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THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 30. 1893.
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INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Special Notices—Look Here' ,T. D.
Harms; To Carpenters, J. H. Estill, I’resi
dent Itonaventure Cemetery: Pooling on the
Foot Ball (lame; Notice to the Public. J. S
Collins. President Electric Railway Com
pany; As to Crew of British Steamship Buck
ingham, and Norwegian Bark Hertha; No
tice to Liquor Dealers; A Magnificent Lunch,
at John J. Sullivan's To day
Store Closed All Day—Ludden & Bates
S. M. H.
Store Closes at 1 r m —Adler's.
Steamship Schedules— Baltimore Steam
•hip Company.
Our Store—Falk Clothing Company.
Thanksgiving Day- Appel & Schaul.
No Room at the Top_b. H. Levy & Bro
Rah: Savannah!—Kohler's.
Cheap Column Advertisements—Help
Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Rent; For
Sale; Lost: Personal: Miscellaneous.
Congress will probably bo asked at the
approaching session to make an appropri
ation for the purchase of the big Krupp
gun, to be set up as a part of the defenses
of New York harbor. The Krupps have
fixed the price of the gun at $2113,000 in
clusive of turret and mountings.
Chairman Wilson, of the ways and
means committee, says the tin schedule
of the new tariff bill levies duties
“enough to permit arty existing mill to
live and flourish.’’ Very well said; every
body knows that the alleged tin mills of
the republicans were mostly on paper.
And they can live and flourish there as
well as ever.
There is reason for thanksgiving in
Brunswick. The epidemic is practically
ended. There were no new cases of fever
there yesterday and no deaths. And the
whole country will rejoice with Bruns
wick that the epidemic is ended. The
troublous times of the past summer will
quickly be forgotten, and the city will
soon be in a flourishing condition again.
The Savannah Board of Trade, in
adopting a resolution yesterday asking
congress to pass an act relieving banks
that issued clearing house certificates
during the currency stringency from the
penalty of the 10 per cent, tax, probably
overlooked the fact apparently that on
the day before Attorney General Olney
ruled, in the case of certificates issued to
the First National Bank of Albany, Ga.,
that such certificates arc not liable for
that tax.
The consular agent of this country at
Desterro, Brazil, a Mr. Robert Grant, a
native of Brazil, is held as a prisoner of
vvar by Mello, the insurgent leader.
There has been some attempt to induce
this country to interfere in behalf of
Grant, but it is not likely it will do so.
Although in the employment of this gov
ernment, he is not an American citizen,
and it appears that he was meddling
without warrant and unofficially in the
political affairs of Brazil. Even if this
country desired the man’s release
it could not take steps to secure it peace
fully without recognizing Mello as a belig
gerent. The only other course open would
be to declare Mello a pirate and set out
to exterminate him. And that this gov
ernment will not do.
A Pennsylvania inventor is seeking
capital to back up a project for the rapid
transit of mails between New York and
Philadelphia. His plan; which has been
given a practical test, is to lay a ten-inch
tube between the cities and through the
tube to operate electrically-propelled
cars. The electricity is to be communi
cated to the car-motors from a third rail
in the center of the track. By means of
switches and electric buttons, the cars
can be stopped at any point desired. A
speed of 100 miles an hour, it is claimed,
can easily be made. When that ten-inch
tube shall have been put down, it will be
within the scope of genius to change the
mode of propulsion from electricity to
compressed air. in case the electrical ar
rangement does not give satisfaction.
Savannah may, after all, catch a
glimpse of one of the war ships being sent
down from New York to light Mello in
Brazilian waters. The torpedo boat De
stroyer is proceeding south ward in tow,
and may put into this port. The De
stroyer, by the way. is going into the
Brazilian war something like briefless
young barristers occasionally go into, a
law case—upon a contingent fee. The
boat has not been bought by President
Peixoto’s government; her ownership re
mains vested in the i state of the late
John Ericsson, her inventor. if she
proves successful against Mello’s ships
she will earn a large sum for the estate,
if unsuccessful she will get only a small
consideration for her services. Prom the
stand] oint of the Destroyer's owners the
war is merely a speculative venture, with
the odds in .favor of their investment
pi ov ing in the end a sunken instead of a
sinking one. it may appear a strange
.ombinationofspeeuhuion and warfare.
s " ye,s sa - v is legal, and scientists
su.\ it is interesting.
Why Not a Commission P
Will the legislature enact a law provi
ding for state batiks of issue! The prob
ability is that it will not. The session is
rapidly drawing to a close, and no state
bank bill has passed either nouse. Seve
ral banking bills are [tending, and have
received some attention. A banking bill
was introduced into the House a day or
two ago that is claimed by its author to
be superior to any one of the others.
From the statement of its leading fea
tures that has appeared in the news
papers, it has considerable merit. One of
the chief aims of its author is to guard
against wildcat banking. He has. there
fore, endeavored to provide such security
for bank note circulation that the notes
would be worth their face value, even if
the banks should fail. He has not per
fected his bill, however, and may not be
able to do so in time to have it thoroughly
considered before adjournment.
It is a matter of the greatest importance
to the people of the state that if a bank
ing law is adopted it shall be a law that
will permit the existence of only such
hanks as would command the fullest con
fidence. Weak banks of issue and banks
resting upon unsound banking principles
would be productive of an immense
amount of harm. If the law failed to
guard the public interests fully it is cer
tain there would bo banks established
with the view of robbing the people.
in view of the importance of this sub
ject would it not be advisable to apiioint a
commission of experienced bankers and
able lawyers to frame a state hanking
law and report the same to the next leg
islature! There is no occasion for enact
ing a banking law at this session. It is by
no means certain that congress will re
peal the 10 per cent, tax on state bank
issues next year, if at all. The chairman
of the committee on banking and cur
rency is opposed to the repeal of the tax.
He has very little faith in state hanks
of issue, and will use the great influence
his position gives him against any legisla
tion looking to the establishment of .such
banks.
There is plenty of time therefore in
which to frame a law providing fora state
banking system in this state. Hasty
action now would delay the framing of
a good law—a law that would be a bless
ing to the people.
There may be members of the legisla
ture who are fully qualified to frame a
wise law providing for state banks of
issue. If there are, there could be no
possible objection to making them mem
bers of the commission. They have hardly
time, however, during the session of the
legislature to give the subject such atten
tion as its importance entitles it to. A
law that would have to be amended every
time the legislature met, is not such a
banking law as Georgia should have. She
should have, at the outset, the best law
it is possible to frame.
Foot Ball
Foot ball is the rage now, for three rea
sons. It is about the only out-of-door
sport that can be played in any kind of
weather, it requires strength and skill,
and it is fashionable. For this latter rea
son the city that has not among its honored
inhabitants any number from twenty-two
up of chrysanthemum-headed young men
is "dead low,” to employ the vernacular.
The fact that ninety out of every hun
dred of people who see a foot ball game do
not understand it—the details are under
stood only by the college men of the
period, who evolve new tactics, rules and
technical terms every season, so that the
college men of twenty years ago are as
green concerning the game as jays from
’way back—does not detract from its
drawing power. Everybody goes to sec
the game, and everybody shouts with en
thusiasm, though they may not know a
rush line from a touch-down. It is the
proper thing to do, hence it is done.
The dangers of the game have been
pretty well illustrated in the press dis
patches during the past few weeks. East
week at Adrian, Mich., a young man was
fatally injured during a game. The week
before, in New York, a young man, ama
tive of this city, was killed by a fall
while making a "tackle." In nearly every
report of a hard-fought game there are
details of broken collar bones,
strained knee joints, sprained an
kles, twisted shoulders, or other in
juries. A recent writer on the subject
who took the trouble to look up data,
found that there had been up to a week
ago more fatalities and more or less se
rious injuries on the foot ball field this
siason than there had been in the prize
ring for two years. That, however, does
not argue that foot hall is more brutal or
dangerous than prize lighting. There have
been more foot ball games in three months
than there have been prize fights in two
years, and more men were engaged in the
games than have fought in the prize ring
in ten years. The game is dangerous, cer
tainly, and should be indulged in only by
those who have undergone training to
[ prepare them to give and take hard usage
on the field. But it is an honest and
honorable sport.
A society woman of Somerville, N, J.,
hired a coachman, specifying before con
cluding the bargain that he should cut
off his mustache. He complied with the
specification. After a few days' service
the coachman was discharged. He has
brought suit for damages against his late
employer, alleging that his loss of mus
tache renders him an unpleasant object
off the coach box and makes it difficult
for him to secure employment in any
other line of endeavor. The question
arises, suppose some English lord should
institute the style of one-legged coach
men, would American society people in
sist that candidates for the box have a
leg cut off; And if the candidates were
to comply, would the abbreviated coach
men have a claim for damages whenever
discharged by employers?
Augustus M. Seriba, who committed
suicide at San Francisco the other day
was in some respects a remarkable man.
In the room in which he killed himself he
left a sketch of family history tracing his
descent from Charlemagne and St. Cath
erine, and a will devising all his personal
effects to an old servant. He was at one
time a national bank examiner and was
well known and liked in the New York
business community. But he lost his po
sition, could not get another and was
driven to suicide to avoid starvation.
The old servant to whom he left his per
sonal efiocts had at one time saved hifn
from starving in his own house. The end
of this man affords abundant food for re
flection.
THE MORNING NEWS: THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1893.
Thanksgiving Day.
The south is becoming more Puritanical
every year, that is, in so far as observing
Thanksgiving day is concerned. Thirty
years ago the custom of celebrating the
day did not obtain to any great extent in
Dixie; we observed Christmas, New
Year’s amt “Old Christmas,” (January
t'n as the midwinter holidays, and let
Thanksgiving take care of itself. Ob
serving Thanksgiving is a New England
custom, and very few things pertaining to
New England were popular in the south
in those days. New England rum, for the
holiday eggnog, was, of course an excep
tion.
But time has wiped out sectional preju
dices a rause for profound gratitude—
and we now accept whatever is good of
the ideas and customs of New England,
Thanksgiving among other things, with
grace and appreciation
In this city the day will be observed in
pretty much the same manner as in every
other large city in the country. Foot
ball is pre-eminently the Thanksgiving
fad. hence there will be a foot ball game
here this afternoon. Business will
be suspended, at least during
the afternoon, and everybody will
watch the contest on the "gridiron,”
after which the turkey and trimmings
will be discussed at dinner. The old
Puritans who instituted the holiday
would have been shocked at a Thanks
giving day’s programme in which athlet
ics and feasting were the chief features.
They made of it a very solemn affair, con
sisting chiefly of psalm singing and other
religious exercises. We make of it a day
of happiness and sport: at the same time
not forgetting to return sincere ac
knowledgements to the Great Giver of
all good and perfect gifts for his benefac
tions. And on this day Savannah has
much to return thanks for. We have
passed through a business crisis and
emerged unshaken : we have been threat
ened with pestilence and have escaped
with good health ; we have been attacked
by hurricanes and sustained no great
loss; we have promising prospects of deep
water, and of our new public building,
and the city and the people are prosper
ing.
As Georgians we have to be thankful
for the generally improved condition of
the people at large, for the fact that we
have an honest and competent state gov
ernment and that the political heresy
that threatened us is dying out. The
state is one of the foremost in the great
sisterhood of states, and her enterprises
and resources are being explained in ob
ject lessons in a great exposition at Au
gusta. As Americans we have to be
thankful that the country is again in con
trol of the people, after a great peaceful
struggle of a quarter of a century; that
during the season just past we have
witnessed in the world's fair the con
summation of an enterprise that will
prove a potent factor in the enlighten
ment and elevation of mankind and in
bringing the nations of the earth in closer
fellowship. Indeed, it would be a pessi
mist who could not. at a casual glance
over the record of local, state or national
events for the past year, perceive enough
to fill his heart with gratitude. And
then there are the greatest of all, the in
dividual blessings, to be taken into con
sideration.
"Tom” Heed, “Private” Dalzell, and
Julius Csrsar Burrows, republican mem
bers of the ways and means committee,
have gone industriously to work attempt
ing to create a scare among workingmen
by holding up the Wilson bill as a horri
ble man-eating ogre. They predict ’that
should the bill become a law this country
would suffer the greatest commercial
panic known in the history of the world.
They “estimate on a rough calculation,”
that the industries adversely affected by
tlie hill would throw 3,500,000 persons out
of employment, and bring disaster to
every business interest in the country.
Such talk, however, was to be expected
from the republicans. But it is worthy
of no more credence than was the asser
tions of the radical silverites that the
west would be ruined by the passage of
the silver purchase repeal bill. If there
were the slightest danger that a panic
would result from the passage of the Wil
son bill the symptoms of the evil would
be already noticeable throughout the
country. So far from that being the case,
trade everywhere is improving. A few
days ago the Tennessee Coni and Iron
Company advanced the price of pig iron
25 cents per ton. the second advance in
thirty days. And the company has de
clined future contracts at the advanced
price. That doesn’t look much like-there
is a crisis impending. The republicans
will have to employ facts and arguments,
and not senseless scares, against tariff re
form hereafter. The people are tired of
scarecrows and hobgoblin stories.
Actor Charles Coghlan, who made a
tolerably fair actress from very raw
material in the case of Mrs. Igtngtry, and
who Won some distinction as the executor
of the literary estate of Lord Lytton, has
crown weary of having reporters pry into
his marriage with the young lady who
opened ttie door to fame with a chisel. A
reporter asked Coghlan to inform the
public, through him, what he proposed to
do in case the lady known as Mrs. Cogh
lan No. 1 entered suit against him for
divorce. "The public be ,” said Cogh
lan, in the language of the late William
H. Vanderbilt, "this is my affair and not
the public’s. That’s all I’ve got to say.”
Coghlan was not correct when he said it
was none of the public’s business, to know
whether the public's laws had been vio
lated or not. But he did right to shut off
the sensation-seeking newspaper man.
The publication of such stories as that of
the Coghlan case has made too many
tico] de regard the marriage obligation
lightly.
There is an epidemic of small-pox in
Southwestern Virginia, and health offi
cers have been ordered to vaccinate every
body in Lynchburg. To comply with in
structions, they are making a house to
house canvass, and are having trouble in
about every black person’s house they en
ter. The negroes have got the idea that
the white people are working a scheme to
kill them off by injecting poison into their
arms, hence the trouble.
Ellen Cummens, who. twenty years ago, was
Booths'famous theatrical leading lady, hsu
fallen so low that she recently was a prisoner
ut police headquarters on a charge of larceny.
It was Ellen Cummens who in company with
Maurice Barrymore, was the witness of the
killing of B. K. Porter, in Marshall. Tex. bv
Jim Catrj. the despeiado In fact, it was be
cause Bari vmore and Porter protested against
curry's insults to Miss Cummens, that Porter
was shot.
PERSONAL.
Queen Victoria has presented to the Pitcairn
i Islanders a tine lifeboai. which will be taken
!to them Irom Esqulmaulc, B C., by the Pa
i eifle flagship Royal Arthur.
Ex-President Harrisons favorite tune is
The Soldiers March,” from Gounods
Faust." He cannot discriminate, as a rule,
between tunes, but In this cas* he reoogni/.es
the tune Instantly and it is said is really in
spired by the melody.
Miss Kthel Arnold, sister of Mrs. Humphrey
Ward, is an uncommonly brilliant talker, and
it has long- been supposed that she could, if
she would, write remarkable books. She is
about to prove what sh ,* can do in this line in
a volume to be called • Platonics."
Louise Imogen Guiney, the poetess, is a
candidate for postmistress at Auburndale.
Mass. Miss Guiney says she wants a regular
income, which her literary work doesn't give
her. She answers the vexed question ‘ Docs
literature pay?" with a strong negative.
The Prince of Wales* favorite pet is a little
green parrot, which is highly gifted. The
bird is located in a hall at Sandringham, and
the advent of a visitor is always the signal
for it to call out: Now. then, hip hip hurrah
for the Queen." The prince bought the bird
from a small boy in Trafalgar square.
Princess Ypsilanti, who died recently in
\ ienna. was one of the wealthiest women of
Europe st one time. Her fortune amounted
to nearly Aio.ouo.uoo. In a few years the
whole of this enormous sum was squandered,
although she retained enough to keep up
a semblance of her former life until her
death.
Rev. Dr. Joseph H. Rylance, of New York,
takes little stock in the plan of getting the
sale of liquor under the control of high moral
influence. He believes that the German
method of drinking is the most commendable.
It relieves the concert hall and beer garden of
coaisc-ief sand debaucherv on account of the
presence of women and children.
B.shop Ethelbert Tall o:t. of Wyoming and
Idaho, is visiting friends in Baltimore. He
tells interesting stories of life among the
miners in the west. One of them is how the
keeper of a nbling house in Idaho became
a regular annual contributor of a S2O gold
piece to the lishop s miss on. It aided in
building up a church an I tne affable ways of
the bishop so won u >on tne man that he made
all of his chums "chip in" to help along the
cause of Christianity. Asa result the church
was greatly benefited.
Baron Kuno von der Kettenburg. a wealthy
German, has begun suit against the govern
ment of Sweden for the recovery of 4.000.000
crowns. In the year 103 t Sweden, being
financially embarrassed, borrowed 05. 5 mi
thalers from a merchant, Jacob Krieves. of
Lubeck. 'lhe note given at the time was to
bear interest at 6 per cent. This note is now
in the possession of Baron Kettenburg. He
has placed his case in the hands of fine of the
best-known Swedish lawyers, who has ad
vise I his government to compromise with the
German for 205.800 crowns. Sweden, how
ever, disputes the claim. it is said, and will
let the case come to trial.
THE NEW TARIFF BILL.
A Conservative Measure.
From the Baltimore Sun iDcm.i.
The bill, as a whole, is emphatically con
servative and tender to the projected manu
facturer, but it has everywhere chiefly in view
the rights and interests of the masses of the
people—the taxpayers.
Impossible to Please Everybody.
From the Atlanta Journal (Dem.).
It is clearly impossible to frame a tariff bill
which will please all interests, but the pend
ing measure undoubtedly carries out the prin
ciple of a revenue tariff and lifts a great i art
of the burden which has rested so long upon
the masses of our people.
Full of Hope for Every Industry.
CFrom the Philadelphia Times (Ind.).
The new tariff policy is thus full of hope for
every branch of American industry. It is a
policy of unimpeded growth and expansion,
in which all can share, as against a policy of
coddling and contraction that benefits the
w at the expense of the many.
Sound and Statesmanlike.
From the New York Times (Dem.).
We regard the work of the committee as
sound a<nd state-manlike an admirable com
bination of fidelity to prim lple, with judicious
caution in its application, the begining of the
final triumph of the cause of commercial
freedom, full of richest promise for the pros
perity of the laud.
No Fear For the Result.
From the Philadelphia Record <Dem.L
Ah a whole, the proposed measure should
commend itself to the intelligent public sent
iment which one year ago indorsed the plat
form upon which its framers have buikied.
At lust the Democratic party finds itself in a
condition to perform as well as to promise.
If it have the courage of its convictions, we
have no fear of the result.
Will Open a Brighter Era.
From the New York World (Dem.l.
The hill generally is excellent. It has been
prepared with great care and entire conscien
tiousness. It goes very far. p •rhap.s usfar as
it i po.-sible to po at oni*t\ towards a com
plete fulfilment of democratic pledges. When
it passes and becomes a law. anew and
brighter era will begin for American com
merce and manufactures.
The Crisis for the Democracy
From the Memphis Appeal-Avalanche iDem.).
With the report of the ways and means
committee, the party will have arrived at the
most critical period in its hislcrc. Mr. Wil
son has shown himself to be a true democrat
and statesman, by putting the matter to a
test. He and his committee have acted ex
actly in accordance with the instructions
given them by the people in 1890 and 1892.
Alms a Blow at Trusts.
From the Richmond Dispatch iDem.).
It will be observed with please rs by the
great majority of our people that the bill aims
a great blow at some of the most avaricious of
the trusts which have cursed our country in
this decade. Indeed, this is a feature of the
measure, one. too, that will go far towards
commending it as a whole to thos” who mav
happun to be disappointed as to semi of its
details.
A Matter of Conjecture.
From the Baltimore American (Rep.),
The feature of the hill which will probably
excite the most general comment hereafter is
the manner in which the south has been pro
tocted at the expense of the rest of the
country, Kieegets more protection than anv
other American product, presumably because
it is grown principally in the Carolines. The
bounty on sugar is continued for eight years,
presumably because it is grown almost ex
elustvely in the southern states, and iron ore
is placed on the free list to enable a smail dis
trict in Alabama to undersell the rest of the
United States.
The Rant of the Radical.
From the New York Press (Rep ).
The Wilson tariff bill proves that the demo
cratic party has not changed its character, it
demonstiate.s that the old hatred of demo
cratic leaders for free laoor. for the working
man who Is a sovereign and not a serf, sur
vices in all its virulence. Every line of the
bill is anti-American. Every schedule is un
patriotic. Every paragraph embodies hostil
ity to American interests. The men who
plotted in congress for the spread of slavery
and the degredaiion of northern labor have
aimed a blow at the industrial strength of the
country, which, it it is not parried, will carry
ruin and beggary into every manufacturing
community.
Hungering for the Protection Flesh
pots.
From the Birmingham Age-Herald (Dem.).
The adoption of the Wilson hill means the
titter and complete overthrow of the Demo
cratic party for a generation to come. The
Democratic party should not submit to the
folly of a baker s dozen of foolish theorists,
who misrepresent its doctrines. Sound the
tocsin of war. rally the forces of the south
and let them march In solid phalanx against
the foolish leaders who would hurl them
headlong over the precipice of destruction.
Let the Democratic party be true to its
cardinal doctrines and traditions, and repu
diate and punish those who have abandoned
and repudiated the democratic doctrine of a
tariff for revenue.
Ridiculous!
From the Augusta Evening News.
Thieves broke Into the office of the Savau
nah Morning News on Sunday morning, and
were disappointed in finding no money. The
idea of looking for money in a newspaper of
fice!
She Accounts for It.
He wanted to pay her car fare, says th©
New York Sun. but she said:
"Oh. no' I have the change right here!’*
And as his gloves were very new and rather
tight, though you could never have wrung
such an admission from him. she had deftly
extracted five pennies from a ridiculous little
purse she curried and had put them into the
conductor's grimy hand before he got his lin
gers into his change pocket.
Kealiv, now that was too bad of you!” he
said, and then he put the handle of his stick
in his mouth and regarded, with meditative
eyes, that ridiculous little purse of hers.
"Ah' " he said at last.
She looked at him with an attentive smile.
“Ah’ he said again. I think
"No"* she said, with an air of astonish
ment. but he did not hear.
"I think 1 have noticed that you ladies gen
erally pay your car fare in pennies."
.■"he waited.
"I thonght *’
"Don't do it again." she murmured.
• I thought I had noticed it."
He looked appealingly at her. but her smile
remained e <pectant.
"Well:" was all she said.
‘Ah. he remarked, with a weary, disap
pointed air. would you mind telling me why
you do it?"
There was a faint gleam in her eye as she
replied:
"Oh. i really don't know exactly. I think
there are several reasons. One is that it is a
game of give and take. Women pay their
fare in pennies because the conductors give
them pxnaies in enange. You never saw a
conductor unloading his penny pocket upon
rr * en - A man can carry small change 1 oner
than a woman. Ho has a pocket sic dally
dedicated to that pi rposes, whereas a woman
has one purse or pockeibook for of. ail her
money and various other things besides.
Still, it is always into the woman's hand that
t he conductor counts out the pennies he wants
to get rid of. I think (but it s a bad habit,
and I wouldn'l do it often if I were you) that
he does it because a woman s purse is so
small that an occasional penny drops out and
the conductor gets it. The women give the
conductors pennies on the principle of paying
him back in his own coin. And th° reason
why some men do not pay their fare in pen
nies is because it is too great a tax on their
intellects to count out the right number."
"You don t say so!" he said- He followed
heradvice and did not try to think. But it
wouldn t have made any difference if he had.
Bibl© Law Good Enough.
In the early days of interior Missouri, says
the Green Bag. the late Judge K cut
cordwood. cleared up his homestead farm and
was employed upon one side of nearly every
case that came up. being for some years the
only lawyer in the county.
He han no books, except an old leather cov
ered Bible and an old volume or two of history*
similarly bound, nut had read law a short
time in Kentucky in his youth He was very
small and insignificant in appearance but
became, before his death, a splendid lawyer
and honored judge.
A young attorney from the east settled in
the little country town with his library of
about half a dozen new and handsomely
hound law hooks, and on his first appearance
in a case he brought most of his library to
the justice's office in a fine, beautifully flow
ered carpet bag. popular in that dav. E
was engaged against him. and as usual had
not a book.
When his adversary carefully drew his
library from the pretty carpet bag and laid
them on the table. E looked astonished,
but quicki/ recovered his ready resources,
and asked the justh e to excuse him tor a few
moments He hurried to his homestead, half
a mile or so away, and put his old leather
hound bible and hist Dries into a grain stok
and brought them to court, imitating his
opponent in laying them before him on tne
talTe.
Tne evidence was introduced and the east
ern man. being for the plantiff. made the
opening argument and read at length from his
text books. E - made his characteristic
speech in reply, closing by reading law from
his old Bible just the reverse of that real bv
his opponent and took his seat, putting his
Bible on the table.
His adversary reached over and picked it
up and seeing what it was eagerly addressed
the justice.
"Your Honor. ' said he, "this man is a
humbug and pettifogger. Why. sir. that is
the Bible from which has pretended to read
law."
The old justic? looked indignant and inter
rupting the young attorney said:
"Set down, durn ye. What better law can
we git than the Bible?" He then decided the
case in favor of the defendant.
Disappointing Missives.
"Now look at that letter." said young Sum
mers to a New York Tribune man. as ho
threw a scented s juare envelope aero >s the
cafe table. "What would you think to tied
that in your letter-box when you came into
the club?"
'Why.” said the visitor, pi-king it up. and
noticing the delicate handwiiting. I should
think that some fair young woman was going
to invite me to drink tea with her to-morrow
afternoon."
"Do you know, that’s just what I thought
when I saw it an 1 that’s why I am disgusted.
Ihe other nigin at the horse show 1 was in
troduced to an awfully pretty girl who lives
up the avenue. The next night I met her
again at the Van Hartman's, and we had
quite a chat. She promise l to send me her
card. 1 thought this was it. It'sa shame."
"Oh. but she may send it yet: 1 wouldn't
despair so soon."
"it isn't that. It's the idea of getting such
a letter as that instead of the one I expected.
Don't you see what it is v "
"Do you want me to read it?"
"You may if you care for such things.
There is nothing private about things
that gain your confidence under false pre
tenses of perfumed and sealed envelopes and
feminine hands. It s getting outrageous that
one should at every turn have his heart set
heating with visions of pretty notes, only to
find printed slips telling you ofthe virtues of
the latest clothes-cieaning establishment and
the low-priced menu or the new restaurant on
the corner. That note informs me that I can
have my trousers pressed regularly once a
week for2s cents and the waton will call to
get them. lent that a romantic message to
crave respectful attention, in polite and in
sinuating guise':''
Thanksgiving Bay.
Margaret E. Saugster. in Harper's Young
Pcorpjg.
Between the lorg vacation
And the Christmas holidays
Comes in the bright Thanksgiving
When our ringing cheers we raise.
In the frosty, tingling weather,
With sheaves in barn and bin,
We haste to see the fellows
Their latest victory win
Pell mell by train and steamer
The merry people throng.
By the onward strength of thousands
The crowd is swept along.
The girls with telltale ribbons,
And perhaps a telltale blush.
No whit behind their brothers,
Are mingling in the rush.
Dear grandmammas and aunties,
With a softly flutter.ng sigh,
lain.ant the o.d Thanksgiving
As the new comes thundering by;
Then to the home's fair Mecca
The scattered tribes returned.
And told the year's long story
Where the great hearth fire burned.
But though we keep Thanksgiving
In the new athletic wav.
We are much like famished pilgrims
When the sunset skies are gray.
By-elans the -kinsfolk gather
In many a hungry horde.
And we finish our Thanksgiving
At the happy family hoard.
Maud—Cholly Smoothlip hasn't much of a
mustache.it is true; but you ought not to
abuse it.
Marie Nonsense. How did I ever abuse
his mustache:
Maud—He told me the other day that you
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Ancient Egypt. writes a corres
pondent of the St. James Ga
zette. is "looking up" in every way.
Some of its contrivance i appear to have been
quite up to date. Actually, they had already,
more than 2.DUO years ago. w hat we call "a
penny in the slot" for the extraction of some
thing useful, pleasant or otherwise desirable.
Heron, the philosopher of Alexandria, de
scribes an automatic machine, which he as
serts to have been in use in the Egyptian
temples already for along time past, even be
fore his time. By throwing a piece of money
in the slot, the worshippers-received some con
secrated water through a valve. Ihe stature,
or stand, the two armed le\ e * with its closing
valve and the other d?tails of the machine
are all correctly described. Truly, the Sage
was right when he declared There is nothing
new under the sun."
Photography played an important part in a
suit at Cincinnati, says the Indianapolis Jour
nal. The suit is one of local standing.involving
the title of I.Booacresof valuable farmlands.
It is based on a deed made nearly seventy
five years ago by the owners of the land, and
turns on the point whether the deed had five
signatures or only four. In order to test this
question, it was decided lo have the deed
photographed, and the clerk of the court was
ordered to give the matter his personal
supervision. For that purpose it was taken
to Washington and submitted to an expert
photographer of that city. '1 he original deed,
discolored and yellow with age. showed
traces of four signatures and a space where
there might have been a fifth, but no trace of
it. The photographing was done in the pres
ence of the clerk of the court, who refused to
let the deed go out of his sight. The negative
revealed fia.es of the missing signature, and
ween it was enlarged ten times the entire
name became as plain as when first written.
The court pronounced the evidence conclu
sive. and the result will be ihe reversal of a
former decision and a change in the owner
ship of the land.
It is only of recent years that Jaffa oranges
have obtained a worldwide reputation, for
but some eighteen years since they were
scarcely known save at Beyrout. Alexandria
and Constantinople, says the Planters' Ga
zette. A special feature of tne Jaffa orange
is that it will keep thirty or forty days, and if
properly picked for two and sometimes even
three months. Ihe port of Jaffa is sur
rounded on the land by orange groves,
covering an area of I.TsO acres. New orange
groves are constantly being planted, and
there are now double as many as there were
fifteen years ago. Each orange garden con
tains about 2,00) square feet of planted area,
equal to about 1.300 trees to 24 acres. The
trees begin to tear the fourth year after
planting, but it is estimated that it takes
seven and sometimes eight years before an
orange orchard yields a paying crop. During
all this line, and even afterwards, the
orchards huve to be watered continually, and
this irrigation is the most difficult and labor
ious part of the work, the water having to be
drawn by means of primitive water wheels
from wells dug in the gardens 90 feet and
even 10J feet deep. An improved and cheaper
system of irrigation is of paramount impor
tance, and it would tend to extensive and
fertile plains around Jaffa, becoming in a
short space of time extensive orange groves
would cheapen the production, and would en
able the growers and the exporters to com
pete with the oranges of other countries in
European markets.
No plan yet proposed for substituting jet boat
propulsion, for the screw or paddle wheels,
seems likely to realize the efficiency needed
in such case, says the New York Sun. The
chief reason assigned for this is that the
power in a boat or self navigating ship is not
applied quite as on the locomotive: that is.
the driving wheels of the engine take hold of
a fixed base, and thrust against it. or a Heries
of such bases, all the while, but the mechani
cal appliances used in propelling a vessel at
sea act npjn an extremely mobile mass, some
thing that tends to slip, and does to some ex
tent slip away from them. It is. in fact, only
because the weight or inertia of the portion
immediately in contact with the oar. paddle
wheel or screw*, offers some resistance that
any headway is secured, and the larger the
watery bulk acted upon the more stable it
will 1 e anu hence, the more progress will be
secured. On the other hand, an equal amount
of p< wjr may be consumed in moving a little
water a great distance astern and a large
amount a small distance, in the former case,
however, the leverage being almost lost,
while, in the latter, it is largely retained,
consequently, it is desirable to* apply the
power so as to strike broad surfaces rather
slowly instead of small ones with great ve
locity. A minor consideration mentioned is
that in the jet system water has to be pumped ;
into the moving vessel before it is ejected,
and a certain amount of force must be con
sumed in giving to it. in the interval, the for
ward motion which every other object in
side of the craft has: this substracts
from the amount or power available for pro
pulsion.
Edison's Orange laboratory, despite its pas
toral surroundings and the pacific nature of
its habitues has been the scene of some grew
some experiments, says Cassell s Magazine.
When the new law was passed enlisting elec
tricity as an agentof death. Mr. Edison was
consulted as to the best method of applying
that mysterious and deadly tluid. and in' the
experiments made by him to test the com
parative action of different currents at various
intensities many painful animal executions
were necessary. Mr. Edison's most valuable
friend and assistant. Charles Bachelor, barely
evaded the distinction of officiating as a
sacrifice on the altar of experimental science
lie was mending some defective apparatus in
connection with a lamp. ar.d. as it seemed to
him at the time, had taken ali imaginary pre
cautions against an accident. He supposes
however, frem the presence of a burn after
ward found on one of his fingers, that he must
I unconsciously have established a circuit bv
I holding a wire in each hand. No sooner hail
i he made the contact than he staggered buck
to a stool, with the awful memory of soul and
body wrenched violently asunder, with such
pangs as the Mohammedan death angels
wreak on the awakening spirits of the
damned. He describes it as resembling the
sensations of an immense rough file thrust
through the quivering fibers of the body a
shuddering, rasping pang, grinding its 'wav
through lungs and heart. For over fifteen
minutes he sat motionless, bathed in an icy
and death like sweat, and nervously unstrung
from head to foot. Yet, strange to say the
shock passed away In a dav or two. leaving no
visible injury except in the memory of the
victim.
Some of the cotton products now sent from
the French manufactories, and known as
"Turkey red" goods are acknowledged to
rival in color and general quality the far
famed fabrics of that name produced in the
Orient, says the New York Sun. This is due
to the character of a few special details or
features in the general process. Thus, pre
liminary to all. an oil bath is prepared tom
posed of 100 gallons of water and fifty pounds
of oil- sufficient for too pounds of cotton -and
in this hath the cotton is handled until
thoroughly impregnated, then pressed out
and dried at a temperature not exceeding
forty degrees C. For moderating, a bath of
aluminute of soda is made hv dissolving i
eighty pounds sulphate of alumina and 18 ) of
soda in from six to eight limes -heir I
weight of water, the soda solution I
being slowly added to the sulphate
solution, when all is added the liquor is made 1
to stand at 6" 11 : into this bath the oil and
dried eotlon are entered, and turned over
eivht to tea times to impregnat > the fibre
then allowed to steep in the hath overnight’
being next day wrung out and dried at a tem
perature of 43° C. The mordanted cotton af
ter being dried, is woiked for fifteen nun
utes in a hath containing eight to ten pounds
of chalk, then rinsed and dried. The rive
lath is made with 200 gallons of water ten
pounds of alizarine, and one-half pound Tur
key red oil. the cotton being entered into this
in the cold, and the bath then slightlv
warmed, so as in about an hour to reach TO"
Vy, the hath is continued at this for some
time, then raised to and kept at a boil for an 1
hour. The goods are now rinsed and dried at
not over 40° C : steaming follows at a pres
sure of eight to ten ponds; then clearing in a
hath of soap and Turkey red oil. “
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