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INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Meeting— DeKalh Lodge No. P. I. O. O. F.
Military Orders— lrish .iasper Greens
Special Noth ks— Golden Apple Tobacco.
William Diers; Diamond Dust Soap Powder;
Infanta Eulalia and Le Panto Cigars. Solo
mons & Cos.. Druggists
Auction Sale-;— Household Furniture, by
J. McLaughlin & Son
• Steamship Schedules— Ocean Steamship
Company; Baltimore Steamship Oompany.
Men of Taste—Appel & Schaul.
Some New Recruits—B. H. Levy & Bro
Cheap Column advertisements— Help
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For Sale. Lost; Personal Miscellaneous.
Bullet-proof coats are becoming com
mon. Another has been invented by a
tailor named Zeitung. The inventor's
name, by the way. suggests impenetrable
editorial pages as the material.
The opinion is expressed that the war
between China and Japan will benefit
this country in a roundabout way. The
chances are that it will not continue long
enough to make the benefit peroeptible.
The presence of the Coxeyites on Vir
ginia soil seems to be having bad effect
upon some of the Virginia blacks. It Is
reported that at present, in the midst of
the wheat-threshing season, it is difficult
to get them to work at common labor
around the threshing machines for $1 a
day. There doesn't seem to be anything
like a strike on, but the blacks just want
to loaf.
George Gould must be the cynosure of
all eyes in the smart set in New York so
ciety, and the envied of all the envious
••chappies.” horon next Saturday Mr.
Gould's yacht, Vigilant, will race the
Prince of Wales' Britannia over the
queen's course, off the Isle of Wight ; His
Royal Highness, according to programmes,
vsill hold the stick on the Britdnnia, and
Her Majesty will watch the contest.
What a glorious day that will be for
Gould Asa tip on the race, there would
not be much danger in betting 100 to 1
that the Britannia will win.
i
The Chinese gods are very convenient
deities. When anything is going on that
the Chinese desire to keep from their
(tods, they simply go ahead and play a
trick on them. The Chinese New Year
comes on May 5. A month before that
date, in the present year, there were in
dications that the plague would be more
severe at New Year's than it was then.
The leading men concluded it would be
an insult to the gods to hold a New Year
celebration while people were dying on
eiery side; so with pomp and splendor
the date was*movcd up nearly a month,
so as to glorify the gods in regular form
before they found out an epidemic was
raging.
Gov. Tillman's coadjutors on the South
Carolina dispensary board of control are
Controller General Eilerbee and Attorney
General Buchanan. When the dis
pensaries were closed sometime ago it
was by the order of tho board; when
they are reopened next Wednesday it
will be upon the order of the governor.
In the consideration of the question of
reopening, the board “wasn't in it.”
Mr. Eilerbee, who incurred the govern-
by reminding him on the
stump of a disagreeable promise and dis
puting his word, and is therefore desper
ate, is inclined to kick. He told the
governor in one of his speeches the other
day that he ought to be impeached for
the act. Mr. Buchanan, however, won’t
kick. He hopes for a re-election, wbicb
depends on Tillman’s favor.
Some very suggestive things occurred
last week about the time Ida Wells, the
mulattress who has been in Great Britain
ranting about the brutality of southern
white men and the mendacity, and worse,
of southern white women, arrived in New
York, and gave interviews concerning
herself and her •’m:ssion" abroad. On
the very da,y that she was descanting to
a reporter, a wretch of her race made an
assault for purposes of lust and plunder
upon a white woman in the very heart of
the great northern city in which
the “missionary” then stood. The
day before that. in Florida, a
colored mob led by a colored
preacher undertook to lynch a colored
man for assaulting a colored girl. On
the same day, in Alabama, according to
the report in and northern republican news
paper. two men who sought refuge from a
rainstorm under a colored people's
church, overheard colored people inside
discuss the details of a fiendish plot to
massacre white people, the details even
including the braining of white infants.
And likewise on the same day, in the
state of Indiana which certainly is not a
southern state the white people of a cer
tain town arose against the blacks and
made them leave the place These fact*
are referred to merely by way of making
• true picture to be set up in contrast
with the one the Wells woman draws, in
which she attempts to show a meek and
immaculate people persecuted by the
white lesidrul* ol the south.
The Free Pass Evil.
One of the best propositions yet sub
mitted to the New York constitutional
convention is that to prohibit railroads
from giving free passes to public officials.
The free pass evil is a great and grow-
I ing one. It has repeatedly been in
veighed against in the public prints, and
in political speeches by ‘'reformers;'’
still, nothing of consequence has been
| done to stop it. It is prevalent, not
only in New York, but all over the coun
try.
A particularly striking statement of
the extent of the evil was laid before the
New York convention recently in the form
of a letter from Mr. Brooks, second vice
president of the Pennsylvania railroad to
the president of the convention. Mr.
Brooks says that demands for free passes
come from all classes of public officials;
and frequently they ask for passes not
only for themselves and family, but for
friends. In a great many instances
—especially when state legislators and
congressmen are the applicants—round
trip passes will not do; they de
mand annual passes, or passes pood
for the legislative or congressional
session at the very least. And if
a pass, for the personal use of the ap
plicant, or for one of his friends. is ever
refused, that applicant is forever there
after an enemy of the corporation, even if
he has had a hundred passes before, "i
have known,” says Mr Brooks, "a mem
ber of the supreme court of the United
States to apply for free transportation,
the money value of which in a single in
stance was between S2OO and s<sOO. Gov
ernors of states. United States senators,
members of the House of Representatives,
members of every department of thestato
government, from the governor to the jani
tor, ask and expect to receive these
favors.”
The evil may be said to be all-pervading,
when there is no excuse for its existence.
Public officials have no more right to
claim or to ask gratis valuable considera
tions from railroads than they have to
claim contributions from banks or
grocery stores. When passes are given,
in the majority of cases it is because
the company hopes to get back the value
in favorable official consideration or
fears that a refusal might result in re
taliation that would cause it a loss of
money. There is very little giving of
purely complimentary free passes in
dulged in.
Besides thesubtle bribery that is nearly
always involved in a free pass trans
action with public officials, there is an
other great evil in the system. It eats
into railroad earning. If all the judges,
representatives, senators, governors, etc.,
as mentioned by Mr. Brooks, had to pay
their fare, as they ought to do. the
balance sheets of the roads, in the run of
a year, would probably show millions
on the credit side that are now missing.
The absence of these millions is a rank
injustice to stockholders and to every em
ploye whose wages are fixed by the earn
ing capacity of the road.
The free pass evil should go. New
York is thinking of prohibiting the giving
and taking of free passes by constitution,
and making such giving and taking a
penal offense by statute. Other states
might do well to take stops in the same
direction.
Toadstools and mushrooms.
In Coffee county one day last week, as
told in our dispatches, members of two
families were made violently ill, and one
little girl died, from toadstool poisoning.
The deadly fungus had been eaten under
the supposition that it was the edible
mushroom. Such mistakes from time to
time occur, because of the ignorance of
the distinguishing differences between
tho edible ami tin# poisonous fungii. As
a matter of fact, there is no set rule by
which the two classes of growths may
in every instance be distinguished from
each other, because there are mildly
poisonous growths that have character
istics identical with the most wholesome,
and some of the most wholesome growths
that have what might otherwise be the
distinguishing features of the deadly
fungii. Still there is, according to a
writer in Harper’s Magazine for July, a
broad rule by which even a tyro may
avoid gathering the only mushroom, or
toadstool, that contains an active poison
ous principle whose certain logical conse
quence is death.
The most poisonous of toadstools are
technically known as the "Amanita
group." There are other groups that are
not healthful, but, generally speaking,
they may be identified by an acrid taste
or unpleasant smell. The deadly amanita
does not give warning that way, but its
secret is to be found at its root. It
springs from and has the base of its
stem in a cup, which may be
called the "poison cup.” As all of the
group have this cup, any mushroom or
toadstool that has the bottom of its stem
set in a socket, or which has any sugges
tion of a socket, should be labeled “poi
son.” Some species with' the cup arc
edible, but it is the part of prudence to
discard all such. The cup, the acrid
taste and the unpleasant smell will dis
tinguish most of the dangerous toadstools.
The subject brings to mind the recent
poisoning in New Jersey of two children
who chewed a certain root they found,
and which turned out to be meadow hem
lock. Such accidents can hardly be
avoided, but the best way to guard
against them is for parents to caution
their children against putting roots, ber
ries or flowers into their mouths. Even
buttercups, when the sap is in them, are
poisonous. The oleander contains a
deadly poison in its leaves and flowers.
The roots of fool's parsley, which look
like turnips, sometimes produce fata' ef
fects. Most flowers are harmless when
handled, but tney shonld he kept out of
the mouth.
Morris county, New Jersey, is going
into the work of making good roads upon
a scale that is to be admired. The board
of freeholders of the county a few days
ago decided to bond the county to the
limit allowed by the law. gHAtJ.OOO. for the
construction of a system of macadam
roads. The system will include I*S miles
of road, and that amount of money it i*
calculated will be sufficient to put the
roads in such condition that they will
last for huudreds of years. The work
will be lieguti immediately. It does not
take a prophet to predict that within a
few years Morris county will boa garden
spot, and that the Increase hi the value of
property in the county will amount to
many times the cost of the road iui
proveuichls.
THE MORNING NEWS: MONDAY, JULY 30, 1894.
“Reds” to the Red Baa.
Premier Crispi of Italy proposes an
! ideal manner of disposing of the an
archists of his country. The bill he in
troduced ir, the Camber of Deputies pro
j vides that the anarchists under convic
tiou-, and those who may be hereafter
! convicted, shall be sent to a penal
' colony on an island in the Red Sea.
I Some anarchists, so the minister reported
in his speech, have already been sent to
; the island in question.
The peculiar fitness of the suggestion
begins to be apparent with the first men
tion of the locality to which the "reds’’
are proposed to be sent—to the Red sea,
and when the characteristics of the
place are considered, it is suggested to
the mind that probably an all-wise
providence had the anarchists in the
perspective in the making of the Red
sea country. The sea itself has a biblical
record as a destroyer, and its coasts pre
sent object lessons showing what the
fruits of anarchy would be. For they
are barren stretches of sand, over the
area of which law is at a discount.
To coincide with the anarchist’s char
acter, everything there is hot. Even the
water of the sea is hot, at some places
,reachin2 a temperature of 100 degrees—
just 20 degrees short of the boiling point.
With environments like these; with ev
erything hot and superlatively lazy, with
no encouragement to work, and untram
meled bv law. a colony of anarchists
should be able to work out the highest
destiny of their cult. The change from
civilization and the enjoyment of the pro
ducts of the honest toil of others and of
the rules of safety established by law,
might be disagreeable for a time. But
the true anarchist ought not to mind liv
ing where his very surroundings speak
anarchy.
A Good Word for the Cows.
The country owes a debt of gratitude to
a Chicago doctor; not for proving that all
cows are perfect, but for asserting upon
the risk of his professional reputation
that the great majority of cows are be
nevolent creatures with udders full of the
milk of bovine kindness for mankind.
For months the country has been afraid
to indulge its hunger and thirst for milk,
because of the terrible tales of tuberculo
sis in apparently healthy cattle told by
certain New York veterinarians. Certain
individual representatives of the country
indeed. have made the scare an excuse for
insisting that whatever milk they might
imbibe be made assuredly harmless with
alcoholic, saccharine and icy additions.
In such cases the fear of bacilli was a
benefactor, in so far 83 it furnished a
reasonable excuse to be made to the folks
at home.
The Chicago doctor, however, says that
the tendency is to believe too much evil
of the cow. Experimenters in New York
state, and elsewhere, have had a number
of high-bred cattle killed, and in many in
stances have found evidences of tubercu
losis in apparently healthy cows. But
that does not mean that all cows are to be
viewed with suspicion. Tuberculosis, the
Chicago doctor asserts, affects cattle
pretty as much as it does men and women.
In some instances the existence o’ the dis
ease remains hidden for sometime, but in
the great majority of cases there are
symptoms that are unmistakable to the
Unprofessional as well as the pro
fessional observer. The sick cow,
like the sick human, almost invariably
gives notice of illness; and then the sick
ness of the animal, like that of tho human,
should be attended to. The hypodermic
injection of “tuberculine,” the test
made by the New York special
ists, is not infallible. At
Saratoga a week ago several cattle that
had shown signs of feverafter the '‘tuber
culine” test, were killed; but the after
examination showed no traces of con
sumption or any other disease. The doc
tor suggests that the dealers in the tuber
culine lymph, which sells forsS an ounce,
have been the people most benefitted by
the diseased milk scare, and that many
nervous and oyer cautious people have
needlessly denied themselves a most
wholesome and palatable article of food.
The man who gives this opinion lives in
a city where cows are studied as a matter
of science and business from the time they
enter this world until they go out of it by
way of the dressed beef route ; hence, what
he says, while it should not be accepted
as a e'ean bill of health for the whole
bovine family, may have some effect in
restoring confidence in the poor man's
good friend.
Florida’s old Indian war claim, amount
ing to some ¥OOO,OOO, for services rendered
in subduinfc the Indians in 1555-53, was
up again in the House on Friday. Repre
sentative Davis of Kansas objected to the
payment of the claim (under authority of
the general deficiency act of 1839), on tho
ground that the hostilities that had been
suppressed had grown out of the attempts
of slave holders to suppress the sentiment
in favor of liberty among the Indians and
negroes. Representative Cousins of lowa
objected on “constitutional grounds,” and
said he had come to look upon the claim
as a huge joke. Discussion went on until
at 5 o'clock, under the rules, when a
recess was taken and the bill went over.
The Philadelphia Press’ correspondent
at Washington is attempting, by the most
dangerous stretching of facts and the use
of specious arguments, to show that the
recalling of the Japanese minister at
Washington was in compliance with
Secretary Gresham’s request. The thread
of argument is that the secretary blames
the minister for giving the newspapers
the facts about an alleged note from the
secretary to the Japanese government
protesting againstthe landing of Japanese
troops in Corea. The fact that the secre
tary sent such a note has not been estab
lished, yet the republican correspondents
and newspapers unhesitatingly draw all
sorts of conclusions from premises based
on tho contents of that alleged note.
The determination of the postoffice de
partment to change the heads on a num
ber of the new issue of postage stamps
may afford stamp speculators another op
portunity to make a turn by cornering the
old stamps as they become rare. The
-collecting craze has raised up a
new business in speculation, in which the
stamp market is “bulled” and “beared"
pretty much as the cotton and stock
markets are. However, the people who
buy stamps to use. and not to look ct, will
not be hurl by any possible corner, and
the sump collectors sre able to pay for
tbeir pleasure
supreme bourt Justice Stephen J Field has
ile.-ttiieO * transfer to the New York circuit,
sad will rcmsiD uu the Fa* UK coast
~ The disposition on the part of certain
Georgia papers to poke fun at Col. Larry j
Gantt of this state, who has been and is in
South Carolina laboring to educate the
natives, because he has been fired out of
the state alliance, is not in good taste.
Col. Gantt is a missionary, and a worker
with as much energy as a steam engine, ;
The trouble is that the people over the [
giver do not know how to appreciate him. j
He is too active for them.. He should [
come back to Georgia and get to work
once more in the good old democratic
harness.
A bill to authorize one of the
street car lines of Washington
to change its motive power has
been passed by congress. An under
ground system of electric wires will be
employed, and the company is required to
have the changes complete within two
years. The experiment is regarded as a
very important one If the Washington
railway shall operate street cars success
fully with underground wires, there is a
probability that trolley lines in other
cities will be required to bury their wires.
PERSONAL.
Whenever President Cleveland is asked by
an enthusiastic mother to kiss her baby he
always declines. "The best ot my reason is.”
he explains. • that the babies never like it."
A monument to the memory of Field Mar
shal von Blucher has been erected nearCaub.
the place where the great commander crossed
the Rhine into Frame -at that time—on the
New Year's night of 1811.
Rev. N. F. Kavlin of Los Angeles who was
recently indicted by the federal grand jury
for sedition In inciting striking workmen to
insurrection, is at present a spiritualist He
was formerly a Baptist and later a Unitarian
minister at r?an Jose
Mrs. Benjamin L. Beall of Baltimore, who
is 93 years old. enjoys the distinction of hav
ing been kissed by Lafayette at Alexandria,
Ya.. when he was making his tour of the
country in 1824. Mrs Bea l was then Miss
Elizabeth Taylor and one of a group of young
ladies who welcomed the distinguished
f renoiman on his entry to the city. Mrs.
Beall, looking back on the incident, says that
Gen. Lafayette was an awfully ttglv old
min-''
Although Geh. Schofield will not reach the •
age of retirement until September, 1895. there
has been considerable speculation already as
to whether Gen. Miles snail succeed him as
commanding general of the army. Just as the
officers who have given must thought to the
matter have about decided that Gen Miles'
station should beaceepta. Is at Washington,
authoritative” not '’official"! in
formation is given out at Washington that
Gen. Schofield is to have no successor at the
war department, but that the office of com
manding general will cease with Gen. Scho
field s retirement.
Thomas BiTd of West Baden. Ir.d . while
harvesting a few days ago. says the New York
Tribune, 'picked up a silver medal, about
three Inches in diameter, which shows bv the
inscription, which is scarcely discernible, that
it was clven by the United State-government .
to Gen. William Henry Ilairison for his
bravery and gallantry in the intfiaD wars
What Is known as the northwestern Indian
war oe/art Sept. 11. IMP and was terminated
tn Novemr.er of the same year. During one
of the Indian wars ben. 1 arrlson mirched
with htsatmy through this part of the state,
and probably passed over the farm on which
Mr. Bird now resides. They spent the winter
in camp In a ravine about, six miles west of
that place. Many relics of this march have
beffin found, but this is the oily one that is
really valuable.
BRIGHT BITS.
Though woman, lovelv woman.
Sometimes fails to have her v.ay.
You can bet jour bottom dollar
That she'll always have h jr sa.v.
,7 tidanaroLs Journal.
"Is jt true that your pride is very hard of
hearing." ' . •
it is. Why. when 1 proposed to
her. I had to shout so loud that all the neigh
bors ran out and congratulated me.—Tit-Bits.
Little Ethel—l wonder why men like to talk
atodt their old school days.
Lntie Johnny—l s'pboe after thev get
crowed up they is always tryin' to mid out
where the teacher lives, so they can lick him.
—Good News,
Governor of Texas—Bl-Lood! Fu-u-ryl Fi
bre—
Secretary Mercy on us, sir. what's
the——
"Death' Murder: The street, are running
with go-e
Oil. sir. what s the "
"I f.eu hideous, condemned shapes rending
and tearing the tone and t.ssueof the people,
while the mother and babe are made food for
buzzards "
"How can that be, sir?"
"Get out of here, you blank, blank, idiot,
and quit annoying me. I've promised the ed
itor of too iiowievilte Blade, an interview,
and I'm just rehearsing it. "—Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
CURRENT COMMENT.
Why. What’s This P
F'rom the Dalton iGai Argus. (Deni. 1.
Tom Bell the populist nominee for repre
sentative in Cherokee, is quoted as saying:
| "I heard Maj. Baedn's speech and thought
; his viewer very good. That part he :eidisex
| actlv my views. Yes; yes: scratch Bacon's
| back and you will find a pretty good populist.
His Aim flam resolutions prove that.
A Groat Year for the '‘lns.”
From the Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle, iDem.l.
This does not szem a good year for putting
congressmen out who are already in. and
who have done their duty in Washington
Ths victory of Messrs Livingston. Lawson
and Moses, the latter needing now but a frac
tion of a vote, gives little encouragement to
the candidates who are trying to defeat the
present incumbents for renomination.
Not a Country For Classes.
From the Washington Post ilnd.i
The working men of the United States
know that-this is their country just as truly
as it is the rich mans country. They know
that we have, in this republic, a liwtul and
simple way of righting wrongs They know
j that If the workers desire to control the law
making and the other branches of govern
ment. ihey ca r do so. Knowing tness things,
they are not going to ente~ into any treason
aide conspiracy. They should not be sus
pected of a design to scuttle, in midocean,
the ship that carries them and their families.
Coxoyism and Populism.
From the Pittsburg Dispatch (Kep.l.
The lessons afforded by Coxeyism lr im the
beginning have i een Impressive, but to the
people who are tilled with temporary di salts
| faction and unrest at prevailing conditions
the closing scenes of 'he Coxe.v movement
l should stand as a constant, warning against
j the demagogues who grasp at every opportu
nlty to trade upon the follies and frailties of
mankind to their own advantage. For months
Coxeyism has figured among the stupendous
humbugs of the age. It remained for Coxey
ism and populism united to furnish the climax
and fill the country with feelings of contempt
and disgust for the combined movement.
Tho Chatham Democracy.
From Columbus (Ga.) Enquirer-Sun (Dem).
The vote of the Chatham county delegation
will be cast in the convention squarely for the
administration. The Savannah News has
j Interviewed every delegate, except an ab
sent one. and they were a unit in favoring an !
indorsement of the administration and none
of them will vote in denunciation or condem
nation of auv of ihe President s action with
regard to the financial questions The ab
sent delegate, Solicitor-General Fraser, is
known to lie in thorough accord with the
other members of the delegation and be will
not favor unv resolution on the financial
nueafloti which Is adverse to the admlnstru
tion ihe r.n liurer-isun gladly commends
the atilt nle of the Chatham delegates to
tile lonslileratlon and adoption of the dele
galea from all the counties The saunmii
Newt secured itieseinterviews becaua- of a
report from Atlanta that a fight would be
made In the convention upon the almlnlstra
tlno. and an effort made to socure an tndo a
ment ol tree linage of silver and a comfe ui ,
Dalton of President Cleveland a course In re i
gatd to the great quaatlous in whl -h be has
i,*-en held nil i v me leading finani o-r of me
country Ihe Enquirer Nun talkers that
there *i|j t* i nouftl trno siistgiiloul demo
rrsts lu lb t i 'intention to literally crush out
such • to o■ o.'-i.i aa soon at it shoes its
bead i
Amos Cummings’ Superstition.
Says the Philadelphia Record: ' Congress
man Amos J. Cummings, chairman of the
House naval committee, who was a much in
terested spectator on the recent splendid trial
trip of the Minneapolis, is confident that to
him. no Jess than to the Cramps, her builders,
erelit is due for her magnificent run. It hap
pened in this way: Just before the trial trip
the congressman. Constructor Nixon and one
or two of the Cramps were in a box at a
theater when the congressman s eye fell upon
a cross eyed girl in the audience. Good hea
vens, Nixon exclaimed the superstitious
representative, this will never do. That girl
will hoodoo the Minneapolis sure. We must
allgetupand turn around.’ Nonsense.' re
filied the other members of the party, with
ess fear of cross eyed girls. Undeterred by
this scoff, the congressman arose and deliber
ately turned around three times in full view
of the audience. Now the MinneaMlis is
safe.'he murmured as he sank back in his
seat to enjoy the play without any further
fears for the cruiser's performance on her
trial trip."
A Texas Story.
Here is a funny robbery from Paris. Tex
A young man named Joseph Fletcher walked
into the office of the United States marshal
Saturday afternoon, and said he wanted to
surrender He is charged with robbery, and
explained that he wanted to get the matter
off his mind Fletcher said that last winter
he robbed a Hebrew peddler near Kosoma. I.
T His plan was unique. The peddler had a
man employed to haul him and his effects
across the country. Fletcher made a dummy
and stood it near the road, with a gun pointed
toward the highway. When the wagon came
to a point opposite the dummy Fletcher com
manded the occupants to hold un their hands.
Looking around, they saw him with a revol
ver in hand and the dummy with its gun lev
eled. Their hands went up and Fletcher
weut thiough the peddler, but only secured
IT 5) and a cheap watch. Fletcher said he
was disgusted, aud had a notion of beating
the pe idler for lying, as he had heard him
bragging as to what a good business he was
doing, and supposed he would get a good roll,
h lcteher went to jail.
Breakers Ahead.
Scene—Long Branch. Dramatis personae—
Susan and Mabel, who have not met since
last season. Author—Judge;
•Oh. Susan, it seems an eternity since we
met here last year”’
Yes. indeed. Anything new”’
"Lots. Lo you rememuer that bashful Mr.
Traveler who was her last year "
•Quite well.”
"And who was so timid he wouldn't even
flirt-"
"Yes. yes.”
"Well, he was here for a day last week and
you never saw such a change."
"Indeed?”'
Ob- Susan, if I told you all the lovely
things he said to me you wouldn't believe:"
"Did hekiss you?”
Oh. Susan—well—he took me unawares ”
' Did he propose-”
• Well, he said—you know it was moonlight
and we were all alone on the beach—and he
said—"
■ Then you didn’t know he was married’"
- Mercy, no' To whom?”
,‘To me: last June."
Reminded by a Boston Girl.
An uptown young man who is fresh to a de
gree that surpasses endurance, and who per
sists in talking all the time there is anybody
insight, -went out for the evening one night
last week and met a girl from Boston, says
the Buffalo Express.
Although the young man talks continually
he oci auonall.v uses some very t ad grammar.
One fault is particularly glaring. He inva
riibly says • l done it" for I did it." and. as
he is continually talking about himself, he
makes this mistake many times in the course
of an hour.
He engaged the Boston girl in conversation
and told her some fairy tale about something
or other that had happened to him. When he
got througn she expressed surprise that such
a thing could happen, and asked him;
• Did you really do all that?”
I done it. replied the young man proudly.
Then he branched into unother romance.
This was even more startling than the Hrst.
The girl from Boston listened patiently, and.
when he had lin shed, politely expressed her
astonishment. -Why.' she soil, can it be
possible you did anything so wonderful:”
That's what I done." replied the young
man. c hucking out h s chest as he made the
remark.
T he great success of his two stories spurred
him to other efforts and he recited another
condensed dime novel for the benefit of the
girl from Boston. When he had finished the
girl said: "Oh. do you know you remind me
so strongly of batiquo's ghost?"
You mean the ghost in the Shakespeare
play?" inquired the young man i t a hesitating
sort of a way.
"Yes
"And why?"
"Don tyou remember that Macbeth said to
him. "Thou canst not ra I did it?”
And until this day the young man does not
know why everyLo.ly laughed.
Humoring the Great Peter.
It seems that the czar, who has determined
on retaining his incognito in traveling
through Europe, absolutely declined to take
up bis quarters at the royal palace at Stutt
gart. but insisted on going to an inn. says the
| New York Home Journal having learned of
th s prior to his arrival, the Wurtemberg
sovereign caused all the hotel and ini.keep
ers to rt move their signs. Over the principal
doorway of his palace he ha.l a huge sign
hung out, stating that within there was cheer
lor man and least at cheap prices, and
that the name of the hotel was the Konlgs
bau.
in the czar's carriage and retinue entering
the city.the positions, previously instructed
l y the Wurtemberg officials, drove straight
to the place, and there, standing at the main
entrance, was ihe sovt reign, fat. burly and
jovial, arrayed in the traditional costume ot' a
i oniface w.th wh.te apron and cap. etc., while
the various princesses, princes nobles and
dignitaries of his court were costumed as wait
ers. and waitresses, ostlers and other ser
vants. Peter the Great, greatly amusedly
this witty and Kindly manner of humoring
his wishes, entered thoroughly into the spirit
of the joke, which was kept up until the fol
lowing day, when he proceeded on his jour
ney. Noticing that the postilion mounted on
the wheeler of his traveling carriage was a
manof singularly unkempt appearance, his
clothes ragged and covered wtth mud. he
made a remark toone of his attendants that
there was at least no mistake as to the social
condition of that man, and that there could
be no danger of his teing a nobleman in dis
guise. And yet. when at the end of the first
stage, the postilion came to the carriage door
to receive his gratuity, sod raised the cap
from his head, the czar, to his astonishment,
recognized id him the heir to the VVurtem
berg throne, who had assumed this disguise
for the purpose of speeding bis father s im
perial guest.
A Jumper.
From the Albany Evening Journal.
He jumped out of bed and he jumped into his
shoes,
He jumped for the paper that had the day s
news;
When breakfast was o'er he jumped, quick as
a cat.
For his big outside coat and his everyday
hat.
■4
He jumped on the car that was going down
town.
And he jumped to shake hands with his
neighbor. Miss Brown;
He jumped from the car when the office was
reached.
And he jumped with alarm when the fire
whistle screeched.
He jumped into harness to do his day's
work.
And never was known one small duty to
shirk.
When doing his work, If- folks Into him
humped.
He stopped not to argue, but over them
jumped.
He jumped at each chance that tho day
brought to him.
Tb enlarge and expand his wallet s bright
rtm.
And when he got through at the end of the
dav.
He jumped on the car that was going hts
way.
His wife and bis children jumped at his
return,
Togreet him, and all the day s tilumphs to
Iraru.
And when the last prayer and good night had
been said.
Year in and year otii ho jumped Into bed.
A recent laeue of a newspaper of Motion
Chattels City. Fs announced that Elder J
M Springer of lieUe Vernon would preach on
similar at tJuipiesne marry a couple at hay
•He • tty on Monday and eooduet a funeral at !
Belli* i crii'/tt on Wednesday Mr springer |
Is preacher, a matt e of the peace and an
nn teriaksr and tiemg a furniture dealer a*
well can also eaglet at Mrttie by furniehia*
i ran Icy to or de i He doe* not complain of
pßk of work, even th these hard clue*. I
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
What Is claimed to have been the fastest
long distance freight run ever made in this
country was made from Memphis to Kansas
City by a special train loaded with bananas
recently, the speed avecaglng 40.4 miles an
hour for the 4--4 miles, and reaching a maxi
mum of sixty-four miles an hour, which was
kept up for six miles.
Most of the figures used for cigar store
signs, which formerly were made ot wood are
now made of zinc, and 95 percent, of these
are of mdians. borne of these figures are ex
cellent; in some cases the original model
cost (1.200 or 41.500. 'they are made in va
nous sizes, from a small figure that can be
bought for 125 or #3O up. A good " foot In
dian can be bought for 1100.
Toluol is being substituted for mercury and
alcohol in thermometer in Germany, and
many advantages are claimed. Toluol is a
liquid of a deep black color, which renders
the column very risible; in the second place
the freezing point of this liquid is very re
mote from the boiling-point,and finally it costs
less than mercury, and the manipulation of it
Is attended with no danger to the health of
the workmen.
The Chicago Tribune tells a story that il
lustrates the senselessness of the sympa
thetic strike. Twenty-five carriage painters
who had been working for C. P. Kimball &
Cos. of Chicago, it says, "struck in sympathy
with the Pullman strikers but they had not
been out of the factory an hour before twenty
flte striking Pullman painters had applied
for their places and ootained them, and are
now probably sympathizing with the union
fellows who went out in oteiience to the
Debs-Sovereign-Howard combination inorder
to express sympathy with the Pullman men.
The twenty-five men on the outside are boil
ing at the unsympathetic conduct of the
twenty-five Pullman le lows on the inside and
at the results of their clear waste of sympa
thy. They have lost their jobs and their
wages, and there is only vanity and vexation
ol spirit in the thought of sympathy."
Speaking of wild beasts that are at once
large, ferocious and African, says Natural
Science, a correspondent sends us an inter
esting note atout an earth worm. Africa has
already produced the largest earth worm
(Mierochaeta rappii known to science, with
the possible excection of Megascol.des Aus
tralis. from Australia; but these are giants of
a perfectly harmless kind. The worm to
which we now refer is said, by Mr. Alvan
Millson. assistant eolonialsecretary .itJLagos.
on the w-est coast of Africa, to inspire dread
among the natives of that coast. Its appear
ance is against it; the worm is not only large
—three or four feet—but it is either of a rich,
raw-beefy color or of a lowering black, the
difference of color being a mark ot
a difierence of species. On one
occasion a number of natives were
collected together when one of these giants
strolled casually into the camp; the result ap
pears to have been a rapid flight on the part
of the natives. The reason for the awe-in
spiring character of the worm is Its reputed
habit of sucking blood. It does not seem
probable that the meet recent results of
zoological research are known in tropical
Afii a. but it is a curious coincidence that
this research has tended to show tnat the
line of separation between the leeches and
earth worms is by no means so wide as it was
at one time thought to be. This big earth
worm of-. Vest Africa inhabits a locality that
is remarkable; it does not. as do most earth
worm?, burrow constantly in the ground,
throwing up castings, bu; lives in deserted
hills of termites.
The selling of snakes to scientific men .to
manufacturers who use the skins, and to
museums. Is a business which a man and his
wife, who live in a Mississippi house boat en
gage in. The strange couple were inter
viewed the other day by the reporter for a
New Orleans paper. The man does mostot
the snake catching, and, although he has
been oitten several times, he considers the
experience only at-ii. Ting incident of his
trade. "A rattlesnake, for instance, when
pursued " he savs. "coils and is ready to de
lend himself, t flip a stone or small piece of
stick at him; he uncoils and starts ofl. but be
fore he can again coil I have him back of the
neck. No. I use no stick—nothing but my
bare hands. You mav laugh, too. when I tell
you that our snake lore teaches us not to
hunt when the wind is in the northwest. If
we do, we find no snakes. The principal sea
son of the year for us are spring and fall;
j the snakes are then tat and produce
j lots of oil." Of all the snakes in the
United States only three families, he
says, can be classed as deadly. But." he
adds, "these families comprise about thirty
two species, distributed as tollows: Rattle
snakes. seven; cotton mouths, eight; copper
| heads, seventeen, the two latter being moc
casins and dwellers in the swamps and low
places •• The snake catcher's method of
treating bites is as follows: "When bitten I
immediately tie a band above the wound, cut
ting the latter deeply in order to cause it to
bleed freely, and to reach Le ow the extrem
ity pierced by the fang. The cutis thei
sucked, or wasm. newly killed flesh is applied
and the remedies are then rubbed into the
wound, neutralizing the poison."
The Missouri river in its erratic course is
undermining and sweeping away the town of
Winthrop, Mo., says the New York Post. No
notice taken of tho work of the flood
when, a few months ago. it began to eat into
the lank a mile above the town. It was said
that Winthrop would never l e reached by the
new channel, but the crumbling of soil' and
the inroads of ihe stream went on so
rapidly as to create alarm. The chan
nel "headed,” if the term may be
used, for the middle of the town, and one
building after another toppled over and
fell into the flood. A visitor to the doomed
place says: " A hat was a prosperous town of
3,000 people a few months ago is now almost a
deserted village. Fully two-thtrds of the
dwellings and business houses in the town
have been torn down or moved away in order
to save them from the merciless torrent and
some have been swept away. The serious
ness of the situation did not dawn upon the
people living there until it was too late to
at effectually." Four railroad tracks
stretched originally between Winthrop Junc
tion and the town, and to save their prop
erty the companies spent SIu.(JOO. Lut
eventually all tho tracks had to be torn up to
save . them. The farmers above Winthrop
have suffered even more than the citizens
for in many instances the latter have bad
time to move their houses beyond the reach
of the Hoed. But the farmer had no means of
saving his acres. One by one they have been
taken from him by the river, and 'even if it
changes its channel again and gives him back
his land, all the metes and bounds will havo
been obliterated. Nearly half a mile ot bank
has disappeared since the demolition began.
The South Sea Islanders tell a curious
btory of the origin of Are. If they are to be
believed, says the St. Louis Republic, they
came in possession ot that useful element in
the following manner; A great whale was
once washed ashore upon or,e of their islands
during the prevalence of a terrible hurricane
The monster became entangled in a grove of
tallow trees la species of evergreens whose
branches easily ignltei. and. while gnashing
his teeth In his impotent rage, struck off a
spark which lighted the grove anu consumed
both trees and whale. 1- ires which are said
lo have been perpetuaied since the day of the
"great whale lire may yet be seen burning
in many parts of the island. Another fire
legend, believed lu bv the inhabitants of the
island to the north of the ones in which the
"great whale tire" is preserved, is to
tho effect that a great air
dragon (probably lightning) breathed upon
a tallow tree and set Its branches on fire
From the coals left from this fire they
learned of its great value, anti have ever
since used the e orient for domestic purposes
and in their religious ceremonies. T hey also
have a tradition that the t.me will to me
when the dragon will return for the tire, and
that no man will be able to withstand him
and save tne sa< red spark exoept he be a per
son borr with pink eves, fair skin and white
hair. For ih s reason the birth of an albino
is always hailed as a good omen, and his or
her person guarded with jealous care, so as
to preserve liie to Its utmost limit. Mar
ionette mentions seeing a tire god ' or "tire
guard" lakinoi while on his visit to the
Islands, who was relieved to beat least 1.0
years old. and who bad always been provided
for by the tribe lteftinesque. who made
South Sea Island myths and legend a study
for years, is of the opinion hat the return of
the dragon for his tire is symbolic of death
and the flight of the spirit
The Buiy Texas Editor.
"I went Into ihe office of a Texas editor last
winter," said Mr Fred Pelham, the Ivceug
bureau man. to the Chicago Record, to see
about soma corrections in the proof of a pro
gramme I was having printed there This
naat'V savs 1 i> sret Harie not Brcttie
wuite.' oil right. 1 answered tne editor. But
the usme <ame back Brethaite 1 Again I
undertook •oexp'am Bret is the first name
Slid Mart* the sei ond says I. Surelv vou
have reod his too/* and know aiaiut Bret
Marts tbe poet author No said the rdi
tor T osier beard of bun before in all my
I re but then you can't expect the editor of
live daily in a busy town to bate time to keep
track of every little jlm crow poet that
bob* up: '
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