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THIS ISSUE
CONTAINS
TWENTY PACES
IBEX TO SEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Meeting—Georgia Castle No. 11, K. G. E.
Special Notices—An Ounce of Preven
tion Is Worth A Ton of Cure, John T.
Evans & Cos.; Ship Notice, J. P. Minis &
Cos., Consignees; Wonderful Skill of Oper
ating, Columbia Bicycles, T. A. Bryson,
Columbia Agent; Money to Loan, Isaac
Beckett; Thirty-five This Week, R. D. &
Wm. Latilmore; Notice to Superior Court
Jurors; Notice to Shoe Dealers, K. 1.
Okarma; Theus Bros., Jewelers; At Con-
Ida’s; Notice, Jos. H. Baker; Get Your
Money's Worth, Leopold Adler; Flower
Seeds, Solomons & Cos.; Stearns and Tri
bune Bicycles, R. V. Connerat; Big Joe
Kestaurant; Grand Reception Jan. 31,
Miss M. G. Bennett; Save the Pentiy,
Shearouse, Hutchinson & Cos.; People
Bay, Jas. J. Joyce.
Business Notices—Savannah Steam
Laundry; Collars, Cuffs, and Shirts, E. &
W. Laundry.
Amusements—Seventh Anniversary
Masquerade Ball of German Social Club.
Jan. 31.
Auction Sale—Groceries, Delivery Wag
on, Etc., By C. H. Dorsett, Auctioneer.
Advertising Sale—Bernstein & Dunait.
Legal Notices—Libel Against Portuguese
Bark Oliverla.
Prices Cored and Quartered—M. S.
Brown.
Lots of Talk—Byck Bros.
Good Oil Heaters, Etc.—At West’s China
Raise*.
A Black Event—Daniel Hogan.
Whiskies, That Are—Llppman Bros.
For Truck Farmers—Mark Apple.
041 Heaters —Edward Lovell’s Sons.
Enterprising Clothing House—Falk
Clothing Company.
Love Apples—C. A. Munster.
Sunday Thoughts—Metropolitan Cloth
ing Company.
On Tuesday—H. H. Cohen.
Canary Birds, Etc.—Gardner's Bazar.
European Staff of Physicians—Galen
Medical Institute.
Sulphume—Llppman Bros.
Spring and Summer Novelties—tAt Gut
man’s.
Spring Is Some Distance Away—Levy’s.
White Shirt Waists, Etc.—At Eckstein’s.
Ladies' Furnishers—Walsh & Meyer.
Climax of the January Sales—Leopold
iAdler.
The People Have Learned—Cubbedge’s
Pharmacy.
Until You Investigate the Gas Range—
The Mutual Gas Light Company.
Railroad Schedule—Georgia and Alabama
Railway.
Beef—Liebig's Extract of Beef.
Postum Collee—Postum Cereal Company.
Medical—Pe-ru-nar Wine of Cardui,
Lydia Pinkham's Vegetable Pills; Cuti
icura Remedies; Hood's Sarsaparilla; "77”
lor Grip; Erie Medical Company; Cuticura
Remedies; Munyon's Dyspepsia Cure; Dr.
David Kennedy's Favorite Remedy;
World's Dispensary Preparations.
Cheap Column Advertisements—Help
Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Rent;
For Sale; Lost; Personal Miscellaneous.
The embalmed beef having proved a fail
ure, how would It do to Harveyiae the
next lot of it?
The lambs are leaving a great deal of
fleece in Wail street. What they are
leaving now, however, is small in amount
in comparison to that which they will
leave just as soon as the shearers see a
chance to get a big clip. The market will
begin to sag, and then the frightened
lumbs will bo fortunate If they succeed
in escaping with any of their fleece.
Uncle Sam Is the great and only suie
winner in the proolgi ous game of tqiecuH
tion that has been going on in Wall street
for some weeks. He makes his profits
coming and going, and every turn of the
wheel gives him a prize. There are no
blanks for hltn. Every transfer of stock
ir subject to a war revenue tax of $2 on
every 100 shares. The transactions have
averaged about 1,600,000 shores per day
lately, with the result that Uncle Sam
has received as his share for stamps in
the neighborhood of {200,000 per week.
THE MOSS Pi POLITICS.
It Is claimed by those who favor retain
ing possession of the Philippines and gov
erning them as colonies, that we are as
capable of governing colonies as England
is. We have pride enough In our country
to believe that it can do about everything
better than any other country can, but it
is doubtful if we could govern colonies as
successfully as England does. The reason
she manages colonies better than we could
is that she keeps politics out of the man
agement of them, and we could not keep
politics out of the government of ours if
we should have them. The political boss
would make his appearance in the Philip
pirns If we should decide to hold those is
lands in perpetuity, and boss rule would be
very expensive rule, as we know by experi
ence in the governments of our cities. Be
sides. the rule of the boss might not be
productive of the beneficent results to the
natives lo w hich Senator Frye called at
tention in the Senate on Friday, in a
speech devoted largely to the glorious
benefits which our rule would confer on
the Filipinos.
The purpose of the political boss Is to
take care of himself and those who help
to keep him in his position. The public
good is a secondary consideration, If, In
fact, it is given any consideration at all.
The boss in iiolitics has many henchmen
w’ho have to be taken care of, and the peo
ple have to furnish the money necessary
for that purpose. There is hardly a city
in the country that is not mortgaged up
to the limit. Assessments have Just been
greatly increased in New York city in or
der, for one thing, that the bonded debt
of the city may be increased.
There is not a city of importance In the
country that could not be governed as well
as il is now governed for two-thirds the
cost of its present government if its af
fairs were conducted on strictly business
principles. The pofltiea! boss, however,
will not permit it to be so governed, and he
would not permit colonies, if we had them,
to be governed on business principles. He
would have his hand in everything—in the
choosing of men to fill the colonial offices,
in the appropriations to be made for the
colonial government and In the levying of
taxes upon the colonists. Merit would not
have a chance anywhere; political influ
ence would control everywhere. That was
the case to a very great extent In the war
with Spain. The hand of the political boss
was visible too frequently.
England governs her colonies on strict
ly business principles. Men are chosen for
the colonial offices on account of merit.
For most of the political positions a spe
cial training is required. The result Is the
government of the colonies is carried on
economically and with ability and honesty.
The political boss Is unknown. Conse
quently the colonists are not taxed to the
limit of endurance to meet the demands
created by the extravagance of boss rule.
Those who are opposing the extention of
our sovereignty over the Philippines may
be mistaken—may be working against the
true interests of the country, but we do
not believe they are. They see the perils
in the path of the expansion that is pro
posed, not the least of which is bossism
and corruption in politics.
MISTAKEN POLITICIANS.
The opinion has been expressed by some
of/the city politicians that an article In
the Morning News on Friday commending
Alderman-elect Williams’ independent
stand respecting city offices was an in
dorsement of Mr. Willink, the chief of
the department of public works. The pol
licians In question are mistaken. There
was no Intention to Indorse Mr. Willink,
or any other city official. There was no
purpose to say to the aldermen-elect that
the present officials or any of them ought
to be kept in office. We say 'no more
than that capable and honest employes
should he retained regardless of their po
litical leaning in the recent city election.
The only indorsement the article con
tained was that of the sentiments ex
pressed by Mr. Williams. He said, in ef
fect, that he did not favor turning offi
cials out of office simply because they op
posed in the municipal election the suc
cessful ticket. In other words, if we un
derstood him aright, he was not an advo
cate of the spoils system. lie thought
that capable and faithful officials should
he kept in office—that the affairs of the
city should be managed on business prin
ciples.
That is the view that we have been try
ing to get this city to accept for a number
of years. We have seen no benefit come
from the biennial fights over the few city
offices. Asa general thing, the offices
have been given lo political workers, not
because of their special fitness for the
duties they were expected to perform, but
because of the services they were sup
posd to have rendered their factions. W r e
are confident that the great majority of
the people want the offices filled by men
of merit, not by men whose chief recom
mendation is their ability to control a
number of voles. It is a sate opinion that
a great many votes were cast against
Mr. McDonough in the election last week
for no other reason than of a belief that
a small coterie in the faction which sup
ported him was too successful in getting
offices and too active in its efforts to run
the politics of the city.
Mr. Myers has the good fortune of hav
ing been elected without promises or
pledges—at least, that is the general un
derstanding. He has stated he will give
the city a business administration—not an
administration by the politicians—and he Is
in a position to do what he say’s he will.
Our article on Friday indorsing the senti
ments of Mr. Williams was in the di
rection of assisting Mr. Myers to give
the city such an administration as his
public statements have led the people to
expect. His administration iwo years ago
was regarded as a partisan one. He asked
for an Indorsement of it, and his request
was refused.
He will soon be in the Mayor’s office
again. If he is guided by his business
Judgment and his letter of acceptance,
rather than by the advice of tne politi
cians who have partisan feelings to sat
isfy, revenges to gratify and political
friends to provide for, he will not be re
fused an indorsement of his administration
if he wants it.
TIIE MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY, JANUARY" 29. 1599.
THE POET IN POLITICS.
Poetry and politics make an alliteration,
but there is no affinity between them.
They are. indeed, almost the antipodes
of each other, and that is why poet-poli
ticians and pollticlan-poots are about as
scarce as hen’s teeth and dodo eggs. Take
a typical successful politician—Mr. Crok
er, or Senator Quay, or Thomas C. Platt—
and assert that such a person had writ
ten a sonnet, and the country would im
mediately break into a loud guffaw, real
izing the Impossibility of any such thing
being a fact. And then assert that James
Whitcomb Riley, or Edmund C. Stedman
or Frank Stanton had gone Into practical
politics with the assurance that he could
carry his ward, or be elected chief con
stable of his town; and the popular cach
tnnations would be quite as boisterous as
in the first instance. Politics and poetry
just won’t combine in the same person.
"Bob” Taylor of Tennessee tried to
make thern combine. He succeeded In
getting what he considers an unsatisfac
tory sort of a mixture, but no combina
tion. Mr. Taylor is a poet. He thinks in
rhyme, and converses in cadences. He
never goes to bed and to sleep, hut re
tires to a couch whore fairy whispers lull
slumber and his dreams are peo
pled with visions of loveliness and color
and harmony. He does not get up of a
morning and jump into his “pants,” but
emerges from sweet dreamland into the
real world that is made glad with glo-<
rious sunlight glinting and shimmering on
green leaves and waving grasses, if the
day be fair, or Into a world where nature
is weeping for the weakness of mankind,
if it chances to be raining. Other men
hustle into their duds and scurry to busi
ness, but not so the poet; there is the
r.vthm of poetic motion even as he crawls
through from the bottom end of his shirt
to the top. Manifestly politics Is not the
sphere for such a temperament. The soul
that delights to revel in bowers of flow
ers while it 6ings of beauty and peace 1
and love, cannot get down to and enjoy
beer garden and precinct meetings and
mean cigars. To the poet there Is no
music In the crackle of a crisp new two
dollar bill, while to the ward politician
Beethoven never wrote anything nearly
so entrancing.
Nevertheless, on two separate occasions
Mr. Taylor has tried to blend poetry and
politics, in the office of Governor of his
state. FTom the average practical poli
tician’s point of view, he madg a success
of his politics; he “got there.” But from
the poet’s point of view, Mr. Taylor’s own,
the experience was not at all Satisfactory.
He told about It in his farewell to office
and to politics, in Nashville the other day.
A political career is all a vanity, he said,
and he had determined to live hereafter
In a sphere from which he add to
the world’s mirth and music and hazi
ness. "While I believe," said he, "lhat
the good in politics outweighs the bad, yet
how thorny is the path and how unhappy
the pilgrimage to him who dares to do his
duty! There are no flowers except a few
bouquets snatched from the graves of fall
en foes; there Is no happiness except the
transient thrill of cruel triumfih, Milch
passes like a shadow across the heart.”
It must have been raining on the morn
ing of the day that Gov. Taylor retired
from office, and the sombre skies must
have depressed the poet’s spirits. His
state, and the public, will t give him credit
for having made a faithful, consjientious,
painstaking executive. The convictidaaof
duty well performed should prove to him
a recompense for the discords which have
jarred upon hint. Meantime, it is not out
of place to say that polities offers no ca
reer for a true poet.
THE ARMY BILL REPORTS.
The people throughout the country feel
a profound interest in the debatfe in Con
gress on the two army bills—the bill re
ported by the majority of the committee
on military affairs, and the bill reported
by the minority of that committee. The
majority report calls for an army of 100,-
805 men, and the minority report expresses
the opinion that 65,000 men would be suf
ficient for all purposes in time of peace.
The majority of the committee is willing,
however, to make some concessions.
Thefe is no doubt that public sentiment
is against a large standing army. The
people look upon a large army as a menace
to the republic. Besides being a burden,
it encourages the use of force in the set
tlement of differences which may crop
out at home between political factions and
between labor and capital, and also dif
ferences which we may have with other
nations. Costly wars may be the direct
result of a large army. It Is true that art
army of 100,000 men would not be a very
large one for this country, but, according
to the estimates of the war department,
it would cost us almost as much to main
tain an army of that size as it costs Ger
many or Russia or France to maintain her
Immense military establishment. The rea
son is that the American soldier is far bet
ter paid and cared for than the soldier of
any other country.
It is claimed that because an army of
100,000 men is authorized it doesn’t follow
that It would be necessary to increase the
army to that size unless an emergency de
manding such an increase should arise.
If an army of 100,000 men should be au
thorized it is pretty certain that influences
would be at work at once to increase the
army to that number of men. And the in
fluences would be so strong that it is
doubtful If Congress would resist them.
It seems a little remarkable that before
the war with Spain it was almost impos
sible to get Congress to appropriate enough
money to make any progress with coast
defense work, or to make proper experi
ments with new kinds of guns and powder,
while now, with no war in sight or in
prospect, there Is plenty of talk of an ap
propriation of more than $140,000,000 a year
for military purposes. Truly the war with
Spain Is proving to be a costly one in
many ways.
But It may be urged that an army of 50,-
000 men will not be sufficient for home
needs and also to meet the demands upon
us in Cuba, Porto Rico and the Philippines.
It is true that If as many soldiers are
needed 'in the territories acquired from
Spain as Brooke and Wood and Otis think
there are, an'army of 100,000 men will not
Tse any too large. But are not the esti
mates of these generals altogeth
er too large? Assuming that they
are not, would it not be bet
ter to depend upon volunteers, en
listed for two or three years, for at least
half of the 100,000 men, rather than in
crease the regular army to that number?
It is certain that the volunteers would not
be kept longer than the terms of iheir en
listment, while if the regular army were
raised to 100,000 men it would probably re
main there until still further Increased.
The movement towards militarism and
imperialism Is strong. Will those who are
fighting for the principles on which the re
public is founded be able to resist it? It
will be fortunate for the republic if they
are.
The Montana murderer who requested
those of his friends who should follow his
body to the cemetery to keep their hats
on, and not take chances of getting pneu
monia by uncovering their heads in the
cold, gave good advice, notwithstanding
his predicament. The condemned man re
ferred to the custom of baring heads at
the grave, no matter how cold, as “a
barbarous custom,” and he was not far
from right. We published some time ago
a statement from a physician to the effect
that a very considerable number of fatal
cases of cold were yearly contracted by
attendants upon funerals exposing them
selves in conformity with the usual cus
toms. Proper respect for the dead does
not demand that the health of the living
shall be Jeopardized.
Americans are credited with still another
brilliant success in Europe. It is said that
the thieves who entered Parr’s bank in
London the other day, in broad daylight
and while business was going on, and stole
$300,000 and escaped without detection,
were Americans. An oddity in connection
with the robbery is the fact that $235,000
of the amount stolen has been returned to
the bank by the shrewd but mysterious
thieves. The returned bills were all of
very large denominations, most of them
being £I,OOO and £SOO notes. The small bills
the thieves retained. The probabilities
are that they reasoned that an attempt
to use the large bills would get them Into
trouble.
The atmosphere of New York for a week
has been heavily sweet with the fragrance
of the forget-me-not; the heartsease, var
ious flowers of speech, and the peach. The
Hon. Joseph H. Choate, the new ambas
sador to the Court of St. James, and the
Hon. Chauncey M. Depew have been hand
ing bouquets to each other through the
medium'of the Independent. Mr. Depew
led off with a saccharine little personal
tribute to his friend, the new ambassador,
and Mr. Choate reciprocated with a per
fectly charming little tribute to his friend,
the new senator from New York.
A cable dispatch from Havana reports
that Mr. Flagler has offered $400,000 for
the Tacon theater property, in that city,
with the idea of putting a magnificent ho
tel on it The owners, however, want
$500,000 for the property; still, the predic
tion is that Mr. Flagler will secure it.
It seems to be his purpose to extend his
string of hotel palaces through Florida
and Nassau to the capital city of the
Pearl of the Antilles.
Dr. Lyman Abbott suggests that if Quav
and Croker were sent to the Philippines
and Cuba, those countries and America
might be benefited. Are there not cer
tain reverend gentlemen, also, whom the
country would like to see embark with
Messrs. Quay and Croker?
The flushness of boodle in California,
and the amazing candor with which the
politicians tell how they gave or received
it, recall the old days in which it was
the common talk that seats in the Senate
were-bargained for and bought by the
men with the longest purses.
BRIGHT BITS.
—Depends on the Intention.—The Deacon
—Surely you would not regard as profane
a man who. uses the expression, “Gee
whiz?”
—Giving Herself Away .—Mistress—Jane,
I’ve mislaid the key of my escritoire. I
wish you’d just fetch me that box of odd
keys. I dare say I can And one to open
it.
Jane—lt’s no use, ma’am. There’s isn’t
a key in the ’ouse as’ll fit that desk.—
Punch.
CURRENT COMMENT.
The Chicago Chronicle (Dem.) says: “In
view of the failure of the attempt to raise
35.000 for the regular army for a war
emergency, of the anxiety of the volun
teers now in the service .to go home, and
of the fact that only 34 per cent, of those
who left employments in Chicago to enter
the service at the outbreak of the war
have found employment since their re
turn, we may well doubt whether the men
who would be needed for the regular army
under the President's plan could be ob
tained without offering bounties as high
as the highest paid during the civil war
or resorting to another plan which also
was resorted to during the civil war, end
which resulted in a very considerable ex
odus of able-bodied men of military age to
Canada. This is not a pleasant alterna
tive for Imperial politicians to face.”
The Kansas City Star thus gives the
office holder’s reasons: “The rule of pub
lic office In America Is this: Overlook the
email things. If the subordinate doesn't
earn his wages, he puts the money into cir
culation. Let the poor peanut man occupy
the sidewalk. What's the use of kicking
about a pile of ashes? Let well enough
alone. If nobody complains, nobody cares.
Bea good fellow. Don’t raise disturb
ances except for the party. Avoid perni
cious activity. You help me and I’ll help
you. Be easy on the poor chap, he helped
me. Don’t gel disliked. What’s it worth?
The Mobile Register (Dem.) observes
that "one of the most significant occur
ences in Cuba has been the paper present
ed to Gen. Lee by the Spanish residents
of Guines, complimenting the Cubans upon
their fair conduct to the Spaniards since
ihe occupation.”
The Birmingham News (Dem.) says:
"If war should break out between Ger
many and the United States it will be
remembered that Samoa opened it with
a pair of Kings.”
Fish In Nantucket.
The residents of Nantucket are said to
be so well satisfied with their small island
that they care but little for the outside
world, says the Youth s Companion. Nat
urally many of the men are employed in
fishing, and the old fishermen delight to
tell of the foolish questions asked by the
•‘rusticators" who visit Nantucket in sum
mer. One summer visitor, in turn, tells
this story of the town fish market: "Have
you any salmon?” I asked of the old salt,
who was sharpening a knife.
"No, mq'am,” he answered; and then he
added, in a pleasantly condescending way,
“We don’t sell nothing but fish here.”
“Well,” I responded, "salmon is fish,
you know. They are caught in all—”
but he interrupted me.
“Land! I know folks eat all sorts of
things. I hear about ’em eating frogs,
and calling them fish. Folks are strange
in their eatin’, same as they be in their
clothes," with a critical glance at my
bicycle skirt ‘but all the fish that folks
ought to eat can be caught right round
these shores. Can’t I sell you a nice
blueftsh, that ain't been out’n the water
more'n an hour?”
Not knowing any better way to regain
his good opinion, I purchased the bluefish
and went meekly home.
Objected to Frills.
The late Admiral Kirkland, known in
the service as "Red BH1,” was a verita
ble "sea dog,” as the term is popularly
understood; brave and fearless, possessed
of many' genial qualities but a strict dis
ciplinarian, with the greatest horror of
anything like “dudeism” or affectation
among his young officers.
On one occasion the admiral received
a visit from a recently appointed young
officer.
“How do you do, sir; how do you do?”
said the lit tie midshipman.
“Howde do?” said the admiral, gruffly.
“I suppose you got all of my telegrams,
admiral, did you?" asked the young officer,
trembling at the rather ungracious attitude
of his superior officer.
“What telegrams do you refer to?”
asked the admiral. “I got no telegrams.”
“I am very very sorry,” said the young
man, now thoroughly frightened at the
admiral's attitude. “I telegraphed that I
was coming from almost every station,
sir.” Admiral Kirkland turned in his chair
and glowered at Ills little subordinate.
"Why in the devil do you suppose that
I care whether you came or didn't come?
Never presume to do that again, sir."
And the poor little officer, thoroughly
abashed, slunk out of the room.
His Essence of Truth.
For many years the sage held to his In
vestigations, says the Chicago Record. He
sat at his desk in the library with tomes
(whatever in the world they are) heaped all
about him. He unrolled manuscripts and
studied them In deep abstraction. He
turned the pages of many books. At in
tervals he would nod solemnly and make
a note on the sheet of paper lying in front
of him. At last the frail body weakened
under the strain of unremitting toll. r /he
am lent scholar took to his bed.
“The end is near,” said the physician,
holding the thin, worn hand in his so that
he might lend the old student some of
his own courage.
“I care not.” whispered the sage, with a
smile of resignation. “My work is finished.
1 have proved it—as I said. On my desk
in the library. You wifi find it there.”
When his spirit had departed the lifelong
friend W'ho had been chosen as executor
went to the library.
There, upon the strewn desk, he found
the truits of all the labor, the essence of
Truth which the scholar had extracted by
years of reading and research. There
was the Finished Work. It was as fol
lows ;
"If ’honey’ did not rhyme with ‘money’
and Lou’ wffth ‘you’ there never could
have been any ‘coon’ songs.”
A Society Event.
On Monday, Dec. 36, there was a grand
opening at North Powder, Oregon. It
marked the completion of the large non
town hall and opera house. The very best
band that could be secured furnished the
music. The new building, by the way, is
entirely of logs, and it may lie imagined
that the region is not very thickly settled.
But that fact did not prevent the mirnfrs
and settlers for miles around from at
tending the dance and making the rough
hewn rafters of the new hall of justice
ring with their shouts and merry laugh
ter A sumptuous supper was served at
the North Powder Hotel, also a log edi
fice. Tickets admitting a couple to the
dance and supper were $1.50, while spec
tators were obliged to pay fifty cents for
looking on. Live stock was taken as
cash. This was In a social way, the event
of the winter at North Pow.ier and Ihe
only dance which has thus far been given
there this season. A royal time was had
and prizes were given to the best sus
tained lady and gentleman characters.
The guests were requested to remove
their spurs and sidearms on entering the
ball room. It is needless to say that liquid
refreshments were to be had on the side.
The Detroit Free Press is indebted to
Mr. H. E. Backus, formerly of Detroit,
for a copy of the poster announcing the
event, which Is gotten up in the highest
style of Western art as practiced by the
disciples of Clutenberg in that region. Mr.
Backus sends also the following verses to
commemorate the function:
The Cowboy Dance.—
Git yer little sage hens read.'.
Trot ’em out upon the floor;
Line up there, you cusses! Steady!
Lively now! One couple more.
Shortly, shed that ol’ sombrero;
Broncho, douse that cigarette,
Stop that cussln’, Caslmono,
’Fore the ladies. Now all set.
S’lute yer ladles, all together,
Ladies opposite the same;
Hit the lumber with yer leather.
Balance all and swing yer dame;
Bunch the heifers in the middle.
Circle stags and do si do.
Pay attention to the fiddle
Swing ’er round an’ off yer go.
First four forward: back to places;
Second foller, shuffler back.
Now you've got it down to cases.
Swing ’em ’till their trotters crack.
Gents all right a heel an’ toeln’.
Swing ’em, kiss ’em if you kin;
On to next an’ keep a goin'
'Till yer hit your pards again.
Gents to center, ladies round 'em.
Form a basket, balance all;
Whirl your girls to where yer found ’em,
Promenade around the hall,
Balance to your pards and trot ’em
Round the circle double quick;
Grab an’ kiss ’em while you’ve got 'em,
Hold ’em to it If they kick.
Ladies left hand to yer sonnies,
Alamane. Grand right and left.
Balance all an’ swing yer honlee.
Pick 'em up an', feel their heft.
Promenade like skeery cattle,
Balance all an’ swing yer sweets,
Shake yer spurs an’ make ’em rattle;
Keno! Promenade to seats.
—Roman and American.—Guide—Here
was the Circus Maximus.
American Tourist—Maximus, eh? Seems
lo me that's a pretty lame adjective to
apply to a circus.—Detroit Journal.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
, —The?e is an interesting story in con
nection with a cement mill which is about
to start up in Kansas. For years near
Mulvane there ujed to be a large tract
of “smoking prairie.” It was good graz
ing gound, but during and after a rain
it smoked and no one knew the cause until
a stranger quietly bought the tract one
day and announced that he had a fortune.
The cement lies on the surface in great
quantities, and is worth $lO a barrel.
—The blowing engine being erected by
the Carnegie Steel Comapny at the convert
ing mill of the Edgar Thomson Steel
Works at Braddock, Penn., is almost com
peted. and is expected to he in working
order by Feb. 1, says the New York Times.
It wi ll be, when completed, the largest en
gine in the world. It is of the vertical
cross-compound type, with high and low
pressure steam valves. There are two air
cylinders, SO by 60 inches, with one 42-inch
diameter, high pressure, and one 80-inch
diameter, low pressure valve, each with
a 60-inch stroke. The flywheel is 24 feet in
diameter, and weighs 100,000 pounds. The
air cylinders are equipped with patent re
duction and delivery air pipes. The blow
ing capacity will be 40,000 cubic feet per
minute.
—A contract has recently been received
by the Westinghouse Electric and Manu
facturing Company for Installing an eW
trical plant to operate a large cotton mill
hear Manchester, England. The machinery
Involved in the contract consists of two
alternating current generators and twen
ty-one motors, having an aggregate capac
ity of 310 horse power. The contract war.
received through the London agency, from
Beyer, Peacock & Cos., of Manchester,
England. The contract is one of the first
of the kind being up by the Eng
lish manufacturers. The people there are
realizing that they can get better results
by operating their machinery by electricity
as is done in this country, and at the same
time economize and get greater security
from fire.
—On a recent afternoon at Niagara Fails,
while a large number of people were
crossing the lee bridge in the gorge at
the foot of tne falls, the ice started to
move down stream through the center,
the sides of the bridge for a short dis
tance out from the shore being held by
the shore ice. There were from fifty to
100 people on the bridge when it started
to move, and as they felt the mass trem
ble they were thoroughly alarmed. The
surface of the bridge became much broken,
and it was difficult to select a path
across. Far out In the center were a
number of boys, and they fled to shore
with wonderful speed. Others near shore
got off the moving ice on to that not in
motion and hurried to shore. Within n
short time all were safe. After moving
about SOO feet the bridge lodged again.
—Botany, so much less ostentatious than
her sister sciences, has latterly steadily
advanced in a manner not so generally
appreciated, but no less marked. Hippo
crates, the father of physicians, writing
about 400 B. C., knew but 234 species or
kinds of plants, says an exchange. A com
paratively few years later Theophrastus,
one of the first real botanists whose name
has come down to us, had increased the
number to only 500. In 77 A. D. Dioscor
ides had gained but little, to which Pliny
in turn contributed 200 more. Then, for
nearly fifteen centuries, practically noth
ing was accomplished, util Ray, who
wrote between 1685 and 1704, enumerated
and described 18,625 species. In the early
portion of this century Person, De Can
dolle and Stendel catalogued 70,000, includ
ing flowering and lower plants, a number
raised by Lindley (1845) to 79.837. And
now, after the work of Duchartle and Du
rand, with new species being published
every year, the total is estimated by ex
perts as little short of 200,000.
—We can form no conception of that
which is wholly foreign to our experience,
says the New Orleans Picayune. To the
dweller in the thirtieth century our lives,
literatures and achievements may seem
as far off, as queer and old-fashioned, as
colorless and unreal, as those of the
Egyptians in the times of the Pharaohs
seem to us, says a writer in Lippinbott's
Magazine. The spoken languages of the
world may undergo some such change as
stenography seems to be making in the
method of writing them. Anew and
wonderfully condensed form of expression
may rise upin our present system, in which
simple sounds, with few combinations,
may take the place of our words, phrases
and sentences. What literature may be
to such a language we can form no con
ception. It would be safe to say that both
prose and poetry, as we understand them,
would disappear. But, anticipating only
such changes in language as have been
going on gradually since the dawn of
history, is there anything to indicate that
there will come a time in the future
when poetry will cease to be written,
or, if written at all, that it will occupy
a much more restricted and humble place
than now? Has poetry the capacity to
adapt itself to the trend and current of
modem life and thought?
The Prince of Monaco has been known
since ISSS as an enthusiastic student of the
sea and its various forms of life, says the
New York Sun. He usually spends his
summers in the study of oceanographic
problems, and his cruises have on some
occasions been extended almost to the
coasts of America. A short time ago he
delivered a lecture before the Royal Geo
graphical Society in London, in which he
told this incident: One afternoon, while
in the Bay of Biscay, he sank the trap
in which he collected specimens of sea
life. It went to the bottom in over 12,000
i'e#t of water, and as night approached he
fastened to the wire attached to it an elec
tric buoy and then stood off a mile or
so. It did not happen to occur to him
that he was right in the track of steamers
plying between Northern Europe and the
Mediterranean, but he was reminded of
the fact later. As he and his fourteen
sailors were watching with a good deal of
satisfaction the swaying buoy with its
brilliant illumination a steamer’s lights
came into view'. It was soon evident that
the steamer was curious to know the
meaning of the illumination, for she alter
ed her course and made for the light. She
knew that no fishing boats camp out so
far from land and so determined to solve
the mystery. Up she came to within a
quarter of a mile of the buoy, slowed up
for a minute, and then started ahead,
perhaps a little disgusted at the incident
that had lured her several miles out of
her course. She had hardly got away
when a second steamer came Into view,
and she, too, bore down upon the lighted
buoy. The marines on the Prince’s vessel
understood by this time that the illumi
nation was probably believed to be evi
dence of a disaster. Just as the Prince's
steamer was moving up to explain matters
she was nearly .run down by one of the
large liners in the Oriental trade, which
had also left her course to render what
assistance she could. The swell was very
heavy, and the Prince feared a collision
as the three vessels approached the light
like moths around a.candle. He therefore
veered off and the ,other vessels, after
standing by for a few minutes, went on
their way and probably never learned the
cause of that night’s illumination at sea.
But the incident gave the Prince a pointer.
He carefully refrained thereafter from ex
hibiting his electric buoy on any of the
much-traveled ocean routes.
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