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SUNDAY. ECEMBER ?. 1893.
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THIS ISSUE
CONTAINS
TWENTY-FOUR PAGES
INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
r Meetings—Myrtle Lodge,-No. 1963, G. U.
O. of O. F.
Special Notices—l.ePanto Cigars. J. B.
Fernandez; Election for Directors, Cehtral
Railroad and Banking Company of Georgia
Burglar Alarm and District Telegraph Com
pany: Attention, Real Estate Investors, John
T Rowland; The Travelers' Insurance Com
pany of Hartford, Conn ; Eggs, The Mutual
Co-operative Association: Furniture, etc.,
Barbour & Cos.; Christmas Goods, at Gard
ner's; To Housekeepers, John Derst; New
Arrivals, William G. Cooper: Have Your
Holiday Pictures Taken, at Hoffman's; M A.
Buttimer. Real Estate and Collection Agent:
Christmas Presents, E. M, Connor: Buy Your
Clothes from Falk Clothing Company: ToOur
Friends and Customers. K. V. Nottingham.
Hem we ARE—Lindsay A Morgan.
Knabe and Bach Pianos—Schreiner's
Music House.
During Excursion Week—Crohan A
Dooner.
Christmas Presents—Meyer A Walsh.
Savannah's Wholesale Merchants—
Fawcett Bros.; M. Ferst s Sons A Cos.; W. D
Sink ins; Ilecker Jones Jewell Milling Com
pany; Fretwell A Nichols: Palmer Hardware
Company; A. Ehrlich A Bro.; J. K. Einstein.
Collins, Grayson & Cos.; Kovanaugh A Bren
nan; Morehouse Manufacturing Company;
Henry Solomon A Son: Solomons A Cos.: A B.
Girardeau: Savannah Brewing Company:
Meinhard Bros A Cos.: Kckinan A Vetsburg;
J. E. Gradv A Sons; J. M. Dixon A Cos.
Diamonds Lead—Sternberg Jewelry Com
pany.
Look on Page 13—n H. Levy A Bro.
■ One of the Interesting Features—Gut
man's.
Rkd-Hiit Shot From a Gatling G un—At
C Gray A Sons.
great Monet Raising. Monet Saving
Sale—Foye A Morrison
One More Week:—Leopold Adler.
The Great Sale -At Ecksteins.
Now is the Time to Bcr—Appel
Schaul.
PRICES That Draw—B. H. Levy A Bro.
‘Fifth Week or Red Letter Sale—At
Collate
. Citizens or Savannah—M. Dryfus.
■ good for Floridians—Wakeheid.
Going Out or Business—Star Shoe Store.
- Bargains—Mrs. E. X. Lawler.
• Holiday Goods E. A. Schwarz.
.Amusements— The Vendetta " at the The
ajer, Dec 6. Lectures, by Mrs. Olive E. Wes
ton
Excursion Prices Savannah Carriage
and Wagon Company
D '*.i Go Pud ,;s Bon Marche.
Medical—Johnson's Chill and FeverTonlc.
Tear andCoffees—Great Atlantic and Pa
cific Tea Company.
Sugar-Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea
Company.
1t Pats to But Our Shoes—Byck Bros.
Piano and ORr.ANS-Luddon A Hates
S. M. H.
Unless You Have Examined— Falk Cloth
ing Company.
Excursion Cut PRioEs-Jamos Douglass
Cheap Column advertisements— Help
Wanted; Empio .-men*. Wan.e 1: For Kent; For
Sxis: Lost; Porsoml: Miscellaneous
New York is en loving a miniature
world's fair, made up of some of the prize
•winning exhibits at the Chicago fair and
a section of the Midway Plaisawe, in
cluding Cairo street and the "dans du
ventre," performed by the original artists.
The dance is probably the best drawing
card of tlie show, which is domiciled in
Gotham under the uame of the World/s
Fair Price Winners' Exposition.
The state insurance commissioner of
Pennsylvania officially pronounces the
Order of Solon to be a fraud of the first
water. The order is a mutual benefit
concern promising extraordinary sick and
disability benefits, and a fund of SI,OOO at
the end of seven years, all for $2.50 a
month, or $2lO .for the whole endowment
period, i'he order has been in operation
four and a half years, during whibh it has
victimized 10.001 persons in sums aggre
gating SOOO,OOO. The contracts of the or
der show future liabilities to.the amount
of $5,500,000, for the payment of which
there are assets amounting to $144,549.
1 he commissioner classes tlieorderamong
games of chance.
Secretary Morton has no patience with
the demagogues who run agricultural so
cieties merely for the votes that may be
got out of them. The other day the
National < 1 range passed some resolutions
reflecting on the secretary. Mr. Morton
was shown a copy of the resolutions dnd
asked if he had anything to say upon the
subject He had not, he said. He had no
time to devote to alleged farmers who plow
onh wi.h their tongues, and engage, in
no tillage except to raise a crop of votes
from which to garner an office. He is
the friend of ail agricultural organiza
tions which bring their members together
for mutual good but the foe of ■ 'journey
men fanners who promote orders merely
iorlhe purpose of "farming the farmers. ’’
Give Female Teachers a Chance.
The Chicago Herald, commenting on
the action of the lower branch of the
legislature of this state in denying female
teachers the right to enter the normal
school, asks how many of the member
of the legislature can read and writ.-
Such a criticism as that is unjust to the
Georgia legislature, because that body
compares favorably in' point of intelli
gence with the legislature of any other
state, but it shows how the action of the
legislature shutting out female teachers
from the normal school is regarded out
side of the state, and it has the effect of
creating the impression that George is
much less progressive than other states
in matters pertaining to education
We are unable to see any reason for
denying the privileges of the normal
school to female teachers. Indeed, there
are just as many reasons why they should
have the benefits of the'school as there
are that male teachers should have
them, and these are the very best and
strongest reasons why there should be
the very best kind of a normal school for
both male and female teachers.
There are about as many female teach
ers in the state as there arc male.
Under the genera! law there are'2.SS.s
male and 2,359 female teachers, but in thp
towns, under the local laws, there are
more female than male teachers. And
these female teachers are doing just as
important work as the males, and their
opportunities for fitting themselves for
their work should be as good.
We feel sure that if the attention of the
legislature had been particularly called to
the fact that the bill establishing a state
normal school provided that only males
should have the benefits of the school, the
bill would have been so amended as to
put female teachers on a footing with
male teachers. The bill was put through
the House with a rush, as it provided no
appropriation and was regarded as in
volving only the acceptance by the state
of property valued at $25,000.
After the bill had passed both houses
the attention of the friends of it was
called to the injustice that had been done
female teachers. They spoke of it as
being an oversight, or clerical error,
which the next legislature would correct.
An amendment making the correction
came up for action in the House a few
days ago, and, strango as it may
was defeated. Its friends, however, suc
ceeded in getting a reconsideration of it.
Why was it defeated? That is a question
that is exciting inquiry and comment. It
cannot be possible that in the Georgia
legislature there is a prejudice agai nst
female teachers. We feel confident that
the people have no such prejudice.
A suggestion has been thrown out that
there is a purpose on the part of certain
interests to defeat the establishment of
the normal school, and that in the orig
inal act the limitation to male teachers
was adroitly introduced to accomplish
that object. Can this suggestion be well
founded? The friends of education iu
this state ought to make diligent in
quiries as to whether it is or not. If
there are interests hostile to the
normal school, they should not
be allowed to prevail. The benefits
which flow from a normal school are too
great to permit the people to be deprived
of them for auy selfish purpose, or, in
fact, for any reason.
All the other states have normal schools
for both male and female teachers. They
are so helpful to teachers and contribute
so much to the cause of education that
no one of those states would consent to
g-ive them up on any consideration. 'They
are given a liberal support, and the senti
ment is that the money spent upon them
is well and wisely spent.
Georgia is behind the other states in
respect to normal schools. She can not
atiord to remain in that position. She
must keep abreast of the times if she
wishes to retain her position as Empire
state of the south. She cannot afford to
adopt a narrow-guape policy in the mat
ter of education. She must be liberal
and progressive, because that is the only
way to prosperity, immigrants and
capital go where education is encour
aged.
The legislature should not only open
the doors of the normal school to female
teachers, but it should make a liberal ap
propriation for the improvement of the
normal school property and for the main
tenance of the school. The governor fa
vors such a policy, and so does School
Commissioner Bradwell, who, in his last
annual report, says "the common school
system of Georgia will never be complete
until ample facilities are afforded by the
state for supplying c.t eient teachers for the
schools. Normal schools are necessary ’o
furnish the teachers of the future." In
deed, all the progressive men of the state
are friends of the normal schools. The
legislature cannot afford to strike down
the normal school. Its duty is to build
it up.
That Income Tax.
There is a disagreement among the
democratic leaders as to whether or not
there should be an iiuon.e tax. At first
it was said there would to a tax on al.i, in
comes of 14.100 and over. Nowit is said
that only the net incomes of corpora ions
will be taxed. It is thought there wili be
less objection to a tax on corporation fit-
comes.
Asa matter of fact, will not a tax on the
incomes of corporations he a tax upon
poor people as well as rich? The great
majority of poor people have their savings
in corporations. Their..little properties
are in bonds and stocks. A tax on the in
comes of corporations, therefore, would
be a tax upon the incomes of some poor
and some rich people. Many poor and
many rich people would escape the tax
altogether. If there is to be an income
tax, it would be more just to tax individ
ual incomes, because only those able to
pay the tax would be reached.
Those who want to tax raw sugar are
wiser than those who propose an income
tax. A duty on sugar would raise .the
price of sugar very little. 'The i>oor. who
use hut little sugar, would pay only a
small part of the tax. The rich, who use
a great deal, would pay the most of it.
Ami then the sugar planters would
have no grievance. A sugar bouuty is
not in harmony with the general policy of
the Democratic party.
Sugar has always been regarded as a
revenue article. A duty upon it would
not violate the tariff policy of the Demo
cratic party.
It is to be hoped that the authorities
will rush Harry Hill down to Atlanta,
open his case, burn a rag. conclude the
hearing and dispose of the business one
way or the other. The people really
I ought to be relieved.
THE MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY, DECEMBER-3, 1893.
Secretary Smith’s Report.
Two of the subjects with which the re
port of the Secretary of the Interior deals
willreceivca gooddeal ofattention. Oneof
them relates to and the other to
the census. Some of the republican
newspapers have been industriously cir
culating the report that the secretary
has not adhered to the jiension policy he
first adopted, and that in consequence
there has been a coolness between him
and the President. One of the reports
was to the effect that the President had
lectured the secretary severely for pur
suing a vacillating course.
The secretary asserts that there has
been no change in his policy—that he is
doing now just what he undertook to do
when he entered upon the duties of his
office. He was satisfied that pension
frauds had been committed, and were be
ing committed, and that persons were
drawing pensions who were not
entitled to do.so. He adopted the policy
of suspending pensioners suspected of
fraud, requiring them to show that the
law gave them the pensions they were re
ceiving. The result has been that he has
discovered a great many frauds and l)as
saved the government a largo sum of
money. No honest pensioner has been
deprived of his pension. Those of the
suspended pensioners who have shown
they are entitled to pensions have been
restored to the rolls.
The course that Secretary Smith is pur
suing is a fair one. There is no good rea
son for complaining of it. If congress
makes an inquiry Into it the secretary
will be sustained. The republicans and
pension attorneys are responsible
for the opposition to it which
has cropped out. Very naturally
they object to having anything that was
done under the Harrison administration
inquired into. The frauds thathave been
discovered furnisfi the reason why they
object.
The bitter attacks of the New York
Press upon Mr. Cleveland ana his admin
istration are explained by what thesecre
tary says respecting the census. Mr.
Porter, the editor of the - Press, was the
superintendent of the census. The secre
tary found out that if Mr. Porter re
,mained at.the.heud of the census office
the census would never be completed, in
all probability. The inference from the
secretary's repprt is that Mr. Porter was
invited to give up his fat office. He was
succeeded by a man who will complete
the census by next July. Mr. Porter is
making his hatred of the administration
apparent itt the columns of his paper,
but the reason for his hatred he keeps
carefully in the background.
A Message to the People of Florida.
The Morning News of to-day is the
greatest Sunday newspaper ever issued in
Savannah. In the matter of artistic ap
pearance and general excellence,it equals
if it does not out-class any other Sunday
edition in the south. Besides covering
the world asa newsfield.it presents lit
erary features of exceptional merit, and
lays before the world such proof of Sa
vannah’s progressive spirit as must carry
the conviction that this is one of the most
energetic;* and prosperous cities in the
country Twenty-four pages were made
necessary to-day by the demands of the
local business men, who have something
to communicate to our visitors from Flor
ida, who will arrive here on Tuesday
evening. Their messages iu the adver
tising columns off lic Morning News will
go to the prospective visitors in their
homes before they start on their trip, and
on the trains en route, and will be read
and digested before the city is reached
Thus a comprehensive knowledge of what
Savannah offers will be acquired, and the
visitors Will have made up their minds
what they wish to see and ascertained
where to find it before they leave the
trains, and their time in town may bo
§pent in the manner most pleasant and
profitable to all concerned. There will be
no groping in the dark, or depending
upon thechance sight of a painted banner
to direct a would-be purchaser. Tho
Morning News will serve the purpose of
a general business directory and intelli
gence bureau. And sorry will be tho
local business man who has no place in
tho register.
Senator Wright and Local Bills.
In his interview in the Morning News
the other day Senator Wright had u good
deal to say at out local bills from Eftlng
ham county—f}i,e county in which
lie resides. Hut, when he was
asked about ' the registration bill
for Chatham county he said, virtually,
that he would be controlled in his action
in respect to that measure by tho wishes
ef the Chatham delegation, irovidtd it
i ontained no illegal provisions. Is not the
senator a little inconsistent in this mat
te;'.' He is just us much the senator for this
county as he is for Efflingham. Would
the senator jicrfiit a bad bill for Eftiing
lmm county to become a law if ho could
prevent it, e\cn if the representative from
that county favored it? if not, why then
should he not ob.eet to the passage of a
bill that would be injurious to the inter
ests of this county?
What the people of this county want
Senator Wright to do is this: They want
him to examine the county registration
bill for this county, and hear the argu
ments for and against it. They want
him to oppose it in the Senate if he is sat
istied from tho arguments against it that
it is a bad bill. This is all they ask, and,
as he is the senator from'this district,
they expect he will comply with their rc
ipiest. A senator who is wholly guided
in local matters by the representatives of
the counties of the district is of but little
benefit to them. They t xpect him to act
upon his own judgment in local as well as
other matters, and do what he believes to
be right.
Tho foot ball death rate for the week
Just ended was very light; that is, as
shown by the reports to date. The case
of young Quinn, at Boston, reported in
the MoumXo News dispatches yesterday,
is the second death so far heard from.
The other case was that of John White,
at Farmington, Colin., who died on
Wednesday from injuries received in a
game between the Yale seniors and the
Farmington Athletic club. After a
scrimmage and turrible during the game
White was takenyjut a wreck. Examina
tion sflowed his - head horribly twisted
awry, and lie was paralyzed below the
fifth vertebra. He was unconscious, and
remained so till his death. White was
~f> years old. weighed 155 pounds and was
ail athlete. But he was uuable to take
care of himself in the popular "safe'’
game,
A ,
PERSONAL.
Mrs, Matilda Simpson died In Harrods
burjt, Kj., last week. She was known all over
that sectioa as The sad lady," for the reason
that for tbirtfffyears she had never been
known to snol* Her hussand mysteriously
and sspi eared a short time after their mar
riage and was never heard of afterwards.
This occurrence transform” 1 her fn m a merry
young girl to a heart-broken woman.
Sister Vlora. whose real name is concealed,
created consternation in a convent at
Thristlanstadt. Hungarv recently She went
out on an errand and did not return. As the
s hool ihilar n w ere goin.- home in the even
lig a gentleman handed one of them a letter
from the missing woman addressed to the
mother superior. In the letter she stated that
she w as in Icve and had gone to be married.
John Jacob Astor. it is sad is exceedinzly
close fisted, ep much ro that the hoys in toe
barber horrs which he patronize,-* are very
slow to assist h.m in removing his outer gar
meats the teason being that Mr. Astor has
never been known to tip either a barber or
a boot! lack. Mr. Astor is tall thin and air.it.
ble He reads Itali m German and F.ngli-h
papers with great facility. He is nearly al
ways seen alone.
The Countess Tolstoi is intellectually the
superior of her husband. She is the financial
manager of the family and conducts all the
affairs connected with the estate. In fact,
she is tho money maker of the Tolstoi family.
It was she who a few years ago issued a cheap
edition of her husband s novels. The wisdom
of this movement is shown in the fact that
the hoasehold has teen li\mg off the royalty
on these ever since.
Rabbi Leon Harrison, one of the leading
Hebrews of Ft. Louis, has created a commo
tion in that city among hi.- co-religiomsts by
asserting that Judaism can learn much from
Christianity. He stated in an address that
he recognized Christianity as the child of
Judaism, as America te the child of England,
and tnat Judaism should unite progress with
tradition, and not scorn to take many a les
son from its oftsprijig.
The Marquis,of Crbisic and his wife were
familiar and fashiojia >le figures on th j
streeisof New York only a few years ago.
For ye irs Ihsy erijoupie.l the most prominent
table in Delmonno s three tunes a day. drova
through Central Park in a showy mail cart
every afternoon and reg daily bought the
frit two chairs next to toe orchestra on the
main aisle of the theaters for the rpining
nights. Nea'riy everything that the marquis
possessed ha ; now been seized by his credit
ors. and be has him-elf disappeared com
pletely from view.
BRIGHT BITS.
Student—l will tel! you frankly that I shall
not be able to pay for the suit till next year.
When will you have It ready)"
Tailor -Xqxt year.—Fllegendc Blatter.
"I was careless this morning at church and
put a dollar In the box when I intended to
give only a dime." "A case of contributory
negligence, so to speak.”—Detroit Tribune.
"What is tho lesson taught us in the para
hie of the teven wise virgins.” asked a liar
lem Sunday school teach r of his pupils.
"That wo should always be on the lookout
for a bridegroom." rad the smartest girl in
the class. Texas Siftings.
She (in the baekgro and I wonder who
those peoale at the other tajlo are? I'm sure
it s a 1 bridal-couple.
He—Why ?
She—Well, they look as if they didn't know
each other.—Brooklyn Life.
Bess—George has a position of trust in the
bank: why don't you many him?
Jess—l Won't like the alternative.
Bess—Wliat? *"-*
Jess—Being poor in N’ew York or rich in
Canada.—Katfe Field's Wasnington.
In a Bad Fix. —His Sister It is true that
Helen Goldust has money, but she is so ex
acting; if you vfeiv to marrv her you would
have to give up smfokifiu anil drinking.
Her Brother—lf I don t marry her. I shall
have to give up eating us well —Vogue
Mamma-Ethel, is it possible that you let
Mr. Ashton know your age?
Ethel—Y('s„
Muminn My poor child, you will never
learn anything', '
E thel- How can you object w hen I'm only
17?
Mamma—Don't Vou see lie can tell when
you are 27.—Judge.
"Well, old fellow. I hear that your grand
mother is dead.”
A eg. she died yesterday," replied the old
fellow, somewhat ;-adly.
"it :s the way of tie 'world. We must all
die sometime, and trie old lady was'well ad
vumed in year'-. She left a last will-and tes
tament, of course?' I have undertood she was
wealthy."
"Oh. yes. she loft a will and testament,”
still more sadly.
"You were always a f ivorite of hers. Your
name was mentioned of corns
" Yes, he replied, an 1 the tears began to
stream down his oheelts. "my name was men
tioned. I'm to have the testament.”- Ex
change.
CURRENT COMMENff.
Wipe Out Ail thb War Taxes.
From the Galveston News (Dem i.
The income tax was one of the several per
nicious war taxes that we got rid of shortly
after the war was oven'. Shall we go ba -k to
it In time of peace? Better go forward and
lid the country of the res of its ilk.
Eager for tho New Tariff.
From the St. Louis Republic (Dent.).
The wavs and means committee has pleased
the democratic masses and has reassured the
general business interests. 1 urihtr satisfac
tion in the party and in"business can be most
certainly obtained by putting the Wilson bill
into operation lefore the spring opens.
How Many Can Do It?
From the Chicago Herald (Dem .).
The Georgia legislature lias detested a hill
permitting women to be students or teachers
in the state normal school. A contribution
from the Feacody fund will he forfeited m
tonscipiepie of lh;s stupidl y. The respec*
of all intelligent Americans will he forfeit' and
with it if there re not enough manhood in the
legislature to purge it of such a blot. Bow
many manners of the Georgia legislature can
read and write?
When Shall It Go Into Effect.
From the Phi adelphia Record (Dem.).
Pome merchants are urging upon the com
mittee on wajs arul means the propriety of
naming jul >"•!. ii,-logit ol March 1. us the time
fooputting the hew taiijf in operation, .such
a delay would give more time lor the adjust
ment of business operat ots to new condi
tions, and perhaps prove as satisfactory as
the earlier date. It is more important, how
ever. tnai there shih.ld r,e as little delay ns
possible in pa sing the i ill af ’e • prop r con
sideration. The suspense tnat. precedes
cnange is more oisastrous to business than
would be the adjustments that toliow.
The Government's Crop Reports.
From the New York Times (Dem.i.
The inaccuracy of the government's re
ports, not only tor this year, nut also for the
two years immediately preceding, has exer
cised a disturbing and unfortuna'.e lnfluen.e
upon th” wheat trade, and at the iresnt time
a prevailing conviction that tha reports have
largely underestlmati and the site of the lust
crop tends to Ueepprices at a very low level.
The methods by which Information for use in
the government's teports is obtained and pre
pared (or publication'should be improved,
these reports for the last three years; so far
a< wheat Is concerned have been shamefully
inaccurate and misleading Those who were
responsible for them are now out of office, and
those who 1 ave taken their places ha ve an ex
cellent opportunity to make the reports what
they should he.
Unprofitable Alliances.
From the Springfield (Mass.) Republican
hind.).
Fusion of republicans with populists in the
south has proved so unsatisfactory us to have
tiecome decidedly unpopular with both par
tics. It was tried in Virginia in thecampah n
lust closed anl gave no advantage to the
populists, whose ticket was the only one in
opposition to the democrats, and the re
publican* in North Carolina, with this ex
perienco in mind, wall refese to support a
union ticket la that state next year. The
populists In Alauama. where the campaign
begins in January, are talking in the same
way and pioless the purpose to ignore the
republicans entirely In the make-up of their
ticket The North ( aroilua republicans de
Clare that they have Ipsl ground ly former
fusions, ami (Bat they can hold their own and
gain votes by nominating and supporting a
straight ticket j here is prooablv no south
ern state excepting South Carolina where
the populists are stronger than in North
Carolina aed none where their ,olli y of in
dependence would te of so rnuih assistant e
to tho republicans, as it is comeded that
tbey wfli draw principally from the demo
crats. . •
He Was Hair-Lipped.
j Senator Jones, of Net ala. Is a delightful
raconteur. His stories have pith, point and
meaning Cold type says the Washington
Host, can never show the unctuo . humor
of their telling. Tae following is the latest
yarn credited to him. He used it to i 1 rstrate
the difficulty whi.h certain leading statesmen
experience in explaining their conversions
from lifeiong devotion to the damnable free
trade here- to the. solid groan Is of goid
motmmetallistn: In a good old New England
Village lived a town vaga. ond. whose days
ha 1 cea devoted to- horse trading and the
tozening Incident to that calling, and
whose nights were hideous with drink
ing and carousing and leading a life
of sin He had a hair lip and was corn with
out a palate, and like ail such physical per
verts, wa- extremely sensitive of his deform
ity. One winter there was a great revival,
and in its course Tilinan Tremble was brought
to the mourner s bench. His . roans and
physical symptoms of an awakening ion
sjjenee were terri le to witness Finally a
calmer mood nrevailed and it was announced
that Brother Tremble fvouM'spcak at the Wed
ne.-day night prayer meeting of bis exp*-
ience and conversion. The time .came and
the meeting was ir iwded. The plucking of
this particular brand from the burning was a
great justification .of good works. The
brother arose and said
Rethren hn hihter. You all hnow hroe
I have liolen 'among you all hmy hays. I have
holen. hied hn heated. I have heen brunk
half the hirne. 1 have• broken all thehom
mnnhmeuth, hut utu now lioin' to head a
hehher hife. ' ’
Just then a good sister over in the amen
corner rose and said:
We are a.l so glad that Brother Tremble
has given up the devil and his works and come
over to God's side, and we all want to give
h m a helping hand, but will he please speak
a little louder?”
Brother Tremble got a little red in the face
and started in again:
” Rethren hn hihter. I have hive ahong you
all hy hays. I have l*eeu a hitherable hinner.
huh now I have reholved to hive a hehher
hife.”
II ■ was interrupted by a good old man. one
ol me pillars of the church, a father in ts
real. who rose from beneath tho pulpit with
his hand to his ear and said:
Wo are now witnessing the power of sal
vation. Brother Tremble s conversion will
be the cause of waking many sinners from
their sins and bringing them into the fold,
but will he speak a little louder and a little
plainer?”
Brother Temple's eyes flashed fire. The
violence of his emotions choked his utter
ance, but he nore them down and began again
as loud as he could shout:
■ Rethren hh hihter. I have been a hear
hul hinner all hy hay, buh 1 have reholved to
head a lirihtian hi e'- Ham your old houls,
ban you utiherhan hat ?”
A Successful Hunter.
"I'm looking well.” said Col. Montford at the
Windsor to a St. Paul Pioneer Press writer.
“Of course I'm looking well. Been hunting
mudhens in North Dakota and that makesaay
one look well. By the way, r ha lan experi
ence once thafwas rather unique in the hunt
ing line. It was years ago when tho old fash
ioi c 1 muzzle-loaders were in vogue,, and I
never knew it to be duplicated.
"I was out duck hunting and came upon a
pond that was tilled with ducks—mallards,
teal, redhead, etc. Iteesmed that there was
a sort of union meeting, ani I had a.umbted
in on it without giving the password. Nat
urally I hail'd up and blazed away. I
couldn.t stop to am; iu fact I didn't need to,
but it rained ducksinere while i was re.oad
ing. There were so many ducks they couldn t
get away baean.s-' they were crowded together
so tight they c ouldn t fly, and I let go both
barrels a second time.
"When i started to load again I found my
ramrod missing. I was furious, but I could da
noiliing without it. so I sat down and waited
for the fall ot ducks to cease. In about fifteen
minutes they stopped dropping and I could
see clearly once more. Across the pond was
my ramrod sticking into a tree. Put in ils
flight from the gmt it. h-id gone through the
n cks of thirty-seven uucks and there they
h mg like a row of game in fio.it of a butcher
suop. I've got the ramrod up in my room
now.”
T he colonel watched the faces of his hearers
closely, but they were impassive as the coun
tenance of a cigar store Indian.
Well." said Ihe colonel, with a trace of
disappointment in his voice, "if you won't
laugh, let's all snale together. '
There Was Nothing tho Matter.
There was an old white horse hitched to a
loaded wagon standing on Monroe avenue,
yesterday, and the owner of the rig was down
on tho ground wiMx-Uiehiiues in one hamPtmd
a whip in the other, says the Detroit Free
Press.
• No word t he balked with that big load
on!” said a pedestrian,Us he came to a sud
den halt.
"lie s tired out and that's what's the mat
ter with him!” added a toy with some laun
dry work under his arm.
"The man ought to be arrested?*' said a
sty i-h looking woman, who had paused to
look eommiseratingly at th” horse. .
in two minutes twenty pconle had' stopned.
In three minutes the crowd numbered half a
hundred.
"Baste him with a whip!”
"Light a tire under him"'
"'lake him out ot the thills and walk him
around a cire.o three times"’
"Don't he know enough to blindfold the old
thing and blow in his ear?"
The crowd said a great many other pleasant
things, but none of them seemed to have any
effect on the driver. He raised the whip two
or l hree times and lowered it again. He also
inspected the lines and the tugs anil looked
hard at the telly-hand. By and by, when the
crowd number! and at.out eighty and a police
man was syen loaning dawn the avenue he
cl mbed up on the seat, uttered a gentle "git
up:" and the old horse walked off with the
wagon as easy as grease running down hill.
The man had played the crowd, and there
were no brick bats to heave at him.
The Jury Went Democratic.
“Washington not only has among Us won
ders and t eautics the iharming city of Ta
coma,” said Col. Will Visscher to a Chicago
Mail wpiter. but it has some remarkable
characters, sir. There is. tor instance. Col.
Patrick Henry Wiiust n. lme federal attorney
in that state, who is a descendant of the olii
'. lve-me IF er:y or-give me-death' Henry, so
dear to th? memory of the schuoltoy de
claimer.
• When Winston began practicing law. after
graduating at a North Carolina college and
somebody's law office, he settled in Lynch
burg Ya. Bis lirst case was the defense of a
negro who was charged with grand larceny.
Winston said of that case: 1 conducted it.
sir. with such consummate ability, and made
such an eloquent gpeech in ; chaff of my client
that 1 felt cut fln of his acquittal, '.''lie. , as*
was given to me jury about noon and I went
home to dinner. On the way dou r. to the
court house after ,the noon meal 1 met a
mulatto whom 1 had seen loating about the
court room, and tasked him if that jury had
come in. • -■
" Yus, salt," h’sajd "tie jury's done come
in. sah.”
■ l)o you know what it did?”
'" the man looked serious and somewhat
alarmed as he said T ril yon. Mars Winston
dat jury's done gone ditnmarera’i
• 'My heart sank, it was shortly after the
close of the war. and I knew what it meant
for a jury to "go dlmmereratic ' in a negro
case down there in Virginia. My ease was
lest.'.”
It is no wonder that the Japanese love the
emperor and empress. When the imperial
palaee was burned the empress, amid the ex
citement ami discomfort she was called upon
to endure iu a hasty u.ght. thinking first of
her subjects mtural lonrern for her sat
down anil wrote • them a dainty little rhyme’
which proclaimed at, erroneous thp report
t hat she had chan, ed her residence it covlv
asserted that ner home, had always peon in
in the hearts of her people, and that she sin
merely hoped that neither by fiurue bv
cold could she be driven from that dear abode.
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Tolstoi s next novel—to be ready about the
opening of tho new year—will have for its
title "The Kingdom of God Within Us.”
Capt. Horace Bixby. who taught Mark ;
Twain what he knows of steamboatinp. is at
present pilot < n the steamer T. G. Sparks,
running sou:h from Memphis Capt. Bixby Is
in first-class health, and good for many years
of active work.
Thomas A. Edison, the inventor, says:
"Gold Is only valuable because it is rare. It
is not nearly so useful as iron which is the
real precious metal. Aluminium is too
soft, it is light, but it lajks strength. The
metal of future ub nlusel-steel,
which combines strength with pliability.
Gold is not worth as much as lead ir com
merce. and brass is more than worth its
weight in gold.”
According to expert calculations th£ • o
liseum of Home seated sr.ooci spectators.whUe
more could have found stand ins rto ti
The ext jraal ctrauxnference of toe Coliseum
as it stands to dav is 1.7.N feet, its Ion? diam
eter 615 feet, its short diameter 510 feer. The
arena is 2T9 by feet and the hirht of the
building 56 feet There is s ‘ill stand Inc four
stories of the original struct ue. .Jt.was in
nil probability the largest building of audtto .
rium arrangement ever known.
According t > a decree just rendered by the
British courts of law, payment cannot le
gaily be enforced for any order given to a
tradesman <>n Sunday. In the case before
the court”, the order was for f a frock coat
and waistcoat, and tho claimant a tailor,
who, while officiating as church warden,
had received an order froih one of
the parishioners for the garments on
leaving church. It is the Sunday trading act
of King George 11. which bars tho creditor's
way.
In China there is a profession for ladies,
strango because openly and handsomely re
munerated in th* current coin of tho realm,
says London Tid-Bits It is carried on by
elderly ladies, who go from house to liouse of
rich people, announcing their coming by beat
ing a drum and offering their services to
amuse the lad; of the house, this offer ac
cepted. they .sit down and toll her the latest
scandal and the newest stories an 1 ondits.
and are rewarded at the rato of hau a crown
an hour, besides a handsome, present should
some portion of the gossip prove particularly
acceptable.
The naval experts of the German navy have
at last solved the question of paintng the
men ef war and torpedo boats, which has
teen a suojeut of long and serious discussion.
The gre it desirderatum was to tin 1 paint that
would most effectively deceive the watchful
ness of the enemy, it has now been decided
that all vessels engaged in naval.combat.are
best protected and rendered least conspicu
ous by a coat of yellowish-brov.n paint, put
not only oa the hull, but on every part of th '
ship that is exposed to view.
The total beat of combustion of one pound
of hydrogen is 6‘J o*2 units, and of cn a pound
of carbon 11500 units. It requires* 1.213 4 i nits
of neat to convert water at a temperature of
zsro to steam of 100 pounds pressure, but as
ste; m is generally generated from water aver
aging aoout sixty decrees the total heat r'
quired to convert it into steam is only 1.153,4
uni is. and one pound of bituminous coal of
average quality, coji'a ns heat enough to ton
vert Id 1 - pounds of water at this temperature
into steam of 1(X) pounds absolute pressure.
I)r. Nicalsky, of St. Petersburg, attributes
the form of bird’s eggs to gravity. He thinks
that every egg not yet cca‘ed with a solid
shell departs from th.' al torn, and
clongat is, simply because of press ire on it by
the walls of th' ovary. In birds which keep
a vertical position when at resi (such as ihe
falcon and owl i. the soft egg Lccotpcs short
through the bird s weight acting against the
ovarii n pressure, in birds which, like tl o
gr<*b ■ are nearly alva s swimming, the egg
lengthens, because the weight of the body
a tsin the same direction as the ovarian
compression.
The small evergreen tree from which cloves
are taken was orriginaliy a native of the
Spice Islands, hut it is now cultivated in
warm climates in all parts or the world. The
clove of commerce is the unopened flower of
the tree. They are quite small, tut grow in
largo clusters along the branches After
gathering, the buds are smoked by a wood
lire and dried in the s in. Both the taste and
smell of the cloves depend on the quantity 6t
oil they contain. Sometimes the oil is sepa
rated from the cloves before they are sold,
and the odor and taste are in consequence
much weak *,ned. If you desire to know some
thing of the form of the bud in the natural
state so&k a few cloves for a short time in
hot water. The petals of the flower will soften
and readily unroll.
A process has been cc vised by a Frenchman
whereby glass may be securely : o.dered to
metal, says the Age of Steel. The portion of
the glass tube or other article that is to be
soldered is lirst covered with a thin layer
of vlatinutn. This deposit is obtained *by
brushing overthe slightly heated glass a verv
natural chloride of platinum, mixed with es
sential oil of chamomile. The latter is slowly
evaporated, and when the white and odorifer
ous vapors (ease to be given off tin* tempera
ture is raised to a red heat: the plant n im is
th n reduced and covers the tube w ith a layer
of bright metal. Placing the metall/ed tube
m a bath of sulphate of copper and connect
ing the tui e to the negative polo of a batterv
or suitable energy there is deposited on the
platinum a ring of copper, which will be inai
leabieand very adhesive if the operation h is
beer, prop wly performed. In this state the
glass tube topped with copper can be treated
like a genuine metallic tube and soldered to
iron, copper, bronze, platinum or any othe**
metal that can be united with the soider.
In an article on ‘ Religious Russia,” pub
lisl e l in Le Correspondent, of Paris, Fran e
Fedor Zakarine writes that in his country the
bJ ? * on ' 3 sacred. Regarding it as the symbol
of the Holy Ghost, a Russian will never use
the bird of Peace for food. ? limc famished
dvgrnik. in the shadow ot the nit be. may be
tempted to get a stew from the i r ,od nestin'®
under his roof, or a foreigner- shop may
perhaps, on a quiet sabbath, t r p-rfumei
Wi hthe smell of roast pigeons. for uhTh
\*ith interested so. cdude. he provides sh *l
- above his cat-in. nut these are vervrare
t.nd risky exceptions, l’ipeons multi Vv
about the churches, choosing their domicTe
above the entablature an t nestling among
the acanthus leaves of the capitals of the
columns. They treat the chi r bos like com
quered edifices, soiling at li ertv the gokl of
the miges. the sconce and the porches ,u=r
of st" 3 Mark ,nS x"orV Cni ‘' r . the flagstones
or .t. Mark Nor have they mo-e respect tor
he v sacomf ,hi great . atherine the horse
'l 1 e “ er ’ he Gie.it. tho helmet of Nicholas or
the shoulders of i-ouvarott. or
Professor Reinohl. lecturing recently at the
\ictoria Hall. London, ou the compass laid
stress on the singular behavior of the mm
805 '
')„■ influence of the ran h s when
held m the magnetic meridian, or when held
vertically: while stool intlu.se positions • ”
mtues slightly magnetie and remains ~-n- a
neatly magnetic if 1- receives a blow n,
hese facts lie the explanation or the elfeet of
iron ships in disturbing the compass and pro
venting it pointing north and south i ver -
piece of Iron used in building the shin le
comes magnetic while the struciure is pr v
i ceding, amt the blows they receive render
most of them more or less permanently mac
netlc. The nature o'the roagneUs, and i
upon the position i t the ship whHst it is >p
ing built. If the ship, in turning from the
north to oast causes the needle to he de
fleeted to the west, it will be deflected to the
easn when the ship tarns from east south I
H hen the vessel moves from south hi east '
the needle, again moves to the West ~n |‘a4 ,
the ship completes its rotation ly moving
from east to north, the needle moves ,
second time to the north. In order to neittrai
I/O this well known erratic tendency of the
com pas. in iron ships small hori/oiiial ntaS
nates have to ! c placed in sue h a way as p.
count wa t the ascertained error. J 1
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A Farewell to the White City,” illustrated
"Lessons of the Fair.” illustrated
”A White Umbrella at tire Fair,” lUus
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Cast Gun L. 33.” poem Illustrated.
' People Who Did Not Go to tho Fair," illus
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Amateur Photography at the Fair," illus
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"A New World Fable.” illustrated.
"A Nation of Disc rverers.” illustrated
"Last Impressions." illustrated.
The Finances of the Exposition," illus
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• Traveling With a Reformer" (Mark
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' Letters of un Altrurlan Traveler," illus
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One Fatherland,” poem.
American Notes—ll. In the Year of tbs
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"Apt'is.”
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