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MONDAY, DECEMBER 10, INO*-
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DDE! TO SEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Meetings—Savannah Volunteer Guards;
Hibernian Society; Georgia Chapter No.
3, R. A. M.; Forest City Lodge No. 1,
K. of P.
Special Notices—Our Line for 1899, Sa
vannah Cycle Company; Remember, Jas.
J. Joyce.
Business Notices—Fancy Candies, Henry
Solomon.& Son.
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Company; Merchants and Miners Trans
portation Company.
Pearline—Jas. Pyle & Son.
Railroad Schedule—Plant System.
Medical—Castoria; Y. M. F.; Johann
Holt’s Genuine Malt Extract; Hood’s Pills.
Cheap Column Advertisements—Help
Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Rent;
For Sale; Lost; Personal; Miscellaneous.
If Admiral Dewey at Manila was ’’pre
pared to hold this position against the
whole earth” upon the arrival of the
monitors, it would be interesting to hear
his estimate of what he could hold it
against when reinforced by the lowa and
the Oregon.
The smart promofer who is able to form
e great trust usually gets well paid for
his trouble. A now tin plate trust was
formed the other day. The promoters were
William H. and James H. Moore of Chi
cago. It is said that each will receive
$5,000,000 as his share in the deal. Con
sumers of tinware will have to foot the
bill.
The anti-street railway corporation par
ty in Chicago, having won a victory the
other day in preventing the extension of
the franchise of Mr. Yerkes’ company for
fifty years, is becoming quite aggressive.
There is now a great deal of talk about
passing a law requiring a seat in the ears
for every pasaenger who pays a fare; in
short, making "no seat no fare” the law.
There are other cities besides Chicago in
which more seats and fewer ptraps would
be an appreciated innovation.
So many adventurous Americans, with a
greater or less amount of money y to invest,
ure Hocking to Havana in an effort to "get
in on the ground floor" of any good tilings
which may develop in consequence of the
impending changes in Cuba, that it is
said to be a matter of impossibility for
them all to mi beds to sleep in. The rent
of an ordinary room in any desirable loca
tion lias gone up to $35 per month in gold,
and gold is at a premium of G per cent. If
some of these eager would-be investors
would investigate the opportunities offered
in the Southern part of the United States,
the chances are that they would find more
promising and safer fields than Cuba has
to offer.
Those Spaniards who were furthest away
from the scenes of the fighting are still in
ti fine frenzy of anger with the Americans.
In Granada they are stoning the statue
of Columbus for having discovered tlie
terrible and hateful country which we in
habit, and in Cadiz and Algo rs they are ri -
fusing to accept American gold for pur
chases in the shofis because the coins bear
She despised eagle. Meantime those surviv
ing Spaniards who were in or it' iff the
firing lines on land, or on the ships which
met Dewey anti Schley, and after having
been vanquished were fed, clothed and
nursed by the victors, have nothing save
praise to say of the Americans. The point
cf view induces the opinion.
Ex-Gov. Allgold is quoted as having te
pe.tled a very sensational charge in Chi
cago the*oiher night with reference to the
newspaper press of that city. He said it
had been stated that certain of the pa
pers were venal, and could lie bought to
support or oppose anything if the price
demanded were paid. According to this re
port papers which he named had demand
ed from Mr. Yerkcs sums of money rang
ing from fjo.ouu to as g eon.-ldera
lie f..r supporting his side of the recent
t ■ i for the extension of ni stieii rail
way franchise. Mr. Y’erkcs has also b.on
quoted as saying that the manage! s of one
•or more of tne papers had endeavored to
blackmail him, offering him sujipurt for
a certain payment and threatening opposi
tion unless such payment were made. Tin
otner *nk- of the story ts lo be (w ard. Chi
cago's newspapers are uniong Ilie betl In
the country. It is almost UDbcllevaMo
lasi any of them have been perverting
high functions.
NO TRIAL, NO CAUCUS.
It looks ins if Senator Quay had not
gained anything by having the trial of his
ease postponed. Even itis supporters think
he has made a mi-take if he hopes lo be
elected before having cleared himself of
the charges pending against him. It is
ret ailed by'those of fris own parly who
are opposing his re-election to the United
States Senate that he said, when it was
announced that he had beep indicted for
tampering with the funds of the state,
that he wanted a speedy trial—that he
would not rest until he had compelled his
accusers to face him at the bar of justice.
His efforts to put off the trial, therefore,
are causing even those who have stood by
him under any and ail circumstances to
feel a loss of confidence in him.
The Republicans who are against him
are now saying that there can he no cau
cus for the nomination of a candidate for
the Senate unless the senator first clears
himself of the charges which are hanging
over him. That means, of 6our.se, that
enough Republicans will remain away
from the caucus if one is called to elect
a senator by joining forces with the Dem
ocrats. Senator Quay’s only hope of be
ing chosen senator is in getting about all
of the Republican vote. The only way
lie can do that is to get a caucus nomina
tion, thus binding all of the Republican
members to support him. To get a cau
cus, however, he must, he is told, first
show before the court that he is not guilty
of the charges contained in the Indict
ments which have been found against him.
Senator Quay, if w hat the papers of Penn
sylvania say against him is true, has fool
ed the people of that state a good many
times, but the probabilities are that he
will not fool them any more.
VALUABLE IIY-I’HOIHA TS OK LOT
TO V.
As long as the planters persist in raising
more cotton than the world can consume
nt a paying price. It Is not to he exiiected
that there will be an advance to a much
higher anil permanent level of the cotton
markets than has obtained during the past
two years. Nevertheless the case of the
cotton planters is not altogether hopeless.
Cotton lint is not the only valuable pro
duct of the cotton crop, as was the case
fifteen or twenty years ago. We now have
by-products from the crop which are
worth $20,000,000 or more annually, and
scientists and inventors are energetically
busy widening the field of consumption and
creating new industries to utilize cotton
products.
By the single discovery of cotton seed oil
$15,000,000 annually was added to the value
of the cotton crop. At present not more
than one-third of the seed crop finds its
way to the oil mills. But the uses for oil
are almost daily increasing in number,
and the demand seems to grow with the
production. There is room, therefore, for
the crude oil business to grow to be worth
$10,0(HV,000 or more a year. The seed-meal
and sved-hulis trade is quite large at pres
ent, but not nearly so large as may lie
expected within a few years. These are the
chief and better known by-products of the
cotton plant. Each *ts capable of being
sub-divided many times, and the chemists
are busy dividing them.
The stalk of the cotton plant Is now re
ceiving special attention as a fiber pro
ducer. The question of utilizing the stalk
in making fiber for cotton bagging was
discussed several years ago, but, accord
ing to the Scientific American, it was only
recently that a machine was perfected for
working the stalks into bagging. Some of
this cotton stalk bagging has been tested
and pronounced excellent for the purpose.
It is strong and clean, and does not read
ily ignite. Five tons of good stalks will
yield about 1,500 pounds of first-class fiber.
At this rate the annual crop will produce
all of the bagging needed to wrap the lint
and, leave a surplus to lie devoted to other
purposes. It is predicted that machinery
for making coarse mattings from the fiber
will be produced shortly. The Scientific
American expresses the opinion that if the
experiments which are now being made
with the fiber are successful, “it will not
lie many years before the industry will as
sume gigantic proportions.”
The root of the plant Is also being ex
perimented with. The roof of the Egypt
tian cotton yields a drug which has the
properties of ergot. Chemists have found
a somewhat similar substance In the root
of the American plant. This has not yet
been fully developed. A difference has been
detected In the properties of the roots of
different kinds of cotton, long staple and
short staple, hence it is probable that sev
eral drugs may be extracted from the dif
ferent varieties of roots.
Experiments have shown that cotton
hull ashes are-very valuable for fuYnish
ing a cheap potash for tobacco crops, and
there is quite a demand for the ashes in
the tobacco growing districts of Pennsyl
vania, Y'irginia and North Carolina. This
fertilizer should not escape the attention
of South Carolina planters. It may be just
the thing they need to make their pine
lands produce fine tobacco.
The foregoing merely touches upon the
possibilities of the cotton crop in by-pro
ducts, but it serves to indicate what has
been and what is being done to make these
products valuable. The Scientific American
thinks, indeed, that it may not be a very
great many years before the lint will be
the least valuable part of the cotton crop.
Eddie Bald’s bicycle drama, that is, the
play which was written to take in him and
his wheel, has not proved a great suc
cess. The author of the piece, a woman,
is now suing the manager of it for money
which she thinks It ought to have won for
her in royalties. She alleges that Bald and
the others are such bad actors that no
liOfly wants to go lo see them play. Th
manager declares that the play was so
I'u-lly written that not even a company of
Booths could mak- much out of It, and
that more spectators have guyid titan have
applauded It. Giving each side credit for
perfect linearity—and both are probably
in a rnee-urc cornet u e-tuns that th
paesiorf-moving 'cycle play has not yd
been wiltlen. and the 'cycle rider who
can hofd his own with John I, Hullivan
in the dramatic art has tivt yet made his
appeal ant e.
THE MORNING NEWS; MONDAY. DECEMBER 10. IWH.
THE FITI RE OF THE RACE.
A student of vital statistics expresses a
fear for the future of the “native Ameri
can race.” Upon an examination of state
and national census figures, he finds that
the birth rate in American cities Is rapidly
declining; nnd queerly enoufch the decline
is more rnpid in tite South and West than
in New England. It would naturaily lie
supposed that in the West, the youngest
section of the country, and which is peo
pled largely by Germans and other fecund
European immigrants, would show a large
birth rate. But as a matter of fact the
West makes a showing that is about as
low as any other section, and much low
er than that of New England. There are
a great many mpre marriages annually per
J,OOO of population in the West than in the
East, notwithstanding which the number
of children per family is much larger in
the East. Taking the country as a whole,
the average American family consists of
only two children.
For a number of years, it is 6tated, the
annual birth rate has steadily declined.
Compare any one year with the year pre
ceding it, and the decline seems incon
siderable, but make the Comparison by ten
year periods, and it becomes apparent that
the matter of reproduction is becoming
quite a serious problem. In some of the
Western cities, for instance, the birth rate
has dropped from one per forty of popula
tion a year to one per sixty-five of popula
tion. In the city of Columbus, Ga., it la
said the rate has dropped from one in fif
ty-three to one in seventy-nine.
A fact which may be called rather un
expected is that the larger cities show a
larger birth rate than their less popu
lous neighbors, and that the city of Boston
stands pretty nearly at the head of the
list of fecundity. Boston’s rate when the
statistics were made up, a short time ago,
was one in twenty-six of population per
annum, and New York’s was one in thir
ty-six. In each of these instances there
had not been a great change in ten years,
hence it may be said that the rate was
about normal.
France some time ago held an investi
gation into the national birth rate, and
was so much impressed by the falling off
in the rate and the necessity for checking
it if possible that legislation was passed
respecting the matter. There does not
seem, so far, to be any necessity for simi
lar action in this country. Smaller families,
it may be observed, are not without cer
tain advantages, one of the chief of which
is that the offspring will receive more ed
ucation than would he the case if the
families were very large. Still, the relative
advantages of large and small families is
a matter upon which there is room for
differences of opinion.
A NEW MIOSES.
Anew Moses makes his appearance. He
emerges from the bulrushes of Chesapeake
bay, in the vicinity of Baltimore. His
name is David Wayne Marion—a very good
combination for a leader, it must be ad
mitted—and his purpose is to lead the
people of the United States from darkness,
toil and poverty into the glorious sunlight
of affluance and ease. He is the founder,
president and promoter of the Imperial Pa
triotic Order of the United States. Like
Coogler's poetry, It Is “purely original.”
Nothing like it has ever existed before.
It is a scheme which should merit the
most distinguished consideration of Coxey,
Waite, Karl Brown and Dusty Roads.
President Marion says he is going to
settle the financial question. Further than
that, he is going to make it just as easy
for any and every citizen to borrow money
from the treasury as it is for the national
banks to issue circulating medium on the
strength of the treasury’s credit. He is
going to reform the treasury system,
making the nation's financial department
a stock company, with every adult person
a stockholder having all of the rights,
privileges and perquisites which are
usually enjoyed by stockholders in com
panies and corporations. The men are not
to have a monopoly of the snap, however;
women are to be let In on the ground
lloor. Indeed, inducements are to be of
fered women to take part in the movement.
To each of the first sixteen million wo
men who apply for membership, Presi
dent Marion will issue a SSO pension certifi
cate. payable by an net of Congress, be
ginning in 1901. Make applications for
membership early and avoid the rush.
The treasury establishment is to be split
up into 4,000 sub-treasuries, or so many as
may be needed to plant one sub-treasury
in each county in the United Slates. This
is to be for convenience of the stockhold
ers. Each adult is to have a certificate
of stock, which may bo hypothecated at
the treasury for a loan of $2OO, less 10 per
cent, to cover operating expenses. So long
as a borrowing stockholder keeps up his
interest charges (one-hulf of 1 per cent,
annually) he is to remain in good standing,
but upon default he will be sent to the
chain-gang to work upon the public
highways.
This is but a skimming along upon the
surface of President Marion's scheme,
which is miles deep and contains many
queer things. He says he has already
made three speeches on the subject in
Georgia; that they were well received,
and he has no doubt that he can count
upon this state to fall promptly in behind
his leadership. He intended to visit Sa
vannah to Invite Gen. Fitzhugh Dee to
become his candidate for President in the
next campaign, and to ask Col. William
J. Bryan what he thought of the Imperial
Patriotic Order of the United States, but
both Dee and Bryan were so inconsiderate
as to go away before lie could arrange to
see them. There is evidently a vacancy
yawning for President Marion.
In the town of Martiitsburg, W. V.t.,
there is a small canning factory. The fac
m--rs of the neighborhood raise tomatoes
for It. They plant from a quarter of an
acre to one acre each. The factory is run
on the co-operative plan. The other day
the n fsin's business was closed and the
profits divided. Tin profit .was sufficient
to pay all of those interested at the rate
of atiout $75 |-r acre for tomatoes planted;
and not all of its ciup was us- J m tin fac
tory, tithe r.
Capt. Purse, president of the Board of
Trade, the Board of Trade and the citizens j
who kilt the board a helping hand are ,
deserving of great credit for the admirab.e
manner in which the programme for the
entertainment of the President and his
party was carried out. The whole affair
was ably and successfully managed. There
wasn’t a hitch anywhere. We feel safe in
saying that the President and his party
were gratified at the way in which they
were entertained and that the people of
Savannah feel satisfied that the reputa
tion of their city for generous hospitality
was sustained.
PERSON CL.
—Ernest Van Dyck, the grand opera
singer, began life as a newspaper man.
—Senator Platt of New York is said to
be the busiest man In the Senate, fre
quently working from fourteen to sixteen
hours a day.
-Gen. H. W. Daw ton of Santiago fame
Is a collector of army autographs and has
the signatures of several hundred of the
most famous soldiers of our army.
—Mr. Goblet, the eminent French states
man, sick of politics and life in Paris, has
retired and will end tiis days at his broth
er's country place near Tours. Mr. Goblet
is nearly 70 years old.
—A young Frenchman named Constan
tin is now being-exhibited in Paris. He is
just 8 feet tall and is well proportioned,
though his knees arc rather week. The
giant is but 19 years old.
—Mrs. Langtry in the past year or two
is said to have become one of the best
judges of horseflesh in England. In some
mysterious way this fact is operating to
smooth her way toward reinstatement in
society.
—Senator Gallinger calculates that the
pensions on account of the latest war will
amount to between $15,000,000 and $20,000,000
in the very near future. Gallinger is at the
head of the pensions committee and is an
expert on the subject.
—Martha Ann Darnell and Lucinday
Yates McKee are twin sisters, both wid
ows, of Putnam county, Ind„ both residing
near Greencastle. They are nearly 88 years
old and have passed 05 years of their lives
in the county name,]. Mrs. Darnell bore
eleven children and Mrs. McKee fifteen.
—An Irishman who stands high in the
favor of the Czar of Russia bears the
Russianized name of Gen. O'Brutschcff,
which is a corrupetion of that of O'Bryan.
He is the chief of the general staff of the
Russian army and one of the trusted ad
visers of the Czar, who has loaded him
with honors and decorations.
—Judge John M. Smith, who assumed
the circuit bench at Portland, Ind., re
cently, was at bne time a section hand on
the Panhandle road. While working at any
kind of manual labor he could obtain he
studied law, and before being elected cir
cuit judge had a lucrative practice at the
Jay county bar.
BRIGHT BITS.
—Billy—Does your mother give you any
thing if you take your medicine without
crying?
Billy—No; but she gives me something if
I don’t.—Yonkers Statesman.]
—Jeering at the Poor—Wayworn Watson
—Mister, 1 am slowly starving.
Hargreaves—Of course. No one would
expect you to do anything in a hurry.—
Chicago Record.
—His Mission—Mrs. Holmes—You ought
to be ashamed of yourself. We are all
sent into the world for some useful pur
pose.
The Tramp (humbly)—Yestm. I think I
must have been intended to use up old
victuals —Puck.
—Side-lights on History—"l have a
scheme, fellow citizens," said Lycurgus,
commanding silence with a gesture, “that
will make big money for all of you." And
shortly afterward he provided the people
of Sparta with iron currency.—Chicago
Tribune.
—Her Father—And if I consent to your
marriage with my daughter, what do you
propose to do for a living?
Mr. Spooner—l’ll demonstrate that two
can live as cheaply as one. We won't ask
for a cent more than you allow her now.
—Cleveland Leader.
—Her Belief—Smith—My wife's too orth
odox to suit me.
Jones—Makes you get up and go to
church Sunday mornings, eh?
Smith—No; but judging from her raids
on my poeketbook she evidently believes
in the theory that man is made of “dust.”
—Chicago News.
—Saved Her Conscience.—“ What do you
think of your new neighbors?” asked the
hostess of the “sweet” old lady who was
calling.
"You know that I never speak unkindly
of any one. I have nothing to say of her;
but I will say of her husband that I feel
very, very sorry for him."—Detroit Free
Press.
CURRENT COMMENT.
The Douisville Courier-Journal (Dem.)
makes the following comment, which is
applicable in Georgia as .well as in Ken
tucky: "The cotton growers of Douisiana
are being urged by the director of the ag
ricultural bureau to plant tobacco instead
of cotton, as the cultivation even of the
common kinds used for smoking and
chewing is alleged to be very profitable.
Kentucky planters who are so highly dis
satisfied with the prices they are receiv
ing now might give some thought to this
proposition of competition.”
Congressman Rixey of Virginia has In
troduced a bill into Congress to open the
doors of national soldiers' homes to ex-
Confederates on equal terms with union
men. The New Orleans Picayune (Dem.)
says: “It ought to be noted that Con
gressman Rixey was not a Confederate
soldier, not being old enough to have par
ticipated In the tremendous struggle of
1861-1865. If he had been, he would never
have offered in Congress such a bill."
Both houses of the Alabama Degislature
have passed a bill providing for an elec
tion in July to select delegates lo a state
constitutional convention to be held next
August, and the bill now awaits the sig
nature of Gov. Johnston. It is known
that he will sign it. The Mobile Register
(Dein.) urges the election of the ablest
men In the state, so that the work of the
convention may be wisely and expeditious
ly done.
The Philadelphia Dedger (Ind.) says:
"Sitting the Confedeiate Memorial day on
the same date as that observed for the
dead of the union forces as proposed,
would do much to wipe out sectional lines,
and if this result shall follow the Presi
dent's visit to the Mouth, Unit event will
As- more (hail justified,”
Parrots Are Sever Original.
“Tim: A Parrot Story," by Charlotte
Boner, is printed in July St. Nicholas. Mr.-'.
Boner says:
I have read of a father who would not
let his children teli their dreams, because
there is in such natrat.ve too great tempta
tion to wander from the truth. Parrot
stories are too often like dream-stories —
only half true; and they are sometimes—
plainly, to any who know the true talking
power of these birds—made up entrely or
greatly exaggerated. While the parrot
has a certain unmistakable sense of hu
mor, and Is correspondingly wise, none
of the various species is, or ever was, cap
able of the original wise and witty talk
familiar to us in newspaper anecdotes.
In fact, the parrot Is never original in
speech; it is altogether imitative; and a
bird that has never heard spoken words
has surely never uttered a syllable.
But Judging from parrots’ clever use of
what they learn to say, it is almost certain
that they come to know, in a measure,
the meaning of the phrase they learn.
All llcts Mere OfV.
Mike Neacy is a Mason street butcher
who by good butchering has obtained quite
a competence, says the Chicago Chronicle.
By good wits he has achieved quite a
prominent position in politics and is one
of Mayor Rose’s advisers, and his combi
nation of good butchering, good looks,
good wits, and good-fellowship has made
him a very popular member of the Bon
Ami Club, which, despite its French name,
is an Irish organization, and, of course,
being Irish, a political organization as
well, though the professed tendencies of
the club are purely social.
The telephone rang in Mr. Neacy’s
butcher’s shop and a sweet voice asked
Mr. Neacy;
“Have you this morning a nice, fat,
juicy steak?”
“You bet your socks we have," an
swered Mr. Neacy, heartily.
“Sir!” came a voice back through the
telephone in such a coldly indignant tone
that Neacy thought the refrigerator door
was'open. “Do you know whom you are
talking to?”
“Bridget.”
“No, sir;, I am Mrs. Van Zant.”
“Then all bets are off.”
A Dying Soldier’s Last Thought.
Miss Day told me another little story
that Is worth repeating, writes Cleveland
Moffett in Weekly. It was about
a soldier named McGinnis, who had inter
ested her greatly by reason of his unusual
intelligence and his patience under suf
fering. One morning when Miss Day came
Into the hospital the superintendent told
her that McGinnis was dying. An opera
tion had been performed on him, and it
had not been successful.
“He is very anxious to see you,” said
the superintendent.
“Does he know about his condition?”
“Not yet; we have not told him.”
Miss Day went at once to the soldier's
bedside and found him weak but perfectly
conscious.
“I am glad you have come,” he Baid. “I
want to ask if you will write a letter for
me. There was a comrade of mine shot
down at Santiago, and before he died he
made me promise that I wouid send a mes
sage to his mother. I’ve got her address
lure.” He drew a paper from his shirt.
“1 have waited till I was well enough to
write, but—but—l am getting on slowly
and I'd rather you did it. You see, I know
about mothers—how anxious they get. I’ll
write to her myself when I’m better.”
Then he dictated the message, speaking
the words with difficulty, and these were
about the lust words he spoke. He died
that night.
A nit of Hard Luelt.
"Last race meet I came to here I was
broke,” said a ticket writer, swapping
yarns with the boys in the paddock, ac
cording to the New Orleans Times-Demo
crat. “I’d been chased by a streak of
hard luck all the way from St. Paul, and
in New Orleans things got to a sort of
focus. I’d done the borrow act until every
body I knew had a chill when they saw
me coming, and at last it got to a point
where meals were mighty few and far be
tween, and I slept ’most everywhere. Hon
est, it was the worst fix I was ever in
In my life, and I was pretty near desper
ate. 1 went two days on a stretch with
out eating a bite, and I was wondering
whether it wouldn’t be a good idea to
jump into the river and be done with it,
when who should I bump into but an old
uncle of mine that lives up in Michigan
and has gold to smelt. Ha was always
down on me for what he called my profli
gate ways, but he was here sight-seeing
and glad to get me for a guide. I knew
it wouldn’t do to tell him my tale of
woe, for he’d only say it served me right,
so I showed hits! all around, trying to think
up some indirect scheme for tapping his
wallet. In the evening I was worn out
and faint, but the old man had a splen
did time. ‘William,’ he said, ‘you’ve been
very kind and attentive, and I want to
give you some little token of my appre
ciation.’ With that he led the way into
a jeweler’s, and, say, what d’ye think he
bought me? I hope to die if he didn’t buy
me a gold toothpick—and me not eaten
a bile for two whole days! Talk about
luck!—well, so-iong, fellows; see you
later.”
Coniine Home lor Christinas,
From the Baltimore American.
"Aye, ai’e! my lads, the wind’s abay,
An’ she's cuttin’ afore it, too!
She scents the harbor, good old craft!
The same as me an’ you.
Ease off that jib—now, steady, belay!
She's answerin' fine, an’ we
Gets home fer the day—fer Chrlr.’mas
day!”
(God save us from the sea!)
"Them's dirty clouds to windward, eh?
But we’ll yive 'em a chase, all right!
While a rag sticks on to a boom or stay
We'll keep 'er nose fer the light—
For the light that shines near home, an’,
say!
What a welcome fer you an' me!
It's home fer the day—fer Cris'mas day!”
(God save us from the sea!)
"That squall's a-h'istin’ a nasty swell!
She's groanin' in ev’rv joint;
Looks like it was goin’ to last a spell—
Hard up! Let’s reef n point!
It’s on’y a winter breeze astray,
Como on. now, lads—yo he!
It’s home fer the day—fer Chrls'mas day!”
(God save us from the sea!)
“Look out there! Watch 'er when she
Jumps!
She ship|iod that one, all right!
Comoon, now, heariles! Man them pumps!
There's life an' home in the tight!
It's a wicked blow that’s come our way,
But we’ll weather It sure an' is*
Safe home fer the day—for Chris'm.is
day! '
(God save us from the sea!)
With a rrash the mainmast goes by the
board;
Hite's a panting, trembling shell;
And the blizzard shrieks like an angry
horde
Of fiend* let loose from hell,
Thep down she goes to the wild delight
Of the storm that growls It* glee—
They're homo for the night—for Heath’*
long night!
((Jod *avc ua from the sen!)
—U. V. Hobart.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
—Since Mr. McKinley has been Presi
dent Speaker Reed has been just four times
at the White House, each lime strictly on
official business. It is said by the Maine
man's friends that he has never asked the
President to grant him a favor either in
the matter of patronage or otherwise,hold
ing that the administration ought to con
sult him regarding such matters in so far
as they affect the state of Maine. This the
President has not seen fit to do.
—“Gen. Garcia,” says the Washington
correspondent of the Chicago Record,
“had an aged colored servant who was
born a slave upon his father's plantation
and was brought up wiih him from child
hood. The old negro' had followed him in
all his wars, and had shared his prison
cells, and sat beside the bed when the
general breathed his last. Every time
his master groaned he would groan also;
and the death which came to the one will
not let the other linger much longer. The
faithful servant does not care to live
now. His interest in life is gone; and no
one would be surprised if he died of grief
within a short time.”
—“Admiral Dewey’s cabin aboard the
Olympia,” writes John T. McCutcheon to
the Chicago Record, “is filled with pres
ents from his admirers, including souve
nirs of all kinds. Some of the most beau
tiful of these are presents from Aguinaldo.
The dictator has the greatest admiration
and respect for Dewey, and has a singu
lar habit of making an elaborate gift
to the admiral whenever the latter 'calls
him down.’ That accounts largely for the
number of Aguinaldo presents that adorn
the cabin. In all the dealings Admiral
Dewey has had with Aguinaldo he has
treated him 'ijth the greatest courtesy
when courtesy was called for, and with
the greatest severity when firmness was
the thing; but, in spite of the rebuffs,
Aguinaldo’s notes accompanying the pres
ents invariably refer to the admirable as
’my honorable and illustrious friend.’ ”
—The relative merits of chlorination and
cyanide in the treatment of gold ores are
still much discussed in the journals de
voted to that interest, and while it is con
ceded that each process bas its peculiar
advantages and disadvantages it is also
admitted that neither is adapted to the
treatment of all kinds of iron ore. The
barrel chlorination plant is simple and of
moderate cost, and for ores not contain
ing large percentages of silver or cop
per, or not having a lime gangue, is con
sidered an almost ideal process; the pre
cipitated gold is clean, free from other
metals, and requires little after manipu
lation, regular yieldg of 92 per cent, of the
assay value of the ore treated being not
unusual. The disadvantages, however, are?*
quite definite, viz., the need of the ore to
have a thorough dead roasting before it
can be treated economically, and that any
silver contained in the ore must be lost,
or be recovered by some subsequent op
eration, The cyanide process can be work
ed with fairly successful results on some
unroasted ores, and on some that are
much more complex than those adapted to
chlorination; but the gold extraction rare
ly reaches 85 per cent, of the assay value,
and the bulk of precipitates requires a
resort to special appliances.
—Some interesting details appear in the
London papers relating to the boring of
coral reefs in the Pacific, an enterprise
undertaken under the auspices of the
Royal Society. The bore hole at Funafuti
has been carried to about 700 feet, chiefly
in very hard dolomite-like coral rock. The
drill, operated from the deck of the ship
Porpoise, at a place where the watar was
about 100 feet deep, penetrated rapidly to
a total depth of 245 feet, passing through
sandy material composed of fragments of
calcarious organisms, among which bits of
coral became more frequent in descending.
At the depth mentioned a piece of hard
coral was struck which could not be
pierced, as the great length of the unsup
ported pipe on the one hand and the loose
nature of the material on the other pre
vented any use of the ordinary methods.
On removing the ship to a spot ninety feet
nearer the middle of the lagoon the depth
was found to be the same, and the bore
carried 122 feet into the bed, at which
place, as before, there was sand to the
depth of eighty feet, while the remainder
consisted of somewhat harder coral grav
el, the lumps ranging up to the size of a
man’s fist.
With the evidences of Asiatic' contact
supposed to be so strong in Central Amer
ica, says the Popular Science Monthly,
one might have imagined that so useful a
device as 'the simpfe chopsticks would
have secured a footing. These two sticks,
held in one hand and known in China as
"hasteners, or nimble lads,’ 'are certainly
tile most useful, the most economical and
the most efficient device for their pur
poses ever invented by man. Throughout
that vast Asian region, embracing a pop
ulation of 500,000,000, the chopstick is used
as a substitute for fork, tongs and certain
forms of tweezers. Even fish, omelet and
cake are separated with the chopsticks,
and the cook, the street scavenger and the
watch repairer use this device ip the form
of iron, long bamboo and delicate' ivory.
The bamboo chopstick was known in
China 1,000 B. C.. and shortly after this
date the ivory form was devised. Their
use is one of great antiquity in Japan, ns
attested by references to it in the ancient
records of that country. One may search
in vain for the trace of any object in the
nature of a chopstick in Central or South
America. Knitting needles of wood are
found in the work baskets associated with
ancient Peruvian mummies, but the chop
stick has not been found. Curious pottery
rests for the chopsticks are exhumed in
Japan, but even this enduring testimony in
its early use is yet to be revealed in this
country.
—Examined casually, prima donnas seem
to be the most enviable of women, says
an exchange. They earn large salaries.
Three years ago Mme. Melba carried $300,-
OCO out of America. This winter Mme.
Sembrieh will earn as much in three or
four months as President McKinley re
ceives in a year. Mme. Eames earns more
by singing every week than her husband
makes by painting portraits for six
months. Mme. Nordica can hardly open
her lips without double eagles falling into
them, and each of her smiles is worth a
year’s wages to a clerk or bookkeeper
Her wealth enables a prima donna to or
der all the fine clothes she wants, which
is a consummation of feminine hope de
nied even to the angels in heaven. Her
dressing room, luxurious in itself and not
in any way related lo the makeshift quar
ters of play actresses, is filled with flow
ers every evening by her admUrers. She
Is even removed from the gossip unhap
pily connected with the dramatic and com
ic opera stage, and can marry two hus
bands, like Mine. Nordica. or three, like
Mme. Patli, or be divorced, like Mme. Sa
villo and Engle, or separated, like Mns,
Melba, or a real widow, like Mme. Man
tc.ll. or a maiden, like Miles. Bauertneistcr
and l>e Lussan, without causing eommo
lion in the newspapers or diminishing in
the esteem of her audience. She has dia
monds galore, and, In the case of our
widow, a tiara presented by an admir
ing community. She stands before kings,
like the man in the Bible, and her audi
fi’cea In all lands are composed of peo
ple of refill'till 111 Yet, with all her ad
vantage*, ih* piling •lohtia lot, hkc tfia
policeman's, U not a happy one.
in * a
The Week Before Xmas
Striking reductions in all departm. in
sensible, appropriate and acceptable gif, 3
What gifts could be better than a nice
Jacket or Cape? Who wouldn't be delig.u
ed at such a present? Your money, too
will go a long way. Read this bulletin of
special prices:
50 Ladies’ Beaver and Rough Cheviot
Cloth Jackets $2.98; reduced from $4,5n.
35 Ladies’ Beaver and Kersey Cloth J i. k
ets, ail siik lined, $3.75; reduced from sc,
40 Ladies' and Misses’ Covert Cloth, i ne
Kersey cloth and heavy Broadcloth Jack
ets $5; worth $7.50.
Ladies’ and Misses’ Fine French Cover!?,
lined with silk, double-breasted effe, ■,
nobby, sold for sl6; this week $13.30.
Plush Capes this week $3.50.
Plush Capes this week $5.
Cloth Capes this week $7.
Cloth Capes for elderly ladies $8,50.
HERE IS ANOTHER
ACCEPTABLE GIFT.
SILK WAISTS—New stock, finely fin
ished, superior quality and correct in style.
Special figures $2.73, $4.98, $5 and $7. .lust
one-half the prices usual to such goods.
LADIES’ HANDKERCHIEFS.
A complete Handkerchief Department,
filled with best, and a variety sure to
please.
Sheer Thread Cambric Handkerchiefs,
hemstitched and hand embroidered, all th
daintiest things for a holiday gift and are
only 50c each.
Ladies’ All Pure Linen Handkerchiefs,
embroidered, and scolloped edge handker
chiefs. an elaborate line at 25c.
Ladies’ All Linen Embroidered Handker
chiefs, a special sale at 15c.
Gentlemen’s Initial Handkerchiefs in silk
and all linen at 15c, 25c, 50c, 75c and $1
each.
DOLLS, dressed and undressed, the best
assortment offered in this city, prices from
25c to .$1.75 and $2.
Holiday purchasers will find every ad
vantage in shopping here.
Daniel Hocian,
The Corner Broughton and Barnard Sts.
Bankruptcy
Blanks.
We have a full supply of
BAlllff iE
covering every phase of the
law and prepared by an ex
pert bankruptcy lawyer at
great expense.
They will save lawyers
and others a vast amount of
trouble in preparing the pa
pers in such cases.
Prices are very reasonable.
Morning News,
J. II INSTILL, President,
Savannah, - - Georgia
REM Hi ll
Varnishes.
Enamel Paints.
Brushes.
Wall Paper.
Picture Moulding.
Savanna!) Building Supply
Company,
CONGRESS AND DRAYTON STREETS
SCOTT & DAVIS,
nit ib
And fancy Grocers.
Tbc beat the rnmket afford, at
ways in stock.
rer.ounl attention given to nil or
der..
ai HENRY street, bast.
TBOMt 220*.
J. D. WEED & CO.
SAVAWAII, GA.
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