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Morning N ewrs Buildir e.Savann ah. Ga
TUESDAY, JANUARY 30, 1894. __
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York City. C. S. FAOUgRER, Manager.
IMJtX TO SEW ADVERtfstMENTi
Meetings—Oglethorpe Lodge No. 1, I. O.
O. F.; Savannah Lodge No. 183, B. P. O.
Ska
Special Notices—Plain Talk About Sea
Foam, S. L. Newton; Smokers’ Ideas Real
lxed In Le Panto Cigars: Pure Wax Candles
for Church Purposes, James McGrath; Matt
O'Connell, Builder: Notice to Architects, T.
D. Dowell, Milledgeville, Ga.
Medical—Cerebrine, The Columbia Medical
Company. Washington, D. C.
Over 700 Styles of Suitings and
Trouserings—Appel & Schaul.
Can You Beg or Borrow?—B. H. Levy A
Bro.
Steamship Schedule—Ocean Steamship
Company.
Special Perfume Sale—At Adler's.
Potatoes, Etc.—W. D. Slmkins.
Fur and Hides—Randolph Kirkland.
Need any Clothing > —Falk Clothing
Company.
Auction Sales—Household Furniture, by
C. H. Dorsett.
Cheap column advertisements—Help
Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Rent;
For Sale; Lost; Personal: Miscellaneous.
The thumping Corbett administered to
Mitchell the other day has been followed
by one excellent result. The English
man's newspaper interviews have
dwindled from columns to five words,
namely, “I met a better man.” If he will
stick to talks of that length the public
will forgive him much.
A St. Louis newspaper has collected a
fund of (29,000 for the relief of the un
employed in the city. Instead of opening
a soup kitchen or establishing a free
bread dispensary it will expend the fund
in the building of an artificial lake in one
of the city’s parks, giving employment to
a number of men at fair wages. City
Officials will have charge of the work.
a.
George Kheinhard. a non-union engi
neer on the Lehigh Valley railroad, was
accidently killed on his engine a few days
ago. His father, a union engineer
on the New York Central road,
was informed of the occur
rence. Upon inquiry he learned that his
son had taken the place of a union striker
on the Lehigh, whereupon he declined
to receive the corpse or have anything
to do with it. He gave his reason that he
had neither sympathy nor respect for a
“scab.”
New York city districts will elect two
congressmen to-day, to serve the unex
pired terms of ex-Representatives Fel
lows and Fitch, who resigned to accept
Offices in New York city. The candidates
are Messrs. Brown and Straus for the
democrats and Messrs. Quigg and Sigrist
for the republicans. The republicans
have worked lhe free trade bugaboo foe
all it is worth and hope to be able to
claim another ‘‘overwhelming defeat”
for tariff reform tonight. But the
chances are favorable to the election of
the democrats.
It is understood that. In the event of
the death of Mr. George YV. Childs, all of
his proprietary interest in the Philadel
phia Ledger, the paper he has been con
nected with for so long a time, will be
transferred to the estate of his lifelong
friend and former partner, the late
Anthony J. Drexel. This is in accordance
with an agreement between Mr. Childs
and Mr. Drexel, made in li'6s. Provision
was made in Mr. Drexel s will for the
purchase by bis executors of Mr. Childs'
interest in the paper in accordance with
the agreement. Mr. George YV’. Childs
Drexel, son of Mr. A. J. Drexel, is at
present the publisher of the paper. In
the event of Mr. Childs' death be would
become both proprietor and puolisher.
Under the general laws of New Jersey,
when a citizen of that state dies without
heirs, the real estate owned by such per
son escheats to the state and the personal
property goes to the city, town or incor
porated village in which the property
may have been at the time of death. Re
cently there died in Hoboken an eccen
tric old wine merchant. He had no
heirs. An examination of his property
showed that among other things, he
owned a cellar full of the i ostliest of old
wines and liquors, which will become the
property of the city. Hoboken, there
fore, finds herself in a position to wake
the old man properly, .if she pleases,
without touching the city treasury.
Investors continue to “fly into the face
of providence” and of the Ropubli an
party, it seems. Anew steel rail plant
with a i apacity of 100 tons a day, is soon
to be started at Tonawanua. N. Y. The
works are to cover an area of eight acres
and employ about 1,000 men. New York,
Pittsburg and Buffalo men are to furnish
the capital. Besides inis, the Southern
Iron Company, of Nashville, is being re
organized with a capital of 0b.000.000 and
wilt shortly start up its seven furnaces in
Tennessee and Alabama. These little in
cidents of the limes, and others of the
kind that are *onstantl.v occurring, are
conclusive evidence that neither the
north nor the south has much fear of the
Wilson bill.
The Tariff and the Solid South.
The action of the democratic House in
putting sugar on the free list has made
the demoi rats of Louisiana restless. Free
raw sugar and no bounty means the de
struction of one of Louisiana's greatest
industries. Consequently the question
whether the passage of the Wilson tariff
bill, in its present shape, will have the
effect of bringing about political changes
in the south is receiving some attention in
that state.
A day or two ago ex-Senator Edmunds,
of Vermont, one of the foremost repub
licans of the country, was in New Or
leans, and was asked by a reporter of the
Times-Democrat if he thought the tariff
question would break the solid south.
Mr. Edmunds said: “I don't see any im
mediate prospect of its doing so. It
naturally ought to, but practically I see
no prospect of Its doing so for several
years at best.”
There is considerable dissatisfaction in
the south with certain schedules in the
Wilson bill. It is confined, however, to
those who are interested in sugar, coal,
iron and lumber. But the number of
those concerned in those interests is not
large enough to make a decided impres
sion upon political sentiment. While it is
true that the sugar planters cannot stand
free sugar it cannot be predicted with any
degree of certainty that free lumber, free
iron and free coal will be particularly
damaging to those engaged in manufac
turing lumber and iron or mining coal.
It is possible that free lumber may hurt
the lumber business, but there seems to
be good reason for saying that the coal
and iron interests will prosper with the
duty wholly removed from coal and iron.
Mr. Edmunds is right in saying there
is no prospect of the tariff question break
ing the solid south. The south will re
main solid as long as the race question is
the most important one in the south.
Division would mean the introduction
into office of ignorance, and ignorance and
corruption would quickly join hands.
What would follow in that event is well
understood. The years of carpet-bag rule
have not been forgotten, and are not
likely to be soon.
Encouraging Signs.
The business depression exists in all
parts of the country, but it is greater in
the east and west than in tbe south.
Taking into consideration this condition
of affairs Savannah has no reason to com
plain. She appears to be much better
off from a business point of view than
most of her sister cities.
The statement of bank clearances for
the week ending Jan. 25, showed an in
crease of over 25 per cent, in Savannah
bank clearances as compared with the
clearances of the week ending on that
date of last year. The clearances of the
banks of only seven cities out of seventy
nine showed an increase, and Savannah’s
was one of the seven, and Savannah’s in
crease was the greatest with the excep
tion of that of Emporia, Kan, This is an
indication that there are better times
ahead for Savannah. Her bank clear
ances are good evidence of the volume of
her business, and this evidence is to the
effect that she has less reason to com
plain than nearly all the other cities of
the country.
There is not much building being done,
it is true, and the movement in real estate
is light, but it is worth noticing that
there is very little depreciation in the
price of her real estate. That fact shows
confidence in her future, and there is
good reason for sayiug that the confidence
is well founded.
If business continues to improve, and it
is pretty certain to do so, there will soou
be activity in building and plenty of work
for mechanics.
What every business man in Savannah
should do now is to push his business vig
orously and earnestly. He should show
by what he does that he has confidence in
the future of the city, and should leave
no means untried to increase the city’s
prosperity. Courage and energy are
what te l in business, and if Savannah's
business men will exert themselves to tho
utmost they will soon be out of the toils
of hard times.
A Gold Famine Impossible.
Those who maintain that the supply of
gold is not likely to be equal to the demand
have not made themselves acquainted
with the gold discoveries that have been
made quite recently in Mashonaland,
South Africa, tho section of country from
which the savage chief, Lo Bengula, and
bis warriors have just boen driven. The
accounts of the richness of the Mashona
land mines surpass belief.
The gold dis o.’eries have been made
in half a dozen districts, known as Ma
nica. Hartley, Hills, Mo.oe. I omogh un
dais and Victoria. These dis rie s cover
a territory approximating 230" mil, s in
length and 150 miles in breadth.
No doubt the estimates aro greatly be
yond the truth, but making allowances
for exaggerations, there is s ill, it is be
lieved, more gold iu the Mashona country
than ihe world will have any nee 1 for in
the next hundred years. There seems to
be no limit to the supply. The goid bear
ing reefs are easy of access, and the min
ing of tho gold is not expensive.
Those who have been predicting a gold
famine and demanding a larger uso for
silver, need have no fears of a scarcity of
gold. There will be no gold famine if the
gold mines of Mashonaland are what
they are said to be.
It is understood that John Ward, man
ager of the New York base ball ilub,
and Ed. Hanlon, manager of tho Balii
n.ore club, are oidding against each other
for the services of Jim Corbett during the
coming season. Hanlon is said to have
offered the pugilist (10,000 to fill some
minor position lor tho Orioles, und Ward,
it is expected, will do even better It is
to be hoped that the efforts of eav h mana
ger will fail. Base ball is an honest,
open, manly sport, and there is no place
in it for pug.hsi.ic bruisers. When tho
managers add freaks to their teams in
order to draw patronage, it will mark the
decadence of the game. Corbett is a prize
fighter. and not a bail player, and there
is no legitimate place for him on the base
ball field.
Even if it should prove true that Mr.
Smyth, minister to Ha.yti. gave I resident
Hippolyte some points on how to ruu the
Haytian republic, that would be a small
matter compared with what Mr. Stevens,
formerly minister to Hawaii, did. Not
oniy did Mr. Stevens tell the queen how
to run her government, but when she went
on running it her own way he called
United States marines ashore and drove
her off the throne.
THE MORNING NEWS: TUESDAY, JANUARY'S!), 18!G.
The Bond Issue.
It is safe to predict that the Knights of
Labor who have begun legal proceedings
to prevent the Secretary of the Treasury
from issuing bonds will find that they
have no case. They take the ground that
there is no law which authorises the
secretary to issue oonds. Congressmen
who oppose the secretary's bond policy
do not go so far as that. In the resolution
introduced into the House by Representa
tive Bailey, and which has been reported
favorably by the House Judiciary com
mittee, admits tbe secretary has a right
to issue bonds, but denies that he can use
the money received for them for the cur
rent expenses of the government.
Owing to the action of the House Judi
ciary committee it is probable that the
bids for the bonds will not be so numer
ous as it is thought they would have been,
nor will the aggregate amount of them
be so large. But there is not much doubt
that the bonds will be issued, and that a
higher price will be received for them
than that fixed by the secretary. The de
bate on the Bailey resolution will bring
out the fact that the question of issuing
bonds has been carefully considered from
every standpoint, and that the secretary
was well advised before deciding upon
his bond policy.
Tbe secretary has not been anxious at
any time to issue bonds. It has become
necessary, however, to get money from
some source to meet the ex
penses of the government. The
silverites want to force him to coin
the seigniorage of the silver bullion in
the treasury, but that cannot be done in
time lo supply the demands of the treas
ury, and there are, besides, other reasons
for not relying upon that source of sup
ply. It is certain that a bond issue would
not be resorted to if the secretary be
lieved it would be advisable to get the
money needed from some other source.
Mr. Croker’s Visit.
The visit of Mr. Croker, the Tammany
chief, to Washington last week was the
subject of a good deal of speculation. Tbe
republican papers particularly discussed
it as a matter of the utmost importance.
In their view it deserved the most elabo
rate treatment. Some of them said that
the purpose of his visit was to discuss
New York appointments with the Presi
dent; others that it was to whip the New
York congressmen into line against the
income tax, and still others that he
wanted the vote on the tariff bill put off
until after the election of the congress
men in New Y'ork city to fill vacancies.
Asa matter of fact, Mr. Croker weDt to
Washington to impress upon the New
Y’ork congressmen his belief that the
adoption of the income tax would have a
most disastrous effect upon the democracy
of New York, particularly Now York
city. Whether or not he succeeded in ac
complishing the object he had in view is
not known, but the impression is that he
did not. Several of the New York demo
cratic congressmen will, it is asserted,
vote for the income tax.
Mr. Croker wields a great deal of influ
ence in New York city, but not much in
Washington. Indeed, it is doubtful if he
could render his party any great amount
of assistance, in respect to any matter, at
the national capital. If the income tax is
defeated, it will not be because of any
thing that Mr. Croker said. Congress
men had about made up their minds as to
how they would vote on that tax before
Mr. Croker appeared in Washington.
The Martinis of Queensberry, whose
greatest claim to notoriety is the fact
that his name lias been given to a code of
pri.e ring rules, thinks there will be just
one more gnat prize fight—between Cor
bett and Peter Jackson—and then the
outraged moral sense of the people will
put an everlasting stop to the miscalled
“sport.” “Prize fighting,” says the
marquis, “has degenerated from a pure
sport into a mere gambling machine.
The newspapers have taken it up and it
has become notorious. Lawmakers have
been appealed to by their constituents
and laws have been passed against it.
home of the laws are weak, but stronger
ones will be forthcoming. I believe prf.o
fighting has seen its day.” When so great
and prominctK a patron of the ring as
Queensberry sees the end of prize fight
ing in the near future, its opponents may
take heart. Queensberry sa.vs, by the
way, that he is not the originator of the
ring rules that bear bis name, but merely
revised and approved of them after tl\ey
were written. Their real author is John
Chambers, editor of Land anu Water.
YY’hat lias beiome of Admir il Mello, tho
doughty leader of the Brazilian insur
gents; Late dispatches refer to DeGama
as the leader of the opposition to Pcixoto,
and give it to be unders.ood that he is
in favor of arriving at a set.lement of the
difficulty through the good offices of Ad
miral Bonham. The Benliam arbitration
story, by the way, is one that admits of
considerable doubt. The admiral has
s. nt the navy department no word of a
purpose on his part to arbitrate the mat
ter. Secretary Gresham knows nothing
about it; Minister Mendonca knows noth
ing about it, and ffoesn’t believe the
story. Yet liio t, legratns continue to as
sert indirectly that Admiral Benham is
acting as a go-between for tho two par
ties. Tho telegram we published yester
day, from Rio by way of Buenos Ayres and
Lonuon, left as much to be inferred.
Europe is apparently disposed to see in
the reconciliation between YVilliam and
Bismarck not a harbinger of peat e but a
menace of war. In the capital of Ger
many's ally, Austria, it is considered that
the itossibilities of war have been in
creased, while in Paris and St. Peters
burg the reconciliation is held to have
been merely an incident in Williams’
plans, which plans will eventually bring
on war. The consummation of the recon
cilia.ion lo the Franco-Kussiuns is only a
marker of the trend of events. It is
churned that Russian secret agents long
ago inlormed their government of the
forthcoming peace-making between the
German emperor and the ex-chaneellor,
and that the Russians “governed them
selves accordingly.”
Through the collapse recently of the In
dianapolis Bank, the president of which
rests under an indictment, the widow
and children of Ex-Vice President Schuy
ler Colfax are left in penury. The ex-
Vice President in life was very much at
tached to Mr. Haguey, the bank's pres
ident. and all the money he left to
his family was placed in Haguey's
hands. When Mrs. Colfax heard of the
valamity that had overtaken hor she
fainted from the shock.
PERSONAL.
The Japanese emperor has Just received
from the kaiser of Germany as a present a
horse valued at *9,000.
The president of Hayti ts elected for seven
years at an annual salary of 121.000. Hence
the occasional scrimmage.
Mrs. Gladstone has Just passed her eighty
flrst birthday, and her vitality is as wonder
ful as that of her husband.
’Ex State Treasurer Edward T. Nolan, of
Missouri, has served out his two years' term
ih. tb®'penitentiary for his defalcation and
will nettle down in ->t- Louis to begin life over
again on a new lack.
Ilenrlcus Nijgh, who founded the Rotter
dam Courant fifty years ago, Is still actively
engaged in its editorial work at the age of 78.
His son has been Its editor-in chief for twen
ty-Hve years and his grandson is in practical
training for editorial duties.
Mrs. Cleveland is understood by the Phila
delphia Ledger to have missed a rare chance
of gening into Ward McAllister s set by re
jecting a proposition of his to have a grand
social court at Washington with ' ladies of
the Blue Room,' and all that.
On January 10. ex Senator Charles B. Far
well, of Illinois, had been a resident of Chica
go exactly fifty years. For several months
after his arrival he walked the streets in a
vain search for employment. To day he is
one of Chicago's wealthiest men.
Henry Irving has accepted an invitation to
speak before the students of Harvard Uni
versity. The invitation came from the new
Harvard Union, the leading da ating society
In the college. In 1 85 Mr. Irving was ten
dered a similar invitation, and spoke before
a crowded house composed mostly of stu
dents. The present address will be delivered
about March 17.
Jn his youth. United States Judge William
L. Putman, of Boston, taught school In Saga
dahoc county. Maine., and that he was an en
ergetic pedagogue is the testimony of an old
settier, who says: “dill Putman was the
onerest schoolmaster that school had ever
known and when nothing in particular was
going on, he used to take the boys out and
lick 'em just for fun.”
Rev. Dr. C. H. Mabie. of New Y’ork. created
considerable excitement at a missionary
meeting the other day by stating that foreign
missionaries are too extravagant: that they
live on a plain too far a ove the natives; that
too much money is spent in building tine
houses and churches for them. If the na
tives houses and churches are made of bam
boo the speaker thought that I amboo was
good enough for Christian temples
Mrs. W. M. Thackeray, who died recently in
the Insane asylum at Leigh, which has been
her home for over fifty years, was Isabella
•Shaw when she was married. Her fatfier was
a colonel who had ceen retired from the In
dian service, and from his chara ter 'i hack
eray drew many of the fine traits which he
gave to Col. Newvome. The marriv'e oc
curred early in 18:10 and after the Ith of
their third daughter in 1840 her mind cecame
affected For a year they travele ton the con
tinent in the hope thm the baance might t e
restored, but she fell into a confirmed melan
choly, and the institution was necessary, as it
seemed. One of the daughters ts now living,
Mrs. Richmond Ritchie, wbo was Anne Isa ella
i hackeray; one died in infancy, and another
was the late Mrs. Leslie Stephen.
BRIGHT BITS.
She—The intoxication of gold. Do you not
think that an absurd expression?
He— sot at all. You know that gold is found
in quartz.—Pittsburg Bulletin.
He went out for his health the strong
Spring atmosphere to sip—
The influenza came along
And killed him with its grip.
—Cleveland Plain Dealor.
Proprietor of Flat—Do you like the apart
ments, sir?
Prospective Tenant—Very much; but there
is no beat.
Proprietor—That's all right. Our Janitor is
the most profane man you ever saw.—Phila
delphia Record.
“Ah." said Birdie McGinnis, the belle of
Harlem, who had been reading a novel, "what
is sa Ider than a broken heart?"
■ Weally, Miss Bwirdie " replied Dudelv
Canesucker a bwoken pocket ook ith much
sadder. Ive had hwoth affiUttons, doucher
know."—lammiiny'limas. . . , ji.
Her Little Brother—Areyoti a plumber, Mr.
Twi eaweek?”
Mr. Twiceaweek—Why, no; what makes
you think so:'
Ht r r lttle Brother—Cos pop said to mom
las night that if Ciara got you she and have a
reg'lar lead-pipe cinch.”—Brooklyn Eagle.
Chappie—l was on a wegler bat last night.
Chollie—Were you? how dev llsh; what and
you do?
Chappie—B mok 3d four cigawettes instial
of my wegular anowance of two. and the,-
went to my head so fahst that X was obliged
to call a hansom to take me home—Brooklyn
Eagle.
Rural Ragges—This idea of bein' perlite ter
folks ain t what It s cracked up ter be.
Tramping Tatter—How sp, Koory?
Rural Hagges-I was workln' the deef an'
dumb racket the other day. an' pulled a
women on fer a rattlln srp are meal. After!
got through i fergot meself. an' said. • thank
yer, mum, an'she sic’ the dog onter me:—
Puck.
“So. Jack, you admit that you feel better
for having gone to church?”
“Yes
“Was it the music?”
“Mo.”
“Ihe sermon, then”'
“No' No! I worked of? two plugged nick
els Pd had for six months.”—Chicago Inter-
Ocean.
“We couldn't think of anythint else to do
at the liib the other ni ht, so we took a se
cret ballot to decide who was the smartest
man n the crowd, who was the laziest and
who was the stingiest. Brown was voted the
stingiest and ones the laziest.”
VY'ho was the smartest?”
“. hat was not decided Every man voted
for himso.t ' —lndianapolis Journal.
“Oh. we had the lo zeliest arrangement at
our church society ;ast week. it.very woman
contriuuted to the missionary cause $1 which
sho earned herse.f y hard work.”
How did you get yours.'”
"From mj hus and.”
•I sbouldn t call that earning It yourself by
hard work.”
* You don't know my husband.”—Snap
shots. _____
CURRENT COMMENT.
Other Candidates Coming.
From the Albany (Ga.) Herald iDem.)
The f vans and Atkinson organs want to
know where the o posing factions stanu.
They will hnd out later.
Squeezing a Trust.
From the Wilmington (N. C.) . tar (Dem.).
'ihe a tion of the Ho se of Kep esentatives
in petting reaned s gar, on the tree ,xst made
bus.ness lively with the sugar trust. A out
loo.ulu sha.es of its stock chan„eu hands in
one day with a drop from 81 to 76. Congress
got the drop on that trust.
Build Cotton Mills.
From Charleston News and Courier (Dem.)
Every year adds to the population of the
UulteU States at least as many people as
there are In outh Carolina All of these
new comers will have to w ear clothes and use
a variet of cotton goods There Is no danger
of building too many new cotton mills in the
south.
Clams, and at Low Water.
From the ColumbusiGa. )En tuirer-Sun (Dem.)
Home of our anti administration contem
poraries would like to -ee a square vote in
oeorgia on the silver issue, the.-e content
poranss aro a little elated. So tar as we aie
a.vato mere is no silver issue, what there
was of it has been settled for some years to
come by the Democratic party in congress,
it is time for Uli. ustering democratic jour
nals to tie on to the hand wagon and quit
being .lams.
Toe Caucus and the Tariff Bill.
From the New York Journal of Commerce
and Commercial Bulletin (Xud i.
The explanation of the strange aotlon of tho
democratic caucus, In voting to In orporate
the n.erual revenue changes with the tariff
bill, lies proba. ly in the fact that it is found
difficult to harmonize divergent views in the
House on the income tax and on certain de
tails of dunes, it seems to have teen deemed
easier to reach an agreement on those points
after the question hus passed through the
Senate, when all the differences of ; oth houses
can be focussed into one settlement It is
one way of whipping ■ hi, highness ‘ around
the stump, i ut not a very dignified one;
though it is likely to result in some sort of
final success.
One Way to Catch Pickpockets.
A remarkable story came to light yesterday
regarding an experience on Monday night of
Charles C sborne. the mining man of .Shasta
county, with a pickpocket, in which he came
off Immeasurably best says the San Fran
cisco Chronicle. Osborne has just sailed for
South Africa The story is so unus alas to
seem hardly credible, but is vouched for in a
way to carry telief.
listo ne armed here several weeks ago.
He is one of the i est known mining men of
California, having mined for years in the
north. He was the discoverer of the Glad
stone goldmine, trench Gulch which he sold
for :5014)0 as he was on his way to Johannes
burg to take charge of some mines and did
not know when he would get back, he spent
someiime here seeing the sights and taking
his ease preparatory o starting. While here
he sent to Redding for jl OH which he re
ceived by express. Much of this money he
carried on his person, for Osborne is a big,
stalwart man, who has been about the world,
and is not afraid.
One night, over a week ago. when he and
his friend. Petty, were out seeing the sights,
a light-fingered man touched him for two *2O
gold pieces, which he had in one of his
trousers pockets, ihis was a surprise to Os
borne. and set him to thinking. He had never
had anything like that happen before, and he
was much anno, ed. He said nothing about it
at the time, however, tut set to work devis
ing a plan for thwarting any similar accident
in future.
In a dim way he recollected that he thought
someone had put a hand in his pocket on ihe
night he lost the coin. Osborne, as is custom
ary among many mining men. wears substan
tia corduroy clothes, and these are equipped
with unusually strong pockets. In the right
pocket of his trousers, therefore, he skillfully
arranged half a dozen big fish-hooks, each
carefully fastened to its place, and in such a
way that they would offer no resistance to a
hand while eng inserted, but the hand
would be grasped by the bart s while being
withdrawn. Any one of the hooks would hold
a 10 pound salmon.
Thus equipped Osborne again started forth.
At the corner of California and Kearny
streets a fakir was blith somely expatiating
about his wares, and the mining man stopped
to hear what he had to say. Desirous of test
ing his invention, ho jingled two or three *2O
pieces carelessly in sight, and then dropped a
couple of hem in sight of the yawning maw
below the fish hooks. Then he leaned back
and became absorbed in the street corner
oratory. In a few moments, sure enough, he
felt a hand going down his pocket. It moved
slowly and carefi l.y, but every time the fakir
said anything to make the crowd laugh it
went down with more confidence. Pretty
soon Mr. Osborne felt that he had a maa at
his ell ow who was doing some deep thinking.
He knew this by the commotion that had
taken place in his pocket. He said nothing,
but he knew something was going to happen.
It did, when a voice said;
"Say, mister! I’ve got my hand in your
pocket:”
"What in have you got your hand in
my pocket for?" said Osborne, cheerfully.
"Why don't you take it out?”
"leant: its caught," said the man. look
ing up and turning pate.
"Well, come right down here to a police
man. He will help you take it out. " replied
the mining man. and he moved off as he
spoke, the thief being forced to trot along by
the side of his captor.
"Oh. I didn t get any money. For heaven's
sake let tr.e gol" cried the thief.
Osborne did not care anything about im
prisoning the fellow and punishing him
further. He declared he would not have
minded it a bit if he had lost the additional
gold pieces. All he wanted was to see if his
tiap would work. So he released the fellow
and let him go. He immediately ran awav.
and Osoorne returned to his hotel, tollowed
by several people. H. K. Hemis and others
e'amined the fishhook guarded pocket, it had
cons.derable i lood in it from the hand of the
woulu-oe thief.
Discussing the Hawaiian Question.
"Well, there's still a good deal of talk about
this Hiwayan business," said the man from
Jackson Boulevard after he and his neighbor
bad found a good place in one corner of a
Madison street car, according to the Chicago
Record.
"Yes, that's so." said the neighbor, "and I
wish they and set.le in one way cr another.
It s getting to be darned tiresome "
"It would have teen settled a long time
ago if it hadn t t een for that man Blount.
When he landed those soldiers there he might
have known it would have caused trouble."
“Was it Blount did that? I thought it was
this fellow lhitrston.'
"No. my re. ol.ee ton is that Thurston was
ihe man who pul ed down the American flag
at.d came near gettin' into a scrap with—
ah "
"Lillikalana?”
"Y’es, thatS it. She wants to join the
United States, I guess."
"No. I think you're mistaken that I
haven't read up on it very closely, but it
my impression that she was to take U the-.,
lelloits that over.hrew her anti have their
heads chopped off. ’
" t hat s right, and Cleveland said he was
wili.tg. dicin't be?"
"No, no: you see Cleveland was simply try
ing to square things, and he wanted her to
agree to lea; e these fellows alone.”
"What was it his business?"
“Well, you see. be was afraid some other
country would jump in and get the islands. "
"What if they did? From what I can hear
the Unted States doesn’t want to admit Han
way. There s only a few white men there.
It’s too far away, anyhow
"How far out in the o enn is it?”
“Oh-h-h. I guess it must be a matter of
something like 500 miles."
Humph: 1 suppose if they admitted
Hawceah it would send in 'a lot of congress
men with fea hers in their hair and grass
tied around their legs."
"What's the name of this fellow that's over
there n >w?”
"Willis, isn't it?”
“Yes that's it. Now. what Is it he's trying
to do ’
"Well, from what I’ve heard he s trying to
jolly up the quee t and keep her from oring
ing a dan are suit again,- 1 Cleveland.”
"Why. what did Cleveland do?”
“Don’t you knpw? He agreed td put her
back on the throne, and then when he failed
to do it she claimed that she hadn't lean
treated right. ’
“That's so; I remem er reading something
about that. And Willis is over there now
trying to square Cleveland?"
"That s it exactly."
"Oh. yes."
"How do vott think it will all end?"
"Oh, I don t know. I suppose she ll go on
the lecture platform."
• J wouldn't Le surprised.”
Ways of Making a Living.
"Ther3 are more ways than one to make a
living," said a demure little woman, with
flashing black eyes, to a reporter for the Buf
falo Express. "I know a woman who was
left penniless in New Y’ork. she was riding
on the elevated road one day when she was
struck with the sameness ot the advertise
meats that are posted up in the cars. She
thought that -he co id write good advertise
ments. and she tho ht out a lot of little four
line rhvmes tor a certa n article, .-he sub
mittidthemto the auvertlsing mana or of
thtt firm, and they were accepted and now
sue is mak.n . a lo of money every year with
her verses extol ing varions wares."
"Pshaw:" said the londe who sat next to
the demure Utile woman. "I know of a case
right here in Buffalo that disiounts that."
i don t telieve it." said the demure little
woman.
"Well, I do. and I'll tell vou about it to
prove it. A friend of mine who had ' een do
ing some ne s a-er work got the traze for
writing advertisements, and she went around
to a lot of stores only to find that thev were
well sup lied with people to look after that
branch of their business -he did find one
firm that was wiling to let her try her hand,
an* she began work. In le-s than a year she
was , omforta v off for there-tof her life."
"Did she invent some new stvle of writing,
or something of that kind?" aiked the de
mure little woman.
"No ' replied the blonde, "but she married
the senior partner."
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According to the report prepared by the
war department, says the Troy Times, red
uniforms were first adopted by the Emperor
% aietius Maximus, in order that the Roman
soldiers might not be frightened by the sight
of their own blood. To this day the children
of England are told that tbts is the reason
why French troops wear red trousers, and
French children are taught the same notion
respecting the red coats of the British. ’lhe
legionaries of ancient Rome wore the skins
of bears on the field of battle to make them
Log Her e For the same reason they put
figures of frightful beasts on their shields
and helmets. From this odd custom springs
modern crests and armorial bearings. The
idea of soaring the enemy by such devices has
been perpetuated up to quite recent times,
i ail bearskin huts were originally adopted to
make them look taller by tbe French cuiras
siers. each of whom carried a handful of
grenades for scattering among the ranks of
their foe.
"A grea‘ deal of this talk about the beauty
of the Spanish and Mexican women is bosh,”
said James C. Madison, of Guaymas, Mexico,
to a Washington Post man. Mr. Madiscn is
an American who is interested in Mexican
silver mines o and h.ts spent the mod of
the last seven years in that country. Many
of the Mexican girls of the higher classes are
very*pretty along the years fifteen, sixteen,
up to twenty-nve. Then they begin to ae.ay,
and at thirty-five they are anything but at
tractive. They are all bornaflirts and have a
most alluring aud captivating way of co juet
tishly concealing their faces behind long
mantillas, usually of a bright color, and peep
ing out from behind these at a fellow. On the
theory that a skirt dance is more suggestive
than the march of the Amazons ballet. Mex
ican girls appear to the stranger to be very
beautiful. They all do have wonderful eyes,
black and sparkling. But I've been more
£retty women this afternoon on F street than
iexico will produce in the next fifty years.”
It is acknowledged, says Chambers Jour
nal. that stingless bees are not much good as
honey gatherers, and Lumholtz, the Swedish
naturalist, says of the honey produced by tbe
stin less bees of Australia, that it causes
diarrhoea, and is sour and soon fermented be
cause the bees have no poison to preserve it.
Procably, theiefore. if our bees should be de
prived of their stings the honey made by
them would ue worthless instead of gaining
in va'.ue; for the sting apparently is not only
a weapon of offense and defense, but an alem
bic in which is distilled a subtle fluid, a drop
of which is added to each cell of honey before
it is sealed, and which, although poisonous
when injected into the blood of man or other
animal, is essential not only to the well-being
of the insect, but also to the wholesomeness
of the food provided for its own use and that
of its progeny and which is so unscrupulously
appropriated by omnivorous man.The value of
the sting of the bee is exemplified by the fact
re.orded by Darwin, that since the introduc
tion of the common hive bees into Australia
thev have almost exterminated the native
stingless species.
After a heavy snow storm during the night,
says he Loudon City Press, the city man
comes to his place of business and finds that
in the principal thoroughfares nearly all
traces of snow have disappeared. the prep
arations for the coming winter are begun
eariy in the autumn. For the extra labor re
quired reliance h is to be placed on the 'un
employed.” Work Is found each winter for
some 2 utoor 3.000 men out of employment.
Snow first made its appearance in London
late on Tuesday night, and it continued to
fall until 6 o'clock on Wednesday morning.
Some 200 extra men were taken on. and by 10
or 11 o'clock the city streets were cleared, the
snow being carried awav. and for the most
part, shot over the bridges into the 1 hames.
There was a heavier fall on Wednesday night,
beginning about 6 o clo k and continuing with
more or less severity throughout the night.
Men were at work al night salting and clear
ing the streets for traffic, while early on
Thursday morning some 30J "unemployed
men were engaged to help in the work of
clearance. On Thursday night and on Friday
betw en 500 and (500 men were engaged. The
extra men are paid at the rate of 6d. an hour.
The religious question seems to be looming
up large in Chicago, says the New Orleans
Picayune. It Is said that the politicians and
the people there are becoming alarmed at the
large preponderance of Catholics as office
holders, and a strong effort is making to pre
vent the appointment of Martin J. Russell as
collector of the port, and of Frank Lawler as
marshal, both of them being Catholics, on the
ground that the Catholics already have more
than their fair share of the offices. A promi
nent politician of the city s reported as say
ing that he would ooje tto no mans appoint
ment to office on the ground of his religion,
but that it was not fair tfa all
■he places should be held by pe ois of
one re! /ious faith. And this seems io be
the case in the Windy city. The Catholics
of chi. ago have the ma or, the chief of
police. the chief of the fire department, the
pc ( ..aster the city attorney, the clerk of
the circuit court, the clerk of the
protale court, the clerk of the
superior court, a number of the
ji and ms forty-five of the sixty-eight aldermen.
9o er cent, of the police force, 80 per cent, of
thu firemen and B 7 per cent, of the school
teachers, it is said that these figures have
been laid bc:o*e the president, with the re
quest that all the federal appointments
should not go to Catholics.
“It is singular to note the peculiarity of
names,” said J. C. Wilson to the corridorman
of the St. Louis Globe Democrat at the La
clede. “I was going down a street in St. Louis
when I saw that A. Gander was in the grain
business, which is certainly appropriate, and
it called to mind a num er of like instances
that I have seen in different sections of the
country. In Chattanooga an undertaker is
named Gay: in Mo lie the former keeper of a
cemetery was named Graves; In South Fitts
burg there is a law firm named Bright &
Early. In Marion Ind., a law firm which for
merly existed was Robb & Steele. In Mount
Vernon, 111.. Is a sign reading: ‘Fly coffin
shop In Rushvilie a hotel firm used to he
Cook & Fry. A sign in Paxton, 111., reads:
‘A Sample Lawyer.' in t roy. N. Y.. a butcher
is named Calfkiiler. Near Lynn. Mass , two
farmers got Into a lawsuit which was entitled
Haymaker vs. Turnipserd. A man named
Apple is in the fruit business at Indiana; oils,
fcickman Is the name of a doctor ih Cincin
nati. Hoss & Harness is a livery stable firm
in Kokomo. Ind. A man named Boatman runs
a ferry in Mississippi. William Shakespeare
is a barber in Philadelph a Charles Lamb
now conducts a peanut stand in Chicago.
George Washington is a blacksmith in savan
nah. and Charles Dickens is a gam ler in
the far West. All of which lea is to the con
clusion in my mind that there is nothing in a
name. ’
The London county council has been study
ing into the growth of that city whose popu
lation seems to be decreasing tecause the
people are moving into the suburbs, says the
Westminster Budget. r l he investigation has
brought out some remarkable figures. If we
do not add any more to the population than
the amount por decade hat has been added
since 1881. it seems that we should have a
population in 1911 of close upon 10.000.0tw. If
we allow for a growth at the rate of the
natural increase of births over deaths there
will beneariy 11,000.000 in London in that
year. If we reckon that London will grow at
the average rate of the last three decades e
shall be over 14.000,000: but if inner London
and outer London go on to ether growing at
the rate they have been growing for the last
three tens of years we are to expect
a London population in 1941 of a trifling
17.500.u0). If we ldbk at the matter
in another wav, and ask what population
greater London will contain when it has
attained througho t the mein density of
well known areas we gei the following ap
palling caculation: if greater London were
onlv peopled as denslv as Hamnstead. it
would contain apo uaton of 13.000.000. If it
were peopled on an average as densely as
FMll.am Is now. the population would be 20,-
000 OJO. If it were peopled at the rate of St.
George's, Hanover square, ihe total would
rise to 80,800,000. Whitechapel Is now three
times as densely peopled as St. George's it
self. The moral is o ivious.
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