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INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS*
Meetings—Landrum Lodge No. 48, F. &
A M.
Special Notices—Excellent Clam Chow
der at Beckmann's Cafe: Come and Go
Fishing With Us, John T. Evans & Cos.;
As to Crews of Norwegian Barks Italia
nd Neptune; To Arrive To-day. Estate
fv W. Branch; Bids for Furnishing Lead,
titty of Savannah; Lenten Specialties, A.
3U. Sr C. W. West; Special Notice, J. H.
Clarke.
Legal Notices—Citations from the Clerk
of the Court of Ordinary.
A Fitting Suit for Springtime—Appel &
S' haul. / t 4
Amusements—James O’N-Hl. in Monte
Crlsto, at the Theater March 4.
When Lovely Woman—B. H. Levy &
Fro.
If Prices and Good Workmanship Count
•-Appel & Schaul.
Extract of Beef—Liebig Company’s Ex
tract of Beef.
$25 and s6o—Falk Clothing Company.
Railroad Schedules—Plant System.
Legal Sale—City Marshal’s Sale of
Ground Rent Lots.
When You Buy Your Spring Hat—Falk
Clothing Company.
Steamship Schedules—Baltimore Steam
ship Company.
Cheap Column Advertisements— Help
Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Rent;
For Sale; l.#ost; Personal; Miscellaneous.
This Is the season of the year when
bats and balls are brought out, tennis
outfits are looked over and “bikes” are
given an overhauling. The voices of the
umpire and the announcer will soon be
making music for those enthusiasts who
are so queerly called “fans” ami "rooters”
at athletic contests. The southward tllght
of the big baseball teams for preliminary
practice is a harbinger of spring quite
as reliable as the mating of the sparrows.
Gov. Altgeld of Illinois probably got his
idea with regard to the embargo he has
placed upon southern cattle from the Ger
man government. Germany, being desir
ous of retaliating upon this country for
certain purposes, discovered disease in
American cattle and barred them from
her ports. AKgeld, being desirous of re
taliating upon certain railroad and pack
ing corporations, and also upon the south,
discovers disease in southern cattle and
bars them out of Illinois.
The populists and the New England
republicans favor the Hawaiian cable
job for two distinct and separate reasons.
The populists wish to establish a pre
cedent tor ,the! government ownership
of railroads and telegraphs; the republi
cans wish to make the government take
a step in the direction of annexation. The
populists do not believe in annexation,
but are willing to sacrifice principle to
©enure government ownership of rail
roads. The republicans do not believe in
government ownership of railroads, but
are willing to sacrifice principle for the
sake of securing annexation. EaMv par
ty to the scheme is playing politics, and
nothing else.
The Cuban “revolution” did not pan
out. It must be that the people of the
•’ever faithful isle” do not desire inde
pendence as ardently as they did years
ago, for each succeeding revolt seems, if
anything, weaker than the one before.
The revolts continue to break out, how
ever, with a regularity that suggests the
possibility that they are manipulated for
revenue only; but they never amount to
anything moro than punishment for a
fewr men, and the spending of the money
contributed by patriotic Cubans. This
latest flurry' in Cuba, by the. way, sug
gests that after all there was connection
between the revolutionists in that isl
and and the several steam yachts that
■were apprehended during their prepara
tions to take cargoes of arms from a
Florida port to some unknown destina
tion.
It is peculiarly in keeping with the char
acter of the ruling spirit of the Senate
that a committee of that body should favor
the offering of a prize of SIOO,OOO to any in
ventor of an aerial machine or ap
paratus, which would carry passengers
and freight, before the year 1900. The
Senate is itself a kind of flying machine,
hence, possibly, its friendship for flying
machine inventors. There would be no
need for a bounty to the inventor of a
practicable flying apparatus. Private en
terprise would take up such an invention
and quickly make its inventor many times
a millionaire. He could soon well afford
to pay the government SI<A),OUO for a patent.
The reward suggested would not stimu
late the inventive genius of the country.
The prospect of legitimate reward from
commercial sources is a much stronger in
centive to best efforts than the Senate’s
proposed gratuity would be.
Thi- olin I iiri<in K .
The Cubans will never accomplish any
-1 thing towards securing their independence
until they have harmony among them
selves and have a leader of acknowledged
ability in whom they have Implicit confi
f dence. They ought to have learned by
I this time that the spasmodic and unorgan
ized efforts they make for the control of
Cuta are certain to be failures.
The uprising which began last Sunday
—accounts of which are contained in our
dispatches to-day—show that the insurg
ents are pra -tically without a leader or a
plan of action, and that they are al
ready defeated. Indeed, if the accounts
are reliable there are traitors among
them who gave to the authorities in
formation w hich led to the arrest of some
of the most prominent of the insurgents.
The Insurgents are virtually fighting
among themselves over the question of a
commander. There are two factions—that
in the north insists upon a brigand noto
rious in the north for commander-in-chief,
and the faction in the south Insists that
an equally notorious brigand in the south
shall have that position. With such a
condition of affairs what ground is there j
for success against the organized forces
of Sj>aln?
It is stated, and it is probable that the
statement is tru£. that large quantities
of arms and ammunition have been smug
gled into Cuba within the last two or
three years. It is quite certain that the
Cub.:ns of Florida and New York have
contributed freely of their means for rev
olutionary purposes. They are only
throwing their money away. Before it will
be possible to make headway against
Spain it will be necessary to have a
clearly defined plan of action and a leader
capable of planning and conducting a cam
paign. These little insurrections in vari
ous parts of the island of Cuba only serve
to show' the weakness of the Cubans.
And it Is doubtful if there can be unity
of action and a definite purpose as long
as brigands are relied upon as leaders.
A movement for independence must be
based upon a kind of patriotism rarely
possessed by a brigand.
Sen*n 11oitaI Dinpn t*lien.
It is regrettable that some of the dis
patches sent to out of town papers rela
tive to Tuesday night’s disturbance were
of such a sensational character. One
reading them would get the idea that sev
eral thousand people were engaged in the
attack upon Ex-Priest Slattery, that Sa
vannah was in the hands of a reckless
inob, that attempts were made to set
fire to the hall in which the ex-priest
lectured, that efforts were made to de
stroy the hall with dynamite, and that
four buildings were blown up and burned.
The Impression these dispatches must
have given some people was that Savan
nah was a scene of blood and incendiar
ism.
Asa matter of fact no dynamite was
used, no attempt was made to burn the
hall, and the buildings that were burned
had no connection whatever with the dis
turbance. As to the dynamite and fire
at Masonic hall the chief of police fur
nishes the following:
Editor of the Morning News: The re
ports published in papers in other cities
of the use of dynamite or attempts at in
cendiarism at the Masonic hall Tuesday
night are false. Humors of such at
tempts were brought to me and whi n in
vestigated were proven to be unfounded.
There were no such attmpts.
Frank McDermott,
Chief of Police.
There was an attack on the hall In
which the ex-priest lectured. There was
a very large crowd of people around the
hall, but most of them were there us
spectators. It is Impossible to say how
many were actively engaged in disturbing
the peace. Probably fifty would be a
large estimate and, as far as is known
there was not among them any person of
Influence.
The military was called out not because
there was a riot, but because it was
feared there might be one. The ordering
out ot the troops was a precautionary
measure. Asa matter of fact nobody
was killed or shot or seriously injured,
and Savannah was not red with blood
nor lurid with flames. Around the lec
ture hall there was a good deal of excite
ment, but in the dispatches in question
the picture of the situation was alto
gether overdrawn.
Election
The election law. in one. particular, cught
to be changed. One of its provisions is
that voters, when offering their ballots
to the judges of election, must exhibit
their poll tax receipts. Isn’t that a bad
law? It is a very easy matter for a voter
to lose his poll tax receipt and quite
troublesome to get a duplicate receipt, par
ticularly if the voter lives a long distance
from the court house of his county.
Would it not be a much wiser provision to
permit only those to register who have
paid their poll taxes. The registration
list would then be the guide of the judges
of an election.
The contest for the governorship of Ten
nessee may turn on the question as to
whether there was general neglect to ex
hibit poll tax receipts at the gubernatorial
election in some of the counties. The vot
ers may have paid their poll taxes, but if
they did not show their receipts when
they east their ballots tlieir votes will be
declared to have been illegally cast.
The Tennessee legislature ought to be
quick to get rid of such a law as that. It
is too full of mischief to have the sanction
of intelligent people.
New York loves an executive that can
swear vehemently when occasion re
quires. Gov. Flower’s “d—vociferated
when somebody' talked votes to him dur
ing the cholera scare, has been embalmed
In the history’ of Empire state politics.
Aral now comes Mayor Strong, who says
“D— politics” when politics interferes
with proper discharge of public duty.
And the people love Strong for the d—
he has said.
The newspapers are- congratulating
Mayor My r ers of this city for his prompt
ness in taking effective measures to pre
serve the peace and uphold the law on
Tuesday’ night. The military companies
are also -coming in for a deserved shace
of commendation lor their quick response
to the call of duty.
THE MORNING NEWS: FRIDAY, MARCH 1, 1890.
Fighlinar the Income Tax.
Efforts are being made to obtain a de
cision of the United States supreme court
on the question of the constitutionality
of the income tax law before April 13.
when the time for returning incomes ex
pires.
Some difficulty has ken exper
ience l in getting a case before the
courts in such a way as to squarely present
the constitutional question, and at the
same tlnp* give the courts jurisdiction.
The simplest case that has yet been be
gun is that in which a *itizen of New
Jersey Is the plaintiff. He brings a suit
against a bank in New- York City to re
strain the bank from paying a tax on Us
Income, for the reason that the payment
of the tax would deprive him of his due
share of th** bank’s profits. The bank’s
defense is that it is compelled to pay the
tax by the United States. The answer of
the plaintiff is that the United Sta’es has
no rivrht to collect the tax. because the
income tax law is unconstitutional. In
this way it is thought that the constltu- j
ttonal question can* be got before the su- ,
preme court before any attempt has been ;
ma le to collect the tax.
Some of the ablest of the New York law- j
yers are very confident that the law' will
be declared to be unconstitutional, on the
ground that It violates that article ot the
constitution which declares that the opera
tion of taxes must be uniform. The opera
tion of the income tax is clearly not uni
form.
It is. of course, impossible to predict,
with any degree of certainty, what the
supreme court would decide if the ques
tion should be presented to it. Among
lawyers, however, the opinion is pretty
generally held that if the law’ goes Into
operation it will be fruitful in litigation,
because many disputes in respect to In
comes are certain to arise. The oppon
ents of the tax depend, apparently, more
upon the next congress to get ri i of the
tax than upon the supreme court. No
doubt an effort will be made to have the
next congress repeal the law. If the su
premo court does not deny its con
stitutionality before that time, but it is
far from certain that the effort would be
successful.
Tlie Soul* of Dog*.
The literary and scientific people of
Kingston, N. Y., are into the midst of a
spirited discussion as to whether or not
dogs have immortal souls. The question
was opened in a hook written, by the Rev.
Mr. Adams, pastor of the Holy Spirit
Episcopal church, In which he took the
ground that dogs are possessed of souls.
Mr. Adams claims that no argument can
be adduced in favor of man’s immortality
thalt does not go to establish a belief in
the immortality of the lower animals.
There is no essential difference in the
faculties of man and the dog, he says, ex
cept that those of the man are more
highly developed. Three things are es
sential to a soul, human or brute—-know
ing, feeling and acting. How do men
know? Through the consciousness that
comes through tfrie senses. Men feel
through the same agencies, and as a con
sequence of knowing and feeling, they act.
And so (k> dogs. Dogs are just as much
aware of things through their senses as
men are. They see, smell, taste, hear
and feel, and arc attracted or repelled,
according to the effect upon their intelli
gences, the same as human beings. Dogs
are capable of a® many emotions as
men, and some dogs are much more sen
sitive than some men. Dogs love devoted
ly and hate desperately; they grow jeal
ous, or resentful, or Joyous, in about the
same way that humans do. They have
conceptions of time, as almost any owner
of an intelligent dog can affirm. They
reason, as the St. Bernard and sheperd
breeds especially prove.
Mr. Adams does not preach this doctrine
from his pulpit because people might
think it “sensational and queer,” but
symposiums are being held at the resi
dences of his parishioners at which the
psychology of lower animals is discussed.
And the preacher hopes to hold a similar
but much broader symposium in New
York city shortly, ait which leading think
ers of the country w’ill give their views or
the subject. As for himself. Mr. Adams
says he believes the time w ill shortly come
when thinking people will all accept the
fact that the lower animals have souls.
It is gratifying to note that the differ
ences between the Southern Railway Com
pany and its employes have been amica
bly adjusted, and also to note tho spirit
in which the negotiations were conduct
ed by both sides. Various meetings be
tween employers and employes were held,
in each of which both parties were consid
erate and courteous. All of the meetings
were harmonious and the conclusion
reached is said to be entirely satisfactory.
Reason was exercised in conducting the
negotiations, with the result that the
men will remain at work earning wages.
Had tho spirit that dominated the* Chi
cago labor leaders and general managers
last summer obtained during the South
ern railway crisis, a disastrous strike
would have been the result. The settle
ment of the matter shows that strikes
are not unavoidable, nor are they neces
sary to the maintenance of labor organi
zations.
Two train robbers in Arizona captured
tho engine pulling an express train. Under
cover of their revolvers they made the en
gineer cut off all the cars except the one
next the engine and drive ahead to a point
they designated. Arriving at the spot se
lected for the sacking of the express car.
the robbers dismounted from the cab and
went back to rob. To their consternation
they found the car next the engine, the
only’ one brought on, was a “dummy,”
while the real express car was two miles
back. They must have experienced a
| sensation something similar to that felt
by the stout party who attempts to sit
upon the chair that isn't there.
Feffer says he regards his own opinion
as quite as good as the Attorney Genefal’s.
Peffer says the new bonds are illegal. They
are selling now for something like 118.
Suppose they had Fetter’s approval, how
high the premium might jump! The bond
syndicate had better see Peffer.
PER*OS AL.
Queen Louise of Denmark 77 years of ]
ag *. hut is well preserved and looks much
younger.
EH a Wheeler Wilcox is an untiring
patron of all the beauty increasing and
ni'iinraining artists. She says she be-
Revea on principle in b~;ng as good look- |
ing as sne cam
M. Edouard Martel, a French lawyet
who lives In Paris, is quit* an expert on
< ives. having made the examination of
caverns his hohfoy. His long experience
has taught what are the requisites of cave
explorations, so now he has an outfit of
derricks, lights, boats
wain’s chairs, cameras and boats.
Abdurrahman. Amr of Afganistan, i.-* j
one of the interesting depots in
the world. He is over fifty years of age.
a man of great stature* an-J colossaJ
strength, with a broad massive counte
nance and brilliant black eyes He is dig
nified and commanding in bearing, and
can be be genial if he can s to be. He is j
a man of great intellectual lower and of .
wile range of informal on. He is feared by
his enemies and adore! by hi*= friends.
Lord and Lady Aberdeen were very po
lite to Felix Morris, the Ran, during
his recent starring tour in Panada. Al
though they are strict Presbyterians, and •
not especially enthusiast: regarding the i
stage, they caJled on Mr. Morris and his ■
company behind the scenes at a Theater >
In MontreaJ and express* i themselves as j
much pleased with the performance that
had just been given. 1: was an almost !
unprecedented complim* nt from such a
source.
A queer coincidence was the cause of j
considerable merriment in the lobby of
the Grand Pacific hotel a day or two ago, ]
according to the Chicago Times. Early in j
the day D. Sparrow of New' York regis- 1
ter ml and was assigned to his room. With
in an hour T. J. Quaii of Gloverdale. !
'lass., was spread upon the register, and I
he. t.x>, went to his room. In the after
noon C. A. Partridge of Chicago registered
for dinner and remarked that if any notes
curne for him the clerk should hold them.
Saturday afternoon L. li. Korr- .-t of Al
bany, N. Y.. registered it the hotel, and
all mail that came for the three men was
put in his box. “It was the most appro
priate place for it.” said Mr. Parker.
“This reminds me of an annual game din
ner.”
BRIGHT BITS.
Teacher—Why was Gf rge Washington
a great man?
Tommy—Because we don’t have school
on his birthday.—Philadelphia Record.
“Does Georgia Jenks eve r run away from
school?”
Robbie—Nope; he docs a lot worse,
though.
“What is it?”
Robbie—Why, he likes the teacher.—Chi
cago Inter Ocean.
“What lessons should we learn. Wen
dell.” asked the Sunday s hooi teacher,
“from this story of demonical i*>sses
slon?” “One of the lessons we should loam
from it.” replied the little Boston boy.
“is that the word demonical is accented
on the antepenultimate.—Chicago Tri
bune.
“1 asked for bread,” exclaimed the meTi
dioant bitterly, “and you give me a stone.”
The man glanced apprehensively in the
dir it Fun of youn< hrid *, who was
bending eagerly over t!v? cook stove.
“Hush.” he whispered. “That isn’t p. mark
er to what you’d have go: if you had ask
ed for custard pie.”—Puck.
Rum Going Up.—Cusonier—l don’t see
why rum should be so high.
Deufler—• It’s on account of the Japano-
Chinesa war.
“Hum! Don’t see how tlint can be.”
“Jajuin. intends *to carry western civil
ization into the benighted Chinese em
pire, you know, and that will vastly in
crease the demand for rum.”—New York
Weekly.
“One thing must b* admitted in favor of
our sex,” a non u need the advocate of fe
male rights and superiority to her hus
band, “in the time of need we are always
strong. Can you mention the name of a
single woman who has lost h r head in the
time of danger?” "Why, there was the
lovely Marie Antoinette, my dear.” sug
gested her husband mildly.”—Youth's
Companion.
She came In answer to my advertisement
for a “waiting maid." She was tow-head
ed. pimpled and freckled. When 1 ques
tioned her as to her ability to till the above
named position she answered, with mod
destlv dropped eyes and promiscuously
dropped •h’s.” When I Inquired why .she
had ‘left her former situation, she told <me
the following story: “The lady where 1
lived larst 'ad a urnsome little poodle
dawg nymed Scipio. She nymed 'im harf
ter a hansunt Hummurt-1 suppose be
cause ’e was sm h a little ‘rum un’ *is
self. Scipio ’e was troubled with some
think of a hirritatin' natur’, an’ the mis
sus arked me to herradicate it. Sv> I
saturated Scipio with turpentine, an’ shut
’im In a room with a good 'ot fire, so he
wouldn't ketch cold. Scipio, 'e was a w er
ry hlntelligcnt hmimal, ’e was, an’ feel
ing cold and damp, 'e poked the fire a hit
with his toyl. W’en 1 went hinto the
room a ’arf ’our later there wasn’t a 'air
or 'ido or heven a grease spot left of ’im—
an’ thot’s why I'm looking for another
fditooation, mem.”—London Truth.
n II It kvr COMMENT,
Cnrrylnn It Too Fair.
From the New York Press (Rep.).
It Is reported that Congressman Jerry
Simpson is soon to go u-pon the 'lecture
platform. This seems to be carrying the
“Trilby” crazes a little too far.
McKinley'* Position on Silver.
Springflel i (Mass.) Republican (Ind.).
When <ov. McKinley is asked nowadays
about his position on silver he replies:
“The prineiples of protection which have
won an unprecedented triumph from ocean
to o.*ean requires now neither abandon
ment n>r modification.”
Model Scniitorinl ( ourtosy.
From Augusta (Ga.) (’hronicle (Dern.).
When Senator A. O. Bacon went to the
Senate the other day. the paper called at
tention to the fact that he was introduced
to the senators by Senator Walsh. When
Senator Ren Tillman made his visit we
did not note that Senator Butler took him
in charge.
I* Slie a SulYragial f .
From the Hartford Times (Dern.).
Mrs. Cleveland having joined the Wo
man’s Christian Temperance Union, the
question is raised whether she knew in
becoming a member that the society had
recently adopted . universal suffrage plat
form, and that she must now be counted
a woman suffragist.
Tin* Democracy*!* Weakness.
From the New York Post (Ind.).
One thing has been proved in these
later years, and that is that the Republi
can party is under better discipline than
the democratic. It was not so in former
times, but it is so now’. . As long as this 1
fact remains, the republicans will have a
great advantage, the same that a diseip- j
lined army has over a mob. There are hon
orable and noble exceptions in both House
and Senate to the rule of condemnation
that the country bestows upon the major
ity. There are men (whom we need not
name) who have added to the honor of
the nation as well as to their own repute,
but they were for the most part powerless
to restrain the brutish multitude with
whom they were associated, and whose
dispersal on the 4tli of March the country
so earnestly desires to see.
Defeat >f l*e Pooling: Hill.
From tho Philadelphia Record (Dem.).
It is openly alleged that the defeat of
the railroad pooling hill in the Senate,
if it shall be effected, will have been
brought about by the active lobbying of
the agents ot the Standard Oil Com
pany. of the Dressed. Beef Combine, the
milling interests and other combinations
which either ow their existence or their
prosperity to railroad discriminations
through which they obtain secret advant
ages which enable them to override aim
ruin weaker competitors. The system of
cut rates, rebates and discounts has en
abled its beneficiaries to plunder at will
both producers and consumers, and they
do not propose. If they can help it. to
surrender the advantage they now enjoy
of making the trunk line managers their
confederates and cat's paws.
Falling: the Cow.
“Cooshie, coo, cooshie, come, cooshie, to
me.”
Thus sang the milkmaid, far out on the I
lea;
“Cooshie. coo, coeshle. come, cooshie. to
me.”
But cooshie. she came not, oh where
could she be!
“Cooshie. coo, cooshie,” the voice ring- i
eth far.
(The setting sun. sinkink, is kissing a
star.*
“Cooshie, coo, cooshie. I’ve let down the ;
bar.
I’ve brought you your supper, and now I ]
maun' gar.”
“Cooshie. coo, cooshie. the nightfall is !
near.’’
(Thv whippoorwill calleth, the stars twin
kle clear.
“Cooshie. coo, cooshie, come, cooshie, my
dear.
I m waiting to milk you, come, cooshie,
come here.”
“Cooshie, coo. cooshie,” again the sweet
cry
Was raised in the gloaming, as I happened
by
I saw’ the dear maiden; “Ah, maiden,”
said 1.
“A kiss for thy calling, a smile for thy
sigh.”
“Leave cooshie to wander, and come thou <
with me.”
“Ah. no!” sighed the maiden; “no, it mau’
na’ be.
But pray you. sir, help me. for I can na’ \
see
Why cooshie doth linger so long on the
lea!”
So, together we wandered, by hedgerow I
an*i rill.
And together whispered, full happy, until I
Arm in arm we returned, down the side of ;
the hill,
Wh< re poor l ooehle, forgotten, was wan
dering still. —Guy F. Hassard.
Looking Bonie Distance All cad.
It was a little dried-up, stooped-shoul
dered, thicked-lipped. white-eyed black
woman who went into a big dry goods
emporium the other day and said to the
affable ttoor walker as he met her at the
door:
“Got any yarn knit tin’ thread?”
"Yes; step this way, please.”
“Wait a minute, honey,” said the old
woman, grabbing the floor walker by the
coat tails, murih to the amusement of all
idle clerks, who began to gather around
to see the fun. says the Philadelphia
Times. “I ain’t ax you yit. Got any pins
an’ cotton stripes, an’ silk dresses an’
par*sols an’ bloeched termestlc, an’ blue
ribbon an’ piller cases an’ undershirts
an’ sewin’ merchines an* bustles an’
crimpin’ pins an’ table clors an’-an’-”
“Step this way agid 1 will show you what
we have,* interposed the floor walker,
thinking she was about to break down,
but she had only paused for breath.
“What mek you won’t lemme ax you
what. I wants?” she went on. “Got any
cookin' stoves an’ lace curtains an’ lamp
chtmblies an’ carpets an’ cliany cups an’
hairth brooms, an’ pitcher frames an’
writtn* paper an’ Bal’mals an’ kid gloves
an’ head hankchers an’ ”
“Stef* this way.”
“Wait jess a minute, chile, teK de ole
’oman git th’ough can’t you? 1 d’want to
look a' nothin’ r.il to-diy. What l ax you
is you got ’em?”
“Yes.”
“Well, now f dat’s what I wan ter git at.
Whyncher say so at fust, den I wouldn’t
he here pesterin’ you so long. You see, its
disser w ay. De ole man come home tother
night an’ fotch me a speckle pullet, an’
when spring ’gins to oj>en dal pullet jess
natcheily gwine start to lay. ain’t she?
Well, dat’s huccome I come here axin’ you
what you got so’s I’M know what to sped
fur dem aigs when I fetch ’em to town,
dat’s all.”
The Kaiser's Informal Call.
The Berlin paper “Ibis Volk” claims to
• have received the followug story from
| a Frenchman living in Berlin, says the
i London News. As will be remembered,
the Emperor William, on the morning the
news of M. CasimM-Perier’s resignation
became known in Berlin, drove at once
at an early hour to the French embassy.
M. Herbette had only just got up. and
when the illustrious visitor put in his ap
pearance he had just begun to dress. The
emperor, who had to be informed of this,
amiably sent him word that he was not to
put himself out of the way nt all, but
to come just as he was. He consequently
appeared in his dressing gown, and the
emperor joked him about his early rising.
But then the emperor asked seriously
what he thought of the surprising news.
“What news?” answered M. Herbette.
astonished. “Why, that from Paris.” “I
have not yet opened the telegrams, and
know no important news. H** was horri
fied when the emperor told him about the
resignation, and more so when he found
the Paris telegrams confirmed it. When
the emperor took his leave, M. Herbette
accompanied him, but on opening the
door, he started back in a fright, for in
the hall were not only some gentlemen,
but several ladies, to whom he could not
possibly present himself in his costume.
The emperor smiled and said: “I see;
you can receive the German emperor in
your dressing gown, but Indies—that is
another affair.”
Clergymen and flic Law.
If clergymen wish to know their rating
in the ponderous sheepskin tomes, says
the New York Advertiser, they can find
it out by beginning with the very earliest
English law books in existence. In one of
the Black Letter year books it appears
that someone had been so unkind as to
call a preacher a fool, with a. good theolog
ical prolix to the fool. The preacher
brought suit for slander and the defend
ant justified, as the lawyers say; that is.
he claimed that what he said was not
slander but gospel truth, and he showed
that the words spoken could not hurt the
clergyman, “for that it was a maxim of
the common law,” that “a parson might,
boa good parson and still be a fool.” The
court -0 held, but said that had the words
been spoken of a lawyer or a doctor it
would have been otherwise.
Lord Coke, the great fountain of our
' common law. had little use for the preach-
I ors. and in his third institute he says that
! in order that the Carmelite Friars of
I Fleet street might perform their vows
of chastity King Edward 111. bad to pro
hibit all women from passing through a
lane next to the friar house. Apropos of
preachers. an old chronicle relates that
w hen Alan do Neville, Chief Forester of
Henry 11., died, a certain monastery
begged for some of his great wealth. The
king, with fine religious discrimination,
said: “I shall take his wealth; but you
may have his carcass and the devil will
get his soul.”_
The* .Merry LegiKlativo Grind.
In the midst of the hurry and rush of
the closing hours of the session, says the
Washington Post, a story which was told
yesterday of the Pennsylvania legislature
seems appropriate.
The session of the legislature was about
to expire. In accordance* with the usual
custom, tho chair was occupied by a rapid
worker, who was deaf to objections and
bltnd to objectors. His name was Alex.
McClure. Under his able management the
bills were going through at a lightning
express rate, when one measure was
reached that was particularly obnoxious
to a noisy minority. Utterly oblivious to
the demonstration, Mr. McClure declared
that the bill had passed.
Over in one comer of the legislature
chamber one member was especially vo
ciferous. He would tiot be quieted, and
Mr. McClure was finally compelled to no
tice him for the sake of peace.
“For what purpose does the gentleman
! rise?” asked ttm chair.
“I want to offer an amendment to the
bill,” was the reply.
"Too late,” said Mr. McClure, without a
smile: “offer it to the next bill I The clerk
will read.”
And the merry grind went on.
Instinct Betrayed Him.
A curious story is told by our Vienna
correspondent, says the London News. \
young man, the representative of a large
firm, who carried a large sum of money
with him. recently spent the night at a
hotel at Presburg. As usual, he remained
some time smoking in bed. Suddenly the
burning cigar fell to the floor. He'bent
1 over to extinguish it, when he saw a hand
i projected from under the bed put the
; cigar out. It made him very uncomforta
ble. He lay awhile, and then saying
I aloud: “How very cold! I shall got inv
fur coat, he jumped out of bed. flew to
; the door and cried for help. The would
be robber was caught. He confessed he
knew the occupant of the room had
| money, which he hoped to ger while he
! slept. He had been a fireman formerly
' and could not resist the impulse to extin
l guish the burning cigar.
ITEMS OF lATEULVr.
The January sales of raw iron at Pitts
burg reached the enormous total of 263,730
tons, exceeding by SO.Oub tons the sale*
of January, 1*94. This is* said to “beat all
previous records.”
The Japanese, with an ertra war credit,
just voted, of $100,009,000, are organizing
another military force, destined, it is sup
posed, to attack the big island of Formosa
in the China Sea. Formosa is practically
a tropical island, containing three times
the area of Connectk*izt, or about double
that of Massachusetts, and bisected, longi
tudinally, by a mountain range having
summits 10.000 and 12.600 feet high, some
peaks being covered with perpetual snow.
It is a rich and fertile islond, but is largely
given over, on the east side of the moun
tains. to wild people and wild beasts. The
worst gangs of pirates ever known in the
China seas come from Formosa.
Both houses of the Missouri legislature
have passed a resolution accepting a prop
osition from Sedalia for the removal of
the state capital to that city upon the
condition that Sedalia erect state build
ings to exceed in quality and beauty those
now owned by the state at Jefferaon City.
The resolution does not need the guber
natorial approval. Sedalia, however, will
not have an easy victory, as Jefferson City
w*ll light the transfer in the courts. Its
advocates point out that congress donated
four sections of lan 1 to the state of Mis
souri for a capital, and declared the gift,
upon acceptance, to be irrevocable. A
city was laid out. and lots sold to the
_
The * itizens believe they have some legal
rights that must be respected, and will
light to the last ditch. They feel they
have been outraged, and are not choice
in their language when discussing the
matter. They are satisfied there is a job
in it. but are unable to discover it at
present.
Boys and girls, old and young, who
enjoy immensely the frivolities of a Punch
and Judy show will be glad to learn, says
the London Telegraph, that the exhibition
has a serious side as w ell as a comic one—
is, in fact, a direct lineal descendant of the
ancient miracle plays which our ancestors
were fond of some six or seven centuries
ago. At least that is the opinion of Rev.
G. R. Woodward, who on Sat unlay de
livered a lecture on “Ancient Carols” in
the Chapter house of St. Paul’s to mem
bers of the Plainsong and Mediaeval
Music Society. He contended that the
modern Punch and Judy *kow. with its
tambourine, drum and bagpipe, represent
ed the triumph of Virture over Vice.
Punch is very like Pons or Pounce (Pon
tius) Pilate; Judy was intended for Judas,
the traitor, or for Judith, who slew Hol
fernes, and Toby was evidently the dog
mentioned in the bcok of Tobit. He.
therefore, discarded the Italian derivation
of the word, and held that the modern
form of the old religious show was simply
a corrupted edition of a miracle play
which had Pontius Pilate as Its hero.
It appears from the Harvard quinquen
nial catalogue that Oliver Wendell Holmes
did not receive the degree of master of
arts until nine years after the degree of
doctor of laws had been conferred upon
him by his alma mater, and three, years
after he had been honored with the highest
titles by Edingburgh, Cambridge and Ox
ford. The Boston correspondent of the
Critic says that some time before com
mencement In 1889 Dr. Holmes wrote a
witty letter to the governing board of
Harvard, saying that the university had
often lionized him. and that he
had received from it the df
grexs of A. 8., M. I). and LL. D v
but he had never yet received the degree
of A. M. from any college. He would not
presume to point out this fact, had not
Harvard already given him the higher de
gree. which might be assumed to include
the lower; still, he felt that nothing would
please him better than to be a master of
arts of Harvard. The letter was ir a mod
est, unassuming tone, not making a re
quest. but proffering a suggestion. He
closed it in this characteristic manner:
I A. M. yours, etc., Oliver Wendell
Holmes.” Of course his hint was noted
on. and the genial autocrat was made an
honorary master of arts sixty years aiter
his graduation.
To the "Thirteen Club” and the “Salt
Spillers” comes the “Order of the Opal.”
says the New York Advertiser. This is a
new organization designed to challenge
ill luck and siiow how easily it may be
Lullkd, w r hqn deliberately faced. The
new dub has much of the same rites as
other clubs of its kind. It meets on Fri
das'. Its rooms are decorated with pea
cock feathers. The members make a point
of walking under ladders, eating thirteen
at table, going and coming on Friday and
spilling salt. It is not said that they
break mirrors with deliberation: but any
body who does break a mirror is held in
great consideration by tlie other members.
The opal is the badge of membership,
and is, of course, put forth on all occa
sions. It is urged, however, that all these
efforts to overthrow superstition fail of
their purpose inasmuch as ill luck cannot
be invited. The element of chance is ab
solutely necessary to its success. An even
more clement to be removed is the pride
and pleasure most people take in their
superstition. A superstition to an actress
in the way of advertisement is only l*ss
valuable than the loss of hpr jewels. To
other people superstitions are of impor
tance in giving piquancy to biographical
notices and sketches of character now so
popular in current weeklies.
The Parisian* w*il Inot have to wait until
1900 for the privilege of enjoying an exhi
bition, ac< between the months of April
and October next a display of a remark
able character will attract many to- 'the
buildings of the last exhibition and the
adjoining gardens of the Champ de Mars,
says the Manchester Guardian. After so
many gatherings of the kind, ir might be
thought that the promoters would have
found it difficult to introduce any original
element into the scheme for the Paris
exhibition of 1895, but this they have se
cured. Its title, of “Exposition Hippique
et Dt.hnographique Russe,” fully explains
its character. Its leading feature will be
a display of every type of Russian horses,
of which there are at least fifty different
races, from the diminutive Finland ponies
to the magnificent steeds of the Turko
mans. The ethr.ograpic features of the
exhibitor will he t once distinct from
and combined with the horse show’. Thus,
while there will be a vast popular bazar,
in which will be given a representation
of one of the great Russian fairs, at which
the products of the various provinces will
be displayed under charge of members of
the different races included in the Rus
sian empire, the horses will be stabled,
as far as possible, 1n the manner to which
they are accustomed at home. There will
be a complete exhibitor of saddlery and
equestrian accoutrements generally, from
the rudeet to the most complicatei, amd
nearly every kind of cart and carriage in
Russia w'lT be-seen. Pos-sack horses will
bivouac in one or other of the open spaces
and the horses of the steppes will be seen
with their native owners. A strong and
influential committee of management has
been formed, and as the Paris municipal
council and other public bodies are di
rectly encouraging the undertaking, it
may be assumed that the preliminary ar
rangements will be satisfactory. Tiie late
Emperor Alexander had issued a ukase
directing that every facility should be
afforded to fhe promoters and the im
perial patronage has been con tinued by his
•successor. There will be no difficulty,
therefore, in carrying out the intentions
of the promoters, as the imperial and other
extensive, studs of the empire will be at
their service.
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