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INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Special Notices—Golden Apple Tobacco;
Notice F. E Rebarer, Clerk of Council;
Notice to Water Takers, James Manning,
Superintendent; Andy Jackson Still in Line
With Green Turtle Soup and Faust Beer
Prices Cpt in Half—l. Adler.
A MaW Said—B H. Levy & Bro.
Bring Your legs— Appel & schaul.
Railroad Schedules—Central Railroad
of Georgia.
Amusements—'The Star Gazer" at the
Theater Sept, 1.
Baking Powder—Price's Cream Baking
Powder
Iron F’oundrt, Etc—McDonough & Bal
lantyne.
Steamship Schedule—Ocean Steamship
Company
Auction Sale—Furniture, etc., by A K.
Wilson, Auctioneer
Cheap Column advertisements—Help
Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Rent;
For Sale, Lost; Personal; Miscellaneous.
Senator Gorman is going to Europe for
his health. His tariff labors have made
him sick. And others have also been sim
ilarly affected thereby.
At the next meeting of the Ohio legis
lature a hill to tax all liquor sold on Pull
man cars in that state will be introduced.
It will probably become a Jaw-
Senator Wolcott of Colorado, who has
just returned from Europe, says the time
is not far distant when there will be an
international agreement on the subject of
silver. He learned this from conversa
tions with statesmen in England, Ger
many and France. The surprising thing
is that a gentleman from Colorado should
have taken the trouble to inquire about
an international agreement in respect to
silver.
A Swiss professor, in a paper discuss
ing modern inventions, says that “all the
inventive energies of science are now
directed to the superseding of the
human leg as a means of locomo
tion.” Then the inventive energies of
science had better be warned to quit.
The bicycle and the ballet have devoted
followings that would certainly visit dire
vengeance upon the inventive energies of
science if the human leg should be super
seded.
Gov. McKinley of Ohio is going to
Maine to speak in Tom Reed's district on
Sept. 8. He told a reporter on last Monday
that he would have nothing to say upon
the new tariff until that time, but then
he would express himself with regard to
it. In the interim he will search history
and literature for hard things to say
against the new tariff. The literature
of the McKinley tariff, by the wav, would
furnish him with a choice lot of expletives
and denunciations.
The results of the experiments of the
New York health department with Prof.
Koch's anti-toxine treatment for diph
theria are of a most encouraging ar.d ex
traordinary character. Out of about 250
cases treated, 100 per cent, recovered
where inoculation took place on the first
day of infection, and 97 and 87 per cent,
respectively recovered where the inocula
tion took place on the second and third
days. One of the notable features of the
new remedy is its "absolute harmlessness.
It Is said that no matter what the condi
tion of the patient may- be, if the remedy
does not accomplish a cure, it at least
leaves no injurious effects.
Abe Buzzard, the versatile Pennsylva
nian, has been sent back to the peniten
tiary for a long term. Abe was in the
penitentiary for various villainies, when
he “got religion,” repented and got a par
don. As soon as he was released he went
to preaching. For a year or so he was an
“evangelist” of the most ardent type.
And at the same time he was a thief of
the slickest sort. He may have been sin
cere in his repentance at first. But if he
was, his sincerity soon wore away and
while he was preaching he was laying
plans to reorganize his band of thieves.
Wheu Abe was detected in some of his
late thefts he owned up, and wa* sent
back to prison. Ho ought to be kept
there for a long time, whether he “gets
religion” again or not.
The populists of Florida have put up
two men for congress. The nominees
stand about as much chance of being
elected as they do of flying to Washing
ton with natural wings. Nevertheless
they will make a long campaign. In
I loruia. as elsewhere, the populists plead
poverty as the chief cause for their par
ty's existence If they are so poor, how
can they afford to leave off work and trot
around the country making stump
speeches that will do not the least good;
If there were a prospect of success the
official salary might be looked to for a re
imbursement of expenses. But where
there is not even a salary to look for
ward to. wnat are the candidates going
to do? So far from the populists being
poverty stricken. It would really appear
that they have money to throw away.
They are throwing it away at ail events.
The President and the Tariff Bill.
i Up to within a few hours before the
tariff bill became a law, the President
■ was strongly urged to sign the bill.
Even those democratic congressmen who
were the most outspoken in their opposi
tion to some of the leading features of the
bill wanted him to sign it, because the.v
helieved that by doing so he would aid
his party greatly in the congressional
campaign. The President, however, fell
that after what he had said of the bill in
his letter to Chairman Wilson, he could
not consistently do so. He had condemned
the bill because it failed to carry out
fully the promises the Democratic parti
had made to the people, and he took the
ground that if he should sign it his action
would be interpreted to mean that there
were to be no more efforts in the direc-
tion of tariff reform.
He states liis position very clearly in
his letter to Gen. Catchings, the full
text of which was pub.ished in our dis
pa uihes yesterday. In that letter he is
particularly bitter against trusts and
monopolies. He undoubtedly had the
sugar trust in mind. He leaves no room
for doubt that the battle for tariff re
form is to go on until the tariff is shaped
in accordance with the tariff doctrines of
the Democratic party. At the next ses
sion of congress an effort will undoubtedly
be made to put coal and iron ore on the
free list and to take from the sugar trust
a part of the protection it now has.
The President is not a man to be satis
fied with compromises or lialf-wa.v meas
ures. He wants the party to do what it
has promised to do. He understands, of
course, that nis signature to the bill
would have been of some advantage to
the party in the congressional elections,
but he would rather have his party lose
a few congressmen than that there
should be any let ud in the tariff fight
before a decisive victory was achieved.
The statement that Senator Jones of
Arkansas has given to the Arkansas Ga
zette of his work in assisting in the prep
aration of the tariff bill is calculated to
give the impression that the Senate bill,
before it passed the Senate, had the ap
proval of the President and Secretary
Carlisle. He says that he told the Presi
dent and Mr. Carlisle that the bill had to
be prepared to suit the views of forty
three senators, and that both of them
told him to go ahead and prepare such a
bill.
No doubt Senator Jones states what is
true, but the President did not think the
character of the Wilson bill would be
almost wholly changed, and, besides, he
was confident that the conference com
mittee would, ia the end, make the bill
what it should be. He exerted all
of his influence to induce the
Senate to make concessions, and when he
failed he determined to let the bill become
a law without his signature.
He is frank to admit that the new tariff
is, in many respects, an excellent one—
that it is a great improvement upon the
McKinley tariff—and will be of immense
benefit to the country, but he had fought
for tariff reform so long and so earnestly
that he was disappointed in not getting
all he hoped for. He may be blamed for
not signing the bill, but he has the satis
faction of knowing that he has been con
sistent throughout the tariff struggle and
that he is in a position to urge a continu
ance of it.
Crops in Georgia.
The prospect of abundant crops this
year in Georgia is exceedingly’ promising.
All who have traveled over the state
unite in saying that the outlook for a
bounteous harvest was never more satis
factory. The corn crop is particularly
good, and there ought to be an abundance
of hay. Unfortunately, however, the
Georgia farmers do not yet appreciate the
hay crop to the extent they ought. In
some sections of the state they do, it is
true, but it would be an easy matter to
produce all the hay ueebed for home con
sumption and for the Georgia market.
Not a bale ought to be brought into the
state.
The cotton crop will be a big one if the
weather is favorable throughout the re
mainder of the season. There are
localities in which there has beeu
too much rain, but they
are only spots. With such a crop as there
promises to be. Savannah should get a
million and a half of bales during the
season of 1894-’95.
The cotton crop has been made for less
money than ever before, and therefore
if the price of cotton is not away below
the profit line the farmers will have a
good deal of money which they can call
their own at the end of the season. Their
material condition is now excellent. They
are better off than they have been at any
time within the last twenty-five years.
They have given much attention to food
crops and hence have not gone into debt
for meal and bacon. It is doubtful if the
farmers of any other state in the union
are so well fixed as are those of Georgia.
Their prosperity means that the towns
will soon be doing a thriving business.
Thv Next House.
The managers of the democratic con
gressional campaign are confident that
the democrats will carry the next House
by a good majority. They do not expect
to have a majority as large as they have
in the present House. As one of the
members of the campaign committee re
marked the other day, new legislation al
ways causes the majority party to lose
some of its majority.
The business depression with which
the country has been ati.icted for a year
or more will be charged against the Dem
ocratic party, although it is iu no respect
responsible for it. and that will cause it
to lose a congressman here and there. If,
however, there is a revival of business
before the election the hard times will
not do the party a great deal of damage.
The democratic campaign committee
is receiving reports from ail parts of the
country, and these reports are of the
most encouraging character. They show
that the people arc not anxious to have
the Republican party in power again.
Its reckless extravagance and its dispo
sition to buy popularity with pension leg
islation are not forgotten.
The south will elect a democrat in al
most if not every congressional district.
It will not be necessary therefore to elect
many democrats in the north to give the
democrats control of the House. The
fact that the south is almost solidly deni
0, ratio annoys the republicans greatly.
They see that it will be difficult, if not
impossible, to make a sufficient number
of changes in congressional districts in
the north to give them the majority.
THE MORNING NEWS: WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 29, 1894.
Mr. Carlisle and the Sugar Trust.
The Philadelphia Press, commenting on
the article in the New York Times in
which an effort is made to create the im
pression that Secretary Carlisle had se
cret relations with the sugar trust and
is res| onsible for the protection which
that trust gets in the new tariff, accepts
the statement that Mr. Carlisle visited
the office of the sugar trust in New York
on several occasions as charged by the
Times, and says; "Nobody imputes per
sonal corruption to Mr. Carlisle. What
he did was done not for himself, but for
a cause which he represented. And it is
now so plain as to be beyond denial or
question that he was the agent in
carrying out a political bargain.”
The position of the Press is that
the administration secretly favored giv
ing the sugar trust such protection as
would satisfy it, and that Mr. Carlisle
was the agent of the administration to
accomplish that ob.ect. The inference
from the article in the Times is that Sec
retary Carlisle was the agent of the su
gar trust and used his office to enable the
trust to get’sueh protection as it desired.
It is apparent that both the Times and
the Press cannot be right. There are
good reasons for thinking that neither of
them is right.
Who inspired the attack upon Mr. Car
lisle in the Times has not yet been found
out. It is quite certain that the charge
made by that paper is not true. It is em
phatically stated on the authority of Mr.
Carlisle that he never secretly or openly
visited the office of the sugar trust in
New York. That being true, it follows
that the insinuations in the article in
the Times are without foundation, and
that the statement of the Press, that Mr.
Carlisle was the agent of the adminis
tration in carrying out a political bargain,
is untrue.
It is difficult to understand the motive
for the article in the Times. That paper
is friendly to the administration, and it is
certain that Mr. Carlisle's position in
respect to a duty on sugar is now what it
has always been.
It looks very much as if the Times in
attacking Mr. Carlisle was more anxious
to create a sensation than to publish the
truth. The only thing it has succeeded
in doing is this; it has furnished the
republicans with material for political
capital.
Pullman’s Town.
Mr. Pullman does not appear to have
made a very good impression upon the
committee that is investigating the re
cent railway strike and boycott. He de
clined to go into details, saying that his
subordinates would furnish all the in
formation the committee desired upon
special matters.
There is no doubt that he had a benevo
lent object in view when he projected the
town cf Pullman, but his own testimony
made it clear that he intended from the
very beginning to have almost absolute
control of the people of his town. His
purpose was, and is still, to decide the
question of wages without outside in
terference and without consulting
with his employes, and it is
pretty clear that he thinks
he has a right to dictate to the
people who live in his town in matters
relating to their personal liberty. In
other words, he comes very near owning
the people as well as the houses of his
town. Naturally there is a great deal of
restlessness, and this restlessness showed
itself strongly as soon as wages began to
be reduced.
In his testimony he admitted that rents
had not been reduced when wages were
reduced. The fact that the people who
lived in his houses had a good deal of
money in his bank may have had some
thing to do with his failure to reduce
rents.
It is pretty safe to say that Pullman as
a model town is a failure. It was greatly
admired when everything was prosperous,
but its weak features cropped out just as
soon as there were conditions that caused
its merits to be tested.
“The only safe way to send money
through the mails,” says Postmaster
Haines, “is to send it by money
order or registered letter, and
parties who do otherwise are de
serving of no sympathy.” It costs five
cents, fee and postage, to send a sum of
money, however small, through the
mail by postal order, and ten cents, fee
and postage, to send a registered letter
through the mail. In order to procure a
postal order a lot of red tape must be
gone through with, at the expense of
several minutes ofrnore or less valuable
time. The same is true of the process of
registering. And when the postal order has
been procured and mailed, or the letter
registered, the remittance is “safe,” pro
vided that it does not fall into the hands
of a dishonest postal employe en route,
if it does fall into the hands of such dis
honest employe, then the person who
sends the remittance is “deserving of
sympathy.” And that is all he gets,
usually. In the case of neither the pos
tal order nor the registered letter does
the government guarantee that the re
mitiance will be delivered at its destina
tion into proper hands. The government
takes the fees and the person sendiug
the letter takes the risk. The registering
of a letter does not insure it against loss.
It merely makes a record of the transit of
the letter, for the postoHie department’s
own use. If a registered letter is stolen,
the theft may or may not be
traced to the thief. Some thieves
are very smart when they keep the
records themselves. Postal orders
and registered letter remittances,
however, are less likely to be
lost than ordinary letter remit
tances. But they are not “safe.”
The way to rnaka them “safe”
would be for the government to in
sure the registered letter. The fee
that is now charged, it has been calcul
ated. is quite large enough to permit of
the government's insuring registered
letters.
Secretary Carlisle pronounces the news
paper stories to the effect that he made
surreptitious visits to the offices of the
sugar trust during the progress of the
tariff bill in congress, to be ‘ malicious
lies.” And that should settle the matter.
Senator Hill of New York, is 51 years
old to-day. He is old enough to be Presi
dent, but as yet ho has tailed to convince
the people that he is otherwise equally
well qualified. ,
Brandon Thomas, who was only a few years
ago a very poor man, .s said now to be rich.
ue play write n by him, • Charley's Aunt,"
uiought the lucky author fao.txw.
PERSONAL.
Edwin F. Searles. who married the widow
o! Mark Hopkins of California, has presented
two valuable pictures to the Hopkins losti
, tuteof Art. m >ao Brands, o. Uhe institute
! is a department of the University of ( a.i
forma and occupies Ih. , astle like house
I £F for his own
! residence.
Lucinda Bradley, a colored woman, died at
B ntonville, Ohio, recently, at the age of 93.
| She had I een a slave, belonging to Henry
Clay, until she was 9 years od, when Clay
sold her After various transfers she was
nought bv William Bradley ir. D59. who took
her to '.dams county. Ohio, where they lived
as man and wife.
Robert Blaine, brother of the late James G.
Blame, has teen appointed I y Librarian
Spofford to a j9uj clerkship in the library of
congress. For several years prior to James
G. Blaine s death, his tirotner wus chief of a
division in the agricultural department, and
was one of the tlrst republicans removed D.v
the democratic administration.
Hadji Anaatl, former grand vizier of Mo
rocco: Mohammed oreir. ex-minister of war,
and two court officials were flogged last Sat
urday In the streets of Moquinos. Morocco,
because thev plotted to kill the Sultan. Each
prisoner was stripped naked and laid on a
donkey s Lack lo receive his punishment,
and all were put into dungeons the next day.
"Cy" Wnrman. the poet, who is responsible
for Sweet Marie,' in an interview with a
Chicago reporter, observed that there were
people who affected to prefer his "He Nearer
Me, Lueilie," or his "Clamber Closer, Clara. 1
but for his part he liked Lest "the poem with
the hard, round, shiny bones in it ; where
upon he produced a wallet containing a lua r
terlv statement of his royalties on "Sweet
-Marie," showing that for July, August and
September they would exceed 3 2,0 JO
Mr. John A. Howard, the democratic candi
date for congress in the Wheeling, W. Va ,
disirict, began life as a glassblower, devot
ing his evenings to study in a commercial col
lege. In itft'3 Jlr. Howard left the glass house
to accept a clerkship in the office of .-.ecretary
of state -talnaker, and in May. IhSa. he went
to Charleston, w hither the capital had been
removed, as private secretary" to Gov. Wil
son. Whue at Charleston Mr. Howard began
to read law, and was graduated from the law
department of the University of Virginia in
lKk7. His progress at the oar has been rapid,
lie is 37 years of age.
BRIGHT BITS.
Jimmy—What is this moral courage that
the Sunday school teacher was tellin us
about?
Tommy—As near as I kin guess It. its the
kind of courage that kids has that's afraid to
tight.— Indianapolis Journal.
"You don't seem to get along very well with
yer old friend?"
"Naw. lie got ter thinkin’ he knowed too
much. When 1 told tin he orter put his mind
in a gymnasium an' give is voice a vacation,
he got mad. ’—Washington Star.
"I told you that you would never get along
till you learned the art of making a dollar go
farther than you usually do.”
"Me'' Make a dollar go farther? Why, X
make them go so far now that none of them
ever get back.' lndianapolis Jfcurnal.
She Would Do.—"l have got anew cook."
said Mr. Subbubs, “but she acknowledges
that she only knows how to co.k ham and
eggs and make a cup of t offee. "
"Oh, that doesn’t matter.” answered the
wife. "She will he gone refore it is time to
cook dinner, anyway.”—lndianapolis Journal,
Mrs. Cash—What did you pay for that bon
net?
Mrs. Chargett—l don't know. I just told
the milliner to send the bill to my husband.
Mrs. Cash—Ain't you afraid to do that?
Mrs. Chargett—Oh, no; I'm perfectly will
ing to take the chances if the milliner Is.—
Washington star.
Idle Ike—Walk right by dat feller sellln'
shoestrings widout noticin’ Tin.
Lazy Luke—Why?
Idle Ike—Cuz he ain't recognized by our set
no more.
Lazy Luke—How’s dat ?
Idle Ike—’Dls is de third time flat man's
been caught trvin' ter earn his livin'.—Brook
lyn-Life.
The policeman was Standing on the corner
about midnight, when a belated passenger ap
proached him unsteadily. "1 say. Mr. Ossi
fer," he said, "how ia this anyhow?"
How s what?” inquired the officer good
naturedly.
"ihla politics.”
"What politics?”
"That at Washington.”
"I don t quite catch on.”
The passenger took the officer by the arm.
"I mean thish. 'he said: "Was It the Senate
that passed the sugar bill, or was it the sugar
that passed the seuate bill?”—Detroit Free
Press.
CURRENT COMMENT.
Better Times at Hand.
From the New York Herald lind ).
Unsatisfactory and disappointing as are the
results of the session, the iaw which goes into
effect to-morrow will afford some relict from
the burdens of McKinley protection, and,
acove all. It brings an end of the agitation
and suspense from which the country has
suffered so long and so keenly. That business
V’lll now begin to improve and times grow
better is to be expected as a matter of course.
The Income Tax Provided For.
From Springfield (Mass.) Republican (Ind.).
There is to be no hitch apparently about
the assessment of the income tax. The fail
ure to make an appropriation for the collec
Mon of the tax, it will have been seen, has
been remedied by a special bill passed by
both houses of congress. But there will be
no unusual exedus of New Yorkers to Europe,
and hey would Only succeed In adding a Euro
pean income tax to this about to be im
posed.
The New Tariff Law.
From the Macon (Ga.) Telegraph (Dem.).
As we have said before, we believe there is
nothing tor democrats to gain in attempting
to defend the faults and defects of the law.
The best thing to be dune is to admit those
lauitsand detects, explain why the Demo
cratic party was unable to prevent their pres
ence in the law, and promise to correct them
at the earliest possible moment. There is
plenty ot good in the law to justify its enact
ment, and the. party can take its stand on
this.
The Attack Upon Carlisle.
From the Washington Post find, i.
Nothmg could be more utterly outrageous
than the inference sought to be suggested in
these mugwump discussions of Mr. Carlisle
He has not changed by so much as a hair s
treadth his attitude toward sugar in connec
nectior with the tariff. He stands to day ex
actly where he stood ten years and more ago,
and has done nothing that he did not want to
do before the sugar trust and the mugwumps
and certain noisy prophets of revenue reform
were ever heard ot. He approved a duty upon
sugar because that was notoriously a part of
his economic philosophy. He would have
voted with the other democra ic senators if
he had i een a member of that bony. The
rest of the story Is malicious aud mendacious
absolutely.
Now is the Time to Slake Notes.
From the Philadelphia Record iDera.l.
I.et the farme s make a note of the average
McKinley prices tor wool Now is the time
to do it. Let them also set down the average
McKinley prices for lumber, shingles, salt,
agricultural implements and woolen goods.
Now is the t.me. At the end of the year they
will be enauled to see how it-itch they have
lost on theirwoolsales.it anytbiug At the
same time they can make a computation of
how much they have gained by the lessened
prices of articles on which the McKinley
duties have been reduced. By comparing
their gains and their losses they may he aide
to nnd out whether or not they have profited
by tariff changes A little home ciphering ol
this kind is worth acres of political harangu
ing and pamp,eteering.
“Recall the Senate.”
From the New York World (Dem.).
The sugar ring has dispersed the Senate
At the nod ct Mr. uomun. the ring s general
and the boss of the senate the members de
serted the capital leaving the Senate without
a quorum foi bus ness or for adjournment.
The trust's power was so complete and mer
ciless that it would not even permit a speech
to be made or a vole taken oil the taxes
which it hSd forced congress to levy for its
benefit Such a defiance of the popular will
Is not to he endured, such a Up rotation of
the senate should not I e submitted to. Pres
ident Cleveland would lie justified in calling
the senate back luto extra session, exclu
sively lor the consideration of the free sugar
bill demanded by the country and unani
mously passed by the House. A large ma
jority of the senators are opposed to the
sugar ring and will vote for free sugar when
ever they can vote on that clear Issue. The
President should give them the opportunity.
Tale Told by the Quartermaster.
The old o.uartermaster was sitting on a lad
der leading from the main up to the poop
deck, busily engaged in sewing a can.as
co er over the metal hand rail, says the New
York Sun At times, as he worked, he
stopped to Inspect with care and satisfaction
what he had already accomplished, and w hen
he had given a s vere look to every stitch he
would remove his cap and run his hand
through his hair before going on with his
work. It was plainly a job to his liking, and
so one quite certain to las: through at least
two watches.
But the passenger who watched the old
quartermaster o,served that each time the
cap was removed a fresh looking s ar was re
veaiea tn the edge of the hair over the right
temple, and so. after getting somewhat ac
quainted ly showing an appreiation of the
work on the rail, he made oold to ask how the
scar happened to tie where it was.
‘ That scar, sir?” said the old sailor. "It
was all along of my having a lavender pup
and these ond mate a black cat he called
sm it. The pup s name? Just Lavender, sir,
ana the nnest pup of his breed that ever
chewed beef he was He was not a common
dog. sir. X doubt if any one ever saw a lav
ender-colored pup before. Besides, he was
smooth ail over. Not a hair did he have on
him and what goes to hair In other dogs
went to brains in him. sir. Aye. he knew
more than some second mates. If you'll te
ji. me. sir I could sit nere and tell you
stories by the hour, su". of what that dog
knew and could do. You might pot believe
it. sir, i ut t ve seen that pup sia idlng on his
hmo legs with his fore paws on the binnacle,
a w atching the compass, and me at the wheel
a-dfeauiing of lost opportunities till I'd let
her get maybe an eighth off. IVhat udhe do
then but snap at me and look that vicious
>ou'd a thought he was thema;eof a Bath
clipper with an Irish crew aLoard.
“in course I'd wake up and apologize to
him at that, and so when Id hold her true for
a quarter hour or so he and wag his tail a bit
and give me a look like he and say. That s
more like it, my man.' and away he and go.
" Wonderful? Aou may well say that, sir:
and that would not be the whole of it. for I
could te l yer about his knowing the. weather
t otter t.nau any barometer, and what be un
derstood auout navigation, only that it would
have nothing to do particular with my getting
that oiKommon nasty cut over the eye. ’cept
ing as it u and show you how smart a dog can
be. and how some folks never can appreciate
brains, what they hain't. got theirselves.
"As I was savin', the second mate had a
si p of a.cat as black as a ton of toals—never
a white hair on it. I'm not sayin' but wnat it
was a good enuff cat, as cats go, sir, but it
hadn t no appreciation for good society. It
was a regular low-born cat. sir. as any one may
know when 1 tell you that it never would have
anything toMo with my lavender pup. Why. sir,
many s the time that pup tried to get alongside
that -mut for to make her acquaintance, but
she'd up her back, spread her tail, and away
she'd go.
"111 admit that he was impetuous about It,
sir; ’uVi make api mge at her with his mouth
open, while Smut, sne was delicate like and
wanted to be approached gentle and with no
end of palaver like a sweetheart in the Span
ish main. She never could understand such
ardor as his. the poor little fool, but whatever
there was in that to roil the second mate is
more n I know, and I was struck all in a heap
when he says to me arter Lavender had tried
to make it pleasant for the cat once, he says,
says he:
Look alive, there, quartermaster, an'
keep yer darn pup ofl'n Smut, or I'll drop him
everuoard,' an' all I could say was 'Aye, ave,
sir.'and properly cuss them as didn't under
stand dog natur.
"Next day. as luck would have it. the pup
got >-mut cornered, and what did she do but
cuff him alongside both ears and send him
howlin'to my bunk for ard. That sh'u and ha'
been enough to teach him to associate with
his equals only, but it didn t; it seemed as
though he was more determined than ever to
get on friendly terms with her, only he wus
more cautious-like in his maneuverin'. But
every time he'd ihsinivate himse.f around
her he was sure to get a good cuff alongside
of one ear. and so matters stood for some
days, and I noticed that the secoad mute was
laughin' in a most unfeelin' manner every
time the dog had his hair eomoed oy that 'ere
cat.
"Howsever. we be to arrive in Rio stout
that time, and th re one day that cat fet. hed
to. without coaxing, alongside the pup as he
was a set at chin' the deck with his hind paws,
dog fashion. ’Rears like she wasn't afraid
of him when he was elawin of the deck with
his hind paws, and that gave him anew idea.
Smart? that pup could hist in anew idea
while most second mates would be havin
hard work gettin’ of It alongside in tow
Whatever does he do next time, he wants to
go gallivantin' around that smut, but—
well s r, 1 was that astonished I was thunder
struck, and. worse, too. the iirst time 1 see
what he done. It was just aft there, on the
poop by the fits, and me a-taking a stitch in
the cover of the skylight, with the mate
lookin' on. when Smut she comes purrin'
around the after bit. white the pup was in the
wake of the companion way. The pup
he takes a stroll over toward the
bits the moment he notices the cat,
and when pretty close alongside he
turns round and backs up toward her. 11l
admit, sir, it was not perlite in him, and the
second mate laughed at to kill with tninkin’
the pup was aimin'to take his cuffin' where
it wouldn't hurt so much, and i was a thinkin’
he’d change h.s mind about the not hurtin'
him aft as well as for'ard when all to once up
goes his heels a eatehin' that cat in the ribs.
and away she went overboard and the second
mate and me wo reached the rail iu time to see
her disappearing In the jaws of a shark that
lay there tannin' the water with his tail.
"And at that. sir. the second mate he
grabbed the poor pup by the neck, and I made
bold to grab it by the heels to save it. sir. and
then it must ha' been a hurricane or some
thing nigh hand to II struck the ship there
abouts. and when the weather had eleaied
away a bit f was found in the scuppers with
my head cut as you see it, sir.”
Northern Gallant and Southern Beau.
Col. Joe Lane Stern of Richmond. Va.. met
Col. Steve Welcome Nickerson of Boston,
Mass., at the Fifth Avenue Hotel yesterday
and both ex, hanged handshakes ana confi
dences. says ihe New York Press. The K.ch
mo M cavalier was on his wav home from
Narragansett Pier, where the i eaudful girls
of the north had disported uefore his enrap
tured gaze, and the Bostou cavalryman had
just got back from the white sulphur
Springs, w.iere the alluring beauties of the
suuthlanu had fascinated him with their
charms. Col. Stern said thoughtfully:
"What 1 admire about northern girls is
their dashing air and their knowing ways.
They are so tremendously clever! They talk
to you about everything you knowand a great
many things you have never heard of. One of
them askeu in if I had read -the Heavenly
Twins ' She wis from Boston, and a regular
morning glory. I told her I was trying to
read one of them just then and didn't care if
I never met the other. She laughed and said
thai southern gentlemen always had the repu
tation of devoting all their time to saying
pretty things to the ladies. I didn't know
what she meant until I found she had been
talking ai out a hook. T hen I saw she had
been guving me because I had not found time
to read it. ”
Col. Nickerson's experience had no such
drawl ack. it seems, and his voice quivered
with enthusiasm:
"X love the freedom and innocent gayety of
your true southern girl 1 How fond they
are of poetry! And they don't worry you
with chaperons. ) ou’re expected to know
there's a shotgun in the family, and nobody
minds a little innocent, party of young p -ople.
I was tempted to propose a dozen times. I
only didn't because X could not make up my
mind. Ea h girl seemed so much nicer than
the other that It was out of the question to
select any one.”
Picturesque, but Dangerous.
From the Philadelphia Press.
It is proper to gaze, with a sentiment tender.
On landmarks our revered forefathers
made:
But it's hardly in season to be a defender
Of the time stricken pump, with Its nozzle
decayed.
The Iron-bound bucket we cherish sincerely,
But earnest devotion must suffer a slump.
When.we think of the microbes that wriggle
so queerlv
In water that flows from the old-fashioned
pump.
'Tis a figure romantic, and well might we
keep It,
If people would simply admire and mot
taste.
But. think of the water! What dust clouds
must sweep it:
How it patiently stands and absorbs every
waste.
'Tlsa blissful retreat forthc typhoid bacillus;
A place where bacierin scurry and jump;
It Is nice for the germs, but 'twill certainly
kill us
To keep on good terms with the old
fashioned pump..
Sir Henry Loch, governor of the Cape of
Good Hope, has the greatest record as an of
fice holder of any living Englishman. He
has served in ihe civil service at London, has
beon a midshipman In the navy and a major
in the army, hus hart a diplomatic miasiou
and lias been governor ol sundry colonies.
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Few persons are aware of the enormous
part which the pawnshop plays in 'he life of
the English people, says the Contemporary
Review. In no country In the world is more
pawning done. It is estimated that the
pledges amount to ten per head of the popula
tion a year- which would give 4UO.iiOo.Ojf) annu
ally. lhe average value of the pledges is
about 4s. which would mean that the loans
amount to £2O.OOOXOOa vear. This estimate is
not by any means aggravated At an inquiry
held oy a select committee of the H ous' of
Commons for the fcenefit of the pawnbr 'ker i
in 1670, it was stat.d oy the chief witness who
got up the evidence for the trade, that in. Li
verpool there were 9.068,000 pledges taken in
that city in a year. On this same basis we
might estimate that the number ot pledges in
London ever year now will be about too.) 00 -
01). At the same inquiry the secretary of the
Glasgow Pawnbrokers' Association stated
that there were 6.960 000 pledges annua'ly In
that city, and that the money lent amounted
to £1,392,000.
Folding fans, which came from China, were
first introduced at the Freneh court in the
seventeenth century, whence thev fo and their
way into hpain, becoming in that country so
popular that every class of society adopted
them tn preference to any other bind, says
the Westminster Gazette. The folding fan
Is used in Spain not only in the drawing
room and the theater, but also in the street
and in church; nay. the usage is such all over
the country that the marke: women, selling
their vegetables, and peasants sitting before
their doors, are seldom without a fan in their
hands during the summer months; indeed,
fans often supersede the use of the parasol.
Such being the demand, the manufacturing
of this article offered naturally a profitable
result, and several tan factories have been
established at Valencia. About SUJ people
are employed in the fan trade tn that town
alone. Prices vary from 6d. to about £l.
though much higher prices are occasionally
obtained for fans of artistic design or valu
able material The wages paid are very low
—from Is to Is. 9d. per day. Even the paint
ers, who often produce very pre.ty pictures
on silk, receive but a scant recompense.
The French mode of conducting auctions is
rather curious, says the New York Commer
cial Advertiser. In sales of importance, such
as land, houses, etc., the affair is placed in
the hunts of a notary, who, for the time
being, becomes an auetioneeThe property,
whatever be its nature, is nrst examined by
competent judges, who fix upon it
considerably less than its vaiue. s
sufficient to prevent anv ruinous
concerted plan or com illation wPhidders.
The pfo, erty is then offered with the fixed
valuation stated. The auct;oneer is provided
with a number of small wax tapers, each
capable of burning about five minutes. As
soon as a bid is made one of these tapers is
placed in full view of all interested parlies
and lighted. If, before it expires, another
bid is offered, it is immediately extinguished
and a fresh t iper placed in its stead, and so
on until one flickers and dies out of itself
when the last bid becomes irrevocable. This
simple plan prevents all contention among
rival lilders and affords a reasonable time
for reflection before making a higher offer
than tne one preceding. By this means, too.
the auctioneer is prevented from exer islng
undue influence upon the bidders, or hastily
accepting the bid of a favorite.
Who invented the baton of the musical con
ductor? According to one of the French
papers this wand of command was devised by
Lull!, the famous chajiel master of Louis
AIV. and who it is sometimes asserted was
the composer of our “God Save the (Jueerj,''
says Mr. G A. Sala. in the Leeds Mercury,
l-’rior to Lulli s day the orchestra had their
time marked for them by the composer clap
ping his hands together or stamping his feet
alternately. Lulli's baton was at least six
feet in length, and with the butt end he struck
the floor: but one day ne brought the instru
ment down heavily on his own foot, instead of
the ground. Mozart, it is also stated, intro
duced the short baton at present used by the
conductor. The baton of the composer of
“Don Giovanni” was of Ivory; that of
Meyerbeer of solid silver, and that ot
Fetis ot ebony enriched with diamonds. Old
readers of the "Echoes” may remember that
I have always persistently refused to believe
that the flourishing of tne conductor's baton
has anything whatever to do with the action
of the orchestra, for the simple reason that i
have sat in the second row of the stalls in
most of the opera houses in the world, and I
have noticed that the Instrumentalists keep
their eyes on the music before them and
never look at the conductor. A violinist once
had the amusing impudence to write to me to
say that he and his congeners were gifted
with second sight, and that thev could simul
taneously read their score and follow the
gesticulating of the conductor.
The Society for Psychical Research, at the
moment when the supply of ghosts and the
society's funds were falling short, has had the
felicity of finding anew field of inquiry and
the money with which to explore it, says a
cable In the New’ York Sun. Thev have to
th ink the marquis of Bute for both favors.
The marquis is a solid, solemn, millionaire
peer, and a devout Catholic, who has always
taken a laguid interest in spooks. Reading
recently a newspaper paragraph descrl ing a
case In the sheriff s court at Oban, in which
the defendant was said to possess "the evil
eye." he wrote to the secretary of the society
offering SSOO toward the cost of an inquiry
into that malignant optic in particular, anil
the question of second sight and other
Scottish superstitions in general. The so
ciety greedily snapped at the offer, and forth
with organized an expedition, which Is now
wandering about Scotland on a lookout for
evil eyes, seers, witches, and such like. Re
liable information as to the progress made
has not yet come to hand, probably Lecause a
selfish reporter, who wants to score a beat
with the complete story, is attached to the
expedition; but it is rumored that the Oban
defendant with the Evil Lye was tracked to
his lair and gave the investigators a remark
ably warm reception from the effects of
which they are still suffering. ,t is said also
that the marquis hus been rebuked by his
spiritual advisers for displaying unseemly
and premature curiosity in ghostly things,
but that is probably a libel upon his' lordship
and his chaplains.
The conflicting, though scant, reports con
cerning the war like proceedings in Japan and
the Corea may be attributed to the lact that
cable communication with Japan is inter
rupted; whether this Interruption is caused
by the official closing of the telegraph of
fices. or hy the still more summary method of
cutting the cables, we cannot say, says the
Electrical Review. It is certain, however,
that neither Chinese nor Japanese would have
the slightest difficulty in destroying these
cables, as the cat lea from Shanghai to Naga
saki run In water less than fifty fathoms deep
for 201 miles from Shanghai; and the Naga
saki-\ ludivosiock cable*, for nearly the same
distance, lie in waterunder 10) fathoms deep.
As we have frequently pointed out, ft
Is impossible to count on these
cables in the eastern seas for im
munity from interruption. The cable recently
laid between Singapore and Hong Kong,
touching at Labuan. lies for about BOi or *uo
m:les in water not exceeding forty fathoms
in depth Communication with Australasia
ts altogether dependent on cables which. In
the Java sea and the straits of Malacca, run
for about 1,000 miles in water nowhere deeper
than forty fathoms, and averaging about
twenty-live fathoms, and which are therefore
completely at the merev of any craft which
happens to have an anchor to drag across
these lines. We do not enlarge on the euse
with which the catdee to India could be cut,
either in ihe gulf of sue* or at the entrance
to the lied sea where, if we rx.ept hand
lines, the shallow water (under forty fath
oitsi leaves our communication with India.
Australus a and China altogether in the
power of ary hostile vessel.
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59c. now *5 c.
French 0 gandies—
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Dotted Swisses that were 15c,
Satin Striped Organdies that
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Ladies’ Waists—
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big lot that were 50c and 75c,
now .2 5 c.
A big lot that were 81-50 and
82, now OQc.
Bed Steads—
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Prints—
ladigo Prints, the regular 8c
kiud, now sc.
Ginghams—
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The 12!Ic grade of Fancy Dress
Ginghams, now <5 |.4c,
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Men’s and Women's Umbrellas.
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82 grade, to-day, QB C .
83 grade, to-day, @l.-4-£3.
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Summer Sale of Underwear.
Hand made Night Gowns
89c, sl, 51.45, $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 -CSe. 75c. B#c, #l. $1.25, *1.50 and *2.
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Wash Goods of every description at half
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