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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 28,1894.
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John L. Sullivan visited Washington
the other day, and before he left he was
in the notion to smash the government for
being impertinent to a "bigger man than
old Cleveland.” He wanted to visit the
"white house, but was not permitted to do
so.
The Florida democratic congressional
candidates are making triumphal tours of
their districts. There are populist oppo
nents to the democrats, but their strength
is not worth estimating. It is predicted
that the majorities for the democrats will
be the greatest ever returned.
Maj. McKinley has promised to visit
Tennessee next month and make a speech
in the interest of 11. Clay Kvans, the re
publican candidate for governor. Maj.
McKinley professes to be a business man,
and hopes to be the "business man's can
didate’- for President; yet he will waste
a lot of time upon something that will
not profit him or anybody else one iota.
There isn’t much business sagacity about
that.
The people of Brooklyn have not given
up the idea of building another taberna
cle for Dr. Talmage. A plan is on foot
now to erect a great church, to be built
entirely of steel and stone things that
positively will not burn. It is proposed
to raise the money by an issue of non-in
terest bearing bonds. The bonds are to
have on them the picture of Dr. Talmage,
together with his autograph. These, the
projectors think, ought to be interesting
enough to make up for the lack of inter
est on the bonds.
The government signal service deserves
and will receive the thanks of the people
of the South Atlantic coast for its prompt
ness in issuing warnings of the approach
of the storm, and its care and accuracy
in calculating its path and probable force.
The information furnished by the service
undoubtedly had the result of saving
many dollars’ worth of property. The
storm of this year more than ever em
phasizes the advisability of this govern
ment'smaintaiuingefiicicnt signal stations
at St. Thomas and on other islands of the
West Indian group.
The straightout democrats of South
Carolina arc going to light the Tillmanite
proposition to hold a state constitutional
contention. It is proposed by the Till
mauites, among other things, to incorpo
rate the dispensary scheme into the con
stitution proposed to be made. And it
seems to be the idea that the new consti
tution would become of force without its
being submitted to the vote of the people
The straightouts say that it is in Gov.
Tillman's power, in case the convention is
ordered, to dictate the delegates to it. to
dictate to the delegates the changes and
additions to be made, and to proclaim the
new constitution and put it in force.
That is placing more power in one man’s
hands than the straightouts care to see
thus vested.
The immense billboard on the Bay
street green at the foot of Price street
was blown down during the storm on
Wednesday. It is to ho hoped that tho
city authorities will not permit it to be
re-erected. The green is a place of recre
ation for the people of tho northeastern
part of the city, and it should not he dis
figured with such unsightly obstructions
as that big billboard was. The pasting of
bills on the sides of houses and on fences
—for the rain to wash down or small boys
to tear off-is a nuisance. The paper
litters the streets and the cleaning up of
the litter probably costs the city more
than the bill poster gets for his work.
Nevertheless, it is not as bad as putting
up great billboards on the public greens.
No other city would permit public prop
erty to be similarly disfigured.
In Coweta county the other day the
populist candidates for the legislature,
who were nominated something like a
month ago, concluded that discretion was
the better part of political valor, and re
tired from the race. * On Tuesday a meet
ing of the populists was held at Newnan
for the purpose of putting up two other
candidates for the places. After wran
gling for some time with the republican
leaders of the county in an effort to ar
range terms for the colored vote, the pop
ulists nominated one candidate and left
the other place blank The supposition
is they did that so as to allow the repub
licans to nominate the second candidate
lor representative. Whether the black
republican has beeu nominated or not the
people of the county w ill repudiate the
party that proposes any such deals.
Harrison Lacks Frankness.
It is regrettable that so eminent a man
as ex-President Harrison does not deal
frankly with the |>eople. He haa enjoyed
the highest honor that ran bo conferred
upon him. and it is not likely that he will
be asked to accept office again. He can
| afford therefore to be entirely fair in
speaking of parties and party measures.
In introducing Got. McKinley at a ib-
I lie meeting in Indianapolis last Tuesday
\ he took occasion to say that when he loft
1 the Presidency the country was extra
ordinarily prosperous, and that the hard
times of the last two years were due to
the fact that the Democratic party had
control of the government. lie desired it
to be understood that if the Republican
party had remained in control of the gov
ernment the money panic and business
depression would not have occurred.
Gen. Harrison cannot help knowing
that the signs of the approaching business
depression had appeared before his term
as President expired. The immense
treasury surplus that his administration
had inherited from the Cleveland admin
istration—one of the best administrations
the country has ever known—had been
squandered, and there was a treasury de
ficit of many millions of dollars. Under
the operations of the McKinley tariff the
revenues of the government had ceased to
meet its expenses and there was a feeling
of alarm over the rapid disappearance of
the treasury's gold. (len. Harrison's
Secretary of the Treasury seriously con
sidered the advisability of issuing bonds
to build up the gold reserve and supply
the treasury deficiency.
The whole of Europe was suffering
from a serious business depression, and
when the Republican party turned the
government over to tho democrats this
country had begun to suffer from a simi
lar depression.
These facts all the world knows. It
seems strange, therefore, that Gen. Har
rison should permit party spirit to carry
him so far as to practically deny them.
The people would hold him in much
higher esteem if lie should deal with
them with entire frankness. They of
course expect him to defend his party
and his administration, but, at the same
time, they feel he should have a proper
regard for facts.
Effects of the Storm.
The storm was far less damaging than
it was feared it would be when its ap
proach to the Florida coast was an
nounced. It did far more damage in
Florida than in this state, and it was
much more severe in that state. The
center of the storm was a considerable
distance off the Georgia coast, and the
effect of the wind was not felt seriously
very far inland. No doubt a good deal of
cotton, principally sea island cotton, was
damaged, but to what extent will not be
fully apparent until the cotton is offered
in the market.
In this immediate vicinity the rice crop
was hurt somewhat, but the rice planters
are rejoicing that the damage is so much
less than they expected it would he. The
Tybee railroad suffered a little, but it it
estimated that it will not cost more than
$l,OOO to repair it. The storm was a very
light one in comparison with the August
storm of last ,\ear.
In Florida the chief damage is to the
orange crop. The storm covered pretty
nearly the whole of the orange belt, and a
vast amount of fruit was blown from the
trees. It is probable, however, that the
loss of fruit will not result in a
pecuniary loss to the orange growers. It
was estimated before the storm that the
crop would reach 5,000,000 boxes. A crop
of that size would have meant low prices
for the fruit. In proportion as the yield
has been reduced, the prices, in all proba
bility, will be increased.
All tilings considered, the wreckage
and ruin caused by the storm are so
much less than it was at ono time
thought probable they would be, that the
prevailing feeling, instead of being one of
depression, is one of thankfulness that
the damage was not greater.
The Sugar Trust Not Satisfied.
It is stated that tho sugar trust is not
satisfied with the way the treasury de
partment is enforcing the sugar schedule.
It complains that tho appraisers at the
custom house are adding every possible
item in fixing the price at which imported
sugars are to pay duty, and it is an
nounced that it lias appealed to the Secre
tary of tlie Treasury lor relief.
The sugar trust does not seem to real
ize that the wisest tiling for it to do is to
keep quiet. Tho people do not regard i t
with favor, and the chances are that tho
protection it has will be taken from it
when congress meets in December. Its
success in getting the legislation it
wanted has made it nolil and aggressive,
or else it is trying to make it appear that
it is making no money with the view of
getting still further concessions.
There is no probability of its getting
any more concessions, it will not bo per
mitted to enjoy those it lias unless its
friends, the republicans, give it powerful
aid.
The dishonesty and double-dealing of
tho republicans crop out in connection
with the sugar trust in a startling man
ner. Day after day the republican papers
und leaders call attention to what thev
call the Gorman-Brice deal in the Senate,
by which the trust got what it has in the
Wilson tariff. These papers and leaders
never once refer to the fact that it was
the Republican parly that called the
trust into life by giving it, in the McKin
ley tariff, almost double the protection it
now lias.
When Cleveland's first administration
ended there was no sugar trust, it came
into existence under the Ilarrison admin
istration. and at the end of that adminis
tration was making money at the rate of
many millions a year, it will likely re
ceive its death blow before Mr. Cleve
land goes out of office, provided the re
publicans do not go to its support.
The “victory” of tlie free silverites of
Nebraska was a kind of Dutch victory.
Nobody expected tlie result to be other
wise. Nebraska is in tho silver produc
ing sei'tiou of tho country, although sho
is not a silver producer herself, and is a
victim to a great degree of tho populistic
idea that the price of silver lias something
to do with tlie price of wheat.
In the election next week every voter
must be for the populists or against them.
There is no halfway ground. Failure to
vote on tho part of any democrat will bo
virtually equivalent to half a vote for the
populists. There should he no stay-at
home democrats on election day.
THE MORN TNG NEWS: FRIDAY! SEPTEMBER 28, 1804.
Judge Hines and the Blacks.
It is stated that a large number of the
[ black voters of Bulloch county have
' signed a pledge that they will not vote
for Judge Hines. This action is doubtless
due to the statement of a number of
prominent white citizens of that county
that Judge Hines, on several occasions,
in their presence, spoke contemptuously of
the colored people, showing that he has a
very low opinion of them.
Hut why should any colored man vote
tho populist ticket? The populists do
not promise them anything in their plat
form. and they couldn't fulfill promises
to them if they should make any. What
the populists want is the assistance of
the black vote. They are talking about
free school books and telling the blacks
they will share the offices with them,
but, as a matter of fact, they have no use
for the blacks. They have about the
same opinion of them that Judge Hines is
alleged to have expressed.
The main reason why the populists are
now so anxious to got the black vote is
that they see there is going to be a great
falling off in the populist vote next
Wednesday, and they want to make as
good a showing as they did two years ago.
They know if they do not populism in this
state will be as "dead as a door nail.” If
the populist vote should fall considerably
below what it was in the last state elec
tion the great majority of the populists
would go back to the democratic party,
satisfied that it would be folly to keep
alive any longer the populist organization.
The populist leaders are sufficiently
well informed in respect to the condition
of their party to know that there has
been a very great decline in the strength
of their party, and that at the election
they will make a very poor showing, un
less they can get the blacks to come to
their assistance.
But will the blacks lend them a helping
hand? The indications are they will not.
They understand the political situation
in this state, and are not disposed to as
sist a party that is largely composed of
men between whom and themselves there
has been,from time to immemorial, clearly
defirted enmity.
There have been many reports of the
organization of the blacks by populists,
and of the purpose of the blacks to vote
with the populists, but as yet these re
ports have not been traced to any authen
tic source. The blacks cannot be so
easily made use of as the populist loaders
seem to think.
They Ignore the Facts.
To account for the low commercial
value of silver, the free silver advocates
assert that silver has not declined in
value, but that gold has become scarcer
and hence dearer. They would have the
people believo that the reason gold and
silver have parted company at the ratio
of 16 to 1 is that gold has appreciated in
value, not that silver has depreciated.
Have they any facts to sustain this view?
If they have they don't present them.
The truth is they haven’t any facts.
They assert what they cannot maintain.
Asa matter of fact, gold has not and is
not becoming scarcer. The production
of it is about normal. Last year it was
greater than for the previous year,
it is quite certain now that the produc
tion this year will be about $174,000,01)0,
which is $19,000,000 more than for 1893.
The annual production of gold during
the best years of the California and Aus
tralia mines did not equal the output for
this year. Tho average annual output
during tho period from 1856 to 1860 was
only about $134,000,000. That was $40,-
000,000 less than the output for this year.
The director of the mint calls attention
to the fact that the production of gold
this year is greater than the combined
annual production of gold and silver from
1856 to 1860.
It has been stated time and time again,
and the figures given to sustain the state
ment, that the decline in the commercial
value of silver is due wholly to the im
mense output of silver during the last
half dozen years. The discovery of im
mense silver deposits and the invention of
methods for cheapening the separation of
silver from the ore have made silver
cheap.
Assertions will not stand against facts,
and the facts are against the silverites.
The production of gold keeps up with the
demand for it. Those who are afflicted
with the free silver coinage craze might
as well pot rid of their affliction at once.
They will not see the mintsof this country
opened to the free and unlimited coinage
of silver at the ratio of 16 to l, unless
there is an international agreement to
make the coinage of silver free at that
ratio or the commercial value of silver
increases greatly. They are wasting
their time in demanding something that
common sense does not approve.
The astute politician pays attention to
the ways and needs of the farmers, and
occasionally drops in a suggestion as to
how their material condition may bo im
proved. Horace Greely did it, and what
he knew about farming became the talk
of a nation. Senator Walsh is doing it,
and wliat ho knows about farming like
wise may become celebrated. in a late
issue Senator Walsh’s paper thus edito
rially discusses why so many farmers “fail
to raise” hogs: “While talking to a farm
er the other day in the southern part of
the state, the writer asked why so many
farmers failed to raise hogs, and the re
ply was that they were so easy to steal
that it did not pay to raise them for some
other fellow. We suggested that the rea
son they are stolen is perhaps because
they are so rare as to tempt the cupidity
and appetito, and tlie remedy would be
for every farmer to raise all he needed
and then there would be no necessity for
theft. We suggest to our farmers to
think over this.” The remedy is logical;
all the farmer lias got to do is to raise all
tho hogs he needs amt then there will be
no necessity for him to ; but, surely
Senator Walsh does not mean to put it
that way!
A San Francisco corresjiondent of tho
Now York Post asked several voters why
they were populists. Their invariable
reply was, “Because we want more
money. We want it cheap: wo want it
had- we must have it. We want ton or
twenty times as much money in circula
tion.” And in Georgia populism demands
übout tlie same thing; bushels of cheap
money, and the cheaper tlie better, it is
the quantity of money, and not its value,
that tlie j'opuiists are eraty about. Tho
money itself, and not what it will buy, is
their ideal. The wonder is that they do
not provide themselves with great bags
full of copper cents, and be liuppy.
PERSONAL.
Mrs. Margaret Pioster. 93 ye ■ old, of
Schenectady, is a bicycle rider.
It is said that Victorien sardou kS on hand
the plots of 250 pieces that hi Intends to
write.
It is said that at this time here are
twenty-two ex sovereigns -esidi r in dif
ferent parts of Europe non* of ti im in the
country where they ruled.
Prof. Todd of Amherst Oileg< rbo has for
some years been an entht.das! < -student of
eclipses and of the sun's co’ona 1 perfecting
plans fer his expedition o ,1a an in 1896.
where an important edipseosf tin sun will be
visible on Aug. 9 of that ye.r.
Perez Galdos. the Spansh rfvelist, has
written a play entitled 4 Tb Enf.'' with the
explanation that it is to be Iso he end of his
career as playwright. He rtind. h*> says, of
the exciteinenrs and disapoin meats of his
career, longs for rest, and ias made up his
mind never to write for. vut, or read about
another theater.
The death of Baron Mndy, the philan
thropist of Vienna, has cased great sorrow
to Mine. Sarah Bernhard who considered
him one of her best friends She never failed
to visit Mundy when in onear Nienna, and
declares that he was one the no' lest men
who ever lived. The bare spent ifc.’O.OUO in
caring for wounded Frenchten in 1-70-71.
The Shah of Persia has ecome an ardent
sportsman and established! Persian Derby,
in which twenty-seven of hi majesty’s horses
recently ran. The owners othe horses which
were defeated received nihing, of course,
but the owners of the winrrs were no more
successful, it was ionsideeuan insult that
they should allow tneir nimals 10 defeat
those of the shan. Furthc than that, the
horses were confiscated ed placed in the
stable of his majesty, whe thus has anew
source of income.
A short time ago Prineas Pestrice, es
corted by her husband, Price Henry of Bat
tenburg, took advantage of le quiet now pre
vailing at Cowes to make ; brier trip to the
French coast. Their roya highnesses ore
served the strictest incojiito. and were so
successful in escaping reccfiitiou that not a
word auout their little excusion has leaked
out in the French c,r EngUh papers. They
wore tatton for American tqrists, and in that
guise enjoyed themselves nmensely at St
M’Uo and elsewhere, mingng unsuspected
with the crowd and entertg into the fun of
the thing like ordinary mortis. They visited
Mont St. Michel and cheerf lly joined in the
rush lor seats at the table dfote after watch
ing the culinary operation in the P.rob
dingnagian kitchen. Princss Beatrice had
with some difficulty secureca place, when a
young lady opposite said tn hr: ‘Would you
mind changing with me ho tfc.t I may sit next
to my young mail?’’ The equest was of
course granted.
BRIGHT BITi.
Old lady (proudly)— My bojis ahustler here
lately.
\ isitor—ls that so? What icycle does he
ride r—Detroit Free Press.
"My task in life.’’ said the lastor compla
cently. “consists in saving yong men."
"Ah!” replied the maiden .vith a soulful
longing; "save a good one for le, won't you?”
The Tailor—What kind of mterial do you
wish your fall frock coat to henade of r
CUolles—How can 1 know ill I ttnd what
colah is going to pwevail in chrysanthemums
this wintah?—Chicago Record.
"What do you think of mvlaughter s ex
ecution. professor?’ asked the'oml mamma,
as her fair daughter poundei away at the
piano keys.
"Think, madam?” was the eply. “Why.
that i should like to be preset at it.’’—Half
Holiday.
"That horrid Miss Jingle is rways asking
some question that puzzles one.’
"What is it now, Cholly, deatboy?"
“She wanted to know if i e joyed the In
dian summers, and 1 couldn't 111 for my life
if they were English or not.Jhicago Inter
Ocean.
Little Boy—What's the use of so many
queer letters tn words? Look it that "c” in
"indicted.”
Little Uirl 1 guess those Is Jist put in so
mothers can get an excuse to seal their chil
dren to school and have a little Face.—Good
News.
"Ther , " remarked Dismal DaVson. 1 ther'
goes another of the fellers that is'.'lyin' off of
us poor workingmen.”
"He don t look like no plute,” sail Everett
Wrest
"He ain’t. He's one of them joke vriters.”
—lndianapolis Journal.
Mrs. Youngman— I wish that I krnw some
way to prevent the baby trom aucling his
thumb.
Bachelor Uncle—Hum! Let me see. Thoie
ought to be some wav. Why, yes ive
thought of a plan already.
Mrs. Youngman Oh, thank you evtr so
much. What snail 1 do?
Bachelor Uncle—Muzzle him.—Good Nrws.
Jack—Now that we are engaged, may I
drink?
A my—No.
Jack—May I smoke?
Amy—No.
Jack—May I play cards?
Amy—No.
Jack—What may I do?
Amy—You may tninl; what a lucky fellow
you are.-New York Herald.
CURRENT COMMENT.
The Cranks Overlook This.
From the Macon (Gn.) Telegraph iDem.).
Silver is a full legal teuder for ail debts,
Public anti private. Yet the populist speak
ers are constantly talking of the demonetiza
tion of sever. liy what means would it he
posslt'ie lor the United States government to
give to silver more power as money tnan it
now possesses ?
Together They Might Eo Formidable.
From the Pittsburg Dispatch (Rep.).
According to London advices both John
Bull and Unde Sum have grievances against
the Nicaraguan authorities for outrageous
treatment ct their subject®. Should the two
powers rise up and demand redress -it one
time, there might be such a thing as bringing
the sau- y little power to a recognition of the
amenities of life before herself Importance
becomes too pronounced.
“Crisp Two-Dollar Bills” in Demand.
From the Detroit Free Press (Deni.).
Tho sudden demand for small bank notes
has excited the curiosity of some of our east
ern contemporaries. They seem to have
overlooked the fact that the time is at hand
when the republican caucuses are on. and
when demands are made on republican candi
dates for subscriptions to all manner of chari
ties. it takes a good many small bills to run
a republican campaign secundem artem.
What the Parties Offer.
From (he St. Louis Republic (Deni.).
Republicans offer nothing but a record
which lias i eeniondemnedand rejected. The
populists oiler nothing but extravagant prom
ises which are inconsistent with reasons,
with possibilities and wi’h human nature.
The Democratic parly alone has a genuine,
approved and honest American policy. This
is not a jear for den o rattc indifference, hut
a year for democratic advance toward the
goal of complete reform.
Republicans and "Raw Materialo ”
From tho Philadelphia Record (Dem.).
in advocating the cause of lion. Joe ( an
non, who is anxious to get back to congress a
campaign orator told his Illinois auditors
that "wool is no more raw material than a
steel rail. It is the product of tho farm Coal
in the earth is raw material, but when mined
it ceases to lie raw material." This disune
tion is worthy the fine analytical mind of Mr.
Dickon s Toots, who. on being usked by a
philosophic gentleman at an evening party:
What are you going to do with your raw
materials replied, in a burst of Inspiration
"Look 'em"' The Illinois orators logic
would be improved by cookery.
Tho A. P. A. In Politics.
From the Pittsburg Post (Dem.).
There ts no question thut the American
Protective Association will be an lui|iortaiit
factor in politics in a number of states and
Cities this year, it is just torty years since
the Know-Nothing, or Americau order a
triile more creditable than the American
Protective Association, made its tlrst up
is a unci- und cause i more political surprises
In one year in this happy laud than were ever
before known or since. Therefore the
American Protective Association is not anew
force in oolittcs. t>ut mi rely the nmnlfesta
tion of n very old force, it will be short
lived, as was the Know-Nothing or Am Than
order. In the meantime It will do and Is now
doing, an iutulcuiulde amount of mischief.
Like all other political plagues. It will run
Its course for a brief time, and then sink to
au unhonored grave.
Deacon Oozzelo’s Little Story.
"You know. 4 ' said Deacon Gozzle. according
to the New York Sun. “I’d often heard of
men going away from their native village to
the city and getting rich, and finally coming
back to settle and building a line house, or
building a house and coming there to *pend
their summers; or giving the town a library,
or building anew church or a school house, or
doing something good that showed that their
heart was in the old town. But the queerest
thing of the sort 1 ever heard of happened in
my town and it happened in the church that
1 telonffed to.
4 There came to our church one Sunday a
stranger, just an ordinary-looking stranger In
good Sunday clothes, and we put him as we
always did strangers in as good a seat as we
had which happened to be in this case the
best seat in the middle aisle, a fact for which
wc were afterward very grateful. We didn’t
ob&erve anything very remarkable about this
man, he listened to the sermon, and stood up
with the rest when they sung, and when the
plate was passed he dropped in a bill. That
was kind o remarkable, but not so dreadful
remarkable for folks sometimes did put bills
in the plat *in our church. But when we
came to straighten out the collection and
count it, which we always did after meeting,
v.e did encounter the most remarkable thing
that had ever harp3ned in that church: the
bill that the stranger had put in folded up so
small nd quiet was a fl OUO bill.
‘Well, if there and been an earthquake in the
town there couldn't any more people have
heard of it. nor any quicker, and everyt ody
wondered who he was. He was stopping at
the hotel and keeping very quie\ and next
day he went away, and then everybody won
ered if he'd - ever come back. He did. the
next Sunday, and he went to church, and he
dropped another bill in the plate when it got
to him. folded up small, just like the other.
It was another thousand.
•Then there was excitement. The man
went away the next morning just the same,
but he eaine back the next Sunday and put in
another thousand, and he kept coming and
g'.ing in that way until he and put in nine
si,ooo-bil!s # with the excitement growing all
the time.
“There was a mortgage on the church of
*lO 000. By this time, of course, everybody
had got it into their heads that the stranger
was paying oil this mortgage, and everybody
was very glad of it. It wasn't a poor town,
bv any means, but it was a farming town,
where cash wasn't overplentiful. and $10.0t;0
seemed like a great deal of money- which it
was and this man was paying it. or every
body thought he was. and when it came to the
next Sunday, the tenth Sunday, which every
body sort of felt v as going to be the last one,
and the one that would tell who the stranger
was. you couldn’t get into the church. But we
managed to make room for him when he
carne, and he did come, and we gave him the
identical pew he sat in the first Sunday. Well,
when the plate came around he put in an
other. He’d done it—he'd paid the debt of
the church.
After that he didn’t keep himself quite so
quiet. He was around the village more, and
tirst one and then another recognized htm,
and then everybody that was old enough won
dered that everybody hadn't recognized him
from the beginning. He was born and raised
there and had gone away when he was a
young man of twenty to make his fortune,
and he’d made it, not in cities, but out on the
plains raising cattle, and nobody had met
him or heard of him. But he didn't look like
a cowboy when he came lack; he looked
just like anybody and acted so.
He did say afterward that paying the
church debt was more fun than lie and ever
struck in his life: he was a little curious in
that way in his way of speaking; but his
heart, I’m sure, was sound as a dollar.”
Fixing the Rasponsibility.
“How did you find matters over at Boom
opolis?” asked the able editor of the Haw
ville Clarion, of Col. Handy Polk, the enter
prising real estate agent . who had been
spending a few days in a ne Ighborlng settle
ment, says Puck.
"There is nothtug going on over there worth
mentioning," replied the colonel, "except a
lively row between the rainmakers, the Sal
vation army and a few other parties, over
who deserves the credit for breaking up the
long drouth. You see, the town offered a
purse of #2OO for a good soaking rain, and
just about the time the rainmakers began
operations tho Salvation Army commenced
praying for the same blessing. Both parties
labored zealously, and three or four days
ago the rain came down in torrents. Well,
then, when the rainmakers came up for their
money the Salvationists put iu a claim for it
on the ground that the flood was produced
by prayer and not by mechanical means. A
littie later, here came the Methodists
with the announcement that the
credit belonged to neither party
but to a kind and beneficent provi
dence alone; while up jumped the populists
with the pessimistic assertion that it rained
because they were having a basket picnic on
that day. What few infidels there are in the
settlement deny the claims of everybody eise,
and say that it rained just because it hap
pened to. Hop Wing, the Chinese launary
innn. credits the blessing to his joss, in a sort
of left-handed way, alleging that he got tired
of pampering his idol to no purpose, and
whirled In and pounded the blackhead regu
larly every day till the lazy rascal got down
to business and made it rain. It looks as if
the court would have to he called in to
straighten out the complication. Meanwhile
several farmers living on the bottom land
along Bitter creek are patiently waiting for
ike responsibility to be fixed, so that they
cap bring action for damages on account of
Ihllr crops having been washed out bv the
liokd.”
How Stewart Discharged Cockran.
Tje Hon. Bourlte Cockran tells a story
ahoi* the late A. T. Stewart, which Is more
rhaimcteristlc of the great dry goods mer
chanlthan any l have ever heard, says a
w.iui in *the New York Press. The ron
gressimn and orator began life in New York
ns a Virter la Stewart's chambers street
store And spent most of his time among the
dry golds cases In the cellar. It was a dark
piece fi work in. and Cockran natuarlly kept
himsell supplied with matches. One day.
Mr. Sieaari had a visitor whom ne desired to
show thloiigh his storeroom—probably a rival
to whoik he wanted to show the extent
of his I importations. Finding Cocktan
In the t cellar, he ordered him to go
up slailp and get a match to light the
gas with. Whereupon the always ready por
ter drew iis matchbox from tils pocket and
promptly Itruck a light. Tho old merchant
Slid nothiip at the time, but after he had
shown hisvisitor through the place he came
down stairs ami summoned the porter.
"Why didn’t ye go up stairs and get the
lucifers, as 1 was telling ye?" said Stewart,
angrily, .
"But I hid them in my pocket, sir,’’re
sponded Cockran.
Had them in yere pocket, eh?” retorted
Stewart. No ye're carrying matches about
with vein tAs cellar, eh? And exposing us
allto the reo4( of a conflagration! Ye can go
up-stairs lo the cashier and get ye're money
f -om him as, soon as ye please. I wait no
such thonghtU-s creature about tho place.”
That was wli?u the Hon. Bourke Cockran
made up his mind to study law.
Not Far Enough Away.
Benevolent Stranger (with subscription pa
per) My trienii lam raising funds for the
purpose of assisting the poor people of Tim
buctoo to build and maintain an artificial ico
factory. To the thoughtful mind there must
always be Something terrible in the reflection
that the unfortunate people of that desert
city, situated a> it is at the southern border
of the Great Sahara and only eighteen de
grees north of he equator ou a dreary plain
where there is hardly vegetation enough to
keep a camel from starving, are tortured the
livelong year bv aeatand tmrst. with no hope
of relief unices civilization comes to their
rescue with its resources and lightens the
burden sor their existence in their wretched,
mlserat le-
Ordinarv <'itben—l don't like to interrupt
you. but there s a fire in a row of tenement
houses in the next 010 k. I ought to be there
helping to
Benevolent Stranger O, there’s no ot oasion
for alarm. The wind Isn't blowing in this
direction. How much shall l put down (or
you in aid of the suffering people of Tun
bucktoof Chicago'tribune.
A Bachelor s Invocation.
From tho Pall Mall Budget.
When all my pi inH 1 ive come to grief,
And every bill is due,
And every faith that's worth belief
Has proved itself untrue;
And when, as now, I’ve jilted been
Mv every girl I've met.
Ah! then I flee for peace to thoe,
My darling cignrcue
Ilall. sorceress! whose cloudy spells,
About my senses driven.
Alone i an louse their prison cells
Ami waft my soul to heaven.
Above all earthly loves, I swear,
I hold t hee best -and yet
Would 1 could mo* mutch for thee,
My darling cigarette.
With lips unstained to thee I bring
A lover s gentle kiss.
And woo thee, s, e. wl;h tnis fair ring,
And this atm this and this.
But. uh the rim s >so ner cease
ilnconstant, vain enqueue i
Than, like the rest, thou vanishes!
in smoke, my cigarette.
ITEMS Of INTEREST.
There is a cave near Deadwood. S. D.. that
is believed to extend ifcore than ninety miles
into the bowels of the earth.
The navy department proposes introducing
electricity instead of steam for operating
heavy guns mounted on turrets on warships.
There are two brothers living in the vicinity
of Chicago who are exciting a great deal of
interest just now. One is '-7 years old and
measures six feet seven inches in height
while the other, who is 4o years old. measures
but four feet nine inches.
Charles E. Norris has just been arrested in
Chicago for a murderous assatlt committed
ten rears ago. He has traveled a’l over the
world in that time, and the detective who
started out to capture him on the of the
assault was the man who made the arrest.
In the office of the Pall Mall Magazine the
phonograph has been put to a novel use. An
article is read in front of the receiving fun
nel. and the waxen cylinder is sent to the
printer, who sets it in a duplicate machine
and puts the tut e- in his ears. He then regu
lates the speed to suit himself, and *ets by
ear instead of by eye.
A curious case of kleptomania is reported
from Paris. A wealthy woman, noted for her
wit and brilliancy, has a mania for stealing
men’s hats. She can create a hullaballoo at
a tea party or ball that makes things de
cidedly unpleasant. The hats are of no possi
ble use to her or to anyone else, because she
cuts out the crowns as soon as she gets them.
Her malady has been called mania and chapeau.
The brain of the average Chinaman is, says
Mr. C. H. Bond, up to the normal standard as
regards convolutions, aud rather above it in
the frontal lobes. The cross furrows are
more conspicuous than frout and rear ones.
The weight of the braiu studied by Mr. Bond
is 1,182 grammes, or 176 grammes less than
the average male adult brain of European
nations. '1 he cerebrum is smaller and lighter
in comparison to the cerebellum than is usual.
For the average man the proportion is 8 l ; to
1; but for this particular Chinese brain it is
only 5 to 1, while it iss l 4 to 1 for the chim
panzee.
During a recent severe haiistorm at Vicks
burg a remarkably large hailstone was found
to have a solid nucleus, consisting of a piece
of alabaster from one-half to three quarters
of an inch. During the same storm at Bovina,
eight miles east of Vicksburg, a gopher turtle.
6xß inches, and entirely escased in ice. fell
with the hail. Commenting upon this, iu tne
Monthly Weather Review. Prof. Cleveland
Abbe says that apparently some special local
whirls or gusts carried the inclosed objects
from the qarth’s surfacj up to the c’.oud
region, where they were encased by success
ive layers of snow and ice, until they fell as
hailstones.
The Ferris wheel has been a sort of white
elephant on the hands of the owners e\er
since the world’s fair. It paid very well
there, but since they have not known what to
do with it. It is now proposed to take it to
New York and turn it into a sort of gigantic
elevator to carry people to a roof garden and
skating rink, which will be the h ghiest in
the world. The plan is to erect the wheel as
it stood in Chicago. Outside of the wheel and
trellis work will be four steed columns. These
columns will run closer together as they
ascend until the top is rea hed. 290 feet,
where a steel platform 210 feet square will be
constructed Ascending from four corners of
the platform will be four more steel columns,
running up forty feet to a pyramid tower,
protected by a railing, which will serve as an
observatory. In summer the platform will be
open and used for a roof garden, in winter
it will be closed in with glass and heated with
steam. .Mr. Ferris believes the platform will
be sufficiently large to allow room for a stage
and an orchestra when it is desired to use it
as a roof garden.
Russian papers, including several of the
best known journals of St. Petersburg, an
nounce the death near Charkon of a farmer
called S. Suckosoff, who was 150 years old.
He had lived, they declare after investiga
tion. almost his entire life on the same estate..
Among the numerous proofs of his great age
was his marriage certificate, dated in the
reign of Catharine 11. The history of Char
kow ho knew almost from its foundation until
to-day, when it is one of the chief places of
South Russia. The old man related with es
pecial pleasure historical incidents of the
last century, in which he had spent almost
fifty years of his life. Among “recentevents”
he included the war of 1812, and the ascension
of the throne by Emperor Nicholas in 1824.
The Incidents of the c rlmean war in 1854 55
were almost unknown to him. as from 1850 on
he had seldom left his country home. Among
his pleasantest memories were his visits to
St. Petersburg, where he saw Empress Cath
arine 11, Empercrs Alexander I and Nicholas
1, and the famous statesmen of those days,
including Suvarow and Potemkin. He was
present when Potemkin laid the foundation
slone of the town of Ekaterinosiow.
The report of the director of physic ai train
ing ia the Boston schools for the present
year has some Interesting statements in re
gard to stuttering among school children,
says the Boston Transcript. After remarking
that the stuttering habit almost always pro
ceeds from lack of control of the breath from
speech on the part of the suoject. the report
goes on to say that efforts to cure stuttering
are largely wasted unless the central breath
ing muscles are at, first set right. Success
ful treatment begins with gymnastic exer
cise of the breathing muscles, and later deals
with the development of normal habits ol ac
tion. first in the muscles of phonation, and
then in those of articulation. In other words,
successful treatment is the application of the
principles of physical training. It Is safe to
say that out of every I.tOO children in the
.Boston schools, seven stutter or stammer.
Of all boys in tho schools, 1.12 per cent, are
stutterers, while only 42 per cent, of all girls
stutter. This in accord with observations of
European experts, who say that three or
four times as many boys as girls stutter
habitually. Boston school.-* show a smaller
proportion of stutterers than German and
Russian schools.
A series of very wonderful experiments,
which have just been concluded by Dr. Luys
of Paris whose observations and discoveries
in connection with magnetism and electricity
in relation to hypnotism made a profound
impression upon the scientific world some
time ago, has led to a remarkable result, says
the London Telegiaph. The latest discovery
establishes the fact that the cerebral activity
can be transferred to a crown of magnetized
iron, in which the activity can be retained
and subsequently passed on to a second per
sou. Incredible as this may seem, Dr. Luys
has proved Its possibility by the experiment
just referred to. He placed the crown, which
in reality is only a circular band of magnet
ized Iron, on the head of a female patient suf
fering from melancholia, with a mania for
self-destruction, and with such success was the
experiment attended lhat within a fortnight
the patient could be allowed to go free with
out danger, the crown having absorbed all
her marked tendencies. About two weeks
afterwards he put the same crown, which
meanwhile had been carefully keDt free from
contact with anything else, on the head of a
male pallent suffering lrom hysteria, com
plicated by frequent recurrent periods of
lethargy. Ihe patient was then hypnotized
and immediately comported himself after the
manner of the woman who had previously
worn the crown. Indeed, he practically as
suined her personality and uttered exaitly
tne same complaints as she had done, simi
lar phenomena have, it Is reported, been oo
served in the case of every patient experi
mented upon. Another experiment showed
that the crown retained the impression ac
quired until It was made red hot.
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