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The State Election.
In the election in this state yesterday
the democratic ticket did not receive as
large a majority as it was estimated it
would, and not as large as the majority
the democratic ticket received two
years ago. One reason for this is that
the vote was lighter in many coun
ties, and another reason is that in
quite a number of counties there was con
siderable hostility to Mr. Atkinson.
During his compaign with Gen. Evans for
the nomination some remarks were at
tributed to him, relative to the confeder
ate veterans and the Methodist church,
which probably caused him to lose a good
many votes.
The populists, howover, do not appear
to have increased their strength in the
counties in which they were strong at the
last state election. In fact, in the Tenth
congressional district, the district in
which Mr. Watson is a candidate for con
gress, the vote in some of the counties is
considerably less than it was two years
ago. While, therefore, the democrats re
gret they did not succeed better in get
ting out their vote, the populists have no
reason to rejoice.
It is worthy of notice that in the south
ern part of the state, where the news
papers have stood squarely on the
national democratic platform and favored
sound money, the counties have given
their old time democratic majorities,
while in the northern part, where demo
crats have advocated the free coinage of
silver, the populists received the bulk of
their vote. It is probable, however, that
the populists have polled as large a vote
in this state as they ever will. With the
increase of prosperity, populism will de
cline. It thrives on hard times.
It is gratifying that the campaign and
the election passed off with so little fric
tion.
If the Washington correspondents are
to be relied upon and they somehow
have a way of telling pretty straight
stories as a general thing the arrest of
Gpt. Howgate, the defaulting chief of
the weather bureau, may lead to some
sensational exposures involving men in
high official life, including two or three
senators, several representatives and
several officers of the army and navy.
Capt. Howgate was an officer in the regu
lar army, and while in charge of the
weather bureau embezzled something
like S37O,(MX). In 1880 he ran away. But,
according to the story, ho didn’t run far.
It is alleged that he stojqied within
nioety-six miles of Washington, and that
news of his whereabouts was offered to
the treasury department and by it re
fused. Howgate is a relic of the Hayes
administration.
The concurrent meeting of the British
and French cabinets, referred to in our
dispatches this morning, may mean that
the two countries wish to settle the Mad
agascar question, and then again it may
mean something else. A second cable
says England is getting ready to send her
Indian troops further east, presumably j
in the direction of the scat of I
war in Korea and Manehooria, and it
may be that England wishes to know pre
cisely what France would do in the event
of England’s taking a hand in the eastern
affair. France and England are both in
terested in China s coming out ahead in
the w ar. and they may think it time to
call a halt upon Japan's successes.
It would be entirely proper for the Geor
gia legislature, in anticipation of Us elec
tion of a senator, to invite all of the can
didates to address it in explanation of
their positions on public questions. There
will ha enough unpledged representatives
and senators in the legislature to pass a
resolution inviting such addresses, and
they could vote more intelligently after
hearing from each of thg candidates.
The New Tariff at Work.
One of the few protectionist news
papers in ihe south is the Birmingham
• Age-Herald. It has not been a very
great while since the Ape-Herald was
| iift-eighing against tariff reductions, on
the ground that such reductions would
! injure, or ruin, the coal and iron indus
tries of Alabama. Nevertheless, the
tariff reform bill was passed, and its
operations, according to the Age-Herald's
own testimony, are in the direction of
building up the very industries for which
the paper felt so much solicitude.
! From an editorial in a recent issue of
the Ape-Herald it is learned that coal
from Birmingham has been shipiied to
Cuba "and sold under the coal from any
other country. - ’ The competition of
West Indian coal was one of the bugbears
that the protectionists brought out to
frighten the tariff reformers out of put
ting coal on the free list; yet we have it
that Birmingham coal is being sold
in Cuba cheaper than the coal of any
other country.
The shipment of Birmingham coal to
Cuba has been profitable, says the Age-
Herald, because of the shipping rates.
Vessels could not get return cargoes, be
cause the McKinley tariff made it un
profitable to send Cuban poods to this
country, hence high freights on the coal
had to be charged. But now that the
McKinley law has been repealed and a
commerce-emancipating law substituted,
it becomes profitable to bring bark car
goes from Cuba, and the rate on coal has
gone down. .Already," says our contemp
orary, “Birmingham capitalists have been
quick to see this advantage, and are now
perfecting arrangements to establish a
line of steamers between Mobile and
Cuba. The Southern Railway Company
is interested with them, and will utilize
its leased line, the Birmingham and Mo
bile railroad, which runs through the
heart of the coal fields.”
This is a practical illustration of the
democratic tariff policy in operation.
Opening the doors to Cuban imports also
opens the door to Alabama exports,
widens Alabama's field of trade, makes
more work for her workingmen, leads to
the establishing of anew American
steamship line, and makes business where
the old law suppressed business.
British and American Incomes.
The British parliamentary returns
showing the number of persons assessed
for the income tax in the united kingdom
offer an opportunity for the making of
some interesting comparisons of incomes
in Great Britain and the United States.
A tabulation of American incomes made
some time ago by Mr. Thomas G. Sher
man, and which is regarded as authorita
tive, may be taken as the source of the
data to be set up against the English
official returns.
From these authorities, it appears that
in Great Britain there are only 250,000
suojects of the queen who confess to an
income of over *l,OOO a year derived from
trades or professions. The whole number
of persons who have an income of
*l,OOO or over from any
source is set down at about
2,000,000, or 1 in 19 of the population.
These are the people who pay the income
tax. In this country Mr. Shearman esti
mates there are 85,000 persons having in
comes of $4,000 and over, and these are
they who must pay the income tax. In
Great Britain there are 123,000 familes,
aggregating 615,000 persons, that have a
family income of *1,500 a year or over.
In the United States there are are 400,-
000 families, aggregating 2,000,000 persons,
that have a family incomo of $2,000 a
year. Not only is the level of incomes
higher in this country, but the number of
persons enjoying them is much greater.
in Great Britain there are 5,000 faini
only lies that have incomes of over $25,000
aiyear. In this country there are more than
10,000 families having incomes as largo.
The mass of English working people live
on an income of less than *750 a year per
family. In the United States the family
income of the corresponding class is
higher.
The conclusion to bo drawn is that
wealth is better distributed in this coun
try than in Great Britain, notwithstand
ing the effect of republican legislation has
been to create great trusts and mono|K>-
lies and to concentrate wealth in a few
hands. The purpose of the Democratic
party is to smash those trusts; and when
that is done the distribution of wealth
will go through proper channels, to the
advantage of the masses.
An Overloaded Election.
The New York voter who at the ap
proaching election casts his ballot intel
ligently will have accomplished a re
markable result. For there are so many
questions and candidates to be voted for,
and so much red tape to be observed in
the process of voting, that the ballot as a
whole will present a complex problem de
manding a high order of intelligence for
its solution.
In New York city, there are to be voted
for in November a governor, lieutenant
governor and Judge of the court of ap
peals; congressmen, members of the
legislature, a mayor, a rot-order, two
judges of the city court, a president of
the board of aldermen,and members of the
board of aldermen. Besides, there will
be voted upon thirty amendments to the
state constitution, a rapid transit scheme
and a proposition to consolidate New
York and Brooklyn.
Taken together, this mass of public
questions is enough to confuse the aver
age voter. Added to the difficulty of
separating each issue and express
ing an intelligent opinion upon it.
will be the trouble of marking that
opinion upon the blanket ballot in such
a manner that the vote will be counted
on the side the voter intends it to be. In
the Maine election the other day an ex
governor and an ex-judge lost their bal
lots because they failed to mark them
correctly, notwithstanding the ballots
they marked did not contain one-fourth
of the number of names and measures
that will be on the New York ballots.
It looks as if it would bo necessary for
the Now York |>oliticians to open night
schools for the instruction of voters in
the art of balloting; and even with that
expedient the percentage of voters who
vote intelligently u|>on all the questions
presented would probably be very small.
Now that the state election is out of the
way, the senatorial contest will loom
up bigger than ever. And Mr. Turner is
hi ad and shoulders above all of the other
candidates.
THE MORNING NEWS: THURSDAY, OCTOBER!, 1894.
The Movement Is Forward.
The tendency of the modern system of
industrialism is not towards making the
rich richer and the poor poorer, and
crushing out the middle class ; and those
who strive to overthrow the existing sys
tem are laboring to the end of destroying
their main practical chance of becoming,
as a class, more prosperous. These are
the conclusions reached by Mr. W. H.
Mallock, after studying modern indus
: trialism. Lod set forth in an article in
the North American Review for Septem
ber under the title, “The Significance of
Modern Poverty.”
Henry George and the socialists—and,
it may be added, tbe populists—Judge the
relation of poverty to progress by the ab
solute amount of poverty and not the
relative amount of it. They see a village
of vkio people containing twenty-five pau
pers grow to be a city of 50,000 contain
ing 1,000 paupers, and they cry out that
the modern system of industrialism has
made 1.000 paupers where only twenty
five existed before. They look only at
the fact that the aggregate number of
paupqrs has increased forty fold, and
lose sight altogether of the fact that the
proportionate amount of pauperism has
decreased one half.
So far from the tendency of the times
being towards tbe centralization of
wealth in the hands of a few, the tendency
is actually in the opposite direction. In
England the fortunes of the rich are dis
tinctly, if not greatly, decreasing; per
sons with incomes of £l5O to £I,OOO a
year are increasing faster than any other
class, while, so far as concerns the in
crease of the individual income, the aver
age increase has been greatest among the
wage earning masses. That this is true
of England is proved by cold statistics
complied by Mr. Giffen. statistical secre
tary of the British board of trade, whose
figures are accepted as authority by the
socialists themselves.
Mr. Giffen is quoted as saying, in con
nection with the statistics; “It would not
be far short of the mark to say that the
whole of the material improvement of the
past fifty years has gone to the masses. - ’
The masses not ouly receive as a whole
larger incomes, but their incomes procure
them more comforts and luxuries; they
inhabit better houses, wear better
clothes, consume per head an increasing
quantity of butter, tea, sugar, etc. And
they sjiend more and more money for
amusements. In the last ten years the
number of public performers who cater
to the amusement of the poorer classes in
Europe increased as much as 80 per cent.
Inasmuch as the systems of industrial
ism in England and America are virtually
identical, Mr. Mallock holds that what
is true of tile situation in that country is
true of the situation in this country also.
The improvement in the wages of work
ers has been continuous. The progress,
however, is not like the flowing of a river,
steadily and in one direction, but rather
like the incoming of the tide—continuous
in its general direction but varied by tem
porary retrogressions. Wages which dur
ing one period of ten years may have ad
vanced 40 per cent., may at the beginning
of the next decade decline 20 percent.,
and several years elapse before they rise
above or even reach their former level;
and the discontent and even suffering
caused by such a decline are sure to be
more apparent than the satisfaction that
was caused by the increase. Thus the
delusion that growing poverty is a result
of modern progress is produced not only
by the fact that poverty still exists
among a small minority of the popu
lation, but also by many incidents in
the history of the majority themselves,
who are reaping the benefits of progress.
Mr. Mallock calculates that eleven
twelfths of the population share in what
ever progress is made and prosperity en
joyed. and that about one-half of the re
maining twelfth remain destitute amid
riches. This residuum of unfortu
nates should be the subjects of our so
licitude and the recipients of our
largess. But it is manifestly fool
ish to talk about upsetting the
basis of the prosperity of the over
whelming majority in order to make an
experiment towards bettering the con
dition of the comparatively few unfortu
nates.
The Midway Plaisance at Fairs.
The Chicago exposition appears to have
had a demoralizing effect upon county
fairs. The Midway Plaisance feature of
it was an extraordinarily attractive one—
so attractive, in fact, that in different
parts of the country the managers of
county fairs aro advertising Midway
Plaisance attractions, and it is regrettable
that some of these attractions are not of
a very high moral standard. At the re
cent county fair in Dutchess county, New
York, one of the advertised attractions
was alleged Nauteh dancing girls.
Women were not admitted to the exhibi
tion, which fact is good evidence of its
objectionable character.
It is noticeable that in the advertised
list of attractions of county fairs in this
and other states are to be found alleged
features of the Midway Plaisance that
was so famous at Chicago, and, in some
instances, the worst features. This cer
tainly is not a development in the right
direction. Nothing should be exhibited
at county fairs that does not tend to
benefit or improve the people in some
direction.
County fairs are places where men take
their families, and the tone of them
should be elovating. When thero are side
shows or exhibitions advertised from
which women and children are excluded,
it is pretty safe to conclude that there are
men in control of the fairs who would
willingly lower the standard of the moral
ity of a community for the sake of a few
dollars. Clean side shows and exhibitons
that are not connected with the products
of the farm, garden aud household are
well enough at county fairs. They help
to amuse people who see little of the out
side of their farms, and brighten their
lives, but there is no excuse for introduc
ing at county fairs the worst features
of the Midway Plaisance.
Cyclonic disturbances are hardly looked
for in the Mississippi vaUey at this sea
son of the year. From August to Novem
ber is the season of "West India hurri
canes” that sweep up the Atlantic coast
and terrorize the South Atlantic slates.
After November there comes along a sea
son of "Texas cyclones” that usually go
up the Mississippi valley. Whether the
storm that did so much damage in the
Mississippi valley day before yesterday
was a West India hurricane out of its
latitude, or a Texas cyclone out of its
season is not apparent. But it was de
structive enough to be either, or both.
The people of New York did some tax
paying extraordinary on Tuesday. Within
one hour the sum of f4.uuu.ooo was raid
into the treasury, and the total payments
for the day was something like $5,000,000.
Under the law a re Date of ♦’* per rent, is
allowed to those who pay between Oet. 1
and Dec. 15. and the bi£ corporations and
extensive property owners sent in their
checks promptly in order to save the re
bate.
Col. John A. Cockerill has
the editorial management of the New
York Advertiser. He will remain in jour
nalism, however. It is to be hoped that
in future his efforts will be devoted to
higher than the attempts to
pull down tbe south that have character
ized the Advertiser under his manage
ment.
PERSONAL.
Thomas O. Bosrps wt.o aeted aa guide to
Gen. Fremont, the Pathfinder,” and served
as a scout for Gen. Scott in the Mexican war,
diet last week in New M xkd, wher* % n®
wen: in 1&45 with the first party that travelled
overland to California Uncle Tom,” as he
was called was a hrother-in-’aw. and for
years the companion ot the famous Kit Car
con.
The new postoffice at Omaha is partially
built on land owned by Mrs. Cleveland, for
which the government paid *60.000. Mrs.
Cleveland has other property in the same
neighborhood worth abiut *50.0<0 These
lots she. inherited from he* uncle. Ben Fol
som who went out to Nebraska as a monccr
early in the ’6os, and whose ‘ grub stake was
furnished by the father of the President's
wife.
A celibate order of laymen, called the ‘corn
munitj of the Brothers of the Church.” was
instituted by Bishop Potter at the Protestant
Episcopal church of S: Chrysostom. New
York, on Saturday. The founder of the order
and first member is Ku**>eli Whitcomb, who
will henceforth be known as B other Hugh.
The main object in view is to look after the
Interests of young men and boys until they
become settled down m t usiness.
William E Moultrie of Saratoga. Santa
Clara county, California, claims the distinc
tion of having been the first child born of
American parents in that state. His father
and mother were Missourians, who journeyed
across the plains in 1*4(5 in company with the
Bonner party, from whit h they separated in
time to escape its fate. They settled in what
is now known as Santa i lara county, where
Moultrie was born. Nov. 11. 1847.
In his interesting paper on Lord Chief Jus
tice Coleridge Lord Russell tells an inter
esting story of Coieridge s visit to the
l nited States. An American who had been
boring him with exaggerated praise of all
things American said lam told, my lord,
that you think a great deal of what vou < all
your great fire of London Well, I guess the
conflagration we had in the little village of
Chicago made your great, tire look very
small.” To which his lordship, grown weary
of the bragging, responded blandly: Sir. I
have every reason to believe that the great
fire of London was quite as great as the peo
ple at that time desired.”
BRIGHT BITS.
“Just think of it.” said the enthusiastic
sporting man. ‘ Fitzsimmons andCreedon ac
tually went into the ring, and the fight wasn't
declared a draw.
“Yes ” replied Mr. Hasbln Swift, with a
sigh. Pugilism ain’t what it used to be.”—
Washington Star.
Bobby—l forgot to say ray pravers last
night.
Fond Parent—That was very w rong, Bobby.
Supposing [ should forget your breakfast
some morning.
Bobby (cheerfully)—'Twouldn't make much
difference. I shouldn't forget about it.—Har
per's Bazar.
Mrs. Hightone—lt must be so comforting to
near such good reports from your daughter
at Yassar.
Mrs. Malaprop—Tes. Emily is a bright
girl and lam very proud of her. Only yes
terday she said in her letter that she could
surely wear glasses by the end of the year.
--Harper s Ba/.ar.
Tramp—About a year ago I came bv and
you gave me an old ’vest. You maj> not
know it, madam, but there was a dollar bill
in that vest.
Lady of the House—Mercy! Have vou
brought it back?
Tramp—Not much! I've come for another
vest.—Clothier and Furnisher.
Clara—Oh. you need not deny it. Effio! My
ears do not deceive me. Someone kissed you
In the garden last night.
Zolla -And with your ideas of propriety,
too. 1 should think you would be ashamed of
yourself.
Efile—l wouldn't preach, girls, if I were
you. Neither of you objects to some men
kissing you.
Clara—Oh, but that's quite a different
thing: and. besides, 1 only let my fiance kiss
me.
EWe—Why. then, it’s quite the same thing,
ror it was yo ir fiance who kissed me.- Truth.
CURRENT COMMENT.
Mr. Turner Is Right.
From Charleston News and Courier (Pcm.).
Mr. Ilenry G. Turner, who is running lor
United States senator from Georgia, made a
forcible speech in Savannah on Monday
night. The larger part of it was taken up
with a discussion of the silver question, and
on this question, as on the question of the
tariff, Mr. Turner is sound to the core. He is
in favor of honest money, and therefore he is
very strong in Savannah, where true com
mercial principles prevail. We do not know
how Mr. Turner’s views will be received in
other parts of the state, where th? fre? silver
been assiduously cultivated, but
wherever the influence of the Savannah
Nrws reaches we are sure that he will lead
in the race for .‘onator. But whether he is
elected or not he will have the satisfaction of
knowing that he is. right, and it will add
greatly to the credit of Georgia to have e\en
one politician of whom it can be said that he
would rather be right than have an office.
The Long--Headed Japanese.
From the Philadelphia Ledger (Dera ).
The Japanese scheme of dividing China
into three independent kingdoms, each to be
ruled by a native prince, is an ingenious one.
Ihe attempts of the three princes to do each
other up would probably relieve Japan of any
furthersubjugatory efforts in China.
Separate Elections in the South.
From the New York Pos Kind.).
The southern states have had a special mo
tive forseparate elections in the desire to re
move the voting for state officers from possi
ble interference l y federal officials servtng
under the election laivs at the same polls
where the people vote for congressmen and
presidential electors. Now that these laws
have been repealed, the evpen.se of an extra
election is likely to incline the people to
abolish the system and fall in with the pre
vailing tendency.
McKinley’s Idea of Patriotism.
From the Chicago Herald (Dem.).
Gov. McKinley commends the desertion of
the Louisiana sugar planters from the Demo
cratic party as a •patriotic movement.”
W heu It is recalled that these planters left
the Democratic party because a democratic
congress refused to sanction a law which
took millions of dollars annually fiorn the
rest of the people of this c mntry for their
benefit is is easy to understand what would
be Gov. McKinley s definition of patriotism.
In Uie protectionist lexicon the word patriot
will henceforth be defined meaning a man
who believes it is right to rob all the people
for the benefit of a few people.
A Broad-Minded Ex-Confederate.*
From the Washington Post <lnd.).
Hon. Joseph 1). Sayers, chairman of the
House omuiittee on appropriations, was a
confederate soldier. Ho fought for what he
believed to be the right, and lie fought hard
His bravery involved him in one j articular
battle in which he received wounds, tue effect
of which he carries to this late day. How
ever. Mr. Sayers quit lighting Just as soon as
H* l ' war closed, 'the Post knows this purtlc
ular TANARUS xun to lea gentleman Incapatoe of
making unkind remarks of the worthy ien-
Niouersof country, and the parii-an news
papers which attribute such sentiments to
hlmdoagruve injustice. It would be to th >
advantage of the pensioners if the r interests
were In the hands of 4 11 an of Mr. Sayers
sense of honor and patriotism rather than
being buffeted about by Vote manipulating
demagogue*.
Anecdotes of Bishop Tbirlw&ll.
Bishop Thirlwail. an English prelate, was
silent by nature and by habit, says the Chi
cago Post. He had the greatest possible
aversion to answering questions, and was
scarcely ever betrayed into giving a definite
reply. (ne day a tailor said to him when he
had been summoned to take the Bishop's
measurements
What are your lordship's orders?”
' I want a suit of clothes ”
• Here is a very nice cloth my lord.**
"Ah’ ’
‘And this is likewise a very good one.”
“Yes.’ -
‘Here is another—o( excellent quality.”
"Very.”
V\ mch material will your lordship decide
upon?"
' I want a suit of clothes!"
And that was all the answer the tailor could
get.
When the new gardner accosted him as he
was walking, hook in hand, in the garden, to
ask "How will vour lordship have this bor
der laid out " there was no answer. How
will your lordship be pleased to have the
border laid out:” was the next attempt,
still there was no reply, but when the ques
tion was repeated for the third time the an
swer came:
"You are the gardener, I believe, and I am
the bishop
Yet the bishop could speak when it became
necessary on more weighty matters. A cler
gyman had asked permission to hold two liv
ings. which, he argued, was the prescribed
distance apart. He unrolled a map and meas
ured the distance, saying conclusively: "You
sep. my lord, they are witain three miles, as
the crow dies. - ’
"Yes. " he replied, "as the crow flies. I see
that plainly enough. But you know you're
not a crow, and you can’t fly. By the turnpike
road it’s a good four miles, and I cannot per
mit you to hold two livings. ”
He Drew .gn the Sultan.
A large operator and speculator of St Louis
whose account with one friendly bank had
often been temporarily overdrawn, wanted
flii.OOO or,ce lor a certain deal, his balance in
1 ank at the time being less than SIOO, says the
San Francis, o .Argonaut.
The cashier suggested that he should draw
upon some party not too near St. Louis.
Smith said he did not know whom to draw
upon.
- o. any one." said the obliging cashier, "as
long us the parly is far enough away—that
will give you time to turn around."
Smith drew at sight for SIO,OOO on the Sul
tan of Turkey. Ihe draft was duly forwarded
by the bank, reached New York, whence it
was sent to a London correspondent.
It then came into the hands of the Roths
childs. who forwarded it to their Constanti
nople branch, where it was duly presented
for payment to the sultan's chamberlain, the
latter bringing it to his highness.
"Who is this John Smith’?" said the sul
tan.
Don't know," replied the chamberlain.
"I'o we owe him anything?”
"No." replied the other.
"Then 1 11 not pay it,’" replied his high
mightiness.
‘"One moment, if I might advise." said the
astuto counsellor, "this draft tomes through
the Eothschilds, with whom you arc seeking
a*2 000.0,0 loan. Would it be safe, under the
circumstances, to dishonor it?"
"Fay it." said the sultan, and it was paid,
and no one was more astonished than John
Smith of St. Louis, and the quickwitted
cashier.
Bald Just the Same.
“No wonder we get bald while we are
young, "remarked Hopkins to a group of
friends who bad met.in the office of one of
their number, says the Detroit Free Press.
There's Whittaker"—pointing to a man at a
desk—"l'll oet his hat hasn't been oft his
head to day. ”
"That's right." said Whittaker cheerfully.
"I put it on at 7 o'clock when I left Dome this
morning and ate my lunch down town with it
on. and it s beginning to feel as if it had a
brick in it. too,”
‘ "Why do you wear it in the office?” asked
one of the t oys.
"Habit, that s all. I feel more at home
with it on. However. 1 might as well take it
ofl now and gi' e my head a rest.”
He removed it suddenly and a batch of let
ters fell to the floor. He stared at them a
moment as if he could not quite comprehend
what they were doing there ; v t hen he laughed,
but rather faintly
My wife gave me them to mail this morn
ing. They are to inilte some of her la ly
friends to a o o clock tea. or something to
morrow afternoon. Say. boys. 11l put a
special delivery stamp on each blessed one
and they'll be in time."
' You'll bo bald just the same, old boy,”
said iiopklns malicious y.
Divorced the Wrong Woman.
A good story is now being told at the ex
pense ct a well known Louisville lawyer, says
the Louisville Post. It runs thus: Two wo
men applied to the lawyer on the same day.
One wanted to be made a lemme sole, the
other wanted a divorce. By some hocus
pocus sort of a change, the names of the wo
men were mixed, and the woman who wanted
to be empowered lo act as a single woman
was granted a divorce, and vice versa.
It happt ned that the husband of Ihe woman
who wanted to he made a femme sole was a
drummer, and in reading the paper from
Louisville, while he was in Texas, he saw
where his wife had been granted a divorce.
She knew nothing of the matter until her hus
band wrote home and wanted to kno.v what
was the matter, and wbat he had done that
she had gotten a divorce. He said he had
transferred all his property to her and did
not know how to account for her strange ac
tions. Then she consulted her lawyer, and
the apparent mystery wa-ruade plain. She
only wanted to tie made a femme sole,
whereas she had hcon divorced.
humor has it that the Jjusuand has returned
from Texas and fully understands the cir
cumstances in the case, but Is afraid to visit
his own house until he undhis wife are re
married or the judgment of the court is set
aside.
Admiral Bailey’s Caution.
The late Admiral Bailey was once cited as
a witness in a civil lawsuit, an ordeal to
which he was totally unaccustomed, says an
exchange. His nautical friends cautioned
him to beware of the tiicks of the lawyers,
who were always intent upon making a wit:
ness contradict himself, and thus convict him
of being a liar and a perjurer. Nothing could
be more calculated to alarm the conscien
tious old salt than the prospect of having his
word questioned. At last he was called to the
stand, the Itrst question asked, after being
sworn, was:
What is your name?"
Here was a matter for deep reflection. He
carefully weighed every consideration in his
mind, and was seemingly lost in abstraction
until the question was repeated, sharply and
incisively:
• What is your name, sir?"
There was no more time allowed for reffsc
tion. and the answer was jerked out of him:
"The o-do-rus Bailey or words to that ef
fect."
And he added, after a long breath: "If
that's perjury, make the most of it. I won t
say another—word to criminate myself?"
The Smart Bo yWai There.
“Depend upon it children," said the indig
nant old gentleman who was addressing the
Sunday school, "we wore fashioned by a
wiser power than ourselves. There was no
mistuke made in putting us together, if our
hands were placed where our our feet are and
our feet w here our hauds are. how could we
get along? It would be exceedingly awkward,
children: exceedingly awkward. I stretch
my hand out this way. I move mv lingers
like this. Now. what is this an evidence of,
children?'’ There was no reply, says the
Chicago Tribune, and after waiting a moment
the speaker answered the question himself.
•It is an evidence of design. Don't forget
that, children.' he continued impressively,
"it is an evidence of design. Suppose, for in
stance, my eye, lns ead of having lids and
lashes, had legs, suppose my eve had legs.
How could 1 use them?" “You could use
them in running your eye over the congrega
tion, couldn't you?" replied a deeply-inter
ested little boy near the door.
He Nailed the Central Thought.
Into a Maine village where he had preached
when he was a licentiate with more hopes
than fame, there came a few Sundays ago an
elderly and prosperous doctor of divinity,
says the Lewiston Journal. After the morn
ing service sn old, white haired man ap
proached the doctor, and. holding out his
hand, said:
lad to see ye. I want to thunk ye for
what ye said this morning, and to tell ye that
ye preached a sermon here years ago I've
never forgotten."
Pleased by such remembrance the doctor
grasped the proffered hand heartily, and
said
By the way. what was that sermon? I
don't seem to remember.'
■ Well, answered the old man. "1 don't re
member the text nor 1 <lon t remember what
you t ailed the subject but the . entral thought
was that ibeologjr am t religion, no, uot by a
d—d tight!"
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
The skeleton of a prehistoric bird has been
found in a mound in Idaho. It must have
measured forty feet between the tips of the
wings during its life time.
The London Daily News says: “Is there
anything new? Our secretary of legation at
Peking writes; I hear of the existence in
Peking, as well as at Canton, of large and
ancient establishments for the artificial incu
bation of hens - and ducks eggs. As yet I
have not been able to visit and inspect
them.’ ”
Emperor William's action in reducing the
term of obligatory service in the German
army f*-om three to two years has had the un
expected effect of diminishing not only the
number of suicides, but also the average of
disciplinary pumshmen’s inflicted, invest!
cation has now shown that most of the sui
cides used to take pla e in the third year of
service with the c dors and that nearly all of
the more serious offenses against the regula
tions were committed oy third-year men.
Senora Donna Maria de Esposito, a whim
sical Mexican woman, has a pair of bracelets
made from the bodies of tiny green snakes,
which are very rare and of an exeeptionally
bnlliant hue. They are caught alive and as
phyxiated. after which their coloring is care
fully preserved by an embalming process.
Diamonds and sapphires are set in the eye
sockets and pointed rubies take the place of
the large fangs. The effect at night when
these ornaments are worn is said to be weird
and uncanny.
According to the reports just issued in Lon
don by the government board of trade it
would appear that the safest place where a
man can ne is in an express train on an Eng
lsh railroad. For not a single passenger ot
ail the 4C0.000.000 conveyed by rail during the
first six months of this year was killed while
traveling in the train. Considering that the
English lines are more crowded than any
others in the world and that the trains run
at a higher average of spied, this may be
considered as a marvelous record.
Dr. Harry C. Smith, surgeon at the Mis
souri, Kansas and Texas hospital, is in New
York with Fireman William Mine, who had
his lower jaw and tongue shot away in the at
tempted Missouri, Kansas and 'iexas ttain
robbery at lelsoe, I. T. An effort wilt be made
to secure for the injured man anew .aw and
for this purpose the most eminent surgeons
of New Vork will be consulted. The railway
company is doing everything in its power to
lessen the misfortune that befell its faithful
employe, and is paying him full salary.
The Westminster Gazette calls attention to
the fact, upon the authority of Consul General
Patrick Collins, that negroes are flocking to
England in great numbers The steamship
companies confirm Mr. Collins statements,
and add that nearly all the wealthy colored
folks aro sending their sons to study law,
medicine or art in London. Most of these
people are West Indian negroes and not Afro-
Americans. The wealthy Afro-Americans
send their sons to be educated at Harvard.
Y ale and Oberlin. and only in isolated cases
do they send them to Europe.
With reference to the rumor regarding the
running of Canadian Facific railway trains
out west by electric power obtained from the
water streams in the Rocky mountains, Sir
William Van Horne said; The scheme has
been suggested. There Is no doubt that it
could be dore, and be done well. The only
question of any importance is this: Can we
put out the necessary capital for the works,
and expect proper returns by wav of inter
est? We are considering that question, but
rather each director tor himself than as a
board. For myself, I don t mind saving at
once that I don’t see that the scheme is
financially practicable, certainly not at pres
ent."
It is possible to make paper out of nearly
anything, and the latest material suggested
is the stalk of the sunflower, says the Man
chester Courier. Some few weeks ago the ex
periment was tried at a factory in the Thames
\ alley, first with hammer and an anvil and
afterwards with re-ular paper making ma
cninery. In the letter instance some 5 0
pounds of pulp were tested, and they pro
duced al out 321) pounds of paper. The sub
stance, however, was of a coarse texture and
far better suited for wrapping up parcels
than for taking printer's ink. In fact, the
conclusion was that sunflower stalks are too
short in fibre to make a good paper without
the addition of some foreign material like
rags. What is more, the ingredient would
have to be nearly 50 per cent, of the whole
pulp Accordingly, sunflower paper hardly
seems practicable unless, indeed, its title
gave it a fancy value to the survivors of the
H-sthetic school. Unfortunately they have
become so reduced that the market would be
extremely limited.
The famous Colossus of Rhodes, which has
been described so often by gleaners of the
curious that Ihe subject is becoming thread
i.'Ore. vost 3i)o "talents," a sum equal to about
$3,0.000 in the United States currency savs
the St. Louis Republic. This sum is a trifle
however, when compared to the price paid
for a colossal statue of Mercury, which was
made for the Gaulish city of Averni by Zeno
dorus. Tbe artist was engaged upon this
great work tor ten long years, and the total
cost to the city would equal $1,775 000. What
the gold and ivory statue of Athena, in the
Parthenon, or the celebrated "Olympian
Zeus." both ot which were made by Phidias
cost is not stated by any of the ancient or
moiern authorities, but that it was enormous
may be inferred from statements made be
low: Athena was arrayed in drapery male of
pure hammered gold weighing forty talents.
The coin value of this wonderful drapery at
the United states mint to day would approxi
mate .i.uMO.uM). Of the Olympian Zeus it has
been said that "it was a monster idol of gold
and ivory worth more than tne cash assets of
many modern kingdoms.” The head of this
great image was covered with locks of pure
gold, each weighing six minae. or about the
value ot $25,000 in modern gold coin.
When pins were first invented, some time
during the third decade of the sixteenth cen
tury, it took one man a whole day to make
two dozen, the market price of the day's out
put being but 3 shillings, says the Me
chanic. Even as late as the present century
as lKtk one pin went through the hands of
twelve persens before it was finished and
folded away in the little sheet of paper of the
regulation green To-dav, however, every
thing is different in the pin factory, a single
machine turning out a stream of the little neat
ly polished, sharp pointed implements at the
rate of 200 per minute, day and night. This
wonderful little pin making automaton is not
larger than a sewing machine, but it has
more invisible knives, springs, sharpeners
and pinchers about it than a steam thresher
'ihe wire from which the pins are made is
coiled around a small drum attached to the
end of the machine, different sizes ot wire and
pinchers being used for the several
varieties of pins. The wire passes from
the drum into the machine through a small
hole provided for that purpose, being kept
straight and taut by a brake on the drum and
a series of iron pegs across the platform of
the machine. A queer little pair of pincors
(“catchers") seizes the wire and thrusts It
through a hole, where it is held while a small
hammer beats a head on the forward end of
tne wire Here it is held until a knife de
scends and cuts the wire in proper pin
length. Next it is allowed to drop into a
groove, through which the beads cannot
pass, and while being held in that position is
exposed to the action of a sn of small tiles
which almost instantly give it a smooth’
sharp point. The pin Is now finished ami
ready for the polishing tub. which is simply a
revolvinz barrel In which the pins are
cleanea and polished by their own friction
After going through the polishing tub they
are boiled in a solution of acid and tin This
latter operation gives them their shining ap
pearance. After going through the acid
bath they are accounted as being finished
and ready for the market.
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in the remaining portion ot pur
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 of the season at $1.25
and $1.50.
45c a yard 40-inch Alt-wool
Black French Nun’s Veiling, for
merly 60c yard.
Exilian Ridas
la fine Wash Goods.
12 1-2 c 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 Foile
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, Towels and Toweling at
equally low prices.
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