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*lt must be a mighty, bad affair which
has absolutely no mitigating feature. Not
a word has been heard about Hawaii since
the Maine blew up.
?A “vegetable" society function was given
ip New York the other night. Thefe were
present a large number of cabbage heads.
Qther attendants decorated their heads
With turnips, parsnips, radishes and vari
pjhs sorts of "greens” according to taste.
It was not precisely a wedding in high
life, nevertheless it was an altiiudlnous
wedding, when two Chicago young people
were married the other day on the top of
the Auditorium tower, nearly 300 feet
rfbowe the heads of persons on the side
walk.
'i'he possibility that the President will
place Judson Lyons in the office of regis-
Agr of wills for the District of Columbia
will probaby be followed by a protest upon
tliO’part of the people of the District. They
have a great notion of home rule In Wash
ington. whenever it is desired that a col
ored man from the outside shall be ap
pointed to an office of the District. Could
nc the President find a place for Lyons in
or in Massachusetts?
The stories which come by cable of
France's activity >n Africa are probably
based upon truth. The French govern
ment would Ik. very grateful for some di
verting affair or event In a distant quar
ter, to take the public mind away from
thS Zola trial in Paris. The African ex
pedition might serve the purpose. With a
(jflnfliel ( between French and Briish in
terests in Africa, it might be possible to
turn public attention from Paris long
enough to smooth over the Dryfus-Ester
hazy-Zola matter.
At its recent session the Mississippi Leg
islature passed an act providing for the
submission to the people of a constitu
tional amendment making the judiciary
elective by popular vote. The amendment
really proposes three changes in the con
stitution. The con.sMtutioii itself provides
that each proposed change shall be voted
Upon as a separate amendment. In the
act referred to the three changes are
embodied in one amendment, hence the
Amendment .cannot legally be submitted
to the jteople. The matter, therefore, will
have to go over for two years, until the
next meeting of the General Assembly.
A Chicago dispatch announce- that there
■it'ill shortly lie published in that city a
remarkable book, probably the most cosi
ly on record. It is to be called the “Book
it Wealth," and is to contain nil (tiat i?
ttorth knowing about wealth from the be
ginning of the world down to Joseph Lelt
er’s wheat deal. There will he only 300
copies of the book printed, in twA editions.
The first, or cygne nolr, edition will con
sist of 150 copies and will be sold at SJ.SdO
J) copy. The second edition, of 150 oople?,
will cost $1,(X)0 each. It is proposed by the
publishers that the volumes shall he ihe
finest things of the kind in (he world. \
Kan Francisco man is the author of the
work.
That Epistle to n Human.
Rev. Sam Jones, in his letter giving his
r. asons for his announcement of his can
didacy for Governor, says that he is not
sorry Col. Candler wrote that letter to
Mr. Meyer ha rdf. the. Roman, in which he
scored the politicians who euchered Gen.
Evans out of the Governorship in IXSM. but
he says he is sorry that Col. Candler
wrote the second letter—the one in which
he attempted to explain the first.
It would have been better for Col.
Candler probably if he had not written
the second letter. It left the impression
in the minds of some of his friends that
he thought he had made a mistake in writ
ing the first letter. Asa matter of fact
he had no such thought. He found out
that Gov. Atkinson's friends were plan
n.ng to defeat him, and so he put his
own friends on guard, and he did it In
such a way as to arouse the whole state.
After his letter to Mr. Meyerhardt was
made public a still hunt campaign was no
longer possible. His opponents were forc
ed to come out Into the open and let the
people know what they were doing.
There is no such division in the Geor
gia Democracy as the Evans party and
the Atkinson party, and if there ever was
it disappeared before Gov. Atkinson was
elected. But the Governor ever since he
took office, has been fighting every man
that he thought was against him. and
has seen an "Evans man” in every Dem
ocrat who refused to believe "Bill” Atkin
son was a great man and hurrah for him.
It was apparently this condition of af.
fairs which Col. Candler wanted to un
cover. He did not want to bring up old
issues, but he wanted the people to under
stand that others were doing so. Gov. At
kinson has run'his administration on the
idea that there is an Evans man in every
bush, and he has treated as good, if not
better Democrats than he is as Republi
cans or Populists, not because they oppos
ed his nomination but because they have
not enrolled themselves among his admir
ers.
Col. Candler did not propose to conduct
his campaign in silence while his oppo
nents were working in the dark to defeat
him, and so he uttered a battle cry, as it
were, which brought his foes out into the
open. He knows who they are now and
he can fight his battle to much better
advantage.
The Way Spain View* It.
Dispatches from Madrid say that the
Spanish government is convinced that the
Maine disaster, instead of estranging, will
tend to improve the relaiions between the
United States and Spain.
It may be that the Spanish government's
view of the matter is the right one. Ii
will be the right one, provided an Investi
gation shows that the destruction of the
Maine was purely accidental, and if the
American people become satisfied that the
expressions of sympathy of Spanish people
for the loss of the Alaine and for the brave
men who were killed in the Maine disaster
are genuine. Just at present, however, it
cannot be said (hat there are indications
of more satisfactory relations between the
two countries. The Spanish expressions of
sympathy are received in this country as
If they were sincere, but it lb certain
that there would be an outbreak of feel
ing against Spain so bitter that it would
'be difficult to prevent war between the
two countries if it should appear that
Spain had a hand in the destruction of
the Maine.
Whatever may be the sentiments of the
Spanish government in respect to the
United States it is certain that the people
of Spain and Ihe Spaniards of Cuba hate
the Americans so intensely that they
would be glad of an opportunity to do
them almost any kind of an injury. All
the reports which come from Havana are
to the effect that hostility to Americans
on the part of the Spaniards of that city
is very great. The Spaniards would not
hesitate to Insult Americans on Ihe streets
and in the hotels and other public places
if they dared to do so. Even the children,
if reports are to be credited, hoot and jeer
at Americans on the streets.
Only recently the Spanish minister at
Washington, Mr. De Lome, was compelled
to resign because he permitted his real
sentiments respecting President McKinley
to reach the public In one of his letters.
Only a day or two ago Lieutenant Com
mander Jose G. Sobral, lately connected
with the Spanish legation in Washington,
is reported to have made remarks about
our navy, and especially about the dis
cipline on board the Maine, which were
so out-of-place that the state department
thought it advisable to take notice of
them. It is true that Commander Sobral
says hi* remarks were misunderstood, but
llie reporter who reported his remarks
slates that Commander Sobral was not
misunderstood, and that his utterances
were reported correctly.
All these things show that though pollto
to us the Spaniards hate us and would
rejoice at any misfortune which might
lief all us. Such being the condition of af
fairs, It Is not yet by any means certain
that the Maine disaster will lie followed
by a better feeling between the United
States and Spain,
In Louisville, Ky., the other day the
judge of the police court sentenced two
newspaper thieves to the workhouse for
oqe year in default of a fine of S2O each.
They merited their punishment. The per
son who steals a newspaper not only takes
something of a money value,
but deprives the subscriber of
prompt information which may
be of importance to him, or of news which
is of interest and without which no per
son can be abreast of the times. The
newspaper thief deserves prompt and se
vere punishment.
Congrt -sman Cummings wishes Congress
to vote an appropriation of SIIIO,OOO for a
memorial to the Maine and her men, to
tie erected in New York. Why in New
York? Whkt has New York to do espec
ially with the Maine or with the navy?
Why would It not be as well to erect the
memorial at Galveston, or Seattle, or Bath
as at New York? If there Is to Jie such
a memorial erected there arc only two
proper places for one aboard of anew
Maine, and the other at the national cap
' Hal.
THE MORNING NEWS: WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1808.
Tile- Pines in the l*nrle.
The working force of Ihe Park and Tree
Commission is still engaged in cutting
down and making fire wood of the pines
in Forsyth Park. The trees are alleged to
be dead, though to Judge from the appear
ance of the wood of the felled trees, they
might have remained a good many years
longer, to give an air of nobility to the
tree life of Ihe park. In the discussion of
why the pines in the park are dying, one
of the commissioners said the reason was
that pines will not grow with
other trees. Possibly it would be nearer
correct to say that pines will not permit
other trees to grow with them. So far as
the information goes, it has not been dem
onstrated that the Georgia pine will not
grow in company with other trees. The
case of the pines in Forsyth Park cannot
be taken as demonstrating a fact, since It
is well known that these pines have at
tained to a good old nge and a robust ma
turity. It is true, however, that in the
natural pine forests the pines grow so
thickly that in many instances other spe
cies of trees are virtually shut out. In
other instarfees, however, a few pines may
be found growing in all vigor in company
with oaks and other trees. This would in
dicate that the pine is exclusive when it
has the opportunity to capture- the field,
but under other circumstances ts not
averse to associating with less noble spe
cies.
As to the pines in the park, the evidences
indicate that they are second growth, or
"old field” pines, and noi the long lived
long-leaf pines of the original forest. The
land upon which is now the site of For
syth Place or park, was once cleared land.
Just as was all of the area south of the
old lines of the city. The forest trees which
originally covered this area were doubt
less cut a way either by the Americans be
fore the attack upon the city by the Brit
ish in 1775, or by the latter previous to the
attack by the Americans and French in
1779. The pines in the park, therefore, are
of a growth of a later date than the Rev
olutionary war. That the trees grow there
while olher parts of the area of the city
remained free from such growth, is due to
the fact that the land embraced in what
is now the park became in the early part
of Hie present century, a
federal military reservation, and
remained so until the latter
part of the forties, when the government
ceded it to the city of Savannah. Being
under military government for so long a
time will account for the sparing of the
park pines while other trees of the kind
in what is now the city area went into the
wood idles.
The pine is a noble tree. Wh#n young, it
is also an ornamental tree. There are rea
sons for believing that with attention
no more than Is given to other trees—the
pine will thrive after transplanting. It
is to be hoped that the Park and Tree
Commission will make an effort to replace
the pines in the park, which it has had
cut down, with other trees of the same
species. The pines were a notable fea
ture of the park, and that feature should
be preserved if there is a possibility of do
ing it.
Too Eager for Jurisdiction.
The case of William Grice, one of the
Standard Oil agents indicted in McLennon
county, Texas, for violating the anti-trust
laws of that state, reported in our dis
patches yesterday, contains a lesson for
judges of the United States Circuit and
District Courts. The public has been
complaining for a long time of the anx
iety displayed by the judges of these courts
to enlarge their jurisdiction. They con
tinually meddle in matter which are be
yond their jurisdiction.
William Grice was indicted for violating
a state law. His case was in a state
court. The United States Circuit Court
reached out and took hold of it—took it out
of the state court. Tbe Supreme Court
of the United States says that the United
States Circuit Court had no authority to
do anything of the sort, that it had no
jurisdiction in the field in which it acted.
It therefore ordered the case turned back
into the state court.
It Is time that the Supreme Court was
taking notice of the tendency of the Cir
cuit and District courts to exceed their ju
risdiction. On account of this tendency
the federal courts have lost much of the
popularity they once possessed. Their
encroachments on the jurisdiction of the
state courts have become so great that
protests gjftainst their acts are heard in
all parts of the country. The labor ele
ment particularly regards them as a
source of danger to its interests. They are
doing more than any other agency to cen
tralize the government. His time they
were checked.
Our 'dispatches of yesterday noted that
there were a ftumber of war vessels neat
ing completion in British shipyards which
might be purchased. From several quar
ters lately have come the suggestion that
the United States should at the very earli
est possible moment supply the place made
vacant by the loss of the Maine, by pur
chase If possible, and by construction it
necessary. There are two objections to
be urged against the purchase of a for
eign built ship at this time. One is that
we probably should not get a first-class
and perfectly satisfactory craft, and the
other is that such action would throw the
country into such a state of excitement
and apprehension of war near at hand
that the markets, and probably commerce
also, would be seriously affected.
A Madrid Journal advances the far
fetched Idea that in the event of trouble
I let ween the United States and Spain, the
latter could depend upon the support of
the Central and South American countries.
It warns Latin America against the United
States In connection with the canal, saying
the "greedy Yankees” would grab it Just
as England did the Suez canal. Notwith
standing Spanish is the language or the
greater part of Central pnd South America,
Spain would probably find herse'.f disap
pointed if She for any sort of aid
from those sources. There is probably not
a government on this hemisphere but
would like Ao,see the United States win to
a contest Spain.
Lieut. Sobpal.&who has precipitated an
Issue of verjeity between himself and the
Spanish lega'tioir at Washington in con
nection with his criticism of the Ameri
can navy, by asserting that he Is still the
naval attache of Spain at Washington
while the legation asserts, that he ts no
longer In service, is noi altogether
unknown In this part of the country. He
is the young man-who visited Charleston
last summer, and Is alleged to have at
tempted an inspection of the fortifications
there by questionable methods. There
was also a rumor that he had visited Sa
vannah on the same business, but noth
ing was ever seen of him in this city or
at Tybte. The Washington papers are of
the opinion that the Lieutenant really
succeeded in+ocuring a mass of informa
tion about American forts, prior to the
time when there was reason to think the
relations between the countries might be
come strains!!.
1 . .
The labors of (he naval court of inquiry
at Havana are .fraught with the gravest
responsibilities. Upon the finding of that
court depend the most serious conse
quences. The officers of the court, there
fore, should pot be hurra?sod with the vol
untary and wholly undesirable attentions,
importunities and suggestions of the "yel
low journal.*f self constituted, hysterical
saviors • ot> the honor of the
nation. Liberty of the press
does not yaelqdo foolhardy license to
inflame the public mind and rush the
country into'a terrible war, in order that
the publishers of the sensational newspa
pers may have Sr enlarged market for
their publications. ' ■
It is to the credit of the people of Mew
Y’orU that they have made no hostile dem
onstration against the Spanish warship,
Vizcaya, notwithstanding they were urged
on to do it by indirect suggestions from
the Sensational newspaper press of that
city. The incident would seem to indicate
how much, .jor rather how little, influence
the "new journalism” newspapers have
upon the masses of the.people. Readers
lake no stock in anything they say. The
people like Jo look at the pictures and
note the verba! contortions of the sensa
tion builders, but- they arq not influenced
by whgt ik printed by such papers.
In 1897 the legislature of Indiana passed
a law placing the employes of corpora
tions on an equal footing with non-em
ployes in cases of injury resulting to them
from defective machinery or the negli
gence of a co-employe in whose employ
ment they had no voice and over whom
they had no control. Some of the rail
roads contested the constitutionality of the
law, which is jtnqyr.h la the state as the
"fellow servant law.” The other day a
case covering the question of constitu
tionality was decided by the supreme
court, the court holding in the affirmative.
PERSO N VI..
—Locke Richardson, who is about to
give Shakespearean readings in England.
France and Germany, will be the guest
of Ambassador White while he is in Ber
lin.
—Apropos of the Intention of Prof.
Schweninger, the physician of Prince Bis
marck, to lecture in Vienna, a Viennese
wit suggests that the Prince may take ad
vantage of the opportunity to recover.
—J. R. lshee and Airs. AI. J. Hastings *f
Eastabuchie, La., have just been married
at the resilience of the bride's son, B. F.
Hastings. The groom is 85 years of age,
while the bride has passed her three score
and ten. The ceremony was solemnized
in the presence of a number of friends and
relatives, many of whom were great
grandchildren of the contracting parties.
BRIGHT BITS.
—Gook (on the day after her arrival) —
Please, mum. I'm a bit fiery at times, and
when I am fiery, I'm apt to be a bit rough
spoken; but you needn't let that put you
about—with a little present you can al
ways bring me round again.—Tit-Bits.
—A 'Suggestion.—Brooks—We have anew
game. Alaybe you’d like to come in.
Russell—What’s the idea?
Brooks—'Well, half a dozen of us put in
$lO each, and the man who guesses where
the next South American revolution will
break out takes the pot.—Life.
—"I don't object to being called a pea
nut politician,” said Senator Sorghum.
"The peanut is at times a most palatable
and desirable product.” “yes,” said the
candid retainer, with a sigh, "sometimes.
But it takes a great deal of 'roasting' to
make it so."—Washington Star.
CIHREVr COMMENT,
An Ohio Estimate of Lee,
From the Cincinnati Enquirer (Dotn.),
The loss of Consul General Lee at Ha
vana would be a sorlous_ one, but it is a
pity we cannot have some such man at
the White House, in Washington, at this
critical juncture.
Refuge for Dishonesty.
From Louisville Courier-Journal (Dem.).
An Indiana man resists a suit for pay
ment for a typewriter on the ground that
the typewriter company belongs to a trust
and can not go to coort. The same de
fense would apply against prosecution if
he had stolen the typewriter; and he
would doubtless be proud of the fact if he
had.
At It Again!
From the Philadelphia Ledger (Ind.).
President McKinley has been at it again.
He has pardoned a Delaware man con
victed of passing counterfeit money, be
cause the Attorney General thought the
man's sentence was too severe. This raises
the question whether the President and the
Attorney General knew more about Ihe
case than the Judge who tried it.
V Hiivering Protectionist.
From the Philadelphia Inquirer (Rep.).
We are on a protective basis, but protec
tion to manufactures cannot be defended—
is, indred. a farce—unless there is the same
protection to laborers. The great object
of protection, more important than reve
nue, is to build up mills and create new
enterprises for the purpose of giving em
ployment to our workingmen and paying
them respectable wages. When the coun
try is filled with cheap laborers from
abroad who work without Intelligence and
for a mere pittance, ihe most important
Xeature of protection Is nullified.
Some Dana Stories.
Here, says q, writer in Ihe New A'ork
Press, is a stogy characteristic of the late
Charles A. Dana: John R. McLean, candi
date for President, for the Senate, for Gov
ernor of Ohio and any old thing, owner
and editor of the Cincinnati Enquirer and
millionaire resident of Washington, one
time owner of the New York Journal
which cost him $200,000 in three or four
weeks, telegraphed to his New York cor
respondent (at that time Charles S. Scan
lon) instructions to get an interview- with
Air. Dana on his attitude in politics. Mr.
Scan lap put the question briefly and di
rectly. and Mr. Dana's reply was. "Read
the editorials in the Sun.” "But. Air.
Dana,” Scanlan protested, "I do read the
editorials in the Sun every day, and to save
my soul I can't tell anything about your
politics.” Looking over the rim of his
spectacles the great editor said: “Mr.
Scanlan. and it you aren't right. I don’t
believe I know where we stand.”
Gen. Howard Carroll tells this one on
Dana? "I had met the ojd gentleman
many times, but we had never become in
timately acquainted. One day I was rid
ing down town on the elevated train read
ing a copy of the old Truth. Air. Dana
got on at his station and. happened to drop
into a seat beside mo. His eye fell on
Truth, and ine at the same time, and l.e
said: 'Howard, what are you reading?’ I
showed him Truth and said, picking up a
copy of, the Sun. which lay in my lap:
'Air. Dana, when 1 am traveling in a
hurry and can't put my mind on what I
read. I take up something like Truth to
pass the time; but when I can sit down
and digest good matter, I always read the
Sun.’ I( tickled him mightily, and we
were afterward the best of friends.
All . Dana. Air. Greeley and Carl Schurz
were fond of men who read their respect
ive papers. I have seen Air. Schurz, when
editor of the Post, enter a Third avenue
train at City Hail station, and, beginning
at the tail end of the last car. walk slowly
through to the engine counting the num
ber of Posts in the passengers’ hands. If
satisfactory, he would willingly stand all
the way to Thirty-fourth street, smiling
with himself; but if there were few-er pa
pers than he expected or hoped to find las
misery was clearly painted in the exnres
sion of his face.
If Makes a Difference.
Wamsley got up to get his pipe from the
mantel the other evening and carelessly
brought his No. 10 foot down heavily on
his wife's tenderest corn, relates the De.
troit Free Press. He made up apology and
Mrs. Wamsley said:
"Well, Henry Wamsley?”
"Well, what?”
"You haven’t anything to say, have
you?”
“Anything to say about what?”
"About nearly crushing jjjjy foot to a
"What should I say?”
"I'd ask, if I were you, Henry Wamsley!
What would you have said ten years ago
before we were married,. when you were
courting me? What would you say to-day
to any woman who did not happen to be so
unfortunate as to be your wife? Hey?
why, you’d humble yourself in the dirt
apologizing to her! You'd say, 'I beg your
pardon!' and 'How awkward I am!’ and
'Do excuse me!’ Oh, you couldn't be hum
ble and polite enough In your apologies!
My! how yon would apologize! You'd be
apt to write her a note about It! And if
it had happened, after our engagement
you’d be so tenderly solicitous about my
‘poor, dear little foot,' my 'tender little
foot whose pathway you intended to make
smooth all of my life!’ My good lard!
You’d make me actually weary talking
about my 'poor little foot.’ But now when
you nearly crush every bone in it and
make me scream with pain you never open
your mouth to say anything unless it is
to say, 'O, thunder!’ or something like
that! And last night when the Alorleys
were calling here you made us all tired
apologizing to Airs. Morley because you
chanced to spill a little water on her dress,
and I thought to myselt, ‘He wouldn’t
apologize that way to me If he had acci
dentally turned a garden hose on me! He'd
probably ask me what I was in the way
for!' It’s a strange thing to me that a mar
ried man's manners wane with the honey
moon! I tell you marriage makes an awful
difference! Indeed, it does!”
"I should say it did,” mumbled Wamsley
as he lighted his pipe.
A Tninngo Fairy Story.
Are you fond of fairy stories? asks the
Boston Journal. Here is a beautiful one
about Tamago, the tenor. No, it is not
about his washing his socks in his room
at a tavern. It is anew story, published
in Italy just before his engagements be
gin in foreign cities. In his palace he
has a museum, richly stocked with crowns,
cups, goblets, cigar cases, etc., which have
been given to him as testimonials of ad
miration. There is a strange history at
tached to one of the cigarette cases. Ton
years ago in Chili, Tamago was worship
ped by a beautlfuj woman, who gave him
a cigarette cose made of gold and Incrust
ed with precious stones. The initials of
Tamago in emeralds were on one side;
the initials of the giver In rubles were on
the other. “Was Tamago in love with her?
Who knows? He has the reputation of
being an extremely virtuous person." Alt
er his engagement he left Chili, and he was
told that his adorer was a married woman
and the mother of twelve children. Two
years ago her husband died. She went to
Rome in February, 1597, where she saw
Tamago. She spoke to him a few words,
then drawing from her bodice a dagger,
she daggered him. The point was blunt
ed by the cigarette box which she had giv
en him. It is true that the tale has been
told for years concerning others, but the
thwarting body was always a temperance
medal or a Bible.
\ House Set on Fire by a I’iinltlre.
Fire insurance companies have ail sorts
of experiences and their officers can tell
many curious stories, says the Hartford
Courant. One of the queerest fires fell
within the business of the Connecticut
Fire Insurance Company of this city yes
cently.
A house was set, on fire by a bathtub
and the tub was on fire by a poultice.
A man in a Western city was suffering
from a bad cold, and his wife, at the doc
tor's orders, prepared a poultice for his
chest. When she started to put it on it
proved to be too hot. Accordingly she
took it to the bathroom and set it into
the bntht\b to cool. 'This happened to he
a fine tub lined with celluloid, which
served as a sort of enamel. The heat of
the poultice started the celluloid a-going,
and the burning tub set things going gen
erally. The department was called out,
and the house was well wet down, for
which the company had to pay. This, so
far as is known, is the first instance on
record where a hath tub set a house on
tire or where a poultice kindled a bath
tub.
—Joseph Ski, or “OJibwa Joe,” as he
was called, Is dead. Before the war John
C. Breckinridge owned some land near
Superior, Wis., and employed Joe to clear
it. He became so impressed with the
young Indian that he made him his body
servant. When the war broke out Joe
raised a eomnany of guerrillas, anil fought
at their head through the war as sharp
shooters. Joe claimed to have killed 113
Union soldiers, which he recorded by
notches on the stock of his gun. ,
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
—The origin of throwing rice at weddings
is to be found in a custom that existed in
early Rome of hurling wheat after newly
married brides and bridegrooms.
—An ingenious hatter of Paris construct
ed a house of felt made out of 24,090 old
hats. This house consisted of parior. din
ing room and bedroom; also a kitchen.
—At a recent Hancock county. Me., fam
ily dinner, dinner was announced by
pounding on the ancient warming pan, and
coffee was served from the delft coffee pot,
over 100 years old.
—A small piece of cheese and an elec
tric wire form the latest rat-trap. The
cheese is fixed to the wire, and the instant
the rat touches the cheese he receives a
shock which kills him.
—The cult of the beard, according to the
ancient Jewish writers, started in the Gar
den of Eden. Adam, they telwhis, was of
prodigious hight, and was furnished with a
long beard which reached to his middle.
—A strange tree, styled the "moosanga,”
grows in the Kongo. It belongs to the or
der "Urticaceoe.” AVhen the tree is cut
at a hight of about 5 feet a large quantity
of water is observed to flow from the sec
tion.
—Thq use of dogs for the purposes of
draught was abolished as regards London,
by an act of Parliament, passed in Au
gust, 1839, and the prohibition was extend
ed to 811 parts of the United Kingdom in
July, 1851.
—The great speed of instruction in the
English language in Japan has naturally
led to a growing demand for English
books. Over 100,009 English books of all
classes were imported last year, as against
80,000 in 1896.
—Most of the cutting of whalebone is
done in Paris and Bremen, some in London
and the rest in this country, where there
are seven establishments for this purpose
—four in New York, two in Boston and one
in San Francisco.
—The Countesses Eugenie and Ina Kap
uist, who had such miraculous escapes
from the charity bazar disaster, have been
in Greece, where they acted as nurses in
the Tureo-Grecian war, and are now about
to return to Paris.
—A tragedian recently playing "Richard
III” in a small totvn was waited on after
the show by an honest farmer, who said
that “if the gen’l'm who wanted a horse
was still of the same mind, he would like
to do business with him.”
—About 10,COO pounds of eiderdown are
collected annually in Iceland, 7,000 being
exported to foreign countries. Formally
the peasants usgd to receive over 21 shill
ings a pound for it, but the price has
now fallen to half that amount.
—lt is rather trying for a young woman
to be asked by a young man to select an
engagement ring that will fit her, and
when she has made the selection to be in
formed it is for another girl. Such was
the experience of a White River Junction
(Vt.) damsel a short while ago.
—The largest waves are seen off Cape
Horn, rising to 46 feet in hight and 765
feet long from crest to crest. Waves in
the North Atlantic have bebn observed to
rise 43 feet in hight. In the German ocean
the hight does not exceed 13Vi feet, and
in the Mediterranean 14Vi feet.
—Airs. John Reinard of Louisville. Ky.,
Insists that she has a live frog in her
stomach, and that when it is hungry it
kicks and scratches'until she partakes of
food to satisfy its hunger. She thinks she
swallowed a tadpole while on a visit to
New Jersey, and that it has developed.
—ln the reign of Elizabeth the wearing
of hats was considered a sign of luxury.
Ky an act of Parliament every person
above the age of 7 years, and under a cer
tain degree, was obliged on Sundays and
holidays to wear a woolen cap, made in
England and finished by some of the fra
ternity of cappers.
—Queen Victoria is said to possess some
very old watches. Among them are two
little gold ones, by Breguet, supposed to
be ICO years old. One is a repeater, the
other a blind man’s watch. Both of these
are in constant use and keep good time.
They are about the size of a two-shilling
piece, and have silver dials.
—At the birth of a Japanese baby a
tree is planted, which must remain un
touched until the marriage day of the
child. When the nuptial hour arrives the
tree is cut down, and a skilful cabinet
maker trahsforms the wood into furni
ture, which is considered by the young
couple as the most beautiful of ail orna
ments of the house.
—St. Louik, the greatest brick manufac
turing center in the United States, is head
quarters for the hydraulic-pressed brick
company, which has in St. Louis the two
largest yards in the world, and eleven
great factories in other places, the whole
having a yearly output of 300,000,000 bricks,
or enough to lay a two-course wall around
the globe. Its St. Louis warehouses are
miles in length, and it takes three days
for a well-versed briekmaker to go
through either of the plants. The com.
pany owns fifty-eight railroad clay cars,
With a capacity of 60,000 pounds each.
Power is supplied by fourteen boilers and
sixteen engines, 276 mules and 6'*) men,
the other 125 mules and 250 men. The mal
chinery is all patented and made by the
company, which owns its own blacksmith
and machine shops, foundry, harness
shops and wagon works, and turns out in
its own plant everything it uses.
—While the delivery of milk in glass
jars may not !>e pronounced a perfect sys
tem, says the New York Post, it has been
generally regarded as superior to th.
"dip” system from cans or pails, open to
the flying dust and odors of the street,
and liable to contamination from the
hands of the deliverer. There is som<>
surprise, therefore, in learning of an or
ganized movement in Philadelphia to per
suade the Board of Health to forbid that
method of milk distribution. As might b>
expected, the movement originated with
a dairy association, whose members may
be supposed to antagonize the glass jar
system because of the added expense and
inconvenience. But these dairymen were
supported in their contention of the al
leged dangers of the system, through the
spreading of disease because of the
claimed inability to thoroughly cleanse
the jars, by the local Society for the Pre
vention of Tuberculosis, which presented
resolutions condemning the system as
prejudicial to the public health. On the
other side there was bacteriological test:
mony that the glafes Jars protect the
health of milk-drinking babies, inasmuch
as. being sealed, they prevent the entrance
of the colon bacillus, the cause of summer
diseases among children, which bacillus is
found in the faeces of animals and is scat
tered in the dust of the street. The point
most strongly brought out as to the clean
liness of the bottles was that the riesponsi
billty rested not with the housekeeper but
with the dairyman, who shouid hav<* the
proper facilities for scalding and sterellz
ing the jars.
Instant relief for skin-tortured babies and
rest for tired mothers In a warm hath with
Cuticcra Soap, and a single application of
CcTicruA (ointment), the great skin euro
The only speedy and economical treatment
for itching, burning, bleeding, scaly, and
pimply humors of the skin, scalp, and'blood
(uticura
Is sold through out the world. Pomnt Drug and
tWoRAiioN. Sole Proprietor!, Boston. **•
Cj’ “ Ho to Coro Kvery Baby Humor," mailed ft*..
BABY BLEMISHES r 'cCTlCt*K.t
SILK WAISTS^
'We received. an exceedingly
pretty assortment of
SILK WAISTS
And will offer them during .the week at
V'fcßY ATTRACTIVE FIGURES. There
waists are proper in every way and are
from one of the finest waist makers in the
country.
Here are items from the new ar
rivals and you can judge of the others by
what we say of these:
Green and Black Silk Waists, tucked
blouse effects, $9.50.
Plaids and Striped Silk Waists, bloure
effects, $6, $7 and $8.50.
Plain Silk and Satin Waists, blouse ef
fects, crush collars, $4.50 to $7.
LADIES - SKIRTS.
New line just from the North and in th
latest cuts and making. The price® rung™
from $2 to SS, and are exceptional values.
SPRING DRESS GOODS
Are not waiting for further invitation.
They are here and as pretty as you can
imagine. The figures run from 40c to 75c
per yard, and for the amount you can get
handsomer goods than any season prior
to this.
SUITS.
Correct in every particular and to be
sold at prices exceptionally low.
ORGANDIES.
The daintiest of all the spring comers,
and our lines more beautiful than ever.
All of the latest colorings at 15c, 25c and
35c a yard.
In Solid Colors Organdies, light blue,
pink, yellow cream and lavender, tw#
yards wide, at 50c yard.
JUST OPENED.
Beautiful LIBERTY PLEATINGS in all
shades, ruchings side fevers, plain and
sherried, Alousseline.
SASHES in all shades, laced trimmed.
An exquisite assortment of Plaids and
Ribbons. Double-face Satin Ribbons in
all shades and widths.
Daniel Hogan,
The corner Broughton and Barnard sts.
E C. PACETTI & SON,
Roofing and Repairing.
Roof Painting.
Skylights.
Cornices,
Agent for Cortright’s
Metal Shingles.
Telephone 2203. 136 Whitaker street
SCOTT & DAVIS,
Headquarters for fancy and staple gro
ceries.
Native and Westerh meats.
Fish, game and poultry.
Vegetables of every variety in season.
Orders filled and sent to any part of the
city.
219 HENRY, EAST.
■Phone 2296.
Sflmm BUILDING SUPPLY Col
Congress and Drayton Streets
Brick. Lime, Cement, Wall Paper. Paint*,
Glass, Mantels, Fireplace Fixtures.
BUILDING SUPPLIES GENERALLY.
Every stroke of the paint brush, every
broken glass replaced, every worn out grate
fixed means ,
Money Well Invested
You select the material, we furnish it and do
the work.
Happy New Year
will be all the happier if you don’t lot
small things trouble you. Just telephone
or drop us a postal when you want oil or
gasoline and you will be ourprised how
quick we will serve you.
Ml Oil AND GASOLINE DELIVERS
P. O. Box 19. Telephone 461.
Also OAK and PINE WOOr
Pine 75c. three cut 80c.
Mixed 90c; three cut 9Qe.
Oak 61.00; three cut 61.00.
, J. P. CORDRAY,
Broughton and Price.