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INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Meetings—Ancient Order Hibernians,
Division No. 3; Palestine Commandcry
No. 7, K. T.
Special Notices—Low’ Prices. Fine
Goods. Estate S. W. Branch; Golden Ap
ple Tobacco, John B. Fynandez; The
Savannah Volunteer Guards' Fair; State
and County Taxes, 1894; The Great De
mand for Our Fine Clothing, B. H. Levy
& Bro.; The Chatham Real Estate and
Improvement Company; As to Crew of
British Steamship Kirkby.
A Lady is the Best Judge of a Hat—Ap
pel & Schaul.
Financial—Statement of the Condition
of the Southern Bank of the State of
Georgia.
Publications—Enclycopedia Ixrltannlca.
Legal Notices—Citation From the Clerk
of the Court of Ordinary of Chatham
County.
The Manhattan Shirt—B. H. Levy &
Bro.
Amusements—Grand Storeoptioan Exh.-
bition, at Masonic Hall, Friday and Sat
urday Nights.
Cheap Column Advertisements—Help
Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Rent;
For Sale; Lost; Personal; Miscellaneous.
One of the strong arguments in favor
of Mr. Turner for the Senate is that he is
no "slate” politician. He never belonged
to a "ring,” and never will. His political
successes have been achieved by brains
and force of character, not by log rolling.
War comes high. It is calculated that
the war of Japan w’ith China is costing
Japan $1,000,000 per day. But even that
figure was insufficient for the civil war
in this country, and for four years the
cost was an average of $120,000,000 a month.
The New York voter who takes a
drink on the next election day will do so
at the peril of his vote. Fourteen sets
of ballots for deciding the constitutional
amendments alone have been declared a
legal necessity. These added to the others
will make voters bear such a burden that
a Jag will be out of the question.
It Is the custom of the Japanese to
give the glory for all military or other
public performances to the emperor,
hence at home Field Marshal Yamagata
may not get a Just measure of credit for
his brilliant campaign in Korea. Never
theless western peoples will admire the
man for his genius. He appears to be
the forthcoming Napoleon, or Moltke.
Mrs. Dr. Julia Holmes Smith is a
woman, a democrat and a candidate for
a school office in Illinois. She is also a
••suffragist,” and she rises to remark to
Cardinal Gibbons that Aspasla and Per
icles were not married. The Brooklyn
Eagle thinks the cardinal’s misconception
of the fact is less strange than that stress
should be laid on a little thing like that—
in Chicago.
Senator Don Cameron of Pennsylvania
is said to be flooding Illinois with free sil
ver documents, which he sends through
the mail3 under his frank as a member of
Congress. Mr. Cameron has for some
time been preparing to accept the republi
can presidential nomination, providing
the party declares in favor of free silver.
His distribution of documents at the pres
ent time is regarded as a continuation of
his efforts to secure the vote of the sil
ver men in 18!Ni.
It is unfortunate that eminent church
men in this state have been drawn Into a
discussion of the American Protective As
sociation and its political alms. The dis
cussion can only lead to bitterness, Rnd
fail of achieving any good end. Church
and state will never be united in this
country. Religious opinions will never
govern In American politics. Agitation
of questions involving religion and poli
tics as bearing upon each other must
arouse whatever there is of bigotry and
intolerance in individuals on the opposing
sides.
The Atlanta correspondent of the Pitts
burg Dispatch regards Mr. Turner as the
leading candidate for the Georgia sena
torship, although the correspondent's dis
patches are written from an anti-Turner
standpoint. He calculates that Mr. Tur
ner will have fifty-live votes, and that
tho remaining 111) of the democratic mem
bers will be divided between Bacon, Gar
rard and Walsh. The dispatch concludes:
“The influence of Governor-elect Atkin
son is now openly against Turner, whom
he looks upon as partially responsible for
the decreased democratic majority by
having introduced the currency question
Inlo the stale rampalgn without the ad
vice or consent of the slate committee."
The attention of Governor-elect Atkin
son is invited to the first part of this quo
tallon: and the attention of the people is
Imbed to the whole quoted paragraph
a Piece of bushw a .klng that Is im n
■ *'■ 1 despicable.
A Republican Boomerang.
Sugar Is giving the republicans a lot
of trouble. It won't follow the course of
their predictions. Before the passage of
the new’ tariff bill they said if the bill
became a law the price of sugar would go
up by just about the amount of the in
crease in the duties, and that the hold of
the sugar trust upon the people would be
welded fast.
Now, to the surprise and consternation
of these prophets, the price of sugar in
stead of advancing has fallen, and the
sugar trust is having more trouble with
ito customers, the wholesale grocers, than
it has had in a long time. The Illinois
Wholesale Grocers’ Association has sus
pended the rule by which the members
bound themselves to buy sugar at card
prices in New York, and sell it at an in
crease of 3-16 of a cent a pound. That
means that the grocers are kicking
against the trust's bossism—given to it
by McKinley—and have determined to
have some voice in affairs themselves.
As to the effect of the tariff on the price
of sugar, under the McKinley bill, which
took $11,000,000 a year out of the treasury
for bounties and put not a cent back into
it, the price of sugar on Sept. 15, 1892, was
5 3-16 cents, on Sept. 15, 1893, it was 6%
cents, and at the time the new’ bill became
a law it was 5 cents. A month and a half
after the new* law’ went into effect the
price of sugar was 4 11-16 cents. Nor is
it likely the price will go up for a long
time, if at all. Before the new law was
passed the trust began to import im
mense quantities of sugar from abroad,
pending the expected rise in the market,
which was depended upon to
give tho trust an enormous
profit. But the rise came not;
the trust is loaded down with sugar and
the market is glutted. In this instance
it looks as If the biter had been bitten.
Thus we have it that the new tariff has
reduced the price of sugar, will turn into
the treasury $43,000,000 a year, and has cut
down the profits of the trust over one
half. On the other hand the McKinley
law gave the sugar trust a profit of $25,-
000,000 a year, according to the sworn
statement of the president of the trust,
took million of dollars of the taxpayers’
mony out of the treasury to pay the
bounty, and made the price of sugar
higher than it has been under the new
law*.
Make the Laws Apply Uniformly.
The tangle that has been developed by
the raising of the question of registra
tion or no registration for the congres
sional election makes more than ever
plain one of the first duties to be per
formed by the legislature. The election
laws should be revised and made uniform.
There was a time when red tape and
crotchets in the election laws served a
good purpose. Immediately after recon
struction days there was a necessity for
laws that would keep the state govern
ment out of the hands of ignorance and
vice, and under the control of men of in
telligence end character, and when the
federal election laws w’ere in force there
was a necessity for separating state elec
tions from congressional elections.
These necessities have disappeared. The
democracy of the state has grown strong
enough to keep the state government in
proper hands, and the federal election
laws have been wiped out forever. They
will never be re-enacted. The Republican
party would not dare put them on the
statute books again, even if it were three
years hence to have full control of the
national government.
The state election laws, therefore,
should be made uniform. Special regula
tions should not apply to certain counties
or cities, other counties or cities being
exempt from them. The laws should be as
simple as it is possible to make them and
at the same time throw* all the necessary
safeguards around the ballot. Every qual
ified voter should be given an equal
chance to express his opinion. If regis
tration shall be deemed a necessary qual
ification, let the registration extend
everywhere in the state. That require
ment would probably help the treasury to
a considerable extent. There should be an
end to the inequalities of the present sys
tem.
Alt. Nathan Straus, who has been
named for mayor of New York by the
Tammany executive committee, is the
philanthropist w-ho has been supplying the
Poor of the city with coal, Ice. milk, etc.,
at cost for several seasons. He is, there
fore, very popular with the masses, as well
ns with the classes for his broad-minded
charity. From a political point of view,
the nomination of Mr. Straus was a
shrewd movement on the part of Tamma
ny. He Is a Cleveland democrat and was
honored by Mr. Cleveland during his first
term with an important diplomatic ap
pointment. Asa business man, he stands
in the front rank, being the head of one
of the largest dry goods houses in the
country. And In religion he Is a Hebrew.
In his nomination, therefore, Tammany
offers a palm to the Cleveland democrats,
offers the city a first class business man as
its executive, and rebukes the apparently
growing republican Idea that religious
opinions should be made . qualifica
tion prerequisite to political preferment.
The demand of the people for an abso
lutely spotless Judiciary is emphasized by
the returns from the counties of the
Blue Kldge circuit on the matter of the
constitutional amendment to Increase the
number of supreme court Justices. The
people of those counties believed that if
the amendment should be ratified Judge
Gober would get one of the new Justice
ships, so they voted against the amend
ment, They had heard charges against
Judge Gober, and notwithstanding the
fact thut all of those charges have been
disproved and the judge vindicated, they
were unwilling to have him go Into the
supreme court.
The I.owell Manufacturing Company,
o' Massachusetts, Is one of the largest
manufactories of carpets In the union.
It reduced wages under the Melvlnley
law and has raised wages under the new
tariff law. The reduction was be
cause of the heavy tax on carpet wools;
the increase Is because carpet wools are
, now admitted frit) of duty.
THE MORNING NEWS: FRIDAY, OCTOBER 12. 1801.
Lower the Rates!
That low fares will Induce people to
travel has recently been fully demon
strated in this city, in the cut in fares
by the street railway lines. Cars that
ran empty* during the greater part of the
day when all of the lines charged a fare
of 5 cents are now, at the seduced rates,
well filled with passengers all of the time,
and they are crowded to the steps at the
hours when the people are going to or re
turning from their business. The cheap
fare is responsible for the great increase;
and the railway companies are making
more money than they ever made before.
It is a noted fact that regular passenger
trains on railroads in this part of the
country are never crowded. Occasion
ally it occurs that two coaches are well
filled, but the number rarely goes higher.
The reason is, the rates of fare are too
high. The average citizen cannot afford
to travel except when it cannot be
avoided.
If the railroads would low*er their rates
of fare they would doubtless find the
change profitable to them. Just as the
street railway people of this city have
found cheap rates profitable. Instead of
hauling trains of two or three partly
filled cars, the number might be run up to
eight or ten well filled cars. If tho street
railways find it profitable to make a rate
of one-half cent to one cent a mile, it
seems that the state and interstate rail
roads would find it profitable to make a
correspondingly low rate.
Low rates are given to those who travel
long distances and over several lines, and
there appears to be no good reason w*hy
similarly low rates should not be given
to local travel. It seems that the roads
might at least make certain days of the
w’eek cheap fare days, if they do not
care to make all at once a too great de
parture from custom. Cheap fare days
would enable almost everybody to take a
short trip off; and almost everybody
would take advantage of the opportunity
to do so.
The railroads running into this city
would doubtless make more money from
both passenger and freight traffic, if they
w’ould institute low excursion rates, the
excursions to be run at frequent Intervals.
The oftener people come into the city,
the greater will be the amount of freight
they bring in and carry out.
Why cannot the Central, the Savannah,
Florida and Western and the Florida Cen
tral and Peninsular do on some day, or
days, of the week wdiat the Charleston
and Savannah is doing on Sundays in the
matter of excursion rates? The Charles
ton and Savannah road on one day in the
w’eek makes the round trip fare between
Savannah and Charleston, a distance of
230 miles, sl, a rate of about two-fifths of
a cent a mile. With a rate of half a cent
a mile from Macon, Augusta, Jackson
ville, Thomasville, Columbia and other
points, to Savannah, say twice or three
times a week, there would be such an in*
crease in the passenger traffic and such a
swelling in the roads’ receipts as the gen
eral passenger agents never dreamed of.
Free Ships Wanted Now.
In his speech to the Knglishmen the
other day-,* Chairman Wilson predicted
the rebuilding of the American merchant
marine as one result of the democratic
tariff policy Inaugurated by the cur
rent administration That is a cheerful
prediction, and one In which Savannah
feels an interest, for with the revival of
the shipping trade, this port w-ill be bene
fited.
There are already practical evidences
that the revival has set in. To mention
Just one Instance that comes pretty close
home, a Birmingham dispatch the other
day told of the formation in that city
of a company to run a line of steamships
between a Gulf port and Cuba to carry
Birmingham coal. Tariff reductions have
made it profitable to bring return car
goes from Cuba, so that coal can be taken
there at a freight rate that will permit
of Birmingham coal being sold in Cuba
below the price of coal from any other
country.
Now what Is w-anted to rapidly reha
bilitate American shipping is a free ship
law. A law granting American registry
to foreign built ships owned by Ameri
cans and to be engaged In the foreign
trade would be a step in the right direc
tion. But it would bo only a step. It
w-ould not go far enough. Absolutely
free ships are needed. American owners
should be permitted to buy their vessels
for any trade wherever they can get
them for the least money. In 1858—three
years before the war began—73 per cent
of the ocean carrying trade between the
t’nlted States and foreign countries was
done In American vessels. At the close
of the war In 1865 the amount tvas a little
over 27 per cent. After that there was a
slight Increase, but a decline soon set In
and it has held on until now, when only
12 per cent, of our foreign commerce Is in
American ships. With free ships it would
not be many years before American bot
toms would be carrying as much for
eign freight as the bottoms of any other
nation.
Women in polities are as amusing as
was Artemus Ward's monkey. Some of
the good women of New York, who Imag
ine that suffrage is the sole aim of the sex
before turning to angels, got together the
other day to devise ways and means to
save the city next month. One of
them thought It would he a Just lovely
vote-catching scheme to establish a real
i handsome free lunch and eofTee stnnd
: near every polling place, not to cost over
8100 apiece. When told of the number
of election districts she grew Indignant,
and said she thought there were forty,
and there ought to be forty, and that the
present system was a horrible and dis
gusting Tammany Job. But why should
lovely women care so long as man foots
the election and bonnet bills?
Chairman Clay of the state campaign
committee will probably not be a -lark
horse tn the senatorial race. The size of
the democratic majority tn the recent
election was not sufficiently large to win
Overpowering enthusiasm for him. Still,
It was through no fault on the part of Mr.
Clay. He was handicapped by alleged
democratic newspapers preaching pop
ulism almost under his nose.
PERSONAL.
The health of Senator Ingalls is im
proving, and he expects to be able to do a
little work for the republican *ause in
Kansas before the campaign c loses.
Judge Prior of New York has authorized
J. A. W. Clark to assume the name of
James Westervelt Clark. Mr. Clark didn’t
like the nickname his initials formed.
Among the royal riders of the w’heel are
the king of the Belgiams, Queen Wil
helmina. Princes Waldemar and Karl of
Denmark, and Princes George and Nicho
las of Greece.
Orrin F. Hirkok. driver o fthe champion
Directum, was born fifty-five years ago in
Dhio. He Was a Jockey before he became
a driver, and in season made $28,400 pilot
ing the horse St. Julien.
Don Cameron Is called the “summer
girl” of the Senate. From being decid
edly taciturn he has recently become al
most effusive in his cordiality, and has
begun renewing old acquaintances.
Dr. Dougan Clark, the noted Quaker
preacher, In trial in Indiana for heresy
in having been baptized, is a graduate of
the University of Pennsylvania. He is w>
years old and a noted linguist and writer.
Princess von Bismarck, like her distin
guished husband, i3 very tall. She is sparse
of figure, wdth prominent cheekbones and
snowy hair. She is deseribed as a viva
cious hostess, with a keen sense of humor.
William L. Strong, the republican can
didate for mayor of New York, is an Ohio
man by birth, 67 years of age. and has
long been Identified with the dry goods
trade. He has also been prominent in
republican politics for the past twenty
years.
Ada Celeste Sweet, president of the Chi
cago Womans’ Club, was pension agent in
Chicago during four administrations, and
was the first woman appointed to dis
burse money for the United States govern
ment. She is a member of the Civic Fed
eration.
Germans claim that the late Hermann
Helmholtz w-as, after Humboldt, the
greatest scientific thinker of this century.
The physicians who performed the au
topsy were astonished at the weight of
his brain and the extraordinary number
of its convolutions.
A working man, Richard Latter, now
living in London, possesses a beard of
ten feet in length. To prevent the beard
impeding his work, he plaits and conceals
it beneath his coat. Another famous
beard-profer.sor is Louis Coulon, a sculp
tor, residing at Montlucon, France. His
heard measured some time ago—it may be
longer at the present time—seven feet,
six and one-half inches.
M. Jules Massenet, the great French
composer, is a terrible coward on first
nights. He habitually keeps away from
the theater when any work of his is to
receive first public, hearing, and passes
the hours of waiting in either working out
new ideas or conversing with his wife
in his comfortable home, while the ver
dict is being passed. He says he dare
not go to the theater.
BRIGHT BITS.
Jillson says he never sees a dwarf with
out wondering if nature intended to make
short work of him.—Buffalo Courier.
Visitor to Public Institution—lsn’t it
rather close here? Don’t you think there
is need of ventilation?
City Father—Ventilation? Great Caesar!
No; there’s been altogether too much ven
tilation of the place already—Boston Tran
script.
"I wanted to give brother Tom some
little gift before he leaves for coliege.
What would you get?”
Florence—l saw* some lovely hair
brushes with silver monogram, and—
“ You silly girl; don’t you know he be
longs to the foot ball team?’’—Chicago
Inter Ocean.
Country Editor—Now, Squibs, try and
think up a new* head line for the marriage
notices this week. You have run ‘At Hy
men’s Altar’ till I’m sick of it.
Squibs (whose better half has been scold
ing for several days together)—How
would ‘News of the Weak’ suit you.—New
York Herald.
Manager—Well, how do you like being
an understudy?
Miss Wings—Not much. It’s all work
and no play.—New* York World.
Mrs. Caller—What is the name of your
new servant?
Mrs. Wifey—We call her Bliss.
Mrs. Caller—Why?
Mrs. Wifey—Because ignorance is bliss.
—Tid-Bits.
Mrs. Gray—When a girl leaves you, do
you give v her a recommendation?
Mrs. White—lnvariably. It pleases the
girl, and prevents her from saying hate
ful things against you.
Mrs. Gray—But then, isn’t it a great
bother?
Mrs. W hite—Oh, no; I had a thousand
printed last autumn, and I still have sev
eral copies left.—Boston Transcript.
“I do detest these girls who think they
know how* to be sarcastic,” said Georgie
, "Which one is it this time?” asked
%\ illie.
•'Grace Browne-Jones. I sent her a
picture of myself In my foot ball rig, and
what do you think she said of it?”
"Give it up. What’s the answer?”
“She said it looked like a sausage gar
nished with a chrysanthemum.” —Cincin-
nati Tribune.
Champion of the World—You want to
fight ?
World's Chamnion—Yes.
"But will you fight?”
"Yes.”
"But can you put up the money?”
It s up."
“But—er—are you ready to fight’’"
"Yes, ready, waiting.”
, "T h * n you re not In my class.”—Cleve
land Plain Dealer.
CURRENT COMMENT.
Something to Think About.
From the Houston (Tex.) Post (Dem.).
In a recent interview Mr. Wilson said:
‘ I rusts, as w r e know th**m, of course can
not exist In Great Britain. Where the
whole W’orld is free to come In and com
pete no trust can corner the market ”
There is much food for thought in this
brief statement.
In a Nutshell.
From Memphis Commercial-Appeal (Dem.)
There are so many explanations of
how It happened In Georgia that the out
sider's brain is dazed. The most sensible
reason ir, that given by Secretary Hoke
Smith and the Savannah News: “The
majority would have been greater If the
vote had not been so light.”
.
Would He Go Backward.
From the St. Louis Republic (Dem.).
Bishop Turner says that the negro w-ill
never be his best until he Is removed from
the influences tn the United States which
keep him down. A great many southern
white men agree with Bishop Turner in
advocating deportation. Those who know
better ought to speak out strongly and
sav the misery that will befall the vic
tims of any deportation scheme. It is as
plain as fate that negroes taken to Africa
will not only suffer hardships, but will
rapidly retrograde toward the barbarism
from w hich their ancestors were taken lfifi
or, perhaps, 2(M years ago. Bishop Turner
may lift his hands at the assertion, but it
Is a fact that there are no Influences tn
the south keeping the negroes down, and
that therv are an infinite number of In
fluences holding them up. And all tho In
fluences. strenuously exerted, are barely
enough to keep them In their present posi
tion.
Tho Avenues Still Open.
From the Washington Dost (Ind,),
It Is not true that the conditions of life
tn tilts country have been so changed
that a floor maa cannot gain a fortune by
the same route that thousands of poor
men have honorably traveled. The paths
of success are sitll open, and many a
man who Is now dependent on his dally
wages will become a capitalist. It Is not
true that, as a rule, the rich men of this
country make bad uses of their riches.
On the contrary, there never was a time
in this or any other land on earth when
and where wealth was so beneficently em
ployed as it is now In our country. The
demagogpes will kef n on howling unit
will win converts by their false and ma
licious statements as to social conditions.
They will sprend and deepen discontent
and will make Idlers and malpfnetnrs out
of men who, hut for their false teachings,
would havi been Industrious and useful
citizens. Itm, to quote Mr. Lincoln ngutn:
• You can't fool all the people all the
lime." The end of this vicious crusade
will be reached eventually.
Ten Words Wouldn’t Do It.
There were little red streaks in her face
and a blaze in her eye, as she came into
a country telegraph office not a thousand
miles from Detroit, says the Detroit Free
Press.
”1 want to telegraph to my husband,"
she said, with a snap of her large and
shapely jaw*.
“Yes, madam,” responded the operator,
handing her some blanks.
‘‘How much will It be?” she inquired.
”1 don't know*, madam,” replied the
operator, with keen politeness and a faint
smile.
"Don’t know?” she exclaimed. “What
arc you here for?”
“To tell people what I know’ madam,
and to send and receive messages.”
“Well, why don’t you know how* much a
telegram will cost?”
“Because, madam, I don’t know where
“Well, you needn’t be so smart,” she
snapped. “It is to go to Detroit.”
“Thank you, madam; it will he 25 cents.”
She made no further remarks, but took
the blanks, and in the course of time re
turned with about ten pages of closely
written paper.
“There!” she said, laying a quarter down
W’ith the message; ‘‘send that.”
“But, madam;” explained the operator,
“it is 25 cents for ten words.”
“What?” she ejaculated.
“You can only send ten words for 25
cents.”
She looked him square in the face as
she tried to suppress her feelings.
“Are you a married man?” she asked.
“Yes. madam.”
"Well, you must be an idiot if you don’t
know that a woman can't give her hus
band a piece of her mind in ten words.”
and. without waiting to hear anything
more from him, she flouted herself out of
the office, taking her message with her.
Rich, But Not Stuck Up.
It is unnecessary to name him, but he
lives in upper Fifth avenue, and is gener
ally credited with possessing at least a
million, which was made from a remark
ably small beginning, says the New* York
Herald. He has a son at Harvard and a
daughter who is finishing* her education
in Paris, where he and the faithful help
meet of his struggling years spend a few*
months every year—“to be with our girl,”
as he expresses it.
Unlike many of his prototypes, he can
not and would not, if he could, forget the
days when, barefooted, he played ball on
the eastside lots w’ith the other boys of
that time and locality, and to-day noth
ing gives him greater delight than to steal
an occasional hour or so from his down
town office and put them in up at the polo
ground, where his “Line’er out. Ward!”
invariably causes a hundred heads to turn
around in search of the owner of the
hearty voice.
While taking an ante-dinner appetizer
last w’eek on the extreme upper portion
of the fashionable avenue in which he re
sides, these boyhood recollections got the
better of him completely, and the pedes
trians at that hour were treated to the
amusing, if somewhat startling, sight
of a well preserved, elegantly dressed old
gentleman with a bald head and a round,
jolly face, wielding a base ball bat to
excellent purpose, and running bases W’ith
a dash and daring that made his com
pany' a very fast one to travel in.
His companions were about as ragged
a lot of urchins as could well have been
gathered together from the choicest tene
ment district on the East side, but they
entered into the spirit of the thing and
played ball for all there was in it. That
there was a good deal “in it” for them is
evidenced by the fact that the team now
wears shoes and stockings and plays ball
in a bright new uniform, of which they
are justly proud. The team, though, is
minus a member that played upon it on
the day in question, and the reason for this
being asked of the 11-year-old captain,
met the following reply:
”Oh, he ain’t a regular. I wish he
was.”
He Struck Oil Once.
“I see petroleum has been discovered up
in Marin county and a company is buy
ing up all the land in the neighborhood,”
remarked a rancher at a downtown hotel
to the San Francisco Post, and it was
noticed that there was a tinge of incred
ulity in his tone.
“Yes; I believe they have struck oil up
that way,” was the corroborative evidence
of one of his hearers.
“Well, I’ll believe it when they com
mence piping it into tanks, and not a min
ute before. I struck oil once.”
“Is that the way you made your for
tune?”
“Yes, that’s the way I made my fortune,
which, at the present time, just lacks $2,-
000 of being a blamed cent. Those are my
liabilities; assets nominal, as the papers
say.”
‘‘How did it happen?”
“Well, it was this way: T had a mineral
spring on my ranch up in Lake county,
and the gas that came out of it used
to kill little birds that came to drink.
‘Natural gas,’ says I, and I commenced
poking around a little with a spade. Then
a yellow-, greasy scum formed on top of
the water. 'Coal oil,’ says I, and I com
menced dreaming of tanks of petroleum
and barrels of money. I got a cheap drill
ing outfit and bored a hole down about
eighty feet, and all the neighbors sat
around laughing at me. ut I reckoned on
having the last laugh.
“One morning when T w*ent to w-ork the
hole smelt awful strong of coal oil. and
the first lift brought up a lot of oil that
burned for half an hour. ‘l’ve struck oil,’
says I to myself, but I kept it quiet. I let •
a few of my friends in, we organized a
company, bought up all the land around
there, got an expensive outfit, and com
menced drilling. We punched the ground
full of holes for about six months and
Couldn’t find enough oil to make a grease
spot on a silk dress. It broke the w’hole
crowd of us.”
“How did you chance to strike that
little pocket of oil in the first place?”
“I just found out that one of the neigh
bor’s hoys poured a five-gallon can of coal
oil in the hole one night to make mo feel
good, and if anybody should ask you, you
can 1 oil them that I am feeling a blamed
sight better than he is right now*, for his
dad went broke on it, too. and we took
turn about w-alloping him.”
The Sailor’s Song.
From the New York Advertiser.
Fishermen may hug the coast,
But I like to make the boast
That for land scenes I've no notion,
As my home's the whole vast ocean
For the yeasty, rolling billow
All my life has been my pillow;
And when all is lost, my bones
Will be safe with Davy Jones.
Let the farmer own his land.
Far away from ocean's strand;
Let him toll through all the burning
Months of summer, w-tth yearning
In his heart to reap the yellow
Wheat fields and to pluck the mellow
Fruits of autumn, while 1 sail,
Whether harvest yield or fall.
His one crop from June to June—
All the year's my harvest moon;
For the laws of navigation
Head not nature's vegetation
News of snowstorm or tornado
Only wakes old salt's bravado;
Though fierce land storms prove a blight
That may make their cargoes light.
Huntsmen spill the panther's blood—
Let me with a stiff gale scud;
While the woodman fells a giant
Of the forest, that, defiant.
Had withstood the storms of ages—
I take all the storm king's gages,
Braving winds in our trim craft.
Whether they blow fore or aft.
Let the lighthouse keeper quail
In the horror of the gale.
Wondering whether tars will weather
This wild storm, or drown together.
Careless tars mishap are blinking
At the squall, or fondly thinking
Of home friends they know must brave
Fiercest hurricanes that rave.
Let landlubbers. In their fright,
Seek to dodge the cyclone's spite,
While all around them there are falling
Chimney-pots, with crash appalling.
In my hammock, idly swinging,
While our staunch old ship is ringing
With the fury of the storm.
I am happy, snug and warm.
Upholsterer-Madam, this ts a fine
reception chair. Our latest design. Try
It. please.
Mrs Society—Peor me' how uncomfort
able It Is. 1 couldn't sit In It for five min
utes.
Upholsterer—That's it exactly, madam.
You see. It ts Intended for callers.—New
York Herald.
Stranger—Seems to me this crowded
street Is a queer place for a hospital.
Native—Well, I don't know Two trol
ley lints meet here.—New York Weekly.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
The famous trotting calf Julius is to be
taken to Kansas City and entered in a
race against time. Julius has a record of
and his owner, Hiram Dadds, ex
pects to lower this a couple of minutes, if
the calf can be kept from brawling, which
invariably interferes with the beauty of
its performance.
Brakim Jagson, an eccentric stock raiser
in Ribville, Ind., had an immense feather
bed made and placed in the stall of a fa
vorite 2-year-old mare. The strange sub
stitution for straw frightened the animal
and she kicked the bed tick full of holes,
and the feathers flew all over her. W hen
the hostler opened the stable door in the
morning he was frightened out of his
seven senses by seeing what he supposed
was a monster four-legged bird in the
stall where he had left the mare the night
before.
The French ministry has determined to
make an effort to reach a form of swind
ling which is known to be extremely com
mon. and which hitherto has managed to
escape the penalties of the law. the forg
ing of pictures. It is said to be a very
common thing in Paris, and that more
than one well known painter has ad
mitted openly that he has allowed his
name to be signed to pictures that either
he has not touched at ail or has finished
in a few unimportant details. They say
that they cannot live by their own pic
tures wholly, and they eke out their in
come by altering pictures of others, or
substituting a well known name for an
obscure one. Other painters follow’ the
practice of copying well known master
pieces, and passing them off through
shady middlemen as copies made by the
master himself. Imitations of the works
of modern painters now dead are so com
mon as to have ceased to excite wonder.
The proposed law- puts the forgery of ar
tists’ names alongside of other forgeries,
and punishes it equally. It is said that
Paris is very much interested in the out
come, and that if the law* is successful, it
will deal a terrible blow to one of the
most prosperous “home industries” of the
French capital.
The very latest development in associa
tions is an anti-corset league, which num
bers among its presidents Mme. Antoinette
Sterling, and is to be represented at the
coming health exhibition at Liverpool,
says Public Opinion (England.) 1< rom
an advance copy of the appeal which this
organization is about to isue to ladies it
appears that its motto will be “fashion
without folly; elegance without extrava
gance;” while its mission is to advocate
“anti-eccentricity,” “anti-ugliness,” and
“anti-faddism.” which it hopes to realize
by “invoking the aid of women in a cru
sade for the purpose of inculcating true
principles of sensible clothing, which at
the same time neither offend the eye nor
mock the sense of beauty, but which shall
mold the fashion of the day to the true
principles of health for the benefit of
the sex and of mankind generally.” In
the realization of this programme the
league intends “to discourage the use of
the ordinary form of corset, and while
exposing tho fatal consequences of tight
lacing and injury caused by it to health
and figure, admits the absolute necessity
for an easy and natural support to take
tho place of the abolished, fictitious, and
offending garment.” Errors and abuses
in the form and mode of wearing our
present attire are to be unflinchingly ex
posed, and suggestions and designs for
more ideal garments are cordially invited.
Lastly, membership is to be open to gentle
men, not because of any marked tendency
on the part of the sterner sex to adopt ir
rational raiment, but because women are
not likely to assume new’ styles which do
not meet with masculine approval.
There is a popular impression that cable
grams are sent by hand, as are telegrams,
and that they are received in a dark room
by signals that flash upon a screen. Such
used to be the method of their transmis
sion, but that has now* been superseded
by a better one. It was found impractic
able to transmit printed characters. The
four vertical or nearly vertical lines that
make our M could not be sent, but two
horizontal lines, thus, —, could be;
after all, the marks that are set dow*n for
this and that sound of the lips and vocal
organs are wholly arbitrary. Two hori
zontal lines are just as appropriate for
the sound represented by the thirteenth
letter of the alphabet as four nearly per
pendicular ones, and they answer the pur
pose just as well when all know* what is
intended. In devising practicable signs
for the letters two systems were made.
One of these systems is in use throughout
all America and Canada, and the other
system throughout the remainder of the
world. The United-States and Canadian
lines, therefore, stand apart from all other
lines in the w’orld in the matter of a
telegraph alphabet. The difference be
tween these alphabets is solely in the em
ployment of the space betw*een parts of
one and the same letter. For example, the
letter Y is . . . . There are four points or
dots, but they are separated by a space.
That is the American Y. It was rejected
by the Europeans on the ground that it
would be liable to confusion with parts of
preceding or following letters, and— .
—put in its place. Asa matter of practice,
however, no more mistakes occur with
one system than with the other, while the
American has the vast advantage of be
ing about 20 per cent, shorter, and there
fore to that extent faster. Other letters in
w’hich the system differs are F, J, L. O,
P, Q, R, X and Z. All remaining letters
are alike in both.
Galileo in his "Sidereal Messenger"
made a map of eighty new stars which he
had discovered tn the constellations of
Orion’s Belt and the “Sword;” and since
then astronomer after astronomer, as Is
well known, has added various groups and
galaxies to the 2,000 or 3,000 conspicupus
stars of the first magnitude, which car.
he always seen with the naked eye, writes
Sir Edwin Arnold in the North American
Review. It is curious and not complimen
tary to the good sense of mankind that
those stars should have been looked upon
as merely intended to spangle the sky and
give light at night. As lamps they were
always a failure. Sixty times the total
starlight on the clearest night would not
equal the illumination given by the moon;
and 33,000.000 their radiance would be re
quired to equal sunlight. Yet the stars
which are seen even by a powerful tele
scope are now known to be only an insig
nificant proportion of those actually ex
isting inside “visible space." Telescopic
photography, as practiced to-day in all
the observatories, reveals, in almost every
aparently blank region of the celestial
sphere, countless new and distant worlds,
lying far beyond all methods of mortal
computation and measurement. The only
foot rule with which we can at all esti
mate the scale of distances in the "visible
universe" is light. This travels along the
ether at the rate of 186,000 miles in a
second, so that the ray which we receive
from the sun leX) his surface eight min
utes before It has reached our eyes. By
ingenious processes based on complex
arithmetic, astronomers have determined
the distance of about eighty stars, and
Ihe nearest of all of them to our system
is Alpha Centaur!. The radiance of this
star takes, however, about four years to
reach human vision, while that which we
perceive from Alpha Tauri or Aldebaran
was projected from its glittering source
twenty-seven years ago; and most of those
seen deeper in the night sky are so far off
that their present light left them 300 or
400 years back. Many are to-day visible
whose beams have traveled to our gaze
only after a lapse of thousands of years,
and there must be rad 1 \nt stream.-, .taw or
their way from heavenly boors In the
empyrean which wil only reach the eyes
of our very far posterity.
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