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IhDEX TO SEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Meetings—Georgia Chapter No. 3, R. A
M Golden Rule Lodge No. 12, I. O. O. F.
Special Notices—Golden Apple Tobacco,
Henry Solomon & Son; Diamond Dust Soap
Powder; A Fact About Le Panto Cigars;
Notice of Dr. Paige's Absence Until October;
Notice. P. R. Cohen; Notice to Water
Takers; A Valuable Building Site That Must
Be Sold, C. H. Dorsett, Auctioneer; Notice to
City Court Jurors; Special Offer. Mutual Gas
light Company; Dissolution of Copartner
ship. J. F. Sweat & Cos.; Notice to Superior
Court Jurors.
Legal Notices—Citations From the Court
of Ordinary of Chatham County; Applica
tions to Sell Real Estate.
The Tramp—Appel & Schaul.
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For Sale; Lost: Personal: Miscellaneous.
Senator Hoar's anti-lottery bill, which
the Senate passed three weeks or so ago.
has been favorably reported by the judi
ciary committee of the House and will
probably be disposed of at this session.
The chances of its passage are regarded
s good. The bill is far reaching and
Stringent.
What a difference there is between the
way those Japs are fighting and the way
the Brazilians foughtl We have been ac
customed to regard the Oriental people as
slow. But the opinion will have to he
changed. They—that is, the Japs—are
quite quick enough. The Brazilians
fought for months and months, and ac
complished little or nothing. The Japs
have been fighting something like a week
and have wiped out a sufficient number of
their adversaries to people a South Amer
ican city. If they keep up the gait they
have struck, China had better propose a
compromise, even at the expense of giv
ing up Corea and the whole Corean ques
tion. It is evident that the Japs have got
their fighting clothes on. And there is
no telling when they will take them off.
Candidates for the prospective new
seats on the supreme bench of Georgia
are coming into the open slowly, as be
comes great jurists. But they are com
ing surely. So far six are in sight, and
there are other counties to be heard
from. Fulton has two candidates, in the
persons of Hon. M. J. Clarke and Hon. A.
J. Cobb. Richmond has one, in the per
son of Maj. Joseph Ganahl. Glynn thinks
Hon. Spencer R, Atkinson would make
an ideal justice. Muscogee entertains the
same opinion with regard to the Hon.
Mr. McNeal, and Pulaski would like to
seethe Hon. J. H. Martin on the bench.
With so much excellent timber in the
state from which to pick, the legislature
ought to be able to select two gentlemen
who will illustrate the dignity, justice
and eruditio'n for which the Georgia su
preme court has been noted.
The government of Italy has established
at Ellis Island, New York, the great
landing place of immigrants, an informa
tion bureau under direction of Prof.
Alessandro Oldrini, a gentleman familiar
with America and its resources. The
bureau is for the benefit of Italian Immi
grants who may wish reliable informa
tion upon landing in this country. Prof.
Oldrini, speaking of the proposed work of
the bureau, said it would try to keep im
migrants out of the cities, and added: “I
desire to see them colonize in the west
and south. I shall know soon just where
to send every Italian who shall come to
this shore.” If the other foreign
countries that send us immigrants would
follow the example of Italy in establish
ing a bureau of information at the land
ing places, and if the bureaus would co
operate with this government in keeping
out undesirable persons, much would be
accomplished toward solving the immi
gration problem.
A Senate bill that was reported favor
ably from the House naval committee a
day or two ago, and will probably become
a law before the end of the session, will
have the effect of booming the naval
militia. The bill authorizes the Secre
tary of the Navy to furnish naval vessels
to the various states for the use of the
militia: to detail a sufficient number of
men from the navy to act as instructors
and shipkeepers, and to loan with each
vessel the charts, books, instruments and
all other equipments necessary for the
proper instruction and drill of the mili
tiamen. The bill, which has already
passed the Senate, was drawn by As
sistant Secretary McAdoo and has the
approval of Secretary Herbert, and its
passage by the House is regarded as a
foregone conclusion. It is within the
range of probabilities, therefore, that
before long Savannah will be the home
atation of a warship manned by the
Georgia reserve of the United States
Davy.
Duty of the Convention.
The important work of the state demo
cratic convention. which meets in Atlanta
! to-morrow, is to adopt resolutions that
: will inspire democrats to work for the
democratic ticket and bring out a full
j democratic vote. There will be no trouble
1 about the ticket. All of the nominations
are practically decided upon, except the
nomination for secretary of state. There
will, therefore, be plenty of time to give
to the resolutions.
The silverites have thrown out the in
sinuation that the friends of the Presi
dent are likely to bring on a hot political
discussion by insisting upon an indorse
ment of his financial views. It
looks as if the silverites intended
to precipitate a discussion by insisting
upon a resolution committing the party in
this state to the unconditional free coinage
of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1. For days
and weeks the free silver organs have
been harping upon the necessity for de
claring in favor of the free coinage of sil
ver. without any provision for maintain
ing the parity of gold and silver currency.
The silverites are the ones who will pre
cipitate whatever discussion there may
be on the financial question. They are
not willing to accept the financial plank
of the national platform. They insist
upon the construction of that plank
which they put upon it—a construction
which it will not bear, and which they
know it will not bear.
The President stands squarely upon
that plank. He is a friend of silver.
Those who are authorized to speak for
him have said as much many times, but
he is not a friend of a debased currency.
Any plan for the free coinage of silver
that would insure the circulation of the
silver dollar on a parity with the gold
dollar he would approve. He is against
the free coinage of silver unless it is ac
companied by a provision for keeping silver
currency on a parity with gold currency.
He believes, and every sound financier
believes, that the opening of our mints to
the free coinage of silver at the ratio of
16 to 1 without any provision for keeping
the two metals on a parity would result,
not in bimetallism, but silver monometal
lism.
That silver monometallism would be
disastrous to almost every interest there
can be no doubt. The injury it has done
Mexico and the South American states,
and the injury it is now doing India, it
would do this country.
The free coinage of silver is a populist
demand—not a democratic deip and. The
convention that assembles at Atlanta to
morrow should see to it that the democ
racy of Georgia is kept in line with the
national democracy—that it does not ally
itself on this silver question with the pop
ulists. The time will come for the free
coinage of silver. That time will be when
it will circulate on a parity with gold,
and when it will not bring financial dis
aster.
They Are Not in It.
One of the stories that some of the re
publican papers have taken a malicious
pleasure in circulating recently is that
the President is particularly anxious that
coal should be put on the free list of the
tariff bill because he aud a number of his
personal friends, including ex-Secretary
of the Navy Whitney, Secretary Lamont
and ex-Gov. Russell of Massachusetts are
part owners of immense coal fields in
Canada, and that free coal would be of
immense benefit to them, as it would ena
ble them to supply practically the whole
of the New England coal market.
It may be that a good many people be
lieve this story, though if they have any
confidence in the integrity of the Presi
dent, it is difficult to see how they can.
The story has been thoroughly investi
gated ■ jd found to be without foundation.
There is a company that has coal fields in
Canada, and it is spoken of as the Nova
Scotia coal syndicate. It has offices in
New York and Boston, and a number of
wealthy Boston and New York men are
interested in it, but neither the President,
Mr. Whitney, Col. Lamont nor ex-Gov.
Russell own any stock in it. Indeed, it is
doubtful if the President knew there was
such a company until he saw accounts of
it in the newspapers.
The republican newspapers that have
circulated the story have not thus far
made any denial of it. They do not seem
to feel under any obligation to undo the
wrong they have done the President. If
they had desired to do only simple justice,
they would have found out whether or
not there was any truth in the story be
fore they published it. It is probable
that they did not want to know whether
the story was true or not. They saw a
chance to do the President an injury, and
they did him what harm they could.
Their conduct in this {natter is not credit
able to them. It places them in the posi
tion of being willing to use disreputable
means to accomplish a political object.
There are certain states in this country
in which, under certain circumstances,
“thirty" means “thirty-three," and Geor
gia is one of them. In Russia "thirty"
under similar circumstances means
“forty." The legal and commercial fiction
called days of grace is responsible for the
perversion of language and figures. Years
and years ago, when communication was
slow and uncertain, debtors were obliged
to have some latitude as to the time in
which they might meet their obligations.
This led to the adoption of days of grace.
The custom of allowing grace days has
been abolished in England as having long
ago become unnecessary. But, with the
exception of California, Oregon, Vermont,
Wisconsin and (after Jan. 1 next) New
York, the states in this republic cling to
the, old form of making the time of dura
tion of a promise to pay three days longer
than is stated on its face. Russia makes
the days of grace ten in number. An as
sociation of business men formed to pro
mote uniform commercial legislation in all
of the states has this matter of days of
grace in hand, and will endeavor to have
the "thirty-three days" states knock off
the extra three days. ,
The Princess Alix of Hesse, who is to
marry the Czarowitz of Russia, has ac
complished one important step toward
becoming the wife of the future czar; she
has been converted to the faith of the
Greek church. Shortly after the royal
couple were betrothed a priest of tho
Greek church was sent from Russia to
instruct the princess and bring about a
change in her religious faith. Last week
he reported to tho czarowitz that the
princess was properly converted, and re
turned to Russia.
THE MORNING NEWS: WEDNESDAY, AUGUST], 1594.
Populism and High Interest.
The trade journals of New York are
calling attention to the fact that between
*1,0(10,000 aad *2,000,000 that had been
sent from eastern cities for investment in
Chicago has been recalled by the owners
! of it since the great railway strike, be
cause the Chicago authorities were so
slow in suppressing lawlessness during
j the strike. The impression got abroad
that the Chicago authorities sympathized
I with the lawless element. Capital is
; timid and will not go readily where prop
erty is not given the fullest protection
I possible.
When the populists got control of
I Kansas a vast amount of money that was
I invested in that state was with
j drawn, not because there was
j fear of lawlessness, but because it feared
j there would be a great deal of legislation
that would be hostile to capital. The
fear proved to be well founded. Laws
hostile to capital were enacted, and the |
consequence was that farmers and others
in Kansas had to pay more for money
than they had been paying. Where
money to loan is scarce the rate of in
terest is high, and the market value of
real property is. as a rule, low.
There are other western states from
which capital has been withdrawn be
cause of the success of the populists.
The announced purposes of populists
alarm capitalists, who would rather take
less interest for their money than invest it
where they would be in danger of losing
it, or of having trouble in getting it when
it becomes due. The populist party,
therefore, is a .burden to a state that is
dependent upon money from outside its
limits for its development.
Here in the south we are asking for
capital with which to build factories and
immigrants to cultivate our unoccupied
lands. It is important to our success that
we should get capital at as low a rate of
interest as possible. We cannot, there
fore, afford to encourage a party that
threatens to enact legislation that would
tend to make investments unsafe or dis
courage the coming of immigrants.
In the conservatism and wisdom of
democratic rule, there is unbounded con
fidence. L'nder that rule the south has
prospered greatly. From a condition of
great poverty less than thirty years ago.
she has risen to prosperity and compara
tive wealth. If that rule is continued,
the south, in the not far distant future,
will become the richest and most favored
section of the country.
Profits for the Sugar Trust.
The sugar trust doesn’t seem to doubt
that the tariff bill lyjll become a law. It
is buying all the sugar it can get and is
storing it in its warehouses at New York
and Philadelphia. It has been doing this
for several weeks. Nearly all of its
warehouses are now filled with raw sugar.
Some of its warehouses have not been
used for years. All of them are being
brought into use now. From all the
sugar producing countries steamers are
arriving laden with sugar. Unless the
tariff bill becomes a law’ pretty soon the
trust will have enough raw sugar on hand
to run its refineries for months.
The sugar that is now being brought in
pays no duty, and if the tariff bill passes
the trust will make on the sugar it has
on hand when the law goes into effect a
cent, or a cent and a half, a pound more
than its regular profit. It is not to bo
wondered at, therefore, that the trust is
purchasing such large quantities of
sugar.
The longer the passage of the bill is de
layed the greater the amount of sugar
the trust will get into the country free of
duty will be.
If the tariff hill had become a law a
month ago tho treasury would have been
better off to the extent of hundreds of
thousands of dollars. The trust, therefore,
is not complaining of the delay to which
the tariff bill is being subjected.
The army and certain other military
people, taking the Chicago riots as a basis
for their arguments, are urging that the
army of the United States is not large
enough and ought to be increased forth
with. Maj. Gen. Schofield, in an inter
view on Monday, said recent events had
convinced the people of the United States
that they need more soldiers, and sug
gested a plan for enlisting men until the
army should reach 40,000 or 50,000, or
even 60,000 men, if necessary. Gen. O. O.
Howard thinks Gen. Schofield is emi
nently correct, and says he is heartily in
favor of any plan to increase the army to
60,000, which he thinks should be the
minimum. It is, perhaps, natural for the
military men to wish to see the army in
creased. A bigger army would add to
the importance of the commanding
officers. There would be more glory for
the generals in a great army than in the
present small one. But this is America,
not Europe. We haven't got togo “heeled"
to keep our neighbors from jumping on
and pounding the life out of us. It doesn't
require a foundation of bayonets to uphold
our government. No power would be so
foolhardy as to attempt to whip us on our
own soil, and we are not going to invade
any foreign country. There are in the
country 103,000 enlisted state militiamen
ready always to respond to the call to
duty, and more than 9,000,000 men capable
of bearing arms, available in an emer
gency when the regular army of 25,000
and the state troops of 103,000 have been
found insufficient. What, then, do we
want of a bigger army?
The city of Chicago is beginning to re
ceive bills for the damages sustained by
the railroads during the recent riots. On
Monday two roads filed bills aggregating
some *.'00,000 for freight cars damaged or
destroyed. There are twelve or fifteen
other roads that will file claims. For the
next dozen years, probably, Chicago and
Cook county taxpayers will swear at
Debs as they pay for the damage done
during the strike.
Some idea of the terrible character of
the plague that is now raging in portions
of China is obtained from the statement
that it has swept away 120,000 persons in
the Canton district alone. And there are
tio signs of its abatement, and no remedy
for it has been discovered. It is believed
that the bacillus of the disease has been
identified, but as yet nothing has been
suggested that will kill the bacilli.
The year 1694, says the St, Louis Republic,
corresponds to the 1898th from the birth of
Christ; to the year 7403 of the Byzantine era;
to the years 5654 55 of the Jewish era ithe lat
ter year beginning at sunset on Sept, 30i;to
the year 2647 since the foundation of Home;
to the year 2554 of the Japanese and to the
years 1311-12 of the Mohammedan era. the
year 1312 ot the era of the Hegira having be
gun on the sth lust.
PERSONAL.
Since her marriage the distinguished au
thor of "An African Farm calls herself Mrs.
Olive Schreiner, and her husband haschanged
his ' maiden name'' to • Mr Conwright Schrei
ner.
A Cincinnati grocer named W. W. Thomas
was fined *SO each and costs for selling adul
terated mustard, cloves pepper and ginger.
The sum for which he w as mulcted footed up
*263.
Of the governors of forty-four Rtates and
six territories only three are bachelors. Four
have been married twice, and thrr- 1 have
entered the matrimonial state three times or
more.
The Empress of Japan has a great admira
tion for all things European and every year
numbers of dresses are sent to her from
Paris. These sometimes cost *20,000 and
more.
Hon A. J. Balfour is making a name for
himself in Scotland as an enterprising
farmer. His specialty is sheep—in managing
which other political leaders have had great
success at times.
The recent magnificent gift of Mtss Mary
Garrett to the medical school at Johns Hop
kins by the terms of the endowment, opens
wide to womankind the doors of this particu
lar part of the university.
It is recalled that Senator Palmer of Illi
nois pic sided over the first republican s'ate
convention in Illinois in 1856. and Senator
Cullom sat as a delegate in the convention.
They now represent different political par
ties
There is to be no opposition to the re elec
tion of Representative Catchings of Missis
sippi. The republicans have decided to call
no convention and make no nomination, and
either there are not populists enough in the
the district to count, or else they are satisfied
with Catchings.
Queen Victoria's statue in Madras was re
cently marked in a way that was supposed to
indicate a spirit of renellion on the part of
the Hindoos, but it appears now that the
marks are such as they put on the statures of
their deities and that they were made purely
in a sp.rit of worship. The queen, indeed,
seems to be highly venerated in India. Her
life has been translated into nearly all of the
almost innumerable dialects of India, and m
Madras the natives sometimes burn incense
and break cocoanuts before her statue as
they would at the shrine of a deity.
Mrs. Sidney Rosenfeld thinks that, golden
rod should be the national flower. As she
told the Professional Woman's League in
New York, ‘it is a democratic flower, bloom
ing as happily in the poor man's garden as in
the rich man's hedge, in good soil or poor.
Then it belongs to the great family of compo
sitas, which is the largest family of the flower
ing plants. It is a compound rtower—that is
to say. it is really a number of flowers closely
crowded into one head, and what more ap
propriate flower to represent our great gov
ernment. made up of a number of lesser gov
ernments gathered under one head' ”
BRIGHT BITS.
"Why did Robinson Crusoe call his man
Friday?”
He was so overjoyed to And that he wasn't
eating flesh that day. "-Puck.
Little Ethel—Johnny took my banana.
Mother—Johnny! What do you mean ?
Little Johnny—lt was all in the game,
mamma. I said. “Let's play Broadway." and
she said, "All wight.” and so she got a table
for a banana stand, and then I was a police
man and walked past.—Good News.
Modest Enough.—Husband—l really think
you might have had that ball dress made a
little bit higher in the neck—to say nothing
of the back.
Wife—l'll have It changed, if you wish, but
this stuff cost $lO a yard.
Husband—Um—well, never mind.—New
York Weekly.
"How do you like the young woman from
Boston?” asked the young man's sister.
"Oh, very well. Only she uses such big
words. I gave her a flower, and she wouldn't
call It by anything cut its scientific name."
"But you always liked botany."
"It wasn't her ootany t objected to. It was
her haughty-culture. -Washington Star.
"Y’ou country people make lots of finny
mistakes when you come to town,” said the
city young man.
"Yep,” replied the gentle farmer, "but
when we remember what a lot o' argyin’ it
takes ter convince some city folks that
gooseberries don t necessarily come from egg
plants wo sorter learn ter bear up "—Wash
ington Mar.
First Villager-How do you like your new
neighbor?
Second Villager—Can't tell yet whetirr I
like him or hate hftn.
Why so?
The firet thing he did was to put tip a high
board fence, and I haven't been able to dis
cover whether it is to keep his chickens in or
my chickens out.—New Y’ork Weekly.
A Victim of Inconsiderate Treatment—She
had bought a "general admission," and be
fore the first art was over she slipped down
to a p;a?e near the front and seated herself.
Two minutes later an usher came down es
corting a man. The man held the coupon to
the seat she occupied, and the usher told her
so. Then she gathered up her skirts angrily,
picked up her parasol, which she had depos
ited against her neighbor's knee, wrathtuliv
scrambled in iront of thre? people, an i when
she reached the aisle, transfixed the man
with an angry glance and muttered audibly.
"What cheek some people have!”—Chicago
Record.
CURRENT COMMENT.
Republican Sarcasm.
From the Philadelphia Press (Rep.k
Tariff reform is easy enouth. • All that is
necessary is for one democratic-senator to
whisper that he will not vote for any bill that
does not put a protective duty on sugar;
another to insist that he will support
no bill that is not for free lumber: an
other to demand that collars and cuffs must
be protected or he will bolt; anothertoex
aet a big protection on rive for his support,
and several others to insist upon a duty on
coal and iron ore Everybody gets what he
wants, and that's tariff reform.
A Lesson From Debs.
From the Louisville Courier Journal (Dem ).
Dfcbs sheds anew light oh "sympathy"
strikes by riding from Chicago to Terre Haiite
in a Pullman car. Decs ordered a strike
which deprived the members of the American
Railway futon of their wages. 1 ut which did
not affect his own salary. He ordered a boy
cott against the railroads because they would
not boycott Pullman, and only the other day
he issued an address to the public urging a
general boycott ot Pullman sleepus. But
Debs' own boycott extends only to his "sym
pathy," and not lo his persona; practice.
The House and Senate Conferees.
From the Philadelphia Times tlnd.i.
The common idea of the purpose of a con
ferenre is the adjustment ot differences, but
the ienatc conferees on the tariff start with
the announcement that they will make no
concessions A conference under these con
ditions must be fruitless. And the attitude of
the Senate is the more Indefensible because it
is so clearly contrary to the whole spirit of
the constitution which, while It gives the
Senate the right to amend or to reject a rev
enue bill, never contemplated that such a
bill should be framed by the Senate in oppo
sition to the essential policy of the House. To
make it still worse, this contention does not
represent the deliberate view of the majority
of the Senate, but only of half a dozen
Strikers, who will allow no revenue bill to
pass except on their own conditions. No
wonder the House conferees ato indisposed
to yield to such a demand.
Silver in the State Convention.
From the Macon (Ga ) Telegraph iDem ).
Gn the silver question there has been a
sharp division of opinion among the demo
crats of the state There has been an attempt
to convince the people that the carefully
drawn silver plank of the Chicago platform,
in which the conditions on which the demo
cratic party favors free coinage are explicitly
stated, is exactly the same In meaning as the
brief de duration of the populist platform in
favor of thejfree and unlimited coinage of sil
ver at the ratio of 16 to 1. The contention
that they mean the same thing is really ab
surd. but it has been pressed persist
ently. That contention cannot be sus
tained. but if Georgia democrats wish to put
In lieu of the silver plank of the platform of
their party tnat of the populist, thev have a
right to do so As the Democratic pirtv ot
Georgia cannot legislate for the national
party, however, and the Chicago platform
would remain the creed of the party, such
action could only have the eTeit of emphasiz
ing the taut that serious factional differences
exist, and as the national Democratic party
will never consent to such substitution. Geor
gia democrats might find themselves consid
erably embarrassed by it hereafter.
Queer Things Do Happen.
A serio-comic performance took place last
Wednesday night, about 12 o'clock, says the
Anaconda iMont.i Standard, when David
Cohen, Sr., and D. Twohy held the boards of
the oak street sidewalks and played a piece
that was entitled to have a large audience,
but unfortunately, owing to lateness of the
hour, no spectators were present. Mr .Iwohy
had occasion to seek the service of Dr.
McKenzie that evening, and. afier having
called the doctor was waiting for him out
side on the sidewalk. It took the medical
gentleman some little time to dress, and Mr.
I wohy while waiting rested himself against
the fence. While In this position Mr. Cohen
happened io come along on his way home
from a meeting of one of the numerous lodges
to which the gentleman belongs.
r. The night was very dark, but as the belated
lodge man neared Dr. McKenzie's residence
he espied a suspicious looking character
standing In wait, Mr Cohen's heart began
to palpitate in an uncomfortable manner as
visions of an event that occurred three years
ago flashed tnrough his mind. Upon that oc
casion Mr. Cohen had almost reached his
home when a bod. bad man stepped forth
and demanded his valuables or his life- Mr.
Cohen, who is a ready thinker and a quick
logician, decided in a few minutes upon that
occasion, that not being armed his life was of
considerably more value than his earthly pos
sessions, and accordingly, in his usual digni
fied manner, handed his valuables over to the
highwayman.
On Wednesday night it did not take Mr.
Cohen more than a moment to size up the sit
uation The bold, bad man of three years
ago had returned for the valuables that the
tbirfty merchant had collected in the mean
time. This time, however, the pedestrian
was determined to make a tight in protection
of his belongings that would require an un
dertaker s services at the close. Instead of
turning back, as many men would have done.
Mr. Cohen reached down in that hip pocket
that extends to his knee and pulled out his
revolver and with blood in his ete and the
gun in his band, advanced upon his supposed
waylayer. When within a few feet of him Mr.
Twohy recognized that some unknown
stranger was covering him with a gun that
was beid in such an uncertain manner that he
was not sure at what moment it might go off
and send a leaden messenger into his anat
omy
Mr. Twohy explained afterward that it was
not the dread of being shot that bothered him
so much as the uncertainty of the exact spot
m which he would receive the bullet, as the
revolver, which he says was three feet lODg,
now pointed at his toes, and the next Instant
took in the whole range of his body to the
crown of his head. He saw that it would be
fatal to move, so concluded to let the man
with the gun have all his personal possession
and. at a pinch, w ould have given him a mort
ga”e on his real estate.
Mr. Cohen finally broke the silence by ask
ing what Mr. Twohy was doing. Explana
tions followed, and when Dr. McKenzie
opened the door his eyes met a most peculiar
scene that made him believe that Messrs.
Cohen and Twohy's minds were affected. The
twogentlemen had fallen upon each other's
necks and were congratulating each other
upon the luck of each in not being confronted
by a highwayman.
To an Optimist.
Anthony C. Deane in Temple Bar.
I feel. Amanda, much surprise
That you have yet escaped disaster,
Although you openly despise
The teaching of each sapient master;
Y'ou do not lake a mournful theme
And always talk In accents tearful,
Nay. far from this, you often seem.
Audacious maid! distinctly cheerful
Upon each hook, if only graced
With striking plot and situation,
Y'ou look with possibly misplaced
But quite unstinted admiration;
Y’ou do not share as yet. I know.
Our modern critics' sad conviction,
Who write long articles to show
The swift decline of modern fiction.
Y ou do not cultivate a cause
Much advertised in largest letters,
Nor seek for popular applause
By talking of your sex s "fetteis;''
They charm you not. those fierce delights
r So dear to all our lady fighters:
Y'ou care. I think, for women's rights
As tittle as for women writers.
Although It seems extremely bold.
You say without the least misgiving;
That, spite of what the sages hold.
Existence still L worth the living:
Nor will you readily obey
Those mourntul philosophic wishes
Which urge mankind, without delay,
To turn themselves to food for fishes.
No doubt such antiquated views
Deserve our most sincere compassion,
Since obstinately you refuse
To heed the latest mental fashion.
And errors grave and sinister
In such opinions Id discover,
Were I some wise philosopher,
Not merely—your devoted lover'
A Plague Story.
A rather good story is told among the Chi -
nese about the empress dowager and the
plague, says the New Y’ori; World The em
press keeps constantly burning day and
night m her palace eighteen lamps, which
represent the eighteen providences of China.
Not long ago one of the lamps, though it re
ceived precisely the same attention as all
the others, was burning very badly, and the
empress sent for the chiet imperial astron
omer to learn the reason. ihe chier astron
omer. having careiully considered the matter
and consulted the archives, told the empress
i hat the lamp which was uurning so badly
represented the province of Canton, which
was about to 1 e aitticied with a serious epi
demic in which the God oi Pestilence had
determined to take off eight-tenths of the
people.
The empress was very much concerned at
being told this, and asked ihe chief astron
omer how such a dreadful doom might be
averted from e.ght tenths of her people in
the province Tho chief astronomer said that
the god might perhaps be moved by prayer
and offerings, and everything was done to
placate him by the empress dowager's or
ders. Alter this the chief astronomer was
asked what success had been achieved, and
after much consideration and consultation he
replied that the Gol of i J estiience had con
sented to a compromise -but this was abso
lutely the best that he couid do—for tour
tenths ot the human beings and four-tenths
rats. Thus the fiightful mortality of rats and
human beings at Canton this spring is ex
plained.
Romance of a Sweet Young Thing.
A young girl friend of mine, says a New
Y’ork Recorder writer, writes me from the in
terior of Pennsylvania to this effect:
"Oh. dear, the romance of the country is all
in the books. I believe.
"You know how poetic my fancies are
"Well. I tame out here to try and feed them
after a long course of starvation diet in city
society, but it is not a success.
Tne plates are nice enough—some of them,
at least -but the people—O, the people:
"They have no imagination whatever.
' X was telling my landlord about a nretty
little glen £ had discovered. When I had de
scribed it he said: 'O. yes: that * Peter
Wood's land. No good oa earth. He never
couid raise nothin' onto it. Now. jest look at
that land! and he pointed to his treeless
farm, laid out with long rows of cabbage, po
tatoes vegetables, and what-nots. 'That's
sumthin' worth talkin' about, that is"
"O. yes,’l replied, 'tut Pm speaking of
scenery. Tho little glen is simply beautiful.
I’m going to spend half my time there. I've
given it such a pretty name, too.’
" shoo!' he remarked with another wooden
grin. 'What d'ye call it?'
■ Verdure Valley,'was my answer. ‘lsn't
It pretty ?'
Durned et it ain’t.' he rejoined; 'pret
tier than the name it's always went by.'
" 'And what was that" was mv query.
" Wall, It s allers bln called skunkweed
Holler.’
"I am coming home at once "
They Were Shocked.
Two young ladies not a thousand miles from
this city, says the Griffin (Ga.) Newsandßun.
visited here a short while since, and during
their Slav became infatuated with the idea of
having their photographs taken with their
heads sticking coquettishly through atom
newspaper, and visited the gallery for that
purpose.
However, when the pictures were finished,
they were horrified to see what they had
tailed to notice. The newspaper they had
stuck their heads through was an Atlanta
sheet, and just beneath their smiling faces
was a big display advertisement of a clothing
firm which announced: "Our pants are lined
In the seat."
Changed His Mind lndignant Citizen—
Here you fellow, what do you mean by beat
ing that horse in that way? I've a notion to
have you run in.
Teamster—The critter's got to be beat, He
always was baiky. That’s why they took Tin
off the track.
Took him off the track' 1 By gee, it's old
Mudho iks. the very horse that lost me *2.sdj
by balking In the middle of a race three years
ago Soak him again, will you? Indian
apolis Journal.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Adam's Peak, or Mount Samanala a rugged
mountain in the Island of Ceylon, is known
known throughout the Orient as the Moun
tain of the Sacred Footprint.'’ In a fiat,
rocky tasin at the foot of this mountain, in
stone as hard as blue grauite. there is the
perfect imprint of a gigantic human foot. 54
feet long by 24 feet wide. The Ceylonese
Brahmans have a legend to the effect that the
imprint was made by Adam, or first parent,
but the Buddhists declare that it could have
been made by no one but Buddha.
The total weight of the ironwork in the
Eiffel Tower is 7.767 tons, ana the foundations
of each of its four independent legs are sunk
to a depth of fifty feet. It is constructed of
iron throughout unost people think it is of
steeli. the pieces of that metal used in its
construction being 112,000. The exact hiuht
of the great iron skeleton is 964 foet msualiy
given as even 1.000) and it is to be the prop
erty of the builder for twenty years, begin
ning with 1*69. after which time the sole
ownership reverts to the city of Paris.
Y'ou have often wondered, and have even
gone so far, perhaps, as to ask your scientific
ally inclined friend why candy or tatty made
from brown sugar, or even molasses, becomes
white by pulling and working, says the St
Louis Republic. The question is not a hard
one to find an answer for. provided you look
in the right place, but It is 10 chaaces to 1
that you have never seen a solution of the
enigma in print. First, the exposure to the
air and the frictioa evaporates the sirup,
which contains most of the coloring matter,
and facilitates the oxidization of the
carbon in the sugar. which is
always white. Sugar contains eleven
atoms of oxygen to twelve ot carton
and eleven of hydrogen The sirup drained
from this same sugar in the refining process
not only contains more or less of coloring
matter, but has a smaller proportion of
oxygen to the amount of carbon. Still an
other reason why taffy is whitened by the
pulling process is because it is in effect sim
ilar to crushing. Pure, clear rock candy,
when crushed, has its powers of absorbing
light destroyed or greatly impaired, the
pulverized portions reflecting all the ele
mentary colors in each ray. which, of course,
results in the eye receiving the impression of
white light.
The beautiful coloring of certain varieties
of glass now produced in Germany, and which
is said to far excel some of the most noted
French specimens, is an art practiced by the
glass Mower at the furnace by means of an
apparatus consisting of a sheet iron cylinder
twenty Inches long and eight inches diameter
standing vertically and having a similar cylin
der riveted across the top. Kuhlow s Ger
man Trade Review says that in the lower
cylinder is an opening into which an iron
ladle can pass, and the horizon lal cylinder is
provided with doors at either end. the one
nearest the operator being so arranged that
the blowpipes can be supported when the
door is closed in a horizontal split run
ning to its middle, the object to be
treated being held inside. While the
glassbiower is reheating his work for the last
time in the furnace, an attendant takes the
long-handled iron ladle, which has been
heated red hot. shakes into it about a spoon
ful of a specially prepared chemical mixture,
and places the bowl of the ladle quickly in
the opening provided for it in the vertical
cylinder. The mixture immediately gives off
vapor, which rises to the horizontal cylin
ders, where, meanwhile, the blower has
placed his work supported by the blowpipe
and healed to an even red, turning it rapidly
in the vapor. In a short time the object is
covered with a changeable lustre, is removed
from the pipe and tempered like other ware
in an ordinary oven, then out, engraved,
painted or gilded as desired.
I remember once an elephant was being
sold by auction in execution of a decree, and
for some reason or other it had not its proper
"mahout,” or driver, on its back, says a
writer in the Gentleman's Magazine. The
sale was taking place on the largo open
ground or plain around the Courts, and a
small crowd had assembled to listen to the
bidding. What with the noise and the ab
sence of its proper keeper, the animal began
to show signs of irritation, which, of course,
only increased the excitement and the noise
among the people. Suddenly it ran at one of
the spectators, knocked him down, and was
proceeding to tread the life out of him, when
one of its "grass cutters." standing by. struck
it with a spear and drove it off. The driver
on its back then got frightened, and watching
his opportunity, as the elephant went
under a tree, seized hold of a
branch and swung himself up. The ele
phant tried once or twice to push the tree
down, but not being able to do this, it wan
dered about in the thorough enjoyment of its
liberty, at every turn of its body sending the
panic-stricken but still curi us people now
collected in large numbers, s ampering in all
directions. Soon it came upon a dog cart be
longing to one of the judge's clerks, who had
probably left his work to see the spectacle.
The horse had been taken out. and the ele
phant. lifting the whole vehicle up in its
trunk, with as much ease apparently as I
should lift up a small terrier by the scruff ot
the neck, let it fall with a crash to the
ground. By this time everyone who had any
description ot a vehicle withimthe vicinity and
could get away, began to drive away as fast
as possible. The courts became demoralized,
all turning out to witness what would next
take place, ihe "grass cutter" went toihe an
imal. which, though he suffered him to ap
proach, would by no means allow him to get
on his back. or to control him
in any way. The police sent around a
notice to the tew European bungalows—it be
ing near the time for the evening drive-to
j the effect that they should stav at home, or
| look out for ihe elephant. There was no need
j to proclaim the danger to the native bazaar,
I though I believe it was done, as the hews
would spread far faster in its natural course.
The courts suspended work for the day. not
only because it was near the time to do so,
but because it was impossible to stop oc
casional stampedes into them by frightened
crowds at every new movement of the ele
phant, and because every one was in too ex
cited a state to do any business. At last an
other elephant, which was kept at the police
"lines." arrived on the scene, with chains
and a numoer of men armed with spears to
capture the truant, but immediately it caught
i sight of its would-be captors, it turned tail
i arid bolted, with its pursuers lollowing, and
I was not secured until early the next morning
about thirty miles distant, by its proper
j "mahout."
ON CRUTCHES 2 WEEKS
Limb Raw as Beef and Red as Beet.
Pain, Burning, and Itebing Ter
rible. Not 5 Hours Sleep in 3
Bays. Makes One Applica
tion of Cutieura and in
5 Minutes is Asleep.
A Remarkable
Case.
About two years ago I was confined to tny
room with a breaking out on my leg which my
physician pronounced Eczema. About three
weeks ago the same disease broke out again on
the same leg, and my physician has been attend
ing me regularly, calling from once to twice
daily, the sores all the time getting worse A
friend called to see me, and brought about
one half teaspoonlul of Cuticura, advising
me to try- it, telling of hihiself, brothers and
mother having been cured by it. 1 would
not try it at first, although I had been on
crutches for over tv,-o weeks, and at one time I
counted between twenty-five anil thirty suppur
ating sores, and had not slept more than five
hours in three nights. Monday morning about
four o clock the pain, burning and itching be
came so severe that 1 determined to try Ouri
cura, thinking that if it did no good, it could
not make my leg much worse, for it was as raw
as a piece of lieef and as red as a beet, so X
applied the CUTIOUBA, and in five mimite%after
I laid down 1 was asleep. Next day 1 sent and
got a box of Cuticura, and I'll pledge my honest
■word I would not take *IOO to-day for it, if I
could not get another. I commenced using
Cuticura Monday morning atiout four o’clock,
and to day (Tuesday) my leg is nearly well, not
withstanding I had not walked a step without
my crutches in two weeks. My gratitude to the
man who first compounded Cbticuoa is pro
found. May God bless him.
T. T. FRAZIER, South Boston, Ya.
CUTICURA WORKS WONDERS
S°ld throughout the world. Price, Cuticura.
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and Cmem. Coup., Sole Proprietor*, Boston.
“ Ilow to Cure Skin Diseases, ** mailed free.
blackheads, red, rough, chapped, aud
I llf I oily skin cured by Cuticura Boap.
mga. ouf folks' pains.
fißrNcrfC Full of comfort for ail Pains. Tn flam-
JHB mat ion. and Wcaknces of the Aged m
j'uttevrm Ant'-Pain Fluster, the
first and only pain killing planter.
LEOPOLD ADLER.
ADLER’S.
■ ill JACKONETS
Re-enforced yesterday by the addi
tionoftwo cases of the most fash
ionable style new printings of stvl- :
ish stripes and dainty figures and :
dark and light grounds, the most ■
popular of all summer fabrics; sold :
in all the large cities for 12'/. C t 0:
15c. Go on sale to-day at
10c. Yard, |
In looking- over our;
Wash Dress Goods:
Department, find we ;
have too many, a good •
many too many.
We’d rather stand ;
a loss on them now
than later on. That’s:
why we will offer
TO-DAY
lOcand 12 Yard
wide Percales at
81-3 c.
20c and 25c Linen'
Finished White Duck
at
Isc.
15c and 20c White
Dotted Swisses at
82 l-2c.
10c and 12 l / 2 c White i
Corded and Check:
Lawns at
sc.
Many others. Come;
and see for yourself.
ADLER’S.
DANIEL HOGAN.
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IIM
STANDARD GOODS
—AT—
Prices Lower Than Ever,
We make this week a sweeping reduction in
Table Linens,
The prices are attractive enough to have
you buy now, even if not immediately m
want. Our Table Linen DeDartment has
always been one of the features of the estab
lishment, ahd this sale will be itsgreatevent.
Exclusive, Rich and Beautiful Designs,
Bleached or Unbleached.
M inch Cream 32c. 60 Inch White 49c. 68-inrh
Irish 70c. tH-inch Scotch 65c, 72-inch Satin
Damask 87c, 72-inch Extra Fine sl.lO. 72-inch
High Fini-h $1.25. 72-inch Still Finer *1.50.
Don’t mistake our Linen stock for auction
poods or anything of that sort Ours are all
regular goods-the choicest the market
affords.
SUMMER SALE
OF UNDERWEAR.
No Profit on the Prices, But Lots of Sales.
Hand Made Night Gowns S o '". sl, $1 45, $1 %
$2.25, $3 and up to $4.
Chemises and Drawers 49c. 60c. 69c, 89c,
$125, $1.50, $2. $2 25 and up to $2.60.
The summer waist is the Shirt Waist In
French Percale, Cheviot. Silk and Sateen-
The prices run: 45c. were 60c; 59c, were 75c;
79c, were 41. $1.15, were $1.35.
WHITE WAISTS, colored hemstitched
collars and cuffs, at 65c, 75c, 85c. |l, 11.25. 00
and $2.
FINE DIMITY and LAWN WAISTS at sl,
$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.
PAI NT SJV NDO I
JOHN G. BUTLER.
Headquarters for Plain and Decorative Wad
Paiier, Paints. OH. White Leads, Varnish.
Glass. Railroad and Steamboat Supplies,
Su-hes. Doors. Blinds and Builders' Haro
ware, Calcined Plaster, Cement and Hair
SOLE AGENTS FOR LADD’S LIME.
140 Congress street and 139 St. Julian *trees
Savannah. Georgia.