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SATURDAY. FEBRUARY 24. 1894.
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INDEX TO MW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Meetings-Bondholders of the Savannah
■nd Atlantic Railroad; Division No. 2, An
cient Order Hibernians.
Special Notices Strawberries. Mutual
Cooperative Association; Good Liquors.
Henry Solomon A Son; After Meals Smoke
La Panto Cigars. N. J. Murphy; Special No
tice, Appel A Si haul; As to Crew of British
Steamship Glenlolp; Notice of Copartnership,
Drs Duncan. Charlton A Boyd; Notice In
Regard to Water Rents. C. S. Hardee, City
Treasurer; Turkeys. Wm. G. Cooper; B'or
Tybee Sunday, Steamer Edith; Notice. Jack-
Son A Whatley; As to Crews of Norwegian
Barks Mississippi. Cyprian and Tikoma and
Italian Bark Miehcliua
Rails' >AD Schedules—Savannah, Atneri
cus and Montgomery Railway.
When a Mans Sick— Falk Clothing Com
pany.
Amusements—James A. Corbett, at the
Theater in "After Dark." Feb. 27.
Announcement Extraordinary Appel
A Schaul.
Always in Front—B. H. Levy A Bro.
Easter—Appel A Schaul.
Yacht Sails And Rigging—George B.
Carpenter A t o , Chicago. 111.
Steamship Schedule—Ocean Steamship
Company.
Always on Top—Lindsay A Morgan.
Sensible Talk—At Colint's.
Cheap Column Advertisements—Help
Wanted: Employment Wantel; For Rent;
For Sale; Lost; Personal: Miscellaneous.
Grow s “unparalleled'’ victory in Penn
sylvania means only that the Dutch have
taken Holland "a great deal.”
If currency schemes were legal tenders,
there would be no deficiency in the
federal treasury, and Kansas and Colo
rado would be able to own the earth.
If Grow's majority keeps on growing
it ma.v lift him iuto the position of a pres
idential possibility. Gov. McKinley will
take due notice and govern himself ac
cordingly.
Gen. Sickles evidently presumes upon
his war record and his crutches to make
himself troublesome in the House. As he
grows in years his egotism appears to
grow increase.
Lewelling's great North and South rail
road scheme seems to be lagging. Popu
list agents in Texas find it a very hard
matter to get L 25 subscriptions, even
when they are made payable in eggs, po
tatoes and poultry.
It looks queer to democrats in other
parts of the country to see Lem Quigg’s
newspaper, the New York Tribune, defend.
ing David B. Hill's discourtesy to the
Senate in making public a part of the
Senate’s secret proceedings in the Pock
ham case. But it may be all right.
There is alleged to be a pretty good
understanding between Quigg's boss,
Platt, and Hill's boss, Croker.
Street car companies are always quick
to resent what appears to them to be munic
ipal infringement upon their right to con
duct their business in their own way.
But, as was more than ever apparent to
the people of this city on Thursday, if the
companies were not stirred up once in a
while, the public would soon be without
any of those conveniences that it would
seem the granting of franchises to
the companies should guarantee
them. If the companies would be
a little more considerate of their pat
rons, by running regular schedules and
providing sufficient means of transporta
tion on extraordinary occasions, thev
would seldom be prodded with the official
sharp stick.
If Senator Pasco was correctly re
ported, he was unfortunate in his choice
of terms when speaking to the Senate on
the establishment of the lottery at Port
Tampa. According to the report, he said
“the state of Florida was receiving no
benefit from it, and it was the prayer of
the state officials and the people” that
the concern might be ousted. The south
has enemies in the newspaper business
who will attempt to make it appear, from
what the senator said, that if Florida
were getting any benefit from the lottery
she would be glad to have it remain. Of
course, the senator meant no such thing.
F iorida and the senator are both opposed,
without qualification, to the existence of
the lottery at Port Tampa.
Now we are beginning to get at the
milk in that Haytian cocoanut. George
Byron, a merchant at Port au Prince,who
is on a visit to this country, says our
Minister Smythe did not try to instruct
Hippolyte.in the first principles of state
craft, as was alleged in recent news
items, or do anything else of a character
to warrant Hippolyte in requesting that
he be recalled. Mr Byron says if Minis
t#r Smythe would talk less directly and
dress more gaudily he would be very pop
ular. Wbat our man lacks, according to
the Haytian idea, is the faculty of talk
ing all day and saying nothing and
dre*sing in u maimer to ila/vlo the eye* of
IjCholdci-s An 1 because he is deficient
i tuese i " i-utiaU to Haytian slalccraft,
a ills ippoiutcd faction is rending naughty
sUn ,cs about bun to this lountry.
How Grow's Victory is Interpreted.
The republicans interpret the very
large majority which Mr Grow, the re
publican candidate for congressman at
large in Pennsylvania, received the other
day. as a protest against the Wilson bill.
They may be right about that. But, as
suming they are right, the democrats
ought not to hesitate to pass the bill.
There has already been too much hesita
tion. The longer the passage of the bill
is delayed the stronger the protests
against it will become. As long as there is
doubt about its passage, or uncertainty as
to what articles will be made dutiable and
what articles will be put on the free list,
and also what the duty on the dutiable
articles will be there will be stagnation
in the industries. Stagnation is produc
tive of dissatisfaction, and dissatisfaction
develops into protests against any change
in the tariff laws.
The Democratic party ought not have
any doubt that in passing the Wilson bill
it is doing what it ought to do. It was
put into power 1o lower the tariff, and to
do that is the purpose of the Wilson bill.
The people decided in favor of a lower
tariff calmly and deliberately. They
made their decision after a very careful
consideration of the tariff question. The
protests that are now being made are the
result of a condition of affairs largely
brought about by the protectionists, who
are endeavoring to create the impression
that the Wilson bill will prove ruinous to
all industrial interests. They are deter
mined to defeat the bill if they can. They
want the protection they have under the
McKinley tariff, because it enables them
to form monopolies and trusts and grow
enormously rich at the expense of the
people.
When the Walker tariff of 1840 was un
der consideration similar predictions as to
the ruin of the manufacturing industries
that would follow its adoption were made.
Some of the great men of that time de
clared that if the Walker bill were passed,
the coal mines would be abandoned, the
fires in all the factories would be allowed
to go out. and that factory operatives
would have nothing to do and would be
come burdens upon the public. They
were wrong. The Walker tariff became
the law of the land, and they were shown
to be much less wise than they thought
they were.
The period from 1546, the date of the
adoption of the Walker tariff, to 1861, the
beginning of the war tariff, was about the
most prosperous in the history of the
country. Those who declared that within
a year after that tariff went into force
there would be such a clamor for its repeal
that congress would be called together to
repeal it were astonished to find that it
gave such general satisfaction that there
was practically no sentiment against it.
Indeed, so general was the prosperity and
so satisfied were the people with it that a
movement for a still further reduction of
the tariff would have met with favor.
And so it will be with the Wilson bill.
As soon as it goes into operation the in
dustries will show new life and the stag
nation in business will disappear. The
wider market which our manufactured
products will have will stimulate pro
duction, and the demand for labor will be
greater than it has ever been in the
country’s history. There will be no
thought of strikes and lockouts or
of shutting down mills. The history
of the tariff of 1846 will be
repeated practically by the tariff of 1894.
The Wilson bill will become as popular
and as helpful to the country as was the
Walker tariff.
The democrats, however, cannot afford
to delay the passage of the Wilson bill
much longer. They must adjust their
differences and act promptly. Delay may
do damage that it will take the Wilson
tariff a long time to repair.
Not Lawful Money.
The opinion of the Attorney General
that silver certificates are not lawful
money, but simply certificates to the
effect that the United States have on
hand so many silver dollars, which will
be paid “to the holders upon the presenta
tion and surrenderor such certificates,”
has had, no doubt, the effect of strength
ening the opposition to the Bland seignior
age bill. The Attorney General declared
that if the certificates can be considered
as money at all, “it is only because the
United States agree to receive them for
customs, taxes and all public dues, and
ouly to that extent and for those specific
purposes.”
The national banks have shown some
opposition recently to receiving them, be
cause they cannot be held as a part of
their reserve, nor can anybody be com
pelled to take them except for dues to
the government. It is not at all strange
therefore, that the banks should begin to
show hostility to them, in view of the
proposition of Mr. Bland to issue $55,000,-
006 more of them, which will not even
have the silver dollars behind them, be
cause, according to the Bland bill, the
certificates are to be issued before the
alleged seigniorage is coined. And the
seigniorage is rather shadow than sub
stance after all, because the intrinsic value
of the silver bullion in the treasury is
much less than the treasury notes out
standing against it.
It is a question, in view of the attitude
of the banks towards silver certificates,
what the position of the certificates
would be if the Bland bill should become
a law. Thoso who hold that they would
still be as acceptable as they are at pres
ent, might be disappointed.
Charleston has deep water on her bar;
good; Savannah congratulates her.
| Charleston has a terminal railway all
aloug her eastern water front; again
good; again Savannah congratulates her.
Charleston is going to build a palace ho
tel; more good; moro congratulations.
But how can Charleston hope to reach
tho top notch of prosperity, even with the
expending of millious in her harbor, along
the water front and in palace hotels, so
long as the municipality encourages the
turkey buzzard to make its home in and
around the city market? It seems to us
that if our contemporary, the News aud
Courier, would turn its heavy guns upon
the buzzards for awhile and give Gov.
Tillman a rest, good results would fol
low.
The New Jersey legislative deadlock
has ut last got into a fair way of being
broken. The matter has been carried be
fore the supreme court on quo warranto
proceedings, and the presiding officers of
both of the self-styled *< nates have been
ordered to appear in tourt and show by
what authority ea< h laxly assumes in exe
cute the function* of thvstau; senate.
THE MORNING NEW S: SATURDAY, FEBRUARY" 24, i894.
Mr. Hewitt’s Little Speech.
Although Hon. Abram S. Hewitt is
recognized as a man of ability it is never
theless admitted that he is good deal of a
scold. His little speech at the dinner of
the New York Southern Society on Wash
ington's birthday was characteristic of
him. It was not in the happy vein of the
speeches that are usually delivered by
distinguished northerners when address
ing southern audiences, or by southerners
when addressing northern audiroecs,
particularly when there is plenty of
oysters and champagne. It was dis
tinctly free from the gushing sentimen
talities and toadying tendencies which
have marked the utterances of both
northern and southern orators on
SDecial occasions, and of which both
sections of the country are heartily tired.
Mr. Hewitt’s talk had very pronounced
dyspeptic characteristics, and if what he
said was not wholly true and entirely pal
atable, it had the merit, at least, of being
rather refreshing, because it differed so
radically from the taffy dished out so
abundantly at similar feasts.
Mr. Hewitt did the south injustice, of
course, in making the distinction he did
between the congressmen of the south
and those of the north. The south has
congressmen whose principal recommen
dation to political preferment is their
hand shaking capacity, their abundance
of honeyed words, aod their excel
lent memories for faces and names before
their election and their remarkably bad
memories after they a re comfortably fixed
in the offices they sought, but she has
also very able men at Washington—fully
as able as any that the north has there,
and it is within the bounds of truth to say
they are more honest. While it may be
true that no one of them is of the Calhoun
caliber, it is gratifying to know that there
are no statesmen among them of the
Credit Mobiller type.
Mr. Hewitt, if he is a student of his
tory, and tlie presumption is strong that
he is, should know that Calhouns, Clays,
Websters, Bentons, and even Toombscs
and Hon. Joe Browns, are impossibilities
in these days when the newspaper, w ith
its great helper, the telegraph, keeps
mortals from becoming immortals, by
showing that ail men are made of
pretty much the same kind of mate
rial. Even the ablest have their limits
and their weaknesses, which become pain
fully apparent from their sayings and do
ings that are presented with almost the
fidelity of the phonograph and photo
graph in the daily press.
The people ahd those who represent
them are now brought so close together,
and the people aro given such clear and
comprehensive views of those who make
and administer the laws, that it will be
seldom that a man reaches as high a
niche in the temple of fame as that occu
pied by those named by Mr. Hewitt.
It would be well for the Southern So
ciety in New York in the future to have a
quiet little circus of its own at its feast3,
being content to be entertained by sopho
mores, and to leave gouty and cranky old
politicians, like the Hon. Abram Stevens
Hewitt, alune.
Anxious to Appear as the Victor.
Senator Hill was so anxious to give out
the impression that ho bad not been
worsted ih his fight with the President
oyer the supremo court justiceship ques
tion that ho gave to thopressi opiesof the
carefully prepared speech ho delivered in
the executive session on the question
of confirming tho nomination of
Senator While. The speech was a very
artful one and was intended to throw the
whole responsibility for the failure of
New York to get the place on the Presi
dent.
In giving out the speech Senator Hill
violated a rule of the Senate, which pro
vides that the proceedings of an executive
session shall be kept secret. It is said
that there is some talk in the Senate of a
resolution censuring him.
There is not much danger that a resolu
tion of censure will be offered. As far
as tho Senate rules are concerned it is not
a matter of much importance whether
they were violated or not. but# the fact
that the senator was so anxious to
get his speech before the public
that ho risked censure shows
that he was not willing to let tho failure
of New York to get the justiceship go to
the country without his explanation of
why that state failed to get it. He knew
the President could say nothing, and it
would have teen more becoming in him
not to hate tried to put the v hole blame
of the failure upon the President.
The country knows why New York did
not get the office, and no matter how
many speeches Senator Hill ma.v make
excusing himself, it will place the blame
upon him. He tried to force tho Presi
dent to name a man from New York who
was friendly to his political methods and
he succeeded only in forcing the Presi
dent to go outside of New York for an as
sociate Justice.
Says the Hawkinsville News and Dis
patch: “Out of sixty-two governors of
Georgia, Chatham county has furnished
twenty. This, perhaps, accounts for tho
Savannah Morning News taking no stock
in the present gubernatorial contest.” It
is an error to suppose the Morning News
"takes no stock” in the present guberna
torial contest because it has endorsed no
candidate. The Morning News isasmuth
interested in the canvass us any newspaper
or individual in the state. But it ooesnot
believe in newspaper domination of polit
ical nominations. It believes in giving
every aspirant for political honors a fair
hearing before the people, for it is the
people who should decide between them.
When the Democratic party of Georgia
shall have determined upon the best man
as its nominee, the Morning News will be
found fighting for his election, as it has
always fought for democratic success.
This paper fights for party and principles,
not for individuals. Neither of the present
candidates for the gubernatorial nomina
tion may be nominated.
The auditor of the world’s fair direc
tory roports that when tho exposition's
liabilities, actual and estimated, have
been deducted from the assets, there re
mains in tho treasury 11.424,841.84 which
can be applied to a stoek dividend Tho
stockholders had aliout given up hope of
getting nay dividend.
The outlook in Kansas, from a populistic
standpoint, is the worst known since the
party came into existence. Avery large
m reage of wheat was sown, the heivy
snow fall lias given it the best of protec
tion, uiiil old farmers say the harvest will
be one of the most bountiful for years.
Thought He Was a Woman.
An interesting story is told by the New
York Tribune regarding the reasons which
led the late Cardinal Lavigerie to allow hut
great beard to grow, to which, it has been
said, much of his authority in Africa was due.
When the famous prelate arrived at Algiers
to take up his duties as archbishop he saw
with regret that the faces of all the priests
were covered with hair At the reception of
the clergy the cardinal showed h ; s displeasure
at this, and virtually ordered them to visit
the barber at once. There was great excite
ment among the long bear led priests, who
dislike tc sacrifice the fa lal ornaments
which were their chief pride. Hut Pater
Girard, the popular superior of the seminary
in Algiers and the possessor of the most iom
i ard like beard, calmed them hy saying that
he w ould pursuade the cardinal to rescind his
order. On the day following the prelates
arrival in Algiers Pater Girard accompanied
him on his first official journey. As they ar
rived in a v.Uage inhabited exclusively oy
native Africans the oldest inhabitants, who
had long known the superior, came to pay
their respects to the prince of the church.
They looked with surprise on the freshly
shaven face of the cardinal and a lively con
versation followed. accomDanicd by gestures
illustrative of astonishmt nt.
■ What are thy saying ' asked Cardinal
Lavigerie. with impatience
‘Oh. answered Pater Girard, pretending
to be greatly embarrased. “they arc great
i hildren You need pay no attention to their
nonsensical talk.”
•But tell me. as I should like to know.”
continued the cardinal, unable to suppress
his interest and curiosity.
Well, came the reply they cannot un
derstand why a man shaves himself. They
think you are a woman, ami a very beaut.ful
one.”
It need hardly be added that the archbishop
of Algiers allowed his priests to retain their
long beards, indeed, a few months later the
cardnal himself appeared with a great 1 card,
whit h soon be ame known throughout the
northern part of Alrica.
The Damagres were Light.
The wife of a prominent dentist in this city
was ctiled to the door the other day to re
spond to the appeal of a tramp who wanted
pecuniary assistance for some temporary re
quirements. Being averse to giving alms,
she told him that it was against her prlnci
p es to give money for nothing, b it that if he
would clean the snow off the rather long side
walk sh* would compensate him for his labor
toth" extent of 41 cents, says the Grand Rapids
uemo rat. and after about half an hour of
good work went to the lady and received his
payment and went away apparently satisfied.
About two weeks afterward the same tramp
called at the same house. Jt happened that
the doctor was at home on this occasion and
his wife was out; so he went to the door and
asked what was wanted.
• I want to see the lady of the house,” said
the tramp.
‘Well, she is out.” replied the doctor, ‘but
lam her husband; won tldo as well? What
do you want?**
• Well, ifs just this way: I came here two
weens ago. and I cleaned off your sidewalk
and J strained my side so that I haven t been
able to do any work s.nce. and I w*ut to know
what you are going to do auout it?”
• What am I going to do about it?” ques
tinned the doctor, taken aback by the mans
effrontery: what do you expect me to do
at out it? ’
• 1 waut you to give me something for what
I.have suffered by s’raining my side, and as
this ,s a matter for damages 1 want to settle
it ii r once.”
Ihe doctor slowly sized the man up as he
was delivering the last remark, antfthen tak
ing a handful of Stiver out of his pocket, he
jingled it thoughtfully for a minute as if cal
culating. and said:
‘•Well* how would 15 cents strike your”
"'l hat s nil right.” burst out the tramp
eagerly: gimme it. " h inks.” and he ambled
off perfectly satisfy, leaving the doctor
eh ckling and much relieved at the settle
ment of a prospective suit for damages.
Fought n Duel With Clubs,
“The most remarkable duel I ever wit
nessed.” said William A. Gladwin to the St.
Louis Glole-Democrat man. was away out
in Montana several mokths ago, H wasn t
one of your fin fie sickle affairs of honor, nor
was it a giove contest for points: it was sim
ply an attempt to decide who was able to
give and take the most punishment. Two
burly fellows in our pro3pfe4pngj>arty had a
difference jvbLh tfcjey-setup bv
shooting each other, and It was only by dis
arming them 1 oth that we saved their bullets,
'the men were very surly after being de
prived o; their six shooters and for several
hours did not speak. 1 hen they approached
each other and con versed with a calmness,
which some of the party mistook for a burial
of the hatchet and the wag of the crowd
hanuod over his plug and invited them to
chew the pipe of peace.’ A few
minutes afterward e ich man lpurg and off
into the adjoining timl er. uofn^
in opposite dire t*ons. Feeling nervous. I
struck out after them. I lost the track of the
man I was following, and despaired of finding
him until 1 heard a thud, like a man’s skull
icing battered. I followed up the sound and
was soon the spectator of a tru'.al duel on the
oi l mdiati plan The men bad drawn lots f. r
first blow, and the loser had stood h s ground
while his adversary tried to fell him w ith
something very like a club. As provi .< and m
the code the men tc ok turns in giving and re
ceiving blows, and when I got up each had had
two, if not throe, chances to brain the other.
Each had his face covered with h ood, t n i
was beginning to * e fee Me. 1 stood tor amo
ment overcome with horror, and then draw ing
my revolver came forward, and compelled the
combatants to ouit Neither suffered perma
nently from h:s punishment, and the expo
nents of one of the most trutal dueling codes
ever heard of lived to boeome fairly friendly
with each other.”
The Humming Top.
Eugene Field.
The top it hummeth a sweet, sweet song
To my dear little boy at play—
Merrd.v atngelh all day long.
As it spinneth and spinneth away.
And my dear little toy
He laugheth wdth joy
When he hcareth the tuneful tone
Of that bus / thing
'l hat loveth to sing
The song that is all its own.
Hold fast the string and wind it tight,
r I hat the song be loud and clear;
Now hurl the top with all your might
Upon the \ an it ette here;
Andstaright from the string
The joyous thing
Boundeth and spinneth along.
And it whirrs And :t chirrs
And it t irrs and it purrs
Ever its pretty song.
Will ever my dear little boy grow old,
As some have grown before?
Will ever his heart feel faint and cold,
When he heareth the songs of yore?
Will ever this toy
C f mv dear little*boy.
When the ye irs have worn away,
>ing sad and low
Of the long ago.
As it singeih to me to day?
Society and Literature.
Mr. Ward McAllister concludes from Mr.
Howells’ article on plutocracy, in the latest
number of the North American Review, says
the Boston Herald, that the distinguished
novelist has spent his life in a study devoted
to literature, ami has not been in society.
1 his recalls the remark of a clerk in a Boston
bank when the once famous colored caterer.
J B. Smit\. presented himself with a check
'that he desired to have cashed. The clerk
declined to pay out the money until Mr. Smith
had identified himself.
What you don't know me?” shouted the
famous caterer.
“Ido not.” said the clerk.
Well.” said Smith. ”1 guess you never
went into society much. I’ve catered for the
whole of it.”
POWDER.
Awarded Highest Honors World’s Fair.
QiSPowdsl
The only Fare Cream of Tartar Powder —No Ammoi a; No Alma
Used iu Millions of Homes— 4o Years the Standard*
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
De Moreal. the French statistician, has
been figuring on the gradual diminution of
h right in the human family with some aston
ishing results He finds that in the ye%r 1610
the average height of man was 1.75 meters, or
about 5 feet 9 inches. In 1790 it was :> feet 6
inches: in 1*20,5 feet 5 inches. At the pres
ent time it is but 5 feet inches. From
these figures, the St. Louis Republic says, it
is easy to deduce the rate of regular and
gradual decline in human stature. Figuring
both ways from the present we find that th?
height of man ”in the beginning ' was 16 feet
9 inches, and that the average man of the
year4ooo A. D. will be less than 15 inches high
The longevity statistics of government em
ployes gathered by the Dockery commission
are interesting, says Good Government. It
seems that there are 1 416 clerks 60 years old
and over, 741 between 6j and C 5 years of age.
386 between 65 and 70. I*2 between 70 and 7 .
66 between 75 and 80. 33 between 80 and 15 6
between 85 and 90. and one who is past 00.
There are 2.578 clerks between 25 and 30. the
numerous age class: J.34$ between 30 and 35.
2.033 between 35 and 40. Of the 17,076 clerks
in the departmental service 8.701 are under 40
years of age. some of the older people nave
been many years in the government service;
5.938 clerks have served for ten years. 1380
from twenty five to forty years, and 30 for
forty years or more, while one has worked at
his desk sixty years.
It will be a revelation to many people to
learn that the practice of punishing unruly
apprentices in the city of London by various
terms of imprisonment, without being brought
publicly before a police magistrate, is still
carried into effect, savs the Rail Mall Budget.
The power of ordering such punishment is
vested in the city chamberlain, and the
oiie.nses for which the apprentices are pun
ished are absence, coming late of a morning,
idleness and insubordination lhe lads are
confined in th: ceils of tho old prison in New
Bridge street, and are not permitted to leave
the buildin : on any account during their term
of confinement, ihe only exercise they are
allowed is tatcen on the prem : S3S. and con
sists of walking up and down the corridor for
periods of half an houi or twenty minutes
tefore and after th* 1 large doors are opened.
In tne cells the lads are permitted to read,
but this is the only recreation allowed. Their
diet is the same as in ordinary prisons, and
consists of bread, potatoes, skilly, hot coffee
and water.
In Ottawa a snowstorm comes without
heralding, says a writer in the Boston Trans
cript. You look out of the window uni s?e
light flakes falling, and that is all. till the
next day s paper announces that trains are
from one to sixteen hours late. A visit to the
postoftice discovers the fact that the mail is
lied up for the day: cannot get in or out.
Heavy snowful's mean a problem for the new
electrics. Kiev trie sweepers, with projigous
blushes slanting on before, go coursing down
the main street in a fleecy clo id of their own
making, startling the steadiest horses and
halting an audience of gazing pedestrians all
uiong the line. But car tracks are thus
cleared at the expense of convenience to shop
keepers. Sleighs tilt along dangerously to
ward the tracks, and all niar street approach
to stores is impossible. A pitched battle
in consequence rose one aay between
tradesmen and car com pan/; raged far and
long assist *d by small lovs. Snow fiercely
shoveled back on the track was removed as
rapidly by the giant sweeper, aided by lesser
electric power roaring t ack and forth through
the battlefield. < ompromise followed, and
then peaceful industry: naags of men taking
the disputed snow away. Sidewalk plow’s
quickly clear the wav for foot passengers
after a storm. Or;e is startled by meeting a
horse advancing smartly along the crowded
sidewalk, scattering oncomers in all haste
into street and doorways, tugging past with
plow and hus andman with a throng of people
in the furrow in odd processional effect. The
wide white path is made as smooth as con
crete. stretching away unsullied in the less
busy districts, down straight, treo-bordered
avoir es past tall, snow heaped stone gate
posts and fantastically snowed u ) fences and
houses. The pretty picture stays day by day
practically unaltered, for nature in Canada
has no mid winter business in the way of
altering her handiwork.
The aphis, which is known by the common
name of ‘plant louse,” is an dntornoiogkal
enigma as well as an agricultural pest, lhe
s dentists do not pretend to know just ex
actly how many varieties of aphis browse on
the green things of nature, but some authori
ties estimate them at l.uou. a large proportion
of that numt cr having > een named and classi
fied. A single insect of any of these species
of aphis may i ecomethc progenitor of t lllions
of young, even during its own iifetime.
Latnelle, who is regarded by the St. Louis
Rcpui lie as an acknowledged authority
on this branch of entoinolgy, makes some
curious and inteiestlng calculations: A fe
male will produce young at the rate of about
twenty-five a day during the summer months,
and as each immediately becomes the
progenitor of others one aphis may pos
sioly t>e the mother, giandnother. great
grandmother, etc., et al. of the enormous
number of f>.904.500.000 individuals by the end
of the season. Yongard and Morren who
are c iually as good authorities as LatrieLle,
extend this numi er into quintillions as being
within the ca] a iiities of a single mother s
efforts, ihe hit: Prof. Huxley once made a
calculation whi h affords some idea of what a
quintillion of aphides light mean: Assum
ing that an aphis will not weigh more than
the one thousandth part of a gram and that
a man must 1 e very heavy in or er to weigh
more than 2 090 (XX) grains, fhe tenth brood
of aphides alone, without adding the product
of all the intermediate generations if all the
members of this immense family should sur
vive the many dangers to which they are ex
posed >. would contain more ponderable sub
stance than ;00.i0 men. In other words,
they would outweigh the entire population of
China.
Long Beach, the narrow strip of sand seven
miles from the mainland on which the village
of Beach Haven. N. J.. stands, contains the
only tribe of tailless cats in the United Siates.
These cals were not detailed, says a cor
respondent of the St. Louis Globe-Lemocrat.
J hey were f orn without tails. Early in this
century a large hngl sh brig was wrecked on
that part of the Jersey coast. She became a
total wieck. but the sailors’ lives were saved,
and so were the lives of a lot of cats. These
felines came from the Isle of Man. and be
lonted to a curious breed, found ouly on that
islund. known as Manx cats. At first the ani
mals were quite tame, and frequented the vi
cinity of the light house, where they nightly
held orenair concerts that were not
harmonious enough to merit the appre
ciation of the lightkeepers. and ulti
mately resulted in their being driven
away. The felines took to tho woods aud
managed to sutsist during the first winter
on tirds, thousands of which lived in the
swamps. The cats increased rapidly in num
ber. and in a few vears small packs of them
could be found almost anvwhere in Barnegat s
woods. Their outdoor life made them sav
age, and the breed seems to have increased
in both size and courage, for eventually they
became so fierce that ihey would stand anil
show fight toward anyone who invaded their
homes, 'i hey are curious looking creatures.
The front legs being shorter than their hind
legs causes them to make big jumrs as thev
go about, yet it is sai l they t an easily outr in
an ordinary # dog. The cats make
good fishers, aad when fish are plenti
ful they go along the beach, and. as the
breakers run up cn the shore carrying
with them small buttertish. muileis and
silver bait, they jumped into the shallow
water, and with their sharp oiaws pin a fish
to the sand, and the outgoing wave leaves
their prey exposed, lhtn, before another
breaker can roll in. they uutch the fish and
take it up on the dry beach and devour it. At
times dozens of these strange looking ca*s
can be seen on the beach making meals off
the surf clams that are cast up bv thorfide
For the past twenty or thirty years Long
Beach has been a famois summer resort.
Many of the cats have been killed by tourists
or frightened la k into the swamps. Occa
sionally some more humane visitor endeavors
to tame one of the animals. It is hard work,
but when the effort is successful there is no
more domestic or affectionate pet than a
Manx cat.
Baby’s Cad Blisters
a My son, aged three, had break
ing out on scalp. The places
were large as dollar, flesh raw
and coTered with blisters. Tried
remedies without results, erup
tions spreading, new places
breaking out. Concluded to try
Ccticura Remedies, change in
twenty-four hours, continued treatment, and
in two weeks a perfect cure. . „ _
C. A. ARMSTRONG, Swift Island, N. C.
Baby One Solid Sore
Baby broke out with Eczema
when two months old. Head,
i arms, feet and hands one solid
€ ■* sore. She had no rest night or
J 3 I day. After one week’g trial of
Cuticura Remedies the sores
were healed, but I continued to
use tho Cuticlra Resolvent for a little
while, and my babv is now as sound as a dollar.
Mrs. BETTIE BiKKNKR, Lockhart,Texas.
Baby All Over Sores
©Baby-had Eczema very bad when
two weeks old. Covered with
sores all over his head, face and
back. We used the Cuticura
Remedies exactly according to
directions, and two sets entirely
cured him, although we continued
It for some time afterward.
Mrs. MARY DISCHINGER, Baltimore,Md.
□aby Literally Afire
Our little baby. 24 years old, v.-aa
taken with Eczema, body solid red
\ from sole to crown, literally afire,
screaming and clawing all the
A. time. Then was added abscesses
and suppuration. Tried M. D.’s,
and medicines without any relief.
Read about Cuticura Remedies, concluded
to trv them. Our little one is now entirely
cured, and is stout and hearty.
C. H. WOOD, White Cloud, Mo.
CUTICURA WORKS WONDERS
And its cures are the most re
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V Barents, remember that cures
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Pold throughout the world. Price, Cuttctoa,
50c.; Cuticuka goAP. 25c.; Cuticura Resol
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Bole Proprietors, Boston.
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Established (834.
.J. M. QUINISY & CO.,
Newark, IN. J.,
MAKERS OF ALL STYLE3 OF FINE
CARRIAGES
Write us if you want a
really good, highly finished,
hand-made carriage. That
is the only kind we make.
We have a good many de
sirable second - hand car
riages. Some times they
are really great bargains.
J. M. QUIN3Y & CO.
-I\[OVV FOR RaHGAiNn
non hi.
$1.95 for 25 feet
with couplings and nozzle.
$2.45 for 25 feet
with couplings and nozzle.
$2.70 for 25 feet
Wire Wrapped, with coup
lings and nozzle.
Also see our new stock
Trunksißaos,
in the latest styles, and
prices very low.
KIIBS 8 II
144 Congress St„ Cer. Whitaker.
BICYCLES.
AND
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Will be Leaders
IN SAVANNAH
IN 1894.
Writs for our eiersni descriptive csulngna
CENTRAL CYCLE MANUFACTURING CO.,
INDIANAFUiJLa, Ufll
CLOTHING.
WhWa
MAN S SICK
and sends for a doctor,
he doesn’t stop to count
the cost —he wants
quick relief.
We are sick of carry
ing such a big stock of
light colored neckwear
—and our standard, in
fallible remedy for that
“overstocked feeling”
is reduction of price
The deeper the reduc
tion the surer the cure
—We want to be cured
thoroughly and have
therefore divided the
neckwear into two lots:
1 Lot at 20c each or
3 for 50c.
1 Lot at 35c each or
3 for Si.
Come and get them
quick —the prices that
hold them here are so
small compared with
the values (50c 5i.25
each) that they can’t
remain long.
Immense reductions
in Clothing too.
FALK CLOTHING CO.
SAILS AND RIGGING. "
faebt Sails Riggin?
We make a specialty of
high-class Yacht
/ Sails and Rigging
/ Yk v —and guarantee
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FLACS, TENTS, NETS and
MARINE GOODS.
Seed us dimensions of your Boat and we will
mbqnt sail plans aud estimates on her outfit
FLAGS and TENTS.
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hardware:
Bar, Band and Hoop Iron,
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156 bbougotom aud 188-140 State STB *■
HAY, GRAIN, FEED?
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Sole Agent Wilbur’s Seed Meal
for horses and cows.
Wilbur’s White Rock Hoof
Packing for the cure of all dis
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Telephone 225, 15G Boy street
HOTELS.
THOMASVILLE, GA.
MITCHELL HOUSE.
Now open under an entirely NEW manage
ment. offering to the public a'house thorough*
ly lirst-class In all Its details.
LOUIis P. ROBERTS, Proprietor. /
OPEN UNTIL El.:
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ST. AUGUSTINE.
American plan. Rate—s3,l3 50, It per day.
C. B. KNOTT, Manager.
HIDES.
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