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INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Special Notices—A Comforter for Sun
day Morn, at Beckmann's Cafe; Notice to
Conductors Electric Railway Company;
The Capital Acorn Range for Hard
Coal. Lovell & Lattimore; Clothing for
Nothing-, Falk Clothing Company; Fine
Groceries, Mutual Co-operative Associa
tion; Notice, Jas. H. Johnston, President
City and Suburban Railway; Notice to the
Public, Jas. H. Johnston, President Sa- j
vannah, Thunderbolt and Isle of Hope
Railway Lines.
There Is a Difference—Falk Clothing
Company.
Legal Notices—Application for Person
alty; Application to Transfer Bank
Shares.
Your Duty and Pleasure To-day—Appel
& Schaul.
A Wife Wanted—B. H. Levy & Bro.
Steamship Schedule—Ocean Steamship
Company.
Cheap Column Advertisements—Help
Wanted; Employment Wanted; For
Rent; For Sale; Lost; Personal; Miscel
laneous.
It looks like the legislature of Dela
ware would choose nobody to represent
the state in the Senate. It may be that,
considering all the circumstances, the
legislature is making a wise choice.
A New York drummer engaged himself
to a Boston young woman on a twenty
minutes acquaintance recently, and was
married to her within a day. The haste
of the young woman to land her catch
Is probably accounted for by the scarcity
qf men, in comparison with the number
of women, in Boston.
There Is some doubt whether the
Grand Army of the Republic's statue of
Gen. Grant, designed to be place in the
statuary hall of the eapltol at Washing
ton, will be given a place. The statue is
said to resemble a great many other peo
ple more than it does Grant, and to be
lacking in artistic requirements. How
ever, congressmen are notoriously poor
art critics. It will be remembered that
Only a short while ago a committee of
them took Issue on a question of art with
Augustus St. Gaudens, and said that fa
mous artist had failed to make a decent
design for a medal.
Congressman Wilson of West Virginia,
who goes Into the cabinet, has made
fpr himstdf in congress a reputation that
is enviable. He is a man of a high order
of ability, and as he takes politics serious
ly, from the point of view of a states
man, it is sale to say that he will acquit
himself in the cabinet with as much
honor as he has In the House. The only
regret in connection with Mr. Wilson's
promotion that can be expressed by his
friends and admirers is that he does not
go to an office In which his comprehen
sive knowledge of the tariff can be of
practical benefit to the country.
A Canadian metallurgist has succeeded
in tempering aluminium so as to give it
t,he consistency of iron. This is regarded
as a very important discovery, inasmuch
as it may lead to the substitution of the
light metal for cannon and armor in the
place of iron and steel. The Canadian has
made and tempered an aluminium cannon
twenty-eight inches long by five inches in
diameter, which has been tested and found
effective by the Canadian government. The
metal of the gun outside of the bore is
but a quarter of an inch thick, and the
piece weighs only fourteen pounds; yet a
great number of one-pound charges have
been fired from the little cannon without
leaving any appreciable effect upon it. An
iron cannon of similar caliber, to be effec
tive, would have to weigh something like
ISO pounds. The little piece of ordnance
is said to have the appearance of bur
nished silver.
A great many people and papers are dis
posed to ridicule the idea of John L. Sul
livan becoming a temperance lecturer. As
a matter of fact, all that is needed to make
Sullivan one of the most powerful temper
ance lecturers that ever went upon a ros
trum is his genuine reformation and em
barking upon the adventure. He is a
man of abundant horse sense. He is per
fectly familiar with all of the wiles of the
drink demon. He knows the effect of
whisky drinking upon the physical consti
tution. He can, and would, taik of these
things in a manner to appeal irresistibly
to the very class of people the temperance
folks most earnestly desire to
reach and influence. Sullivan has
fiin his course as an athlete
and as a profligate; but if he were to turn
temperance lecturer in earnest he would
still have an extraordinary career before
him. He would rival Francis Murphy at
\ obtaining signatures to the pledge.
The Arbitration Hill.
It Is hardly probable that the arbitra
tion bill that passed the House a few
days ago will be passed by the Senate.
The Senate has no time to give to It.
The bill, however. Is likely to be intro
duced into the next congress, and by the
time that congress meets it may he con
sidered advisable to amend it in several
Important particulars.
It is based upon suggestions made by
Commissioner Wright, who was one of
the three committeemen who investigated
the Chicago strike. The purpose of it
is to prevent strikes on railroads by ar
bitrating the difficulties that may arise
between .interstate railroad companies
and Iheir employes. Arbitration is to be
voluntary, hut If agreed to the decision of
the arbitrators must be accepted.
If this bill should become a law it
would not prevent strikes. In ease of
trouble it would almost always happen
that one or the other of the parties to the
difficulty would refuse to agree to arbi
tration. in the great Chicago strike last
summer neither Mr. Pullman nor the rail
roads would consent to an arbitration,
and in the recent strike of the trolley line
employes In Brooklyn the trolley com
panies steadily insisted there was nothing
to arbitrate. It is fair to assume, there
fore. that the pending bill, if it should
become a law, would not have the effect
of preventing strikes.
New York and New Jersey have arbi
tration laws and arbitration commis
sioners, and in neither state have the
laws and commissioners been effective
In preventing strikes. In the New Jer
sey legislature a bill is pending to abol
ish the arbitration commission on the
ground that it costs the state a great
deal of money and has never rendered
the public any service.
But it is evident that some way ought
to be found to prevent strikes, which are
becoming more frequent und of larger
proportions. How would compulsory ar
bitration answer? It might be said that
is would be unjust, and that the law
making power has no right to force cor
porations or employes of corporations
to submit to the decision of a tribunal
that might be Influenced by sympathy
for one or other of the parties o a diffi
culty. The sympathy of an arbitration
commission would likely be with the em
ployes of a corporation, which would
lead it to impose upon the corporation
unfair conditions. It Is a notorious fact
that courts and Juries lean towards
those who have differences with rail
roads.
The fact cannot be overlooked, how
ever, that the rights of the public are
of much more importance than those of
either of the parties to a strike. A rail
road strike disorganizes business and is
the cause of much annoyance. The pub
lic therefore have a right to demand a
prompt settlement of the difficulties be
tween railroads and their employes, be
cause the railroads are, as a matter of
fact, the creatures of the state. From
the standpoint of the public good there
fore compulsory arbitration Is to be com
mended. Compulsory arbitration is the
only kind of arbitration that promises to
accomplish much in the settlement of Ta
bor difficulties.
I\ i'cp Out o( It.
We do not know what ex
l'riest Slattery’s real purpose in
cumins to Savannah was, but
we believe it was to make money by
lecturing on a subject which he knew
would, in all probability, excite opposi
tion. We do not think he came as an
agent of the A. P. A. organization. In
fact, he announced that ho is not an
agent of that organization. The effort
that was made to prevent him front lectur
ing suggested to him. probably, that he
could make trouble for those who opposed
his lecturing by having organized here a
branch of the A. P. A. society. If what
ho says is to be relied upon, an attempt
to organize a branch of that society here
will be made.
We trust that no encouragement will be
given to the agent of that society if one
should come here. Nearly everywhere
where the society has established itself it
has caused ill-feeling and trouble. There
may be those who think it would be a
good thing to be connected with the so
ciety, but they would eventually discover
their mistake.
Nothing contributes more to the success
of a town than good feeling among all its
people. With a branch of the A. P. A. so
ciety here, the good feeling that has pre
vailed would likely disappear, to a great
extent. We don't want such scenes here
as have been witnessed within the last
two or three years in some of the western
cities.
If a branch of the A. P. A. society should
be established here those who created tho I
disturbance around Masonic hall Tues
day night would be largely responsible
for it. It is to be hoped, therefore, that
no effort will be spared to punish as they
deserve those disturbers of the peace.
The proposition to have a Lexowr com
mittee for Philadelphia has been “hung
up” in the Pennsylvania legislature, for
the reason that Senator Quay's friends
in that body are fearful that the inquiry
would go too far and hit more people than
would be agreeable either to themselves
or the senator. Senator Quay is said to
favor an investigation because he thinks
it would crush his enemy, David Mar
tin, the big republican boss in Philadel
phia. The staid and careful old Philadel
phia Ledger is urging an investigation,
not for personal revenge like Senator Quay
but because there is a general belief that
the city councils have been run for jobbery
and spoils and some of the city depart
ments arc rotten to the core. Inasmuch
as Senator Quay controls the legislature,
however, whether there w ill be an inves
tigation or not depends on how much po
litical capital Senator Quay and his friends
can make one way or the other.
Senator Hill platted his tongue into a
whipcord on Thursday and gave Senator
Chandler just such a lashing as he
richly deserved. When Chandler poses
as a champion of political uprightness, it
is time for some senator to hold up his
record to view.
THE MORNING NEWS: SATURDAY, MARCH 2, 1*93.
A Brutal Attack.
About the most thoroughly disliked
man in the Senate Is Senator Chandler of
New Hampshire. His attack upon Sena
tor Martin of Kansas and Senator Roach
of North Dakota on Thursday was as in
excusable as it was brutal. His speech j
was based upon a resolution introduced
by himself declaring the seats of those
two senators vacant. His reason for
wanting Senator Martin's seat declared
vacant was that that senator had been
elected as a populist and was now a dem
ocrat. and he objected to Senator Roach
occupying a seat in the Senate because, ,
as he alleged, the charges against the
senator namely, viz., ttial as cashier of a
hank in Washington he had embezzled
bank funds, had never been properly in- ,
vestigated.
Senator Chandler knew of course that ,
there was no probability that his resolu
tion would be adopted. The senators he
attacked have been admitted to their
seals In the Senate and ilie presumption
Is that all charges against either or both
of them were shown to be groundless be
fore they were, admitted. What then
was Mr. Chandler's purpose in introduc
ing his resolution to have their seats de
clared vacant? Was it not to get a
chance to reiterate the charges that had
been made against them, and, as far as
he eould, bring them Into disrepute with
their fellow-congressmen and their con
stituents? If that was his purpose was
not Senator Hill fully Justified in insinu
ating that Senator Chandler is a hypo
crite, and indirectly charging him with
the theft of the electorial vote of Flor
ida in 1876 when Mr. Tilden was defrauded
of the presidency?
Senator Chandler made a pitiable spec
tacle when from his plane in the Senate
he undertook to break down the charac
ters of two of his fellow senators. But
then Mr. Chandler is capable of doing that
sort of thing. He knows that he is heart
ily despised, and hence he misses no op
portunity to try to make it appear that
he is the good man of the Senate. He Is
too well known, however, to play that
role successfully. He will likely remem
ber for a long time the reply Senators
Hill and Martin made to him. If he were
at all sensitive it would be a long time
before he would undertake again to try
to smirch the reputations of other mem
bers of the Senate.
A Pitiable Spectacle.
What a pitiable spectacle the members
of the lower branch of the general assem
bly or New York present! In the recently
adopted constitution of that state it Is
provided that free railroad passes shall
not be accepted by members of the legis
lature and other state officials. On Tues
day, by a vote of 69 to 30, the House
passed a bill to defeat the anti-pass pro
vision of the constitution. The purpose of
the bill is to compel the railroads of the
state to carry members of the legislature
and all other state officials free of charge.
The House, by this act, shows an utter
disregard for the will of the people. The
antl-free pass provision was pul into the
constitution after a very careful consider
ation of the evils of the free pass prac
tice, and the people approved what the
constitutional convention did. The pres
ent legislature is the lirst one that has
assembled under the new constitution and
the House has disgraced itself by passing
a bill to require railroads to carry the
members of the legislature and all other
state officers free.
It is not to be wondered at that the
people become disgusted with their law
makers. What right have members of
the legislature to compel railroad com
panies to carry them free of charge? is
not legislation of that kind robbery? Are
the men who voted to nullify the will of
the people In the matter of free passes
any better than train robbers? If they
can by legislation make railroad com
panies carry them free of charge why
cannot they with just as much propriety
grab perquisites from all other companies
that are chartered by the state?
The present legislature of New York is
said to be a. reform body. It looks like
It was a legislature of boodle grabbers.
A Kansas electrician, who has been at
Sandy Hook, N. Y„ experimenting for
several months, has perfected a plan for
telephonic connection between ships an
chored at sea and the land. The difficulty
heretofore has been that no permanent
means of connecting the seaward end of
the cable to the telephone aboard the
vessel had been found. The constant
swinging and riding of the vessel would
invariably break any wire leading up
from the cable to the vessel. This difli
culty has been overcome by sending the
current through the vessel's anchor chain
and a short chain beyond the anchor, to
the submarine telephonic cable. The only
means of communicating with the light
ships off the coast has been by boat. As
some of the ships are a long ways off shore
the difficulty of reaching them has been
great, especially in bad weather. With
the lightships connected with the shore by
telephone—and it is said the government
contemplates establishing such communi
cation on all of its lightships—the light
ship kcotters will be always in touch with
the world, and much marine intelligence
of importance can be received earlier and
with greater accuracy than heretofore.
For instance, had the lightships ofT New
York been connected with the shore by
'phone at the time of the I.a Gascogne ex
citement, the safety of that ship would
have been known to the world probably
half a day earlier than It was.
I The death list of the congress now draw
ing to a close is not as long as is that of
the last congress or tho one before it. Still
the rate is too high. There were fourteen
deaths of members during the Fifty-first
congress, the same number during the
Fifty-second congress, and eleven deaths
during the Fifty-third. There is no joke
about the “malaria*’ of congressmen.
There is bad air, or bad water, or some
thing about the capitol that kills.
If Mr. Tom Watson succeeds as well
; as a peacemaker as he did as a fomenter
j of strife, we may presently expect to see
' the Tenth district in a love feast, and hear
i of the booking of a wholesale order for
I wlnga.
I’KHHOWI..
Dr. All*n Norton Leete of th* Soranton 1
Tribune has recently received a legacy of
s>•,** from a grateful chap to whom h*
©no* loaned SSOO. Such an experience i*
rather exceptional.
--The Sioux Indiana are evidently be
ron-Jnp civilized. They row propose to i
er* <-t a monument to their late chief. Iron
Nation, and mean to have it up ahead of
New York’s Grant's monument.
—Senator Bates has a curious relic in
the sha;* of a fee received from a client
soon after the war. The client was charged
with being a Kuklux, but was acquitted
of the charge. He gave a fee in the case
a has of silver which he had kefd buried
all during the war.
—II. F. Balch. of Minneapolis, is hav
ing built at a steam ya< ht to be
called the New Alcyone, t will be 135
feet in length and 17 feet in beam. After
a trial trip to Superior the yacht
will leave for salt water by way of the
Welland canal and the St Lawrence
river, and next winter it will be (lying the
pennant of th© Chicago Yacht Club in
West Indian waters.
—Mr. Perdval Lowell, the Boston as
tronomer. says that the planets were not
well named by the ancients. Jupiter, the
youngest of planets, has the name of
th" Father of the God: Venus with a
modesty which she never gained from her
god-mother keeps herself always shroud
ed in a veil of clouds. And Mars has given
his name to the. planet whose people are
working: together in the peaceful pro
cesses of irrigation.
—Charles Broadway Rctiss, the New
York millionaire philanthropist and mer
chant, has some curious fads. Every even
ing he drives from his otii- e to his home
on Upper Broadway behind a pair of bays.
All along the homeward route are groups
of small boys waiting for the passing of
this wheel of fortune, for a-? the carriage
nears different points there is a scramble
of small newsboys, all after the pennies
which are tossed from the millionaire’s
capacious pockets.
—When Senator Mills of Texas, is once
thoroughly aroused it takes him a long
time to get cool, and the moment he.
loses his temper he starts off to do some
stair-climbing. He plunges along at a
tremendous pace until he reaches the
top of the building, and then he swings
round and comes down again at the same
rate. Then he crosses to the opposite wing
of the capitol and repeats the perform
ance. He never allows himself to open his
mouth when in these moods.
BRIGHT BITS.
—The man who said that figures never
lie probably never saw a ballot.—Philadel
phia Record.
—Judge: “Your age, miss?”
Elderly Female: “Thirty-two.*’
Judge (to secretary): “But down, born
1832.”—Fllegende Blatter.
Uncle George: “It Is really absurd for
a woman to understate her age for the
sake of getting a husband.’’
Kate: “Uncle George, when you sell
anything In your busineus, don't you
make a time allowance?'’—Boston Tran
script.
—“Your are never satisfied, Jimmie,”
said his mother. “Here you have a beau
tiful bob-sled, and yet you’re moping all
th“ time.”
“Well, I can’t help it. Papa had ought
to get. me a hill to slide down now. You
won't let me use it on the stairs.’’—Har
per's Young People.
—Murder WUJ Out.—The Groom (at the
first stopping place): “It’s no use, (Mara;
we can’t hide it from people that we art*
bride and groom.’’
The Bride: “What makes you think so,
George, dear?”
The Groom (dejectedly): “Why, here
the waiter has brought us rice pudding!'”—
l’uck.
—Nature and Art Crowding Each Other.
—'T wish the man sitting b< hind me would
quit brushing against my back hair," an
grily exclaimed the slim young womun
in otic of the front rows, addressing the |
plump young woman by her side.
“It’s my long nose, miss." apologized the
man behind her. “and 1 can't shorten it.
You'll have to take in your Psyche knot
a little."—Chicago Tribune.
In the desert lived a hermit.
Old and grizzled, gaunt. Infirm;
Lived? Ah, well, then, he existed—
That's perhaj’.' the better term.
“How, O hermit," thus I queried,
“Can you all thise hardships stand?"
/ And he slowly, grimly answered,
“Well, you see, I've got the sand.”
And the jackals and hyenas,
Waiting theif expected prey—
Waiting for the old man's carcass.
Wildly shrieked ami fled away.
Kansas City Journal.
Cl ItKEVI" (OMMEYT.
\\ I, y Not Make It General?
From the Hartford Times (Derm).
Mitchell of Oregon wonts a bounty of 3
cents a pound for the poor wool growers
of the country, and we suppose the sugar
cane raisers will agree that that is only
fair. What interests us Is to know w hen
there is to he a bounty for everybody.
Why not let us ail go down to the fed
eral building in Hartford and get tin
every morning? It would be vastly easier
than “sticking" type and running print
ing presses, and shoveling off sidewalks
after February blizzards. Push the relief
along.
Potion I*rices.
From Springfield (Mass) Republican (Ind)
Senator Hoar attributes the fall in the
price of cotton to the tariff act of 1891.
He knows, of course, that there was no
tariff on cotton to remove, amt he must
be aware also that shrinkage of demand
from the mills has not been more pro
nounced at home than abroad. And fin
ally does tile senator recall tile fact that
cotton suffered a greater decline in price
from the year IX9J to ami including tile
year IS92—when the McKinley act was in
full force and the Republican party in
power— than it has suffered since?
Tlie Income Tax.
From fhe Pittsburg (Pa.) Post (Dem.).
When tne hill was under discussion in
congress it was computed that not more
than 89.000 persons in the whole union
would he amenable to the tax on incomes
exceeding $1,090 a year. But since then,
and in the light of investigations made by
collectors in a number of revenue dis
tricts, the estimate has been largely in
creased. and the figures now are that
something like 300,000 persons wdl! bo re
quired to pay the income tax. We believe
the working of Hie law will make an ex
traordinary exhibit of the heretofore un
taxed wealth of the country for federal
purposes.
The Arbitration Bill.
From tile Philadelphia Record (Dem.).
The arbitration bill passed by the House
to facilitate the adjustment of disputes
between Interstate carriers and their em
ployes would have one good result if it
,should induce labor organizations to be
come incorporated bodies, responsible for
the fulfillment of engagements which they
might enter into and for the consequences
of acts which they might authorize to be
done. Responsibility would temper their
dealings with employers and the public.
It would also give to the employers lit
tle or no excuse for a refusal to submit
questions that might be deemed arbitrable
to decision by the method provided for in
the pending bill.
Gold Exports and tile Bond Syndi
cate.
From the Philadelphia Press (Rep.).
The rate for sterling exchange was
again at the profitable gold exporting
point yesterday, but any fears of gold
exports were allayed by the knowledge
that the gold selling syndicate were in
terested in keping the rate high as a
part of the programme to protect the
treasury gold Of course, in doing this
tho syndicate is hound to see
that no gold gees out, and it is per
fectly plain that their control of ex
change Is complete enough to dominate
i the gold movent nt at the moment.
Whether the syndicate will be able to re
! tain absolute control of over the move
j inent of gold is a matter which the fu
‘ litre will settle, hut unless some new eon
i tlngencies arise it is believed they will
I not only retain the rower, but exercise it
. In the Interest of iho treasury gold bal
ance. The whole matter is of the future
and depends on so many happenings that
no. prediction can be made as to the ul
timate result.
Rather Sot in Her
On* day as I was toiling up a rough
trail road in the Cumberland mountains
of Tennessee, says a writer In th* De
troit Free Press, I encountered a man on
horseback, just as he turned in from an
other trail. As we were going the same
way we jogg?rd along together, and, after
some general talk, he observed:
“Stranger, I want to ask yo* a question
plumb center, and if vo* don’t feel like
answerin’ it I shan’t be put out.’’
“Well, go ahead.”
“Kin yo’ read print?”
“Yes. fairly weH.’’
“Kin yo’ read writ in’ V*
“Yes.”
“Kin yo’ figger?”
We jogged a lon in silence for the next
forty rods, and then he raid:
“Stranger. I’m living two miles further
on. I’d like to have you stop at my cabin
and settle a dispute.”
“I shouldn't like to get mixed up in any
quarrel, you know.’’
“Oh. of co’s* not. It's a dispute be
tween m* an’ my wife, and we’ve bin a
looking fur somebody to settle it fur the
last three months. Yo’ won t get into
trouble about it. We don’t spell nor fig
ger. nor pronounce words jest alike, and
1 re' kon yo’ kin set us straight.”
When we reached the cabin I was ten
dered a sip from the jug and introduced !
to his wife, who was a middle-aged
woman of great firmness of character.
The husband explained that we had met
accidentally, and he asked me to act as
referee, and added.:
“Now, stranger, how do yo* spell dawg?’’
“There is no such word as dawg. It is
dog.”
“But how do you spell It?”
“Why. d-o-g, dog. How do you spell it?”
“I don’t go fur to consider to reckon
I’m much of a speller, but I get a *d* and
an ‘o’ and an’ T’ and a ‘g’ in thar sum
whars.”
“That would be spelling it d-o-r-g.”
“Yes.”
“And how do you spell it?” I asked
wife. ... _
“I say it’s a d-a-w-g. dawg. she replied
in a surly manner.
“You mean a dog—an animal?”
“Of co’se I do! I’ve spelled it that way
for twenty y’ars and I know I’m right!”
“But that isn’t according to the Eng
lish language, ma’am.”
“I don’t keer fur no English language,
she snapped as she rose up and entered
the house.
I was about to say I hoped I hadn t
offended her when the husband arose and
pulled the door to and got a good grip
on the handle and whispered:
“Stranger. I’ll try to hold the door until
yo’ get outer shootin’ distance, but yo’
must hurry.”
“Why, what’s the matter?”
“The matter is my wife is rather sot in
her ways, pertickerly on spellin’, and 1
kin hear her pouring shot an’ powder into
the bird gun! Stranger. I’m sorry to hev
vo’ go this wav. but dawg gone my dorg
if yo’ dog hain’t got to hustle or go out
of the spellin’ bizness.”
When I made the turn in the road he
was still holding the door, but I saW some
thing that looked like a woman climbing
out of one of the side windows with a
gun.
I ncle Jim's Perplexity.
Uncle Jim Hendricks, a Dorr county
(Wisconsin) hermit, paid his first visit to
Chicago a few weeks ago as a witness in
an Important lawsuit, says the Chicago
Times. The parties who summoned him
looked carefully after his welfare and
secured him rooms in one of the finest
hotels. Though for years a recluse, the
excitement induced by Uncle Jim’s ad
ventures was so great that he was per
suaded fo stop In at the village store on
his way home and narrate them. Being
asked what was the most wonderful thing
he had seen, he said:
“Waal, I den t know- 'bout Its bein' the
most wonderful, hut the curiosetst thing I
seen wuz a darn thing they put In my
room to light it. Yer see, them fellers thot
they'd plav a smart trick on yer uncle,
and what d'yer think they give me to light
my room with?
“Haw! haw! 'Twan't nuthin' niore'n a
leetle glass bottle tied on the end of a
string. Wall, Inside of that 'ere little bot
tle wuz a couple of mires that looked ez
though they wore red ho;, tho’ the bottle
didn't het ’up a bit. How the wires ever
got het up so 1 give it up. They didn't
cool off all 'lie evening, and when 1 cum
to go to bed I jest says I'll pour some wa
ter out of that 'ere pitcher on 'em so I
kin go to sleep.
"But. b'gosh! Couldn't find no hole in
that ere bottle nowhere. Says to m'eelf.
‘Guess I'll hev to smash the tarnal thing,’
and wuz a-lookin' in the bed for a bed slat
to do it with, when I says to myself:
'Guess 1 know a trick dorth two cr that
I’ll jest show them fellers they can’t fool
yer L'ncle Jim.’
“So I Jest takes the dressin' ease and
pushes it up under that ere thing and I
takes that ere bottle and puts it inside one
one uv the drawers and shets the drawer
up. 'No flies to speak uv on yer Uncle Jim,’
says I. When I goes to bed. When I opens
the drawer in the mornln' the darned thing
hed burned out.”
Lady Hutton Eyes.
Eugene Field.
When the busy day is done
And my weary little one
Rocketh gently to and fro;
When tho night winds softly blow
And the crickets in the glen
Chirp and chirp and chirp again;
When upon the haunted green
Fairies dance around their queen-
Then from yonder misty skies
Cometh Lady Button-Eyes.
Through the murk and mist and gloam
To our quiet, cozy home,
Where to singing, sweet and low.
Rocks a cradle to and fro;
Where the clock's dull monotone
Telleth of the day that's done;
Where the moonbeams hover o'er
Playthings sleeping on the floor—
Where my weary wee one lies
Cometh Lady Button-Eyet*.
Cometh like a fleeting ghost
Front some distant eerie coast;
Never footfall can you bear
As that spirit fareth near—
Never whisper, never word
From that shadow queen is heard.
In ethereal raiment light.
From the realm of fay and sprite
in the depth of yonder skies
Cometh Lady Button-Eyes.
Layeth she hor hands upon
My dear weary little one.
And those white hands, overspread
Like a veil the curly head,
Seen to fondle and caress
Every little silken tress;
Then she smoothes the eyelids down
Over those'jwo eyes of brown—
In such soothing, tender wise
Cometh Lady Button-Eyes.
Dearest, feci upon your brow
That caressing magic now;
For the crickets in the glen
Chirp and chirp and chirp again.
While upon the haunted green.
Fairies dance around their queen,
And moonbeams hover o'er
Playthings sleeping on the floor—
Hush, my sweet! from yonder skies
Cometh Lady Button-Eyes.
She Hal cm American*.
Mrs. Hinn Hinton hates Americans, says
the New York Advertiser. She married
one. The doubtful felicity of being Mrs.
Linn Linton’s husband belonged to the
gentle engraver. J. D. Linton, a man of
delicacy and refinement. She was his
second wife. To the exercise- of her caus
tic abilities as a wife, Mrs. Linton added
those of a stenn\other. These opportu
nities might reasonably have satisfied
her. She took up her pen, and has since
occupied herself in the effort to casti
gate all creation, beginning with her
husband’s countrymen. A woman o-f this
city met her last summer in a boarding
house in Wales. The American was dis
cussing the servant question with an Eng
lish woman, who was lamenting in the
usual way the decay of the old race of do
mestic servants. Mrs. Linton scented car
nage from the other side of the table, and
plunged into the conversation.
“Yes,” said she to the New York
woman, to whom she was a stranger. "We
owe it all to you Americans. You come
over here disseminating your Ideas of
equality, and you have ruined the coun
try. We have you to thank that we have
no more peace in our homes. It serves
you right if you have to take the conse
quences of your own pernicious doc
trines.*'
The astonished visitor looked across the
table at the irate female whose impor
tance she subsequently learned, and at
tempted a mild justification. Mrs. Linton,
however, now had her hand in, and drop
ping the American proceeded to lav out
an unoffending Swede. Before the‘meal
was over she had half of the nationalities
of Europe weltering in their own gore.
ITEMS OF I>TERE*T.
Roquefort cheese is made of sheep’s
milk.
—Blood flows through the bones almost
as freely as through the flesh of very
young children.
—lf a man strikes another with a weap
on in Madagascar there is but one law.
and that law Is death.
—Of all the reigning sovereigns of the
earth the Czar of Russia possesses the
greatest number of titles.
—The smallest coal burning locomotive
in America. 235 pounds, was made by C.
D. Young of Denver. In 1891.
-An eagle with seven feet spread of
wings was caught in a wolf trap near
Brady Island, Neb., recently.
—The medura is a true sea water jelly
which, when abandoned by the waves on
the beach, melts and disappears.
A professor at Edinburgh University has
an income of over a year, and his
chair is the valuable in the world.
—The Siamese have great horror of odd
numbers, and were never known to put
5, 7. 9 or 11 windows in a house or temple.
—Amsterdam will have next year an
international exhibition of hotel arrange
ments and accommodations for travelers.
—At H*azig, Hungary, on Oct. 11, 1894.
three perfect rainbows were seen—three
smaller ones inside thcs main or primary
bow.
—A lower floor of the crypt of old St.
Paul’s was recently discovered by a bin
of wine falling through from a cellar Just
above.
The German house builders always
contrive to leave a small flat place on the
roof of each house for the storks to rest
and build on.
—ln several European countries butter
is sold by the yard. The rolls are a yard
in length, and are sold in sections to
suit purchasers.
—A butcher in Belfast, Me., Is training
a hog to harness, driving him behind a
sled. He has also two tame skunks which
act as tramp discouragers.
—At a banquet of lawyers in Edinburgh
not long ago a toast was drunk to “The
greatest benefactor of the profession—the
man who makes his own will.*
—Good Friday Is a legal holiday in the
states of Alabama, Louisiana, Maryland.
Pennsylvania and Tennessee. In many
others it is informally observed.
—B. F. Bachman, an early pioneer of
Los Gatos, Cal., who died the other day,
was one of the party that discovered the
Y©Semite valley, in March, 1851.
—The Boston police board has recom
mended to the legislature the enactment of
a law providing for the appointment of
an assayer of the liquor of that city.
—The churches in the new town of
Enid, O. TANARUS., have no bells yet, and the
town fire bell is rung every Sunday to
announce the hour of religious services.
—There are several places in the w’est,
especially* In the Rocky Mountain regions,
where large trees, standing erect and per
fected transformed to stone, may be
found.
—The Guild of Arts and Crafts of San
Francisco will erect a memorial to Robert
Louis Stevejnson in the shape of a very
beautiful drinking fountain which is to
cost ss<X>.
—Persons troubled with the difficulties
of French pronunciation may now buy a
phonograph cylinder containing test
words and phrases done with the most
beautiful accent.
—The “witch tree” of Nevada and
Southern California exudes or exhales a
phosphorescent substance which makes
every branch, leaf and section of Its bark
visible on the darkest night.
—Scores of Quaker families In South
ern Pennsylvania have preserved the mar
riage certificates of their ancestors for
many generations. slgntH. as is the Qua
ker custom, by all the guests of the cere
mony.
—An authority on bridge architecture
says that the longest bridge in the world
(not taking into consideration the famous
Lake Ponchartrain trestle-work) Is thq
Saratova bridge across the Volga, length
4,872 feet.
—The temperature of the planet Nep
tune is believed to be about 900 degrees
below the zero of Fahrenheit, while that
of Mercury is much too high to admit
of a possibility of air-breathing animals
inhabiting it.
—As a result of the examination of 4,000
eyes. Dr. Miles of Bridgeport. Conn.,
found that 65 per cent, required glasses.
The women and girls far exceed the men
and boys. The period during which the
people have the most trouble with their
tfes is between 20 and 30.
—The winds which for a number of
days blew up the Niagara river had a
curious effect on the falls. The American
falls had but a mere shadow of their
usual How, and the water in the hydraulic
canal fell over a foot without, however,
interfering with the mills.
—One of the absurdities of the time; is a
dictionary of 300 or 400 pages, the size of a
big thumb nail, inclosed in a ease of
aluminum, silver or gold, and read by
means of a magnifying lense let into the
case. Many persons bought them at 30
citnts, and a few were foolish enough to
take the gold-cased ones at more than
twenty times that price.
—One of the absurdities of the applica
tion of silver to all sorts of things is its
use in trowels for the use of the conserva
tory. Silver is no better suited for trow
els'than some other and cheaper noncor
roding metals, since the used trowel, of
whatever material, is always bright. An
iron or steel troweil of the best material
and workmanship costs $1.50, while the
silver trowel costs from eight ,to twenty
times as much.
—An American in Germany was sur
prised to find a number of cripples among
the celebrated college professors, men
whose high standard of learning makes
them famous the world over. One Berlin
professor is wheeled in to his lecture-room
evert" dav, and there are others similarly
though for the most part less painfully
afflicted. This is due partly to thei fact
that under the military regime of Ger
many. when a boy is disqualified for the
army he is trained for science or the law.
—Writers of fiction should be careful
how they trifle with natural science. One
popular novelist described with much elo
quence a tropical full moon, and repre
sented as occurring immediately after
ward a total eclipse of the sun. an as
tronomical impossibility at such a time.
An American novelist represents one of
his characters as pointing to a certain
star in the course of conversation, and
names as the exact date of the incident
a day when the star is visible in no part
of the earth.
—Delaware is stirred jus* now by a
movement looking toward the suppres
sion of the trade in strong drink. An in
genious man has discovered that the 299
saloons of Wilmington must take in over
'the bar more than SIBO,OOO annually to
cover rent and license taxes before they
can begin to make which sum is
more than treble what the state expends
annually for the salaries of judges, the
state auditor, the state treasurer, the sec
retarv of state, the attorney general, the
superintendents of public schools, the
State detectives and for the support of
the insane asvlum. Of course, some folks
will say that while the people of Wil
mington mav be moderate drinkers, Del
aware has an amazingly cheap govern
ment.
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