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SUNDAY. JUNE 10. 1894.
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THIS ISSUE
CONTAINS
SIXTEEN PACES
INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
. Meetings— Mass Meetings of the Demo
eratic Party of Chatham County.
Special Notices— Election for Directors
of the Citizens' Bank of .Savannah; Notice
to Water Takers; E. I. Okarma, Savannah's
Leading Shoemaker; Articles of Real Merit,
Henry Solomon & Son: Notice of Dissolution
of J. K. Bedell & Son; Mr. Grogan, the Ex
pert Dyer and Cleaner: Edison's New Phon
ograph Pader Now Open; Second Hand
Books for Sale. J. Gardner; Important No
tice, Lovell Si Lattimore: Concert Every
Evening and Premium Pale Beer at the
Gaiety; Headquarters for Meyer Bee.r. Geo.
Schwarz; Premium Pale Beer at the Pear
•on: Faust Beer at Jack Carr s Base Bail In
firmary; Andy Jackson s Oil Headquarters;
Notice as to Milk, Vale Royal Hairy.
Incredible— Bon Marche.
Every Article as Advertised—At Eck
stein's.
Winner No. 2— Plymouth Rock Pants Com
pany.
Herald Saving—At Logan's.
Prices That Mare Your Eyes Pop—
Leopold Adler.
Hotel—Hotel Kndlcott, New York City.
Ladies:—B. H. Levy & Bro.
Mbs. Hopkins' Picture—B. H. Levy &
Bro.
Full to Overflowing—Coilat.
Ladies' Blouse Waists—At Gutman's.
le % Y*w Want a Nice Pair or Shoes—
B.vck Bros.
The gcrnet Refrigerator—G. W.
Allen & Cp.
Our Specialties This Week—James Me-
Grath A Cos.
Still Sei.ling Out— Meyer & Walsh.
Enormous Reductions—Foye & Morrison.
Bicycles. Etc.—Oppenheimer. Slo.u & Cos.
Scratch Your Head—Appel & Schaul.
Certainly We Have A Great Lin*—
Emil A. Schwarz.
We Tune Pianos—L. & 8., S. M. H.
Amusements— St. Paul's Sunday School
Picnic to Warsaw, Tuesday, June 12.
Last Week ok The Pike Sale—At Krous
koff's.
Cheap Column advertisements—Help
Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Kent;
For Sale; Lost: Personal: Miscellaneous.
It Is to be hoped that the advent of the
watermelon season will institute an era
of good feeling between the democratic
factions.
The Oconee Enterprise calls for the es
tablishment by the state of a sanitarium
in which political soreheads may be
treated. That, however, would be an un
necessary expense; the democratic voters
of the state are consigning them to tho
politioal liinbo fast enough.
When the republicans in congress are
driven to the last ditch in a party or par
liamentary fight, they resort to bullying
and talking of the revival of tho issues of
thirty-five years ago, as Senator Hale did
Friday- The talk means nothing, of
Course, more than that the talkers are in
desperato straits. Such tactics, however,
are characteristic of the party.
The gubernatorial contest Is not
yet settled, though the race is at present
a little one sided. The convention will
be made up of 350 delegates, about one
half of which are yet to he selected.
There is room for some very surprising
changes, even before the contestants
enter the last quarter. The homestretch
spurt is frequently the winning point in
the race. An old horse named Diablo
won the Brooklyn handicap last year.
In the Georgia handicap, an old warhorse
may run like Diablo toward the finish.
The Washington corresi>ondentß have
advanced the prophesied date for the
final vote on the tarifT bill from Juno 15
to June 18. Three days really would not
make much difference, if there was any
assurance that three days would be all to
be added to the first estimate. It remains
to be seen, however, how much time is
taken upon the wool schedule. It may
be that the break in the opposition will
come while wool is under discussion, and
that thereafter the progress of the bill to
ward passage will be like that of a naked
pickaninny down a greased plank.
The republicans have got a political
epigram that Tom Heed didn't make, and
they arc happy. “Billy the Dandy,” of
New Hampshire, and “Pedagogue” Blair,
also of New Hampshire, after a season of
incubation, hatched from their mare’s
nest in the Wilson bill, the expression,
“It is better to kill time than kill indus
tries.” Blair tried it in the, House first
and it went only fairly well, but the next
day, when Chandler spraug it upon the
Senate, the correspondents caught on and
gave the little fledgeling wings. The
point of it, of course, is to excuse the
republican filibusters for their time kill
ing and industry killing delay of the
tariff bill. It is said that Senator Chand
ler is so please! with his product that he
>tecps the expression standing at the
head of the editorial column of his news
paper at home.
Legislation That Is Needed-
There are laws regulating the traffic
charges of railroads and laws preventing
railroads from forming pools. Indeed,
there are all sorts of laws intended to
protect shippers and travelers by rail,
but there are no effective laws for the
protection of those who purchase railroad
securities. False statements are tfiade'of
the earning power of railroads, and by
that means millious of dollars worth of
securities are unloaded on people who
have not the means of findiugout whether
t\ie roads on which the securities are
issued are insolvent or not, or whether
they can earn the interest on their obliga
tions.
The men who unload worthless securi
ties on the public are no better than rob
bers, and they ought to be dealt with as
robbers. It Is often the case that the
main object of the men who form a com
pany to build a railroad is not to deal
honestly with the public, but to get the
public to invest a great deal more money
in the road than it cost to build it. They
issue bonds and stock to a far greater
amount than the road can carry, and
then get the public to take the securities
by making a false showing of the road's
earnings. And there are many recent
cases where men have obtained control of
solvent railroad properties, and have
filled their pockets to the injury of the
original security holders by issuing a vast
amount of new securities, the interest on
which the properties cannot earn.
Wrecking schemes of this sort are dis
honest. and yet the men who conceive
and execute them aro accorded a place
among honest men. Ought they to be
permitted to enjoy tbeir plunder! Why
shouldn’t they be dealt with just as other
offenders?
The United States has begun a suit to
hold the estate of the late .Senator Stan
ford responsible for a portion of the in
debtedness of the Central Pacific railroad
to the government. The amount of this
indebtedness is about $70,000,000, no part
of which is the government likely to get.
The question arises, what became of the
vast sums of money contributed to build
the Central Pacific railroad. It is said
that the road did not costover $30,000,000,
and it has been estimated that< it did not
cost over $15,000,000. The government,
besides contributing $60,000,000 in bonds,
donated 18,000,(XX) acres of land, esti
mated to be worth nearly $80,000,000. The
first mortgage bonds, in which the gov
ernment has no share, amount to $27,806,-
680, and stock amounting to $120,000,000,
has been sold. Much of the stock was
sold at $l2O per share.
Tho chief men in the company, Stan
ford, Croker and Huntington wero not
worth $400,000 in 1861. In 1860 they were
estimated to be worth $30,000,000, and to
day Huntington alone is believed to be
worth that much. These three men had
the management of the company which
built the road. As an illustration of how
money was made by them, it is said that
Croker received $88,726,600 in gold for
building 552 miles of the road, seven
eighths of which was on a level plain.
For another piece of the road of sixty
eight miles he received $178,000 per mile,
although the actual cost was not half
that amount.
It is apparent, if these figures are cor
rect, what became of the government’s
money, and how the large fortunes of
Huntington, Croker and Stanford were
accumulated. Ought not these men, or
their estates, be made to pay this road’s
indebtedness to the government? If not,
why?
The Share of the Duchess.
Our dispatches Friday stated that the
celebrated Sutherland will case had been
compromised, the Dowager Duchess of
Sutherland getting *2,500,000 in cash and
an annuity of $25,000 a year, and the Duke
of Sutherland taking the residue of the
estate. The estate is very large, the in
come from it amounting to about $750,000
a year. The duke therefore is still a very
rich man, notwithstanding the large sum
given to the Dowager Duchess.
There >s considerable interest felt in
this case in this section of the south from
the fact that the late Duke of Sutherland
and his wife resided for several years at
Dunedin, Fla., where he had a very hand
some home and a large tract of land. In
fact, it was at his Florida place that he
married the “Widow Blair,” the pres
ent Dowager Duchess. The marriage
took place about four months after the
death of the duke's first wife.
The duke became very much attached
to Mrs. Blair while she was the wife of
Author Kindersley Blair, who had
charge of the duke's deer forests. The
duke accidentally shot Blair. After
Blair's death the duke, although 60 years
of age, became still more infatuated with
Blair’s widow.
The duke’s children and old servants
didn’t regard the marriage with favor
and refused to remain in the same house
with her. Indeed, the “Widow Blair”
as the Duchess of Sutherland didn’t
have a happy time with the duke’s rela
tives and friends in England. In
Florida, however, they appear to
have been happy. They had a
pleasant home and it was always pretty
well filled with company.
The dowager duchess has had a rather
stormy l)fe of it siuce the duke’s death.
She was fined $1,250 and confined in jail
for six months for burning an important
paper connected with the will. She has
plenty of money now, aud with her
wealth can find enough friends to make
life endurable. She is hardly a welcome
guest at the home of the present Duke of
Sutherland.
Honest Primarioß.
The meeting al Catholic Library hall
Friday night voiced the best sentiment of
this community. We must have an hon
estly conducted primary election. In
order to have such an election men of in
tegrity and ability must be chosen as
members of the democratic county exec
utive committee. That committee will
have charge of the primary. Upon it will
depend whether or not tlie will of the
democracy of the county shall be ex
pressed.
The committee is to be chosen next
Tuesday night. Each district iu the
county will hold a mass meeting. The
hour and places for holding these meet
ings have been fixed, it is the duty of
all citizens who are interested in having
an honest primary aud good men to repre
sent the county in tho legislature to be
present at these meetings and assist in
selecting men whom they cau trust for
members of the county executive com
mittee,
Tlie importance of having a thoroughly
THE MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY. JUNE 10, I*o4.
trustworthy committee caanot be over
estimated. Those who fail or neglect to
attend the meetings, thinking the choos
ing of a committee is a matter of minor
importance, will make a great mistake —
a mistake they may have cause to regret.
To assist in selecting the committee is a
duty that no citizen who has the least
interest in this county can afford toshirk.
The Cripple Creek War.
The trouble between the miners at
Cripple Creek. Col., and the authorities is
practically ended. For several days it
amounted almost to war. The thousands
of miners that had struck were well
armed, and they defied the sheriff and his
posse and the military. Happily an ad
justment of the trouble was reached with
out a conflict.
Cripple Creek is the center of the great
gold mining region of Colorado. It has
about 7,000 inhabitants, and is a typical
gold mining town. It is near the western
base of Pike's Peak, is about 9,400 feet
above the level of the sea, and is twenty
miles in a straight line from Colorado
Springs.
The Cripple Creek mining district is
only a part of the gold mining region of
Colorado—a region which is 4200 miles
long and 80 miles wide, every part of
which bears the marks of the gold pros
pector. There are thousands of
holes into which the miner has
put his probe, and in a few
places mines that pay handsome divi
dends are being operated.
The Cripple Creek mines were dis
covered just about the time silver mining
began to lose its attractions because of
the steadily declining price of silver. The
miners went from Leadville and other
places where enormous amounts of sil
ver had been mined and began a search
for gold. The understanding was that
the world had enough silver for the
present, ana that it wanted gold. The
Colorado miners determined to supply
this want.
The finding of gold at Cripple Creek in
paying quantities created the wildest ex
citement in mining 'circles and
the rush to the new mines was
so great that the attention of the whole
civilized world was attracted by it. And
the prospect is that the mines will fulfill
all expectations entertained of them.
East year they yielded more than $2,250,-
000, and the yield this year will reach
$7,000,000. It is certain that the gold
yield of Colorado will steadily increase,
and within five years, it is reasonably ex
pected, it will be as much as $30,000,000 a
year.
Asa matter of fact, the silver craze Is
losing its hold upon the people of Col
orado. They are becoming almost wholly
interested in gold mining. One Colorado
pioueer makes the prediction that “two
years from now Colorado will have for
gotten sheerer was a silver state.”
The mining sensation in Colorado is
the Nowhousc tunnel, near Idaho Springs.
This tunnel is being built into Seaton
mountain, and is intended to drain a very
rich gold bearing region. It is now con
structed for 1,0(10 feet under the base of
the mountain, and when completed it
will be about five miles in length. The
cost of it will be immense, but it is esti
mated that it will make $200,000,000 of
gold accessible.
It looks as if the silver question would
settle itself within a very few years. The
increase in the production of gold and the
decrease in the production of silver will
close the gap between the values of the
two metals, so that silver can again be
coined at the ration of 16 to 1.
A Warning From New York.
The whole country is in a measure in
terested in the investigation of the police
of New York city, which the Lexow com
mittee is making. The persons who are
charged with being guilty of various cor
rupt practices are Tammany politicians of
high standing, and Tammany is a power
ful political organization known through
out the length and breadth of the land.
The testimony that has been given
thus far is calculated to create the im
pression that the whole police depart
ment, from the police commissioners
down to the humblest roundsman, is
rotten to the core. The charges against
police commissioners, police captains*
sergeants and patrolmen are backed up
by evidence which appears to be conclu
sive. Indeed, officials outside of
the police appear to have had a
share of the money out of which
the keepers of brothels, saloons
and music halls were blackmailed. The
amount of this money collected annually
must have been enormous reaching
many hundreds of thousands of dollars.
One conclusion from the disclosures is
that if the people of any city permit a lot
of unscrupulous men to get control of
their municipal affairs they are certain
to have a mockery made of justice, to be
robbed in every possible wav, and to have
taxes piled upon them almost to the point
of confiscation.
The Lexow committee has had great
difficulty in getting witnesses. Those
who have been blackmailed are afraid to
testify. If the,re were assurances of ab
solute protection it is believed there
would be revelations that would startle
the whole country. As it is. it is prob
able that enough evidence will be ob
tained not only to bring about a thorough
reform in the police department, but to
effect an entire change in the character
of the men who control the municipal af
fairs of the city.
It is reported that Tammany will throw
overboard all who are detected in wrong
doing. In that event there may be reve
lations that are not even suspected now.
Among those who would be punished and
disgraced if such a policy were adopted
there would be some who would seek re
venge by telliDg all they knew of corrupt
practices.
The disclosures that are being made In
New York should be a warning to the
people of other cities to put only capable
and trustworthy men in office.
The Japanese government has taken
proper and commendable steps to stop
emigration to any country that does not
desire Japanese immigration. No emi
grant will hereafter be permitted to leave
Japan without having first obtained a
passport; and no passport will be issued
by the government if the country to
which the emigrant wishes to go. shall be
one the government of which objects to
an influx of Japanese laborers. A similar
law in China would be a great aid to this
country iu carrying out its anti-Chinese
policy If no Chinese of the prohibited
class were permitted to leave China there
would, of course, be none arriving here.
PERSONAL
The health of Miss Florence Nightingale
has been failing since the death of her broth
er-in-law. Sir Harry Verney with whom she
made her home.
The Rev. Dennis Hlrd. a clergyman of the
Church of England, was una:le to get a
charge because of his being a social democrat.
Lady Henry Somerset has just presented a
living to him.
W E. Cole and Mrs. Edith Gerhardt. both
of whom had leen divorced, were married at
Neenah. Wis., the other dav. She had been
free six weeks, while he had only been a fort
night at liberty.
When Lord Chief Justice Coleridge retires
from office he will be entitled to a pension of
$26,866. He was appointed in iB6O and if he
continues in office one year longer he will be
entitled to $35,000
George Gould's devotion to the sport of
yachting dates back to the days of his early
boyhood. At the age of 15 he had established
a reputation as a skillful and practical
yachtsman.
Claus Spreckels is going to Europe, and
says that he has retired from active life and
is not interested in sugar The world ob
serves that he has certainly raised enough
cane to make his old age comfortable.
Dr. Donaldson Smith, of Philadelphia, who
explored Somaliland on the African coast of
the Gulf of Aden in 1883. will start June 1 on
a scientific expedition to the unknown region
between Beruera and Lake Rudolph.
Dr. Fauve, of Paris, anuounces that the
olor of flowers has a pernicious effect on the
human voice, and for that rea-on advises
that the practice of presening flowers to
musical and dramatic artists be discontinued.
Alexander H. Rice, of Boston, who served
in four successive congresses, is 76 years of
age. and sat in the House while Galusha
Grow wielded the gaiel. He was also mayor
of Boston and thrice governor of Massa
chusetts.
It is expected that Dr. Edward Nettfeship
Will receive 2.000 guineas ($10,000) for his
operation on Mr. Uladston ; seye. Moreover,
he is almost certain to become the fashion
able physician Of Loudon and it is not un
likely that he will be made a baronet.
Senator George, of Mississippi, preserves
the primeval customs of the plantation in
Washington. He goes to bed not long after
sundown—usually between 8 and 8 o'clock
rises in time for a 6 o'clock breakfast, and
otherwise regulates his habits by the sun.
One of the most industrious students of
Radcliffe college, is Miss Shids Mori, a Jap
anese girl. Her father is a wealthy banker of
Yanagawa. Klushu. Japan and all the family
are devoied Christians. Miss Mori has come
to this country to fit herself by study for mis
sionary work in her native country.
BRIGHT BITS.
Contentment is better than money, and just
about as scarce.—'Texas Sittings.
Connoisseur—You say this Corot costs $3,-
000 and this one J 5,090. I can see no ditier
ence in them.
Dealer—But this one ismuch more genuine,
you see.—Brooklyn Life.
Mistress—You must really break off
that dreadful habit. Baoettie of always want
ing to have the last word.
Maid—But how am I to know, ma'am, that
you have nothing more to say?—Le Figaro.
“I don't understand why May is celebrating
her 18th birthday."
"What's wrong about it?”
“Why? she has only been 17 tor two years.”
—Chicago Tribune.
“My heart is light,
He gaily said.
“I thought,” she murmured,
“ ’Twus your hea l
—Washington Star.
Mrs. Jinnywing (to distinguished foreign
visitor)—That piece my daughter is playing
is extremely difficult. Baron.
Baron Bresel (in extreme agony) Ahl
madam. 1 wish it was lmpos-iiile.:—Halio.
“I can t understand." said Mr. Potts, “how
is it that ail these anarchists run to whiskers
It seems to me that the man who doesn't have
to submit to the tortures of a barber ought to
be the most peaceable person in the world."—
Indianapolis Journal.
Imp - Why so merry to-dav, sir?
His Satantic Majesty—l have been upon
earth, watching the Decoration flay parades,
and the way the different Grand Army Posts
squabbled ior the right of line was simply de
lightful.—Brooklyn Lagle.
Irate Passenger (scrambling into a Broad
way car that did not stopi -Suppose I'd slipped
and lost a leg, what then?
Conductor—l guess you wouldn't have to do
any more jumping then. We always stop for
a man with crutches.—Hallo.
CURRENT COMMENT.
The “Man of the Future.”
From Springfield (Mass.) Republican (Ind.).
Lord Hoseberry had Mr. Gladstone s refer
ence to him as "the man of the future"
quoted at him by a Manchester orator, lately;
when he returned thanks for the complimen
tary speech he observed, and doubtless with
feeling, lam 1 eginning to think it is a great
deal easier to be the man of the future than
the man of the present.”
More Talk of Boodle.
Washington Letter in Chicago Record (Ind.).
T hero are rumors about to-night that the
votes of tho populist senators were obtained
by fat Dromises from the sugar trust of sub
scriptions to the campaign t'uuds next fall.
’1 he populists actually and sincerely believe
that they are going to capture a majority of
the next House of Representatives and elect
the next President, and they will need money
to carry on their campaign, which might as
well as not be obtained i y "foraging upon the
enemy," as Senator Van Wyck used to say.
The Ten Per Cent. Tax.
From Charleston News ami Courier (Dem.i.
The defeat of the bill to repeal the tax on
state banks was. perhaps, the best thing con
gress eoulu have done at this time and under
the circumstances. The tax is. as wo believe,
an unjust tax. an unconstitutional tax, and
was imposed as an emergency measure at q
time when the government was in sore
straits, ami. as we have said, it should be re
pealed at the earliest practicable moment,
but not before some thoroughly sound and ac
ceptable system of banking has been agreed
upon to take the place of the present
national banking system.
The People Favor Sound Money.
From the New York Post (Ind. >.
The canvass for the democratic nomination
for the governorship in Georgia, like the
similar contest in Alabama, shows that sound
money ideas are stronger among the people
than the politicians supposed. When the
campaign opened, both of the leading candi
dates showed that they thought it would be
popular to condemn the t.nuncial policy of
the Cleveland administration and to declare
in favor of free stiver coinage. ■Hut as
the county conventions have been held, one
after another has indorsed the President's
policy, until now both of the candidates have
felt constrained to change their tone and fall
in with the evident feeling of the people.
Such tests of publi. sentiment as last momh s
in Alabama ami the present one in Georgia
must be regarded as decisive, for the ques
tions at issue have been thoroughly discussed
and nothing like a snap judgment is possible.
An Accident at the Capitol.
This morning, says the Chicago Record's
Washington letter, while all the statesmen
who t card at the Arlington hotel—and they
are many—weie standing arovnd after ureak
fast an express wagon stopped at the Ver
mont avenue entrance, and a barrel was
polled in w hich was marked ' Sugar'' in large
letters at either end. It was immediately
surrounded Dy a eio.vd of curious inspectors,
who uegan to make remarks.
"Great intt " exclaimed Representative
Strauss of New York, “thisls the most brazen
act i ever witnesied. it must have been
shipped immediately after the vote was taken
yesterday.'
Whom is It addressed to?” asked John
Boyd Thacher. who stood by.
“is it marked Gorman. or Brice, or Voor
hees. or Vest, or Carlisle r " asked another.
' May be it is intended for the populist sen
ators ' suggested a third.
Then t irsi Assistant Postmaster General
Jones came along and posed his cane gently
into a cia. k that gaped at the head of the oar
rel. "Gentlemen h" remarked, sadly. “It
seems to be full of sawdust.''
“Thai s Just what one would expect.' ob
served Senator Carey, “and it's a out all tho
populisms w ill get out of tlielr bunko game.'
t have heard of the sawdust game efore."
said a representative from a granger district
' -end for Brice and let s have it opened,
demanded an impertinent newspaper man.
but the porter of the hotel came and rolled
the barrel away.
The Good Time Was Qualified.
Among the passengers going over on one of
the ferry boats yesterday afternoon, says the
Detroit Free Press, was an old man with a
red but good natured face, a bald pate, with a
fringe of gray hair around it, ahd an evident
desire to talk Pretty soon he selected his
man and said:
l m just goin" hum after bein' in Detroit
fur two weeks ”
' Have you enjoyed yourself? - ’ was asked in
reply.
'Yes. fairly well, considerin' that I had an
attack of colic four different times, and that
left knee has bothered me with rheumatiics.
It’s kind of a queer place, though ”
• How queer?"
Oh. wall, everybody is kinder coltish. 11l
bet that over forty fellows dug their elbows
into me and hustled me around and the boys
■sassed me in the most dreadful manner. I
w'as on the street car and took some cough
sirup out of a bottle and everybody tittered
and giggled”
' But you didn't mind it?”
' Oh: no. 1 didn t. l m kinder coltish my
self, and it takes a heap to get me iightin’
mad. I was on a street car one day where
there was four or five wimin standin’ up,
while auout a dozen men were talkin’ it
mighty comfortable. Made me sort o' riled
to see it, an'l got up nn said: ‘Ail the hogs
will keep right on sluin' down and chawin’
terbacker. while all the gentlemen will git up
and let these wimin folks sit down! wall,
Rir, as many as six of them fellers offered to
lick me, and one of them did haul off to crack
at me. He'd a hit me on the jaw, sure's
you're born, if I hadn t bristled right up to
him and got my jackknife out. ’
"Yoq talked to em just right.”
' Yes. I guess I did. Another time I was
on a car when a feller in a wagon wouldn't
N't off the track. The driver lie did more
whistlin' than would call my old dog fur ten
years, but the feller wouldn't git off. Sorter
riled me to see a man actin' so pizen mean,
and I yelled: Look u-here. mister, if you was
“ livin’ out our way and showed your mean
ness alter this fashion; you’d git rode on a
rail quickem’ s.at. and I'd be one to help
carry it .” Wall.sir.be jumps down and was
goin to pull me off the platform, and he
talked about sir.ashin' my jaw and
tweakin' my ribs till a policeman walked him
off."
Any other adventures?”
"Wa 1 one evening X went up to a police
man at the postofflee. He was lookin' tired
and sleepy, and I offere 1 to spell him fur a
coup.e of hours If he wanted,to go and take a
nao. What do you thing he did? Come
m gbty nigh arrestin'mef Said I was inter
ferin'with an officer: I seen he was one o’
them techy sort, and so I let him alone. Are
they ail that way?"
"No, not at alt. But then ho didn't under
stand you motive probably.”
" 'Nother time.” continued the old man. “I
met a policeman on the dock and asked him
if it and on't make him giddy and upset his
stomach to be so high up over the water, and
he got mad in a minit and squared off at me.
Ain t no mortal use in anybody bein’ so can
tankerous as al! that."
"But. on the whole, you've had a good time,
haven't you?"
"On the hull I’ve had a darned good time
fur an old man like me, and I'm a-carryin'
hum over leven dollars wuth o' presents to
the family! I’ve been sassed and elbowed,
and I've come raightv nigh havin' 'bout six
fights, but. on the hull, it's all right, and I'm
goin' h im to do some of the tallest braggin’
you ever heard of!”
Bob Ingersoll’s Kindness.
Col. Ingersoll has the kindest of hearts
toward all mankind, says the Chicago lnter-
Ocean. Only a few days ago a newspaper
man told me a character story about him.
This newspaperman found himself in New
York out at elbow, unable to get work and
unwilling, of course, to ask alms, in his
strait it occurred to him to go to see Col.
ingersoll, although he was quite sure that
the colonel would not remember the single
occa-dou wdien they had met.
Well, whot can I do for you. young man?”
said the colouel, coming right to the point.
"I am a newspaper reporter, and want you
to give me an interviow.”
"On what subject?"
"Any subject you please, sir.”
“T or what paper?”
"For any paper that will buy it of me.”
''Well, that's cool: Don’t you know my
time is valuable?”
"Yes; but Xamin a tight place. I am out
of work; I don t know which wav to turn.
There is no market for what I write. There
is always a market for what you say. Talk to
me twenty minutes and it w ill be $25 or ssl) in
my pocket.”
•But 1 would rather give or lend you the
money."
“l couldn't take It as a gift, and I have no
right to ask a loan. X want to earn it. and
think lam justified in as.iing charity to the
extent of a few minutes of your time."
"All right,” was the cheery rejoinder.
“Fire away with your questions."
The reporter "tired away" on the first topic
tha* came into his mind, and soon had ma
terial which he made into copy salable to a
syndicate for *IOO. Nor was Ingersoll's good
nature exhausted with a single Interview.
Said my friend: “I ate. drank and slept on
Ingersoll for a month, or until I got regular
work, and whenever he r ave me an interview
he went over my notes and touched them up
until the matter was In his best style. That's
the sort of a man Ingersoll Is.”
At Play.
Eugene Field, in the Chicago Record.
Play that you are a mother dear
And play that papa is your beau;
Play that we sit in the corner here,
Just as we used to. long ago.
Playing so, we lovers two
Are just as happy as we can be.
And I'll say "i love you” to you
And you say "i love you" to me!
“I love you" we both shall say,
All in earnest and all in play.
Or. play that vou are that other one
That some time came, and went away;
And play that the light of years agone
stole into mv heart again to-day!
Playing that you are the one I knew
In the days that never again may be,
I’ll say "1 love you" to you
Aud you say "I love you" to me!
“I love you !" mv heart shall sav
To the ghost of the past come back to-day!
Or play that you sought this nestling place
For your own sweet self, with that dual
guise
Of your pretty mother in your face
And the look of that other in your eyes!
So the dear old loves shall live'anew
As 1 hold my darling oh my knee,
And I'll say, "1 love you” to you
And you sav “I love gpu' tome!
Oh. many a strange true thing we say
And do when we pretend to play!
A Definition of Electricity.
“The story goes,” says the Street Railroad
and Electricial News, "that when Prof. Gali
leo Ferrarts, the Italian scientist, was asked
by a young lady what electricity was. open
ing her autograph book he wrote thus: "Max
well has demonstrated that luminus vibra
tions can be nothing else than periodic vibra
tions of electro magnetic forces. Hertz. In
proving by experiments that electro magnetic
oscillations are propagated like light has
given an experimental oasis to the theory of
Maxwell. This gave birth to the idea that
the luminiferous ether and the seat of elec
tric and magnetic forces are one and thesime
thin:. This being esta dished. I can now mv
dear lady, reply to the question that you" put
to me: What is electricity It Is not only the
formidable agent which now and then shat
ters and tears the atmosphere, terrifying -vou
with the crash of Its thunder, but it is also
the life giving agent which sends from heaven
to earth, with the light and the heat the
magic of colors and the birth of life. It is
that which makes your heart beat to the pal
pitation of the outside world, It Is that which
has the power to transmit to vour soul the
enchantment of a look and the grace of a
smile.”
The area of the Czar’s Individual possess
ions of land is greater than the entire extent
of France.
.„ POWDER.
Awarded Highest Honors World’s Fair.
OS_i^Powclel
The only Pure Cream of Tartar Powder.-No Ammonia; No Alua.
Used m Millions of Homes—do Years the Standard,
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
In Europe during the early years of the
middle ages no woman was allowed to appear
in church ut.less her face was covered with a
veil.
There are more than 2 OX) girl students at
present in the London Guildhall school of
music, and of these about 300 are studying the
violin.
Nelson's old battle ship the Foudroyant, Is
being exhibited at various ports in Great
Britain. It is said that every timber of the
old ship is as sound to-day as w£en launched,
100 years ago.
In the annual parade of truck horses held
in London recently there were two gigantic
animals each measuring 18 hands—that is.
standing just six feet high at the shoulders—
and weighing at least a ton.
The American school of Athens, working on
the site of Argos, has laid bare a large marble
building, which is supposed to i;e the gymna
sium. and have uncovered many very early
tombs like those which Schliemann found at
Mycenae.
The San Francisco Bulletin says: The
crew of the schooner Undaunted, wrecked off
Copper River. Alaska last March, lived on an
tee floe nearly one month. The crew num
bered eighteen men. Home of the men were
driven mad ny their sufferings, some were de
prived of sight and all were oadly frozen.
The latest development in the milk business
in London is to drive the cows around the
route aud have them milked in presence of
the cons imer. The customer Is thus able to
judge (or himself of the healthy appearance
of the animal, and is sure of fresh milk, 'ihe
practice is a common and ancient one in
Egypt.
One of the many philanthropies of Worces
ter. Mass., is conducted by Mrs. Albertms G.
Cochrane, a widow. It Is an asylum for cats.
The people of the neighborhood take any
vagrant feline that seems 10 ctesiie a place of
shelter to the asylum. The animals receive
the Dest of food and the warmest of beds,
and when it becomes necessary to end their
earthly existence the most humane means
are employed.
The Cincinnati Times-Star announces that
a chemist of that city succeeded in making a
fluid which has all the properties of ordinary
cow s milk, and is equal to the best for all
purposes. It is a combination of water,
solids and fats, and is absolutely the same as.
and indistinguishable form, pure milk, and
has the advantage of being absolutely free
from the diseases and impurities that aie
often found in milk. This chemical milk will
raise a cream, will sour, tura to curd and
water, and butter aud cheese can be made
from it the same as from cow milk. At pres
ent the cost of production is more that *1 a
gallon, but the chemist believes with a few
more experiments he can reduce the price to
10 or la ceuts a gallon, aud by making it in
wholesale quantities can retail it at the usual
6 cents a quart. This story was probably in
vented tor the purpose of entertaining the
marines.
It is reported that somebody in the town of
Wolverhampton, England, has invented an
entirely new sport, which has proved exces
sively popular among the colliers of the
"Black Country,” The amusement consists
in a light betweema man and a rat. The rat.
which is the largest and strongest to . e had,
is fastened to a peg set in the middle of a
large tame by a cord long enough to give him
the run of the whole tai le. The man has his
hands tied b hind him, and has to fight the
rat with his teeth. According to the local
account of a recent mat. h. the rat at first
tried to escape from his antagonist, but find
ing this impossible, turned on him and fought
with furious desperation, succeeding in in
flicting many severe wounds on his human
euemy before the latter succeeded iu killing
him. Home time ago the English papers had
an account of a tight something siiiii ar to
this i etween a man and a dog. That story
was afterward declared a fake, but a i.onion
correspondent vouches the truth ,of this
man-rat conflict,
Nature's laboratory Is ceaselessly working,
developing, and storing up products for the
use of mankind at large, savs Chambers'
Journal, in the vegetable kingdom this is
especially noticeable, and if mail sometimes
only succeeds, after much experiment and
work, in making the plant givo uo Us useful
properties, at other times—and these are of
frequent occurrence—he flnds the product al
ready manufactured, and requiring, but a
amail amount of preparation to
render it lit for utilization. To this
latter category of plants yielding reauy
made products, the cream-of tartar
trees may be said to belong, 'they are mem
bers of the genus “Adanson'a.' of the natu
ral order "liomi.aceae.” Until within the
past few years, it ws thought that only oue
species could rightly claim the title of the
cream-of tartar tree—the “Adansonia Gre
goru,” the gouty stem tree of Northern Aus
tralia. Recent researches have, however,
proved that the Buo.ao (“Adansonia di-i
--t ta") of Senegal contains nearly 2 per cent,
of bitartrate of potassium, ihe acid is found
in the farinaceous pulp surround ng the seed,
and has at all times been highly esteemed by
trayelers. who mix it with a iittio water in
order to make a refreshing beverage.
As usaal upon disputed points, says the
Gentleman’s Magazine, speculation has teen
busy about the origin of the diamond, and a
large number of theories, all more or less
probable, have been propounded lo set the
matter at rest. The two most reasonable
expositions are. perhaps, the explanations
put forward by M. Parrot and Baron Liebig.
The former scientist, who has laboriously in
vestigated the perplexing su ject, is of the
opinion that the diamond arises from the
operation of violent vol.anic heat on small
particles of carbon contained in the rock or
on a substance composed of a large propor
tion of carcon and a smaller quantity of
hydrogen. By this theory, as he concieves we
are best able to account for the cracks and
flaws so often noticed in the gem. aud the
frequent occurrence of included partic es of
black carbonaceous matter. Baron Liebig,
on the other hand, claims the credit of offer
ing a simple explanation of the pronable pro
cess which actually takes place in tho forma
tion of the diamond His contention is that
science can point to no process capable of ac
counting for the origin and production of
diamonds, except the powers of decay. If we
suppose decay to proceed in a liquid contain
ing carbon and h.drogen. then a compound
with still mere carbon mustte formed: and
if the compound thus formed were itself to
undergo further decay, the Anal result, says
this eminent authority, must be the separa
tion of carton in a crystalline form.
The methods in vogue in barking and* har
vesting the cork in Spain and Portugal are
pretty much the same, savs Chamber s Jour
nal. The barking operation is effected when
the tree has acquired sufficient strength to
withstand the rough handling it're.elves dur
ing this operation, which takes place when It
has attained the fifteenth year of Its growth
After the first stripping, the tree is left in
this juvenescent state to regenerate, subse
quent strippings being effected at intervals of
not less than three years: and under this pro
cess the tree will continue to thrive and bear
for upward of l.iO years. If the bark is not
removed artificially, it will on maturity, split
and dismantle itself: this is caused by the
fresh growth of bark forming underneath
The cork of the Hrst Darking is termed
corcho bornio—tornio. or virgin cork; the
cork of the second stripping is called pelas
or secondary cork. The work of removing
the lark from the tree is performed in sum
mer by men. who are paid at the rate of 2s
fid. a day. The instruments used for the
work are an ax. a lever, and a handsaw for
the cutting of transversal incisions, the first
process through which the bark passes after
stripping is that of toiling. This is some
times done In the woods, t ut more frequently
in the. cork factory in large, specially-con
structed caldrons. In which the 1 ariy is left to
boll for upward of an hour. This seething
process increases the thickness and elasticity
of the cork; and at the same time the tannin
and other feculent sui stances generally ex
isting in the bark are desiccated.
DAN.EL HOGAN.
HOGAN'S :
: HERALD
OF
: saving :
It seems that the “best dress”
customer is not as plentiful as sh
should be. We thought when buying
our Grenadines this year that the
splendid values would offset the eco
nomic turn incident to the times.
Acting on this principle, we bought a a
exclusive line—elegant in every way.
and certainly the cheapest we have
ever seen. But with all this advant
age the movement buyer-ward is too
slow, and we Intend to accelerate it by
a wholesome reduction of the already
low prices. This is your opportunity
for a fine dress. The eloquence of
this announcement is the saving of
dollars, and the satisfaction insured.
* $ 4-
SILK IHD it GRENADINES.
This Sale Means on Every Yard
KR Honk A L~T l-Silkand Wool Black
SAVetO. S ! gM&Sar *"8
$0.95.
C | IK 1 LOT 2-Silk and Wool Strined
01 ■I □ - Grenadine. 45 inch Hart
SAVED. I times price *2 50; now
$1.35.
si.3o) i ?assss
SAVED. ( standard $2.75 quality. Now
$1.45.
RR npnfc * LO , T 4-PureSilk Black Gren
DU DSIHO ’ adine. 24inches wide; anabso
SAVED. ( lute 36-in. valuefor.fi.so; now
$0.85.
4* -O 4.
Daniel Hogan,
Broughton and Barnard.
TOILET ARTICLE!.
Dr. T. FEI.IX GOTRAIh'B OKIKVTAIi
CREAM, OR MAGICA BSILTI*
ITER.
rarities as Well as Reantlfles the Ski*
No Other Cosmetic Will do It.
Removes Tai,
Freckles, Mods
/'■Lz \( °atches. Rash,
LGv grjl ind Skin dis-
JV -ft* JM/ess. and
V? c ,y vby every blemish
”1 fcj on beauty, and
Wl deUes deteo
•j/Sa ?t \ Bto °d the test
Fd 11 ATj \ °* 43 years.and
(V | \is so harmless
/JS j l Iwe taste it to
/g Ae-yfy fNy jbe sure it is
I / Y 1 properly mada
L y J IVTv Accept no
* *sv N. counterfeit of
similar name. Dr. L. A. Sayre said to a lady
of the haut-ton (a patient): “As vou ladies
will use them. I recommend 'Gourauda
Cream' as the least harmful of all the Skin
preparations.” For sale by all druggists and
fancy goods dealers In the United States,
Canadas and Euroue.
FRED T. HOPKINS, Prop’r,
37 Great Jones St., N. T.
For sale by Lippmau Bros.
HOSE,
BUCK LINE "SPIRAL"
COTTON GARDEN HOSE,
IRAQ 6 “ SPIRAL” MARK,
We have stenciled the words. Black Line,
on our "Spiral" Garden Hose, in addition to
running the Black Line through the hose
If you cannot get hose stenciled as ai ove of
your dealer, take no other, but send to any of
our stores and get the genuine BLACK
LINE SPIRAL.
Boston Woven Hose & Rubber Go.,
275 Devonshire St., Boston. Mass.
205 Lake St., Chicago, IU.
1810 Blake St.. Denver, Colo.
913 N. Second St.. St. Louts. Mo.
11 Fremont. St., San Francisco. Cal.
~Teed.
BERN CARRIERS,
Latest Improved.
Headquarters For
Hi Bows, doles ond Mi
Control the entire output of two factories.
Lowest prices and the best goods on
market.
Get bur prices before you buy.
FAWCETT BROS.,
Telephone Boy ana arson sis.
PLUMBING.
P. H. KIERNAN
ESTIMATES.
Water Pipes, Roofs Tinned.
Bath Tubs, Roofs Repaired,
Wash Basins. Roofs Painted,
Water Closets, Tin Leaders.
Boilers, Tin Gutters,
Ready to be put In. Ready to be put up.
JOBBING.
30'-? Whitaker street. Telephone !*
l. a. McCarthy,
46 DRAYTON STREET.
Rite, steoi oi fins M
Steam and Gas Fittings. ChandeliW*
Globes, all kinds of plumbing supplies