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THIS ISSUE
CONTAINS
SIXTEEN PAGES
INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Special Notices— School for Boys, J. A.
Crowther. Principal: Read the Decision of
Judge Gildersleeve in the Jafgcr-Boutillier
Case; Appel & Schaul: New Features This
Week at the Gaiety; Notice, John Fee Icy &
Son; Collections, VV. A. Davis, Real Estate
and Collection Agent; A Square Roof, E. E.
Pacetti; As to Crews of British Bark Madusa
and British Steamship Monomoy; For Sale,
Charles Vittur, Atlanta. Ga.: Ail Day Dong,
Nick J. Murphy; Notice to Parents. Commer
cial institute; Display of Novelties at Ofl Hull
Street; To the Jewish Public; Oranges. Ba
nanas, Potatoes, Etc.. Collins, Grayson & Cos.;
The History of Sanitary Underwear, Falk
Clothing Company; Chicago and Return via
Savannah, Florida and Western and Pennsyl
vania Railways; State and County Taxes,
1893; Gluten Health Bread, J. Derst; Season
able Goods, C. A. Munster.
Read the Decision of Judge Gilder
sleeve—Appel & Schaul.
The Water of Life Suwannee
Springs. Fla.. Andrew Hanley.
The Good Work Goes Bravely on—At
Gutman's.
Sure Signs— B. H. Levy & Bro.
Chatham County Hay— Fawcett Bros.
The Season is Upon Us—Meyer & Walsh.
Still they Come at the Bon Marche—
L. Levkowic.
The Lowest Prices on Everything—
Fey ■ & Morrison.
If You Want Satisfaction—Go to the
Miller Company.
High Art Clothing House—Kohler's, 140
Broughton street.
Proof Positive— Byck Bros.
A Poor Dinner—Jas. Douglass.
Winter Supplies—At Silva's.
DON'T BELIEVE It—B, H. Levy &, Bro.
BUY A Home—Edw. W. Brown & Cos.
Facts Will Sustain Me—H. H. Cohen.
Furniture and Carpets—Emil A.
Schwarz.
Cotton Weight Books— Thos. L. Wylly.
Charter Oak Stoves— Norton & Hanley.
Good Morning—Thos. West & Cos.
We Must Unload the Stock—Eckstein
& Cos.
Amusements— Positively the Last Tour of
Annie Abbott, the Little Georgia Magnet,
Oct. 23 and 24; Fourth Annual Hop of the
Brotherhood of Blacksmiths, at Odd Fellows
Hall Oct. 25.
Cheap Column Advertisements—Help
Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Rent; For
Sale; Lost; Personal; Miscellaneous.
It is pleasant to note that there is some
thing the Senate can do. It grinds out
confirmations of nominations in its usual
happy style.
The S3O,(XX) which the American Ex
press Company lost somewhere between
the north and the south was going to the
Louisiana Lottery Company; which
shows that the octopus is not dead yet.
Young Charlie Fair, son of ex-Scnator
Fair, of California, who married, against
the wishes of his family, a woman of bad
reputation, has been disinherited by his
father. Had he behaved himself, the
young blade would have received *15,000.-
000 at his father's death; as it is he will
get $100; that is, unless he can succeed in
breaking the old senator's will after he
shall have shuffled off his mortal coil.
Ex-Labor Commissioner Peck, of New
York, whose report of labor statistics
booming the McKinley law was one of the
sensations of the last campaign, and who
rests under an indictment for having
falsified the report and destroyed the oflF
cial papers from which it was compiled, !
has returned to Albany and surrendered
himself to stand trial. It will be remem
bered that ho ran away to Europe when
an indictment against him was found.
An unusually interesting wodding in
colored high life took place at la>.\ington.
Ky., a few nights ago. A dispatch savs:
"Charles I'. Graves, a colored millionaire
of Helena, Mont., married Hettio How
ard. a well-known colored woman. Graves
was accompanied by his private secretary,
Thomas Jefferson die is president
of the Gold - Lead Consolidated
Mining Company, and president and
general manager of the Montana and
Illinois Mining Company.”
There seems, from the report of the
terrible accident on the Grand Trunk
road, published in our dispatches of yes
terday, to be no doubt as to wherr the
blame for the disaster lies. The engineer
and conductor of train No.fi, the one that
caused the damage, disobeyed positive und
plain orders. They were told to meet and
pass another train at a certain point, but
instead of doing so overran the siding and
crashed into tin; train moving in the op
posite directum. 'ilie action of tbo
engineer und conductor cannot he called
an error, nor yet a blunder; it was a
piece of criminal careteaanesa, if not mur
doi . ami tiny hoold be made to pay tiie
lull penally of tho law.
Van Alena Confirmation.
The Senate did right when it confirmed
the nomination of Mr. J. J. Van Alen to bo
athbassador of the United States at Home.
The assaults uixm him were mean and
low, and apparently all sprung from one
source. Mr. Van Alen is wealthy, moves
■ in good society and conducts himself as a
i gentlemen should; and therein lies the
j cause of the violent opposition to him that
was developed. It seems that Mr. Tan
Alen is choice of his company ; he selects
his friends to suit his taste—the privilege,
certainly, of every American citizen. And
among the selections Mr. Van Alen neg
lected to include a certain New York
newspaper proprietor, a man of millions,
with great social aspirations but mighty
little principle.
This neglect on the part of Mr. Van
Alen angered the great newspaper man,
and he gave orders to his staff to roast
Van Alen in every column of the paper.
And the staff did it Van Alen's wealth
was made the basis for socialistic tirades
against him day after day, until the sub
ject became disgusting. And many less
important newspapers, without knowing
what they were doing, or why they were
doing it, took up the shout against the
plutocrat whom Mr. Cleveland had ap
pointed to office.
It was charged that Mr. Van Alen had
purchased his nomination by making a
contribution of $50,000 to the democratic
campaign fund. That charge, however,
was effectively disposed of by Mr. Whit
ney. through whom it was alleged the
bargain had been made.
The fact of the matter is, Mr. Van Alen
is altogether a proper person for the
place. He has education, refinement, so
cial position, wealth and brains suffi
cient to enable him toihonor the place to
which he has been appointed. A poor
man could not live at Rome as the Ameri
can minister, and occupy a prominent po
sition among the diplomats of that capi
tal, upon his official salary only. It costs
round sums of money to maintain the dig
nity of America at the leading capitals of
Europe; much more than Uncle Sam
pays his ministers, as Robert Lincoln,
Whitelaw Reid and Ex-Minister Porter
know. Mr. Porter tried the Italian mis
sion with nothing but his salary to de
pend upon, and had to give it up and
come home.
There is no good reason to believe that
Mr. Van Alen will not make one of the
best foreign representatives in the service
of the government.
Redemption of Postage Stamps.
When the old fractional paper currency
—“shinplaster money,” it was called—
had grown to be a nuisance in general
business it was retired. But the retire
ment left a want in our money system
that has not since been supplied, although
numerous attempts in that direction have
been made. The old sli inplasters were
very convenient to send through the mails
when small sums were to be exchanged.
Merchants, farmers, shoppers—every
body used them, and when they were
withdrawn there was nothing left to take
their place as a small, mailable currency.
The nearest approach to such a conven
ience, was, and is, postage stamps, and
thousands of persons have yearly used
them, in the room of something better.
And so long as the government fails to
furnish, free, some form of postal paper
money for sums less than one dollar,
redeemable at any postoftice, our business
men will continue to be annoyed by the
postage stamp nuisance. For, when it is
remembered that there is no provision in
the law for the redemption of unused post
age stamps, forcing the merchant or other
business man who receives them to sell
them at a discount or get rid of them as
best he may, and when it is remembered,
also, how postage stamps in transit be
come glued together, and thus rendered
useless, it will be acknowledged that the
stamp habit, under existing circum
stances, is a nuisance.
Congressman Bingham has, however,
introduced a bill in congress which, if
passed, will have the effect of abating tho
nuisance to some extent. His proposition
is that the stamps shall be given some
thing of the character of money. Mr.
Bingham’s bill provides that postmasters
at money order post offices shall redeem
or purchase stamps from the public, pro
vided they be not soiled or otherwise dam
aged, at a charge to be fixed by the Post
master General, not exceeding 2*-£
per cent., and to be deducted from
the face value of the stamps, the charge,
however, never being less than 1 cent;
but single postage stamps are not to be
purchased from the public, and when pre
sented for redemption they must be in
strips of not less than two that have never
been separated.
The objection to this proposition is the
charge for the exchange, which should be
free.
Senator Quay’s silver proposition—tho
one the silver senators were reported
yesterday as holding as a club over the
heads of the sound money party—is that
silver coinage shall be suspended until
Jan. 7. 18'JO. It is easy enough to discern
Quay’s purpose, and to see why the silver
men would agree to the proposition. Such
an arrangement would permit of silver
being made an issue in the next elections,
overshadowing the tariff and other re
publican hobbies; that is what Quay
would like. The postponing of the sus
pension until 1896 would give the silver
miuo owners three years more of the
government's enforced market for their
silver; and that is what the silverites
would like.
Can anybody imagino what Senator
Harris, of Tennessee, meant when he
said in the Senate the other day, when
asked what was to prevent the Yice
President from simply calling for or or
dering a vote, at the suggestion of the
majority; “Why, sir; I don't believe he
would live to accomplish it. Certainly he
would not be permitted to do such a
thing.” It is not possible that Senator
Harris meant that the silverites would
mob the Vice President, in the event of
his calling for a vote. But does it not
sound that way 1 Senator Harris should
be more careful of his language. His pur
pose, verv likely, was only to get off a bit
of big-sounding buncombe. But it does
not look at all good in print.
Tho House committee on commerce has
ordered favorably reisirted a bill
authorizing the President to enter iutoau
agreement with foreign countries with
regard to removing or marking derelict
vessels at sea The bill is iu line with
the recommendations of the New York
Maritime Exchange, recently explained
uud commented upon In these column*.
THE MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1893.
, Cardinal Gibbons’ Jubilee.
An event of more than ordinary inter
est to the Catholic world, and of interest
to the Protestant world also, was the
celebration of the silver jubilee of Car
dinal Gibbons at Baltimore last week.
The celebration occupied two days, and
consisted of religious exercises in the
cathedral on Thursday and a banquet by
the Catholic Club on Friday evening.
The festivities, marked by a cordial let
ter from the pope, were attended by emi
nent churchmen from various quarters of
the globe, among them being Archbishop
Redwood, Metropolitan of New Zealand;
Mgr. Nugent, delegated by Cardinal
Vaughn, of England, to take his place at
all religious exercises-and social functions
pertaining to the jubilee; Very Rev. Dr.
Ring, who represents Cardinal Logue, of
Armagh, Ireland. Rome was present in
the person of Rev. Dr. Hooker, the envoy
of the Holy Father to Cardinal Gibbons,
while the eloquent Arcjibishop Ryan, of
Philadelphia, and Archbishop Ireland, of
St. Paul, the lion of the tribe of the epis
copacy, did the honors for their brethren.
The ceremonials at the cathedral Vero
impressive and expressive, and were in
honor of a man who, in the twenty-five
years of his priesthood, has enthroned
himself in the hearts of the people with
out distinction of creed by his broad in
tellectuality, his patriotic American
ism and his untiring and well-directed ef
forts toward the betterment of mankind.
Cardinal Gibbons’ life and work are an un
answerable reply to the assertion of the
agnostic or unbeliever that the influence
of religion for good is nil.
As an illustration of Cardinal Gibbons’
broad-mindedness, his address to the
World's Parliament of Religion at Chi
cago (read by Bishop Keane in the car
dinal’s absence), may be'referred to. The
cardinal had, by common consent, been
selected to open the great theological
congress, and the address he prepared for
the occasion was instinct with sympathetic
emotion and a splendid charity that af
ford an explanation of his popularity,
both within and without his own church.
In connection with the discussion of the
matter of church and state that has been
going on with renewed vigor since the ar
rival of Mgr. Satolli in this country,
it is of interest to note Cardinal Gibbons’
views of the matter, as expressed at the
banquet of the Catholic Club on Friday
night. Said he; “In no country, per
haps, has the difficult problem been bet
ter solved than in the United States—
that of maintaining harmonious relations
between church and state. Here
the church and state run on
parallel lines. They do not conflict
with one another. Here religion
upholds the state by proclaiming
the divine authority of civil legislators
and holds them up to us as the representa
tives of God himself. She declares that
there is no authority but from God. She
sanctifies respect for civil laws by declar
ing that obedience to civil authority Is
not a servile homage paid to man, but
the homage of free men paid to God. The
state holds over religion the aegis of her
protection without interfering with us in
our God-given mission.
“For my own part I do not desire to
see therelations between church and state
any closer than they are at present. Ido
not wish to see the day when the civil
authorities may be called upon to build our
churches and to subsidize our clergy, for
then they might dictate to us what doc
trines we ought to teach. Every one
admits that the United States is a free
country, but they are not so ready to con
cede that we are a strong government
also. We are a strong country, and the
strength of our country is in the intelli
gence of the people and our reverence for
the law. We are a religious people also,
which is proven by the annual proclama
tion of thanksgiving to God by the Presi
dent for the bounties bestowed upon our
country; by opening our legisla
tures by prayer, and by that
recent conspicuous example, the
world's fair, whose first function was
a prayerof thanksgiving to Almighty God
for the successful construction of the
gigantic undertaking, and a prayer of
hope that the mighty, enterprise might
prove a blessing to mankind. ”
Such an expression is what one would
expect from the cardinal. While the
whole strength of his mind, soul and
body are given to the service of God and
his church, still lie is an American, with
pride in our institutions and an earnest
desire that they continue as they are.
The New York correspondent of the
Philadelphia Press, under date of Oct. 19,
says: “Mr. Lorettus A. Metcalf leaves
Now York to-morrow for Jacksonville,
Fla., where he is to establish a newspaper
which, it is hoped, will before long be
come recognized as tho greatest of south
ern journals. .When the capitalists who
are spending great sums of money in de
veloping Florida, believing that in many
respects its undeveloped wealth is the
richest of any state east of the Missis
sippi, were looking about for a person to
whom they could commit the establish
ment of such a journal as they desired,
they were recommended to open negotia
tions witli Mr. Metcalf.” Mr. Metcalf
will he cordially welcomed in the south.
His successes with the North American
Review and the Forum are conclusive
evidences of his energy and ability. Hut
we toll him, in all friendship and candor,
that the upbuilding of “the greatest of
southern dailies” at Jacksonville will re
quire geaius and tact of a different char
acter from that necessary to the securing
of contributions from Gladstone, Bob
Ingersoll and Jeremiah Black.
To appreciate the virulence of the yel
low fever epidemic at Brunswick it is
necessary to bear in mind that there are,
comparatively speaking, very few people
remaining in theKnty. The ratio of new
cases to the population yesterday was
about 1 to 100— there are not more than
5,000 people in Brunswick. An equally
active epidemic in a city the size of Savan
nah would have shown a sick list for yes
terday of 500 new cases, w hile in a city
the size of New York, infix-ted as
thoroughly as is Brunswick, the sick list
would have mounted up to 2,500 or 8,000
new cases. Comparisons of the kind will
help to au appreciation of the stricken
city’s predicament, which is indeed one
that calls for prompt and liberal as
sistance from the outside.
The two Michigan women who put on
men's clothes and burglarized tho houses
of good society in order to get tho means
to keep up their social standing offer u
good Ihctue for another “story of high
life.”
PERSONAL.
Mrs. Charlotte Uell. of Salem, Mass., will
celebrate the anniversary of her 103d birth
day on May 17 next.
Lady Florence Dixie declares that she
knows three women disguised as men, one of
whom is a ship captain and the other are pi
lots.
Bishop Jonas Martin has been excommun
icated by the Mennonlte conference of Penn
sylvania. The charges against him are with
held.
Four of the new United States senators are
said to have become prime favorites with the
galleries. They are Lindsay, Smith, Murphy
and Martin.
Hoyt Sherman. Esq , one of the surviving
brothers of the late Gen. Shermah, is chair
man of the independent Citizens' movement
at salt Lake City.
Senator Wolcott, of Colorado, has the repu
tation of being the gourmet par excellence of
oongress. and his tips are so generous that
the waiters grow- rich on them.
Geronimo, the once powerful and cruel
Indian chieftain of the west, is now a quiet
and peaceful prisoner at Mount Vernon bar
racks. an army post upon the Alabama river,
a short distance above Mobile.
Miss Hester Weymouth, a teacher who left
Windham county. Conn., last June, with only
$3 walked to the world s fair and took it in
thoroughly, has returned home with a hus
band. and SSO that she earned herself.
Sir John Gladstone, nephew of the grand
old man, is described as a tall, broad-shoul
dered .young giant, as ardent a conservative
ashlsuncle is the reverse, and one of the
most extensive whisky distillers in Scotland.
Humphrey Wickham, a distinguished Eng
lish lawyer, who died recently, was one of
the most noted antiquarians in England. His
private museum illustrates the customs of
the Saxon and Roman inhabitants of the
Medway Valley.
Dennis Flynn, delegate in congress trom
Oklahoma, has staked claims in half a dozen
states, practiced law in lowa, edited a paper
in Kansas, acted as postmaster at Guthrie,
and narrowly escaped getting shot several
times during the whoopful early days of the
territory. He is a wide-awake, smooth-faced
young man who gains the attention of the
house whenever he has anything to say.
Lord Houghton, the lord lieutenant of Ire
land, is reported to be not at all grieved over
the failure of the home rule bill. "If It had
passed,” he said to a friend the other day, “I
would have been a sort of Cerberus, or three
men roiled Into one, At one time I would
have taken orders from the Irish legislature
and at another from the Mrltlsh parliament.
When neither had orders to give I would have
been kept busy on my own account straight
ening out the tangle of conflicting author!,
ties."
BRIGHT BITS.
The malleability of gold is so great that a
sheet of foil, It is said, can be beaten as thin
as the slice of ham In a railway sandwich.—
Tid-Hits.
Little Boy—The preacher said there Is no
marryin’ in heaven. '
Little Girl—Of gourse not. There wouldn't
be enough men there to go ’round.—Good
News.
Their Future.—He—Of course my prospects
are not the brightest. We will bave a great
deal to contend against.
She—Dearest, wfe will have each other.—
Vogue.
Miss New-come—Seems to be rather a good
year this for fruit, Giles? Are all your trees
as full of apples as that one?
■ Giles—Oh, naw, miss, only the apple trees.
—Judy.
Tommy—Paw, what makes the stars so
bright?
Mr. Flgg—Oh, these astronomers are scour
ing the heavens all the time —lndianapolis
Journal.
“I gave you 10 cents just before I stepped
Into that store.’’
Blind Beggar—WelL yon see, your new hat
changes you so I didn't know you.—Chicago
Inter Ocean.
Mamma—Robbie, how many times have I
told you that you cannot have two pieces of
pie? Robbie—l don’t know, unless you can
tell me how often we've had pie.—Chicago
Inter-Ocean.
"He gave himself dead away."
•‘Who did?"
‘ The dying pauper who promised his ca
daver to the college dissecting room.”—Chi
cago Record.
Maude—Weren’t you afraid someone would
see you when you let Mr. Fastleigh kiss you s
Elaine—Oh, nobody saw us except Charley,
and as he und I are engaged he won't toil.
—Chicago Record.
“Biffins appears to have taken a rather ob
scure place in the community.”
“Obscure? Well, I should say so. Why,
nobody even brings him a petition to sign.”
—Washington Star.
His Lordship (surprised by the correct pro
nunciation which greets his ears on every
side)—Do not Americans ever drop their h s?
Anglo-maniac (apologetically)—We cawnt
remember to.—Brooklyn Life.
Theodora was told that Columbus had dis
covered America on the 12th of October, when
she thoughtfully remarked: "If he had known
that the next day was my birthday, perhaps
he would have wait id.”—Youth's Companion.
Constance—Did he not go home after you
refused him.
Clare No; he stayed righton andsaid: “All
things come to him who waits.”
Constance And what came?
Clara—Father was the first.- Fuck.
Burglar (planting the barrel of his pistol
on a pawn looker's chest)—Come out with
your monish, you old Jew. or
Pawnbroker Pooh! win’ can you expoet
me to give for that old pistol? .Say three
marks. —El Annunciador.
“What made Bluflton give that race horse
of his such a queer name? ‘
•Well, jou see. Bluflton went west and
made his' pile. 'I hen he bought the horse,
and now the pile s gone. That s why
he calls the horse Pile driver.”—Washington
Star.
Dooley—The strong man at the Pagoda Mu
sic hall has anew feat, I understand.
Dunn—What is it?
.Doolev— He closes and locks a trunk, which
his wife has packed for a trip to the seaside:
and he does it inside three minutes, too!—I id-
Hits.
Intended as a Compliment.—Miss Elderly
(coquettlshlyi—The material is very good,
but the colors are too gay for a person of ray
age.
Well-mean nr Clerk—Oh. Fm sure you
are not half us old as you look.—Texas Sift
ings. ?
CURRENT COMMENT.
Silver Must be Settled.
From the Atlanta Herald (Dem.).
The question must l e settled, or the pres
ent session must keep on trying, for if the
democrats in congress refuse to come to an
agreement the solidity of the party will he
very greatly endangered, The House should
refuse to adjourn until the Senate has taken
action.
Plethora of Money.
- From the Philadelphia Record (Dem.).
In answer to the cry for more money, over
SIOO,OOO (no in new currency has been sudden
ly chucked into circulation. Instead of an
swering the expectation of those who believe
that mora money is tho need of the hour,
however, money is gathering, unused and un
available. in the hanks and in tho hands of
lenders, it may he that "money makes the
mure go; ' but money loses its use and the
mare stands idle when business halts. No
one wishes to keep the mare going when she
earns nothing, carries nothing and fetches
nothing. _______
Bimetallism Not at Stake.
From the Boston Globe (Dem.).
Some people appear to entertain the notion
that in the rang contest over repeal of the
Sherman silver purchase act. the cause of
binteialiism is at stake. Nothing could be
farther from the truth. The Sherman make
shift treats silver, not as money, but as a
commodity. It compels the government to
buy silver bullion and store it away, issuing
against this ever-increasing mass what are
known as silver certittcates. Coinage is one
thing compulsory purchase and storage quite
another th up Bimetallism, which means
the use of money both of gold und silver, is
too good a c ause to be associated, as it has
too often been, with the selfish policy of the
men who are seeking in tko national Senate
to thwart the unm.stakablc will of the- people
Repeal once adopted, thru* will I 0 free course
for lc gisiatlou regarding the maintenance of
a just ratio ISMWc-eu gJld uud silver, as well
a> upon otaer topics of groat Importance.
How She Tells a Story.
It Is marvelous how a woman will spin out
the story of seme occurrence that a man would
dismiss In a half-dozen words, says the Bos
ton Transcript. She will fondle it as If it
were a precious baby; she will crowd -4t with
incident, and enter into particulars with a
minuteness that is simply appalling. Aid
she will tell the same story, with all its par
ticularity. a dozen times a day if she bo given
the opportunity, and to the same persons, in
deed. if they will allow it. Thefact is, woman
Is a talking animal and she talks ungrudging
ly. Man is either too mean or too lazy to
speak fluently. He lacks im ig (nation. also—
the imagination that thinks many words are
equivalent to much matter. With woman, on
the other hand, to talk is to live. Her vocal
organs need no spur, no lubricant; they work
—no, not work, but play—automatically and
w ithout friction. For example, a woman has
seen a horse run away and deposit Its driver
by the side of the road. Hear her:
"Oh, such a terrible thing I saw to-day! It
makes me shudder every time I think of it! I
really don't believe I shall ever get over it!
It was perfectly awful. What was it ? I'm al
most afraid to tell you; it will shock you, I
am sure. Well. I had been thinking that I
would go in town shopping the first pleasant
day—you know what weather we've been hav
ing: it bus been rain, rain right along, and
there hasn't been a decent washday for I
don't know how long. Just as we turned into
Washington street I saw the people rushing
frantically toward the corner. I wondered
what it ivas all about, and I told Mrs. Smid
dle, who was with me.-I guessed it must be
tire, but she thought it was a procession.
What a funny idea, wasn't it? I thought so at
the time, but of course didn’t let on; you
know what a touchy thing Mrs. Smiddle is. I
begun to look around for the fire engines. I
thought it was funny I didn't hear
the gongs. You know how they keep
their bells clanging. All- of a sudden
a horse and wagon came tearing down the
street. My heart was in my mouth in a min
ute. 'For the Lord's sake,’ said Ito Mrs.
Smiddle. 'what are we going to do? We'll all
be killed.’ She had turned as white as a sheet,
and I didn’t know but what she'd faint away
right there. Just as the team got opposite to
us the horse ran up against a post or some
thing and foil flat on his stomach. The wagon
was smashed all to pieces and the man was
thrown out and killed, they said, but I don’t
know for certain. As I told Mrs. Smiddle at
the time. I was so frightened I didn't know
where 1 was or what I was doing. I asked
a policeman if the man was killed. He looked
at mo a moment and,then said; ‘What did
you say, madam?’ So I asked him again, and
then he told me yes. the man was killed. It
was an awful thing, and I was so excited and
so nervous that I thought I should drop. I
told Mrs. Smiddle that I was just as fright
ened as I could be, and she said she never
was so frightened in all her life.”
When They Endorse Republicans.
Sometimes queer questions are asked. One
of the capitol visitors from the Lone Star
state is an applicant for a government posi
tion of honor and profit, says the Washington
Post. As an initial step he obtained the en
dorsing signatures of his congressional dele
gation and then filed his papers. Action has
been delayed, and yesterday a friend called
in his behalf upon one of the higher officials—
the man in whom rests that dread autooracy,
"the appointing power."
"Mr. Roe,” said the caller, "is honest intel
ligent, sober, educated, in every way compe
tent to fill this position, and Is backed by his
state.”
"Ah—yes—yes!” said the official. ”It
must be a matter of pride to your friend to
have obtained the signatures of these gen
tlemen in congress. Is he—ah—a demo
crat?”
•What?”
“I say that it must be a matter of pride to
him-ah. yes!—of pride to have obtained the
signatures. Is he a democrat? You know
ah -this is a democratic administration.”
The ambassador gorgonized him with a
stony stare, half anger and half amazement.
•T am not disposed,” he said, "to go
before a justice of the peace and make
affidavit to any mans democracy, but I
can tell you one thing: Sheol will be frozen
over three feet thick, and the cows will
skate home on the ice when thirteen members
from Texas indorse a republican for any
thing, except a jail.”
Then he went away.
A Bad, Bad Reporter.
“I never was quite thrown oft my equipoise,”
said a well known bishop of the Methodist
church to a Detroit Free Press man,' exoept
on one occasion and that was by a Chicago re
porter.”
“They are a sharp lot,” suggested a lis
tener.
The bishop s(niled.
“On this occasion,” he went on, “I had de
livered a sermon at an important church
meeting and I concluded it by quoting the
Lord's prayer. After the service this re
porter called around to see me.”
"That sermon was one of the finest I ever
heard.” he said, “and I've got all its main
points for the paper, but I want the full text
of your peroration, and would like to ask you
if it was entirely original."
"I did not answer him directly,” concluded
the bishop, “but handed a copy of the Bible
with the passage marked in it, and told him
to take it home with him; and you should
have soon that young mans face when ho had
fully comprehended the situation.”
Congressmen on Crutches.
When tellers are called for in the House
the two members designated as tellers stand
one on each side of the middle aisle in front
of the speaker's desk, says the New York
Sun. 't he other day Gen. Sickles and Gen.
Stone, of Kentucky, who fought on opposing
sides during the war. and each of whom
lost a leg in the struggle, met in front of the
tellers and both tried to get through the nar
row way at the same time.
Their crutches clashed together, and there
was a blockade. Each stepped back for the
other as quickly as his crutches would per
mit. and then each stepped forward again to
avail themself of the courtesy ottered by the
other, to they met again in the narrow pass.
'1 hen one backed off to the right and the other
to the left. Each rsised a crutch in the air as
a salute, and they shook hands and went back
to their seats.
A minute or two later General Sickles sent
his crutch through the tellers In the hands of
a page to be counted as a vote.
That Made a Difference.
Whether the Washington policeman knew
the senator or not. when he met him on the
street at 2 a. m. slightly -under the influ
ence'’ does not appear, for a Washington
policeman doesn't always know everything,
savs the Detroit Free Press; but be that as it
may, when he saw the man at that hour in
that condition he approached him.
"Say, officer, what time is it?” inquired
the M. C., steadying himself by a hitching
post.
"Time for decent people to he in bed," re
sponded the officer, gruffly.
"Don't be insolent, sir." commanded the
M. C.. stiking his chest out like a turkey gob
bler. "I'm a member of congress."
"Oh,” laughed the officer, incredulously,
"then It isn't time for you to be in bed. Good
morning." and he went across the street to
wait until the statesman was ready for his
services.
An Unblushing: Confession.
From the New York Advertiser.
1 held her hand, her little hand,
So soft and small and white,
I pressed it often to my lips,
And clasped its lingers tight.
That loving clasp my love declared, '
And I was not ashamed
To own 1 loved her. for who could
For loving her be blamed.
She let her hand, her little hand,
Rest lovingly in mine,
My tender pressure she returned,
Like teudrils of a vine.
Her little fingers clasped mine close,
And her affection told.
And why not:- She's my daughter, and
To-day she's four years old.
BAKING POWDER
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Used in Millions of Homes-40 Years the Standard
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
□ The government cf Saxony 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 ar.a hung up in all
the restaurants and “aloons ihe proprietors
dare not serve those mentioned on the lists
with food or drink, under penalty of losing
their licenses.
According to official statistics, the number
of pupils in the 56,501 schools in the German
empire is 7 925,663, under the instruction of
120,032 teachers, of whom 18.750 are women.
The figures for Prussia alone are given as
follows: Schools. 34.712: pupils. 4,916,476, and
teachers, 70.767—8,i8l being women. In the
entire empire the scholars are 16.03 percent
er the population: in Prussia. 16.54. In Ger
many outside of Prussia there is one teacher
to every sixty-one oupils; in Prussia, one to
every seventy. These teachers receive Irom
$l5O to SSOO a year. The annual cost of edu
cating a child is. in Prussia, $7.14; throughout
the rest of the empire. $7.68.
What is claimed to be the picture of the
first person ever photographed is shown in
the exhibit of the University of the City of
New York at the Chicago Exposition. The
daguerreotype is a picture of Miss Elizabeth
Draper, and was taken by her brother. John
Draper, in 1840. when he was professor at the
university. Previous to that time the
Frenihman Daguerre hadinade experiments
in photography, or sun pictures, as they were
then called, but he never got beyond land
scapes and pictures of still life. The photo
graph is in a good state of preservation.
Dr. Blaschko of Berlin, in a discourse, from
which quotations are made by the British
Medical Journal, of the existence in Berlin
of a malady known as dermatomyeosls ton
surans. the infection of which may be com
municated by the barber's shaving brush, by
the lather, the razor, the sponge, the towel,
the powder puff, the comb or the brush.
The British Medical Journal, commenting
upon the facte mentioned by Dr. Blaschko.
says "it is undoubtedly true that there is
danger of catching skin diseases in the bar
ber's chair unless all his appliances and ar
rangements are of the cleanest kind.”
It is claimed that at police headquarters at
Wheeling, W. Va., is a precious relic in the
shape of the remnant of an ancient pistol,
said to have been carried by Washington
when he crossed the Delaware. To prove
that it was. the rust caused by getting in the
water is still on it, after all these years. The
funny fact about it is that it has a percussion
lo'k, which goes to show that the popular
idea that percussion caps did not come Into
vogue till long after Washington's time is
without foundation in fact. This reminds a
fellow, as the late lamented Lord Dundreary
might have put it of. the fellow, you. know,
that owned the demijohn, you know' out of
which poor old Noah got drunk, don’t you
know, and made such a blessed aws of
himself.
The London Hospital has been sounding a
note of alarm regarding the extent to which
the habit of tea-drinking is Indulged, no less
a quantity than 207,055.979 pounds having been
consumed inGre.it Britain last year. This
paper states that "not only are we yielding,
with all the weakness of an inebriate, to the
diseases of nerve and stomach which exces
sive tea-drinking brings in its train;” but,
after instituting a comparison between teas
of Chinese and Indian growth, it continues:
"We drink more tea than our parents; we
take it oftener, stronger, and of coarser qual
ity. The results are less obvious than those
of alcoholic intoxication, but not less serious;
and in truth the time may not be far distant
when the earnest disciples of the new temper
ance will plead with us, with tears in their
eyes, ‘Give up this accursed tea, and take to
cocoa, or even to beer.’ ”
Renewed activity on the part of the
“women’s rights " folks recalls to the New
castle (Eng.) Chronicle, what are described as
“two very remarkable enactments illustra
tive of the helplessness of men”—one Eng;
llsh, the other a colonial act for New Jersey
people. The English one reads as follows:
"Any person who shall by means of rouge, or
of blanc. of perfumes, of essences, of artificial
teeth, of false hair, of cotton Espagnol, of
steel stays or hoops, of high heeled shoes, or
of false hips entice any of his majesty s male
subjects into marriage shall be prosecuted
for sorcery, and the marriage shall be de
clared void,"—this was only In 1770. The New
Jersey colonial act, which was earlier than
this, differs but little from the English enact
ment. It provides “that all women of what
ever age, profession or rank, maid or widow,
who shall Impose upon, or betray into matri
mony any of his majesty's subjects by virtue
of scents, cosmetics, washes, paint, artificial
teeth, false hair, of high heeled shoes, shall
Incur the penalty now in force against witch
craft.”
A novelty In electric lighting Is being prac
tically tested in a large building in New York
city. Instead of arranging the Incandescent
lamps on one circuit and feeding them con
tinuously from the same source, they are ar
rant el on a number of separate circuits, say
four, and the current Is alternately switched
from one to the other In regular succession,
the idea being that the current, having heated
each successive circuit of lamps to incandes
cence, will be returned again to that series
before the lamp filaments have time to cool.
The means by which this is accomplished Is
the employment of a special Interrupter or ro
tary cylinder, on which the segments are so
arranged that a system of brushes, with
which they make contact, carries the current
alternately to each series of lamps. The pe
riodicity of the current In this device is about
seventy per second. Notwithstanding tho
loss of energy in the interrupting mechanism,
the inventor claims that between two and
three times as many lamps can be operated
from a given source of energy by his system
as by any other system now in use.
A recent work on sanitary engineering
says, according to tho Evening Sun, that
Damascus possesses, in all probability, the
oldest water works In ihe world. The city
itself is the most ancient of existing cities,
having seen the rise and fall of the Greek and
Roman empires, of Babylon, Nineveh, Pal
myra and Jerusalem. Whon taken by the
Saracens from the Romans the water works
already existed, and it is probable that the
latter constructed the works which still ex
ist and supply the loan. Damascus lies in a
valley on the River Abana, which flows from
the Lebanon hills and is lost in the ceiert
to the cast of the town. In spite of a copious
supply of excellent water. Damascus has had
no Immunity from opidemies, owing to the
fact that the double canalization for water
supply and drainage, being more or less
leaky, saturated the soil and raised the
spring-level nearly to the surface, and the
sewers are rarely, if ever, cleaned, are not
systematically ventilated, and they pass un
der many of the houses. It is not surprising
therefore, that Damascus is, audalways was'
an insalubrious town.
If the United States could cross our conti
nent with railroads, or if Russia can span
Asia with a line of rails why cannot France
cross the Sahara desert with a railroad? Pos
sibly it can, says the New Yorjt Mail and Ex
press. A beginning has 1 een made in that
mammoth undertaking. But the difficulties
are incalculable. As soon as those that are
now known shall he overcome others will
arise. Consider for an instant the enormous
oostacles to making a railroad 1 500 miles
long through a territory without wood or ties
without water, without everything reuuired
to sustain life. Railroads have been con
structeil through countries to which all the
materials required have had to be carried
But here is a country which does not even
supply water for the men who must do the
work. The sand storms that have buried a
thousand caravans are Hallo to arise
and wipe out all traces of man and his
work. Yet this stupendous work is now
seriousiy contemplated hy the French govern
ment VV hen ills underttken the rails will
he laid from oasis to oasis, which lie like
islands in the great ocean of the desert As
it approaches the south the trunk line mav be
divided, one arm to run to Lake Tchad and
the other to strike the Niger above Timh “ c
too. from which point steamers could descend
to Senegamma The work mav cost hun
dreds or even thousands of millions of dol-
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