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INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Meetings—DeKalb Lodge No. 9,1. O. O. F;
Ladies' Auxiliary Association.
Special Notices—Fall and Winter Novel
ties, Mine. Desboutllons; As to Crews of Nor
wegian Harks Henriette, Tros, German Bark
Carl, and Italian Bark Cortesia; Seasonable
Goods, E. L. Mastick.
Steamship Schedules—Baltimore Steam
ship Company.
Amusements—The Dazzler, at the Theater
Oct. 19.
In Selecting Underwear—B. H. Levy &
Bro.
This is Putting Temptation in Your
Wat—Appel & Schaul.
Steamship Schedule—Ocean Steamship
Company.
Auction Sales—Roller desk, etc., by C.
H. Dorsett: furniture, paintings, etc., by J.
McLaughlin & Son; groceries, furniture,
stoves, etc., by J. H. Oppenheim & Son.
Have Turned Poetical—Lindsay &
Morgan.
Railroad Schedule—Central Railroad of
Georgia.
To Our Friends and Patrons—Palmer
Hardware Company.
Cheap Column Advertisements—Help
Wanted; Employment Wanted: For Rent;
For Sale; Lost; Personal: Miscellaneous.
To the democratic senators; Beware
of compromising alliances. That is as
good a silver doctrine as it is a doctrine
of foreign policy.
Dr. Strickler, an eminent pathologist of
Vienna, has during the past week had
six persons swallowing millions of comma
(cholera) bacilli, at the Vienna Institute
of Experimental Pathology. In no case
did any serious consequences follow. The
conclusion drawn by Dr. Strickler is that
in persons not physically strong the
comma bacillus causes various symptoms
of illness, but not necessarily cholera.
Many are inclined to believe that the
bacillus is an accompaniment rather than
a cause of the disease.
An interesting question is before the
supreme court at Washington involving
the right of the western states and terri
tories to tax the unpatented surveyed
lands within the area of the land grants
made to railroad corporations. There are
upward, of 50,000,000 acres of lands in
volved, lying in almost every state and
territory west of the Mississippi and Mis
souri rivers. It is a big question in these
communities, as the railroad lands are
yearly increased in value by the improve
ments of the settlers. Their unearned in
crement is very large, and the western
people naturally think some of it should
go to pay the expense of government and
improvements that add value to the
lands. Corporations, however, concede
little unless under compulsion, especi
ally these land grant railroads.
If South and Central American revolts
and revolutions continue to increase and
multiply as they have within the past
few months we may presently find our
selves under the necessity of borrowing
a few war ships to send down there to
protect the interests of citizens of
this country. (Sen. Young's telegram to
the state department, announcing the
declaration of a dictatorship in Guate
mala had the result of the ordering of the
old Alliance to the scene at once. It
seems that the revolutionary elements of
the Southern American countries are all
worked up. The Argentine government
has just succeeded in putting down an in
surrection in the province of Tucuman;
Nicaraguan factions have only recently
adjusted their differences after a number
of battles, and Brazil is in the throes of
revolution In addition to these there
are rumors of impending trouble in Peru
and the navy department has made prep
arations for having a vessel on the Peru
vian coast at the first outcroppping of
armed resistance to tho present govern
ment.
Miss Elizabeth Clark, who was selected
to represent Virginia in the tableau of
states at the Birmingham reunion of con
federate veterans, has unwittingly got
herself into an uncomfortable snarl. She
is the wife of a man she does not love and
did not intend to marry and is at the same
time engaged to be married to another
man. Recently the young lady attended
a social gathering among the guests at
which was a justice of the peace recently
authorized to perform the marriage cere
mony. During the evening the conver
sation turned upon the duties of the new
justice, and someone suggested that he
try his hand in tying the nuptial knot.
Miss Clark and a Dr. Taylor agreed to
pla.\ the parts of bride and bridegroom,
and the justice, after asking the usual
questions, which were properly answered,
pronounced the couple man and wife.
Ihe aftair was looked on as a mere inci
dent of the evening's’entertainment until
later when it was learned that it was in
all respects a perfectly valid marriage
under the law sof Virginia. The situation
is further complicated by the fact that
Miss Clara is encaged to be murried to
another, and that the affair will have to
i* postponed until after she can oe di
vorced from Dr. Taylor.
A New Week in the Senate.
Anew week begins with the repeal bill
in the Senate occupying precisely the
jiosition that it occupied the second day
after its introduction. ‘ House bill No.
1,” for the repeal of the silver-purchasing
section of the act of July 14, 1890 (known
as the Sherman law), as amended in the
committee of finance of the Senate by the
adoption in that committee of the Voor
hees substitute, has resumed its place as
the “unfinished business" in the ordinary
daily routine of the Senate chamber, and
it will continue to occupy that position,
unless displaced by other pressing meas
ures, until some conclusion is reached on
the question by compromise or other
wise
The Senate can, at any time, by taking
up another bill after the "unfinished
business” is laid before the Senate,
“shelve” the repeal bill. This can be
done without even the formality of a
vote, by tacitly taking up another bill for
consideration.
But the repeal bill will not be
“shelved.” Senator Voorhees has an
nounced that the ‘'repealers” have “just
begun to fight,” despite all of the talk
about a compromise tnat is being indulged
in. That fight involves not only the re
peal of the purchasing clause of the Sher
man law, but “the question of constitu
tional government”—government by the
majority—Senator Voorhees declared the
other day. Nothing can be more certain
than that the fight will go on to a finish.
There is a bare possibility—it does not
amount to a probability—of a compro
mise. But there will be no shelving.
The story that a compromise was favor
ably discussed at a cabinet meeting the
other day, and which included an exten
sion of the period of silver purchasing
beyond Mr. Cleveland's term—“a point
insisted upon by the silver men,” —and
the issue of bonds, may be taken with a
grain of salt. It was alleged that this
was “the administration's proposition.”
Can anybody who has knowledge of
Grover Cleveland’s character believe that
he would agree to any such thing? Is
there anything of the weakling in him?
Thoroughly convinced that the silver pur
chase law is iniquitous and should be
wiped off the books immediately for the
best interests of the country, is it reason
able to believe he would consent that it
should be continued for three years, or be
yond his official term, at the end of which
period another administration might con
tinue it forever? And suppose a compro
mise carrying a bond issue should be
passed by the Senate and sent to the
House, would the House accept it? Julius
C. Burrows, a republican who would favor
a bond issue, says the House would not.
Thus matters stand, with the re
peal bill still "unfinished business” in the
Senate and the “repealers” determined
to "fight it out.” And under the circum
stances there seems to be no way in which
a vote can be reached except by the pre
siding officer taking the bit in his teeth
and putting the question of the passage
of the bill without recognizing any ono
for dilatory motions. Under tho rules of
the Senate the minority is in absolute
control, and can negative any proposed
legislation if it chooses to exert its power.
The only way in which the majority can
do anything is by overriding the rules
with the assistance of the presiding offi
cer. Unless, in the end, the rules are to
be disregarded, the majority might as
well give up the fight and go hats in hand
to the corporal's guard of silver-mining
senators and beg as a gracious favor that
they will denominate what kind of a bill
they will permit to pass.
The South’s Bad Year.
The Georgetown storm adds another to
the list of disasters that have befallen
the south this year, making it one of the
worst years the section has ever expe
rienced. Twice during August hurricanes
came up from the Caribbean sea and
wrought havoc on tho coasts of Florida,
Georgia and South Carolina, to be fol
lowed during the early part of this month
by a similar terrible visitation upon tho
Gulf states, and day before yesterday by
another fatal storm along the coasts of
the Carolinas. It would almost seem that
nature had for the time transferred her
field for extraordinary and violent me
teoric displays from f lic northwest to the
South Atlantic and Gulf states.
Beside the appalling losses of life oc
casioned by these several hurricanes, the
property losses amount to millions of dol
lars, which fall most heavily u |sm poor
people. In the path of each storm all
crops were virtually ruined. Farmers
whose corn had been “made,” except for
the ripening, saw every stalk swept down
and the ears, still “in the milk,” covered
with water. Cotton crops have been wiped
out on sea island and coast planta
tions. Nearly the whole rice growing
section of the country has been swept,
some of it twice; and in many sections
the planters will not save enough of their
grain to plant their next crops. Where
they would have harvested thousands of
bushels tlioy will get tens.
Besides these things the south has
been liarrassed with quarantines and
fears of fevers, and its trade has been
hampered by a financial crisis. Yet, with
all of these misfortunes, the south is not
disheartened. With her customary pluck
and philosophy she will, with a short
respite from set-backs, come out of it all
in good shape.
It seems that Gov. Northen was some
what illiberal in declining to introduce a
lecturer upon the passion play for the
benefit of the Brunswick sufferers be
cause he did not approve of the lectur
er's theme. The governor was, in all
probability, asked to introduce the lec
turer merely because his official patron
age would tend to draw out a larger au
dience, with the result of raising a
larger relief fund, and not with the view
of making him appear to indorse
the theme or tho point of view of ils dis
cussion. Furthermore, it is a question
whether or not the passion play is sacri
legious. But in any event (iov. Nor then's
religious position is too well known for
so small a matter to have compromised it.
There appears to be a “Where Am I
At" controversy threatening the Senaie.
The other afternoon while Senator irby
was speaking a page brought a cup of
some liquid to Senator Cockrell.
It looked to a Washington Dost man" like
“good strong coffee,” and the Senator
sipped it from a spoon. The gallery
Watched the operation with great interest
and divided itself into two hostile * amps,
coffee on one side aud lieef tea ou the
other, “with a few populist opiuious iu
the direction ol rum aud molasses.”
THE MORNING NEWS: MONDAY, OCTOBER IH, 1893.
The American Navy.
Time will come, and come presently,
when “the American navy” will stand in
terms for all that modern art, invention
and means will have accomplished in be
half of successful offensive and defensive
: maritime warfare.
Nor does the nightmare of international
entanglement, nor yet the dream of fruit
ful conquest, either urge or inspire the
marvellous strides of the American navy
j toward the front of the world’s mighty
sea armaments.
It was not in view of probable wars that,
under the first Cleveland administration
and through the keen and original agency
of his first naval secretary, Hon. Will
iam C. Whitney, the navy began tho ex
traordinary transformation which has
continued since and continues still. But
it was for the incidental protection upon
the seas of the prospective shipping
supremacy for which that administration
was and this is insidiously struggling and
which triumphant democracy is destined
to achieve. It is the tap root of tariff re
form that with it will, return to us the
sovereignty of the seas v. tiich was lost
through the baleful operation of the pro
tective sham imposed upon the country
by the republican party.
With democratic tariff revision will
come the return of the carrying trade,
and, very probably, its major portion, to
American bottoms. Wherever nations
have excelled in maritime commerce they
have been expected if not required to sur
pass in naval accessories for its preserva
tion and protection. So that all
these wondrous feats of nautical
architecture that almost daily glide
into the waters from the navy yards
of the country, and all the great guns and
other engines of destruction that the
world gapes to see as we mount them
upon armored ospreys, do not mean war—
they stand for impending tariff revision,
inevitably revived foreign commerce, and
an amplitude of American naval resources
to protect the same in any part of the
universe. That’s the meaning, pure and
simple, of the “American navy.”
Last year tho legislature of Maryland
passed a special act directed against
tramps and vagrants for the benefit of
Carroll county. It provides that upon
conviction of assault, disorderly conduct,
drunkenness or vagrancy the magistrate
shall sentence the person so convicted to
hard labor upon tho streets of West
minster for a term not exceeding sixty
days. Upon application of the city au
thorities the law also provides that the
county commissioners shall supply stone
to be broken by the prisoners for use
upon the streets. The law has now been
in operation nearly a year, with the result
that it has materially lessened the
county’s expenses, and has not only
caused; tramps to avoid the county, but
has also placed a needed restraint upon
the disorderly element of the colored peo
ple. Moreover, Westminister has been
benefitted, as the law has enabled the
municipal authorities to keep the streets
and alleys in good condition at a small
cost.
On the Waccamaw river, in South Car
olina, a large rice planter has determined
to abandon rice and turn his rice fields
into truck farms. He will ship “fresh”
such of his- products as he can and put
the balance in tins. He has erected a
cannery on the plantation, and has this
year put up a quantity of okra, tomatoes
and rice. The canning of rice, by the
way, is something comparatively new.
The grain is cooked "in the southern
style” and put up in one, two and three
pound tins, and, it is said, finds ready
sale among southern people at the north
and west, where the art of cooking rice
as it should be has not yet been acquired.
The planter referred to calculates that
his rice acreage in cabbage, cucumbers,
cayenne pepper, okra, sweet peas, etc.,
for canning will give him a return two or
three times as large as it would planted
in rice.
Some time ago congress appropriated
$200,000 for the construction of a submar
ine torpedo boat, and the ordnance board
of the navy later reported in favor of a
plan submitted by a New Jersey man.
But Secretary Herbert lias about con
cluded to disregard the board’s recom
mendation and not expend the appropria
tion until some plan making a more
plausible promise of better results has
been received. France is the only foreign
country now building a submarine boat.
All the other powers have abandoned the
attempt to fiud a boat which would give
any satisfactory results. Germany and
Great Britiau have both experimented
with them, but soon concluded that the
inventor had not been discovered who
had a plan which could be depended upon
to act reliably aud with effect.
A statistician furnishes the Washing
ton Star some interesting figures with re
gard to the sentiment of the people of
the country on tho question of the repeal
of the silver purchase law. His calcula
tion, based ou the vote in the House on
the Wilson bill, shows that the represent
atives of 41,862,599 people voted for the
bill, while it was opposed by members rep
resenting 18,794.048 people. A table pre
pared shows also that 2,497,172 of the
democratic voters of the country as rep
resented in the House favored the bill
against 1,075,126 who opposed it. These
figures, according to the statistician,
show that more than two-thirds of the
people and nearly three-fourths of the
democratic voters of the country favor
repeal.
F. H Weeks, the absconding New York
lawyer who is in Costa Rica, is likely to
be made a pawn in a diplomatic game to
be played by this country and Costa Rica.
The New York authorities are anxious to
secure Weeks’ return, but as there is no
extradition treaty between the two coun
tries there is some doubt that the Cen
tral Americans will surrender him.
However, it is believed that Costa Rica
will agree to the surrender provided the
United States will enter into a treaty of
extradition with her.
The states recently admitted to the un
ion are the ones wiiose representatives in
congress have been most persistant in
bio king necessary legislation during the
extra session; then-lore it is highly im
probable that any more territories will
be admitted for a while. There is at
presi ut a bill iu the House to admit New
Mexico, but there has developed among
> 1 ' !•"! I ’
Washington a belief that it would nut be
wise to make other slates during the
preseat congress.
PERSONAL.
Tolstoi's new book Is expected to make a
sensation, for it Is said by one who lias seen
the manuscript that Zola never dared to go to
the lengths of realism to which Tolstoi ven
tures. lhe book is a sermon on Tolstoi's fa
vorite text, "Resist Not Evil.”
Prince Henry of Battenberg. who has been
yachting off the coast of Scotland, has been
recalled, and is once more attached to his
roval mother in-law's apron string after his
holiday. The prince, by the way, is not
gaining popularity in England. He makes no
sec: et of his contempt for the English, and
has not even taken the trouble to learn to
speak th?language intelligibly.
Maj. Henry Jonstone of the royal British
artillery hus been reading the New York
dudes who ape the English a lesson. “If I
were an American, he says. “I would be
more patriotic than lo ape any other people
on earth. I'd be an American, for this is a
fine country. Then, again, the people the
anglomanlacs ape are not our best people.
They are loungers in clubs and very apt to be
ridiculous.”
Senator Matthew Stanley Quay, who was
80 years old on Sept. 30 last, has retired to
the seclusion of his Pennsylvania home on
Beaver river to meditate upon things political.
He is considering whether or not he shall
speak on the silver question. He is and has
been all along in favor of unconditional re
peal, and will vote that way. but he is wary
of taking the opposite side from Don Cameron
in debate. He will probably stand pat until a
vote is taken.
Dvorak, the Bohemian composer, says that
this country needs Instrumentalists. "It is
a shame," says he. "that with the millions of
Americans, all the big orchestras like Seidl’s,
Thomas' and the Boston Symphony should be
made up almost entirely of Germans." Dr.
Dvorak says that the young men of this coun
try who despise "fiddlers" would make more
money as first violins than as dry goods
clerks and bookkeepers, which is true enough.
Uufortunately all young nea cannot be first
violins, while most of them are equal to clerk
ing or bookkeeping.
Mr. Bunker of Lewiston, Me., is a lawyer.
He is likewise a mighty man of war. At a
county -fair at Ellsworth recently he laid
aside his gown and wig and distinguished
himself by wrestling with and throwing a 900-
pound bull. He nfflet cleared a seven-foot
fence at a bound and passed ihe rest of the
day pleasantly in stopping a team of horses
and thrashing three loafers who were annoy
ing some ladies. Mr Bunker, it is hardly
necessary to say, is always listened to with
respect when he arises to object during the
trial of a case, The lawyers on the other side
give way with a ready courtesy which is not
altogether usual in the legal profession.
BRIGHT BITS.
Base Deceiver.—Stillirgfliet—How could
you conscientiously tell Miss Elder that she
is the only woman you ever loved?
Tillicghast—lt is a fact. The others were
all young girls.—-Vogue.
“Going to be married; take a wedding trip
and see the fair, all inside of twenty mluutes?
How do you expect to do that?”
"We re going to be married in the Ferris
wheel.”—Times Democrat.
Mr. I.ingalate (jocosely:—Oh. well. Miss
Marie. In this age. you know, everything
goes.
Miss Marie (glancing wearily at the clock)
—Some things don’t.—Life.
First Mosquito (at the New Jersey summer
resort)—All the guests have gine away.
We ll have to make our meals off the natives
or else starve.
Second Mosquito—Let s starve.
Bibbs—l never heard of his doing anything
so very bad. How did he come by the name
of being such a hard citizen?
Bobbs—From his confoundedly rocky ap
pearance, most likely.— Buffalo Courier.
A Bright Boy—Kind Old Gentleman—And
that is vour brother. He appears to be a very
bright little fellow.
Boy (proudly)—You bet he is I He kin swear
like a car driver. Curse fer th’ gent, Mickey.
—Puck
Barkeeper (to customer who is Inclined to
be hypercritical)—Now, that isn't bad whisky,
is it?
Customer—No, I don't think it is. In fact.
I don t believe it is whisky at all.—Detroit
Tribune.
Not the Right Answer.—Female Sunday
School Teacher (who is trying to explain the
parable of the Good Shepherd)—Suppose,
Tommy, you children were all jittle sheep,
what would I be?
Tommy—An old ewe.—Texas Siftings.
Young Midway ( who has been to see Galla-
Galla in Cairo street) —Oh, I say. old man. I
know a good trick: Have you got a half a
dollar?
Old Plaisance (interrupting)—Bah, I know
a trick worth two of that—have you a dollar?
-F.garo.
Visitor—You oughn’t to keep the pigs so
near the house.
Countryman—Whoy?
Visitor—lt isn't healthy.
Countryman-'l hat's where you’re wrong;
them pigs ain’t never had a day’s illness
Tit-Bits.
Watts—l do hope the Vigilant will win that
yacht i ace.
Potts—l didn't know your patriotism went
that far.
Watts—lt doesn t. It's because I know
how to pronounce Vigilant and I don't the
other one.—lndianapolis Journal.
It was merely a monocle that the young
man wore, but Uncle Silas didn't khow that.
"Jes' look at that: he exclaimed to his wife,
under his breath.
■Howd'ye reckon it happened?” she in
quired.
-I and no—onless maybe he's buyin’ his specs
on tho installment plan."
"Hello, Jack. I understand you'ro en
gaged."
"I am. old man. to the—
" Ah. yes. I know; to the dearest, sweetest
little woman on earth. The o: e woman cal
culated to make you a happy home, the em
bodiment of your ideal, the dream of your
youth."
“Say. old man. how did you ever find that
out? You—you don’t know her, do you?”—
Harper s Bazar.
CURRENT COMMENT.
The Sum of the Silver Debate.
From the Pitt3burg Dispatch (Rep.).
"As 1 remarked ‘ efore,” sums up the pres
ent debate iu the Senate.
Republicans on the Sherman Law.
From the Boston Herald (Ind.).
Attention is called to the fact that the re
publican platform of New York contains no
reference whatever to the necessity of the
prompt repeal of the purchasing clause of the
Sherman act. And this in a state wherein is
located ihe great money aud commercial cen
ter of the continent!
The Forthcoming Massage.
From Columbus (Ga.) Enquirer-Sun (Dem.).
It is stated tnat President Cleveland has
begun the work of preparation for the regu
lar session of congress, and is seriously con
sidering the topics that w ill make up his mes
sage i hose, who complained that the Presi
dent did not g > far enough in his message
to the extra session will no doubt find
that the forthcoming message will he full
enough of the Chicago platform for them.
“Sunk in Its Own Mire.”
From the New Y'ork Post (Ind,).
The trial of the Senate has begun before
the assizes of the American people. Mr. Voor
hees spoke the truth w hen he said that the
issue now uppermost was not silver repeal,
but w hether the rule of the majority should
continue or not. l .ere he felt that his feet
were planted on a rock, and he should tight
it out to the end. These words will sink into
the hearts of the people, and the more closely
they contemplate the spectacle of the upper
house of the national Legislature sunk in its
own mire the more loudly will they insist
that it shall be pried out so that the nation
may proceed along its accustomed pathway.
The Populist Coat-of-Arms.
From the K ansas City Times.
A Kansas puper pauses to remurk” that
If Jerry Simpson had socks. Senator
Peffer no whiskers and Mrs. Lease no vocab
ulary repi.oil.au and democratic editors
would )* deprived of their most valuable
stock of tirade aud abuse of the |ople s
party. Eiu< tlv. Hut lhat is putting the cart
lie fore the horse Willi Simpson resocked
Pe!!r wbi-kerleas and Mary j.llan muzzled,
there woildn t be mu. h populist party lefl.
( doradohas ten promising trade marks to
be sure. Iu Gov. Wane n bridle and Patter
son • coyote and la Donnelly pran.es in
from the wilds of Minnesota ou his shakes
jjeareuu cryptogram, out ibc old. original and
only authorized populist .oat of aims ton
siats of mouth, hair and a pair of hats, horny
feet
Luck in Pins.
"Say,” said Col. Peter Sweeney of the
Union Pacific the other evening to the
Omaha Bee just after the man he was walk
ing up with stooped and picked up a pin that
lay shining close to the curbstone, "did you
ever notice how many cranks there are in the
world? Of course, I don t refer to present
company—on. no, certainly. But I was just
remarking on the curious superstitions that
people get into their heads. Now. for in
stance, you stopped juat now and picked up
that pin from which 1 infer that you are
in the habit of doing so whenever you see
one.
"Well, I know lots of men who never fail to
pick up a pin. the same as you do. Then there
are the sidewalk cranks who always step on
the third or fourth crack, according to the
width of the boards, or, if they are walking
on a pavement, they step between and on the
cracks.
"After these come the stair cranks. They
wouldn t tell it to anyone if they were asked
about It, but the fact Is that these persons al
ways start upstairs left foot first, and feel
badly if the right foot doesn't strike the top
of the stairs first. These persons. I may re
mark, are usually those who have been af
flicted with a semi military education, as are
those sock and shoe cranks who put their
hosiery and footgear on the left foot first.
"Then some men have a peculiar way of en
terlng with a certain foot foremost and their
exit will be made in the same way. And,
great Scott; I might go on for a year about
cranks and never get through. But do you
mind telling me why you pick up stray pine? 1
"Why, no. certainly not,” answered the
other man. “I do it for luck, of course.”
"For luck, eh? Well, have these blooming
pins ever brought you any luck?"
"To be sure. Why, only last winter, at a
time when I was in very uneasy circum
stances. I picked up three pins in one fore
noon. with the point toward me in every case.
That afternoon I got—”
"You got a draft?" asked Col. Sweeney In a
sort of I-think-you-are-a-liar tone of voice.
"1 got an insurance assessment of #30.06.”
replied the pin crank, sadly, "and still you
say pins don't bring luck. Wasn’t that luck
—bad luck?”
But Col. Sweeney hadn’t a word to say.
A Lesson in Science.
At least one boy on Catherine street knows
more about electricity and the trolley than he
did and so does his father, says the Phila
delphia Call. The other evening the boy was
out in front of his home, which is not far
from Broad street, preparing to sprinkle the
street and to cool off the pavement. The
nice, black, shiny hose had just been bought,
and it was his first experience at the job. He
unrolled the hose, coupled it on and turned on
the water. First he sprinkled the pavement
liberally, and felt grateful at the coolness
which seemed to pervade the atmosphere.
Then Jhe sprinkled the street until
the dust was all mud and the
water was trickling in streams into
the gutters. Still he kept up the good
work and papa came out. lighted a cigar and
sat down upon the steps to see Johnny do his
work. Then mamma came out. too, and the
neighbors who were across the street admired
the family group. After wetting down
the street and everything else in
reach, Johnny looked around for
moie worlds to conquer. Suddenly he
glanced upward and his eves rested on the
shining trolley wire which stretched away in
the distance. It looked rather hot. and he
concluded to sprinkle it as an evidence of
good faith. Without consulting papa he
turned the hose on the trolley wire and struck
it fair with a nice, plump, strong stream of
water, while he held the nozzle of the hose
the-! letter to direct the stream. Then Johnny
was struck by the current of electricity which
flew down the stream to meet him, He
dropped to the sidewalk a .and the hose turned
loose, sprinkling papa and mama well before
they could escape. Then the admiring neigh
bors laughed and papa grabbed Johnny, lug
ged him into the shed and paddled him with
a shingle, after which he delivered a lecture
on electricity and the dangers of the trolley.
Then he fondled Johnny again with a trunk
strap and put a dry suit of clothes on him
self.
Newspaper Men.
"While there are reporters who ‘hound’
public men there are also public men who
badger the newspaper folk,” writes Julian
Ralph in an article on “The News
paper CorresponNent ’ in Scribner’s Mag
azine. Stories of reporters' presumption
are widely circulated, and in some cases are
undoubtedly true. But there are men en
gaged in newspaper work who do not forget
their own claim upon the respect of others.
Mr. Ralph says:
I once congratulated an English reporter,
who told me he had reported Gladstone s
speeches for nearly twenty years, upon know
ing that statesman so well.
"God bless you,” said he, ”1 don’t know him
at all. I was once unable to escape from his
car without passing him, when he came in un
expectedly. and a friend introduced me to
him. But I never presumed upon that, you
know.”
i o "beat" his fellows is still the chief aim
and glory of every man who writes on the
news pages, but the "beat —as an exclusive
piece of news is called—is growing to be more
and more a product of Intimate acquaintance
with public men. and less and less a result of
agility of mind and body.
I remem or a delightful half-hour when a
Tribune man tried to reach a country wire
first it. order to get his dispatch started and
to shut me out. We had to run three miles
over a plain that was one great glare of Ice.
He was the faster runner, and appeared to
have everything his own way, but suddenly
he slipped and rolled down the side of a gully
to bring up at the bottom badly hurt. The
tearing of his clothes and peeling of his face
did not bother him. but his ankle was sprain
ed and he could not walk without help.
"I give up,” said ho. "Will you help me to
the village?”
••I don't know,” I replied. "Is the wire
mine?”
Of course." said he: "I'm done.”
But I gave him his turn at it.
A Blind Man Enjoys the Fair.
One man pushed another in a roller chair
down the pier on which the moving sidewalk
was at work, says the Chicago Tribune. They
appeared to be comrades. The man who did
the pushing was noticeably and tenderly at
tentive. When a man is that wav his atten
tion is more noticeable than a woman’s
After a while the pusher lifted the other man
from the chair and carried him up to the
moving sidewalk and placed him on one of the
seats. Then he put him back In the chair and
pushed him under the arch of the peristyle
and out into the court, where they stopped
and looked, as so manv thousands have
stopped and looked. The pusher stepped
a <ide to make a little purchase for the man in
the chair. One who had been watching said
to the pusher:
• Your friend is an invalid. I hope what he
has seen will benefit him.”
"He hasn't seen anything," was the sad
answer. "He has been blind since he was a
child, and a few years ago he became para
lyzed in his limbs. But he longed to see the
fair, as he put it, and we brought him on to
please him."
From where?”
"From Providence, R. I.”
"Does he enjoy his visit?”
“As much as I do. and I think more. It
makes the fair doubly enjoyable to me to tell
him what I see. and to notice his delight. I
had him in the art t a'lerv yesterday and you
ought to have heard him telling the people at
the boarding house last night about the paint
ings he saw Many of them which I bad ex
plained to him he described far more graph
ically than I could have done.”
What strange beauty hath this dream city
which causes it to break through the cur
tained eyes of the blind?
Sweet Sixteen in Dire Distress.
"Oh, won’t you marry me,” cried a rather
comely girl, with a deep olive complexion the
other day as she met one of her gallants down
town, says the Philadelphia Press. The girl
spoke English with a decided foreign accent
and it was learned subsequently that she was
an Armenian girl. Apparently the damsel
was not more than lo years old. Her face
wore signs of worrlment.
"What got married immediately?” asked
the surprised friend.
" i es. right away." said the girl impulsively
The young man thought that the girl had
gone daft, but she soon informed him the rea
son for her action. On the following day was
hei seventeenth birthday By the strict Ar
menian custom which her parents followed
any girl who Is not married oefore she la 17 Is
considered to be ■ oldmaidish and unattract
ive to men. Her parents also clung to the
custom of compelling their daughter to fast for
forty-eight hours after the Beginning of the
seventeenth birthday and then to eat salt fish
for the next twenty four hours, without helag
allowed to quern h the thirst
This the poor Armenian girl suffered, as the
young mao refused her preposition, hut from
now on she can get married when she pleases
without fear. And whenever she sees thsl
young man who would not marry her Immedi
ately she feeis like citing bis head off
Prof Potterny 1 tie body of the frog, gen
lleinea is < omposed almost wholly o' g|f
Fresbleigb- Spring water) lad la napolls
Journal.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
The mace of the city of London, which is
very ancient and has been carefully guarded
since 1641. was carried in the wedding proces
sion of the Duke of York. The foot-knob be
came detached and was lost. No efforts were
spared to find it. and it was at length re
covered, so the mace is once again complete.
There are comparatively few names for
other aggregations of abstract numbers be
side the dozen and the score, says Taggart's
Times. Two things make a brace, a couple,
a duo or duet; three things make a trio, a
trinity; eight, according to St. Paul, area
few; thirteen make a baker's dozen. But
taking concrete numbers, we find plenty of
such names. Fourteen pounds make a stone,
twenty-eight pounds a quarter; a clove of
wool is seven pounds: a tod is twenty eight
nounds: a wey is six and one-half tods; a sack
is two weys and a last is six sacks.
The highest price on record, £6BO, has been
paid for two stamps—namely, a penny red
and a twopenny blue of Mauritius of 1847,with
the words post office" on the leftside. There
are only two other specimens of these stamps
known in England, both of which are in the
Tapling collection in the British Museum. In
the world there are some fourteen known
copies in all. but they are in collections of the
highest repute, such as those of Baron Roths
child, Le Comte de Ferrary, Dr. Legrano,
etc.. and are never likely to come into the
market.
It's an odd thing, but there are a number of
people who have a distinct antipathy to the
screech owl, and cannot listen to a single
burst of its hilarity without shuddering, says
the Cincinnati Times-Star. The screech owl
is supposed by the negroes on southern
plantations to be in direct communication
with all the' ghosts ’and “giants of the for
ests." He plays a great part in the more weird
folklore story of the darkies. A funny super
stition in regard to the screech owl is that if
you will take your shoe or slipper off your
left foot ihe first time you hear an owl laugh
and turn the shoe sole upward on the floor
and place your stockin’foot "on the bottom
of the shoe’s sole the owl will stop laughing
and fly for ten miles without rest.
Annie Thomas is the only woman in Ka
mania county, Washington, says the Wash
ington News. She is a squatter and lives on
Rattlesnake Hills. There has of late been a
great strife for her hand in marriage among
the rough settlers of that region. Hank Mon
ley and Jerry Woods seemed to be the high
est in her favor, and so It was finally agreed
that these two men should settle the question
between them by a duel with boivte knives.
After a desperate fight. In which both were
wounded, the battle was declared a draw. It
was then agreed that the matrimonial ques
tion should be settled by a game of seven-up.
The fortune of cards favored Monley, and
he was declared the winner. A parson was
called in to assure him his prize. The tickle
Annie had a long talk with the parson, and,
though she had never seen him before, she
at last announced her Intention of marrying
the parson himself and not Monley. In vain
did the hero of the bowie knife duel and vic
tor of the game of seven up object to this
proceeding. The woman was firm in her in
tention, and the upshot was that the parson
got the woman.
It is stated that when Liberia appointed
Prof. Alfred Benedict King as commissioner
to the world s fair there was no money in the
treasury to pay his expenses, says the Col
lector. An appropriation of s>,ooo worth of
unused stamps, Including a choice assortment
of all values, and the stamps intrusted to Mr.
King to be sold to cover his expenses. He
went to Philadelphia, where he hoped to dis
pose of his supply of stamps to dealers or col
lectors at their face value, but soon found
that the dealers had some on hand and the
demand was not great enough to induce them
to purchase an extra large sui ply. As the
dealers In Philadelphia wouldn t take the
stamps Mr. King turned toward the New
York dealers. Several were applied to In
vain, but one firm at last consented to relieve
the commissioner, and made an advance of
s2.i 0) to him. The stamps are now on sale in
this city, and the set Includes 12 varieties of
the values of 1, 2. 4,6, 8, 12, 16, 24 and 82 cents;
sl. $2 ana ffi. They are of the 1892 Issue, when
the Llberiwn President was J. Hillary John
son. whose picture figures on the 8-cent and
$5 stamps.
Chattanooga has a Seaboard Bank, al
though some hundreds of miles from the
water, says the New York Recorder Per
haps the name Is borrowed from a like insti
tution in New York. In Salem, Mass., an
Asiatic Natlonaißank retails the day when
every tenth man you met there was an East
Indian navigator. The Tombstone, Way
cross, Tehachapi, and Bad Axe Bunks are
curiously named by necessity of their loca
tion. The Hong Kong and Shanghai Hanking
Corporation and the Yokohama Specie Bank
are not In Asia, but in San Francisco. Ihe
butchers and Drovers’ National Bank, like
the Hide aud Leather, makes a bid for the
patronage of special industries: the River
side. Fifth Avenue, etc., for that of localities.
The most formal and ancient-sounding title is
that of the Institution for the Savings of
Merchants’ Clerks. The Bimetallic and
Smelter are, of course Colorado banks. 'lhe
Irish American Savings Bank is an Atlanta
institution. The Bank of Good H ope has a
cheering sound these hard times. Good
Hope is in Illinois. The Chickasaw and
other national banks in the Indian Territory
are managed bv and for the Indians.
A Paris municipal ciunselor, M. Georges
Berry, has, according to the London Times,
been exploring all sorts of out-of-the-way
places with a view of presenting lo the coun
cil a report on beggars and begging in the
French capital. Near the Keole de Mediein
M. Berry found a woman who sells sets of ad
dresses of the charitably disposed to begging
letter imposters She sells two sets, the big
set and the little set ("le grand jeu et le petit
jeu”). Ihe little set is 5 francs and comprises
200 addresses: for 15 francs one can have the
big set of 930 addresses, sufficient, said the
vender, to enable one starting in the business
to earn his living for a year. As M. Berry
bought a copy of each set. doubtless the coun
cil will give a useful warning to the persons
whose addre s s are given. Ordinary street
begging in Paris, it appears, is reckoned to
bring in an average of at least a shilling an
hour. Many of the beggars sleep in the
neighborhood of the Jardin des Plantes. A
man in that neighborhood makes a large in
come by affording a shelter to them at the
rate of a penny per head per night. He is
enabled lo do this by hiring for a small sum
each, until regular tenants are otitained for
them, all the empty shops and houses he can
obtain.
Following on the heels of tho Mutual Life's
withdrawal from Spain on account of oppres
sive laws, comes rumors that the Equitable
and New York have both like action under
consideration, says a New York letter in
life Insurance circles it seems to be the im
pression that the oppressive legislation com
plained of Is due to the McKinley 1711 Vice-
President Alexander, of the Equitable who
is one of those disposed to hold this law re
sponsible for the foreign op o-iition. in a great
measure at least, says: "’ihe foreign uusiness
has been a good business. It lias not only
been large, but of a desirable k ad. and the
American companies have in most European
countries been more popular than the local
companies, and it is pro a ly this which has
exefied the gradual encroachments made on
our i usiness of late years. When the incon
venience reaches the point of being a positive
damage, we must of course withdraw ” Mr
Alexander also said that some of the Amcrb
can companies transact a larger business in
their foreign depaitments alone than the res
ident companies do as a whole. Very natur
ally therefore, the latter, as they see business
diverted from themselves to American com
panies secure the enactment of laws which
will drive such competition out of the country.
Tha crown worn by Victoria weighs nearly
two pounds, says the Pittsburg Dispatch. It
comprises more than 3,000 precious stones set
in various designs. The most, prominent
gem is the ruby given to Edward, the Black
prince, by Pedro, king of Castile. It is In the
front of the crown, set in a maltese cross
composed of seventy-flve large diamonds
The lower part of the crown band contains a
row of 123 pearls, the upper part 112 Bo
tween them and In front is a large saunhire
Back of that again Is a smallerslppift'e
rounded by six others and eight emer
alds. Between the two larger sap
phires are designs containing diamonds
Above the band are eight more sapphires
surmounted by eight dlamends. and the
same number of festoons contain 180 dia
monds. Besides the maltese cress there are
three others around the upper part o r ihe
crown containing ,W diamonds and between
the four ore tour ornaments each with a rubv
in the center and containing respccllvelv kt
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rise four arches composed of oak leaves and
morns the leaves containing 72$ diamonds
The thirty tw acorns are each of a single
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