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RIOT ON A STREET CAR.
Twelve Shots Fired and Two People
Wounded at West Savannah.
A riot in which twelve or more shots
were fired and two men were slightly
wounded took place at West Savannah
about 11 o'clock last night.
The trouble started on a Subur
ban and West End car. The last
car left the market at 10:.Ki o'clock,
crowded as the last car always is on
Saturday night. The majority of
the passengers were colored, only five
white people being on the car. Two of
these, Mr. E. S. Everett and Mr. James
McGowan, were wounded.
The negroes began a disturbance soon
after the car left the market, but it
was confined to themselves. It kept up,
however, until the car reached the curve
at West Savannah. Mr. Everett was
Standing up and was seized by a
negro and thrown from the ear. Mr
McGowan went to his assistance and
was also thrown down. Immediately the
shooting began. A ball from a pistol
struck Mr. McGowan in the hand
passing through it. Another shot
Struck Mr. Everitt in the linger. The
shooting was all at once. Neither Mr.
iEveritt or Mr. McGowan had any
weapon. As soon as the shooting
began some of the crowd ran and
the rest quickly followed. The conductor
was a young man, anew employe, and
was unable to stop the disturbance. The
motorman undertook to quiet it, but
but could do nothing. In the
disturbance the motor crank was
seized by some of the crowd
and thrown away.
After the shooting Mr. Everett re
turned to the city with Mr. Mc-
Gowan and went to Dr. Nor
ton to have their wounds
dressed. The affair was reported to the
police at 1 :H0 o'clock this morning, but too
late to capture any of the rioters.
One of the negroes, Jackson, was taken
to Dr. Norton’s office also, who attended
him. Ho was shot through the lungs,
and it is thought, will die.
VIGILANT VANQUISHED.
A Light and Variable Breeze Makes
Her An Easy Victim.
Penzance, July 28.—A light and variable
breeze made the American centerboarder,
Vigilant, an easy victim for the Prince of
Wales’ cutter Britannia in the race off
this harbor to-day. The time, considering
the gentleness of the breeze, was very fast,
the Britannia averaging nearly eight
knots an hour. She won by five minutes
and thirteen seconds, actual time, and
with an allowance of one minute and ten
seconds from the Vigilant, by six min
utes and 28 seconds, corrected time.
The course was fairer for the
yankee yacht probably than any other
British one she has sailed
over in the matterof turns and the length
of the logs, it formed an equatorial tri
angle. each side of which was eight and
one-tliird miles long. There were only
five turns. Maneuvering was thus not
so essential to victory as the actual sail
ing power of the yudhts.
OFF FOR THE AROTIO.
The Cook Expedition Resumes Its
Trip From St. Jilin’s.
St. John’s, N. F., July 28. —The Cook
Artie expedition sailed northward again j
to-night, the steamer Miranda having
fully repaired her damages. The work
was done expeditiously and much to
the satisfaction of all aboard.
Only one person left the ship and
decided not to go by her. Private rea
sons caused his withdrawal, and not the
fear of danger The whole expedition is
in good spirits, and perfectly satisfied to
undertake the journey. All believe it
will be crowned by success.
CALIFORNIA CALM.
Troops to Be Sent Home—The Strikers
Ready for Bloodshed.
San Francisco, Cal., July 28.—Gov.
Markham to-day said that the militia on
the field would be ordered home im
mediately, as he did not think there was
any further need lor them.
During the trial of the alleged train
wreckers at Woodland this afternoon a
telegram from leader Knox to a striker
at Truckee was read, in which he was
advised to "couie with all the guns and
volunteers ” One of the witnesses testi
fied that Worden had said to him: "If
worst comes to worst we can fight. We
can make bombs of the very best mate
rial.”
TROOPS TO QUIT PULLMAN.
No Trouble Feared Unless an Attempt
Is Made to Open the Shops.
Chicago. July 28.—1 tis probable that
the First regiment, Illinois National
Guard, which is now protecting the town
of Pullman, will be withdrawn Monday.
The camp at Kensington has received a
hint to be ready for departure at an early
date.
The Pullman company has been given
until Monday to decide whether to open
its shops or not. and if the decision is in
the negative the troops will he at once
withdrawn, as it is thought there will be
no trouble unless an attempt is made to
open the shops.
LUMBER YARDS ABLAZE.
Oshkosh the Scene of a Destructive
Conflagration.
Oshkosh, Wis., July 28.—Fire started
at about 2 o’clock this afternoon in the
lumber yards of Stanhilber, Amos & Cos.,
and the flames, urged on by a brisk
southeast wind, and with every
thing as dry as tinder, soon became
a conflagration, that for three hours
and a half threatened to spread to the
manufacturing district and fine residence
portion of the city. The principal losers
are the Diamond Match Company, SIOO,-
000, partially insured; Stanhilber, Amos
& Cos., $50,000, fully insured. Five small
dwellings were also consumed.
OIL TANK WORKS BURNED.
A Loas of 9100,000 and 1,000 Men
Thrown Out of Work.
Fort Wayne, Ind., July 28. - The big oil
tank works of Bowser & Cos., in this city,
were totally destroyed by Are to-night
entailing a loss of SIOO,OOO and throwing
nearly 1,000 men out of employment. The
insurance amounts to about $20,000. The
works will he at onco rebuilt.
Frank Magner, a laborer, was instantly
killed by picking up a broken telephone
wire which had fallen across an electric
wire. When his wife, who was in |>oor
health, heardof thedeathof her husband,
she was completly prostrated, aud soon
expired.
HELD DOWN TO DROWN.
Two Brothers Get Kul of the Rival of
One in a Love Affair.
Washington. July 2"* A sjwrtal from
liinmughaui. Ala , says "Near Monaco,
Alt., forty young men were swimming in
the ’I otnhlgl.ee river when Waiter and
liinh/u Wiighl. brothers, caught James
Mbit*bead and held him under the water
WiUi <ir*s wow!
VVrufiit iMif?
Wutb t i>tsm wiU* Um
dls-aided M right for WhiLhmd 'j he
** right boy• ar u> for murder.
SHORT WORK IN THE HOUSE.
The Fight on the Copyright Bill
Causes a Speedy Adjournment.
Washington. July 28.—The committee
on patents, to which to-day’s session in
the House was accorded by the committee
on rules, was unfortunate, in that the
first bill presented by Chairman Covert
met such opposition that after a brief
discussion the House voted to ad.ourn.
It was the bill introduced by Mr. Cum
mings. derp • of New York to amend
the copyright law •so as, to more
i ffectually, prevent and punish the
pirating of pla.vs and operas. The com
mittee on patents reported a substitute
for the bill which greatly modified its
punitive features; but even in that shape
it was opposed by Mr. Hopkins, rep., of
Illinois and others.
A joint resolution was passed extending
until Aug. 14, the provisions of the appro
priations hills for the jear ending June
20, I*o4. The joiut resolution under which
the several departments re now operat
insr will expire on Tuesday, and six of the
appropriations bills are still in congress.
An unusually large list of private bills
was passed, including those which had
been acted upon favorably at the Friday
night pension session.
DIXIE’S DEVELOPMENT.
The Southern Exchange Association
Ready to Receive Information.
New York, July 28.—President Garden
of the Southern extAange Association
to-day issued the following:
The bureau of legislation of the
Southern Exchange Association is
prepared to receive communications
from ail parties interested, who have
suggestions to make touching laws of
the southern states, which appear to affect
injuriously or otherwise the investment of
capital, and the influx of settler to the south.
Communications should be addressed to
Hon. William <}.• Verger, chairman of the
bureau of legislation, Greenville, Miss., or
in care of the Southern Exchange Associa
tion, No 23 Park Row. New York city. The
National Park Bank of 214 Broadway, New
York city has notified the president of the
Southern Exchange Association that it ac
cepts the appointment of depository of the
funds of the association.
Rev. Thomas Myers Dead.
Asheville, N. C., July 28.—Rev. Thomas
Myers, D. D., of Baltimore, Mil., died
last evening at the residence of his son.
J. Morris Myers, in this city, whence he
had come on a visit five weeks ago. Dr.
Myers was born at Georgetown, D. C., in
1818. and entered the Baltimore confer
ence of the Methodist Episcopal church
in 1N35. He was in the active ministry
fifty-one years, and the past eight years
was agent in charge of the Maryland
Bible Society. Short funeral services
will be held here to-morrow, and the re
mains will be taken to Baltimore for in
terment.
Fire Wipes Out a Town.
Milwaukee. Wis., July 28.—Philips
town, on the Wisconsin Central road in
the northern part of the state, was wiped
Cut by a forest fire last night. Three thou
sand people were rendered homeless.
China’s Awful Plague,
Ixmdon, July 28.—A dispatch from
Hong Kong says that an official report
issued there gives the number of persons
who died in the plague in the Canton dis
tricts as 120,000.
Chattahoochee's Populists.
Cusseta, (4a., July 28, T Jn tho populist
primary to-day for representative, W. K.
Wilkinson was nominated. A good vote
was polled but little enthusiasm was man
ifested.
Death of a Cardinal.
Paris, July 28.—Cardinal Ledochowski,
prefect of the Congregation of the Propa
ganda Fide, died to-day at Lucerne,
Switzerland.
Recovery of Rings.
From the Saturday Review
A Mr. Van Notten lost a ring in a lake
and recovered it when the lake was
drained Moore tells how Byron's moth
er’s wedding ring was found in the soil
by the gurdeuer on the day when Miss
Millliank’s acceptance of tho poet's pro
posal arrived, if this was good luck tho
Jealousy of the gods very soon avenged it.
Brond. in the History of Newcastle, men
tions that a geulleman dropped his ring
in'.o h ■ Tyne, and that ids wife after
ward oougnt a fish which hud swallowed
tho jewel. This was “in the seventeenth
century,” and can be hardly called “evi
dential.”
At Inverness, a Jeweler’s boy was car
rying a costly ring to a customer, fie
took it out to look at it on the bridge and
dropped it into tho water. Not expecting
his tale to be credited, he fled the coun
try, went to Australia and made a for
tune. After his return he was telling the
story to a friend. “It was on this very
spot," he said, thrusting his stick into
gravel; and thoro was the ring round the
end of the stick! For this auecdote it
would be well to have signed evidence.
Some years ago a man made a design for
his own seal—a sprig of heather, with the
motto, "Heather,” engraved. He
went to bathe on a lonely
beaeh and laid his ring down on It
fiat stone beside his clothes. After dress
ing he missed the ring, nor could he find
it anywhere. After a few years ho re
ceived a letter from a friond in Australia,
sealed with tho heather seal. He wrote,
asking whore his friend got the ring, who
replied that it had been lent to him by a
stranger in the postofiice whence he had
sent the letter. In this case the ring was
not recovered by the owner, as the
stranger could not be traced; but the
coincidence was curious enough.
A sportsmau lost a ring when shooting.
Next year, in breaking a piece of peat in
a farmhouse, ho found his ring in the
peat. An old gentleman, sleeping at the
country house of a friend, lost a valuable
sapphire ring. Long afterward it was
found in the fluted pillar of the bed ; per
haps the owner had deposited it there in
a moment of somnambulism. A lost ring
has been discovered by its owner inside a
potato which she was peeling, in fact,
rings, lilfe curses, come home to roost.
Army and Militia Discipline.
From the Chicago Post.
“The difference between the regu
lars and the militia.” said an
officer of the First Kegimunt of
the llliuois National Guard, “is only
in the matter of discipline. We
cannot observe the iron discipline of tho
regulars because we are not in the game
for our life work. The regulars are in
the army for business, while we are in
the militia for glory nnd pleasure. I saw
something the other day up in the cauip
on the lake front which would have
caused trouble if it had happened in our
regiment. 4 (no of the officers there was
showing ine round Through some over
sight he forgot his tint and he didn’t
want to walk around the camp without
one. ‘What'll you do for a hat!’ 1 asked
him. 'Never mind.’he replied ‘l’ll get a
hat.' He then approached a man who
was standing guard, ami said simply:
'Give me your hat.' Thu order was given
in the same tone ns if it concerned a
movement of troops and the soldier
handed over his hat without a word or
without changing nis face once. It was
the prettiest tiling I ever saw done in the
wa vof discipline The officer put on the
privates hat and continued his rounds
with me 'filial one incident was a h ssou
111 soldiery to Hie that I will never forget.
At the suinu lime it would never do for a
mill'.la officer to try it. for the simple
reason that the relation Im-iwm-u us and
o*r liiesi Is an eotiri ly different on from
that j ievading b lw<wn the officer aud
lb* aehitm iu the regular or toy.”
THE MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY, JULY 20, 1H94.
FACTS ABOUT COREA.
The Country That is the Cause of the
Trouble Between China and Japan-
From the Philadelphia Ledger.
The impending conflict between China
and Jajian in the peninsula of Corea di
rects all eyes to that fertile and produc
tive, but almost unknown, territory, for
it is not beyond the range of possibility
that a war between the two great
Oriental empires might involve England
and Russia. If that were the case, it
would be a strange commentary on the re
cent development of political and com
mercial relations between opposite quar
ters of tbc world.
in tho latest number of “Globus,” a
geographical magazine, appears an article
by G. Arnous, who, for the last ten years,
has occupied an official position in Fusan,
the chief Corean port of entry', and knows
the country thoroughly. It may be of in
terest to abstract a few of the more strik
ing details, which the author gives
partly from' his own observation and
partly from a manuscript placed at his
disposal by the French missionary bishop
to Corea.
The king is an absolute autocrat, and
holds the power of life and death even
over princes of the royal blood. To him
the “first fruits" of every industry are
annually offered, and he is the recipient
of almost divine honors. The suzerainty
of China is so far acknowledged that the
king, on his accession, receives his official
name troin the Chinese emperor; hut it is
a high crime to pronounce it, anil it is
used only in reports addressed to the
“Son of Heaven.” It is only after his
death that he receives from his successor
ttie name by which he is to be known in
history.
in the presence of the king no fine is
allowed to wear either spectacles or a
vey. His person must not be touched
nor be brought in contact with iron or
steel. This regulation cost the life of a
former king, who died in the year ISUO of
a tumor, which might readily have been
removed by the surgeon’s knife. A later
sovereign, under similar circumstances,
had the good sense to insist upon an oper
ation, tli us putting ills surgeon in a very
awkward dilemma, for, if he refused to
obey the kiii£ s command, his head was
certain to come off, while, if he obeyed,
he subjected himself to the penalties
of high treason. As it was, the
attachment of the people to their
old traditions is so blindly
obstinate that, though the monarch’s life
was saved, ho had difficulty in rescuing
his deliverer from the clutches of the
law. The dress to he worn at court is
rigidly prescribed by the master of cere
monies, and a person received in audi
ence must testify his subjection by con
tinual obeisances. Every horseman, of
whatever rank, must dismount before the
palace walls and pursue his way on foot
untit he has passed them. If tiie king
chances to touch any one the individual
so honored must wear upon that pijrt of
his person a visible token, usually a red
silken cord, as a perpetual memorial of a
distinction so extraordinar v.
The Coroan coins do not bear the king’s
image or superscription, not because, as
in Mohammedan countries, images are
forbiden by the sacred law, but because
it would be polluted by the Angers of the
populace. Until lately' etiquette has for
bidden that any portrait of the king
should appear during his life to be gazed
upon aby profane eyes, but since Cotea
lias been, in a measure, open to foreign
intercourse, the strictness of the rule
has been relaxed, and photographs both
of the present king and the crown
prince are not obtainable. The royal
residence has by no means a palatial
aspect, but consists of an aggregation of
buildings of various sizes and
degrees of rdomment, including
some large saloons, surrounded by a high
wall. When a subject has a petition to
present, he kindles a bonfire on a neigh
boring hill, and, if this happeus to at
tract iin king’s notice, ho usually sends
an attendant to find out what it is all
about, in addition to the apartments oc
cupied by the royal household, are those
designated the ancestral chambers, in
which the portraits or images of former
sovereigns are placed, and honored as if
they were still living. Theeustomary re
pasts are daily placed before them, they
are attended by a crowd of eunuchs and
maid servants, aud the royal etiquette is
as strictly enforced as in the presence of
the reigning king.
The worship of ancestors is in fact the
basis of the Corean cult. The funeral of
a king is the most solemn and splendid of
all ceremonials. The Coreans are re
quired to regard their king as their
father, aud to wear mourning for twenty
seven months after his decease. During
the first five months of this period no
sacrifice can be offered, no marriages
celebrated and even the dead remain un
buried. Meat is at this time banished
from the Corean bill of fare, for
no animals are allowed to be
killed, aud criminals can be neither sen
tenced nor executed. They seem to be
the only class to whom the death of a
king brings advantage. During the re
maining 22 months the government pre
scribes the style of dress to be worn, and
bright colors and expensive stuffs are
strictly forbidden. This may act as a
wholesome check uppn extravagance;
hut. under all the circumstances, the
majority of manking would scarcely
phoose to be the subjects of the King of
Corea.
At the “Sea Spray Cottage.”—Brown-
Miss Bluesergo has been absorbed in that
paper for the last half hour. 1 wonder
what it is she finds so interesting’
Mrs. Brown—l saw it. It is an item read
ing: “Among the recent arrivals at tho
Sea Spray Cottage is Miss Blueserge of
Brooklyn. She will spend a few works at
Clam Shell Beach, prior to her departure
for the Catskills.”—Puck.
A BRAVE WOMAN.
She Turned the Semaphore in Spite of
the Strikers.
From the San Francisco Call.
Miss Tilson is tho heroine of the strike
at Oakland. Miss Tilson turned a switch
and made herself famous. She is the
ticket agent at the intersection of the
narrow and broad gauge lines at Seventh
and Webster streets. The company has
had great difficulty in keeping a sema
phoreman there. As fast us they got a
man the strikers got him away. The
strikers got tho semaphoreman away
about 10 o'clock Tuesday morning.
About 10:15 o'clock the narrow gauge
train from the pier at Fourteenth street
came rattling up. At the crossing the
semaphore held out its warning arm to
stop. There was no obstruction, but
there was no semaphoreman. Conductor
Colgrove refused to jump off his train and
turn the semaphore. llrakeman Case
also refused to do it.
Then Miss Tilson rushed from her little
office and turned that semaphore. Tho
semaphore was a gallant setuapaore. and
even before Miss Tilson got her hand on
tiie lever that semaphore began to put
down its extended arms. At least, that
is wliatovery man in the vicinity, strikers
and all, say. Anyhow, the semaphore
was turned and tho narrow-gauge tragi
went past, it being noticed that the crew
were ail blushing deeply at being outdone
by u woman.
Tim strikers, however, felt that It
would never iki to have that semaphore
turned even by Miss Tilson, anil T. J Ma
honey, who is stationed there, and other
striker* remonstrated with her A crowd
——
v jmrcanli.>.cpuc,y
Medicinal toilet ** $
S-z.p for daily hm.
J*r Iggts** sell ft. >.* jgf W *•"
II - >ar f irniUtfi’iis. stun o***'**.
A honk -at l>*rmat<4*V yO-oWl* J
•zgy with . aka,
speedily gathered and a demonstration
was made. Several women, with char
acteristic cruelty, said insulting things to
Miss Tilson, but she replied: “I am here
for the company, and if the trains do not
pass 1 cannot sell tickets.’’
Then the train came along again. Again
it was stopped. Miss Tilson telephoned
the head office, but they could not send
any one at once. Then the brave girl put
on her hat, farced her way through the
crowd and turned the semaphore again
before the strikers realized what she was
after. That ended it, however. Road
master Baxter took charge of the sema
phore and for the res}, of the afternoon
tho naixiw gauge trains ran on the half
hour. But Miss Tilson continued to be
talked about, it is safe td say that had
a man attempted to do the same thing he
would have been running much risk.
RUSSELL SAGE’S TEMPTATION.
Fascinated by a 312 Suit of Summer
Clothes, He Bid 310.75 and Stopped
Front the New York Herald.
Perhaps it was that he has not forgotten
the ill-disguised glee with which Mr.
Choate gamboled in hls well nigh empty
clothes press during the Laidlaw suit*—
that, by the way, was a (50,000 suit<-or
perhaps he had in min i some strategic
move to affect the pulse of Wall street,
hut it is a fact, anyway, that Russell
Sage, a few days ago. was just upon the
verge of “plunging”sl2 on a suit of “hand
me-downs.”
The deal didn't come off. and Mr. Sage
is still wearing his "every days” to busi
ness, and saving his “blacks,” as Novel
ist Barrie says, for the Sunday dress pa
rade in the avenue.
But he was near it, within 75 cents of
it. in fact, ind those who stood by will
remember for a long time to come the
tense feeling they had while he stood be
tween love and duty, as it were, un
til his firm adherence to principle con
quered.
Then Mr Sage dropped that seventy
five down into the ffocket of the old jeans
in which ho carries a mint or two, shut
out the glare of the dazzling “hand-me
downs" with one upraised hand, that
they should not tempt him a second time,
and went his way.
CAUGHT THE FINANCIERS EYE.
The (12 suit in question is one of many
that make up a noisy array in the win
dow of a dealer who recently began busi
ness beneath Mr. Sage's office in the Ar
cade building, No. Broadway. They
are “show” clothes, and with them hangs
a sign which says:
“Any of these suits $12.”
it was that sign which caught the oye
of the great and frugal financier as he
passed out on his way from his office over
head.
"Twelve,” he murmured to himself —
“twelve.” He glanced over each suit in
turn. Tiie-- gray -one, of-severely respec
table type; the blue one. that was too
blue to lie a matter for serious considera
tion; the yellowish one. that smacked of
“sporty” tendencies; the black he had a
black suit at home that had long stood
him in good stead, and he mentally
“flagged” the yallow and the blue as dan
gerously apt to give the impression that
the wearer had too much money.
But the gray ones, the gray ones for
twelve, the gray one with the “pants”—
these were not. trousers -so severely
creased, these were not so easily disposed
of. Mr. Sage hesitated before the win
dow like a man who knows his weakness
for finery, and who fears to court tempta
tion which may hurry him into some soul
searing extravagance.
A breeze stirred the "pants” while he
watched them. They wav ed there for a
second, like anew banner flung to the
wind. Mr. Sage looked away from them
for a moment, but he had already waited
too lour A moment later he entered the
shop. The financier bad decided to dally
with the gray ones, ' '
He had not decided to give up sl2 in
bulk subsequent events proved that
mueh—but he had made up his mind to
see them at close quarters. He had faith
in his own steadfastness to principle.
BATTLB OVBB THE GRAYS.
A salesman on whose head there was a
little bald spot and whose lower jaw be
spoke firmness, stepped forward to give
battle over the grays. He knew Mr.
Sage, and in a measure was forearmed.
Mr. Sage, on the other har.d, did not
know that this young man had sold louder
clothes than these in the wilds of Ari
zona, whore his customers were Apaches,
“Greasers” aud cowboys, nor did he
know that it was gossip in the shop that
he had been seen looking at the sl2 sign,
aud was thought to be waiting for a lower
quotation.
They stood there for a moment, the
groat financier and the salesman from the
Irontier, as if taking each other's meas
ures. In the background the, gray suit
swung proudly in the breeze from the
open door. Mr. Sage could see it over
the salesman’s head, but he steeled him
self against its influence, aud when the
clerk said in a businesa-like way, “What
can I do for you, Mr. Sage!” the man
who might be at will "“The man who
broke the brokers down in Wall street,”
answered with a carelessness which
might well have been worth a million in
some transactions on ’Change: “I wish
to look at some of those suits in the win
dow.”
The salesman complied with alacrity,
and in a moment he had handed down six
or seven suits. Mr. Sago examined each
with care. He did not say a word about
his predilictiou for the grays, but he put
the others aside when a suit of that, color
was placed before him, and ran his'liand
over tho cloth.
TALK OF DOLLARS.
It, was pretty good warm weather value
apparently. The cloth was smooth. There
wasn’t a loud note in the piece. Reposo
nestled in the “pants.” The coat vyas
discretion itself. The vest was a trifle
narrow. Ho fondled a sleeve absently for
a moment, hut recovered himself at once
and got down to business.
“How much is this one!” he asked.
“Twelve,” the salesman said, in a tlintv
way. "They’re all twelve.”
There was some silence then, and while
it lasted three or four fortunes found new
owners in the exchange.
“Twelve what '” Mr. Sage asked, at
length.
"Dollars,” the salesman said, hurriedly,
almost startled Qitt of his Arizona self
possession. “Dollars, of course.”
There was another pause, during which
the light danced upon the grays. Mr.
Sage's hand ran over them again. When
his hand was still he had made up his
mind.
"I’ll toll you what I’ll do, young man,”
ho said, with a risk. “I’ll give you ten."
“Couldn't think of it,” the other said
firmly. “Why, you can stay out in tho
rain with those. They’ll be as swell as
ever. They’re easy at twelve.”
“No,” Mr. Sago* said, with some evi
dence of an inward struggle, “i’ll give
you ten and a quarter, though.”
Tho salesman was immovable. Mo
hamet seeded to be coming to the moun
tain. "No,” he said again, "he couldn’t
do it."
BUT SAGE WAS FIRM.
“Well," the financier said, doggedly,
“ten and a half, then.”
“Not under twelve, Mr. Kage . ”
"Now. I'll tell you what 1 will do," the
financier said, us If finally, "Make it
*11(7.’. ami i'll take them away m.vself.”
"Can’t possibly do It under sl2,* the
salesman answered, but I will do this
if you'll |>ay M < enu down I'll give you a
call on these goods for oue week at $11.54)
and that * positively the te st that 1
can go."
iiut the gr.at man had ’ gone" his
limit lie turned slowly away, and stand
lug where be could not see the gray ones
he said renactively “Well, nc-er mind,
jouug man ihe warm weather will soon
be over, and I guess I can make this suit
last till next summer.”
The light played upon the blue and yel
low "hand-me-downs” uninterruptedly a
moment later. The figure whicn dark
ened the door had pone.
FARMER POMFRET GOT HAD.
But It Was Well He Did, for Ic Sub
stantiated His Theory About Hawks.
From the New York Sun.
Roulette, Pa., July 19.—"A man is fool
ish even to pet mad at anythin?,'’ said
Eli Pomfret of the Sinaemahoning
county, "but if 1 hadn't forgotten myself
and'let my dander pet ’\yay up the other
day. I'd had to eat all the words I’ve
been saying iii favor of hawks for the
past nineteen years, and stand up and ad
mit that hawks are sly and destructive
enemies of the farmer, as all my neigh
bors have always declared they were, in
stead of being the farmer’s friend, as I
have spent a good deal of my time during
the past nineteen years in trying to
demonstrate.
"My wife said a few days ago that
something was carrying off our chickens
the worst way.
“ ‘Weasels.’ said I.
" ‘No it ain’t,’ said she.
“ ‘Then it's rats.’ said i.
‘ ‘lt ain't rats, either,’said she. ’lt’s
hawks.’
"Then I had to laugh, of course, and
talked about how hawks didn’t steal
chickens, but hovered over us, picking up
rats and weasels, and the like of such
things that were the real destroyers of
our chickens.
‘“I think weasels are killing ’em,’ said
I. ’l’ll set a trap and catch ’em.’
"So 1 set a trap. I baited it with
a chicken. I tied a live chicken to the
trap, so that any weasel or rat that came
to capture the chicken had to step on the
jaws of the trap first, and that would be
the end of the rat or weasel.
"Next morning I was up and around
early. I said to mvself that I guessed I’d
go out and see which my trap had caught,
a rat or a weasel. As I started toward
the poultry yard I saw a tremendous big
hawk dropping down upon it tike a can
non ball let loose from somewhere or
other. 1 stopped in my tracks, astounded,
hurt.
•“This to me!’ I murmured. ‘This to
me! 1, who have never dared to run for
office in my township because X have
stood up and swore by the hawk as the
farmer’s friend 1 This is tough!’
“But the hawk came right on, and the
next instant was away again, taking trap,
chicken, and all. Then 1 was mad. I
swore vengeance against all hawks. I
would thenceforth buy ball and powder,
and lay for hawks with my gun, I said.
At breakfast I said to my wife:
“ ‘You are right, Gueretia. It is
hawks.’
“An hour later; being l busy about the
barn. I saw a hawk soaring from the
wood lot, and drawing rapidly near. I
went into the house and got my gun. I
lay low Dehind the fence. The hawk
came straight toward my .poultry yard,
and so swift was his intent that lie had
swooped down upon it before I hardly
knew what was going on.
“ ‘Ah!’ said I. ‘Another marauder to
make me out an idle theorist and to hum
ble me before, my neighbors! I’ll put a
ball in him!’
"And I did. As-he rose from the yard,
to my surprise without a chicken in his
claws, 1 fired. The hawk fell to the
ground dead. I walked over to the yard.
Imagine my astonishment to find there,
the centre of an excited and surprised
group of chickens, the chicken which I
had made a decoy of at the trap I had set
for weasels, and which the hawk had
carried away an hour before.
This was puzzling. I picked up the
dead hawk. One of my boys said he
would like to have it skinned and
-Hinted. I dressed the big bird myself.
.side of it was a weasel that had not
uceu there long. Then I was pleased.
The whole thing was plain to me. More
thun over, then, 1 knew that hawks were
the farmer's friend. That hawk had seen
the weasel just as it got in the trap while
stealing m.v chicken tied to the trap. The
hawk, not knowing anything about the
trap, had swooped down and snatched the
weasel. Trap, chicken and all had to go
along. The hawk took the whole business
home, swallowed the weasel, and then
brought the chicken back home without
a feather on it mussed. Is the hawk the
farmer's friend! 1 should say so. But if
I hadn’t fsrgotten myself and got mad the
other day I'd be going around now and
doing hawks untold injustice, and my bill
for powder and shot this year would have
been as big as the price of a farm.”
GATLING, THE GUN MAN,
Talks Interestingly About Machine
Guns and Smokeless Powder.
From the Washington Post.
ThefamousDr.lt. J. Gatling, the in
ventor of the wonderful machine gun tliat
bears liis name, is fond of Washington,
and was glad of the opportunity given
him to spend a month at the capital by
reason of the tests of his and other guns
now in progress at Indian head. The doc
tor carries his three-score and odd years
well. Ho is a large man, white haired,
like a patriarch, and with an air of good
will toward all mankind. He is never so
happy as when talking about modern en
gines of destruction, which he believes
are the greatest agencies for keeping the
peace.
"People are not yet educated to appre
ciate the enormous revolution in future
warfare caused by the invention of smoke
less powder,’’ said he, to a Post reporter
at the Ebbitt. "Already it has made ob
solete between 3,000,000 and 4,000,000 of
muskets in Europe that were built to
shoot black powder, not to speak of the
millions of cartridges, all of which the
countries possessing would be willing to
sell for a song. Here is a vast sum of
wasted capital, but it is the inevitable re
sult of progress. Our army guns in this
country will soon be in the obsolete cate
gory, for to keep pace with the rest of
the world we will have to adopt smoke
less powder too. A gun loaded with it
will send a bullet just twice as far as the
black powder does. ’ Again the new in
vention changes military tactics entirely,
for in the battles of the future troops will
never display themselves en masse to the
enemy. Open fighting as has been custo
mary through all the ages, is a thing of
the past, for it would mean utter annihi
lation. If smokeless powder had been in
use during the late civil strife the war be
tween the states wouldn’t have lasted
ninety days.
"\V hat is the difference between a rapid
firing gun and a machine gun?”
"A rapid-firing gun doesn't begin to fire
with the rapidity of a machine gun. The
former is usually of one barrel and is
loaded with shells. It is a great gun for
torpedo boats, but fifteen time to the min
ute is pretty good work for oue of them.
A machine gun of the Gatling type has
from six to twelve barrels ami with thren
men to operate, practically never ceases
firing, one volley succeeding another at
u speed of 1.200 discharges per minute.
These three men can do more killing than
a whole brigade armed with old-fashioned
muskets, it is the machine gun, along
with the smokeless powder, that is going
to make war an impossibility."
Mrs Richard Watson Glider fs the guest of
Mrs Cleveland at Gray Games.
Malaria kept off
by taking
Brown’s iron
Bitters.
MUNSON'S CO. WINS. :
A Verdict in Tlieir Favor.
£1 Decision the Whole Community
Were Interested in.
Munson’s Homoeopathic Family Mcdi- ■
cine Cos. announced that they had a pos- 1
itire cure for Rheumatism, and in order
to prove their claim offered to distribute
through their local agents a large num
ber of bottles free. The returns have
been coming in lively from those tvlic
were benefited or cured, not only at
home, but from every town, city, and
hamlet in which the "free test” was of
fered. That Rheumatism can be cured
is now an established fact. Thousands
of testimonials show that Munson’s Rheu- 1
matism Remedy No. 67 cures Rheuma- j
tism in any part of the body, Rheumatic
Pains, Muscular Rheumatism, Sciatica, I
Aching Pains in 94 per cent, of all cases.
The price of this medicine is 25 cents or
50 cents for large bottle.
Munson’s Homoeopathic Family Medi
cine Cos. also compound remedies for
nearly all diseases, the average price of
which is 25c. No matter what your ail
ment or what success or failure you have
had with other medicines go at once and
procure a bottle of the Remedy your ail
ment calls for, no matter whether you
are an Allopath or a Homoeopath and be
cured. If you are not sure just what ails
you and what Remedy you need, their
Family Doctor Book will inform you.
Druggists will gladly present you with a
copy free. Beware of imitations. All
genuine Munson Remedies have their
trade mark (which is a lion) on every
label. ,
~ _____ SUMMER RESORT s ■
Mountain Park Hotel,
HOT SPRINGS, N. C.
THIS DELIGHTFUL HESI’KT I.6OOFEET
ABOVE TIDE WATER, in the mountains of
Western North Carolina. 87 miles west of
ASHEVILLE, is now open for summer
guests. Natural thermal waters flow into
marlde pools: THE MOST LUXURIOUS
BATHS IN THE WORLD. Cures rheuma
tism malaria, bronchitis, neurasthenia, dys
pepsia. liver and kidney complaints. Located
on the banks of the FRENCH UROAD
RIVER is this
Ideal Summer Resort,
having all modern appointments; elevator
gas. electric tells, and a
TABLE AND SERVICE UNEXCELLED.
Beautiful walks and drives, good livery,
with splendid saddle horses from the famous
blue grass region. A medical department
equipped with the latest therapeutic appli
ances, massage, electricity, etc., for all need
ing careful professional attention. Pullman
cars through to the hotel Without Change.
Address PAUL B. BODEN, Manager.
John D. Keii,kt, President.
ABERDEEN HOTEL,
Broadway and 21st Streets,
NEW YORK CITY.
A quiet, home like hotel, convenient to all
surface and elevated railways.
One hundred large, well ventilated rooms,
singly or en suite.
Rates—lt per day and upward. European
plan.
Strictly first-class in every respect.
GEO. F. ATHERTON, Proprietor.
COINC TO NEW YORK!!
Mr. E. N. Wilson,
For several years manager of Hotel Cordova
at St. Augustine, is now proprietor of the
SHERMAN SQUARE HOTEL
Grand Boulevard and West 71st St.
Anew and beautllul family hotel. Only two
short blocks from Central Park. Only two
short blocks from Hudson river. Cool and de
lightful location. Cars to the shopping dis
tricts. theaters, ferries, railroads and all parts
of the city pass the door. Write Mr. Wilson
for "Special Summer Rates."
THE BRISTOIT
13 to 19 EAST 11th STREET,
NEW YORK.
Summer rates SH.SO per day. American
plan. The home of the Southerner.
JAMES M. CASE, Proprietor.
The Swannanoa Hotel,
ASHEVILLE, N. C.
Strictly good, medium price. Broad halls
airy rooms, magnificent views.electric lights,
and other modern improvements. Central.
Special Summer Rates—s 2 and U!.f>o per
day; *lO to *l4 per week; $35 to *SO per month,
according to room.
R. R. RAWLS,
Proprietor and Owner.
J.E. XOini AX & ( ().,
421 EXCHANGE PLACE,
Baltimore, Aid.,
MANUFACTURERS OF—
PRINTERS' ROLLERS and
ROLLER COMPOSITION.
We guarantee every roller to be perfect
Thirty days’ trial on all rollers, and if not
found perfect we mako no charge for them
Special rates on large rollers. Correspond
ence solicited.
ROBT. J. VOLLMKR, RD H. POBLE
Proprietors.
STEAMBOAT LINES.
The Steamer 7£lpha,
E. F. DANIELS, Master,
On and after JULY 31 win change her
Schedule as follows:
Leavo Savannah. Tuesday.. Bam
Leave Beaufort, Wednesday ... Sam
Leave Savannah, Thursday 11am
Leave Beaufort, Friday Sam
Special trip to Bluifton every Saturday
leaving Savannah at 3 p. m , and returning
leave Bluffton s:3i> a. m. Monday. The
steamer will stop at Bluifton on Tuesdays
and Fridays
For further information apply to
C. H. Mi:BLOCK, Agent
MINERAL WATER.
Harris Litliia Water
This water has now be
come a jrreat favorite with
consumers of mineral wat
ers. Try it for a week. If
taken as directed and you
are not benefited we wil.
refund money.
Harris Lilhia Water Cos.,
CUAfTDS’ ARMORY,
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STANDARD COOK
—AT—
Prices Lower Than Ever,
We make this week a sweeping reduction
Table Linens.
The prices are attractive enough to hav
you buy now. even If not immediately- in
want. Our Table Liuen Deoartment has
always been one of the features of the es-v
lishment, and this sale will be its great event!
Exclusive, Rich and Beautiful Designs,
Bleached or Unbleached.
54-Inch Cream 32c. fiO Inch White 49c. 68-inch
Irish 70c. tH-inch Scotch 650, 72-lnch Satin
Damask FTc. 72 inch Extra Fine il.io
High Fini-h 11.25. 72-inch still Finer *1 5() &
Don’t mistake our Linen stock for auction
goods or anything of that sort. Ours a e all
regular goods-tho choicest the market
affords.
SUMMER SALE
OF UNDERWEAR.
No Profit on the Prices, But Lots of Sales.
Hand Made Night Gowns 89c, *l, *1 45 a, os
$2.25, *3 and up to *4. ’
Chemises and Drawers 49c. (10c, 69c 89c *1
$1.25. $1.50, $2, $2.25 and up to $2.50. ’ * '
The summer waist is the Shirt Waist in
French Percale. Cheviot, Silk and Sateen
The prices run: 45c, were 60c; 59c, were
79c, were $1; *1.15, were $1.25.
W’HITE WAISTS, colored hemstitched
collars and cuffs, at 65c, 75c, 85c, *1 *1 25 ii 50
and $2.
•
FINE DIMITY and LAWN WAISTS at $4
$1.25 and up to #2. **’
Extraordinary values dur
ing this week in Silk and
Wool Grenadines, and all
kinds of wash good fabrics.
Daniel Hogan.
BUY GOODS.
139 BROU6HTON STREET.
K III! Sill IK 11:
Ladies' and Gents’ Gloria Umbrellas,
natural wood handles, at 38c; else
where $1.25.
Ladies' Summer Corsets for 50c; worth
75c.
Ladies' Shirt Waists, stiff bosoms, col
lars and cuffs, at 83c; formerly $1.25.
All of our 10c Lawns for 6c.
Children's Blouse Waists 50c; formerly
sl.
Ali of our Leather Belts, none worth less
than 35c, some 75c, for 25c.
Oakley's Toilet Waters, all odors, 71c,
New line of Mothers' Friend Shirt Waists
for boys at 49c.
Gents'Linen Handkerchiefs l9c;worth3sc.
Misses' Aprons, extra wide. 25c; worth
35c.
Linen Huck Towels, fringed 22 by 40,
25c; good value at 35c.
60-inch All Linen Table Damask, worth
$1.25; this week 98c.
White Plaid Lawns 8c; formerly 12 l-2c.
Gents' Fancy and Solid Color Socks 25c.
Check liainsook 8c; was always 12 l-2c.
PRINTING.
If >-ou want a
FLAT OPENING
BLANK BOOK, *
Call and see the
“PERFECT.”
THE NEWEST.
THE BEST.
No breaking In the Section*. .
No side rid lug to make the edges look roufa.
Wo XLxtra Ooa*•
Sample on Exhibition at
Morning Ntws Job Depirtocst,
savannah, °h.
PEAS.
11l POTATOES!
Just rerelre.l ear I'fNR I*OTAT< F
ftLAUK PEAS.
fiI.AV I*l,Af>,
LEMONS, CABBAGE
ONIUMK PEANUT* <’ !C
BAY. GRAIN him! fPtUCU j
W. D. SIMKINS.