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4 Che'flaming "ilftos Morning* News Building, Savannah. Ga TUESDAY. NOVEMBER 2\ 1893. REGISTERED AT THE POSTOFFICE IN SAVANNAH The MORNING NEWS is published every day in the year, and is served to subscribers in the city at $1 00 a month, $5 for six months and $lO 00 for one year The MORNING NEWS, bt mail, one month. $1 00: three months. $2 50; six months. $5 00; one year. $lO (X). The MORNING NEWS, by mail, six tines a week (without Sunday issue), three mo. ths, $2 00, six months, $4 00, one year, ffr 00. The MORNING NEWS, Tri-Weekly, Mon days. Wednesdays and Fridays, or Tues days. Thursdays and Saturdays, three months, |l £5; six months. $2 50: one year. $5 (X). The SUNDAY NEWS, by mail, one year, I* 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. Tran.stentadvertisements.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 *, New York City. C. S. FAUL-tner, Manager. 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 Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Rent; For S3ie: Lost; Personal: Miscellaneous. 1 1 ' 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 York Sun. BAK.NG POWDER. OS^Powcief The only Pure Cream of Tartar Powder.- No Ammonia; No Alum. Used in Millions of Homes—4o Years the Standard ITEMS OF INTEREST. 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 LEOPOLD ADLER. Adler’s, I Packed, [ l Z Jammed, | Crowded.! Siore ODens ai 9 o’giock iti:s Morning. 1 We were never so 5 busy before in our lives § —lt’s worse than a = holiday crowd— andi when the people get§ their goods home that = they bought yesterday § we shall have a bigger ~ crowd than ever. § Never were peopled so enthusiastic over sale like this one. § Never, never were S first-class, new goods sold at such§ prices. 5 There’s plenty more§ for every one. There’s more cases § to be opened to-day. 2 There’s more help 3 on hand and you can 3 buy as much as you§ like. No limit, except l as stated in our adver-H tisement. 5 Siore Opens 11 9 Olctf lift in®. 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