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UiDEX TO HEW ADVERTISEMENTS!
Meetings—Georgia Chapter No. 3, R. A.
M. ; Lafayette McLawa Camp 596, U. C. V.
Special Notices—Plasterers’ and Masons'
Supplies, Savannah Building Supply Cottv
pany; Men's Suits, Leopold Adler; State
and County Taxes, 1899.
Business Notices—La Carolita Cigars.
Railroad Schedule—Georgia and Alabama
Railway.
Shoes—Humanlc Shoes, Joseph McGov
ern.
Gas Stoves—Mutual Gas Light Company.
Auction Sale—Closing Out Sale of Jewel
ry, Diamonds, Etc., of E. F. Fegeas, by J.
McLaughlin & Son.
Amusements—" The Commodore" at Mat
inee and "Alabama” at Theater To-night;
James K. Hackett at Theater Matinee and
Night, Nov. 18.
Financial—Austin R. Myres, 60 Broad
way, New York City.
Postum Coffee—Postum Cereal Company.
Beers—Anheuser-Busch Brewing Associ
ation.
Sauce—Lea & Perrins’ Worcestershire
Sauce.
Beef—Liebigs Extract of Beef.
Mineral Water—Hunyadi Janos.
Medical—R. R. R.; Lydia Pinkham's
Vegetable Pills; Munyon's Liver Curs;
Pr. Hathaway Company; Warner's Safe
Cure. 1 |
Cheap Column Advertisements—Help
Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Rent;
For Sale; Lost; Personal; Miscellaneous.
They have suspended the voting In
Kentucky, but the counting goes on with
unabated vigor.
The cruiser Charleston is gone, but the
will be remembered as having added Guam
to the glorious galaxy of our stars.
A Manila cable says that a great many
of Aguinaldo's followers have the idea
that they are still lighting the Spaniards.
If this is true, Aguinaldo has evidently
been more successful with his censorship
than Gen. Otis.
At its approaching session Congress will
be asked to appropriate money for bring
ing to the United States from Paris the
body of John Paul Jones, the naval hero
of the War for Independence. The body
is now interred In a secluded and neg
lected corner of Paris.
Thirty factory girls in a Connecticut
town went on strike because the thirty
first girl of the factory's force was per
mitted to eat llmburger cheese with her
lunch. A few days ago the matter was
settled in the strikers' favor and the
cheese was barred from the factory.
The New York Journal, which has here
tofore been especially friendly to Mr. Bry
an, gives publicity to the statement that
he has amassed a fortune of $250,000 since
1896. A somewhat similar story was afloat
not long ago, but was exploded by the
publication of Mr. Bryan's tax returns,
■which showed that his total personal be
longings amounted to something like $2,-
EOO, including a $5 sewing machine and a
S2O piano.
The Lilley Manufacturing Company, of
Chester, Pa., which has been operating a
textile mill at that place, has closed down
Its works. When asked the reason, John
Lilley, the head of the company, said that
he did not care to place new machinery
In the mill, and it was necessary to put
in new machinery if he was lo compete
with mills of the South on the same line
of goods. Mr. Lilley ought to come South
and put up a mill with new machinery,
and thus be in a position to make profits
for years to come.
The story which Father Matthews tells
of the capture of those two English regi
nvents at Nicholson's Nek by the Boers
does not add to the lustre of the British
arms. To judge from his story. which
emits a statement of the strength of tie
Boer forces and other essential detai.s It
would appear that the Britishers were
captured by an inferior force, owing to the
fact that one or more of the British offl
. cers had lost hts head and made a fatal
Iblunder In raising a white flag. However
may appear from a pro-British point of
view, it was a brilliant achievement from
the Boer standpoint, and the sturdy
Dutch farmers deserve credit for it.
THE MONEY QUESTION.
On the money question, some of the Re
publican lenders are bold and some are
timid. Just now the bold ones are Insist
ing that at the coming session of Congress
a law shall be enacted establishing the
gold standard. It is claimed by pome of
the Republicans that there is no need of
such a law, that the country, being on a
gold basis, will remain there without any
further legislation.
Still, there is a feeling in the public
mind that the gold standard is not as
sa. tty established as It might he, and there
is a demand foe gold standard legisla
tion. It is pointed out that lowa
was carried by a large majority in the
recent elections on a gold standard plat
form, and that in other states in which
the Republicans were victorious it was
distinctly understood that the Republican
party was committed to the gold stand
ard.
Congress is Republican in both branches,
and there will be a gold standard bill in
troduced very soon after it meets, but
there is good reason to doubt that the bill
will be passed, although the Republicans
have virtually promised to pass a bill of
that kind. They are afraid that the coun
try is not ready for a clear-cut enact
ment in favor of the gold standard, and
that if it is not, they might lose the elec
tion next year.
If Congress dcos not pass a gold stand
ard bill at the approaching session it
is probable that the Republican party will
not make a gold standard declaration in
its next national platform. The timid
Republicans will dictate, in all probabil
ity, the. policy of the party on the money
question.
It is doubtful if the Republicans will
ever have a more favorable opportunity
to establish by law the gold standard
than at present. The country is In a
prosperous condition. The prices of pro
ducts are high and there is a great quan
tity of gold In tlie country. The amount
is said to be more than a billion
of dollars. The indications are that the
present period of prosperity will continue
for quite a long time. The timid Re
publicans, however, point out that if a bill
establishing the gold standard should be
passed, and lower prices and hard times
should come before the end of the cam
paign next year, there would be a great
change of sentiment on the money ques
tion, and the Republican party would be
swept out of power.
It is safe to predict, therefore, that
while there will be a great deal of talk
about settling the money question by a
law establishing the gold standard, no
such law will be enacted. And there are
Republicans who look at the matter from
the standpoint of practical politics. They
say that If all fear of the country’s going
on a silver basis were removed Demo
crats who voted against Mr. Bryan in 1896
would vote for him In 1900.
COMBINING THE SHIPYARDS.
The President of the Cramp Shipbuilding
Company of Philadelphia does not talk
very enthusiastically about the effort of
promoters to combine all the shipyards of
the country under one management. He
says that every once in a while some such
proposition is made to the company of
which he is President, and that the work
of forming a combination, moves along
very well until a snag is struck, and thfn
the promoters find themselves out of a job.
He says, however, that the Cramps have
been asked to put a price on their plant,
and, in his talk about the matter, said
either that they had done so or would do
so. But he does not appear to te very
enthusiastic about the trust project. He
laughs at the idea that the combination
would be able to squeeze the government,
that is, make it pay any price it liked for
warships. The government, he says,
knows the prices it ought to pay for ves
sels for the navy, and if it Were asked to
pay more than a fair price it would not
give out contracts.
But how about others who want ships,
would not they have to pay such prices as
the trust saw fit to ask? Under the nav
igation laws vessels built abroad cannot
have American registry. All coasting ves
sels would have to bo built in Amer
ican shipyards, and also all other
vessels carrying the American flag. A
combination, or trust, therefore could af
ford to pay for the shipbuilding plants a
great deal more than they are worth. It
would make dividends for the trust stock
holders by putting up the prices of vessels.
Vt'e want more shipyards, not a trust
controlling all the shipbuilding plants of
the country. And the sooner we have
free trade in shipbuilding the sooner we
shall have more shipyards. There is no
reason why ships cannot be built at as low
a price in this country as in any other. If
we had wise navigation laws we would
now be building ships for other countries
as well as for ourselves, and it would not
be long before our commerce would be car
ried in American ships.
EVIDENCES OF GOOD BUSINESS.
Yesterday we published a statement
showing Savannah's exports for October
of this year and last, and it appears thai
those for the October just passed were
$1,655,387 greater than those for the same
month of last year.
This is a very gratifying showing, es
pecially as the cotton receipts this year,
thus far, are a great deal behind those of
last year, owing to a short crop, the larger
takings of the mills in the Interior and the
holding back of cotton in the belief that
the price would advance still further. It
is probable, however, that the l#tter price
which cotton has brought this year about
makes up for the smaller receipts.
Savannah’s commerce is increasing all
the time, but her business men roust be on
the alert to hold what she had and to in
crease it. Ports all along the coast,
above and below her, are making every
possible effort to get her business. Her
railroads must be encouraged and her
channel to the sea must be deepened to
twenty-eight feet. The movement for the
twenty-eight-foot channel should be urged
at the session of Congress soon to begin.
There must be vigilance and unremitting
effort in order to secure commercial suc
cess.
'Scratch a Russian and find a Tartar,’’
says an old saw. Japan would not mind
if the Tartars found were of the fame
sort that she ran up against at Yalu and
clesewhere some few years ago.
THE MORNING NEWS: WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1890.
THE WARS AND OCEAN RATES.
Those who are interested in transporta
tion rates to foreign countries, an 1 who
have recently se* n an advance in Ire gilt
charges, would not be in the least surpris
ed if the raies cn toth general cargo and
passengers should go h gher during the
next twelve months. Asa matter of fact
the probabilities are in favor of increas I
rales, and a scarcity of room under the
best possltde circumstances. The large
fleets of steamships withdrawn from com
merce carrying by both the United States
and Great Britain for the purposes of t"e
wars in the Philippines and S ,uth Africa
are being serfousfy missed; and the time
Is not yet in sigh when they <an te* its
tored to their former occupa lcn. Mean
time (he present need of shippers for ton
nage Is urgent anti persist nt. The ship
yards are said to le working over-time in
an effort to turn out new vessels to supply
the deficiency of carrying capacity; but It
takes time to build one of the great
freight ships of modern times.
The United States have at present in
their transport service to and from the
Philippines some forty-seven large steam
ers, which were formerly commerce car
riers. The British government has un let
charter for the South African military
transportation service HO equally great
commeroe carriers, with an option upon
still others which may be made effective nt
any time. Thus we se‘ already not less
than 157 great vessels diverted from the
trailing service lo the military serv.ee. The
withdrawal of this immense amount of
tonnage from commerce carrying, espe
cially during a rush seas n, could not have
other effect than to sent rates up. There
is no reason to expect that these vessels
will be returned to their cus omary trade
next year. They could hardly do so if
the ends of the wars were already in sight,
which is not the case. And then there is
the Paris Exposition, that is lo lie held
next year. That will make the Transat
lantic traffic still heavier, it is true that
none of the great Atlantic ocean grey
hounds is now engaged in military eariy-
Ing, and that other line:s are expected lo
be in service before the opening of ihe
exposition; still, it is probable that the ex
tra freighting which they wifi be called
upon lo do will retard the rapidity of their
movements and thus lower their ability to
land a certain number of passengers with
in a given lime. It is reported that en
gagements for both freight and passenger
transportation by the leading companies
have been made long in advance, and that
still other contracts are clamoring for ac
ceptance. Under the circumstances, there
fore, it looks as if there would be high
ocean transportation rates next year, with
all of the business that the shipping in
commission can possibly take care of.
HANNA WILL NOT HE DISTURBED.
The report has been widely circulated!
that it is the intention of the President to
get rid of Senator Hanna, as chairman of
the Republican nat onal committee, on the
ground that he is unpopular in his own
stale, having failed to carry his own coun
ty in the recent election, and also because
he Is not liked by many of the Republican
leaders. Another charge that is brought
against him is that he did his party great
harm in Ohio during (he recent campaign
by his open advocacy of trusts.
It is safe to say that there is very little
foundation to this report. Senator Hanna
is as close to the President as he ever was.
The President's political fortunes are
bound up with those of the Senator. It
is pretty certain that the Senator is un
popular with a faction of Ihe Ohio poli ic
ians, and it may be that the Republican
senators are not particularly partial to
him because of the fact that he has so
much influence with the President in the
matter of appointments, but notwiths and
lng nil of these objections Senator Hanna
is not going to retire from politics until it
suits his purpose to do so.
It is true that in (he Ohio campaign he
said a good many things favorable to
trusts. But a second thought will likely
leave the impression that there was po
litical shrewdness, to a certain extent, in
doing so. It takes money to run a political
campaign, particularly a national cam
paign. The trusts will likely stand by the
party that seems (o be the most friendly
lo them. They will not only stand by it,
but they will contribute freely of their
wealth to help it carry the election. It ‘s
not improbable that Senator Hanna in fa
voring trusts within certain limits is lay
ing the foundation for campaicn funds for
next year. When Ihe time comes for cam
paign contributions it is probable that he
will send word to the trus’s that the Re
publican party is in need of money, and
the money will be forthcoming. So, while
he is being denounced for his defense of
trusts, he is playing a very shrewd game
of practical politics. He may not be the
ideal statesman, the s atesman full of pa
triotism and high purposes, but what he
does not know about practical polities is
hardly woith knowing.
The famous "hail of tire” in 1833 was the
cause of much superstitious fear. Many
persons thought it was the beginning of
Ihe end of the world, and others believed
it presaged most dire catastrophes on land
and sea. The meteors of to-night and fol
lowing nights, however, will cause no ap
prehension except among the most ignor
ant. Science has reached into the limit
less realms beyond us and ascertained that
the meteors are a tyttural although a most
mysterious and beautiful phenomenon,
which is repeated at about stated intervals
of time. The "falling stars” are practic
ally harmless, the percentage of chances
of damage being done by them being less
than ihe chances of damage by lightning.
The current observations by astronomers
tn all parts of the country, it is expected,
will add much to the sum of knowledge
respecting these lost wanderers in infinite
space.
Howard M. Ticknor, the Boston lecturer,
says that the theatrical syndicate makes
slaves of the managers as well as of the
actors and actresses, and that there is an
organized revolt among the profession in
Ihe East to cut loose from the trust and
appeal to the public. It is sincerely to be
hoped that the revolt will amount to some
thing. The theater going public, in this
section of the country at least, would wel
come and support any revolt which had
for its purpose the "busting” of the trust
which forces the public to accept mediocre
plays at regular prices or go without
amusement.
The Florida Times-Union and Citizen a
day or two ago contained a leading edi
torial under the headline; "Possible Pop
ulation of Florida Milk." The average
render probably had immediate visions of
countless bacilli marching and counter
marching through the Florida milk, seek
ing victims among the unwary natives
and visitors. It transpires, however, that
the shade of Mr. Mergenthaler was abroad
In the composing room of our contempo
rary on the night that this particular edi
torial went to press, and a spirit of ghost
ly fun inserted the word "Milk" where it
had absolutely no business to be. The
purpose of the editorial was to snow that
the possible population of the state of
Florida was several millions of prosper
ous human beings, and not that Florida
milk was inhabited by, or might be pop
ulated by, any harmful organisms.
A few nights ago in New York two
young men and two young women so dis
turbed the play that Julia Arthur ordered
Ihe curtain rung down and refused to go
on with the drama until the objectionable
persons had left the box they were occu
pying and retired from the theater. It is
now stated that the young persons in
question were rich and prominent, and
that they had gone direct to the theater
from the homes of the young women and
not from a supper, though their names
have not been made public. The public
will applaud 'Miss Arthur's action. There
are some persons who Imagine that be
cause they are rich and prominent it is
their right and privilege to spoil an even
ing for others who chance to attend the
theater when they do. Such persons are
public nuisances, and deserved to be
"turned down” hard.
The trolley for canal boats has not been
found practicable, but it is now stated
that the automobile will supplant the mule
on the canal, and that before a great
while. Motors and appliances for towing
J,OOO canai boats are to be installed on the
Erie canal next year. The motors are to
be of some twenty horse-power, capable
of pulling a long string of canal boats.
It is a mighty easy matter to criticise the
work of somebody eise, but mighty hard to
take hold one’s seif and ;erform ihe ser
vice better. Those British military men
who are disposed to point out the mistakes
of Gen. Otis in the Philippines might bet
ter save their breath and brain and de
vote them to the situation in South Africa.
It begins to look as if Vice President Ho
bart would fool the doctors, after all Two
weeks ago they pronounced his case hope
less, and gave him only a few days to live.
The country has come to entertain a very
high degree of respect for Mr. Hobart,
and would sincerely rejoice to see him once
more a well and hale man.
PERSONAL.
—Ex-Congressman Jerry Simpson, who
has taken again to farming and stock
raising, sold 250 head of cattle the other
day. ‘"That,’’ he remarked, as he pocketed
the cash, “that outdoes life in Washing
ton. I think, don't you?"
—London' Truth reports that the Queen
of the Netherlands is practically betrothed
to Prince William of Wied, but their en
gagement is to be kept as yet a secret, and
there is to be no official announcement for
some time, because Queen Wilhelmina has
decided not to marry until she has attained
her twenty-first birthday, which will be
in August. 1901.
—The Mayor of Mafeking, South Africa,
is Frank Whiteley, a native of Bradford,
England, who went to Natal when he was
16 years old. He was at first favorable to
the Boers, -but has been compelled by
events to alter his views, and to denounce
their domineering conduct, and to criticise
the corrupt oligarchy in the Transvaal.
He regards the Jameson raid as a blunder,
and a move which has put back the cloek
in South Africa for several years.
liItIGHT HITS.
—He; What would you do if I should die
and leave you?
She: Leave me hoty much?—Tit-Bits.
—Home Ties No Drawback.—He: Marie,
can you tear yourself away from your lov
ing father's roof, and go with me?
She: Mercy—yes; this isn't his roof;
we'er just renters.—Detroit Free Press.
Well Named.—Deacon Johnson: I call
dis yar mule ob mine "Poor Excuse,” be.
cause he's better dan none!
Deacon Johnson: Sho! I’se named mine
after my dude son-in-law, ’cause he don’t
pay for his keep!—Puck.
—"Young man,” asked the proprietor of
the store, who was making the rounds of
the various departments, "how can you af
ford to dress so elaborately and expensive
ly on the salary we pay you?
"I can't." gloomily answered the sales
man. "I ought to have more salary.”—
Chicago Tribune.
CURRENT COMMENT.
The Philadelphia Record (Dem.) says:
“The proposition broached in the Georgia
branch of the Daughters of the Confed
eracy that the federal government should
he asked to compensate the owners of
slaves set free during the civil war does
not receive any considerable support in
the South. The loss of slave property is
rightfully considered as one of the sacri
fices imposed by unsuccessful war. There
can be no reclamation. It is spilt milk.
This is the view of the Richmond Times,
but it bitterly adds: ’We dare not trust
ourselves to talk about the Injustice done
the South In freeing the slaves and then
putting the ballot into Ihelr hands, but
for all that we are unwilling that the
South shall he put in the position of ask
ing compensation for this outrage in dol
lars and cents. No amount of money
eou’d compensate the South for the injury
thus Inflicted, nor right the wrong which
has been done. We prefer to put the
whole wretched business behind us and
ihink about it as little as possible.”
The Jacksonville (Fla.) Times-Unlon and
Citizen (Dem.) says: "It is not too much
to say that the continued prosperity of the
South, its Industrial life, depends on the
retention of the Philippines for the aban
donment of which she is urged to vote. If
she could cast the deciding voice, -would
not such action be the most self-sacrific
ing act in the history of peoples since the
world began?”
The Nashville American (Dem.) says:
"The Daughters of the Confederacy acted
wisely when they reconsidered their action
lo aid in a scheme to make Beauvoir, Jef
ferson Davis' old home, a home for ex-
Confedcr ite - Idlers and sailors. Yellow
Jaek lives oo close to Beauvoir, and we
do not wart to see any of those brave old
fellows unnecessarily exposed to the
scourge of yellow fever.’’
Stories of Gen. Lee.
Soon after Gen. Lee went to Lexington,
Va., he was offered the presidency of an
insurance company at a salary of SIO,OOO,
rWys a writer in the Ladies’ Home Jour
nal. He was at that t me receiving only
J3Cooas j resident of the Washington and
lee i'niversliy. "We do not want you to
discharge any duties, General," said the
ngent; "we simply wish the us? of your
name, that will abundantly compensate
us." Excuse me, sir,” was the prompt
and decided rejoinder; "I cannot consent
to receive pay for services I do not ren
der." Nearly every mail brought him sim
llar propositions, and Just a short while
before his death a large and wealthy eor
potation in Ne-w York city offered htro }5.),-
00U per annum to become its pr.s.dent. But
he refused oil such offers and quietly pur
sued his cho-en path of duty.
it was Gen. Lee’s custom to leave his
tent door open in the morning for a
sprightly hen that had gone into the egg
business promptly and thus had saved her
head. W hen she stepped in, Gen. Lee would
put aside his work and walk post defer
entially upon the outside until her enckie
announced the mysteries of egg-laying at
an end. She roosted and rode in his wa
gon. was an eye-witness of ihe baltTes of
Chancellorsville and Gettysburg, and was
finally sacrificed upon the altar of hospi
tality at Orange Court House, in 1564.
A month or so after his surrender Gen.
Lee went one day to the store near his
home in Powhatan county, Virginia, w hich
served also as the postofflee. Everybody in
the town was instantly eager to we him,
and in a few moments the store was
crowded. The General w as talking w ith the
proprietor about crops and other matters,
and appealed utterly unconscious of the
fact that the gathering of the residents
was due solely to his presence. Suddenly
he realized that everybody was watching
him and modestly said: "But I see I am
keeping you from your many customers.
Pardon me!" and at once withdrew.
Advantage of Ugly Nnrses.
“Professional nurses have no business
being so confoundedly good looking,” said
a young man who has recently spent sev
eral weeks in a local infirmary, according
to the New Orleans Times-Democrat. "The
nurse who was delegated to attend to me
while I was laid up was a distraetingly
handsome girl, with a pure Greek profile,
reddish brown hair—the kind that seems
full of litlle golden tendrils in the sun
light—and eyes as liquid as a fawn's. The
first time she put her finger on my wrist
my pulse ran up to at least 175, and she
took it for granted I had a high fever and
dosed me accordingly. I tried repeatedly
to lure her into conversation, but she
wouldn't be lured. She was strictly busi
ness. When I started to pay her compli
ments she would ask me to put out my
tongue, which was an insurmountable ob
stacle to conversation. I used to lie there
with my tongue hanging out trying io put
my whole soul into my eyes, but it was
no go. No man can look romantic with
half a foot of furry red tongue protruding
from his countenance. Another way she
had of gagging me was by putting the
thermometer in my mouth. The last week
I was there I proposed to her five times,
or, rather, I tried to, but she invariably
choked off my declarations by thrusting
the thermometer into my mouth. I got so
excited one time that I came near swal
lowing a thermometer worth several dol
lars. She was a most excellent young wo
man and had lots of sound common sense,
as was evidenced by the fact that she
gave me no encouragement whatever. Still
it was a terrible ordeal. When a fellow
is desperately in love it is hard for him
to convalesce. He prefers to languish.
Next time I get sick I'm going to be
nursed by the ugliest old man In the par
ish.”
A Com ancons Young; Woman.
A pretty young woman suffering with a
crushed arm not only refused to reveal
her identity at Cooper’s Hospital, Camden,
last night, but she, while undergoing the
amputation of the injured member, sang
hymns, says the Philadelphia Times. Lll
tle couid be learned of the woman at first,
save that her first name was Jennie. She
was brought to the hospital from Bridge
ton. It was said that she had slipped
on the platform and fallen under the train.
"Who are you?" she was asked by the
hospital attendants.
The woman, evidently in her right
senses, declared that she preferred to be
unknown.
“Just call me Jennie,” she said with
difficulty.
"Your arm will have to come off,” said
the physician. “Who are you? It will be
best for us to know.”
But the woman would talk no further.
Hardly had she been put on the operat
ing table and quieted by a free use of an
anaesthetic when in a sweet soprano, evi
dently a trained voice, she began to sing
hymns, and all through the operation she
sang. Hymn after hymn was gone
through, and not until the doctors had
sawed through the bones and muscles and
the arm, crushed and bleeding, was sever
ed, and the anaesthetic had worn off tls
effect did the songs cease.
When the arm was severed, when she
was comparatively free from pain, she re
membered that she had to forget her
name.
The physicians recorded her as "Jen
nie, 22 years old. Injured at Bridgeton by
train; arm cut off.”
At a late hour last night it was learned
that her name was Jennie Roy, of Bridge
ton.
Doteil on Shakespeare.
She was a sweet, pretty, dimple-cheek
ed girl, with a pique hat, rose pink in col
or, dropping bewitchingly about her face,
soft strand of auburn hair waving in care
less abandon beneath the brim. She was
good to look at, and when she began to
speak the literary man who sat next to her
was tempted to listen to the conversation
which was so evfdently meant partly for
his edification, says the St. Louis Globe-
Democrat.
"Are you fond of ‘Romeo and Juliet?’ ”
she asked of her companion.
“Well, I can't say that I am,” replied
the other girl. "I like nice society plays,
with pretty dresses that you can copy.
You can’t get anything out of these plays.
Now, I got lots of ideas last winter from
Minnie Scligman an! Miss Radciiffe.
That’s what I like.”
"But I like Shakespeare’s plays," said
tile pretty girl, with a conscious look in
the direction of the literary man.
“I never saw them," placidly remarked
her companion.
"Why. you goose, 'Romeo and Juliet' is
one of Shakespeare’s plays. I just love
them, and am going to buy them all when
I can afford it.”
Now, the literary man looked at her, and
wished it were possible for a man with
plenty of money to help a pretty girl with
so little money and such good taste.
"Yes," she continued, "I wouldn’t come
out here except to hear a Shakespeare
play. I am always reading them; I'm
reading the 'Lady of Lyons' now. It is
one of his best, you know."
The Lost Joke.
"Well, wel!, sir,” said Deacon Ever
glade, according to the Detroit Free Press,
rubbing his hand over the sleeve of Rev.
Mr. Gidden’s new overcoat, and obesrvlng
its thick 'exture and high collar and trail
ing length. “WeJI. well, sir, that's a fine
coat fur rough weather you're wearin',”
'•Yeus,’’ replied the Rev. Mr. Gldden;
"bein’ a Christian I calf this my John
Storm coat."
“Sho, don't say.”
"Yeus, I dew.”
But what was ihe use of it all, when the
deacon had never read the book.
Pshaw!
ITEMS OP INTEREST.
—The average daily advance of the Hm
plon tunnel Is about thirty feet, but the
contrac or3 will have to average forty-two
to forty six feet per day in order to meet
their engagements. Abjut 2,000 men are at
work with twelve drills. The calculated
length between the two heads of the tun
nel is twelve and one-half miles,
appointed by the Superior Council of Pub
lic Instruction to the chair of compara
tive anatomy in the University of Pavla,
is one of the most learned and famous of
Italian women. She is a doctor of medi
cine, and has writteg several books on
subjects relating to comparative anatomy.
She has been honored by several learned
societies for her services to the cause of
science.
—The English friends of Dr. Donaldson
Smith, the well-known American explorer,
who left Berbera, on the Somali coast,
about two months ago, with the object of
leading an expedition across Somaliland
to Bake Rudolph, and thence to the Nile,
are anxious for his safety. He had act
his heart upon getting successfully
through to the Nile, and had taken great
pains in fitting out his expedition with ev
ery requisite in a quiet, unobtrusive man
ner, to avoid pubiicity. But he may have
encountered unexpected difficulties owing
to the native rising, and, news of his well
being will be welcomed by his friends.
—Judigng from a recent report of the
registrar general of New Zealand, that
line martial race, the Maoris, Is going the
way of all aborigines whose country' has
been colonized by the whites. They may
not become absolutely extinct for a few
more decades, but their doom is sealed.
Among the causes officially assigned for
the thinning of their numbers are the high
infantile mortality resulting from improp
er food, exposure and the want of ordi
nary care, constitutions debilitated by’ past
debauchery, the belief in native doctors
and neglect of the.sick, and the adoption
of European habits and costumes, leading
to diseases of the respiratory organs. A.
Maori M. A., Mr. Negata, in addressing a
recent conference of his countrymen, said
that drink was pauperizing them and sap
ping their vitality’.
—A Russian, writing to a St. Petersburg
paper as to the condition of affairs in the
-British Soudan, avers that the soldiers are
complaining loudly of the scarcity of pro
visions and they assert that in the bread
supplied to them there is more dust than
flour. The harvest has been a total fail
ure, and all supplies come from Egypt,
whence the merchants have taken care
to send the worst stores w’hich they had
in stock. The condition of the interior is
simply detestable, and it is generally felt
that all the instructions issued by the gov
ernment are powerless to relieve the suf
ferings of the people. The British govern
ment, following the lead of Lord Kitch
ener, represents the Soudan as a rich and
remunerative country. At present its ad
ministration is exceedingly costly, and of
its boasted productiveness there is not the
smallest trace. Nothing, concludes the
writer, has yet been decided as to the pro
posed expedition against the khalifa, but
he is of the opinion that with the out
break of the war in the Transvaal the
British troops in Egypt will be required
for the defense of that country’, and the
expedition, therefore, will not take place.
—lt is a gruesome thing to think of, but
It shows? how the government takes care
of its soldiers to the last, says the Wash
ington correspondence of the Philadelphia
Redger. There was sent recently on one
of the numerous transports sailing for
Manila a consignment of 1,000 coffins, to
be used in returningto the mother coun
try’ the remain® of the men who lose their
lives fighting the Filipinos. These caskets
were of metal, and they are packed '‘nest
ed,” like so many tin pans. In Manila
a special storehouse is kept for coffins
and the boxes that are provided there in
which to place them. No American sol
dier who loses his life in the Philippines
will be buried permanently there. Sooner
or later, w’hen the matter can be reached,
his remains will be brought back home
and buried where his family and loved
ones live. Every provision is maintained
for embalming the dead, and all the de
tails in regard to the return to this coun
try of the dead are looked after with
the precision lhat marks all military busi
ness. Where men die whose homes are
unknown they are buried in the Ameri
can cemetery in Manila and the graves
suitably marked with ail data necessary
for subsequent identification, in case rel
atives make inquiry. Few’ will lie in the
soil of the Philippines, and it is hoped
that a small part of the government’s
provision for the dead may ever be need
ed.
—Dalkeith Palace, in Scotland, is a plain
building, but it has a fine situation, with
a good bowling green and a beautiful
bridge of white stone spanning the Esk
river, within sight of the house, says the
Chicago News. The present building, erect
ed in 1700. stands on the site of the old
castle of Dalkeith, which is alluded to as
far back as 1130, when William de Gra
ham, who had received a grant of lands
from David I. was the occupant. In the
fourteenth century- the castle, along with
the barony of Dalkeith, passed by mar
riage to the House of Douglass. In 1703 it
was the scene of much gayety on the oc
casion of the marriage of James IV", when
the bride, Princess Margaret, was con
ducted to Scotland by the Eari of Sur
rey. For a fortnight the rejoicings were
kept up and the couple, with their follow
ers, then went to Edinburgh to celebrate
the marriage of Holyrood. Sixty years
later the center of altraction at the palace
was Mary Queen of Scots, and it 1 ad at
other times visi s from most of the Kings
of Scotland. Queen Victoria, on her firsr
visit to Scotland, in 1842, held her
court at Dalkeith. Privileged visitors
to the ralace at Dalkeith may view
the apartments she occupied and
also the state drawing room, be
sides which are usally pointed out the
apartments of George IV, and also of Gen.
Monk. The grounds extend to over f,joo
acres and there are extensive gardens at
Rugton, formed in 1839, in connection.
—“The way in which various literary
storm waves contend and deflect ea h oth
er is a matter worthy of brief considera
tion,” says a writer in Ainslee's for July.
"The ‘Trilby 1 wave started from N, w
York in 1893 and moved westward with in
credible rapidity. In the meantime. Bos
ton, Hartford, New Haven and Worcester
Mass,, were devoted to charades. While
passing Louisville the "Trilby’ wave was
deflected toward the north by a strong lo
cal disturbance caused by the works of
Mr. James Bane Allen. But just ns it
had swept the whole country was begin
ning to eddy down into New England, the
‘Bonnie Briar Bush’ and 'Manxman' waves
started abreast from New York and crowd
ed It into the Pacific. In '96 a Bangs
wave, which lasted about two months, w is
caused by the publication of 'A Hour Beat
on the Styx.’ It was followed rapidly b -
The Red Badge of Courage' wave and
then by the waves of 'A Lady of Qua'itv ’
These waves chased one another across the
continent and dropped off the map in the
vicinity of Portland. Ore. Other brief
waves were caused by Parker's 'Seats of
the Mighty’ and Stimson's King Noa
nett.’ but in the end of the Scotch au
thors prevailed, and the thought waves o'
Mncßaren, Barrie and Crocket enveloped
the land. For some time afterward the
prevalence of Scotch authors, and partic
ularly of MacLaren, was fo notable that I
thing it would simplify matters if it were
considered as a condition rather than a
a disturbance. The character of Scotch
work is such that I think its Influence on
the intellectual atmosphere is very Hral
lar to that of humidity in the physical ”
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this with difficulty and pain. My genera;
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became alarming. By the treatment of
Prof. Dexter, in one short week, I have
been so far restored as to feel no pain, no
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articulation improving, and after first rub
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score years. F. T. DENT.''
Sworn to and subscribed before tne this
22d day of May. A. D. 1883.
(L. S.) J. C. MARCY, Notary Public.
Washington, D. C., July 22, 1886.—James
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glad to say that my testimonial in Prof.
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both in this city and New York, and th y
done me no good. My trouble was con
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beginning of Bright’s disease). I tried
everything that money could get, but lo
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read his testimonials and I tried him as
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was a well man, as sound as I ever wis
and continued in excellent health ever
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Prof. Dexter is the wonder of the world.
There is a young lady in my family who
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and when Prof. Dexter came hero he
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yours, JOSEPH B. CECIL,
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