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For Sale, Lost, Personal, Miscellaneous.
What Is Tom Reed up to? Not only
lias he shaved off his mustache, but
Is also Wearing tan shoes and riding a
bicycle. It will be remembered that he
adopted the negligee shirt, the white flan
nel suit and the leather belt some three
years of?o, and presumably he retains
the style. Docs the man from Mulne en
tertain the opinion that a typical sum
mer young man can be elected President
of these United States?
While some persons are urging the
United State* to adopt the monetary stan
dard employed by the South Atnrrl iin re
publics. aome of the most progressive of
those republics are repudiating that stan
dard and adopting the one the United
States have had for the last sixty years,
and under which the country has grown
great and rich. It was only a short while
ago that the republic of Chile adopted the
gold standard, and how there Is talk to the
effect that the republic of Colombia will
<pllow Chile's example.
The troubles of Miss Key, the grand
daughter of the man who wrote the “Star
Spangled Banner,” might be quickly and
dasily settled if one of those republican
politicians who are so much interested
In her case would put some of his patriot
ism Into practice by marrying the lady.
Miss Key, who Is 50 years old, has passed
the romantic age, and would probably
consider a plain, business-like proposition
of marriage from some admiring and
wealthy republican, notwithstanding she
■ays she Is a democrat.
The prospects are that Peru and Bolivia
■will be the next of the South American
republics to test their strength against
each other. Bolivia ha* demanded of Peru
Wt answer as to whether or not she will
rive her *at!sfaetlon for alleged offenses
committed against her during Bolivia’s
recent civil war, and Peru has declined to
be bullied by her neighbor. leru has
not done any real fighting since she got
whipped by Chile, and it may be that she
Is rather disposed to do a little fighting
this season. Just to keep her hand In.
Those who have been anxious about
the supply of coal, fearing that it will
be exhausted before long, need give tlicm
eblves no further concern fen that score
for awhile. The report of the Geological
Survey says that surveys and examina
tions of the coal beds of Pennsylvania
have shown that at the present rate of
consumption the supply will not be ex
hausted for 800 years or more. Before
that period of time has elapsed, the prob
abilities are that there will be no need for
coal, and that water falls and the waves
and the tides will supply all the heat and
power that may be needed.
The chairman of the democratic execu
tive committee of Telfair county has dis
tinguished himself. “By the request of
some of the best citizen* of the county,”
so he says, he called a convention of the
democracy to meet at Mcßae for the pur
pose of electing delegates to the Griffin
convention. It 13 clear that the chairman
exceeded his authority. The Griffin
convention Is not a democratic affair. It
la more populistic *han democratic, as ft
•will endorse the silver planlc of the popu
list platfcrm. The democracy has noth
ing whatever to do with it, and no demo
cratic official except the Telfair county
man has taken cognizance of It. He was
seeking apparently to commit the demo
racy of Telfair to a policy that is not a
part of the democratic doctrine. It Is
gratifying to note that the democracy of
Telfair refused to be led into the pop
ulist camp.
Two Sons of Mars.
There are two Maxims, brothers, scien
tists and Inventors; Hiram of England,
and Hudson of New York. Hi-a in Is the
inventor of the Maxim gun; Hudson Is
the inventor of certain explosives. Both
are men of the loftiest ambitions. Hi
ram's ambition is to produce an air ship
capable of arrendlng to great hlghts.
from which it may drop dynamite upon
armies and cities, and thus make war
very terrible. Hudson's ambition is to
produce a gun, a powder and a projectile
capable of annihilating Hiram’s air ships,
no matter how successful Hiram may be
in seeming for them great speed atid ab
solute tractab'.lity.
Hiram has made such progress towards
the perfection of his air ship that it would
not be at all surprising to hear at any
time that it had been pronounced a per
fect success by the most competent Judges.
Hudson's ambition -Joes not seem to be
so near of attainment, but he is confi
dent and enthusiastic, and has no doubt
that by the time hts brother gets ready
to fly up in the air for the purpose of
dropping death and destruction upon the
heads of' the devoted nations, he will be
prepared to shoot him down from the
highest altitude to which he may reach,
beforejhe has an opportunity to place a
single one of h!s dynamite bombs.
The terrible effectiveness of Hiram
Maxim's plan of campaign—the dropping
of dynamite from great hights upon forts,
cit'es, and troops—is at once apparent.
And no less apparent is the demand for
some means of defense against the pro
posed aerial monster, which is so near
to realization, in this demand Hudson
Maxim finds the opportunity
for the exercise of his genius.
He says he has imented an
explosive of sufficient,force and a gun of
sufficient power to send a projectile ten
miles straight up Into the air. The pow
der and the gun. however, would be or
little good without the special Maxtm
projectile, because of the difficulty that
would be experienced in striking with a
shot so small and so swift an object In the
air as hts brother’s air ship. At the selge
of Paris, the best gunners in the Prus
sian army found the balloon the hard
efl of all targets to hit. The air ship
would be more elusive of the shot than
were the balloons. The Hudson Maxim
projectile, therefore, will be provided with
a high explosive, to be detonated auto
matically at a prearranged altitude. Thus,
if one of Hiram's air ships appeared on
the horizon, Hudson would train Ills gun,
after calculating the hlght of the enemy,
and awult the time to pull the lanyard.
Should the explosion of the pro
jectile In tho air occur anywhere
within 1,000 yards of the target
the Mow would be delivered just as ef
fectively as if it had struck the airship
squarely in its most vulnerable part. The
concussion, Hudson snye, would be suffi
ciently violent to drop the airship to the
earth a mass of shreds and splinters.
Thus the attacker would be annihilated
before he had delivered a blow, since he
would be compelled to get directly over
the point to be attacked before he could
drop his dynamite in a manner to effect
his purpose. No aeronaut has ever attain
ed to an altitude much above five miles.
It is doubted that human life could be
even artificially sustained at an altitude
of ten miles, and as Hudson's ordlnan-e
would be effective to the hlght of ten
miles, it can be seen that Hiram could
not climb out of range before dropping
his dynamite.
As an auxiliary to his great aerial dyna
mite thrower, Hudson has Invented a
smaller gun with which assaults upon his
brother's air ships may be made when they
are approaching at a comparatively low
level, and before they have reached a point
above the object of attack. This gun Is
very powerful, and carries shrapnel. It is
intended to "scatter" like the bird gun
of the small boy. The shrapnel among
the aeroplanes and In the magazine of
high explosives on the air ship might be
depended upon to bring to grief the demon
of the air. The structure of the air ship
is necessarily very delicate, hence even a
light shock would probably be sufficient
to wreck it.
The contest between the brothers is in
deed interesting; and it is made really
more interesting than it would otherwise
be by the fact that each helps the other
along all he can. Hudson fcas Just gone
to England to hold a consultation with
Hiram.
Ingnlls nn Anti-Jingo.
The possibility of John James Ingalls go
ing to the Senate again is very slight;
nevertheless there is such a possibility,
and however slight it may be, It is suffi
cient for present purposes. If the irides
cent Kansan were to become once more a
statesman with a job, the Job being the
occupancy of the seat In which PefTer now
rattles around, the probabilities are that
only a short time would elapse before he
would be into a wordy war—possibly a
Pickwickian war, but a hot one neverthe
less—with Bodge, Frye, Morgan and that
crowd. For Ingalls is no longer a Jingo.
He may have been one once; a regular blue
ribbon howler; a Jingo able to give points
to any man in public life who makes a
specialty of exhibiting his patriotism with
red fire and brass band accompaniments.
But Ingalls, the erstwhile geyser of jingo
ism. has reformed. He has felt the public
pulse and looked at the public tongue, and
finds a total lack of symptoms of the “vig
orous foreign policy” fever which has gone
to the heads of the statesmen referred to
above, and a few others.
Mr. Ingalls declares that the notion of
acquiring Hawaii, Samoa. Cuba, and may
be other dependencies, "to be governed
like conquered provinces,” is not conso
nant with our system of government; that
the Hawaiian episode “is one of the most
scandalous chapters In American diploma
cy,” referring to the action'of the Harri
son administration In the matter, and adds:
“It is to the credit of the common sense of
the American people that they have not
ylf Idpd to this mercenary clamor, and that
they perceive the absurdity of maintain
ing costly establishment* upon a group of
islands Inhabited by an alien race 2/Xai
miles from our •kores.” This statement,
THE MORNING NEWS: .MONDAY, JULY 15, 1893.
along with others equally as pointed. Is
contained In a magazine article.
The opinions expressed in the article,
singly and as a whole, constitute an ac
knowledgement that the Cleveland admin
istration took the proper course tn the
Hawaiian matter. The republicans—those
of the Lodge school, at least—purpose tak
ing up the Hawaiian matter In congress
the moment they can do so with any prop
ped of successfully affronting or rebuking
the Cleveland administration. Should Mr.
Ingalls be a member of the Senate at the
time Senator Lodge trie* to push through
his Hawaiian scheme, the attenuated wes
terner would be, under the circumstances,
called upon to take sides with the opposi
tion. He has fought on the radical repub
lican side all of his life, but he Is a person
of such versatility that he might be ex
pected to shift hts position easily and
quickly, and be as Interesting as a “live"
wire after the change.
The importance of Mr. Ingalls’ alignment
on the anti-jingo side, however, does not
consist of what he might be expected to
do in tho event of his going hack to the
Senate, but in showing that the Jingo senti
ment is on the wane. If it were otherwise,'
Mr. Ingalls would probably be as great a
Jingo as there Is to be found anywhere. He
Is a man who may be always looked for in
the biggest crowd.
Io Onr Prisons Punish f
For various reasons It is frequently
.very hard to get violators of the law Into
prison; and, again, having got them there,
It Is very difficult to keep them there
for the terms for which they are sen
tenced. If the prisoner has money, friends
"at court,” or political Influence, or,
better, the three combined, he stands a
good chance of getting off with a mini
mum of performance under even a maxi
mum of sentence to prison. But assuming
that such governors as Altgeld, ar.d such
things as pardons for political purposes
were unknown, are the prisons of this
country conducted on a system that makes
Imprisonment really a punishment? It is
a pretty well-known fact that each win
ter numbers of tramps make It their busi
ness to get Into Jail, where they stay
during the cold season, and from whence
they emerge In the spring, to prey upon
the Industrious portion of the community.
Tho question of whether or not our
prisons really punish—that is, generally
speaking—ls answered In the negative by
the Rev. D. Granville Lewis, chaplain to
her Britannic majesty's prison at Shep
ton Mallet, Somersetshire. England, who
has been making a tour of examination
of some of the principal prisons in (his
country. Among other prisons he has vis
ited the Tombs in New York, the Cook
county penitentiary In Chicago and tho
Eastern penitentiary at Philadelphia.
From his observations he thinks the jail
bird in America has a mighty pleasant
time. The Eastern penitentiary struck
him as being a "grand home for the un
employed.” On the walls of some of the
cells he saw book racks filled wtth books,
and pictures, and on the floors were car
pets, and on the bunks were comfortable
beds, while comfortable chairs were con
venient. The occupants of such cells were
of the class that had been prosperous on
the outside. For the less prosperous there
were sundry conveniences, Including good,
soft bedsx In English prisons the pris
oner sentenced for two years has to
sleep for the first month on a bunk of
planks. During the second month he may
have a mattress three nights a week, and
It is not until the third month, even if he
behaves well, that he can have the unin
terrupted nightly luxury of a prison bed.
In the American prisons the prisoners
have almost uninterrupted communica
tion with each other. In English prisons
they may speak to nobody except one of
the jail officials. In America visitors are
allowed to converse with prisoners almost
at will. In England It Is a very difficult
matter for a stranger to see a prisoner.
In America there is a noticeable lack of
discipline about the prisons, except for
the famous lock-step, which Mr. Lewis
pronounces a famous fraud, inasmuch as
■when one prisoner has his hand upon the
shoulder of another In front of him he
can communicate in whispers at pleasure.
In England the prlsonkeepers are almost
invariably chosen from men who have
served either in the army or the navy,
hence are good disciplinarians. In New
Y'ork venders of fruit and cakes go Into
the prisons and sell their wares to the In
mates, who chew tobacco, and smoke,
and spit upon the floors. Such things
are unheard of in English prisons. These
are only a few of the points that the vis
itor observed, and which convinced him
that in this country as a rule the great
prisons are made far too comfortable to
make confinement !h them serve as a de
terrent against future criminal acts.
A rather unique organization has re
cently been formed at Kingston. N. Y.,
under the leadership of the Rev. C. J. Ad
ams, an Episcopal clergyman. The object
of the organization is to study the psy
chology of the lower animals; to collect
evidence tending to show that the lower
animals possess faculties similar to those
possessed by men—that, in fact, they
have immortal souls. The Rev. Mr. Ad
ams Is the author of a pamphlet in which
he gives facts which induce him to hold
the opinion that tlogs, horses and other
animals have souls.
Once more the forest fires are roaring
in the northwest. It would seem that the
fires of last yaar were attended with hor
rors sufficient to induce the people to take
oxtraordinary precautions to pi event sim
ilar occurrences this year. Still it appears
that there are yet in Michigan and the
other northwestern states persons so crim
inally careless with fire as to drop and
leave It in the tinder-llke woods. And It is
almost if not quite an Impossibility to
apprehend the miscreants who cause so
much damage, in order to punish thc-m ac
cording to Jaw.
Somebody has discovered that theme Is
danger to the health in a frequent use of
soap and water for bathing purposes. The
discoverer is undoubtedly-the logical can
didate of the anarchists for whatever may
be the chief office in their proposed sys
tem of government.
In Brooklyn <he other day a man made
all arrangements to kill his wife and his
child and then commit suicide. He went
ro far toward carrying out his plans that
he wounded hts wife slightly. At that
point, however, he suddenly revised his
scheme, and concluded to ktll himself only,
and let hts wife anl child live if they
wished to. And .this latter determliratlor
he carried out. His partial return to rea
son was timely, and his example is worthy
of emulation by those who contemplate
wholesale murder and suicide. If the
v.ould-be suicide has mado up his mind
that he will take his life, despite re
monstrances, let him refrain from taking
the lives of others who are still attached
to the world. This plan would hV.e the
effect of leaving the suicide with a stead
ier hand for his own execution.
The city of Fresno. Cal., will within
four months be lighted with electricity
brought by wire from the San Joaquin
river, thirty-three miles away. Twelve
hundred horse power will be transport 'd
from the falls to the city, and besides
lighting the city, it will bo utilized in run
ning planing mills, flouring mills and other
machinery. The energy will be derived
from a column of water eighteen Inches
in diameter falling 1,4,0 feet down a preci
pice. The distance from Fresno to the
source of poorer on the San Joaquin 13
seven miles greater than the distance
from Savannah to an available and great
water p>wer on the Canoochce river.
Judge Wilson of a Cincinnati court has
Just delivered an oral opinion in which is
contained an expression which will for
ever bar him from political preferment
under any government by and for the com
ing woman. “Any man who gives all
of hts salary to bis wife is a fool,” said
the judge. "My experience has taught me
that tho average woman has no Idea of
the value of money. The exception 1s the
old German market woman.” The fine
scorn wtth which the new woman will re
ceive this deliverance can he better im
agined than described.
The war department has been for three
years carrying on extensive experiments
in military ballooning, with gratifying re
sults. It Is said the department will now
go a little further, and make some efforts
In the direction of producing a flying ma
chine. Capt. Glassford of the army sig
nal service, is at present engaged upon
the construction of a flying machine de
signed to carry one man. The apparatus
is well on completion, and will
be given a test before leng.
The announcement Is mado that Mr.
Tom Watson will not consent to be a
delegate to the Griffin convention. Asa
matter of fact, there is no necessity for
Mr. Watson to waste his time by attend
ing the convention. The silver doctrine
of his party will be indorsed whether he
goes or cot, and that is all he could de
sire. "
Bit It SOX A 1,.
—Helen Gould Is passionately fond of
flowers and devotes most of her spare
time to supervising the cultivation of the
lawns and gardens at Lyndhurst, her su
burban home.
—Prince Poniatowskl, who married Miss
Sperry of San Francisco, a year ago, is
now up to hts eyes in work. His "T,
P.evue Franco-Americatne” keeps him
busy eighteen hours a day.
—Mrs. Henry Ward Beecher, widow of
the iamous preacher, does not wear black
or any other emblem of mourning. Her
demeanor Is cheerful, as well as oer dress,
and she always lias pleasant words for
her friends.
-Robert B. Scott, who died at Augusta.
Is-, on Saturday last, was a nephew of
Sir Walter Scott, being the fifth child it
Charles beott, a younger brother of the
author. He was born in 182 U and came to
America In 1844.
CURRENT COMMENT.
•‘On to Griffin!”
From the Washington Post (Ind.).
Ohio’s immense free gathering consisted
of Hon. Jacob Slelcher Coxey, Hon. Buddy
Thurman, and Hon. A. J. Warner, the
usual output of noise and a few innocent
bystanders. Kow the cry is “On to Grif
fin!”
A Pointed Shaft From Patterson.
From the Valdosta (Ga.) Times (Dem.).
The Hon. Josiah Patterson, in his speech
at Atlanta last Thursday night, said:
“Show me a man who during the past ten
years has been coquetting with protection
and I”ll show you an advocate of the free
and unlimited coinage of silver.” In At
lanta was a good place to make that as
sertion, and Mr. Patterson evidently knew
where he “‘was at.”
Senuior Bacon's Better
From the Dalton (Ga) Argus (Dem.).
Maj. Bacon’s suggestion that We "try
16 to 1, and if that don't do, we will know
what will do,” is both weak and flimsy.
M e tried 16 to 1 until it was found abso
lutely impracticable, a’nd we now know
what is best by our experience and the
experience of other nations. Bacon would
make a splendid grand-stand player, if he
played a little better game.
Henson Returning;.
Barnesville (Ga) Home Journal (Dem.).
Some of the leading free coinage advo
cates of a few weeks since in Griffin, now
say they hardly know where they are at—
the more they think about the question,
and flic deeper their Investigations go,
the stronger are their inclinations for
honest money. They say they do not want
to see the country flooded with cheap
money. And so it is with many all over
the country.
The Silverlte Call for AVntson.
From the Augusta (Ga.) News (Dem.).
We are informed that a number of
democrats and populists have signed a pe
tition requesting Hon. Thomas E. Wat
son to address the people of Augusta on
the currency question. This is not at all
surprising—lt is Just as we expected. It
is the natural result of the recent prece
dent established by the few silver demo
crats of our city. They let the rails down
at their meeting of a few days ago and
now the populists propose to use the op
ening made for them. Under the guise of
delivering a free silver speech, the populist
leader will deliver a third party tirade.
The democrats who invited him to deliver
this address have virtually Invited him to
attack democracy.
The Griffin Convention.
Newnan (Ga) Herald and Advertiser (Dem)
If that convention is not balled in the
Interests of the state democracy It should
be repudiated by good democrats every
where; If called in the interest of anew
Party which its promoters hope to bring
Into existence, there is more veason still
hy democrats should hold aloof from
it. w e are for democracy, pure and sim
ple; we stand for the free use of both sil
ver and gold; we abhor populism as much
as we detest republicanism. For these
reasons we are opposed to inviting pop
ulists and republicans into our party coun
cils. No possible good can result from fel
lowship with these interlopers, who have
no ends to accomplish save the disruption
and ultimate undoing of the Democratic
party.
He Was Sot There.
"Henry Watterson," raid Ben. T. Cable
to a Washington Star reporter on the oc
casion ot his lari visit, "will do the most
astonishing things. Then, again, he'll as
tonish one by something he doesn't do.
It was the latter way when 1 last met
Watterson In Chicago I ran up on the
grrat Kentuckian in the Grand Pacific
one afternoon. We chatted a bit. and
Watterson at last suggested that he
wanted to meet a gentleman who should
be over at the Auditorium. We got a
carriage and went over. Watterson's mar.
wasn't there, but others were, and we
visited and hobnobbed about for an hour
two. I ha<l nothing of Importance to
claim my time that afternoon, so I was
quite willing to remain in Watterson's
company, for a brighter and more agree
able companion could nowhere be found.
Along in the earlier hours of the evening
we were seated at a- little dinner In the
Wellington cafe. Watterson had be?n
telling some of his Inimitable yarns. All
at once he looked at his watch, with an
air of sagacious interest. Then he asked:
"'What time have . you. Cable?"
“ ‘Twenty minutes to * o'clock,’ I re
plied. .
■' ’That's correct.’ observed Watterson.
thoughtfully, still looking at his waten.
As he returned It to his pocket he In
quired:
’’ 'Do you know of a town called farmi T
‘‘l told him that X did; that Reprcsen
tative Williams lived at Carmi.
” ’That's right,' said Watterson, with
an air of vast Interest; ’quite correct.’
“ ’How far do you call it to Carmi
from Chicago?’
“I said I didn't exactly krow, but
thought It must be over 200 miles.
” ‘Why?’ I asked. 'What is there at
Carmi that interests you?’
“ 'Oh. nothing muon,’ replied Watter
son, with a yawn. 'Only In 20 minutes
from now—B o'clock—l'm due to lecture at
Carmi, and I was wondering if I could
make It; that's all.'
"And it was a fact,” continued Mr. Ca
ble; "Watterson was billed to lecture at
Carmi that night. It Is needless to say
that he didn’t make It.’ ’
Ignorance Rebnked.
“Yes,” said the young man as he threw
himself at the feet of the pretty school
teacher, according to Texas Siftings, "I
love yon and would go to the end of the
world for you.’’
"You could not go to the end of the
world for me. James. The world Is round
like a ball, slightly flattened. You must
have studied geography when you were a
boy.”
"Of course, but "
“It Is no longer a theory. Circumnavi
gators have established the fact.”
"1 know it, but I meant I would do any
thing to please you. Ah, Minerva, If you
knew the aching void ”
"There Is no such thing as a void, James.
Nature abhors a vacuum; but If there was
a void, how could It be a void If there
was an ache in it?”
"I meant to say that my life would be
lonely without you. I would go anywhere
with you. If you were In Australia or at
the north pole I would fly to you. I ’’
“Fly! It will be another century before
men can fly. Kven when the laws of
gravitation are successfully overcome
there still remains the difficulty of main
taining a balance ■*’
"Well, at all events.” exclaimed the
youth, "I’ve got a pretty fair balance In
the savings bank, and I want you to be
my wife. There!"
“Well, James, since you put It In that
light. I ”
Let the curtain fall.
Table Tricks.
Such a dear old rustic lady sat next to
me at a dinner the other night, says a
writer In the Louisville Post. It was
quite a "swell” affair. In a flue restau
rant, and when the cOITee stage was
reached she declined it and asked for a
cup of tea, which had to be brewed ex
pressly for her. I saw her fidgeting
around, so I asked her: “Can I reach
you anything?” “I can't Arpl my napkin
ring,” she whispered. “There are none,"
was my next.remark. "Ain't none? Mer
cy me! Why not?”
"It's not the . custom,” I answered.
"Well, It seems kind of slouehy,” she
said. "We always have 'em at home.”
"A napkin ring Implies that th napkin
is to bo used again,” I explained, "and
that would not be considered good form.”
Her tea had not come arid the old soul
felt grumpy, I suppose, so this is what I
got in sections: "Good form. Mercy me!
I never saw such a lot of fads as people
are getting. Must not cut fish with your
knife and can't have butter unless you
ask for it and having Ice cream In the
middle of your dinner.” She had re
ceived a punch between the sweetbreads
and the duck. “And no tea unless you
disturb the whole table and four or five
kinds of liquor"—she meant wine"—and
women drinking it and men smoking right
here before us. and you musn’t take your
fowl til your lingers. -Well, I do wonder
how 1 ever lived all theso years not know
ing any of theso tricks!” Her tea reached
her then and 1 heard no more from her.
The- Best Parrot Yarn Yet.
A man whose niece had coaxed him to
buy her a parrot succeeded lh getting a
bird that was warranted a good talker,
says the New Bedford Standard, lie
brought it home, and after putting it
in a cage, stood before it and said: "Say
uncle, Polly!" The bird did not respond
and after repeating the sentence a dozen
times or more with no better success, the
uncle put his hand into the cage, and
grabbing the bird by the neck, shook
him until his head wabbled around, all the
time yelling to him: "Say uncle, goll
darn you; say uncle!” The bird looked
limp and lifelees, and, disgusted, with
his purchase, tho old fellow took the par
rot out Into the yard, where he had a
coop of thirty chickens. Thrusting the
half-dead bird in with the chickens, he
exclaimed: “There, by gosh! You’ll say
uncle before you get out!" Next morning
the uncle went out to see how the parrot
was getting on. Booking into the coop,
he counted twenty-nine dead chickens,
and in the center of the coop stood the
parrot on one foot, holding the thirtieth
chicken by the neck and shaking it till
its head wabbled, and screaming: "Say
uncle, goll darn yer; say uncle!"
A Court Clerk's Finesse.
A stylishly dressed young woman was
brought up before the police magistrate
of B , for stealing ribbons out of a
shop, says the Tagliebe Rundschaer. The
clerk of the court had seen her converse
with her lawyer, and was, therefore,
greatly surprised when, in reply to his
inquiry as to her name and address, she
merely shook her head.
"She is a Frenchwoman,” the lawyer
explained, "and don’t understand Ger
man. Just put down Marie Latouche."
The clerk was Incredulous. "How old
is she?" he asked.
"Twenty-two,” replied the legal adviser.
The clerk pretended not to have heard
correctly and said: “Thirty-two?”
“No; twenty-two,” the fair captive
blurted out, as she clasped her hand on
her mouth and burst out laughing.
’’Ah!” said the clerk, "then you can
speak German, though you don’t under
stand it?”
Among the Mourners.
A Boston Irishman, who Is now dead,
was more than likely to be seen at the
funeral of any of his acquaintances, or
even at that of any prominent Hibernian,
though he might not chance to know the
deceased personally, says the Boston Bud
get.
Walking to his place of business one
morning he met a funeral procession
which, by Its length, proclaimed Itself to
be that of a fellow-countryman.
As he waited for the carriages to creep
by. some delay stopped its slow progress,
and seeing that the hack opposite him had
but one inmate, he stepped in.
Soon after the carriage had again start
ed he said to his companion: "Whose fu
neral in this, sir?” *
The man looked up in surprise; "Sure,
I don’t know.” he replied, “Oi’m only out
for a roide like yestlf.”
Not a Hero at Home,
A Bostonian of mark has lately distin
guished himself greatly, and letters and
telegrams of congratulations have been
pouring In upon him from various part*
of the world, says the Boston Transcript
These have been the subject of conversa
tion at the breakfast table, and the Bos
tonian’s little daughter has heard of them
The other day she said to her mother, with
a pathetic air of concern:
"Mamma, do you suppose all those peo
ple would think so much of papa if they
knew that he sometimes puts his elbow's
on the table?" - ~ ...
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
—ln connection with the International
fair In the City of Mexico this year It Is
proposed to erect a number of buildings
for purposes of residence and exhibition
that can be utilized afterward. This Is
expected to become a highly attractive,
as well as permanent feature of the city.
—That wonderful British locomotive, the
James Toleman, which was brought over
to the Chicago fair two summers ago. was
afterward put on the Chicago. Milwaukee
and St. Paul road to test her capacity.
She developed so many faults, however,
that after several modifications In design
she was sidetracked In Milwaukee and Is
now for sale cheap.
—A story comes from Louth, New South
Wales, of an extraordinary adventure of
a little boy about 2 years of age, who wan
dered from his home and was lost In the
bush. He was tracked thirty miles and
over a rabbit-proof fence before he was
found. He spent five cold nights in the
bush without food or water, and when dis
covered was still walking, though much
exhausted.
—Character reading from handwriting,
from shoes, and from the face, has now
been succeeded by character reading front
the teefh, says the Ladies' Pictorial. A
dentist explains In a contemporary' that a
careful study of teeth will reveal the fact
that they Invariably Indicate, according to
their shape and setting, the temperament
of their possessors. One has only to note
the teeth of one’s friends and relations
to verify his observations on pointed, pro
jecting. short, square tangled, even and
pearly dentures. Those that are long and
narrow, we are assured, denote vanity;
those that are long and projecting, indi
cate a grasping disposition; treachery is
shown by the possession of small, white,
separated teeth.
—Simultaneously with the formation of
a society for the protection of the cat,
says the Westminster Gazette, comes a
warning regarding this usually Inoffensive
member of. the household. The medical
officer of Brighton devotes a portion of
his last report to a description of Illness
among the feline residents of a certain
part of the town, and to an outbreak of
diphtheria in the same district. No com
mon cause for the latter could be discov
ered, but "in each Instance there was a
history that the household cat had been
ill, and In several families the child which
was specially fond of the cat was the sole
victim of diphtheria." Moreover, the out
break of the scourge came to an abrupt
termination with the destruction of the
suspected tabbies. Moral: Keep a close
eye upon the health of the cat.
—Tea and coffee should be positively in
terdicted to all children and there should
be no exceptions to this rule, says the
Popular Health Monthly. In the families
of the poorer classes It is found that
tea and coffee are given freely to all chil
dren, and even In the better classes tea
Is used too much. The parents take it
and the children naturally want It, and
when the parents are weak the children
get It. Tea is a powerful stimulant, up
setting the digestion, exciting the nervous
system, which predominates In the grow
ing child, and causing nervousness, sleep
lessness and a host of other evil efTeets.
In England, where tea Is used much more
than here, many cases of tea poisoning
are seen annually at the hospitals and
dispensaries. Children, who are much
more susceptible to all such powerful
stimulants, are much more powerfully af
fected by these beverages, and conse
quently they should never be allowed to
use them.
—The oddest temperance society In the
world, according to the Westminster Ga
zette, Is the abstaining-commune of Ach
lyka. In Siberia, all of whose members are
strict teetotalers every day In the year ex
cept one. Regularly on the first day of
September, year after year, all the adult
members of the commune assemble in the
parish church, and every one takes a
solemn vow before the altar to drink no
wine, beer, or spirits “from the morrow”
of the following day for a whole year. The
clause "from the morrow” is introduced
in order to give them a reward for their
virtues in the shape of a whole day of
drunken carnival. As soon as they leave
the church they begin to Indulge in a
Bacchanalian drinking, which continues
throughout the day, until neither man nor
woman in the village is sober. This Is
naturally followed by considerable physi
cal suffering, and then by mental remorse,
whereupon the penitent parish enters upon
Its twelvemonth of model sobriety, and all
live like the Rechabitos. Some students
imagine that this queer proceeding may
be a prehistoric tribal custom.
—Many advanced aurlsts are now Invest
igating the effect of mechanical and
electrical vibrations In curing deafnefcs
and various diseases of the ear, says the
Boston Transcript.A prominent New York
practitioner has invented an instrument
which gives a sustained note of reed-like
quality over several octaves of the scale.
Close to the Instrument Is a telephone
transmitter, through which the sound
passes to a receiver at the ear of the pa
tient. The exact pitch at which the ear
is found to exhibit normal symptoms is
first ascertained, and then the correspond
ing note on tho instrument is started,
and the concentrated vibrations are al
lowed to play on the ear drum of the pa
tient for a specified time every day. An
other leading aurist Is y perimenting on
the effects of various kinds of electrical
vibrations in the treatment of ear affec
tions, and some promising results have
been obtained. Whatever may be the out
come of thaee valuable Investigations it
is certain that ordinary telephone conver
sation is heard much better by some peo
ple than by others, oven where there Is
no manifest superiority of the organ of
hearing.
—Of the "sleeping sickness” of West Af
rica, the New York Tribune says: This
strange disease is said to occur oftener
in males of from 12 to 20 years old, al
though all ages and both sexes may be af
fected with It, and it is described as ex
hibiting enlargement of the cervical
glands at the outset, and then drowsiness
and actual sleep at unusual hours are
followed by profound and lethargic slum
ber lasting weeks or months; at first, ac
tive purgation arouses the patient, but
later he succumbs to the lethal slumber,
refuses all food and emaciation, with In
creasing atrophy, exhaustion and starva
tion cause death at the end of from three
to twelve months. When the patient Is
moribund, however, the coma ceases for
a short time and the mental facuttes are
clear immediately before death. It is said
the most frequent and virulent cases oc
cur in the valley of the Congo, others from
the Congo to Senegal, in the Sierra Leone
district, and in the hinterland; slaves
taken from the Congo or Sierra Leone dis
tricts also suffer from the disease when In
the West Indies, etc. The prognosis is
bad. One physician reports 148 cases, all
fatal; another records 80 per cent, fatal,
and a third reports eleven fatal cases, in
addition to two which passed out of ob
servation. Treatment is declared to prove
useless.
—Will the coming woman be a bearded
Amazonian, and the coming man a weak
and hairless freak? We are told by the
anthropologists, the physiologists and
other "ists” that the coming man will be
as bald as a billiard ball and that his face
will be as smooth as that of a babe, says
the St. Louis Republic. We had begun
to reconcile ourselves to the inevitable,
but now the scientists have made the
startling announcement that the beardless
and hairless man will have a bearded
woman for a companion, providing, of
course, that he has any kind of a female
"help meet." This amazing information
is put before the world by a learned Ger
man, who asserts that mustaches ar*
much more common among women than
they were fifty or even twenty vears ago.
In Berlin, Vienna, Constantinople, he
says, one out of each ten women has an
unmistakable covering of down upon, the
upper lip, while one out of each twenty
has a very fair mustache. In Spain, also
the proportion of women with this mas
culine characteristic is shown to be as
great as It is In the German capital, or
in the city on ihe Golden Horn. In Amer
ica. too, this learned German says, medi
cal men tell him that from 3 to 8 per cen*
of the ladies are similarly adorned, and
that a still larger per cent get rid of the
unwelcome hairs by the application or
depilatory preparations. What Is the
meaning of this wonderful increase in
bearded women? Is it to be regarded as
a sign of physical or mental improvement
of the human race, or the contrary? Prof
Mott, the English' anthropologist and
physiologist, does not believe that man is
losing his beard and hair at all, but holds
as do some other high authorities on
ethnology and kindred subjects, that the
higher races of mankind are always the
hairier. We do not believe ire Prof Mott's
theory, and certainly do not care to live
to see the day when the "sweet girl zrad
lifte will twist her mustache betwein
flights of oratory, and rhetoric. .
A Common Practice.
It'a quite common for some trades people
to persuade a customer to take some otter
article instead of that called for. it
sometimes called substitution, but it's
cheating the customer out of that which
he wanted. It is always done for a a eM
motive. The dealer who does this has r,o
consideration for his customer. It's like
getting rid of something in which the
dealer himself was swindled, and yet he
must get his money out of it by deceiving
the customer. We say to the readers of
this journal that when you ask for Sim
mons Liver Regulator don’t take anything
else instead—it’s the best liver medicine.
The advertising is increasing the demand
for it, and the people who call for it should
get it, especially so because there is no
liver medicine like Simmons Liver Regu
lator. Insist upon having it, and note that
the Red Z is on the front of the package
THE MIDDLE
OF JULY.
Here’s a regular midsummer week su-s
enough, and we propose to make it mem
orable by offering SUMMER GOODS at
prices midway between cost and nothing
What's the use of holding on to anything
these hot days. We want the room, we
want to keep things moving and so we
create a forced draught, as it were by
tempting *-our pocketbook. Don't’ sit
down to reason how we do it and wonder
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
40e a yard.
39c a >ard Figured China Silks, form,
erly 60c and 75c a yard.
50c a yard Plain Black China Silk, for
merly 65c a yard.
60c a yard Striped Figured China Silk,
formerly $1 a yard.
49c a yard 40-inch All-Wool Figured
Black French Nun's Veiling, formerly two
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 I'lack Prencli Organ
dy reduced, from 35c and 40c a yard.
30c a yard Plain Black Mousellne del
Inde reduced from 45c a yard.
12Mc a yard French Figured Dimities,
actual value, 33c and 35c a yard.
LINEN DEPARTMENT.
Clearing prices with a view of making
roof for Fall Stock.
All Linen Napkins, $1 per dozen, wera
$1.25.
All Linen Napkins, $1.25 per dozen, wera
$1.50.
Extra Heavy Damask, 65c a yard, reduc
ed from 85c a yard.
Extra Heavy Damask 75c a yard, was
$1 a yard.
Doylies, Towels and Toweling at equal
ly low prices.
CORSETS ! CORSETS I
25 dozens of Ihe Celebrated Silvia Cor
sets at $1.25 each, reduced from $1.75.
Daniel Hogan,
THE CORNER BROU6HTON
AND BARNARD STREETS.
HOTELS A.\U RESORTS.
nriESLir
Broadway and Eleventh Streets,
NEW YORK.
Opposite Grace Church.
EUROPEAN PLAN.
Rooms SI.OO per day and upward.
In a modest and unobtrusive way there are
few better conducted hotels in the metropolis
than the St. Denis.
'1 he great popularity It has acquired can
readily be traced to its unique location, its
homelike atmosphere, the peculiar excellence
of Its cuisine and service, and its very mode
rate prices.
WILLIAM TAYLOR & SON.
Warm Sulphur Springs Hotel,
WARM SPRINGS, BATH CO., VA.
now open. —-
2,700 feet elevation. Fine swimming pools.
Delightfully cool. Popular prices. Orchestral
music. For terms, address
FRED STERBY, Manager.
Or K. 8. COMSTOCK, Resident Manager,
WARREN WHITE SULPHUR SPRIN6S.
C. W. CULLEN A SON,
Owners and Proprietors, Cnllen F. 0.,
Virginia.
Oldest summer resort in the United States.
Good Fishing, Boating and Bathing.
Eight different waters, namely: White. Red
and Blue Sulphur. Alum, Iron, Arsenic, Chaly
beate and Lithia. On top of the Three Top
Range” of the Masamitten chain of Mountains:
elevation 2,100 feet above the sea; no mosqui
toes. gnats or malaria; low rates. Write for
particulars.
CATSKILL MOUNTAINS.
LAUREL HOUSE, NOW OPEN.
Accommodates 200. All modern improve
ments; direct railroad access. J. R. Palmer,
proprietor. Reference, terms, circulars, etc.,
®PPIy to R. D. & Wm Lattimore, Savannah, or
Laurel House, Haines Falls P. 0., New York.
Q PORTER SPRINGS, GA.
Same management as heretofore; board
125 per month- table fare as good as ever.
Hacks leave Gainesvile on arrival morn
ing train from Atlanta Tuesdays, Thurs-
? a J ? ’o7^ tu / ,lays; fare *2, trunk sl. Alti
tude 3,U00 feet. Chalybeate water. Musio
for dancing. Daily mail. Dr. J. Clarence
Johnson of Atlanta resident physician. Ad
dress HENRY P, FARROWS Proprietor.
WATCH HILL. R. I,
PLIMPTON HOUSE AND ANNEXES,
_ „ OPEN MAY 15.
Write for circular to WILLIAM HILL.
Reference: Alex. R. Lawton, Jr., Esq.
-COW PEAS
PEANUTS. HAY. GRAIN,
FEED, FLOUR, Etc.
COW FEED. MAGIC FOOD.
ROCK SALT.
173 and 175 Bay.
W. D. SIMKINS.