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Special Notices—Dividend Notice, the
National Bank of Savannah; Dissolution,
G. I. Taggart & Son; Election of Direc
tors, the Chatham Bank; Dissolution No
tice, Appel & Schaul; Copartnership No
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tice. the Germania Bank.
The New Firm—Meinhard and Appel &
ISchaul.
Geisha Hats—B. H. Levy & Bro.
Underwear Sale—B. H. Levy & Bro.
Collars—Cluett’s Collars.
Take Off a Quarter—Falk Clothing
Company.
Tobacco—Blackwell's Genuine Durham
Tobacco.
Legal Notice—Libel for Total Divorce.
Medical—Hood's Sarsaparilla; Mothers'
Friend; Cuticura Remedies.
Cheap Column Advertisements—Help
Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Rent;
For Sale; Lost; Personal; Miscellaneous.
“Pro Bono Jingo” is the New Year's
motto of Lodge, Morgan, Chandler and
Company.
Sheehan of Tammany, in New York, re
fuses to recognize the belligerency of Pur
roy. He says Purroy's outbreak Is an in
significant emeute which will quickly be
put down.
It is announced that Senator Teller of
Colorado will be re-elected to the Senate
by the unanimous vote of the legislature.
Colorado evidently proposes to stand by
him "regardless.”
Senator Cameron is defying fate. He is
spending a time on an island on the coast
of South Carolina. And only a few hun
dred miles away there are several Spanish
warships only awaiting the opportunity
to swoop down upon the enemies of the
king.
Denver will not send delegates to the In
dianapolis monetary conference. It Is not
necessary. Everybody knows that Den
ver, and Colorado, are in favor of the
adoption of anything thht will settle the
money question, just so it is settled on
the basis of sixteen to one.
So hot a telephone war is being waged
Sn Ishperaing, Mich., that the charge for
Instruments has been knocked literally out
of sight. Telephones are being put in
free, without charge for service, upon the
signing of an agreement that the Instru
ments will be kept one year. The com
{tany that is making this offer thinks the
opposition will be dead by or before the
end of a year.
The clearances of the Savannah banks
for the year 1896 show an Increase over
♦he clearances of the previous year. The
increase is a little short of $500,000; and is
a most gratifying showing, taken in con
nection with the fact that the year was
not a good one for trade and commerce.
The conclusion which must be reached is
that Savannah is steadily extending her
business, despite the hard times.
A member of the Florida legislature In
■Washington the other day told a Post re
porter: "The only way that Senator Call
can be defeated for re-eleetion is to either
cede the state back to Spain or abolish
the office.” The time until the meeting
of the legislature is too short to take
steps either for ceding the state to Spain
or for abolishing the office; hence, if the
Florida member quoted is correct in his
statement, it seems that Senator Call will
have to go back to Washington.
The export business of the southern
ports increased upwards of $68,000,000 In
the ten months ending Oct. 31, 1896, as
compared with the exports of the corre
sponding period in 1895. The Philadelphia
Record, which hates to see a bale of
goods or a bushel of wheat that might go
to Philadelphia shipped to another port,
recognizes the fact that trade gravitates
in the direction of the least impediments,
end congratulates the southern ports upon
their increasing prosperity. The Record,
further, calls to mind that north, south,
east and west are one country, and ob
serves that “the growth of business at
southern ports tends to a more symmetri
cal development of our national re
sources.” That is the philosophic way for
our northern neighbors to look at the
matter. We expect to do the business
anyway, and to increase the volumes ol'
it each year for many years to come.
Will Spain Grant Reforms?
There is every reason to believe that
Spain would grant reforms to the Cubans
at once with the hope of pacifying them
if she could do so without any sacrifice of
her pride. It is announced that she will
grant reforms within a few days to the
colony of Porto Rico, which is at peace,
thus indicating what she would do In re
spect to Cuba if the conditions there were
as she would like to have them. She will
make no concessions to Cuba, however, as
long as a Cuban army Is in the field, un
less she is compelled to do so by fear of
losing control of the Island altogether.
The report that was extensively circulated
a few days ago. that she had accepted an
offer of mediation from the United States,
had no foundation beyond what was con
tained in the President's message. It is
alleged that several communications have
been made to the Secretary of State by
the Spanish minister to the effect that re
forms would he adopted in Cuba as soon
as the conditions of affairs would permit,
but there does not appear to be any imme
diate prospect of the condition of affairs
to which the Spanish government refers.
A couple of months ago the Spanish
government, relying upon the promises of
Gen. Weyler, that the insurrection In
thickly populated provinces would be ef
fectually suppressed by Christmas said
that reforms in Cuba would be granted
soon. Christmas has come and gone and
so has the first day of the new year, and
the prospect of the early ending of the
war is not as bright as it was when Gen.
Weyler predicted a speedy ending of the
rebellion. In the meantime Spain has
grown steadily weaker financially and
otherwise, owing to the continual drain
upon her resources, while the insurgents
are as aggressive as ever.
It looks as if it were only a question of a
short time when Spain would have to
pocket her pride and accept an offer of
mediation from this country or abandon
Cuba. The insurgents say they don't
want men. They want arms and am
munition, and these they appear to be get
ting from this country.
Gen. Weyler's recall at a very early day
would not be a surprise. The reports of
the dissatisfaction in Spain with his man
agement of the war are of a character to
justify the conclusion that ho will he re
moved very soon, unless he wins some pro
nounced successes, and the prospect of his
doing any thing of that kind is very re
mote. And it is doubtful if Spain has a
general who could do much better along
the line of policy which she insists upon
pursuing. If this country will but con
tinue its policy of non-interference Spain
will have to make concessions before very
long. When she reaches that point the
Cubans will be in a position to practically
dictate their own terms. If the United
States should interfere Spain might be
able to secure the aid of one or more of
the European powers and, under such cir
cumstances, the outcome of the war
might be much less satisfactory to the in
surgents than if they were left to fight
their battles alone.
The llt-ad Year.
Looking backward upon the year just
ended, it Is saddening to note how many
of the leaders of thought and of men are
in the grave with 1896. During the twelve
months death reaped a rich harvest, cut
ting down our own Lawton and Crisp
along with others of eminence in this
country and abroad. Art, letters, law,
government, philanthropy, the church, all
suffered) well nigh Irreparable losses
through the grim destroyer. Millais, du-
Maurler, DeGrimm and Leighton laid
down their brushes and pencils In 1896.
Paul Verlaine, Gail Hamilton, Kate Field,'
and Darriet Beecher Stowe reached the
“finis” of life chapter. Lyman Trumbull,
Jules Simon, Alexander R. Lawton,
Charles F. Crisp, the Shah of Persia, Leon
Say, B. H. Bristow, and William E. Rus
sell were among those prominent in law
and government whose lives became ”clos
ed incidents.” Baron Hirsch and Enoch
Pratt of the philanthropists passed into
tho great beyond. Bishop Haygood, Bish
op Ryan, Archbishop of Canterburry Ben
son and Bishop A. C. Coxe were among'
the churchmen to go to their reward. The
curtain, was rung down forever on Frank
Mayo, Alexander Salvini and the great
Herrmann. These arc a few of the great
names on the death record for the year,
which later may or may not include the
name of the Cuban general, Maceo.
The year's history has been blurred and
blotched with blood in Cuba and the Phil
ippines, and In the Soudan, and Abyssinia,
and the Transvaal. In the first named un
fortunate country a war of extermination
has been going on, with cruelty and out
rages. In the second named pretty much
the same sort of campaign Is being waged.
During the year in the course of the war
In the Philippines occurred that horror
which has become known as the “Black
Hole of Manila.” In the Abyssinian cam
paign, the Italians were defeated by the
natives. In tho, Soudan, it was one of trie
ever recurring fights between John Bull
and his vassals. Tho story of the Trans
vaal affair Is well known.
In our own country, we had a devasta
ting cyclone at St. Louis and in the Mis
souri valley, with a loss of several hun
dred lives; a hurricane of exceptional vio
lence and considerable loss of life In Geor
gia and Florida; a failure of crops in
Northern Louisiana.
At the same time, the dead year has left
us as an Inheritance some gifts that are
of greatest value. Prof. Roentgen of Ger
many discovered the marvellous x-ray,
which has become so familiar to the read
ing and Investigating public. The ray
has been taken hold of and studied until
It would seem it had been known for ages,
instead of only a few months. It Is open
ing new avenues of investigation to scien
tists, and into which they are hastening.
Edison, Tesla, Bell and the other electric
ians have perfected marvellous apparatus
for tho conserving and utilizing of elec
trical energy. The power of Niagara
falls has been transmitted over long dis
tances and set to work turning wheels.
The animated picture producing machine
has been brought to a high state of per
fection. Prof. Nansen has returned from
the frozen north bringing scientific Infor
mation of great value.
The closing days of the old year saw a
clearing of the political atmosphere and a
iHE MORNING NEWS; SATURDAY, JANUARY 2, 1897.
revival of business. During the year ar
rangements were perfected for* the set
tling of the Venezuela matter, which has
been on hand for a number of years.
These arrangements, it is thought, will
result indirectly In an understanding be
tween this country and Great Britain with
regard to arbitrating differences that may
arise between them in future, thus min
imizing the probability of an Anglo-Amer
ican war. The government’s honor has
been sustained in every incident and par
ticular. The national spirit has been
strengthened, and the people are In good
shape to start the new year with faith
and hope.
Future of the Farmers.
In the late election the farmers were
told by the silverites that the reason the
farmers were not prosperous was that
gold has appreciated and that a gold dol
lar has twice the purchasing power It pos
sessed a quarter of a century ago. On
the other hand It was pointed out to them
that their real trouble was overproduc
tion—that they were producing more cot
ton, corn, w heat and meat than tho world
needed—that' whereas a few years ago,
when hlg iep prices prevailed, th<# prac
tically controlled the markets of the
world for their products, now they have
competition, especially in the production
of food products. Many of them pre
ferred to believe their troubles were due
to the silver question, because they did
not want to admit that to get better
prices they would have to lessen produc
tion.
In this connection Prof. E. R. A. Selig
man of Columbia University made some
appropriate remarks on Tuesday, at the
ninth annual meeting of the American
Economic Association in Baltimore. The
subject under discussion was “The
Future of the American Farmer and His
Share in Polities.” Among other things
I’rof. Seligman said:
“The trouble is that the people of this
country have been living pretty much in
a fool's paradise. We consider ourselves
different from other peoples and believe
that there was a different future in store
for us. For a long time we had
no agricultural problem. There
were vast fields in the west,
and population kept ahead of subsistence.
Then came the building of the trunk lines,
which opened up the west and made us
the granary of the world. To that, above
all else, was due our immense prosperity,
our Immense increase in population.
“It is a platitude to say that we are no
longer prosperous through our production
of foods. We arc no longer the granary of
the world. Not only are South America,
Russia and India competing with us suc
cessfully in food products, but the build
ing of this Siberian railway will open up
in a year or two the greatest wheat field
the world has ever known, that of South
ern Siberia.
“This all means that not for years can
agriculture occupy a position of prosperity
in this country. There is bound to he de
pression for farmers until our population
has again caught up with subsistence,
and we are no longer a w'heat-exporting,
but a wheat-importing nation. It is im
possible for us to continue to be the
world's feeder. Would it not be better to
be a W'heat-importing nation, as England?
In the future of this country, it seems to
me, we will become ever more and more
an industrial nation. There will be the
relative unimportance of agriculture and
the relative importance of industry.
“As to the question whether we are to
have tenant farmers or independent farm
ers, I think it lies largely in the ability
of the farmers to adjust themselves to
these new conditions. Their chief help is
to come from the intelligent manipulation
of capital as applied to agriculture.”
(Prof. Seligman takes the ground that for
years to come there will be no great pros
perity for farmers In this country, not un
til the population increases to such an ex
tent as to consume the greater part of
what the farmer produces, because a
great foreign market for food products,
owing to the opening of new agricultural
fields elsewhere, and hence a fierce com
petition, is a thing of the past. The Ar
gentine Republic, Russia and India have
become great wheat producers and are
forcing down the prices of farm products.
The construction of the Siberian railway
will open the greatest wheat producing
country the world has ever known. The
grain farmers of this country therefore
must depend more and more upon the
home market, and overproduction will
force prices below the profit line.
But what about the south? It seems to
us that southern farmers have a better
chance for prosperity than those of any
other part of the world. There is very
little prospect of dangerous competition
in the growing of cotton, and if they will
keep cotton production down to the actual
demand for that product they can always
get a remunerative price for their one
great crop. If they will raise less cotton
and give more attention to food crops—
If they will produce the grain and fruits
needed for their families and their stock
and make cotton their money crop—they
can make themselves and the south rich
and prosperous.
The park and tree commissioners de
serve, and will receive, the thanks of the
community for the stand they have taken
with regard to th<J matter of poles In the
squares. There is no reason why the un
sightly poles should be tolerated, much
less be given the right-of-way, so to
speak, over trees, shrubbery, grass and
everything else. The squares were de
signed for beauty; to be an ornament to
the city. To make them as nearly perfect
beauty spots as may be possible, a com
mission ha3 been created, and given ap
propriations of money to carry on the
work. What will the commission’s work
amount to. If corporations are to be per
mitted to come along and plant ugly poles
in the middle of a flower bed, or to cut
down trees to make room for poles. If
It should be desired to plant a pole In any
particular spot? The whole truth of the
matter Is, the poles ought to be removed
from the squares, Immediately. If there
is no ordinance under which they can be
removed, then such an ordinance ought to
be passed, without delay. And when it Is
passed. It ought to include South Broad
street with the squares in the exemption
from poles. Jt would he nonsense to say
It is necessary to cross the squares In
order to reach any point. Let the wires
be carried around the squares. And let It
be provided, In ordinances, that whenever
anew pole is erected, from the river to
Gaston street, between East Broad and
West Broad, it shall be an Iron pole. And
the street railways might as well l>c get
ting ready to adopt iron poles.
The newspaper business sustains a dis
tinct loss in the death of Joseph Bur
bridge McCullagh, editor of the St. Louis
Globe-Democrat. He was one of the most
virile, versatile men In the business, and
his history covers the history of the mod
ern newspaper press of the west. He
was a Dublin Irishman by birth, a red
hot republican American by choice, and
a news finder and newspaper maker by
nature. Like many of the successful
editors and proprietors of American news
papers, he began life at the bottom of
the ladder, as a practical printer. For
lowing that no became successively re
porter, war-times Washington correspond
ent, war correspondonf in the field, man
aging editor, and editor-in-chief. He was
with Sherman's army on its march to the
sea. He has been connected with news
papers In Cincinnati, Chicago and St.
Louis, the last twenty-three years of his
life being spent in the last named city.
He was in a class along with Watterson,
Dana, and Storey of Chicago—never so
happy as when he had a controversy on
his hands; and he had a carboy of rhetor
ical vitriol perpetually on tap.
There are abundant reasons for think
ing the city is not being provided with as
good a line of theatrical entertainments
as our sister cities of Charleston, Atlanta,
Macon and Augusta. It is not meant that
no good shows are brought here
for. Indeed, several first-rate com
panies have played here this season, and
others are expected. But what Is meant
Is that Savannah is not getting as many
good shows as her importance and liber
ality in patronizing theatricals deserve.
She Is getting entirely too much chaff and
too little wheat. A diet of chaff palls on
the palate after a while.
Gov. O'Ferrall of Virginia has raised a
storm about his ears by appointing a re
publican to the position of gardener of the
capitol grounds. The governor says the
man appointed knows more about flow'ers
and gardening in a minute than any dem
ocrat of his acquaintance knows all day.
The kickers, however, insist that know
ledge of flowers and gardening is not the
chief knowledge that a capitol gardener
should possess. He should first know
which way to vote.
The orange growefs of California are
about to send a delegation to Washington
to urge upon the tariff makers the neces
sity for protection to the orange industry
of that state against the pauper trees of
Mexico, Sicily and other foreign coun
tries. Our Florida neighbors might do
well to see to it that they also are repre
sented before the tariff committee. While
the tariff pie is being passed around they
ought to step up and demand their share.
Buffalo Bill is working upon a big
scheme to irrigate a large tract of land in
Wyoming and settle colonists upon it. His
scheme involves the digging of about 200
miles of canals. Why In the world doesn't
the man come to Georgia, where the land
is already irrigated, and he could plant
his colony without spending a cent for
canals? v " ~
PERSONAL.
—Chester A. Arthur, son of the late
ex-President, is said to be a candidate for
a diplomatic, appointment under the new
administration.
—Mr. and Mrs. John W. Hinton of Mil
waukee, Wis„ gave $50,000 to the Prot
estant Home for the Aged, in that city,
on Christmas day.
CURRENT COMMENT.
'■i
booking to the Future.
From the Washington Post (Ind.).
It Is announced that Mr. McKinley is se
lecting his cabinet with a view of having
it serve eight years. There are. people
who expect Mr. Cleveland to be engaged in
a job of cabinet-making about four years
hence.
One Point for Wunaninker.
From the Nashville American (Dent.).
One of the arguments advanced in behalf
of the candidacy of John Wanamaker for
United States senator from Pennsylvania
is the fact that during his thirty-five years
of active business life he was employed
upwards of 100.000 people, and never had
to deal with a strike.
America for Americans.
From the Philadelphia Ledger (Ind.).
The constitutional amendment deny the
right of suffrage to an unnaturalized for
eigner was adopted by an overwhelming
majority at the recent election in Minneso
ta, Tex., also, decided that an alien must
have taken out his first papers at least
six months before the election, in order
to vote. Gradually the people of the
United States are beginning to understand
that if they are to continue to possess
their country they must govern it them
selves, and are taking measures to secure
their rights. It is none too soon. This
country is for Americans, and those who
will not become Americans should have
no share in its direction.
Mr. Bryan Retires.
From the Baltimore Sun (Dem.).
According to the New' York Journal, Mr.
Bryan’s experiences at Atlanta, where he
delivered a lecture last week, were of such
a mortifying character that he has con
cluded to cancel his contract and with
draw finally from the lecture stage. It
appears that Mr. Bryan wanted his tour
to he conducted with the greatest modes
ty, the advertising in the newspapers and
by bill posters to be of the most unosten
tatious description. Indeed, this had been
stipulated in the contract, hut when Mr.
Bryan arrived in Atlanta he was horrified
to find that his ideas of simplicity and
dignity in advertising were far removed
from those of the syndicate which had
charge of his tour. It is to be inferred
from the Journal's statement that the bill
posters were of the same retiring modes
ty which characterizes the mammoth
sheets of manw colors with which the en
terprising advance agent of a circus pla
cards the walls of a country town. When
Mr. Bryan saw himself thus pictured In all
the colors of the rainbow, standing in a
group with Washington and Lincoln,
primus lmer pares, If not e plurihus
unum, he realized that he had been be
trayed, and that the syndicate intended to
force him inte a vulgar notoriety and keep
him there ts long as tt paid. It is to Mr.
Bryan's credit that he at onco dissolved
his relations with his managers, returned
to them the sum of SIO,OOO which he had
been paid In advance for ton lectures, and
has now returned to his home in Nebraska
with his dignity and self-respect in his
own keeping, and not at the mercy of a
syndicate which was speculating on his
reputation.
Good Cane For Mirth.
"I was never more mortified in all my
life!" snapped Mrs. Pritchett, fairly quiv
ering with Indignation and shame, ac
cording to Truth. "What in time possess
ed you to do such a thing?"
"Well —er—hem!" replied her husband,
apologetically. “I guess I was kinder
overtook.”
"I guess you must have been —overtook
by the Old Roy himself, to burst into a
roar of laughter right in the midst of El
der Tombs' solemn portrava' of the awful
torments of the wicked. Ezry, I’ve been
telling you all along that you wasn't liv
ing as you should, but I didn’t think you
had gone so far on the downward way
that you would deliberately make a mock
of sacred things!”
"Oh, come now, mother! It wasn't as
bad as all that. I meant to say tnat 1
guessed I was kinder overtook with sleep
and got to thinking about something I
saw up at the tavern last night. Old Heck
Peavy, who is so deaf that he can’t hear
it thunder, and Uncle Wash Lazzenberry,
who is some deafer than old Heck, got
together and were sipping hard cider and
blinking socially at each other, when pret
ty soon something reminded old Heck of a
story, which he told. Uncle Wash listen
ed as well as he was able and cackled po
litely when it was done. I don’t suppose
he really caught more than about three
words of It, for as soon as it was finished
he piped out that that reminded him of a
story, and I'll be cuss-fired if—”
"Ezry!”
"Er—hem! I mean, I’ll vow if he din't
whirl right in and tell, word for word, the
very same story that old Heck had just
told! And when it was done old Heck
cackled as politely as Uncle Wash had
done, and neither of them had the slight
est idea of what had really happened.”
A Getter from Mark Twain,
A prominent member of the Players’
Club, of New York, now in this city, says
the Philadelphia Record, has received a
letter from Mark Twain under peculiar
circumstances. The recipient of the letter
collaborated with a fellow member upon a
letter to "Mark,” whom they both knew
intimately. They did not know “Mark’s”
address at the time, sp they addressed the
missive: “Mark Twain, God-Knows-
Where.” Here is "Mark’s” reply: “Lon
don, Nov. 24, *96: Oh, thank you, dear
boys, for remembering me,'and for the love
that was back of it. These are heavy days
and all such helps ease the burden. I
glanced at your envelope by accident, and
got several chuckles for reward—and
chuckles are worth much in this world.
And there was a curious thing: that I
should get a letter addressed “God-Knows-
Where” showed that He did know where
I was, although I am hiding from the
world, and no one in America knows my
address, and the stamped legend ‘Defi
ciency of address supplied by New York
P. 0.,’ showed that He had given it away,
in the same mail comes a letter from
friends in New Zealand addressed, “Mrs.
Clemens (care Mark Twain), United States
of America,’ and again He gave us away—
this time to the Deficiency Department of
the San Francisco P. O. These things show
that our postal service has ramifications
which ramify a good deal. Mark.”
Ip-to-Date Finance.
“Halloa, Dick, here's $5 I owe you,” re
marked the man with the fur collar on
his overcoat, as he handed his astonished
friend the bill, says the Hartford Times.
“Yes,” stammered the other.
"Isn't that right? Didn't you lend me
five three months ago?”
“Yes.”
“Then what’s the matter?”
“To tell the truth, I didn’t expect you’d
pay me so soon.”
"Oh, that’s all right. You see, I have
been around paying my debts. I owed
about S2OO to forty people, and I may say
that with the bill which I just handed
you I am now practically out of debt.
With one exception, I owe no money to
any one.”
"Y'ou don’t say so!”
“Yes. It makes you feel like anew
man. I have determined to turn over a
new leaf.”
“What's the matter? Did somebody die
and leave you a fortune?”
“Oh, no. You see, I borrowed S2OO from
Lanes yesterday, and now I have the sat
isfaction of feeling that I only owe one
debt in the world.”
A Modern Minerva.
From the Omaha World-Herald.
She is fair in form and feature, quite an
airy, fairy creature, and of art a leading
teacher; she can talk, and play, and
sing, too, in a manner quite divine.
She is up in French and Sanscrit, can sur
vey with chain and transit, name a
dance and she can dance it, and in golf
and tennis playing she is always first in
line.
She can drive a fiery tandem, troll for bass
and neatly land ’em, and she never talks
at random, for she has good stores of
knowledge upon which she loves to draw.
She is quite a politician, is a well-versed
rhetorician, and a very keen logician,
and she knows the hidden secrets that
are wrapped up in the law.
She is very literary, very keen of wit, yes,
very; and she’s what all folk declare a
very wonderful young lady who has
wisdom without stint.
She is versed in Greek and Latin, paints
on canvas, plaques, and satin; quoting
poetry she’s pat in, but she cannot bake
a biscuit that is half as soft as flint.
The Campaign in Texas.
A Texas member of congress tells
through the Washington Post of a populist
opponent in the late campaign who ad
vanced an argument to his fellow-citizens
against voting the straight Bryan and
Sewall ticket. “Fellow-oitizens,” he said,
in the course of his speech, ”we are all
for Bryan, but yer ain’t goin’ ter vote for
that man Seawall, is you? That man Sea
wall is a Cleveland democrat, he is. if
we elect Bryan and Sea-wall, the> will
assassernate Bryan. They assassernated
Lincoln and they assassernated Garfield,
and they would assassernate our candidate
Bryan if he reached the white house.
Then we should have that man Sea-wall
for President, and, as I told you, he is
a Cleveland democrat. Yer ain’t goin' to
vote for that man Sea-wall, is you?”
This argument was repeated all over
the great Lone Star State, and as Cleve
land and Cleveland democrats are of a
stripe that enrages the average Texan,
there was no stampeding of Texas popu
lists for the Chicago ticket.
Copied tlie Name from Ilia Grip.
Mr. Smith, an English traveler, arrived
one evening at a hotel in Austria, says
the Gripsack. On the way he had picked
up a smart German and hired him as a
servant. In Austria every one staying at
a hotel is obliged to register his name and
occupation in a book, which is kept for
police examination, so Mr. Smith told his
servant Fritz to bring this book for him
to write his name.
”1 have already registered milor,” said
Fritz, “as an English gentleman of inde
pendent means.”
“But I’ve never told you my name, so
how do you know what It is?”
“I copied it from milor’s portmanteau,”
answered Fritz.
"Why, it isn't on my portmanteau,"
cried Mr. Smith; "bring the book and let
me see what you have put down."
The book was brought and Mr. Smith, to
his amusement, discovered that his clever
servant had described him as:
"Monsieur Warranted Solid Leather!”
—The Grand Cordon of the crown of
Italy has been conferred upon Dr. Behring,
the discoverer of the anti-diphtheria se
rum.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
—The Electric Cab Company of London
will, within a few weeks, put 250 horse
less cabs on the streets for hire.
—Coral found below forty fathoms indi
cates either that the bottom has gone
down or it has fallen from the forty
fathom depth.
—The women of Marion, Kan., adopted a
novel way of paying their church debt.
When appealed to by their minister to
devise means and ways of raising the
mortgage they did not resort to the high
way robbery of the church fair. Instead
they rented forty acres of Kansas' fertile
land. Just outside the corporation limits.
This they broke up, and then they planted
it in corn and through the season culti
vated it until it ripened and became ready
for the corn knife. Next they cut it
and shucked it, and then, after several
husking bees, at one of which one lady
husked eighty bushels in one day, they
hauled their corn to town and cribbed it.
Their harvest amounted to over 1,203 bush
els. They also sold the stalk field to a
cattleman at $8 and contracted seven
loads of cobs at $1 per load. When the
corn is shipped, which will be shortly, tiie
mortgage on the Christian church of Mar
ion will be burned.
—The statistical crank has turned his at
tention to the bicycle, and says there
are 12,000,000 wheels in actual use in the
world. Four of these wheelmen and wo
men abreast, two pair to the city block
in line, this vast cycle battalion would
reach clean around the earth. Two
abreast and only a block apart this same
brigade would reach from the earth to
the moon. Now for the wheel. If all
these wheels were one huge wheel—the
front fork, say, in New York—the rear
wheel would touch the earth somewhere
on the other side of Chicago. If you can
conceive of a mall who would be big
enough to ride such a wheel, he would
be just 600 times the hight of Trinity
church steeple in New York, and would
weigh 700,000 tons. If this pedaling gen
tleman unde; took a little spin all by him
self on a fine day he could scorch to
the sun, 95,000,000 miles away, in the morn
ing and home again in the afternoon of a
single day.
—"Do you notice how much the practice
of carrying the hands in the pocket has
been given up by all clases of men within
the last few years?” asked the literary
man of the New York Times. “It was
never good form, but still you would often
see it. I think the newsboys are responsi
ble for the change. Put your hand in
your pocket as you stand for an instant
on a street corner or walk along the
street some day and see if you don’t agree
with me. If you are anywhere in the
lower or central portion of the city there
will be front one to a dozen or more news
boys in sight. Every one of them will
notice the motion of your hand to your
pocket, and if one is looking in another
direction he is attracted by the rush of his
fellows, and you are surrounded by a
struggling mass of boys, and as many
papers as there are urchins are thrust
into your face. It is a dangerous thing
to put your hand to your pocket unless
you are willing to have your progress de
layed for a minute or two.”
—ln discussing the question of the chem
istry of steam raising, the Mining Press
states that it has been found that an
incrustation in a boiler of one-sixth of an
inch thickness causes the use of about
16 per cent, more fuel than would be nec
essary with clean plates, while one which
is one-quarter of an inch thick involves
a waste of as much as 50 per cent., and
one of one-half an inch involves a waste
of 150 per cent.; the damage to the boiler
itself is due to two causes, namely, the
deterioration of the plates by overheat
ing, and the mechanical damage attending
the removal of the incrustation. Further,
a coated boiler plate is necessarily hotter
than when clean, as the water is kept
from free contact with it; thus, whereas
a clean iron vessel containing water boil
ing under atmospheric pressure has a
temperature not more than ten degrees
C. above the boiling point of water, one
with an incrustation as thin as one-sixth
of a ninch may have a temperature more
than 100 degrees C. higher. The mechan
ical properties, too, of the metal compos
ing boiler plates are considerably modified
even by the temperatures proper to mod
ern pressure, and are still more affected
when there Is extra heating on account of
the presence of an incrustation.
—Dr. C. F. Rand of this city treasures a
piece of hardtack which was issued to him
on the morning of the battle of Bull Run,
thirty-five years ago, says the Washing
ton Post. As that battle was impending
when Dr. (then private) Rand received
his ration, it occurred to him to mail a
piece of hardtack to his mother at home as
a sample of the food the army was ex
pected to go into battle on. He gave the
package to a correspondent of the New
York Times, whose name he has forgotten,
to be mailed. Dr. Rand heard nothing
from the piece of hardtack, and the inci
dent passed entirely from his memory. In
1880, nineteen years after Bull Run, Dr.
Rand’s mother died. Among her effects
was found the piece of hardtack, wrapped
in a paper, on which she had written the
story of the contents. She had preserved
it as carefully as if her boy had died in
battle just after sending it. Thus the
morsel of army bread, three inches square
and about as thick as two ordinary crack
ers, reverted back to the son. A few
years ago, while in Chicago, Dr. Rand
showed his highly-prized memento of Bull
Run to a New York friend and at the lat
ter's request broke off a piece and gave it
to him. With this exception, the hard
tack looks just as it did when issued to
the soldier hoy who was thinking of his
mother. It shows no signs of decay or
deterioration and doubtless will withstand
tho effects of time for many years to come.
Dr. Rand claims to be possesor of the old
est piece of sound bread in existence.
—“lt’s odil what queer reasons men deal
ing in stocks will give for their buying
and selling,” remarked a prominent and
well-known member of the ’Change to a
writer for the New Orleans Times-Demo
crat. "To give you an illustration: A friend
of mine, who operates very heavily at
times in stocks, some time ago sustained a
loss of a very considerable amount of
money. It happened in this way: It was
during the Venezuelan imbroglio, or at
least during the period when the question
was being discussed by every man who
read the daily papers, and the air was
full of dire rumors. Just when it seemed
about time for something to drop Presi
dent Cleveland went duck hunting, and
was reported as being very hard at work
making big bags of game. Suddenly his
hunt came to an end, and the day follow
ing his arrival at the national capital
there appeared his message in relation to
the Venezuelan question. Well, the conse
quence of this message was the country
began to talk of war, stocks went down
like a flash, and in less than twenty-four
hours my friend had lost SIO,OOO by the de
preciation. It was a good while after this
happened that I met my operator going
down town in one of the cars. He said to
me: ’I see Cleveland has gone duck hunt
ing. Just watch me.’ I did watch him. Be
fore dark he had sold out nearly all of his
stock ownings. A little later came Cleve
land's Cuban message, spouting mild-man
nered threats. Again stock went down
but my friend, by his putting of two and
two together, managed to clear $15,000, and
the men who bought his stocks hit the
dust. Now, whenever Cleveland is reporter!
to have gone shooting, my friend just fixes
up his line of defense, and If he owns
stocks he quietly gets rid of them.”
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The only line in the South operating
every day in the year solid Pullman ves
tibuled limited trains between Jackson
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York.
Schedules effective Nov. 16, 1896.
F. C. &F.R. R. | ’ TNoTaf
All Trains Run Daily | No. 38 j Fast.
By 90 Meridian. | | Mail.
Lv Savannah |l2 26pm |ll 30pm
Ar Columbia | 4 18pm | 355 am
Lv Columbia -|- | 5 28pmj 5 00am
Ar Charlotte | 8 20pm j 8 50am
Ar Greensboro |lO 48pm|12 05pm
Ar Danville |l2 00n’tj 130 pm
Ar Lynchburg i 1 58am| 335 pm
Ar Charlottesville j 3 35am| 5 45pm
Ar Washington j 6 42am| 9 40pm
Ar Baltimore | 8 00am|1135pm
Ar Philadelphia |lO 15am| 300 am
Ar New York |l2 43pm| 6 23am
Lv~Danville |l2 30am| 1 50pm
Ar Richmond | 6 00am| 6 40pm
Lv Savannah* |ll2opm
Lv Columbia -|- I 7 55am
Ar Spartanburg |U 45am
Ar Hendersonville | 1 45pm
Ar Asheville | 2 40pm
Lv Savannah 11 20pm
Lv Columbia U 00am
Ar Anderson 335 pm
Ar Penc’leton 4 40pra
Ar Seneca 350 pm
Ar Walhalla 6 45pm
Ar Greenville 4 20pm
~Note—'‘Central Time.
-1-Eastern Time.
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Pullman vestibuled sleepers from Sa
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nati via Asheville, Columbia to Richmond.
For detailed information, reservations,
etc., apply to any agent of the Southern
railway or connections.
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J. M. CULP. Traffic Manager.
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R. W. HUNT, T. P. A., Augusta, Ga.
CITY AND SUBURBAN RAILWAY.
WINTER SCHEDULE.
Commencing Thursday, Sept. 24, 1896.
Isle of Hope Schedule—Week Days,
City Time.
j " :Leave t
Leave | From jlsle of | Into
City | 1 Hope.| (
~6 00 am[BoUon St. |6 00 am|Bolton St.
700 am [Bolton St. 710 am|Bo!ton St.
900 amjSecond Ave. SlO amjSecond Ave
10 37 am[Bolton St. 9 45 amjßolton St.
230 pm;Second Ave. 100 pmjSecond Ave
400 pm:Bolton St. j4OO pm [Bolton St.
600 pm [Bolton St. j 6 00 pmjßolton St.
730 pmjßolton St. |7 30 pmjßolton St.
830 pmjßolton St. j, 930 pm|Bolton St.
Saturday night only, 11:00 p. m., from
Bolton street depot.
Cars leaving from and arriving into Bobl
ton street, passengers change at Thunder
bolt.
For Montgomery—99)o a. m. and 2:30 ana
6p. m. Leave Montgomery—7:3o a. if..,
12:20 and 5:20 p. m.
For Thunderbolt —Cars leave Bolton
street depot on every hour and half hour
during the day and evening.
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