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INDEX TO XEW~ADVEKTISEMEXTS~
Meeting— Palestine Commandery No. 7,
K.T.
Special Notices—l.e Panto Proverbs.
Henry Solomon & Son: Notice to Augusta and
Knoxville Bondholders. J. E. Haygood. Spe
olal Master; To Electric Light Companies. W
J. Winn. City Engineer; Flrs>class Man
Wanted for Laying Straw Mattings, Etc.:
Elegant City Lots. Title Guarantee and Loan
Company; As to Bills Against German Steam
ship Slavonia; Ten Thousand Pounds Turkeys
at Estate S. W. Branch's: A Delightful Resi
dence for Sale Cheap Jno. T. Rowland. Real
Estate Dealer: Corner Store and Dwelling for
Sale, Jno. T. Rowland, Real Estate Dealer.
Given Away Free—At Adler's.
Auction Sales— Public Sale at D A Al
tick's Sons, by I. D. AR. D Laßoche; Gro
cery Store, by J. McLaughlin A Son; Furni
ture. Etc., J. H Oppenheim A Son.
Steamship Schedule— Ocean Steamship
Company.
To-day and To-morrow—B. H Levy A
Brr>
Iy You Want Good Clothes—Appel A
Schaul.
We Point to Ouk Immense Sale or Fine
Shoes—Byck Bros.
Legal Notices— Libel for Divorce. Will
iam C. Gray, Libellant, vs Louisa C. Gray.
Defendant.
Shoes—W. L. Douglas. Shoes.
Railroad Schedules— Fast Coast Line
via Jacksonville, St. Augustine and Indian
River Railway.
Men s Suits and Overcoats—Falk Cloth
ing Company,
Changes in Classification Railroad
Commission of Georgia.
Cheap column advertisements— Help
Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Rent;
For Sale; Lost; Personal; Miscellaneous.
In whose lap is old winter lingering
now? Spring is clearly not responsible
tor his tardiness in getting here.
A bill has been Introduced in the Mary
land legislature providiug for the execu
tion of criminals by electricity, instead of
hanging. There is little prospect that it
will be passed.
“In Brunswick, Me., the Jaw of a
preacher was dislocated during his ser
mon and the services came to an abrupt
termination. Let him be sent to succeed
Boutelle in the House.
Plainfield, N. J., has a “Parkhurst;”
Pittsburg, Pa., has one, St. Louis, Mo.,
has one, and others are springing up all
over the country. If this kind of thing
goes on much longer the name of Dr.
Parkhurst may have to be added to the
language, as the names of Boycott, Burk
and Pinkerton have been.
Another MacVeagh appears about to
push his way into prominence. Frank
lin MacVeagh, of Illinois, is looming up*as
a possible successor to Cullom’s seat in
the Senate. It is alleged that the elec
tion of John P. Hopkins to the mayoralty
of Chicago recently will afford MacVeagh
the support of Hopkins’ friends.
Mrs. Cyrus W. Field, Jr., the New
York society woman who mado a failure
of her effort to run a millinery store, is at
present engaged in soliciting among her
lady friends deposits for a certain bank.
If the lady still had a hankering after
millinery she might drum hats as a side
line and make quite a neat thing of it.
Persons who send through the mails
letters ordering counterfeit money violate
the postal laws and are liable to a fine of
1500 and imprisonment for eighteen
months, according to a recent ruling by
Assistant Attorney General Thomas.
Those who receive letters from "green
goods” men had, therefore, better not re
ply to them.
Last week an Oklahoma court sentenced
a murderer to be hanged on April 6 next.
A few days afterwards the court con
cluded that sufficient time had not been
given the man in which to prepare, so the
sentence was cancelled and anew one
passed fixing the date of the execution for
April 18. The counsel for the murderer
thinks this action of the court invalidates
its own order, and has appealed to the
supreme court, taking that ground.
Recently high kicking has become a fad
in society circles, if current reports may
be relied on. Buds and belles have taken
lessons from the kickers of the stage,
with a view to'acquiring all the accom
plishments of physical as well as of men
tal culture possible. The ambition is
high, but the buds and belles should be
warned by the fate of Mile. Bertoto. a
French dancer, that intemperance in high
kicking is dangerous. Mile. Bertoto died
f paralysis brought on by kicking too
aigh and too often.
The Reformed Church Pastoral Associa
tion, of the Lehigh Valley.in Pennsylvania,
has for some time waged war on theaters,
jperettas, cantatas, charity balls and
thurcta festivals, declaring them and all
kindred amusements to be Irreverent
and profane. At a meeting held this
week the association added Santa Claus
to its black list, and warned church mem
oers to discountenance the deception. It
would be interesting to know if these
preachers admit the possibility orlnno
ut amusement on earth.
Drainage First.
The county commissioners have acted
wisely in giving the drainage work the
preference. No doubt the county roads
are in a bad condition. They are seldom
otherwise, that is, in such condition as
they ought to be. It would require a
great deal of time and a large outlay to
make them what they should be. They
will never be much better until a com
prehensive system of road building is
adopted. The time will come when the
county will adopt a system of that
kind. Until there is such a
system no improvement of the roads will
amount to much, because it will not be of
a permanent character.
What is needed now more than any
thing else is good drainage for the
county. Good drainage means good
health. Every summer, when there are
heavy rains and the low places in the vi
cinity of the city are covered with water,
there is a.feeling of uneasiness, caused by
apprehensions of sickness. Fevers
of one kind and another make
their appearance and there are requests
for the draining of this or that place.
This condition of affairs has existed for
many years. It is true that a great deal
of drainage work has been done and its
beneficial effects are apparent, but a vast
amount of such work remains to be done,
and the people will not be satisfied until
it is done. They will put up with bad
roads for a while longer for the sake of
having the lands drained. They value
good health above everything else, and
the securing of good health should be the
chief aim of the county authorities.
It is to be regretted that the new
Casey canal will not be completed inside
of a year. The people have been looking
anxiously for the completion of this work.
It will drain a large section of country
and aid materially in solving the drainage
problem.
The more earnestly and vigorously the
commissioners push forward this work,
the better the people will be satisfied.
Every available means should be used to
complete it. So great is the desire to
have it finished that public sentiment
would sustain the commissioners in neg
lecting other work in order to finish it in
as short a time as possible. The most
important drainage work must be done
before much attention is given to other
improvements.
The Hornblower Nomination.
It looks as if the President had de
termined not to withdraw the nomination
of Mr. Hornblower for associate Justice of
the supreme court. If it goes to the
Senate with .the adverse report which has
been made upon it, there will be a lively
fight over it. The fact that the bar asso
ciation of New York has adopted a reso
lution since the Senate committee reported
the nomination adversely, asserting that
Mr. Hornblower is qualified for the posi
tion of associate justice of the supreme
court, justifies the inference that the
nomination is not to be withdrawn, but
that it is the purpose of the President to
test his strength in the Senate.
The President has made no public state
ment about the matter, but it is believed
he thinks it is Senator Hill’s purpose to
defeat the nomination. The senator un
doubtedly had a good deal to do with the
unfavorable report upon it. He does not
like Mr. Hornblower. They belong to
different political factions of the New
York democracy. Mr. Hornblower op
posed the nomination of Judge Maynard
for judge of the court of appeals of New
York, and did what he could to
defeat him after he was nomi
nated. Judge Maynard is a great
friend of Senator Hill, and it is
supposed the senator is now trying to
punish Mr. Horhblower and Mr. Horn
blower’s friends for the part they took
against Judge Maynard
There is, of course, a question as to
whether Mr. Hornblower has had suffi
cient experience as a lawyer to justify his
nomination to so important a place as that
of supreme court justice He is a com
paratively young man and his practice be
fore the supreme court has not been ex
tensive. He has had only a few cases be
fore wsi&bi tribuuul &*rci he v**i* uuSurcrs**
ful in most of them. If Senator Hill is
responsible for the record of Mr. Horn
blower's practice that was presented to
thp Senate committee that passed upon
his nomination, he took care, doubtless,
that none of the unfavorable features of it
were omitted.
That the President is anxious to have
the nomination confirmed is true. If it is
not confirmed or is withdrawn he will bo
in the position of having suffered a de
feat. Unless he is satisfied that it would
be confirmed, notwithstanding the un
favorable report upon it, it would bo ad
visable for him to withdraw it. If it
should be withdrawn or rejected. Senator
IJill would have the satisfaction of know
ing that ho had made a point against the
President, If his relations .with the
President are understood the more points
of that kind he succeeds in making the
happier he will be.
Members of congress are usually al
lowed $125 each for stationery, which is
covered by an item in the legislative ap
propriation bill. The sum is intended to
last through one congress, and the mem
bers frequently take it up in pocket
knives, purses, fancy inkstands or other
novelties to be found on a stationer's
counter—at any rate they seldom leave
any of it over. During the extra session
the legislative appropriation bill was
passed so that members could get their
mileage and per diem, but by hook or
crook the stationery item was forgotten
and left out. As the members had used
up the appropriation for the previous con
gress before the extra session had begun,
they find themselves now minus a neat
little perquisite that they miss. The sta
tionery appropriation, had it been made,
would have amounted to $47,000. It is not
likely any member will have the cheek to
introduce a separate bill covering the
oversight.
Should Mrs. Lease succeed in “turning
down" Gov. Lewelling, of Kansas, in
their little fight, it would mean his defeat
for renomination. In that emergency
what would become of this political
Moses! He says he was once a tramp;
maybe he had the future in view when he
promulgated that famous tramp order to
the metropolitan police.
Peixoto, president of Brazil, is an extra
ordinarily versatile gentleman. Three tele
grams concerning him were sent from Rio
on Tuesday. One said he was ill, another
said he was dead and the third said he was
massing his treops to beat off an autiei-.
pated attack by Melio's men.
THE MORNING NEWS: FRIDAY, JANUARY 12. 1894.
Wilson Bill and Wages.
It is regretable that there is such a
lack of sincerity in the discussion of the
tariff question. The protection Journals
are now asserting that the passage of the
Wilson bill means a great reduction in
wages, and some of the protected manu
facturerers are taking advantage of this
sort of talk to cut down wages.
In his speech opening the tariff discus
sion in the House Mr. Wilson, the chair
man of the ways and means committee,
showed that the Wilson bill could not
materially affect wages. What he said on
that subject cannot be successfully con
tradicted. Mr. Wilson asked, “How is it
possible for a tariff that only
touches 5 per cent, of the labor of the
United States to increase wages for the
other 95 per cent? So far from in
creasing t the wages of labor, the effect
of these high tariffs is to lower them."
Mr. Wilson declared that “the supply of
labor, the intelligence and productiveness
of labor, make its price.”
If the tariff controls wages why was It
that wages did not advance when the
McKinley tariff was adopted?
The Philadelphia Times cFls attention
to the fact that there was a marked de
cline in the wages paid by protected in
dustries immediately after the passage
of the McKinley bill. It says: “Pud
dling dropped from $4 to *3.75 a ton, then
to (8.25 a ton at Pottsville, Reading,
Birdsboro and Pottstown in 1891 and In
early 1892. This, too, when there was no
Wilson bill nor the sign of one. The At
kins Steel mills at Pottsville, the big
bridge works at Pottstown and certain
Reading industries tell a story of wage
reductions following hard upon each
other. This takes no account of the
great war of the protected industries on
organized labor at Homestead in the sum
mer of 1892, and the cut in wages then,
not alone in the steel mills, but in the
coke and coal industries.”
The foregoing sustains the statement
of Mr. Wilson, that high tariffs tend to
force down wages. If workmen would
study the effect of the tariff upoa wages
a little more, and pay leas attention to
what their protected employers say they
would not be so prompt in signing peti
tions to congress protesting against the
Wilson bill. . ... i ■
Impeachment Talk.
The papers that are hostile to the policy
adopted by the [’resident in respect to
Hawaii are again asserting that there is a
great deal of talk in congress among
democrats as well as republicans about
impeaching the President for his Ha
waiian acts. The purpose for which these
papers are making this assertion is in
comprehensible. A few malicious repub
licans may be indulging in impeachment
talk, but even they must know it is idiotic.
Nothing is more certain than that the
democrats in congress are standing by the
President in this Hawaiian matter. His
Hawaiian message a few weeks ago con
vinced them that he stood on firm ground
—that what he had done was
right. He has done nothing
since then to which his bitterest
political enemy could reasonably take ex
ception.
The Hawaiian question is now in the
control of congress. The President
placed it there some time ago. At‘the
proper time congress will decide what
shall be done in respect to Hawaii. But
whatever is done the President will not
be censured for the policy he pursued
prior to turning the matter over to con
gress. All talk to (he effect that an
effort will be made to impeach the Presi
dent is rot of the worst sort. Those who
are indulging in such talk are only mak
ing themselves ridiculous.
Until the people at large are better in
formed they will be apt to hold the
opinion that the unfavorable report of the
Senate judiciary committee on the nomi
nation of Judge Hornblower was the out
come of petty political spite on the part
of Senator Hill, and misapplied senatorial
courtesy on the part of his conferees. It
is generally understood that Senator Hill
held Judge Hornblower as a hostage for
Judge Maynard s election in New York,
having tacitly agreed to the newspapers’
assertion that he would see that the
Hornblower nomination went through the
Senate all right if the administration
would use its influence in favor of May
nard. and that he would see to it that the
Hornblower nomination failed if Ma.tnard
was not given the administration’s sup
port. Maynard, it is a matter of history,
did not receive much support of any kind,
and was beaten. Now, it is to be sup
posed, Senator Hill is making good his
promise. Whether or not the supposition
is correct, however, it is a good thing that
action of some kind has been taken on the
Hornblower nomination. The President
may now name somebody else for the posi
tion—Secretary Gresham, for instance.
The attorney general has furnlshsd the
Senate, upon request, some interesting
statistics with regard to the operation of
the federal election laws. Since 1870
there have been 0,941 indictments under
these laws. These indictments, however,
do not represent the arrests made.
Throughout the south from 1870 to 1876,
hundreds of democrats wero arrested and
locked up on election days upon fictitious
charges, and discharged when it was too
late for them to vote, and against these
no indictments were ever brought. John
I. Davenport practiced the same kind of
thing in New York city, and had a big
iron cage built in which to pack his pris
oners during voting hours. Of the 6,941
indictments brought under the laws, how
ever, less than 2,000 resulted in convic
tions. More than two-thirds of the num
ber were found by the grand juries and
the courts to be false charges, and 4,236
of the cases were nol. pressed and 773
were acquitted. The showing made from
the records of indictments brought and
passed upon is infamous; if the statistics
of arrests for twenty years could be had
they would prove the laws in operation to
have been outrageous.
“Gen.” J. Hale Sypher, who has gained
so much notoriety at Washington in a
few days, is a relic of the old carpet-bag
regime in the south. In the days of re
construction and “good stealing" ho went
from Philadelphia down to Louisiana,
and the confiding and grateful freedmen
sent him to congress.
Senator Hill says he has not abandon*!
his proposition to establish closure in the
Senate. The matter Is at present in the
hands of the committee on rules, of which
Senator Harris is chairman. Senator
Hill will endeavor shortly to bring it be
fore the Senate.
South Carolina’s present regrettable
state administration sprang from a snap
convention called by the president of the
farmer’s alliance to meet three or four
months ahead of the regular democratic
nominating convention, for the purpose of
"sufffresting” nominees for state offices.
The call was signed by G. IV. Shell, at
that time clerk of the court at Laurens,
now a congressman, and the final outcome
has been the landing in office of nearly all
the instigators of the movement. Another
snap convention is to be called next
March, according to our dispatches of
yesterday, the purpose of which will be
to keep in power the clique controlled by
Gov. Tillman, who is the brains of his
faction. The outcome this time, how
ever, may not be so gratifying to tbe snap
pers as was the outcome of the first
March convention. Those “reformers”
who have not yet succeeded in getting
office have grown restive and hungry.
They want some of the spoils and cannot
understand why they are not as much en
titled to them as the governor's favorites,
the Evanses, and certain members of his
family. The offices having all been dis
tributed, the governor cannot satisfy the
demands of the hungry ones without
creating other new offices—he made some
new ones last month, it will be remem
bered—and at present he cannot sec his
way clear to providing the money to pay
other salaries, even if the offices were to
be created. In this condition of affairs
it is quite likely that a fight will occur in
the “reform” ranks, to the advantage of
the democrats.
Mrs. John Lawrence Sullivan is en
titled to a diamond-studded belt and a vote
of thanks from the country at large. She
administered to the great brute who is
her husband the second knock-out blow
he ever received, at a Buffalo hotel the
other night. Mrs. Sullivan, it appears, is
the scapegoat upon whom Sullivan piles all
the sins of the world when he is in bad
humor. But, unlike, the biblical scape
goat, the woman is not allowed to escape
into the wilderness when charged with
the shortcomings of others; she is beaten
as well as cursed. The other night Sulli
van went to his hotel drunk and ugly.
Somebody h 4 crossed his will, •and he
started in to beat his wife' for it. The
fellow’s cruelty made the woman desper
ate She seised an Indian club and smote
a happy stroke. It 'caught Sullivan on
the head and bo dropped like a log. For
thirty, minutes he was unconscious, but a
physician finally brought him around.
Father Corrigan, pastor of St. Mary’s
church. Hoboken, N. J., who died on last
Wednesday, was one of the most widely
known Catholic priests in the country,
because of the discussion of his several
differences with Bishop Wigger and his
connection with controversies that have
arisen since Mgr. Satolli has been in this
country. His first trouble with Bishop
Wigger was over a book that he wrote
some twelve years ago in which he advo
cated the election of bishops by priests,and
which the bishop said was unorthodox.
Father Corrigan appealed to Rome, and
the pope and the cardinals sustained him.
The more recent disputes between the
two were on the subjects of “Cahensley
ism” and the public schools. The bishop
and the priest, however, were reconciled
to each other before the latter's death,
and the priest received .extreme
at the hands of bis old antagonist.
The enterprising managers of a ban
quet to be held in Jersey City on Jan. 26
recently offered ex-Speaker Reed and
Chairman Wilson their expenses and SIOO
each to be their guests for the evening
and make tariff speeches for them. The
offer was made through a Jersey congress
man, so the story goes, and that states
man, in presenting the preposition,
seemed to think he was strictly within
the lines of propriety. Messrs. Reed and
Wilson gave it to be understood, how
ever, that they were not in the tariff
business for revenue.
Tom Reed's presidential boomlet re
ceived a backset at New York a day or
two ago. Joe Manley, of Maine, who is
known to the country at large as the late
■ oiuiuv o SB3u t .inCl pur?
licly declared at the Fifth Avenue hotel
that ha aud Maine were first, last and all
the time for the ex-speaker, and that he
would present Ueed'a name for the presi
dential nomination to the national repub
lican convention of 1896. Manley and Maine
have for a number of years been first, last
and ail the time on the side of the losing
man.
The coroner’s jury at Louisville decided
in five minutes that the Phoenix Bridge
Company was responsible for the disaster
of Dee. 16, when the channel spans of the
Jeffersonville bridge fell and killed
twenty-two workmen. The verdict will
be followed by criminal suits against the
bridge company’s engineer-in-charge and
managing director*. Some fifteen dam
age suits have already been begun against
the company by the families of the vic
tims of the disaster.
OUKBENI COMMENT.
If They Get in at All.
From the New York World (Dem.).
It Is just ss well to understand first as last
that all amendments to the Wilson bill
will be voted In and not bluffed or bulldozed
in. _____
The Present One Sails.
From the Chicago Tribune (Rep.).
What the democrats seem to need is a pat
ent elastic, self adjusting, detachable tariff
made of the best quality of lndia-ruober, per
spiration proof, and warranted not to gall,
This Is a Democracy.
From the Chicugo Record (Ind.).
The theory of this government is that there
are no class distinctions; that the rich and
the poor are equal before the law To form
fiarty lines upon class lines determined by re
ative prosperity as indicated by incomes
would be to invite a condition that might ulti
mately prove disastrous.
Harrison.
From Springfield (Mass.).Republican (Ind.).
Those republicans who opposed President
Harrison In the Indianapolis convention do
not take stock in ex-Senator Palmer's
statement that the ex-presldent Is not de
sirous of having the republican nomination
In 1596. These men assert that the Harri
son movement has been pushed ever since
1892. Really all this Is of slight consequence.
Gen. Harrison has had his day.
Th® Hornblower Affair.
From the Hrooklyn Eagle (Dem ).
Whether the nomination be Withdrawn or
finally rejected or finally confirmed, the iden
tification of Mr Hornblower s case with the
Maynard Issue will be honorable to him and
useful to ike cause of better government and
h®ur politics. When the people conclude
that the democratic opponents of Grover
Cleveland In the United States Senate are
wreaking rfvengeaM the administration, be
cause the voters of New York defeated Isaac
H. Mayoard by Mr., Hornblower s aid. those
sanatory will cometou'vuatslfmentas condign
as Mr. Maynard and his friends received in
this oemmonwealth. 1
A Terrible Predicament.
‘•Well. I should say I was at Gettysburg."
said the veteran, according to the Indianapo
lis Sentinel. "It was there I had the liveli
est time during the whole trouble. It's a won
der lam alive. You see, it was along toward
evening of the second day s fight and things
was gittin to look mi.’hty uncertain. We
had the confeds blocd up and they were
wadin'into us right and left. They had un
masked a battery about the middle of the
afternoon on a little raise over to our left
about a quarter of a mile, and it got so hot
that we were ordered to carry It at the point
of the bayonet and spike the guns. Well, we
started double quick. Tbe Johnnies see us
coming as soon as we made a move, and as
the smoke had raised they had a gcod chance
to pepper us. There were about 400 of us. not
countin' the officers, and we hadn t gone
twenty steps before we got the first volley
square iu the teeth. Twenty one guns, sir,
spilling grape and canister right into us wltn
a line, level down grade to help them.
The blast seemed to shiver us to pieces
and we staggered fqr a moment,
with a good hundred of our boys quivering on
the ground. The old colonel spurred forward
in the confusion and yelled to us to toe the
s ratch. We got in a bunch together and
started up the hill again. Another volley
caught us and another hundred went down.
The colonel was shot through the leg. and as
he tell, threw up his sword and said: 'Torn,
take the boys up there and stop that racket.'
I yelled to the boys, and they came on with a
jump and a yell, but only to get another
round of grape that left less than twenty of
us above ground. Still, sir. I never missed a
step, but started up hill like a pointer pup
after a rabbit The guns were right
above me and 700 graycoats pro
tecting them. But I never winked an eye.
Twenty-seven cannon again belched forth,
and those 800 confederates let a howl
out of them that made me think the old
word for hades had broken loose Another
twenty-five feet above, boys, and they are
ours,' I shouted as I waved my sword and
gathered myself for the final dash. I turned
my head when no answering shout responded
to my command and was horrified to find that
the only one of that brave band above the
level of the sod was a little drummer boy.
and he was stuffing his hat into a hole in his
drum trying to patch it up. I hesitated for a
moment and visions of home and family
flashed across my mind. Then X thought of
my honor now at stake and I leaped toward
the frowning wall of forty cannon and glisten
ing row of 3,000 bayonets. 'Go back, brave
man,' shouted the commander, with his finger
on the touch-hole of a 100 ton gun, or i shall
tire.’ 1 defied him and sprang among them
They turned those fifty cannon square upon
me. the colonel ordered his 5.000
men to give me a volley and fire low,
while he threw his sword at me. I"—the old
veteran hesitated a moment and wiped the
perspiration from his face with his finger.
1 hate to talk of that awful experience,”
said he; m.v modesty always chokes me."
t he gaping listener seemed to have shrunk
within himself. -How did you get out alive?”
he whispered.
"Well, comrade, the strangest partof It all
is-I don t remember just how T did get out
of that scrape.'
The listener silently tiptoed down the steps
and walked four times around the circle be
fore he could find his way to the Union depot.
He wanted to go home.
One of Voorhee’s Early Defeats.
Senator Voorhees often entertains his
friends with reminiscences of his early law
practice, says the Houshold, when he was
struggling laboriously to make a reputation
and to get on in the world. He was employed
one time in the defense of a murderer. It
was a desperate case. The evidence of the
crime was direct and positive. His client's
reputation was bad, and there seemed to be
no extenuating circumstances. The young
lawyer's only available resource was oratory
In summing up the case He threw himseif
Into his work with characteristic ardor. The
Kentucky court room audience was pro
foundly affected by his eloqunce. The jury
in the box were overcome with emotion, and
several members of the panel were wiping
their eves suspiciously when the orator cook
his seat.
The prosecuting attorney was an old man.
gruff in manner, and with a shrill, piping
voice. He had listened to the appeal of young
Voorhees without a sign of sensibility. He
had not. however, overlooked the effect which
had been produced upon the susceptible jury.
He rose slowly from his seat and took a pinch
of snug with great deliberation. He looked
at the bench, and then glanced sharply in the
direction of the jury. Then he remarked
with a strong nasal twaar:
“Gentlemen of the jury, you might as well
understand from the very beginning that 1
ain not boring tor water!”
There was an instant's pause, and then the
audience was convulsed with merriment. A
single dry sentence from the shrewd old
prosecutor sufficed tooverwhelm with ridicule
the eloquent pleadings of his ambitious op
ponent, who had no case, yet had nearly suc
ceeded by his eloauence and pathos in secur
ing the acquittal of the prisoner. Then
taking a second pinch of snuff, and paying no
further attention to the argument for the
defense, the prosecutor summed up the
evidence in a plain, business-like way, and
compelled the jury, by sheer force of reason
and common sense, to convict the murderer.
The Lady Was Not Hia Wife.
The man got into a street car comfortably
filled and crowded into a seat next to a sharp
faced woman in the corner, says the Detroit
Free Press. He squeezed her up against the
end of the car, took out a newspaper and
shoving it half across her fa ;e, began to read.
She stood it about five minutes.
■Excuse me," she said then, “are you a
married man?”
He dropped his paper and looked at her.
"Yes.” he replied curtly.
"I thought so," she went on; "ain’t your
wife a little woman that won’t say her soul's
her own and lets you impose on her all you
want to?”
“I don’t impose on her. madam,” he said
stiffly.
“You don't let her impose on you much, I
guess."
The man tried to read his paper again.
"I suppose she carries in the coal, builds
the fires, gets your slippers, does the market
ing, mends your clothes, tends to the chil
dren, submits like a lamb when you find
fault and is generally an excellent wife, ain't
she?”
"Madam"—he began.
“Don't say a word.” she interrupted; "I’m
not your wife, am X?”
“No, and I'm"—
"That's ail right. And as I’m not, I don't
propose to have you sitting down on me and
crowding me up in this corner till I can t
breathe without wheezing like a steam en
gine. Why don't you get out and walk?" and
the passengers snickered so that he did.
Couldn’t Live on His Talents.
A good story was circulated at the capitol
this week, says the Washington Capital, at
the expense of a certain western senator, who
owes his position to a political upheaval in
his state, and was chased into public life”
(to quote a disgruntled constituent) more by
circumstances than any meritof hisown. He
follows the gonfalon of Simpson.
Last Monday an old friend called. The
friend was in needy circumstances; he wanted
a position. What previous conversation was
had deponent knowgth not. But the seeker
after government place raised his voice to a
higher key.
Then there's nothing you can do forme”'
"My dear fellow." replied the senator, "the
democrats have filled all the places outside
the civil service except the laborers, and you
surely don t want a laborer s position."
• Don't care what it is. It means bread and
butter, and it's honest, ain't it?”
"Yes, yes. hastily interrupted the senator
“But you'll have to wash spittoons and scrub
floors, and I wouldn't like to offer a man of
your ability such a menial job. Besides your
talents ought to provide you a good living ”
“Provide nothing." retorted the now thor
oughly angered man. "I can't live on my
talents to the extent of meat and drink, and I
want you to understand, senator, that if you
had to live on your talents you wouldn't get a
square meal in a century."
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authorizing woman doctors to practice in his
dominions upon presenting their diplomas.
An English lady has been tbe first to avail
herself of the privilege and has begun to prac
tice at C onstantlnople.
One of the many recent language statisti
cians is responsible for the following: English
which at the commencement of the century
wasor.L -poken by 22 000.CuO people, is now
spoken u) lOJ.tOJ.OX). Russian is now spoken
by 65,000,000. against 30.0U0.00U at tne begin
ning of the century. In 18(10 German was
only spoken by* 35,000.000 people; to-day over
70.000.000 talk In the same language tha; Will
iam XX. does. Spanish is now used by 44,-
000 000 of people, against 30.000.000 in 180 o;
Italian by 32.000 000 instead of 18,000.000 and
Portuguese by 18.000.C0J, instead of 8,000.000.
It is reported that the farmers of the
Schuylkill valley, Pennsylvania, are feeding
their cows on wheat, and with most gratify
ing results in the quantity and quality of the
milk produced. Since the price of wheat has
fallen to (5 cents a bushel It becomes as
cheap as bran, corn or oats, which all cost
about a cent a pound, and considering the su
perior milk producing qualities of the wheat,
the farmers say that it Is the most economl
cal feed that they can use. A bushel of wheat
will make a good deal more milk and much
richer milk than the same quantity of corn or
oats, and since the Schuylkill farmers have
been feeding wheat the increased value of
their milk has brought them the equivalent
of about 90 cents a bushel for their wheat
Paper can be made out of almost anything
that can be pounded to pulp, says the St.
Louis Republic. Over fifty kinds of bark are
employed, while old sacking or bagging
makes a good article. Paper is made out of
skins, from bean stalks, pea vines, cocoanut
fiber, clover and timothy hay. straw, fresh
water weeds, sea weeds and more than one
hundred different kinds of grass. Paper has
been made from hair, fur and wool, from as
bestos. which furnishes an article Indestructi
ble by fire; from hop plants, from husks of
any and every kind of grain. Leaves make a
good strong paper, while the husks and stems
of Indian corn have also been tried, and al
most every kind of moss can be made into pa
lter. There are patents for making pa per from
sawdust and shavings, from thistles and
thistledown, from tobacco stalks and tan
hark. It is said that there are over two
thousand patents in this country covering the
manufacture of paper. No matter what the
substance, the process is substantially the
same. The material ground to a pulp, then
spread thinly over a frame and allowed to
dry, the subsequent treatment depending on
the kind of paper to be made.
The proposal to make a ship canal between
Bordeaux and Narbonne—that is to say, from
the Atlantic to the Mediterranean—has been
frequently discussed of late years, and a def
inite statement as to its dimentions and esti
mated cost has been published by M. Rene
Kerviller, an eminent French engineer who
says that the canal would be 320 miles in
length from sea to sea, and from 144 to 215
feet broad, with a depth of from 28 feet to 33
feet, so as to admit the passage of the largest
ironclads. There are to be sidings of three
quarters of a mile long at intervals of
every eight miles, so as to facilitate
navigation and avoid delays of traffic,
while there are to he 22 locks, each of
which is to be about 050 feet long by 80 feet
broad, with a fall of from 20 feet to 80 feet.
The ships using the canal are to be towed or
drawn along by fixed engines, and M. Rene
Kerviller estimates that a canal of this kind
would cost £27,400.000, and that the interest
on the capital lying dormant while the canal
was being made would amount to £3,000,000
more, 0r£20,400.000, In all, while the receipts,
at the rate of 3s. a ton, would be. less the cost
of working and repairs. £2 400.000, represent
ing an interest of 5 per cent, upon the capital
invested.
A society young woman of Buffalo has de
vised a novel entertainment, which is shortly
to be made public, says the Medical Record.
It is to be a reception for people who can t
sleep at night. Among her friends, she says,
are a great many delightful people who are
troubled with Insomnia, and who confess
that they spend many frightful, wakeful
hours walking the floor, looking out of the
window, rocking in easy chairs, trying to read
or write, and in other useless und tiresome
occupations. When her plans are fully ma
tured this original young woman intends, on
at least two nights in every week, to be at
homo to those distressed female friends from
midnight until morning. The guests are re
quested to appear in any unique respectable
bedroom gown, batb robes not excluded; the
lights are to he dim, soothing music and
stupid conversation will be the only dlver
s ons permitted, hot chocolate and light
wafers will be served, couches and easy
chairs will be provided in abundance, and the
insomnia victims are earnestly desired to fall
asleep as soon as possible, it. Is whispered
that prizes will be offered for the first snore,
hut this detail is not authentically announced.
The reception is to be a fact, however, and an
eager expectancy as to invitations is in the
air.
Think of a baby twenty-four hours old
climbing a step ladder! It was rather an un
dersized infant for that age, too, says the
Washington Star. Of course, it could not
climb up by itself, so the nurse carried it in
her arms. It did not cry. but clapped its
hands delightedly. The child was a little
hoy. and the climbing of the step ladder took
place in the very room where he was born.
The mother regarded it as an important
event evidently. It was by her orders that
the performance took place. Her interest
was none the less because it was all for the
sake of gratifying an old time superstition
Monthly nurses all agree that If a baby goes
downstairs before it goes upstairs its path in
life will be downward and ill-luck wifi at
teud it. Accordingly, precautions should
ho taken against such an omen. In this
instance, iho child having been born
on the top floor of the house, it could not be
carried upstairs, and therefore its mother had
suggested the ingenious plan of haying a step
laduer brought Into the room, so that the
nurse could mount it with baby in her arms
But that was not all. A small testament was
attached by a string to the child’s arm. and in
its chubby little fist was placed a gold dollar.
Thus, reasonable certainty was secured that
the boy would grow up both rich and pious
At the same time it seemed very odd to see
such superstitious observance practiced in
the city of Washington in the year of 189>
Some people say that it is very bad luck in
deed for a baly to see itself in a mirror be
fore it is a year old, though why this should
be so considered it would be difficult to tell
"The Influence of Music on Man, Animals
and Plants" was discussed by Director Asger
Hair,eri4( in his lecture at the Peabody Con
servatory yesterday afternoon, says the Bal
timore Sun. Of the second part of his sub
ject he said; "There is no doubt of musio's
power in animals. All singing birds are sub
ject to the influence. The spider, the mouse
and the snake can he charmed with tunes I
saw on St. Paul street one day a runaway
horse stop suddenly where a street organ
was being played and tremble all over I
had once a Gordon setter that would play
wllßhls paw on the keyboard of my piano
and with a kind of murmur, try to imitate
the human voice, making an effect that if
not musical, showed at least that the dog's
mind attempted something in that direc
tion. I have had personal experience with
the musical qualities of mice, for I once used
to play in a room where there were roanv
mice When I played for a little while out
would come trooping a critical audience of
mice, which seemed perfectly tame as long as
the music lasted. I experimented with them
again and again, and arrived at the conclu
sion that they undoubtedly were in some
way influenced by and very susceptible to
music. I grew tired of my faithful auditors
after awhile, and closed the doors of the con
cert hall to them by having a tinner cover the
holes and cracks In the floor. I believe that
everything created like ourselves, with ears
is susceptible to musical tones, and it is D rob
able that if we could only find it out there is
musical material in all such animsls that
could be developed and cultivated in some
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