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Meeting*-.— Landrum Lodge No. 48, I'.
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Special Notices.—Do You Want a Fresh
Cigarette? Henry Solomon A Son: Spe
clal Notice to Everybody Living In My
Locality. J. H Behrens; Mount Vernon
and Hannesville Straight Whiskies. Hen
ry Solomon & Son; An Elegant Crab St< tv.
To-day, Beckmann's Cafe; The Meat. Falk
ClotMng Pomps ny; A Few Choice Pie
of Real Estate for Sale, C. H. Dorset;.
As to Bills Against British Steamship
Garlands.
Yeuterdey Was a Cold I>ay.-Arpel &
Sc haul.
Medical Simmon's Liver Regulator.
Shakers Digesting Cordial; Duffy Mn.lt
Whisky. *
Legal Notings.—As to Claims for an 1
Against John W. Tynan's Estate.
Steamship Schedules.—Ocean ate.. ..ship
Company; Baltimore Steamship Company.
Amusements. "Aunt Sally” at the
Theater. Monday. April 8.
Eaeter Is In Sight.—H. H. Levy tfc Bro.
Railroad Sehedule.—The Florida Cen
tral and -Peninsular Railroad.
Hides, Wax. Etc.—A. Ehrlich & Bro.
Excursions.— Around the Horn by the
Bteamer Gov, Safford, April 7.
To Smash All Previous Records.-.-Leo
pold Adler.
It Costs Nothing.—Falk Clothing Com
pany.
Cheap Column Advertisements Help
Wated; Emploment Wanted; For Rent;
For Sale; Lost Personal; Miscellaneous.
The postoffice authorities will find In
the city of Savannah very nearly an ideal
system of street railways for the pur
pose of distributing city mails. Parts of
the city are several times circled by belt
lines, and the whole is cut Into a checker
board by cross-town lines. It Is probable
that malls could be put on a car at tlie
postoffice and distributed over every line
In town and to the several suburbs without
trinsferMng more than once or twlse over
a few feet.
The, excessive protectionism of the New
England congressmen has deprived their
excessive jingoism of an opportunity to
howl.* That vessel flying the British flag,
which was fired on off Cape Mays! by a
Spanish warship, is anew England ow ned
craft, and ought to be under the stars
apd stripes. Because of New England
(protectionism, however, the vessel ;>■
British in the eyes of the law, and must
report the affair to tlie British admiralty.
It must put a load o-f chagrin on the jin
goes to be under obligations to their In
herited eneqfy, John Hull. Frye, of
Maine, might qccept free ships, free trade
and fres silver In preference to accepting
the protection of England.
Mrs. Paran Stevens, whose death at New
York was reported In our dispatches yes
terday, was a leader in the Four Hundred
Of New York society, and was probably
as prtroinent as a woman In that select
circle a the late- Mr. Ward McAllister
was jronjlnctjt as a man. She was. It
appears, somewhat jealous of Mr. .Mc-
Allister. for after his death she sharply
criticised some of his expressions, and
apparently made an effort to Injure his
Eeputation with faint praise. Mrs. Stevens
was very rich, having inherited several
millions well invested from her husband,
Who was a dry goods merchant. Having
fabulous wealth at her command, she
was able/ to'set a -pace that ewon some
other millionaires found It difficult to keep
up with. Mrs. Stevens said society Oould
easily dispense with the leadership of Mr.
McAllister. It remains now to be seen
-whkt socle!) - wUI aay about Mrs. Stevens.
From current Information It appears
that the white winged dove of peace has
not yet perched upon the stacked banners
of the South Carolina political factions;
and what Is more. It Is hardly In sight.
Senator Tillman, it seems, keeps tin* dove
In lgs right hand breeches pocket. Some
times he fools the spectators by permitting
it to take a short flight into the circum
ambient political atmosphere, but he al
ways has a string tied to its leg which In
pulls at the right moment. The difficulty
Is that Senator Tillman does not think
tke recent peace convention of the forty
followed the terms he made with the
Barnwell party closely enough. In short.
Senator Tillman demands to dictate the
terms, or he will "bust” the whole thing.
Unfortunately for South Carolina, what
says "goes.” He Is the master there
and his followers never think, for them
selves. Senator Tillman could probably
lead them by the nose Into any bargain
hs pleased, w ithout a word of explanation.
1I has got them all hypnotised and they
do his will like automatons. The*afore,
there will b* no peace in houlh Carolina
u atll fighting can no longer servo th*
junto, Lolled Statu *. oatoi i purpose.
There Will Split.
A prominent politician discussing In
Washington the other day the question of
the future of the Democratic party ex
pressed the opinion that there would be
two democratic candidates for President
in 1826. Wt do not believe that opinion
! is worthy of serious consideration. The
only Issue on which the democracy Is di
vided Is that of silver, but the division is
not greater now than It has been for
a number of years. It Is true that those
w ho favor the free and unlimited coinage
of silver are making a good deal of noise.
They are trying to create tjie Impression
apparently that the- silver faction Is In
control. They pursued pretty much the
same sort of tactics prior to the last na
tional democratic convention. They are
no: m*e:!ng with a great deal of success,
however.
The fact that no candidates for the
Presidential nomination are being dis
cussed is not significant of anything. It
only shown that there are not at present
any d< morratlc leader who la pushing his
claim to’ the nomination. There will be
plenty of candidates, however, before
the time for selecting delegates to the
national convention arrives.
It Is known that the President is en
deavoring to so shape political Issues as
to solidify the party and prepare it for a
successful (ontest 111 IKK. That he will
in a great measure succeed there is no
reasonable ground for doulff. It would
he the worst kind of folly for the party
to divide on the silver question or any
other. Neither of the two factions would
stand the remotest chanre for success.
A division would simply make the success
of the Republican party certain. Where
in, therefore, would be tho wisdom of
ea*h fa' -ion putting a Presidential ticket
in the field?
It will become apparent a good while
|before the national convention meets
that the sound money faction Is largely
in the majority. That being the ease, a
sound money platform; such as the pres
ent | InfTornt of the party Is, will he adopt
ed. and ii sound money man nominated for
President.
There will no doubt be a great many
silverites who will be dissatisfied and
some of them may leave the party and
Join tho populist parly, but the great
majority will stay with the Democratir
party. There are republicans, also, who
will likely join the populist*, who are
In favor of the free coinage of silver, it
Is quite certain that the platform of the
Republican party will be In favor of sound
money.
Th> next President will be a round
money ntan, and he will be elected upon
a sound money platform, unless public
sentiment In respect to silver undergoes
a radical change before the next national
election Public sentiment now is strong
ly In favor of sound monay, and It is
likely to become stronger In that direc
tion as the discussion of the money ques
tion goes on. The people will pursue the
honest course when they are fully con
vinced which the honest course Is.
Knlj n Ka<l.
A Denver, Col., dispatch says that only
a few women voted at the municipal elec
tion In that city on last Monday—that the
’Tad" of voting had erased to amuse them.
The Colorado legislature, which dissolved
by limitation Monday night, contained
three women, who were members of the
Home. They did not succeed very well,
although they are all women of much more
than the average In Intellectual ability.
They knew very little of the different
measures that came before the legislature
and didn't seem to have the knack of get
ting n practical understanding of them.
The only hills, they introduced, and in
which they took a special Interest, re
lated to moral questions, such as the age
of consent for boys and girls, a home for
incorrigible girls and kindred questions.
They had very little to do with commit
tee work and did not participate In the de
bates to any considerable extent. They
did a great deal of protesting, however,
and succeeded in causing the male mem
bers much annoyance. They protested
against smoking in the hall, against long
debater, against displays of temper In
debate and similar matters.
Tho opinion is expressed by leading men
of Colorado that It will be a long time
before another woman becomes a mem
ber of the legislature of that state. The
women, they say. are losing their Inter
est in tho ballot, and the men will never
vote for a woman as a legislative candi
date.
It Is related that all three of the wo
men who were members of the legislature
were great gum chewers, and that the
gum chewing practice was about as ob
jectionable to the men as the smoking of
the men was to the women. From the re
ports it Is evident that the "Colorado
experiment" is not a success.
Calllnet Humors.
We may expect frequsnt rumors during
the summer of cabinet changes. These ru
mors occur every summer. Lacking fresh
news matter the correspondents fall back
upon the cabinet and announce that It is
rumored that this or that mem
ber of the President's official house
hold is going to retire to pri
vate life in the immediate future, or is go
ing to be given an office more to h!s liking.
Tho cabinet officer who Is now receiving
tho attention of the correspondents is Sec
re’.ary Gresham. They say his wife wants
to return to Illnois, to be with the friends
she has there. Another reason given is
that Mr. Gresham, although his relations
with the President are extremely pleasant,
ts dissatisfied because the cabinet refuses
to sustain him In the vigorous foreign
policy he decided upon when the firing
upon tin Alllanca was brought to his at
tention. He believes. It Is said, that such
a policy would greatly Increase his chances
for a Presidential nomination.
It is to be doubled that he entertains
any thought of the Presidency. He
couldn’t get the republican nomination, he
Is t >0 n cent a convert to expert the il.-m
--oorat! • nomination and It Is doubtful !f )v
would acre9l a nomination from the pop
ul'str. It tf- pretty safe to'askume, there
fore, that he I* not figuring on a Presiden
tial nomination, and it is quite doubtful
trial fig sol. ."tnpiau* leaving the cabinet
THE MORNING NEWS: FRIDAY, APRIL 5, 1895.
Oar Milk Supply.
Two communications were published in
the Morning News yesterday relative to
the milk supply of this city which should
receive the careful consideration of the
city authorities. Both of them were based
upon statements of the health officer.
One of thena called attention to the results
of frequent analyses of milk obtained from
different parts of the city, and the other
pointed out that the amount of milk con
sumed must be much greater than the
supply of pure mtlk. The conclusion to be
drawn from these communications is that
much adulterated milk Is supplied to cus
tomers.
This question of the purity of our milk
supply ought to be Investigated at once.
It will not do to push the matter aside
on the plea that It is too much of a bother
to Investigate It. It should receive imnte
dlale attention. If Impure or adulterated
milk is being sold the fact should be
made known al once, and steps taken to
correct the evil. The authorities should
not permit the health of the people to be
imperilled nor allow them to be defrauded.
We do not know, of course, that either
of these things Is being done, but the
publications referred to Justify a suspi
cion that there Is something wrong with
our milk supply. What is needed ts an
instrument, such as is in use in nearly
all of {he larger cities of the north, for test
ing the mill: supplied to the people. That
instntmefit-show s whether or not the milk
is adulterated with water and to what ex
tent It Is adulterated. It would not cost
tho city a great deal do have the milk sold
In this market tested, while the benofUs
which would accrue to the public might le
very great. Children especially, are large
cohsttmers of milk and the protection of
tholrvhealth is a matter of the greatest
consideration. The warm season Is close
at hand and care should be taken that their
food is in every repect wholesome.
A Good Scheme to l-laronragp.
To Mayor Pin of Detroit belongs
the Idea of permitting the poor people of
cities I o cultivate the vacant lots In veg
etables. The cultivation does not hurt
the lots and the benefits arising to those
to whom the privilege ts granted are con
siderable. The suro-ss of the scheme In
Detroit has led other rifles, notably New
York, Toledo, St. Louis, Buffalo, Duluth
and Pittsburg to adopt It.
Tills Is what -was done In Detroit: A
commute* was appointed to solicit tire
owners of lots to permit their lots to be
cultivated by poor persons selected by the
committee. lans aggregating 430 acres
were donated ftjr that purpose.
The committee then gave notice
through the public prints to poor
families to apply for tho lots.
About 3,000 applications were received.
Of course ro large a number could not be
accommodated, but It was determined to
accommodate as many as possible. The
land wan plowed and harrowed and staked
off In quarter and liair acre lots at the
expense of (he city, and 915 families were
given a plot each. In some Instances the
city provided the seed.
The cost to the city was a Utile less than
s3,ooo—about $3.40 a plot. About four-fifths
of those who took plots proved to be very
much In earnest and thrifty. They kept
the crops they planted well cultivated, and
the yield would have been a handsome
return for their labor had It not been
for a severe drouth. As It was, however,
the money value of the stuff raised was
about $14,000. Enough potatoes were grown
to give each family more than fifteen
bushels.
This year tho results are expected to he
more satisfactory, but the scheme Is val
uable in more respects than one. For
instance, It has the effect of drawing the
attention of poor people In the elties to
the desirableness of life In the country,
and where It Is tried a good many poor
people will likely decide to give up the
struggle for existence In town and seek
homes in the country.
There are people In this city who, If
they were so disposed, could make a far
better living In raising vegetables and
other crops in this or other near-by coun
ties, and they would find a life of that
kind much more desirable.
The pastor who leaves a small town or
city to take a pulpit In a larger city where
tho salary Is greater frequently makes the
explanation to his congregation that he
feels he is acting under the special call of
the Lord to work In a snore extended vine
yard. Such preachers are probably sin
cere In what they say. At the same time
the announcement of the Rev. Mr. Squires
of Jamestown, N. Y., that he was going to
Rochester, affords an example of thorough
sincerity that may well be noted. He
frankly said a special call had nothing to
do with the matter, but a bigger salary
had a -good deal to do with it. “How
ever.” said he, "you will credit me with
some candor In trusting that I may find
the Lord even in Roehest'er and do some
measure of his work there as well as
here."
The possibilities are that the grain
growers of the north-west may be able
this season to reduce the production near
er to a parity with the demand, as the
southern cotton planters are trying to
do, and thus secure better prices. The
Railway Gazette finds that the receipts
at principal lake and river ports last year
were 17.5 per cent, less than In 1893, and
that the receipts at the seven principal
Atlantic and Gulf ports were 26.9 per
cent. less. Comparative figures since the
end of '93 show that the movement de
creased from lack of stocks In hand.
The Indications are. further, that the
acreage will be decreased.
Two ardent woman's rights advocates
are protesting against the trial of a negro
woman In Chicago for the murder of u
husband by a Jury of white men. The
women argue that the eonstltution guar
antees the right to tho defendant in crim
inal cases to trial hy a Jury of the defen
dant's peers. The Idea. is. therefore, that
the case should be tried before a Jury of
negro women.
—William Watson, the English poet.
Is In luck. He has tie-n gt-ant -d a pen
sion of tU’i a year by Rosclxry'it gov
ernment. The Gladstone regime hi ! al
ready provided him witn a pension of
$!,) a >esr. Doe* poetry pay?
PEHSO* U*.
—Ways the Pall Mall Gazette: “An In
cipient of the queen’s Journey tc the south
deserves to be recorded. At To*km Ad
miral Gervals was so carried away by hirf
feeling* that. In vtolat>n of all royal eti
quette, he seized her majesty * hand and
kissed It with fervor, an act which was
taken In very good part by our kind
hearted sovereign.”
-—Dr. Urlburu now a- president of
the Argentine Hf public, wa> boro about
sixty years ago; 14® wa* .elected a na
tional deputy and feecam# president of
the chamber In 1865; he was a minister
in the cabinet of D. Marcos Paz during
Gen. Mitre's administration; afterward he
was Argentine minister successively in
Bolivia, Peru and Chile, and In 1892 was
elected vice president of the republic.
—Sir Julian Pauncefote and Mr. Bax-
Ironsldes will be the only persons left
of the present personnel of the British
embassy, as all the others have been
ordered away. The cloud of their de
parture for Washington society will have
l ver lining In the arrival of the Earl
of VVestmeath, and besides Mr. Grant
Duff the embassy force will be aug
rmnted by Capt. Lewis Wintz. R. N. t
whose appointment is Just announced.
~The student Koyama. who. shot Li
Hung Chang, is not known personally to
the Japanese In this city, says the New
York World, but they say that the name
is quite a common one in Japan, and that
certain branches o(, tjie family are promi
nent there. They unanimously denounce
•his attempt on the life of the Chinese
peace envoy, and express the hope that hr
will meet with fitting punishment. They
doubt the assertion that he is a highly
educated youth.
—Maurice -lokai. the Hungarian novel
ist, has refuse/J the presidency of the
Hungarian branch of vhc Peace Boriety.
He says: **l will deceLe no one. 1 am
prepared, if the powers of Europe agree,
to disarm, to pay three times the taxes I
have paid up to the present. I will de
vote all my faculties to the great cause.
Hut, if my fatherland, my freedom, my
nation, my king, are attacked by anyone,
then I know no theories. I n*lU take my
gray head where it must fall in the noble
cause.”
—The Marquis of Queensberry is being
tried as an ordinary citizen before i
jury for his alleged libel of Oscar Wilde.
Were the charge tbai of felony, instead
of misdemeanor, the or-Mnery courts
would have no jurisdiction over him, and
his trial would take place in the House
of Lords. The only peculiar privilege
which the marquis will enjoy if he chooses
to exercise It, will be the right to wea;
Ells hat in court, a favor denied to all
commoners, under the penalty of being
imprisoned for contempt.
Worth was not Europe's first distin
guished man-mlljlner, as has brn sup
posed. In the reign of Louis XV a Ba
varian named Rohmborgh became the
fashion in Paris as a mnk-er of ladies'
Eiabits. He gained the reputation of be
ing skillful in hiding little deformities in
the figure, and Ejis vogue was Immense.
When he died, at the untimely age of 40,
he left a fortune of S2r*®.fsm>, a vast sum
for a tradesman to accumulate in those
days. In the First omp'ro Leroy dressed
all the princesses of tfv* imperial court.
BHIGHT HITS.
—Officer McGobb— I found dis bum,
along wit* a lot of others, rushin' t'e can.
Dismal Dawson— I must pro
test. I admit that. I wa- gently propeliin'
the festive can. but I was doin' it in a
quiet and leisurely ‘manner, as befits a
gentleman, see? DO I look like a man
that would ruh anything?—lndianapolis
.Journal.
—Gus, while not prec3|fe|y a coward, is
averse to getting Into trouble if ; he car*
avoid it. Not long ago a big stout man
kicked Gus* dog qff tiir Jdewalk on Har
lem avenue. “Vou eouldn rdpive done that
last week,” said Gus defiantly, v
“Why couldn't I have kick°d the dog last
week?”
“Because I only got him yesterday.”—
Texas Siftings.
—Thomas Jefferson—Look heah, I un
derstan' dat you tiik advantage ob my ab
sence from town, an’ called on Mt3s Ma
tilda Snowball last night, *uh.
George Washington Sm'th (doggedly)—
Yo’ Is mistaken, 3Sh. I c ;hed on her ‘sis
tnh-
Thomas Jeff *rsop—Well. t<aEi. dat makes
no difference. Yo’ keep away. T’se got tny
eye on bof ob dem gals.—Brooklyn Life.
—ln the Prayer* Meeting,—Mrs. Smith
(tolling her experience): T would n nor
have been converted if my lit tie boy. John
ny. had not fallen into a well. When l
Uoerd him go kefehug I told the Lord
if lie, was saved f would jo;n the chprcu.
The neighbors did save him, and here 1
am.
Presiding Deacon: Good! We will now
sing that favorite old hymn, "And they
lifted him from the mire and the clav.—
New York Tribune. ,
—An interminably long performance of
Monte Cristo was once being given at the
Lyceum theater, with Charle* Feehter tn
the character of the hero. When, at a
quarter to one in the morning, the cur
tain rose for the last act, Feehter was
discovered silting in a contemplative at
titude; he neither moved nor spoke. At
that moment, a clear, sgd voice in the gal
lery exclaimed: 'T hope we are not keep
ing you up, sir!” The effect may be
imagined.—Household Words.
—Pat’s Way of Figuring.—Gentleman—
I say,’ Pat, how far is It to Berry's Cor
ners?
Pat -Faith, sor, after yz go a bit further
yez come to Ihe cross road, and if yez
take the turn to the left It's a moile, and
If yez take the right it’s two moilcs; but
divtl a bit of difference is It which turn
yez take. If yez miss the short way, yez
’ll take the other, and as a miss is as
good as a moile, the divtl knows that
makes it aven.—Harper’s Drawer.
—An old admiral well known for his
power of exaggeration, whs describing a
voyage at supper one night.
“While cruising in the Pacific,” he said,
we passed an island which was positively
red with lobsters.”
"But." said one of the guests, smiling
incredulously, "lobsters are not red until
boiled.”
“Of course not,” replied the undaunted
admiral: "but this was a volcanic island
with boiling springs I"—Pearson’s Weekly.
( l RIIENT C 03131 ENT.
The Kind of City Snvnnanli lx.
From Macon (Gd.) Nows (Dem.).
Savannah proposes to make a grander
success than ever of ht r May week cele
bration this year. There Is more busi
ness and less blow übout Savannah than
any city In Georglq.
Cleveland's CUlcntyo Invitation.
From the Hartford (Conn.) Times (Dem.).
We think President Cleveland can well
afford to accept that Chicago invitation,
which, as we understamldt. Is to the hard
est kind of a hard-money banquet. The
suggestion that he ought to be timid about
It. because all democrats are not of the
same mind In regard to gold and silver,
doesn't strike us as very complimentary
to the President.
311 veil Politic* in Election*.
From the Boston Herald (Ind.).
Philadelphia inaugurated her new mayor
yesterday, and Chicago elects anew city
government throughout to-day. The
dates of the municipal elections in these
cities appear to have been tixed with a
view to separating them as far as possible
from the stale and national elections, but
it Is to be observed that the tight In both
elties has been made on national issues,
just the same as If these eleettons had
come on the first Tuesday In November.
Municipal eleetlonsran non-partisan lines
are not so numerous nowudays as they
deserve to be.
3lcKinle's Southern Tour.
Memphis Commercial-Appeal (Dem.).
Gov. McKinley says he likes the people
of the south, and there Is no reason to
doubt bis sincerity, because they gave him
a cordial weleonn and showed him every
courtesy luring his stay among them, but
we violate no confidence when we say that
h- likes their vote# tietter. and has hi* eyes
fastened on them yearningly. The south
ern people, however, have a way of treat
ing distinguished republican statesmen
in royal style and raising their hopes to
the skies, u:ui lluui on election day voting
solidly for a hide-hound democrat. Gov.
McKinley will discover in 1696 that the
southern |. -ople never allow Heir hospi
tality to interfere with their jpoUtles.
Completely Identified.
“Chicago has any number of lawyers of
as great forensic and legal ability as Em
ory Storrs, but I know of none who pos
sess those qualities which ma le that
man's personality of ' Ogstant and ever
recurring interest to tiv general public,”
says J. Q. Hamilton ofclinton, to a Chi
cago Times writer. “Scarcely a case in
which Storrs was interested but he made
that personality felt in some way or other
—now by the profound grasp of the fine
points involved, again by some splendid
forensic effort which swept away all tie
fore It, and won his client's case; or still
again, by some bright sally of his playful
wit, which convulsed the eourt and specta
tors and furnished the legal lights of the
town food for gossip and Tpn for the next
fortnight. Storrs was a ***ritable Jekyll
and Hyde in his manner of dealing with
witnesses, and it was a question which
was the worse of the two-*hi* Chester
tt*ddian manner, conceived in a spirit cf
irony, or his blunt questioning and scath
ing sarcasm when he thought the witness
was seeking to evade the point.
“I remember a queor instance of his
manner Chesteriieldian. It was in some
case involving a fire loss, and Capt. Ben
B. Bullwinkle, the famoirs t hief of the fire
insurance patrol, was subpoenaed as a
witness. Bullwlnkle’s middle name, 1 be
lieve was Bahblngton—at least, it seems
to me now it was something like that,
and it will serve the purpose here, at any
rate.
“ 'What is your name?’ asked Mr.
Storrs, as Bullwinkle took the witness
stand and he made a salaam fit for a
grand vizier.
“'Ben BullwhikJe.- * *
“ ‘Ah! Ben Bullwinkle! And, Mr. Ben
Bullwinkle, is Ben Bullwinkle your full
name?' , .
“ ‘Benjamin Bullwinkle.'.., .
“‘Ah! Benjamin Bullwinkle! And, Mr.
Benjamin B. Bullwinkle, Is Benjamin
Bullwinkle your full nah*e?‘
“ ‘Benjamin B. Bullwinkle.'
“'Ah! Benjamin B. Bullwinkle! And,
Mr. Benjamin B. BuMwinkle, is Benjamin
B. Bullwinkle ymir lull name?’
“ ‘Benjamin Babbfngton Bullwinkle.’
“'Ah! h—m! ah! Benjamin BabMngtan
Bullwinkle! Ah, Mr. Benjamin Babbing
ton Bullwinkle, I notice you wear a uni
form. is it the insignia of office—does it
denote your rank in some peculiar calling
which gives you a title?’
“ ‘Captain—captain of the fire patrol.’
“ ‘Ah! Capt. Benjamin Babbington
Bullwinkle! Well, Capt. Benjamin Bab
blnglon Bullwinkle—tliat is ali!”
“And Emory Storrs bowed the bewil
dered hero of a thousand conflagrations
out of the witness chair as a prince might
have done it, and left him to wonder, if
he were ro soon be done for, what in the
world he was begun for!"
A Conifd) of Error*.
Mrs. B. was summoned to the door one
morning by an old clothes man. suys the
Detroit Free Fres.-, but she resolutely
told him that she had nothing lor h:m\
until he took out an old chamois skin
purse and op>ening it, said:
“Look, lady, 1 gif you gold for any old
tings what you got to sell.”
This was too much temptation, and soon
she had the contents of her wardrobe
spread out for h's inspection. Her heart
misgave her, though, for tier husband
had positively forbidden her to sell any
of her old clothes. She only hoped he
would never find out. and with the money
she could buy such fine new ones.
'J here was one gown that she did not
hesitate to part with. It was a tlcwcred
tea gown, with a big bow at th* 1 side,
and long sarh ends of gorgeous ribbon,
ami Mr. B. particularly liked that dress,
because she had served afternoon tea in
It for him often during their engagement.
However, the man offered a good price
for it and it went with the rest.
When Mr. B. came home In the even
ing his wife had a guilty look, as if some
thing lay on her conscienee. But s-ho as
cribed it to a headache, and the old clothes
deal remained a profound secret,
A week or two later Mrs. B. asked her
husband to do the marketing. S*hr usu
ally attended to L>.H herself, but was go
ing to have company and could not spare
the time.
Mr. B. accordingly took the market
basket and went from stuit to stall pur
chasing supplies, when suddenly he saw
his wife standing near him haggling over
some vegetables.
“Great Scott!” he said, under his
breath, “and In that tea gov/n too. I
wonder what next .”'
He stepped up to her and gave her a
vigorous rap on the back.
The next moment he saw moons and
stars. Whack, whack, whack, came the
blows from a cast-iron fist, and a shrill
voice screamed in his ear:
“You impudent wretch, I’ll teach you
to know a lady when you sec one. Take
that, and that, and that.”
He escaped with his life and hurried
home for repairs. The cat was out of
the bag, and it hrtd scratched him se
verely, but never, never again will Mrs.
B. sell any of her obi clothes.
It VII Depend*.
“I fre,” said the novice in politics, ac
cording to tlie Ch J ca*g> Host, “that some
very serious charges are made.
some of our candidates.”
“Nonsense,” replied the old-timer. ‘‘lt’s
all talk, and can t do a bit of harm. What
are the charges?”
“Weil, they say that one of the men on
the ticket was a co-respondent in a South
Dakota divorce case.”
“What of It?” exclaimed the old-timer.
“What has a man’s private affairs to
do with liis public life? The voters have
too much sense to pay any attention to
such things.”
“Then they say that another one
cheated his partner in the saloon business
and afterward became a fence for
thieves.”
“Hurely a personal matter and anc!nt
history besides. There is undoubtedly a
good explanation of it all that will be given
at the proper time.”
”*SUII another is accused of being a
friend of the trusts and an enemy of the
laboring man.”
“Absurd.”
“They 4eem to have proof that six
years ago ”
“Too lar back. There’s nothing to hurt
the boys in any of the charges.”
“But wait a minute,” exclaimed the
novice looking at tEve paper again. “These
charges aren t against our men at all;
they’re against the candidates on the
other side.”
•Oho!” cr'ed the old-timer. "Against
the others, eh?"
"That's what they are.”
"Well they'll Ull the ticket, sure! They
can t help It! No self-respecting citizen
can afford to vote for such meii.”
lion n Hoff IVn Cored.
The Pittsburg Dispatch tells how a
"railroad hog” was punished the other
dav. He had piled the space next to him
In a ear scat with his bundles, and when
a gentleman asked him if any one was to
occupy it. he replied that the bundles
belonged to a man who was temporarily
in the smoking Car. "All right.” raid
the gentleman, "I will sit in the seat
t’ll he comes.” and he proceeded to re
move the bundles. Pretty soon the owner
of the bundles arrived at his destination,
and he started to gather up Ills efforts.
But the gentleman at once put a veto
on this, with the remark: "You can’t take
these bundles; you yourself said they be
longed to a man in the smoker.” The
fellow got mad and abusive, but tha gen
tleman was inexorable. Finally the con
ductor was called in, who delivered his
dictum as follows: “If the bundles are
not claimed by any one on the train,
then, by coming around to the depot to
morrow and Identifying them satisfac
torily we will give them to you." The
man’s face was as red as fire with rage,
and he shook like gelatine, but be could
do nothing. So, amid the laughter of the
passengers, he rushed out of the car to
jump off just ns the train was pulling
out from the station. And he raeekly
eame around to the depot for his bundles
the next day, but swore revenge upon the
man who played such a practical joke
upon him.
lu April.
From the Yonkers Gazette.
I had not heard the bluebirds sing
Nor hail I hoard the crocus croak:
But yet, I know full well ’twas spring
The Instant that I spoke.
For the sunbeams sent me greeting.
And all was warmth and light.
And the man next door was beating
A rug with all his might.
I have not wandered In the wood,
Nor have I s-am the violets blow;
Hut that spring’s In th* iwugliboihood
I |>osUlvely know.
For the a'r ts mild and haxy,
And filled wttl odors sweet.
And 1 feel much too lazy
To go down Bfiiirs and cat.
ITEMS OF lIfYEREST.
—There Is good news this morning for
lle-a-beds, says the St. James Gazette.
The eany riser has long had a bad reputa
tion. As long ago as the longest word In
Liddell and Scott, (as every school boy will
remember), early rising was associated
with base Informing, sad litigious plaguey
characters. But now physiology has come
to the support of prejudice. “Physiology.”
says the British Medical Journal, "so far
as It has anything to say on the subject
at all. is all against the early rising theory.
Physiological experiment appears to show
that a man does not work best and fast
est In the early morning hours, but, on
the contrary, about midday. The desire
to rise early, except In those trained from
youth to outdoor pursuits, ts commonly
a sign not of strength of character and
vigor of body, but of advancing age ’’
Other things being equal, late hours in
the morning are better than early. But
has physiology nothing to say against
late hours at night?”
—The thieves of Gotham have been
working anew field recently, for it seems
that pocket picking In churches during
the services is not an Uncommon occur
rence. Says the New York Advertiser.
Hymn books and prayer books are also
frequently stolen.' St. Bartholomew's
church has suffered so severely from tivs
depredations of these thieves that the
w-ardens have been compelled to have
the name of the church stamped on the
cover of each book. The difficulties of
detecting these thieves are great. They
are usually welt dressed, and generally of
such quiet and religious demeanor that
sextons, even If they have doubts as to
their character, deem It too risky a step
to stop them with an accusation of theft.
The other day two ladies living on Fifth
avenue had their purges stolen during
service at St. Thomas' Episcopal church.
They sat in a rear pew and were alone in
that part of the church until a woman
came in and sat immediately behind them.
She appeared to be deeply absorbed in
her meditations, and invariably kneeled
when the ladles In front of her kneeled.
Upon the cushioned seat over which the
woman bowed her head lay the muffs
of the two ladles, each of which con
tained a pocketbook. When the ladies
discovered that their purses had been
stolen they Instinctively turned to the de
vout woman who sat behind them, but
she had disappeared.
—The rice paper tree, one of the most
Interesting of the flora of China, has re
cently been successfully experimented
with In Florida, where it now flourishes,
with other subtropical and Oriental spe
cies of trees and shrubs, says the St.
lajuis Republic. When first transplanted
in American soil the experimenters ex
pressed doubts of Its hardiness, fearing
that it would be unable to stand the win
ters. All these fears have vanished, how
ever, and It ts now th" universal opin
ion that It is as well adapted to the cli
mate of this country as to that of tlie
famed Flowery Kingdom. It ts a smnkl
tree, growing to a hight of less than fif
teen feet, with a trunk or st"m from three
to five inches in diameter. Us canes,
which vary in color according to season,
ere large, soft and downy. The celebrated
rice paper, the product of tilts queer
tree, is formed of thin slices of the pith,
which I* taken from the body of the tree
In beautiful cylinders several inches in
length. The Chinese workmen apply the
blade of a sharp, straight knife to these
cylinders, and, turning them round either
by rude machinery or by hand, dexterous
ly pare the pith from the circumference
to center. This operation makes a roll of
extra tine paper, the scroll being of equal
thickness throughout. After a cylinder
has thus been pared it ts unrolled and
weights are placed upon It until the sur
face Is rendered thoroughly uniformly
smooth throughout Its entire length. It
is altogether probable that If rice paper,
making becomes an industry In the United
States these primitive modes will all be
done away with. ’
--Having scaled the heavens at the
last exhibition, it Is now proposed in Paris
to furnish, as the chief attraction in
1,900, facilities for descending into Ihe
depths of the. earth, says a New York
Btin cable. M. Grousset, member of the
Chamber of Deputies for Paris, has sub
mitted a plan for testing the point wheth
er there ts a central tire beneath the
earth’s crust. Heifinds that in mines Ihe
temperature dowp to a certain depth
Is practically the average temperature
above the ground. Descending beyond that
point the thermometer rises about m de
grees In every hundred feet. Ho desires
to test the thermal law nt a much greater
depth than has yet been reached. Should
It be found to remain constant, the boil
ing point would be reached about 9.000
feel below the surface, and the 066 de
grees point, at which nearly all bodies
are in a state of fusion, would be some
twelve miles down. Of course, M. Grous
set would not take Parisians down to the
point of fusion, but only until tropical
heat is reached. After that he would con
tinue his experiments by borings. Tho
plan of It. (irouaset’s Inferno comprises
a series of vertical shafts each 600 feet
long and terminating In a vast subter
ranean gallery. Each shaft would have
a couple of passenger elevators. The
lowest circle would be at a depth Of
about 4,000 feet. Each gallery would be
fitted in keeping with its special tempt
ature. There would be electric lights
throughout and perfect ventiHatton would
be secured. The cost of the undertaking
is estimated at $2,500,000, assuming the
lowest gallery depth at 4,500 feet. Asa
mere spectacle M. Grousset ts confident
that the venture would pay, but he hopes
to strike upon a fresh source of light,
heat, and force.
—The mot interesting person in the
employ of the treasury at Washington
is Mrs. Brown, who knows more about
burned money than any other individ
ual living. It Is marvelous to see her
take, a handful of charred fragments
of bank notes and. pasting them piece
by piece upon a sheet of paper, trans
form them into recognizable shape, so
that the loser may he reimbursed by
Uncle Sam. Only the other day, say's
the Fhiladelphia Times, an old woman
named Mre. Grotli died in Rockford. 111.,
leaving all her property to her niece,
Lizzie. For some reason, perhaps because
the death was from a contagious dis
ease, the clothing was burned. After the
pious task had been accomplished it oc
curred to Lizzie that perhaps there might
have been some money in the pockets.
So she searched among the ashes, and
sure enough she found a few bits of what
had been greenbacks. She sent them to
the redemption division, and they were
identified as amounting to $25. A few
weeks ago the Farmers and Mechanics’
Bank at Mansfield, 111., was entered bv
burglars. They destroyed the safe with
dynamite. Incidentally blowing several
packages of notes into small bits, which
were forwarded to the treasury at Wash
ington for redemption. Mrs. Brown had
a quantity of stuff when seen in a big
envelope, and it looked as though the
job of putting the pieces together would
be no small one. This particular kind of
work, however, has become familiar, ow
ing to the growing popularity of dyna
mite among robbers. Mrs. Brown is equal
ly well acquainted with the w-ork of
the puppy dog, which gets a chew of the
family wad; also with the results accom
plished by the omnivorous goat and the al
most equally indiscriminate babv. A half
digested roll of bills may be recovered
from the stomach of a goat, as has been
done In more than one Instance, by the
simple process of killing the beast, but
the infant affords a mol e serious prob
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