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INDEX TO SEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Meetings—Alpha Lodge No. 1, A. & A.
F. R. F. M.; Clinton 1/odgo No. 54, F. &
f \. M.: Oglethorpe Lodge No. 1, 1. O. O.
F.: Forest City Lodge No. 1, K. of P.
SpeeSal Notice*—Make Your Applica
tion for Gas Service Connections Be
fore May 1, Mutual Gaslight Company;
Buy Your Raker Yellow Label, Etc., at
Reck mann’s Cafe; As to Bills Against
Spanish Steamship Ida.
Amusements—“ The Fast Mall’* at the
Theater March 8. Mr. Rolerts Harper at
Guards’ Hall March 7, 8:15 p. ni.
A New Pair of Trousers—Falk Clothing
Company.
Legal Sales—Chatham Sheriff s Sales.
Medical—Another Victory for Dr. Broad
foot.
Pants and Suits At Col la t* a.
Sandow School Suits—At Collat's.
Economy la Wisdom- B. H. Levy & Bro.
Alpines. Derby’s. Etc.—Appel A- Schaul.
Steamship Schedule—Ocean Steamship
Company.
Opening of the Spring and Summer Sea
eon 1895—At KrouskofT s.
Railroad Schedule- The riant System.
Auction Sales—Certificate for Bonds of
Electric* Railway? Company, by C. 11.
Dorset t; Commissioner’s Sale for Parti
tion, by C. H. I torsett; Administrator’s
Sale, by 1. D. La Roche; Executor’s Sale,
by I. D. l*a Roche; Administrator’s Sale,
by C. H. Dorsett; Stocks, by R. H. Ta-
tom; Jones* Marine Railway, by W. K.
Wilkinson.
Mattings—Lindsay & Morgan.
Cheap Column Advertisements—Help
Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Rent;
For Sale: Personal; Miscellaneous.
When ‘'Steve” Elkins settled in Western
Missouri he was, according to the testi
mony of the New York Mail and Express,
a neighbor and friend of the Younger
boys, who became such desperate bandits
that they landed in the Missouri peni
tentiary. And now “Steve” has landed in
the federal Senate.
The Senate’s Hawaiian cable bluff
wouldn’t work. The House knew it was
a bluff, and by indulging in a bit of the
same kind of thing Itself, made the most
august and deliberate bluffer in the world
reoede. Senators Lodge, Frye an i*the other
ilngoes, including Senator Morgan, may
new have the pleasure of committing a
republican congress to the cable Job.
Y’esterday marked the half way point
President Cleveland’s second adminis
tration. Although the people have been
disappointed in results accomplished,
because of the monumental incapacity of
congress, the chief stands out in splendid
outline, having proved again and again
bis courage, honesty, loftiness and lirm
ness of purpose, and clear understanding
of public affairs.
That “Smart Alec” of New York jour
nalism, the Press, says: “Georgia sheriffs
should be compelled to pass an examina
tion in the art of hanging condemned mur
derers. The other day at Fairburn another
poor wretch had to be hanged twice.” The
Fairburn execution, with all the horror
of a second dropping of the condemned,
does not begin to approach in terrible and
sickening repulsiveness some of the elec
trical executions in New- York that we
have read about in the Press, in which
t*he victim’s flesh was fried, scorched and
blackened, and the current was turned on
and off three or four times.
Cable dispatches pretty well agree that
behind the quarrel between the Marquis of
Queesberry and Oscar Wilde, reported in
our dispatches, there lies one of the most
hideous scandals that ever shocked Lon
don—and that is saying a great deal. It
is alleged that Queensberry’s note to
Wilde was for the purpose of getting the
affair into court. The prospects, there
fore, are that the “malodorous se**nt of
the green carnation,” as one cable ex
presses it, will hang about the courts and
be wafted to this country presently. It’s
a pity that the principals to the affair do
not put on the gloves and have it over
at once.
That was a striking Illustration of the
inadequacy and injustice of existing copy
right laws which Mr. Covert of New York
called attention to in the House a day or
two ago. A New York newspaper is the
defendants in suits for $817,000 dam
ages for the printing of the picture of a
pleasure yacht. There are certain per
sons who regard newspapers as legitimate
prey under any law by which they may
be squeezed for damages, and where the
liability is not limited it often seems to
be the purpose of such persons to wreck
the publications. The newspapers are
most powerful agents for the upholding of
the law, but the law frequently falls far
short of upholding the newspapers.
% Aery liH Praetlee.
We do not think appropriation bills are
delayed until the very last hours of con
gress in order that appropriations which
wouldn’t stand discussion may be got
through, but It is a fact that appropria
tions amounting to many hundreds of
1 thousands, and it may be millions, of
dollars are got through because* the ap
propriation bills are held track until it is
impossible to properly scrutinize them
without preventing their passage. Asa
rule, ail the great appropriation bills are
passed during the last two or three days
of th** session, some* of them not being
pa-sed until the very last hours of the
session.
The majority of the objectionable ap
propriations are added to the bills in the
Senate. For instance, in the sundry civil I
bill, which whs passed on Sunday, car- j
riod In addition to the regular appropria- |
tions amounting to nearly 940,000.66 ft, more
than $9,000,60* that v.ere added by the Sen- j
ate. The* conference committee, to which j
the bill was referred, had no time to make
a thorough investigation as to whether or j
not th-se Senate appropriations were j
or.?* that should be made. Jt inay have I
struck out a few of them, but the
•most of them were permitted to pass, j
To have thoroughly inquired into the
reasons for them would have taken sev
eral days, and action upon the bill at once ‘
was imperative.
And what time has the President to ex- j
amine great appropriation pills? They !
cover hundreds of pages, and he has bare- j
ly time to read and sign them. Then may •
be many thing* in them he does not ap- j
prove, but, coming 1o him as they do, in
the last hours of congress, he has to ap- j
prove them. He cannot veto the items ;
to which he objects. The only way for
him to object to any particular appro-
Pelation is to veto the whole bill, and a
veto would probably defeat the bill and
might make an extra session necessary.
This congress is no worse than its pre
decessors in the matter of delaying ap
propriation bills. All congresses are
alike, and the people are justified in com
plaining of congress for leaving so much i
of its most important work to be done in
such haste as to make it absolutely Im
possible to do it well, and properly guard
the public interests.
But it may be asked. What is the rem
edy for this state of affars? The rem
edy is the adoption of rules fixing the
time within which the House and Senate
shall pass each of the appropriation bill*.
The last of the appropriation bills should
be in the hands of the President at least
a week before the end of the session. That
would give him time to carefully consider
each bill and afford an opportunity for
correcting the many errors that appear in
about all the appropriation bills—some of
them very costly errors—and It would al
low time for {Kissing again an appropria.
tlon bill which the President might deem
it his duty to veto. Besides, congress
would not then feel called upon to outrage
the religious sentiment of the country b>
legislating on Sunday, if that day hap
pened to be ono of the last three or four
days of the session.
< oltou in the Uancanas.
According to recent cable advices Rus
sia Is going to “promote tho cultivation
of cotton” by giving government aid to
the farmers. Presumably the Asia Minor
farmers’ alliance has prevailed upon Nich
olas to adopt some sort of a subtreasury
scheme, or a cotton purchase scheme
similar to the scheme of the late unla
mented Sherman silver purchase law.
At any rate, the Russian planters are to
be taken under the paternal wing of the
government.
The announcement is almost equiva
lent to saying cotton culture in Russia
is a failure, and will never amount to
much. A number of years ago the Rus
sian government carried an experienced
cotton planter- from South Carolina to
Southern Russia and had him teach the
people, through several seasons, how to
cultivate cotton. Upon his return to
America he predicted that the experiments
would not be followed by a very higtq|
order o? success. Notwithstanding the
climate of Southern Russia is warm, and
is theoretically suited to cotton growing,
there are certain peculiarities of people,
soil and climate that make the practice
the opposite of the theory. The cultiva
tion of the fleece has been going on quite
long enough to demonstrate, if it were
possible, the practicability of profitable ,
cotton growing in the Caucasus, yet the !
total of cotton produced there during I
the last season was too Insignificant to
l>o made a special item of in the summary
of the world’s production. In 1862 some
thirty-five countries of Europe. Asia and
Africa made exhibits of their progress
in cotton culture at the English national
exposition; yet within a few' years almost
every one of them had abandoned the ex
periment. Russia may abandon the ex
periment later.
The giving of government subsidies to
Russian cotton producers is a marker of
| the passing of Russian cotton culture as
| a possible factor in the markets. Ameri-
I can planters need have no fear of the Rus
i siars controlling things and breaking
prices. America will continue to control
the situation; and if Americans continue
to produce too great quantities of cot
ton they must expect to get 5-cent prices.
Russell Sage, the New Y'ork man o? mil
lions whose peculiar personality and dra
matic experiences have made him famous,
has become a bull—in the vernacular of
“the street,” merely. He is usually a bear,
but now he thinks he sees better times
ahead, and he has got on the side of the
market to raise prices. He predicted a
day or two ago that the day of the ad
journment of congress would mark a
better tone in stocks that would be fol
lowed by an upward turn in prices. 8o
confident is Mr. Sage that an era of pros
perity is at hand that he has bought a
new hat and a 25-cent yellow walking
stick in anticipation of the flush times.
The latest Astor rumors brought by the
cable are that Mr. W. W. Astor will not go
to Paris when he leaves London, but will
return to New Y'ork. and that his exper
ience as a London publisher cost him in
round numbers $2,000,000.
THE MORNING NEWS; TUESDAY, MARCH 3, 1*95.
The i ulmn Outlook.
The Havana authorities do not to
think the outbreaks against Spanish rule
that have occurred in several parts of
Cuba within the last week or two amount
to much. They do not appear to be as
much alarm- and as the Spanish government.
At Madrid preparations have already been
made for greatly increasing the
army in Cuba. Perhaps the home gov
ernment is better informed as to the act
ual condition of affairs in Cuba than, the
Spanish officials at Havana.
At Havana the outbreak is treated as
a matter of little consequence, but may
there not be a far greater amoun\ of amis
and ammunition in the hands of the In
• urgent* than the governor general sus
%
that the arms that were found on the
yacht that was recently seized at Feman
rtina were intended for the insurgents,
and that the yacht that put in at this
port at about the same time the one at
Fernand in a was seized was to be used In
the insurgent crus#*.
It N* ms to be pretty wed understood
by those who have kept track of Cuban
affairs during the last t wo years that arms
and amniunition for the insurgents have
been smuggled into Cuba continually, and
in various ways, until now the opponents
of Spanish rule would be able to make a
stand against the Spanish government if
they had a competent leader.
The troubles that have cropped ottt do
not in the roast interfere with the pleas
ures of a visit to Havana. The scenes of
the disturbance* are a long way from that
city. Indeed, they do not affect Havana
and the surrounding country in the least.
This attempt at independence may fail.
Asa matter of fact it Is already a fail-
ure, but that does not Justify the conefu- i
sion that no other attempt will be made j
to wrest the control of Chiba from Spain. '
There are’a great many thousand Cuban* j
in this country who are earning good
wages. They are as profoundly interested
In their native country as if they had
never left it. They are willing to contribute
generously of their means to carry on a
war against Spain for the control of Cuba
and they will furnish the money to sup
port this or any other uprising against
Spanish authority in Cuba. The Cubans
In Florida, particularly, are extremely
patriotic and are rdadT o give their last
dollar in an effort to free Cuba, from
the Spanish yoke. It is doubtful if the
whole fleet of Spain would be sufficient
to prevent the Cuban* in Florida from
sending supplies to their countrymen. It
is only a quo* Li on ot time when, mainly
through their efforts, Cuba will be free.
Cubans, whether at home or abroad, have
grievances against Spain which they will
never forget. These grievances are far
greater than those which caused the
American colonies to revolt against the
rule of Great Britain, and they are just
as realy and willing as the patriots In
our revolution were to sacrifice their lives
and property to secure the liberty of their
country. What they need to insure suc
cess is a thoroughly competent leader.
Southern statesmen have fared very
well at the hands of the executive, in th“
matter of Important diplomatic appoint
ment*, during the first half of the current
administration. The south has been given
one ambassadorship—two, If Mr. Bayard
may be called a southern man—and eleven
ministries, distributed thus; Eustis of
Louisiana, ambassador to France; Breck
inridge of Arkansas, minister to Russia;
Taylor of Alabama, minister to Spain;
Terrell of Texas, minister to Turkey, Wil
lis of Kentucky, minister to Hawaii; Al
exander of North Carolina, minister to
Greece; McKenzie of Kentucky, minister
to Peru; Caruth of Arkansas, minister to
Portugal; McDonald of Virginia, minis
ter to Persia; Young of Georgia, minis
ter to Guatemala and Honduras;Smythe of
Virginia, minister to Hayti, and last, but
not least. Ransom of North Carolina, who
has just been appointed minister to Mex
ico. The south, however, has not yet got
her share of the diplomatic appointments.
There are forty-one such offices, and only
twelve have so far been given the south.
The others are filled by northern and west
ern statesmen, who usually manage to
capture the greater part of whatever may
be going.
A Pomona, Cal., dispatch reports that
certain hotel men in Flocda have ordered
weekly shipments of California oranges
to Florida during the month of March
and about half of April. Besides illus
trating the old adage about sending coals
to Newcastle, this order also illustrates
the extent of the damage done the oranges
by the recent cold wave. The manager
of one of the great hotels of St. Augus
tine is quoted as saying: “Not a box of
decent oranges can be had in the state.”
As Florida would not be Florida without
oraitgee, the hotel men are compelled to
send across the continent for the fruit
for their guests.
A familiar proverb may be revised so as
to read: “There is plenty o-f room in the
kitchen, for the girl of the future." A
smart young woman of New Y'ork derives
a good income from going from house
to house and making delicious rarebits
for the delectation of hosts and guests.
She charge* $1 to $2 an hour, according
to the “style” of her employer, and has
all of the engagements she can fill. The
masculine side of humanity will never
kick against the “new” woman who can
cook properly.
A congressman who was asked to sign
Bryan’s free silver manifesto the other
day, and declined, thus tersely describes
the paper and its propositon: “It shouts
hoarsely for the free coinage of silver at
the ratio of 16 to 1, and calls upon the
silver men of the Democratic party to
seize the next national convention by the
tail and slam it against the wall.” An
attempt at slaming things against the
wall was made in the last convention:
with what success is a part of political
history.
The legislatures of California and Texas
have passed bills extending the use of
convicts upon the work of improving the
public highways and making them per
manent. The good roads sentiment is
as wide as the continent, and is grow
ing stronger all the time.
Verily, no man can *ay what the street
car fares will be to-morrow. For none
knoweth what a day may bring forth.
X*KKSON 1L
—The duchess of York is devoted to
poker work, in which she has attained
great proficiency.
—Mme. Patti has never bad so success
ful an absolutely farewell tour as she
has enjoyed this season.
—Freda Mahl of Cincinnati, who was so
badly burned last fall that skin grafting
was necessary, is nearly cured. There
are yet two small portions which have
Pot thoroughly hcpMed, but otherwise
the skin has a most natural appearance.
Hundreds and hundreds of grafts were
made.
—Pope XIII is planning the erec
tion of a cathedral of the Greek Catholic
rite in Constantinople, j n addition to tne
seminary for the training of priests tor
the Oriental Christian churches. The
two establishments form part of tne
scheme for giving autonomy to the Greek
Catholic church in the east.
—Manuel Garcia, who, it is reported,
was killed in Cuba, practically kept the
island in a state of terror He was calico
“King of the Fields” and with his band
murdered many a man in - old blood, and
their robberies can not be enumerated—
but hU favorite game was the kidnapping
of wealthy, planters, whom he kept hid
den away until a handsome ransom was
delivered to him.
The Czar of Russia may not have in
tended to do so, but he has given Mmr.
.Modjeska an advertisement world wine
and beyond purchase for a price. Be
cause M me. Modjeska read a paper at the
world's fair congress in ’93. in which, be
ing a woman of Poland, she dared voice
the aspiration of her race for freedom,
the < zar has forbidden her to play in any
theater within the domain of Russia. The
audience* Mme. Modjesk i thus loses un
der his ukase shd will far more than gum
throughout the civilized world.
—Upon a recent frosty morning, says
a New York paper, Iftador Wormser, the
banker and Wa'l street speculator, was
riding down Broadway In a cable car,
when he was stopped by a fire at Duane
street, so he engaged the first available
vehicle at band. It was an express wagon
with broken spring*, pulled by a wind
broken nag, which was driven by a weath
• r beaten citizen wearing a fur cap that
had seen better da Vs. Mr. VVormsei
climbed u; on the seat and let his feet
dangle over the dashboard in juxtaposi
tion to th l * horse * tail. The nag dragged
the clattering wagon through side
streets to get around the tire lines, and
then paced it down Broadway and into
Wall street, where the broker* caught
sight u f Mr Wormser and gave three
cheers for him.
BRIGHT HITS.
—“Miss Solldcash I* to marry Sir Oenf
fro> Foxe-Hunt. They will beside in Lon
don.”
“Ah. more gold engaged for export.
Vogue.
Visitor: Do you always write with a
bottle, of champagne before you?
Novelist; Oh, no; but my hero and he
roine have just become engaged.—Flie
gende Blatter.
—Rounder: The scoundrel called me a
red-nosed boozer.
Slounder: Oh. never mind! He’s color
blind and can’t tel! red from purple.—
New’ York Herald.
—She; I was playing whist also last
night. It was the first meeting of our
young ladies’ whist club
He; l wondered what made you so
hoarse —Brooklyn JJfe.
—Wiggles: Why did they call It a
charity concert, do you think?
Waggles: I don’t know. Possibly be
cause it is so often necessary to be charit
able toward the performers.—Somerville
Journal.
—Mrs. Shootiatein: Oh. you vaa awfully
sick, Isaac!
Hheenstein: Yes, Repprca, but dere is
von goot t’ings about it I am getting the
vort of my money out of the doctor.—
Life’s Calendar.
—“Doesn’t this goes*' seem to be as
tough as rubber, papa?’
“Yea, Bertie, it does. - ’
“But 1 don’t suppose, papa, that his rub
ber is so much to make him touch, as it
is to keep him dry when he goes swim
ming. is it?”—Harper's Young Peopte.
—Pushalong: This is the second five
you’ve asked me for in a week. That’s
pretty quick work; quicker than light
ning. 4
Thespicus: How do you mean?
Pushalong: Lightning never strikes
twice in the same place.—Harlem Life.
—Wife: The language you used last
night when you came home w'as something
dreadful.
Husband: Rut-
Wife: Don’t try to deny it. I am ns
positive as l am that 1 sit here that when
I said “Who’s there?” you said “Me.”—
Chicago Tribune.
—Woman-who-wants-to-vote: T don't
see why we shouldn’t gvt along in poli
tics.
Man-who-sneera: Wlio ever heard of
millnlery in politics?
She. (promptly): 1 have. Nearly every
politician I know' of has a partisan biaa
and a ruffled temper.—Cincinnati Tribune.
—Mr. HeidleheJmer: Vat do you pav for
insurance on your store?
Mr. Resongarten: I ain’d carrying any
insurance. I don’tl need id yed.
Mr. Heddleheimer: Bud subbose tie
blace purns üb?
Mr. Rosenheimer (impatiently): Vhy,
how can id purn ub vhen dere ain’d no in
surance?—Life.
Ct'KIIKXT COM MEN l\
Failure of the Pooling Bill.
From the Railway Age (Ind.)
The failure of the Senate to pass the
pooling bill is in the nature of a national
calamity. Its passage would have done
more to restore confidence and to give
tone and stability to the financial situ
ation than would the enactment of any
other one conceivable piece of legislation.
Hut It Would Affect Others.
From Louisville Courier-Journal (Dom.)
The music has begun. The Michigan
Democratic convention, having assem
bl <i to nominate candidates for Judge
and university regents, adopted a res
olution for immediate unlimited coinage
of silver at V to 1, independently of
anybody or anything. It is a great pity
tnat the free sllverites can not trv their
little experiment without bringing diras
ter upon anybody but themselves.
The President xintl Silver.
From Springfield (Maas.) Republican (Ind.)
President Cleveland expresses himself
as much encouraged by the bimetallist suc
cesses abroad. “It looks like business,”
he remarked a day or two ago to sev
eral Mb/ouri congressmen'; and after
speaking of the probability of England’s
appearance at the next conference with
the intention of effecting something tan
gible the President said: “They put me
down as stubborn on this financial ques
tion. but 1 am not stubborn at all. I
have some positive views on finance, and
1 cannot gei rUI of them.” This goes to
show that the silverites are in the
w rong wh dtt iare that the President is
opposed to all attempts to remonetize the
white mcial.
HuMinu Cotton.
From the New Orleans Tlmes-Demoerat
(Dem.)
Whatever harm may result from the
Russian crop has already been done, and
we have for sorm- years past exported
very little of our staple to Russia. The
latter will not be able to compete with
us in tue markets of the world. A bounty
at home, government aid and heavy im
port duties, practically prohibitory, will
keep foreign cotton out of Russia and pre
serve it Tor the home product; but it will
not en;Usle it to sell elsewhere. America
is too well adapted to the staple for this,
cultivates it too cheaply and produces a
ttwer quality. Finally, the Russian cot
ton tiefas are in an extreme corner of the
empire, and the cost of transportation
would alone prevent it from being ex
ported to Western Europe. The same
reasons which will prevent Russia from
e\ei exporting the staple will prevent it
from exporting cotton goods. It has
simub- shut out the American product
from its limit by very extreme tariff
legislation. It can do no more than this;
it an do no further barm than has al
ready been done.
I>n Didn’t Drink.
Somebody asked Secretary Lament to
take a drink the other day. says the Chi
cago Times. .Before the colonel could re
ply somebody else told tb.s story:
“That makes me think of the last time
I heard someone give the colonel the
sam* invitation. It was during Cleve
land’s first term. The presidential party
was in St. Louis reviewing the parade.
It was & cold, blustering day. the sort of
weather which makes one draw himself
up Into the smallest possible space. Gov.
Francis, who was doing the honors,
looked at the President standing stoical
ly in the face of the wind while the pa
rade went by. Going to Col. Lamont the
governor said:
“ ‘Colonel, do yop eh—eh think It would
—it would be right to ask the President
to eh—to take a drink—eh—of whisky?
Pretty cold, you know, and it would do
him good.’
“ ‘Ask him to take a drink,’ Lament
exclaimed, ‘flood heavens, man! do you
m aft to say that you have been with the
President twenty-four hours and haven’t
asked him, to take a drink?’
The governor looked somewhat sur
prised, but at the same time relieved, ad
mitted his guilt, and, stepping to the
President, said;
“ ‘Mr. President.*
“The President, turning around, looked
at him straight in the eye, which seemed
to take the sand out of the governor,
who, blushing and stammering like a
young man about to propse to his sweet
heart. said:
“ ‘Eh. Mr. President, do you know it is
very cold to-day—eh—l thought that may
be, just by way of a preventive, you
know, that possibly you might think it.
wise to take a small drink of—eh whisky.'
‘ ‘Where is it?' the President in a very
business-like manner asked.
” ‘Right this way,* said Gov. Francis,
and beckoning at the some time to La
mont and the mayor he led the party to
a room which contained a table on which
were four glasses half filled with whis
ky. The President looked at the glasses
and said to Gov. Francis;
“ Who are these for’.’’
“ ‘Why. one. Mr. President, is for you;
one for Col. Lamont; one for the mayor,
and one for myself.'
“The President took up one glass and
emptied its contents into another. Setting
down the empty gifts* he raised the filled
one carefully to his lips, and. looking at
the red liquor with an expression of
sweet anticipation, said. Just before emp
tying his glass: ‘l>an don’t drink.’ ’’
\ Duet.
From the Yankee Blade.
Baritone-
Now we’re engaged, if you have any
brothers.
By that 1 mean the men whom you’ve
refuse and.
They must be on a footing with the
others;
l won’t have any mild endearments used.
Now we re engaged.
Soprano—
If you had any srlster and I knew’ it,
I mean a girl who said she’d be your
sister.
She should be taught how not to do it.
And comprehend that you can quite resist
her,
Now we’re engaged.
Baritone—
As if I wished to look at other beauties.
Now you are mine.
Sorprano—
As though! cared for men
Compared to you! I hope I know my
duties:
Of course we used to flirt, but that was
then;
Now we’re engaged.
Baritone—
Who was the man with topcoat lined with
sable?
Sorprano—
Who was the girl with bonnet trimmed
with pink?
Baritone—
I would inform you, but I am unable.
Sorprano—
I'd tell his name, but really I can’t think,
Now we re engaged.
Baritone —
Now no more lingering In conserva
tories.
Under dim colored lights and tropic bow
ers.
Sorprano—
Now no more reading sentimental stories
To girls and giving them bonbons and
flowers;
Now’ we’re engaged.
Baritone —
1 shall not tolerate the least flirtation.
I warn you fairly.
Sorprano—
Please don’t bo enraged;
Cut might we sometimes take a brief va
cation?
Now’ we’re engaged.
\\ l> February I* Short.
“I suppose you know how the month of
February happened to have but twenty
eight days?” said the snake editor to the
horse editor, according to the Pittsburg
Chronicle-Telegraph.
“Yes, I do,” was the reply. “When
Julius Caesar revised the calendar ho
named a month after himself, July. The
following month was left with its own
name, Sextilis; or the sixth month, for
that whs its number in the Roman calen
dar. When Augustus became emperor he
thought he had as good a right to have a
month named after him as Julius had, so
he renamed Sextilis and called it August.
At that time Sextilis had but thirty days,
while July had thirty-one. Augustus
thought his month should have as many
days as Julius’, and one was taken from
poor little February to accomplish the ob
ject.”
“I always supposed that something of
the sort happened, but my idea was that
Augustus had been working so hard one
February that he took a clay off. and it
never was replaced.”
Hcmv .Jones Was Mailc Senator.
"How was it that you elected Jones to
the Senate?" 1 enquired of a well known
member of the Arkansas legislature, says
a writer in the New*York Press. "Well,”
he answered, “you see it w T as like this: I
was leading the fight against Jones and
it looked at one time as if we had some
show of whipping him. But his wife saved
him. He asked me himself why 1 voted
for him, and 1 told him straight out,
just as I told the boys on the floor. I
told about hearing Mrs. Jones sing the
’Old Cabin Home,’ and how it made me
cry to listen to her sw’oet voice: how it
made me want to see w hat sort of looking
man her husband was—a man whose
wife could sing like that. I had never
seen Jones. Just as soon as my eye lit
on him I took a fancy to him. I saw that
he had a head like a washtub, and I al
ways liked a head of that sort. So 1
turned over and voted for him. When 1
told the boys of the legislature about the
‘Old Cabin Home’ someone cried, ‘Sing
it’.’ and pretty soon the whole. House was
joining in th<* music. That’s the way
Jones W'as elected.”
Russell Snare'll Humor.
Everybody who has closely read the
newspapers knows by this time that Uncle
Russell Sage is chock full of humor, says
a New Y’ork leter in the Pittsburg Dis
patch. Herejs the latest on the foxy old
financier from a gossipy publication. It
was at a night dinner. Uncle Russell did
the grave digger’s act. He shovelled the
food away at a 60-mile per hour gait.
Turning to another guest Mr. Sage re
marked: ‘1 see, doctor, that you do not
eat.’ The disciple of Esculapius replied:
’No, sir: I cannot eat at this late hour,
and I am amazed at the keennes of your
appetite.’ Then Russell got off his bon
mot: ’Well, doctor. I always take divi
dends when 1 can, and people who do not
miss many good things.’ ” Russell is an
all round rustler when it comes to free
food and tricky finance.
Congress Mood Adjourned.
The Appleton (Wls.) Post says that
sortie time ago a gang of tramps was
arraigned before a justice. The first
man up gave his name as Daniel Webster,
then followed Henry Clay, John C. Cal
houn, Charles Sumner, Stephen A Doug
lass, Roscoe Conkling. John Sherman and
so on until the last man. a little dried up
dw'arf of about ninety pounds, announced
himself as “Tom Reed of Maine.” The
whole gang got ten days. While in Wil
they got their names mixed, and \v*en
the day of their discharge came, consid
erable confusion was created by several
different statesmen claiming the same
name as the roll was called. The diffi
culty was finally settled by the sheriff
declaring that “Congress is now ad
journed. ’
Mein who declare the world owes them
a living are usually too lazv to hustle
around and collect it.—Texas Siftings.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
—A Dexter. Mich., woman got so much
faitL in faith cures that she threw
away her false teeth, expecting her nai- j
ural teeth to grow in again. She waited
six months, and now has neither faith
nor teeth.
—M. Tassinfui. a Parisian scientist, has
been experimenting w’ith the smoke of
tobacco and finds ft to be one of the most
perfect germicides and disinfectants ever
used. In proving his claim* smoke from
a cigar wa* blown across a strip of linen '
which had been dipped in a fluid contain
ing thousands of virulent microbes. When
the cigar was finished the linen was im
mediately placed in a bowl of beef broth,
where common microbes are expected to
bleed and multiply very rapidly. To th** i
surprise of the doubters it was found that
the smokf had had the effort Of delaying
the growth of the organisms, that the
majority of them were dead, and that
these which managed to live never fully
developed.
—“Setting the Thames on fire”
is a phrase that is In con
stant usage. but few people seem
to know its origin. It seems that in the
tunes of our forefathers, in England,
corn was ground in a rough instrument
called a' “temse.” This was merely a
stone hollowed out to receive corn, with
a piece of wood passed through* it, which
being rapidly turned, ground the corn to
flour. If the wooden handle was turned
with sufficient force, the friction of the
wood against the stone* would cause the
stick to catch fire; but. as it requires
considerable energy to produce this effect,
the person who could accomplish ft was
thought “smart,” and he who could “set
the temse on fire.” was pretty sure to be
a successful person in other ways.
—A test of shipping a carload of fruit
and flowers from California to the east
without the use of ice has been made re
cently. A car was sen? from I*os Angeles i
to New Orleans, which was supplied with j
sterilized air during the whole time of
transit east and returning to California,
carrying back a part of its shipment to
show how it had been preserved. After
being out fourteen day*, “both the fruit
and the flowers.’ says the Tulare Reg
ister. “'vere perfectly fresh, and even
the stems of the grapes had not wilted,
although the weather has been as warm
as 104 degrees during part of the journey,”
The sterilized air is produced by con
densing air by means of the airbrake cyl
inders. and thus generating heat, which
destroys all microbes, bacilli and fungus
germs. The supply of sterilized air. it is
said, can be kept tip as the train proceeds
at almost no cost. The new process is
called the Perkins method, after the in
ventor, an. Episcopal clergyman of Cali
fornia. The process can be as easily ap
plied to ocean vessels, and it is. claimed
that it will revolutionize the carrying
trade of perishable fruits. Another
method which Californians are experi
menting with, having the same end in
view, is shipping fruit in carbonic acid.
Both methods are claimed to be very
promising.
—Suppose a railroad train at first sta
tionary* tho Figaro. A traveller
fires a shot towards some exterior ob
ject; it wilt require say two seconds for
the ball to reach the object. Imagine
next the train moving at the rate of
thirty feet a second. The traveler aims
at the object the instant he is opposite it;
but the ball, in addition to the impulsion
which he has communicated to it. pre
serves the general movement of the train,
which in two seconds makes It travel lit
erally sixty feet. It will strike then at
some, distance beyond the object. The
rotation of the earth produces an effect
of the same kind upon movements which
occur on its surface. All th*- points of
the globe turn together from the west
to the east in twenty-four hours; but
they 4ill have in reality different rates of
velocity according to the position which
they occupy. At the poles the velocity
is nothing; it Increases regularly to the
equator, where it reaches the enormous
rate of 1,520 feet a second. Let us take
for consideration two places in our coun
try (France) —Paris and Dunkirk. While
the Parisian, affected by the movement
of the earth, passes through about 1,000
feet, the inhabitant of Dunkirk travels
only 963 feet. Let us imagine now at
Paris a wind from the south that is
blowing towards Dunkirk, which is al
most directly north from Paris. As Paris
moves from west to east at the rate of
37 feet a#second faster fthan does Dun
kirk. the wind from the south at Paris
will be like the ball fired from the moving
train; it will be deviated towards the
east, that is, towards its right. From be
ing a south wind, which it was at Paris,
it will become a southwest wind; and it
will reach Liege or Cologne instead of
Dunkirk, which it would have reached
had the earth been motionless. Thus all
winds are turned from their first direction,
and in the Northern Hemisphere this de
viation is always towards the right, while
in the Southern Hemisphere it is to
wards the left.
—“A great deal of nonsense apears in
the newspapers from time to time con
cerning rapid shorthand writing;,’’ said a
leading court reporter in this city the
other day. says the New York Sun. “In
stances of stenographers who are able
to write at a speed varying all the wav
from 300 to 400 words a minute are men
tioned, apparently, merely to call at
tention to the development of the steno-*
graphic art. and the impression is given
that such rapid work is so common as to
excite no particular comment. Asa mat
ter of fact, however, the stenographer in
constant practice who is able to keep
up a *peed of 225 words a minute for
any considerable length of time is a re
markably clever man, and it is perfectly
safe to say that not one court reporter in
a dozen is capable of verbatim reporting
at the rate of 200 words a minute. To un
derstand what the writing of 300 words a
minute means let any one count out that
number of words of ordinary matter
and then undertake to read it aloud in
one minute’s time, pronouncing each word
distinctly as it would be necessary to do
if a stenographer was taking it down.
Estimating an average of two syllables
to a word, it will be necessary to enunci
ate clearly about 000 syllables in one
minute, of ten syllables a second. The
reporting style of shorthand writing has
many expedients for running wolds to
gether into phrases, so that three or four
words are often written quite as rapidly
as they can be spoken, and contracted
signs are frequently used for the longer
words. Still the writing of 300 words a
minute in the briefest style of shorthand,
would require the formation of consider
ably over 200 signs—about four every sec
ond—and thesf* signs must be accurate
enough in form to be readily deciphered
by the writer. Chicago has long claimed
to have the fastest shorthand writer in
the world, and while this individual has
given some wonderful exhibitions of
speed, it is doubtful if he ever wrote
anything near the 250 words in a single
minute that would pass inspection. A few
vears ago. at a public exhibition he took
notes of legal testimony read at the rate
of about 260 words a minute for five min
utes. His notes were so illegible, as a
result of the speed at which they were
written, that even the most expert steno
graphers could make nothing out of
them, and when compared with the -mat
ter dictated it was found that at least
a dozen words had been altogether
omitted. It is upon such imperfect work
•as this that the preposterous chums of
300 words or more a minute are based.”
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DANIEL HOGAN.
NOW THEN.
We don’t unnl yon to rend llii'i
and think the* compti riftnn below u
■nude l with price* in vogue tift>
5 cnrn ago. Oh, no. Those compara
tive figure* are iaitt week and this—
.lnst the reKiill of our wntclifulneim
and eare in buying at tlie right time
nnd knowing w lint a bargain i* nml
especially when it is adapted to the
trnde we no highly outecm nnd ever
limtingly protect. W clutter defines a
Bargain a* •* \ n advantageous pur
chase.** Surely then till* week’* of
fering* are hnrgnia*. indeed.
LAST WEEK AND THIS.
India Linens that were 18c yard now 1314c*
Tr.dia Linens that were 2u.* yard now 15c
India Linens that were 25c yard now 20c.
India Li nets that were 30 urn! 40c yard noT
25 aid .iOo.
Persian Lawns that were 20c yard new
1 ersian Lawns that were 25c yard now 20c
Forman Lawns that were 30c yard now 25c
Persiau Lawns that were 35c yard now 30c
Persian I .awns that were 40 and 50c yard now
35 and 4*c
Dotted Swiss Muslins that were lSc yard
now 12 1 9 c.
Dotted Swiss Muslins that were 20c yard
now 12* jc.
Dotted Swiss Muslins that wrero 25c yard
now 20c
EMBROIDERIES.
Me hear ho ninny nice tiling* snLl
of otir Embroidery stork this eson
that we can’t help telling >oil more
about it. Sonic* new arrival* of llnm
liurg Enihroidorie*, conintlug of
Cambric, \ain*ook and Swiss Edg
ing*, Insertion* and Flounce*, with
all over to match. A special lino of
Edging* from fie to re per yard.
Remnant* of Emhroldcrle* on a *po
cinl table. We display a superb line
of Torchon, Medici, Normandy, Y 1
nnd Renaissance Liter* with Inser
tions to match.
7r dozen 1 .11 die*’ Linen Embroid
ered Handkerchief* - Tie, that were
:ir nml loc.
100 dozen Ladies* llemstitched at
12 1-IS and I Sc. cheap at IS anil 2.1 c.
SILKS.
One lot Slicing Silks Jn*t received,
BOc. Yon would have gladly paid 7fe
last season for name quality.
One lot Spring Silk* OBc, out down
from Hoc.
One lot Spring Silk* 91.123 a yard,
hut till* week they go at Sfe.
DANIEL HOGAN
The Corner Broughton and Barnard Sts.
LEATHER GOODS.
mwMTMuains
Hi Hi K
51.95 for 25 feet, with
couplings and nozzle.
$2.45 for 25 feet, with
couplings and nozzle.
$2.70 for 25 feet Wire
Wrapped, with couplings
and nozzle.
Hose Reels at sl.
Fountain Sprinklers and
Combination Nozzles.
KEIDLINGER & RABUN
144 Congress Sheet, Cor. Whitaker.
STEAMBOAT LINES.
The Steamer fflpha,
P. 11. FINNEY, Master,
On and after SEPT. 23 will change
her Schedule ns folloust
Leave Savannah. Tuesday .. 9am
Leave Beaufort, Wednesday Bam
Leave Savannah,Thursday llara
Leave Beaufort, Friday Bam
The steamer will stop at Uluffton on both
trips each wav.
For further information apply to
C. H. MEDLOCK, Agcn*.
INSURANCE.
CHARLES F. PRENDERCAST
(Su< cessor lo R. H. Footman & Cos.,
fiit loilne n storm fern
106 BAY STREET,
(Next west of the Cotton Exchange.)
Telephone call No. 34. SAVIN'AH. GA.
OLD NEWSPAPERS, 200 for 25 cents, at
Business office Morning News.