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Amusements—Rosabel Morrison at the
Theater To-night; Lecture by Hon. Goo.
P. Wendling, at Guard's Arsenal To-night.
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For Sale; Lost; Personal; Miscellaneous.
Serator Hanna probably regrets that be
taught those Ohio politicians so many
tricks of the trade.
Should Hon, George D. Tillman conclude
to run for governor of South Carolina, he
would probably bo given lite ral anil loyal
newspaper support in Georgia. The Augus
ta Chronicle has declared for him.
Anew convict labor law went into effect
In Massachusetts with the first of the new
year. It provides that not over lit* per cent,
of the number of inmates of any penal
Institution In the state having more than
100 inmates shall be employed in any one
industry, except in cam-si tiling and the
manufacture of umbrellas. I.urge numbers
of the Massachusetts convicts have been
engaged in making shoes. Many convicts
will remain idle under the new law.
The death rate of Philadelphia last year
teas 18.72 per 1,000, as compared with a
high-water rate of 22.25 ill 1892. The Pub
lic Ledger says the Improvement in the
public health began when the city com
menced to make extensive paving im
provements. The greatest death rate oc
curred in the last year of the old cobble
stone paving, "which was a famous dis
ease breeder.” Following the laying of as
phalt, and the cleaning and paving of
alleys, the health of the city showed a
steady improvement. With clean streets
and alleys, good drainage und pure water,
the average city has not a great deal to
fear from ordinary illness.
The secretary' of the forestry commis
sion of Wisconsin is making an earnest ef
fort to secure the reforesting of the cut
over lands of that state. He announces that
the "pine kings" have promised to replant
their cut-over land with trees a year old
if the state will see to it that the lire law
pertaining to forests is strictly enforced.
There Is need for a movement towards
forest preservation, or forest restoration,
or both, in this state. Millions of our trees
ore destroyed every year, wdhout any
thought being taken as to when and how
they are to be replaced. Unless something
Is done before a great while, wo shall
presently' awaken to the fact that our for
ests have disappeared, and our climate and
water courses have txvn incalculably in
jured thereby.
Senor Pldal, president of the Spanish
Chamber cf Deputies, lias no doubt madi
himself very unpopular with those north
ern congressmen and jingo editors who
have been anxious for this country to in
tervene in Cuba because of the "atroo -
tics” of the Spanish troops. Senor Pldal,
In a speech which was quoted in the news
dispatches of yesterday, recalls the fact
that there was a war in this country some
thing over thirty years ago. in which
there were "committed horrors unequalled
by any civilized nation in the universe"
by those sections which are now horrified
a' the course of the war In Cults. Re
minder's of this kind often sting to the
quick. Senor Pldal may have been im
politic in his utterances, but he evidently
knows something of United States history.
Too Much of a Boss.
Senator Hanna has played the part of a
ss in Ohio politics with too littl< regard
•r the feelings of other men of his party
Ohio who would like to be political
isses. He has antagonized men tvho
uld lend him a helping hand at this time
hen he needs help, but are now active
orkers In the camp of his enemies. Gov.
ushnell, who appointed Mr. Hanna to
ie Senate, openly says that in Hie last
impaign in that state Senator Hanna ig
nored him—in fuct, treated him as if he
id no political intluenoe. The governor
id other republican leaders think the
'ime has come for getting even with Mr.
t tnna. They have grievances and they
ire trying to get satisfaction,
ft was thought that having appointed
Ir. Hanna to the Senate, Gov. liushnell
would support him when the lime cams
or electing a senator. It Is quite cer
tin, however, that he did not appoint Mr.
Hanna willingly. He did it to oblige the
'resident, who wanted lo pay Mr. Hanna
nr the services the latter rendered him
in the presidenthil campaign.
It was Mr. Hanna’s ambition to be a
-enator. t.Mr. Sherman was therefore taken
■at of the Senate and put in the cabinet
in order to make a vacant place in the
Senate for Mr. Hanna.
Mr. Hanna had been so much praised
for his work in the presidential campaign
that ho regards himself as invin
cible in politics. He told his friends that
ihere was no doubt that he would be elect
"d senator when the time for an election
ante, and he believed what he said. If
he had been less confident he would not
have made enemies of Gov. Bushnell and
ot her political leaders who are now against
him, He would have made them bis
friends.
It cannot be said, of course, that he is
beaten, because he may bring sufficient
pressure to bear upon the recalcitrant re
publican members of the legislature to in
duce them to support him. But whether
defeated or successful, he will have learned
hat a political boss cannot ride rough shot!
over the leaders of his party anti at the
same time have the support of those lead
ers when he needs it. They may help hold
the ladder which lie climbs to positions of
power, hut they will pull the ladder from
under him when the opportunity to do
so presents itself.
There is talk that if the republicans can
not elect Mr. Hanna to the Senate they
will try to elect Judge Day, an assistant
in the state department. He has no ene
mies In Ohio and might be acceptable to
the republicans who are opposing Mr.
itanna. It would be galling to the feel
ings of Mr. Hanna, however, to have Judge
Day preferred to him. It is not improb
able that he would open n har’l before he
would consent to be defeated by Judge
Day or any other republican.
Mayor Harrison Is Unhappy,
The young mayor of Chicago. Mr. Harri
son, began the year in an unhappy frame
of mind. He says that ho is disgusted
with his position and sour on account of
his inability to manage the city’s affairs
as he wants to. He threatens to resign
and go to Europe.
Of course he will not resign. He will
boar the tils of his position with a great
. how of fortitude and will seek a re-elec
tion, in all probability. What he com
plains of is that he is held responsible for
the proper administration of the affairs of
the city and yet hasn’t authority to ap
point the chiefs of the different bureaus.
The chiefs are appointed in accordance
with civil service rules unit they manage
their respective bureaus to suit them
selves. The mayor can't get rid of them
when their management of their bureaus
is not satisfactory- to him.
Mayor Harrison’s experience is similar
io that of Mayor Mcldrim of this city.
The latter has practically nothing to say
about keeping the streets clean or the clos
ing of the saloons on Sundays or, in fact,
any other matter of importance in the ad
ministration of the city's affairs. The
streets may be ever so dirty and the sa
loons may fill the barracks on Sundays
with violators of the ordinance against
Sunday liquor selling, but the mayor has
no authority to bring about a hotter state
of affairs. He has the honor of being
mayor and the satisfaction of drawing the
alary attached to mayor's office, but he
cannot show the people what he would do
in the way of enforcing the laws if he had
the opportunity. He can sympathize with
Mayor Harrison and doubtless does, be
-1 ause each of them is practically shorn
of power, one by a civil service law and
(he other by commissions.
\n Important Ordinance Ignored.
The water works pumped 7,250,000 gal
lons of water on Monday, anti still there
w as no pressure on the mains. On Brough
ton street east of Butt water could not
he had from faucets in second stories.
What would have been the consequence if
n fire had broken out on Broughton street,
or in the section known as the "old fort"
end of town? The answer suggests itself.
There was a crisis in the safety of the
city. We came through it unscathed to
lie sure but there is no telling when an
other similar crisis will occur, and who
could guarantee that fire would not break
out then? An expe rt engineer is authority
for the statement that the engines would
not have be-en able to throw t< stream forty
feet high from the mains at ihe eastern
end of Broughton street on Monday. The
superintendent of the water works Is quo
ted as saying that the lack of pressure
was due to broken water pities. There
may have been a number of pipes broken,
but as a matter of fact the great waste
of water, in all probability, came from hy
drants left open by householders in order
to prevent the freezing of the piiies. There
is an ordinance against (his sort of thing.
It was passed some time ago to meet just
uch emergencies as was that of Sunday.
It is on oi>on set ret that the ordinance is
not enforced. Why is it no; ?
In Kansas City an ordinance was re
entiy passed making it unlawful for street
ar companies to collect fare from passen
gers who were compelled to stand, and pro
viding other regulations designed to pre
vent crowding and had ventilation. The
people of that city now have the pleas
ure of riding in a number of now cars and
enjoyingAhe comfort of a sufficiency of
100 m. It ts a pleasure to read of the fact
1 hat there are some cities in which the
treat railways do not “own the earth.”
THE MORNING NEWS: WEDN ESDAY. JANUARY 5, 1898.
Not tlie Time to Raise Salaries.
The announcement yesterday •morning
that the Water commission hail raised the
salary of the superintendent of the water
works from $2,000 to $2,400 must have been
received by the public with surprise in
view of all that the commissions have said
about their inability to get along during
the present year upon the appropriations
made by city council for their respective
departments. We have nothing to say de
rogatory to the official who has been so
handsomely complimented by the water
commission. But, however good an official
he may be. it doesn't follow that at this
time, when the city is finding if difficult
to make the revenues meet the exjiendi
tures, his salary should be raised, unless
It could be shown that the
place he holds coudn't lie fill
ed satisfactorily for the salary which
for years has been paid the superintend
ent of water works. It was the under
standing that the commissions were cre
ated for the purpose not only of bringing
about a more careful administration of
the city’s affairs, but also to introduce
economy in the city's expenditure*. The
raising of the salaries of prominent offi
cials is not in the line of economy.
If the city were out of debt and the tax
mte was low salaries of quite a number
of officials would be raised probably, and,
that, too, with the approval of the public,
but the act of the water commission in in
creasing the operating expenses of the
water department at this lime will hardly
be approved. Only a few days ago the
chairman of the commission, in speaking
of the appropriation for his department,
said: "It is the smallest appropriation
that has been given the department in a
number of years, tint! it will require close
economy to pull through on it. If possi
ble to get through the year on it, we shall
do so. There will be no frills on the water
department next year, and if the people
suffer any inconvenience they need not lay
the blame on us.”
Yet notwithstanding the statements that
it would require close economy to pull
through the year on the amount allowed
the water department and that there
would be "no frills” on the department,
the salary of the superintendent lias been
raised S4OO. Under the circumstances the
public will not expect to “suffer any incon
venience,” and they will be apt to want to
know the reason why if the, department
doesn’t get through the year on its appro
priation.
Pay or Itepndiate.
One part of Greater New York, namely,
the borough of Brooklyn, appears to be in
a remarkably bad condition financially. Its
debt is staled to be $71,022,703. The assess
ed valuation of its real estate is $570,107,-
742. The law provides that no city of the
elate shall create a debt in excess of 10
per cent, of the assessed valuation of its
real estate. Brooklyn's debt is over $14,-
000,000 in excess of the assessed valuation
of its real estate. What are the people of
Brooklyn going to do about it? Are they
going to insist that their tax rate shall be
increased, and that the illegal part of the
debt shall be paid, or are they going to re
pudiate it?
It is a very difficult matter for cities to
keep within the debt limit allowed by law.
Each administration seeks lo make a bet
ter showing than Us predecessor in the
matter of public improvements, and as al
dermen, as a rule, do not have the same
feeling of responsibility in managing a
city’s affairs they have in managing their
own business matters a city's debt accum
ulates very rapidly.
If Brooklyn undertakes to pay the $14,-
000,000 of its illegal indebtedness by means
of extra tax levies, the tax rate in that
part of Greater New York will be high
enough for a few- years to make property
owners feel they would rather own real
estate in some other part of the greater
city.
Kansas is once more after the plutocrats
with pitchforks aud bludgeons. It is all
about jack-rabbits. After a round-up of
rabbits the other day someone proposed
that several’car loads be shipped to Liver
pool in cold storage. It was said there
wns a good market for jack-rabbit on ice
in Liverpool. Application for freight room
was met by the information from the
transportation agent that the big packing
companies had engaged all of the cold
storage room to be had. it was at once
clearly evident to the rabbit people that
the packing companies had entered into a
conspiracy for the double purpose of re
stricting the rabbit market and forcing the
people of Liverpool to eat the meat pro
ducts of the packing trust.
The necessity for a change in the system
of government in the Indian Territory was
recognized in the creation of the Dawes
commission. A Chicago political club has
suggested to President McKinley, and
Representative Simpson will suggest to
congress, that the Henry George plan of
taxation tie given a trial in the territory,
in connection with whatever new laws
may lie enacted by the government thereof.
Since in the case of the single tax it is
not practicable to "try it on the dog," as
is the custom in theatrical affairs, the
Chicagoans propose to try it on the In
dians.
A novelty in electric arms has been sub
mitted to Gen. Flagler, chief of ordinance
of the army. It Is an electric sword. The
person using tt is to carry a battery in
his pocket, and the weapon Is to be ar
ranged so that when an enemy is struck
with the sword a dischuhte of electricity
through the point of the weapon will stun
him. In this case the enemy presses the
button and the electricity docs the rest.
Anew idea in barn-storming, or rather
an old idea warmed over, is to be worked
out by Chicago genius and with Chicago
capital. A theatrical troupe will tour the
country in circus fashion, giving perform
ances under canvass. Elaborate scenery
and properties are lo be carried, and the
plays will be presented with till of the
accessories usually found in a first class
theater.
It would seem that the governorship of
Georgia is not a very exacting position,
and that it affords a good deal of leisure
for junkets, tours and pleasure trips gen
erally. The people who pay the taxes
have no such time to give to vacations and
pleasure tours us has been taken by Gov.
Atkinson during his incumbency of the of
fice;
The partition of China among the nations
of Europe wou! I, very probably, knock
out the last save one of the remaining
great silver standard nations. From this
fact, Senator Stewart of Nevada is able lo
see in the partition of China another man
ifestation of Ihe gigantic gold-bug con
spiracy against poor silver.
PERSONAL.
—The Prince of Naples, one of the best
numismatists in Europe, has been made
an honorary member of the French Nu
mismatist Society.
—The aged Johann Strauss recently ap
peared as an orchestral conductor in Vi
enna after a long absence from the public
view. He conducted a performance of his
newest waltz, "On the Elbe.”
—Li<ut. Elmer Lindsay, IT. S. A., writes
from Yellowstone park that few buffaloes
have been reported in the park this sea
son, although he hopes to find twenty-five,
which he will endeavor to protect.
—Sir William Harcourt is the son of a
clergyman and the grandson of a bishop.
He was trained for the bar, and, after a
considerable time in practice and some
service as solicitor general, became pro
fessor of international law at Cambridge.
—Dr. Sven Hedin, one of Sweden's great
explorers, has made himself famous
throughout England by his lectures on his
Asiatic explorations. Dr. Hedin made his
first trip when he was but 20 years oid
and had only $l6O in his pocket.
—"Jennie June,” recently appointed pub
lic school inspector of New York, is the
dean of newspaper women. It was she
who originated the modern "syndicate let
ter” and established the first regular wo
man’s department in a daily paiier.
—Rev. Charles C. Salter, who died the
other day in Duluth. Minn., was one of
the best known philanthropists of the
state. He has for years worked among
those who live in the slums of Duluth and
was idolized by the newsboys and boot
blacks.
—Walter Channing Wyman, the Chi
cagoan who became prominent through
his conection with the anthropological de
partment of the world's fair. Is working
hard for an Indian exhibit at the Trans-
Mississippi exposition, because he believes
that this will be the nation’s last chance
to see the real aborigines.
—Col. J. W. Scatter, who was connected
with Henry Watterson in the pubiication
of the famous southern paper, the “Rebel”
during the war, recently told how, on a
day when \yatterson had written a blaz
ing article telling the soldiers to stand like
Spartans in the rain of bullets, he had fled
in terror from a building which had been
struck by a shell.
BRIGHT BITS.
—Wiekwire—“l like Timmins's stories. He
has such a light touch.”
Simmins—“Yes, that's one thing in Tim
more than two or three dollars.”—lndian
apolis Journal.
—“De man dat makes New Year resolu
tions an’ accidentally breaks ’em,” said
Uncle Eben, “ain't nigh as bad off as de
man dat 'imagines he doesn’t need none.”—
Washington Star.
—“This taik about free alcohol for use in
the arts.” began Gaswe'd. “Well?” ask
ed Gasbill. "Has that anything to do
with painting the town red?”—Pittsburg
Chronicle-Telegraph.
—As Defined in New York—" What is a
somopolitan ?” “A cosmopolitan is a
New Yorker who has been convinced that
there is something going on outside of liis
own town.”—Chicago Record.
—Seems to Cover It—Hojack—“Give me
a paraphrase of ‘All is fair in love and
war.”
Tomdik—“The tactics permissible in
courtship are equally allowable after mar
riage.”—Puck.
-Within the Law—“ Where are you go
ing, my pretty maid?”
"I’ m going a-biking. sir,” she said.
"There's no bell on your wheel, though,
my pretty maid."
"When I mount there will be one, sir,”
she said.—Harper’s Bazar.
Art. "I have heard,” said the young
woman who is improving her mind, “that
sometimes it requires a great deal of art
to succeed in not doing things.”
"It does,” replied Senator'Sorghum; “un
questionably: especially if you are bein
paid for them.”—Washington Star.
Oh, my friends, there are some specta
cles that one never forgets!” said a lec
turer. after giving a graphic description
of a terrible accident he had witnessed.
“I'd like to know where they sells 'em,"
remarked an old lady In the audience, who
is always mislaying her glasses.—Tit-Bits.
Cf It It ENT COM MENT.
An Obsolete Formula.
From the Washington Post (Ind.).
In the present emergency Mr. Hanna
finds his formula for catching southern
delegates quite worthless.
Waiting for Top Prices.
From the Nashville American (Dem ).
The Ohio republican legislator who is
still doubtful on the senatorial question is
somewhat remindful of the farmer who
held on to his wheat until it reached the
dollar mark.
Georgia textile Sellout.
From the Chattanooga Times (Dem.).
The Atlanta textile school will make a
beginning; hut the cotton and woolen
goods trades need several of these schools,
not to speak of the need of means for
training young men for the handling of
our vast and growing business and devel
oping them into higher lines.
A Muncy-Making Establishment.
From the Philadelphia Ledger (Ind.).
It is an old joke that the mint is the
only place which can make money without
advertising, but few of the people who
pass it every day could suspect that this
quiet looking building, where there is never
any bustle of business and never any ap
pearance of energy, turned out last year
more than $.41,000,0000f money in more than
70,500,0110 separate pieces. The moral seems
to tie that it is not always the most con
spicuous business that yields the greatest
results.
Wants to See Big War.
From the Topeka Capital (Rep.).
What we want to see is a big war over
China. There is not a power in Europe that
that doesn't need n first-class licking. The
principle governments have been taxing
their people outrageously for years in or
der to enable the diplomats to make faces
at one another and the soldiers to insult
and bully civilians. It is time the soldiers
did something to earn (heir living. A gen
eral war between the powers will show
thq folly an*l the danger of vast war es
tablishments, and it is the only thing that
will bring about disarmament.
Why tlie Count Mixed Drinks.
A gentleman from abroad who happened
to lie visiting in this country not a great
while ago, says the Albany Journal, had
letters of introduction to many distinguish
ed people in a prominent eastern city and
in Washington, which he presented in due
time and was accorded the true American
hospitality, with a big H.
la one of these cities (I won’t say which)
he presented his letter of introduction to
the head of a family which had a local
reputation for its views on the temper
ance question and which was regarded as
being the most radical of the radicals on
this subject. He tvas received with great
cordiality and show n every attention dur
ing his brief visit, due to his high rank.
As there were several marriageable young
ladies in the household and as he was
tinctured with the blood royal it was
thought the proper caper to suspend the
rules for the time being in regard to the
use of wines and liquors at meals, and to
give the distinguished foreigner a lesson in
American hospitality. So he was politely
urged to remain to dinner and gracefully
accepted the invitation.
Just before dinner his host, during a lull
in the conversation, called him aside and
said: “Count, as you have doubtless been
told, our family is committed on the sub
ject of temperance and we never have
anything stronger than water or tea and
coffee on our table. Of course you Euro
peans use wine at almost every meal, and
it is perfectly natural that you should ex
pect it. I keep a little wine in the house
fof medicinal purposes only, and if you
will accompany me to my private room
1 will bo happy to have you join me in
a small bottle of Clicquot.” The count as
sented and ascended with his host to the
latter’s private liar, where he found a
couple of pint bottles of sparkling cham
pagne on ice, all ready to be offered ip.
His host dexterously persuaded the corks
to leave their moorings and soon had the
foaming nectar gurgling down the count's
and his ow n aesophagus. They consumed
two bottles, and then went down to din
ner feeling greatly refreshed and edified.
Dinner over, the count, accompanied by
a son of the host, took a stroll in the con
servatory. and while discussing botany
with the bright young American, he was
reminded parenthetically, "that ours is a
temperance family, and wo never use wine
or whisky on our table.”
“I am sometimes subject to severe
cramps, count,” said the young man, ‘and
on the advice of our family physician I
drink the very best whisky that can be
had. If you don’t mind, why I’ll have you
go up to my room and we will have a lit
tle of it together.” The count “didn’l
mind," and went up and "kissed the ba
by,” as the old topers down south say,
and then went down into the parlor to find
that the young ladies had changed their
toilets and were looking as pretty as pic
tures. One of the young ladies, a perfect
American queen, with a complexion os
beautiful as a summer sunset, took her
place at the pianoforte and played in the
most charming manner the “Lullaby”
from “Brminie,” and the count went into
eestacies thereat. Pa end the young son
excused themselves, as they had pressing
business at the office, and left the count
in all his glory with madam and the young
ladies. Soon the music ceased and madam
cautiously broached the subject of temper
ance, with a view to ascertaining on which
side of the fence tlie count lived. He as
sured her in fairly good English that he
was not averse to a little wine occasionally
and that he was accustomed, when in
France- to having it with his meals, where
they drink it just as the Americans do wa-
“Well,” said madam, “we never use any
strong drinks on our table, count, as it sets
a bad example before the servants. The
girls and myself, on the advice of our fam
ily physician, who is a very learned and
capable man, are drinking, as a medicine
purely, the very best Holland gin, for our
complexions. If you would like a glass
of that, I am sure we would be only too
happy to offer it to you,” said madam in
her blandest and most persuasive manner.
The count thought he would not mind try
ing "a leetle of ze Holland gin,” as he
wanted to be agreeable, and accordingly
the glasses and bottles were brought in
from an adjoining room by one of the
young ladies and each of them joined their
royal visitor in a friendly so-ial smile. The
count took a good pull of this harmless
looking liquid, and in about twenty min
utes thereafter experienced great difficulty
on account of the thickness of his speech
in making himself understood. It went to
bis head and into his knees, and but for
the timely return of the host and his son
he would have collapsed entirely. They
got him out into the bracing air, where
he could pump ozone in his lungs and
gather his scattered thoughts.
On returning to consciousness he deliv
ered himself as follows:
“Zat eez vere strange zat tempairance
questione. Sacre! I cannot comprehendez.
Von may not drunk at ze table, but he
may get so drunk as le diable in my lady's
boudoir. Zat ees vere strange. I cannot
comprehendez. Imposseeble! Imposseeble!
Tossed by tlie Hurricane.
Two men who had been chums in a
western town before a financial hurricane
hit it met for the first time in eleven
years in a Sixth avenue eating house the
other day, says the New York Sun. In
the days of their prosperity one of them
was a political lever and was called colonel.
He had been on the governor's staff. The
other in some way had acquired the title
of captain. Both had front seats in every
event of the town in which they had lived.
The governor's ornament is now a plain
bookkeeper in Broad street. The other
man in a dry goods clerk.
After greetings, explanations, and a few
mournful references to perished delights,
they had a combination meal, and if you
don’t know what that is you have never
had any trouble, and any one who casts a
shadow is worse than a heathen. When
the meal was over the two old friends
walked out and stood for a few minutes
under the splutter of an arc light. As
they were parting the man who used to
ride the big bay horse in the governor’s
parade, and who had® commanded the
populace of his town to stand back, said
in a low, mourner-like tone:
“If you come to see me don’t call mo
colonel. Nobody knows me as colonel now.
1 am just an employe on a salary.”
The are light spluttered again as the
little man replied in a squeaky, hall-bed
room voice:
"And if you come to see me just call
me ’Say, you!’ That’s what everybody
calls me in the store.”
"Well, good-by, captain.”
“So long, colonel.”
It was the first time they had heard the
titles in years, and each walked away
with a lighter step and lighter heart.
The Bull Didn’t Know.
A story is told of a great English per
sonage who thought everybody knew or
ought to know him, says Tit-IBlts. One
day he was walking through a field when
a bull addressed him In an undertone and
made for him with his head down, and his
horns in a position to raise him.
He was a minister, a man of dignity and
political power, and of natural pomposity.
But he ran. He ran surprisingly well. He
ran lietter than he ever did for office, and
he got to the fence first. He clambered
over, out of breath and dignity, and found
the owner of the bull contemplating the
operation.
"What do you mean, sir,” asked the
irate statesman, "by having an Infuriated
animal like that roaming over the field?”
“Well. I suppose ihe bull has some right
In the field,” said Ihe farmer.
"Right? Do you know who I am, sir?”
gasped the baronet.
The farmer shook his head.
”1 am the Right Honorable Sir——"
"Then, why on earth didn’t you tell the
bull?" said ihe farmer.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
—'An English jnventor has patented a
detachable gas motar for bicycles, which
is attached to the rear part of the frame
and has a piston-rod connected to a crank
set in the motor frame which turns a
sprocket wheel and transmits the power
to the rear wheel of the bicycle.
—To prevent railroad cars running out
on the main track after being placed on a
switch a steel bar is set across the rail in
a slanting position, with the inner end
pivoted in a socket and the outer end fit
ted with a loop to hold it in place over
the rail by means of a pin and iock.
—The Shah of Persia never drew a sword
in war, and probably never will, says the
Springfield Republican, but he is having
a magnificent Imperial blade manufactur
ed for him—and at Sheffield, too. for En
glish craft in steel leads any Asiatic skill
of this degenerate day, except only that
of Japan. The blade of the shah's sword
is scimitar-shaped, double-edged, inlaid
with gold; its scabbard will be of royal
scarlet Persian leather, with mountings in
gold filagree, and an ivory hilt, inlaid with
gold arabesques and inscriptions, while
its cross-bar is studded with precious
stones. Such things are the toys of pet
ty monarchs of to-day.
—Some of our American authors claim
the halcyon days come in June, when the
air is filled with the scent of flowers and
the song of birds, says the Pittsburg Dis
patch. They are right >n thinking the
phrase expressive of a period of tranquil
ity and happiness, but are wrong in plac
ing the time. The fact is we are now in the
very heart of the halcyon days, since, ac
cording to the ancients, they came during
the seven days preceding and the seven
days following the shortest day of the
year. The old Grecian mariner believed
that at this period the kingfisher, or haly
con bird, as they called it, laid its eggs
in a nest floating on the surface of the sea,
and that during the time of incubation (14
days) the waves of the sea were always
calm.
—A resident of Orlando, Fla., has sent
to the New Y’ork Times office a specimen
of what he calls “the new Florida pro
duct—the velvet bean.” To the inexpert,
unagricuHurai eye said product seems If
be merely an almost black pod containing
five well-developed seeds, in color brown,
carelessly streaked with white. Why vel
vet or why wonderful does not appear to
the unassisted vision, but one sentence in
the accompanying letter convinces us that
this plant is indeed remarkable, though it
raises at the same time a question as to
the wisdom of granting our correspon
dent's request and urging an extensive cul
tivation of his bean. That sentence runs
thus: “The verbiage and vine coming
from this bean is a marvel.” So abundant
is verbiage in this world already, that
realty there doesn’t seem to be a need
for any more of it, especially as the Flori
da man expatiates on the nitrogen, pro
telne, and oil which the bean produces
when ground up, Instead of telling what i't
says while growing. However, we are
willing to take for granted the harmless
ness of this vegetable’s remarks, and to
give it here a little free advertising.
—The Great Salt Lake of Utah, the Gal
ilee of the vanishing Mormon, is seventy
miles long and fifty miles wide in its wid
est part, with a present maximum depth
of forty feet, though much of its area
does not exceed from twelve to twenty,
says the New York Tribune. Fifty' years
ago, when the Morman first fared thither,
it was much deeper, exceeding 100 feet
in places, and Us average being much
greater than present measurements show.
Just now it is two feet lower than has
ever been known, and the local savant
conjectures that it is gradually turning
into a body of fresh water. The theory
is supported by an examination of the
waters of numberless springs which used
,to pour pure brine into the lake, the out
flow of many of them being now quite
fresh, as if they had exhausted the under,
ground deposits of salt of which they were
formerly the solvent and carrying vehicle.
Still, of the lake in general, it may be
safely asserted that its salt will long out
last that of the doctrines which its pion
eer apostle promulgated along its shores,
and though it occasionally shows, as at
present, a particularly low' water mark it
is not going to dry up altogether for a
long time to come.
—The water clock, otherwise the clep
sydra, seems, unless the Egyptologists find
something fresh in that land of incessant
discoveries from the most far mists of
time, to have been the first scientific effort
at noting the hours, says the London
Standard. A good many people talk glib
ly about the clepsydra, who neither know
Its precise construction nor the nation whoi
have the credit of constructing it. That
belongs to the Assyrian, and as far back
as at least over 2600 years ago the clepsy
dra was used in Nineveh under the sway
of the second Sardanapalus. It was a
brass vessel of syiindrieal shape, holding
several gallons of water, which could only
emerge through one tiny hole in the side.
Thus the trickling of the fluid marked
a certain amount of time, and the water
was emptied about half a dozen times per
diem. In Nineveh there was one at the
palace, and one in each principal district.
These were all filled by signal from a
watchman on a tower at the moment of
sunrise, and each had an attendant, whose
business it was to refill the clepsydra as
soon as it was emptied, the fact being an
nounced by criers, much as In the last
century the watchmen drowsily shouted
the hours at night throughout the streets
of London. Some five centuries later an
anonymous genius made a great improve
ment by inserting toothed wheels, which
revolving turned two hands on a dial in
clock-fashion, thus showing the progress
of the time, which from one filling to
emptying averaged two hours and a half.
In this shape the clepsydra, which was
then chiefly procurable in Egypt, became
introduced to various other nations, in
cluding Home, where it flourished with
various splendid embellishments until the
end of the empire.
—The importance of ozone in purifying
the air is now generally recognized, and
many new plans for its generation are be
ing suggested. Among these is a Swedish
invention based on the well-known prin
ciple that phosphorus properly immersed
In diluted sulphuric acid, with the addi
tion of a little permanganate of potash,
develops the gas in question. This meth
od is adapted for domestic use. where com
paratively small quantities of ozone, made
at a slight cost, are needed. The phos
phorus is kept in the liquid in such a way
that its upper surface is hardly submerg
ed. Gradually, as the phosphorus is con
sumed, it rises automatically in the liquid
under the pressure of counterweights spec
ially adjusted. Provision is made against
interference from evaporation. The advo
cates of the use of ozone claim that there
is not a living room, office or hospital
ward that would not be benefited by the
use of one of these generators. It is not
generally known that a simple and effect,
ual way of bringing ozone into the house
consists in first suspending moist linen
sheets in a keen, dry wind and afterward
hanging them up in the house. The air in
the room will become abundantly charged
with ozone, the presence of which will be
detected by its peculiar smell, while a
moistened starch iodide paper will quickly
turn blue. This accumulation of ozone is
probably due to the rapid passage of the
oxygen in the air over a large wet surface.
Thus the wind blowing oiver the sea waves
or over the waves of a lake, or the air in
the immediate neighborhood of a water
fall or spray contains a notable amount
of ozone. It is now believed that the phe
nomenon mentioned plays on Important
part in the real hygienic cleansing of our
linen articles of clothing.
RED
ROUGH
HANDS
Itching, scaly, bleeding palms, shapeless nails,
and painful linger ends, pimples, blackheads,
oily, mothy skin, dry, thin, and falling hair, itch
ing, scaly scalps, all yield quickly to warm baths
with Cuticura Soap, and gentle anointings
with Cuticura (ointment;, the great akin cure.
Qticura
Is sold throughout the world. Pottb* Daro akb Chbm.
Cobp . Sole Props., Boton.
“ How to Produce Soft. White Hands,” free
ITCHING HUMORS COTICUAA &KM KDUM. 7
Frost Is
In the Air.
Cold winter is upon us, and right in the
nick of time is our determination to clear
out
All Winter Stock
Very Low Prices.
The sale must be rapid, and as low
prices contribute to that end, our prices
have beeft lowered to the very bottom.
We start at these seasonable, comfort-giv
ing and stylish
LADIES' CLOAKS.
Ladies’ Jackets at $2.50 to S2O.
Ladies' Plush Capes $3.98 to $25.
Ladies’ Cloth Capes $1 to $lB.
Children's Reefers $1.78 to $6.
Ladies’ Flannel Shirt Waists 75c to $3.
Every item here represent a SAVING
OF FROM 20 TO 25 PER CENT.
BLANKETS.
Could you want anything more sea
sonable? These cold nights one of
our Blankets is equivalent to a ton
of coal. See the reduction in price:
All Wool Blankets—
s7.so; were SIO.OO.
$9.50; were $12.50.
$10.50; were $15.00.
UNDERWEAR.
SPECIAL COLD WEATHER SALE
OF ALL WOOL UNDERWEAR for
Ladies, Gentlemen and Children, at a
reduction of 25 per cent, from former
prices.
50 pieces of our Standard Tapestry Car
pets will be sold at 65c per yard; good
value at 85c.
50 pieces Matting ranging In price from
20c to 50c per yard.
Daniel Hogan,
The comer Broughton and Barnard sts.
Copartnership Notice.
I have this day associated with me in
business my son, Cecil C. Pacetti. The
firm name will hereafter be E. C. Pacetti
& Son.
Jan. 1, 1898. E. C. PACETTI.
We beg to announce that we are fully
prepared to do all kinds of Tin and Sheet
Iron work and solicit the patronage of
those needing our services.
E. C. PACETTI & SON.
Happy New Year
will be all the happier if you don’t let
small things trouble you. Just telephone
or drop us a postal when you want oil or
gasoline and you will be surprised how
quick we will serve you.
SHE OIL AND GASOLINE DELIVERY,
P. O. Box 19. Telephone 461.
5-gal. patent cans best grade 0i1..65c
Second grade 50c
5-gallon patent cans gasoline.... 60c
HARDEEYILLE BRICK ” CO.’
Congress and Drayton Sts.
Ilrick, Unit, Cement, Wnll I’aper,
Paints, Glass, Mantels, Fireplace
Fixtures, and building supplies gen
erally. Every stroke of the paint
brnsli, every broken glass replaced,
every worn ont grate fixed means
money well Invested. Ybn select the
material, we furnish It and do the
work.
GEORGIA m PROOF SEED OATS
These oats were raised in this
section and are of a superior quality
TEXAS SEED OATS,
GEORGIA SEED RYE,
CRIMSON CLOVER.
HAY, GRAIN, ETC., CHICKEN FEED.
COW FEED, ETC.
T. J. DAVIS,
’PHONE 22,'J. US BAY ST., WEST.
OLD NEWSPAPERS, 200 for S cents. M
Business Office Morning News,