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tomers—Falk Clothing Company.
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Company.
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Sale; Lost: Personal; Miscellaneous.
The South Carolina legislature, at the
behest of Governor Tillman, will heap in
sult upon Charleston by redistricting the
state so as to put thatwity in the seventh.
Or black, congressional district. Charles
ton is now in the first district, and is
represented by Congressman Brawley,
cine of the ablest men in the House. Till
man hates both Charleston and Brawley,
hence they are to be put into a district in
which there will be about four negro
votes to one white.
The naval cadets at Annapolis, who
play on the academy foot ball eleven, in
sist upon carrying out the tradition of
the game, which requires that all players
shall wear a mattress of natural hair on
their heads. The regulations at Annap
olis practically prohibit the wearing of
long hair, hence the cadets are in a di
lemma —“betwixt love and duty,” as it
were. The matter has recently been
brought officially to the attention of Sec
retary Herbert, and tno cadets have hopes
that he will grant them the indulgence.
It is remarkable how many rich gold
“finds” have been made within two
months. Colorado, Oregon, Nevada and
Texas are worked up almost to fever
heat by reports of newly-discovered rich
deposits of the yellow metal. It is said
that when the silver miners became con
vinced that the purchasing clause of the
Sherman law would be re|x algd many of
them anticipated that event by pulling up
stakes and setting out on gold prospecting
tours. It seems that they have been suc
cessful to a degree, and that the so-called
silver will shortly become gold states.
A Tacoma, Wash., man named “Prof.”
F. G. Plummer, who is engaged in the
Pacific coast volcanic eruption prediction
business, is the author of a scare
which has terribly upset the peo
ple of his city. He predicts that on Dec.
24, when the earth comes near the sun
and the full moon is nearest the earth,
great tides will sweep all the Pacific
states and volcanic eruptions vill finish
whatever work of destruction the waters
leave undone. A terrorized citizen of
Tacoma sent a copy of the prediction to
Prof. Bernard, of the Lick observatory,
and asked his advice. He wrote that the
predictor is a crank and a humbug, and
no attention should be paid to him, and
closed his letter thus; “There are other
crimes besides murder that people can be
lynched for, and this unnecessarily
frightening innocent communities by false
prophecy should be one of them. Have
you no convenient trees up there and
ropes?”
The New Y'ork Tribune, a newspaper
that ought to be above faisuliooti, for po
litical partisan or any other purposes, re
vives in a Cleveland, 0., dispatch, the
old story about President Cleveland, Sec
retary Lament, ex-Seeretary YVhitney
apd other prominent democrats being in
interested ina wood pulp mill that would
be benefited by the passage of a tariff re
form bill. The dispatch fails to locate'
the mill, but the concern to which it has
reference is in Michigan. Three or four
months ago the mill shut down for sum
mer repairs. At the time it was -reported
and that Messrs. Cleveland, Lamont,
Y\ hitney. Dickinson and others had been
“hard hit.” Col. Lamont was asked as to
the truth of the report. He replied that
neither henor the President,nor any of the
other gentlemen mentioned, as far as he
knew, owned a dollar of stock in the com
pany. 1 hey had, at one liaie, been stock
holders, but had sold out years ago. and
were neither directly nor indirectly con
nected with the concern. The Tribune
certainly has knowledge of this explicit
denial by Col iuunont: yet it attempts
to discredit the President by publishing a
report that it knows to be untrue. Such
methods are contemptible,
Birmingham's Protest.
The iron and stool manufacturers of
Birmingham. Ala., threaten to do some
damage to the Democratic party in Ala
bama because the Wilson tariff bill pro
Aides for a reduction of duty on steel and
iron. The reason for their opposition to
the iron and stci 1 schedules of the Wilson
bill are not apparent. The present tariff
doesn't seem to be of any particular bene
fit to them. If the prices quoted for pig
iron and steel billets in this country and
Kngland are correct, thi re is no. need for
a protective duty on either of these
articles.
According to the best information, the
lowest grade of pig iron is selling in
Kngland at SB.OI per ton in gold A better
grade of pig iron can be bought at the
Alabama furnaces at *7.25 p r
ton. Even if there were no
duty on pig iron, how would it bo
possible for England to find a market for
her pig iron in this country? She could
not pay t or os: of handling, transporta
tion and insurance and compete with Ala
bama in the pig iron market of this coun
try. It has been said, and the statement
is doubtless true, that pig iron can be
manufactured at loss cost per ton in
Birmingham than anywhere else in the
world. If that is th<> eas • a iarifT on pig
iron does not do the pig iron ir.anufactur
ers of Alabama any good
But the Wilson bill docs not remove
the duty from pig iron,jt only reduces itto
22K percent, per ton ad valorem. In view
of the fact ‘hat pig iron is pi ’.ling at a lower
price in London than in Alabama, or any
othej; place in this country, it is didicult
to see on what ground the pig iron pro
ducers have a right to complaiy.
And the same is true in respect to steel
billets. According to the American
Manufacturer, of Pittsburg, steel billets
were sorting in England on Nov. 17 at
*l7 fiO and in Pittsburg at *l7 50 per ton.
It seems, therefore, that in this country
steel billets are selling for less money
here than they are being sold for in Eng
land.
The Wilson bill, however, gives the
producers of these billets a duty of 25 per
cent. That duty, in view of the cost of
these articles here and in England, is ab
solutely prohibitory.
What more do the steel and iron pro
ducers of Birmingham want? Would they
be benefited by a higher duty’ If so,
how? The Alabama iron and steel pro
ducers do not appear to have made out a
case against the Wilson bill.
The iron and steel producers of Bir
mingham are not scared so badly by the
proposed reduction in the duties on their
products as they would have the public
believe. The Birmingham Age-Herald,
in its Issue of Thursday, says
that the iron and steel producers
of that city will start the fires
in seven of their furnaces next week.
That does not look as if they thought
they have anything to fear from English
competition.
The iron and steel producing business
of Alabama can take care of itself. It
would continue to flourish in good times,
even if there were no duty on their pro
ducts. The iron and strel mills stopped
work last summer. They did so because
of the hard times that were then prevail
ing. They are resuming operation be
cause they have plenty of work in sight
and they can now 1 orrmv all the money
they want at a very low rate of interest.
The Alliance's ’I roubles.
The loss of the books of the alliance
warehouse at Rome, and the alleged
shortage in the accounts of the concern
of 13,500, calls attention to the fact th r
the farmers' alliance in this state is far
from being in as flourishing condition as
it was a couple of years ago. A great
many of the farmers who were onec en
thusiastic members of it have lest con
fidence in it, and have withdrawn from it.
There are, undoubtedly, many earnest
and sincere men still connected with it,
add in the beginning of the institution
very nearly all of its members entertained
the hope that it would be very beneficial
to thtni.
In many instances they wore unfortun
ate in their selections of men for the
responsible positions Men got into
power who wanted to make money out of
the organization, and others were not sat
isfied until they had dragged it into ioH
tirs The result was not difficult to fore
see.
It is doubtful if any allir.m e farmer can
show that holms been benefited in any
respect by his connection with the alliam-e
organization Indeed, many of them have
been losers to a greater or less extent.
Some of those who joined the organiza
tion with the purpose of using it may
have made something out of their oppov
Utilities, but the great majority of the
farmers who paid their dues regu
larly and attended the meetings faithfully
have nothing to show for the tim ■ and
money they have given to it.
It is regretable that the alliance did
not stick close to tho purpose for which
it was originally organized. The Morn
ing News advocated that course con
stantly. and had its atfi. e been taken it
could have been made a source of help to
tlie farmers. However, not'.ing is to he
gained by regretting ill" mistakes of the
past. They may, however, servo as
guides for tho future.
The British fleet at Rio de Janeiro is
pursuing a very queer policy of neutral
ity in tlie trouble between Poixote, and
Mello. When Mello fought his way out
of the harbor the other day and sailed
southward, presumably to get tho Aqui
ilaban and the Ropu'olica in shape to meet
the government's vessels on route from
New Y’ork, lie was followed by tho Brit
ish man-of-war Beagle. The Beagle, it is
understood, will tag on behind Mello long
enough to learn where he was going, and
will then return to Rio. It is not in tlie
least likely that the insurgent leader has
i designs upon British interests, and lack
ing that it is difficult to see what busi
; ness the Fuglishmen have to be follow
ing him up.
The death of Judge Edward r. Billings,
of the United States district court for tho
eastern district of Louisiana, which oc
curred on Friday last at Now Haven,
Conn., created another vacancy on the
federal bench in the soutli tQ be filled by
tlie President. Judge Billings was re
garded as one of the ablest men on the
southern bench, and delivered a number
of notable opinions. He was a native of
: Massachusetts, was graduated from Yale
and came south in ls'ir,, settling at New
| Orleans. In 1572 he was a candidate for
I governor of Louisiana.
THE MORNING NEWS; .MONDAY', DECEMBER 4, 1803.
The Millionaire's Board and Clothes.
Mr. Andrew Carnegie is an entertain
ing talker ti|iem his favorite theme, the
“(lospol of Wealth." as he calls it. Some
time ago he discoursed from a New Y’ork
pulpit in explanation of his conception of
the millionaire's duty to the community.
A few nights ago at a dinner of a relig
ious club at the St Denis Hotel, New
Y’ork, he took the other side of the ques
tion ; that is. the community's duty to the
millionaire. And he asked pity for the
poor millionaire in such an artful way
that, indeed, it would be a hard hearted
person who withheld commiseration.
“For after all,” said Mr. Carnegie, "all
that the millionaire gets out of the com
munity is his board and clothes, and cer
tainly nobody will grudge him those.”
It is, Mr Carnegie acknowledged true
that he may wear finer clothes, eat finer
food and live in a more elegant house
than his neighbors do. But what
does it all amount to in the end?
The rich man can take nothing
away with him: he cannot be rich him
self without benefiting others; he cannot
acquire riches except through the pros
perity of others. In countries where the
people are not prosperous there are ex
tremely few millionaires, or none at all,
except by inheritance. "look at India
and Russia. They have no millionaires
except by birth. In France aud Ger
many there are much the same condi
tions" In England there are million
aires. because the people are progressive,
and in America there are still more of
them, because the American people are
the most prosperous in the world.
The fact that a country contains very
rich men who have made their money
themselves—men like Peter Cooper, the
Fields, the Vanderbilts, the Astons,
Armour. Jay Gould and Mr. Carnegie,
though Mr. Carnegie didn't name this
list indicates its general prosperity.
"Take India, where there are no million
aires excepting the Indian princes, and
there is no country in the east where the
mass of the people are in such poor con
dition. In Russia, where there are no
millionaires exeiepting those that have
been made so by the inheritance of royal
wealth, the condition of the people has
excited the criticism of the world. In
Germany, where there were two million
aires, hut where there is now but one,
and in France, where you can count the
millionaires on your hands, the condition
of the great mass of inhabitants is an un
favorable contrast to that of England.”
And then look at America, with her pros
perous and happy millions and her 1.200
millionaires. Should we grudge the mil
lionaire his board and lodging, even if he
did nothing more than serve as a marker
for us?
But the millionaire does more than to
remind us that we are a great and rich
people. He couldn't holt) doing it if he
wanted to. Mr. Gould was pretty “close”
with his wealth, so people thought, but
even he ‘ left the bulk of his fortune
slceplessly and constantly at work devel
oping the great railroad interests of the
country.” And with other millionaires
it is the same. Except what is needed
for personal expenses, all of their money
is utilized to make the “community”
richer and better. Of course there are
returns that come from that, utilization.
But the community will eventually get
all of those, too, directly through the
owner or indirectly through his heirs.
Mr. Carnegie says it should be given back
to the community direct. And in this he
practices what he preaches; he has given
hack several millions, and has several
more to disburse.
In return for all these things that the
millionaire does for the community he
gets, actually, only his board and clothes.
How philosophical must be the mind to
grasp that idea correctly !
The annual report of the state school
commissioner for the year ISU2, submitted
to the governor under date of Oct. 25,
DID. is an exhaustive exposition of the
work of the public schools for the year
past, and contains "references'’ to what is
being done in the year current. It is to be
regretted that the report was not brought
down to a more recent date. From the
information derived from this report of
18112 the legislature must make its ar
rangements for ISM. losing the benefit of
information concerning whatever may
have transpired in the school' world dur
ing nine months of 1893. The report, it
is true, "makes references" to what ip go
ing on at present, but something more
definite would bo better. The statement
of the school fund for the current year is
made np to July 1.
Why could not subsenquent reports of
school operations be brought up to that
(late? The report for 1802, however, is a
very interesting document. It shows that in
twertty years the school population of the
stuto has doubled itself twice, while the
school fund raised by direct taxation has
increased from *174.107 in 1871 to $1,058,-
532 in IS!The value of normal institu
tions are demonstrated in the report, and
it must be a narrow-minded legislator
who. after reading the statement of the
operations of such institutions during
1892, Can oppose the extending of thoTfen
etits of ;the system to all classes of tea< It
ers and its enlargement whenever po.ssi
11c. Another thing shown by the statis
tics of th ■ report is that the white people
arc paying for the education of the
blacks. But that is a condition that will
probably continue to exist as longas there
are public schools.
East spring a movement to raise money
for a fitting monument to the late James
(!. Blaine was started at Augusta, Me. Mr.
Blaine's native town. It was thought that
>20, 01K) or *:>().O,X) could he speedily raised.
Mr. Blaine was the i 10l of the Maine
people, at.d their grief when he died was
acute. lasts were prepared, an associa
tion with president, secretary and treas
urer was formed, and the work of can
vassing for subscriptions was begun. For
seven months the work was prosecuted.
On Friday last the treasurer of the
Blaine Memorial association reported
that there had been subscribed and col
lected slls. of which SIOO had been sub
scribed by a New York man. Of Maine’s
sls, the tost of collecting was greater
than the amount of the subscriptions.
The affair is characteristic of the down
cast yankee.
I’rcndcrgast, the murderer of Mayor
Harrison, of Chicago, will be put on trial
to-day. It isexpected that it will require
from ten days to two weeks to secure a
jury. In Chicago the main part of a mur
der trial is the finding of twelve honest
men to weigh the evidence.
Bishop Turner, of Georgia, made an
extraordinary preposition to the Afro-
American congress in Cincinnati, with
regard to the suppression of lynching.
He suggested that probably it would be
•veil for the resjiectable colored people of
the country to form themselves into a
secret society for the purpose of punisn
ing those of their race who should be
found guilty of committing the infamous
crime that is almost invariably met with
a lynching, and continuing said: "If you
can detect any one in the act, catch him,
and treat liim as God did Cain of old
put a mark upon him. cut off his right
oar, brand the, letter Ron his cheek or
forehead, so that his infamous deed may
disgrace him through life and contemn
his momor.v when dead.” The bishop's
proposition,, however well intended, will
not do. Soosrt societies cannot be allowed
to take the place of the open court, nor
would the branding and turning loose of
the fiends serve the ends of justice, even
if the idea were not barbaric. Death,
speedily inflicted by the law, should be
the portion of the ravisher.
YV F. Right mire the last section of
whose name is suggestive of mud —has is
sued a call for a conference at St, I/ruis
on March 20. the intention being to organ
ize anew silver party at that time and
place. Righttnire. hv the way. is habit
ually an organizer of new parties. It was
he who issued the call for the Cincinnati
conferencedn 1890. at which the People's
party, later known as the Populist party,
was formed. Governors Waite, of Colo
rado. and Bewailing, of Kansas, and Mrs.
I-g-ase are apposed to the destruction of
the Populist party, which Waite says
Kightmire's movement would, effect. On
the other hand, Peffer, Simpson and
other erstwhile leaders of populism, are
in favor of the new party scheme and will
give it their support. Waite is wrong,
though, when he kicks against the forma
tion of another new party. There is
plenty of room for it. This is a great
country, 3,000 miles across, and could con
tain fifty now parties, each better than
the Populist party and with more excuses
for living.
PERSONAL.
The will of the late Francis Parkman con
tains this clause pertaining to Harvard: I
give all my nrinted hooks relating to history,
voyage a id travel, and also my printed hook’s
;n Gree* and 1 atin. and all mv map* to the
pres dent and fellowsoi Harvard University. ’
According to Edward Eggleston it was the
cookery of the middle ages that led to the dis
covery of America. The rage at that time
for spices for flavoring purposes," said the
doctor in a lecture in Baltimore the other
day. ’sent the Portuguese south to their dis
coveries in Africa and sent Columbus inquest
of lrdla."
The late Sir Andrew ("ark. Mr. Gladstone's
physician, will le missed on occasions when
the G. O. M. makes an important speech. At
such times, as lecemly at Newcastle, sir
Andrew used to sit, wan hin hand, to see that
Mr. Gladstone did not- peak ouger than the
limit prcsCrii eu by the ; hvsician.
The Russian emperor's habit of hunting
by moonlight or at daybreak, which recently
has been commented upon in foreign papers
and gave rise to many conjectures, is said to
have a very simple i arse, which is well
known in Russia. The Czar suffers from
insomnia and invites sleep by exercise in the
chase.
Thomas H. Terry the real estate agent who
collects the rentals for the trustees of tho
Brooklyn bridge, k-c <no books, it is this
fact that has gotten him into a bit of trouble
with the commissioners.. Mr, ’lorry almi’s
that in tho mst, live years he lias, collected
; a half million dollars, but in all that time he
| has kept no written account, of any part of
I it.
Mrs. John Sherman has not hud a picture
made since.sho was quite young. So strong
is Mrs. Fliernian ■< objection to picture mak
ing that she declined to join the each o‘ fain
ilies in having a group taken, it has ten
customary f rih ■ ia.,inct officers and their
wives to have a group taken for a gift to the
President, hut Mrs. Sherman lOild not i e
prevailed upon to consent even then to face
tho lens.
Postmaster < ieneral BlsseTtequito free and
frank in hi.s intercourse with r.e vpaper men.
but if one violates his confidence lie hi a s
from the P. M. G. in vigo. ous terms. The of
fender is summarily cut i ff from Mr. Bi.**cll *
list of friends. The Postmaster General does
not hold the entire corps of correspondents
responsible for the treachery or misconduct
of individuals.
CJJ3SBST OOYllS'ir.
Does Not Help thaState’s Reputation.
From the Baltimore American (Rep.i.
The legislature of Georgia lately passed a
law refusing women the r ght. which they had
previously en toyed, of attending the stat i
normal}school. Such aits as iheso will not
tend either to extend the reputation of ihe
state for enlightened liberality, or keep up the
repifiatioa for chivalry fo: which the state is
famous.
A Poor Man’s Tariff Bill.
From the Mo-fle. Ala.. Register (Dem .
Hon. YV. ) . VVil on’s name will he connected
with a tariff oi 11 in which as a rule the duties
are made lowest upon the cheaper goods of
universal use, and highest upon articles of
luxury. It is a poor man's tariff bill, rather
Ilian one for lii creation of trust and monop
oly. alie democrat who tights it will have
cause to rue the day he dock.
Bloaint and Stevens.
From the St. Louis RepublicJf(Dem.t.
Ex-Minister Stevens' reply to Blount ap
pear-d in yesierrlav's Keaublic. ’the same
issue c >utail ed ad 'tailed ami graphic ac
count of wh; t hmneued at Honolulu, from
the pen of adislnterested American trav
eior. Stevens am. his real estate riugaic
evidently fri u is as well a< tyrannical const r.>
ot the press and political conspirators.
The Tariff and Wages.
. From the Courier Journal i L'cm.i.
It is well known that business is depressed
at thi- time, and it is also well known that
republican legislation is the cause of it. r;x
tensive reductions in wages have been made
in branches of business in no way affected by
the tariff. Bet when one of the darlings of
monopoly is compelled to reduce wages, or
does it voluntary in order to increase li,
profits he rushes into print to say that it s
>a ae.i by " p ospect of a reduction , f th"
tariff. 1; rff r formers have long known that
they would h ive to meet tlds sort of op osi
tion. and they are not dismayed by it. The
ronber uarons are not going to surrender
without a furious outcry.
Taxation According to Value.
From New Orleans Tlmes-Domoeral (Dem.'.
It is plain that the ad valorem or accord
ing to vali e style of duty is much more
equitable than ihe fixed or specific stvleof
duty. Rich people naturally like the specific
style of duty more than they tike the other,
as. under It. they are not required to pay their
psoper share of taxation. It is lo the great
advantage of the poorer classes to have ad
valorem duties on everything, ns then they
are not required to pay their own share of
taxation aud a considerable slice of the rich
men's share as well. The infeiior qualities of
goods which i'oor people buy are not any
longer to be taxed two. three or four times as
highly as the fine qua Kies of goods in the
same line which millionaires buy.
An Exceptional Republican Opinion.
From the Chicago Tribune (Rep.).
YVhile the free listing of these and other
articles reduces the revenues about twenty
two millions, it is better, the revenue ques
tion apart ihat some of them should be duty
free. This is the case with wool, for reasons
which this paper has stated repeatedly, the
removal of the duty on lumber will lie fol
lowed by Increased importations from Cana
da. but the destruction of the American for
ests, which has been progressing so rapidly,
will he checked. The tariff protection of those
forests has contributed to their untimely do
struction. That free iron ore will Injure the
iron ore men of tlie United stales may well
he questioned. What the effect of the removal
ot the duty on coal will be time will show.
The Man For the Emergency.
“I well detain you only a few minutes"
- aid the man in the rusty suit of black who
had succeeded in slipping through the bar
ricade of sentinels that protectel the great
man from the unhaliuw. and intrusion of the
common herd, according to the Chicago Tri
bune. f
Y'ou are the president of the X. Y'. and Z.
railway, are you not?”
lam sir. sharply answered the man at
the desk. What do you want here, sir : Who
are you?"
"lam the inventor, sir of a device for the
prevention of train rob—
’ Hilling*, called out the official, "show
this man •”
•1 beg of you to grant me live minutes of
your lime." interposed the caller, talking
very vapidly and opening a small valise as be
spoke. In the name of the 1 9tt persons
who have been held up by train robbers in
the last five years in this country, according
to figures that can be verified i,y official sta
tistic* • he continue!, producing a design
traced in white on blue paper and spreading
it out before the great man. "f ask for a
hearing that will enable me to explain an in
vention whose inception and perfecting have
occupied my time to the exclusion of every
thing else since May. 1892."
He laid a card on the ta lo containing this
inscription:
LYfURGUS F. JAGGS,
INVENTOR
AND BRAIN WORKER.
ECONOMIC PROBLEMS A SPECIALTY.
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Now then "he proceeded. having an
swered the question as to who I am let me
call your attention to the design sketched on
this til,ie paper. Here were we have the plan
of a common railway coach, stub as is used
on all American roads. Over each door,
compressed into a small space and concealed
bene ith this circular covering, which lies
against Ihe ceiling of the car and can be
made to look like a harmless arrangement
for ventilating purposes, is the wonderful
mechanism that is destined to put an end to
the train robberies that have made travelin ;
a deadly peril, cut down the revenues of tho
railways, and been the means of providing
with steady employment an army of costly
and uscie*s detectives. Now observe Ihe
manner of its operation. Armed to the teeth,
wearing a mask over his repulsive features,
and carrying a revolver 1n each hand, a des
perate vil'ain. suddenly enters the door,
levels his weapons, anil calls out in a loud
harsh voice. Hands up" Taken t;y surprise,
the passengers mechanically raised their
hands. In so doing those who have been
made aware beforehand of the existence of
this invention causualiy much these elect ric
buttons, one of which is placed, as you see,
on the inside wall of the car above every seat.
This instantly releases the mechanism,
directly beneath which ihe train robber is
standing, and with the rapidity of lightning a
spiral spring that has lain coiled u~p against
the i riling, descends upon him like an on
tinguisher. pinning his hands down against his
sides and holding him immovably where he
stands, thus tendering it perfectly safe and
e isy to capture him and disarm hith at leis
ure .Securely fastened within the steel coils
that environ him. the caged villain may rave
and thunde” and call down hideous impreca
tions on the heads of his captors. He is pow
erless to indict harm upon them. He recog
nises that his hour had come. Science has
triumphed over his vlllany. and— ”
"Now. sir." interrupted the railway official,
who hail tried vainly several times to break
in. you will oblige me by getting out of
here"
But the invention, sir? Think ot the——"
'Hillings"
"How can you ever look the w orld in the
fa;e when tt.e great trai i rob
"Billings, snow this men —”
"Y'ou needn't call anybody to show me out."
said the visitor, fold.n; up his cherished
plans, putting them back in the valise, and
turning to go. "1 shall take this advice to the
pie,id lit ot the A., u. anil 0. railway, your
principal rival, sir. and if he hasn't the public
spirit to adopt it In ail his coaches I shall
forma sin licate. build a robner proof rail
way myself, and drive your thundering old
road into a receiver's him Is inside of six
months?"
no closed the valis? with a snap. pullrd np
a dingy shut collar, un 1 made a da-h io ■ th"
outside, slamming the doors behind U in as he
went.
A Wonderful Echo.
At Madame Arabclle s. says La Fumille
the conversation turned upon echoes, and
a lady in the, company declared that she
knew of one that repeated a sound nine or ten
times.
"Pooh? that is nothing." said the marquis,
I have an e ho in m.v pack Ihat can beat
yours into lits."
■lmpossible?" sajd everybody in chon s.
"You can easily put it to the test, if you
like,"
Very good, '.ye will step across to-morrow
to bear io ourselves."
' Yes, tome without fail." and so saving,
the marquis took his departure, meditating a
little scheme of hi* own. On reaching his
inanslo i he sent for his old lackey, fiancho i y
name.
"Von arc up to all sol ts of tricks, old chap.
Do you think you could manage to play the
part of an echo"
' Certainly, my lord: you have only to shout
Ho! Ho! and 1 repeat tho same. '
"Very well; to morrow afternoon you shall
ro and stand in lliat clump of tr e- ieh:nl
t io lake and reprat tbirly times any call that
you may heur. graduilly lowering your voice;
but mind mum * the word!'
Next day his lordship's friends tame troop
ing in'o Hie park. Saucho was at Ills post
pricking tip his ears. "Now ladies and gentle
men, vour doubts will soon te dissipated"
said the marquis: "will jou te the first to
try the experiment madaine?"
'No. thanks, marquis: your voice is louder
aid more effective for ihe purpose than
mine.”
Whereupon the msrqu's inflated flis lungs
and called o it at ihe top o! hts voice:
"Are you there'"
ff o which tlio echo made answer: "Y'es. my
lord Ive been here a cottole of hours!"
(Curtain.)
That Langnafge of Our3.
J. 11. Briscoe, in the Times Democrat.
A yorng man with plenty of dough.
. Went out with liisgirl for a rough.
Hi.t ihe creek wes so hich
The girl said: "i limigh,
1 think we had better noigough."
But the young man replied with a cough:
"That he never was given to skough,
And would sw ear that the l arque
Was safe tor a larque.
And thought they hai better be ough."
1 hen aw ay through the water they plot ghed.
Though the girl sectned considerably
coughed.
And said, that the motion
Was iu*t like the ot,o:i.
Except that the waves weren't so loui hoi.
Th y came to an arch and went through.
Where they had a most I eautiftil vough
< f tlie great water tower,
nd they staid there an hower—.
(It was late or they might have stayed
tough i
But at Inst when they'd rowed quite enough
They tied up the bout by the elough.
And ran up ihe road
T o the lady's a) oad
YVith a haste that made them both pough.
Tho Thief.
The other day. says the San Francisco
Argonant. a man of gentlemanly appearance
cal c ! at a house in a well known suburb of a
provincial town. In answer to his knock the
housemaid came to ihe door.
Is Mr. fi* in?' said the gentleman.
"lie's just gone out. sir."
• t* Mrs. l> at heme?"
"No. sir; she went out with master"
"Dear me. how unfortunate- t wanted par
ticularly to see one of them. Can 1 leave a
note?"
"Oh. ves. sir. Come in please " replies the
giri, ushering ihe visitorinto the dining-room
But. instead of leaving him alone, she rang
for another s rvant. whom she desired to
bring w riting materials.
The gentleman wrote hi.s note, inclosed it
in an envelope, addressed it. and left it on the
table.
This being done, he departed with a profu
fusion of thunks to the maid, who escorted
him to the door.
On returning home. Mr. P found thenote
awaiting him. it ran thus:
"Y our servant is no fool?"
This- compliment was Jfnlly justified by a
paragraph in the next day's paper giving an
account of the plunder of a neighboring
mansion by a similar visitor.
Perhaps the most famous dlstrilutor of
Bibles in the world was Deacon YVilltam
Brown, of New Hampshire. He began the
work In isu.i and kept it up until his death
this year at th ■ age of 7<l. During ’ that time
tit' fewer than 120,000 copies of the Scriptures
were glw'ii cut by him. and. despite his age.
n the two years preceding hts death he can
yassed 239 town* and visited over 80,000 fain
ilies.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Harriett Hosmer. the American sculptor,
has as many medals awarded her as are to
be found in the possession of a hereditary
grand duke. She has spent the last twenty
years of her life in Europe.
The method of a correspondent of the Scien
tific American of standing an egg on end is
not by cracking it. but by taking the egg in
one hand and striking it in the other three or
four strong licks, which readily breaks the
thin membrane separating the air from ihe
end of the egg: it also breaks up the yeik of
the egg: the parts of the contents of the egg
being thus free to move among themselves,
the heavier ones settle at the bottom the
lighter ones above and the air at the top
This is done by placing the egg on end a few
seconds and holding it perpet dicularly. The
center of gravity i thus easily brought
w-ithin the base and the egg stands readily on
either end.
An interesting study of the horse power of
the whale has b-en male by the eminent
anatomist. Sir YViHiam Turner of the Univer
sity of Edinburgh. Scotland. In conjunction
with Mr. John Henderson, the equally emi
nent Glasgow shipbuilder, says a London
paper. The size and dimers ons of a great
whale stranded several years ag > on the
shore at Longridd.v. furnished the necessary
data for a computation of the power neces
sary to propel it at the rate of twelve miles
an hour. This whale measured R 0 feet in
length. 20 feet across the flanges of the laT.
and weighed 74 tons. It was car Bated that
H 5 horse-power was necessary to attain the
speed mentioned.
The Hon. Horace J. Poinier. who served
three terms as mayor of Newark, N. J, away
hack in the fifties, is still living and likes to
talk about old times. He remem'ers the
visit of Lafayette and Kossuth, and was
much more favorably impressed as ahov with
the former than in after years with the latter.
"1 heard both Clay and Webster." he said the
othe ’day. "and shall never forget either one.
It seemed to me as if Clay won his audience,
not so much by what he said, as the way in
which he said it. Big and raw-boned though
he was, his power of persona! magnetism was
wonderful. Webster was a poor orator. His
delivery was hesitalinT, but his e'.oquence
swept everything else aside. One forgets
what Clay said and how Webster said it. and
in memory the marvelous manner of the
one. the marvelous thought of the other al
ways live.
The first thing that strikes the visitor lo
the house of Commons, wiites T. P. O'Connor
in Harper's, is that here also it is excep
tional among the legislatures of the world—
the house of commons permits its members
to retain their hats during the sitting. In
deed, it is the rule to wear and the exception
not to wear the hat. Mr Gladstone never
wears his hat—there have been exceptions,
to one of which 1 will allude presently; nor
did Mr. Smith, the late respected leader in the
house of commons on the conservative side,
nor did Disraeli: nor docs Mr. Balfour, no:
Sir Charles Russell. A member, however, can
keep his hat on <nly when he is in his
seat If he rises to he of course takes
off his hat; if he rises to leave his seat and go
out of the House, he his to take off hi.s hat:
so long as he remains standing in any part of
the House, he ha* to keep off his hat There
are some of the older memlers who. even
when they lean over their seats to converse
with a memi er on the bench in front of them,
late off their hats. And it is usual, too. when
a member interjects an observation across the
door to take it off It was also the invariable
custom when a member was referred to that
he should raise his hat, but this rule is falling
into desuetude.
"All life insurance is based unon a table of
averages efthe lengths of lives, which is as
infallible as anything io ild be," said a man
ager of an insurance compiny to a Pittsburg
Dispatch writer. It's no guesswork with
us: we have experience which tells us how
much it requires to carry a policy and pay
the insurance at death without loss to the
company. The maximum age on our table is
90 ypars. That is. we consider that ordina
rily every person would die at ihat age. There
is no getting iom filling fir nothing, as some
1 c >ple suppose. We figure your premium so
that if you should live to be 90 years old the
premiums and the interest would amount to
the face value of jo r policy. In all our ex
pel Icnce we have only had one of our policy
holders reach the age of Of.. He was a Massa
chusetts mail who insured at the age of 5s on
the regular life plan ami kept paving his
premiums until he reached that age. We re
turned him the face of his policy and the
money he had paid, less the interest, with a
congratulatory letter. Ho had reached a
point where we were no o rger entitled to
his money. He might he said to have ion
eluded a9B year endowment policy, for all
policyholders are entitled to their money if
they reach that age. although it is not so
stated in the policy"
A wise move has keen made by the West
End Railroad Company, of Boston, in inti o
ducirg anew arrangement whereby passen
gers can leave stieet ears more quickly and
more conveniently says the Pittsburg Dis
patch. The ease of exit is a factor in the
comrort ot passenger* that street railway
Companies have bei n strangely negligent of.
Rapid transit in most American cities is still
in its early stages, and so long as people
■ o lid travel from one point to another they
h ive put up as best they could with the crush
aud turmoil and vitiated air of crowded cars.
But the public is becoming somewhat restive
under this burden of discomfort, and. what is
still more to the point, the railway companies
are beginning to recognize that if they are
to retain and increase their business’they
must make their lines attractive. Y he lead of
the West End Company will probably soon
I e followed by further developments in the
same direction. Their improvement consists
of a pair of roars placed at the corners o; the
ends of the cars, instead of ihe single door
usually accunying the center of the. ends of
the cars. C n'.y one of the doors w ill he rp-n
at. a tim t- tuat on the car furthest from ihe
adjoining track but it will readily be seen
that by this device escape from a crowded ear
will be much less a matter of an anxious and
annoying struggle than it but too often is at
present. The newly fitted vehicle* are well
i aned • accelerator cars"
In Shropshire. England, there is a custom
of rit gitig the dead home" that is. chiming
all the bolls instead of ringing onl, one while
a funeral son it* way to the church. When
the procession nears tlie churchyard gate the
chiming is stopped and the minute hell is
tolled. The sexten s fees at Much Wenlock
us laid down in 17.81. include -a chime i? re
quired before the funeral. Id. At Bather
leigh. a small town in Devonshire, it was the
prevalent custom to ring a lively pea! on the
church i ells after a funeral as elsewhere af
ter a wedding, i hat funerals should i e used
as a means for the em ourogement of trade
may seem somewhat strange in this hyper
sensitive age: yet Mr Hewlett in hi* article
on Burial Customs in the Westminster Re
view, tells u* that the custom which still
prevails of sewing up a corpse in flannel
originated doubtless in the art of Parliament
is ami 19 Charles 11. which was passed tor
Ihe encouragement of the woolen lrade ami
required all todies to Le burled in woolen
shrouds. Two amending statutes were
passed—TU'S aid 1880 - requiring at the tune
rnlan affidavit to le delivered to Ih* priest
stating that the requirements of the law liad
been carried out; otherwise penalties were
incurred. These acts were repealed bv 51
George HI., although long before that time
the penalties for non-compliance with the lav,
ha 1 ceased to be enforced. During the oper
atiou of the acts for burying in woolen goods
the law was sometimes evade I h, covering
the corpse with hay or flowers, notification of
which is sometimes met with in the parish
registers. 1
In the early settlement of Australia game
was 11 nliful. says a writer in Lippiucotl *
Kangaroos of many sizes and colors roamed
the island-continent, Other native animals,
with fowls and time birds, were found on the
plains. Hut the game seen in the British
paiks and on the Scotch hills was not mei in
Australian wilds. The English colonists do
u° n K° ,hp familiar to the
l s Sh , fha,e , ' u , enterprising settler or
i ered alox of rab its fiom England. Three
pair* were brought by steamer, liberated in
thickets, and admonished lo
multiply and replenish th.- earth. T hev were
modest rabbits, and attracted but little alien
•"*snJnV ome * , ‘.'j ,sons - On a continent of
ail* h°v- ' miles they were munarchs or
\ surveyed: they had plenty of
t “ve r r Se ’ a enjOVe ' l unl ' o 't Jcted
seen tJ 8 ' an ' l wele but seldom
fb rey were tfio bunnies vis
ibletb.it they were regarded as curiosities
and rehes of animal life in the old country.
Ihe colonists wished the rabbits to become
more common and did not molest them
?e h * e J r ° nly en , e,n L es "“ rt! the wild dingoes,
he foxes, and other carnivorous t reatures -it
arge in tne bush The rabbits made a “ah
} n world, and, notwithstanding their
losses by wild dogs and other fiesh-e*nine
quadrupeds, began io i r r -use in the land*
1 heir powersY>f reproduction are, well known
and in a few year* they begun to be observed
n various districts. Their numbers malic
them an object of sport; guns were levelled
mnVt' en Y , s <i < i ogs w, ' re imported and set m
2£ U nS'mr'i? thC "l Th, ' lr came into
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- rancid very quickly
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hearty welcome at our C hi* ll
Palace.
We invite everybody
whether buyers or not, to
come in and see the tinoht
display of Christmas Nov
elties in our line that has
ever come South.
New goods by even
steamer.
House Furnishing Goods
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