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ALBANY WEEKLY HERALD: SATURDAY DECEMBER 17, 1*91.
THE LEGISLATURE TOW.
TUB GOBJtB CAME COMBS; IP
AGAIN.
-Glrnn Will Ba Allawrd la B.plr la
Prinlval Mprccbci, nod Will Spank
nl lha Opera II anna.
Special Telegram to the Hkrald.
Atlanta, Deo. 10.—Mr. Doolan, of
-Chatham, introduced a resolution in
the House this morning to grant the
UBe of the hall to Mr. W. C. Glenn to
reply to the printed speeches in favor
of Qober.
Mr. Hall, of Spalding, made it a
point that the House had passed a bill
to prohibit granting the hall to repre
sentatives for any except legislative
purposes. The resolution was then
■withdrawn.
Mr. Glenn will probnbly speak in the
opera house.
The Senato bill to repeal the equali
zation boards in all counties was pass
ed by a decided vote inutile House to
day.
An Eminent i’olltlcluu.
How any one should ever dosire to be
come an eminent politician passes one'9
comprehension. It is amazing. Hb Is
everybody’s slave. He is the slave of
his party, he is the slave of the wire
pullers, ho is the slave of the press, he is
the slave of the great British public. Let
him refuse obedience to any one of his
owners, and before he can say Jack Rob
inson he is out of the running, smashed,
done for. We are told from the house*
tops that the great Mr. Blank is going
to make n declaration of his policy—his
policy, mind.
1 doubt if the great Mr. Blank has
very much to do with the declaration
or the policy either. It is the party
which wants the policy; it is the wire
pullers who inform him that the mo
ment is opportune for its declaration; it
is the press which has warned him of the
direction in which the wind is blowing;
it is the great British public from which
he receives the doctrine, hot pressed, cut
and dried, which he is to preach. One
may venture to doubt if he ever had a
policy which he could legitimately call
his own. He would scarcely be the
great Mr. Blank if he had.
It is the rank and file of the party
•who have policies, ideas, theories of
their own. The great Mr. Blanks are
like sponges. They ure sodden with
moisture which they receive from every
Bide. It is rained ou thorn from a thou
sand waterspouts. This mixture of all
the rains of all the heavens, when
squeezed out by their several proprie
tors, drop by drop, is called their policy.
Surely an eminent, a truly eminent,
politician is the most wonderfutwork of
man.—All the Year Round.
TOMORROW.
THE LEGISLATURE TO-DAY.
A NlilOK Rt'KBinB
The Matter of Car Fares*
Speaking of embarrassment in the
matter of car fares when a male friend
going the same way as yourself is en
countered en route to bridge or ferry, a
woman says; “I really wish there was
an inviolate rnlo, as there is among Eng
lishmen. I remember soon after my ar
rival in England happening to meet as
I was boarding an omnibus an English
friend, to whose house I was bound at
the moment by appointment with his
wife. He Was a reserved and distant
man, though scrupulously courteous,
and 1 wondered whether I ought or
ought not offer to pay my fare through
the three changes of transportation we
must make to reach our destination.
“All doubt, however, was quickly re
moved by the cause himself, who leaned
over, after finding his own coin, with
the inquiry, ‘Got your tuppence ready?’
I found over there that even when a
man was taking you about by invitation
car fares, etc., were to be individually
looked after. I wish the matter were so
absolutely fixed here.”
It would seem as if the question is
readily settled in a doubtful case by
leaving it to the man. Part of the mat
ter is disposed of absolutely. No man
in America would think of asking to es
cort a woman on a trip about the city
without assuring all its expenses. In
the matter of a chance encounter there
can be no harm in making the effort to
pay one’s fare, which, if the man pre
fers to do, may be permitted without
protest.—Her Point of View in New
York Times.
When Father Time,
Now old and gray,
“Was in his prime.
I’ve oft heard say
His ono quest was tomorrow*
With Evo he talked
Tho matter o’er.
With Adam walked.
His spirit sore—
His search was one of sorrow*
From Jordan's tide
To fair Cathay:
By Tiber’s side
In Ciosar’s day
Fresh trouble he would borrow.
For where he went,
’Twos all in vain,
Past time was spout.
Today was plain—
But where, where was tomorrow?
And so wo seo
Him gray and old,
And 60 he'll bo
Through years untold.
There’s no cuso for his sorrow,
Go wliero he may,
He'Ll simply And
Just plain today,
Which lags behind
That/also mirage—tomorrow.
—R. L. Hendrick in Youth's Companion.
Royalty and Its Musical Ability.
Tho queen of Belgium is an admi
ruble harpist; the queen of Italy, to
say nothing of her skill as a pianist
and singer, is a graceful performer
on the mandolin; almost all tho Eng
lish princesses play the piano;
Princess Beatrice plays tho harmo
nium in masterly stylo as well as tho
piano; the czar of all tho Russias lias
a predilection for brass instruments
and tho banjo; the empress of Aus
tria plays tho zithor; Queen Victoria
oneo know how to play tho organ,
and hor daughter, tho ox-empress of
Germany, plays tho organ in quite
masterly style; tho Prince of Wales
is a regular virtuoso on the banjo;
the princess, his wife, is an accom
plished pianist; the violin is tho fa
vorite instrument of tho Duke of
Edinburgh; the quoon of Roumania
is a elovor. performer on tho piano
and harp.
King Georgo of Greece devotes
himself to acoustic experiments with
hells and glasses, from which he ob
tains extraordinary results; ho also
plays the cymbaliue, the instrument
of the Hungarian gypsies. The em
press of Japan is a highly skilled ex
ecutant on the koto, a sort of harp.—
New York Press.
TIIK IVHBBLI ' OE IiEGISIjATION
GBINDING ILOWLV BUT
BUBBLY,
Which Ihe Bcpitbllcnna an TrvlHK >*
W.rk AKnln.t Ihr Dcmocml.,
Bacon*. Bnlli-ond Bill. Ajjnln— Dnin-
age Sail. Mu.I be Filed in Conn
ie Where Accident Occur..
The llenrt of England.
In the uiidst of the old city of London,-
where the heart of human life boats
fastest, stands the church of St. Swith-
in’s, an old edifice rebuilt by Wren upon
its ancient foundations, but recently re
duced by modern taste to a most com
monplace air of comfort and newness.
If the curious traveler will step out of
the passing throng and edge his way
through the hucksters of flowers and
stale frnit squatted around the church,
he will find imbedded in the bluish slabs
of Its foundation a large oblong stone as
gray as tho beanl of Time himself.
This is London stone, erected by the
Romans half a century before the birth
of the Saviour as tho central milestone
or point of their positions in Britain.
From it all roads, divisions of property
and distances throughout the province
-were measured. , |
It has been recognized as the heart of
England, from which all its articles
flowed, "by every historian, dramatist
or antiquary known to English litera
ture.”
A feeling has always existed among
Englishmen about this stone which was
not altogether superstition, that, as all
distances were reckoned from it, so it
was in a certain way the base of the
stability Of England.—Youth’s Compan
ion. .
Prof. Smith who wrote the pam
phlets declaring, that the Bible was
uninspired, and who was on trial be
fore the Presbytery of Cincinnati for
heresy has. been acquitted of the first
charge. The verdict was as much a
DiiFiwiao na flip nublications of the
Ho AVns Awful Ilomelj*.
Ono day while on a hunting expe
dition in tho Alps, Victor Emmanuel
met an old woman gathoring bram
bles. She inquired of the stranger
whether- it was true, as she had
heard, that the king was in the
neighborhood. If so, was there any
chance of seeing him?
"Yes," said his majesty, “ho in
about. Would you really like to see
him?”
The old woman declared that few
sights would give hor more pleasure.
"Well, mother, I am the king.”
She stnred at him for a moment
and broke into a grin.
"Get out with you, jester I Do you
think a nice woman like the queen
would many a chap like you, with
that hideous mug?”
Tho king was not offended. Per
haps the compliment to his wife mol
lified him. He gave the woman a
piece of money, with which ho was
always free, and passed along.—-Ex
change.
The Mouro Sold Ills Life Dearly.
A Saco cat chased a half grown
mouse out of tho dining room closet,
caught it in her mouth and began to
play with it, throwing it up and
catching it again, ns cats will. One
of those throws the cat muffed, and
tho mouse mado a bee line for first
base, situated under the legs of n
table. The cat made a lively attempt
to run the mouse down, hut tho game
finally ended in an entirely unex
pected way. The cat had her mouth
open, the mouse ran, jumped, made
a mistake in aim, and went down
the cat’s throat. The cat made
desperate attempt to eject the mouse,
which was a very small one, hut
could not succeed. For three hours
she apparently suffered intense pain
and could not move, and it was de
cided to chloroform her. By night
she had succeeded in getting the
mouse down, however, and was
playing about the house apparently
as well as ever,—Lewiston Journal.
Special tu tho ltKBAMI.
Atlanta, Deo 8.—Mr. Bacon’s rail
road bills were ordered printed tins
morning for the use of Senators and
were recommitted to tile Committee
on Railroads.
Capt. Purse got a favorable report
on the bill to amend the charter of
Warsaw. Mr. Meldrim went before the
Committee in opposition to the meas
ure.
The Senate passed the bill requiring
damage suits to be filed in the county
where the aooident ocours, unless the
unitor be a resident of the county
where a railroad has its general ofll-
cers. In that case he can bring suit I11
that county without regard to the
county in which tho aooident ooourred.
A Wonilorful Talking Hog.
"Did you over seo a talking dog?”
queried Simoii Petrie, a momber of
the Ananias club, which was bolding
au informal session at the SoutUorn.
The president of tho club put his
head out of the window, saw no sign
of thunderbolts, nnd bade Mr. Potriu
proeood. “I had, when I lived in
Dallas (and Colonel Bill Storritt will
make affidavit to what I tell you;,
one of those long, woolly dogs with
short legB, commonly known ns a
beuch legged flee. I also had a par
rot which I was teaching to talk.
Well, sir, that dog used to watch the
proceedings with so much interest
that I finally concluded to try my
skill on him, In less than a month
I had him taught to say ’Good morn
ing.’ He pronounced it with a
slightly Frenchy accent, but quite
plainly. You never saw a dog s--
proud of an accomplishment in your
life. He went about repeating it. all
day.
“One morning he was sitting on
the sidewalk in front of the house
when a follow came along who had
beon making a night of it with tho
hoys. He snapped his fingers to
Fido, and the latter bade him good
morning. ‘W-what’s that?’ said tho
fellow. ‘Qood morning,’ said Fido.
The follow sat down on the edge of
the sidewalk and looked at the dog.
which kept repeating his salutation.
I went out to see what was the mat
ter. The fellow pointed to tho dog
and said, ’Mister, that dog’s a-talkin
or I’ve got the worst aggregation of
monkeys ever exhibited *n Dallas
county.’"—St.Louis Globe-Democrat.
Sheridan as a Schoolboy.
Sheridan gave almost no promiso
In childhood of his futuro brilliancy.
His mother - pronounced "Richard
Brinsley” to be “the dullest and
and most hopeless of her sons,’
and he was sent home from
Dr. Whyte’s academy with the rep
utation of being an impenetrable
dunce, who wrote “think” for
“thing.” But he must have beon
able to think a thing or two oven in
those days, for at twenty-six he had
written the “School for Scandal,” of
which Leigh Hunt observed, “It is a
very concentration and crystallization
of all that is sparkling, 'clear and
compact in the materials of pure
comedy.” It should, however, be
mentioned that a more judicious of
the youthful Sheridan’s preceptc
Samuel Parr, on* of the masters at
Harrow, detected the latent spark
of his pupil’s genius and nided it
"by judicious cultivation. — London
Standard.
Railroad strikes are gettlngiiiimer-
oiis. Wonder if it couldn’t be traced
to the McKinley bill?
Kolb says he lias not yet given up
the fight for the Alabama Governor
ship. He is about the only man who
has not given up his chances long ago.
The work of getting up opposition
to Speaker Crisp for re-election doesn't
seem to pan out very well
Chairman Carter was one man
who was glad to know, when he reach
ed home again, that there is rest for
the weary.
What’s the matter With the Gober
investigating committee? The people
would like to know what is going to
be done about it.
The silver question seemk to be
among those which are hard of solu
tion. Perhaps its too diflioult for the
present generation.
Fifty days seems hardly long
enough for the Legislature to finish
up its work. Perhaps they haie con
sidered too much-useless legislation.
A new treaty with Chili brought up
by Minister Eagan’s has been ratified
mate. This is about Mr.
Urging on n Team of Muloi.
A mule team behind which I made
a journey early ono cold, frosty
morning under the shadow of Mount
-Shasta were quite the slowest I have
had the misfortune to meet. Neither
of them would pay the slightest at
tention to the heavy rawhide whip
which the driver carried. His only
means of accelerating their speed
was by what he called "heaving a
rock at ’em,” for which purpose ha
had bis pockets full of small stones
that he threw at intervals, hitting
one or other of the mules on the
back, whereupon the team would
quicken their steps for a time. A
heavy blow from the whip failed
evory time to produce the effect that
was instantly accomplished by the
contact of one of the smallest of
these pebbles with the rough gray
hides before us.—San Francisco Call.
Chous In Japan.
Not only ure there a great number of
pieces and moves in Japanese chess, but
their value chunges; for instance, on
reaching the enemy's camp promotion
ensues and captured pieces are re-en
tered under various conditions. In fact,
the game demands, if that were possi
ble, more undivided attention than Eu
ropean chess, aud in its provisions and
contingencies, especially the last, is
strictly military.
The pieces, agreeable to the enrolling
of prisoners, are all of one color. Chess
has always held considerable position in
Japan. It flourished during the shogun-
ate, and again after the revolution is
being revived. A grand tourney was
held ndt v'ery long ago at Tokio,—Lon
don Special
The Republican Party is dying
hard. Even now it is trying to swin
die Democracy out of some of its law-
■ ' ;ir-snjiera*-- “ --
A special to the Atlanta Journal
from Washington Friday says:
The Republicans are working an
ingenious movement to divide the
Democracy of tile South.
Repuolioan postmasters ail over the
South are sending in their resigna
tions and recommending certain Dem
ocrats to be appointed in their stead.
This'would ienve Demoorats In posses
sion in the offices when the new ad
ministration is in power.
To remove tlieso Democrats would
offend their friends, and not remove
them would offend the regular admin
istration Democrats who would re
pudiate other so-called Demoorats
who got their portions by Republican
combination.
Tlie Democratic Congress is highly
indignant at the proceeding nnd de
clare that new appointments must in
all enses be made under their direc
tions, while this movement is only dis
covered in tlie South, there is no rea
son wliy It could not be extended to
tlie balance of tlie country.
Choosing Nuiuqs for Hooks.
The Gormans are not as a rale
happy in their titles of books, al
though Freytag wrote “Soli und
Habeu,”nnd Paul Jloyse "Kinder dor
Welt." Those, it is hardly necessary
to add, are novels. Indeed, it is to
tho novel or tlie play that tlie title
means most. Tlie French are adept
in tluBBort of thing. "L’Homme qui
Rit" is one example of a felicitous 1
choice. The titles of some modern
plays, such as "Le Monde ou l’on
s'enuuie" and "Uu Verre d'Eau," an
other examples. However, wo need
not go so far ufiold for happy selec
tions. Our own novelists and dram
atists havo Bhowu much ingenuity
in this line.
Sliukespeare of courso has boon a
mine of wealth to them. The u ;s of
quotations und proverbs is a modern
trick, many of the earlier titles, witli
their long digressions “Concerning
This, That and the Otlior,” being ns
good as tho preface, which lias also
been largely discarded. It is not sur
prising, therefore, to find that Mr.
Howells has almost invariably gone
to the groat dramatist. "The Quality
of Mercy," “A Modern Instance,”
The Undiscovered Country”—these
are a few of thorn, and all tersely de
scriptive. Mrs. Olipliaut remember
ed her Shakosjiearo whon she named
one charming novel "The Primrose
Path," and Mr. Hardy must liavi
beon reading "As You Like It" when
he called his rural painting of tho
Dutch school “Under the Green wood,
Tree.” Tennyson, too, has been
drawn upon for "Airy, Fairy Lil
lian," "A Daughter of tho Gods" und
‘Tho Iloir of tlnFAges."—Providence
Journal,
Monster Wnli-im liides.
One of tho largest hides evor
tanned is 8 feet wide and 14 fool
long and weighs 700 pounds. It is
ono of a dozen or more walrus hides
brought to this City five years ago
by a whaler from tlie arctic.
Twelvo years ago oxporiiilonts woro
made on the hide of the walrus, and
it was conclusively proved that it
could lie tanned. Thon camo the
question of a market for tho leather,
which was seldom less than an incli
in thickness. Local silversmiths
found it an excellent substitute for
tho old style emery wheel, and from
the first it was a succoss, used as a
moans of polishing silverware and
surfacing precious stoneB. Once u
use was found for it the price ad
vanced until 1890 it had reached five
dollars a pound. Other firms com
missioned captains of whalers to se
cure hides for them, and with com
petition the price of the tanned hides
receded to three dollars a pound, at
which figure it is now quoted in the
eastern markets.
The green hides are enormous and
cumbersome, weighing from EOO -to
700 pounds each. The process of
tanning them is the same as that
used for ordinary leather save that
the walrus hides are laid awuy for
six months out of the twelve, and it
takes five years to complete the pro
cess of curing. The average run of
the hides in thickness is from three
to four inches when green. When
tanned they run from two to three
inches in thickness.—San Francisco
Chroniclo.
How Aerolites Were Onie Regarded.
The phenomena of shooting stars
and other luminous appearances in
the sky long acted as stimulants to
the superstitious fears of tho multi
tude. A red appearance was a fiery
sword dipped in blood; a sinuous
wavy line a fiery serpent; a number
of such lines a fiery dragon; a clus
ter of diverging lines a rod for the
scourging of nations. As shooting
stars were common in August, about
the time of the festival of St. Law
rence, they were said to be “the
teare" of that martyr.—Notes and
Queries.
Jbdoe S. W. Smith, Ordinary of
Dougherty county, makes formal an
nouncement of his candidacy for re-
election in this evening’^ Herald.
appears to be no opposition to
;e Smith, and the indica-
are that he will have a
walk-over. He is a most competent,
faithful and efficient officer, and his
hosts of friends in the county are
"led that nobody seems disposed
A BURGLAR’S TRIBUTE TO WOMAN.
How n Cool Hendetl Girl Captured ■
Rascal Hiding Under the lied.
"The best way for a woman to do if
she woke up nnd found a man at work
in her room," says n burglar, "would
bo to keep very still nnd pretend she
was still 8looping, or, if ho knew that
she had seen him, to obey his orders
nnd keep still. If he thought she
had submitted, he wouldn’t watch
hor so hard, and it would give her
time to think what to do. There's
ono thing, though, that would be
bad for a woman. If a bpglnr loft
her room by tho door she ought to
listen to his footstep or watch the
light o' his lantern, an she don’t
want to get out o’ bed or move until
he is well out of hearing.
"A man who goes out that way
will always stop when ho has gono u
few feot from tho door where a wom
an is, and, if lie beam hor jump out
of hod at onet, lie suspocts what she's
up to,-and would then escape by the
uoarest window aud be out of hoi
reach, or else ho would go back nn
mnlco it dangerous for her. Sho wants
tor bo cunnin. Then she can catch
him. It was n smart girl und n coot
girl that got away witli a follow 3
know. He had got into the socond
story window nnd hnd just about
landed when ho hoard two women
cotnin. Ho crawled under tho bod
and got out o’ sight. Tho women
came in and undressed and got into
bod.
“Whon ho thought tlioy had boon
in bod long enough to got nsloop lie
began to work out. A dim light had
been loft in tho room. He had just
got his head to the edge of the bed
and his hand aud arm woro sticking
out beyond tho bed, whon lie found
ono of the women was getting out,o'
bod. 8110 stopped square on his arm,
and looking down saw him, so it
seemed, draw it back. She wont
across tlie room and turned up Hu
gos and bognn looking around the
dressing tablo.
“In a minute she called to the
other woman, ’Mary, wake up.' Thu
woman got nwako, nn the otlior sayB,
'What did I do with that letter that
came this afternoon?’ The ono in
lied didn't scorn to recall tho letter,
but finally slio soomod to and tin-
girl on tho floor said: 'It worries me;
I can’t sloop. I must go down stairs
and soo if I loft it in tho parlor. The
other'ono said, ‘All right,' nn tho first
girl calmly took n lot of matches,
just as if sho meant to light tho gas
and went out of tho room, but sho
didn't go any farther than the room
whore a man was sleeping. She told
him she had found n man under her
boil. Ho thought ot first it was that
same old mail women are always
finding) She convinced him finally,
an lio wont out nn got help.
"She came back into the room
alone, nnd in u few minutes tho men
burst in and snaked tho follow from
under tlie bed. Ho was a completely
fooled man, an said that woman was
so cool an natural about it that lie
novel- should have suspected her in
the world. But tho best-part of it
was that after the first woman loft
the room tlie other was just ns quiet
nnd happy there as a baby. She
didn’t suspect any tiling, au when she
found that there had boon a man un
der the hod all tho titno slio just up
nnd fainted away. That's how a
woman cun fool a burglar if sho
keeps hor wits about hor,
“Ono foolish thing that women do
is in getting their husbands to got up
at any noise nnd go chasing around
tho.houso to locate it. Half the men
who hear a noise in the house would
think it hnd some good explanation,
an turn over an go to sleep again.
But their wives won’t lot ’em. They
make' 'em got out of bed and go
roaming around bunting for possible
thieves. That’s whero tho mischief
comes in. Tho man don't stand as
good a show ns tho fcroman dobs. If
the woman would only turn over an
go to sleep herself she’d save a good
many of tho lives that are lost
through burglars.
"All thieves know that women or*,
their greatest dangers, an nine-tenths
of the burglars who are captured ore
caught through women; but it de
pends, as 1 said, on the woman’s
keeping cool an usin her wits.”—New
York Recorder
It is amusing to read the list of Re
publicans who are said to have con
tributed so largely to their party’s de
feat. It contains, however, more
truth than poetry.
The Soldiers’ Home bill was passed
by a good large majority. The Senate
has a turn at it now, and only one
week in whioh to consider it. They
will have to hustle things.
Twenty thousand dollars for the
military is little enough for an insti
tution on which the State is - at times
dependent, and yet they have been
trying to diminish that appropriation.
Leoislation in Georgia is drifting
too muoh into parsimony In some
things—matters appealing to State
pride, for instance—and into costly
mistakes when it comes to the things
which the average legislator considers
more material.
The Dana boom seems to grow on
the New York Herald. Editor Ben
nett thinks that Mr. Dana ought to be
^Senator from New York, and he’s keep
ing up the. fight single-handed
alone- To a spectator the situ
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