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THURSDAY. MARCH 1. 1804.
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INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Meetings—Solomon's Lodge No. I. F. and
A. M Stockholders Suburban and West End
Railway Company.
Special Notices— Cut Prices. Mutual Co
s Association; Redolent Le Panto
Cigars at Cook’s Pharmacy; Sea foam the
Perfumed Soap for the Laundry. J. J. Egan:
Dr. Corson s Absence; Notice to Shippers of
Vegetables by Ocean Steamship Company;
Notice to City Court Jurors; Canned Goods,
Wm. G. Cooper; For the School Children,
Falk Clothing Company.
Twenty-five Per Cent. Discount—B. H.
Levy & Bro.
Ocb Souvenirs Were Greatly Admired
—Appel & Schaul.
Spirit Barrels Chickasaw Cooperage
Company, Memphis, Tenn.
Legal Notices —Citation from the Clerk
of the Court of Ordinary of Chatham County;
To Debtors and Creditors, Estate Alfred Hay
wood.
Steamship Schedules— Baltimore Steam
ship Company.
March 1— Falk Clothing Company.
Warning No. 2—Adler s.
Cheap Column Advertisements—Help
Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Kent;
For Sale; Lost: Personal; Miscellaneous.
It might be well enough to continue
your faith in the weather bureau predic
tions for some time yet. The blizzard of
1888 came all of a week later than this.
A Jersey City cigarette fiend, while
suffering from a fit of melancholia brought
on by his habit, shot himself in the left
breast a day or two ago, then lit a fresh
cigarette and waited for death.
The republicans of Kentucky are so
imbued with the idea that a mighty
reversal of public opinion is going to
sweet! over the country at the next gen
eral election, that they are making ready
to be lifted into office by the tide. All of
which goes to show that eveu a Kentucky
republican can be funny under certain
circumstances.
Senator Driee doesn't appear to want to
father the statement attributed to him
in a New York paper, thaf the tariff bill
is being fixed up in the Senate by three
confederate brigadiers, but it is more than
likely ho is the author of it. It sounds
much like Brice, and, besides, he is not
happy because he is not permitted to fix
; up the bill to suit himself.
The New York Wprld informs us that
“the President drinks his breakfast cof
fee from a cup that is worth SIOO. The
china set of which it is a part was made
to order for the white house at a cost of
$5,000.” Is this set the famous tlag and
eagle emblazoned blue-edged service,
made to order at Limoge’s, and stamped,
“Harrison, 1892?” If yot, what has be
come of that most notorious set of china
in America ?
“Private” John Allen’s manner of re
plying to ex-Congressmnn Hewitt's criti
cism of southern statesmen is much bet
ter than that of certain other gentlemen
in congress, who got angry and said some
things harsher than the things the offen
der said. Mr. Allen laughed at the
speech, which all southern men eau afford
to do. especially since Mr. Hewitt has
taken the pains to assert that he thinks
just as poorly of the congressional repre
sentatives of the whole country as of any
one section of it.
There are now practically four vacan
cies in the Senate, although Senator
White, of Louisiana, has not yet resigned
to go upon the supreme bench; and the
illness of Senator Vance may have the re
sult of bringing about a fifth vacancy.
The narrowness of the democratic margin
in the Senate makes this condition of
affairs, at this particular juncture, full of
interest to the democratic party. Tlio
democracy needs—needs now—every vote
it can get in the Senate, in order to pass
the tariff bill quickly. The vacancies for
the democratic states will, of course, be
filled with democrats; but vacancies ha vq
no votes, and votes are the things in de
mand.
The feeling is growing in Kansas that
the day of the popuiists in that state is
verj nearly over. The prospect is that the
state will sood be in a very prosperous
condition, and prosperity is the thing
that kills populism. If the state had con
tinued prosperous it would never have got
in.o the dutches of the Populist party.
Now that prosperity is returning it will
soon be out of the clutches of that party.
The occupation of Mrs. Lease will soon
be gone, and her disappearance from the
political arena will not be regretted.
Prince Colonna, the husband of Eva
Mackay, is furious at the manner in
which the American newspapers have re
ferred to him in connection with his
wife's flight from Europe to escape him,
and intimates that he in ay. cotne over here
and kill off a few of the offending editors.
His lawyer, however, is trying to dis
suade the prince from his rash purpose
And it is to be hoj>ed the lawyer will suc
ceed. '1 here are so many editors out of
the country now. attending to public busi
ness, that, really, uo more can be spared.
Judges Must Explain.
It looks now as if Judge Jenkins is not
the only judge that will be required to an
swer to congress for orders issued in
cases affecting the employes of railroads
in receivers' hands Representative
Somers, of Wisconsin, purposes4to have
an investigation of the orders of other
United States judges. Judge Jenkins has
assumed greater powers than any other
judge in dealing with railroad employes,
having issued an order prohibiting em
ployes of the Northern Pacific railroad
from striking or conspiring to strike.
Other judges, however, have issued or
ders to railroad employes that are almost
as far reaching. Among those whom
Representative Somers purposes to have
summoned to appear before congress are
Judge Ric'is, Judge Taft, Judge Speer,
Judge Dundy and Judge Caldwell.
Judge Sneer has not made as radical
departure as Judge Jenkins, but he has
held that a judge has the power to adtust
differences between the receiver and em
ployes of a railroad, and it is asserted
that he holds that employes of a road can
not lawfully desert it, and thus injure it.
Congress will have an interesting time
with the judges if the proposed resolution
of Representative Somers is adopted.
The question at issue is not
one that congress is likely to
deal with fairly, because it offers too wide
a latitude for the introduction of politics.
While examining the judges congressmen
will be careful to do nothing to antago
nize workingmen. Try as they may to
do what is right they will find it difficult
not to be influenced by the fact that
workingmen have votes. The democrats
and republicans will strive to gain the
good will of the workingmen, and it is
hardly probable, therefore, that a result
will be reached that will be in strict ac
cordance with justice, the law and the
facts.
No one of the judges is charged with
wrong-doing. It is only alleged that they,*
or at least some of them, have exceeded
their authority. As the issue that has
been raised is a highly important one, it
ought to be so settled that there would be
no room to find fault with it. If the judges
have exceeded their powers, the fact
ought to be made known; and if they have
not, they ought to be sustained.
The supremo court ought to have the
settling of the issue, and there ought to
be no delay in bringing it before that
tribunal. A decision by that court would
be very generally acquiesced in. All par
ties would be satisfied with the result
reached.
At present Mr. Sovereign, tho head of
the Knights of Labor organization, is go
ing about the country using the most
abusive language in speaking of Judge
Jenkins. His course is calculated to
bring the courts into contempt, and it is
probable that he would not hesitate to as
sail congress If it should uphold the
judge. It is time, therefore, to have the
question settled as to whether the federal
judges in dealing with the employes of
railroads that are in control L of receivers
are exceeding their powers.
The Senate “Conservatives."
So we have anew political clement in
the democracy as represented in the Sen
ate: a “conservative” element, made up
of Hill, Murphy, Gorman, Gibson, Brice,
White and Caffrey, And it is said to be
the purpose of these ‘ conservatives’’ to
defeat the new tariff bill, unless it con
forms to their requirements.
The name of the element is well chosen.
“To conserve," is defined by Webster to
mean,“to prepare with sugar, etc., for the
purpose of preservation, as fruits, etc.”
The “conservative,” therefore, is one who
holds that it is good politics to preserve
with sugar the political pull he enjoys
and tho political plums he holds and dis
penses.
It is easy enough to see why the sena
tors from Louisiana are “conservatives.”
The inducement in their case is literal
sugar, the article of commerce, which
they hope to have taxed for the benefit of
vast interests in their state.
With Gorman, Gibson, and Brice, the
“sugar” is of a different character. They
desire to strengthen themselves with cer
tain of their constituents, and to that end
are apparently willing to sacrifice the bill,
if needs be; hence, they employ “sugar”
of a figurative kind with which to sweeten
the palates of their co-workers in the new
element, and of other politicians who can
be of service to them.
And so it is also with Hill and Mur
phy. The two-of-a-kind from New York,
however, are into the combine not only
for the purpose of preserving with
"sugar,” but for the purpose of enjoy
ing a little “sugar” themselves. Nothing
is more delightful to the senior senator
from New York than opposition to the
administration, and when he can secure
help in blocking the purposes of the ad
ministration, that fact is as a lump of
cut loaf under his tongue.
Senator Hill, it may be depended upon,
is the chief conserver of the “conserva
tives.” The combination is to Senator
Hill's liking. He can use it as a meaus
to his own ends. He had his “sugar” pro
perly proportioned and apportoined at the
time of the Hornblower and Peckham
considerations, and will continue to dis
pense “sugar” where it will do the most
good for Hill and his crowd as long
as the people of New York keep him in
public life.
It would be silly to consider the self
styled “conservative element” of the
Senate, made up of the above mentioned
senators, in auy light except tho fore
going.
A peculiar epidemic seerps to have
struck Netv Jersey. We have from time
to time published items concerning the
case of hiccoughing that t nrcatens the life
of John Oarberry. at Newark, and for tho
relief of which a surgical operation was
performed—whieh operation, by the wa.v,
has not had the desired effect. Sinoe the
Carberry case first attracted attention
two other cases in Jersey have come to
notice, one at Caimlen and one at
Paterson, in each of the cases the vic
time has been hiccoughing for two or
three months, with the effect that he, or
she has been reduced from a hale and
hearty person toaliving skeleton. The Pat
erson victim is a young woman who. when
she began hiccoughing on Dec. it, weighed
1(55 pounds. She now weighs 115 pounds.
Charley Mitchell is a humorist. He
says there was no -fight” at Jacksonville;
it was merely "a friendly contest,” there
fore he and Corbett should be speedily
acquitted. The governors of Florida and
Georgia will be pleased to hear that it was
never intended there should be a "fight.”
THE MORNING NEWS: THURSDAY, MARCH 1. i894.
Atlanta's Exposition.
It is to be regretted that there is a
prospect that the movement to have a cot
ton exposition in Atlanta next year is
likely to fail. The exposition would be
helpful not only to Atlanta, but to the en
tire south. Just now attention is being
3trongly drawn towards the south, and a
cotton exposition in any one of the south
ern cities, upon as large a scale as the
one proposed at Atlanta, would help to
draw capital and immigrants to the
southern states.
We have, howexer, no fault to find
with the action of Atlanta's mayor in
vetoing the ordinance which provided for
the purchase of the land owned by the
Piedmont Fair Company. It is his duty
to protect the interests of the city and
not to load the city with debt to help any
enterprise. The only question he had to con
sider was whether the land offered to the
city for $1(55,000 was worth that amount
of money. In view of the fact that the
land is taxed at only $21,000, the infer
ence is that it is not.
According to our dispatches, the lead
ers in the fair movement are the owners
of the land offered to the city for a site
for the proposed fair, and they now de
clare they will have nothing more to do
with the fair because the city refuses to
buy heir land at a price which the mayor
eviden_ly thinks is altogether too high.
We do not, of course, know what the exact
situation is, but at this distance it looks
as if the alleged leaders in the fair move
ment were leaders for revenue father
than the benefit of Atlanta or the south.
We do not say this is so, because we do
not know that it is.
If the land is w orth $165,000, or any
thing like that sum, why do they not put
it upon the market?
If the city should pay them $165,000 for
the land, do they propose giving the
greater part of the money to the fair? If
not, what benefit would the buy
ing of it by the city bo to
the fair? The mayor is quoted
as sa5 r ing that the city already has a
better site for the fair. Why, then, should
another be purchased? The purpose of
the fair is not to enable the holders of a
piece of land to get rid of their land at a
handsome profit.
While we should like to see the fair a
success we do not believe the people of
Atlanta will condemn the mayor for
vetoing the land purchase ordinance if he
acted in accordance with his convictions,
and he appears to ha\e done so.
Benefited by Drainage.
The grand jury of the superior court, in
its presentment published yesterday,
makes the statement that lands in Chat
ham county that have been drained by
the county have increased in value at
least 300 per cent. Assuming that this
statement is correct, and there is no
reason to doubt it is. it furnishes a good
argument for pushing forward the drain
age work as rapidly as possible, and sug
gest the question whether the undrained
lands within the s.cope of the proposed
drama e wo r k should not be
taxed for drainage purposes. Ac
cord. ug to the statement of tho
grand j, rv the drainage work that the
count is : ■ ug, and which is being paid
for by lie county, is making the lands
within the area drained very valuable. '
No douftt these lauds are being taxed in
accordance with their increase in value,
aud that is some compensation to the
county for tho money spent in,draining
them, but would it be unjust to require
the lands yet to be drained to pay a part
of the cost of the drainage that makes
them valuable?
The drainage work is, of course, being
done for the public good aud not for the
benefitof private parties,but it would seem
to be only fair that lauds that are to
be so greatly improved by the drainage
work should bear a portion of the cost of
that work. The land owners are fortun
ate in having their lands drained at pub
lic expense, and if tho benefit they receive
is as great as stated by the grand jury,
they could well afiord to contribute some
thing towards the cost of draining their
lands.
Mrs. Leaso has been kind enough to ex
plain how she “became a Mason.” The
explanation, which the callow reporter
says she made “with all the glee of a
schoolgirl,” is to this effect: When she
was 16 years old, living in Loekport, N.
Y., “a prominent Mason,” a friend of
hers, “put it into her way” to witness a
Masonic initiation, and she asserts she
saw three degrees administered to a can
didate. And this is how she says she did
it: “I was behind a door that had a slid
ing wicket in it and I saw the whole pro
cedure throught that wicket. So you
seg that is the way I became a Mason.
For to be in possession of the secrets of
the craft is to be a Mason.” The story
will discredit itself to Masons. To those
who are not Masons it may to well
enough to say that there are no wl ket
doors in lodge rooms; that all ap
proaches to lodge rooms arc guarded, and
that the great secrets of Masonry are
communicated in such a manner that
even if an outsider were in a lodge room at
the time a candidate was made a Mason,
he (or she) would not learn the one secret
without which it is impossible to be a
Mason.
The whitecaps of Maine are almost as
inconsiderate of their victims as are the
ha/ers of some of the big universities.'At
Vinal Haven the other night a party of
whitecaps took one of their neighbors,
who had scolded his wife, from his warm
bod at midnight, stripped him to tho skip,
rubbed his bare flesh w ith ice, rode him
on a rail, while clad only in nature's garb,
to a distance of two miles, pelting him
with snow balls all (he while, and then
would not permit him to walk tack home
until he had subscribed to a string of
promises as long as a secret society oath.
This occurred in. the district of Congress
man Dingley, who dearly loves to men
tion in the House that there are white
caps in Mississippi.
There is occasion once more for the
jingo patriots to howl. The Woman's
Suffrage League, in session at New York,
have insulted “old glory,” meaning
thereby the American flag. They decor
ated (heir stage the other day with an
expurgated edition of the l ag with all of
the stars blotted out except two, repre
senting Wyoming and Colorado, tho only
states that permit women to vote. Such
a desecration of thcemblem oflibcrty can
not be permitted, and Congressman
Boutelle may be depended upon to intro
duce a resolution for a < ongressional in
vestigation of the women und their
proper puuishmcut for treason.
PERSONAL.
Prof Lombroao has discovered that women
criminals have larger hands and feet than
those of average women
Planton Radovanlevttch. a prominent na
tive of Montenerro. has embrace 1 Moham
medanism and changed his name to Mohara
met Ishmael.
Rev. Thomas A. Dixon s favorite recreation
is duck shooting. Next to him Dr. Ralns
ford the Episcopal clergyman, is the test
marksman with a shotgun
Bishop Randolph, of the I astern diocese of
Virginia has consented to delver the bacca
laureate sermon at the next comment ement
of William and Mary Collegs. in June next.
Rev. John McMillar. a minister of the Free
Church of Scotland, at Ollapool, is one of the
clergymen charged with an extraordinary
outburst of fanaikal bigotry and intolerance,
he recently announced irom the pulpit of his
church that it is his intention in future to
deny all right of baptism to children whose
parents failed to subscribe to the sustenance
fund.
Senator White, of California, is a success
ful lawyer. Some of his clients are very curi
ous people. About the time a case is to be
settled the women, wive-i of the men inter
ested. us ally appear at his home with a tur
key, which is a present for the aw er. No
excuse is made for tho gilt but it is supposed
that it will modify his charges for legal ser
vices.
The late Gen. G. T. Beauregard was noted
for his secretiveness. At Manassas Junction,
In 1861. one of the men. who did not clearly
undorstanJ his position a-ued Gen. Beaure
gutda Qjt certain big guns that had just ar
rive 1 from .ichmond. Beauregard replied:
"Young man, If the coat on my tack knew
the se rets of my heart 1 would cut It in
pieces "
Col. Wauchope. Mr. Gladstone's opponent
in Midlothian, has. since his honeymoon,
been canvassing thecoma: ency with more
than redou, led energy. He had already,
time and time again, addressed meetings in
every town, village and district in the shire,
nut he has since been apparently seized witn
a desire to make the personal acqua.nlauce
of every individual elector. Indeed, as mat
ters stand, he must have at least ten times
ns manv pci sonal acquaintanves as any other
man now living.
i’rince Henry, of Battenberg, is bitten t,
the yacht racing mania, and Mr. Watson, tho
wei known designer of the Valkyrie and the
Britania. has received orders to "create a
fast running craft for l'rinee Henry whi.n
will broak the records of a'l former
occasions. Hanson. who is building
this coming wonder, has received orders
to push forward with the work as
quickly as possible, which looks as if I’rin e
.ienry was anxious to measure swords or
ships rather—with foenien worthy of his
steel—or planks.
BRIGHT BITS.
Old Lady-My friend, are you a Christian?
Beggar—Well,mum. no one has ever ac
cused me of workin’ on Sunday.—New York
Weekly.
"Good sir," she whispered, "let us not
Treat this affair too lightly."
He promptly rose and nxed the gas
To shine somewhat less brightly.
—Yankee Blade.
"How did you feel when Miss Million re
fused your”
“ lOrrlftlyi As though I had 1 een sen
ten ed to hard labor for life.’ —New Yoik
Ledger.
The days are gotling longer fast,
Beneath the sun s great lever;
But man, poor hard-up man, alas,
Is just as short as ever
—Buffalo Courier.
"I married Horace to reform him, " sighed
the young wife, and the only habit I've
broker, him of is parting his hair in tne mid
dle. He doesn't part it at all now. —Chicago
Tribune.
"I do not think you beautiful,”
The batoon rudely cried.
"Tho compliment, sir. is returned,"
The courtly ape reulied.
—Harper's Young Peqple.
Editor—What can 1 do for you, miss?
"O, please, may i examine your waste paper
basket. I know a man who sends you poems,
and whoso feelings tow‘ar is me 1 shou.d like
to ascertain."—FliegeriAe Blatter.
A shy and timid bud is she.
Ahd time will soon disclose
in which particular clasqshe'll be,—
The wallflower, or the rose.
—Puck.
The Reformed Cannibal—So your name is
Goodpastor. is it - it may interest you to
know that X served your grandfather.
Young Missionary—in what way
Pelorined Cannibal—Fricasseed. lndia
napoli- Journal.
Miss Sentiment—Wore you ever disap
pointed in love?
Eligible Widower-Two and a half times.
Miss Sentiment—Two and a half times .-
Eligible Widower—Yes, twice married, and
once rejected.
"Wewon't print any such stuff as that!”
said the editor loftily, us he handed back the
manuscript.
"Well you needn't be so haughty about it"
retorted the irregular contributor; "you're
not tho only one who won t print it."—Puck.
Profound Philosophy.—"Wimmin." said
Mr. Grogan, "is mciighty similar in wan way."
"An' fwat s thot? inquired Mr. Hogan.
"No matther how minny av thim you get
acquainted will they re all alike in bein' d.f
ferent from wan another."—rndianapolis
Journal.
“How do you like the dressmaker I sent
you to?"
"I'm afraid she's not tlm-class."
"Why?"
“Well she allowed me to make a sugges
tion without losing her temper."—Chicago
Inter Ocean.
" 'Jimmie' Smith is awful deceitful.”
"In what way?”
"Well, sometimes he washes his face twice
a week."
■ What has that to do with It?"
"Well, the teacher thinks he's sick an' lets
him go home. "
Little Boy—Dr. Knowitt says that peoples
most always eat too much.
Mother—X presume that Is true.
Little Boy—Well, if peoples would jus’ let
their children eat all they wants to, there
wouldn't be so much loft for the peopios to
eat themselves.—Street & smiths Good
News.
CURRENT COMMENT.
As to Enforced Negro Emigration.
From the Florida iimos-Uoton (Dem)
Taken all In all, we had rather lose the good
we would get from foreign immigration ,han
risk the bad we would get from such a rush of
foreigners, bad as well as good, aswouidhave
to vome ai once to take the place of the ne
groes. the south desires immigration, but it
is not bast to get it so rapidly thit it cannot
ic assimilated, iwo antagonistic white races
In this country, in nearly equal mini ers.
would give us a problem beside which the so
called negro problem would fade Into insig
nificance.
Obstructing National Progress.
From tho Washington Post (Ind.).
It would give a wonderful impetus to in
vestment. however were the revenue policy
of the government to be at once de.lnuel, de
termined and were its nnantal policy to be
settled on some lusiness like conservative
i asis >o far as the south is con.erned in
obstructing su,h settlements, or any other
section of the country for that matter, the os
s ruction is .damable. but there ts abundant
reason to i elieve that the tine of and pression
is turning, that con.idence ts in some meas
ure restored and tn.it the south is shortly to
be the theater ol a great business revival.
The Delay of the Tariff Bill.
From the Baltftnoro Sun (Dem ).
The delay in reporting the tariff i ill is al
ready regarded us.jjminous as well as suspi
cious. ii would be. in la t. wholly incompre
liensible, but for the wide spread Lehef that
just suvh sinister and underhand Influences
as we have reierred to. are sc,retly at work
to procure a modification of the bill in noino
of its most vital tenures before it shall be
reportod to the senate, and but also,
uuhappily (or the recollection of the
sau.e treachery which was attempted, but
fortunately failed of Its object In reference
to the Wilson silver repeal bill last Sep
tember. Ol course, we do not mean the
slightest Imputation upon the good faith and
loyal,y of the whole body of democratic sena
tors, or the majority of them to tuc , a so of
tariff reform. But they have Uo iong allowed
a few of their number, who, experience
should teach them, are not to be ir ated
where frlnciples are at stake whatever
their length of parlioiuervtarz experience or
ass .rued capacity lor so-calierl "menage
mem ' may i e—to ns. rp th leadership and
the right to speak for the party, and to shape
its action in caucus and upon the floor.
A Romance of the Atelier.
In rare cases the beautiful model find* a
future in marriage with the painter for whom
she poses, says the St. Louis Globe-Demo
crat. it must be remembered that artists
after all. do nothing In the wav of the rest of
the vonven tonal world. To them worship
and love of the teautlful in form is some
times a stepping stone to love of the woman
herself, and like the painter who painted the
girl wife of Hus sin. they sometimes fall in
lore with Jeanne while painting Anhrodlte I
have In mind at this moment the vase of a
young painter, tho sun of an ante-bellum gov
ernor of one of the southern states and a gen
eral in the confederate army. The young
man studyinj art In the Latin quarter met.
one evening a young girl crying on the boule
vard. He asked the cause of her dlatress
and she told him her story. She had been
driven from ner home—what lay cehlnd that
on i need not now inquire—and was waiting
for n ghtfall to end her troubles in the Seine.
The young man saw that the girl was grace
ful and beautiful, and then and there there
came to him the Inspiration for a picture
"Lo not do as you say." ho said. C >me and
pose fo. me and though i cannot afford
much, I will pay you 5 fran.-s an hour."
i he young girls accepted tht offer, took up
her abode with the artist anu rosed for him
exclusively. The picture was a salon success,
and when it was linlshed the painter found him
self deeply and earnestly in love with his
model and the girl would have thrown her
self into the eine had he sent her away For
a long time the youn man rematned trreso
lute tormented by his own love and pride
and the indignant reproaches of his family,
who had heard of his infatuation. At length
however, there came a day when ho threw
away all conventional hesitation married the
girl and look her to the south of*Frauce,
where they lived a life of a solute and pas
sionate worship of each other. He finds n
her his artistic Ideal and the. well, she
adores him as a child adores a star. His
pictures are be, oming sought after, and he is
named as one of tne brightest followers of
Haul Verlaine in the new school of the so
called decadence." They have two beauti
ful children.
Extortion Rebuked.
A lanky Individual in a long and faded
brown overcoat dropped into a restaurant c-1
Dearborn street yesterday morning, took bts
seat at one of the tables, placed his hat on
the floor by the side or his chair, and beck
oned to one of tile waiters, ssvs the Chicago
i rioune.
"Have you got anv stewed punkin ?" he
asked.
1 think not " replied tho waiter.
"Got any friend onions ?”
"No."
"Biled turnips ?”
"No."
"What have you got that a man can eat.
anyhow ?”
"Here s our bill of fare."
"l ean t read it without my specs, and I
didn't bring ’em. S’posen' you was hungry
yourself, what'd you want ?"
"Well, here's a porterhouse steak, roast
turkey with cranberry sauce, veui cutlets
breaded, saddle of venison, minced clams on
toast, pork and beans —
"Dork an, i cans - That 11 do. Bring me some
pork an' beans and a cup of sassafras tea,
purty strong."
“We haven't got any sassafras tea."
“Hain't got no sassafras tea? - What
kind of an ratin' house are you rnnnio ?
Don't you know everybody ort to drink sas
safras tea when the spring’s eomin on'
Bind o' thins iho blood, like How much do
you charge for pork an beans)"
"Twenty-live cents."
The stranger stooi ei and picked up hts hat.
put it on his head, rose deliberately, and said
to the waiter in a toue of withering re-uko:
•young man when 1 want to get robbed on
pork an . ea is i’L ;;o torn lirst-class tavern and
have it done in style. Any charge fur the
time 1 ve been settin’ down here? No? Weil,
good day."
H?rEariy-to-Bed Papa.
Daisy was indignant, says the Chicago Re
cord That was evident by the manner with
which she straightened up her shoulders and
then proceeded to spitefully pin back all the
stray curls that fell around her ears. The
gentle girl had tact enough to let her severely
alone until the wave of indignation had rolled
by to a certain extent. Then be said: "l ome
now. let s have it out. Tell little sister all
about It."
"I suppose I’m a perfect goose to' care."
Daisy said, but you see papa sticks to his
old-fashioned ideas about 'early to bed early
to rise and when I have callers he uses va
rious methods to toll them to go home at rea
sonable hours. Along about 9,30 o'clock he
usually marches into the parlor and says:
‘Good night.' At 9:45 he returns and
funnies with the lock on the frontdoor.
Ten o'clock is tho hour for him to
lower the gas in the hall, and after he does
that he coughs loudly and tolls me, in a very
distirct tone of voice, that I mustn't forget to
turn out the tax in the parlor, if mv callers
don l take his hint by that time papa comes
in about fifteen minutes later and says.
Daisy, your mother wants you to take all
the plants out of the win lows , she is afraid
the, T 1 irreze. and then ho deliberately goes
over to the radiator and turns off the steam.
"Of course it is very embarrassing ail
around, but my older callers are becoming
accustomed to it. and one friend says that he
regulates his watch, by father's visits, it
wool ln't do a bit of good to ask pana to cease
the little custom, because he has made it a
habit, just like winding up Ihe alarm clock
and fastening the windows every night—it Is
a part of his io dine work."
And the gentle girl said it was a positive
shame.
A Plague Incident.
I once hid a friend who claimed that dra
matic stories are ever present, ever ready to
unfold themselves to the artistio eye. but
which by most people are passed over with
out awakening any emotion, save, possibly
that of curiosity, .says a writer in the Boston
Courier. 'Loillustrate his proposition he told
me the following:
"1 once saw a young man bear on his should
ers the corpse of his father wrapped in a bed
sheet.
"It was in a suburb of New Orleans during
tho last yellow fever epidemic. People were
dying by hundreds. At night nothing but the
rattle of the dead cart broke the stillness, as
the dismal burdens were borne over the
bleached roads towards the ditch at the upper
levee.
"Unable to flud aid for his sad work, the
young man bore his load alone, as-Eneas bends
under the weight of his Leloved An ’hlses—
with this difference-Anchlses was alive.
From time to time the lad stopped, overcome
by fatigue; he would lay till body tenderly
down upon the burnt grass by the roadside,
while he wiped the sweat from hts face and
nock. Once a man catre out from a shop
bringing him a mug of water. He murmured
his thanks and swallowed tho liquid rapUlvi
then he shouldered his burden and went on.
He had taken but a ew steps when he stum
tiled and fell forward. When they coached
him he was dead. HU body lay across that of
his father.
"At that moment the patrol passed and
they were carted away. They pro; ablv lie
side by side in the depthsof the levee trench."
Greek Humor.
o When, after Salams, Xerxes was In full
flight for Asia and the over crowded vessel,
s,> the story ran, was aboring in the storm,
Xerxes, getting frightened, asked the cap
tain. whether ,htr) was any chance of safety,
savs the West-minis:er Review. None.”
said the captain, "unless the ship is lightens)!
of some of Its passengers " Wucreupon Aer
xes. turning to the Persians, exclaimed:
"Now Is the time to show voi r locally to
your king, for on you my safety depends."
And. without a word, the well-trained cour
tiers madi obeisance and leaped into the
sea.
X'h s unburdened, the ship arrived at the
la id. whereuron .s.crxes presented the cap
tain with a golden crown for having Raved
the king s life and'hea ordered his head off
for having caused the death of so many nobio
Persians.
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An electric Are enginghas been invented by
F. W. Wheelocb. of St. Paul, and was exhib
ited by him to the St. Paul toard of Are com
missioners. In deseriolng this electric en
gine the inventor stated that one of its chief
merits is its light weight and high power as
compared with the steam engines at present
in use. ihe s earners weigh from 9.900 pounds
and are 18-horse poster, while the e.e.trlc en
gine weighs but 4.500 pounds and is 100-horse
power, which could easily no doubled if
needed, lie has offered to grant the city the
free use of his invention.
This will be a great year for ocean telegra
phy. The Anglo-American Cable Company
l.y anew Atlantic cable this spring,
which is now making in England. The copper
conducting wire of this cable will weigh 650
pounds per knot, while hitherto no cable has
had a conductor weighing so much as 500
pounus per knot. The Atlantic cables have
conductors weighing 400 pounds or less per
knot. Manv short cables have cores weign
lng as little as 107 pounds. Cables ! yOO miles
long on the east coast of Afrka have cores
weighing j£so pounds to the knot, ihe heavi
est core is that of the French cable from St.
I ierre. Miquelon, to Brest, it is 2 243 miles
lon* and weighs iß> pounds per knot. Ihe
estimated cost for making and laying lon.
ca; les is a; out fcI.JOO per knot. *he cost of
the proposed Pacific carlo will be somewhat
greater because it cannot e manufactured in
the vicinity. The total length, exclusive of
-0 knots already laid in Australasian wa
will be acout ft.WW knots, making the total
cost about $6,*•.'00 uOO for cable and laying
alone.
Ihe composition of the cheap sausage has
and furnished a topic for jests from time imme
morial. A case that came up in a London
lOii.e court the other day gives renewed
point to inan> of these venerabl6 jokes, and
proves once more that trurti is at least as
strange as fiction. It appears that some sort
or disagreement arose between a baker ar and
confectioner of the Seven Sisters’ road and
one of his apprentices, and the matter was
taken tefore a magistrate for settlement.
19 an extn K L from the testimony:
Did yon among other things, teach the
bov to make sausage rolls? ’ the baker was
asked, and he replied in the affirmative.
Did you teach him to make sausage-roils of
red ochre, pepper, and salt, and brown bread
soaked the counsel continued, and ‘ Yes "
was again the reply. "But where is the
sausage; ' was the next question. "Youdon't
require it, the witness responded, as if pity
ing the lawyer s ignorance "That is how
the beef sausage is mace, he added by way
of explanation. Unfortunately he was not
questioned concerning the manufacture of
pork sausages, and the ingredients of that
tion POUnd a<, ° a m J’ ster y (of the imaglna
The needle, one of the Indispensable little
tools, and now so common In all countries,
was unknown in .ts present form prior to the
year 1 1 10. Tourau, .u, a wiremaker of Paris
was the inventor of the ut die in Its modern
lzed form. At first the construction of such
delicate little implements was a very tedious
and slow process, consequently thev were
counted among articles rare and costly as
well as o. necessity, and as such were found
only among the European royalty and no
bility. In the old amounts of Louis IX. of
r ranee it is mention that a daughter of that
monarch received a paper of needles as one
of the most luxurious wedding presents that
could be bestowed by her ro., al parents, and
to this day the French and Germans use the
expression nadlegeld' tsameas the Ameri
cans and h nglish "pin money"), which proves
that such articles were once very expensive,
up to the time of Henry VIII. the nse He was
unknown lu Britain. At aeout that time the
wild out beautiful Anne Boleyn brought them
from F ranee to England, and It has 1 een
mentioned as probable that the saying refer
r ng to the needle bringing bd luck, ' z.ers
ticht die Hebe,' is an illusion to the case of
that ill-fated queen.
The weekly electric paper, Electricity,
thinks that Great Fails Mont., appears
fairly entitled to the distinction of being
called the Electric city. At Black Eagle
falls, three miles above the town, an im
mense dam has been thrown across the
-Missouri. Not only are the s'reet cars pro
pelled and lighted by eleciricity from the
power hocses. but they are heated as well
by electric radiators placed in each car
Elevators, prln nig presses, cranes and all
klnus of machinery are operated by the
force There are automatic excavators
electric pumps and electric rack crushers.’
A not incommon sight on the stre*t is a
mortar mixer attached to an electric wire
leading down from a jole. 'ihe restaurants
cook by electricity, the butcher emp o s jt
to chop hts sausages, the grocer to grind his
coffee and the tailor to heat his goose. The
subtle fluid is a w-eicome messing in every
home; the horsexvifes run their sewing
machines and heat i,heir flatirons by elec
tricity; they have electric boilers and tea
kettles, anu they bake their cakes in elec
trie wooden ovens they can be set away on
a shelf dke pasteboard boxes.
The early traditions concerning the city of
Damascus are curious and Interesting, even
thbugh untrustworthy and contradictory
s: ys the St, Louts Republic. By some of the
ancient writers it was maintained that the
city stands on or near the site of the Garden
of Eden and just outside there is a beautiful
meadow of red earth from which, tt is said
God took the material from which he created
Adcm: this Held is called Ager Damas
cenus.and near its center there formerly stood
a pillar which waa said to mark the precise
spot where our first parent was created. A
few miles out there is an eminence called the
Mountain of Abel, supposed by some to be
the place where the two first brothers offered
their sacrifices: also the spot where the first
I murder was committed. The most Interest
ing spot pointed out, however, is at out three
leagues from tho city, where an old ruin is
shown which ail the orient believe to be the
tombofCain, The traditions respecting this
famous spot are known to antedate the Chris
tain era by several hundred years. Up to
the time of Vespasian the interior of the
tomb ts said to have been lighted and warmed
by one of the "ever burning" lamps so com
monly used by tho ancients.
A surgical operation of unusual dolicacy
and importance was performed yesterday at
the Jefferson Hospital by 1 Prof. Keen, says
the Philadelphia The patient a woman Well
advanced in life, has for years suffered
greatly from a persistent neuralgia of the
face which was especially painful in stormy
weather. Numerous attempts had been made
to remedy the affection, both by internal
treatment and by the cutting of the smaller
branches of the nerve supplying the face, but
these efforts proved only temporary benefit
Finding that the patient sco dition continued
unimproved Prof. Keen determined to open
the cavity of the brain a id sever the affected
nerve from its connection with the brain
tissue. After the woman's head hqdiem
shaved and a portion of her scalp removed
an electric drill cut out a piece of the skuli
twice the size of stiver dollar from he region
a ove the left ear. The brain, with its cov
ering, was then exposed, and. pushing
back the delicate tissues, the bony floor
of the brain cavity was i rought to
the surgeons view. exhibiting the
fissures and openings through which many of
the most important nerves leave the skull
The nerves of Sight and hearing, the white
and glistening thread of tissue which gives
power to the muscles of the eye. and all the
other important structures connects! witn
the brain in that portion of the head were
carefully moved aside and at the bottom of
the cavity thus formed was the nerve trunks
which give i o ver and sensation to the face.
The sensarv branch, with the ganglion at
ta, hed to it. was severe 1 thereby cutting off
all connection between the brain' and the tis
sues of the tace. so far as reco, nition of pain
is con erned. The other nerves were put
caref lvln place again and th? skull tre
phined and Prof. Keen Is confident that the
operation will result saccessf -'ly. The , en .
s ry nerve having tee severed, the patient
can e-iieriencc no sensa.ioti oi „nv sort m ~.0
fa- e tissues. Influenced i y that nerve, ionse
quentl she reed have no fear of neuralg.a so
far as that portion of her anatomy is con
cerned.
LEOPOLD ADLER.
Adler’s
WARNING NO. 2.
By the Past
we can only judge of
the future.
Not in all our business
experience,
Not in ail ihe history of
Savannah,
Has a Dry Goods or
general merchant ever
been able to do what
we will do next week.
We intend to thor
oughly beat, out and
out, every effort we
have previously made
up to date.
Hi Our Aiiiiiis
carefully. It means the
saving of maii3 r a dol
lar. Facts are stub
born tilings.
LEOPOLD ADLER
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OF
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By the Receiver.
JEWELRY.
DIAMONDS. WATCHES.
Great Inducement in Prices.
Solitaire Diamond Finger Ring from 45 to
*lO, 2U. *SO to $ 00.
Diamond Ear Rings from S2O. s2.’. *3O. SSO,
$75 to ts.ioi All warranted good Dia
monds of line quality.
Great reduction in Gold and Silver
vratehea of the best make and In Gold
Filled Cases.
18 Marat Wedding Kings a Specialty.
Sterling Silver Goods in elegant cases -
tho proper thing for wedding presents
Also novelties In silver too numerous to
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Marks. Belle, etc. Call and examine
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