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ISDEX TO SEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Meetings—Stockholder* Hydraulic Cot
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Special Notice—Dividend Savannah
Construction Company; As to Bills Against
(Spanish Steamship Maria; Fleishman’s
Perfection Gin at Albert H. Kntelman’s;
'iSckets for Europe at Lowest Rates,
Henry Solomon & Son; Infanta Eulalia
Cigaj-s at De Bot 6 Hotel; Negligee Shirts
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ifornia Oranges, Fears, Etc., Collins,
Grayson &. Cos.
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sA<ller.
What $lO Will Buy—Appel & Schaul.
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Crepons, Silks, Etc.—At Eckstein’s.
Shirt Waists— Falk Clothing Company.
Legal Notices—Application for Exemp
tion of Fersonality, John O’Donovan; Ap
plication for Support, Sarah Ctncevich.
Legal Sales—City Marshal’s Sale.
Auction Sales—Walnut Suits, Etc., by
C. H. Dorsett.
Cheap Column Advertisements—Help
Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Rent;
For Sale, Lost; Personal; Miscellaneous.
An expert is at present in Washington
figuring upon some appliance to give the
senator more wind. This announcement,
however, Is ijot so ominous as appears on
its face. It merely refers to the ventila
tion of the Senate chamber.
It Is gratifying to note that the Southern
railway is liberally patronizing southern
Industry in its orders for equipments.
The road concluded recently to put on a
number of new locomotives, and an order
for fourteen of them has been given a
Richmond company. A special type of
fast engine Is being built to haul the
Florida specials.
From various sections of this statue and
Florida comes the Information that crops
•will be late, but that the outlook for
everything is promising. It is almost a
foregone conclusion now that this will
be a good year for peaches, pears, grapes
and other fruit, as well as melons and
grain. It may be, therefore, that the re
cent cold waves have been of considerable
benefit, in holding back the budding of
trees and delaying the putting of seed into
the ground until late enough to make the
crop sure.
A cablegram (to the New York Sun says
that nothing has so agitated Paris for a
long time aa the reported discovery by M.
Groussier of a “scientific means of tracing
the paternity of children who know not
their fathers.” Naturally, an alleged dis
covery like that would create a stir, par
ticularly in France, where there is so much
Illegitimacy. The Paris papers have been
making a sensation of the matter. They
agree that it is time to call a halt of
science's relentless march, when it threat
ens a social upheaval. M. Groussier has
become suddenly famous, but it is said
his position is embarrassing if not actually
ehtngerous.
The action of Japan in ordering an
armistice because of ihe wounding of Li
Hung Chang does not, in the light of
yesterday's dispatches, appear to be so
graceful and courteous an act, after all.
It appears now that the armistice is of
force only in certain localities wtjere tho
Japanese have got things all their own
way, and that hostilities elsewhere may
be prosecuted the same as ever. The
limited truce does not even protect Pekin,
tout applies merely to the localities of
Moukden, in Manchuria, to the Gulf of
Fechi Li and to the Shan Tung peninsula,
at the point of which Wei-Hai-Wei is sit
uated. It may be. that the. Mikado local
ized the truce in order to protect himself
In case the Chinese should try their old
trick of dodging.
The report that several Americans are
languishing In Cuban prisons, notwith
standing they have all the passports re
quired by law, is probably true. It is a
notorious fact that it is one of the easiest
things In the world for an American in
Cuba to get into prison and one of the
hardest things for him to get out, even
In times of peace. It hasn't been long
since a Savannah man was imprisoned
In Havana for months for no other reason
than that he had the manhood to de
mand to know why he was interferred
with by two soldiers who arrested him.
and he was released only after notes had
passed between the two governments with
regard to the alTair. fader the existing
conditions in Cuba, the Spanish authori
ties view with suspicion all Americans
visit the Island, seeing In them ]>os-
EBL partisans of the revolutionists;
' ■
In Cuban jails.
McKinley's Vlmb of the South.
The impression which Gov. McKinley
rained of the south during his recent visit
appear.? to have been a very favorable
one. He arrived in Washington Sundry
n jfHt, and in our Washington dispatches
yesterday the statement is made that he
talks very enthusiastically about south
ern development. He saw only a small por
tion of the south, but he found the people*
very much in earnest in their efforts to
build up their section, and he saw vast
opportunities for making happy homes for
millions of people.
All northern and western people who
sen the south understamMngly are con
vinced that she has a very great future. It
is true that there are tourists who see
little to admire, and return to their homes
convinced' that the south has no attrac
tions. The reason is they don’t go off the
hives of travel and do not come into con
tact with people who know the
south’s resources. Along the railroads they
see perhaps only pine lands and razor
back hogs, and from these they form their
impressions. They would regard the south
differently if they should visit the tin
farming and fruit growing sections, study
the statistics of production and get an un
derstanding of what is being done in
mining and manufacturing.
Gov. McKinley stopped for a week or
more in one of the most delightful parts
Qt Georgia, namely, Thomasville, and he
occupied his si>are time in informing him
self about the resources of the state and
the climatic conditions. He learned many
things that were surprising to him. It is
not to be wondered at, therefore, that he
talks enthusiastically about the south, lie
knows now the reason why there Is a
movement of western people to the south,
and why New England cotton manufac
turers are steadily transferring their fac
tory plants to the cotton fields.
Never before in- the history of the south
were the southern people so confident that
their section has a great future. And
they are not sitting down waiting for
prosperous times. They nre earnest in
their elTorta to bring this about. At least
half a dozen cotton states have apjxdnted
committees to visit New England and
help encourage the factory owners to
transfer their plants to the south. Efforts
like these are certain to bear fruit, and a
large migration from the north and west
may be expected soon.
The lllnck Vote and While Critics.
Two statements relative to the black
vote frequently appear In the leading re
publican papers In one shape or another.
One is that there arc not free and fair
elections In the south because means are
taken to keep the votes of the blacks out
of the ballot boxes. The other Is that
the black delegates to the national repub
lican conventions are, as a rule, purchas
able.
When the republican papers admit tha l
the candidate for the presidential nomi
nation of thetr party who pays the highest
price is likely to get the majority of the
black delegates from the south they vir
tually say that the blacks have not yet
reached a moral and Intellectual condition
that Justifies giving them the ballot.
Willie It Is a fact that lit only two or
three of the southern states have means
been adopted, suq£ as the educational
qualification and the extra number of bal
lot boxes, to limit the black vote. It will
hardly be denied that to let the blacks
in their present condition of moral and
Intellectual development have the full
control which properly belongs to the ma
jority would mean ruin to the city, county
or state under such control.
The ruin wrought by carpet-bag rule
Is not forgotten, nor Is It likely to be soon.
The corruption of that rule Is much like
what would take place now In any state
In which the blacks should get control.
And yet knowing this, such papers as the
New York Tribune are continually point
ing to the educational qualification feature
of the new constitution of Mississippi or
asserting that the ballot box laws of
South Carolina and other states are so
framed as to:prevent the blacks from vot
ing.
1 f these papers regard the black man as
such a desirable citizen why do they con
tinually refer to the colored delegates at
the republican national convention as
purchasable? It seems to us that they
aro Inconsistent—that they want to force
upon the south something they themselves
•would not accept If the opportunity to do
so should present Itself.
Gen. Gordon in Missouri.
Gen. John B. Gordon will be given a re
ception on Thursday evening, the 4th
Inst., In Kansas City, Mo., by the honorary
memberi and friends of Veteran Company
A. Third Regiment Missouri State Guard.
The conimiUee in dharge comprises -the
names of the most prominent citizens of
Kansas.* with Col. Edwin E. Wilson, as
chairmah. Georgians will appreciate the
honor tendered Gen. Gordon, the
"greatest dhieftain of them all;” the sol
dier, statesman and gentleman, who, take
Mm all Inill, is the best living represen
tative of the southern soldier; sans peur
et sans reproohe.
Those California train robbers, who
failed to accomplish their purpose because
of the bullets of the train crew, were
decidedly advanced in the profession. A
plan for escape after the robbery was
carefully laid out, but along unusual lines.
Tho robbers wore nobby bicycle suits un
der tlieir rough overalls, and had fast
wheels decreted where they could be
handily reached and mounted. Their pur
pose evidently was to doff the overalls
as soon as they got out of sight of tho
people on the train, and leisurely who >1
their way along in the guise of innocent
bicycle tourists. This Instance, it is be
lieved, marks tho advent of the bicycle
into tho business of train robbery.
The movement of cotton factories to thif
south means an Increase In the direct
trade between the south and foreign coun
tries. In view of this fact, is it not of
greatest interest to the south that the
money of this country should lie as good
as that of any other country? Do ws
want to pay premiums on foreign money,
and have foreigners discounting our
money? That kind of tiling may do for
Mexico, because Mexico can't help herself,
but it will not do for the United Stales.
THE MORNING NEWS; TUESDAY, APRIL 2, 1803.
Florida** Flection
We have no doubt that. Attorney Gen
eral Lamar of Florida is right when he
says there |s a very general desire among
all classes in that state for a change In
the election laws. It Is well understood why
the present eight box law was adopted.
It was to prevent the state from passing
under the control of Ignorant and un
scrupulous men. who yrould haveTuined
her credit and repulsed immigration. Un
der democratic rule sdie has been wonder
fully prosperous. At the time of the freeze
last December she was the most prosper
ous state in the union, all things consid
ered. Her farmers and fruit growers all
had money to their endk, or crops that
would put them in a good financial con
dition, and her merchants were out of
debt and doing a thriving business.
The good times will come again, of course.
The freeze, however, has nothing to do
with the election laws, which the people
want amended.
At the last state convention of the Dem
ocratic party a resolution was adopted
calling on the next legislature to change
the election laws eo that each of the con
tending parties could have a representa
tive in the conduct of the elections.
The legislature is composed almost
wholly of democrats, and that resolution
amounts practically to a command. And
in framing new election laws —e aim
should be to secure pure and absolutely
fair elections. It is a mistake, during a
normal condition of affairs, for a jxvlit-
Icai party to try to get an advantage
through the ballot box. Such an effort
is always resented and decs more harm
than good. A iw>litical party must tri
umph, if 4t triumphs at all, because its
{principals are right and promise the
greatest good to the greatest number. If
the legislature of Florida is wise it will
enact election law's that W'ill give general
satisfaction.
Gov. McKinley and the Black*.
Last Saturday about fifty of the most
prominent of the colored people of this
county got together and extended an in
vitation to Gov. McKinley to meet them.
He accepted their invitation and made
them a short address.
The real purpose of the action of these
colored men was probably to assure Gov.
McKinley that tho colored people are still
adherents of the. Republican party. It is
rather remarkable that the colored people
continue to affiliate with a party that 13
not regarded as particularly friendly to
the south., and to which very few south
ern white men belong. It would seem as
if they would endeavor to get into har
mony with tho white people among whom
they live, and to whom they look for help
in all their undertakings. They certainly
gel no help from the white republicans
of tho north. The Republican party does
not. appear to have any particular Interest
In their improvement, and doesn’t want
to have anything to do with them except
to get the benefit of their votes.
The w hite people of the south are giving
the colored people more encouragement
in every respect than the w’hite people of
tho north or the Republican party. Hem
in the smith white and black men art*
found working side by side. Every trade,
occupation and profession are open to
the blacks. In the north there are a few
black men in the professions, but outside
of them the blacks find employment in
only tho most menial occupations. It is
strange, therefore, that tho blacks follow
white leaders of the north rather than
white southern leaders, particularly as th*
blacks are so largely dependent for the
prosperity of their race upon the white
people of the south. It would seem as if
the blacks would have found out W'ho th;?ir
real friends are before this.
Mr. William E. Curtis of the staff of
the Chicago Record, who has been visit
ing Georgia for a few’ weeks, has learned
several things about public opinion in
this state that he did not know before.
He was in Washington during the last
session of congress, and from the talk
and votes of some of the Georgia con
gressmen, he got the impression that this
was a free silver state. However, when
he came to Georgia he found out different
ly. "We have been under the Impression
in the north,” says he, ‘‘that Georgia was
wild for silver money, but there is a very
strong minority opposed to it, who de
clare that they will not support any pres
idential candidate who stands upon a
free coinage, 16 to 1, platform. Many of
them openly assert that they will support
the republican ticket if the silver men
name the democratic nominee. I was as
tonished to find so many sound money
men in Georgia. It seems as if nearly all
the business men of the state are sup
porting the President’s financial policy
and opposing the free coinage of silver.”
The gentleman errs in supposing that
the opponents of the free silver craze are
in the minority. He has so long: thought
that way, however, and staid in Georgia
such a short while, that his error can be
accounted for. As to what he says about
the probable actions of the honest money
men in the event of the silverites naming
the democratic candidate fqr President,
the possibility is too vague to be seriously
considered. Nevertheless, it can be stated
that southern democrats will not vote
for the party of reconstruction, high
tariffs, force bills, trusts, subsidies and
grabs generally.
What a royal joker the German emperor
is, to be sure! His invitation to the pre
siding officers of the Reichstag to attend
his banquet in honor of Bismarck—on
April I—was intended as a sharp ‘‘April
fool.” of course. And everybody, includ
ing the butts of the joke, understood it.
The German papers, according to the ca
bles. ire figuratively convulsed with
laughter at the emperor's wit. Presum
ably the unfortunate officials of she
Reichstag arc correspondingly crestfallen.
A Philadelphia sport reported to the
internal revenue collector there that he
had woo S7OO at poker, and asked the of
ficial if the amount must be included for
taxation in h! income tax return. The
collector uedied that amounts so re
ceived were not liable for the Income tax.
Th© lucky poker player was jubilant, and
vowt 1 h would devote more time to the
gaming table and less to bujyac;_;i pursuit*
until the tax was repealed.
PERSONAL.
' r F* njamin Richardson, a noted Eng
lish physician. thinks that the norma!
period or human life is about 110 years, j
end that f*ven out of ten average p**op!e
ought to live that long if they took proper ■
care of themselves.
-The Prlnecas of Strozzi of Boulogne
was in such reduced circumstances that
she had to become a chambermaid in the
hotel, and has Just been sent up for
twelve days for allowing her temptation*
to overcome her honesty.
—“Prince” Albert Kunuiakea and Wil
liam Smithies indulged in a little set-to
recently in Honolulu, during which roy
alty bit the (lust. Both belligerents were
arrested, but were released after cooling
off at the station house for a time.
—The Aichduchess Maria Theresa is the
only daughter of the late Archduke Al
brecht of Austria, and inherits personal
property valued at nearly $50,000,000. She
was born in 1845, and was married thirty
vears ago to Duke Philippe of Wurtcm
berg.
—Pierre Gneoco, an Italian by birth.who
had lived in France for forty year*, be
cause of his intense hatred of his native
country, left a fortune of $150,000 at his
death the other day. Fearing that it
would go to Italy, he distributed all his
money among his servants.
—Mrs. Harriet Tytler, a survivor of the
siege of Delhi In 1857. is now lecturing
on India in the w'est. She is a pleasant
little woman of 65 years, fifty-three of
which have been spnt in Indian garri
sons. A son v/as born to her during the
siege whem* she christened Stanley Delhi.
—“Scott,” for many years the body serv
ant of Charles Dickens, died recently in
London. Scott accompanied his master
twice to this country. Beside* his serv
ice to the great novelist, Scott was also
at different times “dresser” for the ac
tors Charles Mathews and Charles Feco
te.r.
—lsaac Brennan of Tiplon. Ind., has
joined the ranks of those who believe they
•an lift themselves off the ground by
grabbing their hoot straps. After thirty
years of hard study he has completed a
machine that furnishes his own power and
will run without assistance from any at
tachments. The principle is a system of
compound leverage with reciprocal action,
which propels a roller placed on tracks,
from which he gets an oscillating motion.
BRIGHT BITS.
—The other day, when a prim, precise
New England professor sat down to din
ner in a southern hotel, three waiters in
quick succession asked him if he would
have soup. A little annoyed, he said to
the last waiter who asked, “Is it compul
sory?”
“No, sah,” answered the waiter; “no,
sah. I think it am mock turtle.”
—A citizen was walking up the street
one dark night when a man sprung out
from a passageway and thrust a six-shoot
er in the pedestrian’s fare, saying:
“Hand over your pocketbook and don’t
make no noise about it.”
“I am helpless,” responded the citizen,
“and will obey, but first let me inquire why
d-o you expect me to cdmply so readily?”
“Because.” said the man. obligingly* as
he seized the citizen’s swag, “1 belong to
the same political party that you do, and
our views on the tariff are the same.”
This beautiful fable teaches how much
national politics has to do with elections.—
Chicago Record.
—A Joke on Savannah.—Noticing that
my watch did not agree with the clocks
in the c ourt house tower and the churc h
steeple*. I asked the colored man who was
driving us around what kind of time they
had in Savannah.
“We has two kin’s o’ time hyah, sah. de
railroad time an’ de Mediterranean time.”
“The* what?”
“De time dat de kyars comes In on’ goes
out by, sah, and de Mediterranean time,
sah, which am do city time, de same as
de sun.”
“We call it meridian time up north,” I
suggested.
“I reckon dat may be so, sah; de no’then
folks am a trifle quare in what dey calls
t’ings; dey have quare ways, sah, dev
shorely do.”—Correspondence Chicago
Record.
—ln the early days of Montana, says an
exchange, the name of Brown was of
such frequent occurrence that the old
timers distinguished them as follows:
“Poker” Brown, “Hog” Brown. “Dia
mond R.” Brown, “Whisky” Brown.
“Snaggle Tooth.” “Log” Brown, “Rocky
Crap” Brown, “Deaf” Brown. The ap
pliance of name® to individuals for some
act performed was peculiar. In Chateau
county there resided “Spring Heel” Jack,
“Sweet Oil” Bob. “Slippery” Jim.
"Bloody Knife.” “Summer House” Char
ley, “Four Jack” Bob. “Holey Pbiey” Bob,
“Slick Jim.” The latter gentleman was an
expert in appropriating horses not his own
for which offence he served a term at the
stone fort above Winnepeg. A good story
could bo told of each of the others. Every
man sported some kind of title—colonels,
majors, captains, judges and doctors were
plentiful.—Helena. Herald.
CIRHi:\T COMMENT,
The Monroe Doctrine and fnlm.
From the New’ York Post (Ind.).
The Monroe doctrine has no more rela
tion to what is now’ going on in Cuba, or
South America, or Central America, than
to the Lexow- bills.
Even the Populists Kick.
Springfield (Mass.) Republican (Ind.).
The silverite leaders are not having
much success in bringing the populists in
to their camp. People engaged in pursu
ing half a dozen false lights are not easily
lured away by one. So Ignatius; Donnelly
scoffs at the idea of going over to a party
with but this single issue, and Geri.
Weaver in lowa finds himself at odds with
the whole -populist organization of the
state in urging such a course.
Will Northern Tariff Views Change?
From the New York Times (Dem.).
The natural result Is a drifting of cotton
manufactories to the south, where they
would have existed a generation ago but
for the slavery system. Its competition
in the coarser fabrics is likely to become
such as to force the northern mills to a
refinement of their processes and an im
provement of their methods, for the pro
duction of a greater variety of high
grade goods, for which they will need
wider markets.
Let I ncle Sam Mind His Own Busi
ness.
From Louisville Courier-Journal (Dem.).
Should there be war between England
and France it would be over the results
of their desires for foreign aggrandize
ment. just as the war between almost anv
modern European pow’ers would be. Let
the T'nited States study this lesson, mind
its own business, be satisfied with its own
vast domain and avoid weakening its
position and inviting international compli
cations by stretching out its alteady full
hapds for foreign territory.
The .Lfse James Doctrine.
From the Philadelphia Record (Dem.)
Senator Frye still pines for other isles
to conquer. ‘‘Give us republican rule,”
says Frye, “and we will hoist the Ameri
can flag on whatever island we think best,
and no hand shall ever pull it down.” To
be sure, this is not exactly the Monroe
dtHMrine; it is rather a subordination of
Monroe's ideas to those of Jesse James.
But Frye is entitled to the glory of blend
ing thx two policies—Frye of Maine and
his compatriots, whose arms fairly ache to
hoist the flag anywhere, regardless of
right or decency, in order that they may
Incidentally hoist themselves and their
party into power by the halyards.
AS hnt Florida tan Do.
From the Chicago Tribune (Rep.).
That the condition of Florida, owing
to the recent freeze, is not a hopeless one
is well shown by a prominent southern
business man, who points out in the New
Orleans Tirm s-D* mocrat how it can over
conn- sonic of its losses. He suggests
there Is silk, which Florida can produce
as well as Italy: sweet potatoes, whi h
already are coming Into favor as p. Flor
ida crop; lumber, which is in trr*t de
mand: and the fisheries, which hold out
great inducements for maritime ventures.
He is of opinion that Florida should not
be In the least disturbed by the freezing
of its fruit oroD, there are so many other
things to which the Floridians can turn
their attention with profit, and he la un
questionably correct.
Told by an Oil fteoot.
Oil Scout Joe Morton from the Pennsyl
vani petroleum held*, drifted into Wash
ington last night to see the sights of ♦he
nation’s capital, says the Washington
Post. Morton is in the employ of the
Standard Oil Company, and his
ters are in Pittsburg. He is one of the
oldest men in the oil bu?inee% and in his ,
time as an oil operator “brought in,” as
they say in the oil districts*, some of the
? ushers that have ;j*ade ti* Western
’ennsylvania fields fa mous. Last night
he went hack to tfr** time when the old i
Rradford (Pad oil field was opened up,
and told this story:
“After the rush for drilling territory
which followed the opening up of the
Bradford field, I was irp that way an! J
found about the only piece of ground at i
all promising looking, which had not been
leased, was a garden patch, the property
of a Methodist minister of Bradford, the
Rev. Mr. Walker, I believe his name was.
and as it struck me there might be oil
under the clods of his land, I leased It.
According to the terms of the lease, he
was to get a monthly rental and an eighth
interest in the oil output of the frell which
I was to drill. I had never done busaness
with a preacher before, and as I didn’t
know' how to handle them, had no end
of trouble with Walker. Of course, my
programme of work on my well included
Sunday drilling—all oil wells are drilled
on Sunday, the same as any other day'. I
didn't know how this wotßd. strike Walk
er. for I had heard he was a crank on
Sunday observance and the head of a
society for the prevention of Sabbath
desecration, an organization which had
given the saloon keepers of Bradford no
end of annoyance. I didn’t care mucu
how it struck him, how’ever, as there
was nothing in tlje lease agreement to
stop Sunday work at the well, so I went
ahead.
“It was almost 9 o’clock on Sunday
morning when the preacher discovered
that his Droperty was being made the
ground of the rankist kind of Sabbath
desecration, and when he did come into
possession of this interesting pioce of in
formation he acted with energv. In less
time than it takes to tell it, he was at the
well, and stirred up mightily. ’What do
you mean?* he gasped. ‘My property—
Sunday * I tried to reason with him,
but it was of no use. He wouldn’t listen
to reason and alternately tried threats and
entreaties to induce mo Jo shut, down the
well for the day. Of course I wouldn't do
it, and he concluded to go into the courts.
That afternoon I was arrested’ for Sab
bath breaking and taken before n. mairis
traite. but the magistrate was not in sym
pathy with the aims of the preacher’s so
ciety, and when I pointed out that drill
ing at an oil well on Sunday was a work
of necessity he discharged me. Then
W alker tried half a dozen other plans to
stop Sunday work at my well, one of
which was an offer to bribe me and my
men, but none of them worked.. At last
he coucluded to sell his interest in the
wel, and started out to get a purchaser.
He could find no one who was especially
anxious to buy him out, however, and at
last sold his holding for a cow in order
to get It off his hands.”
any l oiT?” VaS the well? ” was as k?d. “Get
“Yes,” replied Morton. “The well came
in a gusher. It was on Snnday morning,
too, that we got oil. The greatest strike
1 ever made.”
“How did the preacher take ft?” asked
one of the group who had heard Morton s
story.
“Walker? Oh, he sent the cow home
and went to law for hie share,” was the
reply.
A Good Defense.
Sergeant Wilkins once defended a breach
of promise case for a singularly ugly lit
tle man, says Ttii-Bits. which case he
told the defendant, after reading his
brief, must be ’’bounced’’ through. And
tile sergeant did bounce It through.
"Gentlemen of the Jury,” he said, at
the close of a most eloquent speech,
’’you’ve heard the evidence for the plain
tiff; and gentlemen of the jury, you have
admired that meet bewitching lady, the
plaintiff herself. Gentlemen, do you be
lieve that this enchanting fascinating,
this captivating, this accomplished lady,
would for one moment favor the advances
or listen, with anything save scorn and
indignation, to the amorous protestations
or the wretched and repulsive homun
culus, the deformed and degra<*ed de
fendant?"
His client looked up from the well of
the court and ifiteously murmured:
“Mr. Sergeant Wilkins! Oh, Mr. Ser
geant Wilkins!”
"Silence, sir,” replied the sergeant, in
a wrathful undertone. Gentlemen," he
continued, bringing his fist heavily down
on the desk before him, "do you think
that this lovely lady, this fair and smiling
creature, would ever have permitted an
Offer of marriage to be made her by this
miserable atom of humanity, this stunted
creature, who would have to stand on a
sheet of note paper to look over two
pence?”
Instant verdict for defendant.
Sen Magic.
Katherin Tynan, in the Illustrated News.
The. children talk in the firelight,
The mother sits and hears;
Her lips have a htnt of smiling.
Her eyes a thought or tears.
With tears and smiles together
She hears the children sav ,
How this by way of the heather.
And that by way of the bay.
Will leave the small safe haven
Wherein the children throve; V
Shut In by sea and mountain
Into a nest of love.
She smiles to hear their dreaming
Of what each one will do.
Over the mountains gleaming,
Out on the waters blue.
But ever the mist grows thicker
When Hugh, the sailor, tells
Of the sea-king’s cave of coral.
And pearls and diamond shells;
Of the golden dedp-rea weather.
And galleons sunk of yore;
She thinks on his long-drowned father;
Her eyes can see no more.
A Peppery Queen.
Here is an amusing Incident of stage
lite. An actress, having been disengaged
for some time, had packed her wardrobe
in pepper, to preserve it from moths
She was suddenly called upon to take
the part of the queen in "Hamlet.”
Being rather late for her first scene,
she omitted to shake out her royal robes
and her dignified entrance had an aston
ishing effect. '
The king, after a bravo resistance,
gave vent to a mighty sneeze that well
nigh made the stage vibrate. All the
royal couriers and maids of-honor follow
ed suit sympathetically. Hamlet came
on with a most sublime tragedy air, but
after a convulsive movement of his prince
ly features he buried th<m in his sombre
robe, while sneeze’after sneeze was al!
the public heard from him.
Amid the hubbub on the stage and the
shrieks of delight from the audience the
stage manager, betfveem sneezes, rang
down the curtain.
Curran Anecdotes.
Curran's ruling pasiion was his joke,
and it was strong, if not In death, at
least in his last illness, says the Green
Bag. One morning his physician observ
ed that lie seemed to "cough with more
difficulty.”
"That is rather surprising," answered
Curran, "for 1 have been practising all
night.”
While thus lying ill Curran was visited
by a friend. Father O'Leary, who also
loved his joke.
"I wish, O'Leary,” said Curran to him
abruptly, "that you had the keys of
heaven.”
"V\ hy, Curran?”
"Because you could let me in,” said
the faretitious counsellor.
"It would he much better for you. Cur
ran," said the good-humored priest, "that
1 had the keys of the other place, be
cause I could then let you out.”
tVim Sufficiently Reworded.
The latest Joke at the expense of the
French Society for the Protaction of Ani
mals Is to the following effect:
A countryman, armed with an Immense
club, presents himself before the president
of the society and claims the first prize.
He Is asked to describe the ae: of hu
manity on which he founds the claim
"I save the life of a wolf," replied the
countryman. "I might easily have killed
him with this bludgeon." and he swings
tits weapon in the air. to he immense dis
comfort of the president.
"But where was this wolf?" replied the
the latter: "what had he done to you?"
"lie had Just devoured mv wife,' was
tlie reply.
The president reflects an instant, ana
then says.
"Jly friend. 1 am of the opinion that
you have been sufficiently rewarded.”
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
—Among the numerous vegetable prod
ucts of Brazil, says the Scientific Ameri
can,the Moquilea utilis. or pottery tree, is
not the least noteworthy. This tree attains
a height of 100 feet, and has a very slender
trunk, which seldom much exceeds one
fost in diameter at the The woo<\
is exceedingly hard and contains a very
large amount ot silica, but not so much
as does the bark, which is largely employ
ed as a source of silica the man
ufacture of pottery. In preparing the
bark for the potter’s use it is first burned
and the residue is then pulverized and
mixed with clay in the proper proportion.
With an equai quantity ef the two ingre
dients. a superior quality of earthenware
is produced. This is very' durable, and is
capable of withstanding any amount of
heat. The natives employ it for all kinds
of culinary' purposes. When fresh, the
bark cuts like soft sandstone, and the
presence of the silex may be readily as
certained by grinding a piece of the bark
between the teeth When dry. it is gen
erally brittle, though sometimes dif
ficult to break. After being burned it
cannot, if of good quality, be broken up
between the fingers, a mortar and pestle
being required to crush it.
—An interesting question has been
raised in the navy department as to the
best age for the commander of a modern
naval vessel, says the Chicago-Times
Herald. Under the lew of promotion now
existing in tjie service^a man must be at
least 56 years old before he can obtain
command of a ship. The experts say it
Is altogether wrong to place a man of this
age In command of a battle ship or cruis
er. There is no product of human in
genuity more complicated than a modern
battle ship. Napoleon or some other wise
man once said that a great battle Is not
won by an army, but by a man. If this
is true in any sort of fighting it must be
in naval warfare. The success of a battle
ship In action depends upon the coolness,
the Judgment, the quick decision and
bold acceptance of a chance which may
come but once in the engagement on the
part of him who stands on the bridge
with the great machine under his control.
No one argues that a man of 56 years is
too old to command if he has had tho
sort of experience which brings out self
reliance, courage and coolness under great
stress, but when one of our subordinate
officers is for the first time promoted to
the command of a ship at the age of 56
or over, he lacks this experience, and in
the opinion of the experts is too old, too
little adaptable and receptive to acquire
♦he needed qualities. The experts fear
that a man of this age, accustomed all
his life to obedience and to having some
one else to do the thinking for him, will
lack the poise and nerve necessary to
make him successful as the director of a
ship in action. The best authorities agree
that if a man is to be a first-class fighter
it is necessary for him to engage in fight
ing on his own account, as commander and
not as a subordinate, before he is 40.
—Since the great African island has
lately caused a deal of talk, it will not
be uninteresting to give some account of
the strange ceremony practiced at the
Malagasy national festival every year, as
related by nearly all the travelers that
have visited the land of the Hovas. The
•' F;i ndroana,” or royal bath, was first in
stituted by King Ratambo, and is held
annually, by royal proclamation, from
Nov. 22 to Jan. 10. During this time no
business is allowed to proceed. The peo
ple of the kingdom meet the queen in the
silver palace on the first day of the festi
val, and a red cock Is th*n brought by
the head priests or sacrificer of the court.
Its neck is wrung, and the blood being
caught in a banana leaf is carried to
the sovereign, w’ho touches with it her
forehead, neck, stomach, armpit, finger
nails and toe nails; the rest of the assem
bly following the example. Next day the
people assemble again for the royal bath
in the great palace. This the queen takes
in one of the sacred corners of the hall,
in a silver bath, being screened from
view by “lambag” held up by her at
tendants. Amid the flrtng of cannon and
the Joyous shouts of her humble subjects
her majesty then passes along the bal
cony, and from a horn in her hand sprink
les the crowd with the water she has
just been using for her ablutions, ex
claiming at the same time, “Masirwa, uho!”
(I am purified.) This sprinkling is said to
tpylfy an abundance of rain during the
coming year. To be absent from the cer
emony would be to incur the royal dis
pleasure. so that the French plenipoten
tiary minister himself, M. 1e My re de Vll
ers, who is now’ again on his way to
Madagascar, had to submit, in 1886, to this
strange ordeal. Every wife, also, must
be with her husband at that time, or it
is considered that she is as good as di
vorced. The new’ year is then supposed
to have begun, and for several weeks
there is a great deal of visiting and feast
ing.
—ln looking at the ocean the mind al
most instinctively turns to the fate of the
ships which find their resting place upon
its floor. If the reader were appointed to
inspect the bottom of the drained sea, he
would be sure to look at once for some
remnants of this kind, overwhelmed by
storm and battle. Fancy has depicted
these vessels as thickly strewn over the
bottom of the sea and at times hung in the
depths, unable, on account of the density
of the water, to find their way to the
eaxth. But all we know- of the condition
of the deep le-ads us to believe that the
sunken vessels finds its way quickly to
the foundation of the sea. In a few’ hours
at most it reaches its everlasting grave
and is ready to for the swift destruction
which awaits its form. At the stroke of
its fall it must in part sink into the ooze,
which everywhere is deep. Quickly the
creatures of the seq, who by long exist
ence in fields where food is scanty have
learned to avail themselves of every sub
sistence, seize qpon ajt the organic matter
w-hich fortune has sent them, Even the
masts and the other woodwork will short
ly be honeycombed by living species and
weighted jown by encrusting forms. Thus
before long the masts will fall and the
decks will share in the ruin. If the reader
could traverse the field w’hereunto came
the shot-riddled ships of Trafalgar nc
would probably, says a writer in the
Youth’s Companion, be surprised at the
slight effect they would make on the
landscape. Each wreck would most like
ly appear as a low- mound of debris, in
which it w’ould be difficult to trace the
semblance of the stout craft which waged
the greatest sea fight of all time. Ships
of European people have been for cen
turies finding their way to the floor of the
ocean. Probably over a hundred thous
and vessels have met this fate since the
time when our race began to find its way
around the w-orla. Yet by far the greater
part of these have fallen upon the shal
low’s near the shore, where the swift cur
rents and rapidly moving debris are likely
to aid in their destruction and burial.
How swiftly they disappear in these con
ditions may be judged by the experience
of a diver who has sought for sunken
treasure*. Almost invariably, after a
hundred years or so have passed, they
find that the craft is quite lost to sight.
Far more money has been spent in such
explorations than has been won from them
Curiously enough, the most permanent
records of man’s empire of the seas are
being written in the ashes from the coal
fed fires of the steamships. This waste
is in its nature indestructible, and thr
mass of material contributed in any one
year to thc> ocean floors is to be reckoned
by the million tons. In time.all the great
ship routes will be paved with this debris,
w-hich will be built into the rocks, to re
main as the most enduring physical mon
ument of man’s sway upon this sphere.
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