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INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
1 Meetings—Solomon’s Lodge No. 1, F. A
R. M.i Enterprise Dime Loan Associa
tion.
Special Notices—Undoubtedly the Best
Range in Bavannah, Lovell & Lattimore;
Blount Vernon and Hannlsvllle Whiskies,
Henry Solomon A Son; Fleishman's Per
fection Gin; Infanta Eulalia and Le Pan
to Cigars at Hinckley's Restaurant; Cey
lon Tea, A. M. A C. W. West; As to Bills
Rgatnst British Steamships Mangara and
Inverness; Beckmann’s Cafe;Don’t Know,
Falk Clothing Company.
Amusements—Complimentary Concert
fct Mehrten’s Music Hall This Evening.
Make Up Your Mind—Appel A Sehaul.
| Neck or Nothing—ll. H. Levy A Bro.
Medical —Munyon's Remedies.
Legal Notices—Notice to Debtors and
Creditors Estate Jane Kavanaugh; Es
tate William Harrison.
Steamship Schedules—Ocean Steamship
Company.
Auotlon Bales—Furniture, Etc., by J.
McLaughlin A Son.
Circular No. 246—Railroad Commission
pf Georgia.
No Mother Who Has a Boy—Falk Cloth
ing Company.
Ten A. M. To-Day—At Adler’s.
Cheap Column Advertisements—Help
Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Rent;
For Sale; Personal; Lost; Found; 'Mis
cellaneous.
Infant life insurance, which seems to
have got a foothold here to some extent,
was recently the subject of inquiry of a
committee of the Massachusetts legisla
ture. A 'bill to prohibit such insurance
was pending. The committee heard a
number of Insurance men and several phy
sicians, and, it is believed, reported in
favor of the passage of the bill.
The free sllverltes now find themselves
under the necessity of explaining how It
happened that in Denver and several
places In Nebraska the populists wer#
beaten in the town elections. It cannot
be claimed that silver was not an issue,
and that the populist party did not repre
sent the silver element, for the silverites
take that issue into everything, and the
populist party was sllverlte enough to cap
ture such republicans as Senators Stew
art and Jones. If the silverites cannot
carry elections In Colorado and Nebrasku
they had better hang up and quit.
The “no fence” question and the pure
milk question have direct connection with
each other. Health Officer Brunner points
cut why pure milk cannot be expected
from cows that drink in Bilbo canal and
are not properly cared for otherwise. If
a no-fence law should be adopted and
enforced, valuable cows would receive
more attention and better water and pas
turage, and the worthless stock would be
disposed of. Dairy owners would find It
to their pecuniary advantage to improve
the grade of their cattle, and eonsumers
would get the benefit of not only purer
but richer milk.
They seem In Cuba to have a some
what erroneous conception of what they
term "the Sherman idea of warfare.’’
Our Havana dispatch of yesterday said
that the new captain general of the island
would Introduce the Sherman idea against
the Insurgents, making "a march direct
to the strongholds of the enemy, burn
ing and destroying the property of all
supposed to be disloyal to Spain.’’ The
Sherman plan was to march, not upon
the strongholds of the enemy, but upon
their defenseless homes, in which only
did men, women and children remained,
and burn and pillage. It may be, how
ever, that that Is precisely the kind of
warfare the Spaniards mean to make
upon the Cubans. Should such infamous
tactics be employed, the Cuban’cause
might receive practical sympathy from
the people of this country.
The dispatches coming from Havana
now contain items of more direct inter
est to the people of this country than the
information about the war. ’’Nearly one
third of the soldiers imported from Spain
have been sick, and many of them have
died,’’ said yesterday's dispatches in one
place, and in another: "Havana had six
ty-six ease* of yellow fever yesterday, of
which the majority were Spanish sol
diers." While Tedlow Jack's wcrk in
Cuba may be mostly In behalf of the
patriots, he Isn't at all a patriotic fellow,
and would as lief jump across to the
United States coast and score some hun
dreds of peaceable American victims as to
kill Spanish soldiers. With tti* iwurlng
Of unacclimated troops into Cuba, it is to
be expected that the epidemic will in
crease, which circumstance will in turn
increase the danger to American ports.
The War ia f aha.
The revolt in Cuba arow* in etrength
and Intensity. The whole inland in rapMlv
br-ominit a military camp. The
Cub in* are reipondlriK to the call of their
chiefs and ar# 1 beinjt formed into com
panion. hattalions and And
if the reports are re liable they are holding
their ground againnt the trained troop*
of Spain, and are e\en winning victories.
The Cuban* have evidently determined
to mike a supreme effort for indeiendence.
They do not espect that success will be
achieved easily, but they appear to be
confident that they will succeed. They
are poor In arms and ammunition, and
that is one of the reasonn probably why
the number of the revolutionists In the
field is Tiot greater. In proportion, how
ever. as the prospects of the revolutionists
brighten the efforts to supply thejn with
arms and ammunition will increase. Spain
has a fine navy, hut It will be impossible
for her to closely guard the whole of the
Cuban CtiMWrt It b reported that the
Cubans are likely to receive assistance by
way of Hayti. and It will he a difficult
matter for our government to prevent
shipments of arms from someone of her
many ports. If it gets to be understood
that the Cubans have a chance for suc
cess, and that they are united and deter
mined, they will receive encouragement
and assistance from unexpected sources
and In wavs that are not now thought of.
While It Is true that the Spaniards
make good soldiers It is probable that the
Spanish forces In Cuba are not Inspired
by any great degree of patriotism by the
service they are required to perform there.
Most of them are fresh from Spain and
the climate is against them. Already
many of them are ill and if the yellow
fever becomes epidemic among them they
will be In no condition to meet an ag
gressive and determined enemy.
The revolutionists have been preparing
for this struggle for a good while. For
the wrongs they have endured they
cherish toward Spain a feeling of bitter
hatred. The opportunity they have been
waiting for so long to rid themselves of
Spanish misrule appears to have come
and they mean to improve It to the utmost
of their ability. However harsh, therefore,
that Spain may make the war a speedy
termination of the conflict Is not probable.
These Who Wnnt Free Sliver.
There are two classes of people who
want ffee and unlimited coinage of sil
ver, namely, those who are interested In
silver mining and those who are in debt.
The silver mine owners and their em
ployes believe the free coinage of silver
would be beneficial to them, and the debt
ors would like to have the privilege of
paying their debts tn a currency having
only about half the value of our present
currency. It becomes an Interesting ques
tion. therefore, to find out about what
proportion of the population favors the
free and unlimited coinage of sliver.
The silver mine owners and their em
ployes make a very small fraction of the
population, but the debtor class Is large.
But it is not so large as it would seem
to be from some of the statements which
have appeared in print. Matthew Mar
shall, a very careful writer, whose arti
cles In the New Y’ork Sun attract a great
deal of attention, makes the following
statement: "Of the 4,767,179 farm and
plantation families returned In our last
census 47 per cent, owned their land free
from encumbrance f\nd 34 per cent, hired
It, leaving only 19 per cent, of owners
with encumbrances on their property. It
Is this 19 per cent., or less than 1,000,000
families altogether, from whom, and
from a few distressed speculators, the
clamor for high prices proceeds, while
the many millions of earners of wages and
of salaries and possessors of money ob
ligations are. as yet, silent. They are un
aware that danger impends over them,
and thus they leave the field to the advo
cates of silver, who make up In noise and
reiteration what they lack In numbers.”
Assuming that the foregoing statement
Is correct. It Is apparent what the result
would be If the Issue between the Ree sll
verltes and those wljo favor sound money
should be squarely made. No doubt a
great many outside of the two classes
mentioned are Inclined to favor the free
coinage of silver, because, from the ajser.
tlons of the free sllverltes, they have
been led to believe that It would hasten
the coming of better times, but when
they fully understand the issue their views
will undergo a change.
When the Issue Is made there will be
found arrayed against the free coinage
of silver creditors, wage earners, depos
itors in savings banks, holders of all
kinds of securities, pensioners and those
receiving fees and salaries. All of these
have been saying very little about ihe
free coinage of silver, but they will make
their influence felt should the necessity
for doing so arise. The plain purpose of
the free silverites Is to lessen the unit of
value, and thus reduce the obligations of
debtors and deprive creditors of a part of
their rights. The issue, therefore, which
the free sllverltes are trying to force
upon the country, as Mr. Marshall says,
is largely a moral one. There Is not
much doubt ,that the result of It would be
a defeat for the free silverites.
So Utah is coming into the union with
all of her women enfranchised at the polls!
The constitutional provision enabling
women to vote has not been actually
clinched, but from the information con
tained in our dispatches yesterday, the
matter Is settled in favor of woman suf
frage. Wonl?n have had a good deal to
do with the history of Utah, and the pros
pects are that they will continue to keep
themselves in evidence there. It is an in
cident worthy of note that the strongest
opposition to woman suffrage in the Utah
constitutional convention came from Mor
mon leaders.
The legislature- probably made a mis
take in providing that side shows of cir
cuses should pay a specific tax of SSO
each, and in the same act exempting elo
cutionary entertainments from the tax.
for the reason that’ everybody who hits
ever visited a side show knows that the
elocutionary efforts of the gentleman at
the door vastly more than counterbal
ance everything to be seen on the Inside.
THE MORNING NEWS: THURSDAY, APRIL 4, 1895.
Taking the Right \ lew of It.
We are glad to see that the colored peo
ple of this county are beginning to take
the right view of the "no fence law."
Heretofore they have had the impression
that to require cattle to be fenced In
would result injuriously to them, an l
would be of benefit only to the land
owners, who are almost all white iVien.
They are beginning to understand that
this impression is an erroneous one.
What the colored people of the county
want particularly is a wider opportunlts'
to improve their material condition. They
want a chance to own home.s of their own,
with a piece of land attached on which
they can make a living. They are de
prived of this chance now, because they
have not. the means to fence land, which
they can buy at a lew price per acre or
rent for a small annual rental. There are
thousands of acres of very productive land
in the county which would quickly be put
under cultivation if It was not for the ex
pense of fencing it. and keeping the fences
in repair. The owners of this land would
gladly sell or rent it to colored people, and
even If tho most of it should *be cultivated
by white people the colored people would
be employed to db the work necessary to
be done. From any point of view, there
fore. the colored people w*ould be the chief
beneficiaries of a "no fence law."
There are colored men in this county
who have little truck farms which either
do, or can be made, to pay well. If the
"no fence law" should be adopted there
would be a great many more of them. For
a hundred dollars or so they could pur
chase four or five acres and borrow
enough money to put up a comfortable
cabin. If they were thrifty and intelli
gent it would not take them long to pay
off the debt, and then they would own their
homes and be able to put aside something
for old age.
As long as cattle are allowed to run at
large, destroying the drains and making
it impossible to cultivate the land without
fencing It, the county will remain prac
tically a wilderness, notwithstanding the
fact that the drainage work is making all
parts of the county healthy and the rich
swamp lands available for farming pur
poses.
The more the colored people think about
this matter the more Inclined they will be
to give their hearty approval of any ef
fort that may be made to adopt the "no
fence law'."
(Tinnicinic Their Tune.
Those papers that made such an outcry
against the President and Secretary Car
lisle for selling the last lot of bonds to the
Belmont-Morgan syndicate for a little
more than 164, declaring that If the bonds
bad been offered In the open market to
the highest bidder, they would have
brought 118, are not Saying muoh about
the matter nowadays. They have become
convinced, probably, that they did not
know a great deal about the matter, anl
that the profits of the Belmont-Morgan
syndicate will not be so great as it was at
first thought they would be.
The syndicate undertook to do a great
deal more than furnish gold for the bonds
at the price agreed upon. One of the
things It agreed to do was to prevent
gold from being drawn from the treasury
for export for a certain length of time.
If it were not for that agreement gold
would now be going out of this country,
because the rate of exchange is such that
It could be shipped at a profit. The syn
dicate, however, Is controlling the gold
movement by furnishing bills of exchange
at a little below the gold-shipping point.
It is costing it a good deal of money to
do this, and if it succeeds in preventing
gold from going abroad until the condition
of the treasury Is such that it will be
able to take care of itself—and of it?
success there does not now seem to be any
doubt—even who were loudest in
condemning the administration for < the
bargain It made will have to admit that
the bargain was not such a bad one for
the government after all.
Recently It has been asserted by some
newspapers that President Cleveland has
become a convert to the Income tax.
The assertion Is Incorrect. Considered
as an original proposition he no more fa
vors an income tax now than he did last
summer. His position with regard to the
matter is thus set forth by Walter Well
man, of the staff of the Chicago Times-
Herald, who has taken the pains to inform
himself: “He does not believe in income
taxes, but the present act having reached
the statute books and the time having
come for the people to pay their taxes
under its provisions the President be
lieves that it would be better for the
country if the constitutionality of the law
were upheld by the supreme court. To
strike down the law at this juncture
would seriously disarrange the govern
ment finances, and by making a special
session of congress necessary seriously
disturb the commercial world, now in need
of a long rest from congressional menace.
For these reasons and not because he be
lieves in the principles of income taxa
tion the President hopes the supreme
court will sustain the law."
A great reunion of old soldiers of the
south will be held at Houston, Tex., on
May 22 to 24. inclusive, under the aus
pices of the United Confederate Veter
ans. It is desired by Gen. John B. Gordon,
the general commanding, that the attend
ance shall be as large as it can possibly be
made, therefore, he has caused to be is
sued a circular letter .urging old soldiers
to form camps of veterans in order to se
cure representation at the reunion. There
are now 567 camps in the association, of
which thirty are in Georgia, thirty-four
In South Carolina, eighty-four in Alabama
and thirty in Florida. The veterans' or
ganization is purely literary, historical,
social and benevolent.
The big “department" retail stores are
receiving attention at the hands of the
New York legislature. These stores, as
is pretty well known, employ an army
of male and female clerks, accountants,
packers, etc., under one roof. It is pro
posed that such establishments shall be
brought under the state factory law gov
erning conveniences, Are escapes and other
mailers, and that the factory inspectors
shall inspect the stores also.
Mr. David M. Stone, the venerable ex
editor of the New York Journal of Com
merce, whose death was reported In our
dispatches yesterday, was not so well
known to the general puhlt< as some of th
great editors—Greeley. Raymond.; Webb,
Dana and the eider Bennett—with whom
he was contemporary. But business men
knew him and appreciated him. For tnoro
than fifty consecutive years he was con
nected with the Journal of Commerce, a
greater part of the time in an editorial
capacity. That term of service, it is be
lieved. makes the record. Mr. Dana has
been with the Sun twenty-eight years.
During Mr. Stone’s fifty years of service
it is said he hardly knew a holiday. For
years he was not absent from his desk a
stngle working day. and his average of
work was nearly two columns of editorial
matter each day. Before and during the
war the Journal of Commerce paid atten
tion to politics, and was sturdily demo
cratic in principle. After the war it laid
aside politics Knd be-arae strictly a com
mercial paper. And for a matter of thirty
years it was the leading commercial and
financial paper In the United States; and
all that time under Mr. Stone's manage
ment. Two years ago the Journal of Com
merce was bought by and consolidated
with another financial journal, and then
Mr. Stone, at the age of 75, retired to enjoy
a well earned leisure.
I'ERSOXAL.
—Joseph Kainz, the first of Germany's
tragedians, whose Hamlet non for him
golden criticism! when on a tour In this
country three years ago, has been decor
ated with the order of ' Albrecht des
Baren.” The big gold order was pre
sented t-o him as “a mark of appreciation
of his standing in the arts and sciences,"
and he Is the first member of the German
theater to be thus decorated.
—Archibald Forbes says that the Ideal
war correspondent should have “the
angelic temper of a woman and the salic
it y of a candidate for office. He should
know any number of languages, and
should be able to ride 100 miles a day |
and go without food or sleep for a week,
and be able at the end or It to write
round-hand for a foreign telegraph clerk
at the rate of a column an hour for six
hours.”
—Li Hung Chang has been able to take
a scientific Interest In his bullet wound.
The old Chinaman Is a man of vast
learning, and knows a little about al
most every topic that can he mentioned,
besides having a natural bent for scien
tific Investigation. He has made, at one
time and another, quite a close study
of anatomy and surgery, and Is able to
keep with every move made by the sur
geons In charge of his case.
—One of the most interesting figures In
the stately procession in the Vatican dur
ing the recent celebration of the anni
versary of the pope's corronatlon was
young Prince Colonna. He walked close
by the papal chair on which the pontiff
was carried by his eight sturdy bearers,
and he wore the decoration which the
pope had conferred on him the previous
day. Dressed in black, tall, handsome
and haughty, he was In effective contrast
to the pale pope In white.
BRIGHT IllTs!
—"What do you know about French
dishes?” asked Mrs. Upperten to the appli
cant for employment as cook.
”1 know enough about thlm to make
thlm, but nlver to ate tlilm,” was the re
ply. She was engaged.—Harper’s Bazar.
Base Sensationalism.—"ls there any
truth in the report that the Rev. Mr. Slb
bles Is to be dismissed for being too sensa
tional?”
“I guess there Is. At least the congre
gation has good grounds. Do you know,
for the last three months he hasn't preach
ed on a single topic outside of the Bible?”
—Too Much System.—" There is too darn
much system in this school business.”
growled Tommy. "Just because I snicker
ed a little the monitor turned me over to
the teacher, the teacher turned me
over to the principal, and the principal
turned me over to paw.”
"Was that all?"
“No. Paw turned me over his knee."—
Indianapolis Journal.
—A Matter of Appearance—The street car
was crowded and the elderly citizen had
taken his young granddaughter on his
knee. When the conductor came along
the elderly citizen handed him 8 cents.
“Two cents more,” said the conductor.
"She's over 5. and I'll have to charge you
full fare for her.”
"Since he considers you a woman, my
dear.” said the elderly man, much shock
ed, "It Isn't proper for you to sit on my
knee. You'll have to get oil.”—Chicago
Tribune.
CURRENT COMMENT.
.
Third Term of Cleveland Policy.
From the Galveston News (Dem.).
There is a brightening prospect—if not
specifically for a third term of Cleveland—
for a third term and Indefinitely prolonged
term of the Cleveland policy touching
money and commerce.
Third Term Talk.
Washington Cor. Chtcago-Times Herald
(Dem.).
Someone has taken the trouble to re
vive the old story that President Cleve
land is scheming for a third term. If the
President has any aspirations in this di
rection none of his cabinet ministers has
been able to detect the faintest sign of It.
It has been agreed in the cabinet circle
that Mr. Cleveland has no thought of a
third term, and will be exceedingly glad
to escape the cares of public office two
years hence.
I.nek of Confidence, Not Money.
From the New Orleans Picayune (Dem.).
If every wheel In every factory were
running on full time, thousands of work
people now idle would be earning wages,
and it is the paying of wages that distri
butes money. The whole thing is in wages.
If everybody who is able to work and de
sires to work were earning and receiving
fair wage:;, then the conditions which are
considered prosperous would prevail.
Therefore it Is not more money, but more
confidence, which is needed now. There
is no lack of money, but a great lack of
business confidence.
The Advance in Cotton.
From the Baltimore Sun (Dem.).
The recent increase in the price of cot
ton is variously explained. One cause, it
is said. Is the expectation of a decreased
acreage this year. The better demand at
Liverpool is ascribed to this cause. An
other reason for the advance is said to be
the oversold condition of the market. Cot
ton was being sold by speculators at prices
below the average cost of production, and
a reaction was bound to come. What is
strange about it Is the fact that cotton
"in sight” March 15 this year was 1,967.000
bales more than at the same date last
year. A simpler explanation than all
these, however, is that business is improv
ing and there is more legitimate demand
for cotton in all its forms.
\ Neglected Opportunity.
Springfield (Mass.) Republican (Ind.)
Something happened Saturday calcu
lated to tire the hearts of Frye, Igtdge and
the other jingoes with true patriotic pride.
Several marines from the United States
cruiser Nuw York went ashore at Kings
ton. Jamaica, got Into a fight with some
native colliers and wounded three of them
so badly with lumps of coal that they
had to be taken to the hospital. Why the
sailors should then have neglected to run
up the Americ an tiag on the spot and lay
claim to the whole island passes our un
derstanding. as tt must that of the Junior
senator front Massachusetts. That act
would have clinched Ihe victory and added
valuable territory to the United States;
for once having been hoisted anywhere by
anybody, who but traitor would dare
L ut order the (lag pulled down?
A Matter of Locality.
I observe, says the Saunterer of New
York Town Topics, that Mr. Charles
Frohman still calls his latest play "John
A. Dreams." It is so labelled on the
wooden sign at the entrance of the Empire
theater. This does not indicate any lack
of literary information in the mind of
Mr. Frohman. for, being a profound
Shakespearean scholar himself, he is on
intimate terms with the line "I. a dull
and muddy-mettled rascal, peak, like John
a-dreams. unpregnant of my cause, and
can say nothing.” Mr. -Frohman could
step on the stage of his theater at twenty
four hours' notice and act the part of
Hamlet In a wav that would make the pit
rise at him But he knows his New Y’ork
public, and when he* came to consider
the title of the play now occupying the
stage of his theater he saw at once that
it would not do to insist too strongly up
on the classical form of the name. "John
A. Dreams." on the contrary, would
arouse decided metropolitan interest. An
impression would be given that the play
dealt with the romance of a baseball
umpire or a dry goods salesman. There
was a good sensible ring to “John-a-
Dreams, " a business-like sound that went
well with the musie of New York mer
cantile life, whereas "John-a-Dreams"
would only suceped in spread
ing a cloud of mystification through the
Broadway cafes, and calling out the
query of "IVotthell does It mean?" This
result would have killed all excitement
in the neighborhood of the box-office
window. I r.gre Mr Frohman directed
his sign-pain iers to let the title go as
"John A. Dreams." He would have added
Esq. to it had he not dreaded that this
might have led his gallery patrons to be
lieve that the drama dealt with the his
tory of a sociey man. When the play
goes on the road. 1 believe, it Is to be
called “Col. John A. Dreams” tn Ken
tucky. "John Adams Dreams” tn Boston.
"The Hon. John A. Dreams" in Kansas
city, “Jackpot Dreams” in Chicago.
"Jonathan Amlnadab Dreams” in Phil
adelphia, "Johnny Dreams" in San Fran
cisco, and "J A. Dreams" tn Brooklyn.
Special printing is now being done for
these different communities, and the gen
eral idea among the members of Mr.
Frohman’s press corps is that by work
ing the title of Mr. Haddon Chamber*
play in the proper manner they have got
a success that will knock the bustle off
“Charley's Aunt."
Chickens’ Right* on the Itnllrond*.
When the Chesapeake and Ohio railroad
was constructed along the Ohio river,
many farms were necessarily divided,
says the Cincinnati Tribune. This greatly
angered the farmers, "regular hayseeds
from away back." The road passed be
tween the house and poultry yard of a
farmer named Left. The old fellow did
not like It very much, and he took advan
tage of every occasion to speak ill of the
"darned old contraption for hauling
stuff.”
When the road was finally completed
and the first train went rattling along, the
fowls In Mr. Left's poultry yard became
frenzied with fright. As many of the
geese, ducks, chickens, etc., as were able,
fiew over the fence and wandered away
In the woods. Those that could not fly
endeavored to force their way through
cracks in the fence. Some succeeded in
escaping in this way, others only managed
to break their necks.
Mr. Left had witnessed the havoc among
his poultry, and to say he was “mad” is
only to put it mildly. He went to the
barn and painted a huge board with fiery
red brick paint. When this way dry he
took shoe blacking and painted a notice
after his own heart. A stake was driven
in the ground near the railroad track,
and the board nailed to It.
“That'll fetch 'em," growled the farmer,
as he leaned against the fence and await
ed the results of his labor.
A rattle, rattle, rattle soon gave evi
dence of an approaching train. A cloud
of black smoke was next seen and then
the engine appeared coming about two
miles up the track.
The engineer caught a glimpse of the
red sign, and fearing all manner of dan
ger. reversed his engine *nd signaled to
put on brakes. Slowly the momentum of
the train was checked, and it came to a
rest a few yards from the farmer.
"Great heavens," yelled the engineer.
"What’s the matter? Where's the dan
ger?”
"I reckon you kin read,” coolly replied
the farmer, as he jerked his thumb over
his shoulder toward the sign.
Great was the amazement and anger of
the engineer as he turned to the sign and
read: “Run slow by Left's lot; you'll kill
all my chickens.”
The Kettle.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox in Youth’s Com
panion.
There's many a house of grandeur,
With turret, tower and dome,
That knows not peace nor comfort.
And does not prove a home.
I do not ask for spienc(pr
To crown my daily lot,
But this I ask: A kitchen
Where the kettle's always hot.
If things are not all shipshape,
I do not fume or fret,
A little clean disorder
Does not my nerves upset.
But one thing is essential,
As seems so to my thought.
And that's a tidy kitchen,
Where the kettle’s always hot.
In my Aunt Hattie’s household,
Though the skies outside are drear,
Though times are dark and troubled.
You’ll always find good cheer.
And in her quaint old kitchen.
The very homliest spot,
The kettle’s always singing.
The water’s always hot.
And U you have a headache,
Whate’er the hour may be,
There is no tedious waiting
To get your cup of tea.
I don’t know how she does it,
Some magic she has caught,
For the kitchen's cool in summer,
Yet the kettle’s always hot.
Oh, there's naught else so dreary
In any household found
Asa cold and sullen kettle
That does not make a sound.
And I think that love is lacking
In the hearts in such a spot,
Or the kettle would be singing.
And the water would be hot.
A Meerschaum Pipe Cinch.
“Talk about luck," said an actor, who
Is "at liberty," and likely to remain so
for the next five months, says the Pitts
burg Dispatch. "I am the luckiest man
you ever saw. I was in a Joint in Montreal
last year and the bartender showed me a
meerschaum pipe—a beauty, worth $7.
“ ’You see,’ said the barkeep, 'there was
a drummer in here from Buffalo and he
went broke and put up thirteen pipes of
this kind for his bill out of his sample
case. I’ve got seven of them left, and if
you’ll give me $7 I’ll give you the lot.’
’“So he showed me the others, and I
saw It was a snap; so I borrowed $7 and
took the pipes. I put up the best one for
rattle with our company, the first day
the ghost walked, for 112, and one of the
girls won it. As she didn’t need a pipe
she put it up again, and got ten out of it.
and I won the pipe back on a 50-cent
chance. I raffled it off again the same day
for $6, and had six pipes left. Well, sir,
you'd never believe it, but I cleared J 37
off of those pipes the first two weeks out
and kept this one.”
He took out a dark and grimy meers
chaum, with a broken stem and an amber
mouth-piece that smelled worse than a
dead mackerel.
"Got any smoking tobacco about you?”
he inquired.
A Notable Quintette.
That’s a good story that the Bookman
tells at tb" expense of H. C. Hunner
Laurence Tfufton and Frank Stockton,
who lately entered Delmonlco’s for a
lunch. Finding two young men at the
only table for four available, they asked
them to exchange ami take on* of the
smaller tables, which they readily did.
From some overheard conversauon it ap
peared that the two young men were
Harvard undergraduates, and as he went
out Mr. Bunner. in the goodness of his
heart, felt moved to tell the young men
whom they had had the prlvilenge of
obliging. It would be an experience In
their life history, something to tell their
grandchildren about in after years. So
he Introduced himself, and added: "This
is Mr. Bunner, the editor of Buck, this
Is Mr. Laurence Hutton, and this is Mr.
Frank Stockton." A faint smile came
over the faces of the Young men. Then
one of them slapped the poet on the back.
"My dear fellow." he said, “so glad to
know you alt. And It gives me great
pleasure to make myself known to vou.
1 myself am Kaiser Wilhelm, and this is
my friend Fuerst Bismarck."
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
—Awakening from a sound night s sleep
recently. Miss Cora Hull of Stubenville,
0., dislocated her jawbone. Her mouth
was stretched wide open and try as hard
as she could she could not oloe it Th
woman suffered excruciating pain and
almost went into spasms. Two physi
cians were summoned and together they
went to work to replace the jaw
bone in Its proper placr. To do this
they had to pry the bone down at a point
behind the ears, and it was fully two
hours before the operations could be
performed, and the bone pushed to Ita
proper place. After working for some
time the bone was finally replaced and
the young lady was enabled to close her
mouth. After the o;>eratlon had Iv-en so •-
cessful the face began to swell rapidly and
lockjay was feared, but the swelling sub
sided and the patient is recovering A
serious part of the accident is that Miss
Hull will have to be very careful how
she laughs or yawns in the future, ss
the tendons now being weak the acident
is liable to occur at any time.
A street epithet, still too much the
slang of the curb to have been cast in our
teeth yet by our British cousins. Is the
word, "Dago." For years this mysterious
term has been the instrument of torture
by which the malicious gamin has tormen
ted those Italo-Americans who peddle
busts, grind handorgans or balance huge
cargoes of lumber upon their heads. The
word is, however, a misnomer and be
longs to the Portuguese and not to the
Italian. It is a corruption of the Portu
guese Diego, or James, the patron saint
of Portugal. Its descent into sbing forms
a companion chapter to the oistory of
the Welsh Taffy, or David. The Kansas
City Star recalls the almost perished fact
that 1826 the skipper of a Mediterranean
cargo-vessel entered in the New York
customs entry, after his own name and
the names of hjs mates and American
sailors, the expression "and three Dagos."
He explained that he meant three Portu
guese. In those days Italian and Spanish
sailors were seldom found out of the
Mediterranean. Nevertheless the term
will undoubtedly stick to the olive-skinned
sons of Sunny Italy, and despite Its ab
solutely harmless meaning arouse their
ire simply owing to its malicious intona
tion.
—Kite flying is usually thought a harm
less amusement, says the Washington
Star, but that It Is not always such Is
proved by the recent experience of a 13-
year-old boy at Cateau, near Cambray,
France, who became, while indulging in
this sport, an involuntary Imitator of the
Immortal Franklin. The lad, whose name
was Janti, was flying his kite—a small
one, about twenty-seven Inches long. It
has reached a great hight when a thun
der-storm was seen approaching. The
boy at once began to haul in his cord.
The kite, however, was still 100 yards or
so above the earth when there was a bril
liant Hash of lightning. Young Janti was
thrown into the air, made two or three
somersaults and fell ten or twelve feet
away. The kite had attracted the elec
tric fluid, which followed the cord, as in
Franklin’s famous experiment, and de
scended Into the earth through the boy's
body. Wonderful to relate, the boy was
not killed. After a little he arose and
made his way home, trembling and cry
ing. The nails of his left hand, which had
held the string were turned blue, as if
by a terrible bruise, tvhile the fingers
were burned and covered with blisters.
Resides this, his face was bruised consid
erably by his fall. The kite string was
burned In two by the discharge, and the
kite, released, flew away to parts un
known.
—Visitors at the world’s fair will re
member the quaint little workman who
sat in one corner of a great building and
mado eyes from morning until night,
part of them for dolls, part of them for
human beings, and occasionally one for
a horse, or some other pet animal, says
the Chicago Record. The workman,
whose name was Muller, had come over
from Germany to show how ills people
worked, and when the fair was over he
set up a little shop In Chicago and tried
for a while to make his industry flour
ish on American soil. But after a time
he found that the wholesale dealers per
sisted in sending across the water for
their supplies, and he grew so homesick
that he finally returned to the fatherland,
and he Is now doubtless working In some
one of the quaint little Thuringtan vil
lages. It will be remembered that he was
marvelously deft in his work. First he
blew a bulb from molten glass; then, when
It was cold he carefully broke off one side
so as to leave a shell, the edges of which
wefe| blunted by melting. He secured
the proper size of eye by having the per
son for whom It was made stand before
him as he worked. Having the shell com
plete, he bent down over a Bunsen burner
and, Just touching Us upper surface to
the flame, he worked the eye design on
the glass with little sticks of vqri-colored
glass, the points of which were melted
In the flame. The work requires a won
derfully steady hand and a true eye in
order to make the iris and the retina of
the proper color and shape. The work
man is so skilled that he can copy direct
from the person who stands before him.
—The history of witchcraft Is one of the
most amazing chapters of human folly,
says the Pittsburg Dispatch. From first
to last the number of those put to death
for witchcraft in England is put down at
no fewer than 30,000. As late as 1716 a
Mrs. Hicks and her daughter, aged 9,
were hanged at Huntingdon "for selling
their souls to the devil, and raising a
storm by pulling off their stockings and
making a lather of soap." It is remarka
ble that a belief In witchcraft was sup
ported by grave and pious men. Richard
Baxter, who wrote in 1651, founded his
opinion of witchcraft on the fact that
many persons had been trlel and put
to death for the crime. The suppose.]
familiars of witches were numerous. The
favorite form of their appearance was a
cat, and It must be owned that some cats
have so very sinister an expression, it
is little wonder that they should get
credit for being in disreputable service.
If the good folks had contented them
selves with killing them instead of the
poor old women, they might have been
forgiven. This bring us to dreams. The
dreams of Joseph and of Pharoah have
been quoted by some as conclusive that
dreams predict events. The variety of
theories concerning dreams makes it an
impossible field to enter on; but that
those who "believe in them,” suffer much
causeless and useless distress is very
sure. Take this proof: An old servant
had in childhood convinced certain peo
ple of the evil consequences I certain
to follow dreaming of cats: also, that to
dream of horses was equally fortunate
especially a white one, which always
predicted marvelous pleasure. Many years
after another old servant exclaimed on
hearing this rule: “Pleasure! happiness!
Why, dream of a. white horse, and you’re
sure to hear of a bride's death.” “Ah,"
said another, “I never heard mat: I
know it's a sure sign of a hurried jour
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doubt, in its origin, had some reference
to medical influence. Here are one or two
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who has been successively marlied to
men of different families. Cutting teeth
—The donkey’s hair, sewn up in black
silk, round the neck. Rheumatism—Car
ry a piece of brimstone in your pocket.
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