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Harris floors hale.
The Tariff Leader on a Platform the
Country Will Indorse.
Washington, April 28.—1n half an hour
a f:er the Senate met to-day the tariff bill
was taken up, on motion of Mr. Harris,
b , a vote of 31 to 19.
Mr Hale took the initiative by asking
ti t the clause fixing the date for the
t- ning effect of the bill be passed over
for the present. He sent to the clerk’s
de Mi and had read certain statements by
and, mocratic senators concerning the tariff
bi i The first of these was an interview
„.j,h senator Brice, of Ohio, some six
weeks ago, in opposition to the bill.
Then lie had read a recent interview
w ith the same senator, speaking of a
cocn romise tariff bill. The third was a
ne w'i>aper interview with Mr. Voorhees,
in which he is represented as being in
favor of free sugar. Mr. Hale then went
ori to say that the sugar schedule had
be n agreed upon in the interest of the re
finers, and that the metal schedule was
to he torn up and dismembered so that
Mr Harris would not recognize it.
• Whatever denials may be made the
whole hill is to be changed, and senators
who have not been friendly toward it
ar .. to be propitiated, in order that there
Dl ht be a solid democratic vote for the
bill.'’
HARRIS REPLIES.
Mr. Harris replied in his imDressive
ana deliberate manner to Mr. Hale. He
>a .;d: •■The senator from Maine haseom
piimented me iti a manner which shows
e 'disposition on his part to spare my
modest blushes; but what he has said
m:i ~ sit necessary, perhaps, for me to
do-iine. briefly, my positiou in regard to
tl ,> pending hill. I undertake to say. and
1 assert with absolute confidence, that
there never was, in the history of this gov
ernment. a tariff bill framed by either
party that has not been the result of a
eon : romise between conflicting interests
and colliding opinions. I have tolerably
well defined opinions about what the tariff
policy of the country ought to be. They
are a iittle more extreme than those of,
perhaps, nine-tenths of the senators on
this side but 1 have never been suffic
iently arrogant or sufficiently confident
of by own superior wisdom on
t i or other questions, as to hold my
sei: aloof from the suggestions of other
gentlemen equally well informed, equally
honest and equally interested in the gen
eral welfare of the country. I should de
spise myself if 1 were not capable of hear
ing the suggestions of brother democratic
v tutors, and hearing them in a spirit of
compromising conflicting opinions on this
and all other important questions about
which we chance to differ. I do
not choose, at this time, to go
into the details of this bill, but I
have been ready from the beginning, and
am still ready, to compromise conflicting
opinions with brother democrats and
would be even willing io compro
mise .conflicting opinions with my
friend from Maine, if he
evinced a determination to come to re
form of the most vicious and outrageous
tariff act that ever afflicted the coun
try.”
TIIF. SUGAR QESTION.
Mr Hale l will ask the senator one
square question. The provision of the
bill touching sugar’ is carefully worked
out. It had the scrutiny of the finance
committee, and I take it that the senator
from Tennessee agrees in it, does he not?
"I assented to it as a member of the
finance committee,” Mr. Harris admitted.
■ And the senator is championing the
bill with that provision in it.” said Mr.
Hale "Now what will be the position of
tiie senator when he is asked to vote for
an amendment which is clearly not in the
interest of the sugar growers in Louis
iana or Nebraska, but is in the interest of
tin reiiner, ami so changes the schedule
that the refiner gets a great advantage?
Will the senator go for it on the theory
that it reduces taxation?”
"I am as little in favor,” Mr. Harris de
clared emphatically, "of aiding and bene
fiting the sugar refiners or the sugar
trus: as the senator from Maine or any
man in this chamber, or outside of it.
i tit i! to make such concessions was an
indispensable necessity to pass a bill to
r< : ucc taxation and to repeal the in
famies of the McKinley act, I would glory
in accepting them.” [Applause on the
democratic side and in the galleries],
hai.e foolishly elated.
“That tells.the whole story,” Mr. Hale
exclaimed, with an air of extreme satis
faction. "The senator has let it all out.
No matter what offensive provisions may
be inserted in this bill at different points,
the senator will vote for every
one of them for the sake
ot getting the bill through. He has
stated m a <fcw words, and much better
ti.an 1 could, all that I was seeking
to bring before the Senate and also the
country.”
' iiiey aro so much less objectionable,”
said ,\ir. Harris, "than the policy of the
?ator from Maine and his McKinley act
that 1 can scarcely imagine a proposition
that 1 would not maintain as preferable
'<> it; and if 1 had to decide between con
tinuing the McKinley act in force or sub
-dituting it with something at least better
although not so much better as I de
s.iel- l would vote for the latter. I
hope the senator from Maine understands
my position on the question.”
(1 °- I do thoroughly,” said Mr. Halo,
self-complacently.
Nlr. Sherman, in the course of an argu
a'l a j' ;linst fixing tho time for the act to
take effect, before it had been thoroughly
considered and amended, declared that
r publican senators never would allow the
mil to pass until every word and clause
. subjected to their scrutiny. After
?l )eiuu Si Mr. Stewart read a short
,V' , h , on . the gold standard, and Mr.
iro.ph delivered the sixth instalment of
n.s speech against the tariff bill. Then
eu -°Sieson the late Representative
mop. °r Pennsylvania, the Senate, at
"•*>o dock, adjourned until Monday.
TERROR REIGNS IN GREECE.
Tha Ground Sinking- at Atalanti.
irst Heports Not Exaggerated.
Athens. April 28.—Slight shocks of
■arthquaks still continue in this country
d ’ u icinity and the fteling of terror
Bi 1 ” tho people is increasing. Dis
j ■ 1” - Loin other parts of Greece show
c-eiMr,i. and loss of very much
K ‘,|, lU ' l ’ban was indicated.
I wo women were killed by a falling
1 iv ••i'.-f l:lst H’Skt at Drachmani, near
f ‘ : lU ~ rou, ' ( i sinking at Atalanti, where
‘"'H'-ntths of the houses are in
r' 1 . . l ho , s ? thal remain standing,
; rmr.c, 1S ■ la k’ ta bl e -. The people are
thr,in,.) triclton an d in great distress
andni ~° :llosureand tho waut of food
uu uouung.
fatal fire in a eotel.
a nd the Wires Down.
-"• Orleans, La., April 28, 11:05 p. m.
i, . ‘ t- Charles hotel, the largest build
- .tiie city, ig burning. One person
” ! een burned to death so far.
THE WIRES CUT OFF.
r ;' Sl ' in " tn "- April 29. 2:30a. m.— Notice
t ; rum Memphis, us well as Mobile,
( . UIS -wn Union office in New
thi 1.. 1,13 keen abandoned because of
pr, ~ '. n l * 1 ° St. Charles hotel. The
ti '. . . ‘'ys are cut off and all the wires
nw.vl out 'r Prospect of getting any
nut of the city to-night.
Holland’s Ministry Resigns.
Isjrv'l ‘ lattUP .' A Pril 38. -The Dutch rain
w owing to the defeat of
t • er. .meat at the recent elections.
SARAIVA’S LAST STAND.
The Rebel Leader to Make a Fight at
Curitiba.
Rio de Janeiro, April 28.—A1l the
southern ports of the republic have been
occupied by government troops, and navi
gation along the whole coast has been de
clared free to Brazilian steamships.
The government commanders enc ountered
virtually no opposition at any of the coast
cities, in which not a shot was fired.
Pon.ta Gross, state of Parana, is now
occupied by the government forces.
Ihe insurgents who occupied the town
m,ade a sharp fight, but were dislodged
about two hours after the beginning of
the attack. They left many dead and
wounded on the field. The next impor
tant battle will be fought probably at or
near Curitiba. This city is now held by
the insurgent Gen. Saraiva, who has
thrown up earthworks, and made every
preparation to drive back President
Peixoio’s troops.
ESCAPE OF THE REFUGEES.
Lisbon, April 28.—The report of the es
cape of the Brazilian refugees who were
on board the Portuguese warshipis is con
firmed. The Portuguese government had
chartered the steamship Pedro Tereero
at Buenos Ayres to convey the Brazilian
refugees from Punta Aindia, Uruguay,
to Ascension is’and for transfer
to the steamer Angola, en route to Portu
gal. The Portuguese flag was already
hoisted on the Pedro Tereero and the
Portuguese officers and marines were on
board when the Brazilians escaped.
They got away about 2 o'clock yesterdy
morning, being taken from the steamer
in a lighter. It had been arranged that
the Alfonso de Albuquerque should escort
the Pedro Tereero several miles from the
coast, the Mindeli© remaining at Buenos
Ayres for repairs.
THE COMMANDERS REMOVED.
On learning of the escape of the Bra
zilian refugees, the Portuguese govern
ment ordered the removal of the com
manders of the Mindello and Alfonso de
Albuquerque from their posts, and steps
have been taken to try both of the officers
by court martial in order to ascertain who
is responsible.
The _4 01) Brazilians who escaped from
the Mindella and Alfonso de Albuquerque
comprised all the refugees excepting those
who landed at Buenos Ayres. The latter
were Maimed- by- the Argentine authori
ties, but they were recaptured by the
Portuguese, and will remain on board the
Mindello until the conclusion of the nego
tiations (lending between Port ugual and
the Argentine Republic.
IRON FURNACES BANKED.
The Scarcity of Coke Causing Many
Suspensions of Work.
Lebanon, Pa., April 28.—The scarcity
of coke has occasioned the banking of
Colebrooke furnaces Nos. 1 and 2.
About 100 men are thrown out of employ
ment.
The North Lebanon furnaces have a
supply on hand sufficient to run only two
or tnree days.
If the coal in transit fails to arrive in
that time they will be obliged to shut
down.
The puddling department of the Leba
non Iron Works also shut down to-day
indefinitely, owing to the scarcity of
coal.
The Pennsylvania Bolt and Nut Works
has sufficient in store to keep the finish
ing mills going for some time.
ALABAMA’S MINERS.
Negroes Back From Kansas Go to
BlueCresk to Work.
Birmingham, April 28.—A1l the striking
miner in this district held a mass meeting
to-day to decide what course of action to
pursue. Many of them are leaving. Three
carloads of Alabama negroes, who went
to Kansas last fall, returned this morning
and have gone to Blue Creek to work
Trouble is expected upon their arrival
there, but none is yet reported. Gov.
Jones told a strikers’ committee last night
that he expects to preserve peace at all
hazards. They promise to refrain from
any unlawful acts.
TRADE’S UNIONISTS JttEET.
A Scheme on Foot to Form a New
National Labor Organization.
Philadelphia, April 38.—1n responso to
a call issued by Joseph E. Buchanan, of
New York, formerly a prominent member
of Knights of Labor, a half hundred trade
unionists met here to-day, in Woodman's
hall, for the purpose of considering a
proposition to form anew national labor
organization which would absorb the
Knights of Labor, the American federa
tion of labor and all kindred organiza
tions.
Fatal Fight With Thievfs.
Omaha, Neb., April 28.—1n a fight with
thieves at Missouri Valley, la., to-day,
the city marshal was killed and two other
people were desperately wounded.
JDECOYED the cashier out.
Two Robbsrs Smoothly Loot a Con
necticut Country Bank.
From the New York Sun.
Springfield, Mass., April 26.—A daring
daylight bank robbery was committed
to-day in the office of the R. E. Spencer
Banking Company of Thompsonville,
Conn. Shortly before 12 o'clock two
well dressed young men drove up to the
banking house. Stopping the horse in
front of the door, one of the men
alighted and entered the bank and in
formed Cashier R. D. Spencer, who was
alone at the time, that he was wanted
outside by the man in the carriage. Mr.
Spencer, the cashier, is the father of R.
E. Spencer, the president and prin
cipal owner of the hank, and is
nearly 65 years old. Suspecting noth
ing. he went outside the bank to
meot the supposed business man in
the carriage, who immediately en
caged him in conversation. Air. Spencer
forgot, in his anxiety lo oblige a sup
posed customer, that he was leaving an
entire stranger in the bank alone, with
the safe and money drawer unlocked.
This is what the men had evidently
counted upon, for during the few minutes
Mr Spencer was absent from the inside
of the building, the man left inside had
not been idle. With deft hands ho re
moved every greenback from the money
drawer and vault that he < ou,d get sight
of and then stuffing his pockets as full of
silver and gold pieces as he could saun
tered outside the dour and waited for his
pal to cease talking with Cashier Spen
cer Then he entered the carnage with
his pal. and both, after tipping their hats
to the old cashier, drove rapidly away to
ward the southern end of the town.
The robbery evidently was committed
after long deliberation by men who had
full and complete knowledge of the habits
of the officers of the hank. They knew
at what hour the hank was practically in
charge of only one man. The men drove
up to the institution only a few minutes
after president Spencer had left the build
ing and when the streets wore practically
deserted. A few moments after they had
driven away a larire crowd lilied the
streets on their way to dinner.
Cashier Spencer, upon returning to the
building, did not notice anything wrong
at first. It was not until he went to the
money drawer to look over his i-ash on
hand that he discovered the robbery. He
then rushed to the door with the warning
erv of "Stop thief!” hut discovered that
the men had made good their escape, dis
appearing as completely as though the
earth had swallowed them.
THE MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY, APRIL 29 1894.
A FOOL AND HIS MONEY.
The Remarkable Career of a Canny
Young Scotchman.
Rapidly Acquired Riches Gained by
Shrewdness and Wasted With Prod
igality—He is Almost a Tramp Now.
Thousands Upon Thousands Squan
dered With the Recklessness of a
Maniac.
From the New York Morning Advertiser.
I dined one evening last week, at a New
\ ork hotel, with five western men, the
poorest of whom was worth a million dol
lars. and all of whom, within the memory
of men younger than themselves, would
have been glad to work for $lO a week.
One of these men, Capt. Burr, of New
Mexico, but formerly of Pennsylvania,
from which state he went into the army
as a drummer boy of sixteen, and came
out at the close of the war with a cap
tain's commission, has made five separate
fortunes of about a million each, and been
four times reduced to absolute poverty by
his efforts to double his "pile” by the
quick process.
When the cigars were lit, the subject
that occupied the conversation during
dinner was contindted.
Capt. Burr, a sturdy, bronzed man of
middle age, settled himself comfortably
back in his chair, and. with his lean fin
ger tips together and his eyes fixed re
flectively on the ceiling, he gave expres
sion to this trite aphorism:
"1 have had a rich and varied exper
ience in fortune hunting, and I’ve come
to the conclusion that almost any fool
can make money, under favorable circum
stances, but that it takes a wise man to
hang on to the pile after he has got it.
Now there was Duncan Ross, his was a
case in point.”
The captain stroked his thick eye
brows against the grain, with a thumb
and forefinger, as if rallying his memory,
then told the following odd story of a sud
den fortune:
Duncan Ross was born in Glasgow,
Scotinna, sometime in the early forties.
His father, a ship carpenter on tiie Clyde,
gave the boy a good common school educa
tion, and at the age of 16 young Ross was
apprenticed to the same trade.
Along about the close of the Americrt
civil war, Duncan saw in the Clyde a ship
bound for San Francisco, and without
consulting his parents or the employers
to whom he was apprenticed, he secured
a place before the mast, and, with high
hope in his heart, sailed for the land of
sudden fortunes.
Duncan agreed wheq he signed the ship
papers to come back to Glasgow in her;
indeed, he could not draw all his wages
till he had done so, but once inside the
Golden Gate at ’Frisco, he did not permit
these restrictions to hamper his move
ments. He ran away from the ship, and
on foot started for tho diggings along the
western slope of the Sierras.
Afier a good deal of starving, which he
bore with a Scotchman’s fortitude, Dun
can secured a place, but he was quick to
see that at the wages he was earning it
would take from July to eternity to lay
by a modest competency, even if he saved
every cent.
While working in the diggings, with
the snow peaks looming above him to the
east, Duncan Koss did a groat deal of
quiet thinking as to the whysand where
fores of the gold deposits in which he was
cradling and digging, and this is how he
reasoned:
"All the free gold that is found along
these streams must have come from some
great dei>osit further up and back in the
mountains. I notice that much of this
alluvial gold is fastened to bits of quartz,
and so if quartz is not the mother of gold,
they are at least closely related. Now,
if I follow up one of these gold streams to
its source, I should come upon the quartz
rocks from which some of it has been
washed away, but the greater part must
be left behind. If, therefore. I can reach
the original deposit, the gold headquar
ters. as it were, I shall strike it rich. It’s
anew wrinkle at any rate, and I’ll try
it.”
He began this search in 1865, and
whenever he had money enough ahead to
buy grub, he kept it up till ’67. The
spring of that year found him prospect
ing about the headwaters of Kern river,
to the east of Tulare lake.
One evening, ragged and dirty, Dun
can Koss called on a weekly mining oper
ator at the Occidental hotel in San Fran
cisco. He looked so disreputable that Mr.
Baldwiu, “Lucky” Baldwin, was about
to order his visitor out, when he ad
vanced to the table and laying a soiled
handkerchief down on it with a bang, he
said in his rich Scotch accent:
“Mr. Baldwin, there's a wee bit some
thin’ in yon, I’d like you take a look at,”
pointing to tho handkerchief.
"Open the rag yourself,” said Bald
win, brusquely.
Tho young man complied, and brought
to light about six pounds of rich, angular
gold nuggets, the hits of glistening, ad
hering quartz showing at once that they
were not obtained by washing.
"Great Scott?” cried Baldwin, as he
leaned over the table,” “where did that
come from?”
"From a place,” replied Duncan,
“where there’s no end more of stuff just
like it.”
“And who owns the layout—tho find?”
“Well, Mr. Baldwin,” said Duncan, as
he held up the handkerchief, “that
claim is mine for every foot that the law
allows.”
“And you want to sell?”
“That's what I’m here for. If I can get
anything like tho price, I’ll sell and take
things kind of easy for a while,” was the
reply.
Baldwin was not the man to let slip
through his fingers a thing so full of
promise. With some friends, he investi
gated, and the outcome of it was that
Koss cot $500,000 for his interest, and the
parties, who bought, cleared ten times
tnat sum.
Duncan Koss had shown tho most ad
mirable qualities while struggling for
wealth ; now that he had won, his man
hood was to be put to a severe test iu
spending it.
It should be recorded to his credit, that
immediately, and before he bought a
gold watch, a diamond pin and expensive
clothes for himself, he sent a thousand
pounds to his old father iriGlasgow. This
done, he proceeded to mow a wide swath
down tho meadows of pleasure, with the
aid of all the modern appliances for such
work.
Be started overland for New York on
his way to Paris, after havingearminated
Ban 1 oaticiseo lor a month, and became
so attached to some new-found friends
that he offered to pav the expenses of
four of them as far as New York, and the
unselfish gentlemen were persuaded.
Much of the journey between the
Sierras and Omaha had to be done by
s ago, for the Uni n and Central Pacific
roads were not yet completed, but to
avoid the crowding of the regular con
veyance, Duncan Koss chartered stages
clear through for the exclusive use of
himself and his accomplished friends.
They stopped at Salt Lake, Denver and
Omaha on the way, and left a broad
streak of red along their trail
But all the grand times, since leaving
'Frisco, were dwarfed into insignificance
compared with the lurid orgies they in
augurated in Chicago. Duncan spent
fourteen day#—and as many nights—in
the w indy city. If there was a place in
the metropolis of the lakes that he should
not have gone into and did not go into,
he and his friends were not aware of
it when they started for New York.
From Chicago on there were two ad-
ditionul men with dyed mustaches and
wearing diamond pins, in the party.
With the . princely liberality born of ac
customed wealth, Duncan .hartered a
special ear. and with good and bad luck
—principally the latter, we mavbesure,
he and his friends kept up the game "just
for the fun of the thing, and betwein
friends, you know.”
He was just two months making the
trip from ’Frisco to New York, and as
this was only half way to Paris, Duncan
saw that he must make better time - if he
would see the fair then in progress.
One morning, after lie nad been ten
days in New York, he took an account of
stock, and was startled to find that one
half of his fortune was gone. He felt
like freeing himself of his triends, whose
true characters he began to suspect, but
he lacked the moral strength. He riiieht
as well have tried, unarmed, to release
himself from the strangling grip of an oc
topus.
"But there's enough left," he reasoned,
“and I'll be more careful in future."
But he was not more careful. Asa
matter of fact he became more reckless,
and the men with the dyed mustaches,
who now regarded him as their own pri
vate claim, by right of original discovery,
proceeded to work him with a boldness
and energy, compared with which their
transcontinental efforts were puerile in
deed.
At length and by desperate effort, Dun
can got started for Paris, but on board
the steamer, though he had uot paid
their passage, he fotmd two of his
friends.
From the time the steamer left Sandy
Hook till she entered the Mersey—with
the exception of a few hours given to
sleep, Duncan played his way across, and
he found lots of friends among the pas
sengers, ready to humor his whim for a
poker game, "just for the fun of the
thing, and between friends, you know."
It is unnecessary to mention the details
of this wild career. Duncan Koss reached
Paris with his friends. His often de
clared purpose was to spend a few weeks
at the fair, then to go to Glasgow and
visit his family, leaving them comforta
bly off ,before he started back to America.
Paris is a charming place at all times,
and it was particularly so during this
fair. The two weeks stretched into two
months of wild extravagance and reckless
dissipation.
One morning Duncan went to his bank
and found thot liis last .franc, had been
drawn. He examined his pocketbook
and found that he had but a few coins
left. He went to tho Grand hotel to find
his friends-but they had taken unto
themselves the wings of the morning and
vanished.
He was alone in a great city, moneyless,
and, as a consequence, friendless. He had
not the means to pay his way to Glasgow,
where his fond mother was eagerly await
ing him.
He sold his diamond pin and gold watch
at a sacrifice, got drunk to down his hn
miliatipn, was robbed in a dive, got into a
fight, and brought up in a lock-up.
He was released on condition that he
should leave the country at once. He
sold all his clothes but the suit he had on,
and after settling his hotel bill he had
just enough money left to pay for his
ticket to Calais, and over to Dover.
From Dover Duncan tramped all the
way to London, which place he reached,
with the soles worn from his shoes.
Through the influence of the American
consul in London, Duncan secured the
position of assistant cook on a sailing
vessel, his only compensation being his
passage.
Just thirteen weeks to a day from the
time he left New York in such splendor,
Duncan Ross found himself back in Bat
tery park, without home, money or
friends.
A tramp of the tramps, he at once
started out to “beat” his way hack to the
land where ho hnd discovered the Brother
of gold.
“It was in January, 1868,” continued
Capt. Burr, “and I was about to start
with some government wagons and an es
cort of the Eighth cavalry from Wiekers
burg in Arizona, to La Haz on the Col
orado river. A hundred miles of wild
country, infested by Apaches, lay before
us, and i was anxious to travel quickly
and in light marching order. As wo were
about to start a ragged, dirty young man
begged me, almost on his knees, to permit
him to travel with the protection of our
party to the Colorado. Seeing that tho
man was poor and that he was willing to
walk and to work, I gave a half reluctant
consent.
“That was Duncan Ross. On the way
he relieved the tedium of the journey by
telling me his remarkable story. At first
I was not inclined to believe him, but on
reaching San Francisco some time after I
found him corroborated in every par
ticular.
"Just ten months from the date of his
discovery, he had spent a half million
dollars, and poorer than when he began,
he was back in the Tulare valley search
ing for another mother of gold.
"And 6o I’ll end as I began, sudden
fortunes are dangerous, and it requires
more bruins to hold on to money than it
does to make it,” said Capt. Burr in con
clusion.
LOGGERS ON THE TRAIN
Unheard-of Excitement When They
Come Down on the Bangor and Aroos
took.
From the Lewiston Journal.
“Well, I’m all right, all right; I’ve shed
my skin an’l’ll eat supper in Bangor;
chicken an’ turkey an’ fried liver now,
after some four months of bub-bub-beans
and 'lasses doughnuts. I’m alright, whoo
up, woaw, an’ I want licker and fried
tripe, an’ I’ve got the stuff to settle the
bills—don’t forget that, friends and neigh
bors dear.
The big man tried to stand up iu the
car aisle, but the swaying was too much
for him. So he tumbled back into his seat
and began to fumble at hi# trousers pocket
with limp and uncertain fingers. His eyes
had that half-open, “I-don’t-care a-dang”
look that drunken men display, and his
mouth ran on and on. 'J he only pauses
came directly after he said: “Uck, have
suthiu’ with me, geu’iem.”
At those times there was a surging and
a crush of blue skirts and red shirts in
that corner of the car. Over their heads
the big “longnccker” circulated, turned
downward us significantly as the peak of
a wet moon.
The Maine woodsman of this type will
“licker up.” ’this has been his charac
teristic from tho old days, the tough and
tangle-footed old da.vs. wh. n the Cldtown
to the lake was one of strife and hurroos
and bloody noses. The woodsman is the
sailor all over again. Of course, lam not
referring to tho staid and temperate
family men, who go into the woods and
toil all winter that they may bring out a
snug bundle for tho wife and little ones,
But the happy, careless, thoughtless,
broad-shouldered, drinking, fighting,
mercurial woodsman, whose home is
where he takes off his hat, forms the
type of the Maine slayer of forest giants,
after all.
To study him. ride on the Bangor and
Aroostook train to Moosehead Lake. He is
indigenous to the smoking car. if you
ride back in the other coaches, you may
hear an occasional whoop and yell, but
you will not realize what truly exhilara
ting tableaux aro occurring in the car
ahead. The frisky woodsman considers
that ho has sufficient excuse for entering
upon a wild debauch when he rides upon
the Bancor and Aroostook railroad to or
from Moosehead. When he goes in he is
bound toward compulsory abstinence that
must continue tor several mouths. There
fore he makes the most of’ hisopportunity,
and goes into the dreary woods in a state
boniering closely on paralysis. This mode
of retiring from the world has the virtue
of dulling the edge of regret. When he
We Have Boiioht,
and have just received, a tremendous
line ot Fine CIothing—TWENTY
FIVE PERCENT. LOWER m
than our earlier purchases of JBF
this season cost us.
This 2S Per Cent, goes toM,||M
the PUBLIC. If our
prices drive competition into My
the Shoals of Desperation, figi
This Week's Prices will drive |PH\
it high up' on the BEACH BH
OF DESPAIR. |X
When you are indiscreet enough to buy
clothing from anybody without consult
ing US you are PICKING YOUR
OWN POCKET. SHAKE THE CO
COANUT YOURSELF.
MANHATTAN,
comes he has plenty of money and a
thirst whetted by four months of absolute
sobriety. When the woodsman boards
the train at Greenville junction the spree
is usually well under way and by the
time Bangor is reached, if the man has
escaped arrest on the way down, he is in
excellent shape for the harpies that lie
in wait to pluck him.
The woodsmen “run” springs and falls.
Just now they are coming out. in a lew
weeks they will start back for the drives,
thirty or forty at a time. These crowds
are just the samo as they were twenty
tears ago. not quite so quarrelsome, per
haps, but just as noisy and as able to soak
rye whisky. Yet they are honest, jolly
fellows after all, most of them as careless
of tho future as butterflies.-sonie of them
in as gay colors, too. If, after all their
quaffing and chaffing and laughing, thoy at
last fall to fighting, it’s all in the way of
the fun, and no one ever gets seriously
hurt. It’s simply a Donnybrook on the
rail, and if the passage was quiet and
peaceful the big fellows would feel as
though they had been deprived of some
thing they had paid for.
The other day a man with a silk hat
walked through the smoking car on the
Moosehead route. Never did a silk hat
have a narrower escape from everlasting
teles, ope. There was a chorus of “Swipe
the spark catcher.” “Pulldown the dog
house.” “Never tetched it, hut this is
the time.” The man with the hat was
agile, hut he found it a dizzy task to dodge
tho moccasins, the old hats, and the
sweeping cuffs that were leveled at the
provoking tile At the. end of the car a
big red faced man, who wore tv blue
striped jacket, rose up before him aud
put up a detaining hand. In a Voice husky
with engerness he said:
“Say, mister, I want to smash that hat.
Jest take pity on me. ter < iamis sake. do.
1 ’ve been in the woods fer live months,
fed on bean swagon aud ginger cookies, i
ain’t even drunk liker till three hours
ago. 1 ain’t had no fun of any kind. 1
want ter smash that hat, ter metier it all
ter gosh. It’ll do me more good than a
turkey dinner an 1 a minstrel show. Jest
pity my feelin’s. Here, here’s the stuff.
Help yourself outer that wad. Take $lO
—take it or more— oniy jest let me
smahter once.”
The man with the hat dodged just in
time to escape a broad hand that came
down like the rush of a snowslide. The
woodsman tumbled onto his knees, at id
the silk hat, after dodging a dunnage hag,
escaped into tho next ca-r. On human
phiz I have never seen a more disap
pointed look than that on the lace of the
woodsman as ho pulled himself to his feet.
"lies he gone?” he asked bred hlessi.y.
Koine one pointod toward the next car.
"The sou of a gun !”
Then the man who wanted to buy fun
walked unsteadily to the car door and
looked back into the next coach. There
sat Silk Hat, reading a paper. He
wouldn’t look up at the frantic motions
made b,• Blue Jacket. Blue Jacket then,
at the risk of his life, teetered out on the
platform and rapped sharply on the glass
door of the coach wherein sat Silk Hat.
Of c ourse every one looked up, and no
one understood the extraordinary demon
stration that ensued.
Blue Jacket held up a $lO bill and lifted
his eyebrows appealingly.
Silk Hat shook his head.
.Bluejacket unhesitatingly fumbled at
his wad and held up two $1 bills beside
tho ten.
Silk Hat looked annoyed and shook bis
hcail again.
A look of distress crept over Blue
Jacket's face, nnd he held to the knob of
the door and gazed at Silk Hat with a
long, appealing, fascinated stare. Mis
mouth twisted in the contortions of coax
ing with unspoken words.
Silk Hat gazed back with unsoftening
silence.
Bluejacket tore away his eyes with a
sudden movement and thumbed his wad.
Ihen he held against the glass a tea and
a five, and this time his look of supplica
tion was fairly excruciating.
Silk Hat scowled refusal and held up
his paper before his face. Blue Jacket
looked at the barricade disconsolately
and turned to go back to the smoking
car. Half way across the platform he
paused, then came back and half opened
the door. With his head inside he
shouted:
“Say, you duck with tho snuffer on.
You ain’t neither a scholar nor a gen
tlemun (ick), and I can lick the tar outer
you if you’ll come out hero (ock) where
there ain’t no ladies.”
Silk Hat remained buried in his paper,
and Blue Jacket, after this scornful
snort went back to the smoker.
"That feller ain’t got no heart and no
sand in his gizzard. They ain’t nothin’
left, lor me to do but kick out a winder,”
and smash went the great chalked boot
through the glass.
"Don't get fussy now,” said he, as the
conductor came running up. “I pay as I
go, an’ I’ve got the stuff all counted out
lor ye. But. oh. wouldn’t that hat Just
er fatted me ’crost the ribs!”
Woman's hand may be p a 'e and delicate,
but shecan piok upu hotter plate than a man
—Texas Siftings.
KJBUCATIONS.
MAY
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DRY GOODS.
139 Broughton Slretl.
Bin loi Dry Goods or us.
Those new Dimities have arrived—Pink and
White. Blue and White, Heliotrope and
White Strine.
Sec our Cheviots for boys' kilts and ladles’
waists: neat patterns at 3.1 c a yard.
New line of Figured Lawns at sc.
CINCHAMS.
All our 23c Ginghams Monday only 19c.
Ladles’ and Children’s Under
wear.
• lluv them now. Our stock Is complete.
Ladles >. au/e Vests, long and short sleeves,
25c.
Ladies' Rlbted Vests. V and siunreneck,
11)0.
< hlldren’s Ribbed Vests, special this week
15c.
TABLE LINEN.
Red Damask this week 39c; usually 50c.
Hath ’) oo's. 50 inches long only 3" c.
Damask Towels. 45 laches long, only 35c.
JEWELRY.
Sterling Sliver Hat Plus entirely new. 230.
Silver Daggers just received, 10c and 150.
New lino sterling Silver Belt Buckles.
WAISTS.
The latest styles of Ladles' Shirt Waists
have arrived. See the White Pique Em
broidered Front, and White Linen standing
un.l . uru Down Collars; all tailor made.
Boys Shirt Wulsts l6c. 85c and 50c.
Girls' Blouse Waists, special this week 750^
Special sale of Embroide
ries at 5c and 10c.
New Belts, New Ribbons,
New Fans.
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HOW nro your offlee supplies ? Want any
thin t for next month, or In a hurry ? If
vo.scnd your orders for printing lithographing
and blank hooka to Morning News,
Ga.
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