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Special Noth Ts.— As to Hills Against
British Steamships Dora Forsterand Eastry:
as to Crew of Steamship Elphinslo.ie: Notice
of Dissolution. W. E. Vinson & Cos.; Notice
to Our Patrons. It. II Levy A Urn ; Sp- cal
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byterian Church; Our Leaders. Mutual Co-op
erative Association; The Plant of the South
ern Cider and Vinegar Company.
Spruce Up—-Falk Clothing Company,
r Amusements— 'Jane,” at the Theater, Dec.
1 and 2.
Engaged Young Ladies—B. H. Levy &
Bro.
The Income of Dollars— Appel & Schaul.
Medical Warner’s Safe Cure.
High Art Clothing At Kohler's.
Legal Notici: Arrears for Ground Rent.
C. S. Hardee, City Treasurer.
Excursion vs High Prices—The Chat
ham Furniture Company.
Publications-Oosmop ditan Magazinefor
December. Kstill's News Di pit.
To-day -Falk Clothing Company.
Railroad schedule Savannah and
Charleston Railroad.
Cheap Column ahvertisements— Help
Wanted: Employment Wanted; For Rent; Fur
Sale; Lost: Persontl; Miscellaneous.
The convicts in the state's prison at
Sing Sing, N. Y., were treated on Thanks
giving to a dinner including boiled ham,
coffee and mince pie, with cigars thrown
in as digesters. It is evident that the
hard times have not struck the New York
jails.
The election of circuit judges by the
South ( uiolina legislature yesterday re
sulted. as it was expected would be the
case, in idling the vacancies with tnen of
( ov. Tillman s political faction. With
the exception of Mr. VV. O. Benet. there
is not one oi the new judges who is recog
nized as a man of more than ordinary
ability. Most of the otln rs are fair law
yers. and nothing more. It is clearly evi
dent that politics dominated the selec
tions. The tone of the South Carolina
bench has not been elevated by the
changes made.
Prince Colonna, the husband of John
W. Mackay’s stop-daughter, from whom
she is seeking to be si paratod, is reported
to be in straightened circumstances since
his wife dropped him. Recently ho has
sold the horses and carriages, furniture
and other property purchased by his wife
for their establishment. Jt is understood
that the princess lias secured evidence
enough to procure half a dozen separa
tions, it so many were necessary, upon
statutory grounds. The prince is consid
ered by | cople who know him to be a
thoroughly bad egg.
An oddity in the matrimonial line oc
curred in New York the other day. A
German couple visited the city hall and
requested to be married. It was learned
that they had lived together as man and
wife for twenty-two years, but had lost
their first marriage certificate and w anted
another. They were accommodated. It
is ordinarily the case in New York that a
marriage certificate is regarded by one of
the parties to it as a nuisance, and a com
mon law marriage as a convenience to be
dispensed with at will. The instance
cited above is, therefore, refreshing.
The licet of war vessels that was fitted
out at New York for Brazilian service
cost President Peixoto's government in
the neighborhood of £1,500,000, and were
paid for, spot cash, it is understood. The
money was raised by the negotiation of
$2,000,000 of Brazilian government bonds
through the agency of Mr. Flint and
Minister Mehdonca. The bonds were
taken in New York. The minister, by the
way, intimated to a reporter a day or two
ago that a light would probably occur
during the latter part of this week be
tween the Nietlieroy and the America,
two of the ships purchased in New York,
and Mi lie's ship, the Republica. The
Republic a is an armored cruiser carrying
very heavy guns, and is quite likely to
prove more than a match for the two con
verted mere han tmen.
Any feasible scheme that promises the
settlement of desirable white immigrants
in this state is worthy of consideration.
The need for such immigrants is patent.
How can they be induced to come here?
-i ho \(.ting .den s Business League, of
Augusta, thinks a permanent state bureau
of immigration would be a powerful agent
in such work, and lias memorialized the
gi iteral assembly, praying that such a
bureau be established at this session. A
stats bureau, could, indeed, do valuable
work in cissi juinating information w ith
regard to the state's resources and the
situation of lands available to the settle
ment of new comers. The first step in
the direction of inducing immigration,
th. authorizing by the legislature of the
publication c.f a hand book of the state,
co.dd be profitably followed up by a per
manent bureau of information of the
character suggested.
A Serious Problem.
The banks of New York and some of
the other large cities are confronted by a
problem almost as serious as that which
called for a solution during the money
panic last summer. They have more
money than they know what to’ do with.
They do not know how to invest it so as
to make it yield a profit. It is offered at
a remarkably low rate of interest, and
yet the demand for it docs not increase.
Some of the banks are buying bonds
with tiie view of getting the interest on
them, and then disposing of thorn when
the demand for money increases. Not a
few of the banks have notified their cus
tomers that they will pay no interest on
deposits, and some of them are even re
fusing deposits.
The New York banks have $71,000,000
more than their legal reserve, and the
amount continues to increase. This is not
a healthy condition of affairs, it means
that few enterprises are being undertaken
and that there is great inactivity in many
lines of business. Building is almost at a
standstill, and consequently many me
chanics are out of employment. Unless
conditions change for the better, the win
ter will be one that will he long remem
bered by people who depend upon their
daily toil for their bread.
But while the banks have a plethora of
money the federal treasury is in need of
money. There has been a remarkable
falling off in receipts from customs and in
ternal revenue taxes. It is now con
sidered to be almost certain that congress
will have to consider the advisability of
issuing short term bonds. In view of the
fact that money is so plentiful it is
thought that 2 per cent, bonds can be
floated at par. A bond issue would help
to distribute some of the surplus money
which the banks hold.
Notwithstanding the abundance of
money, however, there is very little buy
ing of any other than first-class securi
ties. There are few bidders for bonds
and stocks which are purely of a specu
lative character.
No doubt there will be a more healthy
condition of affairs after the holidays.
Everybody seems to bo waiting for the
beginning of the new year, with the hope
that the effects of the recent money panic
will have pretty nearly disappeared by
that time.
A Weak Point Against Blount.
One of the points that Mr. Stevens, the
ex-minister to Hawaii, makes against Mr.
Blount is, that Mr. Blount, in his corre
spondence with the Secretary of State,
asserted that “Paul Neumann is gener
ally regarded in Honolulu as a bright,
plausible and unscrupulous person,” and
that in a subsequent dispatch he said that
a better acquaintance with public senti
ment in Honolulu, convinced him that he
was not justified in saying that Mr. Neu
mann was regarded as “unscrupulous.”
Mr. Stevens wants the public to believe
that Mr. Blount regarded Mr. Neumann
as a knave as long as he thought that
Neumann was trying to sell out the
dejiosed queen’s claims to the United
States fpr a cash consideration, but enter
tained a different opinion when he found
that Neumann was in sympathy with
himself and Claus Spreckels for the de
posed queen's restoration.
Mr. Stevens makes a strained effort to
put Mr. Blount in a false position. There
is nothing to justify the interpretation
that Mr. Stevens puts upon Mr. Blount's
change of mind in respect to Neumann.
It is much more reasonable to suppose
that Mr. Blount reached the conclusion
that he had done Neumann an injustice;
and hastened to correct it as soon as he
found out li is error. Mr. Blount is known
to be a just man. He would not do any
one a wrong knowingly. His promptness
in correcting his first impressions of Neu
mann, when he found out that he had
made a mistake, is in keeping with his
character. Mr. Stevens, however, pre
fers to give an interpretation to the inci
dent which it will not legitimately bear,
with the hope of creating the impression
that Mr. Blount was not honest in what
he did in Honolulu.
It would liavo been better for Mr.
Stevens' reputation if lie had devoted his
reply to Mr. Blount to showing why lie
ordered the marines on shore without any
request from the government to which
ho was accredited, and why, after they
were ashore, he had them posted so they
would intimidate the legitimate govern
ment and encourage the revolutionists
instead of placing them to protect the
American residents and American prop
erty in the event of trouble.
The New York Press Thursday printed
a trio of interesting Thanksgiving senti
ments from Col. “Bob'’ Ingersoll, Senator
William M. Stewart, of Nevada, and
Richard Croker, the Tammany leader.
The great republican agnostic set s noth
ing in the situation to be thankful for;
he is “afraid that the I.ord will be misled
by those in authority." The great silver
ite republican from Nevada had oven for
gotten that there was a Thanksgiving
day. When reminded of it he said: “1
have no reason to bo thankful," reflecting
on the passage of the repeal bill. “The
people of the United States may, perhaps,
feel thankful to the ruler of the universe
that lie lias not annihilated them com
pletely." Richard Crocker's sentiment
was: “I feel that I am lucky to be
alive.” Something in the line of a sacre
ligious sentiment might have been ex
pected from Ingersoll. But it was not
thought that Stewart would, by infer
ence, accuse the deity of being in league
with those he calls “the thievish gold
hugs and shylocks of the east.” Crok
er’s expression is characteristic.
Kuchan, the north Persian town that
was so badly damaged by an earthquake
two weeks ago, as retorted in our dis
patches at the time. seems to have he
roine a foot hall of the fates. Following
the great disaster on the night of Nov.
17, in which 12,000 people were killed, 150
other shocks of earthquake have shaken
the place, terrorizing those left alive in
the town and driving them into the open
country. And while the frightened people
were encamped iu rude huts and light
tents an exceptionally severe snow storm
descended upon them, adding to their
misery and to the list of dead. It isY-sti
mated that of the population of the town
a month ago, not above one-half remain.
It is denied that the Duchess of Marlbor
ough. born Price, at Troy, N. Y., andonce
the Widow Hamorsle.v, is to marry Hugh
McAlmont, the Englishman whose chief
| claim to notoriety or social jtosition is
that he owns the horse that won the
i Derby this year.
THE MORNING NEWS: SATURDAY. DECEMBER 2, 1893.
The Way They Look at It.
The protective tariff organs differ
greatly in their views respecting the Wil
son tariff bill. The New York Sun, a
democratic paper that advocates pro
tection. says the bill is "a sound pro
tectionist document from one end to the
other.'’ As far as it can see there is no
"revenue only" in it, and no democracy.
The New York Tribune says: “It is not
an American bill, but is distinctly for the
benefit of other countries and their in
dustries.’’ Other organs of protective
tariff speak of it in pretty much the same
terms.
The trouble with these organs is that
they are greatly disappointed because it
does not threaten destruction to any
legitimate American industry. They
hoped it would make such a sweeping re
duction of customs duties as to arouse
overwhelming opposition to it. They ex
pected something that would enable them
to alarm the whole country and make
such a fight against it as would bring
about its defeat.
-i n att rof fact, the hill is not of a
character to cause manufacturers gener
ally to be alarmed. It is in har
mony with the tariff plank of the national
democratic platform, and contains no pro
vision that is likely to cripple any indus
try. On the contrary, it opens the way
for the manufacturing interests to become
more prosperous. The protection organs,
however, will continue their atttacks
ujion it. It is their policy to defeat it.
hence what they say of it is a matter of
comparatively little consequence. Their
fight against it will not be an
effective one, because very little political
capital can be made out of it.
They will keep up their talk, however,
about ruining American industries and
forcing down the wages of Ameriuan
workmen.
There are sofne weak spots in the bill.
No doubt they will be amended. It was
not expected that the ways and means
committee would frame a bill that would
give general satisfaction. They did not
aim to satisfy everybody. They knew
that to be impossible. They tried to do
what they believed the people in the last
national election said they wanted done,
and they have succeeded beyond expecta
tions. They have formulated a bill that
removes from the people the unjust bur
dens imposed upon them by the iniquit
ous McKinley tariff'. When the people
understand it fully, few of them will
have any objections to offer to the general
plan of it.
The Port Royal Road.
The bill introduced into the South
Carolina legislature by Representative
Brezeale to repeal the charter of the
Port Royal and Augusta railroad may be
the beginning of a long legal fight. If
the bill should become a law its consti
tutionality would be contested in the
courts. It is hardly probable that the
owners of the road will permit their
property to be taken from them without
a struggle.
In our dispatches the reasons why it is
proposed to repeal the charter are not
given. The ostensible reason is doubt
less that the Central railroad, that pos
sesses the majority of the stock and bonds
of the road, cannot legally own its hold
ings in that property. The real reason,
doubtless, is that there are parties who
want to get control of the road.
Is not South Carolina making a mistake
in trying to repeal the charter of the
road ! Is she not announcing to the world
that it is not safe to invest money in rail
roads within her limits' If the scheme
to wrest the control of the Augusta and
Port Royal road from its present owners
is successful capital will interpret the act
as a notice to give Soutn Carolina a wide
berth.
The Central has owned the Augusta
and Port Royal road for a long timo, and
the question of its right to do so
was raised only recently. Since the
Tillman wing of the democracy of the
state came into power there has been
a disposition to disregard rights that
have lone been regarded as sacred. Gov.
Tillman seems to delight in contentions
of one kind and another. He is now at
war with the railroads, the federal
courts and the liquor interests. He is
laying the foundation of an opposition
that will, in the very ucar future, put an
end to his political career. He has been
remarkably successful thus far, but his
success is not of a kind that continues
very long.
The New York Times reports as a fact
the sale of the New York Mail and Ex
press to William Walter Phelps. Our
dispatches yesterday reported the sale as
being in prospect. The transfer of the
property will, it is understood, take place
on Jan. 1. A son of Mr. Phelps, who is
now a member of the newspaper's staff,
will have charge of the management of
the establishment, while his father will
be the editor-in-chief. The purchase was
made from the estate of the late Elliott
F. Shepard, who died a few months ago
from the efTeots of inhaling other as he
was about to undergo a painful surgical
operation. Col. Shepard, who was Com
modore Vanderbilt's son-in-law, bought
the paper from Cyrus W. Field, paying
lor it about £350,000. The price paid by
Mr. Phelps is not known, hut is supposed
to he considerably more than >500.000.
At the time Col. Shepard took hold of
the concern it was not on a paying basis,
but it is understood that at the time of
his death it was yielding handsome re
turns. The Mail and Express will prob
ably continue to be a vigorous republican
organ. There was some talk, about a
year ago when Mr. Phelps was appointed
to a New Jersey judgship by a democratic
governor, of the probability of his becom
ing a democrat: hut his friends have de
nied that he has undergone any change
of heart, and he has done nothing within
the year to indicate a change.
The Memphis Appeal-Avalanche sus
pects that Speaker Crisp wishes to run
for the Presidency, and thus attempts to
head him off: “Speaker Charles F.
Crisp, of Georgia, who stands out pre-em
inently as a leader among the democrats
in the House of Representatives of congress
is a native of Sheffield, England, and is
therefore not eligible to the presi
dency because his parents were English
people, and his father came over to this
country during the ’4os as leading sup
port to the great American actress, Anna
Cora Mowatt. Mr. Crisp is an able man,
and deserves every honor that his coun
trymen can bestow, hut the constitution
bars him from becoming a presidential
aspirant.”
PERSONAL.
Secretary Hoke Smith is said by the Pitts
burg Dispatch, to be the hardest worker in the
cabinet. He gets up at 7 o clock in the morn
ing and does not go to bed earlier than mid
night devoting all the intervening time, ex
cept what he spends at the table and in exer
cise, to the business of the interior depart
ment.
Attorney General A G Smith, of Indiana,
receives fees, it is said.to the amountof SIO,OOO
a year. It is one of the most lucrative state
offices in Indiana. It is so remunerative that
Attorney General Smiths income in the fu
ture is to receive the attention of the legisla
ture as it is believed that a reform is abso
lutely necessary.
Mrs Paran Stevens is one of the most in
dustrious women in New York, although she
is a leading member of the 400. Her whole
life is devoted to keeping up her end of soci
ety in New York and Newport. Letters to
write, visits to pay. fashions to receive her
attention, are only a small portion of her
daily life, for beside these she has large finan
cial interests to care for.
Mrs. Nancy Williams died in Scottsville,
Va., the other day. aged *9. Mrs. Williams,
who was the widow of the late Charles Will
iams, was the inventor of the modern
railroad system. At the age of 20 he invented
a plan by which a railway could be built with
smooth iron raiis instead of the use of cogs,
which was the only system in use up to that
date. Mr. Williams never received a dollar
for his invention.
Paul Bennevue is a physical wreck in a New
Hampshire poorhouse. He has been a
diplomat, editor, publisher, j, niticicn. orator
and banker. He began ins public life in
France as secretary to Alexandre Dumas, the
eller. and in that capacity edited the copy to
many of the famous novelist's books. Fortune
was averse to him finally, arid now. past 70
years of age, he calmly waits his end, a
pauper in a strange land.
Professor Bla kie. the celebrated Scotch
man. is a trifle egotistical Not iong ago he
paid a visit to Mr. David Douglass: the pub
lisher, who has issued a neiv book for him.
and mentioned the fact that he lectured the
night uefol-e on scotch home rule. Mr.
Douglnss replied, "Bla, kie I am surprised at
your fondness for making a show of your
self. ' The professor went out. and angrily
slammed the door after hm. In three min
utes he returned, stuck his head in at the
door, and said: "Do you know. Ilougiass,
that is just what my wife tells me."
Chicago has three negro writers of verse
who are said to be "poets of positive power,"
says the New York World. They are Alberry
A. Whitman. William H A. Moore and Paul
Dunbar, and it is well to give their names
here so that the east may i ecome nominally
familiar at least with these contributors to
the literature that is to make Chicago, if yve
are to believe Eugene Field and Hamlin Gar
laud, the new hub of American culture.
Moore and Dunbar have comp >sed some very
creditable lyric verse, but Whitman's Peg
asus has taken a higher flight in the "Rape
of Florida.” an ambitious poem that is said
to be reminiscent of Longfellow and charac
terized by "much beauty of thought and die
tion.”
BRIGHT BITS.
Stranger—What a cheerless, dreary, de
pressing-looking building that is'
Native—Oh. that s only a school. Do you
like fine architecture
Ido.
Wait till you see our new jail.—Good News.
A Difficult Question.—Fond Parent—Yes.
Bobby, the angel of death passed over the
houses and smote the first born of each
Egyptian family.
Bonbr (after a moment's silence!—Pop,
what did the angel do when it was twins?—
Harlem Life.
“Good night,” he whispered passionately at
the front door, "Good night, good night,
gioi—”
"Excuse me,” said an elderly bass voice
over the baluster, "but it's been good morning
for the last two hours. I thought vou’d like
to know.”—^Times-Democrat.
Visitor -Is this a portrait of Mabel?
Mother—Yes.
Visitor—And you say a very famous artist
painted it!
Mother—Well, I should sav so. We had to
send for him to find out if it was really her
picture.—Chicago Inter-Quean.
"Be one of my bridesmaids, dear?”
“Wouldn't Tom object?”
"Tom: Why, no. He is yhoosinu his own
groomsmen."
"But you see. dear. Tom used to love me.”
•’The very reason. I fancy he is arranging a
little surprise for mu. —Life s Calendar.
Rural Youth—You should stay and go to a
husking l ee.
City oiaid—What is that?
"Wc have a big party of young folks, and
after h iskiny the corn wo have a dance. "
"Ah..l see. I presume lUat is where we get
our term the niaizy waltz."-Nev York
Weekly.
A Hint to the Unmarried: Birdie Mc-
Ginnis—l hear that the young gentleman to
whom you are engaged, is ten years younger
than you.
Miss Elderly—Yes, he is ten years younger
than I am. I suppose you think i should have
refused him. hut tint's all you know about it.
'1 he right time to marry is neforc they areoid
enough to know any better.”—Texas isiftings.
Tom—l had teen paying Alice a good deal
of attention, and when I heard, on the quiet
that she was engaged, I thought 1 would be
foxy and send her some flowers, with a con
gratulatory message.
Jack -Great scheme! How did it work?
Tom—lt would have worked all right if the
florist hadn t made a mistake and sent her a
big pillow with "We Mourn Our Loss" on it.
—Brooklyn Life.
CURRENT COMMENT.
Not a Moment to Waste.
From the Richmond Dispatch (Dem.b
The democrats in congress must not lose
cne day. but must begin the work of tariff
legislation as soon as possible. The party
in power is, of course, the party that w.ll be
expected to do whatever governmental
power can do to put an end to the condition
of unrest, dissatisfaction, dull times, and
business deptevsion which now obtains
everywhere in the United States, if no: in
every country in the world.
“Thumping- a Fake.”
From the New Orleans States iDetri.).
The thump which Postmaster General B s
sell gave the ocean mail subsidy will be ap
plauded by all democrats. He declares that
he was unable 'o ascertain that any advan
tages have accrued as the result of the sub
sidy from either a mall or commercial point,
and for this reason he has declined to make
any more contracts. This is as it should be.
be o can mail subsidy is about as great a
fake as the reciprocity scheme.
The Tariff and Wages.
From the Philadelphia Record (Dem.l.
No scheme of tariff changes will pass con
gress that would necessitate a reduction of
wages because of foreign competition. The
rates of duty to t e established will more than
cover any difference between the wage cost
of domestic and imported stuffs. Keeping
these facts in mind, the workingmen will tie
able to weigh at their worth the threats of
wage reduction which are so freely bandied
about in case the tariff shall be revised.
The Inconsistent Republican.
From the Baltimore Sun (Dem.l.
But it comes with ill -grace from these re
publicans io object to colored Hawaiians
bearing sway in their own country over a few
alien whites, when they have for many years
been trying, through force bills and otherwise,
to put the less developed Africans in the south
over the native whites of that section. The
republican contention has been that intelli
gence. education, wealth and white race give
no title to a minority to dominate a dull, ig
norant, property less and inferior colored race.
'1 here is no consistency, therefore, in repub
lican opposition to Llliuokalards restoration.
It results simply from part sin unserupu
lousness.
No Scare About the Tariff.
From the New York Herald (Ind.).
The cry of the tariff-pampered industries
that the country would be ruined by the en
aetment of a law on the lines laid down by
Mr. Wilson s committee is ma le ridiculous
by the course of the markets since the bill
was given to the public. There is no ' scare"
anywhere, and in Wall street, which is the
most sensitive test, there has been a decided
Improvement in the values of railroad stocks
anil bonds since the terms of the proposed
new law were made known The people have
known for a year that the tariff was to be re
vised. They elected the present national ad
ministration for the purpose of doing that
very work, and the changes proposed arc
si arcely as sharp or as radical as many people
expected. The clamot of pampered trusts
ami the fall in their shares do not exercise
even a sympathetic lnfiuer.ee upon the more
legitimate industries of the country.
Boys, Jokes and Flowers.
A young man wearing a bunch of orange
and black ribbon walked into an up-town
florist's, according to the Nerv York Sun, and
said:
"X yvant a grumrvadgy.''
"I beg your pardon.” said the manager of
the store, to w hom the youth had addressed
himself.
' You needn t. I yvant a grumwadgy, a
large, yellow grumwadgy."
"Um. Yes. Oh. yes. Sorry, but vre're all
out of those. Fact is. I don't believe we ever
kept any in stock Better try the Natural
History Museum in Central Park.”
Oh. come ofT. You've got 'em in your show
yvindow. Those big yellow ones." insisted the
young man.
The manager yvalked over to the window.
The only big yellow things there yvere the
chrysanthemums. He picked out one and
handed it to the young man. asking if that
w;as what he yvanted.
"< ertainlv." said the youth, and he took it.
paid the price, and yvalked out. 'lhe manager
turned with a yveary air to a Sun reporter
who was standing near and said:
Those college boys will drive me crazy be
fore I'm done with 'em. For the past two
days they ve been flocking in here at a great
rate. Of course, they make trade brisk, but
they take it out in the wear and tear on the
brain of the salesman. Now, a young fellow
came in here yesterday and demanded a big
hunk if doutde blue modesty. It took me too
minutes of ha-d thinking to find out that he
yvanted English violets. He got 'em, but he
paid fO cents more than he, would have if he’d
asked for 'em straight out. The time I spent
thinking was worth that.
"A litt'e later,” he continued, "a salesman
came over to me and told me that there was a
lunatic at the counter yvho insisted on buying
a bunch of pink smell, one dozen strong. I
told the salesman to try him yvith a dozen
Mermet roses, and that proved to be what the
boy yvas after. He was easy compaied to the
chap who drifted in remarked:
" I’d like twenty-four wives, please.'
" ‘Twenty.four wives? I said. 'You're in
the wrong place. This isn't Salt Lake City.’
" That s all right.' he said. T want twenty
four wives, all in yvhite, and young.’ What
and > you suppose he meant l>v that, now?"
l he reporter confessed that it was too hard
for him.
"So it was for me for a while." said the flor
ist. "Finally I had an inspiration, and sent
my customer away rejoicing with two dozen
bride rosebuds. Another chap came in here
with a quotation about ‘They toil not. neither
do they spin I y which he meant lilies of the
valley, although 1 don t suptjose that the
original writer had that particular kind of
flower in mind when he wrote the lir.e.
"But the very worst case of all yvas a curly
headed youngster yvho sprung himself ipm
the establishment yvith a request for a sprig
of grinning hatchet. Nothing else would do
him. He must have grinning hatchet, it
took the combined brains of the establish
ment to get that riddle but we got it. It yvas
smtiax. See? Pretty lad. isn’t it? That
youth paid $1.50 for his smilax and joke com
bined- for the smilax 25 cents, and the rest
for the ioke. But he didn't mind, and went
off api a ently well satisfied with himself.”
A Tale of Two Grasshoppers.
John Mackay, the mining millionaire, has
in his employ at Carson, Nev., an expert
named Maurice Hoeflich, who always offers
to back his opinion by betting. This, says
the Million, annoys Mackay. who does not
like to be disputed, and is further fretted by
the fact that Hoeflich usually proves to be in
the right One day Hoeflich was playing with
an enormous grasshopper. It could jump
over twenty feet, and he said:
"I’ll ped yon SSO, Mr. Mackay, dot you can't
find a hopper to peat him.”
Mackay sent a trusted emissary down to
Carson \ alley to secure a contestant. The
man spent nearly a week catching hoppers,
and reported that the best gait any of them
made was seventeen feet He doubted if a
bigger jumper could be found anywhere.
The next day he arrived with about a dozen
hoppers, and Mackay gave them quarters in
his rooms, as Vanderbilt would statde his
stud. Each had a cigar box to himself, and
every morning they were taken out and put
through their paces. It was impossi! le, how
ever. to get one to jump over eightoen feet.
Mackay was ia despair, but one morning a
hopper sniffed at a bottle of arnmoni i on the
table and immediately jumped thirty foet.
Next day Mackay announced to Hoeflich
that he was ready for the match. The ex
pert came an hour before the time with his
pet hopper. Not finding Mackay in. he
noticed the bottle of ammonia. A light broke
upon him. Grabbing the bottle he rushed to
a drug store, threw away the ammonia, arid
ordered it to be filled with chloroform.
Mackay soon arrived with a half dozen min
ing superintendents, whom he invited to see
him have some fun with Hoeflich. They were
hardly seated when Hoeflich camqjn with the
hopper in a cigar box under his arm.
T vas a leetle late. Mr. Mackay. but I’m
here mid der hopper and der coin.”
He laid down the money, which was covered
promptly. Mackay got behind somebody and
let his hopper sniff at the ammonia bottle,
which held lioefiich’s chloroform.
'i ime being called, the hoppers wore placed
side by sloe on the piazza, and at the word
"Uu," each one was touched ou the back with
a straw. Itoclli. h's entry scored twenty four
feet. Mackay s gave a lazy lurch of pome
four inches, and. folding his legs, fell fast
asleeD.
English 'as Sho i3 Spoke” in Mexico.
An excursionist who has recently returned
from Mexico tells an amusing story of Eng
lish. and how she is spoken in that land of
chile and tortillas, says the Boston Herald.
While visiting the tamous cathedral in the
quaint and historic town of !san Miguel, on
the line of the National Railway, he inten
tionally separated himself from the rest of
the i arty, with a view to making a practical
test of his 1(1 weeks' mastery of Spanish "ala
Meisterschatt." He passed through the fine
marketplace, surrounded by a double row of
orange trees in full bearing, but not until ho
started to return did he have an opportunity
to converse with anyone.
This opportunity was forced upon him: in
fact, it became a necessity, for so interested
had he been in the many strange sights he
had seen, that he hail lost his way. in his
best Castilian he in mired the road of a na
tive, who carefully I avod his head and com
menced a rapid cxp.anation: but our Bull
man traveler avows that the only intelligible
word that the fellow uttered was --Senor."
in despair he entered a grocery- sto e. and,
abandoning Spanish, asked of the portly look
ing proprietor. "Do you speak English:-" To
his delight, the reply was. - Yes. a few."
"it was a mighty few. I can tell you.” con
tinues my friend. the excursionist, but the
English broken as it was. brough joy to my
heart. The Mexican gentleman went on to
explain that he did not talk English very
well, but he had a son. recently returned from
the adjacent town of Morelia, where he had
been studying, who would converse with me
in my own tongue. Young Pedro soon put in
appearance His greeting of How are you.
sort' somewhat staggered m?. at and visions of
City Point involuntarily came up before me.
The mystery of his Irish accent was speedily
cleared away. On the way to the depot I
curiously asked who had been his teacher.
He proudly replied. Senor Don Juan Dona
hue. and a very foine maestro, sor. ho is.'"
In the Witness Box.
The lawyer had been badgering the witness
for some time says the Waverley Magazine,
and finally asked:
■ Was any member of your family ever
hanged?"
• Yes. sir."
“Ah. ha: I thought as much. Now. sir. who
was it?”
"Myself.”
“Yourself? Do you mean to sav that you
have been hanged and are alive to'tell of it'-"
- Yes. sir. "
“Come, now; no trifling. Tell the jury what
yen were hanged for and how you happen to
be alive to day?"
Well. sir. a man was killed and I was sus
pected of having committed the crime. A moh
took me out. put a rope around my neck and
had just hauled me up to the limb of a tree
when same one in the crowd shouted out that
the murdered man had been a lawyer. They
couldn't cut me down quick enough. I was
given a banquet as the greatest public bene
factor in the history of the town."
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Among the delicacies at the dinner given
by the Hon. John F. Wise to Henry Irving
the other night was a real sugar-cured Vir
ginia ham. says the New York Press. The
way to cook a ham of this sort is to begin
yvith the parents of the pig. and tenderly
nourish the infant from its birth up. A diet
of acorns, chestnuts, upples. carrots, ouions
and cold boiled potatoes, with now and then
a judicious flavor of green peppers, can be
recommended as givingjthe flesh of the ten
der porker fineness, fat and flavor. A liairi
taken from the haunch of this youngster and
properly cured in sugar should be boiled in
cider, having first been wrapped in new mown
hay. When served with a brown sauce, lib
erally dashed with champagne, and on the
side dishes of young cabbage and new pota
toes. with a tankard of bitter ale in easy
reach, few more succulent and seductive
dishes can be offered an epicure.
A confidential letter from Henry Clay,
which was recently found among the papers
of the late Chief Justice Robertson, o Ken
tucky. showed how desirous he was of attain
ing to the presidency of the United States,
and how confidently he looked foryvard to it.
The letter was written as early as February,
1K24. and he says: "Since the demonstrations
made in the yvest in my favor all now agree
that I am certainly one of three persons from
yvhom the selection is to be made, and many,
even of those yvho are not friendly to me.
allow that my prosoects are the best of the
three.” ’the other two were John Quincy
Adams and William H. Crawford, and Clay
carried only three states. The germ of his
historic declaration that he yvould rather be
right than be President appears in the same
letter, yvhen he says: "In the meantime, our
policy is to make entangling alliances yvith
none, and to keep clear of all enmities and
bickerings. I adhere to the maxim, from
which I will never depart, to make no ar
rangements. to form no connections, to give
no promises or pledges, but. yvhether 1 am
elected or not, to have no cause laid up for
self reproach.”
It is within living memory, says the New
York Evening Post, that the dentists test
known to Parisians were what was called
"arracheurs de dents." or tooth drawers, who
had chairs on the Champs Elysees, in which
they extracted teeth in the presence of large
crowds. It was the popular belief that in
order to supfort their proclamation that the
operation was painless, as soon as the dentist
got his pincers firmly flxtd on the tooth ho
yyhispered in the patient's ear. "Canaille. If
you make the faintest squeak. I'll break your
jaw.” Ihe arrival of the American den
tists, forty years ago, gradually van
ished these worthies from public view,
and gave dentistry the rank of a pio
fession, and made its processes more
humane and scientific. But dentistry is still
in France a great refuge for quacks and im-
I ostors. as there is no proper legal control of
the art and no diploma required lo practice
it. A writer in the Temps, speaking of this,
says that he yvont recently to a dentist in a
small town to get relief from a toothache.
The operator had been highly recommended
to him as very skillful. When he saw him.
however, he recognized him as a ret iied gen
darme yvhom he had long known. "Where did
you learn dentistry?" he inquired. Seizing
the pincers the ex gendarme replied:
"With this, monsieur, there is no need
of study. It is a beautiful instrument.
When it once takes hold the tooth has to
come or the jaw gives away. Sit doyyn and
111 shoyv you.” The sufferer promptly tied.
Undoubtedly the Jewish people—the rem.
nant of Israel—may claim to be the most
wonderful of all the races of the world. If
long and grand descent is the title of nobility
or aristocracy, the progeny of Abraham and
David have no rival, says a yvriter in the Bal
timore sun. No other race has had such pro
tracted manifestations of divine guidance
and miraculous preservation. No other has
survive! similar disasters, and it would seem
that the day is approaching when the sp!en
did piopheeies of the redemption of Israel
and full deliverance shall be fulfilled. To-day
the Jewish people are the richest in the world,
and in many lauds famous in art and science,
as yvell as in coir m tree and trade. In Europe
they largely c< ntroi the press, the telegraph
and the bourse, and. though but 6.000.000 in all
the earth, they are making as great an im
pr< ssiou in our own times as they made rela
tively in their remote history. Though but a
comparatively handful in Italy. Austria.
France and (ie.rmany. and. against'great odds,
they have distinguished themselves not only
in wealth production, but in scholarship of
all kinds as well, in Austria they are the
great manufacturers, railroad owners and the
oracles of the press. What is true of their
amazing progress m Austria is true, in a
greater or less degree, according to opportu
nity or environment, of this marvelous peo
ple the world over, it has been objected .hat
the Hebrew citizen is overmuch devoted to
money making, but this comes wiih bad grace
from persons—the vast majority of man
kind—who love money as much as any
Israelite, but have not the same skill, pa
tience and economy and general gifts of
acquisition. And when the Jewish people do
succeed aid have firm foundations of prop
perity, who'are more liberal in all relations
of life? They do not hoard their money as a
class, but spend it lavishly for pleasure, alms
and business, it is impossible to remember
the glorious history of the Jewish people and
fail to respect them. If we, as Christians
recall their points of departure from us. we
must aiso consider that we owe them an in
calculaule debt, and that they are myste
riously preserved for the highest eventual
and ultimate distinction. At any rate, they
have, by prodigality of talent. in’God s prov
ince. stamped themselves upon the world in
a portentous fashion, and though hut a rem
nant, they wield a force such as no other 6.-
1 01.010 of individuals, huminlv speaking
have ever projected and controlled.
Anew industry has been established in St.
Louis county, near the little town of Alien
ton. thirty-six miles west of the city of si.
Louts, on the Missouri and Pacific and St.
Louis and San Francisco railroads, which, if
successful, will furnish employment to thou
sands of unemployed laborers, qhe enter
prise is for the cultivation, on a large scale
of willows suitable for the manufactureoMvU
low ware. A description of the process through
Which the willow geos in its various stages
of cultivation, harvesting and preparation
for the factory, as given by the St. Louis
Blot e-Democrat. is interesting. The willow
plant is obtained by cutting up live willow
twigs twelve inches long. These are sharp
ened at one end anil planted in rows by
thrusting them into the ground to the depth
of six or ei :ht inches. As soon as the plant
begins to sprout, the work of weeding
and cultivating should begin and be
kept up until the crop is
laid by, the same as in toe cultivation of
corn. The canes ripen in the fall, when the
frost strips them of the leaves and turns the
bark a glossy brown color. When rip- the
willows ure under favorable circumstances
from ten to twelve feet in length, 'they are
then cut and tied in bundles like rye. carted
to the hothouses, where they ate subjected to
a sweating i rocess. wlii.h softens and
Idea Ires the bark, which is then easily pee'ed
off by dragging them through a little ma hine
made for the purpose. Another prove- s is
that of steaming the willows, which is muen
quicker, requiring only a tew hours, while the
former requires a month, but is not so doslta
-1 le. as the willows are discolored to some ex
tent. and thus rendered less valutu le for line
work. the willow paints last ahout
twelve years, after which they are
grubled up and the ground replanted
■i he plant does not attain its ftdt growth until
the second year as the greatest part of it
energy is spent the firs: year in making roots.
It is estimated that under the most unfavor
able circumstances an acre of properly culti
vated willows during the first three yea,,
will produce from s.OfK) to 5.(0) pounds of
peeled willows, ready for market, the price of
which is 10 cents per pound, wholesale Tak
mg the lowest estimate of the produce of o-to
acre. :t 000 pounds, at the lowest market on
6 cents, the marketable value of the product,
of one acre is SIBO. The cost of planting in
cluding plants and labor, is $lO per acre The
highest estimated cost of cutting hauling
steaming and peeling ig about sso p Pr a( . r p'
making a total expense of S9O per acre anri
leaving a profit of ism per acre on the raw
materials the first year.
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Those having lirst-class
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Prices from $5 up. Bargains
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