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THIS ISSUE
CONTAINS
TWENTY PACES
mU TO m ADVERTISEMENTS.
Meeting—Live Oak Lodge No. 8, I. O.
O. S\
Special Notices—Notice, W r . W. Swlnton;
Handsome Residence for Sale or Rent,
John Rourke; Brick Residence for Sale,
W'althour & Rivers; Donations for Odd
Fellows by Savannah Steam Laundry; C.
C. C., Thanksgiving Day, Belsinger & Oo.;
Eye Glasses, Dr. M. Schwab & Son; Co
partnership Notice, W. D. Simkins & Cos.;
Gardner’s Bazar, B. Smith, Proprietor;
Shoes Repaired While You Wait, at Okar
ma’s; New Patent Spring Bed, Georgia
Furniture Manufacturing Company; “As
You Like It,” E. & W. Laundry; Is Your
Life Insured, Julian Schley, General
Agent; The Wolff-American Triplet, R.
D. & Wm. Lattimore; Studios of Music,
'Mrs. Charles D. Mize and Miss Vlrgie
Ashley; Notice of James O. Baker Being
at Livingston's; Vocal Expression, Miss
Susie T. Austin; Sectional Gas Reflector,
Electric Supply and Construction Com
pany; Prof. Black's Dancing Classes; The
Odd Fellow’s Bazar; Inferior Goods
Knocked Out, at Southern Grocery Com
pany; Bids pollcited for Alterations in
Montgomery Street Synagogue; The D.
B. Falk Cos., Ladies’ and Gentlemen's Tail
ors.
A “Chic” Bicycle Costume—B. H. Levy
& Bro.
Rhyme and Reason—Auburn Wagon
Company, Southern Agency.
Great Picture Puzzle Contest—Sawyer
Publishing Company, Waterville, Me.
Bear In Mind Our Celebrated "Ger
mania” $3 Welted Shoe for Men- Ceil &
Quint.
Raisin Seeders and Meat Choppers—Ed
ward Lovell’s Sons.
How About Roof—E. C. Pacetti.
Cash Sales—Faik Clothing Company.
W’e Know No One Disputes—The Sa
vannah Shoe Factory.
It Was Like a Town Meeting—Metro
politan Clothing Company.
Honest Advertising Always Pays Best—
Foye & Morrison.
The Most Wonderful Yet—W. E. Wimpy.
There Has Been a Blight in Trade This
Year—Daniel Hogan.
Prepare for W’inter—Charles Marks.
The Store That Gives Best Values-
Walsh & Meyer.
The Latest in Shoes—Byck Bros.
The Ladies Appreciate Merit—At Eck
stein's.
Weddings Galore—Ludden & Bates.
A Week of Bargains—At Gutman’s.
The Frost Line Is Rapidly Moving Down
on Us—B. H. Levy & Bro.
Now Is the Time, You Need a Gas
Heater To-day—Mutual Gas Light Com
pany.
The Chainless Columbia Is the One
Leading Wheel for 1898—T. A. Bryson, Co
lumbia Agent.
Has Kept Face With the Wheels of
Progress—The Falk Clothing Company.
Everlastingly Reducing Cost to the Con
sumer—Leopold Adler.
Quick Cash for Hides, Etc.—A. Ehrlich
& Bro.
Beef—Liebig’s Extract of Beef.
Medical—Abbo; “77" for Colds; World's
Dispensary Preparations; McElree’e Wine
of Cardui; Johann Hoff's Genuine Malt
Extract; Cuticura Remedies; Munyon's
Rheumatism Cure; Erie Medical Com
pany; Woman's Friend; S. S. S.; Corn
Paint.
Cheap Column Advertisements—Help
Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Rent;
For Sale; Lost; Personal; Miscellaneous.
Young Beckwith, who has married the
granddaughter of Abraham Lincoln, is
said to be without social distinction. His
family tree neither runs back for hun
dreds of years nor boasts branches of em
inence. But Beckwith himself makes up
uli that his family lacks. He is a great
foot ball player, is handy with the boxing
gloves, can pitch a good game of base
ball, and can sprint a hundred yards along
with the fastest men on the track. He
played base ball in the Texas league one
season, and was iformerly half-back on
the Wesleyan foot ball team. What more
could the granddaughter of a President
want?
Currency I.rgtstation.
The republican party pledged Itself at
Its last national convention to do all It
could to bring about international bimet
allism. It has kept that pledge. The re
port of the commission which was sent
to Europe to see what European countries
were willing to do In behalf of bimetallism
has not been made public, but it is well
known what the substance of the report
is. The commission accomplished noth
ing. Europe does not want bimetallism,
because a double monetary standard is re
garded by European financiers as imprac
ticable.
It is assumed that the republican party
will make no further effort In behalf of
international bimetallism, and it is certain
that it is against the free coinage of sil
ver by this country alone. The question
which now presents Itself Is this: Will
the republican party undertake to reform
the currency so that there will be little
or no danger of money panics resulting
from such conditions as brought about the
panic of 1893?
On this question the party is divided.
One part of it favors an attempt to re
form the currency at once. The Secretary
of the Treasury has already made public
a plan for that purpose, and the monetary
commission will, it is expected, have a
plan ready to report to congress soon af
ter that body meets. The plan of the
Secretary of the Treasury has been com
mented on quite favorably, and it may be
made the basis of a currency reform bill.
Another plan that has attracted a good
deal of attention Is that of John C. Bulllt
of Philadelphia. There will be many cur
rency reform plans before congress be
cause there is no lack of men who think
they have the financial ability to settle
satisfactorily the currency question.
The other part of the republican party
favors letting the currency alone, holding
that the party will stand a much better
chance of electing the next congress and
the next President if it does not attempt
to change existing currency conditions.
This difference among the republicans
as to the policy that ought to be pursued
in respect to the currency will result, In
all probability, in nothing being done.
But if nothing is done the republican pa£-
ty will be open to the charge of refusing
to fulfill Its promises. It promised to
change the tariff and to put the currency
on a safe basis. It has kept its promise
in respect to the tariff. It remains to be
seen whether it will keep its promise in
respect to the currency.
AVntsou and Prohibition.
The attack which Mr. Tom Watson
made in his paper upon the populist sena
tors who voted against the Turner pro
hibition bill is surprising. By his political
opponents as well as by his political
friends he has always been given credit
for sincerity. He may have been thor
oughly sincere In attacking the populist
senators, but there will be some who will
doubt it.
t
In the first place the populist party Is
not a prohibition party. In this state in
the last campaign it Indorsed prohibition
and supported a prohibitionist for gover
nor, but it seemed to be understood that
it adopted the policy of prohibition for
that campaign only. Assuming that such
was the case the populist senators were
not bound by the prohibition provision in
the last state platform of their party.
Again Mr. Watson is an exceedingly
bright man and keeps abreast of the
tithes. That being the case how can he
advocate prohibition for this state when it
has been a failure in all the states in
which it has been tried? He must have
seen the recent statements respecting the
failure of prohibition in Maine and New
Hampshire, and he knows the history of
the dispensary law In South Carolina
where a Baptist minister was shot to
death a few days ago by a state whisky
constable.
Prohibition doesn’t' prohibit where the
people haven't been educated to believe
that prohibition legislation Is wise legisla
tion. And where there Is prohibition
without popular consent the conditions
are worse than where whisky is sold open
ly. Why then should Mr. Watson have at
tacked the populist senators who believe
i(j local option, but not in prohibition?
Didn’t Mr “Watson let the desire to say
something that would attract attention
get the better of his judgment?
Outlook for the Klondike.
The most extraordinary expectations are
entertained in respect to the Klondike
mining fields. Capt. Bevan, a bearer of
dispatches to the Canadian government,
who arrived at Juneau from the gold fields
a few days ago, said that $50,000,000 in gold
would be brought from the Klondike dis
trict as soon as navigation opened in the
spring. His statement is doubtless exag
gerated; still it indicates that a vast
amount of gold has been taken from the
mines and that they are exceedingly rich.
Capitalists have faith in the future of the
Klondike mines. (Members of the great
banking house of Drexel & Cos. of Phila
delphia have just launched a Klondike
ming company, having a capital of
$5,000,000 and a Klondike steamship com
pany, of which Mr. Cramp, the shipbuild
er, is president, has been formed with a
capital of $7,000,000. This company has ac
quired five steamers and will add others to
its fleet as soon ns they can be obtained.
The steamers will ply between San Fran
cisco or Seattle and St. Michaels. They
will transport passengers and freight to
the Klondike gold fields.
Clearly the preparations for a big bus
iness with the gold bearing sections of
Alaska are being made on a large scale.
If the gold fields meet expectations they
will have an extremely important bearing
upon economic and financial questions
which are now disturbing the civilized
world, and particularly this country.
Tammany hall, New York, is to have a
real tiger. Ex-Mayor John Fitzpatrick of
■ New Orleans, who is something of a po
litical tiger himself, has sent a three
months old tiger kitten to ex-Mayor Hugh
J. Grant to be presented to the Tammany
society. The animal came originally from
Nicaragua, and Is said to be a beauty.
The crew of the Competitor are to be
pardoned. The Spaniards (ire gradually
spoiling all of the tin thunder of the jin
goes.
THE MOKNING NEWS: SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1897.
Big lints In Chnrches.
What is left in this city of the bad cus
tom of wearing big hats In theaters and
other places of public amusement is hardly
worth speaking of. It Is now' the rule for
the ladies to take their hats off. There
are, to be sure, a few exceptions to the
rule. Occasionally some member of the
fair sex Insists upon keeping on her hat,
to the annoyance of her neighbors; but
the great majority of the ladies have
adopted the plan of arranging their hair
so that with the removal of a hatpin or two
they can take off thetr hats, and leave
their shapely heads attractively crowned
with nature’s covering only. The reform
is in line with the good sense of the ladles
and their consideration of the pleasure of
others, and it is very highly appreciated.
It could not be expected, however, that
this commendable plan would become uni
versal. One could not expect a bald-head
ed woman to remove her hat in public. The
polished poll must be protected with a
wig, which must be held in place by a big
and heavy hat, fastened on with pins.
The nnti-big hat movement has made
great progress, so far as the theaters and
amusement halls are concerned, but it has
not gone far enough. It should extend to
the churches. In church the big hat is
really more in the way than In the thea
ter, for the reason that church audito
rlurps are built V>n a level while theater au
ditoriums are built on an inclined plane.
Whether the congregation is sitting or
standing, one big hat will often shut out
a view of the preacher from pews two to
three rows to the rear. Persons who go to
church for the good It will do them like
to see the preacher as well as hear him. It
is almost necessary for them to see him if
the greatest benefit is to be derived from
the sermon. Yet it very often occurs that
just as a worshipper has succeeded In dis
covering an opening in the forest of big
hats through which a glimpse of the
preacher may be had, some dear devotee
will shift her head a little and blot out
preacher, pulpit and chancel with her big
hat; and as the view disappears behind
feathers and ribbons, the discommoded lis
tener's equanimity is pretty apt to be de
stroyed. A prodigeous feather In a big
hat at church will often worry a dozen
persons sitting behind the wearer, and
keep them dodging and peeping all through
a sermon in the vain endeavor to get a
sight of the speaker In the pulpit.
There Is, much rrtore reason why the an
noying big hat should be banished from
the church than there is why it should not
appear in the theater. In the former, all
conditions possible should conduce to
peace, tranquility and fraternal affection.
All things possible should be done to put
the worshippers at ease, so that their
minds would be open for the reception of
the divine truths uttered by the servant
of God as he teaches love and charity. In
church there should be a fine consideration
for the comfort of others, and especially
should unnecessary and irritating inter
ferences he avoided. There is room for a
good deal more of reformation with re
gard (So hats In public places.
Ambitious New Yorkern.
Assemblyman Patrick Tralnor of New
York Is one of the many local politicians
of New York city who is as yet unknown
to fame, but who hopes to make his name
a household word throughout the country
liy proposing to carve anew state out of
the state of New York—-a state to be called
Manhattan. He has a bill ready to Intro
duce into the general assembly as soon as
that body meets, having for its object the
divorcing of sixteen counties of the state
and making anew state of them. These
counties include the cities of Greater New
York surd Albany, the capital of the state.
They have a population of 3,902,220. That
Is a greater population than any state out
side of New York has, except Pennsyl
vania. The other counties have a population
of 2,631,123, and If Trainor’s.projeet should
be successful, what would then be New
York state would be the sixth state in the
union in population.
It Is quite safe to say that there will be
no state of Manhattan in the very near
future, although it Is not Improbable that
Greater New York will give Tralnor’s bill
a hearty support. The people of that city
are not satisfied With being residents of
the second city in size in the world; they
want to be residents of a state of which
their city will be by far the most impor
tant part.
If anew state should be carved out of
New York it would not be very long before
there would be a movement to make two
or three states out of Texas, and then
Georgia and some of the other states
would begin to think they were two big,
and would ask that new states be carved
out of tbeir respective territories. The
making of new states out of parts of old
states would develop into a great evil.
State pride would be practically destroy
ed and eventually state lines would be
come so indistinct in all matters pertaining
to government that the purpose which the
founders of the republic had in view would
be lost sight of.
The ambitious Trainor should be given
the cold shoulder, and his bill should be
pigeonholed. It is true that in the Senate
the little states have as much power as
the big ones, but it Is better that the big
states should endure this Injustice than
that new states should be carved out of
them. The founders of the republic un
derstood that the states would not have
power in the Senate In accordance with
their wealth and population. They were
much wiser than the men of the Trainor
stamp. In adhering to their work the
country has prospered. By following the
lead of Trainor the chances are it would
get into trouble.
It is gratifying to have from the Chicago
Tlmes-Herald, whose editor Is the close
personal friend of President McKinley, the
assurance that the President Is for peace
with Spain. ”If Senator Caffery and the
other congressmen who are opposed to
war measures will refrain from publishing
their fears and will do their utmost to re
press Jingoism in congress,” says the
Tlmes-Herald, “Mr. McKinley will do his
part to keep the peace. Whether congress
likes it or not, there will be no war!”
It Is announced that Col. Jack Chinn of
Kentucky will be a candidate for congress.
His name is against him. There is too
much chin in congress already.
The New York Sun says: "The Georgia
legislature has anew work to do. The
Hon. Hocus Smith slipped and nearly fell
while walking on Peachtree street yester
day afternoon. A law prohibiting walking
will be passed at once by tlie Georgia
House. Thousands have sprained their
ankies, barked their shins or noses, or
stubbed their toes a title engaged In the
dangerous exercise of walking'. Hundreds
of men have fallen into street excavations
and been killed or seriously injured. Com
pared to walking, foot ball is absolute
safety. Walking must be stopped. The
Georgia legislature can be depended upon
to stop it in Georgia. The Hon. Hocus
Smith and the other Crackers must be
protected from the dangers ol this noxious
form of exercise.”
The Sun’s efforts nowadays to be witty
and parcastic are ludicrous. Nothing so
suggestive of the cheerful idiot as the
foregoing would have been permitted to
appear in its columns during the time the
late Charles A. Dana conducted it. We
don't see why the Sun doesn't attack the
New York legislature for not repealing
the law in that state against prize fighting,
which is not so brutal as the game of
foot ball as it is now played. The Sun
might succeed better in trying to be con
sistent than it does In trying to be witty.
PERSONAL.
—William F. Sands, who has recently re
ceived the appointment of secretary of
legation at Seoul, Korea, is a son of Capt.
Sands of the navy, a grandson of Admiral
Sands and a grand-nephew of Admiral
Meade.
—C. R. Kennedy of Berea, 0., recently
returned from the Venezuela gold fields,
says that the thermometer there frequent
ly registered 110 degrees in the shade, and
that he had nothing to drink but hot,
filthy water. He now intends trying the
Klondike on account of its climatic ad
vantages.
—Prof. IMorris, at the head of the chem
ical department of Cornell University, be
gan life as a fireman on the New York
Central railroad, lie was advanced to be
engineer, and then made up his mind to
get an education, which he Jinaliy accom
plished, and graduated with* honor at Un
ion College.
—Verdi is fond of farming, cattle and
dogs. One of his pets is buried in his gar
den under a small monument with the
words, "Ad un vero amico” (To a true
friend). A favorite large dog, now in his
possession, listens intently when his mas
ter Is playing, but runs away in distress
when anyone else touches the piano.
—The longevity enjoyed by astronomers
is proverbial. Among the eminent names
are Cassini, who lived to 97; Caroline HeT
schel, to 98: Sir IV. Herschel, to 84; New
ton to 84; Mary Somerville, to 92; Halley,
to 86; George Airey, to 90; Sir David
Brewster, to 86; ’Sir E. Sabine, to 94; Hum
boldt, to 90; Schwab?, to 86; Santini, to 91,
and Fontenelle, to KM.
BRIGHT BITS.
—lmpossible in His Case.—Hungry Hig
gins—I see the paper says we oughtn't to
never begin a journey' before breakfast.
Weary Watkins—Does It have any ad
vices for us blokes that has to make a
journey to find the breakfast?—lndianap
olis Journal.
—An Advantage.—" Cultivate your mind,
my boy,” said the elderly gqntleman who
giving advice.
intellect nature may have bestowed on
you.”
"But education doesn't always make
lieople happy.”
“No, but it enables a lot of them, who
would otherwise be known as ill-natured
cranks, to pose as ’cynics.’ ’’—Washington
Star.
—Something Wrong.—“ This coffee does
not seem quite right, dear,” said young Mr.
Hunnimoon to the best little bride In the
world.
”1 know it doesn’t,” replied his inexpe
rienced little wife, with tears in her vioce:
“And I can’t imagine what is the matter
with it, either. It Is the first time I ever
made coffee, dear, and I'm afraid I've done
something wrong. The seeds have been
boiling quite an hour, but they just won’t
get soft. What do you suppose is the mat
ter?”—Pittsburg Chronicle Telegraph.
—At 11:30 p. m.—The Slangy Youth—Ev
ery thing goes.
The Sleeply Girl—Yes; everything else.—
Somerville Journal.
Deep Grief.—"l never saw a man so cut
up as old Rox is over the death of his
bookkeeper. And yet you have always
said that he had no heart and regarded his
employes as mere machines.”
"I'll tell you something on the quiet. The
bookkeeper was about $3,000 behind in his
accounts, and old Rox was keeping him
on and making him work it out.”—Cincin
nati Enquirer.
CIRBEHST COMMENT.
A Belated Suggestion.
From the Birmingham News (Dem.).
Gen. Miles’ proposition to equip the fed
eral treasury buildings with Gatling guns
should have been made before the repub
lican looters came Into power.
Eternal Vigilance nn<l Health.
From the Chicago Times-Herald (Ind.).
Eternal vigilance Is the price of free
dom from epidemics, and the southern
community that fails to treat yellow fever
an as enemy to be fought In season and
out of season invites its own destruction.
Within Our Tariff Wall.
From the Philadelphia Record (Dem.).
The formation of two new trusts is
announced—one to control the output and
price of insulated wire for electric pur
poses. and the other to keep up the price
and regulate the production of glue. The
war against cheapness goes on within
our tariff walls right merrily.
Queer Story From Missouri.
From Savannah CMo.) Democrat (Dem.).
Chauncey I. Filley, in a signed article,
says that the McKinley campaign mana
gers paid the St. Louis plate glass works
to close up their plant and remain idle
during the campaign to influence the work
ingmen to vote for McKinley to “open
up the mills.” When one of the republican
bosses turns state’s evidence it makes
"mighty interestin’ readin’.”
The “Republic'’ of Hawaii.
From the Baltimore Sun Dem.).
The present republic has robbed the
masses of their liberties; 109,000 persons
are governed by some 3,000 aliens. This
condition of affairs Mr. Morgan asks the
Hawaiians to perpetuate by yielding to an
nexation with their present hated consti
tution. Under annexation the native would
be worse off than our Indians. The sena
tor ought to make an end of pretenses.
He knows that he wishes to annex Hawaii
not for the good of Its people, but for the
benefit of,a few aliens. If the project
were submitted to a popular vote It would
be rejected in the United States, as well
as In Hawaii.
The Romance of a Young Man.
Asa rule, John Smith had dallied along
the primrose path of dalliance, because he
was an emotional coward, says a writer
in the Louisville Courier-Journal. Woman
to him was the most delightful and de
sirable of all created beings, but the ro
mance and poetry of his associations had
always served to surround her with what
s< emed to him to be barriers which were
impassable, save when the acquaintance
of years had made him brave and strong.
The reader may recall these well-known
lines: “None but the brave deserve the
fair, and none but the brave can live with
some of them." Our hero was the author
of these lines.
It was thus that he had so rarely found
the courage to pop the question to any
one of the many dozens of girls he had
thought he would die If he did not suc
ceed in winning.
But the time had come at last when Mr.
Smith was no longer a coward. At least
not the kind he had been. He was as
much afraid as ever, but now It was the
other way. He had youth and beauty,
and the woman in the case did not, and,
being determined that, having seen what
she wanted, she would ask for it, John
was rendered most uncomfortable.
For, be it known, John had been carry
ing on wbat he thought whs only an ac
commodation flirtation merely to keep up
the spirits of the lady.
When he discovered W'hat was lying In
wait for him, he became possessed of a
great fear, and began to diplomatize to
beat the band. But it is a long lane that
doesn’t go through a gate at the side of
the road some day, and Mr. Smith had at
last come face to face with destiny.
It was evening, and as he sat near the
young lady in the dim and desperate light
of a lamp that only made night more
hideous, he felt as if the next thing on the
programme would be the dentist, who
would gently pry his mouth open with the
handle of a mallet, and insist upon his
looking pleasant.
Even those who have never been in love
know what that feeling is, and Mr. Smith
was now experiencing it in forty places
at once.
At this moment, w'hen he could feel the
earth slowly, but surely, sliding right out
from under him, and he was wondering
where he would light, the door bell pealed
forth a ringing peal.
In his wild desire to escape the impend
ing doom, he started, Impulsively, as if he
would go and open it, but the lady had an
other object in view, and told him the
hired girl would attend to that better than
he.
He fell back with a gasp, and, presently,
the servant entered the library, where the
two were watching each other, and pre
sented a card, saying the gentleman was
in the drawing room.
The lady turned the steely glitter of her
deep dark eye on the shrinking form of the
man who was trying to conceal himself
in the copious folds of the upholstery and
cushions upon the sofa.
“Tell the gentleman in the drawing
room,” she said, addressing the servant,
and never for a moment letting her eyes
lose the man at her side, “that I am en
gaged, and”—she waited until the servant
had gone—“the gentleman in the library
w ill do the rest.”.
She laughed in a harsh ha-ha tone of
voice, and Mr. Smith, with a smothered
shriek, attempted to climb up the wall
paper and escape through the rose-pink,
Cupid-decked border, but it was too late.
A Hygienic Home.
From Munsey’s Magazine.
My wife and I are trying hard
To live on healthful diet;
We read the food chart by the yard,
And run our kitchen by it;
We’ve banished from our- bills of fare
All that such guides condemn;
True hygiene is all our care,
As planned and taught by them.
For breakfast, coffee is tabooed.
Hot cakes and eggs forbidden,
And milk, since it is oft imbued
With germs profuse, though hidden;
Bread is unwholesome, so is steak;
Submissive to our lot,
Oatmeal and graham gems we take,
And drink boiled water hot.
For dinner, soup will never do,
And oysters typhoid nourish;
Salads, entrees, and ices, too,
Are mere dyspeptic flourish;
Potatoes (by the last advice)
Are poisonous, we’re told;
We eat rare meat, chopped fine, with rice;
And drink boiled water cold.
For supper—some professors teach
’Tis best to go without it,
But since discretion's left to each,
We take our choice about it;
On chicken, waffles, tea and cake,
We are forbid to feed;
But gluten wafers, cocoa (weak),
And prunes, are all we need.
It grieves us much our friends to view
So reckless In their diet;
Our wholesome menu we pursue
And beg of them to try it;
But appetite’s ungodly sway
Their nature so enthralls,
We cannot get a guest to stay
Within our healthful walls.
A Friend la Need.
Here is a good story from the "Recollec
tions of Aubrey de Vere:” A young man
was tried for murder, having killed a mem
ber of a rival faction in a faction fight.
The Judge, reluctant to sentence him to
death on account of his youth, turned to
him and said; “Is there any one in court
who could speak as to your character?”
The looked round the court, and
then said sadly: "There is no man here,
my lord, that 1 know.” At that my grand
father chanced to walk into the grand jury
gallery. He saw at once how matters
stood. He called out: "You are a queer
boy that don't know a friend when you see
him!”
The boy was quick-witted; he answer
ed: "Oh, then, it is myself that is proud
to see your honor here this day!” “Well,”
said the judge, “Sir Yere, since you know
that boy, will you tell us what you know
of him?” “I will, my lord,” said my
grandfather, "and what I can tell you is
this—that from the very first day' that ever
I saw him to this minute I never knew
anything of him that was not good.’ The
old tenant ended his tale by striking his
hands together and exclaiming: “And he
had never clapped his eye upon the boy
till this minute!” The boy escaped being
hanged.
Why Justice Is Blind.
“Well,” said the affected citizen, rush
ing up and grasping the attorney's hand,
according to the Cleveland Leader, “I
Drought before I heard your plea that
the man was guilty, but, really, sir, you
swept away ail the prejudice I had formed
against him. You presented things so
clearly that there was nothing left for
the jury but to acquit him, and I am glad
that he is free.”
"Thank you,” said the lawyer, "I am
glad you admire my handling of the case.”
“It was admirable, sir, admirable. And
I am so glad that he was innocent after
all.”
“Yes, so am I. By the way, if you or
your friends ever get caught In any crook
ed work give me a call, and I’ll promise
to make you Just as innocent as the man
who was acquitted a few minutes ago.
Here is my card, sir. Good day, sir.”
For a long time the citizen stood there
apparently In deep study. At last he
shifted his weight from one foot to the
other, and said to himself:
“Well, by gum. I guess I know now
why Justice Is blind. It’s because them
biamed lawyers throw so much dust in
her eyes.”
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
—Glasgow has imported American labor
ers to lay the asphalt on her streets. A
Glasgow paper says that the steam roller,
which is one of our make, Is a curiosity,
It being less cumbersome than the Scot
tish machines, and having the advantage
of being under the perfect control of the
engineer and of turning in Its own length.
—The automatic machine has found its
Way to the top of London omnibuses. A
special act of parliament having been
passed to legalize the sale of goods on
these vehicles, a well-known tobacconist
of Lombard street has Invented and pat
ented a diminutive penny-in-the-slot ma
chine In the form of an apparatus for
supplying cigarettes. These machines are
already placed on a few omnibuses. They
take up very little room and do not In
the least interfere with the sitting ac
commodation.
—A German chemist has prepared a fluid
that has the power, when injected into
the tissues of a plant near its roots, of
anaethizing the plant. The plant does not
die, but stops growing, maintaining its
fresh green appearance, though Us vi
tality is apparently suspended. It is also
independent of the changes in tempera
ture, the most delicate hot house plants
continuing to bloom in the open. The
composition of the fluid is shrouded in the
greatest mystery, but it is said to have a
pungent odor and to be colorless.
—Harper’s Bazar says that In a certain
girls’ college twenty red-haired undergrad
uates recently gave a “red-lieaded din
ner.” The red-haired damsels, all "straw
berry blondes” of course, wore
white dresses, with red sashes,
flowers and badges; the table
decorations were red roses and red
satin ribbons, with red candles and shades
to match; the menu cards were red, each
one bearing the design of a white horse.
The soup was a puree of tomato; the fish,
salmon, and the dishes all followed the
color as far as possible. The affair was
a great success, and the following morn
ing, by permission of the faculty, the “red
heads” marched into the chapel in a body
and sat in the front seats, and after pray
ers saluted the president and marched out
again in solemn procession.
—Tattooing among ladies is held in high
er esteem abroad than in this country,
says London Tit-Bits. Queen Olga of
Greece has an anchor tattooed on her
shoulder, as a token of her affection for
her father, the late Grand Duke Constan
tine of Russia, and Princess Waldemar of
Denmark, wife of the sailor son of King
Christian, Is also marked in like fashion,
with the addition of a crown. Princess
Chimay’s tattoo mark is an initial C be
low a crown. It Is said that Lady Ran
dolph Churchill Is the only living woman
In the English peerage who has been tat
tooed. The idea occurred to her while
traveling in India, She sent for an artist,
who submitted designs, and suggested the
symboy of eternity—a snake holding its
tail In its mouth. Asa rule, a gold band
covers It, and only personal friends have
seen the design.
—A tobacconist was asked the other day,
says the New York Evening Sun, if It was
difficult to obtain a good Havana cigar
just now. .“Yes, sir; it is not only diffi
cult, but next to impossible nowadays to
get a real fine Havana cigar. That is, for
any reasonable sum of money. You come
to me now and buy a 15-cent Havana
cigar and you won’t get the quality of
tobacco you would have got for the same
price a year ago. The former 15-cent cigar
is now selling for 25 and 30 cents. We are
lucky to have any tobacco at all. The
edict of Weyler forbidding the exportation
of tobacco from Cuba paralyzed the trade
for a time. The manufacturers who had
ordered tobacco before the edict, however,
protested so vigorously that the Spanish
authorities allowed their orders to be fill
ed. Had it not been for this, Havana
cigars by this time would have been
worth their weight in gold—as curiosities.
Very little Havana tobacco is now being
imported Into this country, and the out
put of the finest Havana tobaccos, namely
the Parcido, the Veulta and the Ramadlz,
ceased long ago.
—Foot ball by electric light has been
proven to be possible, and a great drawing
card in the bargain. Philadelphia has the
honor of having demonstrated that the
game can be played under artificial light.
If you don’t believe it, go down to Starr
Garden park, at Sixth and Lombard
streets, almost any night, and you’ll see a
game in progress, says the Philadelphia
Record. The two teams are composed of
colored "sports” of the neighborhood, and
one team is known as the "Hot Tamalies,”
and the other rejoices in the title of
“Warm Propositions.” Both teams are
clad in white suits, and the ball is kept
well chalked. The game put up by these
athletes is referred to by the interested
spectators as "sumthin’ fierce.” The up
holders of the red and blue over across the
river might get a. few points upon perse
verance and enthusiasm, at least, by
watching one of these games some night.
The opposing teams have mastered the
main rudiments of the game very well, and
they can "buck the center,” "break up in
terference” and "skirt the ends” in great
shape.
—One of the first surprises that people
have as they begin to realize that they are
leaving the record of a goodly number of
years behind them is that people think they
are old, says the New York Times. Cas
ual remarks to that effect made before
them come as a distinct shock. The spirit
does not grow old; it is merely hampered
by physical infirmities, and more partic
ularly public opinion. People are made
old; they give up youthful practices be
cause people think they should, though
that was more in the past than in the pres
ent. There is no doubt that people, wo
men particularly, lost much of their phys
ical force because as they grew older it
was “proper” for them to give up this
and that and settle down. Now that grand
mothers ride the bicycle things have chang
ed somewhat. Almost anyone can remem
ber, as a child, wondering how it would
seem to be very old—in the child’s esti
mation twenty, thirty, even forty years.
Then when the twenty, thirty, even forty
years have passed, the child, who has be
come a woman, looks back and thinks that
she feels little older and surprisingly lit
tle wiser than that child.
—There is a dearth of pennies in Lon
don, owing to the immense number depos
ited in the gas slot machines, says an ex
change. The collections, which are made
every three weeks, aggregating $50,000,
weighing about ten tons, and, as from 200
to 300 new meters are being fitted up week
ly, the syndicate will soon receive from the
penny consumers an income of $1,000,000
yearly. The fittings and gas stoves are
put in “free” by the company at a cost
of about S3O, the gas people receiving a
very handsome Interest on the investments
in the shape of gn additional charge of
20 cents per 1,000 feet on all gas so fur
nished, but the consumer is ignorant of
the imposition. Even at the advanced
rates, however, he obtains gas at about
72 cents per 1.000 feet, a price which to
American victims of gas monopolies seems
ludicrously low. There are now 61,000 of
these meters in use in London, and the
use of gas for cooking has done much to
equalize summer and winter consumption,
while on Sundays, between noon and 2
p. m., it is difficult to force enough gas
through the mains to cook the Sunday
dinners. A penny purchases 27% feet of
gas, equal to a supply of 5% hours from
a 5%-foot burner. The system works
well; there are few attempts at fraud, and
all parties are satisfied with the arrange
ment.
Pimples, blotches, blackhejie, red, rough, oily,
mothy skin, itching, scaly icalp, dry, thin, and
falling hair, and baby blemishes prevented by
Cuticura Soap, the mosieffective skin purify,
ing and beautifying soap in the world, aB well as
purest and sweetest fqgtoibt, bath, and nursery,
(ytlcura
Is sold throughout the world. Hotter D. awd C. Corp.,
Bole Props., Boston. Qj“‘*Howtt Beautify the Skin, ’’fret
BLOOD HUMORS" c uvTc pr a dir ml Ii i ti*.
There Has Been
A BLIGHT
In Trade This Year.
Whatever the cause every one has felt It.
The backward season is largely responsi
ble. Manufacturers, jobbers and import
ers are unloading stock WITHOUT RE
GARD TO PRICES.
Wise dealers, too, are not holding back,
but recognizing existing conditions have
brought DOWN PRICES. In order to
make business attractive we have cut the
margins off and THIS WEEK offer an
unprecedently large stock of
HANDSOME DRESS GOODS.
-AT
FRICES NEVER KNOWN BEFORE
Our stock includes the best of every
thing, and we can furnish from 10 cents
to $4 a yard Dress Goods, unmatchable
elsewhere for quality, exclusiveness, style
and price.
CLOAKS.
The manufacturers have large stocks
and are frightened. We have been able
to secure some of this season’s best pro
ductions, so that we can sell them at
about half the cost of the material and
labor in them
Cloaks at our store are always in evi
dence, and this season's exhibit has been
way beyond anything heretofore. From
$2 to $25 run the prices. You won’t find
higher class garments and nowhere can
you match our prices.
CARPETS.
Never before have carpets been sold sa
low as during the past six months.
Anticipating the advance which was
sure to come this fall, we made larger
contracts early in the season, and'are still
selling the best makes and attractive
patterns at the lowest prices ever quoted.
Our retail prices are under what most
of these goods are being sold for to-day
by the manufacturers.
Carpets at our present prices are a good
investment. See this and judge the rest:
9-inch Wire Tapestry 66 cents; easily
worth SI.OO,
RUGS.
Our assortment is as large and hand
some as any one could want. Our prlci-S
are way down.
Come and see us to-morrow.
Daniel Hogan,
The corner Broughton and Barnard sts.
WE KNOW
NO ONE DISPUTES
That our Sample Shoes are ABSO
LUTELY MATCHLESS FOR THB
MONEY.
A ten more LADIES*
Sample: Shoes
will be sold, beginning MONDAY,
NOV. 13, nt 9 a. in.,
AT
wUCa
In addition we have added
379 PAIRS
of MEN’S and BOYS’
Sample Shoes,
which we will sell at
at 85c.
Come early and avoid the rush.
Sill SI HI
110 Broughton St., West. •
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