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MONDAY, JANUARY 29. 1894.2
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INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Meetim,-DeKalb Lodge No. 9, I. 0. O. F.
Speciai. Notices—Notice in Regard to
Assessment of Certain Property North of An
derson Street Extended. C. S. Hardee. City
Treasurer; Special Announcement a* to In
fanta Eulalia Cigars at the De Soto: This Is
Washday Again. A. M. AC. W. West; As to
Bills Against British Hark Barbadian.
Auction Salks— Walnut Wardrobes, Etc.,
by C. H. Dorsett; Canned Goods, Etc., by J.
H. Oppenhelm A Son.
Amusements—llluminated Views of the
World's Fair, Monday and Tuesday evenings.
Steamship Schedules—Ocean Steamship
Company; Baltimore Steamship Company.
Patronize Home Indcstht Appel &
Schaul, Merchant Tailors.
Do You Understand?—B. H. Levy & Hro.
Columbia Catalogues— Lindsay A Mor
gan.
Medical—S. S. S.
Special Perfume Sale—At Adler's.
Following Our Example—Falk Clothing
Company.
Cheap column Advertisements—Help
Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Rent;
For Sale; Lost; Personal: Miscellaneous.
New York and Berlin wound up the
week just passed in an ecstac-y of hero
worship. New York had Corbett, and
Berlin had Bismarck.
The Senate committee which has been
investigating Hawaiian affairs thinks it
■ecs ahead the conclusion of its labors.
The report, it is announced, will he made
in about two weeks.
Senator Henry Cabot J-iOdge, of Mas
sachusetts, has just completed a *IOO,OOO
residence on Massachusetts avenue,
Washington. There is no vast wilder
ness business about that Ixidge.
Representative Dunphy, of Kentucky,
and Geary, of California, have prepared a
bill for a big bridge between New York
and New Jersey, to take the place of the
bill vetoed recently by the President. It
is rather peculiar that tho name of no
New York representative is associated
with the framing of the measure.
The Atlanta bookkee|>er who embezzled
his employer's money with which to back
Corbett, having picked the winner, is
in a position to plead the overpowering in
fluence of his masterful talent, make
good the shortage and ask to bo rein
stated at an increased salary. It remains
to be seen, however, if his genius will be
recognized as he would like it to be.
The Bismarcks’ star of fortune seems
once more in the ascendency. Following
closely upon the reconciliation between
Prince Bismark and the emperor comes
the announcement that Count Herbert
Bismarck, son of the prince, will be made
imperial ambassador to Austria. It may
transpire, after all, that the mantle of
power so long worn by the old chancellor
will fall upon the shoulders of his sou.
But for the oyershadowiug fame of his
father Herbert Bismarck before now
would have been recognized as one of the
foremost diplomatists in Europe.
Representative Oates' announcement
that he will be a candidate for governor
of Alabama is tantamount to an accept
ance in advance of the democratic nomi
nation. For it is pretty well assured that
he can have the nomination if ho wants
it. The announcement is timely. The
democratic opposition in Alabama this
year will put up a harder light than was
made in the last election, hence the dem
ocrats must go to work at once to meet
the attack. With Oates in the lead,
the democracy will repeat its
former triumphs, and this time, it is to be
hoped, wipe populism and Kolbism out of
existence.
The members of the House and the mass
of newspaper readers will not greatly re
gret that “Private” John Allen, of Mis*-
issippi, has dropped out of the race for the
successorship to Senator Walthall. Mr.
Allen is one of the most popular mon in
the House, and as a narrator of rich and
linted stories is without a jieer in con
gress. The popular branch of congress
and John Allen seem to fit each other,
and so long as they remain together each
will be benefited. If he were to be sent
to the Senate he might not fit the situa
tion so well. More than one bright light
that shone in the House has been smoth
ered by transferring it to the dense and
heavy atmosphere of the Senate. Vance
is an example.
The old world is being more agitated at
present by its boys than its men. Alex
ander, the King of Servia, is not yet 19
years old, yet he is attempting to
rule his country with a hand of iron.
The power behind the throne in his case
Is ex-King Milan, who is crafty and bold,
and may bring the country into serious
trouble through his son. The Khedive
of Egypt. Abbas, whom England is pre
paring to chastise for his impudence, is a
boy not long out of school, arid only old
enough to wear a dash of down where ho
wiii eventually grow a heard. Abbas
manifested an independent disposition
when he first ascended theibrone. which
he has not yet outgrown, blit which En
gland will ace that lie doev outgrow.
Southern Textile Mills.
The statistics of textile mill construc
tion for the year 1893, compiled by the
Textile World, which President Harrison
recognized as an authority, shows that
the cotton industry continues to lend the
| textile group of manufactures and that
the south led the other of the
country in cotton mill construction last
year. Indeed, the showing made by the
south is almost marvelous, and is ex
tremely gratifying to those of us who
have constantly maintained that the
south should and would, at no very dis
tant day, manufacture the greater part,
if not all, of the cotton she raises.
Last year, it is generally,conceded, was
one to test the limit, the abilities and re
sources iof men and communities. The
year opened with ‘'hard times,” which
went on from bad to worse, until an extra
session of congress was deemed necessary
to afTord relief. About the time of the
assembling of the extra session the cli
max had been reached, and when the re
peal bill was passed the reflex action set
in. What caused the hard times it is not
necessary to refer to here—they were
upon us, for a whole year. Yet during
that year the south went on building cot
ton mills until it led every other section
in construction, both in volume and ratio
of increase. In volume of increase, as
compared with that of New England, the
difference was only slight—27 new mills
with 183,106 spindles in the south against
16 mills with 182,000 spindles in New Eng
land. But in ratio of increase, the dif
ference was greatly in favor of the south.
During 1803 new textile mills to the
number of 172 were built throughout the
country. Of these 52 were cotton, 33
woolen, and 63 knitting mills, the re
mainder being silk, shoddy and miscel
laneous. Of the cotton mills 27 were in
the southern states and 15 in New Eng
land, the remainder being scattered. Of
woolen mills the south constructed 5, as
aeainst 14 in New England.
South Carolina led her section in con
struction of cotton mills, with 6 mills of
75,120 spindles. North Carolina followed,
with 14 mills and 51.000 spindles; then
came Louisiana, Alabama and others,
with Georgia bringing up the rear, we are
sorry to say, with 2 mills of 7,080 spindles.
However, Georgia rejoices to see her
plucky sisters at the front, and will en
deavor to join them later.
As to tile character of the goods to be
manufactured by the new mills, it is noted
that the tendency has been towards finer
grades. Many of the southern mills have
put in plants for spinning and weaving
finer “counts” than has ever before been
attempted in this section, besides which,
at least one finishing mill and one print
apparatus lias been set up. And the only
cotton mill in the world, it is believed,
operated with electricity as a motive
power, has been established in this sec
tion. at Anniston, Ala.
The year 1892 has been, according to
the Textile World, “the gratest year
of progress in the textile manufac
turing interests in the way of
new construction in the history of
the industry” is compared with cotton
mill construction during that year, reck
oned by the number of spindles. New
England's construction last year fell off
in the neighborhood of 66 per cent. The
south's construction, similarly compared,
decreased about 23 per cent, under the
pressure of hard times. The question is,
if the south can make such an excellent
showing as against New England during
a year of extraordinarytdepression, what
may not be expected of her when trade
resumes its normal volume and condi
tions?
It is noted with 'some satisfaction, by
the way, that though the south has gone
into the textile mill building business
with yim and determination, no stock is
taken here in shoddy mills. New Eng
land built six shoddy mills in 1892 and
three last year; the south built none.
The south is relaying for herself a fabric
of prosperity that will stand the wash
and the wear.
The Dutch will make a desperate at
tempt to take Holland this year. Dif
ferently stated, the republican party will
exert itself to carry Pennsylvania next
fall. The state campaign will be begun
in the spring and kept red hot until fall.
The Mate convention will probably be
held in May, when candidates for gover
nor, lieutenant-governor, auditor, secre
tary of state and two congressmen-at
large will be nominated. Anew state legis
lature will also be chosen next fall, which
will elect a successor to Sena tor Cameron.
It is pretty well understood that Senator
Cameron moans to succeed himself if he
can; hence, there being some strong op
position to him, the legislative campaign
will be especially spirited. The election of
a senator to succeed Cameron will, by the
way, illustrate how far removed from the
people some of the United States sena
tors are. Cameron's term will expire
March 4,1897. The legislature of Penn
sylvania meets once in two years. Its
last meeting was in June, 1893. Its next
will be in June, 1895, and the next in Juno,
1897, three months after the date on
which the new senatorial term will bo
gin. It will, therefore, be necessary for
the legislature of 1895, the members of
which will have been elected in 1894, to
elect the senator for the term beginning
in 1897; thus the new senator will enter
upon his term two years and five months
after the people have had an opportunity
to express themselves at the polls.
Representative McLaurin, of South
Carolina, and those other persons who
look upon tluy offices under the govern
ment as slices of pie to be apportioned out
pro rata among the states after every
election, were informed differently the
other day. McLaurin recently introduced
in the House a resolution demanding of
the Secretary of Agriculture to know how
many offices under his department were
still due to South Carolina. The resolu
tion was referred to a committee, which
has reported it back with the recom.
mendation that it be laid on the table-
In other words, the resolution has been
helved for good.
Late reports from Venice concerning
the death of Constance Fenimore Wool
son, the American authoress, are to tho
effect that she committed suicide by
Jumping from a window. Miss Woolson 1
was 46 years old. She was not, as has
been stated, the granddaughter of James
Fenimore Cooper, but his grandniece—
her grandmother was his sister. Miss
Woolson had been living abroad since
1879. Her best novel, probably, is
“Anne,” a delicate story, depicting life iu
the northwest. She was born in New
Hampshire.
THE MORNING NEWS: MONDAY, JANUARY 29. 1894.
. A Boston Idea.
A young man in Boston has evolved an
idea. He thinks it should bring him #5.000
or more within twelve months, besides
giving him almost as much notoriety as
is enjoyed by Jo-jo, the dog-faced boy.
The young Bostonian is a club man, who,
for the next year, will be known as “I*3ol
Jones.” It is Mr. Jones’ idea to start
from his club room in Boston clothed only
in his supreme confidence in himself, and
without a dollar iu the world, and make a
trip around the world in one year and re
turn to his starting point with #5,000,
which he shall have honestly acquired
during the trip. When the word “go” is
given, M r - Jones will stand in the club
rooms precisely as he came into tne world ,-
with the addition of teeth and whiskers—
nothing else. It is to be his
privilege to blacken the shoes and
brush the coals of the clubmen
who assemble to see him off, accepting
whatever they may give him in payment;
he may not ask for money, but may ac
cept whatever amount is given him for
his work. Should adl the clubmen be in
an economical mood and throw him only
pennies, he might be under the necessity
of taking to the streets before he secures
tho “hand-me-down” suit in which he
calculates upon leaving Boston.
After leaving the club room he pro
poses to “hustle” at selling newspapers,
or anything else that comes to hand, un
til he arranges to secure passage abroad.
He anticipates no trouble in working his
way through Europe, and says he will
arrive in San Francisco within eight
months in splendid shape. Then he will
get a dime museum manager to exhibit
biin as a freak, and thus secure money
for a ticket to New York. And while he
is on his way east lie will work the news
papers for free advertisements boom
ing him as the man with an
original idea. New York goes
wild over a man with an original idea, he
says, so when he gets there the city will
be tumbling over itself to see him, and he
will rake his #5,000 together in a short
while.
The scheme is novel, and sounds as if
Mark Twain might have originated it, to
be carried out by tho brother of the fel
low whom he turned loose in London with
not a penny in the world except a £1,000,-
000 bank note. If Mr. Jones succeeds in
what he undertakes it will prove that
clothes neither make nor mark the man,
but that cheek and a lack of self respect
are frequently winners.
England Knocked Out.
An interesting little international affair
with the gloves, which ended in one
round, is reported to have occurred be
tween representatives of England and
America in Washington a week or so ago.
The English representative was no less a
personage that Sir Julian Pauncefote, the
ambassador from the court of St. James
to this government, while America was
represented by “Prof.” Crossley, an adept
in the art of pugilism, who instructs the
members of the Columbia Athletic Asso
ciation in the art of self-defense. Eng
land was knocked out.
The way the incident came about is
amusing. Sir Julian recently joined the
athletic club, and became a regular at
tendant for exercise and instruction.
A few days ago fie entered the boxing
room of the gymnasium and proceeded to
go through tho usual course of instruc
tions with “Prof.” Crossley as tutor.
During the rests the teacher and his dis
tinguished pupil discussed the approach
ing Corbett-Mitchell fight. Sir Julian, of
course, warmly championed the cause of
his fellow countryman, Mitchell, and ex
pressed the belief that “Charley” would
certainly knock out “Pompadour Jim” if
lie got so much as half a chance. “Prof.”
Crossley, who is an American, thought
otherwise and so expressed himself.
Towards the close of the lesson the am
bassador remarked, “You just fancy that
you are Corbett and that I am
Mitchell, and let’s see how it will
be.” The professor readily assented.
“And as ho did so,” says the Chicago
Tribune’s report of the incident, “Sir
Julian ‘let out his left’ and caught Cross
ley a stinging blow on the nose. ‘That
was a beauty,’ said Mr. Crossley, trying to
sinilo through the tears that filled his
eyes as he tapped the big diplomat lightly
in return. ‘Don’t be afraid to hit me if
you can,' said Sir Julian, with a smile of
confidence upon his ruddy face, and then
he tapped the professor again and again
on the face and neck, apparently having
everything his own way. Finally the
professor led with his left and Sir Julian
threw up both hands to ward off the
blow, leaving a fine opening for the pro
fessor's right. The tutor could not re
sist the temptation, and summoning a lit
tle extra driving power, he landed his
right glove squarely on the end of the
British ambassador’s nose. The blood
flowed freely, and was wiped away by the
boxingmaster. who made the most profuse
apologies, and explained that he did not
mean to ‘hit so hard.’”
The explanation and apology were ac
cepted by the ambassador in sportsman
like spirit, and with an acknowledgment
of America's superior prowess, in that in
stance, at least.
Justice Brewer, of the United States
supreme court, told the Yale alumni, in
an address at Boston the other evening,
that the age in which we are living,
“with all the splendor of its material de
velopment,” is “also the age of
cranks.” In proof, he referred
to the work and utterances of
Tillman, Waite,- Altgeld, Powderly and
others. “Listen,” said he, “to some of
their ulterings: Making the state a
dramshop keeper secures temperance;
financial problems are solved by causing
blood to flow bridle-rein deep; pardon of
anarchist murderers is a means of justice;
a long-continued strike fills the mouths of
tho laborer's wife and children with
bread; dividing the school money be
tween denominational bodies accomplishes
the grand democracy of the public
schools; takimr an Indian's land helps to
civilize him; putting a tag on a Chinaman
protects the American laborer from one
With whom he is unable or unwilling to
compete, and is a means of grace tending
to the conversion of the ’heathen Chinee’.”
He paiil his respects to a reeeutly de
ceased ex-President by referring to him
as “the husband of Mrs. Hayes.”
There is anew crotchet in the South
Carolina brand of populism. Dr. Samp
son Pope, who wants to bo governor after
Tillman, is a protectionist. Most popu
lists are rank free traders with a strong
hankering after paternalism, as contra
dictory as the expression may seem.
PERSONAL.
The tomb of Mohammed Is covered with
diamonds, sapphires and rubies valued at
*19.000.000.
An Illinois man named Storms has named
his three sons Hale Storms. Rayne Storms
and Snow Storms.
Ex-Speaker Thomas B. Reed after having
discontinued cigar smoking for four years,
has resumed the babft.
The mother of ex-Gov. Gaston, of Massa
| chusetts. who died a few days sinee. was
j Keziah Arnold, of pilgrim ancestry, and his
father was a descendant of Jean Gaston, a
Huguenot emigrant.
Sarah Hosmer, a worker in an English
factory, supported a student m the Nestorian
Seminary and out of her earnings sent nve
,native preachers for five years to preach the
gospel In the far east,
Michael Dully, the New York ex-alderman
of boodle fame has been dismissed from the
bankruptcy court He swore that his total
assets were but *69. The judgments against
him aggregated Finn,9oo '
It is said that the death of Cardinal Lau
renzi has affected the pope more than any
death in the hierarchy for many years. He
has been associated with Leo XII through
the whole of his episcopacy.
The Rev. F. B. Meyer, of London, is author
ity for the statement that- he knows a gentle
man of that city whose income is 110.00 > per
annum and who lives on *I.OO * and gives the
remaining lIt.UUU to the cause of foreign mis
sions.
Joseph Muir, of Fairmount. Md., recently
shipped a basket of terrapin to Ambassador
Bayard in London. Mr. Bayard is very skill
ful in preparing this delicacy, and he will
doubtless delight his English guests with an
appetizing dish.
Marion Booth Douglas, a niece of the late
Edwin Booth, is fighting a metropolitan
printing company an the courts. They have
a bill against her for over *309 and seek to
attach tho *IO,OOO legacy left her by the
famous tragedian.
Mr. R. C. Pate, of St. Louis, who went to
the City of Mexico to introduce horse racing,
has -given up his concession, after losing a
considerable sum of money and satisfying
himself that the most exciting of horse races
is too tame a sport for the Mexicans.
Samory, tho great Mohammedan chief of
Africa, is about the last semi-savage of the
dark country to yield to civilization and the
force of arms. The French have been grad
ually driving him into oloser quarters, and
now the British are conducting raids against
hiswariors. Samory is the greatest king in
the world.
Capt. Benjamin Thompson, of Kennebunk
port, Me., is a lively specimen of the “Down-
East skipie -.” He celebrated his 100th birth
day a short time ago, and in a wrestling
match proved too much for his eldest son, <1
years old, who lives with him. With the ex
ception of being extremely deaf the captain
is said to possess all his faculties.
Adolph Marcuse, a European traveler, de
scribes in a vivid way the savagery which yet
prevails in some portions of the Hawaiian
islands. In a visit to the crater of Kilauea
lie was accompanied by several natives.
When night came they threw into the crater
as offerings sacred berries and live fowls, at
the same time singing a monotonous chant
to I’ele, the tire goddess.
Prof. Henry Hertz, the great German phys
icist, who recently died at Benn. had not com
pleted hjs 37th year. His special field of in
vestigation was electrical phenomena. His
principal discovery was the fact that electro
dynamic effects are sent either as waves or
as electric waves through space with a rapid
ity of 390.000 kilometers per second—nearly
equal to tho rapldtty of light.
It is officially announced from Mexico that
Senor don Agustin Maldonado, of y Carvajal,
Marquis de Castellanos, his two brothers and
his sister, all of whom live In Madrid, have
been recognized by the Mexican government
as the descendants of the Aztec King Monte
zuma. The same government will pay them
a pension, and has given orders that effect to
Seuor Limantour, its minister of finance.
Sir Henry Verney, Miss Florence Nightin
gale’s brother in-law, though he is 92 years
old, attended a meet of the houndH In his
neighborhood, the other dav, on liOrseoack.
Last year, when the ice permitted he en
joyed the skating, Sir Harry attends bazars
and public meetings with regularity. His
sisterin-law is generally with him, and they
are as cheery and lively a couple as one could
meet.
BRIGHT BITS.
Gus—What do you girls do at your conversa
tion elute just sit around and stare at each
other and talk?
Clara—No, Indeed. We play whist. Good
News.
Maud- The photographer has not done you
justice, dear.
Marie How nice of you to say so. dearest.
Maud No; he has shown more mercy than
justice—Puck.
First Messenger Boy (with scorn!—l say
what makes you run youf legs off like dat?
Second Messenger Boy (pausing in his rapid
sprinti—l ain't workin', see? Dis is my day
off.—Chicago Record.
Byers—What was vour idea in getting vac
cinated on your rheumatic arm?
Sellers -Economy of pain. It couldn't
make the darned arm ache worse than it did
already —Chicago Tribune.
Workhouße Superintendent—ls there any
thing you would prefer in the lme of work '
Dismal Dawson—if it's all the same to you
I think I would like to set in the parlor and
knit tidies.—lndianapolis Journal.
Chollie—Oh. she Is perfectly lovely; she
paid me such a compliment.
Fweddie—What was it?
C’hollie-MShe said 1 was so tin American
Fweddie—How delightful.—Free Press.
Footman—Say. Jeems. what would we do if
we found a poeketbook with *23,000 that the
boss had left In the carriage?
Coachman—Do: We wouldn't do nothing
at all. We and live on our income.—Texas Sift
ings.
Grace—And so you are really going to
marry that widow after all? And I hear vou
are going to give up smoking.
Carrutbers Yes, a mutual agreement- she
gives up her weeds and i give up mine
Vogue.
"I suppose you had a high old time in Eu
rope-’
-Yes," replied the returned tourist, “I had
I was done up at Monte Carlo, held up in the
Apennines, and laid up in Romo.”—Buffalo
Courier.
CURRENT COMMENT.
“Blard Times” in Georgia.
From the Rome Tribune (Den.).
Four years ago the people of Gordon
bought 90 pqr cent, of tne meat they con
sumed. They buy less than 10 per cent, now
They are in better business.
Should Be Sent After tho Lottery.
Prom the New York Tribune (Rep ).
After a 1< nz and hard struggle the United
Stales has got rid of the Louisiana lotterv
which has been compelled to betake itself to
Honduras. The next thing that ought to go
Is the prize fight. Little hospitality is afford
ed to prize fighters in any of our states as
it is. but the laws ought to be made so severe
'hat a brutal fistic contest iu any one of them
would be impossinle. We have no hard feel
ing toward Honduras or any other country,
but if there must be prize nghts we should be
glad to see the fighters forced to set out for a
foreign shore in order to gratify their low and
beastly passions.
Wilaon Bill and the Unemployed.
From tho Chicago Herald (Dem. 1
In vieM>f all the facts it is extremely im
probable that more than 1 W.OOO of the un
employed are connected with the protected
industries. Probably half of these may be
unemployed because of the depression con
sequent upon, panic caused by the attempt
to protect the silver interest. The other
half are unemployed lieeause it suits the
purpose of their employers Just now to bring
as strong a pressure as possible to bear upon
congress for the purpose of defeating the
very moderate measure of turtff reduction
which Mr Wilson s committee has reported
In partial obedience to the will of the Amer
ican people as expressed in November, 1892.
The number necessarily unemployed i-y
reason of the - threatened smashing of pro
toction" is probably not one In hundred
thousand of those occupied for grain, while
the whole body of those so occupied includ
ing the few temporarily displaced, would be
vastly beneMtod.by the complete smash
ing of protection,” which the Wilson bill
comes a very loug way short of accompllsh-
Sorry He Kicked the Cat.
A remarkable case of hair turning gray in
one night is that of James Cannavan, a young
school teacher, living south of Birdseye, Ind.
Mr. Cannavan's explanation requires more
than average credulity in the supernatural to
believe; the gray hair shows for itself. Can
navan avers that while he and a companion,
vv illiam Flaherty, were passing through a
neighborhood called Sodom, en route home
from a dance night before last, says the St.
Louis Republic, they were met several times
by a large black cat. which persisted each
time in passing so close to him as to rub his
leg. He grew angry at last and expressed
his mind very rudely, but Flaherty pleaded
mockingly for the cat. saying jocosely: "You
don't know but you shall be a cat in the next
life.' Scarcely had these words teen ut
tered when the cat repassed and rubbed him
again, and without more ado he kicked It
high in the air.
The young men proceeded toward their
parting place, from which each had more
than a mile to travel homeward. When
Flaherty was half way home he met Canna
van. who exclaimed: -Hello: Where are
you going?”
“Fm going home." said Flaherty. “What
in thunder are you doing here?’’
On comparing notes Cannavan found his
error, and instead of accepting an invitation
to go home with his friend, started home
ward. only to be lost again and meet his com
rade once more. This time he admitted being
bewildered, and requested his friend to ac
company him to the place where they first
parted, which Flaherty did. When this point
was reached, they stood a minute to speak.
The cat appeared again: They began to in
wardly curse the cat, each reading the other's
thoughts in their silence. At this moment
voices were heard overhead near by.
The first voice was: “Oh. the blood'"
The second: Tho earth is deluged!”
The third: “Woe! O: Oh!I. O!It”
' That last voice.” said Flaherty, “is
Threena Una na Cardie s voice! That is the
banshee that follows our family, and is never
heard except preceding the death of some
member.”
The couple now became thoroughly fright
ened, and Cannavan readily accepted his
companion s invitation to go home with him.
Nor was time wasted In getting there.
Neither slept any that night. The worry,
with the feeling that the trouble was all In
curred by his treatment of the eat-which
both now looked upon as supernatural—he
does not hesitate to say caused the change in
his hair. Neither has recovered his normal
condition, and the sequel of "Threena Una na
Cardie s 'voice is anxiously awaited. Hoth
young men are much above the average in
intelligence, and stand high in the respect of
the community, where they have lived all
their lives. Cannavan is about 22 years of
age. His hair before the metamorphosis was
a rich dark brown: now it is densely streaked
with gray—more than half having changed
color.
The Trick of the Two Type-Thumpers.
A prominent lawyer thought he had discov
ered a wonderful instance of thought
transference the other day, says the Pitts
burg Dispatch. He has two typewriter oper
ators. One works In his private office and
tne other has a desk in the adjoining room.
Of late he has been puzzled upon giving in
structions to his private stenographer, to be
delivered to the other typewriter, to find that
she never quit the room, yet the girl in the
next room would always execute the order,
just as if she had been told explicitly what
was required. The attorney for a long time
has been trying to account for this seeming
telepathic communication between the two
young ladies.
Yesterday he thought he would
make a test of the matter, and calling his
stenographer he said: --I want you to take
down this article of agreement and give it to
Miss Blank to transcribe." He then dictated
a lengthy and technical document, trying to
make it as difficult as possible. The stenog
rapher took it down and then went to her ma
chine and began operating it. The attorney
watched her closely ands iw that she never
stopped her work. He waited for a half hour,
then he turned to his typewriter and said:
Miss So und So, I think you have forgotten
to give Miss Blank that dictation I gave you
for her.”
"Oh no," replied the young lady, ‘‘Migs
Blank has it finished and waiting for you out
there,"
This nonplussed the attorney. He was sure
his private stenographer had not left the
room, and did not see now it Could be possible
for such a complicated agreement to be trans
ferred by telegraphic communication. He
went out to Miss Blank, who handed him the
agreement completed. The attorney couhl-not
contain himself any longer, as he said:
“Miss Blank. 1 have been noticing some
thing strange for the past month. will you
tell me how you receive my Instructions from
Miss So-and-So without her leaving nay room?
Here you have transcribed a very difficult
dictation, and I am sure you have had no com
munlcation with her.”
The young lady began to smile and said:
• Mr -.you should not be so sure that we
have hail no communication. We can con
verse with each other when the door is open
just as well as if we were in the same room.
No! it is not thought transference, but plain
telegraphy. You see. Miss So-and-So and I
have learned telegraphy recently and we
practice in this way. We found the space
bars of our typewriters make perfect tele
graph keys, so that we can send messages
just as well as with a regular telegraph in
strument. So it's not so mysterious after
all.”
The young lady showed her employer the
manner of sending a message, and he began
to think how easily some mysterious incidents
could be explained if we only knew the truth.
The Love of a Child.
Walter P. Stoddard. A. M., in Boston Trav
eler.
A message of cheer to the lovers true.
Whose vows are so sweet and strong!
A tribute of praise to the maid and'youth
Who have loved each other long!
I praise them all—both great and small—
By Cupid's art beguiled.
But the love that is warm
And holds throu ;h the storm.
Is the hearty love of a child!
1 look on society s giddy whirl.
It's beauty, and grace and wealth,
And wonder If all is true and good;
If the tdoom on the cheek is health.
Then right or rude. I now conclude,
With all their graces mild,
That the love that is pure,
In this passion-tossed world.
Is the innocent love of a child!
In cellars and garrets the poor are housed.
Humanity s cries are vain.
The world is sad with sorrow's tear.
Overburdened with its pain.
O sweat and toil of labor's mofll
All here is sullen or wild!
But the love that is bright.
In this weary old world.
Is the cheerful love of a child!
A friend! Have you found him on earth?
’Tis well.
For oft when your trust Is placed.
The promise is only made for self—
Like a name in sand, effaced—
'Tis then aghast, you stand at last.
With faith all misapplied!
But the love that is true
In this false, false world.
Is the trusty love of a child!
O beautiful child! In your simple trust
Confiding and true, I greet.
Your innocent face upturned In glee.
Tender kiss so pure and sweet.
Your warm, bright love outpoured for me
In gentle stream so mild!
O the love that l crave
In this tickle, old world,
Is the blessed love of a child.
He Wanted a Pass.
“S'posln' a man had a pass over this here
railroad," said a man with a faded overcoat
and tangled gray beard, "he cu'd ride for
nothin', hay?”
"That s what he could." replied the gate
tender at the Central station, to whom the
query was addressed, says the Buffalo Ex
press.
"Free gratis fer nothin', hay?”
“Yes."
"Conductor wouldn’t ask fer no fare’”
"Certainly not.”
"Wouldn't be no snap game about It hay’
If 1 had a pass I’d use it jest like a tioket
hay?”
"Yes; you blamed old fool, yes?"
The old man was rather astonished by this
outburst, and he retired to a bench to think
things over. After a while he came up to the
gate tender and coughed a couple of times
T don't wan tto be Intrudin’, pardner " he
said, "but I wlsht ye and tell me one thing "
"What Is it?"
"They wou dn’t be no danger that a man'd
hafter pay if he had a pass, would they?"
"No: not a bit. What are you asking me
such fool questions for? Have you got a
pass?’
“No. not yet.” replied the old man, edging
away, "but I writ down for one t’other day
an' i kinder wanted t’ And out 'bout them." '
In Paraguay, when a gentleman la intro
duced to a lady, tt fa customary for him to
kiss her.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
The Scotch United Presbyterians are en
deavoring to obtain several woman mission
aries to go out at once to Manchuria, where
1.000 women are clamoring to enter the Chris
tian schools.
The papers from the United States of
Colombia relate the falling down of the enor
mous tamarind tree which shaded the coun
try house at San Pedro Alejandrino, in which
Bolivar, the Lihertador. lived during his last
days of misfortune. Neither the house nor
the statue erected near the porch suffered
any damage from the fall of the tree.
Not long since a- -native came into Bombay
loaded with 50) pounds of chain. He said
that he had been a very wicked young man
and as a punishment had chained himself up
from sin. His plan did not work, however,
and he had been adding to his chains con
stantly. When he traveled by train he was
charged partly as passenger and partly as
freight.
There have recently been found in Akhmln.
Upper Egypt, a number of lamps with the
monogram of Christ. Besides these there are
rings and other articles of ornamentation
which manifestly belonged to the early
Christians. In many cases these relics rep
resent events such as the crucifixion of
Christ, and are exactly the same as those
found in the Catacombs of Rome.
The death of Henry Broadwood, senior
partner of the pianoforte manufacturing firm
of John Broadwood & Sons, at the age of 82.
severs an interesting link with the past. It
was his father's house of business that young
John Jacob Astor, from Waldorf. In Germany,
the founder of the vast Astor fortune, worked
as a poor clerk, and scraped together enough
money to pay for a steerage passage to Balti
more.
The German chancellor, Caprivi, in a com
munication to the Evangelical High consis
tory In Berlin, declares that the Imperial
government is not opposed to the organiza
tion of a German congregation and the build
ing of an evangelical church in the city of
Rome, but it is recommended not to call it the
Luther Memorial chitrch -for which *15.000
has been raised—for fear of giving offense to
the pope.
A. R. Sutton, a Chicago engineer, is work
ing on a plan to connect the Great Lakes with
the Atlantic as a private enterprise. He
proposes to deepen the Welland Canal and
connect it with.Lake Ontario by a cut to the
Niagara near Thorold, Out., then deepen the
St. Lawrence, cut a canal south to Lake
Champlain, and from its southern point,
Whitehall, dig a canal to tho Hudson river at
Troy or Albany.
On every Christmas day since the Napole
onic invasion of Russia in 1812. a prayer has
been recited in all the churches of the Czar's
empire, calling down the curses of Heaven
upon the French. Indeed, the anathema
formed part of the Christmas day liturgy of
of the orthodox church. Last Christmas it
was for the first time omitted, by order of the
emperor and In deference to the susceptibil
ities of his new ally.
Gathering wild fowls’ eggs has long been a
sport for boys living along the Atlantic coast
of Maryland. The narrow reef that guards
the eastern shore counties is a famous breed
ing place for many kinds of aquatic fowls, and
their nests are frequently Invaded and wan
tonly destroyed. There is a sentiment against
the destruction of game l irds' eggs; the hun
dred-and-one varieties of inedible birds are
protected by no such sentiment.
Gen. Hilario Daza. the ex-president of the
Republic of Bolivia, who deserted his post
during the Pacific Chilian-Peruvian-Bolivian
war. currying with him in his flight the war
treasure of his country, has just been con
demned once more by the congress of the re
public. This assembly has unanimously de
clared that Senor Daza shall never return to
hts country, and that he shall be immediately
shot If ever he be caught attempting to return.
Few of the members of the British House
of Lords can claim descent or even distant
relationship with the barons of King John's
time, who extorted from him the Magna
Charta. Of the 538 temporal peers, no less
than 350 have been created since the begin
ning of the present century, and 126 during
the last century, leaving only sixty-two
whose titles were conferred prior to the year
1700. Of the entire number, only five can go
back as far as the Xllth century.
The misunderstanding about the frontier
question which had reached an acute stage,
threatening tho friendly relations betwaen
Ecuador and Peru, seems to be now on the
way to a peaceful arrangement. On Jan. 5.
1894 Senor don Emilio Bonifaz. the new Pe
ruvian Minister to Ecuador, arrived at Quito,
and the government of President Cordery im
mediately appointed Don Camillo Ponceas a
special representative to discuss tho frontier
question with the minister of Peru.
The steamer Aquila. which was nearly the
cause of a quarrel between Chile and Argen
tina during the latest civil war in Chile, and
which finally remained the property of the
Santiago government, was offered for sale
recently. That vessel was used as a Chilean
transport, and the government of Chile de
clined to sell it to the Brazilian rebels or to
President Peixoto. as it desired to remain
strictly neutral between the rebels and the
regular government at Rio de Janeiro.
An Interesting event In London recently was
the dedication of the new clock in the south
western tower of St. Paul’s cathedral. The
clergy proceeded with the choir to the tower
where psalms were sung, and the dean offered
prayer and read a few verses from the gospel.
As the blessing was being said, a young lady
having previously set the works in motion,
the clock struck the hour with twelve rich
notes. This Is the largest clock in the king
dom. Its pendulum weighs 700 pounds.
Manuel Manresa. one of the latest of the
banditti who have been Infesting Cuba, pil
laging. kidnapping and murdering, under the
pretense of being the imitators and successors
of the glorious revolutionists of the last in
surrection. has been captured at Camajuani
province of Santa Clara. He was one of the
fellows who kidnapped the young planter
Meave, who was released on the payment of a
large ransom, almost all of which has been
recovered from the moneys found upon four
of his kidnappers, who have been already
captured. '
Diverse are the methods adopted by the
European governments to test the character
of the wounds which would be Inflicted bv
their new regulation rifles. The Spanish
government a few months ago experimented
upon live animals with that object in view
and the Koumanian military authorities have
recently been making use of human corpses
for the same purpose. These were placed in
rows like soldiers on the Held of hattle and
then shot at. At a distance of fiOO metres five
bodies were placed flftv centimetres apart
and at that range bullets penetrated three
bodies in succession.
In the Republic of Paraguay the electoral
campaign for the Presidency is more active
than any previous one since the fall of Dicta
tor Solano Lopez, who fought so hravelv
against the South American triple alliance
of that time (ISC6I, composed of Brazil Uru
guay and Argentine. The two candidates for
the Presidential chair, now occupied bv Se
nor Gonzales, are Senor Egusqulza minister
of war. who is supported by the present ad
ministration, and Gen. Caballero. who is an
adversary of the Gonzales government but
who seems to have greater chances of being
elected than the administration candidate.
The Reading Herald tells one of the most
extraordinary flsh stories that has appeared
recently, and tells it as a sober fact. The
hero of the tale was a Mr. Eckenroae. of that
town, and the scene of his exploit the Tulpe
hocken creek, where he was fishing for eels
It says that there is a variety of eel to be
found in that stream called the tandem eel
which is accustomed to travel in single file’
at out six inches apart, and to preserve that'
distance with great exactness. If one shoots
ahead too rapidly the one following imme
diately grasps him by the tall, in order to
drug him back to his proper place in the line
They appear to have a remarkuble instinct
for distance and the variation of an inch will
cause the rear eel to exercise his authority to
put the brakes on the one ahead. While
Mr. Eckenrode was Ashing he hooked
one of the travelers, a very remarka
ble circumstance, as they seldom bite
while migrating. As soon as he hooked it he
of course, gave a haul on the line which
caused this particular eel to shoot ahead He
was immediately grasped by the one follow
ing. and as that one likewise shot ahead the
next one did the same, so that when Mr
Eckenrode began to haul out he found a solid
rope of eels. Dropping his rod and line he
grasped the living rope and began to haul in
hand over hand. He kept hauling in and pil
ing up the eels until he was utterly exhausted,
when he was obliged to stop and cut the con
nection. He quickly ran for assistance, and
a numoer of the neighbors came to help him
take care of his rare catch. When they were
all gathered up and loaded on wagons it was
found that hC had 875 pounds. About ,59
worth were sent to the Reading murkot und
the rest were distributed among bis neigh
bora. *
J-EOPOLD ADLER.
Adler’s
Special Perlue Sole
BEGINNING
AT 10 A. M. TO-DAY,
PROF. L. H. MYERS,
The Perfume King,
will sell under his own
supervision his cele
brated perfume.
1 oz. bottle Triple
Extract of White Li
lac, Violet, New Mown
Hay, White Rose,
Jockey Club, Lily of
the Valley, Heliotrope,
Rose Special price
2ic; value 35c.
2 oz. bottle Triple
Extract—Special price
29c; value 50c.
The professor will
show you samples of
all his goods before
buying, and this all is
going on
AT k
ADLER’S.
DANIEL HOIiAN.
■ 11
Embroideries and Laces.
THE following are exceptional values.
Goods all of recent manufacture and im
portation.
An Immense lot of Embroideries of our
own importation, comprising many novel and
exclusive designs.
27-inch wide Flouncing for children's
dresses. Irish Point, 50c, 62c, 75c to *1 50 yard.
Hemstitched Nainsook 55c, 65c, 75c, 85c to
$1 75 yard.
Hemstitched Swiss from 50c to $1 per yard.
EDGINGS TO MATCH.
Complete assortment of Trimming Width
Embroideries, in Cambric. Nainsook. Swiss,
Irish Point, all colors, prices ranging from 2o
to $1 25 per yard.
LACES.
New patterns in Venetian Point Laces, 314
to 6 inches wide.
New Black Silk Milanese Lace from 6 to 10
Inches wide, 50c to |l yard.
New Net Top Silk Laces, in Black and Ivory,
from 6 to 10 inches wide, 14c to *1 25.
New designs in Platt Valenciennes and
de Paris, from 3 to 8 inches wide, with
insertions.
New Ivory Point Applique Laces, 3 toS
Inches wide, 100 to II 25 yard.
French m-Mt M Demesne
UNDERWEAR.
' Every garment far exceeds in value ths
price quoted. Hand-made Night Gowns 88c
sl. 11 85. 82, $2 60 and *3
Chemise and Drawers 49c, 80c, 70c, sl, I! -'•%
II 75 and up to 83.
White Petticoats 500, 70c, 90c, 11, *1 25, and
at intermediate prices up to 84 each.
Domestic Underwear,
Comprising Night Gowns! Chemise. Drawers,
Skirts and Corset Covers from 25c to $1 each.
Extraordinary induce
ments will be offered in our
Dress Goods department in
order to reduce stock prev
ious to the reception of our
spring importations.
DANIEL HOGAN.
NURSERY.
Riesling's nursery!
White Bluff Road.
PLANTS Bouquets, Designs, Cut Flower*
furnished to order. Leave orders
uosenfeld A Murray s. 35 Whitaker street
The Belt Railway passes through vhe mam
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