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One of the amusing publications of the
week was the New York World’s virtuous
criticism of the Journal’s sensationalism.
Mrs. Dominls, ex-Queen of Hawaii, ap
pears to be moving about the country as
quietly, and having as enjoyable a time,
as if she were never a queen, with a court
full of schemes and scandals.
A Spanish newspaper has perpetrated a
pun upon Congressman Money. "El Dl
nero Habia lengua," observes the Diario
tie ia Marina of Havana, with regard to
Mr. Money’s article in a New York news
paper. Rendered into English the quo
tation is equivalent to “Money talks." Mr.
Money has nobody to blame but himself.
A monster petition is to be presented to
congress shortly. It is upon the Cuban
question, and prays the recognition of the
claims of the insurgents. It is said tho
paper contains the names of 600,000 peo
ple. If Senator Hale, or some other pro-
Spanish member of congress felt so dis
posed, he could probably get up a counter
petition with quite as many names to it.
The newspapers and correspondents
might give themselves and the public a
rest upon the subject of the next cabinet,
and tell us something of the next Pres
ident's private secretary. The private
secretary is a very important functionary
in any administration. "Dan” Lamont
and "Lise” Halford made their reputa
tions as private secretaries, as likewise
has the genial Mr. Thurber.
The appointment of Congressman Boat
tier of Louisiana to the democratic vacan
cy on the House ways and means com
mittee caused by Ihe death of Mr. Crisp
does not put Mr. Boatner in Mr. Crisp's
place. There was a moving up of one
place all along the democratic lines at the
committee table, and Mr. McMillln of
Tennessee took the chair formerly occu
pied by Mr. Crisp, and Mr. Boatner had
to take a seat at the foot of the table. The
occupancy of the chair at the head of the
table carries with it the leadership of the
minority, which function presumably Mr.
McMillin will now assume.
While "Gen.” Coxey was in St. Louis the
other day holding a "national” convention
of half a dozen or so peop,e, and blowing
About “trlonomic” bu,lot systems, non-in
terest bearing bonds, and other foolish
ness, the people who were working his
•tone quarry in Ohio were growling be
cause he had failed to pay them the wages
<Jue them for hard work done. Such slow
pay is Coxey that his laborers had to go
on strike to fetch him to terms. If he were
the reformer he pretends to be he would
treat his laboring people with more con
sideration, and not force them to go on
strike for the payment of money already
earned.
The Cincinnati Enquirer pays a warm
tribute to the honesty of American poli
ticians, basing the complimentary remarks
upon the fact that in the recent electoral
colleges not a single elector cast a ballot
for any other candidate than the one chos
en by tils party, notwithstanding It is
within the legal right of the elector to vote
for whomsoever he may please. It is dif
ficult to see in this matter any ground fur
credit to politicians, though no
body questions that a great many of them
arc patriotic. The fact Is, there was not
on elector chosen in November who would
have dared to ca3t his ballot for any other
than his party nominee. Had one of them
done so, he would have been regarded by
the press and the public os a traitor, and
would have been ostiaciecd politically, if
not socially also. A man deserves no cred
it for doing what he is compelled to do.
Bnron’a Convincing \rgnment.
In some of the newspapers, notably those
which favor the recognition of the inde
pendence of the Cubans, Senator Eicon's
speech on Tuesday against the position
taken by Secretary Olney, that the power
to recognize the independence of the Cu
bans is in the President, is, in fact, solely
an executive function, is described as
strong, able and convincing.
Senator Eacon is a man of ability and
is well qualified to make a strong and
able speech on the question as to whether
it is the function of the President or of
congress to recognize anew state, but
we question very much whether he is cap
able of making a convincing six-ech in
support of Ids position that it is the ex
clusive function of congress to recognize
anew state.
We have not yet seen the whole of Sen
ator Bacon's speech, but we are free to
say that the parts we have seen do not
Justify the statement that his speech
against the position taken by Secretary Ol
ney was convincing. We have seen
enough of it, however, to lead us to be
lieve that, however certain he is that the
President ought not to have the soie right
to say whether or not anew state shall
be recognized, he is not so certain that the
President hasn’t that right.
Among other things. Senator Bacon ia
quoted as saying that if the President had
the sole power of recognizing or refusing
to recognize anew government, no mon
arch ever wielded a more absolute power,
and that there is not to-day a constitu
tional monarch that wields such power.
But because it Is a great power, which
is claimed to belong exclusively to the
President, it doesn’t follow (hat he hasn’t
that power. Therefore it is not an ar
gument to assert that ttie President hasn’t
the power because it is greater than any
power exercised by any constitutional
monarch. The question at Issue is not
whether the power is greater than the
President ought to have, but whether lie
has it. Secretary Olney states as a fact
that the President has it, and he cites
numerous precedents to sustain his posi
tion. Senator Bacon says he hasn’t it, be
cause it is a greater power than any con
stitutional monarch lias. It seems to us
that Senator Bacon's argument isn’t a
convincing one, however strong and able
it may be.
No bill can pass the House, unless the
speaker is willing it shall pass. That is
a great, an extraordinary power. Senator
Bacon would probably argue that the
speaker hasn't any such power, because
he ought not to have it, and because it
is greater than that exercised by the
speaker of the parliament of any consti
tutional monarchy. But, as a matter of
fact, the speaker does have it. He ap-
points the committee on rules, of which
he is a member, and that committee makes
only such rules as he desires. A bill can
not be called up unless he recognizes some
member for that purpose. If he refuses
to recognize anybody, that settles the fate
of the bill for the time being.
A big delegation of members of the
House went to Speaker Reed the other day
and asked him to permit the Nicaragua
canal bill to be called up. He declined the
request, saying that other bills tiad been
given preference over it. That bill will
not be called up unless the speaker
changes his mind in regard to it.
No, we do not see that Senator Bacon
made a convincing argument to the effect
that the President hasn’t tho sole power
to recognize anew government. He may
be able to do so if he can find that the ma
jority of the precedents sustain the posi
tion he holds. He hasn't done that yet.
Is Peace In Sightf
There are reports in print to the effect
that the Cuban war is near Us end. One
report is that a representative of the Span
ish government is on his way to Wash
ington, having in his possession the draft
of an agreement containing the terms
Spain is willing to grant to Cuba—the
terms being such as the United States will
advise the Cubans to accept. Another
dispatch states that the representative of
Spain reached Washington some days ago,
and that the Spanish Minister De Lome
and Secretary Olney have fixed up an
agreement, on the line suggested recently
by the Insurgent leader, Gen. Gomez,
which will no doubt be signed by Gomez.
There may be something in these reports.
The chances are,however,that there is not.
If negotiations looking towards peace had
progressed as far as indicated, more of the
matter would have been made public long
before the present time.
There is bound to be a great many false
reports relative to the Cuban war, be
cause of the efforts to keep everything
pertaining to it a secret. The policy of
secrecy gives those who are engaged in
manufacturing fake news all the oppor
tunity for their work they want. The fact
that the time for treaty-making has come
will be known long before the negotiations
for the treaty are known.
The Columbia State says the South Car
olina legislature should not neglect to
pass an anti-trust law. "’Georgia has an
anti-trust law which is said to be effective,
and which may meet our needs." says our
contemporary. The faith with which the
effectiveness of the Georgia anti-trust law
is assumed is beautiful. So far as the In
formation goes, the law has not done ono
penny's worth of hurt to any trust, and it
may be doubted that it will do so. It has,
however, opened the door for a larger sale
of cigarettes, and it menaces many of the
merchants of the state. It may he perti
nent to ask, by the way, how can South
Carolina consistently adopt an anti-trust
law, when she herself operates a gigantic
whisky trust?
Probably few persons are aware what a
big thing the tight between sugar and cof
fee, as represented by tho sugar trust and
the Arbuckles, really is. There are four of
the Arbuckles. and they are supposed to
be worth $15,000,000 to $20,000,000 each. They
do a big banking business, in addition to
their coffee business, and have been known
to lend $4,000,000 at a time. A New York
broker, who Is in a position to know, says
the Arbuckles could spend $1,000,000 to $lO,-
CCC.OOO in the light If they wanted to, with
out being hurt. As for the other side,
there are on It half a do”" millionaires
as rich as the Arbuckles.
THE MORNING NEWS: SATURDAY, JANUARY 10, 1597.
Mr. Bryan's Explanation.
Mr. Bryan seems to have thought it ad
visable to make a reply to the criticisms
of his Atlanta lecture. His reply appears
in the form of a letter to Mr. Hugh C.
Middleton of Augusta. He docs not claim
much for his oratory, but seems to think
he is strong in ideas. In his letter he
says; "I may he at fault in not giving
more attention to ornamentation, but each
one has his ideal, and the difference be
tween speakers lies largely in their differ
ences in ideals. The highest compliments
paid to me, according to my estimate of
compliments, have been paid by those who
have been convinced by my arguments, or
have been able to secure new arguments
for their own use."
It is a rather curious fact that, as a rule,
the public estimate of the work of a man
who has achieved success differs from his
own estimate of it. The public has been
inclined to regard Mr. Bryan as an orator,
or at least a first-class declaimer of other
men’s ideas. Mr. Bryan does not
think, apparently, that he is much of an
orator, tiut prides himself upon his ability
as a thinker. According to his.view he
is a manufacturer of great ideas.
The time may come when the public will
accept Mr. Bryan's belief as to the kind
of ability he possesses, but it has not done
so yet. Those who have had the best of
opportunities for forming an opinion of
him regard him as a phase'maker. They
believe he is thoroughly honest, but not
great in any respect.
His ability as an orator rests upon a
part of a tariff speech he delivered in con
gress and the speech he delivered in the
Chicago convention—a speech that gave
him the presidential nomination of his
party. He has yet to make a reputation
as a thinker. If he does not do better than
ho has since his Chicago speech, he will
lose his reputation as an orator before he
makes a reputation as a man of ideas.
Senator* Offended.
That ts a strange report which comes
from Washington, to the effect that many
of the senators are offended because Sec
retary Olney made public the text of the
arbitration treaty between this country
and Great Britain, without consulting the
Senate, and threaten to defeat the treaty
because of the secretary's lack of courtesy.
The story may be true. The senators are
great sticklers for courtesy. They insist
upon courtesy and a proper respect for
their dignity to sufti an extent that it al
most seems as if they would let the coun
try "go to the dogs" before they would per
mit the least show of disrespect for the
Senate.
It is alleged that Secretary Olney wanted
the treaty made public because he thought
it w r ould be generally approved, and that
general approval of it would hasten its
ratification. Fearing that the Senate would
not make it public, he gave a copy of it
to the correspondent of a London paper,
with the understanding that it should be
cabled back at once to this country. This
statement may or may not bo true. If
true, it afTords no reason for defeating the
treaty or delaying action upon it. The
treaty should stand or fall according to
its merits. Because the Secretary of
State and the Senate fail to get on ami
cably together it doesn't follow that two
great peoples should be made to suffer.
We do not undertake to say whether or
not the treaty Is more favorable to Great
Britain than it is to this country. Evi
dently there is a difference of opinion in
regard to that matter. If, however, the
Senate finds that the ratification of the
treaty would be beneficial to this country,
it Should ratify It without unnecessary de
lay. If, on the other hand, it sees where
in the treaty would be against American
interests, there ought to be no hesitation
In rejecting it. The relations between
the state department and the Senate ought
not to intluence the action of the Senate
one way or the other in respect to the
treaty. To allow a feeling of hostility to
the Secretary of State to defeat the
treaty, or even delay action upon it, would
show childishness upon the part of the
Senate that would be inexcusable.
The Bombay Epidemic.
A more horrible tale than that from
Bombay with regard to the ravages of
the plague, printed in our dispatches
yesterday, would be hard to imagine.
The city has become literally a fester
ing hole of death. People are stricken
with the plague, and die in two or three
hours, after the most fearful agony. All
who can are leaving the place, many of
them to die of starvation. There are
some who must remain. The air they
breathe is poisoned with the stench of
unburied dead placed In the open air by
the Parsees, whose religion teaches them
to feed their dead to the vultures. It is
not surprising that panic prevails in un
happy Bombay, one of the filthiest cities
of the Orient. After a while the plague
will run its course. And then Bombay
will begin to recuperate. But will san
itary conditions in that city be made bet
ter than heretofore? It may be doubted
that they will. Bombay has had devas
tating plagues before, but has never
learned the lesson that cleanliness is a
preventive of disease. Her people are
born and bred In filth and squalor, and
until they change their religion and mode
of ltfe-whlch they will probably never
do—there will continue to be great epi
demics at Intervals.
Does the Missouri legislature's invita
tion to Mr. Bryan to deliver an address
before that body portend a clash between
the William J. Bryan and William J. Stone
presidential booms? The Stone boom, It
will be remembered, was launched at Jef
ferson City on the day that Stone ceased
to be governor, by a member of the legis
lature. It was announced, according to
the dispatches, that he would be a candi
date, and that the south was expected to
stand by him. Is it possible that Missouri
is herself not a Stone state, and that some
members of the legislature are trying to
crush the ex-governor with Bryan almost
before he has known the pleasure of as
piring to presidential honors?
Illinois has übundant reason to make a
holiday, In which to rejoice because of the
defeat of Madden for the Senate. Accord
ing to the reports published at his home,
Chicago, he is not fit to sit in a town coun
cil, much less to aspire to a seat in "the
most august deliberative body in the
world.*
PERSONAL.
Harry Rundic of Atchison county, Mis
souri sets up a claim as the champion corn
huskev of the world.
—The Bishop of Hereford has gone to
Egypt for three months. There Mrs. Ben
son. widow of the iate primate, and Miss
Tult, daughter of a previous primate, are
also spending the winter.
—Mr. Gladstone is gradually transfer
ring the bulk of his library to the insti
tution of St. lAdnio), at llawarden, re
taining only a few books which he treas
ures for personal rather than bibllophllic
reasons.
—Mr. Arnold Buffom. an American of
fortune, who has made colored ambers
hii. hobby, has written a book about them
and has recently been on a visit to London,
carrying with him a number of his finest
specimens.
—The Infanta Eulalia recently said that,
although she did not like the attitude
the United States had taken during the
Cuban war, nevertheless she was an ar
dent admirer of almost everything Amer
ican and especially the American girls.
Above alt, she said, she admired their in
dependence.
—While Vienna is preparing for the cele
bration of the Schubert centenary, a
grandniece of the great composer has made
her first appearance hi ihat city as an act
ress. She is Anna Slogmund. 16 years old.
She played one of the parts in the per
formance given by the School of Acting of
the Conservatorium. in which she is a pu
pil. On her mother’s side, she is a grand
daughter of Andreas Schubert, a brother
of the composer.
—The Prince of Wales has been an un
flagging patron of the drama this year.
For three months, owing to the death of
Prince Henry of Battenberg, he was un
able to go to the theater, but during the
rest of the year his royal highness attend
ed no less than thirty performances. In
turf engagements the prince’s record is
still more striking. He was at Newmar
ket twenty-seven days out of a possible
twenty-nine, at Epsom six days and at
Ascot. Goodwood, Doncaster and Sundown
four days each.
BRIGHT BITS.
—An Hypothesis.—“ Papa, why does the
sun go south in the winter?" "Oh. I sup
pose he can afford to."—Detroit Journal.
—The Countess—“Do show me the coro
net:” The Earl—"My dear, I'll show you
the ticket for the coronet. It was hypoth
ecated to pay for the engagement ring.”—
Puck.
—Mother—Dear me! the baby has swal
lowed that piece of worsted.
Father—That's nothing to the yarns
she’H have to swallow if she lives to grow
up.—Boston Transcript.
—Woman of the World, to youthful ad
mirer—You seem to know a great deal
about married life. Are you married?”
Youthful Admirer, with a blase air.—No,
but my father is.—Household Words.
—Of Modern Application—" Badger, did
you enjoy the play—'Richard 111.?’ ”
“Yes; that fellow had a hump that
ought to make him president of any bicy
cle club on earth.”—Chicago Record.
—“My child,” said the old herring to the
young herring, by way of parting advice,
“the whole ocean is before you, but don’t
go too near those canneries along the
coast of Maine unless you want to be
taken for a sardine.*'—Chicago Tribune.
CURRENT COMMENT.
Information Wanted.
From the Macon Telegraph (Dem.)
We have been waiting for someone
to point out the benefits derived by the
Georgia dealers in. and the smokers of
cigarettes, since it was announced some
days ago that the tobacco trust had been
whipped into submission by the Calvin
law. The information may come later.
NVliat, Kansas Not Bleeding, f
From the Baltimore Herald (Dem.)
If what Gov. Leedy said in his mes
sage is true, Kansas has been grossly
misrepresented by Mrs. Lease and other
populist orators. The Cyclone
state does not bleed, but is whole in all
its parts; it is not poverty-stricken, but
affluent and prosperous. For these re
sults the thanks be to eastern vampires
and money-lenders.
A Great Outpouring of Gulf.
From the Washington Post (Ind.)
The New York Journal modestly says—
In a large, scare headline—that "the
greatest statesmen in Europe cable mes
sages to the greatest American newspa
per.” The New York World, with equal
bashfulness, declares that "the enthu
siastic response to yesterday’s call for a
grand international c/fflnal and popular
commemoration of the treaty of arbitra
tion shows that the World has again
proved its ability as a ‘revealer of pub
lio opinion.’ ” SQch is the palpitation
raised in these two maudlin bosoms over
the amusing little comedy Just presented
by the Olney-Pauncefote combination.
Going South In Srnreh of Sin.
From the Baltimore Sun (Dem.)
The Savannah News complains of an
editorial in the Now York Evening Post,
which, it declares, was published with
the deliberate intention of Injuring the
south. Tho News had published an item
giving the number of homicides in Geor
gia during the holidays. Commenting
on this, the Post said: “It will be of
little use to talk about the 'Sunny South’
so long as the sun shines or T so many
murders. The average man would rath
er, live in a cold climate than bo shot in
a warm climate.”
The News goes on to declare that such
comments as this in the Post and other
northern papers are not fair and are pub
lished with the intention of keeping peo
ple away from the south. As the News
Justly declares, life is equally safe in
Georgia as in New York, and the num
ber of homicides In New York city prob
ably far exceeds the number in the whole
state of Georgia. Those which were
catalogued by the News took placo In
barroom brawls, and people who keep
away from such places aro in no dan
ger.
To a certain extent the complaint of the
News is Just. Some northern papers are
in the habit of making a great display
of crime in the south, while ignoring
that which takes place at their own doors.
Some years ago the Cincinnati papers
were making a "feature" of crime in
Kentucky. A Louisville pai>or retaliated
by cataloguing each day the crimes In
Ohio. The showing was frightful, and it
soon appeared that, Judged from this
standpoint, Kentucky was far more law
abiding and orderly than Ohio. Now
suppose the crimes of New York, as daily
recorded by the "new Journalism," were
grouped in a single volume day by day
and sent broadcast over the country,
with appropriate comments on the moral
iniquity of the people of that wicked city,
what a grim Joke it would be on the
metropolitan editor!
Slic Won Her n Hostband.
"And how is the delightful Mr. Da3h
! away?” queried the blue-eyed girl, aceor 1-
; ing to the Chicago Times Herald.
'Mir. Dashaway! Why. do you think
. him delightful?" returned the dark-hair
; ed girl.
j “No, I don't. He once trod on my skirt
when Ned was present and I had to be
amiable about it. It was you who 3aid
“Did T? I .haven’t the slightest recol
lection of it. Perhaps Evelyn was within
! hearing, and I ”
"Evelyn was not present. By the way,
of course it is only a rumor, but people
are saying that he and Evelyn are en
gaged. How many times would that make
for her if it was true?”
■'l'm sure I don't know. But It is true
this time; and oh, isn’t it perfectly hate,
ful to think that I brought it all about
when ’’
“When you seemed to have a very good
chance in that direction yourself. Indeed,
it is!”
“It wasn't that, dear; of course, I should
never have accepted him under any cir
cumstances, and I wonder at Evelyn's
taste. The way it came about was this;
He had been away out west for six years,
ever since I was quite a little girl, thougn
Evelyn was quite a young lady then.”
“Yes, I know all that, dear.”
“Well, we both met at a tea, and she
did act rather oddly toward him, I
thought, and, merely to make up for her
rudeness, I invited him to call on me.”
“And he came. Well?”
"He came rather often, and, by the way,
he never asked a single question about
her, though I often spoke of her.”
"H'm; that was not strange, consider
ing the things you probably said.”
“But one afternoon he happened to call
when she was waiting in the reception
room for me. The maid thought I had
already come down and did not fetch up
his card, while I, thinking no one but
Evelyn was there, finished a letter before
I made my appearance.”
"M’hm. I see—Evelyn can do a great
deal In ten minutes.”
"She seemed rather embarrassed when I
came in, and left as soon as she could.
After she went, he seemed quite distrait,
and said something about her being ‘stun
ning.’ ”
“Shocking. T should say!”
“I, too. Of course, he praised her. and
after a while he blurted out something
about the far-away look In her eyes.”
“Yes, poor dear; she was, doubtless,
thinking of her twenty-first birthday, or
something of that kind.”
“I suppose so,” I replied. ‘Yes, poor Eve
lyn, it is quite sad about her. She had a
lover once—yes, really she had—but she
quarreled with him and he went away and
has never been heard of since. Wasn’t it
sad—for her, poor girl, 1 mean, for she
seems never to have forgotten him, and I
doubt if she could be induced to, even if
anyone made the effort.' Neat, wasn't it?”
“Neat? It was a masterpiece! All men
like a girl who is admired by other men,
and he ”
“He was an exception. He started up,
crying: 'Oh, Miss Sharpe, you have made
me the happiest man in the world! I was
the fellow to whom she was once engaged,
and it seems almost too good to be true
that has been faithful to me all this time,
when I thought she had forgotten me!’
And the worst of it is,” sha added, “that
he will repeat all I said to Evelyn, and
she will know why I said it, for if there is
one human being who knows about all her
desperate flirtations I am that one.”
Looking- Ahead.
A sojourner in a New England factory
town, during one of her afternoon walks,
came upon a peculiar sight, says the
Youth’s Companion. About a mile out of
the. town there was a small, white cottage
Inhabited by a family of French-Canadi
ans, who were employed in the factory.
As she approached the house she saw that
a border of black paint a foot wide! had
been added to the original white since her
last visit.
The windows were outlined by this rusty
black, a border surrounded the door, ran
under the eaves-trough, and, generally
speaking, defined the contour of the cot
tage. The owner of the house sat smok
ing on the doorstep and greeted the pas
er-hy with a melancholy smile of recogni
tion.
"Why, Mr. Jacot,” said the young wo
man, "isn't that black border on the
house something new?”
"Jt speaks true,” "responded the melan
choly householder. “My wife have die,
and the black border is for a mourn—a
grief, you comprehend?”
“I am very sorry,” said the young wo
man, gravely, “but it seems sad for the
children to be constantly reminded of their
loss in that way, and for you, too.”
“It is not for always," returned the mel
ancholy Canadian, an expression of sur
prise crossing his face at his visiter’s
denseness. “It is for a mourn—a grief—
but not for alway. Observe I have put
but only one coat of paint of the black.
She is easy to change, to make bright;
the black is good for under afterward.”
The caller pursued her way, somewhat
perplexed at this mingling of forethought
and grief; but a mouth later, on passing
the house, she saw her former melancholy
friend sitting on the steps again, but not
alone. A young and pretty woman, whom
lie proudly Introduced as his wife, sat
beside liim; and scrutinizing the border of
a cheerful green which now defined the
outlines of the cottage, the passer-by dis
covered that the black had indeed made a
good foundation “for under afterward.”
A I'retly Little Story.
A pretty anecdote Is told of Jacob
Grimm, who, with his brother William,
formed the collection of fairy tales and
legends which have delighted the children
of the civilized world. One day a little
maiden, eight years old, called at the
home of the author, asked to see him, and
was shown into the library, where the
author was at work. Kindly inquiring
what she wanted, the German lassie ask
ed, very earnestly: “la it thou that hast
written those fine marchen (fairy tales)?"
"Yes, my dear,” answered the story-tel
ler. "my brother and I have written the
hausmarchen.” “Then thou hast also
written the tale of the clever little tailor,
where it is said at the end who will not
believe it must pay a thaler?" "Yes, I
have written that, too." “Well, then,”
answered the little one, "I do not believe
It, and so I suppose I must pay a thaler,
but as I have not so much money yet. I’ll
give thee a groschen (about two cents) on
account, and pay lhe rest by and by.”
Dr. Grimm was highly amused with the
conscientiousness displayed by his little
visitor, and delighted at this proof of his
power as a story-teller.
Violet* llloe.
From Truth. }
He sent her dainty violets
Tied up with riblxvn white.
And in between the silver stems
He hid a note from sight.
"With these,” he wrote in manly phrase,
“I send my heart to you.
And If you care to keep It, love
Then wear the violets blue.”
Before the gilded cheval glass
She donned her satin gown;
From shoulders white and slender waist
Its richness rippled down
In folds of flame along the floor
She trailed Its crimson hue;
"I cannot wear his flowers to-night,
Alas! that they are blue!"
Behind the little withered stems
With silken ribbon tied,
Too well the velvet blossoms kept
Their secret till they died.
Two colors more the spinster Fato
Into her shuttle threw,
Tho crimson of n satin gown.
The voilcts' tender blue.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
—Bounty has been paid on more than
10,000 sparrows in Gratiot county, Mich.,
during the past year, and yet the birds
i seem to be as numerous as ever.
—A bear met its death in a curious fash
ion on Galo brook in Pennsylvania a few
days ago, says an exchange. John Bax
ter had been cutting stove wood in a log
up on Yellow Pine knoll, and one of the
trees had fallen against another tree, in
stead of clear to the ground. On his re
turn in the morning he found that the
tree had slewed around and then had fal
len to the ground, killing a bear. There
had been three bears, as tracks in the
snow showed; an old one, a yearling and
a cub. It was the yearling that got killed.
The cub had climbed the leaning trunk,
cub fashion, while the older ones were
pawing in the snow beneath for beech
nuts. The weight of the cub and Its move
ments had been sufficient to break the
trigger branch on which the tree leaned,
and down the tre6 had come, catching the
yearling on the back.
—Any citizen who is tired of mundane
concerns, and wants to fix his mind on
something higher, is invited to consider
the allegation of Sir Francis Galton, made
in the Dondon Fortnightly Review, that
someone on Mars is signalling to earth,
says Harper’s Weekly. The Information
seems not as yet to be very generally con
firmed by astronomical observers, but Sir
Francis is quoted as authority for the re
port that in one of the European observa
tories an apparatus has been devised for
recording the 'Martian flashes, and that
the record shows that three signals and no
more are made, and that they differ, as
all flash-light signals do, in the length of
the flashes and of the intervals between,
so that if we had the key they might be
read like telegraphic messages. Of course
this is not a yarn to be swallowed whole,
but the association of the name of Sir
Francis Galton with it is enough to entitle
it to consideration. There seems to be no
intrinsic impossibility of our having rela
tions with people in Mars. It sounds pre
posterous, of course, but, like other mar
vels, it seems preposterous chiefly because
it is unusual. We have to nudge our
selves from time to time in this age of
swift surprises, and remind ourselves
that nothing that is new to us can possi
bly be more marvellous than many things
that have grown familiar.
—Motor vehicles (“automotives” Is thc
name recommended for them) have begun
to he matter for serious reflection in Eng
land, says Harpers Weekly. Maj. Flood
Page, who lectured about them the other
day before the Dondon Chamber of Com
merce, speculated as to the results of their
introduction, and named as among the in
dustries that would be affected “petrol
eum, secondary-battery manufacturers,
mechanical engineers and allied trades;
agriculture in many branches, railway
companies, and, last but by no means
least, the war department of every coun
try in the world.” He expects them as
they grow common to interfere more or
less with trades connected with omnibuses,
cabs and horses, but to provide work for
more men than they displace, just as rail
ways did when they drove out coaches.
He believes that in the country districts
of England they will do what canals have
done in Holland, and make communica
tion so easy that the rush of perishable
produce to market will be greatly quick
ened and Increased. They will change the
whole face of war, he thinks, and be used
to move guns and do all transport work.
In Paris automotives are In use; in Lon
don they are in sight; in New York they
are still only in prospect. An automotive
fire-truck, to be run by a compressed-air
gas-engine, has been devised by a Brook
lyn man, and has come so near real ex
istence as to have its picture in the news
papers. It is a terrific-looking creation,
and as an engine of destruction seems fit
to make a cable-car on a curve seem like
a child’s toy.
—Programme tassels are sold more ex
tensively for ball programmes than for
any other use, says the New York Sun, but
they are used for other purposes as well—
sometimes for theater programmes, and
for the programmes of lodge and club cele
brations; often for the tally cards used in
card parties, in progressive euchre, for in
stance, or for any other games in which
a taliy card would be used. Some of the
very cheapest of programme tassels have
a cotton cord, but even of these the tas
sel is of silk; and the great bulk of the
programme tassels are all siik. Pro
gramme tassels are made in fifty or more
styles, of different lengths, and of cord of
different sizes, and of various colors, and
they are made to order in special colors,
or combinations qf colors, for clubs or so
cieties having club colors, which they wish
to match. If the tassel is to be used for
a ball programme or tally card, a tiny
pencil is attached to it. The pencils are
made in a great variety of colors to match
the tassels. The ball programme is often
est made in two parts, folded in the cen
ter, making a little booklet of eight pages.
This is usually not stitched or otherwise
bound, the programme tassel looped
around it serving as a binder. Programme
tassels are used all over the country and
great numbers of them are sold. Of one
kind alone one New York manufacturer
makes between eight and ten millions
yearly of another grade between two and
three millions yearly, and of the various
other grades and styles taken together
millions more. Manufacturers of pro
gramme tassels sell them in thousands to
the wholesale paper dealer, who sells them
in thousands or in hundreds to thq sta
tioner and the printer, who in turn sell
them in such numbers as their customers
may require. Light colors are most in
demand. The most popular of all color
is pink. The next is white and the next
blue.
—lmporters of crockery usually figure
on breakage at 5 per cent., says the New
York Sun. Not very much stuff is brok
en after It has been actually received.
Men become expert in handling samples
and stock, and they don't very often drop
things. The bulk of the breakage is In
transportation. Crockery is shipped
chiefly In crates, casks and cases. The
familiar crockery crate is a package pe
culiar to England and the United States.
Crockery from Continental Europe comes
mostly In casks and cases, though a lit
tle of It comes In slatted boxes something
like crates. The crockery crates used in
England and this country make a very
heavy package, running from 700 to 1,500
pounds, according to the goods packed
In them; hollow ware that cannot he
nested, such as toilet sets, weighing the
least, and such things as plates, that can
be packed closely together with only the
straw Intervening between the pieces,
weighing the most. Whoever has seen
a crockery crate handled must have ob
served that it is yielding; it sways and
gives more or less in the handling. It
might be supposed that crockery shipped
in a package like this, that does not al
ways preserve Its form, would be more
likely to be broken; but it Is said that
this yielding Is to some extent a pro
tection to the goods; it takes up shock
that might break things in unyielding
packages. At any event, the breakage
In crates and In rigid packages, such as
easks, is about the same. Obviously a
crockery package cannot be dropped for
any considerable distance without dan
ger of at least cracking some of the things
contained therein. There was once be
ing hoisted up to an upper loft In the
establishment of a New York crockery
Importer a crate containing a hundred
dozen seven-inch plates. In some way
this crate got loose and fell from the
hight of the third story to the sub-base
ment. When this crate was opened it
was found that every one of the 1,200
plates had been broken.
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CITY AND SUBURBAN RAILWAY
WINTER SUIEUILU,
Commencing Thursday, Sept. 24, 1596
lale of Hope Schedule—Week Day,
City Time.
| Leave j
Leave | From [lsle of | Into
City | j Hope.|
~6o(ram|Bolton St. | Too am Bolton S' '
7 00 am! Bolton St. 7 10 am | Bolton St
900 amjSecond Ave. SlO amjSecond Ave
10 37 amjßolton St. 9 45 am,Bolton St
230 pm|Second Ave. 1 OOpmjSecond Ava
4 00 pm|Bolton St. 4 00 pmjßolton St
6 00 pmSßolton St. 6 00 pm'Bolton St.
7 30 pmlßolton St. 7 30 pmjßolton St.
8 30 pmjßolton St 9 30 pm|Bolton St.
Saturday night only, 11:00 p. m., Irani
Bolton street depot.
Cars leaving from and arriving Into Bol
ton street, passengers change at Thunder
bolt.
For Montgomery—9;oo a. m. and 2:30 and
6p. m. Leavo Montgomery—7:3o a. rr.
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.
LEGAL NOTICES.
EASTERN DIVISION, SOUTHERN Dis’
TRICT OF GEORGIA. - Whereas, on
the fourth day of January, lstq,
A. L. Farie, agent for Atlantic Mu
tual Insurance Company, filed a libel in
the district court of the United States for
the Eastern Division, Southern district of
Georgia, against the schooner Charmer,
her boats, tackle, apparel and furniture,
in a cause of “bottornery,” civil and mari
time. And whereas, by virtue of process
in due form of law, to me directed, return
able on the 23d day of January, 1897, I have
'seized and taken the said schooner
Charmer, etc., and have her in my custo
dy.
Notice is hereby given that a district
court will be held in the United States
court room, in the city of Savannah, on
the 23d day of January, 1897, for the trial
of said premises, and the owner or owners,
and all persons who may have or claim
any interest, are hereby cited to be and
appear at the time and place aforesaid, to
show cause, if any they have, why a final
decree should not pass as prayed.
J. D. HARRELL, U. S. Marshal.
by J. B. Wilson, Deputy.
WILLIAM R. LEAKBN,
Proctor for Libellant.
””STATE OF TATTNALL
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 follows: 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
bearer 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, Oa.
Crimson Clover Seed,
GEORGIA RUST PROOF OATS,
SEED RYE,
all varieties of field seeds,
HAY. GRAIN, BRAN.
COTTON SEED MEAL, ETC.
T. J. DAVIS,
Grain Dealer and Seedsman,
'Phone 223. 156 Bay street.
SEED ■ :
Virginia Second Crop.
EARLY ROSE, RUSS and CROWN
JKWEL
AROOSTOOK and MOULTON.
Maine Early Bose.
Hay, Grain, Feed, Flour, etc.
W. D. SIMKINS.
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F Chtclestcr Fn*lUb Diamond Brand.
ENNYROYAL PILLS
lirlflnal and O" il/ Genuine A
£ it I TvOy •Iwrnyn reliabta. laoic*
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. bo ' c *' * ilh blu, ribbon. W
no other. -AVA*** danqermt v
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nial* and 4 *K*lf*r for Ladlra,** in \sv* t
"■"V -I* return Mail. 10,000 Tartimonlaia
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t \ 1 Lubebs or Injections and/umv i
111 1 CURE IN 48 HOURSW
Lap J the same diseases with- v —' y
out inconvenience.
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TERNE PLATES
FOR SALE BY
C. M. Gilbert Cos.,
IMPORTERS.
lovelu
Flowers—
Leave orders at Itosenxeld Jt Murray’* '•
Whitaker st., or Telepnone 440 >-**4*®
Take Belt Lins railway lor nursery oa >vu.o
Blufl road.
IF YOU WANT GOOD MATERIAtj
and work, order your lithographed jn ”
printed stationery and blank hooks fron*
Morning News, Savannah, Ga.