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The -no,,. Republican press may say what , ^ .. it will to the contrary, ,
fact remains that the Silver Sentiment is stronger than ever. Had
not bsen for this sentiment the Republicans would have made a
sweep November 8th on account of a successful war. Astute
in politics feel that a Silver cyclone will come within the next
years. The plutocrat, with his ill-gotten gains, may put on all
false bravery that he can but inwardly he knows that he is soon to
struck by the only kind of legislation 'Free Silver) thfCt can drive
from his position.
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GOV, ALTCELD SUMS UP THE
RECENT ELECTION.
viewed a» a Whole, ti.o KcpohllcuM Are
Welfomo to AH the Comfort They
Can Kjttruct from the l’reio-n: situa¬
tionTho Ilalllr of 1OO0.
When viewed as a whole the 189.8
election was favorable to the Denio
crats. While the Democrats in Congrea
and out of Congress forced the ad¬
ministration into the war, they knew
that it would give It a tremendous
political advantage, for they knew tho
war must be successful, and a success
ful war always strengthens the party
in power. The Republicans should
have received much larger majorities
than two years ago. Instead of that
they have lost forty Congressmen and
a large number of others had their ma¬
jorities almost wiped out, One more
such a Republican victory will destroy
that party arid forever end tbe hypoc¬
risy and false pretense now reigning
in Washington The Democrats have
not lost a single state that they car¬
ried tivo years ago, but, on the con¬
trary, have elected a governor in Min¬
nesota, which is equal to a miracle.
That element of the Democratic party
which has favored the abandonment of
all principle and has urged harmony
for the sake of spoils has had a chance
to try its scheme and has utterly failed.
In Pennsylvania, Delaware, New Jer
aey, New York, Connecticut and one or
two other states where they had re
fused to indorse the national platform
they have suffered humiliating defeat,
although in some of these states the
conditions favored Democratic victory,
I understand that nearly every Demo¬
cratic Congressman elected in these
states was successful because he fold
hie constituents, if elected, he would
support the national platform.. That
fraudulent side-show called the gnUt
Democracy will now pass out of exist¬
ence and the Democratic party from
the Atlantic, to the Pacific will line up
on higher ground. It wilt assume the
aggressive, and not only fight for tho
mighty principles enunciated in 3-896,
but It will make Itself the champion of
struggling humanity. It will pull thin
country out of the pool of corruption
0 whU:h th « Republicans have
dragged , it, and it will lead people
our
toward n higher civilization Tuesday's
election will make Mr, Bryan more for¬
midable than he ever was, because if is
going to bring to the front the groat
principles which he has advocated.
Alt A boat tho twig atorago.
Webster defines seigniorage as **a
charge or toll deducted from bullion
brought to a mint to be coined Blit
the word as used in the United States
means the profit arising from the coin¬
age of bullion. By act of July u. is'iO.
the secretary of the treasury was di¬
rected to purchase each month
ouncvK of fine silver 8 | th« market
price and to pay for the irrie will
treasury notes I’he difference be
tween the cost price of the silver
purchased, and its coinage value at
rate of $1.2929 an ounce Is the seig¬
niorage or profit to thg
’I here is no seigniorage from the coin
,!MJ > gold . ., bullion , ... because .tha
of the bullion and the coins made
it are of equal value It will thus
seen that the amount of srignlurjge
pendH upon the price paid for the
Utm. An ouuie Of fine -liver
Vi RtKtn». 1 he dollar contains
f ra lw» of pftte Giver. If an mace 0
“WE APPLAUD THE BIGHT AM) CONDEMN THE WRONG. s
I fine silver can he purchased for sev
I <*nty cents, the seigniorage, therefore,
j arising from its coinage is about
$0.5929 This would make the actual
worth of the silver dollar $0.f>414. This
explains why some people talk of a fif
tv-cent dollar. By act of November 1,
j 1803* the purchase of silver bullion, un¬
der act of July 14, 1890, was repealed.
The total amount of silver bullion pur¬
chased under the said act was 131,838,-
199.46 fine ounces at a cost of $118,903 -
9U9.23 When coined at the rate of
$U2S23 an ounce it will be worth $170,-
457,470, and the profit or seigniorage
to the government will be $51,553,-
560,77. Under free coinage of silver, as
under free coinage of gold, there would
! • no I ,r °fit or seigniorage, because the
\ f » ce vaU,e of the coins and their bui
Bon value would be the same Dur
j the administration of Grover Oleve
!am5 congress passed a law authoriz
j big it was theVoinage vetoed by of the the seigniorage, but
| president. He
j preferred Wail street to the people,
Suspension <>f the Coinage of the Silver
Dollar.
President Jefferson .suspended the
coinage of the silver dollar
because they were purchased for
export, None were coined at
the United States mint from 1805
to 1836 because their ball ion value was
greater than their face value. The
j or,!er of suspension was written by
j*James follows, Madison, secretary of state, and
j as viz
. Department of State. May 1. 1806.
I Sir:---In consequence of a represents
| tion from the director of the Bank of
j the United States that considerable
purchases have been made of dollars
coined at. the mint for the purpose of
exporting them, and ns it is probable
further purchases and exportations wilt
be made tho president directs that all
the silver to be coined at the mint
shall be of small denominations, so
that the value of the largest pieces
shall not exceed half a dollar,
I am. etc,.
JAMES MADISON,
ROBERT PATTERSON, Esq.,
Director of the Mint,
J>o Not Uke It
Of all the contemptible gold-bug lies
that have been started lately the mean
est Is th statement that the appoint
®ent of W. H, Harvey to collect funds
for the Democratic educational cam¬
paign fund of 1990 had caused trouble
in the ways and means committee, and
that he had been asked to resign.
There was no truth whatever in the
story and there was not the slightest
excuse for Us publication, It was
promptly denied and indignantly de¬
nounced by Mr, Harvey and by Na¬
tional -Chairman''-.Tones. The work of
th» committee is progressing very sat¬
isfactorily and with per'-U harmony.
Contributions should be sent to the
Union Trust Company, Chicago, and
requests for any information regarding
the movement should be addressed to
tbe general manager of the ways and
means commit tee. Mr, W. H. Harvey,
Unity building, Chicago.—-Indianapolis
Sentinel.
Ut"i>re»*lon iu Wool,
it not a little strange to have
the wool exchange closing on account
of “depression in the woof business"
during a McKinley administration and
, tinder a Dingley tariff? Can It be pos
that this is the result of free sii
j ver agitation?—Freeport (Ill ) Bui
>eUn
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j she.....You know it is a woman’s priv
n ef e to change her mind Ho-T know
| r is; but when a man changes Ida h<
| t ,o pay tl;tniages.
JESUP. GA„ THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 24. 1898.
TH P;Y f!A uaa*WJ. WOT 1 nnnctp !
REPUBLICANS
THE RESPONSIBILITY.
Since They Control All Brunches
the Government the CioUJbu£H
Claim That Anybody E'lfce I* lie*
gponsllile for Hard Times*
Had, the allied free-silver forces con¬
trolled the next congress all of the
tocratic daily papers would have dis¬
covered that' wheat, cotton and
farm products were never so low- in
price, that wages are tending down¬
ward and that business conditions are
lad; This state of things they would
repeat in every form that they could
twist language into was 'owing to the
fear capital had of silver sentiment as
shown in the control of congress by the
free-silver men.
Now, the gold bugs have everything
they could ask for. They have both
houses of congress to pass their laws,
a president to sign them and a supreme
court to construe them.
Times must be hard while the gold
standard is adhered to. The people,
will not stand hard times without regis¬
tering a protest at the ballot box, and
the Republicans cannot shift the re¬
sponsibility.
Senator Hanna, in expending a large
fund in doubtful congressional districts
this year, made St impossible for
party to re-elect McKinley in 1990.
In the assurance of complete political
succe8s ln tho nCar f ,„.„ ro the allied
5 }> wr forces should push the work of
education and organization within the
next two vears. Every man who stif
.
fers from the gold standard policy
should be told just why he suffers, and
withlri « year the people win be glad
f ‘ nou « h to st ' ,(J y the financial question,
A PALACE AND ITS USES.
A press dispatch thus described Sher¬
ry’s new hotel for plutocrats, recently
opened In New Y r ork:
'■Sherry’s great new palace on Fifth
avenue was thrown open for private
view Saturday. Rome in its most re¬
gally magnificent days never saw' any¬
thing like it. Neither has New York.
The new hotel, designed especially
the functions of society, has eleven
stories, and takes up 125 feet on the
avenue and 225 feet on the side street.
Right off the street are the offices and
the restaurant, a room of baronial pro¬
portions, opulently finished in oak,
with gold trimmings, after the man¬
ner of 'Louis Quanthrze. The cafe is
carpeted in red and hung with green
draperies. The main cafe, another
huge room, is done in green. To the
aide, without any street front, is the
palm gqrden, a lofty room roofed with
glass and trimmed with white marble
and greened iron. These are ail
rooms. Up stairs are three bail rooms.
The main one, forty feet high, is on
the third floor. It is an immense place,
done in cream and gold, with a deli¬
cately frescoed ceiling. Attached
the room is a regal suit of reception
rooms and coat rooms. Down another
flight and you walk into another bail
absolutely apart from the other. Go
the front and there is a third ball
room, The first ball will be given De¬
cember 2, The cost of the hotel
$3,500,090.”
It may interest you, too. to know
something about those who will enjoy
all this magnificence. Flense note
this great hotel has been ’’designed
especially for the functions of society."
The first ball will be given
2, says the Topeka Advocate, and
has been decided that the printers
New York shall give if. They
had more time to prepare than
other classes, for the introduction
the typesetting machines baa
them a leisurely class for some time.
Tbe large number of unemployed print
era in New York city makes it
certain that the opening ball will
worthy of the palace beholding tt
The sweatshop cigarmakers were for
mcriy compelled to work from 6 in
morning until 9 and II at night,
fortunately the machines have fils
placed them, and they are
to celebrate their freedom with
festivities. Inasmuch ae two
working together making
cigars used to be able to make a
of $7 to 111 a week they have
means to draw on. Music for
cigarmakers and their friends to
to will be furnished by Oscar Hammer
stein and other Inventors of cigar man
ufacturtng machines.
The section men of the principal rail
roads of. New Vork arc planning a bail
for the holidays that- they intend shall
eclipse anything of the sort ever seen
in New York city. They will run spe
rial trains from all over the
Later on the magnificent hotel will
thrown open throughout to li'mn y
miners of Pennsylvania, who
their families, will -make a visit to
i York the special celebration of tho re
turn of prosperity.
This hearty reception • of - t.ho new
Sherry’s by the "plain people" of the
vicinity of New York is
grayfying. It was not so many years
ago that the great palace would have
been given over entirely to those whom
we were once accustomed to call
rich rtch bemuse they were pt>9
seftsed of considerable money So re
eently as the time of the war for Cuba
was it Impossible fm- the producers
this country to reap anything from th*'
ermttm of » palace like Bberry’s other
! than the R,ere pittance of wages tor the
! few employed in the building But
cow the toii and the reward are both
theirs—-a true prosperity has come,
and they have good reason for rejoic
Jug
tfx-hfmntor In gall $ on the GoM Standard.
In the House of Representative#, in
January last, hi a speech upon the de¬
ficiency appropriation for tbe fiscal
year, Hon. William L. Greene of Ne¬
braska, in a telling arraignment of the
operation of the gold standard, quoted
a speech of Senator Ingalls, which the
speaker quoted from the Congressional
Record of the Forty-fifth Congress,
vol, 7, page 1052, as follows:
If we arc to have a monometallic
standard, 1 believe silver to be im¬
measurably preferable to gold. It is
less subject to fluctuation; its produc¬
tion is more steady, its cost more uni¬
form.
No enduring fabric of national pros¬
perity can be builder! on gold. Gold is
the money of monarclis; kings covet
it; tbe exchanges of nations are ef¬
fected by it. Its tendency Is to accumu¬
late in vast masses in the commercial
centers and to move from kingdom to
kingdom in such volumes as to un¬
settle values and disturb the finances
of the world it is the instrument of
gamblers and speculators, and the Mol
of the miser and the thief. Being the
object of so much adoration, It becomes
haughty and sensitive and shrinks at
tbe approach of danger, and whenever
U is moat needed it always disappears.
At: the slightest alarm it begins to look
for a refuge It goes from the nation
at war to the nation at- peace War
makes it a fugitive No people In
a great emergency ever found a faith
ful ally in gold It is the most cow
ardly and treacherous of all metals.
It makes no treaty that it does not
break.
It has no friend whom it
docs not sooner or later be¬
tray. Armies am 1 navies are
not maintained by gold. In
times, of panic and calamity, shipwreck
and disaster, it becomes the chief agent
and minister of ruin No nation ever
fought a great war by the aid of gold
On the contrary, in the crisis pi great¬
est peril it becomes an enemy more
potent than the foe in the field; but
when the battle is won and peace has
been secured, gold reappears and
claims the fruits of victory In our
own civil war it is doubtful if the gold
of New York and London did not work
«s greater injury than the.powder and
b-ad and iron of the rebels it was the
most invincible enemy of the public
credit Gold paid bo soldier or sailor.
It refused the national obligations, it
was worth most when our fortunes
were lowest. Every defeat gave it in¬
creased vain* R wag in open alliance
with our enemies the world over, and
all of its energies were evoked for our
destruction. But as usual, when dan¬
ger has been averted and the victory
secured, gold swaggers to the front anti
asserts the supremacy, But silver is
the money of the people. It is the
money of wages and retail. Its tenden¬
cy is toward diffusion and dissemina¬
tion It enters into the minute con¬
cerns of traffic and is exchanged day by
day for daily bread.
It penetrates the remotest channels
of commerce, and its abundance, bulk,
and small subdivision prevent‘its de¬
portation in sufficient amounts to dis¬
turb or unsettle values. If it retires at
remains at home ready to respond to
the first summons for its return Dur¬
ing a late visit to a remote portion of
Arkansas I was surprised by the
amount of old silver in circulation. In¬
cluding Mexican and pillar dollars and
American halves and quarters coined
half a century ago. Seeking an ex¬
j planation, I was told by the merchants
that upon the withdrawal and retire¬
ment of the fractional paper currency
these old coins immediately ap¬
peared in sufficient quantities to supply
all needs of trade, conclusively show¬
ing that when silver vanished at the
beginning of the legai-tender-papor pe¬
riod it had been carefully hoarded
j among the people and had promptly
; returned to circulation when its pres
j fence was required. I have no doubt
, that two hundred and fifty millions of
; silver would be thus readily absorbed
among the people of the United States,
forming a vast, permanent, stable ac¬
cumulation which would be an endur-
1 m g basis of prosperity, less liable than
any other currency to the mutations
1 and vicissitudes of financial panics
,. fl d disasters
t arm<?r*V Compensation.
! The last census report places the
value of the agricultural products of
the United States for the census year
; at $2,460,107,454, and the number en
gaged in agricultural pursuits at 8,565,
926, This would give the average per
capita product of those engaged in this
industry at $286,02. The value of in¬
vestment, land improvements, live
stock' and implements is given at $15 -
i 982,267.689.
; Interest on this amount at 5 p«r
'
cent and an allowance of lo per cent
on machinery, repairs, etc and do
ducting the amount from the product,
si,611,569,324, shows the earnings of
8.565,324 of the workers in tills Iftdus
try, or an average wage per capita of
$188. Computations «f the statistician
of the department shows this amount
to be too high. This is the remunera
*‘on received by the men who work the
b'USrid hours and upon whose Infius
: try rests the whole fabric of our sys
- tern of business and commerce Won
Aer bow many bank clerks would like
»n«b a salary?.....Clev-elaad Recorder.
The respect due to hid age is always
dealt out of a ladle to the wealthy
' grandfather,
When a fool opens his mouth his
i fseafi Is »o«tj amptlefi
'■‘LAST OF H4E ROSICRUCiANS."
Londoner Who Spent His lute Seeking
the I’iillospher’s Stone.
The pre-Faraday school of chpmis
try, the chemistry of the elixir of life
and the philosopher’s stone, in whose
strange nomenclature metals were
lujowu by such, uncouth names as the
“Keel Lion,” the “Green Serpent,”
the “Blue Dragon,” and invested with
mysterious, inexplicable properties,
has recently lost one of its last, if not
its very last, genuine disciple. His
name was George Knox, and he died
the other day in London at the age
of somewhere about ninety years. For
the last thirty years ho had lived ia
the (juavtor of the city known as St.
John's Wood, the last place where one
would expect to find a philosopher.
The- old gentleman, however, knew
nothing of the ways of his neighbors
uad they as little of his. Though a
cheerful old man aud exceeding!}' ac¬
tive for his years, he lived the life of
a hermit, his whole energies being
bent on the task of resolving the chemi¬
cal problems of the middle ages, Mr.
Knox used to call himself the “last of
the Rosier acinus,” and the chief ob¬
jects of Ins pursuit were the elixir of
life and the philosopher’.-. Mono. Three
small fortunes lie had left to him at
different periods of his life and the
v hole of two of them and the greater
part of the third went into the cruci¬
ble and the mortar. When a young
man he had traveled all over the East,
camping with Bedouius and hobnob¬
bing with Brahmins and Tartars, 'seek¬
ing information concerning the recon¬
dite and occult.
The latter half of his life was spout
in endeavoring to apply the informa¬
tion thus gained. One fortune went
in the making of a few small rubies
and a commercially valueless diamond,
The elixir of life swallowed tip the sec¬
ond. Among other processes this lat¬
ter chimera involved the boiling of a
liquid in a crucible for three years.
Up till the day of his death ho believed
that he had discovered if not the veri¬
table elixir at least something approxi¬
mating to it, and to the close he at¬
tributed his health and longevity to
his concoction. The results of some
of the experiments he made with the
elixir before he perfected it were curi¬
ous. It killed, his favorite cat and
took ail the lubrication out of his own
joints, so that for several days he went
about creaking like a gate with rusty
hinges.
The IVolr.t Indian Dances.
In an Indian dance the performers
are usually arranged in a single or
double row or in small groups, and
either maintain their positions
throughout or vary it by moving
slowly around in a circle, Tho par*
lieutar^movement by which this is ac¬
complished is an alternate stamping
of the feet or prancing, which not
even the most enthusiastic admirer of
things Indian would call graceful,
Tho movement is almost invariably
accompanied and timed by a chant,
sometimes weird, but always monoton¬
ous, and the music which often lends
its aid is evolved from a drum or by
rubbing one stick over another in
which notches have been cut, or, more
commonly, by what boys call a “bull
roarer," aa instrument consisting of
a flat piece of wood to the middle of
which a string is attached. By rapid¬
ly whirling 'tho wood about tho head
a loud purring or subdued roaring is
produced. This is supposed to have
a powerful influence in exorcising evil
spirits or in notifying good spirits
that attentioh is desired. In addition
to these instruments the rattlo is very
much in evidence iu many dances and
is jxn important part of the parapher¬
nalia. Battles are often made of
shells of gourds, partly filled with
pebbles, sometimes of a frame or oir
clot of wood about half an inch deep,
covered with tightly stretched skin
and mounted on a suitable handle.
In many of the dances additional x*at
tles are used, consisting of turtle
shells bound on the legs of the danc*
9rs at the knee and having attached
to them a bunch of deer or sheep
hoofs, which give out a rhythmical
clank as the performers stamp in uni¬
son.—'New York Commercial Adver¬
tiser.
Sir John I, ah book’s Pet Wasp,
Perhaps the strangest pet ever kept,
by man was a wasp which Sir John
Lubbock caught in the Pyrenees and
resolved to tame. He began by teach¬
ing it to take its meals oil his hand,
and although the tiny creature was at
first shy of going through its table
d’hote on such an unusual festive
board, in a very short space of time it
grew to expect to be fed in that way,
Sir John preserved this pet with the
greatest care. True, it stung him
oneo, but then it had every excuse for¬
doing so. Sir John was examining it
on a railway journey, and the door
being-opened by a ticket collector he
unceremoniously stuffed it into a
bottle, and the outraged Spaniard,
not feeling quite; at home during the
process, gave him a gentle reminder
as to the proper way to treat a guest.
The wasp was a pet in every sense of
the word, and became so fond of its
owner that it allowed itself to t>6
stroked. It "enjoyed civilization for
jiiat nine months, when it felt ill. and
although Sir John did all he could to
prolong its life it died. Many wasps
have been under Sir John’s observa¬
tion, but lie has never bad such a
gemiiiie pel as this, one —Loudon
Chums.
The Hyptui’s
It would bo diOieuit to imagine more
extraordinary, digestive powers than
those of the hyena One of these
beasts has been known to swallow six
large hones whole without crushing
them.
The Spanish Government, author!
■ Mate “sixteen!* t'rR since the Iwumminir of
tB nig c , century their 'action country ** 7
lost 000 ' war regsrtis c 1 in la v wa ‘
Subscription $1.00 Per Year.
Plant System.
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Close connection made by train 35 for Key West and Havana
Tor further information apr.lv to Agent.
11. W. WRKNN, Passenger Traffic Manager.
H, C. McEAUDEN, Assistant (Wer.ii Paasengor Agent
SujSSO!, (U
WAP ADVENTURES OF A BOV.
Ran Away irom dome, V \ a3 Wounded in
Cuba, and Made Money,
A few days ago Mrs. Lawson,
of the army hospital steward at
Porter, Buffalo, X. Y., was made
happy by the receipt of a postal card
bearing the brief message: ”1 will
home in a few days, I am well.”
was signed just plain “Will, The
card was mailed at New York, and
was the first. Mrs. Dawson had re¬
ceived .froin her son In weeks.
Will is sixteen years old. Until
reached home he was looked upon
only an ordinary boy. To-day
struts around the military reservation,
the pride of his parents and the
of bis brothers and sisters, as well
of the other children in the
hood. He is a hero, a traveller
a wealthy man. Leaving home
lutely penniless, he returned with
cash, which lie earned, and dressed
new clothes. Besides ho was
ed by the Spaniards, suffered from
yellow fever and was bitten by a
antula.
When the Thirteenth Regiment left
Fort Porter for the South at the be¬
ginning of the war it went by a
cial train. Among other boys and
men going on this train as “blind
gage" was Will Dawson and ids
brother, both of whom had run
from home without a cent.
managed to exist until the
reached Tittiipa, after which if
smooth sailing for them; as the sol¬
diers of tiie regiment round them and
saw to it that they had enough to eat.
But It was tint for this kind of
that lYllih* left home. He looked
ground over ami tried to find some¬
thing whtedi the soldiers in the
camp wanted and he could supply.
In that hot climate he decided it
something cold, and borrowing a quar¬
ter from one of ids friends, a private
in Company C, he started a lemonade
stand. Tilt* first night he repaid the
money he borrowed and a few days
later started two more stands, .estab¬
lishing Isis brother and another boy in
the business. When rise orders came
for the regiment to move to Cuba,
Will made up his mind that Cuba was
the country for him. At this point
his brother went back on him, and the
two boys separated, the older one
coming home. Will secured a Job as
a ca.biiiboy on the transport:Orizaba,
receiving for his services $2-5 a month
and Ids board. lie made himself pop¬
ular and was allowed to continue the
lemonade Imshmss- Business pros
pered. and in a short time he had ae
cumulated more money than he had
ever seen before.
On tiie arrival of the transport off
Santiago Will went ashore. When
,he troops moved.he followed, and he
was present at the battle of San Juan,
and when it was over the surgeons
had to remove from bis foot a Mauser
bullet which he proudly wears as a
charm on Ids watch chain. He saw
the destruction of Cerrera’s squadron
and collected souvenirs which b«
brought home with him. It was while
In Cuba that be bad bis experience
with velimv fever and tlm tarantula,
nett her of which seemed to do him
much injury.
When the transport sailed for I’orto
Rjcii Will derided to cast his hit with
it rather than with the. regiment,
wont along, At all times -the ' lk>y
kept buHinc-ss uppermost in bis
and tried in every way to increase
wealth. Iu Porto RU<, he made
additions to his wardrobe, pay ink
prices several rimes more than <!«
goods were worth From that island
the it.ueport went to Mon-ta.uk.
after sfa.vimr then* for some turn* Will
bail a longing fat home. New Yori
Butt.
An Ilevat!n< Bffect
The regenerating Influence of a Mlk
hat is well known. It calls inevitably
for a frock coat and an umbtell.i
which arc badges of respectability,
ilu<1 ,K)t ou, f, th(fl r ^
associate with others similarly . equip
but lw *J» et tiil!I Ui » vuW
tal),< * t ' o!ki wSw !,oiil sla ‘ lj fttllre ! h
ii»ion, Again, tut Qvotnbi? of * »«*
NO. 18.
Slat, a frock coat and an umbrella, all
at one and the same time, insensibly
promotes habits of neatness and pro
vision, and, in brief, a thorough re¬
formation is eventually effected, from
the ground up. All this, m before
observed, Is well known; but a New
Orleans gentleman has discovered
that an elevator is an almost equally
potent moral agent. “For years,” he
said, “I never thought of going to bed
before I o’clock, and the habit of
idling a A ay the early night became
almost a second nature. Naturally, it
led to my squandering a great deal of
money and threw me into anything
hut desirable company. .Not dong
ago I rented a room in a building that
lias an elevator that stops at. 10 l*. M.
sharp, it I am into I Inwre several
flight* of very steep stairs to climb,
and I gradually found myself droo¬
ping around on time. Now 1 hardly
ever miss the elevator. The result is
that 1 get up earlier, do more and
better work, and have drifted away
from about all of my old nighflmtvk
companions. Nothing like the eleva¬
tor to renovate one’s morals, my In.y,
It’s v.-ry uplifting.” New Orleans
Times-Ocmocrat.
Choctalk,
•Choctalk s, in two principal re¬
spects, a perfectly scorei language. It
is absolute jargon to the untaught lis¬
tener, and i! is fairly easy to learn if
one is possessed of common sense and
a little patience But though <*!■
talk Is learned or taught viva we
without difficulty, yet since it s al¬
most. Impossible as a written >an
guage, it is extremely hard to explain
it in print.
But if one cares enough to learn it
to study the directions carefully, after
he has mastered it, he will have no
trouble in teaching his friends, and
the fun of using It will amply repay
him.
Firstly, then, each word of choctalk
is an indication of the English word
which it repreroaus. and is accom¬
plished In the following manner: Tlx*
first letter of the English word Is pros
nouaccd, not sounded, but given its
full 'name as in the alphabet. If the
Initial letter of a word is c, say s<w;
if It ig h, say alteb; if w, say tloubic
you; if a. say a. After the initial let¬
ter Is pronounced, sound all the other
consonants in the word, omitting en¬
tirely Urn vowels.
Pasture brass in Porto Rico.
Several w -11 known varieties of jum¬
Dire grass grow welt in lotto Rico,
Guinea grass, Para grass and grain
*“««* first does not
ruquirc a rich wtil. but flourishes »
«wly ^ big* "" »«• slopes, of ’the
h>H*. without much regaru whether
or not it Is a weli-wnteted region,
But and 'hopped. U makes an exeel
lent green f--« >• et Para grass re
<l<Mre« better land and low et\ an. is
consequently seiecua im tbmw places
"here there is an alluvial o gn
richness. Sa<* a pasture usually oe
tuples meadow land along the
streams. Gramma requires less rich-
1H ‘ss than does the ILara grass, am
will do welL m similar m»l to_ hat
where tbe Guinea gras-, flourish*-.
Para grass makes fat.rapidly, but the
beef entile, fattened "fin It do not
u eiglt -as miieli. for the sunn apparent
«•*< as do those fattened on the other
pasture
Wedding Put Off for fifty Year*.
Major 1> H Stewart, 75, married
Muss Sarah Jane Elites. 71, at tho
i’rcsit.vtcrian church, Morgantown
^ Y& ; . recently, with ring.
veil, ©range tviossoKis, etc. Both
are wealthy Stewart and M !«3
Mvnns wer; lovers; in eh l Id hood
and were ensued fifty year. agi>.
Mms Evans’s patents parted them, so
stewart inncried. rare -d a family, was
bereaved, met Mis* Evans, found her
sRlJ a iraid. n wU«> hw P mm and had
refused 'dor-eus of Marring* offers
proposed and
handsome couple, .rod Mis* Mans
has always been a >«» favorite, go*
lug regularly into society uvea to til*
*r#w#i,~*iUtn»ow awmunui,