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Mil 10 NEW ADYEKTISEMEMS.
Special Notices—Turkeys, Chickens and
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bama Railway; Central of Georgia Rail
way.
Take a Note—B. H. Levy & Bro.
Delighted Are the Crowds—Melnhard
and Appel & Schaul.
Fixing Time—Falk Clothing Company.
Tobacco—Blackwell’s Genuine Durham
Tobacco.
(Steamship Schedule—Ocean Steamship
Company.
Auction Sale—Guardian's Sale, by I. D.
Laßoche, Auctioneer.
Legal Notices—Legal Forewarning as to
Trading for Notes; Libel Against the
Schooner Charmer.
Medical—Hood's Sarsaparilla; S. S. S.;
Cuticura Remedies.
Cheap Column Advertisements—Help
Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Rent;
For Sale; Lost; Personal; Miscellanepus.
The Salvation Army in New York the
other night held a big rally during which
they roasted satan figuratively, and
burned him in effigy. The Old Boy. it may
\>e remarked, did not give any sign of
minding it much. Indeed, he was right
In his clement.
A number of prominent Americans of
Irish birth or extraction will meet in Bos
ton on Jan. 20 for the purpose of forming
an American Historical Sociely, whose
special line of research shall be the his
tory of the Irish clement in the composi
tion of the American people. The signers
of the circular calling the meeting in
clude leading editors, statesmen and busi
ness men. Ex-Senator Butler of South
Carolina is one of the signers.
Gen. Felix Agnus of Baltimore had a
long talk in Canton the other day with
Maj. McKinley. The President-elect gave
the general to understand that he would
recognize the south in the make-up of
bis cabinet. It is stated upon authority
that “Gen. Agnus had no ax to grind”
upon his trip to Canton, and it is not dif
ficult to accept the statement. At the
t-ame time, when Maj. McKinley comes to
look over the south for a good man, he
will be bound to note that Gen. Angus
Blands among the available and accept
able cabinet timber.
The investigation of the judiciary by
Mr. Felder's committee should be of a
character to preclude the possibility of
suggestions of whitewashing, in the
event of the vindication of the judges.
There should be no room for the charge
in future that the judges escaped the
consequences of their faults through tech
nicalities brought up by smart attorneys.
What Is desired by the people Is that
there shall be a plain, honest, straight
away examination into all of the facts,
let the consequences be what they may.
And the people will not be satisfied with
anything less. •
The city council of Chicago has passed
the most sweeping anti-theater hat ordi
nance yet made into law. It is directed
against the proprietors of theaters and
other places of public amusement, and
says such proprietors shall not permit any
hat or other headgear worn in the theater
or place of amusement during the per
formance. Even the little toque, and the
silk skull cap of the bald-headed gentle
man, must go. The fine upon ihe mana
ger for every hat found being worn in
bis house is to be not less than $lO nor
more than $23. A few hats in the house
would knock a big hole Into the receipts
of the evening.
A nice point of law is to be settled In
New York. Last summer thieves stole
n lot of Jewelry from Mr. Burden and
carried it to England. It cost $531, freight
and expenses, to have the jewelry brought
back to this country. The owner was
very glad to get it back, but he declines
to pay the freight. Controller Fitch has
declined to pass the bill for payment by
the city, and says Mr. Burden ought to
pay It. Mr. Burden says the officers of
the law brought the Jewelry back, as they
should have done, and delivered it to him,
as they should have done; that in doing
so they performed services properly paid
for out of the taxes, and that as a tax
payer he has contributed to such pay
ment.
Hill’s View of llrynn.
In an Interview published in Thursday's
New York Sun Senator Hill Is quoted as
saying that Mr. Bryan “is dead beyond
political resurrection." and that Mr.
Bryan's friends admit that such is the
case. Senator Hill is a shrewd observer of
political events, and. besides, he is in close
communication with other politicians who
watoli the drift of public sentiment in re
spect to public men and events very care
fully. He may not be right In what he
says about Mr. Bryan, but the chances are
that he is. Mr. Bryan has appeared be
fore the public a number of times since
the presidential campaign, but he has not
Increased his reputation in any respect,by
doing so. On the contrary, he has lost
ground. The opinion is gradually being
entertained that he is not an orator and
not a man of more than ordinary ability.
There is also a growing impression that
he is not very well Informed on any sub
ject.
No doubt he will continue to appear be
fore the public at intervals for a year or
more, as a speaker at banquets and politi
cal gatherings, but the desire to see him
and hear him speak will eventually die
out. Within two years from now very
little will be heard of him, unless he
should in the meantime show much great
er evidences of statesmanship than he has
yet shown. When the speeches he made
during the campaign are analyzed it be
comes apparent that there is nothing re
markable in them. They contain a few
ideas which are used over and over again.
They may have inlluenced the crowds
that flocked to hear him, because the ex
citement was so great that what he said
was accepted without much question as to
its correctness. The same speeches now,
however, would not call out much, if any
applause.
Mr. Bryan is sincere. There is no doubt
about that. lie is so sincere in his efforts
in behalf of free silver coinage that he ap
pears to be willing to sacrifice everything
for It. In fact, he said as much in a
speech he delivered the other day in .Lin
coln, Neb., his home. He declared in ef
fect that he was prepared to put aside all
other questions as being of little conse
quence in cqmparison with free silver
coinage at the ratio of 16 to 1. If the dem
ocratic party doesn't follow him in the
course he has marked out for himself he
will probably desert that party. He is so
much in earnest that he talks of free sil
ver coinage at 16 to I as bimetallism, and
it is plain that free silver coinage at 16 to
1 is monometallism, at the present price
of silver, and not bimetallism.
Two Mack LcklkliMlon.
We are glad to find there is one gov
ernor who thinks too much of the peo
ple’s money is wasted in useless legisla
tion. We have said many times, in speak
ing of the legislation actually needed in
this state, that all the laws required for
the welfare of the people of Georgia could
be passed at a session of not more than
fifty days, held once every two years. In
deed, we are not sure that a session of
forty days would not be ample.
We know, of course, that men who have
had experience in the legislature contend
that business is transacted as expeditious
ly as possible, and they are sincere, but
they do not take into account that many
of the laws—a majority of them, perhaps—
that are passed, are of no account, and
that nearly all the legislation is crowded
into the last half of the session. Dur
ing the first half little or nothing is done.
Last Wednesday Gov. Black of New
York, in his inaugural address, declared
in favor of biennial sessions of Ihe legis
lature. lie said that there was a large
number of confusing, expensive and un
necessary laws enacted at every session
laws which serve no purpose whatever,
and that the legitimate needs of the state
could bo provided for in a much shorter
time than is generally consumed.
Here in Georgia many young men look
upon the legislature as offering a chance
to make a reputation for oratory. They
get themselves elected to that body, and,
during the sessions, they never miss an
opportunity to make a speech. And it
would be ever so much better for the tax
payers it some of the older members would
think more and talk less.
If wo are not mistaken, forty-two of the
fifty-nine states and territories have bien
nial sessions of the legislature, and we aro
sure that a feeling of Joy would prevade
the whole of this stale if Georgia should
range herself on the side of the majority.
It was intended by the bureau of en
graving and printing that the allegory on
the new $lO bills should be typical of the
progress of American invention, touch
ing especially upon inventions that have
advanced agricultural interests. To that
end the engravers were put to work at
cutting upon a plate a scene showing a
draped female figure with an old-fashion
ed sickle, and in the distance a mowing
machine. On the reverse of the bill was
to be printed a picture of Cyrus McCor
mick, the Inventor of the mowing ma
chine, and one of Eli Whitney, the in
ventor of the cotton gin. The engraving
was progressing finely, when there came
a big kick from a mowing machine
manufacturer, who objected to giving the
McCormick machine such a splendid
advertisement. The kick was effective;
at least the engraving has been held up,
and the treasury officials are probably
debating whether the design shall be
changed, or whether to run In a star and
a footnote with regard to mowing ma
chines, to the effect that “there are
others.”
A Paris doctor has perfected an appa
ratus with whith hunched backs may be
made straight and strong. The treatment
necessitates exerting a pressure upon the
spine of the patient for a period of ten
months. All of the hunchbacks of Paris,
probably, do not wish to be cured. There
are many of them who make a good liv
ing by permitting their humps to be
rubbed for good luck.
The indications now are that Senator
Peffer will be elected to succeed himself,
though the Kansas woods are full of can
didates for the place. John James In
galls is about the only politician in the
state who is not in the race, or thinks
he Isn't. He lias put everybody on notice,
however, that he will be a candidate for
‘lie next vacancy to occur-
THE MORNING NEWS: SATURDAY, JANUARY 9, 1897.
The Pacific Roads Bill.
For many years the government has
been trying to find a way to get the money
it loaned to the Central Pacific and Union
Pacific railroads, and those who control
these roads have been seeking a way to
get rid of their debt to the government
without paying it dollar for dollar.
A bill for the settlement of this indebt
edness is now being discussed in the
House. It purports to be a bill to pay the
government the full amount of the debt
the roads owe It, but an examination of it
discloses the fact that it does nothing of
the kind.
The debt in now about $121,000,000, repre
sented by bonds, on which the government
pays the interest. The bill provides for
liquidating the entire debt in ninety years,
but the amount which the roads are to
pay the government each year, both prin
cipal and Interest, does not equal the
amount of interest which the government
pays on the bonds. Most creditors would
think that a rather unsatisfactory way
of paying a debt. Still, the men who con
trol the road say to the government, that
it must accept what they offer or else it
will get nothing, except the' roadbed, a
lot of old rails and some wornout locomo
tives and cars. In other words, they say
to the government that they propose to
settle their indebtedness in a manner to
suit themselves.
If the roads were really in a bankrupt
condition, both physically and financially,
there would be some excuse for their in
dependent and insolent attitude, but if re
ports aro correct the roads earn about
$9,000,000 a year, after paying all legiti
mate fixed charges. This sum would pay
tho interest on the government bonds and
leave a large sum for the extinguishment
of the principal of the bonds. The men
who control the roads do not intend to pay
their debt to the government if they can
avoid doing so.
They will not get their bill through con
gress as easily as they expected. Senator
Morgan has a substitute for it. The Mor
gan bill authorizes the government to take
possession of the roads and manage them
in the government’s interest. The sena
tor is satisfied that the government can run
them so as to get its money back, both
principal and interest.
If congress stands up for the rights of the
people, as it should, Senator Morgan may
succeed in having either his bill, or a mod
ification of it passed. That would check
the scheme of those who are trying to get
the roads without paying the government
the money it advanced to build them.
Aid of the Bar Association Asked.
The Macon Telegraph, commenting
on some remarks in the Morning News
relative to a more vigorous enforcement
of the law in crimes ot violence cases,
says:
"The Telegraph in discussing this mat
ter has submitted other reasons than
mere delay in trials for the prevalence of
homicide, though it quite agrees with the
News that this is one of the most glar
ing defects in our system of administer
ing justice. We think the state bar asso
ciation could do the people a great service
if it would take up the whole question of
court processes in criminal cases and seek
to bring about the reforms so necessary
to the maintenance of the public peace
and the majesty of the law. But the news
papers are now so urgent in their demand
for quicker determination of the guilt or
innocence of men brought with bloody
hands before the bar that it would seem
the judges themselves should generally
accede and relieve the people of the fears
that now weigh upon them. It is too
true that after the first shook of horror
upon the occurrence of a murder, a com
munity is liable to grow apathetic, afford
ing thereby the friends of the malefactor
to appeal for sympathy, but judges and
prosecuting attorneys should be proof
against such pleadings, and should make
every possible effort to obtain a prompt
verdict. There is a fine oportunity now
for some of these officers to gain distinc
tion in this way to set an example which
will be of incalculable benefit to the state."
We think the Telegraph’s suggesiion is
a good one. The state bar association
should urge upon the courts the necessity
for prompter trials in cases in which the
defendants are accused of crimes of vio
lence, with the view of checking such
crimes. The newspapers and the pulpit
should join the bar association in creating
a public sentiment in this matter to which
the courts would promptly respond.
Not only should there be prompter trials,
but the practice of carrying concealed
weapons should be vigorously and contin
uously attacked. ■ When that practice is
abandoned there will he an immediate de
crease in crimes of violence. A man who
is traveling through the country on foot
or on horseback has some little excuse
for carrying a pistol, but there is no rea
son why a man should carry a pistol with
him when he goes from his farm to his
county town, or why he should always
carry a pistol with him in attending to his
daily duties. The pistol carrying practice
should be abandoned at once. And tho
enforcement of the law against carrying
concealed weapons would help greatly to
bring about the abandonment of it.
From time to time there is a little dis
cussion in Washington and in the news
papers with regard to a scheme for the
purchase of the islands of St. Thomas, St.
John and St. Croix, in the West Indies,
from tho Danish government. There is
at present a revival ot interest in the
matter, brought about by the appointment
of Senator Lodge by the Senate foreign
relations committee to confer with Sec
retary Olney with regard to opening ne
gotiations with Denmark, or rather tak
ing steps which may lead to negotiations.
The harbor of St. Thomas is wanted as
a coaling place for the United States
navy.
It is thought the suggestion of Gov.
Turney of Tennessee, with regard to the
abrogation of gold clauses In contracts,
will be embodied in a bill to be presented
to the legislature. The states of Geor
gia and Alabama have, through their
legislatures, lately voted in opposition to
interfering with contracts, and the prob
abilities are that similar action will be
taken in Tennessee if the matter is ever
brought to a vote.
It is noted in the dispatches that at the
Jackson day celebration in Chicago there
was in the decorations no picture of Jack
son, though pictures of Mr. William Jen
nings Bryan were plentiful. There were
also pictures of Jefferson. The decora
tors were kinder to "Old Hickory" than
to Jefferson,
There are too many banks in Kansas,
as well as in Massachusetts, according
to the opinion of Bank Examiner Brie
denthai of the former state, who predicts
that the number of Kansas hanking in
stitutions will decrease materially within
the next two years. If not be cut in two.
He is advising consolidation in every
place where it is feasible. When the fact
once gets into the minds of Kansas peo
ple that every bank is not at once a gold
mine and a Pandora's box, they may be
disposed to think more kindly of bankers
than they have done for some time.
The commission of the company which
Is to lay an ocean cable between Van
couver, B. C., and Australia and New
Zealand, has been signed by the several
governments Interested. The cable Is to
touch upon only British territory, though
a branch cable may be laid to Hawaii.
The line Is to be heavily subsidized by
the governments. It is estimated that
the cost of the cable will be In the neigh
borhood of $10,000,000, and that It will be
put down within two years' time.
PEKSII.V Vb.
—There was lately sold in London, for
$125, a silver salver, made in 1782, bearing
the coat of arms, crest and motto of Wil
liam Pitt, and having the following words
engraved on Sts back: "This pfece of plate
belonged to the Rt. Hon. William Pi.t.
the most incorrupt and loyal minister that
ever graced the annals of any nation. ’
—Miles Crowley, the picturesque Texts
representative, is only 34 years of age, and
prints in his biography that he was chief
engineer of the Galveston fire department
for two terms. His popularity there is
said to have given him the political infiu
ence that sent him to the state legisla
ture, first as a representative, then twice
as a senator, and afterward to congress.
—lt is recalled that it is not so many
years since it was deemed effeminate for
a man to play the piano and unladylike
for a woman to practice the violin. On one
occasion at a party given by Sir John
Millais, Lady Halle rose to play the vio
lin, when, to her intense amusement, she
neard Landseer exclaim: "Good gracious!
A woman playing the fiddle!" On the
other hand, an old-fashioned nobleman,
when he saw a gentleman sit down :o
the piano, contemptuously remarked; “1
wonder if the creature can sew?"
BRIGHT BITS.
—“Am I the only woman you ever lov
ed?"
"Oh, no.” he answered, promptly, "you
are the sixth."
"The sixth!" she exclaimed, suddenly,
relieving his shoulder of the weight of her
head.
“Yes,” he said, coldly, “there were five
before you—my mother, an aunt, and
three sisters.”
And thereafter she endeavored to be
more specific when she asked questions.—
Answers.
—Exercise Assured—Physician—Yes, ma
te, I have examined your husband. All
he needs is fresh air and exercise.
Caller—Uh, dear! He never will take
exercise, and I know there is no use urg
ing him to. What shall 1 do?
—Physician—Move out of the city into
the stiburbs. Get some house advertised
as “Five minutes from the station.” Then
he’ll have to tramp about five miles twice
a daj" or starve to death.—New York
Weelfly.
—An Early Trait—it was a late after
noon in winter. The streets were tilled
with a jostling throng, as little Teddy and
his mother stepped from a crowded store
on to the crowded street to wait for a ca
bl ■ car.
When it came the tired mother lifted her
4-year-old son up the steps, and climbed
on herself. Entering the car she dropped
wearily into a seat. Soon she became
aware that her hoy was not with her, and,
turning, she saw him on the back plat
form, and motioned him to enter.
“No, mamma,” he called in his hig£,
child's voice. “I am going to stay here,
’cause 1 like to see the people that get run
over.”
Theodore, to-day, is an eminent vivisec
tionist.—Life.
CIHHENT COMMENT.
Southern Rival to rittsliurg.
From the Pittsburg Dispatch (Rep.).
One place where tho business revival is
notable since the election is in the iron
and stool producing section of the south.
A special writer tells about the return oE
prosperity about Birmingham, and of the
development of the cheapest iron-produc
ing region in the world. The furnaces
have all been put in blast again, and a
steady increase in output is predicted.
The South Carolina Dispensary.
From the Greenville (3. C.). News (Dem.).
Representative Burns of Oconee is on
tho right track. He says ho has a bill to
abolish tho constabulary force, to relieve
the dispensary of this objectionable fea
ture. When this is done, then the next
thing will be to cut off the dog's tail just
behind the ears—kick out the whole thing
and relieve the state of the shame and
disgrace of being a barkeeper.
A Cog: Missing Somewhere.
From the Atlanta Constitution (Dem.).
We do not know precisely where the evil
lies or at what particular joint of the ma
chinery of justice tho remedy should be
applied. But there is a cog missing some
where, and Investigation may show that
several cogs are missing. But if the peo
ple are expected to retain a proper respect
for the law and the courts, there must be
a change in the methods of administering
justice. Criminals and those who have a
tendency to commit murder must be
taught that court houses and jails in
Georgia are not places of refuge.
Georgia Banks.
From the Macon Telegraph (Dem.).
From every part of Georgia there comes
to the Telegraph, as its daily dispatches
show, the most satisfactory reports of the
condition of the banks in both large and
small towns. Not only were the usual
January dividends declared, but the an
nua] statements reveal the most healthy
condition of accounts. Notwithstanding
the calamity howlers, Georgia, like tho
Irishman in the song, "is doing quite
well." These good reports substantiate
the figures of the Financial Chronicle,
which the Telegraph gave a few days ago
and which disclosed that during the year
1896, adverse as conditions were said in
have been, the south lost only 1 per cent,
in the aggregate of its bank clearings. It
may be concluded, therefore, that what
ever may have been the causes operating
to the harm of the banks of the north
west, they do not affect the banks of
Georgia, and also that business conditions
in the south are normal. If, thin, the
south has done so well during a period
when the winds were blowing so contra
rtly, what may we not expect when busi
ness becomes prosperous in all parts of
the count, y 7
He Wanted III* Breakfast.
A Vermont man here, says the Wash
ington Post, tells an Incident of Repre
sentative H. H. Powers’ career as a
sr-hooi teacher in Tlnmouth, town of Rut
alnd, in days when pedagogues “boarded
’round.” Powers was a little slow in ris
ing, and acquired a reputation for this
among those thrifty people. In the course
of his round of boarding houses of the
town he was destined to reach the house
of Klihu cramton, father of the Hon. John
Cramton, a famous landlord of the Bard
well house. Cramton was known far and
wide as an early riser. His regular hour
in summer was 3:30 o'clock, and In winter
5 o'clock. He ate his breakfast shortly
after the rising hour, and every member
of the household had to be on hand. Mr.
Cramton learned that the schoolmaster’s
morning habits were too easy-going for
that community, and he let it be under
stood that there would be a change In
the young man's hour of rising shortly
after he reached the Cramton household.
This threat was not long in reaching
the young schoolmaster’s ears. He form
ed his plans and bided his time. In the
course of events his belongings were
transferred to the Cramton house, and he
followed them. His room was assigned
to him, and he took good care to provide
himself with an interesting novel for the
first night. When he came in rather late
in the evening he went to his room, bun
dled himself up—that was not the day of
steam-heated bed rofims—fixed himself
comfortably in a big chair and began his
book.
The night was long and the cold chills
played hide and seek up and down the
schoolmaster’s back, but his candle and
book held out. By and by it came 2
o'clock; the book was closed, and School
master Powers leYt his room, candle in
hand. In a moment he was pounding at
the door of Mr. Cramton’s room, impa
tiently and emphatically. After his rat
tat-tat had echoed through the house for
some time the old man woke up and
yelled out to know what was wanted.
“I want my breakfast,” said Powers.
“What time is it?" yelled the landlord.
“It’s 2 o'clock. This is my regular hour
for breakfast, and I want it. Can't you
get up and let me have it?”
The old man soon got himself wide
enough awake to appreciate the joke, and,
after a slight but very thoughtful pause,
shouted back: “Young map, you .go right
to bed and sleep as long as you want to.”
In the llox OlHcc.
"Pass fiends,” said the proprietor, wear
ily, to the Chicago Record man, as he
turned down the seventeenth stranded act
or who had asked for the courtesies of
the profession since morning, “are more
numerous and daring this winter than
ever. Once a deadhead, always a dead
head, and they try to make deadheads of
all their friends.”
"The best I ever heard of,” said the vis
iting manager, ‘was a newspaper man in
Pittsburg. He used to work all the show
shops to a limit, and yet very raely came
to see a show. He simply used the passes
in his household economy—gave them to
his butcher and grocer.
“One day he came to the house where
my company chanced to be playing and
asked for two. He was given the seats
and, as I heard the story, gave them to
his grocer in exchange for a basket of
eggs. That night, just before the show
was due, somebody rang up the box office.
The house manager answered the 'phone.
“ ‘Hello! is this the theater?’
“..‘Yes, sir. What can we do for you?’
"Well, this is of the Daily . You
remember those passes you gave me to
day? Yes? Well, stop them at the door.
The eggs I got for them are something
terrible. - "
The advance agent sighed and began to
consult a railroad guide. After reading
for seven minutes he broke silence by a
remark to the effect that it was time the
pool among the northwestern lines was
fought to a finish.
“Matters are tough on roads running
out of Chicago now,” said he. “It's dif
ferent in other cities. When we were in
Cleveland last week the agent of a cer
tain road came to me and asked me to ar
range for a rate on the company to Chi
cago. I told him to name his rate. He
did, and 1 said it wouldn't do. Then ho
said, very impressively: ‘Tell you what
I’ll do; I’ll quote you another rate, and
then, if that won't do. I’ll quote you an
other, if you will listen to it after refus
ing the second!”
“After a moment’s profound thinking,
I suggested that he quote the third rate
second and save much waste of time and
energy.”
lion He Knew the Time.
When Coleridge was staying among the
Quantock hills, he was fond of riding
over to Tapnton whenever he could find
a hober steed, says the London Weekly
Telegraph. One day on a familiar route,
his horse cast a shoe, and he stopped at
a village-to have it repaired.
“What time is it?” he asked the smith,
chiefly with the desire of making conver
sation.
"I’ll tell ’ee present, sir,” said the man.
Then he lifted a hind foot of the horse,
looktd across it attentively, and added:
"Half-past 11.”
“How do you kt.vw?” asked Coleridge.
"Do 'ee think as I’ve shod horses all my
life, and don't know by sign W’hat o'clock
it Is?”
The poet went away puzzled, but he re
turned that evening, and offered the black
smith a shilling to show him how he could
tell time by a horse's hoof.
“Just you get off your horse, sir,” said
the smith, with a twinkle in his eye.
“Now, do 'ee stoop down and look through
the hole in yon pollard ash, and you'll
see the church clock!”
Pretty Tall All .Around,
He as a New Yorker and proud of his
city, says Harper's Round Table, and al
though his Chicago friend pointed out
sight after sight, boasted of the city's fine
boulevards and drove the New Yorker
over them, he failed to excite in his guest
more than a slight curiosity. Then he
brought up the subject of tail buildings.
“Chicago beats the world,” he said. “Our
tali buildings top everything ever erected.”
“Well, well,” said the New Yorker,
“that's queer. Ever heard of that build
ing in New York that the clouds bump
up against? 'Never heard of it, eh? I'll
tell you something about It. When they
put in the last story on it a workman fell
off the top. Some time later I was pass
ing along the street be.ow when a news
boy yelled. ‘Extry. Full account of the
accident.' I brought a paper, and It describ
ed how the man toppled off and all that.
But what do you think? While I was read
ing it something dropped with a crash.
What was it? Why, the workman, of
course! He'd Just reached the ground.”
It AVaa l.ncky,
"Harry,” she said, reproachfully.
"Well?” he returned, apprehensively, for
there was that in her tone that made him
fear the worst, says the Chicago Post.
"It is evident from your breath,” she
went on, “that you have been drinking.”
"Well?” he said again, for want of some
thing better to say.
“When a mere girl,” she explained re
gretfully, "I made a solemn vow that lips
that touched wine should never touch
mine.”
"Oh, Is that all?” he said, with evident
relief. "If you were a little more con
versant with the price of things in that
line and with the details of my salary
you wouldn’t hesitate a moment on ac
count of that vow. But It’s mighty lucky
that you didn’t Include anything but wint
in it.’*
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
—The London and China Telegraph says
that in Otago, New Zealand, where
Scotchmen are in the majority, a con
tract for mending a road was to be let,
and the most acceptable bid was signed
“McPherson.” Notice was sent to the
said McPherson to complete the contract,
and lo! he appeared in all the glory of
yellow hue and pigtail! “But,” gasped
the president of the board, “your name
can’t be McPherson?" "All lightee,”
cheerfully answered John Chinaman, "no
body catchee contlact in Otago unless he
named Mac.” The contract was signed
and the Mongolian McPherson did his
work as well as if he had hailed from
Glasgow.
—"The Scourge of China,” is what they
call the Yang-tse-Kiang river. During the
last 200 years the floods have fourteen
times forced the massive dams of the cen
tral provinces, and each time covered its
banks with thousands of human corpses.
In 1833 its inundation ravaged the province
of Hu-Pae to an extent which can be re
trieved only by the labors of many suc
cessive generations. Another terrible flood
occurred a few years since, which spread
its havoc over an area of 350,000 square
miles in the most densely populated dis
tricts of China. The loss of life on that
occasion has been estimated at 750,000,
even after deducting the hundreds of
thousands that succumbed to the subse
quent famine and those slain by mau
rauders and hunger-crazed cannibals.
—There is a barber in Kensington, says
the Philadelphia Record, who has trained
a number of common sparrows from the
street to fly in and out of his shop at will.
The birds are never molested by the bar
ber’s customers, who have grown as fond
of them as the barber himself. The spar
rows simply own the shop whenever they
want to, and they have learned some very
amusing tricks under the tutelage of their
friend. Sometimes, when the room is
pretty well filled with the chirping little
fellows, the barber will make a sweep with
his hand and pretend to catch a tty. Im
mediately all the birds will flutter over to
him and perch upon his arms, shoulders,
or knees, and watch the hand in which
the fly is supposed to be imprisoned. The
barber opens his hand gradually, one fin
ger at a time, while the birds sit with
heads cocked to one side, expectantly
waiting for the prize. If there should
happen to be a fly there, which is seldom
the case this weather, there is a grand
rush and a scramble of chirping rivals.
—The na%ralists, according to the St.
Louis Republic, have not as yet been able
to answer the burning question: “Can
bees hear?” but their researches 'along
that line have resulted in many queer dis
coveries. Simply because a bee has no
ears on the side of his head, it is no sign
whatever that he is wholly without some
sort of an auditory nerve. This last as
sertion is proven by the fact that grass
hoppers, crickets, locusts and flies all have
their ears situated in queer places—un
der the wings, on the middle of the body,
and even on the sides of their legs. The
common house fly does his hearing by
means of some little rows of corpuscles,
which are situated on the knobbed
threads which occupy the places which are
taken up by the hind wings of other species
of insects. The garden slug or shelless
snail has his organs of hearing situated
on each side of his neck, and the com
mon grasshopper has them on each of his
broad, flat thighs. In some of the smaller
insects they are at the bases of the wings,
and in others on the bottom of the feet!
—Speaking of hunting, a correspondent
of the News Orleans Times-Democrat says
that nearly 500,000 head of game have been
killed by the earl of Grey during the last
twenty years. He was only 15 years old
when this record commenced, and to give
an idea of the rapidity with which he
shoots, it may be stated that in December,
1884, he shot at fifty pheasants in three
minutes, and killed forty-nine of them.
In this immense total, which places the
earl at the head of the sporting shots of
the old world, are included eleven tigers,
several rhinoceros and elephants, a num
ber of lions, bison, Russian and Rocky
Mountain bears and wolves. The earl is
the eldest son of the marquis of Ripon,
and bears the family name of Robinson.
He spent some time at Washington as
secretary to the special embassy of his
father in connection with the Alabama
claims, and is married to the widowed
countess of Lonsdale, sister of Michael
Herbert, who while charge d'affaires of
Great Britain in the United) States mar
ried the daughter of Richard Wilson of
New York. Curiously enough, the man
who comes next to lord de Grey's sporting
record is Lord Walsingham, whose pa
tronymic is de Grey, although he is no rel
ative whatsoever of Lord Ripon’s rather
homely son and heir.
—The machete, in the hands of the in
surgent Cubans, is a knife about two feet
long, with a blade very slightly curved
at the end and unprovided with a hand
guerd. It is a deadly weapon for close
fighting, but has the disadvantage of be
ing only a cutting knife. It cannot be
used to advantage for thrusting. These
disadvantages have been realized in ac
tual warfare, says the New York Herald,
and consequently the insurgents have
placed an order with German and Eng
lish firms for the manufacture and ship
ment to Cuba of a weapon that the insurg
ents have decided is the ideal one for their
use. It is a machete with a short hand
guard and a blade twenty-eight inches
long and two and a half inches across
in the widest part. It will make a weap
on that, in the hands of men who have been
used from boyhood to wielding a heavy
cutting implement, will prove a deadly one
at close quarters. The still more elab
orate machete that are made for the use
of officers are shaped more like an ordin
ary army sword than a machete. These
officers’ swords look prettier than the ug
ly business-like machete made for the
rank and file, but the officers themselves
do not take kindly to them, preferring a
weapon that is guaranteed in the right
hands to decapitate a man as easily as a
knife slices a lemon.
—ln the course of a speech the other
day Congressman Brosius of Pennsylva
nia gave this account of tho beginning of
civil service reform: In the reign of Ed
ward 11, 1308-1327, it is said there were
kept in a tower in London six horse
shoes and sixty-one nails, which, by an
cient custom, the sheriffs of London were
compelled to count when they were sworn
into orifice. Their ability to do so was
regarded as a proof of sufficient education
for the office, as only an educated man
could count up to sixty-one. In 1388 par
liament passed an act which provided:
"That none shall be made officers of the
king for any gift, brokerage, favor, or
affection, but upon desert. These are his
torical beginnings of civil service reform
among the English speaking people. Cen
turies of abuses, in which extortionate
levies upon the people ministered to
the vices and luxuries of the few and the
pleasure and power of kings, lords, and
nobles were everything, while justice,
equality, economy and the personal worth
of the citizen were nothing, were des
tined to elapse before the appointing pow
er ceased to be the Instrument alike of
revenge and favor, to reward obsequious
servility and compel acquiescence in the
will of official despots. There is some
humor mingled with the sadness of the
reasons given by a custom house officer
for his submission to the royal will, rea
sons which to this day cause a continu
ous reign of terror in the unclassified
civil service of the United States. “I
have,” ho said, “fourteen reasons for
obeying his majesty’s command—a wife
and thirteen children.”
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(ointment), and full dos. s of Cvticur, Kr-01.
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RED HANDS by CmcvaS'^f^
1897 Bisickles,
as some people call them,
are coming along each day.
We have sample lines m
stock, sent to us for inspec
tion. We have not fully de
cided on all wheels yet, as
we want to see every thin •
so we can get the best.
Tile Luthy, a certain
ty, because it is the greatest
one made.
Tlie Remington, we
are sure of, because it is
made like the Remington
gun and typewriter.
The celebrated
Crawford, no doubt of it,
because it is better than any
wheel made for the price,
and even better than any
wheel listing as high as
SBS. This is saying a good
deal, but it is so. We can
prove it.
Tiie Crawford Wheel
does not take a back seat
for anything. We think it is
like our line of
Buck’s Stoves
—and—
Reed’s Odorless Refrigerators.
Nothing can togch them.
Neither can any stock in
the city hold a candle to our
line of
Furniture and Carpats,
and our prices are far be
low all others. A call will
satisfy you of this fact.
Eicyclss for Rent.
We have single wheels
and three combination tan
dems. We have also the
Finest Bicycle Repairer
in the town. No matter
how.difficult the job he can
do it. Enameling done in all
colors. We want wheels in
trade.
HIM l 111
THESE ARE REAL BARGAINS
Will Be Sold Regardless of Value
To Close Accounts.
Lot No. 61, corner Lincoln and
Eleventh Rtreets, for $275.
No. 211) West Broad, old numbo,
corner Wnldl.urg lnne, double c)'*'
tnge residence, nicely loented, con
venient nnd large, cheap. Don I
want ..inch money.
No*. 245 nnd 247 NVuldburg, be
tween Barrougha nnd Cnyler. null
two house* In rear, all on No. *•*
Screven ward. A good sung Invest
ment, jn the property to pnt >°" r
caving* in. I can make very attrac
tive terra* on thl*.
—Hino—
V honse and lot for IJfIOO on J° f
■ treet, near Ott, not far from Elec
tric Railway power houne, and con
venient to the Thunderbolt rood toll
houne and cotton factory. Thl* *
genuine bargain. The lot I* vrorll>
the money.
C. H. DORSETT
-22 Congrenn street went.
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