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ImO ToMw ADYERTISEMMS.
Special Notices—For Bluffton, S. C.,
Steamer Doretta; A Fresh Assortment of
Crash Suits. M. Dryfus; For Sale. Cheap,
R. D. & Wra. Lattimore; Why is a Crnw
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Saturday Shirt Sale—Leopold Adler.
To-day is Saturday—W. M. Bohan, Pro
prietor South End Hotel, Tybee.
You Can't Get Away—The Hub Cloth
ing Company.
Alpine Crash Hats—Falk Clothing Com
pany.
Crash, Crash—B. H. Levy & Bro.
Hides. Wool, Etc.—A. Ehrlich & Bro.
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—M. Dryfus.
Hides, Wool, Etc.—A. Ehrlich Bros.
We Are Hushing Them Oft—The Met
ropolitan Clothing Company.
Root Beer—Hire's Root Beer.
The Crawford Wheel—Lindsay & Mor
gan.
Medical—Dr. William’s Pink Pills;
Paine's Celery Compound; S. S. S.; Cutl
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ent; Hood’s Sarsaparilla; Ayer’s Sarsapa
rilla.
Cheap Column Advertisements—Help
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For Sale; Lost; Personal Miscellaneous.
Bull street pedestrians and Oglethorpe
avenue residents utter a sigh of relief
now that the green on the latter street
has had a shave. "Next!"
It is announced In a special o >;ch to
the New York Mail and Exp: s, that
“General Prosperity” has arrived at Bos
ton. The country will join in the hope
that this is not another “tea-party,” and
that he will make an extended visit.
Out at Elgin, 111., the ladies took charge
of the street car system the other day for
“sweet charity’s sake.” This might be
all right for a change, but as a regular
thing the temptation to flirt with the con
ductor would lead many a male passenger
to forget that he had paid his fare.
Senator Hale of Maine is to be com
mended for his efforts to shut out con
gressional lobbyists. Asa guarantee of
earnestness, however, he should include
the representatives of trusts along with
ex-senators who are working In the Inter
ests of particular legislative measures.
The impression has been circulated that
Georgia's geological department Is rather
a rocky concern. First It was Spencer,
end now its Yeates, the Investigating com
mittee is after. There does not seem to bo
any complaint that the department Is
ehort on rocks; it is the disposition ot them
that is under consideration.
It is reported from Washington that as a
mark of respect to Congressman Cooke
who died Thursday morning, the House
adjourned for the day. This no doubt
furnished Speaker Reed an excellent ex
cuse for shutting oft Jerry Simpson and
James Hamilton Lewis. The House has
been adjourning for about two months now
out of respect to the speaker.
Georgia’s colored contingent of office
seekers is again in the ring, and a few of
the cities are sitting on pins. It Is a hope
ful sign however, that the colored appli
cants have not been afforded any re
markable degree of encouragement. There
Is no particularly hostile objection to their
being recognized, but there Is a strong
opinion in this section that postmaster
ships and collectorshlps are not proper
places for the bestowal of recognition.
Some persons of Griffin, unsuccessful in
their efforts to get an all-around reduc
tion of X! 1-8 per cent, on commercial pro
duct*, now want a 25 per cent, reduc
tion on cotton transportation rates. If
these people In Griffin and some others,
would consent to give the railroads a
showing, they might ultimately get many
concessions they do not now enjoy. Hut
the policy of continually lighting the
roads Is not likely to prove profitable.
•Murat Halstead feels constrained to
say that before the close of the present
rainy season the Cubans will have gained
their liberty, becuusa the Rothschilds
have refused to lend Spain any more
money. There are many Americans, who
would like to put their faith In Mr. Hal
stead s prediction, but they do not want
to see this government put on any red
paint to bring about that end. If the
Rothschilds can whip the Spaniards sin
gle-handed, success to their undertaking.
Almost Out of the Woods.
The republicans are now almost out of
the woods with their tariff bill. The more
important schedules hgve beiat passed by
the Senate, just as they wore arranged by
the finance committee. , The few changes
which have be.en made are unimportant,
as compared with the bill as a whole. The
completed bill will be nearer to the
McKinley law than was the Dingley bill.
It will be about such a measure as the
President himself would probably have
written If he had been charged with the
preparation of anew tariff.
Will the’Senate’s bill become law? There
can be hardly a doubt of it. The* House
will move to disagree, as a matter of
course, and the bill will go into conference
committee. Some of the House republi
cans whose constituencies have not got all
they wanted, will make a great blow and
splurge, the Senate will make one or two
insignificant concessions, for the sake of
appearances, and the House committee
will advise the parent body to recede from
any additional demands which may be
pending. Speaker Reed will then take the
matter in hand, and the House will do
precisely as he wants it to do. It Is his
pleasure to have tfie bill passed—it has
been said that he likes the Senate measure
better than the one which was sent over
from the House—and he will pull the wires
so as to make it go through as though
it had been literally instead of only fig
uratively greased.
There have been during the past few
days rumors of a bolt by certain republi
can senators, who are dissatisfied, when
it comes time to vote upon the final pass
age of the bill. But the probabilities are
that the bolt will not develop. The re
publican bosses have got their followers
too well in hand to permit of any such
thing. The President has not disposed
of much patronage yet, the senators know
it. and are keeping themselves strictly in
the line at the pie counter. The confidence
of the administration representatives in
the Senate in their ability to hold a ma
jority m line is evidences : n tl ir manner
of handling the bill. They have hardly
attempted to defend it. Whenever the
democrats have denounced its provision.-
as outrageous and designed for the pur
pose of robbing the people, the republicans
have seemed to plead guilty by their si
lence, relying upon the solidarity of the
caucus to secure the passage of the bill.
The new tariff will probably he a law
before the middle of August, in which
event it will have fully a year to run be
fore the opening of the next congressional
campaign. Following that the people will
have an opportunity to express themselves
with regard to the matter.
InjiiHttce to Woman.
One of the Inconsistent details of our
cnd-of-the-century civilization is the fact
that the presumption is held to be against
the woman who is seen upon the street
alone after nightfall. There are certain
exceptions within narrow bounds, hut that
is the general rule. So rigidly Is it ad
hered to tn certain communities that po
lice officers are under standing orders to
arrest women found without escorts on
the street at night. Society upholds the
order. Society is scandalized, horrified, at
the bare suggestion of womankind abroad
after nightfall,' except it be in groups or
under the sheltering care of man. An
illustration has just been presented in
New York, where the police have arrested
several respectable women for the very
heinous offense of being on the street
after the shades of night had fallen.
Asa result of the enforcement ot this
iron-elad social order against the sex,
practically one-half of the human family
Is deprived of a full measure of liberty.
The women are enthralled by a custom
which discounts both blue-laws and cur
few laws. The latter usually permit free
dom until a certain hour at night, generally
about 9 o'clock. In obedience to that
other, no-named law, women, If alone,
must get ln-doors long before that hour.
It is sometimes necessary for stenog
raphers, clerks, accountants, and holders
of similar positions which are open to wo
men as well as men, to work "after
hours,” or of evenings. The women who
work usually do so for the reason that
they are dependent upon their own exer
tions. But If they are required to work
late enough to put them on the street
after nightfall, lacking the services of
an escort they must give up their
means of earning a living, or subject
themselves to arrest as suspicious charac
ters. Wbmen who are lacking escorts
must, for the same reason, forego the
pleasure of going to theaters and other
places of entertainment; they are women,
and the customs of the times do not per
mit of women exercising their own Judg
ment. Society and the police insist upon
exercising a paternal care over them, and
If they are so Inconsiderate as to go
counter to the rules prescribed, they nre
made to feel the results of the parental
displeasure. It may be that there ts a
need for this regulation. If there is, we
have not, as a civilized people, advanced
to any such proud eminence as we are
wont to felicitate ourselves upon having
achieved.
It Is said 810,000,000 worth of diamonds
shone at the royal Jubilee performance at
the I.ondon Covent Garden Wednesday
night. As usual, however, In this line,
Americans outshone royalty, Mrs. Drexol
and Mrs. Bradley-Mtrttn glistening with
the greatest clusters. The Duke of Coburg
ivent to sleep and It was with great dif
ficulty that the Prince of Wales kept
awake. No wonder royalty was bored
with such a display Just after tho cele
bration of the "diamond" Jubilee.
Three women are going to sal) from
San Francisco to the South Sea Islands
for the purpose of doing missionary
work among th > cannibals. No one wishes
them any harm, but It Is a well known fact
that In many such eases the missionary
work has been dnno by the cannibals
themselves, and it was the missionaries
who were converted Into a meal.
It is announced as the object of Secre
tary I-ong to Americanise the navy before
he retires. In this he should have the
hearty support and eo-oja-ratlon of con
gress. If there Is one thing above all
others America should have, It is an
American navy. There Is nothin* more
out of place than a foreign crew on an
American man-of-war.
the MORNING NEWS: SATURDAY, JUNE 26,1897.
Fntiife of the Forest*/
It has been Calculated by the forestry di
vision at (hviigricuitural department that
the consumption of timber in this coun
try is equal to 359 cubic feet per capita;
that is, tha( every man, woman and child
in the coun ry uses (nominally) per year
that much* mber. This includes the wood
used as fuel as well as that used as build
ing materia . In Great Britain the use of
timber amiftjnts to 18 cubic feet per capita.
It should borne in mind that, while
we use so freat a quantity, we do not
use all th it is cut from our forests; we
ship extensively to foreign countries.
How long Will our forests last under this
immense depletion? They do not repro
duce per year anything like one-half of
the timber that is taken away from them.
The white pine forests of the north and
northwest are now approaching the point
at which It will be necessary to protect
them with restrictive laws. What of our
southern forests? Our pines are among
the most valuable of forest growths, and
there are millions of acres of them. But
how long -an that bo said if the rate of
dostructior, which obtains at present is
kept up? Coniferous trees are of slow
growth. II takes a Georgia pine forty or
fifty years—maybe more—to attain to full
growth. Tiere is no doubt that many of
the rnonarchs of the Georgia, woods which
rear their heads into the clouds are a
century ok. Where is the growth that
will take tn© places of these trees when
they are tut down, or, having been
“boxed” are blown over by high winds?
Nothing is being done to foster the new
growth of trees. On the other hand, in
many sections the new growth is destroy
ed every year by “burning over the
woods,” in order to secure a growth of
grass for cattle.
Prof. Fernow of the agricultural depart
ment estimates that within twenty-five
years, if the present rate of forest destruc
tion is keps up, our forests will be prac
tically denuded, except in reserve spots,
and that wle, will ne reduced to the neces
sity of limiting our timber consumption
to about the per capita rate of Great Bri
tain at prevent. His calculation, however,
takes no account of the climatic and me
teorological changes that will be made by
the destruction of the forests. The cy
clones, and the floods and droughts of the
west, are traceable, in considerable meas
ure, to the forest destruction, or at least
lack of forests, in that section. When our
forests are gone, and we are suffering
from recurring disastrous storms, and
floods, and droughts, it will be too late to
wish we had been more appreciative of
the trees.
A Decision In Vttvor of Trnst*.
The supreme court of the empire of
Germany, at Leipzig, recently rendered a
decision which should commend itself to
the most distinguished consideration of
our republican friends. The decision dis
tinctly declares that trusts are not only
legal, but that they are good things, in
asmuch as they act as a sort of govern
or-valve to the commercial engine. With
a similar ruling In this country, and with
a pro-trust tariff on the statute books, the
trusts would be in clover.
The motive for the German supreme
court’s decision are summed up in the
Berliner Tageblatt. about as follows:
When in certain industrial branches the
prices of such products are sinking too
low, thereby making impossible or en
dangering a successful business thereof,
the crisis which necessarily follows ts not
only pernicious to the Individual, but also
to the political economy in general. It is,
therefore, in the interest of the whole
community that inadequate low prices
shall not prevail too long In any Industrial
branch. In accordance with this principle
the legislative liodies have repeatedly and
quite recently undertaken to bring about
higher prices for certain products by es
tablishing protective duties. It can, there
fore, not be deemed absolutely and gen
erally obnoxious to the Interests of the
community when the manufacturers of
ceriain articles form a combination for
the purpose of preventing ruinous compe
tition and to Instigate the downward ten
dency of prices for their products. On
the contrary, such combinations can. be
regarded not only as a warranted mani
festation of the impetus of self-preserva
tion, but also as u measure for the Interest
of the whole community, tn oases where
prices are so low that the manufacturers
of them are threatened with financial
ruin. For this reason the formation of
syndicates and trusts has be*n designated
by several authorities as a means which,
when properly adopted, would prove re
markably expedient to prevent extrava
gant and detrimental overproduction.
Some Chicago burglars have discovered
a unique way of avoiding the police. While
they were gathering together their
plunder in a plumbing shop the other
night they telephoned police headquarters
saying they were at 49 Dearborn street try
ing to crack a safe, and Inviting the police
down. The police took the matter as a
Joke until they were Informed of the burg
lary the next day. The policeman may be
faked now and then, but Its always a
good Idea for him to answer a call Just to
see If there Is anything going on. This Is
another of those proverbial Instances,
however, of the policeman never being
there when he's wanted.
An organization was formed at Detroit
the other day by the manufacturers of
independent telephones to protect them
selves and their subscribers In the tight
that the Bell Telephone Company Is go
ing to make on them, it is understood
money has been raised to carry on all
the probable legal contests and an Inter
esting tight Is, theiefore, anticipated. It
is evident at least that the Bell company
Is not going to tliul Itself let down light.
A big lawsuit is about us delicate a
thing to get Into as Is ths Berliner appa
ratus Itself.
The Western Reserve T'nlverslfy of
Ohio, has made President McKinley an
LL. D. Ills slate was evidently deter
mined that he should not be behind his
predecessor. "Mr." will be a rather un
common title among ex-Prcsldents here
after.
Speaker Reed allowed a photographer
to take n picture of the members of the
House of Representative* yie other day.
And yet Iherc are a few "soreheads," who
Insist that the speaker Is not doing any
thing for his country.
PERSONAL.
—Henry Marion Howe of Boston, the son
of Julia Ward Howe, who has been ap
pointed professor of metallurgy in Colum
bia College, is a cousin of F. Marion Craw
ford, the popular novelist.
—Mrs. Booker T. Washington, the wife
of the colored educator, not only teaches
in the institute at Tuskegee, but helps
many of the poorer class to put Into daily
practice the principles taught there.,
—“Ex-Ambassador Bayard is in perfect
health, in excellent spirits,” says the
Brooklyn Eagle, “and his conversation
is replete with interesting details of his
impressions and observation abroad.”
—Sir John Evans, who, twenty-five years
ago, published a book on ancient stone
implements and ornaments of Great Bri
tain, has, in a measure, rewritten the vol
ume, and added much important informa
tion.
—Gen. P. A. Collins, ex-consul general
to London, was given a reception on Wed
nesday evening in Boston by his asso
ciates in the Massachusetts Senate of 1870,
of whom there are only twenty-four sur
vivors.
—The Earl of Ranfurly, who has been
appointed governor of New Zealand, and
and is now on his way to his post, carries
with him no less than sixty tons of bag
gage, including four carriages and 650
cases of wine.
—Dr. Sheldon Jackson, besides being the
superintendent of schools in Alaski, has
been appointed a special agent by the
Secretary of Agriculture to investigate
the agricultural and horticultural re
sources of that country.
—Nicola Tesla, the greatest scientist of
the age, who declares that the time is not
far off when men on the earth will con
verse with the inhabitants of Mars, is
believed by many men of discernment to
be the advance guard of the future man.
Tesla, rising above the mere mechanical
details of the inventor, discovers great
principles, the elaboration of which in the
future will lift the human race above its
present level. Edison perfects the tele
graph, the telephone, the phonograph, the
electric light. Tesla discovers that the
earth itself is a dynamo and points the
way to an application of its infinite stores
of statical electricity. He can telegraph
now on earth without the use of wires or
other base contrivances. Tesla is a Ser
vian, 35 years old. He is a Slav of the
Slavs and his genius rises at times to
what might be called inspiration. He be
gan to study electricity when a child and
on his arrival in America entered Edison’s
shops. His work was so different from the
master’s that a separation was deemed
wise.
BRIGHT BITS.
—Tommy—You see, papa, Willie’s got an
awfully smart father, and I guess he
takes after him.—Northwest Magazine.
—Papa—l am surprised that you are at
the foot of your class, Tommy. Why aren't
you at the head sometimes, like little Wil
lie Bigbee?
—“There’s not another bit of firewood
on board!” roared the steamboat engin
eer.
“What’s the matter with the log?” in
quired the landlubber.—Philadelphia North
American.
—From the “Stygian Punch.”—“That
oracle is a corker for obscurity,” said Di
ogenes to Capt. Kidd. "I asked her if I
would be immortal, and she answered,
’Thou—shalt—die—ogenes.' You never can
get a woman to answer a plain question.”
—Harper's Bazar.
—Voter—l challenge Shamus Macfogar
ty. He’s no Dlmmicrat.
Chairman—Give in yer ivldince.
Voter—His wife borrows butter of Mrs.
Robinson, a republican.
Chairman—But I hear she niver pays it
back. Yer all right, Mr. Macfogarty. Ye
can vote. —Boston Transcript.
—Not Much Luck.—“ Are the fish biting
well to-day?” asked a man of a boy who
was fishing in a brook not far from Bos
ton.
“The fish do not bite, sir,” replied the
boy, respectfully. “They swallow the bait,
and the hook embeds itself in their mouth.
But they ate very wary to-day, sir.”—
Puck.
—“So he is to marry Miss Croesus?"
"Yes.”
“She's not very beautiful. I wonder how
he ever happened to look in her direc
tion.”
"Why, you sec. he’s an enthusiast In
his line.”
“And what's his line?”
“He’s a stamp collector.’’—Chicago
Post.
—“I hear you and Mrs. Socrates are go
ing to the seashore for the hot spell," said
Alciblades to the sage.
"Not we; we’re going to stay home,” re
plied Socrates. “There's a deadlock. Xan
thippe says we sha'nt go to the moun
tains, because I've had too much hem
lock already, ai)d I won’t go to the sea
shore, because she'* got more sand than
she needs, as it Is."—Harper's Bazar.
CI'BHGNV COMMENT.
Would Make the Partition Easier.
From the Philadelphia Record (Dem.).
The republican tariff-makers In the Sen
ate who are restoring the era of confidence
should begin by restoring confidence in
each other. It would make the partition
of what Mr. Vest styles "the swag" that
much easier.
Prices of Deb's l.ove.
From the New York Herald (Ind.).
Debs’ scheme Is not so very Utopian af
ter all. He and his fellow officers of the
new social democracy have voted them
selves salurles of JlOu per month each. Mr.
Debs loves his fellow men, but he wants
to dispense his affection at a regular sal
ary.
Wakes Great DliTerenee.
The Louisville Courier-Journal (Dem.).
"I express," says President McKinley
In hi* letter of congratulation to queen
Victoria, "the sentiments of my fellow
citizens In wishing for your people the
prolongation of a reign Illustrious und
marked by advance In science, arts and
popular well-being." That Is very dif
ferent from Protectionist McKinley's
campaign claims that In Lngland under
free trade there has been a retrograde
Insiead of an advance in "popular well
being."
Potllleal lliinnfsll of Allueld.
From the Chicago Tlmos-Herald (Ind.),
The once Imperious Altgeld has fallen.
The man who has been the autocrat In
party councila and the supreme dictator
In all affairs pertaining to the Illinois de
mocracy has been dethroned. At the
meeting of Ihe state central committee
on Monday the' state boss met his Water
loo. He was not only humlllaled, hut
was stripped of power so completely that
there Is no possibility of his ever being a
factor In the control of the affairs of his
party In this state.
Almost a Scandal.
Many years ago, when Lucius Fairchild
was governor of Wisconsin, there came
near being a scandal of. big proportion, one
that would have smirched the adminis
tration very badly, says the Chicago Times
Herald. But the gallant governor caught
sight of the sprouting bush of bad prom
ise and nipped it in the bud.
The superintendent of public property
was Maj. M. M. Meredith, who had served
for a time in the regiment with Fairchild,
been badly wounded and transferred to
the commissary department.
Meredith had some fine stock on his
farm near Madison.
One morning in March, when the streets
and steps were covered with ice. Gov.
Fairchild was informed by a wise com
mittee room attendant, a capitol police
man or some other official who felt that
he was the keeper of the chief executive's
good name, that there was something
wrong going on.
“What is it? Out with it," broke in the
handsome young governor.
“Come with me and you can see for your
self."
Then these two officials walked to the
east front of the capitol building.
“Bo you see those boxes, governor?”
pointing to half a dozen packages at the
foot of the steps.
“Of course I see them. What of them?”
Coming closer to the governor, the
sleuth, in an underbreath after the fashion
of the keen detective, said:
“Governor, there is salt in all of those
boxes.”
“Anything else?”
“Yes, sir. There's a scandal in each
box.”
“Come to the point. Explain.”
“You know Maj. Meredith has some
blooded stock on his farm, don't you?”
“Y'es; but what of that?"
“Don’t you know that cattle like salt?”
"Do you mean that Maj. Meredith has
been buying salt for his heifers with state
money?”
“That’s what I mean, governor.”
“Well, well, we will see about this.”
An hour later Maj. Meredith was
brought face to face with Gov. Fairchild.
"I have sent for you. major, to talk
about that salt. You must know that we
can’t afford a scandal, and that we shall
have one if you send that salt to your
farm.”
Meredith was dumfounded. He grew
white and red by turns. Then he laughed.
“It is no laughing matter,” said the gov
ernor.
"That is just what it is. Come and see
for yourself.”
They went out and saw the capitol force
scattering salt on the icy steps and walks.
Then they both laughed. Wisconsin’s
dignified one-armed governor begged Mer
edith’s pardon, and said a few words about
"that infernal idiot.”
Mr. Coke and the Interviewer.
The lat® ex-senator Coke of Texas,
though as a rule a taciturn and reserved
man, had a sense of humor and was some
thing of a diplomat, says the New York
Tribune. Shortly after his appearance in
the Senate, years ago, he was approached
by a newspaper correspondent for an in
terview on a leading question of that day.
The request had come from the home of
fice, as the correspondent explained.
“Sit down, my young friend,” said Mr.
Coke, “and tell me, the first thing, if I
can trust you.”
The correspondent said pleasantly that
he regarded himself as a safe risk.
“Why I ask that," continued the sena
tor. with a smile, “is because 1 have a
confession to make. I don’t know much of
anything about the question you mention,
but I can t afford to admit that to your
newspaper. I take this request for my
views as a compliment. I’m anew man
on the scene, and an interview in as prom
inent a paper as yours will help to intro
duce me. I ought to have some views.
What do you know about the question?”
The correspondent replied that he had
read the bills recently introduced bearing
on the subject, had listened to speeches
in advocacy of them, and i?o forth.
The senator's face lighted up. “My
young friend, do you want this interview
right away?”
“No, sir. It goes my mall. To-morrow
will do.”
“Then you go and get copies of some of
those bills and of a few of those speeches,
and bring them hire and we’ll have a con
versation.”
The correspondent agreed to this, and
left the senator. It was an amusing ex
perience, hut an agreeable one, because
of the frankness of the senator and his
cordiality.
The correspondent returned in an hour
with a bundle of papers, and he and the
senator went over them together. The
senator would put in a word, and then the
correspondent would put in a word. Fin
ally, the senator said:
"Now. you go home and write out the
interview and bring the copy here.”
This also the correspondent did, and
upon his return his greeting was a cordial
one. Senator Coke read the story twice
over, repeating portions of It aloud, and
then handing It back, said:
“My young friend, we work in double
harness together admirably. That is all
right, and you can send it on to your
paper. Now, you stand up for me and I'll
stand up for the interview.”
The story was well displayed in print,
and it established a friendship between
the senator and the correspondent which
continued to the end.
Made Them Pay Poll Tax.
Alf. RurkhoHer, who, in addition to
his duties of refereeing all Indian out
breaks whl.'h oocur within any number of
hundreds of miles of the Black hills coun
try, also sends to eastern newspapers
some of the oddest stories which emanate
front that region, says the Chicago Re
cord, tells the following tale of thrift:
“Jed Carlton of Carlton and Lord's
comedians, while sauntering about the of
fice of a Yankton newspaper a few days
ago, had his attention attracted to a
large map of the I’nited Btates. He gaz
ed at it searchingly for a moment, and
placing his linger upon the southern bor
der of Arizona, traced along the map un
til the digit rested on the dot marked No
gales.
" There she is, by gum,' said he to a
reporter. 'Just across the street from
where my linger rests is Mexico. Nogules
is a decidedly torrid municipality. The
authorities there owe me |6O, but I pre
sume I shall never collect it. They m'ade
me pay $U poll tax for every member of
my company la-fore I had been in the
town twenty-four hours or in the state
ten days. It was western Justice with all
the flounces and furbelows, and It is need
less to say that I’ll be missed from No
gales hereafter I went there from Ben
son. Arizona, three years ago, and Just
la-fore show time I was standing on the
street. A man approached me and asked:
" 'Have you paid your poll tax?'
" 'Roll which?' asked I.
“ 'Roll tax," said he.
“ 'Polecats,' 1 remarked. In a stage
whisper.
'Nan I one. R.>ll tax,’ he replied In
a stagecoach vernacular appropriate to
the altitude.
" 'Mow much?' asked I.
" 'Two dollars,' he responded.
"Then I tried to bluff him, and told
him I had paid.
“ 'Le mme sec yer receipt,* he said.
“And there i was. Well, (he upshot of
the whole matter was. he went to every
memta-r of the company and demanded
poll lax. 1 told them not to pay; that I
would stand them a lawsuit on the Issue.
1 ftlred a lawyer; the case was tried and
decided against me. it cost mo exactly
Wb I told the justice that pretty soon
they would he grabbing men off passing
trains and making them pay poll tax.
" 'Well.' he remarked. In tones as Chilly
as though he was full of cracked Ice and
salt, 'we kin do It if we wanter.' ’•
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
—As a rule, a man’s hair turns gray' five
years sooner than a woman’s.
—Nine tons weight of copper are taken
every week from the London penny-in
the-slot gas meters. It Is proposed to sup
ply electricity on the same plan.
—ln 1513 a maid servant named Marga
ret Davy suffered death by boiling in
England for secret poisoning in three
households in which she had lived.
—A chimney weighing nearly 100 tons
was recently moved 950 feet at Bingham
ton, N. Y., on a sled by six men and one
horse. The task occupied nine days.
—Some of the Moosehead (Me.) guides at
the present high prices paid for live bait
find the catching of it for the sportsmen
more lucrative than guiding at $3 a day.
—Pennsylvania produces hardware man
ufactures to the value of *338,000,000 yearly,
which is equivalent to *74 per inhabitant,
the average in Great Britain being *l9 and
in Germany *lO.
—A correspondent of Nature say's that
“an acquired immunity from the bites of
mosquitoes and ‘domestic pets’ is not un
common in British India, and I have re
joiced in it myself.”
—ltaly's exports for the first four
months of 1897 were 385,953,370 francs, while
her imports were 379,794,130 francs. Tills is
the first time in twenty-six years that the
exports exceed the imports.
—At the recent annual exhibit of the
Witwatersrand Agricultural Society at
Johannesburg seven machinery prizes
were awarded to Americans, two to Ger
mans and eleven to English manufac
turers.
—Mackenzie Bell, the London literateur,
whose poetical works were reviewed in
the Commercial Advertiser some months
ago, sounds a note of warning on the dan
ger of celluloid. Writing to the "St. James’
Kazette,” he says: “You spoke the other
day of the danger of using celluloid in the
jubilee decorations, but neither you nor
the medical contemporary to which you
referred, emphasized sufficiently the ter
rible danger which may arise when using
this, material. Not only is celluloid most
inflammable, but it is absolutely inextin
guishable, as will be seen if a match is
brought into contact with a celluloid pa
per knife. With a noise like the fizzing
of a squib it then at once bursts into
flame, not ceasing to burn until totally
destroyed. This perilous substance is said,
though I know not on what authority, to
be largely answerable for the tragedy of
the Parisian bazaar, the ruins which some
of us have recently visited. The specta
tors of the jubilee procession ought not
to be exposed to the risk of conflagrations
through the use of celluloid.”
—As is often the case with evil Insects
and weeds, as soon as the tipping system
obtained a foothold in this country it be
gan to develop prodigiously, says the New
York Times. From the insignificant an
noyance which tipping was and is in ; Eu
rope it soon became downright blackmail,
conducted on a scale that is rapidly becom
ing unendurable. In England and on the
continent copper coins will still satisfy
a majority of the exactions of this sort,
while here only silver will do as a second
recompense for the most trifling service.
In amount it must be at least a tenth of
the nominal price for what one gets, and
often the enforced proportion rises to a
half or two-thirds. A few Americans once
in a while muster up courage enough to
leave untipped a barber or a waiter whom
they are never likely to see again, but
even in these cases it is necessary - to bear
away a burden of heaped-up scorn that
robs the economy of all its joys. As for
giving one of these servitors two cents,
the very possibility of such an act would
never enter an American's mind—ln Amer
ica. Yet in England, where the tip is at
home if anywhere, people write indignant
letters to the newspapers if a gratuity
of threepence is not accepted with dem
onstrations of loving gratitude, and the
angry correspondent is informed by his
editorial advisers that the man should
have been reported to his employer, and
that the latter would have turned the inso
lent fellow into the street. In commenting
on one such communication a London
journal says that at restaurants in the
city waiters are usually content with a
penny, and very rarely get a larger fee.
In places like Gatti's two or three pence
will preserve the diner’s self-respect and
insure careful attention to him next time.
At the more showy and fashionable West
End restaurants the levy rises to sixpence,
arvd there are only one or two resorts so
dreadfully aristocratic that nothing less
than a shilling will fill the waiter’s palm.
These sums would be regarded with de
risive contempt In a land like this, where
JO cenls must be added to the price of the
simplest luncheon, and every harber must
receive, in addition to his wages, two
thirds as much from each occupant of his
chair as goes to the owner of the shop.
—Apropos of Count Vorontzoff Dash
koff’s resigns tlon of the post of minister
of the imperii! court and appanages, and
director of the imperial stud, the St. Pet
ersburg correspondent of the London
Times telegraphs as follows: “The Em
peror Paul, whose reign was certainly not
one of the most brilliant, was, neverthe
less, one of the greatest benefactors of
the dynasty. He not only settled the or
der of succession on a permanent basis,
but also endowed his posterity with the
material means of maintaining their posi
tion. It is claimed that no other reigning
family in Europe Is so well provided for.
Paul I set aside a. vast amount of landed
property under the name of the imperial
appanages for the sole benefit of all grand
dukes and grand duchesses not in the di
rect line of succession, while the sovereign
and the heir apparent, together with their
respective families, were to be supported
out of the funds of the state. These ap
panages of the Russian Imperial famliy
now cover the enormous total era in dif
ferent parts of Russia of 21,000.000 acres,
an extent of land larger by 2,000,000 acres
than the whole of Scotland. This total
includes 15,000,000 acres of wood and for
est, producing yearly more than 5,000,000
roubles. The total annual revenues of the
imperial appanages now reaches 20,0(10,000
roubles, or more than £2,000,000; and. with
no fewer than forty-six members of the
Imperial ramtly to support, the expendi
ture at present amounts to a yearly av
erage of over 5,000,000 roubles. In 1891 it
was over 6,000,000 roubles. The appanages
are quite separate and distinct from ex
tensive private property and from the
crown or state domains, administered by
the minister of agriculture, and they do
not contribute toward the annual expendi
ture of the imperial court, amounting, as
far as It can be ascertained, to about U,-
600,000, nor toward providing dowries for
Imperial grand duchesses. Before the
emancipation of the serfs the appanages
possessed over 800,000 peasants, who paid
annually in land and poll taxes for ihc
benefit of tho Imperial family nearly 3,-
(100,000 roubles, and during sixty-eight
years up to their liberation altogether 119,-
000,000 roubles, or £12,500,000. The depart
ment of Imperial appanages has since be
come the largest land proprietor, the larg
est agriculturist and the largest wine pro
ducer in the empire. Its Industrial enter
prises In timber, sugar, cotton and other
products are rapidly developing on a pro
portionately large ecale. During a cen
tury of existence It has furnished the col
lateral branches of the Imperial house
with altogether 236,000.000 roubles; and as
the Imperial progeny continues to Increase
a large reaerve fund Is employed in pre-
P*flng to meet their ever-growing re
quirements.”
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THE SWAN NANO AHOTEL, "
ASHEVILLE. N. C.
The oldest and most favorably known
moderate priced family and transient
hotel in the Carolina mountains. For
weekly and family terms apply to
R. R. RAWLS, Proprietor.
LONG BRANCH
WEST tNO HOTEL AND COTTAGES,
Cottages open SATURDAY, JUNE 12.
Hotel opens THURSDAY, JUNE 24.
A number of bath room suites have been
added to the cottages, and many marked
improvements to the hotel. New York
office, 115 Broadway (Room 76).
W. E. HILDRETH, Proprietor.
The Haywood White Sulphur,
WAYNESVILLE, N. C.
Opens May 25. In the heart of the Alle
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For full information address
D. A. Vaughan, Manager and Proprietor.
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The representative resort of the south.
Season 1897 June 15 to Oct. 1. Accommo
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Opens June 1. Send for illustrated book
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ASHEVILLE, X. C.; A FEW SELECT
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