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IJiDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Meetings— DeKalb Lodge No. 9,1. O. O. F.;
Georgia Historical Society.
Special Notices—To My Friends, Cus
tomers, Etc., Martin Haar; As to Bills
Against the British Steamships Abeona and
Tafna: Return of Dr. S. Latimer Phillips;
Interest Notice, Germania Bank; Dr. Paige
Has Returned to the City; C. B. Huiet & Cos.,
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the Best Values. Falk Clothing Company; In
terest Notice Citizens’ Bank of Savannah.
Used to Was— B. H. Levy & Bro.
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Railhoad Schedules— Central Railroad
of Georgia.
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Company; Baltimore Steamship Company.
Auction Sales—Furniture, Stoves, etc.,
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pnny.
Amusements—Mr. Lawrence Hanley as
"The Player" at the Theater Oct. 4 and 5.
Legal Notices— Citations from tho Clerk
of the Court of Ordinary of Chatham County:
Action for Partition and Relief; Scire Facias
to Revive Judgment.
Cheap Column adveutisemknts—Help
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Sale; Lost; Personal: Miscellaneous.
The Mousing News will begin the
publication of a serial story next Sunday
entitled "That House in Bloomsbury,”
by Mrs. Oliphant. The story is a domes
tic one, and will hp read with delight in
the home circle. Around a quaint old
house in Bloomsbury and chiefly in con
nection with its modern inhabitants, Mrs.
Oliphant has built up a cheerful and at
tractive literary creation, full of life, pic
turesqueness and character.
The suggestion of mystery is well-main
tained throughout, and the love interest,
which, in Mrs. Oliphant’s stories, is never
lacking, is, in this instance, more than
ordinarily attractive, the romance of the
story springing into being amidst most
unlikely surroundings.
Margaret O. \V. Oliphant has won an
enviable reputation in the world of let
ters as a judicious biographer, a charm
ing novelist, and a general writer of
strong individuality. It is not easy to
say wherein consists the unmistakable
touch of genius in her work, but it is un
doubtedly there.
She always seems to strike the right
vein, and to use the right words. Her
composition is at all times vigorous, and
obscure.
“That House in Bloomsbury” will also
appear in the Weekly News.
Snow fell at Pittsfield, Mass., a few
days ago. There are no signs of frost
yet and a little cooler weather than we
had yesterday would be very agreeable.
It is said that Frank Lawler may yet
be postmaster of Chirago. He is the man
who got up a petition in his own behalf
for the office that contained 65,000 names.
It is said the Chicago congressmen have
patched up their differences and have
agreed to favor his appointment.
A Russian prison expert, now in this
country examining our prisons, says they
are the “best in the world.” He ought
to investigate the lease system iu this
and some other southern states, and let
the world know what he thinks of it.
However, there is ground for hoping that
the lease system will not last much
loDger.
What particularly interests the people
of Chicago just now is whether or not
their children shall be admitted to the
fair on Chicago day for 10 cents each'
To this matter the Chicago papers are
paying more attention than to any other.
If a 10-cent admission is adopted, about
all the kids of the Windy City will see
the great show.
The Minnesota health commissioners
have notified school teachers that they
must either prevent school children from
exchanging iiencils or have the pencils
disinfected everyday. The children have
a habit of putting pencils in their mouths,
and there is no surer way, the commis
sioners say, of transmitting certain
diseases, particularly diphtheria.
The announcement is made that a mil
lion dollars has been raised and placed in
the Hank of Franco for the purpose of
continuing the work on the Calebra sec
tion ol the Panama canal. The object is
to hold the Colombian concessions with
the hope of finally forming a sydlcute to
complete the canal. The chance of form
ing such a syndicate is very slight.
A young daughter of Prof. Briggs, the
famous Presbyterian “heretic," has re
ceived, it is said, to enter the New York
Training School for Ih-aconcsses, an
episcopal religious organization con
nected with Grace church, of which the
Rev. Dr. Huntingdon is rector. From
this it would seem that Prof. Briggs has
fain and to make bin peculiar laith a home
affair.
Wharton Barker's Scheme.
Mr Wharton Barker, of Philadelphia.
| wants to help congress to settle the silver
! question. The letter, signed by himself
and a number of Philadelphia manufac
i furors, containing a scheme for settling
the question, that was presented to tho
Senate by Senator Cameron on Friday,
created a great deal of surprise among re
publicans who favor the repeal of the
Sherman Silver law. Mr. Barker is a re
publican himself, but. evidently he does
not voice the sentiment of tho leaders of
his party. Senator Cameron may approve
his scheme, because the senator is very
anxious to have it appear that all the re
publicans of his state do not condemn
him for opixising the repeal of the Sher
mau silver law.
The Wharton Barker scheme will not
receive any attention in congress, it pro
poses the purchase by the government of
the entire silver product of the Ameri
can mines at the market price, and al
lows the sellers, in addition, one-fourth
of the seiguiorago arising from the coin
age. But Mr. Barker wants it under
stood that if his scheme is adopted no
changes shall bo made in the tariff laws
for a certain specified time.
It turns out, therefore, that Mr. Bar
ker's scheme is nothing more than a
means of Preventing any changes in the
tariff. The schome has no merit. In
deed, it would have been rather strange
if Mr. Barker had suggested anything in
connection with silver that would have
met tho approval of men who are sin
cerely desirous of getting rid of the silver
trouble.
Some years ago Mr. Barker, it was
said, secured some concessions from the
Emperor of China. At that time it was
understood that he was proposing to form
a syndicate with a capital of $25,000,000,
and build railroads and establish banks
in China. Nothing has been heard of
that matter lately, and very little of Mr.
Barker. It may be that Mr. Barker
thinks that if this country were forced to
a silver standard he would be able to
utilize his alleged Chinese concessions,
China being a silver country.
Neither Mr. Barker nor Senator Cam
eron appears to have a very clear idea of
the silver situation. In his speech the
other day tho senator outlined a plan for
solving the silver problem. He would
have the country continue buying silver,
but at the same time he would have it
buy gold also, because he admits that it
would be necessary for the government
to have more gold if it should continue
tho purchases of silver. Without the
gold to support the silver it would be im
possible to keep tho silver currency from
dropping to its bullion value. If the gov
ernment should go into tho market for
both gold and silver it would not bo long
before the government’s credit would be
pretty thoroughly exhausted.
Tho truth is Senator Cameron and Mr.
Barker know no more about the silver
question than Senator Peffer, and the
latter's ignorance on that subject is so
dense that no amount of argument can
enlighten him. Neither the Cameron or
Barker scheme will be adopted, however.
Congress has not yet lost its grip on
common seuse.
The Registered Mall.
Congress is to bo asked, either at the
extra session or as early in the regular
session as practicable, to make a change
in the registered mail service. While
letter postage has been reduced within
the past few years and various improve
ments made in postal cards, the registry
service has for years remained the same
except in so far as affected by the reduc
tion in letter postage and whatever cleri
cal changes may have been made to the
end of keeping better records of registered
packages in transit. The registry fee,
ten cents, is the same now that it was fif
teen years, or longer, ago. And that fee
is charged for—what? Not to assure safe
delivery; not to insure the sender against
loss, but merely to pay the government
for kecing a record of the transit of the
package. Should the package be lost the
sender has absolutely no redross; the gov
ernment is responsible for nothing: it
takes your money and you take the risk.
The dishonest mail agent who purloins the
package may be punished. But how does
that benefit the loser?
The service performed by the post
office department in transmitting valu
ables through the registered mails is sim
ilar to that performed by an express com
pany in its money department. But the
government does not permit express com
panies to transmit such packages with
out liability for losses. The express com
pany is forced by the government to in
sure the package it transmits; yet the
government shirks that very act of jus
tice in its registered mail service.
The registered mail is one of the most
lucrative branches of the mail service
The registry fee is exorbitant. The
clerical work has been systematized until
it is quickly and cheaply done, and there
appears to be no good reason why, if the
ten cents fee is to bo continued, the gov
ernment should not insure the package
for that fee. A Baltimore gentleman,
who has given tho matter considerable
study, basing his calculations upon the
department reports, says the insurance
feature and all extra clerical work made
necessary thereby could bo carried on for
one per cent, of the registered mail re
ceipts.
A theatrical manager and a composer in
New York made a novel bet the other day,
as one result of which the manager was a
close prisoner at last advices. The man
ager had made some slighting remark
about the amount of brains and labor
necessary to the production of an opera of
the class of one the composer had written.
The manager was sure the grinding out of
operas was nothing more than child's
play. Indeed, he could compose an opera
himself, plot, verse and score, in forty
eight hours: he'd bet SIOO that .he could.
And he put up the SIOO to back his brill
iancy. The composer covered it with
another SIOO before the manager had time
to think, and the bet was sealed. The
manager was a little later locked in a
room with stationery and a few sand
wiches. At the end of the forty-eight
hours his production will be submitted to
a jury of coni|>etent critics. If it is wor
thy of metropolitan production lie wins,
and vice versa.
It is admitted that the Valkyrie is a
fast boat, hut is she fast enough to beat
the Vigilant? Thut is the question to bo
determined next Thursday. There is a
great deal of interest iu tho race and tf
the weather Is favorable the race will be
a memorable one.
TIIK MORNING NKWS: MONDAY, OCTOHEK 2, 1893.
Farmers and Their Kail.
Soon afu-r Mr. Wanamaker became
Postmaster General he suggested a
scheme for collecting and delivering the
mail of farmers The scheme was quite
generally discussed at the time, but for
some reason or other nothing was ever
done toward carrying it into effect.
A great deal could be done toward as
sisting farmers in getting and sending
their mail w ithout greatly increasing the
cost of the mail service. It is very often the
ease that a farmer has to go from ten to
twenty miles to a postofiice to post a let
ter and to receive an.v letters and papers
that may be in the postofflee for him, and
in going to the postoffice he travels per
haps the identical route taken by the
mail carrier in going from one postoftice
to another.
Why could there not bo stations
arranged along the routes of the mail car
riers whore letters and papers could be
left by tiio farmers and collected by the
mail carriers, and where the mail carriers
could leave letters and papers? Boxes for
tlie reception of the mail could be
arranged at the stations and the farmers
living in the vicinity could have keys to
them. Now and then there might be
some loss of mail, but, as a general thing,
tho boxes would not be disturbed. It
would be known' that they contained no
valuables, and a law providing a heavy
penalty for breaking a box would afford
ample protection against those inclined to
malicious mischief.
If the system of giving out the con
tracts for carrying the mails were
changed so that those actually doing the
work would get all the compensation the
mail carriers would be willing to render
the additional service suggested. Now
a very large part of the compensation for
carrying the mails goes to contractors,
who live in Washington, and who have
ways of knowing about what they will
have to bid to get a mail contract. These
contractors take the contracts and farm
them out to poor men, who reside in
the vicinity of the route over which the
mail is to be carried. Tho Washington
contractors, it is understood, make
very handsome profits.
Why not let the superintendent of the
railway mail service give out the con
tracts in their respective districts, basing
the compensation upon what the govern
ment now pays, and increasing it as the
country improves? It seems to us that in
this suggestion respecting the mail of
farmers, there is a chance for the govern
ment to do a very large and deserving
portion of the people a great service.
During tho last year or two Gov. Till
man, of South Carolina, has repeatedly ex
pressed himself in commoudation of lynch
ing. Under certain circumstances, he has
declared, lie would be willing to head a
lynching party. In a dispatch printed in
tho Mousing News of yesterday he is re
ported as having again declared in favor
of the practice—“ There are some cases in
which it is proper,” etc. Under the
present criminal code of South Carolina
there is no discrimination in murder cases
in favor of lynchers under any circum
stances whatever. Gov. Tillman is a man
with the courage of his convictions, it is
claimed. If ho believes lynching, under
such circumstances as he names, to be
right, it may be expected that he will
recommend to the next session of his
legislature that lynching under those cir
cumstances be legalized. Indeed, he must
recommend such a change in tho laws, or
prove himself inconsistent. He has sworn
by tho great horn spoon that he will have
the whisky law enforced; can heafford to
continue to take “no official notice” of vio
lations of the laws for the protection of
human life while taking instantaneous
official notice of infractions of the whisky
law ? He certainly cannot hope to con
tinue to uphold lawlessness on tho one
hand and tho law on the other hand. Let
him prove himself sincere in this matter
by proposing to tiie legislature, in tho
same message that will suggest more and
stronger safe guards for the state’s
whisky traffic, that men who are ac
cused of rape he outlawed.
The New York grand jury is investi
gating the office of county coroner, and
some of the Now York papers are urging
it to recommend that J,lte office be abol
ished. In Massachusetts the coroner’s
office has been abolished, and the duty of
ascertaining the cause of death is vested
in an experienced physician of standing.
The task of determining whether a crime
lias been committed and bringing tho of
fender to justice is, after the report of the
physician, left to the authorities. This
systeiiK.it is said, has been found to be
more efficient and less expensive than the
coroner system, and lias been free from
the flagrant abuses fostered by that
system.
Cue thing brought out in the trial
in New York of Frank Ellison, the club
tough who brutally beat tho father ot'
tho woman who jilted him, is that a
smart lawyer may, in his cross-examina
tion of a woman witness, ho just about as
coarse, brutal and suggestive as he please
without transcending the rules of the
court. -In tho cross-examination of Mrs.
Neauie, the young woman whom Ellison
wished to marry, against whose charac
ter there was no ground for suspicion, and
who was not on trial for anything, ques
tions were asked that would bring a tiusli
to a hardened cheek, and the court or
dered that they bo answered.
Some of the southern senators say the
people of the south are clamorous for tho
free coinage of silver. How do they know?
Have there been meetings held in any
southern state and resolutions adopted
demanding that the coinage of silver be
made free! If so, when and where* On
the other baud there have been resolu
tions adopted in the principal towns of
about all the southern states calling for
the immediate and unconditional repeal
of the Sherman silver law. It is safe to
say that the southern senators who are
demanding free silver coinage are not us
well informed as they should be.
Tlie women of Middletown, N. Y., who
are going to vote for the first time in a
school election shortly to be held, have
provided themselves with an issue early
iu the campaign. The issue is, shall
school teachers be permitted to box chil
dren's ears f Hot speeches are already
living made on tin* subject, with the ad
vantage probably on the side of the antis.
People who have heretofore doubted the
ability of women to understand campaign
issues, even if they were given the
suffrage, will begiu to perceive that they
have underestimated the versatility of
the sex.
DEVELOPMENT OF THE SOUTH
A Total of 444 Industrie* Incorpo
rated in the Last Quarter.
■ Chattanooga, Term.. Oct. 1. -The re
port of the industrial development of the
south for the third quarter of 1893. end
ing Sept. HO, as compiled by the Trades-
I man. shows a considerabh Jtalling off in
the number of new industries reported as
compared with the same |leriod of I*ol
and 1892. The Tradesman says
that a careful examination of
the report. however, shows
that the decrease has been largely in en
terprises of a somewhat speculative
nature. The establishment of industries
for the utilization and development of the
natural resources of the south show a
most gratifying average when the finan
cial condition of the country for the past
three months is taken into consideration.
The Tradesman reports for the quarter
144 industries incorporated, as against .597
for the same quarter of last year, and
eighty-five for 1891.
LAND SCHEMES NOT SO NUMEROUS.
The re)>ort for the quarter just ended
shows seven development and improve
ment companies organized as against
sixty in 1891, and while forty-three phos
phate companies were organized in 1891,
only seven are shown for the third quar
ter of 1898. While it is true that there
has been a great falling off in the number
of companies embarking in the phosphate
industry during the quarter and year, it
is a fact that the industry is on a more
substantial basis than ever before, and
the projectors of the new companies are
practical and experienced men.
WOODWORKING AT THE HEAD.
Woodworking in its many forms, from
saw mills to furniture factories, has al
ways been at the head in the quarterly
reports, and it still maintains its lead
with 133 now establishments as against
147 for same quarter last year. Virginia
is first with 17, North Carolina 1(5. Ten
nessee 14, Texas and West Virginia 12
each, Ixiuisiana li, and Georgia and
Florida each have 9 to their credit.
Decided aoiivity has existed during the
quarter in the development of the min
eral resources of the section, as is shown
by the organization of 53 quarrying and
mining companies for the quarter, as
against 40 in 1892. Every state is repre
sented in this development with the ex
ception of Louisiana.
Thirty-three new flour and grist mills
are reported as established during the
quarter as against 45 for 1592, and 34 for
the samo period of 1891. This gratifying
showing demonstrates that diversified
crops have created and sustained a de
mand for mills wherein to prepare at
home the flour and meal feed which were
formerly brought from the west and
north. Only three states, Arkansas, Ken
tucky and Mississippi, are unrepresented
in this development.
THE TEXTILE INDUSTRY.
The textile industry, a? is to be ex
pected, shows a falling off for the quar
ter. The large amount of capital re
quired for the starting of a cotton or
woolen mill, coupled with the financial
condition, crop uncertanties and market
fluctuations, account for the formation of
only 22 new mills, whereas, in 1892, and in
1891, 49 were reported in each quarter.
A further examination of the report
shows 27 new waterworks companies or
ganized during tho quarter, and 17 foun
dries and machine shops, quite a falling
off as compared to the same period of last
year.
Four shoe factories are reported, 13
brick and tile works. 12 canning fac
tories, 14 compresses and gins. 10 distil
leries, 17 electric light companies, 9 ice
factories, 6 natural gas and oil companies,
13 cotton seed oil mills, 4 tanneries and 39
miscellaneous or unclassified industries,
making the total of the quarter 444.
AN ALLIANCEMAN REFORMS.
Carolina’s Treasurer Gets Over His
Silver Craze.
Columbia, S. C., Oct. I.—The State will
publish to-morrow an interview with
State Treasurer W. T. C. Bates, who has
been appointed by Gov. Tillman a dele
gate to the St. 1 /nils convention. Dr.
Bates was elected with Gov. Tillman
on the alliance platform, and
it was supposed he favored the
Ocala demands. In his interview he
favors the immediate repeal of the Sher
man law, believing it will result in in
stant relief to the greatest number.
Subsequently, he says, other financial
legislation can be had. He does not think
that free silver will do what its friends
claim. He is for bi-metallism, but be
lieves the financial problem can only be
solved by careful legislation. The,
pledges ol the Democratic party made
at Chicago should be faithfully
kept; if they are not there will boa
reckoning. The financial views of the
state treasurer have caused surprise, as
they-aredirectly opposed to those of the
remainder of the state administration,
who stand upon the same financial plank
as the populists.
HOT AGAINST CHIEF ARTHUR.
Brotherhood Men Charge That He Has
Not Act’d in Their Interest.
Nashville, Tcnn., Oct. 1. The Nash
vill-• American sa.ys: “There are indica
tions all over the country, especially in
the middle states and along the main and
branch lines of the Louisville and Nash
ville railroad, that a general uprising
against P. M. Arthur, chief of the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers,
is about to take place. In fact, the bit
tores' feeling is b “ingaroused against him,
and. after thirteen years in the executive
chair, his head may be chopped off at tho
annual meeting next winter. So far as
the Louisville and Nashville railroad em
ployes are concerned, some boldly claim
that Chief Arthur and tho chief of the
trainmen did not give them a fair deal in
the recent conference with the Louisville
and Nashville management. They say
that the chief of the trainmen declared
that the vote against the cut was not
taken according to the *im>visions of the
constitution, and that he Would refuse to
call out his men in ease the officials in
sisted on the cut. It is claimed that
Chief Arthur joined him in this action.
It is also alleged that Chief Arthur has
not acted for tho best interests of tho men
on several occasions.'’
TRAMPS FIRE A CAR.
They Escape Despite Five Shots Fired
by a Guard.
Louisville, Ivy., Oct. I.—Three tramps
playing cards in a box car set fire to the
lubricating oil shed of the Standard Oil
Company this afternoon at So'eloek, caus
ing a loss of $40,000, the sheds and con
tents and seven freight cars being burned.
A watchman fired on the tramps live
times, but they managed to escape. The
Western Union wires to Nashville and
Memphis were burned down but tho
break was soon repaired.
A Western Union Manager Dead.
New Orleans, La., Oct. I.—Col. James
T Alleyn, for the past 15 years manager
of the Western Union Telegraph Compa
ny iu this city and a prominent member
of the Army of Tennessee Association of
Confederate Veterans died this evening
aged 53 years.
U jsurio Recaptured.
Buenos Ayres, Oct. I.—Rosario was
recaptured by the government troops to
day. and all the rebel leaders were taken
prisoners.
RUNAWAY LOVERS CAUGHT.
Papa Touched the Wire and the Police
Did the Reet.
Atlanta. Ga.. Oct. I.—G. L. Gaskina, a
well dressed young man wearing a red
neck tie and a karat diamond in his shirt
front, was arrested here this afternoon in
company with Miss Lily Itt, the pretty
10 year old daughter of L. Lott of Shep
herd;;, a small place in in Coffee county
The arrest was made as the
pair got off an East Ten
nessee train on a telegram from the young
lady's father, who had been pursuing
them all day to prevent the marriage.
As luck would have it the
message. was received by the
chief of. police just in the nick
of time, and if iron bars and parental
wrath can accomplish it, there will be no
need for a marriage license for some time
yet.
S. L. I-ott is a wealthy turpentine far
mer and merchant at Shepherd, which is
20 miles from Hazlehurst, the nearest
railway station. He has three daughters,
of whom Miss Lilly, the one taken in
charge here by the police to-day, is the
eldest.
THE LOVER IN THE CASE.
Gaskins, who is 20 years of age, is the
son of a half brother. He has been in
Mr. Lott's employ for several
years, living at his house.
He had decided to take a
course in dentistry in this city and bade
his friends good-by Saturday afternoon.
Saturday night, however, he returned to
Mr. Lott’s house with a buggy, and ac
cording to a prearranged plan took the
young lady out of a window and started
for Hazlehurst, twenty-six miles away.
The drive took up most of the night and the
runaways did not feel safe from pursuit
until they were aboard the Atlanta train
at fi in the morning. As they expected,
the irate father followed as soon as he
discovered his daughter’s flight, but did
not make the Hazlehurst depot until the
runaways were well on their way. His
telegram to Chief Connally did the busi
ness, however, and to-night Gaskins lan
guishes behind prisoh bars sighing for his
love, while the young lady is quartered at
the Kimball under guard, awaiting the
arrival of the angry papa.
BATTLES ON THE DIAMOND.
Outcome of the Day’s Games of the
National League.
Pittsburg, Oct. I.—Ball games were
played to-day as follows:
TWO GAMES AT CHICAGO.
At Chicago—First game— r. h. e.
Chicago 20030 1 0 00- 6 14 2
Brooklyn 10000000 3 4 2
Batteries—Donnelly and Shrivcr; Sharrot
and LaChance.
VICE VERSA
Second game— R. H. E.
Chicago 000001 000— 1 7 3
Brooklyn 510001 00*— 7 9 2
Batteries—Griffith and Anson; Daub and
Dailey.
These two games were merely exhibition
games and not a part of the schedule of the
league,
CINCINNATI’S LAST GAME.
At Cincinnati— n. H. E.
Cincinnati 4030 02 2 4 *—ll 12 2
Cleveland 000110 01 2 5 16 5
Batteries—Dwyer and Murphy; Cuppy and
Zimmer.
This game was a postponed league game
and also Cincinnati's last appearance on tho
diamond this season.
Cherokee Strip Stories.
One of the most enterprising of the Chero
kee strip boomers, G. W. Milton, was at the
interior department yesterday, says the
Washington l*ost. to make complaints about
the management of the opening by the land
office officials. Mr. Milton made the run
from Colorado, was one of the first party to
reach Woodward, and was elected mayor of
the city thirty minutes after his arrival.
There was a railroad station of the Santa
Fe line at Woodward with a round house and
125 inhabitants before the strip was opened.
Mayor Milton says that the special agent of
the government, instead of locating his booth
at Woodward, the natural site of the city, lo
cated it a mile west, establishing the govern
ment town there by the booth.
Although Woodward is twenty miles from
the border with a country of hills and sand
between, a claim to quarter section 30. on
which the best part of the town stood, was
entered twenty minutes after noon on the
16th, when the strip was opened. Forty
three minutes afterward a man named Frank
Morgan arrived on horseback and entered a
claim to this same quarter section. Mr. Milton
said to a Post reporter that singularly enough
the first claim disappeared from the books in
Morgan s favor and his was entered. Not un
til an hour later did the main body of settlers
arrive.
Mayor Milton makes no direct charges, but
thinks that there must have been collusion to
explain the location of the register's office a
mile from the village, tho fact that Morgan
arrived so much sooner than any one else,
and that his name was at once entered in
place of the original entry.
Under the laws for opening the strip a
party desiring to take a town site must file
with the Secretary of the Interior a plat and
evi lenco of his ability to perfect title under
the homestead laws, and deposit with the
Secretary of the Interior *lO for each acre of
the land.
Two days after tho opeuins Morgan re
reived his filings from the land officers. Mean
while 500 people had settled there who
thought they were entitled to the place and
that his claim was fraudulent, so they sent
tho mayor to Washington. Yesterday Mayor
Milton laid the I efore Commissioner
La noreux, of the general land office, wdio
prom's *d to telegraph a i order to Woodward
suspending the homestead proceedings. The
mayor found that Morgan's claim, with the
deposit of $1 600. had 1 een brought before the
Secretary of th •* Interior, but had not been
passed upon by the land office offl dais. Ihe
160 acres in question already have $ 0(103
worth of improvements, with several stores
and a hotel.
Special Agent Womack, of the Interior de
partment. who had charge of some of the de
tails of the opening, returned from the Cher
okee strip yesterday. Speaking of the ar
rangements. he said: “The history of former
openings discloses that many people have go. ic
on the lands before the time lixed by law. se
curing a fraudulent ad ,-i.n‘age over the hon
est home seeker. To forestall frauds of this
kind in opening the Cherokee strip the Secre
tary of the Interior adopted the plan of regis
tration. which has proved a success.
The booths were opened for five days be
fore the day of opening. Meanwhile the in
terior of the strip was j a-rolied by joldiery
so that all persons could tie accounted for.
While some succeeded in violating tho law,
nine-tenths of the mischief was prevented.
The reports regarding the scarcity of water
were exaggerated, as wore the other stories
af suffering from the crowding together of so
many people.
Through the Meadow.
By William D. Howells.
The summer sun was soft and bland,
As they went through the meadow land.
The little wind that hardly shook
Tho silver of the sleeping brook
Blew the gold hair about her eyes—
A mystery of mysteries!
So he must often pause and stoop.
And all the wanton ringlets lcfep
Behind her dainty ear—emprise
Of slow event and many sighs.
Across the stream was scarce a step—
And yet she feared to try the leap;
And he. to still her sweet alarm.
Must lift her over on his arm.
She could not keep the narrow way.
For still the little feet would stray.
And ever must he bend t undo
The tangled grasses from her shoe—
From dainty rosebud lips in pout,
Must kiss the perfect flower out I
Ah. little coquette' Fair deceit!
Some things are bitter that were sweet.
Albert S. Willis, new miniater to Hawaii,
will endeavor to sail by the steamer which
leaves San Fran else Oct. 4 He will have the
services of Mr Kills Mills of Virginia as
secretary of legation. He was appointed con*
ul general with the understanding that he
would also perform the duties devolving uuon
the secretary
M. Chartran, who painted the celebrated
portrait cf Hope !*eo XIII., now on eabibitlon
at the world's fair, has recently been the
guest of i*erry licimont at Newport.
ITEMS OF INTEREST
Chi or Brad way of Oen'rvvtlle, Cal.. Is only
17 years old, but she has Improved her op
portunities to the extent of marrying twice
and eloping seven times
In a printed card of regulations for public
information Issued by the Wells-Fargo Ex
press Company In the early fifties the last
regulation read: This company will not he
responsible for any loss occasioned by lire,
the acts of God. or of Indians orany other
public enemies of the government.
Cardinal Gibbons will hold the services of
his silver jubilee on Oct. 17. This date was
decided on In order not to interfere wlin the
regular Sunday services of the Baltimore
churches. 4he exercises will lie held in the
cathedral In that city, and it is expected that
Archbishop Corrigan will preach the sermon.
A party of Esquimaux has been brought to
San Francisco from Port Clarence station, on
Bering sea, by Minor W. Bruce, until re
cently superintendent of the United States
Reindeer station at Port Clarence. They will
set up and furnish an Arctic village in San
Francisco, and will then come east to Chicago
and other cities returning to the Pacific coast
in time to become an attraction at the mid
winter fair In San Francisco.
Mr. Joshua Oldfield, in the Vegetarian ex
plains why people go to sleep so often in
church. No blame must henceforth be at
tached to the gentleman in the pulpit, for it Is
not a tedious sermon or droning voice which
is responsible for the inclination to slumber.
The cause crops out in our old friend hyp
notism. and the soothing effect is obtained by
the iteration of sounds long familiar to the
ear. It is the iteration that makes us sleepy
not the sermon—as has been hitherto com
monly supposed.
Prof. Lombroso, in the Nouvelle Revue, dis
cusses somewhat learnedly the origin of kiss
ing. which he declares was, till comiiarative
ly quite lately, an entirely maternal action,
ana not in any way peculiar to lovers.
Homer, he points out, never mentions a kiss,
except when speaking of the embrace of a
father and son; Hector, in his scene with An
dromache, does not kiss her, but squeezes her
hand: neither do we find a kiss mentioned
apropos of Venus and Mars, Ulysses and
Calypso, or Ulysses and Circe. In the old In
dian literature no mention is made of any
thing but the maternal embrace, but in the
modern Hindu poems twelve kinds of kisses
are registered.
In Monterey, as well as Santa Clara county,
there grows a weed called the rattlesnake
weed, says a California exchange. It is so
named from the story that when rattlesnakes
get to fighting and bite each other this weed,
if eaten by them, will prevent death. It
grows about six inches tall, has a red stalk
and slender leaves. On the top of the stalk
comes a head of flowers, and the seeds of
these flowers are said to be very annoying to
one In passing through a mass of them, as
they are furnished with sharp barbs common
ly called stickers. The early settlers who had
herds of sheep always made their herdsmen
keep with them a bottle of strong tea made of
rattlesnake weed, and when any of the sheep
were bitten they were drenched with this tea,
which always saved them.
“When I was last in Maine, four years ago,”
said a tourist to the New York Sun, “the
lawns and gardens of village homes and the
fields were all feneed. Now throughout the
villages the fences have been taken away
from about the house premises, leaving each
street block bordered by one continuous
lawn. With the spacious and agreeable effect
thus produced, the throwing of all the front
yards into a common green space has led
every house owner to vie with his neighbor
in beautifying the plat before his home. Be
yond the villages, along the country roads,
farmers no longer maintain fences, except
those about pastures. Many fences have
been removed, and others are allowed to
stand, only to be taken away as material is
needed for various purposes. The roadside
fields uow extend to the edge of the turnpike,
gaining for the farmor cultivable land fertil
ized by the dust and wash from the road.
All this improvement has been effected
through the enactment und enforcement of
statutes making it a misdemeanor for any one
to permit his cattle to run at large.”
The Times of India recently announced the
death of one of the living idols of Siam. The
oldest one of the white elephants, which was
born in 1770. died in its temple at Bangkok in
November last. Everyone knows that this
famous white elephant, before whom a whole
people bow the knee, is the emblem of the
Kingdom ot Siam. It is honored with the
most beautiful presents, for the Indians, fail
of the idea of metamorphosis, still believe
that so majestic an animal could only be ani
mated by the spirit of heaven or of an em
peror. Each white elephant possesses Its pal
ace, a vessel of gold and a larness resplendent
with jewels. Several manaarins are attached
to its service, and feed it with cakes and
sugar cane. The King of Siam is the
only person before whom it bows the knee,
and a similar salutation is tendered it by the
monarch. The deceased idol has been accord
ed a magnificent funeral. A hundred Budd
hist priests officiated at the ceremony. The
three surviving white elephants, preceded by
trumpets, and followed by an Immense con
course of people, accompanied the funeral car
to the bank of the Menam. where the king and
his noble lord receive 1 the mortal remains,
which were transported to the opposite bank
for burial. A procession of 30 vessels figured
at that curious ceremony. All the floating
houses, ranged in double file on the Menarn to
the number of over 60,000, were adorned with
flags of all colors and symbolic attributes.
In the machine shop at Cramps’ shipyard,
says the Philadelphia Record, there have
just boon completed three immense engines
or wheels with which the mighty currents of
Niagara are to be bridled and forced todothe
work of steam. They are the turbine wheels
built for the Cataract Construction Company,
and each of them iR of 5.000 horse power, the
largest turbine wheels ever manufactured.
Great interest has been attached to these
wheels, as they are expected to completely
control tho mighty force of the waters, and
visiting engineers have spent hours examin
ing into their construction. The machines
are extremely simple, consisting of an im
mense pipe, into which the waters pour, turn
ing the wheels, and with them an upright hol
low shaft, which operates a dynamo at the
top. They will he placed in immense pits
150 feet below the surface of the ground
level. Into this pit the water is to be
conducted so that it will fall with full
force into the feed pipe, an immense iron,
curved tube, 7 feet 4 Inches in diameter at the
top and 10 feet 6 inohes at the bottom. The
two turbine wheels are 6 feet 6 inches in di
ameter. They are to be placed hack of the
feed pipi and 10 feet 4 Inches from each
(t ier, the rushing water is to be divided at
tne bottom of lit*; feed ptpe into two streams,
one to turn each wheel, and, having done its
work, will escape through exhaust tubes back
into the river. Tho wheels are to turn the
great vertical tube, which is composed of 6
sections each 18 feel 6 incher long, or 111 feet
in all. At the top this tube opeiates a dyna
mo which generates electricity, to be used in
various ways. There will be in all 15 of the
machines, but at present provisions are only
made for placing the three now completed in
operation.
Since the adoption of a car-fender by a Buf
falo electric railroad company, fifteen lives, it
is estimated, have lean saved, says the New
York Post. The fender or life-guard resem
bles a large wire door mat, with tho outer
corners rounded off. the edges bound with
piping, and sticking out from the front end of
the car about two inches from the ground. It
is made of ltpinch gas pipe, bent in circular
form, cushioned with 2-lnoh rubber hose and
interlaced with tarred rope. It has two spiral
springs at the back that act as a cushion in
conjunction with the hose on the front. The
guard is fastened to the ear with two large
hooks, one at each corner, and at the end of
each trip can be easily lifted off by the con
ductor or motorman or gripman and put In po
sition at the other end of the car. Of the fif
teen pteoplc that have been struck by the cars
since the life guard was attached’fourteen
escaped injury. The fifteenth was a small
boy who was injured under rather peculiar
circumstances. Not noticing where he was
going, he ran into a rapidly moving car. Even
then the guard picked him up, but the boy was
partly un.onscious. either from fright
or from striking his head against the dasher.
He soon recovered, and is now as well as
ever. Before the invention of the fender the
comptany was frequently in court defending
actions for damages, hut it seldom figures in
such suits now. A Baltimore inventor has
patented another fender, of which the follow
ing is a description: It consists of a frame
work of light but strong spring steel and will
project four feet in front of the car. A strip
of flat rubber four Inches wide extends along
the tip forming a cushion and scoop. Tho
body of the fender is of wire netting and can
vass When the fender is extended the tip is
about three Inches from the ground. The in
ventor says that If a person is struck by the
fender the rubber tip will pick him up, ami
he will fall Into the canvas net. probably
without Injury and that It Is impossible for
any one to be thrown under the wheels A
lever gives the gripman or motorman con
trol of the fender, and he may make It touch
Ibe ground raise it almost to a level with the
platform, or draw it underneath the car.
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TIC Dress Goods. Hop
sacking, Storm Serges,
Plaids, Stripes, Checks,
Cheviots and Homespuns
comprise but a small
portion of what we propose
to offer in our Dress Goods
Department during the en
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We would also call spe
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and Doilies, as well as to a
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partment, in which will be
found some special bargains.
Carpets,Carpets
Full line Tapestry and
Ingrain Carpets. We make
and lay these goods on
shortest notice.
100 pieces Canton Mat
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PORTLAND CEMENT,
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