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For Sale; Lost; Personal; Miscellaneous.
Mr. Croker of New York is going to
England again, to rest. Having won in
the recent election, he feels that he is en.
titled to a Utile relaxation, hence he will
go "across the pond" and hob-nob with
nobility until the time for the national
campaign to open.
Thf navy department seems to have
adopted the scheme of repacing each lest
warship with a better one of the same
name; as witness the Maine and the Kear
sarge; therefore It is to be expected that
Charleston before a great while will have
anew and up-to-date namesake in the
navy lists.
A "school of diplomacy" has been open
ed in Washington, as a branch of the
Columbian University. The probabilities
are that while students are acquiring the
art of diplomacy at the school, the prac
tical politicians will exercise their "pull”
and capture the offices, leaving the gradu
ates of the "school of diplomacy” diplo
mats out of a job.
The current year In Chicago, according
to the bulletin of the health department of
that city, has been one of "murderous • p
idemics." The d.atii rate, it is stated, has
been the highest since iSBS. The greatest
number of fatalities has result-d from
diphtheria, starlit fever and grip or in
flu. ina. fo serioi s has the diphtheria epi
demic become, that the health department
advises that ail cases of sore throat "be
regaid.d as diphtheria tin'll proved to the
contrary.” The department also strongly
urges the anti-toxin treatment.
Twice during the past week or so our
correspondence from Port Royal has re
ported the discharge of men at the naval
station there n account of "la k of
work,” and at the same time told .f sev
eral vessels being sent from there to Nor
folk and elsewhere to be repaired. Is it
impossible to remove the ptejudlce of the
navy department against the Port Royal
station? That station is the nearest and
handiest for ships in Cuban and South
Atlantic waters; nevertheless it is never
used if it is possible to send a vessel any
where else.
AGUINALDO’S FLIGHT.
It Is too soon yet to say that Aguinaldo®
power is broken, and that the end of the
Insurrection in the Philippines is In sight.
It Is true that Aguinaldo is practically a
fugitive with a small part of his army,
end news may be received at any time that
he has been captured, or that he has loft
ihe island of Luzon. The impression In
military circles in Washington is that he
lias gone into the mountains and establish
ed anew capital at Bayombong. This
Imprespion Is, of course, gained from the
dispatches of Gen. Otis to the war de
partment.
There Is no place In the island of Luxon.
however, at which Aguinaldo can make
a stand and resist for any considerable
length of time the advance of our forces.
Now that the roads arc improving rapidly
It is probable that he will not be able to es
tablish his capital at any place. The
movement of our army Is as rapid as that
of the insurgents, and It Is undoubtedly
the purpose of Gen. Otis to pursue them
vigorously and capture or scatter thelt
army.
Of course it is possible for the insurg
ents to keep up a sort of guerrilla warfare
for a long time. Bands of the insurgents
may hide in the swamps and in Ihe moun
tains, and, when opportunities present
themselves, rush forth and attack towns
and villages which are garrisoned by our
troops, but it la doubtful if the natives
would sanction warfare of this kind very
long. They would be the chief losers.
When they become satisfied that our gov
ernment is not In any sense oppressive,
and that they will have absolute control
of their own local affairs, they will become
anxious for peace.
It was hoped that Aguinaldo and his
entire government, with the greater part
of his army, would be captured nt Tarlac.
The condition of the roads, however, pre
vented our army from re-aching there as
soon as it was expected it would. It is be
lieved that he, the officers of his cabinet
and the main part of his army, are sur
rounded, and that they will find It difficult
to escape. If they should be captured it
could then be said with a very considera
ble degree of truth that the war was prac
tically ended.
Gen. Otis is conducting the present cam
paign under much more favorable condi
tions than the last one. He has men
enough now to hold the places he cap
tures. In the last campaign towns were
abandoned and the insurgents returned
and took possession of them. In that way
the Filipino® got the Impression that their
soldiers were all the time victorious. In
fact, It Is stated that Aguinaldo used our
desertion of the towns we captured as an
argument that he was defeating us at
every point, and would soon drive us
from the Island of Luzon.
POUT ROYAL’S COMPLAINT.
It looks very much as if the government
were discriminating against the Port
Royal Dry Dock. As we understand it
there is every convenience there for mak
ing repairs to war shirs. Why then are
not ships sent there?
In our dispatches yesterday it was stated
that men in'the government's employ at
Port Royal are being discharged, and that
no warships are being sent there for re
pairs. They are being sent to other dry
docks and ship yards. If the work could
not be done at Port Royal there would
be no ground for complaint, but as it cart
be done there it sebms strange that vessels
which need overturning are not sent there.
The climate at Port Royal in the fall and
winter seasons Is delightful. There is sel
dom a day, except when It rains, that
workmen need iho.r coats in the open nir.
This is jusi the time of the year that the
government works at Port Royal couTd
be used to the best advantage. It is raihet
remarkable therefore that the government
Is not employing more workmen Instead
of discharging those in its service there.
The congressman for the Port Royal dis
trict should bring this matter to the at
tention of the navy department, and see If
something cannot be done to moke the gov
ernment plant at Port Royal more popu
lar with those naval officers who have
control of the work of repairing the war
ships.
The pec pie of Port Royaf were led to be
lieve that a dry dock would be of very
great benefit lo their town, and no doubt
it would if the government plant there
were used to its full capacity pretty much
all the time.
A TRUST THAT ALARMS PROMO
TERS.
The promoters of the Hanna-Payne Ship-
Subsidy bill are very much afraid that
the movement to combine the shipyards
of the country Into one great trust will
operate against the bill, even If It should
not be successful, and that It would prac
tically kill the bill if It should be suc
cessful.
If the shipbuilding companies should be
combined into a trust It would be said,
and with some show of truth, that the
ship-subsidy bill was In the interest of the
trust. That would be enough to kill it.
Very few members of Congress would dare
to vote for it. They would be informed
by their constituents that If they did they
would not stand a ghost of a chance for
re-election.
Under the circumstances it Is probable
that the movement to combine the ship
yards will tie postponed until it is seen
what Congress is likely to do with the
ship-subsidy bill There Is going to be
a great effort made to pass that bill this
winter. The promoters of It are getting
ready for a big fight for It. There Is no
reliable Information as to its ehances for
becoming a law. If the shipbuilding
plants should combine, however, it could
not gel a respectable support in either
house of Congress.
The total popu atlon of Guam Is between
400 and 14)0 persons, and 90 per cent, of the
number neier wr.te letters to anybody.
Nevertheless the military governor of the
Island, Capt. Leary of the navy, has sent
a requlsllion lo Washington for $11.CO)
worth of postage stamps for Guam, and
they will bes nt to him. The explanation
of this seentlt g anomaly is that stamp col
lectors, bo h ,n this country and Europe,
have been besieging Capt. Leary for Guam
stamps, and he lias determined that he
will supply them. The pr pirailon, mater
ial and printing of the whole $11,00) worth
of stamps ordeied will cost the government
about $lO, so it will be seen that Uncle
Sam will make a neat speculation out of
the craze of the codec to js.
THE MOIUMNG N£\V S: THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1890.
THE KENTUC KV CONTEST.
The indications are that William Goe
bel, Democrat, will be the next Governor
of Kentucky. But it does not yet ap
pear that he received a plurality of the
votes rsst. The facts thus far made pub
lio leave the impression that more of the
votes cast were Intended for W. S. Tay
lor, the Republican candidate for Govern
or, than for Mr. Goebel, but a great many
votes Intended for W. 8. Taylor were put
Into the ballot box for IT. P. Tayior. The
Democratic election officers refused to
count these votes for W. S. Taylor. There
were other irregular.tif s In various parte
of the state In connection with the Taylor
ballpts. The Republican leaders are try
ing to have these Irregular votes counted
for their candidate, but it Is doubtful if
they will succeed. ,
The state returning beard is composed
of Democrats who are friendly to Mr. Goe
bel, and they will not throw away any
advantage which the law gives him. While
it is morally certain that the persons who
voted for W. I’. Taylor intended to vote
for the Republican candidate, there Is
nothing to show absolutely that such -was
their intention. Therefore the votes will
In all probability be lost to him.
If the contest should get beyond the re
turning board and into the Legislature Mr.
Goebel would have the advantage there,
because a majority of tiiat l>ody are Dem
ocrats. Assuming therefore that there are
enough Taylor votes that can be legally
thrown out for one cause and another,
and it looks as If there are, Mr. Goebel
Is pretty certain to he awarded the office.
The Republicans are going to make a
long and hard fight, but it will probably
lje an unsuccessful one. Mr. Goebel and
his friends have been saying very little
since the election. They have at all time3,
however, asserted that the Democrats
carried the state. When the number of
legally cast ballots Is ascertained it will
be found in all probability that Mr. Goebel
has a plurality of them.
COTTON' FUTURES HURT TRADE.
In a communication In the Post of Hous
ton, Tex., Mr. R. R. Dane)', a cotton mer
chant of that city, undertakes to reply to
the complaint of New Orleans that there
is a strong effort made by the busint -a
men of Texas to prevent cotton of that
state from going to New Orleans. Mr. Dan
cy's Idea is that the real reason cotton
from Texas does not go to New Orleans as
freely now as it once did, is not because
there is a combined effort to prevent it
from going there, but because the men in
the cotton trade there are paying more at
tention to future cotton contracts and op
tions than to the buying and selling of
cotton. There may be some truth in this
view of the matter. While the cotton men
of New Orleans are devoting their time to
cotton futures in their exchange the cotton
men of Galveston and Houston are study
ing how they can handle cotton so cheap y
that it will come to them instead of going
to the merchants of New Orleans.
Mr. Dancy points out that the cotton
yards and warehouses of New Orleans and
New York, the two cotton ports in which
cotton futures are dealt in, are about al
ways full of the lowest grade of cotton.
This class of cotton finds Its way to those
cities because it is used there In the cotton
future business. The other ports get very
little of this kind of cotton. They have no
such use for It as New Orleans has.
Mr. Dancy says that Savannah and
Charleston established the future business
in their exchanges:, hut finally abandon and
it, because they found it was Injuring the
business of buying and selling actual col
ton. If this view of Mr. Dancy’s is cor
rect, New Orleans has only herself to
blame for the loss of the Texas cotton bust
ness.
It would be a good thing for the South,
in one respect, if there were no dealings In
cotton futures. A vast amount of money
goes out of the South every year into the
pockets of those who are financially able
to Influence the cotton future market
sufficiently to wipe out margins. If the
South had all of the money she has
dropped in the New York future market
since the close of the Civil War, she would
be about the richest section of the coun
try.
Thomas A. Edison, Jr., and Nikola Tesla
seem to he something of rivals In the mat
ter of inventing means for transmitting
messages across the ocean at greatly re
duced rates. Young Edison Is said to
have invented a telephone apparatus by
the means of which conversation may bt
carried on between New York and Liver
pool at rates much cheaper than thesa
charged for cable messages, and Mr. Tesla,
who is in Colorado carrying on wirele s
telegraphy experiments, predicts that he
will be able to transmit messages be
tween New York and Paris in 1900 with
out wires and at a cost much cheaper
than cable rates. The public, having had
some experience with the claims of loth
young Edison and Mr. Tesla, will wait to
see what they can do before fotming an
opinion.
"The whereabouts of Aguinaldo and his
army and cabinet is a perfect enigma,"
says a cable dispatch from Manila. "The
Filipinos are cowards,” says Gen. Whea
ton; “they will not stand up and light."
If the Filipinos would stand up and tight,
the American troops would make short
work of them. But by running and dodg
ing, and crawling up unawares and shoot
ing into our outposts, they ate giving us
ten times the annoyance that it would be
passible for them to give If they stood
their ground. Thus It appears that there
is shrewd method in Aguinaldo's plan of
campaign. The Spaniards used to -rul
the same fault with the Filipinos and the
Cubans that Gen. Wheaton is now finding
with the former—that they would not
stand up and fight.
The Geodetic and Coast Survey Is now
at work surveying the Islnol of P. rto
Rico. The work Is not yet near romp e
tlon, hut one ugh has been done to show
that the real shape of the island Is raiic
alTy differ, nt from that which appears on
all maps extant from Spanish surveys. In
stead of being shaped like the top of a
cigar box, as the Spaniards have always
shown It, It Is said that it is not
different from other islands in showing
irregular, fteakish and uneven outlines.
The Span! r Is, it seems, never thought
enough of either Porto Rico or Cuba to
correctly suney them and chart their
coasts, harbors and rivers.
A Western town the other day held a
unique celebration. It was in honor of
a volunteer soldier who had Just returned
from the Philippines. He left home as a
private, served his time out as a private,
and returned hon e a private. While In
the service he never wrote to the United
States making comp'.tin.s about the food,
the hard work an I the officers, but per
formed his duty silently and wiilingly. Ail
that he did was to obey orders anl take
things as they came. His townspeople look
upon him as a tyidral American soldier,
ar.d honored American private soldiers
through this representative of them.
Bot'i the war and the navy departments
are said to he exp rienclng .-ome difficulty
in se urtng chanial; s for Philippine ter
vice. Gut of half a dozen assignments of
cha; loins to that s< rvl e ma e lately each
man of the co:h has advanced reasons
why the order affecting him should be re.
cadcd. These preachers no doubt are
tirmfy convinced that Providence has giv
en the Philippines Into our hands for the
high and holy j urp- re of civilizing ar.d
Christianizing them; nevertheless they do
not care to be instruments of the re
formation, since it is sickly in the Is
lands.
Judge Chambers, who was formerly
chief justice of Samoa, says that Tu
tuila Island, which falls to the United
States under the tripartite arrangement re
specting the parrition of the Samoan Isl
ands, is "a prize.” The island contains
some 7,000 Inhabitants, practically ail of
whom are natives. Its foreign commerce
Is about as much as would be transacted
by one second-rate business house in any
of the Important cities of the United
States. Still, a government must be pro
vided for the Island, and lhat government
will make a soft berth for one or more
politicians of the dominant political party.
There is a strike on at Scranton, Pa.
Asa delicate reminder, the strikers have
hung a dummy figure to a limb and pin
ned upon it a card hearing the inscrip
tion, "This should he the fate of all
scabs.” The "scabs" are workingmen who
propose to exercise the right of working
for a living without asking permission to
do so from an organization.
PERSONAL.
—Tom Gould, who, since he was deposed
as king of the dive keepers In New York,
has been making a bare living as a night
watchman, has joined the Salvation Army,
and will go to Chicago, not as a terrible
example, but as a uniformed exhorter.
—The author of “Our Destiny," the
verses quoted by President McKinley in
Chicago and the South, is Casper S. Yost,
assistant manoging editor of the St. Louis
Globe-Democrat. The verses were written
In a hurry, and were thought to have gone
the way of most newspaper verse until
quoted by President McKinley.
—Ernest Bauer, an extensive poultry
raiser of Coffeyville, Kas., having read in
an agricultural journal that boracic acid
would preserv e chicken me at almost in
definitely, assupied that the chemical
should he mixed with the feed of the
fowls and given to them to eat. He tried
the experiment, with the result that 762
of his 8)0 chickens died within twenty
four hours. He sued the editor of the
paper, but the court held that any man
of ordinary intelligence should have known
better than to try to preserve the flesh of
living fowls by means of chemicals.
BRIGHT BITS.
—Mr, Brush: I wonder why Morton al
ways speaks of his wife as a dream.'
Mrs. Brush: I suppose because she al
ways goes by contraries.—Harlem Life.
, —“Henderson tells me he means to name
his new boy George.”
"Old or new style?"
“What do you mean?"
"Was'hington or Dewey?”—lndianapolis
Journal.
—A Necessary Requisite.—Dorothy had
never seen any pumpkin pie until her first
visit to the country, and to her grand
mother’s asking her if she'd have a piece
the little girl replied:
“No, I thank you. I never eat pie with
out a roof on it.”~Judge.
—Little Mike (who has struck a hard
spot in his reading): Feyther, phwot is
an autopsy?
McLubberty (promptly): An autopsy, Is
ut? Sure, thot'e phwin a dead man re
quists dhe doethors to cut him up, so thot
he can folnd out phwat is dhe matther wld
him.—Harper's Bazar,
CURRENT COMMENT.
The Philadelphia Ledger (Ind.) says:
"Voting machines were used in seven cities
and towns of New Y’ork last Tuesday, and
everywhere they won high praise for
speed and accuracy. At Ithaca, which
holds the record in this respect, the re
turns from ten machines were gathered
and a (Idol up in seventeen minutes. It
was found that the machines were not en
tirely proof against fraud. Dishonest elec
tion officials can tamper with them, and
in one ease a machine was broken by an
Ignorant voter, who gave the lever a pow
erful turn in the wrong direction; but it
is added that in no case did a citizen lose
his vote, nor did any serious delay occur.
The voting machines appear to be a great
success; but before they are adopted in
Philadelphia care should he taken to as
certain how many votes bogus election of
ficers can 'ring up' on them before the
polls are opened.”
The Tammany Times (Dem.) of New
York says: "The most striking result of
the elections in the West was that in Ne
braska. There can be no argument as to
the meaning of the vote in Nebraska. The
fight was made on national issues, and
notwithstanding the fact that the state is
normally IP publican, it gave a handsome
majority for Bryan and the principles
which he so ably represents. The Demo
cratic leader may well be pleased. His
Indorsement is clear and unmistakable.
McKinley received the Indorsement of a
minority In Ohio. Bryan is Indorsed by
an emphatic majority in Nebraska. Which
is the more dc-sirabie?”
The Richmond Dispatch (Dem.) says:
“At the lieginning of the fiscal year there
were in the United States exactly 75,000
postoffices, a net Increase of 1,430. The
number of postmasters exceeds hy some
thing like 12.000 the number of soldiers
this government will have in the Philip
pines by the first of next year. We trust,
however, that these postmasters will he
more successful in licking stamps than
the soldiers have been in licking the Fili
pinos."
The Amerlcus (Ga.) Timcs-Reoordcr
(Dem.) says: “There are too many elec
tions. If G. orgla only had these distract
ing nuisances every six or eight years It
would be all the better for the commercial
interests of the entire people."
Slunje Pbrariex.
Writes S!r Walter lie-par,t in an English
weekly: "I was looking the other day at
the learned Dr. Samuel Pegge's ‘Anec
dotes of the English Language.' He gives
there a list of vulgarisms and cockneyisms
common in his day. He died in the year
1800, so that he has preserved for us the
speech of the vulgar and the uneducated
about the end of the eighteenth century.
There are 'cant' words and gypsies' tink
ers' and thieves' talk preserved for us as
far back as the sixteenth century: but
the talk of the uneducated townsmen is
practically unknown to us, save in scraps.
"One thing is certain—that it l a dia
lect always changing, and that the 'use' of
1799 was very far from the 'use' of 1899.
For instance, here are- some of the cock
neyisms noted by Pegge—the words need
very little explanation: ‘Vulgarity, ne
cessuated, curiosity, unpossible, command
ement, gownd, partender (partner), perdig
ious. argufy, bacheldor, klver (cover),
chimiey, darter, duberous (dubious), squits
(quits); scrowdge, scholard, ruinated,
scrimmage (skirmish); this word still re.
mains, though its origin has been forgot
ten.
"There are, of course, many more. Ev
erybody remembers how Sam Weller
changed his ‘v’ into 'w.' and vice versa.
The custom has completely died out; this
transformation is never heard now, but
it lasted, it is evident, for forty years,
if it was the custom in 1796 and also in 1835,
when Dickens wrote. The following is
Pegge's imaginary dialogue:
“ ‘Villiam, I vant my vig.’
" 'Vitch vig, sir?'
"Vy, the vite vig in the vooden vig box,
vitch I vore last Vensday at the westry.'
“You may hear the 'we' put for the 'v'
in Suffolk 10 this day. I myself heard it,
at Southwold a few years ago.
"Now, will any modern observer be so
g<>od as to note and set down the peculiar
ities of cockney speech at the present day?
That it turns the a’ into ‘i’ we all know.
It is an Essex custom. But there are a
great many other usages to which we who
are accustomed to hear daily fail to notice.
The American ear, however, does notice
them with amusement; the Scottish ear
hears these colloquial distortations with
contempt. It would be a most useful con
tribution to the study of manners in this
the last year hut one of the century if
someone quick to observe and ready to
note would form such a short dictionary
as Pegge put together in 1798.”
This Dog Jokes.
Mrs. Storms, who keeps a "naturalist's
emporium,” in Third avenue, in which one
may get anything in the natural history
line from a monkey to a pug dog or a big
rattler to a poliywog, is the owner of a
greyhound that is a practical joker, says
the New York Herald. When the warm
weather came he was obliged to keep his
store door open in order to get more air
for his numerous animals. That some of
his dogs, cats, tortoises, etc., that ran
about in the store might not wander into
the street, Mr. Storms had a closely woven
iron gate about four feet in hight put In
the doorway.
The grayhound is the pet of the family,
and has been taught many tricks. One of
her accomplishments is high jumping, and
her master, in order to amuse the children
of the neighborhood and exercise the dog
at the same time, has often made her
jump the iron gate.
A woman carrying a large bundle on her
head a short time ago was frightened into
dropping it and running off with a pierc
ing shriek when a large grayhound alight
ed on the sidewalk right in front of her
os if it had dropped from the sky. The
dog seemed to join in the laughter of the
crowd which had collected to watch her
graceful leaps, for her eyes twinkled and
her tail wagged at a great rate.
Since then the dog has made a practice
of thus startling a pedestrian by jumping
the gate and landing lightly in front of
them and after escaping into the middle
of the street, to be out of reach of a kick
or blow, it has added insult to injury by
appearing to laugh at their discomfiture.
Watching the dog after one of these
pranks it Is easy to believe with Mr.
Storms that dogs like a joke just as a mati
would and that the grayhound plays those
jokes out of pure fun.
Dike many other practical jokers the
grayhound has got into trouble, or rather
she has succeeded in getting her master
into trouble, with the police. Somebody
has complained about the dog's humorous
proclivities, and Mr. Storms has been no
tified that while it Is not unlawful to
keep a licensed dog, or to use a wire gate,
or for the licensed dog to leap over the
wire gate, yet all combined for the pur
pose of frightening persons will amount
to a misdemeanor if continued.
Stories of the Stage.
Taswell was once engaged in a green
room wrangle with Mrs. Clive. This was
his parting shot: "Madame, I have heard
of tartar and brimstone and know the ef
fects of both. You, niadame, are the cream
of one and the flower of the other.”
A shabby individual once told Garrick
that he had ihe honor of playing in the
same scene with him. "With me?” ex
claimed Garrick. “I don't recollect it.
l’ray, what was your part?” "The cock
in hamlet, sir!" Formerly a man behind
the scenes used to do the (jock-crowing
in the ghost scene. But the bogus char
acter of the bird was usually so apparent
chat it was apt to provoke jeers. So they
killed the cock.
When Leon Herrmann played at Wich
ita, Kan., recently, a rustic from the re
gion thereabouts approached the box of
fice of the theater and Inquired the na
ture of the bill and the price of admis
sion, says the Dramatic Mirror.
“Herrmann is playing here,'” sgtld the
box office man, "and I can give you a seat
downstairs for a dollar.” The seeker aft
er entertainment thought for a moment,
and then made toward the door, but the
man behind the window called him hack.
"I can give you a seat upstairs for a
quarter,” shouted the ticket manipulator
The rustic paused in his flight and came
6lowly back to the window, the light of
a new-born hope gleaming in his kindly
eyes.
"Well,” said he, “what is going on up
stairs?"
Got the Wrong Book.
George Jarvice of Chicago told a story
on a friend of his yesterday at the Fifth
Avenue Hotel, says the New York Tri
bune. "Some years ago,” said Mr. Jarvice
"when Ihe book, ‘As in a Looking Glass,’
was the rage, you may remember that
there was considerable outcry against the
work on the score that it was imm ral
This led my friend's wife, who was beyond
question the head of the house, to instruct
her spouse on no account to read the work
He, as was natural, rushed downtown
straightway and purchased the forbidden
volume. At dinner that night he said:
“ ‘Well, Sally, I don’t see why you didn’t
want me to read that 'Looking Glass' book
for, although I've read through every pace
I must say I couldn't find anything out
of the way with it.’
"After some further argument he pro
duced the book he had purchased, which
turned out to he Lewis Carroll's 'Through
the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found
There.' ”
"I can match that story in kind,” said a
friend of Mr. Jarvice who was in the
group, "for I remember about the same
time a small niece of mine went to church
and on being asked the text on her re
turn home said it had been 'As in a Look
ing Glass!' Subsequent inquiry showed
her to have been not so far out of the
way, as the actual text given out was:
'For now we see though a glass, darkly]
but then face to face. X Corinthians xlli
12.' '•
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
—lt is proposed in France to establish a
court of justice run by women and for wo
men, to which may be carried ail those
cases concerning which the meet learned
men know nothing. This will relieve a
man Judge, for instance, from dete-mln-
Irg questions as to fit in suits brought by
dressmakers againat their clients; end it
ought to do away also with much export
testimony in such cases.
—A football team composed of Kaffirs
from the Orange Free State is now tn
England. It is composed principally of
members of the Basuto tribe, though two
are Hottentots. All of the players speak
English fluently, and profess unbounded
loyalty to the Queen and to British au
thority in South Africa. They look upon
the Boer* as enemies who keep their kind
in slavery until Great Britain interfered.
Prof. Bergmann, the great surgeon of
the Berlin University, states that the heal
ing power of the Roentgen rays is imasdn
ary. The determination of the presen e
and position of foreign bodies has been
extremely successful with the Roenlgeh
rays, as is wetl known. Their use in con
nection with broken bones has also been
very satisfactory. The hope of discover
ing, by the aid of the Roen gen rays, the
position of gall stones has not been ful
filled.
A perpetual calendar has been con
structed by a Frenchman named Jagot. It
cons sts of live wheels having a total of
ninety-six teeih and of nine levers or
catches. It indicates automaticafiy, with
out any attention save winding, the day
of the week, the date and the month, and
shows the 29th of February every four
years, besides suppressing it in the centen
ary years that are not ieap years and
showing it in those that are.
—A wedding was recently celebrated at
Saint Germain l’Auxerrols, one of the m>st
ancient churches in Paris, at which ih*
entire bridal party arrived in some twenty
motor cars of the newest pattern. The
bride's and bridegroom’s carriage were
decked out with white lilac, chrysanthe
mums and ferns. The others were merely
resplendent with brilliant new paint. Aft
er the ceremony, as the party drove away
to Saint Cloud, the mechanicians of the
cars played a kind of discordant wedding
march on the foghorns and trumpets with
which automobiles are customarily pro
vided.
—The Cape Town correspondent of a
London paper says that of the sum of 12
shillings 6 pence, which was the total
amount in the Boer treasury at the time
of the gold find on the Rand, President
Kruger thoughtfully appropriated the only
gold coin, with the remark, “The last of
the old gold and the old luck." He has
since worn the coin as a charm upon his
watch chain, and is said to have regard
ed it with a feeling of almost superstitious
veneration. Some two months ago, how
ever, it became accidentally detached, and
all efforts to find it have been in vain. The
President has been inconsolable for the
loss, regarding it as an omen of disas
ter.
—A dispatch dated Chicago, Nov. 12,
says: A pendulum 300 feet long swung in
the Masonic Temple to-day. By means of
the pendulum and some failing halls,
which had been specially prepared for the
occasion, Prof. Bevis of the Armour In
stitute gave practical demonstrations of
certain mathematical laws. The deviation
from the laws of gravitation was demon
strated by means of the immense pendu
lum. This deviation is caused by the ro
tation of the earth, and in the few min
utes that the pedumlum swung it had be
gun to revolve in a horizontal circle, which
would have been completed in thirty-six
hours of constant motion had the heavy
ball been allowed to swing that long. The
weight and motion of the pendulum were
neither accelerated nor retarded except
by the Influence of gravity and the at
mosphere. Three hundred feet of the fin
est wire were used In suspending the
weight, thus making it an almost perfect
pendulum.
—“ln crossing over to Liverpool recent
ly," says a business man, quoted by the
New Orleans Times-Democrat, “I noticed
that our dinner bills of fare were printed
on cards especially designed for mailing.
On the back were several ruled lines for
the address, a place to affix a penny stamp
and the usual inscription stating that they
could be mailed under the present laws
of the International Postal Union. It
struck me as being a particularly good
Idea, and one that could he advantageous
ly adopted by hotels and restaurants al
most anywhere. A traveler, for example,
in passing through New Orleans, would
be glad to send some such souvenir to his
friends at home, especially when It in
volved no trouble beyond writing an ad
dress and pasting on a stamp. I was sur
prised during a very brief stay in Europe
to see how generally the poet card scheme
was being used for advertising purposes.
Almost every business house of any con
sequence had cards containing pictures
of the store—sometimes of the exterior
and sometimes of odd nooks and corners
inside, moat of them very handsomely
done.”
—Recent progress in Siam shows (hat
that counlry is developing rapidly, espe
cial y In the matter of railways. The
greater part of the railways now in opera
tion in Siam have been built within the
last ten years. The first line, begun in
1891, runs from Bangkok, the capital, to
Pak-Nam. at the mouth of the Menam
river, a distance of fif een miles. It now
pays a regular dividend of 7 per cent, with
probability of increase as other roads de
velop diffetent sections of the country. A
government line IGS miles In length extends
from the capital io Korat. It was tegun
in 1892, is standard gauge, and has been
built at a cost of $33700 gold t er mile, Ihe
materials having been imported from Eng
land, Germany and Belgium. Still another
line, from Ban Magee to Chienmai, a dis
tance of 4CO miles, has been begun. This
will also be standard gauge and will oc
cupy many years in building, the greater
part of the materials having yet to he pur
chased. Various other and shorter lines
have been surveyed—or franchisee obta n
ed, at least—and the immediate future
promises a remarkable development in
railroad building in this country—a fact
American manufacturers will do well to
take note of.
—One of our consuls has sent in a report
on a peculiar railroad that he found in op
eration,in the County of Down, Irelund.
It is a combination of rail and pavement,
both of steel, and on it run more or less
conventional cars, with flanged wheels and.
drawn by the same locomotive, freight
wagons with unflanged wheels, which, on
reaching the end of the railway—it is on’y
three miles long—continue on their jourrev
over ordinary roads at the heels of ordi
nary horses. “All the trains,” says the
consul, "are mixed trains—passenger and
goods or freight combined. The passenger
line is built of steel rails, outside of the
adjoining, which is a lower line of med
rails. The wagons run on the lower out
side rails; the inner rails for the oari
are high enough above the cuter rail to
act as a guide to the wagons, keeping them
on the track. There are no terminal
charges, so the cost of handling is | ght
There is no delay or difficulty In getting
the wagons on or off the ends of the lln-
The cost of the road, including land and
all, was about $77,860,” Here, poseibly L
a suggestion for our own suburban trolley
companies. By adopting some such pla'-i
they might institute a freight service, and
not only add to their own profits but
vastly convenience the people on or'near
their lines.
BABY ITCHED
six mRs
Body Covered with Humor. Legs
Down to Knees a Solid Scab.
Five Doctors and Medical Col
lege Could not Cure. Father
SPENT ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS
Trying to get Him Cured. Old
Friend Suggested CUTICURA.
Sleep and Rest on First Appli
cation. Now Completely Cured.
My sod, when he was six weeks old, had a
breaking oat on the top of his head. It spread
all over his head, and then his arras broke out
from shoulder to wrist. Around his body and
around his legs from bis knees to his ankles, was
a solid scab. My family doctor treated him for
eighteen months, but no good was accomplished.
I tried four more, and then a medical college in
Bt. Louis six months. No good yet. Spent not
less than a thousand dollars in money and time.
Old Mr. Barney Clap insisted on my trying Cdti.
Cura remedies, telling me he had a spell like ray
child’s himself. By the time ray wife had used
the Cuticura (ointment) up, he began to im
prove and got so he could sleep short naps, and
gave me and wife some rest. Thank the Lord, he
is well now, fat, hearty, and stout as any boy,
after six long years of itching, crying, and wor.
rying. Cuticcra remedies cured him.
Bept. 14,’98. W. M. NICQELL, Lexington, OkL
CUTICURA
Begins with the Blood and Ends with
The Skin and^Scalp.
That is to say it purines the blood and circu
lating fluids of Humor Gkrms, and thus removes
the cauite, while warm baths wiib Cuticura Soap
and gentle anointings with Cuticura (ointment)'
greatest of emollient skin cures, cleanse tlie skin
and scalp of crusts and scales, allay itching burn
ing. and indammation, soothe and heal. Thus are
speedily, permanently, and economically cured
the most torturing, disfiguring humors of tiia
skin, scalp, and blood, with losa of hair, whentha
best physicians and all other remedies fail.
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The most successful magnetic
jTjgß healer and electrician of tills
L 7 jar ase '
has arrived in this city,
to remain till the first of June,
has engaged a suite of five rooms
on the first floor of the Marshall House.
From the late Gen. Grant’s broiher-ln
law, Gen. F. T. Dent, Mrs. Grant's
brother.
State of Florida, County of Duval.—Per
sonally appeared before me F. T Dent,
who, being duly sworn, says: “I have been
seven days under the treatment of Prof.
Dexter for paralysis of the left side, of
over eight years’ standing, the parts affec
ted being particularly those members
which pertain to articulation and locomo
tion, and for the last two months the foot
and leg from the knee down were numb;
circulation was so bad as to make it diffi
cult to walk, and that very slowly and
with a very* uncertain step. At times my
articulation was more than had. My rignt
arm and hand were so affected that I
could only write three or four words, and
this with difficulty and pain. My general
health, from nervous twitching, causing
loss of sleep, of appetite, and weakness,
became alarming. By the treatment of
Prof. Dexter, In one short week, I have
been so far restored as to feel no pain, no
nervous twitching; I sleep sound, eat
heartily, walk with a firm, decided step;
articulation improving, and after first rub
bing wrote four pages without difficulty or
pain. This day a week since I felt like a
man who could not live two months: to
day I feel as if I could reach anmher
BCore years. F. T. DENT.’’
Sworn to and subscribed before me this
22d day of May. A. D. 1883.
(L. S.) J. C. MARCY, Notary Public.
Washington, D. C., July 22, 1886.—James
H. Johnson, Esq.: Dear Sir—l am in re
ceipt of your letter of the 21st. and am
glad to say that my testimonial in Proi.
Dexter’s journal is genuine. I have suf
fered for ten years previous lo Prof. Dex
ter’s treatment, and spent thousands of
dollars with the most prominent doctors,
both In this city and New York, and tie y
done me no good. My trouble was con
gestion of the kidneys and liver (on. the
beginning of Bright's disease). I tri and
everything that money could get, but to
no use. Two years ago Prof. Dexter
came to Washington for a short stay; I
read his testimonials and I tried him as
a forlorn hope. In three months time I
was a well man, as sound as I ever was
and continued In excellent health ever
since.
Prof. Dexter Is the wonder of the world.
There la a young lady In my family who
Injured her knee when a child eight years
old. Her limb got stiff, she tried the
most prominent doctors In the city, hut
they could do nothing for her. Sha
wnlked with a crutch for twelve years,
and when Prof. Dexter came here he
undertook her case and cured her In four
months. She walks now without eruten
or cane. You can find her testimonial
in the professor's office. Her name is
Miss Rebecca Storey. The professor
while here, cured Mrs. Carlisle, the wife
of the Speaker of the House of Represen
tatives, and hundreds of citizens of this
city. All the professor’s testimonials a e
genuine. He is no humbug nor quick
but where his power of healing com'*
from I cannot say. He does wonderful
cures. I wish he would come to this city
again soon; I would like to shake him
by the hand once more. Very resoectfully
yours, JOSEPH B. CECIL,
No. 713 Eighth st., S. E., Washingion. D.C.
A certain party wrote to many of Prof.
Dexter’s patients. Above is one of the let
ters he received.
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and perform any surgical operation that is
necessary. As the professor has not and
physicians in his employ all diseases can
be cured, and we prefer those cases given
up as incurable by doctors in general and
others.
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