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4 Cjjtlponthtgftetos Morning N ewrs Buildir e.Savann ah. Ga TUESDAY, JANUARY 30, 1894. __ ■ KGISTZKKD ATTHI POSTOFFICX IN RAT Afflf AH Ihe MORNING NEWS Is published erery day in the year, and ts served to subscribers m tux city at f 1 00 a month, It tor stx months and |lO 00 for one year. The MORNING NEWS, by mah, one Bonth. II 00; three months. 12 60, six months. |k 00; one year. *iu 00. The MORNING NEWS, by MAH,, six vies a week (without Sunday issue), three mo ths, 12 00; six months, *4 00, one year, If 00. The MORNING NEWS, Tri Weekly, Mon days, Wednesdays and Fridays, or Tues days. Thursdays and Saturdays, three months, |1 26; six months. 12 50; one year. 16 00. The SUNDAY NEWS, by mall, one year, |IOO. The WEEKLY NEWS, BY MAH,, one year. |) 26. Subscriptions payable In advanoe Remit by postal order, check or registered letter. Currency sent by mail at risk of senders. Letters and telegrams should be addressed "MORNING NEWS," Savannah, Ga. Transient advertisements other than special •olumn, local or reading notices, amusements and cheap or want column, 10 cents a line Fourteen lines of agate type—equal to one Inch space In depth—la the standard of sneas urement. Contract rates and discounts made known on application at business office. EASTERN OFFICE, 23 Park Ro, New 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." EAK NG POWDER. Awarded Highest Honors World's Fair. . wlf The only Pure Cream of Tartar Powder.—No Ammonia; No Alusi. Used in Millions of Homes— 4o Years the Standard. ITEMS OF INTEREST. 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. LEOPOLD ADLER. Adler’s Uitoliitt BEGINNING AT 10 A. M. TO-DAY. PHOF. L. 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