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TOO MANY PRESENTS.
THE WHITE HOUSE LIKELY TO BE
OVERRUN WITH PETS.
Dogs and Ofiher Things Shipped to the
President—One Admirer Sends a Boat
Model—A Huge Wooden Chair Cornea
From Ohio.
If the donations of useless and cum
bersome articles which have already be
gun continue for any considerable
length of time, the president will have
to ask congress for an appropriation tc
build an addition to the White House tc
store them in. He now has a big dog, a
model of a boat, and yesterday he re
ceived a long wooden cable chain, with
an anchor attached, which an admiring
countryman of his had whittled out oi
pine and presented as a token of esteem.
The.dog Moscow, whose advent at the
White House was chronicled some days
ago, was really a welcome gift. He is
a splendid specimen of his race, the St.
Bernard, and is highly prized by all the
inembers of the president’s family. Sec
retary Porter, however, is particularly
desirous that the impression shall not
get abroad that the president is a dog
fancier. He explains that tho president’s
love'for the canine race is easily satis
fied with one specimen, and Moscow,
who weighs nearly 150 pounds, entirely
fills the chief executive’s longing in
that direction.
Mr. Porter has been trembling in his
boots ever since the arrival of Moscow
for fear that other owners of fine ani
mals would uudertake to emulate the
donor of the St. Bernard and the White
House lot be turned into a sort of canine
menagerie of terriers, hounds, pugs and
bull pups, rivaling the famous aggrega
tion owned by President Grant.
The boat model was presented by ex-
Governor Pinchbeck of Louisiana and a
delegation, including State Senator De
Mas. It is the handiwork of a colored
cabine t maker named Samuel E. Davis
of New Orleans and is a very creditable
evidence of his skill. It is about 4 feet
over all and was brought up to the
White House in a glass case by four
S talwart colored men. Although the
g d(,nor expressly stated iu his letter ac
companying the gift that he is not a
candidate for office, Secretary Porter
has no pressing need for any more boats
and is also desirous that this fact may
be given as wide publicity as possible.
General Grosvenor lugged a wooden
chain up to the executive mansion and
presented it on behalf of the maker, N.
C. Cook of Meigs county, O. General
Grosvenor explained that Mr. Cook was
a valiant soldier during the war, but
was not able to guarantee that he was
not an applicant for office, being an
Ohio man. Of this, as of the other gifts,
Secretary Porter feels that the presiden
tial longing for chains is entirely satis
fied, and he will be able to worry along
for several years yet without any addi
tion to his stock on hand.—Washington
Post.
WITH A RUBBER SHOE.
How a Young Man of Nerve Got the Best
of a Live Trolley Wire.
A trolley wire broke in Williamsburg,
N. Y., recently and caused considerable
excitement. The street was crowded
with persons who had just left ferry
boats, and many narrowly escaped com
ing in contact with the live wire. The
wire squirmed around at a lively rate,
all the while emitting sparks.
Finally a young man, who was toe
modest to give his name, approached a
young lady.anc* requested the loan oi
one of her rubber overshoes. She allow
ed him to remove the rubber, and, put
ting his hand in it, he grabbed the siz
zling wire and wound it around a tele
graph pole. The crowd cheered, and the
young man blushed. So did the young
woman. After her overshoe had been re
turned she hurried away.
Workmen from the railroad company’t
repair shop came and fixed the wire.
In the meantime the cars were blocked.
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Road Ravce In a City.
A cycle road race within city limits is
not at all unlikely this year. The Asso
ciated Cycling Chjbs of New York art
desirous of transferring the battleground
of the famous Irvington-Milburn 25
mile road race from the hills of Jersey
to the good roadway of Riverside drive.
With that object in view the race com
mittee of the association waited upon
the park commissioners recently and re
quested the permission. The commis
sioners are said to regard the proposition
favorably.
Why They Sing It.
The anthem for Queen Victoria, * ‘ Dom
ine, salvam fac Reginam nostram,”
has been sung daily by the nuns of the
Benedictine Abbey of Priucethorpe,
England, throughout the whole of her
reign. This has been done in gratitude
for the cordial welcome and hospitality
extended to the Benedictine community
by the English government when they
fled to England from felontargis during
the French revolution.
Another Ailment.
Another thing that ails this govern
ment is that the people of each congres
sional district think that their repre
sentative is the only chump in congress.
—Detroit Tribune.
Nansen's Lucky Miss.
Nansen already has made $ 150,000 oul
of his failure to bring home the north
pole. In his case a miss apparently was
as good as several miles. —Chicago
Timea-Herald.
Davis Is There.
Mr. Richard Harding Davis is in Eng
land ready to write a thorough descrip
tion of the ceremonies attendant upon
the celebration of the queen’s jubilee.
Cleveland's Law Firm.
Grover Cleveland says all these stories
as to the new law firm of which he is
said to be a member are newspaper lies.
SAT UP ALL NIGHT.
Bride and Groom Fail to Solve the Secret
of the Folding Furniture.
‘ ‘A newly married couple were piloted
in here the other night by some of their
friends, who called in a loud voice for
the bridal chamber,” said the clerk of
a hotel in one of the large cities. “The
groom was evidently from a much
smaller place and was so nervous he
could hardly write his name.
“Wgll, I got this pair in their room
all safe and thought I’d never hear an
other word out of the couple. Along to
ward 8 . o’clock in the morning the
office was deserted, and the watchman
came downstairs, holding his hand over
his mouth and trying to keep a straight
face. ‘The coople in noomber 2 would
loike to see you, sorr, ’ he said. I ran up
the stairs as quickly as possible and
knocked on the door. I was told to come
in and saw the lady sitting stiffly in a
chair at one end of the room and the
gentleman in the same position at the
opposite end. ‘Why, what’s the matter?’
I asked.
“ ‘Well, me and Annie would jest
like to know if you expect to keep ns in
this parlor all night and not let us go to
bed at all?’
“Now, you see, all that could be
avoided if they wouldn’t put every
bridal couple, whether they are from a
farm or a palace, in a parlor fitted up
with folding beds, .patent combination
washstands and piano bureaus and
bathtubs and all trash like that and
come down to the good old furniture,
like we have at home. It would be a
great benefit to all parties concerned. ”
NEW BOOK ON CERAMICS.
A Rich and Costly Work That Will Give
Joy to Collectors.
The first part of a remarkable book
on oriental ceramic art has just appear
ed. The publication is the result of 17
years of labor and is said to be one of
the most costly bocks ever printed. Only
500 copies of it are to be issued. The
estimated .cost of the publication is
$500,000. The plan of the book is to
give a complete and exhaustive history
of the ceramic art in the far east and
to illustrate it by examples drawn whol
ly from the collection of the late Wil
liam T. Walters of Baltimore.
Mr. Walters was the first American
to make an extensive collection of orien
al ceramics, and the specimens of ori
ental potters’ art which he selected for
40 years and which now number more
than 4,000 'aro considered to be more
typical of every epoch and variety of
decoration of the porcelains of China,
Korea and Japan than any other collec
tion in the ‘world. The chief feature of
the book to an art lover will he the 116
full page plates, lithographed and
printed in many colors.
For eight years artists and lithogra
phers have worked upun the set of
plates at Louis Prang’s establishment
at Roxbury, Mass. Mr. Prang regards
the set as the chief monument of his
life. Some of the reproductions of the
book require no less than 60 different
lithograph stones, each supplying its
bit of color and design, to make the
print exact.
McKinley’s Close Friend.
Colonel Otis, who but for geographic
al considerations would have been ap
pointed assistant secretary of war, is a
personal friend of the president. They
served together in the Twenty-third
Ohio regiment in the civil war and in
later years became fast friends. Several
times within the past few years Colonel
Otis has visited President McKinley at
his Canton home. When the fight for
delegates was being made in California,
Colonel Otis succeeded in capturing
several delegates for McKinley, and
later in the campaign, after the St.
Louis convention, he “whooped it up”
for McKinley and the Republican ticket.
McKinley, when elected, extended an
invitation to Colonel Otis to call at
Canton, which he did some weeks be
fore the president went to Washington.
At that time Colonel Otis indicated a
desire to be assistant secretary of war,
saying that the place would be accepta
ble to him and that he thought he
would prove a good assistant in view
of his previous military training.
An Enterprising Consul.
The new consul general at London,
W. McK. Osborne, was the first of the
foreign appointees of the administration
to enter upon his work. He took the
oath of office at the state department
and immediately began to accumulate
knowledge of his new office in order
to be able to relieve Consul General
Collins at the earliest possible moment.
A Good Cure^^WlSj^ramps.
Officials now announce that since
Winnebago county, Wis., adopted the
workhouse cure for tramps the number
to be cared for has fallen from about
1,500 a month in the winter season to
75, and a saving to the county of about
SI,OOO a month has been effected.
ODDS AND ENDS.
Tolstoi’s manuscripts full of inter
lineations and erasures, and the hand
writing is small, fine and hard to read.
The countess transcribes it for the print
er, and it is said that she made 15 copies
of one of her husband’s books.
The midnight music of cats so annoyed
Jerome Summers of Weaverville, N. Y.,
that he hurried out barefooted with bis
pistol to shoot them. In the yard he
stepped on a rusty nail, which caused
lockjaw, and in ten days he died.
Beatrice Harradeu has not been bene
fited in health by her return to England.
She is now at Bournemouth, and what
energy she possesses she has put into tho
revision of her book, ‘ ‘Hilda Strafford. ”
Bishop Quintard of Tennessee was in
the Confederate army, and his first work
after the war was to plant a cross on
Sewanee mountain, where the Univer
sity of the South afterward rose through
his energy.
THE TIMES: BRUNSWICK, GA., MARCH 23, 1897.
WANT TO IUISE CANE.
MISSOURI FARMERS BELIEVE IT WILL
THRIVE IN THEIR STATE.
A Big Convention Consitlers the Subject.
Sugar Mills and Refineries to Be Erect
ed Plans For Experimental Stations
and Tests.
The sugar convention held recently at
Hughesville, Mo., was a pronounced
success. The farmers who reside iu
Hughesville district, which is tho gar
den spot of central Missouri, have de
cided to turn their attention from the
growing of corn and wheat to that of
cane raising, and the convention was
held for the purpose of effecting an or
ganization to secure the location of a
sugar mill and refinery at Hughesville.
The permanent organization was com
pleted by the selection of officers and
a board of managers. The proposed
Hughesville sugar mill and refinery will
cost $850,000, and the capital for estab
lishing the plant is assured. The mill
will require two diffusion batteries and
have a capacity of 800 tons of cane each
24 hours, and 8,000 acres of cane will
be necessary to keep the mill in opera
tion during the 100 days of the manu
facturing season. It is believed that
when the mill is in operation kettle
sugar houses will be established at nu
merous points in central Missouri, and
their output of brown sugar will be suf
ficient to keep the refinery in operation
every month of the year.
It is estimated that the rich soil of
this part of the state, will produce from
15 to 20 tons of green cane per acre,
while the seed, more valuable for stock
feeding than corn, will equal 35 to 40
bushels per acre. The lowest estimate
.of the farmer’s profit in raising cano is
$36, while the 8,000 acres of cane would
make a profit of $186,000 per annum to
the mill owners, or 39 per cent on the
money invested. Each of the farmers
who have become members of the asso ■
ciatiou will this year plant from one
fourth to one-eighth of an acre of im
proved or pedigreed sorghum cane seed,
and the crops of cane will be subjected
to such tests as may be required by the
capitalists who are to provide the mill
and refinery. The experimental station
and expense of tests will cost $1,200,
and that snm was quickly subscribed at
the convention. Probably no better lo
cality in the state than the vicinity cf
Hughesville could he selected for cane
raisiue. The soil is deep and exceedingly
rich and the surface a rolling prairie.
The large plant can also be operated at
little expense for fuel, as the best of soft
coal is found in inexhaustible quantities
at a few feet from the surface.—St.
Louis Giobe-Democrat.
THEY WANT TO DUCK HER.
Neighbors of Mrs. Anselm Would Revive
an Ancient Custom.
Under the old “blue laws” of New
Jersey a common scold, if adjudged
guilty, may be ducked in a mill pond.
The law hasn’t been enforced for many
years. The tenants of an apartment
bouse in Hoboken," however, believe it
should be in the case of Mrs. Matilda
Anselm. She has lived on the first floor
for nearly two years. The other tenants,
Mrs. Peter Half, Mrs. Henry Brusso
and Mrs. John Heinz, say she has made
things exceedingly lively during that
time. From interfering in their affairs
to creating a racket in her own apart
ments they say she has no equal, and
her tongue, they say, never stops wag
ging.
With Mrs. Caroline Seigfried, who
owns the house and lives in one of the
apartments, she went too far. The re
marks made by her reflected on Mrs.
Seigfried’s character. So, with Frank
Ludwig, her son-in-law, Mrs. Seigfried
called on Recorder McDonough. The
latter could not see his way clear to en
tertain a charge against Mrs. Anselm
for her aspersions upon her landlady’s
character, but he could hold her under
the common scold act. This he promised
to do if Mrs. Seigfried produced wit
nesses to prove Mrs. Anselm a common
scold.
Danger In Plo’sicians* Beards.
Some people in Chicago want to have
a law enacted to compel physicians
either to cut off their beards or have
them disinfected on the ground that
when a physician is listening to the
heart or lungs of a patient his beard is
brought into direct contact with the pa
tient’s body, which in cold or damp
weather is a source of danger.
Thumb In a Tjjmato Can.
Mrs. Adolph Martin of Passaic, N.
J., drew a curious prize in a can of to
matoes. It was a man’s thumb, perfectly
preserved. It is supposed that a work
man in the canning factory had a thumb
cut off in the canning machine and that i
the severed member dropped into the
tomatoes.
April Fool.
Many timo, ore waned tho winter,
Did he strive in vain to tell
How his heart was but a splinter
’Neath the magic of her spell.
After weeks of aggravation,
Forced to keep young love from sight,
He declared in desperation,
“I will write I”
Bo 110 bravely set to burning
Gallons of tho midnight oil,
Passed through many a tortuous turning
In epistolary toil;
Begged that he might forge the fetter
That but death (or law) unlocks,
And at last he dropped the letter
In the box.
Dreaming she’d be “his devoted,”
How his soul was stirred to song
As the postman, sober coated,
Trod the drowsy street along!
Then one morn that worthy’s whistle
Bhrilled more sharply than before.
And there fell a small epistlo
At his door.
Oh, he doubted not the sender,
For her crest the wax revealed!
With what trepidation tender
Ho the envelope unsealed!
But the fervor of his passion
Grew upon a sudden cool,
For she answered in this fashion:
“April fool!”
—Clinton Bcollard in Now York Bun.
STORIES OF THE DAY.
Interesting Notes on Matters That Are
Talked of la Europe.
Edhem Pasha, the genoral who is in
supremo command of tho Turkish
forces on the Greek frontier and who
talks of putting the dominions of King
George to the fire and to the sword,
laying waste .the entire country from
the border line to Athens, is the same
pasha who won for himself such uni
versal execration by his conduct while
at the head of the Turkish soldiery in
Asia Minor in 1895. Indeed ho owes
his rank as field marshal to the part
which he played in the shocking Zei
tun massacre, and he is regarded at
Constantinople as primarily responsible
for most of the Armenian outrages.
The Duke of Connaught, third sou of
the queen, has been officially appointed
by the British government to take com
mand of all the troops assembled iu
Loudon on the occasion of the celebra
tion of the queen’s record reign. It is
understood that every branch of the Brit
ish army—home, Indian and colonial—
is to bo represented iu the great pageant,
and under the circumstances the task of
the royal general will be no easy one.
Lord Salisbury has made an announce
ment which is of considerable impor
tance not only to British industry and
commerce, but also to those of Amerioa.
After no end of negotiation and delay
the numerous official obstructions to tho
opening up to foreign trade of the great
West river, which drains southern China
from the frontier of Yunnan, have been
removed, and customs stations are now
being organized by Sir Robert Hart at
various points along the mighty stream.
The opening of this river to steam navi
gation entails the final execution of
those treaty rights which permit foreign
merchants to convey goods into the in
terior on the payment of cents
transit duty—rights which tho Canton
authorities have succeeded in defying
for nearly 40 years.
The inventor of the jinrikislia, Izmni
Yosuka, has fallen on evil days and is
in such a state of destitution that a
movement is in progress to secure a
pension for him from the mikado. Jin
rikishas aro now the ordinary means of
conveyance throughout the orient. When
the patent laws were enacted in Japan,
Izumi applied for a patent for his popu
lar gocart. But he was informed that
the laws in question were not retro
active; consequently ho has derived no
benefit whatsoever from his invention.
To the Right Rev. Alphonse Joosten,
vicar apostolio and bishop of the Dutch
West Indies, belongs the distinction of
having been the first clergyman of Epis
copal rank to succumb to leprosy, with
which he became infected while admin
istering religious instruction and conso
lation to leprous adults and children at
Curacoa. His name deserves to figure
beside that of Father Damien on tho
table of honor of those who have sacri
ficed their lives iu behalf of leper out
casts.
The Belgian legislature has just pass
ed a law which places a bilingual stamp
upon the political, judicial and execu
tive administration of the country.
Henceforth no French speaking Belgian
will be admitted to any public office un
less he is able to read, write and con
verse in Flemish. It is needless to point
out the extent to which legal and par
liamentary procedure will be needlessly
complicated and incumbered by this
new statute.
The king has not yet signed the bill,
and there is a faint hope that he may
veto a measure which, while it gives
great satisfaction to two-fifths of his
subjects, is vehemently opposed and dis
approved of by tlio remaining tlireo
fifths, who neither speak Flemish nor
care in any way to become acquainted
with tho language.
Although they are arrayed in bitter
conflict with one another, yet there is a
good deal of analogy between Emperor
William and the Socialist party in Ger
many, for they each consider that they
are at liberty to discipline and tyrannize
the individual citizen as they like. They
only differ on the point as to where the
control- of tho regulatory apparatus is
to be situated.
The eighth international congress of
pharmaceutical takes place
this year at Brussels on Aug. 14. The
programme comprises not merely phar
macy and applied chemistry, but also
the questions of hygiene, public health,
drinking waters and sanitary legisla
tion.
In view of the preparations now be
ing made at Lisbon to celebrate with
fitting ceremony the discovery of the
Cape of Good Hope route from Europe
to India, it is *of interest to recall the
fact that it was through a king of that
Benin which has just been conquered
by the English that the Portuguese first
obtained their knowledge of India. The
king of Benin in question, who visited
Lisbon, was in direct and transconti
nental intercourse with Pres ter John,
the negus of Abyssinia, who, in turn,
was in communication with East India.
.Emperor William has just given a
further indication of his unfriendly sen
timents toward England by conferring
his order of the crown upon M. Wol
marans, the member of the executive of
the Transvaal republic who has render
ed himself the most conspicuous by his
pronounced and undisguised hatred of
everything British.—New York Trib
une.
Impoverished Yale Stu<lcntH.
The very large number of Yale stu
dents who are reported to have lost
money on Corbett looks as if the depart
ments of ethics and political economy
needed strengthening'down there.—Bos
ton Herald.
Five Tvetli at One Fall.
Ellsworth Heine, a 6-year-old Ohio
lad, tripped and fell on a doorstep and
knocked out five of his upper teeth.
Walk into any first class up-to-cLu
1 grocery store, and right on the first section
s^ves you’ll see bright red cans.
cans * s the imprint of a horse shoe.
Above and across the bottom of the shoe
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