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TUESDAY. NOVEMBER 2\ 1893.
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INDEX TO BEW ADVERTISEMENTS
Meetings—Alpha Lodge, No. I, A. & A.. S.
R. F. M.: < Jglethorpe Lodge, No. i. I. t>. O. F.;
Savannah Lodge, No. IK). B. P. O. Elks;
Workingmen's Un’on Association.
Special Notices—Mince Moat. Jellies,
etc., Estates W. Branch: Christmas Goods.
J. Gardner; l>r. LeHardv's Branch ORlce:
Real Estate. John T. Rowland; Sanitary Un
derwear. Falk Clothing Company; A Great
Chance at Wakefield s.
Railroad Schedules—Central Railroad
of Georgia
High art Clothing—At Kohler's.
Extra Special— At Collars.
All Kinds of Suits—Appel and Schaul.
The Long Cutaway—B. H. Levy & Bro.
Do You Like—Falk Clothing Company.
Packed, Jammed, Crowded—Adler's.
Legal Notices—As to Claims in Favor of
and Against William O'Connor, Deceased.
Publications—Contents of Gameland, for
Sale at Estili’s News Depot.
Cheap Column Advertisements—Help
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If there were a cable to Hawaii the
newspapers would not have such a glori
ous opportunity for working their wits.
Ruy Barbosa, the Brazilian exile and
mouthpiece of Admiral Mello and the rev
olutionists, telegraphs from Buenos Ayres
that the report that Mello has proclaimed
Prince Pierre d’Aleantara emperor of
Brazil is absurd, and is the “work of the
Peixoto propaganda in Europe.” Barbosa
says that Brazil is thoroughly republican,
and that if Mello were to proclaim an em
pire he would quickly find himself alone;
the navy would desert him. "And Mello
is not a fool.”
The Red Cross relief corps at Beaufort
has discovered that a black voodoo doctor,
on the sea islands, has been victimizing
both the corps and the ignorant negroes
whom he professed to help. The follow
would make appeals to the corps on con
dition that the applicants pay him a fee,
and would write orders for supplies and
sign himself a member of the Red Cross
committee. He deserves severe punish
ment. Theft and fraud are bad enough
under any circumstances, but they are
worse under such conditions as prevail on
the islands.
The trolley test on the Erie canal,
which took place on Saturday, has been
pronounced a success by George Westing
house, Nicola Tessla and Gov. Flower, of
New York. The boat with which the
test was made was rigged with twelve
foot trolley rods, a little longer than
those used on street cars, and
was propelled at a rate of from four to
seven miles an hour. The governor says
the success of the test means the adop
tion of electricity on the Erie, and the
adaption of electricity means the transpor
tation of wheat from Duluth to New York
at 5 cents a bushel.
A neat piece of detective work was done
by a flash-light camera at Grand Rapids,
Mich., a few nights ago. A hardware
firm that had frequently lost money from
a cash drawer, focused a flash-light cam
era on the drawer and arranged electric
connections so that if the drawer should
be opened the camera would be operated.
The morning following tlio cash drawer
was empty and the camera held a good
negative of three young men of the town.
When confronted with the picture they
confessed the robbery, and said they had
noticed the flash, but as no other demon
stration followed they went on with their
work.
Gov. McKinley is apparently cultivat
ing a degree of modesty that would be a
jewel to a school girl. When lie was in
New York the other day a lot of reporters
got after him for an interview. After
talking about things from Noah's deluge
down to the one that caught Garry Neal,
one of the reporters asked him: -Hoiy
about 'SHi, governor The Buckeye
Napoleon's face flushed, he waved his
hands depreciatingly and looked ns
though the suggestion were painful. At
that moment Jesse Seligman came along
and McKinley ran away to meet him,
taking time, however, to bid the reporters
“a warm and courteous adieu.”
A senes of pension frauds, somewhat
similar in detail to the recently exposed
frauds at Norfolk. Va., but involving
much greater stealings, has been un
earthed at Buffalo. N. Y. A pension at
torney and a notary public, in the Now
York ease as in the Virginia ease, were
the parties to the frauds. They used the
notary s seal without the formality of
administing oaths—indeed, in some in
stances, without the formality of having
an applicant in the flesh before them to
petition for a pension—and thereby suc
ceeded in having *150,000 of pension money
paid to them. - The attorney implicated
in this thievery has about 4.000 applica
tions now before the pension bureau, the
most of which are believed to be tainted
with fraud. Those that are fraudulent
will be dealt with summarily. And then
the howlers of the republican press will
howl some more about Hoke Smith op
pressing the glorious boys in blue.
A State Reformatory.
That portion of fhe governor's message
recommending the establishment of a
state reformatory has made a profound
impression throughout the state. Those
of the people who give attention to ques
tions relating to the uplifting of society
see the wisdom of the recommendation.and
would be glad if the legislature would
act upon it favorably. Of the necessity
for a state reformatory there can be no
question. Avery large percentage’ of
those confined in the penitentiary are
mere boys , who could be reclaimed from
their evil ways. They are just at the age
wheu they are open to impressions. If
they are placed under wholesome influ
ences many of them will become good
citizens, if they are left to the influences
of the hardened criminals, with wlnau
they are now associated. thcywlHnr
main criminals all their lives. When re
leased from prison they will seek to gain
a livelihood by dishonest means.
Many of them will be arrested for their
misdeeds, and the cost of capturing and
keeping them and trying them in the
courts will be greater tnan the cost of
maintaining a reformatory would be.
It is not an experiment that the gov
ernor recommends, out in his
message that there are a number of re
formatories in the different states, and
that the results obtained from them are
very satisfactory. He says that “the
records of a majority of the leading refor
matories In the United States show that
70 per cent, of those turned out from juve
nile reformatories became law-abiding
citizens.” A few days ago the Morning
News published an interview with a lead
ing citizen of this city, who visited the
state reformatory of Missouri last sum
mer. Tn that interview enough was shown
to Justify the legislature of this state in
making an appropriation for a similar in
stitution.
, ery few Georgians realize how large a
proportion of the criminals in the peni
tentiary are juveniles. The whole num
ber of convicts at present is 2,108, and of
these 375, or 12 per cent., are below the
age of 18. Thirty-six i>er cent, of the
whole number are below the age of 20.
There are 80 who are below the age of 15,
40 below the ago of 14, 27 below the age
of 13, 15 below the age of 12, 2 below the
age of 11 and one who is only 10 years old.
Does it not seem that the state is guilty
of a great wrong in keeping these youth
ful convicts undar influences that tend to
make them confirmed criminals? Surely
the state is standing in her own light in
not making an effort to reclaim them. If
one-half of them could be made good and
useful citizens the state would be well
repaid for all the monqy spent in trying
to help them to become honest men.
The state has a duty to perform in this
matter that she cannot afford to neglect.
It is her duty to help her children in
every legitimate way she can, and it is
her duty to give all the protection she can
to society. If she can lessen lawlessness
by placing those who are likely to become
lawless under good influences, she ought
not to hesitate to do so. She spends
vast sums to prevent crime by punishing
criminals; why not spend a little in the
effort to prevent crime by depleting the
ranks of the criminal .classes’
What Will They Say NextP
Those papers that assumed that the ad
ministration sent Minister Willis to
Honolulu to overthrow the provisional
government and sustain the monarchy,
and in hot haste declared that such a
policy was infamous and was the result
of a desire to undo, in Hawriian matters,
what the Harrison administration had
done were much surprised to learn that
Minister Willis had presented his creden
tials to the President of the provisional
government and that he had been courte
ously received. They couldn't under
stand it, and so they said that Minister
Willis found out that President Dole had
a little army that would resist any inter
ference with his government, and there
fore it was deemed unwise to carry out
the programme which President Cleveland
and Secretary of State Gresham had de
cided upon. These jingo papers were
compelled to take that position, because
no other was open to them. They had
been attacking the administration with
out knowing what the administration's
policy was, and to save themselves from
appearing ridiculous they declared that
the administration had not dared to carry
out its policy.
At no time have they known anythingof
the purpose of the administration, and
they are as much in the dark in respect
to it as they were when Secretary
Gresham gave the public a statement of
how the provisional government came to
be established.
The New York Tribune begins to real
ize that it and the other anti-adminis
tration papers have been making them
selves ridiculous by venomously attacking
the administration for what it supposed
was the policy it had adopted in respect
to Hawaii, and it now says that the
president is treating the American peo
pie with gross contempt, because he re
fuses to declare what his Hawaiian
policy is. That paper takes the public
into its confidence and announces that
the president has abused his discretion
by exciting the public curiosity relative
to his plans in Hawaii and then refusing
to tell them all he knows.
It is not probable that the President
will inform the Tribune and other papers
that have abused him so outrageously
without knowing what they were talking
about, what course lie had decided
upon. They can go on asserting
that this or that policy has
been adopted by him, and attack
ing that policy, but ho will hold his peace
until he considers the time lias come for
telling the people what ho has done, and
what lie proposes doing.
It can be said with a groat degree of
certainty that he isn’t going to do anything
that will reflect unfavorably upon this
country, or that can be construed to be a
purpose to throw discredit upon the Har
rison administration. If he decides to
undo anything the Harrison administra
tion did, it will be because he is satisfied
tnat a wrong was done that should be
righted. In the meantime, before criti
cising the administration further, it
would be well to wait until it is found out
what it is the administration has decided
to do.
We can sympathize with the people of
the storm-swept coasts of England and
Scotland. At the same time wo are pro
foundly grateful that the storm did not
visit our own coasts, which have not yet
recovered from the hurricanes of August,
September and October.
THE MORNING NEWS: TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1893.
Some Views on Lynchings.
In a communication published in this
issue there is some show of indignatiou at
the position of the Morning News rela
tive to lynchings. Thewriterof the com
munication objects to the condemnation
of lynchers, vet he disclaims any pur|ose
of upholding them. Just what his views
are does not clearly appear, beyond
the fact that he wants the laws amended
so that those who are guilty of the crime
for which lynchings are most frequent
shall be swiftly punished. In fact, when
what he says is closely analyzed, his po
sition does not seem to appear to be very
different from that of the Morning
N JTWS.
He says that the position of the Morn
ing News is that occupied by a few other
southern papers of more or less note, by
the radical press of New England and by
some western papers. We do not know
exactly what he means by the radical
press of New England unless he means all
the papers of New England, and that
they are radical in their views.
If there is a paper of prominence in this
whole country whose position differs from
that of the Morning News on the ques
tion of lynchings, we do not know it. AH
of them, north, south, east and west, are
outspoken against recognizing lynchings
for any crime. Not only are the papers
against them, but the ministers of all de
nominations and the laws of every state
are against them. Even the writer of the
communication seems to be against them,
because he speaks of the odium of them.
The writerof the communication thinks
the condemnation of lynchings tends to
make heroes and martyrs of those who
are lynched. That is a view we
have not heretofore heard ex
pressed, and we do not think there
is any evidence to sustain it. Always
there is expressed the utmost detestation
of those guilty of the crime for which
men are oftenest lynched.
The writer, judging from what
he says about the slowness of
the law and the tendency to
give the accused the benefit of a doubt,
has not much respect for either the law
as administered or those who administer
it. or confidence in juries, and yet the
judges and juries come from the com
munities in which the crimes which
arouse men to take the law into their own
hands are committed. If they
cannot be depended upon to find the
accused guilty when guilt is proven, who
can ! Surely it is not desired that tho ac
cused shall suffer death when his guilt is
not proven ’
We agree that the enforcement of the
law is too slow, not only in case of the
crime under consideration, but also in
that of all other crimes. We have often
urged, and still urge reform iu this re
spect. Swift punishment in a lawful way
will do more than lynchings to put a stop
to the crime to punish which lynch law
is invoked.
Lynch law has been given a pretty fair
trial. There have been hundreds of
lynchirgs within the last few years. But
black brutes still seek victims. Indeed,
they appear to have become bolder and
more aggressive. It is evident they are
not afraid of Judge Lynch. Punishment
ia a legal way means that the whole com
munity is organized against them and is,
therefore, more terrifying.
Lynchings will stop when the crime
that incites lynchings is not committed.
Efforts should be made, therefore,. to
create a strong sentiment among 'the
blacks against the crime. And the laws
ought to be so amended that those com
mitting the crime would have a speedy
trial and swift punishment. Those who
defend lynchings are controlled by their
feelings, not their judgments. If the judg
ment of the people was in favor of lynch
ings the law would be changed and lynch
ings made lawful.
The Columbia’s Record.
The new cruiser Columbia has a record
for speed of which this country and her
builders have good reason to be proud.
During a run of four hours her speed ex
ceeded 26' 4 statute miles per hour. No
other vessel of equal size has ever at
tained such speed, and the United States
can boast that they have the fastest
cruiser that has yet been constructed.
The contractors have earned a premium
amounting to several hundred thousand
dollars. Their contract calls for a speed
of so many knots per hour, and they are
allowed a large sum for every onc-fourth
of a knot by which she exceeds that
speed. Their premium will amount to
more than $305,000.
But will the Columbia ever again make
as good time as she did on the trial trip?
It is doubtful. Her builders, anxious to
make a big premium, subjected the ship
to a tremendous strain—a strain that
was, in all probability, damaging to her.
When she goes into service no attempt
will be made probably to drive her
twenty-six miles an hour. It is question
able, all the circumstances considered,
whether the premium system is a wise
one. It loads the builders to aim at at
taining a great speed on trial trips, and to
do that they may neglect other things
necessary to a staunch war ship.
East week populist circles were
wrought to the verge of distraction by the
terrible things Mrs. Mary Ellen Lease
had said about the party. She had boldly
told newspaper men that the now party
Was as bad as the old ones; that it was
corrupt front bottom to top. In short, she
gave it to be understood that she and
Peffer were the only decent people in the
party, and that all the others were bound
for the i olitieal Gehenna at express train
speed. At Topeka the thing was re
garded as extremely serious, and a move
ment was at once put on foot to oust the
woman politician from the state office she
holds—something connected with the
charities and corrections. But there
will be no ousting. Peace reigns once
more between the Lease and the populist
leaders. She sent a messenger to Gov. Low
elling the other day with her compli
ments and the assurance that he could
depend upon iter support for renomina
tion. And the messenger explained that
the lady was sick and tired and dis
gusted at the result of the election, when
she said all of those hard things about the
party. She really didn't mean them, the
messenger said.
The big base ball league has Concluded
to lop off all of the frills that encumbered
the game last season. The two-season
plan has been voted down, there will be
no more double umpiring, and changes in
the rules will make each player a factor
in the game.
PERSONAL.
When Mrs. Ella P. Stover, of Portland,
married John Smith, her grandmother's
bridesmaid acted in the same capacity for
her.
W. Clark Russell is a severe sufferer from
rheumatism, and is compelled to rest on a
lounge while dictating his seajtales to a ste
nographer.
Victorine Sardou has on hand the plots and
outlines of over 260 plays which are awaiting
completion. He admits that the majority of
them will never be completed.
“Uncle” I hlletus Sawyer, senator and
millionaire lumber man, is as vigorous at
70 as most men at 50. He began life
in a shingle factory, carrying out shavings for
25 cents a day.
Miss Olive Schreiner his ended her visit to
England, and has gone i ack to South Africa.
It is the opinion of those who have cme in
contact with this South African novelist that
she has exhausted her resources as a writer,
and that she will not be heard from again in a
forcible and original way.
Miss Hildergard Werner is the latest musi
cian to appear before Queen Victoria. She is a
Swede who studied the pianoforte at .'Stock
holm and the violin in Prais. she is a journal
ist. and writes musical news for several pa
)?rs. King Oscar of Sweden, has just con
ferred upon her a gold medal.
Se retary Jarng. of the Corean legation at
Washington, is an ardent student of the Eng
lish language He takes his lessons in the
most prai tit al way, learning about things he
has to hand.<• each day in the affairs ot the
hous hold. Not long since be hail his English
teacher make him out a list ot groceries and
household utensils, with their average price,
which he now uses as a check upon the store
keepers. who. as a rule, endeavor to get the
best of him.
Eugene Kelly, the millionaire New York
t anker, is a seif-made man, says the Phila
delphia Record. He was born in Ireland
eighty-two years ago. He earned the money
to pay his passage to America by driving a
jaunting car. He had not one penny to jingle
against another when lie landed in New York
in 1831. He became a dry goods clerk, and to
day his fortune is estimate l at from $5,0C0.-
000 to 410.000,000. Mr. Keiiy lives in an ele
gant mansion at No. 33 West Fifty-first street,
and is looked upon as one of New Y'ork s
foremost citizens.
Louis Kossuth, the Hungarian patriot,
quickly acquired a wonderful command of the
English language, as w as shown by his public
speeches during the celebrated tour in this
country. Sometimes, however, he was at a
loss for the right word. Once he spoke of
■taking time oy the hair,'' and. noticing a
smile going around, tnrned mutely to a gen
tlema.i on the platform behind him. and he
suggested "by the forelock." Another in
stance is recalled by the Boston Transcript.
.Speaking at Concord. Mass., Kossuth wished
to express the figure of the Austrian eagle
rending the young freedom of Hungary. The
word escaped him. Stopping for a moment In
the full flight of eloquence. he asked amatte.'-
ot fact American, who sat near him. "What
you say when man tear his coat- "Foie."
was the reply. That word did not satisfy
him, and Ralph Waldo Emerson, who had
overhead the question, whispered "Rent,
with poetic symphathy for euphony, and
the Rtatcly sweep of the sentence was com
pleted.
BRIGHT BITS.
Minister—Brother Perkins, to what do you
attribute vour son's keenness in obeying your
erders—pious teaching?
i rather x j eikius— ->o; my razor strap.—
Cleveland Piamdealer.
Wife—What are you on strike for now?
Husband—l don't, know, l didn't go to the
last nleeting. Hut 1 must have some griev
ance that I hadn't noticed, or i wouldn't have
been ordered out.—Puck.
f h. woodman, spar ■ that trei—
You must not cut it down;
It's the ouiv place. \o i see.
To hang a man in town.
Washirgton News.
“How do vou know, then, the young artist
has an income outsido of his profession?”
asked the landlady s daughter.
"Because.” was the confident reply, “he
pays his rent regularly.”—Washington Star.
Teacher—Who was the first murderer?
Son of Distinguished Lawyer—Nobody
knows. In that Cain and Abel affair Cain had
no Lawyer to defend him, so the thing went by
default, and he got convicted.—Brooklyn
Life.
Upstreete (sympathetically?—Poor Lush
ley ! He is going to the bad so fast there will
soon be no hope for him.
Yager-(who has seen ths ticket?—Yes; his
watch is beyond redemption now.—Buffalo
Courier.
Jimmy—That giraffe hasn't much of a tall,
has he ? s
Uncle Tom—No, he has not.
Jimmy—And I suppose when he Is in a good
humor he has to wag his neck, doesn't he? —
Harper’s Young People.
“I think your figures are pretty high." said
the lady who was pricing feather beds and
pillows.
"Madame.” said the clerk, with a scarcely
perceptible twinkle in his eye. "all our best
good) arc marked down.'—New York Presi.
M-. Pry—You must have had some peculiar
experiences in your army practice, Dr. Lan
cet?
Dr. Lancet—Very. I have noticed, for ex
ample. that some of the patients who did ihe
least fighting during the war have done tuo
most bleeding since.—Life.
"So you attended some private theatricals
while you were over in New Jersey, did you?”
•Yes.”
"1 ather amateurish, of course?”
“Yes. The curtain rose on a Fifth Avenue
breakfast scene wherein the people ate olives
with a nut cracker.”—Puck.
At twenty he was satisfied
There wasn t much to learn:
He knew so much already that
It gave h m great concern.'
At forty he had ascertained
H a knowledge was but small.
At sixt he wi ll meekness owned
That he hau none at all.
—Kansas City Journal.
Mr. Jason—My boy that’s up there in Wash
ington writes me that he will be home in tune
for his Thanksgivin' turkey, "D. V.” What
does tha there mean?
Potts I believe it is from the Latin, mean
ing if the Lord is willing.
Mr. Jason—Jh. that s it? I 'lowed mebbe it
had something to do with Dan Vooihees.
You s e Dan got him his job —lndianap
olis Journal,
CURRENT COMMENT,
Blount’s Report “Establishes.”
From the New York Times (Dem.l.
When Mr. Gresham says that the report of
Mr. Klot.nt "establishes" the facts vhUh ho
pro, reds to summarize, it is to be presumed
mat it establishes them by eonelusive evi
deuce, the force an.! value of which the scire
tary is highly qualities by his judicial exi.eri
en.e to estimate. We may therefore, feel
sure that ahn the e\ idenze has teen revealed
there will le no further room tor question or
dispute upon that aspect of the Hawaiian
business.
An Oracle at a Distance.
From the Columbia ,S. C.l State (Dem.l.
Brunswick's epidemic is over, and the crim
inal folly of the i a lie and wholesale exodus
is shown by the record. People lost their
reason and their sense of humanity and made
terrible sacrifices to run away from a disease
that killed less than ti percent of the persons
U attacked. The state was right when it pre
dicted some months ago that the death rate
would be less than in other contagious diseases
prevalent in almost every city, but which no
one would think of deserting home, friends
and business to flee, from.
Improvement Slow but Sure.
From the financial Chronicle (Ind.).
Slow but evident progress appears to be
making towards the revival of our industries.
Every indication continues us favorat leas
could be expected. The close of the year is
always the quiet season. Work. too. in many
and prominent departments cannot start up
again before spring opens. Notable instances
are the building trade, which received such a
serious set-back during the summer and fall,
and railroad expenditures, which were at the
same time contracted within the smallest
possible compass, ’these departments of our
activities relate to operations which covrr a
vast Held of enterprise, touching very many
trudes. and yet hut little new movement in
them can be anticipated for several months.
In face of these a.'ts there have been this
week undoubted signs of an increased move
ment of iron, especially In the west, with a
better tone la the markets though the tran
sactions are not in large enough volume to
afTeet prices the demand for general merch
andise, too, is also widening.
Closer Than a Brother.
The cable ear was going at full speed, says
the Washington Star. It is the manner of
this sort of vehicle that it does not gain ac
ede: a.ion gradually after starting, but goes
on the jump at the end of the first dozen feet.
At this critical moment a young colored
man dashed across the street and swung him
self upon the grip car. Just at the same in
stant a shriek was heard, and a comely
woman of African des ent and ioi ust
physique made a >print a t ,-r the traction
train. Though the latter was by this time
going about twenty miles an hour, she made a
grab at the rail on the last platform, and be
came a passenger by sheer force of muscle
and athletic dexterity.
It did not take her half a minute to make
her way forward to the grip car and lake the
seat beside the yc ung coiored man. who was
much suiprised to see her. Said he:
"VVhar you gwine?”
“G wine whar you gwine." she replied loft
ily. and with an air of assumed indifference.
"VVhar's dat?”
"VVid you."
“Whuffo?"
"Just k a ise.”
“ T'uuse whv?”
“ 'Cause I feel like it.”
“Well, t don t want you follerin’ rae.”
"Alexander Nebuchadnezzar Thompson,
I'm gwine to keep mv eye on you.”
Taint gwine to have it.' he protested.
You git right offen dis car. now I tell you.”
“Pooh ' responded the young woman con
temntojsly.
' You hear what I siy?”
“ Yeppy.”
“Ain t you gwine to mind?”
' Not if dis lady knows herself.”
“You potter.”
“I won t"
The young man looked disgusted. After
spending a minute or two in reflection an idea
struck him, and he said triumphantly:
"You can t ride, ’cause you ain’t got no
money."
"You kin pay my fare.”
"I won't do it.”
"Alexander Nebuchadnezzar, you'se slow
down man. If Id knowed you 'fore I married
you as I do now you'd have had ter git some
other lady fer a wife.”
■ Stop yer foolishness and git off de car,” he
replied, sullenly.
"I ain't a gwine to.”
"Then you 11 git put cff.”
Just then the conductor came forward to
take up the fares in the grip ear. The colored
man refused to pav for the woman, who ad
dressed an eloquent appeal to the knight of
the bell punch.
"This yere is my husband,” she said. "I se
got s'ninon da? h * s got a meetin' on hand wif
anulder woman. He got on de car to get rid
o’ me, and I followed to keep an eye on hint.
1 s pose you're a veil,man, and you wouldn t
chuck a lady off.”
ihe o and lor had a heart, as was evident
when he replied:
“S av on. ill pay your fare myself.”
Thi happy turn of events caused the young
woman to giggle consumedly. The mail, on
the other hand, expressed liis disgust with
i ague and semi-articulate muttermgs. All of
this had happened while the car was going
three blocks.
Just as the cable train was traveling at its
most rapid gait, between two comers, the
recalcitrant husband jumped to his feet
without warning and leaped off the ear. Evi
dently he supposed that his wife would not
dare to imitate his maneuver, but he reck
oned without his host. With a flyiug bound
she sprang off and after him. In twenty sec
onds she had caught him and grabbed him by
the arm.
“Now, you fool nigger!” she exclaimed.
“Just come straight home wid me.”
Tm a cornin'," rejoined the man. sulkily,
evidently recognizing the situation as hope
less. from his point of view, and the two
walked away arm and arm.
Strong Commercial Instincts.'
Unfortunately it is not always possible to
vouch for the truth of a drummer's story, but
that many of them are witty and mirth pro
vokin ; is not to be denied, says the New York
Herald.
Just at the present time there is in circula
tion a rather interesting tale which purports
to narrate the truthful experience of a sa’es
man for a publishing houre as a witness in an
assault case.
"Mr. John Smith.” called out the police
justice. The man's name is not John Smith,
tut that can be assumed for the purpose of
the story.
The words had scarcely ceased to echo
through the court room when a well dressed
young man walked quietly to the front. Ev
erything about the witness betokened a gen
tle.nan.
"Kiss the book.” growled the clerk.
"I respectfully decline, your honor,” was
the reply.
The tone of tho young man rather startled
the justice, and the remark at once attracted
the attention of the prisoner, counsel and
spectators, as well as tho court itself.
Recovering somewhat from his surprise,
the justiic asked: "Are you an infidel?”
"1 am not.”
“An atheist?”
"Not at all.”
“And you refuse to kiss this book?”
“I most certainly do.”
“Do you believe in the Bible?”
“Yes.” replied the young man. “I sec no
reason to doubt its precents or origin, butt
refuse to Kiss that book. ”
"Ah. I see," remarked the justice. “You
object to it on the score of cleanliness. W ill,
1 have no o' h™r. and you’ll have to kiss that
or stand committed lor contempt.''
Such a remark, the story goes, was what
the young man was waiting for.
"Your honor,” saidhe. "fortunately I have
my samples with me. I carry the finest line
of Hitles in the trade. Here s one, now,
which will answer your purposes nicely,” and
with that he drew one from under his coat,
offered to sell it with all discounts off on long
time, and, so the story goes, effected a sale.
Telling the Child a Story.
From Good Words.
At tea time in the ruddy light -
Crysanthemump were in their glory—
My baby came to say good night.
And beg for just "one little story.”
I told her how a girl like her
Came long ago, somewhere or other,
And brought her doll and made a stir.
And begged a story from her mother.
Who. tired and listlcs3. also crossed
The little story-begging . eac.ty
With news of how another glossed
Her irksome story-telling duty.
Still I ackward was the tale referred
To weary her. but when I ended,
As if J. ha-1 not said a word.
With looks half pleading, half offend id,
She clasped my neck-her childish trust
Had made the hardest heart compliant—
“A little one,” she said, "please—just
About a fairy and a giant.”
I kissed her elcse. and off I went,
"On: e on a tim". ' low. s ow. and steady;
She heaved a s’.ghVif sweet content;
My darling was asleep already.
Why He Didn’t Feel Sure.
He was 1 re tty well along in years, says tho
Washlngtc n star, and had a laugh which was
as cheery as it was ingenuous.
'd-o you want to do chores for me,” said the
man on whom he had caned.
" Heed 1 does."
"Well I don t know. You look as if you
were honest "
Kernel, I'll tell yer der troof 'bout dat.”
"Go ahead."
"Well, yuh see. I specks I’s pufflckly hones',
biit 1 kain t ue sho."
■ Why not ?"
"Ain t had 'miff 'sper ence. I'se wifstood
wahtahmillions all right nuff, but I neber yit
had no face ter face temptations wid
chickens.”
First Tramp—Fard, I'll bri yer a nickel yer
can't tell what kind o wood this is.
Second Tramp (tapping it smartly upon his
head)—That's locust. Yer can’t fool me. I'se
lived too long in the Fort' ward, see?—New
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F. Marion Crawford, in a recent article on
the Pope, remarks that in the matter of
physique there is a close r'semblance be
tween Leo XIII. President Lincoln and Mr
Gladstone—loan, so md mind, of a bony con
stitution. indomitable vitality, large skull,
hi.h cheek bones and energetic jaws, each
possessing profound capacity for study, and
of melancholy disposition and unusual
eloquence.
When you are net ai c jstemed to the hand
ling of them gold coins are a nuisance, says a
New York Herald writer They are so apt to
be mistaken for coins of baser metal and
smal.er denominations, to the impoverish
ment of the individual wno makes the
blunder. I still retain vividly painful recol
lections of an occasion when in London I
paid a cal man a sovereign under the impres
sion that it was a shilling. That cabman had
a contract to drive me a certain distance every
night but I never clapped eyes on him again.
He evidently wasn't a hog. He was satisfied
with what he had made out of the contract
an l was willing to gice some other cabman a
chance. I have no doubt that during the brief
period recently when so many houses paid off
m specie because they couldn't get bills many
careless persons let gold slip through their
fingers under the impression" that it was sil
ver or nickel One instant e came under my
own observation. A friend had just received
h s week's pay in 55 gold pieces, and I im
proved the opportunity to tell h.m my exper
ience with the London cabman, at which he
laughed heartilv. l hen, being something of
a cigarette fiend, he sought the nearest > igar
store for the means of indulgence in his fa
vorite vice. He thrust a hand into one of his
pockets, tossed what he thought was a nickel
on the counter and strolled out of the shop.
1 shall always patror,izo chat cigar dealer
hereafter when 1 get a chance. Ididnttuke
him five seconds to decide that he preferred
a nickle with a clear conscience to 55 without
it. Mv London cabman had been trained in a
different s-hooi.
The foghorns that have been put into the
lighthouse in Lake Michigan which guards
the harbor of Chicago are the object of ex
plosive anathemas every night when the
weather is thick, says the New York l ost.
Forty thousand persons who live between In
diana street and Lincoln park complain that
they cannot sleep for the noise which the
foghorns make. Their piercing notes can be
heard under favorable conditions a distance
of twenty-four miles. When the placing of
the foghorns was under consideration by the
lighthouse board citizens of Chicago entered
protests, declaring that their blasts would be
injurious to health and a serious menace to
the comfort of residents along the shore. The
board admitted that foghorns of such volume
were always established at points remote
from large cities. Nevertheless the pro
tests had no effect. During the last
night of heavy fogs at Chicago the horrs
were blown every twenty seconds, and
sick and nervous people had a hard
time of it. The foghorns are after tha style
and in the nature of immense steam whistles,
and may be heard with equal distinctness on
all sides. They are located on either side of
the main lighthouse tower, and each has an
engine and boiler of 25-horse power attached
to it, the cylinders of which have a 9-inch
stroke and make 120 revolutions a minute.
These are fitted with automatic whistle gear
ing working 10-inch steam whistles, producing
a characteristic series of blasts of Hveseionds
each, wlih twenty-five seconds silent inter
vals. The lighthouse superintendent says
that the people will soon get used to their
nope and except for the continued monotony
will pay no more attention to them than the
hundreds of tugboat, steamer, railroad and
factory whistles now so commonly heard.
A fishing party of seven under the charge of
Alex Mathison, were recently some five miles
off the coast of Redondo, in the sloop Helen,
after 1 arrauuda. says the Los Angeles Herald.
One if their number saw floating in the water
what at first was taken for a young whale.
On approaching the object it was dis.o.ered
to be a large suufish lying on its side, evi
dently enjoying the sunlight. On the nearer
approach of the party the monster dived be
neath the t oat. coming to the surface a few
yards on the other side. The boat was im
mediately turned and bore down on it once
more. In its effort to escape the fish was
struck by the bow of the boat and thrown
upon its side. The opportunity was
seized to throw a jew fish hook
into its mouth. Gaining its equilib
rium the gigantic fish sped away, the reel
humming with the 150 fathoms of line car
ried with it. Then came a battle royal be
tween the great ocean rover and the usher
man. After long maneuvering a rope was
made fast under its tins and attached to the
mast. The boat was nearly dragged beneath
the waves by the violent efforts the enormous
fish made to escape. Finally, under the
pressure of sail aid by the exhaustion of its
own efforts it was towed to Redondo and there
hauled upon the beach. The fish is a magnifi
cent specimen of its kind, measuring 11 feet
from the dorsal to the anal fin, 8 feet 2 inches
in length, and weighed in the neighborhood of
1.800 pounds. Wheu the fa:t is considered
that this is the largest specimen of its species
ever captured, it will be of more than passing
interest to the general public and of value to
the scientific world. The largest heretofore
recorded is numbered in the collection of the
Hritish museum, which measures 7 feet 6
inches in length, captured off the coast of
Portland (Dorsetshire) in the year 1816.
What is the brain like in its capacity of
storehouse? and what should we see if we
could reduce our stature to infln
it -siiral iroportiors and travel along the cor
ridors of the brut i? Does it cotain galleries
of pictures - Is it furnished with shelves and
1 i ean lul ls for the cits fill union and care of
records and mess iges? It is impossible, says
Cassell's Magazine, t> conceive what kin 1 of
apparali s or fittings can at once be sui'ub c
tor storing up pictures ands winds. ai.d all
the varieties of the impressions re eived
from all the senses. Nor can we discover any
ct rious machinery, even with the microscope,
for the structure of gray matter is
so minute as to defy the powers or
the lens: and all that we can detect is
an agglomeration of minute cells. A calcula
tion has been made regarding the number of
these brain-cells. It is assumed that every
thought or perception is a sepaiate lodger in
the mind, requiring an apartment of the
brain to itself; and me cells are the apart
ments. We have to provide accommodation
for all the Incidents of our every day life, for
all we read in the daily papers, for all that
our schoolmasters crammed into us. and all
that we have learned since. How is this
possible in one small skull? Our conception
is assisted by photography, which can print
the Lord s Prayer to small that It requires a
powerful microscope to read it. Surely then
minuto portions of the brain rr.av contain
a great deal- The cells vary in size from
one three hundredth of an inch in
diameter to one three-thousandth; and this
being known, it is not difficult to estimate the
entire number of them in the brain. Dr.
Hooke, the mathematician, said 3.155.760 OXI
- according to Maynert s calculation the
number of cerebral cells Is only 600.000 000
Seeing that tho doctors differ, let us use the
slate and pencil ourselves. The thinking
power of tiie brain is believed to reside in the
gray matter of the surface. This is a sheet of
cellular nerve substance, yvhich is crumpled
with convolutions through being confined
within the narrow limits of the skull. If it
were spread out flat it would be found equal
to a layer one inch in thickness and twelve
inches long by eleven inches broad—or slight
ly more—giv.ng a total of 134 cubic inches If
all the cells were one three hundreth
of an inch in diameter, there would
be room for 27 000.000 of them in one
cubic inch, and therefore for 3 <lß.Mn.aoo in
the whole: but since many of Ihe cells are
smaller, the total number must ne greater
Let us. however, be content with the :t tils 1
000.001). What is a million? The Bible Old
and New Testament together, is said to con
tnin about three and a quarter millions of
letters: we should therefore have to pile ud
1.113 copies of the Scriptures to get a heap
containing ns many letters as the brain con
tains cells. Asea h cell may accommodate
on • idea or thought probably even a smaller
storehouse would suffice for the wants of the
average human creature. On the other hand
when great thinkers require more aceomm<>
elation, they may, perhaps, bo able to grow
more brain cells: and Webster did tell a great
American scholar that he had to change he
size of his hat every few years. *• tQe
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