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SATURDAY, APRIL 28. 1894.
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IBDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Special Notices —Liquor Licenses, F. F..
Retarer, Clerk of Council; Pair Spanish
Ponies. Harness and Carriages for Sale,
Appel & Schaul: Homes for the Homeless.
W. K. Wilkinson; Chickens. Estate S. W.
Branch: Fresh Fruits and Vegetables. Mu
tual Cos operative Association services at
New Church Next Sunday; Something Good,
J. .1. Joyce.
Remember Our Specials To-day—Appel
& Schaul.
Now Nr.c.LiciEE Shirts—B H. Levy & Bro.
C Us To-dat—Appel & Schaul.
Bit a Wall Trpnk—Neidlinger & Rabun.
. Steamship Schedules—Ocean Steamship
cheap column adve.rtirements—Help
.Wanted: Employment Wanted; For Rent;
For Sale; Lost; Personal: Miscellaneous.
The tramps and bums in Coxey’s army,
Jinlike the rose, would not smell sweet by
that or any other name.
• It is to be hoped that the Atlanta Jour
nal’s picture of the confederate monu
ment recently unveiled in that city is
grossly inaccurate. In the picture the
wounded lion's top lip looks as though it
had been stung by a million bees, the bot
tom lip has the contour of the stern of a
canal boat and the mouth is big enough to
.swallow the whole head. That is not the
kind of a lion the confederate lion was.
Here is an item of interest for those
silverites who are clamoring for the
actual coinage of more silver dollars to
be put into circulation: When the doors
of a silver vault containing 50,000.000
silver dollars, at the Philadelphia mint,
came to be opened the other day it was
found that the huge iron doors and bolts
of the vaults were so rusty that the doors
had to be forced open with a sledge and
chisel.
Among the first persons to open a free
whisky groggery in South Carolina after
the recent ruling of the supreme court
was Constable C. B. Swan, who had been
one of the most active of the dispensary
constables. It v.as Swan who made a
seizure that took the dispensary law
into the United States court on a
question of the state's right to seize prop
erty in the hands of a corporation under
a federal court receivership.
The Springfield (Mass.) Republican,
commenting on tho street railway rate
war in this city, savs: “The object of
the war is the usual one, to freeze out one
of the companies or force a consolidation,
and make the Savannah people pay divi
dends on a watered or unnecessarily large
capital.” The city ordinances are suffi
cient to protect the people against a
squeeze in the matter of fares; rates can
not be raised except with the consent of
council. Meanwhile the citizens are en
joying cheap rides to a certain extent.
President Cleveland is quoted by the
Baltimore Sun as having expressed him
self as very well satisfied with tho pros
pects of early action by the Senate upon
the tariff bill. He thinks the bill will be
passed earlier than has been generally
looked forward to, and bases his opinion
upon assurances given him by democratic
senators. Following Senator Blackburn’s
confident expression of a day or two ago,
this will have a reassuring effect upon
democrats who have begun to get impa
tient.
It is announced that a meeting of sugar
planters and those interested in the in
dustry will meet at New Orleans to-day
for the purpose of discussing the status
of sugar in the proposed tariff legislation.
If the Louisianians are wise they will not
hamper Senators Blanchard and Caffrey
with a request that they vote against the
Wilson bill if the sugar interests are not
granted what they want. The defeat of
the Wilson bill would not be a guarantee
that the bounty on sugar would be re
tained. On the other hand, the majority
of the democrats have made it pretty
clear that they mean the bounty must
go-
The “art” of which James J. Corbett,
of California, is the most able exponeut in
the world, is lawful and worthy of pro
motion. according to a Florida Jury. The
art of which Peter Paul Rubens, themost
celebrated painter of the Flemish school,
was master, is vulgar and obscene, ac
cording to the same eminent authority.
A Jacksonville picture dealer displayed a
reprint of Rubens’ "Judgment of Paris”
in his window. He was hauled up before
the court for it and convicted of exposing
indecent pictures for sale by a jurv that
never heard of Creek mythology and didn't
know there ever was any other Paris
than the capital of France, except that
one in Texas,where they sometimes lynch
people. The offense of which the picture
dealer has been convicted is a felony under
the Florida laws. The convicted man will
appeal. There's something wrong with
tile legal machinery that favors a prize
fight and condemns a high art picture.
Favorable Signs
There are signs that the Wilson bill
will soon be passed by the Senate. In
our Washington dispatches yesterday the
announcement was made that Senator
Sherman admitted that the bill would
pass the Senate, and Senator Jones, of
the finance committee, stated that the
committee had agreed upon such changes
in the bill as would give it a solid demo,
cratie support. The republicans are. ap
parently, beginning to see the useless
ness of continuing the tariff debate. Yn
our Washington dispatches this morning
it is stated that Seuator Aldrich, speak
ing for the republican senators, offered
yesterday to take a vote at once On the
bill as it came from the House, or as it
had been amended by the finance commit
tee. The democrats were not prepared to
accept the offer, but after consultation
they agreed to have a vote taken on the
bill, together with the amendments which
the finance committee intends to propose.
Senator Aldrich receded from his offer
on the ground that it had not been
promptly accepted. His purpose was
doubtless to find out whether or not the
democrats had reached such an agree
ment as would give the. bill the vote of
every democratic senator. When the
republicans find that the democrats are
united they will permit a vote to be
taken, because it would be folly, amount
ing almost to a crime, to keep the country
in suspense and delay business revival
when there no longer existed a chance for
defeating the bill. To delay the bill for the
mere sake of delaying it would put upon
the republicans much greater responsi
bility than they care to shoulder.
It is understood that the income tax
feature will remain in the bill, but that it
will be changed very considerably. It
will be made much less inquisitorial and
it will include incomes below 84,000. It is
also thought that it will be provided that
it shall not remain in operation more than
five years. Neither tiiese nor any other
-changes will make it a popular tax in the
east, but as changed it is thought it will
be acceptable to the congressmen of the
south and west who seem to think they
would stand a poor chance for re-election
if the tax were stricken from the bill.
Now that harmony among the demo
cratic senators is in sight, no time should
be lost in adjusting differences upon minor
matters. The quicker the bill is passed
and signed the better it will he for the
Democratic party. If business and indus
trial revival follows the passage of the
bill, and there is every reason to believe it
will, the dissatisfaction with the Demo
cratic party that has been cropping out
in different parts of the country recently
will disappear, and the party will have a
fair prospect of winning the next House
by a good working majority.
What to Do With the Coxeyitea.
Several suggestions as to what should
be done with the Coxeyites have appeared
in the public prints. The one that has
received the most attention is made by a
Chicago man, who thinks they ought to
be colonized in some part of the country
where land is cheap.
This suggestion Is not practicable.
The main reason it is not is that the
Coxeyites don’t want to be colonized.
They don’t want to work—at least the
great majority of them do not. At dif
ferent places in the west they have been
offered work by farmers and by contrac
tors, and in each instance they have de
clined to accept it. They see no reason
why they should work as long as they are
getting all they want to eat.
Many of them would, perhaps, accept
employment if they could get the kind of
work they are willing to do. They are
averse, however, to leaving the towns
and. living on farms. If the government
should offer to provide them with land
and the means sufficient to begin farming
in any one of the territories, not %per
cent, of them would accept the offer in
good faith.
In Holland those who have no visible
occupation and no means of support, are
put to work on farms, whether
they want to engage in that kind of
work or not, but there is no power
in this country to compel men to work
when they do not want to. It might be
good policy for the government to indorse
the bonds of the Nicaragua Canal Com
pany. on condition that the company
would furnish employment for all the un.
employed people in the country, provided
the unemployed could be induced to go to
Nicaragua and work on the canal. Some
would go, doubtless, but not enough to af
ford the desired relief. It is worthy of
notice that the great majority of the
Coxeyites are not native Americans. This
fact justifies the question whether the
time has not arrived for putting a stop to
the pauper immigration from Europe.
This country has about all tne dependent
people it can take care of. It has more
than it wants, and congress should revise
our immigration laws, and make them
more stringent.
Birds of a Feather.
Gov. Tillman asserts that he is a demo
crat of the rankest kind, and yet, accord
ing to the dispatches, the man who met
him at the traiu on his arrival in Bir
mingham the other day was Mr. Kolb,
the man who is the candidate of the pop
ulists. republicans and soreheads of Ala
bama for governor of that state. If Mr.
Kolb is a democrat then any man is a
democrat who chooses to call liimself oue,
whether he runs with the populists, votes
with the republicans or thinks the sore
heads the wisest men of their day and
generation. JVlr. Kolb is certainly not
recognized as a democratic leader in Ala
bama, and it is asserted, that at the last
national election the presidential electors
on the ticket he supported agreed to vote
for the republican presidential candi
date if the populist candidate had no
chance of being elected.
Mr. Oates and Mr. Johnson are the
men who are seeking the gubernatorial
nomination from the Democratic party in
Alabama. Mr. Kolb has been nominated
by some other party, and yet Gov. Till
man consorts with Mr. Kolb, and not with
either of the men who are seeking the
democratic nomination, nor with Gov.
Jones. Gov. Tillman will have to be care
ful, or else, notwithstanding all of his
protestations as to tne genuineness of his
democracy, ho will find himself outside
of the democratic wigw am just as Mr.
Kolb is.
A taxpayer iu Detroit has appeared be
fore the city council’s committee ou tax
values and asked for a reduction of his
assessment on the ground that a church
built next door to his property has depre
ciated its value. The citizen’s property
is probably a barroom.
THE MORNING NEWS: SATURDAY, APRIL 28, i894.
Cholera at Lisbon.
The epidemic of cholera at Lisbon does
not seem to cause much anxiety
and no announcement of special prepar
ations for preventing the disease
from getting a lodgment in this country
has been made. The epidemic is a serious
one. On Wednesday the number of new
cases reported was 124, and on Thursday
the number reported was 257. The rapid
increase in the number of cases is alarm
ing. As yet the death rate is low, but it
may reasonably be expected that it will
become higher as the disease progresses.
Lisbon is in close communication with
other European cities, and unless the
greatest caution is exercised the cholera
is likely to spread all over Europe.
Should it reach ports at which immi
grants embark for this country the
greatest vigilance would be necessary at
New York and some other ports.
One or two of the New York papers
are beginning to realize the danger to
the country from the Lisbon outbreak, and
they are asking why it is that the nomi
nation of a health officer for that port has
not yet been acted upon by the state
Senate. If the legislature of New York
should adjourn without confirming the
nomination that port would be left with
out a health officer at a time when one
the most urgently needed.
When cholera was in New York harbor
a couple of years ago, and the law permit
ting the landing of immigrants was sus
pended for thirty days, it was the very
general understanding that there would
be some legislation by congress that
would assist in protecting the country
against the introduction of infectious and
contagious diseases. As soon as the
danger was practically passed, however,
the matter was forgotten apparently.
The pow ers of the marine hospital ser
vice should be enlarged, so that it could
render the kind of service that is needed
in the event that assistance from it should
be required.
It is a rather remarkable fact that
congress seldom does anything in the line
of reform unless forced to by public senti
.ment.
Cholera must be kept out of this coun
try at any cost It can be kept out by
watchfulness and the proper use of sani
tary measures. Congress is neglecting
its duty in not clothing the marine hos
pital service with such powers as it should
have if the occasion for assistance from
it should arise.
Savannah a New Public Building.
Some weeks ago it was announced that
the treasury department was almost ready
to begin the work of constructing the
new public building in this city, and that
an advertisement asking for bids from
contractors would be published early in
May. It is now stated that the begin
ning of the work is likely to be delayed
for a considerable time.
We have been expecting and hoping
that the work would be undertaken before
the beginning of summer. The people of
this city have been promised time and
time again that there would be very
little further delay in the construction of
the building, and they have been very
patient about the matter. It
has been years since the
appropriation was made, and yet there is
nothing visible relativo to the buildings,
except the vacant site. Surely the gov
ernment cannot pretend that it has dealt
fairly with Savannah in this matter.
Would it not be advisable to get up a
petition to the Secretary of the Treasury
and the President protesting against
further delay, and asking that the work
be entered upon at once? In these hard
times the construction of the building
would be extremely helpful to the me
chanics of the city. It would afford some
of them work, and would stimulate build
ing. It would therefore be helpful in
many ways.
We have no doubt that Col. Lester
has exerted himself to the utmost to get
the treasury department to begin the
erection of the building immediately, and
that he will keep on trying, but the peo
ple here can help him by showing that
they feel that is not being
dealt with fairly and that they would ap
preciate it if the government should show
a greater desire to comply with their
wishes.
The Florida Citizen has a special from
Atlanta to the effect that a very lively
controversy is likely to occur at the
Southern Baptist convention, soon to con
vene at Dallas, Tex., between Editor J.
B. Cranflll. of the Texas Baptist Stand
ard, and Gov. Northern of Georgia, The
matter at issue, according to the special,
is the appointment of the Hon. Patrick
Walsh, a Catholic, to the Senate by Gov.
Northern a Baptist. Editor Cranfill, who
publishes the organ of the Baptist
church in Texas, and was in 1892 the
candidate for Vice President of the
United States on the prohibition ticket,
is said to he a member of the American
Protective Association. In a recent issue
of his-paper he assailed the governor in
vigorous terms, accusing him of being
“disloyal to the church of Jesus Christ,
and to American institutions as well,” in
making the appointment. On the
other hand, the Baptist organ of Atlanta,
and certain Baptist members of that city,
have spoken in the governor’s defense;
so Cranfill’s fight is not a church matter,
but a personal affair, in which he will Ret
left, Gov. Northen did perfectly right in
making his appointment without regard
to religious considerations, and the peo
ple of Georgia will uphold him iu it.
The rabbis of Boston are discussing
whether or hot the ancient custom of
men wearing their hats In the synagogues
shall be abandoned. Of late years many
; of the men have removed their hats on en
tering the synagogue. There is a signifi
cance about the custom that has pre
served it thus far, though in the northern
and eastern states a sentiment in favor
! of uncovered heads in the synagogues is
making itself manifest.
| Ex-Vice President Morton is going to
I establish a milk route in New York city,
j his stock-in-trade to be drawn from a
herd of pure-blooded Guernsey cattle up
the Hudson. The Emperor of Germany
| runs a milk route and a dairy at Berlin.
After this the old question, “what shall
we do with our ex-presidents need
never recur.
It is reported that Harry Hill, who is
now . serving the state at the (iress con
vict camp, wishes a pardon so that he
“may lead a useful and consecrated life."
There is an old quatrain about what Old
Nick thought when he was sick and how
he acted when he got well.
PERSONAL.
Eugene Murphy, of San Francisco, who j
died the other day in Paris, was the Marquis
de Murphy by a title c.nferredty the late
1 ope t lug IX. but he was never anything but
Eugene Mgrphy among his friends and ac
quaintance and liked this better than the
title.
7 he late M. Waddington left a very Import
ant collection of coins, which was begun by
h:s father, who assembled French coins only.
*°, n '‘kled rare oriental and ancient
. i? 9 ' H 1 * I’Yench government may be asked
tobuy the collection from the heirs for SIOO,-
In the museum of ivory collected by the
Princess Maud of Wales, are to bejotmd
treks of wild boars shot Shy the (Tzar of fhjs
s a and sent to enrich her collection, the
tusks of elephants shot by her tattler and
uncles, and the teeth of alligators, sharks,
walruses, seals, and iions.
Narcisse Nero, an Italian imprisonedfin
Kootenai county. Idaho, for burglary,.is s©
devoted to hi# prison life that when his sen
tence expired a few days ago he refused to go.
He says they will have to puthim out. and the
case m waiting the arrival of the attorney
general for a legal opinion In the matter.
Thomas W. Ludlow, who died at Ludlow
on-lhe-Hudson the other day, was a member
of the edftorial staff of the Century Dictlon
ar F from its Inception to its completion. He
had charge of the sub.net of archaeology and
art. He was deeply interested in the Ameri
oah School of Classical Studies at Athens,
and had served as its secretary from the time
of us founiiatian in 1882.
Michael Boiapd. who is said to have formed
with Patrick Egan and Alexander Sullivan.
* Aa'Gttel triumvirate that had power
2; !> fe *?.“ over members of that order,
died on Monday at Kansas City, where he was
a . * al , P racl Uioner. Judge Boland would
never either affirm or deny the .charges made
during the {afgoux riionin murder excitement
concerning the than na-Gaol and his connec
tion with it.
( apt. Samuel C. Reid whd commanded the
American brig General Armstrong in the war
of 1812, and now rests in an unmarked grave
in Greenwood cemetery. New York is likely
to have a monument. To Capl. Reid has
been ascribed the honor of designing the
present Amurican flag. From Mav 1. 1795,
shortly after Vermont and Kentucky were ad
mitted into the union, until 1818, when there
were twenty states, the flat had fifteen
stripes and the same number of stars. A
committee having the matter in ebarge turned
the question of revision over to Capt. Keid,
and his design reducing the stripes into the
original thirteen and adding it star for v,
new state admitted, was adopted. Congress
man William J Coombs, of the Fourth con
gress district of New York, has introduced a
measure asking congress to erect the monu
ment.
bright bits.
Guest— cn I get a course dinner here?
Green Waiter—No. sah: we only has fine
dinnahs heah, sah.—Detroit Free Press.
Johnny—What made you run away from
Bill Slathers!- You was afraid of him. that’s
what’s the matter.
Tommy—No, I wasn’t, neither' If we rt
fought. I’d a licked him. and then my ma and a
licked me. That's what I ran away for, so
Boston Transcript
In Brooklyn town a trolley car
ißelieve this if you cam
Once made a journey from afar
And did not kill a man.
You may not think it, but ft's so,
My pen s not running wild:
It did not kill a man Oh.no!
It killed a little child.
Worse Than That—Visitor (in Washington!
—hat a noble pile your capitol building is'
How majestic, how but what is thf occasion
of that frantic rush of men down the sleps
Can there he an alarm of lire on the inside'
Old Resident—l think not. From the way
they are tumbling over each other to get out
I judge Senator Peffer has risen to speak.—
Chicago Tribune.
Familia to Americans.—Boy—What does
feudal mean':
'I eaoher—Under the old fuedal system, one
man had authority over a whole community
appointing bis faiorites to rule over the peo
ple, and levying tribute on all citizens when
ever he pleased. Do you understand:
Boy—Yes in. He was a boss —Street &
Smith's Good News.
Little Dot—My kitten is sick, and I
have been trying ever so hard to make her
take her medicine, but she won’t touch it.
Mother—Of course not Cats never take
medicine when they are sick.
Little Dot -Why, isn’t that queer? I never
would have thought that a little bit of a kitten
would trust io the faith cure.—Street &
Smith’s Good News.
The Inquisitive One—Would it be a betrayal
of an office secret to tell me how you select
your pjems?
Magazine Editor—l guess 1 mav tell you. We
first submit them to the janitor, and from
him they are passed on up through the various
grades of employes till they reach the editor
in-chief. If the poem is of such character
that any one of the censors understands it. it
is rejected.— Indianapolis Journal.
First Speculator—l have some valuable
land in anew suburban place, which will tie
worth a fortune as soon as the branch rail
road and trolley line reach it. Have you any
thing to offer in exchange?
Second Speculator—l can give you a city
dwelling close to the elevated railroad. It
will be a charming place of residence as soon
as the engines and cars are furnished with
pneumatic tires.—New York Weekly.
CURRENT COMMENT.
Not the Same Breckinridge.
From the Springfield Republican (Ind.l.
The story that Congressman Breckinridge
was prominent as an antagonist of Dr.
Briggs at the meeting of the Presbyterian
general assembly is revived again, 'there
was a Breckinridge who strongly opposed Dr.
Briggs at the meeting of the general assembly
at Portland. Or., but it was Judge Samuel
Breckinridge, of Kentucky, a cousin of the
congressman, and unlike the lat;er. a man of
unusually spotless life and of the highest
character. When Judge Breckinridge had
finished bis earnest reply to Dr. BiDgs he
fell to the floor insensible, and died before he
could be carried from the hall.
Southwest Georgia Not Enthused.
From the Albany <Ga.i Herald (Dem.).
We don’t know how it Is in other sections
of the state, but the Herald does know a
thing or two aLout the politics of Southwest
Georgia, and we do not hesitate to give it as
our candid opinion that in the present guber
natorial campaign the Second congressional
district, or a majority of the counties com
posing it are very uncertain as between Gen
Evans and C 01. Atkinson. There is an utter
lack of enthusiasm for either of these gentle
men, and the one who does the most work or
the test work between now and Jply will get
the delegates to the democratic convention
That spontaneous uprising’’ which brought
out Gen. Evans in midwinter never reached
j this neck of the woods, and the tall states
man from Coweta comes into this part of the
field on Bn equal footing with him.
A Pclitical Possibility.
From Charleston News and Courier iDem ).
It is said in a dispatch to the Columbia
State that when Gov. Tillman arrived at
Birmingham he was met at the depot ty the
Hon. Reuben F\ Kolb, the populist candidate
for governor of Alabama, and that when Mr.
Kolb introduced himself to Gov. Tillman the
latter remarked: "We have heard of each
other before." to which Mr. Kolb replied.
I Yes, and they will hear of us again, yet."
Gov. Tillman is said to have given an affirm
ative response to Mr. Kolb s prophecy of
future notoriety. It is further said that many
j of Mr. Kolb's adherents in Alabama would
like to see Gov. Tillman and Mr. Kolb nom
inated on their national ticket. We would
also like to see this. With Tillman for Pres
ident and Kolb for Vice President -we Insist
that Gov. Tillman shall have the first place
on the ticket-the populists would sweep
South Carolina and a part of Alabama.
Some Pension Curiosities.
From the Baltimore Sun (Dem I.
It is stated as a curious fact that there are
now. nearly thirty j ears after the civil w ar.
300.000 mere persons gening pensions than
there were troops In the field on the union
side at anv single time during the War. Yet
there are 700,000 applications for pensions yet
to to acted upon! In June. lSi'3. the pension
roll had 168.012 names, and 711.150 claims were
pending The outgo for pensions was #l5B,
155.342. a figure which exceeds all the pen
sions paid by all the nations in the world for
all their wars. We pay” twice as much as
all put together. In fact, if we capitalize our
pension payments we find that we are in
effect paying interest on a bonded debt equal
to the true valuation of all the property in the
seieded states iu 1861. which was some 2>.U01l
oO;Hk> '1 he war cost some fl.Olu.UOO.tlOO:
pensions since have cost 21,500.000,(00 it
would have been economical to have settled
the difference of 1861 on a cash basis.
A Story Told by the President.
"A curious thing about political oratory
and. wit is the. side light I got upon one as
pect of it year* ago ih Buffalo. ” Thus Mr.
Cleveland is quoted by a correspondent of
the 4 Incinnutl Commercial. *"One morning a
quaint looking old chap came into my office
and said that fee had read’in the newspapiers
that 1 was to speak at a mass meeting the
following night and wanted to know If it was
true When 1 told him that it was so he re
vealed to me anew method of gaining orator
ical distinction. He volunteered to interrupt
my speech at stated intervals with a remark
that should be agreed upon between us. To
this interjection 1 was to retort wittily, and
thus as the old fellow pointed out. I would
acquire a reputation as a witty spieaker. My
first impression was that he was amusing
himself at my expense, hot he repeated to
me several things I could reply to
wittily. and wanted me to pay
him roundly for helping me to a
reputation. But 1 told him I was indifferent
to that kind of fame, and he went away dis
appointed Not very long after that 1 was
seated on a stage listening to a speaker when
who should arise In the audience but my
quaint visitor and bawl out one of the very
things he wanted me to pay him for inter
rupting me with, the orator answeiel him
with the same retort that X was offered the
privilege of making, and the audience ex
ploded into laughter and I heartily joined in.
but my amusement had not the same founda
tion. I fancy as thatof the rest of the laugh
ers. And during the rest of the evening the
old fellow made an occasional Interruption
from different pans of the house, and the re
torts were all of the same manufactured
sort. I am a trifle skeptical now on the sub
ject of wittv retorts.’’
Getting a Pointer.
A long-legged young countryman, with his
trousers three inches from his boots, and his
boots three mUes from a shine, passed into
the office where marriage licenses are kept
on tap. with a basket on his arm, says the
Detroit Free Press.
"Good mornin’. he said to the clerk, "can
I git a marriage license here?"
"This is the place.” replied the clerk
Well. .I’ve got six dozen eggs in this here
basket; can I get one for them?’’
Hardly. I guess."
• Well, I don t know nothin’ about the price
of eggs nor marriage licenses, but I’m willin'
to put up the eggs fer the liesnse, sight un
seen."
"Can tdo it," said the clerk. “We are not
in the business of trading marriage licenses
for eggs. '
•They're fresh, ’ suggested the applicant in
a half pleading tone.
"So is the license." argued the clerk.
"What’s one wutb?” asked the youth, going
off on another took.
A dollar. .
"What’s eggs wuth?”
‘Seventeen cents a dozen Why don’t you
go and sell your eggs'and come back here
with the money?"
The egg vender picked up a pen and a piece
of paper and began figuring
*B,v croc key." he said after a minute or
two. "that’s what I'll do. Them eggs is worth
|l .02 and I’ll have enough left after payin’
ier the license to get a postage stamp and
write to Susan to let her know the weddin'
needn't be postponed owin’ to circumstances
over which 1 hadn't no control." and he
hurried buoyantly out of the office with the
eggs fairly jmgltngin the basket.
He Was Not a Stranger.
"Is pose I’ll have to go and get somebody to
identify me before you’ll cash this check."
said the man at the, bank cashier s window
dolefully, and I’m a stranger in this town.
There ain't a soul here that knows me."
"Your name. " replied the cashier, after a
moment s inspection of his caller, according
to the Cnicago Tribune, "is Ambrose Hayben
slaw "
That's rightexclaimed the other In sur
prise. "How do you know my name?'
' You were cured of nervous exhaustion and'
kidney disease of eleven year's standing,” was
the reply, "by taking fourteen bottles of
Blankham s Sarsaparilla, price a I ottle,
sold by all druggists, none genuine without
the name of the manufacturer in raised lette . s
on the l ottle," continued the cashier, raising
his voice and speaking with growing irrita
tion "and a cure guaranteed in ail cases
where taken according to directions or money
cheerfully refunded; hand over your check
and be quick about it, fifty dollars, all light,
here's your money, and I'll give vou ten dol
lars more ft you'll find some way to get the
publishers of the Advocate of Gospel LLerty,
that I’ve been taking for the last twenty-live
years, to quit printing your portrait in their
advertising columns. I've seen it every week
for sixteen months and I'm tired to death of
it. and if you haven't uny further business
you can take your money and go; good after
noon!’’
Sw nging- Song.
William S. Lord in Chicago Record,
A hammock gently swinging.
A mother bends above.
She to her babe is singing
With heart all full of love.
The little maiden swaying
Beneath the greenwood tree
Has set her heart to spying:
"Love me as I love thee.”
So swaying, swinging slowly
Her loved one to and fro.
Her heart with rapture holy
Out to her I abe doth go.
And while her thoughts are straying
Among the days to be
Her heart is ever saving:
"Love me as I love thee.”
Another hammock swinging,
A lover bends above,
He to his sweetheart singing
With heart all full ot love.
The lovely maiden swaying
Beneath the greenwood tree
Has set his heart to saying;
"Love me as I love thee."
So swaying, swinging slowly
His loved one to and fro.
His heart with rapture holy
Out to his love doth go.
And while hts thoughts arc straying
Among the days to be
His heart is ever saying:
"Love me as I love thee.”
A Sudden Drop.
“I see,” said the grocer, thoughtlessly, for
he had forgotten that the man wjth the ginger
beard was sitting behind the stove. "I see
that ihe temperature dropped twenty de
grees in fifteen minutes in Texas the other
day."
"I don't call that nothing,” i .id the man
with the ginger beard, according to the In
rilanapolis Journal, "i remember when thev
was a party of us campin’ up in the Black
Hills that the temperature drapped so sud
den that one of the mules in the outfit, which
was in the act of kickin', was caught an’
froze that way. an’ stood with its heels fn the
air two days. We had a thermometer, hut
the cussed thing went back on us. so I can't
ezzactly say jist how much of a drap it was."
Oh. yes." said the school teacher, it Is a
wqll-known fact that at a temperature of
ahout forty degrees,beiow zero the mercury
freezes, and. hence, cannot register."
o "That wasn't tt at all. young man," said the
man with the ginger beard, with hne scorn.
• The drun mercury drapped so quick that ihe
friction made it red hot, and busted the
glass.”
A Typical Chicago Story.
Bailiff Vogel, a Chicago police station
official, remarked to Dora Donegan, a skilful
thief, who was on her way to jail. "You are a
pretty clever thief. Dora, but if all men were
as hard to rob as I. you would have to do
something else for a living.” 'O, some day
someone will fool you. too." replied Dora,
boon afterward Vogel's diamond pin was
missing, and while they were looking for it
the Donegan woman said: "Have you found
your pin?" "No." said Vogel, Here It is."
she said, and le more careful next time
when you brag about yourself. I just wanted
to show you that you would be an easy mark,"
and she went away laughing.
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Perhaps the much discussed Russian thistle
will go the way of the Sodom apple, says the
New York Sun. This latter was twenty-five
or thirty years ago and earlier the terror of
farmers 100 miles south of New * ork, but it
cuts no great liguie now. It is a low. hand
some plant with share thorns and small
round fruit that when ripe looks Use a tiny
orange. English folks sometimes brought it
over as an ornamental plant, but were
speedily induced to destroy it when they
came into a region where it was known.
There was a strong belief that the farm upon
which the Sodom apple appeared was well
nigh doomed.
Occasionally the assertion Is heard that the
healthiest of all occupations is that of sewer
scavenging, says the San Franoisco Call.
In large cities, the men in spite of their filthy
work, are proverbially healthy. Mr. Laws, a
chemist who has been employed in special
investigations in the sewers by the London
city council, has proved in a huge roport; that
sewer gas is all but innocent of distributing
bacteria of any kind, and certainly not those
which are pathogenic The sewage contains
microbes of various kinds in abundance, but
the ,gas itseif is much freer from these
dreaded organisms than the outer
air of the street. Of all this he gives most
convincing proof, and so challenges the the
ories which lay to the account of sewer gas a
train of horrible ravages on health. This is
a startling revelation and suggests that fresh
inquiry is needed into the real causes of so
much illness traceable to drains and foul
odors.
A smoking match was given two weeks ago
by the Giftnudel Smoking Club in its rooms
in Manteuffel street, Berlin. The prize was a
solid silver cigar case and 200 cigars. The en
trance fee was sl. and the conditions were
that the contestants should smoke only the
cigars provided al the expense of the club,
and should remain in plain view of the referee
as long as they were competing for the prize
—no contestant being allowed to take food,
drink, or medicine during the match. The
prize was to be given to the contestant who
smoked down to one-inch butts the
largest numter of cigars in two
hours. There were seventeen entries.
Herr Kopf, who smoked without pause
from start to finish, was declared winner. He
reduced ten large cigars to ashes in the al
lotted time, while his closest comp-tltor
smoked but seven and a half. At the end of
the first hour ten smokers retired from the
match and left the room None of them re
turned. Of the seven others three were pale
and perspiring profusely when the referee
called "time.” Knopf felt well and professed
his willingness to negin another two hour
match, but his challenge found no takers. He
says that he is ready to smoke against any
body in Berlin for 500 cigars a side, the
length of the contest to be fixed by mutual
consent between one and a half and five
hours.
President J. R. McCoy, head of the govern
ment of Pitcairn Island, recently paid a visit
to California for the purpose, as he expressed
it. of "expanding his mind." Mr. McCoy is
the great grandson of one of the mutineers of
the Bounty who first located on Pitcairn
island in ihe eighteenth century. The or
iginal McCoy was a leader among the sa’lors
of that famous British ship. Pitcairn is a
pleasant little island just south of the tropi
cal line in the Pacific ocean and is under
British protection. Up to two years ago, ac
cording lo Mr. McCoy, the island was gov
erned by a chief magistrate and two council
ors, but a warship arrived from England bear
ing a suggestion from the home authorities
that the island government be Changed so as to
provide for a president and a local pariia
ment of seven members. After some con
sideration this p’an was adopted aal Mr.
McCoy was elected president, r-uch a thing
as an overcoat is absolutely unknown in Pit
cairn, the climate of which is so mi and that a
pair ot trousers and a shirt co..sTtute all the
covering made necessary by weather. The
island is about five miles around, the highest
point of land being l.ico feet above the level
of the sea. On this little dot on a vast ocean
reside 14U descendants of the mutineers, all
natives of the island. At long intervals hur
ri, anes sweep over the place, demolishing
most of the buildings, and o casionally they
have a dry season which results disastrously
to their cocoanut trees, which furnish the
staple product of the island. There is very
little money among the neople. their supplies
being outaineX in exchange for what they
grow. Except that the life is monotonous in
the extreme, says Mr. McCoy, the inhabi
tants are contented and happy.
"This has been the gabbiest congress in my
experience, extending over a quarter of a cen
tury,” remarked one of the veteran sten
ographers at the capitol. to a writer for the
Washington Post, "and figures compiled by a
member of the reportorial corps will fully
corroborate this assertion. Increase of work
for the reporters has been enormous in late
years, and the famous talk congress, as the
forty-third was denominated, has been
eclipsed already in volume of words by the
extra and first sessions thus far of the F ifty
third congress. During the Forty-third con
gress the total number of pages of the House
and Senate proceedings printed in the Con
gressional Record was only 7.728. as compared
with 7.297 pages of the F’ifty ihird congress
up to the 1 tth of last month. There are two
columns on each page of the Record, and each
column contains 1.200 words, so that It will be
readily understood how much gab has
been indulged in by the representa
tives of the sovereign people. In other
words, during the extra session of congress
which convened Aug. 7. 189;’, and up to March
11. 1894, upward of 17.5 )0.003 words have been
uttered on the floors of the two houses of the
national legislature. Owing to the frequent
roll-calls and the obstacles thrown in the
path of progress during the month which has
elapsed since March 11. there has been a de
crease in the volume of wind on the House
side of the capitol, hut the tariif speeches in
the Senate will keep up the average pretty
well. In the Fifty-first congress the total
numter of pages in the Record was 16.798, but
in March of that congress only 2.138 pages
had been covered, about one-third of the
number already credited to the F’ifty-third
congress, and the end is not yet in sight. It
is pretty safe to estimate, however, that up
to the middle of April there have been uttered
more than 20,0uu,000 of words in the debates
of congress.”
The development of aluminium for the con
struction of light boats, of which two were
made for the Wellman Arctic expedition in
Baltimore, will lead to further Investigations
by the navy department of the advisability of
adopting it in the naval service where iron
steel and heavier metals are now used savs’
a Washington dispatch The two boats built
for Wellman were each eighteen feet in length
and with all appurtenances weighed only 335
pounds. The navy department became Im
pressed with the probable value of the light
metal for naval purposes, and directed an in
vestigation of it hy an officer of the construc
tion corps who has just submitted his report
to Mr. Herbert. The report finds that alumin
ium can be used for small toais and steam
launches, under certain conditions of service,
and recommends that a boat be made for tests
in actual service. The test made of the
Wellman boats showed that by
placing three men aboard, one forward
and one aft and the other amid
ships. the heel of the boat was very su*jji.
showing that they were unusually stiff ami
possessed great stability. The carrying ca
pacity of ihe boats was tested by placing
eighteen sand hags, weighing 3.333 pounds
and seven men weighing 1.128 pounds, and
with this total weight of 4.461 pounds the
freeboard amidships was reduced to only 4',
inches. Examinations showed that the gen
eral stiffness and strength of the boat was
ample, and the sides were well braced and
stanch. The report also finds that it is pos
sible to build boats of aluminium of ample
strength and of less weight ih in wo dirt boats
of the same size. The belief is expressed
however, that boats constructed of this ma
terial are liable to be damaged when collid
ing with sharp projections or piers, but it is
not thought that the damage would I e any
more serious In the long run than wooden
boats would be subjected to.
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