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There seems to be a good deal of “yel
low” politics in this Chinese business.
Representative Griffith of the Ohio legis
lature seems to be playing the senatorial
race both ways.
It seems that at that Newnan supper,
not only was there 'possum on tl ; table,
but 'coon In the woodpile.
Whatever may be the outcome of the
Ohio senatorial election, there can be no
question that Mr. Hanna is experiencing
a “mighty unpleasant quarter of an
hour."
Taking into consideration the number of
new gold fields discovered within the las:
twelve months, It seems as if there would
shortly have to be a movement started in
favor of the remonetization of gold.
In all of the struggle over the Ohio
senatorship, is no suggestion of se
lecting a man because of his litness for
the place. The struggle is one of politi
cians, for practical political ends. The
question of benefit to The people of Ohio
and to the country at large does not enter
ip to the consideration,
In the hour of his adversity, Mark
Hanna will not receive many condolences
from the south. It is Hanna who boosted
negroes into office in the south over ihe
protest of the taxpayers, and who has
slated others for appointment in this and
other southern states. The south would
not be sorry to see him beaten.
Discussion of the Newnan 'possum sup
per goes in the state press with consider
able unction. The Albany Herald wants
to know if It could be called a "func
tion.” The Thomasville Tlmes-Enterprise
does not know about that, but says It ,
no doubt a "conjunction,” while .Mr?
Myrick In the Americus Times-Record, r
suggests that possibly it was a "drunk
tlon."
The case of Theodore Durrant, which
may or may not come to an end in t'uii
fornia to-morrow with the execution of
the man. will go on record as one of the
most stubiiornly resisted of all American
prosecutions for murder, even going ahead
of the case of Carlisle Harris, the other
medical student-murderer, who was exe
cuted in New York a matter of two or
three years ago. The length of time th,
Durrant case lias been hanging Are, and
the number of flimsy pretexts upon which
his attorneys were aide to stave off the
day of final reckoning with the law, Ulus-
Irate many of the weaknesses In the Amer
ican system of legal procedure; but the
probabilities are that the lesson will not
be made the most of by the law-making
authorities.
British Interests in Chinn.
If the Manchester Guardian state- cor
'ly Gloat Britain's attitude relative
■ the occupation of Chinese territory by
: many and Russia, there will not be
partition of the Chinese empire without
title of a very serious character. Ai
ling to the statements of that piper,
British government will not p rmit
to Chou to be occupied by Germany nor
rt Arthur to he occupied by Russia,
o with the consent of Chinn, unless
>' are made otien ports—that is. un
s Great Britain is given the same rights
I privileges which Germany and Rus
t have. With respect to none* ssions of
road and mining privileges. Great Biit
■> will insist upon liberal treatment
any other nation has. Great Britain
Los her stand upon treaties which site
is with China—treaties which provide
it no other nation shall be granted
! r.'ater privileges and concessions than
nose granted to her. She makes no dec
nation in respect to Chinese territory,
it intimates that the grabbing ofter
. .*ry will lead to serious complications.
It doesn’t look us If Emperor William
were going to have as pleasant a time
he anticipated in extending German
authority over a portion of Chinese terri
tory. Great Britain has vast comm, roial
interests in China, and she isn't going
to have these interests ruined if she can
help it.
Recent dispatches left the impression
that China had assented willingly to the
occupation of Kaio Chou by Germany and
Port Arthur by Russia, but the Herald
interview with I.i Hung Chang, who Is
in authority again in China, shows be
yond a doubt that if China has assented
to the occupation of two of her most im
(•oriant ports, it was because she is too
weak to resent the wrong done her. He
says the ports in question are held by
force, and in direct op]>osltion to existing
treaties and international law. lie pathet
ically adds: “Is it just to oppress us
while we are struggling to emerge from
the restraints of our ancient civilization,
while improvement and progress steadily
ontinue? Should China lie distressed by
having her shores invaded and her terri
tory occupied because of an occurrence
which western countries would deal with
by law and not by war—an unexpected in
ident, deplored by my government, and
followed by full redress? Our desire is to
|.rt serve our territory Intact and to stead
ily improve it as a field open to all coun
tries equally for the development of com
merce."
Li Hung Chang Is not wholly frank in
the foregoing statement, because he knows
very well that Germany is not occupying
Chinese territory because two German
missionaries were murdered in China. The
missionary incident is not the cause of
Germany’s policy in respect to China; it
is made an excuse for it. The whole
world understands that if Germany had
not already decided to extend her empire
by taking forcible possession, of Chinese
territory, she would have been satisfied
with the course pursued by the Chinese
government in the matter of the murdered
missionaries.
tNow tliat Great Britain’s position in
respect to the movement to dismember the
Chinese empire is known, it remains to
be seen whether Germany and Russia
will adhere to the policy of taking pos
session of Chinese territory. It may be
that they will be satisfied to simply hold
for awhile the ports they have as naval
stations and await developments. Clearly
Great Britain does not intend that the
Chinese empire shall be dismembered.
Otherwise she would not offer to extend
assistance In paying the balance of the
indemnity due Japan.
Local Option in Sw York.
I,ocal option, which is so popular and
successful in Georgia, will, in all proba
bility, be adopted in New York. The
Raines liquor law in that state is not sat
isfactory. and a change is demanded. The
republican leaders have prepared a bill
giving the people of the large cities of the
state the right to say whether or not in
toxicants shall be 3old within their limits
on Sundays, and the people of the smali
towns and rural districts the privilege of
deciding whether or not intoxicants shall
bo sold at all, on either week days or Sun
days.
The Raines law Is not strictly enforced
in New York city. It is evaded in nil sorts
of ways. No class of people Is satisfied
with it, and that is why local option is to
be given a trial. If a majority of the peo
ple of New York city say they want in
toxicants sold on Sundays the saloons will
be kept open on those days under certain
restrictions, and if a majority is in favor
of closing the saloons if is pretty certain
they will be closed, because the people will
see to It that the law against them is en
forced. For many reasons local option Is
the best method of dealing with the liquor
question.
The more the pension business is prod
ded the worse It gets. It is reported that
since the current agitation of pension rot
tenness began a number ol pensioners have
written to the commissioner to have their
allowance stopped. They have been sham
ed oft the rolls. It transpires, by the way,
that a number of the clerks in the pension
office, and many of the best paid ones, arc
themselves pensioners drawing a bounty
for “disability,” and at the same time
drawing salaries as competent clerks. And
tliis recalls the case of the “total disabil
ity" pension of a prominent jurist in the
northwest, who was receiving a salary of
several thousand dollars a year as a Judge,
which case was recently prominently be
fore the country. To a very considerable
extent, the pension business seems to be
run merely as a scheme for getting money
out of the government.
The leading daily newspapers of South
Carolina are apparently about to enter
into an open conspiracy to end Senator
Tillman's career. They propose to ignore
him in their columns, if they were to do
any such thing, the senator's days of po
litical prominence would Indeed be num
bered. He thrives upon notoriety, and does
not care what is said of him just so some
thing is said. It is to be recalled, by the
way, that Senator Tinman is essentially
a newspaper product. Except for the
South Carolina newspapers he probably
never would have been heard of beyond
the borders of Edgefield county.
THE MORNING NEWS: THURSDAY, JANUARY 0, 1898.
( lipperton Island.
There appears tq be a disposition in
some quarters to treat the Clipperton Isl
and incident as an affair of some serious
ness. It will be rememberd that a Mex
ican war vessel recently visited the island
and pulled down the American flag, which
had been hoisted there by some American
guano workers. It was claimed at the lime
by the Mexicans that the island was “un
questionably" Mexican territory'. loiter
somebody professing expert knowledge
was quoted in the di.-qiatchf-s as saying that
the American flag had been properly raised
on the island; that the guano gatherers
had complied with the law and the cus
toms, and were entitled to the protection
of the governm-nt at Washington. Sev
eral of our esteemed newspaper contomiio
raries have raised their voices in protest
against the “insult to the flag.’’
If the jingoes of the United States and
Mexico desire something to quarrel about,
this Clipperton incident would seem to af
ford an excellent opportunity. The quar
rel could be based almost wholly upon
"the principle of ihe thing,” since it does
not appear that Clipperton is intrinsically
worth quarreling about. There could en
ter no question of avarice, or the money
power, in the discussion. It is even
improbable that the silver issue could be
jammed into ihe mutter edgewise. The
island is not more than a speck upon the
surface of the deep. It has been “claim
ed" by several governments from time to
time, but not one of them ever thought
it of enough importance to take possession
of and hold it. Indeed, it is not suited to
settlement, lieing nothing more than a
roosting place for sea fowl. According to
the information the population of the isl
and over which flew the great emblem of
liberty consisted of live men, two of whom
were exceedingly anxious to get away.
A search on an ordinary map for the
Island of Clipperton would be fruitless. If
a first-class chart were examined, the
place might possibly be found represented
by a dot, speck, some hundreds of miles
south of the limit of Mexican territory. If
ownership were determined by proximity,
it would seemed that the island belonged
to Costa Rica rather than Mexico, though
it often occurs that distance has nothing
to do with the case. France has for a
long time claimed a title of some sort to
the island, hence it is possible that kjie
will look into the matter. Meantime the
fate of little Clipperton does not make the
slightest difference to the world at large.
It could become Mexican, or French, or
Costa Riran, or American, as the case
might be, without the peoples of those sev
eral countries knowing or caring anything
about it. But the incident offers a nice
opportunity for the jingoes to do some fine
talking about “principle," “patriotism,”
and all that sort of thing.
The Controlling Factor in 1 POO.
The thought Is thrown out that Richard
Croker looks forward to being the con
trolling factor in the national democratic
convention in 1900. He has moved his
headquarters from Tammany hall to the
Democratic Club on Fifth avenue, and he
is gathering around him in New York some
of the brainiest democrats in the country
democrats of national reputation.
He surprised the republican poliliclans
of New York and even democratic leaders
by the skill he showed in the management
of the municipal campaign in New York,
dlis success in that campaign has given
him such prominence and influence that
he has practically no opposition in the
democratic party in New York city, and it
is predicted that in another year or two
he will be as much a power in state poli
tics as he is now in politics of the city.
If he should succeed in dominating his
party in the state as completely as he
dominates it in the city he would be in a
position a powerful influence in
national polites. He would be not only a
factor in the national democratic conven
tion in 1900. but he might be able to say
who should have the democratic nomina
tion for President.
Mr. Arthur Sewall of Maine was quoted
in our Washington dispatches of yesterday
as saying that owing to various circum
stances, "American mechanics are able to
construct ships for the carrying trade
cheaper than they can be built in Eng
land." He added that he could build
ocean going steamships 10 per cent, cheap
er than they can be built upon the Clyde
in England. Mr. Sewall is one of the larg
est ship builders in New England, and
in this country, and there is every reason
for placing dependence in what he says.
If we have reached the point at which we
can build ships 10 per cent, under Eng
lish prices, what Is the good of maintain
ing our old and obsolete navigation laws,
designed for the “protection” of Ameri
can shipping? Why not throw open the
country’ to free ships? We have it from
one of the foremost American ship build
ers that we have nothing to fear from
English competition. Give American own
ers the privilege of buying vessels
wherever they please and sailing them
under the American flag, and our mer
chant marine will soon again be in a flour
ishing condition.
The report that President McKinley will
appoint a friend of Senator Elkins, named
Bowers, to Vie United States fish commis
sioner, has aroused a great deal of oppo
sition. Bowers, it is said, knows nothing
about fish. He is not a scientist, or. so
far as is known, even so much as a fish
erman. He is, however, a politician, and
for that reason the important duty of con
serving the vast fishing interests of the
country is to be placed in his hands. This
appointment, should It be made, would not
be different in character front others made
by President McKinley. He is forced to
consider the wishes of the political bosses
in preference to the good of the country,
and the bosses always demand that he
shall put politicians of their own stripe
into the offices,
It is not likely that that Austrian doc
tor's alleged great discovery of a mystery
of pre-natal Influences would, If true,
have a great deal of influence upon the
proportional division of the human race.
The chances arc that the preference for
boys and girls is about evenly divided.
There could he no conspiracy against
either sex without the most disastrous
consequences, as is quite obvious. The
time is yet a long way in the future when
a definite order can be given to the stork.
A daily newspaper without a name is
a raity which made its appearance in New
York a few days ago. The lack of a name,
however, was not an advertising scheme.
The old Shipping und Commercial List,
which has been published for more than
100 years, desired to appear as a daily and
with a simplified name. “The New York
Commercial" was chosen, but at the last
hour the Commercial Advertiser secured
an injunction against the use of that name.
Pending the litigation which has been be
gun, the new daily appears as the “New
York .”
A bill pending in the House of Represen
tatives proposes a constitutional amend
ment increasing the terms of representa
tives in congress to four years. There are
many arguments in favor of a longer term
for representatives in congress, but 4t is
said the bill stands very little chance of
favorable action. The members are afraid
of the criticisms which would be passed
upon them for endeavoring to prolong
their terms.
PERSONAL.
—After letting a cut finger go uncared
for for a couple of days, a Calais, Vt.,
man had to have it amputated and then
Tell a victim to tetanus. ,
—Mme. Ysaye, wife of the great violinist,
who is now in this country, is her hus
band’s assistant and secretary, and man
ages all of his money matters.
—The king of Sweden is expected in
Rome in January. He will, however,
travel incognito to make studies in the
Vatican library for a scenti'fic book on
which he is working.
—Dr. Marie Louise Benoit, who has just
been apitointed medical interme in the
New York State Craig colony for epilep
tics, at Sonyea, is the first woman called
to that service in that state.
—Archdeacon William Montgomery'
Brown of the Protestant Episcopal church
In Cleveland has decided to become coad
jutor bishop of Arkansas, and will be
consecrated in Little Rock on Jan. 25.
—.Miss Rotger of St. Ixtuls had a young
man arrested on a charge of robbery. Un
der close questioning by the officers the
fact came out that the young man was
kissing her when discovered by her moth
er. She made him run off. and when
pressed by the old lady for an explanation
said the fellow was a robber and she was
struggling with him.
BRIGHT BITS.
-‘-Not So Badly Off.—“ Poor Timmie!
Foivc years in Sing Sing. Ido feel shorry
for him.’’
“Bedad, an’ yure shympathy’s t’rowed
away. He’s surrounded by friends.”—
Harlem Life.
—Among the Reasons.—“ You enjoy
coaching, do you? I never could see where
the fun comes in. One looks so like a
darned fool, sitting up on a three-story
coach and cavorting over the highway to
the tooting of a horn.”
“I know it. but it isn’t every darned
fool that can afford it.”—Chicago Tribune.
—Force of Habit—“ The habits we form
in our youth,” said the self-made philoso
pher, “stick to us all through life, no
matter how hard we may try to shake
them off. Now, thefe’a Quaßerson, for In
stance, who was brought up in Philadel
phia—look at him;"
“Why, what’s he been doing?”
“Haven't you heard? He’s got the
creeping paralysis.’’—Chicago News.
—Fuddy: Talk about saving women! I
suppose my wife is the most economical
woman going.
Duddy: ’What has she been doing now?
Fuddy: She has been wanting anew
cloak, and the other day she said, “I wish
I had SSO to get, that cloak with!” Then
she thought a moment, and added: “No,
I won’t be extravagant; I wish I had *4O.
Perhaps I might be able to get it for that.”
Now, that’s what I call economy.—Boston
Transcript.
CURRENT COMMENT.
He Stands for McKlnleyism.
From the New York World (Dem.).
The matter with Hanna just now is un
doubtedly the desire of a majority of the
republicans of Ohio to unload him. But
will they be able to do it without making
up their minds to unload' what he stands
for?
ConiinnnlMn t'p to Date,
From the Chattanooga Times (Dem.).
Communism doesn’t parade under the
red flag nowadays. The communist seeks
an office and then proceeds, with the help
of his official pals, to divide the spoil
taken from the community in the form of
taxes, giving enough to his outside heel
ers to keep them contented and at work
in his interest.
Demand for American Cotton.
From the Philadelphia Ledger (Ind.).
There is such a demand for American
cotton in both Japan and China that the
steamers from San Francisco to those
countries have room for nothing else.
They are loaded down with cotton, and
14,000 bales are now in San Francisco
awuiting shipment. This, it is to be no
ted, is raw cotton. Japan arid China have
their own mills now and are making their
own cotton goods in constantly increasing
proportions. This piece of news may Ire
called an item for the benefit of whom it
may concern.
No llooin. .Inst Better Times.
From the Birmingham News (Dem.).
There Is every indication, os conveyed in
the signs of the past six months and the
auspicious opening of the new year, that
1898 will be a period of substantial com
mercial and Industrial revival. There will
scarcely be a boom in any line. A boom is
not wanted, because the after effects are
generally disastrous. But conditions have
worked around to the point where it would
seem almost Impossible to prevent a con
tinuation on a constantly enlarging scale
of the solid growth of business which set
In last summer after congress ceased to
tinker with the tariff.
Where the Negro's Friends Are.
From the ’Washington Post (Ind.).
The negro has no real friends in the
north. We are willing to believe, for we
see something of it here, that the negro
does not show to advantage after cross
ing the Potomac and the Ohio. It seems
to us that the further he wanders from
the south the more bumptious and offen
sive he becomes. But this is largely due
to the fact that he realizes the hostile
environment In which he Is placed, and
In his foolish way resents it. The fnct
remains, however. The negro’s best and
most genuine friends arc at the south, and
it is among the former slave-holding
classes that ho finds the truest esteem
and the most helpful friendship. South
erners know bow to handle their colored
nuisances without Including the whole race
in their scheme of repression and rebuke.
Mons. It la lie’s Attempt to Recoup.
Motts. Blanc, founder of the Casino at
Monte Carlo, though immensely wealthy,
was very close in small affairs. He never
played but once. It was on a very hot
day, and his wife demanded that he buy
her a parasol. They went to a store and
sne selected one that cost *l6, which, with
a disgusted gesture, he paid. That after
noon when the Casino opened M. Blanc
appeared and placed *2 on the red at one
of the treute et quarante tables. He won,
pocketed his winnings and left the orig
inal stake on the table. For a second
time he won and had got his *l6 hack.
Not content he wagered again, but lost,
then doubled his stake and won again,
and then set about playing for the two
louis he was beh.nd. He played and lost,
broke a thousand franc note, then wrote
a check and finally, when the last deal
was called, M. Blanc seized his yellow
can and started for home. There he found
his wife playing "patience” with a pack
of cards, the offending parasol lying on
the table.
".Madame,” said the old gentleman, “do
you know what that thing has cost me?”
“Mais otti, mon ami. It cost you *16.”
“Madame,” rejoined he, “you are mis
taken. I have just paid the bill—*lß.ooo.
That Is all.”
Klondike Gold.
He had spent two or three winters in ihe
Klondike country, or said he had, and he
was telling his friends about it, says the
Detroit Free Press.
"It isn’t so awfully cold up there when
one gets use to it, is it?” asked the listen
er.
“Well,” he hesitated, “I don’t really sup
pose it is; anyhow, it isn’t to the one that’s
used to it. He don't know a thing about
it; he's been froze to death a month by
that time.”
“Oh, indeed,” stammered the inquirer,
who seemed to be disturbed by the sad fate
of the person accustomed to it.
"Yes, and I’ve seen it so cold that a bul
let shot up in the air would freeze up there
and not come down till the spring thaw.
But that isn't as bad as it was last winter.
By jingo. I’m a liar if we didn’t have a
Boston girl up there last winter teaching
school and the weather was so cold that
the Boston girl actually set the school
house on tire by spontaneous combustion—
she was that warm by comparison. Cold?
Well, if we could only ship the cold down
to this country like we can the gold you
would be playing golf on snow shoes all
summer long right here in the city of De
troit.”
The Retort Courteous.
Faith, an the Irishman had the best of
it, says the Louisville Times. One day re
cently a zealous church memlier was dis
cussing the celebration of Christmas by
different nations and religions. There was
an Irishman present, who, for some reason
or other, was disposed to annoy' the speak
er by remarks of a mirthful and sarcastic
nature. But the conversation went on, and
finally the church member began about
the various picturesque features which had
once been introduced in the Christmas
celebrations of the Catholics. He fastened
his eyes on the gentleman from Ireland
and remarked: “Now I have heard that
in some of the churches abroad they rep
resent the flight into Egy'pt and bring a
donkey in the church. Picture that, will
you? Who ever heard of such an absurd
idea? Why is it we do nothing like that
in my church? Why do we not bring a
donkey in?”
“Faith,” said the Irishman, “it’s because
you may have them in there already.”
The good man got enough, then, and is
of the opinion now that some of these Irish
are loaded.
Looking for Food.
Avery dilapidated and hungry-looklng
hobo walked down Fourteenth street the
other day, just after 4 o’clock, says
the Washington Post. Near the Columbia
transfer station he met one of the electric
light linemen, and after a moment’s con
versation with him, sprang from the curb
madly tearing at the covering of one of
the electric manholes. A crowd at once
collected, wondering what awful catastro
phe caused a man of this work-detesting
character to exhibit such unwonted ener
gy. The lineman did not do any wonder
ing; he grabbed the tramp and a fierce
struggle took place. Spectators joined in.
but the hobo fought valiantly on, striving
with all his powers to reach the man
hole. In a very few minutes the police ar
rived and hustled the cause of the trou
ble over to the patrol box. A curious on
looker waited until the excitement had
calmed down a little, and then asked the
tramp:
“What did you want to get in that con
duit for?”
“Why, that feller said there was a feed
wire down there,” was the answer.
A Black lien's Eggs,
Pearson's Weekly says: They are tell
ing a good story of a certain grocer. The
other day a woman came in and said:
“I want two dozen hen's eggs. They must
all lie laid by black hens.”
The grocer said: "Madam, I am will
ing to accommodate you, but you have got
the best of me this time, I don’t know
how to tell 'the eggs of a black hen from
those of a speckled or white one.”
Said she: "I can tell the difference very
easily.”
“If that is so, madam, will you kindly
pick out the eggs for yourself?”
She did so, and when the two dozen were
counted into her basket, the grocer looked
at them, and said suggestively: "Well,
madam, it seems as though the black hens
laid all the big eggs.”
"Yes,” said she. "That’s the way you
tell them.”
He Knew His Business.
A bright little hoy, one of the pages of
the Senate, sat at one of the Senate en
trances the other day, when a lady ap
proached him with a visiting card in her
hand, says the Washington Post.
"Will you hand this to Senator illank,”
she said. \
"I cannot,” replied the boy, "fofr all
cards must be taken to the east lob-.T
The woman was inclined to be angrloes td
went away muttering. Then a tti astPl t
struck her, and taking out her (S'
book, she found a 25-cent pieed Trt, ! ,‘ rac '
in her hand she went liack to the boy. ~v
“Here, my lad." she said, in x* 1 toaxlng
tone, "here is a quarter
"Madame,” said the bojf* wlthqatha mo-’
ment’s hesitation, "I am fpaid <a ,larger
salary than that to keep carol out.” j
Odd \otlces. a
The following notice is dispVt edlln rf
hotel in Norway: “Bath! Mssfcaia
bath. Can anybody get. TtfwbSti|l
Warm and cold. Tub-bath anJjk ehowiafl
bath. At any time. Except Satirdiuy. Ttrt
two hours forbore.” And this Jrlhe no
tice that was posted up recently in au
art exhibition in Tokio, Japan: "Visit
ors are requested at the entrance to show
tickets for inspection. Tickets are charged
10 cens and 2 eens. for the special and
common respectively. No visitor who is
mad or intoxicated is allowed to enter in,
if any person found in shall tie claimed
to retire. No visitor ts allowed to carry
in with himself any lorcel, umbrella, stick
and the like kind, except his purse, and
is strictly forbidden to take within him
self dog, or the same kind of beasts. Vis
itor is requested to take good care of him
self from thievcly.”
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
9
—Rontgen rays have proved of great as
sistance to the surgeons of the British
army in dealing with gunshot wounds
among the troops engaged in the luckless
expedition on the Indian frontier.
—ln a newly designed coal cart curved
arms are used to support the box, so that
when it is raised from the frame by means
of the gear shaft and crank it twists
around at an angle with the frame to
discharge the coal, thus allowing the wag
on to stand close to the curb while unload
ing.
—The accumulation of sand and mud in
harbors is prevented by anew apparatus,
consisting of an artificial movable bar plac
ed in the stream above the harbor to inter
cept the dirt as it washes down and a
pumping apparatus to remove it through
pipes to a suitable point of dis
charge.
—A German firm, it is reported, has plac
ed upon the market samples of pure in
gotin, derived from coal tar, which prom
ises to supplant the vegetable ’ indigo, as
other dyes have been supplanted by the
same source. Vegetable indigo is consum
ed to the extent of *15,C00,000, chiefly de
rived from India.
—ln anew stair-carpet fastener, paten
ted by a Canadian woman, a wire cone is
slipped over the edge of the carpet with
one end of the wire ending in a loop in
which the scretv is Inserted to hold it in
place, the fastener being put down first
and the carpet afterward forced into the
coil of the wire cone.
—Rossie Brothers, manufacturers of vel
vets in Rhenish, Prussia, have decided to
locate a factory in this country, and have
selected a site in Mystic, C?onn., to which
little town they will import 100 skilled op
eratives to begin their venture. This
transporting of anew industry is due to
the fact that the present tariff prohibited
the importation of the styles of velvet they
chiefly manufacture.
—The great vitality of dragon flies is
shown by McLachiand, who, having struck
at a large Aeschna at rest on a twig, the
head was seen, to tumble down, while the
nest of the insect flew away in an “unde
cided manner” for a considerable dis
tance. Upon picking tip the head he no
ticed that the insect had been eating a fly
at the time. ‘‘The mandibles continued
working ns if nothing had happened, and
the masticated portions of the fly passed
out at the back of the head.”
—The first trial trips on the electric rack
railway up the Gorner Grat, near Zermatt,
were recently carried out in the presence
of the inspectors of the Swiss railway de
partment. The section completed has a
length of 1,600 meters and a gradient of
12 |ier cent. The tests were satisfactory,
both the ascent and descent being effected
without the slightest difficulty, the motors
holding the locomotive perfectly to its
proper speed. Starting on the maximum
gradient with a fully loaded train was also
effected with great facility.
—“There are two hundred thousand vis
itors to Maine and New Hampshire every
summer,” says a Maine man, “and they
leave *4O each or more. We secure *8,000,-
000 a year from them. Taking care of
these people is the largest industry In
Maine at the present time. It pays bet
ter than farming or lumbering, or mining
or fishing. And yet it is in its infancy.
The business has grown so rapidly that
we have not lieen able to build suitable
hotels. In a few years the palaces of
the wprld will be in our state."
—Some idea of the loss to the Lake Ke
uka grape region from the recent freeze
can be obtained from the following figures
given by the Hammondsport Herald:
There are estimated to be 15,000 acres of
vineyard in the entire region. ‘Estimating
this year’s yield at two tons to the acre
would give a total of 30,000 tons. Assum
ing that the average price per ton for Con
cord, Delaware, Catawba, and other va
rieties would have been *2O, had they not
frozen, the entire crop would have been
worth *600,000. Assuming, again, that the
freeze damaged the total crop *5 per ton,
the loss would be $150,000.
—J. M. Hodnet, a progressive farmer liv
ing near Lilac, on the dividing line be
tween Milam and Williamson counties,
Texas, says that the Chinese tea plant
grows luxuriantly on his farm, even in the
fence corners, and requires no cultivation,
save being kept free from weeds. The
plants come up voluntarily every year,
spread rapidly, and by the uninitiated
would often be mistaken for noxious
weeds. As an experiment, Mr. Hodnet im
ported the seed several years ago from
Oriental China through our ambassador.
He now gathers the leaves, dries and uses
them in making a most palatable tea, al
most if not quite equal to the imported
product.
—A pair of Irish wolf-hounds, imported
recently, w’ill receive systematic training
on a treadmill and in other ways this
winter in Louisville, and in the spring
will be furnished an opportunity to show
their ability in killing the American wolf.
The outcome of the experiment is said to
be eagerly awaited by the cattlemen in
the far west, who suffer much loss
through the depredations of wolves. Rus
sian wolf-hounds and American deer
hounds have lieen tried in vain. One of
the great difficulties in the way of kill
ing the American wolf is the peculiar
thickness of the animal's neck and Ihe
large quantity of matted hair thereon.
This renders it almost impossible for a
dog to choke a wolf, and in a battle with
dogs the wolf's phenomenally sharp teeth
usually cut the dog to pieces. Then, they
have such a phenomenal spring that they
can frequently jump a distance of ten or
fifteen feet and land on the dog's back,
tearing their opponent’s head and face
with their fangs. Owing to these facts,
Kentucky dog fanciers do not generally
believe that there is a breed of dogs in
existence capable of exterminating the
American wolf, or to even interrupt him
in his marauding expeditions on the great
cattle plains of the west.
—Electricity as a motive power was re
cently called into play In drilling thou
sands of holes through the webs of the
rails of the South Side Elevated railroad
in Chicago while the motive power was
being changed from steam to electricity.
One hole of seven-eighths of an inch iii
i diameter was needed in each end of every
rail, and altogether there were 20,000 holes
Jo be drilled. The work had to be done
Avhile the road was in operation, and the
dpace for operating drills ivas only the nine
e inches between the wheel rail and the
tmi'y wooden guard rail. The work
fluid ordinarily be done with ratchet drill
locks operated by hand, but with these
rogress would have been very slow. In
stead of this, electric motors were called
into use. Each motor was mounted in a
I little car which ran upon the wooden
guard rails, and drove a flexible shaft ten
or twelve feet In length, which in turn
ran the drill. The drill for each machine
was mounted in a compact frame, with a
crew at the upper end. and the whole
thing, drill, frame and screw, was just of
a size to fit in between the metal rail and
the outer wooden guard rail. In some
places where there were convenient cross
overs In the tracks, motor wagons could
be kept in place on the guard rails and
drilling could be done continuously, but at
other places the work had to be done be
tween trains, and these often ran under
two minutes' headway. The outfits proved
to be so handy for the purpose and the
men working them became so expert that
during the entire progress of the work
not a train was delayed for more than ten
seconds by the drillers. <
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crusted, pimply, or blotchy, whether simple,
scrofulous, or hereditary, from infancy to age,
speedily cured by warm baths with Ccticcra
Soap, gentle anointings with Coticcua (oint
ment', the great skin cure, and mild doses
of CtmcnßA. Resopyejjt, greatest of blood
purifiers and humor cares.
(yticura
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GARDNER’S BAZAR,
12 Broughton Street.
Fine box paper, 50c, 32c, 24c, 10c, 4c.
120 sheets good note paper, 9c.
Ledgers, double and single entry, journ.
als and day books, each, 19c.
Rogers’ Shear Company scissors, every
pair warranted, 23c.
Razor strops, *I.OO, 75c, 50c, 25c.
Razors, every one guaranteed or money
refunded, *2.00.
Kimball's nnti-rheumatic ring; every
sufferer should have one; price *2.00.
Send for circulars.
Vaseline, pounds cans, 15c.
Cuticle soap, box, 3 cakes, 25c.
Flower pots, jardinieres.
Mocking bird, per pound, 25c.
Canary seed, 3 pounds for 25c,
B. SMITH,
■ Successor.
Who Can Resist This ?
It surely is inviting to have three essen
tials to a man’s happiness awaiting him
on his return home. An easy chair, a
charming woman, and the cheerful glow
of one of our heating stoves that, besides
its genial warmth, is both ornamental,
and will keep you good company for
many long winter’s evenings. Our hard
ware stock of parlor and kitchen stoves
is unrivaled in quality and prices.
J. W, TEEPLE,
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.
SSI. 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
HARDEEVILLE BRICK CO,,
Congress and Drayton Sts.
Brick, Lime, Cement, Wall Taper,
Taints, Glass, .Mantels, Fireplace
Fixtures, and building; supplies gen
erally. Every stroke of the paint
brash, every broken glass replaced,
every worn out grate fixed means
money well invested. Yon select tlie
material, we furnish It and do the
work.
Hotel Majestic
NEW YORK.
Central Park West and 72d to 71st St.
The Elite Hotel of America.
One of the largest and
finest —best located, thor'
oughly lighted and ventilat
ed hotels, with a cuisine of
highest order.
American and European Plans.
AINSLIE & WEBSTEK
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These oats were raised in this
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CRIMSON CLOVER.
HAY, GRAIN, ETC., CHICKEN FEE Ik
COAV FEED, ETC.
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