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SUNDAY. DECEMBER 31, 1893.
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INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Spbciai, Notices—Savannah Rifle Asso
ciation's New Year's Rifle Contest; Palace
Shoe Shop, H. Ebranez, Manager; Notice. W.
E. Vinson; Notice of Removal, E. W. Bell.
Secretary Georgia State Building and Loan
Association: Notice, W. J. Winn, City En
gineer; Charity Ball, Jan. 10; Bonds Wanted,
R. M. Demere: That Cough, J. D. Persse; To
the Smoking Public, Watson & Powers;
Notioe, Nelson, Champion &' Cos.; Card of
Thanks, Paul Conida; Fresh Flower Seeds,
J. Gardner; Interest Notice, Oglethorpe
Savings and Trust Company; Suwannee
Springs Water, A. Hanley; Dividend No. 48,
Election for Directors. Interest for Fourth
Quarter, Southern Bank of the State of Geor
gia; New Goods. Wm. G. Cooper; New Year's
Turkeys, Estate S. W. Branch; Interest
Notice, Savannah Real Estate, Building and
Loan Company; Notice to Bondholders Elec
tric Railway Company; Does the Hsgey In
stitute Pay ? Look at Our Prices, Mutual Co
operative Association.
A Happy Nkw Year—James Douglass.
Happy New Year—B. H. Levy & Bro.
Great Bargain Sale—At Eckstein’s.
' Startling News—At Gray's.
Amusements—Archie Boyd in "The Old
Homestead." at the Theater Jan. 2 and 3;
Races at Thunderbolt Driving Park New
Year's Day.
Removal Sale—Byck Bros.
Embroidery Sale—Gutman’s.
The Holidats are Over—Bon Marche.
Leaders in Low Prices- H. H. Cohen.
Furniture and Carpets The Miller
Company.
The Last Day in 1893—Appel & Schaul.
Stock Taking—Crohan & Dooner.
Phenomenal Reduction—Foye & Morri
son
Embroideries—Meyer & Walsh.
Paper Novels, Etc.—'Thomae L. Wylly.
A Good Resolve for the New Year, 1894
-L. & B. S. M. H.
Financial—Statement of the Condition of
the Oglethorpe Savings and Trust Company;
Statement of the Condition of the Chatham
Bank
We Wish You a Happy New Year—Emil
A. Schwarz.
Clearing Out Sale—At Krouskoff’s.
Trimmed Hats, Etc.—Mrs. E. N. Lawler.
Dec. 31,1893—Fa1k Clothing Company.
Cheap Column advertisements—Help
Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Rent; For
Sale; Lost; Personal; Miscellaneous.
The will of a Rochester, N. Y., woman
is to be contested on novel grounds. The
•will devises *3,000 to a child, now three
or four years old, on the condition that
the child before her thirteenth year bo
confirmed as a communicant in the Pro
testant Episcopal church by the hand of
a bishop. The objection to the will is
that this provision is against public pol
icy and is calculated to promote bigotry.
The bountiful vintage in the south of
France for the past season has made
wine a drug on the market. Casks are
more costly than the wine which fills
them. Good wine is offered freely at 8
cents a gallon. Notwithstanding all this,
the wine merchants, of Paris continue to
supply the wine shops with a manufact
ured article containing little or none of
the real juice of the grape. The' bogus
wine is cheaper than the real wine at 8
cents a gallon.
It will be interesting to note how the
people of New York accept the new re
publican state treasurer's innovation, the
appointment of a negro as his private sec
retary. Race prejudice is more violent
at the north, in some respects, than at the
south, hence it is pretty safe to say that
Treasurer Colvin will shortly have to get
rid of his colored secretary. The repub
lican bankers and business men of New
York are not going to hold conferences
with and state their business to a colored
man when they call upon the treasurer
and find him too busy to receive them.
New fork's new Australian ballot law,
under which the November election was
held, permits a bliud voter to be assisted
in preparing his ballot. It is charged by
the New York Times that in that city
and Brooklyn men simulated blindness, in
order to beat the secret ballot and have
assistance in preparing their ballots, to
such an extent and so boldly that the
trick almost lost the quality of false pre
tense. The ward heelers, it is said, voted
as “blind” men whom they had reason
to suspect would not vote according to
orders or who might make an error in the
preparation of their ballots, although
their eyes were as good and strong as
those of an owl.
Ex-Senator S. W. Dorsey, who lives in
Colorado now, is in New York. He has
recently visited Philadelphia, Chicago,
Boston and Baltimore, and says the con
dition of affairs in Denver is better than
in any eastern city he has visited. “There
are very few idle men in Denver, and ev
erybody seems to be prosperous and
r con tented,” he says. Yet Senator Teller
| is running around this country and Mex
j ico to find some plan of retief for the
I starving silver mine owners of Colorado,
I and G ° y - Waite has called an extra Bes
s’ * lon of the legislature to rescue the people
I something, nobody knows exactly
i IIuT - No wonder "either if them meets
1 \ “ luc ‘ l encouragement. The people
ofColorado would be glad if both Teller
; W aite would keep quiet.
Breaking Up the Cabinet.
Once in a while, when news is scarce,
the Washington correspondents of some
of the republican papers turn their at
tention to breaking up Mr. Cleveland's
cabinet, A day or two ago the President,
Secretary Gresham and a few friends went
down to Chesapeake bay on a duck hunt
ing expedition. The following day several
of the republican papers had long dis
patches from Washington, in which it
was stated that it was generally under
stood that the purpose of the President
was not to hunt ducks, but to
break to Secretary Gresham the
news that his presence in the cabinet
was no longer desired, because his man
agement of the Hawaiian trouble had not
been creditable to the administration.
That this remarkable story had no foun
dation whatever must have been apparent
to every well-informed reader of the dis
patches which contained it. Why should
the President invite Secretary Gresham
to go down to Chesapeake bay in order to
tell him that his resignation from the
cabinet would be acceptable? Could he
not tell him to much better advantage at
the white house?
But the President has never hinted that
he was not satisfied with Secretary Gres
ham’s management of the Hawaiian
affair. On the contrary, there is every
reason for thinking that be is not only
satisfied with it but that it is in entire
aocord with his views and wishes. It is
only a few days since he sent a message
to congress in which he stated fully what
his administration had done in respect to
Hawaii, and he made it clear that he be
lieved that the policy that had been pur
sued, since he became President, is the
right one. Those who gave the
message a close and careful read
ing were convinced that the Ha
waiian question had been dealt with
wisely. Many democratic congressmen
who had been inclined to think the Presi
dent had made a mistake were satisfied
that he had not, and expressed a deter
mination to stand by the administration.
Indeed, the message had the effect of
uniting the democrats in congress in sup
port of what the President had done in
respect to Hawaii. They commended and
approved it, and expressed themselves as
being ready to uphold the views it ex
pressed. What nonsense it is, then, to say
the President wants to get rid of Secre
tary Gresham on the alleged ground that
the secretary has brought discredit upon
the administration by what he has done
in connection with the Hawaiian matter.
Those newspaper sensationalists, not
satisfied with announcing that Secretary
Gresham is to go out of the cabinet, de
clare that the President is not on friendly
terms with Secretary Hoke Smith, be
cause of the latter’s pension policy, and
that he purposes dropping Secretary
Smith from the list of cabinet officers.
There is about as much truth in this
statement respecting Secretary Smith as
there is in that relating to Secretary
Gresham. It is not improbable, of
course, that one or both of these secre
taries may leave the cabinet, but if
either does it will not be because of the
reasons alleged. The President has
found no fault with either of them, and
there is nothing to justify the belief
that he would like either or both of them
to resign.
The Prendergast Verdict.
The jury in the Prendergast trial could
not have returned any other verdict than
that of guilty, and the verdict will give
very general satisfaction. The physicians
who examined Prendergast expressed the
opinion that he is sane, and his actions
before and after he assassinated Mayor
Harrison sustained that opinion. It may
be that he was the victim of some sort
of delusion in respect to a promise, which
he said Mayor Harrison made, to appoint*
him to the office of corporation counsel
for Chicago, but if he was, he knew that
it was a crime to murder the mayor.
During the trial he kept insisting that
he was not prompted by malice to kill the
mayor, but committed the crime because
the mayor refused to fulfill his promise.
There are those, of course, who will in
sist that he is crazy, and, therefore,
not responsible for what he did. There
were people who held a similar opinion in
regard to Guiteau, who assassinated
President Garfield. The great majority,
however, were satisfied that Guiteau was
not so incapacitated mentally as not to
know that it was a crime to kill Presi
dent Garfield, and that he fully deserved
the punishment that was inflicted upon
him. Prendergast is much such a crea
ture as Guiteau was. He was
disappointed because he did not
get an office for which he
had solicited Mayor Harrison, and al
though he declared during his trial that
he was not influenced by malice to mur
der the mayor, it is pretty certain that
that was the motive that influenced him
to commit the crime.
□During the trial Prendergast’s friends
said they would not appeal from a ver
dict that did not send him to the onllows.
“They were willing he should be sent to
the penitentiary for life. This would in
dicate that they will appeal the case,
with the hope of saving him from an igno
minious death. The ground of their ap
peal will be, doubtless, that he is insane.
Editor Stead’s address to the society
women of Chicago, an extract from which
was quoted in the Morning News yester
day, has raised about his ears such a
storm as has not agitated Chicago society
in years. The husbands, fathers anil
brothers of the women who heard the re
marks were reportod to be hunting the
editor on the morning following the inci
dent for the purpose of thrashing him.
1 The women’s clubs, it “will be remem
bered, in a union meeting were discussing
| means whereby the destitute women of
the city might be reached by charity
workers, and Mr. Stead told them that
the most disreputable women in town
were those who failed to use their tal
ents, attainments and wealth for the good
of mankind, and framed his sentences in
such a manner that his hearers took the
remarks as personal. Mr. Stead will be
blacklisted by Chicago society, it is un
derstood.
The tramps in the southwest are making
a glorious winter of it. One hundred and
thirty-five of them who were camped at
Eordsburg, Ariz., made a raid on
the country the other day for edibles;
then captured a coal train, removed sev
enteen tons from the cars, piled it in a
| huge circle and fired it, got inside of the
circle and ate their stolen food and slept
1 away a night of happiness.
THE MORNING NEWS; SUNDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1893.
The Condition of the Treasury.
Speaker Crisp, who returned to Wash
ington a day or two ago, is reported as
saying that he is very much against is
suing bonds, and thus increasing the pub
lic debt. There is no doubt that he voices
the sentiment of the Democratic party.
But what is to be done? How is the de
ficit in the treasury to be met? Taxes can
not be levied and collected in time to sup
ply the needs of the government. *The
treasury will soon want cash, and it
must have it from some source. The
country will not hold the Democratic
parly responsible for increasing the debt.
The people are well aware that the pres
ent unfortunate condition of the treasury
was brought about by the Republican
party and the Harrison administration.
When Mr. Cleveland turned the gov
ernment over to Gen. Harrison there was
a great surplus in the treasury, and the
revenues exceeded the expenditures by
many millions of dollars annually. He
had administered the government eco
nomically and he recommended that the
tariff taxes be reduced. He thought the
surplus revenue should remain in the
pockets of the people.
The Harrison administration took a
different view. It adopted the policy of
increasing the tariff taxes, not to increase
the revenue, but to put more money in
the pockets of the political monopolists,
and of increasing expenditures. The
average annual expenditures of Mr. Cleve
land's former administration amounted
to $268,016,4?2. The average annual ex
penditures of Gen. Harrison's adminis
tration were $347,664,261.
From this statement it can be readily
seen why tho government is now steadily
running in debt. Asa matter of faot, the
debt was being increased before the close
of the Harrison administration. The leg
islation that was enacted during Harri
son’s administration has brought about
the treasury’s present distress. The
condition that confronts the Democratic
party is the legacy left by that adminis
tration.
The democrats have got to meet ttoe
situation, and it looks as if they would
have to issue bonds to do it, but the coun
try will understand why they are forced
to increase the public debt.
Mr. Atkinson's Announcement.
Mr. Atkinson, speaker of the legislature,
announces In an address to th 6 people
of Georgia that he is a candidate for gov
ernor. He says that the demand for his
candidacy comes “from all classes of
people, but chiefly from those who
are actuated less by sentimental Impulse
than by a desire for practical, helpful
legislation; from those who, though fru
gal and industrious, are struggling under
the burden of financial depression, and
believe that it is in the power of the
government to bring relief by the consum
matibn of those political reforms to which
the democracy stands committed.” Mr.
Atkinson admits, of course, that the gov
ernor of the state cannot deal directly
with national questions, but he thinks
"the indorsement by the party of one of
its members for so high a position gives
prestige and power to his politicalviews
and influence.”
With reference to state matters, Mr.
Atkinson says he is in favor of conducting
the campaign "on live issues—upon ques
tions which affect the homes and happi
ness of the whole people.”
Two gentlemen have announced that
they are candidates for the gubernatorial
nomination of the Democratic party. Are
there any more candidates? Are there
no other democrats who are anxious to be
governor? If there are, they ought to
make their announcements. Neither Gen.
Evans nor Mr. Atkinson has been back
ward in stating his ambition and pur
pose. The ambition is an honorable one.
The office of governor of Georgia is a
great one, and the honor of filling it any
Georgian should be proud to have.
It is about time the people of South
Georgia were presenting a candidate for
the governorship. There are among them
men who could fill it acceptably. The
people of North Georgia will soon begin
to think, if they do not now, that th 6
office belongs to them. In faot. they seem
to think that about all the offices belong
to them.
State Making.
Oklahoma is anxious to become a state.
One of her leading citizens is in Washing
ton and has mado a strong plea in her be
half before the proper committee. He
contends that she has the required popu
lation and more wealth than some of the
other territories had when admitted.
It is hardly probable that Oklahoma’s
application will be favorably considered.
Her claim that her population is sufficient
is not believed to be well founded. Many
of those who entered the territory whon
it was opened to settlement have gone
elsewhere, and it is doubtful if she has
more than two-thirds as many people as
her leading citizens claim. In fact, there
is no way to determine either her popula
tion or wealth, excopt by a census, and
no census has been taken. Estimates in
such matters are unreliable.
It is not now thought that anything
will come of the suggestion that the state
of Nevada be united to Utah when the
latter is admitted. The people of Nevada
don’t like the idea of having their state
wiped out. Her politicians want the
political plums that naturally belong to a
state. They don’t care particularly for
the welfare of the state. And the Ne
vada senators are opposed to losing their
places, and as they havo a great deal of
influence their opposition would be diffi
cult to overcome, if the proposition should
assume a definite shape. Nevada, there
fore, which has a population
of only about 45.000, will continue
to have as much influence in the
Senate as the great State of New
York. There are comparatively few men
in public life who are able to rise ■ to the
dignity of statesmen where their own in
terests are concerned.
A meeting of the business men at Sa
lem, Ore., a few days ago, adopted reso
lutions stating that Gov. Pennoyer had
made false statements in his Christmas
letter to President Cleveland. The Ore
gonians have probably concluded to mince
matters no longer with their especial
crank, but to call his evasions of the
truth by their proper name.
It is proposed in New York to tax the
salaries of public school teachers I per
cent, to form a fund to pension women
teachers after twenty-five years of ser
vice and men teachers after thirty years
of service. No pension is to be leas than
<SOO a year.
PEBBONAL.
Ex Senator Maxey. of Texas. Is seen occa
sionally now In Washington. He Is toll and
thin, and walks with on upright military air,
which he derived from his West Point train
ing.
Dr. Charles H. Parkhurst. of New York,
has decided to publish a weekly paper to be
called "The Vigilant." The journal will be
devoted to the interests of local reform, as
represented by the Parkhurst Society.
The Ameer is a man of presence, broad and
stout, fair skinned, with black hair and beard,
a good square head and piercing eyes. His
highness’ manner is dignified and courteous,
but if occasion arises he can be exceedingly
fierce.
Maj. M. M. Clothier, of Whatcom, Ore., has
a cane cut at Plymouth Rock in 1821 by Na
thaniel Pierce. It came to Maj. Clothier from
his grandmother. Sarah Mason, who made
the 1.7u0-pound cheese which was given to
President Jefferson.
Martin Backus, of Stillwater. Minn., is said
to be the most absent-minded man in the
northwest. The other day he forgot an en
engagement to marry until three hours after
the appointed time, and then he remerat ered
It, but the name of his affianced bride wholly
escaped his mind. By the aid of the young
woman s father and two brothers and a shot
gun his memory was refreshed and a tragedy
averted.
One-ofthe best traits In Prof. Tyndall’s
character is little known. He was one of the
most charitable men in the world. So far as
his rather small means allowed he never let
a case of distress go unrelieved in whatever
station of life; but he had a horror of appear
ing in subscription lists. As he accompanied
every gift with the anxious message. "Don't
say who it is.” his generosity always passed
unacknowledged.
' The neglected governors’ graves In this
country are beginning to be looked after by
their tardy successors. Another to which at
tention has recently been called is that of
Thomas s. Drew, once governor of Arkansas,
which is in the churchyard of the little village
of Lipan, Tex. He served a half century ago,
having been known among the old timers as
"the New England peddler boy Governor of
Arkansas,” and he died in 1880.
Lobengula, says a gentleman, sometimes
evinces an utter disregard of human life that
is simply devilish. As an example. I was
sitting with him on his wagon one morning,
and he was sighting a gun which some trader
had presented to him. Just then a stalwart
young Kaffir was leisurely walking from one
kraal to another, when Lobengula deliber
ately aimed and shot the unfortunate fellow,
the heavy shot of buckshot lodging in his
back.
Senators Frye and Blackburn are warm
friends. Frye delights to mimic the dialect
and the mannerisms of his southern friend.
He declares that he heard a conversation be
tween the Kentuckian and a visiting stranger
the other day. The stranger asked Black
burn politely in the lobby whether Senator
Hoar was In the chamber. The Kentucky
senator replied with equal courtesy and a pro
found bow; "Senator Ho' is not on the flo’.
He went out of that do' at half past fob”
Davl4 B. Hill announces himself as out of
the presidential ring. He said to a Tammany
friend; "I will not stand for the nomination.
No friend of mine will urge my candidacy. I
have made my rcce and was beaten. That is
enough. I am no perennial. I hold a sena
torshtp from New York to he. nexttotiw*
presidency, the highest gift in the 1 estowai
of the American people. I shall remain in
the Senate, and shall endeavor to do my duty
there. Save as an individual member, 1 have
done with national conventions.
BRIGHT BITS.
Mrs. Chatter—Do you believe that cures can
be effected by the laying on of hands?
Mrs. Clatter—Most certainly. I cured my
boy of smoking in that way.—Brooklyn Life.
She—Dearie, did you think of me often
when 1 was gone*
He—Well, I should say so. Four big bills
came in the first week —Chicago Inter-
Ocean.
Clara—She has passed three seasons at a
seaside resort.
Maud—And yet you say she is Ingenuous.
Clara—Yes. That's where she acquired It.
—Truth.
“Girls is queer things," wrote Tommy on
“composition" day.
"Because a girl dsnot in it in society (till she
comes out.”—lndianapolis Journal.
Kindly Old Lady—l'm looking for some
thing for a present for a nice young man
studying for the ministry—
Flodr-walker—Number Ten! show the lady
some smoking sets.-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Mamma - Now, listen Freddie; the doctor
said that it was that little bit of candy you
ate last night that made you sick.
Freddie—Well, you know how I asked you
over and over to give me a whole lot.—Chi
cago Inter Oceaa.
Servant—The man who brought this bill
says he is tired coming out here so far to col
lect such a small amount.
Mr. Siowpay—Tell him I say I’ve got no ob
jection to his renting a house in this neighbor
hood.—Tammany Times.
There’s is no surcease of sorrow at all.
There's the same tale of woe to tell;
Though Mary has kindly dropped "After the
•Ball"
She now warDles "Daisy Bell."
—New York Mercury.
The Boy Knew —Teaclfer—Yes. children,
when the war broke out all the able-bodied
men who could leave their families enlisted
in the army. Now, can anv of vou tell me
what motives took them to the front?
Bright Boy i triumphantly)—Locomotives.—
Street & Smith's Good News.
How He Controlled Them.—Visitor—How
beautifully still the children sit while you
talk to them.
Sunday School Superintendent—Yes. I’ve
got them pretty well trained. I told them
right at the start that every time I heard a
hoy squirming around in his seat while I was
making a speech 1 would talk ten minutes
longer,*- Indianapolis Journal.
Mrs. Gush—lsn't it awful? This paper says
that there’s a poor family in Blind alley act
ually starving to death. I Shan t sleep a wink
to night thinking of the poor creatures. Fll
carry them a cook book the very first thing In
the morning.
Mr. Gush—But, my dear, they probably
haven't a thing in the bouse to cook.
Mrs. Gush—Do you think so? That must he
so nice! I wish almost every day of my life
that there was no such thing as cooking. Do
you know, John, you’ve taken a world of anx
iety off my mind.—Boston Transcript.
CURRENT COMMENT.
The Inconsistent Protectionists.
From the Griffin (Ga.) News and Sun (Dem.).
The people who are howling the loudest
against a reduction of the protective tariff are
tue vrr onoe who imported unprotected for
eign la jorers to reduce wages.
Gen. Evans’ Candidacy.
From the Atlanta Journal (Dem ).
It is hinted that the politicians don't want
Gen. Evans for governor. But the people do.
and when it comes to a contest between the
people and the politicians, the people gener
ally win.
Boke Smith Congratulated.
From the Washington Post (Ind.).
Secretary Hoke Smith is to be congratula
ted upon the tact that he oonducts his depart
ment in such a manner as to incur the dis
pleasure of the Lymantzed civil service com
mission. Mr. Lyman is looming up as the Dr.
Jekyll and Mr. Hyde of the civil service com
mission.
Notice to South Georgia.
From the Columbus Enquirer-Sun (Dem.).
Some of our South Georgia contemporaries
show a> disposition Jto surrender the gover
norship without a struggle, provided South
Georgia is given tho United States senator
ship. Well, who Is going to voluntarily give
South Oeergia the senatorship? Not North
Georgia, if that ambitious section knows it.
South Georgia will And that the senatorship
will follow the governorship if North Georgia
Is allowed to deal the cards, and It generally
claims the deal.
The Governors and the Courts.
From the Charleston News and Courier (Dem)
The governor of Florida, like some other
governors, does not appear to be Imbued with
a high regard for the courts. He savs he will
not obey the circuit court In the matter of the
Mltchell-Corbett tight, but will wait for the
declalon of the supreme court, ns he knows
the law as well as any of the circuit judges
It seems to us that it is the duty of the judi
cial. and not of the executive department to
construe the law, and that the construction of
the circuit court is binding until reversed by
the supreme court.
An Exciting Experience.
At a way station on the Louisville and Nash
ville one winter the station keeper had an ex
citing time says the Louisville Commercial.
It was midnight and the station being in a de
serted part of the country bad been left by
the loafers. It began to rain. The station
keeper was not sleepy and determined to sit
up a greater part cf the night, especially as
be had an unusual sum of money in his cash
drawer and he felt uneasy about it.
Robberies of stations and farm houses down
the line had been frequent. So he settled
himself down to a vigil. As he felt hungry
he took a can of cove oysters down from the
shelf and set it in the stove. A moment af
terward there was a knock at the door and he
admitted a cold, drenched tramp, whom he
allowed to lie down by the tire. Just then a
train came around the bend and the station
agent stepped outside to display the go-ahead
signal, tie felt distrustful of the tramp and
feared that he would fool with the money
drawer. As the train passed he hurried into
the room and had scarcely opened the door
and seen the tramp standing by the stove
with something glistening in his hand, when
there was a report and the agent felt a sting
ing sensation over his eye.
Although blinded with blood from the wound
he drew his pistol and tired five times into
the room. He then dashed round to the rear
of the station and hid under the platform.
After an hour’s time he crawled out. resigned
to the loss of his money and thankful that he
had escaped with his-life. The room was
dark; the tire was out. The tramp had evi
dently escaped with his booty. Sorrowfully
the agent lit a match, but instantly dropped
it when a startling sight met his eves. He
lit another one, found a candle and gazed
about the scene of desolation.
The lamp had been shattered by a bullet.
A cheese had been perforated with two bul
lets. i’he room was tilled with smoke from
the stovepipe, which a fourth bullet had per
forated. st ranges! of all. the room was tilled
with cinders, and-oysters frescoed everything.
Oysters, oysters, oysters, cove oysters. The
agent grasped and realized it all. The can
had remained in the stove too long, and being
sealed up, had exploded from the steam when
the tramp bai poked the tire. Of course the
tramp skipped when the shooting com
menced. The cash drawer was intact. A
piece of tin was found near the door, where
it had recoiled oft the agent's face. The agent
spent the remainder of the night in mending
the stove.
The Plans Farragrut Tore Up.
The following anecdotes of Admiral Farra
gut, which it is believed appears now for the
first time in print, was told by one who was a
party to the transaction to which it relates,
says the Youth s Companion. It will illus
trate the heroic admiral's character, for It is
one of the chief attributes of a hero not to be
deterred by the impossible. While prepara
tions were being made for the attack on New
Orleans the navy department came into pos
session of a complete set of plans of the de
fense of the city. Not only were the positions
of the forts laid down, but the number, weight
and position of every gun was given, together
with the obstructions stretched across the
river to prevent the passage of a hostile fleet.
There were shown, also, the submarine
mines placed so as to destroy ships passing
up the channel, as well as the system of tor
pedoes aud the reserve of war vessels which
were to eo operate with the land batteries in
opposing the advance by water of an enemy’s
forces.
The information was considered of such
value that no time was lost in sending ii by
the hands of a special messenger all the way
from Washington to Admiral Farragut, in
the belief that such a detailed description of
the defenses which he would have to eneoun
tes in passing up to the city must prove of the
utmost use to him.
It was supposed, as a matter of course, that
the admiral would not only acknowledge the
receipt of a communication conveying matter
of such importance, but would, in some way.
express his sense of the obligation he was
under, but no such acknowledgment ever
reached the navy department.
Meanwhile the passage of the forts was af
fected. New Orleans was captured, and ac
tive naval operations in southern waters
were brought to a close, and Admiral Farra
gut in due time, having accomplished his
great mission, went north. Proceeding to
Washington, he at once called at the navy de
partment, where he received the hearty con
gratulations of the Secretary of the Navy
upon his brilliant successel.
While he was in the department a promi
nent official, during a conversation on the
subject of the naval operations in the gulf
referred to the plans of the defenses of New
Orleans, and asked the admiral if he had
ever received them.
"Yes," he replied, "I received the plans,
but on examination I found that, according
to them, New Orleans could never be taken;
so I tore them up and threw them into the
waste basket.”
Raised the Young Man’s Salary.
Twenty years ago and old Mr. Couldock,
the actor, are so indelibly associated in the
public mind, thanks to "Hazel Klrke,” that
to mention one is to think of the other. In
fact, says the New York Evening Sun
"Twenty Years Ago" is his nickname, and
has replaced the old man’s legitimate ini
tials. In an uptown resort where the subject
of the cheati actor was under discussion one
actor had this to say;
“Talk about getting caned artistically and
in cold blood. I had an experience once.
Twenty years ago I was playing with Coul
dock in a road company. We played a reper
tory, aud I was playing juvenile parts. X had
quite an estimation of myself in those days.
In fact, I used to bo in such a hurry to spout
my lines that on several occasions I broke in
on Couldock's scenes and spoiled more than
one of them. I saw the old man throw me a
dagger's glance now and then, but 1 didn’t
give the matter a second thought. Finally
one morning he asked me to go for a stroll
with him. He was remarkably affable, so
1 went.
“ 'Young man,’ said he. ‘l've been thinking
a lot about you lately. How much money do
you draw?’
•• Ten dollars a week, sir.’
“ ‘Ten dollars! Dear.dear, that's not much!
Can you save money out of that?’
•• ’Well, not miuffrrhir. You see. I have a
widowed mother and sister to support.’
“ How about 415 a week? Think you can
save money out of 415?’
“Oh. dear, yes, I exclaimed, brightening
up all of a sudden.
"' You're dead certain you could save
money?’
“ ’Yes sir; I am.’
“ 'Very well; after this you draw 415 from
the box office every week and—’
"‘Oh, thank you sir!’l broke out impetu
ously. I knew you would appreciate my art
sooner or later.’
■ ■ Hold on now, I ain’t finished yet,’ inter
rupted Couldock. You go save money out of
that and as soon as you’ve got enough laid up
go buy an ax and knock your few brains
out.’"
Blew the Paint off the Mast.
Capt. Hurlbut, of the British bark Bowman
B. Law considers himself fortunate in com
ing out of a terrible typhoon in the China
seas, not without a scratch, but without tho
loss of any of his crew, or even of a spar or
sail. This is his experience as he related it
to a correspondent of the Chicago Times
"We left Sourabaya, Java, July 2>), bound for
the Columbia river. All went well for the
first week. The men put in their time well
about the ship, and one particular job that
was attended to was painting the mlzzentop
mast. This was wood, the other masts and
topmasts being iron, I noticed that the
paint on the spar blistered more or less
under the tropical sun. One line after
noon, under a clear sky. the storm came on
us. There was hardly any warning. The
typhoon shot out of the Gulf of Siam as
though it came from a cannon. What in the
distance was a ripple on the surface of the
sea as it approached us became a feathery
foam-dashed mass of waves, and the next
minuie the hurricane struck us. All sail
was stowed away, and we tore ahead under
bare poles at locomotive speed. When the
fury of the typhoon a ated, we found every,
thing Intact. The mtz;eatopmast, however
was hare of paint. The wind had blown the
blisters off. and nothing remained but the un
covered wood.”
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Forty thousand francs have already been
subscribed in Paris for the Gounod memorial,
the municipal council giving LOGO.
Latreille once cut off the antennae of an
ant, and its companions, evidently compas
sionating its sufferings, anointed the wounded
parts with drops of fluid from their mouths.
Executions ceased to be public in England
in 1885. Before that time they were in the
squares in front of the jails and attracted
thousands of people from the country round.
The aphides are the milch kine of the ants,
and are regularly approached and'milked by
the latter. Ants have been known to keep
the aphides in captivity, as cows are kept in
cities.
Austria is the most lenient to murderers.
In the ten years ending 1879 there were 816
criminals found guilty of willful murder in
Austria, of whom only twenty-three were put
to death.
A Texas paper, the Belton Journal, says
that the slang phrase "in it” or ' not in it"
was hrst used by Ezekiel, the Hebrew
prophet, in the following passage: “Though
these three men. Noah, Daniel and Job, were
in it. they should deliver but their own souls
by their righteousness, saith the Lord God.”
Did you ever stop to think how much can be
gotten out of a bar of steel costing $1 ? Put it
through a needle factory and it will produce
$350 worth of needles. The proprietor of a
cutlery manufactory will take it and produce
43.280 worth of knife blades. A watchmaker
will take it and produce 4250 worth of balance
springs. Thus, a bar of Iron costing 41 and
put into watches will give 4240,999.
The Are commissioners of Boston recom
mend a plan for using water from the harbor
to extinguish tires in the business part of the
city, says the Baltimore Sun. It is proposed
to lay mains through the district, and in case
of tire to force water into them with the two
flreboats, These two boats, one of which
has been built and an appropriation maue
for the second, have a combined capacity of
13,000 gallons of water a minute. This would
equal twenty-four second-size land engines
and would furnish sufficient pressure any
where in the district for ten streams for each
boat. A plan somewhat similar is already in
use in Cleveland and in Detroit. It would
seem to recommend Itself to all cities whose
fresh water supply is seriously impaired by
droughts.
Some California genius has invented a com
position which may be spread over the floor
of a skating rink and will give a surface on
which ordinary runner skates, such as are
worn on ice. may be used. Sulphur is one of
the principal ingredients, but there are four
others, which the inventor keeps secret. The
material is hard and elastic, and gives a sur
face as slippery as ice. and perfectly smboth.
Ernest Westleius, who has won a medal as
the champion skater oi the Scandinavia, and
who, with his pirouettes and his intricate
doublings and curves on the ice, has skated
his wav into more or less fame in many coun
tries, ha 6 tested the substance and declares
that, as a whole, he prefers it to ice, although
in smoothness of the surface there is little
difference between the two.
Everybody knows that the earth makes one
complete revolution on its axis every twenty
four hours. But few. however, have any idea
of the high rate of speed necessary to accom
?l’Sh that feat, says the St. Louis Republic.
he highest velocity ever attained by a can
non ball has been etismated at 1,626 feet per
second, which is equal to a mile in 3.2 sec
onds. The earth, in making one revolution in
twenty-four hours must turn with a velocity
nearly equal to that of a cannon ball. In
short, tho rate of speed at the equator has
been estimated at nearly 1,500 feet per sec
ond. or a mile every 3.6 seconds. Therefore,
it has been calculated that if a cannon ball
were tired due west and could maintain Its
Initial velocity independent of the earth, and
could keep up the speed with which it left
the mouth of the gun, ft would heat the sun in
his apparent journey around the earth.
The Japanese, who so long remained true
to their beautiful islands, have now begun to
follow the example of the Chinese and emi
grate in comparatively large numbers. The
government, according to Globus, looks with
favor on the change in the custom of the peo
ple and encourages It as much as possible
Last year, according to the statistics recently
compiled, 21.000 men and 18.000 women left
Japan to find homes for themselves abroad
Most of them went to Hawaii and Australia
and a few to Canada and to this country. In
Australia the Japanese, the journal says,
easily find employment, and are fast super
seding the natives in tho plantations about
Cairns, Douglass and Mackay. They accus
tom themselves quickly to the new manner of
life, learn the laneuage readily, and work dili
gently. Many Australians already prefer
them to the Chinese as servants, gardeners
and coachmen.
Thoughtful and observant persons do not
need a demonstration that the senses are less
keen in woman than in man. says the Pall
Mall Budget. Their own experience has re
vealed that natural law. But since we are
not all thoughtful or observant, the experi
ments of Profs. Nichols and Browne are wel
come. 'These American physiologists have
bogun to experiment with the sense
of smell. They took four substances
most strongly odoriferous—essence of
clove, of garlic, of lemon and prus
sic acid. Each of these they diluted with
pure water in a growing proportion, filling a
set of bottles at every degree of the scale un
til ths last set represented 1 part of the ’test
substance to 2,000.000 parts of waters. Then
they shuffled the bottles, so to speak
and called in 44 men and 38 women, chosen
from the various ranks of life, all young and
healthy. These representatives of either sex
were instructed to rearrange the bottles
guided by the sense of smell, putting each
set of tinctures by itself, garlic with garlic
lemon with lemon, etc. To put results
shortly, the women were not in it. None of
them could trace prussic acid beyond the di
lution of 2U.0410 parts to 1. while most of the
men traced it up to 100,000 parts. Three of
the latter actually passed the extreme limit
identifying prussic acid at a single part in
2,000.000. Beyond 100,000 parts all the women
failed to recognize essence of lemon; all the
men detected It at 260,000. This oroportion
represents their average superiority all
around.
•‘There should be system in the tipping of
porters and servants just as there is in every
other expenditure of money,” said Theodore
Dean, a traveling man, to a. Washington Post
writer. "The indiscriminate feeing thatmost
travelers indulge in is very reprehensible It
has grown to such an extent that waiters bell
boys, porters, and other gentry with whom
you come in contact on a journey expect to be
given a gratuity every time they move a steD
in your service. And if they are not tipped
the first time they do something tor you they
will be pretty apt to steer clear of you alto
gether if they can, or to give you mighty poor
attention if they are compelled to continue
waiting on you. I never have any trouble
with such attendants, either white or black
male or female, because I pursue a regular
course. When I get aboard a Pullman for
finstance, I call the porter. If It is a short
trip of six or seven hours I give him a
quarter and tell him to keep an eye on
me If it is a long journey I make his
gratuity half a dollar. Then he is under
obligations to me, and in every instance I get
more and bettor attention than the man who
gives nothing at the start, but waits until his
destination is reached before settling with
the porter. It is the same way at the hotels
I invariably ask the dining room servant if
he is the regular attendant at the table I oc
cupy. it he answers affirmatively I droD
him a quarter. I never have dregs In mv
coffee or tough steak or oold dishes. With
the bell boy and the chambermaid it is the
same thing. I pay them in advance, and as I
said before, place them under obligations at
the start. I travel on an average 30.000 miles
a year, and visit cities without end. and I at
tribute the comfort I always enjoy to the sim
ple system of tipping in advance. Trv it
when you make your next journey and sen
how much better you fare at the hands of
your attendants.”
Scientific
American
Says:
“Artificial butters possess one
insuperable superiority, in that
decomposition, through lactic
fermentation, is impossible.”
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CHURN
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of the haut-ton (a patient): "As you ladies
will use them, 1 recommend ‘Gouraud’s
Cream' as the least harmful of all the Skla
preparations." For sale by all druggists and
fancy goods dealers in the United States
Canadas and Europe.
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37 Great Jones St.. N. y.
For sale by Llppmau Bros.
DRY GOODS.
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For Thirty Days,
Prior to annual inventory,
our entire winter stock of
Silks, Black and Colored
Dress Goods, Flannels,
Gloves, Hpsiery and Wool
en Underwear, Gents’ Fur
nishings, Blankets, Com
forts and Ladies’ and Chil
dren’s Cloaks,
Reduced from
25 to 35 PER CENT.
GW THIS OPPWIIIt.
One dollar will do what
two formerly did, and dimes
have the purchasing power
of quarters and halves.
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CROCKERY.
nilll I
ONE MORE WEEK.
During Christmas
week we propose mak
ing special prices on
everything" in our line,
especially on Cut Glass,
Dinner Sets and all
Fancy China. We mean
what we say,' and will
surprise you if you will
come in and look and
get our prices.
We do this, as we find
we have too much stock
to carry over.
Respectfully,
IMS IST l SO.,
133 Broughton Street.
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