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FRIDAY. SEPTE*3ER 15. 1893.
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THIS ISSUE
CONTAINS
TWENTY PACES
Brilliant Senator Pcffor! With what
nonchalance does he solve the problem of
keeping silver on a parity with gold! All
you've got to do. he says, is to print paper
money stamped, “Redeemable, in equal
sums of gold and silver," The idea is to
require the Secretary of the Treasury to
give you a half-dollar in gold and
a half-dollar in J silver for your
dollar bill when you present it for re
demption. Mr Puffer seems to think
that the way to keep gold and silver from
parting company, figuratively speaking,
is to tic them together with a string, lit
erally speaking.
Col. Tom Ochiltree may yet have to go
ba“k to congr >ss as a means of earning a
livelihood. He is about to lose his job
again. He has been chief butler and gen
eral director for Nitrate King North's
racing stable for some time, but under
his management the horses have won no
races, hence Col. North has concluded to
sell out and quit the business. Col. Ochil
tree has lived in England for some time,
but as his head is as red as ever and his
fund of stones as great as over, it is quite
probable that his old Texas district would
forgive him all. and send him back to
Washington if he asked it.
The press dispatches sent out from
Pittsburg are usually reliable, otherwise
the story of the threats against the lives
of President Cleveland and Secretary
Smith sent from there and printed in the
Mousing News of yesterday might be
taken with a large grain of salt. As it is,
the probabilities are that the pension
attorney said to have been the promoter
of the threats is a homicidal crank. It is
hardly possible that a man of sound sense
has been guilty of such an act. However,
cranks are frequently more dangerous
than sane men, and this one should be
put where his crankiness can harm no
one.
The Chicago Intdr Ocean declines to ad
mit that the G. A. K veterans at India
napolis who sang, “We Will Hang Hoke
Smith on a Sour Apple Tree," wore either
impolite or indiscreet. “They sang as
they shot,” says the Inter Ocean. Are
we to understand from this that they
shot against Hoke Smith, who was at the
time just emerging from babyhood, or
that they shot for pensions, as they sang
at Indiana]>olis? And again, was that
pension attorney at Pittsburg who wanted
to hang, or shoot, or stab both Hoke
Smith and President Cleveland, either
impolite or indiscreet, in the Inter Ocean's
opinion?
It seems that Mr. Mills of Texas, has
not yet become accustomed to the queer
things that they call “senatorial courte
*ies " in the wing of the capital opposite
to the one in which he won his fame. He
cannot understand wherein lies the cour
tesy pf giving a senator the lloor and then
taking it away from him before he has
had his say, hence he declines to lie the
recipient of anymore such “courtesies.”
The difficulty is. probably, that the Texan
is too human to appreciate his surround
ings. Having had his training in the
House, where pluck and brains count'! and
a man is taken for what lie is worth, lie
cannot lift himself by the boot-straps to
the superior bight the Senate thinks it
occupies, and where brains are discounted
by “courtesy.”
Can it bo that there is a homicidal
maniac in the neighborhood of Rome, or
that there is a hand or organized murder
ers there’ The Shugarman and Sheats
cases are in some particulars so similar as
to induce the opinion that both murders
wore committed by the same person or
persons. Reasonable motives for the mur
of the young men have not yet been dis
covered. Neither of them had much
money, it appears, hence robbery could
hardly have been the object in either in
stanc , Tlie officials, however, have their
suspicions, pointing to a number of dis
solute people as the murderers, and the
probabilities are that the crimes will be
traced to them. There are opportunities
for clever detective work in each case,
and a crying need for the terrible punish
ment of the criminals when they shall
have been apprehended and the crimes
legally fastened upon them. The Silver
Springs, (Fla.) murder, reixirted in the.
Morning News yesterday, was also an
extraordinary crime, calling for extraor
dinary exertions on the part of tins offi
cials to clear up the mystery surrounding
it. It would appear that an epidemic of
murders has broken out in this section of
the country. And the best possible rem
edy for ttie condition would be an epi
demic of legal bangings.
Savannah's Trade for 18D2-93.
We present in this issue an view of
Savannah's trade for the season of I*l'.' '•' <
It has been delayed somew hat for several
reasons, the chief one being the great
storm which began on Aug. “7. and which
did a vast amount of damage on land and
sea along a portion of the South Atlantic
coast
The volume of Savannah's trade was
not as great last season as it was the pre
vious season, though the falling oil was
not sufficient to cause any uneasiness
among her business men as to the city's
trade in the future The reasons for
the falling off are so apparent
that everybody understands them, and
knows they do not indicate a decline in
the city's prosperity. There was a short
cotton crop, which was sold at low prices,
and there was a financial panic. Savan
nah's receipts of cotton were at least ‘300,-
000 bales less than they would have boon
had the crop been a good one. Conse
quently there was a greatdeal leas money
in the territory tributary to her to spend
among her merchants. And prices of
naval stores were low. and the amount of
money received for those products was
much less than it would have been had
reasonably fair prices prevailed.
Th different kinds of wholesale
business were affected, of course, by the
decrease in the amount of money received
from the two great sources of income,
namely, cotton and naval stores. Our
merchants made no complaint, however.
They entered new territory and endeav
ored to increase the volume of their trade
by getting new business. In this they were
successful beyond their expectations; so
that at the end of the season they found
that the amount of their businoss was
very little below that of the previous
year.
From the panic all kinds of business
suffered. The stringency in the money
market made business men careful about
giving credit, and prevented them from
engaging in enterprises repuiring capital.
That their business is upon a solid basis,
and is managed wisely and conserva
tively, is shown by the fact that they
have weathered the financial storm with
out any failures of sufficient magnitude
to attract attention.
The banks of the city, particularly,
are deserving of the highest commenda
tion. While elsewhere banks were clos
ing their doors by tho score, and those
that were sound were issuing certificates
to meet the demands upon them, Savan
nah's banks, while lending a helpiughand
to her business men, pursued a conser
vative course and came through the
panic without the loss of any one of their
number and without resorting to any un
usual methods to supply the need for
currency. The hanks of very few other
cities of the country made so good a
record during the trying times of the
greater part of the summer.
Savannah has met with some severe
financial disasters in the last year or two,
but they have not lessened confidence in
her. Notwithstanding those disasters and
the hard times, the demand for real estate
within her limits is strong, and she has
very few empty houses. Although a great
many dwelling houses have been built
within a comparatively short time, there
is a good demand for them. Indeed,
houses of the kind wanted are hard to find.
With the return of prosperity there will be,
it is believed, greater activity in building
than at any previous time.
And why should there not be? It Is
about as certain as anything can be that
Savannah is only at the beginning of the
commercial development she is to have.
In a couple of years at the furtherest, her
harbor improvement will be completed,
and she will have a channel of
twenty six feet to the sea. It
wilt not be long before the Central
railroad system will be reorganized
and made greater, probably, than ever
before. The Savannah, Florida and
Western is getting new connections all
the time. It would not be surprising if
it should soon be bringing as much phos
phate rock to Savannah for shipment as
it is taking to Florida ports. The Florida
Central and Peninsular will be built to
this city within a few months and con
nected with the South Bound, thus
giving Savannah another line north and
another railroud connection with Florida.
The Middle Georgia and Atlantic is
only waiting for better times to carryout
its plans and build terminal facilities
here. Indeed, the prospects for Savan
nah's future are exceedingly promising.
The strength of her business houses and
her conervative methods of doing business
inspire confidence and invite capital.
There is growing up a feeling that be
sides being a great seaport and commer
cial city. Savannah has special advantages
for manufacturing. The factories she has
are successful, and another largo
cotton# factory is projected. Savan
nah's business men should give atten
tion to this matter. The factory
idea should be encouraged. Every advan
tage Savannah lias should be utilized.
Let her people work together on every
line that promises good results, and the
growth Savannah will have will sur
prise even those who have the greatest
confidence in her future.
Ever since the war the story of the
old negro woman who had --just found
out that -slavery had been abolished,”
has been periodically revived. Only a
month or so ago a version of it was tele
graphed from Atlanta. And now comes
another narrative of the kind from
Brooklyn, telling of an octoroon who has
been living in slavery in that city for
years, because she thought slavery was
still in force. Is another emancipation
proclamation necessary ?
THE MORNING NEWS TRADE REVIEW: SE ITEM HER 15, lSitt.
Pensioner* North and South.
A long time ago the News, in
a Ht-rit** of article*, called attention to
the fact that the material condition of
confederate veterans, although reviving
very little assistance from their re
sixx'tive states, is about as phml as that
of union veterans, who are provided for
so liberally by the federal government.
Mr M H. Morton, in an article in the
current number of the Forum, dis
cusses the same subject at considerable
length. He points out that the suites
that rompotw 1 the confederacy, and also
Maryland and Missouri, either grant pen
sions to deserving confederate veterans
or have homes for them. The total num
ber of ex-confederates receiving state as
sistance either by pensions or in homes, is
27,Ti1. The total amount paid in pensions
and for the support of homes annually is
$1,150,736. Georgia appropriates more for
pensions than any other southern state.
Lust year she distributed $135,000 among
3,200 veterans and 1200,000 among 4,200
widows of veterans.
In striking contrast to the assistance
received by confederate veterans is that
received by union veterans. ’At the
close of last year there were 870,000 union
veterans on the pension rolls, and it is ex
pected that at the close of this year the
number will reach 1,000,0(10. There are
seven national union soldiers’ homes
which contain 14,103 inmates, and twenty
state union soldiers’ homes having 5,325
inmates. The amount appropriated for
pensions for union veterans last year was
$140,737,350, and it is estimated that $170,-
000.000 will be needed for pensions this
year.
It is true that there were more than
three times as many enlistments in the
union armies as in the con federate armies,
but the difference in the number of en
listments does not account for the vast
difference between the number of union
veterans and the number of confederate
veterans receiving pensions. Only about
5 per cent of the confederate veterans
who enlisted are receiving aid, and they
got an average of only about $38.52 cents
per annum apiece, while 30 percent, of the
union armies are pensioners, getting an
average of $165 apiece per annum.
And will it be said that the material
condition of the veterans of the union ar
mies is better than that of the confeder
ate veterans? Wo think not. If signs
are an indication there are fewer in
stances of extreme poverty among the
veterans in the south than in the north.
It is rarely that a confederate veteran
is found who does not have the necessa
ries, and even comforts of life.
The reason of this condition of affairs is
that the confederate veterans realized
from the start they had to depend upon
their own resources, and immediately af
ter the close of the war they went bravely
to work to make a living: and they have
been courageously working ever since. In
the north there was great dependence
upon the government, and tens of thous
ands finding their pensions sufficient to
give them the bare necessaries of life
have ceased to work.
The question arises: Would it not
have been better for the union veterans,
and for the country, if the federal gov
ernment had been less extravagant in
granting pensions? If there had been
less politics in the pension business there
would be fewer dependents upon gov
ernment bounty and many more pro
ducers. There are thousands of union
pensioners who would be better off in
every way if they had been compelled to
depend upon their own resources for a
living.
Florida Day.
October 9 has been selected as Florida
day at the world’s fair, and efforts are
being made to have a particularly fine
oxhibit in the Florida state building on
that occasion. It will be possible to have
a fine exhibit of oranges at that time and
also of tobacco and long staple cotton.
Indeed, Florida can make a very at
tractive exhibit, showing her resources
and her wonderful development in the
last ten years. There is as much inter
est felt ia Florida throughout the coun
try as in any other state. Her orange
groves, great phosphate deposits, early
vegetables aud fruits and magnificent ho
tels for winter visitors have given her a
wide reputation.
Florida day, therefore, will be an event
ful one at the world's fair. The people
from the northwest will be anxious to
see what the land of flowers has to offer
home seekers, and they will (lock to the
Florida building in search of information.
They will not bo disappointed. The en
terprising people of Florida will see to it
that there is a full exhibit of the products
of their state.
Florida deserves credit for the part she
is taking in the fair. She has realized to
a greater extent than any other state the
benefits to be derived from liberal adver
tising, and the benefits she has received
from makiug known her advantages have
more than compensated her for her
trouble and expense. She is steadily add
ing to her wealth and population, and it
is not improbable that Horace Greeley's
prophecy respecting her, namely, that she
will some day be one of the richest states
in the union, will be fulfilled.
The Valkyrie, Lord Dunraven's yacht
that is to race with the Vigilant for the
America's cup, is now due at New York,
though there are yet two days in which
she may arrive before anxiety forn her
safety would be felt. She was at sea. it
will be remembered, when the recent
hurricane swept over the Atlantic, and
she may have been caught and injured by
the terrible winds. She is a remark
ably strong boat, though; hence no fear
is, as yet, felt for her. The races are to
begin on the 38th of the present month.
The Vigilant, the Valkyrie’s competitor,
is tlie first New York boat selected to de
fend the international trophy in twelve
years or more. New York has tried
for the honor repeatedly, but Boston has
always carried it off. That was in the
days of Burgess. Is it possible that the
death of Burgess is the cause of Boston's
failure in this instance?
Congressman "Eige” Morse, of Massa
chusetts, the gloss' of whose manner is
about as coarse as if it were put on of his
own stove polish, seems to be wearing the
cap and bells for the current congress.
The other day he took the floor and dealt
out so much taffy to the newspaper men
in tlie press gallery that most of them
were nauseated and all of them disgusted.
It was Morse’s intention to win the favor
of the correspondents; what he succeeded
in winning was their ridicule. Even the
writers whose names he called in his
eulogium made a butt of him in their re
ports of the proceedings.
PERSONAL.
The queen of Italy ha* founded a society for
th- reforming of ragged street children. They
an- to b taken from the gutter and taught
some useful trade.
.1 Dav id mob has just returned to Cleve
land after building and 'd.irt.inp in Siam the
first electric railroad in Asia. Themotonnen
and conductors are natives who were trained
hy Mr. l>avft!*on. He says that they run
their cars very carefully and successfully.
The fount of Paris ha* apparently aban
doned all hi* political designs. He I* living
quietly in England, and h> only recreation Is
an occasional salmon fishing trip to Scotland.
The count is an expert fisherman and can tell
as hit: stories about his prowess as any of the
humbler brethren of th* rod and line
Governor Russell has decided to resume
the active practice of law immediately after
Jan. 1. and will not be considered in connec
tion with any federal or state office. Men who
understand the governor s abilities and the
opportunities for remunerative practice which
h- will enjoy, estimate that he can easily com
mand an incojne of from #15,000 to $25,000 a
year.
Contrary to the general belief it is said
that L. Hung Chang, the viceroy and real
ruler of China, is most kindly disposed to
ward th#* Christians Two of his daughters
were educated In Massachusetts and both
were converted to Christianity. Subsequently
one married a Frenchman and the other an
Englishman. Their influence has made their
father very tolerant of their co religionists.
Lieutenant Peary is about the only living
American, says the Minneapolis Tribune, who
lips escaped the financial stringency. He is
sure of his job for two years, and possibly
longer. He has gone where money is not
needed, and is supplied with clothing and
provisions for a long siege. He may he
pinched before he gets hack -between two ice
floes but otherwise he will get along swim
mingly.
Representative Brosius of Pennsylvania
came near losing his life in an engagement
during the civil war with Pickett’s forces at
Green Plains. He was one of 300 men who
charged across a wheat hold a third of a mile
in width upon a Confederate rifle pit. and of
the number only 125 came out alive. The
Confederates waited until the stornrng party
was within twenty five yards of the pit. and
then they opened a deadly tire. Brosnis. who
was a boy of 19, stooped to pick up a wounded
comrade, and as he did so a rifle ball pierced
his shoulder, shattering his shoulder blade
and making him a cripple for life.
Prince John of Lichtenstein is not a mighty
ruler, although a grent hubbub was made
when he broke his leg while out hunting the
other day and the foreign correspondents
cabled the news to this country with much
particularity. On the contrary his highness
reigns over a state so small that it was over
looked when peace was declared between Aus
tria and Prussia in iB6O, and consequently
Lichtenstein is still nominally at war with
Prussia. Prince John s army numbers ex
actly forty six men. including several brig
adier-generals, and an hour's march in any
,
and into a foreign land.
BRIGHT BITS.
A Sure Sign.—“ Say, Dick, do you really
think Tom is In love with Fannie?”
■ Well, it looks like it. He goes to church
every Sunday.”—Boston Beacon.
Daughter—Mamma, what is a parvcnuel
Mamma—Really, daughter. 1 don't know;
it's something or other though that never
had a grandmother.— Detroit Free Press.
C'holles—What is Flapdoodle going to get
mawwied foh ?
Fwed -He Isn't. He just got himself en
gaged to Miss Munnybags as security for his
pwomissowy notes.
Truly, Job was a patient creature: Doubt
less it was in the dry groods store that he
murmured to himself: "All the days of m.v
appointed time will I w ait till my change
come.”—Boston Transcript.
“There are places where oyster shell are
used for money,” said the well Informed man.
“You don't say so! Just think of ordering
a dozen raw at a restaurant and giving the
girl at the cash register the shells.”—Wash
ington Star.
Anarchist Orator (sneerlngly)—They call
this the land of promise. What does it prom
ise?
Officer of the Law—l'li tell you right here.
If you keep on, It will promise to land you ip
the penitentiary.—Pittsburg Bulletin.
A Summer hotel youngster was talking with
a lady on the piazza, and her father appearing,
the lady said facetiously. “Who Is that gen
tleman?”
“That's not a gentleman," replied the
younster, "that’s papa ’—Boston Journal.
He—Old Bullion made a bad break to-day
that society can never forgive.
She Wliat did he do; Ate his pie with a
knife!'
He- No, he broke up and won't be able to
pay one cent on the dollar —Detroit Free
Press.
Wandrin Wiggs—l'm used up and tired
out.
William Frolunch—You ain’t ben workin’,
have vou?
Wandrin Wiggs—Naw: but, I feel as though
Iliad. Yesterday was Labor day.—Chicago
Record.
"Have you had a good time at the beach?"
the astronomer was asked.
"Not much time for rest.”
"Why not?"
"During the night 1 observed the heavenly
bodies in the sky.”
"Yes."
"And during the day in the waves.”—New
York Press.
CURRENT COMMENT.
Knows What They Need-
From the Houston iTex.) Post (Dem ).
Senator Tutor has introduced a bill to pro
vide for a department of education. Nobody
knows better than senator PelTer the wants
of the populists or tries harder to serve them.
A Poser for McKinley.
From the Cleveland io.i Plain Dealer (Dem ).
No shirking. Maj. McKinley! Did not drover
Cleveland leave (luu.miu.OJO in the treasury
when lie left the presidential chair? How
much did Benjamin Harrison leave? Who
got that hundred millions during the reign of
Benjamin?
Good Examples Disregarded.
From the Chicago Inter-Ocean (Rep ).
Nancy Hanks and Zimmerman have both
shortened the time, but 1: has no effect on
United States senators. A tortoise with a
lame leg could travel faster than one of Uncle
Sam s lords of the upper house.
Digging That Must Be Done.
From the Memphis Appeal-Avalanche (Dem.)
No matter whether cotton brings 5 or 10
cents a pound, the people of this country must
dig half a million dollars a day out of the
ground for the pension grabbers, besides sup
porting themselves, their families and their
government.
A Way Out of the Woods.
From the Washington Post tlnd ).
It is the national bank scarecrow that
stands in the way. but the issue of a hundred
or two millions of gold bonds w ill never prove
a national affliction, if thereby may be se
cured an international agreement restoring
silver to its fair place in the world s currency.
Populism in Maryland.
From the Baltimore American (Rep.).
The populists and the single-taxers of
Prince Georges have nominated a part'of a
ticket, ami are casting around for enough
gooil men to fill the rest of it. Anybody who
wants to lea candidate, and who believes
that the old parties are moss-grown and sin
ful. and that anew deal must be made, should
apply early, to avoid the rush.
Whitecaps as Financiers.
From the ('hattanooga Times(Dem ).
The Mississippi whitecaps are at it again
in anew role. They order no cotton ginned
until the price is ten cents a pound, on pain of
liery destruction of all gins .whose owners
disobey the order, Gov. Stone and the plucky
judges of the state will, no doubt, be able to
handle this new phase of lawlessness in a
way that will be salutary.
The Point of Safety.
From the Augusta Chronicle (Dem ).
The cotton crop of last year is reported at
6 4fi0,000 bales, i hat is about the right size.
Let the fanners of Ihe south hold it down to
those figures for a year or so more itnd con
tinue to make their food crops at home, and
they will sell their cotton at 10 cents a pound
and be the most independent people on the
globe.
Commodore Stewart’* Dagger.
op#* sunshiny afternoon in spring, says*
writer in Blue and (trav. while talking with
Stewart. 1 picked up fro® hi* table a peculiar
knife. The handle was ivory, yellow with
age The blade was perhaps eight or ten
inches long, curved like a scimitar. It was.
in fact a dagger there tw*fng no edge on it.
hut the point was of needle like sharpness
He notlcd mv curiosity, and said
That knife was a present from Decatur,
and it an interesting history Our war
with Tripoli broke out in l*H Those treach
emu* dogs had a way of surrendering and
then when a boat was sent to take possession,
they would open on it. Lieutenant James
Decatur, a brother of Stephen was shot
dead hy the captain of a vessel had run
up the white flag and waiting until young
Decatur stepp 'd up# n his deck, killed him
"Stephen Decatur learned oi this crime,
and made his way to the boat on which his
brother had been killed. He led his men over
the rail, and attacked the crew with desperate
valor. He had learned that it was the cap
tain who had tired the fatal shot, and singling
him out. Decatur went at him like a tiger.
Such a fight could only end with the death of
one of the combatants.
"There was no mistake about the Identity
of the captain. He was fully six and a half
feet tall, and wore a gorgeous uniform. See
ing the American making for him. the mis
creant eagerly rushed forward, for he must
have been confident of crushing the audacious
officer, who was not a large man by any
means.
-* I h itur with -i pike,
but it was parried with so much violence that
the assailant was partly turned round on his
feet. He instantly whirled back like a cat
just as Decatur struck with his sword. The
blow was caught on the Tripolitan's pike and
the sword broke in two; but with the stump.
Decatur checked a second blow', though the
point passed through his coat and pierced his
breast. Grasping the pike with both hands,
Decatur wrenched it from the other, flung it
aside, and leaped at him. just as I had seen
him do scores of times in Philadelphia, when
fighting with a boy larger than himself.
T never saw a better wrestler than De
catur. but. to his astonishment, he found the
Moor was his superior. When they went
down on the deck. Decatur was flat on
his back, with the Moor on top. That dagger
which you now have in your hand was in the
sash around the fellow's waist. He reached
down to draw it. so us to stab Decatur, but
the latter flung his legs over the Moor's back,
and. with the help of his arms, held him so
tightly against his breast that the Moor could
not shove his hand between their bodies to
draw the weapon. One of Decatur’s pistols
was near his side, so that while he held his
enemy rigid with his left arm he slipped his
right down and drew the weapon. He cocked
it by using the body of the Moor to help him.
reached over the back of the savage, and.
pointing the pistol downward, pulled the trig
ger.
Tt was just like Decatur, for a more reck
less thing cannot be Imagined. He might
have tired sideways into his enemy’sbody.but
discharged the bullet directly towards his
own breast. The chances were that it would
pass through both. hut. luckily, it struck a
bone. and. with a gasp and groan, the Tripol
itan rolled off the body on the deck and died
without another struggle. Decatur took the
knife from his sash and presented it to me.”
Getting: Rid of a Quack.
In a New Englahd city not many miles
from Boston is an old quack doctor known
throughout the town for his large supply of
• cheek,” says the Boston Journal. He had
no regular abiding place, but picked up his
lodging around at different cheap boarding
houses, and lived on the profits of his patent
medicines. He spent a good deal of his time
in a certain drug store, and moreover he was
accustomed to go there every mornihg and
use the back shop to make his toilei in. He
had an old greasy bot-tlo of hair oil and a
brush and comb, which he kept in the shop
without leave from anybody. The proprietor
got rather tired of having him around so
much, and therefore he resorted to stratagem
to get rid of him.
lie took the hair oil bottle, poured out the
oil. and carefully replaced it with a mixture
of thin fish glue and hay rum. Then he put
the bottle back in its accustomed place.
The next morning the old quack showed up.
and after some cordial greetings to the pro
prietor of the store he asked leave to use the
back shop, as was his habit.
‘ Certainly, certainly.” responded th* drug
gist the hack shop is at your disposal.”
Whereupon the old gentleman started in to
arrange his toilet. Pouring out a liberal dose
of the mixture in the bottle, he rubbed it
thoroughly over his head till his hair was
completely saturated with it. Then he care
fully combed and parted hfc somewhat long
locks, and placing his old stovepipe hat
squarely on his head, he passed out, wishing
the proprietor a pleasant “good morning. '
He was seen, again after several days by tho
druggist, but it was not in the drug store.
He was crossing the street, and he wore anew
soft hat and an extra close hair cut. The
druggist went down to a neighboring barber
shop. "Did I>r. W. come in here on Wednes
day?” he asked.
“1 should say he did.” replied the barber,
“and a madder man than he was never stood
up.”
"What did you do for him?” inquired the
druggist.
"I cut his hair to get his hat off and then I
cut the hat to get the hair off. Liquid glue is
pretty strong When it's dry. ain’t it?”
“You bet it is,” said the druggist.”
Was Too Precipitous.
In the section on railway surgery, at the re
cent medical congress at Washington, be
tween the papers, a good story was told by
one medico on a Virginia colleague.
The doctor in question, says the Post,
had been wining and dining pretty freely,
when he finally decided to make a trail for
home.
He boarded a street ear. which started off
very quickly in order to get a (food start up
the hill. The doctor, who had not succeeded
in getting a good hold on the car, fell head
over heels out of the door and on to the pave
ment.
The conductor and several passengers,
thinkng the doctor had been severely hurt,
jumped out to pick him up But the doctor
straightened himself up. and after looking
around in a dazed way, said:
"Explosion?”
The conductor answered in the negative,
and. after two or three attempts, the sup
posedly injured medico managed to add:
' Collushun?”
"Nay," was the response. The doctortherc
upon buttoned up his coat, and remarked
"that if he had have known that nothing was
the matter" he wouldn't have gotten out.
The conductor and passengers proceeded on
the car in a highly disgusted state of mind,
and the doctor went hack to see a man.
Definition of a Delectable.
He was from the east, says the Pittsburg
Dispatch. The other day I met him on the
street, and having had several jolly whirls at
his expense while in New York, I thought the
least I could do was to blow him off to a
drffik So alter a vigorous hand-shake I in
vited him into a nearby cafe. Stepping up to
the bar I said:
• Well, old boy, what will it be?”
"Oh, 1 hardly know," he replied, and after
a moment’s thought he added: "Suppose you
let me have a delectable.”
The barkeeper looked at me, I looked at my
friend and my friend looked as though he
knew he had us both. After several seconds’
gazing I qxelaimed:
"Ade whatable?”
"A delectable, of course.”
"Is that something new?"
"No. I can t say that It is You see I am
undecided as to what 1 shall take, so by ask
ing for a delectable I mean that I leave it en
ttrely with the barkeeper.”
"I don't follow you.”
"That's too had. Wo people in the east con
sider any drink that inebriates a delectable.
So anything with strength will do me.”
He got whiskey.
Tramp—Madam. I have gone through many
things.
Woman—Yes. and you can go through that
gate again as quick as you can. Here, Tige!
—Drovers' Journal.
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The common people of Russia, as a rule,
speak only their own tongue. A large propor
tion of them cannot read the bewildering
characters- Roman. Greek anti composite—
which form their alphabet, and to help their
ignorance the shop wall* are covered over
with rudely painted pictures of articles for
sale withlti. ITte butcher's shop has a picture
of meat* of all sorts and shapes: the tailor's
walls are covered with paintings of coats and
trousers 'I he pills of the apothecary and the
vegetables of the green grocer are advertised
by pictures upon the doors and windows of
their stores.
The little plant which is said by scientists
to cause blindness, belongs to the lowest
order of fungi. The propagation—simply by
division—is very rapid, and its growth in the
tissues covering the eyeball causes such irri
tation and congestion as to cut off the supply
of nutriment to the clearer part of the eye. so
that the local death of the part, with conse
quent destruction of the power of vision, fol
lows often in a few days or even hours. So far
as is known it is carried only by infection—it
must be planted directly on a suitable soil
before it can grow. This, in brief, is what is
known of the bacterial cause of blindness.
The full-rigged ship, the Harry Williams,
met with .a peculiar accident while passing
under the Brooklyn Bridge Wednesday
morning. A sailor was at work near the top
of the mainmast as the ship approached the
structure. The mainmast was unusually high,
and as the ship swept down the river a car
penter at work on tho bridge yelled to the
sailor, who slid down just in time to save
himself. The foremast passed under safely,
but the top of the mainmast struck the
bridge, and about six feet of thg stick was
snapped off. It was said at the bridge en
trance that this was the first rccident of the
kind recorded since the bridge was erected.
Owls as well as pigeons and other birds
have remarkable endurance. Blinding day
light is the only thing that them
from covering long distances as trained
pigeons now do. When 600 miles off the coast
ot France a big owl alighted in the rigging of
the British steamship Wildfiower, bound
from Rouen to Philadelphia. It was soon
caught and its empty stomach proved that it
had not eaten anything for four days, having
been driven seaward by a storm. During the
day it could not find its wav back and alighted
on the ship. The bird, a fine, big one*, was
killed, and its skin is being treated by a
taxidermist as a remarkable specimen of the
owl species.
Electricity has been used as a thief catcher
by one exhibitor at the world’s fair. Several
valuable lenses in his exhibit were
stolen from time to time, and the thieving be
came so regular that a trap was set for the
thief. Lenses were temptingly displayed
within seemingly easy reach, hut underneath
each one was an eletrical switch, so arranged
that when the lens were lifted a circuit would
be closed and a bell rung. The guards were
informed of the trap and instructed on the
course to tuke in case they should hear the
bell. The Sunday after setting the trap the
bell suddenly began to ring, and the guards,
rushing in. were able to arrest the thief and
secure sufficient evidence to lead to his con
viction.
The London correspondent of the Manches
ter Courier hears that the admiralty has un
der consideration anew species of torpedo
boat, constructed with a view of avoiding the
nets with which ironclads are surrounded
nowadays. The latest inventor claims to be
able to dive under these obstacles, discharge
the torpedo against the ship's bottom, and to
return in a similar manner. "In other words,
partially realises the sub-marine vessels de
scribed by Jules Verne in A Thousand
Leagues Under the Sea.’ The idea is scarcely
original. Indeed, three or four patents of the
kind were submitted to tho American govern
ment not very long ago. I believe, however,
that they hardly fulfilled their pretensions,
and that they were in consequence rejected.
The English idea, however, is said by experts
to be worked out with remarkable ingenuity,
aud m**- at least be cofisidrered a long step in
advance of similar contrivances.”
bacteria have a had reputation in the popu
lar mind on account of the part they play in
many fatal diseases, says the Youth's Com
panion. Yet ail the bacteria in the world are
not working against man and his interests.
On the contrary some of them are his potent
and faithful allies. Consider, for instance,
the minute organisms that manufacture nitric
acid as a food supply for plants. One set of
bacteria busy themselves In turning ammonia
found in the soil into nitrous acid. There
their work ends, and so far as the plants are
concerned it has been ineffective, because
plants cannot feed upon nitrous acid. But
another set of bacteria take up the operation
at just this point, and from the nitrous acid
produce nitric acid, from which plants are
readily able to derive nourishment. Still
other bacteria living in the roots of certain
plants, enable those plants to assimilate ni
trogen derived from the air, and thus, instead
of exhausting the soil in which they grow,
actually to enrich it. In short, man probably
has at least as many Menus as foes in the
microscopic world.
'I here'has been a good deal of complaint of
late of pain and Inflammation in the third
toe; sometimes it affects one foot and some
times both nre troublesome, says the New
York Recorder. Up to date no one seems to
have diagnosed the case properly. Here is
an opportunity for some medical research
that shall solve the nrohlem of what many
persons call the third-toe disease In some
cases the toe is infiamed and sensitive to the
topch. in others there is no outward indica
tion of anv difficulty, but all the same there Is
continual pain and uneasiness, spasmodic at
times and again steady, aggressive and very
irritating to the nerves. The complaint with
some sufferers is that it is impossible to keep
the foot still, with others that it causes a con
dition ol general nervousness. Another pa
tient says that the pain runs to the heart, and
another that it involves the entire half of the
body. Some, scientist has said that some day
we are to have no toes at all; perhaps this is
the first symptom of this condition. Maybe
evolution has already set in. If so. and the
85-mptoms increase in severity, it will evi
dently be a painful process.
The following rather curious piece of >com
position was recently placed upon lhe black
board at a teachers’ institute in Vermont and
a prize of a Webster's dictionary offered to
any person who conld read it and pronounce
every word correctly. The book was not car
ried off. as twelve was the lowest number of
mistakes in pronunciation made. "A sacri
legious son of Belial who has suffered from
bronchitis, having exhausted his finances, in
order to make good the deficit, resolved to
ally himself to a comely, lenient and docile
young lady of the Malay or Caucasian race.
He accordingly purchased a calliope and co
ral necklace of a chameleon hue, and secur
ing a suite of rooms at a principal hotel he
engaged the head waiter as his coadjutor. He
then dispatched a letter of the most unexcep
tional cpligraphy extant. Inviting the young
lady to a matinee. She revolted at the' idea,
refused to consider herself sacrificable to his
desires, and sent a polite note of refusal, on
receiving which he procured a carbine and
bowie knife, said that he would not now forge
fetters hymeneal with the queen, went to an
isolated spot , severed lus jugular vein and
discharged the contents of lhe carbine into
his abdomen. The debris were removed by
the coroner.” The mistakes in pronuncia
tion were made on the following words: Sac
rilegious. Belial, bronchitis, exhausted, finan
ces. deficit, comely, lenient, docile. Malay,
calliope, chameleon, suite, coadjutor, caligra
ph.v. matinee, sacrificable, carbine, hymen
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