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INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
Meeting—Georgia Chapter No. 3, It.
A. M.
Special Notices—Green Grocery Opened,
William F. Rendantl Flower Seeds, Solo
mons & Ca; Syrup, Shearouse, Hutchin
son & Cos.; Coffee, S. L. Newton; Notice,
S. Martin; Western Meats Just Received,
M. S. Gardner; Stocks and Bonds for Sale,
F. C. Wylly; Ship Notices, Strachan &
CO.
Business Notices—Kennedy’s Biscuits,
Henry Solomon & Son.
The Best Cooking is Done on the Gas
Range—Mttlual Gas Light Company.
Financial—The Merchants’ National
Bank of Savannah.
Legal Notices—Citation From the Clerk
of the Court of Ordinary of Chatham
County; Applications to Sell Real Estate
of EHias B. Barstow, Deceased.
February Clearance Sale Commences To
day—M. S. Brown.
Steamship Schedules—French Line, Com
pagnie Generale Transatlantlque; Balti
more Steamship Company.
Proposals—For Combination Gas and
Electric Light Fixtures in Public Build
ing, Savannah, Gu.
Beef—Liebig’s Extract of Beef.
Dyes—Diamond Dyes.
Post urn Coffee— Postum Cereal Company.
Mineral Water—Hunyadi Janos.
Malt-Nutrine—Anheuser-Busch Associa
tion.
Medical—Cutieura Remedies; World’s
Dispensary Preparations; Erie Medical
Company; Hood's Pilis; Castoria; Dr.
David Kennedy's Favorite Remedy; Lydia
Pinkham’s Vegetable Pills; S. S. S.; Ayer’s
Cherry Pectoral; Munyon'e Remedies;
Brown's Bronchial Troches.
Cheap Column Advertisements—Help
Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Rent;
For Sale; Lost; Personal; Miscellaneous.
If the new Council keeps up Its present
gait, the city will not suffer Horn a dull
time.
Commissary General Eagan would make
a splendid patient for some nerve tonic
manufacturing concern.
The information that a derby hat trust
has been formed does not mean that any
one may now go to the store and get a
hat and have it charged.
The state of Kansas was thirty-eight
years old on last Sunday; nevertheless,
Kansas continues to conduct herself in a
childish fashion sometimes.
The postmaster at Chicago has given up
his plan to have the postofflee employes
adopt uniform clothes; but he will require
them to adopt Uniform courtesy.
The Courier-Journal has something to
say about "a lungless Populist In Southern
Kentucky.” Another case of "Hamlet”
without the melancholy prince.
Agonclllo, at all events, has sense enough
not to express in writing the opinion that
the President is a "poUtieastro,” which is
thore than Senor Dupuy DeLome had.
That death prophet of Peoria, 111., ought
to go down lo Washington, look over the
field, and then prophesy lor the ediflea
tion and satisfaction of numerous consiit
uencies in all parts of the country.
A Wilmington (Del.) dispatch says the
senatorial situation in that state siems to
have resolved itself into the proposition,
"Addicks or nobody.” Isn’t it possible
that Delaware will have both in the same
person?
An extensive famine prevails in Persia.
The people are clamoring for bread, and
noting is threatened. The scarcity of grain
in many of the provinces of Russia con
tinues to increase. In their emergencies,
the old world countries look to America
for bread.
One candidate for the California sena
torship is said to have spent $2(1,000 in
furthering his candidacy. That amount
equals the salary of a senator for four
years, or two-ihiids of the terra. Is the
candidate trying to purchase honor, or
naething else?
When the treaty shall have been ratified,
according to Senator Carter, we shall ask
the natives of the Philippines what they
are going to do about it. And if any of
them demur and kick, and say they do not
desire us to govern them, "we shall whip
them to death.” And that Is to be done In
the name of liberty, benevolence and
Christianity!
HE CHANGED HIS POLICY.
There has never lie in any doubt in the
minds of tho-e who have noticed the Pres
ident's utterances carefully respecting the
Philippines that he did not favor demand
ing all of the islands when the peace pro
tocol was drawn. It is not certain that
he would have insis *d on having the island
of Luzon if Spain had vigorously objected
to giving it up. The correspondence be
tween him and the peace commissioners
after they had arrived at Paris shows
that even then he was thinking only of in
sisting upon having the IslaDd of Luzon.
It ..was the representations made by the
commissioners that induced him to go to
the extent of demanding all of the islands.
Besides, he felt that in demanding them
he would be sustained by a great majority
of lhe people. He had visited the West,
and all of his references to the Philip
pines, particularly when he referred to
the necessity for keeping them, were
vigorously applauded. If he had
dhubted that public sentiment was in favor
of holding all of the Islands he never
would have permitted the peace commis
sioners to demand all of them.
It Is probable that lie guaged public
sentiment correctly when he decided that
it would be popular to hold all of the
Islands. There has been a marked change
In public sentiment, however, since then.
The people have studied the Philippine
question, and they cannot see where the
benefits are to come from to compensate
them for the lives they will have to sac
rifice and the money they will spend if it
is decided to retain permanent possession
of the islands. If the President had stuck
to his first Impression as lo what our
course should be with respect to the Phil
ippines our position there would be much
more satisfactory than It is.
It Is the understanding that the Presi
dent hesitated about sending the corre
spondence to the Senate, and would not
have done so. In all probability, if he had
not believed that to withhold it would tend
to make enemies for the treaty. It Is
true, of course, that the correspondence
was called for by those senators who are
opposing the treaty, but the withholding
of it might have Influenced some of its
lukewarm friends against it. If we had
taken only Luzon we would have
very little trouble with the Filipinos at
this time, though at some future time the
condition of affairs In the other islands
might have caused us trouble.
IMIF, II YtH.Il OWN VISE AND FIG
THEE.
There Is not a more delicious fruit than
the fig; not the over-sweet, preserved ar
ticle of the grocery stores, which tastes
as much like any other sweet thing as It
does like its natural self, but the delicate
delightful fruit fresh from the tree. There
are several varieties of the fig which thrive
well in this latitude, and there Is no better
place for a fig treev-or several of them If
there Is space enough, than in the house
garden or the back yard.
A cutting from an old fig tree placed in
the ground this month, and transplanted
next fall, if it has taken root, will bear
fruit In two or three years. In some cases
where the cutting has been well selected
and especial care has been taken with the
rooting and transplanting, the young tree
will bear the first year. In making cut
tings care should be taken to get branches
of new wood with three or four Inches of
old wood attached. Cuttings should be
placed in trenches, slightly sloping, in any
good soli, and covered well. There are a
number of fine fig trees in this city, and
the owners of them would no doubt give
cuttings for the asking. If rooted cut
tings should be desired, however, they
may be obtained from any nursery at very
moderate prices. The hardiest and most
prolific figs for this climate are the "Celes
tial,” or sugar fig, and the “Blue Genoa,”
or blue fig. There are several other vari
eties which do well, but these are the most
reliable, as they are likely to stand the
coldest winters we have. The fig is not
only a delicious fruit, but It is heaitiuu..
Every garden and yard in Savannah
should have one or more fig trees In it.
What has been said figs is true also
of the scuppernong grape. There is no dif
ficulty about getting layers, or young
vines, and they will thrive in any corner
of ground and stand any kind of weather.
The scuppernong could be grown with
pleasure ana profit in the place of much
of the useless stuff which is now planted
for ornament The foliage of the grape Is
beautiful from early spring until late fall.
NO FSB KICKING.
Some of the readers of the New York
Tribune feel very much aggrieved because
that paper prints the opinions of Mr.
Croker on public questions, national, state
and municipal. These kickers say that
Mr. Croker occupies no public position,
and therefore there is no reason why his
views should be regarded as being of spe
cial lmi>ortance.
The Tribune colls the attention of its
offended readers to the fact that Mr.
Croker is by nil odds the most powerful,
citizen of New York city, because he not
only controls the party which controls the
city, but the party which controls the city
is a very important factor in the National
Democracy. He is therefore a very big
political boss, and his opinions are worth
knowing. While he may not be the best
informed |>erson on national questions, it
is certain that he will have some influ
ence in shaping his party's policy on those
questions. He is a political boss of the
most pronounced type, and many have to
listen to what he has to say, even though
they haven't very much respect for his
views. The way the Tribune puts it is as
follows:
"A great many persons are, naturally
enough, exasperated by the knowledge
that a private citizen in name is an auto
crat in fact. But there Is no sense in pre
tending ignore a state of things which
is not less real becuuse il it anomalous.
So long as Mr. Croker is the cook and the
captain bold and the mate of the Nancy
brig, and the bosun tight and the midshlp
rnite and the crew of the captain’s gig, it
will be worth while to listen when he
spins a yarn.”
The Cubans are learning rapidly In
American manners. There is now a strike
of cane field laborers, and the ex-lnsur
gents are demanding a good deal more pay
than they expect to receive.
A great many newspapers profess that
they cannot understand how it was that
In Montana a Democrat was elected to
the Senate by Republican votes. Why,
m’t he a millionaire?
THE MORNING NEWS: WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1899.
THE H VH COMMISSION'S REPORT.
The NeV York Herald publishes what it
asserts is "a reliable forecast” of the flnd
irgs of the commission which Is investi
gating the conduct of the war with Spain.
The report i4 now being prepared. It may
be true that the Herald lias been suf
ficiently enterprising to get a forecast of
the report before it has been flnal.y acted
upon by the commission, but the chances
are that its article is made up of sur
mises, and deductions from utterances of
commissioners in private conversations. If
what the Herald says is correct, Gen.
Miles fares pretty badly at the hands of
the commission. It puts on him, to a
considerable extent, the responsibility for
the sickness which prevailed in some of
the home camps because he selected the
camps In which there was the most sick
ness, and he failed to report that bad
beef was being served to the army and
that It made the soldiers ill.
The commission does not find any foun
dation for the charges which have been
made against the Secretary of War, and
it gives the quartermaster general and the
ccmmissary general high praise for the
very efficient manner in which they have
conducted their respective departments.
The only officers criticised unfavorably are
Gen. Miles, Inspector General Brecken
ridge and Gen. Sternberg of the medical
department. The beef which was served
to the army Is pronounced to have been
all right—that In cans, as well as that
which was refrigerated. The only beef
which was treated with acids was a small
lot on one of the transports which sailed
from Tampa, and it was not a part of the
government stores. It was owned by a
private party and was put on the trans
port as an experiment.*
If the report is what the Herald says
it is it will cause a great deal of com
ment. It was supposed by a large part
of the public lhat the Secretary of War
would be quite severely criticised for the
selection of certain camps and for the lack
of supplies of one kind and another and
for the sickness which prevailed In the
camps. It seems, however, that he is com
pletely exhonerated. The forecast, wheth
er it is correct or not, will increase the
interest in the forthcoming report.
IMPORTANCE OF GOOD JCRIES.
In the despensation of justice and mercy,
which are due alike to the community and
to the defendant charged with crime, there
is no more important element in a trial
than the petit Jury. With his twelve peers
always rests the defendant’s character,
and with them, too, rests the protection
of the citizen from the fraud and malice
and passion of the crimipal. The neces
sity, therefore, of having juries composed
of men who are above the suspicion of
prejudice or politics, is by the thoughtful
mind readily recognized.
Many have been the favorable comments
of those whd have had occasion to come
into contact with the United States Court
for this district, upon the composition of
the juries there selected to hear and pass
.upon the cases brought before them.
There the jury box is carefully prepared,
and every man whose name is found upon
a slip within It is a man who has a rec
ognized standing in the community. From
that box the names are drawn just as they
come to hand, and in each Instance there
appears before the court men well quali
fied to pass upon any case that may be
brought before them, be It of civil or crim.
Inal nature. The Jury which was assem
bled yesterday to hear and pass upon the
charges of counterfeiting against the de
fendant Henley was a remarkable in
stance in point, but only one of many
which may be noted during a session of
the district court.
The court may well feel a pardonable
pride in having to aid it in the transac
tion of business such juries as are thus
secured. The result is assuredly a min
imum of reversals by appellate courts,
and, indeed, in Judge Emory Speer’s court,
extremely few of such instances can be
cited, either In cases where a refusal of
new trial followed a Jury’s verdict, or
where the decision ip a case has come
directly from the bench itself. This court
has been an important factor in teaching
to the community in which its Influence
has been exercised a true and proper re
spect for the law as it is found upon the
statute books, and with its teachings have
also come, in many instances where it has
not been before, a proper reverence for
the constitution under which every citizen
of the union lives and enjoys his free
dom.
Ohio, like South Carolina, has anew
law which provides that when a person
suffers death at the hands of a lynching
mob, the next of kin or heirs of the victim
may recover from the county pecuniary
damages in the sum of $5,000. The first
case under t*he new law in South Carolina
was tried a monlh or two ago, and the
verdict was In favor of the county. This
occasioned some rather tart criticisms
from the Northern and Western newspa
per press. The first case under the new
law in Ohio was tried a few days ago, and,
as in the South Carolina case, the verdict
was in favor of the county. We shall now
await with interest the comments of the
Northern and Western newspapers upon
this Ohio court and Jury. The lynching
upon which the Ohio suit was based will
be remembered as the Click Mitchell
lynching, In which the negro was taken
out and killed in the streets of the town of
Urbana, before an audience of 10,000 per
sons.
Pretty nearly all of the princes and po
tentates of Europe, Asia and South and
Central America keep their personal for
tunes on deposit with the Bank of Eng
land, with one result that when one of
them dies the British government receives
from the estate a neat sum of money.
There is In England An Inheritance tax,
and the tax is collected before the Bank of
England is permitted to hand over to the
heirs any sums which may have been In
its possession. The late Empress of Aus
tria’had a large fortune In the Bank of
England. Her heirs are now contending
lhat it Is not subject to English taxation,
since it was the property of a foreign sov
ereign; but the probabilities are that the
English tax gatherer will get his per cen
tage. just the same.
The New York legislature Is making a
fine record. It has been in session a
month, and has not done anything worth
talking about.
Patti did a nice thing for her new hus
band, when on their Wedding day she set
tled an income of $15,000 a year on him.
Up to that time, It is said, his income had
tieen only $750 a year. But, being the
husband of the most famous singer in the
world, he will have to live up to the part,
and madame has very graciously loosed
her purse strings to pay the eoet.
“If Aguinaldo is a savage, playing with
a golden whistle, he should be suppressed,
said a New York clergyman In a sermon
the other day. But suppose the whistle
Is of silver, and that he Is using It for
business purposes—to cal! his followers
together to take a stand for liberty and
the right of self-government—ought he
still to be suppressed?
A Porto Rico letter says that the people
of the island “are growing very tired of
military rule,” and that they “earnestly
wish for a civil government.” The desire
Is laudable; still the Porto Ricans have
hardly been going to school to Uncle Sam
long enough yet to receive a diploma for
proficiency in the art of self-government.
PERSONAL.
—The sudden death of ex-A(torney Gen
eral Garland recalls the fact that about
two months ago he said to ex-Judge
Henry W. Scott, in the United States Su
preme Court: “It has been over forty
years since I argued my first case. Noth
ing would please me better when my time
comes to die than to he stricken right
here, in this court room, in the midst of an
argument. That would be a fitting cli
max to my career."
—When the Prince of Wales first bought
Sandringham it had on it only one church
in anything like good repair—the church
which stands within the park gates and
which the pious hands of the Frincess
have done to much to adorn. One by one
the little group of other village churches
have been restored, last of all that of
Shernbourne, which the Prince and Prin
cess, together with the Duke and Duchess
of York, attended, at the reopening ser
vice, the other day. From first to last
the Prince has spent over £5.000 on th
improvement of the churches on his Nor
folk estate.
—The elder Sothern once saw a notice in
country Inn that a convention of clergy
men was to meet there the next day.' Each
clergyman upon arrival received a note
signed with the landlord's name, request
ing him to say grace at dinner, the signal
to be a bell rung in the office. Sothern had
noticed that the landlord sounded a bell
every day as the guests seated themselves
for dinner. Everything went off to Soth
ern’s complete satisfaction. The bell
rang and up rose every clergyman and
began grace, then stopped, looking ask
ance at each other. Some began again,
some sat down and got up again. The
scene for some minutes was one of con
fused bobbing up and down, with mu;-
terings. The landlord stared in astonish
ment, and Sothern put on a look of polite
anxiety and surprise. He afterward ex
pressed sympathy with the landlord in his
anger, but left the inn that day.
BRIGHT BITS.
—Grimson—“What Is the matter with
Flubsey? I never heard a man talk as fast
as he does.”
Hapley—“Yes, he "has begun to take box
ing lessons.”—Bq*in Transcript.
—Pretty Strong—’’Then I told him what
I thought of him.”
“In good plain language, I presume?"
“Well, yes. In fact some of my expres
ions were positivery military.”—lndianap
olis Journal.
—The Place for Him.—First Manager—
" Why did you advise that fellow to go Into
a stock company? He is no actor.”
Second Manager—“ Can’t act a bit more
than a cow. That’s the reason I told him
to go to a stock company.”—Detroit Free
Press.
—Ethel—“Why, what’s the matter, Ger
trude?’ ’
Gertrude—"Oh, nothing. Only Jack and
I had a quarrel the other day, and I wrote
and told him never to dare to speak or
write to me again—and the wretch hasn’t
even had the decency to answer my letter."
—Punch .
—Apprehensive.—“l most strenuously ob
ject," said Senator Sorghum, "to the insin
uation that I ever bought my seat in the
Senate."
"It is rather embarrassing.”
"I should say so. A lot of fellows who
would stand by me on general principles
wifi hear about it. And then maybe they
won't vote for me unless I pay ’em.”—
Washington Star.
Cl HUE NT COMMENT,
The Boston Herald (Ind.) says; “Charges
of bribery are openly made in the states
of Montana and California in the election
of senators. It may be that if senators
are elected form those states both will he
expelled from the Senate- because of this.
The on© is likely to be a Democrat and
she other a Republican, so that dishonors
wiil be equal between parties if this course
Is taken. There are precedents for such
action. Two senators have been sent home
from the state ot Kansas on the ground
lhat their seats were obtained by bribing
members of the legislature. It is a sin
gular fact that. In the only other state in
which this has been attempted in the pres
ent genratlon, the state of Ohio, there has
also been two instances of appeals to un
seat senators on this ground, with the dif
ference, that the first one was not suc
cessful, and the second is not likely to be.
But a clear case of bribery has been visited
by expulsion from the Senate, and it may
he again, as it would seem it clearly ought
to be."
The effort lhat is being made In the
Pennsylvania legislature to change the
Jury law in Ihe interest of Senator Quay'
leads the Philadelphia Press (Rep.) to say:
It may yet occur to Mr. Quay to ask the
legislature to pass an act authorizing Gov.
Stone to dispose of the criminal charges
against him.” Along the same line the
Memphis Commercial-Appeal (Dem.) says:
"Quay’s latest evidence of innocence is
embodied in an attempt to change the jury
system of Pennsylvania so as to make it
impossible to 6et a Jury that is honest.”
The Louisville Courier Journal (Dem.)
thinks It has discovered why Mr. Thomas
E. Watson wrote a history of France. It
says: "One of Tom Watson's objects in
writing a book about France seems to have
been to eulogize John Law as a great
financier. And yet many of our esteemed
contemporaries which supported Watson
for the vice presidency in 1896 could not
say savage enough things alxiut the
Courier-Journal because it suggested that
Law was ihe prototype of financiers of
the Tom Watson school.
The Pittsburg Dispatch (Rep.) says: “For
the crime of Agonclllo in pleading that his
people be permitted to know what is to be
done with them, and in' asking that they
be given the rights which this country pro
claimed to the world to be inherent to man
kind, the imperial contingent replies
through Its chief organ at the capital with
this amusing and convincing argument:
“So Mr. Agonclllo—Scat!”
A Lodjgeroom Story.
About the.best lodge room story that has
appeared in the papers for a long time Is
told by the Paris Kentuekian-Cltteen.
That paper says:
“An amusing incident happened at the
Masonic lodge in this city on December
27. and it has just leaked out. Tuesday is
the regular meeting night of the A. O. V.
W.'s, and \V. G. Swearingen, who had
only attended two meetings of his lodge
since his initiation, concluded to attend
on the 27th. At 1 o’clock he was on hand,
and a few minutes after the lodge was
called to order. He noticed that the
brothers ail put on white aprons, and he
put on one, too. He didn't remember ever
seeing this done in his lodge before, but
as he had not attended for some time
concluded that it was something new. The
lodge was declared open for business, and,
when the presiding officer asked Brother
Wallace Mitchell if all present were en
titled to remain, he said they were. Busi
ness proceeded, the election of effieers
took place Brother Swearingen voted, and
the meeting fiinaliy adjourned. Walking
down street Brother Swearingen met
Brother William Schrote and told him
about attending a meeting of the Work
men. Brother Schrote said he was mis
taken; that there had been no meeting
of that lodge. Brother Swearingen was
willing to back up his words with a $2 bet,
which was readily accepted, and when
Brother Schrote toll} Brother Swearingen
that the Workmen had given up the lodge
room for the night to the Masons on ac
count of its being St. John's day Brother
Swearingen was shocked, and was willing
to bet that he was the only man that
ever attended a Masonic meeting before
he had been initiated.”
Said Grace by I.ot,
"My wife and I agree on everything but
religion,” said §mith the other day, ac
cording to the New York Sun. “I don't
mean io say. that we quarrel over that,
for we do Jdt. My folks were strict Meth
odists, and I was brought up along the
lines of that, faith, and have never felt
like adopting anew one. On the other
hand, my wife's folks were Baptists, and
my wife was brought up clinging to that
religious rock,
"When we were married we agreed to
allow each other’s religious beliefs to con
tinue as they had been, the resuit being
that we have alternated our attendance
between the two denominations. The other
day, while I was on my way home for
the evening, I chanced to meet my minis
ter. I gave him a cordial invitation to go
homo with me and have dinner, an invita
tion that he accepted with pleasure.
"Now, it chanced that my wife's minis
ter had been paying a late afternoon visit
at my house, and my wife had asked him
to stay and take dinner, when he would
have a chance to meet me. He accepted,
and when we arrived we found him in the
drawing room with my wife. I saw at
once that my wife was uneasy about some
thing, but it didn't strike me what the
matter was until we were taking our seats
at the dinner table and I noticed my wife
biting her lips. Then it dawned uix>n me
that she was unable to solve the problem
of asking one of the min sters to say grace
without offending the other.
“There was an awkward pause for a mo
ment, and then my little boy, who is go
ing on 6, grasped the situation, and. half
rising in his chair, he moved h.s Anger
rapidly around the table, reciting at the
same time that childish jingle used by
children in counting out and going like
this:
"Eny meiie miny mo,
Catch a nigger by the toe.
"He ended by pointing his Anger at the
minister sitting across the table and
shouted:
“ ‘You’re it!’
“The reverend gentleman accepted the
decision and said grace, but it lacked the
solemnity usually given to it.”
Egregion* Errors.
The following oddities, according to the
London Telegraph, among many others
reached a Vienna editorial office in 1898:
"The post-mortem examination showed
that the unfortunate girl was a teacher's
daughter.”
"When the house-maid entered the bed
room at the usual hour she found her mas
ter already a corpse. Soon afterward he
withdrew altogether from the political
arena.”
“The gas lamps, which at this time were
not yet lighted, made the streets appear
still darker.”
"Death trod with rough hand this tender
blossom.”
"Upon the grave stood a cross rusted by
the tooth of time.”
"The laurel wreath upon the head of Mr.
Reimers has hit the right nail upon the
head.”
“The new political current failed to take
root in this district.”
"The happy moment is not always seized
to grasp the wheel of Time by the fore
lock.”
"Near the child lay an old man stand
ing liy the edge of the grave.”
"In this question the steps of the gov
ernment go hand in hand with the manu
facturers.”
"The hinges on which this affair turns
are too transparent.”
"When the doctor arrived he found the
platform covered with blood—the passen
ger had been bruised on the forehead.”
"Grunenthal was bom at Schladen in
1853, and up to this time had been un
known to the police.”
"Am and tears and sobs the coffin was low
ered. The priest had opened an umbrella.”
"The hail divided itse.f into two par
ties.”
"Cupid's arrow flew from one end of the
hall to the other, and lodge in the heart
of a visitor, the butcher's apprentice,
Franz Spath. lodging at Emanuel Schwarz,
No. 20 Johanna street.”
"So he hurried away, the cowardly mur
derer. with Cain's mark upon his brow,
pursued by the Eumenides and two police
constables.”
”11 is a unique specimen, of which an
example Is to be seen at the exhibition,”
Ships at Sea.
Clara W. Williams, in the Boston Tran
script.
Oh. many ships have I at sea
That sailed away long years ago.
Some day they're coming hack lo me,
But when and how I cannot know.’
Sometimes I wander on the shore.
And watch the far horizon dim,
Where vanished in those days of yore,
My argosies so fleet and trim.
I scan with eager eyes the waves
That danee and sparkle in the light;
A vision fair my fond heart craves,
Alas, no sail is yet In eight!
Ofttlmes I And upon the sand
A broken plank, a shattered spar,
A bent and rusty iron hand—
Oh, voiceless tale of wrecks afar.
Then anxious fears crowd in my breast.
And veil the sunshine In the sky.
Shall mu's my good ships end their quest?
Shall this their fate be by-and-by?
O friends with ships far out at sea.
That sailed away so long ago,
Some day they're coming back to thee,
But when and how we may not know.
Perchance with sail all rent and soiled,
Battered and bruised thy ships may be,
Of beauty and grace they may be de
spoiled,
Heavy and slow they may come to thee.
But come they morning, noon or night,
With flying colors or broken mast,
Our hearts will cry with a thrlil of delight,
"Thank God that our ships have come at
lastl”
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
—Reforma in the electoral system of Ja
pan fix the property qualifications at a
very small sum afd Ax the minimum age
for candidates at 30 years. There is some
discussion as to the methods of voting. In
one bill it Is provided that each voter may
hand in a signed ballot for each candidate.
In Tokio, which would have sixteen rep
resentatives under the new system, and
would, at the same time, be one electoral
district, every franchise holder would cast
sixteen ballots. There Is no provision for
minority representation.
—Senator Mark Hanna wears as a
watch charm a gold nugget which if sold
at assay office appraisement would afford
him money enough to live at the Arling
ton one week at least, says the New York
Wor.d’s Washington correspondence. It
is a present from a group of admiring
friends who called at his residence in
Cleveland a few years ago. Strangely
enough, the gift came from some church
folk of the Methodist persuasion. The nug
ge< is about the size of a hickory nut and
is one of the largest taken from the Klon
dike country.
—A country summer home for Chicago
school teachers is expected to be a cer
tainty before the next summer vacation,
sufficient financial encouragement having
been received to warrant the choosing of a
suitable site. That has been found near
Berlin, Wis., where a farm of 100 acres,
with a large colonial house, can be bought
for $40,000. A railroad -company, whose
line runs near the farm, has agreed to
give SIO,OOO, and the town of Berlin, in
consideration of the expected local benefit
from the home, will give SIO,OOO more.
—The investigation being made into the
conduct of the Kensington Museum has
shown, among other things, that the au
thorities were not above manufacturing
false antiques. One of the staff is said
to have concocted from genuine old panels
a Vernish-Martin cabinet, for which the
museum paid nearly $3,000. A chair bought
at the Hamilton palace sale, and said to
have belonged lo Cardinal Wolsey, has
been proved to be of the last century and
to have been made in Ceylon. And there
are imitation Delia Robbias, and modern
antique agate cups which have been
bought for ten times their value.
—The Baltimore News says: "Picking
around through the papers of the Eastern
Shore reveals, among other things of in
terest, that Snow Hill has an Innshore
street, Molar Harris is a Cambridge boy,
Mr. Polight is a Federalsburg citizen, Otto
Koenrumphf lives near Greensborough,
Jake Kiker is a citizen of Worton, Cecil
county has a Hogan’s Alley. Roaring Point
is in Wicomico, for many years Mrs.
Mary Sclloway was sexton of Emanuel
Church, in Chesterville, Elkton has a Par
adise Alley. Kent County people pay $2
apiece for polecats. Ape's Creek is in Som
erset, and Caroline county boasts a Pine
town."
—Two curious autograph letters are for
sale in London. One of Campbell's (18U)
contains this: "I hate Napoleon even as
the very devil, but when I think proper to
abase him I will do it in original language
and noi for hire.” The other is written
by Lamb. It must be about some contri
bution to a magazine. Lamb writes: "I
had 20 guineas a sheet from the London;
and what I did for them was more worth
that sum than anything. J am afraid. I
can now produce, would be worth the less
er sum. I used up all my best thoughts
in that publication, and I do not like to go
on writing worse and worse, and feeling
that I do so.”
—lt is not unusual to find cats that take
pleasure in walking up and down the key
boards of pianos, often causing fright to
timid folks at night, says a Wilmington
(Del.) correspondent of the New York Sun.
There seems to be some fascination for
the eats either in the notes of the piano
or in the thrills sent through the cats
by the vibration of the wires. Mrs. H. T.
Price of this city has a cat that does not
follow the usual way of enjoying the
piano. It does not climb upon *the key
board, but simply squats on the piano
stool and strikes the keys with its front
paws. It taught itself the trick, and at
every opportunity makes music for itself.
It has not yet attempted to sing, but it is
young yet and may try vocal music later.
—The optional dispensary bill passed the
Alabama Senate a few days ago. It per
mits counties to go into the business of
selling liquor under certain conditions. The
principal provisions of the bill are sum
marized as follows: 1. No liquor is allow
ed to bo drunk on the premises on which
it is sold. 2. Liquor cannot be sold be
tween the hours of 9 p. m. of one day and
6 a. m. of the next day. 3. A man can
make only one purchase in one day. 4.
Liquor cannot be sold in quantities less
than half a pint. 5. The dispenser, or the
man who sells, receives a salary which is
independent of the amount of his sales.
As he makes no profit by increasing his
business, he has no temptation to solicit
trade, sell to minors or keep open on Sun
day. The bill is favored by prohibitionists,
who, finding that the blind tigers in pro
hibition counties are not suppressed, hope
that by the dispensary law some relief
from unsatisfactory conditions may be
obtained. The dispensary law is looked
upon as the less of two evils.
—Dr. Alfred Russell Wallace says in
the London Chronicle that tropical re
gions, as a whole, are more conducive
to health than the temperate regions. He
attributes his own long-continued good
health (and he is now 75) to twelve years’
residence in the tropics when he was a
young man, and threatened with lung dis
ease. The pure, warm air restored him
to a permanently sound condition. He
says European soldiers in India have bet
ter health than the sedentary native
classes. British soldiers in the Soudan
stand up to the work; thousands of Aus
tralian gold miners endure intense heat,
and Hollanders have flourished for gener
ations in the Dutch colonies. He be
lieves the region on each side of the equa
tor for a thousand miles to be "the most
healthy and the most enjoyable abode for
man, where with the least labor he can
obtain the greatest amount of necessaries,
the comforts and the luxuries of life, and
can at the same time develop and cultivate
his higher nature.” But work, he adds,
is necessary to health there, as elsewhere.
—The use of the diamond saw for cut
ting stone is facilitating the erection of
the buildings for the exposition of 1900 at
Paris, says the Boston Transcript. This
new circular saw is due to Felix From
holt, a Parisian engineer. The diamonds
which form the cutting teeth of the saw
are common crystals, worth about 10 shill
ings a carat, and they are fixed in a
steel disk over six feet In diameter, which
is mounted on a spindle and revolved by
steam power like an ordinary circular saw.
For sawing hard stones there are 200 dia
monds in the cutting edge, and the speed
is 300 turns a minute. It advances into the
stone about a foot in that time. For soft
siones the teeth are of steel, with dia
monds at intervals of every five teeth,
and at a speed of twelve turns a minute
the saw advances,about a yard in that
time. The new saw has been at work In
the workshops of the Champs Elysees for
several months and has given every satis
faction. It cuts and dresses the stone
on all sides and gives It sharp outlines.
Moreover, it does so at one-eighth to one
tenth the cost of hand labor. A saw of
this kind with an alternative movement,
sawing stones four to six feet high, is
to be set up. Evidently this new imple
ment has a future before it and may be
recommended to the attention of stone
cutters In this country, especially the
.granite workers of Scotland.
LITTLEBABYS
SCALY BLEEDING SORES
No Rest Day or Night. Suffering!
yond Description. Dwindled to a
Skeleton. All Thought would Die.
Mother Reads of Wonderful Cure by
CUTICURA. Father Goes 5 Miles to
Get It. Instant and Grateful Rslief.
Complete Cnre in Nine Weeks, and
Not a Sign Deft to Tell of m§
Awful Sufferings.
My baby had a terrible breaking out all ore*
his face and head, extending half way down his
back, while his arm became one solid, ecaly
bleeding sore. A physician gave me a prescript
tion which I used, but he kept getting worse
and suffered beyond description. The pain be*
came so intense that he had to be pm
opiates. We could get no rest, night or day h 9
dwindled down to a mere skeleton. Everybody
who saw him said he would surely die. As a
last resort a trip to tho country was euggwted
that the change of air might do hirp good.
soon as my mother saw the child she got a copy
of an Atlanta paper, in which there was an ac
count of a wonderful cure Cuticura Remedies
had wrought on a two-year old child. My father
started ta the nearest drug store, which ,*a five
miles, and purchased Ccticuba (ointment), Cn
ticura Soap, and Ccticura Resolvert. We
applied as per directions putting plenty of the
Cuticura on his head, face, arm, and back.
The child slept for over two hours that night,
improved daily, and in nine weeks from the time
he started on the Cuticura Remedies we fere
able to discontinue their use , and not § sign jj
left to tell of his awful sufferings.
Mrs. ROBERTA DAVIS,
Aug. 29,1898. Bouth A tints, Ga,
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itching, burning, bleeding, scaly, pimply, sad crusted
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