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INDEX IP NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Meeting—Palestine Comma ndery No. 7,
K. T.
Special Notices—State and County Taxes;
Notice as to Steamer Alpha; John Lawton.
Manager; Notice the Display of Our Ten
Ceht Collars and Twenty Cent Cuffs, Falk
Clothing Company, Agents; Proclamation of
Reward by Gov. W. J. Northern
Mineral Water—Harris' Lithia Water.
Steamship Schedule—Ocean Steamship
Company.
Do U Understand?—Appel & Schaul.
Not Much Talk—B. H. Levy A Bro.
Auction Sales—Fast Trotter Jeremiah,
by I. D. &K. D. Laßoche; Groceries, Furni
ture, F.tc., by J. 11. Oppenheim A Son.
Fashions for November—At Estill's
News Depot.
It Rains Oftener Than Most People
Think—Falk Clothing Company.
Cheap Column Advertisements—Help
Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Rent; For
Sale; Lost; Personal; Miscellaneous.
Emma Goldman, the woman anarchist,
had two husbands. One Is serving a term
in Auburn prison for theft and the other
is serving a term in the Pennsylvania
penitentiary for attempted assassination.
What more than criminality could be ex
pected of a woman who keeps such com
pany ?
Texas highwaymen are becoming fin de
siecle. A few days ago a gang held up a
stage and robbed it. When they had fin
ished the leader of the gang observed to
the driver and passengers: “Now, re
member the command given by the angel
of the Lord to Lot’s wife 1” And not one
of those people looked around.
Chairman Wilson, of the ways and
means committee, cannot say when the
new tariff bill will be ready for submis
sion to the House. It may be ready
shortly after Nov. 1, or it may be a lit
tle later. There are more difficulties at
tending the framing of the forthcoming
bill than attended the Morrison or the
Mills bill, Mr. Wilson says.
The Vigilant is to be sold. The syndi
cate that built her has concluded that the
assessments upon members to pay the
running expenses of the craft must be
stopped as soon as the races are over.
There is no doubt, however, that some
rich purchaser will buy her as soon as
she is put up for sale. A boat of her pres
tige will not be allowed to rot out.
Two powerful war vessels have left
France for Brazil to assist Piexoto in up
holding his side of the controversy. We
may, therefore, be treated to reports of
some genuine fighting in Brazil after all.
Admiral Mello has at least two splendid
modern fighting vessels under his com
mand ; the ships en route from France are
said to be their equal in power, so the
prospects of a naval engagement off Kio
are good.
Mrs. Sarah J. Edwards, of New York
city, described as a sympathetic widow,
aged thirty-seven, spends most of her
time at night in going about the streets
destroying cats with chloroform. During
the past three years she has killed in
that city 5.000 cats. She contends that no
cat has the right to be out in the streets
after 8 o’clock at night. Mrs. Edwards
was recently arrested, charged with
cruelty to animals
Bishop Potter's burial reform associa'-
tion thinks that the “earth" to earth”
style of interments, which forms the
basis of its creed, could be the better
carried out by the use of wicker burial
cases. In the absence of such cases the
society advises the use of soft pine,
which furthers rapid decomposition.
The innovations advocated by the society
may be in the line of advanced sanitary
science, but it will be a long time before
they arc accepted by the masses.
The inventor and original patentee of
the slot machines was an Englishman
named Percival Everett. He died a few
months ago in New York, and it is un
necessary to sa.y that he was poor. By
occupation he was a consulting engineer,
aud from his invention sprung not only
the weighing machines all over the. civil
ized world, but all theotherslot machines
now in use. His invention, however, was
an adaptation of an old idea to niodera
uses, as the coin-in-llie-slot idea dates
hack for over 1,000 years.
It is gratifying to note the interest tl>at
the country at large is taking in affali¥at
Brunswick, particularly the destitute
condition of those who cannot get away.
From the lakes to the gulf and from
ocean to ocean the newspapers have taken
up Brunswick s appeal for aid and are
urging liberal contributions. The appall
ing disasters on the sea islands of South
Carolina and in the Mississippi valley,
the sufferers from both of which require
bpublx- aid. will probably make the contri
butions to Brunswick* relief smaller
twaa tuejr would oUw?rwi**; have :
•till the t**>t*l* will
MJjrf-Jttrh-keii Georgia city. The three
tts-ec,',' 1 £ *PiewM
tur> aud residence* ,' u ’’ herhood of mtu me
The Prospects of Repeal.
Tlie situation at, Washington is de
cidedly muddled. No two observers,
however critical, are able to see things in
the same light. It is im|>ossiblo to say
whether the will of an overwhelming ma
jority of the people, or that of a small
minority, will prevail.
The beginning of the continuous session
did not tend to make things more clear.
Col. C. H. Jones, editor of the World, who
was at Washington at the beginning of
the continuous session, believes uncondi
tional repeal is beaten, and warns the
country to face tbo facts and take neces
sary steps to meet the emergency. “The
cause of defeat, if defeat results,” he
says, “is not to be sought in the camp of
its avowed enemies, but in the ranks of its
alleged friends. The open enemies of re
pcal are a small minority of the Senate.
They could not long obstruct action if
vigorous action were determined upon by
a compact and resolute majority.” Had
the handful of anti-repealers been con
fronted bv a majority as determined as
themselves “the contest would have been
ended a month ago.” However, “the
truth is, there is a good deal of democratic
treachery and Republican party politics
in the menaced fiasco.”
Oil the other hand, careful and compe-
tent correspondents who have been on the
ground day after day and watched the
proceedings from every standpoint, think
differently from Col. Jones. The Balti
more Sun's man, a conscientious observer,
thinks unconditional repeal has gained
strength, for two reasons, the first being
the inability of the advocates of compro
mise to agree among themseves or to make
any inroads into the ranks of the repeal
ers. The second is the pressure that is
being brought to bear from all parts of
the country for a settlement of the ques
tion in some way. Besides, some senators
have been home and talked with their
people, and have gone back to tell their
associates that they find believers in sil
ver and everybody else in favor of action of
some kind to relieve the present stagna
tion in business before it is too late for any
benefit to be done to the fall trade.
In the midst of the muddle, contin
gencies are receiving as much considera
tion as the direct question. Compromise
or a recess is predicted. It is thought
that the compromise, if one is arrived at,
will be based on Senator Faulkner’s
amendment, and provide for the purchase
of silver up to a limit of $800,000,000 and
for its coinage at the rate of $2,000,000 a
month, authorize the Secretary of the
Treasury to issue bonds so as to prevent
the impairment of his gold reserve, re
tire all paper currency of less than $5 in
denomination and authorize the coinage
of the seigniorage on the silver in the
treasury. This is the plan referred to in
the Morning News yesterday as alleged
to have the provisional sanction of Secre
tary Carlisle.
Such a compromise would be a decided
victory for the silverites. Or if the
Senate should take a recess it would be
their victory also. A recess without ac
tion would be to continue indefinitely the
operations of the Sherman law. Such
continuation might precipitate another
panic, at the very verge of winter. But
the silverites care nothing for the masses,
so long as their market is preserved.
Chinese Exclusion.
Congressman Geary must be as child
like and bland as Joaquin Miller tells us
the heathen Chinee is. With a perfectly
straight countenance he told the House
day before yestorday that 125,000 would
have been sufficient to rid the country of
unregistered Chinese had the federal of
ficers gone about the enforcing of the
Geary law in May In a proper mannor.
The Chinese, he said, would have taken
no risks; rather than to have taken the
risk of being sent back home they would
voluntarily have left our borders.
That is Mr Geary’s theory, and it fits
his case very well. But it is weak. The
Chinese in this country are controlled by
the Six Companies, a|mysterious organiza
tion at San Francisco composed of re
markably shrewd men. The Six Compa
nies is very rich, and retains the best
legal talent to be had; therefore the Six
Companies was thoroughly informed as to
every loophole and kink in the law. It
knew how many Chinese there were in
the country, how much it would take to
transport them, how much money was
avaiiaole for transportation purposes,
how long it would be before another ap
propriation could be made, the cost per
head for transportation, and everything
else needful to be known. Under such
circumstances is it reasonable to suppose
that a blowing of horns and a beating of
tom-toms would have frightened the Chi
nese out of the country ?
The Chinese simply took advantage of
the weakness of the law occasioned by
the failure of congress to make an appro
priation sufficiently large, and remained
in this country. They beat us at our own
game. This being the case, the question
now is, shall we give them another op
portunity to comply with the law, or kick
them out?
The Six Companies, its followers and
the Chinese government have reached the
conclusion that this government means
business with regard to the exclusion
law. and assurances have been sent to the
Senate that if the operation of the law be
suspended for six months the Chinese
residents of the United States will en
deavor to comply with the law. And it
seems that under the circumstances it
would be better to grant the extension
than to provoke retaliation ujion Ameri
cans in China.
Ex-President Harrison, in unburdening
himself with regard to the passage of the
Tucker repeal bill by the House, says:
“By the repeal of the federal election
law all federal control of the elections
of national officers is withdrawn and
local laws will govern such elections.”
Precisely; and that is as it should be.
We have had too much “federal control”
for a republican form of government
since the war. The thing the democracy
proposes to do is to place the “control”
where it belongs, with the poeple.
Bayonets at the polls and iron cages for
democratic voters must be things of
the past.
Those southern senators who persist in
holding up the hands of the obstruction
ist* are receiving sharp era< ks on the
bead from mass meetings and ne*j,a|*-r*
tlie country over. But they apparently
care nothing for public opinion so long as
a few free silver cranks bold a 'balance
of power ' that may or may not lie turned
in their favor at coining election*.
THE MORNING NEWS: FRIDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1893.
The Killing of Walker.
It is a relief to the people of Savannah
to know that the life of the colored brute,
Walker, was taken by officers of the law
yesterday in their efforts to arrest him.
The fact that he was killed doubtless
saved Savannah much trouble. Had he
been brought to the city alive, it would
have required a strong armed force to
have taken him to jail, and a still larger
armed force to have kept him there.
He would not have been taken
out of the Jail, however, without
a loss df life. The Jail building
is so constructed that an armed force can
be thrown into it without people in the
streets being aware of the fact. As the
jail would have been stoutly defended, the
probabilities are that valuable lives on
both sides would have been lost because
of a worthless one. And Walker would
have been lynched at last.
The Morning News has always op
posed lynch law. It does not believe that
mobs should bo the judges and
executioners of any one, for any crime.
But there is no denying the fact
that until crimes similar to Walker's
shall no longer be committed by black
brutes it will be impossible to save them
from summary punishment. The people
simply will not wait upon the slow process
of law.
The Mafia Again.
It seems that the Mafia still exists in
New Orleans, despite the drastic meas
ures taken by the citizens some time ago
to wipe it out. The murderous assault
upon Officer Toole, reported in the
Mornino News dispatches yesterday—
the second assault upon him, by the way
—was the third attempt at assassination
made upon police officers in a woek.
Last Sunday night Officer Pettiway,
while in discharge of his duty, was shot
down at the corner of Washington and
Chippewa streets. Pettiway was a col
ored policeman, but the fact that he was
policeman was sufficient for the law
less element. There is not much evi
dence to connect the Mafia with the shoot
ing of Pettiway, though there is a strong
suspicion that it was in revenge for the
hanging of the Mafia gang some years
ago.
In the case of Toole the evidence is
more direct. He was a witness against
a Sicilian who had attempted murder,
and it was the purpose of his assailants
to put him where he could not testify.
The continued existence of this murder
society, therefore, is proof that lynching,
or extraordinary example of individual
punishment, are not the proper remedies to
be applied to the Mafia. What, then, is
theproperremedy? Stringentemig,ration
laws, and the strict enforcement of the
local laws against violators thereof.
Shut the doors of the ports against the
criminal and pauper classes of Europe,
and see to it that those criminals that
have gained an entrance through bad re
publican laws receive their just measure
of legal punishment for every offense
committed. This plan would not rid
the country at once of its imported crim -
inal class, but it would prevent it from
growing larger and would eventually
wipe out all Mafia gangs.
If Gov. Tillman, of South Carolina,
should enter the the lists as a candidate
for the Senate against Gen. Butler, or ac
cept a nomination on the populist national
ticket, what would go with bis state
whisky scheme and the hundred-and-one
lawsuits he has on his hands? There is
not, so far as is known, a single "mailed
hand” in his party in the state, except
his own, to which he could entrust the reins
of state government with the assurance
that his policy would be carried out.
There is talk of running State Senator
John Gary Evans for governor on the
Tillman ticket. But, from all accounts,
Senator Evans is rather more of an inde
dendent thinker than the governor would
like to see as his successor. It would sur
prise nobody, therefore, if Gov. Tillman,
in the event of bis leaving the state,
should put up a marionette for governor
aud pull the strings himself.
The people of Tennessee are taking
proper steps to prove to Senators Bate
and Harris that they do not represent the
public interests in their course of action
in the Senate. The mass meeting at
Knoxville, which protested against the
blocking of the passage of the repeal bill,
will not be without its weight of influence,
and the example of the Knoxville people
.should be followed at once by other com
munities. Telegrams, letters, resolutions
and memorials should be showered upon
the filibustering senators until they aro
forced thereby to see that they are going
counter to the wish of the people.
New York politicians are having a
-monkey and parrot time at “turning
;dovvn” one another, ltichard Croker,
they say, turned down Bourke Cockran;
'Frank Hiscbck has been turned down by
the state' republican machine; the bar
association and several newspapers are
endeavoring to turn down Judge May
nard. and Senator Hill is trying to turn
down the “mugwumps” who are opposed
to Maynard. The outcome of it all, how
ever, will be the customary turning down
of democratic opposition at the approach
ing election.
Senator Squire, of Washington, who is
in favor of a compromise but would vote
for unconditional repeal of the Sherman
law in the absence of a compromise, thus
sums up the strength of the opi*>sing
forces in the Senate: “There are 87 out of
the 85 senators who are committed out
aud out for silver; there are 48 for re
leal; there are Bor 0 senators who would
vote for an amendment recognizing silver
on some decent basis, and tlie question is
what these eight or nine senators and the
so-called silver senators can agree upon.’
The belligerent forces in Brazil have
burned a lot of gunpowder and made a
lot of noise, but beyond that there has
been uo result worth noting. During the
alleged bombardments of the city busi
ness goes on as usual, aud society, even,
perforins its functions as though nothing
out of the ordinary were taking place.
And. as a matter of fact, nothing out of
the ordinary is taking place.
People who a few year* ago were dis
posed to make light of the predictions of
the government weather bureau have
lea died by experience to re*|*-<-t them
and heed their warning* Yesterday
was *|<enl by boat owners, shippers and
people along the water front In making
things snug for the blow predicted for
ieel night.
PERSONAL.
In addition to being colonel of a regiment,
Queen Victoria Is prebendary of St. David s,
and tier tenure of the office since 1837 makes
her the senior prebendary of England. The
Rev. Colonel never officiates, however.
Baron Fireks. descended from one of the
wealthiest families of Russia, has decided to
open a circus In Copenhagen. He has always
been a friend of animals, and was accustomed
to travel from place to place with a wolf two
monkeys, a lion and a remarkable collection
of tropical birds. He has had some remark
able adventures on his travels and many
scenes with angry hotel keepers who objected
to his queer collection of pets.
The engagement is announced of Miss Eliz
abeth Elkins, daughter of cx-Secretary Ste
phen B. Elklps. to Edward F Bruner of New
York. Miss Elkins is a handsome and accom
plished young ladv who. to her education re
ceived In New York has added some months
abroad in travel and the study of languages.
Last spring she was presented at the court of
S’. James. Miss Elkins is now at her fath
er's country place, llalliehurst. Elkins, W.Va.
The wedding will be celebrated in November.
Mr. Bruner is a broker.
The Prince of Bulgaria was greatly amused
recently while traveling between Sofia and a
small country town. He occupied his mag
nificent private car. At one of the small
stations the doors were suddenly opened and
three peasants entered and took their places
on the upholstered seats. They were con
gratulating themselves on getting a ride in so
magnificent a car, when the guard appeared
and ordered them to leave ‘ the presence of
their prinoe." They were so frightened when
they heard the name of the occupant of the
compartment that they were unable to speak.
Clieveijen, the beautiful seat of the Duke of
Westminster, Is to be turned over to Wil
liam Waldorf Astor. who has purchased it, at
the end of the year. It has been a famous
place for picnic parties, who were made free
of it by the duke, but Mr. Astor means to stop
all that. All trespassers will be warned off
the grounds, and the New York millionaire
will keep the beauties of the place for his own
exclusive use and behoof. This announce
ment has not added to Mr. Astor's popularity
in England, either among the masses or
among the • classes" whom he is anxious to
cultivate.
Theophilus H. Davies, the guardian of
Princess Kaiulani, of Hawii. was in Wash
ington last Saturday en route to the world's
fair. Speaking of the outlook In the Sand
wich islands he declared, naturally enough,
that he was not in favor of annexation and
said that if the question could be put to a
vote the result would be overwhelmingly in
favor of restoring the queen. Mr. Davies be
lieves the members of the provisional govern
ment to be honest but mistaken men and de
clares that they are having great difficulty in
controlling the machiney which they them
selves set in motion.
BRIGHT BITS.
Mrs. Bellinger—Why couldn’t you have seen
my hat was on crooked 1 efore we left the
house?
Bellinger—Love is blind.
Mrs. Bellinger—Mr. Bellinger, I asked you
a civil question and 1 wish you’d answer it.
—Detroit Tribune.
"Dey has rtonebruk de engagement.”
"Yoh doan say so. "
"Yassin deed.”
“What foh.”
“She done tas'ed a persimmon dat warn’t
ripe, an’ he misconstrued de pucker an’ kissed
her.”—Washington Star.
"You are on speaking terms again with
your next-door neighbor?"
Mrs. Hustler—Yes.
"I suppose she saw that she was wrong and
“No. she saw some of my new samples and
forgot all about the trouble.”—Chicago Inter-
Ocean.
Prohibitionist—And you never touch a drop
of liquor on principle of the wine that be
trays. that brings the trembling hand, the
clouded brain, the unsti aly step? We can
not have too many men of your moral fiber.
You must join our prohibition society. What
is your profession?
Mr. Cold Steele—Bank burglar,—Judge.
Percival—Father, I don't want to go to that
college. It's A poof concern. .
His Father—poof, my son? It Is an old,
wealthy and fAnioug institution that numbers
among Its graduates Some of the most noted
men In the land. What possible objection
can you have against it?
Percival—l don’t like its yell.—Chicago
Tribune.
Jack Plunger—Let me have $5 on this dia
mond ring, Mr. Silverstein.
Mr. Silverstein—ls dot a real diamont, eh?
Let me loog ?
Jack Plunger—ls it real? Why, I bought it
of you last month for S3O.
Mr. Silverstein—O-h! dot is diffrunt! You
bod id here, eh? I led you haf fifdy ceuds on
Id mldoud loogin.—Judge.
"My barber Is an Italian,” he said; “a
Chinese does my laundry work: mv tailor is a
Jew: I breakfast in an American dining-room,
lunch in a German saloon, and dine usually
at a French restaurant; my doctor Is an
English mm. and my favorite preacher is a
Scotch dominie.”
But where does the Irishman come in?”
asked a bystander.
"Oh, he owns the house 1 live in.”—Youth's
Companion.
CURRENT COMMENT.
A Pan-American Exposition.
From the Philadelphia Record (Dem.).
The scheme for a permanent Pan-American
exhibition in New York gives promise of
aehletin? important commercial results. Ca
pable men are at the head of the enterprise,
and the requisite rapital is said to be in
readiness. But the great prerequisite to any
work of commercial expansion is, of course,
a revision of the tariff. T his accomplished,
commqrce would have reason to spread her
winffs on all the great water courses of the
wotU.
Urging the Monroe Doctrine.
From the New York Sun (Dem.).
The threats of the foreign naval command
ers before Rio de Janeiro to interfere in the
civil war had better not be carried out. It is
our business to protest against their inter
ference. whether it lie in the interest of the
lawful president. I’eixoto, or the rebel ad
miral, Mello. . Wc.are not willing that there
shall lie European interference In the afTalrs
of any American country or government . We
were once or twice in danger Of foreign inter
ference during our own civil war: hut. luck
ily for all parties, and especially for the
threatening party, it was never attempted.
The Brazilians mast be let alone in their civil
war. They have as good a right to settle
their own quarrel as we had to settle ours.
Waite and Tillman.
From the Spriuglield (Mass.) Republican
(Ind.).
Gov. Waite of Colorado has switched off
from the bloody bridles business to organizing
populist success in the next presidential cam
paign. He wants a partner in this new con
tract, however, and has offered to let Gov.
Tillman of South Carolina in on the ground
floor. In fact, he wants Tillman to begin the
job by knocking a hole in the solid south. Out
at St. Louis the Colorado governor tired off
this proposition at his excellency of South
Carolina: If you will inaugurate anew re
bellion —n secession from the Democratic
party- I pledge you that the west and north
west will vote a populist President Into office.
Carry bqt a single state in the solid south for
the People s party and the thing is done. "
Waite didn't say who this first popnlist Presi
dent was to be. and perhaps this was the rea
son why Tillman did not promise to under
take his part of tlie contract. Perhaps, too,
he remembered that he had tried, last year,
to break the solid south in his own state, as
Watson tried it In Georgia and Kolb In Ala
bama- and what a botch they made of it!
As to Money Values.
From the New Orloans Picayune (Dem.).
The notion ought to be abandoned that the
government stamp can give any intrinsic
value to anything. Unless there Is an ability
to make good every note and promise to pay
bearing the government stamp, that stamp is
worthless An act of congress which creates
a legal tender note or coin cannot force any
body to accept It. Today any creditor mav
ref.se to take pay for his debt In silver do!
lars lie cannot force gold, but he 1* i:ot
bound to accept sliver A merchant may re
fuse to sell his goods for anything but gold.
No tiower can force him to do otherwise. Up
to the present time the governmuht has,
with the greatest difficulty preserved the
parity of gold and silver; but suppose, by the
passage of a law authorizing the free coinage
of sliv -r the power Pi preserve that parity
were lust Then although silver dollars
would tie legal tender, they would not be
equal 111 value to gold dollars. The time
would soon come when a silver dollsr would
lie held at it* real value compared with gold
and although It auuid still he legal tender. It
would only pass st the ie.lured rating Just a*
legal tetdf r greenback* did when |2 so were
required to equal II In gold.
Nervoas Frenchman.
Among Mr. Lester Wallack’s "Memories,”
says the Youth’s Companion, are some relat
ing to "the most nervous creature" he ever
saw, Signor De Begnis, a singer, who oame
over to the United States In the same ship
with Mr. Wallack and his father In 1838. He
was about six feet in height, portly and pom
pous, und wore a huge velvet cloak and a
black velvet cap. His grand appearance made
his childish Ignorance and cowardice all the
more amusing. Everything he saw filled him
with wonder, which be expressed without re
serve.
Two nights after the ship sailed, the cap
tain thinking it was coming on to blow, sent
aloft to shorten sail. De Begnis was excited.
Oh, ah. mon capitaine. de man’ What he
gospderefor? Why he go up de pole?"
"He is going up to reef the topsail," replied
the captain.
"To do what?”
“To reef the topsail.”
"To reefa de top of de sail? In de dark?
Mon Dieu! now he go higher, and without a
candle.”
He was never seasick, but was so timid that
he was happy only in a dead calm
When the rest of the passengers were scold
ing about the delay he would say:
"Ah, it is beautiful; It is a callum to-day.
lam not atright. When it blow lamafright.
To-day It is a callum. and I go to play veest."
Mr. Wallack, who was then hardly more
than a boy, used to climb to the mizzentap
with a book in his pocket, and sit there with
his arms around a rope and read by the hour.
The first time that De Begnis saw him going
up the shrouds he shouted:
’ Ha: look at de young Wallack! Don’t go
up dere. you fool. Supposo de strings was to
broke!”
One night It was blowing hard, and the ship
was "taken aback." Mr. Wallack s father,
being an old sailor, knew what it meant, dud
sung out to the steward:
"Shut in the deadlights!”
The next morning the sea had gone down,
and De Begnis, who had been dreadfully
scared,said:
"I was not the only one afright. There was
the old Wallack. he was afright. I heard
him call to de steward to give him a light to
die by.”
On the first day out, when the ship was “on
the wind." lying pretty well over. De Begnis,
only half-dressed, stuck his head Into the
main cabin and said:
"Steward! where is de steward? Aska de
captain'! why the ship she goes so crook!
Tell him de signor de Begnis cannot shave!"
Standing one day beside the wheel, he said:
"What that man he do, he turn de wheel
around?”
"He steers the vessel,” the captain
answered.
"What Is dat he keep a-look!ng at like a
fool?"
"That is the compass. He watches the
compass and steers the vessel “y It.”
"lia: dat is a umplck" [humbug.]
“How do you suppose we find our way
across the ocean then?" asked the captain.
“You get de ship by de shore, you put up de
sail, de wind she blow, and you go dis way
and dat way, sometimes de straight way, and
after a while you get dere by chance, God
knows how! And yet you tell me dat de man
he make her go straight when he turn de
wheel round! Umplckl All umplck!"
No Sweden for Her.
A lady and gentleman who have been
“doing” the fair since it opened sat down to
luncheon in the Swedish cafe, where the
waiters are supposed to be direct importa
tions from the land of the Swedish nightin
gale, says the Chicago Tribune. At least,
they are dressed In the costume of the
peasantry of that country.
Rye bread aud Swiss cheese and beer was
the order given, for these two people are
doing the fair as they find it. They were
waiting for their luncheon, and the woman
talked of the beauty of the girl who had gone
for it. She wondered if thut girl ever saw,
ever heard Christine Nilsson, and a lot of
other things. The man suggested that his
companion might ask the girl and thereby
pick up a story.
"But she probably cannot speak English.
She is not long from her fatherland, poor
thing, and I don't like to embarrass a waiter.”
"You might try," said the man.
So when the order was served, the lady,
looking at the waiter, who, by the way. was
a brunette, said: "I thought Swedish girls
were blonde; is It not so?”
"Most of them are." was the quick reply, In
good English.
Encouraged, the lady continued: “Tell me,
my good girl, how long have you been away
from your native country?"
“About nine years."
The lady, somewhat cooled: “Nine years
from Sweden*’’
"Sweden? Who said I was from Sweden?”
"Then where is your home?"
“Milwaukee avenue. Sixty cents, please"
(to the gentleman).
And the lady vowed that she would not in
dulge in any more muslngs over the foreign
ers at the fair.
The London Swell of 1703.
From the Pall Mall Gazette
I'm a fashionable beau, just turned out the
newest go,
So elegant, so exquisite, so handy, O;
My tiptop style of dress, my shape, my air,
my face,
All prove beyond compare that I’m a
dandy, O.
My stays are laced so tight that I’m forced to
walk upright,
My chin poked out, my neckcloth stiff and
handy, O;
My whiskers neatly trimmed, and my hat so
narrow rimmed,
My spurs are all the kick, I’m quite a
dandy, O.
You see I've got the swell of Bond street and
Pall Mall
For quizzing all and cutting some so ,
handy. O:
I lounge from street to street as my brother
swells I meet,
Some stare, but all declare I'm quite a
dandy. O.
At opera, rout, and play, then I hear the
ladies say.
How stylish, how handsome, how handy. O:
He's got the Bond street swing, I declare he’s
quite Ihe thing;
Do, do but see, now isn’t he a dandy, O.
Pretending not to hear, then I modishly draw
near.
My ribbon sport, my rings disport so
handy, O.
I read it in their eyes. I hear it in their sighs,
The ladies all are dying for the dandy, O.
A Burglar demoralized.
“I once invented," said a man who lived in
the suburbs to a New York Sun reporter, "a
burglar demoralizer that was very effective in
its way. but I never got It patented, because
I didn't think I ought to. It was a very simple
contrivance. It consisted merely of a stout
wire stretched across the floor at such a dis
tance from the door and windows that anyone
entering would get under headway before
reaching it. and low enough so that he would
fall over It. There had been a number of bur
glaries in our town, and so I fitted up the
lower floor of our house with the demoralizer.
We adjusted the wires the last thing at night,
when we were locking up.
"One night—about three nights, I think ‘t
was. after we had set them up—we heard a
noise at the back door, and we knew that
somebody was coming. We gathered around
the head of the back stairs and listened. The
burglar got In without much trouble and
closed the door softly behind him. and then
for a moment everything was very still. Then
there was a great thud that fairly shook the
house, then another moment of stillness, and
then the suppressed, but steady sound of a
human voice. It was the burglar sitting on
the kitchen floor andcussin’.
"After awhile we moved around a little up
stairs to let him know we were on deck, and
he got up and went away. He didn't take
anything, but Mrs. Suburb said she had
raiher he had taken everything there was In
the house than to hear him swear so. and that
is why I never got the demoralizer patented.
It was effective, but it would have seemed
like offering a premium on profanity."
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proposed Is probably that which is now being
considered in England and which looks to the
union of all the coal Interests in the United
Kingdom. The plan which has Just been
formulated after a year's consideration, pro
vides that the lessees of all the British coal
deposits shall combine In a single union and
divide up the profits of the operations be
tween the shareholders and the workmen.
The output, it Is thought, will be about 145.-
OtVO.OOO tons and the capitalization SSOO OXI.OOO.
One of the most unique features of the enter
prise is that which provides that the price of
coal shall be fixed by the lord chief justice.
The cause of death Dy lightning is the sud
den absorption of the electric current. When
a thunder cloud which Is highly charged with
positive electricity hangs over any certain
place, the earth beneath it becomes abnor
mally charged with the negative electric cur
rent, and a man. animal or other object
standing or lying directly beneath also par
takes of the last mentioned influence. If,
while the man animal or other object is in
this condition, a discharge takes place from
the cloud above, the restoration of the equi
llorium will be sudden and violent; or, in
language that we can qll understand, the
negative current from the earth will rush up
to join the positive cloud current, and in
passing through the object which separates
the two currents, if it be an animate being,
will do so with such force as to almost Invari
ably produce Instant death.
The most honorable office in the Roman re
public was that of consul. There were always
two elected every year, one each from the
patricians and plebeians. The consul must
be at least 43 years old and must have held the
office of quaestor, aedile and praetor. The
consuls were the heads of the republic, dis
charging all public functions, such as receiv
ing ambassadors or assembling the Senate.
Their insignia were those of a king except a
crown. They were always attended each by
twelve Uctors or servants, bearing the boxes
or bundles of rods with an ax in the center.
The lictors. however, preceded only one at a
time, the lictors of the other following him..
The year was named after them, and any
laws passed at their recommendation nlso
went by their names. They commanded the
armies of the republic, and when both were
with the same army they commanded on al
ternate days. Under the emperors the office
became an empty honor, though surrounded
with much greater state.
Man lived on this continent earlier than or
at least as early as he lived on the European
continent, but It is not believed that the In
dians are descended from such early people.
The latest theory seems to he that the so
called American Indians are descended from
Chinese, who in some way reached the wes
tern coast thousands of years ago. The par
allelisms between the customs of the Chinese
and the ancient Peruvians are often very
striking; the systems of government of the
two peoples were similar; the emperor and
the Inca both claimed descent from heaven;
both countries had irrigating canals, and iu
both countries taxes were paid in kind and
stored in public warehouses: both countries
maintained public roads, disposed of tbelr
dead with the same ceremonies and built
houses in much the same style. Humboldt
found In the Mexican calendar strong resem
blances to the ancient calendar used in Tar
tary. India and Thibet. The skull of the
American, except in its greater length, great
ly resembles that of the Chinese.
A successful system of producing artificial
ice surfaces has been inaugurated in Paris,
and available in large areas at all seasons of
the year, says the New York Sun. As
explained, the machinery consists of two am
monia ice machines, driven by two fifty-horse
power steam engines; this lee app iratus has
pumps which force ammoniaeat gas into
water-cooled condensers, liquefying the gas,
which then passes into large reservoirs,
where it expands with the production of cold,
the same gas being pumped back and used
continuously. In the application of this sys
tem for the formation of a skating surface, a
rink has been constructed 60x130 feet, having
a floor of cork and cement, upon this being
laid three miles of connected iron pipe;
through this pipe circulates a solution of
chloride of oalcium, an uncongealable liquid,
which, by passage through spirals in the
refrigerating reservoirs, is cooled to some 5
to 20 degrees below zero. The water over the
pipe is thus kept frozen, and dally sweeping
und flooding insure smoothness.
Sir Henry Bessemer, the well-known In
ventor of the steel process which bears his
name, tells how he tried to construct a "sun
furnace" and failed. His invention was in
tended to revolutionize not only the science of
metallurgy, but the whole world. It was to
attain a temperature of nearly 60 000 degrees,
and therefore fuse anything and everything,
and Sir Henry puts the blame of its failure to
fulfill these expectations on the stupidity of a
country lensmaker. The "sun furnace" con
slsted of a wooden building 85 feet high and
about 12 feet square. 'A few feet from the
ground was fixed a largo inclinable mirror for
catching the rays of the sun: from this mir
ror the rays were to be reflected onto a num
ber of powerful super Imposed lenses above,
which, by a simple arrangement, were to
throw the enormously concentrated rays upon
whatever object might he In the crucible be
low. Such was the mighty plan, but the
manufacturer of the upper glasses brought It
miserably to naught, for Instead of turning
them cut uniform he made them all different
and thus spoiled the focus. Sir Lenry was so
disgusted and disheartened that he refused to
go over the ground again and so the pre
tentious scheme lapsed, but the peculiar fur
nace remains to this day a remarkable monu
ment of what might have been.
Francis Galton has collected some interest
ing facts in regard to the effect of athletics
and improved physical conditions during the
last 40 years on the physique of the middle
classes, that great and important part of the
English population which in the arbitrary
social scale of the country lies between the
artisan < lass on one side, and the "upper ten
thousand" on the other. Mr. Galton gives In
structive evidence of the amelioration of the
upper middle class When he was an under
graduate at Cambridge from 1840 to 1844, says
the Pittsburg Dispatch, although but 5 feet
9% inches in height, he was taller than the
majority of his fellows. In addressing them
he habitually lowered his eyes, and. if In a
crowd, he would really see over the heads of
the people. Writing In 1893, he states that he
no longerpossesses these advantages. Altered
social conditions, in his opinion have helped
to improve the bodily power and address of
this class: such conditions, for instance, as
more wholesome and abundant food, better
cooking, warmer clothing, moderation in the
use of alcohol, better ventilated sleeping
rooms, more change through vacations, and
lastly, the healthy lives led by women In their
girlhood. One of the most striking sights in the
city of London Is the number of tall women that
are to be found In the fashionable parks dur
ing the season It Is more particularly among
the women of the upper classes that the im
proved conditions of the last two generations
have left their mark. Women of 5 feet 6
inches and 5 feet 8 Inches are common, and it
is not a very unusual occurrence to meet a
woman of 5 feet 10 inches, and even 6
feet. A gentleman well known In London so
ciety states that when he become of age
twenty years ago. his sister a tall and hand
some girl, was the tallest girl among the vis
iting acquaintances of the family, and now
she Is overtopped by nearly everyone of her
younger lady acquaintances. With this phys
ical progress there has been a corresponding
moral one The youth of what is called in
England "the leisure class' is not now so ad
dicted to the idle habits, the bad language
the gambling, and the unmanly amusements
of his forefathers. Exercise has taught him
to be choicer in his dress, and more lavish In
the use of water. The purer mental tone has
insensibly permeated more or loss other
grades of society, and the streets of large
English towns are not so thronged as they
were with drunken and dirty toughs ihe ;
prominence given to all bodily exploits by the
sporting and general press has likewise di
rected public attention to the question of
physical education, and has had an eminently
salutary Influence.
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