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TUESDAY, JULY 31, 1894.
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INDEX TO SEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Special Notices— Golden Apple Tobacco.
C. Henry Konemann; Coal Oil Johnny Soap;
Diamond Dust Soap Powder. Recitations at
Hotel Tybce Tuesday Evening. July 31;
Everything in the Building Material Line, A.
S. Bacon & Sons.
Thet Like Pajamas—B H.Levy&Bro.
The Railroads don't Try Appel A
Schaul
Legal Sales— City Marshal s Sale.
Cheap Column advertisements—Help
Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Rent,
For Sale: Lost: Personal; Miscellaneous.
If it is true, as alleged, that the popu
lists of this district are looking
for somebody to put up for con
gress against Col. lister, they
need not waste any more time. Let the
names of all the populists in the district
be placed in a sardine box. and then let a
blindfolded boy pull one out. The person
thus chosen would serve every purpose
that any other populist candidates in
this district could serve.
A contingent of '‘commonwealers” from
the state of Washington, traveling east,
captured a freight train at Newburg, 0.,
the other night, and successfully resisted
the efforts of the train's crew and some
local officials to dislodge them. The con
ductor of the train telegraphed ahead to
Alliance of the situation. When the train
pulled up at that city the railroad author
ities and two dozen policemen were pre
pared to meet "the enemy.'’ Half a dozen
•treams of water from hose attached to
fire plugs were turned upon the train,
and in less than half a minute the com
monweal army had capitulated, and 100
dripping “soldiers” were marched to the
police station.
The Jacksonville, Tampa and Key West
railroad is preparing to do good work for
the section through which it passes. At
a meeting at Jupiter, Fla., the other day
the road's general traveling agent an
nounced that his company would publish
and circulate free all information fur
nished by the people of the vicinity re
garding lands for sale and other facts
calculated to induce immigration. It is
understood that that is the road’s policy
fegarding territory along all of its lines;
it will operate a reliable bureau of in
formation through which people who have
land to sell may he brought into commu
nication with prospective immigrants.
The plan is a good one. and will pay the
road in the end by making more business
for it.
There is being altogether too much
stress laid upon the magnanimity of the
“Atkinson people" in agreeing that, an
“Evans man” shall be the temporary
chairman of the state convention. There
are now) neither "Atkinson people” nor
“Evans men” in the Democratic party;
all are democrats. Those who were
formerly in favor of Gen. Evans as the
nominee do not need to be conciliated;
and if they did, the setting up of an
“Evans man" as temporary chairman of
the convention would be a mighty empty
offering. What is needed to bring out a
full vote is a ringing declaration of true
democratic principles in the resolutions
adopted, and the organization of the cam
paign in a manner to build a fire under
every nest of populists in the state.
Some days ago a dispatch was sent out
from Atlanta saying in effect that at an
Impromptu meeting of the Fulton County
Confederate Veterans’ Association reso
lutions had been adopted urging veterans
to vote for Hines, or at least to abstain
from voting for Atkinson for reasons set
forth in the resolutions. The resolutions
were signed : “R. W. Jones, president;
L. T. Mitchell, secretary.” Dr. Amos
Fox. a prominent veteran of Fulton
county, has assured tne Constitution that
the veterans' association held no such
meeting nor passed such resolutions. He
aa*-s: "Gen. Clement A. Evans is presi
dent and Mr. W. t. VVhidby is secretary
of our association, and if there is any
similar organization in Atlanta with R.
W Jones as president and L. T. Mitchell
as secretary, 1 have not heard of it.”
Lord Randolph Churchill has left Bar
Harbor. But before he left lie gave the
swell set there something to talk about.
It is pretty well known that he is a suf
ferer from nervousness, and came to this
country for rest. While at Bar Harbor
be stopped at the Malvern hotel. At that
hostelry they have a regular weekly
dance during the season. A few nights
ago the date of the dance came around.
At about midnight, when the beaux
and belle* were floating around to tin
witching strains of a full orchestra, a
wholly unexpected and rather startling
apparition floated in upon the scene. It
was Lord Randolph in his night clothes
He had come down to know why
they couldn't stop that blawslcd
noise and let a fellow sleep
Not getting a satisfactory answer
from toe perform*;*, bs went u> the
clerk and to the proprietor, and threat
•oed to do dreadful f'qngs if the iuu*:c
•a* ant stopped.
Declare For Sound Money.
It is clearly the purpose of some of the
democratic leaders of this state to en
! deavor to commit the democracy of Geor
' gia. at its state convention Thursday, to a
; declaration in favor of the free coinage
of silver at the ratio of 1$ to 1. They
will insist that the national democratic
platform commits the party to the free
coinage of silver at that ratio, hut they
will not be content with the reaffirma
tion of the financial plank of the national
platform, for the reason that
they know that it cannot be
made to appear that it is a declaration in
favor of the free coinage of silver at the
ratio of l*i to 1. If it could be made to so
appear they would willingly accept a dec
laration approving it. \Y hat they pro
pose to do. therefore, is to commit the
Democratic party of Georgia to something
that is not in the national platform—to
make it separate itself, as it were, from
the national party on the financial
question.
It is apparent that any such effort
will be strongly opposed. If the
convention faithfully represents
the democrats of the state
it will make clear that they are for sound
money. The national platform is for
sound money. There is no question about
that. It insists that the parity between
gold and silver currency shall be main
tained.
The silverites say that if the mints are
opened to the free coinage of silver at the
ratio of 16 to 1 gold and silver coin will
continue to circulate on a parity, but not
one of them has ever yet been able to
show satisfactorily that such
would be the case. They
simply assert that such would be the
case. The reason they advance no con
vincing arguments to support their posi
tion is that there are none. If
If there were there would be little or
no delay in opening the mints to the free
coinage of silver.
What the silverites want, but what
they will not frankly admit because an
admission would deprive them of almost
all their support, is silver monometallism.
They say they want bimetallism, but
that is clearly impossible upon the condi
tions which they ask for it. If what
they want were granted our financial af
fairs would soon be in as deplorable a con
dition as those of Mexico and the South
American republics. And who would be
the sufferers Who are always the suf
ferers from a debased currency! Why,
the farmers and laboring people.
The silverites ask the south to stand
with the west for the free coinage of
silver. The interest of the south is not
with the west aud a debased currency.
it is with the east and a sound cur
rency. The movement that is now being
made for turning capital and immigration
to the south is in the east. Indeed, south
ern development depends largely upon
capital and immigrants, which have been
going heretofore almost wholly to the
west.
Let the convention give the silverites
and their vagaries the cold shoulder.
Let it stand squarely on the national
platform and for sound money.
American Lumber in Foreign Coun
tries.
In an edition of special consular re
ports, the state department gives some
interesting data concerning American
lumber In foreign markets. According to
these reports, American lumber is the fa
vorite buildirg material wherever it can
be had, and yellow pine is the favorite
American lumber. The products of our
forests go almost everywhere. Even
Africa and the South Sea islands buy
from us. And Consul Tl.omas K Gibson,
formerly of Augusta, Ga.. is quite sure
that even far-away Syria would buy aad
use American lumber if some enterprising
Americans would send over a few
shiploads, and bring back Syrian rugs
and silks in exchange. He writes from
Beirut that acquaintance and confidence
will stir the Syrian merchants to action
in making exchanges of commodities
with Americans Parenthetically it may
be conjectured that it would make Mr
Gibson's heart bound within him to get a
whiff of the aroma of a fresh cut Georgia
pine log at his oriental station.
Consuls in Central and South America
say that virtually all of tho lumber- used
in the countries in which they are
stationed comes from the United
States. Canada and Norway are
the only competitors of this coun
try, and they are so far away that
freight rates operate against them. Can
ada and California are the competitors
for the trade of Central and South Amer
ican countries on the Pacific, the former
with her spruce and the latter with her
redwood. Owing to the distance around
Cape Horn, and the expense of overland
freights, the yellow pine of the southern
states is seldom seen in Chile. And just
here comes in a point of interest to Geor
gia shippers in connection with tho Nicaf
ragua canal. With the canal opened, tho i
Georgia pine forests would bo brought i
about as close, by water, to Valparaiso as !
are the Canadian spruce forests, and with !
some energetic work at the beginning
there is reason to believe an extensive j
yellow pine trade could be built up with i
Chile. That country will never produce :
the lumber she finds it necessary to use;
she has not the forests.
The trade with the Argentine Republic
and with Brazil, all of which is controlled
by Americans, is not worked up to its
full capacity, though in each country the
demand is not now as brisk as it was a
year ago, and probably will be six months
hence. And in Mexico, according to the
consul at La Paz. much trade is lost
merely because it is not worked up.
Corea is a peninsula. Joined to the main
land by a comparatively narrow neck.
The Japanese are conceded to he at. pres
ent stronger on the water than China, and
the Japanese army, while much smaller,
is better disciplined and officered.
Japan has already occupied Corea. If
Corea is to !• the battle-ground of the un
ending war, the Japs will prevent Chi
nese troops entering ( urea a territory by i
a system of fortifications, guarded by urn- j
chine guns, across the neck of tho pctiiu- ■
sula. This will prevent the Japanese I
from losing overwhelmed by swarms of i
Chinese from the mainland. And when!
Chins sends troops by sea. the Japanese
navy will get in its fine work. The t in- I
nese, by their great wealth and almost j
countless numbers, may tie abb- to wear!
the Japs out after a long time but the j
Japanese imsition is unquestionably
strong, and they would be able to in tin i
nous.- ecn ution ufiru tan .j finally j
whipped. J
THE MORNING NEWS: TUESDAY, JULY 31, 1894.
Coxey and Debs.
Coxey'* industrial armv is about to be
driven out of Virginia by the authorities
of that state. Coxey appeared before
them a few days ago and told them he
could do no more for them. He got them
jnto the unfortunate plight in which they
find themselves, and he has deserted
them. They served his purpose. He used
■ them to gain a little unenviable notoriety
and he has no further use for them. They
can shift for themselves. Apparently it
is a matter of no consequence to him
what becomes of them. For all he cares
they may starve. He lost nothing by
leading them to Washington. If reports
are to be credited, he made money out of
the venture. He is better off than he
was before he collected his .’‘industrial
army,” but the poor fellows who com
posed the army are worse off Naturally
they do not feel kindly toward him for
having got them into trouble and then
deserting them.
Debs' followers are in about as bad a
plight as Coxey s. And it is doubtful if
they feel any more kindly toward him
than Coxey's men do toward Coxey. It
is certain that some of them do not. The
Chicago Herald relates an incident that
shows the feeling toward Debs. Accord
ing to the Herald, the train which car
ried Debs from Chicago to Terre Haute
the other day stopped at Danville. A
striker entered the car and shook hands
with him.and then said: “You ordered
me out on a strike and now I have lost
my job.'’ Debs asserted that he did not
order the man to strike. The man knew
better, and answered not only with words,
but with a blow'. Bystanders interfered
and enabled Debs to escape from his as
sailant.
In Chicago there is still an appearance
of keeping up the strike, and hence there
is, as yet, no open denunciation of
Debs; but in their hearts the men who
have lost their jobs must feel bitterly
toward him. They had no grievance
against their employes. They were not
complaining of their pay or their hours of
work. For aught the public knows they
were content, and were able to pro
vide their families with the
necessaries and even comforts of life.
Now they see starvation staring them in
the face. Is it not natural that they
should feel that Debs has done them a
great injury? Debs is still drawing his
salary of $3,000 a year.
When the workmen who struck at the
command of Debs, and lost their means
of livelihood, take a second sober thought,
will they find anything in Debs’ action to
admire and commend? What did he at
tempt to do? To raise their wages or
better their condition in any other way?
Nothing of the kind. He used them to
show his power. He said the railroads of
the country should not use Pullman
coaches because the Pullman company
had trouble with their employes, and be
cause the railroads refused to obey him,
he attempted to paralyze the commerce
of the whole country. Because Debs
wanted to play the part of a dictator,
thousands of workmen are idle, and their
families are on the verge of starvation.
Still Holding Out.
The conferees on the tariff bill reached
no agreement yesterday on any of the
points of difference between the House
and Senate. As far as the public knows
the Senate conferees were as stubborn as
they were when the bill first reached the
conference committee, and the House con
ferees were as firm as ever in insisting
upon the bill as it passed tho House.
It is pretty certain that there will be no
more asking for instructions. The con
ferees will reach an agreement that both
houses will accept, even if they have to
remain in conference until next winter.
Both the House and Senate will indi
cate a willingness to make concessions
before many days if the conferees make
no progress toward an agreement. The
members of the House are anxious to get
home and begin campaign worn, and the
plans of the senators for the summer are
being greatly interfered with. There
will have to be changes in the bill. Tho
House cannot have all it wants and the
Senate will have to recede from the posi
tion announced by Senator Gorman,
namely, the Senate bill or no bill. Much
of the talk about the House and Senate
standing firm for their respective bills is
mere bluff. Before the end of this week
there will be a different kind of talk. When
the bill went back to the conference com
mittee it was with the tacit understand
ing that the conferees should make
changes and that the changes would be
accepted.
The Alabama state election will be held
next Monday, when a full state ticket
and a legislature will be chosen. The
election is looked upon as being one of
especial importance, inasmuch as it will
show whether populism, demagogy and
republican boodle can swing a southern
state out of the douiocratic column. The
fight in Alabama is a contest between
democracy and every anti-democratic in
fluence that can be brought to bear upon
the situation led by a blatant demagogue
who wauts to be governor. In order to
catch all classes of anti-democratic votes,
the platform of the Kolbites takes in
almost every political fallacy and fad
that lias any following whatever. Kolb
has exerted himself to divide the white
people of the state into classes and to
foment bad feeling between the classes;
and in doing this he has been partly suc
cessful. There is no denying that many
democratic voters have been led away by
his noise and buncombe; but there is no
reason to believe that he has diverted
anything like enough democratic voters
to make his rag tag and bob-tailed fol
lowing a majority. Betting men may
with comparative safety lay their money
on the continuance of Alabama in the
democratic column.
The Florida democracy is as busy- as a
bee in a tar bucket to-day. The state
convention is on. Jacksonville is full of
"antis.” "stralghtouts,'' and other politi
cal specimens that will be unknown at the
Atlanta convention on Thursday: and tho
atmosphere about the Jacksonville opera
house i* redolent of reform, |xanuts and
new sawdust. There are several contests
to U heard notably by delegations from
Duval. Nassau, Lake and Volusia coun
ties. hence tbe ehancet are that the eon
venllon will hardly get beyond the stage
of temporary organization before to mor
row
< 'Hie* In Norway fin not grow quite an
tapplly a* soim* t ih-.se in the Weal
Teu in Hist country, has just relst.rs'.d
ita Mali anuitsrssry In that tune |i hae
---wo front li!) is opi.- o. s-mi -| he lohab-
It oat* art tkkefly -lev vied lo tutting'
PERSONAL.
Gen Wheeler of Alabama, is probably the
most industrious man in the House. He
employs four clerks and them hard at
work at all times. He uses two committee
room> a his headquarters and makes a
speech on every subject that comes up in con
gress.
E. A. Williams, a watchmaker of Broad
way. New York city, recently accomplished a
remarkable mechanical feat—that of drilling
a hole through the entire leugtn of a common
pin. troni head to point. ihe opening being
just large enough to admit the passage of a
One hair Mr. Williams is a mechanic who
twoyears ago cut a sewing needle m two
lengthwise, and then drilled holes and
fastened it together so nicely that the split
could not be seen with naked eye.
Dr. R Baynes of Rockland Me., though 99
years of age. is still strong and active and
goes about the streets daily He is vigorously
opposed to tobacco, tea. coffee and liquors.
He lives chiefly on graham diet, with fruits
and vegetables, with the exception of pota
toes. tie drinks water, milk and chocolate,
and seldom anything else. He has an almost
full and perfect set of natural teeth, and.
though he wears glasses, his si r ht i.-> excel
lent He has not, except when awav from
home, slept in a bed or *-ven on a mattress
for over fifty years. He has a reclining chair
of iron framework, over which he spreads a
few comforters and blanket.-
Miss Comstock, who is president of the
Comstock Banking company of Green City.
Mo . and cashier of the Comstock Castle
Bank, of Green Castle; Mo . is probably one
of the youngest bank officers in the country
She entered the bank at t.reen City in March,
as as-isiant cashier and bookkeeper,
which position she tilled in all its various
duties. In September. 1892. the owners of
that oank organized one in Green Castle
w’hen they made Miss Comstock president of
the old bank and cashier of the new one As
the president and directors of the latter bank
live at some distance from ;t. Miss Comstoi k
has the real work of the bank to do. and de
spite the heavy responsibility, she is inter
ested and successful in her work.
Owen Wister’s stories of w;ld west life
began to attract favorable notice a few years
ago. and his subsequent productions, most of
them* printed in the Harper periodicals are
very promising works, says the New York
World. Mr. Wister is a wealthy young Phil
adelphian who spends his mornings in liter
ary composition and hi> afternoons and eve
nings at his club and in society. He is a rela
tive of Mrs. Wister, the translator of Ger
man novels, a descendant of Fanny Kemtie.
a good musician, a sportsman, a Harvard
graduate and a man of considerable elegance.
He is 33 years old. Twelve yeais ago he
wrote a comic opera called "Dido and
Aeneas' 1 for the Hasty-Pudding Club of Har
vard. and some people still regard that as his
most pleasing work.
BRIGHT BITS.
The Advanced Woman—The first thing we
women will do when we get the chance will
be to take that odious word * obey ’ from the
marriage service.
The Chronic Bachelor You will do nothing
of the kind. It will deprive the women of the
pleasure of making the promise with a men
tal reservation.—lndianapolis Journal.
Grace—l don't know what lam going to do
Ethel—Why, what is the matter -
Grace—Why, Mr. Fearer of Paris was talk
ing very earnestly to me in French last
night, and I didn't quite understand him, as
he spoke so impetuously: I replied ■Oui.
oui, several times. It has just occurred to
me that perhaps he was proposing Tit-
Bits.
"I think Dawkins' books ought to have dia
grams to explain his jokes, - ' said Criticus.
'Dawkins has fixed that. Every time he has
any of his characters perpetrate a joke he
adds, -At this sally of Rupert s the whole
company laughed.’ or 'As Rupert spoke,
Maud was convulsed with laughter ' It is a
great scheme for humorists,” Cynicus re
plied.-Harpers Bazar
Not Available—Wagley idejectedly)—The
worst of being a humorist is that one is
looked upon as a joke himself.
Wiggins—How s that What's the matter
now:
Wagley—l offered myself to Miss Remsen
and she said she could not accept me. hut
that did not necessarily imply that I was
lacking in merit.—Brooklyn Life.
"Yon miserable scoundrel" roared the
leader of the mob that surged through the
palace car, -You loir down, abominable vil
lain' You enemy of honest labor! You ought
to have more decency than to patronize the
blank-dash railroads in times liko these'.'’
"I'm not patronizing this road " indig
nantly answered the only passenger who
hadn t tied when the train stopped. "1 m
traveling on a pass. Chicago Tribune.
A couple about to be married were anxious
that all their friends should attf n l the cere
mony. but were in doubt as to tne capacity
of the church. Accordingly the young man
went to the sexton and asked. How many
will the church seat:-” The sexton consid
ered the matter carefully for several min
utes. and then replied, reflectively. Weell,
erd narily it'llseat bout three hundred: but
if some'll sit with their legs hangin 4 over the
organ-loft, 1 guess it'll seat 310."—Harper s
Drawer.
Another Philanthropist.- Inventor—l've got
the model of a machine here that will do the
work of fifty men.
Capitalist—How many men does it take to
run It;
"Two."
"Then every machine you build throws for
ty-eight men out of employment. What's to
become of those':"
Capitalist's Daughter -Why, papa let them
go to the seaside. They’re needed there aw
fully.—Chicago Tribune.
CURRENT COMMENT.
Kolb Classified.
From the St. Louis Republic (Dem.l
Populist Kolb of Alabama says:, "l would
rather be called any thing else than a demo
crat." But Kolb cannot be called a democrat
under any circumstances. He is an ass.
Might Keep on Writing.
From Columbus iGa. i Enquirer-Sun (Dem.l.
Senator Pat Walsh, writing to a friend in
Savannah, expresses the opinion that resolu
tions passed by meetings of business men.
urging speedy action on the tariff bill by the
Senate, will have no effect. The business
men of Savannah need not be deterred by
Senator Walsh s opinion on that subject. We
have no doubt the Senate would like to have
the people let them alone. But the pebple
ought not to let them alone until the public
pressure forces them to do their duty, if the
inference is fair from what Senator Walsh
says, that the senators hold themselves inde
pendent of the wishes of the people on the
great national question, it is aoout time that
they be taught lo take a different view of it
'the present attitude of the Senate will
largely influence the public sentiment in
favor of a cnange In the mode of the election
of senators, making it by a popular vote In
each state.
A Party Without a Purpose.
From the Brunswick (Ga.'l. Times Advertiser
(Dem.l
If the Georgia populists have any local
grievance beyond that of individual desire
tor office ii has not I een specifically stated i v
anj- spokesman of the party, if its members
have any real contention with the local
democracy of the state, or communities, the
same element ot energy which has been en
gaged to break it down, would have purified
and remedied the grievances that are sup
posed to exist, if the populists have a
national grievance hevond that oi a pure ob
stinacy and g.-ncrul in filiation to kick, its
national representatives have never, by any
opportunity, displayed any fixed purpose to
remove the causes which arc believed to be
the source of dopte-sion and trouble We
find them like aimless skirmishers shooting
at random, without any consideration as to
legislative plan*. They are at all times
toadying to Rome popular resentment, but
never show mg any plan of remedy.
The "Conservative" Senators.
From the New t'ork Times (Dern.t.
Those who believe that tho conservative
senators" will win the la nding tight at Wash
ington fall to take due account of the effect of
continuous exposure upon evil-doers who are
not utterly hardened und shameless There
are three Lotted Mates senators who are
now engaged in holding up legislation und
blocking the tariff reform to which they are
committed with the rest of Ihoir party The
people of the I'nltcd Main* believe that llu-v
are doing this solely In tin Interest of the *■
g.u trust and are wor.ktng for their retainers.
Everybody believes it, everybody JHvs it in
|.rliat, rvcrytmdy I* beginning to say it in
public \u these men have families win.
ure capable of feeling disgrace they have
■hoi'- or ivsa respectable associations i ->n•
tempt say* me eastern provvro. "will
piei ce the sited of a lortolse Jo expert
that they w ill l-e side to withstand Hie p julte
contempt is iii assume mat they are not
meiely |.*riy Iruitora. si out which U.dVw.l
Ihe.e.an t<e no -iueadon. but *l*o pa, J.)
derma which there is no reason - jrl to fie
bgv
An Exploded Belief
Among what are supposed to be the few uni
versally admitted truths, says the New York
Tribune, is this: A woman can not sharpen a
lead pencil. It seems to te almost what the
ministerial brotherhood would call "unset
tling” to say it, hut this is not a truth after
all. even if it is universally admitted: a wo
man can sharpen a lead pencil. There is.in a far
downtown ofhee, a charming young woman,
as many such there be in far downtown of
Hces. ihe other day 3 visitor noticed that
her lead pencil was excep.4 mally well sharp
ened.
• Who sharpens vour lead pencils for you?' 1
inquired the visitor.
No tody—ao it myself. ' answered the
young lady, with great decision.
cThe visitor arched his eyebrows, and looked
as incredulous as he knew how-.
if you don t believe it. i ll sharpen yours
for you. said the young lady, with a note of
defiance in her voice.
7he visitor produced a somewhat battered
looking pen.il which he had just borrowed
from a friend, lehe took it in her left hand with
the point aimed at the ceiling, and then from
some mysterious place in her desk produced
one of the most formidable carpenter s
chi-els which it had ever been the lot of the
visitor to meet It roust have teen at least
sixteen inches long, and the blade could not
have been less that lj* inches wide. Without
the least hesitation she applied the chisel to
the pencil and began shaving off slices of
wood around the point. Before the visitor
regained control of his organs of speech, she
hande l the pencil back to him. sharpened
better than he could have done it himself
• Are we. or are we not. tit to vote?” asked
the young lady archly.
► "Vote: tried tne astonished visitor. "Why
you are tit to conauct a ward primary. 1 ’
And the young lady put her chisel away
and smiled with a superior air.
Catching Bass With a Blowgun.
You can taik about gill nets and dynamite
and trout lines for killing fish." said an old
river man the other day to the Washington
Post, "but there's a man here in town that's
got the greatest scheme I've struck yet. and
he s killing enough rish with it to stock a
boarding house. He don't do a thin/ but just
shoot'em. he don’t. 1 see him up the Low
grounds a week or two back with a string of
bass that must er weighed ten pounds. And
blame me ef he hadn't killed 'em ail with a
spit ball blower.
"He dad a little brass pipe, about four feet
long and as thick as your linger, and a lot of
little arrows made out of fish books straight
ened i u: and cotton w rapped around the end.
He was walking quiet like along the edges of
the long ponds the low- water left in the low
grounds, and when he'd see one of the big
t as> that had got landlocked by the water
going down, and there's lots of 'em up there,
he’d just let fly his blow gun at it and knock
'em through six inches of water every time
He had a silk thread to his arrows, and
hauied his fish in with it, and as he'd hit 'em
back of the gills they hardly kicked.
7 tell you. it didn t hardly look natural,
going llshin' that way, but he jest laughed
when I spoke to him and said he learned the
trick from the Indians, down in South Amer
ica. Down by the water he had some places
ground baited and I see him kill a big. three
pound catfish dead as a hammer, and he shot
one of his little fish-hook arrows half wav
through a carp about two feet and a half
long, i been fishing nigh on thirty years
now. one way and anotbei. but I never see a
man kill fish that way before and yer can
say what yer please, it ain't natural.”
A Good English Joke.
"The English, "says the Cincinnati Enquire,
"have the reputation of being slow to appre
ciate a joke." said P. D Seaton at the Emery.
• but when they do indulge in that form ivf
fun they frequently excel all others. Jim
Rivers, auditor of the Denver and Kio Grande
railroad is one of these, and is responsible
for the following:
"A Polish Jew came to this country, and,
starting as a peddler, soon owned a store.
Then he sent for his younger brother, who did
not develop the salesmanship qualities of the
elder, who took him severely to task for it.
Shake.' he yaid. -you vas no goot. Schust
vatch me vile 1 sills to dis lady dat vas com
ing, den you sait jn de next one.' The lady
entered, and Abram, his face wreathed in
smiles, appre a -hed her. She wanted some
China silk, anu the stock of that article was
shown her. How much is that worth':’ point
ing to one pattern. Von tollar a yard,
ma’am.'
" 'Why. I priced it in here a few days ago
and you only asked SO cents for it.’
' Yah, dot vas so madame. But since dot
dey got a telegram from China dot all dem
silk vorins vas dead. It costs us dwo tollars
to buy it now.' The sale was made.
"The younger brother watched the trans
action closely. The next customer was a
lady who wanted to buy a measuring line,
and, selecting one asked the price. Jake
was bound to sell it.
" ‘Forty cents, ma'am.'
Why. I priced these the other day and
they were only a quarter.'
" ‘Yes. ma’am, dot vas so; but you see ve
got dot delegram dot dem tapevorms vas
dead, und dot vos tape. aDot costs us now ’
"But the customer was gone,”
Days Gone By.
James Whitcomb Riley in the St. Louis Re
public.
O. the days gone by! O, the days gone by!
The apple in the orchard and the pathway
through the rye:
The chirrup of the robin and the whistle of
the quail.
As he pined across the meadows sweet as any
nightingale;
When the bloom was on the clover and the
blue was in the sky.
And my happy heart brimmed over in the
days gone by.
In the days gone by, when mv naked feet were
tripped
By the honeysuckle s tangles, where the
water lilies dipped.
And the ripple of the river lipped the moss
along the brink
Where the placid eyed and lazy-footed rattle
came to drink.
And the tilting snipe stood fearless of the
truant's wayward cry.
And the splashing of the swimmer in the days
gone by. t
O. the days gone by' O. the days gone by ’
The music ot the laughing lip, the luster of
the eye.
The childish faith in faries and Aladdin's
mag-.c ring.
The simple, soul-reposing, glad belief in
everything.
When life was like a story, holding neither
soil nor sigh.
In the olden, golden glory of the days gone
by.
How Lord Coleridge Started.
It is related that Lord Coleridge sprang Into
eminence as a lawyer by adroitly seizing a
simple incident while he was pleading the
cause of a man on trial for murder, says Kate
Field's Washington. In the course of bis
long argument, a candle in the jury box flick
ered and went out. leaving the court room in
darkness He stopped speaking, and the
silence in court for a moment was oopressive
The scene, with its dark shadows", its grim
faces, the scarlet robes of the judge, and hag
gard face of the murderer was worthy of
Rembrandt, The usher replaced the light
I and Coleridge resumed his addres. Gen
tlemen ot the jury. you have a
solemn duty, a very solemn duty to dis
] charge. The life of the prisoner at the bar
j is in your hands. You can take it—by a word.
I You can extinguish that hie a t the candle by
your side was extinguished a moment ago.
] But ii is not in your power, it is not in the
power of any of us-of anyone in this court or
out of it—to restore that life, when once
taken, as that light has been restored.'' The
tone in which the words were spoken, the ca
dence of the voice and the aotion of the ora
tor. with the inspiration of the scene and the
hour produced a thrilling effect. The jury
acquitted the prisoner, and Coleridge s for
tune was made. He was never without a
brief after that.
With an "58.."
The systems which people employ in recall
ing the names of persons they have met are
often of a singular description, says the
Youth's Companion. Mrs VlrkelholT for in
stance. boasts mat she never forgeis a name
because she always makes a mental memor 1
andum of the letter of tho alphabet with
which any new name begins
On ono occasion she remarked to an ac
quaintance
I nu t last night your friend, Mr. , Mr—
Mr.—
"Mr. whot"
Why 1 remember thensme perfectly well I
It begins with an M ’
Mr. Morrill;"
"So."
Mr. Martin'"
No no But! am sure it begins with sn
M He ha* very red hair ana is bald and !
wears gold bowed spectacles "
>b to-; you are quite right. His name Is
Emerson 1
I mill t I te|| you '
Enqieror William of Germany is said to be
wining an opera- I
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Rev. Joshua N. Himes now 90 years old and
said to be the oldest Episcopal clergyman in
the United States, took part the other day in
the fiftieth anniversary exercises of the Bat
tle Creek, i Mich, i Episcopal church He is
still in active pastoral work, and his voi *e is
clear and resonant.
A writer in the Boston Budget says:
“Scarcely a week passes in any year that
human lives are not jeopardized by horses
taking fright and running away. In Russ a a
horse addicted to the habit of running away
has a thin oord with a runninc noose around
his neck at the neck strap, and the end is tied
to the dashboard. At Rome I saw in the
Corso a phaeton with two spirited horses bolt.
They were driven by a lady, and I expected
to see instant destruction But the lady
coolly grasped a thin cord, and within thirty
yards the horses came to a full stop.’
4 The other morning when I was taking a
walk before breakfast ” said a citizen of New
York. 7 saw on the curbstone in front of a
house ahead, a box filled with the ordinary
refuse of a kitchep. but on top of it was about
a quarter of a loaf of bread—the crusty end of
a square loaf which even from where I was.
I could see looked all right; it might he stale,
but it looked nice, and it seemed a pity to
waste it. But. dear me. it wasn't wasted
Even while I was looking at it. a man ahead
of me. whom I had not noticed particularly
before, and who w r as now just passing the
box. reached and picked up the quarter
loaf and dropped it into his pocgei all with
out stopping.”
How to reduce the temperature of the body
without risk during this torrid weather is a
question of no small importance. A writer in
the New York Press gives some directions
which may prove practical: "Nothing is bet
ter to bold pieces of ice in the palm of each
hand, wrapped in ordinary brown paper. The
ice melts slowly and the blood in. the palms
is close to the surface. Another excellent
thing is the ice collar, an invention of my
which has often prevented congestion
or the brain. Take a rubber tube an inch in
diameter, till it with cracked ice and join it
with a screw nut around the nook. It is hid
den by the collar, has little discomfort, is
available for hours and keeps the head cool
and clear.”
How much should a may eat in a week - The
appetite demands of the constitution for
a groat or small supply of physical strength,
determined by the employment and habits of
tho person, will possibly always serve as
the best guide. But it is interesting to note
the recently printed directions of a dis
tinguised English physician. Sir Lyon Play
fair. who says: ‘l'he necessary food for a
healthy, vigorous person for one week need
be more than three pounds of meat, with one
pound of tat. two ordinary loaves of bread,
one ounce of salt and five pints of milk: or
for the meat five or six pounds of oatmeal
may be substituted.” This sounds like
starvation: but the directions come from a
very wise specialist whose judgment may not
be doubted.
The London Daily News says that the
stone marking the grave of Robert Browning
in Westminster Abbey, will shortly be re
placed by a beautiful piece of Italian alabas
ter. carved with the English rose and the
Florentine lily interlaced. Mr. Barrett
Browning has furnished the design, which is
being wrought in 1- lorence. The name of the
poet and the date of his birth and death will
be the only inscription on the alabaster.
Asolo, the beautiful city, that is the setting of
"Rippa Passes." and which was tho first
Italian, town Mr. Browning visited in his
youth, Is now the headquarters of a lace
manufacture and school started by Mr. Bar
rett Browning in memory of his father. It
had been the dream of the poet to see Asolo
once more a busy center of the silk weaving
industry, as it was when he first saw it, A
large silk factory at a few miles distance
made the realization of this dream impossi
ble. and to bring back tbe stir of activity in
the homesteads of the hamlet among the hills,
the poet's son has organized and started this
lace manufacture.
"A funny thing, not intended to be funny,
occurred when I was in England,” said a gen
tleman. according to the Chicago Record,
who was the guest of Willis Rice the other
day. "1 had met a number of Americans, and
as I was more familiar with the various ave
nues of pleasure than they I became their
host. They were to do whatever I said. I
invited them to a coaching party and dinner
at St. Albans. Knowing something about
English ideas and dinners. I ventuced to sug
gest to a friend that he telegraph the man
ager of the house where we were to diue that
we would be there at a certain hour; that the
party was purely Uncle Sam and out for fun.
and to urge the propriety of getting up a nice
dinner. My suggestion was followed, and at
the hour named we all sat at table in the old
English tavern. I noticed that there was a
bowl of cracked ice at each guest's plate, and
each guest, I must say. made the best and the
most of it. Americans are great people to
eat cracked ice. But here was a surplus, and
there threatened to be a repetition of it. I
called for the manager and said to him that
it was all right, but there had evidently been
a misunderstanding somewhere, 'ihe man
ager said he had acted literally on ord'-rs. In
proof of this he produced a telegram sent up
from Loudon. It read: ’Dinner at 8 for ten
All Americans. Have plenty of ice.’ My
London friend had got mv idea for a nice
dinner and the American's love for ice
mixed. ”
Some very odd things are come across by
the ornithologists who are engaged in exam
ining the stomachs of various kinds of birds
for the purpose of ascertaining what they eat
and how much of the crops they destroy. In
the stomach of a crow was found a varhler
say . the Boston Transcript ’the stomach of
the warbler contained a caterpillar, and
traces of the vegetation on which the latter
had fed were clearly discerned under the mi
croscope. Another oddity discovered in the
stomach of a crow was a rubber elastic band
which had evidently been picked up by mis’
take for a worm. Once in a while a bedbug is
found in the stomach of a woodpecker.
Doubtless the in lects are got from pine trees
Pine cones aie often infested by bedbugs!
which must have lived on those trees long be
fore they became human parasites. Ticks
too. which likewise breed on trees, arediscov
ered occasionally in birds' stomachs, though
so rarely as to suggest that the feath
ered creatures are afraid of them
3id would avoid them as a rule. The
insects in a bird o stomach are ordf
narily counted by their jaws. For example
caterpiilers have soft bodies, which are
quickly digested, leaving their jaws to be
gradually ground up and disposed of in the
gizzard. The jaws of beetles, caterpiilers
and grasshoppers are made of one of tbe
most enduring substances in nature. bein
nearly as hard as the teeth of mammals
Tuey are very characteristic, so that the dif
ference may readily be told between those of
a cricket, a grasshopper, a locust, etc. The
jaws lound in the stomach of a bird are
counted and divided bv two, which gives the
number cf insects represented. Cuckoos are
the only birds that eat hairy caterpiilers so
far as is known, i he horny linings of their giz
zards are sometimes found so thickly nertop
ated by the sharp and strong hairs of these
insects as to be actually "fuzzy" when d’-ied
Not long ago a crow from Oregon was exam
ined whose digestive apparatus contained a
beetle of a species so rare that the specimen
would have been worth sls if it had been in
good condition.
In a previous installment of •Notes for the
Curious,' says a writer in the St. Louis Re
public, 1 undertook the task of giving a theo
retical bird's eye view of the conditions which
are supposed to exist- Seven Hundred Miles
Above Y’our Head. The study incident to
the compilation of such an article naturally
suggested ideas and speculations ffnmerning
the condition of tilings in the opposite direc
tion; and. while no attempt will be made to
show what the probable state of the interior
of the earth is at a depth of 700 miles. I be
lieve that some curious observations can be
made In an imaginary shaft psneirating the
earth's trust to a depth of onlv 30 miles.
When the great Foreman snaft was finished
at Virginia City, Nev., some curious obsc>va
tions were made on the temperature from the
surface to a depth of 2, too feet Atiooteet it
was lound to be 50‘, and at 200 feet 56° an
Increase of IV This rate of increase in iem
peraturedld not hold good for the entire
depth, however, for at 1,500 feet It was
found to be 101 \ aud at t too
feet only 104',”. At th” verv lowest
levelln the great shaft (2 100 feeti a Fallen
bfit thermometer stood nt IlftV In 187 ft the
German government commenced to s aka
shaft for the express purpose of ascertaining
the rale of Increase In the temperature of the
earth s crust The work was discontinued at
adepthot 4 172 feet, the rate of increase in
temperature being set down as aw-raging I
-o r wf h !* feet of descent A w riter In the
v\ ashlngion Star la numm ng up a aeries of
aurh Ohservat ons, na\s that the increase Is 1
for ea h hi feet m depth Eev Osmond Fisher
In a very rcPanie work entitled "Rhymea of
the Earth * i rust says that the rate of In
crease In temp-isture as the distance he
neu n ihe surface i augmented is on the
whom, an equable ow and may b-taken to
aier*.-. ni., it l !- b M feet 1 igurmg
slsleeiwa a lb* Host reliable we
jjf*u Umt *t a ft f 0 Itoilt-p ilovr th tur
'*'*'*'* knows met sis and roeg* arc in a state
ut white hot fusion
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Don't mistake our Linen stock for auction
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SUMMER SALE
OF UNDERWEAR.
No Profit on the Prices, But Lots of Sales.
Hand Made Night Gowns 89c, sl, *1.45, *1 95
12.25, $3 and up to $4.
Chemises and Drawers 49c. 60c, 69c, 89c It
11.25. 81.50, 82, *2,25 and up to *2.50.
The summer waist is the Shirt Waist In
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-79c, were *1; *1.15, were 81.35.
WHITE WAISTS, colored hemstitched
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and 82.
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