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pSpSTlNCT ***»£ 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 The resolution was then ■withdrawn.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 We have the best . making Fruit Cake of meaty and delicious qu nave just baked one t pounds, and if you having a complete Xti__ Year's dinner you are to have one of “OWL’S TAVOi Fruit Cakes. All who liav them pronounce them .ivory respect. Send us ler to be delivered when yo diem, and we will - V.1 Take Pleasi in keeping them in our Cake Boxes. Send to 1 sample, and we will send small piece in order to you of their merits. , REMEM] We are headquarter kinds of staple and i GROCE! aud delicacies; also, Nuts aud Candies , o quality. Very Truly, -IN -AN I THIS Before purchasing c amine our stock aud 1 You can save money every article sold Dry Goods House. We have an iinn samples < CARPI ■ ,-v;Jppr In all the new 1 goods are just in, ready to take orde '■•ihrXv