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INDEX TO JiEWADVERTISEMENTS.
Meeting—Palestine Commandery No. 7,
K. TANARUS.; Ancient Order of Hibernians, Divi
sion No. 3.
Special Notices—Good Liquors and
Wines, Henry Solomon & Son: Cut This Out,
Henry Solomon & Son; Savannah Female
Orphan Asylum; Notice. Savannah Ice De
livery Company; Homesites for Homes for
the Homeless. W. K. Wilkinson, Auctioneer.
Chickens, Estate S. W Branch.
A Look—B. H. Levy & Bro.
No Matter—Adler's.
Proposals— ln Furnishing Subsistence
and Supplies for South Atlantic Quarantine.
PLAIN, Unvarnished Tale— B. H. Levy &
Bro.
This is the LastFridat in April, 1594
Appel & Schaul.
Steamship Schedule—Ocean Steamship
Company.
Peterman's Roach Food—William Peter
man. Chemist.
Hotels—Hotel Endicott, New York.
Cheap Column advertisements—Help
Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Rent;
For Sale; Lost: Personal; Miscellaneous.
The London Chronicle thinks it sees in
the Coxey movement the beginning in the
United States of "a conflict that will be
almost as serious as that which arose
over slavery. ’’ The quicker Coxeyism is
suppressed through the prompt action of
the legal authorities, the speedy passage
of the Wilson bill and the adjournment of
congress, the better it will be for the
credit of this country.
President Peixoto's proclamation of
amnesty to the Brazilian insurgents does
not seem to have the effect of saving their
lives. Gen. Hipolito, the victorious gen
eral of the government forces at Rio
Grande do Sul, bas been making short
work of his prisoners by chopping their
heads off. Maybe he thinks they are not
worth the shot and powder it would take
to get rid of them in the usual way.
A movement has been started in North
Carolina for the building of a monument
in the capitol square, Raleigh, to the
memory of the late Senator Z. B. Vance.
At several points meetings have been
already held, liberal subscriptions have
been made and organizations effected to
push the project. The deceased senator
was one of the best-loved men in the
state, and was worthy of all the affection
felt for him.
Hippolyte. president of Hayti, is an
astute politician. He has invited
Legitime, his old-time enemy and rival,
to returned to Hayti—he is now a fugitive
—and be reconciled and accept a pension
as an ex-president. Legitime is prepar
ing to be a candidate for the presidency in
1897, and it is Hippolyte’s purpose, by
a show of magnanimity, to strengthen
himself with Ijegitime's friends and
weaken his rival's chances for election.
Senator Peffer seems to have formed an
erroneous idea of what Coxey’s followers
want. He has introduced a bill to pro
vide them with hard labor at *1.50 per
day of eight hours. Several times already,
numbers of them have been offered simi
lar inducements to leave off being unem
ployed and go to work, but they declined
with scorn. The farmers of the north
west are at present in need of labor, and
would gladly employ the commonwealers,
but they are not seeking employment.
They want free grub, free clothes, free
shelter, free silver, free gold and free
everything else, and they are going to
Washington, where the republicans have
taught them to go, in the hope of having
their free wants supplied.
Tt must have touched a tender chord in
the hearts of the confederate veterans
yesterday to see with what unanimity a
tribute of love and respect was paid to
the memory of the soldiers who gave
their lives for the soutli and to the cause
for which they all fought. There is no
public occasion that appeals more directly
to the southern heart than memorial day.
Every family sent its hero to the war,
and at nearly every hearthstone an
empty chair was left because of the war;
hence the memorial exercises are per
sonal matters with nearly every partici
pant in them, as well as functions for the
multitude. The suspension of business
here yesterday and the large attendance
upon the exercises at the cemetery were
incidents characteristic of Savannah's
people.
Jesse Seligman, the banker, of New
York and London, whose death in Cali
fornia was announced in our dispatches,
began life as a pack-peddler in Alabama'
having his headquarters at Selina? I-'rom
that humble beginning he rose to be one
of the leading financiers of the world. He
was the intimate and personal friend of
Gen. Grant, Henry Ward Beecher, ex-
President Harrison, Cbauncey M. Depew,
and others of their high standing. The
monetary conference that recently sat at
Brussels was largely the result of his
negotiations. Mr. Seligman was promi
nently identified witli a number of chari
ties, to which he subscribed liberally. His
especial cares in that line were the He
brew Orphan Asylum of Now York and
the Association for Improving the Con
dition of the Poor.
Not An Army of Peace.
The Coxey army is not an army of
| peace. It is peaceable just as long as it is
1 fed and permitted to do as it pleases. It
is comix>sed for the most part of men who
i have no respect for law. It has been dem
onstrated already by more than one of
its branches that it is a law-defying or
ganization, and that it will resort to vio
lence to get what it wants whenever it
can do so with safety. Those who are at
the head of it, notwithstanding their pro-
testations to the contrary, are at
heart communists and anarchists.
They know their men have not
the means to purchase food and
transportation. How then did they
expect to reach Washington? They
expected to subsist upon the coun
try along the line of march, and to take
possession of railroad trains if free trans
portation was Dot granted them
Thus far food has been given to the
various branches of the army. It has
not, however, been given willingly. Those
who have contributed it have done so to
get rid of a disturbing and dangerous
force. They realized that if they didn’t
furnish food it would be taken, just as
railroad trains have been taken when
transportation has been refused.
The army, therefore, is not to be dealt
with as if it were composed of law-abid
ing men bent upon securing redress for a
real or fancied grievance, but as a menace
to life and property.
When the army first began to assemble
there were very few manifestations of
lawlessness. The army was weak and
therefore conservative. As it has in
creased in strength it has grown more ex
acting in its demands. It has allowed
the real spirit and sentiment that control
it to crop out. In lowa there has been
violence, and in Montana federal troops
have been called upon to protect property.
If the army should continue to increase
its insolence would become unbearable.
It would make demands for supplies and
transportation and would support them
by force.
It is no time for such resolutions as
that introduced unto the Senate by the
Populist Senator Allen. Resolutions of
that sort encourage the formation of
groups of idle, shiftless and vicious men
who have no patriotism and nothing to
lose. They are, therefore, prepared to
disregard the barriers that have been
erected for the protection and welfare
for society and appropriate whatever
property they want.
There does not seem to be any purpose in
the Senate to show the army encourage
ment. The speeches of Senator Vest and
Wolcott, reported in our dispatches . this
morning, indicate very clearly that no
concessions will be made to the Coxey ites.
It is well understood that the men march
ing toward Washington are not influ
enced b.v any reasonable or patriotic pur
pose. They know they can accomplish
nothing by their journey. It is evident,
therefore, that their object is not to in
fluence legislation. The assertion of
Coxey that he intends to present to con
gress ‘‘a petition with boois on—a peti
tion that cannot be pigeonholed” has a
catching sound, but it means nothing.
What Coxey is seeking is notoriety, and
the main idea of his followers is that the
world owes them a living. They have no
'intention of earning a living.
An Inside Horse to Beat.
There is still considerable speculation
as to why the governor appointed Mr.
Walsh, a protection democrat, senator.
The latest explanation is that the gover
nor favors Speaker Crisp for the long
term, and that Mr. Walsh's appointment
will help the speaker to get the place. If
this explanation has any foundation, not
only the governor, but all those who aspire
to the ottice of senator for the long term,
inay experience a ‘‘tired feeling” when
the time for electing a senator comes. It
is not at all improbable that Mr.
Walsh himself will be a can
didate. If he should he would,
in all probability, show a good deal
of strength. There is much hostility felt
by the protection and populist demo
crats of the state to those democrats who
stand by the national platform and Mr.
Cleveland. They would feel much satis
faction in electing a protection democrat
to the Senate.
Gov. Northen has shown a desire to
get even with those who destroyed his
senatorial prospects by ridiculing his cel
ebrated Waycross campaign, in which he
managed to get a little ahead—only in the
matter of time, however—of Govs. Till
man and Waite in using the troops to en
force the laws when the civil authorities
could have done so.
Those who think Senator Walsh is
going to let anyone have a walk over in
the senatorial race don't know that gen
tleman. Those who are being groomed
for the race might as well make up their
minds that they have an insido horse to
beat.
There is likelihood of a division in the
American Theosophical Society. At the
annual convention of the society at San
Francisco this week some of the delegates
wanted to know how it was that all of the
mahatmas were domiciled in India, and
why there were no native American ma
hatmas. The leaders of ths fad. who are
supposed to be under Indian influence,
could not find a satisfactory explanation
of the mystery, and the kicking patriotic
delegates intimated that they were them
selves willing, for convenience, to be re
garded as perfect men and fitting medi
ums for the transmission of theosophical
philosophy. In this matter we are with the
kickers. Ret us have American mahatmas
by all means. The native supply must be
sufficient for the native demand. No
foreign mahatmas! No Hindoo domina
tion !
A New York Herald correspondent
notes the singular coincidence that tho
man who set fire to the wreck of the old
Kearsarge on Roncador reef was Semmes
Hodden, who was named for the com
mander of tho Alabama. The Alabama
was in Caribbean waters about the time
young Bodden was born, and his parents,
admiring tho ability and fame of Admiral
Semmes, gave their child his name.
Hence, it was a Semmes that assisted the
Kearsarge to her notoriety and a Semmes
that destroyed her.
The wheels of justice at Clarencoville,
N. \ ~ were clogged—indeed, stopped en
tirely—because the young woman plain
tiff refused to show where the dog bit.
The court held that the fact of an injury
would have to he established before the
law could order the dog killed. At last
advices the dog was licking his chops and
the girl’s calf was in arnica.
THE MORNING NEWS: FRIDAY, APRIL 27. i894.
Chatham County’s Great Need.
I There is no subject of more real interest
to the people of this country than that of
good roads, and no question is receiving
j more attention at this time. In Chatham
county the subject is well nigh thread
bare; still, it is of as much importance as
if it were new. Probably every grand
Jury of this oounty for a quarter of a
century has had its say upon the matter,
and with more or less effect, temporarily.
The work actually done on the roads,
| however, while costing in the aggregate
thousands upon thousands of dollars, has
: not been permanent. Indeed, it could not
be, because of the impossibility of build
ing permanent roadbeds under the system
heretofore and now in operat ion.
To provide permanent and good high
ways a comprehensive plan of improve
ments must be adopted; a plan that looks
beyond the necessities of to-day to the
wants of years to come. All the
public roads of the county should be
rebuilt with a view to macadamizing, or
in some other way hardening them, and
modern methods and appliances should be
employed in their construction. An out
lay of $5,000 or *IO,OOO in a railroad equip
ment for hauling material, and a steam
apparatus for rolling roadbeds, would in
the end be found economical. In five
years, with such an outfit, an amount of
road building could be done that would
have required a century’s time under the
old system and then would not have been
well done.
If the Louisville. Augusta, Ogeechee,
Waters and other roads in thecounty were
properly rebuilt and hardened, the entire
county from the Wilmington river to the
Effingham county line, and from the Sa
vannah river to the Ogeechee, would soon
be a garden spot. Under a proper and
general plan of improvement, with me
chanical appliances, suen a showing could
be made, with the convict labor and the
*B,OOO and more now yearly appropriated
for good roads and bridges, that those
who live on and are familiar with the
present poor roads, would hardly know
their way home if they happened to be
absent during the making of the improve
ments.
Inside Tariff Facts.
A cotton firm in this city received a
letter a few days ago from a manufac
turer of cotton ties, offering ties at a
greatly reduced rate. In the letter the
statement was made that the manufac
turer could now make ties at les cost
than they are made in England, and that
the duty on ties was a matter of no con
sequence, since the manufacturer could
undersell the English manufacturers, even
if the duty was entirely removed.
This statement is no doubt true. Why
then is it that cotton tie manufacturers
are against the Wilson bill, and insist
upon being protected? Is it not because
they want to plunder the cotton planters?
If a high duty should be placed on cotton
ties, the cotton tie manufacturers of this
country could form a combination and
put up the price of ties to the extent
the duty would permit.
No doubt there are many other pro
tected industries that would prosper with
out any protection whatever. The pro
tectionists, however, insist that every
industry shall be protected, whether it
needs protection or not. There must be
great benefits from ptotection, or else the
manufacturers that can get along and be
prosperous without it would not demand
it.
This statement about the cotton tie
duty makes it pretty clear what it is that
the Democratic party is fighting. It is a
system for plundering the people. Every
time the democrats have attempted to
take the duty off cotton ties there has
been an outcry from the protectionists,
and cotton tie manufacturers are among
the opponents of the Wilson bill, and yet
the testimony of a large cotton tie manu
facturer is that he can beat the world
manufacturing ties, and that be doesn’t
care anything about the duty. It is no
ticeable, however, that his statement is
made privately, and not with the expecta
tion that it will ever reach the ears of
congressmen. Such statements ought to
convince the people beyond a shadow of a
doubt that the tariff policy of the Demo
cratic party is right, aud that the Wilson
bill, instead of being a sectional measure,
as the republicans charge, is a bill for the
good of the whole people.
Another government scandal is on. and
is being investigated by Secretary of the
Navy Herbert. A man uamed Oliver C.
Coon wrote the secretary from McKees
port, Pa., giving certain information
which, if true, implies a shocking state of
rottenness running through twogreat man
ufacturing concerns that are contractors
for the goyernment. Coon says the Stirling
Bros’, firm, at McKeesport, that is making
projectiles for the navy department, has
been defrauding the government for eigh
teen months or more, and working in
cahoots with the Carnegie company to
make the government accept poor armor
plates. The Stirlings make the projec
tiles that are used at the Indian Head
proving grounds. Coon says the Stir
lings would sometimes send on balls that
were brittle, and would fly all to pieces
upon impact and thus apparently show
wonderful strength in the armor. On
the other hand, when it suited their
purpose, the Stirlings would furnish pro
jectiles that would pierce the plates and
show weakness in the armor. He says on
one occasion, when there was supposed
to be a misunderstanding between the
Carnegie Steel Company and the projec
tile Arm, Stirling said to him: ‘-I’ll blow
their armorplates to h— if they do not fix !
us!” The informer says, further that he
has reason to believe there has been tam
pering with the powder as well as with
the plates and projectiles. Secretary Her
bert has been for two weeks or such a
matter looking into his story. What he
has found in it is not yet known. Coon
was formerly an employe in the Carnegie
mills at Homestead, but lost his place
through his aggressive connection with
tho Amalgamated Association Just prior
to the great strike of 181*2. Ho is the
owner of considerable property, and was
a captain in the Pennsylvania national
guards.
Dr. H. P. Stearns, head of the Hartford Re
treat for the Insane, has held the position for
twenty years, and has had ;t 000 patients un
der his hands during that Htt-j.
December and May were joined at Denison.
Tex., last week when Eli Spencer, agedM,
married Cora Holman, aged IP. The groom is
a sewing machine agent
Mrs. Besant, accompanied by Col. Olcott
and an Indian attendant, attired in a pic
turesque costume, has arrived in London
from a lecturing tour in India.
PERSONAL.
H*nry Irving, it is reported, may stand for
a vacancy in the J.ondon county council.
Miss Catherine Cion way. associate editor of
the Boston Pilot, fills in her leisure time by
writing verses and essays.
Mrs. U. S. Grant and Mrs Jefferson Davis
will each spend part of the summer at West
Point, where they met each other for the first
lune last June.
George Grant, colored, a native of Ireland,
has applied for citizenship papers in the New
York court*. He ha* a pronounced brogue,
and speaks Gaelic with considerable fluency.
Daniel Curry, who died several days ago in
Brooklyn, was the first president of the first
professional base ball club In this country—
the Knickerbocker, organized in 1812. He
w as 82 years of age.
The three or four weeks' old Crown Prince
of Bulgaria has been made Prince of I.irnowo,
Duke de Saxe, knight of two orders and hon
orary chief of the Fourth infantry, the Fourth
cavalry and the Third artillery regiments.
Barrie, the -Thrums" novelist, is ashy,
boyish-looking man 31 years old. He said to
a recent visitor that he intends to marry
"some day, If only to have the convenience of
using my wife's hairpins to clean out my
pipe"
Congressman Blair, of New Hampshire,
has consentrd to identify himself promi
nently with an inebriate asylum in Washing
ton. He thinks that his prominence in the
cause of temperance will give value to his
indorsement of the institution
Inquiry b.v the pension department into th#
case of Matthew Corrigan, of Quincy, IU.. has
satisfied it that the pension he receives for
having a broken neck is perfectly just. Cor
rigan was stacking straw and fell on his head,
nearly severing the spinal cord. Surgeons
have since kept him alive
Hon. Alexander H. Rice, of Boston, who
served in four successive congresses. Is at
present sojourning in Washington, on his
way home from t lorida. he is 78 years of
age. and sat in the House alongside of Mr.
hulmau while Galusha Grow wielded the
gavel He was also mayor of Boston and
thrice elected governor of the state.
United States Marshal Williams, of Paris,
Tex., says: "Texas could furnish teef enough
for the whole world. The state has the most
extensive breeding grounds in the world, aud
if the people would devote their agricultural
lands to raising fodder for the dry season for
all the cattle they could breed. I am sure my
first statement would be absolutely correct."
Miss Harriet Blaine, who will be married
on April 30, to Hon. Truxton Beale, is already
receiving many handsome presents. The
groom s mother has sent a valuable gift in
the form of a large sunburst of diamonds;
Mrs. McLean, his sister, a watch set in
emeralds, with sapphires and diamonds and
a tiara of diamonds set with emereds and
pearls from Mrs. Hitt.
BRIGHT BITS.
Sobbing Wife—Three years ago you swore
eternal love, and .
Brutal Husband—How long do you expect
eternal love to last, anyway:-—Hallo,
Witts—What makes you so sure old Skin
flint has no skeleton In his family closet':
Watts - Because if he had he and sold it long
ago. Skeletons are worm anywhere from ,5
up —Buffalo Courier.
She—What a sweet mouth Miss Smilingly
has.
He—Well. I should say so. I always dodge
her during the soda water and ice-cream sea
son,—Brandon Bucksaw.
■ Been vaccinated yet :"
"No,” said the athletic girl. “I've not. 1
can't quite make up my mind whether to
give up m.v Indian clubs or my bicycle for a
while.”—lndianapolis Journal,
Dr. Fourthly—You believe there can he
more than one future state, do you not?
Westenberg—Oh. yes: there are Arizona
and New Mexico—but 1 have my doubts about
Utah.—Kate Field s Washington.
"Never saw such a woman's champion as
Wibbles is. Misses no opportunity of stand
ing up for the fair sex."
"Humph' Guess you never met him in a
crowded street car.”—Buffalo Courier.
"I -wonder what makes Hlgby so unpopu
lar : ■’ r
"I give it up. but it's a fact. Why, that
man Is so disliked that he can t even get a
bite when he goes fishing."—lndianapolis
Journal,
Husband (vituperatively)—l was a fool
when I married you. Marv! *
Wife (quietly)—Yes, Tom, I knowyou were!
But what could I do? You seemed mv only
chance, and I thought then that vou might
improve a little with time:—Grip.
Logical—Effle-Mammy, why do they hunt
lions an' tigers?
Mamma—Because they kill the poor little
sheep, Etfle.
Effle (after a pause)—Then why don't they
hunt the butchers, mammy?—Punch.
"I want a divorce,” she said, as she sank
into a chair in the lawyer's office.
"From your husband?" queried the careful
lawyer.
"No. from my grandfather!” she snapped,
as she bolted through the door and slammed
it behind her.—Life.
“I notice ” said the editor to the novelist.
' that in every chapter you refer to the hero as
having an elastic step.’ Why do you do
this?”
"Why— er—you see, he's one of these cau
tious men. who never go out doors without
wearing overshoes."—Washington Star.
CURRENT COMMENT.
Coxey Recruits Plentiful.
From the Galveston News iDem.).
There are plenty of men who are quite
ready to quit work forever, as soon as they
learn that they tan ride over the land and
live high off other people, or draw from the
government all the cash they want.
The New Legislature is Repub
lican.
From the New York Tribune (Rep.i.
The Tammany kites, vultures, carrion
crows and turkey buzzards are gathering at
Albany this week In huge flocks, bent on dark
and dirty booty. They are all strong-beaked,
sharp-clawed, strident and ravenous for
spoils.
Senator Walsh on tho Income Tax.
From the Augusta Chronicle (Dem.).
Lot not our eastern friends build any unau
thorized hopes with reference to the defeat of
the income tax feature of the bill. Jt will
pass the .Senate, just as it passed the House,
and democrats will not be frightened into
abandoning It by the fear of losing votes for
tne general bill. The income tax is all right.
As Outsiders See Our Senate.
From the Toronto (Can.i Times.
The long speeches have no other effect in the
Senate than to kill time and emphasive the
speaker's vote. Thejf are a very small fae
tor in the deliberative process out of which a
decision one way or the other finally emerges.
Nearly everybody would vote the same wav
at the start as at tho finish of a protracted
debate. There can be no shorter way, how
ever, until senators can tear to part with a
little of their unrestricted privilege of talk
ing for the admiration of their states. When
they can, they will adopt a closure rule and
limit debate. The country sorely feels the
need of suih a rule.
Forecasting Georgia Legislation.
From the New York Evening Post (Ind. i.
Georgia has tried at different times various
methods ot filling the positions of judges and
solicitors. At one period they were elected
by the people. Afterward the governor
made appointments which required the con
firmation of the Senate. Then the election
was given to the legislature. So many scan
dais have resulted from the "combines"
w-hich this system developed that it is
thought the next legislature will pass a bill
submitting to the people a constitutional
amendment proposing one of the other modes
appointment by the governor or election by
the people.
Two Impossible Candidates.
From the Philadelphia Record (Dem.).
A Washington dispatch names Messrs. Alli
son. of lowa, and Heed, of Maine, as the two
most eminent republican aspirants for the
republican presiuenttal nomination. But the
tty in Mr. Allison's prospective ointment is
the fact that he has been thirty years in
congress, and. despite his tendency to non
committalism uj.on public quest.ons. his
record would be sure to disclose a large
amount of unpropitious campaign material
while against Mr Heed is interposed tbe
alarming truth (hat he wears yellow shoes all
the year round. A presidential candidacy in
yellow shoes would shake the land with
laughter. No; neither Reed nor Allison
would <Jo.
Too Much for the Cyclone.
“They ain't no doubt but Kansas is a great
state fdr whiskers,” said the man with the
ginger beard, "and what s more, this here
connection between wind and whiskers ain't
the funuv joke some folks thinks it is."
"Fer instance. ' said the grocer, winking at
the Indianapolis Journal man. “I 'low. now,
that ef you was to shave them (here the gro
cer gave an imitation of the bleating of a
goati that you wouldn't be Rule to tell them
windy yarns, eh v ” -
The man with the ginger beard was so busy
picking the tail and fins off a dried herring
in such a manner as to lose none of the meat
that the grocer s sarcasm missed Its mark
After the herring had been disposed of and
washed down with a drink of water, the man
with the ginger heard continued;
"As i was sayin , the connection between
wind and whiskers was showed to me out in
Kansas in a durn funny way. You see. they
was a old feller out there ihat. ef be hadn't
been a republican, could ‘a started out on
the reputation of his whiskers and teat ole
Petfer so fur fer the Senate that Corbett an’
Mitchell wouldn t a been in it for a sample
of a sure thing Well, one day this ole felier
goes out on his farm and runs right square
up agin one of the finest sample of cyclone
that Kansas had put up for many a day.
One of the hands over in the field, about a
quarter of a mile away, sees the cyclone hit
the old man an' started on a dead run
for the house to git the wagon to haul in his
mangled remains, though he lowed he might
have to go to the next county to find em.
Now. what do you think? He gits out to the
field where he last see the old man. an .
stead of flndtn' ary remains, he finds him
standln there live as ever and iookin puz
zled. ‘Didn't I see a twister cornin' your way?’
asked the hired man. 'I guess you did.' says
the old feller, an' that s want's puzzlin' me.
The thing come right along and run inter me,
and then the next thing I knowed it was gone.
Didn t go up in the air or nothin'else. Near
as I cun figure it out, it must uv neen a myste
rious dispensation.’ The ole feller was stuck
on a schooima am that had come frem back
east, an that very night he ast her to marry
him. which she said she would ef he would
take off them whiskers. It mgh broke his
heart, but he knuckled under. So the i ext day
he goes to a tarler shop in town near by and
tells the barber to cut era loose. Well, the
barber turns loose on 'em wiskers. an’ in the
next minute that there barber shop was
scattered all over the county, halt the town
was t lowed down an' the other half was shook
out of shape. It was the queerest thing any
one ever heard of. an' I don t suppose it would
ever ha' been explained it a teller who tame
along with a show, and was sellin' patent
medicine hadn't a explained it. He said
that the fact was that the cyclone had got
tangled up in old At ner s whiskers when it
disappeared so sudden, an’ had been stlckln'
there until the barber cut the whiskers oil aud
gave it a chance to escape. '
There was a crash and a smothered ex
cliimation. and the grocer at first had a wild
hope that the man with the ginger beard had
been struck by lightning, but an investigation
showed that it was only the man from Potato
creek, who had fallen from his seat ou the
counter into the tub of eggs.
An Anecdote of Ex-Gov. Throckmor
ton.
Gov. Throckmorton who died in McKin
ney. Tex., last week, possessed the happy
faculty of being able to tell amusing anec
dotes in the most captivating and diverting
manner, and when it was the custom of the
bar of Northern Texas to follow the court
around in its circuits he was the life and soul
of the whole party .-ays the Philadelphia
Ledger, the judge and jury the bar and cli
ents. and all the witnesses in the cases to be
tried, would assembly nightly and listen to
his inimitable telling of his most ant and
amusing tales. During the civil war he was
appointed commissioner by the confederate
government to negotiate a treaty with the
Uanket or wild Indians of tue southwest,
and never >irsd of describing that lnci
dent. He was tailed by the Indians
Leather Coat, from the fact that he had
worn a leather jacket the first time
he had ever had any business with them,
many years before this timo, and they all
knew and had great respect for him. and It
was for this reason Ihat be was given this
mission. The Indians all assembled, at his
request, at a point near where Fort Elliott
was afterward located, as it was the dividing
line between the country claimed by the In
dians of the north, and the Indians of Texas.
The Indians regarded him so highly that all
he had to do to secure their consent to the
treaty was to pledge his word that it was fair
anu right, and they agreed to it,. Then came
the formality of the leading tnen signing it.
Of course, its terms had to be explained by
the interpreter, and one of its provisions re
lated to tne Cotnanches. and required them to
remain on the north side lied river. At that
time the Indians depehded for subsistence ou
the immense herds of buffalo that went north
in the summer, and returned south in
tne winter, 'they did not slop long
en route, until they reached the
extreme southern pari of vexas. This provi
sion of the treaty would only give the Coman
ches a few weeks in which to secure their
winter's supply of meat. When the ceremony
of signing had progressed until it came time
for the Comanches to affix their names, one
of the old chiefs turned to Throckmorton,
who was witnessing the signatures, and
asked. In the most innocent, but natural way.
if the buffalo were included in this treaty,
and would have to stop their southward
march when they reached Ked river, for, if
they were not. he could not sign it, much as
he would like to oblige Leather-coat, for it
meant starvation to his people. This defeated
the whole negotiation. Before any new ar
rangement could be effected a massenger ar
rived. bringing the news of Gen. Lee's sur.
render and recalling Gov. Throckmorton.
She Is a Woman After All.
This is one of the most deliciously feminine
expressions with which I have ever met, says
the New York Press. A friend of mine took
his w:fa to the opera the other night, and
after the second act the lady became suddenly
ill-so ill. in fact, as to make it necessary for
her husband to take her into the air. find a
drugstore and applv restoratives. She felt
too badly to go back for the rest of the per
formance. and they went home and had some
thing to eat. Then madame felt better. In
fact she felt so much letter that she wondered
how it was that she had been ill at all After
a long silence she said to her husband;
■ 1 have a confession-to make. I want to get
it off my mind, and 1 hope you won t think I
am silly But do you know why I didn't faint in
the opera house, and haven't done so since'"
"Why, my dear," said he. gently, "I sup
pose it was because you had strength of mind
enough to resist the feeling."
"Well, I did resist it.” said the lady, laugh
ing. "But the real reason was that I knew
there was a hole in the toe of my black silk
stocking."
Her husband chuckled as he told me this
story, and said that he couldn't imagine why
the mere fact that his wife might have
fainted justified her In thinking that any
body would take her shoes off. particularly
when he was on the spot. I don’t tell this
story as an encouragement to voung married
women to avoid the habit of knitting stock
ings. but really the longer you consider this
incident the funnier it seems. And this par
ticular woman, mark you. is a well known
novelist, an accomplished musician and a
progressive woman generally.
Not Going- Back.
A southern soldier, writing in the Bivouac,
says that when Grant’s army crossed the
Rappahannock, Lee’s veterans felt sure of
sending it back as -tattered and torn" as
ever it had been under the new general's
numerous {r.;dec?ssors.
After tde crossing, lue first prisoners I saw
were some caught b.v Mosby. Manv questions
were asked them by curious confederates.
What has become of your pontoon train'”’
said one such inquirer.
"We haven’t got any,” answered the pris
oner.
"How do you expect to get over the
river when you go back.”
"Oh," said the yankee, "we are not going
back. Grant says that all the men he sends
back can cross on a log. "
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There is said to be so little calf for alcho
holic liquors in Burlington. Vt„ that the drug
stores do not find it necessary to keep more
than a quart of whisky in stock, the quan
tity usually lasts auout six months.
Mrs. Daniels. Lamont. wife of the Secre
tary of war, was defeated last week tor re
election to the presidency of the Harlem
Philharmonic Club receiving only four of the
19C votes cast, it wasn't the tariff this time.
The objection seems to have been to Mrs.
Lamont s residence in Washington.
Field Marshal von Blumenthal. the only
surviving German marshal of the Franco-
Prussian war says he believes that war about
every thirty years, for some unfathomable
reason, seems to be indispensable, to "re-es
tablish the equilibrium necessary to the
progress and development of society.”
When Joseph was carried captive into
Egypt by the Arab traders, whose camels
were laden with "spices, balm and myrrh ”
says the Westminister Review, the rustic-
Hebrew found himself In the heart of a rich
and populous country filled with great
cities adorned with magnificent
buildings—a country governed by ancient and
equitable laws—having a venerable church
wealthily en lowed, and an enlight
ened priesthood; containing numer
ous colleges, chools and tesm
ing with the products of the known
world. Linen, glass, ornaments of silver and
gold, and teautiful examples of cabinet work
and objects of art and refinement, were of
home manufacture. Various gymnastic ex
ercises. and the games of fiia ights. ball,
mora. and other well-known modern amuse
ments were common at the same period.
'1 he army and navv were well equipped and
drilled, and furnished with powerful ma
chines and deadly weapons. Sculptors,
painters, and scnles abounded, and three
modes of writing were practiced. Musical
instruments xveie numerous, and consisted of
cymbals, trumpets, drums, harps, guitars,
lyres, flutes.pipes, and others, dhete were
banus of music, as with us. Yet Troy was
not built until about thres and a half ventu
res after. Two hundred years elapsed be
io.e Athens was founded, and a thousand he
fore Romulus laid the foundations of Rome;
Bfio t efore Hercules was l orn. and 1.2J0 before
Pythagoras wandered into Egypt and diank
from the fountains of ancient learning.
The construction of a bicycle intended for
the use by fire departments shows how a ve
hicle that it was supposed was ouly adapted
to sports can be applied to practical everyday
uses, says the Philadelphia Press. It has a
chemic; 1 engine and a light ax, instruments
that in many cases are all
that are needed to sut due a
tire if they are at hand in time. In some cities
of Europe a part of the fit e del ailment is a
swift horse s eddied and bridled with a i hem
ical apparatus for subduing fires and an ax
attached, and an expert rider ready to spring
on the horse's back the moment an alarm is
sounded and ride swiftly to the scene of the
tire. He can reach the fire some seconds or
minutes before the heavy lumlering fire en
gine can get there and often this saving
of time is of the greatest value and
the rider's services are all that are
needed In checking what otherwise
might become a disastrous conflagration.
This feature of the fire department is one of
the means by which so many fires in Europe
are confined to the loom or building in which
they start A bicycle bas advantages over the
horse for this kind of service, it can travel
as swiftly, is easier handled at the scene of
the lire, requires but little care and no food
and is especially adapted to small towns and
suburban districts Every second gained in
reaching a fire just beginning and applying
the remedies is of the utmost importance. J f
it is promptly extinguished it may save thou
sands if not millions of dollars' worth of prop
erly if the bicycle can be used in this wav it
will add one more element to its popularity.
The old method of demonstration by insur
rection is inconsistent with modern condi
tions, five Maxim guns and 5 000 Winchester
rifles being stronger than any amount of un
drilled and huddled men, and. besides, insur
rection would stop wages, which is precisely
what the hypothetical insurgents do not want
to do, says the Spectator. The picturesque
Roman device which was once imitated suc
cessfully in Russia—in the revolt for the blind
Czar Yury—and once successfully in India
in the revolt of Benares against the house
duty—ihe device of quitting a city en masse
and camping outside, could not be menaced
in our clima e and under our conditions.
The people could not be fed and watered
for more than twelve hours; they are ut
terly unaccustomed to darkness, and the
first sharp shower of rain would make them
miserable and inspire in half of them interior
of the light fevers they call "colds.” 'lhe
way our people iiy from the streets In rain
might, if witnessed by a foreigner, wholly de
stroy—quite erroneously—the impression of
their hardihood. Th ■ Oriental way of dem
onstiating. firing unused buildings—a vuy
still practiced in Constantinople—is botii
dangerous and wicked, and our demonstra
tors are exceedingly anxious to avoid creating
a danger for their city, or being wicked. In
deed. they are conventional up to a point:
tor, though a march of 50,000 unemployed
men without clothes would be exceedingly
impressive, there would be no need for the
police to put them down. The ascent work
men would do that with a certain savageness
and rapidity. The experiment is tried about
once a month in some casual ward or other,
and always ends in sackcloth, if not in sack
cloth and ashes.
The lobster does not range far south on our
Atlantic coast, says the Scientific American,
because it is sandy south of New Jersey, and
does not afford protection for them when in
the soft state, even if other conditions were
favorable. Large individuals are sometimes
taken on the coasts of Delaware and Mary
land, and they range as far north as Labra
dor. the best lobster grounds of the Atlantic
being Nova Scotia and Maine, l’hev were
formerly abundant in Long Island sound and
about New York harnor, but the pollution of
the waters, especially with sludge acid”
from the petroleum works, has driven them
away. This abominable stuff does not drift
far. but settles on the bottom, and. while it
may not disturb the shad and salmon, which
are migratory, it kills out all the oysters
eiams, mussels, snails and all those forms that
live on the bottom, including the lobster
and compels the fishes which seek food iii
those waters to gojelsewbere. The canning of
smalt lobsters in Maine may alte.t the pro
duct there, but the worst of all enemies is
man. Of all the destructive agents to animal
life of most kinds, man stands at the head: at
once the wisest and most ignorant of all ani
mals. His ignorant eis especially in contrast
with hts intelligent e when fie deals with
other creatures. And the lot sterman 'fs .an
instance; he wants to see lobsters plenty be
cause he finds a ready market for all he can
get. but when he raises a lofcster pot and finds
ihat two or three small lobsters of four or five
inches in length have ventured to eat the
whole or part of his bait, he is angry and
instead of returning them to the water
he smashes them on the bottom of hts boat'
As well might the farmer shoot his \ o ing
fowls for eating his grain. The lo.ster
will eat fish, clams, mussels, and other
animal food, fresh or stale, but in
the pots a fresh bait is more attractive and
the lobstermen use almost all kinds named
for bait, and could, with small expense, so
make the.r traps that, when a lobster en
tered the rot. it could not devour the lalt and
so afford to let the young go free if the larger
ones did not devour them in the pots 'i he
power of the lobster to retired ten leg or a
daw is well known. It is not done until the
next molt, when the new limb appears as a
very small model of the original, but after a
few changes of shell the claw is restored to
Its normal size and usefulness. The animal
can and does cast a claw when frightened
especially in cold weather, probably to satisfy
its captors with a portion instead of th
whole—a tub to the whale, as (t were '1 he
claw is.snapped off with a jerk, ns ir to sav ;
" 1 ake this and let me go.” The lobsterimin
never lifts the animal b.v Us claws for this
reason, but grasps it by the thorax, leaving
the large claws to hang ciowu or turn ud in a
vain attempt to pinch his hand.
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