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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 5. 1894.
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York City. C. S. Manager.
INDEX TO SEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Mketins— De Kalb Lodge No. 6.1.0. O. F.
Special Notices—a simple Bequest as to
Sea Foam Soap, James G Nelson; In a New
Locality with Le Panto Cigars. J. F. Heit
man. Notice of Dissolution, Raymond Judge
tt Oo.; Good Lots Cheap, C. H. Dorsett.
Amusements -Mr. Potter of Texas at the
Theater Feb. 8
Easteh Comes Earlt—Appel A Schaul.
Take as Eaklt Start—B H. Levy A Bro.
Disooust or Per Cent—At Kohler's.
Railroad Schedules— Central Railroad
of Georgia; Savannah Florida and Western
Railway; Charleston and Savannah Railroad.
Auction Sales —Furniture, Clothing, Etc.,
hy J. H. Oppenheim & Son; Furniture, Car
pets, Etc.,' by C H. Dorsett; Trustee's Sale,
by I. D. A It D. Laiiochc.
Legal Notices—Citations from the Clerk
of the Court of Ordinary of Chatham County.
Fertilizers— Royal Fertilizer Compuny,
Charleston, S. C.
Cheap Column Advertisements— Help
Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Rent;
For Sale; Lost: Personal: Miscellaneous.
The New York Yacht Club will not
admit the rich yachting-woman, Mrs.
Carnegie, to active membership. She will
be granted associate membership and per
mitted to fly the club’s flag on her splen
did steam yacht. But only men can be
active members of the club.
How would it do, now that the Ha
waiian matter is before the House, to give
Boutelle, of Maine, a whole day in which
to “shoot off his mouth?” He would
probably blow his brains out before the
expiration of the time, and give the
country a rest during the remainder of
the session.
The rumor that the young Emperor of
Germany will visit the United States has
been revived. At a recent court ball, ac
cording to a Berlin cable, the emperor
said he was extremely unxious to be bet
ter acquainted with the United States
and was desirous of making a visit to
America and getting his impressions from
personal observation, and that he ex
pected to arrange to visit America within
the current year. If possible, his majesty
should try to get over during the session
of our congress. He has nothing like it
at home.
The New York Society for the Preven
tion of Cruelty to Animals has stopped
the sale of chained lizards for pets. The
lizard, or “chameleon” fad had become
quite a furor in New York. Young men
wore them on their scarfs and young wo
men wore them on their bodices, hats and
skirts, as the notion struck them. The
little monsters were fastened with a
chain to a pin. The alleged cruelty con
sisted in the ignorance of the purchasers
and wearers as to how to feed the lizards.
Most of them were not fed at all. The
prices of the odd pets ranged from 35
cents to sl, and Georgia and Florida
were the chief sources of supply.
San Francisco positively refuses to grow
enthusiastic over the actors and ac
tresses that New York and certain other
eastern towns rave over. ’Frisco froze
out Jim Corbett and Blanche Walsh in
rapid succession and is now refrigerating
Lottie Collins Lottie, by the way, wants
to fight about it, and is after her
newspaper critics with horsewhips. It is
notable, however, that while ’Frisco will
have nothing to do with Corbett, Walsh
and Collins, it just dotes on Peter Jack
son. Peter is the San Franciscan's ideal
of the histrion artist. He, played “Uncle
Tom” there until he got tired of it and
quit, and the natives wanted more.
The republicans in congress, apparently
taking the cue from the anti-administra
tion element of the newspaper press, are
fighting the Hawaiian battle with meaii
weapons. Lackiug honest arguments
with which to support their jiosiuon,
Boutelle, Bead and the rest have worked
themselves into a semblance of patriotic
frenzy, during which they assail the nos
trils of the public with dead issues, and
make personal attacks upon the President
and other democrats. To meet and beat
the opposition the democrats have only to
keep cool and speak the truth. For
truth is mighty and will prevail.
The New York Herald has polled the
Senate on the question of the income tax,
and says the result proves “the populist
rider to the Wilson bill” foredoomed to de
feat. The Senate is made up of eighty-four
members. (There are four vacancies.)
Forty-three votes in opposition will be
necessary to kill the income tax. The
Herald counts forty-one of these votes al
ready ussured. with six votes doubtful.
Among those classtd as doubtful is Sena
tor Gordon, of Georgia. Senator Colquitt
is recorded as in fa cor of the tax. Lack
ing only two votes of the number required
to kill the tax, and having u list of six,
composed of Blackburn, dem./; Dolph,
r®P- ; Gordon, dem.; Lindsay, dem. ;
Mandersou, rep., and WiispVi. rep., to
draw from, the prospects are that the
tariff bill that wild go to the conference
committee will be without tile income lax
feature.
The Farm of the New South.
Contrasted with the average southern
farm of fifteen years ago, the average
southern farm of to-day presents a strik
ing object lesson of the new south's prog
ress. Plows, hoes and other agricultural
implements are no longer left in the fields,
or without shelter in the barnyards,
overnight, or for weeks at a time, accord
ing to the whim of the user. Wagons
and carts are not left standing, covered
with mud, at the most convenient
place to drop them. Harnesses are
not thrown on a fence, or a
peg, or a hitching post, exposed to the
weather, until wanted. These things now
have their orderly places under shelter,
and are properly looked after. Kainy
days are no longer sjient in loafing about
the kitchen, but employer and hired man
put in the time of the rainy day in the
barn, mending harness, oiling machinery,
tightening wagon bolts, etc.
Mr. Brooks, a Baltimore man who has
been making periodical trips through the
south, as far as Texas, for nearly twenty
years, told a reporter a few days ago that
the changed appearance of the southern
farm was striking to the observer who
knew the farm as it was, and was an
earnest of the substantial progress that,
the south is making. Whereas the
southern farm was once a happy-go-lucky
kind of an affair, enclosed b.y a more or
loss bad serpentine fence and a wide bor
der of rank weeds; it is now a picture of
thrift. Every bit of the field is care
fully cultivated, the fences are kept in
good repair, thero are no weeds in the
fence jambs, the barnyards are clean and
tidy, and a generally improved condition
of things is everywhere apparent. Even
the farmer himself looks better. Reports
from almost every section of the south
this winter tell of the better circum
stances, as compared with former years,
in which the farmers find themselves.
And probably nothing has had more to do
with the bringing about of these bettered
circumstances than the recently adootod
practice of taking care of things. A few
more years of this practice, together with
close attention to food crops and an avoid
ance of debt, will put the southern farmer
in a position of more independence than
t hat which he occupied before the war.
Board and Lodging at Valley Forge.
According to accepted historical works,
the winter that Washington and his army
spent at Valley Forge was one of great
severity, during which the patriots suf
fered exceptional hardships. They lacked
food, clothing, shoes, medicines and about
everything else but courage and a pur
pose. Several of the school histories have
pictures of the brave fellows standing
barefooted in the snow around a little
patch of fire on the ground made of half
a dozen twigs, and all of them lay stress
upon the sufferings of the army at Valley
Forge. It is, therefore, a matter to create
some surprise that the government should
now be asked to settle an unpaid board
and lodging bill, contracted by Washing
ton and his army at Valley Forge,
amounting to $4,000,000! That is pre
cisely what the heirs of Col. Nicholas
Lotz, of Pennsylvania, have done. They
claim that during that memorable winter
Washington’s army camped on their an
cestor’s ground—therefore they are en
titled to receive pay for the army’s lodg
ing. Furthermore, the army burned their
ancestor’s wood, killed their ancetor’s
chickens,appropriated to its own use their
ancestor’s sheep and other live stock, and
made itself free generally with their an
cestor’s belongings. Wherefore the
heirs pray the government will grant
them the justice of recompense for the
loss sustained by their ancestor b.y reason
of the army. And they think $4,000,(XX)
would about make it square, principal
and interest.
There’s Pennsylvania patriotism for
you! The old. original Lotz probably in
vited the soldiers to take whatever
he had that might be needed. In
those days they were real patriots in
Pennsylvania. And the army probably
helped itself as far as tho supplies held
out, which was not to any extent worth
mentioning. Now, after a hundred years
and more have rolled around since the
alleged trespass and appropriation, the
heirs of old Lotz are begging to be paid
an enormous sum for what their ancestor
would have given away—aud probably
did give away.
Four million dollars for the army's
board bill, indeed! That sum would have
given every continental mother's son at
Valley Forge that winter a full suit, in
cluding fur-lined overcoat and gum boots,
and fed them three square meals a day
the winter through on the best in the
market.
The nicest kind of a romauce in high
life has been spoiled. Last spring Miss
Pauline, daughter of ex-Secretary of the
Navy Whitney, was a guest of the Van
derbilts at George Vanderbilt’s estate,
near Asheville, N. C. The story goes
that while viewing tho magnificent
scenery from a far corner of the park,
Miss Whitney fell and sprained her ankle.
Young Mr. Vanderbilt happened to be
Dear, and attended her in true cavalier
style. According to all story-book pre
cedent, there could be but one ending to
such a beginning. Soon it was reported
that the young student Crctsus had wooed
and won the fair lady. Rumor set the
date for the marriage at Faster-tide, aud
went on to say how the union of the young
people would ally the millions of the Van
derbilts, Whitneys, Paynes and Rocke
fellers. However, Mr. Whitney, tho
lady's father, says there is no truth in
the story of an engagement. Thus the
pretty story is spoiled. Mr. Vanderbilt
has been reported engaged something like
twenty times.
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Ex-Census Commissioner Robert P.
Porter, who lias been dumping adjectives
into the editorial columns of the New
York Press ever since he squeezed the
census lemon dry, has again quit the
newspajier business. Ho has beeu elected
controller of an insurance concern whose
president wants the republican nomina
tion for governor of New York. Mr. Por
ter seems to have some kind of a pull
with the republican machine; hence the
public are disposed to see some kind of
connection between his new position and
the ambition of the head of the concern
for which he is working. Mr. Porter
has not heretofore posed as an expert in
insurance matters. However, his experi
ence at juggling figures iu the census busi
ness and in tho Press’ circulation de
partment may be valuable to him in com
piling statistics to convince the unin
sured.
THE MORNING NEWS: MONDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1894.
Passengers Have Rights.
“Let the company thank God and take
courage.” The words conclude the unique
opinion of a justice of the supreme court
of Mississippi affirming a judgment
against the Louisville, New Orleans and
Texas Railroad Company in favor of a
passenger for whom a conductor had
failed to provide a seat when he might
have done so. It was the court’s opinion
that the company snould be thankful
that the amount of judgment was not
greater than $75.
The decision is of interest to people
who travel by rail, inasmuch as it touches
that disagreeable individual known as the
“railway hog,” who occupies more seats
than his ticket entitles him to. The passen
ger in the suit in question bought a first
class ticket at Vicksburg and boarded a
train on the road named. The train was
made up of three coaches, a coach for
white passengers, a coach for colored
passengers, in compliance with
the Mississippi laws, and
a smoker. The passenger wont into the
white persons' coach, but found the seats
all occupied; some filled with men's feet,
or traveling bags, or the bodies of pas
sengers curled up asleep, but all filled.
The passenger appealed to the conduc
tor. who replied that a seat could not be
provided for him in that car. The ' pas
senger wont into the smoker, but the to
bacco fumes soon make him sick, and he
was forced to get out. He went then into
the car reserved for colored people, but
the conductor ordered him to get out of
that, as he was a white man aDd the car
was for the use of the blacks. The pas
senger then returned to the first-class car
and insisted that the conductor find him
a seat, threatening a suit if he did not.
“Sue and be said the conductor,
“there is no seat here for you.”
The suit was brought. The trial court
awarded the plaintiff damages in the sum
of $75. The company appealed to th) su
preme court. In deciding upon the appeal
the supreme court said: “It is perfectly
clear from all the evidence in this case
that the conductor in charge of the train
could and should have made provision for
seating the appellee. It is equally certain
that a proper apjilication of the appellee
to that effect provoked not only a refusal
from the conductor, but subjected the
audacious passenger to an explosion of
profane and contemptuous wrath from
that official. That a jury awarded the
trivial sum complained of is proof posi
tive that no uudue prejudice existed
against the corporation. Let the com
pany thank God and take courage.”
A Fruit of McKinleyism.
Says the Chicago Inter Ocean, rep.,
anent the recent riots in the Mansfield
coal region of Pennsylvania: “Time and
again the Inter Ocean has spoken of the
Pennsylvania coal regions as the disfigur
ing blotches of the American system. The
trade in foreign labor has been scandal
ously unjust to Americans. Wages have
been lower than consistent with Amer
ican modes of life. Strikes have been
more frequent and riots more fierce there
than elsewhere. The price of anthracite
has been maintained, the wages of miners
have been lowered, the home-building
and law-keeping American has been sup
planted by foreigners who were not of a
desirable class. The darkest parts of
Central Europe have been levied upon for
the least educated and worst-conditioned
portions of thoir proletariat.”
Nevertheless, the things the Inter Ocean
inveighs against are the direct and log
ical results of McKinleyism, which it up
holds. The Mansfield riots were republi
can high tariff riots—McKinley riots.
The rioters were Hungarians, Slavs and
Sicilians, imported into this country, free
of duty, by the coal barons to tako the
places of native miners. They were the off
scouriugs of the countries from which they
came; criminals, fugitives from justice,
ex-convicts assisted out of their native
countries. Yet, under republican legisla
tion passed in the name of “protection to
American labor,” they were given free
entry here to eompeto with Ameri
can, Irish and Gorman labor, in order
that the coal barons might profit by the
competition. At the mines the imported
offscourings were installed in hovels,
numbered like convicts, and paid such
wages as a decent and honest working
man could not live upon.
“Tho price of anthracite has been main
tained,” truly. The profits of the opera
tors, too, have been maintained. Pro
tection did these things. But tho wages
of tile American workingman in the coal
regions have been forced do wn, do wn,
down until thero are comparatively few
Americans left in the mines; the great
majority of the labor is made up of
aliens of the class that lit up the M.Kin
ley stronghold of Mansfield with incen
diary tires and burned coal tipples, tho
other day.
The co-education of the sexes, from the
Chicago high school boys’ point of view,
is not a success. The girls have appro
priated to themselves, by some means or
other, every place on the graduating pro
grammes, to be shortly carried out. leav
ing tho boys to do the work during the
commencement exercises while the girls
carry off the honors. The boys threat
en to bolt and deprive the graduating
exercises of their presence, and to pay ail
their attentions to the junior girls and
have nothing to do with the senior girls.
On the other hand, tho school principals
say they will withhold tho boys’ di
plomas if they do not too the mark pre
cisely as they ought to.
The entire cost of making, in Alabama, a
ton of pig iron is $6 37, upon tHe authority
of the Engineering and Mining Journal,
which gives in detail the items of cost.
The lowest price of "Cleveland pig” in
England is $8 per ton. From these facts
the Journal concludes that "the d3y is
not far distant when Alabama will cap
ture the South American markets now
supplied by England and Germany, and
will even become a formidable rival in
some of the European markets,” If Ala
bama can do this well under the McKin
ley bill, she might do better undor the
Wilson bill. But, tariff or no tariff, it is
evident that Alabama’s iron industry fs
ail right.
The steamship Tauric, recently arrived
at Now York from Spanish ports, had on
board 330 Spanish jackasses with pedi
grees as long and blood as "blue” as thor
ougnbred horses. They were valued at
$3,000 each. Now, the question arises,
what effect will the discovery that there
are aristocrats in this unsuspected line
have upon the old term of contempt and
derision so often applied to people we
don't like $
PERSONAL.
Mrs. Charles E. Peake, formerly an actress,
who was converted six months ago, has be
gun a series of revival meetings in San Fran
cis.o.
Capt. Zenae Bourne, of tha schooner
Hattie E. -Smith, has received a handsome
silver medal from the Italian government for
the gallant rescue of an Italian crew at sea.
M. B. Curtis. “Sarn'i of Posen,” has pur
chased the Briskiehotel, at Austin, Tex., and
will take possession this month He p.o
poses to build a fine opera house adjoining it.
Victor Abulaff who managed to escape to
this country from confinement in the Siberian
mines, says that the diet of the prisoners was
limited to nlack bread, soup and tea. Women
and men were compelled to laoor twelve
hours a day. and no medical attendance was
provided for the sick.
Mr. Thomas Weldon Standford. of Mel
bourne. Australia wbo was bequeathed £3OO.
00d by his brother, the late Senator I,eland
Stanford, of Ca.F'ornia, has made known to
Mrs Stanford his intention to transfer the
entire sum to the endowment fund of the Le
land Stanford University.
John Watters, who lives near Catonsville
Md..is96 years old, and is an expert shot.
Notwithstanding his advanced age he takes
great pleasure in gunning Recently he
walked ai out twelve miles in pursuit of game,
aud in the afternoon wal :ed to Catonsville
and return, a distance of sixteen miles, in one
day.
Count Lubrenski, who represents a Polish
immigrant society and a Polish syndicate,
has contracted with the Commercial Club of
Omaha, and a beet sugar factory will tie put
up there next year. Iha count agrees to build
it and bring 2JI) families of Poiish immigrants
to conduct a mo let 300 acre farm to teach I eet
culture. He will establish a smaller factory
in the Elkhorn valley.
President Wilson, of the School of Biology
of tho University of Pennsylvania, in accept
ing the exhibitor native woods, worth $l5O 000.
which the Argentine Republic displayed at
the woild s fair, sa.d that the approaching
exhaustion of our cherry and some other
woods would compel the United States to im
port these hne grades of woodfromthe Argen
tine Republic and other South American
countries.
Her von Mittnacht, the prime minister of
Wurtemherg, whose name has been men
tioned fr#qu ntly of late in connection with
the alleged dllierenees tetween the Emperor
of Germany and the King of Wurtemoerg,
has been the head of the Wurtemoerg ca inet
for many yea s. In the days when the Ameri
cans. including Mason von Jackson, acquired
gr-at influence over ihe late king, the minis
ter quarreled with his majesty and threat
ened to resign tie especially objected to
vqn Jackson, it was said, and endeavored to
displace him. In this he was unsuccessful,
however, as the king Was exceedingly fond of
the American and heaped honors, upon him.
Herr von Mittnacht, however, did not resign
BRIGHT BITS.
Growley—My boy, I hope you haven't turned
up your trousers because its raining in Lon
don
Checkerly Stripes—Aw, naw, deah fellah: I
tubn up my London twousabs becaws it's
goin' to snow wight heah in this town.—Hall.
Mr. Wheeler—l suppose the great and mys
tcrious Robert has many admirers in Boston,
Miss Emerson?
Miss Emerson—Why, yes, Mr. Wheeler;
even the beans go through a course of Brown
ing b ‘.fore they come to the table.— P. A S. S.
Bulletin.
Mrne. Nuflye (whispering to her father
from the eountry. who is dining with her and
a party of citv guests)—Father! You mustn’t
tuck your napkin under your chin.
Her father (in robust tones)—l know it.
Em’ly. But I ain’t got no safety-pin ter fix
it.—Chicago Record.
"Wagg,” said Dawson, why are you al
ways ustnr mv name in your ‘nkes —Dawson
says this, and Dawson says that?"
' Why.'' i-aui vVi,g. "x do that so
that they will seem brighter. People who
know you always say, ' Well, that s pretty
bright—for Dawson.’ "—Harper’s Bazaar.
Bobby—Aunt. Nellie, what became of, the
swine that had evil Spirits cast Into them, in
the Bible? “ ii nut ssu ' u •
Aunt Nellie—They plunged head foremost
into the sea. Bobby.
Bobby (triumphantly)—Not a bit of it,
auntie. They were made Into devilled ham.—
Brooklyn Life.
Bobby—Pop, what has giraffes got such
long nooks for?
Fond 1 arent—God gave them their long
necks so that they could reach the leaves of
the palm, which only grow at the top of the
tree That is the only way they can get at
them.
Bobby (after a pause)—Couldn’t he have
made leaves grow lower down?—Puck.
Other Things Didn't Matter —Judge—Am I
to understand, madame. that you want to
with iraw your suit for divorce?
Woman—Yes. y’r honor.
"But you have charged that your husband
neglected you, starved you and maltreated
you most shamefully.’'
“if you please, sir. I have just found out
that the young woman t saw him with last
week was his sister.”—New York Weekly.
Persons who believe in luck and signs will
doubtless agree that it is unlucky to be struck
by lightning on Monday, or take hold of a cir
cular saw in motion on Tuesday, or turn, le
downstairs with a coal scuttle on Wednesday,
or be nit by a i able car on Thursday, or fail
overboard on Friday, or marry on Saturday a
girl who swings ten pound dumb-bells or be
one of thirteen at dinner on Sunday, ■ when
there is rood for only ten.—New York Trib
une.
Fan :Is—Young Barlow has selected his vo
cal on.
Cumso—What Is his choice?
Fangle—He has decided to become a poet.
Cumso—Nonsense! What qualification has
he?
Fangle—He has one very important quali
fication.
Cumso—Name it.
Fangle—An assured income. Harper s
Bazar,
The young man was heing entertained by
the small boy while he waited for the young
lady to appear, "t Say ’ said the youngster,
after a loag list of questions, "your mother
aoesn t live here does she?'
"No. she lives in Saginaw."
"You haven t got any relations here either,
have you?"
"None at all."
"I ta d'3o." said the boy. tn a satisfied way.
“Said it to whom- '
"To sister, when she said she believed your
urcle had your wat h 'cause you never took it
out to see it it was time to go."—Detroit Free
Press.
CURRENT COMMENT.
No Time for the Tariff Now.
From the Buffalo (N. Y.) News (Dem ).
Senator Hill presented 133 petitions from
his constituents Monday against the Wilson
bill, lie is working harder though against
Wheeler li. Pe Uham. and when the question
of his confirmation has i,een de ided, we shall
know more a out the senator’s position on
the tariff question.
Tinkering; the Constitution.
From the Louisville Courier Journal (Dem.).
The congressman who wants to amend the
consatution of the United tales in order to
make it recognize the divinity of Jesus Christ
should try his prentice hand on that new
Hawaiian constitution. A government that
owes its existence to wrongs done under the
sanctimonious pretense of furthering religion
and morality ought to perpetuate the hypoc
risy in its organic law.
Give Honor to William L. Wilson.
From the St Louis Republic (Dem.).
William L. Wilson has endangered his
health, dtfl and pow3rlul in erests in his state
and sacriuced ail personal comfor to carry
through a reform of the tariff which would
reform and not be an empty show How
many of those who think he did not do all
that lie coui t have done would have given up
half as much or could have accomplished a
fourth part ot what was recorded to his credit
yesterday?
Republicans and the Bond Issue.
From the Baltimore Sun i Dem. i.
The furv of the republican onslaught upon
secretary Carlisle for fortifying the reserve by
issuing bonds nnd using the reserve as a cash
balance is very inlellixiule in view of tho
a ove facts if Mr Carlisle can borrow money
to run the government till the Wilson oill
produces adequate revenue, their gime is up.
The republicans created the deficit fora pur
pose ; they seek to keep it up for the same
purpose Their object is to ue It to kill
tariff reform The success of Mr. Carlisle s
loan, in spite of the doubts sought to be
thrown about his right to issue It. ten is to
spike their guns Their whole structure of
expedients for keening tariff taxes high
seeuis to be crumbling about their ears.
Lincoln’s Maiden Speech.
A citizen of Buffalo has found among his
papers an account ot the circumstances under
which Ahraham Lincoln made his maiden
spec h. It was originally printed in the
>pnngfield dll.) Republican, and is as fol
lows:
ihe President of the United States made
his maiden speech in Sangamon county at
Pappasvi.le lor Richlandi lu ine year 1432.
He was then a whig, and a candidate for the
legislature of this state. The speech is sharp
and sensi le To understand whv it was so
short the following facts will show: First.
Mr. Lincoln was a young man. say 22 years of
age. and timid. Second, his friends and op
ponents in me joint dis.usslon had rolled the
sun nearly down Mr. Lincoln saw it was not
the proper time then to disouss the questions
fully, and hence he cut the remarks short.
Pro.- aidv the other candidates had
wholly exhausted the subjects un
der discussion The time. according
to W. H. Herndon s Informant—who has
kindly furnished this valuable reminiscence
for us—was 1313. it may have teen 18.14. The
president lived at the time with James A. A.
Hurdon. at ,-alem. Sangamon county, who
heard the speech talked about it and knows
the report to lie correct. The speech which
was characteristic of the man. was as follows:
■Gentlemen. Fellow Citizens: 1 presume
you all know who I am. I am humble Abra
ham Lincoln. I have been solicited hy my
friends to become a candidate for the legisla
turo My politics are short and sweet, like
in ' oid woman s dance." lam in favor of a
national oaua. lam in favor of the interna
tional improvement system and a high pro
tective tariff. 'I hese are my sentiments and
lolitical principles If elected 1 will be
thankful; if defeated, it will be all the same."
A Soft Snap,
“So you are the young man who wants to
learn the business." said the city editor, ac
cording to the Philadelphia Call, as he care
less y lit aSO cants cigar with an ordinary
matcu and read with one eye the letter the
candidate ha I brought from the proprietor,
while wim tne other ne watched the exchange
editor,Avho was trying to steal the ice that
he might cool his after dinner heated brow.
Well, sir I am the young man, bnt I have
earned much of the business ' replied the
applicant, as he broadly expanded his breast
bone. lam a graduate of the School of Jour
nalism."
exclaimed the fk E., as he gripped
his trenchant pen. "then you can write edi
torials?"
■ Yes. sir.”
"Well, here is a list of assignments for
you. ’ responded the city editor, after con
sulting his menu. "There has teen a murder
down in the Second district’: go there and get
it. un your way up stop at the Woman s
Guild and cover Mrs. Longchin s lecture, in
terview Mayor Stuart on what he thinks of
tho building commission. Then stop at the
Mercantile Liberty and find out what was the
color of Cleopatra s dress the night she wi.s
married: some subscriber seeks that informa
tloe. While jou are there look up this one.
How did Napoleon come to 10-e the battle of
Waterloo?’ Some jay oat in M inayunk wants
to know. The dog home has its usual meeting
at 11 o'clock; get a few points und come in.
Pick up anything else you see. and be here at
—let me see. it is now 10:10—at 12 o'clock."
Then the snake editor picked up the cold,
inanimate form of the graduate of the School
of Journalism, who had fainted trom joy
when he realized what a soft snap ho had
struck.
Faithful to Her Promise.
That is a strange story of a woman's fidel
ity which comes from Salem, says the Boston
traveler. One can scarcely believe that In
these days such a romance could occur, but
there seems to be no doubt of it. aud the
woman in the case was well known, she was
Elizabeth Bullock, oue of three aged sisters,
all o. whom have died .during the last three
weeks of la grippe. Elizabeth was a young
and pretty girl Hfty years ago, when she was
courted by a youth of Salem, and promised to
marry him. He was not rich, and wanted to
go west to make his fortune, but asked her to
marry him at once and start on the searoh for
wealth with him. Elizabeth was obdurate,
however, and would not leave old Salem. The
coung man insisted that she go. and she was
equally anxious to have him remain. Tf you
go away without me," she said. "I shall never
leave the house again during mv life."
The young man laughed at this threat aud
went. He made a fortune in the‘west, forgot
about Elizabeth and married a girl some
where else. He is now the father of a family
and very prosperous. But the Salem girl's
words were not spoken without thought, it
seems, for, from the dav her lover went away
She never left her house but once, on the oc
casion of a fire, a few years ago, when she
was dragged out by force. *
All day long her kindly face has been seen
for years past at the window of the old house
on Derby street, but she has never been
heard to speak of her faithless lover. She
died, true to her vow made half a century
ago.
How a Trade Was Spoiled.
They were talking on the rear platform of
the car, says the Detroit Free Press, when
one suddenly turned to the other with:
Were you ever in California?"
“Oh. yes.”
“Great country, isn’t It?"
“Grandest in the world.”
"Let me sell you soma property there."
"I was about to propose the sam i thing to
you. Where is your property?"
"About fourteen miles from Blankville."
"Mine is lust fourtoon. What did you pay?"
"About (8X per aire."
"So did I. Did you buy for an orange
grove?”
"Yes.”
"So did I. Apy hill on your land?”
“Yes—all hill.”
"So is mine You paid SBOO per acre and
you'll take about $25?"
"Yes— 2.)."
"So will I. Beautiful climate, isn't it?"
“Perfectly lovely."
"Then I can t sell you?”
"Not to day. Never told any one you got
left did you?"
"Never."
“Nor I, either. Always claim to have made
$20,000 on my deal. Good day.”
“Good day.”
Not Exactly a Burgry.
This incident did not happen in Worcester,
says the Gazette, of that city. It occurred in
the suburb of another city—possibly Boston.
The electrics were running briskly on the
highway and the wires were sizzling and
zippllng. The slow moulded, industrious
steam roller was rlJtiding along the same
street, gr nding awav steadily at The maca
dam and forcing it into a solid rosd >ed. The
motorman. coming up behind, ran ; his warn
ing boll vigorously. The engineer on the
steam roller pretended not to hear, and kept
on calmly in his choson pathway. Then the
motorman crowded his crank up to the last
not, h and went sailing gavly along as if he
expected that the machine would immedi
ately ski ;i out of his wav. A moment la'er
there was a crash and all the passengers in
side the car went b imping over one another
up to the front end. The front steps were
bioXen, two or three panels were dashed in
and the car wen 1 off the rails. And the
steam roller went right on calmly about its
work just as if nothin; had bappered. Only
the engineer turned around with a sardonic
smile on his fa e and remarked:
"a pose you thought you was runnln' into a
buggy!”
A Tale of the Times.
This interesting tale of Georgia politics la
from the Now Y'ork Advertiser, the paper
edited by that truculent republican drum
leader, John A Cockerill:
"Col Patrick Walsh editor of the Augusta
(Ga.) Chronicle, who is at the Fifth Avenue
hotel, is Capt Evan Rowell s po itical chum.
In tho latter days of Samuel J. ltandali these
two Georgians were for protection. After
Cleveland s tariff refoim message had become
the democratic policy iioweli yielded to party
dictation and the Atlanta Constitution ceased
to insist on the naadali idea. But Pat
Walsh stood by his guns and ever and anon
tired a shot ajainst Tree trade. One day the
two men, fat. full of fun and enough alike
to le brothers. wer joking together and
Walsh twitted Powell on his Inconsistency.
•Oh. drat vour consistency, said Howell, I
stood o.i one foot till I got tired and now I am
standing on the other a while, and I advise
you to do tho tame thing.’ "
Ode to February.
From the Philadelphia Press.
Oht blue nosed, thin lipped, shivering
stranger.
That spreadcst a leaden gossamer o’er the
sky,
Of thee 1 sing, thou pitiable old ranger.
Of thy sad countenance and watery eye.
Athwart the earth blow influenza breezes.
All underfoot s reduced to mud and slush.
The air is full of loud reverberating sneezes,
Adown thy cheeks the tears forever gush
February, to thee I tin*. complaining.
M.v sad thoughts to pattering drops keep
time.
When will eeas • this evorlas ing raining?
Wnat word with thy infernal name will
rhyme?
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
An epidemic of typhoid which is raging tn
Lowell. Mass . is ascribed to the use ot water
from the Merrimac river.
A mlllionaire.of Vienna.left provision in bis
will for the constant illumination of the vault
wherein he now Res. An electric light is to
be kept burning for a year, an.l even the cof
fin is to be lighted in the interior by elec
tricity.
A manufacturing concern in Birmingham
drives something of a trade in crowns. They
are real ones of solid gold, with cap of crim
son velvet, incrustations of garnet, topaz and
other kind) of cheap but showy stones, and
are supplied to tl.e kings of Africa, of whom
there are several hundred, at a highly satis
factory return of ivory and other merchan
dise.
In France sealing wax has by no means
been displaced by the introduction of gummed
envelopes. There is even a sort of code or
language of sealing wax among fashionable
people. White sealing wax is chosen for com
munications relating to weddings, black for
obituaries, violet for expressions of sympa
thy. chocolate for invitations to dinner, red
for business, ruby for engaged lovers’ letters,
green for letters from lovers who live In
hopes and brown for refusals of offers of
marriage while blue denotes constancy, yel
low jealousy, pale green reproaches, and
pink is used by young girls aud gray between
friends.
While the expression. “It was Hobson s
choice.” is very frequently used, compara
tively few have any Idea of its origin. The
first man in England to let out a high class of
road or hackney horses, or to keep what
would be nearest to what in this country
would be termed a hrst-class livery stable,
was Tobias Hobson He had. however, one
peculiar custom, and a rule from which he
would never deviate under any consideration,
similar to the custom that was common with
the street car horses which were used to help
up the lulls before they were so generally re
placed bv electricity and the cables. jSobson
had no particular stal.s for an ; of his horses,
and whoever came was obliged to take the
one nearest the door no matter hoxv many
there were in the stable, or go without, which
soon gave rise to the phrase,Eobson’s choice."
A Russian scientist has been making a
number of careful experiments to determine
the precise physiological effe its of music on
the human system The results of his investi
gations he summarizes asfollows: "An influ
ence on the circulation of blood is noticed,
the pressure sometimes rising and sometimes
falling, though the action of musical tones anrt
pipes, both on animals and men. expresses
itself, for the most part, by increased fre
quency of the beats of ihe heart: the varia
tions in the circulation consequent upon
musical sounds coincide with changes in the
breathing, though they may be observed quite
independently of it; the variations in the
blood pressure are depondent on the pitch and
loudness of the sound and on tone color; in
these variations of the blood pressure, also,
the peculiarities of the individuals, whether
men or lower animals, are plainly apparent,
anil even nationality. In the case of man. Is
claimed to exhibit some effect.”
A negro, who was brought up before the
New York police courts the other day
charged with drunkenness, set up the defense
that he was not drunk when arrested, but
was suffering with a fit. to which, he alleged,
he was very subject. He admitted that some
one had given a drink of whiskey just before,
and thought that the smell of this upon his
breath had influenced the officer to suppose
that he was drunk. The judge thought that
fits and drunks were not enough alike to be
mistaken for each other, but the prisoner as
serted that when he was in a fit he acted very
much as tlio igh he was drunk, and volunteer
ed to show the iudge how it was. According
ly he tossed his hat into the air. howled,
groaned, clutched at his threat, rolled his
eyes horribly, and fell to the floor foaming at
the mouth, to the great horror of the women
present. Suddenly he Jumped up and said:
Dat s how lac s when I has a fit, judge.”
“lhree dollars,” replied the judge.
Apropos of her majesty's ship Resolution's
narrow escape from foundering, Mr. C. R.
Low. Kensington, writes to ah English jour
nal: No fewer than four Resolutions have
come to an untimely end by battle, tire or
wreck. The first boro the flag of Blake in his
great victory off the North Foreland, over
Van Tromp, Sept. 28. 1552, and in Monk s
equally great success off the same headland,
July 25. 1086, she xvas burnt by a flagship, the
only one lost, as against twenty sail taken or
sunk. ’ Forty years later the Resolution en
gaged a squadron of six ships off ihe Spanish
coast, and was run ashore and burnt by ( apt.
Mordaunt, son of the famous Earl of Peter
borough, to save her from falling into the
hands of the enemy. Only four years after
ward (1710) near the same spot: oft Barcelona,
a third ship of the name was driven ashore
by a storm, and became a total wreck. II
nally, in Hawke's great victory off Outberou,
when the French lost four ships in the line
destroyed and two taken, the Resolution and
Essex ran upon a sand hank and were lost, to
gether with a portion of their crews.
Paper belting for the purpose of transmit
ting power is the next thing which is going to
astonish the manufacturing fraternity, says
the Tradesman. The inventor was live years
assistant to the superintendent of power to
one of the great factories in Lowell. Mass. It
was while in this position, in which he had
much to do in lacing and tightening belts,
that he conceived the idea that belting made
of paper could be made to dj tetter work
than either rubber, leather or cotton. Tie
argued that as a thick Jflece of pasteboa and
cun be made to take on a firm, smooth and
durable surface uy holding the same against
another moving surface for several minutes,
a laeger piece of paper made in the form of a
belt and permitted to run upon the surface of
a pulley day after flay would soon create upon
its surface a firm, hard, shining coating that
would last a long time. As soon as a belt is
put into working order, a hard shining coat
lag appears upon the smface next the pulleys
and this becomes harder and harder as the
months slip by. Itiejomes so hard final le
thal only the cold chisel can cut into it. Such
a surface works well on the pulleys.
In the church tower of the little town of
Grosslaswitz, in the north of Germany, hangs
a bell, an ionit is engraved its history, sur
mounted by a bas-relief representing a f-ix
eared stalk of corn, and the date Oct. 15, 1729.
This, says the London lobe, is the story of
the bell: At the beginning of the last Century
the only church hell at Gross.aswitz was so
small that its tones were not sufficient to pen
etrate to the ends of the vil age. A second
bell was badly wanted, but the village, was
poor, aud where was the money to come from.
Every one offered to give what he could, but
the united offerings did not amount to nearly
enough for the purpose. One Sunday when
the schoolmaster, Gottfried Hayn. was going
to church be noticed growing out of the
churchyard wall a flourishing green stalk
of corn, the seed of which must
have been dropped there by a pass
ing bird. The idea suddenly struck him that
perhaps this one stalk of corn could I e made
the means of producing tho second bell they
wanted so much. He waited till ihe corn was
ripe and then he plucVel the six ears on it
and sowed them in his own garden Tl,e
next year he gathered the little crop thus
produced and sowed it again, till at last ha
had not enough room in bis garden for (he
crop, and so he divided them among a certa n
numrer of farmers, who went on sowing the
ears until, in the eighth year, the croo was so
large that when t was put together and sold
they found that they had enough money to
buy a beautiful bell, with its story and its
birthday engraved upon it and a cast of the
cornstalk to which it owed its existence.
"I am homeward bound from a two years’
surveying trip made in the middle and west
ern regions of Brazil." said Henry P. East
lake, of Duluth, Minnn., at Chamberlin’s to a
Washington Post man. “The Brazilian gov
ernment was just beginning to learn what a
country they really had by systematic sur
veys when the war broke out and we were all
recalled for lack of funds. Geographers have
absolutely no conception of the Amazon
river. The Mississippi is a babbling brook
compared to it. Five hundred miles from its
mouth there is a section of over 200 miles in
length up which we steamed in a government
vessel where you cannot see land in anv di- 1
reet on. the fertility of the soil is amazing,
and urazil is to day the richest lumber coun
try in the world. Interminable forests
of mahogany. ebony, and a va
riety of the other beautiful woods grow along
the banks. "The heat Of the tnidday sun is
the one great drawback. It almost fatal to
the white man. The Indians don t seem to
mind it. Bv the wav, I alwavs thought that
the statement of Carlyle s about the Orinoco
Indians living in the tops of trees and sub
sisting on nothing but clay during three
months of the overflow period, was a philoso
pher s fairy tale. It isn t, for 1 saw hundreds
of them myself We tied up for three days
right in the midst of a number of them. They
had built rude nests, som-thing like tho pic
ture you see of the African ape s nest, in the
up, er I rani hes of trees, and didn t seem to
le particularly uncomfortable They swam
to our vessel, and would swarm all over it
during the day. and then go back at night
like chickens to roost, yueer country The
war? Nothing that 1 can tell you. It has been
rightly dubbed a comic opera war."’
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