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INDEX TO HEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Meeting—Calanthe Lodge No. 28, K.
Of P.
Special Notices—Ship Notice, Georgia Ex
port and Import Company; Liquor Li
censes; Ship Notice, Dahl & Andersen,
Agents; Bids Wanted for Laying Artificial
Stone Sidewalks. Harry Wlillnk, Superin
tendent Public Works.
Business Notices—Huylcr's Cocoa af
Hefmken’s Cafe Monday, Tuesday and
.Wednesday.
.Steamship Schedules—Ocean Steamship
Company; Baltiihore Steamship Company.
Railroad Schedule—Plant System.
Amusements—Hoyt’s "A Stranger in
New York,” at Theater Feb. 1.
The Perfection Mattress—Lindsay &
Morgan.
Legal Notices—ln the Matter of Jennings
Brothers, Bankrupt; In the Matter of T.
J. Dudley & Cos., Bankrupt.
Pearline—Jas. Pyle & Son.
Medical—Duffy's Pure Malt Whisky; Cu
ticura Remedies; Hood’s Pills; Brown's
Bronchial Troches; Castoria; Ayer’s Cher
ry Pectoral; S. S. S.
Cheap Column Advertisements—Help
Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Rent;
For Sale; Lost; Personal; Miscellaneous.
Nevada will now once more lapse into
obscurity until another senatorial election
or a prize fight brings her temporarily into
public notice.
The other day the treasurer of an Illi
nois opera house at which Col. "Bob” In
gersoll lectured ran oft with the box office
receipts. It is said that when the colonel
beard of the afTuir he remarked that "if
there Is no hell, there ought to be one.”
There is pending in the Alabama legisla
ture a bill which provides for the amend
ing of the section of the code which regu
lates actions for libel. The bill Is intended
to give the newspapers of the state same
protection. It provides that when hy mis
take or inadvertence an injurious publica
tion has been made, if same is retracted
or apology Is made within five days from
demand, then the party aggrieved shall
be considered sufficiently recompensed and
the matter shall be dropped.
Senator Hanna declines to take any part
In the contest for the new federal circuit
court Judgeship, on the ground that "judi
cial positions should not be regarded as
political.” The political log-rollers who
are hustling for the place for themselves
or their friends probably never looked for
a rebuke from that quarter. Has injus
tice been done Senator Hanna all along?
Is he really a purist in politics? But pos
sibly that is just the senator’s way of
getting out of being bothered.
A Connecticut inventor has gone to
England to interest foreign capitalists in
an apparatus, or a method, of burning
coal so as to realize 80 per cent, of the
caloric energy, instead of 10 to 15 per
cent., the amount which is obtained from
coal by the present methods of burning it.
if this inventor has succeeded in finding a
way to make a pound of coal do six or
seven times the work that a pound now
does, he has laid Ihe foundation for a
fabulous fortune for himself and done the
world a service.
Gen. Butler, of the Cuba evacuation
commission, is of the opinion lhai the san
itation of Havana will not only have to
Include the streets and the houses, but the
people themselves. The average native
has an abhorrence of tile bath, and it is
a rare thing that he ever scrubs himself.
Gen. Butler thinks that soap and water
will have to be used freely before the
health of Havana becomes good, and that
♦he Americans will have hard missionary
work to do before they can convert the
natives to the doctrine of personal clean
liness.
According to the logic of Secretary Long,
the glory of the Santiago battle belongs to
Admiral Samiason because he was the din
rector of the expedition, and the fact that
he was seven miles away does not make
any difference whatsoever. Why not go
back a little further, and say that the
glory really belongs to the secretary him
self and to Theodore Roosevelt? They
were responsible for Capt. Sampson's be
ing in command. They created Sampson
and Sampson created the situation, there
fore they indirectly created the situation
and ought to have the credit for it, not
withstanding they were any number of
miles away.
THE NAVY PERSONNEL nil.L.
There is every probability that the bill
to recognize the navy, commoniy known
as the naty personnel bill, will become
law within a short time. It has already
been passed by the House and is now in
the Senate. The latter body has made
some changes in details, which will ne
cessitate u conference between the two
bodies and tans delay the measure fot
probably a few- days. The main feature
of the measure, which is intended to set
tle and aixj.lsh a long standing quarrel
in the navy, has been retained. This
feature is that which does away with
what is known as “the staff,” and trans
fers the offl-ers of that grade to "the
line.” Heretofore the staff has been com
posed of engineer officers. w-hile
the line has boon comi>osed of
officers of the quarter deck. The
staff offi< ers have complained that while
they had nominal rank, their authority
was practically nothing; they had not
even the authority to issue commands to
the mil of their own deparlments. Line
officers. Indeed, determined questions relat
ing exclusively to the machinery of the
ships, such ns how many and what par
ticular boilers should be put into use, what
pressure of steam should Ik- carried, and
similar matters. It is stated that wnile
off Santiago, during the time Cervera was
’•bottled up.” < ngines were uncoupled or
coupled, and fires were banked under cer
tain boilers or ste am was raised in others,
by orders from the bridge, without the
engineer In charge lieing consulted as to
how the efficiency of his motive power
would be affected by the changes or or
ders. Tliis, however, is merely one inci
dent. There have been numerous and fre
quent clashes between the line and the
slaff, until the m liter had come very close
to the verge of scandal.
The navy personnel bii! provides that
the engineer officers shall be transferred
to the line, and that they shall have rank
anti pay equal to the officers of the quar
ter deck. Their authority to command,
however, is limited to their own deparl
ments. Thus, the ranking officer of the
engineers would haveyio authority to is
sue an order to the marines, to the gun
ners or to the seamen, but would have
authority in all matters in connection with
the machinery of his ship. This provis
ion, it is believed, will not only remove
Ihe friction between line and staff, but will
increase the offioieey of the ships as fight-
Ipg machines.
Other features of the bill are provisions
that there shall be eighteen rear admirals,
with the pay of brigadier generals; that
there be a Judge advocate's corps-,
that cadets of the naval academy shall be
commissioned as second lieutenants in the
marine corps after their four years' term
in the academy and without the custom
ary two years at sea, and that certain
civilians who served in the navy during the
war with Spain may bo appointed to some
of the lower grade offices in the line.
Some of these latter provisions may be
changed Jiefore the bill becomes law.
THE V ALUE OF A BOV.
To most parents the idea of computing
In dollars and cents the value of a child
is repugnant; still, it sometimes becomes
necessary to do that very thing. It is,
however, apparently a difficult matter to
arrive at a satisfactory basis upon which
to compute value of children. In some
communities the idea of worth differs
from that in other communities. This has
recently been seen in two suits for dam
ages, one in an Illinois court and the other
in an Indiana court. In the former a
small hoy had been killed by a railway
train, and the father had sued the corpor
ation alleging several thousand dollars of
pecuniary damage. The attorney for llie
corporation argued that so far
from the father having suffered
damages in actual dollars and
cent, he had been benefited, since
it was a fact that the child was incapable
of earning its own living and was an ex
liense of one or two hundred dollars a
year. This argument so Impressed the
jury that a verdict for the railroad was
returned.
In the Indiana case, however, the jury
took a deeper insight Into the matter.
There were evidently some close
calculating business men on ihe
jury. An eight-year old boy had
been killed through some neglect
Or fault on the part of the corporation
of the city of Elwood. The jurors ascer
tained what was the condition of the hoy’s
health at the time he was killed. Then
they took an insurance mortality table and
calculated the percentage of probabilities
that he would reach the age of 21 years,
at which time he would become his own
master. Until that time his father would
be entitled to his services. A calculation
was then made of the relative earning
power of the child, and the expense of
keeping him, for each year from the eighth
to the twenty-first year of his age. It was
calculated that at about the age of twelve
he would become self-supporting, and
thereafter might be expected to earn more
than his keep. After exhaustive figuring
the jury obtained as a result, taking into
consideration all normal conditions, that
the father had suffered an actual money
loss of $599 hy the death of his child, and a
verdict for that amount was rendered.
Maine is coming to the front as a com
petitor against New Jersey In the matter
of granting extremely elastic charters to
corporations. It is said that the charier
of the new toe trust, granted by the Maine
legislature, confers the privilege of run
ning almost any kind of business under
the sun, or which may hereafter be evolv
ed. Tite corporation may not only manu
facture, harvest and sell lee, but it may
also build and operate railroads, steam
ship lints, banks, trolley lines, or any
thing else. The trust has a capital of
*80,000,000, which would seem lo indicate
that it intended to put up a huge cold
deal.
Senator Gorman has furnished a simple
rule by w hich every person may compute
the cost to the United States of an army
of, any size. The senator says that the
cost averages about *I,OOO tier man per
ycAr. This sum should be remembered by
every person who may have a leaning
towards Imperialism or expansion.
THE MORNING NEWS:, MONDAY, JANUARY 30. 1899.
A TAX LAW SUGGESTION.
Just now there is a great stir in New
York over the supposed immense amount
of personal proiierty there which escapes
taxation. It is said that it is estimated
by the assessors of New York city that
as much as *6,500,0(0,000 of personal prop
erty in that city escapes taxation. But,
as a matter of fact, does anything like
that amount fail to bear its part of the
burden of taxation? It is doubtful if it
dot-s. For instance, there arc hundreds
of millions in mortgages which are not
returned for taxation, but the property
which is mortgaged is assessed and pays
taxes on its full assessed value. If the
mortgages were also taxed there would
be double taxation. In this city real es
tate is taxed at its full value, no deduc
tion being made for mortgage debts which
may lie upon it. In cases where the
mortgages are held in this city the mort
gaged property is really double taxed, be
cause if mortgages were not taxed prop
erty owners- would be able to borrow'
money at 5 per cent, and perhaps at 4'yi
per cent.
About every kind of security is a lien
on visible property of some sort which is
taxed. Therefore, the immense amount
of securities which are said to escape tax
ation in Nfw York city is really taxed in
some way or other. If railroads were
not taxed in every city, county and state
which their tracks enter they would be
able to pay the hollers of their bonds a
much higher rate of Interest. The holder
of railroad bonds may not give in his
bonds for taxation, but the railroad com
pany pays a tax on them.
Speaking of the outcry in New York city
against the escape of the holders of securi
ties from taxation and of the proposition
to revise the (ax laws of the slate, the
Times of that city says; “In most coun
tries the general property tax was aban
doned long ago. If w'e could substitute
for our present jumble of tax laws a law
deriving the public revenue from real es
tate with its improve merits, occupiers of
buildings and corporations and franchises,
omitting personal property altogether, we
should find that the burden of taxation
would be equitably distributed and that
only an infinitesimal part of the popula
tion would escape their just share of the
general contribution.”
The suggestion contained in the fore
going is worthy of careful consideration
not only in New but also in this
state, where a comtftission is now engaged
in framing a law as a substitute for the
present tax law. s
A SOUTH GEORGIA FAIR.
The suggestion of the Liberty County
Herald, that there should be held in the
city of Savannah next fall a South Geor
gia fair, is worthy of more than passing
thought. Such an exposition could be
made a success, if the farmers and busi
ness men of South Georgia and the peo
ple of Savannah would take active inter
est in the scheme. It would probably not
be a difficult matter to perfect an organiza
tion that could work up interest through
out the section, and carry thd fair to
success as a South Georgia institution.
North Georgia is now making active prep
arations for a fair.
It has been many years since a fair was
held In this city. The last one was in 1871.
It was a success in Ihe matter of exhibits
and number of attendants, but It bank
rupted the fair association. However, Sa
vannah has double the population she had
then, and there are also more people and
more industries in the South Georgia coun
ties, hence the fair of ’7l cannot be taken
as indicating anything conclusive In re
spect to what the financial outcome of a
fair in 1899 would be. There would be more
exhibits and more visitors than ever before
in the history of fairs in South Georgia.
The old fair grounds are still intact, but
new buildings would have to be construct
ed. The race course, the old Ten Broeck
course, which is a part of ihe fair grounds,
was celebrated the world over In the old
days for running races in this part of the
South. It is still In good shape. The fair
grounds are on the line of the Central of
Georgia, near the crossings of that road
with the Plant System and the Florida
Central and Peninsular. There are, how
ever. other eligible locations, wilh the ex
ception of a race course, which might be
obtained for the purposes of a fair. The
suggestion of our Liberty county contem
porary should receive the consideration of
the enterprising business men of Savan
nah.
PLANT SOMETHING.
The stock law is now well understood
and enforced in Chatham county. The
expense of building and maintaining
fences around cultivated land has been
eliminated. There is an abundance of
good and rich land in the county
whlch can be secured a! low or even nom
inal rentals. There is a great deal of
cheap labor which could be utilized in
the cultivation of truck patches, to the
benefit of the laborers and the whole com
munity. Therefore, during the current
year there should be a considerable in
crease in the amount of vegetables and
truck raised for home consumption. From
• he present time until fall crops of various
kinds of vegetables can be raised, and the
city demand would absorb about all that
could be grown.
Money could be made in growing water
melons and eanteioups for the local mar
ket. Every year thousands of melons are
brought to Savannah and sold at fair
prices. These melons might as well as
not be produced almost at the city's doors.
The growers would save freights, and re
ceive the market rates. Chatham county
produces as luscious, finely flavored straw
berries ns are grown anywhere in the
world, barrylng no place whatsoever; nev
ertheless the home supply is so limited
that thousands of baskets of strawber
ries are brought here every season to meet
the demand.
Every dollar that can be made out of
the lands of Chatham county is Just that
much that can be kept at home,
and keeping money at home means some
thing to a great many others than the per
son wfo actually plants the seed and
reaps ihe harvest. Every person who can
should plant something this year. There
is jet a plenty of time to get the ground
ready and put in the seed. Those who
have patches of ground should begin to
make arrangements for securing a crop
from them, and those who have no land
should look about at once for a plot lo
rent. There is a plenty of it to be had.
Almost everybody can grow something,
and everyone who can po-slblv make ar
rangements to do so should try vegetables,
melons, strawberries or something else
this year.
A resolution in the Alabama Legislature
proposes that wherever the word “col
ored” appears, or may appear, referring
to persons of the black race, in legal pa
pers in that state it shall be stricken out
and the word "negro” substituted, and
that that Word shall be spelled with a
capital N. The resolution sets forth that
“colored” Is not a generic word, while
"negro” is. It seems that the introducer
of thjj resolution might have gone a little
further in this matter of regulating race
nomenclature by legislation, and provided
that the South of Europe word “negro"
be eliminated entirely, and that the good
English word “black” be used instead.
"Negro” In Spanish (and in French and
Portuguese) means "black,” and “bian
co” means white. If the Alabama resolu
tion should pin the black man down to
“negro” it might do well to provide also
that the white man shall be a “bianco.”
It was this government’s generosity,
says Senator Frye, which prompted the
giving of a big cash bonus to Spain, to
gether with other very valuable consider
ations. Has the government's generosity
in this matter extended lo the American
people? Is it either generous or just to
call upon them not only to pay the mil
lions already promised, but to put them
selves in a p'osition which may cost them
thousands of lives and a great many more
millions of dollars?
PERSON AL.
—Senator Hoar, who Is a cousin of Mr.
Evarls, tells how the latter’s mother, a
daughter of one of Connecticut’s first gov
ernors, opened the door for Washington
as he left her father’s house. She was
then a girl of 6. "Thank you, my little
maid,” said the general. “I wish you a
better office." “Yes," she replied, “to let
you in, not to pass you out.”
—Among the prominent men who have
approved the project to erect in Richmond
a Confederate memorial hall are President
McKinley and ex-Presidents Cleveland
and Harrison, Secretaries Gage, Alger,
Long, Bliss and Hay, Postmaster General
Smith, ex-Secretaries Sherman. Whitney,
Carlisle and Lamont and ex-Postmaster
General James. Many of them have con
tributed to the object.
—At a recent performance in the Vatican
of one of Father Perosi’s oratories, which
have been attracting great attention in
Italy, Queen Margharita attended incog
nito—a circumstance considered note
worthy, in view of the long-strained rela
tions between the court and the Vatican.
Permission was sought of the vicar gen
eral to have a passage opened for the
Queen from the military casino, which im
mediately adjoins the chapel where the
music was performed, but received the
answer that he must apply to the cardi
nal secretary, which he was unwilling to
do. The Queen, therefore, W'ent as she
did.
BRIGHT BITS.
—“I was sorry to do it,” said Mr. Storm
ington Barnes, “but I was obliged to take
notice of such gross neglect of duty. I
have discharged the property man.” ' "He
was very careless,” remarked Mr. Ores
tes Van Ham. "He forgot the prompt
book twice." It’s worse than that this
time. He has allowciL- the company to
come away without Ats road map.”—
Washington Star.
—“I see that Russia has completed plans
for a railway in China,” remarked the
morose citizen. “Well, that doesn't affect
our personal interests," replied the flip
pant friend. “No. But I can't help sym
pathizing with other people wffien they
get into trouble. I’d certainly hate to be
the man whose business it is to stand on
the platform and call off the stations.”—
Washington Star.
—“Did I understand you?” said the im
posing and handsome lady caller, "that
marriage is a civil contract?” "Nothing
is belter settled, madam,” replied the law
yer whom she was consulting. "Then I
desire you to proceed against my hus
band at once for breach of contract.”
"But, on what grounds, my dear lady?”
“He hasn't been civil to me an hour since
we were married."—Detroit Free Press.
CURRENT COMMENT.
Speaking of the pending ship subsidy
bill the Norfolk Landmark (Dem.), says;
"Two fundamental errors are involved in
this scheme. Beginning with the proposi
tion that the American builders, can now
construct vessels as cheaply as foreign
builders, the advocates of subsidy end by
demanding financial aid for the shipbuild
ing industry in this country, although the
business is intrinsically profitable else
where. Either the premise or the conclu
sion must be false. The other error is the
idea that an industry carried on at a loss
can be beneficial to the country. It seems
ridiculous to argue these points seriously,
and yet there is excellent reason to believe
that the national lawmakers are going
to swallow both of these absurdities.”
The Washington Post (Ind.) whistles
thus cheerfully as it passes through the
graveyard: “The treaty will be ratified,
either in February or in March, and the
country will enter upon its new departure.
What the future holds for us we do not
undertake to prophesy. But we are sure
that, for weal or woe, for triumph or
calamity, for happiness or sorrow, the
American people will go to meet their des
tiny united, fearless and determined. In
the face of a common danger there will
be no traitors. In reverses there will be
no renegades. In success and glory—
which we confidently expect—there will
be no gradations of honor or desert.”
“Cuba la bad enough, but it Is not the
worst,” says the Baltimore Sun (Dem.),
The Philippine Islands have a more dead
ly climate, they are further from home,
and as it now appears the bushwhacking
natives promise to be troublesome. This
will require the constant presence of a
'large army. To reduce these people to
order will be a long and tedious task, and
to send our young men there to disease
and death for that purpose would’be an
other and not the least crime committed
in the name of freedom."
The Philadelphia Ledger (Ind.) says:
"Scarcely a day passes that some state
legislature does not adopt resolutions bp
posing the seating of a polygamist in the
Congress of the United States. The voice
of the country is lieing raised strongly
and with unanimous sentiment on this
subject."
A Hu 11 *n Telephone Bark.
The Echo de Paris relates an amusing
story of the loss of a canine pet bylonging
to a well-kn Own vaudeville comedienne
and its recognition and recovery per tele
phone. It was on the train for Paris. The
actress had jumped into the car at Chat
ou station to reach the city in time for the
night's performance. Suddenly a cry of
anguish was heard from her apartment.
“Dick! Where is Dick?' 1 Dick is a fasci
nating "bull,” the inseparable companion
of his mistress. In the hurry of departure
he had been left on the platform. "Poor
‘toutou,’ what will become of him?” ex
claimed the despairing persionnaire of the
vaudeville, with teats in her eyes. On
reaching Paris she told her trouble to the
station master. “Don’t be distressed, mad
ame: my colleague at Chatou must have
found your Dick. We'll telephone and ask
him. Hallo! Hallo! Have you seen a stray,
bulldog?” "Parfaitemet, he is beside me
now, crying like a baby.” “Is he really
there?" cries the comedienne. “Oh„ ask
your colleague to place the receiver to
Dick's ear. I am going to speak to him.
* * • Dick! Dickie! Dick! my darling,
do you hear me? It is I, your little ma
man!" And there at Chatou, wonderful
to relate, Dick pricks up his ears, raises
his muzzle and barks. * “He an
swers! He has recognized me! Don't
worry darling, I will come for you to
night. * * •” Flesh yaps of response
from Dick. “Yes, yes, on my return, my
love! * * *Au revoir, Dickie!” And
madame went on her way, “her eyes
suffused with tears but reassured."
Observed in Nesv fork.
A Cleveland doctor just returned from
New York brings home a very good story
about the nurses in one of the big hospitals
there, says the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The other day' the graduation class took
it into their heatjs to start out and have
a class picture taken in their uniforms.
So in due time all was in,tile ready and
they departed, some twenty strong. In
fact, there were so very many of them
that when they climbed aboard a car to go
downtown there were seats for only r about
half to be found. That did not suit the
young women a bit. They fussed and gab
bled together for a minute and then sud
denly one had a bright idea.. There were
a feW knowing whispers, a giggle or two,
and then one pretty blonde leaned far
over and asked audibly, “Oh, Mary, how
is that small-pox case getting on that
you took in this morning?”
'Pretty well," answered Mary wisely,
"only, of course, it. came to us very late.
It’s in its worst stages. How is that scar
let fever case that you are tending?”
By this time the other passengers were
all agog, and one fussy old man gave a
gasp of horror and wildly signalling the
conductor, flopped out of the car.
The other passengers squirmed and look
ed unhappy. On flowed the talk. Diph
theria, typhoid fever, measles, small-pox,
scarlet fever, and chicken-pox circulated
freely through the car, news of various
cases being bandied back and forth till
girls shook and strong men turned pale
at the direful stories.
One by one th passengers alighted. At
last it was not one by one—it was on a
general and wholesale plan that made the
innocent conductor stare and the naughty
nurses giggle.
At last their mission was accomplished
—the car was all their own. As each stray
passenger wandered in, he or she was in
dustriously scared out once more, and the
nurses reigned monarchs of all they sur
veyed during tlte whole of that downtown
trip.
Mr. Dingle}' anil Hi* Desk.
As usual, there has been in Congress a
rivalry among members for the desk left
vacant by some noted representative. Mr.
Boutelle has secured the seat of the late
Mr. Dingley, his state colleague. But here
is a story of another desk: A Maine cor
respondent, writing of the late Congress
man Dingley, who was editor of the Lewis
ton Journal, says he had not the remotest
appreciation of a joke, and could never
understand Speaker Reed on that account.
After Mr. Reed appointed him chairman
of the committee on ways anti means. Gov.
Dingley returned to Maine and to his pa
per at the close of the session. It was gen
erally understood in the office of the
Lewiston Journal that the congressman
was coming hack to take off his coat and
go to work; that in his judgment the time
had come for the doing of aggressive work
for the party, and that he proposed to be
at the front.
“We must find a desk for the congress
man,” said Frank 1,. Dingley, and then it
was that the idea of a joke On the chair
man of tile committee on ways and means
occurred to him, and a school desk was ob
tained and sefc over in one corner. It was
a little roll-top affair—a desk in miniature.
And whyn Gov. Dingley went to the
office for the first time he said: “Where
am I to sit?”
The staff escorted him to the little desk
and Mr. Dingley said: V'We concluded that
the chairman of the committee on ways
and means ought to have anew desrf, and
here it is.” ,
They thought he would see the joke, but
he didn't. Regarding it rather thought
fully, he said: "It looks small, but I sup
pose it’s all r:ght. Get me some paper,
please.”
They gave him a supply of paper, and he
sat down in a contented sort of way at the
little desk and went to work. All summer
long he sat there in his corner working
away, and produced hundreds of jelling
articles.
Tlie Dream-Ship.
When the world is fast asleep.
Along the midnight skies—
As though it were a wandering cloud—
The ghostly dream-ship flies.
An ange! stands at the dream-ship's
helm.
An angel stands at the prow,
And an angel stands at the dream-ship's
side
With a rue-*vreath on her brow.
The other angels, silver-crowned.
Pilot and helmsman are.
And the angel with the wreath of rue
Tosseth the dreams afar.
The dreams, they fall on rich and poor;
They fall on young and old;
And some are dreams of poverty,
And some are dreams of gold.
And some are dreams that thrill with
joy,
And some that melt to tears;
Some are dreams of the dawn of love,
And some of the old dead years.
On rich and poor alike they fall.
Alike on young and old,
Bringing to slumbering earth their Joys
And sorrows manifold.
The friendless youth in them shall do
The deeds of mighty men.
And drooping age shall feel the grace
Of buoyant youth again.
The king shall be a heggarman—
Tlie pauper be a king—
In that revenge of recompense
The dream-ship dreams do bring.
So ever downward float the dreams
That are for all and me.
And there is never mortal man
Can solve that mystery.
But ever onward in Its course
Along the haunted skies—
As though It were a cloud astray—
The ghostly dream-ship flies.
Two angels with the'r silver crowns
Pilot and helmsman ore.
And an angel with a wreath of rue
Tosseth the dreams afar.
—Eugene Field.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
—The Oregon House feels that it has
been insulted, and has appointed a com
mittee to find and bring before the bar of
the House for reprimand the authors of
two bills introduced, one for the protec
tion of angleworms, and the other to cre
ate the office of musical director at the
asylum for the insane.
—On Sept. 15 jpst a Bavarian at Bam
berg sent up a' small baiioon, to which
was attached hts card, with the request
that the Under of the balloon should let
him know where It touched the ground.
Three months later he got his card, with
a letter from the man who had found
the balloon in Sunderland, England.
—The husband's wedding ring in Ger
many is as sacred a possession as the
wife’s in England. The London Tele
graph’s- Berlin correspondent jells an
amusing story of a butcher who lost his.
His wife was inconsolable, and harbored
all sorts of suspicions. At last it turned
up In a sausage, having slipped from his
linger. Joy reigned once more in the
household at the discovery.
—A resolution introduced in the Arkan
sas House declaring that thereafter it
would be considered a reproach up
on the dignity of the House for
one member to ask leavb of ab
sence for another on the ground of
sickness, when In fact the absent member
was intoxicated, was regarded as a re
flection on the House, and was rejected.
Subsequently the resolution was expung
ed "from the record.
—lt must surely be with a shiver, says
the Westminster Gazette, that the alumni
of the older universities will hear that
there is a proposal to establish and en
dow at the new Birmingham University a
chair of Brewing and Malting! Birming
ham has Brnton-on-Trent within its
sphere of influence, and the idea of a
brewing chair has struck its citizens as
so good that already £22,(W0 has been raised
toward its realization.
—What is described as “a typical moun
tain wedding” took place near Batesville,
Va„ a few days ago. when Miss Estelle
Clemmons became Mrs. Ben Luthers.
About 100 guests were present. A rejected
suitor of Miss Clemmons was among the
guests, conspicuous by a broad band of
crepe worn on his arm. During the cere
mony the jilted man and his sympathizers
expressed their sense' of bereavement by
low, sorrowful moaning.
—ln London the other evening Violet
Frances Martin, the 6-year-old daughter
of a watchmaker, was left alone in the
kitchen at play with her doll. For the
time being the child was a mother, and
the doll her baby, and she seems to have
been pretending to dry the doll's tiny
clothes before the fire when they became
ignited. The flames caught her pinafore
and she was dreadfully burnt, dying in the
Great Northern Hospital.
—The Berlin correspondent of the Lon
don Morning Post states that a lady liv
ing in a Berlin- suburb has been the vic
tim of a most curious mishap. A couple
of days ago as she was walking along a
public thoroughfare a pair of sparrows
came flying toward her in hot chase of
one another. The foremost of the two
birds drove its beak with the full force of
its flight into the lady’s right eye, and, ac
cording to th& medical report, completely
destroyed the organ.
—The will of the late Baron Nathaniel
de Rothschild contained a bequest of £5,-
000 to a Herbert Wilson. A Liverpool man
of that name who once happened to do a
service to the Baron claims the bequest.
But the executors say that it was intended
for a Herbert Wilson of London. Apropos
of the Baron’s will, the Jewish Chronicle
estimates the value of its bequest to the
nation as £300,000. In addition to the other
art treasures that will pass into the pos
session of the British Museum, the testa
tor also bequeaths to that institution all
his illuminated missals and manuscripts.
—There was a startling occurrence at the
Empire Theater, Liverpool, rhe other night
during a performance given by Sandow,
the strong man. One of Sandow’s feats,
says the Westminster Gazette, consists in
carrying a piano with a player attached
on his back off the stage. By some means
he stumbled with his great load, and the
piano fell crashing to the stage. Harry
Lee, the player, who is get up to imitate
Paderewski, was thrown violently down,
sustaining injury to his head and face.
He was attended to by a doctor in the
audience, and will be affected for a few
days. Sandow was unhurt.
—A bill making the keeping of a crap
game a felony received 49 affirmative to
30 negative votes in the Tennessee House,
but failed because the affirmative vote
lacked one of being a constitutional ma
jority. Some novel ideas were advanced
during the debate. One member did not
like to see the white people engage in the
game, but he thought it was the negro's
inalienable right to “shoot craps,” and he
did not wish to lessen the colored broth
er's amusement. Another thought it
would be just as sensible to declare pro
gressive euchre a felony, and a third pro
tested that under the proposed law the
penitentiary accommodations would be in
sufficient.
—Bishop Potter has written a letter to
the editor of the Western Christian Advo
cate of Cincinnati, saying that his recent
remarks about saloons were not accurate
ly reparted. "I have never expressed any
opinion,” he declares, “as to the ‘dram
shop.’ In a recent address in behalf of
coffee houses, coffee wagons, coffee carts
and the like I stated that something an
swering to the saloon, i. e., place of inex
pensive recreation and refreshment, would
always be a necessity. I may add that
until it is provided the mischiefs of the
saloon, which nobody recognizes more
clearly than I, will continue. The saloon
may be driven to cover, but it cannot be
abolished. Something better, something
wholesome, harmless, undefiled and unde
filing must take its place and so expel
by substitution. Legislation has failed
to do this, and prohibiton has failed. De
nunciation has failed. It is a case for
Christian capital, wisely employed, as the
history of the Liverpool coffee houses has
shown.”
—The Graburn and Bianey Canadian pat
ent of the Graburn electrical thawing pro
cess has been sold by the inventor, Nel
son Graburn, of Montreal, to the Elec
trical Thawing Syndicate (Limited), 1 .on
don, England, for $35,000 and one-quarter
interest in the company. The patent is in
tended to be used, says the Electrical En-*
gineer, _ where mining operations are car
ried on during a large portion of the year
under considerable difficulties, owing to
the ground being frozen hard to a consid
erable depth. It provides for specially
constructed dynamos and electrodes, the
latter being placed against the walla of
the shaft, with a space of from live to
six feet of ground intervening, so that
wheii the current is turned on it has to
cross thb face of this space to complete
the circuit anil the ground contained there
in, forming a resistance to the motion of
the electricity, heat is generated and the
ground thawed. By the bonfire system
of thawing in a temperature of zero or
lower, it is stated that upward of 85 per
cent, of the heat generated is lost in the
atmosphere, whilst heat generated by the
above electrical process can be absolutely
controlled and applied in such a manner
as to utilize* its full force and effect. It
Is also claimed that by the electrical sys
tem it is possible to thaw out one foot of
frozen earth per hour, as against one foot
in twenty-four hours by the bonfire sys
i tern.
SAVE TOUR SKIM
How to Preserve, Purify and Bes u .
tify the Skin and Complexion.
The clearest, softest, whitest Bkin
from pimple, spot, or blemish, is ~r UT
by Cuticl-ra Soap. It prevents , llu “
blackheads, blotches, red, rough, and ■
Skin, and other facial blemishes, rash.., a ?
eruptions, because it prevents inflammation
and Clogging of the Pokes, the cause Jt ml,
complexional disfigurations.
A Black Event,
We have an attractive line of buck
Goods—every variety, plain and figured
in all weaves and styles. All the stand
ard goods are represented, as w. !
best of this year's novelties. We v . m
these goods to leave us, In order to have
more room for the spring stock, on 10
arrive.
We intend making the week t ];], , t
Event—the introduction of high class stock
at PRICES VERY BLACK LOWER
THAN THE USUAL.
48-inch Cheviots Serge 68c; cheap at 75.
46-inch Black Henrietta 68c; cheap at Sic
46-inch Black Henrietta 9Sc; cheap at
$1.25.
48-inch Black Granite Cloth, heavy j n
weight, for this week only S3c; cheap at
$1.25.
4S-!neh Covert Cloth. In brown, blue ard
tan, 68c; cheap at SI.OO.
40-inch Camel’s Hair Suitings, in blue,
brown and green, 38c; cheap at 50c.
TAFFETAS AT LOW FIGURES.
Good quality Taffetas at the same low
figures as other black goods.
Taffetas at 49c; cheap at 65c.
Black Figured Taffetas, large or small
figures. 68c; cjieap at SI.OO.
Black Figured Duchess, all silk, 75c;
cheap at sl.lO.
Black Figured Duchess 96c; cheap at $1.5)
Black Figured Duchess 49c; cheap at 75c.
SOME ARTISTIC CREATIONS
In Bureau and Sideboard Covers. Our
line of these Art Goods is superb, and you
can bd sure of finding just what you want.
A beffUtiful display of Bureau and Side
board Covers in Renaissance work just
received. Also a line of Table Covers at
prices within the reach of all.
SPRING SUIT TRIMMING.
New arrivals of this season’s designs in
Soutache and Fancy Braid, suitable for
trimming spring suits and at very low
prices.
All cars lead here. THIS IS THE
CENTER STOKE.
DANIEL HOGAN,
The corner Broughton and Barnard Sta
THE MARSHALL HOUSE,
Broughton and Drayton Sts.
Under new management. Thoroughly
renovated and refurnished. Electric lights
throughout. Hot and cold water on each
floor. Table cuisine unexcelled. Rates K
to $2.50. Cars pass the door.
BOYCE & CATHARINE,
Proprietors.
ifisii
Varnishes.
Enamel Paints.
Brushes.
Wall Paper.
Picture Moulding.
Savannah Building Supply
Company,
Congress and Drayton Streets.
r SCOTT & DAVIS,
IFfDI IB
And Fancy Grocers.
The bent lUe market afford* al
ways in stock.*
Personal attention given to all or
ders.
21 !> HENRY STREET, EAST.
PHONE 2200.
JOHN G. BUTLER
—DEALER 1N-
Paints, Oils and Glass. Sash Doors, B.inds
and Builders' Supplies, Plain and Decora
tive Wall Paper, Foreign and Domestic
Cements, Lime, Plaster and Hair hole
Agents for Abestlne Cold Water Paint.
20 Congress street, west, and 19 St. Julian
street, west.
J. D. WEED ft CO.
SAVANNAH, (4A.
ROOFING TIN, TABUED KOOFI'Q
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paint for metal roofs An the world.
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Ulcers in Mouth, Hair Falling? Write to" 11
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cases cured in 15 t 035 davs 10>page hook tro.
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end work, order your lithographed
printed stationery and blank book* £ru —
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