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Meetings—Alpha Lodge No. 1, A. & A.
S. R.; Savannah Lodge No. 183, H. P. O.
Elks.
Special Notices —Notice, John F. Tuber
tly; Notice, J. L. Whatley; A Great Bar
gain in Suburban Land, C. H. Dorsett;
Ship Notice, Richardson & Barnard, Con
signees; Complimentary Entertainment lo
Prof. Joseph Steeg at Mehrtens’ Music
Hall, Feb. 17; Ship Notice, Strachan &
Cos.
Business Notices—E. & W. Laundry:
Plenty of Daytons Now in Stock, R. D. &
Wm. Lattimore.
A Big Business -The Metropolitan Cloth
ing Company.
Tours to Europe—ltineraries of Edwin
Jones, Brooklyn.
Steamship Schedule—Rsh' te Star Line.
Ladles Love Cut Prices—B. H. Levy &
Bro.
Thomson's Glove-Fitting Corsets—At
Eckstein’s.
Gold Dust Washing Powder—N. K. Fair
bank's Company.
Medical—World’s Dispensary Prepara
tions; Hood’s Sarsaparilla; Johann Holt's
Genuine Mall Extract; Castoria; Erie Med
ical Company; California Syrup of Figs;
S. S. S.; Cuticura Remedies; Ayer's Hair
Vigor; Pyramid Pile Cure.
Cheap Column Adveylsements—Help
Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Rent;
Sale; Lost; Personal; Miscellaneous.
A French woman of New York is going
to the Klondike in order that her baby
boy may have nuggets of gold to play
with. It will probably be a cold day
when he plays with them.
The Intimation from Havana that Con
sul General Lee has been writing letters,
as well as De Lome, is merely in line with
the Spanish Idea of reciprocity, or an ex
change of compliments. Did not Spain
order the Vizcaya to this country as soon
as the Maine was sent to Cuba?
■ It is reported from Ottawa that the Do
minion government proposes to commence
the construction of a navy as an auxil
iary to the imperial navy, and that an
appropriation will be asked for that pur
pose when Parliament meets. The Ameri
can Jingoes will, of eouree, lie able to see
In this another indication of Great Brit
ain's ulterior designs upon the T'nitcd
States. However, we shall be able to
defy Canada and her navy, and Great
Britain to boot, when we have annexed
Hawaii, fortified Pearl harbor and sent
our best 1 ships to Honolulu.
If we understand the matter correctly. It
is the purpose of the navy department to
keep a number of war vessels In Southern
waters—off the coasts of Georgia and
Florida—from this time onward. In that
case, as a matter of course the ships will
have to be supplied with coal; and there
Is no better piace for a coaling station than
Tybee roads. There is direct communica
tion between this port and the coal fields,
und supplies could be handled quickly and
economically. There was not long ago
some talk of erecting a coaling station at
Tybee. The matter should not be allow
ed to drop.
It was stated during the course of de
viate in the South Carolina legislature
the other day that the first year the dis
pensary was in ojieration in a certain
county $250 worth of liquor was bought by
the institution; that the next year ss,(no
worth was bought, and the next year $lO,-
000 worth. The proposition before the
body was that the county in question
be exempted from the operations of the
law, and it was accepted. Judging from
the rate of progress which the county
made in buying whisky, the exemption
came in the nick of time, or before many
years the landscape would have been
flooded with the stuff.
An Interesting scientific experiment was
made In Chicago a few days ago. A man
of that city Is suffering from what is
called a "musical heart.” Owing to dis
ease, the heart has become much en
larged, while some of the valves of it are
more or less constricted. The passage of
the blood produces a purring sound, which
is called the “music." An x-ray picture of
the organ was made the other day. Jt
showed the heart to be three times hs
large as a healthy heart sltould bo, while
It expands and contracts two Inches at
• ach pulsation. The muscles, glands and
valves which cause the purring noise cun
be seen plainy In the picture.
Col. Candler's Resignation.
When Col. Candler sent his resignation
as Secretary of Slate to the Governor, he
helped his own cause more as a guberna
torial candidate and opened the way for
more trouble for Gov. Atkinson than he
did when he sent out his circular letter at
tacking the politicians who were instru
mental in having the Governor nominated
in 1894.
He helped his own cause because the peo
ple more willingly help a man who hasn't
an office to get one than to assist a man
to step from one high place into another
still higher. It will be said of course that
Col. Candler had no thought of resigning
his office as Secretary of State as long as
there was a prospect that he would have no
opposition for the gubernatorial nomina
tion, and that the ground on which he
basis his resignation, namely, that he dons
not believe that a man should hold one
office while making an active canvass for
another, was an after thought. A state
ment of that sort would doubtless be un
just to him, as would also a statement that
he resigned simply to compel Judge Atkin
son either to resign his office of Railroad
Commissioner or make the campaign for
the nomination for Governor under a dis
advantage. While it will be generally ad
mitted that the time for him to have re
sign his office as Secretary of State, in or
der to get the full benefit of the resigna
tion. was when he published his letter an
nouncing the platform on which he pro
posed to make his campaign, still, it can
not lie successfully contended that his res
ignation of his office after it become cer
tain that Judge Atkinson would be a can
didate is lacking In sincerity and justifies
the inference that he would not have re
signed if there had been no other candi
date for the gubernatorial nomination.
When he wrote his letter containing his
declaration of principles ho may have
overlooked the fact that he does not be
lieve that a man, while holding one office
should begin a campaign for another. He
had many tijings to think of at that time,
and it is not at all strange that he failed
to give all of them proper attention.
But whatever his intentions were, be
fore he had opposition, relative to the of
fice he held, it is quite certain that if
Judge Atkinson does not follow his ex
ample, and resign his railroad commission
ership, he will be at a considerable disad
vantage in the campaign. The fact that
he was seeking an office while holding one
would be made the subject of many a
speech and many a newspaper article by
Col. Candler and his friends. And they>
would make an impression, because the
pubKc doesn't take very kindly to a man
Who has the reputation of being an office
seeker.
If Col. Candler really has a feeling of
hostility to the Governor he couldn't
have adopted any other means for causing
him annoyance that would have been so
effective as that of resigning his office.
Already the wires are hot with dispatches
from men who want to succeed Col. Can
dler as Secretary of State. Just how many
of these candidates there are is not yet
known. The Governor probably will not
care to give to the newspapers the names
of all of them, but it is pretty certain that
he will have some difficulty in making an
appointment, because of the pressure be
ing brought to bear upon him in behalf
of each one of the candidates; and when
he shall have made an appointment all of
the disappointed applicants will be his en
emies. If Judge Atkinson should also re
sign the Governor would be so harrassed
by the applicants for that office, as well
as the office resigned by Col. Candler, that
it would require all the stored up energy
acquired In his Mexican trip to enable him
to get through the ordeal safely. When
the Governor got back from Mexico there
wasn’t a ripple on the sea of politics. A
calm prevailed. Now there is the biggest
kind of a storm, and he is right in the
storm center.
Why Not n May Week f
The Grand Lodge of the Independent
Order of Odd" Fellows will meet in this
city in May. The assembly will no doubt be
largely attended, as the brethren of the
order have always evinced a particularly
kind feeling for Savannah. There is here
a spirit of good fellowship which runs
parallel with the spirit of Odd Fellowship,
and hence the mutual admiration.
There seems to be no good reason why
the commercial travelers and commercial
interests generally could not arrange to
have a gala week at the time the Odd
Fellows hold their meeting. In this man
ner the occasion could tie made much
more attractive for all parties concerned.
By May. furthermore, It is probable that
the tourist business of the railroads will
be about over, and hence the railroad offi
cials might be able to get within speaking
distance of each other at that time and
arrange for special rates.
It seems to us that it would be well for
those who are interested In holding a fes
tival here this year to confer with the
Odd Fellows and ascertain if a union of
interests cannot lie effected. There are
many reasons for thinking that concerted
action for a May week would be attended
with gratifying results.
If a doctor Is entitled to so much pay per
visit when h*_is needed, should he be re
quired to pay so much per visit if he calls
when he Is not needed and is not expect
ed? A New York state court has such a
question before it. A young doctor sued
a young lady for a bill for $69 for profes
sional services. She filed a cross hill in
which she denied that she owed the doctor
any such amount, but alleged that he was
in debt to her SIOO for taking up her time
from her household duties by making calls
which were unnecessary and unexpected.
Evidently the young lady regards her ser
vices as an entertainer as more valuable
than those of the doctor as a physician.
The great particular star of the French
stage is abotit to disappear from the dra
matic firmament. The disappearance
may be only temporary, or it may be per
manent. Mme. Bernhardt Is suffering
from a cyst, which must be removed with
the surgeon's knife. Under favorable cir
cumstances she will have to leave the
stage for three or four months, an occur
rence which has not happened for thirty
years.
THE MORNING NEWS: TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1898.
Sugar Senators Favor tlie Treaty.
The assertion, so often made In some
newspapers, that the sugar trust is op
posed to the ratification of the Hawaiian
annexation treaty, deceives nobody who
knows anything of the question of Ha
waiian annexation. For tvhat reason
should the sugar trust oppose annexation?
The trust Is not engaged in the production
of sugar. Its business Is the refining of
sugar. Therefore, what it wants is a very
high tariff on refined sugar and a low tar
iff on raw sugar. Indeed, it would like
to have raw sugar admitted free, pro
vided it con’d have at the same time a tar
iff on refined sugar that would shut out
sugar of that kind.
In what way would the defeat of the Ha
waiian annexation treaty benefit the sugar
trust? It certainly would not make raw
sugar any cheaper. If the annexation
scheme should be defeated and the treaty
with Hawaii, which admits Hawaiian su
gar free of duty, were abrogated, sugar
from Hawaifa would have to pay the
same tariff that Cuban sugar now pays,
and If the treaty should not tie abrogated
Hawaiian sugar would stand upon exactly
the same footing that it does now. It is
nonsense, therefore, to Say that the sugar
trust is opposing annexation.
In the event of annexation the sugar
planters of Hawaii would be benefited, in
all probability, because they would be put
on an equality with the sugar producers
of this country. They favor annexation
because they are afraid that if the annex
ation scheme should be defeated, the reci
procity treaty, by which their sugar is
now admitted free of duty, would be ab
rogated, and then they would be on an
equality with the sugar producers of Cuba
and other foreign countries, so far as this
country is concerned. They would have
to pay our tariff on raw sugar before they
could sell their sugar In our market.
The beet sugar producers of this coun
try are opposing annexation because they
believe it would tend to cheapen raw sugar,
the very thing the trust wants. The sugar
trust, if it is taking any part in the an
nexation matter at all. Is much more like
ly to be In favor of annexation than
against it. In fact, It is charged that the
sugar trust is secretly aiding the Cubans
with the hope that the result of the war In
Cuba will result in the annexation of that
island to this country. With Its enormous
capital it could purchase vast tracts of
rich sugar lands In Cuba, and make sugar,
which it could send to its refineries In this
country, free of duty. With a high tariff
on refined sugar, such as there is now, it
could make Immense profits.
Again, if the sugar trust were opposed
to annexation the senators who always
aid the sugar trust, would be against the
ratification of the Hawaiian treaty. Asa
matter of fact, If reports are correct, they
are all in favor of it. The truth probably
is that the friends of the annexation
scheme, knowing that the popular feeling
is against the sugar trust, keep the report
that the trust is opposing the treaty afloat
with the hope of making friends for the
treaty.
Mr. Broker's I'lnns.
Mr. Croker, the Tammany leader, is
talked about almost as much as Speaker
Reed. One day, it Is said that his purpose
Is to make himself master of the Demo
cratic party of New York state, as he
is of the Democratic party of New York
city with the views of controlling the next
national convention of the Democratic
party. Another day it is declared that his
aim is to have elected next fall a Demo
cratic legislature which would make him
United States senator to Succeed Senator
Murphy.
The fact Is, Mr. Croker keeps his own
counsel in respect to hts plans’. If he has
an ambition to hold a great office, like
that of United States senator, he will
not let the fact be known unless he suc
ceeds in getting sufficient power to gratify
it.
It now looks as if he intended to try
to play a great role In polities during
the next three or four years. He is ab
solutely master of the greatest eity of the
country—the second city in the world—and
there are signs that his purpose Is to take
a hand in national politics. Whether he
aims at getting a great o'fflce or only to
lie the power behind the throne is un
known, but it is certain th£-t he Is a grow
ing figure In the world of politics. And
his political acts and utterances are given
steadily Increasing attention.
Leslie's Weekly raises a point which Is
of Interest to newspapers in all sections
of the country. It is with regard to ad
vertisements In street ears. The state
ment is made that the street car adver
tising In this country amounts to not less
than $300,000 per year. Now, by what
right do the street car companies engage
in this line of business? Do they pay a
privilege tax upon their advertising
schemes? Have they the right under their
charters to carry on the business of pub
lishing advertisements in their cars? The
franchises of the street railway companies
are given for transportation purposes
solely, and it Is the opinion of good law
yers, according to Leslie's Weekly, that
the advertising feature is neither equita
ble nor legal. The street railway com
pany goes outside of its legitimate field
when It enters into competition with the
newspapers in the publication of adver
tisements.
A week or so ago We printed a poem en
titled. "Planting Trees," which was re
cited by ex-Secretary of Agriculture Ster
ling Morton during the course of a re
cent speech. It was supposed by the re
porters of the speech that the poem was
original. This, however, is denied by a
preacher of Syracuse, N. Y., who says It
was written by Henry Abbey and publish
ed three years ago under a different ti
tle.
The Attorney General of Missouri has
ruled the Lord's prayer and Bible reading
out of the public schools of that state,
as being contrary to the law. *He says
the statutes forbid any and all forms of
religious worships in the public schools,
and he holds that reciting the prayer and
reading the Bible are forms of religious
exercise.
There have been So many stories print
ed with regard to how De Lome’s letter
became public tfiat the truth is probably
buried under so great a pile of fiction that
it will never get out, or getting out will
never be recognized. In the midst of all
of the theories advanced, that of the New
Y'ork Sun contains about as much to
commend it as any other. It is to the ef
fect that Senor Canalejas himself provid
ed the way in which the letter reached
the public. Canalejas is an oppo
nent of the political party now in power
in Spain, H> calculated that the publi
cation of the letter would cause an up
heaval in Madrid which would force Sa
gasta and his ministry out of office and
result In the reinstatement of the opposi
tion party. He knew also that the publi
cation of the letter would help De Lome
at home, where he had been charged
with too great friendship for the United
States. i
There is anew trust proposed. In this
instance, by the way, the people will not
object to Its going into operation, and the
sooner it begins business the better. It
is said that "Parson” Davies, "Billy”
Brady and a few other managers are go
ing to form a trust of prize fighters. The
trust will first take up the heavyweights.
Corbett, who has retired, and Fitzsim
mons, who has said he will not fight any
more, are to be left out of the deal, and
the younger element of fighters, including
"Kid" McCoy and others, will be matched
by the trust, to fight wherever the largest
purses can be raised. If the trust will
squelch “Jim” and “Bob,” and cut down
the number of prize fights, it will be a
good thing.
A nephew of President McKinley and a
son of Assistant Secretary of Stale Day,
who are attending school at Canton. 0.,
the other day led a revolt against the au
thorities of the High School. It seems
that young McKinley and Day failed in
their examinations and cou'd not be grad
uated. They drew up a paper alleging
incompetence on the part of the instruc
tors, which was signed by a number of
the pupils. The youngsters wished to be
graduated without having passed the re
quired examinations, but they eftd not
succeed. Possibly if there had been a
Hanna in the school to manage the affair
for them, they would have won out.
The French government is still sparring
for an opening to land the Zola plexus
blow.
PERSONAL.
—Rev. Sam Jones makes $30,000 a year
by his preaching and says that the secret
of his success is the fact that he has
something to say and says it.
—Senator Hoar of Massachusetts has ac
cepted an invitation from the Virginia
State Bar Association to deliver an ad
dress at its next annual meeting.
—Editor Rule of the Knoxville, Tenn.,
Journal draws a pension from the United
States government, a salary from the city
as Mayor and a salary as editor.
—Jacob B. Tilghttlan, a colored man in
Philadelphia, who has been dismissed from
the police force, proudly asserts that his
forbears were sTSVSsr'df Thomas Jefferson
and that his grandfather and grandmo
ther were servants in the White House
under two Presidents.
BRIGHT BITS.
—Leading Tragic Man—“ Did you see how
I paralyzed the audience in the death
scene? By George, they were crying all
over the house!”
Stage Manager—“ Yes. They knew you
weren't really dead."—Tit-Bits.
—Two Points of * View—Diggs—"Senator
Poser seems to be a man of very broad
views.”
Biggs—“Yes, indeed; I don't believe it is
possible to brihg up a question that he
can’t straddle.”—Chicago News,
—“I remember your wife as such a dain
ty and pretty little thing. Humly, and yet
they tell me she has turned out a fine
cook."
“Turned out a fine cook? She has turned
out half-a-dozen of them within the last
three weeks.”—Detroit Free Press.
C'VRHE.NT COMMENT.
It Will Go Into the English.
From Wilmington (N. C.) Star (Dem.).
A "policastro" is what Mr. de Lome
called Mr. McKinley. There isn’t a pre
cise equivalent for this in the English lan
guage, but it means a fellow who has a
sort of sneaking way of piaying double,
with the view of keeping in the swim.
A Fopnllsts Compliment.
From the Birmingham News (Dem.).
Evidence is rapidly accumulating that
the Kentucky Legislature contains some
of the most brainless, narrow-minded and
spiteful creatures in this country. A
Populist member named Mount wants to
change the name of Carlisle county to
William Jennings Bryan, of course for the
purpose of manifesting contempt for the
distinguished Kentuckian. And the leg
islature is just about crazy enough to
adopt the suggestion.
The Fiery Orator.
From the Springfield Republican (Ind.).
It was a striking coincidence that when
Senator “Billy” Mason, the electric heater
statesman from Illinois, had returned
home after his inflammatory speech in the
Senate on Cuba, Wednesday, his residence
immediately burst Into flames. No alarm
was run In, but there was a aot time for a
while. The senator says it was due to
the carelessness of a servant In lighting
a lamp, but the general opinion is Jhat the
senator came in contact with the draperies
and let off a few farewell sparks.
The Great Question.
Washington Letter in Chicago Record
(Ind.).
Assistant Secretary Roosevelt says that
the longest, the most interesting, the most
exciting and pathetic interview he has had
with any representative of the legislative
branch of the government since he has
been in the navy department was when
one senator and three congressmen spent
the better part of lwo working days with
him on an earth-shaking question not ol
armor nor of ships, nor of ordnance, nor
of the defenseless condition of the United
States, but whether or not tlie command
ant of a navy yard had the right to pro
mote a man from a $1,390 to a $1,400 posi
tion without consulting the senators and
. representatives from his state.
A Maine Bear Story.
The cook at a lumber camp near Great
Pond. Me., says the Chicago Chornlele,
discovered a bear one afternoon last month
In the act of jamming his head into the
top of the uncovered bean pot in quest of
baked beans. When the bear heard me
cook's steps he lifted his head, and by so
doing brought the wire bail of the pot
across the back of .his neck. The cook
yelled, and the bear, tottering under the
weight of nearly a barrel of baked beans
suspended from his neck, retreated up the
wood's road in the direction of the back
lot. Though the bear coukl make good pro
gress with his load, he had considerable
difficulty in finding his way, because the
bean pot obstructed his vision. If he held
his head high enough to keep the pot from
dragging it was in front of his eyes, and
if he allowed the pot to drag his progress
was so slow that the cook was liable to
overtake him.
The cook had managed to discharge all
the cartridges in a repeating rifle without
effect and the bear managed to keep in the
road for half a mile, when the Oouple met
the leading bark team coming out of the
woods on the last turn. Nobody has yet
been able to train a horse so it will not be
scared by a bear, and hear was a big bear
ornamented as to his neck with a huge
bean pot. and behind the bear was a bear
headed and frantic cook yelling as loud
as his lungs would allow. The front horses
reared twice and turned sharp to the off
side of the rogd, spilling two and a half
cords of bark across the sled track. While
the teamster was trying to untangle his
horses the second load came down the hill,
followed in quick succession by a third
anl a fourth. Every team acted as badly
as it could, and while the cook was plead
ing for somebody to help him kill the bear,
and the teamsters were swearing about
their horses, the bear got away, carring
the pot of beans along.
Each in His Own Name,
From the Christian Register.
A fire mist and a planet,
A crystal and a cell;
A Jellyfish and a saurian.
And caves where the cavemen dwell;
Then a sense of law and beauty
And a face turned from the clod— l
Some call it Evolution,
And others call it God.
A haze on the far horizon
The infinite, tender sky;
The ripe rich tints of the cornfields.
And the wild geese sailing high;
And all over upland and lowland
The charm of the golden-rod—
Some of us call it Autumn,
And others call it God.
lake the tides on a crescent sea beach,
When the moon is new and thin,
Into our hearts high yearnings
Come welling and surging in—
Come from the mystic ocean
Whose rim no foot has trod— i
Some of us call it Longing,
And others call it God. ”~
A picket frozen on duty,
A mother starved for her brood,
Socrates drinking the hemlock,
And Jesus on the rood;
The million who, humble and nameless,
The straight, hard pathway trod—
Some call it Consecration,
And others call It God.
—W. H. Carruth.
He Couldn’t Say “Fire.”
A prominent professional man, who,
during the civil war, served in the same
battery of artillery as Rev. T. K. Faunt
Le Roy, tells the following story In the
New Orleans Times-Democrat:
“Faunt Le Roy stuttered then, just as
he does now, and he used to have the
deuce of a time giving commands. I re
member one occasion when he was a
lieutenant. He Was in command of a gun
on the Mississippi, near the mouth of the
Red. A gunboat was coming up stream,
and Faunt Le Roy ordered his men to load
and aim his gun, which was done. Then
he stood, sword in hand, his jaw working
and his tongue uttering a long-drawn
'f-f-f-f-f-f-f.' He struggled manfully to
get out the word ‘fire,’ but in vain, and
everybody saw that in a few moments the
Federal gunboat would be out of range.
No one knew what to do, but Faunt Le
Roy proved equal to the occasion. He
stopped and drew his breath, and then
said: “Ff—f—d—it! Shoot the d— gun!”
That, by'the way, was before Faunt Le
Roy studied for the ministry.”
They Ask Snell Questions.
They do ask such queer questions of the
newspapers over the telephone, says the
Detroit Free Press.
The city editor sat at his desk one Sun
day noon, when the bell rang and the man
at the other end asked:
“Say, how long is this shower going to
last?"
The nonplussed editor looked out of the
window at the falling drops and at the
ominous clouds.
“Well, my dear sir. I'm no weather pro
phet. I'm only the ci*y editor, and I have
troubles enough of my own without taking
up the work of the weather bureau."
“Oh, I see. Why, I thought you had some
one that attended to that sort of thing.”
“Well, I’m sorry we haven't.”
“You don’t know, then, when It will stop
zaining?”
"No. Suppose you call up 56.”
“Fifty-six?”
“Yes, 56.”
“What figes 56 know about it?”
“Fifty-six is the weather bureau.”
“Weather bureau? Oh, shucks!”
Defended Her Castle.
To illustrate how a man broadens who
keeps in touch with the ever-changing con
ditions of this world, Dr. Lorimer told a
story in Tremont Temple that was rot
only pat, but. was apparently heartily en
joyed by the women folk present, says the
Boston Evening Record.
“When I wns first married.” said the
doctor, “I had my strict ideas about Sun
day observance. Mrs. Lorimer has a col
ored ‘aunty’ for cook, and on the first Sat
urday after she came I went into the kitch
en and told her I did not want any Sun
day work, so she could prepare all meals
for that day beforehand.
“She didn't say one word while I was
talking; then she looked up and, pointing
to the door, exclaimed:
“ 'Now, look hynh, Marse George, you
jest go in dar and tend to your Chris
tianity, and leave me tend to mah kitch
en.”
"1 went, and. as near as I can remem
ber. she had hot dinners Sundays as long
as she stayed with us.”
Crisis in Ills Career,
“Cyrus,” asked his wife, according to
the Chicago Tribune, “what are you mep
ing about?"
"It is thirty-seven years ago to-day, Ke
turah,” replied the gloomy man, who
had thrown himself on the lounge, “since
I became cashier of the bank."
“Well, what of that? Are you worn out?
Is the salary too small? Have you ever
had the slightest trouble with the bank?
Is there anything wrong with your ac
counts? Are they talking of replacing you
with a younger man,”
"No, there's nothing wrong in any way.”
rejoined the bank cknhler, “but the very
fact that I have bc*n the bank’s most
trusted official for thirty-seven years, that
I have never done a dishonest thing in my
life, never made an injudicious loan,, that
my accounts are perfectly straight, and
that no man on "earth can say a word
against me. is making people suspicious
and they are beginning to talk about me.”
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
—Nearly 1,200,000 pounds of colors are
used by the United States government an
nually for printing paper money, revenue
and postage stamps.
—M. Phisalix, the French authority on
the venoms of insects and reptiles, has es
tablished that the poison of the hornet in
sufficient quantity renders one immune to
that of the viper.
—Spitzbergen has attained the impor
tance of having a newspaper published
devoted entirely to It. It is the Spitzbcr
gen Gazette, edited by a professor of the
college at Trom.-o, in Norway.
—A Western man has invented a self
rocking cradle, in which a spring motor
is attached to a reciprocating arm at one
end of the cradle, whicji is pivoted in its
frame and moves with the arm.
—A newly discovered Spanish stone has
proved so well adapted to litographic work
that a'large company has been formed,
which threatens to overthrow the Bavar
ian monopoly in lithographic stones.
A play called “Dreyfus" has been pro
duced in Amsterdam. It is founded upon
the dramatic incidents of the notorious
ease, and has had its ending varied from
day to day in keeping with the news of
the moment.
—The Pope now owns a palace for his
nuncio in Paris, by the bequest of the late
Marquise de Plessis-Beliievre, the Lim
oges Court having ratified the compromise
made by the Curia with the Marquise’s
legal heirs.
—A dramatic version of Charles Dick
ens’ immortal work, “Bleak House,” was
given in London by deaf and dumb per
formers, a translation of their gestures
being read aloud simultaneously for the
benefit of the “hearers” present.
—Faith cure doctors are not entitled to
recover remuneration for their services.
At least it was so held by a Baltimore
Judge, on the ground that the patients of
such physician receive no apparent ben
efit from their attention.
—British officers serving in Indian Reg
iments are now required to learn the dia
lect of their men :n addition to Hindus
tani, Pushtee, Punjabi, Hindi, Khaskura,
Tamil and Mahratti are among the lan
guages they must acquire.
—Edwin S. Hunt of Essex, Conn., has
a cannon ball which was found where the
old Saybrook fort was once located, just
north of the Valley Railroad station at
Saybrook point. The ball was fired from
a British ship in the river during the war
of 1812.
—Prof. Bryce has made a bad slip in hts
book on South Africa. He accuses the
Boers of abusing the English by speaking
of them usually as "rotten eggs,” where
as the Transvaal phrase is root nek, “red
neck,” and applies to the British com
plexion.
—At a recent meeting of the Royal Pho
tographic Society in London, Prof. Gabriel
Lippman described his system of color
photography, whereby a photograph show
ing the colors of nature is obtained by a
direct process and with one exposure of
the plate.
—When a great nobleman of the time
of the Pharaohs gave a feast his guests
arrived at midday in chariots and palan
quins? were met at the door by slaves,
their hands and feet washed in perfumed
water in golden vessels, and their heads
anointed with ointment.
—A new pattern valise, designed by
Capt. H. N. Sargent, is so arranged as
to provide a field bed with waterproof
sheet attached, and a shelter tent or
hammock can also be contrived; or in an
emergency it can be used as an improvised
stretcher for ambulance purposes.
—The total length of the world’s tele
graph system has now reached 4,908,823
miles, exclusive of 181,440 miles of subma
rine cables. This mileage Is apportioned
as follows: Europe, 1,764,790 miles; Asia,
310,681 miles; Africa, 99.419 miles; Austra
lia. 217,479 miles; America,2,516,548 miles.
—Nineteen children in twenty years of
married life is the record of one British
mother reported in the Lancet. She never
had twins, and was able for thirteen years
to nurse her babies without intermission.
The Lancet describes her as “a thin, but
not worn-out, looking woman."
—Seven young women in Matteawan, N.
Y., engaged in n public nail-driving con
test for charity. The house was packed,
and the girls started in to see who could
drive the most ten-penny wire nails in five
minutes. Miss Belie Mosher was the win
ner. She drove twenty nails in the speci
fied time.
—AVhen Miss Phillips of San Diego, Cal.,
opened her front door the other morning,
she found a tiny baby seal curled up cn
the step asleep. It had come up from the
bay and become exhausted. The furry
wanderer was put in a chicken coop, but
when he got rested he cried so pitifully
that his kind-hearted captor sent him back
to the sea.
—La Scala, Milan’s famous opera house,
will be closed this winter unless the rich
people of Milan come to the rescue. The
city authorities have refused to renew their
subvention, on the ground that too many
foreign operas are produced on its stage,
and that the* theater is not carrying out
the purpose of the subvention, that is, the
development of Italian lyric art.
—An Erlangen professor was called up
on lately to perform a dangerous surgical
operation on an 80-year-old merchant of
Nuremberg. The operation was brilliant
ly successful; the professor returned to
Erlangen, and, as usual in such cases, sent
in his bill to the merchant’s heirs. The old
gentleman, however, had recovered, and
took a mischievous pleasure in traveling
to Erlangen himself and paying the pro
fessor in person.
—The municipal year book of Berlin
shows that one woman in that city, 41
years old, is the mother of twenty chil
dren. In 1896 there were five families with
nineteen-children, sixteen with eighteen
seventeen with seventeen, thirty-two with
sixteen, sixty-three with fifteen, eighty
three with fourteen, and 126 with thirteen
Two hundred pairs of Berlin parents
counted a dozen children each, the moth
er In one case being only twenty-six years
old. A mother of eighteen offspring was
thirty-five years old, while women of
twenty-three and twenty had borne eight
and five children respectively.
-Plans have been prepared in Russia
for the construction at Kronstadt of n
depot for the storage of “masut,” or liquid
fuel, for the burning of which the new
Russian warships are being fitted. The
tanks in the depot will have a capacity
of 17,000 tons, and in the building of them
old marine boilers are to be used A spe
cial iron vessel, of 1,0(0 tons burden is
to be constructed, fitted with all necessary
apparatus, for the transport of the pe
troleum fuel from the shore to the ships
The Admiral Grieg is to have tanks fitted
In her coal bunkers, and when the Ad
miral Nachimoff returns from China she
will undergo similar treatment. Her pre
sent boilers will be converted into tanks
and new boilers will be substituted for
them. The result of these experiments
will be watched with a good deal of curi
osity in all naval circles.
SALT
Most tortnring and disfiguring of. itching,
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stantly relieved by a warm bath with Cm
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(ointment), the g. eat skin cure, and a full fin „
of CtmctßA Resolvent, greatest of bio, |
purifiers and humor cures, when all else fails
(Oticura
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Mixed 90e; three cut 90c.
Oak $1.00; three cut SI.OO.
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