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INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Special Notices—To Tobacoo Chewers;
Consider the Merits of Success Rising Flour;
Special Notice. E. H. Nichols, M. D.; Re
freshments at Hotel Tybee Sunday. Bohan &
Cowan; Baltimore Peaches, L. Putzel; Work
ingmen and Business Men, Appel & Schaul:
Notice, Frank E. Rebarer, Clerk of Council;
Fancy Fruits. Mutual Co-operative Associa
* tion; Green Turtle Soup and the New Tivoli
Beer at the Boston Exchange To-day; Notice,
Dr. R. G. Norton.
Legal Notices—Citations From the Clerk
of the Court of Ordinary of Chatham County;
Notice to Debtors and Creditors of Columbus
M. Hillsman, Deceased
75 Cent Dollars—B. H. Levy & Bro.
Call and Visit Us To-Day—Appel &
Schaul.
Steamship Schedule—Ocean Steamship
Company.
The Sterling Piano—L. A. B S. M. H.
Reductions That Reduce—Leopold Ad
ler.
New Restaurant—C. D. Hinckley, Pro
prietor.
Cheap Column advertisements—Help
Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Rent;
For Sale: Lost; Personal: Miscellaneous.
Mr. Tom Watson’s newspaper up at
Atlanta is now "conceding” that Mr.
Tom Watson will carry the Augusta dis
trict by 5,000 votes. How delightful it is
to see such magnanimity in politics!
China is the most populous country on
earth. China is the most self-sufficient
nation on earth. For thousands of years
China held no commercial communication
with any other country. China is a silver
standard country. China wants a little
money for urgent purposes. And China
is having trouble about getting it.
The populist party in Arkansas is grow
ing beautifully—less. A “mass meeting”
of populists which was to have taken
place at McAimont the other day was
postponed because the number of people
in attendance was “too small to consti
tute an audience.” And a widely adver
tised “granu rally” at Jacksonville was
only so “grand” as seven people could
make it.
Congressman Black of the Tenth dis
trict “is the only member of congress
who has never missed a day or night
session of the House since congress met
on the 7th day of August a year ago.”
That is a distinction of which Congress
man Black should be proud, and one
which his constituents will appreciate.
Absenteeism is the curse of legislative
bodies.
The republicans, with apparent seri
ousness, are asking each other, “Would
Harrison accept!” The Washington Post
has had word from an intimate friend of
the ex-President that he would not con
sider a presidential nomination unless it
should come with practical unanimity.
When heard from some time ago on this
score Gen. Harrison had concluded that
he would accept “only in case of an emer
gency,” or words to that elect. “Emer
gencies” that demand one man from
among million seldom if ever occur in
politics, while “practical unanimity” ex
ists in every convention where a ma
jority of Totes is cast for a certain candi
date. The difference is very great.
“Would he accept !” Just try him.
The Philadelphia Record has been mak
ing inquiries into the industrial situation
in Pennsylvania. Ohio, New Jersey, West
Virginia and Maryland, and reports that
there is a business boom all along the
line. In Pennsylvania the iron and steel
works are rapidly increasing the number
of their employes and lengthening the
hours of labor, and in the towns the trade
in the stores is humming. In New Jersey
the glass factories are lighting their tires
for renewed activity, and the big can
ning factories are rushed with orders. In
Ohio 9,000 men have returned to work
within a few weeks, and scarcity of water
and coke are the only obstacles to a com
plete resumption Maryland and West
Virginia are full of life and conditions are
getting better every day. If things con
tinue to go on like this, what are the re
publicans and the populists going to weep
about?
About a year ago Chicago was full of
unemployed people, many of whom were
on the verge of starvation. Thousands
had been left there by the closing of the
world's fair and the cessation of work
connected with that gigantic enterprise,
and other thousands were the victims of
the thirty-odd years of republican mis
rule of the government, which had just
come to an end. It was estimated that
HXi.OOO or more working peoplo were in
destitution. Soup houses were opened
for them and various schemes for their
relief put into operation. That was just
one year ago. To-day, aAsording to our
telegraphic dispatches this morning,
three in every four of these people are at
work and earning wages! More wonder
ful recuperative power wus probably
never shown by anv country. The
recuperation, be it remembered, occurred
during the time a democratic congress
was busy reducing the burdens of the
people.
Mr. Turner and the Silver Question.
It was to be expected that the silverites
would attack Representative Turner's
position in respect to silver. There is
not trie least t<ossibility, however, that
they will attack it successfully. Mr.
Turner's position is impregnable. All
the assertions, which are intended for
arguments, that are made against it will
make no impression upon it.
Mr. Turner s position is that of the na
tional Democratic party and the Demo
; cratic party of Georgia. It is that of the
Democratic party of every southern state,
with the exception of the Carolinas. and
I the majority of the democrats in
| those two states are not far removed
: from the populists.
The National Democratic party calls
! for sound money, and so does the demo
cratic platform of Georgia. The Georgia
democratic platform says the purchasing
power of a silver dollar must be kept
equal to that of a gold dollar. If Georgia
democrats had meant that they favored
the free and unlimited coinage of silver
at the ratio of lb to 1 they would have
had the courage to say so. They 'didn’t
say so, and why? Not because they have
anv hostility to silver, but because they
believe that the free and unlimited coin
age of silver at the ratio of 10 to 1 would
result in a debased curreucy. Any why
do they believe so? Because no country
that has its mints open to the free
and unlimited coinage of silver at
any ratio has been able to keep its silver
money on a parity with gold money. India
tried to keep her rupees on a parity with
gold and failed. She was compelled to
close her mints. France and Germany
closed their mints long ago because they
saw tnat their silver currency was in
danger of becoming debased currency on
account of the enormous annual increase
in the production of silver. Mexico’s
mints are open to the free coinage of
silver, and two of her silver dollars can
be purchased for one gold dollar. In all
the South American states where there is
free coinage of silver one gold dollar has
the value of two silver dollars.
This country thought the market price of
silver could be kept up by purchasing about
all the product of its own silver mines and
storing it in its treasury vaults. It was
mistaken. The price of silver steadily
declined and a financial panic v.-as threat
ened. Congress was forced by public
sentiment to stop the purchase of
silver. The treasury notes that were
paid out for the silver bullion
were, in fact, the silver put into circula
tion in the shape of paper money. The
country had got all the silver money it
could stand, if the silver dollar was to be
kept on a parity with the gold dollar. The
silver money was kept on a parity with
gold money by the credit of the govern
ment, that is, by the belief in the ability
of the government to redeem the silver
with gold, and that is all that keeps it on
a parity with gold money now.
Congress, when it stopped the purchase
of silver bullion, virtually said that the
limit of confidence in the ability of the
government to keep cheap silver
dollars on a parity with gold
dollars had about been reached—that
if the mints were opened to the free coin
age of silver, or if the silver were pur
chased and treasury notes issued for it,
silver money would become debased
money. It would circulate only at its
bullion value.
And what have the silverites to say
against this position which congress took
when it stopped the purchase of silver,
and which, if we understand him, is the
position which Mr. Turner now occupies?
They have nothing, absolutely nothing, to
say, except to make the bold assertion
that the amount of silver money which
the government can keep at par with gold
is unlimited.
Mr. Atkinson says that France, with a
smaller population, keeps more silver
currency on a parity with gold than this
country. He virtually admits that there
is a limit to the amount of silver which
the government can keep on a parity with
gold, and when he makes that admission
he knocks the props from under the sil
verites, who assert that there is no
limit to the amount of silver which the
government can keep on a parity with
gold. They have not, of course, any ar
gument to support this assertion. They
seem to think their assertion is sufficient,
notwithstanding the fact that the whole
financial world holds a contrary opinion,
and the further fact that in all free sil
ver coinage countries silver coin circu
lates at only about half its face value.
Mr. Turner is dealing frankly with the
people. He tells them the truth. He is
for sound money, and they are for sound
money, too, though some of them have
been led into the mistake of believing
that stiver would continue to be sound
money under a free silver coinage policy.
Port Arthur, which, according to our
dispatches of this morning, is the scene
of a fight that was at last advices still in
progress between the Japanese and Chi
nese, is situated at the point of the Shing-
King peninsular. The Shing-King penin
sular and the Shang Tung peninsular are
the arms that guard on the east the Gulf
of Pe-Chi-Li, a few miles up a river on
the western side of which is situa r ed the
Chinese capital city, Pekin. The forts of
Wei-Hai-Wei are at the point of the Shang
Tung peninsular, and the forls of Port
Arthur are at the point of tho Shing-
King peninsular. Together they command
the strait into the gulf, the water
route to the Chinese capital. The Japa
nese some time ago attacked Wei-Hai-
Wei, and, according to report, found
it less formidable than they had expected.
Their attack upon Port Arthur may
mean that it is their purpose to push into
and through the gulf of Ps-Chi-Li and
paralyse tho Chinese by au attack upon
Pekin.
A Brescia journal announces tho dis
covery of an anarchist plot to kill tho
king of Greece. The plot, it is said, was
i revealed by an informer. The would-be
j assassin was arrested, and letters found
I on him in which he was designated to
stab the king. And yet there was one
man in tho House, during the session of
congress just closed, who objected to tho
imssugo of the bill to shut anarchists out
of this country.
The disturbances at Milwaukee, re
ferred to in our dispatches of yesterday,
were merely a continuation of the small
pox riots that broke out there three or
lour weeks ago. The people who are
making the trouble are ignorant foreign
ers, and a few natives about their equals
in intelligence, who retuse to submit to
the regulations of the board of health.
THE MORNING NEWS: SATURDAY. SEPTEMBER L, 1894.
Tha South’s Riches.
The world has very little knowledge of
the undeveloped wealth of the south.
Each of the southern states has resources
either mineral or agricultural, or both,
that are sufficient to give employment to
and afford a livelihood for millions of
people. Some idea of the wealth of these
states was thrown out at the southern
developement convention at Washington,
which closed its sessions yesterday. The
speeches that were made and the papers
that were read weiyt, as a rule, short, but
they were brim full of facts—facts that
would do the south a world of good if
they dould be brought to the attention of
home seekers and investment seekers in
all parts of the country. All through the
south land is cheap aud exceedingly pro
ductive. Not half of the lands
|of any one of the southern
states is occupied. Georgia alone could
1 provide-hundreds of thousands of farmers
, with small farms. Her soil and climate
are well adapted to cotton and grain, and
| her propuction of melons ana peaches and
other fruits have made her famous.
Florida’s reputation for fruits and
vegetables is world wide, and she has
phosphate rock enough to supply
the demand for that article for a century.
As one of the speakers at the Washington
convention said, "her backbone ridge is
made out of phoshate rock.”
’ There is no estimating the amount of
coal and iron ore there is in Alabama. It
is certain there is enough of those two
articles not only to supply this country
but the whole world lor two or three
centuries. It is impossible to compre
hend the immensity of such wealth.
And the south has advantages for
manufacturing that are only just be
ginning to be appreciated. Her factories
of all kinds are steadily increasing in
number, and the time is coming when
She will manufacture the greater part of
her cotton crop and send the product of
her mills to market instead of the product
of her cotton fields.
Conventions like that at Washington
may not do anything practical, but they
help to make the resources of the south
known. When they are known the men
and means to develop them will not be
wanting.
The Melons in Danger.
If what Dr. Erwin F. Smith of this
state sa.ysin respect to a disease, which,
it is alleged, threatens watermelons, is
correct the South Georgia farmers have
reason to believe they are particularly
unfortunate. The blight has badly hurt
the Leuonte pear crops for two or three
seasons, and now Dr. Smith says the
watermelons are in danger from a disease
which attacks the stems of the vines.
In a paper which he, read before the
American Association for the Advance
ment of Science entitled “Watermelon
Disease in the South.” the statement is
made that such a disease exists, and that
it has vast destructive possibilities. The
doctor stated that he had observed one
patch of melons that contained 1,500 hills,
where the entire crop disappeared in four
weeks. It seems from the doctor’s ac
count the fungus gets into the stem from
beneath the surface and closes the water
ducts. The result is the vines wither
and die.
The melon growers of South Georgia
have made no general complaint of this
disease, and hence their melon crops
cannot have suffered greatly from it as
yet. In his paper Dr. Smith did not sug
gest any remedy, for the reason, prob
ably, that he knows of none. If
the melon growers are at all ap
prehensive about it they should at
once apply to the agricultural depart
ment at Washington for a scientist to
make a thorough examination of the dis
ease >vith the view of suggesting a rem
edy. There should be no delay in having
an investigation. The nature of the evil
may be such that once it gets a firm foot
hold in any part of the melon section it
would spread rapidly. Such things can
not be attended lo too soon.
A cable dispatch from London says:
“The past four months show a minimum
of sunshine unrivaled in the records of
the century, and, as a sober fact, our
last summer weather was in April. The
trades which depend on the holiday
makers, like the Thames boatmen and
the seaside purveyors, find themselves on
the threshold of bankruptcy.” That
amounts to saying that this has been a
“summeriess summer” in England, so
far; and autumn has almost arrived. On
this side of the water, however, condi
tions have been different. There has
been sunshine enough and rain enough in
the south to make for the farmers a crop
of great bounty, and the summer resorts
have all had good seasons.
What will England do with Clarence,
the chief Mosquito of all the Mosquitoes,
now that she has taken him away from
Bluefields! He was taken to Jamaica on
the cruiser Mohawk some days ago. On
board tho Mohawk, Clarence afforded the
officers and men a good deal of anruso
inent. “He would strut about the saloon
deck arrayed in gay attiro. made up of a
navy officer s trousers and an army offi
cer's coat,” says a report. But surely it
cannot be her Britannic majesty’s pur
pose to keep Clarence doing that kind of
| thing us a steady job.
“Judge Turner's campaign against free
coinage is not calculated to help the dem
i ocratic campaign which Mr. Atkinson is
making,” says a “16 to 1” contemporary,
i The campaign against free coinage that
j Judge Turner is making is the kind that
is authorized by both the Atlanta and the
1 Chicago platforms. If the democratic
campaign which Mr. Atkinson is making
will be hurt by Judge Turner’s defense
of the platforms, Mr. Atkinson had bet
ter change the style of his democratic
campaign.
The state that elects a lunatic as its
governor must expect to bo humiliated.
Colorado is receiving her reward for put
ting a mouthing old monomaniac in
authority at Denver. It must be morti
fying to the decent people of the state to
see their chief executive standing as the
defendant in a petty court for committing
as mean a misdemeanor as would have
been expected of a tramp.
Three days have now passed since any
southern city has been offered the head
quarters of au army “department of the
south’’ by a western correspondent. It
may be that the correspondent has deter
mined to let Atlanta have it. As yet, how
ever, the rattle and rumble of trucks and
caissons bearing the supplies have not
beeu heard across the Georgia hills.
PERSONAL.
A curio: a “etrotbal adve-tis'in :nt appeal*
In the Vos-* he Zeitung. It Is as follows
_Notiee Is bereoy given of the betrothal of
F.-itnz > m erg of Leipsic. aid M nieh of Da
bonjev. a aa/.on o oinv LrhaiiZiu, at present
r< a.ding at the Panootikum Arcade in Ber
lin.”
Mrs. Edmund Yates, it Is reported, carries
about with her wherever she goes the ashes
I of her late lamented husband, who. It will be
remembered, was cremated 'they are in
closed in an air tight receptacle and this is
fitted into a little traveling Lag made for the
purpose.
The democratic ca: and date for lieutenant
governor of Kansas, “Aid' Coe is tempo
rarily oi tot politicuni ;h c u'“ s one
toat m i welt n eh s pro- p -am >u the
ho n n n led voters cl . faru.s It is
a r, kea ie t . caused Ly tto violent play at
lawn tennis.
Coi. Charles H. Jo e 5. editor of the New
York World, will return fn m his Euroie in
vacation next week and assume the manage
njer’ • f his p i er, says the Washington Post
Mr. P 1 tzei s o ime has ■, is; p a ed from
the nead of the World a ed ton ,1 column, and
Col. Jones is said to te in complete control of
the W o Id.
Lord Wolseley has writtm to an Irish tem
perance association saying: "I am glad to say
we have now little drunkenness in the army
less, indeed, of it in our ranks than in any
other class of her majesty s subjects. To
this fact i consider we owe much of the im
provement in every respect that has een
steadily going on amongst ns ior the last
twenty years It kills more than ail our
newest weaj ons of warfare, and not only de
stroys the body but the mind and soul also."
Lord Wolseley will republish his articles on
the "Decline and Fall of .Napoleon” in l ook
form. The last of them has just appeared in
the "Rev e de Paris," and gives an account
and criticism of the i attle of Water.oo. Noth
ing is more s riking than the canuor with
which Lord vVolseley distributes pra:s : and
1 jarne between the two heroes of Waterloo—
Napoleon and Wellington. He is not a 1 lind
worsbi, erof the Iron Duke. In fact, hlscriti
cism is the first attempt 1 y an English writer
of g. e >t authority and of special qualifications
as a general to describe Wellington's conduct
of affairs dmlng the period preceding the
battle of the 18th. and the four davs whi h
ended on that date in their true light. Lord
Woiseley's favorite military hero is not Wel
lington. but Marlborough—about wTicm he Is
writing a big book.
BRIGHT BITS.
“ T hey say now that Mars has no atmos
phere. '
‘,s that so? Then there cannot be any
pug 1 sts in Mars.”
'Why not?”
“Because whte there Is no atmosrhere
there can't be any wind.’"—New York Pie s.
Friend of the Actress—All things consid
ered, Miss Guinevere, the newn ay wts fai.l?
successful at its first production list evening,
was it net
Miss ' .uinevere (the s’arl—Oh yes; it was
good enough. When we get it ii ked into
sha eit v,lll go like a house aure.-Chicago
Trio, ne.
“ awkins has bo- ght a bicycle.”
'Didntkiowle ole"
"lie doesn't ride. But the machine was
oicred him at such an astonishingly low
. gure that he couldn t le-sist the tempta
tion.”
‘ Who sell it to him ”
"Outts, the suigeon."
“Oh!”—Buffalo co rier.
Mamma— What was the sermon about this
morning, Willie?
Willie—Weil, I guess it was tillin' about
(a h boys.
Mam ma—What did the minister say about
them?
Willie—Nothin’, but his text was; “All
the days of mv appointed time will t wait, till
my change come.”—Chicago Inter Ocean.
A Bear Movement.—Visitor - Your church
is a i eauty. That handsome house next door
is the parsonage, I presume.
1 e icon DeGood-N—o Fact is. the par
sonage :s some distance uptown,' ut we intend
to make an offer for one of these nearby resi
dences soon.
“The pr.ee will be high, no doubt.”
"Urn—l th’nk not. We sha’n’t try to buy
until after or new chimes are put in/’—No*
York Weekly.
Evolution of the Folding Bed-Mrs. De Flat
—Have you anything new in folding beds?
Dealer—Only this, madam, and tt really is
quite a success. On arising in the morning
you touch a spring and it turns into a wash
stand and bath tub. After your bath you
touch another spring and it becomes a dress
ing case, with a French plate mirror. If you
breakfast in your room a sAglit pressure w ill
transform it into an extern, oa table. After
breakfast you press these three buttons at
once and you have an upright piano. That s
all it will do. except that when you die it can
be changed into a rosewood eotlin.—New York
Weekly.
CURRENT COMMENT.
Harrison’s Candidacy.
From the Philadelphia Ledger (Ind.l.
Gen. L. T. Michener. who managed Gen.
Harrison's last campaign, announces, as next
friend of Mr. liarnson. that the ex-President
would not accept a recomination "unless it
should come to aim with pra'ctkal . unanim
ity." From this it may he inferred iliat
the least that wilt tempt him will be a ma
jor'ty of the next republican national conven
tion.
That Now Famous Quotation.
From the Philadelphia Record (Dem ).
There is much philosophy In the axiom that
it is not he who ttrst say s a thing who de
serves thanks for the utterance, but be who
says it loud enough to compel mankind to
listen to him: and the sentiment just fits the
case of the Washington took worm who tuts
made haste to i,nd in one of Tom Moore's
least, remembered poems tho inspiration of
the i hruse in Mr. Cleveland's letter about
' thediadl i light of treason.” lhe fact is
that there was tar more troth than poetry in
the letter. When Mr. Cleveland wields a
sledge hammer it is hardly necessary to ia_al
the sparks.
Cotton Mills North and South.
From New Orleans Times-Democrat i Dem i,
The Mew England mills complain that at
the present wages they are pa.v ing their em
ployes. and the present price they are getting
for their products it is impossi le to carry on
the m mnfacture of cotton goods with pront.
Whether the development of the cotton in
dustry ot the south and the competition of
the southern mills have any hearing on this
matter it is difficult to say with certainty; hut
the mills here have stood the shoes and a re
duc ian in prices far tetter than the New
England ones. The general shutdown in the
latter section is no! and will not extend here;
and if it sends up the price of goods, as seems
likely, it will tenu to teneut the southern
mills.
The Eate Federal Election Laws.
From the New York Post ilnd.i.
Next to the passage of a tariff law which
?a es toward free trade and the repeal of the
silver-purchase law, tho most important a.t
of the Fifty ibird congress basieen ih - re
peal of the fed-ral Section laws This is a
positive and great gain. Whatever theoretical
ar.ument the.e mat have een for the inter
feremeof the icderalgovernment in elections
under these statutes, the practical effect has
t een only bad and mischievous. The wisest
repui beans in the soulh. Uack as wed as
while, have come to see the uselessness and
harm of keeping the laws lorn or on the
statute bock, and thetr repeal meets the ap
proval of ail cut those politicians who still
think that something is to be made out of the
sectional issue.
Why Doesn't tho Foreigner Pay the
x Duty?
From the Chicago Record (Ind. t.
From the high tariff point of view t is a
little difficult to understand why dealers n
imported goods have permitted their wares
to remain in the i onded wa e louses until the
re v tariff law went into eff c: it is tree
tout most goods pay a less rate of duty under
the i e.v than u icier the old caw. nut the stock
u-i unent w;iu the high tail ! orators is that
He rlflspa and by the Lre.gn manufacturer
for il.e privilege of trading in our mar els.
Tliev urge the e .pie to favor the M.i in
ley l lea of prni,i iilve dut os tc.a se the
tad Is not p. a ad the sum laid in duties
is . o a utid to ihe price which tl e consumer
has o pay. but here are all the m oners in
the c wintry leaving their go. and . in . o .and so as
tea ail themselves of the lower rale of duly
wh ch Mr McK n e.' savs tue for fjn manii
'a t ,e has topa> for the blest privilege of
s ling to the American ie i 1* the goods which
mey order rom aoroau. -f the hivta-larlff ar
g .tnent Is s n I whßt ulfferen. e does it make
- the lnipurtui whether he pays a high or iow
ra oof duty, and what. I.< r nee does ,t mase
.c ihu consumer bow huu me dutv sf it is
i o inlaid to ihe price of the arti. le wh ch he
buys?
A Denver Dog Story.
A remarkable instance of intelligence In a
dog was exhibited recently in Denver as
recounted by the Republican of that city.
Unless It had 1 een witnessed by six citizens
of unimpeachable veracity, it might well have
been class( and with the many "fish yarns so
abundant at this season On the afternoon of
last sunday. savs the paper. Drs. Coover and
Bacot of this city, and Dr. Marburg of Pueblo,
were seated on the porch of the residence of
Dr. Coover. at No. 1251 Clarkson street, when
a small water spaniel walked up the thirteen
steps from the sidewalk and threw herself on
her left side at Ur. ( oover's feet. It was at
once o served that something was wrong with
her rivht eye. Examination showed that a
polypus grow th or tumor of the size of a
hickory nut was attached to the Inner corner
of the eye. covering the eyeball and pro
truding between the lids.
The assembled medicos at once decided on
prompt a lion, and a skillful combination of
antiseptics, ioca:ne forceps and scissors soon
complete restored vtsion to the recumbent
pup No human patient could have endured
the operation with Jgn a er fortitude She did
not even wince, ana save for a whine when
the forceps were appliei to arrest ths hemor
raze. seemed indifferent a* to what was being
done for her.
V\ hen all was over (much to the delight of
the ladies of the household, who had evinced
a lively interest in the proceedings) she re
mained at the house, regaling herself on
bones, etc.. until a out 9 p. m.. when she dis
appeared.
Un Mcndav morning as Dr. Coover was
leaving the house load barking caused him to
look around to discover the patient of the
previous day coming across the lots with
every expression of delight .-he thiew her
self at his feet in precisely the same attitude
adopted before.
, he doctor called the attention of a neigh
bor to the fact of her return, examined the
eye. whi t was found to be doing well, aud
the dog a.ain went oa. Up to the time of writ
ing (Thursday), she has not heen seen again.
Commentators and Common Taters.
A certain clergyman, formerly of Boston,
but at present preaching in one of the subur
ban districts, had a laughable experience a
short time a.o. says the Boston Herald His
congregation is largely made up of thrifty
farmers who rise early and labor la'-e in ihe
evening, and when on Sunday old Morpheus
gra; pi s with then during the sermon and at
times for a few minutes seems to i e getting
the best of it. why. he understands it all. and
does not complain; therefore the good people
appreciate his merits and say they never had
a preacher like hitn.oNow, on Sunday be gave
them a most eloquent sermon, and. as usual,
one or two of the pious souls present laid
their heads upon their extended arms, which
in turn rested upon their pew backs, that they
might : eiter hear what Ihe good man said.
This was the chance for the god of sleep, and
soon he had several of the elders in his per
suading arms The minister kept right
ahead and in explaining some point he had
made he said:
I know the commentators do not agree
with me. but still I take this stand.”
Just at this juncture an old farmer in the
rear of the church managed to get the "sticks
out of his eyes” and to gather himself
together enough to hang out ai out a minute
longer, when me interesting discourse came
to an end, and the collection and benediction
followed. Next day the old farmer's wagon
drew up in front of the minister's house, and
the burly farmer shouldered a heavy bushel
basket and rapped at the parson s rear uoor.
It was opened by the gentleman of the meek
and lowly calling, to whom the farmer sym
pathetically said: "I heard you say in church
yesterday that common titers didn't agree
with you. so I brung you round some of
these choice snowflakes, which 1 11 warrant
are good, as I grew ’em myself.”
How He Told His Age.
A negro, who looked as though he was
about BO years of age, though much older, was
the defendant in a disorderly case before the
Washington, D. C.. police colt:, sajs the
Post of that city. He was arrested with a
crowd of young bucks in South Washington
When his name va, called out he answered
in a weak voice, pieading not guilty. Slowly
he ambled to tte witness stand to tell his
story. The bent body, the contracted fea
tures, the half bald head, a few straggling
dirty gray whis e.’S, that had probably re
ieived no cutting for a number of years, all
com ice 1 to giv e him an aged appearance
• How old are you?” asked the prosecuting
attorney.
”1 doan't 'zactly know, yer honah, but I
specs dat it's sommaire nyao er hundred an
twenty.ttbe.”
“What? You 125 years old?” asked the
law yer.
“ x issir, dats er fact.”
“How do you make it that much?”
”W T ell. it am jistdis. Ise been married,
yer honah. seben times, an' by m.v fust wife
I so got er grate gran chiid, an’ she am foah
yars ob age. Cording ter de tes' ob my
ribolleeshun I war jist fifty yars old w'en she
war boan. sbe am foah yars old now, and
foah times fifty yer honah. suttingly am er
hundred an' crquartah. an dats list my age.”
His calculation of his ageamused the wuole
court, and made everybody laugh, even to the
judge. ') he innocent cause of the mirth was
rewarded for his iugenuicy by being released
ou his personal bonds.
Progress in the Wild West.
Scene, according to the Chicago Record, a
lonely road out west. Enter tourist.
T ourist—What's this? A nickel-in-the-slot
ma hine here in this wild piace! And what
does the sign say? (Reads.)
•
Drop a Nickel in the Slot
and Get a Surprise. :
*
■‘Well, that's a good idea. I’ll just try it.
(Drops in a r;i kel.) Why , the thing s got a
revolver pointed at me, and here's anew sign
come into view. (Reads, i
Drop in All Your Money and
Your Wat h, or 111 Explode
in Thirty Seconds
“Great Scott! I must hurry. Here they go.
Robbed by machinery, I declare:"
Corea.
From an exchange.
Coreads a wondrous land,
Half Jap and half Chinee.
With people swarming there as thick
As leaves upon a tree—
So full that kluing men is deemed
A rather proper trade.
And if a man should tire a gun
He and kill a whole brigade.
There every man of standing wears
Next to his very skin
A frame of very light bamboo
From ankles to his chin.
On this he hangs his cotton clothes
And. in Sol s fiercest rule.
The air goes circulating through
And he is ever cool.
The men there go abroad by day.
The women go by night;
And, w hen the women walk the street,
ihe men are out of s'ght:
And. if a rude man ventures out,
The vigilant poli.e
Will nab and flog him. holding him
Till women s hour shal. cease.
How Much Son-in-Law’s Horse Cost.
The teller of a bank on lower Broadway
who spends his vacation down in Morristown,
N. J.. was pioudly driving a large roan horse
which ha l lots ot style and two spavins ie
forc a s. anking trap last Satu.day afternoon,
says the New York Press when his wife s
father, who knows something about horse
hesh asked ihe ladv how much money his
son in-law had pai . for the animal.
• About a 0 0 i think. ' she responded.
“What:” cried tne old gentleman, indig
nantly. "Was Jim such a fool as to give SI,OOO
for that scaffold”’
•Well, you see,” sad Jim's wife, apologet
ically, "the way ot It was this. He's made
ten horse trades to get that horse, and lie s
given a cash bonus with each one of the ten
horses he s traded. The bonuses ought to
foot up to about .800. and he's given StOJ and
bis last horse for this one "
, he old gentleman went out to the stable
and smoked two cigars before he felt ale to
come hack to the house and say nothing.
An Inventive Genius.
The tramp had teen so encouraged by re
ceiving a w nole pie one day at a certain house
on Third street, that he became a nuixame by
his frequent visits, and at last the lady of the
bouse turned him down peremptorily. Then
it was. says the Detroit Free Press, that he
sought revenge, (.'oming again the nexidav
he was met bv a tlrtn refusal.
"1 only come." he said whiningly. "to see If
you couldn't give me another pie like that one
you gave me i efore."
"No, I can t, and I wouldn't If I could,"
snapped the lady, "and if you don’t go away
I'll call Ihe pol c man."
Don't do that, lady." he replied as he
started off. 1 don t mean no harm: i wus
lust thinkin' If you could give me another pie
I'd put it with that other one I've saved, and
then 1 and steal an old bicycle frame and fix
mvsel? up so 1 could git around a good deal
easier than walkin ."
Thus no we see that others besides republics
are ungrateful.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
A case very interesting to authors has
lately leen before the courts in London, but
the artists have been a good deal disappointed
in the outcome, as no decision was reached
on tha critical question, whether water color
paintmis are liable to fade. Ruskln main
tains that a properly protected water volor
will not fade, white other eminent authori
ties maintain the contrary. It seems that a
lady. *no bought a beautiful water coicr iftst
year, allowed a firm of engravers to take it
for reproduction It came back with the col
ors destroyed, and she sued them for Us
value. A great deal of interesting testimony
was adduced as to what might injure the col
ors. it appears that direct s nlizht will al
ter some, whi e a.id fumes will destroy oth
ers. and even exposure to the air is injurious
lo some. The jurv. after listening to many
experts, found it ;ta ossi: le todeeide how the
picture Pal been injured, but as the injury
was manifest, they gave the owner a verdict
for damages.
There are. says the St. Louis Republic,
thirteen known languages and and aiects in
whi(b the name of the deity is exp-essed in
two letters, viz; He rew. A : S moniac, El;
Chinese. Fo: Hindoo syr. Its: B ylonian.il;
Sanscrit. Ja; Egyi tian. Ju: 1.m.1, Ko: Yo
catanese. Ku; Hindoo. 'Am: ar East He
brew, On: Egyptian. Ea; Cua!dean. Ur. The
three lettered name is found in twenty-one
languages and i rovincial dialects, viz; East
Indian. Aom: H.ndoo. Aum: Chaldean. Bil;
Sclavonic. Bog ia contraction of Biali Bog."
meaning white): c.om m, Dea; Grecian. Deo:
Essequito, Dia; Hindoo. Div: Child an,
Enu: I nzlish, God: Swedish and Danish.
Gud: Persian, Horn; Hindoo. Hua: Fhcon
ician-Bauylonian. iau; Sanscrit. Jah; Pheun
ieian, Jao: Druidish Irish, joh; Egyptian,
Kue; Irish-Celtic, umh; Egyptian.
Pan and Latin. Sol. Taken ail
together. there are 173 languages
an l and aiects in which as a figure of spee h
uodise pr s •and in words, but in none of
them is ti e rj of overgrown proportions,
the loi g st e ng “Joabulu n, ’ a word wb ch
expressed the deity idea a. cording to cer
tain sect oflrish Druids, known as “Ms le
toe ea era.”
Romance was eclipsed by reality in the
case heard this morning by the judges of the
second civil chambers, says the London tele
graph. A Mile. Maquet put iu a uaim for
i'e.'juo, the amount of a legacy bequeathed her
by M. Pon.ault, who recently died in Amer
ica. Poncault s career was a strange one.
Thirty years ago he was a simple shoeblack
on the quays cf Havre. Disgusted with his
humble and ill-paid calling, he went on board
a ship bound for south America and hid him
self asastowaway. When well on the Atlantic
he was disco, ered and pulled out of his hole
by order of the capta n. Duckiiy for himself
he was able to make himself useful as a
roustabout and no proceedings were taken
agajnst him when the shii> arrived in port..
Once on transatlantic soil. Poncault. who U id
em arked at Havre wishout a penny-in his
pocket, set to work with a will. He was
everything by turns and nothing long. He
roughed it for some time, and was lost to his
friends in France until a tew years since, when
he returned home a wealthy man. He died
leaving a solid fortune of 5.003 Odd francs, or
AYOO.OO i. Of this sum he bequeathed tB.ooO to
Mile. Maquet. but she was only to receive it
on the day of her marriage. Milt. Maquet,
however, does uot appear to be in a hurry to
take a husband, lor she asked the court to
allow her to receive the money as a single
woman. The judges were inexorable, and
pointed grimly to the clause of M. T oncault s
will, in which the marr.age proviso was in
serted. The applicant will accordingly have
to look out for a husband it she wants to
benefit bv the bequest of the ex shoeblack.
Ska dar Jokui, an Icelandic volcano, says
the Pittsburg Dispatch, on one occasion
belched forth thirieen cubic miles of sold
matter, togeiner with an immense but unesti
mated volume of volatile substance. Mount
Kerakatoa, off the straits of Aunda. in Oc
tober dß:i. discharged a so il column of vol
canic gas three miles in diameter to a hight
of six miies, and continued thus for seventy
two hours. The earth quivered for h ndreds
f miles around, and tne vapor, reaching high
altitudes, at one time covered four-fifths of
ihe glo. e. The noise exceeded that of all the
combined artillery duels that ever took Diace,
and the roar was heard over 1.900 miles. The
group known as the Sandwich Jsiauds. of
which Hawaii is the principal. lie in the
South Pacific ocean, where the water has a
depth of 38,030 feet, and a volcanic peak on
one of the islands extends 13.U00 feet auove
the ocean level. The ba es of the,e islands
are continent. Hawaii alone has a diameter
of over sixty mile?, aud yet every cubic footof
this immense mass is volcanic and has leen
emitted from the earth's interior. This is
only one of thousands of similar illustrations.
Along the eastern slope of the Rocky moun
tains, as the chain extends through the United
States and the Dominion oFCanada, are vast
areas of volcanic matter that in far-lack ages
cameforth in catara.ts of molten material,
and there is hardly a region on the gloce that
at some time has not been the theater of such
eruption. What was once surface is now. in
many instances, covered with thousands of
feet of rock formations, hiding tne ancient
contour entirely from sight. Certainly the
earth's cooled outer shell would settle and
follow this decreasing interior, and the
mountains are the approximate measure of
this shrinkage. Inevitably, as this gradual
settling took place, a wrinkling action had to
follow, and this process is in operati n vet
and will continue so long as the interior
yields any of its substance.
The colony of Natal. South Africa, abounds
in boa constrictors and pythons, says an ex
change. While they do not attack men they
are especially destructive of cattle, sheep a id
oxen and for ihisreason parties are formed
by hiuiers aid natives to burn the
busb aud io;e t in order to exterminate the
pests. Some ot the so diers at Pitt rmaritz
bu g were recently informed by a p .rty of
neignbonng Zulus of the whereabouts of a
huge python that hud beep destroying their
oxen. The soldiers, with zoo natives, started
oft to capture the snake, aud having located it,
the forest was fl edfrr about a mile roui.d
about, an enormous pit having been previ
ously dug in toward the center of the inclosed
space. What with the burning brush aud the
bhoutsof excited ua firs they soon drove the
reptile towaid the pit, where, closing in upon
him. thev forced him into it. the python
proved to be of enormous size, being 32 feet
long and 41 inches in circumference. It ap
peared to be quite stupid or dazed, having
just eaten a young ox that had been let into
the inclosure. An enormous cage with iron
bars half way down the front having been con
structed the snake was got out of the
pit and taken into Marritzburg in the cage.
Here it is kept on exhibition at the barracks,
and is fed twice a week, two Kafflir goats at
each meal. It will not eat anything that has
been already killed for it. prefei ring to kill
its food Used. The goats are
thrust through a small door at the
end of the cage alive, when, bxing
its great eyes upon thm, the snake suddenly
lunges forward and crusues them tn its pow
erful folds. After covering tin m with a thick
slime about an inch deep, befoie swallowing,
it hattens them out t v squeezing them, and
then devours them almust at a gulp. After
this the python goe-, to sliej and does not
wake until it is time to feed again. A
gentleman in Muritsburg owns a python that
has been confined in a cage for over thirteen
munths. During this eeriod the snake has
not eaten a mouthlu. of food oi anv kini,
a though every conceiva le de icacy of llkelv
snake diet, such as frogs, tiris, rats anil
meat, has been set to tempt Its appetite, its
last seems not to b? I roken and the owner
ta s at last a. andoned the idea of coa lag the
eoilv prisoner with food it drinks a very
small qui ntlty of water. In a dormant s'ate
this fasting wo ild be better understood, tor
in this state reptiles of this des ription have
Leen known to exist lor periods of e ghteen
months, or even thie3 years.
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