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INDEX TO .NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Meeting—Confederate Veterans’ Asso
ciation; The Bout hover Land and Im
provement Company; Ancient Landmark
Lodge No. 231, F. A A. M.; Catholic Li
brary Association.
Military Orders—German Volunteers.
Special Notices—Lunch, Beckman's i
Cafe; Shipping Notice, < \ 11 Medlock;i
Tennessee Roll Butter. \\ Inman Miller;
Armor Brand Linen Collar.- B. II Levy
A. Bro.; Chatham Real Estate and Im
provement Company
No Matter—Falk Clothing Company.
Mattings. Mattings. Lindsay \ Morgan
_When You Come Here—B. ii. Levy &
Rro.
Railroad Schedules—Central Railroad
of Georgia; Southern Kailua\ (’ompahy,
•‘The Vestibule Route;” Plant System.
It's a Black Friday Sale Appel A*
Schaul.
Legal Sale—Administrator’s Sale. Ad
ministrator’s S.tle * f Valuable Property
by I. D. La Roe he; Chatham Sheriff Sales;
City Sheriff Sales; Trustee Sale; Admin
istrator’s Sale of Real Estate, C. H. por
fiett; Administrator’s Sale; Administra
trix’ Sale. It. IT. Tatem.
Legal Notice Application for Exemp
tion of Personality. T. Sampson.
Auction Sales—Sale of Pile Drivers
and Marine Railway Applianees, W. k
Wilkinson, Auctioneer; At Auction, C. ({
Dorsett, Auctioneer; Leases and Ac
counts for Sale, C. 11. Dorsett, Auction
eer.
Amusements—Savannah Lyceum Mon
day Jan. 14. •
Steamship Schedules—Ocean Steamship
Company.
Cheap Column Advertisements—Help
Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Rent;
For Sale; Lost; Personal; Miscellaneous.
There is curiosity in New York to know
why Robert J. Kelly, son of the late
Eugene Kelly, was disinherited by his
father. It is to be presumed that the rea
son was a family matter. Being such,
Mr. Kelly, senior, had the right to settle
It, in so far as the distribution of his
money was concerned, in a manner to
suit himself. However, the disinherited
son may astonish his relatives and friends
by pulling out for himself and making of
life as great a success as his father did.
Other disinherited sons have done that.
Capt. Dreyfus will probably “wipe out”
the stain upon his name by committing su
icide. If he does not he is a queerly consti
tuted Frenchman. There is nobody whom
be could fight hnd by whipping him re
gain his prestige. The punishment he has
already suffered—having his sword brok
en and his insignia of rank torn from his
uniform on the parade ground—is quite
as terrible as death itself to high spirited
military men. The fact that the captain’s
trial was in secret leads many persons to
wuspect that he was unfairly dealt w ith
lor political reasons.
Dr. Parkhursf is writing a book. It is
presumed that it will be printed on as
bestos and bound in sheet iron: for ad
vanced reports say il will be “specially
hot stuff." The manuscript is now on the
printing machines. It is alleged by a
wickedly humorous New York paper that
streams of . Ice water are kept playing
■upon the machines to keep them from be
ing melted by the ardor of the doctor's
denunciations The volume, It is said, will
show that many of the prominent wit
nesses before the Lexow committee com
mitted perjury, and that there were at
tempts made to manipulate the committee,
some of which came very near succeed
ing.
Congressman Russell of this state Is
quoted by the Baltimore Sun’s Washing
ton correspondent as follows: "I am op
posed to a registration law. 1
am opposed to the Australian
ballot system. I am heartily in
favor of fair elections, hut I bel'.evs
much of the agitation for a reformation
of our methods comes from men who
have failed-to obtain what they wanted
from the Democratic party. There was
one man I know of in my state who talked
louder than any one else about corrupt
practices of the democrats, who was
generally accused of having worn his
middle linger, which was shorter than
the others, down to its present size stuff
ing ballot boxes." The congressman is
mistaken if he thinks the demand for
election reform it not general. It is pos
eibly true that disgruntled office-seekers
are in the ranks of those crying for re
form in this matter. It would be ex
ceptional if the leeches did not attach
themselves to the movement. Neverthe
less, the blood suckers are pretty well
known, and will be watt bed by the voters
who have the good of the state and party
at heart. The ballot reform sentiment
la strong and growing, and at the next
session of the legislature of this state
the Australian system will probably be
k adopted.
The Currency Question and Politics.
One of the reasons urged for the ap
pointment of a non-partisan commission
to prepare a banking and currency bill
for the approval of the next congress is
that in no other way can the currency
question be taken out of politics. It is
apparent now that it will be difficult for
congress to pass a banking and currency
bill without making concessions that
woud not be apporvt and by those who want
a safe dnd sound financial system. The
silverttHH demand that silver shall he
given greater recognition, the national
hank people have views they want
adopted, and those who favor state banks
of issue thr* a ten to defeat any measure
that doe* not provide the kind of cur
rent y they want. It might be a difti ult
matter to name a commission that would
consider only the public good. Still. |t is
possible to secure such a commission, and
congress may be forced finally to adopt
the commission scheme, though there
does not now seem to be any prospect of
Us doing so.
The democrats in congress are awaken
ing to the fact that if they fall to
enact any hanking and currency legisla
tion their political opponents will charge
in the approaching presidential cam
paign that the Democratic party la< ked
the ability and courage to give the coun
try relief from its financial troubles. A
charge like that would have a dam
aging effect upon the party. If congress
should pass a banking and currency bill
that failed to give relief the Democratic
party would be in a worse position than
if no bill at all were passed. As far as
the approaching presidential campaign
is concerned, therefore, w hat is needed to
fully restore confidence in the Democratic
party is legislation that would give the
country a safe and satisfactory banking
and currency system.
The republicans are watching every
move of the democrats carefully and they
confidently expect that they will fail to
pass a banking and currency bill. If they
should fail the republicans would proceed
to reform the banking and currency sys
tem on lines which they believe would
give their party a quarter of a century’s
lease of power.
There may be those among them who
would Join the democrats in passing a
banking and currency bill provided such
concessions as they v ant were mvcii
them, because they are apprehensive that
the present condition of our financial af
fairs threatens a serious financial disaster
but the most of them are not at present
thinking so much of th* welfare of the
country as they are of the success of
their party. Their qini is to put their party
Into power and keep it there, and they
are willing to take a good many risks to
accomplish that object. The next few
days ought to clear the legislative atmos
phere at Washington greatly. It may
clear it to such an extent that it will be
possible to see whether there will he any
banking and currency legislation by this
congress, and if so whether it will he of a
character to put the nation’s finances
upon a safe and sound basis.
Our Black Population.
A question that has been debated a
great deal Is, whether or not tjie blacks
in proportion to their numbers are In
creasing faster than the whites. Mr.
Henry Garnett, an expert of the census,
has virtually set this question at rest by
the publication of some statistics bearing
upon the subject taken from the census
returns.
There is no doubt that the blacks are in
creasing rapidly, but not nearly so rap
idly as the whites. From 1790 to 1890 the
white population increased from about
3.0U0.000 to 55,000,000. In the same time the
blacks increased from 750,000 to 7,500,000.
These figures show that the number of the
whites was eighteen times as great at the
end of the TOO years beginning with 1790
and the number of blacks was only ten
times as great. To put the statement in
another shape, the blacks in 1790 consti
tuted twenty per cent, of the population
and in 1890 they constituted only twelve
per cent of it.
And the greater increase of the white
population has not been wholly due to im
migration, because, between 179*) and 184 u,
when there was very little immigration
and when tlie health of the blacks was
much better cared for than they them
selves care.for it now. the increase in the
white population was relatively consider
ably greater than that of the blacks.
The census fig lifer show that the blacks
are gradually moving from the border
states of the South to the South Atlantic
and gulf states.—particularly Louisiana,
Mississippi and Arkansas, though in all
southern states, except Arkansas, the rela
tivo Increase of the whites is greater than
that by th* blacks. This condition of af
fairs would indicate quite clearly that
there is no reason to apprehend a race con
flict in any one of the southern states at
any future time.
It is well known of course that the
tendency of the blacks as well as the
whites is toward the cities and towns, in
IMSO only 4.2 per cent of the blacks lived
in cities having 8,000 inhabitants or more.
In IS7O 8.5 per cent, of them were*.residents
of cities and towns and 1890 twelve per
cent, of them.
It is well understood that the number
of criminals, in proportion to population,
is far greater among the blacks than
among the whiles, but the number of
paupers is no greater. The reason the
number paupers is no greater is that in
the south, particularly in the towns and
cities the poorer class of blacks have
means of living not possessed by pov
erty stricken whites.
The census figures show’ that while the
blacks have not made the improvement
mentally, morally or materially they were
Expected to make since emancipation
they are slowly bettering their condition.
At a rich man’s funeral in New York
the other day S9OO worth of violets were
laid upon and about the bier. That may
be regarded as extravagance; nevertheless
good comes from the exceptional outlay
for violets. The sum paid for the little
flowers was an addition to the circula
tion in the people’s hands, and the chances
are that a large proportion of it went in
to poor people’s pocket.
THE MORNING NEWS: TUESDAY. JANUARY 8. 1895.
Secretary Lament's Pet Project.
It is said that Secre’ary Lament was
mainly Instrumental in bringing the Presi
dent and Senator Hill together at the
President’s dinner table. Before the fail
elections he made an effort to induce
them to adjust th**ir differences. In his
opinion the overwhelming defeat which
the Democratic party suffered in New
York last November was partly due to
the lack of harmony between the Cleve
land and Hill factions. If these two lead
ers become r*H:onciled the two factions of
the democracy in New York can easily
be induced to shake hand? an 1 prepare for
a vigorous < ampaign in I*9*>.
It is said tha* Secretary Lamont thinks
that if the fighting forces of the Dem
ocratic party in New York can be har
monized, ft can be made to appear that
the democrats will have a fair chance of
carrying that in the next presi
dent al election. With a showing of that
sort the next democratic nominee for
President may he a New York man. That
is what Secretary lAmont is working for—
to open the way for making a New York
man the nominee of the Democratic party
for President in 189 H.
The reason first suggested for the rec
onciliation between the President and the
senator, namely, that the President wants
the senator to be the leader of the admin
istration forces in the Senate Is not gen
erally accepted. He could not not, for
several reasons, fill that position suc
cessfully. He may when the opportunity
presents itself say a good word for the
President, as he did some time ago, and
which really opened the way for the ad
vances which the President made to the
senator, but it would be a mistake for
him to attempt to be the mouthpiece of
the administration in the Senate.
The reconciliation doubtless means that
plans are being proposed for the cam
paign of 189*1. Complete harmony between
the democratic factions in New York
is necessary to the carrying out of those
plans. Secretary Lamont does not appear
to be a great factor in the administration,
but it will not be denied that he is a
very shrewd politician. He understands
the political situation in New York thor
oughly and great confidence is felt in
his politcal management by the party
leaders.
In the meantime, neither the President
nor Senator Hill will give out a word
about the dinner for publication. Ap
parently each of them thinks that it would
be better from every point of view’, to keep
the exact truth in respect to it from the
public. There is, therefore, doubt as to
what the President said to the senator
in his note inviting him to dinner and as
to what the senator said in reply. It is
expected that the effect of the reconcilia
tion will soon become apparent In New
York politics.
The President and Hawaii.
Those republican senators who have
been trying to make it appear that the
President encouraged the royalists of
Haw'nil to overthrow’ the republican gov
ernment that has been established there
received a pretty severe set back by the
publication of the answer the President
gave the three commissioners of the de
posed queen who visited Washington last
August to see if something could not be
done to restore the monarchy.
The President did not see the commis
sioners. What he had to say to them he
put in wilting. He told them frankly
that he did not believe that this country’s
representative at Honolulu had been whol
ly impartial in the part he took in the
revolution, and that he planned to set
this country right in the matter. He said
his plan had failed, however, and that the
established government had maintained
itself. It had therefore been recognized
by tills government, and he saw no rea
son for changing the policy which the ad
ministration had adopted in respect to
Hawaii.
This was a straightforward statement.
Its publication w ill have the effect of set
ting the President right before the coun
try in respect to the Hawaiian affair.
At all times he has been frank and out
spoken in respect to Hawaii, and his com
munication to the deposed queen’s com
mtudoners shows that he accepts the Ha
waiian situation as it exists at present.
Th re is therefore no reasonable ground
upon which the republican senators can
attack him for the course he pursued in
respect to Hawaii.
Hats off to this hero! He is Harry
Brault. and he resides at Peterboro, Ont.,
where he is a lumberman working for a
lumber company in the Madawaska re
gion. Some days ago John Jamieson, his
friend and fellow workman, sustained an
accident—broke his leg—and the shock
drove him crazy. He told Brault he was
going home. The men were forty miles
from anywhere in the wilds of a forest.
The cold was intense, and snow and ice
covered everything. The sick man
started. One hundred yards from the
camp he gave out and fell exhausted.
Brault rushed to his aid. Picking up the
crippled and crazy man Brault took him
upon his back and started out to carry
him forty miles to the railroad. The woods
were full of dangets. Wild animals
roamed everywhere, and once Brault’s
crazy burden attempted to shoot him.
Yet the heroin Canadian plodded on.
and fct the end of the fourth day reached
the railroad. Anybody who is disinclined
to believe the story may assure them
selves of its truth by turning to the map.
and finding Madawaska is there, and by
.referring to the newspaper files and
learning that it was extremely cold in
Ontario ten days ago.
Senator Fair was popularly supposed to
be worth a minimum of $!0,000,0u0 at the
time of his death the other day. A publi
cation of the Inside affairs of the senator s
death by a San Francisco paper shows
that he is worth only $12,000,000 or $15,000,-
000. It is understood the senator lost heav
ily in wheat deals during the past several
years. The estate is so encumbered with
debts due for wheat that the heirs will
not receive a cent from it for several
years.
The Georgia corn train to Nebraska
will be laden also with wholesome food
for reflection on the part of the north.
A bill has’ been introduced in the legis
lature of Pennsylvania to make the pur
chase by proxy of poll tax receipts a mis
demeanor, punishable with fine and im
prisonment. There are other states than
Pennsylvania that ought to have a law
of the kind. The payment of poll taxes
as am ans of petty bribery’ is probably in
dulged in wherever a tax receipt is nec
essary to the voter s exercising the func- ,
tion of elector.
PERSONAL.
Father Schleyer of Constance, in Ba
den. the discoverer or founder of Voianuk.
“the world language,” has been made a
monsignor by the pope.
Dr. F. Buchanan Whyte, who d>i 1n
Perth. Scotland, a f**w days ago, was one
ologists. He gave names to many moun
tain flowers.
Lord Roseberry. the English premier, is
a great student ot the Bibie. in the speech
which he made a short time ago he quoted
the Bible seven times, Shakespeare twice
and Aristotle once.
Archbishop Katzer of Wisconsin will
mak* a visit to Rome, and in all proba
bility he will also go to Jerusalem and
the Holy Land !*efcre returning at the
expiration of three month?.
Miss Cora Benneson, a graduate of the
Michigan University Law school, who !
has been already admitted to practice ir.
Illinois and Me hifao, hit Bitted ;
to the War in Massachusetts
Christina Georgina Rossetti, the Eng- 1
fish poet, who died the other day, was the
third of the gifted children of Gabriel
Rossetti. She was born in London in 1830.
w as a deep student of early Ital-an poetry
ami her later verse is permeated by relig
ious sentiment.
Minzie Chew is a woman highway rob
ber serving a term in the Ohio peniten
tiary at Columbus. By wild screaming
and w ilder talking at night she has made
th* keepers so angry that they now keep
her chained up in her cell, with a halter
tied in her mouth to insure silence.
Dr. Talmage is said to receive SSOO for a
lecture and sometimes SI,OOO. He makes
more money out of his lectures than any
other man on the platform. Col. lnger
soU’s price is SSOO, while Dr. McGlynn,
Joseph Cook and others of the same rank
of lecturers command from $l9O to $l5O.
George Wilkinson, one of th** most noted
designers of silverware in this country,
dropped dead in Elmwood, R. 1 , the other
day He Was to the metal Industry of the
1 "tilted States what Josiah Wedgewood
was to the pottery industry of England a
century earlier.
Miss Nellie Cushman of Arizona, a tall,
angular, dark-haired, dark-eyed girl, a
rapid talker and a great reader, has the
reputation of being the only woman min
ing expert in the world. She is a Kansas
girl, and began her work In examining or.*
at Tucson, Arizona, nine years ago, when
she was a girl of seventeen.
Without having conspicuous talents or
great ambition. Lord Cornwallis was the
central figure in four epochs of English
history. He surrendered to the Americans
at Yorktown, was governor general of
India at a critical period, was lord lieu
tenant ofr Ireland during the rebellion,
and negotiated the peace of Amiens.
Robert Louis Stevenson told a Washing
ton writer that his story of “Dr. Jekyll
and Mr. Hyde” had for its foundation at.
incident told to him by a London doctor,
who made diseases of the brain a spec
ialty. None of his work was absolute fic
tion, and most of it had a basis in actual
experience. “I do not believe/’ he said,
“that any man ever evolved a really good
story from his inner consciousness un
aided by some personal experience or in
cident in life.”
BRIGHT BITS.
Had been Abroe I—“Ar 1 irs't Lake Como
beautiluiv” "Lake Como? Oh, yes! 1
remember it distinctly now -berate •• my
husband complained so much that the®
train was so slow in passing.”—Vogue.
The Priest—“ This man is so tipsy he can
hardly stand. I can’t marry you to him
unless he's in his normal state.” The
Bride~-“Faith, thin ye'll have to hurry,
for it's soberin’ up he is this minnut. ’—
Harlem Life.
Too Late —Isaacs—“l vbs so sory to hear
your cashier vent *ff mit dwenty tousand
tolars. Yill you be able to pull through,
or must you make an assignment?”
Cohen—“Vot’s der use? Der sgoundrel
has till my money!”—-Puck.
“I know’ what I’m going to do,” said the
boy who is greatly puzzled by the mystery
of Santa Claus. “What?” asked his
mother. "I’m going to wait till I grow
up and get children of my own. and then
watch lor him.”—Washington Star.
“They say when the critics got through
with Seribbem’s new play it didn’t have
a leg to stand on.”
“Tumph! They must have worked
mighty hard, then, i saw it th** first
night, and it wasn’t anything much but
legs.’’Buffalo Courier.
“Are the children having a merry Christ
inas at your house?’’
“They must be,” replied the gloomy
citizens. “Their aunt has the earache and
their mother has the headache, and they
still have money that they haven’t spent
for tin horns.”—Washington Star.
“I can tell you baron, that, when my
offer of marriage was rejected by the
prima donna, I was so miserable that f
was on the point of throwing myself out
of the w indow. ’
“What prevented you?”
“The hight!’’—Karlshaden Wochenblatt.
Magistrate (to witness)—“l understand
that you overheard th** quarrel between
the defendant and his wife?”
Witness—“ Yes, sor.”
Magistrate—'.‘Tell the court, if you can,
what h<=* seemed to be doing.”
Witness—“He seemed to be doin’ the lis
tenin’ ”—Tid Bits.
Gent—“ What is th* reason you charge
twice as much for my cuffs as you did
formerly ?”
Washerwoman—“ Because you have be
gin)* making pencil notes on them.”
Gent—“W hat difference docs that
make?”
Washerwoman—“ The girls waste so
much time in trying to make them out.”
—De Amsterdammer.
CURRENT COMMENT.
Short of Political Capital.
From the Philadelphia Record (Pcm >.
Senator Aldrich, nf Rhode Island must
be pair,fully short of \ ditical canital w hen
he seeks to manufacture it out of the
obsolete Hawaiian business. His futile
attempt in this line i- so very like a con
fession of political bankruptcy as to be
much more suggestive of the need of a
receivership than of serious response from
th 2 friends of the administration.
A Compliment to Carlisle.
From tim Chicago Times (Pem.).
It is high compliment to Secretarv (’ar-
Hsl? that the moneyed interest of New
York, that interest which is profiting bv
successful bond issues and by its labors
in tlie past which have given to th** United
States its currency system, singles him
out as r foe to be destroyed, and it is cred
itable to the President of tlm United
St it os that he refuses the dictation of this
moneyed interest.
The Logical Candidate.
Louisville Courier-Journal <Pem.).
If the Republican party goes outside of
Louisville for its presidential nominee in
1596. it is the Courier-Journal's opinion
that it could make no better choice than
Senator Allison; but we fear we shall
never see him at the head of the ticket
unless h * shall alw’ays remember never to
omit making a blinkered partisan of him
self and to swear on any and every oc
casion that when the letter O doe? not
stand for the devil it stands for the dem
ocrats.
Mitchell, Hogg and Flagler.
From the Houston (Tex.) Post (Dem ).
The Florida governor’s haste in revok
ing his first order was such that he could
n it await the opinion of the attorney gen
eral, which had been asked for. and his
present temper is such that he will not see
newspaper representatives or talk to any
one about the matter. Mr. Flagler will
now visit his Florida reserve and enjov
himself w ithout apprehension of the min
ions of the law. and the newspapers will
congratulate themselves on having won
a signal victory in causing the Florida
governor to change his mind.
Believe in White Witch.
Old world superstitions are by no means
extinct in England, and in the west coun
try they are very powerful. A country
doctor gives some curious experiences of
his practice in Cornwall, which, he de
clares. he shared with a dirty oi l woman
known as the “white* witch.” He tells
the story of a giri who was seized wftn
fits. She consulted tne wltrh. who said
she* had been bewitched by somebody, and
told her to go away and find out who it
was.
In a week the girl went ba*k and said
she* dreamed every night of a stout eldeny
woman, with a very red face, who threat
en* i her. It so haptenel that close bv
there lived an elderly widow, charitable,
popular and highly p -?pe*:r. ?. ti? stout
and, unfortunately, red in the face. She
va* evidently the v. it h. and h**r rood
character made her al! the more danger
ous. Besides, if she had nor bewitched
the girl, why did she appear to her in a
dream?
There war no resisting these arguments.
They would have been ample 150 years ago
to set the poor old lady swimming in the
river, which, of coure. would have been
much the best way of breaking the spell
As that, unhappily, was impossible, the
best way was to go by night to the
old lady’s house, take a -stone from the
garden wall, and put it into the kitchen
hr** at he girl s home. When it was char
red away the tits would cease; and, in
d-f*d, they would cea*<- earlier still if the
case could be helped by hanging round
the girl s neck the linger of a man who
had hanged himself—but such things were
hird to t ome by. Fortune favored the
girl. A man hanged himself that dav
w **k in a hamlet near at hand. The sui
cide’s finger was secured, used as the
witch had directed, and the tits ceased
almost immediately. This case occurred
in the year 18*7.
However, the white witch was not al
ways so successful. The cottagers had
unbounded belief in the absurd and some
times mischieovus old woman, and would
even go to her in cases where delicate
suggery was required. Rut the ways of
the inhabitants have now grown familiar
to the doctor, and he more than half be
lieves their traditions, and does not reject
the very wildest of th**m. Aid even in
th<* juggleries of the white wit -h his ear
sometimes catches the ting o 2 truth.
Mr. Eastman Met a Bear.
Rears like to try people’s nerves, says the
Presque Island Beacon. Many people have
noticed this disagreeable habit of theirs.
Last Thursday night after dark as Carroll
Eastman was walking up the hill fmiliarlv
termed “the mountain.’’ on the main road
between Fort Fairfield and Presque Isle,
h* saw something dark in the road just
ahead of him. It was a bear. Bruin was
standing up, his arms folded across his
breast seemingly taking a nocturnal sur
vey or nature in general, and the. road tq
I-ort k airfield village in particular. Car
roll spent considerably less than half an
hour reflecting upon the situation before
he got outside of a yell that would have
brought a flush of joy to that smoke-and
greaso area of a Comanche Indian which
Is sometimes called a face. Carroll started
down th. rood for home at a gait that
would have made Flying Jib kick himself
for envy. Apparently the bear was pierced
to the spinal cord by the whoop. He col
lapsed quicker than a Kansas land boom,
falling to the ground all in a heap. Gather
ing himself up in a minute he locked
around and started for camp. The next
day Carroll and others went to look for
his bears hip. They found numerous
tracks, hut no bear.
The above is the story as the neighbors
teil it. Carroll himself claims that when
he first saw’ the bear he simply spoke a
wj>ru of gentle remonstrance to the effect
that Bruin ought to see it was hardly
courteous to be taking up so much of the
highway at night, and thus Impeding the
progress of foot people ami others. He
sh>3 he toH the hear that, for himself, he
n, ' t anything* about it. but that
clelirate women or yotint? . hlhlren mleht
at first he slightly stnrtle.t to- meeting
smh travelers. With a stnl and Injured ex
partedn Hnl n S!,ia soo,J <“'t nlng and <!e-
Tliis Is Carroll s story, and he Is a vounc
man not a customed to prevaricating
£ 'rnnai 11 ary or mendacious ao
vim? °1 h -'* extraordinary adventures.
u eustomarllv his Intention
to assume any part In the transmission
tlons SSt ’ m “ at!on ° f valn S l " ri °u* Git,rlva?
Queer English in India.
Here is another specimen of Haboo Eng
lish. says the Kngllsmman. It is the
argument of a learned pleader for an ap
peal. My learned friend with mere wind
from a teapot thinks to browbeat mo
from my logs. Hut this Is mere gorilla
warfare. I stand under the shoes of my
< Uont, and only seek to place my bone of
\?v t 7 m ° n clearly in your honor’s oven.
M> learned frined vainly runs amuck
upon the sheet anchors of mv case Your
th o it or mv lll r h % |, ! eaSed enough to observe
that m> client Is a widow, a poor chap
with one post-mortem son. A widow of
*“■ country, your honor will l>c pleased
enough to observe, is not like a widow
of your honor s country. A widw of this
country is not able to cat more than one
K 1 wear clean cothes, or to
look after a man. Sc my poor client had
aslauit' h tnc hy p r . or m,nd , as to be able to
assault the pasty complainant. Vec she
has been deprived of some of her more
valuable leather, the leather of her nose
My learned friend has thrown only an
argument ail hominy upon my teeth that
Hon/ Th t arp 1111 her own rela
non;. But they are not near relations
1 heir relationship is only homoepathie So
wilVnm h K m , ents V , nnv Earned friend
will not hold water. At least they will not
hold good water. Then mv learned friend
has said that there is on the side of his
client a respectable witness, viz . a plead
er, and since this witness is independent,
with' sh °uld be believed. Hut your honor
w ith t our honor s vast experience, is
pleased enough to observe that truthful
ness_ is not so plentiful as blackberries
{? ‘his country. And I am sorry to say
though this witness is a man of mv own
, ‘, here are ,n mv Profession
IT k ;heoP of every complexion, and
truth ° f ,hem ' ° nf>t always s Poak gospel
What She Had F.-ar:d.
Macallister Mcllhenny felt that the
ground was slipping from under him in the
emotional Held, and he puller) himself *
gether for a tied effort. He chose a soft
afternoon when the frost was yielding to
the genial rays of th- sun and a'l nature
ate flirt“ pleaSi ' ,u mood - and an appropri-
And it was an appropriate time, for what
is so delightful as one of those Dee. m
ber days which are quite as rare as a
day in June, when earth and skv are in
attune and love is ladled with a spoonf
He that as it may. Macallister Mdlhennv
was supremely confident, and transferrin
half n. his week's salary to a hati-htv !iv~
ery stable keeper, he secured a short lease
cl a horse and buggy and went after the
fair object of his dreams
For two hours Th that pleasant afternoon
sunshine Macallister Mcllhenny drove
3 u r t ' a ,’} es along' smooth
roads and he felt that he was driving
straight to glory, but somehow v , ,h 5
Detroit Free Press, the fair being at his
side did not seem to be sharing in Ms ex
hilaration It did not strike him with full
force until they had started homeward
Im afraid," he said he f d, at ; ntlv ' as
they were nearing the end of the drive
"that the afternoon has been a disannoint'
ment to you.” K 1
“Oh, no," she responded, smiling.
••r 1 t SO ? lari - sp . f.btd." he mtirmrued.
for it has been a dolieinus season to rpo ”
“That is very kin-i of you to say.”
“Are you sure.” and he made as if to
take her band, “that the drive has not been
a disappointment to you?”
“Indeed, nc," she smiled. “I expected
to be bored, don’t you know?”
Then it was that Macallister Mdlhennv
knew that only the livery stable man hail
profited by the afternoon's work.
The Rose She Gave.
From the Atlantic Monthly.
This-the ros<* she gave me.
With its crimson tips:
Red—as any rose should be,
flavins: touched her Kps.
An*l with something of her grace,
And the beauty of her face.
This—the rose she gave me.
Bloomed where south winds stir;
HM its honey from the bee
For the lips of her!
Through long days disquieted
For those lips to kfss red!
This—the rose she gave me;
Never rose sc sweet!
Here the heart of springtime see—
Lean, and hear it beat!
Life, and all its melody
In the rose she gave to me!
The Prince of Wales will spend three
weeks in January in the Riviera. His
yacht Britannia will take part in the
regatta.
ITEM 9 OF INTEREST.
A peculiar substitute for window glas,
known as “tectorium,” is stated to have
been for some time employed In Austria,
Italy, Germany. Switzerland and Russia,
as a covering for hothouses, marquees*
verandas, windows of factories, roofs of
stores, etc. It is a special, insoluble, bi
chromated gelatin, translucent as opal
glass and incorporated in Nr ire gauze,
it possesses, we are told, the translucent?
of opal glass, is tough and flexible, bends
without breaking, does not dissolve in
water, and is not injured by frost. It is
a bad conductor of heat, and becomes
stronger, it is stated, the longer it is ex
posed to the air.
Some noteworthy speeds have been made
in this country by the Ilerreshoff and
other steam launches. The fastest beat
in England at the present tftne is the
Hibernia, which makes a rate of 39 miles
an hour with the stream and -S 1 ; miles
against it. Th#* boat is 48 feet 3 inches
long. 7 feet 3 Inches broad and 1 foot V 2
inches in draught. Her engines are two
cylinders, both high pressure, 7 1 * inches
in diameter, stroke •> inches, revolutions
from 750 to 1,050 per minute. Th** propeller
is three' bladed At ordinarv speed the
boat makes but little wash. With a slight
touch of the regulator, she leaps forward
and as the speed increases sinks slightly
to the stem, while rising by the head,
until at a critical high speed the bow
rises tdean out of the water, and resting
on her keel, the boat shoots along between
a double wall that hides about two-thirds
of her hull completely.
A precious stone on which the decree
of fashion has. at the present moment.
a fancy value is the peridot, or “even
ing emerald,” a* it has been called. It
is certainly a lovely stone, with its ex
quisite shades of transparent green, the
best suggestion of whose hue is the effect
produced by looking at the light through
a deli, ate leaf. Jewel* fs say that the
peridot is a species of olivine, of the same
class as the beryl, aqua-marine and topaz
—and that it is. In fact, the ancient “to
pazion,” otherwise known as chrysolite.
It is found in Egypt, Ceylon, Peru and
Brazil—good crystals being extremely
rare. Of its various shades of green—
olive, leaf, pistachio or leek—the clear
leaf-green is the most admired as a rule.
At a recent fashionable wedding, one
of the most beautiful and costly of the
presents was a set of ornaments com
posed of peridots set in amethysists; the
blending of the soft mauve and green was
exquisitely artistic. Of all th** precious
stones the peridot is the most difficult
to polish. The Anal touch is given c n a
copper wheel, moistened with sulphuric
acid—a process which requires the great
est care, for, if dipped into the acid, the
stone has the peculiarity of becoming sol
uble. Sometimes it is cut in ros** form, or
en cabochon. like a carbuncle, but is bet
ter and more valuable when worked in
small steps, as the brilliance is thereby
increased.
According to the “Evangellsch-Luther
ische Klrchen-Zeitung.” Berlin, a horrible
caricature of the conversion of heathens to
the Christian faith is being enacted in
Camernoon. The old services of the fetish
are prohibited under German rule, but the
Duallas have no intention to renounce
heathenism and have now organized them
selves into a body having all the appear
ance of a religious community. The au
thorities have been asked to investigate
the matter. Our contemporary says: “To
find a substitute for the worship of idols,
the Duallas have organized the Almela
’Church.’ Almela is the god of whisky,
and well known through all the coast dis
tricts. To keep up the semblance of a re
ligious community, the Almelas demand
that intending members of their congre
gation pass an ‘examination’ to prove
their fitness. The convert is then im
mersed aft€>r the manner of the Baptists.
When he arises from th water he is given
a glass of liquor, and exorted to remem
ber that liquor shall henceforth be his
god. The ‘convert is thus bound to drink
plenty; of alcohol. Meetings are held
on Sundays, and the leader takes a book
from which he pretends to read, but in
reality discourses on th** harmlessness
and pleasures of vice. Many people of
Bongo have sought admittance into* this
body. They were told that Almela wor
ship came from Europe, being one of the
many religious sects of the Christians.”
The great Edison incandescent lamp
works are no longer turning out lamps
with bamboo filaments. This simple fact
covers a whole period without parallel
for indefatigable research and ceaseless
Invention. When the art of making incan
descent lamps began fifteen years ago
all kinds of carbonizable substances were
dilllgently experimented with—wood, pa
per. silk, hair, putty—and Edison has
stated that he has made no fewer than
3/100 separate tests of such materials be
fore he settled finally on bamboo as the
best for reduction to carbon and for sub
sequent durability. But there arc many
different varieties of bamboo, and Edison
ransacked the earth in the quest for the
kinds having the toughest, straightest
fibers. His emissaries visited all the trop
ical quarters of the globe, penetrating
to regions up the Amazon, in India and
Japan, never before reached by an Amer
ican. The result of their adventurous dis
coveries w’a.s the selection of a species
of Japanese bamboo which has been used
until very recently. Now newer processes
have come to the front, and bamkpo gives
way to paper us the basis of the delicate
black filament that glows golden when the
current passes through it. We are said
to be on the eve of cheaper lamps, due
not alone to improved manufacture, but
to foreign compettion. The expected ar
rival of 75,000 German lamps in New York
was noted the other day. although in
England lamp dealers, after using them,
have begun to advertise- their lamps as
“not of German make.”
The dead sea, or more properly the Salt
sea, is also called in scripture the sea of
the Arabah; in the Apocrypha, the So
domitish sea; in the Talmudical books.
Sea of Salt and Sea of Sodom. The name
Dead sea seems to have been first used
in Greek, and th** Arabic name is Ruhr
Lut. or the Sea of Lot. It has a length
varying from forty to forty-six miles,
and is only about three miles across at
its broadest part. From the analysis cf
the United States expedition, savs tip*
Broklyn Eagle, it appears that each gal
lon of the water, weighing twelve and
one-quart *r pounds, contains nearly ' hree
and one-third pounds (3.319) of matter in
solution, an immense quantity in view of
the fact that sea water, weighing ten ami
one-quafter pounds per gallon contains
less than one-half pound. Of this three
and one-half pounds nearly one pound is
common salt (chloride of sodium), about
two pounds chloride of magnesium, and
less than one-half pound chloride of cal
cium (muriate of lime.). There does not
appear to be anything about it inimical
to life, and the story of a recent tourist
confirms this. He says; “As fin* the
Dead sea. it will, in contradiction of the
name, forever preserve n green and living
memory in my mind. No fish can survive
In it. we all know, but for a place for a
swim, or, above all. for a float, commend
me to it beyond all the Winnepesaukees
in the world. How it bears you up in
arms! How it annihilates the tiresome
ponderosity and dignity of the lows of
gravitation! How- it introduces you into
the inner consciousness of dainty Ariel
and thistledom and all other airy, fairv
creatures! The more you weigh the less
you weigh; there is the real hydrostatic
paradox. An elephant in the Dead sea
would feal himself a gazelle. Then what
a mirror its steely surface was that morn
ing, and how beautiful its reflections of
the mountains of Palestine on the one
hand and of Moab on the other!”
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