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TUESDAY. SEPTEMBER 18,1834.
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INDEX TO NEW ADVEKTiSLMLNTS
Meetings—Savannah Cotton Mills; Savan
nah Lolge No 183, H. P. O. Elks.
Special Notice—Golden Apple Tobacco,
John Lyons; As to Crews of British Steam
ahips Leconlield and Endelelgh.
Amusement—The Al. U. Field Minstrels at
the Theater, Sept. 21.
A Sag in Pants—B. IT. Levy ft Bro.
Railroad Schedule—Central Railroad of
Georgia.
Medical—The Animal Extracts, The Col
umbia Chemical Company, Washington. D. C.
Keep Your Eyes Open—Appel it Seh-ul.
Terne Plates—C. M. Gilbert & Cos.
Cheap Column Advertisements—Help
Wanted, Employment Wanted; For Rent;
For Salo: Lost; Personal; Miscellaneous
It is worthy of note that nearly all of
the small number of state papers that op
pose increasing the working capacity of
the supreme court are papers that advo
cate the populist money theory. It is
probably consistent that fiat money peo
ple should desire inadequate legal ma
chinery.
The Albany Herald, on Saturday last,
printed a handsome illustrated trade re
view and business directory of its city.
There is no more plucky and prosperous
town in South Georgia than Albany, and
the Herald is a credit to its constituency.'
Its trade edition was well gotten up,
cleverly written and nicely printed.
There isn't the slightest excuse for the
existence of populism in this state’s poli
tics. The democracy has given Georgia
a state government that has built up her
credit and enabled the people to live in
prosperity. The populists could not do
more than that if everyone of their prin
ciples wore founded on eternal truth and
every one of their leaders were a states
man. The populists have no suggestions
to make that are worthy of attention,
save those about free coinage and the gov
ernment ownership of railroads. But
wliat has the state government of Geor
gia to do with either question?
The battle between the Chinese and
Japanese troops at Ping Yang, on Friday
and Saturday, must have been decisive,
in so far as the campaign in Korea is con
cerned. The Japanese now virtually have
undisputed control of the peninsula,
and may institute themselves the govern
mental reforms that the Chinese govern
ment refused to order. Whether or not
China will endeavor to send another army
into Korea is a question. Indeed, it looks
as if China has already been beaten and
that the war has come to an end, un
less the Japanese shall decide to push the
fighting to the enemy's own capital.
Surviving sufferers from the great
Johnstown flood will not collect damages
for their losses from the South !• ork 1 is i
ing Club, the corporation that owned the
dam which burst and caused the trouble.
After the flood a fund of #1 ,o0i) was raised
by the Johnstown business men to pay for
the preliminaries toward instituting suits
for damages. A fee of SI,OOO was paid to
lawyers for an opinion, which was not
favorable, aud at a final meeting of the
proposed prosecutors, held a few nights
ago, it was decided to abandon the idea of
bringing suits. The SSOO remaining of
the fund will be turned over to the city
hospital.
A few days ago the Morning News In
quired what the local and. mocratle workers
of the several counties were doing to
wards swelling the democratic majority
in October, and urged that they lose no
time in stirring things up. It is gratify
ing to note that the suggestion has been
taken up by a number of our newspaper
contemixiraries, who are talking to the
workers in the same strain. It must not
be understood, by tho way, that the local
workers are doing nothing. On the other
hand, they are doing good work. The
idea is to keep them doing it, and to help
them to do it, until the populists are cov
ered out of sight under ballots.
The year ISU4 has seen, probably, more
time records broken than any year that
will follow it is likely to see. This year
half a dozen or more records have been
established on the bicycle track; new
records have been made for swimming,
for hurdle racing aud other athletic
games; new records have been made on
the turf for two-year-old pacers, tho
record has been equaled by a trotter, with
the chances in favor of its being beaten
before the end of the year; new records
have been established between New York
and Queenstown, and New York and
Southampton, and anew cruiser of the
American navy has made the record for
her class and set the pace for sea-going
steam vessels. z\nd these are probably
not all of the records that have been
broken. The records established by tho
new champions, being beyond anything
heretofore achieved, will lie harder to
surpass than anything that has preceded
them They have been established by tho
most highly bred and thoroughly trained
animals and the most complete and pow
erful machin-s. The uiargiu lor improve
ment i s \gfj- narrow.
The Challenge Declined.
The reasons given by Judge Hines for
| declining Hon. W. Y. Atkinson's invita
| tion to jointly disduss the issues of the
i campaign arc not such as to lead the pub
lic to believe Judge Hines is anxious for
a joint debate. The impression his .rea
, suns make is that he is of" the
I opinion that the populist party has noth
ing to eain by such a debate, and would
likely lose ground by it.
The reasons are that the invitation was
sent too late and that the democratic
executive committee declined to reci om
mend a division of managers cf the polls.
There is no force in the first reason.
The election is more than two weeks off,
and there is still time to make converts.
Judge Hines thinks there is, because ho
says if he engaged in a joint debate he
would have to abandon some appoint
ments he has already made. He doesn’t
want to abandon them for the reason ap
parently that he thinks he can do his
cause good by keeping thorn. He knows,
however, that if he should engage in a
joint discussion the newspapers would
give wide circulation to his speeches, as
well as those of Mr. Atkinson. He would,
therefore, reach a great mauy more peojjle
than by speaking alone. He would reach
democrats as well as populists, anu
if he has confidence in the populist de
mands, he ought to be glad of an op
portunity to get them, with his comments
upon them, before the people.
His second objection, namely, that the
democratic executive committee has re
fused to recommend that the populists be
given managers at the ballot boxes, and
that, therefore, the means of having the
judgment of the voters expressed upon
the joint discussions has been denied, is
even weaker than the first objection. No
fair-minded man doubts that all the ballots
of the populists will be counted. The insin
uation that they will not be will be inter
preted by many as meaning that the pop
ulists are laying the foundation for an
assertion that their party was not dealt
with fairly at the polls.
Judge Hines can rest assured that all
the votes cast by his party will he fairly
and honestly counted. The democrats
purpose winning the election so fairly
and squarely that the populists will have
no reason whatever to excuse their de
feat by the cry of fraud.
The populists will not feel elated by the
refusal of their leader to meet Mr. At
kinson. Some of them doubtless are so
iunocent as to believe that their demands
are so jusi and fair and their leader so
much superior to the leader of the
democracy that a joint discussion
would result in an overwhelming
victory for their leader. Judge Hines’
refusal to meet Mr. Atkinson in debate
and to have the populists’ demands com
pared with democratic doctrines ought to
open their eyes to the fact that they are
in the wrong camp—that they are being
misled—and that it is impossible for their
chosen leader or any one else to success
fully defend their platform.
If the joint debate had occurred Judge
Hines would have found himself greatly
overmatched, and the demands of his
party would have been so clearly shown
to he impracticable that many populists
would have become disheartened.
Breckinridge Will Contest.
The question of whether Col. Owens
or Col. Breckinridge is to be de
clared the nominee of the democracy in
the Ashland district of Kentucky is not
yet finally settled, and will not be, ac
cording to our dispatches, until the can
vassing hoard canvasses the returns
next Saturday. Last Saturday night
Col. Breckinridge virtually admitted his
defeat, and said he should give Col.
Owens a loyal support. On the face of
the returns Col. Owens has over EOO
plurality. The friends of Col. Breckin
ridge, however, assert that they have
found errors which reduce Col. Owens’
plurality to about 150.
Is there a chance for sharp work in
canvassing the returns; Col. Breckin
ridge has the advantage of having a ma
jority of the canvassing committee. The
committee would not, of course, add to
the vote in the ballot boxes or take one
vote therefrom, but it can throw out pre
cincts for irregularities. It can mag
nify the irregularities or make light of
them. If it determines to favor Col.
Breckinridge it can do so with seeming
fairness. It would not be a difficult mat
ter to overcome a majority of 150 or even
51.’0 by throwing out the vote of precincts.
It is very doubtful if Col. Breckinridge
could be elected, evau if he should be de
clared the nominee. The opposition to
him is too great to bo overcome. Domo
crais who supported Col. Owens and Mr.
Settlo would vote for a republican rather
than Col. Breckinridge, and the com
bined opposition would defeat him easily.
The wise thing for Col. Breckinridge to
do is to retire from the field. He has
made his light aud the people appear
to be against him. His appeal has been
rejected. An attempj to gain by ques
tionable methods what has been refused
him could hardly be successful.
A special dispatch from Jacksonville
says tho growing bitterness between the
two factions of the Democratic party in
Duval county "leads some people to fear
violence and bloodshed on election day.”
From what the Morning News lias been
abie to gather of the political situation in
Florida, there is neither prospect nor
probability of violence or bloodshed in
Duval or any other county on election
day. Both factions are pledged to an
honest, fair election, and there are
reasons for the belief that such an elec
tion will be held und in an orderly man
ner. There has been considerable fuel
ing stirred up between the "railroad"
aud "anti-railroad" people, but nothing
has been said that suggests fighting with
other weapons than words.
Charleston is talking about a deep
water festival, to beheld therein the fall,
probably the last week in October. It is
understood to be tho purposed the pro
jectors to hold un entertainment that will
overtop any of the "gala week” festivals
of the past, and the chief features of
which will emphasize the fact that there
is plenty of water on the bar. It may be
suggested, in passing, that if Charleston
could assure the peojile there would be a
little of something else besides water on
the l>ur, the attendance upon the festival
would he larger.
The Deary Arctic expedition has re
turned to this country without hating ac
complished its purjiose. The most in
teresting find so far reported is to be
credited to Mrs. Peary. It is said to be
quite a pretty baby.
THE MORNING NEWS: TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER IS, 1894.
Sharing the Blame.
The resolutions adopted by the Na
tional Colored Baptist convention in ses
sion at Montgomery, Ala., the text of
which was published in our dispatches
yesterday, contain a partial admission
that tho blacks are in some meas
ure responsible for the lynching
of persons of their race by the
whites. While the resolutions command
the woman Ida Wells for what she has
done, and is doing, iu connection with
lynchings. they are free from the infa
mous slanders to which the Wells woman
has given utterance. The blacks have
known all along that they are largely re
sponsible for the lynchings because they
have done little or nothing to check the
crime which is the causeof the lynchings,
but. except in a few localities, they have
not acknowledged their responsibility.
They are beginning to realize that they
have a duty to perform in connection with
the lynchings, and these resolutions
adopted at Montgomery indicate that it
will not be long before they will be doing
what they can to put a stop to the crime
that is the cause of nearly all the lynch
ings.
Even those Englishmen who have come
to this country to investigate and con
demn lynchings would have approved, and
perhaps would gladly have recommended,
the lynching of the black brute that as
saulted and murdered the little girl near
Thomasville last Saturday, an account of
which crime was published in the Morn
ing News yesterday.
The white and black people must work
in harmony to suppress lynchings. The
whites will sec that the law is enforced
against lynchers and the blacks must do
their utmost to put a stop to the crime
for which black men are lynched.
H. C. Aastwood, a colored man of some
prominence, who resides in Washington,
D. C., in a communication in Sunday’s
New York Sun, in respect to lynchings,
says: “Let all fair-minded negroes north
and south appeal to the sober judgment
and reason of our race to stop these un
natural crimes, which lead up to these
bloody dramas, and yielding up not only
their own worthless lives, but at times
causing other innocent men and women to
suffer and a race to be traduced, slan
dered and persecuted. We cannot stifle
our consciences by an absolute denial,
thereby making ourselves partjeeps crirni
nis in these evil doings, whether they are
true in part or as a whole, by denouncing
lynching and not the raper, the fire fiend,
and the murderer, thereby emboldening
the evil-doer and declaring that while
women have no rights which negro brutes
are bound to respect.”
He condemns the methods o f Ida Wells
and questions her truthfulness. He is
certain that she does more harm than
good. His judgment of her is correct.
The woman is so anxious for notoriety
that she overdoes the part she attempts
to play. The slanders she utters mislead
the blacks and inflame the whites. She
and her English friends will accom
plish nothing. Let the blacks exert
themselves to,stop the crime that causes
lynchings and the whites will do all that
can be done to stop lynchings. In that
way the evil complained of may be rem
edied.
New York Investigations.
Two of the ereat institutions of New
Yuris, the state reformatory at Elmira
and the insane asylum of New York city
on Ward’s Island, have been under in
vestigation for some time. The chief
prosecutors in the investigations are two
newspapers, and they have handled their
cases well.
In the matter of the Elmira reforma
tory, it is charged that Supt. Brockwav
is one of the most inhuman keepers who
ever had charge of a prison. He is ac
cused of acts of cruelty to helpless
prisoners that would shame a savage. It
is the World that makes the charges. On
the other hand, the Times and the Sun
defend the superintendent, and declare
that he is the greatest expert in the treat
ment of criminals in the world, and that
tho institution he has built up at Elmira
is a model reformatory, with a system as
near perfect as anything human can be.
Between these two extremes the truth
probably,is to be found. It is acknowl
edged that the reformatory is a great ad
vance in the science of penology. Mr.
Brockway’s prosecutors have nothing to
say agaiust the institution; they are
merely after the executive head of it.
The affair is under investigation by a
commission appointed by the gorernor.
In the matter of the Ward’s Island asy
lum, the Herald charges that the poor
victims of lunacy who are sent there arq
fed with unwholesome and unpalatable
food, given in insufficient quantities; that
they are Subjected to the caprices of
drunken, indifferent or incompetent
nurses, and are confined as if they were
prisoners to be punished rather than un
fortunates to be medicinally treated so as
tJ effect cures. The buildings at the
asylum, it is said, are inadequate to the
demand upon them, and the inmates are
huddled together in a manner that is not
only unhealthful, but scandalous. This
institution, like the reformatory at El
mira, is beiug investigated by a commis
sion appointed by the governor.
The two commissions have about com
pleted their labors. Their reports will
bo made direct to the governor, and he
will submit them to the legislature at its
uext session.
With these investigations, and the
Lexow, the Parkhurst, and the police in
vestigations, New York institutions are
gotting a pretty thorough shaking up.
Tho populist legislature of Kansas at
its last session passed an act to "protect”
people who had to borrow money "from
the rapacity of the money sharks.” The
law gives borrowers an option of two
years’ grace after the maturity of the
mortgages on their farms. The effect of
the law, as might be supposed, lias been
directly opposite from what the populists
intenoed it should be. Pcoplo who had
money to lend would not let it out upon
such peculiar conditions unless they were
paid for the extended lime, and cases are
reported where a bonus of 7 per cent, for
three years above the legal rate of 6 per
cent, a year has been charged for loans.
Thus tho borrower has to pay fiSi per
cent, a year premium liecause of this law
alleged to have been enacted for their
benefit.
The movement of emigrants from this
country to Europe continues heavy. One
of the big liners that sailed from New
York to Hamburg on last Thursday had
applications for 150 more steerage pas
sages than she is allowed by law to
carry. * ,
PERSONAL.
.Secretary Gresham is the prize smoker of
the cabinet. His allowance of cigars is
twenty a day, and it is re re for him to be seen
without one in his mouth.
When the high-wheeled bicycles were intro
dueed into Morocco, the sultan of that coun
try used them as a means oi punishing his
wives. The offta jng women were compelled
to ride them, and when thev fell off, the sul
tan exclaimed. B.smaliah and laughed.
Bishop John F. Hurst and family have re
turned to the L T nited States. Bishop Hurst
has traveled during tue past few months
through nearly all of the eastern coun
tries in the discharge ot his episcopal
duties in connection with the Methodist
church.
Gen. Adams Avelino Caceres. who recently
became president of Peru, is a distinguished
soldier and a thorough patriot His body is
covered with wounds received in his coun
try’s service, and he is a Door man. for he
reason that, in her hour of need, he gave her
every cent he had.
The report that James Tissot. whose series
of pictures on the life ot Christ was the main
attraction of the Champ de Mars .->alon this
year, is about to tev.om*- a monk of La Grande
Chartreise. seems to Le we.i founded. ihe
painter practically lived tne life of a recluse
and ascetic during the seven years he was en
gaged on his work.
The King of Korea is suffering from a dis
ease of the throat. Unhappily for him he is
looked upon as a divine oeing. whom no metal
instrument may touch In consequence of
this, tne operation whn h is necessary io save
his iile. cannot be performed, and the mon
arch will probably die on this account in a
comparatively short time.
The Marquis of Clanricarde. that grinding,
stern-willed, absentee land.or l who has been
the cause of half the agrarian trouole in Ire
land in the last dozen years rarely appears
in nis place iu parliament, and he lives the
life almost of u reci ise in chambers oif
Piccadilly, with not infrequent lapses into
most unhermitlike courses in London and
Paris.
President Casimir-Pmer dropped into a
toy store the other day an 1 asked a nervous
young shop girl if a phonographic Edison doll
which he produced from a j a per parcel could
be repaired. The young lady said. ‘Yes,”
and asked him to what address it should be
sent. When he gave his name and address
she fainted away, and the anecdote made the
rounds of the Parisian papers as >l. Casimir-
Pener s latest conquest.”
BRIGHT BITS.
‘‘l hear that you prefer to be cremated when
you die.”
“I do.”
“And why?”
‘‘So that my remains may be mtngled with
the ashes of the grate. —Truth.
Mrs. McSwat—That new girl in the kitchen
breaks an aw ful lot of china. She worries me
nearly to death.
Mr. Me Swat—l don’t mind it so much.
When she's breaking china she isn’t singing
“Sweet Marie.”—Chicago Record.
Hudson—At the next meeting of the lodge
you will r e let into another important secret
of the order.”
Judson—Yes?
Hudson—Yes; they will explain how they
got you home Tuesday night.—Puck.
Young Housekeeper -Those soles I bought
of you were not fresh.
Fisherman—Well. marm. that be your fault
—lt bean t mine. I’ve offered'em yer every
day this week, and you might a’ ad ’em dajs
before if you’d ’a’ liked Tid-Bits.
“Look here.” said the proprietor of the
lunch establishment, this com has a hole
in it.”
• W ell." replied Meandering Mike, ‘ so bad
the doughnut ye sold ue”
And he strode haughtily on.—Exchange.
Bolton Grumley is a queer genius. Always
trying to o ltdo somebody.
Truesueil—Yes: he is riding a bicycle now.
Bolton—He is? Well. 11l say this for
Grimley. he’ll never be satisfied with one
hump; if he can t be a dromedary he’ll quit
the game. —Puck.
"Did Miss Chilton give you any encourage
ment when you proposed to her?"
"Not a great deal. 1 used every argument.
I even went so tar as to assure her of my
ability to support her in. the style to which
she had been accustomed.”
"And what did she say ?”
“She said 1 might call around later and
sho.v her my income-tax receipt."—Washing
ton Star.
A well-known Detroiter stood at the corner
of Woodward and .lelTerson avenues yester
day waiting tor a tar. and a seedy-looking in
dividual approached him. "Excuse me," said
Seedy " ut will you he kind enough to tell
me wnat time it is ”
The gentleman consulted his watch. "Its
quarter after 1. he replied.
The seedy one coughed. ‘'Do you know,
sir," he said, the difference between the
time and met"
"Give it up." replied the gentleman.
‘‘Would you like to know, sir?”
“Yes."
"Well. sir. the time is a quarterafter 1: and
I am one alter a quarter.”
"Thanks.” responded the gentleman, hand
ing it to him with a bow.—Detroit Free Press.
CURRENT COMMENT.
Wool Raising Under Free Trade.
From the New York World iDem.).
In his inieresting interview on his observa
tions abroad Mr Depew tells of a member of
the House of Commons, "one of ihe largest
wool growers in Great Britain," who was re
joiced at the prospect of getting his toil into
this market, so it seems that wool can prof
itably re grown under free trade on high
priced lands ur.d shipped 8.000 mills to a mar
ket. The political shepherds who are advis
ing our farmers to kill their sheep because
foreign wool is no longer taxed ought to
gain courage from Mr. Depeiv s report.
Two Views of tho Future.
From the Philadelphia Record (Dem.).
Senator Faulk ler of West Virginia says
that ihe mpiovument in business has
brightened democratic prospects, ar.d he be
lieves that the party will electa majority of
the next congress. On the other hand, sen
ator Sherman, while presuming tha: the
country will ultimately adjust itself to the
new Industrial londitions, expresses great
confidence that the republicans will control
the next coi g.ess. The difference between
the two judgments is that while Senator
Faulkner sis based on existing conditions
known to uil newspaper readers the Ohio
sin esman relegates ihe business revival to
dim futur.ty. and offers no reason whatever
for his "great confidence" in his party s suc
cess.
Still Harping on Senator Jones.
From the Chicago Record ilnd.i.
Mr Jones'term does not expire until lfo7
und he need no: have been anxious ui out h'.s
own seal in the .senate. But while senator
Jones may be drawn to the People s poriy on
the silver que-tlou, how is lie to agree with
his populist friends on the tariff issio? .Sena
tor Jones is quite as ardent a protectionist as
he is a free silverlte. while his new associate*
arc as bitterly oppcs?d to protection as they
are to gold monometallism. If it is true, us
he says that he leaves tlie Republican party
because lie can better serve the cause of sil
ver in the new one. he is more likely to find
.himself hampered, because he will have to
light the new party on an issue it regards as
quite as important as tree silver, while in the
Republican party he would tir.d many who
agree with him as to silver and none who dis
agree with him on the question of protoelion.
Advice to the Colored Poople.
From the New York Post (Ind.).
1 Those friends of tho sdulhern negio who
prove their faith t>y their works, like the
late Gtn S C. Armstrong and his successors
I in control of the Humptou. Yu.. Institute.
' present a sharp contrast in their advice to
the race with that offered bv partisan pollti
! clans like senator noar of Massachusetts.
While the latter has always urged force tills
and in the recent Alauama campaign rec
ilittiended-support of Kolb, a popi list of the
j same school as Lewelling ot Kansas and
, Watte of Colorado, the instructors of the
colored youth at Hampton point out in their
organ the Southern Workman, "the impor
tance of making themselves desirable al
lius to the best Interests of their neigh
bors, and of enlist ng in tho support of t.u-lr
cause the reason ami conscience of the think
lng people among wnoui they lire." The
stand recently taken ly the colored ministers
of Ala nmn in urging support of the a- mo
erotic ticket us promisin'.' the i ost re mits to
their people, is pronounced ny tnis Hampton
authority worth more than all the petitions
and manifestoes addressed to the president
of the oulted .States and more than all -he
• i leglslatk n devised by congress
Men like enutor Hoar have done the negroes
| vast harm by their mistaken conns In. but
tin ir power for mischief seems now about
I gone.
Flying Fish Waltz.
We were lounging under the awning on the
poop deck of the cargo ship as she steamed
down in the latitude of the Amazon, and were
talking about the flying fish that in great
shoals can be seen thereabouts says the New
Y ork Sn. We ha: noted that some were
white as shiners and some as dark as mack
erel; that sometimes the, would sail away
lor IV) yards or more, that the/ rose over the
long swell* witho t ever a motion of their
big tins, icing lifted, apparently by the air
above the wave; that;hey h; and a funny fash.-, n
cf dipp*ng the tips of their taiis in the crest
of a wave now and then to get anew start,
and it was all very interesting to tho passen
ger. Finally the skipper said:
*’Y ou have yet to see them waltz, but the
chances are gain and you. Not many see. ”
l believe you, replied the passenger.
•Well, perhaps you wouldn't call it waltz
ing exa Jtly. but it's as near that as a fish can
come to a dance only they don t do it save by
accident, i was in these latitudes some
yea s ago in a bark an J the weather was a
bit unsettled— there were squalls and variable
winds and now and again a whirligig, such as
you can si eon shore at a street corner in
certain Weather, l was wat h ng one ot these
whir Digs coming down tue wind which was
about a cam, and was making sure it would
come abcara the next minute, when very un
exi evtedly a Hock of these flying hsh rose
right in that whirling •xass of spray. Some
how it seemed to gamer in the lot of them
whether or uo. and up they rose with all
hands round—wiqg :o v. n; or nose to tail,
jusi as it happened. Pretty soon some seemed
to get upset—turned t elly up. and In a mo
ment they were tumbling down on the water
outside the flurry, i here they lay. lor the
roost part gasping and unable to get under
water. It had i.eeu a sorry waltz for them.
Then the whirligig roke and tie rest Jell
down and disappeared, but until we had
sailed a ships length away I could see a
dozen mat nud tern done for.
Shelled by the Enemy.
• During the war,” said Judge Morrow of
the United States district court to the San
b rancis o Chronicle. T was sent by the war
department at Washington to
Army l a,master Sobin from C.ty Point to
the Yellow House, where Gen. Warren’s com
n.arid was int.enched. The confederates had
heei. shelling tne railroad line for several
days. . ut. had suddenly ceased. Paymaster
Sana, myself and a detachment (f infantry
took a locomotive and car and started for
el low Ho se. There was an open place
along the railroad where we knew the corned
crate batteries would have fair pa. at us.
vve ail dreaded the moment when we should
run through the cuts and hills and reach it
for we were in no position to flgnt, our only
intention w een we started being to make a
run ior it and get through if we could.
* Just before we reached the open. Pay
master >a in gave me his watch, money and
papers, saying he felt he was going to Le
killed. We were both in the cab of the engine,
but I had no presentiment of that sort, and
told him so. i had hardly uttered the words
when the train reached the open line and the
confederates opened five. The shells flew
thick and fast, and kept hitting closer and
closer to us, as we fairly flew al ,n;. A shell
struck the ca .of the engine and exploded.
The engine tore along, the smoke blew away
and we found that we had been carried out of
range, strange as it may seem, not a man in
the cab was even cruised, although the cab
itself was torn to pieces. How we escaped
death i do not know, but the grim messenger
passed us by. It was a narrow escape for all
of.us—a moment of supreme peril.”
An Ex-District Attorney the Call Boy.
One of the most remarkable examples of a
stagestruck man. says the New York Press,
is now tilling the humble office of call hoy be
hind the scenes of a Broadway theater,
although he lives in hope of being sent on to
play a small part, even it he has only to suy,
"My lord, the carriage waits " This eccen
tric gentleman is a memi er of one of the
o dust and most aristocratic families or Ten
nessee. isa graduate of Har.ard, and has
been the district attorney for two terms in
one of the largest cities in the south. He is
40 years of age. with a marked distinction of
manner, a strong, mobile face and iron gray
hair. When he applied for the place in the
company the manager, who ua 1 met him
so.tally and entertained for him a h gh per
sonal regard vainly endeavored to dissuade
him from his purpose. The candidate for
histrionic honors soon showed the manager
that he was perfectly serious, however, and
made a personal issue of his request that the
manager would put him in a position to learn
the business. The manager consented, with
the proviso tha! he should do exactly as he
was told at a mere nominal salary, and the
ex-district attorney was highly delighted.
The sta, o manager was Instructed not to
spare him. but nothing disenchanted the neo
phyte Ho is among the first to get to the
theater, and the last to leave It at night, and
when he ha. nothing else to do ram lies
among the scene frames or swings on the
paint s alTold 1 1 an ecstaey of satisfaction. It
is the worst cave I ever heard of. Of course
the company regards him with pity and
amazement.
The Hour of Achievement.
S. W. Foss, in Boston Transcript.
On the thirty-second dav of the thirteenth
month of the i lghth day of the week.
On the twenty-bfth hour of the sixty-first
minute, well find all things that we
seek.
They are there in the limbo of Lollipop Land
—a cloud island and resting in air,
On the Nowhere side of the Mountain of Mist,
in Hie Valley of Overthere
On the Nowhere side of the Mountain of Mist,
in the Valley of Overthere.
On a solid vapor foundation of cloud are pal
aces gran 1 and lair;
And there is where our dreams will come
true, and the seeds of our hope will
grow,
On the hitherward side of the Hills of Hope,
in the Hamlet of Hocus Po
On the hitherward side of the Hills of Hope,
in the Hamlet of Hocus Fo.
We shall see ail things that we want to see.
and know all wo care to know;
For tnere tha old men will ne. or lament, the
L.-.1l babies they never will squeak,
Ir. the Cross road Corners of Chaosville, In
the County of Hideandgoseek.
In the Cross-road Corners of Chaosville. in
the 1 ounty of Hideandgoseek.
On the thirty second day of ihe thirteenth
month of the eighth day of the week,
W’e shall do all the things that we please to
do a::t; accomplish whatevt rwe try,
On the sunset shoie of Soinctimeoruther, by
the beautltul Lay of Limeby.
Endinsr a Family Row.
The other evening, says the New York Re
corder, as a muscular person was passing a
house, a lady who stood at the gate call'd out
to him: "Sir, I appeal to you for protec
tion "
■ -What's the matter?” ho asked as he
slopped slicrt.
here s a man in the house and he
wouldn tgo out of doors when 1 ordered him
to.”
He wouldn't, eh! We ll see about that."
Theic ipon me man gave tha woman his coat
to hold an 1 suited into the house, fie found
a man at the supper ta: le and took him by
the neck and remarked: "Nicestyle of orute
you are. eh? Come out of this or I'll break
every bone in your body!"
The man lought, aud it was not until a chair
had been broken und the table upset that he
was ha led out of doors by the legs and given
a fling through the gates.
"Now. then, you crass-faced old tramo, you
move on. or i 1 finish vou!"
Tramp' Trump!" shouted the victim as he
got up. I'm no trump! i own this property
aud live In th.s house!"
"You do." *
"Yes, and that's my wife holding l your
coat.”
Thunder " whispered the. muscular man,
as he gazed from one to the other and real
ized that it was the wife's method of finish
ing a row she hud been having with her hus-
I and. And then he made a grab for ins coat
and disappeared Into tho darkness.
Money Mak: s the Jury Go.
A story is told by a student of the Elmira
academy of about six years ago. showing Ihe
adaptability of boys of the present day to the
profession of law says the Elmira iN. V.)
Gazette. T he students weroengaged in a mock
trial, with a judge und jury of their uumber,
and two leading students.on each side as coun
sel The counsel for paint in in his final
summary held up a bright silver dollar fh his
hand, und turning his t nek toward the judge
stealthily showed it to the jury during his
most eloquent appeals. i lie iiiry was im
pressed wnli the vulce of that dollhr. us well
ns i.y his eloquence, and gave the plaintiff a
verdict In short oruer for the lull amount,
alter which they Immediately repaired to
Am berg s with the plaintiff's lawyer, who In
vested the . right dollar In peanuts and pop
for their nil fit. Several of the participants
in this trial have since graduated from col
lege amt uie well known. As noviues in jury
prin Pice they seem to he well up to some
older heads m making the jury • thiuk as
they do. '
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
A. C. Cook, Jr., of Manchester (Eng.), is
aged 71 years, but he recently won a wager of
£> by heating younger competitors to the top
of a ship s rig gin*. He san old son of A. C.
Cook.
Emperor Alexander 111 has recently
founded Xenia Institute for the education of
women. The institute, when completed, it is
said, will be the u.o>t extensive and finely
equipped in Russia
Both the governor-elect and the lieutenant
govemor-eleut of Vermont lost their right
arms m battle. The governor-elect, Hon.
Groan A. Woodbury, was the first soldier
from the Green Mountain state to lose an arm
in battle.
The Anti-Marrying Club, of Derby. Conn.,
after a stirring and uncertain life of thirty
six hours, has disbanded. The young men
who were is members p.e lged themselves
net to walk on the street with ladies or escort
them to a place of entertainment.
Smokers’ cramp is reported to be the dis
ease of the moment in France and Spam, and
is caused by incessantly rolling cigarettes
between the Angers, waile the smoking of tne
abomination known as •• Jovernment to
bacco ’ is said to be responsible for the crimes
of caserio and other anarchists.
Turkish bedrooms are models of simplicity,
the beds being made upon the floor, whence
they are swept bp early in the morning by
slave girls and stored away in closets wnile
the \isitor is left to dress him.-elf in a room
from hi h all tra es of disorder have disap
peared. as if by the wave of a magic hand.
Small incandescent lamps, using secondary
batteries weighing about half a pound, are
used for night service in the German army.
It has . een suggested that they ? e used with
balloons for signalling, ai.d the b cycle corps
uses them in retonnoiterin.;. The small ac
cumulators have as j been s lppiieu to loa
der magazines and artillery depots.
The Belgian government, it is reported, is
about to oi en negotiations with the British
government, looking to the establishment of
telephone lines bet ween nonuon and Brus
sels. The a thorities at Berlin h ive signi
tied their willingness to continue h* line to
Berlin, and the prosDe.t is gio i that London
and lit run will oon re tonne.ted by tele
phone by way of ostend and Brussels.
A strong protest against the use of that un
pleasant phrase. ”lt goes without saying.”
appears in the Atlantic. In French, this
writer says, * it is not meaningless, nor is it
inelegant. As the French use it. it has a
widely different meaning from the English
version. Theie is n:> gen jine equivalent lor
it in any language out of Franc?, where it
originated. Dumas uses it with mood erfect in
”La Comtesse de Charny, ' and other writers
hu\e followed him. ihe literal trans ation,
as we Lare it, is not elective, it grates ou the
ear. and there is nothing strong or helpful
about it. To my mind, it rather ten Is to
weaken the force of the text. Why not say
at once and be, done with it. It is an evident
tact.’ ‘lt is a natural conclusion.’ It is a
truism,' ‘Nobody disputes it. It ii admitted:’
But what goes' without saying Can any
body tell?”
‘‘Speaking of lizards, the queerest one we
have seen for a long time reached us the
other day from New Zealand.” says a scien
tist in the Washington correspondence of the
>t. L.OU.S Glo .o-democrat, “it is named tue
Cyclopean lizard’ because it has a third eye
on the top of its head. However, It is not a
true lizard, but a sort of connecting link be
tween the lizards and the turtles. The
species is limited to a small island near New
Zealand, and it has been rendered almost en
tirely extinct by hogs with a taste for its
flesh. It attains a length of three feet, lut
all of the big ones were eaten up long ago.
The third eye is rudimentary, but a dis
section of its structure plainly reveals
the eye socket, tho lens and a strand
of nerves connecting the visual tract of the
brain. This eye is interesting chic ly because
it correspjnds to the third eye with which
every human being is provided, ihe so
called pineal gland’is actually an eye that
has become rudimentary. The gland is about
the size and shape of a pea. and is situated
in the middle of the head. Place the end of
your linger just arove the bridge or your
nose, on a level with the eyes, and directly
behind that point five inches is the gland. It
still retains somewhat the structure of an
eye. The ancients supposed it to be tho
center of consciousness and the seat of the
soul.”
Admiral von Werner, a high authority in
naval matters in Germany, describes in a
work recently published tho behavior of
armor plated men of-war in a heavy sea,
says the Kt. James Gazette. He says: "Even
with a moderate gale and sea, an armor
plated cruiser, if going against the wind, will
find herself in conditions similar to those of u
storm —at least, the crew will have that Im
pression, he movements of the stern of ihe
ship are violent and exceedingly disagree i
ble. The waves pushed by the advancing
prow s.veep continually over the sh p from
cow to stern. All windows and port-holes
must be closed, and air reaches the lower
decks, where the heat increases unbearably,
only thio igh the artificial ventilators. With
the exception of the specially pro
tected command bridge, all the uncov
ered portions of the ship are imuassa
ble; thus the whole crew must bear as well
as they can the hell or the closed decks. On
such a ship no one cun feel conlortabie: and
when thero is a storm in whicn a sailing ship
would feel comparatively at ease, the crew of
an armor-plated ship Imagines itself to be in
a heavy hurricano which threatens destruc
tion at every minute. The long narrow lore
part of the ship, which is not borne lightly by
tne water, and is rendered extremely heavy
by the mighty ram cni the armored de- k and
the cannon and torpedoes, forces th3 ship in
a high sea to pitchfngs and rollings ol su. h
an extraordinary kind that they cannot be de
scribed. The crew of such a snip is not only
exposed to mortal dangers, bit the voyages
they make render them physically ex remel.v
and dangerously nervous: tae mental imprts
sioas they receii e wear them out and ma.re
the profession hateful.”
The method of binding the feet of Chinese
girls is described by Dr. Haslet as follows:
While the great t-oe is left straight, the other
toes are folded on the plantar surface of tne
foot, often until the tips of the toes are on a
line with the edge of the inner side of the
foot, and then tne toot is bound • snugly."
Gradually the bandage Is made tighter and
tigmer. When the metatarsal bones begin to
curve, m iking the characteristic lump on the
dorsum of the foot, tho bandages are tigh
tened more rapidly than before If swelling
takes place u.ove the ankle, the foot is
bandaged more lightly. It ulceration occurs,
the ico; is bandaged still more tightly.
Swelling is not a desirable complication. Ul
ceration Is greeted with joy, for ft is usuallv a
sign that the foot is yielding gracefully to the
inevitable. To make the smallest foot with the
minimum of suffering and produce no un
toward results is thedesideratun; tins prconss
should take about tea years. Patience will
then show her perfect wcr.t; that wmch for
eigners call a deformity and restricted loco
motion are necessary sequel*, not untoward
results. Thee begin to bandage the feet of a
child when she is betwen 8 and 4 years of age.
Generally the services of a professional
banduger are o tamed. This woman carries
with her a stock of small wooden shoes ot va
rious sizes. Thesft are the patterns Her
patrons choose the size desired. - A contract
is then made to have the foot of this size in a
certain length of time—three years or more
or less, as the case may be. The professional
i andagers. for the most part, fulfill their con
tracts with superb indifferen e to the chil
dren's sufierin/s. and sometimes with such
results as the death of the child, gangrene of
the feet, necrosis of nones, etc.
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11 Hull
This week will present an oppor
tunity to secure exceptional values
in the remaining portion of our
summer goods.
21c a yard China Silks, formerly
35c and 40c.
60s a yard Figured China Silks,
cut from 750, 30c and 85c.
50c yard Plain Black China Silk,
formerly 65c.
75c a yard Striped Black Silk
Grenadines, the quality sold in the
early part of the season at $1.25
and $1.50.
45c a yard 40-inch Alt-wool
Black French Nun’s Veiling, for.
merly 60c yard.
Eiiifii! Reims
in fine M Goods.
12 1-2 c a yard Fine French Or
gandies, price early season 20s and
25s yard.
25c a yard Plain Black French
Orjandy, reluced from 40c yard.
25s a yard Plain Black Foils
Parisienne, formerly 45c a yard.
3Gc a yard Plain Black Mouseline
dol Inde, reduced from 50c yard.
12 1 -2c Scolch Ginghams, actual
value 25c and 30c.
15c yard French Zephyrs, former
ly 25c arid 30c.
15c a yard French Figured Dimi
ties, aciua! value 35c and 40c yard.
Figured Swiss Muslins at greatly
reduced prices.
Linen Department.
Clearing prices with a view of making
room for our fall stock.
All Linen Napkins $1 per dozen,
were $1.25.
* All Linen Napkins $1.25 per
dozen, were $1.50.
E/.lra Heavy Damask 65c, was
85c yard.
Extra Heavy Damask 75c, was
$1 yard.
Doiiies, Towels and Toweling at
equally iow prises.'
LEATHER GOODS.
Sea Lion and Walrus
LeatUsr,
KubDsr and Leather
Dolling,
Packing, Hose, Rivets,
and Lacing,
Saddles and Harness.
in i til
144 Congress Street, Cor. Whitaker,
HAY, GRAIN, ETC. _
RED RUST PROOF OATS
A select stock of Georgia and Texas seed.
Also- home grown seed rye.
"OUR OWN" Cow Feed.
Corn, Oats, Bran.
Hay, Chicken Feed, etc
T. J. DZtVIS,
Grain Dealer and Seedsman. 156 Bay Street
Telephone J2J23.
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