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INDEX TO SEW ADVMMMLWS.
Meetings— Georgia Historical Society; De-
Kalb Led No 91.0.0. F.
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Golden Apple Tobacco at C. Meitzler's;
Notice ol Dr. Carson’s Absence: Public
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dent; Tivoli Beer on Tap Everywhere To day,
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nary of Chatham County.
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The fact that candidate Peek had Toted
for an objectionable contract labor bill
cost him a great many votes in the last
state election. It has been discovered
that Judge Hines, on July 25, 1885. while
a member of the House, voted in favor of
a bill to make it a misdemeanor for a
farm laborer under contract to quit work
ing for an employer, except for “Just
cause or provocation,” until the time of
the contract had expired. A jury was to
determine the “just cause.” The bill, as
can be seen, was aimed at the colored
farm laborer. But Judge Hines’ vote was
not sufficient to pass it.
Commenting on the Morning News’
advice to Mr. Atkinson that he re
frain from making in his speeches a point
of the fact that there is a difference of
opinion between Mr. Cleveland and him
self with regard to silver, the Dalton Ar
gus says the advice is eminently proper
and expresses the following views:
“Mr. Atkinson is not now simply a citi
zen of the state, speaking to secure the
nomination; he is the standard bearer of
the state democracy, and the platform
has been adopted for him by the state
democratic convention. They declared
for sound money, and if Mr. Atkinson
goes out of his way to discuss national
issues, he is plodged to preach sound
money. It will be an excellent idea for
Mr. Atkinson and several other demo
cratic speakers to read the state and na
tional platforms of the Democratic party,
and discover what is true democracy.
They should stick to the democratic text;
their individual opinions are of little im
portance just now. It is a battle between
democracy and populism.”
Personal comparisons are rather to be
avoided than sought in the senatorship
contest, since there are so many excellent
gentlemen in the field. Nevertheless one
very significant fact involving a personal
comparison is worthy of note. If we un
derstand Maj. Bacon’s position on the
financial question, he is not an extremist,
though he favors silver. In this view we
are backed by the Lawrenceville News,
one of Maj. Bacon's supporters, which
says: “Hefavors silver coinage, but he
says he would not vote to coin any kind
of money which would not be as sound as
any other kind of money.” That position
is virtually the position of the Hon. Henry
G. Turner. Maj. Bacon has made dozens
of speeches all over the state, yet has not
drawn the fire of the cheap money organs.
Mr. Turner has made one speech, and the
batteries of the fiat money propaganda
have been opened upon him. If that
means anything, it means that Mr. Tur
ner is the man that the populists, assis
tant populists and other workers for a de
preciated silver currency fear.
Mr. Ward McAllister has returned to
New York from his European trip. He
arrived on the Lucania last Friday, and
was met at the dock by a company of
newspaper reporters, all caver to hear of
his experiences and catch the latest and
best stories that he might have brought
back. Mr. McAllister told his interview
ers that he had been having a good time
on the other side in the company of some
of the heavy swells, and continued: "I
heard a good story from Lord So and-so—
I won t mention his name. It struck me
as being very funny. An anarchist called
at Baron Rothschild's office in Paris—no,
in London—and asked for an interview.
The baron was in a good humor and said,
‘Seud him in.’ The anarchist entered his
office. The baron said: ‘You believe that
my money ought to be divided equally
among all the people. How many people
are in the world?’ The anarchist could not
tell. The baron said: ’l’ll tell jou.’ He
went to his books and looked up the es
timated figure. ‘There.’ he said, ‘my for
tune is so and so This is your share.’
and he gave it to the man. The baron
told him to tell the world to call on him
and he would give each individual his
•hare. It was such a miserable pittance
that the anarchist roared, and that's all.”
Thi* was the only "bright and new
thing” worth repeating that Mr. McAl
lister appears to have heard. Inasmuch
as the story is hardly less than a half a
century old, the chances are that Mr.
McAllister is the only adult in America
who had uot heard it a dozen times be
ioru "Lord bo-aud-so” told it him.
I A Genuine Reformer.
Not much is beard these days of Mr.
i Morton. Secretary of Agriculture, and
; yet he is doing good work. He is a con
| scientiou* reformer—the kind of a re-
I former the people like. Most of those
I who pretend to be reformers are detua
-1 cogues. They promise to do what they
1 think will please the people, and when
! they get into office thov do what they
think will advance their own political
fortunes.
When Mr. Morton was made Secretary
of Agriculture he said he intended to cut
down the expenses of that department,
and, much to the surprise of the politi
cians, he lias done what he said he would.
He has discharged many useless clerks,
and he has made those retained earn
their salaries.
The average congressman is ever ready
to speed the money of the government in
getting himself re-elected. One of the
ways he had of getting the good will of
those of his constituents who are farm
ers, was to send him a package of seeds.
Whether the seeds were worthless or not
was a matter of no particular importance.
The law provides that only valuable
and rare seeds shall be distributed by the
department. Before Mr. Morton became
secretary there was a regular warehouse
for keeping seeds and a corps of clerks
was employed in sending them out. The
cost of this seed business for the beuetit
of congressmen was about $14(1,000 a year.
The congressmen, of course, designated
the persons to whom the seed should be
sent.
When this congress assembled Mr.
Morton said he could comply with the
law with an appropriation of $30,000.
Congressmen protested, livery one of
them wanted a package of seed, for each
of his farmer constituents, and they said
the secretary must ask for more money
for the seed bureau. He refused. Not
withstanding his estimate, however, con
gress appropriated for the distribution of
seed $169,000. The act, however, says
that the money shall be distributed as
“required by law." The law requires
that only rare plants and seeds shall be
distributed, and the secretary will de
feat the congressmen after all, and save
the government more than SIOO,OOO a
year. He will send out only seeds and
plants that are valuable. Congressmen
will howl, but the people will give the
secretary their approval.
For a Beautiful and Elastic Coin.
Some days ago we made a note of the
fact that an art league had offered prizes
of S6OO and S6OO respectively for the best
and second best designs for the silver
dollar coins. The design at present em
ployed is not satisfactory to certain peo
ple. They sa.y it is not artistic enough,
and argue that the acme of American art
ought to be displayed on the American
money. In order to make the dollar a
thing of beauty, as well as a thiug of
utility, the artists in the league have
determined to pay the cost of a com
petition of designers, and present the
best product thereof to the government
gratis.
It will please the public to hear that
on the heels of this movement to beautify
the dollar coin comes the announcement
that th true solution of the “parity”
problem has been discovered. And it will
interest the artists who purpose compet
ing for the prizes to know that the won
derful discovery, in case it should be
adopted by the treasury department,
would open to them an almost infinite
field for the exercise of their talents.
They would not need to coniine them
selves to designs in relief, but might
blend colors and values to their hearts’
content and the nation’s joy. For the
way to establish and maintain the parity
of the metals silver and gold, as discov
ered by a populist gentleman named
Barues, who resides in Brooklyn, is to
make the coins of a part of each metal.
In the rough, Mr. Barnes' idea is to
punch a hole in the silver dollar and put
gold enough in it to bring the coin up to
market value, it is easy enough to see
how this idea could be improved upon by
the artists, to the beautifying of the sil
ver dollar and tho enhancement of its
value. They might make a full length
Goddess of Liberty, and put gold buckles
on her shoes, and gold plugs in her teeth.
If that should not be a sufficiency of gold,
they might put a few rings on her fingers,
or give her a necklace, or some buttous on
her drapery. If there should still be a
lack of gold, on account of the state of
the market, the coin could be turned over
and something done for the eagle. A
gold tail would look well on a silver eagle.
Care should be exercised in the carry
ing out of these suggestions, if tho artists
should ever find it convenient, to provide
against fluctuations of the silver market
by making all of tbe gold parts of the dol
lars detachable and the like parts inter
changeable, so that one eagle's tail feath
ers would fit every other eagle. This
would enable the owner of a silver dollar
every day, upon ascertaining tho price
of stiver trom tho market reports in his
morning paper, to arrange his dollar so it
would be worth intrinsically 100 cents.
All that ho would have to do. if silver
went up, would be to remove a few of the
goddess’ teeth, and if it went down to
stick one or two more feathers into the
eagle's tail.
The scheme is great. Its adoption
would provide a coin of greater beauty
and more elasticity than if it were made
of Para rubber.
The suggestion that Congressman Tur
ner should "divide time” on the stump
with the Hon. W. Y. Atkinson, in dis
cussing the silver question, is not short of
being ridiculous. The Hon. W. Y. Atkin
son is the democratic candidate for gov
ernor of Georgia. Congressman Turner
is a democratic candidate for the United
States Senate. They are both upon the
same platform. If elected, the Hon. W.
Y. Atkinson will have nothing under the
sun to do with the settlement of the silver
question. Congressman Turner will have
a great deal to do with the settlement of
that question whether he is elected to the
Senate or not. Both candidates being
upon the same platform, and there being
no shadow of a doubt that Congressman
Turner’s position is in complete accord
with that platform, why should he “di
vide time” with Mr. Atkinson, or any
other democrat, upon tbo financial issue?
And it is not probable that Mr. Atkinson
desires to divide time with him.
Populism was declared by the republi
can state convention at Atlanta to be too
rank for republicans to swallow, yet
Judge Hines and Mr. Watson affect to be
lieve that the white voters of tho state
will swailow it.
THE MORNING NEWS: MONDAY, SEPTEMBER3, 1894.
The Populist Way to Prevent Strikes.
The populists demand the government
ownership and control of railroads, be
cause, among other reasons, such control
“will prevent strikes. - ’ TbatisMr. Debs’
opinion, and the opinion of several of the
people who have testified before the Chi
cago labor commission.
A cable dispatch from London shows
pretty well that, as a matter of fact,
government control will prevent strikes
i But in an entirely different manner from
that contemplated by the populists and
Mr. Debs.
The railways of Russia-street rail
ways as well as the greater steam high
ways—are under government control.
Last week the street railway em
ployes in Odessa made a demand
for higher wages. The demand was
refused and the men went on strike. Im
mediately the police were called out. and
they forced tbe strikers to go back to work
at the old wages. Had the police been re
sisted. the military would have been
called out. Had the trouble occurred on
one of tbe big railways a detachment of
the army’ would have been sent against
the strikers and short work would have
been made of the strike.
And the trend of such paternalism as
government control of railways is towards
just such a state of affairs in this country
as exists in Russia. The end of the
Odessa street railway strike was but the
logical outcome of "government control.”
A strike was “prevented,” surely. Is
that the way the populists desire to pre
vent strikes?
“A Trick of tho Trade.”
Did you ever read one of "Bertha M.
Clay's” stories? If you were ever
a callow youth or a sentimental maiden—
and most grown-up folks have passed
through one or the other of those periods
—the chances are that vou have done so.
Now you are about to read a story of her
stories, aud of other stories, that is no
“story,” and may shake your faith in
story writers and the infallibility of print.
“Bertha M. Clay,” as you known, is,
and has been for years, one of the most
popular of the writers of those stories of
lovely maidens. Apollo-like heroes and
deep-dyed villains that reach their
eager readers through the medium
of “family story papers” and cheap
novels. The stories make no pretense
to literary merit or originality. On
the other hand, their chief charm
is iu the use of noetic names for grand
folks, following old plots, and dropping
tbe “To be continued” line in at the most
inopportune lime, from the reader's
standpoint. Nevertheless they are im
mensely popular stories, and more than
one publisher has grown rich through
their publication. Their class, by the
w r ay, may be designated as the “phoenix,”
because it never dies, and also because
Milton Nobles has made it almost as fa
mous on the stage as it is in literature.
To revert to the talented and volumi
nous writer, “Bertha M. Clay.” In NevV
York a few days ago revelations concern
ing her identity were made that will
violently shock her devotees. For the
supposed woman is really not a
certain person at all, but any one of a
dozen or more persons, men or women, as
the publisher may see fit to designate.
Years ago Mrs. Charlotte M. Braeme
wrote under the name “Bertha M. Clay”
as a nom de-plume. Mrs. Braeme is
dead; but her pen name is not. It has
been copyrighted, and an Englishman
named S. D. Clark and dozens of other
people have since been writting under it.
And some of them were unaware of that
fact when they were writing their
stories, at that. They would submit
manuscripts, written on the time-honored
lines, and presently the stories would ap
pear as the work of the famous
authoress.
It is said, and on the authority of tho
publisher of one of the “family story pa
pers,” that this instance is not an ex
ception; that the same kind of semi-fraud
is practiced extensively. While a dozen
writers in some instances work under the
same name, in other cases one writer
works unclqr a dozen names. One man,
who was referred to, writes under eight
different names, and five of them are re
garded by reader of the stuff as "leading
authors,” and their merits are com
pared and contrasted.
“There are tricks in all trades.” Lit
erature of the kind in question is a
trade, not a profession, and it is evidently
full of tricks.
The “reformers” of South Carolina
probably made a mistake when they went
into a snap convention and a snap pri
mary recently. Several years ago simi
lar tactics worked very well towards
showing how strong they were. The last
snap actions taken showed how weak
they have grown. In Aiken, the home
county of Mr. John G. Evans, the “re
form" candidate for governor, 1,648 votes
were polled in the recent primary, against
2,900 polled there by the "reformers” two
years ago. In many other counties the
falling off of the “reformers’ ” strength
was even greater. When theTillmanites,
several years ago, sprang their first
“March convention" scheme they were
the "outs” and wanted to get in, and
their demonstration showed their oppo
nents that they were strong. Now they
are the “ins,” and their latest demonstra
tions have shown their' opponents that
they are weaker than ever before since
the first victory of the Tillmanite move
ment. Had the “ins” just laid low and
said nothing, their opponents might not
have found that out until toe late. But,
with a flourish of trumpets they have
called attention to their dissensions and
declining strength. if the "conserva
tives’ do not take advantage of their in
formation it will be surprising.
The clause in the new tariff bill relating
to sugar bounties reads: "And hereafter
it shall be unlawful to issue any license
to nroduce sugar.” The license carries
with it the claim upon the government for
a bouuty. The sugar producers and the
senators from Nebraska and Louisiana
hold the sentence quote ! to mean that the
license at present existing shall continue
of force until their expiration by limita
tion, but no new license shall be issued.
It is said that Secretary Curlisle is favor
ably inclined to such a construction,
though he would prefer the whole matter
held In abeyance unt'l the assembling of
the next session of congress. At that
time it is thought a special aot for the re
lief of the licensed sugar producers of the
west and l-ouisianu will be passed.
To Mrs Strauss, a Washington lady, be
longs th honor of having the largest rose
a in In the world.
PERSONAL.
Stephen Gambrlll, who married Senator
Gorman s sister, has a son who is going to
marry one of the senator s daughters. Both
father ar.d son are employed m government
aepartmeuts in Wash in*: on.
Gen. George R. Jesup received two letters
at his residence in Marietta. Ga . the other
day which bore the postmark 1859. and whose
writers are dead. the letters have
been all this time Is a mystery.
The Washington correspondent of one of
the most prominent eastern daily news
paper* received the following telegraphic in
quirv a few nights, from the in making
editor of bis paper. • .v ho is Cannon of
Illinois Is he worth l.flbo words ”
Tom Reed is fond of whist, and as he lives
at a hotel, his pleasure is sometimes subject
to interruptions from persistent callers. To
its ire at,solute privacy Mr. Keen, whenever
he goes to a friend s room to indulge in his
favorite diversion, fcow takes the precaution
of slipping off his shoes and setting them n
tbe hall : eside the door. It shows that Mr.
1 eed has gone to bed. and is aid to insure
him absolute immunity from interruption.
There has died at his residence, Carniney,
near Ballymena. Ireland, one who was reck
oned to be tbe most diminutive man in I lster.
Bis name was David Yas ton. and his stature
did not reach Levond three teet. At he time
of his death, which cc urred on July z 6, be
had attained the age of aboutso years. He
was a married man, and lea\es a widow and
se\ eral of a iamily to m >urn h<s < a~iy death.
For years past he was well known through
out Ballymena and the district as an evangel
ist i • preacher ai.d earned on tne grocery
business.
Mr. Vanderbilt owns 2,( 05.000 acres of land
in the United Slates. Mr. ii ston of Penn
s 1 vania boasts of his 4 oOtuM) broad aer s.
The >chleulejf estate owns acres within
the cities or Pittsburg and Abe heny. 'ihe
Califoma millionaire. M .rphy, owns an area
of land bigger than the whole state of Massa
chusetts. Foreign notrlemen who owe no
allegiance to this country are permanent a
- landlords, and spend all their money
abroad, own 21 uoi.uoo acres of land in this
country, or more- than the entire area of Ire
land. Lord Scully of Ireland owns 90.0.0 at res
or farming land in Tllinois. which he rents out
in rtinail j arte.s to tenant farmers and pock
ets his annual s2tu,uuo in rents to spend
abroad.
Auguste Cain, the celebrated sculptor, who
died in Paris recently in his 72d year, le an
life as a carpenter, and from this advanced to
the trade of wood carver. His tlrst step in
the career which made him famous was to be
come a pupil in the atelier of Kude. whose
statuary adorns so man\ French cathedrals
and chi r, lies. In Im6 Cain exhi ited at the
Salon, and this exhibit is generally consid
ered to be his chef and oeuvre. it is familiarly
known as "The Dormouse and the Tom tit,”
and lepresents two of these small lrds de
fending their nest against the intruding dor
mouse. Almost without exception the sub
jects of his studies are drawn from scenes of
animal life. Another well known group is
The Frogs Asking for a King,’’ which was
exhibited in U 59.
BRIGHT BITS.
She—They say that persors of opposite
qualities make the happiest marriages.
He—That's why I m looking for a girl with
money.—fit-Bits.
B iboon\ boy, you look as if you had
just s‘( pped out-of ipfashion plate.
Crinkuton— 1 hat so: I knew I had rheu
matism but I didn't suppose i was as stiff as
that:—Excha ige.
' Bah is er heap in gibbin’ er frien’ in dis
tress er incouragin’ word.’' sail Uncle Eben.
“Ah’ de mos’ incouragin word yoh kin say is
yes’ when he axes yoh foh er small loan.”—
Washington star.
"Is anything the matter with that other
tooth, doctor?”
"No. sir. It aches out of sympathy.”
“Take it out. It can t play any Dobs game
on mei”—Chicago Tribune.
Proprietor—Here s a lot of water left in
your wagon. You must have missed some
customers.
Iceman—No, sir. I left a puddle on every
doorstep.—Chicago Tribune.
Friend—Did your mamma enjoy the cake I
sent over last week? .: .
Tommy—V es: one piece of it kept papa at
home three or four days, and nothing else
ever did.—Chicago Inter-Ocean.
Hicks—Don't you think that Diggles is a
good deal of a bore •
Wicks Oh. I don't know. Diggles is a fine
fellow, and good company—when you have
nothing to do aad want to- hear h.in talk.—
Boston Transcript.
The soul of the impecunious man
Is filled with a dose of the blues.
For he's trying to figure out how they will
look
When he blackens his tan colored shoes.—
Brooklyn Eagle.
Deserved to Lose it.—Mrs. Jangle—Mrs.
Bangle lost $lO in the most absurd iashlon to
day.
■Carried it in her glove, eh?"
Mrs. Jangle—No: that wasn't it; she had it 1
in her pursy.—Chicago later Ocean.
"Papa." remarked the M. P.'s daughter,
looking at the clock.
“What is it. i.ou:-’’ asked papa, who had !
lingered :n the parlor with the young people.
•'lt is P o’clock; at this time George and I
usually go into committee.” Then papa re
tired.—'lit Bits.
Brooks -You say Miss Y’orker isn't at
home? W hy. X saw her pome in not half an
hour ago.
Bridget—That may be. sort but I heard her
sav, not ten minutes ago. that if she were to
live in Brooklvn a thousand years, she'd
never be at home here.—Puck.
The woman was 1 cfore the police judge for
haying beaten her husband in a cruel manner.
"You are charged.” said his honor, ‘ with
aggravated assault and battery. \Vht have
you to say?" ", hat s just it. yer honor.” the
prisoner responded promptly . "if he hadn't
aggravated me 1 never would have raised my
band to him."—Detroit Free Tress.
CURRENT COMMENT.
The People Pay the Freight.
From the St. Louis Republic (Dera.l.
Wellman, Pullman, Gorman. Sherman,
Tillman, i osey. Debs an 1 Waite.
Such : oss bluffers work the people,
And someoody pays the freight.
How Do They Ever Do It P
From the Louisville Courier Journal. (Dem).
With southern l ank clearings increasing
at the rate of ;> per cent, over last year; with
southern railroads showing an increase in
earnings as compare ! wiitk IBH3. while those
ot evert othett-qcMon show a decrease: with
big crops of cotton, t orn and wheat, and with
plenty oi hog hominy, possums, sweet pota
toes. watermelons and other luxuries to i e
had in season for the comfort of ih ■ inner
man. we can't understand hpw any Kansas or
Nebraska or Great Northwestern v ctlm of
hot blasts, blizzards and great expectations
can keep away from Dixie.
The Sugar Bounty.
From Springfield tMass.) Republican tlnd ).
'1 he defenders of tho bounty a firm that a
valuable pituii. service is rendered iu return
for it. m tho Uetelopment of tut industry
which in time will return all these gifts to the
peop e in reductions of the cost of st.gur to
them. A sufficient answer to this el. ltn is
fo ltd In the results of the protection the
sugar industry las reteivt and for years. he
American people navetaxeuthemselves hear
ily tor well-nigh half a century to build up
this industry, and it is t■d ly practically no
nearer produ. lag sugar enough to affect tne
price in the wot d~ markets thin it was a
generation ago if etaldtyoi the smar
grower s claim to toe bounty turns on tne
value of the p hl.c service they have ren
and red n return tor It, the chances of their
■ ntorcing their claims toft are anything but
brilliant.
W hat tho Populists Would Have Done
From the Augusta iGa.i Chronicle (Dem i.
It will surprise many populists and dis
satisfied democrats who are giving counte
nance to populism to learn that
the money appropriated under these bills
of populists in two sessions of cougrets ag
gregates the marvelous sum of m out nftv
billious oi dollars. As Ihe to:a: estimated
money of the wi rid. Including paper, gold,
•■•liver, i opper. Lrass and iron tokens does
not ext ee l ten and one tenth billions of dol
lars it at pears that this party of low taxes
and economical expendtluies of the public
money only proposes to spend ai out live
ttn.es us much money as there is in the
world To sum up in a nutshell the case is
tins If the populists had controlled both
houses of congress and could have passed
any law they pleased, the measures which
would now ue in cffei t would saddle a de t
upon this country that it would take live
times as much money as there s iu the world
to lliiuldaie. That is the party of reform and
low taxes that our farmers are being hum
bugged by. I
Tho*e Blessed Grasshoppers.
Talkin' of grasshoppers,” said the man on
the cracker tox, according to the Detroit
Free Press, -reminds me of the scourge of
1*72. when the country out here was overrun
with them pesky critters. Nobody knew
whar they came from and nobody knew whar
they went to for they come witnout wan la’
an they left in the sam<? fashun I hed kept
my weather eye peeled for a week, but nary a
hopper did I see. when 1 beerd as how they
was at Blair an cornin' lickity split to Deca
tur.”
• l hem were lively times,” said Long Jim.
the stage ( r.vt r Lor . how scared the wim
men were w.th the jumpin’ critters.” #
It wore afore 1 married the w;d:ler ” con
tin-ed the man on the cracker i ox, when I
we-e livin’ with my sister after she come out
htie an 1 had a rignt smart of caoLage in
the ueld by the house, an i warn't a goia' to
let no pack of measly grasshoppers eat 'em
op, not if Ik no wed it. i heard after sun
d wn as the\ hud struck Blair an’ I jes set to
work and covered every one of them cabbages
up ith i lankets and comfortat les.”
An I’ll *t you didn t save one. not a one,”
suggested Lo-ig Jim.
"It's rign you are, I didn't. When I got
up m thv* mornin the held was as rare as ef
it had be a struck by a cycloner, not a thing
hfi of them . ant-ages but the stalks in the
ground, ihe hoppers had jes' eaten the cov
erin an' the cant .ii.es like :-o much provender
an gone off to anct.ier country. I nearly cried
over them cabbages.”
• ieii us about them in the cars.” sad Long
Jim. • This gentleman from the east ain't
never seen the like. '
• thev stopped the cars more times than
you cou and uiunt on your lingers by gitting on
the track and makin' them slippery, actin'
like so in. ch grease. And one—• entlemen.
you may n. t believe it, out it s gospel truth—
they pulled the bell ami the engineer stooped
the car stock still. It were this wav. for I
were th< r aid see it myself, The tonluct r
came into the car when it stoipeu, an he
says. sa\s he:
"‘Who pulled that bell rope '’ Everybody
was s.-ured cept me an I spoke up and says:
” The hoppers did it.'
Don't ialk foolishness,'says the conduc
tor. T don't low no galoot to tend to my du
ties. When this train is stop p2dl ao it my
self. Don t none of you ever tech that tell
rope agin.’
l u like to see enny one tetch it now.’
says I. an' I pinted it out to him weighted
down with hoppers as thick as a constrictor
sn tke after it had swallowed a tali an’ the
car bell a ringing like mad.
• Holy Moses.' he says, an’ looked skairt.
but it were a fact just the same. Them hop
pers followed us into ihe stage and we sat
there knee deep iu ’em. Skairt - No. not
much to speak of. You see them wasn't the
14-year-old locusts with a nig letter VV” on
their backs. These here critters were little
slim things, kind of a brown-green, but. Lord,
how they did eat things: We folks had
skeeter nets in our winders, and in two min
utes after them hoppers struck us it hung in
striosand shreds an' they were swarmin’
round the house like flies.”
•If they come agin, said Long Jim, "Id
jest till up every growin' thing with pizen. an’
then, when the hoppers were ail dead. Id
turn 'em aud use for fe tilizers.”
Yer mought said the man on the cracker
box. with u tnoughtful look, "if they sent
ca:d; a sayin they was cornin’. But when
the, steal on yer. like a thief in the night,
you earn t most always i aikerlate just what
you wo 1 do. I'm lay n for’em this year,
but they ain’t sent on no advance agent with
plan o campaign as yet.”
Ana he envelop and himself in a blue haze of
smoae that lor bade further discussion.
He Tipped Over a Mountain.
■ Capt. Taylor of Wyoming, eh?” asked a
reporter for the Detroit !• ree Press.
"Vis sir."
"I’ is the CaDt. Taylor who ran for the leg
islature three or four years ago?”
"Ihe same man.”
"Ard got defeated because he tipped over a
mountain out there s tmewhere:-"
"1 d.dn't exactly do that, but I was beaten
jusi tne same."
"Captain, there was a storv of some sort
about you and a mountain. G've me enough
to make a page for the Free Press.”
“it won't be as long as that, out I’ll tell you
all a 1 out it." laughed the captan as he
settfcd down on the cushion of a smoker on
the Michigan Central road the other Cay.
Having lighted a fresh cigar and thought
fully stroked his nose for a moment he con
tinued :
"Vou don't know where Tom s mountain Is
of course, and so I will tell you that It is due
south of the town of Kawiins, on the Union
Pacilie road, and only about twenty miles
away. Used to be lots of game up there, for
it's a pretty fair chunk of a mountain and
well covered with timer. Five years ago a
party of us went up there on a hunt and tt
was then the incident happened you have
probably heard of. We had a camp about a
liti.e from the south end of the mountain.
Between the camp and the end I one day
came upon a great crack or fissure. It was a
mile .ong from a foot to three feet wide, and
trom ttn to IJJ feet deep. It was as if the
south end of the mountain had sagged down
and was trying to pull away from the other
portion."
"I’ve got your fissure, captain.”
"All right. A! oat the middle of the moun
tain, where the fissure was widest, tt was
tilled with ice to within five feet of the sur
tace. I dropped down on the tee and found it
as hard as iron and as cold as a miser s heart.
It may have been there for a thousand years
for all I know."
"Kemains of the glacial epoch." sagely ob
served the man with the note book.
• vow. then, whv I should go and make a
fool of myse f about that fissure is beyond my
reasoning, but 1 went into it with my eyes
wide open. I suddenly felt tender toward
that ice, which hadn t been thawed for so
many centuries, and determined to give it a
change of feelings. There was heaps of dry
wood about, and I spent an hour tumbling
stuff into that fissure. i eaves, brush, limbs,
roots and logs—everything went. When the
lire got under headway there was a great fry
ing and sizzling down in the cold locesses. I
got tired of the fun after a while and went
back to camp, 'that night afoot midnight
Tom's mountain shook herself thr'e or four
times as if she had a chill. Next morning we
went out to the tlssure. to find ourselves look
ing down a precipice Tne whole south end
of the mountain had ta -.en a slide."
"Your ben ire did the biz. eh;'”
"Well, that s whero I differ with the infer
nal opposition. I hey said t melted lhe ice
and wrought about the avalanche, and that
onh a tool would have staned the fire. I got
four geologists to swear that it made no dif
ference, but when election day came l wasn’t
half elected. The papers said that a man
whod fool with a mountain a million years
old wouldn't hesitate to sell his iutiueri eto
any corporation wtticb wanted to dam a river
discovered only 10) e trs ago." .
‘ Hid the avaiauche do any great harm,
captain?”
• oh, no. It was the principle of the thing
they loi kod at. A hundreu million w: gon
loadsof earth and rock tilled up a valley six
mi.es long by three wide, and ihe .<d of St.
Vraim's river was carried seven miles south
and given sixteen new crooks, but no dam
age was done.
The Surfeit Cure.
■ When I was a youngster," said Mr. Bozzle
according to the New VorkSun. I used to
wonder how the confectioners could make any
money, it ulways seemed to me that the
clerks would eat so much candy that they
would eat up all the profits, i remember
reading or hearing later that this was not so;
that when anew clerk came into the store
the proprietor would say: Now I hope you
will eat all the candy you want: don’t hesi
tate to help pourself at any tune,' and that
the result of this was that at the end of a week
she was so sick and tired of candy that she
hated the sight of it. and didn't want any
more ior a year. This, I suppose, might be
called the surfeit cure.
• After i had grown up and came to have a
family. I remembered this and thought I
might turn the idea to advantage. I had four
children and the amount of money they sjent
for ice cream and candy and soda water was
something awful. I thought that by spending
in a lump money enough to make them tired
of those things i might in the long run make
a considerable saving. so 1 set aside 91.000
for that purpose, and one day I said to my
oldest child:
• Tillie. I don't think you and the children
are beginning to have the ice cream and
candy you ought to have. I am afraid you
think that because papa Isn't very rich you
must skimp yourselves about those things,
but you needn t; you can have all the money
you want for them. Here's S6O. Now 1 wish
you would take the children out and get some
ice cream and candy, and whenever tne
money is gone Just let me know and i ll give
you more ’
Well, they used up that 11,000 in about ten
weeks, and at the end of that time they were
as hungry for ice cream and candy as ever. I
was like the gambler who keeps on playing
alter he has lost a lot iu the hope that his luck
will turn, lihought they might reach the
surlelting point at any minute, and it seemed
100 l ad to make a dead loss of ihe money al
ready invested, w hen pernaps the expenditure
of a few dollars more would accomplish the
desired result. so I have kepi on Hut the
. hlldreu's appetite for ice cream and candy
seems to increase. They tell me 1 am so good;
and that, of course. Is something; I like to see
them happy: Put meanwhile mv hard earned
money is melting away and lain inclined to
think that ihe surfeit cure is a delusion, If
uot a snare."
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
In Italy thirty out of every 10,000 people die
by the knife of the assassin.
Swallows fly low before the rain, because
the insects they pursue are then nearer the
ground to escape tbe mo sture of the upper
air.
Spontaneous combustion occurs in ma*ny
sut stances because during fermentation heat
is evolved and inflammable gases are en
gendered.
It is computed that everv year the earth re
ceives about 146401.C0J 0 0 shooting stars,
which fall on Us surface and thus slowly in
crease its mass.
A movement is on foot to drain the delta of
the Danube and restore it to its condition of
five centuries ago. when it was covered with
forests and fertile helds.
The highest mountain in the world is the
old-established t vjrest in the Himalayas.
Mount Hercules in New Guinea shrunk a good
deal after it was measured.
Lord George Hamilton has a curious man
nerism, which takes the form of tearing up
paper into sma 1 fragments. His presence in
the House of ( ommons is al a ays indicated by
a trail of this kind.
It is not likely that earthquakes ever result
from electric disturbances, and it has not yet
proved that they ever give rise to any
such, though woen large masses of rock are
dispia ei. as in Japan :n 1-91. slight local
changes in magnetic curves have result 3d.
Prof. Asa Gray says that the Washington
elm at Cambridge has been estimated to pro
duce 7.000. 0) leaves which would make a sur
face radiation of auout five acres in e.-tjnt,
ana give out every fair day in the growing
season seven and three-fourths tons of mois
ture.
1 r3nch women student 3 do not seem to take
tj mediein \ in the enrollment of women at
tending univeis ty lectures, just made in
PuGs of 155 on the list of the faculty onlv 16
were of French birth, wb le of the 161 • n the
li3t of thefaculty of letters 141 were French,
seven studied under the faculty of scitn.e,
and three under that of law.
To what extent Spain is still under the in
fluence of mediaeval laws and restrictions
which hamper its progress and development
may be gathered from the fact that among
<. t ier imposts which the taxpayer is called
upon to pay is that entitled The Crusado.”
which was originally instituted for tne pur
pose of providing funds tor the Crusades and
which has remained n existence ever since.
Its proceeds are now applied to the repair of
churches, the payment of the stipend of the
clergy and other ecclesiastical purposes.
home time ago a lot of permit s was re
ceived at the treasury depirtment for re
demption. Among them was a cell which
was rejected. J‘he treasury would not give l
cent for it. A iljrk in the office redeemed it
and gave it to< oagressman . o in son of North
Dakota, who sent it to the Smiths onian to tie
identified, at and later he reeeiveu word that
the coin is of me mintage of the year 284 A.
D.. and circulated in the t mes of Empeior
Diocletian, it is a * ery vacuole relic, worth
m my times its weight in t o and
It is a well known fact that on account of
the superficial position of ihe blood vessels
a ankles and wrists the blood in cold
weather is easily chilled at those points. For
the same reason in warm weather one ought
to keep these localities as light.y covered as
Pot si hie. This is the case with regard to the
wrists, but ninety nine men out of a hundred
have thick leather coverings high over the
ankles, and the shopkeepers say that so low
low shoes are (alltu mr that it is ofieu diffi
cult to fit satisfactorily a customer who does
demand them.
There is a quaint superstition in the minds
of nearly all Union Pacific employes in train,
engine and yard service, says the bait Lake
Tribune, in regard to tne signihcance of
water marks in the paper on which official
letters are issued. The paper is manufac
tured by a firm which has for their water
mark a crane. It is the position of this bird
In the letter that the boys attach significance
to. If it stands erect the wording of the let
ter has no bearing on the status of the holder.
He would be re employed anywhere on tbe
toad, regardless of the fact that the letter
might state that he had teen discharged for
the rankest sins thata railroad man could be
guilty of. On the other hand ii tne bird hap
pens to be upside down, no matter how much
the head of the department may have certi
fied to the good character and capability of
the holder, the prevalent belief among the
boys is that he could nat get a job. so when
a man leaves the service and obtains a "ser
vice letter” his first act is to hold it up to the
light to note the position of the bird. If it
stands erect he nas no complaint to make; if
inverted he roars.
The famous steeple of the Old South
church In Boston is beiDg repaired, says the
New York Post. Ihe man who is doing the
work has climbed most of the tall steeples in
thecountiy and has even worked at a d'zzv
altitude on Bunker Hill monument. He has
also had tne distinction of receiving the so
cialistic nomiaation for governor of Massa
chusetts. He is a Newfoundlander by birth,
and has worked on steeples for seventeen
years. One of his greatest feats was the re
pairing of the chimney at the Charleston
navy yard, which is 217 feet high
He mounted it on thirty foot lad
ders, each ladder being securedi and
hauled up by himself. The Old somh steeple
on which he Is now at work is Ito feet in
hight. It is cracked in places, anu the vane
moves only in a strong wind. Ihe vane will
be taken off its iron spindle, lowered to the
ground, and regilded. When it is set up
again the spindle will be greased with a piece
of beef fat, which is expected to do its work
for six years, or until 1900, when somebody
will have to climb up and lubricate it again
For his hazardous labor, which will take him
about a fortnight, the steenleinender will re
ceive *2OO.
Those who Imagine that the best way to
put down drunkenness is to make it impossi
ble. by putting liquor out of reach, may well
ponder the, conditions existing in China,
where, as a recent writer has well put it - in
avast empire, with more than 1u0.000.000 of
population, there are no saloons, no ine: mate
homes, and no chronic drunkards. There is
excise, no internal revenue or tax. Any one
can wholesale aid retail wine and liquor to
his heart's content as freely as he can seil
potatoes or kindling wood. The pauper can
get drunk if he choose with the greatest ease
for nowhere on earth is the product
of the fermenting tub and the still so
cheap as here. Sam shui, or riee wine
can be bought as low as 2 cents a
quart, and no ma jou. or rice gin. for 15
cents a gallon. European sailers come ashors
and get ughtirg drunk at an expens :ot 5
cents. It is cheap, and its ;so is unite sal.
It s served on every table.no ma.tor b>w
humble, cnl at ev-ry inta 1 . Nevertheless
the heathen Chinese does not drink to ex
cess. The drunkard I) i radically unin own
i x opt whe e he is a civ.ltzed Christian, and
tu diseases resulting from the a! use of alco
hol have r.o place In Chinese pathology.
The terrible death of a premising young
terero in the bull ring has once again at
tracted the attention of the English public to
the Spanish national sport, says the London
Graphic. One is accustomed to hear bull
fighting denounced as both cruel and cow
ardly—cruel because of the suffering it Inflicts
upon animals; cowardty because tne risk run
by the bull tightsr is infinitesimally small
The fltst charge is absolutely true, so far. at
least, as concerns the unfortunate horses.
The second is equally false, as the tragic
death of Espirteco the other day should
serve to teach the amateur critics who, for the
most part, have never seen the spe tacle they
denoun ein such nnqua.tiled terms. If the
.' p .niards would only revive ihe original iorm
oi ihe sport thev t orrowed from the Moors—
that is to say, the riding, not of wretched cab
horses, only fit lor the knacker, and mounted
by professional picadores. but of valua, le
horses, with owners up." who would of
course, exercise their skill in trvlng to save
their mounts-there would le little said
against bull fighting on the score of cruelty
As to the current sneers at the cowardice of
bull fighters, they are the outcome of sheer
ignorance. One has but lo witness the entry
into the ring of a freshly-caught Andalusian
bull, twice the size and weight of a lion, fully
as tierce and almost as active, to understand
that every man in the ting carries his life
In his hand, and that a momentary loss of
nerve, of judgment or of footing will
probably mean instant death. That ter
rible lighting "spear"—a Spaniard never
talks of a bull's 'horns'' any more than an
Englishman of a fox s • tail' —would make
short work of any quid who had not devoted
the flower of his age to the most perilous of
all forms of sport. Those who have seen
such daring and accomplished toreros as
"Latartljo 'or "Krascuelo" take tho cloak
from the hand of a subordinate and play with
the infuriated beast as a child might with a
kitten knowing all the time that tne slightest
mistake would lie fatal, itnnot. if they speak
the truth refuse to admit that the combina
tion of skill and courage Is unparalleled. The
perils of the plaza redeem the sport from the
charge of cowardice, though not as it is at
present conducted, from that of cruelty.
DAN EL HOGAN.
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