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FRIDAY, AUGUST 3, 1894.
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The Wine and Spirit Gazette declares
that two-thirds of the retail liquor deal
ers of the country are Catholics, and that
if Mgr. Satolli’s anti-liquor decree should
be enforced ‘ it would be a severer blow to
the liquor trade than anything the pro
bibition cranks and cold water fanatics
have accomplished within the last forty
years.”
A great many of the populist candi
dates in this state must be running for
office just for the fun of the thing. The
pppuliat who has got up in the Eleventh
district to run for congress against Mr.
Turner furnishes an illustration in point.
A battle between a bull and a billy goat
would be no more one-sided than will the
contest in the Eleventh.
The strikers at Pullman, 111., continue
to live in the Pullman company’s houses
without paying rent, at the same timo
bending every effort they can to cripple
the company's business. There have been
frequent rumors of wholesale ejections,
but nothing of the kind has occurred
yet. The company seems, in this matter,
to be acting witn commendable modera
tion.
The great bear is getting ready to put
his paw upon Corea and take his choice
of the pickings. Russia will act with
England to bring about a settlement of
the difficulty between China and Japan,
but failing in that Russia will not permit
any foreign power to take even partial
possession of Corea. That means the
crar will take possession of Corea him
self.
The infamous charges made by Ida
Wells, the colored woman who is at pres
ent in the north repeating the slanders
upon southern women that she poured
into Eng lish ears, are too vile and vicious
to be accepted by even the south-hating
republican newspapers. The New York
Press, which is always ready to accept
any evil statement concerning the south
ern people if it is based on even the most
shadowy probability, has been moved to
protest against the woman's calumnies.
China is the only country in the world
that has no national debt. The treasury
is very rich, and the resources of the gov
ernment for raising money are almost
limitless It may be said, therefore, that
China can command all the motley she
wants—a most important matter when a
country goes to war. Another interest
ing peculiarity about China is tho fact
that it is the only country in the world
in which every sane man can read and
write. Education, at least to a certain
extent, is compulsory, and has been so
for hundreds of years.
The intelligent people who mingled
with the mobs in Chicago during the re
oent disturbance, probably shuddered
when they read the general orders to the
troops, just made public, to think how
narrowly great bloodshed was escaped.
The troops were cautioned against firing
into a crowd containing mere curiosity
seekers, who were taking no part in tho
riot, until a fair warning had been given;
but at the same time they were told that
the mobs forcibly resisting authority
were public enemies, and must be put
down. And that meant shooting.
The people of several of the Georgia
counties are not waiting for a constitu
tional amendment before having some
thing to say on the question of the selec
tion of United States senators. In Monroe
and Putnam counties to-morrow, primary
elections will be held in which the candi
dates for senator will be voted for. The
result of the primary will not necessarily
decide how the representatives in the
legislature of Monroe and Putcam shall
vote, but it is perfectly safe to assume that
tho representatives will not go against
the will of the majority as expressed in
the primaries. And when one comes to
look at it, it seems that this voting for
the senators at the county primaries is a
cheap and easy way of settling the whole
question of thivdircct election of senators,
without touching the constitution or
waiting for any long process of legisla
tion.
The Ticket and Platform.
The ticket nominated by the democratic
conventional Atlanta yesterday is one
that ought to, and trill, call out a full
democratic vote, and the resolutions are
: all that any true democrat could desire.
1 The President is heartily commended for
his courage, wisdom, honesty and patriot
; ism, and his position on the financial
j question is indorsed.
The great fight in the committee on
i resolutions was over the silver issue.
The conclusion that was flnaliy reached,
however, was in favor of honest
money, and this conclusion was heartily
approved by the convention.
There Is no objection by anybody to the
free and unlimited coinage of silver upon
such conditions as will insure the parity
of gold and silver currency and "give
every dollar in circulation, whether coin
or paper, the same debt-paying and
purchasing power.” This is in effect
the declaration of the financial plank of
the national democratic platform, and it
is what the Morning News and other
papers that want sound money favor.
The people of Georgia are on the side of
sound money. The declaration of the
democracy of the state leaves no room
for doubt on that point.
Other resolutions, particularly those
promising liberal support to the public
schools and condemning lynch law. are
admirable, and will help to give the
ticket a majority equal to that of two
years ago.
A Case for Investigation.
Mr. S K. Lewin, who was arrested and
carried to the barracks- in the police
wagon at the request of City De
tective Levy, and who made a com
plaint of the matter to the city
council at it3 meeting Wednesday
night, feels that he was the victim of an
outrage, and it looks as if he was. He
has taken steps to have an investigation,
and very properly so. The investigation
should be a thorough one", and if it ap
pears that he is the victim of the
malice of the detective, he should
have all the redress that it is
possible to give him. As far
as the public now knows there was no oc
casion for subjecting him to the indig
nity of being taken to the barracks in the
police wagon.
Every citizen is interested in tins case
for the reason that if an officer of the
city is permitted to use his power to
vent his spite upon one citizen he
may use it improperly when he has a spite
against other citizens. The outcome of
the investigation which Mr. Lewin has
inaugurated will be watched with a good
deal of interest. If it is shown that he is
the victim of an outrage, the city should
dispense with the services of Detective
Levy very promptly.
The Skidaway Bridge.
The facts laid before the county com
missioners by Commissioner Charlton
Wednesday in connection with the pro
posed Skidaway bridge should be given
very careful consideration by the com
missioners before authorizing the building
of the bridge. From an investigation
made by him it appears that the county
derives only *50.40 a year in taxes from
Skidaway Island, and the services of a
man to attend the bridge would cost a
great deal more than that. It is proposed
that the county shall build a bridge that
will cost pretty nearly as much
as the taxable value of the prop
erty on the island. It is true,
probably, that the bridge would increase
to some extent the value of the land, but
would it not be a long time before the
taxes the island would yield would be
sufficient to pay for bridge attendance
and repairs, and the interest on the
money the bridge would cost?
Naturally those who own land on the
island, and those who live there, want a
bridge. The question, however, is
whether the money the bridge would cost
could not be used to better advantage in
improving the drainage and roads in the
vicinity of the city. The city property
holders pay nearly all the taxes of the
county, and it hardly seems right
to apply so large a sum for an
improvement in a part of the county in
which Uiey have scarcely any interest.
If the county’ treasury were overflowing
the situation would be different. Asa
matter of fact, however, the demand on
the treasury’ for drainage and road im
provements and school houses is greater
than the commissioners can meet. Com
missioner Charlton’s position appears to
be the right one.
The wonders of the modern means of
communicating information were forcibly
illustrated in the Morntxg News tele
graphic columns yesterday and the day
before. The news of the sinking of the
Chinese battleship Chen Yuen by the
Japanese navy on Monday, was received
in Shanghai on Tuesday morning. On
the next morning the people of Savannah,
nearly 8,000 miles away, read the account
of the fight as they sipped their coffee at
breakfast. On Wednesday Japan de
clared war; on Thursday’ at breakfast
timo the news, in concise form, had been
placed in every regular newspaper
reader’s hauds, That is modern Journal
ism. Similar instances of the efficiency
of the newspaper system of collecting and
disseminating news from all quarters of
thg world occur so frequently now-a-days
that people have come to look upon tho
achievements as matters of course. And.
really, they arc, under tho demands of
the day. Nevertheless the performances
are but little snort of miraculous. Time
and space are no longer considered, ex
cept in so far as it takes time for a corre
spondent to write a dispatch and for tele
graph operators to transmit it.
Poor Richard's maxim, ‘‘Experience
keeps a dear school, but fools will learn
in seems to fit Mr. Debs’ case
to a nicety. He now announces that he
is done with strikes; that he realizes the
sentiment of the people is against them,
and that henceforth he will advise his
followers to seek redress through tho
ballot. It cost Mr. Del s' followers- not
Mr. Debs himself, his salary is going on
—a great deal for Mr. Debs to learn these
things. Ho wagered tho wages of the
workingmen that he was right about the
strikes, and lost. How can the working
men have confidence in his opinion in the
future' He is now telling them that tho
populist party is the one for them to vote
with. But in view of his recent bad
Judgment, the workingmen would be
wise to do a little thinking on that mat
ter for themselves, and not leave it ail to
Mr. Debs. llis thinking apparatus is
evidently oue of the kind that runs back
ward.
THE MORNING NEWS: FRIDAY, AUGUST 3, 1894.
One Beason for Lynching*.
One of the interesting reports made to
the Georgia bar association, which has
been in session this week at Atlanta, was
that of the committee on Jurisprudence
and law reform, of which Judge Hillyer
was chairman. Among the subjects dealt
with in the report, was that of lynching.
Among other things the committee said:
“The startling statement has been made
rn the public press, and nowhere denied,
that in many groups of say a score of
counties in the United States there are
more homicides than in all of Scotland,
or in all of England, or even all of
Prussia. Throughout the United States
we have these fancy notions by which,
when a criminal is on trial, the Judge
is a cipher and the jury is left in the
dark, whilst the criminal is the only
man in the court house who has any rights
that are sacred. Our civilization has
gone too far and has overdone itself in
these matters. We deplore the lynchings
that occur so frequently, and are growing
more and more frequent throughout the
land. The reason, or at least one great
reason, why lynchings occur is because
there is a distrust, and constantly grow
ing distrust, in the promptness and effi
ciency of the law. Justice is one of the
innate principles of the human heart, and
public justice will assert itself. Voumay
fill your newspapers with proclamations
and crowd your thoroughfares with the
sheriff's officers and militia, but you will
never stop lynchings until the public is
given to understand that the judge and
jury have got power to execute sure
and immediate justice. In a thousand
ways the evils here mentioned are very
great, the remedy' for them requires cour
age. as well as prudence, moderation and
wisdom, but, like the evil, the remedy
should be radical and complete.”
There is a great deal of truth in the
foregoing extract. It will not, and can
not, be denied that criminals escape pun
ishment through thejlaw's delay. Itis of
frequent occurrence that criminal cases
that should be tried promptly are put off
from one term of court to another until
the witnesses for the state are dead or
out of the jurisdiction of the court.
When it is practically impossible for the
accused persons 9o be convicted, however
guilty they may'be, the cases are tried
and the defendants acquitted.
It is expected, of course, that the attor
neys for accused persons will use every
legitimate means to secure the acquittal
of their clieuts. Tjjey are not to blame
for seeking continuances on one pretext
and another. The blame rests upon the
easy going judges, who arp anxious to ac
commodate members of the bar whose in
fluence they may desire to secure reap
pointment, or who are ever ready to
shirk work by putting off cases on very
slight pretexts. This criticism is not, of
course, true as to all judges, but it is as to
many of them.
The people see that justice is delayed,
and finally defeated, and hence they cease
to trust the courts. They prefer to meet
out justice themselves so as to be sure
that criminals will not escape punish
ment.
There is no doubt that the courts are,
to a very great extent, responsible for
lynchings. They do not do their whole
duty.-
In all the states the law should be so
amended as to require the judges to
hold special terms of court for the trial of
offenders charged with those crimes for
which lynching is common. These
special terms might increase the burdens
ofotaxpayers for awhile, but the effect of
them would be to check crime, and
therefore the taxyayers would be
benefited eventually. There is nothing
that would do so much to check crime
and put an end to lynchings as the prompt
trial of those accused of criminal acts.
The poople would depend wholly upon
the courts for the punishment of crimi
nals if they had confidence that the crim
inals would be punished,!? Let the legis
latures of the southern states up
this matter and provide for the swift ad
ministration of justice, and then the peo
ple will have no occasion to defend them
selves against the charge that they en
courage mob law.
Money for the Nicaragua Canal.
The suggestion has been thrown out
that the purpose of the committee of the
directors of the Nicaragua Canal Com
pany that started for London a few days
ago was not to get capital with which to
build tho canal, as alleged, but to “bluff”
congress into passing the bill authorizing
the indorsement by the government of
the canal company’’s bonds. It is hinted
that if there were a syndicate of English
capitalists ready to furnish the necessary
money for the building of the canal, as
alleged, something would have been
heard of it long before this.
Admiral Ammen, in a letter to the Bal
timore Sun, discusses this suggestion at
considerable length. He says there is
no truth in the suggestion, and that the
committee of the canal company has
gone to London on a perfectly legitimate
errand. He announces that the
company has received overtures from a
syndicate of English capitalists to furnish
all the money needed for building the
canal, and that the chances are
that the committee- and the syn
dicate will reach an agreement. The
company, he says, is tired of waiting for
congress toad upon the Nicaragua canal
bill, and, besides, it js not at all pleased
with the exacting demands of congress.
In his opinion the canal will pay big divi
dends upon the money inveted in it, and
this government, if it should indorse the
canal bonds, would not lose a cent and
would, besides, have virtual control of
the canal.
The Englismen. Admiral Ammen says,
who have agreed to provide the money
for the construction of the canal, are
financially able to carry out any contract
they may make. Their desire is not to
control the canal in the interest of Eng
land, but to make money out of the invest
ment. .
It is fair to presume that Admiral
Ammen is entirely sincere in what
he says. If the money for
the construction of the canal
can be obtained in England it will not be
long before the fact is known. It is pos
sible, of course, that there are men in
England who have so much faith in the
I proposed canal and its earning capacity
that they are willing to put their money
into it as an investment, but in view of
the disastrous outcome of the effort to
construct the Panama canal it is ques
tionable whether sufficient money can be
obtained iu England or elsewhere in
Europe to carry into effect the Nicaragua
project.
PERSONAL.
An old Illiterate mn who ran quote scrip
ture by the hour is creating • sensation in
Lewis County, Ky., by claiming to be St. John
the Baptist.
Charles Mr I lvalue an American expert on
fungi, claims to have eaten full meals of over
400 species of toadstools without ever having
been poisoned.
As he grows older the Emperor of Germany
shows signs of coming down from his high
horse and living less in the ciouds. He is now
studying geology.
A Merrill of Dorchester. Mass Is ex
perimentlng on flying machines ala Liluen
thal taking his cue from the size and shape
of the hawk s wing
Mr. and Mrs. A P Duncsn of Beaver Is
land Township, N. C.. hav been married but
two years, and during that time have been
blessed with twosets of twins
The Princess of Wales has sent a birthday
gift in the form of a shilling for every past
birthday to Mrs. Sarah Thomas, aged 106
years, the oldest lady in Wales.
Novel-writing continues very profitable so
far as Miss Braddon is con -erned. She has
just purchased a picturesque country seat in
the heart of the New Forest England I.
Civilization must have fallen very low at
Ecclefechan. the blrthplu eof Thomas Car
lyle. A Presbyterian minister there, upon
being asked recently by his superiors why he
did not send in his usual report on the moral
and religious condition of the place, re
sponded that there was neither morality nor
religion in the district
Mrs Matilda Lange has filed a bill for di
vorce in the Chicago circuit court against her
husband. Robert George Lange. The com
plainant Is a dry goods saleswoman, she sais
she married the defendant because he had
adopted the prefix' Baron After the mar
riage. she says, she discovered the title did
aot : eneflt her any. as it was fictitious, and
she was oi liged to earn a living for two in
stead of one. as she did previously to her mar
riage. . '
Sarah Grand's home Is in Kensington, the
London suburb, where she occupies a small
flat on the seventh floor ot a house that has
no e.evator. Both her pen name and her
name by marriage (Mrs c R McFali. are
displayed on the door, she received 4481 for
ihe Heavenly Twins, and tsoomore to meet
the hlii of the country printer who was about
to publish the book at Jlme. Gr ind s expense,
she having despaired of selling the manu
script, which five publishers had ref used.
A. M. de Renngartenjof St Petersburg has
started out on a long w alk. He proposes to
tramp from Riga to the Caucasus, whence he
will stroll on to Persia, aqd so. skirting the
Aral sea. re enter 'the ( tar's dominions and
cross Siberia to the Chinese frontlet. How
much of the celestial empire he hopes to
traverse op foot is not known, but, alter sus
pending his pedal work long enough to cross
the Pacific to this country, his route will take
him through the United States. Mexico and
Central America to Brazil and Argentina,
After this a promenade through Africa to
Algiers, and a jaunt across !• ranco and Ger
many will bring him lack to his starting
point.
BRIGHT BITS.
Maid- How was the new play?
Mistress—Very sad. M:c persons die in It.
Maid—l thought so. when I saw them car
rying In so many flowers.—Kliegende Blatter.
A Delicate Hint.—Miss Casey—l always pay
as 1 go.
Gertrude (who Is tlreib-Do you see any
thing in this room you would like to t>uy “
Vogue.
He (after an embarrassit g pause!—Funny,
isn't U—to morrow to-day will be yesterday?
She—Yes, but not so funny as the fact that,
yesterday to day was to morrow.—Chicago
Record.
Bradford—Higbee makes money go as far
as any man I know.
Robbins— How does he do lt !
Bradford-Gives It to foreign missions.
—Harlem Life.
Between Girl Friends -Pricilla—Don’t you
envy my luck? Isn't .Jack Murray a splendid
fellow to have for a fiance?
Prunella—Oh. yes; i snow that from expe
rience.—Truth.
First Mosquito—lVhat's the matter, insect'-
How did you come to hurt your bill so
Second Mosquito My own fault. 1 tried to
bite that Boston girl over there on the check.
—Chicago News.
Parker—Do you know, there is one feature
in which Shakespeuie s Romeo and Juliet ’
is uutrue to nature'? Barker—What is it?
Parker—He introduces a nurse, but no police
man—Harlem Life.
Jimmie—Papa w hy is this called a fountain
pen?
Papa —Probably because it produces a won
derful flow of language whenever it is use!.—
Chicago Inter Ocean.
Charlie—Wha*. would you do if the world
came to an end?
Tommie G years old)—l'd get my brother's
safety and put a life preserver around me.—
Harper.s Young People.
Grigsby—Why does everybody cry at wed
dings?
Bang son—Well. I Imagine the people who
have been married themselves start it and
the others join In.—Truth.
Cawker—That was an appropriate reply
Wineblddle made when the doctor told him
he was tho father of twins.
Bunting—Whut did he shy ?
Cawker—The deuce.—Puck.
"Funny fashion Jinlcler has of carrying his
watch in his hip pocket What's his idea I
wonder?”
"He's probably heard somebody sav it was
better to always he ahead of time than he
hind it."—Buffalo Courier.
CURRENT COMMENT.
It’s There Alraady. ,
From the Chicago Record (Ind.t.
The reports that President Cleveland is try
ing to shift the burden of blame ofor the
tariff delay to the shoulders of the Senate
seem somewhat paradoxical. There was no
shifting to be done.
The Negro and the Navy.
From the News and Courier (Dem.).
"The cry now." says the Florida Times-
Union. "Is that while our navy is a splendid
one there are not enough men to man it. Give
the negro a chance. He makes a good sailor."
It is an excellent suggestion. There would
be no difficulty in manning every ship if in
telligent colored men were allowed to enlist
as sailors and marines. Are they? And if
not, why not?
Run By the Lawyers
From the Marietta (Ga.) Journal (Dem.).
The farmers alliance wouldn't allow law
yers membership in that organization. They
wandered off into politics, and now the third
party is run by lawyers. Tom Watson, the
head and chief, is a lawyer; Judge Hines, a
new convert for office, is a lawyer and a regu
lar attorney for corporations. Peek, who was
a farmer, was pushed aside for Hines, the
corporation lawyer The third party is vir
tually in the hands of lawyers and political
hacks and disappointed officeseekers. The
farmers are not ,n it.
Now, or When?
From tho Chicago Herald (Dem.)
This country Is going to rid Itself of the
corrupting system of legalized roobery
called protection some time. Will that time
come sooner if the House now accepts what
Gorman. Brice, Smith and the republicans
condescend to grant, or will it come sooner if
the House takes McKinleytsm now in prefer
ence to Gormanism- i hat Is a question for
democrats to consider with reference not
only lo their peisonal and parly Interests,
but with reference to the interest* of the
American people
A Bit of Tariff HUtory.
From Springfield (MM*. t Republican (Ind.l.
The famous Walker tariff of 1840. a genuine
tariff for revenue only, got through the Sen
ate by a remarkably close vote which fact is
especially interesting at Just this lime. The
bill was sent to its third reading, or engross
ment, only bv tho casting vote of Vice Presi
dent Dallas, and was finally passed by a vote
of 28 to 27. One whig senator from North
Catollna who had been instructed by his
state legislature to vote for the bill, resigned
rather than do so, but another whig From
Tennessee obeyed Instructions, and it was his
vote that enabled the bill to pass wit trout the
casting vote of the Vice President, who. It Is
interesting to remember, was from Pennevl
vania and a protectionist at heart The dem
ocrats in those days had fully as small a
working majority in the beuaieas their suc
cessors of to-day. and they were able to put
their principles into low. Happily, there was
more honor in public life and secret conspire
tors against party pledges wore not yet In the
•eats of senators.
Chips That Pass in a Night.
An unpublished chapter from ‘Chips That
Pas* in the Night." by the Boston Budget:
The Disagreeable Mar. was a mere shadow,
yet he easily filled two seats in the electric
car. His paper, which he bad read continu
ally occupied the space of another seat
No one spoke to bun; but he didn t give a
bank.or a cuss, or a continental darn whether
thov did or not He was waiting.'
The tell sounded two weary strokes. Ber
nardine entered the car. with a pre-occupied
air: It was all she had for she was poor Her
clothes were dustv and she was hot So was
the day.
She reached the front of the car and dropped
into a seat It was the Disagreea. le Mans
paper seat He i>arti&l]y looked up in com
plete surprise. No one bad ever done that
before.
Room for one more on the left , please,”
called the knight of the fare
The Disagieeahle Man did not move.
"Did you hear what ho said, she went on.
' 1 hear what you say, ' replied tho Dlsa
greeable Man
I say what he said.” she went on
The Disagreeable Mar. was lost in thought
He was thinking of her Does she mean
me he asked himself She was the only
girl who had ever made him think
In fact, he thought twice His second of
fensewas: If it were not for the promise
to my mother not to stay out after dark while
she is alive i would see this girl home.” And
still he waited.
1 he conductor came to collect the fares.
The Disagreeable Man paid for both.
"Hadn't you better let zpe cash up now'-"
asked Bernadine, making a bluff to find her
pokcet.
Yes.' he answered Five cents, please "
I'ernadine was surprise!; but she was
game That was one on Bernadine
They rode fora long time in silence. At
last a Polish JewUh widow entered the
car. Bernardine moved along to give her a
seat.
<Vby did you do that'” asked the Disa
greeable Man in a huff. When you have a
thing in this world you want to freeze to it
for yourself. "
You don't understand." was the calm re
ply I have a philosophy of life. "
' You re the next thing to a Tool.' he said.
Bernardine was beginning to thaw He was
not like other men Bis noble frankness
pleased her. But she could not resist the
temptation
Don t call yourself hard names.” she
said.
That was one on the Disagreeable Man, but
he smiled that 4x6 sunburst smile of his and
lapsed into silence.
Yes he would see her home. He was sure
his mother could not have lived through the
hot day that was now drawing to a close. So
it was right.
He helped her from the car.
"stop squeezing my hand”’ she said
That settled it He was sure he loved her
now.
But he was politic. “Don't flatter your
self.' he said ialk about hands: I held
four queens last night."
That was one too much for Bernardine.
She knew he was her Jack—tho Jack of her
heart.
Just then they stopped near a lamppost.
The Disagreeable Man noticed for the first
time that her eyebrows were black and her
hair of a delicate hempen gold.
Then he realized the truth It was as If a
herdic had struck him.
And so Bernardine dyed'
I e pulled himself together, turned silently
from her an 1 started home to his mother. He
would seek some hell on earth. He would go
to Chicago, where he would join the American
Bailway Union and get a iob burning bridges.
One Wise and One Foolish Serpent.
The drummer had just finished a rather re
markable snake story as he satin the country
store after he had sold a bill cf goods, and a
countryman, with some young pull its to sell,
had been listening, says the Detroit Free
Press. The drummer s story was about a
snake of his acquaintance which had a habit
of stealing eggs. He would go outtnd load
up on them, swallowing them whole, aud then
climb a tree, fail off and break the shells and
h s degestion would do the rest. The coun
tryman looked at thedrummer with some de
gree of doubt when the story was finished,
but he never questioned its veraciousness.
"Some snakes is different to that, mister,"
he said very earnestly. "One on ray place
was He was a snake like the one you spoke of
only he didn t have halt the sense, .-nukes Is
a good deal like men in that way. Well, this
feller hadn't the habit uv stealm' aigs. bot he
run acrost an- st one day. and without askin’
any questions he ups and swallers six whole
aigs That filled him up purty nice and snug,
and he went tack to his den under the bain
without ever once thinking about breakin’
the shells like your snake done. That’s
where your'n had the bulge on him. Well,
he couldn t digest them aigs to save his life,
aud they siaid right with him. Snakes can
go a long time without eaun'. and anout three
weeks after this snake I’m telitn' about had
swallered them aigs I happened to keteh him
layin’ out in the sun by the barn, and the fust
thing he knoutd 1 had cut him in two with a
hoe about six inches from the shoulder
blades.
"I slung the head part into the hogpen and
picked up the tai! end to do the same way
with it, when, dod rot my buttons, if half a
dozen jlst hatched chickens didn t come
turn; lin' out Well, it skeert me at fust, but
1 braced up in a minute, and knowin' some
thin' about snakes. 1 made up my mind that
them chickens was the result of undigested
aigs, and dog my cats, mister, ef it wasn't so,
cause mother told me about missln’ them six
aigs. Them s the very puliets out thar in the
coop now, and ef you don't believe me. you
kin come out and look at ’em yourself.”
"I 11 give you the price of your pullets if
you'll swear to that story before a notary
public," said the drummer, and went out be
fore giving the man a chance to earn the
money.
The Pitiless Drouth.
From the Indianapolis Journal.
On a fiery wind from the torrid south,
Ovpr the prairie rode the Drouth:
And the clouds, like sheep when a wolf comes
nigh.
All panic-stricken fled the sky.
F.ach day the sua hurled his fierce darts
down.
Blighted fields grew yellow, grew brown.
While stifling Nature appealed in vain—
Laughed the Lrough at her prayer for rain.
Panting and furious cattle rushed
Whither a fountain coot had gushed.
And. w lid eyed, bellowed in mid despair
To find no trace of water was there.
The sparrow deserted her dying brood
And, songless, sped to the distant wood;
Only the rattlesnake ba.-ked in the sun,
Reveling in fire like the Evil One.
■When the day declined, e’en the moonbeams
white
Glowed hot. with a shimmering, sultry light,
And the pitiless stars the long night ihrough
Shed never a kindly tear of dew.
Oh. the ruthless Drouth, like a demon it
came—
A monster dragon with breath of Game,
Burning the sky lo an ashen grav.
Withering the life of (he prairie away.
And the storm that raged when the Drouth
was gone
Found little to wreak its veng -ance on—•
Found naught but a orown. barren plain
To mock with a useless flood of rain.
Flower and the Book Agent.
Most public men are pestered more or less
by book agents and other peripatetic venders,
who are sometimes, once they gain admit
tance to the presence of a public man. more
persistent with them than with ordinary in
dividuals. says the New York Press Politi
cians especially, are apt to dislike to
brusquely send an agent about his business
the agents know this, and some of them have
stored away In their memory collections of
stories of "Politicians'Ways With Agents. '
Here Is one told by an agent who visited Gov.
Flower a few weeks ago:
The old gentleman was very nice." said
the agent, but he didn t look at my book,
and he told mo I neeun t bother tg tell him
about it But I went through the whole riga
marole and then waited. The governor smiled
n kind of a broad grin and then said
1 want you to tell me. m,v friend, how
much commission you make on that book
which you want to sell me for f to?’
Forty per cent, said I. 'H; and I have
been counting on getting you for a sub
scriber.'
' That s all right,'says the governor, 'but
I dou i want the book, and 1 don't want to
beat you out of the M. either. You'veearned
it. Got change for a nve?
Aud he actually fished ass bill out of his
waistcoat pocket and I gave him II change.
1 don t suppose it Is quite (air for roe to tell
on the old gentleman If you are going to
print it. for it may put a good many onto
him so to speak: but the (lory Is straight
goods."
The new Lord Chief Justice Russell, who
has just taken his seat, makes a striking
figure on the bench Clad in * new white wig
and a bright gray gown, he is the personifica
tion of dignltv lie has takon w ith htiu to the
bench his famous snuff box.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Of the 5.000.C0) inhabitants of London more
than 1.000.000 have to live on less than js a
week for each family white more than lOJ.-
000 are in chronic poverty.
The Bank of France is guarded by soldiers,
who do sentry duty outside the bank, a watch
being likewise kept within its precincts. A
former practice of protecting this bank was
to get masons to wall up the doors of the
vaults in the cellar with hydraulic mortar so
soon as the money was deposited each day in
these receptacles. The water was then turned
on and kept running until the cellar was
flooded.
Hundreds of Afghans with numerous camels
have arrived at Cashmere from the Punjab
and i.'abul to buy and export grain and fruit
for sale in the Punjab. Fearing that this
dram would produce .scarcity in the country,
the maharajah has given orders to expel all
of them from the Cashmere and stop their
coming again with the exception of 400 men
and who are especially wanted by
C'apt. Yielding for the Gilgit transport.
Mayalipmam. India, has seven of the most
remarkable temples in the world, each of
these unique places of worship having teen
fashioned from solid granite bowlders. Some
idea of their size and the task of chiseling out
the interior rnay be gleaned from the fact that
the sma 1 -st of the seven is -’4 feet high. 17
teet long, and Id feet wide Travelers who
have carefully examined them areof the opin
ion that it took centuries o’work to carve
these graceful edifices from na lve rock
Fish-eaters will be interested to learn that
fishes are undergoing a constant process of
evolution. Prof. David Starr Jordan has dis
covered that the higher the rank of the fish
the fewer bones it possesses Deep sea
nsheshave more verteura? than fishes of
shallow waters, and the finny dwellers in salt
water have less than their cousins of the
fresh lakes and rivers. In almost every
group of non migratory marine fishes, the
number of bones glows smaller as we ap
proach the equator. A fish which has c 5 ver
tebrae in Philadelphia s latitude, would
boast 60 off St. Johns and only 28 off Pensa
cola. In view of this jrogr issive reliction
of vertebra?, the ichthyophagous epicure may
hope one day to enjoy his second course
without the trouble of picking the bones
Sleep as a prolonger of life is upheld by a
curious calculation which appeared in a re
cent medical work on the digestive organs
and faculties. The duration of human life
may be ascertained by the pulsations of the
body Say a man lives 70 years, his heart
beadng 60 to the minute: the pulsations in
that time foot up 2.'-'07,520.00C. If bv intem
perance or any other cause he raises pjlsa
tion to 75 a minute, the same number of pul
sations would be finished in 56 years, thereby
abbreviating his life by 14 years And as the
number of pulsations is less in a sleeping
than in a waking state, it stands to reason
that a long sleeper has a much better pros
pect of a long life than a person who is sat
isfied w ith short naps. Naooleon I, who slept
very little, did not attain old age. Gen. But
ler. who could sleep at will, rounded out a
good ripe sheaf of years
An inventor claims to have constructed a
machine which will accomplish not only the
work of an ordinary typewriter, but is
adapted for successful operation in the case
of bound looks of anv size as tbe device can
be readily clasped i p in a book ot anv breadth
or thickness, for tbe recording of deeds and
other instruments oi wriiing. says the Indian
apolis ce ititiel. In this mechanism there
are 74 characters, including all carried by
the usual machines, while ther ■ are but 27
keys to be operated, and in its movement it
strikes downward and trace.s over the page
of paper from left to rght. along a spacing
bar. the priming contrivance which moves
along tbe bar weighing only four and cne
half pounds, while the clasps and the entire
aparalus weigh only nine and three fourths
pounds. T here is also provided an ingenious
kind of lining arrangement—suitable fer ap
plication likewise to other typewriters-in
surlng perfect regulation of the distances te
tween lines until the machine is finally worn
out.
The navy has decided to purchase a semi
folding boat of German manufacture for use
on torpedo boats. It is a canvas affair, stif
fened wi.h c shions of rein;,e?r hair, which is
not easily rendered useless ny machine gun
fire. It has been a serious problem to secure
small boats for use on torpedo vessels, as it is
not possible to use the ordinary wooden o r
metal gigs on account of the difficulty of car
rying them about. Boats on davits, at in or
dinary service, w-ould le rendered worthless
in engagements, and as it is essential that
means be provided for the escape of the crew
in case of foundering, folding canvas boats
similar to those used by sportsmen, have been
used heretofore. The new German invention
apjiears to be peculiarly adapted to the ser
vice, and Great Britain has recently pur
chased forty of them, giving rise to an ex
ceedingly animated debate In pari ament,
when the government was compelled to si
lence the opposition bv confessing that no
device other than the reindeer hair cushions
met he requirements of the service. The
Lushing will be provided with the one now
ordered by this government.
It is noted ns a somewhat singular fact that
there are not more than two processes for
enamelling cast iron, notwithstanding the
amount of ingenious effo-t put forth in this
direction, says the New York Sun. One of
these is the hot process, in which the iron,
heated to a vivid red. is powdered with a fiux
powder, borosilfcaie of lead, distributed with
a sieve, then heated, and. when the flux fuses,
it is powdered afresh with glass more soluble,
forming the glaze ot the enamel, but this op
eration is attended with danger, and is not
adapted to large articles or for decoration.
The second process, which meets the objec
tions named, consists m dressing or coating
the article first with magnetic oxide, then
dipping it In borosilicates of lead, colored
by metallic oxides, to which is added a little
pipe clay, in order to give rather more body.
The article thus covered cold, by dipping or
with brushes, is put into the furnace—the
enamel adhering and vitrifying at the usual
furnace temperature used by enamellers: aud
by putting a coating of colored enamel with a
brush on a first coat simply plain, it is pos
sible to make any decorations desired, whb-h
may be burnt in at one operation for outdoor
vases, etc.
In this part of the country where wood t3
comparatively inexpensive says the St. Louis
Globe-Democrat, the railway companies do
not find it necessary to treat all
their cross-ties by some procsss
which win lengthen their period of service
ability, but out in the sjmi-arid and arid reg
ions. where cross ties are costly, the case is
different. Nearly 3 "iXl.iiOO cross ties in use
on the lines fof the Atchison, Union Tacit c
and Rock Island systems have been trout.ee,
at a cost of 17 cents to 20 cents each, by
a process whiih consis's in first injecting
chloride of zinc with glue iuto the timber,
and then forcing a solution of tannin into it.
The tannin fixes the chloride so tnat is is net
washed away by the rains or removed more
slowly by the standing water in damp locaii
ties Ihe distinguished past presideut of ihe
American Society of Civil Engineers. Oc'ave
Chanute. s ates that on the Atchison system
tie renewals have ueen largely reduced by
this treatment. In 1890 it abandon?d the pro
cess and injected chloride of zinc only, but in
18u:t the zinc-tannin treatment was resumed,
and is row operated. The Union Pacific
stopped operating its works in l?8?for finan
cial reasons, and they have not I.ecn opened
since then. On the Rock island lines practi
cally no ties treated by the process wore re
newed until (892. after six vears of service,
and at the commencement of the current year
over 9) per cent, were still in service.
At a distance of about three kilometers
from Santiago. Atatlan, in Guatemala, at the
the base of the Volcan do Agua, excavations
are carried on which seem to prove that a
sudden eruption covered up the habitations
of men in the neighborhood of the mountain.
The Union Ibero Americana. Madrid, de
scribes the finds in the now Pompeii as fol
lows Already there have been discovered
in different places, at a depth varying be
tween fifteen and twenty feet, a great quan
tity of domestic utensils such as ancient pot
tery and arms. The earthernware is chiseled
with care, and painted in brilliant colors.
There is also delicately made glassware.
Everything seems to lie well preserved, espe
dally the vats ana cocking utensils. The
finds next include hammers, swords, clubs
and daggers of flint, well sharpened and
carefully made. A great number of stone
iCols have also been discovered, nor is jew
elry wanting, especially pearls and tur
quoises. Some of the glass bears inscriptions
put on with very brilliant colors: they look.
In fact, as If they had only recently left the
hands ot the artist Among the statues is
o.ie of large proportion* It represents a re
dining figure and is chlselod out of black
rock apparently basalt The face and beard
of this statue are executed with such success
as to reveal a high state of culture in the
artist. The ngure is that of a soldier wear
ing a helmet not unlike those adorning the
heads of the Hnmar. praetors The wonder
is that all this has 1 e*n executed with stone
tools only, for, as yet, no trace of metal tc ols
has been discovered. The Indiana wbo n,ale
these articles belonged to the alone period
Measurements taken of some skeletons
prove this prehistoric race to have been
very tall, the average bight being seven feet, '
LEOPOLD ADLEK.
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Friday, per yard, 39c
Dress Goods Remnants—
Remnants and dress
lengths of double
width dress fabrics, a
great gathering of all
kinds, formerly sold
50c to sl, Friday, per
yard 19 to 39c.
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