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4 ClelPonriitgllefos MorningNewßßuildlT'g. Savannah. O* TUESDAY. JANUARY 2. 1g94. KEGISTBKKD ATTHK POSTOTTIC* Ilf SAVA Wit AH The MOKNTNO NEWS 1* published every day In the year, and is served to subscribers in th* citt at $1 00 a month, l& lor six months and |lO 00 for one year The MORNING NEWS, bt maiu one ■tenth. *1 00: three months. 12 50; six months, 86 00; one year. 110 00. The MORNING NEWS. BT *iH, six tones a week (without Sunday issue), three ■to the, 82 00; six months, M 00; one year, 11 00. The MORNING NEWS. Tri-Weekly. Mon days, Wednesdays and Fridays, or Tues days. Thursdays and Saturdays, three months, |1 26: six months, 82 SO: one year. 16 00. The SUNDAY NEWS.bt nil, one year, 1100. The WEEKLY NEWS, bt MAH,, one year, |] 26. Subscriptions payable In advance Remit ►y postal order, check or registered letter. Currency sent by mail at risk of senders Letters and telegrams should be addressed "MORNING NEWS," Savannah, Ga. Transient ad vertisements.other than special column. local or reading notices, amusements and cheap or want column, 10 cents a line. Fourteen lines of agate type—equal to one inch space in depth—is the standard of meas urement. Contract rates and discounts made known on application at business office. EASTERN OFFICE. 23 Park Row, New York City. C. S. FAtTLXKXB, Manager. INDEX TO SEW ADVERTISEMENTS. * Meetings—Oglethorpe Lodge No. 1,1. O. O. F . Workingmen's Union Association. Sptcur, Notices—Tho Le Panto Cigars; As to Bills Against British Steamship Eden, ■tore and Norwegian Ship Chipman; Dr. Royal! Resumed Practice; Notice of Copart aership. Hull A Peeples; Notice. A. B Hull &Cos ; Applications for Liquor Licenses; As to Crews of Norwegian Barks Herman Lemkuhl. Elektra and Lakme. Austrian Bark Mie Figlie, and Italian Barks Gaele and Vedovaß.: Jr if ty Cents, B. H. Levy & Bro.; For Sale. John T. Rowland; 11,200 to Loan. John T. Rowland. amusements— Illustrated Views of the World s Fair. Trinity Sunday School Build ing. Jan. 29 and 30. Splendid Suburban building Sites for Sale—D. G. Purse, President Merchants' and Mechanics' Land Company. Auction a Sale—Trustee's Sale of the Southern Cider and Vinegar Company, by I. D A R. D. Laßochc. Human Nature—Appel A Schaul. Thebes a button gone—B. H. Levy A Bro, Cheap Column Advertisements—Help Wanted: Employment Wanted; For Rent; For Sale; Lost; Personal: Miscellaneous. The governor of Chihuahua, Mexico, asserts that the reports of a revolution in his state sprang from the antics of a band of cowboys from Texas, who went over into his precincts, got full of pulque and 6hot the air full of holes. From Maine to Maryland there is com plaint bf the mild temperature, which precludes the gathering of a crop of natural ice. The conditions, however, are favorable for an extraordinary crop of plausible explanations, to be delivered at yopr door next summer, along with a nugget of machine ice for a dime. A San Francisco dispatch of recent date begins, "The worst snow storm for twenty years,” etc. That language has the right ring about it, and strengthens the belief that this winter will not be radically different from other winters, after all. ‘'The worst snow for twenty years” falls every winter regularly on the Pacific slope. / The Senate committee on rules will re port back the Blackburn resolution, pro viding a change in the rules so as to per mit of closure, with tho recommendation that nothing be done in the matter until the next session of congress. This will shatter the hopes of those senators who hoped soon to see majority rule firmly es tablished in the Senate. The Kolbites. of Alabama, have ap parently determined to try their heads against the same stone wall they butted in the last state election—they are going to run the same state ticket that ran be fore. It must be admitted, by tho way, that the county conventions of last week, by declaring against the convict lease system, prepared a good plank for their forthcoming party platform. A Topeka dispatch says that Mrs. has grown tired of politics and will be come a fruit raiser in California. The lady's efforts at raising official plums in Kansas have not been attended with the most brilliant success, it is true: probably because she acted on the line of tho ad vice given by an eminent populist to the southern farmers some time ago, to "raise more h and less cotton.” 1 In the gymnasium of the Young Men's Christian Association hall at Rarens wood, a suburb of Chicago, two members of the association, with the approval of the other members, settled their differ ences under Queensberry rules. In case the governor of Florida proves too much for them, Corbett and Mitchell might ap ply for accommodations to the ltavens wood Young Men's Christian Association. Mr. Robert L. Cutting, of New York, who died a week or so ago. left a fortune of *500,000. Robert L. Cutting, Jr., the society young man who created a sensa tion about a year ago by marrying an actress and attempting to become an actor—which attempt, by the way, ho has abandoned—is the son of the deceased gentleman. But his father’s will, it is understood, makes no mention of the son’s game. The young man was cut off without a cent for marrying against the wishes of his parent. A merry church row is going on at Du buque, la. At a praise service last Fri day night the organist played and the choir sang "Ta-ra-ra Boom-de-ay'’ as a re cessional hymn. A visiting preacher stopped the music and the departing con gregation and denounced the singing of "such an ungodly tune" as a “profanation of the temple.” The pastor, thereupon, replied hotly that the brother would ob lige him by attending to his own business, that he had ordered the tune sung, and he was “running this church.” The older folks in the crowd took the vis iting preacher's part and the vounger folks stood by their pastor. The matter ended for the instant with an interchange of spicy comment, but the spirit of the thing has continued and is growing, to the imminent danger of a divided congregation. Dole’s Defiance. Mr. Dole, Hawaii’s provisional presi dent, does not appear to be the high minded and concientious individual he has been represented to be. His letter to Minister Willis, in which he charges that Minister Willis and the United States government are responsible for a very un happy condition of affairs at Honolulu, is hardly the kind of a document to be expected from a man in his position and of his alleged high character. If he is to be believed the whole provisional govern ment and all the men, women and chil dren at Honolulu were in a continual state of alarm from the time Minister Willis arrived until President Cleveland's message was received, because of the con duct of Minister Willis. As far as is known in this country Min ister Willis did nothing calculated to make anybody apprehensive of danger. He certainty sought to create the im pression that nobody need be uneasy on account of anything he might do. He simply undertook to carry out his instruc tions to restore the queen by peaceable means. He did nothing that should have caused uneasiness to Hawaiians or the Dole government. President Dole's letter will not do him or his government any good. It is not defensible from any standpoint from which it may be viewed. He seems to have realized that he made a bad blunder. When Minister Willis asked him for a bill of particulars he refused to give it on the ground that having read President Cleveland's mes sage he saw no reason for carrying on the correspondence. The truth is, doubtless, that he couldn’t furnish a bill of particulars. His letter to Minister Willis was evidently written with the view of influencing public opinion in this country in his favor. His refusal, however, to name any one who had been alarmed, or who had suffered business losses by Minister Willis’ conduct, justi fies the conclusion that his letter is lack ing in sincerity. He has created the im pression that he is not quite the high minded, straightforward man his friends have represented him to be. Congress will notice his letter when it takes up the Hawaiian question, and will probably reach about the same conclusion the President did in respect to it. The Movement Towards Palestine. There is undoubtedly an understanding among the leaders of the Jews that Pales tine shall become theheadquarters of their race. For several years there have been quiet efforts made to prepare the way for a movement of Jews to the Holy Land. Very little has been done as yet, but un dertakings of that kind are not pushed vigorously. Time is expected to aid greatly in bringing about the conditions that will make Palestine desirable to the Jews. The Jewish leaders in Europe have, it is said, definitely decided that it would not be advisable to send colonies of Jews there at this time. The first thing that they are preparing to do is to establish order and discipline among those Already there. A cablegram says that the Rothschilds have already done something in that direction by inaugu rating a system of technical training and by establishing schools. To invite immi grants to go there under existing condi- : tions would increase the difficulties of preparing the way for a large Jewish pop ulation. Until such a state of affairs is secured as would make the country an at tractive one it would bo folly to encour age Jews to colonize there, but when ev erything is ready for colonists there will be no difficulty in increasing tho present population of Palestine rapidly. Only a small portion of the Jews that are now scattered throughout the world would ever think of giving up their com fortable homes and profitable occupations to begin life anew in that country, but those who would not go would contribute liberally to help those who would. The immigrants who would consent to settle there are the poor, who would make the change of residence with the hope of im proving their material condition. Palestine hasn't a rich soil and there are comparatively few who could make a living from any business they might en gage in thero, because the business oppor tunities are limited. These oppor tunities would increase, however, as tho population increased. Asa rule Jews do not take much interest in agriculture, but they might take more in it in Palestine than elsewhere. The indications now aoe that within the next ten years much will be done towards establishing Jewish colonies. To give Palestine as large a population as it could satisfactorily support would not, take very long after the work of coloniza tion was begun. It is safe to predict that there will be some interesting develop ments before tho colonization scheme is carried into effect. The news that Mr. George W. Childs, the universally admired editor and phi lanthropist, of Philadelphia, is seriously ill will cause geueral regret throughout the country. While at his office, in the Philadelphia Ledger building on Thursday Mr. Childs was seized with an attack of vertigo, and for awhile his life was de spaired of. He was unconscious for two hours, and was removed to his home. His condition improved somewhat under medical treatment, as our dispatches reported, and the physicians spoke hopefully of his case. The bulle tins issued later by his doctors, however, indicate the probability that the wish of all yvho know or have heard of the emi nent editor, that his recovery may be speedy and complete, will be in vain. Milan, the disreputable and dissolute ex-king of Servia, who sold his throne, abused his wife and blackmailed his people, having spent all the money he got for his crown and through his machina tions, is going back to Belgrade to try to raise another pot. Under cover of an al leged plot on the part of tho radicals to overthrow the dynasty, Milan will, it is believed, endeavor to have a military dic tatorship declared, with himself as dictator. The king, Milan's sou? is a boy, and is under the influence of his father, hence the plot may be carried through, unless the Servian ministers strike upon some plan to prevent either the ex-king or the radicals from making any demonstra tion. It appears that this government is still engaged in the business of suppressing slavery, to a small extent. It was re cently called on to pay 8103.83 as its share of the cost of anti-siave trading opera i tions in Africa. THE MORNING LEVY’S: TUESDAY, JAN UARY 23, 1804. Not That Kind of a President. The mischief makers are trying to make it appear that the President vetoed the New York and New Jersey bridge bill because Senator Hill is deeply interested in it, and was chiefly instru mental in having it passed. While it is true that Senator Hill brought about the defeat of the nomination of Mr. Horn blower. or at least had a great deal to do with defeating it, there is no ground for saying that the President vetoed the bridge bill with the view of punishing the senator for the part he took in defeating the Hornblower nomination. If Mr. Cleveland were capable of an act of that kind he would not be fit to be President. The reasons the President gave for ve toing the hill are very good ones. There are several of them, but one of them —the one that the bill does not prohibit tne putting of pillars for the support of the bridge in the channel of the river, thus obstructing commerce—is sufficient to justify the veto. It was not the inten tion of congress, probably to grant the bridge company the right to erect pillars in the river, but the bill does grant that privilege, and the company might have obstructed the channel of the river if the bill had become a law. The President did simply what he thought it was his duty to do. He may have thought that a veto of the bill would not be pleasant for Senator Hill, but it is certainly unjust to say that he vetoed it for the purpose of strik ing a blow at Senator Hill. It is to be regretted that the President is not in accord with the New York sena tors on the really important questions. It would be better for New York and, in fact, the whole country if they worked together. Traffic on the Mississippi. The government is spending millions of dollars in the improvement of the Mis sissippi river. The improvement has two purposes in view, namely, to deepen the channel and prevent overflows. The main purpose is. of course, to deepen the chan nel, and thus benefit commerce. It is a fact, however, that the com merce of the river is steadily declining. No such an amount of carrying is done upon it as there was twenty-five years ago, and the indications are that less will be done twenty-five years hence than now, even though its channel should be greatly improved. The reason is, that the railroads are do ing the greater part of the transporta tion that naturally belongs to the river. While it is true that river freight rates are lower than rail freight rates the railroads manage to get the bulk of the business. It will not be long before railroads will be paralleling the river on both sides from St. Paul to New Orleans. From St. Paul to Dubuque there is a railroad on each side of the river, and they do nearly all the shipping that is done between those cities. Thetriver is closed by ice for four months in the year, when the rail roads do all the business. The railroads have taken advantage of this annual closing of the river to bulldoze the largest shippers into making yearly con tracts with them. A few held out against such contracts for awhile, and they were made to pay higher rates when the river waa closed, and were discriminated against in other ways. They found it to their advantage to make annual contracts. From Dubuque to St. Louis there are railroads on each side of the river, and from St. Louis to Cairo there is a rail road. There is a road from Mem phis to New Orleans, and other lines of road are being constructed along other parts of the river. Within a very few years there will be roads on each side of the river from the head of navigation tc New Orleans. Old steamboat owners and captains see that the time is not distant when there will bo very little use for steamboats on the Mississippi river. The splendid fleet of steamboats that once made a magnificent spectacle along the levee at New Orleans has, to a great extent, disappeared. A good many steamboats can be seen there still, but there is no such number as there once was. The day of steamboat traffic on the Mississippi virtually belongs to the past, and the steamboats will not re gain their supremacy however much the navigation of tho great river may be im proved. It may be true, as some critics allege, that Patti has long since passed the zenith of her glory as a singer—that fs, from an artistic and ideal point of view. But from tho point of view of the box office, which, at her age, Mme. Patti probably considers of first importance, she con tinues to be a success. At Chicago the other day 2,000 people more than the Au ditorium could hold tried to fight their way iu to hear the diva sing, and the police had to be called to quell the dis order. Women predominated in the tur bulent throng and were, it is said, more unreasonable and violent than the men. So long as the madame’s drawing power remains potential it matters little about her singing power. Last week the mayor of Chicago issued orders to the police to clear the city of tramps who, in the guise of unfortunate unemployed workingmen, begged and ac cepted charity but refused to work. The effect has been that the “army of unem ployed” in Chicago has decreased to an appreciable extent. The tramps, however, are moving eastward in bodies and not scattering over the country. Buffalo, N. Y.. is now full of them, and they are said to be working their way to New York city. As soon as the tramps struck Buffalo the number of burglaries in the residence portion of the city began to increase. The mayor of the city will issue strict orders calculated to make the tramps move on. A bill has been introduced in the Ken tucky legislature which prohibits the organization or existence of any society which aims to make any discrimination, or arouse any antagonism, between Christians of different sects because of their denominational differences. It is understood that the bill is aimed at the American Protective Association, au anti- Catholic society that is causing consider able stir throughout the country. But if the friends of the bill are not very care ful they will hit some of the churches as well. The life of Peixoto’s government would be a bad insurance risk, if it were true that reinforcements of 8,000 insurgents had arrived at Rio de Janeiro. PERSONAL. Gen. Sickles, of New York, when asked a few days ago If he intended to make a speech on the tariff auestion, answered: "I don’t be hej'* I will participate In the debate. 1 am still studying the question. I have been studying it for forty years. Capt McDougall. of Wisconsin, the origin ator of the whalebatk ships, predicts that within the next ten years the shipments from and to the head of Lake Superior will amount to fully 2D.GUO.OX) tons yearly, or more lhan any other port of the world. Edward C. Ashley, of Providence, Special Collector of Customs, died last week of pneu monia. Mr. Ashley was appointed a customs officer during President Buchanan s adminis tration in 1867, and was one of the oldest government officials in Rhode Island. Messrs. Moody ind Sankey have opened a series of revival meetings in Providence that is to continue a month. Their Hrst meetings were attended by throngs of people, several overflow meetings being held to accommodate those who could not Und admission to the hall. John A. Becker, president of the Baltimore Cactus Society, and the owner of one of the finest collections of cacti in the United s ’^l eß - 's negotiating with Gustave Schribc. of Mexico, for the purchase by the society of the Mexican exhibit of cacti at the world s fair. The exhibit Includes one specimen valued at *I.OOO. The refusal of the German emperor to con fer the “Schiller prize" on Ludwig Fulda, the Oerman poet, has caused considerable com ment in Germany. The committee decided so to honor his work. "The Talesman." It is now said that the emperor objected because of the youth of Fulda, who was born in 1862. The emperor was born in 1869. There are now two German representatives at Rome bearing the name Von Bulow. One I s 'be German ambassador to the King of J' a *T. Bernhard von Bnlow. and the other is the Prussian minister to the Vatican. Otto von Bulow. Although the two men bear diff erent titles, considerable contusion results from their presepce in a diplomatic capacity in the same capital, and it ts possible that one may be transferred to another city. M. Zola, in reply to questions put to him last week aboqlt anarchists, made the fol lowing answer: "To tell the truth. I think all the means tried insufficient tp stop the rising tide of anarchistic doctrines. What lam asked, will be a preventive:- Well, I. who have fought for positivism, after thirty years of struggling, And tliat my convictions have been shaken. Religious faith would prevent the propagation of such theories: i ut has it not almost disappeared nowadays? Who is to give fis anew ideal -” BRIGHT BITS. Husband (triumphantly )—l've done it- I have played two gomes of chess blindfolded. Wife—Well. Id like to run out for half an hour. Kuprose you mix the bread, mind the baby, stir the pudding, baste the roast, watch the vegetables and answer the door hell for a while. You needn't be blindfolded.—New York Weekly. "Which was the greater general of the two, Caisar or Hannibal?" was the question put to young Schwefler at his last examination He replied as follows: "If we consider who Ciesar and Hannibal were, ond ask ourselves which of them was the greater, we must de cidedly answer in the affirmative."—Lustige Blatter, Vienna. The English newspapers relate the follow ing story of Btsbcp Tcmpie. of London. A lady was narrating to his lordship how her aunt liad escaped from a railway accident. "Five people In the samt compartment were killed, und my aunt alone escaped; wasn t it providential?” • Humph ’' said the bishop, “don't know your aunt; cant say!”—Ex change. Mr. Norris (at the restaurant)—Yes, sir; a small tenderloin steak and a bottle of Hass have been my invariable lunch every day for the last twelve years. Mr. Norris (at home)—Great Scott: This is the second piece of roast beef we've had this mon’h: I'm sick and tired of this same ness. I don't see. Maria, why on earth you can t manage to Introduce a little more va riety into our dinners:—Brooklyn Life. Mrs. Father- -Norah. what became of those cards Mrs. Van Alstyne and Miss de Morti mer left here yesterday? Norah-1 tuk them. Mrs. Parker; I didn't think they was of unny use to you. Mrs. Parker—And what did you-do with them? Norah—l sint them to me cousin in Jersey City; she does a great deal of callin’, an'l thought she inoight use ’em.—Harper s Ba zar. Landlord (of the "Travelers' Rest”) —See that feller over there? Dooriri' the past year he has plugged no less than six men right on the street. Tender Foot—l should think the commu nity would not allow so dangerous a man to run at large. Landlord—Lord bless your soul, man: There ain't a bit of danger in him to the com munity. He never hits anybody but the man he shootsat:—Puck. CURRENT COMMENT. Morton and the Alliance. From the Chicago Record (lad.). It is no answer to his charges to call for his resignation. Rather let the alliance set dili gently to work to accomplish so much good for the farmers that the secretary will lie put to the blush by the brilliancy of its achieve ments. That is the only fitting answer for criticism spoken with sincerity, if not with good judgment. ' Mr. Dole’s Bad Manners. From the New York Times (Dem). It is not worth while to take Mr. Dole's bad manners and want of tact too seriously. The poor man hux evidently become nervous and Irascible, and has not even yet got used to being ono of the -Dowers of the earth. He may yet conclude ihxt it is better to be civil, and that if he Is to lecome a peimanent gov ernment, it might be useful to cultivate friendly relations with the United States, whose people do hot really enjoy having their government insulted, even by the most insig nificant of potentates. Faots to Be Remembered. From the Chicago Herald (Dem.). It was not the last democratic House that created an annua) charge ofJIO.OOO.UOO for sugar bounty. It was not the last democratic House that added some Bfio.ooo.too to the annual pen sion charge, and, at the same time, cut off al Out 860,000,u0J of revenue bv putting raw sugar on the free list. It was the last repute lhan House—the House of Reed, McKinley & Co..—that did these things. It was the same House that created a charge for shipping bounties and that voted to return to the States some $15,000,003 of direct taxes paid by individuals thirty years ago. It was not a democratic House that used up the large surplus in the purchase of bonds not due at a high premium. It was the last republican administration that did that. It was not the last democratic House that brought ou the silver panic by passing the Sherman silver purchase and inflation bill. It was the last republican House and Senate that did that, and so cut the revenues aivay down below the ordinary figures. It was a republican con gress that made It necessary for a democratic congress to appropriate over t1.000.u00.u00. That Is the truth of the matter. The Demands of the Alliance. From the Chicago Tribune (Rep.). The National Farmers' Alliance asks for a great deal. It wants the bullot given to women. It demands the election of Presi dent, Vice President,' United states senators and postmasters by the direct vote of the people. The first demand nocessilates the change of state constitutions, and the latter of the federal constitution—a very slow job. The alliance demands in the interest of farm ers the adoption of the Hatch-Washburn anti option bill, a measure which wo Id be most injurious to their interests, it wants the farmers to elect thoir pro rata share of the legislators of the Country in iheir respective parties. It is iheir own fault If they do not get their share. A progressive reading course for farmers is recommended, to be under tho control of the various farmers' organizations, agricultural ol leges. and experimental stations. This is an excellent idea. It would lie better for the farmers if they read more than they do The alliance demands 'ln our monetary systems regular and equitable dis tribution independent of selfish and greedy combinations, free from private manipula tions. with stability as well as flexibility, and value as well as volume.” Just what is meant hy thts is not s nted. It may mcau anything or nothing. These are confirmed without opposition. Then when the leglsja lature meets next January the subject can be discussed and It will be seen what can be done. It is useless to look to a constitutional convention for relief, firstly, because two thirds of the members of the general assem bly will not vote to call one, and secondly were they to do so a majority of the people would not vote to have one. The Colonel's Missing Hand. Col Streeter, a Floridan, told the zoolog ical reporter of the Washington Star a good one the other night. One of the colonels hands was missing, and knowing the section from which they hailed, the reporter nat uaraily expected to get a firs'-class war story. But he didn t. ihe hand was not lost in the fratricidal struggle. It was the work of an aligator. "Well it happened a long time ago." said Col. Streeter, and if i had not told the story so often I think I should have forgotten it When 1 was a young fellow, chuckful of dazzling dreams and ambitious schemes. I used to hunt 'gators for a living. The h.de of one of these brutes is worth all the way from *1 to *4. according to size, condition, and age. I had a big flat-bottom boat, sort of a compromise between a batteau. and a sand scow, and X used to cruise at night on a lake not far out of Tampa. One dark night I shoved off. After I had reached the most alligatorial part of the lake I lit a fire on the end of the boat. These craft are arranged especially for this, so there ixn t much danger of the whole thing going up in smoke. Well, when my rosin knots began to blaze and sputter and sizzle as rosin knots will, it wasn't long before a big 'gator raised his head out of the lake to see what the illu mination meant. To a newcomer there isn't any more horrible sight this side of the other world, than a great long gator lying close to you and grinning at you with his ripsaw ivories under the weird glare of pine knots. But I didn't think of this, for I was an old Jiand at the business. Bang, and a Sharpe gun relieved that gator of all earthly care and trouble. I hauled him in and stretched him out in the bottom of my boat It was a good night for the sport, and the 'gators seemed to be especially inquisitive as to the meaning of that fitful light. That trusty rifle spake again and again, and one by one I landed the victims in the old boat. The last one came to the too prettv close to daybreak. He Was a savags looking old timer. He was what with propriety we might call a hard-shell gator. He looked at me in an insulting sort of way. and I resented his impertinence. I hrought him Into the boat. There ts just where I made my mistake. That alligator wasn't all the wav dead. He seemed to have lots of energy stored up some where. and he turned on me. We had a fight rl.ht there in the boat. Before I could pump some pills Into him he had me. What a wrestling match it was Young man, that s what s the matter with the end of that arm." How a Compass Was Bewitched. The story that a deviation of her compass, resulting from the presence ijf steel in a cork leg worn by the man at the wheel, caused the steamer Susan E. Peck to strand near Bar Point, Lake Erie, in September last, with a lose to the underwriters of- upward of t.u.000. has brought out ar o'her quite funny one. says the Milwaukee "Wisconsin. According to the narrator on one of the trips of the fine steel steamer Castalia down Lake Huron the last reason, the second mate reported to Capt. Allen that the compass had suddenly gone wroqg . that the needle would swing three or.four points to the right or left at intervals, and that be.ause of these erratic movements it had become utterly impossible to steer a course—itrfact. he had lost track of the steamer altogether. Capt. Allen ac companied the mate to the pilot house and found matters just as they had been reported. Besides the man at the wheel two lauy pas sengers were in the pilot house when Capt. Allen entered. Turning to them, after rheditatlng for a moment, he asked if they wore steel corsets. A reply in the affirmative led to a further question as to where they had been, and this elicited the information that the ladies had paid a vist to the engine room and that while there the engineer had afforded them an opportunity to inspect the dynamo which supplied the electric lights of the steamer. “That settles it: you must get out of here:” next greeted the ears of the ladies as Capt. Alien opened the prtot house door for their exit. And while they were walking to tho cabin in a maze of surprise and astonishment at Capt. Allen s exhibition of bluff sailor like authority that compass got right down io staid business again and showed the man at the wheel the way with its usual precision. It is hardly necessary to explain that the dynamo had magnetized the stell corsets worn by the ladies, and that thus the corsets became responsible for the crazy race the needle of the compass ran as the wearers moved to and fro in the pilot house. The Foreign Girl. From Outing. Her gown is made hy Felix. Her chapeau by Roues;: Her suedes of tan and point lace faa Are from the Ban Marche, She skims the Anglo Saxon. And punctures It with French; Affe. G the works of Moliere, and Derivatives by breach. As table d'hote all cater To her gastronomic taste; The menu (hieroglyphic s art.) In foreign lingo's graced Vienna serves her roll, Madeira yields its wines— Figs and dates from foreign states, And grapes from Tuscan vines. She chats of dear old Naples. Gondolas and guitars;. The mule l a ,k rile—the Rigis hight-> The Vatican and Mars; The violets she gath'red From lasso s lonely tomb: The lion of Lucerne. and bits Of keepsakes in Iter room. She has a charming accent, A shrug that's h renchy. too— She dotes on ballades and rondeaux, And triolets, a few. But should you probe one query r-he 11 answer you. my man. With quite a saucy, injured air. Why, I'm American: ' He Got Even at Last. "That "all things come to him who waits" has been proven to me more than once," said Judge Henry McKinney to the Cleveland Plain Dealer. ‘One day when I was a boy of 9or 10 years I was sent on an errand a long way into the country. On my way home, being hot and thirsty. I climbed over a fence and began picking some wild strawberries. All of A sudden the owner of the farm came rushing up behind xaa and struck me a brutal blow with a heavy ox gad. almost cutting my bedy in two. As I sturted to run away he hit me again, a most vicidus blow. Old man.' said I. i ll get even some day.’ X did, but it was thirty years later. I was called upon to defend the property and rights of some orphan children. As it happened the op pressor was the man with the ox gad. In summing up I told the story of the brutal blows that 1 had received in that meadow thirty years ago. There is the man that did it.'said Ito the jury. Do you wonder that such a man would rob or; han children ” The jury didn t seem to wonder a bit. for 1 got a verdict in my favor in less than five min utes.” She Discharged the Servant. The young husband was somewhat sur prised when his wife came into the office, say 9 the Indianapolis Journal. She opened the conversation at once. "I want enough money to go out of town for a few days,” she said, "and you will have to take your meals down town for a few days.” "Why. what doesthis mean?” “It means j st this. I got a messenger-boy to come to the house for alary Ann. to tell her that she was wanted at her aunt’s, and as soon as she got around the corner 1 shut up the house and locked it and ran away. When she comes back she won t find any one there We don't owe her anything, so it is all right and I wanted to discharge her. but you know I never would dare to tell her to go, and I know vou-wouldn’t dare, and don't vou think your little wife knows pretty well how to manage? Say yes. now. or I’ll break down and cry right here in the office." BAK NG POWDER Awarded Highest Honors World's Fair, QS^Powder. The only Pure Cream of Tartar Powder.—No Ammonia; No Used in Millions of Homes— 40 Years the Standard* ITEMS OF INTEREST. Minnie Jefferson, who was a slave In the family of Thomas Jefferson while he was President of the United States, is still living in New York. She is 107 years old. Her hus band belonged to Daniel' Taylor, who was one of the largest slave owners of revolution ary times. The death rate in London has averaged about 22 per thousand for the past two or three years. Bronchitis kills more than any other disease, from 1 1 010 to 12.000 annually, consumption not less than 8.000 and pneumo nia about 0,000. Influenza carried oft over 2.U00 people in 1892. while in 1888 only three deaths were reported from that cause, and in I*B9 five. Cancer causes the death of more than 3,000 annually. A woman went into a jewelry store in New York and asked to see some diamond rings As she was looking at them she directed the clerk s attention another way for a moment, and ponped one of the rings into her mouth. She did not notice beforehand that the ring had a lag attached to it by a long string, and when the clerk turned to her. he was sur prised to see the tag hanging out of her mouth by the string, which she was making the most extraordinary faces In her efforts to swallow. The string had gotten tangled in her front teeth, and refused to go either way. The clerk disentangled it for her. and also disen tangled several pocket books which were found in her pocket. Yet Lee, a wealthy Mongolian of New York, some two years ago thought that he had done a great stroke of business when he persuaded Louise Shroeder. of Hoboken, to become his wife. She was white, and young, and comely, and he thought that she was a prize in the matrimonial lottery, though It is said that, as he was a good catch, the Chinese women of Mott street did not look on her with favor, and whispered among themselves unspeaka ble tnings arout her monstrous feet. Yet Lee paid little attention to their talk, nor yet did his bride, but she did pay attention to his behavior, which seems not to have been to her liking, and after living with him for a year she forsook his bed and board and hired herseif out to another Chinaman in Hoboken, where she worked In his laundry. Yet Lee was not worried very much about that, hut ho was very much worried when the other day a large bill was presented to him for goods that his recreant wife had bought, and when he was made to understand that he was legally liable for her expenditures he was very much wroth indeed, and proceeded-at once to in stitute proceedings for divorce. In the northern part of Limestone county- Alabama, says a writer in the Pittsburg Dis. patch, is a tract of land consisting of more than 1,000 acres which is noton the map of the state, nor can it be found in the register s office of that county. No one claims It and no taxes have ever been paid on it. It ts a vast wilderness. Inhabited by snakes, deer and razor back hogs. It is a free hunting ground and thousands of thrse hogs are killed every year, more for the sport than for any thing else. The hogs are wild and cannot be domesticated. Their yield is said io be enor mous. Tom Booth, of Pulaski. Tenn., se cured a male and female and did all in his power to tame them, but failed. He kept them a year, and at the ond of that time they were as wild as at first. The more he fed them the thinner they be came. Within the year they consumed 100 bushels of corn and were as lean as church mice. During that lime the sow had five lit ters of pigs, numbering 210. Mr. -Booth could not tame any of these nor get them iat enough to make even soap grease. Finally he gave them to a negro, who now considers himself under no obligations to Mr. Bcoth. The flesh of these hogs resembles horse flesh. It Is as tough as coon skin, and a large-sized hog of this species rendered would not make grease enough to fry a skillet of batter cakes. Ihey go througd a garden like a shovel plough, and no vegetable escapes them. Thev can crowd through a crack that would hardly admit a mouse, and their sharp noses act as levers for garden gates. The Tennesseeans make great fun of Alabama's razor-back hogs. “Without dogs the larger portion of the great Eskimo family peopling the barren northern coast of America would find it im possible to exist in its chosen home." So writes Mr. E. W. Nelson, in his “Mammals of Northern Alaska,” says the Y’outh s Companion They are use! in the winter for hunting, sledge drawing and the like, but in summer are mostly lett to shift for themselves. They receive much hard usage, as well as do much haid work, but are described, nevertheless, as a rollicking set full of play, fond of human society, and quar relsome as school boys. Mr. Nelson credits them with a vein of humor and declares that their varying characterristics can be read in their faces. They are worth from 82 to sls a piece, according to age, size and Intelligence. For sleilge-drawing they are harnessed in teams of either seven or nine—three or four pairs and a leader. The load is from 3i 0 to 700 pounds, and the course is mainly through unbroken snow or over rough ice. With a 1 am of seven dogs an,d a load of more than 300 pounds. Mr. helspn made a journey of more than 1.200 miles in about two months. The last 60 miles were made over a had road in a continuous pull of twen ty-one hours. They are much affected by the moon. During full moon half the night is spent by them in howliDg ifl chorus. 'Dur ing the entire winter at St. Michael s,” says Mr. Nelson, "we were invariably given a tho rus every moonlight night, and the dogs of two neighboring villages joined in the sere nade.” He speaks of its "wild, weird har mony." and seems to have found it agreeable rather than otherwise. The influence of the moon is also very apparent when the dogs are traveling. They brighten up as the moon rises, and pricking up their ears start onas if they had forgotten their fatigue. The fur traders take advantage of this fact, and some times lie over during the day and travel at night. The dogs endure an astonishing de gree of cold. Mr. Nelson saw a female with two newly-born puppies lying upon the snow near a hut, with no sign of shelter, when the thermometer ranged from 30° to 35° below zero. It is about four years, says the New? York Tribune, since the epidemic influenza began its ravages in this country, having been origi nally imported from Europe, and, having be come domiciled, it has now entered upon its fifth season of mischief In the United States, althorgh. fortunately, not with the same se verity that has characterized Its previous prevalence. An official report on this malady by medical officials connected with the local government board of Gie3t Britain has re cently made itsappearance. Therein the exist ence of an influenza bacillus is reaffl med. I)r. Klein sa;s that this microbe “is always abundantly present in the bronchial s.cre tions of patients." and "diminish in number as the disease Is abated.” The germs are disseminated, according to Dr. Parsons, by bringing the affected and healthy together, as in public vehicles and places of meeting, and especially by the poison being present in con fined and viliated air. Dr. Caldwell Smith says: "An individual is affected by breathing at once the expired air from a person suffering from the di sease, and I believe this to he the oulv method of the infection." Num erous stories are told to show how the malady is carried from place to place. A music teacher visited two relatives who were victims of it. and three days latter was him self attacked. However' he made a round of his pupils before succumbing, and two days afterward ten of them also developed the disease. -The ordinary intercourse of a household or business office, letter written and sealed by sufferer s fingering account books whose leaves have been turned with moistened finger-tips by affected persons, and riding in close and crowded railway ears, are among the most common methods of propa gation. Isolation of patients, disieeqfon of rooms, and ample ventilation are strongly urged as preventive measures. At Brighton the inmates of the borough sanatorium “were protected effectually by such precautions or for two-successivejseasons. and during a third season the-only case was that of a servant re t rning from a distant place where the dis ease was prevalent. When she fell ill she was promptly isolated, and thus no one else was affected. Scientific Facts . Prof. Johnson of Yale Colle-e says: “Butterine is free from the tendency to change and taint, which speedily renders a large proportion of butter unfit for human food.” Good butter is desirable when fresh, but it turns rancid very quickly SILVER CtIURN BUTTERINE , containing no butyric acid, is sweet and always remains so. Therefore,SilverChurn Butter', ine is preferable as an article of food. Our Silver Churn trade mark on each wrapper is a guarantee of excellence. Wholesale by Armour Packing Cos., Savannah, Ga. ARMOUR PACKING CO Kansas City, U. S. A. HOTELS. OPEN UNTIL MAY.' HOTEL 60RD0VA, St. Augustine. One of the group of Spanish-Moresque palaces (Ponce de Leon, Alcazar. Cordovas American plan- Rate—l3. 83 50. £4 per day C. B. KNOTT. Manager. Hotel Ponce de Leon wIU onen Jan. 10, IS3V DANIEL HOJAN. ■SI The subjoined linos will ba offered during the ensuin? week at half price, with a view of mak ing room for our Spring importa tions, the first installment of which will be opened within the next week. Fine Cloth Jackets. Beaver, Kersey, Melton anJ Cheviot, black and colored, tight, loose and reefer, medium and full skirls, plain or trimmed with braid and fur; hundreds of styles. Fine Cloth Cloaks. Black and colored, with capes; high collars and full sleeves; best shapes perfect fitting, with and without umbrella skirts, with and without fur trimming. $3 75, were $6; $5, were $8 50; $7 50, were $10; $9, were sl2 50. Ladies’ Plush Jackets, finest linings and fin'Sh, real seal loops, sizes 32 to 33, were sls, S2O and $25, now $5, $7 50 and 510. Fine Table Linens. Table Cloth and Napkins to match, both colored borders and pure white, plain and knotted fringes, $4 50, were $6; $5, were $7 50. 3cs! Doub'e Damask, bleached aid un bleached, 63 to 72 inches wide, new designs, fresh, clean goods, 45c, were 60c; 65c, were 75c; 70c. were 85c; 80c. were 95c. Fail lines Turkey Red and Cardinal Dam asks at prices from 25c to $1 yard. Bargains in 5-8 and 3-4 Napkins. Thousands of Towels in all sizes and af all prices from 10c each to sl. 200 pairs Boys’ Odd Pants at half price. DANIEL HOGAN. LEATHER GOODS. TLEHovAir On Feb. 1 we will occupy the store 144 Congress street, corner Whitaker st., where we will carry a large stock of Harness, Saddles. Bridles, Collars, Rubber and Leather Belting, Packing, Hose, Belt Hooks, Lacing, Trunks and Traveling Bags. Any one wishing to buy Harness and Saddles cheap will do well to call upon us before the Ist. in i in 154 St. Julian and 153 Bryan Sts. COMMISSION MERCHANT. 50,000 HIDES WANTED. •MMsiALSO trKS. T- ;Ti Highest cash prices paid. No tom mil- Mon charged. M. V. HENDERSON, - 101 BAT #T