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THIS ISSUE
CONTAINS
TWENTY PACES
IfiDEX TO SEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Meetings—Attention, Englishmen; Ea
ton Branch Railroad Shareholders.
Special Notices—lmmer Verlassig, Ab
solut Rein Der Gippel Der Yallendung,
Henry Solomon & Son; Special Notice,
Charles Kolshorn & Bro.; The Wonder
ful Popularity of Blue Cheviot Suits, Ap
pel & Schaul; Good Things in the Right
Place, James McGrath & Cos.; Just Think,
Mastiek & Kemler; Only Ten Days Before
Christmas, Solomons & Cos.; Havana
Beauties and LePanto Cigars; Old Fash
ioned Rye Whisky, Frederick Schnaars;
Success Self-Rising Buckwheat, More
house Manufacturing Company; Notice
to Superior Court Jurors; Horses Clipped
In an Hour, Pulaski House Stables; Fine
Candies, L. Eleopoulo; To the Public, E.
F. Broderick; Stenographer and Typists,
Mrs. C. E. Dwelle; Fireworks Ordinance;
Notice of Change of Firm, Harvey &
Jones; Fire Insurance, W. P. Green &
Cos.; Conlda’s Christmas Novelties and
Confections; $5 per Month for Install
ments In Stock of Workmen’s Savings
and Home Company; Conlda's Sweets;
Notice. Capt. Kolshorn, Commanding Ger
man Volunteers; "Don’t Give Me Away,’’
Said the Christmast Present, R. D. &
William Lattimore; Prepare for Christ
mas, Savannah Steam Laundry Company;
Do You Eat Butter, Estate S. W. Branch;
Entertainment at Yonge’s Hall, Dec. 16,
for Benefit of Duffy Street Baptist
Church; Oriental Bazar, Mrs. E. N. Law
ler’s Millinery Store, HI Broughton street;
Plumbing, Cornwell & Chipmarr; Stult’s
Blx Six Cheroots; Crhlstmas Goods and
Where to Buy Them, Mutual Co-operative
Association; Large Stores Give the Best
Value, W. G. Cooper; Postage Stamps
and Postal Cards for the Holidays, Row
iinski, Pharmacist; Holiday Trade at
Beckmann's Cafe; Headquarter’s for Old
Scotch and Irish Whiskies, John Sullivan;
Strength of Our Argument Is Supported
by Our Guarantee, John T. Evans & Cos.
Amusements—Princeton University Glee,
Banjo and Mandolin Clubs’ Concert, at
Masonic Temple, Dec. 19; Concert and
Dance by Juvenile Choral Society and
Euterpe Mandolin Club, at Masonic Tem
ple, Friday, Dec. 20.
Selz Royal Blue $4 Shoes—A. S. Nichols.
Free Engraving—Sternberg Jewelry
Company.
Juvenile Perfection, Men's Finery, etc.
—B. H. Levy & Bro.
The Holidays Are Fast Approaching—
W E. Wimpy.
Opening Every’ Evening Until Christmas
—At Eckstein's.
This Business Rests on Truthful State
ments—Gutman's.
Holiday Opening—Leopold Adler.
Opening Evening Till Nine—B. H. Levy
& Bro.
Fireworks—H. W. Creet.
The Practical Side of Christmas—Dan
tel Hogan.
, New Publications—Webster's Interna
tional Dictionary; Comfort.
Useful Holiday Presents—At Collat’s.
Holiday Goods—Meyer & Walsh.
Sensible Suggestions— Appel & Schaul.
Christmas Slippers—At Byck Bros.
Don’t Make Any Mistake—Ludden &
Bates.
An Ocean of Seasonable Suggestions for
Christmas—Emil A. Schwarz’s Son.
Medical—The World’s Dispensary Prep
arations: Munyon’s Remedies.
Holiday Gifts in China, Etc.—At West’s
China Palace.
Christmas Turkeys—Estate S. W.’
Branch. .. .
Self and Christmas—Mutual Gaslight
Company.
Open Evenings Till Nine-B. H. Levy &
Bro,
Auction Sale—Elegant Mirror, Carpets,
Etc., by C. H. *Dorsett.
Would You Make a Merrv Christmas?—
Estate S. W. Branch.
Ladles’ Sweaters-Falk Clothing Com
pany.
As to Fireworks—Estate S. W. Branch.
Resorts—The San Juan Hotel, Orlando
Fla.
There Is Another Tiling-Estate S. \V.
Branch.
Cheap Column Advertisement Help
Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Ren.t;
For Hale; Lost; Personal; Miscellaneous.
it has been suggested that Senator Gor
man will write a book of his political
reminiscences. It Is to be hoped he will
do no such thing, unless he has better
, tilings to tell of his contemporaries than
••enator Misrown hud. What is needed is
•owethtng to build up the public ,mn in
the estimation of tb. people, and not to
jtdfcsw their wtaknasaea and intrigues.
The Popular I.oan Bill.
If the government were in need of
money the popular loan bill which Rep
resentative Cummings has introduced
into the House would be entitled to im
mediate and favorable consideration. It
is better for several reasons that the
bonds of the government should be held
at home rather than abroad, one reason
being that the interest would be paid to
our own people, and, hence, would lessen
the demand for gold to pay interest on
bonds held abroad, but what the govern
ment wants at present is not more mon
ey but gold, and the popular loan bill
would not give it gold, because it is pro
vided in the bill that coin shall be accept
ed for them, and as silver is easier to get
than gold they would yield the govern
ment only silver. We do not see, there
fore, that the popular loan bill Is what is
needed at present.
The republicans are contending that the
financial troubles of the government
would disappear at once if the revenues
were Increased and the tariff were raised
sufficiently to greatly reduce the volume
of imports. We have no doubt that If we
should raise our tariff so high that im
ports would be reduced sufficiently to
enable us to pay all our obligations abroad
In exports of products the demands on the
treasury for gold would practically cease,
but if -we should raise our tariff high
enough to reduce our imports one-third,
or even one-quarter, would we realize a
revenue sufficient for our needs? The
republicans seem to forget that the gold
r<. erve of the treasury began to decline
while Gen. Harrison was President, and
long before the McKinley tariff law was
repealed. That fact would seem to in
dicate that the remedy for our financial
troubles which they now propose would
not answer.
There Is another phase of the matter
that demands consideration. It Is that
if we undertook to shut out imports so
as to make our exports meet all our ob
ligations to foreign countries, those coun
tries might, and probably would, retal
iate by discriminating against our pro
ducts. In that event our exports would
come no nearer paying what we owe to
other countries than they do now, and
a great portion of our surplus products
would be without a market. Already the
Argentine Republic, Russia and India
are supplying the European market with
wheat to a much greater extent than ever
before, thus lessening the demand for our
wheat, and Australia is becoming a
strong competitor for the control of the
European meat market. If, therefore,
we should shut out Imports by means of
a tariff wall we should not only cut down
our revenues, but deprive ourselves of
a market for a-great deal of our pro
ducts. Hence the republican plan would
not lessen our financial difficulties. On
the contrary, it would increase them.
The administration says that the treas
ury is not In need of money, and that the
revenues will soon equal the expendi
tures. They would do so now by the ex
ercise of reasonable economy. What Is
needed Is legislation that would prevent
gold from being drawn out of the treas
ury. It is being drawn out not only for
export, but also to be hoarded, and it is
being hoarded not because there is a
small deficit in the revenues, but because
of the fear that the government will not
be able to maintain gold payments. It
seems to us that the way to allay that
fear is to retire the greenbacks and
treasury notes—the Instruments by which
the gold reserve is depleted.
Living in Fear.
The Armenians complain bitterly of the
delay of the powers In forcing the sultan
to give satisfactory guarantees for the
protection of the Christians of his empire.
Their complaints are not unreasonable.
They see only the Immediate danger with
which they are threatened. They know
nothing of the difiiculties with which the
powers have to contend. They do not
realize that if the sultan believed he was
to be deposed he might order a general
massacre of the Christians—an order
which would be only too gladly obeyed
in nearly all parts of Turkey. Neither
do they understand that the powers do
not trust each other fully, and that the
greatest care has to be observed to pre
vent a war among themselves.
The Constantinople dispatch, published !
in the Morning News yesterday, illus
trates the condition of affairs in that an*j
other Turkish cities pretty clearly. The
Armenians live in constant fear of a
massacre. Their minds are filled witp a
nameless dread. What a terrible fear
must possess them when a pistol shot,
in a private quarrel. Is sufficient to cause
such a stampede as that which occur
red In Pera on Thursday. Thousands of
people rushed out of the city and other
thousands barricaded themselves In their
houses and shops. Everywhere through
out the city the people were the victims
of the most abject terror.
For weeks Christians have not been
able to attend properly to ordinary af
fairs of life. Pleasures of all kinds have
been practically abandoned and .business
his been conducted with difficulty. The
(IreacCXuat possesses the people, unfits,
them for any occupation. Their' one
thought is, what is going to happen? All
feel that some terrible misfortune is im
pending. Under such circumstances it is
not to be wondered at that the Armenians
complain of the delay of the powers in
taking some definite action. They feel
that almost anymlng would be better
than the suspense.
At this season of the year the south is
the favorite section for tramps. Tramps
are good road builders. They can dig
dirt and roll lon* very well, when they
are made to do It. And they should be
made to do It. The municipality that
permits the season to advance much fur
ther without haviny upon its ordinance
hooks a vigorous anti-tramp law, requir
ing thym to be put to work upon the
streets and roads, will he standing In
Its own tight. The way to rid the coun
try of tramps is to force them to go
to work. They are a tss upon honest
labor that should not be submitted to.
THE MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1895.
CotiKressmen and the Farmers.
Mr. R. Turnbulf, in a communication
to the Monticello CFla.) Constitution, calls
attention to the niggardly treatment
which the farmers receive at the hands
of congress. Congressmen, when seeking
re-election, and in their speeches in the
halls of congress, are continually talking
about their great desire to do something
to help the farmers. But what do they
do to help them? The farmers think they
do practically nothing.
The special grievance to which Mr.
Turnbull calls attention are the crop re
ports. These reports, he thinks, ought
to be made valuable, since they largely
influence the prices of corn, wheat, cot
ton and other agricultural products. But
are they valuable? Mr. Turnbull thinks
they are practically, worthless, because
they are based upon insufficient and, as a
general thing, misleading information.
Who are the correspondents who furnish
the Information in respect to the crops?
Are they paid for their work, and do
they devote any considerable time to it?
Answers to these questions would explain
why the crop reports are not as valuable
as they should” be. The correspondents
arq nyt paid, except in so far as they are
furnished wit'b a lot of agricultural liter
ature-by'the agricultural department and
a few seeds of doubtful value. Asa con*
sequence the great majority of the corre
spondents give little or no attention to
getting correct Information. They either
answer the question In the blanks sent
them in accordance with the little knowl
edge they have of the prevailing condi
tions in their respective neighborhoods,
or they make Inquiries of a few farmers
they happen to meet in the country towns.
No effort is made systematically to find
out the actual condition of the crops by
inspection and thorough Inquiry. If the
correspondents were paid for their work,
as they should be, the information they
would furnish would be so much more val
uable than it now is that greater reliance
would be placed upon the crop reports.
As long as the correspondents get noth
ing for their work they will not render
valuable service.
And yet congress, although pretending
to be so anxious to serve the farmers,
makes no appropriation for gathering In
formation about the condition of the crops.
It makes appropriations for almost every,
thing else—for liquors and cigars for Jun
keting committees, for pocket knives and
tooth brushes for Its members and for
extra pay for its employes. It seems to
think that agricultural reports, patent
office pamphlets, copies of speeches and
a few Useless seeds are good enough for
the farmers. The farmers have a right
'to grumble.
If the crop reports are desirable they
oypht to be made valuable, and to make
them valuable intelligent and conscien
tious men ought to be employed to collect
information about the crops.
Church Advertising.
A Baptist church In Chicago not long
ago gave a bill poster an order to cover
his boards with bills advertising the ser
vices at the church and Inviting all who
could do so to come. The effect of the
publicity was seen in the increased atten
dance at the service advertised. The In
cident, however, occasioned considerable
adverse comment upon the church’s
method of drawing a large audience. To
get the views of leading people inter
ested in the churches upon the matter of
advertising the services, the Chicago
Times-Herald invited the ministers of
the city to express their opinions with
regard to the matter in its columns. The
query for debate, so’ to speak, was,
“should clergymen advertise, and how?”
Taken as a whole,-the ministers who
replied to the invitation to express them
selves, found little to condemn in the ad
vertising of religious services. Almost
without exception they agreed that the
common forms of advertising the ser
vices In the newspapers was not objec
tionable, but on the other hand was an
aid to the propagation of the Christian
religion. A few of them, especially of the
Presbyterian and Episcopal denomina
tions, thought that bill board advertising
tended to lower the dignity of the church.
On the other side, there were several who
could see no difference, In point of ethics
or dignity, between newspaper advertis
ing and advertising by posters. They
were rather inclined to think that the
posters would attract a class of people
who seldom read the newspapers and
whom the churches are especially desir
ous of reaching.
The majority of opinion was that relig
ious advertisements should not ape thea
trical advertisements, though more than
one minister expressed the opinion that
red ink was no more wicked than black
ink. Indeed, red ink was the more at
tractive, and they could not agree “that
the devil should have all of the attrac
tive posters.” It was brought out in the
discussion that church poster advertis
ing, though novel in this country, is com
mon in England.
The Baltimore Sun inquires, "Do we
want a national.yell?” Well, now. haven’t
w'e a national yell? If the esteemed Sub
.will cock its ears toward Washington—
it isn't far from Baltimore to Washing
ton—it will hear reverberating in the
capitol the yell, “M-o-nr-o-e, J-i-ng-o-e;
Monroe, jingo; whoop-ee; blu-u-dd!” If
that is not the national yell, then Sen
ators Lodge, Chandler and others do not
know anything about either the national
temperament or yells.
It seems a little queer about all of thoS>
escapes from tho Atlanta law officers.
About all a criminal has to do is to say
to his keeper, "Excuse me while I es
cape," and the obliging keeper promptly
bows and stands out of the way. It Is
not to lie wondered at that tho city is
full of crocks from ail sections of the
country. Maybe a little lexowlng is what
la needed in Atlanta.
Admiral Bunco's squadron of evolution
will be working its way back to North At
lantic waters Just about the usual lima
for the holding of the annual May festi
val In this dry.
This week a notable banquet is to be
held In New York, H celebration of the
rounding up of “Am- rlca’s lust century
of commercial liber:y and prosperity.”
There will be a number of the prominent
men in attendance, and several addresses
will be delivered. One of the toasts of
the evening will be "The American
Press." Inasmuch as New York is the
metropolis of the country, and is credited
witn having the greatest newspapers in
America—certainly the greatest in so
far as earning capacity is concerned—
it would be natural to suppose that the
editor of a New York paper would re
spond on behalf of the newspapers of the
country. But such will not be the case.
Mr. Charles H. Taylor of the Boston
Globe will make the response. The Her
ald and the World stand at the head of
New Ycrk newspapers in point of value
and circulation.- The former is credited
with having an earning capacity of $700,-
000 to $1,000,000 a year, and the latter of
SBOO,OOO to $1,000,000 a year. But their edit
ors, James Gordon Bennett anl Joseph
Pulitzer, are apparently regarded as not
being representative American newspa
per men. Mr. Bennett can hardly be
called an American at all. He lives in
Europe, and makes only semi-occasional
visits to New York. Mr. Pulitzer also
spends a great deal pf hl time abroad.
Neither of them is in touch with the na
tive newspaper workers.
PERSONAL.
—Two young American women who hold
the degree of civil engineer have gone to
Matalieleland In South Africa to prac
tice their profession. They are said to be
as pretty as they are smart, and it is not
unlikely that the Kartir millionaires will
entice them Into matrimony.
—J. L. Allen, a telegraph operator at
I.oretto in Marion county, Ky., has invent
ed a railroad clock that Is a marvel of in
genuity. It registers each train as It passes
and the time at which it passes, and an
accompanying device gives warning to
in-coming trains if another train has
passed tlje station within fifteen minutes.
—Judge Rufus W. Peckham, father of
the President's nominee for the supreme
bench, was lost, with his wife, on the Ville
du Havre when that ill-fated vessel was
wrecked in mid-ocean in 1873. One of the
survivors told the story of Judge Peck
liam’s great fortitude on that occasion,
and pictured his standing serenly at the
rail as the ship went down—a very fine
and noble figure.
—lt is not generally known that our
revolutionary war produced a modest
Joan of Arc. Her namt was Deborah
Sampson, and she lived near Boston. In
spired by the guns of Bunker Hill, she
wove material for a masculine suit and
became a continental soldier under the
name of Robert ShurtletT. She served
through three campaigns, saw much act
ive service and received an honorable
discharge. She married Benjamin Gan
nett and lived to be C 7.
—Recent negotiations between the gov
ernments of Germany and the United
States brought to light the fact that we
are represented at several German courts
by a dead man. Bancroft, the celebrated
American historian, was accredited to sev
eral German states as United States min
ister in 1867. When the German states
formed a union, our government failed to
recall its minister, and Mr. Bancroft ci n
tinued to remain our representative in
South Germany, the fact of his death hav
ing been overlooked.
BRIGHT bits.
—Dr. Jalap; Ob, yes, Tincture has had
good success, I admit; but he is only an
empiric, you know, only an empiric.
Dr. Tincture: Jalap Is a good phyclsian,
so far as success goesi but is a mer* the
orist, after all, nothing practical about
him.—Boston Transcript.
—A Regular Financier.—A.—l am in a
tight place.
B.—What’s the matter now?
"1 have got to raise $99 by 3 o'clock to
morrow.”
“Why do you require precisely $99?”
"I have to pay a SIOO-note in bank,
and I’ve got the other dollar.”—Texas
Siftings.
—Time Thrown Away.—Clara/—Whalt’s
the matter, dear?
Dora—lt’s too much to bear. Mr Faint
heart hasn’t proposed yet.
Clara—But you told me you wouldn’t
marry him.
Dora—Of course I wouldn’t. But after
all the time I’ve wasted on him, I think
he might at least give me a chance to
refuse him.—Tit-Bits.
—Asi an example of how easily the most
acute persons may lose themselves to
some extent in the mimic action of the
stage, a story is recalled of an eminent
special pleader who was witnessing a per
formance of Macbeth. In the scene where
the Thane of Cawdor, questioning the
witches in the cavern, says: "What Is’t
you do?” the answer is "A deed without a
name.” This phrase struck the ears of
the pleader at once, and he cried out, ex
citedly: "A deed without a name? Why,
’tis void!”—Household Words.
(THREAT COMMENT.
Both Favor State Banks.
From tho Augusta Chronicle (Dem.).
Mr. dußignon. and Secretary Smith both
advocate state banks, and In this partic
ular the people are with them.
The Chicago Cotton Exposition.
From the Philadelphia Ledger (Ind.).
The cotton exposition, to be
held in Chicago next year, under the
auspices of the southern states, is a
stroke of enterprise in which, if carried
out, the south will go ahead even of the
north. Enterprising as this section is, it
has never yet held a distinctively north
ern exhibition in the south. It is a sign
of progress in the latter section that can
not be,too much admired and encouraged.
Cruelty to the Convicts.
The Columbus (Ga.) Enquirer-Sun (Dem.).
It should be in the discretion and power
of the governor to put an immediate
check on these brutalities, and to arraign
the lessees, and subject them to a thor
ough and searching inquiry as to their re
sponsibility, and inflict the severest pun
ishment on them that the law permits.
The story is almost too horrible to be
believed, but coming from such a responsi
ble source, the governor would he Justl
lied in giving K his prompt and earnest
attention.
■■■ * . . .if
In the Party to Stay.
Americus (Ga.) Times-Recorder (Dem.).
Hon. Fleming dußignon spoke one ut
terance which must win for him the sin
cere admiration of all honest men. He
proclaimed his allegiance to the. demo
cratic party, and like the Times-Recorder,
stated that whatever party lines might
be drawn and whatever might be the
declaration of the democrats in Rtate or
national convention he would unfiinen
ingly stand with the old party, sailing
under fair seas when the clouds were high,
and going down with her ship of state in
whatever waters she might flounder.
Was Recently a Sliver Organ.
From tho New York Mercury (Dem.).
Editor Do "Young, who Is one of tho
most prominent republicans in the wesi,
predicts that the democratic national con
vention will nominate a free silver ticket
on a free silver platform, and affects to
l-elleve that tho democrats will sweep
tiie country unless his own party also
comes out strongly and unequivocally for
free silver. We credit Mr. Do Young with
the possession of too much Intelligence
to believe what lie says. There is abun
dant evidence on every hand that tho
agitation in favor of the free coinage of
silver by this country, acting Independ
ently, Is fast dying out. Certainly tills Is
tru> so far as the democratic party is
concerned Wherever It bus been com
mitted to ibe advocacy of free stiver con
fusion and defeat have overtaken it.
E\**n Willi lll** Porter.
It Isn’t often that a traveler gels ahead
of the Pullman car porter, but it does hap
pen occasionally, says the Washington
Star.
Senator Wilson of Washington did the
thing up in fine shape on one of his long
rides from Spokane to this city, and the
porter doesn't yet understand how he lost
nis bet. The Senator is an inveterate
smoker, and having run short of matches,
called to the porter:
“Got any matches, Tom?”
"Yes. sir,” replied Tom, producing a
box from his pocket. “You can’t light
the match unless you strike it on this
box.”
The senator lit his cigar, and while
smoking, pondered long over the make
up of the rough black coating on one side
of the box. He knew the match could
not be made to strike a.light except upon
that particular sandpaper.
At one of the stations he procured one
of those boxes, and going back into the
smoking room of his car, moistened the
sanded side of the box until it was quite
sdrt. then rubbed it gently on the sole of
his boot until the sticking substance, with
the sand, was all transferred to the
leather; then he waited until it was thor
oughly dried, and called:
”1 want another match. Tom; my cigar
has gone out.”
“Yes, sir,” responded the porter, get
ting out his box again.
The senator took a match, and handing
the box back, turned up the sole of his
boot.
“Ha! ha! Mr. Wilson,” laughed the col
ored man; “no use scratching it on your
boot—you can’t -light it there.”
“Oh, I guess I can,” said the senator,
smiling.
“Bet you a dollar you can’t,” said the
porter.
“Put up your dollar,” said Mr. Wilson.
“MaKe it two dollars’,” said the colored
official, eagerly. . ,
"Here’s two—and as much more as you
like,’ -assented the senator, pleasantly.
“Holy smoke!” chuckled the broom
swinger. ’’This is too easy; softest snap
I’ve struck this season.” and his loose
change was instantly emptied on one of
the chair cuhlons.
The senator counted out an equal
amount, then turned up the sole of his
left boot. Drawing the match across the
prepared place, it blazed readily, and he
calmly lighted his cigar.
The porter dropped his broom in amaze
ment. while the senator quietly gathered
in the pile of halves and quarters, re
marking to a fellow traveler:
“Tom has robbed me of a good many of
these pocket pieces, and this is the first
chance I ever had to get even with him.”
His Ht-pnlntion Mode.
To establish a reputation as an art con
noisseur a man may spend two or three
years visiting the salons of Europe and
writing criticisms for publication, says
the Chicago Record.
This method is both tedious and expen
sive.
Bartley, who lives on the South Side,
has discovered a better way. Bartley
wears big spectacles and he can’t tell a
Corot from a Turner.
Not long ago he paid a visit at the home
of a South Side millionaire who has a
collection of pictures on which he prides
himself greatly. The millionaire was
showing Bartley his treasures, and Bart
ley was nodding his head and peeping tor
perspective effects through his curved
hand. It was in the corner of the library,
where the iiaintings were especially
choice, and the millionaire was descant
ing enthusiastically on their merits. At
last he paused before a black old pic
ture, cracked and seamed with age.
“And this is my Murillo. I rate it very
highly in my collection.”
Just at this moment Bartly thought it
would be necessary to say something to
accompany his nodding and peeping. And
not having any ideas on the subject, he
regarded the Murillo critically, and said,
’lndeed,” in as appreciative a voice as he
could command.
The millionaire glanced at him quickly,
then flushed red. Bartley kept on gazing
and said "Indeed" a secondltlme.
“I should say, Mr. Bartley** continued
the millionaire, hurriedly, “ that this Mu
rillo is only a copy. I bought it in Paris.
Very fine thing, don’t* you think, for a
copy? Most people are deceived by it."
Bartley's big, wise spectacles glanced
around, and he said, Impressively:
“Indeed!”
An<J from that moment his reputation
as an art connoisseur was established.
A Portrait.
Paint me a portrait, Artist,
Of the woman most fair to see,
Invoke the aid of genius divine;
This needs must be, for this ideal of mine
Is fairer than most women be.
She is fair beyond compare,
And you need all your skill howe'er skill
ful you be
To blend your colors and paint for me
The face I see, with the soulful eyes,
With a shadowy promise of Paradise,
Showing plainly through the earthly glow
Of beauty ne'er equalled here below.
Aye, she is wondrous fair;
I challenge you, Artist, to show her to me
With all the beauty that Love's eyes see.
She is fair, very fair; aye, fairer than
snow,
And her hair which was once all gold
Is golden still, though here and there
You will see a plaintive silver hair
Which tells a story of pain and care.
Don’t leave these out, they are jewels
there,
In that crown of gold, and well compare
With beauties yet untold.
Give to her lips, so like rose-leaves sweet,
A shading such as you never meet
Save in Ups that have often kissed a cross.
And like sweet rose-buds shaded with
moss
Are sweeter thus shaded, and softened,
too.
Sad lips and tender, curved and true.
Paint all this carefully. Then her eyes
Are blue, with a mixture of gray, like the
skies
On a day when the sun-light bright t-p
--pears
As if veiled with mist—a mist of tears
Paint this misty-grayness, 'tis the ghost
of tears
That have lived in her eyes, and their
beauty wears
Proudly the record of tears well shed
Whether for the living or for the dead.
Can you paint a Soul? All the chiseled
face
Is brightened and beautified with the
grace
Of the Soul within, which is very pure,
And very gentle, and very sure
Of itself, in its own pure, gentle way,
Like the eyes in their glance, and the lips
when they say
In a gentle look or a gentle ton#
Love and patience, both in one.
There is the picture, Artist mine.
To paint which you need a genius divine;
For there is a subtle something in the
beautiful face
Aside from the otherwise perfect grace,
Which stamps it with beauty beyond com
pare.
Richly beautiful and very rare.
Each perfect feature, the gentle, eyes.
Show this shadowy promise of Paradise.
Paint it, Artist, paint the Soul,
If you leave it out, you mac.the whole.
• 1 I H.
Ilcats the. MgM -Clerk.
There is an amusing play at the Bijou,
entitled "The Night Clerk,” says the New
York Press. All night clerks have fun,
but some have more than their share.
My old friend, Maj. Kastman, who had
charge of tho Mount McGregor hotel dur
ing the Illness of Gen. Grant, was sent
for one night by a guest in No. 4t>.
"He says he won't see anybody but the
Eroprietor,” said the bell-boy, who had
een kept busy all the evening by this
particular individual.
"Tell him the proprietor is busy,” Maj.
Eastman ordered. “If he wants antyhing
let him send down word.”
This was repeated hulf a dozen times,
till the major began to fear something
was wrong. He was convinced of this
when the man sent down word for a rope
or cord of some kind. It began to look
like a case of suicide. Mo the major
linally wept up. He hail been worrying
with the man's messages for over an
hour. He knocked at the door with cau
tion. hut a voice within shouted: “Come
In!" loud enough to lift the roof.
"What can I do for you?" he asked.
"Are you the proprietor of this house?*’
the guest Inquired.
"I arn, sir; what In It you want? A rope
or cord? Might 1 ask what you want It
for?"
"1 want to tin this pillow to the bedpost:
I’m afraid the denied little thing will slid#
In my ear and ret lost."
It was not a time for anger. The major
threw up the sponge and ordered a cold
hot tie.
ITEMS or INTEREST.
—The British postal telegraph is run at
an annual net loss of $13,000,0u0.
—What is probably the longest stretch
of unsupported telephone wire is that
which crosses Wallenstadt lake, in Swit
zerland, a distance of a mile and a half.
—Some vegetarians in Germany have
started a matrimonial agency And a mat
rimonial journal. The agency will not do
business with a meat-eater. Some of
the advertisements in ttys paper are en
tertaining. A workingman who "knows
his own aims in life” wishes to meet
”a free vegetarian who is prepared for a
fruit diet and emigration.” "Honest pov
erty” wants “A vegetarian lady with a
childish disposition and a good landed es
tate," and "a vegetarian maiden who
does not want to live alone” will surren
der "a faithful heart” to a young man
who "is willing to live by the fruits
of the earth.”
—' The greatest wonder of the antipodes
is the celebrated glow-worm cavern, dis
coveied in 1891 In the heart of the Tas
manian wilderness, says the St. Louis Re
public. The cavern or caverns (there ap
pears to be a series of such caverns In the
vicinity, each separate and distinct) are
situated near the town of Southport, Tas
mania, in a limestone bluff, about four
miles from Ida Bay. The appearance of
the main cavern is that of an underground
river, the entire floor of the subterranean
passage being covered with water about
a an< i a half in depth. These wonder
ful Tasmanian caves are similar to all
caverns found in limestone formation,
with the exception that their roofs and
sides literally shine with the light emitted
by the millions of glow-worms which in
habit them. , .
~successful method of making illumi
nating gas from sawdust is now being
employed, says the Pittsburg Dispatch.
In Canada several large lumber mills are
being lighted by gas made by this pro
ce®f* The sawdust Is charged in retorts
which are heated by a wood fire, the gas
rrom the retorts passing into a seroes
an< J thence into the purifiers,
which are similar to those used for coal
gas. Lime is the principal purifying
employed. When the gas passes out
of the retorts it has an order much less
disagreeable than that of ordinary light
ing gM, and resembling somewhat that
ot the smoke from a tire of green wood
or leaves, for a small plant, turning
out, say, 540 cubic meters of gas daily,
about two tons of sawdust will be used
in the twenty-four hours, and a man and
a boy furnish all the labor needed. The
gas in an ordinary burner gives an illu
mination of about 18 candle power. The
best quality comes from resinous woods.
A quantity of 100 kegs of saw-dust leaves
a residue of twenty kegs of charcoal.
—William Martin, an inventor of New
York city, is perfecting a machine to clean
the bottoms of ships while they are afloat,
and thus save the enormous expense and
loss of time spent in dry-docking vessels.
At present Mr. Martin is building a model
o* his machine, which is to he exhibited in
operation on a model steamship in New
York. The model is constructed of iron,
brass and wood, but in the regular work
ing machine all of the machine is to be cf
aluminium. The value of this invention
to naval and merchant vessels is easily
understood. The amount of money Uncle
Sam pays every year for docking and
cleaning the bottoms of his ships
is enormous. Mr. Martin’s machines
have already received the appro
bation of naval officers and cap
tains of vessels who have tried
them. The cleaning of vessels with the
machines is effected by a system of re
volving scrapers and brushes, so nicely
geared with belts and cables, susceptible
of such tine adjustment, that the most
highly polished varnished surfaces may
not be even scratched.
—A new system of electric railroad,
which combines the advantage of the
trolley and storage battery system, has
now been practically tried in Hanover,
which was the first to adopt it. Accu
mulators are provided beneath the seats
of the car, and charged during the time
the car is traveling on the trolley road,
receiving current through the same feed
wire as the trolley. When the end of the
trolley line proper is reached the car con
tinues on the track which heretofore had
been used by a horse car line, relying
for power absolutely upon the electricity
stored in the accumulators during the trip
over the trolley road. These electric cars
are now being used all over the city of
Hanover, although the former electric
trolley line was Introduced in only a
small part of it. This system solves a
very difficult problem in a very simple
manner, and seems to have a great fu
ture in store, provided that the storage
batteries retain the keeping qualities as
promised by the manufacturers at Ha
gen Germany. A similar suggestion Is
made In a foreign electrical Journal by an
engineer named Mueller, but his idea is
to use the stored electricity on steep
grades. *
—The mails in China are different from
the postal arrangements of any other
country in the world. In China the mail
service is not only not in the hands of the
government, but it is left to private per
sons to establish postal connection, how
and wherever they please. Anybody may
open a store and hang out a sign, adver
tising that he is ready to accept letters lo
be forwarded to certain places or coun
tries. The result of this arrangement is
that in populous towns there are a great
number of persons accepting letters to be
forwarded to all parts of the country; ?t
Shanghai, for instance, there are not less
than 3,500 stores competing with each oth
er and carrying on a war to the knife as
far as rates are concerned. This system,
although having great faults, has some
good qualities. There are several parties
accepting letters to one certain town. The
Chinese merchant who writes letters two
or three times will patronize several of the
concerns, and ask his correspondent to
inform him which he got Quickest. Hav
ing experimented for a while, he will se
lect the firm giving the best service, but
he always has the choice of several mail
ing services for his correspondent.
—The banks of the streams in the vicin
ity of St. Paul's, says the Pittsburg Dis
patch. in the Upper Amazons in South
America, are dotted with palm thatched
dwellings of the Indians, all half buried
in the leafy wilderness, the scattered
families having chosen the coolest and
shadiest nooks for their abodes. The
traveler frequently hears in the neigh
borhood of these huts the organ bird the
most remarkable songster by far of the
Amazonian forests. When its singular
notes strike the ear for the first time
the impression cannot he resisted that
they are produced by a human voice
Some musical boy must be gathering fruit
in the thickets, and is singing a few
notes to cheer himself. The tones be
come more fluty and plaintive. Some
times they resemble the nqtes of a flageo
let, and the traveler is almost persuaded
in spite of the absurdity of the thing
that some person is playing that in
strument in the primeval forests. How
ever closely he may scan the neighboring
thicket, no bird appears, although the
voice seems to be that of someone near
at hand. The bird is rarely if ever heard
in the Lower Amazons. It is the only
songbird that makes an impression on
the natives, who sometimes rest their
paddles while voyaging in their small
canoes along by the shady by-at reams as
if struck by the mysterious sounds—a
high compliment. Indeed, for the usually
impassive natives to pa/to the feathered
songster.
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