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aiLX 10 SE\T ADVLit! ISEIILNIS
Meetings—Zerubbabcl Lodge No. 15, P.
& A. M.; Live Oak Lodge No. 3, I. O. O.
Special Notices—House for Saie, H. A.
Palmer; The 1&S8 Harrington Hat, Falk
qiothtng Company.
'(Business Notices—E. & W. Laundry;
White Star Line, Henry Solomon & Sen,
Agents.
lAmusements —“Courted Into Court," tit
"theater To-night; lnnes and His Band,
Friday Afternoon and Evening,
i For Bargain Hunters This Is Good Bead
ing—Falk Clothing Company.
iYou May Be Poorer Next Winter—B. H.
Levy & Bro.
1 Whooping Them Up—Metropolitan Clotn-
Ipg Company.
Steamship Schedules—American Line;
Red Star Line; Baltimore Steamship Com
pany.
'Railroad Schedule—Florida Central and
Peninsular Railroad.
Gold Dust Washing Powder—N. K. Fair
banks Company.
Medical—Pe-ru-na; Terraline; Johann
Holt’s Genuine Mait Extract; Cuticura
Remedies; Hood's Sarsaparilla; Woman's
Friend; Wine of Cardui.
icheap Column Advertisements--Help
Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Rent;
For Sale; Lost; Personal; Miscellaneous.
( Are the Populists really lukewarm about
their state campaign, or only playing
’Jyossum?
To judge from the indications, it will
j?robably not be a great while before Senor
Qovin once more takes up his residence
lh Georgia.
* Judge Atkinson Wishes it to be under
stood that he comes Into the field as a
peace maker, and that he has no hard
feelings for anybody, notwithstanding he
was a'Chicago platform man even before
tjiat platform was adopted.
Senator Morgan of Alabama seems to
have awakened to the fact that there was
<jnce a great American of the name of
Georgia Washington, and now he wants
to build the best warship afloat it) the
ehyrt space of one year, to bear the name
of the Father of His Country. However,
Senator Morgan has before now been
known to advance and advocate some very
striking Ideas.
A theoeophist of New York has given out
the Information that the first 5,000 years
of the "iron age” Is now coming to a
close. There are still 15,000 of the same
age to follow, after which will come the
“silver age.” This will probably prove
distressing intelligence to the Hon. Will
iam M. Stewart of Nevada; since it is
possible that he t\ill not be here, in his
present incarnation at least, to welcome
the dawning of the argentine epoch.
Th New York Commercial Advertiser
.asserts that Gen. Blanco has revived Wcy
lgr’s edict against the exportation of to
bacco. The Spanish authorities deny that
they have Information to that effect. Deal
el's in the product say the stock of Cuban
tobacco is fast diminishing, and the price
l(as advanced 7 cents a pound within a
week or so. It would probably be unfor
tunate for Gen. Blanco if he should revive
njany of Weyler’s orders.
Congressman Johnson of Indiana, by his
•peech on Hawaii, in the House on Tues
day, gave evidence of the fact that there
is still some statesmanship in Congress.
His declarations had In them the ring of
Irue patriotism, and were tn striking and
ost grateful contrast with the ranting
Jingoism blown off in the Senate a few
days ago by "Billy” Mason of Illinois. It
is to be regretted that there are not more
men like Mr. Johnson in the Republican
parly. _
Sensational street rumors may be ex
pected day, and every day, until the
Maine matter shall have been cleared up.
II Is safe to discount them all, until they
are substantiated by reports from reliable
sources. News facilities are so nearly
perfect In these days that reliable Informa
tion Is laid before the public by reputable
newspapers with remarkable dispatch. By
way of illustration, the Maine blew up in
Havana at 9:45 o'clock on the night of
Feb. 15. The news was received in Sa
vannah about 1:30. A few minutes after
2 o’clock a. m., the Morning News was on
the way to Florida bearing the informa
tion. Other important matters are han
dled with similar expedition.
Him to Lower the Tax Hale.
We publish this morning in another col
umn an interesting communication from j
the Georgia state commission, which Is
engaged in collecting funds for a state ex
hibit at the Omaha exposition. The pur
pose of the article ts to point out that the
true, and perhaiw the only, way to reduce
our tax rale is to increase tax values.
What Is meant by this Is to develop the
state's agricultural, mineral and manufac
turing resources. For instance, in the
city of New York the tax rate is only
about $2 on the SIUO for state, county and
city purposes, and in the city of Philadel
phia the rate Is or.iy $1.85. In the latter
city the tax on mortgages is but
four-tenths of 1 per cent. Here, in Sa
\annah and in Atlanta, the tax rate for
state, county and city purposes is pretty
close to $3 on the SIOO. It threatens to
reach 3 per cent, in the very near futur^.
The main reason why the tax rate is
so much less in the Northern cities, not
withstanding their extravagance. Is their
enormous tax values.
There is not much probability that there
will lie any considerable reduction In ap
propriations in the state. They are much
more likely to be increased than decreased,
because new demands upon the state treas
ury are all the time being made—and
they are demands which have the ap
proval of the people. The candidate for
Governor who tells the people that he
will reduce taxation if he is elected Gov
ernor simply means that In his annual
messages he will recommend economy. He
knows that he cannot reduce taxation to
any appreciable extent, and he ought to
know that every sensible man who is ac
quainted with the financial affairs of the
state knows that he cannot accomplish
anything in the way of lowering the rate
of taxation. The candidate who endeav
ors to gain the good will of the people by
telling them that if elected Governor he
will'bring about a reduction of the tax
rate is not dealing fairly with them, un
less he tells them what appropriations he
proposes shall be cut down, or abandoned
altogether. The Rev. Sam Jones says he
can run the state on one half of what it
now costs to run it. Everybody knows
what he means. He means that he would
shut up the public schools. He would use
the money which now goes to the schools
for other purposes, and hence, he could
cut down the tax rate very greatly, but
the people would not consent to have the
public schools abandoned. Therefore, Mr.
Sam Jones couldn't be elected Governor
on an antl-free school platform.
The only sure way to lower the rate of
taxation Is to increase the taxable wealth
of the state. How this can be done is il
lustrated by what has taken place in Ir
win county—the county in whien thous
ands of Northern settlers have found
homes within the last few years. In 1895
the tax returns of that county amounted
to $1,305,341. In 1896 they were $2,037,195
an increase of $731,854 in one year.
What has been done in Irwin county can
be done In other counties of the state.
We have splendid resources here in
Georgia. All our energies should be em
ployed in developing them. We need cap
ital and immigrants to help us—particular
ly immigrants, such Immigrants as come
from the Northwest. Why not make still
greater efforts than we are making to get
them? There Is no good reason why our
vacant lands should not be occupied, our
mines opened and our water power util
ized.
The Maine Investigation.
There is much complaint of the slowness
of the investigation of the cause of the
Maine disaster. The whole country wants
to know at the earliest possible moment
whether .the battleship was destroyed by
accident or design. 'From present Indica
tions it may be a week, probably much
longer, before any information of a relia
ble character is given to the public in re
gard to that matter.
The naval board which has charge of the
investigation is composed of men of the
highest character. They understand fully
the importance of making a very thorough
investigation before giving to the public
any statement tending to show the cause
of the disaster. They cannot afford to make
a mistake. If they should find some facts
tending to .show that the battleship was
destroyed by a torpedo or a ‘submarine
mine and should make them public there
would be at once such an outbreak of
public feeling against Spain that Congress
might be led into enacting legislation that
would provoke a war between Spain and
the United States, and yet further inves
tigation might make it evident that the
disaster was due to an accident, or, if not
to an accident, that Spain was in no res
pect responsible for it. Therefore, on ac
count of the consequences which might
follow the publication of information
pointing to a conclusion which might be a
wrong one, it is better from every point of
view that the discoveries made during the
investigation should not be published until
the board concludes its investigation and
reaches a decision.
Some enterprising newspapers regard the
refusal to permit them to serd down divers
of their own to determine the cause of the
disaster as being a good reason for at
tacking the government and condemning
it for its slowness in rescuing the bodies of
the men imprisoned in the ship. There are
very few who will sympathize with them.
What the people want is the truth, and it
is by no means certain that the divers em
ployed by newspapers, seeking sensational
news, would discover the truth. They could
not make a careful Investigation because
they could not take the time to do so.
Their whole effort would be to find some
thing out of which sensational news could
be made. Therefore they might do incal
culable harm.
The government is making us great
haste as it can, without running the risk
of reaching an erroneous conclusion, and
the majority of the people will sustain it
In the course it is pursuing.
Joseph Leiter, the Chicago wheat klng.is
forced to get along tn life with just a piain
“Mr.” In front of his name. If he will
move to Georgia, and do for cottort what
he has done for wheat, he may take his
choice of “C 01.,” “Maj.,” “den.’’ or any
.other military title he may fancy.
THE MORNING NEWS: THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1898.
A Victim of Polities.
A barbarous, brutal and revolting crime
was that which was committed at Lake
City, S, C., on Tuesday morning tast. The
negro postmaster was killed, his Infant
child was shot to death in its
mother’s arms, his wife and three
•laughters were shot and maimed
for life, and the postmaster’s
house was burned. Our dispatches say
that indignation is expressed everywhere,
and, It is to be presumed by everybody, at
such an exhibition of barbarity. Language
falls to express the feelings which such
crimes arouse. The people of Lake City,
and Williamsburg county, should not
rest until the perpetrators of the fearful
deed are brought to Justice. There Is no
excuse that would Justify their escape
from the punishment which the law pro
vides.
But there Is another side to the ease. Is
not the administration, to a certain extent,
responsible for the crime? The President
and the Postmaster General know what
the feeling in the South Is in respect to
negro officials, and particularly negro
postmasfers. Why then should they ap
point negroes to important public posi
tions? If they couldn't find white Repub
licans to take the federal offices In the
South there would be some little excuse
for appointing negroes, but there are plen
ty of white Republicans, of excellent char
acter, who would gladly accept office un
der a Republican administration, and there
would be more white Republicans if the
negro politicians were kept in the back
ground.
The President has no excuse for appoint
ing black officials in the South, except
the purpose of rewarding them for helping
him to get his nomination for President,
and of securing their help In getting aTe
nomination in 1900. There are thousands
of negro Republicans in Ohio and thous
ands in the states of New York and Penn
sylvania. In neither of the foregoing
states nor any other Northern state are
negroes appointed postmasters, or to any
other important official position. And,
why? Because the people of the Northern
Btates would not submit to having negro
officials at the head of prominent federal
offices. Why then should the President
expect the white people in the South to
tamefly acquiesce in the appointment of ne
groes to federal offices? He does not ex
pect It. He knows what the feelings of
the Southern people are in regard to the
matter, but he prefers' to pay his politi
cal debts rather than respect their wishes
and feelings. And because he takes that
position he Is partly responsible for such
crimes as that at Lake City.
For weeks the people at Hogansville, in
this state, have been without a postmas
ter, practically, because they refuse to
patronize their postoffice as long as a ne
gro ts postmaster. Does the President pay
any regard to their wishes in the matter?
Not at all. He virtually says that the Ho
gansville people must accept a negro post
master or go without postoffiee facilities.
For the wishes of the people he has no
consideration whatever. If he has not al
ready killed what promised to be a grow
ing Republican party in the South, he will
do so before the ehd of his term.
It may be said that it Is hard on the ne
gro to be shut out of the offices which his
party has to distribute. The negro ought
not to expect to step into important offi
cial positions within a few years after his
emancipation. Against the negro there is
no feeling of hostility, but against the ne
gro as an official there Is, and the fact
might as well recognized and admitted
by both whites and negroes. There Is no
use reasoning about k—it exists, and the
fact that it does exists should be taken
into account In administerting the govern
ment. There is a prejudice against the
Chinese and Congress shut them out of
the country. There is a prejudice against
negro office holders; why not keep them
out of the offices? Why let prejudice con
trol tn one case and not in the other?
Zola's I on victim.
Nobody expected that Zola would be ac
quitted. When his trial began it was said
that he would be convicted. He was con
victed because the government refused to
re-open the Dreyfus case. Witnesses upon
whom he depended to show' that Dreyfus
was convicted upon insufficient testimony
were not permitted to testify—or were not
compelled to testify when they refused to
do so.
The last of the Dreyfus case has not
been heard. As long as Dreyfus lives ef
forts will be made to secure his release
from imprisonment, and the time may
come when he will'be released.
When Zola took up his cause, few be
lieved Dreyfus to be innocent. Many be
lieve him innocent now. And the number
will steadily increase. Zola is hooted and
jeered now by the populace of Baris. The
time may come when he will be regarded
as a hero by that same populace. Dreyfus,
when sentence was passed u)>on him, cried
out that he was innocent, and there are
hundreds now, where there was one then,
who believe that he spoke the truth.
Chairman Danlor'.h of the New York
Democratic state committee, who has just
returned home from a trip through the
South, is quoted as saying that, from con
versations had by him with a large num
ber of Southern Democrats, he ts led to
the belief that the majority of the lead
ers of the party arc “not disinclined to so
modify the national platform that ail
Democrats can be brought together in
1900.”\ It is to be hoped that Mr. Dan
for'.h is correct. There will be a hard
fight a,head of the party in the next i a
tiohal Campaign. With mutual conces
sions tri the party, there ought to be no
insurmountable obstacles to a reconcilia
tion betty-cen the factions.
Some porfervid patriots of Yonkers, N.
Y„ have dealt Spain a stinging blow
They have burned De Lome in effigy, after
hanging hiifi to a telegraph pole. They
made a De Lome of old clothes stuffed
with sawduslt and straw, bound and gag
ged him so iktat he couid not defend him
self, lynched' him, set fire to him, cut him
down amf kicked him around on the
ground until xi!s hay whiskers and his
patched coat were a sight to behold. Then,
uresumably, Ihe patriots felt better.
PERSONAL.
—•Rev. A. J. D. Haupt, pastor of the
Memorial Uvangehral English Lutheran
Church of St. Paul, Minn., lias raised a
commotion by accusing members of the
rational guard whose armory is next to
the church, of spending more time flirting
witli the young women of the congregation
than they spend at their drills.
—F. A. Seynave, a resident of Philadel
phia, for over forty years, has been deco
rated to the Order of Isopold and his
insignia forwarded to him through the con
sul general to the United States by King
Ixopold in consideration of many years of
labor and * ftivlty ihirelieving the destitute
and distressed citizens of that nation.
—Prof. Park of Andover figures rather
amusingly in the reminiscences of the
late Prof. Schaff just published. In 1842
Schaff, being a privat-docent at Berlin, in
troduced Park to his German friends,
among the rest to Kaftnls. He relates
that under the continuous pelting of
Park's questions Kahnis finally exclaimed
in despair; "God forgive Christopher Co
lumbus' fh/t discovering America!"
—Gen. Dragomirof, who has recently
been appointed the new civil as well as
military Governor General of the three
Southwestern provinces of Russia, is rec
ognized as the greatest authority on war
and tactics in Russia. It was he who led
the crossing of the Danube from Zemnitza
to Sistova in-ltd?, and at Shipka, being
wounded by a Turish bullet in the left
knee, he bound up the wound with his
pocket handkerchief, and, inspite of much
loss of blood, continued to encourage the
defense from an elevated and exposed po
sition without once retiring from under
fire.
—Robert Bonner, In commenting on Rev.
Dr. John Hall’s recent resignation, relat
ed that Dr. McCosh. president of Princeton
college, resolved tw resign three years be
fore he did, because he wished to with
draw before he gave any sign of failing
powers. Mr. Bonner, who was consulted
by Dr. McCosh at the time, was unable to
dissuade him from his contemplated step
until he told him that if he resigned a cer
tain man, who was seeking the
place, would probably bo his suc
cessor. No more needed to be
said. In. order to keep that man
from the presidency of Princeton Dr. Mc-
Cosh remained in office more than three
years, when Dr. Patton became available.
Then McCosh retired.
nniGirr bits.
—Looking Forward—Maud—“l'm so glad
Lent's cotHllig^tvCs
Alice—“ Yes, so am T. I’ve worn every
dress I've got so often that I’m almost
ashamed to go out anv more. I’ll need at
least a month to get ready for Easter.”—
Cleveland Leader.
—No Novice—Cactus Cal—“Thet there
new minister 'f ourn ain’t no tenderfoot.
See; he’s -usin’ his left hand ter shake
hands with th’ members 'f his congr'ga
tion.” Easterner—" What does that signi
fy?" Cactus CaJ—“lt don’t signify noth
in’, stranger, but it leaves his gun hand
free.”—Judge.
—Flick—“Call him a musician! Why, he
doesn’t know the difference between- a noc
turne and a symphony."
riack—“You don’t mean it!” And they
hurry to get away from, one another. Each
is terribly afraid that the other will ask,
"By the way, what is the difference?”—
Boston Tremscripl.
—Quick Retribution—Ma'mrra (excitedly)
—“Never mind, Harold; God will punish
Tommy for striding you.”
Harold's Brother—“He has punished
Tommy already, mamma.”
Mamma—“How do you know ?”
Harold's Brother—“’Cause 1 just now
busted his drum for him.'—Truth.
—Our Aristocracy—“ They’re not in the
same Set wfth us—on, dear, no.”
"Indeed?”
“Oh, 'not at 011. We;re a much older fam
ily. you kno’W.”
“Yes?”
“Yes. certainly. You see, their grandfa
ther was in trade, while all the money in
our family wds made |>y our great-grand
father.”—Chicago Evening Post
—“Oh, conductor!” The man from the
West on the through train for New York
beckoned to the man with the gold braid
on his cap! fl Well't i< said the conductor.
"What I want to know,” explained the
man from tilt 1 West, “is whether we go
into Greater New York before we leave
Buffalo, or IS the assertion that the city
limits overlap, a canijtaign lie?”—Chicago
Evening Post.
CURRENT COMMENT.
Riglit Sort of Sentiment.
From the Nashville American (Dera.l.
The immortal cry of Copt. Lawrence,
"Don’t give ftp the ship!” may appeal to
the authorities at Washington to raise the
Maine and bring her back to American
waters. There is a deal of sentiment left
in us, after tjjl. ~
No Donbt IlHiut the Outcome.
From the Birmingham News (Dem.).
The situation both within and without
the Democratic party In Georgia is very
complicated. A'he Populists will probably
force Tom Watson to make the race. If
Mr. Jbnes becomes the Prohibition or in
dependent candidate, and the Republicans
also name a man, ,fhe contest after the
Democratic'nomination has been seated
will be almost as interesting as it is now.
However, in any event, the Democratic
nominee, whoever he may be, will be
elected.
One Wise Act of McKinley.
From the Pittsburg Post (Dem.),
Consul General Lee is undoubtedly the
right man In the right place, and must be
the main reliance of the government for
information, as well ys the conduct of af
faiis at Havana, looking to a thorough in
vestigation of facts. He has had the ben
efit of responsible and dangerous w tr serv
ice for years,nts .h trained soldier, and, be
sides that, has had valuable civil experi
ence as Governor of Virginia for four
jears. In the way of foreign appointments
the wisest tiling, as events have proved,
that President McKinley has done has
been to rcQuit tile services of Gen. Lee.
A Possible Source of Revenue.
From ihe Springfield Republican (Ind).
There Is talk of a revival of titles in
France. Equality. It is said, does not ex
ist, except tn the mere point of view of the
law, and therefore it might be as well for
the government! to coin a little muen need
ed money ,l>y a quiei selling of titles, as
under the the empire. The
iwlnt Is also made that it would give
Frenchmen a better chance of securing
American heiresses, and . thus enrich
France. The market value of brand now
continental titles, however, is; not high.
These things are carefully studied nowa
day*.
He Slept Through It All.
Sol Pitcher, who lives at Rushvllle, Neb.,
where he holds a Federal position, unless
President McKinley has been unkind
enough to eliminate him from the public
service, is renowned as the soundest sleep
er along the Klkhorn, says the Chicago
sitecord. Other men in a weak, paltry and
vacilating way may sleep through the
hours past the time for rousing, but Pitch
er has no competition for the profundity
of uninterruptible slumber.
Once he was at Long Pine, attending
some kind of sheriff's meeting or lodge
installation, and it occurred to him on the
night before the day set for his departure
that if he did not catch the north-lwund
train at 4 o'clock In the morning he would
miss the opening of the September term
of court. So he went to the proprietor of
the hotel and said to him:
"I want to be woke up at 3:30 in the
morning.”
"Oh, yes, that's all right," said the pro
prietor, turning to the book labeled “morn
ing calls,” and entering the hour opposite
Pitcher’s name!'
"Look here, my friend,’’ said Sol; “if you
think that settles it, you are mistaken. The
mere fact of writing a number down in a
book doesn't get me out of bed. You've
got to give the thing physical attention,
and don’t rely on any underlings, either.”
"I assure you that you’ll be up to catch
that train."
"If I don’t, I’ll be a mad man.”
"Quite right, too. Be assured that under
no circumstances will I escape going in
and waking you."
"And don’t go away till I’m dressed.”
The landlord said he would obey, and he
meant it, too. Sol went to bed and was
soon dreaming that he was running
against We-stover for county judge and
beating him, in every precinct. It had
been a viciously hot day, but although
other men slept uneasily Pitcher slumber
ed with the sweetness of an innocent child.
About 1 o'clock ihe men who had been
tossing restlessly about on their beds were
roused by a ye.i from the landlord, a flash
in the heavens, a whirring sound of a
great wind, and all hands made for the
cellar. Pitcher alone remained undis
turbed.
The house was taken up by the night
visiting cyclone and blown about forty
rods down the railroad track, where it
collided with a grain elevator. Both build
ings collapsed with thundering crashes.
Beginning at that instant and continuing
for five minutes, empty freight cars were
blown down toward the nucleus of disas
ter and piled up in a pyramid of debris.
Several corneribs were wafted that way
and for half an hour, more or less, it was
as though the world was coming to an
end right there in the Elkhorn yard at
Long Pine.
It was 7 o’clock in the morning before
the people calmed down from their excite
ment. and then they set at work digging
among the debris to remove whomsoever
might be there, although it was pretty
well established that all had escaped. The
excavators had reached the freight car
stratum when one of them came upon a
human foot and yelled about It. They
were encouraged to believe the person was
alive because of the warmth of the tlesh,
and after awhile it was found that a lot
of timbers had fallen In a trusslike man
ner and that whoever was underneath was
probably fairly shielded.
At 11 o’clock the man was reached and
hauled out In >an apparently unconscious
condition. But just as they got him into the
drug store, which had escaped annihila
tion. he opened his eyes.
"Thunder and lightning! Is it sun-up?”
he roared, looking out at the blazing
glare of the September sun.
"Yes, Sol,” somebody said in a soothing
tone. "Rest easy. I don’t think you’re bad
ly hurt, but you must be quiet. It’s 11
o’clock.”
"Eleven? Eleven in the morning? Get out
of the road, people. I told that mnn I’d
lick him if ho didn't wake me in time for
that 4 o’clock train and I’m going to do
it. The idea of lettir.g a man sleep till 11
when he made a special point to ask to be
roused at 3:30. Who took my clothes? I'm
going to fight!"
But when they explained that he had
slept on through a cyclone Sol was molli
fied and concluded that perhaps the hotel
man had done his best.
Needed a Man’s Head.
When it is a consideration of avordu
pois, says the Washington Post, probably
Representative Sam W. Smith of Pontiac,
Mich., is the smallest member of the pres
ent House. Gen. Joe Wheeler of Alabama
trips about so spryly that one might take
him for a lighter statesman, when states
men are to be measured by what they tip
on the scales. However that may be.
Representative Sam Smith delivered his
maiden speech in the House last week,
which recalled a story to certain men of
the Michigan delegation about his stature.
About ten years ago, Mr. Smith, who
states in the Congressional Directory that
he began to care for himself at the age
of 12 years, and engaged in teaching school
at the age of 16 years, was defending one
Calvin Young. Mr. Smith's client was
charged with murdering a neighbor, Levi
Allen,, of Bloomfield, by splitting his skull
wiih a spade. The future representative
put his whole energy in the case, as he was
to get $2,000 if Young was cleared and only
SSCO if found guilty.
The murdered man's daughter, a bright
young school teacher, was badgered by
the little lawyer. “Now, Miss Allen."
said Mr. Smith, “show me on my head the
exact size ar.d location of the wound.”
“It would be impossible,” retorted the
young lady.
"State your reasons,” retorted the law
yer. ♦
"There is no room,” was the reply. "You
will have to show me a man's head."
This nonplussed Lawyer Samuel W..
Smith, and roars of laughter followed in
the court room.
Gave Ip Husband for Politic*.
“Away out in the southwest corner of
Missouri,” said an old postoffiee inspector
to a New York Sun reporter, “is a town
in which a woman is postmistress, and
underneath her commission there hangs,
her divorce. It depends on her health as
to which pleases her most. It came about
through politics. Her husband was ap
pointed under the Harrison administration.
In the campaign next following he es
poused Cleveland and held on under the
last Cleveland administration until old
Dick Bland spent a night in the postmas
ter's house, and when he left the postmas.
ter was inoculated with the 16 to 1 heresy.
But the man's wife remained a goldbug
and asserted herself in a manner that
made the returns In the town a day late,
after the election, and when they came in
McKinley and Hobart were in the lead.
The postmaster was guyed so unmercifully
that ho sent in hts resignation before Mc-
Kinley's inauguration. Frank Jones, who
was the axeman of the last Cleveland ad
ministration, heard of the situation, of
course, and 1 was sent out there on the
quiet. The first thing I learned was that
the woman was suing for a divorce. As
everybody in the town was with her she
soon obtained what she went for and then
she took charge of the postoffiee. It is not
my business to tell department secret.*,
but she is one of the hold-overs who wili
remain as long as she is honest.
“Her former husband gets his mall from
the general delivery and she has her di
vorce hung on a line with the opening of
the general delivery, and I think when
ever he asks for his mall he must see It.
Its a quiet reminder of the day when he
made a fool of himself,’*
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
—ln the course of excavating for a drain
on some property near Naas, County Kil
dare, Ireland, an interesiing find of some
remains of the wild horse (equus caballus)
was made. The remains consisted of the
occipital part of one skull and the poste
rior part of another. They were forward
ed to Dr. Scharff, who decided that they
evidently belonged to horses of very
small stature, and are similar to the re
mains of the wild horse discovered in Shan
non Cave and other Pleistocene deposits,
and known to have inhabited Ireland as
contemporaries of the Irish elk. The re
mains were found resting on the gravel be
neath the bog.
—Some very interesting particulars con
cerning the circulation of "Pilgrim's Pro
gress” are given in the preface of anew
edition of that famous book published by
Messrs. Chambers. It appears that 100,-
000 copies of the work were sold during the
author’s life. It was printed at Boston,
Mass., in 1681, and a Dutch translation was
issued in Amsterdam In 1682. This last,
and a subsequent edition of a superior
character, issued In 1685, were illustrated
by Dutch engravers, then the leaders of
the art of engraving in Europe. “Th 6
Pilgrim's Progress” was translated into
Welsh. Walloon French, German, Polish
and Swedish between 1688 and 1743. It may
be met with in Asia, In Hebrew, Arabic
and other languages; in India, in Hondu
stani, and many dialects. It has also been
translated for readers in Assam, Burma.
Borneo, West and Central Africa, the
South Sea IsCands, and for some tribes of
American Indians. Since then it has
been translated Into no fewer than eighty
four languages and dialects, the versions
tn Japanese and the Canton vernacular be
ing admirably illustrated by native art
ists who have adapted the scenery and cus
toms to those of their own country.
—I regret to say that vegetarianism i3 a
fighting diet, writes G. B. Shaw in the
London Vegetarian. Ninety-nine per cent,
of the world's fighting has been done on
farinaceous food. In Trafalgar square I
found it impossible to run away as fast as
the meat eaters did. Panic is a carniv
orous specialty. If the army were fed in
a hardy, healthy, fleshless diet we should
hear no more of the disgust of our colored
troops and of the Afrklis and Fuzzywuz
zies at the cowardice of Tommy Atkins.
I am myself congenitally timid, but as a
vegetarian I can generally conceal my
tremors; whereas in my unregenerate days,
when I ate >ny fellow creatures, I was as
patent a coward as Peter the Great. The
recent spread of fire-eating fiction and
jingo war worship—a sort of thing that
only interests the pusilanimous—ls due to
the spread of meat eating. Compare tne
Tipperary peasant of the potatoes-and
buttermilk days with the modern gentle
man who gorges himself with murdered
cow. The Tipperary man never read
bloody-minded novels or cheered patriotic
music hall tableaux, but he fought reck
lessly and wantonly. Your carnivorous
gentleman Is afraid of everything—includ
ing doctors, dogs, disease, death and truth
telling.
—Dreadful as is the loss of more than
250 lives on the Maine, this fatality is not
the worst in the naval annals of the Unit
ed States, says the New York Press: By
far the greatest loss of life from one
American vessels, end probably unsurpass
ed in the history of the world, was when,
at the close of the civil war, the Mississip
pi steamer Sultana blew up her boilers
near Memphis and hurled 1,500 Union sol
diers to death. The Sultana piled between
New Orleans and St. Louis. On. April 25,
1865, she touched at Vicksburg, on her trip
up the river, and took on board 1,900 Union
soldiers, who had been prisoners at Colum
bia, Libby, Andersonviile and other
Southern prisons, and who had either been
exchanged or freed by the flight of their
jailers. The soldiers were from the West,
and there were several cases of 100 or so
belonging to one regiment. When eight
miles above Memphis, at 1 o’clock in the
morning of the 27th, one of the Sultana's
boilers exploded, killing hundreds of the
sleeping soldiers and throwing hundreds
more into the river. The boat was laden
heavily when she left Memphis, and the
soldiers were sleeping anywhere they could
lie dotvn, even on the tops of the cabins
and pilot house. Occasionally here and
there in the North to-day can be found a
survivor of that awful night.
—Sir James Sawyer, who has lately
been discoursing on longevity to the mem
bers of the Acoek’s Green Institute, Bir
mingham, rightly insisted on "a sufficien
cy of sleep" as one of the things needful
to make a man’s days long in the land,
says the British Medical Journal. But
what is a "sufficiency?” Sir James de
fines it as one-third of the twenty-four
hours. For what Matthew Arnold called
the “average sensual man,” that is to
say, the man of normal physiological
needs and cravings, this amount is proba
bly not too much. But some of the great
est workers of our day have done with
much less than eight hours’ sleep. Dr.
James Legge, professor of Chinese in the
University of Oxford, who has just died,
at the age of 82, was, it is said, in the
habit of rising at 3 a. m., and allowed
himself only five hours of sleep. Brunei,
the famous engineer, for a considerable
part of his life worked nearly twenty
four hours a day. Friends and assistants
have left it on record that he hardly ever
went to bed, and yet never seemed tired
or out of spirits. Afier working through
a great part of the night he slept in hfs
armchair for two or three hours, and at
early daWn he was ready for the work of
the day. Sir George A. Elliott, afterward
Lord Heathfleld, who was in command
throughout the siege of Gibraltar, which
lasted four years, during all that
time slept more than four hours out of
the twenty-four. He lived to the age of
84.
—Nearly every one is familiar with the
glow which is given out in the dark by
various kinds of fungi, but the fact that
common, everyday blossoms frequently
gleam in the night time is not so well
known. The ordinary nasturtium is a sim
ple illustration of the peculiar irregularity.
The marsh lily, which grows abundantly
in the marshes of South Africa, presents
the same peculiarities. A Swedish natur
alist, Haggren. so thoroughly believed in
the property of luminosity belonging to
some plants that he employed a night
watchman to roam his garden to report
to him any and all cases of glowing blos
soms. The scientist, after a good deal of
study, announced that the plants shine
with especial brilliancy after a sunny day.
while there Is no light after a rain. The
light increases in Intensity during July
and August, and appears half an hour
after sunset, vanishing at dawn. Hag
gren went so far as to subject the nastur
tium to a miscropic examination to dis
cover if any animal life were responsible
for the phenomenon, but no foreign sub
stance was found on the plants he exam
ined. Later scientists have discovered
that the glow extends to the nasturtium’s
leaves, as well as to Its petals. The com
mon marigold has been seen to glow bril
liantly, the light seeming to plav over the
petals with quick changes. The fraxinella,
of which there are three varieties in our
gardens, the white, the red and the purple
seem to excel all other plants In the qual
ity of luminosity. This plant secretes In
abundance an essential oil which tn times
of great heat spreads tn a thin layer over
the surface of the petals, where it vola
tilizes. impregnaiing the surrounding at
mosphere with its vapor, 'mis vapor pos
sesses the property of becoming luminous
, in darkness.
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Ladies’ Fashionable Belts, 50c, 25c.
Ladles’ Hat Pins, 10c.
Aluminum Hair Pins, doz 10c.
Aluminum Thimbles, 3c.
Aluminum Shirt Sets, 10c.
Dolls, Games, Toys, Air Guns.
Fine Box Paper, 25c, 15c, 10c, 4c.
320 Sheets Good Note Paper, 9c.
50 Envelopes, sc.
Mourning Paper and Envelopes.
Blank Memorandums and Time Books.
School and Miscellaneous Books—bought,
sold and exchanged.
Gold Fish, 10c.
Globes and Aquaria.
Mocking Bird Food, 25c a pound.
Bird Seed, Gravel, Cages, Brackets,
Flower Seeds, Plant Food.
Garden Tools, Scollay Sprinkler*.
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Native and Western meat*.
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Oak $1.00; three cut SI.OO.
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