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MX 10 m\ ADVERTISEMENTS.
Special Notice—"La Carolita” Cigars;
Ship Notices, Strachan & Cos., Consignees;
An 1897 $75 Bicycle for S4O, R. D. & Wm.
Lattimore; Roses, Carnations, Etc., Wolf
& Cos., Florists.
Auction Sales—Carpets, Parlor Sets,
Etc., by C. H. Dorsett, Auctioneer; An
tique Sideboard, Piano, Organ, Etc., by
A. K. Wilson, Auctioneer.
Ocean Mail Lettings, Notice to Bidders
—James A. Gary, Postmaster General.
Steamship Schedules—Ocean Steamship
Company; Baltimore Steamship Company.
Railroad Schedule—Central of Georgia
Railway.
"My Three-Year-Old Boy Gets Into His
First Pants This Week.”—B. H. Levy &
Bro.
Our Enterprise Is Rewarded—Metropoli
tan Clothing Company.
W'hen Levy’s Advertise, Facts Are Back
of Them—B. H. Levy & Bro.
Pearline—James Pyle, New York.
Gold Dust Washing Powder—N. K. Fair
banks Company.
Cottolene—N. K. Fairbanks Company.
Medical—Dr. Charcot’s Kola Nervine
Tablets; Cuticura Remedies; Hood’s
Pills; S. S. S.; Scott's Emulsion; Stuart’s
Dyspepsia Tablets; Duffy's Malt Whisky.
Cheap Column Advertisements—Help
Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Rent;
For Sale; Lost; Personal; Miscellaneous.
It would be interesting to know how
much of politics there was behind the fir
ing of Sovereign out of the leadership of
the Knights of Labor. Sovereign was quite
active during the last campaign, and did
what he could to influence the votes of
the members of the order. His activity
may not have bedn pleasing to the people
he represented.
The bubonic plague continues to rage in
several districts in 'lndia. Anew and
unusual menace has arisen in the Surat
district. The monkeys have been attacked
with the plague, and may spread it
abroad. The animals affected are being
trapped and isolated as rapidly as pos
able, but it is thought a number of them
will escape into the wilds and carry the
plague with them.
Justice is apparently moving with com
mendable promptness in the matter of the
murder of Policeman Ponder in Atlanta.
The policeman was killed last Monday.
Before the week was out the matter had
been brought before the grand jury, and
an indictment found against three men
suspected of the crime. Should this rate
of progress be maintained, it is quite prob
able that the murder of the policemen will
be legally avenged before the end of win
ter.
The sanitary board met yesterday and
recommended that the quarantine restric
tions be removed, Mayor Meldrim having
come down from Atlanta for that purpose.
The city council will act in the matter to
day, doubtless, and then travelers will be
free to come into Savannah without health
certificates. The quarantine regulations
have been enforced without much display
or friction and they have been very effec
tive, as no refugees, as far as known, suc
ceeded in getting into the city, and there
has not been a suspicious case of the fever
within the city limits. It is a matter of
congratulation that the fever scare has
passed with so little annoyance to this
city.
In some of the northern newspapers, and
also in some of the commercial reports
sent out from northern cities, reference Is
made to the "yellow fever in the south,”
as though the whole southern section had
suffered a visitation of the scourge. This,
of course, is not correct. The states of
Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina,
Georgia and Florida have been wholly ex
empt from the fever. Southeastern Ala
bama and the whole of Tennessee save
Memphis have escaped the malady. Only
a small part of the south has had the fe
ver, and that small part is on the Gulf of
Mexico and In the Mississippi valley. The
principal foci of the fever have been as
far away from Charleston, Savannah and
Jacksonville as New York Is from these
cities. There has never been the least
danger of infection from communication
with the southeastern section, and it is an
injustice to the Atlantic seaboard for the
northern papers and exchanges to continue
to refer to tltt- fever as prevailing "In the
south.’’ "The south” Is quite a large sec
tion of tire country.
A Fever Breeding Spot.
In the November Forum Surgeon Cert-®
i ral Wyman of the Marine Hospital Serv
1. o, in a strong article, takes the ground
that it is the duty of the United States
to I.ring to the attention of Spain the ne
e. ssity for improving the sanitary condi
tions at Havana. He goes further than
that and intimates that the United States
ought to insist on the insurrection being
brought to an end for the reason that
while It continues there is no prospect of
an Improvement of the sanitary conditions
at Havana, which is a yellow fever breed
ing spot and a constant menace to the
health of this country.
The surgeon general says that thirty
five of the epidemics of yellow fever
which have appeared in this country since
18.10 ore clearly traceable to Cuba, and of
that number twenty-seven are known to
have come from Havana. He declares
that yellow fever is not indiginous to the
United States, but is always an importa
tion, and that Havana remains its princi
pal breeding ground. There was a time
when Vera Cruz was almost as bad a
place for yellow fever as Havana, but un
der Diaz's energetic management of af
fairs that city has ixcome comparatively
healthy, and Is afflicted with yellow fever
only when the disease is brought there
from Havana or some other place.
The point which the surgeon general
makes is a good one. There Is no reason
why Cuba should he the cause of this
country's suffering such heavy losses from
yellow fever. These losses this year in
three or four of the southern states
amount to many millions of dollars, and
it is estimated that in 1878 the losses
amounted to at least $100,000,000.
Another yellow fever breeding place is
Rio Janeiro, but that city is not so serious
a menace to this country' as Havana, be
cause the latter city is right at qur doors,
as it were. The surgeon general, how
ever, thinks that if Havana were to put
herself in good sanitary condition Rio Ja
pelro would not he long in following her
example.
That yellow fever can be driven out of
a place is shown by what has been ac
complished at Vera Cruz. At one time
European countries, particularly Spaih,
suffered from a visitation of the dreaded
disease quite often, but now, owing to the
enforcement of sanitary regulations, yel
low fever is an almost unknown disease
in any one of the European cities. What
has been done at Vera Cruz and In the
countries of Europe to get rid of the fever
can be done at Havana.
As long as the Insurrection continues in
Cuba little or nothing will be done to make
Havana healthier. Therefore the United
States should do their utmost to have
peace restored to Cuba, and should then
insist upon Havana’s being so thoroughly
cleaned and purified that it would cease
to be a fever breeding place.
A New State in tlie Northwest.
There is a revival of the agitation in fav
or of carving anew state out of the north
ern peninsula of Michigan and a part of
Wisconsin. The project is several years
old. The stock arguments in favor of the
scheme are that the northern part of
Michigan has not heretofore had a "fair
deal.” The capital and the chief commer
cial cities are in the lower peninsula, which
section has, furthermore, been able in the
past to direct legislation to suit itself. The
people of the upper part of the state say
the climatic and other conditions with
them are different fronl those in the south
ern part of the state, and therefore legis
lation which suits their southern neigh
bors often fails to suit them. At every
session of the legislature there is a hot
contest between the two sections. The
creation of anew state, it is argued, would
be to the interests of the whole people,
and would do away with the perpetual
disagreements. There are other stock ar
guments, of course, but they center around
these details.
There was nothing heard of this new
state movement while Mr. Cleveland was
President, though both in Arthur’s day and
Harrison's there was considerable agita
tion in favor of it. Whenever the repub
lican party is in power, and begins casting
about for means to perpetuate itself in
office, new state schemes are plentiful. The
northern portion of Michigan and that
part of Wisconsin which It is proposed to
cut off for new state purposes, having
few cities in them, are strongly republi
can. Should these sections be formed
into the state of Superior, as is proposed,
there would he added to the republican
side of the federal Senate two more votes.
The republicans are great schemers, and
new state builders, and annexers. Some
times, however, when they project anew
state they throw a boomerang. Nevada is
an instance of it. At the same time, the
administration at Washington is badly in
need of a few more republican senators,
and may make an attempt to get two from
the “state of Superior.”
Six car loads of bicycles have been re
ceived reeeptlv in New Y'ork for shipment
to Europe. American wheels are said to
sell better in Europe than the European
wheels, and at prices which the foreign
makers can hardly meet. A locomotive
building company in Philadelphia has just
booked orders for some thirty locomotives,
to be shipped to South America, Europe
and Asia. Orders for the engines, were
secured in competition with European
builders. The joiners’ union of Glasgow,
Scotland, the other day declared a boy
cott against doors arid other articles of
American manufacture. It would not be
surprising if other European trades union
should follow suit. It will be seen that
American manufactures are gaining in
favor in foreign countries, and the work
ing people of Europe must protect them
selves against the “pauper labor” of the
United States, of course.
The engagement of marriage between
George M. Pullman, Jr., and Miss Ogtes
by of Chicago has been authoritatively
declared off. Before Pullman, pore, died
it, was understood that young Georgs
would inherit millions. It transpires that
Mr. Pullman provided that his son should
have an income of $3,0.0 a year. Of course
the lack of the fortune nothing to
do with the young lady's change of heart;
she merely became aware of the fact that
she did not love young Mr. PullAan, uiio
hence cast him adrift.
THE MORNING NEWS: MONDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1897.
The Government Seed Farce.
It appears from the advices that the gov
ornmeiU seed distribution, under the Mc-
Kinley administration, is to be more of a
farce than ever before, notwithstanding
the cost to the people is not to be reduced.
It will be remembered that Sterling Mor
ton as Secretary of Agriculture tried to
abolish the seed bureau, but the congress
men made a great racket, declined to give
up their seed privileges, and passed a
measure not only to perpetuate the bu
reau but to spend more money on it.
Heretofore the seed distribution has
been maintained nominally for the purpose
of supplying the people wi’h “rare and
valuable seeds” for experimental purposes,
and for the promotion of the cultivation
of new and profitable species. The per
sons receiving the seeds have been re
quired to make reports to the government
upon the results obtained with them. Not
onq per cent of the number of persons
to whom seeds have been given
have ever reported. This year,
however, the farce of pretending
to supply “rare and valuable seeds for ex
perimental purposes” has been dropped.
It appears now that the bureau is to be
run solely for political purposes. Here is
the evidence: The bureau’s advertisement
for supplies of seeds for the ensuing year
calls for the following seeds, and no
others: "Beet, cabbage, carrot, celery, cu
cumber, egg-plant, lettuce, cantaloupe,
watermelon, onion, parsnip, radish, ruta
baga, squash, tomato, turnip, beans, peas,
sweet and field corn, tobacco, Australian
salt bush, cotton, cow peas, Canadian field
peas, vicia volosa, alsike, clover, alfalfa,
Bermuda grass, lawn grass, mangel-wur
zel, kidney vetch and choice varieties of
flowers.”
It will be seen that the list includes only
cottimon stock seeds, such as are sold
everywhere for ridiculously low prices.
Probably every seed in the list is kept at
the majority of general merchandise
stores and nearly every drug store in the
country. Certainly every seedsman sells
them, and at such prices that for a dollar
or two a supply running through the whole
list could be purchased. There is nothing
“rare or valuable” mentioned. Neverthe
less the government is required to buy not
less than $150,000 worth of these seeds to
l>e distributed by congressmen to their
constituents. This cost to the govern
ment, which means cost to the people,
does not include postage, which probably
amounts to half as much more.
Last year each senator and congressman
had 42,000 packages of seeds to distribute
to voters. The average voter who re
ceived seeds got probably less than $1
worth, and possibly not more than fifty
cents' worth. Why do members of con
gress take so much interest in sending out
seeds? We refrain from answering the
question; It must carry its own answer.
Yet it would be an insult to the American
farmer and voter to say that his vote
could be influenced by a gift of fifty cents’
worth of seeds.
While, the distribution amounts to very
little in the case of the individual who re
ceives seeds, it amounts to a great deal
to those who produce seeds for sale. The
government enters Into an unfair compe
tition with the seedsmen. It requires them
to pay taxes the same as anybody else,
and then takes a part of their tax money
to buy seeds with which to ruin their bus
iness. Furthermore, it teaches a depend
ence upon the government which Is not
in consonance with democratic doctrine.
The seed humbug should be abolished.
Killed by Legislation.
The great Coosaw Mining Company of
Beaufort, S. C., has ceased to be a factor
in th©_ phosphate mining world. The
last of Its employes, excepting watchmen
who guard the company's property,
has been discharged.
For many years this company was one
of the successful money making corpora
tions of South Carolina. It gave employ
ment to thousands of people and brought
millions of dollars into the state, part of
which, in the shape of a royalty, went
into the state treasury.
Adverse legislation and a lack of appre
ciation on the part of those who con
trolled public affairs of the value of such
a great enterprise to the state—an enter
prise, which, while it enriched Us stack
holders, helped the people by giving em
ployment to a very large number of them
and by paying a large part of the taxes—
were indirectly the cause of the destruc
tion of the company's business.
There is only one small company now
engaged in phosphate mining in Beaufort
county, and that company probably will
soon quit the phosphate mining business.
In view of the Florida competition in
phosphates—the Florida phosphates be
ing of a higher grade—it would have been
a wiser policy on the part of the state
to have reduced the royalty to a nominal
sum or have abolished it altogether, in
order to save the industry'. The state
could have afforded to give up her
royalty if by so doing an occupation and
a living could have been assured to the
hundreds of people who were engaged in
the phosphate industry.
One would never have supposed, under
ordinary circumstances, that '.Mr. Tom
Watson's liver would have become the
basis of a matter of personal privilege in
the Georgia legislature; but truth Is stran
ger than fiction. It is' understood, of
course, that the condition of a politician's
liver has a great deal of influence upon
his actions; but In the ease in point the
liver, while performing its orderly func
tions for Tom Watson, was worrying Sen.
ator Y'ancy Carter and a newspaper cor
respondent. Indeed, It seems to have been
responsible for a good deal of spleen and
some eruptions of the tongue on the part
of the third parties, while its owner, in
the happiest frame of mind, was writing
editorials with a pen dipped in gall.
A ship the nearest approach to Noaii’s
oak slrtce the flood, sailed out from New
Y’ork a day or two ago. It was the steam
ship carrying Barnum’s circus to Europe.
The cargo consisted entirely of animats
and the keepers, and food for them. There
are more than 800 animals on hoard, in
eluding 420 horses and twenty-six ele
phants. Johanna, the famous chimpanzee,
went in a cabin, and had provided for her
an abundance of fruits and nuts aud two
k cases of wine .
The Richmond (Y’a.) Times has an in
teresting letter from a correspondent at
Coronado Beach, Cal., bearing upon the
probable future of .Mr. Bryan. It seems
that the correspondent met Mr. Bryan on
a train near St. Louts. In the course of n
conversation which <nsned, Mr. Bryan was
asked: “Will you again Iks a candidate
for the presidency?" His reply, according
to the correspond nt. was: "I am thinking
seriously of withdrawing from politics.”
This was said "with the suggestion of a
sigh,” says the reporter. I Mr. Bryan is
really desirous of escaping from the cares
and art active political life,
such as he has been leading since last No
vember, nobody should stand In the way of
his retiring.
The curfew law ha. gone into effect at
Evanston, the university city of Illinois.
Tite law provides that no person under 15
years of age shall remain upon the streets
after 8 o’clock at night unless accompanied
by a parent or guardian, or in the
performance of an errand or a duty. It
is also unlawful for any parent to permit
a child under the prescribed age to be
upon the street after the hour named. A
fine of not more than $lO is provided for
violation of the law. When the law went
Into effect the other evening, every whis
tle and bell in the town proclaimed the
arrival of the hour of 8, and when the
noise had Ceased, riot a chick or a child
could be seen on the streets anywhere.
The dispatches from time to time tell of
things done by the “Bryan democrats”
and the “sound money democrats.” There
should be no such thing as classification
or distinction among democrats. Just
plain, stratght-away democrats, without
any prefix or qualification, is the right
sort of thing. The differences and dis
tinctions should ail be wiped out before
the beginning of another campaign.
PERSONAL.
—Helen Gould, who is wnffth about $23,-
000,000 in her own right, has entered the
law school of Columbia University, with
the intention of qualifying herself for ad
mitance to the bar.
—James William Defoe, the last of the
family and the great-grandson of the re
nowned Author, is an outdoor pauper of
the Chelmsford union, in receipt of the
modest pittance of 3 shillings a week.
—Thomas Arnold, father of Mrs.
Humphrey Ward, the novelist and social
reformer, has lived for many years in
Dublin, where he is a professor in the
Catholic University and a fellow of the
Royal university.
—ln Colorado three prominent positions
are held by women. One is the state su
perin tendency of public schools, held by
Prof. Grace EJpsey Patted, and the other
two are the legislative offices filled by Mrs.
Martha A. B. Conine and Mrs. Evangeline
Hartz.
—John Daly, the alleged Irish dynamiter,
who was arrested at Liverpool in 1882 and
afterward sentenced to life imprisonment
at Portland, has arrived in New Y’ork.
After his unconditional pardon the resi
dents of Limertek, proposed to
run Daly for the mayoralty, but he was
declared to be Ineligible on account of his
not living at that place for a year prior to
Aug. 31 last.
BRIGHT HITS.
—A Symptom—“But how are you going
to tell Platonic love from any other?”
"Weil, for one thing, Platonic love
doesn't laugh at locksmiths.”—Detroit
Journal.
—“At no time,” said the philosopher, “Is
a man so willing to take the burden from
the weak shoulders of frail woman as
when she Is harassed with the care of a
large and paj-iiig property.”—lndianapolis
Journal.
—Jasper—There’s a funny thing about
law-making In this country.
Jumpuppe—What’s that?
Jasper—Congress first makes the laws,
and then has to get the supreme court
to tell what they mean.—Puck.
—“Phidias,” asked Sir Christopher Wren,
"do you considir architecture frozen mu
sic?”
"Y’es—of course I do," replied Phidias.
“What was the tune of your Parthenon
frieze?” queried Atremus Ward.—Harper’s
Bazar.
—“Briggs nhd ilis' wife seem to be a very
congenial pair. YVhat he says she agrees
to, and what she says he backs up.”
“Yes; but it's simply nqcessary in their
case.”
“How’s that?”
“They live in a flat, and, of course,
there’s no rqom for argument.”—Chicago
News.
—'Expensive Modesty—“ What’s the mat
ter. old man? You look sad.”
“I am. I just asked Farnsworth to lend
me $5.”
“And I suppose bc ; said he didn’t have
that much in the world?”
“No; he had to get a $lO bill changed in
order to lei me have what I had asked
for.’’—Cleveland Leader.
CURRENT COMMENT.
A Pointer for Officeholders.
From a Special Dispatch (non-par.).
Washington, Nov. 13.—Postmaster E. T.
Gage of Redwater, Texas, will be retain
ed by this administration, and ail because
of the birth of quadruplets and twins in
his family.
A Kentucky Gentleman Slandered.
'From the Nashville American (Dem.).
Some gold papers uccuse Henry YVatter
son of having “taken water.” A great
many mean tilings have been said about
Henry lately, but we don’t believe this
one Is true.
Nntionnl ((iinrnntlne.
From the Birmingham News (Dem.),
The Georgia legislature, which is over
whelmingly democratic, Is for a national
quarantine’almost to a man. It does not
see in the proposition any assault upon
states’ rights, as do some people opposed
to the system. It is gratifying, however,
to know that the opponents of the move
ment are few in number.
Foot Hull ns It In Played.
From the Atlanta Journal (Dem.).
As foot ball is now played the game in
which nobody is hurt is the exception. As
a rule from one to half u dozen players
are taken off the field badly injured, and
often with broken bones.
Buch a game does not develop men as
much as It mars them. It Is a species of
brutal conflict which should be abolished
and forbidden as much for the sake of
clean, manly athletics us for the sake of
humane considerations
A Story of “Cal.” Brier.
A correspondent of the Boston Journal
tells this story of Calvin S. Brice: A
friend of his had a scheme for building a
tramway across the White Pass to connect
with the lakes leading up to the Klondike.
This man telegraphed Brice a description
of the project that fairly made the wires
glow. All he wanted was $190,000 to put
the scheme through, and it was sure to
yield $1U),000 profit every month right from
the start. How much of the SIOI.OXI would
Brice take? By return wire came the
message: "You needn't look any further.
I'll take the whole of it. Pay for it out
of the first month’s earnings. Send on the
125,00) surplus at once.”
Would Ask What He Said.
A waiter in a down-town restaurant the
other day asked me how much it would
cost to go to Paris, says the Washington
Star.
"Why do you want to know?" I inquir
ed. "Are you going over there?”
“Yes, sir.” he said politely. "I want to
see the Paris exposition in 1900, and I'm
going to get on the ground early.”
"What will you do in Paris in the mean
time?”
“I shall serve in a restaurant."
"Do you speak French?”
"No.”
"What will you do. then, when a cus
tomer comes in who knows nothing about
English and addresses you in French?”
“Well,” he replied, hesitatingly, “I sup
pose I'il Just have to ask him what he
said.”
“Them Foreign Drinks."
“You confounded idiot! Can’t you un
derstand plain English? I want a glass
of water—water to drink—and I want it
quick!” howled a stranger in an Austra
lian restaurant, says Answers.
In desperation the waiter hunted up the
proprietor and told him the story. The
landlord looked puzzled, and himself en
tered the dining-room, and, approaching
the stranger, said:
“Excuse me, sir; but my waiter is a
little hard of hearing. I will take your
order.”
"I ordered a glass of water—simply wa
ter."
“I'm very sorry,” replied the landlord,
"but I cannot accommodate you. There is
so little call for those foreign drinks here
that it doesn't pay to keep ’em. We’ve
some prime whisky in the bar, if you can
get along on that.”
The stranger finished his meal in silence.
“A* do Good Book I’nt It.”
Henry George was traveling once on a
sleeping car, says the San Francisco
Wave. The porter came to brush the dust
off him, and “work” him for the custom
ary quarter. There were but few passen
gers. George reflected on the fact that
Pullman paid his poor black hireling little
or naught, and relied on their ability to
brush and gouge the public instead, and
he determined to give him all the change
he found in his pocket. He thought there
might be about 60 cents, but there actu
ally was *3 in quarters, halves and dimes.
He gave it all to the darkey, who dropped
his broom and stared at the tip and then
at George. "This all fo' me, boss?” he
gasped. "It’s all for you,” replied George.
The darky looked at the little, rusty, mod
est man and again at his handful of silver.
"Wow!” he ejaculated; "it’s true as de
Good Book puts it, you nevah cain tell
how fah a toad kin jump twell you sees
him hop.”
A “Horse” On Him.
A Glasgow scientist, who visited Canada
a few years ago, made a trip through Al
berta, one of the northwest territories of
Canada, and spent some time as the guest
of a rancher, says the New York Trib
une. "I fixed him up as well as I could,”
the rancher relates, “but he complained
that he did not like sleeping with his
clothes on. So after the first night I
stretched a cowskin across the shack and
told him he might undress if he liked. He
took off most of his garments and put on
a long white night dress. In the morning
my foreman came in while the gentleman
was still sleeping. Observing the white
night dress, he said, in a whisper: ‘Rather
sudden—eh?’ ■'What?' I asked. ‘The
death of the old man.’ ‘He’s not dead—
he’s asleep,’ I exclaimed. "Then what’s he
wearin’ them biled clothes for?’ was the
reply, ‘Never saw a chap laid out in bil
ed clothes afore, ’cepf he were dead.’ ”
Bill Was Elected.
From the Denver Evening Post.
Well, the election’s over, wife, we’ve play
ed the ballot game.
An’ your ol’ man’s a roostin’ on the pin
nacle of fame!
The honored mantle o’ the law upon my
shoulders fell.
An’ proud are the emotions that within
my bosom swell!
In spite of all the quackin' of the opposi
tion geese,
The loyal folks have voted me the Justice
o’ the Peace,
An’ I will don the ermine as becomes a
noted man.
An’ try to scatter Justice just the very
best I can.
It was a hard-fought battle, Wife; their
forces was arrayed
In what they called a solid an’ invincible
brigade.
An’ every measly scheme was worked to
throw me off the track,
An’ with the knife o’ calumny to rip me
up the back.
They hinted at me stealin* sheep back
thnr in Arkansaw,
Said I had served a term in jail fur frac
turin’- the law.
An’ had half a dozen wives before I mar
ried you—
I was a high-grade devil from them fel
lers’ points view!
The Weekly Trumpet Blast come out in
sort o’ snaky way
An’ tried to jack me up as an oneducated
jay,
A man not fitted fur the place, an ignor
ant ol’ fool.
That didn’t know enough to shun the
wrong end of a mule.
I owe that lyin’ editor a dollar, I’ll admit,
An’ that’s what throwed him into sich an
agonizin’ fit,
But spite of all his scholar talk, an’ all
them fellers’ tricks,
I got eleven honest votes, an’ Peters only
six.
It was a glorious vict’ry, wife, an over
whelmin' scoop.
An’ treated pious Peters to a plunge bath
in the soup!
The people spoke in clarion tones, an’
showed us by their votes
They knowed how to discriminate ’twixt
sheep and billy goats.
It cost me lots o’ honest cash fur cider
an’ seegars,
I spent two'dollars, mighty near, acrost
bhe cussed bars,
BUt what is filthy lucre, even squandered
to extremes.
Beside the star of honor that upon my
chaplet gleams?
I hope you fully realize in its exalted
sense
The hight to which I've h'isted you on the
judicial fence.
You're now the wife of one on whom the
people look with awe,
A dignified, respectable dispenser of the
law.
Conduct yourself in queenly way, your
sta'tlon try to till.
An’ though when we are all alone you yit
may call me Bill,
When company is present from your dig
nity don’t budge!
I'll fine you fur contempt o’ court if you
don’t call me "Judge,”
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
—They make short work of pirates in
Chin'a. In July last a vessel in charge of
Chung Kwei, the son of a wealthy mer
chant at Singapore, while on its way to
Canton was seized and run aground by
pirates and looted of its full cargo of silks
and money. The Canton authorities im
mediately sent a gunboat down the river
ami the pirates, twenty in number, were
captured. They were taken in triumph
to Sail Ling, near Canton, and were con
demned by a military tribunal and be
headed in the course of a few hours.
—The English, in matters electrical, still
have to follow America's lead, yet in the
artistic application of electric lighting
they are masters. .Many of the arq lamp
posts used in the streets are examples
of fine art, while such ornamentation as
festooning the sidewalks of seaside prom
enades with incandescent electric lamps
is not rare. Dover is one such town, and
there are miles and miles of incandescent
lamp festoons along (he board walk, giv
ing a holiday air to the promenade during
the summer season. These lamps are em
ployed merely for their artistic effect, the
usual arc lights supplying the general il
lumination.
—Horses have played no inconspicuous
part In history, in some instances even be
ing 'deified, says the Memphis Scimitar.
‘lSaddle White Surrey for the field to
morrow," cried Richard 111 at the battle
of Bosworth Field. Black Agnes was the
favorite horse of Mary Queen of Scots.
Bucephalus, the favorite charger of Alex
ander the Great, used to kneel when the
king mounted him. He cost $16,500, and
was 30 years old when he died| Chosroes
II of Persia had a horse, Shibdiz, called
the Persian Bucephalus. Orelio was the
favorite horse of King Roderick, and Xan
thos the famus charger of Achilles. Copen
hagen, the horse of the Duke of Welling
ton, was 27 years old when he died.
—Queen Victoria has received from the
Parsees of Bombay a casket representing,
in gold and Silver embossed work, an old
Persian palace. On the panels are seen in
relief Persian figures in ancient national
costume, while the antique batons or
maces with bulls’ heads, the old-fashioned
war clubs, from the extreme corners of
the casket, which is about twenty inches
long. The miniature palace is crowned
with three figures symbolic of Parsee wor
ship. They are pure gold. A Parsee king
is praying before a fire altar, and in the
center is seen an angel. Kneeling ele
phants form the four feet of the casket,
tracing an allusion to the period when,
driven from Persia by the worshipers of
Islam, the Parsees found a resting place
in India.
—Can the dumb be made to
speak? Inventor Berlinger says
they can, and that, too,
without much difficulty, says the Chicago
Chroniole. He has devised an apparatus
which, he asserts, will produce sound in
the mouth, and with its aid all a mute
will have to do to talk'as well as any
body is to go through the motions of ar
ticulation with the tongue, lips and teeth.
Of course, the speech will be in a mono
tone, but it will serve all practical pur
poses. If this is true, the invention will
be of great value. The scientists should
now set to work to discover some way
to make the deaf hear. That ought not
to be any more difficult than it is to make
the dumb talk, and when the way is
found, it will be of far greater value, for
mutes are few, but deaf persons are nu
merous.
—The latest development a.s regards mo
tors Is the private motor train, says Lon
don Truth. One of these is being built
which is to be composed of an engine, a
saloon—to be used during the day as a
drawing room and at night as a sleeping
car—a wagon for the accommodation of
the servants and a luggage van. If private
and public motor trains become common,
as no doubt they will do in time, the traf
fic along the country roads will appear
strange to those who are accustomed to
the present order of things in this respect.
Moreover, the railway authorities wlli
have to bestir themselves to counteract the
evil results of this unexpected form of
competition, which will be tantamount to
the revival of stage coaches, only with
electricity substituted for horses. With
motor trains and bicycles to compete
against it would appear that the halcyon
days of railway enterprise are threatened
with extinction.
—The old mansion in which George Ban
croft lived so many years, in which he
wrote his history and spent his last days,
is being fitted up for a boarding house,
says the Washington correspondent of the
Chicago Record. It was inherited by Mr.
Bancroft’s granddaughter, but she has
never occupied it, and it has remained va
cant ever since his death. Mr. Bancroft’s
books, which once lined its walls from
basement to attic, were sold to the Lennox
library, in New York. It was perhaps the
most complete and valuable collection of
Americana in existence. The old mansion
Is one of the most stately and imposing
private residences in Washington. It
stands on H street, only n block from the
white house, where used to be the most
aristocratic quarter of the capital, but is
now being invaded by hotels, clubs and
boarding houses. Mr. Bancroft’s grand
children,, who inherited his estate, spend
most of their time abroad.
—Most prominent men are either remark
able for their ability to sleep at a mo
ment’s notice, or else resort to some spe
cial method for inducing the same, says
the Westminster Gazette. Of prime minis
ters, Lord Derby on one occasion advised
an Irish member to "banish business mat
ter from mind' by reading before going to
bed any trash calculated to bore or stupi
fy you;" and Lord Rosebery found the hot
water cure effective; but most of English
premiers have been able to do without any
aids to slumber. Mr. Gladstone, as is well
known, would in times of great anxiety
lie down on a sofa, and in a fetv minutes
be fast asleep, while Pitt was also able to
sleep at any time, attributing to this habit
the fact that at the most anxious periods
of his life he was able to cast aside all
care and worry, and enter into the frivol
ities of social life as if his mind were free.
Once Pitt slept after an unusual strain
for sixteen consecutive hours. Lord Palm
ersteen was another prime minister who
could woo sleep whenever he pleased, and
was often seen in the intervals of hot de
bate fast asleep in his seat with his hat
drawn well over his eyes.
—M. F. Abel of Freeport, L. 1., sent the
following communication. Interesting to
all lovers of natural history, to the Brook
lyn Eagle; “While hunting in the north
ern part of Merrick, L. 1., on Nov. 1, I
saw one of the most peculiar fights that I
ever had the luck to witness. I was after
rabbits, and was walking along near a rail
fence when my attention was suddenly at
tracted by an Immense swarm of spar
rows which were flying from one side of
the fence to the other, twittering with all
their might. They were somewhat above
me, so, running up nearer, I tried to find
the cause of the trouble. It showed it
self in the shape of a large skunk, which
was darting from one side of the fence to
the other, the sparrows following, picking
him savagely when they got the chance.
They did not seem to mind my presence
at all, and this dodging and attacking was
kept up for about five minutes, when sud
denly the skunk crossed to my side of the
fence and started across a big lot with the
evident intention of getting to a thick
wood that lay on the other side. He had
made perhaps half way when the entire
flock of sparrows, numbering at least 300
pounced on him. The skunk fought well!
but to no purpose, for in lesa than a min
tute he was torn to shreds.” <
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There Has Been
A BLIGHT
In Trade This Year.
Whatever the cause every one has felt l.
The backward season is largely responsU
ble. Manufacturers, jobbers and import,
ers are unloading stock WITHOUT RE
GARD TO PRICES.
Wise dealers, too, are not holding baek,
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
PRICES NEVER KNOWN BEFORE
Our stock includes the best of every,
thing, und we cun furnish from 10 cen j
to $4 a yard Dress Goods, unmatchahle
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 65 cents; easily
worth SI.OO.
RUGS. '' /
Our assortment is as large and hand*
some as any one could want. Our prices
are way down.
Come and see us to-day.
Daniel Hogan,
The corner Broughton and Barnard sts.
Si OIL UND GASOLINE DELIVER!
P. O. Box 19. Telephone 461.
Office Price tffid Gordon streets.
5-gal. patent cans best grade 0i1..65c
Second grade 50c
5-gallon patent cans gasoline.... 60c
Our patrons will take notice that F. A.
Cohen and W. U. Gordon are no longer in
our employ. The gentlemen now in charge
of our wagons are perfectly reliable, and
the patrons will be given perfect satisfac
tion in the future.
HOW ABOUT ROOF?
DOES IT LEAK?
IF SO CONSULT
E. C. PACETTI,
136 Whitaker street, next to York.
He mnnufnctnres Galvanized
Iron anil Copper Cornices, Build
ers’ Fronts, Tin .Iron and Slate
Booling, and repairs roofs at a
moderate price.
Agent for Cartright Metal
Sliingdes—tlie BEST.
shim am n
59.50.
Tills week I am making special
■trices on Sidebonrds and Extension
Tables.
Still give special prices on Bed
room Suits.
Watch this column every week for
special prices.
J. W. TEEPLE,
315 and 317 Broughton street, west.
S. P SHOTTER, President.
A. VV. CAUMIc HALL. Vice President.
H. S TURNER, Secretary.
HARDEEVILIE BRICE CO.
DEALERS IN
Paints, Wall Paper, Mantels, etc.
Make Home Attractive
by letting us paint and paper your
residence. Paints mixed, with brains
and properly applied.
Wall papering scientifically done.
Let us estimate on your require
ments.
We guarantee our work.