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INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Meetings —Savannah Yacht Club: Fort
A. Georgia Division. Travelers’ Protect
ive Association.
Special Notices.—Do Your Customers
Hit. the Pipe? Henry Solomon ft Son;
Flelshmann s Perfection Gin, C. H. Mon
eees; An Electric Motor and Four Fans
for Sale. Henry Solomon ft Son; Our
Claims. Fajk Clothing Company; Dressed
Chickens, Est. 8. W. Rranch; Beckmann ;■
Cafe; Listen. W. G. Cooper; Fancy Fruit,
Mutual Co-Operative Association.
The Most Stupendous Sale—Leopold Ad
ler.
Straw- Hats—Falk Clothing Company.
Reasons Why—B. H. Levy & Bro.
Amonk the Many Low-l’riced Things.—
Appel ft Sch.aul.
Steamship Schedules. American anil
Red Star Lines; Ocean Steamship Com
pany.
To-day and All Next Week.—Appel &
Sc haul.
Coldwell’s Imeprial Lawn Settee.—Llnd
eay ft Morgan.
Excursions.—Look Out for Warsaw Isl
and, Sunday. April 7.
A Nice Place to Eat.—The Nickel Plato
Restaurant.
What Will She Sny?-B. H. Levy ft
Bro.
Medical.—Munyon’s Remedies.
Cheap Column Advertisements Help
Wanted, Employment Wanted, For Ron’
For Bale. Lost, Personal, Miscellaneous.
There Is one gratifying ihought In con
nection with Don Cameron’s presidential
boom. If he were to got In, Matt Quay
would never direct the government’s pol
icy or dispense Its patronage.
The Tennessee House of Representatives
hit the telephone monopoly a clip by pass
ing a bill limiting the rental of telephones
to J3 month. However, the Senate Is
yet to be heard from. For some reason
monopolies generally develop considera
ble strength in senates.
The Spanish soldiers have only their
government to blame if they find
Havana and other Cuban towns to be
hotbeds of yellow fever. There are In
the West Indies English, French. Danish,
and Dutch possessions, as well as Span
ish. Each government except the Spanish
has seen to It that Its dependencies took
proper precautions against the propaga.-
tlon and spread of the disease. In Cuba,
sanitary measures have been neglected,
with the result that year after year Ha
vana is a death hole against which half
the world Is quarantined.
Secretary of Agriculture Morton re
ceives numerous letters from farmers in
the northwest asking for advice as 'to
where homeseekers may tlnd desirable
farming lands and pleasant surroundings.
His almost Invariable reply is, “Go south."
Several families from Wisconsin have
recently settled In Virginia upon his ad
vice. It Is said the secretary recently
scientifically Examined the soil of a num
ber of southern farms that had been
abandoned because they were “worn out,"
and found the farms needed only proper
cultivation to produce abundant crops.
There is a railroad entering Philadelphia
which seems to have brought the grading
of religion In the mafter of selling tickets
at reduced rates, to a state of scientific
perfection. Ministers of the Gospel, reg
ular ordained, ride at half price. A theo
logical student, even though licensed to
preach, must pay full fare. A sister of
charity Is entitled to the reduced rate, but
a nun engaged In teaching cannot get
the 50 per cent off. Officers of the Salva
tion Army can take rides at just half the
rate that high privates in the same army
must pay. Missionaries get the reduced
rate, but Mormon elders are barred, as
are also the officers and members ef
the King's Daughters, King's Sons, V. M.
C. A. and W. Cf. T. U.
It is remarkable how rumors of great
newspaper deals follow the line of Gov.
McKinley’s meteoric transit. When his
party was in the south there was talk
of the establishment in this section of
one or more republican dailies to boom
MeKlnleylsm, and now that the party
has visited New York, the rumors involve
a great metropolitan newspaper deal.
Mr. Kohlsaat of Chicago Is understood to
be the man who will put up the millions
for the newspapers. It Is alleged that MS
Kohlsaat has secured an option on the
New York Times, after huvlng failed to
buy the Tribune. The Times is one of the
most consistent democratic papers In the
country, and Is In close touch with the
business community of New York The
Times Is owned and edited by high-minded
men. hence the rumor of their selling out
to the enemy may be taken with a grata
Of salt.
A Southern Man In IMMI.
We like Senator HUl'a response to the
article In the Washington Post, entitled
“A Southern democrat for 1896,” much bet
ter than the Post's article. The Post's
article creates the impression that the
south should demand the nomination of a
southern man by the democracy in 1896
whether it would be advisable to nominate
a southern man or not. The position Sen
ator Hill tekes is that In making a nom
ination no <onvidfration should be given
to the Question of the section in which a
candidate resides. The nomination should
go to that leader of the party who is be
lieved to be best qualified for the Pres
idency. and who is. in every respect, the
if.ost available. Is that leader a southern
man? If so, he should be nominated. Is
he a northern man? Then let him be the
standard hearer in 1896.
The south would of course he gratified
If the democracy's choice in 1896 should be
a southern man. The south, however,
would not ask for the nomination of a
southern man simnly because he was a
southern man or because she is almost
solidly democratic. All that she wants is.
that in making a nomination the ques
tion of section shall not be raised, and
that in considering the availability of can
didates southern men shall stand upon ex
actly the same plane as northern men.
The south has no favors to ask. She
stands upon her record and her merits.
If among her sons there Is on who has the
qualifications for the high office of Presi
dent and the confidence, admiration and
respect of the people to a greater extent
than democratic traders in other parts of
the country he should have the noraina
tlon. To nominate a southern man chiefly
because he is a southern man would be a
great mistake.
While It is true that the Democratic
party depends upon the south to win its
victories, it is not true, as the Post states,
that three-fourths of its strength is in trie
south. The south east only about one-third
of tiie votes that President Cleveland re
ceived. and only a few more than half of
the electoral votes that were cast for
him. Tim Democratic party therefore
would have to forever remain a minority
party If It placed all of its dependence
upon the south.
Th rt south neither arks nor experts any
thing more than a fair contest in which
there shall bd no sectional jealousies, pre
judices and animosities. With the result
of a contest of that kind she will be satis
fied.
Hotter rnlfng; tlie Remedy.
The Marine Journal publishes a list of
vessels on which cotton fires have oc
curred the present season. There are
forty-five in the list, and the loss caused
by the fires Is estimated to be about $1,000,-
000. The loss would have been much
greater wore it not for the fact that nearly
all eotton Is transported In iron steamers.
Hut is there a valid excuse for such a
large number of fires on cotton laden
ships? We do not believe there Is. A
lire in Indian or Kgyptian cotton is a
very unusual occurrence. Why then should
fire occur in American cotton so fre
quently? Is it not because of the careless
way in which American cotton is com
pressed and baled?
Indian and Egyptian cotton is so com
pletely covered and tightly baled that it
is about as difficult to set a bale of it on
fire as it is to fire a log of wood. But a bale
of American cotton, loosely baled and rag
ged, is pretty nearly as tender to the touch
of fire as tinder. If a spark drops on R
a fire is started, which breaks into a blaze
at once, or smoulders for days, and is not
discovered perhaps until the vessel on
which it is stowed has started on her voy
age.
The convention that was held in Now
Orleans recently pointed out to the cotton
farmers that it would be greatly to their
advantage if they would make a uniform
bale and thoroughly cover it. They would
get a bitter price for their cotton if they
would do this. But they will not do it un
less some means are adopted to call their
.attention in .an emphatic way to the fact
that it is to their interest to do it. The
New Orleans convention seems to have
been satisfied to let the matter drop after
it adopted a few resolutions. It should
have taken steps of some sort to bring
about the reform that is so greatly needed,
and which would be so helpful to all inter
ested in the handling of eotton.
A Specimen Stlvertte.
Wo do not know whether Senator Stew
art cf Nevada owns silver mines or not.
The understanding Is that the greater part
of his property is in silver mines. If that is
the ca.io his zeul in behalf of the free
coinage of sliver is easily understood.
But Senator Stewart ought not to forget
that there are records, and that there are
men who have long memories. He Is mak
ing himself conspicuous by denouncing
those who are responsible for what he calls
tha "crime of 1873”—the demonetization of
silver. In a recent letter to ex-Congross
man Hendrix of Brooklyn, commenting on
a speech the latter had made at a recent
banquet in that city, he said: "If your
language had been employed in 1573 there
would have been no battle of the stan
dards.” He then condemns those who are
responsible for the “crime of 1873." He
keeps In the background the fact that he
was a metnlier of the congress that passed
the act of 1873. and assented to that act, and
he voted for the same bill in 1871. In his
estimation the act was not a crime then.
It was regarded as a very wise measure
by all sensible mpn. It Is only since silver
has become so depreciated that the act of
1873 has become a crime In the estimation
of Senator Stewart and other silverites.
The German emperor’s newly formed
admiration for Prince Bismarck Is not,
it seems, so intense as some people
thought. It was announced some days
ago that the new first-class armor-clad
warship th< n about to be launched at
Kiel would be given the Iron Chancellor's
name. But when the launching came off
the emperor concluded he would do him
relf a little honor, so he christened the
ship Aeglr, nominally In honor of an old
Norse god who used to career up and
down the North sea. but really, It is
suspected, in compliment to liia now
famous poem, "An Ode to Aeglr.”
THE MORNING NEWS: SATURDAY, APRIL C. 18SI5.
(iforffis’H Fruit Section.
W agree with Prof. J. L Budd of the
agricultural college of lowa, that the wire
grass counties of Georgia are remarkably
well adapted to the growing of fruits and
vegetables, and that these counties are
destined to become famous for their or
chards, vineyards and melon patches, but
we do not agree with him in what he says
at>out Florida.
In his opinion orange growing in Florida
has received a wt back from which it will
never recover, for the reason, he says, that
the state is becoming more and more liable
to freezes, owing to the cutting down of
the pine forests in Alabama and Georgia.
A little inquiry would have revealed to
him that such weather as was experienced
in this part of the south last winter does
not come more than once in a half century,
and that the cutting down of the pine for
ests has nothing to do with it. Just such a
freeze as destroyed the orange groves last
winter destroyed them in 1835. The pine
forests had not be°n disturbed at that time.
And since that time many cold waves that
did more or less damage have swept over
the state. The freezes of 1535 and 1895,
however, are the ones that ruined orange
trees, and in those years the weather was
exceptionally cold throughout this country
and Europe. There is, therefore, nothing
upon which to base an opinion that the
removal of the pine forests had anything
to do with the freeze of last winter. The
freeze would have occurred no doubt had
not.'a pine tree in Georgia or Alabama been
cut down since the famous freeze of 1835.
While it is true that a. freeze may occur
again next winter, there is more reason to
think there will not b? another d'sastrous
freeze in the next fifty years than that
the state is more liable to freezes now than
it has bean at any time during the last hun
dred years.
Within three, or at most five years. w
expect to see as many oranges produced in
Florida as there has been at ary previous
time in her history. The orange growers
feel their loss keenly of course, but they
are not disheartened. They have faith in
Florida as an orange producing state, and
they are showing their faith by chopping
the dead wood out of their groves and in
other respects giving them the kind of
treatment their present condition demands.
Wliat Prof. Budd says of the fruit pos
sibilities of the w ire grass section of Geor
gia should be widely published. It is un
doubtedly a favored section, and we shall
not be surprised if it becomes the garden
spot of Georgia.
A Detective on Falsehood.
It Is probably the ambition of seven out
of every ten American boys, before they
have grown out of knickerbockers, to be a
detective. The fame of “Old Sleuth” and
other imaginary heroes of the yellow
hacked novels arouses in the youthful
breasts an enthusiastic desire to emu
late them. The lightning-like disguises,
brav*£ rescues of beautiful girls, and thrill
ing arrests of famous criminals by the de
tectives in the stories are delightful to the
boys, and they wish they could go at once
Into the detective business and win glory,
like the people in the books.
Without going Into a consideration of
the harmful effect of such stories upon the
minds of boys, we wish to bTing to the at
tention of the boys themselves, and to the
attention of their parents, an Incident il
lustrating one phase of detective life as
it actually is, and ask them to consider it.
During a notable murder trial in the city
of Buffalo, N. Y., only a week or so ago,
the following dialogue, between an attor
ney and a detective who had worked up
the case, occurred:
“How often have you lied since you be
came a detective?”
“Very often.”
"How long have you been a detective?”
“For twenty-nine years.”
“And you have lied all that time?”
“Whenever it was for the interests of
the people. I never was under oath when
I told lies to criminals in order to get
them to open lip.”
“Do you remember lying to the newspa
pers while the Robinson investigation
was on?”
“Yes, I lied whenever I thought it was
to the interest of the people. I cons\d
erod it justifiable.”
Under the most favorable construction
that the detective himself could put upon
his occupation, it was one that required
him to tell falsehoods. For twenty-nine
years he had been telling untruths to the
people through the newspapers whenever
he thought it “in the interest of the peo
ple.” Would it be surprising if he had told
falsehoods whenever he thought it to his
own interest? Is it to be expected that a
man who tells lies habitually as a matter
of business will keep an unwarped con
science, which will direct him aright in his
private life?
The detective quoted showed further
that he not only told lies when he deemed
it expedient to further his purposes, but
his powers of mendacity were exerted to
make friendships in order that he might
betray them. He "told lies to criminals in
order to get them to open up”—that is, tell
him about their crimes. Unless he is an
infallible mortal, during those twenty-nine
years he had to do professionally with a
great many suspected persons who were
not criminals. Presumably he tried to en
trap them also, and told them falsehoods
in order to get them into the toils of the
law and win his salary or fees. It Is pos
sible that a mentally and morally sound
boy should wish (0 engage in such a busi
ness?
The detective's office, in itself, is honora
ble. But it is mightily degenerated.
There must be somebody to hunt down
criminals and bring them to Justice. If
It were not for the honest detectives, the
law would be seriously hampered. But
all detectives are not honest, and the bus
iness of the detective is not at all elevating
or refining. On the other hand, the influ
ences surrounding the detective are de
grading. and it requires an extraordinary
moral constitution to resist those Influ
ences.
The assertion by Inference of the Buffalo
detective, that It is necessary for a detec
tive to tell falsehoods, and that such false
hoods are Justifiable, is an open question.
However that may be, right minded
youths should be extremely reluetant to
become detectives, when there is a possi
bility that falsehood and deception may
become the chief qualifications required.
Senator Frye was not misquoted when
he made that speech about the republican*
hoisting the American flair on any island
they might think best and defying any
hand to pull It down. At Lewiston, Me.,
a day or two ago. he supplemented that
piratical declaration with another of the
same stripe, in which he asserted he
would like to seize ’’Spain's sponge,” Cuba,
presumably that It may be squeezed by the
republicans instead of the Spaniards. He
wishes also to annex Hawaii, with her
Japanese; Canada, with her immnse debt;
Samoa, with her kings, and whatever
else may be within reach. England.
Spain and Germany might object to these
seizures, but Senator Frye, with one
hand tied behind his bark, would go out
to meet the daring objectors and flog
them into submission within three shakes
of his own tongue. Asa matter of fact,
w hen Frye gets in control of the govern
ment the annexation of Ireland, Australia,
Sicily and Nova Zambia, as well as the
other possessions mentioned, may be ex
pected as an immediate consequence.
Certain New York newspapers have
for some days been considerably exer
cised because Col. Wartnc. commissioner
of streets, has appointed a colored man
to the position of section foreman of
street cleaning. Just why they make so
much ado over the appointment is not
apparent, unless the fact of a negro
holding a public position in the north
is enough of a novelty to excite the public
mind. The negro, in the case, as might
be supposed, is a Georgian. He is a nat
ive of Athens. His name Is Barefleld. and
he claims to have enjoyed an acquaint
anceship with and the friendship of Henry
. Grady. He has under his management
fort)* men, including Irishmen, Italians,
one negro and several Americans. It is
said he calls the roll of his hands of a
morning with the pomposity of a drum
major.
A Japanese hanker at present In New
York says his government will not go to
a gold money basis, whether the Chinese
indemnity is or not paid In gold. Tile
reason he gives is very simple. Japan
exports virtually the same kinds of wares
that are exported by China and other
Oriental countries. If Japan were to
change to a gold basis while China and
the other countries remained on the silver
basis, Japanese products would be under
sold bw *he competitors. The banker
further says that the Indemnity will not
be taken to Japan in cash, because Japan
lias no need for such a bulk of money,
but will be placed to the government’s
credit at the great financial centers.
Washington advices say ex-President
Harrison has two political irons in
the fire, the presidential nomination and
the successorshlp to Dan Voorhees in the
Senate. And the advices further go on
to say that the ex-President is disposed to
pay more attention to the Senate possi
bility than the other. It is seriously fear
ed that the next Illinois legislature will
not be democratic. P It should be repub
lican. Gen. Harrison could hSVe the ecna
torship for the asking. Indeed, he would
hardly have to make a request. Now,
the presidential nomination lacks a good
deal of being such a pick-up. McKinley
and Reed have been doing some good
campaign work lately.
The Chinese official returns of the war
from the sinking of the Kow Siting to
Dec. 17, 1891, show these comparative sta
tistics: Chinese losses, killed 6,69), wound
od 9,600, prisoners 1,164; Japanese losses,
killed 413, wounded 1,712, prisoners 0. If
the figures were brought up to date they
would probably show each item just about
doubled, inasmuch as there has been con
siderable fighting this year. The facts
set forth show very clearly how far China
is behind the rest of the world, inasmuch
as the art of war is one of the most im
portant modern studies, and in which Ja
pan is hardly more than a sophomore.
An Interesting literary puzzle is being
run in Harper's Magazine. ’’The Personal
Recollections of Joan of Arc” is being
published as a serial. The publishers in
vite readers to guess the author. No
claw to the author’s identity is given ex
cept that the paper was written by the
most popular writer of current fiction. In
the guessing, Conan Doyle and Mark
Twain are the leading authors.
CURRENT COMMENT.
Tariff Reform tn New England.
From the Boston Herald (Indj
Tariff reform seems to be working well
up in Moses Stevens' woolen mills. The
advance of 13 per cent. In the wages of
his operatives is a whole campaign docu
ment in itself. Free wool is bound to
help us in the long run.
Important Work.
Brunswick (Ga.) Times-Advertiser (Dem.)
The Savannah Industrial board is tak
ing up the question of Savannah's health
fulness as one of first important steps of
its mission, in fact, nothing could be
more important, without it was a correc
tion of the tradition that Southeast Geor
gia is u malarial section.
A Ridiculous Report.
Wilmington (N. C.) Messenger (Dem.).
it is very ridiculous. If not worse, to
read of confederates offering to help put
down "rebellion" in Cuba. It is very cen
surable. It is of a par with the yankees
introducing slavery, then threatening to
secede, and when the south proposes to
leave, to combine with others to Invade
and blast and to set free the negroes
they brought over and sold.
Improvement In tlie Civil Service.
From the Boston Herald (Ind.).
The New York Evening Post lays down
a good rule lor the bestowal of office when
It says: "No man should be put into a
public office who has not found some
private individual or corporaon willing
to give him a salary in a reputable busi
ness." This would seem to be a requisite
so plain as to need no argument to estab
lish it In the public mind, yet would shut
out from employment not a few persons
who Industriouedy seek public places, and
too often obtain them, in many of our
large cities.
The Purpose of Illnnd, Bryan ft Cos.
From the Atlanta Journal (Dem.).
What the Bland-Bryan element is try
ing to do with its pronunclamentos and
Its clubs that are called for and never
come Is to plunge us into free stlverism
and let the consequences take care of
themselves. There is not the remotest dan
ger that the Democratic party will ever
commit suicide In any such fashion.
There will undoubtedly be some party
ready to take that route next year and
everybody who wants to do so will be
free to join It. One thing Is certain, how
ever, the flag that tloats at the head of
its columns wtli not be the flag of democ
racy.
Pussy Hade Out of iltDzrr.
Avery dignified black and white cat
was crossing Twelfth street at the corner
of Broadway last Wednesday night, when
she was espied by a Scotch terrier prowl
ing about the neighborhood, says the Kan
sas City Star. Pussy had just arrived
beneath the electric light at the corner
when the dog charged upon her full
tilt. Taken by surprise,. shq- made a few
leaps forward, but seeing her retreet was
cut off by a passing cable car. she faced
about determined to make a stand against
the enemy.
The terrier was possessed of more dis
cretion than valor, and when pussy turned
on him he stopped short, out of reach
of the claws she held up ready to strike
at him. Then he began to bark, which
only made the cat the more furious. Two
or three newsboys, a "red-hot” peddler
and a policeman gathered at the corner.
Interested spectators of the encounter.
They took Issue on the side of the dog.
and with cries of "Sick ’em. sick em!”
uged him on to battle. Pussy's eyes
showed green and yellow and scarlet un
der the electric light, her back was arched
almost double, and her tail stood out like
a foxbrush. She kept up a continuous
spittmg, while the terrier barked inces
santly.
The crowd on the corner grew bigger
and the tight grew interesting. The po
liceman shouted words of encouragement
to the dog. but the gleaming eyes of the
angry cat kept him at a distance Sud
denly a stone thrown by a boy roiled be
tween the combatants. The flog turned
to look for the thrower. It was the mis
take of his life. With one leap pussy was
cn his hack, tearing clawfuls of hair out
of his head.
The terrier turned tail and ran, bu>
pussy held on tight to bis long hair, all
the while clawing his back. Down Broad
way they went, while the crowd cheered
for the eat, who still clung on her foe s
back like the woman bareback rider at
the circus.
When they got opposite an alley pussy
dropped lightly off. and savin* 'Ta. ta.
doggy." darted away tn the darkness. The
terrier will hereafter be more circum
spect in his manner of approaching re
spectable tabbies after dark.
Wonders That Never Cease,
Wonder, says the Boston Transcript,
why it is that the lame man and the
man with the rheumatism take such es
pecial pains to be the first to possess them
selves of the ear platform when the train
reaches the city, and, having attained it,
are so careful not to leave it until all the
other passengers have lost their patience
and some of their temper tn their at
tempts to get past the obstructing bodies
of the lame man and the man with the
rheumatism aforesaid.
Wonder why it is that the man who
knows nothing should be so eager, upon
all possible occasions, to parade the
knowledge which he does not possets.
Wonder why it is that when the electric
car conductor says: "Move up. please,"
we regard the request as addressed to oth
ers exclusively, and in our mind make
comparisons not at all complimentary to
the swine to whom wo likdn those obstin
ate passengers.
Wonder why it is that when children
quarrel it is Inevitably those horrid young
ones who belong to our neighbor who are
the cause of all the trouble.
Wonder why It is that people will persist
In talking about something in which they
are interested when we are set upon talk
ing about something which interests us.
Wonder why it is that our country cous
ins will persist upon calling np#n us in
the city in the winter time, when they
have such abundant opportunity to see
us at their own homes every summer.
Wonder why It Is that things are always
just as we don't want them to be, and so
often just what somebody else seems to
desire.
The Bay State Dialect.
An lowa woman was visiting a school
In a Massachusetts town recently, says
the Des Moines Leader, and had a good
chance to observe the difference in dia
lect between the Bay state and her own.
A little girl from tlie latter place was
asked by the teacher to spell a word.
The child began to spell the syllables as
they' sounded to her.
‘•F-a-t-h—"
"No. no.” said the teacher, “faw-thaw,
fawthaw!”
"F-a-t-h—”
“No, that's wrong! Fawthaw off—faw
thaw off.”
"F-a-w—”
"O, no! Sit down. Next."
’’Next” was a New’ England boy, who
spelled “farther" readiiy.
After the spelling exercises the teacher
dictated as follows for the children to
write upon their slates:
"A little fawthaw ofT was a small gut
tah, in which was some wntah. Heah
the little builds came to get a drink. Af
tah dlppin’ thelh bills many times, tossin’
their pritty heads, and with many a
fluht and fluttah of theih wings they all
flew away to the pak."
The low’a woman's curiosity prompted
her to look at the slate of the little girl
from the west. Every mispelled word
here given was so mispelled.
The dialect was entirely too much for
her. and she sat there dejectedly, with a
flush upon her face, feeling no doubt like
a veritable foreigner. The visitor said to
herself in sympathy:
“Foah little gull."
The Microphone in Texas.
A man from Texas sat in the Hotel
Brunswick yesterday and told three lies—
told them deliberately, says a writer in
the New York Fress. He was not an
Ochiltree, either. One of them may be
worth reading. Said he:
"You’ve got your new-fangled micro
phone at work, I see, but I just want to
tell you folk up here that W’e have a
natural one down in Texas, that beats
it all hollow. 1 reckon he's about 12 years
old now. He's got two cars—one big
and one little. With the big ear he can
hear the rumbling of a storm ICO miles
away. He beat3 the weather bureuu pre
dicting rain. He hears every year the song
of Miriam after Moses and his friends
crossed the Dead Sea- He has heard the
booming of the guns at the battle of
Waterloo, and even repeats word for word
the orders of Napoleon on that occasion.
No sound that ever started the air to
vibrating is lost to him, If he happens to
get in line of excitation. With hi3 little
ear he can hear the faintest sounds on
earth. He can hear a fly walking on a
window pane, or flying through the air.
He can hear a flea hop, or a spider weav
ing her web. On a dark night he ran hear
a fish swimming. I have known him to
hear night coming on and settle down.
He never heard the moon rise, but there
are good reasons, I am told, for that.
I am here to get Bnrnum to give him a
place in his freak show."
Albert Sidney Johnston's Dentil.
A writer in the Cincinnati Enquirer
tells a very remarkable story of a watch
found on the body of Gen. Albert Sidney
Johnston on the field of Shiloh by a fed
eral soldier. The story is that shortly
after the wounded Gen. Johnston was
borne by Gov. Harris to a place of safe
ty. the confederates were driven back,
and Gen. Johnston, still alive but fast
dying, fell into the hands of a federal
soldiers, one of whom robbed the body of
ii gold watch, which, after many strange
vicissitudes, came to the hands of some
person who now’ desires to return It to
the family. This story, says the Memphis
Commercial Is. of course, a gaudy fake.
Gen. Johnston expired almost immediately
after being lifted from his horse, and
his body never fell into the hands of
the federals at all. At the time of his fail
the federals were everywhere being press
ed back, and shortly thereafter, when
Beauregard took command, the first day's
battle came to an end. Gen. Johnston's
body was burled by the confederates.
Tlie Dog end the Telephone.
M. E. Church, proprietor of the Bed
dlngton tannery, relates a rather remark
able story, showing the wonderful in
stinct of his dog. suys the Augusta (Me.)
New Age. Having occasion not long since
to visit Bangor he left Don at the tannery.
But the dog soon became dissatisfied and
returned to his home in Cherryfield,
twenty miles distant. When Mr. Church
returned to Beddlngton he called up his
wife on the telephone, and in course or
conversation Inquired for Don. On be
lug told that Don was at home he asked
to be allowed to talk with him. Don was
accordingly held up to the telephone and
receiver placed to his ear. As "Hello.
Don.” came from his master, the dog be
gan to show signs of excitement, which
Increased as the conversation progressed.
In . few moments after being released
he disappeared and in übout two hours
Mr. Church called again on tlie telephone
and announced that Don had arrived at
the tannery.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
—A new imitation of gold is made of
ninety-four parts of copper and six of
antimony, with a little magnetism and
carbonate of lime added, while it is molt
ed. It is said that It preserves Its color,
is an almost exact imitation of gold and
that it costs only a shilling a pound to
make it. j
—According to Cardan, a mediaeval
writer, the air is full of devils, who feed
on human souls. It will not do to be hasty
in judging such theories by the extreme
absurdity of their appearance, for Para
celsus asserted that the entire air is full
of devils, who are too small to be seen.
He declared that these same devils are re
sponsible for all human diseases. And so
say all our doctors now. Only they call
them microbes instead of devils, which
may not make much real difference after
all.
—The making of artificial noses and ears
has become a good business within file
last few years, says the Chicago Record.
A nose is first modeled to the proper
shape in papier-mache, and then it is
waxed and varnished to the tint of the
complexion of the noseless person. Ordi
narily it Is fastened on by means at a
pair of spectacles, to the nose-piece ff
which it is firmly attached. In some
cases, however, where the remaining
stump is large enough, it is clamped in
place and the spectacles are not neces
sary. An ear Is made In much the same
way. but is far more difficult to attach.
.Most frequently small springs fitting into
the ear duct are used, but they are likely
tn the end to seriously impair the hear
ing. Other physical deficiencies are reme
died by wigs, false teeth and glass eyes.
The last are made almost exclusively tn
Thuringia. Germany, and the workmen
are marvelously expert.
Superintendent Byrnes tells me, says a
New York Advertiser writer, that viewed
from the standpoint of criminal records
the Chinese are less trouble to the police
than the people of any other nationality
living in this big metropolis. They are
peaceable, and fights among them are of
rare occurrence. Their method of fight
ing consists in grasping the enemy's plg
.tall firmly in the left hand, and clawing
his face with the right. When a China
man attempts to fight with a white man,
he grasps for the pig-tall and not finding
it there, is disconcerted and loses his cour
age. Among themselves the Chinese in
New York are kindly, courteous, garrul
ous. even jolly; with strangers they are
reserved and solemn to the verge of melan
choly. They feel, with some cause, that
the hand of every Caucasian is against
them, and It is not until they are con
vinced that the stranger is a thoroughly
good fellow, that they admit him into their
confidence. Then he finds them to be
amiable in disposition, courtly in man
ner, shrewd in business matters, generous
and hospitable. There are a number of
very rich Chinamen in New York, four 1 or
five, at least, who can draw their check
for from two to three hundred thousand
dollars each. Most of New York’s Chinese
citizens are w’ell to do. If one of them
has a streak of bad luck, his countrymen
help to put him on his feet again.
—lf the latest war news be true, and
the mikado is to have his dominions in
creased by the addition of Formosa, we
may expect to have a lot of new and pretty
things from that wonderful Island in our
markets, says a Chicago paper, tine of
[be attractive of the whole number
lire The fans made around Tal-wan-goo
and Ta-kow. Of these the fan proper is
cut from a palm leaf peculiar to the dis
trict. it is light, ’strong and perfectly
smooth,, fn shape it Is like a shield, with
the point toward the handle, although
any design can be had upon request. The
women artists sketch on both face and
back some pretty picture in outline, birds,
landscapes, warriors, Chinese beauties,
flowers, vases, temples, dragons ami wild
animals being the favorite subjects. The
man or woman of the family goes over
the outline with a white-hot iron, and
thus burns the figure into the fiber. It
is afterward polished and finished, which
brings the pyrographlc picture out into
beautiful relief. The edge of the fart is
braided in either silk, silk cord, silver,
gold, or strings of pearls, and a hant’je
is affixed of bone and horn, of tortise
shell and ivory, of silver and tortoise
shell or of carved ivory. Although the
amount of work on each fan is very great,
the cost is Inconsiderable; the cheapest
can be secured for 9 or 10 rents, while
the handsomer can be secured for a touple
of dollars. They are gseatlv prized in the
far cast, but apparently have never vet
found their way to this country in any
quantity.
—lt is a mystery to enlightened west
ern nations how the Hindoos
ever managed to evolve such
a wonderful and frightfully exaggerated
idea of hell—as much of an enigma, per
haps as our fantastic ideas of the infernal
regions will be to the more enlightened
races of the coming ages. The Hindoos
believe tn a plurality of hells, 136 in all.
lhis gigantic apartment house, which has
been especially prepared for the souis of
the damned, is of unthinkable length and
breadth, and has walls more than KW
miles in thickness. The intense heat of
the Interior keeps these walls at a white
heat, and through their many loopholes
shines light of such intense brightness
that it bursts the eyeballs of ail who look
in that direction, "even though they be re
moved froAi the f-res by a distance of 400
leagues.” As each soul is taken from o-ne
apartment to the other it is invariably
met by Yamaki, the Hindo Plato, an ex
aggerated devil 210 miles high, who has
hairs on his body which stand out like
palm trees. In each of these subdivisions
the tortured one is treated to something
new and unique in the line of misery. In
one he has his toe and linger nails plucked
out, and the empty sockets, which for
merly held his eyes filled with melted wax,
and then has horns Inserted in the places
which in other days were occupied by the
organs of vision. In another he is forced
to have his teeth pulled and heated to a
white heat, and is then compelled to swal
low them along with large quantities of
pepper cakes and boiling oil,
—Here is a little story from the Phila
delphia Press which seems to indicate that
the pretty girl’s business prospects are
hampered by her prettiness. The secre
tary of a large eastern insurance company
decided a short time since that it would
be better fbr his office work to introduce
half a dozen or more women as type
writers, operators and assistant book
keepers. He had noted that of the femi
nine employes in his office the pretty ones
were the least effective and attracted the
most attention, to the detriment of the
work of the other clerks. So he decided
to engage only women who were of mature
years and experienced in office work. First
he advertised, stating that applicants
should give age and number of years ex
perience. He did not succeed in getting
a jpingle satisfactory reply. Then he went
to a well known business college and told
the manager that he did not suppose he
would have any trouble in aiding him, as
he did not want a young or attractive
looking woman. The manager listened to
him while he explained his wants, and
then going to a desk took out a file of
letters, with a smile and laid them be
fore his visitor. There were upward of
half a hundred applications from banks
and commercial institutions, and every
one of them, without a single exception
asked for a woman of mature age. The
manager said it was absolutely impossi
ble to supply the demand fey- employes of
the description that business men now de
manded, but he had rafts of pretty girls
at all times who were applicants.
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