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SATUFDAY. OCTOBER 2\ 1893.
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INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
T Special Nottcks—Majority Rules, William
F. Reid i Look at Our Prices, Mutual Co-oper
ative Association; Youths', Boys’ and Chil
dren’s Clothing, Appel & Sohaul; The Best
•nd Cheapest, Falk Clothing Company; State
and County Taxes. 1883.
Wrap's Tour Bubikkss—Appel & Schaul.
Hbbks Another Week Abodt Endbd—
p. H. Levy A Bro.
Kkt West Cigars—James McGrath.
It is Impossible Falk Clothing Company.
Steamship Schedule—Ocean Steamship
Com pony.
Cheap Column advertisements— Help
Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Rent; For
Pale; Lost; Personal; Miscellaneous.
Senator Stewart, of Nevada, has spoken
thirty-eight separate and distinct times
upon the repeal bill in the Senate. And
yet he has not concluded his speech.
Congressman O’Ferrall, the democratic
candidate for governor of Virginia, will
not resign his seat in congress until he is
about to enter upon his duties as gover
nor. This course has been decided upon
in deference to the wishes of his friends.
Representative Coombs, of New York,
who says he was sent to congress because
he had been an exporter of American
goods for thirty-eight years and knows
all about the business, proposes the
framing of a tariff bill for the sole pur
pose of affording protection to labor.
The Senate has begun voting, and it will
not be long before the contest over the re
peal of the purchasing clause of the Sher
man act will be ended, and it will be
ended in a way that will give satisfaction
to lho people. The "miserable make
shift" will cease to be a source of trouble.
Have those colored lawyers of Chatta
nooga, who wish the government to ap
propriate $1,000,000,000 for the purpose of
colonizing the whole of the negroes in
America in some place to be selected, ob
tained the consent of the negro race to
the scheme? If they have, the govern
ment would do well to consider the propo
sition ; if they have not the scheme is not
worth while talking about, for the gov
ernment has not the authority to colonize
any people, except possibly convicted
criminals, against their will.
There is said to be upon Secretary Car
lisle's desk in the treasury department a
stack of papers nearly two feet high, re
lating to appointments and other public
business. These papers have accumu
lated during the time the Secretary has
been giving his attention almost exclu
sively to the silver light. Now that silver
is practically out of the way, it may be
expected that the Secretary will attack
the mass of papers and provide for the re
tirement of some of the three hundred
and odd republicans who still hold presi
dential offices under the treasury depart
ment.
To change the practice in congress from
engrossing bills and resolutions to print
ing them would throw out of employment
a number of clerks who can do nothing
else so well as they can write, but it
would furnish more printers with em
ployment and make the records neater
and more compact. The custom at wri
ting out the papers withjpen and ink has
been retained thus long because of the
mistaken idea that accuracy of transcrip
tion was thus tbe better guarded. That
this was not correct was abundantly
proved in the last congress and the one
before it. It will be remembered that an
engrossing clerk left out a whole para
graph of the McKinley bill, and the su
preme court was called upon to say
whether or not the whole act was vitiated
thereby. Had the McKinley bill been
printed instead of engrossed such an
error could hardly have occurred. The
proof reader and copy holder in the print
ing office would have discovered the "out’’
and made the necessary correction.
A “discouraged member of the majority
f the ways and means committee" was
quoted in our Washington dispatches yes
terday as expressing the "fear" that
there will be no tariff legislation du
ring the approaching regular session of
congress. He bases his fear upon
the difficulties the committee has expe
rienced in framing a bill. That tired
member of the committee should send in
his resignation as a congressman at once.
The democrat who grows weary of smash
ing the “culminatin' atrocity of class
legislation" before the work has been
fairly begun, is less than a half-hearted
democrat, and doc, not represent his ron
s ituency. ili.s particular member may
have thought it would he as easy to com
pile anew tari.f bill as to compile an
order for his week's supply of groceries
an.l b come disgusted because lie was mis
luscii Or it ia.iv bo that the now tai l f
bill will strike him in the pocket b,v re
moving the proto live uuty on some ar: i
cle in which In is iut cos tail. At an, rate
be is a mighty nicer kind of a democrat
lobe on Hi.-was ami means conimi
rile people buio ordered u ro.or.u tariff.
Had it w in b proi iJcj at tbe earliest |u
sane moment, despiu the weary member's
Rather Raeh Talk.
The members of the Chatham delega
tion in the legislature are reported in our
dispatches as talking rather recklessly
about corrupt practices in the registra
tion in this county in connection will'
their bill to take tho registration out of
the hands of the c ounty commissioners
and place it in the hands of the ordinary.
We’sa.v, their bill, because as far as we
have been able to discover, there is no
demand on the part of the people of this
county for ttic change proposed in their
bill. It would be interesting to know
whether the bill was suggested to them
or whether it is their own idea. If it was
suggested to them they should disclose
the names of those back of it. so that it
may be‘known whether any c onsiderable
numbered people want it, and whether
those who want it are profoundly inter
ested in the welfare of the city or simply
seeking a change for seliisli purposes.
If the bill is their own idea it is strange
they were not moved to introduce it at
the last session. They must have known
as much about the corrupt registration
practices of which they speak then as
they do now. Nothing has occurred since
the last session to arouse suspicion that
the registration is not honestly conducted.
And if, as they say, there is a great jropu
lar demand for the proposed change, why
is it that it did not crop out immediately
after the last registration? The time for
expressions of indignation at corrupt
practices is when the practices
are fresh in the public mind. There does
not appear to have been any such expres
sions. however, at any time, and this
justifies the suspicion that the proposed '
bill is not to be offered in response to a
popular demand, but for some purpose
that is kept in the background.
But why is it that Chatham’s repre
sentatives have lost confidence in the
county commissioners who were elected
by authority of a bill put through the leg
islature by themselves? They wanted
commissioners elected by the people, and
they have them. What fault have they
to find with them? Why do they objoct
to trusting them with the registration?
Have they not shown themselves to be
faithful servants, and would they not
give the people as honest a registration as
the ordinary? The Chatham representa
tives do not seem to think so, or else they
would not bo so anxious to take the regis
tration out of their hands.
But, after ail, what is it that the Chat
ham 'representatives want? For ono
thing they say they want the time for
registering changed. The registering is
now done between the first Monday in
March and the first Monday in .Tune, and
they want it done between June 1 and
Sept. 1. What reason can they have for
such a change? It is well known that
during the summer many of the taxpay
ers and representative citizens are away
from the city, and that a great many idle
colored men come into the city. One ef
fect of the proposed change would be to
keep off of the registration books
citizens who are profoundly interested in
good government in Savannah and get
registered many who have no interest in
the city whatever, but who could be used
for selfish purposes.
Are not the Chatham representatives
mistaken in asserting that the people de
mand the change in the registration pro
posed in their bill? They will probably
find out they are before their bill makes
much progress. It will be discovered
that the people they have in mind are
themselves and a few of their friends.
Inconsistent Senator Sherman.
One of the senators who have obtained
a good deal of notoriety out of the long
struggle over the repeal bill in the Senate
is Mr. Sherman. Of Mr. Sherman’s abil
ity there is no doubt. Of ills consistency
there appears to be a great deal of doubt.
He had more to do with passing tho law
that bears his name and which has
caused so much trouble than any other
man, and he is apparently among the
most anxious for its repeal, and yet he
threatened to introduce an amendment to
tho repeal bill providing for an issue of
bonds that would defeat it.
But that which brings out Mr. Sher
man’s inconsistency strongly is a recent
interview in the New York Herald in
which he declares he is in favor of a clo
sure rule, and says that he has favored
such a rule in the Senate for the lust
twenty years. He admits that during
that time he has recognized the fact that
the Senate was powerless to act.
But if he has favored a closure rule for
so many years' and has known the Senato
was powerless to act without one, why is
it that he has never proposed that
the Senato should adopt such a rule?
Less than two years ago he was a mem-
her of a committee that made a thorough
revision of the rules of the Senate, and yet
there is no record that he proposed in
that committee or in the Senate a closure
rule. While he is talking of the length of
time he has regarded a closure rule a ne
cessity, it would be interesting to hear
why he did not urge the adoption of such
a rule when he was in a position to do so.
Asa matter of fact he is on record as
opposing the adoption of any method to
bring the Senate to a vote. The senator's
memory seems to fail as he advances in
years. This infirmity should waru him
not to be too positive in his statements in
interviews for the newspapers.
Upon the collapse of the opposition to
unconditional repeal in the Senate,
various Washington correspondents sent
to their respective newspapers pretty lit
tle parables, illustrating the situation of
j affairs, each correspondent framing his
j parable in the manner best calculated to
I impress the readers of his paper. This rs
| what the correspondent of the Louisville
I (Ky.) Courier-Journal sent: -‘What
i have you?’ said Senator Yoorheos to Seu
• ator Dubois this morning. 'Four elubs
and a diamond,’ was the answer of the
Idaho senator. 'Just what I thought.'
i said the Indiana senator. ‘You have
been playing a bobtail all along, and I
guess 1 will take in ihe pot,’ displaying,
as he did so, a full und complete immedi
ate and un. ouditioual repeal hand.”
It seems that John Bull has not a
' monopoly of the South American trade,
after all. Whenever there are wars or
rumors of wars in South America or
Central America we hear of the Flints or
ihe Graces of New York taking ini
por.unt steps to preserve their great trade
ia lores ia the countries involved. An I
the llruis mention 'd fri-qu -utly figure in
tlie news dispatch*a us the financial agent*
j of the government* assailed or of liieir
! assailants.
THE MORNING NEWS: SATURDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1893.
On the Right Track.
The convention of colored men that met
in Macon tho other day to take steps to
discourage the commission of the crime
that is the most fruitful cause of t.vnch
iugs iu tho south lias not received tho at
tention from the press of this state and
the country it deserves. Ex-Oov. Cham
berlain. of South Carolina, first threw
out tlie idea that the way to put a stop to
l.vnchings was to remove the cause of
them, and he declared that the colored
people themselves could do more to re
move the cause than tho white people.
His idea was taken up by leading colored
men of Ware county, and the Macon con
vention was the result.
The action of the convention will be
productive of good results. It will have
the effect of calling the attention of the
colored people to the necessity for using
all the influence they possess to prevent
men of their race from assaulting white
women. Nearly every lynching that
occurs in the south is caused by an out
rage of this kind. Just as soon as the
cause is removed thelynchings will cease.
The colored men who have taken hold
of this matter should be given every
possible encouragement. They should be
urged to hold other conventions and to
draw the attention of their ministers to
the necessity for urging from their pul
pits the importance of building up among
their people a sentiment against the crime
that brings such terrible punishment
upon those of their race who are guilty of
it. With the influential colored men
working to remove tiie cause of lynchings
and the press and officials striving to
create a sentiment in favor of letting the
law take its course in the case of all
criminals, it will not be long before lynoh
ings will be few and far between.
A Costly Blunder.
The Chicago Tribune says that the
failure of those who framed the law pro
viding for the world's fair to remember
that October has thirty-one days will
cause the exposition to lose about $200,000.
The attendance is now very large, and
the receipts from the concessions are
also large. Theclosingof the fair, there
fore, one day sooner than was originally
intended will make quite a difference in
the total receipts. The original purpose
was to open the fair on the last day of
April and close it on the last day of Octo
ber. It was afterwards thought advisa
to change the opening day to May 1. In
drafting the bill the fact that October
has thirty-one days was overlooked and
Oct. 30 was fixed as the closing day.
The law authorizing the fair was en
acted by the fifty-first congress, and the
chairman of the select committee of the
House that reported the bill and had
charge of it was Mr. Chandler, of Massa
chusetts. In all the various stages of tho
bill no one seems to have thought of the
fact that October has thirty-one days. It
was clearly the intention of congress to
provide for closing the fair on the last
day of the month and not the day before
the last.
The exposition has done much better
financially, however, than it was
thought it would three months after it
was opened. Tho receipts during Sep
tember and October have greatly ex
ceeded expectations. If the receips in all
the inohths had been equal to those
thus far this month it is probable that
the stockholders would TecPiVe a large
dividend on their stock.
The Seigniorage.
During the past month there has been
considerable talk on the floor of the Sen
ate and in the columns of the newspapers
with regard to the coinage of the silver
seigniorage in the treasury vaults.
The seigniorage is the mint’s charge for
coinage,and, when instituted, represented
tho difference between the face value and
the bullion value of a coin. This differ
ence in values was provided for a double
purpose—to pay tho mint for the work of
coining the metal, and to keep the coined
metal in the country issuing it. The seig
niorage deducted from the bullion value
of the metal in a dollar, or a sovereign,
or a napoleon (about 2V' per cent.), made
the coin worth intrinsically slightly less
than its face value, hence the face value
being greater than its bullion value it
could not profitably be exported. In coin
ing silver-dollars, for instance, 97>£ per
cent, of the dollar’s worth of bullion was
put into the coin, and 2j-£ per cent, re
tained by the government as seigniorage.
The seigniorage, or profits of coinage,
now iu the treasury vaults, was derived
from the operations of both the Bland act
and tlie Sherman act, fnd is estimated to
amount to $60,000,000 or more. Under the
so-called Bland act the government bought
silver, coined it into dollars—earning the
seigniorage, or profit—and issued certifi
cates against the coined dollars. Under
the Sherman law certificates are issued
against the bullion, so that the profit is
not yet earned.
The proposition to “coin the seignior
age,” however, has not as its purpose the
ac tual coinage of silver dollars from the
bullion representing the government’s
profits, but the computation of the
amount of profits the government would
earn by the coinage of the bullion in its
vaults and the issuing of certificates to
that amount, the silver remaining actually
untouched.
Work on the new cruiser Maine, at the
Brooklyn navy yard, is being delayed
from a novel cause. The Maine is to be
an armored ship, and her hull, machinery
and armor plates are ready, but nobody
knows how to put the plates on. The
armor is of the "Ilarveyized” type. Its
basis is nickel steel and the surface is
hardened by the Harvey system. When
it came time to begin putting on the
plates it was found that there are no tools
trade capable of drilling holes through
the plates to permit of their being
fastened on with bolts. The ilarveyized
plates absolutely defy tools, and as no
method of fastening on plates except
with Wilts lias lei u devised, work on the
Maine 'sat a standstill.
Hear Admiral Stanton, who has boon
removed from command of the United
States naval Wet at liio for saluting the
insurgent eouinutmi'T and exchanging
vitits with him. has been in the naval
service for forty-tiirev years, but it seems
he has a lot .ve’ to learn. The policy of
this country is lo let other American
countries settle timir q an els after their
own fashion, without interfering In uu>
Miauicr vv li i M.e.'er. at tin* same time not
periuilllnz an y foreigi. tsnvcr to Interfere.
I he prompt rt: no vat of Stanton is evidence
of the fact that our govern tuout weans to
enforce that iioiicy.
PER3QNAL.
The Duke of York has become a tenant
farmer upon the estate of his father, the
Prince of Wales, and. according to President
Shaw. the first thing the duke did after ta
king possession was to rs ; for a reduction of
rent, so ns to keep In touch with his fellow
at riculturlsts.
Jeremiah Simpson is booked for a lecture
before the s#udents at Ann Arbor University
on Nov. 4. Mr. Simpson will explain the prin
t tples and teautles of populism for and In
consideration of M'Oto him in hand paid.
This should provide him with socks during the
long, cold winter that is coming.
Emperor Francis Joseph, whom his Czech
subject* want crowned at Prague as king of
Bohemia, has been twice crowned already, as
omperor of Austria anil king of Hungary.
The kings of Italy. Spam. Belgium. Bavaria
and suxony, on the other hand, have never
taken the trouble to be crowned at all.
Some religious papers condemned Mahomet
Webb for attempting to defend polygamy at
the World's Parliament of Religions. But
the Interior iPresbyteriam says: 'We think
he did just right. People were naturally cu
rious to know what it is that Mr. Webb found
so attractive in the religion of Islam as to in
duce him to abandon the faith of his fathers.
Mr. Wobb satisfied that curiosity.”
Col. Edward Beck, of the Idaho National
Guard, who was said to be the youngest en
listed person in the Union armv during the
war. recently died in Idaho. He went as a
drummer-hoy with the Fourteenth Kentucky
Hegiment when he was 11 years old. He
was In active service from the beginning of
the war till 1803. when he was -wound and and
sent home. He afterwards entered the regu
lar army and was a sergeant for twelve years,
retiring in 1889.
Nat Herreshoff, who designed the victorious
Vigilant, comes of a famous yacht-building
family. John Herreshoff. the head of the
family, is totally blind, but a man of remark
able energy and vigor Lewis. Julien and
rally are all designers, but Nat is the boat
builder and boat handler par excellence, the
educated engineer and the man who has in
the main designed and worked out the ideas
that have put the Herreshoffs in the first rank
of naval architects.
When Mgr. Sntolli visited the Pacific coast
he returned east by way of Yellowstone Na
tional Park. He was delighted with the spec
tacle, and so expressed himself to a newspa
per reporter. The interview is now being
printed by a western railway as an induce
ment to travelers to take the trip over its line.
The "folder" is embellished with a horrid
woodcut of the papal delegate, who Is said to
be amazed to find his name and portrait being
used as a railroad advertisement.
England breathes freer, but there is gnash
ing of teeth among the little grand dukes of
Germany. The momentous question whether
the new Duke Alfred, of Saxe-Coburg, should
to called "Highness” or "Royal Highness”
lias been decided in favor of the latter title.
It is held that a prince cannot lose the rank
to which he was born, and Alfred, as the son
of Victoria, is royal. This gives him prece
dence over all the other Gorman grand dukes,
and they are so disgusted that they can
scarcely dispose of their daily rations of bltit
wurst and ptlsener.
BRIGHT BITS.
"Is this building fire-proof?” asked the man
with blue glasses and large gripsack.
"Not if you're a book agent, ’ replied the
janitor conclusively."—Washington Star.
Johnes (of New York)—Whereabouts in
Chicago is the world’s fair?
Jerkins (just returned from hts journey)—
The world's fair Is near Midway Plaisance.
“PoorTommte! Foive years in Sing Sing!
I do feel sorry for him. ”
"Dodad, and yure sympathy's trowed away.
He's surrounded by frtnds.”—Brooklyn Life.
Mrs. Kutshaw (who has been discussing In
dividual tastes)—What Is your forte, Mrs.
Jimpsoy ?
Mrs. Jimpsey—Me fourt’ Is dead. Jlmpsey's
me 11ft’.
"Haven’t seen you for an are, Charlie.”
“No; I’ve changed my business."
"What are you now?"
“Floorwalker. It's twins.”—Detroit Free
Press.
“Did I hear you say that you have found in
your mother-in-law your Ideal?”
"Yes. indeed; oil the comments ever made
on mothers-in-law apply to her!”—Fliegende
Blaetter.
“Well, we've kept America's cup,” said the
American.
“Yes, so I see,” said the Britisher. “It's
difficult for you people to get rid of silver.’'—
Boston Herald. ilo
“Doesn’t it cost you Chicago women a good
deal of money, first and last, for your di
vorces?” >
“Oh.no; not if you take advantage of the
bargain days.”—Judge (Now York).
“Do you know that the doctors have decided
that young meats, such as veal cutlets and
spring chickens, are very unhealthy?”
Is that so? They must have told mv land
lady the same thing.”—Detroit Free Press.
“Havo you asked the councilor vet for his
daughter's hand ?”
“No. To tell you the truth, I am afraid to
ask him,"
• Afraid? Why. man alive! a rich fellow
like you would bo gladly accepted.”
"That's the very reason 1 am afraid.”—
Schalk.
May—Don't you think that Miss Gollghtly
is perfectly charming?
Mamma—lt struck me she was a little bit
giddy.
May—Why, mamma, she moves in the best
circles.
Mamma—That accounts for It. Moving tn
circles will make auy one giddy.
“I want to be an angel,”
A congressman did cry;
And through the air came flying.
An answer from on high:
“You can not be an angel.
For don t you know, you dunce,
No member can be holding
Two offices at once?"
“ 'Tts well,” replied tho member;
' I'll keep my present place,
In runnin ? for the other
I mightn't win the race.”
CURRENT COMMENT.
The Doom of Populism.
From the Pittsburg D ‘pitch (KepO.
K itisas populists are making i' desperate
tight to continue their grip on pul 11c offices In
that state, but unforti nately for them tho
people are doing some thinking this fall.
The Proper Way to Proceed.
From the Courier-Joirml (Bern.).
The iris hievois feature of the Sherman
a t ore; abolished, congress at its leisure can
lake any steps that mar st e.n to be mcessary
for insuring the country a sta! 1!, flexible and
ample currency.
Is This Stewart’s Aim P
From the Kansas City Star (Dem.).
Stewart, of Nevada, must be grooming for
the Presidency. In resuming his never end
ing speech fills morning he made a broad bid
for the votes of Kansas and Missouri by de
claring that in those two states there is a
much higher average of intelligence and a
broader grasp of public questions than in any
other part of the country. Such a compli
ment from sue hit source Is. however, some
what questionable, for Stewart's gauge of in
telligence Is not colossal in size.
The Volume of Our Silver.
From the Baltimore Sun (Dem.).
Should t.h" Sherman act be repealed in the
next ten days, the silver money of the conn
try will amoiinl.it Is estimated, to about
tbJO.OOO.OOO. embracing 58.832.068 silver dollars
in circulation. $01,100.11(1 In subsidiary silver
coin. }IN) 824.190 in silver bullion treasury
notes and i]3'.'4.W55,134 in silver certificates.
With the assurance that the burden Is not to
be further und indefinitely Increased, this
amount of silver can probably be carried by
lbe country -can be kept at par with gold.
France, by abandoning free coinage, keeps
some jWiJ.UOO.UUOof silver at par with gold, and
we. under normal conditions, could do as well.
“Prosperous Savannah.”
From the Atlanta Journal.
Our Sluter city of Savannah has no! tieen
set back by the hard times On the contrary,
suvannuh is going right ahead in spite of
the short coiuva crop, the receipt* since Sept.
1 at avunn a up lo last Friday, were *.-
R 23 hales against 2; *1.501 for the corresponding
period last year The exports of cotton from
savannah for ihe js'rlou named were lyl 312
i ales against I.Vf hit lasi year
i h'* '■ are now a dozen large steamers at
the wharves loading wilh cotton for foreign
l*orta, and two more at quarantine waiting to
come In.
'i he bana clearances a; Savannah since
Sept l have In in prreent greater than
they were for the same period leal year
Human for Savannah’
A War Incident.
The following is one of Congressman John
Alien's yarns, reported in the Congressional
Record: "They remind me of an occurrence
said to have taken place with a distinguished
cavalry colonel during thq war. Upon one oc
casion he was leading his regiment In one of
the most gallant retreats that regiment ever
engaged In. The Yankees were ndlßg close
behind and pressing the boys everywhere.
There were some indiscreet men in his
command who would turn around and fire on
them occasionally; and. with hat off, from
the head of his regiment, he turned his head
and looked back, and gave this command;
• 'Boys, stop that firin; it just mokes them
madder.”'
Full Instructions.
The late William J. Gibbons, of Wilming
ton. Del., was known in his day for a number
of things, and not the least of these was his
great-fondness for a joke, says a writer in
Harpers’ Magazine. He was president of a
company having considerable trade with the
Amazon and other South American rivers.
Part of their work was the building of boats
for these rivers, called in the language of the
shop "knock downs,” that is, boats set up in
the yard of the company and bolted together
in shape, and then taken down, packed aboard
sailing vessels, and shipped to their destina
tion. where they were put together finally
and for good On one occasion this op
erution was performed according to pro
gramme, and the captain of the schooner that
was to take the boat was about receiving his
final orders. Among these was an order not
on the regular programme, to stop at a cer
tain wharf near the mouth of the Christiana
creek, and take atioard about two tons of
dynamite. The captain was a little disturbed
when he learned the nature of his diversion,
and said:
"Well. 1 don't know. Mr. Gibbons, about
the infernal stuff. What will we do if it should
go off?”
Quick as thought came the answer:
"Present my regards to Saint Peter,
please.”
But the dynamite went all right.
An Ancient Family.
Several years ago there was an old family
in Pennsylvania named Roth, says the Bos
ton Budget. Indeed, the long line of Roths
was about all the family had to show' by way
of distinction, and so much did they make of
the long branches of the family tree and the
Niagara of blue blood that had in centuries
past coursed through their reins that people
of the more recent generations really began
to think thes 1 Roths were of some a.'Count.
One evening there happened to boa party in
the little town of M , and besides the great
Roth family the guests numbered among
others young Dr. Sharp. He was a popular
and rising physician, and considered by
match-making mammas a particularly desi
rable catch.
Mrs. Roth had four marriageable daughters,
so at the first favorable opportunity she cor
nered the young doctor and sought to impress
upon him the importance of her wonderful
family.
"Why, doctor,” she said, "we all came over
in the Mayflower, so I know you will not think
me bold in asserting that the Roths are really
one of the first families.”
"Pardon me." replied the young physician,
"hut I have no hesitation in saying that your
family enjoys even a greater distinction."
"O, doctor." gushed the old lady, giving
herself a congratulatory hug on her coming
triumph. “Indeed, you flatter me."
“Not at all." he replied, "for I know you are
tire first family.”
' Who told you that, dear doctor?”
"The Bible,” he replied, reverently,•"for it
says the Lord was Roth.”
Indians at a Phonograph.
Wind-in the-Face. chief of a band of Flat
head Indians, camped near Missoula, Mont ,
wandered into a store recently and In his in
spection of the stock came across a phono
graph. which stands in one corner of the
room. He examined the machine very curl
ously and by signs and grunts inquired its
use. After considerable persuasion he was
induced by an Anaconda Standard man to
sing into the receiver the war chant of his
tribe. He began with a low, monotonous
"Hi-ya-he-ya. ho.” but warmed to his work as
he proceeded and got In some fancy move
ments as he neared end, which threat
ened to dislocate the machine. After he had
concluded the attachments were changed and
connections were made so that Wlnd-ln the-
Face and his attendant braves could hear
the reproductien of the song Gravely and
somewhat suspiciously they inserted
the tubes in their ears and waited
the result. As the sounds of the chant that
for ages had incited thair forefatlies to battle
reached their ears they were at first thor
oughly alarmed and muttered something
about "bad medicine," but as the emphatic
tones of their chief coming from the little
wax cylinder rang out the tocsin, they be
came enthused and kept time to the alleged
music with feet and bodies until it seemed as
if a war dance was to be executed then and
there. Hut they didn't leave the machine un
tilthe chant was ended, and then they almost
hugged each other in thair delight, and even
attempted to embrace Mr. Hartley, the store
keeper. They wanted more, and a cylinder
was inserted that gave them “Drill, Ye Ter
riers.” This pleased them Immensely, and
they laughed as heartily as an Indian ever
laughs, though they probably did not under
stand a word o' the song. They now regard
Mr. Hartley as a great medicine man and
want to adopt him into their tribe.
Shuflle-Shoon and Amber-Locks.
Eugene Field in the Ladies' Home Journal.
Shuffle-Shoon and Amber Locks
Sit together, building blocks;
Shuffle Shoon is old and gray—
Amber-Locks a little child,
But together at that play
Age and youth are reconciled,
And with sympathetic glee
Build their castles fair to seo!
“When I grow to be a man.”
So the wee one’s prattle ran,
"I shall build a castle—so,
With a gateway broad and grand.
Here a pretty vine shall grow,
There a soldier guard shall stand;
And the tower shall be so high
Folks will wonder by-and-by!"
Shuffle-Shoon quoth: "Yes, I know;
Thus I builded. long ago!
Here a gate and there a wall.
Here a window, there a door;
Here a steeple, wondrous tall,
Risethever more and more;
But the years have leveled low
What I builded, long ago!”
So they gossip at their play
Heedless of the fleeting day.
One speaks of that Long-Ago,
Where his dead hopes buried lie;
One with chubby cheeks aglow,
Prattleth of the By-aud-By.
Side by side twin castles grow—
By-and-By and Long-Ago!
Long-Ago and By and-By—
Ah. what years atween them lie!
Yet. oh grandsire. gaunt and gray.
By what grace art thou beguiled
That thou -barest in the play
Of that little lisping child?
Children both, they build their blocks—
Shuffle-Shoon and Amber-Locks
The name of Bcrezowski. the Pole who en
deavored to assassinate Alexander 11. on his
return from the grand review held in his
honor at Paris, in 1807. has been brought to
the fore once more, in connection with the
visit of the Russian fieot to Toulon, and the
presence of its principal officers at Parts.
The socialist mayor of Toulon ami the mfm
hers of his party at Paris, who are largely
represented in the municipal council of the
metropolis, have chosen just this par icular
moment to put forward a demand for his am
nesty. Berezowskl is now serving a life sen
tence in the penitential colony of New Cale
i.onia. The present emperor of Russia has
given the French government to understand
toat he would regard the mans release as a
slight to the memory of his father, the late
czar.
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Congressman De Forrest, of Connecticut,
has a most remarkably memory. He memo
rizes all his speeches, and gives the manu
script to the official stenographers so that
they may save the trouble of short handing
them. The stenographers, who follow the
speaker to insert any Impromptu remarks,
declare that Mr. De Forrest never omits or
misplaces a word, no matter how long the
speech may be.
Jean Lule, or,e of the most important wit
nesses on the claimant's side in the celebra
ted Tlchborne trial, has just turned up in
Sydney. Australia, in connection with a law
suit for malicious prosecution. He is now a
debt collector, and is 74 years old. To this
(lay he continues to strongly adhere to the
statement which hs made on oath in London
during the great trial, that he was steward of
the Osprey at the time she picked up the sur
vivors of the Bella, one of whom was Sir Roger
Tichborne. who, according to his firm convic
tion. was identical with the claimant. Lule
declares that the last of the Tlchborne case
has not yet been heard.
Few people would Imagine that such a thing
as a wild horse could be found In an old. set
tled country like Delaware, but a recent law
suit brings out the fact that there are such
there, and a good many of them. It seems
that twenty-one years ago the Wistar broth
ers gave two ironies to a Mr. Black to he
cared for in pasture on an Island in the Dela
ware river. They have bee n there ever
since, and have multiplied until there are now
seventy-two of them, all unbroken, and
they are so wild that it is dangerous to come
near them. Black's widow has sued the
Wistars for the care of the horses, and got a
judgment for over f5,005, much more than
anybody will give for the horses. The Wis
tars refuse to pay or take their stock off the
island.
Among the Bengalese it is said that shout
ing the name of the king of birds ignrunda)
drivesaway snakes. Shouting "ram! ram!" dri
ves away ghosts. Cholera that attacks on Mon
day or Saturday always proves fatal, cholera
that attacks on Thursday never ends fatally,
The flowering of the bamboo means famine. In
fanning, if the tan strikes the body it should
be instantly knocked three limes against the
ground. when giving alms the giver and
receiver should both be on the same side of
the threshold. It is bad to pick one's teeth
with the nails. If a snake be killed it should
immediately be burned, for all serpents that
are so unwise as to permit of having their
lives taken are Inhabited by the souls of
Brahmans, which hope thus to escape and
work mischief. The words “snake" and
"tiger" should never be used after nightfall.
Call them "creepers” and "insects.” Never
awaken a sleeping physician. Morning
dreams always come true.
, That extreme cold paralyzes every vital
function Is, of course, a piece of everyday
knowledge. But It has been left to Professor
Pictet, who has been conducting some experi
ments on this subject, to discover that at a
temperature of 150° below the centigrade
zero there Is no chemical action between ni
tric or sulphuric acid and potash, between
oxygen and potasslnm. though under ordi
nary circumstances the afllnty of the lat
ter metal for oxygen is so great that it will
burn it thrown into water, owing to Its com
bination with the oxygen in that fluid. But if
the electric spark is played on bodies which
have thus lost the power of chemical affinity
somo new and carious combinations result
The latest Investigations, the conclusions of
which, however, have been theoretically pre
saged for some years past, may require us to
reconsider the question of the temperature of
outer space and the possibility of an atmo
sphere composed of guses in combination ex
isting there.
The Mexican sombreros are built on a plan
to stand wind and weather for many sum
mers. and the hat without its gaudy trim
mings often weighs several pounds, but
stretched around it is a band of gold or silver
wrought in the highest style of the jeweler's
art. and the edge is trimmed in a design to
match the band of cord. So it is easy to see
how SSOO can be put in one bat to be sold,
perhaps, to a vanquero whose entire earthly
possessions outside of it may be equal to only
one fifth of its cost. But Mexicans run to
strange ideas, judged from our own stand
point. And their ideas have permeated cer
tain of the western states where cowboys
hold sway, and where S2OO saddles are often
seen on S2O horses. Mexico makes nearly all
of its own sombreros, and it will surprise the
fastidious dressers who may chance in the
section occupied by tho exhibit from that
country to see in cases silk hats and derby
hats of the latest style and finost workman
ship which bears the imprint of Mexican
manufacturers.
Firemen are well enough used to running to
a fire, but It Is not often that they haye to
chase one down the street, as the St. Louis
department did the other day. Some sort of
a parade was in progress, and among other
things were two floats, representing the Moni
tor and the Merrimae. While passing down
Grand avenue the Monitor took fire and some
thoughtful citizen turned in a lire alarm. The
captain of the Monitor, who was used to the
command of a lire truck, hearing the gongs
of tho fire engines behind him. and all uncon
scious of the cause of their coming, concluded
that it was time to get out of the way,
whipped his mules into a run and the fiercely
blazing craft tore away down the street as
though the whole confederate navy was after
it. The astonished firemen paused at first,
but knowing their duty, started in pursuit as
fast as their horses could go. It was not long
until the driver of tho float found out what
was the matter, and cutting loose hts mules
abandoned his craft to the fire department,
hut by that time there was hardly enough
left of the float to extinguish.
It is a remarkable zoological, piscatorial or
hydrographical fact, says tho St. Louis Re
public, that whales are never (If allowed to
follow the dictates of their own wills) found
within the limits of that great ocean river the
Gulf Stream. Ihe shrewd Yankee whalers
were the first to gain an accurate knowledge
of the extent and limits of the great artery
which pulsates between this country and
Europe; this by studying the habits and
haunts of the whales. It was noted that they
were plentiful northwest and southeast ofcer
tain well-defined lines, and that the “neutral
waters” were several degrees warmer than
those which, paradoxical as it may sound
formed their “banks” and boundaries’
Finally it was decided, and rightly, too
that the non-whale-producing area was the
Gulf Stream. Franklin learned this curious
scientific fact from the New England wha
lers, and in 1770. publisned a chart for the ben
efit of the mail packets or mail ships plvjng
between our large coast cities and Londvn
Curiously enough, thischart wasnotgotUnup
for the purpose of adding to the sum total of
hydrographic knowledge, nor for the purpose
of outlining the Gulf Stream, but solely as a
gnide to the best route for ships to pursue in
order to keep from encountering whales!
Rameau, the celebrated French composer
[IOB3 1761] is responsible for a very curious
composition, says the Post-Dispatch. The
famous ballet dancer Saile, with whom he en
tertained very friendly relations, asked him
one day to give her some instruction in the
science of composing that she might immor
talize herself by a composition of her own
Half ironically, half gallantly, Rameau re
plied that it was unnecessary for him to give
her any lessons, as ail she would have to do
was to wield the needle with which she pro
duced such delicate embroideries. He took
some note paper from his pocket and direct! and
her to place stitch upon stitch within the
staff, or near the same. The beautiful girl
did as he asked, and when she had finished
Rameau took the sheet and transformed the
stitches into notes. Not one was omitted bv
him, while he changed their value, etc and
prefixed tho clef when he had finished He
then played the composition, greatly to the
charming dancer. The outcome
of this little pleasantry was nn exceedtnelv
peculiar and piquant melody which Rameau
later embodied in his opera Les Indes
Galantes ' It was played and sung with
great success and became very popular In
der the title of Les Salvages" It was for a
long time one of the most papular melodies
of the age.
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