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Numerous nonpartisan sound money
conventions are being held in various
parts of the country, but it is a noticeable
fact that while the conventions them
selves are nonpartisan, the speakers at
them are pretty much all democrats. At
the sound money meeting to be held in
Philadelphia next Tuesday the principal
speaker will be William L. Trenholm, who
was the controller of the currency under
Mr. Cleveland's first administration. Mr.
Trenholm is both a speaker and a writer
of particular strength upon the money
question.
A Nebraska farmer has struck some
thing which he hopes will pan out a heap
better than wheat farming, even with
wheat soaring toward *1 a bushel. The
Nebraska statutes Impose a penalty of
*SOO fer the failure of locomotive engines
to whistle at crossings. Farmer Miller
has been sitting at a crossing ever since
May I, 1894, keeping tab on the locomo
tives that pass. In that time, and up to
the first of May of this year, he has found
fhat locomotives passed 1,578 times with
out whistling. He has reported thq facts
to the authorities, and is waiting for his
half of the penalty. He will probably
whistle for his money. ,
Hugh McCulloch, whose death Is an
nounced in our telegraphic columns this
morning, was the first man up to the time
of President Harrison's administration
who had twice held the portfolio of the
treasury department, Secretary Windom
being the second and only other one. Mr.
McCulloch was a Maine man by birth, but
studied finance in Indiana, from which
Btate he was appointed to the treasury
portfolio by President Lincoln. In the last
few years of his life Mr. McCulloch em
braced many of the doctrines of the
Democratic party. He was a believer in
a low tariff, and wrote a number of let
ters in support of that view of the tariff
question. It is acknowledged that he pos
sessed sound and well balanced Judgment
on all financial matters.
The fact that Savannah has a manu
facturing capital larger than her banking
capital is an unsuspected fact that is
working its way into the minds of the
people here and elsewhere, and is making
them open their eyes. The president of
.the International Cotton Exposition says
that Savannah could make a better show
ing In manufactures than even Atlanta,
1f the manufacturers would take a proper
Interest in the exposition and send up
their products to be exhibited, and the
exhibits from the several Georgia cities
should be classified by cities and not by
the kind of goods manufactured. It is
to be hoped that the Savannah manufac
turers and the citizens’ industrial com
mittee will be successful in arranging for
a representative exhibit of Savannah
manufactures at the exposition.
In 1867 Second Assistant Engineer G.
F. Sawyer of the navy was found guilty
of using language disrespectful to the
President of the United States, and was
reprimanded and suspended by President
Johnson. That action, however, was re
versed by President Grant's administra
tion, and Sawyer was restored to aqtlve
duty. There is talk to the effect that
something similar will be done in the
case of Admiral Meade, if the next ad
ministration should be a republican one.
The cases would hardly be parallel, be
cause Admiral Meade has been retired,
while Sawyer was suspended for one
year. It would, however, be just like
the republicans to try to cast a handful
of mud at the Cleveland administration
by restoring Admiral Meade to the active
service after he had been retired with a
reprimand by President Cleveland.
A fsivnllos of Hn<lnru Men.
The distinguishing feature of the Mem.
phis sound money convention was that It
was composed almost wholly of business
< men. There were very few politicians In
I it. There were more than six hundred
delegates, and they represented every
I southern state except Virginia and North
; Carolina. They were very much In ear
nest. because they understood that the
welfare and prosperity of the south and or
the whole country depends upon honest
money. A debased currency, such as the
silverltes would force upon the country,
would bring on a panic that would put a
stop to all kinds of enterprises, wreck
business and set th country back twenty
years. There was a time when the silver- |
Ites protended to believe that free silver ]
coinage by this country alone would keep I
silver money on a parity with gold, but
they make no such pretense now. Mr.
Harvey, the man they acknowledge to be !
tlulr leader, admits that if we should '
open our mints to the free coinage of sli- 1
ver we should have silver monometallism,
but h" contends that eventually the two
metals would circulate on a parity, though
he says nothing about the ruin that would
be wrought by changing from a gold to a
silver standard, nor docs he give an opin
ion as to whether silver would reach a
parity with gold In one, ten or fifty years.
The members of the Memphis sound
money convention were representative
business men whose sole aim Is to promote
the prosperity of the south and the whole
country, and the resolutions they adopted
states the situation Just as It is. They are
resolutions that must command the ap
proval of ail thinking men, and which, we
believe, will have the approval of the
great majority of the southern people.
They are the expression of men who have
no axes to grim], and but one puriiose
In view, and that purpose Is the welfare
of the entire country. It is impossible to
show that the resolutions do not embody
the truth, or that it is not for the interest
of the country to adhere to the financial
policy'stated in them.
The Merchant Who Doesn’t Advertise
It stands to reason that merchants who
sell large quantities of goods can sell
cheaper than those who do only a small
trade. The merchant who advertises his
goods sells more than the one who doesn’t
advertise, and therefore can afford to sell
at a smaller profit. The most successful
merchants In every city are those who use
freely the columns of the newspapers.
The parsimonious merchant may deny
the merits of advertising, and tell his cus
tomers that l)e doesn’t tell lies like his
competitor who does advertise, and there
fore he doesn't advertise, but he
is fooling nobody except him
self, Sooner or later his customers
discover the fact that they are
paying this “truthful" merchant higher
prices for what they get from him than
they pay for similar articles elsewhere,
because he has to have a big profit to
make up for his small trade. Advertising Is
Just as legitimate an expense in business
as store rent or clerk hire, and It Is well
not to forget It.
H lint lllnckliurn la Going lo Do.
Senator Blackburn announces that he Is
going to answer Mr. Carlisle's Covington
speech to-night. This announcement
must bring a smile to the faces of those
who know Mr. Carlisle and Senator
Blackburn. The senator is about as cap
able of answering Mr. Carlisle as he is cf
pulling down the capitol at Washington
by his unaided strength. He has a repu
tation as a stump speaker, because he de
claims well and has a good stock of fun
ny stories, but nobody has ever accused
him of being a thinker. He would blush
probably if anybody were to tell him that
he Is capable of discussing logically any
abstruse question. He has been in con
gress for a long time, but he has made no
reputation that causes him to be regarded
as an authority on any public question of
importance. He may have told a story
that his senatorial oronleA remember, but
he has never made a speech on any great
issue that has influenced the country in
the least or that Is remembered. He is an
attractive speaker, but what he says is
not remembered, because he does not in
fluence the minds of thinking men. He
pleases the crowd, and that is what he
will endeavor to do to-night. He will
tell stories, make assertions and predic
tions. and will think perhaps that he has
answered Mr. Carlisle, but he will be
about the only one who will think so.
Cellulose is a fibrous material that is
packed in the sides of war vessels for
the purpose of closing against the en
trance of water the punctures that may
be made in the hull of the ship. A shot
penetrating the side of a ship, armor,
lining and all, plows through in its pas
sage a section of the packing. The water
rushing in immediately expands the cel
lulose, which closes the hole and pre
vents the further ingress of the water.
The navy department will in a few days
make some experiments with a substi
tute for cellulose, which is said to be made
of the fiber of the cocoanut, the material
of the substitute being the pith of the
corn stalk. The new material is sup
posed to be much cheaper, much lighter
and more efficacious than the cellulose.
It is said that the corn stalk packing will
not deteriorate or attract vermin and so
endanger the health and comfort of the
crews.
It is nothing strange for the Cuban in
surgent leaders to be often killed and
identified. In the last Insurrection Gen.
Gomez.was killed and his death establish
ed beyond a doubt, from a Spanish point
of view, no less than eleven times. Still
he was on hand to take a part In the con
flict now going on. Reports of his death
may. therefore, be regarded by his friends
with a good deal of complacency.
If everything went right, Lord Dun
raven's Valkyrie 111 was launched at
Glasgow yesterday. No official statement
has been made of her dimensions, but it
is said that she will be 110 feet long and
have twenty-six feet beam. Her dead
weight is reported to amount to 300 tons,
and her lead keel will weigh seventy tons.
The area of her mainsail will be some
5,000 square feet.
THE MORNING NEWS; SATURDAY, MAY 25, 1895.
< halrmaa Carter Sul Go.
It Is reported as one of the results of
ex-Presldent Harrison's visit to New
York that the Hon. Thomas Henry Car
ter must resign the chairmanship of the
national republican eommlttee. Mr. Car
: ter Is now a senator from Montana, and
he Is a sllverite of the most radical sort.
1 When Mr. Harrison selected him as the
1 man to conduct the national republics.i
i campaign’ln 1892 he regarded him as a
man of uncommon ability. He had heard
. of his success as a book agent and light
ning rod peddler, and he was sure that he
possessed Just the kind of talents that
were needed to make a successful cam
paign manager. Mr. Carter, therefore,
was placed at the head of the national *e
ptibiican committee. That he was a fail
ure. of the worst sort every active repub
lican knows. Even his chin whiskers, of
which he has a plentiful supply, and which
he is pleased to think make him look like
the picture of Uncle Sam, did not com
mand the respect and admiratton he ex
pected.
But that Mr. Carter is smart there Is
no doubt. After he had helped to lead the
Republican party to defeat he went to
Momtana, where he became a howling ell
verite. The silver craze assisted him to
the office of I’nited States senator, and
now he doesn't care much whether Mr.
Harrison or some other man gets the
republican nomination for President.
The republican leaders have decided, it
is said, that Mr. Carter must go. If he
remains at the head of the national re
publican committee it will be about Im
possible to “fry the fat” out of manufac
turers and other rich business men, be
cause they will have nothing to do with
a man who has such little business sense
as to favor the free coinage of silver.
It is probable that, as a matter of fact,
Mr. Carter is not a siiverMe, but his con-'
stltuents demand free silver coinage an 1
he Is not the man to risk losing popular
favor for the sake of a principle. An of
fice, doubtless, ha* more attractions for
him than principles. Anyway, the presi
dential candidates and their friends arc
firmly convinced that a republican could
not he elected in 1896 if Mr. Carter should
be the manager of the campaign. Mr
Carter may protest against being sum
marily dismissed, but what good would a
protest do him?
Nobody knows, of course, whether or
not ex-Presldent Harrison Is a candidate
for President, but the understanding ap
pear* to be that he Is, and that Gov. Mor
ton of New York will have the second
place on the national republican ticket.
Ex-Presldent Harrison acts as If he had
a grievance against somebody because he
was beaten in 1892 by Mr. Cleveland, but
whether he has or not there doesn't seem
to be any doubt that he is planning for
the next presidential nomination' of .his
party, and that his plans include the
getting rid of Mr. Carter.
Mlclilgnu Needs the Death Penalty.
A number of years ago the state of
Michigan abolished the death penalty. A
few days ago, as noted in our dispatches,
the Michigan Senate passed a bill to re
store the gallows. There is little doubt
that the House will pass the bill also,
as it passed a similar one last year, which
was killed by the Senate. It has been
found that the life-sentence to prison Is
not a deterrent of murder. In 1891 and
1892 there were 162 murders in Michigan,
and only 3 per cent, of those who were
tried for the crime received the life-sen
tence. As compared with Canada, there
were in Michigan, in proportion to popu
lation, five times as many murders. Of
eighty-three murderers counted in Can
ada. in that time, sixty of them were
convicted and hanged, while in Michigan
there was no hanging and only a limited
number of the murderers were sentemeed
to the penitentiary. Michigan, therefore,
obviously suffered from the abolition of
the death penalty. The next reform that
is needed in Michigan is one that will
screw the juries up to the point of con
victing felons. Juries there, and else
where, are too easy tempered, and the
courts and lawyers find too many loop
holes In the law through which a criminal
may crawl. It Is to be hoped that the
Michigan law-makers may find a remedy
for the evil, and that the other states—
Georgia included among them—will not
be slow to adopt the remedy when found.
It is noticed that some of our free sil
ver contemporaries, the Augusta Chron
icle among them, base many of their ar
guments upon the alleged fact that there
are a great many more workingmen un
employed than there are workingmen
employed at the present time. It would
be interesting to know where they jet
their statistics. ’’Coin," In his "Financial
School,” has, we believe, asserted that
there are at present (at the time his al
leged lectures were delivered) 4,000,000 of
working people undergoing enforced Idle
ness, all on account of the demonetiza
tion of sliver. Did Coin make a census
enumeration to find this out? If he had
done so. would an enumeration made even
a year ago hold good now, since the bus
iness revival? Even the silverltes are
bound to admit that a great revival In
commerce and industry has set in lately.
The fact is that there is available no re
liable statistics of the number of unem
ployed in the country. In 1883 an estimate
of the number of unemployed was made
by Carroll D. Wright. In 1890 the census
bureau undertook to find out how many
unemployed there were in the country,
but the result of that Investigation has
not yet been printed or made public in
any way. The commissioner of the cen
sus, who has been asked how many idle
workingmen there are, says the only way
to find out is to make a careful count of
them, arid that he has no Idea what the
number is. It appears, therefore, that
"Coin" merely guessed at it, making the
number large enough to suit his purposes,
and that the defenders of his assertions
accept what he says as true, without in
vestigation on their part, and base their
arguments thereon.
Hamilton Dlsston, the uncrowned king
of the Florida everglades, and the mana
ger of the big Disston saw works, has
made glad his 1,700 employes in Pennsyl
vania by voluntarily raising their wages
10 per cent. Good times are coming.
The weather bureau at Washington is
making effort* to have the extent and ef
ficiency of Its signal service Increased
along the gulf roast. The plan of the bu
reau is to have vessels ac.d railway trains
carry warning flags and give whistle sig
nals. and to utilise center pigeons for
messages. The explosion of bombs and the
flight of rockets will -nice the place of
flags in the night time. I’ i thought there
will be little If any dlffi ilty about secur
ing the co-crperation of the gulf ves
sels and railway companies A system of
storm signals along the line suggested
would undoubtedly be the means of sav
ing much property, and probably also
many lives, in the tornado season.
Senator Palmer was asked at Washing
ton a few days ago whether the silver
movement In Illinois had yet been arrest
ed, and replied that It had not, but war
rants were out for It and that it would
be arrested on sight. So far, he sail,
those seeking to arrest It had been untfble
to find It. The play upon the words Is old,
but the point of the Jok- i-' probably pret
ty shc.rp. The free silv< r movement in
Illinois is no doubt pretty much like it is
in Georgia—nearly all wind.
The announcement is made that the late
Ward McAllister's son. Hayward, will be
come a farmer, and will soon take charge
of the farm near Newport that belonged to
bis father. Mr. Ward McAllister used to
give picnics at his farm, and it became one
of the most famous society resorts in the
country. It is said he used to make money
from the farm, and the young man will
try his hand at doing the same. Hayward
McAllister Is credited with having learned
farming in the south.
Senator “Tom” Carter, of Montana, had
an interview in New York the other day
wit h Gen, Harrison, whose campaign he
managed so disastrously three years ago.
After the Interview Mr. farter told a
newspaper reporter that the next Presi
dent would be a ‘‘Silver man,” or words
to that effect. The papers have put this
and that together, and reached the con
clusion that Gen. Harrison told Carter
something while they were closeted to
gether.
PERSON \l„
—Prof. Dyehe, a naturalist of Kansas
University, who had a big collection in the
World's Fair and was a member of the *ll
- Miranda expedition, sailed from
Gloucester for Greenland to collect spec
imens of mammalia and birds and study
their habits. He also intends to visit the
Peary party.
—Gen. Rafael do Quesada. the Cuban
revolutionary leader and the uncle of C.
M. Cespedes y Quesada. Is in New York.
He came from Caracas. Venezuela. Gen.
de Quesada took part In the Mexican war
against the empire of Maximilian as he
was governor of the palace under Presi
dent Jinu-ez of Venezuela. He comes to
the United States to consult with his
nephew- and the other leaders of the revo
lutionary party regarding plans to send
expeditions to Cuba.
—Col. Higglnson says that once when
he went into Houghton, Mifflin & Co.'s
office In Boston Oliver Wendell Holmes
darted up to him and. mysteriously hold
ing out a small bundle tied in brown paper,
exclaimed: "What do you think 1 have
here? It is the most interesting book you
could find. If I could only have it illus
trated it would be worth more than anv
other book lit Boston:’’ Then,
with a grin, he said, “It is Nat Thayer's
check-book—a book that was good for va
rious millions.
BRIGHT HITS, '
—He—Now, darling, I shall go and ask
your father for you.
She—He won’t give his consent.
He—How do you know?
She—Because four or five have tried it
before you.—Detroit Free Press.
-Some Queer English.—l have before me
a letter from a Parisian friend, a gentle
man of some little note In his own coun
try, who informs me that he is learning
English by the aid of a small text hook
and a dictionary, without any other in
structor, and he adds; “In small time 1
can learn so many English as 1 think 1
will to come at the America and go on the
scaffold to lecture."—Detroit Free Press.
—Not Reassuring.—"Mr. Stalate " said
the bashful young sister, "I aski-d sister
if she thought you would get up and go
home like the other young man did if I
recited ‘Curfew Shall Not Ring To
night.’ "
“And what did she say?"
"She said there wouldn’t be any harm in
trying.”—Washington Star.
—A Pretty Mess.—Hames (the politician)
—Here's a pretty mess’ I've been invited
to prepare a speech on the financial ques
tion for the residents of my district.
Tills—Well, why doh’t you go ahead and
prepare It?
Hames—l can’t. My private secretary
say* he doesn’t know anything about the
subject.—Philadelphia Press.
—lt Looked That Way.—“Pillam’s bill
came back to-day," said the bookkeeper.
"What did he have to say?" asked the
merchant.
“He didn't have anything to say. It was
his widow who did the saying. She w rites:
’Don't you think that in sending a bill to
a man who has been buried three months
you are rather running it into the ground."
—rndlanapolis Journal.
CURRENT COMMENT.
Good Campaign Literature.
From the Gibson (Ga.) Record (Dem.).
Secretary Carlisle's speech will put a
quietus on the silver craze In these parts.
An Interesting Clinse,
From the Washington Post (Ind.).
With his punching stick in hand, Hon.
Pat Walsh Is still skirmishing about try
ing to dislodge the financial views of Hon.
Charles Frederick Crisp.
M ould-lie Clan* I.eglnla tion.
From the Telfair (Ga.) Enterprise.
Free and unlimited coinage under present
c onditions would be class legislation pure
and simple l , because it would benefit no
body but the mine owners and bullion hold
ers at the expense of the people.
It Holds Hack Good Times.
From Barnesvilie (Ga.) Gazette (Dem.).
We believe that the agitation of the un
limited coinage of silver is dding more to
retard the progress of prosperity than all
the other influences combined, and the ag
itators will suffer as much from it as anv
other class.
Justice Harlan.
From the New Y’ork Evening Post (Ind.).
Bagehot tells a story of Lord Eldon,
when Lord Chancellor, having said. “D—n
me. If I had to begin life again, I would
begin as an agitator." Some such Idea must
have been running through Justice Har
lan's head ever since he mounted the su
preme bench. But he would probably have
put it, "If I was to live my life over again.
I would remain an agitator."
Sound Money.
From the New Orleans Picayune (Dem.).
The Chicago Tlmes-Herald asks for a
short, concise, pat and popular definition
of "sound money." The Washington Post
offers the following: "Sound money means
a dollar Worth 100 cents 365 days per year
with the ability to provide for the extra
day In leap years ” Here, goes for a better
one: Sound money Is money that travels
on Its face everywhere and always.
Thr n|,per* Ulllr Jake.
A great deal of amusement was caused
on an eaa*-hound elegtrle ear the other af
ternoon by a waggish policeman, who se
lected his wife for hl> victim, soys the
Louisville Courier Journal. The policeman
had done duty at the ball park, and his
wife had been to see the game. Wnlle the
crowd was leaving the woman stood about
the front of the park and waited for her
husband to ride up town with him He
finally arrived, and the pair boarded a
crowded car. Hoth were young and only
recently married, and they enjoyed them
selves hugely on the way.
The woman wore a handsome little gold
watch, evidently a present from her hus
band. While half the people in the car wee
looking, and while his wife was speaking
to a woman acquaintance outside the car.
the policeman deftly took the watch from
his wife's pocket and transferred it to his
pistol pocket. When the car reached Eigh
teenth street the policeman remarked that
it was a few minutes past 6 o'clock, and
everybody In the ear looked at the police
man's wife.
Of course she did what every one In the
ear expected she would. She felt foi* her
watch. It seemed as if a sudden violent
pain had attacked the woman's heart. Her
face became very pale and her eyes dilated.
Her husband seemed greatly alarmed, and
asked her what the matter was. She look
ed over the crowd in the car like a fright
ened fawn. It was a full minute before she
could apeak. Then she whispered In her
husband’s ear loud enough for the intense
tv interested sj>ectators to hear: "I have
been touched; someone lias stolen my
watch.” Her eyes began to grow dim, and
before the policeman could answer a big
tear rolled down her cheek and fell into her
lap.
"Here is the watch; I was only Joking
with you. - and the policeman felt back for
his pocket.
Then a look of dismay overspread his
face, one pocket and then another, and fi
nally turned all his pockets wrong side
out. He worked lapl'lly toward the last
and perspired a good deal. His wife looked
on In open-mouthed astonishment. So did
the other people in the car. All had smiled
and looked out the windows of the car
when the woman tlrst discovered that her
watch was gone, but when her husband
failed to produce it, after having told her
that he had taken it, the people sat up
right and watched the hunt for the missing
timepiece with great interest.
Finally a quiet-appearing young man.
who sat In the rear of the car. arose and
handed the watch to the policeman's wife.
‘‘l just wanted to teach vour husband a les
son," he said.
And the crowd of passengers gave vent
to a prolonged hearty laugh, and the po
liceman and his wife finally joined in the
merriment, though they were a little slow
to appreciate the Joke.
Oratory from the Prisoner?* Ilox.
The proposed reform of putting prisoners
upon their oaths and letting them speak
for themselves recommends Itself In many
ways to common sense, but has, neverthe
less, some serious disadvantages, says the
Illustrated London News. A good deal of
latitude must he allowed to the members
of a class wholly unaccustomed to public
speaking, and whose ordinary language
Is more familiar than polite. It would he
a disadvantage to them If their statements
were Interfered with, and they wore not
allowed to put their case in their own way.
A reporter on the Midland circuit has pre
served fur us a choice example of oratory
of this kind. The ease was that of a man
charged with attempt to murder, before
lx>rd Wensleydale (one of the gravest of
Judges), who had permitted him. after the
prosecution closed, to address the jury:
"My lord and gentlemen of the jury, you
see as how I'm what Is called a peaceable
man, and was taking my drink quietly, as
a man should do, when up comes this here
prosecutor, and says he, 'l'll have a sup
of your beer.' 'No.' says 1, 'you shan't!'
'I will,’ says he. ‘Then.’ says I, 'lf you
touch this 'ere mug of beer, I'll smash It
on your blessed head.’ This here man did
take hold of my beer, and he got a knock
on the head, hut it were his own fault, as.
gentlemen, why should he ha' provoked a
man quietly a-drinkin' his beer? Now. my
lord,” (luring to the judge), ‘ I'm sure you
likes a drop of good beer, don't yer, my
lord? Well, then, my lord, if your lordship
had a pot o' beer afore you at this moment
and that 'ere chap as is a-sitting by the
side of yer” (turning to the high sheriff)
"should say. say he. T'l take a sup o' your
beer, and you said to him, says you, 'lf
you do touch this here beer, l'l punch your
blessed ribs!’ in course you would, my
lord.” (Roars of laughter.) "Now, my lord,
I've been called a quarrelsome man; that's
a downright falsity, for look here, it ain’t
likely I can be a quarrelsome man when
I've been bound over twenty-three times
to keep the blessed peace!”
A furious Coincidence.
He boarded a Michigan avenue car at
Griswold street, and at Cass he suddenly
stood up and looked for the number above
the door, says the Detroit Free Press.
Then he took a memorandum book from
his pockej, looked over In a nervous man
ner, and llnally said In a loud voice; "La
dies and gentlemen—About six months ago
I was on this very ear going In this direc
tion.. 1 looked on the floor and discovered
a quarter in a crack. 1 took down the
number of the car. as you see. It is the
same, and I am now about to look tor a
quarter.”
He bent over and began to peer around,
and it wasn't twenty seconds before he
made a sudden dive, thrust his fingers be
tween the slats of the door rack, and
when he rose up he held a quarter in his
fingers. The grin oil Ills fa re was long
and broad and beautiful to behold, as he
said:
“That's what I call a curious coinci
dence. Same car—same conductor—going
the same way—same man finds two quar
ters on the floor. In brief, ladies and gen
tlemen. there are about the same number
of passengers as before, and you look
about as chagrined and disgusted, and I
am going to say au revoir at the same cor
ner."
And when he got off at Third street ev
erybody looked aftfr him and mentally
declared him a wretch who ought to be in
the toils of the police.
He Was Not John Henry from Vnr
inount.
I was going over to Hoboken the other
day, when one of the passengers on the
ferry boat begged a light from my cigar,
says a writer in the Detroit Free Press.
He was the greenest and most innocent
looking men I ever saw, and his speech
seemed to give him away for a New Eng
land farmer. As he evidently wanted to
be friendly, I chatted with him for a few
minutes and then asked:
"Did you meet with any adventures
while stopping in New York?”
"No, nuthin' to brag of," he replied.
“Didn't lose your wallet?”
"No—wallet's all right."
"Didn't change no ten-dollar bills for
strangers?"
"Not a change.”
"And I hope you didn't let a greengoods
man make you a victim.”
The old man winked at me and chuckled
by way of reply.
"Then you did fall In with some of the
profession?” I persisted.
"Wall, rayther!” he quaintly replied.
"And you didn't lose your money?”
"Not as I knows on."'
"But did you beat the game?”
He winked and chuckled some more and
then putting his mouth to my ear he whis
pered :
‘‘Don’t give it away, but I'm no John
Henry from Varmount."
“No? Then, who are you?”
“Old Greenwoods himself; going over to
Hoboken to meet a victim from Canada!”
Harry Fnrnlm and Punch.
Here is a story, though he did not tell it
himself, that went the rounds of the New
York clubs when Furniss visited the states
two years ago. says the Chicago News.
Be it known the American journalists and
American flaneurs read Punch as a pro
duction absolutely devoid of humor ami
inasmuch as it is a paper written "bv gpn
tlemen,” it probably fails to secure general
appreciation In journalistic America
though In certain circles it is as popular
In the great republic as it Is here Two
men were quarreling vlolentlv in a club
smoking room.
"I tell you I saw a man sitting here an
hour ago laughing over a copy of London
runon.
"Impossible!” replied his companion "I
don t be 'eve there Is a man In America
who could laugh' over London Punch "
The discussion waxed furious and at last
bets were made on the subject. Suddenly
a thought struck the second man. y
"\A hat was the fellow like you saw read
ing Punch?’
“A little, sandy-bearded man. with a
rather bald nead and a big mustache ”
Ah!'replied his interlocutor, "now l
self ” ” h> ' tlidt Was llenry furniss him-
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
—lt is the practice of a large Insurance
company of New York to put its • mploves
on their honor as to their goings and com
ings and the amount of work they do. Each
man at the end of the day sets down on a
card the hour of his arrival, the amount
of time he is out at lunch* on and the exact
details of his day's work. These o ar ds are
eventually examined by someone In au
thority. It is said that the record is in the
main a truthful one.
—The camel Is generally cited as being
the one animal lest fitted to undergo
thirst. Mr. E. Carman, however, writes
to "Nature" that the lummort mouse en
dures thirst quite as well as the camel.
He has kept several common mice three
months w'thout watering them. On the
first of last October several were put aside
to have no water, and iifi to January 17.
they were eating heartily of dry corn and
grass seeds, without having had any wa
ter.
—We are apt to think of the City of Mex
ico as sleepy and behind the age, but the
city is wide* awake in matters at sanita
tion. having been to enormous expense to
secure good water, and now it is found that
a most salutary measure would be a more
rapid flow Through the sewers of the city.
Accordingly some twenty-five windmills
are to bo built, in different parts of the
city, at a cost of s2?*.'*). which will rotate
paddle wheels in the sewers and thus ac
complish the desired object.
—History repeats itself, even in those in
stances where it is most notably stranger
than fiction. The story of Rossetti's po
ems, buried with his wife and exhumed
that they might be published, is the story,
in almost every detail, says the Pall Mall
Gazette, of the memoirs of Col. Planat
de la Faye, the orderly officer to Napoleon
I. These were edited some years ago by
the widow. Three copies only were print
• and, and of these one was placed in her hus
band's coffin, a special order for the ex
humation of the body having been ob
tained for the purpose. Directions were
left by the widow for the publication of
the work after her death, and reference
was made to the two printed copies. These,
however, could not be found. Finally the
executors determined to obtain the third
copy of the book, which had hern placed
in the coffin. Accordingly they obtained
permission to exhume once more the body
of the veteran. It is from the copy so ob
tained that the recently Issued work has
been printed.
—Everybody knows, of course, f says
Scribner's, that the actual number of let
ters passing through the mails of every
civilized country is greater, rather than
less, yeat by year. But every One also
feels that these letters are no longer let
ters. in the true sense, at all. They are am
plified telegrams, bald and bare statements
of fact; ami they have the loose and dis
jointed and careless phraseology of the
telegraphic message. That sense of the fit
expression, the graceful concept, that feel
ing for the lucid and connected exposi
tion of ideas, for its composition, in short
—the very term is pre-Adamite to the end
of-the-eentury ear—that used to preoc
cupy the best letter writers of another
generation, have gone from present day
scribblers of hasty notes, as though such
musty things had never been. The only
people who "compose" their letters now
are cultivated old ladles. Their college
bred granddaughters, intellectually armed
and professionally equipped, exhibit pro
duction in that line of which, for the most
part, it might be said, as Henry James
remarked of the notes of invitation of
the London society women, that they
have nothing in common with the epis
tolary art lint the postage stamp. It may
be held that sueh an accomplishment is
not, after all. of the greatest value. But
behind it, there Is an instinct, deep-seated
in the race, that a widespread habit of
careless writing affects very directly the
thinking of a people. And this one cannot
but believe to be the ease. It takes no In
tellect to put plain facts into honest, self
respecting phrases. But it takes self-re
straint and attentiveness, and these lead
in time to a disciplined and coherent way
of looking at life.
—A horny-handed workingman in Meri
den, whose wages have never been over 12
a day. has saved $9,000 from them, which
he keeps at interest in the savings bank.
He must surely have lived very closely;
he must have been mean toward tils four
children, three girls and one boy; he must
have cut down his family supplies to a
low notch during the forty years In which
he has been laying up his riches. It is
time for us, remarks the New York Sun.
to say that we cannot hold him up as an
example to be followed by all other work
ingmen. It would not he well for them
to live as he must have lived all his life,
never enjoying a half pint of peanuts or a
saucer of lee cream, never giving any of
his children a stick of candy or a doll,
hardly ever buying anew dress for his
wife or a suit of clothes for himself, or a
copy of a Meriden newspaper. The word
in that household from morning till night,
at breakfast, dinner and supper, must
have been scrimp. He is surely a stingy
man. something like a skinflint; or how
oould he have saved so much out of his
small wages? We can't say that we ad
mire his style. It is good for a man to live
pretty well, if he can afford it, and get the
best out of his money as he goes along, al
ways, of course, avoiding anything like
wastefulness, always practicing economy.
It is good for him to put some money in the
bank if he can; but not much more than he
can spare. It is right for one to feather
his nest, but wrong to stuff it so full of
feathers that its occupants cannot breathe
freely. Certainly, oh, certainly, you should
lay up something against a rainy dav; out
still you need not squeeze all the juice out
of life, like the stingy $2-a-day man of
Meriden.
--The mountain region of Venezuela Is the
home of one of the most remarkable botan
ical freaks to grow upon the American con
tinent, says the St. Louis Republic. It is
a tree w-hiclt flourishes only upon the
mountain sides, and alwavs at the high'
of about 8.000 feet above sea level It is
lofty and slender for its hlght, and has
broad, stiff leaves of a dusty whtte color,
which give it the appearance of being al
most dead. What is queer about this tree
with the tall, slender trunk and dead
looking leaves and branches? It is odd
enough, sure, for although it is a very stu
pid-looking forest growth, it Is know ; n the
world over as the "milk" or "cow” tree—
the famous "palo de vaca,” which Hum
boldt so glowingly describes. It is an ever
green variety, and those who have used its
"milk" pronounce it “perfectly delicious "
When the traveler, hunter or native of tlie
Venezuelan mountains is tired, hungry or
thirsty, he needs but to cut the hark of
the "cow tree." In order to be rewarded
with a copious flow of this milky sap which
is said to be even sweeter and richer than
the milk of the best hi eh-grade Jersey If
collected in vessels and allowed to stand
for some little time, say from 8 to 12 hours
it grows thick and yellow, and the "cream"
goes through the process of "rising to the
top, just as it does in ordinary milk At
? r bout . the tln J e °J sunrise, according to
Humboldt and other well known scientists
s -.u h °. ( ', hos '' n by those acquainted
w-ith the trees peculiarities for tapping
the hark At that time the milk Is h*
leved to he more palatable and nutritious
than if taken after the sun has been amine
for some hours upon the leaves. Attempts
hav-e been made to cultivate the cow tree
both in Mexico and in the smaller Central
American republics, hut. so far, all such
Innovations have been failures. As soon
as it s removed from the mountain sides
even in its native land, where the natives
have tried to grow it in the vallevs it
withers and dies. le> s ' n
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