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4 Clit^lorningflcltts o c—- - SornjngNewsßuildmg.Savannah.Ga ~ SUNDAY. OCTOBER 22. 1893. registered at the postoffice in savannah The MORNING NEWS is published every day In the year, and is served to subscribers 16 thf. city at $1 00a month, $5 for six months ami $lO 00 for one year. The MORNING NEWS, by MAh. one month, $1 00: three months, $2 t SO; six months, $E 00; one year, $lO 00, The MORNING NEWS, BY MAIL, six tines a week (without Sunday issue), three jno.'ths. Si UO; six months, $4 00; one year. it) 00. The MORNING NEWS. Trl-Weekly. Mon days, Wednesdays and Fridays, or Tues days, Thursdays and Saturdays, three months, 61 25; six months. $2 50; one year. $6 00. The SUNDAY NEWS, BY mail, one year, 12 00. The WEEKLY NEWS, by mail, one year, $ 1 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 ad vertlsements.other than special column, local or reading notices, amusements and cheap or want column, 10 cents a line. Fourteen lines of agate type—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 e New York City, C. S. Faul-cmch, Manager, 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 .©SOI tt a VX e CreWa °/ UtUr Powd "-NoAmmonia;No Alum. 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- ______ MEDICAL Radway’s ready relief. CUBES AND PREVENTS Coughs,Colds, Sore Throat, Infl,, enza, Bronchitis, Rneuinoifla Swelling ot the Joints. Lumbago, Inflammations RHEUMATISM, NEURALGIA, ’ 1 rostbites. Chilblains, Headache J oothaehe. Asthma, DIFFICULT BREATHING. SB? ° at t*° reading this advertisement need an„ ft '‘ r SUFFER WITH PAIN. auy " nf > Radway's Ready Relief is a Sure Cure tor Every Pain, Sprains, Bruises, Pains in the Back, Chest or Limbs. ALL INTERNAL PAINS, Cramm in Bowels jjr Stomach. Spasms, So Jr i?om® ath. 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