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MOMDAY.MARCH 3. 1894.
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INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Meetings—Marion Phosphate Company;
DeKalb Lodge. No. 9. I. O. O. F.; Georgia
Historical Society.
Special Notices—Applications for City
Liquor License; Infanta Eulalia Cigars. L. C.
Strong's Pharmacy: Lc Panto Cigars In Not
tingham.'Old Stand. M. i'. Hernandez.
Railroad Schedules— Jacksonville. Tam
pa and Key West Railway.
Steamship Schedules—Ocean Steamship
Company; Baltimore Steamship Company.
Everybody Was Delighted—Appel 4
Schaul.
Legal Notices—Citat ions from the Clerk
of the Court of Ordinary of Chatham County;
As to Claims Against William O'Connor's
Estate; Application to Sell Lands of Estate
of William O’Connor, Deceased.
Auction Sales—Parlor and Bedroom Fur
niture, etc., by C. H. Dorsett; Clothing. No
tions. etc., by .1 H. Oppenheira <t Son.
Cheap Column advertisements— Help
Wanted; Employment Wuntol; For Rent;
For Sale; Lost; Personal: Miscellaneous.
Now that Richard Croker owns race
horses, and has dined with the governor
of Texas, they are calling him ‘‘Colonel.”
The Nebraska populists who hanged
Secretary Morton in efligy have been
fined each S2OO and costs. They will
hardly indulge in any more such expen
sive "fun."
Lem. Ely Quigg has been fortified by
the arrival of Galusha Grow at the
national capital. Armed with their
names they will at once proceed with
deadly intent against the Wilson bill.
Baltimore is building a great and splen
did musio ball, which will add much to
the architecture and accommodations of
the city. It is hoped that within six
months we shall be able to announce that
Savannah is doing likewise.
Zimri Dwiggins. president of the
wrecked Columbia Bank, of Chicago, is
before the public again as the defendant
in several more suits brought about by
the failure of his bank. It is a little re
markable, by the way, that the republi
cans have never thought of sending Zimri
Dwiggins to Washington to assist Lem
Ely Quigg and Galusha Grow in their ef
forts against tariff reform.
The office of sheriff of New York
county, made vacant the other day by
the death of Sheriff Clancy, is one of the
best paying offices in the country. The
salary attached to it is $15,000 a year,
besides which it carries fees and per
quisites which amount to $50,000 or more
a year, making the office worth to the
holder considerably more than that of
president of the United States.
The Coughlln-Oronin trial is rounding
out its fourth month in Chicago. The
lawyers having proved each other, to
their mutual satisfaction, to be prevari
cators, sneaks and shysters, having im
pugned the integrity of the eourt, and
having demonstrated that the witnesses
are all liars, and the jurors all mercena
ries, the end of the case may ho said to
be somewhat nearer at hand than it was
a month ago.
It remains to bo seen whether or not a
“Bill” Chandler and "Rube” Kolb combi
nation will have more effect upon Ala
bama politics than the late "Chris"
Magoe and "Kube” Kolb combination
had. It may be doubted that Chandler
has as much of a pull with the bursar of
the republican campaign funds as Magee
had, hence there is little lik’ehood of the
populist-republican amalgamation of 1834
proving any stronger than did that of
1892.
Under an act of the legislature of
Mississippi for 1891 farm products were
exempted from taxation only while in the
hands of the producer. This left cotton
taxable in the hands of purchasers
and worked a great hardship. The leg
islature recently adjourned made the
rule apply to farm products of all kinds,
whether in the hands of producer or pur
chaser. The auditor of the state has is
sued a circular letter to tax assessors
informing them of the law and instruc
ting them not to place this class of prop
erty on the tax rolls. The auditor s act
will nullify the law, but he will be sus
tained by the people.
The interesting part of the fight upon
the "greater New York” proposi
tion is yet to come—the fight
over the name the new city shall
bear if the election to be held resells
favorably to the consolidation scheme.
Every municipality involved will proba
bly insist that its name be applied, in
whole or in part, to the new corporation.
The Gotbamitt s will want all the names
swallowed up in "New York.” but is it
likely that Brooklyn would take kindly
to any such proposition? Would the city
of Beecher and Talmage, and of Boss Mc-
Laughlin be content toloseher identitv in
the city of "Dry Dollar” Sullivan and
Linker' Not much! The propiie over
the big bridge will insist on recognition,
to the extent, at least, of “Yorkbrook,”
or “New Yorklyn," and they muy be de
pended upon lo light for their rights.
The Free Ship Bill.
It is pc. bable that on< of the first bil.
to be brourht before the House after the
appropriation bids have been disposed of
will be the Fithian free ship bill. The
purpose of the bill is to grant American
registry to foreign built vessels. other
-1 wise, to permit Americans to buy vessels
j for foreign trade where t hey can get them
j cheapest. The bill has gone through the
: mill of the committee, and is on the eai
! tsndar. accompanied by a favorable report.
The principal opposition to the bill will
j come irom New England, in whose behalf
j American shippin j.duringjtiie last thirty
odd years, hao been protected to death;
! the rest of the country, with few excep
tions, will favor it. Unless Senator
John Sherman has undergone a rad
ical change of mind in recent years,
even he will favor the bill, for in 18C9
he made a speech for free ships, arguing
that as America could not afford to build
ships witiiin 20 or SO per cent, of their
cost in England, they should be admitted
free to this country. He believed then
that we could, and should, place Ameri
can Sags and American crews on such
ships, and have American lines instead of
British lines. The senator may he in
duced by the exigencies of the political
situation to talk otherwise now. but what
he said then applies now with as much
force as it did then.
The effects of our protective system
upon American shipping are eloquently
told by a few figures. In 1835 the Ameri
can tonnage engaged in the foreign trade
amounted in round numbers, t 02,350,000
tons. That v.-as under a free
ship system, and when the resources
of this country were in a crude
state of development as compared with
the development of to-day. In 1893 the
American tonnage engaged in the foreign
carrying trade amounted in round num
bers, to 884,000 tons. This appalling de
cadence was under and influenced by the
“protection” afforded by congress to
American shipbuilders and shipping. On
the other hand, England has followed up
a free ship policy, and to-day stands at
the head in both carrying and shipbuild
ing. The enormous proportions of Eng
land’s shipbuilding trade is an answer to
the argument that free ships would de
stroy the American shipbuilding indus
try. An abundance of ships leads to an
equal amount of repairing, which in turn
stimulates building, as England has
proved and Germany is now proving.
The Referendum in Massachusotts.
The Swiss "initiative and referendum”
system of government is to be tried by a
Massachusetts municipality. The city of
Haverhill, through its council, lias peti
tioned the legislature toamond its charter
so that the system may be applied to city
legislation. The departure has been en
dorsed by both the Democratic and Re
publican parties, so that the proposed
new method of city government will prob
ably have a fair trial.
The plan Haverhill wishes to adopt pro
vides that all ordinances passed by the
municipal council shall bo classified as
“urgent” and “non-urgent.” The ur
gent ordinances are to be. those
that refer to public health and
peace, and those that appropriate
money in any department to a greater
amount than the average sum appro
priated for the preceding three years iri
1 hat department. Such ordinances, are
not to come within the operation of the
referendum, and will take effect as soon
as passed. All other ordinances are to be
“non-urgent,” and become operative in
thirty days, unless in the meantime a
petition, signed by 15 per cent, of the
voters of the city who voted at the pre
ceding regular election, shall be filed with
the city clerk, asking for the submission
of the ordinance to a popular vote for
adoption or rejection.
In tho event of an application, in proper
form, for the submission of the matter to
the people, the title of the ordinance is to
be printed on the ballot (Australian
system) in tho same general man
ner that candidates' names are
arranged, with square blank spaces oppo
site the subject to be voted for or against,
in which the voter will indicate bis
preference. If there should be. a number
of ordinances thus pending, their titles
would go to greatly increase the size of
the ballot. Elections are to be held once
a year, and at each election ail "non
urgent” ordinances that have been ordered
referred to the people must be balloted
upon. The ordering of an election on any
ordinance is to take it out of tho mayor’s
hands: he may not veto it while the elec
tion is peuding. nor may ho veto it if at
the election a majority of the votes cast
are in favor of it. Thus the mayor is to
be shorn of considerable of his power.
There are, of course, minor details to
the scheme, but the above are its maiu
features. If it works well in Haverhill,
which is a city of 30,000 inhabitants,
other small cities may try it.
A Connecticut trotting association has
gone into an effort to make water run up
hill. Otherwise stated, it will endeavor
to make horse racing without betting
both a popular and a paying institution, at
Hartford. The Connecticut legislature
recently passed a very stringent law
against betting at race tracks, and the as
sociation referred to announces that it
will endeavor to keep up its cily race
track and at the same time conform to
both the letter and the spirit of the law.
. There was a time when horse racing
without professional betting occupied a
high place in public interest in this coun
try. Ihe races were for the amusement
of gentlemen and gentlewomen, and the
prizes were cups, silver plate, and such
things; very seldom money. And tho bets
were of gloves, riding whips; the horses
themselves sometimes, and some other
times their riders also. Those days, how
ever, were long ago, and their customs
will never return. Horse racing since
then lias been turned into more or less of
a gambling vehicle all over the country,
and one state alone will hardly be able to
reform the system. Connecticut's at
tempt, nevertheless, is commendable.
Judge Blanke lias ruled, in tho ease of
Damson against Boyden, iuChicago, that,
< n institutional gj >unds, “1 .
is to be secured from unreasonable search
or seizure of his property where tiie object
of such search is to disclose evidence
which would submit the citizen to a pen
alty.” Igun son sued to force Boyden, a
board of trade operator, to produce his
books showing bow much corn had been
bought by him for delivery in November.
The court's ruling is to the effect that
Boyden cannot be forced to show his
books.
THE MORNING NEWS; MONDAY, MARCH 5, iß‘)4.
turner Corners Reed.
An.v one wiio reads the running debate
betwe n Representative Turner, of this
state, and Re presentative Reed, of Maine,
rciKirted in the Congressional Record of
Feb. 24, on the question of the speaker's
right to count a quorum, if a quorum is
present but not voting, without a rule of
the House authorizing him to do so, can
come to no other conclusion than that the
Georgian put the Maine man in a corner
from which he could not escape. The
House had failed to transact any business
for a number of days. Thera was a
quorum present, but on the question be
fore the House, viz., fixing the time for
taking a vote on tne Bland seigniorage
bill, enough members refused to vote to
break the quorum. The republicaus
taunted the demo-, rats for their failure to
get a voting quorum and suggested that
they adopt Reed's method of counting a
quorum.
Mr. Turner declared there was no au
thority for counting a quorum Mr. Reed
took issue with him at once, and declared
that the supreme court had decided that
the speaker had authority to count a quo
rum. The debate between the two mem
bers v.as colloquial in character and
lasted quite awhile. Mr. Turner showed
to the satisfaction of every impartial man
that what the supreme eourt had decided
was that the speaker could count a quo
rum provided tho House authorized bim
to do so. Mr. Reed contended that
the speaker had a right, in the
absence of any such authorization,
lo count a quorum, and that if the House
did not approve his act it could annul it.
He declared that when speaker he had
counted a quorum and the House had sus
tained him.
Mr. Turner pointed out that an appeal
had been taken from Mr. Reed's act
counting a quorum, aud that Mr. Reed
had declared himself sustained only by
again counting a quorum.
The discussion was entertaining and in
structive, because it brought out clearly
that Mr. Reed was unable to satisfac
torily sustain his position that the speaker
has the right to count a quorum.
The Naming of Vessels.
The New York Tribune has been look
ing over the government list of merchant
vessels flying the American Hag, and finds
that tiie list is made up of a most curious
hodge-podge of names, some of which are
ridiculous, others of which mean nothing
at all, aud still others of which are sev
eral times duplicated.
It is nobody’s business, of course, what
nonsensical name an owner may give his
craft, ro long as it affect’s nobody's inter
ests but his own. But when he gives his
craft a name that is already borne by an
other American vessel, or maybe by two,
or three, or four other American vessels,
it becomes other people's business. The
result is often great difficulty in identify
ing vessels, and considerable annoyance
in correctly reporting marine arrivals,
sailings or disasters. The duplication of
names is a fruitful source of errors in re
porting tho movements of vessels, and it
frequently happens that owners
themselves are in doubt whether certain
craft reported are their vessels or others
bearing the same names. And, it need
not be stated, this vexatious doubt some
times arises at times when the lack of
prompt action involves heavy losses to
owners, agents, charterers and underwrit
ers, and anxiety to friends of passengers,
and others interested.
Tiie Maritime Register thinks a string
ent, law should be passed governing the
naming of vessels and prohibiting
the use of names of craft already afloat,
and observes that now, in the early stages
of the revival of our merchant marine, is
the time for the reform to be adopted.
It seems that, it would not be difficult
for transportation companies operating a
fleet of sail or steam vessels to adopt some
system of naming their craft that would
minimize the liability of duplication of
names and at the same time serve to iden
tify the ownership of a craft by its name.
The Cimard, White Star, State, French
and other trans-Atlantic steamship com
panies have such systems. The Ocean
Steamship Company, operating lines of
ships between this port and New York.
Boston and Philadelphia names its ves
sels after southern cities and southern
Indian tribes. This system is not perfect,
because there arc other companies em
ploying somewhat similar names. But it
is a great improvement over the old hap
haiard way of naming vessels.
Under the laws of New York, a plain
tiff who sues for. damages resulting from
physical injury is compelled to undergo,
in the presence of the court or its ap
pointed representative, a physical exami
nation to substantiate the allegation of
damages. There came before Judge
Roger A. Pryor recently a case brought
by a young woman against the Manhat
tan Elevated road for damages. The cor
poration insisted that the law be complied
with as to the physical examination, and
the judge was compelled to order the ex
amination to be made The law is out
rageous, but the corporations always
insist that it be enforced,as such enforce
ment lias a tendency to decrease the num
ber of suits for damages brought. It
is not likely, however, that the
law will remain much longer on
the statute books. A bill has been intro
duced in the legislature to make it obliga
tory upon courts to appoint in damage
cases examiners of the same sex f as the
person alleged to have been damaged.
It appears that the chiefs of depart
ments in the war department have been
enjoying more of a soft snap than Secre
tary Damont thinks is for the public good.
The secretary arrived at the department
at 9 o’clock the other morning, and. half
an hour later, desiring to hold a confer
ence with some of the chiefs, sent mes
sengers to summon them. The messen
gers shortly returned with the informa
tion that none of the gentlemen wanted
had yet arrived. Other matters then en
gaged the secretary until 8:30 o'clock,
when, recurring to his original intention,
he suit the messengers out again. This
time the information came back that tho
gentlemen had all left their offices for tho
day Tho secretary, thereupon, issued a
general order, applying to everybody in
the department, fixing office hours at from
9 a. 111. to 4 p. m.
“Old Hutch,” the famous wheat opera
tor of Chicago, has changed his business
and gone into corn—corn in the juice. He
has opened a barroom and serves the
drinks himself, if lie proves as success
ful at mixing things at ths counter as In
was at mixing things on tho board, he will
again be a capitalist.
PERSONAL.
John Roberts, the champion billiardist of
F.ng’lanJ, is 47 years of ape and in the ma
turity of his powers. He is the son of a for
mer champion of England, and is very well
to do.
Henri Rochefort began his journalistic life
by writing pungent and witty articles for a
friend whose name he signed. They received
such flattering attention that he was pre
' ailed to write over his own name.
Archbishop Angus MacDonald, of the Arch
diocese of Edinburgh, has issued a Lenten
pastoral dealing with marriages between
Catholics and Protestants. He warned the
members of the church against such unions.
Wagner's son, Siegfried, whose debut as an
orchestra leader nt Leipsic has excited great
interest in Germany, is smal; in stature, very
thin, and in complexion a pale blonde. Even
m moments of great excitement his face
shows no color.
Ex-Secretary Whitney, who has resigned as
a member of the New York Constitutional
Convention, thus tells why: Long before the
election X had arranged to take my children
abroad late in the spring and wiil not return
until late in the fall.”
The Boston Transcript says; Harry I. Brett,
paying teller of the Shoe and Leather Na
tional Bank, of this city, has a*l note which
i ears neither seal nor num >er. white in other
respects it is perfect. The finding of the note
has created considerable interest among
Lankii g men.
A San Francisco special to the New York
Tribune says; “Prince Poniatowski is here,
and has made formal announcement of his
engagement to MIS3 Maude Burke, of Oak
land. He also made an appeal to the le
porterg be allowed to enjoy himself like
an American.”
Sir John Henna way is attracting attention
m England by his addresses to Christians, in
which he pleads with them to show fair
treatment toward the Jews. He likewise
asks the Jews to look at tha question of the
claims of Christi ins with less prejudice than
they usually exnioit.
The shock of har husband’s sudden death,
says the Baltimoro American, caused Mrs.
Georges. Roberts to regain her voice, which
she lost from bronchial trouble over nine
years ago. The wire cried aloud in sorrow,
and. to her surprise and that of her daughter,
her voice sounded clear and strong.
Chief Justice Jeuno, of England, has ruled
tha r a minister of the gospel has no right to
plead as a privileged communication in court
the substance of a conridentiai communica
tion made to him as a minister by one of his
parishioners. The court, he says, not the in
dividual. must judge when th° ends of justice
require secrets to be made public.
Last week the tate Land Commission was
hearing a contest at Olympia. Wash., for the
possession of some natural oyster beds
Sandy.’’ one of the oldest of the Siwash
tribe, and one of the dirtiest, was on the
stund. Ho said: “Long years ago Indian own
all the fish, all the clam all the oyster—God
gave ’em. Few years ago Boston man came
along: he think he own all the tlsh. ail the
c!am. all the oyster, he (measuring about an
inch on his lingeri so much bigger as God."
BRIGHT BIT3.
Haverl.v—Do you consider horseback riding
good exercise r
\usten -Most decidedly-for the horse.—
Life.
Little Dot—l just hate composition.
Mamma—You like to write Idlers'.-
Litilo Dot -Yes; but when I get a blot on
my composition, I can’t draw a rin r around
it and say it s a kiss.—Street & Smith’s Gooel
News.
• The lady should always precede the gen
tleman on entering the church," remarked
Miss Prudence.
"All right: go ahead, I'm after you.” re
sponded Hal, and after that it was smooth
sailing.—Drover s Journal.
“Have you read any of this discussion about
Howto become a perfect mar.,’ Mr. Sappy-"
asked Ethel.
"Yu as.” said Sappy. “They asked me for
my reeije. X said. Goto X’oole of London.’
ye know.”—Harper’s Bazar.
“Say,” said the editor, '.he man who sets
the want advertisement < has got to be tired.”
• Why.” asked the bus;>t* ss manager.
"He set up the head t > the rooms for rent’
department as ‘boom-; for rent.’ lhe impres
sion will get out that the political influence of
the paper is for sale. Indianapolis Journal.
Barken who h is brought out some o* his bo>*
Burgundy as a treat for his uncle Wavba k'.
—Well, Uncle Silas, how do you like ihat v
Pretty good stuff eh
Way back—Fust rate, ray boy, I alias won
dered what that red stuff in them drugstore
winders was. I’ll have to git some.—Harp
er’s Weekly.
‘‘Miggs is going deueedly s!o7/ in h's court
ship of Miss Airess. I suppose though, ho
wants to be sure of bis ground before he pr >
poses.”
‘ Humph: If the inquiries ho has been mak
ing of late about the real estate she owns are
any indication I take it he wants to be sure of
hers.”-- Buffalo Courier.
”ue ole marster. what I had before de wah
was a gennerman,” remarked old Moss to an
other relic of a ite-bedum days.
“Youi etdar was high oned genucrinans
in those da.vs,” his friend -eplied.
"Now you’s talkin'. X remember how time
and ag’an my ole marster kicked me off de
front steps, and a mimt arterwards he had
done plum forgot all about hit.. ain’t no
moali sich geaermans nowadays."—Texas
Siftings.
Toddles-Papa. I've found another word
that's all wrong.
Pa pa-Well. Toddles, what is it?
Toddles—Why. it's buttermilk. The idea
of taking all the butter out of the milk and
then calling it buttermilk! When it comes
irom the cow it’s buttermilk, seems to me.
Papa—Well, and what would vou call it
afterward?
Toddles—Butterless milk, of course.—Har
per’s Young People.
Compliments of the Season.—Old Funni
man (at boarding house breakfast table*-
This chop Mrs. Hasbly, is quite appropriate
to this horrible March weather.
lia- ily—lndeed. Mr. Funniman?
"Yes. So very raw, you know?’
“And I think this horrible March weather
will also go well with 1 ist month s board bill.
Mr Funniman.”
Ah’ How so. Mrs Rashly?”
“Unset tied. Mr. Funniman.”—Browning.
King a: Co.'s Monthly.
CURRENT COMMENT.
Has Texas Too Many P
From the Galveston News. (DemA
Is there an intelligent citizen of the United
States that does not believe that the country
would be safe aud quite as happy with only
one congressman where we now have two?
Reform, or be Reformed.
From the Louisville Courier-Journal iDemd.
if congress will execute the mandate it has
received from the people, its task is compar
atively easy. If it insists on executing the
mandate of a lo >by of protectionists it can
not reform the tariff, but the people will ad
dress themselves to the task of reforming
congress.
Undemocratic Democrats.
From the Baltimore Sun. (Dem.)
The democratic senator who opposes or
seeks too struct action “in the direction of
free raw mat erials.” ceases to stand upon the
democratic platform, and repudiates the sol
emn promise of the party upon the faith of
which the American people have entrusted
the Democratic party with power.
The Colonel Gets Back at a'Critic.
From the Boston Herald (Ind.).
Replying to a contemporary which has
taken occasion to sneer at his eulocy of Abra
ham Lincoln henry VVatterson takes occa
sion to say that if the newspaper in question
had t een torn a bird it would have been a
buzzard; if a beast, a panther; if a fish, a
mud cat; if a reptile, a lizard; if an insect, a
bedbug. With these few remarks Mr. Wat
terson deems it best to let the matter drop.
Tho Ntw Bland Bill.
From the Washington Post (Ind.).
It is not beyond the range of possibilities
that the bill will secure favorable considera
tion in the Senate, there are of course,
wile differences of opinion as to the wisdom
of coining the seigniorage, or ‘coining a
vacuum.” as Mr. Hewitt calls it. though we
cannot quite understand how $55.00 .000 can
1 c coined out of nothing, but if we re mem er
aroht the policy was at one time looked upon
approvingly at the treasury department, as
one eonyei innt war of meeting deficits. Mr.
I’arlisle s later utterances do not bearout this
view, and as for Mr. Cleveland’s views, it is
not likely that they have as yet undergone
any change on the subject.
One Man’s Way of Giving Messages
The average New York man has his own
views of regarding the suburban native, says
the New York Times. A lawyer and his
wife, who lived in this city, dejided to spend
last Sunday evening with their sister in West
cheater county. They had promised to go
out on ace ‘tain train when the sleigh was to
be waiting for them at the station On the
day they wore to start the New Yorkers, see
ing that they could not go by that tram, tried
to telephone to the Westchester county house.
Something was wrong, however, with the
Westchester telephone, and so the lawyer
called up the station agent, who keeps a sta
ble. is postmaster, road commissioner and
everything else.
“Will you send word to Mr. S he
asked, “not to send to the 2.40 train, but to
have the sleigh at the station for the 4 o'clock
train.
The stable keeper, etc,, promised that he
would and that ended the conversation.
When the lawyer and his wife stepped off
the tram they found a brother-in-law waiting
for them, who looked as if he had a griev
ance
•Why in the world dind't you send me word
that you were going to wait over a train?” he
asked. -I have been freezing around here for
an hour and a half. ’ *
“Why, didn t J . the agent, tell you?”
“Not a word from J .”
So they took the complacent agent, etc., to
task, and this way he explained It:
“You see. at tlrst I was going to send over,
and then I thought to myself, yonr coach
man would come over for the 2:40 train and I
could tell him. Then he could go back and
tell you. ”
‘•well, but you did not say a word to me
■when you saw that 1. and not the coachman,
had come.”
“Well, what was the use? As long as you
were here there was no use sending you back
to your house to tell your own self something,
was there? So I didd t tether you.”
What the Expert Said.
A little incident happened in London re
cently. says the Jeweler s Review. A foreign
gentleman presented himself at the office of
one of the largest Arms in the diamond trade,
and solicited an offer for a crystal of excep
tionally Hue shape, luster and color, that he
ha 1 just brought straight from the South
African diamond mines. But its perfection
sorely tried the appraising capabilities of the
firm. who. after two hours’ deliberation and
testing it in all the wavs known to them,
ultimately took the specific gravity of it.
which confirmed the opinion that it v.asa
diamond. However, there was something
that caused some iittle doubt to arise, and the
firm forthwith sent the owner with his treas
ure to an expert, a mineralogist, to ascertain
its adamantine nature. But the scientist was
a man of common sense, and in reply to the
query as to whether it was a diamond immedi
ately deman led whence it came, and from
wh it m ne. the former question was readily
answered, but when particulars were pushed
a little closer it became evident that it was
more thm possible that this stone had not
passed through the hands of the Great Com
bine or any other recognized board. Upon
liirther inquiries being made, its owner
affirmed that this tig arm hat tried every
thing they knew, and been*two hours in doing
so, and wore taen 16ft in doubt. ‘ Well.’”
said the expert, “let us try the most simple
test first. May I test its hardness? ’ aud
leave hiving been obtained, he took out a
file and made a small gutter down It like
that in the socalled idatiam diamond." “Do
you mean to tell me," said the mineralogist,
• that that represents the aumuut of know
ledge in the diamond trade? that one of its
largest firms don t know a diamond from a
bit of glass' Or that you have pot hold of it
Without knowing the diffeoence—well—well
—there's something wrong somewhere.”
The Temperaturo of a Mine.
A party of strangers was being taken
through the Chollar workings, says the Vir
ginia City Chronicle. In the party was a
girl, an innocent lit tie thing, whose knowl
edge of mir.es was limited. The party was
mixed, and the gentlemen, as usual, carried
lanterns. As it was also large, when pr ‘parti
tions were made to go down the incline tho
guileless c -enure aforesaid and another lady
and gentleman were all assigned to the low Vr
seat in the giraffe. After the giraffe started,
to further the general comfort, the girl slipped
down at the feet of her companions and found
a seat on something. th<- nature of which she
did not stop to investigate.
A short way down the incline she remarked
that it was getting warm. Further on she
repeated the observation, and her com
panions responded that they had not noticed
it. while the miner who had t-fce party in
charge assured her that the incline was sup
posed to be cool She continued to call at
tention to the heat, however, to tie surprise
of her comrades and their guide, and at the
station she scrambled out of the giraffe, ex
claiming:
••Whoa? but it was hot in there!”
The miner was mystified, but casually look
ing at waere she had sat. the light dav. ned
upon him. and he electrified the innocent lit
tle thing anu the r 3st of the party by dryly re
marking:
■ It s no wonder you were warm; you were
sitting on that gentleman’s lantern.”
The Peppery Man’s Lunch.
A peppery-faced man came into a down
town restaurant the other day, sat down and
scanned the bill of fare with a critical eye,
says the New York Ttfbime. He had another
man with him. who inquired. - Wall, watcher
goin' to eat: '
"Welsh rabbit, I guess."
•Rather indigestible, isn't it. to work on”’
“Maybe, but 1 feel like having some, that’s
all.” replied the peppery-i'aced man ”1 tell
you v.hat,” he went on: now. I've had
dyspepsia for pretty near thirty years.
'Hied everything—ate nothing but ‘ beef
steak, drank nothing but hot water for
months -took no er?d of medicine—exercised,
and gave up smoking, and all that sort
of thing. But it didn’t do a bit of good. I
dec are, I think it made me worse with
thinking about myse'f. So I just made up my
mind to put an end to the whole business, and
eat what I pleas'd. What do vou think X had
for my oreakfast this morning - Well, sir a
pork chop. sir. a pork chop, and buckwheat
cakes with maple syrup on ’em. and hot rolls
and coffee-pretty good for a sick man. eh?
And that s the wav Ido right along. If I’m
sick. why. then. I’m sick, and tuat s all there
is to it If I ain’t sick. why. so much the
l etter. Anyhow, it takes tho thing off my
mind, you see.
a ‘ What’ll 1 have for dessert?- Well, waiter,
see here—got any good mince pie? I think I'll
have to have some—nice piece of hot mince
p:e. waiter, with plenty of sugar and a bit of
cheese!”
Kissing Time.
Eugene Field.
'Tis when the la;k goes soaring
And the bee is at the bud.
When lightly dancing zephyrs
Mng over field and flood;
When all sweet things in natnre
Seem joyfully aihime—
'Tis then l wake my darling,
Lor it is kissing time:
Go. pretty lark, a soaring.
Aud suck your sweets, o. bee:
Sing. O ye winds of summer.
Your songs to mine and me:
For with jour sohg and rapture
Cometh the moment when
It is half past kiss.ng time
And time to kiss again:
So—so tho days go fleeting
Like golden fancies free.
And every day tha : cometh
Is lull of sweets lor me;
And sweetest are those moments
My darling comes to climb
Into my lap to mind me
That it Is kissing time.
Sometimes, may be, he wanders
A heedless, aimless way—
Sometimes, may ne. be loiters
In prett., prattling piav;
But presently bethinks him
And hastens to me then.
For it's half-past kissing time
And time to kiss again!
Stumbled, But Conquered.
The crowing specimen of ludicrous hapless
ness in the face of elusive syllables, says
Bulls and Blunders, is that bf the unfortunate
speaker, who. at a pathetic point of his ad
dress. when his hero was about to undergo a
heartrending parting from home, and friends
uttered in his most melting voice:
"Biddy, diddy ”
He stopped confused: flushed, set his mouth
and tried again, with a difficult resumption of
the interrupted parthos:
"Diddy. biddy "
Something was wrong still. He grew scar
let. perspired, and grasped forth a third at
tempt. not more inlelligiole. HU hearers
could none of them interpret it. It might be
High German, or It might be a Mother Goose
refrain:
"Diddy, hidd.v, Biddy, doo"'
’1 he situation was desperate: but the per
sistent orator rallied, paused until h“ had
fully recovered his self control, and tr, ing
once more, with slow utterance and distinct
enunciation, conquered at letuth the simple
phrase whi, h had overthrown him. He said:
"Did ho bid adieu?”
ITEMS OP INTEREST.
Asa result of the recent college investiga
tion into the relations between brain, nerve
and musde it is announced that a wave of
thought will traverse a mile of nerve in about
a minute.
The Chicago newspapers are rejoicing that
they are delivered from the tyranny of the
messenger boy. The City Press Association
had the offices of a.i its members con
nected by pneumatic tubes, with ail the im
portant news-gathering centers, the central
police station, the association s offices, the
various national and international news asso
ciations. and the teieg aph offices, and the
news is now delivered at the editors’ desks
with lightning speed and unfailing accuracy.
The tui es used are seamless, drawn
brass, manufactured by a Boston firm,
and are laid beneatb the streets in a solid
mass of cement, below the water and gas
pipes, and all other obstructions. A useful
peculiarity of the system is that by an elec
tric al contrivance whatever moisture con
denses in the tubes from the air is at once va
porized and carried off i y the air current, thus
keeping the tubes perfectly dry. The carriers
used are made of leather. 2?I inches in diame
ter and 8 inches long. They have a band of
fur around each end to make them nt tightly
in the tu^es.
The recent talk about the danger of persons
being buried alive has led a genius of St.
Joseph, Mo., to invent and patent what he
calls a "grave alarm.” In the coffin is placed
a small electric battery, to which is attached
an alarm, something like the contrivanve
that is placed in clocks. The alarm is
fastened to the lid of the coffin. A strap is
attached to it and to the band of the corpse,
so that the slightest movement w ll set the
alarm in motion. A wire attached to the
alarm runs up through the grave, up a poie
and to the house of the sexton, where
a battery and bell are attached. A
slight movement in the coffin will start
the alarm aud ring the lell in the sexton’s
house and if a person has been buried alive
the alarm in the sexton s house notifies him
of the fact at once. The inventor of the
•grave alarm” has also provided an iron pipe
to 1 e used on the graves where the attach
ment is to be set. The pipe will furnish
enough fresh air to sustain life, and can be
taken up when the friends of the deceased
have become fully satis led that death has
really ta ;en pla e. The device has teen
adopted uy the lowa cemetery, but so far it
has not been put in operation by any of the
corpses.
The person whose name will go into the
book that will some time be compiled on
“Curiosities Respecting Human Beings" as
the “elephant Man ’ died in a London hospi
tal in the early part oi :he year ISUO, says the
St. Louis Repullic. The poor fellow was
afflicted with two of the most terrible disea
ses known to the physicians and surgeons—
overgrowth of the bones and tumorous ex
crescences of the skin. Two enormous bony
outgrowths developed on his forehead, and
later on the nones of the upper jaw. nose,
right arm, and Lo:h feet grew to gigantic pro
portions. The skin disease caused great nap
liko masses of flesh to hang from different
portions of his body, particularly from the
* L*e and head. Toe naso was the facial
feature upon which the discuss seemed to
hare taken special suite, the overgrowth of
bone, flesh and skin causing it to hang down
so as to give the man a ■very repulsive, ele
phantme appearance. Just before his death,
the head, which had been Increasing in size
with wonderful rapidity for about four years,
attained such proportions that the neck could
no longer hold it erect. During tho whole of
ihe last year of his life heslapt in a crouching
position, with his hands clasped arour.d his
legs and his enormous head resting on his
knees and arms.
Kingdoms and principalities run certain
risks in the marriages of their rulers that
students of biology could tell them were dan
gerous. says the St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
I’or instance. Queen Victoria's grundd lighter,
Victoria Melita of Edinburgh aud .=>axe-
Cos urg. is to marry the queen s grandson.
Duke Ernest LomsJof'Hesse-Darmsiadt -first
cousins. But they are also second cousins on
tbe Darmstadt side of the house as well as on
the English royal side. The grandmother of
ihe Princess \ ictoria was sister of the Grand
Duke of Hess, from whom Duke Ernest is
descended; the Empress of Russia, wife of
Alexander 11. having, as they say in Russia,
brought consumption into the Romanoff
family, witnessed not only her own. but her
eldest son’s death by it at Nice and the deli
cate health of the two sons of the present
czar. r l he betrothed pair are not only first
cousins, but second cousins beside on tho
Russian and Darmstadt side, arid so the com
plications that too closely-connected mar
riages sometimes develop are already shadow
ing this match When the family stock on
both sides is healthy, however, the marrying
in and in does not harm.it is affirmed by
Frem h stnucians. The good qualities are
doubled up and accented as the preponderat
ing defective ones occasionally are in these
marriages of near relatives.
In reply to the query of which is the storm
iest region of the ocean, Pearson’s- Weekly
says: Taking the question in the ordinary
sense of the word,, this evil distinction mus’
be given to the region lying about Cane Horn
or "Cape Smoke. ' as it is aptly and with
good reason called by mariners. ’ It is true
that no storms so violent as the hurricanes
of the West indies, tne cyclones of tho North
Am r.can Atlantic coast, or the typhoons of
the China seas are to be met with here. But
on the other baud the waters of Capß
Horn have never been unvisited by storms
for more tnan a week or two at a stetch
within the memory of man. Standing on
the outpost of the world. Cape Horn is the
meeting place of ocean currents of very
difterent temperatures, from the icy . old wa
ters of the Antarctic drift, to the warmth of
the Brazil and Peruvian return currents The
prevailing winds are from the northwest and
west, and these, coming from the warm
regions of the Pacific, condense into the fozs
which sailors tail "Cape Horn blankets," and
which are the sure forerunners of storms
The extremely low level to which the glaeie.s
of Tierra del Fuego descend, .he perpetual
congelation of the sub-soil, the meeting of
conflicting winds of very different tempera
tures. are all direct or indirect causes com
bining to make th;s the most constantly
stormy pegion of the world.
Dr. J. E. Huxley, of Maidstone, Eng., thinks
he has hit upon the natural remedy for sleep
lessness, says the Medical Press. It is in brief
to curl under the clothes like a kitten, or put
the head under the wing like a hen. He says -
This insomnia seems to te now a universal
affliction. We live wrongly; sit up late and
overwork ths brain, and then go to bed in an
excited condition. No one seems to have hit
upon the natural remedy. 1 think Iha e
People take chloral and the like at their
peril, and the fatal conse sttence nut seldom
ensues. It is all wrong, for you cannot con
trol the dose required for the exact circum
stances. Eut try nature’s plan instead; lower
the supply of oxygen to the blood, produce a
little asphyxia, limit the quanti y of air to the
lungs, and the heart and circulation becoming
quicker, tho bra n loses its stimulant and
sleep follows. When you find yourself -in’
for a sieeple.-s night, cover your head with
theted clothes and breathe and reureathc
oniy the respired air. Thus vou may reduce
the stimulating oxygen and fail as eep. There
is no danger. When asleep you are sure to
disturb the coverings and get as much fresh
air as you require: or, when once drowsiness
has been produced, it is easy to go on sleep
ing. though the air re fresh. What do the
cat and dog do when they prepare to sleep'
They turn around, generally three times and
lastly bury their noses in some hollow !n their
hair, and off they go. They are iu no dan
ger, although it mlcht look as if tuev were
from the closeness with which they embed
their noses.”
The churches of Naples are nothing re
markable. says a letter in the Chicago Times-
They are generally tawdr y and when restored
restored in bad tast?. One very
interesting feature characterizes them,
and that is the great number
of fine monuments. Nowhere, not
even in Belgium, will you find nobler tombs
than you can find in Naples. They are much
more interesting than the linger of St. Jan a
rius or the everlasting st. se astians. which
the guides are so careful to show you. Vou
who find in the churches flue specimens of
what is called "Opus Alexandrinum in art—
that is. white marble, inlaid in geometricol
pitterns with various colored mar l<*s This
is. however, done very well now in New
York. St. Agnes' church there contains
some most beautiful modern specimens
The church is sure to he well frequented'
You will often see in books of
travel the statement that few men go lo
church on the continent. If any one will
take the trouble to go to the early masses he
will Hnd no lack of men. Half past 10 is not
generally the time Italians choose for church
going. There seems to be many monks in
Nao.es, and very dirty they are. They have
evidently not yet got over the old idea
that dirt is a sign of holiness. We also
still cling to the same notion in another
fo.m. for is it not generally thought that a
woman who is very religious will neglect her
clo hes. Why she should lain not philoso
pher enough to say. I noticed very n a-ty
shabby old pr osis going a out the streets
and once or tw.ee I was asked by them for
thartty for themselves This is most un
usual and quite touched my heart, bein" mv
sell a priest. s
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