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"I am not, and do not expect to become,
a candidate for any office within the gift
of the people or their representative^.' 1
said Secretary Carlisle In his speech at
Covington the other day. Nevertheless,
there will probably arise a good deal of
talk about the secretary as a “good south
ern man" to be nominated next year.
Everybody has heard the expression,
“as mad as a hatter," but who ever knew
how mad that was, or over saw a hatter
that was mad? A mad hatter, however,
turned up In a New York police court a
few days ago. His name was Illblghorst.
nd he was crazy. The degree of his mad
ness Is not recorded, hence the expression
must stlH for a tlmo 'remain somewhat
■♦ague. It Is now in order for somebody to
produce a March hare in a maniacal state.
Two of “old John Brown's” followers are
buried at Perth Amboy, N. J. It Is an
nounced that their bones will soon be dug
up In order to allow a terracotta manufac
turing company to use the clay In which
they now rest. The Kansas Grand Army
of the Republic will remove the remains to
Kansas and set up monuments over them.
Perth Amboy is north of Mason and Dix
on's line.
Henry Haskell and Alias Knowles were
the rival candidates for attorney general
of Montana in the last election. Haskell
was elected, and shortly thereafter made
Miss Knowles his assistant. They art now
engaged to be married. Haskell is a re
publican and the young woman is a popu
list. Haskell is a brave man, and should
have been elected the commander of the
atate troops Instead of attorney general.
The president of the Bank of Commerce,
of St. Louis, has issued peremptory orders
forbidding any and every employe of his
hank from attending horse races, under
penalty of dismissal. The president wishes
to keep his cashiers, bookkeepers and
clerks out of the way of temptation. He
has noticed that men who go to races some
times put their fingers Into the tills of their
employers, after they have lost their own
money, in the hope of being able to win
and make good their losses. Gambling ir.
one form or another—at cards, horse racqs
or speculation in cotton or stocks—has
probably lead to more defalcations than
any other cause.
The cholera has pretty well disappeared
from Europe, except In Russia, where It
raged sq severely last year; but there has
been anew outbreak at Mecca. It has
long been known that the chief agent of
dissemination of the disease at Mecca Is
the "holy well” in that city, which is
U3cd by the pilgrims to Mahomet’s tomb
gs a bathing pool as well as a drinking
fountain. At the end of April there were
25,000 pilgrims in the holy district; at tho
and of June it is thought there will be 300,-
000 of them at Mecca, hence there is rea
son to fear a rapid Increase in the disease
and in the death rate. There has from
tjtr.e to time been talk of a movement by
the Christian nations against that famous
pool of death, but nothing has ever come
of it.
The seizure of Miss Sadie Alartlnot's
diamond garter buckles by the customs
authorities at New York has greatly ex
ercised a nvupber of the New York news
papers and a portion of the press of the
national capital. The New York Herald
printed a picture of the buckles, and the
Washington Post devotes leading edito
rial space to the consideration of the mat
ter in a broadly national sense. The Post
has, furthermore, figured out that the em
blem on one of the buckles is that of
“Scylla,” and on the other side that of
'‘.fcarybdig.”
Why They Are Silent.
The silence of the republican leaders on
the silver question is causing comment.
Neither Harrison, Reed. McKinley," Mor
ton oof Allison is saying a word In favor'
of either sound money or the free coinage
of silver. When the, friends of any one of
them *ls Asked why tlieir favorite does
not have something to say on one side or
other of the great monetary question now
agitating the country, they Invariably an
swer that his position is so well under
stood thefe Is no need for him to say
anything. That probably Is as good and
safe an answer as eould lie made under
the circumstance*, but it conveys no In
formation. Asa matter of fact, nobody
knows exactly what the views of any one
of them on the silver question are.
The reason, probably, that they are si
lent is that they are waiting to see what
the sentiment of their party is on that
question. The chairman of the national
republican committee Is now in New York,
and In an interview a day or two ago he
declared that there are fifty-nine electoral
votes in the west that will be cast for the
presidential candidate who will pledge
himself to sign, in the event of his election
to the presidency, any silver bill congress
might send him. Are the republican lead
ers afraid of losing fifty-nine electoral
votes? Is it because of the fear of losing
the fifty-nine delegates to the national re
publican convention who would represent
the fifty-nine electoral votes to which
Chairman Carter calls attention that pre
vents the republican leaders from taking
a position on the sliver question? It cer
tainly looks that way. These republican
leaders are looking out for themselves,
and not for the country.
The Issue in t Imtlinm County.
There Is no public question before the
people of Chatham county of such impor
tance as the ‘‘no fence" question. Any
voter understands it, or ought to, since
It has been discussed periodically for
years. It Is simply whether a farmer
shall be required to fence his crops or not.
Upon this question depends largely the
future of the city of Savannah, and the
county of Chatham. “No fence” means the
rapid development of the agricultural re
sources of the county and a steady Im
provement In the health conditions of the
city and county. If those who are Inter
ested in the welfare of the city and county
will do their duty by registering, and vot
ing at the election on the fence question,
the Issue will be decided lit favor of "no
fence" by an overwhelming majority.
There can be no excuse for not register
ing, because the registration books are
at the sheriff's office, and arc open every
lay, except Sunday, from 9 a. m. until 4
p. m. To register at once and vote on
the day of election will take very little
time, and is an easy way of doing an Im
mense amount of good to this city and
county.
The registration will close June 13. ami
there is, therefore, no time to be lost by
those who are willing to lend a helping
hand in bringing tens of thousands of
acres in this county under cultivation and
protecting the drainage system, which Is
so necessary to the health of the city and
county.
Tliey Mint,ld Kcil Mure Closely.
Some of our esteemed contemporaries
are trying to show that the Morning News
has changed its position on the silver
question. We don't think they are in
tentionally doing us an Injustice. Still,
it would be advisable for them to be sure
they are right before making statements
about the position of the Morning News
on the silver question or any other.
The other day the Morning News said:
“Those who talk of bimetallism arc
either mistaken or trying to mislead the
people. There is no such thing as bi
metallism in any country. Some coun
tries have the silver standard and others
the gold standard. All the countries
where civilization and material progress
are found have the gold standard, while
all countries which are in barbarous or
backward state haw the silver stand
ard."
The Amerlcus Timcs-Recorder repro
duced the foregoing and commented upon
it as follows:
“Would the esteemed Savannah
News have made this honest but
pernicious announcement prior to the
repeal of the Sherman law? No; it
was then a howling bimetallist and
strongly advocated what it now as
strongly condemns.”
The Timcs-Recorder Is mistaken. The
Alorning News has not changed Its posi
tion in the least. We would have stated
before the repeal of the purchasing
clasue of the Shermaji stiver law Just
what wc state now, and doubtless did
state it then in substance.
On what authority does the Times-Re
coruer say that we strongly advocated
then what we strongly condemn now?
Surely not on the authority of the Morn
ing News. What we advocated then is
what we favor now, as far as bimetallism
is concerned, and that is free coinage of
silver by international agreement. If all
the other great commercial nations should
agree to open their mints to the free coin
age of silver their would be no objection
to the opening of the mints of this country
for the same purpose. What we oppose Is
free silver coinage by this country inde
pendently of the nations of Europe. With
ail the great commercial nations acting
together in the matter of free silver coin
age no great financial disaster could be
sutlerod by this country its would bo the
case if we should act Independently in the
matter. We don't think the Times-Recor
cter wishes to create a wrong impression
among its patrons in respect to the posi
tion of the Morning News relative to the
silver question, but it is likely to do so un
less it keeps closer to the facts. Much of
that which appears in the public prints in
regard to silver grows out of misstate
ments. Will the Timcs-Recorder say why
it thinks the statement it criticisis is per
nicious?
There arc appearing numerous replies to
“Coin's Financial School', but nobody is
writing books in support of “Coin’s falla
cies. He has the field to himself, in so
far a3 the sale of free silver pamphlets Is
concerned; and likewise he is the only man
in the open for the sound money WTitcrs
to train their guns upon. Is Harvey the
only man among the free stlverites who Is
capable of writing a pamphlet?
THE MORNING NEWS: FRIDAY. MAY 24. 1893.
Carlisle's Memphis Speech.
We publish this morning very nearly
the entire speech which Secretary Car
lisle delivered *to the sound money con
vention at Memphis yesterday. It is
equally' as fine as the speech he delivered
at Covlngtof). Kyi, last Monday night. It
deals with other featnres of the sitver
question than those that received his at
tention at Covington, and it presents
them so clearly and so simply that every
one can 'understand them. In his ability
to state a proposition plainly, together
with his reasons for the conclusions he
reaches, he stands second to no man in
the country. He handles the most abstruse
question* in such a way as to make them
Interesting.
In hl.s Memphis speech he discusses a
number of the features of the silver ques
tion, but the one that will Interest the
largest number of readers per,haps is that
relating to the debt question.
One of tile favorite arguments of the sil
vcrjtes, and the one they rely upon proba
bly more than any other to make converts
to the free coinage of silver, is that by
making silver tin standard of value it wilt
be easier for the debtor to pay his debts,
bet a use money will be cheaper. The debt
or will be bonefftted and the creditor will
be Injured. Mr. Carlisle points out that
while it is certain the creditor would be
injured because he would have to accept
from his'debtor money of less purchasing
power, it is by no mean* certain that the
debtor would be bonefftted. But suppos
ing the debtor would be benefftted, what
advantage to the country would a change
in our monetary system be that would in
jure vastly*more people than it would
benefit? For every farmer and mechanic
that Is in debt there is a creditor who has
loane 1 money with the expectation of get
ting back money equal in purchasing
power to that which he loaned. If the
creditor should be paid In money of only
half the purchasing power he would be de
frauded of half of what he Is entitled to,
and therefore injured. But, outside of the
farmers and mechanics who have mort
gages on their farms or homes, there are
millions of people w ho have life Insurance
policies, money in saving banks and pen
sions, or thoir savings are Invested in na
tional, state, municipal or railroad bonds.
To all these millions of people the silver
ites would give money of only half the pur
chasing power of that they now’ have.
Admitting, therefore, that the man whose
farm is mortgaged would l>e benefftted by
a cheaper currency it is evident that
where a thousand would be benefftted by
the proposed cheap money scheme there
are ten thousand that would be injured
by it.
Too Much Keelinsr.
The feeling displayed by Mr. Justice Mar
ian and Mr. Justice White when they read
their dissenting opinions In the income tax
case, together with the sentiments they
expressed, has caused something of a.sen
sation throughout the country. These
justices, one a democrat and the other a
republican, seemed to have an Idea that
they were engaged In a hot political cam
paign, and that it was their duty to w hoop
up their side of the question. Neither
their manner nor their language was in
keeping with the dignity and decorum of
the highest Judicial tribunal of the coun
try.
Air. Justice Harlan In Impassioned lan
guage wanted to know "if those in whose
behalf arguments are made that rest upon
favoritism by the law making power to
mere property and to particular sections
of tho country are aware that they are
provoking a contest which In some coun
tries has swept away. In a tempest of
frenzy and passion, existing social organ
ization and put in peril all that was dear
to friends of law and order.”
Talk like this lias the effect of bringing
about the very condition of affairs which
Air. Justice Harlan pretends he would
avert. The suggestion thrown out by Mr.
Carter, one of the attorneys for the gov
ernment in the argument of the case, that
the defeat of the income tux might lead
to widespread disturbance, found a lodge
ment in his mind apparently. The infer
ence from what he said was that it would
be w iser to cater to a socialistic sentiment
than to state the law as it is without re
gard to any existing sentiment respecting
the issue before the court..
Thejre is much more danger to the well
being of the country in ihterpreting the
law so as to satisfy what appears to be
a popular clamor than there Is in inter
preting it in accordance with reason. The
duty of a court is to uphold the law. If
th£ law is wrong let the law-making power
amend or‘repeal it. No greater mistake
could be made than for the highest court
In the land, for the purpose of satisfying
a discontented element of the people, to
declare constitutional a law that is not
constitutional. If the constitution is de
liberately disregarded once a precedent is
established for disregarding it frequently,
and it would be disregarded until all re
spect for the fundamental law was lost.
The opinion in which Air. Justice Harlan
expressed his dissent was political rather
than judicial, and seems to justify the
question which is being asked, namely,
whether he isn't troubled by the buzzing
of the Presidential bee?
As show-big to what lengths the popu
lists and other advocates of free silver
will go, it is noted that tho Progressive
Farmer, of Raleigh, N. C., an organ of the
populists and the paper founded by the
late L. L. Polk, president of the Farmers'
Alliance, takes the ground that "the peo
ple have a natural right” to demand that
silver owned by them shall be coined by
the government, or by other means, and
adds; "If we should see a person making
silver money we would not inform on
him.” That is precisely the way the
"moonshiners” look upon the process of
making whisky. They think everybody
has a natural right to change his corn into
whisky if he is so disposed, and it Is none
of the government's business. At the same
lime, the laws prohibit the making of
money by individuals, just as they do the
making of whisky by an unlicensed dis
tillery. and when the populist press vir
tually advises counterfeiting, it is advis
ing the breaking of the laws. The party
or the paper that advocates lawlessness
cannot long survive.
PERSONAL.
—A certain Peruvian h-Uess once paid
the late M. Worth $24. for a custume,
w hich contained neariv !"00# worth of
lace.
—Mias Margaret Burrows of Now Haven.
Conn., is to marry the prince dl San Fana
tlne Bourbon del Mont- Santa Marla of
Rome. ti
—Since his assgtnment to St. Mary's
parish at Newbuf N V Dr McGlynn
has taken to lecturing again, and he la
drawing large audiences.
—Foreign papers *ay that the fastest
speaker in the world among public men
is Signor Grimaldi, the It Gian deputy. He
can speak 300 words a minute with ease.
—Mrs. Langtry is at h- me. has been to
the Newmarket races, ha* launched with
the dear prince. Lord Roths hild and oth
er swells, and is quite in the old swim.
—A cablegram from 1/ot lon to the New
York Times says of Austria's new Premi’r,
Ooluchowski: “The new Austrlarv minis
ter of foreign affairs is not only m Pole,
but Is the husband of a Murat princess, in
timate with the Bonaparte* and much
more Parisian than Viennese In his exper
iences and tastes."
—AYhen Wade Hamilton * residence was
burned at the time of Sherman's invasion
of South Carolina the fir*' partly destroyed
a fine old cedar tree that stood near the
house. From the trunk of the ruined tree
Gen. Hampton afterward fashioned with
ids own hands a email glove
box, which he ga\e to a Car
olina friend, a lady, with the remark that
he hoped he should find hint more success
ful at construction than at reconstruction.
The bsx Is sitMl in the lady's possession
and naturally highly prlz*"!.
—The Rev. John Constantine of Ommot-
Geloy. a town located in Kurdistan, on
the boundary between Turkey and Per
sia. and a priest of the Ibstorian church,
that remarkable body o’ Christians who
have held their faith in the midst of at
first a hostile lnflde! and later a fanatic
Moslem imputation sine - the end of the
fifth century, is circling the earth on a
lagging tour for the support of Christian
missions among his people. Ho is now
In St. Paul, and will soon proceed east
ward.
BRIGHT HITS.
—Jess—The first thing Mrs. Bleeker did
was to break her husband of all his bad
habits.
Bess—Then what?
Jess—He became so Insipid that she had
to sue for a separation—i > lkland Acorn.
—Possibly True.—Bhe Here is the story
of a man who says he nev* r made love to
a girl in his life. Do you believe it?
He—it may be true. Some fi Hows make
a specialty of widows, you know.—lndia
napolis Journal.
—Doubtless They Would—Johnny—Maw
I should think It would be a heap more
careless to east pearls before chickens than
to east 'em before swine.
His Mother—Why so. Johnny?
Johnny—'Cause they'd eat 'em.—Chicago
Tribune.
—"Tills hasn’t a sign of a clam In it,"
said the guest who had ordered clatn
chowder. "It's a swindle; that's what it is."
"Excuse me, sir,” responded the waiter,
who is too good for that business, "but
we only undertake to serve a chowder, not
an aquarium.”—Life.
—"Have you ever noticed what a dis
tinguished air Prof. Baretonl has?” asked
the soulful girl.
"I have noticed an air of garlic. If that
is what you mean,” sail the sharp-nosed
girl.
And the soulful girl looked disgusted.—
Indianapolis Journal.
—A washerwoman applied for help to a
gentleman, who gave era note to the
manager of a certain club. It read as fol
lows:
"Dear Mr. X.: Thl3 woman wants wash
ing.”
Very shortly the answer-came back:
“Dear fdr—l dare sa* she does, but I
don't fancy the Job.’’—Tid Hits.
—"lt's hard to get my wife interested in
sports,” said Mr. Gallo 1 "I told her yes
terday that 1 time within a dot of play
ing Hornpipe in the Brooklyn handicap.
"And v/hat did she s .y?”
"Btia said she was glad I didn't try it.
She dttlu't think 1 had the slightest talent
for music.”—Washington Star.
Cl RIIEXT COMM EXT.
I,eaves Nothing t He Guessed.
Front the New York Post (Ind.).
The speech of Secretary Carlisle at Cov
ington was nn exceedingly lucid and im
portant deliverance on the silver question.
Indeed, we doubt If it has ever been sur
passed by anybody. Mr. Carlisle has. in
an eminent degree, the fa ulty of mak
ing hard things easj to the common un
derstanding. This Is the first and highest
requisite of public speaking.
“Not for Joe.*’
From Louisville Courier-Journal (Deni.).
Twelve hours before the delivery of Sec
retary Carlisle’s Covington speech Senator
Blackburn broke* out in a cold sweat and
a hot interview proclaiming that he pro
posed answering it and holding Carlisle
to the record. Senator Blackburn will not
answer that speech. If he ever attempts
to do so It will he the most amusing per
formance yet of the free coinage cam
paign. What Senator Blackburn will prob
ably do will be to make a great deal of
noise in Insisting that Mr. Carlisle has not
always known quite as much about silver
as he knows now, and will call that an
"answer.”
Carlisle In the South.
From the Philadelphia Ledger (Ind.).
Secretary Carlisle's sound money tour
through the south should be of great bene
fit In the direction of exposing the specious
arguments of the advocates of the free
coinage of sliver. As Mr. John H. Inman
of New York clearly shows, the free coin
age of silver would be of advantage only
to the owners of silver bullion, while it
would be to the direct disadvantage of the
rest of the community. At the present
time the cause of honest money is not
menaced so much by the out-and-out free
coinage men as by the demagogues who
are prating of their devotion to “bimetal
lism." but are carefully refraining from
explaining what they mean. Within the
mnks of the republican and democratic
parties are numerous smart politicians
who do their utmost to carry water on
both shoulders. Silver they say is the poor
man's money, nnd, as a great American
product, it deserves protection. Therefore
they are the firnj supporters of “bimetal
lism " Of what sort of bimetallism? Free
coinage at the 16 to 1 ratio, or the .12 to 1.
or the re-enactment of the forced pur
chase of bullion by the government? The
politicians would like to leave this ques
tion In a fog, but the people will not toler
ate such shiftiness. We are not obliged
to cross Mason and Dixon's line to find
agitators who are promoting humbug.
Secretary Carlisle's missionary work in
the south should be paralleled by mission
ary efforts in the north and west.
‘•SeleiHiflo’’ Hi metal I Ism.
From the New York Sun (Dem.).
In the debate, whirh took plaee at Chi
rago last Friday evening, between William
H. Harvey, author of "Coin's Financial
School.” and Prof. J. Laurence Laughlin
of the, University of Chicago, Mr. Harvey
formulated his position as follows:
' What v.e want is bimetallism, and
scientific bimetallism is this:
"1. Free end unlimited coinage of both
gold art'! silver: these two metals consti
tute the primary or redemption money of
the government.
"1. Ther silver dollar of 371 1 * grains of pure
silver to la* the unit of value, and gold to
be coined into money at a ratio to Ire
changed if necessary from time to time,
if the commercial parity to the legal ratio
shall be affected by the action of foreign
countries.
“3. The money coined from both metals
to be legal tender in the payment of all
debts.
'4. The option as to which of the moneys
Is to he paid I’t the liquidation of a debt
to reel with the debtor, and the govern
ment nl=o to exercise that option when
desirable, when l aying out redemption
money.”
And to this he added a little later: "Re
peal all laws allowing a discrimination be
tween the two metals; stop gold notes from
being taken.”
“Scientific" bimetallism, therefore, ao
eerdlng to Mr Harvey, amounts to noth
ing more nor less than the compulsory es
tablishment of the stiver standard and
the banishment of gold.
Of l oirnr It W as a Goldfish,
"Men are Just like fish,” observed the
tall girl In gray, "and I don't wonder
that Mr. Darwm thinks they are de
scended from them."
“1 think Mr. Darwin only spoke of apes,
dear,' mildly suggested the girl with tile
eyeglasses, according to the Chicago
Ttmes-Herald.
“Did he? Well, It’s all the same, any
how. I'm so busy with the mail of to
day that I don't care to go back any
farther; I'm sure the |>oet was quite sen
sible when he said that the proper study
of womankind Is man."
"I—l think he said 'mankind,' dear,”
hinted the girl with the eyeglasses.
The girl in gray turned fiercely upon
her: "Se here, Emily Marshmallow, you
may know all about apes, yes, and the
hight of the north i>ole an*’.—and lots of
other unnecessary things, but j oil know
as well as 1 do that they won't do you a
bit of good with a man unless he Is ex
amining you for a tracker's certificate,
and precious little, then, with the pair of
eyes you have in your head,” she ended
up triumphantly.
"What was it about the fish, anyhow?"
asked the girl with the eyeglasses, sud
denly interested in the subject.
"The fish? Oh. 1 rememlier. Well, you
see, if you try to catch them with a hook
and line they are too suspicious to bite
unless you lure them with a very bright
colored fly. But if you go after them with
a net and Just slip it neatly over their
heads they are easily enough landed. '
“Oh!" blankly replied the girl with the
eyeglasses.
"M'hm. And that horrid Clara **
"Oh, it's all about Clara, is it?”
"It Is. She is busy to-day deciding
whether to call him Wilfred or ilt.
Sweetie after they are married.”
"But I thought he was quite as atten
tive to you as to her?"
"He was; but 1 used a hook and line.
Clara a net. He is gasping a little you
but he is safely landed. You see. Clar -
and I had a discussion not long ago about
the best way to manage a man who kept
calling and calling—and saying nothin
in particular. To decide it we wrote to
the editor of the Young Ladies' Chaperon.
th- reply was refuse occasionally to see
the young man.’ ”
"And did you follow-—”
"1 did. Wilfred called the very day th
paper came, Clara happened to be with
mo up iti my room at the time, and I son;
down word that he would please excuse
m< as 1 was engaged. Then what do you
suppose that deceitful Clara did?"
“Went down herself?"
“N-no. She suddenly remembered that
she had forgotten to post an important
letter and ran down the back stairs an;
over home. Of course he went right ovm
there, as the sly thing knew he would,
so she just ran Into the back parlor,
where he’d be sure to hear, and sobbed:
‘Oh, mamma, he—he has Just been over
to see Eva again nnd—and she wouldn't
even see him. while 1 ’ Her mothm
being a widow, understood at once, and
said: 'I really don't know what you arc
talking about, my poor child. Mr. Sweetie
is in the parlor.' "
"But how on earth did you find out
just liow It happened?”
“I suspected something, dear, so I fol
lowed close on Clara's heels, but before
I could get into the room the door had
closed upon her and that horrid mother
of hers took me upstairs to ask my advice
about the making over of an old gown.”
Serenading Himself.
We sometimes think that the funny sit
uations In the pictures in the comic papers
are too absurd to be real, and yet every
day there happen things quite as absurd
as any there depleted, says Harper's
Round Table. One of the tb rman news
papers gives an account of how a steady
old burgomaster r ently serenaded him
self, which certainly brings before our
minds a picture quite as laughable as any
we have seen in print. The story Is to
this effect: Herr Notel, merchant and bur
gomaster. who Is passionately foml'of
singing, is the first tenor and president of
the richnitz ’lburg glee club. The club coil
sists of only a single quartette, but small
as is their number, the greater is their en
thusiasm for the songs of Germany. Notel
would shortly celebrate his silver wedding.
They must give him a serenade; there v.a*
no help for it. But what was a quartette
without the first tenor? There was no
getting a substitute, but for ail that they
would give Notel a surprise. On the eve
of the festal day the three members of the
club, armed with lanterns, rnet at the ap
pointed time before the house of their re
spected president, and after som- clearing
of throats and twanging of tuning forks
the music began. A small crowd collected
in the street, and the windows In the vicin
ity were lined with appreciative listeners.
The horr burgomaster and his family also
appeared at ;he windows of their brightly
Illuminated sitting room. The first bars
of the well known song, "Silent Night,”
left much to be desired, but the three
voices bravely held on their way amid the
surrounding stillness, nnd In a few mo
ments Herr Notel went down into the
street and Joined in the quartette. No
sooner was the song finished than he ran
upstairs again, appearing at the open win
dow, and in loud, clear tones thanked the
club for their ovation. Seen on a public
stage, an old gentleman madly rushing up
stairs to a window to himself for
serenading himself would cause a good
deal of laughter.
One of Life's TrngHles.
"Good by, darling'.” said the young hus
band. pale but calm. "Cheer up! Be
brave!”
"O, I will, John!” she replied, with brim
ming eye and quivering lip, says the Chi
cago Tribune. "Seel 1 am brave!”
"Besides,” ho went on. “1 shall not be
gone more than three months. Think of
it, darling! Only three months!”
"I know it, dear!”—and she smiled
through her tears—"but three months is
an eternity! How can I bear it?”
"Agatha,” he whispered "perhaps It is
not too late even yet to give it up. Ten
thousand miles of ocean lie between my
going and my returning. Are you prepar
ed to forego—”
“No, John'.” she hurriedly answered.
“It is hard, it is terrible, but we cannot
help it! You must go—you must go—but
O, it will break my Heart!”
A groan burst from the young husband's
breast. He pressed her to his heart onee
more and was gone.
He was an American resident of the
South Sea Islands going to New York to
do a little shopping for his wife.
Demoralised the System.
"What time will that train be in, do you
think?” asked the impatient man, says the
Cincinnati Tribune.
'lt is purty hard to tell, answered tlio
agent of the little southern branch line
Sence Bill's tree was cut down by a pack
of dum fool niggers after a coon he finds
it a heap of trouble makin' jest the right
time.”
"Bill's tree?”
“Yas. BUI, he Is the conductor, you
know. Tne tree I was speakin’ of stood
alongside the track, about thirty miles up
the road from here, an' when the train
come along and the shadder of the tree
laid acrost the middle of the top rail of
Buck Johnson's fence Bill knowed he was
on time, and could gauge her about right
to git here on schedule time, {sow them
fool niggers has cut it down, and all Bill
has to go by is Ills own guess. Company
was talkin' some of puttin up a pole in the
place whar the tree useter be, but they
hain't done it ylt.
French and knglßh,
Those of us who have grown weary and
perplexed over the peculiarities of the
French language, and who have wished
that our parents and school teachers did
not consider that language necessary to
our education, will rejoice at this item
from an English newspaper, which shows
that the Frenchman has as hard a time
mastering our tongue as we have in mas
tering his, says Harper's Round Table.
According to the story three French boys
were studying a volume of Shakespeare
in their own tongue, their task being to
render portions of it into English. When
they came to Hamlet's famous soliloquy.
"To be or not to be." their respective trans
lations wore as follows:
1. "To was or not to am.”
2., "To were or is to not.'
3. "To should or not to will.”
Only n Fly.
From the Syracuse Post.
He was a guileless springtime fly,
He stroked his filmy side.
And jumped upon a baldhead’s pate—
" This Is a bully slide:”
He slid this way and then slid that.
The veins with rage did grow;
The little fly he laughed and laughed
To hear the man swear down below.
No matter how the bald head whacked,
No matter what the oaths he swore.
The little fly was wide awake,
And kept on sliding more.
At last when night spread out her wings
The fly toward home did glide,
And murmured as he fell asleep,
"That was a bully slide:"
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—lt is held by some. says. Black wood's
Magazine, that the coinage of China was
invented especially for the confusion of
the foreigner At any rate, two market
villages twenty miles apart are quite cer
tain to have a different rate of exchange,
an 1 (but this may be only a .coincidence!
the foreigner is not the one who profits
thereby. Thus, suppose you tender a dol
lar at Stone i'mbreila mart, and after .
much weighing and testing thereof,
are given in exchange 1.030 brass coins
strung on a string, of varying weight and
thickness. Arrived at the I'laln of Peace
you buy a dollar’s worth of fowiß, and put
down your l.rtSu coins only to be told the
exchange is 1,189, and you have to find the I
balance. Next day. having invested al! t
your savings in cash, you return to Stone
Fmhrella intending to buy up all the silver
in circulation at the lower rate of ex
change. Alas, for vour hopes! You are
met with a . hilling. ''These cash are ten
parts (i. e., liJb per cent.l. worthless;” and
and in corroboration of his statement your
would-be victim points out. or pretends
to point out. the absence of certain blurs
on the horrid little rings of brass.
—A bat's wing is. in short a hand with
very long fingers, and with the skin
stretched between them so as to form a
firing membrane, says tile Cornhlll Maga
zine. Of course, the exaggerated length
In each joint In fingers shows how very
long a time the bat must have taken to
develop his hand into so specialized a
form, but a hand it still remains in under
-1 lug structure, and It still retains a most
band-like peculiarity In the separate
thumb, which forms no part of the wing,
but it is used by the animal, in many
uses, as a hook or bent finger to hang
itself up by. A thumb, once acquired, is
far too valuable a possession to be readi
lv given up and the bats have stuck to
theirs with creditable persistence, even
•\lien the rest of their hand has been prac
ticallv lost by conversion into an expand
ed living organ. One other feature, still
more strikingly displays the underlying
kinship between T he bats and ourselves,
in spite of long divergence; the female bat
has her breasts in the same position as
in our own race, which gives her, small
as she Is. when looked full in the face, a
singularity human and almost pathetic
aspect.
—One of the latest novelties abroad is
a cigar or rigarette-holder for non-smok
ers. This curious article is made as much
for a joke as for those who. while not
smokers themselves, associate with invet
erate consumers of the weed, and do not
like to refuse a cigar from their friends.
The makers also advertise It
for use of ladies when on the
stage. In scenes where they are
called upon to smoke, even If the taste
and odor are disagreeable to them. The
holder is so constructed that a valve in
serted between the tube of the holder prop
er and the mouthpiece will actuate a
feathering membrane; while the Inhaling
of air through the mouthpiece will set
the cigar glowing an l actually withdraw
smoke from the cigar, this smoke will
go only as far as the membrane, no taste
of the smoke permeating the latter. As
soon as the suction ceases the little mem
brane resumes its first position and the
smoke is forced out through the valve
without ever having reached the month of
the apparent smoker. The greatest fun
derived from this holder is the presenting
of it to a smoker not aware of the nature
of the gift. The antics of such a victim
attempting to get hi* smoke out of one of
these holders are truly sidesplitting.
The Electrical Engineer protests against
the popular mania for compelling electric
companies to equip street cars with fen
ders. It states the case In the following
fashion; To us It seems to be altogether
the better way to give the ears Improved
braking facilities. Then the fender can
be added, if desirable, but as a general
thing these fenders have many elements
of undesirability. They obstruct the
street more or less. They add to the driv
er's cares and demand special attention,
instead of relieving him of strain and wor
ry. They art after the event instead of lie
fore it and instead of preventing it. Fable
or electric street ears often make locomo
tive speed. They are permitted and adopt
ed because they can give the public such
speed. If they did not, it would be better
to go back to horses. But on a locomo
tive the cowcatcher does not replace the
air brake. How can it? The main, vital,
essential thing to-day with all fast run
ning oars is to give the drivers swift, di
rect. easy control of the speed of their ve
hicles. and this is to be dene only with
brakes that act instantaneously. If there
is to be any legislation let it be of the
kind looking to the adoption of good
brakes. A car with Us running gear al!
housed around with a light valance close
to the ground and furnished with an effi
cient brake can maintain high speed and
will take no life that is not sacrificed to
It. Accidents there will always be so long
as humanity is weak. eareDss and erring;
but ears equipped as we suggest will be
jugeinauts only to willful suicides.
—Among the songs that are on the wav
to popularity, says the Boston Herald. Is
"When You Press the Little Button on the
Wall,” by John Kenton. Its title Is at
tractive. In fact, the title is a very im
portant thing in the song that is to make
Us tour around the barrel organs and the
German street bands. Just think of “Cast
Aside,” by the author of "After the Ball.”
A song that no lover of music can afford to
do without is “Let Me Kiss Your Tears
Away.” a charming sentiment, but of salty
and not wholly toothsome suggestiveness.
If put literally into practice. A title that
can hardly fail to carry a song to usecess
is "Every Boy Has Quarreled With His
First Sweetheart." by composer of "The
Sidewalks.” Another taking title is “The
Face Upon the Barroom Floor," bv J. P.
Skelly. “I Loved You Better Than You
Knew." by Johnny Carroll, should be full
of pathos, but Charles Graham's "Won’t
You Please Let Her Go Home?” should
bring tears from a paving stone if its
possibilities are worked out skillfully
Lachrymosity, though, may be too po
tently stimulated, for, as it aopears, ,T
P. Skelly's "Since My Mother's Dead and
Gone." is so pathetic "that the manager of
a Chicago theater recently prohibited one
of his singers from using it. saying that it
moved too many people to tears." A song
that should be a genuine prize j 3 '"The Oirl
I Love Is Short and Sweet,” because "the
music is so simple that it ran be memorized
at one hearing.” Other songs with great
titles are: "Love Caused It All,” by Joseph
Strohm; “The Rose My Mother Wore " bv
Charles Edwards, and "Dreaming of Her
Boy.” by George J. Gaskin. The "Song
Writer" is a perfect treasury of such
things as these, and the seriousness with
which It deals with popular song and its
seeming oblivion to songs of other order
make it delightful reading. How the com
posers will relish the persistent harping on
the brainlessness of their efforts Is, and
probably will remain, unknown; but if
they think, as the "Song Writer” evidently
does, that it is a merit to be able to produce
a song without any mental effort and with
out eausing them one brain throb thev
will doubtless be pleased at their success
under highly unintelleetual conditions
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