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ISDLX TO MY ADVERTISEMENTS!
■Meetings—Zerubbaliel Lodge No. 15, F.
and A. M.t Tybeo Hotel Company; Haupt
Lodge No. 58, I O. O. F.
Special Notices—To Smokers of Rest Ci
gars, Reid & Cos.; Hannls Distilling Com
pany's Whiskys. Henry Solomon & Son;
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Clement Saussy, Superintendent Savannah
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Amusements—Ball Game Saturday, May
25, Cotton Exchange vs. Lawyers; Steam
er Gov. Salford to the Warships Tills Af
ternoon.
Medical—Munyon's Remedies.
Destruction Sale of Men's Pants—Affpel
& Schaul.
Railroad Schedules—Florida Central and
Peninsular Railroad.
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igation Company.
Summer Resorts—Plimpton Houses and
Annexes, Watch Hill, It. I.
Cheap Column Advertisements—Help
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For Sale; Lost; Personal; Miscellaneous.
The cool wave of yesterday will revive
reminiscences of cold springs in the good
old times long ago. In which the spring of
'l4 is pretty sure to figure. An octo
genarian Georgian recalls that in that year
there was heavy frost as late as May 20,
and that fruit nearly ripe was killed and
fell from the trees.
Ex-Pres dent Harrison's opinion of the
Income tax decision Is terse. "I have no
cpmment to make,” said he, “except that
It wdll save me a few dollars.” There are
a great many other men in the country
who think just about as Mr. Harrison
does. They carry their opinions with re
gard to taxation schemes in their pockets.
The bangs of a Vermont young woman
are likely to become almost as famous as
the left hind leg of Mrs. O'Leary's cow.
The big fire at St. Albans, Vt., the other
cay, which burned over fifty acres and de
stroyed 175 buildings, was caused by the
overturning of a kerosene lamp, with
which the young woman was heating a
crimplngt iron.
There is some virtue in puffed sleeves,
after all. They are good things to fall
upon—that Is. for the wearer to/all upon.
The other day in an Ohio town a horse ran
away with a carriage in which there were
two young women with ultra puffed
sleeves. The carriage was smashed, but
the young women suffered not a scratch
or a bruise. Their sleeves served as cush
lons between themselves and the ground,
and they arose from the wreck smiling.
A freak of fashion had been vindicated.
The case of Dr. R. W. Ruehanan, the
poisoner, which has become a scandal to
the courts of New York, seems likely to
be brought to a conclusion at last. Bu
chanan has been ordered to appear before
the court of appeals on Monday next to
be resentenced to death In the electric
chair. It is said this is the first time the
court of appeals has ever taken similar
action. It has never yet imposed a death
penalty, but has heretofore sent such cases
back to the lower courts for sentence to
be passed.
There continues to be talk of a possible
revolution in the governmental system of
China. There was even talk in the dis
patches the other day about a Chinese re
public in Formosa. A republic, of course,
Involves politicians and stump speeches.
It is of interest, therefore, to hear that
the Chinese frequently’ bury eggs and let
them remain under ground for ten or
twelve years before they use them. It
seems that within that time the eggs
ought to acquire a pungency adequate to
the necessities of even a Chinese stump
speaking.
The market quotations from New' York,
Philadelphia and Boston published yes
terday show that cotton has passed the
7-cents mark and is making its way on
toward 8 cents. Wheat is also climbing,
and on Monday in Chicago July wheat
sold for 77% cents, a rise of almost 4 cents
a bushel in two days. Meantime silver
hangs around 67 cents. Why not insti
tute free coinage in cotton and wheat so
as to raise the price of silver? They say
that the free coinage of silver would raise
the price of cotton and wheat, and it is
a poor rule that will not work both ways.
They Hnve Aiherllwi Oar Harbor.
Besides satisfying the degire of thous
ands of people in this section of the south
! to see a modern war ship, the cruisers
Atlanta and Raleigh have given our har
bor a splendid advertisement. Even the
i navy department wasn’t aware of the
j fact that there is a channel 26 feet deep
from the ocean to the city's wharves, and
so when the Atlanta and the Raleigh were
ordered here they were expected to re
main just inside the bar at Tybeo. The
commanders of the cruisers, however,
after examining the .charts of the river
with Capt. Carter, the army engineer in
charge of the harbor improvements, were
satisfied that, it would be entirely safe to
bring the vessels to the city. Tbe navy
department was so informed, and permis
sion was obtained to come up the river.
The cruisers have been just below the city
for more than a week.
When the late Senator Brown Introduc
ed a b;U into congress, authorizing Im
provements in Savannah harbor . that
would provide a channel of the depth of 26
feet (the depth of water on the bar) the
opinion was quite freely expressed that It
would not be |>osslble to obtain that depth
of water, at least not within the lifetime
of people living then. But how greatly
were the pessimists mistaken! The Im
provements dragged along at first, but
when the comtract system was adopted,
and the amount needed was appropriated
in a lump sum, the work was pushed vig
orously. The result Is that Savannah now
has her 26 feet channel all the way to the
sea, and the largest ships leave her
wharves with complete cargoes. During
the present season ships drawing 23 feet
have been taken to sea, and since then the
engineer In charge of the improvement
has stated that there is a channel 26 feet
deep. The Savannah harbor, once a tor
tuous stream having a succession of shal
lows, is now a deep, swift flowing river
that easily accommodates any vessel that
any ship agent desires to charter for this
port.
All these facts have of course been
known to the people of Savannah for
some time, hut the coming of the Atlanta
ami the Raleigh, deep draft cruisers, has
made them known not only to the navy
department, but to the people of the en
tire country, and of other countries. For
more than u week the cruisers have rid
den at anchor easily anil safely just below
our wharves where they have been visi
ted by crowds of people. It would be grat
ifying if the commanding officer would
bring them along the city front when he
gets ready to go to sea, and thus further
demonstrate that there is ample water
from the sea up to the extreme limits of
the city for such vessels.
When It Is remembered that It is not
long since the channel was only about 16
feet deep the result of the work of the gov
ernment upon the channel seems ulmost
wonderful. If Senator Brown were living
he would be greatly surprised, doubtless,
that such satisfactory results hnve fol
lowed so quickly the Savannah harbor bill
that he Introduced Into congress.
Why Hill Opposed (he Income Tnx.
The decision declaring the Income tax
unconstitutional gives great satisfaction
to Senator Hill. He spoke and voted
against the ineome tax feature of the reve
nue bill when the matter was before the
Senate, and he at all times said that the
policy of taxing Incomes was a mistake.
Naturally, therefore, he Is very much
elated to find himself sustained by the
supreme court.
In speaking of the decision the day it
was rendered he said the tax. if it had
been sustained, would have been the enter
ing wedge for. the substitution of direet
taxes in the place of tariff taxes; and,
besides. It was, he said, class legislation
and was unjust, and it made an unfair dis
crimination and was therefore unwarrant
ed. Senator Hill also regarded the tax
as an attack upon state rights, because
a tax of that kind, if levied at all, should
be levied and collected by the states.
There is much truth in what Senator Hill
says about the income tax. During the
war the people submitted to it, because
they regarded it as a war measure and
necessary, but they saw no necessity for
it in times of peace. And they had not
been consulted about it. It is not men
tioned in the platform of either of the
great political parties. The only platform
that demands it is that of the populists.
The adoption of it by a majority of the
democrats in congress was a concession to
the populists, with the hope of winning
back some of the democrats who had
joined the Populist party.
The decision may not help Senator Hill
politically, though it wdll tend to increase
the respect for him of democrats who are
conservative and who do a great deal of
thinking before giving their sanction to a
policy that is far reaching and profound
ly affects all interests of the country.
The question of whether we shall have
an income tax in this country is settled
for a long time to come, if not forever.
The states may levy such a tax, but it is
hardly probable that any of them will do
so.
It is being claimed by some of Senator
Hill's friends that the supreme court's
adverse decision in the income tax matter
is somewhat in the nature of a compli
ment to hint personally, because of his
opposition to the tax in the Senate. There
is, indeed, good reason to congratulate
the senator upon his sagacity and courage;
but it should be borne in mind that the
President's position also is vindicated by
the decision of the court. The bill became
a law without his signature—a protest
quite as emphatic as anything ever said
or done by Senator Hill.
Dr. Chaunoey Depew has expressed him
self in favor of Devi P. Morton for Pres
ident next year. Warner Miller has ex
pressed himself in favor of Dcpew. Now,
will Morton express himself in favor of
Miller, so as to make the triangle com
plete? Incidentally it may be of inter
est to recall that at the last republican
convention Dr. Depew . was a Benjamin
Harrison man, first, last and all the time.
I It would be interesting to know wliat
I induced him to change his mind.
THE MOIiNING NEWS: THURSDAY, MAY 2”, 1895.
The Cashing** Trip.
The arrival of the torpedo boat Cush
ing In this harbor, after an
Inland trip from Newport News—
except for a few miles by ocean
draws attention to two Important facts,
namely, the desirability of opening, keep
ing open and Improving the Inland water
way between the north ami the south, and
the effectiveness of and the facility with
which harbor defenders of the torpedo
boat class can be handled in compara
tively narrow and shallow water. The
Cushing's trip demonstrates that in time
of war craft of her class could make the
distance between the naval station at Nor
folk and the naval station at New Or
leans without going out to sea or expos
ing thomsedves to Hie enemy's lire more
than twice, and for a comparatively small
outlay on the part of congress, one or
both of those exposures could be avoided.
A canal a few miles in length would con
nect the waters of Shallotte river and
Warcamaw river, in North Carolina, and
then nothing more than a little dredging
would be required to remove the neces
sity for a run at sea between Wilmington
and Georgetown. The route would then
be from Hampton Roads through the Al
bemarle and Chesapeake canal from Nor
folk to Currituck sound, thence through
the North Carolina sounds to Cape Fear
river, thence behind the sea islands to
Shallotte and through the canal into Wac
camaw river, which empties into Winyah
bay at Georgetown. The remainder of
the voyage would be through the well
known ways past Bull's bay. Charleston,
Ed Isto, Beaufort, Fort Royal, Savannah,
Jacksonville and Jupiter, where another
short ocean trip would have to be made
to Hiicayno bay and thence into the chan
nel between the Florida keys, ami so Into
the Gulf of Mexico. From Hampton
Roads northward, Lieut. Fletcher has al
ready made the Inside run througli Ches
apeake bay to Long Island sound.
With this inland water-way open, and
a fleet of torpedo boats in It, It would be
an extremely dangerous undertaking for
a foreign fleet to attempt to levy tribute
from any city along the coast. The use
of the Inland way for war purposes, how
ever, Is only a matter of possibility;
which, however, was commented on by
Robert Fulton In a memorial to congress
early In this century. For commercial
purposes, a through route would be the
mora valuable, as It would permit of
smaller vessels engaging In the carry
ing trade than can now do so.
To revert, however, to the route In war,
the efficacy of the vessels that could be
moved through It may be Illustrated
by , reference to the successes of
the torpedo boats of the Japanese
against the heavy battle-ships of the Chi
nese at Wei-Hal-Wel, where fifteen of
them attacked the Iron-clad fleet of the
Chinese and sank the great cruiser Chen
Yuen upon the first rush. In the Chilean
war, also, the cruiser Almirante Condel
was blown almost out of the water and
sunk by a saucy and swift little torpedo
boat. Manning torpedo boats in an attack
is extremely dangerous. Of the fif
teen boats engaged in the attack at
Wei-Hal-Wel only one escaped without
destruction or more or less serious In
jury. That, however, has nothing to do
with the efficacy of such craft for defen
sive purposes, or with the question of
the desirability of making a continuous
inland water-way between the north and
the south.
The Kickapoo lands, in Oklahoma, were
yesterday thrown open to settlement, and
there was a*rush of prospective settlers
much resembling the famous rush into
the Cherokee strip. The settlement of these
lands will leave but very little more de
sirable land in the west that the govern
ment may throw open to settlers, hence
in the future the movement of people seek
ing homes must be in another direction.
And the south, with thousands upon thou
sands of unoccupied acres to offer, is the
section to which hemeseekers will turn,
naturally and from necessity.
The Chicago Woman's Club has set
tled the color question, which gave it so
much trouble some time ago, by throw
ing open its doors to all, without regard to
“race color, ere* or politic?." It was
sought to have tlic qualifications for mem
bership limited by character, intelligence
and the reciprocal advantage of member
ship to the club and the individual, but
the friends of the colored women said that
would obviously bar out the blacks, hence
the qualifications were cut down to char
acter and Intelligence. The leading advo
cate of the equality of the blacks with
the whites was Dr. Sarah Hackett Stev
enson, the "new” woman who thinks
men ought to be put In skirts.
The Atlanta Constitution continues to
declare in Its editorial columns that "the
author of Coin's Financial School is a
southerner and an ex-confederate,” not
withstanding it has published in its news
columns that ha is a West Virginian, and
was only 9 years old when the war broke
out. West Virginia was not a confeder
ate state,-and 9 or 10-year-old hoys were
not members of the confederate army. It
must be that the Constitution never reads
Us own news columns, or else there
must have some motive in attempting to
create the impression that Harvey was a
confederate soldier.
A New York street railway company
has been for two weeks making experi
ments with an underground wire electric
system, and it is said the experiments
have been quite satisfactory. The cars
on the road were formerly driven by a
cable. The electric conductor is placed
in the cable slot. Should the system prove
entirely successful, the probabilities are
that a great many oable roads would
be changed to electric roads through its
use.
The supreme court's decision in the in
come tax case will probably have the ef
fect of sealing tighter than ever the lips
of Messrs. McKinley, Reed and Harrison
on the money question. The reduction of
the revenues that will follow the upset
ting of the income tax will revive the
opportunity for urging the revising of the
tariff by the next congress, and the re
publicans will try to make the tariff the
leading issue.
At the university at Ann Arbor, Mich.,
a week or two ago a medical student in
the anatomical laboratory was given a
sausage by a fellow student. The sausage
was filled with human flesh, as a Joke, but
the first student. In ignorance of the fact,
ate It. A law* student who was the cor
respondent of a newspaper, published the
story, for which he has been expelled by
the faculty. It does not appear that the
student who perpetrated the horrible and
disgusting practical Joke has been or will
be punished. The pa per for which the law
student was the correspondent will test
In the courts the right of the faculty to
expel their correspondent under the cir
cumstances.
"Coin” was unfortunate in the choice
of a name for hia book It Is now being
called “Coin’* Financial Fool,’ and "Coin’s
Financial Sheol,” both of which designa
tion appear to be based on good reasons.
TERMINAL.
—Prominent Philadelphia citizens are
discussing the feasibility of forming on
organization to erect a monument to Fred
erick Douglass.
—Joseph Smith. Jr., son of the Mormon
prophet and one of the chiefs of the church,
is a man of 60, with a line physique and an
agreeable voice.
—The Princess Maud of Wales is a bicy
clist, but does not rush into bloomers. She
wears a neat and modest costume, with a
riding habit skirt.
—Mine. Nansen, the explorer’s wife, has
not seen her husband for two years. Her
little daughter Is now 3 years of age. Mme.
Nansen is one of the most popular ballad
singers in Norway.
—A heretofore unpublished letter of Co
lumbus was read at a recent meeting in
Paris of the Academy of Moral and Polit
ical Sciences. It was dated 1193. and re
lates to his first voyage.
—Gladstone said recently to an Inter
viewer that he was too old a man to have
an opinion of any kind on the "new wo
man,” and that "his Meal woman had not
altered in the past threescore years and
ten.”
—E. P. Dwight of Philadelphia has given
to the Young Men’s Christian Association
a beautiful country es'ate of 465 acres near
Downingtown, Pa. The association will
make a camping ground and summer re
sort for the members.
BRIGHT BITS.
—An Aid to Success.—Mr. Portly—l'm
glad to hear that you are prospering.
Slim—Yes. I gave up my worst habit.
Mr. Portly—And what was it?
Slim—l gave up giving up.
—A Garb of I>al>or.-Tattered Tommy-
Now, if youse could only see me in a dress
suit.
Lazy Luke—Hu! Dat's too much like
work. I'd take yer fer a waiter, sure.—New
York Tribune.
—The Telepohne's Rival.—'Twynn—'Tele
phones are the most expensive things ever
contrived to talk through.
Triplett—l don’t know about that. My
wife talks throug a $P hat, and gets anew
one three times a year.—Detroit Free
Press.
—A Bismarck schoolma'am, who had
been telling the story of David, ended it
with: "And all this happened over 3,000
years ago.” A little cherub, his blue eyes
wide open with wonder, said, after a mo
ment's thought: “oh, my, what a mem
ory you’ve got.”—Machlus Union.
—Toughened.—“Say.” said the deputy, “I
put No. 711 on the treadmill eight hours
ago us a punishment, and I'll he dinged
If he ain't gion' on Jist as chipper and
happy as can be.”
“Why, of course,” said ’he prison ward
en, in tones of disgust. .lidn’t you know
the feller was sent here for bicyole steal
ing? That sort of thing Is right In his
line."—lndianapolis Journal.
CURRENT COMMENT.
Tlie Income Tnx Removed.
From the New York Sun (Dem).
Since this deadly Incubus is removed,
the democracy of America can begin to
breathe the breath of life once more.
Populism Knocked Onl.
From the Philadelphia I’ress (Rep.).
This (ineome tax) decision will put an
end to the populistic attempt to tax one
portion of the country for the benefit of
the rest.
Good Cause For Rejoicing.
From the Hartford (Oonn.) Times (Dem.).
Good cause for general rejoicing! The
unequal Income tax. an offensive measure,
even In war times, and doubly so In peace,
is killed—as dead as a herring.
Illow (o Republican Theories.
Charleston News and Courier (Dem.).
The decision is a direct and a hard blow
at the fond republican doctrine and theory
of a centralized government. It puts the
state between the federal government and
the citizen.
Presumption Against 11 Sow,
From the New York Tribune (Rep.).
With the force of precedent thus swept
away, neither Justices nor the people can
hereafter approach the consideration of
an ineome tax with the presumption in its
favor which has in many minds existed.
Bail Itiihhixli Cleared A way.
From the Philadelphia Record (hem.).
The decision makes a good riddance of
had rubbish. It clears the way for the
readjustment of the revenue upon simpler,
safer and more equitable lines without
trenching upon a field that may be better
gleaned by the states.
lltow to Class Legislation.
From the Philadelphia Ledger (Ind.).
The decision of the court relates, of
course, only to the unconstitutionally of
the income tax; but it breaks down at the
same time a vicious attempt at class and
sectional legislation which should have
had no advocates In this American repub
lic.
Could Yot Hnve Been Otherwise.
From the Baltimore Sun (Dem.).
Any other ruling must have worked
great hardship and injustice, placing the
whole burden of the income tax upon a
comparatively small number of citizens,
and those not the best able to bear it, nor
belonging to the class whom the law was
especially intended to reach.
Democrat ie Doctrine Destroys the
Income Tax.
From the New York Times (Dem.).
The strictest of strict construction doc
trine was practiced and professed by the
supreme court yesterday In its opinion
declaring the income tax unconstitutional.
That theory of constitutional interpreta
tion has been from the beginning an arti
cle of the Democratic party's creed, while
the federalists, whigs and republicans have
been "loose constructionists.” The rule
was never more rigidly applied than in the
framing of the opinion read by Chief Jus
tice Fuller.
Against l iteqnul Taxation.
From the Washington Post (Ind.).
Here are five names which the Ameri
can people will hold in reverent and grate
ful memory forever—Fuller, Field, Gray,
Brewer, Shiras! They have stood be
tween their country and the ignorant rab
ble lead by demagogues. They have
checked the ugly and abhorrent tide of
class prejudice and reckless passion. This
Is still the land of liberty and equal rights
for all under the law—still a land where
the Individual is protected In the fruits of
his Industry and where honest men cannot
he made to pay tribute to schemers, drones
and dupes. Let those five names be added
to the Roll of Honor 1 .
-%■ Afveiomr I'nKlishmon.
The gentleman from the remote haci-
as we Innocently imagined, had just
dismounted from the upj>er berth, arm-d
cap-a-pie, his visiting. Hunday-best re
volver displaying its mother-of-pearl han
die and its nickeled business end; hts spurs
wer** strapped onto his boots, and they
Jingled as he alighted, says the Boston
H- rald. A shudder ran through the stal
wart frame of the Pullman porter, who
had. up to that moment, treated us with
the nonchalant hauteur of a Standard Oil
magnate.
‘‘Sah,'* exclaimed the porter, “shine your
spurs. aah'*”
But the cavalier deigned not to reply,
and jangle-jingled his way to the smoking
compartment, where he patiently awaked
the breakfast station, still an hour and a
half distant.
“Dese hyah Mexicans is jess holy ter
rors,*’ remarked the iorter sotto voice;
“dey goes to bed ready for a battle or a
duel; if we’d gone off de track in de night,
that man, sah, would have shot de con
ductor or me fo' sho*. I'm jess about dead
tired of dis job.”
The remainder of us began to Invent ex
planations for the presence of the don.
who was taking a trip in such warlike
guise. Some of us thought he might be
a famous bandit, locally known as “El
Altote.” or “The Tall One,” and our ex
cited and as yet unbreakfasted imagina
tions pictured the train held up. our jack
ets rifled of the silver dollars of the Mon
tezumas, and only locally unm*gotiablc
N< w York drafts left to us as we crossed
what old-fashioned geographers termed
the Great American Dessert.
The conductor coming in from a consul
tation with the newsboy, who had pro
vided him with a provisional breakfast of
Jubilee paste, said in reply to our querries
regarding the mysterious passenger:
“He’s no Mexican. He got on last night
about 12. He's manager of an English
mining company down the road. “
“But his spurs; wore them all night,
and his revolver he had on when he got
down from h!s berth,” wo breathless!v
urgf and.
“Yes, I know’: ho always does that to awe
the tenderfoot,” explained the cynical con
ductor.
Presently, as if in confirmation of th<
statement of the conductor, we overheard
the hepistolled Britisher saying to the por
ter: “I dessay, bov, you can make me a
cup of tea in the buffet. I’m quite fagged
this morning.”
The conductor said to us In a few whis
pers: “He gets off at the next station, lb
never goes further. You see he’s a young
er son, sent over on £5,000 a year to man
age a mine. He knows as much about ore
as a Pullman porter does of a ship’s rig
ging. When he came over they gave him
a French chef to cook for him at the mine
and a violinist to W’hile away his even
ings. for he's accustomed to the opera at
Paris. It’s a daisy job he has, arfd you
just hot your life I’d like to change with
him.”
Told \\ hat She Thought of Her.
When the car stopped at Monroe and
Dearborne streets a stout, matronly-look
ing woman, with an arm full of bundles,
got on. says the Chicago Times-Herald.
She dropped one of the bundles as she did
so and another portly female picked it up
for her; their eyes met and a confuesd
look of recognition came into them.
“It’s a nice day,” tentatively remarked
the woman who had picked up the bundle.
“Yes, indeed. ] declare, your face Is so
familiar, 1 must have met you some
where.”
“That’s Just what I was thinking. At
church, maybe, or some kind of a meet
ing.”
“Yes, or a funeral. Say, I believe it was
at Mrs. Walker’s funeral, on State street.”
“So It was; I haven’t seen you since.
Been to see the Walkers lately?”
"No 1 haven’t. My nurse girl up and
left me and I haven’t had a minute’s time
to myself.”
“That’s too bad. I’ve g#t a good one
now, 1 tell you. Why, I don't even have
to hide the novels when I go out and leave
her with the children.”
“Well, keep her close. Mine was a good
one and well contented, too. but one day
when she was out a woman—l won’t call
her a lady, not if she wore lace and dia
monds—persuaded her away. She was
wearing a dress and cap and apron. I’d
got her so she’d look neat, and that wo
man liked her looks so well that she of
fered her a place at 50 cents a week more
than I was giving her. yes. and told her
there was a barber shop right around the
corner from her house.”
“You—you don’t say so? Why, those
flowers in that store are lovely! Mrs.
Walker got some elegant ones at her fu
neral. didn’t she?”
“Indeed she did. The girl up and left
me that night. If you see any of the
Walkers tell them I’ve been too busy to
call and, say, Just tell them how’ I lost that
good nurse girl 1 told them 1 had.”
“I—l don’t often see them myself. Quite
a cool spell we’ve had. wasn’t it?”
“Yes, indeed. And, would you believe it.
that girl didn’t want to leave the dress I’d
given her, said it wouldn't flt the new girl,
anyhow. I told her I’d make it tit.”
“M’hm. I hope the fruit isn’t hurt much.”
“I hope not. Did you ever hear of such a
mean trick as that woman did? Mrs. Dig
gers her ha me is. and if I ever lay eyes on
her I’ll tell her just what—My, do you get
off here? You live a long way from where
I thought you did.”
As she settled hack in her seat, she said
to the young woman with her: “Nice lady,
isn’t she? I’d have Introduced you. but I
couldn’t just remember her name, though
it seemed right on the tip of my tongue.
Bet me see, it begins with a R. Well, I
declare, if it wasn't that very Riggers wo
an herself, sure as you live!”
And. glancing hack, they saw’ the portly
female fanning herself with a newspaper,
while she waited for the next car.
Willing- in IMeaxe.
His Satanic majesty sat upon his brim
stone throne fanning the muggy air with
tiis flamboyant tail, says the New York
Sun.
Presently anew arrival in those parts
was announced, and he was forthwith ush
ered into the devilish domains.
He sniffed the heavy air as if it were a
familiar dose to him, and, bowing to his
majesty, he observed the peculiar motions
of his tail.
“Three strikes and out,” he said after
contemplating them for about a minute.
"What's that?” inquired Satan, resting
his caudal appendage across his leg.
"Ah. there. Sate, old hoy,” greeted the
visitor. “I was so attracted by the way
you handled yourself over the home plate
that 1 didn't see you. How do you do?”
“Who are you?" thundered his majesty.
"Me?" asked the visitor with guileless
grace.
“Yes, slave.”
“Come off. I'm no slave. I'm an Amer
ican citizen.”
"In these domains, sirrah, you are my
slave.”
“Yes, 1 am. I don’t think.” and the vis
itor stuck his thumbs in his vest armholes
and strutted up and down before the
throne.
“We shall see,” said his majesty with
an ominous shake of his locks, and beck
oned to a host of imps.
The next minute the American citizen
was wondering what had become of the
Monroe doctrine, and he threw up his
hands.
“Clive a man a chance, won't you?" he
said hotly.
"Answer me,” thundered his majesty.
“Where are you from?” •
“Chicago, of course,” responded the vis
itor.
His majesty rose to his cloven feet and
bowed.
“I beg your pardon,” he said hastily.
“Come and take a seat by me. I'm afraid
you will find it tame here after what
youv'e been used to, m.v dear fellow, but
don't be too hard on us and we'll try to
make you feel as much at home as our fa
cilities will permit.”
Seating himself beside his majesty, the
gent from Chicago kindled a cigarette and
waved his hand for the performance to
begin.
A Sum Jones Story,
A young lady who heard Sam Jones
preached recently tells the New
nan Herald the following, which
is but eharacterisitc of the
the man: Before beginning his sermon he
proceeded to rebuke his late comers. “Now
what makes you women so late? I'll tell
you—primpin'. All the late comers who
didn't stay at home primpin' stand up ”
No one rose but a very uglv woman. Sam
looked at her a moment and remarked
man: Before beginning his sermon he
in', and it makes no difference how late
you come here after, I’ll make no fuss.”
—Depth.—"Professor." said ambitious
student, "I am determined to gain recogni
tion from the world as a deep thinker
Could you give me any advice on how to
proceed?”
"None,”,replied, the old gentleman,
thoughtfully; unless you write in a sub
cellar. —\\ asliington Star.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
—George Washington Bradshaw is the
name of an eccentric colored man of
Frankfort, Ind.. who claims to be a sec
ond Ghrist, and will endeavor to establish
anew church in that city. He says he is
the seventh son of a seventh son. born on
Christmas day, and has the jower to
either punish or reward mankind. In a
bright red flannel vest, which he wears at
all times, the negro believes lurks the
mysterious charm which gives him his in
fluence over all children of the earth. He
proposes to establish a church and pro
vide the members with pieces of his "holy"
garment, thus enabling them to perform
the same wonders as their chief. Brad
shaw lives In a. hut at the outskirts of the
city. He has accumulated considerable
money, and proposes to spend a part in
the erection of a church.
—lt Is perhaps one of the signs of the
times, to those alert for indications, that
the art of breathing has become more and
niore a subject of attention, says Harper's
Bazar. Oculist as well as physiologists
go deeply into its study in a way hardly to
he touched upon here. Physicians have
cured aggravated -ases of insomnia by
long drawn regular breaths, fever-stricken
patients have been quieted,stubborn forms
of indigestion made to disappear. A tend
ency to consumption may he entirely over
come. as som*‘ authority has within the
last few years clearly demonstrated, by ex
ercises in breathing. Seasickness, too,
may be surmounted, and the victim of hyp
notic influence taught to withstand the
force of any energy directed against him.
There is a famous physician of Munich,
who has written an extensive work upon
the subject of breathing. He has. besides,
formulated a system by which asthmatic
patients ar** made to walk without losing
breath, wrhile sufferers from weaknesses
of the heart are cured. At Meran, in the
Austrian Tyrol, his patients (almost ev
ery royal house of Europe is represented)
are put through a certain system of
breathing and walking! The
mountain path are all marked
off with stakes of different
colors, each indicating the number of min
uies In which a patient must walk the giv
en distance, the breathing ami walking bet.
ing in time together. As the cure pro
gresses the ascents are made steeper and
steeper.
• —“la. antiquity,” says Cosmos,M arch 30,
“besides indigo and purple, few colors
were employed and these were obtained
for the most part from the vegetable king
dom. but their purity was so great that
they have kept well to our own times, af
ter having undergone for centuries the ac
tion of the all* and the sun. The fact Is
particularly remarkable in the Egyptian
tombs; the stone has been disintegrated
by weathering, while the colors have been
preserved. The color that we meet most
frequently is a mixture of reddish-brown
oxid of iron (red hematite) and clay,
known under the name of Pompeian red.
This colot;, which has resisted for 4.<00
years the sun of Egypt and the action of
the air. Is equally proof against acids.
Thf Egyptians reduced it, by rubbing be
tween stones under water, to a degree of
fineness that w’o cannot obtain nowadays
by chemical precipitation. An equally
precious yellow pigment, also much used,
was formed of a natural oxid of Iron
mixed with much clay, chalk and water,
and browned by the action of heat; the
mixture of the two colors gives orange.
For this yellow’ color, gold bronze or gold
leaf was also employed. For blue, they
used a glass colored with copper minerals;
this pigment was not less permanent than
the preceding, even acids having very little
effect upon it. Gypsum or plaster of Paris
furnished white and also formed the ba
sis of pale colors when organic pigments
were added to it, probably madder for
red. The colors were always thinned and
rendered adhesive by means of gums. It
Is interesting to know, as is proved by in
scriptions, that the artists regarded their
colors as Imperishable.”
—On scores of streets of the older Cali
fornia tow ns, such as Santa Barbara, Riv
erside and Santa Ana, says the Philadel
phia Badger, there are rows of pepper
trees, up whose shaggy bark Cloth of Gold,
Beauty of Glazenwood and Devonionsis
roses have been planted and trained to
climb so tightly as to conceal the trunk
from sight. In the months of blossoming
roses there can hardly be a more royal
sight than a row of these pepper-trees, en
veloped from the earth clear to the branch
es In a mantle of thousands of roses of all
imaginable hues, and bearing aloft ponder
ous branches of fine, thick green foliage.
Painters and photographers have sought in
vain to represent the combination of color
presented in such scenes as these. The ra
pid growth of all rose plants is a matter
of astonishment with all new comers to
Southern California. Climbing roses that
bear from 10,000 to 12,000 blossoms at one
time are common In every locality in South
orn California. There are some
of the bushes that are about 10
years old in Pomona Valley that have an
nually for several years borne from 20,000
to 3o,()00 bolssoms at a time. There is In
Ventura a magnificent specimen—a white
Lamarque rose. It was planted from a
cutting In November of 1870, and has been
trained over a large arbor. Its main stem
immediately above the ground, measures
2 feet and 9 inches in circumference. Two
branches start from it, and each is 2 feet
and 1 Inch in circumference. It has been
cut back and pruned heavily each year,
and last year over a wagon load of run
nings was taken away from it. For several
years the girls and boy’s of Ventura have—
every March and April—counted the num
ber of blossoms on this mammoth bush. In
live years there have been annually over
14.000 roses, and last April they numbered
21,640. Botanists say they can discover no
sign of degeneracy, due to old age or rare
productiveness, in the wonderful plant.
—The donkey who. rather undeservedly,
has come to be considered one of the natu
rals of the animal world, was dedicated
by the ancients to Bacchus, while the ass
of Silenus was raised to a place among the
stars, says the Gentleman’s Magazine. Ap
parently lie was a more intellectual person
age in early days than he Is supposed to
be at present. Ammontanus, the gramma
rian. possessed one who invariably attend
ed his master’s lectures on poetry, and
would even leave the choicest luncheon of
thistles to do so. “Wicked as a red ass”
ran an old proverb, which the Copts be
lieved In so flrmly that every year they
sacrificed an unhappy animal of the de
tested color by hurling It headlong from a
wall. In an old black-letter translation of
Albert us Magnus the donkey figures in the
following extraordinary receipt: “Take an
Adder’s skyn, and Auri pigmentum, and
greeke pitch of Reupiriticuin, and the wax
of news Bees, and the fat or grease of an
Asse, and break* all. and put them
all in a dull seething pot full of water, and
make it to seeth at a glowe fire, and after
let it wajee cold, and make a taper, and
every man that shall see light of it shall
scome he-adlesse.” Burton, in his “Anato
my of Melancholy,” mentions as a valua
ble armlet “a ring made of the hoofo of an
asso’s right foot carried about.“ A tract
written by a certain “A. B.” in 15%, enti
tled “The Noblenesse of the Asse,” is ex
ceedingly laudatory of that excellent ani
mal. “Ho refuseth no burden, he goes
whither he is sent without anv contradic
tion. He lifts not his foote against anv one
ho bytes not; he is no fugitive. nor‘ mali
cious affected. He doth all things In good
sort, and to his liking that hath cause to
employ him.” But what chiefly fills the
worthy author with admiration is the don
key’s voice—his “goodly, sweet, and con
tinuall brayings,” which form “a melodious
and proportionate kind of musicke ”
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