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INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Meetings—Mutual Co-operative Associa
tion; Golden Rule Lodge No. 12, I. O. O. F.
Special Notices—Razors, J. Gardner;
Ship Notice, Strachan & Cos.; Look at
Our Window, West Side, Appel & Sehaul;
Fine Lunch To-day at Beckmann’s Cafe;
Garden and Flower Seed, Adams Drug.
Paint and Oil Company.
Business Notices—Leßoy Cigarettes;
Original Budweiser Beer. Henry Solomon
& Son; Coal OH Johnny Soap, Harvey &
Jones' Drug Store.
Steamship Schedule—Ocean Steamship
Company.
When the Rain "It Raineth”—B. H. Levy
& Bro.
Silverware Gorham Manufacturing
Company.
Amusements—Edison's Latest Wonders
at Wheeler’s Drug Store.
Our Furnishings Have Always
Floated High—Falk Clothing Company.
Medical—Dr. Charcot’s Kola Nervine
Tablets; Cutieura Remedies.
Tobacco—Blackwell's Genuine Durham
Tobacco.
Late Winter Days You Need Heat, and
Need it Bad—Mutual Gaslight Company.
Pianos— Ludden & Bates.
Coal—Bond, Harrison & Cos.
Cheap Column Advertisements—Help
Wanted; Employment Wanted; For
Rent; For Sale; Lost; Personal; Miscella
neous.
It may be doubted that Senatoj Chan
dler Is an authorized spokesman Con
gressman Reed. Nevertheless the senator
has been defining Mr. Heed’s standing on
the financial question. He says the
Maine man is in favor of •'bimetallism,”
to be secured through an agreement
which will make both gold and silver
the standard money of the world.
■ There is some little comfort in knowing
that Brazil also has on hand a quarrel
■with Great Britain. If Chile would only
unearth a grievance against the lion, it
would be still better. Brazil and Chile
are the only countries of South America
that have navies worth talking about.
Both of these have some good, modern
fighting craft, and their men had some
practice in actual naval warfare not so
long ago. Uncle Sam might find them
useful allies in the event of matters com
ing to the point of war.
Georgia, Virginia, North Carolina,
Florida and Alabama have made Lee’s
birthday a legal holiday. Illinois, Minne
sota, New Jersey, New York and Wash
ington have made Lincoln’s birthday a
legal holiday. All the states of the union,
with the exception of Mississippi, Ar
kansas and lowa, have made Washing
ton’s birthday a legal holiday. The birth
day of Lee's great opponent, Grant, is
not officially recognized by any state.
Alabama and Florida celebrate the birth
day of Jefferson' Davis, the president of
the late confederacy.
The appearance of Irving and Terry at
the theater to-morrow night will be an
event of the theatrical season. The
prices of seats are considerably above the
regular prices. Every person who at
tends will wish to see just as mucii of the
performance as possible. An unobstruct
ed view of the stage, therefore, is greatly
to be desired. An unobstruct
ed view cannot be obtained if some of
the ladies who go insist upon wearing big
hats with great plumes. It is to be hoped
that the big hats will be left at home. If,
however, they make their appearance,
it will be entirely proper for those who are
made the victims of the annoyance to
make a personal request of the owners of
them that they be removed, and if the
request is not complied with to complain
to the ushers.
Senator Tillman of South Carolina says
he is in favor of the free coinage of sil
ver at the ratio of 16 to 1, in unlimited
quantities, by this country alone, with
out waiting for the agreement of any
other country, and that nine-tenths of the
people of his state are with him in the
matter. He is looked upon as being in
sympathy with the movement to form a
new silver party, in the event of the na
tional democracy's refusal to adopt a free
silver platform upon the lines stated. If
the senator really thinks he is backed by
so large a percentage of the population
of the state, it is quite likely that he will
be out of the democratic party before
next fall, and will try to take the state
with him. For there is not the least like
lihood that the 16 to 1 idea will receive
the sanction of the democratic national
convention.
Gen. We) ler'l Policy.
The whole civilized world is Interested
in knowing wbat the policy of Gen. Wey
lefr, the riewly-appointed general of the
Spanish forces In Cuba, will be. A Lon
don dispatth In the Morning News states
-that he left Madrid for Cuba last Mon
day, and that Just before starting he de
clared that his policy would be the oppo
site of that of Gen. Campos. He said it was
bis purpose to suppress the revolution
ists with a strong hand. He denied, how
ever, that he intended to consent to cru
elty of any sort.
It may be that he will find a way to
prosecute the war with more vigor than
Gen. Campos has done without re
sorting to means that would
make him infamous In the eyes
of the civilised world. He could much
better afford to fail in putting down the
revolution than to stain his name with
deeds of cruelty.
It Is difficult to see how he is going to
make any better progress than Gen. Cam
pos did. The revolutionists have a meth
od of fighting which enables them to keep
striking their enemies without exposing
themselves to a great deal of danger.
They have persistently refused to fight
with the Spaniards such a battle as would
practically end the war. It would l>e fol
ly for them to do so. The Spanish army is
large, well disciplined and amply supplied,
with arms and ammunition. The revolu
tionary forces are poorly armed and are
scantily supplied with means for car
rying on the war. In a great
battle, therefore. the advantage
would be decidedly on the side
of the Spaniards. The policy the revolu
tionists have pursued, and which they
will adhere to, in all probability, Is to har
rass the Spanish forces In every possible
way. destroying their resources and at
tacking them whenever It is possible to
do so without risking a great battle. If
Gen. Campos could have met the entire
revolutionary forces In one great battle
the war would have been over long ago.
He was unable to do that, however, and
the kind of fighting the revolutionists In
sisted upon, together with the fever, dis
couraged his soldiers and decimated his
ranks.
How will Gen. Wcylcr make his cam
paign the opposite of that of Gen. Campos?
Will he divide his army Into small squads
and send them in pursuit of the revo
lutionists? If he should do that tho rev
olutionists would have a great advantage
of him. They know the country thorough
ly, and they are acolimated. They are
very much In earnest—so much In fact
that they are more than a match for the
Spaniards when they are equal to their
qpponents In numbers and are as well
armed. The hearts'of the Spanish soldiers
are not tn their work if reports are to be
credited, and while they fight well they
W’ould much rather be back In Spain. We
don’t understand, therefore, what Gen.
Woyler meant when he said his policy
would be the opposite of that of Gen.
Campos, unless It was that there would bo
grdater severity shown towards those
taken In arms against Spain, and that
sympathizers with the revolutionary
cause would be shown little or no clem
ency. He says he docs not Intend ta
countenance any cruelty. It is to be hop
ed that he does not. Gen. Campos com
manded the respect of the revolutionists
as well as of his own soldiers, and If Gen.
We.yler is wise he w,ill adopt a thorough
ly honorable and humane policy In dealing
with the revolutionists. Any other poli
cy would likely result In a condition of
affairs that would make Cuba a greater
object for the pity of the Christian world
than Armenia now is.
Gen. Weyler will soon be tn command
In Cuba, and then it will be quickly
known what his policy is. His friends
ought to hope that it will be such that
It will compare favorable with that of
Gen. Campos, whatever the outcome of
the struggle may be.
A Debt Paid.
Surprise has been expressed In the pub
lic prints that President Kruger, of the
South African republic, sent Dr. Jame
son. Who was the leader in the attempt to
overthrow the government of the repub
lic, to England to be tried for his offense
instead of ordering him to be shot, as he
Would have been Justified in doing. The
real reason is said to be that President
Kruger owed Dr. Jameson a great debt
of gratitude, and that he would make
almost any sacrifice to do him a personal
favor. The story of Ijis obligation to Dr.
Jameson is this—at least, it is the story
that ts being told to explain President
Kruger's clemency: Dr. Jameson was edu
cated as a physician, and until a few years
ago he practiced his profession. It was
two years ago that President Kruger was
desperately 111 with fever at Pretoria, the
capital of the republic. No skillful physi
cian was at hand, and the chances for the
president’s recovery were not considered
good. Some of the president’s close friends
remembered that Dr. Jameson, who was
then at the Kimberley diamond mines,
a long way from Petoria, had been re
garded as an excellent physician before
he abandoned the medical profession, and
they sent for him to come and do what
he could to save the ’president’s life. He
responded to the summons, and served the
president faithfully, Jjoth as a nurse and
physician. The President recovered, and
was very grateful to Dr. Jameson. When
he hgd Dr. Jameson in his power, and
could have put an end lawfully to his ca
reer 1 , he remembered what the doctor had
done for him, and instead of sending him
to his grave he sent him to England,
where, probably, the doctor’s effense will
be condoned, or, if It is not, his punish
ment will be light.
The cables say some of the kaiser’s
guests were made sick the other day by
the eating of oysters that were bad. It
must have been that the caterer left the
oysters over night In the tainted moral
atmosphere that the cables have been
telling about.
It is announced that Mayor Price of Ma
con is engaged in an exciting bit of am
ateur detective work. He is trying to
run down and locate Shamrock street, in
his city.
THE MORNING NEWS: WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 22, 189 G.
Hill Kaglaad Present Her (ate f
The Venezuela boundary commission
has announced that it is ready to un
dertake the task assigned it. and the
Secretary of State has communicated that
fact to the governments of Great Britain
and Venezuela through their respective
ministers at Washington. There is no
doubt, of course, that Venezuela will pre
sent her side of the dispute with great
promptness, but what course will Great
Britain take in the matter? Will she take
the position that the United States have
nothing whatever to do with the dispute,
and that, as she would not abide by the
decision, if It should be against her, it
would be useless to present the facts she
has to sustain the position she has taken?
If that should be the attitude of Great
Britain she would undoubtdly loose the
sympathy of other nations to a certain
extent, but it would not justify the con
clusion that she is afraid of an iuvestiga
tion of the dispute. She can not possibly
have a doubt that she would receive fair
treatment. Her, minister at Washington
will inform her that the men who com
pose the commission are of such high
character, and are so anxious to do what
is right, that there isn't the remotest
danger that all facts and arguments will
not be fairly considered.
The people of this country, and there is
reason to believe the people of Great Brit
ain also, would be glad If the British gov
ernment should come forward frankly and
present Its ease to the commission. Neither*
people are anxious for war, for both rec
ognize that a war between them would
be a bitter and destructive one.
Of course. England would not necessar
ily be bound by the decision of the commis
sion. If It was against her she could
honorably pursue any course she might
think advisable. Venezuela would, doubt
less, accept It, whatever It might be.
• It is well understood that the task of
the commission is a great one. It will
consist chiefly in determining the authen
ticity of the documents submitted to It.
While it is not now thought it will have
to go outside of Washington for data,
there Is a probability that a sub-commis
sion may be sent to Europe. It Is quite
certain that a vast amount of evidence
bearing on the boundary dispute will be
discovered.
Some Curlons Opinions.
The opinions expressed in the public
prints, as to the effect Gen. Harrison's
engagement to Mrs. Dimmick will have
upon his presidential prospects, are as
curious as they are Interesting. In Wash
ington the opinion is gravely advanced
that the engagement will take him out of
the list of presidential possibilities. An
other set of people are confident that it
will Improve his presidential prospects.
They declare that Mrs. Dimmick, being
young and ambitious, will Insist upon his
making special efforts to get the nomina
tion.
Asa matter of fact, It Is not known
whether she Is anxious to shine in the
white house or not. There are friends of
hers who say she is not, and that she
will use her Influence to have him an
nounce that he has had all the glory he
cares for as a public man.
Another story that is afloat is that im
mediately after his marriage he will start
on a trip around the world, and therefore
will not be in the country when the na
tional republican convention meets.
Asa matter of fact, nobody knows what
Gen. Harrison's plans are. And there are
no good reasons for thinking that his
marriage will affect Ills chances for the
presidential nomination one way or the
other. His marriage is a matter of which
the politicians will take very little notice.
They don't care whether he marries or
not. Those of them who are sincerely
anxious for the success of their party
will consider the question of his availa
bility only, and his personal friends and
those who hope to profit by his success
will work Just'as hard for him, now that
It Is known that he Is to be married, as
they would if it were certain he would
remain a widower the remainder of his
days. . His marriage will cut no figure
whatever in his presidential prospects,
though the question whether Mrs. Dim
mick. wants him to enter the political
arena again may have much to do with
his decision as to W’hether or not he will
be a candidate for the nomination.
Keeley's motor is not yet “quite finish
ed,” but “will he shortly.” He showed
the apparatus, not in motion, to some
friends the other day and told them that
he was at last about to perfect the so
lution of the “polar-depolar sympathetic
force.” He says It always makes him un
easy whenever he exhibits the apparatus,
for the reason that he fears the pres
ence of some unsympathetic person will
cause the machine not to work. It must
be that Keeley is depending upon the
spirits to .supply his invention with pow
er. The spiritualists are always talking
about the danger of failure of their ex
periments because of the presence of un
sympathetic persons. The New York
Times expresses the opinion that Keeley
is about to become a "medium,” and place
the apparatus under spirit protection.
The champion lazy man of the world
has undoubtedly been discovered at last.
He lives in lowa, and is a farmer. He is
the father of three children. Some time
ago he lost his wife. Of late he has grown
tired of the state of single “cussedness,”
and desires to get married again. But
he is actually too lazy to go out and look
for and court a wife for himself. In order
to escape the fatigue of courtship he has
written a letter to the overseer of the
poor at Sioux City requesting him to se
lect from among the county’s charges a
healthy woman who would make him a
suitable wife, and ship her to him.
It is passing strange that the republi
cans and Jingoes in congress do not go
ahead and Impeach Bayard, confiscate his
goods and ride him on a rail. What are
they waiting for?
To “copper” a wager is merely a way to
express the opinion, “I don’t think.”
The Charleston News and Courier gives
editorial publicity to the fact that It has
in its office an operator on the Mergantha
ler type machine who has set 68,400 ras
of nonpariel type in nine hours and fifty
five minutes, the rate being a little more
than 6,800 ems per hour. Our contempor
ary thinks this speed establishes the re
cord for southern newspaper offices, and
says: “If there is any machine operator
in these diggings who would like to try
to beat this record it would probably
not be hard to get in* a. contest.” The
News and Courier man % speed is. indeed,
fair. But it 13 not record breaking, or even
brilliant. The Morr.ing News has in its
composing room no less than five men who
can go our contemporary's champion quite
S.ttiO ems better on ten hours’ work. They
think they are doing only fairly swift work
when they set 7,000 * ms an hour.
Miss Clara Barton, president of the Red
Cross Society, will go to Turkey and
make a personal appeal to the sultan for
permission to distribute relief in the
stricken districts of Armenia. Miss Bar
ton's pluck can only be admired. Still it
cannot be seen that there is any ground
for hope that she will be successful. The
sultan has very little, if any, respect for
women. He will care no more for the ap
peals of a Christian woman than for the
wishes of one of his slaves. There is no
chivalry in the -Turk. His religion and
civilization are not of the kind to soften
him toward womanhood. Miss Barton is
brave; but if she is sensible, she will
not depend upon those “white horses of
the host of heaven.” which Dr. Talmage
told about the other day, to "come down
and trample under their hoofs" those who
hinder her in her charitable work.
It Is said that the sub-committee of the
national republican committee having in
charge the arrangements for the enter
taining of delegates to the national con
vention in St. Louis will Insist that the
hotel keepers make no discrimination be
tween white and black guests during the
convention; that is to say, the black dele
gates and the white delegates must be
lodged in the same buildings and probably
in the same rooms, and fed in the same
dining rooms. If that programme is ad
hered to it goes without saying that
there will be a lively old row in St. Louis
along color lines during the time. The
white republicans are no more in favor
of social equality than are the white dem
ocrats.
Florida is bountifully supplied with
legal holidays. She evidently set out to
celebrate every day to which any Impor
tance attaches, and thinks she has about
got them all. If any has been skipped,
th; caliVig of her alfrtion to the fact
would doubtless bo appreciated. Her le
gal holidays ara as fellows .New Year’s
day, Jan. 1; Washington’s birthday, Feb.
22; Independence day, July 4; Labor day,
the first Monday in September; Thanks
giving day; general election day; Christ
mas. Dec. 25; Lee's birthday, Jan. 19; Me.
moVial day. April 26, and Jefferson Davis’
birthday, June 3. St. Patrick's day, Pan
cake day and May day have not yet been
legalized.
Fresident, Hector D. Lane of the Cot
ton Growers’ Association attributes the
low price of cotton to the financial trou
ble and the war scare. The war scare
is as yet only a comparatively small mat
ter; the financial trouble is the great
bear influence in the cotton market. It
should be borne in the mind of every cot
ton producer that the financial trouble
was brought on by the republican party,
and that the free silverites are preventing
a settlement of the trouble. If the money
question were settled hundreds of small
bore politicians would drop forever out
of sight. That is the reason they are do
ing all in their power to prevent a set
tlement.
The congressional prayer is looming up
as quite an important function. The chap
lain of the House signalized his induction
into office by praying a Monroe doctrine
prayer, which many of the jingoes ap
plauded, and now he has worked some
good lobbying for the recognition of the
Cuban insurgents into his supplication.
What influence the congressional prayer
will have upon the shaping of our foreign
policy remains to be seen.
CIRRELVT COMMENT.
The Free Seed Fraud.
From Springfield (Mass) Republican (Ind.)
About every paper in the country, agri
cultural and other, has denounced the
congressional seed distribution business
as a humbug, but the congressmen are
apparently to vote an order upon Secre
tary Morton to resume the old practice.
He talked to the Senate committee on agri
culture last week about it, but made no
headway, and a report against him will
be the result. It is a cheap device of con
gressmen to tickle some of their constit
uents, and so will be maintained by them
at government expense to the last ditch.
A Doubtful Presidential Year.
From the Baltimore Sun (Dent.)
There probably never has been, certainly
not within the recollection of the present
generation, a presidential year the out
come of which has been wraped in so much
uncertainty as this present year, 1896. We
do not refer so much to the final result
next November as to the more immediate
questions to be decided within the next
four or five months. Both of the great
parties have settled upon the place and
the date for holding their national con
ventions. Neither, however, in the se
lection of time or place Is any indication
given of the probable choice of either
party in the matter of candidates.
. Keep the Crnp Down.
From the Columbia (S. C.) State (Dem.)
A prominent southerner, now living in
New York, but still interested in the pros
perity of our people, writes the State:
■ “I have noticed several of your references
to cotton acreage this year. I think that
if you could urge upon the farmers the
importance of a short crop this year it
would be the greatest good any one could
do for the. south. The professional bears
are simply wild with delight and are
looking for a grand bear campaign on ac
count of the increased mule and fertilizer
sales. English spinners are over 600,000
bales short, but they think the south will
turn loose its spots if a large area is
planted and that priceß will decline. They
are therefore doing their utmost to break
e rices e.nd make the south turn loose its
oldings."
An Irrepressible Soldier.
“When 1 mas in the army during the
war.” said the ex-army officer to a Wash
ington Star reporter, “m-e had a chap with
us that for an all around merry fellow
could not be equaled anywhere. He mas
always doing something unmiiitarv and
Just as often coming out of it with flying
colors. He was captain and quartermas
ter. and I shall call him C'apt. A. if you are
going to print what I say.”
“I am,” said the S. W., “if it is good
enough.”
“Well. then, on one occasion Capt. A.
was seated opposite MaJ. B. at a hotel
table. Now the major mas one of those
severe looking men who strikes the ob
server as if he wanted to bite a nail in
two and would do it if the nail got be
tween his teeth. He was a good deal
like he looked, too. and never permitted
his dignity to he monkeyed With without
resenting it. The captain didn't know the
major, nor the major know the captain,
and possibly never would have maile his
acquaintance if the captain had been at all
like the major. But he wasn't. He sat
watching the major cut a tough piece of
steak, and the more he noticed the deter
mined look on the major's face and the
fierce, vindictive manner in which he at
tacked the steak on his plate the funnier
it seemed to the captain, and at last he
could restrain himself no longer.
" 'Excuse me, major,’ he said, with a
twinkle in his eje, as the major stopped
his operations and looked up. 'excuse me,
but did that steer ever kick’you?’
“The major caught on in a minute, and
he was as hot as Are, and at once handed
his card to the captain. The captain
knew what that meant in the south, but
he was not disturbed, and went out of
the dining room smiilirtg. He was about
going away and at the front door of the
hotel he found an ambulance. The cap
tain askvd whose it was, and when he
was told it was MaJ. B.’s he tnmbled his
luggage into it and got in to wait for de
velopments. They came in a few minutes
in the person of the major.
“ 'Sir?' exclaimed the major, fiercely, as
he started back on seeing who the oc
cupant was.
“ 'That's all right, major,’ smiled the
captain. 'Get in and we’ll go out and set
tle our little affair, and the ambulance
will come in handy to send the remains
home in.’
“And the funny part was that the ma
jor got in, but not to fight. The ludt
crousness of it all struck him then, and
he and the captain became the best of
friends.
“Another time,” concluded the officer,
“the captain was railed on by the depart
ment at Washington for his quartermas
ter's report. Indeed. h> had been called
on many times, but his responses had
been few. He was as honest as old wheat,
but he was no sort of a business man, and
his accounts were Greek to him. However,
when the peremptory order came, the
captain got a move on and hunted up
every paper that he could And in his of-
Ace, running back for months, and fumb
led them p"ll-mell into a barrel. This he
headed up carefully and shipped to Wash
ington, accompanied by the following note:
'Dear Sir—ln accordance with your re
quest, I send you herewith my accounts,
and sincerely hope you can do something
with them, for I swear I can't.’ "
“Wasn’t he bounced?” inquired the Star
man.
“No,” replied the officer, “he was too
popular and had too many other good
qualities to he thrown out for a little
thing like that.”
Lamont as a Telegrapher.
The Washington correspondent of the
New York Sun writes: A Sun correspon
dent had a pleasant talk with Secretary
Lamont a few days ago in Washington,
and he studied the Secretary of War in
the interest of the American boy. The
secretary was told by the correspondent
that his own little son had a telegraph
wire leading into a neighbor's house; and
this mere statement aroused an interest
in the Secretary of War.
' that is a good thing,” said the secre
tary. “I remember in my early life that
I was a telegraph operator. If you once
thoroughly learn telegraphy you will nev
er forget it. It remains with you as long
as you live. I have not had occasion to
use telegraphy for a number of years, but
all the boys of this country, if they hav§
time, ought to learn it. Several years
ago, after my father's death, I wanted
to bring my mother to Washington. I
was in McGrawville, my home town in
Cortland county, and it was necessary
for me 'to take a number of railroads, in
order to reach the main line, by which I
could take my mother to Washington. It
was necessary to change cars a number of
times on these local roads, and in one or
two instances the trains were late and I
feared that I could not get to the main
line in time to reach Washington. At
last it became positively known to me
that unless I could make a certain con
nection my mother would be compelled
to remain over Sunday in a small and
cheerless town. I knew a president of a
railroad who, if he were informed of my
predicament, I believed would help me
out. So I telegraphed to him, telling him
that my trains were late, and asked him
if he would not wire to the superinten
dent of the place where I was apparently
destined to be kept" overnight and direct
that the train on the main road be held
for me until my local train arrived. Be
fore I got to the local station where the
main train was to be met I had to change
cars. It was a dreary little station, and I
remember well the anxiety that T had
when sitting in the waiting room with my
mother, not knownig whether my dispatch
had been received, when I heard clicking
over the wire in that little station an in
quiry from the superintendent of the
road. ‘ls Col. I-amont there?’ The tele
graph operator looked around the room
to see only tivo persons, my mother and
myself, there before he began to reply
'No.' Just as he sent that word I stepped
up and I said: ‘My friend, I have unin
tentionally overheard the inquiry going
over your line, as to whether Col. Lamont
was here. That is my name.’ The tele
graph operator quickly corrected his ‘No,’
informed the superintendent that I was
there, and the word came back that the
main line train would be held for me
This Is only a little incident in my life,
but it demonstrates the value of telegra
phy. My knowledge of telegraphy gave
me the opportunity to beneAt my mother
So that I say that all boys in our coun
try, if they have the time, should learn
telegraphy. It remains with them as
long as life lasts, and it will always give
them a good livelihood.”
The Georgia Melon.
Old Georgia’s wonders never cease;
Her miracles, they still increase.
And now her famous melon,
That wilted when the Arst frost came
’Till Christmas time remains the same’
And helps the Yuletide spell on.
Her cottonAelds still wider spread.
Her yams are crowded in the bed.
Her cane grows skyward taller;
Her coons and possums fatter grow.
And sweeter her magnolias blow,
“God's Kingdom," now they call her.
The Georgia “cracker’s" head is up;
While overAowing now his cup
With cane juice, sweet as honey;
He’s sold his cotton, cribbed his corn;
He's now in town slick, clean and shorn,
And pocket full of money.
He’s here to buy another mule,
’N boxing axe, a barb wire spool;
More turpentine he’s Stilling:
His hat has six inch wider brim,
The Georgia “cracker's” “in the swim,”
And Susy says, “She's willing.”
Old Georgia's wonders never cease;
With all the world she's now at peace.
And tenders it her melon;
You'll taste its sweetness Arst In May,
And then ’till Christmas it will stay,
To help the Yuletide spell on.
Valdosta, Ga. H. Parker.
luplpaa Expense In Ctilengo,
He looked over the plans for the new
building that he Intended to have erected
and shook his head, says the Chicago
Post.
“What’s the mattes?” asked the archi
tect.
“Too elaborate,” was the reply; “too
much unnecessary fancy work to suit me.”
"No more than is usual ori Arst-class
buildings,” protested the architect. “What
would you nave left oft?”
"The ornamental work at the top.”
“But, my dear sir,” protested the archi
tect, “that is quite the thing now. We
make the buildings plain, except at the
bottom and the top.”
“Well." returned the capitalist decided
ly; "it’s all right to have a little ornamen
tation for the Arst story, but I object to
paying for artwork for the angels. We’ll
hav6 the top plain.”
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
—James I, 1610. sent silk worms to Vir
ginia and offered a silk bounty.
The city of Sydney, Australia, has im
posed a Ane of one pound upon any per
son convicted of spitting upon the floor
of public buildings, or upon the street.
—A western genius has aplied for a
patent on a corn planter, which consisted
of two boxes attached to the forelegs of
a horse, just above the fetlocks. In which
was the corn to be planted. Cords passed
over pulleys attached to a saddle, down to
the hind legs, so that every time the horse
stepped the tightening of the cord would
open the boxes on the forelegs and some
corn be shaken into the holes made by
the front feet.
—An American lady who recently visit
ed Para. Brazil, was invited while there
to dine at the house of a wealthy mer
chant. Everything was very gorgeous
and lavish in South American style, but.
on leaving, she was amazed to hear her
hospitable host say to her: "If you have
any washing, send It here.” It is the cus
tom there, it seams, for wealthy house
holds to take in laundry work as an em
ployment for their large retinue of ser
vants. “It did, however.” said the relator,
“give me a torn at the end of a formal
dinner party to be asked for my soiled
linen.”
—Should not something more be done
than is being done, experimentally if not
practically, in the use of glass for bear
ings? asks the American Machinist. Some
experts speak highly of it for word-work
ing machinery. It is said to require less
care than any other material; running
with little oil and keeping cool. In meth
ods of shaping and cutting glass, such ad
vances have now been made that it should
be now a comparatively simple matter
to adapt It to general use. Glass sleeves
could, of course, be easily furnished, per
fectly true, both inside and out; and there
are numerous places where such sleeves,
bushes, thimbles, or whatever they might
be called, could probably be employed with
great satisfaction. Glass would probably
be better adapted to high speed than to
heavy loads.
'—A gentleman once laid a wager with
George IV that geese would beat turkeys
in a race, says School at Home. The king,
thinking that such a wager was already
as good as won, willingly made the bet,
and the gentleman was left to choose time
and place and distance. Being well ac
quainted with the habits of the birds, he
accordingly chose for the time the even
ing. Just before sunset, and for a mile
the distance. The time came, and each ap
peared with his flock of birds, and the race
t>egan. Long ere the end came the sun
set, and immediately, true to their in
stincts, as’ soon as the sun had quite
disappeared, all the turkeys flew up into
the nearest tree to roost, and no persua
sion could Induce them to budge an Inch
further—and the geese, which had been
slowly toddling on behind, quietly cackled
In—the winners.
—Cut flowers, petrifled by a process
which preserves their color, and then im
bedded In a hard, transparent substance,
the composition of which is secret, is
now used for decorative tiling or floor
ing, says the Upholsterer. A material
has been discovered, combined with a
process, which is the inventor's secret,
for completely hardening, and, so to
speak, petrifying natural flowers (and,
what is more wonderful, preserving their
colors), and imbedding them flush into
the surface of a kind of liquid marble,
or alabaster, the whole receiving several
coatings of a transparent polishing sub
stance, and drying hard as a rock. Some
dadoes and friezes in anew house were
made by this method, with sunflowers,
peonies and dahlias ,and are said to be
very handsome. The London residence of
one of our countrymen, whose identity is
concealed by the description, “a wealthy
American gentleman,” has the conserva
tory floor studded by this new process
with chrysanthemums of every known
variety and color. Another floor Is a
deep-water effect, with white lilies and
with minnows swimming below a trans
parent surface. The treatment Is beau
tifully applied, it is said, to table tops and
small panels for decorative purposes.
—Chicago may have a Paderewski of Its
own soon if little Ruben Demarest, the
7-year-old boy pianist, lives and continues,
says the Tribune of that city, to progress
in the art of piano playing. The Tribune
adds: 'This little fellow was put to the
severe test of playing for Paderewski on
Monday evening at his rooms in the Au
ditorium, and the hoy acquitted himself
marvelously well. When he had finished
playing Paderewski took him in his arms
and kissed him over and over again, say
•ing: 'Thank God Arst, and then your
teacher, for some day you are going to
be a great artist.’ Not content with this
tribute to the boy pianist the great mas
ter turned to his trunk, and selecting some
musical studies, went to the piano and,
with one arm. around the little fellow,
showed him how they ought to be played
He then examined the child’s hands with
intense interest, exclaiming, ’Ah! he has
the true musician’s hands!' Then he kissed
him again. The little fellow seemed to
take a great fancy to the artist, and asked
him if he would be his teacher. ‘Yes ’ re
plied Paderewski, ‘if you are a good’ boy
and work hard, you shall come to Paris
and I will be your teacher, and one day
all the world will come to hear you.’
Paderewski also selected some pieces he
wished the boy to practice and be ready
to play for him upon his return to Chicago
in the spring.”
—Near Cheyenne Wells is a long stretch
of level prairie, which suddenly termi
nates in a precipice, making a perpen
dicular descent, says the Denver Field
and Farm. In the winter of 1858 a great
blizzard raged for several days. The snow
was driven at a terrific rate before a
humcane of wind, and the buffalo were
obliged, in self-preservation, to turn their
backs and run with the wind The re
sult was that vast numbers of the buffalo
were carried over the precipice, and their
dead bodies were covered with twenty or
thirty feet of snow. For many years peo
ple visited the spot to look at the bones
which lay in piles ten and fifteen feet
high as far as the eye could reach along
the precipice, and it was commonly es
timated that 100,0(10 buffaloes found "a
grave on that fatal spot. Sand storms
in those days were so destructive that
It was not unusual for freighters to lose
their entire outfit. During the prevalence
of a storm no attempt was made to move
forward, and drivers cleared the sand out
of the nostrils of the horses a*d oxen and
otherwise the animals were threatened
with death from suffocation. A sand storm
usually lasted only two or three hours
but its effects were felt for days by men
and animals exposed to the fury of the
blast. A curious phenomenon noticed tn
different places on the plains was the im
mense excavating power of the wind In
a sand storm. There were areas of three
or four acres where the wind scooped out
the sand forty or fifty feet deep and
whirled it away In the air. It seemed as
if the work began at a central spot no
larger than could be covered with a man’s
hat. In an incredibly short time a round
hole would be excavated. The wind then
took hold in real earnest, and the prob
abilities were that an entire sand hill
would be leveled down in the next thirty
minutes.
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health cannot exist without a healthy Liver.
TThen the Liver is Torpid the HnwrL
Sluggish and Constipated, and the Food
lias in the Stomach decompoing_pou 0 ,
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con. Ga. ’ *'
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challenge him to prove it.
Johnson’s Tonic has made a
record of having cured 14,974
cases of Fever out of 15,000
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A. B. GIRARDEAU, - Savannah, Ga.
Not Satisfied.
Fall and winter stock isn’t going fast
enough to suit us, and so we give a
great big push to the down price move
ment, and
THIS WEEK THE PRICES
ARE SO LOW AS TO
EXCITE YOUR SYMPATHY.
CARPETS.
Prices as flat as the floor they cover.
Nothing ever like them in this or any
other store.
Tapestry Carpets that were 85c and 90c
reduced to 65c.
Velvet Carpets that were J 1.25 reduced
to 75c.
All wool Ingrains that were $1 reduced
to 650.
LADIES’ JACKETS .
To fit your pocketbook as perfectly as
they do your form. The prices asked
might pay for the material, but the
trimming and making Is yours for noth
ing.
Ladies’ English Cheviot Cloth Jackets,
large drooping sleeves. $5.00; reduced from
SB.OO.
Ladles’ Jackets, full sleeves, double
breast, reduced from $10.50 to $6.50.
Ladles’ Fine Beaver Cloth Jackets, $9.85;
reduced from $12.50.
BLANKETS.
Talk about Pure Wool! If it isn’t in our
Blanket Department then there is no use
raising sheep. These Blankets are the
kind we sell all the time, the kind you like
to get familiar with when the mercury
drops to 30 degrees. Blankets at these
prices are gilt edge big per cent. Invest
ments.
10-4 Blankets, that were $3.00 pair, now
$2.25.
10-4 Blankets, that were $4.50 pair, now
$3.50.
11-4 Blankets, that were $6.50 pair, now
$5.00.
11-4 Blankets, that were SIO.OO pair, now
$7.50.
DRESS GOODS.
For the past two weeks the prices la
our Dress Goods Department have barely
existed, and this week we intend to
squeeze them a little more, so you may
come and not bother about prices at all.
Ladies’, Gents’ and Children’s Heavy
Winter Underwear—ln order to reduce
stock in their lines, as well as to make
room for spring goods, we will offer ex
traordinary bargains In this department
during this week.
100 pieces Fresh Ganton Matting just
received, 20c to 50c the yard.
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