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SATURDAY. OCTOBER 14. 1893.
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INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Special Notices— Notice to the Public.
Henry Solomon & Son; Pine Grapes, Mutual
Cos operative Association; Notice of a Hill to
Prescribe the Registering of Voters in Chat
ham County; As t<A Crew of Hritish Steam
ship Azalea; Notice as to Lease of Yonge's
Hall, J. A. DeGaugh; A Henry Street Resi
dence on the Installment Plan.C. 11. Dorsett;
As to Bills Against H itish Steamship Clin
tonia; State and County Taxes, 1893; At Mon
days Auction. C. H. Dorsett.
Medical—Warner's Safe Cure.
To-day's Specials— Appel & Schaul.
ABOUT That Hat— B. H. Bevy & Bro.
Circular No. 231—Railroad Commission of
Georgia.
Amusements—Patti Rosa at the theater
Oct. 17
An Inspection of Our Stock—Falk
Clothing Company.
Seed Oats—W. 1). Simkins.
Speculation— C. F. Van Winkle & Cos.,
brokers, Chicago.
Come in To-day—Falk Clothing Company.
Cheap Column Adyehtisemknts—Help
Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Rent; For
Sale: Lost: Personal; Miscellaneous.
Another challenger for tho America's
cup has already announced his intention
of making an effort to secure the prize.
He is John Jameson, a wealthy whisky
distiller of London.
It is estimated by the world's fair peo
ple that ot the end of the six month's fair
period 20,000,000 admissions will have
been paid in at the pates. These admis
sions, however, will represent a total of
only 5,000,000 visitors.
Baron Gr incbaum, an Austrian noble
man with a record for betting wrong on
races and lighting duels, has succeed
ed in persuading a bluegrass belle, Miss
Lily Sherman, of Tennessee, daughter of
a rich liorsebreedcr, to become a baron
ess.
In current reports of the yacht races
we are told that the Vigilant showed to
the Valkyrie a clean pair of heels; again,
that the Vigilant outfooted the Valkyrie,
and a third time that the Vigilant had
two “legs' 1 on the Valkyrie. These tilings
suggest-the possibility that the beauties
may join the ballot after the races.
Senator Allen should have a silver
medal from his silver friends for his
record-breaking speech Thursday night.
There are not many men, except the ticket
sellers at the circus, who could talk con
tinuously for fourteen and one-half hours
and then look, talk and gesticulate as
though the speech had just begun.
The ponderous decorum of the Senate
was rudely shocked the other afternoon
by a long-haired visitor from the west in
the public gallery. During a period of in
creased dullness in the dull proceedings
the long-haired one arose and began to
sing: “Silver, silver, you're m.v joy;
Cockrell. Cockrell, you’re my boy.”
Cable dispatches tell us of anew ven
ture struck out upon by the young Em
perorof Germany. Ever intent on turn
ing an honest penny, he has now taken
steps to have the milk produced on his
farms at Potsdam sold at Berlin. Carts
bearing his name may be seen in the
streets of the capital, the drivers of
which retail the fluid to any one who
chooses to buy it. and as the milk is un
commonly good the sales are quite large.
There are prospects of some lively
times on the western coast of Soutli
America, as well as on the eastern coast.
The Peruvian congress has held several
secret sessions to discuss the regaining
from Chile of the provinces of Tacna and
Arica. As diplomatic negotiations be
tween the Spanish-American countries do
not amount to a great deal, it is alto
gether likely that lighting will result, if
Peru is in earnest with regard to getting
back her lost territory.
A week or so ago society at St. Paul,
Minn., was shocked when Jennie Mehl,
the daughter of a millionaire, eloped
with and married James Robinson, a
negro boy who had charge of the elevator
in her father’s hotel. The young woman
has had enough of her black charmer al
ready. and has consented to leave him
and enter a convent in New York. The
negro did not take kindly to the loss of
his wife at first, but a good sum of money
has persuaded him to consent to divorce
proceedings.
The farmers' alliance of lowa seems to
have broken away from Ignatius Don
nelly and the other silver extremists that
have been trying to dominate it. At the
state convention of the order held at Des
Moines this week tile silver men tried to
get tlirough a resolution favoring the
free coinage of silver, but failed. Then
the.\ tried to have adopted a resolution
fa voring the free coinage of American
silver, but that, too, was defeated by
nearly two to one. The sense of the con
vention was ascertained to be that the
farmers might as well ask the govern,
mom to grind their wheat into flour
without toll a S to have Lhe government
coin uietal kilo money free of charge.
Party Discipline.
The matter of the appointment of Mr.
, 11. F. Raker to the office of Cuited States
! gauger by Internal Revenue Collect
|or Trammell is one that should re-
I ceive the attentionof the state democratic
j committee. Mr. Baker, personally, is a
I clever gentleman; but it is asserted that
he is a populist, not a democrat. From
j what Mr. Sease and other populist lead
j ers hare been teaching in this state, and
what they have said about Georgia demo
crats, there is a deal of difference between
Mr. Baker's party and that to which Mr.
Trammell Is said to belong.
Ttye office to which Mr. Baker has been
appointed is not a very important one, it
is true; nevertheless the appointment of
a populist to that office is a dangerous rec
ognition of a dangerous political element.
And, furthermore, there are numbers of
straight democrats, competent men, who
would gladly have accepted the appoint
ment.
The Democratic party cannot afford to
have appointed to offices within its gift
men who in the last campaign had nothing
but abuse for democrats and who on elec
tion day did their utmost to assist demo
cratic defeat. No man should be ap
]>oin ted to office until his political record
has been investigated and his democracy
found unimpeachable. Rome few .years
since an important appointment in this
state was given to and held for years by a
man who took pleasure in stating on all
possible occasions (until he got an office),
that he was not a democrat. After his
appointment his declarations of political
faith were not so numerous. But In a
close congressional election he threw the
weight of his influence against the demo
cratic nominee.
Democrats owe it to themselves, as a mat
ter of self respect as well as a matter of
policy, to protest against the appointment
to office of men who are their political
opponents. It should be remembered that
in the south every effort towards the de
feat of the democracy is indirectly an
effort contributing to the success of the
Republican party and black domina
tion.
The only safe rule to be observed by
democrats with offices to bestow is this:
No man should be appointed who is not
and has not been at all times a demo
crat.
Overshadowed by the Senate.
Public anxiety rather than public in
terest, attends the long-drawn-out sen
atorial spectacle at Washington. That
the proceedings there have had the effect
to divert the popular attention from other
passing events is not due to anything like
national enthusiasm over the Sherman
repeal contest, which is viewed, on the
contrary, as reprehensible in respect of
the methods being resorted to by the ad
vocates of the silver folly.
But as a prolonged din will gradually
drown all other sounds, so the daily
droning of the senatorial session in effect
supersedes all other political noises.
Thus it becomes timely to point to the
fact that hot party contests are proceed
ing in several of the states, and that elec
tions are to occur within three weeks in
some of the greater of them. And it may
be worth while to note that the campaign
in Ohio presents especial aspects as being
represented in the republican guberna
torial candidate by the sponsor of the
McKinley protective tariff, while the
democratic candidatp is Laurence T.
Neal, the author of the tariff reform
plank of the Chicago platform on which
Mr. Cleveland was elected President.
Why Stewart Is Wroth.
Senator Stewart is reported to be very
angry with Secretary Carlisle. The
reason is that the secretary persists in
making bids for silver bullion, naming
the market rate, instead of accepting the
offerings of the silver miners at their own
figures. Senator Stewart thinks the value
of a commodity is the price at which it is
offered, instead of the price that is offered
for it. He wishes the treasury depart
ment to be compelled to purchase 4,">00,000
ouncesof silver every month, at the pro
ducer’s price, regardless of the market
value.
It is easy enough to perceive what in
fluences Senator Stewart. He is a silver
producer, and wishes to sell his output
for the best price he can get for it. And
he is using his official position and influ
ence to force the grovernment to buy his
wares, whether it wants them or not. As
a matter of fact it does not want them at
the terms proposed by the senator from
Nevada and his colleagues from the other
silver-producing states.
Secretary Carlisle has been offering
the American silver producers the price
at which he could obtain silver in for
eign markets. If the holders of Ameri
can silver declined to sell at those figures,
and thereby cut down the total of pur
chases. it surely was not the secretary’s
fault. Ho could, probably, have sent
telegraphic orders abroad for purchases
to make up tho deficiency. But what
would the silverltes have said to that?
Would not they have sent up a howl!
The silver miners are greedy. They cal
culate to tho end of self interest every
time, and a number of United States
senators are backing them up in their
schemes.
The new elections bill proposed in the
Austrian reichsrath will, if passed, ex
tend the franchise to about 3,000,000 per
sons who at present are not voters. The
classes included in the bill are those who
have taken part iu a war against an en
emy of Austria, or persons who have re
ceived medals for active service and
whose time has expired; non-combatants,
and all workingmen and taxpayers who
are able to read and write, who have per
formed military service and have lived
six months in the same district. The bill
is looked upon as opening an era of par
liamentary reform.
Gov. Tillman instituted a shrewd stroke
of policy when he directed his whisky
deputies to obtain the consent of the
federal court before attempting a search
of property in the court’s hands. It is
safe to say that the consent of the court
will not bo withheld where the deputies
have good grounds for suspecting the law
is being violated; but if the deputies had
continued to ignore the court iu the cases
of railroads in the court’s hands, the re
sult would have been almost endless con
flirts of authority.
The Vesuvius, the scientifically con
structed pneumatic dynamite cruiser, is
at worn upon a job that a lugger might
do. She is blowing up derelicts, employ
ing the old fashioned gun cotton cartridge
detonated by an electric battery.
THE MORNING NEWS: SATURDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1893.
The Vesuvius.
The other day in congress, during a
desultory debate, a member took occasion
to denominate the dynamite cruiser Ve
suvius as in effect a monumental naval
, failure.* Whereupon another member
I arose to champion that vessel as in all re
| speets a marvelous specimen of American
skill and ingenuity.
Both of these gentlemen were correct,
from their respective standpoints. The
Vesuvius is entirely unlike any other war
ship in model and purpose, and her speed,
shapeliness and possibilities are in.all re
spects unique. Odd enough, she was de
signed and constructed for the effective
operation of a peculiar projectile, instead,
as is the rule, of having her armament
adapted to the style and capacity of the
ship after the latter had been completed.
The Vesuvius, therefore, typifies in all
particulars the excellences of naval
architecture, for which this coun
try is being distinguished, and her curious
fixed armanent of air compression guns,
without pivotal appliances of any kind,
and without carriages, has been shown by
official tests to be exact in their accuracy
aud almost unvarying in their aim.
But here the Vesuvius rests the argu
ments of her merits. For it happens
that the projectile, the dynamite shell,
which she was contrived to lodge with
deadly and widespread destructiveness,
failed of the purpose for which it was de
vised The object of this projectile was
that it should be so susceptible to percus
sion that on being plunged into the water
its fuse would ignite and explode the con
tents of the shell. At the same time it
was essential that tho initial shock
should not actuate this explosion at the
muzzle of the gun. The air-compression
cylinders, on frequent experiment, were
found to be equal to this latter prevention,
but contact with so slight a re
sistance as that offered by
water surface was found insufficient
to ignite the shell fuse; and the tests were
abandoned as being regrettable, though
not irreparable, failures so far as the fuse
alone was concerned.
Of course, this was by all means the
most important feature of the tests; but
it remains that the Vesuvius, a symmet
rical and useful naval structure, with an
armament altogether unlike any other in
the world, is in ordinary, awaiting the
genius of American invention, which is
surely to originate a fuse so sensitive to
combustion that, while it will not ignite
upon the impact of discharge, it can be
depended upon to do so at the slightest
contact after leaving the gun.
For the Safety of Shipping.
The protection afforded to vessels dur
ing the storm of August 27-28 and that of
yesterday and the night before by the
Central railroad's slip suggests that
other and similar places would be of great
advantage to the commerce of the port.
What is known as the Central’s slip is
really a basin formed by the digging out
of the mouth of Musgrove creek and
erecting wharves and sheds on each
side thereof. The basin is wide, deep
and secure, and in it steamers and sail
ing craft receive and discharge cargoes
free from many of the inconveniences
incident to the loading or unloading of
vessels lying at the wharves along the
river front.
Similar slips, or basins, could be con
structed on Hutchinson's Island or at the
rice plantations above and below the
city. A slip similar to that at the Cen
tral's wharves built at the quarantine
station, with high wharf-heads, would
afford safety to vessels detained at that
point.
Such improvements, however, cannot
bo made now, or even in the near future;
but they are matters worthy of careful
consideration. For they will surely de
mand attention in days to come; prob
ably when the enterprise and energy of
another generation shall dominate Sa
vannah affairs.
Recently a race of some thirty miles
was run in Germany between a bicyclist
and a thoroughbred race-horse under
saddle. The man on the wheel won. The
object was to test whether training for
races made a thoroughbred horse a good
“stayer" or merely a sprinter. During
the first part of the race the horse ran
away from the man, butas the miles were
left behind the man closed up tho gap and
quit an efcgy winner. Buffalo Bill's
challenge for a two-hour's race between
one of his horses and an athlete on a
wheel will probably result, in a test of
“bottom,"or staying power, in the horse
after different training. Buffalo Bill's
horses from the plains of the west;
not beauties all, but wonders for strength
and endurance. Their training has been
of a totally.different character from the
training of track racers, and one of them
may be able to accomplish against the fly
ing wheel what the high strung thor
oughbreds failed to do.
• r ~
Delegate Rawlins of Utah, says the
proposition to annex Utah to Nevada and
make one respectable state of the two
respectable in so far as the total of popu
lation is concerned—will amount to noth
ing, Tho people of both the state and the
territory, he says, are opposed to the
scheme, the people of Nevada especially.
The consolidation, among other disadvan
tages, would make a state 1,000 miles
wide, the only communication from one
side to the other of which would be across
a desert hundreds of miles wide. There
is, however, a bill in the House providing
for the annexation.
Anent the delay in the Senate, the
Philadelphia Record, observes: “The
question is whether -the courtesy of the
Senat’ or the Senate itself shall
be abolished. The couutry can
not possibly longer afford both
of these luxuries, aud must dispense
with one or the other of them." It is
idle to talk about abolishing the Senate.
Nothing short of a revolution could over
throw that body, and we are not going to
have a revolution. At tho same time, it
is in order to top off a lot of the “sena
torial courtesy.”
A remarkable case of blood poisoning
occurred in New York this week. A doc
tor who had an abrasion upon his finger
attended an autopsy upon a victim of ap
pendicitis, An undertaker handled the
corpse. When the doctor was leaving he
shook hands with tho undertaker. Blood
poiaoning set in next day, and the doctor
will lose hi arm op'his life. It is supposed
tbut some of the |K>ison from the corpse ad
hered to the undertaker s baud aud was
transferred to the doctor's soro finger dur
ing their handshake.
PERSONAL.
M. Sarcey declines to be a candidate for the
French Academy because his ejection would
interfere with his freedom of opinion. Sarcey
as ever.
Mrs. Ada M. Bittenbender, the prohibition
candidate for supreme judge of Nebraska, is
in the law practice at Lincoln with her hus
band as senior partner of the firm. She is a
native of Bradford county, Pennsylvania,
about 45 years of age. and a very bright,
well-educated woman.
Mr. John B. Frye of New York tells the
Washington Post that he was in the capitol
on the day John Quincy Adams died. “I was
close by him when he fell, says Mr. Frye.
and as I loaned over him I heard him utter
his famous last words. This is the last of
earth; lam content. Many thought he said
I am compose, but he did not.’ ”
J. J. Van Alen physically is anything hut
an effeminate dilettante. In height he is a
trifle a;,ove the medium; his shoulders are
broad, his chest deep, and arms long. The
upper portion of his body conveys the idea of
a man of more than ordinary physical
strength. His legs are musculur and his feet
stand planted firmly, a- if ther owner were
read,- for-a wrestle. He is 47 years old, a
widower, and worth about 112,000,000.
Rev. Elijah Kellogg, the author of “Sparta
cus" and "Regulus to the Cathaginians,” Is
still preaching every Sunday, although he is
past eighty, in the little church at Harpswell.
Me., over which he presided when a young
man The people of his congregation will not
let him retire. “Why.' exclaimed one of his
admirers the other day, it does more good to
hear him say amen' than it does to hear
these young fellows preach a whole sermon. ’
Wurd McAllister has been heard from on
the Van Alen matter—thus: “His appoint
ment by President Cleveland is most accept
aole to society. It has always been a matter
of great mortification to Americans visiting
Rome that the representative of their govern
ment has not been a. man accustomed to the
social usages of good society." should Van
Alen be confirmed McAllistei probably will
be made chief cook and butler extraordinary
to the legation.
A part of the last letter ever written by
Stonewall Jackson is in the possession of an
old confederate soldier in Charleston, W. Va.
The letter was written by Jackson after his
wound received on the fateful field of Chan
cellorsville to the poetess. Mrs. Margaret .1.
Preston, the sister of his first wife. Here are
the closing lines of the letter: "But God's
time is the best time, and I thank Him for
enabling me to say that His time Is my own”
and then upon the other side is the signature,
"Your brother, Thomas Jackson."
BRIGHT BITS.
Teacher—Define memory.
Dull Boy— lt s what we always has till we
come to speak a piece.—Good News.
“What do wedding rings cost?”
“Oh, about $8 apiece in New York, or |75 a
dozen in Chicago.”— Kate Field's Washing
ton.
"This Krupp gun is the largest cannon in
the world.”
“But I suppose the Ferris wheel is the larg
est revolver.”—World's Fair Puck.
She—lt sno sign because a girl is engaged
to a man that she is willing to marry him.
He—No; but it is a sign that the man is
willing to run the chances.—Vogue.
Mrs. Pruner—Have you got acquainted in
the church yet?
Mrs. Prim—Yes. indeed! I already belong
to one of the oldest factions in it.—Plain
Dealer.
•'Borely has moved to the country, and he's
kicking because his nearest neighbor is a
quarter of a mile away." "If the neighbors
know Borely they won’t kick.”—Philadelphia
Record.
He—Wifey. lam taking part in a balloon
ascent to-morrow.
She—l have no objections, love, only don't
forget to bring me something nice when you
come back. —Fliegende Blaetter.
As days grow short and nights grow chill,
Mosquitoes by the dozens
Come swarming in with sharpened bill,
To see their city cousins.
—Kansas City Journal.
Dukane—The Parliament of Religions is
attracting a great deal of attention at Chi
cago.
Gaswell—Yes; religion is a good deal of a
curiosity in that city.—Pittsburg Chronicle
Telegraph.
Daughter (pleading for her lover) —Bat,
father. I'm sure it s not my money he is after.
He says he would marry me if I was ever so
poor!
Stern and Prosaic Parent—Yes; he looks as
if he had no better sense.—Puck.
She—l’ve had grave doubts of the janitor’s
being perfectly sane.
He—Why?
She—For three mornings now he has turned
on enough steam to make the rooms perfectly
comfortable.—Chicago Inter-Ocean.
“You are very fond of coffee.” said a New
York landlady to the new boarder when he
passsed up his cup for tfye third time
“Not at all." he responded cheerfully, “but
my doctor has recommended me to try the
hot water cure for dyspepsia.’’—Texas Sift
ings.
Tommy—Here's a queer word, nurse. It’s
spelled m-u-l-c-t-e-d.
Nurse (gazing long and earnestly at it)—l
can t make it out. , oinmy. unless it s some
new dood way of spellin'mustard. I knowed a
man in Oirland onct what spelled his nan e
Charlie Mandelay, but called it Chumly.
May be this is one of his spellin s.—Harper's
Bazar.
Uncle George—lnstead of wearing dia
monds, don t you think it would oe more be
coming to pay your tailor bills?
llarry—But if I paid my tailor bills how
could I afford to weir diamonds? And if peo
ple didn t buy diamonds what would keep the
diamond merchants from starving to death?
Uncle George -But you don't pay for your
diamonds either.
Harry—Ah! now you are wandering from
the point.—Boston Transcript.
CURRENT COMMENT.
The Only Honest Way to Make Money.
From the Galveston News (Dem.).
An honest man is going to find it exceed
ingly difficult to discover a better way to
make money than the old-fashioned method of
earning it.
A Political Paradox.
From the Springfield Republican (Ind.).
Y’ou ll be smashed if you do and smashed if
you don't repeal the silver act—is the message
that is coming to the democracy respectively
from the demo, racy in the south and north.
And both may be right.
Democrats and Silver Monometallists.
From the Atlanta Journal (Dem.).
The democrats of Georgia see no reason why
they should extend enthusiastic welcome to
the so-called bimetallic convention, which is
to meet in Atlanta, in view of the fact that it
is announced to be for the purpose of found
ing anew party, lhe democratic party is
good enough for us yet a while.
Cheap Money.
From the Philadelphia Ledger (Ind,).
Senator I’elTer has introduced, by "request,"
a bill in congress providing for the manufact
ure of paper and metallic money to the
amount of iC.000,000.000. One-tenth of this
money deluge, or S6OO. 0 >,OOO is to go to the
treasuries of the respective states, pro rata
according to population, and ihence to the
counties for the improvement of school
houses road betterment and other local pub
lic purposes. Everybody who wants to work
is to lie employed at $4 for an eight hour”
day’s labor. Under such a scheme of finan
cial ballooning the $4 wages would not buy a
vest pocketful of groceries. That is the
trouble with this modest proposition.
“Business and Politics.”
From the Charleston News and Courier
(Dem.).
Probably the business men of the United
States have never realized before as they do
now how nearly business and politics are re
lated. It has t een too much the fashion for
our merchants and dealers to say. "Oh 1 have
nothing to do with politics." The crisis of
thq past summer, the suddenness with which
partial relief was Obtained by even inchoate
financial legislation and the evident loss of
a part of that relief by the failure to complete
the remedial legislation have taught them a
lesson however, whleh It is to be hoped they
will never forget Having failed In the past
to take care that men should lie elected to
congrea* who hud some knowledge of tlnau
dal affairs they are now forced to exert them
selves to the utmost to bring what Influ
ence* they can to hear on the meu who
have been elected to induce them to legislate
in such a manner us to save the country trow
catastrophe.
People Who Had Nerve.
"That fellow,” said a man to a Buffalo Ex
press reporter, "has the coldest nerve I ever
heard of.”
"What did he do?" asked a friend.
■ Owes me a hundred and has owed it to me
for three years Tried to borrow another
from me.”
Huh!” said the friend, “that man's nerve is
infantile compared to that of a young fellow
who was brought up with me. He had the
most gigantic nerve that was ever placed in
a man's tody. He lived in New York and got
out of a job. He wandered around for days
looking for another one and could not find It.
He got disgusted with mankind. He fin
agtned that everybody's hand was against
him. He slept in the parks and lived
on free lunches. One day he was
walking down a street on which a goed
many of the wholesale houses are situated,
and he saw that one firm was having an old
slide which ran down from the walk to the
cellar taken out and anew one put in. It
was one of those curved-iron affairs that
most big firms use to get boxes and bales
into their cellars. The wholesale house was
on the corner, i e walked around on tho
side street and saw the old slide lying there
beside the walk. He went uptown and en
gaged two trucks, telling the men he would
pay them after the job was done. At high
noon he went down o that place with his
trucks, loaded the old slide on to the trucks
and drove off. Nobody molested him. Every
-1 ody thoi ght that he had bought it. He
took the stide to a dealer in junk and sold it
for old iron lor S3OO. paid his truckmen and
walked away. That money put him on his
feet. /He got a job and is to-day a respected
businessman. That was nerve.”
"That reminds me of a similar exhibition
of the same article," said a bystander. "A
fellow drifted into Rochester once. He was
broke. He could get nothing to do and he
was hungry. He was walking upon East
Main street one day and he saw a farmer
drive by with a load of bogs. The hogs put
an idea into his head. He went down the
street farther and waited. Another farmer
came by with a load of hogs. He stepped out
and began to dicker with him. The upshot of
the matter was that he bonght the hogs at a
good price and told the farmer to deliver them
at a certain store down the street. The
farmer drove there and unloaded them by the
side of the store He was to come back at
night for his pay. The man who bought
them hired a truck, came up and took the
hogs away, sold them to a down-town butch
er. paid his truckman, and skipped. I don t
know whether he was ever caught or not,”
Royal Book-Buyer.
Count Hordt, a Swede who served In the
Prussian army, was taken prinsoner by Rus
sia. and was imprisoned at St. Petersburg
during the reign of the Empress Elizabeth,
says the Youth’s Companion. The Emperor
Peter. Elizabeth's successor, released him
and invited him to dinner. "Were you at
least well-treated during your captivity?
Speak without febr," said the emperor.
"Very badly." replied the Swede. “I was not
even allowed books."
Here a voice cried emphatically, “That was
indeed barbarous!” It was the voice of the
Empress Catherine 11. Catherine was a great
reader and a lover of books. Her sympathy
with the Swedish prisoner was genuine.
One of her services to letters in Russia was
the purchase of the libraries of Voltaire and
Diderot. She was a warm friend and admirer
of these French philosophers, and their work
interested her because sbe was eager to learn
new theories of politics and government. Vol
taire's library of about 7.000 volumes is now
a part of the Russian imperial library in the
Hermitage palace, and In the hall devoted to
it is Houdon s statue of Voltaire.
The story of Catherine's purchase of Did
erot's library is interesting. It is creditable
to her tact and her generosity. Diderot
named £15,000 as the price of his li
brary. Catherine 11. offered him 18,000, and
named as a condition of the bargain that her
purchase should remain with Dider t until
his death. Thus Diderot, without leaving
Paris became Catherine’s librarian in his
own library. As her librarian he was given a
yearly salary of 1,000 pounds.
One year this salarv was not paid. Then
Catherine wrote to her librarian that she
could not have him or her library suffer
through the negligence of a treasurer's clerk,
and that she should send him the sum that
she had set aside for the care and increase of
her library for fifty years. At the end of that
period she would make new arrangements. A
check for £25,000 accompanied this let
ter.
A Courteous Emperor.
Our Vienna correspondent, says the Loudon
News, learns from Ischl of the following inci
dent. which is reported to have happened a
few days before the Emperor Joseph left that
lovely mountain city for the maneuvers in
Galicia. Two American ladies in Ischl have
a maid with them who is a quadroon, speak
ing very imperfect German, and whose-duty
it is to lead a beautifhl little daohsund by a
chain. When the ladies were out walking
one morning the dog tore himself away and
disappeared into a thicket. The girl guessed
that the dog had entered private grounds, but
jumped over the hedge and followed him. Sud
denly an elderly officer stood before her and
asked her what she was looking for. she
told him and he said: "We must call him;
that will bring him back faster than running
after him. What is his name?” “Wallman,"
was the reply. The officer took a silver whis
tle out of his pocket, and alternately called
and whistled for the dog. who did not respond,
though he was heard barking hoarsely in the
distance. Then a forest guard came, and the
officer told him to find the dog, and asking
the quadroon where the ladies lived told the
man to take it to tho hotel she named. He
then bowed politely and went his way. The
quadroon asked the forest guard who the gen
tleman was. When he told her "that was our
emperor.” she left him to look for the dog by
himself and ran back to tell the ladies. In
the evening an imperial servant appeared at
the hotel to ask whether the dog had been
found.
Stewart of Nevada.
Old Senator Stewart the patriarch from
Nevada, produces about two speeches per day
in the Senate chamber, says a Washington
dispatch to the Chicago Herald. No one
l'slens to him except the official stenogra
pher, and he is paid a big salary for doing it.
As scoa as Stewart rises, addresses the
chair and begins shaking his long, bony, fin
gers everyone wiihin hearing flees from the
punishment to come or takes refuge in book
or newspaper. Even the silver senators are
disgusted and pained when the old man takes
the floor. They wish they could suppress
him. but, unfortunately, under the rules of
the Senate debate, whether individual or col
lective. is a thing not to be suppressed. Mr.
.-tewart sc< League, Senator Jones is one of
the great story tellers of the Senate and he
has some quaint and breezy language in
whuhto express his opinions of men and
things. When Mr. Stewart grew unusually
earnest and dramatic during his attack upon
President Cleveland the other day. throwing
his arms wildly about, gazing tragically (at
the ceil n rolling his eyes and howling like
a half starved coyote at dawn. Mr Jones
went into the cloakroom and said to some of
his fellow senators: “When old Stewart gets
out in the middle aisle and shakes his whis
kers at the Almighty the rest of us take to
the woods.
Heart-Beats.
Mary E. Benjamin in the Independent.
"The wolf at the door," my friend!
The wolf at the door!
It has never been near before.
I have heard only the growl,
And the far-distant howl:
But It is nearing the door, my friend.
O! close it—-and bar it—my friend!
O! the wolf at the door!
Its fangs they are covered with gore.
And its clutch will be strong,
And Its hold will be long;
And it is nearing the door, my friend.
When it passes the door, my friend,
The wolf passes the door;
When it enters my heart’s core,
Will you friendly be still.
Through ruth and through ill.
When it has pa-sed the door, my friend
The wolf, passed the door?
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not sufficient to satisfy their necessities. If
only grain is fed to fowls whose natural food
is partly animal—chiefly insects and worms—
there will baa longing for other food as a
substitute, and the eggs furnish this.
An English sparrow met a curious ana un
timely death in London recently in trying to
take a drink of water from the famous Tem
ple fountain. A gold fish, it is declared by
witnesses, jumped up and seized the bird by
the leg. A second fish did likewise by the
bird's other leg aud between them the spar
row was dragged down and drowned.
The three Slavic states of Russia, Rou
mania and Servia are said to possess
the highest percentage of illiteracy
of any in the world. Eighty
per cent, of the people are unable to
read or write. Of the Latin-speaking races
Spain heads the list with 48 per cent, France
aid Belgium having about 15 per cent, Aus
tria 30 and Ireland 21. In England the per
centage is 13, Holland 10, United States 8 and
Scotland 7.
A great English firm of hatters send their
wares all over the world, and In doing so
have a good chance to study the distinctive
features of the heads of the various nationali
ties. A synopsis of their studies is given be
low: German beads short and round, aver
a;e head measure 22 inches; English, well
shaped, rather long, average hat, which
means a head measuring 22.77 inches; Scotch,
long and thin; Canadians exceptionally
large; average United States head and hat
same as English. South Americans and
Australians have very small heads, seldom
measuring over 20 inches.
Mrs. Abby B. Sheldon was among the ear
liest women to register and to vote in her ward
of New Haven, Conn., under the new school
law. Judge Sheldon, one of the most faithful
workers for equal rights in Connecticut, made
an able plea this year, as usual, before the
legislative committee, for the passage of the
bill, and then went with his family to Chi
cago, expecting the usual defeat. Their sur
prise and delight were great when they
learned from the papers the passage of the
bill. Judge and Mrs. Sheldon and their two
daughters all went to the polls together and
cast their votes. This shows that families are
not necessarily divided by politics.
TheJavenese manner of settling quarrels
is original, says Harpers’ Bazar. When one
man has offended another, the injured party
gives notice that he is angry by drawing in
the sand before the door of the offender a cir
cle with a straight line across it, indicating
that his affection, which would have been
eternal, has been cut in two. Friends of both
parties then shut them up. They parley
awhile, then pretend to ba born again, prat
tle as little children, and, finally, as men, be
come reconciled and embrace. Should one
be refractory and refuse to be conciliated, he
is ostracized by the community so effectually
that he is soon brought to terms. It is just
possible that our enlightened citizens might
consider this method better than knock-down
arguments, and certainly much cheaper than
going to law.
Christopher Evans, who not long ago was
figuring as a desparado terrorizing southern
California, and is now in jail at Fresno, has
written an essay on the treatment and punish
ment of criminals. He Is a well educated
man. and writes like a close observer of the
criminal life which he has seen in prison. The
main criticism he makes of the California
system is that it is too indulgent to the crimt
nal, feeding him well and requiring only light
work of him. No attempt is made to oure
the drunkard to reform the vagabond, or to
set the thief a good example, and the result of
this treatment is that when released he goes
back to society to make himself a nuisance or
to prey upon it. Some of Evans’ suggestions
are as follows: "A change in the
penal code by which every person
serving out a sentence should
work ten hours a day, Sundays excepted, and
that every person convicted of crime be kept
in the county where he committed it until re
leased from custody. The pardoning power,
he says, should in every case rest with the
people of the county, and the question of ex
ercising it should be decided by them on elec
tion day. The penalty for all offei s-s should
be fixed he thinks, by a jury, for the men
who fl nd a person guilty are the proper per
sons to know how much he ought to be pun
Ished." As to the treatment of criminals In
prison, he would have the young separated at
all times from the old and hardened, and a
study made of Individual cases, with a view
of preparing convicts to take a useful place
in society when they return to it.
Somewhat similar mast have been the re
gard in which old world patrons of the turf
held their race horses when they could be
stow upon them such outlandish names as
were in vogue at the end of the last ct ntury,
says the London Telegraph. Here, for in
stance, are a few specimens, and we regret to
add that for some of them the Rt. Bon.
Charles James Fox. the greatest orator of his
day. was solely responsible. Their general
character may. however, be gauged from the
following instances,all of them culled from old
"racing calendars ' published before 1800
The "Mr. Lowther” of that day did not dis
dain to start a mare named Jack. I ll i'ickle
Thee, and was supported by a Mr. Read w.tb
another called Jack. Come Tickle Me. Next
we come across I Am Little. Pity My Condi
tlon: Why Do You Slight Me; Watch Them
and Catch Them; Turn About- Tomme: Kick
Him, Jenney; Admiral, WhipMe Well; Peggy
Grieves Me. Hop, Step, and Jump: Jenny.
Come Tye Me: Kiss Me in a Corner. Sweetest
When Clothed, Look About You, Jack at a
Pinch. Long Looked For, Labor in Vain
Loves Labor Lost. Fear Not Victorious.
Willing and Weak. A Laughing Woman with
Two Black Eyes. Invincible True Blue, I arry
Till I Come. Whistle and 111 Come to You
Smirking Nancy, Smiling Molly, Salisbury
Steeple. Run Now, or Hunt Forever; Pollv
Be Steady; Petticoat Tight Round Ankles
Once More at a Venture. One Hundred to
One, My Wife's Fancy, Miss Hot Upon It
Miss Make the Play, Look at Me. Lads, Last
Time of Asking, Kitty Cut a Dash. B’oxhunto
ribus. Fal de Ral Lai. Cold and Raw, Bounce
About Boniface. Such are some few names
selected from a long list.
The new law just adopted in Switzerland
which forbids the slaughter of cattle by the
Jewish method has naturally caused the
greatest Indignation and consternation
among the 8.000 or 9.000 inhabitants of the
Hebrew faith. The law is to this effect: "The
killing of animals without their being stunned
before blood ls drawn is forbidden, without
exception, whatever be the method em
ployed.” Not a word in this enactment al
ludes dliectly to the Jews, but its object
says the New York Evening Post, was
avowedly anti-Semitic. Promoted by so
cieties which ostensibly have no othor pur
pose than to prevent cruelty to animals it
is declared to be really the outcome of an
anti Semitic agitation imported from Ger
many. Ihe victory was chiefly gained in
the German cantons, where Jewish trade
competition is most severely felt—Zurich
Berne, Aargau, and Thurgau. Those
of Latin kinship -Valais, Neuchatel
Geneva. Vaud, Frtburg—sided with
the cause of popular liberty. Onlv
about half the population—3oo.ooo out of
60b,000 went to the poll. Even of this num
ber it is supposed that but a small percentage
realized what the.' were voting for For
twenty years an agit ition has existed on the
continent for the prohibition of the Jewish
method of slaughtering animals, on the
grounds of its alleged cruelty. The move
ment met with a cold reception in the Berlin
parliament. In Saxony it had better success
There the Jewish "shechita" has eon de
clared illegal by an order of the minister of
the interior. The agitation next spread to
Switzerland The Gorman socioties for the
protection of animals induced the municipal
governments of Aargau and Berne to issue a
similar order, but the national council re
voked It. The cantonal fathers then ca-rled
their case before the federal assembly, which
confirmed the action of the council. There
upon the agitators availed themselves of the
referendum. It is worthy of note that the
anti Semites found their warmest support
among the Luth ran part of the population
but were opposed by the Roman Catholics
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