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THURSDAY, AUGUST 2, 1894.
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For Sale; Lost; Personal; Miscellaneous.
The sixth candidate for one of the pros
pective Georgia justiceships is in the
open. He is Judge George F. Gober, who
will be remembered as having recently
stood the brunt of an amount of news
paper Are because he visited Savannah on
personal business at the time Mr. Atkin
son was here. And it is rumored in At
lanta that the seventh candidate, in the
person of Hon. Pope Barrow of Savannah,
will shortly be in view.
In North Carolina, as in- Tennessee,
Alabama, Georgia and elsewhere, the pop
ulists are seeking affiliation with the re
publicans. Yesterday the populist con
vention met a Raleigh. It was attended
by the leading republicans of the state,
who were on hand to engage at log-rolling
with Marion Butler, the boss populist.
Butler says fusion will be effected, the
consummation to take place at the repub
lican convention on August 30.
Representative Springer does not think
the President's labor commission will
lead to any labor legislation by this con
gress ; nor does he expect to see a com
pulsory arbitration law passed at any
time. “Compulsory arbitration,” he is
quoted as saying, “would be impossible
without an amendment to the constitu
tion of the United States; and even in
that event it would be inconsistent with
our theory of government to compel
persons to work at a less rate of wages
than they are willing to receive or to
compel employers to pay more wages
than they are able to give. In my opinion
no new penal law will be enacted, nor
is it proper for congress to create rights
or obligations which do not now exist.”
To-day the state of Tennessee will hold
an election for five judges of the supreme
court. The judges are elected in a body
once every eight years, and the terms of
the incumbents are just expiring. The
democrats have put up a straight ticket,
which the republicans and populists are
opposing with a mongrel ticket of lour re
publicans and one populist. In this in
stance the populists have agreed to sell
the state supreme court in return for re
publican favors at a later date. There is,
happily, little prospect that the iniquitous
deal will be successful. In the last gen
eral election the votes of Harrison and
Weaver together fell 13,000 short of the
vote given Cleveland, and there is no rea
son to believe that the republicans
or the populists, or both, have gained
votes enough since then to wipe out that
majority.
It is alleged that one reason why Japan
is fighting China is because the Japanese
politicians deemed it advisable to do
something to arouse the patriotism of the
people and stop internal dissections. If
that is correct and Japanese nature is
the same everywhere, then the politicians
must be delighted and the Japs at home
fairly perspiring from the ardor of their
patriotism. On the Pacific coast, in Cali
fornia and Washington, the Japanese
residents have done little since they
heard of the war but shout for their
country. At Sacramento the other day
they hired a hall and had patriotic
speeches, and determined to raise money
for their country, and to go back and fight
if they were needed. No more than that
could have been expected of an American
colony 5,000 miles from home if their
country were involved in war.
The populists of the Tenth district hav
ing taken the colored republican brother
to their bosoms as a congressional conven
tion delegate, the question arises, how
much further will the political bedfellow
ship go? Would Watson, if he were
elected, make a colored republican brother
his private secretary? What patronage
is marked out to be dispensed to the re
publicans, in the event of )>opulistic suc
cess, in return for their support; In Ten
nessee the populists are trying to give the
republicans some supreme court judge
•hips; would the Georgia populists like to
try something of the kind in Georgia?
There will probably be two seats ou the
Georgia supreme bench to be filled by the
next legislature; will Watson and his
party offer those to the colored republi
cans for their support in the state and
congressional elections? All that the pop
ulists have to do to secure tne seats is
to win the legislature.
Trying to Keep Democrats Apart.
The republican press and republican
congressmen are doing their utmost to
prevent the democrats from adjusting
their differences on the tariff bill. They
are saying that the President cannot
! with honor, after his letter to Chairman
Wilson, sign a tariff bill that does not
1 provide for free coal and iron ore.
It is pretty safe to say that the Presi
! dent will not be influenced in the least by
. anything that may come from republican
! sources. Ho understands very well that
i the republican press and leaders are
j aiming to prevent any tariff legis
lation. What they say, tiaereforo,
has that object in view. The opinions
they may express as to what the Presi
dent can or cannot do in respect to the
tariff bill is a matter of no consequence.
No one is in a position to say what the
President will or will not do when the
tariff bill reaches him. Nothing that he
said in his letter to Chairman Wilson,
however, is likely to keep him from sign
ing the bill, even if it should not provide
for free iron ore and coal. The chances
are that he would sign the Senate bill
just as it is if it should be passed by con
gress. It is not such a bill as he would
like, but it is vastly better than the Mc-
Kinley tariff.
The President is well aware that if a
tariff bill is not passed at this session of
congress the chances that tho next con
gress will be democratic w ill be greatly
lessened. Under the circumstances,
therefore, it is not likely he would veto
any tariff bill that might be sent him.
There need be no fear of a failure of
tariff legislation so far as the President
is concerned, and there need be no fear
that there will be no tariff legislation.
The effect of the President’s letter to
Chairman Wilson will be to bring about a
modification of the objectionable features
of the Senate bill. The bill that congress
will pass may not bo just the bill the
President would like to have passed, but it
will be much more nearly in harmony
with the demands of the people than it
would have been had the letter to Chair
man Wilson not been written.
The Gold Reserve.
It is expected that the gold reserve will
be down to about $50,000,000 by the end of
this week, and still neither the Secretary
of the Treasury nor congress manifests
any alarm at the situation. If any alarm
is felt by the goverment it is not per
mitted to become apparent.
The bankers of New York, however,
pretended to be alarmed. They point out
that at present there is only about
$55,000,000 ot gold in the treasury with
which to keep the $700,000,000 in circula
ting notes at par with gold.
None of the many reasons given for the
outflow of gold seems to be satisfactory.
The balance of trade is largely in our
favor. The gold, therefore, does not go
abroad to pay for goods. The most rea
sonable explanation is that the financial
and industrial situation in this country
is alarming the holders of our securities
abroad, and that the securities are being
sent here to bo sold. The proceeds of
their sale, have of course, to be trans
mitted in gold.
It is thought that the reason the gov
ernment is doing nothing toward building
up the gold reserve Is that the Secretary
of the Treasury believes that as soon as
the tariff bill is disposed of gold will flow
into the treasury so rapidly that the gold
reserve will soon reach $100,000,000. Tho
secretary may be right in this view,
though there are financiers who hold a
different view.
However, there do not yet appear to be
any signs of gold going to a premium.
There is so much faith in the ability of
the government to meet all its obligations
that even if the gold reserve should fall
considerably below $50,000,000 there would
be nothing like financial disturbance.
The situation is vastly different from
what It was when the purchasing clause
of the Sherman silver law was in force.
The repeal of that clause saved the coun
try a vast deal of financial trouble.
Northwestern Forest Fires.
Great forest fires in the northwest, such
as those that have recently wiped out the
towns of Phillips and Morse in Wiscon
sin, and are still threatening half a dozen
towns and villages, are not uncommon
occurrences. About this season each
year, when the forests are dry and the
ground covered with fallen twigs, leaves
and parched undergrowth, great firos
break out and sweep vast areas. A year
without a disastrous forest fire in the
northwest would be a year to be noted.
How the fires originate, as in the pres
ent instance, nearly always remains a
mystery. There are various theories,
but the theories seldom if ever
amount to anything in results. In some
manner a spark, or a needle of flame,
gets into the tinder-like stuff in the
woods, and the origin of the blaze and
just about everything else in the neigh
borhood is soon hidden by blackened and
charred “remains.”
A Milwaukee dispatch noting the an
nual recurrence of the fires and their dis
astrous effects, says the prices of prop
erty are considerably affected by the con
flagrations Nobody wants to invest
money where there is a strong proba
bility that within a year tho investments
will go up in smoke, and be accompanied
by the investor if he happens to be any
where about. Not only is this the case
with investments in the shape of saw
mill* or other lumbering or suburban
manufacturing interests, but with farms
also. The fire which destroyed Phillips
the other day swept every vestige of
growth from a number of farms, besides
leveling all the farm houses and wiping
out the harvested crops. In that vicinity
there was not left even the necessaries
of life for either man or beast, and ap
peals for aid from the outside had to be
made.
In the southern country, while forest
fires sometimes occur, they never amount
to such disasters as do those of the west.
The south’s immunity is probably owing
to the ph.vsii al conditions of the section
rather than to the exercise of greater
care.
If Judge Hines were to drop in upon
Atlanta to-day and make a note of the
way things are going it might convince
him of the usolessncss of wasting physi
cal and mental energy by continuing his
campaign longer.
Gov. Tillman has at least demonstrated
that in the dispensaries he has au open
and shut thing.
THE MORNING NEWS: THURSDAY, AUGUSTS, 1884.
He Will Go Slow.
The South Carolina dispensaries are
again open, but Gov. Tillman will not
adopt an aggressive policy in enforcing
the dispensary law of 1893 until he has an
announcement from the supreme court
1 that that law is coostituttyn&l. The
J position he occupies is not impregnable,
j On the contrary there is room for saying
: that there is doubt in his mind as to
' whether ho has not acted hastily in open
ing the dispensaries.
A great many of his followers think he
■ has made a mistake. It is not forgotten
that when the supreme court of the state
declared the dispensary law of 1892
unconstitutional the governor said the
decision meant prohibition. He virtually
admitted that if the law of 1892 was uncon
stitutional. that of 1893 was also. He
closed the dispensaries. If he did not
think the law of 1893 unconstitutional
why did he close them? There has
been nothing since the decision of the
supreme court to change the situation.
The action of the governor, therefore, in
opening- the dispensaries, virtually sets
aside the authoritity of the highest legal
tribunal of the states. That is an exer
cise of power that is calculated to alarm
even Tillman reformers. Thev believe that
under the circumstances the dispensary
law cannot be enforced without the use
of force. When an official uses force to
sustain his authority he ought to be very
sure he is right. Gov. Tillman is not, and
cannot be, sure he is right. His course
during the last four months shows that
he is in doubt. As already stated, there
fore, the chances are that for the present
the governor’s dispensary policy will
not be an aggressive one.
Bet the Silverltes Explain.
A favorite argument of the silverites to
show that silver has not depreciated in
value, but that gold has appreciated, is
the statement that from time al
most immemorial an once of sil
ver has been equal in value
to a bushel of wheat. The statement is
not true, of course, but the silverites, in
order to make out a case, are not particu
larly careful about facts.
In our dispatches yesterday it is stated
that the farmers of Indiana are
feeding their wheat to their hogs
and are selling their corn, because
the market value of wheat is only
43 cents a bushel, while corn sells
for 45 cents. It is extraordinary for corn
to have a higher market value than
wheat, because wheat is intrinsically a
much more valuable food product, and is
in much greater demand for mankind.
The market value of it is also, as a rule,
much greater than that of corn. Why is it,
then, that wheat is now worth less than
corn to the Indiana farmers f The rea
son is evident. It is not because silver
lias been demonetized, as the silverites
would have the would believe, but be
cause the production of wheat is greater
than the demand. In other words, there
is an overproduction of wheat. If this is
not the explanation, why is it that corn
is commanding a comparatively good
price? There is no reason why the de
cline in the market value of silver should
affect the price of wheat more than it
affected the price of corn. If there
is, the silverites ought to point it out.
That they do not point it out is satisfac
tory evidence that all their, talk about
the low price of wheat being caused by
the decline in the price of silver is non
sense.
The truth is that the cause of the low
price Of silver and the low price of wheat
is overproduction. More wheat is grown
and more silver is mined than the world
wants. There is no other reasonable ex
planation of the low prices of those
two articles. And it is likely that the
pricebf cotton will be lower than it is if
the estimates of the incoming cotton crop
are anywhere near correct.
Senator George has in mind some immi
gration and naturalization legislation
which (to perpetrate a hibernicism), al
though it would reach backward would
be a long step forward. He wants tho
judiciary committee of the Senate to in
quire whether a court may not recall a
certificate of naturalization when it turns
out by the subsequent action of the nat
uralized citizen that he is not a person of
good moral character, is not well disposed
toward the institutions of the United
States, or is otherwise unworthy of citi
zenship. It is evidently the senator’s
idea to reach back and grasp those an
archists, socialists and other trouble
makers who have sneaked into citizenship
by keeping concealed their true charac
ters at the time of their examination. Tho
senator furthermore wants the judiciary
committee to consider the advisability of
requiring aliens who wish to become citi
zens to be able to read the constitution
and to furnish proof of good character.
Aud he also wishes the committee to as
certain if sufficient authority to keep out
undesirable immigrants is at present
vested in the immigration authorities at
the ports. He refers to England's success
in admitting and naturalizing aliens who
have become good citizen#, and wishes
similar results to be achieved by this
country. It has long been an open and
scandalous secret that in the northern
cities immigration mills that would grind
out anything that might be poured into
the hopper, have been operated exten
sively just about election times. If Sen
ator George’s proposed inquiry shall
have the effect of diminishing, or stop
ping, this grist, he will have accom
plished good for his country.
When the state convention has been
got out of tho way the senatorial canvass
will come more prominently into view—
that is, figuratively speaking, for as a
matter of fact the senatorial is one of the
most elusive of ail the campaign. It is
hard to get a view of enough reliable data
bearing on the situation to forecast a re
sult. There are few people who will vote
in thesenatorialelection,and they havenot
yet been selected. Nevertheless the sen
atorial candidates and their friends will
from now on increase their hustling
among the legislative candidates.
At present, to accept the statements of
each candidate's supporters, every one of
them is “slightly in the lead." Mr.
Bacon and Mr. Garrard are personally at
work, while Mr. Turner and Mr. Walsh
remain at their posts of duty at Washing
ton and feel the Georgia pulse by proxy.
With all of the noise and swearing that
is characterizing the South Carolina sen
atorial campaign, nobody—not even the
principals—seem disposed to fight. And
everybody is quite right. There is noth
ing in the situation worth fighting about |
PERSONAL.
Th* Somerville > Journal contends
that Somerville, and not Cat-sauqua. Penn.,
erected the first soldiers monument. The
iormertown erected its monument in IS®,
while the Catasauqua monument *as not
erected until I HQ6.
The wreath of flowers sent by the czar of
Russia to be placed on the coffln of President
Carnot cost, according to French papers.
that from the king of Italy cost *6OO.
and from the queen of L n-rland VOX 'ihe
lowers presented by Baroii Rothschild cost
President Carnot’s death occurred on the
eve of the marriage of his son. Francois, to
Mile. Marguerite Chiris. daughter of a French
senator from the Alps Mantiines. The wed
ding. as now arranged will take place th**
latter part of August, and will be celebrat and
I®.the strictest privacy at Grasse, where the
bride s father resides.
When her husband became governor cf
Colorado, Mrs. Waite deliterately snubbed
Denver society. The wife of the retiring ex
ecutive tendered her an elaborate reception.
MO't of the guests afterward called upon her.
and her card basket was tilled with invita
tions to A o’clock teas She never returned
the calls nor has she ever entertained.
Dr. R. J. Bl&ckham of Sidney. England, has
come gallantly to the rescue of the corset.
T have never seen digestive disturbances
produced by a comfortable corset.” he as
"A good firm corset supports the mus
cles of the back, braces and invigorates the
muscles, renders the carriage e egant and up
n? w‘ . verv simlltar garment was in favor
with the women of Athens.
Foreign papers say that the head of the
Corean traitor. Kim-ok-Kium, which the gov
ernment Intended to exhibit in all provinces,
was stolen a few weeks ago while the watch
man who had It in charge was asleep. The
king has offered a big reward for the dtscov
ery of the thief. It is said that since the
theft the rather, wife and daughter of the
conspirator have been beheaded.
Manv people fancy that Mme. Melba was
the first Australian-born lady to achieve
fame on the European operatic stage. But
when Mme. Melba was only an infant in
arms a young Australian lady named Lucy
Chambers had succeeded in conquering the
audience at La Scala. Milan. She subse
quently made an operatic tour through the
capitals of Europe, and everywhere met with
nattering demonstrations of popular regard.
Mme. (’hambers has just died in Melbourne,
w h _*re for more than twenty years she had
been busily engaged in teaching.
BRIGHT BITS.
‘ They say Plungem s horse was well backed
in that race.”
•It certainly looked that way. The blamed
skato persisted in covering half the distance
wrong end to.”—Buffalo Courier.
Husband--Did it ever occur to you that
the floor in front of your looking glass is
hoi v ground?
Wife—No, Why is It?
Husband—Because it is the place where
you worship.—Arkansas Traveler.
“She said she would marry him if he would
promise to give up drinking, and he prom
ised.”
‘ Did he keep his promise'”
“Yes, kept it like a man until after they
were married.”—New York Press.
‘ Papa,” said a little boy. ought the teacher
to whip me for what I did not do.”
-Certainly not, my boy,” replied the
father.
“Well.” replied the little fellow, -he did to
day when I didn’t do my sum.”—Tit-Bits.
Dobbs—Sir Isaac Newton—urn—yes—he
was one of the founders of Punch, was he
not?
Fobbs—Good Lord, no! What do you
mean?
Dobbs—Why, he was the discoverer of the
law of gravity.—Harlem Life.
Housewife (’showing sample of milk to
local dairy keeper)-Look here! I bought
this milk from you—it s half water, and the
rest is chalk, and you sold It as ”ppre country
milk.”
The “Milk Maker" (with dignity)—Madam,
to the pure all things are pure.—Tit-Bits.
"Ah. look at the dudes." said the young
ward heeler, as a couple of well-dressed men
passed by. "They gimme a pain."
Never you mind that, Jimtuy." said the
elder heeler. "If them fellers didn't putln so
much time thinkin' about clothes they might
be goin’into politics, and then you and me
would be likely gittin' the worst of it. Seer”
—lndianapolis Journal.
"I wonder what that girl is working her
face around to one side all the time for-”
asked the fussy man on the North Indianapo
lis car. "Do you reckon she's got the tooth
ache'r”
"Here you have been married fifteen years
and don't know any more about girls than
that," replied his wife in disgust. Don't
you see she s got her young man with her-
She's twisting her cheek that way to make
her dimple show.' —lndianapolis Journal.
CURRENT COMMENT.
Where the Trouble Comes In.
Fr<An the Philadelphia Lodger (Ind.).
Justus Schwab, the socialist, says—but
here's just where the trouble comes in. If the
papers would only stop chronicling what men
of his ilk do say. there would tea sudden ces
sation of anarchistic rot and socialistic drivel.
Willis' Diplomatic Letter.
From the Philadelphia Record (Dem.).
Minister Willis' letter to the new Hawaiian
republic is a curiosity, if not a masterpiece,
of diplomatic literature. He has "extended,
so far as he has the right to do, the recogni
tion accorded to its predecessor, the provis
ional government. This shifts upon the
shoulders or the President and Congress the
responsibility of construing the tex-t or the
remarkab e document. For slvness Minister
Willis has no rival except the famous "Joey
Bag stock ’of Dickens. Meanwhile a delega
tion of royalists are on their way to Washing
ton to secure an interpretation of ihe oracle,
and tho royalists in Honolulu are frighten
ing the natives from jury service by their
intimation that later they may be tried by
Queen Lillioukaiani for treason.
The Labor Commission.
From the Chicago Record (Ind.).
In collecting evidence the commission will
have ail the powers and authority, in respect
to administering oathsandcompelling attend
ance of witnesses, possessed by United States
commissioners appointed by federal circuit
courts. The results ol the commission's exam
ination aie to be embodied in a report which
is to be sent immediately to the President
and congress, and with the completion of Shis
report the commissioners' labors are ended. It
will be seen that the commission cun do noth
ing ol its own authority toward compelling an
adjustment of matters in dispute. None the
less it may subserve a good purpose In a very
effective wav by throwing light on hidden
questions, and it is not to be iorgotten that
there is an immense influence In tho.putdic
sentiment which such disclosures are likely
to arouse.
‘•Beware What You Ask.”
From the St. Louie Republic <Dem>.
The solemn, practical truth Is that the
United States already have as much power
and responsibility as can be safely carried:
they already own and control a sufficient
amount of machinery to render the mainte
nance of republican egovernment some times
hazardous and always a matter of supreme
reliance upon patriotism. The centralizing
tendency growing out of the confiscation of
the railroads would be toward the ultimate
failure of free institutions and personal
liberty. Lor ufter the railroads would come
the telegraph systems, and having once en
tered upon the business of confiscating pri
vate property to public uses, there need rea
sonably be no end to government ownership
and federal power. Debs and his fellow
populists should remember the saying of the
French savant: "Beware what you ask, lest
it be given you.”
What It Would Mean.
From the Baltimore Sun <Dem.L
Should Senators Smith. Brio*- and Gorman
succeed In defeating the tariff reform bill
during the present session of congress It
would mean a continuance of the suspense
and uncertainty under which business must
be conducted for from six months to two
years, or until a satisfactory tariff bill is
passed The McKinley act would he kept in
force, but lls value to the tariff lords would
l o vastly dlmlii s icd oy the prospects of new
tarlft legislation .is soon as ihe democrats in
the senate surere 1 In pulling their majority
together. * * AH tills loss of time, pro
traded business depression and public anx
iety generally might be avoided but for three
or four demon aiic obstructives. Their
course is having its effect. It has excited the
wrath of the people everywhere. The' com
promise ’ senators are generating a cyclone
of Indignation that may at no distant day de
stroy wholly the tariff rates on many other
things besides sugar, coal and iron ore. for
which they arc now so stupidly contending.
The Lazy First Basemen.
The retired left fielder was telling the
story, says the Buffalo Express. "Hank
McGinns." he said, -was the greatest
first baseman I ever seen. He could
play the bag out of sight, when he was a mind
to. but he was the laziest man in twenty
seven counties and he didn't play no ball
when he could cit outen it He was allays
t'irnin up with a spiked foot or a spilt
thumb or somethin' of the kind, an ginerally
made out to lay off more n half the time.
The summer we were clayin’ in the Western
League. though, we struck a manager who
was onto Hank s curves. He took him to one
side when the season begun an' tol’ him that
he wouldn't stand no grafts. Remarked out
to him that if he didn t play every day he
would git laid oft an' lose his pay. Sore heeis
and thumbs was barred.
"Hanl:. bein lazier than ever that year,
was consideroul stirred up about this. He
didn't have no likin to pl3y. but he was hot
after the long green, an he kep' playin' along
an kickin’ like a bay steer all the' time.
Mnally he got a couple of days a/ oSao’
went to see his mother, so he said. He got
back on time and complained ot being sick,
but the manager tol' him t' git inter th game
or lose twenty cold plunks, an be got in.
Nex'day we couldn t play They was a big
rain Jus'before the time t'call the game
on the day after that they wa3 another big
rain.
An' ft went on like this fer a straight
thirty days, it would allays rain jus'before
the game, whether we was home or away.
Hank he got fat loafin' around and was on
first rate terms with hisself. Mnally the
manager had to let out some of the men to
reduce expenses an’ Hank got the run. Then
the rains stopped. Now, what do you think
that man done so’s he could git his money
without work n? Seems he knew somethin’
about rain makin'. an when he took that trip
home he got his chemicals together an' didn t
do a thing but make rain every afternoon
just before the game."
Congressman Heard’s Talisman.
Congressman Heard's hat has had an ad
venture says the Washington Post. Every
man has his own peculiar inimitable style of
headgear, and it be* omes a part and parcel
o( the individuality of its owner.
In the summer Heard wears a straw hat, in
the winter a derby, and he has been known
to wrar eten a silk hat on extraordinary oc
casions: But the most characteristic of his
possessions in tula iine is a soft mouse col
ored hat which he wears about congress. It
is a style known as the cfgare te hat which
was so popular a few years ago, but which
has gone out of fashion because it is becom
ing only to iertain types. Mr. Heard calls
this soft mouse-colored variety his mascot.
As he takes his seat on tl)e tloor he a slip off
ins hat and put it in his pocket. With his
talisman near him he has succeeded in pass
ing more bit’s than any other congressman.
Sometimes he 11 forget that his hat is on his
head it weighs about an ounce and a quar
ter- as he sits there watching the result of a
vote. 'I his hat he doesn t carry home with
him. but leaves it in the safe keeping of the
cloak-room messenger.
i he other day one of the press correspond
ents was over in the Senate listening to the
words of wisdom that fell from the lips of
Senator Vilas, as he poured forth his eulogies
of the President. So long and earnest was
Mr. Vilas in his eulogistic uefense of Mr.
Cleveland that when the correspondent went
over to the House side, jo 1 the hat room was
closed. He was bewailing his dilemma, when
the House messenger tremblingly offered him
Heard s mascot. He wore it in the car going
home and was frequently addressed from the
rear as Heard, for everybody knows Heard's
hat. He lived five years in that brief period
of glory. The hat didn't quite tit him, but
his head swelled to the size, and the cor
respondent has laid up ever since. Now the
hat oniemore hangs on the peg in its ac
customed place.
An Unfortunate Interruption.
Willie was asleep, and Dan was lonely, says
Our Little Ones. Willie is the minister’s son,
Dan is his dog. It was Sunday morning, and
every one was at church but these two
friends, it was warm and sunny and they
could hear the preaching, for their house was
next door to the church.
"Dan,” said Willie, it is better here than in
church, for you can hear every word."
lu some way while Willie was listening he
fell asleep. Dan kissed him on the nose; but
when Willie went to sleep he went to sleep to
say and did not mind trities. So Dan sat
down with the funniest look of care on his
wise black lace, and with one ear ready for
outside noises.
Now. the minister had for his subject
“Laniel!" This was the name he always gave
Dan when he was teaching him to sit up and
beg, and other tricks. While the dog sat
thinking, the name "Daniel” fell on his ready
ear. Dan a’, once ran into the church through
the vestry door. He stood on his hind legs,with
his foreyaws close beside the minister, who
did not see him, but the congregation did.
When the minister shouted "Daniel” again,
the sharp tarns said Yes, sir," as pla'nly as
Dan could answer.
The minister started back, looked around,
and saw the funny picture. Then he won
dered what he should do next: but just then
through the vestry came Willie. His face
was rosy from sleep, and ho looked a little
frightened He walked straight toward his
father and tobk Dan in his arms, and said
Please ’ccuse Lan, papa. I went to sleep,
and he runneci away;”
Then he walked out with Dan looking back
on the smiling congregation. The preacher
ended the sermon on Daniel as best he could,
but he ma lea resolve if he ever preached
again oa the Prophet Daniel he would tie
up thai dog.
Didn’t Know He Was an Epicure.
Here is a huge, new. rich joke on Col.
Ochiltree. The colonel is nothing if not an
epicure, but business called him down to wn
during a few consecutive days last week, and
he lunched at a restaurant where the men he
wanted to meet were of far more importance
to him than the table d’hote luncheon which
was served. One evening it happened the
colonel was detained down town longer than
usual and went to the same restaurant for
dinner. .Sever did he look more gorgeous,
more imposing, more roseate. He said to the
waiter with his own Inimitable wave of the
hand:
•i only want a couple of dishes, garcon.
What have you on the le menu.- '
■ Cream of celery soup, broiled bass, beef a
la mode, roast mutton, lettuce and tomato
salad, a huckleberry ,tart, ice cream, cheese,
coflee and red and white wine, ’responded
the waiter glibly.
••What’” roared the colonel Indignantly,
■‘beef and mutton as the entresand the roast!
Give me ihe bill ala carte; I will order 3
single dish:"
• Parcon, sir." said the waiter, bowing. "As
a matter of fact 1 can give you sweet uieads
wi h green peas for tne entree and the roast
capon, but 1 did not suppose you knew."
This was too much, rhe colonel rose, put
on his hat. took up Ins cane, deliberatelv
upsethis chair, and hissing into the face of
the waiter lam Col. Ochiltree, you infernal
scoundrel!" marched ponderously out of the
cafe. But lam afraid he will never get over
the Insult.
That Wonderful Baby.
From the Chicago Record.
Each land has its wonderful babies
That ever the sun shines upon.
From Greenland s cold, glittering ice-fields
To winterless, fragrant Ceylon.
Wherever their dewy eyes open,
No matter what color thev be,
They're wonderful, wonderiul babies—
In that ull good judges agree.
The almond eyed darling of China,
The chubby, low-orowed Eskimo,
The. ilaxen haired little Norwegian.
The swarthy papoose df the Crow,
1 care not wnatevor you name them,
1 care not for nation or creed,
They re wonderful, wonderful cables—
Yes, wonderful babies, indeed:
And yet the most wonderful baby
That ever came down from ihe sky
Is one that to sleep 1 am rocking
And singing a sweet lullaby;
No other was ever like this one,
No other is half so divine.
No other so wonderful, wonderful.
As this precious baby of mine.
Not Hopeless Ignorance.
"Some girls are too cute for anything.'• re
marked a Boston drummer, with his left arm
of! at the elbow, says the St. Joseph Herald.
"As to howiuquired the hotel clerk, who
was a connoisseur.
In various ways," continued tho drummer,
"hut in one particular way which recently be
came a part ot my experience
•It happened out in Missouri,” said the
drummer, "1 stopped over Sunday in a little
town where one of my customers had a rattier
pretty daughter, and to while away the lime
1 asked her to go buggy ridtng with me. w hich
she consented to do very readily. As we
wore a 1 out to get In sbo hesitated a moment.
' " What Is itl uekod.
' "1 li sit on the right sldo of the buggy,'
she said, jumping 111.
• What s that tor'-' I asked rather quickly,
feeling that she thought 1 could not drive
with this one hand of mine.
Well, if you don t know what for.' the
twitered. maybe you are not too stupid to
learu, Get tn here and move on.' ”
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
A Lexington. Ky ~ woman has ordered a
?7SO monument fora deceased $5 poodle be
cause her heartless husband ref used to weep
over his departed rival.
An Atchison judge has recently adjudged p
cabinet organ a nuisance unless someone in
the family learns to play it. One hour’s
practice a day with a competent instructor is
permitted.
G reat success has been attained in Belgium
with the ammonia process for sinking shafts
through quicksand. The principle is that of
freezing the quicksand bv an nmmon a
freezer similar to that used in making arti
ficial ice.
The number of millionaires in England is
not so great as one might believe. According
to the report of the income tax officials there
are in England seventv-one persons with an
anneal income of riVI.COO. over 1.100 draw
Soe.OtW annually, and only atout 10,000 have
an income of 110,001.
Seaweed has not even in our wildest mo
ments ever been dreamt of as an instrument
of electoral corruption, says the New York
Tribune. Yet the Tokio newspapers just to
hand contain an account of the trial of a
member of the Japanese parliament who
was accused of bribery by corrupting his con
stituents with presents of edible seaweed.
The drum major of a band in Lockport, N.
Y., a day or two ago, while leading'an excur
sion party through the main street to the de
pot, was sen to be keeping time to fast
music by chewing gum. Someone called out
"Gum Major, and the joke arrived at the de
pot before the procession. That particu
lar drum major has a name that will stick to
him.
A Boston woman who is up in science ex
plains how mind can triumph over matter.
"There is toiled cabbage.” she says. “I feel
that 1 must conquer boiled cabbage. I had
always had a belief that it disagreed with me.
So to-day I just talked to it on my ptate, told
it spirit is all powerful, and that it was noth
ing but an appearance of green leaves 'i ben
I ate It witnout fear and it did not hurt me ”
"I conquered sweet potatoes in much the
same w ay,” said her neighbor, "only I did hot
talk to them I merely held them in the
thought of utter nothingness, and ate them
fearlessly."
The first American cent was "struck off"
and put in circulation just 101 years ago. in
1793. Previous to that date several "pattern
pieces" had been made, but they were exper
iments only and were never put in circula
tion. Ihe so-called "Washington cents.”
which existed previous to me date above
given were r.ot issued by the government,
and were, therefore, only medals The cent
of 1793 was very similar to the large copper
cents of later days, with the exception that
the face of "Liberty" was turned to the right,
and the legend "One Cent” was inclosed in a
chain of thirteen links.
One of Uncle Sam's most faithful servants,
in Maine, hut one that draws no salary, lives
at the Portland Head lighthouse, says the
Lewiston Journal. This is a large gray par
rot, brought from Africa some time ago and
presented to the keeper of the light. The
bird soon noticed that when the fog began to
blow in from the ocean sometody would cry
out. "Fog coming in; blow the horn!’’ One
day the fog suddenly began to come in thick,
and no one noticed it. as they were all busy.
Poll noticed this and croaked out. Fog com
ing in; blow the horn!" and now, whenever
fog is perceptible, Poll never fails to give
warning.
The manufacture of artificial granite is now
carried on at a California establishment by
what is asserted to be a simple and effective
method, and with satisfactory results. It con
sists in first tamping a layer of the body form
ing material in a mould, one inner vertical
wall of which is formed by a vertically mov
able slide, after this the process is continued
by removing the sitae and tamping a layer of
the facing material in the space made by the
lower end of the slide’ then replacing the lat
ter with its lower end resting on the tamped
facing layer—tamping now the second body
forming layer, and again removing the slide
and tamping the second 'a ing layer. The
formation of the body and facing material is
continued in this manner by successive steps
until the face block of the desired thickness
is an accomplished fact. In this way there is
produced a material of cheap substances, and
a facing of better quality, showing any kind
of finish desired, the two being united while
in a plastic condition into a homogeneous
block.
The strongest wood which grows within the
limits of the United States is that known as
"nutmeg" hickory, which flourishes on the
Lower Arkansas river. The most elastic is
tamarack, the black, or shell'cark, standing
not far below. The wood with the least elas
ticity and lowest specific gravity is the Fiscus
aurea. The wood of the highest specific grav
ity is the blue wood of Texas and Mexico. The
heaviest of the foreign woods are the pome
granate and the lignum vitae: the lightest,
cork. The tensile strength of the best-known
woods is set forth in the following, the words
"tensile strength" meaning the weight of
power required to tear asunder one square
inch of each; Ash, 14,000 pounds, beech, 11 -
500 poinds; cedar. 11,4 0: chestnut, 10.500; cy
press. 0,000; elm, 13,400; tir, 13.000; lance, 23,-
000; lignum vitae, 11.80 J; locust, 20.500; ma
hogany, 21.000: maple, lu.500; American
white oak. 11,500; pear. 9,800; pitch pine.
12,000. larch. 9,500; poplar. 7.000; spruce. 10 -
290: teak. 14.000; walnut, 7,800:1 willow, 13,000
The weight in pounds per square foot (with
out f. actions) of the well-known woods (dry)
is as follows: Butternut. 25; cedar. 3ft; cherry,
44: chestuut. 38; cork, 15; dogwood, 47; ebony
83: box elder, 43; elm. 41: blue gum, 52: water
gum, 62; white hickory, 49; shellbark hickory,
43; holly 47; juniper, 35; lancewood. 45: larch.
34: basswood or linn, 37; mahogany. 66; hard
maple, 40; white maple, 34: mulbery.3s: white
oak, 53; persithmr n 14: pear. 11; pitch pine.
41; red pine. 36: wmte pine. 34; yellow pine.
33; plum. 49; poplar 33: quince, 44: rosewood,
45; sassafras. 3U; spruce, 31; sveamore, 3s;
tamarack, 5 23; black walnut, 41: w hite wad
nut. 32; the willows, from 30 to 26. and the
yew 49. Four hundred and thirteen different
species of trees grow in ihe various states
jind territories.' and of this number. 16, when
perfectly seasoned, will sink in water.
These woods of high specific gravity grow
mostly in the arid regions of New Mexico,
Arizona and Nevada.
After many unsuccessful efforts to worm
tho secret of the manufacture of India ink
out of the Chinese, science is finally to have
the last say upon this product of ihe Celestial
empire. Gunpowder, porcelain, crackle
china, green indigo, and, in fact, all ihe very
ancient Chinese products have oeen unveiled
to 11s by science only: and it is science again
that is to teach us how the Chinese manu
facture their celebrated ink. The following
i3 a brief resume of the interesting re
searches. crowned with success that Mr.
Dragon has made upon this subject, says the
Scientific American. Jt has always been
thought up to the present that the Chiuese
manufacture their ink by grinding a special
lampback. unknown to Europeans, with a
suitable mucilage discovered by them, and
that the paste obtained is allowed to drv
slowly, like their porcelain. The light that
has just been thrown upon this subject is due
to the pregress that has been made
in micrographic studies in recent years.
In fact. upon submitting a very
dilute solution of the most cele
brated India Ink to an examination by
a very powerful microscope, it has been dis
covered that the particles of corhon forming
the basis of the Ink are of a uniform diame
ter. Upon repeating such examination with
inferior or counterfeit India Inks, it is ob
served that the particles of carbon aieof very
variable and sometimes even disproportion
ate diameters. Upon sut muting to such con
trol all the numerous varieties of lampblacks,
it is lound that none possesses this regularity
of tne atoms. Th 1 blacks that most closely
apDroaih It are those that have been com
minuted during the manufacture and the
lightest portions selected Nevertheless the
diameters of these are still more irregular
thun in India ink. The flrst point estab
lished. a second remained to be fixed. Is the
mucilage employed by the Chinese simple or
compound: flhanksto the principle estab
lished by Mr. C. Koecklln, and mentioned bv
Mr. Schutze-mberger. in his Traito des
Matieres Colorantes, we know that two
mucilages of opposite nature reciprocally
thin one another upon being mixed, and
in proceeding by elimination, after analysis,
we find that the compound musctlagcem
ployed by the Chinese unites in itself about
the extremest thinness of the Koecklin prin
ciple. An India ink having been prepared ac
cording to these data, in a state of solution
and left at rest for one or more months and
then decanted. It was observed that the par
ticles of carbon more ami more closely re
sembled those of the genuine India Ink. Upon
ufterward ullowlng this liquid Ink tn concern
tratc and evaporate In u vacuum, there Is fin
ally obtained a plastic substance, which,
when dried, has all the characters of the best
India ink. It watt of iutere.st, from a iheorrt
leal Standpoint, to uaeertam this latter fact
but In ordinary practice it seems to ho much
simpler and more rational to have the Ink in
a liquid state than to form It into a stick,
that it would be necessary later on to redls
so.ve with some trouble. T his liquid Ink has
the same properties as the best quality of
India Ink in sticks, and serves for the pur
poes, such as making drawings and washes.
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