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Saturday, jamuary 19. 1895.
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INDEX TO SEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Military Orders-Orders No. 3, The. Sa
vannah Volunteer Guards; Orders No. 4.
Georgia Hussars.
Special Notices Unlike the Crude and
Adulterated Cocoas, Mutual Co-operative
Association; Liquor Licenses. F. E. Re-
Clerk of Council; Notice in Regard
to Licenses, C. S. Hardee. City Treas
urer; Notice to Election Managers, F. E.
Rebarer. Clerk of Council; A Full Line of
Mlfitkrv Gloves, Falk Clothing Company;
As tr> Crew of British Steamship Feder
ation; Headquarters for Poultry, Est. S.
W. Branch; A Porter House Steak, Reck
mann’s Cafe.
Amusements—“ Friends" at the theater.
Matinee to-day.
Clothing at Lower Prices—Falk Clothing
Company.
Auction Sales—Fine Furniture, by C.
yi. Domett.
Hotels—San Marco, St. Augustine, Fla.
Hercules Never Wore— B. Ji. Levy &
Rro.
Concord Collars and Rubber Belts— Neld
linger A Rabun.
See the Lee Birthday Window—Appel &
Sohaul.
A Remarkable and Powerful Special
Pants Sale—At Collat’s.
Steamship Schedule—Ocean Steamship
Company.
The "Family Cobbler”—Hranderburg &
Cos.. Sole Proprietors.
No Matter—Falk Clothing Company.
Cheap Column Advertisements Help
■Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Kent,
For Sale; Host; Personal; Miscellaneous.
The Atlanta snark hunt, with Clerk
Ilaker as the possible snark, was an affair
that panned out just about as much as
that Cuban filibustering expedition.
The election of M. Faure as president of
the French republic seems to have been n
genuine surprise. In canvassing the sit
uation and picking possible winners, none
of the correspondents considered Faure
us having a chance worth mentioning.
Gov Evans of South Carolina says he
•'lntends to see whether South Carolina is
n sovereign power or not." Was not that
question decided in the year lstw? The
governor might get some information by
applying at the office of the News and
Courier, In Charleston.
The telegraphic dispatches inform ns
that two more American celebrities, name
ly James S. Hogg and James J. Corbett,
are to enter the field of literature, the llrst
s the editor of a newspaper and the last
as a lecturer. What has poor Literature
ver done to be thus assailed?
A New York theatrical manager who a
short while ago put on a Japanese play at
his theater, probably thinking to take ad
vantage of American sympathy for the
Japanese in their war, has been compelled,
because of lack of patronage, to withdraw
It and substitute an American comedy.
Every citizen soldier who can possibly
do so should turn out to-day in honor of
Hebert E. Lee's memory. Lee was the
Ideal southron; a Christian, a soldier and
a gentleman. The young men of the day
ran sPt up for themselves no higher stan
dard to be reached up to than the charac
ter of Lee.
The Senatorial elections of the week
have developed no surprises. A majority
of the old-timers will succeed themselves,
end the Senate after the reorganization
will continue to be "the most august de
liberative body in the world," and at the
same time the most tiresome in its unend
ing deliberations.
Mrs. Cleveland is ill. She took a seven*
cold on New Year’s day during 1 a reception
at the white house. The draughts through j
the old mansion are responsible for the
trouble. The white house has for years
been unlit for the executive residence; still
congress will not remedy the evil. Prob
ably when the nation is called upon to
mourn the loss of a President or his
w ife because of the damp walls and chill
ing draughts in the old building, congress
will open its eyes to the situation.
A few days ago there was held at Tokio,
Japan, a celebration of the victories of th?
Japanese forces during the war with
China. Purchasers of 175,000 tickets were
admitted to the park where the celebra
tion proper was held. There were ora
tions. poems read by the authors, music
by bands and a mimic battle with chry
santhemums as missiles. In conclusion
there was a parade four miles long, dur
ing which the paraders all joined in a war
song. Incidentally, there were a number
of fisticuff lights, some 500 “drunk and
disorderlies,“ and the arrest of about 400
pickpockets. The incidents show that
“western civilization” has really taken a
hpld upon these interesting orientals.
Is Currency Scarce?
Ar* those who ar* continually com
plaining of the scarcity of currency stn
c*re? If so, how *lo they explain th*
statement of hankers that the hanks
have quantities of money for which they
ran fin I no profitable use, at low rates
f interest? If they are not sin**-r- what
is th-ir purine** in making the com
plaint? Is * That they want to for*-** the
‘•ountry to a silver basis, with the hop*
that In the financial *llsaster that wouli
almost certainly follow they wouH
have .i rhan< e to grab pome of the
wreckage*?
An to whether or not there is more
than sufficient currency to meet th** *|e
maii'l for It, w** reproduce the foil*.wing,
which appeared in a recent Issue of the
SpringfieM Mass. Republican:
the Eoitor of the Republican: The
in* lescd official noth- • from our corres
pondent In Boston came to hand this
morning:
' Her after when sending us currency,
please assort and strap it by denomina
tions and put all mutilated bills in sep
arate strap. We are overrun with cur
rency, an i find it almost impossible to
handle or dispose of it “
By the same mail we get reports of
strenuous exertions being made by our
national congress in Washington to in
crease the volume of currency to meet
the “pressing demands of business men”
and this, in face of the glut In Boston,
which is the same In other commercial
centers throughout the country. Specie
and “legal tenders’* In the New York
city banks combined exceed the entire
capital stock of the banks nearly three
times, or $174,000,000 against $02.0 >O,OOO.
Money is both cheap and plenty, and bor
rowers who < an give acceptable security
find no difficulty In obtaining money at
very low rates. The trouble with th** finan
cial reformers is to c ombine some plan
to furnish people in need plenty of money
without security or an equivalent.
Banker.
Holyoke, Jan. 15, 1896.
But suppose that the national banks
were authorized to greatly Increase iheir
circulation, or that state hanks of issue
were established, and the amount of pa
p**r current y largely Increased through
their agency, bow would those who are
complaining of the scarcity of money
get any more of it than they now have?
Do they expect the hanks would loan it I
to them without good security? If they
do they would be disappointed. Wild eat
banks might be established that would
take all kinds of risks, because they would
have nothing at stake. They would put in
circulation a currency that would result
in robbing the people. Is that the kind
of currency that those who complain of
the scarcity of currency want?
if anybody h is anything to sell he can
get th** cash for it at its market value.
He could not do more if there were ten
times as much currency in circulation.
There is no difficulty in borrowing all
the money that is desired, provided good
security is offered. And money in most
parts of tin* country can be had at re
markably lew rates of interest upon ap
proved collateral. Would the situation
1 ♦* different if the volume of the currency i
should be doubled or trebled?
Yes. there is a scarcity of money In i
actual circulation In comparison with
what there was a few years ago, and
why * Because there has been a remark
able shrinkage of values. Cotton Is bring
ing from $lO to sl3 a bale less than ll
did two or three years ago. That means
at l ast $100,000,0*10 less In circulation in
the cotton states this year than ‘here
would be if the price of cotton was
what it was before it declined. The price
of wheat has shrunk to 50 cents a bushel.
It med to be sl, and that was % thought to
be a pretty low* price. The wheat shrink
age has reduced th* amount of currency
in the pockets of the people of the west
at b art $150,000,000 a year. The railroads,
on account of the falling off in business,
are paying out In operating expenses
$100,000.000 or more annually less than they
did two years ugo.
Other examples might be given show
ing why it is that there Is less money
in the possession of the people than there
was when the times were better. But
there has not been any reduction in the
volume pf the currency. The currency
is not being used. It is hidden away in
bank boxes and locked up in bank vaults.
It would be put into circulation if there
was a demand for it. People can get it
now* on the same renditions, cr even eas
ier conditions, than when it was thought
money was plentiful, but they are not in
a position to comply with the conditions.
And they would not be able to comply
with the conditions that would be de
manded if the volume of the currency
were twice as great as it is.
Cotton Mills Coming South.
The New York Herald Is satisfied that
the movement of cotton mills from New
England to the south, which has not vet
been fairly begun, will not cease until the
south becomes the cotton manufacturing
section of the country. In a leading article
in its Thursday’s issue, it says: “The re
markable movement of cotton mills from
New England to the south, which has re
cently attracted so much attention, con
tinues and is likely to continue until the
cotton industries of the country center, as
they should do. In the sunny home of the
■ cotton plant.”
I This view of the Herald’s is being pretty
1 generally accepted. The cotton mills are
coming south, not because they want to,
but because they have to. The margin of
profit is much larger in the south than in
the north, anti competition is so keen that
the manufacturing must be done, where it
can be done at the smallest cost.
There is one point made by the Herald in
respect to this matter that has not hereto
fore been touched upon. It is that the
chief markets for our manufactured cot
ton goods are Mexico, Central and South
America, the West Indies, Africa and
China, and that these countries can be
reached at less cost from southern ports
than from the ports of the north. This
is an additional reason, therefore, for
manufacturing the cotton in the section
of country in which it is produced.
It would not be at all surprising if the
bulk of the cotton of the south were con
! Burned by southern mills before the end
of this dentury. And with cotton xn&nu
'i facturing will come manufacturing of
I other kinds. The south has inexhaustible
1 supplies of iron and coal, which can be
THE MORNING NEWS: SATURDAY, JANUARY 10, ISOo.
moved more cheaply than the iron and
coal of th** north.
As soon as the currency question Is
settled the south will enter uj*on a period
j of prosperity greater than she has ever
j b*fore known. In the meantime. Savan
nah. as th*- * huf sea coast, city of the
South Atlantic, should l*- on the lookout
! for her interests. She ought to profit by
the movement of manufac?tiring indtis
. tries to the south, and she will if her peo-
I pie are alive to their interests.
Quay’s Emergency Speech.
Why the Senate does not amend its
out-of-date rules so as to make it impos
| sible for one senator, or a small minority,
to effectually block legislation is one of
j tHe things that no one pretends to ex
plain. Several times the attempt has
been madf to change them, but absolutely
nothing has been accomplished. The'
Senate seems to be incapable of putting ■
itself in shape for the proper transaction .
of the business of the country. It is not
to b wondered at; therefore, that -.here
is a growing hostility to that body.
An instance of the manner in which
business can be obstructed by one sen
ator, even though every other senator
is anxious to vote upon a pending meas
ure, was furnished by Senator Quay last
Wednesday. The urgent deficiency bill
was under consideration, and Senator
UockrHl, who had charge of it, had an
nounced that he intended to have a
vote upon it before adjournment for the
day. Senator Hill and one or two other
senators, were trying to defeat the ap
propriation for carrying the income tax
law into effect.
Senator Quay is opposed to the income
tax, and he showed a disposition to frit
ter away the time of the Senate by
making and arguing dilatory motions.
When an effort was made to stop his
filibustering tactics he reached under his
desk and got a pile of manuscript about
a foot and a |ialf thick,
which wan held together by a
leather strap. It was his emer
gency speech, and he proposed to read
it. The rending of it would have occu
j pled i week or more. And yet the sena
tor's purpose was to use up a week or
more of the Senate’s time with a lot of
rot. if he were not permitted to have his
way. In order to appease him, and get
him to forego his intention, some sort
of promise was made to him and he
returned ids emergency speech to its
resting place to be hauled out again
perhaps, at some future time, to coerce
th** Senate into compliance w. .. his im
perious will.
Any senator who succeeds in getting the
door can hold it as long as he can talk,
no matter how important and pressing
the business is which demands the Sen
ates attention. What Is to be thought of
a *l* liberatlve body that retains in force
rules that permit such a state of affairs?
If th** Senate doesn’t want to get itself
i thoroughly disliked and despised It will
j repeal its old foggy rules and adopt
j others that will enable it to set down
hard upon any senator who tries to ob
struct business.
The Pennsylvania legislature is asked to
pass a bill requiring tin* death penalty to
be Inflicted by electricity, as it is in New
York. The Philadelphia Ledger says the
bill is not likely to get further than the
committee to which it is referred, as there
is no demand for a change. The real
animus which changed the law in New
York, says the Ledger, was com
mercial, the purpose being to dis
credit the use on the streets of alter
nating currents of high potential by show
ing that they were deadly. “The law
would never have been passed but for the
support of rival electrical companies us
ing a safer system. The demonstration
was made, and there is no need of any
more."
There is In progress in Haverhill. Mass.,
a strike of shoe factory operatives. A few’
days ago Judge Bond of the Massachu
setts supreme court granted an injunction
asked for by one of the manufacturers,
restraining members of labor unions from
loitering in the vicinity of the complain
ant’s factory, from inducing employes at
the factory to quit work and from in any
other way Interfering with of* annoying
| those employed at the factory. The
! judge's order may bo in accordance w ith
> the Massachusetts law. If it is. and the
law gives the judge such powers over the
persons of citizens as is claimed in the
injunction, he had probably better go slow
in ordering their strict enforcement.
Congressman Bryan of Nebraska proba
bly thinks it is the privilege and function
of the government to make “money” of
anything it pleases, and to club the man
who refuses to accept it for what it pur
ports to be. He has introduced a bill to
make it a misdemeanor, punishable with
five years of imprisonment, for ajiy person
to present to the treasury greenbacks or
treasury notes and demand coin for them
“for the purpose of embarrassing the gov
ernment.” His evident purpose is to strike
a blow at the people who draw gold for ex
port. The effect of his proposed law would
bo that a person might get into jail for
asking for money that he could spend
when and where he saw tit.
In anticipation of an event that may
not occur—the reversion of the govern
ment to the republicans two years hence—
Senator Frye and some of his colleagues
propose to create a few more offices. They
ask that consulates be established at
Krzerum and Harpoot, in Turkey, “for
the better preservation of American life
and property.” These picturesquely nam
ed places are in the neighborhood of the
scene of that remarkable Armenian trag
edy reported in the cables recently, and the
basis for which story was plagiarized from
one of Mrs. Hemans’ poems. Senator
Frye wishes to guard against another
plagiarized poetical horror.
Senator Morgan of Alabama thinks it
would be a good thing if the colored peo
ple In the United States were all trans
! ported to Africa and their places here filled
■ with Armenians, who are having such a
hard time in Turkey. As an abstract pro
position. Senator Morgan’s suggestion
! may be all right. But it will never be any
[ other kind of a proposition.
The facility with Which the transition
from a harmless plodder to a dangerous
outlaw may be made is illustrated in the
ease of the schooner Crystal of Tompklns
vllle. N. V. Up to Christmas the Crystal
was an Inoffensive brick freighter between
New York and New Jersey. Now she **
pirate craft, cruising Long Island Sound
with a crew of three swart-browed buc
caneers, and defying all th*- county
sheriffs whose jurisdictions border on the
tide wafer line. The schooner ? owner is
as anxious as any of the sheriffs to se*>
the vessel and crew tied up.
New York turfmen who have expressed
an opinion on the sybject, think it a v> ry i
extraordinary proceeding for Mr. Ri* hard
Croker to send his string of ra**ing horses
to England for the season. Th**v estimate
that the expenses of the season will be not
less than $150,000, and say Mr. Croker can
not make that much from purses and win- i
nings in the betting ring. Nevertheless,
the ex-Tammany leader will make the
season in England- . Where he got the
money with which to do su* h a thing is a
question the New York papers are asking, i
• - —— —.—
Mr. Charles A. Ila i
dress on journalism at Cornell University,
referred to the fact that all of the white
paper used for newspaper printing comes
now’ from the forests. Spruce pine is the
wood used principally in the making of
paper pulp. Are there no possibilities for
the south in the way of paper making?
PERSONAL.
Joseph Jefferson, during his recent visit
to Washington, presented to the Corcoran
art gallery a landscape painted by him
self. It is in oil, and represents an inter
ior wood scene, with a pleasing effect of
sky and clouds seen through the branches
of a group of massive oak trees.
The grave of ex-Vice President Schuy
ler Colfax, in the cemetery at South Bend.
Ind., is unmarked save by a plain -<tonc
slab. It is now proposed to mark the
place by the erection of a statue or monu
ment as an enduring memorial. An effort
will be made to raise SIO,OOO by popular
subscription.
It was Mrs. Cleveland’s idea for the
Presidential family to do most of the r
living in the suburb* of the city, and it
was at her request that Woodley was pur
chased and devoted to this purpose. She
very proud of -the success or h* r plan,
and smilingly says that sh** will next try
to do away with the white house alto
gether.
Hetty Green’s husband, after a disas
trous experience in Wall street years ago.
retired from “ ’Change" and settled down
as a club man of very simple and regular
habits. Since then he has had nothing to
do with business, living as a gentleman of
leisure and resisting all temptations to
again enter speculation. His acquaint
ance are confined almost exclusively to
members of the Union League Club.
The department of state has received a
mailed dispatch from Consul General Mul
ligan, dated at Apia. l>ec. f, reporting the
death of Robert Louis Stevenson. He
writes: “The last manifestation of his ele
gant hospitality was a dinner in celebra
tion of our American Thanksgiving lay,
which occurred exactly four days before
his death, and at which, in response to a
toast to his health, he spoke at length of
his admiration of the American festival
of Thanksgiving, and proceeded in a spirit
of r**lig i ous sentiment to recount the
many blessings he had to be grateful
for."
BRIGHT BITS.
“Do you love me, mamma?’’ “Yes, my
child.” “But not so much as I love you,
I am sure." “Why not?" “Because you
have to divide your love between me‘and
mv two sistvrsj, while I have only one
mammado lov." —Le F.gx-0 J.
“It is almost as good as the theater."
said the young woman who was watch
ing the proceedings from the House of
Representatives gallery. “Yes," was the
reply, “but some of these farewell ap
pearances aren’t of the Patti descrip
tion by a long sho*..’’—Washington Post.
“I see,” said Senator Sorghum, “that
they are still harping on that little sugar
•leal.” “I’m afraid they are," replied his
private secretary. “It simply goes to
show,” the senator went on, with a sigh
of resignaion, “how often a profit may be
without honor.’’--Washington Star.
“I wonder," complained little Hast us,
“why ’possums an watermelon cain’t be
ripe at de same time?’’ “You fool niggah,’’
replied Uncle Mose, severely, “ef ’possum
an’ watermelon was on earf togedder at
de same time, noboddy wouldn’t take de
trouble to try and git to hebben."— In
dianapolis Journal.
Teacher—Tommy, when was money
originated?
Tommy—l guess it come in w.th the
churches.
"With the churches?"
“Yes’m. How could they have church
If there wasn’t any money to take up col
lections w’ith?”—lndianapolis Journal.
CURRENT COMMENT.
Flagler and Florida.
From the Boston Herald (Dem.).
The governor of Florida hasn't handed
Mr. Flagler over to Gov. Hogg of Texas
yet. Meanwhile, Mr. Flagler is distrib
uting gratis among the unfortunate for
mers of Florida such seeds as they
for replanting their fields that have been
nipped by the frosts. Altogether. we
should say that it was lucky for the
Florida planters that the governor is slow
in issuing extradition papers.
The Paralysis of the Senate.
From the New York World (Pom.).
A legislative body that cannot legislate,
a deliberative body that cannot stop de
liberating, if even three or four of its
members objects, presents a pitiful par
ody upon popular government. This was
the condition of the Senate at the last
session, it is its state to-day. When
Senator Gorman says that the perverted
and fraud-stained tariff bill which is now
a law was “the only one that could have
passed” he means that it was the only
one that himself and three or four other
sugar trust fools and Monopoly agents
would permit to pass under the rules
which placed the Senate at their mercy.
The East and the South.
From Hartford (Conn.) Times (Hem.).
We hone those demagogues, chiefly of
i the populist order, who have been so fond
i of telling of an alliance of the west and
the south against the tyrannical east,
will take due notice of this great impend
ing investment of New England capital
in cotton mills in the southern states.
I Such stuff was always preposterous. The
man who talks at this day of erecting
new sectional barriers is a fool. Com
merce and manufacturers are constantly
drawing the people of all sections more
closely together. The movement of New
England capital toward the south would
have taken on large proportions long
ago but for the political agitators who
kept up a stream of hostile talk against
the southerners, in the press and on the
stump, for party purposes.
No “Democratic” Majority in the Senate
From the Baltimore Sun (Dem.).
There are too many captains in the
democracy, anvi too many aspiring to be
captains. The democratic side of the Sen
ate is torn up with cliques anti factions.
It has been so for many years, even when
the party was in the minority. The con
dition has been intensified since it be
came possessed of a nominal majority,
for. as Mr. Vest has said, the Democratic
party did not have a majority in the
l Senate in March. 1592. and has never
hail it since. To make that majority
I there had to be counted those who are
t and always have been democrats for rev
enue only. It may be somewhat difficult
■ for sensible people to comprehend it.
but the. Senate has grown very big by
the meat it feeds upon A man who gets
the privilege of writing “Senator” be
fore hi? name immediately begins to
fancy that he is a very superior sort of
being, and it becomes him to look down
upon the common herd. He imagines this
constitutes him a born leader of men.
Laziest Man on Record.
stringer, a Mr. Burr, produced a
quiet sensation by arousing everybody’s
curiosity. sa>s the New York Herald.
He **amc to tne hotel a;rinded by an Arab
servant. wh-> spoke only three word? of
English. The newcomer ha i ampje means
evidently, and loved his ease. H** had no
acquaintances in the hotfcl and made none.
ID drove about considerably and lolled
in the rea !:ng room or in the vestibule in
an easy hair earned by hi? servant. He
said very little. ae in his room, smoked
occasionally in public, *he servant al
ways attending and attentive to his
wants.
He seldom used his legs ar.d never used
his arms at all, earying them be*h in a
sing.
This was the point over wh. h the cuid
os:*y ot the observers exe: :sed itself.
Thev couldn't understand t. Nobody, of
course, liked to ?peak about it to the
man himself, and the servant might as
well have be* n dumb, a? he spoke only
Arabic. There was never i more com
pleitely mystified set.
The man was burned brown, perhaps
by Oriental sun?; he was well and care
fully dressed, was never in a hurry, never
surprised, never irritated, but always
comfortably self-poised, at peace with
all the world, and as pla* and as still waters
that-run deep.
Everybody was certain that there was
something beyond all th’.s—some romance
or notable intrigue or some mystery more
subtle than either, perhaps a crime of a
rare eastern or Ur. in which love and
sharp blades and poison took pa**i. It was
beyond question that ho had not come
out of the affair as he had entered, as
both arms in t sling bore witness.
Some held the notion that he had been
hanged and revivified, arriving at this con
clusion by observing his habit of al
ways re? T ;ng his head on the back of
his chair: some suggested Spanish witch
craft. others Indian hypnotism, but the
vast majority could not agree on any
parti ilar* ir i • ns
drifted in their opinion from time to time.
Go!. O . well known everywhere, en
tered the hotel one day, nodded to the
stranger, sat down beside him, and con
versed quietly for an hour in French.
Nearly everybody, of course, knows
French, but it so happened that nobody
near by could catch a word of the con
versation, because the two talked scarce
ly above a whisper.
Th** stranger paid his account and left
the next day, and in the evening, when
Col. O - ailed again and asked the
clerk for Mr. Burr, he seemed not in the
least surprised at his friend's disappear
ance.
“Pardon me. colonel, but he’s a singu
lar man." somebody remarked.
"Rather." replied the colonel.
“A traveler, I presume?"
“No; he come? over from England once
a year.”
"Know him a long while?”
“All my life ’’
“lie's had quite an adventurous career?"
“1 shouldn’t think so."
“Well, he certainly produced a sensa
tion here."
“Why. pray?"
“Oh. I mean he interested us all.”
“That’s the case everywhere."
“Indeed' But he hardly ever spoke.”
“That’s his way."
“We aJI concluded that there must have
beep a curious accident —’’
“He never had a mishap In his life.”
“But the arms, colonel.’'
“Oh. I forgot. I am so used to seeing
him. I forgot how the thing impresses
others."
“What thing?"
“I mean the. way he carries his arms.”
“That's the very point, colonel?”
“oh. I see! Why, my friend simply car
ries his arms in a. sling because he’s too
lazy to carry them in any other way.”
Small Things.
E. H. Kerr, in Good Words.
I shaped a marble statue, the image of a
thought—
A thought so pure and perfect, it thrilled
me as 1 wrought;
Ami when 1 saw my task complete, and
joyed it was so fair,
Alas! alas! when next I looked an ugly
rent was there.
In strains of music, then I told of sweet
est joy and love;
And, out and in. the harmony in rich, soft
chords I wove:
When, lo! a mild, weird discord that would
not die away:
I'll hear it evermore, through life, unto
my dying day.
Aweary of my failures, I sought the
haunts of song;
Essayed to cull sweet flowers wherewith
to charm the listening throng.
Anon a warning voice 1 heard that stayed
my eager hand:
“No soul but one by sorrow tried may
join the minstrel band."
I found a weary traveler, at noontide, by
the way;
His brow was deeply furrowed, his looks
were thin ar.d gray.
“Can I do aught for you?’ I asked. “1 am
athirst," ho said.
1 gave a *up of water; he drank and raised
his head.
A strange and wondrous change 1 saw,
transfigured was his face.
His form was full of majesty, hi? eyes of
love and grace.
“Well have ye done; well have ye spent
that gift of charity.
Albeit ye know’ it not," he said, “ye did it
unto Mo."
Great works are for great souls: high
thoughts for those whose minds can
soar;
Sweet music for the ears that catch the
notes from heaven’s bright shore.
Strong words that movo the multitude are
not. my child. for thee;
Thine are the hidden ways of love and
quiet charity.
Only a Little World, This.
“What a small world it is. after all.”
said *he young man from Sank Bridge. O.
He had just moved to Chicago, and for
some reason he was not greatly impressed
with the immensity of the c tv, says the
Chicago Tribune.
“For instance.” he went on. “1 had
been in my hotel but a week when I dis
covered that my uncle’s divorced wife
lived mi the next room, while The man
who married a girl I used to be engaged
to is on the floor below. More than that,
thu greatest bore 1 ever knew in my life,
a creature who has haunted me ever
since my school days, keeps a bia board
ing house in the next building. T have to
dodge him ever> time 1 go downtown
At 1 o’clo- k this morning, when I thought
I should certainly be tflone. I started
to walk down State street It was a misty
morning and the gray fog h and even the
one or two all-night cabmen who w’ere
still sticking: to their stands. The street
was lonely and deserted. I had walked
slowly along down to Jackson street
without meeting a human being, when
suddenly out of the mist a figure loomed.
“Hello, there,” sounded a voice as we
drew close together. “1 haven’t seen you
for a long time. I'm in pretty tough
luck, old man. Can’t you stake me to a
bed.”
It was a tramp printer I had known
eight years ago in Eeadville, Col. I gave
him f/i cents simply because he had proved
to me beyond a cavil that life runs in
circles around a globe and that all in
tersect somewhere in their circumfer
ence.
Ho Sent a Cipher Message.
A man w ho looked like a Texas ranch
man came into the Astor house the other
day. says the New York Press, and aus
terely demanded of the young woman
who presides over the telegraph desk:
“Any objections to this message?”
”1 don’t know what it means,” said
she doubtfully.
“You don't ne|d to know what it
means. You just send it along. That’s a
cipher message, that is, and the man who
gets it can read it. ’
The message went on the wire to the
great satisfaction of the sender, who
turned away with a grin. He repeated the
message later to a group of men with
manifest delight. It read as follows:
“Blank your blankety blank blank. Why
, don't you ship those steers?”
He Was Not a Glutton.
A certain senator \vho““has a reputation
for making long-winded speeches was
holding the floor Tuesday, says the Wash
ington Post, when a certain other senator
got up in his seat and slowly wended
his way out of the Senate chamber, evi
dently to escape the speech.
“Why don’t you stay and listen to vour
confrere?” asked a friend, jokingly, of the
senator, as he came into the lobby.
“My constituents did not send me here
to do penal servitude,” was the reply, as
the senator shuffled his way along the
corridor toward the restaurant. And he
said it without a smile.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Old people wear because the
lens* of the eye becomes in old
ag~ and must be assisted ir* its action by
ariifhdal means.
Thanksgiving day i? observed in all
the states as a popular holiday, though
in several state? there is no statutory pro
vision to that effect.
Thri bones nrvar touch eaoh other,
but are separated by *hin membrane?,
b * ause if th y did touch, there would
be I* ss elasticity of motion.
In passing from darkness into light the
eye is paired because the pupil 1? xidely
extended and so much light enters as to
cause pain to the optic nerve.
The most sensitive nerve? are in the
nose, tongue and ey. ?. because in these
organs sensitiveness i? needed
than in any other portion of the bodv.
Th rt ears have become Immovable on
account of the extreme mobility of the
ne k muscles. For the same reason the
e>es of th** owl are fixed in hi? head.
The taste is often the last faculty to
be impaired by old age because it is most
needed for the protection of the individual
against the use of unwholesome food.
The pupil of the eye is so called because
when looking in it a very smal Image of
the observer may be seen, hence the term
from the Latin pupillus, or little pupil.
Professional contortionists are more
graceful in their motions than other peo
ple. because of the greater flexibility of
the limbs, caused by continual exercise.
The ticking of a watch placed against
the teeth can be distinctly heard because
the sound is conveyed through the teeth
and bones of the bead to those of the ear.
Through increased postal facilities a
letter posted in Paris at midday can be
delivered in London at 8 o’clock p. m..
bv means of an “Express Messengers"
arrangement.
The Hindoo maidens have a feast of
lamps, very prettily alluded to by Moore
in “Lallah Rookh." A lighted lamp is set
adrift on the Ganges, and from its fate
is foretold that of the owner.
A woman who had lost her way on
the street in London recently paid 3
ponce and had herself conducted by spe
cial messenger from the postofflee to her
home, where a receipt for her was duly
obtained.
One of the most useful of the Jewish in
stitutions in Paris is the Ecole Bisehoff
sheim. This school is exclusively at
tended by girls, who are trained to become
dressmakers, cutters, milliners, artificial
florists and teachers, the latter including
girls from the east.
The most extraordinary precautions are
taken in Spain to provide for the safety
of the sovereign at night. His slumbers
are watched throughout the night by the
Monterof de Espinosa, a body of men who
for 400 years have enjoyed the exclusive
privilege of guarding their royal master
or mistress from sunset to sunrise. They
lock the palace gates with much cere
mony and solemnity at midnight and
open them again at 7 o'clock in the morn
ing Their fidelity to the person of their
sovereign does not admit of question.
A correspondent of the New’ York Times.
In speaking of the oldest newspaper in
the world, published at Peking, of which
mention was made in this column sev
eral days ago. says: “A newspaper pub
lished in Peking is understood to he
the oldest in the world. It dates from a
period of 200 years prior to the Norman
conquest of England. Naturally, its pro
longed existence in an autocratically gov
erned country like China has been marked
by many vicissitudes, not the least of
which is the fact, recently announced
in its columns, that during the 1.000 years
of its existence 1,900 of its editors have
been beheaded, or, roughly speaking, two
per annum."
The sense of hearing is developed in
the modern telegraph operator to an
abnormal degree owing to his use of the
typewriter in his work, says the St.
Louis Post Dispatch. In former years,
when he copied his messages with pen or
pencil, his ears were accustomed to only
one kind of sound—that of the telegraph
instrument—while in these days of the
typewriter he must distinguish between
the sharp dick of the ticker and the
almost similar rattle of the copying ma
chine. According to an old operator,
the sense of hearing soon becomes so
developed that the distinction Is easily
made. With a little experience in th**
use of the typewriter along with the tel
egraph instrument the operator ceases
to notice any similarity of the sounds.
A man on a Lake Huron steamer had
the only specimen of black rattlesnake
I have ever met with, says a Cincin
nati Enquirer writer. It was about the
size of an ordinary garter snake, and
as vicious as satan. It was confined in
a strong box covered with thick plate
glass. When anyone would touch the
| glass with his finger the snake would
1 strike the under side opposite the finger
j as quickly as a stroke of lightning. The
experimenter would always jerk away
as suddenly. There was not a man on
board, however, muscular and free from
nervousness, who could keep his finger
to the glass when the snake would strike,
although knowing that it could not possi
bly touch him. Strong men would try
it again and again, certain of their abil
ity to endure the test, but with the same
result.
Medical lake, so called on account of
the remedial virtues of its waters, sit
uated on the great Columbian plateau
in Southern Washington, at an altitude
of 2,300 feet above the level of the Pa
cific, is the Dead sea of America. Tt is
about a mile long, and from a half to
three-quarters of a mile in width, and
w’ith maximum depth of abo.ut sixty feet.
Tim composition of the waters of this
Alpine lake is almost identical with that
of the Dead sea of Palestine, and, like
the oriental counterpart, no plant has
yet been found growing in or near its
edges. It is all but devoid of animal
life, a species of large “boat bug." a queer
little terrapin, and the famous “walk
ing fish" being its only inhabitants. This
walking fish is an oddity really deserv
, ing of special note It is from eight
to nine inches long, and has a finhv
i membrane extending from head to tail.
OFFICIAL NOTICE
OF THE
WORLD’S FAIR AWARD
TO
Dr. Price’s
Cream Baking Powder.
John Boyd Thacher. Chairman of the
Executive Committee on Awards at the Col
umbian Exposition, writing from Washington,
D. C, to the Price Baking Powder Company,
says :
“/ herewith enclose you an official copy of your
award, which in due time, will be inscribed in the
Diploma, and forwarded to your address, unless other
wise indicated by you."
Thus are the honors awarded
Dr. Price’s Baking Powder
at the World’s Fair fully verified.
On the other hand the claims to awards
at the Fair by a New York Baking Powder
are proven wholly false. Official records
show it was not even an exhibitor. Was
it because it contained Ammonia ?
BUTTERIKE.
The
Foundation
for the success of 3 food pr~.
uct is the use of strictly py r
materials. Recognizing th ;
fact, the manufacturers of
Silver
Churn sSj
Butterine
use only the most carefully
selected and skilfully prepay
ingredients. Pure, sweet, .in
itial fats in scientific comb'-3.
tion form this delicious 'artici
for fine table use.
Prepared Solely By
ABMOCR PACKING CO,
Kansas City, U- S- A.
Wholesale by
Armour Packing Cos
SAVANNAH GA
It is provided with four legs, thos-=
fore having four toes, the hinder five
Scarcely an instrument in the orrh r-,
escaped Mozart's attention. A born \ n.
linist, he wrote conoertt for violin ani
orchestra whlclv. though without t>-,
emotional elements of Beethoven a-1
Spohr, are greatly prized. To a tern
violin, which had been deemed worthv
only of filling up tuttl passages, he sa. a
a voice and place of its own in the e-.
rhestra. The clarinet was raised to great
importance by him. and forthwith ? k
place as a favorite solo instrument In
nearly all his scores it received special
attention; while the fresh, beautiful and
exceedingly masterful work, the quin'e
in A major for clarinet and strings, and
the fine clarinet concerto which he
posed for Stadler, have imparted to the
instrument an all-age reputation whi-b
can never be impaired. Then his spark
ling genius spent itself in writing fv
that fine reed Instrument, the basser
horn, the splendid properties of whiev
he deemed more suitable than even rhs
clarinet for his "Requiem.” For the
oboe Mczart did much, according it
prominence which it had never reached
with any previous composer. His Opus
W has a rare oboe part, and in the
"Mass No. 12" Is some fine, if difficult,
I music for it.
Mr. Puchartre recently made knows
! to the French Academy of Science? ’>-
| results of an experiment made by Mas
ime Leeompte in Congo upon a tree a<
L the nus Mueenga. T'pon making inn?
F ions in the trunk of it and placing a pail
; at the foot of the tree more than ten
; quarts of pure water collected in thir
teen hours. The gorillas, it seems, are in
; the habit of slacking their thirst at these
hidden fountains, and regulate the fln
iof liquid hv pulling off alflerent-sized
i branches. Many years ago llr Wain h
found in the province of Martaban.
Africa, a plant belonging to the same
natural order, whose soft and porous
wood discharged, when wounded, a very
large quantity of pure and tasteless fluid,
which was quite wholesome, and used as
a beverage by the natives. This plant
was named by Dr. Wallich the water
vine, and has been placed in the genu-.
Phytocrene. which signifies "plant foun
tain." These plants form a remarkahl*
! exception to the usual character oC the
* order, which embraces species that pro
duce a mllkv juice. uch, for example
| as the celebrated cov.- tree, or Palo i>
Vara, of South America, which yields
| a copious supply of a rich and whole
some milk, as good as that of the row,
! and used for the same purpose.
I Of Cleopatra’s nose, on which, accord
ing to Paschal, hung the fate of tits
world, nothing is known, says the Eel
j timore Sun. One coin lhakes it an exag-
I geration of the nose with which Mr. Du
j Maurler commonly equips his duchess.
I In this Shape it may be called too lone,
even beaky, but we may hope thar the
coin is not a good likeness. Concerning
the nose of Mary Stuart. Mr. Charl -
Klrkpatrlck Sharpe conceived, after
-much comparative study, that she had
) two noses—one low and one high. Per
haps. like Milton, she modified her no ; e
j by mere force of character: perhaps her
painters were extremely untrustworthy
Little can be asserted of scientific value
j about noses in relation to character
while portraits are such dubious like
nesses and while convention is so pow
erfu! in art. Among poets, Byron had
a Greek nosp. Lord Tennyson a high
and well-shaped nose. Scott a nose e*
no particular -architecture, and Keats a
nose approaching the Hebrew type No
poet then need despair on account, nf
his nose. Genius rises superior to it?
nose, and so does beauty very often
The only permanent "racial nose” is the
Semitic, it is the same on Assyrian ani
Egyptian monuments as it is to-dav. But.
if the Jews survived by dint of their
noses, why did the Phoenicans and Oar
thagenians perish? Nnox is usually rep
resented with a nos- between the Jewish
and the Roman, but our author gives him
a "cogitative nose," a broad nose, with
deep extensive, foundations. Homer is
ereditrd with a similar nose, but a. con
! temporary- portrait of Homer has sbl!
to be discovered, on the other hand, this
was certainly the nose of Moliere. Luther
is said to have had a Roman nose, while
j Erasmus oyved his want of balance to
I a sharp Greek nose. On the whole at
i agnostic attitude is wisest here, and
j cannot, really assert that mankind fob
; lows its nose in predetermined directions,