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THIS ISSUE
CONTAINS
SIXTEEN PACES
INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Meetings— Teutonia Lodge No. 7, K. of P.;
DuGuesclin Division No, 1, K. of P ; Teu
tonia Division No. 3, IT. R, K. of P.; Confed
erate Veterans Association; German
Friendly Society.
Special Notices— Fine Top Buggies and
Phaetons. H H Cohen; Steamboat City of
Brunswick at Receiver's Sale, Frank D.
Aiken, Receiver; Notice, .lohn Gill; The
Wiley Patent Safety Oil Cabinet, Henry
Solomon* Son; City Lots. The Title Guaran
tee and Loan Company: Established Head
quarters. Southern Home Building and Loan
Association; School Rooks, J. Gardner;
Galvanized Iron Cornices, Etc., E. C. Pacetti;
B. A. Vinearsky, Shoemaker, Removed;
Base Ball Infirmary, Faust and
Premium Pale Heer, Jack Carr;
Andy Jackson's, Old Headquarters for An
heuser Busch Beer; The Gaiety and Premium
Pale Beer, Phil Fitzpatrick: The Pearson
and the Premium Pale Beer; Premium Pale
Beer, J. W. Seay, Georgia Pine Bar; The
Premium Pale Beer at Ponce de Leon; The
Best Time to Buy is When Everybody Wants
to sell. W. K. Wilkinson, Auctioneer; Splen
did Stand for Dry Goods Cheap, W. K. Wil
kinson, Auctioneer; Notice of Grocers.
Military Orders —German Volunteers:
Order No. 6, Republican Blue*.
Railroad Schedule— Florida Central and
Peninsular Railroad Company.
Our Entire Stock—Meyer & Walsh.
An Art Exhibition— At Wake Held'*.
W ant Shoes —E. 1. Okarma.
We Have Bought— B. H. Levy & Bro.
Great Stock Taking Sale— Eckstein's.
We Are Now Showing— Jas. Douglas*.
Absorb Levy's Ad—On Page 6.
Star Shirt Waists and Negligee
Shirts— Appel & Schaul.
Tempting Price News— Foye & Morrison,
Refrigerators, Ice Cherts, Etc.—Emil
A. Schwarz.
Old Hickory and Milburn Farm and
Turpentine Wagons—H. H Cohen.
Millinery—E. N. Lawler.
Here's Something for the Ladies—
Byck Bros.
AMUSEMENTS— Mr. and Mrs. John Drew at
the Theater May 1 and 2; Prof. Black'* An
nual May Ball May 1.
Buy Your Goods— At Gutman's.
Stock Must be Closed Out— l. Levko
wicz.
Millinery Reductions—Leopold Adler.
Bean Cakiuers—Fawcett Bros.
Prices Tell— Ludden & Hates S. M. H.
Auction Sales— Elegant Household Fur
niture, by C. H, Dorsett.
Base Ball and Bat—Oppenheimer, Sloat
k Cos.
Educational —Georgia Business College
to Remove to Postoffice Building.
Cheap Column Advertisements—Help
Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Rent;
For Sale; Lost: Personal; Miscellaneous.
The next time Senator Aldrich attempts
to make a bluff he will be sure that he is
able to play something else than the
deuce.
Where is Col. W. W. Dudley these days?
Couldn’t he come along with a little
scheme to take care of the Coxey army
“in blocks of live” for the good of his
country !
The congress that passed the McKinley
law adjourned the first week in October.
The congress that discussed but failed to
pass the Mills bill adjourned Oct. 30. The
prospects now are that the congress that
will pass the Wilson bill will finish its
•work long before either September, or Au
gust, and that by October we will be liv
ing under the first democratic tariff law
aince the war.
The colossal bronze statue for the con
federate soldiers and sailors’ monument
that is to be set up at Richmond, Va., on
May 10. has been completed. The statue
was designed by a Richmond sculptor.
The figure weighs three tons, is sixteen
feet high, and represents a typical south
ern soldier, with blanket and canteen,
resting his musket on a stump beside
which he stands. The figure is to sur
mount a granite column, which is to be a
copy of Pompey's pillar at Alexandria,
Egypt, and the completed monument is to
be eighty-five feet high. The cost of the
statue is $60,000, and the amount was
raised by popular subscriptions in Vir
ginia.
Lewelling, the populist governor of
Kansas, has been repudiated by <he labor
element of the state. The Kansas State
J* ederation of Labor has issued an ad
dress condemning Lewelling for putting
into the office of labor commissioner a
“mere political striker," who seems to
conceive it "his duty to be a calamity
shrieker.” This was called out by the
recent report of the labor commissioner
to the effect that farming in Kansas was
always at a loss. The federation further
says the administration of Lewelling has
been "calculated to repel immigration
and discourage tho investment of capital
in the state," and it pledges itself to use
its votes and influence “to prevent the
renomiuatlon and election of L. D Lew
elling.'’
Stralghtout Democrats.
The democrats of Ware and Clinch
i counties, who at mass meetings adopted
i resolutions recently indorsing the ad
ministration, are straightout democrats.
; They are well acquainted with the na
tional democratic platform, and know
that the administration has not departed
in the least from the principles laid down
therein. Their action may not give satis
faction to those democrats who appear to
tind the populist platform more to their
liking than the platform of the
democracy.
All the differences there are among
democrats arise from two things -namely',
silver and the income tax. There are
democrats who are clamoring for the free
coinago of silver and the income tax. The
democratic platform calls for neither of
these things. The platform of the popu
lists calls for both.
Democrats may favor one or both
of these things, if they so desire,
without losing their standing as demo
crats, but they cannot claim that these
things are party measures, because they
are not. The democratic platform makes
no mention of an income tax nor does it
commit the party to the free coinage of
silver. It does favor the free coinage of
silver provided silver currency is kept on
a parity with gold currency. In other
words, the democratic platform is
squarely and unequivocally in favor of
souud money. The platform of the popu
lists is not, because it does not require
that the silver dollar shall be so sus
tained that it will have the same pur
chasing power as the gold dollar.
The administration’s course in respect
to silver is in entire harmony with dem
ocratic doctrines. The President would
approve financial legislation making the
coinage of silver free if such legislation
were of a character to make it reason
ably certain that silver and gold would
not part company.
The silverites, however, do not want
legislation that would keep silver at par
with gold. The Bland committee has re
fused to report the bill of Representative
Meyer, of Louisiana, which authorizes the
sale of bonds for gold if it should become
apparent that the treasury needed gold
to keep silver from becoming a debased
currency, and yet the Meyer bill is in
strict accordance with the national dem
ocratic platform.
The democrats of Ware and Clinch
counties have shown that they under
stand the financial question and the
utterance of the democratic platform on
that question. Their action is likely to
have a good effect in counties in which
the democratic doctrine in respect to
silver does not appear to be so well un
derstood.
Grand Jury Presentment*.
The question, whether the present
ments of grand Juries relative to county
affairs rere ive the attention they are en
itled to from the authorities, is not in
freqently asked. These presentments
cost the county considerable money in
the course of a year. Kach grand jury
of the superior and city courts, through
their respective committees, investigate
the convict camps, the jail, the condition
of the public records, the drainage work
and the roads and bridges. They criti
cise whatever they find that deserves
criticism, and they make such recom
mendations as seem to them to be wise.
Are their criticisms heeded and their
suggestions adopted * That is a question
that every citizen, who gives the atten
tion he ought to public matters can an
swer.
The last presentment of the grand jury
of the city court, a synopsis of which was
published by the Morning News yester
day, contains some statements in respect
to the convicts that ought to receive the
attention of the county commissioners at
once. These charges, briefly, are that
the convicts are not supplied with proper
food, that their bedding is filthy, that the
supply of water, while good in quality, is
insufficient in quantity, and that in one
of the camps sanitary conditions exists
that are not conducive to health.
All of the things of which complaint is
made could be remedied without any
great additional cost to the county. It
seems to us that they are the result of
carelessness of those who are in immedi
ate charge of the convicts, aud not of in
tentional neglect of the authorities. It
is evident, however, that it is necessary
for the authorities to keep a close watch
upon the convict camps. The money that
is spent in supporting the convicts is suf
ficient to meet all the reasonable wants of
persons in their position. It is the wish
of the people that the convicts shall have
wholesome food, clean beds, plenty of
water and that their camps shall be kept
in a sanitary condition. The grand jury
does not seem to think they have these
things. The county authorities should
find out at once who is responsible for
their lack of them, and should make such
reforms as will leave future grand juries
no ground for making charges.
The New York legislature has refused
to confirm Dr. Jenkins, who so success
fully fought the cholera last year, as
health officer of the port of New York.
Steerage passenger rates between New
York and Liverpool have been still
further reduced, from sl(s to $9; the old
rate was $25. There is well-developed
and virulent Asiatic cholera at Lisbon
and Madrid, which ports are in almost as
direct connection with Liverpool as Liver
pool is with New York. These facts, taken
together, are of interest to the country at
large. The New York legislature is re
publican and refused to confirm Dr. Jen
kins because the republicans hope to elect
a governor the coming fall and want Jen
kins’ office as spoils—a pretty good illus
tration of republican principles.
Tho towns and villages of Wisconsin
and lowa have come to look upon the
Coxey craze as rather more of a good
thing than otherwise, inasmuch as it af
fords them an expedient by which to get
rid of tramps. Whenever half a dozen or
more hoboes are found around a town an
‘‘organizer.” who is usually a solid citizen
in disguise, goes among them, organizes a
Coxey company, or regiment, or whatever
else they may please to be called, and
starts them off toward Washington. Tho
village of Wauwatosa, Wis., held a jubi
lee the other day upon having cleared out
all the tramps by this means. It's fun
for the northwest, but serious business
for Washington.
Senator Stewart, of Nevada, appears to
be the nearest approach to a free lance
that there is in the Senate. There is no
telling whom, where or what he will
strike next.
THE MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY, APRIL 29, i894.
Women Battling for the Ballot-
An extraordinary movement is being
conducted by prominent women of New
York. It is a movement in behalf of the
ballot for women of that state. A consti
tutional convention will assemble at Al
bany next Tuesday, and the effort of the
women is to have the word "male” left
out of the new organic law that will he
framed by that body, thus extending the
elective franchise to women.
The movement is being conducted with
great earnestness and skill. The purpose
is to send a petition, containing 1,000,C00
signatures, to the convention asking that
women be given the right to vote. Meet
ings are being held, speeches made, litera
ture on the question at issue is circulated,
and every other method likely to affect
public sentiment is being adopted to ac
complish the object the women have in
view.
The women engaged in this movement
are among the most prominent in the
state. They are the wives and daughters
of the millionaires, leading lawyers,
preachers, teachers and business men.
They have secured to their petitions the
names of many of the best known men.
Not all the women want the right to
vote, however. A counter movement has
been started by women who think that it
is better for the community that women
devote their energies to the more efficient
performance of their present work than
to divert them to new fields of activity.
These opponents of woman suffrage are
also active in getting up petitions. The
agitation is being conducted with so
much enthusiasm and energy that men
are given little peace until they sign the
petition of one or the other of the fac
tions.
There is a chance that those seeking
suffrage will be successful. There has
been a most remarkable change of senti
ment in respect to this matter in recent
years. Avery large percentage of women
are now property holders and tax payers,
and it would seem as if it were but just
that they should have a voice in choosing
those who levy and disburse the taxes.
Besides, there is a growing tendency
among women to be more independent.
They are entering the professions and all
the various occupations of life, and they
are meetiug with great success. Not so
much as they once did are they looking
forward to marriage for settlement in
life.
In about half of the states and terri
tories women have the suffrage now to a
greater or less extent, and in Wyoming
they vote at all the elections. The ex
perience in that state is that women are
none the less domestic in their habits be
cause of their right to vote.
If women should be given the elective
franchise in New York it would not be
long before they would have it in about
all the other states, particularly if it
should prove to be productive of good re
sults. But would it likely be productive
of good results in large cities? No satis
factory answer can be given to that ques
tion. The women who are opposing suf
frage for their sex may be far wiser than
those who are demanding it.
Ooncerns all the Smiths.
A suggestion of the first magnitude that
has the attention of the Atlanta Journal,
the Hon. Hoke Smith’s newspaper, is the
building of a great Smith House at At
lanta and the formation of all the mem
bers of tho Smith family, wherever they
may reside, into one stupendous club.
Capt. Jack Smith is the originator of the
scheme, and proposes to donate a 110,000
building site and pay the dues of at least
one hundred Smiths who may not be able
to foot the bills themselves.
* From what we have been able to gather
concerning the scheme of the club, it is
to be founded on the solid rock of pure
democracy. The club is to be of the
Smiths, for the Smiths and by the Smiths.
The majority is to govern in all things,
and the only qualification necessary to
membership and all the privileges of the
institution will be the name of Smith and
a fee of sl. The Smythes, and Schmids,
and Schmitts, and all others the spelling
of whose Smith varies from the recog
nised standard because of the require
rnents of the language of their nationality,
will be admitted to the fraternal union.
The Johns, and Jameses, and Wiliams
may be classified into various sub-divis
ions in future, but the present purpose is
to amalgamate those who are Smiths by
blood or affinity for social and other pur
poses of a mutually beneficent character.
The Smith House, as we understand
it, is to contain all the comforts of home
all the advantages of a club and all the
conveniences of the hotel. It is to con
tain a ball-room for the Smiths who
dance, a music room for the Smiths who
sing, a chapel for the Smiths who are
disposed toward ecclesiastics, a bar for
the bibulous Smiths, a library for the
hook-loving Smiths, etc. It is to be built
of wood and stones from every section of
the earth, contributed by the Smiths.
The rock upon which Capt. John Smith's,
head was placed at the time Pocahontas
seized the opportunity and made herself
famous, may be secured as the corner
stone, and special positions in the archi
tecture are to be given to materials from
Smith county, Smithville, Smith's Cross
Hoads, and places with kindred names.
For it is to be a kindred establishment
from the ground up.
One great difficulty about the plan
however, is the suggested location of the
headquarters. The great and honorable
Smith family is more extensive than the
English language, and is very likely also
wider diffused than the Christian roli
gion. There are Smiths wherever the
sun shines, and it is extremely probable
that they are to be found wherever lan
guage is spoken. Obviously, then, At
lanta would not be a convenient spot for
the majority of tho Smiths; and unless
the club should be planted in the place
most convenient for them all, the club
would fail of its highest aim. The
only way to strike it just right
for the Smiths would be to find the center
of population of the earth and build the
club house there.
If poor old “Billy” McGarrahan had been
a millionaire instead of a pauper claimant
he could not have had a more impressive
funeral. It was impressive not for its
grandeur, but for the fact that seuators,
representatives, correspondents and other
prominent people paid him a tribute of
genuine love aud respect. There are few
rich men whose funerals are attended
because of the same sentiments that drew
a large attendance to Mr. McQarrahan's
funeral.
PERSONAL.
A senior member of the drm of R & R.
Clark, of Edinburgh, said not long ago that
just after Tennyson's death they kept for three
weeks tweuty-si* printing machines turn
ing out the laureate s works
Yerga. the Italian novelist, whose tale fur
nished the libretto for Mascagni's "Cavalleria
Rusticana," has received nearly 210.000 lire In
royalties. He was formerly opposad to writ
ing libretti, but now has three on hand.
Mr. E. G. Pendleton, of Washington, D. C.,
has a tame swan, which he captured one day
while out hunting, that answers to his call
and is very domestic, running along with the
tame geese and other animals of which he is
the owner.
Senator Murphy, of New York, is a chronic
sufferer from neuralgia He has frequently
visited ttie Hot Springs of Arkansas for re
lief: and after the tariff bill has been disposed
of he will leave Washington in the hope of
nenefiting his physical condition.
About six weeks ago Mr. Gladstone was
thoroughly examined by his medical ad
viser, who found him to be wonderfully
strong add healthy for his age. with a vigor
ous heart, a good apoetite sound lungs, mus
cular limbs and a full and deep voice
Emil C. Hammer, who died in Boston re
cently, was a r.ailve of Denmark, and had
been the Danish consul at Boston for thirty
four years, lie was decorated by the king of
Denmark with the oner of the Knight of
Dannebrog, the equivalent in that country of
the French Legion of Honor.
Ex-Senator Ferry, who was President pro
tem, of the United States Senate in the Til
den Hayes contest, lives in seclusion, broken
In health and poor in circumstances, at
Grand Haven. Mich He still has In his pos
session the pen with which he signed the doc
ument that gave to Hayes ihe Presidency.
Princess Clementine, favorite daughter of
King Leopold, of Belgium, is about to take
the veil. She is said to believe that there is
a curse upon her family, and hopes to avert it
by devoting her life to religion. Her mother
long ago consented, but the king has only re
cently added his consent that she shall take
the step.
The engagement of Miss Ellen Jackson,
daughter cf Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur F. Jackson,
of Baltimore, and Mr. James Henry Preston,
has just been announced. Miss Jackson is a
noted belle, and Mr. Preston, who is a mem
her of one of the oldest families in Maryland,
was the speaker of the house of delegates
during the recent session.
BRIGHT BITS.
'Coats arsn't any good,"said Wilbur. •• ’F
I was a goat I wouldn t have two horns with
our learning how to play on ’em.”—Harper s
Young People.
Little Clarence—What is overproduction,
par
Mr. Callipers—One man like Senator Peffer,
my son.—Puck.
"Johnny,” said the teacher, “is a jackass a
biped or a quadruped ”
Please, sir," said Johnny, “that depends
on the jackass.”—Life.
"I tell you. Bronson, there is nothing im
probable to a jealous woman."
"With one exception. I agree with
you. The exception is the truth.”—Harper s
Bazar.
"I don't believe Buncombe's magazine
pays.”
Scratcher—-1 know it doesn't. I sent in a
poem four months ago and I’ve never had a
cent yet.—lnter Ocean.
"Jimmie, you may name the winter
months.”
Jimmie—No, ma am: me fadder told me I
couldn’t play no games of chance while I was
in de schoolroom —lnter Ocean.
Excited Man—l must have a hundred dol
lars. Can t you lend it to me?
Cool Friend—Oh.certainly, but not all at
once. I can let you have ten cents every two
or three weeks.—Texas Siftings.
A book-agent attempted to 3311 a Frankford
politician an encyclopedia.
"Cyclopedia?” exclaimed the Frankford
man. "No; don't want it. Wouldn't have
time to ride it.”—Philadelphia Record.
‘•Yes. It’s a last summer’s straw hat. but I
value it Iron a strange experience 1 had in
the west: I got caught in a cyclone, and be
fore I could recover ihe hat from the whirl it
had sawed off three or four big trees close to
the roots."—Life.
Young Doctor—Here I’ve had ipv shingle
out two weeks, and not a case yet. I’ve been
sitting here like patience on a monument.
Friend—Never mind; you will eventually
gei a chance to put the monuments on the
patients.—Philadelphia Record
The other day a young man gave a reason
for not dancing, the spirit of which might bo
made to apply to a good many failures in life.
■ I shoqld like to dance,” he said, and X
should dance, only the music puts me out and
the gtrl gets in my way."—Tit-Bits.
It was Elsie’s first night at the concert, and
she listened delightedly till, as the applause
which followed the urima donna s wonderful
trills subsided, she leaned over to her mother
and in a very audible whisper exclaimed,
•Oh, mamma: Didn t that lady gargle her
throat, just lovely ?"—Brooklyn Life.
Little Johnny—What does'“sustain ’ mean,
pa?
Pa—To sustain is to help.
Little Johnny—But the paper says a man
sustained an accident, isn't an accident
something you can't help?
Pa—l think I hear your mother calling you.
Johnny. Run along; I'm very busy now.—
Boston Transcript.
Heloise (8 years old)—What does transat
lantic mean, mother?
Mother—Oh, across the Atlantic, of course.
But you musn t bother me.
Heloise—Does trans, then, always mean
across?
Mother—l suppose it does. Now. if you
don t stop bothering me with your questions
I shall send you right to bed. Heloise is
silent a few moments.
Heloise Then, does transparent mean a
cross parent?—Brooklyn Life.
CURRENT COMMENT.
Missouri Idea of Politics.
From the St. Louis Republic iDem.l.
Mr. Cleveland advises the Democratic party
to strive for principles rather than spoils.
Can’t we strive for both at once? Mr. Cleve
land is no less a tariff reformer because he
gets $50,000 a year for it.
An Unfair Attack.
From the Boston Globe iDem.).
The new Kansas ballot law requires that
‘‘the lower limbs of the voter, as high ifp as
the knees, shall be visible from the outside
while the voter is in the booth preparing his
ticket, the lower part of the booth having
been left open for that purpose.” Is this an
other scheme of the enemies of woman suf
frage ?
What Filibustering Costs.
From the Chicago Herald (Dem.l.
This senatorial filibustering is an intoler
able nuisance. '1 his country wants the tariff
question settled, so far as this bill can settle
it, without more ado. Every day's delay costs
tho people at least JULO.COO. It is time to
fling senatorial tradition to the dogs and act.
The Gormans and Morgans who now say they
intend to vote for the bill will do well to gov
ern themselves accordingly.
They are Protectionists.
From the Philadelphia Record (Dem).
The mission of the Democratic party has al
ways been to give every man an opportunity
to take care of himself, and to insist that
every man shall take care of himself It be
lieves that when every man has a fair oppor
tunity he tan take care of himself, and that
that government is best which governs least.
This is precisely the opposite of the gen
eral welfare” ideas of the parties which have
opposed democracy from the time of the
Adamses down to Coxey. They insist that it
is the duty, in one way or another, of the gov
ernment to protect everybody. This is the
idea that tills the addled brains of Coxey and
his followers. They are marching to Wash
ington for protection.
Nearly a Nervous Fit.
From the Washington Post find.).
The country is passing through a paroxysm
of folly—of social inflammation as It were—
and cranks and agitators are having their
little day. But the descendants of the men
who won our independence, who set up in the
wilderness this splendid monument of human
lluerty, may safely be trusted to preserve the
sacred legacy that has been committed to
their charge. It is possible that they mav
have to struggle for It. to watch, to t attle,
even to die for it; but they will hold it against
the fanatic, the demagogue, and the anarchist
as they did against the tyrant, and the re
public will live as loqg as the love of country
and the spirit of freedom shall survive in
man. '1 he end of self government is not yet.
mtn h us our foreign friends may wish it
were.
Made Care-fare of It.
The ways of the New York broker are art
ful and his eyes are always open for on op
portunity. says the New Y’ork Tribune.
When he has a chance to make a good bar
gain 'he dosen t let grass grow under his
feet.
The head of a steamship company recently
said to a Wall Street broker:
‘I wish I could get a certain pier privilege;
it's so and so. ’
• Well, why don't you go and get it?" asked
the broker.
Tcan'tseem to get hold of it.”
"The pier business ' said the broker, isn't
in my line; but how much would you give me
for this privilege if I get it?.’
"I’ll give you *I.OOO a month for a year."
The broker said he would see what he
could do. The pier was owned by a Phila
delphia man and the next afternoon the
man from Wail Street walked into the office
of the pier owner in Philadelphia.
T want you to buy some bonds," he said
"I don't want to buy anything," was the
answer. "I'm selling, "
"But these are gilt-edged; you never saw
anything tetter."
"Can t buy anything. Haven't any money.
Got a lot of things on my hands that aren't
paying a cent, ihesear a dull limes. I tell
you. I've got stores that 1 can t lent, bills
tbat I can't collect. Why there s a pier over
in your city tbat Isn't doing what it ought to
do for me. A privilege there is just begging
for someone to take it.”
"Well." said the broker. "I want to sell
you some of these bonds. We might make a
dicker' on the pier. 1 guess I could get rid
of it. Will you take the uonds off my hands
if I take the pier privilege off yours?”
"I don't want bonds."
"Wouldn t you take them to get rid of your
pier?”
' No: I am carrying ail I want."
Well, maybe I'll take your pier anyway.
How much do you want for it?"
"Three thousand dollars a year."
Ths broker thought he might as well take
the privilege, even if they couldn t strike a
bargain on bonds. The next morning he
went to the New Y'ork steamship man.
"f can get that pier for you for a year,” he
so:d
"At what terms?”
"Your own figures—sl2,ooo a year."
The privilege was relet right then and there,
the contract signed, and the broker was just
$9,009 better off. A short time after this the
steamship man met the broker again.
".bay, X-—he said, "tell me now. just
for fun what did you make out of that pier
business?”
'•Car-fare," answered the broker, unblush
ingly.
"Car-fare?"
"Yes, car fare—around the world. ’’
A Story of Paganini.
The efforts made by society people to p3y
V.‘;;l, i:iv; 1 a 11c:;z i.i'.d p'/i’itc phrases- the
artists who entertain them have teen mani
festly unsuccessful this season; aud 1 am
glad of it, says a New York Press writer.
The infinite insolence and conceit in the
point of view which permits a. fashionable
woman to ask a man like Jean de Keszke or
Emma Lames to dinner and to a casual ac
quaintance with the familiars of the hostess,
on the supposition that smli lamiliarity
justifies her in asking artists to "do some
thing" in ihe drawing room afterward, is
really possible only in a community of the
most primitive sort. If New York society
could hear itself discussed behind the curtain
of the Metropolitan ope’ a house ami Abbey’s
theater it might be shocked; but it would do
good. This sort of thing has been going on
ever since society tried to take advantage of
the artistic world. without paying for it, and
recalls a story of the eelenrated violinist.
Paganini, who executed a solo on the G
string—the silver string of the violin. A
great lady In London said to him:
' There is no other man in the world but
you. signor, who could play a solo on one
string. When you use the four you transport
us to Paradise When you use but one, you
take us beyond. Come to my house and dine
with me. And I tell you what I think you can
do. Bring your violin with you and play us a
solo on no string"
"My dear Lady C said Paganini, “I ac
cept your invitation, I will play a solo on no
string."
A large and distinguished company gath
ered in Portland place to meet the illustrious
violinist, and incidentally, of course, to hear
him play. Paganini kept his engagement.
He played a solo on no string. Ho did not
come.
Sweet Sixteen.
Samuel Minturn Peck in the Southern Maga
zine.
The starlight through the lattice vine
Kell slanting on her brow.
The roses white with dew u-shine
Swayed on the wind-rock bough.
And waved a perfume quaint and One
Like incense round her mouth.
Where dwelt mid curve aud hue divine
1 he felamour of the South.
Just sixteen years of joys and fears,—
Just sixteen years hath she,
But her eyes are blue,
And her heart is tree,
And she's all the world to me.
The rose tree bid the stars from me
But I could watch her eyes;
They shone like stars upon the sea
Soft mirrored from the skies.
Her little hands upon her knees
In folded stillness lay.
Ana in the dusk bloomed wlnsomely
Like lily buds astray.
Just sixteen years of joys and fears, —
Just sixteen years hath she,
But her faith is sure
And her soul is pure,
And she's all the world to me.
A silence fell: It seemed a spell
Hail fallen on my sweet;
1 saw her quivering bosom swell,
I heard my heart a beat
I spoke:—but wbat? 1 1 annot tell,
1 hardly know the rest;
But tust before her tear drops fell
I clasped her to my breast.
Just sixteen years of smiles and tears,—
Just sixteen years hath she,
Hut the wedding chimes
Will ring betimes
For my little bride to be.
In a New York Police Court.
Christ! King and Nicholas Aregoto. two
Greek peddlers, were arraigned on a charge
of violating the corporation ordinance in re
fusthg to move on at the order of an officer,
says the New York livening Post. The offi
cer testified that they had stayed more
than ten minutes In one place without man
ing a sale, and had returned to the same
place a short time after. They had been or
dered away. He added that they had given
him no trouble, but had gone to the police sta
tion unresistingly. Justice Welde called the
Italian interpreter.
■ John,” he said (this being the generic
name for persons of the interpreter's race),
• tell these men what the charge is."
A brief and one-sided conversation ensued;
then John gave up trying and announced;
”Ihey no Italian—Greek.”
Judge Welde seemed nonplussed, but soon
reasserted himself, and addressing the pris
oners, said:
"You men are aroused by this officer of vio
lating a corporation ordinance. What have
you tn say V"
The Greeks smiled blandly and looked
peaceable, but did not reply.
“leant get no Greek interpreter here,”
said the judge, with a shrug.
"Tell them they are fined *2"
The culprits were hustled back to the pen,
still smiling innocently.
A curious defect In French-law was brought
to light In the suit of the ex-K ing of Naples
against his brother, Count de Bari and Rich
ard. the recognized son of the latter. The
question was, whose son is Richard? It
might have been thought that Richard's
mother would be a useful witness. But. as
the affair is a civil One, Richard s mother
cannot 1 e questioned: for in rTench law a
woman is considered incapable of answering
a civil question.
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Extensive preparations are being, made at
Fredericksburg, Va. for the dedication of the
monument to Mary, the mother of Washing
ten. which will take place on May 10
Christopher Columbus, the Eskimo baby
born at the Chicago World's Fair, died at the
San Fraucisco Midwinter Fair last week.
The climate was too enervating for him.
The fire department at B rlin has a fire en
gine, the carriage of which is constructed en
tirely out of papier mache. All ihe different
narts, the body, the wheels, etc., are finished
la the best possible manner. While the
durability and powers of resistance j o.isessed
by this material are fully as great as those of
wood, the weight is. of course, much less.
The lightness of afire engine is of course a
great advantage, and it seems not unlikely
that wood 1 n carriages w.ll in a short time
pass out of use altogether.
England makes curious provisions on its
dangerous coast for shipwrecked mariners.
This is the dry official description given of
the supplies oa St. Paul Island: "They are
m a cave at the foot of the west cliff of a
rocky chasm running north and south, and
its position is indicated by a stone cairn 11‘4
feet in hight and about 11 feet broad
at the ! ase, erected on the summit of the
west cliff of the chasm. This cairn, visible
from Gazelle Basin, is painted black, and
shows clearly against the sky."
A curious poultry show is Igring organized
in Paris, says the Brandon Bucksaw. The
principal feature of it will bo the champion
ship competition for crowing roosters. That
is to say. the bird that crows the loudest, the
longest an i the greatest number of times in a
given period will get the tr.ze. The chtCtn
pion cock of France is a little bantam hailing
from ihe neighborhood of Seraing. He is on
record as having crowed no less than ;tSr
times in one hour. Training requires a great
deal of care, especially just before competi
tion takes place, since, unless proper preea i
tions are adopted, the rooster is apt to ex
hats', his voice Lefore the tournament. The
training consists, as a rule, in placing the
candidate :or honors m a cage in the midst
of a circle of other cages, each containing a
cock. The ono in the center sounds a first
strident note, and thereupon those around
him respond and the concert is kept up. the
birds each endeavoring lo outciow the other.
Crowing birds of this kind bring large prices,
in some cases as much as SIOO and ssco.
How is it that the eyes of some portraits
seem to follow a spectator around the room?
It is thus explained, says the Baltimore
American. Suppose a portrait have its face
and eyes directed straight in front, so as to
look at the spectator. Let a straight line be
drawn through ihe tip of ihe nose and half
way between the eyes. On each side oi this
midrib; line there will i e tbs ssa? breadth of
head, of cheek, of chin, and neck, and each
iris will be in the middle of the whole of the
eye. If one now go to one side, the apparent
horizontal breadth of every part of the head
and face will be diminished, but the parts on
each side of the middle line will be dimin
ished equally, and at every position, however
obliquo. there will be the same breadth
of face on each side of tho middle
line, and the iris will remain in the center of
the whole of the eyeball, so that the portrait
wilt preserve all the character of a figure
looking at the spectator, and must necessa
rily do so wherever he stands. In portraits
the apparent motion of the head is generally
rendered indistinct by the canvas being im
perfectly stretched, as the slightest concavity
or convexity entirely deforms the face Oft
times the obliquity is considerable. The de
ception is therefore seen best when the
painting is executed on a flat board and in
colors sufficiently vivid to represent every
line in the face with tolerable distinctness at
great obliquities. Distinctness of outline is
also most necessary to a satisfactory exhibi
tion of this optical delusion.
We have all. as children, made mud pies,
but the children at a hot spring at Gauda
loupe, Mex., cook them, eat them, and, be
sides that, make pocket money by selling
them to tourists as souvenirs, says a writer
in an exchange. A peculiar yellow clay is
found there, and the natives say that the mud
pies made of them by the children a:e not
ill flavored. They speak from the recollec
tions of childhood, though, I think, as 1 never
saw an adult eat them. There is an interest
ing legend connected with the spring. It is said
to have been of miraculous origin. An aged pil
grim. footsore, weary and hungry, lay down
to rest where the spring now is. He had not
a morsel to eat for three days, and there was
no village, or house, even, for many miles. A
rabbit had teen caught in a thicket, even
as the goat was that staid Abraham's hand.
There was no means of preparing it for food,
however. The pilgrim had the faith that
moves mountains. Planting his foot in tne
yielding soil he stood up and prayed for suc
cor. A spring gushed out. as thie water did
from the rock when Moses smote it with his
rod, only this spring was of hot water. The
pilgrim slew and cooked the rabbit. He
bathed his weary limbs in the water w hich he
caught in a gourd aud then allowed to cool,
and then found that the waters had healing
properties, for the bleeding #ounds on nis
feet, sustainel in his pilgrimage, were made
well. The pilgrim afterward became a noted
saint, adored to this day in the. Mexican cal
endar, and the hot spring has never oeased to
flow.' 1
Hr. Klein. F. R. S., lecturer on general
anatomy and physiology at St. Bartholomew's
hospital, delivered a lecture on cholera at the
London institution reoently. The lecturer
said, according to the London Times, that
the prevention of cholera was beset with less
difficulty than that of some of the communica
ble diseases which in towns we had almost
constantly among us. He quoted an account
by Ernest Hart of the great religious festival
of Kumbh fair at Hardwar. a town on the
Ganges, at which, in 1821. 800.000 to 1.0(0000
pilgrims assembled. In the opinion of many
experienced officials, the most complete sani
tary arrangement would be powerless to pre
vent the spread cf cholera if the fair was al
lowed to take place. The pilgrims coinin'
from cholera-infected districts brought the
infection with them, and two people
died of undoubted cholera at Har.war
during the most crowded period, owing
however, to the excellent and stringent sani
tary precautions the infection did not
spread. No more cases arose in the town or
camp, nor did the disease develope on the
track of the dispersing pilgrims. This was
unquestionably one of the most temarkatle
and brilliant achievements of sanitation
in the whole history of cholera. Not only in
India, but also in Europe, had it been demon
strated that cholera wa a preventable dis
ease. In ISJ2 cholera broke out in Hambur'
The insanitary conditions of its docks and
port population and the polluted supply of
drinking watr brought for Hamburg the
long predicted day of reckoning! in former
years the establishment of such a focus of
cholera as Hamburg, which had vast commu
nications and intercourse with the whole of
Germany, would have been followed
by innumerable foul of cholera all over Ger
many. Yet there was the remarkable fact
that, with the exception of a few cases in a
limited number of towns. Germany did not
sutler from any further epidemic outnveaK.s
And the same fact was illustrated in 1892 in a
perhap . more striking manner in in,'land
Sir Jonn Simon had years back instsied on
the importance of considering cholera, and
also typhoid fever, as a tilth disease. It had
since become an axiom in sanitary science to
isolate the patient, to disinfect or destroy all
articles soiled bv him, to prevent such'filth
from gaining access to drinking water and
to articles of food, and to lii3:st that the
hands that had been in contact with
such soiled articles should be scrupu’ously
cleaned in order to avoid self infection: in
short, to prevent and to avoid the contagion
being swallowed. By carrying out these pre
cepts it had become rossiblo to prevent the
spread of cholera epidemically, and this had
been successfullv accomplished. This success
implied two things—(D the locality before
the introduction of a case of cholera should
be in a proper sanitary condition, and (2i on
the appearance of a case of cholera, tho meas
ures for Isolation and disinfection should be
at once put in practice. There should be no
attemp- at hiding or Ignoring, but the fact
should l e openly and boldly recognized and
action taken accordingly.
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Greater cuts than ever in
Dress Goods. High Class
Silk and Silk and All-wool
Novelties at less than cost
of importation.
Silk Iridescent Crepons. worth $2 50 a- t re
Plain and Striped silk and Wool Mixtures
worth $1 7.1. this week $1 10.
Mixed Cheviots, Covert Cloths and Storm
serge Suitings at iho bargain price of 4i c
Check Tweed Suiting, full 43 inches wide ,
very stylish dress fabric), good value it
75c, 48c.
Silk Epingline Novelties, worth fl 25 ™.
daced to 87*4c.
Granite Cloth, 50 inches wide, worth }i 50
99c.
Silk and Wool Plaids and checks worth
$1 25, <s3c.
SILKS.
A most attractive offering of new, fresh
desirable and substantial weaves at prices'
much lower than similar qualities have ever
been offered.
Triple warp, 24-inch Black Figured Pongee
Lyon s dye, 85c.
High Grade Japanese Silk, endless variety
of designs and colorings and adapted for
waists or fuli dresses. ti 2
27-inch Lyon's Printed India, usual pries
$1 25. this week's price 89c.
All-silk Black Brocades, worth sl. 6hc
Elegant Grade of Black French Crystal
Bengaline, recently sold bv 11s at *1 50. ok
3,00.1 yards New and Stvlish Swivel Silk at
4214 c; this is the grade sold everywhere lor
txi and 75c yard.
One lot Japanese Printed Silk at 25c yard;
former price 50c yard.
Cotton Dress Goods.
French Sateens, worth 35c, 20c.
Best American Sateens, reduced from 150
to lie.
Fine Batiste Suitings, worth 25c. 1214 c.
Tuxedo Duck Suitings, former price 25c. 15e,
English Dimities, neat designs, warranted
fast colors, worth 15c. at 10c.
100 pieces French Zephyr Gingham at l2Hc;
never offered for less than 20 and lie.
100 pieces Scotch Zephyr Gingham at BHc;
actual value from 15 to 20c per yard.
100 pieces American Indigo Blue Prints at
4Kc; value B!4c yard.
100 Pieces Merrimnc Sheeting Prints lo
yard; tho price at other places for same
goods 614 c.
Just received, a full line of Japanese and
Chinese Mattings.
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