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SUNDAY. OCTOBER 15. 1893.
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THIS ISSUE
CONTAINS
SIXTEEN PAGES
INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Meetings- Ladies’ Auxiliary of the Y. M.
H. A ; Chatham Real Estate and Improve
ment Company.
Special Notices Mis. Mary L. Silva,
Teacher of Piano and Voice; Service Pipe
Connection, Free of Cost by Mutual Gaslight
Company; Be Gaugh's Hall for Rent; Pilot
Boat for Sale. Fred W. Hoyt & Cos., Fernan
dina, Fla.; Notice of Residence for Sale. J. B.
S. Holmes. M. D., Rome. Ga.; The Latest
Fall Fashions, Miss Mary L. Hines; Do You
Want a Fine Home? Appel & Schaul; Wheel
men’s Races, Oct. 16-17; Le Panto Cigars.
Wm. G. Cooper; New Preserves, Etc., Estate
S. W. Branch; Savannah Savings Hank, Cor
ner St. Julian and Whitaker Streets; Savan
nah Steam Laundry; The Best Collars and
Cuffs, Falk Clothing Company; Bill of Fare,
Solomon's Restaurant.
.Everybody—Falk Clothing Company.
Ckockery. Glassware and House Fur
nishings—Jas. S. Silva.
Vigilant and Victorious—L. & B. S.
M. H.
Steamboat Schedule—Steamer Alpha.
No Question About It—Moyer & W *.lsh.
Gloves, Underwear. Etc.—At Gutman's.
Here's Our Bulletin for tiie Week—
Crohan & Dooner.
Mill inert —At Krouskoff's.
Heal Estate Offers—Edw. W. Brown &
Cos.
Underwear Reform—Appel & Schaul.
Winter is Not Far Off—James Douglass.
We Sell Clothing—B. H. Levy & Bro.
To Force Large Sales—At Eckstein's.
You Cannot Do It!—Leopold Ad er.
Shoemakers and Leather Dealers—W.
E. Vinson & Cos
New Goods Evert Week—Bon Marohe, I.
Levkowu'Z.
The Reliabi.e Furniture and carpet
House of Savannah—Emil A. Sohwaz.
A Great Occasion In dress Goods—Foye
& Morrison.
Auction Sales—Steamers Camusl and
Bessie, by C. 11. Dorsett.
Linch Pin—Byck Bros.
Cheap Column Advertisements—Help
Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Rent; For
Sale: Lost; Personal: Miscellaneous.
Ex-Consul Folsom, whom the repub
lican papers delight to refer to as “Cousin
Ben," has recently married and will set
tle down at Omaha. He has had enough
of foreign life.
A cricket item in a Boston paper says
that “Clark snicked for a single.” Will
the sporting writers tear the English
language to tatters before they finish with
it? It really looks as though they would.
Arrangements have been made in Phil
adelphia for the laying of ti.ooo miles of
conduits for underground wires within
the next six months; yet there are peo
ple and companies operating electric cir
cuits who say that it is not practicable to
put the wires under ground.
It is possible that Secretary Smith has
already delayed too long in the matter of
sending teachers of milking to the untu
tored children of the western plains. It
is rumored that Big Foot’s braves, at the
Pine Ridge reservation, and other war
riors at Standing Rock, have given signs
of making trouble in the near future. Let
the milking school be opeued at once,
before it is everlastingly too late.
Thousands of the striking English
coal-miners are returning to work on the
basis suggested by the recent conference
of mayors. The men are to get the old
rate of wages until December, when they
will accept a reduction of 10 per cent.
In the meantime the masters will ad
vance money and provisions to meet
pressing necessities, to be paid for by pe
riodical deductions from the wages of the
miners.
The Columbus (Miss.) Dispatch com
pliments the progressive young women of
that city, saying they “deserve a great
deal of credit for their energy and anxiety
to make their own livelihood. Several
young school girls were observed out on
Monday collecting for Relatives who are
members of well-known business firms.”
This causes the Memphis Commercial to
remark that “no matter in what sphere
she is found, the southern girl always
takes the lead.”
The statement is made, and is given for
what it is worth, that Senator Frye has
undergone a change of heart and will not
lead a filibustering fight against the dem
ocratic tariff bill. -At first he was in
clined to make such a move, and he had
the support of the greater iiortion of the
republican minority. There will, howev
er, according io the Baltimore Sun, “be
filibustering in the Senate against the
federal elections bill, and while this delay
may affect the tariff measure, there is
hope held out that the tariff bill will be
passed in time to L put iuto effect by
May 1, wh.eh all of the democratic lead
en* dealre."
Fulfilling: Its Fledges.
Had not President Cleveland' called
congress to meet in extraordinary session
in August, the coming together of that
•body would have occurred, under the law,
five months later, or on the first Monday
in December. In that event, many months
later than the present date the initiatory
routine of organization, the appointment
of committees and the election of Senate
and House officials, with many other inci
dents of preparation for the session's work,
would not have been accomplished and the
regular business of the two houses
would have made no substantial headway
until after the Christmas holidays or in
January next.
As it is, all these preliminary formali
ties were perfected two months ago, hun
dreds of bills have been calendared and
two important measures in perfect conso
nance with two of the most salient
pledges of the Chicago platform have
been overwhelmingly passed by the lower
house.
It may do for the opponents of democ
racy to carp about delays and reluctance
among the democrats to meet the vital
issues invited by themselves in the cam
paign of 1892, and on which the party
swept the country in unparalleled tri
umph ; it may suit republicans and popu
lists, and eveu that weak faction of milk
and-water adherents which often ham
pers rather than helps a party in suprem
acy—that is to say, democrats who are
democrats only because democracy is on
top—to deride or deprecate the appar
ently snail-like progress of reforms which
in heart they have never wished to see
achieved. But no devoted democrat who
loves his party for its truths and tra
ditions, and who never aban
doned it in its defeat, can view the faith
ful work going on with determined and
undeviating zeal —slow though the steps
may of necessity be—without experienc
ing a just and patriotic pride in the su
premacy of his party and in the fact
that behind it beats the great heart of
the American people.
And there is every reason to believe
that every several promise on which de
mocracy ascended to rulership in the
nation will be redeemed in spirit and in
fact. Already the popular branch of
congress has voted to obliterate from the
statutes both the federal elections laws
and the silver-purchasing abomination.
In the Senate, where the party’s ma
jority is little more than nominal, these
results will In due time be ratified, and
the seal of approval awaits both at the
hand of the great statesman and great
democrat who awaits in the white house
the consummation of the full
ness of those reforms which,
from Alpha to Omega, he was
elected to fulfill and which, in every par
ticular, are to be fulfilled.
Southern Immigration.
Mr. Clarence P. Day, trice-president
and business manager of the Manufactur
er’s Record Publishing Company, Balti
more, who was in the city on Friday, is
traveling through the south in the inter
est of an immigration scheme inaugura
ted by the Record. Its plan of inducing
immigration to this section contemplates
assistance by railroads in the matter of
roduced .rates and by landowners who
may be willing to sell their holdings to
settlers.
The Record will have the hearty co
operation—and the blessings also, if they
will do any good—of every white man in
the southern states if it suggests a practi
cable and successful plan of turning south
ward the tide of immigration that now
flows in an uninterrupted stream to the
Dorthwest.
No one who wishes his country well
would refuse his aid to any movement
that promised, even remotely, to lead to
the colonization of the waste lands
of the south with industrious white peo
ple. The south is a land the ever-produc
ing soil of whichoffers the greatest induce
ments to the thrifty farmer.
There is one obstacle, however, that
must be considered in every immigration
movement. It is the negro. White peo
ple of means will not trust themselves in
communities in which the blacks pre
dominate, for reasons that it is not neces
sary to mention. And to the poorer
classes of immigrants, who would have
to depend upon their daily labors for sup
port, the negro would be a competitor
against whom, in his present state, it
would be almost impossible to compete.
He has but few of the expenses that the
white man must meet. His family, as a
rule, is no care to him. His wife and
children are expected to hustle for them
selves, and he is left free to work or not,
as may suit his pleasure.
The hope of the south is that the negro
race will eventually spread itself over the
north and west. When that occurs the
black man’s place at the south will be
gradually occupied by the white man
from abroad, and those of the blacks who
remain here will be incomparably better
off. They will then cease to be what the
mass of them are to-day, a self-satisfied
people who look to somebody other than
themselves to supply what is needful in
life writhout any over exertion on their
part in obtaining it.
If the Manufacturers’ Record could in
duce an emigration movement among the
negroes it would probably have fur less
difficulty in bringing about an immigra
tion movement among desirable foreign
whites.
A rumor current in New York a day or
two ago, to the effect that there was rea
son to believe the Secretary of the Treas
ury had the power to nullify the Sherman
law in case the Senate declined to vote
for unconditional repeal, was the occa
sion of considerable comment. It was as
certained. however, that the only founda
tion for the rumor was that some of the
prominent economic writers have ad
vanced the extreme opinion that if parity
is threatened the Secretary of the Treas
ury is empowered by the parity clause of
the Sherman law to suspend the purchase
of silver. This view, according to the
Now York Sun, is not entertained by
officials who have charge of the enforce
ment of the law, and who are supposed
be entirely familiar with its provisions.
Before starting his naval squadron on
its visit to France the czar gave the
French people to understand it was his
wish that no extraordinary demonstra
tions of welcome should he made upon the
arrival of the vessl,. The cable tells us,
however, that the Russians were received
in "magnificent style." The Frenchmen
probably objected to taking orders from a
visitor us to how they should conduct
themselves upon their own premises.
THE .MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY, OCTOBER 15. 1893.
A System of House Drainage.
There is no reason for longer delay is
giving the city a perfect system of house
drainage, and council should have every
thing ready to do the work this win
ter.
When a house drainage system was first
demanded by the people, it was claimed
by those in authority that sanitary drain
age was impossible without a greater sup
ply of water, but that so soon as the new
water works were built the city would be
given the system it so badly needs.
The new water works have been in op
eration for months, and the supply of
water is greater than the demand.
And yet no measures have been
adopted to fulfill these often repeated
promises. Citizens are still building long
lines of private drains, through streets
and lanes, to carry off house drainage.
Three and four lines of sewer pipes can be
found side by side in some lanes and
streets, representing large expenditures
of motuty and affording little security to
public health.
When one householder has a plumber to
examine his drain pipes all other residents
in the locality have to be on the qui vive
to see that their drain pipes are not dis
turbed. Doubtless many a case of dis
ease in the city is caused by the present
poor but expensive system of house drain
age.
A system of house drainage by pipes
extending through the lanes, where they
are available, (and they can be used
throughout more than one half of the
city), and utilizing Bilbo canal (into
which nearly all the house drainage now
passes) as an outlet, could be constructed
at a much less cost titan was estimated
by the engineers who investigated the
matter some years since.
Of course there will be objections
raised by some to using the outlet men
tioned, but when the volume of house
drainage is compared to the volume of
water in the river, no one with practical
knowledge of the subject will for a mo
ment claim that there would be any sani
tary danger in emptying the sewage into
the rapidly flowing river. Flushing tanks
could he so arranged and discharges
from them so regulated that the heaviest
output of the sewers would be at ebb
tides.
If the city council cannot see its way
clear to do all of the necessary house
drainage in one year, let a section of the
city be taken each year. The most of the
expense can be assessed against property
abutting on the house drains.
Savannah has everything now that Is
required to make and keep her healthy
except house drainage, and with the
knowledge that that is a loophole for
disease to enter into our homes, there
should be no delay in giving the city the
benefit of this now plan for protecting
the public health.
The Brazilian War.
If there is good foundation for the con
stantly recurring report that the end to
ward which the Brazilian revolutionists
are striving is the restoration of the mon
archy, it is probable that we shall shortly
again have an American emperor, or
king, or whatever else the Brazilians may
be pleased to call the monarch. For the
drift of events appears to be decidedly in
favor of the revolutionists.
Piexoto seems to lack both courage and
tact. It may be that he is, as Da Fonseca
was, a clever and accomplished gentle
man, personally. But he is not the kind
of a leader to successfully bring anew re
public, formed of such material as is the
Brazilian republic, safely through the
tortuous path of reconstruction to politi
cal safety. Piexoto apparently had little
if any knowledge of the contemplated re
bellion of the navy until the event ac
tually occurred; or, if he had, he made no
practical use of it. He took
no effective steps to assure the
loyalty of the federal troops, as
has been shown by mutinies in and the
desertion of whole companies of the Na
tional Guard. Nor did he provide him
self with ships with which to fight his
antagonists on equal footing until the
war—it may now bo called a war—had
been going on for weeks. Besides these
things, he lost much of the confidence of
the people of Rio by leaving tiie city at
the first alarm, without having exerted
himself to bring Admiral Mello to terms.
And, further, he has incensed the British
and French ministers at his capital
through his lack of diplomatic tact .
On the other hand, Di Mello continues
to gain advantages. Fort Villegaignon. a
strategic point in the harbor of Rio, has
surrendered to him. His forces are con
stantly receiving reinforcements from the
land, and it is believed that her has the
hacking of all the capital ho could desire.
The money, so the story goes, is furnished
by the Countess D’Eu, Dom Pedro’s
daughter, and her husband, and by mon
archists in Brazil and Europe through
their influence. If it is true that mon
archists are furnishing the “sinews of
war’’—and it is not known that Di Mello
has any other source of supply—it may be
depended upon that they have good assur
ances of receiving a quid pro quo in the
event of the success of the rebellion.
How like a thief in the night fame steals
upon some men! Last Thursday night
when William Vincent Alien, populist
senator from lowa, was spinning his
mighty fourteen-and-a-half hour yarn in
the Senate he had no thought that he was
doing more than delaying action on the
repeal bill for that length of time. It
probably never entered his head that he
was building a famo for himself that
would go rumbling down the corridors of
time like a cannon ball down an endless
ten-pin alley. But that is what he was
doing. The newspapers are now printing
pictures of him and more or less extended
sketches of his life. For he is now one of
the foremost men in the Senate. Even
the senators themselves, at the conclusion
of his longitudinal speech, -expressed
their unbounded admiration for his physi
cal strength. Senator Allen is an Ohioan
by birth and a lawyer by profession, and
has been a soldier and a judge. He was
elected to the Senate in February of the
current year to succeed Algernon S. Pad
j dock. Usually a man may spend years in
the Senate withoutattaining to eminence.
. But in this instance anew man by the
] strength of his tongue has raised himself
above all his colleagues.
A veteran Philadelphia bricklayer has
j discovered that the chimneys of that city’
j all lean to the northeast, and says the
| leaning is due to the prevailing direction
!of the winds Do KavsunaU chimneys
1 lean to the southeast I
PERSONAL.
Prof. Jowett, of Oxford, whose death has
just been announced, has two titles to remem
brance. About forty years ago he contribu
ted an article to the famous "Ersays and Re
views." which advocated a free interpreta
tion of scripture that was thought at the time
to be heretical, but which would be consid
ered almost conservative now His greatest
work, however, was his admirable translation
of Plato, which has already become a classic.
Mr. George W. Childs will present to the
cily of Chicago his magnificent exhibit of
tropical plants and flowers in the horticultural
buildingat the world’s fair. He is at present in
Chicago visiting the exposition. His collec
tion of plants consists ot palms of giant
growth, in twenty-three varieties; the finest
gathering of ealadlums in the world, com
prising seventy varieties; and about 100 vari
eties of cactus, besides many other valuable
specimens.
Late news from the capital is of a most de
pressing character. A correspondent who inter
viewed the leading silver senators found that
Senator Stewart had on hand or in prepara
tion speeches enough to consume a month In
delivery. Mr. George, of Mississippi, is good
for three days only, but Mr Teller says he
can be relied upon to talk a month or even
more if necessary. The others are loaded and
primed, hut will put no limit upon the time
that they may consume.
Prof. Lombroso is an Italian scientist who
has turned his learned attention to the sub
ject of kissing. He has been nosing around
in libraries gathering Information and an
nounces, as the result of his Investigations,
that kissing was. until comparatively lately,
an entire maternl action and not in nny way
peculiar to lovers. He quotes Homer and the
old Indian literature to sustain his conten
tion. although he admits that in the modern
Hindu poems twelve kinds of kisses are men
tioned.
Alvan Clark, the Cambridge telescope
maker, has lately been in Chicago, where he
read a paper at the science congress, so that
no work has been done on the great lens for
the Yerkes telescope for about a month. Mr.
Clark has still lUioutelght months In which to
fulfill his contract, and although he could
finish the work in much less time, he will not
do so. No more work is done in winter on
the great lenses than is absolutely necessary,
on account of the greater liability of danger
to the glass.
St. Helena is again the prison of royalty.
Dinizul. the son and Jielr of Cetywayo, the
Zulu king, and Undabuko, brother of the
same monarch, are kept in captivity there by
the British. Owing to the climate, which is
much more severe than that of South Africa,
the two Zulus have to wear blankets or some
other heavy covering all the time. Their
health is bad and it Is not believed that they
will ever leave their island prison alive. The
English government probably does not Intend
that they shall.
Generals Sickles and Butterfield are the de
fendants In a rather singular suit for dam
ages. At the recent reunion at Gettysburg a
photographer attempted to take a picture of
a group in which the two generals were stand
ing. They objected, the photographer per
sisted and finally someone kicked over the
camera and kicked the photographer himself
off the field He now sues for damages done
his camera, his person and his feelings and
declares that he will fight it out on that lino
if It takes all winter.
BRIGHT BITS.
“Johnny, get up; the sun has been up three
hours.”
"Let him; I don’t have to shine for a liv
ing."—Truth
"Was the play bad?"
"Well, I guess it was. Why, even the gas
went out at the end of the second act."—
Texas Siftings.
He—lt makes me a better man every time I
kiss you. darling.
She—Oh, my, Charlie: How good you must
be now —Brooklyn Life.
Spectator—Doesn’t it require a deal of
courage to go up in a balloon?
Aeronaut—Not a bit. ma un. It’s the coming
down in It.—Boston Transcript.
Manager—Our arranyements are nearly
complete; but we haven t been able to find a
satisfactory soubrette.
Friend—Tried Senator Pefferf—Puck.
"I always knew he was too timid to pro
pose?”
"But he married a short time ago.”
“Yes; but he married a widow.’’—Life.
Closure —Lilly White—Did you have many
offers during the summer?
Phoebe Btrd—Many? Why, I had to limit
the proposal speeches to five minutes
Puck.
Enamored Youth—May I hope to find a
place In your heart?
Lady-love (tin de siecle)—lf you hustle.
There are only a few oholce locations left
Puck.
Miss Muggy—l wonder if George knows I
have money?
Friend—Has he proposed?
“He has."
"He knows."—New York Weekly.
“There are a great many silverites on the
stump throughout the country just now."
"Yes. we never had so many silver
tongued orators as we have now. but they
are not really musical.”—Drover s Journal.
Tommy (at the fair) -Mamma, what makes
all the guards wear straps under their
chins?
Mamma (tired out)—l think it is to keep
them from asking questions.—Chicago Inter
Ocean.
Wife (readlnrl- The diadem of the Russian
Empress cost SIOO,OOO.
Husband—Ah indeed? Well, you must
make up your mini quick whether you want a
fall diadem or go to the fair.—Detroit Free
Press.
A clothier has excited public curiosity by
having a large apple painted outside his siion.
When asked for an explanation he replied
"If it hadn t been for an apple, where would
the ready-made clothing shops be to day?"—
'llt-Bits.
Floor walker—A lady has just fainted at the
bargain counter.
Proprietor What was the trouble?
Floor walker ~he found her exact size in
something she wanted. —Puck.
While teaching the temneranoe Sunday
school lesson, onerof our Indian bovs. 10 year
old was asked this question: "What does
alcoho do to a mans brains?”
It manes him think crooked.”—American
Missionary.
CURRENT COMMENT.
The Two Repeal Bills.
From the Louisville Courier-Journal (Dem.).
The House had no trouble in passing the
Tucker bill, if, however, the Voorhees bill
can oe beaten by a small minority in the Sen
ate, the Tucker bill can be beaten by a larger
minority. Democratic weaklings and com
p -..misers in the Senate may as well begin to
think of this.
The Uncertainty of Politics.
From the Macon News (Dem.).
The populists elected the successor in the
legislature from Whitfield of Collector Tram
mell. Collector 1 rammed has recently ap
pointed a populist to the position of gauger at
••savannah, i here seems to be a populistic
air about everything that emanates from the
chin tuapiti orchards of late. Niggers are
mighty uncertain and white folks can’t be
trusted.
The Industrial Depression.
From the Baltimore News (Dem.).
The industrial depression has become so
severe in Philadelphia that there is great
suffering among the poor In some quarters
of the city the distress is so acute that large
organizations have been formed to feed the
hungry. Huudreds of people are fed daily,
and the greatest efforts are needed to cope
with the distress. The Senate does not care,
though.
Give Them an "Object Lesson."
From the New York Post (Ind ).
The business tension due to the uure
pealed Sberrnan act has cut down the gov
ernment s receipts in the same proportion
that it cut down those of other corporations
and of private individuals This condition
will last until the silver bill Is repealed
How long the public will gaze at the vanish
ing gold reserve without getting Into a
fresh panic no one can venture to predict
When It buromes absolutely necessary for
the treasury to discriminate tastween pay
merits that are due let it dis. r inmate against
silier purchases If the silver mine senators
.t allow a vote to be taken, then
law tie construed m such s way that the mine
owner* <at. rnse no profit out of its osers
lion If they Lsae ad vantage of Us bub sillies
there is s teebut. a,My In the Nherinsu act—lll
| t." phrase merits! price which can be
I made to cut them to tbs quick.
Two Good Shots.
During the war, says Harper's Young Peo
ple. a chaplain in a Virginia regiment stood
upon a slight knoll watching the operations
of the enemy’s batteries beyond. Several
men were about him, lying on the grass and
under the trees, also watching the firing. The
great balls could be seen In the air as they
rose and fell, and the soldiers about esti
mated where they would light, and gave that
spot a wide berth. Suddenly, as a gun
boomed and a tiny black spot appeared In
mtu-air. the men moved hurriedly.
Parson." shouted one, "that s meant for
you—better look out!" And acting on the
suggestion, the chaplain stood aside. Just in
time, too, it was. for as he moved away, the
knoll upon which he had been standing was
ploughed by the Immense mass.
That was very good shooting on one side
and close estimating on the other, and an
other story of fine marksmanship is equally
Interesting. Two single-gun batteries were
having an extended duel, until finally one of
the gunners got annoyed. They were some
distance apart, and only the ugly black
muzzles of the guns could be seen when they
came to shoot.
"Lieutenant." cried the aggrieved gunner
at length "I'll settle that fellow if you’ll
stand on this platform with your glass and In
form me of their movements."
So the lieutenant took his glass and noted.
"They're ramming her!” he cried, after a mo
ment. "Now they are running her out; the
gunner has taken his stand; he has hold of
the landyard; he is about to -”
Bang, went the cannon at his side, and the
lieutenant almost fell from his perch, but
recovered his balance In time to see the other
gun knocked over and over by the well
directed ball.
The next day the lieutenant and his soldiers
were in possession ot the enemy's camp, and
looked up the disabled cannon. It had been
knocked endways, for just as the gunner had
pulled the landyard the ball from the lieuten
ant’s gun had struck the cannon squarely In
the muzzle and wedged itself there, causing
the gun to burst by its own explosion. It was
really a most wonderful shot.
On a Russian Third-Class Train.
Mr. Stevens, in his journey through Rus
sia, made up his mind to travel one stage In a
third-class railway carriage, says the London
Chronicle. This plan would give him infor
mation that might be useful and would also
save him a little money, which he could turn
over to Count Tolstoi for the starving peas
ants. He found the experiment extremely un
satisfactory. He says:
"The third-class carriages were so densely
packed that there was hardly room for me,
but after much scrambling I secured a seat
near the door.
"I shall never forget that journey. It was
an awful experience. I felt as If I were being
frozen to death and roasted alive alternately.
Outside the cars the temperature was 35° be
low zero. Inside the mercury stood 77, a dif
ference of 112° Fahrenheit.
"Inside it was so hot that even the muz
hiks. who are fond of roasting themselves.gave
signs of discomfort. The heat came from a
large iron stove, which the attendant kept
feeding with birch firewood As for myself, I
was melted; the perspiration poured out of
every pore of my skin.
"My unfortunate fellow travelers gave vent
to their feelings in groans or ejaculations.
"Now and then the door was opened by a
new arrival, and instantly the carriage would
be filled with an intensely cold air.
“ ‘Hi, you thera!' the muzb kt would call
out; ‘shut the door! You are a-freezing us to
death.’
"A curious -phenomenon some times oc
curred on such oci a dons. The cold gusts
which forced themselves in when the door
was opened immediately condensed and crys
tallized the vapor so that we had a miniature
shower of snow in the carriage.
"A few of the passengers appeared really
to enjoy this alternate freezing and roasting.
They crowded about the stove. One, a tall,
sturdy soldier, carrying a sword of tremen
dous size, crept so close to the stove that the
escaping gases made him fall down in an un
conscious state Irom which he was aroused
with difficulty. He was wearing his military
overcoat.
"At the first stoppage I bought anew
ticket and went into a second-class car
riage."
Saved by a Dream.
In his “Recollections of Military Service,"
quoted in the Youth s Companion, Sergeant
Morris says that one night, w hen he was com
pletely worn out with long-continued and ar
duous labors, he was placed as sentinel on a
post ol considerable importance. He knew
that the safety of the town might depend ea
his vigilance, and that disgrace and death
awaited him if he were found asleep at his
post; but excessive weariness seemed to
blunt all moral sense of obligation.
I resisted the temptation for a while, and
then feeling that 1 must sleep If I died for it,
I deliberately lay down on the ground, rested
my firelock by my side, and with a stone for a
pillow, fell asleep.
Time passed quickly, and now what has
seemed to me an intervention of providence
occurred. 1 was awakened by a terrible
dream. An immense lion. I fancied, was
about to spring upon me. In the utmost
terror I started to my feet, instinctively
grasping my firelock. Footsteps were ap
proaching.
I pulled myself together, and had sufficient
presence of mind to give the usual challenge,
“Who comes there?"
“The grand round.” was the reply.
“Stand fast, grand round!" I commanded.
“Advance, sergeant, and give the counter
sign.”
The sergeant advanced a few paces, pro
nounced the mystic word, and I called out,
• Pass on. grand round; all’s well:"
It would not have been "well" for me had
they caught me asleep; the inevitable punish
ment for such a crime, under such circum
stances. would have been ceath. I had been
asleep nearly two hours. 1 thanked God for
n.y deliverance, and vowed never again to
sleep while on sentiy. Indeed, I was too
much excited to care for any more sleep that
night.
A Story of “Pat” Gilmore.
The last time I met Gilmore, says a writer
in the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, he told me
a very good story about himself and his band.
Just before the beginning of a battle—l for
get exactly what engagement it was—the
commanding officer gave orders that Gilmore
and his band should act as ambulance corps.
Whenever a soldier was wounded they wore
to bear him from the held. Pretty soon the
bullets began to sing pretty lively and the new
ambulance corps rushed around very briskly
100 ring for some ody to take from the field.
For a time no one was hurt. Suddenly it was
reported that a man down to the left was in
jured. and Gilmore s corps made a rush in
that direction. They found the soldier bleed
ing from a wounded finger, and proceeded to
drag him from the front with great celerity.
“But I m not hurt!" cried the soldier
"Yes. you are’ yrs you are!" shouted the
ambulance corps w.tn determination. "You
are severely injured, and may die of blood
poisoning.”
It required the services of the entire corps
to carry that man back to the hospital tent,
and he needed so much attention when they
got him there that they were not able to re
turn to the field of battle until the fight was
over and the bullets had stopped whizzing.
Gilmore laughingly remarked at the end of
the narrative that the officers never at
tempted to press them into the hospital ser
vice on the battlefield after that display of
bravery.
Robert Louis Stevenson is in quarantine at
Honolulu nursing his sick Samoan servant,
Talola. He sailed on the steamer Mariposa
for Apia to Honolulu for a short visit, but
after his arrlial in j ort the servant was
stri ken witha malignant attack of measles,
On the voyage Mr. Stevenson twice contrib
uted his services to entertainments given by
the passengers, telling a weird talc of the sea
and reading has graphic description of the
great hurricane of 1886 at Samoa.
The czar dislikes German so much that he
recently declined to answer a Danish officer
who addressed him in that tongue until the
remarks were repeated to him In English.
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The pope has consented to act as god
father tojthe King of Spain at his approaching
confirmation and first communion. Monsig
nor Cretoni. the nuncio at Madrid, will rep
resent the pope at the ceremony, and. of
course, will be the bearer of some very hand
some presents.
The government of Saiony has adopted a
novel method to secure the payment of taxes
The names of persons who did not pay their
taxes last year are printed and hung up in all
the restaurants and saloons. The proprietors
dare not serve those mentioned on the list
with food or drink, under penalty of losing
their licenses.
The stimulus of the sun's direct rays and
that arising from the friction of the fresh air
causes increased activity in the capillaries
supplying the surface with blood. When this
stimulus is continued for any considerable
time these vessels become gorged, and mi
nute portions of the blood force their way
into the layer immediately under the epider
mis. or outer skin. It is the presence of the
red corpuscles of blood which give the ruddy
flesh tint seen through the outer skin. At
the same time the sweat glands and oil
glands, whose function it is to lubricate the
surface and keep it moist and cool, becomes
exhausted by over stimulus; the outer skin
gets hard ana dry. and socn begins to peel off
In the familiar wav. taking the minute parti
cles of extravasated blood along with it. Di
rect sunlight also has a darkening effect upon
the a tual coloring pigments of the skin, but
this action is distinct trom actual tanning,
and manifests itself In the form of freckles.
The permanent bronze or ruddiness of com
plexion seen in sailors and travelers in hot
countries is the result of a long continued
combination of the two processes.
Lightning itself could be no swifter than
the sudden spasm of terror with which Mrs.
Dora Hayn was struck dead at her home in
the tenement house at No 13 Dry Dock street,
New York city. A kerosene lamp exploded
in her hand, and although there was abso
lutely no danger and no damage whatever
ensued, the woman fell a corpse to the floor
before she had time to utter a single cry.
Mrs. Hayn had long had a morbid fear of
kerosene explosions, aud, curiously enough,
It was her extraordinary carefulness in pre
paring the lamp which led to the accident.
Owing to the Insufficient quantity of oil, the
lamp began to smoke ana the flame died
down. Mr. Hayn told his wife to run and
fetch another lamp, but as he had nearly fin
ished his work, she replied that she thought
the lamp would last, and began shaking it in
order to wet the wick. The light flared up
and then the flame evidently communicated
with the gas In the upper part of the reser
voir, for there came a brilliant flash, accom
panied by a. loud report, and the lamp was
shattered into a thousand fragments. As if
struck by a bullet, Mrs. Hayn fell on the
floor in a heap, and the children, who had
been watching, fled soreaming from the
room.
The Railroad Gazette, analyzing the last
report of the superintendent of railway mall
service, finds that in the four years from 1889
to 1892. Inclusive. 32 postal clerks were killed
and 553 Injured In railroad accidents. The
number killed per thousand employed was
1.35, the number Injured was 23.3, and the
total casualties per thousand were 24.5. In
the year of greatest fatality. 1891. there were
2.1 clerks killed per thousand employed. The
statistics relating to the loss and injuries of
trainmen for the same period are not acces
sible, but in 1890 and 1891 the trainmen
killed per thousand were 2.6, injured 13.2,
and the total casualties (killed and injured!,
15.8. The explanation of these figures- which
show that more trainmen were killed and
fewer injured—is simple. The trainmen in
clude engineers and firemen, who are sub
jected to more deadly peril than the postal
clerks, confined as they are in closed cars of
strong construction. This fact alone accounts
for the higher mortality among trainmen As
to injuries, the trainmen, taking all grades,
often receive warning of impending danger,
which enables them to escape it, whereas the
postal clerk, who Is usually ignorant of it, is
the victim of wreck and collision.
Experiments were made recently at the
South London rifle butts, Nunhead, with yet
another “smokeless explosive,” the invention
of a Frenchman, M. I’Abbe Sehnebelin, and
called after him. "Sohnecellte gunpowder.”
savs the Leeds Meroury." The basis of this
powder is chlorate of potash, a substance
which has hitherto been used only for the
manufacture of detonating compounds, on ac
count of the facility with which It can be
detonated by pircusslon or friction when
mixed with some inflammable material such
as sulphur or black sulphide of antimony.
Though only preliminary and Incon
clusive, these experiments indicate
that this explosive has several quali
ties which would render it suita lie for use as
a propelling and a destructive agent, but
much more exhaustive and detailed experi
ments are necessary before any decided opin
ion can be arrived at. The safety and facility
of manufacture and its cheapness are in Us
favor: some of this powder was made in the
morning after the visitors arrived on the
ground, taking only a few minutes, and this
same powder, after being dried for a couple
of hours, was fired from the shotgun in the
afternoon, with excellent results as to pene
tration.
Yes, faot! It is becoming a fad. “We are
suffering," says the European Mail, “we are
suffering from what pleases the newspapers
to call an epidemic of suicide.’ It is attribu
ted by some to the recent heat, but it is more
firobabl.v due to the contagion of an hyster
cal sentimentality. The newspapers have
been talking a gold deal of nonsense on the
matter. That a victim of the modern form of
Wertherism should take his life out of mere
love of notoriety, and that delight o' know
ing the public are reading his feeble lucubra
tions In the newspapers, and that the Lon
don Telegraph is indicting a leading
article on the event, is quite suf
ficient reward for ceasing to live
for more brainsick fools than we generally
imagine. Vanity has much to do with the
psychology of suicide." But I can hardly
conceive of a case more sad than that which
occurred lately—a poor fellow who had lost
the sight of one eye. and was assured by his
doctor that he would soon be stone blind.
He awok at midnight certain that his sight
had gone. He lit a match. It burned bis
fingers but he could not see it. Then in the
double darkness he wrote a farewell to his
people. Suicids had become to him a terrible
necessity. He could not live as a burden on
others. And so . But an idiotic British
jury brought in a verdict of temporary in
sanity. Wasn't Carlyle right—" Population
30.000.000—mostly fools:”
Whiskers was the chief subject of discus
i lon at a rather informal meeting of the Min
inters' Alliance yesterday morning, says the
Kansas City Times. When Dr. Armstrong
appeared with a freshly shaven upper lip and
a face as devoid of hirsute adornment as a
new born babe’s the subject was found, and
he was promptly called upon to address the
alliance upon the "Rise and Fall of the Mus
tache." Dr. Armstrong told how he had cut
off his mustache and nearly scared his little
ones to death. Upon being questioned he ad
mitted that the operation was performed late
Si n lay night, but said that it was done for
the good of his congregation and for the
Improvement of his voice. He wanted the
word of God to proceed from his
mouth, clear and plain and distinct, unhin
dered by any obstruction. He closed his re
marks by saying that he had sacrificed his
beauty for the benefit of his congregation
and that he was aware that the more his
face was covered the better looking he was
Dr. Tigert responded with a fervent "That s
so." and Dr. Armstrong came back at him by
sayii g he had already been mistaken for Dr
Tigert. Dr. Haley said he thought ull minis
ters should either be smeoth shaven or wear
a full oeerd. the doctor himself supports a
very luxuriant beard, slightly tinged with
gray, and It was thought that his opinion
might therefore be biased. He urged all
young ministers to shun the alluring mus
tache unless backed up with a crop of chin
whiskers. A mustache, he said, looked un
clerical.
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