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TUESDAY. SEPTEMBER 25,1894.
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INDEX TO SEW ADVERTISEMEMS.
Meetings—B. P. O. Elks; Division No 4,
Ancient Order Hibernians
Special Notices—Golden Apple Tobacco,
John B. Fernandez; As to Crew of British
Steamship Laurestina; Parisian School of
Language, G. Grandin; Store to Rent, H. L.
Ferrlll; Oysters a Specialty, Hinckley's Res
taurant.
Do You Want the Bargain Yor Are
Looking For!—Estate Emil A. Schwarz.
Bought Lot Boys' and Children's Suits
—Appel & Schaul
Steamship .Schedule— Ocean Steamship
Company.
Proposals— For Delivery Ten Thousand
Tons Granite.
Amusements— “ 4-11-44” at the Theater Fri
day, Sept. 28.
A Terror—B. H. Levy & Bro.
Auction Sale—The Entire Contents of
Marshall House, by J. H. Oppenheim & Son,
Auctioneers.
Cheap Column Advertisements—Help
Wanted. Employment Wanted; For Rent;
For Sale; Lost; Personal; Miscellaneous.
New York, South Carolina, and the
West India hurricane are to-day giving
people something to talk about. It is
hard to predict which will be the breeziest
subject
The Kansas state board of railroad as
sessors—all populists—recently made a
reduction in the Pullman company’s taxes
for this year. It has leaked out that
ievery member of the board is the owner
of a Pullman free pass.
The North American Review abbreviates
"the American Protective Association in
to the Apa, its members into Apaists, its
doctrine into Apaism. Those terms are,
at least, easier to write than the full
name of the organization, and the people
■will not be slow to learn their significance.
Independent and populist candidates
are beginning to get under shelter in an
ticipation of the snow storm that will
strike this state on next Wednesday
morning. In Coweta county all of the
populist candidates have thrown up the
job. put on their coats and gone home.
Their sensible example is commended to
other anti-democrats still in the field.
Some of the people over in Mr. Turner’s
district are so confident that he will be
sent to the Senate that they are casting
about for a man to put up as Mr. Turner's
successor. Among others, Mr. G. D. Ray
.sor of Grooverville, has been mentioned
as a good man to send to congress. Mr.
Raysor is a farmer, and is spoken of as
quite as strongly in favor of tariff reduc
tions and honest money as Mr. Turner
himself.
The Florida state election will occur
next week, on Oct. 2—the day before the
election in this state. The Floridians will
alect a legislature, a justice of the su
preme court and various county officers.
For justice of the supreme court, Judge
B. S. Liddon is practically unopposed;
and, indeed, the same may be said of all
the democratic candidates. In some in
stances the populists have made nomina
tions, but they are not strong enough to
alarm the democrats.
Annie Abbott, the “Georgia magnet,”
■ls literally knocking out the New York
ers. They sent Sandow to try his giant
strength against her the other day, and
the little woman beat him at every test.
He could not lift her when the did not
wish him to do so, notwithstanding she
weighs not one-fifth as much as one of the
dumb bells that Sandow easily tosses
about and over his head. Sandow can
not explain why his strength is of no
avail against the woman; he merely ac
knowledges that it doesn't avail, and
stops at that.
The courthouse that used to be at Ad
•pomattox, where Lee surrendered, has
been moved three miles away to a town
called Nebraska. The court house, ac
cording to some queer way of reasoning,
carries with it the name of Appomattox.
And the postoffice department has
changed the name of the Appomattox of
history to “Surrender.” Why such a
change should have been permitted it is
difficult to understand. There is nothing
more euphoneous about “Surrender” than
“Appomattox,” it is not easier to write,
it is not more suggestive. There is no
more historic name on the face of the
globe than Appomattox. It would be
just as sensible to change the name of
Waterloo to “Defeat,” or Gettysburg to
“Victory,” or Bull Run to “Skeedaddle,”
as it is to change the name of Appo
mattox in the posloffice records to “Sur
render.” The name Is an unpleasant re
minder which, stuck in the fuces of Vir
ginia and the south, amounts to an af
front. It is to be hoped that Postmaster
4 ieueral Bissell had nothing to do with
this senseless piece of business, ’and that
he will order the restoration of the old
name to the postoffiee. If the new court
house town of tho county is Nebraska,
let it remain Nebraska. The south and
history have an interest inftppomattox
that should nut be disregarded by van
dals-
Looking for a Candidate.
Although the democratic convention of
| New York will assemble at Saratoga to
day. there is great uncertainty as to
i whom it will nominate for governor. In
| this respect it will differ greatly from the
( republican convention that assembled at
! the same place a few days ago. It was
well understood before the republicans
j met that they would nominate Mr
P. Morton. Mr. Piatt, the republican
boss, bad decided that Mr. Morton should
be the nominee, and the convention obeyed
i his orders.
The democrats are looking for a candi
date who can unite the two factions of
the party and who. at the same time, has
the confidence of the people The man who
seems to be in the greatest favor is Judge
Gaynor of the supreme court. He belongs
to neither faction, and is admitted to be a
man of high character and great ability.
He was chiefly instrumental iu exposing
the fraudulent election practices of the
~Gravesend officials, and it was through
his efforts that McKane, the powerful
political boss of Gravesend, was sent to
the penitentiary.
Judge Gaynor doen't want the nomina
tion, though it is believed he would ac
cept it from a sense of duty if it were of
fered to him. He was recently elected to
the supreme court for a term
of years, giving up a lucrative
practice to accept the position.
The judgeship pays a handsome
salary, and Judge Gaynor would hesitate
to give it up, because he needs it. He is
not a wealthy man. and he has to support
not only his own family, but also that of
his father. If he should accept the nom
ination he would have to resign the judge
ship and take the chance of being elected
governor.
It is believed that the convention
would like to nominate either Senator
Hill or ex-Secretary of the Navy Whit
ney. It is understood, however, that
Senator Hill has positively declined
to be considered a candidate, and
Mr. Whitney is on shipboard bound
from Liverpool to New York. He
will not arrive in New York in all proba
bility before the convention adjourns. It
would not be advisable to nominate a man
that might not accept, and it is by no
means certain that he would accept. And
there are some reasons for thinking that
his nomination would not be a wise one.
There is at present a strong feeling
against trusts, and Mr. Whitney is closely
identified with one of the greatest trusts
of the country—tho Standard Oil Com
pany.
The democratic leaders are confident
that the ticket that will be nominated
will lie elected The differences between
the factions have bqpn adjusted in a great
measure, and the ticket that will be nom
inated will have the support of the entire
party.
The importance of the election in New
York on the national campaign two years
hence is well understood, and the demo
cratic convention, in naming a ticket,
will put aside all personal prejudices and
differences. They know that the full
vote of the party will be necessary to
secure a victory.
Let Them Cry Their Wares.
The city ordinance which prohibits
hucksters and hawkers from crying their
wares before 10 o’clock in the morning
should be repealed. There is no reason
why these industrious people should not
have every advantage in selling before
that hour, as well as after it, what they
have to offer.
Asa matter of fact they should be en
couraged in every possible way. Those
who are engaged in it sell vegetables, fish,
shrimp and oysters. They should be in
duced to come into the city, and the way
to earn an honest living made as easy as
possible for them.
The people of the city are benefited by
their coming. It is an advantage to house
keepers to have such articles as tho
hawkers have brought to their doors and
offered for sale at reasonable rates.
Ninety-nine people out of every hundred
who work for a living are out of bed by f>
a. m., and it is unreasonable to require
the hawkers to keep quiet because the
few who remain in bed after that hour
are likely to have their sleep broken.
As to the noise the hawkers make it
amounts to nothing in comparison with
that of the street cars and the various
other vehicles that are running at an early
hour. No one proposes to stop the cars
or the bread and milk wagons from run
ning before 10 a. m. or any other hour.
Au attempt to stop them would not be
tolerated.
It is proposed to establish a freight bu
reau to assist Savannah’s business.
Would it not be advisable to abolish the
ordinances that tend to restrain local
traffic of the minor kind and discour
age poor people who are striving to earn
an honest living.
The late sleepers should be willing to
endure a little annoyance. If the busy
life of the streets disturbs them let them
move to back rooms and thus avoid the
noise. Let the motto be. “Make all the
noise you choose if it is for business pur
poses. Blow your whistle and halloo all
you want to.”
The populists of Arkansas seem to have
recovered wonderfully since their defeat
in the state election the other day. They
took part in another battle of the bal
lots last week and came l within
one vote of electing their man.
The election was held at Pecan
Grove, and the office at issue was the
| pastorate of the village church. The
1 nominee of the democrats in the congre
gation received thirty-two votes, while
the populist nominee received thirty-one.
Tho race was so close that the populists
thought they certainly had won, but the
returns showed otherwise. Immediately,
in accordance with populist precedent,
they raised charges of fraud, bribery and
corruption; averred that their man had
I been counted out, blamed it upon the
: money [tower of the east that was trying
to corrupt their spiritual fountain head,
and withdrew to form a church of their
own. It is not stated in tbe dispatches
whether the newly formed congregation
] adopted tbe Ocala or tbe Omaha plat
! form.
Your Pennsylvania thief is a thief “for
keeps” when he starts out to steal. A
Pennsylvania thief of the Braddock City
brand held up the superintendent of an
ice company a few nights ago. Tho vic
tim was first required to give up his
watch, then his purse, and his hat, coat
and vest, then tys shoes. One more de
mand was made bn him, and the victim,
I then but one degree removed from a
| living picture, was allowed to go.
THE MORNING NEWS: TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1894.
Why Not Stand Upon the Platforms?
It is regrettable that there are newspa
pers and campaign sjieakers in this state
that are confusing the people by advocat
ing the free and unlimited coinage ofsil rer
at the ratio of 16 to 1. notwithstanding
the fai t that the financial planks in the
national democratic platform and in the
state democratic platform are squarely in
favor of sound money. They find no au
thority in either platform for the silver
views they are teaching. The demand
for the free and unlimited coinage of sil
ver at the ratio of 16 to 1 is found only in
the populist platform.
Some of the statements these newspa
pers and campaign speakers are using in
support of their financial views are very
confusing and misleading. Their state
ment, for instance, that anounceof silver
has always had about the commercial
value of a bushel of wheat cannot be
verified. Asa matter of fact the price
of wheat or cotton does not appear to
have bee.n influenced in the least at any
time by the market price of silver. There
have been times when the market price
of silver was high and the prices of cot
ton and wheat were low Anyone who
will take the trouble to look at the mar
ket reports for the last twenty years will
be satisfied that the price of silver does
not control the prices of wheat and cot
ton. What nonsense is it then to tell the
people that if silver, by reason of a de
cline in its production or for any other
reason, should rise in commercial value
the prices of cotton and wheat would
rise, however great the production of
those articles might be. Such a state
ment misleads the thoughtless and does a
vast amount of barm.
The tim should be to give the people
the truth, it is of far greater impor
tance that they should have that than
that any newspaper or party faction
should have the satisfaction of having its
views on silver or any other subject ac
cepted.
One Acceptable Amendment.
The understanding seems to be that
the New York democratic convention that
meets at Saratoga to-day will condemn
in the platform it will adopt the consti
tutional amendments that are to be sub
mitted to the people at the approaching
election in that state Without passing
upon the merits of all the amendments
there is one of them, it is safe to say,
that will be adopted, if they are qp sub
mitted that they can be voted for sepa
rately.
The amendment in question requires
the legislature to pass stringent laws
against gambling of all kinds. There is a
strong and growing feeling against gam
bling in all its forms, not only in New
York but also in all the other states.
More men, young and old, are morally
and financially ruined by it than by al
most any other one thing.
Legislation against gambling is espe
cially needed in New York. In that
state it is carried on to an extraordinary
extent. During the season at Saratoga
gambling games are conducted almost
openly, and tens of thousands of dollars
change hands nightly.
It is probable that a majority of defal
cations, violations of trusts and even the
petty peculations, are traceable to the
gambling vice. The temptation to make
a large amount of money in a short time
is so great that men in all grades of so
ciety yield to it. losses lead to crimes to
get the moans to continue the indulgence
in the vice.
The anti-gambling amendment to the
New York constitution should be adopted
and a similar amendment should be
adopted by each of tho other states.
Legislation of that kind is in the right
direction. Remove the temptation and
there will be a great falling off in certain
kinds of crimes.
The bolting sugar planters of Louisiana
cannot carry the democrats of the sugar
producing parishes with them. They will
control only their own votes, and such
votes of the blacks as they can influence.
And they will not control many of tho
black votes unless they put themselves in
full accord with the republicans of the
state. That they don't want to do. They
seem to think the republicans ought to
be satisfied with the candidates they
nominate. The republicans are alto
gether too shrewd to let the sugar plant
ers run the Republican party for them.
The sugar planters in one congressional
district have nominated H. P. Kernocha*
for congress. He is a rich sugar planter,
and was a naval officer under Mr. Cleve
land's first administration. It is certain
the republicans will not support him, and
as he has no following of his own, he
hasn't a ghost of a chance to be elected.
The present outlook seems to bo that the
bolt of the planters will amount to noth
ing.
The Emigrant and German-Ameriean. a
magazine published in New York and
Chicago, is doing good work for immigra
tion to the south. A short while ago the
Morning News took occasion to comment
on and commend some of its articles
descriptive of the resources and climate
of the south. The magazine is published
in both German and English, the articles
appearing in both languages. Its circu
lation is general throughout Germany, and
also in this country among the German
people. In its September issue the mag
azine reprints Secretary Hoke Smith’s
article on the south that appeared in the
North American Review of August, aad
devotes very nearly the remaining por
tion of its space to articles and pictures
descriptive of the south as an agricultural
section. Among the pictures are views
of a Florida orange grove, a southern
truck farm, and a scene on a Georgia
melon plantation. This publication will go
into the hands of homeseekers on the
two continents, and will be of groat ben
ch? to this sect ion.
Congressman Turner spent last weok
in campaigning in the upper end of his
district. This week he will continue the
work mother sections, and on Monday
night next will wind up his work during
the state campaign with a speech in this
city. Mr. Turner will be given a rousing
welcome when ho comes. The counties
of Chatham, Effingham and Bulloch will
be represented by voters in the audience,
and they will prove that they are in fa
vor of low tariff taxes and good money.
Whatever may bo the effect of the cy
clone reiiortod to be moving in this direc
tion. *i cannot bo said that the warning
was not received in good time. Since Sat
urday the weather people have been
watching the disturbance and posting
bulletins with regard to its movements.
Republicans of the stalwart kind will
see in Indiana to-day a sight that will
make them rub their eyes. Ex-President
Harrison is going to preside at a McKin
ley meeting in Indianapolis. Apparently
the hatchet has been buried by the big
chiefs, and Minneapolis has been forgot
ten, though when the interment took
place nobody seerrs to know. The ap
pearance of these two presidential candi
dates together on the same platform may
enable the political soothsayers to say
how the people of the west regard them.
McKinley is in Harrison’s own bailiwick;
if he should be accorded more of an ova
tion than Harrison gets, the signs would
be bad for the ex-President.
PERSONAL.
Fifty thousand per annum is th< marriage
dower of the young women of the Vanderbilt
family.
Gen. Wade Hampton of South Carolina,
through 67 years old. Is in splendid health,
and recently started on a trip to the far west.
Mrs Cleveland is never a blind follower of
the latest fashion. She is more apt to con
sider what is becoming than "what is the
fashion.”
The physician in charge of the Woman’s
Hospital in Soo Chow China, is Dr. Anne
Walter, a Mississippi woman. There is no
country on earth now where tne plucky Amer
ican woman is not doing missionarv work of
some kind.
Anew Danish composer. August Enna. is
announced. His first opera called The
Witch ” was produced in Copenhagen in 1892.
Later be adopted Kider Haggard s nev 1
“Cleopatra to the operatic stage. His style
is Wagnerian.
Joaquin Miller is raising a mile of roses on
his Calif< raia farm. He believes that people
live too close together, and has four sn ail
hoi s*s on his ranch one for his mother, one
for nis brother, one for himself and another
for his guests.
Mrs. Mannington Caffvn. whose story. “A
Yellow Aster." had a success harder to appre
ciate than to explain, has tinished another
novel. Its title has that labored air of secret
meaning which distinguishes most of these
nemotic stories of the day. u is to be called
"Children of Circumstance*.”
Gen. James S. Wilt on. who spent a year in
China and critically examined the army and
fortifications, says: It is hardly to be
doubted that an army of 50.UX) Europeans
with arii.lery and infantry and a preponder
ance of cavalry, well organized. supplied and
commanded, can go anywhere in China and.
if so disposed, it can overrun and dismember
the empire.”
Don Pio Pico, the last Mexican governor of
California, who died at Los Angeles on Sept.
11. was supported in his later years ly some
gentlemen of his own race, who uve hima
monthly allowance, fifty years ago his
ranches embraced many thousands of acres,
and two thirds of the present site of the city
of Los Angeles belonged to him. In those
days he often entertained hundreds of people
at a time, and so prodigal was his style of
living that he was obliged to m >rtgage ranch
aft-r ranch until he was in t.uancial difficul
ties from which he was never able to extri
cate himself.
Tawbiao. the late king of the Maoris, was a
patron of literature, and ran a court journal
printed in the Maori language. It was sup
ported by voluntary contributions and pres
ents of pigs and potatoes. He wfote the
royal proclamations and edicts with his own
hand, though be had a smart native secretary,
who had received a liberal education at a
Wesleyan college. The king in his earlier
years created grave scandal in court circles
by a more than royal indulgence in rum, but
in his later years he posed as a staunch tee
totaler. Nevertheless, he often showed a sin
gular inai iiity to distinguish between cham
pagne and giuger beer. This may have been
due to a very pronounced obliquity of vision.
BRIGHT BITS.
Figg—How well you're looking!
Fogg—Yes. I've been drinking! well water
all the summer.—Boston Transcript,
“I wonder what kind of people live in
Mars?” said the philosophical girl.
■ They're out of sight.” replied the slangful
and confident young man.
"What are the relations now between your
wife and yourself?”
"Oh, only her mother, two’ uncles, a sister,
and a few cousins.” -Detroit Free Press.
"On what does Skiffiins base his suit for
libel?”
"On a casual reference to him as the ideal
juror in a capital case.”—Washington Star.
“He told me he liked to read my poems by
the firesice." said i4cribb.
"Very likely.’ said Cynieus. "He can
throw 'em in without getting up. "—Harper’s
Bazar.
Operatic Composer (whose first act, con
sisting entirely of plagiarised music, is being
hissedi—Great heavens! What will thev do
when they hear my own music in the next
act?— Fllogende Blatter.
income Tax Assessor—You can t claim ex
emption Mr. Smiles* Why. man, you must
spend $7,000 a year the way you live.
Smiles—l know that, sir; hut I live beyond
my income —Harper's Bazar.
Carrie—We are to give a grand reception to
our minister on the tenth of next month. Yoi.
know it is an important anniversary.
Clara—His ordination'
Carrie—No; his conviction of heresy.—Puck.
Hungry Higgins.—Wot are you studyin’
about so.
Weary Watkins —T was jist thinkin' what
a pity it is when a feller gets dead, stiff drunk
he don't know nothing about how drunk ne
Ist—lndianapolis Journal.
Van Dyke—Do you know that most of our
cuneucy is very inartistic? For instance, any
artist could tell the government that the
design of the n ;w SIOO bill is a very poor one.
Van Daub—i'e. But no artist ever saw a
HOu-Lill,—Kate Field's Washington.
The r.ady of the House—Why don t you go
to work? Don't you know that a rolling stone
gathers no moss?
Browning, the tramp—Madame, not to
evade your question at a 1. but merely to ob
tain information may I ask of what practical
utility moss is to a man in my condition?—
Tit Bits.
The plantation melodist of the Uncle Tom's
Cabin combination rushed into the little room
where the manager was acting in the double
character of property man and sheet iron
thunder purveyor. His voice trembled and
his face looked almost pale through its burnt
cork:
"Mr. Oleman," he said, “one of the Topsys
Is sick, and can t go on"
Tell Miss Pingle" exclaimed the mana
ger. in a ringing voice and w 1 hout a mo
ment s heslta'ion, to black up and take
the part. We’ll get along with one Eva tn the
death scene to-night"—Chicago Tribune.
CURRENT COMMENT.
The Opinion Remains Unchanged.
From the Quitman (Ga.) Free Press (Dem.).
The Savannah Morning News listened
attentively to Senator Walsh's speech in that
city Wednesday night, and then remarked
that Mr. Turner was still its choice tor
United States senator.
To Provide for Helpless Ex-Soldiers.
From the Florida. Citizen (Dem.).
Still auother southern state, besides Geor
gia and Louisianawill vote on the question
of pensioning ex conferate soldiers this tali.
The constltutkn of Texas makes no provis
ion for the maintenance of indigent veterans,
and an amendment making such provision Is
togs' submitted to the voters in November,
with every prospect that it will be carried.
Mills’ Opinion of Cleveland.
From the Memphis Commercial (Dem ).
Senator Mills. In a speech at Honham, Tex.,
the other day. said: “We didn't have the
votes to pass the tariff Ml! we Ranted but we
did the best we could. I think Cleveland
acted wisely in not signing the hill, and he
generally acts wisely. You may call him a
traitor it you want to. but I tell you he is
more like Andrew Jackson than any Presi
dent we have had for titty years. Ho Is holi
est and incorruptible; ho Is utterly fearless,
and at heart as true a democrat as ever lived.
You may denounce him on his Mer. but w hen
you look upon his features you look upon the
face of a great man and the best friend you
ever had." The southern man who abuses
Mr. Cleveland has very little sense of grati
tude and yet he is no more entitled to our
thunks than he Is to those of the |K*nple all
over the onion lie Is essentially a national
man striving to do his duty to the whole
country, and the verdict of history will be
that he succeeded to an extraordinary degree.
A Clerk’s Experience.
“I was examined for promotion not very
long ago " said a clerk in one of the govern
ment dep irtments to a group of friends the
othe- night, bays the Washington star "and
I had an amusing experience. As some of
you are aware. I am what may be called, with
all due modesty, an expert shorthand writer.
andha\e been frequently assigned to duty
requiring such experience since l have been
ir. the department. When I was notified to
appear for examination I went before a dap
per and debonair young mi.n. who informed
me that he would examine me in shorthand.
This struck me as mighty funny, because I
was familiar with his record as a shorthand
writer, but I told him I was at his service.
He picked up a t ook and proceeded to read
one of <arfield‘s speeches at the rate of
nearly four hundred words a minute. Sud
denly he paused and remarked that I dl dn t
appear to be writm-r I toid him I wasn’t.
He flushed up.
Why not, may I ask ” he inquired, with
a fine inflection ot superiority.
" Be ause i replied, a shorthand man
who knows his business never takes anything
but the first word and the last of anything
that is read, and therf gets the book. ’
l wish you could have seen him then. He
got still redder and then spluttered out an ex
planation that it would be necessaiy for me
to take the speech, as it had been furnished
as a part of my examination I told him to
read at the rate he would talk if he was mak
ing the speech himself, and when he did so
caught him correctly. He asked to look at
my notes when the rt aling was throjgh and
ga/ed at them like a connoisseur would at a
Cloissonne vase.
"•Do you use Pitman's or Graham's sys
tem- he inquired, sweetlv.
; Then I thought 1 and explode I assured
him it was according to Hoyle even if it con
tained several hundrei of the several thou
sand phrases u--ed only by myself, and l took
mv notes and transcribed them. T didn't
miss a dash or a semicolon, and found after
tervvard that although I got 94 on my entire
examination my shorthand which was abso
lutely perfect in relating what he read, was
marked to oh I tell you we clerks run up
against sjme n i.'htv queer things when we
are being examined by civil service repre
sentatives but the system is the test in the
world, only it do s not extend, as it should, to
every branch of the public service.”
When Summer Was Over.
Summer had waned, says the Rockland
Tr.b me. as summers sooner or later have to
do and the youn? man whom she took to be a
millionaire's son in disguise, and the young
woman whom he took to be the only child of
a wealthy widow, sat gazing out across the
water, gloriously silvered by the refulgent
moon
"To morrow.” they said, ‘ we separate.”
Then they signed several times apiece.
"Miss summerly—Maud," stammered the
young man. 1 have something to say to you
ere we part.”
"Go go on. Mr. Raster,” she answered,
resolutely
*1 ought to tell you.” he began, “that I have
long been engaged ”
"Sir: Mr Raster!” she exclaimed.
Nay. let me finish—l have long been en
gaged at the hosiery counter m the leading
dry goods store of mv native town and my
salary of *ls per week is to be raised to *lB.
true, this is not so much to one reared in
luxury as yo i have been, but rightly hus
banded wifi go a good wav.
When the moon, which temporarily bad
gone behind a cloud, next looked forth it saw
her head upon Ins shoulder.
"Mr. Raster ” she was saying
“Call me George,” interrupted the happy
youth.
"George. 1. too, have a confession to make
J also was engaged—do not start—as cashier
m the well k town restaurant of Tatum &
Drinkum previous to my coming here for a
summer's rest. I received eight debars a
week, but 1 will have to give up that position
now.”
A long pause ensued.
“Maude—Miss .Summerly.” he said, disen
gaging her head: "do I understand that your
mother is not—not well to do r"
■ No, George, hut she will be proud to live
with us.”
The young man arose.
“I do not think you need give up your posi
tion with Katum A Drinkum." he sad.
And the moon, smiling, continued to carry
on business at the old stand.
Thought Kis Time Had Come.
The other evening as the performance was
going on at The Last Days of Pompeii” an
old colored man was going cast on Four
teenth street, where one of the many sewers
is being built, says the Indianapolis Sentinel.
Of course the work of protecting the pass
ersby was only half done and there was no
red light on the end of a lond board which
came across the sidewalk. The old gentle
man had reached this point, when suddenly
there came the noise of cannons and rockets,
the whole sky seemed alive with flames, and
balls of colored tiro were everywhere. Just
as the exp'.osii n came he went headlong into
the sew r and he naturally supposed the
end of the world had come. To say he was
frightened was not half enough. He
screamed with fear and clung to the gravel of
tne sewer.
,'On. Land: Oh. Lawd'" he moaned. "De
miUenium has come! De wort's on lire! Oh.
Lawd, save a poh sinner dat's nebber been
any meaner any of his kin folks, (to dey's a
mighty mean set I”
He went on like a Methodist camp meeting
for a few minutes, then he ventured to look
tin and see what had happened. When helound
everything still again ami the people around
sitting on their porches he shook his head,
crawled out of the dirt and muttered it was
a narrow escape and "a wanning to stnnahs,
sho!"
Three Years Old.
Ethelwyn Wetherald in Youth’s Companion.
What is it like. I wonder, to roam
Down through the tall grass hidden quite?
To feel very f .r away from home
When the (tear one is out of sight?
To want to play with the broken moon
in the star garden of the skies-
To sleep through twiligt eves of June
Beneath the sound of lullabys?
To hold up hurts for a 1 to see?
Sob at imaginary harms;
To clasp in welcome a father's knee
And nt so well to a mother sarms? \
To have a life bounded by one dull road.
A wood and a pond, and" to feel no lack?
To gaze with pleasuie up< n a toad.
Aud caress a mud turtle s horny back?
To follow the robin'i cheerful hop,
With all the salt small hand can held,
And coaxingly entreat it to stop-
What is it like to be three years old?
Ah' once I knew, but twas long ago;
I try to recall it in vain—in vain!
And now i know' I shall never know
V\ hat it is to be a child again.
He Drew the Line at Hay.
A good story is told of a darky who was
brought from the south by a member of a
Maine lamily noted for being • a little near."
as the phrase is, says the Lewiston Journal
He was wanted for a farm hand. He came tn
the spring, and dandelion greens were the
staple article of family diet, lhcse were suc
ceeded by beet greens, and these again by
mustard and parsley greens The darky had
been used to good living in his Southern home
and the northern “fodder grew stale after a
time. At last haying was done and the darky
stood on the barn boor looking wistfully at
the great piles of forage that went up Into the
ridge poles.
fink l 11 be going backdown souf, Massa
K.,“ he said.
“Why" asked the surprised farmer
“what that ior? Don’t you like here?"
“Yes Pretty place nuff," was the reply;
"but you see, massa. we've done eat the grass
till that's all gone an' l can't eat that hay all
winter, no how. 11l go hack to ole Carlina.”
Remonstrance was no use, and he went.
Her Broken Heart.
A Louisville girl has discovered a novel
panacea for a broken heart, which com
mon humanity demands should be
given widespread circulation at once for
tne benefit ot a suffering world, save the
Courier Journal. The story was overheard in
that queer but popular public confessional a
street ear. The clever cieature said to the
other girl;
“Oh Louise, I felt perfectly dreadful all
dav yesterday Harry and I have fallen out
and we are both so obstinate that we never
will make up never! My life Is a perfect
wreck. 1 cried until 1 couldn't cry any more
and was Just desperate to know what to do
with myself, when suddenly l heard a hand
orgau out on the street the Urst of ihe sea
son. 1 rushed out and brought the man Into
the parlor monkey and all—and kept him all
afternoon— the anticsof thut monkey nearly
killed me Of courso it nearly ruined me
t.nunciuily, but. goodness when one has a
broken heart something has got to be done."
The Duke of Orleans, it is said, will give up
Stowe House, the home of his father, the late
Comte de Paris and will reside In Lorn,on
and on the continent.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
The marriage of Arthur Plum and Gertrude
Apple was celebrated in Atchison. Kan., last
week.
Adam Higgins of Montpelier. Vt., went to
Arizona in IHB7 to grow up with the country.
He is now six feet seven and is still growing.
The egg product of the L T nited States Is
much more valuable than is generally sup
posed. It amounts to *100.000.000 per annum,
about one third the value of the wheat crop.
During the last three days of August. 1851,
the sun was so hot in Southern California
that the apples were baked on the trees. They
were palatable and tasted exactly like apples
baked on a fire.
Tobacco is one of the condiments used to
make fish palatable in Korea. But the
favorite delicacy on a Korean menu is dog
bouillon; in consequence of which dog meat
costs So cents a pound.
There are two brothers living in the vicinity
of Chicago who are exciting a great deal of
interest just now One is 17 years old and
measures 6 feet 7 inches in hight. while the
other, who is 40 years old, measures but 4 feet
9 inches.
It is said by a recent visitor to the St. Ber
nard hospice in Switzerland that the cele
brate 1 breed of St. Bernard dogs has become
almost useless for the purpose for which they
were formerly used. The deterioration is
said to be due to interbreeding
Cucumbers, cleft lengthwise, are used in
some parts of Tennessee to exorcise evil
spirits. They are placed in the sun and
sprinkled with the dried blood of a toad killed
at the full of the moon at a cross roads. The
spell is regarded a6 infallible by the ignorant
blacks.
The United States consul at Algiers has
sent to the state department an interesting
account of the immense phosphate deposits
in Algiers. The consul thinks that the Al
gerian phosphate wifi soon become a strong
competitor with the American product in the
European markets.
The executive mansion at Washington will
emerge from its usual summer renovation
more of a white house than ever before.
Heretofore the mansion has been painted
with a creamy mixture that placed the ap
pearance of the building in conilict with Us
popular name. To-day it looks fresher,
cleaner aud statelier than ever before. The
work of thorough renovation is progressing
and will he completed by Oct. is.
B.v the following, which the St. Louis Re
public says is an exact copy of the first para
graph in the will of Henry IV. of England,
written in January. 14)8, it will be seen that
even kin;s are not always good spellers; “In
the name of God. Kadir, Son and Holly Ghost,
three Persons and one God. 1, Henery. sinful
wrech by the Grace of God Kyng of England
and Kraunce and Lord of Irlind. being in my
hole mynd, inak my testament in manere and
forme that su.vth. Fyrst. I leiuethe to All
mighty God my sinful soul, tne wbyche had
nevere been worthy of the man, but thro’ hys
mercies and hvs grase. whiche tyffe 1 haveth
myspendved thereof I put myseife wholly in
his grase and mereye with all myn herte.
Also. 1 thanke my lordis threw the peple for
the trew servyse that they haves dune unto
me, and I ask them forgyvnis if 1 hasth mys
entreted them in eny wyse.” It will also be
noted that Henry, besides not being up to
the century Dictionary s standard as aspeller,
had a peculiar habit of spelhrg one word in
from two to five different ways.
As regards the languages spoken in Pales
tine in the time of Christ, much that is of
high importance has resulted from recent ex
planat'on, says the Contemporary Review. A
dedication to Herod was written both in
Aramaic and in Greek, and there are a great,
many Greek texts of this age in all parts of
the country which show us that the old Cana
anite religions had not yet died out, but were
mingled with Greek mythology, so that the
names of native and of Greek deities stand
side by side. The legion where the Greeks
were most numerous was apparently Decapo
lis, east of the Sea of Galilee, and it seems to
me probable that the peop.e of Gadara. who
kept swine, were Greeks, for the pig was re
garded as an unclean animal by the Phoeni
cians and other natives as well as by the
Jews. It has often been disputed whether the
Gospels we: e originally written in Greek or
in Aramic; but it has now been rendered cer
tain “by exploration that Greek was very
widely used in Palestine at this time, and
that it was understood by the Jews as well as
by others. We have recovered the stone,
written in Greek, which warned the Gentiles
not to enter the inner court of the temple,
and have found early Jewish bone boxes on
Olivet inscribed m Greek.
What, asks the St. Louis Republic, do you
think of the idea of constructing an instru
ment of such delicate exactness as to ac-u
-rateiy record the lapse of one one-millionth
of a second? C. V. Hoys, F. R. S.. who has
done some surprising things in chronom jtiy.
has succeeded iu perfecting an instrument of
the kind alluded to, -and the object of this
"Note” is to explain its workings as thor
oughly as space will permit. The instrument
was made for the purpose of measuring the
time occupied by a bullet in traveling six
feet. The bullet in its flight cuts two wires,
one at the muzzle of the gun and the other
six feet away. These wires are attached to
a pair of electro magnets, and the marks
traced by these one a smoked glass give
some idea of the time occupied by the flight
of the bullet from the first to
the second breakage. "But.” you
will say, “how was the time
calculated;" Attached to the carriage of the
magnets is a large tunin ;-fork, which when
agitated, vibrates 1.000 times a second. These
vibrations are recorded on smoked glass,
which is kept turning. After each successive
bria ungsof the wires it is noted that there
are. on an average, only 125 zig-zag lines
recorded on the smoked glass, which proves
that the bullet traveled the distance sepa
rating the two wires i six feet i in eight one
thousandth of a second, or at the rate of 750
feet in an entire second. Bv carefullv grad
ing and selecting his instruments. Mr. Boys
has already succeeded in measuring one one
millionth of a second, and even hopes to "do
better.”
The rice paper tree, one of the most interest
ing of the flora of China, has recently been
s lccessfully experimented with in Florida
where it now flourishes with other sup:
tropical and Oriental species of trees and
shrubs, says the St. Louis Republic. When
lirst transplanted in American soil the ex
perimenters expiessed doubts of its hardi
ness. fearing that it would be unable to
stand the winters. All these fears have
vanished, however, and it is now the uni
veisal opinion that it is as well adapted to
the climate of this country as to that of the
famed 1 lowery Kim-dum. It is a small
tree, with a trunk or stem from
three to live inches in diameter. Its canes
which vary in color according to
season, are large, soft and downy, the
form somewhat resembling that noticed
in those of the castor bean plant
The celebrated rice paper, the product
of this queer tree, is formed of thin slice s of
the pith, which is taken from the body of the
tree in beautiful cylinders, several inches in
length The Chinese workmen apoly the
blade of a sharp, straight knife to the cylin
ders and turning them round either by rude
machinery or by hand, dexterously pare the
puh from circumference to center. This opera
tion makes a roll of extra quality paper, the
scroll being of equal thickness throughout.
Alter a cylinder has thus been pared it is un
rolled and weights are placed upon It until
the surface is rendered uniformly smooth
throughout its entire length it is alto
gether prooable that if rice paper making be.
comes an tndustrj in the United States these
primitive modes will be done away with.
BAK NG^POWDEH.
Awarded
Highest Honors—World’s Fair.'
•DR-
CHEA?^
BAKING
POWDER
MOST PERFECT MADE.
A pure Crape Cream of Tartar Powder. Frcß
from Ammonia, Alum or any other adulterant,
40 YEARS THE STANDARJX i
DANIEL HOGAN.
in si
This week will present anoppor.
tunity to secure exceptional values
in the remaining portion ol our
summer goods.
21c a yard China Silks, formerly
35c and 40c.
60c a yard Figured China Silks,
cut from 75c, 80c and 85c.
50c yard Plain Black China Silk,
formerly 65c.
75c a yard Striped Black Silk
Grenadines, the quality sold in the
early part ot the season at $1.25
and $1.50.
45c a yard 40-inch Alt-wool
Black French Nun’s Veiling, f or .
merly 60c yard.
mm Reductions
in Fim Mi m.
12 I-2c a yard Fine French Or
gandies, price early season 20c and
25c yard.
25c a yard Plain Black French
Organdy, reduced from 40c yard.
25c a yard Plain Black Foila
Parisienne, formerly 45c a yard.
30c a yard Plain Black Mouseline
del Inde, reduced from 50c yard.
12 1-2 c Scotch Ginghams, actual
value 25c and 30c.
15c yard French Zephyrs, former,
ly 25c and 30c.
15c a yard French Figured Dimi.
ties, actual 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.
Extra Heavy Damask 65c, was
85c yard.
Extra Heavy Damask 75c, was
$1 yard.
Doilies, Towe's and Toweling at
equally low prices.
BfINIEL HOGAN.
~ LEATHER GOODS.
Sea Lion and Walrus
Leather,
Rubber and Leather
Belting,
Packing, Hose, Rivets,
and Lacing,
Saddles and Harness.
nun i nut
144 Congress Street, Cor. Whitaker,
HAY, GRAIN, ETC.
RED RUST PROOF OATS
A select stock of Georgia and Texas seei
Also home grown seed rye.
“OUR OWN” Cow Feed,
Corn, Oats, Bran.
Hay, Chicken Feed, eta
T. J. DSVIS,
Grain Dealer and Seedsman, 156 Bay Street.
Telephone -2-3 3.
INSURANCE.
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(Successor to R. H. Footman & Cos.)
file. lon ond Slorm taice
106 BAY STREET, *
fNext West of the Cotton Exchange]
Telephone call No. 34. SAVANNAH. QA
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lithographs Invitations, 1
Cards, etc., in the latest t
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