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~ THURSDAY. JANUARY 25. 1894.
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CddfederaK Veterans' Association; Zerubba
bel Lodge No. 15. F. & A M., Haupt Lodge,
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Special Notices—Our Leading Cigar,
Mohlenbroeck A Diecks; Infanta Eulalia Ci
gars. Reid A Cos.; the Corbett-Mltchell Fight
at the Gaiety To-day; Corbett and Mitchell
Fight, at Somers'.
Steamship Schedules—Ocean Steamship
Company; Baltimore Steamship Company.
Why Not?—Falk Clothing Company.
Colored Laundered Shirts—At Collat's.
See the Free Silver Churn Buttkkine
—Armour Packing Company, Kansas City, U.
6. A.
Os Special Sale This Week—Appel &
Scfaanl
, A Vert Rustt Coat—B H. Levy & Bro.
' Cheap Column advertisements—Help
Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Rent;
For Sale; Lost; Personal; Miscellaneous.
Miss Rose Elizabeth Cleveland, the
President's talented sister, who has been
traveling abroad for two years, will make
an extended stay at the white bouse,
which she is now visitipg for the first
time during her brother’s present admin
istration. Miss Cleveland presided over
the white house during President Cleve
land's former administration, but imme
diately after his marriage took up her
residence at Albany and afterward in
New York city.
The sentiment against convict lease
systems, or other systems of convict em
ployment under which prison labor comes
into contact with honest labor, is spread
ing and growing stronger throughout the
south. Three bills have recently been in
troduced in the Virginia legislature with
a view to reforming the penitentiary
laws. One bill provides that convict
laborers shall be removed from the capi
tal squares in Richmond, another that the
factories in the penitentiary shall not be
enlarged, and a third that goods manu
factured by convicts under contract, or
for the state, shall be marked “convict
made” for the information of purchasers,
the object being to discourage the sale of
such goods.
The Springfield (Mass.) Republican is
favorably disposed towards the bill in
troduced by Representative Moses, of this
state, removing the disabilities of Mexi
can and Indian war veterans who served
in the confederate armies and granting
them pensions. “The bill,” says the Re
publican, “is consistent with the policy
which the country has adopted toward
ex-confederates. That policy is to let by
gones be by-gones. Some of the men
Whose disabilities the Moses bill removes,
fought in the Mexican war, or some of the
earlier Indian wars, and earnod their pen
sions, if anybody did who fought in those
wars. There would be no hesitancy on
the part of these ex-confederates in ac
cepting these pensions. The bourbons
among them would welcome the chance of
despoiling the Egyptians willingly, while
the others would feel that their right to a
pension is as good as anybody's.”
A Kentucky civil engineer, who has
been professionally engaged in Colombia,
has returned to this country with maps
and charts showing where and how an
ocean-level ship canal can be built be
tween the Atlantic and the Pacific oceans,
opening on the Atlantic side Into the Gulf
of Darien, and on the Pacific
side into San Miguel bay, for $88,000.-
000 less than the cost of the
Nicaragua canal. The engineer claims to
have discovered hitherto unknown
natural formations and fissures in the
Cordilleras that will permit of a canal
without locks to raise levels, and follow
ing the line of which formations and fis
sures the distance between the high water
marks in the Atlantic and the Pacific is
only eighteen miles. The estimated cost
of the Nicaragua canal is $186,000,000; the
engineer says an ocean-level ship canal by
his newly discovered route can be con
structed for $48,000,000.
City councils that are disposed to rush
into making laws to govern street rail
ways and to protect tlie lives and limbs
of pedestrians would do well to profit by
Baltimore’s experience in that kind of
ordinance-building. Last October tho
Baltimore council passed a mandatory
ordinance requiring street cars to be pro
vided with fenders. The companies paid
little or no attention to it. The other day
a company was brought before the court
for violating the ordinance. “The law is
not worth the paper it is written on,”
•aid the court and the district attorney,
and the case was dismissed. The ordi
nance had ordered fenders on the cars,
but had failed to say what constituted a
fender. Had a company tied a plank or
•hingle to tho front end of a car and
called it a fender, the letter of the law
would have been complied with. Mean
while, the number of street car accidents
resulting fatally has grown almost to the
half-hundred mark, and the people and
newspapers of Baltimoro calling for
something to be done to step tbe slaugh-,
ter.
A Suspicion of Buncombe.
The Morning News is opposed to prize
fighting and has endeavored to create a
sentiment against it It has commended
the governor of Florida time and again
for his determination to prevent the Cor
bett-Mitehell fight in that state, but it
cannot help thinking that the governors of
Georgia and Florida overstepped the
bounds of dignity and got into the limits
of the ridiculous when they ordered out
troops in their respective states to stop
two bruisers from pounding each other.
It seems to useach would have done all
that was expected of him if he had di
rected the civil authorities of the coun
ties of his state likely to bo invaded by
the prize fighters and their friends to be
on the lookout and prevent any vio
lation of the laws. Nothing has
cropped out that justifies the con
clusion that the civil authorities of
Duval county, Florida, or any other
county of Florida or Georgia would
not be able to uphold the laws. There is
no intention, as far as anybody knows, to
forcibly resist the authorities. If the
contest should be begun and a sheriff
with a small posse should appear at the
ring and order it stopped, there is no rea
son to doubt that he would be obeyed.
The calling out of the state troops, there
fore, in Florida and Georgia, strikes one
as partaking a good deal of the character
of opera bouffe. Just think of Gov.
Mitchell, in a high state of excitement at
Tallahassee, ordering troups to Jackson
ville from Ocala and various other
points and Gov. Northen. leaving
the executive business at Atlanta, and
rushing down to Waycross to personally
Command the troops ordered from Sa
vannah, Brunswick and other places,
and to direct the war upon a couple of
prize fighters who may have never in
tended to have their little mill upon Geor
gia soil *
Gov. Northen is an excellent gentleman,
and a good governor, and the same can
be said of Gov. Mitchell, but does it not
appear that they have made too much of
this Corbett-Mitchell contest? The
prize-fighters do not intend to kill
each other, and the toughs and roughs
who follow in their wake, and the fine
gentlemen who are anxious to see the con
test between the Englishman and the
American, have no purpose of doing any
body any harm. They don’t propose to shed
blood, or burn anybody’s buildings, or
steal anybody’s property. It would seem,
therefore, as if the occasion was not one,
for massing the troops of two states and
startling the people with the idea that a
bloody war is upon them.
Every once in a while some citizen of
this state, or of Florida, calls upon some
other citizen to meet him in a
secluded spot with friends and pistols,
in order that they may settle a personal
difficulty that seems to them calls for
blood, but the governor of neither state
considers it necessary to call out the
troops to stop thedeadly encounter. Why,
then, should men be called from their
business and professional duties to put on
their uniforms, and take up their Win
chesters to stop a fist fight, the unlawful
ness of which is questioned and in which
there is little or no probability that either
contestant will be seriously injured?
The fight should be stopped, of course,
because it is a brutal and brutalizing ex
hibition, but let the civil authorities stop
it. There is no evidence that they cannot
prevent the peace from being broken.
The calling out of the troops, and we say
it without desiring to offend either Gov.
Northen or Gov. Mitchell, smacks a little
of buncombe.
The Telephone Patents.
On the last day of this month, as al
ready stated in our news columns, the
last patent on the essential parts of the
Bell telephone will expire, and telephone
instruments, which it has heretofore
been impossible to buy, will be bought
and sold like any other commodity. It
has been claimed by experts that the in
struments which are now rented at the
rate of S6O a year can be made and sold
for $lO, with a good profit to the maker.
If that is true, telephone instruments
that are really superior to those now in
use may be shortly offered for sale for
sl2 to sls.
The expiration of.thc patent will proba
bly not relieve the mass of telephone sub
scribers from the high charges of the
801 l company for some time yet, for the
reason that the company lias control of
established systems in the cities, and is
in a position to overthrow competition by
any other company Wherever it may crop
out. Nevertheless, the privilege of own
ing their own 'phones, which individuals
will enJ6y after Feb. 1, will result in a
considerable cutting into the revenues of
the Bell company. The business man
who wishes telephonic connection be
tween his residence and his office will
have a private line put up as soon as he
can do so at a cost no greater than the
amount of rental he has to pay for a sin
gle instrument each year. In Savannah
there are business men who maintain
three telephones, one at the office, one at
the residence, and one at the mill. If
private lines can be equipped for $12.50 per
instrument, and $lO per mile for wire, it
is very evident that it would be
economy for the person who wishes three
or more places connected for liis own con
venience to make the connection himself,
even if it was necessary to retain com
munication with the puolic exchange with
one instrument.
The smaller towns and villages will be
benefited sooner than the cities by the
making free of the patented devices. In
small places opposition to the monopoly
can be more easily organized and con
trolled; besides, in many towns and vil
lages the Bell company has never made
any effort to establish itself, for the rea
son that the total of profit is too small.
A bill has been introduced in the Mary
land legislature providing that all mort
gages shall be taxed, for the purposes of
state revenue only, at such rate as is now
or may hereafter be levied for state pur
poses. The state is in need of increased
accommodations for lunatics, and the
framer of the bill proposes that a part of
the fund raised from the first payment of
taxes on mortgages shall he devoted to im
proving and extending the asylum.
The smallest brick business house in
New York city was opened for business a
few days ago. It is 9 feet high, 15 feet 8
inches deep and 4 feet 4 inches front. It
has a plate glass show window as well as
a door. Its construction cost $l5O and it
rents for S2OO a year. It is situated in a
blind alley between two colossal business
buildings, and is occupied as a camly shop.
THE MORNING NEWS: THURSDAY, JANUARY 25,1894.
The Peckham Nomination.
The nomination of Mr. Wheeler H.
Peckham for associate justice of the su
preme court is accepted as an announce
ment that the fight is still on between
the President and Senator Hill. The
senator was chiefly instrumental in de
feating the nomination of Mr. Hornblower
for associate justice. He opposed Mr
Hornblower because the latter opposed
the nomination and election of Judge
Maynard to the New York court of ap
peals. For the same reason he will op
pose the confirmation of the nomination
of Mr. Peckham, who was even more
active than Mr. Hornblower in opposing
Judge Maynard.
The question that is now being dis
cussed is, will the Senate stand by Sena
tor Hill in his opposition to Mr. Peck
ham? If it does, it will have to do soon
the ground of senatorial courtesy. There
can be no opposition to Mr. Peckham on
the ground of fitness. He is a democrat,
a man of high character, and an able law
yer. It was said against Mr. Hornblower
that his experience as a lawyer was not
such as to justify his appointment to the
bench of the supreme court. That argu
ment cannot be urged against Mr. Peck
ham. If he is rejected it will be because
Senator Hill is able to influence a suffi
cient number of senators to join him in
opposing the President.
But if Mr. Peckham should be rejected,
would Senator Hill finally succeed in
forcing a nomination unobjectionable to
himself? It is not believed he would.
The President would doubtless name an
other New York lawyer who opposed
making Judge Maynard a judge of the
New York court of appeals. The fight
between the President and the senator is
becoming interesting. In the meantime
there is a quite general desire that the
vacancy on the supreme bench shall be
filled promptly.
Turning of the Pension Tide.
The amount that will be appropriated
for pensions for the next fiscal year is
$150.000j000. This is about $30,000,000 less
than it was thought would be required.
When the figures were made up in the
pension bureau it was found that a great
many of those who draw the largest pen
sions have died within the year, and the
death rate in this class of pensioners is
by far the heaviest because their disa
bilities are the greatest.
The decline of the pension burden will
help the ways and means committee to
solve the problem of making the revenues
meet the expenses of the government un
der the proposed new revenue measures.
The pension burden will now steadily
decrease unless congress i makes
anew class of pensioners. There
are i>ension bills pending that would add
greatly to the pension burden, and there
are a good many congressmen ready to
support them with the hope of increasing
their popularity with the soldier element
in their respective districts. If other pen
sion legislation can be prevented for a
few years the pension burden will be
brought within reasonable limits.
The Secretary of the Interior will also
push vigorously his policy of cutting off
all fraudulent pensions. It is safe to say,
from developments recently made, that
many thousands of dollars in pensions are
pai4 annually to those who are not en
titled to them. The republicans are
making vigorous efforts to put a stop to
the investigation of jiension frauds be
cause they do not want it to appear that
they were careless in the granting of pen
sions while they were in power. They
will not be able, however, to prevent the
investigation, because the people are
anxious that the pension burden shall be
brought withiu the lowest possible limits,
consistent with an honest and conscien
tious administration of the pension
bureau.
An artiole in the New York Times on
negroes in the federal army during the
late war remarks upon the intense preju
dice felt against tho blacks by the whites
of that army- and their superiors at Wash
ington. It was Gen. Butler who first en
listed negro soldiers, in Louisiana. He
proposed to have black regiments, com
manded by black officers, but the authori
ties refused to issue commissions to black
men asoffieers, and white men were, much
against their will, made to command the
black troops. The first black troops to
be mustered into the service, were, as a
brigade, thrown as a buffer for the fed
eral army against the confederates at
Port Hudson—with the result that the
blacks were blown away. The precedent
then and there established, of putting
negro troops in front, to receive the
worst of the fire and protect the white
troops behind, seemed to have held good
throughout the war. But the contempt
of the white federals for the black feder
al went further than to lead to putting
the blacks at the front as human breast
works to stop the hail of bullets. At
Petersburg, according to a paper recently
read before a confederate survivor's re
union at Conway, S. C., when tho federals
who rushed into tho crater found them
selves trapped, the whites among them
began a merciless slaughter of tho blacks,
their fellow soldiers, hoping thus to gaiu
the favor of the confederates by whom
they might be captured. It got nbroad
among the federals that the confederates
would show no quarter to any white sol
dier captured in company with a black
soldier, and this belief and the contempt
for the black man that the white federal
felt, were probably responsible for the
high rate of mortality in the black
troops. The negro, as a fighter, had not a
fair showing in the foderal army during
the late war.
The German emperor may need infor
mation and advice, at a day not very far
distant, from a man who has the political
history of Europe, secret and public, for
twenty-five years and more, all stored
away in his wonderful brain; hence the
emperor is making overtures to Bismarck
for a reconciliation. Furthermore, in
case of trouble involving Germany in war.
It would be extremely unfortunate if
there were In United Germany a disaf
fected element, antagonistic to the em
peror, headed by the chancellor who had
so much to do with building a splendid
empire from a number of feudal states;
hcuce, also, the emperor is making over
tures to Bismarck. Bismarck is old and
failing, but he is still powerful—his very
name is a power.
National—international, Indeed—inter
est tujns this morning on the question,
will Mitchell or Corbett win! And. if
Mitchell, which Mitchell: the ex-medical
studeut, or the learned ex-judge!
PERSONAL
Cryrus A. Page, the Boston editor, chosen by
Greenhalge as one of his military staff, Is a
sparely built but good-looking man of middle
age.
Thomas G. Plant, of Valparaiso, Ind..
laughingly related aj dream In which he
saw himself prepared for burial, and the
next night was found dead in bed, having suc
cumbed to heart disease.
Secret try Hoke Smith is to deliver the ora
tion at the coming commencement of the
North Carolina University at Chapel Hill.
His father w as professor of modern languages
at this university for many years.
Assistant Superintendent Dow S. Smith, of
the Minneapolis Street Railway Company, Is
under arrest, charged with a violation of a
state law, whl h reaulres the vestibuling of
all street cars in front and rear in winter, for
the protection of conductors and motormen.
Mile. Jeanne Chanim is the first and only
doctress of law in France. An order of
vice-rector of the Academy of Paris forbids
women pupils having copies of the code.
Mile. Chanfm's Instructions to her classes are
wholly oral.
The Princess of Wales is convalescent af
ter her recent severe illness, but Is s 111 very
weak and much depressed. and the Princess
Maud has also been ill. Sunday last was the
second anniversary of the death of the Duke
of Clarence.
Mrs. Caroline H. Dallas says that when she
first went to Washington, oyer forty years
ago. Daniel Webster said to her: "Remem
ber, you may have what political opinions
you please, but the woman who expresses
them Is damned.*’
Mrs. Diaz, wife of the president of Mexico,
has founded many institutions fqr the benefit
of her countrywomen, -among them a day
nursery, a society to teach Women remunera
tive employments and an Institution through
which girls out of work can find employment.
The Due de Sagan, who was recently in
Paris, has gone to Berlin for the winter. He
enjoys the unique distinction of being a
French duke (de Talleyrand! and a German
duke at the same time, he is said to be
equally fopular in the society of toth Paris
and Berlin.
Miss Mary Proctor, daughter of the late
Richard A. Proctor, is a deep student of the
S' ience of astronomy. She recently deliver' and
a ecture in Brooklyn on The Giant Sun and
tis Family,” which though prepared for chil
dren. proved instructive and entertaining to
adults.
During his recent visit to the Duke of Rut
land at Belvoir castle, the Prince of Wales
carefully inspected the famous silver churn,
which was made during the reign of Queen
Elizabeth, and weighs 24)00 ounces. The
superb christening ewer and basin by Ben
venuto Cellini were also on view.
The president cf Costa Rica has added to
his staff, as a sort of confidential adviser.
Capt. Reginald McCartney Passmore, lately
commanding one of the ships of tha Pacific
Mull Steamship Company. He is a popular
man on the Pacific Coast, of an excellent
Irish family and thoroughly English- Is his
prejudices.
BRIGHT BITS.
Different Circumstances.—So you married
a telephone girl on account of her sweet
voice, eh? Are her tones as dulcet as ever?
Er—well—they might be if they were at the
end of two or three thousand feet of wire, as
in the old days.—lndianapolis Journal.
"Your coat is inside out,” remarked tho ab
solute idiot.
"Thank you." rejoined the towering genius,
as he hastily rectified the error.
"Don't speak ol it,” said the Idiot. "I am
troubled with absence of mind myself "
Town Topics.
Between Girl Friends--Miss Scare—Jack
Marblehead gave me a great reception yester
day He had a cannon on his yacht, and when
I came on board he tired a salute of ever so
many guns—forty-nine, I think it was.
Miss Smarte—One for every year of your
age, I suppose.—Vogue.
The man whose livery stable with all its
contents had been wrecked by n powder ex
plosion sat among the ruins and looked rue
fully about him,
■ I seem to have goue out of business,” he
said, "under somewhat, unfavorable ’oss
pieces, .Cfcloagq Tribune. ...,
Widow—l want a stone for my husband's
grave exactly like the.other one on the lot.
Agent-But isn't it a trifle small for a man
of your husband's prominence"'
Widow—No. sir! If Thomas thought a stone
like that was good enough for his first wife,
it s plenty good enough for Thomas.—
Why He was Late.—Teacher—Why arc you
so late to school?
Boy—The streets are so slippery I couldn't
walk.
Teacher—l didn't find them so.
Boy N—o. maybe n >t. You see, I greased
my soles so I could slide.—Street A Smith s
Good News.
(■entlemen who arc members of learned
professions usually affix their particular
society's name by initials A medical society
was formod. oalled the Association of General
Practitioners in England, and every un
fortunate wight who belonged to It. had con
sequently, to sufscribe himself a M. A. G.
P. 1. E.-Tid Bits.
Wearied Father—They sav that no matter
how one suffers, someone has suffered more.
All the same, they couldn't heat me in this
business, tor I have walked this child the en
tire night for fully six hours.
Mother (calmly)—Yes. Henry, dear: hut
suppose you lived up near the pole where the
nights are six months longer!—Puck.
CURRENT COMMENT.
Georgia and Ohio.
From the Augusta Chronicle (Dem.).
Georgia has gone to shipping hogs while
Ohio takes care of the lyn.hings. It Is well.
Wants Turner for the Senate.
From the Waycross (Ga.) Herald (Dem.).
The effort to sidetrack H. G. Turner by
switching him off on the gubernatorial side
truck, has proven a failure.
Sherman Not So Well Satisfied.
From the Boston Herald (Ind.i.
John Sherman doesn't seem to be quite so
cocksure of the defeat of the Wilson oill in
the Senate as he Was. His letteF. written to
drum up another republican recruit from the
state of Washington, shows a perturbed state
of mind.
Is Thera “a Quarrel P”
From the Macon (Ga.) Telegraph (Dem ).
Without any regard to the merits of the
quarrel between the President and the New
York senators, it seems to us the duty o'
good democrats to support the former. He is
acting eitirely within his rights under the
law, and it Is Important to the country that
these rights should descend unimpaired to
his successor.
■ Not an Acceptable Offer.
From the New York World (Dem )
The Kansas syndicate that offered those
gentlemanly scrappers, Jim Corteit and
Charley Mitchell. 10.u0.i acres of prairi > land
to fight for. were entirely too cyclonic in their
estimates of the two gladiators. Neither of
the scientific billers is sighing to become a
farmer. Farmers are obliged to work, an i
what is the use of working when a iellow can
be an actor?
Something Backing.
From the Brooklyn Eagle (Dem.).
Says the Albany Journal: "\Ve will watch
the progress of republican disintegration in
the state of New York at a time when repub
lican community of sentiment should be para
mount with sadness.” A comntais needed some
where In tuat sentence. it puts one in tnind
of the old advertisement: "Lost a black silk
umbrella belonging to a gentleman with a
curiously carved ivory head."
Quay and the Bond Issue.
From the New York Evening Post dnd.).
Senator Quay ranges hlmselr alongside the le
gal luminaries of the populists, and warns the
"takersof the loan" that the securities go out
under a cloud, and that their redemption w ill
be an importan, political issue In the future"
Does this mean that a bondholder s political
affiliations will be rapidly inquired into before
begets his interest? Wilt Mr. Quay, if made
secretary of the treasury in the next admin
istration, refuse to take the ltd off." in the
good old Pennsylvania fashion, to pay for
nefarious democratic bonds;- It is possible
that he might consent to compromise and
pay all bonds printed from the plates pre
pared by President Harrison, when, as Sec
retary Foster told “Deacon" White an issue
of bonds was decided upon at the end of |H9J.
This li the only ray of light we now see for
the unfortunate subscribers.
The Hard Luck of an Infant.
Taking one consideration with another, the
messenger boy's lot is not an easy one, says
the Chicago Record. They are rung up to do
all sorts of things at so much an hour, but the
strangest adventure that ever befell one of
the boys had its location on the
west side A woman came into the office.
She was heavily veiled, as are all Impetuous
females, and she carried a baby. The man
ager was out. but one of the boys was there
to attend to business.
“I want you to take this baby to ——Wash
ington Boulevard." she said.
Write a card. Icddy,” said the boy.
"You write It.”
He received th- baby and the woman gave
him an extra quarter. It was a well-behaved
infant and chuckled at him as he danced it in
his arms ofi the way to the house in Washing
ton boulevard.
A man came to the door. He seemed sur
prised.
Here's d' kid,' said the boy.
"What kid?” asked the man at the door.
' D' kid de leddy sent me with."
"I don’t know anything about it.”
"Here's d' number in the book."
' I can t help that. The baby does not
belong here. We have no babies and never
had any. and I don t want you to bring any
here."
The boy had become tired of shifting his
tiny burden and was about-to lay it on the
doorstep, when the man of the house ob
jected.
• Keeplt." he said; "take it away.”
Wont you sign for K?"
"No I should say not. Go on away , now. I
don't care to have my neighbors see this."
The boy stood out ;n front for a while and
then went hack to the office. On the way he
was overtaken by two other boys, who greeted
him with yowls of derision.
h. cheel where did y' git It at?" they
asked him.
But he was too much worried to enter into
the fun of the thing. When he reached the
office the manager was there.
‘Tie. a kid." said he. placing the baby
on the counter as he would have dropped any
other bundl’. "D man wouldn't eign for It."
The baby began to kick and then let out a
faint squall.
"Pi klt up." said the manager. "You'll
have to take care of it until the woman comes
back. I don t want it."
The boy was sure he had gone to the right
number. He had not taken the woman's
name, however, and could give no description
of her except that she wore a dark dress and
seemed to be all right." Through the long
afternoon he cared tor the infant. Some
times h: bad to carry It up and down the
room or jump it on his knee. The other boys
assisted in various ways to entvrtain the
small and blinking youngster. No woman
came. That evening the police were sum
moned and they took the baby that no one
would sign for and put it In a foundling s
home, and from there it went to a west aide
woman whe gave it a good home. But they
never learned anything more about the veiled
woman.
The Deacon's Great Head.
Last Sunday was communion Sunday in
the deacon's church, says the Hoosac Valley
News. A part of the deacon’s duties is to at
tend to the preparation of the service and the
supplying of the bread and wine for the cele
bration or the solemn ordinance. The pre
vious week had been of unusual business care
and exertion for the deacon, and Sunday
morning found him at the church before he
even remembered that it was communion day.
The recollection came to him like an electric
shock. There was neither bread nor wine,
for he had forgotten to procure fihem. What
what to be done? The hour was at hand, and
it would never do to let it be known that
negligence or forgetfulness caused tha post
ponement of such an important ceremony.
The deacon scratched his head and then
started on a canter for home. His wife 1 had in
the cellar a jug of elder blossom wine which
she had made years ago to be used in ease of
sickness. For this jug the good deacon
pointed. He got it and sampled its contents.
They were excellent, but powerful. He poured
out a quantity and added an equal amount of
water Then it was about right in strength,
but the color was wrong. Down came a tum
bler of his wife's best grape jcllv. With nerv
ous energy the deacon stirred the jelly In the
wine and water. The color came and the
blend was perfect. Then he cleaned the bread
can of the Friday’s baking, and hurriedly cut
the bread into squares. With bread under one
arm and his watered and jellied wine under
the other he cantered baokto the church and
tu the back way. Ho got there in time, but It
was a narrow squeak. The members of the
church didn't know the reason for the sup
pressed excitement in the deacon s manner,
for the service proceeded property and in
order. When th'- deacon and his wife got
home she sa w the wine jug and empty bread
can.
■ Why, deacon:" she said.
Then the deacon told her the story.
"Deacon," she observed, ‘ you're a man for
emergencies.”
A Detective’s Story.
"The closest call I ever had, " said a detec
tive to the St Louis Globe-Democrat, “was
In Southern Indiana, wherte a posse of us had
gone to capture some counterfeiters. There
were five ot us in the party, and. as I had pre
viously been over the ground and located the
house, I was deputed to watch the front while
the others deployed m the rear, and we were
to come tovether at a given signal and make
.a rush for the house, which was a log cabin
standing in an open field. It began to rain
soon after we separated, and seeing anew
weather boarded house ahead of me, and
knowing that I was in the right neighbor
hood. I concluded to stay there a few
hours until after the rain subsided.
There was no danger of the coun
terfeiters leaving. Knocking at the door, I
was admitted. Inside were five men and a
woman. They showed me up stairs to my
room, and as the man who piloted me left I
heard him turn the key in the door and I
knew that I was a prisoner. Then I saw that
the house was of logs and had been recently
weather-boarded, in a few minutes I heard
them consulting together in the hall, and I
felt that my doom was being sealed. Drop
ping out of a small-window at the end of the
room. I reached my horse just as they dis
covered my escape, and the ball from a rifle
whistled past my head as I mounted the
horse A regular fusillad” followed, and the
bullets came close enoi gh (or me to hear
them, but I succeeded in reaching my com
panions. and we surrounded the house just in
time to catch them as they started home.”
“By and By.”
Judd Lyman, in the Chicago Times.
"Mamma, take me on your knee."
r he baby teased with plea-ling eye.
"Mamma, won t you sing to me".
But mamma answered: "By and by.’*
* * * v * * * *
"Mamma, ain't it most by m by now?”
Came with a patient baby sigh.
She could not understand, somehow.
What mamma meant by "By and by/*
Mamma, busy with her book.
Bead the lonely twilight long;
Noticed not the tired look.
Nor paid the patience with a song.
Lo. tlie night had settled down.
And baby's cheek was hot and dry.
The doctor stood with thoughtful frown
And only murmured: "By and by."
Next day. just as the sun had set.
The small voice said with a tired smile!
"Mamma, dear, is it by'm by yet?
I've waned such a long, long while."
The stars that dreamed the night away
in benediction beamed on high.
Smiles on the sweet lips seemed to play—
She dwelt in the frroff "By and by.”
****** * *
Mamma sighed in her troubled nap.
Her teardrops gleamed in the drowsy
gloom;
She w-oke with a curly head in her lap—
And a lullaby softly filled the room.
Buddy Boy—Mamma. Bridget called me
the broth of a boy" Does she mean I've
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In the December bulletin of the bureau of
American republics, appears an interesting
article by C. F. Z. Caracristi on the extensive
nitrate deposits in Colombia. The deposits
resemble those of Chili, and extend over an
area of about 30 squarejnales in beds from one
to ten feet thick. The stratum carrying the
niter is a slaty gypsum containing shells,
salt, magnesia and iron oxide. It is from Bto
2d feet below the surface, and rests on a
stratum of sandstone. The supply is esti
mated at 7.000 00J0 0 tons, the material assay
ing from 1 to 134 per cent, nitrate. It is
thought that the nitre, could be shipped to
New York at about 59.70a ton.
A citizen of South Bend. Wash., has a
humpback whale on his hands which is prov
ing a worse incumbrance than the traditional
elephant, not alone to himself, but to the
whole community. The whale became stran
ded at the mouth of the river and the enter
prising citizen bought it from the fisherman
who captured it and made some money by
placing it on exhibition. But the whale d.ed,
and after a while It became very dead and the
owner can t dispose of it. He tried, us a last
resort, to burn it and spent his profits on
wood and kerosine. but the whale won t burn.
The town ts pervaded by an extremely an
cient. flshlike smell, and the citizens are ur
gent in their demands that the owner of the
whale shall remove his property fn some ex
peditious way.
The title of prince in Russia is so common
that it has little significance, says the New
York Herald. The bearers of the distinc
tion, says a foreign journal, are more numer
ous than “the wearers of the Legion of
Honor in a French cafe, or colonels in tha
southern states of America." The truth of
this statement is Illustrated in a report in the
last edition of the military gazette, "Rusk!
Invalid.” It records the death ot thirteen
officers of the militia, of whom nine were
princes. "In the Caucasus,” says the journal
referred to above, every owner of a large
flock of sheep calls himself prince.' All of
these sheep princes are addressed as high
ness,’ the same as the sons of the oldest
princely fami'ies. When one of these sheep
owners goes to foreign countries he places
the title prince' on his card, and plays a cer
tain part in uninitiated circles. The same
thing is true of the many representatives in
Russia of the Tartar ‘princely’ families.
Many ancient Russian families, such as the
Nar.yschkin, Wsjewoloshski. etc., entitled to
the prefix prince before their names, decline
to use it for fear ot being confounded with
these apparent princes. Representatives of
these families are content with the use of
the coat of-arms."
The interpretation of a button on a uniform
is, just as much a matter of regulation as the
cut of a coat says the Washington Star. The
geueral wears two rows of buttons on the
breast of his frock coat, twelve In each row,
placed by fours. The distance between the
rows is 5‘A inches at the top and 34 at the
bottom. The lieutenant general is entitled
to only ten buttons in each row. arranged
in upper and lower grojps of three and a
middle group of four. The major general has
nme puttons in each row placed by
threes. The brigadier general eight in groups
of twos. The colonel, lieutenant colonel, and
major have nine buttons in each row
arrrnged at equal distances; the cap
tain and lieutenant seven buttons in
each arow at equal distances. There
are all different designs, of course, not only
for the buttons of the army, the navy, and the
marine corps, but for the different branches
of the service. There are the infantry, artil
lery, and cavalry buttons, the engineer s but
ton, the ordanee corps button, the button of
the marine corps, and the navy button. The
navy button, by the way, is made in England,
because no American manufacturer has been
able to make a bronze which the sea air will
not tarnish. All of these buttons the army
and navy tailor must keep on hand and sew
on according to regulation.
As Rome became a residence for all strange
gods, it also became both the religious capi
tal of the world and its religious center, says
the Nlneteenth.Century. It became, and was
called, tne "Holy City” and the “Eternal
City:" and so, when Christianity ultimately
triumphed, it still retained those titles, and
became natural y, as well as for other rea
sons. regarded as the religious capital of the
Christian world. Only two religions were ex
eluded from the otherwise almost universal
toleration of paganism—natneiy, Judaism and
Christianity. Fathers of the church have
complained of this, yet somewhat unreason
ably; for the concoru which existed between
the various pagan forms resulted from their
willingness to make reciprocal concessions.
This neither Jews nor Christians would, nor
could, consent to; nnd they had naturally to
take the consequences. Yet peace was
offered to them on the same condi
tions as to others. The pagans
were ready to recognize in Jehovah their own
Jupiter or Bacchus, and not a few were will
ing to keep the Sabbath and observe Jewish
fasts and feasts There were also some Jews,
like Herod, who would not have regretted
such mutual understandings; but the mass of
the nation repelled them with horror, and
thereby incurred bloody persecutions wherein
thousands lost their lives, and furious hatred
against them arose, which only ceased when
they associated themselves with the pagans
to persecute Christianity. The Christians, as
every one knows, were also offered what were
deemed favorable terms, and little difficulty
would have been felt in the acceptance of
Christ as one god more, and (as readers will
rememberi His image had its place in the
private chapel of the Emperor Alexander
Severus, beside thore of Orpheus and Apol
lonius. But ho consistent Christian could
tolerate idolatry, even to the extent of scat
tering a few grains of incense on the altars
either of the Goddess of Home or of the
Genius of the Emperor. Such a spirit of ex
clusiveness was anew thing to the pagans,
and naturally appeared disloyal to the Ro
mans and opposed to the very essence of
civicism.
"Why do Indians paint their faces?” I have
asked that question of hundreds of red men
and have received but one answer, says a
Globe Democrat writer. Of all the tribes
that 1 have visited but one has a legend ac
counting for the hideous decorations that are
to be seen on the faces of Indians under all
ceremonial circumstances. I was sitting at a
campHre in a village of Jicarilla Apaches one
night listening to the stories and legends
that were being told, when I propounded the
old question again, hardly expecting even the
usual expression of ignorance that hides so
many of the thoughts of the Indians. To my
surprise, however, I received the answer that
I least expected. An old fellow who had sat
all evening listening to the stories, without
changing his attitude, grunted an.l straight
ened up as he heard the question. Proceed
ing with all due solemnity he told the follow
ing legend: "Long ago, when men were weak
and animals were big and strong, a chief of
the red men who lived in these mountains
went out to get a deer, for his people were
hungry. After walking all day he saw a deer
and shot, at it., hut the arrow was turned aside
and wounded a mountain lion, which was
also after the deer. When the lion felt the
sting of the arrow, he jumped and bounded
after the man. who ran for his lire. He was
almost exhausted, and when he felt his
strength giving away, he fell to the ground
calling on the big bear. who. you know, is the
grandfather of men, to save him. The big
Pear heard the call, and saw that to save the
man he had to act quickly, so he scratched
his foot and sprinkled his blood over the man
Now. you know no animal will eat of the bear
nor taste of his blood, so when the lien
reached the man he smelled the blood and
turned away, but as he did so his foot, scraped
the face of the man. leaving the marks of the
claws on the bloodv face. When the man
found that he was uninjured, he was so thank
ful that he left the blood to dry on his face
and never washed it at all, but left it until it
peeled off. Where the claws of the lion
scraped it off there were marks that turned
brown in the sun, and where the blood stayed
on it was lighter. You know, all men now
paint their faces that way with blood and
scrape it off in streaks when they hunt or go
to war,"
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