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INDEX TO HEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
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Savings Department. Savannah Hank and
Trust Company; Interest Notice. Oglethorpe
Savings and Trust Company; Dividend Na
tional Bank of Savannah; Extra, Atlantic
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Party of Chatham County; Gerst's
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dend No 47. Southern Bank of the
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ftepartment Southern Bank of the state of
Georgia: Notice to Tax Payers, ('. S. Hardee,
City Treasurer. A Day's Vacation *to Em
ployes: A Festival for the Benefit of Sacred
Heart Church. Tuesday Afternoon and Night;
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Interest Notice. Savings Departmant Chat
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and County Tax Returns. John R. Dillon, R.
T R C. C : Interest Notice. Savings Depart
tnent Title Guarantee and Loan Company
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Notice. Savannah Sayings Bank; Dividend
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Store Fixtures for Sale, at 17 Whitaker
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Electric Railway Company; Interest Notice.
Germania Bank.
Amusements Base Ball on July 4 at Col
lins Park; Grand Sunday-School Picnic by
St. Patrick s Church to Wilmington Island.
July 12.
At Home to Oitr Friends and the Pru
Lit —Meyer A Walsh.
Grand Stock Taking Salk B. m Marche.
To-morrow Shirts Off—b. H. Levy &
Hro.
Prices Talk Leopold Adler.
Grand Clearing Out sake—Crohan &
Dooner.
Feel That Breeze— H M Levy A Bro.
Hot Weather Hints— Daniel Hogan.
Ovr goods Are the Best in Savannah
Eckstein's.
How's Yot'R Coffee?— George W, Allen
A Cos.
Our Midsummer Bargains—At Gut
man's.
The Popular Shoe Men—Beck's.
Great Midsummer Slaughter Sale—
Foye A Morrison.
Silver Kim." Open and Top Buggies—
H. H Cohen
t Financial statement of the Oglethorpe
Savings and Trust Company Statement of
the Chatham Bank
Summer Bargains i. a h s m ii.
It's a Long Time Appel A Schaul.
Cheap column advertisements Help
Wanted; Employment A'anDd For Rent;
For Sale: Lost Personal: Mi set Uaucotis.
There is talk in Colorado of sending
Attorney General Tarsne.v to emigres*.
Asa qualification for the scat, it will be
dwelt upon in the eampairm that he was
recently tarred and feathered. It really
looks as if the opinion were becoming
prevalent that congress is a sort ot na
tional political (iinie museum Ohio is
trying to send her Coxey there. South
Carolina will send her Tillman there,
Kansas already has a choice selection
there, and now Colorado wants to add a
freak. If this sort of thing keeps up we
may presently see P. IC. J. Prendergast,
of Chicago, a candidate for one of the
city districts.
The leading republican papers of the
north and northwest are using some
pretty vigorous language in denouncing
the silver plank of the California republi
can platform. The Chicago Tribune says
that it‘‘shows the nasty, cowardly, trim
ming character of the office-seeker who
would sell his soul and his Maker, if he
could do so, to obtain office." The Tribune,
and others of its party that entertain
similar opinions, should not too hastily
condemn the California republicans for
engaging in the same kind of tactics t but
they are urging upon the republicans of
Alabama and other southern states.
Mr. Henry O. Armour, brother and
partner of P. D. Armour, of Chicago,
complained in a New York police court
the other morning that a matrimonial
agency was annoying his daughter by
sending her letters proposing to supply
her with a husband. Inasmuch as Mi-
Armour's daughter is already supplied
with what he thinks is a sufficiency of
husband, the letters were useless, besides
being insulting and annoying. The jus
tice was of the opinion that the manager
of the agency was guilty of disorderly
conduct, but could not issue a warrant un
less the young woman appeared to make
a charge. As she was absent from the
city she could not appear. It was devel
oped at the inquiry that the ageufcy lias a
list containing names of quite a number
of wealthy New York ladies, some of
whom are prominent in society, and that
many of them also have been invited to
permit the agency to supply them with
husbands, for a consideration.
Helping the Populists.
The republicans of the north are help
ing R. F. Kolb, of Alabama, in his cam
paign for governor. Kolb is the head of
the oppositio' to straight democracy.
Under the Koi banner are populists, re
publicans and l few dissatisfied demo
crats.
The northern republican leaders are
helping Kolb because they want the dem
ocrats beaten. They would like to see
the democracy beaten in every one of the
southern states. They are not partial to
the populists, but are willing to use them
to accomplish tlio object they have in
view, namely, the breaking of the solid
south. They think if they can wrest
some of the southern states from the dem
ocratic party their chances will be im
proved for petting control of the govern
ment. It is not improbable that they
even entertain the idea that if the democ
racy should lose control of any of the
southern states the Republican party
would eventually capture them.
We do not know whether the republi
cans are helping the populists in this
state or not. If they are not it would not
he surprising if they should. It would be
in accordance with their wishes if the
populists should elect two or three con
gressmen from this state, and it would
gratify them if the populists should elect
their state ticket.
In view of the fact that the republicans
are trying to lessen the strength of the
southern democrats in congress and plot
ting to get a footholt} in the southern
states no true democrat anywhere in the
south can afford to be indifferent to the
success of the democratic ticket.
Those democrats in this state
who are threatening to boycott
Mr. Atkinson are making a mistake. He
is a man of ability, and there is no reason
to doubt that he would make a good gov
ernor. If ho should be nominated every
democrat should do his best to elect him
by a big majority. If he were incom
petent there would be some excuse for
being indifferent to his success.
Knowing what the purpose of the re-
Rebiican party is in respect to the south,
democrats in every southern state should
do their utmost to increase democratic
majorities over those of previous years.
I-et the democracy fight for its organiza
tion and its principles. In a fight of this
kind there should be no difficulty in over
looking differences in respect to men.
Accidents on Sunday.
There are few adults in the south,
where the colored “mauma'’ as a nurse
has been the rule for more than a cen
tury, who can not recall how, in their
childhood days, their sensibilities were
aroused and their horror excited by the
tearful tale of the bov who went a fishing
on Sunday. He sat on a log and used a
long rod. When it became time for him
to go home he tried to do so, hut could
not, and called for help. When his
mamma and papa found him the fishing
rod had grown fast to his hands, and the
boy had grown fast to the log. When
papa tried to cut the rod with his knife
the rod bled and the boy screamed, and
when the same kind of thing was tried
with the log it also bled, and the boy
screamed. So mamma and papa were
forced to return home and leave the bo.v,
the rod and the log to their fate. What
that fate was the nurse never told.
Along the same line, but backed with a
little more of probability were the stories
told to the older children of the certainty
of accident befalling those who made
pleasure trips on Sunday. Whoever went
riding on Sunday was sure to got a fall
and a broken arm or leg, if not neck, and
those who went out on the water were
morally certain to be capsized, with all of
the chances in favor of being drowned.
These yarns, and others built upon the
same foundation—superstition—have left
their indelible imprint upon thousands of
minds. Probably three-fourths of the
southern readers of newspapers have got
into the habit of looking in their Monday
morning’s paper for reports of an extra
number of crimes and casualities. The}'
do not. of rourso. see in these things now,
as they used to, the evidence of swift
punishment for Sabbath breaking; not
because they are less reverent, but be
cause they have come to look for a physi
cal and rational explanation of the oc
currences. And the explanation is at
Sunday is the working people's holiday.
On that day they rest from their labors
and seek recreation. They depart, for
the day, from their usual routine. Some
go to the seashore, others go to the coun
try, still others chaster a steamboat or a
train and make an excursion. Generally
speaking, the day is given to spiritual
and physical refreshment, in pursuit of
the latter, accidents, brought about by
unusual crowds, or the actions of the peo
ple under circumstances to which they
are unaccustomed, occur, l.ast Sunday
an incident in point occurred near New
York. A party of pleasure seekers on a
tug boat, being ignorant of the necessity
for “keeping the ship trimmed," crowded
on one side. The result was the boat
capsized and a number of the excursion
ists were drowned.
Had the trip been on a Saturday, or on
a Monday, with the same people aboard,
the result would undoubtedly have been
the same. It was a holiday affair, merely.
It may have been a breach of the holy
day : but if it was, there is no reason for
say ing there was connection between the
breach and the casualty. If there were,
what should be said of the Fourth of July
and Christmas casualties r <>n those two
days there are usually more accidents
and crimes than on any other days of the
year. It is probable v'uat on the forth
coming Fourth of July theio will be ex
plosions. drovvuings, tights and murders
in various sections of the country And,
if the prediction shall prove correct, the
untoward incidents will have occurred
simply because the people did not confin i
themselves to business on that day and
went where disaster and crime were the
more probable. And so it is with the
majority of the regrettable incidents tli.H*
occur on Sunday s.
It is a little peculiar how the "bang" of
a prison door cuts off the notoriety of a
Coxeyite. Of all tho Coxeyites who
gained something of notoriety, got into
prison aud in a few days got out again,
there is nut one, not excepting the general
himself, who enjoys as much publicity as
he did before he was locked up. Indeed,
most of the names of the agitators have
been forgotten; they have dropped back
into the obscurity from which they
emerged.
THE MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY, JULY 1, 1894.
Progress of the Boycott.
The strike ordered by the railway
union to enforce the boycott against the
Pullman cars in order to force the Pull
man company to make terms with its
employes in the town of Pullman hasn’t
the sympathy of the public, and the
chances arc that it will fail to accomplish
its purpose. Sympathetic strikes are
seldom successful. Kven the strikers
recognize the folly of such strikes, and
hence engage in them in a half-hearted
way.
The members of the railway union
have no complaint against the railroads
which they have abandoned. They have
struck simply because they have been
ordered to do so by their officers. Few
of them probably know anything of the
merits of the trouble between the Pull
man company and its employes. And
yet, at the command of the officers of
their organization, they have tied up the
railroads of nearly half the continent.
It is apparent that the railroad com
panies will never consent to the demand
of the union, namely, to abandon the use
of Pullman cars. They caunot afford to
do so. They need the cars for transporta
tion of passengers. Other sleeping cars
are not obtainable. Besides, they are
under contract with the Pullman company
to use the cars. If they should break
their contracts they would be liable for
heavy damages.
The main reason, however, why they
cannot afford to yield to the strike is that
if they did sc they would practically have
to abandon the control of their roads.
The railway union would run the roads. Its
demands would have to be complied
with, however tyrannical and oppressive
they might be. A refusal would be fol
lowed by a strike on all the roads whose
employes are in the union. The president
of the union and his few advisers would
be in a position to dictate to the roads.
Their power would be enormous, and
they would not be able to use it wisely,
even if they were disposed to do so, be
cause in so large a body of men there are
always many who have a grievance of
some kind, and if the union was not used
as they desired, they would demand a
change of officers. It is clear, therefore,
that the railroad companies, if they are
to retain the control of their property
have got to defeat this strike.
Chief Arthur, of the locomotive engi
neers, is a level-headed man. According
to our dispatches he has ordered the en
gineers to stick to their engines. He does
not see that tho engineers have anything
to do with the trouble between the Pull
man company and its employes in its car
shops.
It is regrettable that there are not heads
of other organizations of railway employes
who are gifted with as much judgment as
Chief Arthur.
When the strike is over there will be
thousands of men, who were earning good
wages, out of employment. They will have
only Mr. Debs, the president of the rail
way union, to blame for their unhappy
predicament.
Prospect for Better Times.
The impression prevails in England as
well as here that there will be a great
revival in business in this country imme
diately after the passage of the tariff bill,
and that this revival will have a good
effect in England. The Money Market
Review, an English financial publication
of a high standard, in an article entitled
“The coming revival of investment and
speculation,” says: “It is reasonably be- j
lieved that the tariff bill will pass in the I
course of this month, and that a strong re
vival will then take place in American bus
iness. It will certainly reach here.” The
opinion is expressed in the article that,
owing to the vast volume of idle money,
when the revival fairly sets in there will
be greater speculation and industrial de
velopment than ever before known. “The j
revival,” says the article, “will broaden
and lead gradually to developments of the
vast and far reaching order, which have
marked previous conditions correspond
ing to those now presented; or we will
rather say that, as the volume and power
of the finance of these days infinitely sur
pass anything that has ever before been
known, so will the approaching develop
ments transcend all past experience.
Moreover, as everything in tho world
moves nowadays more quickly than it
ever did before—communications and the
interchange of thought being swifter, and
the whole pace of things, even of society,
one of surpassing rapidity- it is probable
that wliat is about to take place may ar
rive more suddenly than most of us at
present imagine.”
’The belief is certainly strong in this
country that as soon as the tariff
question is settled there will be a quick
and remarkable change in the business
situation. In the money centers there are
vast amounts of idle capital awaiting
opportunities for profitable investment.
It has been a very long time since money
was so cheap as it is noxv. The time,
therefore, is propitious for the establish
ing of new industries and reviving old
ones.
The country is almost bare of manu
factured goods of all kinds. Merchants
have permitted their stocks to run down
because they have been afraid to replen
ish them until they felt sure about the
future condition of business. When this
fear is removed there will be such a feel
ing of confidence in the future that the
condition of affairs described in the
English paper is certain to be witnessed.
And the south, because of the success
with which she has withstood the hard
times, will respond quickly and gener
ously to the new conditions, and, conse
quently, will command the attention of
capitalists in a greater degree than any
other section of the country.
They are telling down in the Eleventh
district a Henry G. Turner story that is
worth repeating. When Mr. Turner spoke
for the first time in one of the counties of
his new district two years ago he met a
very cordial reception, and was listened
to with marked attention. During a
l pausa toward the end of his speech a man
j in the crowd was heard to slap a friend
\pn the shoulder and say, with consider
able emphasis: "I say, Jim. that feller's
got two - jailers' in his head, ain't lief’
To appreciate the compliment, and the
joke, it must b i-nown that on the farms
the yolk of an egg is culled the --yaller.-’
Sometimes an egg is found to contain two
yolks, or "jailers,” aid such eggs are
popularly regarded as being worth two
ordinary eggs.
It seems that the broiling the weather
is giving the senators aid the roasting
the press is giving them should have some
effect in hurry ing legislation along.
Congressman Livingston of the Atlanta
district had probably begun to think he
would, have a walk-over in his race for
renomination and re-election. But in
stead of walking he may find it neces
sary to go the whole way t a sprinting
gait. Mr. Candler, whom the papers have
been talking about for some time as a
possible candidate, and who is now
squarely in the race, is regarded as a
campaigner second not even to Col Liv
ingston. That the congressman does his
best campaigning when hotly pushed, is
generally acknowledged, and that Mr.
Candler will push him at every jump, is
generally believed, hence the chances are
that the contest in the Fifth district will
be one of the most interesting in the
state.
The democracy of those “anti-Atkinson
democrats" in Atlanta who have formed
a Hines campaign club could not have
been more than skin deep, and their de
fection will do little hurt to the party.
It ma.v be that the party will be benefited
by their opposition. There is no good
and sufficient political reason why every
democrat should not support Mr. Atkin
son, in accordance with party duty.
PERSONAL.
Mrs. Frederick Duppen. of Cincinnati, has
just learned that seventeen years ago Fred
erick Miller made a remark derogatory of
her character, and has entered suit for slan
der.
Although Queen Victoria rules over an
empire that embraces possessions in every
part of the world, she has never traveled out
side Europe, and even there her trip- have
been short ones to France, Holland, Germany
and Italy only.
Stuart B. Reed, of Harrison county, West
Virginia, was introduced to the republican
league cdhvention at Fairmount. W. Va., the
other day as the oldest republican in the
United States. He is 103 years old. and is
still in good heath.
Since her marriage. Miss Olive Schreiner,
that was calls herself Mrs. Olive Schreiner.
Her husband, however, has changed his
maiden name by making his wife's family
name his surname, so that his visiting cards
now read. "Mr Cronwright Schreiner."
A recent incident has strengthened the
faith of R. K. Martin, of Brunswick, Me., in
the New Testament. He was recently shot
at by highwaymen near his home the ball
striking the thick covering of the httle pocket
Bible, and was afterward found in his vest
pocket still warm.
BRIGHT BITS.
•'Was the play as pleasant as you thought
it would he?"
May—Perfectly enchanting. Five acts and
we cried through four of them.—Chicago Inter
Ocean.
"Is Blank studying for the stage?"
"Yes.’’
"What is his special line?”
"He has Invented a isixture that will en
able one tn go without eating for a week."—
Chicago Inter Ocean.
The Ministerial One—The race question
seems to teas much of a problem to-day as
it was at the close of the war.
The Sporty One—You're dead right, pard.
I’ve t'oen follenn' the horses for thirty years,
an’l have fist as much trouble pickin' the
winner now as I hail de first day I ever went
to the track. -Brooklyn Eagle.
A Difference of Views:—“Tin almost afraid.
Miss Squeers,” said the impecunious young
man who had taken her to an after-theater
supper for which he had been hoarding
money for months, “I'm almost afraid to ask
you to cat such a meat as this just before
going to bed."
"Oh. never mind," replied Miss Squeers.
smiling pleasantly. "If it doesn t answer we
can easily order some more, you know. "—Chi
cago Record.
"What do you think of them, my dear?”
asked Mr. Bluebeard of his newest wife, as he
fondly stroked the fringe that adorned his
chip.
"Oh. they are just heavenly." she ex
claimed.
He eyed her for a moment and. finally con
cluding that she was not that terror, a woman
with a penchant for puns, let her wear her
head for another day or two.—lndianapolis
Journal.
Blessings of Hicycling—Missionary -1 think
of getting up a series of revival meetings for
young men.
Villager Waste of time. Not needed at
all. sir. The young men of this town lead
strictly moral lives.
"My i my: To what benign Influence do you
ascribe that remarkable condition?"
They are all saving up money for 1894 pneu
matics.’ Good News.
"Do you like this business?" said a lawyer
to a barmaid.
• No.” she said,“not as well I should yours."
“Why mine?’ said he.
“Well," she replied, “your clientage gen
erally sobers up after you present your bill."
—Adams Freeman.
"And you don't admire that new hat young
De Noodle has on?
"No; there's so little in it to admire."—
Sunday Advertiser.
CURRENT COMMENT.
Premiums for Speed.
From the Baltimore Sun (Dem.l.
The premiums paid to shipbuilders for
extra speed are beginning to attract atten
tion. The premium on a single ship tor a few
miles an hour above the at solute require
ments is $ 00.000 People are beginning to
wonder whether these premiums are not too
high, and whether the sneed could not he
gotten by paving a fair price for the work
done, if tho specifications sho :ld require
this high speed and then the work be given
out upon competitive bids, the high speed
coulu doubtless be attained.
A Party of Kickers.
From the Rome (Ga.) Tribune il)em.(.
Populism is a form of radical political pro
test against existing party conditions in those
states wherein the strength of one or other
of the great parties was so great as to remove
the possibility of the minority party's suc
cess. Thus, in Kansas. Nebraska, Nevada
and Colorado, republican states the dissent
ing republicans became populists; and in
Texas. Alabama. Georgia and North Carolina
thedl'senting democrats became populists.
In no close or decisive states have the popu
list organizations amounted to much.
Wants an Exemption From Taxation.
From Eastman iGa.i Times-Journal iDem.).
Hon. Joseph S. James, United States dis
trict attorney, who is a delegate to the state
convention from Douglas county, will present
a plank to be inserted in the platform that is
likely to cause discussion. His proposition is
to exempt JBiiU of every taxpayer from tax
ation, the idea being to relieve poor people
who have only a small amount of property to
pay taxes on- Mr. James' estimate is that
this exemption will cost the state not
more than 15.HU0 a year, but would be a
i real relief to the man with tho flea-bitten
mule and muley-head cow.
A Republican Straddle.
From the Philadelphia hedger, (lnd.K
The League ot 'Republican Clubs managed
to stradule the silver question, it declared
Itself in favor of 'sound money anl the use
of both gold and silver as standard money,
and that the puichasing and debt paying
power of the dollar, whether of gold, silver or
paper, shall at all times be equal. 'lhis is
not specific enough to bind the republican
clubs to auv particular policy. The demo
crats of Pennsylvania voul.i indorse that
plank, for they also "favor the circulation of
constitutional money, gold and -ilvcr. at a
parity of value.” Both parties are bent on
foolmg the populists and silver men with un
meaning phrases.
Defending Hie State.
From the Macon (Ua.) Telegraph (Dem i.
Gov. Northen says with great truth
"Atlati'a is not responsible for a crime in
Texas any more than Philadelphia i- re
sponsible for a lynching in Ohio or ;or a
tarring and feathering of the adjutant gen
eral of the state of Colorado.” Further, he
says with equal truth: "It is true that
there have teen horrible crimes com
mitted in different parts of the
tooth, just as there have been horrible crimes
Committed in every other state in the meon
and every other country of the world "
: here seems to tea proneness to magnify un
lawful <1 fils in the south, in some sections
which is unjust and uncalled for. and Gov!
Norther* is doing good work in deafendlug oji
section lrorn charges of lawlessness,
Ridingr Out a Gale in Kansas.
Jackson Peters leaned back in his chair. ,
says Harper s Weekly, and slowly blew a
cloud of smoke toward the ceiling. ‘ Jones. !
he said. “I want to ask your opinion in re
gard to the possibility of a story which was
told me the other day.” , j
• Well. Jackson was the guarded reply of
the cautious Jones.
•It struck me. continued Peters, “that a
man who had told as many —that is to say. a
man who has told as much of what I may call
awe-inspiring truth as you have ought to be a
good judge of the probability of a story. It j
was a cyclone story which I was going to ask
you about.'
Most cyclone stories are ralpable lies,
Jackson.” w . . ,
Xo doubt. The point is this: He said ne
had seen straws driven through inch boards -
by the forte of the wind.”
It never happened. Jackson. That is a
stock lie told of every cv. ione that Mows. |
Your friend imposed upon \our youth, my i
toy He would never have dared to tell such i
a manifest an*, self-heralded lie to Robinson
or Smith, i must admit, though, that the j
force of the wind in a genuine cyclone is con
siderable. When i lived in Kansas in the 1
'Tug 1 had a quantity of poultry, but it was !
blown at t yclone of the season
except a black >pamsh rooster. He clung to
a grass root with his bill and allowed his tail
to crack and whip in the wind like a yacht
pennant. He rode out the gale, though most
of his feathers were Mown off. Subsequently
i found some of them imbedded over half an
inch in my grindstone"
• Yes,” returned Peters. “I presume my
friend was trying to impose on my adoles
cence.”
“I think so, Jackson. I had considerable
experience with cyclones that summer
in Kansas. But I learned to handle
myself so that 1 did not mind
them much. I soon saw the fallacy of
depending on cyclone cellars and that sort of
thing. The fundamental difficulty of all such
things is that you try to-hold yourself firmly
in one place. It is as if a ship in
a gale should tie up to a post (sup
posing midorean posts for the time
being), instead of driving before the
tempest, l'he first cyclone that summer, of
course. J went down cellar, like other folks.
My horse was soon blow n away. The
thing 1 knew the cellar went, too, rolling over
and over like a silk hat. I was soon spilled
out. With infinite labor I crawled back in
the teeth of the wind intending to take ref
uge in the hole the cellar came out of. To my
consternation. I found that had blown away,
also. I then followed the example of the
rooster, clung to a root, and allowed my legs
to flutter and snap in the gale like a weather
signal flag.”
Qualified to Act as Judge.
Buffalo Bill once gave a show in Carson
City. Nev., and on the opening night the
house was packed to the doors. The audi
ence. however, went away dissatisfied be
cause Mr. Cody himself did not appear. The
celebrated cowl oy when the time came for
him to startle the audience with his deeds of
daring, was not to be found. So the good
people of Carson dubbed the sho .v a “fake.”
ami after the first night only a few attended.
Charles B. Locke, the manager of the show,
brought a suit against Buffalo Bill to recover
damages. It caused a great sensation
in Carson, for. according to the
San Francisco News Letter, the resi
dents of that town knew very little
of the merits of Thespians of any kind, and
there were few, if any. who could Honestly
tell whether or not it was more gratifying to
the audience for an intoxicated actor to ap
pear on the stage and make a fool of him*elf
or remain behind the scenes in the drills of
Morpheus. 'I he judge of the court did not
like to decide the case between Messrs. Locke
and Cody, and it was impossible to find a jury
with sufficient intelligence to understand the
matter. Finally it was agreed to let Sam
Divis decide i the case. So the sage
bush humorist was brought before the tribu
nal and was closely questioned by the judge,
who wanted to see how much Mr. Davis knew
about the drama.
• Have you ever been in a theater, Mr. Da
vis ” asked the judge.
“Yes. sir.”
“Do you think you can tell the difference
between a man who is intoxicated and a
man who is sober:”
“Most assuredly," answered Mr. Davis.
“Did you ever hear of a theater wljere the
play drew largely on the first night and con
tinued to draw largely during the run of the
play:”
“Yes, sir.”
“Where?”
•In London. It was a tragedy.”
“Who wrote It?”
“William Shakespeare.”
“Now. Mr. Davis, did you ever hear of a
theater where the play drew largely on the
first night and only eight or ten people on
every night 1 hereafter?’'
‘ Yes. sir.”
“Where?”
“In London. It was a tragedy also.”
“And who wrote that tragedy?”
“I did.”
Mr Davis was unanimously selected to de
cide the suit, which he did in favor of Buffalo
Bill.
Bob White.
Marion F. Ham, in the Southern Magazine.
Shrill and clear from coppice near.
A song within the woodland ringing,
A treble note from silver throat.
The siren of the fields is singing—
Bob—white!
And from the hight the answer sweet
Floats faintly o'er the rippling wheat—
Bob—bob—white ;
The alder flowers in snowy showers
Upon the velvet turf are falling.
And where they lie the soft winds sigh.
The while the fluted voice is calling—
Bob—white!
Across the waves of yellow grain
The wafted echo swells again—
Bob —bob -white!
The purple mist by sunbeams kissed
Drifts upward to the morning's splendor;
And through the haze of shaded ways
The vibrant lute pipes low and tender—
Bob—white!
While fainter, sweeter, softer grown
The answer on the l reeze is blown—
Bob—bob—white:
The shadows sleep in hollows deep.
ihe dewy pawpw leaves are thrilling;
Th* silence broods o'er solitudes.
Unbroken, save one pure note trilling—
Bob—white!
So pure, so clear, so sweetly rare.
The answer steals upon the* air—
Bob—bob—white!
O. song of youth' of love and truth?
Of mellow days forever dying!
Still through the years mv sad heart hears.
Your tender cadence sigh.ng. sighing—
Bob—white!
And far across life's troubled ways—
The echo comes from boyhood days—
Bob—tob—white:
On a Reld-up Train.
• T used to think that it was a marvelous
exhibition of cowardice for a trainload of
passengers to submit quietly to being held up
by one or two train robbers, and i used al
most to hope for the chance of showing what
1 would do if the command Hands up’ should
be given on a coach in which 1 was travel
ing said a commercial traveler to the St.
Louis Globe Democrat. “The chance came
and my ideas underwent a rapid change.
It was on a Little Rock and Fort
Smith train near Ozark. 1 think,
when a man appeared at th“ door and sang
out, ‘Hold up your hands, everybody.’
Before I had time to do w hat I thought I
would do. two shots were filed almost simul
taneously. The first came from the pistol of
the conductor. John Kane, of Little Rock, a
brave man. who drew and fired the moment
he realized what the trouble was. 'I he
second shot was fired by the train robber,
and Kane fell dead. The brakeman then
tired, and a second later he fell with a bullet
through his loins, which crippled him for life.
Une of the rob: era was wounded by either
Kane or the brakeman. and his companions
were captured by the trail of blood. I was
happy to attend their hanging at Clarksville,
Ark , a few months later.’’
On a Gold Basis.
A member of the House who went to see
Secretary Morton at the. agricultural depart
ment on a mutter of business yesterday, says
the Washington Post, happened to pick up -a
newspaper containing a report of Mr. Bryan's
speech at the Omaha silver conference last
Thursday. The dosing part of the speech
struck him with especial force. It read as
follows:
The desire for money is as universal as'
the aedre for food. We -must use silver
whether it is mined in Colorado or in Aus
tralia. or whether it falls like manna from the
skies.”
What do you think of that:” asked the
member, reading it aloud to the secretary
”1 am surprised that Mr. Bryan is not bet
ter versed in Biblical lore.” replied Mr.
Morton solemnly, for every student of the
scriptures knows that Heaven is run on a
gold bas s with golden harps, golden streets
golueu gates, and everything else golden.”
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
One of the Tesults of the national prison
congress at St, Paulis to be the introduction
of lassos in the m anted police service of Cin
cinnati for use .ires for stopping runaway
horses and rescuing drowning people.
Rube Jaggers. of Middle Valley, Mich has
a cocker spaniel which has developed the ex
traordinary hat it f walking backward. The
dog has become greatly emaciated for laik of
food Every time he stuns for a bone he
runs away from it and the exercise and worry
has reduced him t. a skeleton.
A young woman in Dijon. France, lost her
irpper Jlp in a railway accident and a skillful
surgeon successfully grafted strips of skin
from a man's face The patient is much mor
tified Decause a mustache has made its ap
pearance. She could withstand this if the
hair didn't tickle her nose and cause her to
sneeze. This has ruined her complexion ao
solutely.
There was picked up on the shore at Hobo
ken a few days ago a pair of shoes in one of
which was a parchment certificate of probate
of a will dated in 1*52, describing a valuable
estate in Ireland, together with numerous cer
tificates of stock ii. several Irish banks. The
name of the testator was John Johnston, of
the Diocese of Clogher.
According to a tabular statement in the
London Spectator, the total amount of life in
surance in force in the world is $9,831,777,000.
l’he annual premiums upon this are $ 188.811 .-
090. and the policy holders number 5.157.687.
America leads with $4,940,995,000 insurance in
force and 1.687.778 policy holders, the English
figures, which are next, showing $2,401,020,000
insurance and 1,098 67 policy-holders.
The California si.preme court has decided
the insurance cas< of Mary V. Griffiths
against the New York Life Insurance Com
pany. Judge E. J Griffiths, a well-known
Fresno lawyer, several years ago took out
two policies of SIO,OOO each, giving two notes
in payment of the first premium. Later
< .riffiths told the local agent he could not pay
one of the notes at maturity and one policy
was cancelled. Griffiths was accidently killed
before the second note matured. Ihe com
pany refused to pay he amount on the ground
that the agent had no right to take notes.
Mrs Griffiths brought suit, secured judgment,
and on appeal the judgment is affirmed.
The early Greeks depended upon natural
springs an 1 cisterns hewn in the rock, but
the insufficiency of the supply led to daring
engineering works, says Fire and Water. As
early as 625 B. C. a tunnel 4.200 feet long, 8
feet broad and 8 feet high was cut through a
hill which stood between Samos and a cov
eted supply of water. Fifty or sixty years
later extensive works of a similar nature
were constructed 1 bring water to Athens
from the hills of H mettus. Peutelicus and
Fames. Two conduits from Hymettus passed
under the head of th Ilissus. and were cut in
the rock for most of the distance. This con
duit and one from pvntelicns met in a large
reservoir just outside Athens, and from this
the water was distributed throughout the
city by underground channels. Some of the
ancient aqueducts cti tinue to Supply Athens
at the present time.
There is a parallel between the death of
President Carnot a:. 1 Henry IV. of France,
who was killed on Miv 14. 1610. by Ravaillac,
who was born in Angouleme. was first clerk
to a notary, and the became schoolmaster.
He was subsequent, imprisoned for debt,
and later on entered lie Order of the Feuil
lants, from which*, however, he was expelled
as a crank. For religious reasons Ravaillac
became incensed aga :.st his sovereign. After
several attempts to approach the king he
succeeded in doing si <>n May 14. 1610. The
king rode out to see bully, his minister, who
was sick n bed. I; Laferronnerie street,
which was a very narrow thoroughfare, his
coach was stopped y some heavily laden
carts in front of it. Ravaillac jumped on the
hind wheel and plunged a dagger into the
heart of the king, wh died immediately. The
murderer was captured soon after and exe
cuted on May 27, two weeks after he had per
petrated the murder.
There are 1.759 colored girls studying the
several professions in the United States.
Three colored women are instructors in the
ology—one in Indiana one in Illinois and one
in lowa. There is ore* woman enrolled as a
theological student in the Alabama college.
In the District of Columbia a colored woman
is engaged in the study of law. and there are
eight in the United States who are studying
medicine—two in New York, two in Pennsyl
vania. two in the District of Columbia one in
Michigan and one in Kentucky. Throughout
the whole country the:e are twenty-nine col
ored women in scho for training nurses.
Eighteen of these are in Massachusetts,
ten in the District of Columbia and
the other one in Vermont. The
census returns show that 2.; 91 young
colored men are engaged in the study of the
professions. Of these 1.446 are fitting them
selves for teachers, si: are studying theology,
64 are studying law, 266 are studying medi
cine arid 3 are studying technological
branches. The theological students are
mostly in the southern states. The law stu
dents are mostly in the north. Of the sixty
four law students twenty one are in the Dis
trict of Columbia, three in New England,
thirteen :n the north central states and only
eight in the southern states.
The tax gatherer's chief instrument in the
east, says the New York Tribune is the bas
tinado, a thick bamboo stick, laid across the
naked soles of the fee" the taxpayer being
firmly strapped to the ground, face down
ward, and kept there until he has not only
yielded up all his income but all his principal
likewise. As Morocco owes Spain 5.<0J,(D0
pesetas and has begun to pay them off it is
likely that the whack of the bastinado and
the yelp of the victim will now be heard in
the land from the headlands of Mequinez to
the ranges of the Atlas mountains, and
throughout the provin es of Figig and Twat
and Tidikelt. and ley mid. on desert spaces,
seen by the low necked camel on the verge,
as far as the dominions of the new
Sultan extend, it is not an enlightened
.mode of collecting revenue, but is the prin
cipal one which exists in those curious
countries and among those curious and no
madic peoples, and if the grand vizier were
appealed to in the case he would probably
say that the villager- thus entreated were
dogs and the sons of dns. and that they could
not be persauded to gi\ • up their money in
any other way. The custom is of great an
tiquity and seems mon popular amon.r those
who apply it that among those
to whom it is applied but a necessary re
source in case of any deficit in the revenue.
Which is at the same time the smallest
coin and the coin of least value at present
current in Europe? in the absence of a
knowledge of any smaller and more worth
less. says a writer in the Westminster Ga
zette. i should be inclined, writes a corre
spondent, to the palm to the Greek
lepton, a specimen of which has recently
come into my hands It is about the same
size as the Italian centesimo. and the way to
get one is to buy something marked 4 lepta,
give a prndara, or Gr* • k half penny, and wait
for the change. The lepton is. according to
the decimal monetary ,-vstcm current in eoun
tries belonging to the Latin Union, the hun
dredth part of th dra hraa. Now. the Greek
drachma is. while nominally the equivalent
of the franc cr the lira, at present
worth rather less than 6d., the
rate of exchange about a fortnight
ago being 42 60 drachmas to an English sov
ereign. The lepton is therefore, anproxi
mately worth about one-fifth of an English
farthing, in nothing m>es i.he deplorable con
dition of Greek finances strike the casual ob
server more forcibly than in the fact that at
present Greece has no money" but copper,
and is obliged to issue bank notes for sums of
sixpence upward, and a nast.er little rag than
the ono-ilrachma note it would be difficult to
find. All travelers in Greece should provide
themselves with a sma.l pair of tongs to take
them up by.
St. Pauls Cathedral is insured.
says a writer in London Spare
Mr m j nts. Out of the otal of proceeds of tho
1’ auric fund, for keep.ug the building in re
pair— a! o t £1.200 a year—£2oo is expended
on a policy of insurance aga.nst tire. Ihe
church is insured to the extent of £9o <HOO. So
far as human precairions art: of avail, the
cathedral is secure agn.nst lightning on a sci
entific pan. which .as suggested by the
Royal Society a.- far back as 1769 The seven
iron scrolls which support tho ball and cross
are connected with o her rods, used as con
ductors. which unite them with several largo
iron bars descending obliquely to the stone
work of the lantern, and connected by an iron
ring with four other iron bars to the
leaden covering of the great cupolu,
a distance of fifty feet. I hence the
communication is c utinued downward by
the rainwater pipes t ■ the lead C'-veiW roof,
and thence again by leaden water pipes
that pass down Into ti e earth, partly through
iron and party through lead. On the clock
tower looking down Ludgate hil. a r>ar of
iron connects the pineapple ornamenta
tion at the top with the iron staircase whi.h
leads up to it insUe. ar.d thence to the lead
on the ioof of the ihurch. The bell tower at
the northwest angle is similarly protected.
By these means the metal used in thejbuild
ing is made available for the work dr con
ductors the metal its-lf employed merely for
that purpose being exceedingly smlil in
quantity when compared with the bulk Jf the
fabric which it servos to secure.
DAN.EL HOGAN.
-' T>G AN’S
Or WEATHER
.. -Lifts.
Keep Cool In Taking Advantage
I—OF
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Pi nan
MONEY EASILY SAVED
By participating in tiU sale. All Season
able Goods, this gear’s purchases.
At 18 cents.
One lot genuine French
Printed Dimity, in stripes
and figures; full 32 inches
wide; formerly’ 35c.
At 18 cents.
One lot Priited Organdy
Muslin; full 32 inches wide;
formerly 35c.
At 85 cents.
One lot French Printed
Mull Muslin; 30 inches wide;
formerly 25c.
At 85 cents.
One lot Printed Figured
Swiss Muslins; formerly
25c.
At cents.
One lot Printed Cuban
Lawns; full 40 inches wide;
formerly 25c,
At 82i cents.
One lot Scotch Ginghams;
yard wide; formerly 25c.
Daniel Hogan.
TOILET Aimeif*.
DR. T. FELIX GOPP.ACD’S OBIENTAI
CREAM, OK MAOICA HKALTI
FIER.
Purifies * Well n* llenutlfle, the Ski.
> - o Other Co.incite Will <lo It.
Removes Ta,
—.Freckles, Moth
Rash,
IVar ijp nd Skin dls
-SK; Ct* fic// eases and
Vs / ever F blemish
I on beauty, and
debts deteo
£& \ stood the test
\ of <3 years,and
| \>s so harmless
/ / Sn ] * 1 v,e taste it to
(r Ibe sure it is
/ Y "( ' properly made
L X —* Accept no
.nr >. counterfeit of
similar name Dr. L A- Sayre said to a lady
of the haut-ton (a patient;: "As you ladles
will use them, I recommend ‘Gouraud's
Cream'a* the laast harmful of all the Skla
preparations. ’ For sale by all druggists and
fancy goods dealers In the United State*
Canadas and Europe
FRED T HOPKINS, Prop'T,
37 Great Tones St., N. Y.
For sale by Llppman bros.
DRY GOODS.
139 BROUGHTON STREET.
Our Mit!-Siimmer Bargains.
Ladies’ Dock Suits $1,87, formerly
$3.50.
Children’s Biouse Waists 50c formerly
SI.OO.
Boys’ Shirt Waists 39c, formerly 50c.
Ladies’White Shirt Waists $1,25, for
merly $1.75.
Childrens’ White Sun Bonnets 25c, for
merly 35c.
Gants’ Fancy Socks 25c, formerly 50c.
Ladies' Tan and Black Hose 25c.
Bath Towels 25c, considered cheap at 35c
All Linen Husk Towels, 2 for 25c.
Extra Large Damask Towels 25c, worth
35c.
Red Table Damask 35c, worth 50c,
White Table Damask 49c, cheap at 75c.
Tinted Tray Cloths 35c, formerly 50c.
Stamped Linen Squares 25c formerly 35c.
Stamped Linen Runner 79c, formerly sl.
All colors of Embroidery Wash Silks, best
makes, this week 4c.
PEAS.
COW ~~
PEAS
FOP. SALE BY
W. D. SIMKINS.
OLD NEWSPAPERS. 200 for 23 cenla, •
Dnbiacss Office Morning News,