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INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Meetings— Landrum Lodge No. 48, F. and
A. M.; Tammany Club.
Special Notices— Aromatic Le Pantos,
Adams' Drug P. and O. Company; Real Es
tate Bought and Sold, John L. Archer; Use
Sea Foam Soap, A. H. Entelman; Turkeys,
Eat. S. W. Branch; To the Workingmen's Be
nevolent Association, Falk Clothing Com
pany; As to Crew of British Bark Gler.
Our Motto— Appel & Schaul.
See Our Display op Shirts?— B. H. Levy
A Bro.
Railroad Schedules— Florida Central
fcnd Peninsular Railroad.
Spring styles—Krouskoft Millinery Com
pany.
Auction Sales— Furniture, Etc., by J. H.
Oppenheim A Son.
Suits tor Everybody—Falk Clothing
Company.
Cheap Column Advertisements— Help
Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Rent;
For Sale; Lost; Personal; Miscellaneous.
It would be little short of ridiculous if
Russia and Germany should go to war be
cause a party of German soldiers tired at
a sigu post.
A Florida jury has acquitted Corbett
of the charge of prize lighting in that
state. It looks as if Gov. Mitchell was
mistaken about there being a law against
prize fighting in Florida.
“Joe” Manley is running the “Tom”
Reed boom in Maine after the approved
republican style. He has recently
“touched” Reed's friends in the state for
a voluntary contribution of $5 each to pay
for circulating Reed literature through
out the country.
An examination of the official records
at Cleveland. 0., made by the Knights
of Labor, discloses the fact that Chief
Arthur, of the Brotherhood of Locomo
tive Engineers, is quite a wealthy man,
his real estate in Cleveland being worth
in the neighborhood of SIOO,OOO.
When the republicans refer to the cheap
price of sugar they say, “What a blessing
the McKinley bill is, that it reducos
prices!'’ But when they speak of the
proposed reduction of the price of farm
ing implements and clothing they say,
“Curse that Wilson bill; by proposing to
cheapen prices it brings about hard
times!”
State Senator Coggeshali, of New
York, proposes to treat the evil of haz
ng at colleges with heroic remedies. He
has introduced a hill to make ha/.ing a
misdemeanor, and another to mako the
tattooing or disfiguring of the body of one
student by another with nitrate of silver
or othor substances a crime of the degree
of mayhem.
Those persons who cried “cuckoo” at
Chairman Wilson at the New York Board
of Trade dinner not long ago are offered a
lesson in good manners and deference to
guests by the Mexicans, among whom Mr.
Wilsou is now sojourning for his health.
At Guadalajara, where the sick man is
now stopping, orders have been issued
officially prohibiting the playing of brass
bands or the blowing of steam whistles
where they could possibly disturb the dis
tinguished visitor. Mr. Wilson was not
well when he was in New York, but Tom
Reed's parrots delighted to shriek insults
into his ear.
The New York court that tried the
libe! suit of Van Ingen against the New
York. Mail and Express dealt the cam
paign prevaricator a blow between the
eyes. The newspaper during the last
general campaign published a story to
the effec t that the Cobden club, of Lon
don. had subscribed a large sum of
money to be used by the Democratic
party for the purchase of votes for Mr.
Cleveland, and that Mr. Van Ingen was
the agent through whom the corruption
fund was raised and disbursed. The
jury found that the charge was false and
had boen published wantonly, and fixed
the damages to bo paid the plaintiff
at $4,000. A sitnliar suit brought by
Mr. Van Ingen is pending against another
republican paper of the same city.
An unexpected champion of the south’s
statesmen has stepped forward to de
clare that ex-Congressman Hewitt is mis
taken when lie says the southern con
gressmen are ignorant. That champion
is Representative Blair, ex-senator from
New Hampshire. Mr. Blair the other
day told a Philadelphia Dress correspon
dent that lie had had long experience
with southern men in congress, and that
anyone who thought they did not know
what they were about was vastly mis
taken. The New Hampshire member has
not forgotten with what acuteness the
southern inen met his sophistry and
smashed his famous educational bill. Mr.
Blair, as might be expected, thinks that
southern statesmanship has only a sinister
side to it. and that all southern statesmen
are Ma hiavellis. But he is quite willing
to concede that they have brains—plenty
of th n; and that the brains are exceed
ingly well cultivated. He speaks from
expv rience.
Plenty of Talk But No Agreement.
Ae Morning News expressed the opin
ion a few days ago that it would be well
along in the spring before a vote on the
Wilson bill would be reached in the Sen
ate. Recent developments strengthen
that opinion. It was expected that the
bill would be reported to the Senate in
the early part of this week. Now it is
announced thaw it will not be reported he
fore next Monday, and there is no assur
ance that it will be ready for the Senate
at that time.
The reports of what the sub-committee
was doing did not give satisfaction to the
democratic senators, and a caucus was
called to give it instructions.
At the caucus such radical differ
ences of opinion were developed that it
was not possible to agree upon any in
struction to the sub committee. A few
senators insisted upon taking im
portant articles from the free list
and putting them on the dutiable
list, and great hostility was ex
pressed to the ini ome tax by Benators
Gorman. Hill and others. The only vote
that was taken was on the question
whether a duty should be put on iron. By
a small majority it was decided that iron
should remain on the free list, and one of
the Alabama senators immediately gave
notice that he would not be bound by the
action of the caucus, but would submit
the matter to the Senate.
It is quite certain, therefore, that there
will be a tariff debate in the Senate that
will extend through several weeks. The
bill, as it comes from the committee, will
not meet.the approval of all the demo
cratic senators, and strong efforts will be
made in the Senate to change it. The
Louisiana senators will not get from the
committee as high a tariff on sugar as they
want, and they will make a long and
strong fight in the Senate for such a duty
as they believe is necessary to prevent
the sugar industry from being destroyed.
Even Senator Murphy, of New York, is
prepared to delay the passage of the bill
by insisting that a duty shall be placed
upon collars and cuffs.
No one can predict, with any degree of
certainty, what sort of a bill the Senate
will pass. Notwithstanding the very
strong sentiment in that body in favor of
the income tax. it would not be surprising
if that tax should be stricken out of the
bill and a tax put on sugar and some other
revenue-producing articles. The fault
which some g>f the democratic senators
find with the Wilson bill is that, while it
is a revenue bill, it does not provide a
sufficient revenue. It does not provide as
much revenue as the McKinley tariff.
It cannot be denied that the income tax
is popular with congressmen from the
south and west, or that it is unpopular
with those from the east. Senator Bill
is confident that if the Democratic party
should make itself responsible for an in
come tax it would be many years before
it would be able to carry New York or
any other one of the Eastern states, and
Senator Gorman apparently entertains
the same opinion.
■With such differences of opinion among
democratic senators there is no prospect
of an early settlement of the tariff ques
tion. It is greatly to be regretted that
this is the situation of affairs, because
there is every reason to think an imme
diate revival of business would follow the
passage of the Wilson bill. The delay in
passing the bill has already inflicted
serious injury upon the country and no
improvement in business is to be expected
as long as the delay continues.
A Rate War Probable.
It is not yet definitely decided whether
or not the Southern Steamship and Rail
way Association will po to pieces. That
question will be settled, in all probability,
at the meetii p of the association which
takes place in New York on March 13.
The dismemberment of the association
would be hurtful rather than helpful to
the south, for the reason that it wouldjre
sult in great uncertainly as to rates, and
uncertainty in that respect is always dam
aging to business. Shippers want stable
and reasonable rates. With such rates
they know the basis upon which they
must do business, and they can make
future contracts without fear that they
will suffer loss from higher freight rates
than they expected.
If the association should be broken up
it is almost certain that there would be a
rate war, which would not last, of
course, very long, because the roads are
not in a financial condition to stand heavy
losses. The stronger roads might suc
ceed in injuring the weaker ones, but
they would not be the gainers to any
considerable extent by bringing about
such a condition of affairs.
Mr. Stahlman, the president of the as
sociation, has refused to make public the
letter of Mr. Smith, the president of
the Louisville and Nashville, announcing
his withdrawal from the association and
giving his reasons for doing so. It seems
to be understood, however, that his main
reason is that some of tho roads of the as
sociation have not lived up to theiragree
ment. While pretending to maintain
rates they have been cutting them, it is
alleged, and have injured the Louisville
and Nashville by doing so.
It is a very difficult matter to prove
that a road is cutting rates, although tho
fact that freights are drawn from the
usual traffic channels is pretty good proof
that rates are buing cut. The
evidently has not been as earnest and dili
gent as it should be in finding out who of
the members of the association violate its
rules, and inflicting upon them the
punishment they deserve. Tho guilty
ones would not relish a rate war. It
would cause them to lose a great deal
more than they have gained by cutting
rates in violation of tho association's
rules, if there should boa rate war, and
they should be seriously crippled, they
would get very little sympathy. It would
be well understood that they brought on
the war by their dishonest practices and
are therefore entitled to no sympathy.
It is reported that a decided reaction in
public sentiment in New York on the
Krastus Wiman case has sot in since cx-
Secretary Tracy made a statement in his
client's behalf the other day, and there
are now a large number of persons who
believe that Mr. Wiman's prosecution was
not inspired wholly by a sense of public
duty. Gen. Tracy went so far in his state
ment as to say that the alleged forgeries
of which Mr. Wiman is charged are not,
in law, forgeries at all, but that they
were simply an "exchange of credits by
whi hno third party was injured. - ’ If
there was, or is, secret animus in the
prosecution, however, the fact has not yet
beeu brought out.
THE MORNING NEWS: FRIDAY, MARCH 2, i894.
Bland’s Bill Passed.
The passage of the Bland seigniorage
bill by the House is a little victory for
the silverites. The majority in favor of
the bill was 29. The effort made to de
feat it was a long and strong one, but the
tactics adopted by the opposition are not
defensible. A vote was staved off for a
couple of weeks by breaking the quorum.
If the vote had been taken when Mr.
Bland first proposed to take it about the
same result would have been reached.
The wisdom of increasing the volume of
the silver circulation at this time is ques
tionable. The price of silver has been
steadily falling for a long time, and the in
trinsic value of a silver dollar at this time
is considerably less than 50cents. The Sec
retary of the Treasury stated recently
that the banks were showing a disposi
tion to refuse Silver certificates, and it
was for that reason be obtained the opin
ion of the Attorney General as to the law
fulness of those certificates as money.
The opinion, as is well known, is not very
favorable to them.
The Bland bill, if it should become a
law, would add about $55,000,000 to the sil
ver currency. It is probable that that addi
tional amount of silver money could be
carried in the total volume of the currency
without causing trouble. If the treasury
should begin to lose gold again, however,
a scare might be caused that would re
sult in a discrimination against both
silver coin and silver certificates.
The chances are the seigniorage bill
would not have passed the House had
there nut been a sort of implied promise
at the extra session of congress thjit
something would be done for silver if the
bill repealing the purchasing clause of
the Sherman silver law were passed. At
that time the question of coining the
seigniorage was discussed, and the im
pression was made on the minds of the
silverites that it would be coined.
Asa matter of fact, the seigniorage is
a very shadowy sort of a thing, because
the silver bullion in the treasury could
not be sold for anywhere near the amount
of money the government paid for it.
According to the bill, the certificates
against the seigniorage are to be issued
before any silver is coined, if the treasury
should be in need of them, and in that
case there would be absolutely nothing
behind them. The treasury notes that
were paid out for the silver, and which
are outstanding, are greater in amount
than the value of the silver.
It is a question whether or not the
Senate will pass the bill. The chances
are it will, though it may amend it
in some particulars. It has been pre
dicted that the President would veto it
if it should reach him. He would do so
doubtless if he had reason to think it
would have disturbing effect upon the
currency, but if he thought otherwise he
would sign it. The bill might be a good
thing if it would put an end to the agi
tation for the free coinage of silver, ex
cept for free coinage to be brought about
by international agreement.
Mr. Gladstone's Retirement.
The report that Mr. Gladstone has re
signed, or is about to resign, on
very good foundation, or some of the great
London dailies that are not so well
pleased with the fact that Mr. Astor's
paper beat them in announcing it, would
long ago have exploded the story. As it
is, most of them are convinced that the
premier’s retirement is merely a question
of a short time, and are discussing the ef
fect his retirement would have on public
affairs.
Mr. Gladstone’s resignation, it is under
stood, does not or will not, mean that he
will retire from active political life at this
time. The resignation touches, or will
touch, only the premiership, leaving him
still a member of the House of
Commons for the division of Edinburg
that he represents. His failing eyesight
makes it necessary for him to givo up the
more arduous duties of the premiership
for the present, but if the operation for
cataract, which die will undergo, proves
successful, ho may once more seek the
reins of government control.
Besides the premiership, Mr. Gladstone
holds two other offices in the cabinet; he is
First Lord of the Treasury,and I,orci Privy
Beal. There aro speculations to the effect
that it is tiis purpose to retain these posi
tions, as well as his seat in the commous,
merely retiring from the leadership dur
ing the time his physical condition de
mands rest and quiet, if this view should
prove correct, the new premier would be
hardly more than a figurehead, and the
ministry would probably soon go to
pieces. If Mr. Gladstone were to
remain in the cabinet, his very presence
would embarrass the new premier. And,
again, the Gladstonian party might, and
probably would, prove more than ever
turbulent under anew leader, especially
if that leader represented a line of policy
differing ever so slightly from the policy
of Gladstone himself. Suppose a lord—
Lord Rosebery, for instance, as has been
suggested—were given tho leadership,
would the radicals accept him? Would
they not &eizo tho first opportunity to
rnako trouble for him, a representative of
that rather unpopular institution, tho
House of Ijords !
It is quite likely, therefore, that should
tho announcement of the resignation of
Mr. Gladstone bo made soon it would be
shortly followed by a cabinet upheaval.
The bill creating the "Greater New
York" has been signed by Gov. Flower,
as told in our dispatches of yesterday.
The governor's signature, however, is not
final, the matter has still to bo submitted
to the citizens of tho districts involved at
tho next state election. The territory
proposed to be consolidated into one
municipality consists of the city of New
York, Kings county, in which Brooklyn is
situated, Richmond county, Long island
city, Westchester, Flushing, Newtown,
Jamaica, Eastchester, Pelham and
Hempstead. These several divisions
form an area of 317.T7 square miles, em
bracing a population of nearly 3,000,000.
Should tho consolidation be carried at the
election, the new city would rank next to
London. And, parenthetically, it may be
observed that Chicago would be heart
broken, until she could make arrange
ments to annex everything between fort
Wayne and Milwaukee, inclusive.
The statement of the mayor and busi
ness men of Georgetown, Col., that
the report that they wished Colorado to
secede from the union and be annexed to
Mexico is false, will be accepted by the
rest of the country. At the same time
the rest of the country * would bo very
glad if Mexico would annex Gov. Waite,
his pals and their mongrel dollar schemes.
PERSONAL.
George Francis Train once declared fish to
be "rank poison” and now I)r. Helen Dens
more savs that bread Is unwholesome and
an unnatural article of diet How delude our
ancestors were in regarding one as good
brain food and the other as the •'staff of life.'
Sir Gerald Portal, who has just died, was
the most celebrated diplomat in dealing with
Oriental and savage races, that England has
had in recent years. In I*B7 he was captured
by the Abyssinians. who carried him before
their king fie captivated the king to such an
extent that he dismissed him loaded with
honors and gifts.
Mr. -elous, the mighty African hunter. Is a
warm friend of Lobengula. of whom he soeak
In high praise. When he first saw the king
twenty years ago and asked permission to
hunt in his domains Lonengulu said: 'You
areonlyabov: you can't do any harm. Go
where you please.” Hut Mr Selous’ first
bag' convinced the king of the young man's
prowess with the rifle.
While Gen. Lew Wallac” was in New York
recently he was the oynosare of all neighbor
ing eves at the Gilsey house, but we are in
form-d by the Kansas City Star that when
the general appeared at an exclusive Ashe
ville hotel last winter, the fashionable ladies
there paid little attention to him and were
not wholly certain whether Tien Hur” was a
book or aj chafing-dish-recipe.
W. LewlsJ Fraser, who has a' fondness
for stories that are ben trovato has been tell
ing the Philadelphians that a photograph of
one of the new American liners revealed a
hand bill plastered to the hull and invisible to
the naked eye because of a coat of paint that
covered it. Perhaps the greatest trick of the
camera, though, is to reveal the marks of
small-pox in the human face some time before
the victim becomes aware that he is ill.
The first woman to be ordained as a
preacher in the Congregational chuich In
Massachusetts is Mrs. Amelia A. Frost, who
was received into holy orders at Littleton
last Wednesday. Up to with! 1 a compara
tiveiy recent time, says the New York World.
Paul s Injunction against the prominence of
women in the church was rarely disobeyed
but the success in the pulpit of late years of
Miss Kalloch in Chicago, Mrs. Patterson in
Boston and Mrs. Stetson in New York has
shown that woman Is peculiarly fitted to be a
religious teacher.
Robson, the actor, once a partner of Crane,
used to keep a scrap-book In which he pasted
every newspaper item which told of the mis
doings of clergymen. He had hundreds of
scandals, big and little, and scores of defalca
tions as the result of years of careful reading
When the pulpit attacked the stage it was his
solace to fly to his scrap-book and read page
after page, until, permeated with the wrong
doing of a few black sheep, he felt a soothing
consciousness that after all there were
wicked people other than actors. And yet he
liked clergymen and was not a scoffer.
BRIGHT BITS.
“Won’t you come into my parlor?” said the
spider to the fly.
•Yes." answered the fly: “but I don’t
want to go into thed ning room.”—Tammany
Times.
Old Graybeard—lt’s a pity to keep such a
pretty bird in a cage.
Mrs. De Style—lsn't it a shame? How per
fectly exquisitely lovely it would look in a
hit!—New York Weekly.
Captain of sinking ship—lsn't somebody in
the cabin smoking a cigarette?
Steward—Yes sir.
Captain—That s very foolish. We re sure
to be rescued —Detroit TriDune.
Miss Passe—lffon’t you think the valentine
custom Is dying out?
M ss Wright Innit—Well not that I can
see; I received no less than forty-six of them
last Wednesday.—Brooklyn Eagle.
Wooly Wiglets—Dat queer-lookin’ green
back we found yesterday is a Wilson bill.
Goatee Gillie—Wot do yer mean -
Wooly Wiglets—Well. I tried changin’ It
but it wouldn’t pass.—Brooklyn Eagle.
Husband—You are naturally of an unhappy
disposition, that's all that's the matter.
Wife—That's your theory, is it ?
Hus and—l never saw you happy.
Wife—That's because you never saw me be
fore I met you.—Boston Homo Journal.
Little Dick—l don't see much uso In going
to school.
Papa— Why nbt?
Little Dick—lt took me mbs’ two weeks to
learn to pronounce Hawaii, and now it isn't
going to be annexed after all.—Street <fc
Smith's Good News.
She—Have you the names of all the 400 on
tho list!'
Papa—Yes, dear.
She—Then only one thing remains to have
a drawing effect.
l’apa What g that?
She—Your check.—Boston Budget.
Minor Base Ball Magnate—l see that thev
are goi ig tohave Coroett as a base i all at
traction in the east. Don't you think we
ought to do something or other?
Second B. 11. M.—Yes, I think we ought.
Which would give us the most advertise
ment to hire Sam Jones, or have some oue
steal the diamond?—lndianapolis Journal.
Smith—Where Is Jenkins rushing off to like
a maniac?
Williams—Trying to oatch the first train
for Columbus.
"Must :,e important business?”
•'Certainly. His name hasn’t been an
nouneed Jet as McKinley's successor, and he
don't want to be left out of the crowd.—Cleve
land Plain Dealer.
"What does love care for rank?" exclaimed
the young man. "Cupid Is no nobleman. "
"I don’t know about that," replied the
pretty girl.
"You never heard anybody call him ‘your
lordship.'did you?’’
‘ No. But I think it would be perfectly
proper to refer to him as 'Your Courtship.’ ”
—Washington Star.
CURRENT COMMENT.
Punishment for Anarchists.
From the Springfield (Mass! Republicandnd)
A Paris suggestion is that imprisonment
for life, with a weekly application of the
cat-'o nine tails, be sul stituted for tho guillo
tine as a punishment for anur hy. I ard
labor tfin hours a day would i e a;,out as great
a deterrent to these gentry. If they were sure
of receiving It for bomu throwing.
As to Breeds of Cuckoos.
From the Baltimore Sun (Deni.).
Upon the whole the harmony existing be
tween (senator Morgan and liis repu iican
associates on the general points of the iia
waiian question would suggest that there may
be more cuckoos than those which answer
t> the striking of the white house clock.
Bat if a democrat is to be a cuckoo, whv not
tie a democratic cuckoo rather than a repub
lican.-
A Chatham Man Mentioned.
From the Columbus (Ga) Enquirer-Sun (Demi
A South Georgia exchange rises to inquire
why Chatham county neglects to bring out
sonic one of her distinguished citizens for the
gu ernatonal race, and suggests Hon. Sam
Adams as a man in every way qualified tor
the n>gh offlie. Sam Adams is not a giant tn
size, cut he would make a big governor, and
in that statement a great many people in
Georgia will agree with us.
The Hawaiian Straddle.
From the New York Herald (Ind.).
The Hawaiian report of the. Senate com
mittee on foreign relations is one of the most
curious hodge podges that ever* emanated
from that committee. The majority of the
members agree on some points and disagree
on others. A separate dissenting report is
accordingly submitted by the minority of the
majority, lhe minority of the whole com
miitee dissent from the conclusions of the
ma.ority and present a report to which two
mem.ers make an addendum * The
committee presents no resolutions and makes
no recommendations, it concludes its report
hy asking that it now be discharged—a timely
request that should be promptly conceded.
Simpson’s Cheerful Way.
From the Philadelphia Times, (Ind).
Jerry Simpson has a cheerful way of look
ing at things, this is the way he figures out
a gaiu of thirty or forty populist congress
men in lhe next House ’ll a republican be
comes dissatisfied he does not go over to the
democrats, he comes to ua This Is true of
the western republicans. If a southern demo
crat gels out of sympathy with his party, he
will not go to the extreme of joining the re
PU. lic.itis he will pitch his tent in our camp. ’
In other words. Congressman Jerry regards
the Populist party as the political cave of
Adullam, which is to become the half way
hoi s ■ and resting place of the dls-at.shcd of
all political parties, 7he reliability of the
Kansas statesman s prophecy Is somewhat
clouded by the fact that with him the wish is
father to the thought, lhe chances are that
aim ition is w h spering some promises into
his ear that w ,11 be broken to the hubs.
Monkeying with Nature.
An agent from the city was trying to sell
the grocer anew self winding clock, savs the
Indianapolis Journal There was a small
storage battery connected with It, and it was
intended that the battery should be kept in
operation by means of a Email windmill
placed on the roof of the house. The agent
had about persuaded the grocer to t,uv. when
the man with the ginger beard, who had been
watching the transaction with the deep Inter
est that comes so natnral to a man with
plenty of spare time on his hands, chipped in.
•Sometimes it pava to monkey with Nature
and let her have the 10b of doin all your
work while you are loafin around the county
courthouse ten miles away, and sometimes it
don t said he. I knowed a felleroutin
Kansas 'at bad one of them windmill contrap
tions that was the ruin of him.”
'• j here never was one of these clocks sold
in Kansas, said the agent, with wrath.
This here wasn't a clock,' said the man
with the ginger beard, an’ I defy any man in
the crowd to prove that I said anything a out
a clock. I jlst said a windmill contraption.
This here was a pump. You see. this here
feller was a sort of market g ird ner. an' as it
Is dry in Kansas, as fur as tne weather is cun*
cerned he lowed to rig up a pump arrange
ment that would water his garden So he
fixed up a wind pump, but that wasn't enough.
He next goes to work and makes a kind of
swivel arrangement that would keep the hose
movin’ back and forth and up and around till
the whole patch was SDrinkled. Did all the
work itself, you see. mat left him free to go
down to the grocery and talk about Mrs.
Lease all he wanted to—or all he dast to, at
least. Well, he goes away one mornin’ happy
as a i lam, and comes back at night to And his
garden all ruint. Now, what d'you suppose
had did it?”
Hogs got in?" ventured the clock agent.
“Hawgs!” You make me sick. Hawgs
nothin'. One of them playful breezes that
Kansas sometimes gits up had coma along
and had worked that there windmill pump so
dern fast that the water was made bilin' hot
by the friction, and his whole patch o’ truck
had I een scalded to death.”
'That was pretty tough said the agent.
“Oh I don t know, ' said the man with the
ginger beard As soon as he got broke he
went into politics, and now he is gitt’n a good
livin' at the expense of the state. Ef it hadn't
a been for that accident he might be still hav
ing to work for a livin’.”
“Tone Influence.”
Tlfe other morning as I lay in bed. sweet
sleep to my eyes denied.
The clock in an adjoining room struck four,
it was just about morning tide.
The tones of this clock when it tells the hour,
the hour that is past and gone.
Are deep and low, like a funeral bell—deep,
low, slow and forlorn.
There is music there, it Is rich and full, a
deep, rich mellow tone;
But these heavy, solemn, funereal tones
sound to me somehow like a groan.
Well, the instant the stroke of four was told,
still throbbing, as it were, in the air.
The clock In a steeple near by took it up, and
in tones defiant and clear—
Loud clarion notes, quick, bold and strong,
Bade good-by to the hours that had staid too
long,
And hatied with rejoicing the coming hours
That burled the night and made daylight
ours.
The instant the church clock ceased its
noise, so loud and sharp and bold.
By another clock away down the street, the
self same story was told -
In silvery tones like the light of a star,
That comes to us softened oy coming so far
(Like a woman s voice, whieh, when soft and
low.
Is sweet, whether telling of weal or woe).
We were told by the cloclf away down the
street.
In tones that were gentle, soft and sweet,
That the hour was four, though said over
again
Now for the third time, it gave me no pain.
For the change from the mournful tones of the
one, •
From the harsh, overbearing tones just done.
To the gentle tones of the last to speak.
Made it strangely welcome, as all things
meek
Are welcome ever and it goes to show
What a tone, of the voice, If you will, may do.
“H."
They Got Lower Berths.
There is ade *ision and energy about Eng*
llshmen sometimes which arouses admira
tion, says the Los Angeles Herald: A case
in point occurred on Monday. Two men,
whose clothes, pipes, monocles, and accent,
for tblv announced their nationality, called
at the ticket office of the Southern Pacific
railroad and asked for two lower berths on
the train to San Francisco.
"They are. all gone. You can have uppers,
though " was the response.
“Oh, no; doncher know me friend is ill. and
he can't go unless he has a lower berth. He
must have one. doncher know?"
The agent was sorry, but as he only had up
per berths, he could do nothing. Then the
spoke-man insisted on seeing Mr. Crawley,
and that official again explained the absence
of any lower berth, only to receive the reply:
"Aw. yes; but we must have a lower doncher
know.”
“All right. If you must, you must,” an
swered the official. “They will cost you just
#269. We have an extra car here and can put
it in for you at that figure. If upper berths are
not goo! enough.”
■Aw: Yes. thanks awfully.”
They pail the manay. the empty Pullman
was coupled on to the train, and the t oys at
the depot say that before the cars left the
Englishman had made the porter make up
every t erth in the car. I hey said they had
paid for each of the sections and they pro
posed to come as near as possible to getting
their money's worth.
Fixed tho Limit on Cannon.
Representative Cannon, of Illinois, tells a
good story on himself, says the Washington
Post. It is reminiscent of the days when
“Sunset" Cox was in congress. The New
York representative had bad some things to
say about a citizen of Mr. Cannon s state, and
the Illinois man wanted to defend his con
stituent.
"Will the gentleman from New York yield
to me?" said Mr. Cannon.
“Certainly.” said Mr. Cox.
"F or how long?” inquired the speaker.
“As long as the gentleman from Illinois will
keep his hands in his pockets,” said Mr. Cox.
laughingly.
Mr. Cannon accepted the terms and Dro
cecded with his remarks. He uttered just
one sentence and a half, and then hts hands,
which had b”en snugly stuck into his pockets,
came out and were flying through the air like
a couple of windmills.
“Time’s up.” said Mr. Cox. who knew his
man. and then Mr Cannon sat down.
Anybody who has seen Mr. Cannon gesticu
late will appreciate the spirit with which he
tel s of his first and only effort to talk'without
the use of his arms.
Says Grant Was Lazy.
H. H. Kohlsaat tells the Chicago Record
this story of his only meeting with Gen. U. S.
Grant: One day when he was seven years old
he rode into Galena with his father on a load
of garden produce They drove to the market
square. “My father ha 1 received from Mr.
Grant an order for a basket of vegetables.”
said Mr. Kohlsaat. “He told me to take ihe
basket over to Grant's hide store. I went
over there, and I remember distinctly that
the hides and the rolls of leather made a very
bad smell.- When I walked Into the store I
saw a man tipped back In a chair with hls feet
on a stack of hides. He was smoking a cigar
and rea ling a newspaper. I went up to him
and asked him if he was Mr Grant. He looked
around and nodded his head. Then he Fold
me to put the basket over by the counter;
• When I was going home with my father I
told him that Mr. Grant must be a lazy man.
The one impression I received was that he
must be a poor business man, so Indolent and
Indifferent did he seem as he sat tipped back
there smoking his cigar.”
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In New Orleans the city chemist has found
that the bakers use an excess of water, which
results In musty and unwholesome bread, and
that the gingerbread contains zinc.
Some of the members of the Eureka Club, a
Jewish Institution of Rochester, are desirous
that Christians should be eligible for mem
bership. in order that a breach mav thus fce
made in the social wall by which Christians
and Jews are kept apart.
The name "Polly McNatt” is the hardest
that one politician in Lower Delaware can
call another. Polly McNatt was the wife of
the man who always sold his vote to one party
or the other, democrat or whig but the ar
rangement for the purenase was always made
with Polly, ard to her the purchase money
was paid. When a transaction of this kind
had been completed one day, the purchaser
said to the old woman: "Polly, your hus and
always sells his vote to one party or the other,
but what Is he really In politics?” “Well,”
said Polly, "when he s with democrats he s a
democrat, and when has with whigs he s a
whig, but when he s clone he just a , and
here Polly, who was not nice of speech, pat in
an epithet that mav not be committed to
print. Ever since that time, however, a man
whose vote is open to Influence has been
called a Polly MoNatt.
It is said that the practice of the wife's as
suming the husband s name at marriage
originated from a Roman custom, and became
the common custom after the Horn in occupa
tion. says the Dublin Times. Thus Julia and
Octavia. married to Pompey and Cicero were
called by the Homans, Juiia of Pompey, and
Octavia of Cicero, and in later times married
women in most European countries signed
their names in the same manner, but omitted
the “of.” Against this view may le men
tioned that during the sixteenth, and even the
i egmuiug of the seventeenth century, the
usage seems doubtful, since we scewi'aiherine
Parr so signing herself after she has I een
twice married, and we always hear of Lady
Jane Gray mot Dudley i and Arabella Stew
art (not Seymour). Some people think that
the custom originated from the scriptural
teaching that husband and wife are one. It
was decided in the case of Bon vs. Smith, in
the reign of Elizabeth, that a woman by mar
riage loses her former name and legally re
ceives that ot her husband.
Some interesting and valuable discoveries
have been made in the course of recent exca
vations that have been carried on in the dis
trict of Tlaxlaco, state of Oaxaca. Mexico. A
number of small metal imares were uncov
ered by the workmen in one of the oldest
ruins a few days ago. The Images represent
people of oriental appearance and dress, as
well as priests in their robes of sacrlttce.
They bear hieroglyphics of unknown
characters and are elaborately wrought,
with fine art lines shown in every curve.
The images found thus far are cf
gold, either wholly or in part, and
are coated with some unknown enamel,
which has preserved them from all harm in
the many years they have been buried in the
soil. They will probably be shipped to the
National Museum in the City of Mexico,
where they will be Dlaced at the disposal of
the scientific world for further study and dis
cussion. The find is the most Important of
the year in the domain of antiquities, and
preparations are now being made to conduct
a complete exploration of the Tlaxlaco ruins
for further evidence of the ancient civiliza
tion which is known to have flourished In
Southern Mexico.
New York is famous for her clubs and club
houses, says a New York letter in the Phila
delphia Ledger. Her 64 principal olubs have
an aggregate residence membership of over
JtiOik), and a non-residence membership of
over 6 OJO. A number ol them have palatial
clubhouses. But of them all the Metropoli
tan Club, just completed, Isprobably the most
magnificent. A view of Its Interior was given
to members of the press to dav. The lot on
which it is built is 100 feet on Fifth avenue bv
300 feet on Sixtieth street, the building Itself
covering a space 90x150 feet, with a wing ex
tending into the court yard 30x50 feet It con
tains a great hall and staircase, covering
more than 50 feet square on the
ground floor, while it Is 80x70
feet on • the gallery line, and nearly
50 feet high, running through two stories.
The staircase Is constructed of marble. Off
of the hall are great "lounging rooms,” one
in the Louis XIII style being 40 by 85 feet in
size and 22 feet high. There are card and
reading rooms and a splendid library. The
billiard room. 30 by 80 feet, contains seven ta
bles. The main dining room is on the third
floor, and is 40 ty 31 feet in size and 21 feet
high, and has several private dining rooms
adjoining. A part of the house is set apart
for the uso ot ladies accompanied by mam
bers, and there is a soparate restaurant for
these. The income of this club from annual
duos when the limitof membership is reached
which will not be long, will be $115,000 a year.
J. Pierpont Morgan is the presidont of this
great club.
The London newspapers contain accounts
of anew process by which a Birmingham
man Haclurer is making weldless steel chains.
Hitherio chains could not be made without
welding, and so injuring the temper. By the
new process the cnain is made from a steel
bar of cruciform section, and of the greatest
length obtainable. This bar is put through a
series of machines, in each of which pieces
are punched out, so that after five operations
the links are perfectly formed, but are still
connected together at the point where the
inner side of the iiow of one link crosses that
of the other. In fact, the bar presents a rigid
chain, but on being pressed through another
machine it comes out as a roughly
formed hut perfect chain, with sepa
rated links. The chain then undergoes
three more operations, in which it is
rectified, rounded.and finished ready lor u e
The process Is a cold one. so that there Is no
deterioration of the metal by heating, the
only heat applied being near the end of man
ufacture, when the chain Is annealed in an
oven for a short time. Owing to the limited
length of the bars the chain has to be ma ie
in sections, and eventually coupled up by
special links, which are made stronger than
the chain itself. Those chains, which are
suitable for general use. are produced in vari
ous sizes. from one-half inch down to three
thirty-seconds of an inch. Some of the one
half inch chains, made from steel having
a tensile strength of twenty-four tons per
square Inch, were tested at Lloyd s proving
house, and. broke at 163 per cent, over the
admiralty test. Being produced by machin
ery. all the links in each section are exactly
similar. There is also a great saving in
weight
The gradual exhaustion of the petroleum
and gas wells In the northern states has been
a theme of Interest of late. A telegram from
ndianapoiis of recent date says: "Ibe resi
dents of the suburb of West Indianapdts
came near freezing yesterday. The natural
gas which had flkkered in their stove burners
yesterday morning disappeared altogether
between 3 and 4 o'clock In the afternoon, and
for ten hours there was no gas. .•some people
had coal or wood saved from the co.d day sup
piles of last winter. This was hurriedly put
into the stoves and neighbors were asked in
to share the heat. Every house that lad fire
was full of people. The hunt to wood and
coal was beset with difficulty, even by those
who had the money to pay for them. The
one coal yard in the town had fortunately
just received a carload, and by paiielb-g
It out economically the proprietor saved
many of the citizens a night of in a
suffering. Everything made of 1 inter
was used In tne emergency, in ludiug
boxes, barrels, pumps, fences, vaious.
sheds, etc. Some of the fires built were
ocstly. being made of the lum er prepa t and
for new buildings. People whose supol,
early exhausted had to go to bed before da' k.
There was a small su plv ofjihe "ingedfor uel
at midnight, but the q antitv continued to uc
crease until 7 o'clock this morning, when it
again disappeared altopether. Coal am;
wood wagons were going all dav Ih' r
were no deaths from freezing, but scores o,
parents did not sleep durin • the night
giving up all clo'hes to the children while the?
walked the floor wra pe 1 up us for out oots.
The themometer regi t •r-d 10° below /e ,o
during the night, 'a no natural gas of the
city of Indianapolis has been Insufficient to
warm houses.
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Diamond Ear l.ingss from *2O. $25. S3O, SSO,
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Qr at reduciion in Gold and Silver
watvhta of the best make and In Gold
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Sterling Silver Goods m elegant oases—
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