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THIS ISSUE
CONTAINS
SIXTEEN PACES
INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
Meetings—Georgia Lodge No. 151, O. K.
B B.
Military Orders—First Regiment, cav
alry, Georgia Volunteers; Chatham Artil
lery.
Special Notices—General Order No. 1,
As to Infanta Eulalia Cigars; Notice to
Contractors, J. F. Fuller, Chairman
Commissioners of Laurens County; Have
You Ever Considered What a Dollar Is
Worth? John Tea Evans St Cos.; Beck
mann's Cafe; Dealers in Hardware,
Stoves and House Furnishing Goods, R.
D. & William Lattlmore; Safe Rathtng
at Wilmington Island; There's Something
You Need, Appel & Schaul; It Pays to Buy
Hannls, Henry Solomon & Son, Sole
Agents; We Rewind Motors. Etc., Elec
tric Supply and Construction Company;
Residence for Lease; Announcement, A.
W. Schwarz; For Rent, Gratz C. Myers;
Houses For Rent, G. H. Remshart; First
Long Island Irish Potatoes and Cabbage,
John Lyons & Cos.; Leaders, Est., 8. W.
Branch; The Sunday Dinner at Fried's;
Salu TivoH; Victorious Tivoli Beer, Geor
gia Brewing Association.
Educational—Fauquier Institute for
Young Ladles, Warrenton, Va.
Our Path—B. H. Levy & Bro.
The Middle of July—Daniel Hogan.
Embracing Opportunities—Meyer ft
Walsh.
What Will You Have of These?—Appel
& Schaul.
Valuable Saw Mill Plant For Sale—At
Clinch Haven, Ga.
This Is Half-Price Week—B. H. Levy &
Bro.
Closing Out Sale—The Globe Shoe Store.
Medical—Munyon's Remedies.
Mid-Summer Clearing—Leopold Adler.
Auction Sales—Receiver’s Sale of Fur
niture, by C. H. Dorsett; Jemdal's Restau
rant, by J. H. Oppenhelm & Son.
Amusements—Annual Picnic of the A.
O. H., at Wilmington Island on Tuesday,
July 23; Excursion to the Ocean, Per
Steamer Gov. Salford This Afternoon;
Ladles' Auxiliary to the B. of L. E., Ex
cursion to Warsaw.
Low Shoes—Byck Bros.
We Are Not Talking Profits Now—Cro
han & Dooner.
We Can’t Bo More—Mutual Gas Light
Company.
Our Ad. Last Week—Ludden & Bates.
The Ideal Suit for Hot Weather—Falk
Clothing Company.
A Negligee Shirt ■Treat—Falk Clothing
Company. •
Cheap Column Advertisements—Help
Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Rent;
For Sale; Lost; Personal; Miscellaneous.
The contemporary history of the South
Carolina dispensary is being written by
the criminal court reporters.
New York and New England yachtmen
are jubilant at the showing so far made
by the Defender. In her trial on Thursday
it is asserted that she actually out-sailed
the wind. That a sailing craft can go
much faster than the wind which pro
pels her Is a scientific fact that is strik
ingly demonstrated in the sailing of Ice
yachts. With the draft of a six mile
breeze blowing across her quarter, the
Defender sailed at the rate of eight miles,
Which would seem to show that she Is
a very witch of the water.
The board of pardons of Ohio has before
it an application for clemency on behalf
of a man who was sent to the penitentiary
for life on the testimony of a ghost. The
man was some years ago convicted of mur
der upon'the sole testimony of the mother
of his alleged victim, and all that she
knew about the case was what she said the
ghost of her son had told her in a
dream. It seems almost Incredible that
in the closing years of the nineteenth cen
tury a man should have been convicted
of crime upon such testimony. But they
sometimes do very peculiar things in Ohio.
A session of the Southern Biblical As
sembly will be held at Asheville, N. C..
on July IS to Aug. 14, for “four weeks
with the Bible." The purpose of the as
sembly is to unite all Protestants in a
common study of the Scriptures. Its plan
is to devote the mornings to schools, the
afternoons to conferences and the even
ings to lectures. It i3 held under the
auspices of the American Society of Re
ligious Education. The list of lecturers and
teachers is a long one, and comprises
names prominent in the various denomina
tions, Methodists, Prenbyterians, Baptists
and Episcopalians.
IA Harsh View of the Hare Problem.
In the July number of the Globe Quar
j terly Review, published in New York city,
■ there are some notes on the negro ques
tion by William Henry Thorne, the editor
of that magazine, with which we do not
think the southern people will agree. Mr.
I Thorne's notes are based upon an article
In the same number of the magazine, en
i titled "The Negro in Fact and Fiction,”
| by Eugene 1.. Didier. Sir. Didier's article
is by no means complimentary to the negro.
He takes the ground that history furnishes
no Instance in which the negro race has
i accomplished anything, that judging from
! the past St will never accomplish anything,
that it has been the cause, directly and in
directly, of all the troubles that have
*taken place in this country since the for
mation of the government, that the south
will remain "solid" as long as the negro
threatens the political life of the southern
people and that “this is a white man's
country.” from which latter statement it
-is Inferred that Mr. Didier means that Hie
sooner the south gets rid of the negro the
better it will be for her.
But we wish especially to call attention
to the remarks of Mr. Thorne, In his com
ments on Mr. Didier's article. They are
much more radical than anything we have
yet seen from any source entitled to res
pect. Mr. Thorne Is a northern man, and
prior to the war, was, he says, an aboli
tionist. In his remarks he says:
I frankly say. therefore, first, that for the
last 30 years I have been slowly chang
ing my views and feelings In regard to the
negro question. Second, I have long seen—
even from my experience with the negroes
or the north—that education, as far as It
has bad any effect upon the race, has had
the effect of making the negro a less use
ful. and a more dangerous and offensive
member of the human family; that after
my visit to the southern states, last March,
these convictions were not only strength
ened and Intensified, but that I then be
came thoroughly convinced, and have since
freely expressed the conviction that the
south must either relnslave the negro, or
export him, drive him out of the land, or
kill him.
It Is a remarkable fact that when people
holding extreme opinions change their
opinions they go to the other extreme.
They find no middle ground. Mr. Thorne
was an abolitionist, and doubtless assailed
the white people of the south with extreme
bitterness for holding the negroes In slav
ery. Now, to relieve the south of what he
considers a great burden, he Is ready to
advise the re-lnslavement or the killing of
the negroes. He ran see no way in which
the south can work out a prosperous fu
ture without getting rid of her negro pop
ulation.
But there are things going on in the
south which Mr. Thorne does not see. He
has not studied southern problems as close
ly as some of the southern people have. In
the first place there Is no bitterness of feel
ing between the whites and negroes in the
south. The two races get along very well
together. At present the south could not
do without the negroes. They plant and
gather her crops, work her mines and turn
her forests into commercial products. And
they do much of her mechanical work. But
gradually, almost Imperceptibly, the place
occupied by the negroes Is being taken by
white people. The belief that white people
cannot work In the fields In the south no
longer exists. Nearly the whole cotton crop
of Texas Is made by white labor. To a much
greater extent every year the crops of the
south will be made by white labor. The
great plantations are being broken up Into
small farms, and white men own the farms,
and they and their families do the work
that is done on them.
And here In Georgia, what Is the out
look? What Is the meaning of the coming
of 30,000 white people In one colony—the
Fitzgerald colony? Is It not that Georgia
is to be a state of small, white farmers who
will themselves cultivate their farms and
gather the fruits of their industry? Unless
the negroes become cultivators of the soil
and compete with white men they will be
slowly but surely driven from the fields to
the industrial centers of the north and
west and to the towns of the south. In the
towns, owing to their neglect of health
conditions, they will not Increase greatly
in numbers. The white people will Increase
far more rapidly. Before many years the
race problem In the south will cease to be
a problem. It will have been solved, and
without the aid of any one of the means
suggested by Mr. Thorne.
Is There an Adlnl HootnT
There Is talk In Illnols political circle*
to the effect that the Hon. Adlal E. Stev
enson of Indiana Is being groomed for the
presidential race, and that the Hon. P.
Watt Hardin of Kentucky, nominee for
governor, and ex-Gov. Proctor Knott of the
same state, are in charge of his interests.
Mr. Stevenson, It will be understood, Is
looked upon as a champion of silver.
If there is a basis of truth for the talk,
it seems that some people In this
state have been unwarrantably neglected
by Mr. Stevenson In the selection of his
trainers. The original Stevenson man re
sides In Georgia, which fact, though It ap
parently has been overlooked by the Hon.
Adlai, would no doubt be Immediately
and forcibly brought to his attention if he
should ever be in a position to give out a
few consulates, postofflees and things.
Meantime, it looks like poor politics for a
prospective candidate to put his affairs Into
the hands of people who have themselves
been compelled to set aside their own
opinions on the money question and run for
office on a platform which they say they
do not believe In. Mr. Stevenson, It Is
alleged, wishes to go to the country upon a
free silver platform; and that kind of a
platform the democrats of Kentucky have
refused to Mr. Hardin, their gubernatorial
candidate, and, as it is alleged, Mr. Stev
enson’s trainer.
Since Sibley of Pennsylvania turned his
back upon them, the silver people have
been more busily than ever searching the
woods for presidential timber. Bryan of
Nebraska, Cameron of Pennsylvania, Boles
of lowa. Tillman of South Carolina, and
other more or less well known politicians,
have been “mentioned" in connection with
the nomination. Can Adlai, who has .not
had much to sayi for the last three years,
supplant all of these in the silverite favor?
The very fact that he has been silent so
long is against him. for silence is golden.
However, the Ai*aitucky free stlverites, al
THE MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY, JULY 14, 1893.
though defeated themselves, may be able
to work up something of a Stevenson boom
—one as big as that which Sibley discard
ed. They have yet to elect delegate* to the
national democratic convention, which
may offer an opportunity for them to re
vlvs the sliver fight.
A Question of Polities.
The silver question In this state Is
largely, a question of politics. It is doubt
ful if a majority of the democrats out
side of the towns have made up their
minds In respect to the merits of it. As
a rule they lean towards honest money,
but much they have heard from the silver
side has had a tendency to confuse them
and make them doubtful as to the stand
they ought to take In respect to silver.
Their doubts will be cleared away grad
ually as the truth Is placed before them.
There would not boas much sentiment In
favor of silver among democrats as there
Is If It were not for the court house poli
ticians In very many of the counties.
Those Who control the party caucuses and
political meetings seem to have the Idea
that the silver sentiment is going to pre
vail, and they want to be on the winning
side. They are looking out t>r the little
office* that are distributed when there Is
a change In tlje state or the national ad
ministration. 'Few of them have looked
Into the merits of the silver question.
Indeed, It Is doubtful If they have given
It any serious attention at all, because they
don't care anything about it. They have
learned a few catch phrases which en
ables them to talk glibly about It and they
use these phrases to convert to their way
of thinking those who have not the means
nor the opportunity to get a thorough un
derstanding of the subject.
These court hduse politicians are mainly
the ones who call the sllmly attended
meetings, at which delegates to the Griffin
convention are appointed. They have got
the Idea that the leaders of the sllverites
In the Democratic party are going to con
trol the party and they are working to as
sist tliem, hoping to be the beneficiaries
of whatever rewards the party may have
to distribute. And a good many politicians
who are not active In court house poli
tic* are silverltes not because they are
convinced that free silver coinage would
be a good thing for the country, but be
cause they think "the boys are going that
way." By the boys they mean the court
house politicians.
These politicians who are silverltes be
cause they think silver is sure to win
are going to be disappointed. The people
are studying the sliver question and are
beginning to understand It, and when th'ey
do understand it they will be on the side
of sound money. And just as soon as the
politicians find out that the sound money
side Is the strong side they will tumble
over each other In their efforts to get on
that side.
“He'l n Queer Fish."
A few flays ago we published a most re
markable fish story. It was an account of
the deductions of Prof. Cope, of the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania, going to show
that while a man may have descended from
an lnflnltesslmal primordial protoplasm, as
the opera writer Gilbert says he did, he ar
rived at his present state In eleven suc
cessive steps, beginning at the fish. That
Is to say, Prof. Cope has beaten Darwin at
his own game, and traced man back
through the monkey, without a missing
link, to the period when Ills ancestors
first acquired a backbone. |
It Is worthy of note that Prof. Cope was
not the first person to originate a thoqry
of the piscatorial origin of man, though
he undoubtedly should have the credit for
being the first to work one out through a
reasonable formula. Plutarch quotes Anax
imander as saying that men were "first
produced in fishes, and when they were
grown up and able to help themselves were
thrown up and so lived upon the land.” It
will be observed that there Is considerable
difference between the theories of Anax
imander and Prof. Cope. The ancient the
orist had not so many helps as has the
modern, hence, Instead of following man
through eleven steps of evolution from
scales to shirts, he Jumped to the conclu
sion that the fish was merely a kind of In
cubator for the human species, whereas,
according to Prof. Cope, the fish was actu
ally the ancestor of the race.
There are certain Inquisitive persons who
delight to- trace adages and other folk
lore back to their origin; and they are In
variably able to take the most homely or
most nonsensical saying and show that It
really means something and had a reason
able beginning. The theories of Messrs.
Anaximander and Cope will be welcomed
by such persons. It undoubtedly affords
the philologists a pointer whereby they
may trace back some trite expressions that
have become a part of the vernacular lan
guage of the day. "He's a queer fish,” "He
drinks like a fish,” "That’s a scaly trick,”
"What a sucker he Is!” "That’s a bait for
gudgeons,” "Ye gods and little fishes!” "A
whale among minnows," "I won't bite at
that bait,” and dozens of other similar
fishy sayings are to be heard every day. In
the light of what our theorists say, is It
not readily apparent where they came
from, and why they are so often apropos?
There Is more or less reason In most things,
when one goes back to first principles.
The Savannah Press fails to Justify Its
reference to the Morning News as a
"third term organ" or a "third term pa
per." The Press is certainly well enough
posted with regard to the ethics of Journa.
llsm to know that a newspaper should be
judged only by what appears In Its col
umns. Asa matter of fact, it has been
only a little .more than a month since
the Morning News said it did not believe
Mr. Cleveland had any desire for a third
term, and that even if he had such a
desire there was no chance for him to
have It gratified.
In case that duel between ten South Car
olina dispensary constables and the same
number of moonshiners, with rifles, is ar
ranged, Atlanta should endeavor to se
cure the event for the exposition. It
would be more sensational than a bull
fight.
Now that the Cuban patriots In this
country have elected a president of the
republic of Cuba, will they locate the office
for him, and help him into the chair?
FERNOWL.
—Mrs. Willard, wife of the English ac
tor. is founding In London a convalescent
home for actor t and actresses.
—ln the month of June President Har
per of the University of Chicago delivered
commencement addresses in eleven dif
ferent institutions.
—Emilio Caatelar has been made for
eign associate of the French Academy
of Moral Sciences, in the place of the
Italian historian, Cesare Cantu.
—W. H. Wallace has been the postmas
ter of Hammondsvilie, 0., since I*3o. He
has served under thirty-one postmaster
generals, and probably has the record
among United States postmasters .
—Platon Pawlow, the famous Russian
historian and art critic, who died in St.
Petersburg a few davs ago, was 72 years
old. < iwlng to his liberal views and in
fluence over the young, he was deprived of
his professorship in the sixties and ban
ished to Wetluga.
—Among the few eminent Americans
bearing the name of Jonathan, the most
distinguished was Jonathan Trumbull,
the revolutionary governor of Connecticut,
and, it is stated, that on his account the
name "Brother Jonathan" was adopted
as a synonym of the good genius of the
American republic.
—Prof. Edward Emerson Barnard of the
Lick Observatory, who will soon take
charge of the Yerkes observatory in Chi
cago, was -born in Nashville, Tenn., on
Dec. IS, 1857. Outside of a few months'
attendance at a public school, he is en
tirely self-educated. He became a photo
grapher, and in his spare moments took
up the study of astronomy, getting his first
lessons from a copy of “Dick’s Practical
Astronomer,” which hail been loaned him
by a friend. He pursued the science with
ardor, and Iris discoveries of new comets
soon began to attract the attention of as
tronomers. In 1883 he receiver a fellow
ship in astronomy al the Vanderbilt Uni
versity, and haa since devoted his life to
this science. Prof. Barnard accepted a
position In the Lick Observatory in 188*,
and has made many notable and impor
tant discoveries since he began to use the
great telescopo on Mount Hamilton. He
has discovered nineteen comets. His dis
covery of the fifth satellite of Jupiter,
which some time ago attracted marked at
tention and comment among astronomers.
Is one of the most notable events of the
century in the astronomical world. Urof.
Barnard is a Fellow of the Royal Astro
nomical Society of London, and Is a mem
ber of the British Astronomical Associa
tion, the Amerlenn Academy of Arts and
Sciences, the American Association for the
Advancement of Science, and other socie
ties. The telescope of the Yerkes Obser
vatory at Chicago, with which Prof. Bar
nard will pursue hlB future studies of the
heavens, is One of the largest and most
powerful yet constructed.
BRIGHT BITS.
—ln ancient Rome two augurs could not
moot each other without laughing. But
two bores could.—Texas Siftings.
—"I hate these bicycles built for two,"
Raid Miss Jemmlson. "It encourages peo
ple to talk behind your buck.—Harper's
Bazar.
—Teacher—Who was president of the
first French republic?
Scholar—Napoleon.
Teacher—And who was his wife?
The Claes '((voclflerously)—Trilby.—
Brooklyn Llfd. 1 * 1
—Prohibition Missionary—You are so
poor only because you are Intoxicated half
your time.
The Bibulous One—' Thash not It, gent.
I'm only 'toxicated half m’ time cause l’in
so poor!”—Puck.
—Who Did It?—Teacher—What great
event occurred on the Fourth of July?
Scholar—Columbus discovered America.
Teacher—Oh, no, he didn't.
Scholar (In surprise)—He didn't?
Teacher—Of course not.
Seholar—Well, who did discover It?—De
troit Free Press.
—Her First Cake—
She measured out the butter with a very
solemn air,
The milk and sugar also, and she took the
greatest care
To count the eggs correctly, and to add a
little bit
Of baking powder, which, you know, be
ginners-oftemif:, . +J"i* .t
Then she stlrrwrt-lt-aH together,
And she baked It for an hour,
But she never quite forgave herself
For missing out the flour.
—Household Words.
—There is a rule at Smith College that
no girl can go out driving with a young
man unleas ne is her brother, her liunce
or a near relation. Now, once ui>on a time
not many years ago, a young man went
there to see a girl with whom he stood in
none of these relations, although he wish
ed to be In one of them. And like any
sensible young fellow In such a pretty
town ho asked her to tnke a drive, having
no knowledge of the bothersome rule. The
girl said that she would Just love to go,
but she would have first to ask the presi
dent. "Is the young man your brother?”
Inquired that functionary.
"No,” said the girl.
"Is he your cousin?”
"No,” said the gtrl.
"Are you engaged?"
“Not yet.” the blushing maiden answer
ed, "but I think we will be when we ceno
back, If you only let me go!" And tradi
tion sayß that the president relented an!
that the couple came home engaged.—
Utica Observer.
CURRENT COMMENT.
The Ups nml Downs of Wages,
From Louisville Courier-Journal (Dem.).
Manufacturers sometimes reduce wages
for political reasons, but they are in
creasing wages because returning pros
perity enables and compels them to do
it. When Carnegie and Pullman put up
wages it Is because It Is to their interest
to put up wage*.
<• We, the People.*?
From the Atlanta Journal (Dem.).
In what name will the Griffin conven
tion speak? It dare not proclaim free and
unlimited silver coinage as democratic
doctrine, because that would offend the
numerous populist delegates and break
up the meeting. It may adopt the style
of the three Tooley street tailors and de
clare that "We, the people, do demand
and ordain,” etc.
A Popollat View of the Grlfltn Meet
ing.
From the Warrenton (Ga.) Clipper (Pop.).
After being denounced as traitors for
four years, the populists have the satis
faction of seeing their denunciators anx
ious to clamorously indorse one of the
leading planks of the populist platform,
and thus far repudiate the democratic
platform, for there Is no 16 to 1 silver
plank in the national democratic plat
form.
A Safe Man.
From the Richmond (Va.) Times (Dem.).
The Times would take great pleasure
in supporting Mr. Carlisle. He is a very
brainy man and a thoroughly patriotic
one. He would be a perfectly safe exec
utive in all matters pertaining to our
money. He is not quite right yet in re
spect to the government's connection with
paper currency, but he is learning in that
matter also, ami if his party plants itself
squarely on a demand for the repeal of
the tax on the issues of state banks, we
feel sure that he would be as reliable
there as on metallic money. The Times
would be glad Indeed to see the party
nominate as good and safe a man as
Mr. Carlisle.
The Relief That I* Needed.
Fiom the Philadelphia Record (Dem.).
The only “relief” the country needs
to-day is an Immediate cessation of the
free silver heresy, the frank acknowl
edgement of sound policies of finance,
and a prompt and permanent conversion
of our people from the plausible doctrine
that 6 is equal to 12 because a govern
ment, In defiance or all rules of mathe
matics, declares that such an equality
exists. If the delegates to the Griffin con
vention shall declare this truth in terms
plain enough for every one to understand
they will deserve, and will receive, the
approval of every intelligent community.
The Empire state of the south should
come out emphatically on the side of
sound money and against the inflationists.
Sticking to Troth.
“'Gentlemen," said the street fakir, ac
cording to the Boston Herald as he arming
ed his bottles 9ti the table before him,
"I did not come here to He and deceive
ami rob you of your hard earned dollars.
1 have stuck to the truth all my life, and,
though that Is the reason I am a poor
man. 1 shall continue to speak the trutn
to the end of my days.’
The crowd had been coldly surveying
his preparations, but began to warm up
a little over his address.
"I might say to you,” he went on, as
he held up one of the bottles In a loving
way between his eve and the sun. "that
this medicine was discovered by a celebra
ted medicine man of the Sioux tribe of
Indians, but why deceive you? It is a
remedy entirely unknown to the Indians.
It Is my own discovery, and I never saw
an Indian in my life.’ ’
The crowd increased in numbers, anl
began to press closer.
"1 could tell you that this compound
would cure Bright's disease, and In 10
minutes every' bottle would be sold; but
could I sleep to-night with the weight of
so much deception on my conscience? Hour
could I ever again look an honest man in
the face after telling such a falsehood.
It will not cure Bright’s disease—lt would
even hasten the end of a victim of that
baleful complaint.”
There were now a hundred men in
front of the fakir, and at least half of
them had their hands in their pockets In
Spareh of money.
"I could say that it was a painkiller,"
continued the roan a he brought out more
bottles from an old satchel, "but an ac
cusing voice would be whispering In my
ear forever more. You might rub a bar
rel of it on you and it would not affect
a pain. 1 miss the sales of at least fifty
bottles because I tell the truth, but it
must be so."
"Gimme a bottle!” dhouted a dozen men
in chorus as they held up their dollar
bills.
"No, gentlemen—not yeit. I wiki neither
deceive you q,or allow you to deceive
yourselves. Y'ou an* an honest, curdl
ing people, and I might tell you that this
discovery would stop a headache in five
minutes and you would believe me and
hand up your money. It will not cure a
headache. I even declare that It would
make one ten times worse.”
The number of men who now wanted a
bottle was at least twenty, but the fakir
waved them aside and said:
"Walt a minute. This discovery will not
cure consumption after one lung is gone.
It will not cure catarrh after the disease
has a firm hold on the bronchial tubes.
After both kidneys have wasted away It
Is no use to take it. It simply purifies
the blood, and thus—"
"Gimme a bottle! Gimme a bottle!"
yelled fifty men ns they pressed forward,
and In less than ten minutes the last ot—
had been sold and the fakir had the
money In his pocket.
As we went down on the train to Nash
ville that afternoon together 1 asked:
"After you have mixed water, molasses
and alcohol together, do you add any
thing else?”
"Yes-cayenne pepper to make It bite
and the solemn truth to make It sell!"
he solemnly replied as he took out his
wad of bills and spread them on his knee
and started out to find the sum total.
Vest uml Blackburn.
I met my short-legged old friend. Senator
George Graham Vest of Missouri, at the
Hoffman house yesterday, says a writer
in the New York Press. Vest Is one of
the most uncomfortable looking old men
of my acquaintance. He seems always
about to sting or to be stung. Perhaps
that is wn.' he Is called the "Wasp of the
Senate." 'i ' am not mistaken. Vest and
Joe Black bun were born In the same
county In ntueky. They have always
been the best of friends. When seen to
gether they are the long and the short of
It. Both have the Kentucky gift of the
gab, and neither ever gets tired of hearing
himself talk. Each calls lilmself a dead
game sport. They know as much about
horses as a hog does about a holiday, but
whenever they happen to be at a county
fair where there Is racing they are Invited
to act as Judges. On one occasion they
lost themselves and the horses in a series
of good stories, and neither had the re
motest Idea of which finished first, second
or third. The crowd waited patiently for
the numbers to go up. A hundred shout
ers collected around the stand.
“What are you going to do, Joe?” Vest
asked In a whisper.
"Blamed If 1 know,” Joe replied, under
his breath. "We're ruined If we put up
the wrong horse. Was it a close finish?"
"How do 1 know? 1 didn't see any more
than you.”
"Walt, I’ll settle It,” said Joe. He called
up the clerk of the scales and asked him
if he knew how the horses finished. He
did. He named them. "Put them up,"
said the senator. Then, turning to Vest,
he continued: “Come on, George, quick.
Let's get out of the way till we see how
they take the placing.”
Up to-the club house they went almost
on a run, as the numbers were put up.
The crowd cheered and seemed satisfied,
and the two senators were relieved of a
great burden. They did their duty the
rest of the afternoon. A few years after
ward Blackburn told the story to some
brother senators. “What would you have
done If the wrong numbers had been put
up, Blackburn?" said Senator Kenna.
"I should have taken my carriage and
skipped out for home as hard as I could.”
“And you, Vest, what were you going
to do?"
"Follow Blackburn,” was the reply.
A Slgli for Rest.
Father Ryan.
My feet are wearied and my hands are
tired.
My soul, oppressed
And with desire havA I long desired
Rest—only rest.
'Tls hard to toll—when toil Is almost vain.
In barren ways.
’Tis hard to sow and never garner grain
In harvest days;
The burden of my days Is hard to bear,
But God knows best;
And I have prayed—but vain has been my
prayer,
For rest—sweet rest. •
’Tls hard to plant in spring and never reap
The autumn yield;
'Tis hard to till, and when 'tls tilled, to
weep
O'er fruitless field.
And so I cry a weak and human cry,
So heart oppressed;
And so I sigh a weak and human sigh
For rest—for rest.
My way has wound across the desert
years.
And cares Infest
My path, and through the flowing of hot
tears
I pine for rest.
’Twas always so when still a child I laid
. On mother’s breast
My wearied little head—e’en then I prayed.
As now, for rest.
And I am restless till; ’twill soon be
o’er;
For down the west
Life's sun is setting, and I see the shore
Where I shall rest.
Saved From the Oregon,
We were talking of wrecks at sea, says
a writer in the New York Press. 1 have
been in several, and am still alive to tell
the tale. The most remarkable of all was
the loss of the Oregon. Mystery still
hangs around it. Its sinking was like the
sinking of an island city oft the coast of
Spain. There was one incident connect
ed with the going down of this magnifi
cent steamship that Invariable causes me
to laugh when I think of it. Mr. and
Mrs. Collis P. Huntington were among
the passengers returning f*>om a tour of
Europe. In the excitement of getting off
in the boats they were separated, Mrs
Huntington, with other ladles, being hur
ried away In one of the large boats for
ward of the second cabin. The sea was
almost calm, but the boat was so heavily
loaded that the gunwales were within an
inch or two of the water, and a slight
movement caused it to dip. Suddenly
Mrs. Huntington, who had kept up her
courage well, sprang up and shouted with
a tearful voice;
"My COIlis! Oh, where is my Collis?"
She clasped her hands and looked anx
iously toward the fast sinking ship.
"Sit down:" roared one of the sailors,
as the water ran over the side.
"But my Collis! Oh, where is my Col
lis?”
"Sit down, I say! Damn your collars!
You ought to be glad you've saved your
self!"
—’l conclude thats a fly," said a young
trout.
"You are right, my dear,” said its moth
er; "but never jump at conclusions."—
Household Words.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
—ln Great Britain weather forecasts
are extensively telegraphed throughout
the agricultural districts during the hay
and harvest season.
—An important change In the military
system of SwitzerlandT soon to he made
through a revision of the constitution
Just decided upon by the Swiss assembly.
Under the present system the army is di
vided Into two classes, the troops of the
confederation and those of the cantons.
The entire military administration is to be
transferred to the confederation.
—A French photographer has arranged
an alcohol lamp so that, while it Is Im
mersed. he can throw powdered magne
sium into the flame and thus secure a very
brilliant light under water. In this man
ner he has been able to obtain some clear
and beautiful photographs of the bed of
the Mediterranean. Oxygen Is carried
down In the apparatus to promote com
bustion.
—Seal fishing has been abandoned by
some of the sealing schooners, because of
the unsatisfactory business in recent
years; but they have resorted to hunting
sea otters along the Northern Pacific
coast. This Is more uncertain of results,
perhaps, than sealing, but In the event of
success. It Is vastly more profitable. One
schooner was \ery successful this year,
some of the single skins secured selling
for from $250 to 1330 each.
—Preparations are being made at Long
Cove, Me., for one of the biggest quarry
blasts ever made in this country. Thb
object of attack Is a miniature mountain
of granite, seventy-five feet In perpendieu
*ar hight. In the face of this ledge, at
the foot, a tunnel is being driven, which,
when completed, will be T-shaped, the
main stem fifty-five feet long, with two
cross arms some thirty feet in length,
each. Eight tons or more of powder are
to be put in these side tunnels.
—An immense quantity of music, some
of which had not been disturbed since the
time of Frederick the Great, was disc iv
ered In the royal castle at Berlin about
six years ago, and It has been found to
comprise almost the whole of the- music
performed at the Prussian court from
the middle to the end of the eighteenth
century, says, the Now York Sun. The
work of sorting and editing the collection
has just beon. completed, and the eata
logue consists of nearly 400 pages. It in
cludes many forgotten operas, a qauntity
of ballet music, early symphonies and
chamber works, folk songs and dances,
and a splendid collection of military mu
sic.
—Dr. Thomas Holmes of Brooklyn has
made a discovery, says the Pittsburg Dls
pacth. He claims that human bodies can
be petrified, and that statues in future
may be made without the labor of a
sculptor. For many years the doctor has
been working on his new petriiytng
scheme, and will soon exhibit convincing
specimens In BeHevue. He shows to the
curious a forearm In a glass case, which
at first glance looks like piroe marble, it
was petrified by an antiseptic gas, which
can be manufactured go cheap that any
man can become his own petrifler If he
wants to. If the new flesh statuary is a
go burials at sea will be barbarism of
the past and sculpture will be only of the
ideal sort.
—Bids will be opened this week for one
of the biggest contracts ever made by this
city, says a New York letter. New Y’ork
bas resolved to build anew storage reser
voir for Its water supply, anil It Is to be
the largest in this country. It will cover
an area of nearly 300 acres. Just beyond
the Spuyten Duyvil. The value of the
land la now being determined by a com
mission and will probably amount to more
than S3,OUO,'M)O, which, with the expense of
construction, will bring the total cost to
about $10,000,000. A long time, however,
will be taken In construction, so that the
expense will be spread over a number of
years. The reservoir, It Is interesting to
note, will completely cover the site of
the celebrated Jerome Park race course.
Its capacity will be about 3,000,000,000 gal
lons of water, double that of the Central
Park reservoir.
—Columbian centennial coins not here
tofore circulated have been found fre
quently in change of late. They are the
50-cent pieces of 1393, and the reason given
for their appearance Is that many coin col
lectors ami other believed that Immediate
ly after the Columbian exposition they
would have special value as rarities, and
so hoarded them for a premium, says the
New York Sun. They were so held for the
better part of two years, but no apprecia
tion in value followed, and now they have
been thrown upon the market and are
freely circulated. They have a more at
tractive appearance than the regular 30-
cent pieces, but this superior attractive
ness has not, to any visible, extent, miti
gated the regret which collectors have
had in parting with them. The silver
coinage of the United States in use waries
from time to time, according to no definite
law, with which the treasury officials are
familiar. At times silver dollars circu
late with much ease and freedom, and
there does not seem to be any serious de
mand for a greater number of the smaller
coins. Again. 10-pent pieces seem to be
greatly in demand, and the dollars are
stored away in banks and trust com
panies and in the treasury vaults, and are
grudgingly received by business men. But
silver half dollars always circulate freely.
—Phrenology, chiromancy and grapho
logy are apparently to be superseded as
sciences of character, says the Westmin
ster Budget. From America comes Stoma
tology, or the science of the mouth, in
which organ, if we may believe the profes
sors, lurk all the possibilities of one's be
ing. So far, stomatology seems to con
fine itself to imparting information about
celebrated people which we have already
derived from other sources. It must not,
of course, be despised on that account, for
It is always desirable to have one’s facts
verified by the labors of specialists. What,
for example, could be more interesting
than to be assured that George Sand’s
mouth indicated that she must inevltably
become a novelist, that Mme. Sarah Bern
hardt's points with equal certainty to her
greatness as an actress, and that Mr.
Gladstone’s bears the unmistakable marks
of an eminent statesman? From the
mouth of a certain actress we may even
read the difficulties which It tvas to be
her lot to surmount before reaching her
present eminent position in her profes
sion. The new science. It will be seen, is
capable of disclosing much from exceed
ingly slender date. Stomatology, on the
other hand, will bring disillusion to those
of the fair sex who have hitherto prided
themselves on the smallness of their
mouths. In this department, that form
of mouth, which is admired because of its
resemblance to the rosebud. Is particularly
dangerous. “Let us beware,” says the
stomatologist, "of the rosebud.” Lucrezla
Borgia had a mouth so formed. It Is plain
ly undesirable for any man to fall in with
a Lucrezla in his walk through life. The
perverse qualities which accompany this
rosebud mouth are not to be lightly con
sidered. This pernicious form Indicates
in its possessor “the cruelty of a cat which
delights to torture mice.” For our bet
ter guidance, we are Informed that it be
longs to the Venus de Medici. While this
is the type from which we should fly with
the utmost apprehension, we learn, on the
other hand, that the mouth of her sister
the Venus de Milo, is the realization of ali
that is best in woman. The stomatological
moral Is obvious. Let man beware or the
Venus de Medici, and entrust not his des
tiny to her. The counsel is none the less
admirable because it is so easy of prac
tlce.
Awarded
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THE MIDDLE
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Here’s a regular midsummer week ur
enough, and we propose to make it mem
orable by offering SUMMER GOODS at
prices midway between cost and nothin?
What’s the use of holding on to anything
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but come and see just what it is we are
doing. There Is plenty of time to get good
service out of summer stuffs.
HERE’S THE BUDGET.
25c a yard China Silks, formerly 35 and
40c a yard.
39c a yard Figured China Silks, form
erly 60c and 75c a yard.
50c a yard Plain Black China Silk, for
merly 66c a yard.
60c a yard Striped Figured China Silk
formerly $1 a yard. *
19c a yard 40-inch All-Wool Figured
Black French Nun's Veiling, formerly 6oc
and 75c a yard.
A TERRIBLE FALL
In Fine French and Scotch Wash
Goods.
15c a yard Fine French Zephyrs, former
ly sold at 45c and 50c a yard.
25c a yard Plain Black Brejicli Organ
dy reduced from 35c and 40c a yard.
80c a yard Plain Black Mouseline del
Inde reduced from 45c a yard.
12',4c a yard French Figured Dimities,
actual value, 3ic and 35c a yard.
LINEN DEPARTMENT.
Clearing prices with a view of making
roof for Fall Stock.
All Linen Napkins, $1 per dozen, were
sl.2a.
AH Linen Napkins, $1.25 per dozen, were
$1.50.
Extra Heavy Damask, 65c a yard, reduc.
ed from 83c a yard.
Extra Heavy Damask 75c a yard, was
$1 a yard.
Doylies, Towels and Toweling at equal
ly low prices.
CORSETS! CORSETS!
25 dozens of the Celebrated Silvia Cor
sets at $1.25 each, reduced from $1.75.
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{From U, A. Journal of Medicine.)
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ms without doubt treated and cured more cases than
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Cunningham’s Desiccated Egg Food
It Is equal In cooking capacity to 12 eggs;
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