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INDEX TO SEW~ADVERIIbLMLUS.
Meetings— Georgia Chapter No. 3. R. A. M.
Speciai. Notices—Money to Lend, Ed
ward S. Elliott: Royal Benefit Society, For
est City Assembly; As to Crow of British
Steamship Norfolk; As to Bills Against Brit
inh Steamship Eeeonftcld; New Store, M. .1
Evans & Cos.: Notice to Dairymen, Southern
Cotton Oil Company.
Amusements—“ The County Fair," at the
Theater, Oct, 5-6.
At Haij Price—Appel Ac Schaul.
All Fbksh Stock—B. H. Levy & Bro.
Medical—Scott's Emulsion.
Imported Toys—Oppcnheitner, Sloat &
Cos.
Dress Goods Headquarters—Leopold
Adler.
Millinery Opening—KrouskofT Millinery
Company.
Railroad Schedule—Jacksonville.Tampa
and Key West Railway.
Auction Sales—Executor's Sale of
Groceries, byJ. McLaughlin Si Son
Cheap Column advertisements—Help
Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Rent;
For Sale: Lost; Personal; Miscellaneous.
The discussion of issues, as far as the
state election is concerned is ended, and
the balloting is to be done to-da.y. Let
every democrat go to the polls and do
what he can for his party, not only by
voting himself, but also by influencing
others to vote. Let the democratic ticket
be given a rousing majority.
Judge Hines may now return to At
lanta and brush the dust off of his law
books.
Congressman Turner’s speeches would
be excellent material for democratic con
gressional campaign documents.
On this day the sixteen to one ratio
should obtain sixteen democratic votes
to one populist vote in the ballot boxes.
The voter who fails to cast his ballot
to-day will have no right to grumble here
after if political affairs do not go to suit
him.
Three inches of snow fell in Minnesota
day before yesterday. The snowfall that
is taking place in Georgia to-day is not
the kind that is measured in inches.
The fellow who predicted a small war
on election day in Jacksonville may now
be written down in the list with the fel
low who predicted that Florida would be
swamped by a tidal wave on Sept. 12.
If the large use of silver as money will
make the prices of cotton and wheat high,
why did not cotton go to 20 cents a pound
and wheat to $2 a bushel while the gov
ernment was coining between 12,000,000
and (4.000,000 worth of silver per month
under the Bland-Allison act?
The perennial report that Civil Service
Commissioner Lyman is about to resign is
again on its rounds. Mr. Lj man has been
with the commission ever since it was or
ganized, and shortly after his connection
with the concern began, the rumor of his
impending resignation made its appear
ance.
The republicans elected some town
clerks and justices of the peace up in
Connecticut on Monday. All th Trib
unes, Presses and‘State Journals of the
north will, of course, see in the incident
another spontaneous and vehement con
demnation of the democratic administra
tion at Washington.
Gen. Frye, of Coxey army fame, is said
to have conceived a plan for the over
throw of the government, and t,o he work
ing to interest men in his scheme. This
fellow and others like him ought to be
sent for a term up to Mr. Brockway's re
formatory at Elmira, N. V., where re
spect for the law is inculcated with a pad
dle.
The state is watching Augusta and
Richmond county to-day to see what
they are going to do for populism.
There was considerable apathy in the
county up to the time of the closing of the
registration lists. Since then, however,
Senator Walsh has been stirring things
up and Richmond may come up with a
regular Maj. Black majority.
It is suspected in Washington that
China put off tho ratification of the treaty
between that country and this for a long
time in ordor to ascertain how this coun
try stood with regard to the war in Korea.
That way of looking at the tardiness of
the Pekin government does not do credit
to the Intelligence of the Chinese foreign
office. This government has no interest
in favoring either combatant, and it will
not do so.
Bullet proof cloth armor appears to be
a drug on tho market. No government
wants it. Herr Dowe, the original armor
man. is in Sweden trying to sell bis in
vention for SIB,OOO. Only a few months
ago he wanted $500,000 for it. May be if
Herr Dowe could induce this country to
go ‘into the free coinage of silver the
value of his bullet proof eoaj would go
up. it seems to be the idea In certain
quarters that free silver coinage in this
country would increase values without
regard to supply and demand, locution, or
anything elst^
Judge Jenkins’ Decision.
It is hardly probable that United States
District Judge Jenkins will be impeached
in view of the decision of the United
States court of appeals at Chicago Mon
day, in which Judge Jenkins’ famous de
cision is reviewed and partly sustained.
The decision for which it was proposed
to impeach Judge Jenkins, was rendered
in the case of P. M. Arthur and others.
; against the Northern Pacific railroad.
He virtually enjoined employes of the
road from resigning their positions,
either as individuals, or when acting in a
combination, when their purpose was to
injure the railroad. At the time the de
cision was rendered the Northern Pacific
was in the hands of a receiver, as it is
now. and was being operated through the i
United States courts. For the decision j
Judge Jenkins was severely criticised,
and charges against him were made to
congress and referred to a committee of
the House.
The court of appeals held that the court
has no power to compel an employe of a
railroad or any other employe to work if
he doesn't want to. The exercise of such
a power would be destructive of individ
ual liberty, but a court iias the power to
enjoin employes from combining to quit
the service of a railroad when such action
is taken to injure the railroad or cripple
its service to the public.
The effect of this decision of the court
of appeals is far reaching, its tendency
being to prevent strikes. An appeal will
be taken, in all probability, to the su
preme court, with the view of having the
issue presented in the decision finally set
tled.
While the decision applies only to em
ployes of roads in the hands of receivers,
there is no reason, apparently, why it
should not apply to employes of railroads
and of other corporations not in the hands
of receivers. While the decision appears
to be based upon justice, it is consider
ably in advance of any position taken by
the courts in labor troubles.
This Ib How it Is.
The Evening Press, commenting upon an
extract from an article entitled, “A
Question That Will Settle Itself,'’ which
’appeared in the Morning News yesterday,
said: “This is so entirely different from
anything we have read in the columns of
the Morning News that the people will
wonder what has come over the spirit of
its silver dreams.”
\\ e don’t think tiie people will wonder—
those who have given any thought to the
silver question. What was it that seemed
to the Press to be so out of harmony with
the position of the Morning News on that
question? it was this. Tho mint statis
tics show that the production of gold is
steadily and rapidly increasing, and that
owing to the falling off of the output of
silver the commercial value of that metal
is rising. The Morning News said if
these conditions should continue the time
might not be far distapt when the mints
could he opened to the free coinage of sil
ver without danger of forcing the country
to a silver basis. Is there anything in
this to make the people wonder? We
think not.
What would be the result if the
output of silver should fall uff one
half or two-thirds, and the output of gold
should go on increasing, as it has
for the last two or three years?
Would not the commercial value of silver
rise rapidly and finally reach a point at
which it would be on a parity with gold
at the ratio of lfitol? Silver might be
worth even more than gold at that ratio,
as it was in 1873. In that event what ob
jection would there be to the opening of
the mints to the free coinago of silver at
the ratio of 16 to 1? There would be
no rush of silver to the mints. No holder
of silver would care to have it coinod.
He could sell it for as much as its coinage
value, or even more.
This view of the silver question may
seem strange to the Press, but wo assure
it there is nothing strange in it, so far as
we know-nothing inconsistent with the
views of the advocates of sound money.
Wo are willing to concede that the Press
has been giving a good deal of attention
to the silver question, on the stump and
elsewhere, and that it listened to tho
very lucid remarks of Hon. Henry G.
Turner on that question—hence knows a
great deal of the subject. Still, the Mous
ing News insists that it has not expressed
silver views that are likely to make the
people wonder.
The Press forget, probably, in the hurry
of writing, to quote the Mousing News
correctly. The Mousing News did not
say anything that could ho rightly con
strued as meaning “that because the bul
lion value of silver is a little higher than
it was last year, the time is not far dis
tant when the country can open its mints
to the free and unlimited coinage of silver
at the ratioof 10 to 1.”
V\ hat the Mouning News did say was
that if tiie conditions it enumerated
should continue the time might not be
distant when the mints could be opened
to silver without forcing the country to a
silver basis. If the Press had read the
article it mentioned more closely it might
not have felt called upon to criticise it.
unless it holds views radically different.
This is the season of the year when the
bucolic weather prophet gels in his pre
dictions of a hard winter. A specimen
of the genius up at Alliance, 0.. says the
coming winter will be extremely severe :
and this he knows because “Coons and
'possums have a heavy growth of fur
coming on. The chipmunk and tho squir
rel are the busiest little animals in the
world. The insects have left the north
side of the trees in tho woods, as
you will notice, and the feathers on the
geese are heavier than ever before. My
young lanbs are growing wool that seems
marvellous, and sheep that have been
sheared are rapidly regaining their
fleece.'’ This is quite interesting, but
| what may be called the peroration of his
prediction is positively absorbing. He
says: “Another sign of a hard winter is
j tho large hazelnut crop. This meShs also
that lots of boy babies will bo born to
J take the place of those who will be killed
i in the con.ing war.”
The Railway Gazette in its last issue,
! speaking of the remarkable speed made
| by the Plant system's Knights of Pythias
j special to Washington on Aug 90. after
! mentioning the fact that the s|>ocial had
to stop fifty times for bridges, stations,
etc., says . "With these delays tiie record,
brilliant as it is, out partially shows tho
excellence of the performance, for tho
speed on the open road must have boon
very,high to muko up for fifty losses,
equal to one every sixteen miles,’’
THE MORNING NEWS: WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER3, 1894.
Local Forecasts.
And so it has been decreed at Washing
ton that we are to have no more local
forecasts at night of the weather at Sa
vannah for the remainder of this sea
son. Is not that decree rather unjust to
; Savannah? What is the weather bureau
for if not to furnish the information the
i people need.
These local forecasts are of immense
benefit. They have been very reliable this
year and the people have come to place
great dependence upon them. They are
needed now by by the truck and rice
farmers, and nearly everybody else has
become accustomed to look for the local
forecast every morning.
We are to have in place of these local
forecasts predictions sent out from Wash
ington every night. They will be for the
whole state, and tney will not be of mu.-h
benefit in this locality. There will be
local forecasts in the morning but they
wiil not be published until late in the
afternoon, and it will be night before
many of those specially interested in
them will see them. The weather bureau
wisdom at Washington probably can ex
plain in what way they will be helpful.
It is quite certain that nobody in this
locality can see how they will be valuable.
For two or three years—in fact, ever
since they were started- we have had the
night local forecasts throughout the year.
To have them stopped suddenly will be
quite a loss. And to have them stopped
without any good reason is aggravating.
Has Savannah offended the chief of the
weather bureau? She has certainly
shown a high appreciation of the weather
service. The people here would like to
know the reason they are to be exposed
to w eather changes without proper warn
ing. It cannot be for lack of money. The
local forecasts cost nothing. It must bo
because the Washington bureau man wants
to do more of the prophecying. Great
as the confidence is which we have in his
predictions, they are not exactly what
we want. We want the night local fore
casts, and must have them if there is any
way to get them.
The Color Line in Brooklyn.
A few Brooklyn, N. Y., people who live
in an aristocratic neighborhood, and who,
under the influence of Murat Halstead's
teachings, are ready to critize tho
southern people for not admitting the
blacks to equality in every respect, are
dreadfully wrought up because a wealthy
and educated colored man has purchased
a residence in the midst of them, which
he intends to occupy with his family.
The colored man is a head waiter in a
well known summer resort hotel, and by
strict attention to business and careful
investments has accumulated a fortune of
about $200,000. What his purpose is in
purchasing a fine house in one of the most
exclusive streets of Brooklyn is not
known. Perhaps he had heard
at the hotel in which he
is employed some of the people
who will be his neighbors condemn
southern people for not admitting the
blacks into their homes, and concluded
that they would be neighborly.
The people of tho street, however,
haven’t taken to the colored man’s
scheme kindly. They object to his com
ing among them at all. They have pro
tested, but in vain. The colored man
knows his rights and purposes maintain
ing them. He has offered to sell his
house, however, fora sum considerably
greater than he paid for it, and the resi
dents in the neighborhood of it are mak
ing efforts to raise the money with which
to buy it.
When the actual truth is stated it ap
pears that the blacks at the north are
much less kindly treated than the blacks
in the south. The northern people do not
understand the blacks, and they don’t
want to have anything to do with them.
Nearly all classes of northern people ob
ject to having anything to do with the
blacks. This being the case, it is rather
remarkable that they should devote so
much attention to the condition of the
blacks in tho south. They sympathize
with the blacks as long as tho blacks re
main in the south. As soon as the blacks
appear at the north, however, they make
it a point to get as far away from them
as possible.
The cable dispatches from tlieeast, pub
lished tliis morniug, coutain some very
suggestive statements. "The emperor of
China will very likely be dethroned in
favor of Prince Kungs Han, who will
treat with the Japanese;” there is talk
of Li Hung Chang's defection to the Jap
anese; Li has retired disgusted to his
home province; Li’s army is distrusted.
These are the suggestive statements. It
is denied at the Chinese legation in Wash
ington that they contain tho elements of
probable truth. But it is not hard to es
timate tho value of a Chinese diplomatic
denial of such assertions. Years ago
“Chinese” Gordon put the bee of ambi
tion into Li Hung Chang’s bonnet, and it
may he buzzing there yet, notwithstand
ing the old man’s age. Gordon urged him
to march upon Pekin, overthrow the
dynasty and take the throne himself, and
offered to go along and help in
the job. So far had the intrigue be
tween the general and the viceroy got that
Mr. Gladstone had to order Gordon to
quit China in the interest of Furopean
peace. The present dynasty of China is
not Chinese, but Manchoorian, and is
hated by most Chinamen. The old viceroy
is a Chinaman, iu everything that that
means, and would probably like to see his
countrymen under a native ruicr. A few
days ago it was reported that the Japan
ese had in view, in the event of the con
quest of China, the division of the empire
into three parts, each of which would be
put under the rule of a native prince, one
of whom was to be Li Hung Chang. The
statements in the dispatches which wo
print this morning fit in very well with
this hypothetical plan of the Japanese.
If the suggestions should be worked out
as they are made, it means that the
greatest changes in the map of Asia that
have taken place in a thousand years are
impending, and that there is treason in
high places in China.
It seems that the democrats, republicans
and some populists of Kansas aroabout to
prove that Lowelling, the populist, is tho
most corrupt governor Kansas ever had,
and that his administration has been
honeycombed with crookedness Follow
lug the scandal in which Lewelling was
alleged to have been bribed by gamblers
of Topeka comes another story of tho
bribing of the governor by a notorious
lottery concern, in the last case what
purfurts to he documentary evidence
against the governor is published.
PERSONAL.
Ex Senator Wam-n s ranch in Wyoming
covers an area of s-.vcoty -five by 100 miles,
and is stocked with 2.0t>0 horses. 15,000 cattle
and ;120 sheep. It ;s six times as hi?
as Rhode Island and (‘ "S ut 815 square
miles of beinK as big as Massachusetts.
A live count has been discovered at Brad
dock, Pa., the Count Camille Mercadere. !
whose father owns extensive estates near
Vienna. Austria, and from whom until quite j
recently tfce son has b* ■: estranged. ‘J he I
young man is head dra ifrhtsman at Carnegie’s
Edgar l horn son Steel Works.
The minister of public instruction in Con
stantinopie has decide! that the young men
who are sent abroad to < n.plete their studies
at the expense of the government, and inter
rupt them without pern. scon, become liable
to a line equal in amount t< the sum paid by
the government on their account.
Judge Charles A Gayane. the venerable
historian of Louisiana wh i has been seriously
ill during the summer. i> now restored to his
usual health. Judge < divarre v II tie 90 years
old on Jan. 1 next. His hc;neon Pneur street.
New Orleans, is one of the most attractive
spots In the lower parts of the city.
Larz Anderson has given the city of Cincin
natti a carved stone well head of Renaissance
design, which was purchased by him in \ ea
ice it is about four feet high, has on one
side a lion rampant, and n another an ea'le,
and is elaborately oarved it w ill be use lin
one of the city parks as a drinking fountain.
The new editor of the Lion (Mo. ) Pres says
of ex-Senator Inga!l> He is classic and
scholarly, plain, rustic, logical and argumen
tative, eloquent and im: . -sioned. caustic and
mordacious. prejudic'd and unreasonable,
sensible and conservative radical ami precip
itous. cautious and considerate, poetic and
sentimental, stoical and mismthro >u\ merci
less and vindictive, forgiving and philan
thropic-—anything that may suit his fancy and
tit the occasion, nut always original, incom
parable. matchless ”
The rowing apparatus which Emperor
William of Germany is using for his daily
muscular exercise has been constructed by
the practitioner. Dr. Ewer. It resembles ihe
central part of the race boat, has a seat, run
ning in grooves and a movable foot hoard.
The oar. which can he moved in every direc
tion. acts upon a piston encased in a brass
tube: a movable slit n the tube admits of
regulating the air—th* larger the opening the
more air presses upon the piston and he
lighter is the work, ihe recoil of the oar is 1
fa ilitate iby a spiral spring. In order to
measure the amount of force spent it is only
necessary to screw a manometer on ar. open
ing in the tube and note the difference of
pressure—the streni th of the spiral spring
be n: known, all the elements of computation
are there. The emperor is very outspoken as
to the beneficial effect of this bodily exercise
on his physical well being.
BRIGHT BITS.
“Did you make a hit with that red tennis
blazer of yours down on the farm! ”
"Did 1? It struck the bull's eye the first
time I wore it.”—lndianapolis Journal.
Wishlets—Did you g * wet tho other night
going home in that Terrible rain storm?
Bishlets—No: 1 got home all right, but
when I got into the house my wife soaked me
for staying out so late. Brooklyn Eagle.
Oldskidds—Do you really believe that the
sins of the father are visited upon the son'-
oungseudds— Certainly. Didn’t th;; gov
ernor say he couldn't let me have that fifty
this morning because he lost it at poker last
night?—Buffalo Courier.
‘•Everthing that is done in this house is al
ways blamed onto me.” sniffed the small boy,
“an’ I'm jistgiuiu tired of it. 11l run away,
that's what I’ll do. Doggone if I mean to be
the Li Hung Chang of this family any longer.”
Cincinnati Tribune.
‘‘No. I cannot marry him. He is not
straightforward.”
And in view of the fact that his measure
ment around the shoulders was 27. while his
waist measure was 4*. they were forced to
admit that she was right. Cincinnati
Tribune.
"The trouble weth some of our politicians.”
said Farmer Cqmtossel. "is thet they're
thinkin’.too much bout riginalitv. ’
”1 hedu tnotioed-it. replica his wife..
"It's though. They re so feared o’ re
peatin’ theirselvos thet they don’t think o’
makin’ the same kind o’ speeches in congress
that they make on the stump.”—Washington
Star.
“If it were not so childish and out of date I
could take a real goal cry,’ said the woman
with the short hair.
* What is th“ matter, dear?”
"I wore mv husband's vest downtown shop
ping yesterday, by mistake, and there were
three big cigars sticking out of the top
pocket. 1 never noticed it till I got home.”
—lndianapolis Journal.
"This man.” said the doctor, who was
showing the visitor over the insane asylum,
"is one of our most interesting patients. You
w ill notice that he does nothing but weep all
the time.”
"What sent him insane?” asked the
visitor.
"He was a Chicago man, and his pocket
was picked by a man from Philadelphia.”—
Indianapolis Journal.
CURRENT COMMENT.
A Part Can Be Calculated.
From the Chicago Herald (Dem.i.
“The losses of the past two years,” s lys ex-
President Harrison, '"cefy the skill of tho
calculator." We are more fortunate in know
ing exactly how much money the public
treasury lost from the time Grover Cleve
land left office iu IPB9 until he returned in
1893. The interval was Mr. Harrison s term
as President, and lie left 9107,00) 00 * less in the
treasury than he found there when he went
into office.
Louisiana's Sugar Districts.
From the New Orleans Picayune (Dcm.).
If the right men are put up for congress by
the democrats in the First, second and Third
districts of this state, they will be elected.
Unless strong and able men. devoted to the
encouragement and advancement of the ma
terial prosperity of Louisiana, shall be nomi
nated by the demo rats for congress, so as to
command the confidence and support of the
large iimn or of people directly and indi
rectly engaged in the sugar interests of Loui
siana. there is great danger that many of the
people will be led off afie.’ strange political
gods.
The Sugar Fight in Louisiana.
From Springfield (Mass.) Republican (Ind.).
Democratic leaders in Louisiana are giving
, the i oltlng sugar planters to understand that
if they go into the Republican party they
must expect no favors for their industry from
the democrats. Congressman Price oi the
Third Louisiana district says that the ques
tion ft>r these bolters to consider is how* to
save the toper cent protection they now have.
The republicans are on record in favor ot free
sugar, and ihe democrats do not feel inclined
to protect men who have deserted them.
Senator CulTery Who has gone to Louisiana
to take part in the campaign, is talking in the
same wav. and telling h; bolters that they
arc doing "irreparable damage to the sugar
industry.
The Negro a Free-trader.
From the Baltimore Sun (Dcm ).
Mr. Frederick Douglas fancies the negro
should remain in the Republican party, de
spiTe the fact that all the negro’s interest
lies with the party opposed to protection. An
African protectionist is an absurdity, seeing
that all Africans in ibis country at o consum
ers of manufactured products and few or none
of them are engaged in manufacturing indus
tries. They are, in fact, excluded from work
in most protected industries. The republican
policy of putting up prices of manufactures
by excluding foreign competition has nothing
in it for the n* gro He pays out on ull he
buys and gets nulling back. Free trade is
the policy tiro negro would everywhere favor
if he voted for his interests.
Benator Hill’s Famous Epigram*
From the New York Hot aid (Ind.).
The “I am a democrat of David B. Hill is
older thatr the famous Brooklyn meeting of
nine years ago. after which the epigram rang
through the democracy of tho null* n It game
from his lips when be was a coy. He hud
left the mortgaged farm outside of Elmira,
with which his mother was struggling, with
just fs in his pocket. He was only 11 years old
then, but he told her he was delei mined to do
something for her and for himself He went
to Syracuse, ran against Dean Richmond,
then president of the NYw York Central rigid,
asked for work and was allowed to sell
candy and newspapers on the trains between
Albany and Buffalo. He met Lucius Robin
son. afterward governor, one day on the train
Mr. Robinson Kicked* because David didn't
have a copy of u New York morning newspa
per. Thereupon the youthful Hill replied- T
wouldn't hill it to you. anvway. im matter
what you'd give me. lam n democrat” Hill
afterward in ante office boy iu Robinson s
law office iu Eludru.
Gave the Wrong Tract.
An amusing story is told, says the Philadel
phia Record, of a West Walnut street young
woman who. having read ?*trange tales of
slumming in London, determined to visit
Philadelphia's own very tough slum district
and see what life there was like. Asa sort of
preliminary she supplied herself with a num
ber of tracts having a vague idea that the
benighted residents there were in need of
spiritual instruction. Hoarding a Seventh
street car she got off at Bainrridge, and to
the first man she saw. wrhowas leaning id 1/
acaii.st a lamp post, she very politely handed
one of the tracts. He took it good-naturedly,
and after glancing at it returned it with the
smiling remark that he was a married man.
Greatly mystified by this expression she
looked at the tract, and saw that it was
entitled "Abide With Me." She took the
next car home, vowing vengeance against
tracts and slumming.
He. Had Worked Her for Gas.
A little man with a bald head and an in
offensive blue eye drifted into a main street
saioon and threw a half dollar on the bar.
"Gimme a schooner of teer." he said.
"I he schooner was given to him. Just as he
was about to drink it, a big man came in and
said;
"Hello. Shorty, who’s buying?”
‘ i am.” said Shorty, with dignity.
••You.” stoned the rig man. "why. you
never had a cent in your life. Your wife gets
your wages."
"1 hat’s all right.” said Shor*y. ‘ mebbe she
does, but I’ve get money to-day.”
• Mow’d you get It ?"
"Well,” replied Shorty. "I don't know as I
mind teiiin'. 1 had a couple of oad :e?th and
she gimme enough to get eii pulled."
••Didn’t you get 'em pulled '”
Sure, but I worked her for .oO cents for gas,
an' this is the 50. r*ee.”
Respect for the Dead.
He in a bar room chair deal. The idlers
and the curios ogled him and asked how he
died, but the barkeepers could tell nothing,
for the object in the chair had sat down and
dropped asleep. How or when sleep ended
and death began none could tell. I he transfer
was made as quickly as darkness follows
light. The undertaker had been sent for and
the corpse sitting in the chair hud the atti
tude of the rest of the crowd that lazi y
awaited his coming. During life the man
was a mechanic, but poor health had led him
to liiiuk. drink robced him of his little
strength and made him unfit for any kind o.'
work. Idleness invited him to saloons, and
from one to another he drifted until charita
ble death took him in. lie was penniless.
'1 he undertaker carried his box in. opened it
on the floor, raised the man's head and stop
ped.
‘ He's not worth a cent,” he said in a mat
ter cf fact tone: "if we bury him we don't get
any pay. We’ve done it before in that fam
ily.”
He looke 1 around, but no one volunteered
to pay.
it’s business, you know,” said the under
trk r again. Re s not worth a cent.”
An insurance agent looked in. Said he:
” Well, he was not worth a cent as long as he
lived, but that l oiy is good lor now.”
• Oh. ho! That’s different,” quoth the under
taker. as he placed the body in the box,
gently holding the bands and straightening
the doubled up limbs with astonishing ten
derness.
" Yes. yes.” he repeated, screwing down the
lid; "that's the difference, you know—that s
the difference between the quick and the
dead.”
The Hawk Xnrw Him.
“1 don't know that the ancient sport of fal
conry has ever been in vogue in this country,”
said Capt. L. K. Metcalf of Montreal to the
M. Louis Globe Democrat. "It is rather odd.
considering how fond many Americans are of
copying everthing that is done on the other
side of the water.
"When 1 was in England several years ago
I obtained possession oi a peregrine hawk,
which i brought with me on my return home.
During the voyage across the Atlantic it was
my custom to allow the bird the use of its
wings every day, taking care to give it a
hearty meal before hand, that it might t ot be
tempted to dart off after some passing sea
gull and lose sight of the ship. In spite or the
precaution, the bird was missing one day.
Night came on and still the haw k did not np
pear, and 1 made up my mind thut i would
never see my pet again. Soon after my ar
rival borne, n glancing over a Halifax paper.
I noticed a paragraph stating that the captain
of a fishing s hooner who resided at that point
had brought a fine hawk into port, which he
said had suddenly come aboard his vessel
during his late voyage. lat onco jumped to
the conclusion that it must 1 e my falcon and
lost no time in setting out for Halifax to in
vestigate. On finding the captain who had
the bird, learned that he had no intention of
giving up his prize, saying that it was easy
for anv one to claim property, but it was
another thing to prove the ownership oi it.
"My object was to recover the hawk rather
than pick a quarrel with the pi/gnacious
sailor, so 1 curbed my anger and proposed to
settle the q jestion by experiment. To this
the captai iat last consented. 'lhe test was
this; 1 was to l o admitted to an interview
with the bird in the presence of witnesses.
Since in the possession of the captain, the
hawk had stood on its dignity and repelled
any attempts at familiarity: if now it should
show any signs of recognition toward me and
attachment, especially if it sho ild play with
the buttons on my coat, the captain was to
give up his claim.
The bitd was accordingly brought in. In
an instant she dashed at m.v shoulder, show
ing every sign of recognition and delight.
>he rubbed her head against my cheek, and
playfully champed the buttons on my coat
with h r beak. The wittnesses rendered a
verdict in my favor, and, to do him justice,
the cap ain willingly gave up his claim, and
I bore my pet homo in triumph.”
Tho Young Man Waited.
From the New York Sun.
In the room below the young man sat,
V\ ith an anxious face and a white cravat,
With a throb! ing heart and a silken hat,
And various other things like that,
Which he had uc M.mulated.
And the maid ot his heart was up above,
Surrounded by hat and gown and glove
And some thousand things thai women love
Hut no man knows the names thereof.
And the >OJng man sat, and waited.
You will scarce believe the things I tell,
Hut the tru.h thereof I know full well,
Though how mar not be stated.
Hut i swear to you that the maiden took
A sort of a half breed, thin stove hook
And heated \i well in the gaslight there
And thrust into her hea 1 or hair:
'1 h n she took a something off the bed
And hooked it onto he- hair, or hend;
Then she piled it higher and piled it higher
And drove it home with staples of wire.
And the young man anxiously—waited.
Then she took a thing she called a puff,
And some very peculiar, whitish stuff,
And. using about a half a peck.
She spread it over her face and neik
(Deceit was a thing she hated )
She looked as fair as the purest flower,
Or a pound of lard or a sack of dour,
And the young man wearily waited.
Then she took a garment of awful shape.
And it wasu t a waist, not yet a cape,
Hut it seemed like a pieie of ancient mail,
Or an instrument from a Russian jail;
And then with a fearful ggwn and gasp,
She squeezed herself in its deathly clasp.
So fair an l yet so fated'
And then with a move like I don't know what,
She ti‘d it on with a double knot.
And the young man wofully—waited
Then she put on a dozen different things.
A mixture of buttons and hooks and strings,
Till siu* strongly resembled a notion store;
Then taking some seventeen pins or more,
she thrust them into her ruby lips.
Then stuck them around from neck to hips,
And never once hesitated.
And the maiden didn't know perhaps
Ttiat the man ticlow had hail seven naps,
And that now he sleepily—waited.
And then she tried to put on her hat.
Ah mo: a trying ordeal was that,
she tipped it high and tried it Jow.
Hut every way that the thing would go
Only made her more agitated.
It would-i t go straight and it cluget her hair.
And she wished she could hire a man to swear,
Hut alas, the only man lingering there
Was the man who wildly -waited.
Anil then, before she could take her leave.
She had to pump up her monstrous sleeve;
Thun a little dab and a wee pat there,
And a touch or two to her hindmost hair;
Then around the room with the utmost care
She thoughtfully circulated.
Then she seized her gloves and a chamolse
skin.
Some breath-perfume and a long stick pin.
A bonbon box and u cloak and some
Kau de cologne and chewing gum,
llor opera glass anil a sealskin muff,
Alan and a heap of other stuff;
Then she hurried down, but ere she spoke,
Something about the maiden broke
So she scurried hack to toe winding stair,
And the young man looked in wild despair;
And thru he evaporated.
J. Lumimj V* Cooks.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
While Jabez Umph o? Kalamazoo was
milking his brindle cow she was struck by
lightning. Her horns, which were nerfetly
straight, became crumpled, and the pan of
milk turned sour. The day following the cow
yielded two or three quarts more milk than
usual. Jabez puts all the other cows out
now when a thunder storm comes up, in hope
that their milk production may be similarly
increased.
Some months ago Mayor Pingree of De
troit conceived the idea that it would be a
good plan to nlant the unimproved property
in the suburbs of that city with potatoes for
the benefit of the poor the coming winter.
The consent of the owners of the property
was readily obtained, ami a sul script ion
raised for ouyin : the seed and the expenses
of planting and cultivation, 'ihe exton
ment cost iii.OOO. and the crop now about to
be gathered, is estimated at not less than 15.-
000 bushels of potatoes, worth $9 000. The
plan worked admirably, except that the sub
scription raised was not sufficient to cover
the expenses. Tho mayor, however, is a man
of resources, and has hit on the plan of as
sessing the detic.t against the salaries of lh3
city officials. They all pav cheerfully, and
the more so. as the most of them hold office at
the mayor’s pleasure, 'ihe success of the plan
has set the people of the city ds
cussing a similar one which is to purchase a
large tract of land close to the city, and allot
small patches of it to the Indigent citizens,
that they may raise their own potatoes. It
is a capital scheme, provided the indigent
citizens can be pursuaded to work their
gardens, which, in many cases, would be
found hard to do. Most people who get down
far enough to be helped commonly prefer
that to helping themselves.
In an interesting article by Dr. William W.
Ireland of Edinburgh, in the Neurologist, on
the subject of insanity, he holds that persons
accustomed to mental cultivation and disci
pline have great advantage s in escaping from
the taints of insanity. He minks that mathe
matics is a very healthtul exercise of a dis
turbed mind. He quotes Bacon, who says,
"If u mans wits do winder, let him study
mathematics,for m demonstrations,if his wits
be called away ever so little, he must begin
again.” ihe learning of anew language. Dr.
Ireland says, has been found by experience
to engage the mind without fatiguing or
harassing it. The study of animated nature,
zoology and botany, with its illimitable fields
and its cultivation of the inceptive and re
ceptive faculties alike, and the opportunity it
gives for outdoor exercise, is a valuable
means of diversion tor a mind unhinged or
liable to become so. But we must not forget
that all men are not studious: the great ma
jority of men rather prefer pursuits which
bring them in direct contact and dealing with
the outer world. He who wishes to escape
the morbid current of his thoughts and fears
should select someone pursuit and involve
himself in action concerning it. Of all such
occupations known to us, gardening is the
most wholesome and engrossing. Gardening
gives exercise to the body and mind alike,
and though mainly an out of door puis lit, it
also gives some employment under cover.
A recent dispatch, says The Republic, con
tains a synopsis of an account of a battle be*
tween the two contending Oriental countries
as it appeared in the King-Pati. That same
King-i au (meaning "Capital Sheet”) is the
oldest newspaper published in the world,
its first issue appeared in the year 911 A. D.,
and it continued to be issued at regular
intervals for nearly 100 years. In the year
10-H) it was discontinued and did not again
come before • the reading public” of the
aimond-eyed kingdom until the year 1351.
since whit h time it has been printed weekly,
and on rice paper of uniform size. During
the whole of the present century it lias
regularly issued 3 daily edition, published
at noon, and selling for 2 "kesh.” Up to
June, 1882, its contents consisted wholly of
court news and council orders. When tho
company was reorganized on the date given,
arrangements wore made to issue three
editions each day, besides the weekly. The
early morning issue is called Ilsing-Pau
lousiness sheet), and contains
trade items, exchange quotations, and all
manner ot commercial intelligence.
Tiro • second tissue, the fehuen-Uuu (official
sheet), apptars near noon (printed on yellow
paper, same as the morning edition), arid con
tains official announcements, fashionable gos
sip. personal and general news, ibe evening
edition printed on red paper) is called the
'iitani-Pau (country sheet. It consists mainly
of extracts from the two earlier editions, and
is said to have a host of subscribers who live
as much as 2,(XX) miles from the place of pub
lication. as well as thousands in the country
provinces adjoining Pekin. Ail these Issues
of the King-Pau—for each edition bears the
original name in addition to its own special
title—are edited by six members of the na
tional Academy of Sciences, who are ap
pointed by the Chinese government and paid
out of the public treasury. The total number
of copies of the King-Pau printed uaily varies
from 13J.0UU to 140.C0T
In a rookery near Bristol it was noticed
that a particular pair of old birds continued
to visit their nests long after all other broods
had flown, says the London News. A man
climbed the tall elm and found a full-grown
rook so firmly held by some string in the lin
ing of the nest that it had no hope of escape.
Lowell reckoned among his immortal Gar
den Acquaintance” two blue jays which his
knife delivered from a similar captivity.
"The third, in its struggle to escape, had so
much harmed itself that 1 thought it hu
mane.” he says, to put an end to its misery.”
Sadder still is the fate that sometimes oefalls
a whole i rood of swallows or martins hatched
so late in the year that, when their parents
go, they are left behind to perisn miserably
in the forsaken nest, it is comforting to
reflect that their trail bodies could not long
hold out against the keen air of November.
By most birds the nest in occupied only
fora brief space in the year. It is more
of a nursery than living room. Yet the Span
ish proverb is not wholly true that "There
are no birds in last year's nest.” There are
a good many that use the same f.amework
year after year; repairing it no doubt, at
least rellning Tt; but it is the same nest. If
rooks do sometimes rebuild from the same
nest, it seems as if the majority were content
to repair what the storms had spared of their
oid tenements. House sparrows certainly
often use the old nest again, and some of
them probably inhabit the family mansion all
the year. Kingfishers have been known to
resort to the same hole in the bank for years
together. And there is a case on record in
which a hole was inhabited by a pair of king
fishers, or their descendants, for thirty years
at a stretch. The flycatcher, too. is very con
stant to her oli! haunts, and will come back
to the old spot and repair tlie old ties’ for
many successive years. We all know how
the swallow returns year after year to her
nest among the rafters; and ‘the martin
to her olu home beneath the eaves. >and
martins. too. come back without fail to
the bank of the river, and when they are od
served to oegin a fresh tunnel it is perhaps
m >re because the ol 1 quarters have been ren
dered untenable by swarms or fleas than from
any gr a hankering after a better view or a
drier situation. The most extraordinary case
of all probably is that of the blue tits which
built their nests in a bottle hung in a tree to
train, in a garden near Stockton-on-Tees, in
the year 1785. r \ heir tenantcy, or that of their
descendants laded, with two short interwils
only, for close on to ninety years. But many
birds, tho majority, no doubt, have no such
dwelling to resort to. and in these hard times,
when darkness begins to settle down over the
landscape, are fain to creep away into the
shelter of ivy and evergreens, into roofs and
stacks and hollow trees. But even those that
make no nest at all entne back year after
year to the same spot, to the same solitary
l orner of the upland pasture, the same ledge
of rock, tho sum** stretch of shelterless
shingle. 'J he ringed plover will stay all the I
year within cry or the beach where, just
atove high watermark, she will lav her four
great eggs in a little hollow among the peb
bles.
Awarded
Highest Honors—World’s Fair. 1
DU*
CREAM^
POftWR
MOST PERFECT MADE.
A pure Grape Cream of Tartar Powder. Frjg
hum Ammonia, Alum or any other adultcrant.
40 YEARS THE STANDARD. ,
LEOPOLD ADLEK.
SAVANNAH’S
Dress Goods
HEADQUARTERS
Presents the follow
ing:
At Only 35c per yard—
-50 pieces all-wool
38-inch Serge.
At Only 49c per yard—
-54-inch Flannel Suit
ings, the finest ever
brought to the city.
At Only 75c per yard
-37 pieces 54-inch
Covert Cloth, the
like of which has
never been seen be
fore for this price.
At Only 49c per yard—
-19 pieces of Mixed
and Checked Chev
iots that are cheap
at 75c.
LEOPOLD ADLER.
Grana liiw opii
On Monday
and Tuesday,
Oct. 8 and 9,
when we will make an
exquisite display of
Stylish Millinery, em
bracing complete lines
of Bonnets, Round
Hats, Toques, Tur
bans. The choicest
models from abroad as
well as some dainty
creations from our
own work rooms.
DANIEL KOGAN.
11l HI
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.
60c a yard Figured China Silks,
cut from 75c, 80c and 85c.
50c yard Plain Biask China Silk,
formerly 65c.
75c a yard Siriped Black Silk
Grenadines, the quality sold in the
early part ot the season a! $1.25
and $1.50.
45c a yard 40-inch A't-wool
Black French Nun’s Veiling, for
merly 60c yard.
EiMiidi Retells
In fine Mi Get
12 1 -2c a yard Fins 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 Foils
Parisienne, formerly 45c a yard.
30c a yard Plain Black Mouseline
del Inda, reduced from 50c yard.
12 1-2 c Scotch Ginghams, actual
value 25c and 30c.
15c yard French Zephyrs, former
ly 25c and 30q.
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 ot making
room for our tali stock.
All Linen Napkins $1 per dozen,
M/err
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, Towels and Toweling at
* equally low prices.
DAHIEI HOGAN.
_____ forjjals^^^
TERNE PLATES.
We offer the followinK brands imports' l
Terne Plates: “Worcester," "Lily," "S. 1 ;
L." "D. K. I>." and "J. O." Our prices will
te REDUCED I: box Oct. 1.
C. M. GILBERT & CO.,
IMPORTERS.
OLD NEWSPAPERS. 200 for cent*. l
Utumess Ofilee Morula* New*