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In Detroit Irish potatoes are called "Pin
grees.” In honor of the mayor who Institut
ed the plan of allowing the poor of the city
to plant vacant lots in potatoes. When the
mayor first started his plan he was’
laughed at by the newspapers from one
end of the country to the other. That
was some three years ago. Now the cit
ies of Washington. Boston and several
others are considering the adoption of
the Idea. ,
Justice Stephen J. Field was appointed
to the supreme bench by President Lin
coln in March, 186:;, and took his seat
on the bench on May 20 of that year.
The decision annulling the Income tax
was, therefore, rendered on the thirty
second anniversary of his donning the
ermine. Chief Justice Marshall was on
the bench thirty-four years. Justice Story
thirty-three years and Justice Wayne thir
ty-two years.
Thp report is that President Cleveland
will go down to Florida to fish for tar-
JH>n. If he should do so, and have good
luck, he might be sorry for it. For, af
ter a battle with a “silver king" of goodly
Inches, landing other species of fish be
comes comparatively tame sport. The
President might find Buzzard's Bay fish
ing rather tiresome after having tested
the mettle of the Florida beauties. How
ever, he would have a good time of It
while in Florida.
The Morning News has been asked,
*What is the meaning of the term, ‘ratio
of 16 to I,* as applied to the money dis
cussion?" It means simply that the silver
| dollar shall be sixteen times as heavy as
the gold dollar, both metals being of the
game comparative degree of fineness. The
matter of ratio Is very fully and ably
discussed by Secretary Carlisle in his mas
terly speech, published In our dispatches
yesterday.
There Is this much to be said about the
Stories of the Cuban war: None of them
sre half-way kind of narratives, or lack
ing in action. They always tell of bloody
battles and sweeping victories, the vic
tors depending entirely upon the source
of the dispatches. For the past few days
we have been hearing the Insurgent side
of the story. The government version
will be along presently. In which it is
pretty certain that Flor Crombct will be
killed some more, and the insur
gents will be shown to consist of only a
' few stragglers.
i It seems that China has been dropped
entirely out of consideration in the mat
ter of the settlement of the terms of
peace with Japan. Russia,' France and
Oermany have apparently become the
leaders in the negotiations, leaving the
: victor of the war to accept or to decline
their propositions and take the conse
quences. The three powers have calk'd
upon Japan to say what price she demanta
*n return for the withdrawal of her troops
ir*n the I.loa Tung peninsula at an early
day. Presumably If Japan’s reply is not
favorable to their Ideas they will take
steps to put the Japanese troops out with
out payment. If Japan's reply should be
the naming of a sum to suit the powers,
they would not pay it. of course, but
would order China to pay it, while they
could come in for some profits on the
transaction, which China would probably
have to pay also. The pig-tailed heathens
are, indeed, the llttlest big nation on the
(ace of the earth.
The Huntt'in Reunion.
The reunion of ex-confederate veterans
at Houston. Tex., to-day will be & nota
ble event hi the lives of the survivors of
those who carried tEe ?ag of the south
In the struggle between the states thirty
years ago. and It will be regarded as a
notable event throughout the south. Not
withstanding the fact that anew genera
tion has grown up since the last gun
was tired in that great conflict, and prac
tically has control Of the vast and varied
interests of the south, the southern people
have as great admiration, respect and love
for their scarred and time-worn veterans
as they had when the same veterans in
all the strength of their young and vig
orous manhood were carrying the flag of
the confederacy victoriously and with un
daunted courage In the cause in which they
believed as firmly as they believe! their
religion, and In behalf of which they
staked all their worldly possessions.
But they are not meeting to-day with
any thought of renewing the discussion
as to whether their cause was right or
wrong. They regard that question as set
tled forever. They meet to-day to renew
old friendships, to talk over old times
an l to honor the memories of those of
their comrades whose "silent tents are
spread on- fame’s eternal campjng
ground.” What Joy will fill their hearts
as they clasp each others hands and
live over again In their talk the years in
which they marched to the beat of the
drum ami responded to the bugles' call
years that were the best of their youth,
full of stirring scenes un i Incidents, and
yet which left marks upon them that
are constant reminders of the trials they
endured and the dangers they encoun
tered. And their meeting will not be
wholly a Joyous one. As they look Into
each others faces and note the changes
time has made they cannot but feel that
in a few more years they will have all
(tone to Join those who have gone be
fore.
But to meet as they will meet to-day at
Houston will do them good. It will cheer
their declining years. To recall the past
In company with those who
were their comrades In arms
will bo like living over again tho
stirring events that quicken yietr blood
whenever they think of them. And they
will rejoice, too, to have with them thou
sands of the young men and women of
the south—men and women who are prov
ing themselves worthy children by mak
ing the south for which the veterans
sacrificed so much, great, rich and pros
perous. And they will waste no time In
lamenting the defeat of the cause for
which they fought, beenuse they know the
Indomitable spirit, of the south was not
crushed. The south of to-day Is greater
than ever, and tho south a few years
hence will be the greatest part of this
great country. And the confederate vet
erans will be glad to-day that the future
of the south ls so promising.
How the People Are Swindled.
/For some reason or other congressmen
are not Interested In preventing their con
stituents from being swindled by dealers
In adulterated articles of food. Efforts
have been made time and time again to get
congress to enact a law to protect the
people against these swindlers, but with
out avail. Those who make fortunes out
of adulterated articles of food keep a
powerful lobby at Washington and the
result fs that bills like "Haddock's pure
food bill" get a black eye before they have
advanced very far on their way through
congress.
There are very few people who know
how extensive the adulterations of articles
of food are. The agricultural department
has been investigating the subject for a
year or more, and Its discoveries are sim
ply astounding. Prof. Wiley, the chief
chemist of the department, said a day o-r
two ago, that he had been startled by the
discoveries he had made. With reference
to some of his investigations he said: “We
have purchased any number of samples
of 'olive oil,’ at $4 a gallon, that was In
reality an excellent quality of cotton seed
oil that was worth between thirty and
forty cents. Similarly we have found cof
fee selling at 40 cents a pound, containing
25 per cent, of artificial coffee beans. These
artificial beans could hardly be told from
the genuine articles when mixed with
them. They are made of scorched flour
and molasses, and they are worth about
4 cents a pound. For coffee-making they
are worth absolutely nothing, except to
make (he weak coffee muddy.”
With reference to cream and milk, the
professor said he had frequently bought
cream at his own house that had as little
as 8 per cent, of fats, while the minimum
standard should not be less than 20 per
cent. The adulteration of milk is so gen
eral and common, he said, that he thought
It no exaggeration to> say that a small
army of children died every year because
of the lack of good milk. As for spices,
there Is a regular business In manufac
turing adulterants for them. And yet. In
the face of facts like these, facts fur
nished by the highest authority In the
land, our law makers refuse to do any
thing for the protection of the people.
What are they good for any way? Is it
not about time that the people demand
that their interests shall he looked after
a little more carefully?
A Boston paper has been canvassing
New. England to ascertain that section's
favorite for the republican presidential
nomlijntion. Reed leads the list, but the
canvass shows that Reed cannot carry
ing own section. Maine, New Hampshire,
Vermont and Massachusetts an ay send
to the convention delegates favorable to
Reed, but Connecticut and Rhode Island
express themselves as favoring a western
man. The possibilities are that good west
ern men will be in demand In polities
beat cummer.
Gov. McKinley is scheduled to speak to
a gathering of silk manufacturers and
dealers in New York to-night. The
chances are that he will talk tariff solely,
and avoid as far as possible any reference
to the money question. v
THE MORNING NEWS: WEDNESDAY, MAY 22, 1893.
Two Kind* of 81-metaltlem.
In his argument in behalf of the free,
unlimited and independent coinage of sil
ver at Chicago last Friday night. Mr.
Harvey, the author of "Coin's Fnancial
School." virtually admitted that free sil
ver . olnag at the ratio of 16 to 1 would
drive gold out of circulation. He said,
however, that when gold became the
cheaper metal It would drl\e out silver.
In other worts, what Mr. Harvey calls
bimetallism is a condition of affairs in
which either gold or silver is In circula
tion as it happens to be the cheaper,
but In which both metals are not In
clr ulatlon at the same time. What he j
sail on this point in the Chicago debate I
was as fellows: "If one becomes scarce i
the other Is used. If one is cornered the '
other takes Its place. Either answers
for money.”
How- would business prosper under such
a state of affairs as this? If we had, for ;
instance, fOOO.OJO.OW of silver in circula
tion and 3600,000,Of?) of gold, one year the
gold might drive all the silver out of cir
culation and another year the sliver might j
drive out all the gold, that is, if they
were anywhere near parity. Such radi
cal changes would make It extremely
difficult to carry on business. But Mr.
Harvey doesn't tell us how long It would
take silver to reach a parity with gold
if we should throw open our mints to the
free coinage of sliver. And he makes no
mention of the fact that the reason why
all civilized nations stopped the coinage
of silver was because of the very oscilla
tion of the metals which he seems to think
is so desirable.
But Is not the kind of bimetallism which
we have now, and which Mr. Carlisle
spoke of In his speech at Covington, K>\,
Moiiday night, much more desirable than
the kind of bimetallism which Mr. Har
vey advocates? Of stiver and silver cer
tificates we have now about as much
In circulation as of gold, and the silver m
Just as much primary or redemption
money as gold, because it Is legal tender.
The metals #re kept on a parity, and
therefore circulate freely side by side.
Mr. Harvey admits that his kind of bi
metallism would drive out gold. Why
do we want gold driven out? To that
question Mr. Harvey gives no answer.
Asa matter of fact, Mr. Harvey says
nothing In behalf of silver that amounts
to an argument. He talk? like a man who
has plenty of words at his command,
but who has no knowledge of his sub
ject. What he said at Chicago In his de
bate with Prof. Laughlln was the worst
sort of trash. He talked like a dema
gogue. He said, among other things, that
gold Is the money of the rich and silver
tbe money of the poor. Well, in all the
civilized countries ot the world the poor
are paid in gold-- It is the better money,
and they are Just as much entitled to It
as the rich. Why should the poor be paid
In the cheaper money. They should have
the best. Mr. Harvey and the silverltes
seem to think It is too good for them.
Mr. Harvey said we should not allow
Europe to dictate to us as to the kind
of money we should have, that we are
.strong enough to decide for ourselves.
Well, we have derided. We have decided
to have the best money, the money that
is current in all the world. Should we
enter upon an experiment that promises
disaster simply to show our Independence?
We are on a gold basts not because of
any yielding to European Influence, but
because we want to be on that basis, and
because it Is to our Interest to be on that
basis. It Is the basis upon which the com
merce of the world Is transacted. What
folly we would be guilty of if we should
adopt the monetary system of less en
lightened countries simply to show our
Independence of Europe. Mr. Harvey
needs to learn a great deal before under
taking to set up a school of finance for
tho American people.
The republican newspapers are ex
erting themselves to break the
force of the democratic argu
ments on the money question, on which
ever side the arguments may be made.
They attack the sound money advocates
as vigorously as they do the silver mono
metalltsts. Meantime It is noticeable that
the only political leaders who have had
the courage to come out openly and com
bat the silver heresy are democrats. While
Secretary Carlisle, Controller Eckels and
others, as well as the President, are open
ly fighting for a safe currency, ex-Speaker
Reed, ex-Presldent Harrison, Gov. Mc-
Kinley and the other republican leaders
are keeping their mouths shut as close
as clams. Presumably they lack the moral
courage to face the issue, or else they are
politicians who would rather be with the
rabble than to be right.
Mr. M. Anneberg, a Dane who has re
moved to Augusta from South Dakota,
and will engage In the cul
tivation celery, ‘says Information
is wanted by his country-men
ln the northwest touching upon a
point that has so far been somewhat neg
lected. The Danes, he says, believe in
raising families as well as raising vege
tables, and it is desired to know if the
climate and conditions of the south are
favorable to the cultivation of the hu
man race as well as species belonging to
the vegetable kingdom. On that score Mr.
Anncberg's friends need have no fears.
There are In Georgia numerous family
oaks having from eight to fifteen branches.
While the New York legislature de
clined to pass the bill to permit of the con
solidation of New York city and Brooklyn,
It gave the metropolis a sop in the way
of annexation by- permitting it to annex
Westchester. Eastchestcr, Pelham and
Wakefield, which tikes ln the Morris
Farl£ race track, Throgg's Neck, Fort
Schulyer and William's Bridge. What
New York wanted, however, was not these
pickings, but an annexation that would
make the “Greater New York" some
thing that Chicago could not approach
for fifty years or more.
A syndicate of stock raisers in Oregon
has begun the canning of horse meat for
export to Europe. There is said to be
demand enough for the meat in France
and Germany to make the canning of
horse flesh ln this country for export a
profitable business. . ,
I'ERSOMIU
—Mi.** Llnle of Lebanon. O .
Is Wendant In lan4**r s .it*
1114.M1
—Dr P!i*. the agent of ftilwtine
Exploration fund, has dlro\**r**d a ruined
town east of the Dead ***
—Signor Bonorvri. one of the Panama
engineer*, who was in New Origan*
recently, said that work wo M begin on the
canal on a larg* scale about July f.
—The old Ameer of Afghanistan has been
pulled through a serio';* illnert by the
medical aid of Miss L. Hamilton, a young
woman doctor, from Ayr. Scotland.
—lt is said that William H Van Tine of
Cleveland, 0.. although 75 years old. never
uttered an oath, never ie--l tobacco or
tasted liquor, or spoke an unkind word
about anybody.
—Mary Moore Davis, who l*e -ame well
known In the literary world through her
' harming story, -Under The Man Fig.”
is the wife of MaJ. Davis, political ediiot
of the New Orleans Picayune.
—The Kt. Rev. Thomas l*. Dudley, bishop
of Kentucky, will h the tutrrala tre
at e sermon before the gra .**fng class of
Trinity College. Hartford, conn., on Sun
day. June 23. The comm* • :v* nt oration
will be delivered by the Rev. Dr. Edwin
Harwood of New Haver*.
—Sir Julian Pauncefov nnd family ex
pert to tail for “Europe on J in** 5 on the
Sr. luis. Quite a number of people from
here have determined t*> go over on the
11 rat trip of that steam* r and they will
make a very distinguished party, chiefly
from the diplomatic corj ?.
—Hen. Harrison has given 51C) to be add
ed to the fund now raising in Indiana for
the purchase of a silver V rvice for the
battleship Indiana. In h*s letter he say*:
' The ship is a noble on* no l>etter light
ing shin is afloat; and our people should
show their interest in her. r.*i their ap
preciation of the fact that she bears the
name of our state.’*
—Admiral Ito, who is in comanmd of the
victorious Japanese fleet, is. like most of
his compatriots, a man of very small stat
ure. with a thoughtful and sympathetic
face, a narrow forehea t deeply wrinkled
by study, and a distinguished and artistic
bearing. His chief physical characteristic
bearing is extreme thinness, which has
earned for him among his devoted sailors
the nickname of “the lean admiral.”
—Mrs. Hugh McLaughlin, of Brooklyn,
wife of the famous former “boss” of the
Democratic party In that city, recently re
ceived a document from Rome containing
the apostolic benediction of Rope Leo XIII.
upon her husband and family. It was ob
tained through the efforts of Benjamin
Lewis and his wife, of Brooklyn, who have
been traveling In Euroj** and Asia sin?e
October. Mr. McLaughlin, even while en
gaged In politics and public affairs, has al
ways been u devout and earnest Catholic.
—M*n*el, curiously' enough, draws with
his left hand and paints w ith his right.
BRIGHT HITS.
—"Ah," said thc magazine reader, con
templating his friend's new baby. "Fine
(fillld. Is it a Napoleon or a Trilby?"—
Cincinnati Tribune.
—Caddlngton—l was Insulted to-day by
Maddox!
Fulljamcs—Hag he invented anew word?
—New York World.
—Baron—l always sajd that Mrs. George
would make her mark sooner or later.
Egbert—You don't mean to tell me Cross
has a black eye?—Yonker's Statesman.
—Millionaire—Honesty, my son, Is always
the best policy.
His Son—Well, maybe. It is, father, but
still you've done pretty well.—Boston Post.
—Apparently many of the young people
of to-day read the good old adage back
ward, something after this fashion:
"Shame the truth and tell the devil.”—Bos
ton Courier.
—“You seem very uncomfortable.” said
Mrs. Cayenne, "1 am exceedingly uncom
fortable. I have something on my mind."
"Ah? Then it Is no wonder."—Washington
Star.
—We Insist on the following two rul“s of
this office: "Please wipe off your feet be
fore you come In,” and "Wipe off your
back subscription mark before you go out."
—Boston Courier.
—"H has yielded his life for me." she
moaned. The tempest tossed her hair In
wet ringlets over her fare. She heeded It
not. "And his was a double life, too.”—De
troit Tribune.
—He—Why does Miss Middleage persist
In singing "My Sweetheart's the Man In
the Moon?”
She—Because he can't come down anu
deny It.—Harper's Bazar.
—Caller—Did your mother do any of the
work on this picture?
Flossie—Yes’m: she talked for five or six
weeks tryin' to make folks think she paint
ed It.—Chicago Inter-Ocean.
—^“Anyway,” said the cornfed philoso
pher, "when the women get into congress
you won't hear any more of that ‘I pause
for a reply’ chestnut. They won't pause.
No.”—lndianapolis Journal.
—Great Editor—And did you write this
essay all by yourself?
Literary Aspirant—Yes; it ls all my own
work.
Great Editor—Well, then, Charles Lamb.
I am very much phased to meet you.—
Syracuse Post.
—Minister (at baptismal font>—Name,
please?
Mother (baby born abroad)—Phillip Fer
dinand Chesterfield Randolph y Living
stone.
Minister (aside (o assistant)—Mf. Kneel
er, a little more water, please.—Cincinnati
Commercial.
CURRENT. COMMENT,
The Price of Whent.
From the Chicago Times-Herald (Ind.).
Wheat is already wonth a (Silver) dollar
and a half a bushel.
Would He the Goldlmgs' Fault,
Sprngfield (Mass.) Republican (Ind.).
Ex-Gov. Boise of lowa t'hlnks that if mis
chief Should follow the enactment of a free
silver law, which he predicts, the silverites
who urged and passed such a law would
not be to blame for it. The fault would
be with 'the wicked gold bugs who com
pelled the silverltes to ask for free coinage.
The I.atest Telephone Decision.
From the Philadelphia Ledger (Ind.).
Although the derision in favor of the
Bell company and the Berliner patent will
put a cheek upon the use of microphone
devices and rivalry in long distance tele
phoney, It will not prevent the free use
of private telephones or the organization
of rival exchanges in cities which can use
the magneto telephones upon which the
patents expired in 1893.
Why the “German Standard’’ Escapes
From the Chattanooga Times (Dem.).
“Coin” played the arrant demagogue In
his debate with Laughltn, when he ap
pealed to the American prejudices against
England. He dare not assail Germany,
that Is a goldbug nation to the core, be
cause there are millions of Germans scat
tered over the northwest, where “Coin”
Is selling hts monkey-show pamphlet.
Carlisle’s Great Speech.
Charleston News and Courier (Dem.).
No brief synopsis could do Justice to the
elaborate effort of ‘Secretary Carlisle to
clear away the rubbish of mtsrepresi nta
tion ami hallucination by which the true
issue has been obscured, and to set forth
In the clear light of reason the vast in
terests involved, and how they will be
affected by the decision of this momentous
question. Suffice it to say that he lias
given as briefly as possible the history of
the coinage laws of 'this country, has
pointed out the circumstances under which
each was enacted, and has shown whether
they have proved beneflclent or the
reverse, and has striven by the history
of the past to throw light upon the future
He has discussed in full all the various
phases of the question, and has shown
conclusively that *n order to have <he
benefit of both gold and stiver as money
metals, and to keep the paper money of
the government on a parity with gold, or.
In other words, ro preserve the power of
the silver and the paper dollar to purchase
as much as a gold dollar, it Is necessary to
have a single standard, and that standard
must be the gold standard. The argument
Is worthy of the man and of the occasion,
and the more widely It Is read, and th
more generally It Is understood, the better
it will be for the country.
A Street Car llomance.
It was •only an accident that brought
George W. Curtis to th* comer of Seven
teenth and G streets at all. says the Wash
ington Post. With nothing *-lse claiming
mm that Sunday evening, he had strolled
that way with a friend, and was now about
to take the horse car and return to his of
lice on F street, smoke a cigar, and con
sider his business programme for the com
ing week. The car was slow In making Its
advent.
While George W. Curtis waited a pretty
girl came up. She, too. had plana which
included the street car; and so stajidlng a
ife ten feet from George W. Curtis the
pretty girl shared his vigil. She paid no
heed to George W. Curtis, but he noticed
that she was arrayed In a blue flannel
frock, which had blue flannel suspender*
crossed over a white waist. George W.
Curtis had always deemed the se costumes
very elegant. But he was in no sense a
masher, and after allowing his eyes the
penult of the pretty* girl for a moment,
ire turned them in quest of the car, and
thought no more about her. The pretry
girl did not think of George W. Curtis at
all.
It 1* all but certain that had it not been
for a peculiarly dull conductor this ro
mance would have ended here. Most hors*
car conductors are bright, sprightly men.
and of a pretty wit of their own. But this
member of the guild was dull; or, perhaps.
1,0 wa Preoccupied with troubles of his
Tills was what the dull conductor
•ilo. and drove these two doves bark Into
the net which the fowler Fate was spread 4
ing for them.
Tickets?” he queried, as George W.
Curtis tendered two-bits.
*l'?° ' remarked George W. Curtis.
i ne dull conductor tore off two tickets
\% r . Georg * \v. Curtis and for the pretty
Kiri, being misled therein by the fact that
they had come aboard together. Then the
null conductor repaired to the back plat
form, turned his bark to George W. Curtis
f.** 1 the Pretty girl, and softly whistled.
Never Take the Horseshoe from the
Door.
George W Curtis was in a dilemma. The
pretty girl did not know that he had inad
ventedly paid her fare, and she sat ab-
JK"”? her nickel in her waiting
.ittie hand. Should George \V. Curtis break
the truth to her? He decided that he must.
She would find it out before she left the
car and get things all tangled up to his dis
* trying to understand.
*‘l beg your pardon,” said George W.
curtts, bending toward the pretty girl and
lifting his ha<t, “but the fact is. Miss, that
fool of a conductor has done me the honor
’"'pi’ o5 "’' you arc wtrii me and has col
s’our5 ’ our f arf> from me on that theory."
" i t Y' Pretty Kiri seemed much abashed,
blushed deeply, and finally getting; it
straight in her young mind, tendered
George V\ . Curtis her nickel.
"Not at all," said George W. Curtis,
waving It away, "I merely wanted to teli
>’b'b because I didn’t care to have you
think I was attempting any cigarette play
to make your acquaintance."
Then they sat still for four blocks,
George \\ . Curtis looking excessively vir
tuous. At last the pretty girl tendered
him the nickel again. This time George
\V Curtis came over and sat bv her. the
better to explain how much he didn't want
the nickel.
She said her name was Bessie. George
W. Curits had always held that Bessie
was a lovely name; he would bet five to
one that It was the lovliest of all names.
Bessie lived In Richmond, and was visit
ing her aunt on Rhode Island avenue.
Bessie was going nowhere in particular;
merely riding about, viewing the city. Un
less Bessie objected George W. Curtis
would ride about with her. and give her
his advice and counsel as to how to view
tho city with success. Bessie was a bit
worried, but finally dtd not object. George
W. Curtis saw Bessio safely into the hands
of the Rhode Island avenue mint at 9
o’clock. The Rhode Island avenue uunt
beheld nothing to shy at in George \V.
Curtis. He called the next night. Tues
day evening he took Bessie and the Rhode
Island avenue aunt to hear the Marine
band in the white house grounds. Wed
nesday Bessie went home. Then George
W. Curtis wrote. His letters grew warmer
and warmer, urvtil the postal people were
made uneasy as they handled them.
Tills story began two years ago. One
day last week George W. Curtis end Bes
sie were married. And on such hinges
does one's future swing.
“ * “
To nil Old Dress font. •
D. Fallon, in Temple Bar.
Thou art Just a trifle seedy,
I mu3t needs at last avr, -
Though I’ve laid thee by in lavender.
And treated thee with- care;
And our dancing days arc ovfr—
■So the candid friends give out.
Who consider thee old-fashioned
And remark that I am stout.
Many a year we've spent together—
Many a kindly happy year;
Frequent guests and ever welcome
At the good man's feast and cheer;
And at many a merry midnight,
To the viol's flowing sound.
We have tripped It with the youngest
In the square dance and ithe round.
I have seen the gallants flaunting
in'their tinseled gala dress;
But for all thy sombre plainness,
I have never prized 'thee less; '
For my Phyllis dear preferred thee
To the red coat and the blue;
And what pleased my Phyllis surely
Could not fail to please me too.
And shall I now- discard thee?
Must a serving man obey
Sign and summons in the garment
I have worn this many a day?
Or shall I give ithe'p over
To a musty wardrobe's trust.
And abandon thee forever
Asa prey to moth and dust?
Away the thought! I'll keep thee—
As I have kept thee yet—with care;
And a fig for lady Fashion,
And whatever dandies wear!
A eoait unchanged and honest.
I shall don thee bravely still;
And with nimble humor foot it
In cotillion or quadrill.
A Map on Annalirl's Knee.
"Annabel,” called a Harlem mother over
the banisters, as she heard tile front door
close, says the New York Advertiser.
"Yes, mamma,” replied a sv.eet girlish
voice, and Annabel Googan slowly framed
herself in the darkness of the starcase.
“Was that Mr. Tinberry, Annabel?”
“It was, mamma.”
“Do you know it is twenty minutes past
11?” came In cold tones from the wrap
pered figure In the upper hall.
"Mamma, we hadn't the slightest Idea it
was so late,” said the young girl, earnest
ly. "You see,' she continued, “Mr. Tin
berry has been telling me about China and
Japan. He said everybody ought to know
about the war. and it was so interesting
we never thought how late it was getting.
Do you known mamma,' added the sweet
girl, as she reached the landing, “that in
China the-—"
"Did Mr. Tinberry draw a map of China
on your face, Annabel?” asked Mrs. Goo
gun, sternly.
"Why. mamma?” said the daughter in
startled tones
The young girl rushed to a mirror and
saw with horror-stricken glance that tH•*
left side of her face was streaked and
stained with ink.
“Heaven and earth!” she screamed, "his
fountain pen must have leaked into his
waistcoat pocket!” and with a shriek or
horror the beautiful girl fell fainting to the
floor.
WHnt ihe Cnbluet Talks About.
What do they talk about in cabinet
meetings? Almost everything savs
the Washington correspondent of
the Chicago Times Herald. The
cares of state principally, per
haps, but occasionally pOlitls', crops
fishing, vacations, social gossip, etc. An
Instance of this was found in the conversa
tion which the great men of the President's
family circle participated in while In of
ficial session. One secretary asked anoth
er who, in his opinion, was the meanest
man In Washington. After comparing
notes around, it was agreed this indict
ment fitted the person who has of late
styled himself official photographer to the
administration." This man has been hang
ing around for a long time begging the
privilege Of taking a photograph of the
President and the rest of us," said one
member or the cabinet. "Finally we ac
ceded to his reuqest, and, his first at
tempt being a failure, we stood up again
another day. He copyrights his pictures
and makes a great ado about it. And then
w hat do you think? Why, we send down
fot; a copy, and it comes back with a bill
for s•>. That was my experience, as it wa*
that of others in the cabinet. It will be a
remarkably frigid day when this fellow
gets another chance to photograph Presi
dent Cleveland and his council.’*
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
—The race of flying dragons, which
spread such dismay and terror in old times
is not yet entirely extinct, if we are to be
lieve the utterance* In a late Queensland
(Australia) paper. The Queensland Mur
cury of March 18 says: "James Bass of the
sandy flat, lying beyond the Blue Hlli,
near the head waters of Cams' creek, has
brought another specimen flying serpent to
this office. It is eomewhat smaller than the
one exhibited by him at Gulley last year,
and larger than the one which he present
ed us on Christmas day. Like the other two
It ha* four three-jointed legs, each 7 Inches
long. Between these leg*, which are situ
ated two on each side of the body, is a
leathery membrane, much resembling a
bat's wing. Mr. Pass declares that he has
often seen them fly across Cams' creek
at places where it is 60 feet wide.”
—Although it has been doubted that an
oyster has been so far subjugated as to
"follow its master up and down stairs." a
consummation which might be accepted as
a positive step In the rise towards ulti
mate cvllizatlon. at least oysters are sus
ceptible of lielng educated to a certain ex
tent, says the New York Times. In the
establishment on the coast of Cal
vados the merchants teach oysters to hold
their shells closed when out of the wafer,
by which means the liuqor retained keeps
their gills moist, and they arrive in far
distant Paris all alive. The process may
bo worthy of extensive publicity; It is this:
No sooner Is an oyster taken out of the
sea than it closes its shell, and opens it
after a certain time from fatigue. It Is
sail, but more probably because the shock
it received by removal into the air, causing
its muscles to contract, has passed away.
The Calvados men take advantage of this
to exercise the oysters, and make them ac
customed to be out of water by leaving
them daily in the atmosphere for longer
and longer periods. This has the desired
effect; the well-educated mollusc keeps Its
doors closed many consecutive hours, and
so long as the shell Is closed its gills are
kept moist.
~The naval hydrographic office has been
notified of the discovery of anew form of
animal life In the open ocean, which has
hitherto not been classified by naturalists,
who are unable from the description re
ceived to say Just what Is the new bug. or
nsb, or whatever tt Is. says a Washington
dispatch The report comes from Cnpt.
H A. Niejahr of the German steamer He
lios. He was cruising In the South Atlantic
between Cape Horn and the Cape of Good
Hope, little to the west of Inaccessible and
Tristan da Cunana Islands, when the phe
nomenon appeared. The entry on his log
is as follows: This afternoon my mate call
ed my attention to the looks of the water.
I went on deck and saw several spots of
yellow ar.d mudd.v-looklng water. Wc
steered for one of these spots, and, pass
ing through it observed that the water had
a n*i, ish color Whiled forth bv millions and
millions of red ephemenon worms. I caught
some in a bucket, and found that their
bodies were bladdery, with long legs on
one end; on the other end seemed to be the
head. Set on a dry spot, they jumped very
far. Biologists In Washington presume the
German captain refers to the order of
'ephemerina," In speaking of "ephemenon
worms. ' but this order, which includes the
common day fly, does not fit the captain's
description of his discovery.
—The majority of the people are not
aware, perhaps, that each of their ears Is
provided with a many-stringed harp, but
su £,. ls i!?* 5 caf "b a >' the St. Ixrnfs Re
public. These wonderful little Instruments
are named after their discover, being call
ed tho organs of Corti. Each of these cu
nous ear harps is provided with 8,700 won
.L, y , mlnut o strings of varying length
?, ni * thickness. The larger strings are es
timated to be about 1-j.bxith of an Inch In
diameter, and, as shown by actual meas
urement are only 1-amth of an inch In
length. Tho smaller ones are so infinitesi
mally fine that no estimate of their thick
ness (thinness) has ever been made. They
are. however, estimated to he about 1-1,-
oooth of an inch In length. Musicians will
tell you that when a properly tuned violin
Is held near a piano, and the E string of
that instrument is struck, the correspond
ing string on the violin will also vibrate:
so with all the rest. Now, the 8.700 strings
oi tne human ear harp have such a wide
compass that any appreciable sound which
can be imagined,can find a string of cor
responding tone the moment if enters the
car passages. The sounds thus noted on
the many-stringed harp are Instantly con
veyed through the connecting flliament to
the auditory nerve,thence to the sensori
um. Thus a knowledge of the sound is
conveyed to the brain.
, ~l l , as anyone noticed the change In the
fashion of Jndon dogs? asks the West
minster Gazette. For, of course, now that
the season is within measurable distance
fJ og has to show himself and be
!ri=h a nd . e<l f or ' I f ast year he mill the
Irish terrier, who haxl made his mark al
ready some years before and kept a place
in the running. Now he Is common enough
almost commoner than the fox-terrier. The
moment the new- dog becomes too plentiful
18 over ' „ I > urin K first season
he Is always a well-bred animal, it not be
arHcTr rt mu Wh *° lntroil uce the inferior
article. Then he gets popular; there Is a
demand for him; he is bred largely and in
conslderately; he becomes plentiful and
worthless, and the streets are full of
mongrels. Sometimes, when an Intro
duced breed becomes the favorite, and in
eonseuqenee degenerates, another variety
of the same breed will be started the fol
wiTh n M, yo ?£' v. "} nd ‘ hls - ln fact, happened
with the Irish terrier, who first appeared
as a small dog, but last vear the run was
on the larger kind, which. In Its turn Is
now going off. lor the new favorite Is
Scotch. It halls from Aberdeen or there
abouts, and the popular color is steel-grav
yellow, and black. Just now the tide fs
setting in very strong for them. This year
they are fashionable and dear. Next vlar
they will be abundant and cheap theft
successor will be making his appearance
and they will be going out.
—The theosophical leaders of the world
have a very curious belief, which is
dom alluded to outside of the sooletv savs
the St. Louis Republic. ThoosophirVl
losophy divides human exlmenS on this
g ooe into seven races, or seven great fam
lof According to this same
philosophy, five of these races have al
ready appeared, the human family to-da. v
J**"? representatives of the “fifth dlvls
lon. The original or primitive division
according to this extraordinarv belief was
a race of beings ln xvh'ch the two sexes
were combined in a single individual'This
clot's creature, the last representative of
w hich probably- became extinct thousands
of years since, was of gigantic size and had
perfect backbones and two spina
cords. Annie Besamt, William Q Tudgi
and other theosophical lights profess to
believe that the world Is ripe fsr thfa.L
sixth race. According to their
Ideas, the sixth race will be made un of
individuals similar to those o? the
race. They will he giants ln statue (aver
aging about thirty-two feet in hight wifi
have the Characteristic double spinal col"
umn, and will each be provided with three
eyes, the .third great optical search-light
being situated in the center of the fore
head. Toe first of these giant monrtr?->u
ties will be looke<l upon as curiosities but
they will multiply at a very rapM ra?e and
soon predominate. They will finaiiv
squeeze regulation humanity out of exist
enee, and wili in course of time, be su
perceded by the seventh and last rae
w hich will be composed of beings entirely
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the war ships and the gen
eral activity usual to such
gala events —won’t it be
well to look into your
Hosiery supply and see if
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Ladles’ Black and Colored Richelieu
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50 dozen Ladles' fine gauze, three-thread
Hermsdorf dye Black Cotton Hose, high
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Ladles' four-thread Lisle Hose In Rem
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50 dozen (ihlldren’s heavy Black School
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similar goods ou some counters at 35c and
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LADIES’ SHIRT WAISTS.
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In pink, pink and black, blue, blue striped
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Men's Lisle Thread Shirts 50c; actual
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Men's Silk Neckwear, Teck’s Four-ln
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