions of England, but it is an insti
tution for which the respect of the people
is steadily decreasing. One of these days
there may come a demand that the House
of Lords shall be abolished, and it is not
improbable that it will prove to be a popu
lar demand. It has always been an ob
| struction to reforms, and the masses are
beginning to ask whether it isn't a useless
institution, and to discuss the advisability
of getting rid of it. In the campaign
that will follow the rejection by the lords
! of the home rule bill the reasons for abol
ishing the House of Lords may find ex
i pressioa. The dukes and lords are steadily
I losing their influent-' with the masses.
Among the men foremost in the latest
i Brazilian revolution are the naval officers
: who recently took part in the naval deiu
| onst rations in New York harbor. One of
• the most powerful ships in the Brazilian
| navy, the Aquidaban, was in line at the
j New York review, and impressed experts
! as being one of the greatest fighting
machines of the fleet. If engagements
at sea should be fought between the con
testing parties in Brazil, it is probable
that the Aquidaban would be in the thick
of the fight, and our , naval people would
have an opportunity of judging from her
performances as to the correctness of
their estimate of her prowess.
Half a dozen or more dime museums,
not counting the city of Chicago, are after
the Viking ship in which Magnus Ander
sen sailed from Norw ay to America, for
exhibition purposes. But Capt. Ander
sen says his ship shall not pose as a freak.
If the geamdfjoxv-.rn merit will accept the
vessel and provide ,pyuper quarters for
her at the
government can have her as a gift: other
wise he will take her back to Norway.
THE MORNING NEWS: SATI'RDAY, SEPTEMBER 9. !.
Clearing House Certificates
Now that the money panic has in a
great measure subsided owing to tile belief
that the Sherman silver law, which was
the cause of it. will 1m- is -petted, the gov
ernment has taken stq>% to put an end to
t .i issuing, by bunks, of eertificates of
deposit which, in a good many localities,
have icon made to do the service of cur
rency In a notice, published iu the
Washington dispatches of the Morn
ing News yesterday, the - uumis
sioner of internal revenue says
such eertificates are subject to a tax of
ten ]H-r cent. Should the law be rigidly
i ii forced, the bunks that issued such cer
tificates will lind they did not profit
much by such action. It is not improb
ale, however, that it is not the pumnse of
the government to collect the tax unless
banks continue to issue certificates. The
purj>ose is doubtless to notify the banks
that such issues must be stopped at
once.
The commissioner of internal revenue
declines to give an opinion as to whether
clearing house certificates— that is cer
tificates issued byasociated hanks, arc tax
able. A decision of that question, however,
may Ik rendered very soon unless the is
suing of certificates of that kind is
stopped, and the outstanding certificates
called in. There, does not now exist any
reason for issuing either certificates of
depisit or dearing-hpuse certificates. All
the money needed for business purposes
can be obtained at reasonable rates of in
terest.
Judging from an Atlanta despatch pub
lished in the Morning News yesterday
banks in some cities w here certificates
# have been used are in danger of losing a
good deal of money on account of the ease
with which sueheertifieatescan be forged.
It is not known that any forged certifi
cates are afloat in Atlanta, but it would
not be at all surprising if there should be.
It is alleged that it is an easy matter to
forge them, because they are so care
lessly prepared.
Savannah has escaped any annoyance
from certificates. Her bankers have
managed to get along thus far without re
sorting to any extraordinary means to
supply the currency deficiency in this
city. They pursued a very conservative
course, and. although, they thought seri
ously on several occasions of resorting to
methods adopted in other cities for re
lieving the strigency, they succeeded in
getting through the panic without seri
ously incommoding their patrons and with
out departing from ordinary banking
practices. When the history of the panic
is written the Savannah banks will occupy
a prominent and very creditable place in
that portion of it devoted to banks.
Why Dr. 8-s.vet Committed Swi-ride.
If what the Providence Journal says is
true, Dr. T. Thatcher Graves, who com
mitted suicide in the Denver jail, and
who was soon to be tried a second time
on tbe charge of having murdered Mrs.
Baroaby, wrote what he knew to be false
in the letters he left in his cell announc
ing his purpose to kill himself because he
had no hope of having a fair trial. The
whole country is familiar with the Graves
case. It was a remarkable one. Dr.
Grav es was a prominent physician of
Providence, R. 1., and Mrs. Barnaby was
a rich widow of that city. Dr. Graves
was her physician, and he succeeded in
getting such an influence over her that
she made a will in which she bequeathed
to him a largo sum of money. Ke ad
vised her to travel for her health, and one
summer at his suggestion she
spent several weeks in a woodsman’s
cabin in the Adirondueks. Soon after
wards he advised her to visit Denver.
While in that city she received by express
a bottle of whisky, on which was in
scribed "from your friends in the woods."
Thinking the whisky came from the
woodsman in the Adirondacks she drank
some of it. It contained a deadly i>oison,
and soon after drinking it she died.
Dr. Graves was accused of having sent
her the whisky. He went to Denver to
meet the accusation, and was there ar
rested, tried and convicted. The only
weak point in the case against him was
that it was pretty clearly shown that he
did not write the inscription on the bottle
of w hisky. He secured anew trial, and
was in jail awaiting the calling of his case
when he took his life.
The story printed by the Providence
Journal is that the inscription on the bot
tle was written by Dr. Joseph M. Breslyn,
of Canton. Mass., who wrote it at the re
quest of Dr. Graves. Dr. Bresly n did not
testify at the first trial. It was not
known that he possessed information so
valuable to the prosecution, ami he main
tained silence. After that trial was over
he communicated vvitn the Denver author
ities It is believed that Dr. Graves in
some way learned of Dr. Breslyn's intern
tion to testify against him, and knowing
that with such testimony conviction was
certain, decided to end his life. But why
he should have proclaimed his innocence
while about to commit an act that was
almost conclusive of his guilt is some
thing for which no explanation is offered.
Of all abominations in the eyes of the
silverites and populists, what they are
pleased to call "the subsidized press'' is
thechiefest. Yet we hear that the sil wr
ites are endeavoring to purchase the servi
ces of a New York newspaper. The report is
to the effect that Congressman Newlands,
of Nevada, as the agent of the silverites,
is negotiating for partial editorial control
of a well-known republican afternoon
newspaper that has heretofore been
among the most persistent advocates of a
gold-basis monetary system. The editorial
control sought extends only to the ques
tion of money; on other matters, accord
ing to the plan of the silverites, the
paper is to continue as strongly republican
as ever. The negotiations were to be
closed during this week, and day before
yesterday, according to a New* York cor
respondent, the chances were in favor of
a consummation of the deal. The silver
ites have now one organ, a republican
morning daily, in New York, but what it
has heretofore said in favor of the white
metal does not seem to have had much ef
fect upon New York's way of thinking
about money.
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It is stated that not more than one
half of She G. A. R. veterans at the In
dianapolis encampment paraded before
Ex-President Harrison the other day.
The others were too old to join in the
march. It is worthy of remark that
while the G. A. li. files on parade are
yearly made shorter by old age and death,
the pension list grows on forever
The lUk of Minn* * a has a convict
leui* law. but public sentiment has been
worked up on the matter until it appears
that tin* law is ai© jt to become a dead
letter. Nobody. irtnu tho convicts. Bids
wore rorratfjr iuviu*d for contract's for
convict labor frotr.jOct 1, Oct. 1,
I*W>; but not a bid was received. A big
thresher manufacturing < morn that had
been working convicls informed the au
thorities that at the \; ration of its con
tract it would discontinue their use. The
company found that i r was rapidly los
ing busin* ss because of the character of
its workmen. The state has on hand
about 4nft convicts with nothin? for them
to do. A revision of he state s penal
system abrogating the lease feature and
substituting provision' for the employ
ment of convicts ui*on the public highways
ami other public works, and upon state
farms, would solve tin* probhm for Min
nesota. And Georgia's convict laws
should be similarly changed.
A correspond<%tof the M -kmvg News is
fearful that the storm debris, and all that
that in valves along th sea islands, will
joisou the shrimp, crabs and lish, and
asks us to warn the people not to eat
them and thus avoid a cholera epidemic.
Our friend is needles.' ly alarmed. Nature
provides the Crustacea and lish w ith an
instinctive knowledge of their proper
food, and with comp tent digestive ap
paratus. There may be sentimental ob
jections to partaking of lish just now,
hut they are probably just as wholesome
as ever.
PERSONAL.
F. P Loomis, formerly United States con
sul at St. Etienne, says that from an investi
gation he made he finds that at out 95.000
Americans of the better class visit Europe
eveiy year, and that taey pend about SIOO.-
000.U0U annually abroad. He says that the
French are planning for a world's fair to be
held in the year 19qp.
Lo and Gillford. the flag lieutenant of "the
Victoria, had to face a trying ordeal at Os
borne. when Queen Victoria asked him to
give a minute account of the disaster in the
Mediterranean. It is said that as he pro
ceeded with his story the Queen so complete
ly broke down that his narrative had to be
postponed until she had in some measure re
gained her composure
Judge George Shea, now of Brattleboro,
Vt.. but formerly prominent in the legal pro
fession in New York, knew Edgar Allan Poe
personally, and in the '4os frequently heard
him read his own poems, and especially 'The
Haven. His reading he describes as leaving
on the mind a very different impression from
that which it does in print. It was a weird,
rapturous invocation, as to an actual pres
ence. *
Bishop Ash of Irasburg, Vt., has taken
probably the longest carriage drive of any
man in this country. Sixteen years ago he
left his little Vermont home and drove to
Minnesota, and thence to Oregon and the Pa
eifle coast. Seven months ago Mr. Ash de
cided to visit Irasburg once more. He crossed
the continent in a covered wagon drawn by
Indian ponies, stopping to see the world's
fair. He made the journey from Chicago to
Irasburg in forty three days.
Lewis Miller, of Akron. Ohio, who was
chosen president of the International Asso
ciation of Sv nday-school Workers, at St.
Louis, is one of the best-known men in that
Held in America. He is sixty six years old.
and has been active in Suuday-school work
for forty years. Mr. Miller is president of
the New York Chautauqua Assembly, and is a
Methodist, he was chosen, in fact, in recogni
tion of that denomination in accordance with
an unwritten law of rotation in the associa
tion. Mr. Miller has the further distinction
of being the father-in-law of 1 homas A. Edi
son. .
BRIGHT BITS.
“He used to say there was nothing too good
for her, but it seems there was nothing too
bad for her either.' 1
"How' so?”
“She accepted him.“—New York Press.
The man who is ambitious quite
To do something that’s rare to-day
Should sit him down at once and write
A really funny comic play.
—Harper’s Magazine.
Mrs. Hicks —I hoar the cook screaming
downstairs; there must be a burglar in the
house.
Hicks—Good heavens, where is my gun.
Mrs. Hicks—Don’t you stir a step, sir; he
might shoot you.
Hi :ka- What do I care about being shot;
suppose he should carry off the cook?—Brook
lyn Life.
< loldgrabbcr—l see you haf some morphine
pills und a revolver in your drawer, Mr.
Jones’
Cashier—Yes. sir' Morphine for my head
ache! Revolver to shoot t ats'
Mr. Goidgrabber- Und the favorites don't
via much ad the track for two vecks, ainut
it, hey *
( ashicr - 1 believe so. sir!
Mr. Gold?rubber—Led's balance up the
cash hook. Mr Jones. It’inklvill get in a
now sy stem:—Tru th.
Housekeeper Well now that winter is
over. I'm glad it was so cold, because that
made plenty of ice, and. of course, ice will t e
t h?ap.
Ice Man -Ice was j 1 ;nty enough, mum but,
you see the very iolu weather froze a lot of
pipes, and caused an awful consamptiou of
coal.
■ What had that to do with it?''
‘Why. you see, mum. tho plumbers and
coal dealers made so much money that they
can all artord t > take ice this summer, and
that increase- the dema .U enormously."—
New York We e k ly.
CURRENT COMMENT.
Merely an Cv^roight.
From the Baltimore American (Rep.).
The populist senators have not yfet done
their full duty to the people in general and
the t inners in particular. None of them
has introduced a bill giving everybody a
competency and providing for full annual
crops.
“One Thing: at a Time.”
From the Philadelphia Record (Dera.).
One thing at a time. When congress .shall
have stopped silver purchases it can take up
the question of revenue, and other necessary
matters of legislation. The currency ques
tion can be pushed aside and allowed to sim
mer slowly in the public inind. Money is
abundant. We have only to study to make it
as safe as it is plentiful, and nothing more
could then be desired.
How Much They Wanted Work.
From the Louisville Courier Journal (Dem.).
Notice was given In Chicago that men
wanting work should report at the lake front,
where they would t*e registered and the most
worthy of them given employment. Nine
hundred responded promptly, but it was no
ticed that not oueof the agitators that had
been inciting riots among the unemployed put
in an appearance, llie theory in Chicago is
that the knowledge which tho rioters have
oi work is purely theoretical.
The Senate the Only Obstacle.
From the New York Times (Dem.).
The only unfavorable condition now is the
senseless and unpatriotic delay of the Senate
in aettng upon the Wilson repeal bili. It
would be difficult to find in parliamentary
annals a parallel to the Senate's present con
duct. It is hard to imagine a more stupid
procedure than that of senators who are
using up day afterday in dreary speeches, to
which nobody pays any attention, and in ob
stinate and useless opposition to the passage
of a bill which is certain to be enacted as
soon as a vote can be reached.
Not Due to Hard Times.
From the Detroit Free Press (Dem.).
The tact that the leading car works of the
country are shutting down or have already
closed must not be charged exclusively to the
hard times. In anticipation of the greatly in
creased traffic because of the world's fair, the
different railroads of the country provided
themselves with rolling stock away beyond
their requirements in ordinary times. Those
who hud orders placed them and they were
tilled before the open ing of this busy season,
and are now so well supplied that there is lit
tle at present lor the manufacturers to do, no
matter how much money they have.
Keeping the Sabbath Holv.
A Portland man went up in the country to
buy a horse recently, says the Lewiston
Me. * Journal. It was on Sunday, by the way.
th** only day that the busy citizen could
span from his occupation. He had no de%M
nit* idea jus? where he was going but he had
his *ve out for anything on four legs that
look'll promising Finally as he drove along
a jr tty country highway, he espied three
honws In a small stable yard. H* drove up,
hitched his steed and leaned up>/n the fence,
looking th -stock over. One young marq’at
tracted his attention especially, and he whs
admiring tier when the house door opened and
an old man of very triin countenance rame (
out. There were the usual preliminaries 1
about the weather and then the farmer asked;
Looking for anything particular •'
Well, I want to buy a horse, and I must
confess 1 like th<- looks of that mure there
verv much. What is your price?"
• T it 'ut. 1 never do business on the Lord's
da> Why. sir. Im a deacon in the church,
and whatever else I may do 1 will not pro
fane the Lord's d;t* by buying and selling.
Why. sir seems as though all you city folks
wanted to come out here and dicker on Sun
day.*’
ihe Portland man commenced to feel
ashamed before the grave, grav eyes of this
old niati The farmer continued:
lsn t there one day that you can rest from
your everlasting trading? Now. last Sunday
a man came along here, said he was from
Portland, aad he offered s2uu for that mare
Dear me ridiculous' Why. she's worth—l
mean scandalous to talk trade on the Fab
bath. Iwo hundred dollars never can buy
her. Why. she can show a two tut tut. I
mean I shall show anyone the door v.ho
comes round here talking trade Sundays.
No offense bfyou mister. I see you take
quite an interest in th*' mare. You won't find
a better one round here. Til tell you that.
We had a little brush on the road day before
yesterday, and I denned ’em out. and I con
sider that the least that a man can do is to
keep from trading horses on Sunday. If a
man should offer me $250 to-day (Sunday* I
wouldn't look at him. no sir. I wouldn't—•"
The Portland man gravely took out his
pocketbook, and opening it laid it on tho
fence. Then he moistened his thumb and
forefinger, and not paying the leas? attention
to the farmer; he counted out $225, doubled it
up and advanced toward the deacon. The
latter danced backward, dapping his hands
deprecatingly like a great shanghai and ex
postulating earnestly. The visitor paused
and impressively added a $lO bill to the wad
while the gleaming eyes regarded him in
tently. He walked plump up to the deacon,
grabbed bis hand, and attempted to cram the
money into the broad palm. The deacon
wouldn't allow it—no, not he. He backed
away toward the yard, unfastened the gate,
and disappeared in the stable. In a minute
he came out. a halter in his hand. Said he
with a queer gruffness:
• I've a good mind to order you off the prem
ises. I see you're determined to steal the
mare. You’re bigger nI am and I don't know
as I can help myself, but If you're bound to
do it I s'pose you'll steal this halter, too.’’
-jThe old man had whirled around, his back
to the visitor. He held his great hand be
hind his back, palm upward, and the lingers
were w riggling like a lo ster's claws. The
Portland man tiptoed up. jammed the money
into the itching fist, caught the mare, and
towed her away behind his carriage. All this
time he was getting a good deacon's opinion
of a graceless scamp who would steal a horse
from a defenseless man on Sunday.
The Story That Was Never Told.
The House dearly loves a good story. It
will go out of its way at any time and inter
rupt and indefinitely postpone any sort of de.
bate to listen to one. Last Monday Mr.
Pickier was speaking under the five-minute
rule, says the Washington Tost.
And now. Mr. Speaker," he said, “I will
conclude ray remarks with a story concerning
a Jewish friend of mine ’’
The speakers gavel fell. "The time of the
gentleman from North Dakota has expired,”
he .-aid.
“Move that the gentleman’s time be ex
tended one minute." yelled a member, bounc
ing out of his chair as though someone had
placed a bent pin in it.
I desire to return my thanks." said Mr.
Pickier. "The courtesy which has been
shown me awakes a responsive chord in my
bosom. It is not often that in a great na
tional crisis like the present one man is al
lowed to occupy the floor to the exclusion of all
others. In the ensuing years I shall carry
with me to my most precious memories the
recollection of the kindness which was made
manifest in the motion of my friend. If I
fail to express my gratitude in terms suffi
ciently direct, believe me. it is not a fault of
tmy heart, but merely an inability of the
ongue. I will now conclude in my brief and un
important remarks upon this great question
with a story of a Jewish friend of mine,
who—"
• The time of the gentleman from North
Dakota has expired,” said the speaker.
"Move that his time be extended onemin
uie,” called another man on the anxious
seat.
There was no objection, and Mr. Pickier
proceeded to re-express his gratitude at some
length. When he reached the third refer
ence to his Jewish friend the merciless gavel
fell once more, cutting off the anecdote in the
bloom of its youth.
The performance was repeated some half a
dozen times. The pages of the Record show
that the story was never finished. His Jew
ish friend is still a mystery to everyojre ex
cept himself. Possibly some day when pub
lic building bills are occupying the attention
of the House he may get the chance to finish
a story that must be very funny, else he
would not have tried so hard to tell it.
Love in Summer.
From Vogue. •
The clock ticks loud at the foot of the stair,
The house is perfectly still;
I am half asleep in the summer air,
With my head on the window sill.
The lawn is 1 athed in iho w arm, bright sun.
And Phyllis with tresses black.
Whose h*\irt l thought I-had surely won,
is playing teams with Jack.
“My turn to s ’rve,” I can hear hor call;
she knows 1 love h**r, and yet
She treats my heart like the tennis ball
tshe is sending across the net.
The distant waters gleam in the sun;
1 he breeze blow’s cold from the bay;
They drop their rackets the set is done;
They are coming, I think, this way.
She sits her down on th" rustic seat
Which under the in a pie stands.
It’s well enough to sprawl at her feet,
But he needn't take both her hands!
He speaks, but I cannot hear a word;
Her cheeks are red as a rose.
The maple leaves by the wind are stirred—
Can it be he means to propose?
Her sweet lips mqve: is it no. or yes?A
The faint, soft sound I miss:
But what he means isn't hard to guess;
There’s no mistaking a kiss.
O Phyllis, Phyllis, my faithless love I
I believe she's kissing him back!
I can't stand this any more, by jove!
I’m going up-stairs to pack.
An extraordinary story is told in a French
provincial journal. A young girl is, it says,
put in a trance by her father. She a
necklace of gold, shaped like a serpent, which
her father then takes off. twisiting around her
neck in the same place a real serpent. The
serpent then puts his head to thegirl n mouth,
whereupon she is seized with a sort of frenzy,
displaying all the systems attributed to the
Delphic priestesses. After this she grows
calm again, and her father lays bare her neck
and traces on the skin with a blue piece of
iron any question the bystanders ask. In a
few minutes the letters are visible. Then the
serpent begins to write the answer with its
tail, which hangs down the girls back; and
again after a few minutes, the writing is seen
on the skin. Recently the question was
asked; How many Popes will there be after
Leo XIII?” and the answer came: "Nine
after that I shall reign’” This exhibition Is
called "a demomacal manifestation."
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A FV>*ton newspaper c Alls for the organiza
tion of i *< iety for the suppression of people
who have hif-n to the world's fair, in th* in
terest of the three remaining great clanses of
the community those who have not vet been
to the fair, but intend to go; thoae who hnve
not been and are not going because they can
not go. and those who have not been and are
not goln/ because they do not want logo. It
is frankly admitted that these three classes
aggregated are in the minority.
In view o' the epidemic of suicide which
seems to have set in of late, it is interesting
to see how different countries stand in this
respect The following figures give the num
ler of suicides in the various armies of
Europe p*r IHd.rtfM men: Austria. 131: Ger
many. 67; Italy. 4<>; France. 2D; Belgium. 24;
England. 23; Russia.#). Spain. 14 This is a
somewhat curious list, neither race nor cli
mate having apparently much to do with tho
relative figures; else why should Austria
have nearly twice as many as Germany, and
Germany nearly three tipmsi as many as
England' The two Mediterranean countries.
Italy and Spain, differ as 4* to 14 The one
certainly noticeable point about the list is
that it is virtually a case of three countries.
Austria. Germany and Italy, which are par
ties to the triple alliance, being tlrst and the
others nowhere. That Austria should be at
the head, "longo intervallo." of the three is
perhaps in part accounted for by the Austria
suicidal record in high places.
Fire insutance circles are deeply concerned
in the study of moral hazard in fire under
writing, and ihe great losses during the past
year or two seem to justify the attention
which this aspect of the subject is receiving,
says a New York letter. According to figures
recently compiled in the Chronicle Fire Ta
bles nearly 60 percent, of tires in country
and general stores in 18vr2 were set down as of
incendiary origin. In dwellings and ten
ements there were 26 7S)O fires in 1892. of
which 3 124 were incendiary; 1 481 retail gro
cery stores were burned, and 388 were of in
cendiary origin 1.196 hotels were destroyed
and 347 of th ■ fires are ascribed to the same
cause, while of 1.177 fires in liquor stores and
saloons 383 were of like criminal origin. In
ten of the twenty-six classes cited the tires by
incendiarism exceeded 28 per ceut.
of the whole. From these figures some un
derwriters conclude that the depression of
the times, present and prospective, is likely
to aggregate the moral hazard above the de
gree apparent during 1892. and it is hv the
same persons urged as the part of wisdom
for managers to insist upon a most complete
analysis of the moral conditions prevailing in
each risk befoe accepting it.
An American girl In London writes to tbe
New York Press: "I saw Mr. Gladstone
crossing Piccadilly Circus about 4 o’clock
this*afternoon. The crush was tremendous—
’buses, cabs, vans and struggling humanity on
foot stopping the way.’ But everybody,
from ‘Bobby’ on guard to the ganmis crying
the evening papers, recognized the ‘Grand
Old Man.’ instantly hands were raised and
traffic suspended until the nremler of Eng
land had safely passed the London Rubicon.
Every eve was centered upon the octogena
rian. The man about town withdrew his ar
dent gazing monocle from the passing tailor
made girl; the city man’ turned and for the
; moment forgot his stocks and shares; Lady
Clara Vere de Vere deigned to bestow a pass
ing glance from tho soft cushions of her aris
tocratic rolling barouche—l even fancied I
saw a turn of the eye from her powdered
footman: Tommy Atkins' of the Grenadier
Guards was for once oblivious of the charms
oX the Mushing nursery maid, and raised his
hand in respectful salute, while the rag tag
and bob tali' in wild excitement thronged in
procession like the colored population of
Washington after a brass band, and every
now and then a beer-cracked voice bawled
forth: Hi, boys, there goes old Gladstone!’’ *
The use of cofTee as a disinfectant -is gener
ally known, but it is doubtful if the majority
of the people are aware of its true value in
this direction, says Good Housekeeping.
They probably know that it is handy and
harmless; but besides these qualities it is
really one of the most powerful and effective
agents known, as has been shown by re
peated experiments. in one case a quantity
of meat was placed in a close room and al
lowed to deoompose. A chafing dish was
then introduced and 500 grammes of coffee
were thrown on the fire. In a few minutes
the room had been entirelv disinfected. In
another room, the fumes of sulphuretted hy
drogen and anmonia were developed, and the,
smell—which no words can express- was de
stroyed in half a minute by the use of 90
f:rammes of cofTee. as a proof that the nox
ous smells are really decomposed and not
merely overpowered by the fumes of coffee, it
is stated that the first vapors of the coffee
are not smelled at all. and are therefore
chemically absorbed, while the other smells
gradually diminish as the fumigation con
tinues. The merest "pinch of coffee Is
usually sufficient to cleanse a sick room, even
in aggravated cases. The best way to em
ploy it is to freshly pound the coffee in a
mortar, If no mill is at hand, and sprinkle it
on a red-hot iron surface.
The following account of a mirage’’near
the seashore is given by the Konigsberger
Allgemeine Zeitung. On Monday afternoon
a number of fishermen were in their fleet of
fisher boats about half a mile distant from
Great lieydekrug. The water was calm, the
temperature high, and the sun's rays beat
hotly upon the wide expanse of sea. The fish
ermen at about 2 in the afternoon had their
attention drawn to a peculiar phenomenon.
On looking about great was their
astonishment in not being able to
see their homely srand. Nothing
was visible but an immense tr u t rf wat r.
Presently above the water shadowy
outlines appeared; Then, taking more definite
form, the villages of Great Heydekrug, Mar
gen. Widitten, together with the fores‘s. ap
peared to le swimming about, rfut these
places did not hoi l their usual positions, for
The villages anu forests were upside down.
This picture, to the fishermen, was a puzzling
arrangement, and bothered them much.
While wondering how it would all end. thev
saw the people of Great Heydekrug and sur
rounding districts moving about, but not in
I their usual way—they were walking upside
clown. Seawards the steamers and sailing
boats were careering in precisely the same
manner, and the, whistle of a distant steamer
was twice heard. Under this inverted ar
rangement was still to be seen the well
known villages as firm as ever. The fisher
men saw the people on the shore and else
where feet downwards, whereas in the upper
picture they stood upon their heads. This
illusion continued for about a quarter of an
hour; then the sun was obscured by a rain
cloud. and the fata morgana yanished.
Cf the B,'a-cow bird a writer in Chambers’
Journal says: This diminutive little creature
—only about six inches long—is neatly ar
rayed in brown upon ihe upper parts, black
ami white underneath, upon the throat ap
pearing the three distinctive collars—first of
Mack, then of white, then of black again.
Sea cow. pr in Boer Dutch, "zee koe." is the
colonial name for the hippopotamus, and the
treble-collared plover takes its colonial des
ignation (sea-cow bird) from its frequent
habit of attending the unwieldy Behemoth.
Running about the back and head of that am
phibian. picking off insects and other odds
and ends, this little plover seems per
fectly at home, while the sea-cow ap
parently accepts its offices in good part.
This friendship between wild and often
fierce quadrupeds and small birds is of com
mon occurrence In Africa and other countries
tbe rhinocerous. the buffalo and the Bur
chell's zebra, among others, all having their
peculiar feathered attendants. The seacow
bird—unless when actually in attendance
upon its big friend—betrays none of the
jealously or rest lessness at the sight of man
kind so often noticeable in other members of
the family, and I have had no trouble in ap
proaching quite closely to the birds as they
fed fearlessly in the shallows and upon the
mud fiats African “riels” and rivers.
The spur winged plover is Itself a well
known attendant upon the crocodile, entering
its mouth as it lies with its jaws wide open,
and cleansing it of leeches and other para
sites It seemes to be now well recognized
that the Trochilos of Herodotus—who first
chronicled his friendship between bird and
crocodile- was no other than tne spur-winged
plover.
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