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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 13,1894.
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Special Notices—Removal, J. Gardner;
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Golden Apple Tobacco; Notice of Applica
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Estate.
Amusements—The Sliver King, at the
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What Are Your Needs—Appel & Schaul.
Steamship Schedules—Ocean Steamship
Company.
Auction Sale—Unclaimed Baggage, at
Marshall House, by J. 11. Oppenhelm &
Son.
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mouth Rock Company.
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For Sale; Lost, Personal; Miscellaneous.
Of the three proposed constitutional
amendments, the one most important was
beaten. It Is unfortunate that the people
could not see their way clear to expedit
ing their own legal business.
A man was recently chosen In Ken
tucky to act as judge at a poverty ball
and award the prize to the "worst look
ing lady and gentleman.” That he es
caped with his life was a wonder.
On Sept. 15 the price of wheat In Chi
cago was 53% cents. Day before yester
day (Oct. 11) the price of wheat In Chi
cago was 55 to 56 cents. Has anything
been done for silver to occasion this rise
In the price of wheat?
The voters of New York city and
Brooklyn are very much in earnest with
regard to the forthcoming election. They
are registering in exceptionally great
numbers. On the first day of the registra
tion there were registered in New York
102,906, and in Brooklyn 75,758.
Gov. McKinley’s speeches are among the
chief features of the present campaign.
His ability as a stump orator has long
been recognized, but nobody imagined
that his power rivaled those of the pho
nograph. Twenty speeches a day would
be pretty good for an Edison machine
with an electric motor attached.
If we remember rightly, Gov. Mitchell
of Florida promised, in the event of the
prospect of another prize fight at Jack
sonville, to call the legislature together
for the purpose of amending the laws so
as to prevent the exhibition. Corbett and
Fitzsimmons may conclude to try to fight
there in January, or they may put the mill
oft until summer. If they tlx on January
as the time, the governor will have to
issue his call.
The prospects are that the nonsensical
blunder of changing the name of Appo
mattox to “Surrender" will be corrected
by the postoffice department. The camps
of confederate veterans are adding their
protests against the change. The people
of the locality did not like the change, the
governor of Virginia has formally ob
jected to it, and newspapers all over the
country pronounce it a blunder. It is full
time for the postoffice department to sur
render to this popular demand, and re
store the historic name to the place.
The Augusta Herald, a free silver ad
vocate, has got the Macon Telegraph,
a sound money advocate, into a close
corner. Says the Herald: “The Macon
Telegraph says it Is for 'sound' money.
It says we down here are not. We are in
the same boat with MaJ. Bacon on his
financial platform. The Telegraph is sup
porting MaJ. Bacon for the United States
Senate. Why does the Telegraph, while
opposed to MaJ. Bacon’s financial policy,
ask that he be made United States sen
ator?” The only way we can see for the
Telegraph to save its bacon is to let Bacon
slide, and get into the Turner band
wagon.
The Rockdale Banner says: “It now
seems to us that Hon. Henry G. Turner
is the logical candidate for the United
States Senate from Georgia, but the poli
ticians may think differently.” The poli
ticians, according to the lights that have
n .vouchsafed >*• peoph. had .1 . lg<
Gober slated for a supreme court Justice
ship. And because the people of his cir
cuit understood that such a slate was ex
tant, they killed the constitutional amend
ment to Increase the force of the court.
That Is the way the people regard the
plans of Ihe politicians these days. Mr.
Turner is not a politician, u creature of
politicians, or a figure head for politi
cians. He is a statesman: therefore the
log-rolling politicians will try to beat him
If they can.
Increased Gold Production.
Several weeks ago Director of the Mint
Preston estimated that the output of
gold for the world for 1896 was $155,522,000,
t and that for 1894 it would be $174,000,000.
Upon this basis, and in consideration of
i the fact that the production of silver
1 Is declining from the abnormal propor
j tions to which it grew under an aritti
elal stimulus, the .Morning News ad
vanced the proposition that if these con
ditions of increased production of gold
and decreased production of silver should
[ continue for a time, the time might not
t>e distant when the mints could be opened
to silver without forcing the countiy
to a silver basis.
The director of the mint has, since he
made the estimate referred to, received
official advices from Russia which ad
vance the total output of gold In 1893
to $157.022.n0n and cause him to change
the estimate for 1891 from $174,000,000 to
siso,noo.noo or thereabouts.
In the director's forthcoming report the
gold production for the United States for
1894 Is estimated at $43.000.000, which is a
gain of $7,000,000 over 1893 and Is likely to
be supplemented by a gain of $12,000,000
from South Africa and $2,600,000 from Aus
tralasia. The llgures from these two re
gions already show a gain of $6,000,000
over the product of 1893 for the first six
months In South Africa and $1,300,000 In
Australasia, A further slight increase
in the rate of production would very easily
carry the product of 1894 above $180,000,-
000—an increase of $23,000,000 above the
production of 1893 and $25,000,000 above the
production of any previous year.
These facts tend directly to bear out
the position assumed by the Morning
News, and to smash into nothingness the
free silverite claim that the supply of
gold Is decreasing and that there will
shortly be a gold famine.
Its Importance Disappearing.
The bolt of the sugar planters of Louis
iana Is rapidly shrinking In importanedif
The bolters do not represent the democ
racy of the state. Indeed, in thetr bolt
they do not represent themselves as a
whole, but represent only a little more
than half of the number of planters reck
oned as Individuals.
That the democracy of the state does
not sympathize with the demand of the
planters for government pap is made plain
In these resolutions, adopted by a dem
ocratic mass meeting at Natchitoches, In
the sugar district; “We wish the world to
know that the said planters do not speak
for the people of the entire state, but rep
resent only a few hundred bounty-fed and
bounty-hungry sugar planters, who have
not the manhood to rely for their support
on their own efforts, and that the masses
of the people of Louisiana will remain true
to the Democratic party, because they are
democrats on principle, and not for plun
der." That Is very plain talk, and Is
worthy of democrats.
That the bolting planters do not repre
sent the body of planters as a whole Is
shown by a poll of planters taken by the
New Orleans Picayune ill order to ascer
tain how many of them had gone over to
the Republican party on the tariff Issue.
The Picayune's returns show that 54 per
cent, are In favor of the new republican
movement unequivocally, 26 per cent, op
posed to it, and 20 per cent, non-commit
tal. It Is significant that the planters who
are most ardent in the republican move
ment are the ones who have been draw
ing a big bounty; the smaller planters re
main true to democracy. The effect of
bounty paying is to whet the greed for
special favors and to stifle the finer sen
sibilities that revolt at taking something
and giving nothing In return.
The Augusta Chronicle's report of Sen
ator Walsh's speech at Hawklnsvllle on
Wednesday says: “He declared in favor
of the free coinage of gold and
silver at the ratio of 16 to
1. He wants us to get back where
we were in 1873, and does not be
lieve we should wait on Europe," That Is
a most preposterous proposition; sixteen
of gold to one of silver! But, of course,
the senator didn't mean that, whatever
the correspondent may say about It. The
senator declared In favor of silver and
gold at the ratio of 16 to 1. And it is
well enough that his position should be
clearly set forth. If we understand It,
his belief that "we should not Walt on
Europe" means that he is in favor of the
immediate and unconditional free coin
age of silver and gold by this country at
the ratio of 16 of silver to lof gold. The
democratic platform, by the way, im
poses a condition—parity shall he secured
—and names no ratio. How the senator
expects to surmount those obstacles Is
not apparent. And, by the way, an At
lanta dispatch to the Washington Tost,
bearing all of the earmarks of having
been sent from a free silverite source,
places Mr. Walsh's vote In the legislature
on joint ballot at ten.
The prospects are. that the people of
New York will shortly bo treated to the
extraordinary sight of a hypnotic ex
periment in court, if the presiding judge
will permit it. The wife of Dr. H. C.
F. Meyer, the poisoner, who is serving a
life sentence for murder, Is soon to be
tried for complicity with him in hls
crimes Her defense is that her husband
had hypnotized her, and that her acts
were not of her own volition, but in
obedience to hls will. Dr. O'Sullivan,
the physician-lawyer, who has lately won
so much notoriety by hls sensational de
fenses, is the woman's attorney. it is
understood that he is now studying hyp
notism, with a view to making a practi
cal demonstration of the hypnotic influ
ence when the woman goes into court.
Wars are of much benetlt, from a geo
graphical and historical standpoint, to
the people who tire not engaged In them.
Itefore the Chino-Japanese war began it
Is probable that few people in Savannah
were aware that the present Chinese em
peror is u usurper; and outside of diplo
matic circles nearly everybody, perhaps,
had overlooked the Important fact that
Che Foo Is It treaty port. But now, If the
average American newspaper render does
nol know ail about Korea, and how the
land lies In China, It Is not the fault of the
newspapers.
THE MORNING NEWS: SAT CRD AY, OCTOBER 13, 1894.
Needed at Once.
The merchants of Savannah cannot or
ganize the freight and transportation bu
reau too quickly for their own good. And
the sooner this fact Is recognized, the bet
ter It will be for their business. Investi
gations Into the discriminations against
this city have shown that, to the south
of ut, New Orleans is selling goods as
near to us as Thomasville; Atlanta, on
the west, comes for trade within thirty
miles of this city, and Charleston, on the
north, is sending goods around and
through Savannah into the very heart
of the territory heretofore enjoyed by
Savannah.
The fact is that Savannah for so long
a time, by reason of her Interests in the
Central railroad and Its connecting lines,
left her transportation interests in the
care of railroad officials, that she feels
that those Interests are still under their
protection. The dividends and interests
on the stocks and bonds of those roads
were supposed to be a compensation for
any small losses In trade.
But conditions have changd, In the
whole railroad and business situation,
which change the merchants see in their
losses in trade and the dullness of busi
ness generally. And they are Just be
ginning to realize that they have been
asleep while the merchants of other cities
have been wide awake and pushing into
their territory. The awakening of Sa
vannah should be made complete, and
quickly at that. Those merchants who
do not come forward at once and aid lib
erally in the establishment of a freight
bureau—an organization for mutual pro
tection—will be recreant to their own in
terests, or else mean enough to take ad
vantage of other people s enterprise and
expenditures.
Hill Takes a Strong Position.
Senator Hill in. his speech at Syracuse,
opening the campaign, put the bolting
democrats of New York city, Brooklyn
and elsewhere in the position of attacking
the regular democracy and not him per
sonally. He pointed out very conclus
ively that he had not sought the nomina
tion for the governorship, and accepted
it only when he could not avoid it without
injury to the party’s cause. The nomina
tion had no attractions for him, and he
would have gladly stepped aside if an
other and more satisfactory man could
have been found to take the place.
The senator pitched his campaign upon
a high plane; which fact must have sur
prised those who thought the man In
capable of rising above selfishness for
himself and partisanship for his faction.
Ho made an advance of friendship to
ward the element of the party with which
he has ben at outs for some time, and
concluded with a statement Implying that
he didn’t care whether or not he was
elected governor, if the voters would see
to it that the gentlemen on the ticket
with, him were elected. This was aimed
at the people supporting the Everett P.
Wheeler ticket. Thetr objection is to
Senator Hill, and he told them they need
Hot vote for him if they did not care to;
Just to vote for the ather men and meas
ures on the regular flefnocratT6 ticket and
he would be satisfied.
It. is gratifying to observe, by the way,
that the opposition to the regular de
mocracy is losing strength. Ex-Secre
tary Whitney, ex-Hayor Grace and other
leaders who have been counted in the
anti-Hill column have come out strongly
for the regular ticket headed by the sen
ator. Realizing that the loss of New
York might mean the loss of the House
in congress to the democratic party, and
possibly the presidency in 1896, these lead
ers have laid aside personal objections
and wdll work for the success of the regu
lar organization.
A dispatch from Dayton, 0., contains
statements of a most sensational charac
ter. It alleges that there have been
wholesale murders and robberies com
mitted at the soldiers’ home in that city,
the victims being pensioners. The dis
patch says; 'Tollce investigation of the
recent murder and robbery of veterans of
the soldiers’ home on pension day devel
ops a series of crimes suggesting the Ben
der murders in the west. Forty old sol
diers have been robbed and murdered at
the National Military Home here, and
only passing notice has been taken of the
crimes.” The murderers, it is alleged,
have done thcl'r work systematically,
have destroyed the evidences that would
lead to their conviction, and have grown
rich at their horrible work.
Vice President Stevenson will deliver an
address at Lincoln, Neb., to-day. While
passing through Pittsburg day before yes
terday a reporter caught him and asked
him what the result of the recent elec
tion In Georgia meant. This Is what the
reporter wrote: "He complacently re
marked that the result In Georgia did not
mean anything. The vole was light, there
was nothing at stake and no effort was
made to run up a majority. He smiled at
the suggestion that the tariff was In any
way responsible.”
The New York Sun credits Georgia
with large populist gains, and insists that
the first disastrous move which brought
about this result was made when the In
come tax feature was appended to the
tarilT bill. The income tax may not be
just the thing, but the alacrity with
which the Sun attributes to It every dis
aster, whether real or Imagined, may load
it to suggest the Income tax as a cause
for the result In the Chino-Japanese war.
The official returns of the state election
show that the populists have not made
gains in their voting strength. The In
creased vote for thetr ticket rame from
the colored republicans, who are using the
populist party as a cat's paw. The democ
racy was able to knock the combination
out without exerting Its full strength, and
that was all necessary to be done.
Col. I. W. Avery of Atlanta sailed on
Tuesday last for Rio de Janeiro, on his
mission to work up exhibits for the At
lanta exposition In South America. Col.
Avery will talk up direct trade between
the South Atlantic seaports and South
American ports during his trip.
PERSONAL.
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Krupp, the great iron founder of Essen,
Germany, is to supply Italy with 10,000.000
nickel coins.
It is reported that M. Turpin, backed
by a wealthy man. is about to build works
for the manufacture of the articles he
has invented.
It is said that the sum total of the
taxes paid by the populist members of
the Colorado state government is $37. Gov.
Waite pays no taxes.
Miss Helen Gladstone ha? been nomi
nated as one of the governors of the
Flintshire county schools under the
Welsh intermediate education a<d.
Miss Julia Stevenson, th** young daugh
ter of the Vice President, who is said to he
quite a talented amateur artist, will make
her debut in Washington society this
winter.
Charles F. Brown, recently named as
the democratic candidate for Judge of
the court of appeals in New York, is said
to be an orator of more than usual force
and brilliancy.
Bismarck is the hero of twenty duels,
fought in three terms. He was wounded
once, and then by accident, the blade of
his adversary flying from the handle and
striking him in the face.
Sardou’s newest play: “The Sorceress,”
bids fair to be in many respects the most
interesting of them all. The scene is laid
in the thirteenth century, and the action
has a great deal to do with the supernatu
ral and the marvelous.
Mrs. Mary Bostwick passed through
the perils of a frontier life, twice escaped
death by burning, passed successfully
through three sieges of illness, was -the
mother of nine children, and was killed
by a trolley car in St. Louis at the age of
106.
Prof. W. S. Wyman of the University
of Alabama doubts the common explana
tion of the letters O. K., which is to
the effcct that they were President Jack
son’s abbreviation of “all correct.” He
thinks that Jackson borrowed the phrase
from the Choctaw language, in which the
word ”okeh” means “it is all right.”
The czar’s physician. Dr. Zakarln, is a
man of many eccentricities. He is fond of
wearing a dressing gown aiul the big boots
of a peasant when he attends his royal
patient, and his unconventional ways pro
foundly shock the courtiers. He refused
to occupy apartments on the third floor
of the palace- because his apartments at
home were on the ground floor, and he de
clined to lunch with the czarina at the
imperial table on the ground that he was
not In the habit of taking meals with
women. He charges the rich large fees
and the poor small, and gives to charity
his salary as professor in the University
of Moscow.
BRIGHT BITS.
Cleverton—Say, did you ever hear of a
$4 bill?
Dashaway—Certainly, I had one pre
sented to me the last, time you invited me
to lunch.—New York World.
Knew Human Nature.—Mrs. Youngblt—
There, a lady has taken the very hat I
had selected. What shall 1 do?
“Go and tell her yon had it nut aside for
your mother.”—New Orleans Times-Demo
crat.
Lieut. X.—l say, old chappie, you haven’t
heard that I yesterday won 130,000 marks
in the lottery?
Lieut. Z.—You don’t say so? Lucky
dog; why, you needn’t get married!—Flie
gende Blaetter.
“Do you And any trouble in getting
good milk now that you are housekeep
ing?”
“We don’t buy milk. Our bric-a-brac is
only large enough to hold cream.”—De
troit Free Press.
“Funny Idea the ancients had, wasn’t
it, of giving a dead man money to take to
the next world with him.”
”1 wonder if that was how the expres
sion ‘money to burn’ originated?”—ln
dianapolis Jurnal.
“Tommy Wing’s mother is awful good
and kind to him.”
Mamma—What has she done that is so
thoughtful?
him have measles just the very
day school began.”—Chicago Inter Ocean.
Your modern school of cookery,
Where food is done by note.
Don’t hardly touch old mother’s food,
Although she cooked by rote.
She had a way of cooking things,
So w holesome and so sweet.
That vittles seemed to coax uri boys~.rU
To take right hold and eat.
This sharlott rooshe is fraud in cake,
And Frenh a-cluirs don’t “stay,”
And lemon pie w ith lather on’t
Is jest like medder hay.
In spite of all your fol-de-rols,
The old folks often sigh
For mother’s “dish”—she called it
“b’iled—”
And mother’s punkin pie.
But p’r’haps it warn’t all cookery
That made the vittles grand.
Maybe the heft of sweetness lay
In dear old mother’s hand.
Don’t matter much what vittles is,
When love is served for sarce,
Love turns old hens to chicken, br’iled,
Nettles to sparrer grass.
—Boston Transcript.
CURRENT COMMENT.
Democracy’s Old Man of the Sea.
From the Columbus Enquirer-Sun (Dem.).
The worst load that the Democratic
party in Georgia is carrying now is the
element that wants to deluge this coun
try with short silver dollars. The evil ef
fect of it was evident in the guberna
torial election, and it is likely to be felt
In November.
Here’s Your Free Silverite.
From Louisville Courier-Journal (Dem.).
"Now since the democrats of Ohio,”
says a republican organ, “have come out
for free coinage, they should get Gov.
Lewelling of Kansas to do some campaign
ing for them.” Why not get Gov. Mc-
Kinley of Ohio to do it? He has been out
Lewellinging Lewelling on the silver ques
tion lately.
The Dollar of tho Democrats.
From the Atlanta Journal (Dem.).
Democrats stand on the platform of
their party, which is the platform of com
mon sense, and insist that there shall be
no money coined without guaranty of its
parity with the best money we now have.
The dollar unit of coinage must be of equal
purchasing and debt-paying power, says
the democratic* platform. Not after Ex
periment, but now , and at all times and in
all markets.
State Control of Railways.
From the Philadelphia Record (Dem.).
State ownership of railroads, which is
insisted upon by some loose thinkers as
a remedy for unfair discriminations
against localities and against employes,
has developed greater evils wdiere it has
been tried than are inherent in private
or corporate control. Pennsylvania, Ohio,
Illinois. Georgia, Massachusetts have all
hail unfortunate experiences in building
and owning railways or canals/*; State
management on a larger scale in European
countries has proved costly In construc
tion and control, and inefficient in ser
vice. The final appeal, which lien to
the people themselves in the choice of
representatives, in case the state or the
federal government controlled the rail
ways of the country, would be a million
railroad employes, every one of whom
would be practically a federal officeholder,
with his bread and butter depending upon
the east of his ballot. Such a situation
would be worse than anything we are now
called upon to endure.
‘‘That South Bogy Again.”
From the Boston Globe (Dem.).
What Is that “unarmed south” that,
according to Senator Lodge, is accom
plishing the highly remarkable feat of
“striking at the nation's prosperity?” She
must be a most inveterate enemy to all
our good interests, if there is any
logic at all in the address of the Nahanter
before the republican convention Satur
day. What on earth then, was the use of
opposing secession, at such a cost of
blood and treasure, if the Lodge idea of
the sentiments which dominate the people
south of Mason and Dixon’s line is the
true one? Something is wrong, certainly.
Hither the men who fought to keep the
union whole commttteed a grievous and
costly error or Mr. Lodge's remarks, tend
ing to arouse the spirit of sectional hatred
against the south, were without reason or
warrant Besides. Mr. Lodge 1 ? party Is
trying to “break the solid south” Just
now. through promises of bounty rind
other substantial considerations. Our
Junior senator ought to be dlucrect, if
nothing more.
A Hunter’s Peril.
A Los Angeles hunter, W. T. Bush, had
an exciting experience in the mountains
of Orange county last Friday, says the
Los Angeles Herald. He left a party in
camp early that morning and started* out
in the hope of bagging a deer before
breakfast. He followed a long, deep
chasm, called Sycamore Canon, and after
walking for a mile without getting sight
or game, and having become nearly fagged
out in crawling under and over the heavy
manzanita and mesquite bushes, he sat
down to rest. The gray morning dawn
was just giving way to daybreak, and it
was not easy to distinguish objects at a
great distance. As Bush sat thinking in
this lonc-Jy spot, with high rock walls
rising abruptly on either side of him, he
thought he heard the cracking of hushes
tar up the canon’s side. In another in
stant a most unearthly yell broke the si
lence and filled Bush with a sense of hor
ror. He turned around in time to see a
huge mountain lion spring from an im
mense rock and leap toward him.
It had grown brighter as the morning
sunlighi cast shadows on the canon’s wall
a . . thin S s could he more easily distin
guished. Bush looked at his rifle, then at
the lion as it seemed to increase its speed
toward him. He had not yet raised flim
sy" .VP* 1)1,1 w^eri the animal turned into
the little trail on which he was sitting,
Bush suddenly leaped from his hypnotized
position and awaited the animal’s com
ing. He had no more than cocked his
rifle when the huge beast sprang from a
clump of bushes directly in front of him.
The frightened hunter threw his rifle to
his shoulder. The lion, seeing the move,
suddenly halted, as if it had come upon
the gentleman unawares.
It is a well known fact that any wild
boast will become frightened if it sees the
face of a man turned toward it in a de
rtant manner, unless the animal is wound
ed. That is one groat secret of bear
hunting, and the same is true of all
beasts. The lion Bush held at bay was
no exception to the rule, for it took in the
situation at once and leaped down the
canon’s side. Then it was that Bush knew
the animal had run across him accidental
ly, and was not bent on making a break
fast of him.
But the w'orst was yet to come. As the
immense lion darted into the manzanita
thicket Bush fired and wounded it. He
saw’ the animal fall and carelessly started
in to claim his game. Jumping into the
brush ht* found the beast upon its haunch
es ready to fight. It was then too late for
Bush to back out, and for a moment he
stood lace to face with the enraged lion.
Before he could raise his rifle or remove
nis hunting knife from its scabbard the
beast was upon him. Then began a strug
• r> foi L. fe ; The ,ion fastened its teeth
in Lush s clothing in an attempt to reach
his throat The last thing Bush remem
bered of the fight was that he drew his
knife and made a lunge for the animal’s
heart.
$ consciousness short
ly before noon he found himself side by
s [,. . w hh dead lion, the knife still
sticking in its side. He has the pelt of
the big animal on exhibition.
Tha Chambered Nautilus.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
This Is the ship of pearl which poets feign
Sails the unshadowed main;
The venturous bark that flings
On the sweet summer wind its purpled
wings
enchanted, where the siren sings
And coral reefs lie bare;
Where the cold sea-maids rise to sun
their streaming hair.
Its web of gauze no more unfurl;
Wrecked is the ship of pearl.
And every chambered ceil r ,
Where its dreaming life was w’ont to dwell
Aa the frail tenant shaped his growing
shell
Before thee lies revealed,
Its irlsed ceiling rent, itk sunless crypt
unsealed.
Year after year beheld the silent toll
That spread his lustrous coil;
Still, as the spiral grew\
He left the last year’s dwelling for the
new,
Stole with soft step its shining archway
through,
Built up its idle door,
Stretched in its last found home and knew
the old no more.
Thanks for the.heavenly message brought
by thee,
Child of the wandering sea,
Cast from her lap, forlorn!
From thy dead lips a clearer note is born
lhan ever Triton blew from wreathed
horn!
While on my ear it rings.
Through the deep caves of thought I hear
a voice that sings:
Build thee more stately mansions, O my
soul,
As the swift seasons roll!
Leave thy low vaulted past!
Let each new’ temple, nobler than the last
Shut thee from heaven w'ith a dome more
vast,
Till thou at length art free,
Leaving thine outgrown shell by life’s un
resting sea.
When the Women Vote.
The old gentleman slowly lowered his
paper as he became conscious that his
daughter, pale but determined, was stand
ing before him.
“I have sent him away forever,” she
said, with an effort to appear uncon
cerned.
“Who?” he asked.
"Harold," she answered. “I was de
ceived in him—grossly deceived. WAy, oh!
why should so fair an exterior conceal so
false a nature?”
“Tut! tut!” protested the old gentle
man. "It is only a lovers’ quarrel.”
“Nay, it Is more!” she cried. “It is a
matter that strikes at the foundation rock
upon which our government rests! I have
discovered that Harold is a republican!”
“Oh, well, that's not so terrible!"
“What!” she exclaimed. "Do you think
that t, a democratic voter, could be happy
with a republican? Never!”
“Hut you might pair off,” he said.
"That s what Harold wanted me to do,
but I told him I could never be his," she
returned.
“I mean politically, not matrimonially,”
he explained. "Do as they do in congress
when a democrat and a republican both
wish to be absent. If you love your party
that is the thing to do.”
“Really?” she asked, brightening up.
“Of course. You have all the best of it,
for while you lose only a Vote for trustees
he loses a vote for the whole ticket."
“Just the thing!” she cried, delightedly.
“Send for him, papa; send for him! I'll
make it all up with him purely as a party
measure."
How He Felt.
It was past midnight and the streets
were quiet as a store that doesnT adver
tise. when the policeman met a belated
citizen very profoundly inebriated but
still able to walk, though he took up all
the space, says the Columbia State. The
party would have gone on. but somehow
he butted up into the officer.
“Scuse me," he said. "Thought ev’bod
'ad gon” home by thish time.”
"It’s where you ought to be." suggested
the officer.
"Course 'tis, an' I'm trying to get there.
You goin’ home too?” he asked. "Better'f
you got a wife.”
“No; I'm a police officer.''
The late one looked at him as if trying
to remember what he had said.
"Well.” he said, "can't a p'liee officer
have a wife?"
The officer smiled.
"Here,” he said, “you go home. You
oughl to have gone a good deal earlier
than this ”
"Couldn't,” he replied as he gathered
himself for the next move. "Y'see, when
I go home, I've got to have the 'ole street
to walk on, an' it don't ge'tempty eariv.
You go on away an' gimme room,” arid
he waved the officer to one side und pro
ceeded.
A Great Reform.
The eastern visitor had arrived in the
energetic and enterprising southwestern
town that evening at supper time, and
after he had eaten his vesper meal he was
talking with the landlord, says the Detroit
Free Press.
"You’ve got a good town here, haven't
you?" he said.
"We think so," replied the landlord, dip
lomatically.
"Business seems to be lively."
"Yes. we're enjoying a boom."
"it appears to be Improving rapidly."
“That's what.”
“You don’t have any lynchings here, do
you?"
"Not like we used to.”
"I've heard that it wus once very bad In
that line."
"Well. yes. we used to have a hanging
now and then, but It's been a mighty long
time now since we had one ”
“When was the last one?”
The landlord studied a moment and
counted on his fingers.
“I uln’t shore," he said al lasi, "but I
think It will be two weeks day after to
morrow.”
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
A negro waiter in Chicago ate fourteen
large pumpkin pies inside of an hour and
became so ill tnat a physic. ■. was sent
for. The patient then confessed that he
had stolen and eaten 1,000 pies in a period
of six months. His diet will be changed
to bread and water for three months, in
accordance with the decision of a police
Justice.
An American dentist who recently made
as careful an Inspection of the tooth of
Buddha as the attendants would allow,
says that the big piece of bone is the
tooth of a crocodile, and could never
have grown in the mouth of a human
being, because of its size. He narrowly
escaped with his life in Ceylon, where he
was injudicious enough to make this
statement publicly.
An English specialist on nervous dis
eases has devised an ingenious method of
drumming, or, rather, waking up trade.
He employs a B flat cornetist of great
lung power to go ahead of him as a sort
of advance agent. This man engages
apartments and practices morning, noon
and night, until all the tenants are dis
tracted and their nerves unstrung. Then
the specialist comes along, puts out his
sign and gathers in the guineas.
There has been a revival of the Jack the
Ripper sensation on the continent. This
time it comes from the Tyrol, and, like
previous cases of the kind, no clue to the
identity of the perpetrator has been dis
covered. The body of a young woman, 21
years of age, a hotel waitress at Amras,
near Innsbruck, was found between the
villages of Lands and Aldrans. It is be
lieved she was murdered as she was going
home from a religous procession at Amras.
w here she was last seen. A razor edged
knife was found near the place where the
crime took place. Shortly afterw’ard an
other woman was found near the same
place, horribly mutilated like the former
one. A third girl is missing, and, although
there is no reason to believe she has been
murdered, the fate of the others has
caused her friends the greatest uneasi
ness, and a vigorous search i being made
for her.
A launch some forty-eight feet long and
drawing about two feet of water, de
signed for an umpire boat, has recently
been put upon the Thames at Moseley.
It is claimed by the owners that this boat
is the fastest of the kind in the world. It
has a speed with the current of some
twenty-nine miles an hour, and can do
twenty-six miles against the Current.
When going at full speed it is almost en
tirely buried in an enormous wave which,
from the shores, hides ail parts of the
boat from view’ except the boy and smoke
stack. This wave, created by the boat,
submerges lawms and lifts house boats
and skiffs secured along the bank to the
towdng path. The people along the shore
decidedly object to having their craft
lifted out of the water and left high and
dry. There have been so many com
plaints that the launch will probably be
either suppressed by the authorities or
compelled to steam a non-wave making
rate of speed.
Prof. Hite, who has just returned from
the exploration of Labrador, says: “There
is no population in Labrador outside of
the few T fishermen scattered along the sea
coast, but before leaving Cape Charles
we were invited to the greatest society
event in the w’hole of Labrador last sum
mer. It was a dance given in a fish house.
There were three girls and two Esquimaux
belles to be distributed as partners among
more than fifty men. An Esquimaux with
an old fiddle made the music and played
the ‘Arkansaw Traveler’ in very effective
style. Regarding our collections, a splen
did assortment of insect life was secured.
I found eight new' butterflies which have
not been described in the entomology of
Labrador. The animal life is sub-Arctic,
as well as the flora, and is therefore rather
scanty. In addition to the larger animals
which came under the head of game, some
rare water shrews w'ere discovered, and a
remarkably varied collection of toads pe
culiar to Labrador. Two new land birds
w’ere secured, and a large collection of
water fowl.”
It is the custom of the Japanese, says
Harper's Weekly, to add to the names of
their ships of war the word Kan, a term
which is of Chinese origin and means war
vessel, and their war ships are always
spoken of in this way, as—Naniwa Kan,
Hashidate Kan, etc. In a similar manner
the word Maru is added to the names of
merchant vessels, as—Oml Maru, Yama
shiro Maru. The word is of obscure ori
gin. It is believed to be a corruption of
Maro, “an archaic term of endearment.”
The meanings and origin of names given
to Japanese war vessels are of interest.
Matsushima is one of the Sankei, or
"three view's of Japan,” and has been
famous from earliest times. It is a beau
tiful archipelago on the coast, which can
be described in the mi*ftning of the words
"Pine-tree Island.” Itsukushima and
Hashidate are islands famous lor their
beauty. Naniwa is the ancient name for
the province in w'hich the old capital.
Kyoto, is situated. Takachiho Is a south
ern mountain, on the summit of which
the first mikado, Jimmu Tenno, is sup
posed to have alighted when he descended
from heaven. Yoshino is a wild, moun
tainous tract of country, in which is situ
ated a town of the same name, celebrated
for its sakura (the flowering cherry) trees,
said to number 1,000. Akagi and Hiyei are
names of mountains.
Engineers have estimated that the total
water power of Niagara Falls is 7,000,000
horse power, says Harper's Weekly. This
estimate, to be sure, is in the main only a
guess, but when the area drained into the
lakes above Lake Ontario, and passing
through the Niagara river be considered,
the guess or estimate does not seem to be
too large. The water surface of the great
lakes above Ontario is 81,000 square miles,
and the water shed of these lakes is 240,-
000 square miles—more than twice the
area of Great Britain and Ireland. The
total length of shore line is 5,000 miles,
while the volume of water is 6,000 cubic
feet per second, of which Lake Superior
contains almost one-half. The rate of out
flow at Buffalo is from 275,000 cubic
feet per second, while the fall of the cat
aract is 165 feet. The volume of water in
the lakes is such that it has been esti
mated that even if no rain fell the flow
of the river would be continued at its
present rate for 100 years—that is, if the
lakes could be gradually drained. These
are very large figures, but in the main thev
are the results of exact measurements.
The small water powers in the world are
uneven, and are affected by floods and
droughts, but this great power at Niagara
is as constant as anything in this world
can be, not even the ice in the severest
and longest winter ever known appreci
ably changing it. The present plant is
intended only to utilize 125,000 horse power
and the turbines now in place are only
for a small part of this. Other turbine
w heels will be put in place as the demand
for power grows. The general plan of the
company contemplates the ultimate use
of 450,000 horse power on the American
side and a like amount in Canada. Such
a power would turn ail the wheels within
a radius of 500 miles of the falls. At the
present time a considerable part of the
power developed is to be taken to Buffalo
by electric transmission, and It is the con
fident expectation of the electricians now
at work on the problem that the power
can be taken as far east as Albany. 300
miles away, and delivered there cheaper
than pow-er can he generated by burning
roal. if this be so, then all the country
between Albany and the falls will be ad
mirably adapted for manufacturing, while
the Erie canal will afford cheap and tol
erably quick transportation, for there
seems to be little difficulty in the way of
hauling these boats by electrical power.
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