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INDEX TO SEW ADVERTISEMENTS
Meetings— Haupt Lodge No 58 I O. O. F.
Special Notices— Chewers of Tobacco,
Try the Golden Apple Brand; Notice to
Water Takers; Proclamation of Mayor Mc-
Donough as to Labor Day. Consider the
Merits of 'Success'' Self Rising Flour, More
house Manufacturing Company; Savannah
Rifle Association; A Big Rush, B. H. Levy Si
Bro.; Three Houses for Sale, W. K. Wilkin
son, Real Estate Dealer.
. It Will Pay Any Man—Appel 4 Schaul.
Apples. Etc.—W. D. Slmktns.
As to Trousers—B. H. Levy & Bro.
Steamship Schedules— Baltimore Steam
ship Company.
Cheap Column advertisements— Help
Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Rent;
For Sale; Lost: Personal: Miscellaneous.
Mrs. Lease of Kansas, after a manly
fight against obscurity, is getting ready to
succumb to the inevitable. She announces
that she is a "physical wreck,” and must
rest and recuperate.
The people of Home have invited Con
gressman Turner to address them on Sept.
7. The people of other sections of the state
are writing to the managers of his cam
paign to make dates for speeches. There
seams to be a very general desire on the
part of the pro-pio to hear what the dis
tinguished tariff reformer has to say of
the situation.
Chairman Wilson of the ways and
means committee has been renominated,
and the West Virginians will re-elect
him. If the democrats carry the next
House, and there are reasons for the be
lief that they will. Crisp will be the next
speaker and Wilson will be the next ways
and means chairman. So there may yet
be a Wilson tariff bill.
There are 658 men in the spinners’
union at Fall River. Four hundred and
seventy-four of these voted for a strike.
The majority rule obtains in the union,
hence the strike was ordered. Twenty
five thousand persons thrown out of em
ployment and weekly pay rolls amounting
to $172,000 stopped are two of the results
of the votes to strike cast by the 474 spin
ners.
For weeks and weeks a New York pa
per has been agitating the question, “Is
bicycling immodest?” The question is in
tended to apply to the riding of bicycles
by women, of course. It isn't immodest
for a man to make a monkey or a living
picture of himself, on a wheel; at least
the newspaper that is running the dis
cussion has never suggested any such
thing. Nor has it thrown much light
upon the question it asks. It is a matter
of individual tasto and individual dress
and individual deportment whether bicy
cling for women is immodest or not.
The democracy of Florida lias taken a
stand in favor of liberal appropriations
for the state militia. The prevailing
sentiment seems to be that the state
troops should be better equipped, and at
the next session of the legislature a bill
having that end in view will be intro
duced. A reasonable amount expended
on state troops is always money well in
vested. There is no telling when the oc
casion for the use of such troops may
arise. If the need for a military force
were to arise and find the state unpre
pared for tne emergency, the conse
quences might amount to more than mil
itary appropriations for a dozen years.
Judge Turner's audience at Decatur,
according to our report, was "made up of
the thinking class.” That is the class
that Judge Turner's statesmanship ap
peals to. He is a thinker himself. His
ideas are evolved by thought, and they
lead others to think. He is not a “tin
horn” orator and “peanut” politician, but
a statesman, in a high acceptance of the
term. It is gratifying to know that the
thinkers turnod out so well at his first
campaign meeting. Thinkers are tho
people who influence voters, especially
the voters who elect senators. The brass
band and the campaign “barker” may
turn some of the shallow voters who cast
their ballots for legislators. But the leg
islators themselves, and the people to
whom they turn for friendly advice, are
not swayed by shallow devices. They
are, or are credited with being, thinkers.
The New York Times continues to as
sert that, notwithstanding his denial,
Secretary Carlisle did visit the office of
the sugar trust on a certain date In
proof of its assertion the Times ofTers a
map showing that there is a Wall street
and an office of the sugar trust. On tho
map have been made certain small black
marks that look like exclamation points
in repose—that is, lying down. These
marks, the Times alleges, are Secretary
Carlisle's footprints, and the aggregation
of them, it says, shows “Carlisle’s trail
in Wall street.” Inasmuch as six of
the footprints are equal in length to a city
block, and as no Kentucky gentleman
ever had a foot of that size, it is quite evi
dent that the Times is laboring with a
ease of mistaken identity. It must have
been the sr>oolc of the 'giant Cormorun
whom the Times saw going to the sugar
trust's office that day.
A Campaign of Deception.
The tone of the republican papers in
respect to the new tariff indicates that
it is the purpose of the republicans to
make their campaign for the control of
i the next House a campaign of deception.
Their purpose is to try to make the farm
ers and working people believe that the
new tariff is hostile to their interests.
The New York Press, for instance, speak
ing of the bill, sa.vs: “Never before has
such an infamous measure passed an
American congress; never before have
methods so odious and schemes so cor
rupt been devised to forge upon American
labor the shackles of servitude to En
gland.”
There are columns of this sort of stuff
in the republican papers. It is worthy of
notice, however, that not one of them
DOints out wherein the interests of
the workingmen or farmers will suffer on
account of the new tariff. The cotton
manufacturers and the operatives in the
cotton factories cannot find fault with
the cotton schedule. Senator Aldrich,
the leader of tho protectionists in the
Senate, speaking of that schedule said:
“This schedule, which was prepared by a
number of manufacturers of Fall River,
so far as the p>rice of cloth is concerned,
is perhaps the most scientific schedule
which has ever been prepared upon the
subject, and the committee that prepared
it deserves the thanksof the cotton manu
facturers of the country.”
The woolen manufacturers are satisfied
with the tariff. They have free raw ma
terial. and are so confident of prosperity
that woolen mills in all parts of the coun
try are resuming operations. It is even
reported that new plants are projected.
In the tin plate and iron and steel indus
tries there are increasing evidences of re
newed activity.
The farmers have excellent reasons for
being satisfied with the bill. The cotton
planters get cheaper jute bagging, the
wheat farmers cheaper binding twine,
and all of them get cheaper clothing.
These are only a few of the benefits that
will flow from the bill.
What rot, therefore, is tho assertion
we have quoted from the New York
Press. The republican papers are doubt
ing the intelligence of the people. They
will deceive only the most ignorant.
People who read and think know that
the new tariff is not inimical to the in
terests of American workingmen.
Reed’s Raid on Truth.
Ex-Speaker Reed, in his opening cam
paign speech in Maine, seems to have
tried to see how far he could *-et away
from the truth. In no particular was he
fair and frank in dealing with the new
tariff. For instance, he said:
The Republican party, in the bill of
18U0, had given this country free sugar.
If thore is a necessity in life, that is oue,
and we had freed it entirely from the tax
gatherer.
Mr. Reed knew the foregoing assertion
was not true when he made it. The Re
publican party did take off raw sugar the
duty which yielded the treasury $50,000,-
UOO annually, but it put a duty of 60 cents
per hundred pounds on refined sugar, the
kind of sugar the people use, and this
duty yielded nothing to the government,
but it enabled the sugar trust to tax the
people to the extent of many millions
annually for its own benefit. The people
were stiil further taxed to the extent of
$10,000,000 a year to pay the bounty of 2
cents a pound to the sugar planters of
this country. The Republican party did
not give the people free sugar. It simply
transferred the sugar revenue from
the government to the sugar trust.
Some Notes on Burglary.
A dispatch from Huntingdon, Pa., says
that a store in that place was burned the
other night through the carelessness of
burglars who had visited it. The state
ment may appear commonplace, and of
very little importance. But, really, it is •
a matter of somo moment. Burglars
ought to be more careful, for personal
reasons, in the way they handle tire and
lights in the places they visit. It is a
mighty poor kind of a burglar who,
through carelessuess, destroys his
chances for making a second haul, by
leaving a little blaze that will burn up
everything ho can’t carry off at one
trip.
The burglars of Savannah are to be
congratulated upon the fact that they
belong to a higher class than did the
Huntingdon burglar. They know all
about electric lights and gas lights, as
well as oil lights. When the burglar who
“burgled” the down-town drug store the
other night made his rounds he was very
careful to see that every light was out.
The result is that the big business block
was not destroyed; every store in the
neighborhood remains intact, a standing
invitation to the burglar to exercise his
skill again.
That is the way to commit burglary, if
burglary must be committed. The craft
is credited with being made up of men
possessed of the finest degree of caution,
and of a senso of discrimination that is
not surpassed by any other class of pro
fessional gentlemen. Carelessness, or
lack of forethought, on the part of a
burglar is very reprehensible, and a blun
der is a crime against the ethics of the
profession that should not be condoned.
The burning of the Huntingdon store was
the result of a burglar's blunder. The
craft will probably repudiate him, as it
should. Such carelessness must be
frowned down.
Managing labor uuions appears to be
quite a, profitable business. Mr. Debs
gets a salary and perquisites amounting
to more than the pay of a senator. Mr.
Powderly, during his career as chief of
the Knights of Labor, was enabled to
amass a snug little pile, and Mr. Howard,
who is the head maqin the spinners’ strike
at Fall River, is reported to be worth
above $50,000, which he has saved from
the salary the operatives pay him. Mr.
Howard, by the way, is a member of tho
Massachusetts Senate, atid hasn't
worked in a mill since any one can re
member, though tradition has it that he
once tended a set of spindles. During
many years he has been a member of one
or the other of the houses of tho legisla
ture, where he looked out for the spin
ning interests. During the time between
general assemblies he has given his at
tention to keeping the mill managers
straight.
The President’s letter to Mr. Cach
ings contains oue or two sentences well
calculated to arouse to the fighting pitch
the ire of the persons against whom they
are directed. Now, let’s see who gets
“interviewed” for the purpose of getting
back at the President.
THE MORNING NEWS: THURSDAY, AUGUST SO, 1894.
Prospects of the Populists.
There are no signs that the populists
are making headway in this state. There
is very little enthusiasm at their meet
ings. and the meetings are never large,
even at the places which are easily
reached. Judge Hines, from whom so
much was expected by the populist lead
ers. is a failure as a stump speaker. It is
reported that at Cartersville on Tuesday,
where there was the largest gathering of
populists that Hines and Watson have
met since they began their campaign,
many of the audience left before Judge
Hines finished his speech. His effort
was a disappointment. The popu
lists do not appear to take
much interest in him, and what he says
does not arouse enthusiasm among them.
Even Watson is not meeting with the suc
cess on the stump he did two years ago.
Both he and Judge Hines are devoting
much of their time to the blacks. They
seem to think that the black vote can be
captured without much trouble.
The republican leaders, however, are
taking no stock in the populist cause.
They do not favor an alliance between the
populists and the republicans, and as
long as the republican leaders hold aloof
there is not much chance for the populists
to get any considerable number of the
blacks to join them.
The impression is quite strong among
the blacks that Judge Hines is not
friendly to them and that the populists
have no use for them except to get their
votes. In Bulloch, and perhaps some
other counties, statements are being pub
lished which iudicate that Judge Hines
on more than one occasion has expressed
the utmost contempt for the blacks. It
will not be long before the blacks
throughout the state will hear the opin
ion the Bulloch county blacks have of
him. That opinion will have the effect
of keeping the blacks from giving the
populist ticket any support.
The outlook now is that the populists
will not poll as many votes at the next
election as they did two years ago. In
that event the populist party will disap
pear from Georgia’s political horizon.
Heliopathy for Baldness.
Are you baldlteaded? Do you wish you
were not.’ Are you weary of being a
marked man when you take a front row
seat? Do the hies in summer and the
cold draughts in winter make your pol
ished poll a source of annoyance and anx
iety? Do the ladies smile when they
glance at the mirror-like surface of that
dome of thought? Then why not get rid
of the baldness, and wear a top upon
which the erstwhile Sahara-like desola
tion has been replaced by a luxurious and
ambrosial growth?
How is the change to be brought
about? Why. by a hair restorer, to bo
sure. One that costs nothing, is to be
found everywhere, is “guaranteed to be
absolutely harmless,” is not patented,
and may be applied any fair day—sun
beams.
In New York there are a number of men
in various stages and degrees of baldness
who, according to a prominent physician
interviewed by the Sun, have become al
most literal sun worshipers. Every day
that it is possible they bare their polls to
old Sol and invoke his kindly considera
tions as earnestly as did ever old Zoroas
ter. And the physician says their faith
is well founded. He calls the sun-bath
hair tonic “heliopathy,” and says of the
theory of it: “Hair in its mechanical
aspect may be regarded as a condensed
form of cuticle. Each hair originates .in
the cellular membrane of the skin from a
small bulbous root, which by its vessels
connects with what we call the chorion,
in which it is imbedded. In bald heads
this bulb, through defective circulation
of the blood, has ceased to put forth
shoots of hair, and needs some extraneous
force to restore its functions—a force
that contains the quintessence of the life
principle, electricity. Such a force is
sunlight.”
If the theory of heliopathy is simple
and reasonable, and it seems that it is,
the practice of it is easy and pleasant.
All that it is necessary for the baldhead
to do is to step out of doors on a fair day,
and he will beiin a bath of hair restorer;
then he has only ixt take off his hat. He
has not even to rub the restorer in; it
will go of its own accord.
How about the results? The doctor
quoted knows some “graduates of helio
pathy” who went into the treatment as
bald as a china nest egg and came out of
it with flying hair. They went about it
patiently and in the open air—the
restorer filtered through a window pane
won’t do—and were rewarded with
crowns they wouldn't swap for a king
dom.
The probabilities are that before the
banana season has set in fairly the Mos
quito reservation muddle will be cleared
up; at least in so far as this government
is concerned. It is understood that the
Washington government will hold that
Nicaragua has authority over the Mos
quito strip, and that Nicaragua must be
responsible for everything that occurs or
has occurred there. Clarence, the chief
of the Mosquito Indians, is merely a local
authority, and will be treated as such.
The concessions that have been granted
to Americans by Clarence, or the Mos
quito government, must bo
guaranteed by Nicaragua, or the conces
sionaires must be paid an indemnity.
The government of Nicaragua will bo
held to accountability for the injuries
and indignities suffered by citizens of the
United States at the hands of Nicaraguan
soldiers in the Mosquito reservation.
With this government acting on these lines
all of the difficulties should be straight
ened long before the Christmas demand
for bananas sets in.
Tho resurrected dispensary law in
South Carolina, which had remained a
dead letter for months, led to the double
killing at Hlackville, reported in our dis
patches of yesterday. These two deaths
make the aggregate of victims to the dis
pensary war somewhere in the neighbor
hood of ten. And. unfortunately, se\eral
of the victims were young men of the
best and most highly respected families
in the state, and themselves influential
and promising members of society.
Especially is this true of Frame Normcnt
of Darlington and Eol Brown of Black
ville. They amounted to something, and
would have amounted to more if they had
been allowed to live. The lives of even
two such men is an enormous price to
pay for the state's monopoly of the
whisky traffic. And the difficulty ap
pears to be that the end of the strife is
not yet. How many more lives are to be
sacrificed
PERSONAL.
It te stated that all the copies of the col
lected edition of Robert Louis Stevenson's
*orks have been bespoken. Of the I,COO sets
available for the public, about bOu came to
America and the Colonies, and in the distri
bution over Great Britain of the 7CO remain
ing London takes the lion share.
M. Caflmir Perier. President of France,
has been at bis country home in Pont-sur-
Seine for a week or more. He i* ext oetiir.KlV
popular among the people of the neighbor
hood, for whom the family has done* much.-
When he went home last year as president of
the chamt er he attended a country fair. One
of the men asked him if he remembered when
he used to run races with th * children of the
neighrorhood. “Yes replied the future
president, and I have not forgotten how I
bet you sous." taking off bis coat, that
I can nea to yonaer pole The bet was
accepted, and M. C'asimir Perier won it with
ease.
Prince Bismark s life at Varzin is marked
by the utmost regularity. Shortly after 9
o'clock he rises and takes a bath immed
laieiy. lie then breakfasts. About 11:46 he
go- s for a walk in the park till about 12:30.
being accompanied by his two dogs. Tyras
and Rebecca. When the prince has ended
his walk he takes a substantial lunch, giving
preference to cold fowl crabs and the like.
When the weather is favorable he takes a
drive in the afternoon, which at times lasts
thiee hours. On his return dinner is served.
Regularly at 11 o'clock the prince retires to
bed. He sleeps much better now than in for
mer years, as be is not so tormented by
neuralgic pains.
Big Reserve Officer John Rollings, who
Stood* for a long time at Thirteenth and
Chestnut streets. Philadelphia, where bis*
gigantic form won for him the playful nick
name of -‘Baby,’* lies in the Hahnemann
hospital critically ill from a paralytic stroke,
and it is feared that he will never a ruin be tit
for duty, says the Philadelphia He ord. Roll
ings is the biggest man < n the poii< e force,
standing six feet eight and a half inches high,
and weighing 336 pounds and on account of
“* s k r culean size was persuaded once to join
the New York force, where he served for a
year on the Broadway squad, and was known
as the * Broadway Giant." He also served
several years as a guard at the capitol in
Washington. Some time a_'o he was knocked
down and run over by an unmanageat le horse,
sustaining injuries which incapacitated him
for street duty.
bright bits.
A Heavy Strain.—- And Jack says he’ll
break the engagement if I insist on iiving in
Brooklyn."
“But that’s no sign he doesn’t love you.”—
Life.
Amelia—l wish there were not so many dry
goods advertisements in this paper.
Clara—Good gracious, dear, w hy?
Amelia -one hasn’t time to read the other
matter in it.—Printer's Ink.
Becker—l see bv the posters that Foot
lights. the tragedian, travels under his wife's
management.
Decker So do most men, but they don't
advertise it.—Brooklyn Life.
Ethel-What made people think they were
husband and wrife?
Frank Why . whenever he related a good
story she always interrupted him by saying
he and lett out something.—Tit-Bits.
An Explanation.-Little Isaac Fadder.
what does dis mean? “Effery cloud has a sil
ver lining?”
Fadder—l dink dot means financial clouds,
like tires und vailures, mein son.—Puck.
"As to this case of yours, my friend.” said
the lawyer, -to be perfectly honest with
you—”
"There needn’t be any guff of that sort be
tween you and me,” interrupted the client.
"I'm a horse jockey.”—Chicago Tribune.
Mrs. Hasdust—That Mrs. TJppsrcrust called
to-day and left her card, with P. P. c."
marked on the corner. I wonder what it
means?
Mrs. Rolllnginwealth—Oh. I believe she's
going out of the city, and she probably wants
to let you know she's going to travel in a
Pullman palace car. The vulgarity of some
folks is just terrible:—New York Herald
Hitt Grace the Duke lußt s*t fop.several
moments silent. "Of Cnursfr.” the heiress
was observing. at aently toying with her fan,
"you are a landed nobleman?” The man tn
whom centered ail her hopes of netting into
high society sighed deeply. “Practically."
he rejoined, gloomily. "I owe your old man so
much money thrt I can t get away." Rising,
with a glad cry, she fell on his neck.—Detroit
Tribune.
The young man had recently come into
possession ol a handsome estate, and he was
blowing it in at such a rate that an old friend
of his father's felt called upon to remonstrate
with him. "You don’t knowhow to treat a
fortune," said the old gent, after he had
talked himself into a bad humor.
"The deuce I don't,” responded the rapid
youth. "I'm sure it gets champagne every day
and all the concomitants. You don't expect
me to treat it on beer, do you?’’—Detroit Free
Press.
CTJKItENT COMMENT.
Why Did They Ever Go P
From Springfield (Mass.) Republican (Ind.i.
Settlers on farms in the northwest from the
Carolina* ate said to be going back to their
southern homes in some numbers, discour
aged by drouths and blizzards and destruc
tive insects. This is as singular as was the
original movement from the south to the
northwest.
“It Means Fight.”
From Charleston News and Courier (Dem.t.
President Cleveland will be severely cen
sured in some quarters and by certain inter
ests for his failure to approve or to veto the
new tarifi bill. This is to be expected hut it
will not have a feather s weight with the
plain people whose champion Mr. Cleveland
has been, and whose friend and chumpiou he
will continue to be to the end. * * Mr.
Cleveland's letter will arouse the people of
the country to their danger and their duty.
It does not mean surrender, it means fight.
The President's Latest Letter.
From the Augusta Chronicle (Dem.l.
Whether the reader agrees with the posi
tion of President Cleveland or not he will be
forced to admit that the letrer to Mr. Catch
ing*. like that to l liairman Wilson while tho
bill was in conference, is in Mr. Cleveland s
usual frank, earnest and fearless style. He
does what he believes is right, and does it be
cause he believes it is right, regardless of
the entreaties of friends or the arguments of
party policy to the contrary. Whether a lit
tle more of party policy would not be better
is seriously questioned by men of equal integ
rity w th the President, but whether the
future will vindicate Mr. Cleveland's policy
time will tell.
Anarchists in Florida.
From the Philadelphia Ledger rind.).
The populists of the First congressional
district of Florida have departed somewhut
from tltecouise pursued by their brethren
elsewhere in regard to the part President
Cleveland took in upholding the principle of
law and order during the late railroad riots
at Chicago and elsewhere. Instead of ar
raigning him for sending United states troops
to various points where the troubles were
worst, on the ground that he was thereby
giving aid to grinding monopolists at the
expense of the laboring men. these Florida
populists boldly denounce the President for
"quelling the riots.” Such sentiments, of
course, are to be condemned as being the
spirit of downright anarchy, but those who
uttered theoi are more honest and courage
ous than their brethren who believe the
same wav but hide their thoughts under less
Incendiary expressions, and they have more
courage and fairness than those rabid parti
sans who gave him half-hearted, churlish
commendation for his invincible pu lie spirit
and devotion to the highest ideals of official
duty.
Tho Silver is Still Afloat.
From Columbus (Ga.l Enquirer-Sun (Dem.l.
Some of our free silver contemporaries
have reached that point where they seem to
think thai the country has been robbed of its
silver ihefuctis however, and the people
know it, that stiver liasn t gone anywhere, it
is still circulating everywhere in the republic,
and is freelv used by every man. woman and
child who buys anything. None of tho silver
has been retired from circulation, nor is it
likely to tic The treasury is also coining a
million dollars of stiver a month, so that no
body shall sulTr. There is nouody suffering
about the c triage but the silver bullion
barons of the west. 1 hey want the free and
unlimited coinage of the product of their
mines at a ratio of 16 lo 1. that would give
them over and arove the market value of
their bullion about 60 oents on the dollar of
unearned profits They wojid be the real
and only I enetlelarie*. The question is. do
the people want to put tip such a stupendous
jolt on themselves in order to swell iho al
ready bloated t ank accounts of silver barons?
Not If they know it. It won tbe done under
the present administration, nor probably
under uuy succeeding udtuiuiatration.
Saved by a Belt of Gold.
“Gold has a variety of u*es.” said Mr.
Thornton Decker, an English engineer, to an
American who met him in Tlacalula. accord
ing to the New York sun. "but I fancy my ex
perience when I first went over tilts route be
tween Oaxaca and Tehuantepec was rather
note! A lot of t2O pte. es served vert' well
as a coat of mail so welEtbat they saved my
life.
"As I said. I was bound down to Tehuante
pec for a look at the railioad across the
isthmus. 1 hud heard that the women there use
yo r American double eagles for jewelry :and
paid a tery hgh premium for them so 1 got
forty or fifty and sewed them Into the form of
tvhat you might call a porous plaster When
I had them stitched into place on a bit of cot
ton. there were two rows across mv back and a
third row overlapping the other two By put
ting straps over my shoulders they carried
very comforta *ly.
I got the gold up at El Paso, Tex., but in
some way one of the beggarly crew at the
hotel in Caxa. a saw that I was carrying
something in the small of my back, and the
result of that was I was followed when. I set
out for Tehuantepec. They allowed me to go
on unmolested until I w as within a day of San
t arlos. and then one of them seems to have
taken a short cut through ihe mountains, and
con ealed himself in the brush until I passed.
Then he gave It to me with a shotgun loaded
with slugs of load, and I caught it in tho
small of the back.
The force of the blow knocked me down
over the pommel of the saddle. When there
I had presence of mind enough to keep on
falling slowly, as if entirely done for. Mean
time i got one of your American navy revol
vers in my hand and cocked it.
" he beggar t ,at had shot me. seeing me
fa 1 came running from the brush, mache e
in one hand and gun in the other, while his
partner.apreared around the mountain, with
his horse on the gallop, 'they yelled at mv
horse to stop and my guide to go on. and both
o eyed promptly. I was still clinging to my
horse s neck and could see them through its
mane very well. I let them get within ten
feet of me and then dropped to my feet on tne
ground und took my turn at shooting. They
were so close 1 couldn't tniss. hut luckily, as
I think, one caught his lullet in the knee and
the other in the Hesbv part of the arm, while
their horse was killed outright by a bullet in
the head.
■Seeing them both down and begging lor
their lives. I had a mind to kill them lor
their cowardice, but I let them oil with a good
kicking apiece, and then caded back the
guide and had him carry water and wash and
dress the wounds as well as possible, i ben I
gave the man with the hurt arm a stiff horn
of brandy, and sent him back for help, while
I continued my journey. The slugs had hit
the gold pieces -three of them. I had a lame
back for a week or so, but I was otherwise
unhurt. What became of them v I afterward
met the one that caught it in the knee. He
was going at out the ‘market in Oaxaca on a
peg le; peddling reboses. and telling people
he had lost his leg in a fierce encounter with
highwaymen. He said his i ar'ner was on a
journey, but I fancy that meant he bad been
detected in some rascality and sent to
prison."
The Race Was to the Swift.
“I never see a race," said the reminiscent
old sport, according to the Cleveland Plain
Dealer, ' but I think of the joke some sports
played with Old Delaware Blue about the
time he was finishing up his best days on the
turf."
"Yes, yes. yes!” cried the nervous man, who
always i art:cipates. as be placed himself
squarely in front of the old sport.
"it was at the Cinchburg county fair and
thev were
"Out for a stake, yes, yes"
"Hard up. and tne racers entered seemed
clumsy and coarse, 'these two sports found
a drayman who"
"V\ ho driving a racer. Yes, I understand."’
snapped the nervous man.
A drayman who owned Old Delaware Blue
But the country jakes didn’t know the famous
old racer was in the country”
"Yes. yes! Goon!”
"So they brought him in and entered him
for the sweepstakes
"Yes, yes, yes—an' he sweep’ 'em"
"Of course everybody laughed’’——
“Ha. ha! But the laugh was turned. Yes,
yes-served the jays.right, though."
"The country cobs cauie lumbering out. fat
and sleek, while Old Blue stood with his head
down, looking like a sick cow"
"Yes, yes. yes! But didn't he wake 'em up
though; Bully!” p
"Well, the word was given and away they
clattered. Old Blue caught the fire"
"Yes, yes—ha, ha: Wouldn't I like to have
seen it’
‘‘With a wild bound he reached the wire;
there was a glimmering of wrapped and
patched legs and bony spines, but away they
went around and around"
"Ha. ha Good! Old Blue leading like a
shot, und the jays losing ail their money.
Good: Whoopee! Go er Blue”
" Why. of course not. He never got within
a quarter of a mile of tho hindmost hoss.
Would you expect to beat well-led hosses
with an old plug of a dray hossr’
The nervous man was soon engaged in a
quarrel with a street peddler about the price
of a cake of chewing gum.
A Prohibitionist Fish Story.
This is a fish story, says the Philadelphia
Record, told by a strict prohibitionist of good
repute among his neighbors in Wissahickon:
”1 took my light tack'e and went up to the
Wissahickon,” says the story-teller, "to try
my luck with the catfish on-Friday last. I
found a shady nook, sat down and cast my
line. Bites were few and far between, and
after a time I reeled in my line and sat idly
watching the stream. An old speckled hen
on the other side of the creek was leisurely
pattering about the waters in search of a
meal. Suddenly 1 noticed a slight disturbance
in the water a few feet below tne hen. The
head ol a large snapping turtle appeared
above the surface for an instant and then dis
appeared. I grew interested. All at once
there was a splash, a flutter of wings and a
series of loud cackles. The snapper had the
hen's leg in its strong beak. The hen with
her remaining leg clutched the root of a tree
overhanging the water. Then came a tug of
war. The hen was almost torn in two before
she let go of the root. The snapper went
down, and a moment later the hen disap
peared beneath the surface.”
What Does It Matter P
From the Swedish.
“It matters little where I was born.
Or if my parents were rich or poor;
Whether they shrank at the cold world's
scorn.
Or walked in the pride of wealth secure;
But whether I live an honest man.
And hold my integrity firm in my clutch,
I tell you, brether, plain as I am.
It matters much!
It matters little how long I stay
In a world of sorrow, sin and care;
Whether in youth 1 am called away,
Or live till my tones and pate are bare;
But whether I do the best I tan
To soften the weight of adversity’s touch
On the faded cheek of mv fellow man.
It matters much; -
It matters little where be my gtave.j
Or on the land or on the sea.
By purling brook or ’neath stormy wave,
It matters little or naught to me;
But whether the angel Death comes down
And marks my i row with his loving touch,
As one that shall wear the victor's crown.
It matters much:
Told by a Photographer.
This is a photographer's story, according
to the Louisville Cour.er Journal. "About a
year ago a young man employed in a railroad
office came in and bad his picture taken.
About the same time a beautiful young
woman from an interior town came tn and
had hers taken also; both left the order de
siring mo to send them to their addresses as
soon as finished, in the book my clerk put
the initial of the first name and w rote the
surname in fu l it happened both had the
same last name; the young mans name was
John 11 and the young woman's Julia
II . When the pictures were mailed there
was a mistake, the young man getung the
young woman s pictures, and vice versa.
“Now. out of this incident quite a love
affair has grown, the young people having
fallen in love with one another at sight of the
pictures. They corresponded for several
months. Some time ago the young tnan
bought a solitaire diumond, and now he has
ordered his wedding suit. That is what I
call a first-class romance. The best of it all
is that the couple are well suited in every re
spect and both are of good families.”
A Soldier’s Story.
A Maine soldier tells the Portland Express
how he got a tidbit while his regiment was
man hing along n hot and dusty road in South
ern Pennsylvania. Orders were very strict
against toraging. but in aptto of them a sol
dler suddenly sprang out of the ranks in pur
suit of a fat go. i ler standing along the
surr.aclt bushes on the roadside. Tlie turkey
started ofl in a hurry, with the man after him
Maj. Brown called out angrily: Balt U hat
do you mean: Halt:” A few hurried steps
und the soldier laid the turkey low with u
blow from his rltle burel. 'There, dum yo:”
he exclaimed as he picked it up. "I reckon
you II understand that when the major says
bait, he means hall:”
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Evidence of the fact that the American peo
ple have a fondness for "sweets" is found in
the statement from the treasury department
that the total consumption of sugar in the
United .states for the fiscal year ending June
30, 191. was 4.343.2.9 500 pounds.
The oldest Catholic church in New England
is at Damariscotta Mills. Me., and was built
more than 100 years ago. It Is still occupied
for religious services one Sunday in ea h
month 'ihe Interior is said to Tie decorated
and furnished like a drawingroom.
It is generally supposed that the designa
tion of the streets in Wash ngton by numbers
and letters makes perfectly clear in what
part of the city any given address >an be
found. Yet the Baltimore Sun s corr-,ond
ent claims that Washington is beginning to
be as badly off as London in respe t of dupli
cate street names. He savs that Washington
has five King streets or places, elgnt Madison
streets or alleys, seten thoroughfares named
after Grant, six alter Lincoln, six after Ja k
son six after Washington live after Pierce
and many dupliiates of small streets named
after residents of local note, besides six Pros
pects. eight Pleasant thoroughfares and six
"T" streets or allejs and about 100 duplicates
of other names, fair or foul.
A "weather plant" or "vegetable barome
ter" is just now being made the subject of a
scientific invekigation bv both the Vienna
Bureau of t loriculture and the British Board
of Agriculture, says the St. Louis Reput lie.
in common parlance it is known as ' Pater
noster Cheese" in Great Biltain. and as "Der
Weightet Ulmch" by the Austrians. It is
said to Indicate meteorological changes by
the rise and tall of its leaves ilnd shoots, its
"forecasts" (official or otherwise) covering a
period of from forty-eight hours to] three
days, thus beating anything ever attempted
by our 10. al Missouri forecast ;rs acting in
conmnetion with the United States signal
service." This vegeta.de barometer, the
scientific name of which is Abruv peregrinus,
is said to be absolu e.y infallible The acrus
is a species of leguminous olant, said to be
quite common In India, Turkey and other
warm countries. If it can stand the climate
it is altogether probable that It will be intro
duced into this country.
The Mexican women are smaller than an
average American woman, und are usually
very pietty. says the Pittsburg Dispatch.
Their eyes are their distinguishing feature.
Ihey are extremely expre-sive. It is under
stood here that thev can ta.k with them By
an almost imperceptible alteration of the
muscles above and below their orbs of vision
the expression of their faces undergoes a
complete change. Their features are small
and regular, their skin opaque, so that a rush
of the blood to the face does not change the
complexion—that is to say. thev do not blush
—but whether or not this peculiarity may be
attributed to qualities in the cuticle, or to
lack of artificial means adapted to cleanli
ness, is debatable. In form and motion na
ture. on her behalf, has added grace to sym
metry. but limited her perfections in this re
gard to but a few years. She matures at the
age of 13 or 11. is seen at her best at from 16
to 17, at 2U she begins to fade, and at 23
or 24 she is old. The word old means much
to her.
The Antilles d'Hygiene Publique recently
published an interesting article on the loss
of life caused by the wars in which France
has teen engaged in the last century. At the
beginning of the revolution the’standing
army numbered about 120,000 men. In the
course of the year 1793 the footing was in
creased to 1,880,009, of whom about 1.200,000
marched off to the various battlefields. In
1798 there was hardly one third of this legion
alive. Ten years later, that is, after the wars
in Belgium, along the Rhine, in Egypt and
the Vendee, there were again 677.588 soldiers
in the Frenc h army. In the period between
POO and 1815 the wars of the consulate and
the empire cost the country, according to
Thiers. 2.000.000 men, and according to Charles
Richet, 3.600.000. The years of the restoration
and of the July government were compara
tively peaceful for France. Under the Second
empire. France had again heavy losses by the
Crimean war. the Italian campaign the cam
paigns m China and Mexico, and, finally, in
the Franco-Prussian war of 1870 '7t. In the
Oriental campaign of 1851 to 1856 95,615 of the
309,001 soldiers who took part in it were
buried in foreign lands. The Italian cam
paign cost the country 10.200 men. and I.iOj
of the 8,000 sent to China in 1860 never re
turned. There are no trustworthy reports as
to the losses In Mexico, but in the Franco-
Prussian war, 139,030 Frenchmen were killed
and 143,000 wounded.
It is not generally known that tho French
still retain two little pieces of German soil
—one in Alsace itself and the other in Baden,
says the Pittsburg Dispatch. The monument
which Napoleon erected la 1803 in honor of
Gen. Destax, who fell at Mar ngo, stands in a
small garden near the bridge of boats over
the Rhine at Kelt!. Desiax had defended the
bridge with great bravery against the Aus
trians. The moDUiu at and garden were de
clared by the peace of Frankfort to be
French property, apd they so remain until
this day. Till eleven years ago this little
piece of French soil regularly had a French
/eteran as sentinel, who lived in a little house
in .he well kept grounds, but at that time
the Gse man government offered to take
charge ot this piece of France and the
oner was accepted by the French govern
ment. ihe place, j s now prettily laid out,
and is guarded by a sentinel from the garri
son at Kti asnurg. Iho property of the French
republic in the duchy ot q a ien lies in the
parish of Achern. which has „ s’ation on the
Baden street railway. It is th"' s ,t,
Turenne monument, a granite oi eli&o w j t jj a
medal ion and inscription. The land bn ..pi C p
the monument stands has been French pr...,.
erty since 1675 till the present day. and It is
still guarded Dy a French military-pensioner,
who lives upon the spot. At the beginning of
Franco German war in 1870 a party of Baden
fire-eaters proposed to reclaim this small
piece of land, but the Baden government,
witu a chivalrous International loyal y, put a
stop to the attempt.
“Solitary confinement in a dungeon cell has
always been considered as the severest of
the corrective measures resorted to in penal
institutions, but it has been improved upon."
remarked Abner V. Chadwick of Hartford,
Conn., to the New York Advertiser. Public
sentiment became so strong several years
ago tn the state of Illinois against the dark
cell that the legislature took a hand and
abolished the institution, .some means of
subduing the refractory spirit of convicts
who would not work was necessary, and as
whipping was abolished the warden at Joliet
prison evolved the most refined and effective
form if torture yet discovered. The dungeon
was supplanted by what is known as the
white cells. They are located in a de
taihed building in a portion of the
inclosure far distant from the work
shop. The walls of the cells are of
great thickness, the silence of the tomb
prevails. They are lighted from above, but
no glimpse of the sky can be obtained, and
the walls, floor und celling are painted a glar
ing white. Even the narrow board, the only
piece of furniture in the narrow cell, upon
which the prisoner is permitted to sleep out
side of working hours, is painted white. Dur
ing the hours when the other convicts are at
work the man in the solitary is handcuffed to
the door of his cell his hands being chained
at an easy and natural elevation. There is
not a speck of color to relievo the steady,
glowing white with which he is surrounded.
The effect is terrible when taken in connec
tion with the deathlike silence. Within an
hour the brain of the prisoner begins to
swirl, and he becomes deathly sick. E’ew men
have ever teen able to stand the white cell,
with Its maddening, monotonous, unrelieved
glare for a single dav. before thev begin to
beg for mercy. Two or three hours of the
toinbllke surroundings generally brings the
most violent and rebellious spirit to terms."
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