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4 CklpßtningTlcfos Morning News Building. S a vannah.Ga SUNDAY. OCTOBER 15. 1893. REOISTKIiED ATTHKPi ISTOFFICKIN SAVANNAH The MORNING NEWS is published every day in the year, and is served to subscribers in the city at $1 00 a month, }5 for six months and $lO 00 for one year. The MORNING NEWS, by MAIL, one month. $1 00: three months. $2 50; six months. |5 00; one year. $lO 00. The MORNING NEWS. BY MAIL, six times a week (without Sunday issue), three months, $2 00; six months, $4 00; one year, 18 00. The MORNING NEWS, Tri weekly. Mon days. Wednesdays and Fridays, or Tues days. Thursdays and Saturdays, three months, 11 25; six months, $2 50; one year, $5 00 The SUNDAY NEWS, BY maii., one year, 12 00. The WEEKLY NEWS, bt mail, one year, II 25. Subscriptions payable In advance. Remit by postal order, check or registered letter. Currency sent by mail at risk of senders. Letters and telegrams should be addressed “MORNING NEWS," Savannah, Ga. Transient advertisements.other than special column, local or reading notices, amusements and cheap or want column, 10 cents a line. Fourteen lines of agate typo—equal to one Inch space in depth—is the standard of meas urement. Contract rates and discounts made known on application at business office. EASTERN OFFICE, 23 Park Ro , New York City, C. S. FAtnbkNEn, Manager. 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. BAKING POWDER. D-PRICES GSIKI The only lure Creeia of Tartar Powder— No Ammonia; No Aiwa. Ued in Millions of Homes—*o Years the Standard ITEMS OF INTEREST. 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. 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