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THIS ISSUE
CONTAINS
TWENTY PACES
Mil 10 MW Ab\ EKTIStMENTS.
Meetings—Congregation Mlckva Israel;
S., F. and W. and C. and 8. Railways E. M.
Jt. Association.
Military Orders—Orders No. 1, Savannah
Volunteer Guards; Circular First Regi
ment of Infantry.
Special Notices—Stocks In Plenty, The
Southern Grocery Company of Georgia;
Van Stans' Cough Remedy, at Livingston's
Pharmacy; Good Service Our Strong Point
Jas. McGrath & Cos.; You Can’t Fast Long
end Live Long, Jno. T. Evans & Cos.; New
Model H. (1806) Dayton Bicycle For Sale
•at Savannah Cycle Agency; Don't Lose
Your Ten Per Cent. Discount, B. H. Levy
& Bro.; Seven Presents This Month, at
Masonic Temple Pharmacy; The Mozart
Musical Club; City Bonds and Bank
Stocks, Austin R. Myres, Broker; The Mu
tual Premium Company; Bread the Staff
of Life, C. A. Munster; Savannah Steam
Laundry; Cheap Warmth, R. D. & Wm.
Lattimore; limiting Pads, Robinson
Printing House; The Zlmmy Bi
cycles Have No Equals; The
Zimmerman Cycle Company; Ban
ner OH Stoves, at Gardner's; Rub
ber Plants and Palms, A. C. Oelschig;
None So Blind As Those Who Cannot See,
Dr. M. Schwab & Son; Notice of Partner
chip, Symons & Donnelly; Great News
Told in a Few Telegrams, Falk Clothing
Company; A Nice Present to Every Lady
Visitor, Jones’ Pharmacy; Conida's Can
dies.
Amusements—Wilton I.ackaye, at the
Theater, Jan. 14.
Auction Sale—Schwarz Furniture Stock,
by J. McLaughlin & Son.
Our Styles For 1897 Equaled by Few—
Charles Marks.
The New Embroideries—At Eckstein's.
To-morrow Begins the Second Week of
Our Annual Sale—At Gutman's.
The Great Clearance Clothing Sale—
Melnhard and Appel & Schaul.
Your Closest Friend—B. H. Levy & Bro.
SIOO in Gold Free—J. H. Plummer, New
York City.
An Aid to Comfort—B. H. Levy & Bro.
Mammoth Sale of Muslin Underwear—
Walsh & Meyer.
January Sale of New Embroideries and
iMuslln Underwear—Leopold Adler.
Your Spring Shoes—J. K. Orr Shoe Com
pany.
Up-to-Date Retailers—Byck Broe.
Financial—Sam Keller & Cos., Bankers
ap d Brokers, New York; De Wolf & Cos.,
Bankers and Brokers, New Y'ork.
Everybody Figures—Daniel Hogan.
•Rich and Royal Cut Glass—At West’s
China Palace.
Is the Word Babcock a Chestnut?—Sa
vannah Carriage and Wagon Company.
Mathushek Pianos—Ludden & Bates S.
M. H. •
The Grip Is In Town—Abbo Medical
and Surgical Institute.
, (Auction Sales—Handsome Furniture, by
C. H. Dorsett.
Beef—Liebig's Extract of Beef.
Medical—Cutlcura Remedies, Wine of
C'ardul; Hood’s Sarsaparilla; Woman's
Friend; World's Dispensary Preparations;
t*. 8. S.
Cheap Column Advertisements—Help
Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Rent;
For Bale; Lost; Personal; Miscellaneous.
The South Carolina disponsary constab
ulary mu*t a little lax, as compared
witn their activity when Tillman wag di
recting the forces personally. It will be
remembered that on one occasion they
•eized Senator Cameron's demijohn en
route to his shooting box on the coast,
whereupon the senator immediately left
for the north. At present Senator Came
ron Is making quite a long stay on the
South Carolina coast. And meantime his
Cuban resolution Is languishing.
The Key West Equator-Democrat fur
nishes a pointer which probably explains
some of those hair-raising siories of blood
and slaughter which come ostensibly from
Cuba by way of Florida. During the
last seven weeks, says our contemporary,
"twenty-five war correspondents have left
New York for the Insurgent camps, but
not one of them has arrived there; yet
some of them are writing letters from the
rebel camp, while they are 'incog' in Key
West, or having a good time in perfect oe
curlty on some of the adjacent keys.”
There are good reasons for think.ng the
Equator-Democrat knows what It is talk
ing about.
McKinley’* Cabinet.
There are a great many republicans of
prominence who would like to be asked
to accept a place in Mr. McKinley’s cabi
net. As far as known, however, Mr.
Cornelius N. B.iss of New York is the only
one who has been definitely decided upon
for a cabinet position, and It Is understood
that he is to have the secretaryship of
the navy.
One trouble In selecting members of the
cabinet seems to be that some ol those Mr.
McKinley would like to have as members
of his administration are not anxious for
the honor. For Instance, It is well known
that Senator Allison and Representative
Dingiey have been offered the secretary
ship of the treasury. Mr. Dingiey, It la
said, has declined the position because he
does not think he is sulliciently strong
physically to discharge the duties of the
position. Mr. Al.tson prefers to remain Ir.
the Senate, believing that his chances for
reaching the Presidency are better as a
Senator than as a cabinet officer.
Senator Sherman has been asked to ac
cept the secretaryship of state. It Is not
believed he will accept it. He Is not fitted
for it. He has had no diplomatic train
ing and his temperament is unsuited for
diplomatic duties. He may be offered the
treasury department. It is doubtful if he
would accept it. He is too old and feeb.e
to bear the burdens of the place. He tilled
it years ago and made quite a reputation
as a financier. Therefore, there is no honor
in it for him. Besides the difficulties sur
rbunding the treasury at this time are very
great, and he might fail to meet public
expectations. Why should he risk the loss
of his reputation for financial sagacity?
The chances are that he wi.l remain In
the easy, comfortable position he now has,
a position In which he can add to his rep
utation for statesmanship, If he can add
to It In any position.
There are rumors that Judge McKenna
of Washington will be offered the posi
tion of secretary of the interior, and that
Judge Nathan B. Goff of West Virginia
can have the attorney generalship. There
may be nothing in these rumors. Judge
Goff stands a better chance of being chosen
than Judge McKenna. Mr. McKinley has
said he Intends to have one southern man
in his cabinet, and It Is believed that the
selection will be made from either West
Virginia or Maryland. At one time It
was thought the southern member would
be a Georgian. It Is not thought so now.
Mr. McKinley thinks, probably, that
Georgia Is sufficiently honored by being
the birthplace of his presidential boom.
It will be near the time for Mr. McKin
ley’s Inauguration before he will have
completed his cabinet. There Is no reason
why he should be hasty in the matter. It
is better that he should be cautious, be
cause mistakes in making a cabinet are
fruitful of trouble, and are not easily cor
rected.
Tile Carter Charges.
The legislative committee which is to
determine whether there Is ground tor Im
peaching Judges Reese and Sweat should
not waste any time In hearing Irrelevant
testimony. The tact that the accuser is
without counsel is not to be regretted. It
Is a question whether it wouldn’t be bet
ter for the accused If they were without
counsel. The committee Is not to try
them. It's duty Is simply to find out
whether or not there is good ground for
Impeaching them. It is composed of men
who understand the value of facts, and
after the witnesses have given their evi
dence It ought not to have any difficulty
In reaching a decision.
If lawyers are allowed on both sides
there will be a mass of Irrelevant testi
mony, and the hearing may occupy many
days. A couple of days ought to be suffi
cient to elicit all ■•the facts.
The chairman of the committee raises
the point as to whether the defendants
should be heard. Without knowing what
the practice In such cases Is, it seems to
us they should be allowed to state their
side of the case. In the light of what their
witnesses say there may not appear to be
any reason for Impeaching them, while
without their explanations Impeachment
might be regarded as necessary. Why put
the state to the expense of an Impeach
ment trial if. as a matter of fact, there Is
no probability that the charges would be
sustained? Let both sides be heard so
that the committee will be in a position to
say whether the accused Judges should be
tried or not.
There will be an effort probably to make
the hearing a political one—the populists
being on one side and the democrats on
the other. The committee should d.seour
age anything of that kind. It should get
at the facts as directly and as quickly as
possible. We have no fear but that the
result of the hearing will be In accordance
with the facts, and the committee can get
all the facts without the assistance of
lawyers.
Simon Cooper, the negro murderer who
was killed by a sheriff's posse in Sunuer
county, South Carolina, on Friday, as told
In our dispatches, will go Into the rec
ords of the state as one of the bloodiest
fiends who ever made criminal history In
South Carolina. Within one week he kill
ed six people, In the most brutal manner
imaginable, and wounded several others.
He began his bloody work on New Year's
day, at an emancipation celebration, kill
ing one man of his own race and wound
ing five Following that he went to the |
city of Florence and bought a rifle and
cartridges, and returned to the neighbor
hood of his crime, vowing death to all
who Interfered with him. A few days
later he butchered the Wilson family of
four, and drove an ax through the skull
of a harmless negro who happened to be
In the neighborhood of the Wilson place
at the time. The fiend seems to have
been blood-maddened. The details of the
Wilson tragedy are particularly revolting.
The world Is well rid of so terrible a
monster. At the same time, It Is to be
regretted that his fate was not meted out
to him by the strong hand of the law
through orderly court proceedings.
A Pittsburg scientist has perfected ati
x-ray apparatus which is said to be pow
erful enough to send the rays through
four Inches of steel. The apparatus m.ght
be brought up to a little higher state of
perfect.on and • mployed tj detect blow
boles in Pittsburg armor plate.
THE MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY, JANUARY 10, 1597.
Onr Boys.
The other day a youth was heard to ob
serve; ''Well, I've got a Job, but It does not
pay much, and I guess I will give It up.”
This youth, unfortunately, was not an ex
ception, but a type. There are many like
him. They quit school without a profes
sion or a trade, depending upon commerce,
"business” or the mechanical trades for
a living. They are not qualified to en
gage In any especial line of endeavor.
Necessarily, they must be taught, and it
akes years of experience to create a val
uable knowledge of almost any business
or trade that may be named. There are
no short cuts to proficiency; no short cuts
to a commanding position from which one
may dictate wages or salary.
The youth of the type under considera
tion secures a position. His employer Is
willing to teach him the business and to
pay him something for his time while he
is learning. But after a short while the
youth says. "Well, I've got a Job. but it
does not pay much, and I guess 1 11 give
it up." And he does so. The time he has
silent upon his Job is thrown away, un
less by chance he gets another place at
similar employment. The chances are.
however, that he will try something else
—after a long time, for jobs are not to
be picked tip whenever one has a mind
io stoop and grasp them. While he is
waiting for his next Job he becomes a bur
den upon some other member of the com
munity, if not upon the community itself.
And when employment is secured aga.n
there is the. probability that the youth,
rapidly becoming a man, will find wages
no better and again become dissatisfied
and quit work. The logical outcome of
such a youth Is a man who Is good for
nothing; who never amounts to anything.
Employers are not looking out for
youths of that kind to take into their em
ploy. They want boys who are willing
to begin at the bottom and work up, and
whose work Is characterized by fidelity,
punctuality, thoroughness and willing
ness. Employers want people In their
service who can be depended upon, under
any and all circumstances. When an em
ployer finds that an employe makes the
business as careful study as If It belonged
to himse'f, it will not be long before the
employe will find hts wages advanced.
And there will be other employers who
would be glad to secure his services. The
thoroughly honest, competent, faithful
worker Is seldom If ever out
of a Job, and one that pays
him fairly well for his services.
It should be the care of every boy Just
out of school and entering business, of
whatever kind, to make himself as nearly
lndispensible to his employer as possi
ble. The absolutely lndispensible Indi
vidual, however, does not live; and It Is
a good thing that he does not. But an
employe may become so nearly Indispen
sible that his employer will pay large
wages before he will part with him. The
time to lay the foundation for this hold
upon the employer is at the first, when
wages are low. Merit will tell, and the#
employer will be only too pleased to ac-’*
knowledge it.
There Is another thing about the youth
who quits because the pay Is small; he
usually spends all he' makes, In many
cases even before he makes it. He goes
In debt for trifles that might be dispensed
with. In the last issue of the Review of
Reviews is a sketch of the life of Mr.
H. H. Kohlsaat, one of the wealthy men
of Chicago, and undoubtedly the domi
nating force In the Journalism of that
city. According to that article, when Mr.
Kohlsaat was a little boy, selling papers
on the street for a living, he made it a
rule to save something out of hts earn
ings every day, If even a penny. When he
secured employment as a cash boy at $2
a week he kept saving; for he had con
cluded that It was absolutely necessary
to have something ahead—some capital—
or he would never be anything more than
an employe. The principle Is excellent,
and should be adopted by every youth
starting out in life. Its practice will be
get habits of economy, and result in in-
dependence.
The youth, or man either, who throws
up a job because the pay is small, unless
he has another immed.ately at hand at
better pay, does a foolish thing. The pay
will not remain small if the services ren
dered warrant an Increase.
Two American Heiresses.
Two American heiresses have come into
public notice in such manner as to estab
lish a striking contrast. They are the
Princess Chimay, formerly Miss Clara
Ward of Detroit, and Mrs. Emma Spreek
els Watson, daughter of Claus Spreckels
of San Francisco. The former sacrificed
first her womanhood for the sake of
"fashion" and ambition, and second her
honor to escape from the unbearable
thraldom into which she found she had
sold herself. The latter put aside "fash
ion" and sacrificed a fortune for her love.
She was rich, and made herself poor in
order that she might do her dutv to tier
father and to the man sue nad chosen as
her husband.
The princess has written an open letter
to the society women of America, desir
ing them to take her fate as a lesson. She
had wealth and social position in America,
and might have married a man she could
have loved and respected. But fashion
dictated that American wealth should be
allied with European nobility. Both she
and her mother were devotees at the
shrine of fashion. A broken-down foreign
grandee was found, his price was paid
and he gave his name to the American
heiress. According to the letter of the
princess, she stood the life as long as she
could, and at last ran away with a gipsy
musician—a married man—to escape from
"the fetid atmosphere In which modern
(European) society lives." She found,
when it was too late that rank and titles
cannot give happiness; that they too often
bring misery; that the great secret of
happ.ness is to be true to one's self and
to others. She was desperate, however,
and In her despair made bad worse by
openly dishonoring herself and her hus
band. Hers Is a pitiable case. Having
sown the wind, she is reaping the whirl
wind.
It is a pleasure to turn to the case of the
California heiress. According to the dis
patches, she fell in love with a poor man.
She told her father that she wished to
marry him, and was upbraided for ingrati
tude, 1c desiring to bestow herself and
her fortune upon a man who had practi
cally nothing except his love to offer in
return. Mr. Spreckels, it seems, had given
his daughter a fortune of something like
*2,000,0)0. which she held in her own r.ght.
Upon her father’s objection to her mar
riage with Mr. Watson, Miss Spreckels
consulted her heart, and found he was
worth more to her than her fortune. She
therefore went straight ahead and got
married. And very shortly thereafter,
with the consent of her husband, returned
to her father every dollar of the fortune
he had given Jier. Thus the newly mar
ried couple begin life poor In purse, but
rich in love, and in the confidence that
they have done right. So far from be
ing angry with his daughter for her ac
tion, Claus Spreckels ought to be proud
of her, and send her back her fortune,
with an addition of an equal amount, ac
companied by his forgiveness and bless
ing.
Some of the “new" women of Kansas
are behiijfJ a movement to have th" legis
lature pass a law prohibiting the wearing
of corsets within the slate’s borders. The
governor a short time ago received a pe
tition praying that he would recommend
an anti-corset law in his message to the
legislature, but upon the recommendation
of his typewriter he declined to do so.
The petitioners declared that the corset
ought to be put In the category with
cigarettes, because it Is injurious to
health.
Voting for senator will be commenced In
the Idaho legislature on next Tuesday. It
is said Senator Dubois has a hard fight
on his hands, and may be beaten. The
most prominent candidate against him
revels in the somewhat suggestive name
of Texas Angel. From all reports, how
ever, he Is not the kind of angel that
one would expect to find In Texas. He
wears short hair and laced shoes.
i'EUhO.NAI,.
—The estate of the late Shah of Persia
is valued at f200.000.000, of which two-fifths
is In cash and bullion. It Is rumored that
s s -nceesspr e i devote *2o.<K>i.ooo to ad
vancing the civilization of Persia.
—Gov. Leedy, the new executive of Kan
sas, recently had a unique experience. Two
years ago. when the governor was sena
tor, he befriended a small newsboy. He
recently received and accepted an invita
tion from the same boy to a supper.
—The personal estate of the late William
Morris, it is' of interest to note, almost
reaches the same figure as that of Lord
Ter.nyson, which amounted to £S7,2ofi. No
poet of recent days—or probably of any
dare—died as wealthy as Longfellow,
whose personalty totaled over £70.000. The
estates of some other poets of recent years
declared after their decease Is significant.
That of Matthew Arnold amounted to
£1,040; Prof. J. S. Blaekie, £4,977; Robert
Browning, £16,774; Christina G. Rossetti,
£13,371, and Dante G. Rossetti, £o,ooo.
mtiuur HITS.
~ *. I—r1 —r: —r
-■fktter al£' skid'* the Cumminsvi'ile
sage, "there's not so great a difference
between me and a dude.”
"No?" said the grocery loafer.
“No. He wears his clothes well, and my
clothes are well worn."—Cincinnati En
quirer.
—"lf it wasn't for me my class In school
wouldn’t have any standing at all,” said
Hubert.
"Nonsense!” said his aunt. "Your mother
says you are the foot of It.”
“1 am," said Hubert. “How could it
stand if it didn't haye a foot?”—Harper’s
Round Table.
—Husband (at supper): Can’t you give
me a napkin? I haven’t had one for a
week.
Wife: Why, I remember giving you one
yesterday, just before you said grace.
Bobby (who has Just returned from a
week's visit): Oh, ma, was the minister
here yesterday—Bay City Times.
—An old man was breaking stones one
day on a country road in Wales when a
gentleman came riding along.
“Bother these stones! Take them out
of my way!” he said.
"Where can I take them to, your honor?"
"I don't care where; take them to hades
if you like.
"Don’t you think, your honor,” said the
old man, "that I’d better take ’em to
heaven? They’ll be less ;n your honors
way there."—Spare Moments.
OI>tUtENT COMMENT.
The Cause of Depression.
From the Nashville American (Dem.).
If the United States does not at once
take an active part in the Cuban war,
help to drive out the Spanish and set the
Cuban republic on its feet there can be
no prosperity In the United States, ac
cor.l.ng to the prediction made by Senator
Call.
Why Sliermau Is Shifty.
From Louisville Courier-Journal (Dem.),
The trouble with Senator Sherman is
that he, more than any other man, Is
responsible tor the unwise nnanclal leg
islation of the past few years, and that
he is unwilling to admit that he has made
a mistake. In the matter of lack of
frankness the senator easily stands un
rivalled among American statesmen.
Victoria’s Glorious Reign.
From the New Orleans Picayune (Dem.).
Owing to the glorious history of Queen
Victoria’s reign, it would be generally re
gretted, outside of England, that she
should see fit to abdicate. The functions
of the British sovereign are not so active
ly connected with the administration of
public affa.rs as to make the queen’s age
a detriment to the public welfare; hence
her abdication would cause general re
gret because of the universal sentiment of
esteem and respect which her virtues
have excited.
Purchase of West Indies,
From the Philadelphia Ledger (Ind.).
Should the United States accede to Sen
ator Lodge’s proposition to purchase the
Danish West India Islands, It will be for
one or all of three reasons: To prevent
the.r falling Into the hands of some other
power, to get their output of sugar and
other products, and to secure one or more
coaling stations on them. The first may
or may not be important, and the danger.
If there Is danger, may be covered by the
Monroe doctrine. The second may be had
by a sui'able reciprocity treaty. The
third is Important, but whether Import
ant enough to warrant our going out of
our way to acquire territory not con
tiguous to our own is a fair subject for
debate. However, it is sure to be well
debated before the purchase is made.
Whnt Happened lu Jonah.
There was a revenue marine officer, a
retired naval officer, a judge, a newspaper
man and several other of the titular digni
taries that grace the hotel board of Wash
ington. and they were congregated around
an open fireplace that evening during the
early part of this week, when it seemed
as if Boreas had bought himseif a Christ
mas horn, and was trying to blow his
lungs through It, says the New York Sun.
The subject of the conversation was fish,
due largely to the fact that the gang
thought they had a sucker in their m.dst
from the great and growing state of In
diana holding down a twelve hundred gov
ernment job in the war department
“Speaking of the South Mountain Rod
and Gun Club of this town," said the rev
enue officer, “apd the fish up at Great
Balls which pulled the president of the
club out of the boat and saved his life
by sw mming ashore with him. 1 am re
nt ruled that the greatest herds and flocks
and shoals of fish 1 ever witnessed are to
be found in the salmon season on the
Columbia river. At Astoria the river is
very wide, and the fish are not noticed,
but up at the Dalles, where the stream
narrows down to a mere gorge* I have
many a time seen the water so crowded
with salmon going up the river that foot
passengers could easily walk across on
them.”
“True,” put in the retired naval officer,
“and 1 have seen them o thick that team
were driven across on them. In the smal
ler streams of that same section, out
among the woods, I have seen a bear come
down to the shore and pull out a breakfast
of fish without more than getting his toes
damp, whiie in hundreds of places along
shore I have seen piles of lish bones wher.
the bears had eaten their meals out of th<
streams and left the debris. I recall om
occasion, further down tue river, when
our ship anchored off shore in the river,
we went in one day to see the men fish
ing, and they < sked us when we started
back if we didn’t want to take a mes
along. We did, of course, and when w,
got into our boat we had to hang our feet
over the sides. 1 guess we must have had
half a ton.”
“Crossing the river on them,” said the
judge, “reminds me that at the town
where I lived up there for a short time
there was a railroad crossing the river on
a drawbridge, and when the salmon 6ea
son was on the railroad hands let tht
draw stay open and laid the rails right
over on the fish In the river. It saved
labor, and wasn’t any trouble to the fish
except the few they used as fuel. Fish
oil, you know, is a great heat producer
and very combustible,” he added, as if
some explanation were needed.
“Huh, huh,” coughed the Hooster In a
deep bass voice, “anß Jonah likewise
swallowed the whale,” saying which he
got up and went out.
Eccentric Col. Ilntch.
“Ex-Congressman W. H. Hatch of Mis
souri, who died recently, was regarded
as somewhat eccentric by some of his
friends," said Thomas J. Murray, former
ly proprietor of the restaurant In the
House of Representatives, according to
the New York Sun. “He firmly believed
that the death rate among the members
of congress was augmented by what he
called ‘the cussed carelessness’ of Wash
ington boarding-house keepeers, many of
whom, he claimed, cooked the food they
served to the nation’s lawmakers in un
healthy or poison-forming utensils. He
often sa.d a law should be passed compell
ing sanitary experts to inspect boarding
house kitchens before the proprietors of
them could take In a congressman as a
boarder. His fear of injury to his taealtn
from eating food cooked in an untinned
copper utensil became so strong that he
took up the chafing dish habit and became
an expert, but he invented one dish which
caused many of his fr.ends to decline, po
litely but firmly, a second invitation to
partake thereof. The name of this dish
was oysters ala Hatch. It was prepared
as follows:
“Two dozen large oysters, a tablespoon
ful of paprika, ha.f a teaspoonful of salt,
and a bottle of ale.
“One dose of this compound was all he
could ever get a fellow member to try.
“Hatch was not much of a drinking
man, nor was he a judge of whisky, al
though he claimed to be. He always in
sisted on having his favorite brand of
Kentucky bourbon sent unopened to the
table. After a careful inspect.on of the
cap and label to see that they had not
been tampered with, he would draw the
cork himself; but the bartender in the
House restaurant often fooled mm by
fil.ing up the bottle with rye, a brand of
whisky Hatch claimed was not fit for man,
beast, or the devil.
“He was very fond of making new and
strange drinks, which he was wont to
test on others. On June 22, 1894, he passed
his anti-option bill after a hot fight, and
he invented his anti-option tonic in honor
of the event. This tipple consisted of a
mixture of whisky, ice, two raw eggs .nd
enough paprika to make a Mexican one.eze.
If Mr. Hatch met anew iir'mber of con
gress who started in to make friends
through the easiest way of forming ac
quaintances in Washington—for nobody
refuses an invitation there—Hatch would
promptly lecture the culprit. After toll
ing him how useless were such acquaint
ances, he would lay down the rules which
he claimed should govern the drinking
habits of a dignified statesman. These
rules were: First, never drink before
breakfast: second, never drink anything
but whisky; third, never drink whisky
without diluting it with water; fourth,
never get drunk two days In succession. ’
Feet ol Clay.
Louise Betts Edwards, In Harper’s Maga
zine.
I burned my heart as Incense night and
day
Before a shrine where scorners turned
away.
Upward 1 gazed, and only cared to see
The glorious face that showed a god to
me.
I kissed the garment’s hem
That swept about the feet and covered
them.
But hands unhallowed tore the robe aside.
“Behold thine Idol!” mocking voices cried;
“He whose winged flight thy bl.nd embrace
would stay
Hath feet—ah, hear!—of clay!”
Pass, bitter hearts! the smile of scorn !s
mine;
The worship his, whom still 1 deem divine.
What if the touch of earth, Its base de
sires.
Its dross unpurlfled In passion's fire*,
Cling to the feet 1 kiss?
Oh, light were love, to forfeit faith for
this!
What loss were his, what woeful gain
were mine,
If from that sun-and-star-illumlned
shrine
One heart’s poor candle 1 should take
away—
1, who am all of clay?
Haply our homage had not seemed so
dear;
Haply he had not sought a temple here,
Nor In his service had I known such joy,
But for the mingling of that earth-alloy!
O soul that woke for him,
What larger hope hath lit thy prison dim!
May I not rise from these unquickened
clods
To claim eternal kinship with the gods?
To godlike stature grow, though bearing
yea,
Like him—the print of clay?
—After the Amateur Performance.—She
—Wasn't she natural In the sleeping
scene?
Her Husband—Very. She eouldn’t have
been more natural unless she snored.—
Brooklyn Life,
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
—ln England anew invention for de
stroying sewer gas consists of drawing
it from the sewer and driving It into a
furnace by a revolving fan. The heat of
its combustion suffices to generate steam
to propel the fan.
—The largest oak wine vat In the world
is being set up by the California Wine
Association, at the Lachman cellar, in
Brannan street, tn San Francisco. Tne
famous Heidelberg casket is a baby by
the side of the new-comer, which has the
proportions of a two-story cottage and
on the bottom of which four quadrille
sets could be danced with ease. The
Heidelberg wonder has a capacity of 30,-
000, while this San Francisco monster is
to hold 80,000 gallons. The huge oak is
oval-shaped on the ground, and measures
2714 by 30 feet In each direction, while
the great staves rise to a hight of twenty
feet and are from two and a half to three
inches In thickness. The wood used will
weigh twenty tons, and the Iron hoops
would turn the scales at six tons or over.
—The shapes of fishes have* often been
studted with a view of determining the
best shape for boats with regard to speed,
says the New York Sun. There are many
fishes whose fins, or a part ol them, at
least, shut down into gutters, so that
A'hen closed and not in use they make no
projection beyond the body, but fold down
into these depressions, flush with the sur
face, and offering no obstruction what
ever to the rapid passage of tne fish
through the water when swimming at
speed, driven by its tail fin used as a pro
peller. The slime with which every tish
is coated which is In various ways essen
tial to its comfort and existence, helps
the fish also to slide more easily and
rapidly through tin water. In fact, the
fish, studied by men for ideas in modeling.
Is not only speed, but it is, as one might
say, always black-leaded and ready for
racing.
—The American Field gives a list of the
largest packs of hounds In Great Britain
and Ireland. The largest pack of a.l con
tains ninety couples—lßo dogs—and is main
tained by the Blackmore Vale. This pack
is run four days a week, but, of course,
not all the dogs are used each day. John
Watson, master of the Meath, an Irish
pack, has sixty-four coup.es, running five
days a week, making it one of the hardest
working packs in the kingdom. The Bad
minton, owned by the Duke of Beaufort,
has tn It seventy-five coup.es, which are
hunted on five days of the week. Another
pack that hunts five days a week is the
Belvolr, and it has sixty-four couples. The
four-days-a-week pack requires from fifty
to sixty couples. The Duke of Buccieuch
and the Earl of Eglinton keep the largest
packs in Scotland, the duke maintaining
fifty-seven couples and the earl fifty
couples.
—A surprising experiment demonstrating
the lasting qualities of snake poison was
recently made by Prof. Maisonneuve,
which showed that a dead snake is almost
as dangerous as a live one, says a Paris
letter. The professor took an unusually
large specimen of the common viper of
Southern France, which for more than
twenty years had been exhibited in the
Zoologlca, Museum at Angers, France,
preserved in alcohol. The first experi
ment with one of the poisonous fangs of
this snake seemed to show that the twen
ty years' contact with the alcohol had
robbed the poison of its virulence, for a
sparrow wounded with one of its teeth
did not develop any symptoms of being
poisoned. The cause of the non-action
of the poison at first was speedi.y found,
however, in the thickening of the poison
at the entrance of the canal Into the tooth,
which prevented the poison from flowing.
When Prof. Maissonneuve extracted some
of the poisonous substance with a fine nee
dle and injected a minimal portion of it
into the sparrow, the latter showed all the
symptoms of poisoning inside of half an
hour, which gradual.y increased until it
died in convulsions in two and one-haif
hours after the injection of the poison. As
it was heretofore believed that snake
poison loses its dangerous and virulent
qualit.es with the death of the reptile, great
care in handling dead snakes will be a
matter of common sense precaution.
—“The place of a watch-dog on the farm
or country place," said State’s Attorney
McGuire the other day to a Baltimore Sun
man, in making some observations about
mad dogs, “might be very well taken by
peacocks and guinea fowls. I
long since adopted peacocks alone
to guard my place, and noth
ing can come around the premises
night or day without causing an alarm
from them. They are more watchful than
any dog I ever owned. My experience with
guineas has not been so extensive, but I
believe they are also good to give an
alarm, or rather a good many alarms, if
any strange man or beast should venture
near them by day or night. Perhaps the
days of the watchdog would be numbered
if it were not generally known how w-ell
peacocks and guinea fowls would take his
place. Then, certainly, with fewer dogs
there would not be so many cases of hy
drophobia.” The statement of Mr. Mc-
Guire as to the watchfulness of peacocks
was borne out by numerous Howard coun
ty farmers, among the number being
County Commissioners Hess, Dorsey and
Smith, and Mr. James L. Hobbc, who su
perintends the farming operations of Sen
ator Gorman. Mr. Hobbs stated that he
long ago discovered what excellent protec
tion peacocks afford about a place, and
down on the senator’s farm he always
keeps six or eight of them to guard the
premises. So it appears that peacocks
are useful as well as ornamental.
—The sign letterer who Is putting a gold
sign on a window paints the letters upon
the outside first, but these letters are only
for a guide—the gold is put upon the Inside
of the glass, says the New York Sun. The
gold leaf is so thin and light that the
faintest breath would be enough to blow
1* a wav—it is carried in the familiar little
books. The letterer brushes the inner
side of the glass, back of the lettering
painted upon the outside, with a brush
dipped in water containing a trace cl
mucilage. Then with a wide and very
thin camel's hair brush, which he first
brushes lightly back and forth once or
twice upon the back of his head, or per
haps upon his coat, to dry it if it needs
drying, and slightly to electrify it, he lifts,
from the book a section of gold leaf suffi
cient to cover a section of the letter and
places it on the glass. He repeats those
operations until the glass back of the
letter painted on the front Is covered with
the leaf. It may require three or four
sections, such as can be picked up with
the brush to cover the letter, or perhaps
more, depending on its size and shape.
When he has completed the application
of the leaf to one letter he dampens the
back of the next and proceeds with that
in the same manner, and so on until the
letters are all backed with the gold leaf.
Thus applied the gold leaf over.aps the
letters more or less on all sides. It Is
bright in color, like all gold, but It Is
not shining; It Is burnished by rubbing U
gently on the back—of course, It cannot
be rubbed on the face, for that is against
the glass—with a soft cloth. It burnishes,
however, on the face as well as on the
back. Then the letters are backed. The
exact shape of the letter is pa.nted over
the back of the gild leaf to fix It and
protect It; and when the back Is dry the
gold leaf projecting beyond the outline ot
the letter is brushed off; it is not sought to
save this projecting leaf, there is not
enough of tt to pay for the labor that
would be Involved in gathering tt together
Then the outside lettering, which is done
with paint that Is but little more than
oil, is rubbed oft, and the lustrous gold
lettering Is revealed.
JPI
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value *4.00.
24-inch Black Satin Duchesse *1.00; re
duced from *1.50.
24-tnch Black Satin Duchesse *1.75; re
duced from *2.50.
A line of Black Satin Dam ace reduced
from *1.25 to 85c.
A line of Black Satin Damase reduced
from $1.50 to *I.OO.
A line of Brocaded Silk Taffeta reduced
from *l.lO to 75c. 2
All Plain Novelty Winter Dress Goods
at absolute cost.
We begin a special sale of TABLE
DAMASK NAPKINS. TOWELS
and TOWELING. Our reputation
for the highest grades of house
hold Linens Is too well established
to need comment here*
CLOAKS AND CAPES
For less than manufacturers cost.
TAPESTRY CARPETS
NOW 60c; reduced from *L
CANTON MATTING
20c to 50c.
DANIEL HOGAN,
The corner Broughton and Barnard sts.
If you haven’t bought
Your Spring Shoes
Drop us a card.
On account of removal
to Atlanta many lines
under value.
J. K. ORH SHOE CO.
Columbus, Ca.
Terms net April 1.
LEGAL XOTICE9.
fATTNALL
COUNTY.—AII persons are hereby for
warned not to trade for thirteen promis
sory notes as follows to-wit: Twelve of
said notes for the sum of *500.00 each, dated
Oct. 20, 1896, due as fol.ows: One note
due Feb. 20, 1897; one note due March 20,
1897; one note due April 20, 1897; one note
due May 20, 1897; one note due June 20, 1897,
one due July 20, 1897; one due Aug 20, 1897;
one due Sept. 20, 1897; one due Oct. 20, 1897;
one Nov. 20, 1897; one due Dec. 20, 1897. and
one due Jan. 20, 1898, and also one other
note of the same date for $160.00 due 20th
day of February. 1898, each, and all of said
notes made payable to D. M. Bradley or
hearer with 7 per cent. Interest from date.
The consideration of said notes having
failed I will not pay them.
Dated Jan. 7, 1897.
MRS. M. F. CUMMINGS.
Manassas, Gs*
Crimson Clover Seed,
GEORGIA RUST PROOF OATS,
SEED RYE,
ALL VARIETIES OF FIELD SEEPS,
HAY, GRAIN. BRAN,
COTTON SEED ME IL, EXC.
T. J. DAVIS,
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■Phone 223. 1M Bay street
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P A I IN T I IN C •
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In*; it n*l House DecoraHntf.
105 Jefferson street. • Savmnah, G&
bee my work before making cooiraci#
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steamer uuV. SAFFURD w.ll leave Sa
vannah for Beaufort, Port Royal
Station and way landings at Ml a. m.
days, Tuesdays and Thuisdaya, returnin*
next day. . ~v
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(excepi Sunday! at 7 a. m.; returning*
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