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Meetings—Clinton Lodge No. 54. F. and A.
M ; DeKalb Lodge No. 9. I. O. O. F.
Special Notices—The Famed Le Pantos,
D H, Schueneman; Good Liquors for Fourth
Of July, Henry Solomon & Son.
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The thirteenth annual convention of the
Christian Endeavor Society will be held
in Cleveland. 0., beginning July 11 and
continuing five days. It is expected that
80,000 delegates and visitors will attend.
The Christian Endeavor is a comparatively
young organization, but it is one of the
most powerful Christian societies, except
the churches proper, in existence.
The factional fight in the populjst
party in Kansas is so serious as to make
the defeat of the party assured if a peace
is not patched up before election day. In
this condition of affairs the Kansas demo
crats would show wisdom in not taking
sides with either faction. Kansas was
the scene of the first populist victory; it
would be the irony of fate if Kansas
should be the scene of its first disastrous
defeat.
The matter of the organization of the
state democratic convention is receiving
attention in Atlanta. The Journal re
ports the rumor that the Hon. Stephen
Clay will be chairman of the couventiou
and afterward chairman of the state ex
ecutive committee. As to the committee
on platform, the Journal says: "Hon.
George Brown is the choice of a portion
of North Georgia, and Hon. P. G. dußig
non will be another member. It is fur
ther said that Mr. dußignon will be made
chairman of the committee and will
write the platform.
Gov. Northen has appointed twelve gen
tlemen to represent the state of Georgia
at the road convention to be held at As
bury Park, N. J , on July 5 and 6. One pur
pose of the meeting is to interest the edi
tors of newspapers throughout the coun
try in the work of road improvement and
endeavor to have them throw the
weight of the influence of their papers in
favor of the movement. It is expected
the convention will be largely attended
by representative men, and that some
good results will follow its deliberations.
It is to be hoped that the Georgia ap
pointees will be able to attend.
It is difficult to understand how Judge
Clark, of the Stone Mountain circuit, is
going to prevent the publication of a set
of resolutions adopted openly at a public
meeting. Such matter is unquestionably
news, and if there is nothing treasonable
or of a character to incite to lawlessness
in the resolutions, the newspaper that
wishes to publish them has a right to do
so. The press is free under the constitu
tion, and if the proceedings of public
meetings are not legitimate matters for
publication it is hard to imagine anything
that would be. As well might the courts
of New York endeavor to suppress the
publication of the proceedings of the
Lexow committee because the proceed
ings are disagreeable to the police, as for
Judge Clark to endeavor to suppress the
resolutions of the Decatur mass meeting
because one citizen objects to their publi
cation.
Once upon a time it was a tradition of
the Senate that no new member must
raise his voice in the chamber, except to
vote or do some perfunctory turn. The
senator who dared to make a speech in
less than a year after his induction into
the august body was regarded as a pre
cocious, if not an impudent, fellow. He
was expected to sit still and say nothing
until he had accumulated a decent growth
of moss on his back, and it was ordinarily
the way that the senator never made his
maiden speech until the session following
or the congress following his becoming a
senator. But take a note of how things
are going to-day. On Friday last pretty
nearly the whole day’s business was
taken up by brand new men, who have
cot yet got used to the musty smell of the
chamber. Mr. Patton, the new man from
Michigan, whose senatorship was hardly
a week old, made a speech in reply to Mr.
Walsh and Mr. Blanchard, both senato
rial "kids" not yet out of their knicker
bockers. And then Mr. Jarvis, who hasn’t
been a senator long enough to draw a
month’s salary, had the hardihood to talk
for an hour or so on the income tax. Ex
cept for the few remarks they got in side
ways, the old fellows were crowded out of
the proceedings. It must have been gall
ing to the ancients, but the events of the
day indicate that there is still hope for
the Senate.
Leprosy m Louisiana.
A matter of moment before the Louisi
ana legislature is the menace of leprosy.
There are said to be more than 100 lepers
in the city of New Orleans, and as many
more in the state outside of the city. Ac
cording to the New Orleans States, the
care for the lepers and their isolation—or,
rather, the lack of both—is disgraceful
and inhuman. Of the city lepers, about a
| dozen are sequestered in a hospital under
care of a physician and attendants, who
are prone to neglect their charges almost
entirely. These dozen lepers, accord
ing to a recent report of the
Parish Medical Society, are “hud
dled together indiscriminately in a par
titioned shed, without proper treatment
and with no hygienic care as a pretense
of sanitary quarantine.” The States
charges the condition of affairs to ring
rule in politics.
A bill is before the legislature having
as its purpose the isolation and proper
care of the lepers. The bill proposes a
commission of seven, /our members to be
appointed by the mayor of New Orleans
and three by tbe governor, to have charge
of the work, and makes appropriations of
$5,000 with which to build a hospital and
*IO,OOO to be used in support of the lepers.
One clause of the bill, and one which
meets with general disapproval on the
part of the press, is to the effect that the
board shall let the care of the lepers out
by contract, but requires no guarantee
or surety that the contractor will
perform his duties properly. The
anti-slavery clause of the federal con
stitution is being quoted against this pro
vision. It is argued that the lepers, while
a menace to the public health, are not
convicts, and cannot be “sold to the
highest bidder.”
While the bill is pending and the poli
ticians are tinkering its phraseology,
“hundreds of lepers are mingling with
the community, sharing seats at the
theater and at the public restaurants, and
are imperfectly cared for, or are neglected
in their treatment,” in the language of a
local paper.
As to the disease itself, the report of
Dr. Isadore Dyer, of the Parish Medical
Society—which seems to be the basis for
arguments on the bill—goes on to say:
“Leprosy is a germ disease, and the very
rarity of directly traced contagion is the
purest evidence of its insidious develop
ment. Slow of incubation, it may re
quire a decade or two to manifest the ef
fect of a germ accidentally or innocently
acquired at the caravansary, drinking
fountain, sleeping car, or other public in
stitution.” Dr. Dyer has had twenty
five cases under examination
since October, 1893. Ten were
of persons born in New Orleans,
four were born elsewhere in Louisiana,
and of the remainder only five were of
foreign birth. The doctor says a negress
leper may be seen every day begging in
Dryados street, and he asks: “How
often does this woman, handling the
money given to her, send the blight of
contagion through the community;”
Summing up his observation, Dr. Dyer
says: “Leprosy is of frequent occur
rence in Louisiana in all of its types. It
has rapidly increased in the past decade,
when its slow incubation is considered.
It is undoubtedly endemic in this state.
It is a menace to the entire population of
this and neighboring states.”
A Sugar Centennial.
On June 30, the Audubon Sugar School
of New Orleans: will graduate its first
class. Three young men will receive
diplomas covering the fact that they are
"doctors of sugar.” The date of the
graduation, by a coincidence, falls upon
the one hundredth anniversary of the
making of the first sugar in Louisiana,
hence it is proposed to make the occasion
notable by celebrating the centennial of
sugar at the same time the diplomas for
proficiency in the most advanced methods
of sugar maaiug are conferred.
Sugar cane was first brought to Louisi
ana about the year 1770, from San Do
mingo through the Jesuit fathers of Lo
gane. It was of the Bengal variety. It
was not until 1825 that the red ribbon and
purple canes were introduced: and then
they were taken to Louisiana from the
city of Savannah by J. J. Coiron, who
planted them in his garden. The canes
had been introduced into Georgia from St.
Estaeius in 1814.
Previous to the introduction of the rib
bon cane, however, a degree of success
had been achieved in Louisiana with the
other varieties. In the early nineties of
the last century the planters began to
approach the solution of the problem of
making sugar, and on June 30, 1704,
Etienne de Bore, afterward mayor of
New Orleans, succeeded in producing
granulated sugar. Previous to that time
they had found it impossible to secure
granulation. Up to the time of de Bore’s
success the rich lowlands were chiefly
cultivated in iiyJigo, but successful sugar
production banished the plant from which
the blue dye is made from the agricult
ural products of the state.
The plantation upon which de Bore
raised his cane and conducted his success
ful experiments is the present Audubon
Park, upon which is situated the sugar
school and experiment station. The
school, which was established in 1891,
through the liberality of the planters and
manufacturers, is equipped with every
thing necessary to the education of sugar
experts of a high order of attainments.
It is attended by students not only from
Louisiana and other southern states, but
also from Spain, the West Indies and
Mexico.
The Philadelphia Ledger has this inter
esting bit of information: “Ex-Senator
Ingalls is in New York, not with a view of
editing a magazine, it is now stated,
but on the invitation of Thomas H. Hub
bard, who is said to have offered Mr. In
galls S2S,(XX) a year to become editor of the
Commercial-Advertiser.” The Commer
cial-Advertiser is Col. John A. Cockerill’s
paper. It prints two editions, one in the
afternoon under the name quoted and the
other in morning under the name of the
Morning Advertiser. It may be the pur
pose of the owners to put one edi
tion under the management of Ingalls, and
the other under the management of Cock
erill, who has heretofore run both. In
the event of such an arrangement, it
would be wise policy on the part of the
south to get itself insured, for the two
men in question are among the bitterest
south haters alive.
The canine population of the country
is now counted up at 75,000.000 good, bad
and indifferent dogs. Half the number
would do the work.
THE MORNING NEWS: MONDAY, JUNE 25, 1894.
How to Suppress Tramps.
In tbe June number of the Forum, Dr.
! Gould points out how a community may
relieve itself of tramps. An experi
ment was made in Baltimore last winter
with the view of finding out whether the
numerous tramps that visited the city
were anxious for work or were only seek
ing food and lodging. There were two
houses in the city at which tramps could
obtain food and a night's lodging for a
sum so small that it was hardly worth
mentioning. Together these houses
would accommodate about 275 people.
At the beginning of winter it was ap
parent that the. number of tramps that
would visit the city would be unusually
large, and it was determined to substitute
for the cash payment for food and lodg
ing a small amount of work in the wood
yard of each establishment. The
result was what mght have
been expected. The tramp fraternity
quickly became aware of the
conditions upon which tramps could re
ceive a little assistance in Baltimore, and
the consequence was that the number
who applied at the two lodging houses be
came so small that it became practically
unnecessary to keep them open. The
tramps gave Baltimore a wide berth, and
sought comfort and happiness in towns
where the people were not so hard
hearted as to require labor from them for
a little beer money or bread.
It is apparent that the tramp is not go
ing to do any kind of manual labor as long
as he can keep from starving without do
ing it. But if all the towns should follow
the example of Baltimore what would be
the result? Being shut out from all towns,
would the tramp go to work or would he
starve? The Baltimore experiment
doesn't furnish an answer to that ques
tion.
Doubtless there are tramps who are
not so through choice, but from necessity.
More than nine-tenths, however, are
tramps from choice. They don’t want
work and don’t intend to work. They
expect the community to support them,
and the community good-naturedly does
what they expect it to. If all communi
ties should insist upon work as a condi
tion of rendering assistance, the number
of tramps would rapidly decline.
Practical Ears For the Deaf.
Prof. Bell, the telephone man, began
life as a teacher in an institution for the
deaf and dumb. While engaged in that
capacity he fell in love with one of his
pupils, and the deaf-mute girl became
Mrs. Bell. Since that time it has been a
labor of love with him to try to devise
some apparatus, small, Jight andgraceful,
with which to supply the deaf with the
faculty denied by nature. His greatest
delight would be to bring within the ex
perience of his wife the pleasures of hear
ing.
The professor is at present engaged
upon an apparatus, which he hopes to
have perfected soon, that he thinks will
answer the purpose of ears without being
in the way, being unsightly or requiring
constant attention. The wearer will put
them on somewhat as spectacles are put
on, and will soon forget all about them.
Hearing, Prof. Bell says, is nothing
more than the result of vibration
of sound beating upon the drum
of the ear which, is commun
icated to the brain by a series of nerves.
Deafness is a defect in this means of
communication. It has been demonstrated
that a person can hear perfectly through
the teeth. This being true, the profes
sor made experiments at sending sound
waves to the brain directly through the
skull, with gratifying results. There
fore he is constructing an apparatus
which, attached to the head, will gather
in the sound-waves, like the transmitter
of a telephone, and repeat them to the
brain through the skull.
At this season of the year Savannah is
particularly redolent of new paint. In
all quarters of the city the
unctious flip of the painter's brush may
be hoard; or if the painter has departed,
the fact of his recent presence may be
ascertained by leaning against something.
The desire to paint seems to be conta
gious, and most everybody has caught it
except the persons in charge of the foun
tain and statuary in Forsyth Park. The
sphinxes at the Bull street gate are be
ginning to look fleabitten, and their plum
bago whiskers need shaving. The tri
tons in the fountain basin have taken on
a decidedly sickly appearance. They are
positively green, but whether with envy of
the fresh and clean looking children that
throng the park in the afternoon, or with
anger bocauso the dirty geese that spout
near them are cleaner than they, cannot
be told. But the castiron fact remains
that the tritons are greener than the iron
rail around the basin. And the fountain
proper is dirty. No self-respecting crane
would stand before company in as dingy
a jacket as the iron cranes that have
stood on one foot each for years against
that fountain. Some time last year a
number of heavy planks were thrown
into the fountain to make bridges from
the bank to the figures. It may have
been the idea to paint up a little when
they were put there. If any painting
was done, all signs of it have long since
disappeared. But the ugly planks re
main there to this day, suggesting that
even beauty must sometimes give way to
expediency.
The attitudes of the two senators from
New York are interesting. Senator
Hill, crowned with a little private halo
conjured up by his outraged sensibilities,
protests against the "departures of the
party” from the Chicago platform. On
the other hand. Senator Murphy, who is
popularly believed to be under the polit
cal tutelage and guidance of Senator Hill,
held up the finance committee on the
matter of collars and cuffs. And having
gained his point in that matter, he
turned his attention to gloves, and by
threatening to vote against the com
pleted bill, forced the revisionists to raise
the duty above the McKinley rates, so
that the duty on the grade of gloves most
commonly worn stands in the new schedule
at almost 100 per cent. Senator Murphy,
it will be borne in mind, was sent to the
Senate by the democratic machine in New
York, of which Senator Hill is one of the
engineers.
Secretary Gresham sets at .rest the
wild rumor that he would be the populist
candidate for the Senate from Illinois,
to succeed Cullom, by an emphatic de
nial.
Mrs. Blna A. Otis, wife of Ex-Congressman
Ons, of Kansas, rejoice.' in the fact that her
son will cast his first ballot to aid in enfran
chising his mother.
PERSONAL.
Mrs. Mary Crossland states In her “Liter
ary Landmarks” that Lady Blessington and
others of the poet's intimates pronounced his
name Blrron." The conclusion drawn is
that Its owner must hare pronounced it that
way himself. According to Leigh Hunt. By
ron called himself totti Bvron and Birron:
the Guiccloli called himself Batroa.” and
Mary Jane Clairmont a daughter hgures in
the codicil which concerns her as Allegra
Biroii.'’
Robert A Whileland. of Washington, re
cently forwarded to the Prince of Wales,
through Ambassador Bayard, a photograph
taken of the prince when he was in this coun
try in IMO. It represents a slender youth of
19. and bears little resemblance to the cur
rent portraits of his royal highness. The
prince, in acknowledging the gift, recalls
with pleasure his visit to the United States.
and well remembers sitting for the photo
graph in question.”
Valentine Cameron Prir.sep, the Dew En
glish royal academician, was torn in India
and educated for the civil Service. Inclina
tion and study made him an artist. One of
his most popular pictures is The Lion s
Sons. ' showing the bandjaniboysof the Duke
of York s school, with a widow and a group
of old soldiers in the foreground He was
selected by the queen to pa nt a picture of the
Durbar at which she was proclaimed Em
press of India. He is a novelist as well as a
painter
Mrs. Zulme E. Hegrsey. of Baton Rouge.
La is one of the most successful business
women In her state. After the close of the
war, her husband being an invalid. Mrs-.
Hearsey opened a large book store, which at
once sprang Into popular favor, and to-day is
the recognized htadquarters for all standard
publications, as well as the rendezvous of all
book-lovers and litterateurs, she employs a
force of thirty newsboys, and her second son.
Gaston Hearsey, has been her assistant for
several years. She also manages a large
floriculture trade and the roses and camel
lias raised in her gardens are known all over
the south. Her florist business is scarcely
less profitable than her news anl book store.
The Buffalo Commercial says that Radcliffe
college, formerly Hatvard annex, has among
its undergraduates this year the first Japan
ese girl who has come to this country to be
educated. She is Miss Shill- Mori, and she is
des -riled as a charming combination of
Japanese features. English dress, American
coiffure and "Japanese-Anglo " language. She
is the daughter of a wealthy banker in Yana
gawa. Japan, who was converted to Christ
ianity some years ago and has educated his
sons and daughters in that faith. Miss Mori
will study in England and France, as well as
In the United States, and will then return to
Japan to devote herself to educational and
missionary work. She is nearly 2J years old.
BRIGHT BITS.
Horsey—Do I look like a gentleman. Pat
rick, in these clothes?
Patrick—No, sorr; ye lookloikean English
man.—Judge.
Sunday School Teacher Now. Simmie,
you may fell ns where all the little Sunday
school toys want to go.
Billy—l knows; in a swimmin’.— Inter
Ocean.
Tommy—Paw, what Is the "sweating sys
tem?
Mr. Figg -I don’t know exactly, but it has
something to do with the troubles of the pore.
—lndianapolis Journal.
Bride—‘Oh. Arthur, I often doubt vour love,
for I fancy that you want to marry me on ac
count of my dowry,” Arthur—" What a
foolish idea. Why, that won t last me any
time.”—Fitegende Blatter.
Wife -How people gaze at my new dress.
I presume they wonder if I've been shopping
in Paris.
Ilusoand—More likelv they wonder if I've
been robbing a bank.—New York Weekly.
Mrs. Yearwed i beseechingly)—Oh. if T only
knew some way to keep my h sband at home
nights. Can't you. from your long married
experience, suggest a plan -
Mrs. Oldhand (grimlyj— Certainly; chain
him.—Buffalo Courier.
"How are you going to get your money for
the Fourth?"
Ted—Why, by shootin’ off firecrackers now.
“How does that help?"
Ted—The boarders pay me to stop making
such a racket.—Chicago Inter Ocean.
The Young Man—Grade, what is it your
father sees tn rao toobject.to. darling?
The Young Woman cwieihgaiwav a tear) —
He doesrft see anything in you, Algernon.—
Boston Home Journal.
She—They say that persons of opposite
qualities make the happiest marriages.
He—That's why 1 am looking for a girl
with money.—Tit-Bits.
An Observant; Youth rt was Bobbie's
mother's birthday-her thirtieth, some said,
though there were others who were disposed
to credit her with three or four years more.
Boblie. too. had his ideas on the subject ap
parently. for at breakfast he said: "How
old are you. mamma?”
"Oh, nineteen or twenty,” was the answer.
"Humph:" said Bobbie." Seems to meyou'er
growing backwards.”—Harper's Drawer.
He leaned gracefully against the mantel.
"Yes," he repealed. "1 love yourdaughter."
The old man in his easy chair regarded him
keenly.
"Can you support a family?” lie asked, after
a pause
"That depends. How"—he looked the
father of his Lcloved straight in the eyo—
"how many of you arc there?"
Presently they came to the terms of an am
iable understanding.—Detroit Tribune.
CURRENT COMMENT.
Talking of State Reforms.
From Swainsboro (Ga.) Pine Forest (Pem ).
We hope Georgia will soon repeal the home
stead laws, and the Twitty bill, which de
clares a contract to pay attorneys’ fees null
and void, and put the state convicts on the
public roads.
Grumbles Too Much.
From Thomnsvtlle ,(Ga.i Advertiser fPem.).
How can the third party man over expect to
have any money when he never works, but
spends fully one-half of his time talking
crankism and grumnling al out hard times?
If he would work more his lines will fall in
easier places.
Too Young in the Cause.
From the Canton (Ga.) Advance : Dem.).
It Is our honest opinion that Judge Hines
will not be able to make as good a race as
some other men the populists had in their
ranks. Already the popultsts in different
parts of the state are sayirg he is too young
in the cause, and that the nomination should
have been given to a man who had been with
them longer. •
A Faithful Servant.
From the Atlanta (Ga.) Journal (Dem.).
There is hardly a rjoubt that Congressman
Rufus E. Lester will be renominated for a
fourth term in the Hou ,e or Representatives
on July 17 without opposition. Congressman
Lester has given the people of his district
faithful and excellent service for six years,
and it would be a difficult matter for any one
to stir up a spirit of opposition strong
enough to defeat him His continued renorn
inations show the high regard for his party
services throughout the district.
About the Size of It.
From the Bulloch (Ga.) Times (Dem ).
A Georgia farmer sells his cotton to the
north in a crude stale, and then buys it hack
in the manufactured article. The northern
capitalist thus recovers the money which he
paid out for the raw material, along with the
profits of his enterprise, while the northern
laborer secures employment and the trans
portation companies something for their cor
porations to do. Then this farmer calls his
neighbors together to assist him tn denounc
ing the government, and to howl about the
northern "gold bug."
Both Parties Need Reorganization*
From the Baltimore Sun (Dem.).
Both parties need a thorough shaking up
and reorganization. It is their only salva
tion, and the plain voters of both should call
new leaders to the front who will raise their
organizations out of the mire into which they
have been sunk. We do not want party lead
ers who have been born and bred in the polit
ical slums, who mistake trickery for states
manship. and the methods of the sharper for
the arts of diplomacy. Nor do we want for
leaders despots who substitute bayonets for
ballots, or political economists who place all
the public burdens upon the backs of the peo
ple. The people want neither lions nor foxes
to lead them—neither the beast of violence
who will devour openly, nor the beast of cun
ning who will slaughter in secret. Both par
ties must select their best men for this re
sponsible duly men'who represent the in
tellect. the manhood and the honesty of the
country. If they do not. they may be sure
that another party will arise which will tie
nearer to the mind and the heart of the peo
ple.
In the “Most Dignified Body.”
When the tinder of New Hampshire and
the flint of Nebraska came in contact in the
Senate yesterday there were sparks, says the
Washington Post. It was all because Mr.
Allen referred to Mr. Chandler last Wednes
day as a baboon. Mr. Chandler did not hear
the opprobrious epithet. "as he termed it.
when it was used, and he must have had a
cold shudder when he found it in the Record
yesterday morning. All day long he nursed
his righteous indignation, and Anally be found
an opportunity to tell Mr. Allen what he
thought of him. As he arose Mr. Allen left
his seat, which is some distance back on the
democratic side, and dropped into Mr Hun
ton's seat on the corner of the aisle. It did
not take long for Mr. Chandler to get started,
and presently Mr. Allen heard himself ac
cused in broad and unequivocal terms of hav
ing bartered and sold his vote to the demo
crats for the consideration of free lumber in
the tariff bill.
There was no mincing of words on the part
of Mr. Chandler. Indeed, he deliberately
charged that the democratic votes given to
Mr. Allen s propositions were due to a fear of
a threat that Mr. Allen, unless he got what he
wanted, would not vote for the bill.
But I have discovered. ” said Mr. Chandler,
in his raspiest u-ay, "that the surroundings of
the senator from Nebraska before he entered
the senate were such as not to allow him to
observe these courtesies which all
gentlemen—” and Mr. Chandler de
liberately emphasized this word—
"regard even in the most heated partisan
debate. The senator from Nebraska.” he
scornfully added, - is to be pitied and not
censured, for what he can not help.”
Mr. Allen his face pale but drawn, arose to
reply. He denied the insinuation of a bargain
and characterized Mr. Chandler s words as
unparliamentary, ungentlemanly and untrue
and uttered with the deliberate knowledge
that they were false. He had never entered
into or suggested a bargain for his vote. He
would, he said, seek to secure whatever he
could for his constituents, and he would cast
his vote upon the bill whichever way would
be of the greatest benefit to them, “in spite,"
he exclaimed, "of the low. dirty insinuations
of the senator from New Hampshire or any
other man.” 1
The closing remarks of the senator." re
marked Mr. Chandler, “only emphasize m.v
statement that he does not comprehend the
courtesies which should characterize debate
in this tody."
Then he sat down and the thermometer fell
ten degrees.
Drew the Line at Suspender.
“Some years ago,” said ex-Attorney Gene
ral Miller to a reporter for the Indianapolis
Sentinel, "I was trying a case up in Whiteley
county, where things arc not conducted with
the formality that is the rule down here. It
was a terribly hot day in August, and the sun
was cutting act-css lots to get at us. We had
stool it bravely for three days, and after
the testimony had been all given to the jury
we began with our arguments. Opposed to
me was a man who weighed something over
200 pounds and it got so hot that he began to
sizzle, it came his turn to address the jury
about the middle of the afternoon, and he be
gan with a great big cabbage leaf sitting upon
his head. As he became more and more en
thused the cabbage leaf fell off, and then, as
he began to warm up to his work, the only re
lief he could secure was by the removal of his
wardrobe. As he started in to tell
what an unprincipled villain the defendant
really was he jerked off his coat and threw it
on a bench. As he dived into the res gestae 1
he shed his vest. The motive for the crime
brought his collar oft with a ierk, and as he,
in vivid words, began picturing the scene at
the final moment, one suspendsr slipped from
his shoulder. It realty began to gel interest
ing.
I The court, as well as all the others in the
room had been dividing attention between
the oratory and tbe shedding of apparel, and
as that suspender slipped from the shoulder
of ihe aroused orator, the judge concluded
that it was time that something should be
done. Ho coughed cnce or twice, and then re
marked, qu etly:
II ‘Counsel, in presenting Ills case to the
jury, must not interpose anything that was
not brought out by the evidence. 1
Tile animated lawyer s lingers were ner
vously clutching at the other suspender, and
as he heard the interruption he stopped in the
midst of a concatenation of adjectives. He
hadn't understood exactly.
" Your honor 1 trust I shall be given suffi
cient liberty to expose ’
•The court interrupted him. ‘You will be
permitted in argument to expose everything
connected with the crime as brought but by
the evidence, but the court feels that you have
shown a disposition to digress materially.
You will please confine yourself more closely
by adjusting your suspenders.’
"And then he understood.”
Reed Paid for the Wine.
Ex-Speaker Reed was stretched out on a
sofa in the House and Representative Bynum
was writing letters, says ihc Washington
Post. Representative Berry of Kentucky
passed by.
"i should say," said Bynum to Reed. In
an off hand way, "that Berry was the tallest
man in the House.”
A look of inefiable scorn flitted across the
face of Mr. Reed. Bynum,’ he said, "why
is it that I have always to go around dis
pensiug information >o ihe democratic side.
Don't you know that C mis of New York is
the tallest man in the House' Bynum. I am
surprised at your ignorance." And Mr. Reed
settled back on the ofa as If he had settled
the question forever and forever.
"I am willing to pin my faith on Berry,"
said Bynum, quietly.
"Well." spoke up Reed. “If you will be
foolish. I will go you a bottle of wine on • it."
Outwent a couple of pages lo hunt up Mr.
Curtis and Mr. Berry. Half a dozen members
who had overheard the waver awaited the re
sult. The New Y orker and the Keatuokian
lame up together—Mr. Curtis tall and
straight. Mr. Berry stooping slightly. There
was no question as to who was the taller.
"There," said Mr. Reed, with a tone of
triumph, "what did I tell you?”
But at that moment Mr. Berry, having
heard the question at issue, began to unfold
himself, so to speak, like the swan necked
woman in the dime musem. His long legs
straightened out, his back gathered inches
unto itself, his head rose up in the air, and
presently Mr. Curtis six feet aod four inches
though he be—was a dwarf.
"My God. Berry.” exclaimed Mr. Reed,
somewhat irreverently, but with an expres
sion of awe in his voice, "how- much of your
self do you keep in your pockets?”
And then the crowd went down and ate wine
at Mr. Reed s expense.
Racing in the Old Days.
"They may talk about the good attendance
at the races,” said Bob Minehan, an old-time
devotee of the turf, to a Washington Post
man. "but the people that go don t put their
money cn the horses as they used to. I was
interested myself in book making not so very
many years ago. There were four of us in
the venture, and I shall never forget the re
sult of eight days work at Saratoga. Every
night we used to throw the money in an old
fashioned grip and carry it to the safe,
actually too exhausted to count the roll.
There were plenty of big bills, though, and no
ones and twos-nothing smaller than
tives. My share was 30 per cent., and when
we divided up $65,000 as the profits of the
eight days, you can rest a'Sured I was very
well satisfied with the returns. Men didn't
any more mind putting up $lO3 then than they
do a $5 note now. Our test patron during
thatseige was a woman a noted rnemoer of
tlie New York demi-monde. She knew
nothing of horses, but the name of one. • Wild
Irish Girl,” caught the woman, who. it seems,
was born in the old country. She plunged on
the animal from sentiment to the extent of
$3,000 without ever enjoying the pleasure of
seeing her favorite win a single race."
Ted's Invention.
From the New Y’ork World.
Said little Ted. "When I'm a man-*
It's very long to wait—
But then I'm going to buy a clock
Without a half-past eight.
"I’d have such good times right along
From breakfast until late.
If our big clock went on and on
And skipped that half-past eight,
"But almost every morning now
1 hear mamma, or Kate
Call, 'Ted! It's nearly time for school,
Make haste, it's half past eight.’
“And In the evening it’s the same,
Or worse. I know I hate
To have papa sav. 'Bedtime, Ted.
Look there, it s half-past eight.'
"Now when I get to school to-day.
First thing I'll take my slate
And make a picture of a dock
That has no half past eight."
Mr. T. L. Cole, a bookseller of Washington,
D. C., is the possessor of a very rare book, a
copy of the first printed laws of Virginia. It
is a revlsal of the laws made Just after the
restoration of ( harles 11. In order to adopt
them to the change from the commonwealth
to u monar hy again, and was ordered by a
resolution passed by the general assembly in
March 1661.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
A New England seminary for girls has
adopted the following college cry: “Wha,
who. wha. who, wha. who. zippe riroar; Hi,
yi.kl.yi.zip, pom, love, bomvah, bomyah
sip, zip, 94. ”
In a patch of five acres in Burnett county.
Texas, are to be found nickel, gold, silver,
lead, tin and a latge number of rare metals,
such as cerium, lantharum, erbium, thorium
and uranium.
“Nine hotel fires out of ten owe their origin
to one and the same cause.” said Caterer Mur
rey. of the House restaurant, to a Washing
ton Post reporter, in discussing the cause of
the burning of the Eckington hotel. "When
ever you hear of a hotel fire whose origin is a
mystery, it is safe to attribute it to the cause
I will give The best cooking lard is the fat
that is fried out of the fat part of beef. In
restaurants and hotels it is put into a
cauldron during the day and set on the range
over night. A light fire is usually kept in the
range to save trouble of starting it in the
morning. During the night it may happen
that an unusual draft is created by a high
wind. The fire blazes up, ihj cauldron be
gins to boil, and the fat is in the flame Next
it is In the pot, and then follows an explosion,
scattering the blazing grease in every direc
tion. Result—a fire of mysterious origin
which destroys the building and ail its con
tents. I have been burned out seven times,
and in every instance but one it was due to
this cause.”
It looks as If the days of iron were nearly
over, says thp London Hardware Trade
Journal. There is a shrinkage of production
as against steel every year, steel is as cheap,
and sometimes cheaper than iron, w hile its
durability is generally showing itself as in
finitely superior Scarcely a ship is now
built of iron plates. A striking instance of
the superiority of steel was lately shown. An
Australian liner, built on the Tyne from local
steel plates, was run on the reefs in a fog at
Honolulu. For eighteen days she was rocked
on the jagged rocks until a tidal wave lifted
her off. All along the bottom the plates on
both sides were bent inward, the keel bar
being broken. The plates would only bend,
however, not break, not a single rivet had
sprung nor had a drop of water penetrated
the bottom. The vessel was brought by her
own engines, just as she was 19,000 miles to
the Tyne There experts examined her. and
made much favorable comment on the duc
tile and durable properties of steel as com
pared with iron. Iron would infallibly have
given way, while steel stood the great strain
intact.
Two remarkable stories of successful ma
lingering are told by the London correspond
ent of the Manchester Courier. A friend of
his has recently been stopping in the neigh
borhood of Princetown jail, and. during his
visit met one of the officials with whom the
responsibility for the anecdotes finally rests.
The first is of a man who simulated paralysis
so convincingly that he was released and dis
patched to his home in the charge of a nurse.
But on the very next morning he walked
down stairs without any assistance and in
formed the nurse that her services were no
longer required. Story number two is even
more remarkable. T here is nothing wonder
ful In counterfeiting blindness. We see it
done occasionally in the streets of London.
But in this case the convict not only gave a
perfectly artistic representation of that state,
but, what was a far greater triumph, success
fully baffled evf ry medical test that could be
applied. He, too, received his discharge,
and was traveling in the company of a
warder, whom le suddenly electrified by buy
ing an evening paper and devouring its con
tents with avidity.
At a recer.i drawing room in London the
queen was ill or indolent and the Princess of
Wales received for her majesty, says
the New Y’ork Sun. Just before
the princess started the function off with an
airy wave of her hand and the band began
to play, she came to the conclusion that the
white gown, white diamonds and white lace
which she wore gave her a general character
less appearance. She also had a huge bou
quet of white roses tied with a white ribbon.
After glancing at herself with some satisfac
tion in the mirror she went to her top bureau
drawer pulled it open and taking out a large,
broad, black ribbon, tied it on the bouquet
instead of the white ribbon. Then she got up
on the throne, and all the countesses and
duchesses who write for the society papers
fell to gushingoover the marvelous original
ity of the princess in tying a black ribbon to
a bouquet of white roses Instead of a white
one. and all London was set agog. Three
weeks later the Russian ambassador gave a
reception which was attended by all the mem
bers of the British aristocracy of hny impor
tance and to the surprise of the ambassador
about three-fourths of the women sailed in
with long, funeral-black sashes tied to their
bouquets. Black ribbons on bouquets have
not yet appeared in this country, and it would
be interestgjg to know how soon they will
put in their inevitable appearance.
In early days the rank of admiral was un
known; the chief officer of the squadron was
called a constable or justice, says the New
York Home Journal. The term admiral, as
now used is derived from the Arablo "amir”
or emir." a commander (as in "Amir-al-
Bahr." commander of the sea). The early
English form was "amiral." and is still pre
served as such hy the French. The Span
ish and Portuguese forms are "almlrante;"
the Italian ■ amiraglio." The title captain is
not a naval hut a military one. Under the
older organization the real captain of the
ship was a master; but a military officer was
placed on board, though he knew nothing
about nautical matters. As the captain be
came bigger and bigger, the master became
smaller and smaller, until, as at the present
day, he fills a subordinate position, which is
gradually becoming obsolete, being replaced
by an officer under the style and title of a
navigating lieutenant. Commodore comes
'from the Spanish "commendador." The
title of lieutenant, borrowed directly
from the French is more modern, and is
meant as a place-holder, or one who took the
place of the captain when absent. Sublieu
tenant Is still more modern, and at the same
time a misnomer, as he never was a sublieu
tenant, but merely a mate, or one who as
sisted. In former days we had no cadets, but
volunteers. However, with the gradual ad
vance of politeness, the more seemly term at
cadet was borrowed from the French, and
adopted as the title for the young gents in our
navy. In place of paymasters, the ships of
old had pursers, who looked after the pro
visions. The naval purser did more: he had
charge of the stores of the ship and the
money chest. Surgeons and surgeons mates
fulfilled the duties of doctors. Chaplains are
of modern introduction. Naval Instructors
and schoolmasters ruled In their stead. The
term mate was rather a universal one. and
applied to all branches.
The biggest armor-clads in the world are the
Italian Italia and Lepanto. sister ships.oeach
of 15,900 tons displacement, says the Boston
Transcript. Next to them come the monster
English battleships of the royal sovereign
class, vessels of 14,150 tons displacement.
These in turn will be surpassed by the Mag
nificent and Majestic, each of which will dis
place 14,900 tons. The largest armor-clad
over which the French (lag floats is the Ad
miral Baudin, of 11.900 tons, and next to her
is the Lazare Carnot, only eight tons smaller.
Germany's largest armor-clad is the Bran
denburg. of 9,840 tons. Austria has never
built any armor-clads. save those of moderate
dimensions, her largest, the Tegetthoff. being
of 7,300 tons. Spain's largest is the Pelayo,
of 9.903 tons. The three United States bat
tleships of the first-class which have been
launched, are the Massachusetts. Oregon and
Indiana, each of 10,210 tons displace
ment. The lowa, now building, will
be 11.296 tons. There is now a reaction
against monster ships England is the only
naval power that persists In the policy of
building them, and apparently she Is nearing
a halt. The Italians have come to the con
clusion; that is indicated hy the dimensions
of their latest armor-clad authorized, which
will have 9,800 tons displacement. The deter
mination of France and the United States to
keep their battleships under 12,000 tons was
deliberately taken by each government, after
weighing weight against efficiency. In this
policy Russia also agrees, the largest of her
armor-clads In service being the Georgi
Pobiedonosetz. of 10,780 tons , while her
naval constructors regard 12,000 tons as
about the proper limit. Of the cruisers
now afloat the Russian Rurilt Is the
largest and probably, taking all things
into consideration, the most powerful.
She is armor-belted and is of 10,900
tons displacement, almost 2.000 tons larger
than the Blake. The English have author- j
lzed two cruisers of 14,000 tons each, being
determined to see the Rurik and go her 3, 100 I
tons better. As In the case of armor-clads !
England stands alone in accepting this chal
lenge. Her Blake and Blenheim are not .only
exceeded by the Rurik but ly the Snanish :
Emperador Carlos V.. which has 9,2 5 tons
displacement. The lurgest French cruiser In
active service is the D’Entrecasteaux, of 7,900
tons, but the Jeanne d’Arc is being enlarged
to a total displacement of 8.7< 0 tons. The
largest cruiser class of the Italian service
either afloat or authorized displace 6 500 tons
each, which is 450 tons more than Germany's
leader, the Kajserln Augusta. The 1 irgcst of
our cruisers afloat Is the New York, of 8,150
tons, while the Brooklyn ibuildlngi will be
1,000 tons larger.
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