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Newspaper Page Text* Morning Bflus Bvißuilliu:. Savanna.-.. Oa BSD AT, JANUARY 1. I'WI. i Registered at the postotfb in Savannah. I The MORNING NEWS is published k”Ty day in the year, an i '.rv i > b -scribera in the < $;• 'TO for six months, and Il'MJ# i. one yeai. The MORNING NEWS by mail, six tunes a week (without Sunday issue;, turea months, *2.00; six month.-, |I-<W; one year. JS.Oit. The MORNING NEWS. Tri-Weekly. Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, or Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, three months, *1.25; six months, J--", one year, JS.W. The SUNDAY NEWS, by mail, one year, *2.00. The WEEKLY NEWS, by mail, one year, *I.OO. Subscriptions payable In advance. R**- ir.it *(y postal order, check or registered letter. Currency sent by mail at risk of senders. Transient advertisements, other than special column, local or reading not! es, amusements und cheap or want column, 10 cents a line. Fourteen lines of agate type—equal to one inch space in d-*pill ls the standard of measurement. Con tract rates and discounts made known on application at business office. Orders for delivery of the MORNING NEWS to either residence or pin* e of busi ness may be made by postai card or through telephone No. Slot, Any Irregu larity In should he immediately reported to the office of publication. Letters and telegrams should be ad dressed? "MORNING NEWS." Savannah, Ga EASTERN OFFICE, 23 Park Row. New York City, C. 8. Faulkner, Manager. INDEX TO NEW ADVEIiTISEMKNTS. Meetings—Georgia Chapter No. 3. R. A. M; Stockholders Savannah Rank and Trust Company. Special Notices—l.eßoy Cheroot Certift • *>. Henry Solomon A Son, Agents; No tice to City Taxpayers, C. S. Hardee, City Treasurer; The National Hank of Savan nah Dividend; Interest Notice, Savannah Rank and Trust Company; Interest No tice, the Citixens' Bank of Savannah; In terest Notice, the Oglethorpe Savings and Trust Company; Notice of Dissolution, Warfield & Williams; Interest Notice, the Chatham Bank; Interest Notice, Depart ment of Savings, Southern Bank of the State of Georgia; Dividend No. 50, South ern Bank of the State of Georgia; Election of Directors, Southern Bank of the Slate of Georgia; Interest Notice. Title Guar antee and Loan Company; Remington Standard Typewriters, Dearlng & Hull, Sole Dealers; Annual Contest for Tur keys of the Savannah Rifle Association; Notice of Dissolution, Lester A Ravenel; Dividend No. 57, Merchants National Bank of Savannah; Interest Notice, Germania Bank; the Consolidated Fireworks Com pany's Store Open To-day and Night; We Will Not Open This Day, Mutual Co-oper ative Association; Notice, Dixon, Mitchell A Wells; Notice of Dissolution, Woods, Garnett A Cos.; Notice, Woods A Malone; Notice, .John. R. Garnett; Notice of Dls- Kolshorn A tiro.; No- MMMm \ ■V. Branch. SHH'i- 1 ' 1 I Item. 8 gjf l ' 5 ■ l ' ■ 1 i a - Year’s Races To-day Wednesday Evening, i l ' : F S I Better Light—Mutual S P ■ : Personal; Miscellaneous. battleship Texas is a Whitney ship. sonic reasons or oilier, when, v. i . northern republican i • vv - !■.;■. r - r. to the. Texas and the series of un- Howurd Incidents that have occurred dur- Hng her construction and trials, they men tion the fact that she Is a Whitney ship, and bring in the name of John Roach in a manner which suggests that they have fte idea that the failure of the Texas is R divine visitation upon Secretary Whit ney for hls rejeotlon of Roach's Dolphin. The regular monthly convention of the silverites for tjhe purpose of getting to gether and firming a national party will be held in Washington on Jan. 22. BChere have been some fifteen or twenty conventions held and parties during the last two years. But that does nut seem to make any differ ence to anybody. If it amuses the sil verites to be cont nually meeting and forming national patties nobody is' going to object. When the Sprinsfle.il Republican next catches a southern mwspaper publishing lists of northern mob outrages for the of "breaking the force of the >trowing public sentiment in the south against local mob crimes,” let it publish the name of and denounce that paper; Land we promise to add our denunciation ■ o that of the Republican. We do not Braeall ever having seen .such use mad- Bpf a list of northern mob crimes by any Hriuthern paper of even the least import ance. little Spanish fruit steami r Horsa a historian. There is rio doubt Bat her would he worthy the art t'lark Russell, She has been a f reig lit - wait immigi.int i-arri. i. aim i s no telling what < She hi- of ei’S" an.: ! v ■ toils oi BP, 1! •abors. roast Defenses. Ths question of coast defenses win oc cupy a good deal of the attention of the' present congress—at least, that Is the expectation. The recent war talk had the effect of directing attention to the de fenseless condition of our coast cities. There Is not a congressman probably who does not understand the necessity for making ample provision for the pro tection of the chief ports of the coast# In hls annual re|>ort, the Secretary of War called attention to the need of greater vigor in prosecuting the coast defense work. At the present rate at which it is being carried on it would take something less than a century to com plev It. Before ft could l>e finished, that part completed first would be out of dale, and practically useless. Quite a long time ago the war depart ment had plans and estimates made for fortifying Ihe principal coast cities. The cost was placed at about tX7,OJO,(M. The work would doubtless cost a gieat deal more than that, but as the expenditure would extend through at least ten years, the amount for each year would not lie a very heavy drain upon tne government s resources. It is probable that one of the reasons why the work has not been pushed more vigorously Is the lack of sympathy with it on the part of congressmen from the interior. As war at no time, until within the last few days, seemed likely to oc cur, they prepared to give all the money the government could spare to the im provement of the water ways, such as the Mississippi river, ami for pensions. Tensions promised better returns from the standpoint of politics than coast city fortifications. The little war cloud which was visible recently for a short time, however, has made the whole country aware that the coast defense work Is a very Important and necessary one. A hostile fleet In the present defenseless condition of our coast cities might do more damage ill a day, or exact a greater ransom, than the cost ot fortifying all the important har bors on our sea coast. While war may not come for many years, or not at all, it would be well to be prepared for it If it should come. Tlie Itewnrd Increased. We do not pretend to pass upon the merits of the ease of the Zcigler hoys cf Screven qpunty. All we desire to know* at this time is that they have been in dicted for killing the sheriff of the county, and have not boon arrested. The gov ernor lias increased the reward for the arrest of the two young men to *l,ooo—i*soo each. We think the governor has acted wisely. If we are to have law and order in the state those who are charged with crime must be arrested, If they can be found. The understanding seems to be that there is no difficulty in finding the Zetg ler boys. It is alleged that they are at home the greater part of the time, and are encouraged In resisting arrpst by many of their neighbors, who Sympa thise with them In what they have done. At present there Is no question as to whether the Zciglers had some excuse for killing the sheriff. That is a matter for a court and, Jury to determine. The sole matter now is the vindication of the luw. It is the duty of the officers *>f Screven county anil of the governor to see that the law Is enforced. The permitting of the Zciglers to re main at large and within the reach of the officers of the law would amount practically to this, namely, that the arm of the law in Screven county is paralyzed, that crime can be committed and the’ offenders go unpunished. It is easy to understand what kind of effect an an nouncement of this kind would have.' It would encourage crime and tend to create the impression that fife and prop erty within the county are not safe. The governor is a determined sort of man. He may not act hastily, but It is pretty certain that he will have the Zeigler boys arrested if they remain in Georgia. Some rather sensational testimony was given before the coroner's jury Investiga ting the Baltimore theater panic and tragedy the other day. Jacob Schnelder rnan testified that a gang of fifty persons —hls own people—were responsible for the horror. It was their Intention, he said, to cause a stampede for the purpose of robbery—stealing jewelry, money, clothing or anything else they could take from the excited crowd. It does not ap pear that the coroner placed much reli ance in the man's story; still It may be trite. There are fiends devilish enough to do just such work, and they walk in and out before men every day. There is a probability that the grand Jury will take hold of Schneiderman's story and see what there is in it. A great deal of eotton is being shipped from New Orleans and cities of Texas direct to Yokahama. It goes to San Fran cisco by ttie Southern I’acitic and thence by steamer. Japan is steadily increasing the number of her spindles. In 1894, she had 500,000 spindles, now she lias 750,000. It is. understood that she pro poses, first, to supply .-her- own market with cotton goods, ajtd 'then become a competitor in the markets of the world. She has excellent material out of which to make factory operatives. They are patient and skilfull workers and they re ceive remarkably low wages. It is es timated that the Japanese will take 50,000 bales of our cotton this year. McKinley and Reed have both been down in Louisiana, by proxy, after the delegates to the national republican con vention. According to the dl. --’tehes, it appears that McKinley has goi the “lily white” faction attached to his boom, while Reed has succeeded in attaching the "reg ulars,” who are a negro state chairman. The with the Louisi ana republican is that they, yflHSS|Wh uv ' m&ggk -agjl <|? THE MORNING NEWS: WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 1, 189A A Disappointed Earl. The Earl of Dun raven was bitterly dis appointed by his failure to win the Amer ica's cup in the International yacht race last September. It is believed that If his disappointment had not been so great he would not have been guilty of the folly of charging that there waJ fraud in the sailins of the Defender. He cer tainly had no facts upon which to base such a charge. At no time and by no liody in this country was there believed" to be any foundation for the charge. In England, where sympathy was supposed to be with Lord Dunraven, there was grave doubt as to whether there was any truth in it. Both in this country and England the wisdom of making the charge without evidence to support it. was not only questioned, but severely condemn ed. Still, in England there were some who thought Lord Dunraven had not given to the public the evidence he had to sup port his charge. What will lie said by those who have stool by him, now that it is known that his charge was Aased upon nothing more than a suspicion, and that this suspicion had not a single fact to rest upon? A rather cold reception doubtless awaits Lord Dunraven on his arrival in ng land. His reception in tills country was chilling—so chilling that he did not an hour longer than was absolutely nec essary. It will lie a surprise if he finds bis surroundings in England much more comfortable. His conduct was so far from creditable to him that few will tare to appear to champion his cause by ap pearing to lie on friendly terms with him. If he had shown reasonable ground for making his chaige there would be some excuse for him. but the understanding Is lie showed nothing but a suspicion, and that, no doubt, grew out of the hitter disappointment his defeat caused him. Hls yachting days arc over. It is not improlmble that the New York Yacht Flub will strike hls name from the list of its members. Hill's Common Sense. Senator Hill gave the Senate some plain, common sense talk the other day. What he said, In effect, was this; The President has authority to Issue bonds and the tionds lie issues will be payable in gold. The faith of the nation will be pledged lo (lay them la gold. The Pres ident will issue bonds whenever it be comis "neeev-ary to do so to restore the gold roierve—ly other words, lo maintain the national credit. But unless congress expressly says such bonds shall lie paid in gold the government will have to pay a much higher rate of interest on tinm an unnecessarily high rate. Why should not congress, Senator Hill said, pass a joint resolution to the effect that all the bonds of the government are payable In gold or sliver at the option of the holder? Will congress pass such a resolution? There isn't the least probability that it will. It prefers to play politics. If the last congress had passed such a resolu tion It would have saved the country *16,000,000 on tlie last issue of bonds. This congress can save the country more than that amount by passing a resolution of that sort. Ami why not pass it? It Is based on common sense and common honesty. It has nothing whatever to do with the silver question. The passage of It would neither hasten nor retard free silver coin age. Is It not the purpose of congress to pay the bonds in gold? It would be dishonest not to do so. If it Is the purpose of con gress to act honestly, why not say that the bonds will be paid in gold if the hold ers of them want gold? If congress would put itself on record as favoring an hon est policy in respect to tne bonds, mill ions of dollars would be saved to the peo ple. “Russia, a silver standard country, po litely offers to come to the relief of the United States and lend us a few millions of gold," says the Memphis Commercial- Appeal. The inference which the Com mercial-Appeal wishes to be drawn is that if this country were on the silver standard it would not need gold. While that might be true, we should have two kinds of dollars, one of which would be worth just about twice as much as the other, and the cheaper of which would always be forced upon the working peo ple. As to Russia being a silver standard country, the fact Is that silver is merely the nominal standard. The actual cur rency Is paper, the depreciation of which Is measured by the gold standard. Gold, therefore, is the actual measure of value. It Is difficult to see where there is room for a row between Atlanta and Philadel phia with .regard to the liberty bell. Philadelphia is the custodian of the bell, which was loaned to the Cotton States and International Exposition, and not to the city of Atlanta. It is undoubtedly the right of the Philadelphians to provide the escort to the bell and to say by what route it shall be returned to its resting place in the Philadelphia city hall. If the story of the attempt to use the bell for advertising purposes in Atlanta is true, the Philadelphians have Just cause to be indignant. It is well enough for business men to remember that beginning' to-morrow, Pennsylvania will abolish the days of grace on commercial paper. Such paper after the first day of January will be pay able on the date expressed on its face. Paper falling due on Sunday, or a legal holiday Is held to he payable the next secular business day thereafter. No pa per will be protested on a Saturday, but may be protested on the next following business day. The grace days were abolished in New York some time ago. New York's police reforn^M^orking '1 !* . ■ A&M i mi Supposing that Mr. Reed should be ram- ] inated for President by his parts', would he jfive up the speakership? A great many persons in Washington who have been a:*ked the question think that he would not lay down the gave! to enter actively’ into the campaign. One con gressman—a democrat, of course—doubt ed if Mr. Reed would give up the speak ership even If he were nominated and elected to the presidency. An extraordinary excursion will leave London next summer. It will sail in a 4.000 ton steamer, and Its destination will he Vadsoe, Greenland. The attraction at the Greenland end of the trip wilt be a total eclipse of the sun, and the excur sionists will be scientific men. The trip is not a scientific expedition, but purely and simply an excursion enterprise man aged by a steamboat company. Have the republicans abandoned their doctrine of protection? The Dingley bill, which the House has just passed, is on the lines of the republican tariff |olicy. But it is noted that they call it an “emer gency revenue" bill, and say nothing about protection. The real purpose of the bill is protection pure and simple. Are the republicans afraid or ashamed to ac knowledge it? The. state agricultural department of is wuging war upon tubereo losis in cattle. Many tuberculous cattle are being killed, the state paying for them. It is said that in many towns thd state has this year been called upon to pay for cattle so killed larger sums than the towns have paid into the state treasury in taxes. I'kHSO\AI;. —Bismarck’s bedroom contains only three piei os of furniture—a large wash stand, . mall camp bedstead and a boot jack. —Mr. William Waldorf Astor employed a scholar from the British museum to trace his genealogy and give him a legiti mate crest. After two years of study in European archives i e traced the descent, beyond all doubt, to an ancient family of Spanish grandees, where the desired crest was obtained. —Li Hung Uhang is now in Pekin, no longer vieeroy of the great province of Chihli, Relegated to a little temple at Pekin, a few followers and the members of his numerous family alone gathered about him. lie is, it is said by those on the spot, really shelved. Hls health Is said to be failing and his prestige is nil. —Pope Leo’s niece has just become rec onciled to her husband. She married Count Salimei, an oiheer of the Papal Guard* five year ago. but they quarreled on the retun from the wedding tour and sep are* u. A child was born whom its father never saw till recently it fell dangerous ly ill. when lie was summoned and at once made up the quarrel. —George J. Gould, in the settlement of his father's estate, got $6,090,000 for ser vices rendered. The residuary estate, as ascertained by the tax collector in New York, i3 valued at $72,458,960.48. Each of the six children is entitled to a life estate in trust in one-sixth of the residuary es tate, and these life interests are valued as follows: George J. Gould, $9.';77.194; Edwin Gould, $9,215,723; Helen M. Gould, $9,358,437; Anna Gould (Countess <!*• Ca>- tellane), $9,712,218; Frank J. Gouid, * \17,- r>Bs; Howard Gould, $9,510,295. The ap praiser estininu-s the value of remainder in the respective shares of the residuary estate allotted to the children as follows; George J. Gould, $2,999.299.34; Edwin Gould, $2,860,778.31: Hfrfeii M. Gotlld. $2,719.- 0504; Anna G6'uld. $2,557,197.24; Frank .1 Gould, $2,364,275.34; Howard Gould, $2,258,- 908.34. BRIGHT HITS. —Not So Very Unexpected.—“ Ada, dear est Ada, will you be mine?’’ “Oh. Charles, this is so unexpected! You must give me a little time.” “How' long, darling?” “Oh. 1 will just call mamma—she is waiting in the next room.”—Fliegende Blatter. —The late Rev. Dr. W. B. Robertson of Irvine, Scotland, was once addressing a boys’ meeting, and. having delighted them with some of his racy anecdotes, he be gan to “draw to a close” by saying; “Now I'm going to point out'the moral of all this.” “Never mind the moral,” shouted a little fellow from the middle of the hall, "gie’s anither story!” —A lady who was shopping saw her hus band examining pocketbooks at a show case In another part of the store. When he had gone she approached the sales woman in that department. “Did he get the one I wanted?” “Yes, the one with the silver horse shoe. I told him it was the best and would just suit.” “You’re a jewel. I feared he would get something I didn’t w-ant. Thank you ever so much.” The husband had gone to his favorite efrug store, where he asked: “Has my w ife been here?” “Yes,” said the clerk with a grin. “Did she get a toothbrush or a box of cigars for my Christmas present?” “She looked at cigars.” “Ha! I know the brand—s 2 a hundred. Well, if she buys a box, change them to my regular brand, and I’ll pay the dif ference —see?” And the druggist saw*.—Philadelphia Press. CURRENT COMMENT. Consistent, After All. From the Chattanooga Times (Dem.) The republican party has always been a party of temporary makeshifts its re cent attempt at financing in congress be ing by no means an exception. Should Not Disturb HnsinoMM. From the Boston Herald (Ind.) While the agitation of the tariff is or dinarily calculated to disturb business, there is no occasion for uneasiness on account of the bill passed by the House. It stands about as much chance of be cominß a law of this country, while President Cleveland Is in the white house, as does the Chinese code. It is just as well to bear that fact in mind. Vtuti In tlie Senate. From the„Philadelphia Record (Dem.) When the new state of Utah takes her place in the union two more repudia tionists will present their credentials and he admitted to the United States Sen ate. Utah has a population about one fourth as large as the city of Philadel- Khta, and yet her senators representing er silver mines can nullify the voice of the five millions of people In Pennsyl vania. and help to hold the whole coun try by the throat with a threat of panic as the result of financial dishonor. Magnitude of the Reed Ixsne. From the Baltimore Sun (Dem.) Speaker Reed and the republican ma jority of the ways and means committee of the fifty-fourth congress will go down to fame as lightning tariff bill mak ers. It Is true that changes in a tariff law are usually accompanied by business disorders, and that it requires no little time for the country to adjust itself to new conditions. But that is a mere bag atelle. Why should the country be con sidered at all when Mr. Reed's hopes of the presidency jtat stake The man from Maine is issue to Mgsgf. Hi' Ills, JjjMUiif , *i 'ii 'PMMB laroffi ■ ifiiWiiFii ilurTffUil ' i iHrafißF?!;- o m * > ■ - pvifs kv * ■ gs a Rattled the Hone* for a Mine. A silver min eye hanged hands yesterday on the result of <& dice game between R. A. Bell and Pat Weish, says the He lena iMont.t Standard. Each ownM a one-hail interest In the Belle of Clancy, in Lump Gulch. The mine was worth considerable, for it was one of the prop erties that are termed “promising pros pects” by those who owned them. Con siderable development work has been done, and there is already a good streak of ore, although not as much as the own ers thought they ought to have. In dis cussing the dev- lopmtnt of the mine they found they coud not agree on some im portant matters of policy. The-e was a deadlock, and with ths- prospect that -*• would not in? broken they decided that it would be best for both if the property were all held by one man. . us rattle the bones for it,” sug gested Welsh. “What shall it be?” was Mr. Bell’s prompt reply. “Three shakes. horses. Mr. We* h thought would be about the thing. Mr. Bell philosophically reflected that wl.at was sauce for the goose was sauc* 1 J >* the gander. To be sure might luck in the “reeky road to Dublin.” or in “drop dead,” or in “baseba’.l dice,” or “poker dice,” as they play thi game in California, but it would he ;*s likely to l*e luck for Mr Welsh as for Mr. Bell, and after considering a. moment he said that shaken, horse.-,’’ was good enough for him. They dropped into Staff & Opheim’s and called for the l>om s. They were handed to Mr. Bell ,and he took the first rattle at them. On the first flop he threw three ares, and on each succeeding throw an other ace came to keep that one company. Five aceK were so good that Mr. Bell reposed confidence while he awaited the result of the first ho-se. Nor was his confidence misplaced. Hls opponent had but thrpe sixes, the best he could do. Mr. Wei sir; as is the custom, kept the dice lox and shook again. “Four sixes,” he said, as he picked up the die© and handed the box along. “That’s good enough this time. You can’t shake five of a kind every time.” Mr. Bell couldn't. He managed to get a pair of fives, having split a pair of deuces in the first place because* he thought they weren’t good enough. It was “horse and ” Then Mr. Bell tried with all his might. The result was four fives. “Blow in the box,” said Mr. Welsh to Charley Snedakcr, who was refereeing the game. Mr. Snedalter complied. .He also made a few mysterious passes over the box. and muttered an incantation taugli him by a ine man down on the hanks of Lake Victoria Nyanza. With a smilp of confidence Mr. Welsh took the cylinder in his hands again. “They have ;#>! to <*ome now," he said, as he tipped lie ivories out. They rolled across the fa<te of the showcase and set tled down, virile both the participants tried to look as if there wasn’t SIOO,OOO at stake. I “Five aces*’ said the referee. “That settles j it.” said Mr. B* 'J. “it was that tbreath that tIM ilie busi ness,” said Mr, Welsh, j 1 : r ■ The deed wilj be signed • -d .y. Carp as Crop Destroyers. 1 was one of the fool farmers, ays a writer in the New York Press. Toe fine prospects caught me; 1 spent three months of my life making a pond; it was ns good as anybody’s pond, too; it was half an acre in extent and had a splendid blanch of crystal water flowing into it the year round. The carp arrived, and for a year and a half 1 nursed them, rebuilt the dam u dozen times, redug the pond twice, ami had the satisfaetlon of raising a pool fnl of ring-tailed tad-poles and shiners. It turned out all right in the end. Some of my in ghbots who sueeeoded better than I did with tie carp, did nothing from daylight till jdark but curse their bad luck. The fishes increased and multi plied so fast (hat it was ot possible for the average farmer to supply enough food for them and large schools used to leave the ponds at midnight and go fluttering and finning through the fields destroying the crops. Cbe Guyton declares that he sat In a corner of the fence one nlglit with a shotgun and killed seven bar rels of them. "What did you do with them?” I asked. "Oh. phosphated v.ith 'em. That's about all they're lltten for,” was the sage reply. His Pardon Brought by a Dog. Mr. J. R. Watts of Louisville was one of the visitors at Frankfort on inaugura tic,n day, says the Courier Journal. While seeing the points of interest about the capital he visited the slate penitentiary, and while there was witness to an inter esting sight. "1 was in the open court within the penitentiary walls.” said Mr. Watts, "when 1 saw a dog enter the gate and. after looking around for awhile, run up to one of the prisoners. The dog had an envelope tied to hls collar, and the prisoner reached down and took It out. He opened the envelope, and after look ing at it for a few minutes, uttered a shout of joy. while the dog began bark ing and leaping in the air. The guard who was conducting me through the build ing, said: 'That fellow has received a par don.' and sijJ enough such was the case. Oerden was sent up from Louisville two years ago to serve an eight-year term for manslaughter. Be was always a trac table prisoner, and for some time past has been a trusty, and did odd jobs at the executive mansion. A Few Western Inventions. The crazo for inventions has struck camp, says the Neihart (Mont.) Herald. Jay Walker has a patent dinner-pail which automatically fills itself, producing the finest steaks, hot cakes and coffee while you wait. James Bradey is working noon a contrivance by which he will run an electric light and power plant by wind. The recent fad ot our leading citizens to chew snuff has led to a movement in the council to establish public snuff boxes on every street corner, to accommodate the ruling fashion. Richard Bennett has in vented a device for filing ideas and old thoughts for future reference. Touch tho spring and you have your idea. Jud Cal kins is nutting in his spare time on a talking machine that is intended to eluci date public questions with greater volu bility than any of the local lights are able to do, and to talk when everybody else has quit. Max Roehl is building a deer hunting device that will kill at ten miles and do its own timing. He claims the bullet will follow the deer till it gets him All these plans in successful opera tion and Neihart will lead the world in point of modern improvements and ad vanced Ideas. _ The New Year. From the Pittsburg Dispatch. Very young and fresh and tender Is the new-born year; But he’ll learn a‘deal of mortals E re next Christrpas time is here. Now he's wrapped in sheets of parchment White as driven snow, For Inscribing resolutions By all men, high and low. But the parchment will be blotted. Lost or thrown aside. And the resolutions, flouted; For old habits will abide. Then the youth will take his station Amo(g the century's years, And change hts garments with the season Nor stop for any tears. At last he'll grow aweary. And lame and halt and blind, And when he's sadly buried, His success we will find. George A. Thacher. An Irishman's Trick. It Is saiH to be the custom at Monte Carlo to lilt the pockets of suicides with banknotes! so that it may be assumed they ill* n(ot kill themselves on account of losses. The story goes that an Irishman, knowing Ithis custom, succeeded in get ting hte aoekets filled a short time ago, says 'nd-lbts. After losing a small sum at the gam ing taioltf he suddenly Jumped up, ex claimei, “I am ruined!" and rushed into the gtfdins. Almost immediately after ward fiel guards heard a pistol shot, and then achy of pain, and, rushing to tut spot, flui Hl the Irishman apparently dead. U yrm Mark, with no one about, so they filled ■slpockets with money and left him to be In the morning. TheUfad scarcely gone out of sight, howe'wfct before the Irishman was on his feet **n. and the next train conveyed him en route for his native coun - try. ■ Victoria as Empress of India UuUls Ur more Mohammedans than the H| ITEMS OF INTEREST. H-A min*r living on Sol-tier Creek. 0., a rich leoge, from which he can eJ*- obtain $!9 to sl2 worth of ore daily, ly’has had several flatte ring offers; but obstinately refuses to sell his valuable property* “Tlie ledge will stay there,’’ he says. “I own it. I'm as independent as a hog on ice, and I’m happy and content ed to stay just as I am.” —A minister was recently parsing through one of the most abjectly poor districts of Deptford, England, when his exe was caught by two small oil paint ings exhibited in a wretched little shop window. The pictures wer* procured for the modest sum of $5. Expert examina- \ tion has nowr decided that both pictures are the undoubted work of Paul Veronese. ; —one day last week, says the St. G!ol>e*Democrat, a man presented at the 1 sub-treasury a $4 bill of the old “contl- i nental currency” for redemption. He de manded llO.uno for the liquidation of the I ancient obligation. This result he ob tained by figuring compound interest from 1777, the date of issue. He was in- j formed that the value of such papers was | about lu cents per WO pounds. —Dr. Aubry in w'riting a book on “The Contagion of Crime,” used as an a notorious family sprung from criminal parents who died early in the century, nearly all of whose members have records in the criminal law reports. A respecta ble grandchild of the criminal couple re cently sued the doctor for damages and obtained them, the court holding that scientific research is no excuse for caus ing pain and discomfort to an innocept person by defaming his grandmother. —About tiie queerest, newspaper among the many queer ones "ihat seek and no doubt find readers, is “Le Monac o.” From a *opy that has drifted Into this oflice it appears that Le Monaco is issued week- ly, Is admirably printed on expensive pa l>er. and that its news consists almost exclusively of figures arranged in long columns, says the Washington Bust. These figures tell in whai compartment of the roulette wheels at Monte Carlo and Spa Ue little balls have come to rest dur ing a week’s business. W hat value this information has fc any human being— even for those who play on a “system”— we are at a. loss to conjecture, but that it in regarded as of some importance is shown by the fact that the paper costs $S a year, and that the advertising rates are $1 a line fo? “annonces,” and $8 a line for “reclames." That such a sheet can exist and apparently flourish is a strik ing commentary on the* present state of European intelligence and the slowness with which civllizat on is advancing. —R. H. Beckley, now living in St. Loui®, says the Globe-Democrat, is pretty sure he bears a charmed life, and anybody who doubts it is at liberty to go through the same experience and see If he can come out alive—always provided he can find the said experiences. Beckley doesn’t carry a buckeye nor a rabbit foot, and he doesn’t own a petrified potato, but he has come out of enough close places with a whole skin to test the protective power of the most powerful fetich ever created by a conjurer. He was in the Johnstown flood and floated thirteecn mile* down the Con nemaugh river in half an hour and was unhurt. He was in the terrible Nameokl wreck on the Wabash In October, 1893, and came out without a scratch. He was in the sleigh that was struck by a ’ooomo five at the Sarah street crossing <ff the Wabash, in St. Louis, in Januaiy, 1892, when eight men and four horses were killed, and although he was thrown thirty feet, he got off with less injury .tan any one else in the party. A few weeks be fore this de took a big dose of cocaine and belladonna by mistake, and the doc tor who pumped him out has never stop ped w’ondering why It didn’t kill him. Beckley was born in Philadelphia thirty four years ago. —Growth and waste and repair go on in a nearly uniform way the whole year through, hut the amount of food neces sary for these operations or purposes is surprisingly small, says the British Med ical Journal. The generation of bodily heat requires a most variable quantity of food. In winter, with the temperature of the external air at zero, the temperature of the blood in healthy persons is B.s de grees, and when the heat of summer drives the mercury of the thermometer nearly to or above that mark, the blood still registers 98.3 degrees. Tbp marvel ous mechanism by which this uniform blood temperature is maintained at all seasons is not necessary to consider; but it must be evident to every one that the force needed to raise the temperature or the whole body to nearly 100 degrees in winter is no longer needed in summer. The total amount of food needed for re pair. for grouth and for hearing, physi ology teaches us, is much less thaq is gen erally imagined, and it impresses us with the truth of the great surgeon, Abern,- thy's, saying, that "one-fourth of what we eat keeps ust, and the other three fourths we keep at the peril of our lives " In winter we burn up the surplus food with a limited amount of extra exert'on In summer we get rid of it literally at some extra risk to health, and, of course, to life. We can not burn It. Our vita! furnaces are banked, and we worry the most Important working organs with the extra exertion of removing what would better never have been taken into the stomach. —The leech is a strange unlovely crea ture. Fortunately it h;es gone out of fashion. But thirty or forty years ago, when medical men had a nleasant habit of bleeding every parent who fell into their hands, the little blood-suckers used to be in great demand. Even now the trade In leeches Is considerable, says the Kansas City Times. Leech fishing is not a pleasant occupation. Jt condemns th fishers to foggy mists, foul, muddv waters and most fetid odors. And, worse than this, tho fisher has himself to be the bait. Blood for blood is the motto of these san guinary beasts, and, nothing but a pair of plump and naked legs will tempt them from their stagnant pools. The leech lives a semi-aquatic existence; it must have plenty of air and plenty of water, and it likes them foul. They are caught in the spring and early summer. The men turn up tlieir trousers and wade knee deep into the water. The sight of the legs acts like a magnet on the leeches. They make a rush for them, cling on and begin to suck. The men pick them off as fast as they can put them into bagterhieh thev carry fastened around theiaCl.cists. They do not lose any time, little black creatures will times their own weight in the a victim in no tine . and cause to flow awav Toward the end of the leeches retire into deep water, and then their pur suers are compelled to wade un to their chins. An alternative to this plan is to take a raft out and dangle arms and legs in the water. An expert catches many Just as they are fastening on, and so saves a certain amount of blood. This is an important item. A good fisher can if he is careful, go on for four or five hours before he gets exhausted from loss of blood. In that case he will have caught nearly 200 leeches. It Is a funny, almost uncanny, sight to see the unhealthy-look ing men wading through marshes and swamps and dirty streams, their arms and legs bare, poking about among the rushes and turning the mossy pebbles over With their toes in the hopes of stirring up some colony of leeches. Everv now arid then stop, and you see them raise the black, bespecked leg and pick away until the furious sucking on the other causes them to bring that up hastily for inspec tion, while the former takes its place as bait. [ Awarded Highest Honors —World’s Fair, DR: a. .' r ■'Uf"*? '' i®- ■’ ■ t X C nmmon Practice. It’s quite com iron for some trades people to persuade a customer to take some other article instead of that called for. It ls # sometimes called substitution, but It’s cheating the customer out of that which he wanted. It is aiways done for a mean* motive. The dealer who does this has no 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 Lsk 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 thaw the Red 7. is on the front of the package, Ci i QA& uv taVis. * g>YQVO &V\ tVvc wwtuuktvU to OVtYO. ?vUo %% Wv/ Wgi ?4*rV* utosdWvno * m For salo fiy LIPPMAN BROS, aod MONS&CO. W mm? that jap and save furl and power by using 3reon Seal Belt Droning. Guaran teed to keep any belt from the moment it is applied. Write nJ and we will send you a package sub-1 jeot to your approval. jtfgfc Tlie Phoenix Oil Cos. j&rafo; CLEVELAND, O. Wanted. As to Weathl An observing man says (he hnfl have a “W” on tlieir wings, nA that means war—We beg to diflW with him—Oar experience Is ■ means “weather,” and after Nem Year yon will find we are correct. THERE IS WEATHER AHEAD. MARK IT WELL Weather! 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