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TU ESOAY. AUGUST 28, 1894.
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Special Notices— Peaches and Grapes,
Mutual Co-operative Association: Mocking
Bird Cages and Food, etc.. J Gardner;
Golden Apple Tohaeco; Dr. A B. Simmons
Has Returned to the City.
Auction Sale— Administrator s Sale, I.
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pany
A Neat School Bot—B. H. Levy & Bro.
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Change of Schedule—Central Railroad
of Georgia.
Cheap Column Advertisements—Help
Wanted: Employment Wanted; For Rent,
For Sale; Lost; Personal: Miscellaneous.
The Chinese are not richer than the
Japanese. There are a great many more
Chinese than Japanese, and the aggre
gated wealth of China is more than that
of Japan. But if a comparison of wealth
according to population could be made,
the probabilities are the Japanese would
be found the richer people. At any rate
they are far more ready to give money
for public purposes than the Chinese. Only
a few days ago the government of China
failed to effect a domestic loan of 1,000,-
000 taels ($150,000) for war purposes,
■while about the same time the Jauanese
nobles voluntarily raised a fund of SBO,-
000,000 and tendered it, without interest,
to their government.
A novel suit is pending in Pennsylvania
against the Grand Lodge of the Order of
Railway Conductors. Some time ago
during the strike on the Lehigh Valley
road the members of several subordinate
lodges were ordered out by the grand
lodge. The subordinate lodges obeyed
the order. The members of at least one
of the lodges lost their places and S2OO in
wages because of the grand lodge’s order.
The subordinate lodge is now suing the
grand lodge to recover the sums lost by
the members who struck. If the court
should hold that grand bodies are re
sponsible to members of subordinate bod
ies for losses sustained through the obe
dience of orders, “sympathetic” strikes
would probably become fewer. Such a
principle of law applied to Mr. Debs’ rail
way union would smash it forever.
If congress had done nothing else than
repeal the infamous federal election laws,
the people would have cause to be grate
ful to the Democratic party. For years
the democracy has fought the law that
made Davenport and his iniquities possi
ble, but not until this year was the party
ever able to purge the statute books of
that black blot upon them. Henceforth
there will be no more of arresting and im
prisoning voters on election day, without
warrant or excuse, and keeping them
locked up until it is too late for them to
vote. In New York, Indiana and Ohio
especially the federal election law was in
famously enforced. Thousands of men
were locked up during each election day,
merely to prevent them from voting the
democratic ticket. Under democracy
qualified electors will vote as they
please, without fear or molestation.
The strikes at New Bedford and Fall
River, Mass., present some curious
phases. Everybody appears to be in a
good humor, and the mill owners have
notified the authorities, as told in our
dispatches yesterday, that their plants
do not need police protection. Tho idle
operatives, in a philosophical frame of
mind, have “made the strike more of a
pleasant vacation” than anything else,
“seeking recreation in the healthful open
air of the woods.” One storekeeper in
Fall River is of the opinion that a good
brisk rainfall would settle the whole
thing. “The operatives would run into
the mills to keep from getting their
jackets wet.” When this strike is con
trasted with that riotous and property,
destroying strike at Chicago recently,
one feels inclined to ask, how is it that
the two incidents, so widely differing in
character, can be given the same generic
name;
There were 8,000 bills introduced in
congress dur.ng the session that will end
to-day. Just how many of them got
through the mill will not be known for a
day or two. until the clerks take an in
ventory Hut it will afford some consola
tion to a law-ridden people to know that
only 1,500 of the bills ever got as far as
the committees. Of the other 0,500 five
in six were nover even 'considered. They
were dumped into the hopper and never
heard from again. There may be a world
of doubt as to whether the 1,200 or so
laws that have been enacted were needed
by the people. It is pretty safe to say
that not more than 200 of them will ever
amount to anything, except in individual
cases, probably. Congress and the state
legislatures are always too active in en
acting laws that burden uselessly the
already overloaded stutute books. If
some means ol checking the tendency to
excessive legislation could be found, it
would be appreciated by the people who
have to pay ior legislators' vagaries -the
taxpayers.
The New Tariff.
The new tariff bill has become a law
without the President s signature. The
iniquitous McKinley tariff is a thing of
the past.
The new tariff is not as much of a re
form tariff as the President and the Dem
ocratic party desired. The purpose of
the President and the party was defeated
by about a half do/en democratic sena
tors. who are protectionists. They would
have defeated all tariff legislation if they
had not been permitted to have their
way. They were in a position to dictate
terms, and the party had to yield to them.
The new ta-iff, however, is a vast im
provement upon the McKinley tariff.
There is no reason why the country
should not be extremely prosperous under
it. Manufacturers have no reason to com
plain of it, and farmers will be greatly
benefited by it.
The main causes of the business and in
dustrial depression have now oeen re
moved, and from this time on there ought
to be a steady improvement in business
conditions. Better times are expected,
and there is no good reason to believe
that the people will be disappointed.
Business may not return at once to the
volume it had in the most prosperous
period, but there will be a steady im
provement urtil the hard times will be
only a memory. ,
The work of adjusting the country to
the new conditions has already begun.
It will be some time before this work will
be completed. In the meantime, how
ever. the signs of increased business apd
industrial activity will become apparent
in all parts of the country.
Kolb’s Scheme.
It is announced that Kolb, who, as the
populist and republican candidate for
governor in the recent election in Ala
bama, was defeated by a majority of 26,-
000, has a scheme for having the ques
tion of the fairness of the election inves
tigated. The scheme is to have the Kolb
candidates for the legislature meet just
as if they had been elected, and choose a
United States senator who will
claim the seat in the Senate. There is
not much doubt that Senator Morgan will
be re-elected. In that event the Kolbite
claimant will contest the right of Sena
tor Morgan to represent Alabama in the
Senate.
The Kolbites seem to think that in the
next congress the republicans will have
control of the Senate, and that therefore
their man will stand a good chance of be
ing seated. If this is their view of the
matter it is not a complimentary one to
the republican senators, for it assumes
that if the republicans have the power
they will give the seat to the Kolbite,
whether he is entitled to it or not.
But there is not much probability that
the republicans will be in the majority in
the Senate of the next congress.
Next March the terihs of Hffsenators ex
pire, the successors of five of whom have
already been chosen. If there were no
vacancies in the Senate there would now
be eighty-eight senators. There are,
however, three vacancies, owing to the
failure of the legislatures of Washington,
Wyoming and Montana to fill vacant
places at their last sessions. There
are therefore 85 senators in the Senate at
present. Of these 44 are democrats, 37
are republicans, and four are populists.
The five senators who have been elected
to take their seats on March 4 next do
not change the political complexion of the
Senate. The 25 to be elected may do so,
though the chances are they will not. Of
these 25 15 are republicans and 10 are
democrats. The republicans are Higgins
of Delaware, Wolcott of Colorado, Cul
lom of Illinois, Shoup of Idaho, Hoar of
Massachusetts, Wilson of lowa,
Frye of Maine, McMillan of Miehi-
gan, Washburn of Minnesota, Power
of Montana, Manderson of
Nebraska, Chandler of New Hampshire,
Dolph of Oregon, Pettigrew of South
Dakota and Carey of Wyoming. The
democrats are Morgan of Alabama, Cam
den of West Virginia. Coke of Texas,
Berry of Arkansas, Walsh of Georgia,
Harris of Tennessee, Butler of South
Carolina, Martin of Kansas, McPherson
of New Jersey and Kansom of North
Carolina.
Of the fifteen republicans all, it is be
lieved, will either be re-elected or suc
ceeded by republicans except Hig
gins of Delaware, Cullom of Illi
nois and Tower of Montana. From
present indications democrats will suc
ceed Higgins and Cullom. As to Power
there is so much doubt that tho politi
cians at Washington do not venture an
opinion.
Of the ten democrats it is quite certain
that all will succeed themselves or be suc
ceeded by democrats except Martin of
Kansas, .McPherson o r New Jersey and
Camden of West Virginia, in New Jersey
the republicans are making extraor
dinary efforts to elect a ma
jority of the legislature. The demo
crats say the efforts will not be success
ful. It is a matter of doubt whether
they will or not. Martin of Kansas was
elected by a combination of democrats
and populists. The outlook is that he
will be succeeded by either a republican
or a populist. Camden may be defeated
for re-election, but if he should be it is
pretty safe to say that his successor will
be a democrat.
The indication is, therefore, that the
republicans will not control tho Senate
after March 4, but that either the demo
crats will have a slight majority or that
the populists will hold the balance of
power. If the populists hold the balance
of power the probabilities are they will
act with the democrats. There does not,
therefore, seem to be anything to encour
age Kolb and his followers in convening
a bogus legislature of Kolbites for the
purpose of choosing a senator.
Gov. Northen has appoint and delegates
to the national irrigation convention
to be held in Denver. Colo., next month.
Irrigation is not a very important ques
tion in Georgia outside of the rice-field
districts. The main purpose of seuding
delegates to Denver, therefore, raav be to
invito the convention to meet in Atlanta
in 181)5 and help irrigate the finances of
the Atlanta exposition. There would bo
no objection to any amount of silver the
delegates to a convention in Georgia
might bring with them, whether they
wero from Colorado or elsewhere.
( harles Wilfred Mowbray, the English
anarchist wtio came to this country a
mouth or two ago lo lend it into anarchy,
has gone home in tho steerage of a steamer
nod under an assumed name. He found
the people here too cleauly and sober to
suit his purposes.
THE MORNING NEWS: TUESDAY, AUGUST2B, 1894.
A Mistaken Policy.
The policy of trying to piacate the pop
ulists is a mistaken one. This policy has
cropped out in congress, in state conven
tions. and is aoparent in about all the
s.ate campaigns. It is not confined to
either of the two great parties. Both of
them have tried, and are still trying, to
curry favor with the populists.
Many congri ssmen. there is reason to
believe, voted for the seigniorage bill, not
because they thought it a wise measure,
but because they hoped to strengthen
themselves with men of their respective
!>artics who eitner had gone to tne popu
list party, or were likely to do so. In
state democratic and republican
platforms there are concessions
to silver which are not
approved by the great majority of demo
crats and republicans. These concessions
were made with the hope of satisfying
those who are afilicted with the silver
craze There are now candidates for
office in this and many other states
who are expressing in their speeches
views on the silver question that are not
authorized by the platforms upon which
they were nominated. If they are sin
cere in holding such views they are not
faithful to the platform declarations of
their respective parties, and if they are
not sincere they are making a great
mistake in thinking they are pursuing a
course that will strengthen them with
the voters.
In South Carolina Senator Butler, in
his campaign for the Senate, undertook
to placate the populist wing of the party.
It is now said that a great many of his
friends think he would have fared better
if he had stood squarely on the national
democratic platform. By the course he
pursued he alienated many of those who
would have espoused his cause warmly,
and lie failed utterly in drawing from
Tillman any of the populist support
which the latter has.
Tillman will win the senatorship with
out much effort unless there should be de
velopments which are not now expected.
There is much dissatisfaction in the dom
inant wing of the South Carolina democ
racy, and sooner or later there will be a
revolt against Tillman's leadership. If
Senator Butler had stood squarely for
the administration and democratic princi
ples he would be in a position to profit
by the revolt when it occurs. By
the policy ho has pursued he has lost his
hold upon those who could help him
when tho reaction takes place.
There is nothing to be gained by mak
ing concessions to the populists. The way
to do with them is to oppose them
squarely. Their demands are not such
as to win the confidence of the people.
Those who have become populists must
be shown what tho demands of the popu
list party really mean and the dangers
that lurk in them. When that is done the
days of that party will be numbered. It
is already losing ground and there will be
little of it at the next national election.
Savannah Harbor.
The fact that Savannah has deep water
from her wharves to the sea—a depth of
water sufficient to accommodate the
largest freight carrying vessels—is begin
ning to be understood by all who are in
the least interested in Georgia's great
seaport.
The Atlanta Constitution, speaking of
the success of tho efforts to deepen Savan
nah’s harbor, says:
Savannah’s commercial.dream, “deep
water to the sea,” is at last almost real
ized. For many, many years, Georgia’s
priticipal port chafed under the handicap
of being inaccessible to vessels of the
greatest draught. Still she kept pace
with the other South Atlantic ports, if
not a little ahead of them, in harbor im
provements. At Brunswick and Charles
ton the deepest draught vessels were kept
out by shallow water on their bars. Sa
vannah has always had a good depth of
water on her bar—twenty-six feet at high
tide—but her narrow and tortuous river
channel was comparatively shallow.
**** ' * *
The harbor improvements, by a system
of jetties, training walls and dredging,
have been actively pushed in the last two
years, and now vessels drawing twenty
three and a half feet of water can pass up
the river at high tide
The engineer in charge expects to get a
depth of twenty-six feet in the shallowest
places in the next six or eight months.
When this depth is obtained all but the
very deepest draught ocean going vessels
will bo enabled to get up to the city from
Tybee. The result will be a fresh impe
tus to Savannah’s commerce, and ocean
freights should be cheapened. This will
benefit not only tho southern states, but
such points as Omaha. Kansas City and
St. Louis and the territory tributary to
those cities.
As the Constitution says, the improve
ment of Savannah’s harbor will be a great
benefit not only to the southern states,
but also to a very largo portion of tho
west. To a greater extent every year
Savannah will become tho seaport of a
very large extent of southern and west
ern territory, because she is the natural
seaboard outlet of that territory. If her
citizens show the enterprise they should
the Savannah of ten years hence, in com
parison with the Savannah of to-day,
will satisfy the expectations of her most
enthusiastic citizens.
It is not improbable that many of the
European exhibits for the Atlanta expo
sition will como by way of Savannah.
There is no reason why they shouldn’t.
Had the President signed the new tariff
bill in as great a hurry as President Har
rison signed the McKinley bill, the cus
toms service all over the country would
have been thrown into as great confusion
as it was when the McKinley bill beeamo
a law. As almost everybody knows,
there is an endless amount of red tape
connected with the customs service. If
an importer wishes merely to enter a pro
test, there are blanks and blanks that
must be sealed, signed and delivered.
All of the blanks used in tho service are
prepared in Washington. The collectors
dure not move a peg without entering the
fact on a blank. Had the new tariff law
become operative immediately upon its
passage, all of the collectors would have
been caught blankless and helpless. The
delay, therefore, was not a waste of time.
Gen. Wade Hamilton, federal commis
sioner of Pacific railroads, favors extend
ing the timo for the payment of the debts
of the roads to the government and re
quiring them to apply 50 per cent of
their net earning to the payment of tho
debts. He thinks government ownership
of the roads is not tiossible, as it “would
require something like $180,000,000 to pur
chase tlie roads known as the govern
ment aided companies ” The interest on
the bonds necessary to be floated to raise
such a sum would require the taxation of
the people to a greater extent than they
would stand.
PERSONAL.
Old Dan Emmet, author of that famous
southern son g. ‘ Dixie. ’ l’ves man old hut in
Koakosbmg valley, not far from Mount Ver
non O. In his younger davs he was a travel
ing minstrel.
A scheme is on foot in Enxland to erect a
fitting memorial for the late Prof. Henry
Morley whose chief monument is the unfin
ished out immensely valuable nistorv of En
glish literature called ‘English Writers.”
Gen Harrison has had his hair and
whiskers so closely cropped that h.s intimate
friends scarcely recognize him. It is under
stood that if this -rands in the way of his
recognition in 'fcfl he 11 let em grow again.
Prince Bismarck’s newspaper officially de
nies the story that Bismarck ia an interview
compared the anarchists of Europe to his
pigs. When Bismar. k r ?ad the slander he
sad: I would not disgrace iny pigs with
such a comparison.
Ihe government of Belgium has offered
10.090 francs for the arrest of the anarchist,
Baron Angern Sternberg. He is a Russian of
wealth, who, lost his senses so completely
i hat he became an ad vocate of anarchistic
doctrines. He is a young man.
Mark L. Gilbert, who oegan following the
sea with his father at the age of 10. is now. at
the age of IT. master of the schooner Addie
Wesseis running Detween i\’o. kland Me., and
New iork. ana is pro. a ly the youngest sea
captain in the merchant service.
Mrs. Isabella Bird Bishop, the noted trav
eler, is one of the British subjects now in
Corea. She is alone, and according to her
last letters, was not enjoying herself, having
found tne Coreans the most disagre* a >le set
of savages she ever encountered, wide though
her experiecce has been.
Gounod's journal will shortly be given to
the world, together with a selection of his
correspondence, now in hands of Mme.
Gounod and her son l lie book, it is said,
will present a very faithful reflection of the
composer’s inner life, it is omi at le that an
English translation of the work will soon fol
low.
Miss Caroline McLean of Cincinnati, a
daughter of Nathaniel McLean and niece of
Collector Kilbretb. of New York, has gone
upon the stage against the wishes of her par
ents she h s secured ar. engagement with
Seanrooke s “lat asco ’ Company, and is said
to be a girl of promising qualities, as noth
singer and actress.
Rev. Edward Allen of Somerset is the oldest
clergyman in England. In a letter he says:
‘*i am the oldest, or one of the oldest, clergy
men in England. 1 was born on the 18th of
.Jan,, 1798. at Theele. in the Parish of Tile
hurst, Berks. lam in perfect possession of
all my faculties and write all my letters with
out the aid of spectacles, this included.”
BRIGHT BITS.
S. P. C. C. Agent (authoritatively)—Are
you the woman who has a child under the
legal age appearing on the stage?
Poor Woman—No, sir: i m the woman
whose child starved to death last week.
“W en they's fifty of ns together,” said Mr.
Walkabout Beggun. they feed us. an' pay
oir railroad fare so’s to git us to move on.
W en I strike a town they make me move on
by kickin me on. I’m goin to org nize a
army, b’jocks!”—Chicago Tribune.
Strawber—l had quite a compliment last
night. Miss Singleton said when she
first looked at me she thought I was only
19. but when 1 talked I seemed like an old
man.
Singerly—You must have told her some of
your jokes.—Life.
Judge Cuttem—On what grounds, madam,
do you apply for a divorce from your hus
band^
Mrs. Laker—Oh, it's a case of absolute ne
cessity. judge. Mr. Laker's hair and com
plexion don t the decorations in my
new house.—New York Herald.
Down by the sea,
The melody
Of ocean sweeps the beach,
Until
The i ill
At the hotil
Gets clear beyond his reach-Detroit Free
Press.
Flo—That girl from Gowanus must have a
devoted admirer in the city; that's the third
box of candy that has come for her by mail
this week.
Mabel—Admirer nothing! I saw her leave
the order in the candy store in Fulton street
herself, the day before we came away.—
Brooklyn Eagle.
He—How do you like the ne y servant?
She-First rate. she seems very neat and
clean. Here she comes.
He—But, my dear, that is not the same girl
who was here yesterday morning.
She —You're right, John; but you asked me
about the "new ' servant, and there she is.—
Fliegende Blaetter.
"So you think you can stand the arduous
duties of a variety actor? You know in our
play we find occasion to throw you down a
thirty-foot flight of stairs into a barrel of
scrap iron. 1 ’
T guess I can make it,” said the hungry
man who had applied for a job “I was a col
lector for an installment house for three
years.”—Detroit Free Press.
Old John was a shoemaker, an Irishman,
and an ardent admirer of the Duke of Well
ington. To describe the battle of Waterloo
was his chief pleasure. He always wound up
the narrative, sitting with his hammer poised,
his spectacles pushed back on his forehead,
and his whole appearance indi atmg the ut
most enthusiasm, with the words:
"An’ the duke sez, sez he. ‘Up. gyards, an’
at’em'’ an' wid that, simultaneously, at the
same time, all to once, the gyarJs upped an’
atted at 'em. An’ that settled it. ’—Haroer's
Drawer.
CURRENT COMMENT.
Futile Efforts of the Cranks.
From Columbus (Ga.) Enquirer-Sun (Dem.).
It seems impossible for any length of time
to keep the free silver cranks in the Georgia
democracy squarely to tho democratic plat
form. It is well enough, howeter. to impress
the people with the fact that there is no free
and unlimited coinage of silver at a ratio of
Pi to 1, either in the Georgia platform or in
the Chicago platform. The people did not
want it there, and it cannot be put there by
silver eranks.
The South and Money.
From the Florida Citizen (Dem.).
The expectation indulged in in .some quar
ters that the south would be solid for free sil
ver coinage has not been realized. The Geor
gia. Alabama and Tennessee financial planks
were unmistaita) le straddles, while in Flor
ida and Texas the conventions adopted and
iiiuorsed the cur ency plank of the Chicugo
platform. It remains for the populists, on
principle, and the republicans for policy, to
swallow free coinage.
The Nejrro North and South.
From C harleston News and Courier (Dem ).
“it is a notorious fact.” says the Indian
apolis Journal. • that the negro stun Is no
chance for justne in the south.” if the
Journal will consult the last United states
census, taken under tho direction of a rad
ical republican it will find that a larger pro
portion of black and colored people are im
prisoned and otherwise punished for crime in
the northern states than in the southern
states. Would our contemporary l e better
please Jto *ee the record evened un” more
nearly, and if not. what is it complaining
about?
A Pledge of Friendship.
From Springfield (Mass.) Republican (Ind.).
One of the most interesting pledges of
friendship bet ween north and south is the
concert between federal and confederate vet
erans at Atlanta to erect a monument jointly
to Gen. E. D. M Pberson and Gen. W. 11. T.
Walker, who were both killed in the battie
of Atlanta, one in the union, the other in the
confederate army. The plan is ambitious, in
volving the expenditure of *g(K).oou in a mag
nificent marble structure, surmounted by
statues of heroic size, representing McPtaer
son and Walker clasping hands. It would
not only be the first work of its kina for our
civil war. but for the whole biatory of the
world a strife.
Can’t Make Capital of It.
From the Columbia (S. C.) State (Dem.).
Every cotton factory in the nor h may re
duce the wages of operatives and thousands
of men may strike, and yet the republi an
press must remain dumb on the subject of
►tu new tariff bin. A splendid opportunity to
point a moral on destructive democratic leg
islation and urge the thousands of spinners
and weavers to vote tho republican ticket, is
lost, lhe reason is that the lengthy and im
portant iottou schedule in the tariff bill, as
fixed by tbe democrats, was passed by the
Senate without one single objection. Senator
Hoar of Massachusetts stating that it was the
best s hedule on cotton goods ever de\is<d
and was acceptable to the manufacturers.
The Tramp.
“ Thank you. mi3S. you are very good.”
It was only a tramp holding a cup of milk
in his wasted hand, says the New York Home
Journal.
She stood at the dairy door, taking pleasure
in her kindly act.
“Have you no work to do?” she asked.
He shook his head.
*‘l am sorrv for you.”
"Sorry, did you say—sorry for me?” His
hand trembled. Back, tack he went to a
childhood, a k.ss and a mother s love. “No
one else ever is.' he said gruffly. The cup was
empty and the tramp went wearily on bis
way.
ihe weeks passed as months to the wan
derer. who scarce knew if to day were Sab
bath or week day. Over the dm-ty roads he
tramped a friendly oak or shed his shelter at
Fitving housewives sometimes offered
crusts of bread and stinted their dogs of
bones for him. So he lived
Winter had gone, taking with it some of the
rover s sadness, whose limbs no longer ached
w.th cold. But it was not only the summer
sun that warmed him. lor he often heard a
voice of sympathy, and in his day dreams
when lying lazily beneath the shade of some
haystack, he saw a fa e of chanty and good
ness.
The sun shone brightly upon the first day of
summer.
No work yets" a girl's voice asked.
No. and I will t e open with you, miss, I
haven t looked for it”
But don t you want to be comfortable and
live as a roan should.” she asked in surprise.
He hung his head.
“I won t work." he growled.
She looked a little frightened and would
have left him.
“Don’t be afraid " he said more quietlv.
“I thought you were different from the others,
who all cry work work!”
* Why did you?”
“Well, miss, you said you were sorry for
me. I have l een tLinking over your words
many a time since then.” Suddenly he grew
hard again. "No. I won't work.” he said,
looking away. “I didn t in my thirties and
1 won’t begin in my forties.” He started to
go.
"Wait. I will give you some dinner,” the
girl called after him
"No, thank you. miss.” he faltered, looking
bav.k. “i ll not trouble you again.” He sham
bled off.
Winter was at hand. A man wandered here
ard there, through farms and villages, with
he ui bowed low. He did not notice the leaf
less trees, nor did he miss the robin's song,
for the face was before his eyes and the voice
was in his ears.
On a cold November day a man with anew
formed resolve turned about on the road and
retraced his steps. His head was erect, his
chest expanded.
“i will worii just to please her,” he said
aloud, and whistled a merry tune of his boy
hood.
He has opened the gate, but does not yet
see ber. He knocked at the farmhouse door.
A little woman in black opened it.
"May 1 see the kind young woman who
lives here?” he asks cheerfully.
"You mean Mary, my daughter? She is
dead.”
The door closed. Within there is a woman
sobbing; outside there is a quick step on the
gravel. In the evening there is a knock on
the village sexton's door.
*•*#* * * * * *
In a country cemetery there is to day a
faithful old (.'rave digger who cares for ‘the
mossy mounds by day and night. There is a
tiny stone marked ' Mary.” The prettiest
flowers grow near it, and when he plants
them tenderly he sometimes whispers, “I
have worked.”
Ona Office-Seeker’s Evolution.
‘ During Mr. C.eveland's first administra
tion, ex-Gov. Porter of Tennessee,’ says the
Washington Star, was assistant secretary of
state, and just about the time that the pres
sure for office was greatest a friend of Por
ter's. came up here on private business.
The visitor was a hide bound democrat, who
always worked like a beaver for party suc
cess, and who had never been a candidate for
either an elective or an appointive office. He
was a man of excellent business attainments
and was bles.ed with a wife and a large
family of boys. When he had t, ansacted the
business which called him here. Gov. Porter
asked him when ho was going to return to
Tennessee, and was told thabhis friend would
leave the next aiternoon.
"Wouldn't you like to meet President
Cleveland uefoie you go, Jim '’ queried the
governor.
".lim said he would right smart, so Porter
told him he and make an engagement so the
President might be handshaken the next
morning. The governor went over to the
white house a little while later and told Cleve
land that he wanted to bring a friend over to
salute him.
■' He s one of the best men in Tennessee.
Mr. President—a never-say-die democrat, and
he don t want any office,’ said Porter. The
President beamed.
" ’Vou don’t me in it. Porter.’heexolaimed,
“you certainly can tbe in earnest. A demo
crat who don t want a place: Bring him over
right awav, if you can find him, but be sure
not to let him escape you.-’
■ Porter assured the President that he had
spoken the truth and proceeded to give Jim s
history to him. Next morning the pair went
to the white house. Jim never had such a
surprise in his life. The President seemed to
know all about him. and was as cordial as an
intimate. He slapped Jim on the back, and
talked about his family and his tine boys, and
closed the conversation by asking Jim to
drop in at the white house any time he hap
pened to be in Washington.
■• -Break bread with me some time when
yon get up this way.’ was the President s
parting remark, and Jim left the white house
like a man in a dream. When Gov. Porter
asked him how he liked Cleveland. Jim was
willing to thrash any one of his critics, and
swore he had never met such a cordial and
approachable man. Pretty soon the hotel
was reached where Jim was stopping, and
Gov. Porter held out his hand.
" Well; Jim. old fellow.’ he said. T reckon
I won t see you before the train leaves this
afternoon, so I'll say good-hye.’
•■ 'I reckon I've about concluded not to go,’
said Jim.
“ Not go,’ ejaculated Porter; why not.
man';’
" Why not?’ repeated Jim. Why not?
Why. governor, didn t you see how Cleveland
treated me : He's stuck on me, and doggone if
I don't believe I’ll stay here and get him to
make me consul to Liverpool!’ ”
Cured His Colic.
A few nights ago, on a train coming east on
the Michigan Central road, the porter of a
sleeping car aioused half a dozen of the male
sleepers to ask if they had anything to cure a
case of colic, says the Detroit Free Press. A
drummer for a city hardware house fumbled
around in his coat, and finally said:
Here’s a box of soda mints which may
help him. He can use the whole box, and be
hanged to him, for he sno business to have
colic!”
Nothing further was heard of the case until
morning, when a strapping young man, with
a far-west look to his hair caine into the
sleeper with the mint box in his hand and in
quired for the drummer, and said:
"look 'em all but one. and they smashed
my colic right in the eye. How much to pay?”
■Nothing, sir i m too glad to have been of
service to you.”
When the other had gone the drummer
opened the box and we saw his hair trying to
climu up.
"Great Scott, boys, but what do you think?”
he gasped.
• What is It?"
I gave him the wrong box. and he’s swal
lowed eleven bone collar buttons!"
Twilight.
Virginia Woodward Cloud in the Boston
, Transcript.
Alone. In the lane, we paused to rest.
1 and my love, when the sun went down,
The sky was the hue of the dove’s soft breast,
And tne wood* were brown.
Only one star shone over the tree.
Only one l ira note thrilled the air,
Only one thought In our hearts, as we
Stood silent there.
But the scent of the briar was sweeter than
word,
And our souls had yearned through space
so far
That their speech was hid In the song of a
bird
And the light of a star.
And my heart was glad—though the bird-note
sweet.
And the pulse of the spring with its promise
of years.
From the star to the briar a bloom at our
feet.
Held something of tears.
Millionaire Andrew C. Tombs of Ashtabula,
0.. recently shipped as a deck hand on Ibe
steamboat Outlnvallo to work his passage
from Cleveland lo < Ireen Bay and return. Be
muue a net of SSOO with Charles Richardson,
also a resident of Ashtabula, that he could
complete Un- tank. Richardson accompanied
Tomnsonthe tug to see ttiat he swaured
decks, handled coal and scrubbed and cleaned
like the average deck hand.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
A memorial to Thomas a Kempls Is to be
erected in a chu r h at Zolle, Holland, and
two prizes are offered for designs of a stone
monument in the style of the Fifteenth cen
tury, not to cost more than $4,200.
Willard I. Twombly of Portland. Me., who
recently built a bicycle to be propelled by the
vapor of ether, has now finished an ether
launch, operated in a similar manner by
mechanism in which the vapor of ether takes
the place of steam. As ether is vaporized at
&S degrees. while water requires -13, the sav
ing in fuel Is said to be important.
A Cincinnati man describes for a reporter
of the Enquirer of that city a novel sight he
saw recently at a mill devoted to making
paper of pine tree pulp. "X was invited to se
lect a tree, which 1 did. and it was cut down
for me in the morning. I watched it during
the day undergoing the various processes of
paper making and at 6 o clock that evening
the tree was ra; er. At midnight a portion of
it was sufficiently dry to be taken to a print
ing office, and a few of the copies of the next
morning s ; aper were printed on this product.
From a tree to a printed newspaper in twenty
four hours is pro-aoly the best time on rec
ord.”
An oculist of long experience In Philadel
phia. who was recently asked by a Record re
porter of that city to state the most common
causes of accidental injur.es to the eye re
plied: "Among children, throwing stones
and playing shinny —a most dangerous
game Another not infrequent cause of acci
dent is allowing children io stand about the
kitchen range when the cook is frying fat tnat
sputters and flies a. out tne room. Among
adults, the umbrella lits points wnen carried
open in a crowd, and tip when i arried closed
over tne shoulderi. is quite a common cause
of Injury, and flying c n lers auoiher. But
most of the cases we treat are not due to ac
cident. but rather to the prolonged misuse of
the eyes by close application either in dim or
glaring light: and often injuries arise from
strictly constitutional disorders.”
For centuries It has been the belief of the
common people of Genoa that treasures were
hidden in the bed of the Polcavera, a stream
that runs by the city, says the New York sun.
Recently a carter, in digging for sand in the
bed of the dried up torrent, came upon hidden
treasure, of which so far coin of the face value
of 60.060 francs has teen found, and the sup
ply is not yet exhausted. By the Italian law
half of this goes to the state and half to the
finder. The value of the coins is far beyond
the sum mentioned: many of them are rare
and of great artistic value: they are cßietly
gold and belong to the period between 1460
and 1550. that is, the reigns of Louis XI.,
Charles VIU., Louis XII.. and Francis 1., and
are all either French or Genoese. The Geno
ese ducats are specially rare and will fetch
high prices. The search for treasure Is going
on under police supervision.
One of the rarest diseases to which the
human frame and internal machinery is heir
to "snakes-in-the-hlood 1 and elephantiasis
not excepted—is known as "hydatid systs of
the liver," says the St. Louis Repu lie. This
rare and serious disease is brought about t y
the ova or eggs of tapeworms (a kind peculiar
to dogs) entering the human stomach in food
or drinking water and Being carried into the
liver by the blood vessels. The egg is only
about the one hundredth of an inch in diame
ter, and never develops live worms in the
human subject. As already noted, they are
taken into the liver by the blood vessels, and
immediately upon their lodgment In that
organ form cysts or little bags around them
selves like the cocoon around the caterpillar,
in the stomach of a dog, however, thev
rapidly develop into full-fledged hydatids or
minute canine tapeworms, the maximum
length of which scarcely ever exceeds one
quaiterof an inch. This infinitesimal pe.st
has a head about one-sixteenth of an inchin
length provided with several hooks and
suckers. A cure of hydatid cysts of the liver
is impossible without a surgical operation.
The quaint little Flemish town of Furnes,
situated twelve miles from Dunkirk, has just
celebrated its annual procession with the
fervor of the middle ages, says the New York
Sun. This procession, which in reality is a
Passion play, enacted by groups, was insti
tuted many centuries ago. in atonement for
the sacrilegious act of two soldiers, and has
since undergone no change. The town be
comes for this single day in the year the ren
dezvous for devotees and pilgrims from all
parts of Belgium. The procession consists of
forty groups, and thej costumes-many of
which are provided by the inhabitants or the
town, who regard It as a privilege to figure
among the actors—are of the richest descrip
tion. The sacrifice of Abraham, the Proph
ets, St. John leading a lamb, tho stable of
Bethlehem w.th Mary and child, the shep
herds, the kings of the East, the flight into
Egypt, and all the episodes of the savior s
life, His entry into Jerusalem w.th the Apos
tles, the Last Supper, the Garden of Olives,
the betrayal by Judas, and the scenes of the
Crucifixion are the groups which constitute
this panorama of the Passion. Each gioup is
preceded bv penitents wearing long robes,
with head and face concealed by a cowl, and
walking barefooted. As soon as the "Passion
play" Is over the public houses are besieged
an! daucing begins in the numerous booths
set up for the occasion.
Col. Rhodes, who has just reached England
from the t ape, brings news of a highly in
teresting archaeolgical discovery in Mashona
land. which seems to point to a previous oc
cupation by a different race of people, proba
bly the Arabs, says the London Daily
Graphic. Shortly before the outbreak of the
war a prospector discovered a sealed cave,
similar to those used by the Mashonas for
burying their dead. On proceeding to examine
the structure he discovered no trace of skele
tons. hut bt upon a large and curiously carved
bowl. whiTh he brought away. Shortly after
the prospector went to war and was killed.
Col. Rhodes, bearing of the discovery, pur
chased the bowl, which has been placed in
the Hon. Cecil Rhodes' museum. The officials
of the museum and a number of archaeolo
gists and scientists have examined the find,
but are quite at a loss to account for
its presence in a Mashona sepul
cher, and it is sought to
obtain information from archaeologists
in London on the matter. The three photo
graphs of the bowl show clearly its beauti
ful workmanship. One represents the tot
tom of the vessel, another the rim and cen
ter, while the third gives a general view, it
is made of a peculiar hard wood—entirely un
known in Mashonaland—and is about a foot
in diameter. It will beseen-and this is re
garded as the most peculiar point about it—
that the signs of the* zodiac, about which the
natives know nothing, are i eautfullv carved
around the brim. The signs have been care
fully.examined by experts and are pronounced
to be excellent reproductions of the symbols.
One portion of the bowl has been eaten
away, probably by white ants, otherwise it is
m a perfect state of preseriatlon. The cen
ter of the bowl bears a repersentation of a
crocodile. Tho view held in the Gape is that
the discovery would seem to Indicate a pre
vious occupation of the country.
Why should so many persons say sponta
cighity instead of spontaneeity? says the New
York Advertiser. There is no excuse for say
ing ap-pricot for apricot, or eck-quable for
ec-quable, or Er-rin for E rin, or asafldity for
asafetida. or Yen zu-ee-la for Ven e zu el a. or
Adonis (Short o) for Ado nis (long o). or Dia
na iloug a), or mattron or pat tron. and so on.
It is just as easy to a.cent the last syllable as
the first in "pretense." Some persons call
bomb “boom," instead of "bum." because the
spelling seems to warrant it, but when they
call tedious "tejus” they have no such appar
ent warrant. In the west and south the i' in
isolate is made long and nearly everywhere
educated persons say truck-u-leut for true cu
lent, a men able for a-mecn able, lev ver for
lee-ver. and give the sound of -u" in up in
stead of "i" in It in such words as squirrel,
stirrup and sirup. There are many
words In which the accent is persist
ently misplaced by persons who know
better. It Is common to put the accent on tho
second syllable of peremptory instead of on
the first, on the first instea l of the secoiid
syllable of coquetry, on the second instead of
the first syllable of exemplary, etc. Many
persons place the accent on ihe first lnsteud
of the second syllable of Inquiry and do not
give the i its proper length. The accent in
gladiolus should be on the second syllable,
with a long I.’ but many place It on the third.
T hey say hy-meen e ai, with the accent on the
the meen. when It should be hv mee-ne al,
with the accent on the mee. The exasper
ating thing about it is that some of
these persons who are so careless about
common words take utmost pains to learn
how to pronounce Bouguereau, and are con
vulsed when thev hear anybody mispro
nounce Chopin and Beethoven. Re. ently
they broke out with vawz for lase. though
the weight of authority is against it.
Knowles ulone allows it. Webster authorizes
only one pronunciation, the long a and hiss
ing s.' Worcester prefers the z'sound, but
not the aw.' The Improper use of the 'sounds
of a Is most serious. Those who have the
courage to use the Italian or the modified
Italian a often use it unlawfully, as In i awn t
and ruwther. The proper sounds of o. par
tlcularly In God. dog and some other words,
ure widely Ignored The common usage is
wrong In the case of the terminal Tne In the
name of chemicals, us morphine, chlorine
iodine, antlene, benzine, etc., all of which
should be pronounced as though there were
no bnal e.' it Is morpblh, not morpheen.
DANIEL HOSAN.
Extraordinary
Reductions.
STANDARDS
AND
■ SEASONABLE
GOODS
li Piles Lower li to.
TABLE LINENS.
The prices are attractive
enough to buy even if not
immediately in want. Ex
clusive, rich and beautiful
designs Bleached and Un
bleached 54-inch Cream 32c,
60-inch White 49c, 68-inch
Irish 70c, 64-inch Scotch
65c, 72-inch Satin Damask
87c, 72-inch Extra Fine
sl.lO.
Sumnrcr Sale of Underwear
Hand-made Night Gowns
89c, sl, $1.45, $1.95, $2.25,
and up to $4.
Chemises and Drawers
49c, 60c, 69c, 89c, sl, $1.25,
$1.50, $2.25, and up to $2.50.
Summer Waists in French
Percale Cheviots, Silk and
Sateen. The prices run:
45c, were 60c; 59c, were
75c; 79c, were $1; $1.15,
were $1.35.
White Waists. Colored Hemstitched Collars
and Cuffs -65 c. 75e, 85c, *l. *1.25. *1.50 and *2.
Fine Dimity Waists sl. $1.25 and up to $2.
Wash Goods of every description at half
price.
Daniel Hogan.
EDUCATIONAL.
MARYLAND, Baltimore, 1405 Bark Ave.
IHE RANDOLPH HARRISON
Boarding and Day School for Girls reopens
27th September. Liberal education. College
preparation. Regular and elective courses.
Mks. JANE RANDOLPH HARRISON RAN
DALL. Principal.
References: Gen. Henry R. Jackson, Gen.
Alexander R. Lawton.
iiwmii iiflii
CHARLOTTESVILLE, V. 4.
Session begins 15tli Sept. Academical, Engi
neering. Law, Medical Departments. F6r
Catalogues address
WM. M. TIIOKNTON, LL. D., Chairman.
COLLEGE FOR SOUTHERN GIRLS. Bu v e M ta -
In the mountains of Virginia. Pure moun
tain and chalybeate water. Positively good
fare. Kates low. Full faculty. President 24
years experience. Buildings new. beautiful,
magnificent, with all modern improvements.
Grounds 15 acres. Not sectarian. Send for
catalogue. J. I. MILLER, D. D., President.
Miss Mr/. BALDWIN'S SCHOOL,
Augusta Female Seminary,
STaINTON, VA.
Opens Sept. 5. 18U4. Close* May 28, 1805
Unsurpassed location,building and grounds.
Full corps of teachers. Board, etc., with full
English course, $250 for entire season of nine
months. Music, Languages. Elocution, Art,
Bookkeeping and Physical culture extra.
Write for Catalogue.
BELLEVUE HIGH SCHOOL,
BEDFORD CO., VIRGINIA.
A thoroughly equipped school, complete in
its appointments, of high grade, for Boys and
Young Men. For catalogue or information
apply to Bellevue P. O.
W. R. ABBOT, Principal.
VIRGINIA FEMALE INSTITUTE.
Staunton, Va-
Mrs. Gen. J. E. IS. STUART, Principal
The next session of Nino Months, opens
September 13th. 1894. Full corps of Teachers,
every advantage, and terms reasonable. Ap
ply for Catalogue to the Principal.
RANDCLPH-MACON ACADEMY.
IKIIaT KOVAL VIRGINIA.
Prepares Young Men and Boys for College
and Business. Moderate charges. Healthfully
situated. For catalogue address Rev. B.
W. BOND, Principal.
NOTR-i DAME OF MARYLAND.
College for Young Ladie9 and Preparatory
School for Girls. Regular and elective courses.
Musicand Art specialties. Conducted bySchool
Sisters of Notre Dame. Embla,near Baltimore.
\TEW YORK MILITARY ACADEMY,
-v - Cornwall. N. Y. Prep. Dept, at Worrall
Hall. Peekskill. N. Y. Coe. <5. J. WRIGHT,
A. M.. President,
PANTOPS ACADEMY,
Near CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA
For Hoys unit idling Men. Send for Cata
logue. John R. Sampson, A. M., Principal.
~~ LAW SCHOOL
WASHINGTON AND I,EE UNIVERSITY,
Lexington, Virginia.
Opens Sept. IT. For catalogue address
JOHN RANDOLPH TUCKER. Dean.
SUMMER RESORTS.
The Swannanoa Hotel,
ASHEVILLE. N. C.
Strictly good, medium price. Broad halls,
airy rooms, magnificent views, electric lights,
and other modern Improvements. Central.
Special Summer Rates—s 2 and $2.50 per
day; $lO to sl4 per week; $35 to S6O per month,
according to room.
R. R RAWLS,
Proprietor and Owner
HARDWARE.
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Bar, Band and Hoop Iron,
WAGON MATERIAL,
Navaf Stores SuDDfies.
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